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Cyclist objects to propaganda and financing for Agenda 21

7/10/2012

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We received a letter from a local Santa Rosa cyclist and have included it for you here.  We hope that this is evidence that Santa Rosans will not allow their clubs, groups, non-profits, or government to continue to indoctrinate them in UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development principles while using their own money to do it.  More and more clear-thinking Americans will join with this independent cyclist in refusing UN Agenda 21:

Landpaths will be speaking at the Santa Rosa Cycling club on Wednesday evening at the Round table Pizza on Occidental Road in Santa Rosa.

Below is my (the cyclist's) email to the board. Hope you or someone else informed can come to awaken some folks. Details below.

To many,

I for one will not attend tonight or supply any future dues to further this cause. Landpaths, although it sounds all wonderful and good is aligned with the Wildlands project and Sustainable Development which I DO NOT support. The implications go far beyond what your eyes seem to see.

I cannot support the club getting involved in politics

Maybe you folks just don't get it.

Here is a very brief, unbiased summary. Don't spend my dues on anything remotely political, please. I joined a bicycle club, not a COALITION.

from the Wildlands Project Revealed website
* The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately fifty (50) percent of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as "wild land" for the preservation of biological diversity.
* The project seeks to do this by creating "reserve networks" across the continent. Reserves are made up of the following:
o Cores, created from public lands such as National Forest and Parks
o Buffers, often created from private land adjoining the cores to provide additional protection
o Corridors, a mix of public and private lands usually following along rivers and wildlife migration routes 
* The primary characteristics of core areas are that they are large (100,000 to 25 million acres), and allow for little, if any, human use.
* The primary characteristics of buffers are that they allow for limited human use so long as they are "managed with native biodiversity as a preeminent concern."
* Moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology.
* The eight point platform of Deep Ecology can be summarized as follows:
o All life (human and non-human) has equal value.
o Resource consumption above what is needed to supply "vital" human needs is immoral.
o Human population must be reduced
o Western civilization must radically change present economic, technological, and ideological structures.
o Believers have an obligation to try to implement the necessary changes. 
* The Wildlands Project itself is supported by hundreds of groups working towards its long-term implementation. Implementation may take 100 years or more.
* The Wildlands Project has received millions of dollars in support from wealthy private and corporate foundations such as the Turner Foundation, Patagonia, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, etc. 

Conclusion:
The Wildlands Project exist within legal boundaries, however that should not prevent us from being concerned. At the very least, it advocates an extreme manifestation of environmental and public policy. Therefore, any claim the Wildlands Project makes toward public policy must be debated, and ultimately decided, in the public arena. Yet to date it has existed almost anonymously; beyond the knowledge of the wider public. It must be examined out from behind the cover of more general environmental concerns, held up for public scrutiny, and either accepted or rejected by a public fully aware of its implications. Failing to do so could have dire consequences, for as John Adams once wrote, "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge by the people."

July Club
Meeting
July 11 2012
The July club meeting is scheduled for 6:30 Wednesday evening at the Round Table Pizza on Occidental Rd, just west of Stony Point. There will be the usual round of business items and discussions of topics of importance to the club. 
This will be followed by a presentation by Craig Anderson, the Executive Director of LandPaths. LandPaths is one of the organizations that has been receiving support from SRCC's year-end donations. 
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TOWNS ARE FIGHTING BACK

6/6/2012

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Hi Rosa:

Here in Great Falls, MT last night we defeated a proposal to adopt the "Complete Streets" idiocy package. I feel that your website was instrumental in giving us the ammunition that we needed to do the job. Thanks!!!

Mike Lewis

PS:
I graduated from Santa Rosa High so I know that town pretty good. 

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/
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Got Gas?

6/3/2012

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Take a look at the Climate Action Plan about to be passed by the Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday, June 5.

We dare you.

One thing you'll find is that you'll be 'incentivized' to get rid of your gas appliances and 'switch' to electric.  Here's what Kay Tokerud had to say about it in the Santa Rosa PD blog:
I read through Santa Rosa’s Climate Action Plan that goes before the city council at their next meeting. What jumped out at me was a recommendation and/or mandate that all gas appliances be changed to electrical appliances. That would include cook stoves, furnaces, dryers and water heaters. This one piece of their plan could run households or businesses thousands of dollars to make this change including the necessary electrical service changes which would be required whenever anything electrical is added to an existing system. This could easily add up to over ten thousand dollars.
This plan has Electrical Unions written all over it. Electricians would get a lot of work. Only in Sonoma County/Santa Rosa would the government try to force people to do very expensive changes to switch to a much more costly fuel to power their homes. Michael Allen received the maximum amount allowable from every electrical union in California in his last race for Assembly. This requirement has Michael Allen written all over it.  He ought to make this a campaign disclosure now that he's running again... he should keep running over the state line.

And to top things off, this recommendation is coming at the same time that Sonoma County wants to set up their own green power company. Natural gas is very plentiful, cheap and clean burning. It’s unbelievable the amount of contempt that our elected officials appear to have for their constituents when they would try to make us switch to a much more expensive power source for our homes and businesses.

Michael Allen has been lobbying for mandates for a few years now, first it was mandatory inspections and retrofits for Santa Rosa  (our group successfully pushed back on this), then he was involved in another bill, SB730 when he worked for State Senator Pat Wiggins that failed that would have essentially forced every building owner to put in solar hot water, and now he’s very likely involved in this climate action plan in some way.

Michael Allen is a union rep and will represent his unions over the general public every time. Maybe it’s time to investigate his activities again. The last time he ended up paying a fine to the Fair Political Practices Commission for serious conflicts of interest. Why would anyone want to vote for him?  Will you?

VOICE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE Climate Action Plan -- GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.  TUESDAY JUNE 5.  4 PM.  BE THERE.  SPEAK OUT.

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If it walks like a chicken...

5/27/2012

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Chick-fil-A wanted to open a store in Santa Rosa across from the Junior College.  A drive-thru.   They're even planning to build a brand new building.  Where?  At the site of an old Burger King that has been vacant and pushing up weeds for a few years.  Owned by the bank since one of the town's big real estate guys went belly up.

So?  So, Jenny Bard, the Junior College Neighborhood Association president (again--she's like Vladimir Putin, she keeps coming back) objected to Chick-fil-A opening a drive-thru where there had been one before. 

Why?  Because she's a paid lobbyist for Smart Growth.  She's working for the Californina Lung Association as their 'advocate' for Smart Growth.  People in the neighborhood don't know that, however.  In fact they don't know much of anything because she only sends emails to people who agree with her, according to those who tell us they've been kicked off the neighborhood association email lists for not going along.

Anyway, Chick-fil-A has a business model that includes a drive-thru.  But Jenny, the Smart Growth advocate, thinks that drive-thrus are bad because they encourage people to use their cars.  Hmmm, maybe a bike thru?  She didn't think of that.  So objections were raised to the Planning Commission from 'the neighborhood' and Chick-fil-A didn't get their approvals.  They had to appeal to the City Council.

Wonder how much time and money that cost them?

Business-friendly Santa Rosa finally said ok.  They didn't lay an egg on that one.  Jenny has a car.  So does Susan Gorin.  So does Marsha Vas Dupre.  They both voted against Chick-fil-A (they're on the council).  Susan is grandstanding since she is running for county supervisor.  She's the 'Sierra Club's Choice."    

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat wrote a story on Chick-fil-A at Council and, even though Kay Tokerud, Steering Committee member of the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition, attended the Council meeting and spoke in favor of Chick-fil-A's appeal, the newspaper misrepresented the proceedings and said that the neighborhood was against it.  We'll have the video of the meeting for you soon.  

What a town.  Full of feathers, signifying nothing.
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It's everywhere. Alaska to Florida, Maine to Hawaii

4/24/2012

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A letter we just received:
I am president of the Eastside Pioneers Neighborhood Association in Rochester MN. I have been reading over your website regarding your struggles with Agenda 21 driven initiatives. We are having the same problems. We have been at the receiving end of the Delphi technique and are also experiencing their current efforts to deal with an upstart organization objecting to their agenda. Right now Agenda 21 proponents are trying to pass some crazy and confusing parking and zoning restrictions that would coincide with their downtown master plan. The city and county plans are riddled with plans to increase the densities in the downtown area, including downtown neighborhoods, which we are one. They also want to restrict car use, narrow the roads, increase dependence on mass transit and create more livable walkable communities. They are placing a heavy emphasis on bicycling and pouring money into bicycle trails and bridges. Social engineering to the max. We are in Minnesota. Usually we are covered with snow and ice late October through March. These Agenda 21 people are idiots. Anyway your website has a lot of good information. I appreciate it Thank you very much. We could use all the help we can get. I will stay in touch if it is okay 
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IT'S BACK --- We don't gotta show you no stinkin badges

3/21/2012

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What is it with this vampire of a town?  We thought we killed mandatory green building retrofits.  THEY'RE BACK.  

I hope you like living in Sonoma County's version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers---look around, are your neighbors willing to have you be subjected to illegal search just so someone can see if you have insulation in your attic?  Better get your comments in to the City Council.  Do it now.  It's the resurrection of the old vampire.

Read about it here 
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NEAR RIOT AT DELPHI MEETING IN SANTA ROSA

1/11/2012

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Please refer to my following post (1/09/12) for the set up on this story.  VIDEO UP ON OUR VIDEO PAGE.

Two nights ago about 50 citizen activists turned a ONE BAY AREA public Delphi meeting in Santa Rosa, CA upside down.  WE REFUSED TO BE GOOD GERMANS.
 
What happened?  We spoke out, video'd (video is on our 'Videos' page), entered the meeting without signing in, refused to be railroaded, continually corrected the government/consultant lies and called them out, did not participate in the phony 'voting', did not give our names to the establishment press, brought in cameras and signs, flyered warning the organizers not to violate the open meeting laws, and did not get arrested although police were called. We exercised our rights as Americans. 

BUT, we can learn from this video---we need to do more civil disobedience than was exhibited by this brave group.  If you sit passively the facilitators will assume you agree with the plan.  If you show up, SPEAK UP: Do Not Sit Passively.  Hold Up Signs.  Get out of your comfort zone.  This is no time to go along to get along, or to sit quietly. 

Who are we?  A coalition of independent citizens from all over the SF Bay Area, Democrats, Property Rights Advocates, Tea Party members, Republicans, Libertarians, non-affiliated Independents---brave Americans standing together to resist tyranny.

What is ONE BAY AREA?  A regional plan to direct federal and state transportation dollars over the next 25 years to specific cities that have agreed to ONLY approve smart growth and ONLY approve it in limited pre-designated areas of just a few towns in the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Using ridiculously inflated population projections, ONE BAY AREA states that future housing must designed in one of their 'approved' smart growth models and developed in a Priority Development Area.  What is that?  A Priority Development Area (PDA) is a so-called transportation corridor---usually a busy street with a bus line or near a proposed train station.  This PDA can be as small as a half-block or as large as a square mile.  All of the projected new population for the next 25 years will be accommodated by housing within this designated area.  No other housing developments will be approved for the next 25 years---or the city will not get their piece of the transportation funding.  We're talking about 200 Billion dollars of federal and state transportation dollars for the SF Bay Area over the 25 year term. 

Do you see what this will do to property values outside of the specific PDA's?  It will destroy them.  Do you see what this does to individual cities?  It destroys their sovereignty.  ONE BAY AREA is a regional plan that breaks down boundaries and pushes UN Agenda 21.  Northern California is one of 11 Mega Regions in the US.  It includes 31 counties, 48,000 square miles, 15 million people, and part of TWO STATES--California and NEVADA.  Do you see how this happens?  We thought we had 50 states, but now we have ELEVEN MEGA REGIONS.  Using transportation dollars, grants, legislation (SB 375 & AB 32 in California), and pressure, your government is destroying your ability to be self-determining.

Video is up now on our  site (video page) and on YouTube. Watch it and USE IT.  We guarantee you that you'll have a chance real soon.
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ONE BAY AREA: DELPHI MEETING IN SANTA ROSA TONIGHT

1/9/2012

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NOTICE
YOU ARE BEING DELPHI’D


This meeting is designed to manipulate and direct public opinion to approve the
One Bay Area Plan

The Delphi Method is being used to create the illusion that this is your plan and that you have some part in crafting the outcome.  This is a technique developed by the RAND Corporation in the 1960’s which is used by meeting facilitators to block opposition and discard opinions that do not support their plan.  This propaganda
method uses peer pressure to shame and silence you.

ONE BAY AREA is being used to regionalize the SF Bay Area and erase the city, county, and ultimately, State boundaries.  Your transportation tax dollars will be used to build apartments and condos in designated areas of your city---and nowhere else.  Your money will directed to favored developers building stack and pack housing.  You are losing the ability to direct your elected officials through this plan to destroy local representation.  This is happening across the US.  There are now 11 Mega Regions designed to replace States.  Northern California is one of the Mega Regions (it includes part of Nevada), with over 48,000 square miles and 15 million residents.

ONE BAY AREA is UN Agenda 21
ATTEND THE MEETING: FINLEY CENTER, W. COLLEGE AVENUE 5:45 PM

NOTICE

YOU CANNOT BE DENIED ACCESS TO THIS MEETING

 

OPEN MEETING LAWS IN CALIFORNIA:

THE BROWN ACT

 

Meetings of public bodies must be ‘open and public,’ actions may not be secret, and action taken in violation of open meeting laws may be voided.  (Section 54953(a), 54953(c), 54960.1(d)

 

 

WHO IS COVERED?

·        Local agencies, including counties, cities, school and special districts (Section 54951)

·        Legislative bodies of each agency—the agency’s governing body plus ‘covered boards,’ that is any board, commission, committee, task force, or other advisory body created by the agency, whether permanent or temporary (Section 54952(b))

 

 

WHAT MUST HAPPEN?

Under the Brown Act an agency must:

·        Post notice and an agenda

·        Notify the media

·        Hold meetings in the jurisdiction of the agency in places accessible to all, with no fee (Section 54961(a))

·       Not require a ‘sign-in’ or registration for anyone

·       Allow non-disruptive recording of the meeting

·       Allow the public to address the covered board


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So much for free speech...Occupy space

11/9/2011

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I just received this from a citizen who was concerned enough about her safety in the center of Santa Rosa that she spoke out.  For a related post please scroll down to my 10/12/11 post below .

Dear Mayor, Councilmembers and City Manager,  
Thank  you for your time, I know each one of you must be extremely busy dealing with all that is on your plates. I spoke last night regarding the Occupy issue. My name is Joyce Garcia. I’m writing you because of an incident that occurred before the doors opened to the City Council Chambers last night.  

I arrived about 10 to 15 minutes before the doors opened. Not realizing the doors were locked, I walked pass several people to go into the building. Not able to enter the building, I turned around and stood on the side, placing my tablet on the rail, writing what I intended to say during my 2 minutes. I must note that I arrived alone and was did not expect what happened to me. I was approached by Lisa Maldonado, a Union Leader. After she greeted me with a polite, “Hello, how you doin’”, she then introduced me (to whom it wasn’t clear because there were 30+ individuals there) by my full name and as a member of the NorCal C.R.U.S.H.,  then she added, “....which stands for Conservatives....what?” which was clearly to get me to engage in a conversation where she knew I was out numbered. This was clearly a maneuvered tactic she used to intimidate me and point me out to the Occupiers as a person who opposes them.  

Regardless of my statements that I agreed with many of the issues, just not their methods, she made it clear to those 30+ people whose eyes were now all on me, one in the crowd who did not agree with them, that I was disingenuous and was part of a group who created a Facebook page “Stop Occupy Santa Rosa”. This is an out and out lie.   If you can put yourself in my place at that moment. Last week I was one of two people that I know of who spoke in opposition to allowing the Occupy movement to camp out. That was not an easy thing to do in such a overwhelming pro Occupy crowd...especially when many on the council outwardly were in support of the movement, claiming they too were one of the “99%”.

I was pointed out in a crowd where I believe many of the people recognized me as speaking out against their movement. I was called out by my first and last name, surrounded by a crowd who do not welcome my opinion. I was accused of being apart of a FB page who wants the movement to stop. I was, and am still shaken. I was intimidated by a Union leader and pointed out to many people who may or may not wish me harm because of my opinions. I chose not to be silenced by the obvious skilled intimidation tactics and spoke up anyway because I know too many people who refused to be in attendance at regular council meetings because they are intimidated by the presence of the Occupiers, and I am speaking on behalf of them!   I watched as council members were being threatened by these people during a council meeting, only to turn around and be intimidated by a Union leader. This is unacceptable and should not be tolerated!

I know that I speak for many....please stand up to these people and uphold the laws and ordinances that are set in place for ALL individuals. I fear for the police! I know they are being targeted as the bad guys when they are only doing their jobs. Do what is necessary and right and I know that you will have overwhelming support from the citizens you represent.  

Respectfully and with much concern,       Joyce Garcia
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IF IT'S BROKE THEN FIX IT--REPEAL SMART

8/3/2011

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Today's Santa Rosa Press Democrat published some  "Let them eat cake" comments by Valerie Brown and Jake Mackensie regarding the SMART train failures.  They'd said that the folks who are calling for a repeal of the 1/4 cent sales tax to pay for the ever-widening cost of the train were 'never in support of SMART'-- implying that it was a sour-grapes movement.

I posted this comment on WatchSonomaCounty.org:
Don’t forget that many of us who opposed SMART in the first place did so because we could see the serious flaws and outright lies in the propaganda.

We are not opposed to mass transit, not opposed to public transportation, and not opposed to trains.

We are opposed to fat cat bureaucrats making deals with land owners who have donated to their political campaigns. We are opposed to bait and switch. We are opposed to big pensions and endless consultant fees. We are opposed to arrogance and ignorance in our elected officials.

The Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition will do whatever we can to assist REPEAL SMART. Let’s get those petitions out to the community and derail this gravy train to nowhere.

Rosa Koire
Steering Committee
Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition

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