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They can take the “International Law” and shove it.

Four heads of state wrote and formed the UN Security Council on January 1, 1942 making themselves permanent members of this newly formed world’s hegemony: ROC, USSR; UK, and the US. Two years later France became the fifth permanent member. In 1945 their veto power became law under the new UN umbrella. Yes, China has been on board all along. In 1971 the UN recognized the PRC as its official government against the US’s opposition. In 1979, the US recognized the PRC for diplomatic relations. Much has happened since then; The World bank provided millions in loans to Europe and elsewhere and so did the separate US Marshall Plan.

Helping the UN: Among the most influential non-government organizations are the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Worldwide Fund for Nature (formerly the World Wildlife Fund, and still known as the WWF), and the World Resources Institute (WRI). These three organizations, together with various United Nations agencies and organizations, shaped the policies that are now being implemented in the United States, and around the world, under the banner of sustainable development.

These three organizations participated in the preparations for the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1976, where the first formal policy on land use was adopted by a U.N. agency. Many of the land use restrictions now imposed on land owners across America arise directly from the policy recommendations adopted at this U.N. conference. The preamble to the conference report on land use sets the tone for more than 50 pages of very specific land use policy recommendations:

"Land...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, and therefore, contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...."1

Here is an example of the policy recommendations that follow:

Recommendation A.1

(b) All countries should establish as a matter of urgency a national policy on human settlements, embodying the distribution of population...over the national territory.

(c)(v) Such a policy should be devised to facilitate population redistribution to accord with the availability of resources.

Recommendation D.1

(a) Public ownership or effective control of land in the public interest is the single most important means of...achieving a more equitable distribution of the benefits of development whilst assuring that environmental impacts are considered.

(b) Land is a scarce resource whose management should be subject to public surveillance or control in the interest of the nation.

(d) Governments must maintain full jurisdiction and exercise complete sovereignty over such land with a view to freely planning development of human settlements....

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Further information of note:

The recommendations contained in this 1976 report are remarkably similar to the conclusions reached in three publications financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, compiled and edited by William K Reilly. The first, The Use of Land: A Citizen's Policy Guide to Urban Growth, was published in 1972. The second document, entitled The Unfinished Agenda, was published in 1977.

Many of these recommendations were included in the "Land Use Policy and Planning Assistance Act," advanced by Morris Udall during the 1970s. Congress rejected the legislation, which forced the proponents to develop another strategy. The third publication of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund was entitled Blueprint for the Environment, which was 1500 pages containing 730 specific recommendations delivered to President-elect, George Bush on November 30, 1988.

William K. Reilly was responsible for the development of each of these publications. He was also one of the U.S. delegates to the 1976 U.N. Conference on Human Settlements who signed the document on behalf of the United States. This same William K. Reilly, left his job as head of the World Wildlife Fund, to become the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by George H.W. Bush.

This same William K. Reilly, while serving in the Bush Cabinet, accompanied then-Senator Al Gore, to the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. There, he publicly urged President Bush to sign Agenda 21, and the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and ridiculed the President for not signing the Convention on Biological Diversity. President George H. Bush signed the 1992 Agenda 21 document.

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Moving right along:

Agenda 21, Chapter 37.4(a) recommends that:

(a) Each country should aim to complete, as soon as practicable, if possible by 1994, a review of capacity - and capability-building requirements for devising national sustainable development strategies, including those for generating and implementing its own Agenda 21 action programme;

On June 29, 1993, President Bill Clinton complied with this recommendation by appointing Vice President Al Gore to conduct a National Performance Review, and by issuing Executive Order Number 12852, which created the President's Council on Sustainable Development.3 Its 25 members included most Cabinet Secretaries, representatives from The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and other non-government organizations, and a few representatives from industry.

The function of the President's Council on Sustainable Development was to find ways to implement the recommendations of Agenda 21 administratively. Al Gore's National Performance Review resulted in overhauling the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to implement what he called the "Ecosystem Management Policy." This policy embraced many of the recommendations found in Chapters 10 through 18 of Agenda 21, all of which deal with management of land and resources.

At the 11th meeting of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, Ron Brown, then Secretary of the Department of Commerce, reported that his department could implement more than 60 percent of the recommendations of Agenda 21 through the rule making process, without additional legislation. Similar reports came from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (We see this in EPA, DOT, and other regulatory bodies mandating limits on water usage in our farm areas, needing commercial drivers licenses for farmers to drive their equipment on private land and more.)

The Ecosystem Management Policy, coordinated with existing legislation such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, gave the federal government the power to regulate land use in rural America. The model legislation provided in the American Planning Association's publication, gave state governments the power to regulate land use at the state, county, and municipal levels. The federal government encouraged states to adopt this legislation by offering incentive grants to states and to local governments. Consequently, the recommendations prescribed in Agenda 21 are being systematically implemented across the nation.

This process is transforming America into the managed society envisioned in the 1976 U.N. Habitat document.

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Appreciate your providing this for us. Not the content therein. Epoch TV - British Thought Leaders also presented a fellow, having researched it, who reported the UN already has developed a universal diet to be doled out per body weight. NO meat. Like MREs and spam? He opined it was not adequate nutritionally. Bold dolts abound!

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Which means they need to divest Bill Gates and China of all of their land and give it to somebody else…😂

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Resurrect the homesteading act and let the Americans have it.

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Absolutely! They’re only buying it up so that we can’t use it for farmland or grazing. They’re trying to force everybody to eat bugs and that’s what’s happened to the beef industry in this country. We are importing more beef from out of the country than ever. That’s insane When we have all the pastureland we need and the idea that cow farts are somehow killing the planet is asinine. I just read an article today that said we are not CO2 heavy we are actually CO2 deficient right now compared to previous times in the world and the CO2 that we do have is actually helping Green the planet not kill it…

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That is all true Beverly.

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