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Summer Frederick, the project

EmmaZahn — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:22:51 +0000

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Summer Frederick, the project manager for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission in Charlottesville, Va., which withdrew its dues to Iclei and its support from a national mayors’ agreement on climate change late last year after a campaign by protesters, now conducts seminars on how to deal with Agenda 21 critics. (Among her tips: remove the podium and microphones, which can make it “very easy for a critic to hijack a meeting.”)

Not normally a fan of reality shows but I think I would watch at least the first few episodes of this one If it were televised. Just imagine the reaction of Agenda 21 opponents to being effectively silenced at legitimate public meetings.

I think Summer should stick to background work and leave PR to someone else. And then there is Charlotte who probably will not be reelected orreappointed after being quoted in the NYTimes:

“The Tea Party people say they want nonpolluted air and clean water and everything we promote and support, but they also say it’s a communist movement,” said Charlotte Moore, a supervisor who voted yes. “I really don’t understand what they want.”

Maybe some enterprising media folks can find and edit local government flareups for edutainment. Most localities must have their meetings available via cable and online streaming by now. We do out here in Southeast Podunk. Watching is usually about as boring as golf but on occasion they run the gamut from low comedy to high drama. :-)

The Republican National

Elusive Trope — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:37:12 +0000

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The Republican National Committee resolution, passed without fanfare on Jan. 13, declared, “The United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called ‘sustainable development’ views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment.”

Sustainability has become a four letter word, as I discussed in the blog on the 20th anniversary of Agenda 21. I expect some serious conservative teeth gnashing when they meet in Rio later this year to revisit the '92 Earth Summit and Agenda 21.

In the end this being driven by the private property rights movement that arose over planned growth management (detailed in another blog by the way). The corporations and conservative think tanks know that this is an easy target to stoke the fear of big government. And this is driving the new attacks on liberals regarding their embracing of the supremacy of the state.

There was a time when liberals were attacked for the moral relativism. They still are, but with the rise of Obama and others like Hillary Clinton and her it takes a village, this has become an ineffective line of attack. Obama is a lot of things, but a moral relativist is not one of them.

The Tea Party folks are not new - they and those that oppose them have just found a name to call these conservatives who are not within the formal system. Notions like sustainability are suspect because it is more of an academic buzz word to them. And academy and its subset of the scientific community are assumed guilty of misguided (or nefarious) intentions until proven innocent. With the likes of Fox and the RNC, this innocence will be hard to prove.

Rick Scott scrapped the high

trkingmomoe — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:50:45 +0000

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Rick Scott scrapped the high speed rail as an anti-Obama political move the first month he was in office here in Florida. He had no idea how much support there was for this project until his poll numbers tanked afterwards. He has never recovered and has remained very unpopular and GOP toxic. You don't see him at GOP rallies. He gave the I-4 corridor back to the Democrats on a silver platter. You will see Grayson return to Congress.