HOW YOUR LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE

USING STEALTH TO IMPLEMENT

AGENDA 21 & ICLEI

By Kathleen Marquardt and Tommy Helms
June 26, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
How your local officials are using stealth to put Agenda 21 and ICLEI into every city, town and county in America.
We all know that politicians play fast and loose with the truth -- when running for office to get our vote, once they get into office in order to
stay there -- whenever it is expedient to do so. The general public has become apathetic about politics and elections and one major reason is
because of this. They lie.
This is about lying by our local officials here in Knoxville. Might this not be considered just white lies and of really no consequence in todays
world of consumate political liars? Read it then decide it for yourself.
What did she know and when did she know it?
In January of 2012, newly elected Mayor Rogero said that until a month before (i.e., December 2011) she had no idea of what Agenda 21 was.
From Meet the new boss: Mayor Madeline Rogero, Metro Pulse, January 4, 2012 we read:
But connoisseurs of right-wing conspiracy theories are fond of regarding Rogero as a secret operative for the United Nations ominous-
sounding Agenda 21, which reputedly aims to force innocent suburbanites out of their houses. When we asked her directly if any of that were
true, we watched her face closely for any tics that might belie her true status. It turns out she thinks its all pretty funny. I had to look that up,
about a month ago, when I saw that surfacing about Agenda 21, she says, laughing. I didnt even know what it was. So no, Im not a part of
that.
That story was written January 2012, but in an email sent October 2011, three months earlier, from Susanna Sutherland to
rogero@comcast.net, and titled Agenda21 Talking Points, are these statements:
Bill said you were under Agenda 21/ICLEI fire and asked me to note talking points to you. We went through this with the Governors
campaign, and below is the text that created his standard response:
Dear X,
Thank you for sending the Agenda 21 letter and link to the City of Knoxvilles Energy & Sustainability meeting notes from 2007. I do not
support Agenda 21 and did not sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, in spite of receiving regional pressure to do
so and being one of the few East Tennessee mayors who did not. I am also not an ex-officio member of ICLEIs board.
As stated in the notes link you sent, I am an ex-officio member of the City of Knoxvilles Energy & Sustainability Task Force, which works on
identifying areas or efficiency improvements. The City is a member of ICLEI because it provides valuable networking opportunities with
other cities (Chattanooga, Nashville, Oak Ridge, Franklin, Atlanta) in our region who are also working to improve municipal efficiency in
light of our increasing energy costs. ...
Also attached is a Q&A sheet from ICLEI, which they generated after Knoxville and some other cities had similar political situations. The PDF
is a direct ICLEI response to Knoxvilles stress. FYI, I dont see the City renewing dues next year, due to the amount of defending weve had to
do of the organization and amount to which they lean on us as a regional leader, weighed against the spare software/policies we get from
them in return. ...
Susanna
Did Rogero forget everything she knew about Agenda 21 sometime between October 2011 and January 2012? By now some readers are now
regurgitating Hillary, What difference at this point does it make? Do you mean, what difference that she lied, or is it what she lied about?
The fact that she lied just lets us know how far she will go to keep her agenda hidden; the bigger issue is that agenda. That email has a
number of damning things in it.
If it were only as simple as another lie from a politician. According to Bill Haslam, Rogero was the person who slipped ICLEI in on his
watch. She very well may have done that, but does anyone really believe he didnt know about it? The above email makes it pretty convincing
that Haslam knew a lot about Agenda 21 and its invasion into the local body politic (an email further down in this article is even more
incriminating for Haslam).
Since becoming governor, Haslam had done nothing to make anyone really believe he is against Agenda 21 or for personal freedom (you cant
be for Agenda 21 and individual rights at the same time). His actions should open the eyes of those who think Republicans are any better than
Democrats as far as the globalist agenda is concerned. In 2007, a City of Knoxville press release stated: Knoxville is a member of Local
Governments for Sustainability, also known as ICLEI after a former name, and is using ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) program
as the framework for this project. And the only resolution placed before him that he has failed to sign as Governor was the one written last
year against Sustainable Development. Thus our concluding that Haslam and Rogeros politics are the same is easily understandable.
The Talking Points (initially for Haslam) in the email from Susanna Sutherland to Rogero (see above) has as the first talking point:
Thank you for sending on the Agenda 21 letter and link to the City of Knoxvilles Engery & Sustainability meeting notes from 2007. I do not
support Agenda 21 and did not sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. ... Further down it states: As stated in the
notes link you sent, I am an ex-officio member of the City of Knoxvilles Energy & Sustainability Task Force, which works on identifying areas
or efficiency improvements. The City is a member of ICLEI because it provides valuable networking opportunities with other cities. ...
While Haslam says he does not support Agenda 21 and did not sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement yet
Knoxville signed onto ICLEI under his regime and according to the founder of ICLEI they are inseparable:
The first decade of ICLEIs existence has been almost entirely defined by two emblematic programs: the Cities for Climate Protection
campaign (CCP) and the Local Agenda 21 (LA21). The general logic of the two initiatives has been crafted during the very first days of the
social movement organization, during its founding congress where a well tested method and rationale has been applied.[1]
Another source that shows the interconnectedness of the alphabet-soup of UN NGOs says: The CCPC grew out of the International Council of
Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), and its forerunner was ICLEIs Urban CO2 Reduction Project (199193).
But the biggie is in an email dated May 13, 2011, from Cyrus Bhedwar, Southeast Regional Director of ICLEI to Susanna Sutherland:
Susanna --
Thanks for your inquiry about the relationship of the great work youre doing in Knoxville, your participation in the ICLEI network and Local
Agenda 21. Ive attached a full response for your review.
By this we know that Agenda 21 has been in Knoxville during the Haslam regime. No wonder he wouldnt sign a resolution against it.
What is the big secret she and he are hiding? ICLEI and Agenda 21
To help you understand why the obfuscation and misdirection from our local politicians are so dangerous, you need to understand what they
are imbedding into our local government. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, (ICLEI, now called local communities
for sustainability) is an international (as its name implies) organization headquartered in Bonn, Germany. ICLEI leaders wrote chapter 28 of
the UNs Agenda 21. The first paragraph of Chapter 28 reads:
Because so many of the problems and solutions being addressed by Agenda 21 have their roots in local activities, the participation and
cooperation of local authorities will be a determining factor in fulfilling its objectives. Local authorities construct, operate and maintain
economic, social and environmental infrastructure, oversee planning processes, establish local environmental policies and regulations, and
assist in implementing national and subnational environmental policies. As the level of governance closest to the people, they play a vital role
in educating, mobilizing and responding to the public to promote sustainable development.[2]
If you want to address local issues, they should be addressed by local people with a sense of local economic, social and environmental needs.
Instead you have an international body that has written the plan for how every city, town and county in the world should look vis a vis
transportation, housing, environment, education -- every aspect of our lives. Every city plan has the exact same planning standards that are
in every other city. Local issues, needs, wants, even rights dont come into play with ICLEI and Agenda 21other than as touchy-feely
buzzwords to draw in the unknowing citizens.
To understand what our local non-elected officials are doing to put this egregious plan into our government offices without our knowledge,
read this from an email from an ICLEI official to Susanna Sutherland of the Office of Sustainability here in Knoxville:
Ive been made aware of HB 3571 in the Tennessee General Assembly, which would make it illegal for all local governments to be a member of
ICLEI. Can we connect on the phone to discuss this? Im looking to get a better sense of whether this bill could actually pass, and if there is
any organized opposition to it. Ive seen the package of related bills that would vastly restrict local planning efforts.
ICLEI is looking to take action to defend our organization -- and your right of free association to join a nonprofit organization.. . . Im sure
you agree that this proposed legislation . . . represents a dangerous precedent in how it seeks to abolish common-sense sustainability
initiatives and infringe upon the rights of local governments.
What action was ICLEI going to take? Legal action? To sue Tennessee for not wanting to take marching orders from an international
organization that is working to deny us property rights? Ms Sutherland is not being denied her right of free association to join a nonprofit
organization. She can join any she wants, but when she (and her superiors) have the city join an international association, that is
unconstitutional; she does not have that right. Neither did Rogero when she did it. It all just slips under the tent and we the people end up
losers.
That is why when Rogero is disingenuous about her knowledge of Agenda 21 it is important for the citizens of Knoxville to understand that
she is not being truthful. You can say, so what, all politicians lie. Yes, the majority of them seem to. But here is something that doesnt make
sense: they pretend they never heard of Agenda 21; or that it is ephemeral -- it has no teeth; that people who talk about it wear tin foil hats.
Why is it that those who are so much for Agenda 21, that are doing everything in their power to get it established into every department of
government always deny that it exists? If Agenda 21 is so great that we should all be doing everything we can to reduce our carbon foot prints
to 1% (0 would be dead), why dont they admit it? Why do they hide it? If it is all that great we will be jumping on the bandwagon with them.
The problem is Agenda 21 is so far from being great, it is a plan to control every aspect of our lives, to take away private property, to deny us
our liberty, and to make us slaves. That is why they dont promote it; you wouldnt buy it. So the powers-that-be are sneaking it in through
planning commissions, sustainability councils, even our schools -- while they are saying that they never heard of Agenda 21.
Even if you go no further in researching Agenda 21, you must admit that something smells when politicians are promoting something while at
the same time they are denying they even know what it is. We can no longer expect our elected officials to tell us what is going on, so we have
to find out for ourselves.
Once you find out, you need to do something about it other than complain. Griping is not going to save this country, our children and our
grandchildren. It is time to remove the culprits from office and elect those who honestly and openly will answer to the people. For part two
click below.
Footnotes:
1. Labaeye, Adrien. ICLEI and Global Climate Change: A Local Governments Organizational Attempt to Reframe the Problem of Global
Environmental Change, Universite Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, p. 31.
2. Agenda 21, p. 233.
PART 2

How your local officials are using stealth to put Agenda 21 and ICLEI into every city, town and county in America.
A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line
with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation. Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
In our previous article, How your local officials are using stealth to implement Agenda 21 & ICLEI, we showed how Knoxville Mayor Madeline
Rogero and former mayor and now Tennessee Governor, Bill Haslam are embedding Agenda 21 into Knoxville and the state while pretending
they never heard of Agenda 21. From that article you might not have realized the depth of their duplicity or the full extent of the embedding of
Agenda 21. Here we will show that there is no wiggle room on the issue, they are both proponents, and implementers, of the globalist plan to
surreptitiously land and our liberty.
The Mayor
A Metropulse article, Mayor Rogero interviewed by Smart Growth America, says:
Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero, a member of the Advisory Board of Smart Growth Americas Local Leaders Council, says the city has
focused on strong, safe neighborhoods; living green and working green; an energized downtown and job creation and retention during her
time in office. The approach is bringing new businesses and residents to downtown Knoxville.
So Rogero is not just pro-Smart Growth, she is on the Advisory Board of the Local Leaders Council and she did not get there overnight; she
had to have known and understood what Smart Growth was for some years.
As shown in Agenda 21, the end of Western Civilization, pt.2, Smart Growth is part of Agenda 21; it is what is going to happen in the cities as
the Wildlands Project[1] is what is to be done in the rural areas of our country. If Rogero is on the Advisory Board of Smart Growth Americas
Local Leaders Council, you can be sure she could write a book on Agenda 21 yet she claims she had to look the term up not too long ago. And
an ill-informed public believed her coy disclaimer. Shame on them.
In the Knoxville-Knox County General Plan 2033, we find: Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet our needs
while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for our future generations. It is a key
principle underlying our comprehensive plan: The KnoxvilleKnox County General Plan 2033. This description is the same description used
in The Brundtland Report, Agenda 21 Sustainable Development and most of the other documents coming out of the UN dealing with Agenda
21, and here it is a key principle underlying Knoxvilles comprehensive plan yet those who are in charge of the plan -- along with the mayor
and former mayor -- know nothing about that. If you believe this, you deserve what you get.
The Metropolitan Planning Commissioner
Then there is the Knoxville Sustainable Development Incentives Program described In a 2009 article in Knoxnews titled Planning chairman
forms Development team: Upon the initiative of MPC chairman Trey Benefield, a Sustainable Development Working Group was assembled to
explore the development of a program to encourage sustainable development by providing incentives in the City and County Zoning
Ordinances. In December, Benefield formed a group to address sustainable development - which results in less commuting, preserves natural
terrain and streams and makes use of infill development and redevelopment sites rather than consuming more pristine land. (If you read
PlanET, ICLEI, Agenda 21, etc. you will find these same goals.) Group members include Benefield, MPC Executive Director Mark Donaldson,
MPC planner Joe Ewart, Knoxville City Council members Joe Hultquist and Marilyn Roddy, Knox County Commissioners Finbarr Saunders
and Tony Norman, and developers John Huber and Jon Clark.
Donaldson, head of MCP, said there was some question whether the state open meetings law applies, describing the panel as a "working
group" not deciding public policy, but said the meetings have been advertised through paid public notices in the newspaper nonetheless. It is
pretty obvious that they do not want or seek public input or, perhaps more, public scrutiny. Wolfenbarger also chided the group for having no
homeowner organization representatives. Saunders, a noted neighborhood advocate, said he and Norman can help fill that role. (That is
putting the fox in the hen house.)
Our land consumption is kind of scary. We got round numbers a while ago that if we kept on developing the way we are, we would flat run out
of land in 15 or 20 years, and a tremendous amount of it is being developed with one type of development - single-family residential at three
dwellings per acre. After seeing this go on for years and years, I couldn't sit still anymore. We need to try to do things that are smarter," he
said. Thus the push to stack-em and pack-em housing, i.e., Smart Growth.
Mark Donaldson, named above as one of the members of this Program, is also listed as one of the people who produced The Denton Plan
1999 -2020 for Denton, Texas. If you read planET and read the Denton Plan, you will see that the planning for a town in Texas and one in
Tennessee somehow have the exact same needs, desires and problems. Of course you can do that for Missoula, Montana and Albany, New
York. You will find that not only does every place have those same needs, desires and problems but that the answers are also exactly the same,
down to the density of housing and the eradication of the automobile.
The Director of Sustainability for Knoxville
Susanna Sutherland is not only the Director of Sustainability for the City of Knoxville but she also serves on the Committee on Incorporating
Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is not a minor player in the Sustainable Development arena; she is a
co-author of Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, and is called The Green Book. This book was written to explain how to institutionalize
Sustainability into the EPA:
Specifically, in addition to being tasked with developing an operational framework for sustainability for EPA, the committee was asked to
address how the existing framework rooted in the risk assessment/risk management paradigm can be integrated under the sustainability
framework; identify the scientific and analytical tools needed to support the framework; and identify the expertise needed to support the
framework.[2]
In a powerpoint presentation, Ms Sutherland talks about City Branding but lists her kudos in the area of Sustainability as:
Now Nationally Known for Renewable Energy Expertise
Honorable Mention: 2012 Siemens Sustainable Communities Award
Co-author of the US EPA Green Book, National Academies
Co-author of Acting as If Tomorrow Matters, ELI Institute
Co-Chair of the Southeast Sustainable Cities Network
Leader in National ICLEI and USDN Networks (Planning Committees and Work Groups)
Case Study Participant in 20 national studies
She is no minor player in the field of so-called sustainability; she is one of the higher-up useful idiots.[3] Look at this on page 10 of Knoxvilles
Energy and Sustainability Work Plan:
City Energy & Sustainability National Participation
The City of Knoxville participates as an Energy & Sustainability partner nationally whenever possible. Here are some examples of activities
and organizations we support and contribute to with time and resources:
Urban Sustainability Directors Network: serve on Financing Sustainability and Rental Efficiency Committees
Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI): serve on conference planning and policy advisory committees
U.S. Green Building Council: national and local chapter members
South East Region City Network Coordination (non-affiliated): co-chairs with Asheville, NC
National Academies: Committee for Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Not every city in America has the equivalent of a Susanna Sutherland working in their Sustainability Department, but they do have the
Department of Sustainability and they do have their bureaucrats who are promoting this nefarious plan.
The State of Tennessee and Smart Growth
Following passage of its landmark 1998 Growth Policy Law, Tennessee has spent the last two years focusing on implementation of the new
law, which significantly updates the states comprehensive planning statutes. The Tennessee chapter of APA, incorporated language from
APAs Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook.
Of the 92 non-metropolitan counties in the state, 74 secured approval of their mandated growth plans by the June 30, 2000 deadline . . . .
A white paper issued by the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations last January examined the rural areas
component of the mandated growth plans and found it lacking. The paper notes that urban growth boundaries are not enough and
suggested a number of techniques and strategies -- in the areas of regulations, public infrastructure, public costs and revenue, and public and
private investments in open land -- that the state could use to strengthen the rural areas component.
By executive order in January 2000, Gov. Don Sundquist created the Tennessee Strategically Targeted Areas of Redevelopment.[4] That
order states:
WHEREAS, redevelopment and revitalization of targeted urban communities is in the interest of strong economic growth in Tennessee and
the improvement of the lives of Tennesseans, and
WHEREAS, the State of Tennessee recognizes that at the heart of neighborhood redevelopment and revitalization lies the need to examine
the needs of a community including, but not limited to, transportation, small business development, childcare, workforce training, housing
and safety; and
WHEREAS, in order to facilitate revitalization and redevelopment efforts in urban centers in the State, it is prudent to assist community
based organizations, community development centers, and local leadership with the creation, implementation and support of strategic
programs to improve community economic development opportunities; and
WHEREAS, there is a need for a coordination of efforts to assist the State in more strategically directing the resources of the State to achieve
the objectives of this Order;
Yes, TN S.T.A.R. is a beautifully structured plan for Smart Growth in Tennessee. Note that it covers everything Smart Growth does -- housing,
transportation, environment, workforce training, childcare -- every aspect of our lives. Compare TN S.T.A.R. with Smart Growth Americas
Partnership for Sustainable Communities:
On June 16, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) together with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) and the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) formed the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a collaboration between the
three federal agencies to help improve access to affordable housing, create more transportation options and lower Americans transportation
costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide.
This unprecedented collaboration between federal agencies means all three are better able to solve interrelated challenges. Whether its the
impact of transportation choices on the environment, or the impact of housing decisions on transportation choices, the Partnership grants
give HUD, DOT and EPA the ability to coordinate federal policies, programs and resources to achieve multiple goals at the same time. This
means a more efficient policy process and a better use of taxpayer dollars.
How did we get to this? How did every state in the United States end up with planning that makes our cities have the exactly same design as
every other city? And that plan being so egregiously anti-property rights, anti-human, anti-freedom? To put it succinctly I quote one of the
designers of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, Professor Maurice King: Global sustainability requires the deliberate quest of
poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.

That quote says it all. Read it, read it
again. Think about what it says. The UN
and world governments say they are
fighting poverty with Sustainable
Development, yet SD requires the
deliberate quest of poverty.
You cant have it both ways. I would posit that Kings statement is the creed by which the globalists live -- poverty for us, not them -- and the
general public best wake up to that fact: poverty, reduced resource consumption (food, water and the materials that provide us with shelter
and the other needs of survival), and SET LEVELS OF MORTALITY CONTROL. Need I spell it out? They, the globalists, the promoters of
sustainable development, want to determine who shall live and, more importantly, who shall die.
Your local officials are part of this, whether openly or tacitly. They have to be; the laws are on the books and they are carrying them out. At
some point you have to ask yourself, do I hear or see them fighting to challenge these laws? We dont, because they arent.
Everything is pointing to 2015 as their deadline to fundamentally change America to the globalist Utopia which is hell on earth. Are you
prepared? For part one click below.
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