Let Speaker Boehner Know that
Agenda 21 is a Real Threat!

Concerned Americans,

I have some astounding – exciting news to report to you.

After 18 years of fighting, APC’s efforts to stop the UN’s Agenda 21 has just received an amazing boost!

Because the Republican National Committee (RNC) just UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution opposing Agenda 21!

That means that our fight is no longer hidden from the main stream of the American political debate.

It means no longer can our opponents succeed in labeling us “fringe conspiracy nuts” as they have tried so hard to do.

One of the two main political parties in the United States of America – the Republican Party – just said Agenda 21 is a treat to our freedom!

This is a huge victory. And it is energizing our activists across the nation.

It means we can now use this resolution as a weapon against Agenda 21. It means Republican elected officials, from Congress on down to your city councilmen will be much more willing to listen to our protests.

But, of course, the battle is far from over.

You and I must use this new weapon effectively. We must demand that Republicans at every level be pressured to support the platform of their party.

That’s why it’s urgent that you sign the enclosed Petition to Speaker of the House John Boehner urging him to oppose any Agenda 21 legislation that comes before the House of Representatives.

The petition includes the exact language used in the RNC resolution.

Speaker Boehner is the highest elected Republican office holder in America. He leads all policy decisions that come before the House.

He is the man who can block Sustainable Development grants, comprehensive development schemes, energy controls, and federal land grabs – all part of Agenda 21.

For the past year APC has been gaining success in waging battles against Agenda 21 in city councils and county commissions, helping more than 54 communities to end their memberships with the International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). And we’ve started to have some success in state legislatures as well.

Now for the first time we have the opportunity to take the battle to Congress because the Republican Party – on a national level – has taken this action to officially oppose Agenda 21.

It is now our duty to take up this courageous action by the Republican National Committee and use it to apply pressure on Congress.

So please, today, right now, sign your petition to Speaker Boehner and it will be instantly emailed to him.

Every Republican office holder in the nation must be made to toe the party line – starting with Speaker Boehner!

Your signed petition is the first step. Sign your petition here.

And please, as you send your signed petition please also include your most generous contribution to the American Policy Center. APC is the recognized leader in the nation in the fight to stop Agenda 21.

I must have your continued financial support to win this battle for American liberty. Without your support I can do nothing.

Every dollar counts. If you want to make a contribution that makes a difference then your dollars to APC is your best investment.

APC is scoring victories in a battle they said we could never win!

So please sign your petition to Speaker Boehner and make a contribution to APC today.

I’ve never been more energized or more convinced that we will win. Your support is making this possible.

Sign your petition to Speaker Boehner by clicking here

Thank you!

Tom DeWeese
President

P.S. The best way you can help APC financially is to pledge a monthly contribution of $10 or $15 or more. That gives me a guarantee of income and helps me through the lean months. And it helps me plan our battles. Whatever you can send is vital to our efforts. Thanks so much for your loyal support. Click here to make a donation.

Thereby, We, Mayors of the World, 

Underlining

 That recent disasters which hit in particular Pakistan, Australia, United States, Canada, Brazil, and Japan, since our last meeting in Bonn in June 2010 remind us that resilience to disasters is of critical importance. Moreover, climate change is likely to exacerbate the intensity and frequency of many disasters, with a disproportionate amount of the associated impacts affecting the urban poor and vulnerable in developed and developing countries. As such, appropriate measures need to be urgently implemented at the local, subnational, national, regional and international levels to build local adaptive capacity for all types of disasters, including those likely to be exacerbated by climate change

Recalling

 The Global Cities Covenant on Climate Change -the ‘Mexico City Pact’ and its reporting mechanism –the carbon Cities Climate Registry, key outcomes of the World Mayors Summit on Climate in Mexico City on 21 November 2010, as successful implementation of the proposals contained in the 2010 Bonn Declaration of Mayors and acknowledging the African Mayors Climate Change Declaration adopted in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2011 as providing important regional support to this global process.

Welcoming

The 2011 UN-HABITAT Report on Cities and Climate Change, the outcomes of the Mayor´s Task Force on Urban Poverty and Climate Change, the First Assessment Report on Cities and Climate Change (ARC3) and the IPCC Expert Meeting on Human Settlements in Kolkata, India, on 22-24March 2011, with a view that the outcomes of all these efforts should be appropriately fed into IPCC 5thAssessment Report and other relevant scientific and global studies in order to reflect the needs and opportunities for immediate climate action at the local level.

Building upon 

The achievements of ‘Making Cities Resilient’ Campaign launched in Bonn in May 2010, under the leadership of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Fully supporting

Decision X/22at of the 10thConference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its annex -The Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Local Authorities on Biodiversity, which further strengthens Decision IX/28,with a view that UN Climate negotiations should be inspired by such ambitious and innovative decisions.

Supporting

Opportunities presented by the Cancun Agreements, in particular para.7 of Decision1/CP16 that designates local governments as ‘governmental stakeholders’, introducing city wide approaches on CDM, the launch of the Green Climate Fund for long-term finance and the Cancun Adaptation Framework. 

 We, Mayors of the World, declare the following Action Points:

Regarding adaptation and urban resilience: 

1. Considering the fact that over the next 40 years, particularly in the cities of the Global South, we will have to urgently build the same level of urban capacity that we built over the last 4000 years, efforts on urban resilience and adaptation should shift from a singular, special purpose focus on specific climate-affected infrastructure and locations towards a more integrated focus on overall risks, development conditions, and local area performance.

2. Future urban development should be assessed in terms of its contribution to improved urban resilience.

3. We recognize that the impacts of climate change will most severely affect vulnerable groupswithin our cities, and commit to pursuing strategies for social, economic,cultural and environmental development that will reduce the vulnerability of all citizens.

4. We recognise that ecosystem based adaptation offers a cost-effective and sustainable approach to adaptation that can improve human wellbeing, particularly of vulnerable groups, in the cities of the Global South.

5. We recognise the need for financial institutions to fund locally relevant and appropriate development, rather than conventional global financing mechanisms determining which local projects are eligible for funding. As such, we take note of ICLEI’s Global Report: Financing the Resilient City presented at Resilient Cities 2011 and underline the three essential bottom-up features for building adaptive capacities for resilient communities and cities;

a. Local planning processes for identifying vulnerabilities and risks,

b. Local technical and institutional capacity for designing comprehensive   adaptation and resilience upgrading projects;

c. Local procurement of investment through managed, competitive sourcing mechanisms and processes.

6. We further encourage efforts to advocate for the implementation of the below findings of the Report at the local, subnational, national and international level, supported via additional appropriate joint initiatives with business and civil society partners;

a. Mainstreaming new adaptation and resilience standards into conventional urban development projects, similar to recent ‘green building’ standards that have been mainstreamed into urban development and construction over the last decade.

b. Developing specialized financial instruments for comprehensive local adaptation and resilience upgrading projects in urban areas and systems known to be highly vulnerable.

c. Building additional local institutional capacity to prepare, structure and manage large scale redevelopment;

Regarding UN Climate Negotiations: 

7. We urge the UNFCCC delegates to commence relevant processes for the full implementation of para.7 of the Decision1/CP16 that designates local governments as ‘governmental stakeholders’ both at the UNFCCC level and within the negotiations related to international environmental governance, with a view to reach an effective and efficient global environmental system.

8. We encourage national delegations to include local government representation where appropriate.

9. We propose that sustainable and resilient urban development that prioritises climate change adaptation, poverty alleviation and improved human well-being should be defined as a thematic window in the design of the Green Climate Fund under the UNFCCC.

 Regarding further collaborative actions: 

10. We encourage all local governments to further engage in decentralized and city-to-city cooperation in order to advance adaptation actions.

11. We encourage our international networks and in particular ICLEI and UCLG to work closely together maximising the engagement of local governments in the global environmental governance system. We encourage local governments to join the Making Cities Resilient campaign. We further invite interested partners and stakeholders to consider their support in building an alliance that will ensure the long-term sustainability of the Resilient Cities Congress as the global forum for learning, cooperation and networking on all aspects of urban resilience and adaptation to climate change.

12. We call upon national governments, multilateral institutions, and civil society stakeholders to recognize the value of the Global Cities Covenant on Climate -“the Mexico City Pact” and the carbon Cities Climate Registry, which has191signatory cities as of today, representing around 300 million citizens, as the global response by local governments to the call for measurable, reportable, verifiable climate action and access to global climate funds. 

13. In preparation for COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, in December 2011, we commit to support the pre-COP conference to be hosted by Durban and its partners, aimed at raising the international profile of adaptation as an urgent priority for the cities of the world, in particular those of the Global South, where high levels of poverty and underdevelopment put vulnerable populations and infrastructure at immediate and severe risk, thereby hindering progress towards achieving global development objectives. On the eve/during COP17in December 2011, in Durban, we will further communicate outcomes of this pre-COP conference at the Conference of Signatories to the Mexico City Pact, with a view to strengthening adaptation actions alongside those of mitigation.

http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/fileadmin/sites/resilient-cities/files/Resilient_Cities_2011/Press___Media/2011_Bonn_Declaration_on_Mayors_Final_20110606.pdf?utm_content=markwlowry%40gmail.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=2011%20Bonn%20Declaration%20of%20Mayors&utm_campaign=From%20Resilient%20Cities%20via%20COP17%20to%20Rio2012content

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The revolution continues worldwide!

Forum Post: California Democrats Wake Up!! They are Exposing Agenda 21!!

Mind Boggling!! The proof for Agenda 21 is now glaringly public, no-one can deny it now. This is the reason people are being kicked out of their houses and off their land. This is how arrogant the elite are. They believe they have the divine right to make these decisions over us and that they “own” the world because they can trace their lineage back thousands of years. Don’t believe it? Keep reading. Rosa Koire video is good. This is taken from another blog here;

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=228067

California Democrats Wake Up!! They are Exposing Agenda 21!!

Posted By: Rayelan Date: Monday, 23-Jan-2012 10:37:26 Subject: Patriot Alert! This is the smoking gun!!! I found the REAL govt issued Wildlands map for California!!

I was googling as usual and stumbled across this document. It shows map after map of how the state of California will be carved up and connected to provide wildlife corridors all over the state. One of the lead agencies funding this is Caltrans. If you read the document you will see that all of the MPOs (Metropolitan Planning Organizations) will be using this map as part of their transportation planning. Dr. Michael Coffman was right! The biodiversity map he drew was no myth. A good map to look at is page 13 if you don’t want to read all of it.

Here is a 313 page doc about the mapping of all the wildlife corridors in California will be done. It lists all regions with maps of all currently owned public land and how they plan on taking the rest of our land. Have you guys seen this? There is absolutely no mention of compensation or regard for private property rights! Unbelievable.

http://www.scwildlands.org/reports/CEHC_Plan_MASTER_030210_3.pdf

Please distribute this far and wide!!!!

I recommend you find your own state map if you live in another state. Google wildlands habitat connectivity map “ add your state name”. That should do it.

Heather Gass DRE # 01478987 Better Homes and Gardens | Mason-McDuffie Tel: 925-932-4555 email: heather.gass@bhghome.com Website: http://www.bhghome.com/gasshomes

Rosa Koire – Speaks out on U.N. Agenda 21, The Agenda for the 21st Century At a meeting in Rio Vista California on 11/30/11

Uploaded on Dec 8, 2011 Watch the video on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBZjP062aU

Watch the video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/33249202

ROSA KOIRE, ASA is a forensic commercial real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain valuation. Her nearly thirty years of experience analyzing land use and property value enabled her to recognize the planning revolution sweeping across the nation.

UN Agenda 21 is a worldwide plan to undermine US national sovereignty as a constitutional republic and replace it with global and UN control through a one-world government. Hijacking the environmental movement, this plan is currently being carried out locally in US cities, counties and states through the guise of “sustainable development” and environmental “green” stewardship.

This includes efforts to facilitate, through manufactured consensus, high density urban populations while limiting rural living options, private property rights, and individual freedoms and privacy. Our representative republic is being transformed into a socialist state, where instead of being governed by elected officials, we will be governed by un-elected, appointed commissioners.

The Green Mask must be drawn back—far back from the personalities; the little dictators running trusts, foundations, planning departments, city and town councils, provinces and states, non-governmental foundations and the like.

You are in the midst of the biggest public relations scam in the history of the world. The pretty pastel version of life in a Smart Growth development is a manipulation, a mask. In fact these plans are designed to restrict your freedom.

Awareness is the first step in the resistance.

Get Rosa’s book Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21

Visit: http://www.DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21.com http://www.PostSustainabilityInstitute.org 

http://occupywallst.org/forum/california-democrats-wake-up-they-are-exposing-age/

JOCO BUDGET – CITIZEN DISCUSSION GROUPS

For almost 20 years after its founding in 1984, Consensus functioned very much like a traditional nonprofit. Then, in 2003, Consensus chose a new path. We were influenced by new trends in nonprofit leadership that focused on entrepre¬neurialism and earned income, and by increased competition for a shrinking pool of operating funds.

Consensus took two actions that set it apart from most other nonprofits. It developed a business plan for earned income and it became a “virtual” organization, with an active working board, no office space and staff members who work on contract. Both decisions have increased the organization’s flexibility, cost-effectiveness and profile while maintaining its focus on the mission of putting the public in public policy.

Consensus continues to rely on philanthropic funding for civic projects such as KC Forums and policy studies, which we augment through earned income. From 2004-2007, Consensus received philanthropic funding from the following sources:

American Academy of Family Physicians
Applebee’s International
Bank of America
Center for the City at UMKC, with funding provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Guy I Bromley Charitable Trust
Hall Family Foundation
Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
HNTB
Johnson County Library- Since when is this legal?
Kansas City Public Library
KCPT Public Television
Kettering Foundation
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
Mid-America Regional Council
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy
William T. Kemper Foundation

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Conclusions:

1.  Although the “Home Rule Charter Commission” recently confirmed that Johnson County politics shall remain “non-partisan”, our Commissioners have paid the County Democratic Party to draft the 2013 Budget.
2. On January 27 and with the delivery of KORA documents above, additional sources such as area Chambers advertised these ‘focus groups’ (four days after JoCoDems).  Nice try boys.
3. In November 2011 our Commissioners paid another ‘focus group’ organization (Clarion) to develop a “vision” for The County costing $194,658.
4. Look up The Hegelian Principle.
5. Call and sign up.  

Variations in Earth’s orbit (Milankovitch cycles)

The Milankovitch cycles are a set of cyclic variations in characteristics of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Each cycle has a different length, so at some times their effects reinforce each other and at other times they (partially) cancel each other.

Past and future of daily average insolation at top of the atmosphere on the day of the summer solstice, at 65 N latitude.

There is strong evidence that the Milankovitch cycles affect the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods within an ice age. The present ice ages are the most studied and best understood, particularly the last 400,000 years, since this is the period covered by ice cores that record atmospheric composition and proxies for temperature and ice volume. Within this period, the match of glacial/interglacial frequencies to the Milanković orbital forcing periods is so close that orbital forcing is generally accepted. The combined effects of the changing distance to the Sun, the precession of the Earth’s axis, and the changing tilt of the Earth’s axis redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. Of particular importance are changes in the tilt of the Earth’s axis, which affect the intensity of seasons. For example, the amount of solar influx in July at 65 degrees north latitude varies by as much as 25% (from 450 W/m² to 550 W/m²). It is widely believed that ice sheets advance when summers become too cool to melt all of the accumulated snowfall from the previous winter. Some workers believe that the strength of the orbital forcing is too small to trigger glaciations, but feedback mechanisms like CO₂ may explain this mismatch.

While Milankovitch forcing predicts that cyclic changes in the Earth’s orbital elements can be expressed in the glaciation record, additional explanations are necessary to explain which cycles are observed to be most important in the timing of glacial–interglacial periods. In particular, during the last 800,000 years, the dominant period of glacial–interglacial oscillation has been 100,000 years, which corresponds to changes in Earth’s orbital eccentricity and orbital inclination. Yet this is by far the weakest of the three frequencies predicted by Milankovitch. During the period 3.0–0.8 million years ago, the dominant pattern of glaciation corresponded to the 41,000-year period of changes in Earth’s obliquity (tilt of the axis). The reasons for dominance of one frequency versus another are poorly understood and an active area of current research, but the answer probably relates to some form of resonance in the Earth’s climate system.

The “traditional” Milankovitch explanation struggles to explain the dominance of the 100,000-year cycle over the last 8 cycles. Richard A. Muller, Gordon J. F. MacDonald,^[49][50][51] and others have pointed out that those calculations are for a two-dimensional orbit of Earth but the three-dimensional orbit also has a 100,000-year cycle of orbital inclination. They proposed that these variations in orbital inclination lead to variations in insolation, as the Earth moves in and out of known dust bands in the solar system. Although this is a different mechanism to the traditional view, the “predicted” periods over the last 400,000 years are nearly the same. The Muller and MacDonald theory, in turn, has been challenged by Jose Antonio Rial.^[52]

Another worker, William Ruddiman, has suggested a model that explains the 100,000-year cycle by the modulating effect of eccentricity (weak 100,000-year cycle) on precession (26,000-year cycle) combined with greenhouse gas feedbacks in the 41,000- and 26,000-year cycles. Yet another theory has been advanced by Peter Huybers who argued that the 41,000-year cycle has always been dominant, but that the Earth has entered a mode of climate behavior where only the second or third cycle triggers an ice age. This would imply that the 100,000-year periodicity is really an illusion created by averaging together cycles lasting 80,000 and 120,000 years.^[53] This theory is consistent with a simple empirical multi-state model proposed by Didier Paillard.^[54] Paillard suggests that the late Pleistocene glacial cycles can be seen as jumps between three quasi-stable climate states. The jumps are induced by the orbital forcing, while in the early Pleistocene the 41,000-year glacial cycles resulted from jumps between only two climate states. A dynamical model explaining this behavior was proposed by Peter Ditlevsen.^[55][56] This is in support of the suggestion that the late Pleistocene glacial cycles are not due to the weak 100,000-year eccentricity cycle, but a non-linear response to mainly the 41,000-year obliquity cycle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#Recent_glacial_and_interglacial_phases

No Need to Panic About Global Warming

There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy.

Editor’s Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article:

At the top of the list was “Switch Grass” producing 2 to 4 times more ethanol per acre than corn, requires no herbicides/pesticides and grows naturally in the mid-west.  Humm.  Looked up “Switch Grass” and it’s part of the “Tall Grass” family.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicum_virgatum  Native to Kansas.

My friends (both of them) will tell you if asked, that I am very inhibited and rarely speak in public.  But I recall saying some years ago that diverting corn from food to fuel would cause food prices to go up.  I also predicted that farmers would plow under wheat to plant corn. Food prices went up even more.

Looked up the ethanol claim http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn , it was accurate and sponsored by the Federal Government.

So why is Kansas Governor Brownback (under the guise of ‘Flint Hills’ tourism) now asking Kansas property owners  to voluntarily surrender their property rights so that Kansas State Government can plant “Switch Grass” that the Federal Government will eventually control through the Grants?  http://nolathe.net/2012/01/24/kansas-republican-governor-brownback-shifts-support-from-perry-to-obama/

I do not believe our Governor is ill meaning and I believe in his heart the intentions are honorable.  As a U.S. Senator maybe he was in D.C. too long.  Those close to him need to slap the back of his head, like I just saw on NCIS, love that show!

Obama’s Sustainability plan ”America’s Great Outdoors” viewed here  ago50statereport 

One of Obama’s Sustainability plans for Kansas is shown below:

Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Area

Rural Working Land Conservation Eastern Kansas

Project Description and Need: Only three percent of the native-prairie grasslands that once stretched from Canada to Texas remain today. Establishing a new easement based conservation area by working with key ranching community partners will protect up to 1.1 million acres of North America’s last landscape-scale tallgrass prairie.

The Flint Hills area is also an important part of the conservation and recreation agenda of the State of Kansas. Rolling prairies provide ample hiking, biking, river, and equestrian trails. The state has partnered with a variety of government and private organizations to secure over 70,000 acres of voluntary conservation easements in addition to 11,000 square miles that wind energy developers have agreed to conserve.

The Flint Hills plan calls for construction of the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, an education focused visitor center for the NPS Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The plan also calls for campsite and cabin improvements along the Flint Hills’ trails, as well as development of a wetland-management plan to preserve crucial habitats. Kansas recognizes the importance of youth engagement and aims to create educational and interpretive opportunities throughout these facilities.

Potential Action: Establish a new easement-based conservation area; provide technical and financial assistance to the State of Kansas toward construction of the Flint Hills Discovery Center, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Visitor Center, and campsite improvements.

Partners: FWS, NPS, USGS, State of Kansas, and agricultural, recreation, and conservation organizations.

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The recent Republican National Delegate Convention passed unanimously an Anti-Agenda 21/Anti-ICLEI Agenda Resolution viewed here: NCResolutionExposingUnitedNationsAgenda21_1207112Final-1   And placing emphasis that this National Party Resolution originated in Kansas, it now appears that Kansas Republican Governor Brownback is the first high profile Republican to announce his continued support for Obama’s Sustainability Plan, Agenda 21 and ICLEI in difiance of The Republican Party.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 23, 2012

Second Governor’s Flint Hills Summit Builds on the First

Gov. Brownback, stakeholders discuss ongoing efforts to bring vitality to the Flint Hills

Topeka – A collaborative effort to develop an ongoing strategy for the Kansas Flint Hills gained momentum last week with more than 150 people attending at the Second Governor’s Flint Hills Visioning Summit at Maner Conference Center in Topeka

“We need to keep this going, to keep it real,” said Governor Sam Brownback told the group. “We don’t want to lose the authenticity of the Flint Hills experience.”

The Governor’s summit brought together stakeholders and community leaders representing a variety of interests including agriculture, ranching, tourism, natural resources, commerce, the arts and others.

Like the first summit held last May, this meeting focused on growing the Kansas economy and creating jobs. Governor Brownback said his administration and the stakeholders will use the additional input gathered at this summit to continue to strengthen local and regional relationships for the benefit of the Flint Hills region.

At the summit, regional stakeholders and policy makers made presentations to help participants understand the challenges and strategies. During breakout sessions, participants discussed specific issues and offered feedback, recommendations and direction for the future. The topics included rural business development, invasive plants threatening the tallgrass prairie, agricultural marketing, voluntary conservation easements, and successfully communicating with legislators.

Robin Jennison, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, opened the summit by encouraging participants to work together to build a long-term vision for the Flint Hills.

“The Governor and state agencies are happy to be a part of making the Flint Hills a vital part of the Kansas, but it will take commitment and cooperation from the people who live and work in the Flint Hills to achieve lasting success.” 

Secretary Jennison pointed to resounding success of the recent Inaugural Governors’ Pheasant Hunt in western Kansas as an example of a people pulling together for the benefit of the region.

Linda Craghead, Assistant Secretary for Parks and Tourism for KDWPT, also emphasized the importance of collaboration.

“All of us who are passionate about the Flint Hills must put aside our differences,” she said, “and focus on the areas where we agree to create a vision we can support and build. It is vital to understand that each of us has a role in the Flint Hills picture, like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, and each piece must be in place for the image to be complete.”

Governor Brownback noted that more summits will be held in the future, “to be sure we’re getting things accomplished and that we’re doing the right things.”

Anyone who wants to leave a comment or suggestion for growing the economy in the Kansas Flint Hills can fill out a short form at the Summit website at fhs.ksoutdoors.com.

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WND Exclusive

Soros: Occupy to turn violent

Billionaire warns U.S. financial system faces collapse

Published: 22 hours ago

by Aaron KleinEmail | Archive

 

Billionaire George Soros is predicting protests by Occupy Wall Street will turn violent, while warning the U.S. financial system may collapse.

In an interview with Newsweek writer John Arlidge, Soros reportedly said riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable.

 

“‘Yes, yes, yes,’ he says, almost gleefully,” when asked about the prospect of Occupy turning violent, writes Arlidge.

Soros claimed the riots will “be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”

“At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” Soros continued.

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros said.

“We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse,” he said.

“The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”

In the interview, Soros claimed the Occupy Wall Street movement “is an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest.”

However, WND has repeatedly documented the billionaire’s many ties to Occupy, including how the group’s reported nerve center is staffed by professional agitators deeply linked to organizations funded by Soros.

Those groups, most prominent among them being the Tides Center, have been involved with Occupy since the anti-Wall Street movement’s inception.

Tides functions as a money tunnel in which major leftist donors provide large sums that are channeled to hundreds of radical groups.

The Tides-funded Adbusters magazine is reported to have come up with the Occupy Wall Street idea after Arab Spring protests toppled governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The Adbusters website serves as a central hub for Occupy’s planning.

The Tides-funded Ruckus Society has been providing direct-action training to Occupy protesters as well as official training resources, including manuals, to Occupy training groups. Ruckus, which helped spark the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle, was also listed as a “friend and partner” of the “Occupy Days of Action” in October.

Another grantee of Tides is MoveOn.org, which has joined Occupy.