{"id":9387,"date":"2012-06-08T19:21:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T23:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2012-06-08T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T23:48:46","slug":"the-road-to-rio-is-the-road-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2012\/06\/08\/the-road-to-rio-is-the-road-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Rio is the Road to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously we warned you about Governor Lynch’s executive order of 2011.
\nOn Earth Day, Governor Lynch Issued an Executive Order Creating Water Sustainability Commission<\/strong> If you don’t think the UN doesn’t have plans for every blade of grass on this planet, think again. This chunk of information is ONLY about WATER and it’s a fraction of what is on their websites. The UN has plans to control every aspect of your life…this is only a small part of it.<\/p>\n

You can also download this file to find out who is behind the UN’s power grab.
\nFINANCING AGENDA 21 – WORLD BANK<\/a><\/p>\n

Many local, state, and federal policies for surface water, groundwater, and “transboundary water” are linked to the United Nations Agenda 21 global plan of action for “sustainable development”. Plus, there are other influencing U.N. initiatives — also including policies for oceans\/seas — that pre-date UN Agenda 21. <\/p>\n

See below to learn about the international water policies and their negative impacts on property rights as well as livelihoods — scroll down for specific state examples. <\/p>\n

Remember, this email only focuses on water. There are 39 other UN Agenda 21 chapters that target a myriad of other issues that will affect you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The good news: growing numbers of people are working to expose and stop UN Agenda 21 . . . and thankfully some elected officials are included (but we need many more! So vet your candidates for elected office — do not support those who will not work to stop the all-encompassing U.N. agendas).<\/p>\n

Brackets [ ] used for explanatory info added.<\/p>\n

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\nUN & Water (pre-dating Agenda 21)
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UN meddling with water issues began long before the 1992 Earth Summit promotion of Agenda 21:<\/p>\n

“In 1970, the United Nations (UN) responded to the need for clearer rules governing transboundary waters by requesting the International Law Commission (ILC) to codify and progressively develop the rules applicable to the development and management of international watercourses. For close to three decades, the ILC wrestled with the complex legal issues related to this topic. This work formed finally the foundation for the UN Watercourses Convention.”<\/p>\n

“A broader global environmental agenda emerged in the 1970s, appearing most prominently at the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference. The UN pursued its concern over transboundary water issues at the 1977 Mar del Plata Conference, where the Action Plan adopted by the participants contain 11 resolutions and 102 recommendations. However, since then, ‘water’ has become subsumed by the ‘environment’, loosing its relatively distinctive status as a separate area of global concern. Twenty years following the Stockholm Declaration, the ‘environment’ has dominated the global discourse, as was demonstrated clearly by the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development. At that meeting, transboundary water resources were dealt with as only one component of Agenda 21. . . . ”<\/p>\n

— Dr. Patricia Wouters, “The Legal Response to International Water Scarcity and Water Conflicts: The UN Watercourses Convention and Beyond” < http:\/\/www.africanwater.org\/pat_wouters1.htm > <\/p>\n

Go here for an extensive timeline containing International Conferences, Treaties and Events starting with 1966: < http:\/\/users.sisqtel.net\/armstrng\/agenda21.htm ><\/p>\n

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\nWater and the UN Earth Summit Agenda 21
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“International water issues are referenced in Chapter 18 of United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21 document, entitled Protection of the Quality and Supply of Fresh Water Resources: Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management and Use of Water Resources. Agenda 21 is the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the plan to implement Rio agreements and guide business and government policies into the 21st century after Rio de Janeiro.” View Chapter 18 of the United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21 <\/p>\n

— Manitoba Wildlands < http:\/\/manitobawildlands.org\/water.htm ><\/p>\n

“. . . The Earth Council, formed as a result of the Earth Summit to help ensure implementation of its results, specializes in facilitating such participatory processes at the grass-roots and community level. It has joined with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives [ICLEI] to undertake a program of assisting communities throughout the world to develop their own ‘local Agenda 21’ based on Rio’s global Agenda 21. So far some 1600 communities have done this, and in all cases water supply and sewage are central Issues.” (Emphasis added)<\/p>\n

— Maurice F. Strong, Chairman, The Earth Council. Excerpt from a Keynote address to the North American Water and Environment Congress, Anaheim, California. June 26, 1996.
\n< http:\/\/www.mauricestrong.net\/index.php\/speeches-remarks3\/57-watercongess ><\/p>\n

(NOTE: “George Washington Hunt attended a UN Environmental meeting in 1987 and learned how the elitists were privatizing resource. When he discovered, the day before a vote to sell off Boulder, Colorado’s water source to Maurice Strong, Mr. Hunt stayed up all night preparing documents that proved Strong was interested in creating a monopoly (as water is essential for life). Because Mr. Hunt was aware of the nature of privatization and monopolies, which are created through government regulations, he was able to educate the local government and stop the sale of Boulder’s water source.” — Cassandra Anderson, “Water” http:\/\/morphcity.com\/water )<\/p>\n

Monitoring in the mandate of UN-Water
\n“In 2003, the UN High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) established ‘UN-Water as the inter-agency mechanism for follow-up of the WSSD [World Summit on Sustainable Development] water-related decisions and the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] concerning water’. The scope of UN-Water\u2019s work encompasses all aspects of freshwater, including surface and groundwater resources and the interface between fresh and sea water. It includes freshwater resources, both in terms of their quality and quantity, their development, assessment, management, monitoring and use (including, for example, domestic uses, agriculture and ecosystems requirements). The scope of work of UN-Water also includes sanitation – encompassing both access to and use of sanitation by populations and the interactions between sanitation and freshwater. It further includes water-related disasters, emergencies and other extreme events and their impact on human security.<\/p>\n

“UN-Water is the interagency mechanism that promotes coherence in, and coordination of, UN system actions aimed at the implementation of the agenda defined by the Millennium Declaration and the World Summit on Sustainable Development as it relates to its scope of work.”<\/p>\n

— Water Monitoring, Mapping Existing Global Systems & Initiatives Background Document – August 2006, Prepared by FAO on behalf of the UN-Water Task Force on Monitoring Stockholm, 21 August 2006, p.8 < http:\/\/www.fao.org\/nr\/water\/docs\/UNW_MONITORING_REPORT.pdf ><\/p>\n

“. . . Agenda 21, . . . stated that ‘Integrated water resources management, including the integration of land and water related aspects, should be carried out at the level of the catchment basin or sub-basin.’ This call has since been echoed in an increasing number of legal and policy instruments at both national and international levels. The river basin approach to the management and development of transboundary water resources was recognized by the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses and is increasingly influential in international and regional agreements. As noted above, this approach is increasingly embraced in national water legislation and administration . . .”<\/p>\n

— S. Hodgson, Land and water — the rights interface, FAO Legislative Study 84, FAO Legal Office, Food and Agriculture Organizationn of the United Nations, Rome 2004, p.53. < ftp:\/\/ftp.fao.org\/docrep\/fao\/007\/y5692e\/y5692e00.pdf ><\/p>\n

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\nCriticisms
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“As the United Nations restructures itself to become a world government vis-a-vis global governance, it is being formed around the principles of sustainable development as defined by Agenda 21. Signed by the U.S. during the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, Agenda 21 is a 40-chapter manifesto to reorganize the world using socialist and pantheistic principles to protect Earth.<\/p>\n

“Agenda 21 represents a major fundamental change in the role of government in social and land-use policy. Under its concept of sustainability, the primary purpose of government will no longer be to serve the people. Rather, the focus of Agenda 21 is to protect nature from people. Governance will be by consensus among ‘stakeholders and partnerships.’ The concept of elected representation that holds the government accountable to the citizens will be eliminated.”<\/p>\n

— Dr. Michael S. Coffman Ph.D., “Separating People from Their Water, NewsWithViews.com, 1\/22\/04 < http:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/Coffman\/mike6.htm ><\/p>\n

“Agenda 21 encourages governments to form ‘partnerships between public and private sectors and NGO’s, aiming towards improved local capacity to protect water resources’. Here in Texas, non-government organizations (NGO) such as Sierra Club have used litigation under environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act to limit ground water withdrawal to a percentage of annual flow. The Texas legislature has also just recently finalized legislation in response to that litigation which regulates and controls withdrawal of groundwater.”<\/p>\n

–Tom McDonnell, “International Implications on Water Use in America,” 3\/29\/98 < http:\/\/sovereignty.net\/p\/land\/Freshwater.htm ><\/p>\n

“The report, ’21 Issues for the 21st Century,’ from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Foresight Process, is the culmination of a two-year deliberative process involving 22 core scientists. It is expected to receive considerable attention in the run-up to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which will be held in Rio, Brazil, in June [2012]. . . .<\/p>\n

But its critics see an agenda lurking in its 60 pages, which call for a complete overhaul of how the world’s food and water are created and distributed — something the report says is \u201curgently needed\u201d . . .
\n[ . . . ] The Foresight Report suggests . . . options that include new \u201cconstitutional frameworks,\u201d \u201cinternational protocols\u201d and a \u201cshared vision\u201d for land and water management that essentially rewire existing treaties and governments.<\/p>\n

— Kelley Vlahos. “UN to propose planetary regulations of water, food”, FoxNews.com, 3\/1\/12
\n< http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2012\/03\/01\/un-to-propose-planetary-regulations-water-food\/#ixzz1wlbFTE2h ><\/p>\n

“. . . the EPA is readying to change the way our American waters are governed. This set off a warning bell for me because the old Clean Water Act of 1972 was destined to become Senate Bill 787, The Clean Water Restoration Act of the 111th Congress, if Democrats had their way. They didn\u2019t, and the bill expired on April 2, 2011 as it languished in the Senate Legislative Committee. Now less than a month later, the EPA is forcing the issue and has apparently decided they will be the decider. In the meantime, the EPA is pulling coal mining permits by the dozens, claiming authority under the Clean Water Act, for companies explicitly following the letter of the law but forced to leave millions of dollars and jobs on the sacrificial alter of the EPA. This isn\u2019t just about coal mining and big industry, it is about your water and your liberty.<\/p>\n

The EPA badly wants governance of your backyard pond, and they shall have it through regulation, not law. America, this administration wants all of this country\u2019s water, \u2013 that\u2019s ALL OF THIS COUNTRY\u2019S WATER, and it isn\u2019t a small thing. . . .”<\/p>\n

— “EPA Grabbing Your Water by Regulation: Feds Want Your Water and They Shall Have it!”, Maggie’s Notebook, 5\/1\/11
\n< http:\/\/www.maggiesnotebook.com\/2011\/05\/epa-grabbing-your-water-by-regulation-feds-want-your-water-and-they-shall-have-it\/ ><\/p>\n

“Local and regional efforts to control water hold that private water usage is causing salt water intrusion, polluted water, and supply shortages. A conglomeration of local and international government and non-government organizations insist that the solution to these problems is to monitor individual water usage under regionalized control. These groups are now in advanced stages of implementing programs that subjugate water use and citizen water rights to regional control by non-elected officials.” [ . . . ]<\/p>\n

“While the stated end of creating a ‘sustainable’ water system seems noble in intent, the means rely on subjugating constitutionally protected private property rights to non-elected bureaucrats. Their practices have already resulted in engineered crisis and a degraded environment. The ultimate consequences of political efforts to de-privatize water in the name of sustainable watershed will lead to manufactured shortages, inadequate water supplies for human needs, and will cause further damage to the local ecology.”<\/p>\n

— Regionalization of resources by non-elected administrators, Freedom Advocates website < http:\/\/www.freedomadvocates.org\/issues\/private_property\/ ><\/p>\n

Few Americans realize that many of our federal environmental laws and regulations originate at the international level. These laws have a devastating affect on private property, stripping hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars of land value from rural citizens. Federal documents reveal that agencies have a greater desire to enforce these internationally born socialist laws than to protect and serve the citizens of the United States.<\/p>\n

The Endangered Species Act, for instance, is authorized by a number of United Nations administered treaties, not on the enumerated powers of Congress given in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. These treaties include the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Likewise, the RAMSAR Convention of Wetlands is the pattern for much of the federal wetlands regulation even though the Clean Water Act does not even specifically mention wetlands.<\/p>\n

Federal agencies have used these treaties, and over 150 others like them, to control the use of private property, ostensibly for the \u201cpublic good.\u201d Over one hundred of these treaties were ratified after an unsuccessful five-year effort by Morris Udall and environmental organizations to pass federal land use control laws in Congress the early 1970s based on the 1972 publication of The Use of Land: A Citizen’s Policy Guide to Urban Growth. It claimed that land is essential to human survival and that planning its wise use is the best tool to guide growth toward achieving economic benefits and protecting environmental quality. Laurance Rockefeller funded the publication, and William K. Reilly, who later served as EPA Administrator under George Bush, Sr., edited it.<\/p>\n

— Michael S. Coffman, PhD, “International Domination of U.S. Enviornnental Law and Private Property”, NewsWithViews, 8\/19\/03 < http:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/Coffman\/mike3.htm ><\/p>\n

Even before the treaty came before the Senate for ratification, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had already developed a plan to implement the convention\u2019s provisions. According to an EPA internal working document dated August 6, 1993:<\/p>\n

Natural resource and environmental agencies\u2026 should\u2026develop a joint strategy to help the United States fulfill its existing international obligations (e.g. Convention on Biological Diver\u00adsity).\u2026 The executive branch should direct federal agencies to evaluate national policies…in light of international policies and obligations, and to amend national policies to achieve international objectives.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, the EPA strategy called for federal agencies to evaluate national policies and to change them to conform to international objectives. Amending national policy is a Constitutional responsibility of the U.S. Congress, not the executive branch, and certainly not federal agencies. Yet certain bureaucrats believe their responsibility to international objectives superceded the U.S. Constitution and their mandate to serve the American people.<\/p>\n

— Michael S. Coffman, PhD, “International Domination of U.S. Enviornnental Law and Private Property”, NewsWithViews, 8\/19\/03 < http:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/Coffman\/mike3.htm ><\/p>\n

The CWI\u2019s 1998 Clean Water Action Plan called for obliterating five thousand miles of roads every year on federal land, and setting aside a whopping “two million miles of conservation buffers on agricultural lands.” The potential impact of this program is enormous. The Department of Agriculture\u2019s Stream Corridor Plan calls for the width of these conservation corridors to equal a river\u2019s 100-year flood plain, which could be many miles wide. Even a 100-foot buffer strip along two million miles totals seventy-six thousand square miles (forty-eight million acres), an area equivalent to the entire state of Nebraska!<\/p>\n

Similarly, the AHR also makes it clear that the program will likely impact “entire watersheds” by a designation of just a portion of the river as an American Heritage River. Technically, the entire Mississippi River watershed, cover\u00ading 40 percent of America, is now under the AHR program! In a giant step to impose federal land use controls, the CWI targets one-thousand watersheds as “critical rural water\u00adsheds” for special assistance to “comply with applic\u00adable standards” that are consistent with goals for “watershed and basin level planning.”<\/p>\n

Promoted as a plan to reinvent government, both the AHR and CWI are touted as “ground up, \u2026community based” efforts under the control of local people. In fact, each step is under the top down control of the feds. By defin\u00adition, a River Community under the AHR is “self-defined by the members of the community.” In the CWI, it is called a Watershed Council. These councils are unaccountable to the people who are affected by their policy decisions. Yet, they have the power to withhold monies from communities that do not toe the federal line, while rewarding those that do.<\/p>\n

The Clinton Administration carried out the concept of eco\u00adsystem management was one-step further when it attempted to impose federal control over the entire Pacific Northwest when it attempted to impose the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. If it is ever fully imple\u00admented, the federal government would control harvesting, mining, viewsheds and development on public and private land over the entire Columbia River basin from the Cascades to Canada in the north, to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming in the east, to Utah and Nevada in the South.<\/p>\n

— Michael S. Coffman, PhD, “International Domination of U.S. Enviornnental Law and Private Property”, NewsWithViews, 8\/19\/03 < http:\/\/www.newswithviews.com\/Coffman\/mike3.htm ><\/p>\n

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\nThe UN Agenda 21 impact on surface water,
\ngroundwater and “transboundary waters” in the U.S.
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[CALIFORNIA] NGO Involved With California Property Owners Water Rights – Part 1
\nGary Cadd | Uploaded by ReddingPatriots on Feb 24, 2012
\nVideo: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pKbZMwpUVCo&feature=relmfu<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ShastaCoordination.com – The government is planning on decreasing our water usage. A non governmental organization (NGO), which is referred to as regional government, is planning regulations to change our water uses within the Sacramento River Watershed which includes Shasta County. Note: Even if you live somewhere else, there’s a good chance the same situation exists. <\/p>\n

[ARIZONA] Showdown at the H2O Corral
\nAnn O’Neill | CNN | 5\/10\/12
\nhttp:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/10\/us\/tombstone-water-fight\/index.html?section=cnn_latest<\/p>\n

Excerpt: Tombstone, population 1,400, is suing the federal government — and it is likely to be a landmark legal battle. [ . . . ]
\n The city sits in the desert but gets most of its water from springs in the Huachuca Mountains. Some of the springs are in a wilderness area protected by the U.S. Forest Service. From the Huachucas, the water runs 26 miles east to Tombstone through one of the longest gravity-fed water systems in the country.
\n Tombstone’s water line was damaged in last year’s massive Monument fire. The city says the feds are blocking emergency repairs that are critical to its survival.<\/p>\n

[ALABAMA] Baldwin County commissioners warn of subversive ‘Agenda 21’ initiative
\nConnie Baggett | Press-Register | 6\/5\/12
\nhttp:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2012\/06\/baldwin_commissioners_warn_of.html<\/p>\n

Excerpt: “We are all for protecting the environment,” [Baldwin County Commissioner] Burt said, “but this is something that has seeped in amongst us. I don\u2019t think we need the United Nations to tell us what to do.”
\n He said, “We\u2019ve got the EPA taking over the country. If the Senate approves (Agenda 21), they can come into New York City or wherever a raindrop falls and tell us what to do.”
\n Under Agenda 21, he said, the U.S. Supreme Court will give way to the international court located in The Hague [in the Netherlands].<\/p>\n

[COLORADO] FARMER PANIC! CROPS DIE AS GOV’T BLOCKS WELLS
\nBig Brother refuses to allow citizens to rescue harvest
\nJack Minor | World Net Daily | date?<\/p>\n

Farmer panic! Crops die as gov’t blocks wells<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n