UN Inspired Food Council in NC up for Charter Renewal – Contact Your Rep Now

The NC Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council’s charter is set to expire this year.  The General Assembly is trying hard to renew its charter despite opposition from legislators, groups and citizens who recognize this Council as UN inspired and Agenda 21 driven.  This Council, while probably doing good work on behalf of small farmers and helping to educate people about locally produced food, should be disbanded or its charter wholly re-written.  It is an instrument of the UN elites, as are many of our departments, boards and commissions in North Carolina.  Nowhere do you see “UN” or “Agenda 21″ in its charter or even its originations in the Foundations and Baselines Report but this council surely has as its goal the same goals outlined in Agenda 21.

Agenda 21 was written and adopted by United Nations Conference on Environment and Development on 14 June 1992.  It is a global framework for the implementation of a one-world government under the guise of environmentalism.   A leading authority on Agenda 21, Tom DeWeese, summarizes Agenda 21 this way:

According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.

The North Carolina Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council (NCSLFAC) has as its mission much more than creating awareness of local foods.  It’s charter states its mission thusly:

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20 Reasons Why America’s Next Bank Holiday Will Be a Nightmare

The world is on now on the brink of a global credit crisis that could be far worse than the tumultuous events of 2008. The ongoing sovereign debt crisis in the southern reaches of the Eurozone indicate that bank runs in the region will continue, and that more bank closure “holidays” will be declared. Under a bank holiday, virtually all deposits could be frozen and irredeemable for days, weeks, or even months. The key question is: Will this crisis spread to the rest of Europe and then even to the United States? I urge SurvivalBlog readers–particularly those in Europe–to be proactive, to stay “ahead of the power curve.” While the Generally Dumb Public (GDP) wakes up some morning to hear news of a bank holiday, you will have long hence prepared yourself.

Here are 20 Reasons why America’s next bank holiday will be a nightmare:

  1. A bank holiday will create a virtual blackout of information on not just checking and saving accounts, but also automated mortgage payments, CDs, and more. Our presently quite transparent banking system will suddenly become opaque. Your bank balance will become invisible. Your handy-dandy online banking web page will be replaced by a “Service Temporarily Unavailable” notice. The willingness to accept checks will evaporate in less than a day. The FUD factor (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) will be overwhelming.

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Are We in Revolutionary Times?

Legally, President Obama has reiterated the principle that he can pick and choose which U.S. laws he wishes to enforce (see his decision to reverse the order of the Chrysler creditors, his decision not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, and his administration’s contempt for national-security confidentiality and Senate and House subpoenas to the attorney general). If one individual can decide to exempt nearly a million residents from the law — when he most certainly could not get the law amended or repealed through proper legislative or judicial action — then what can he not do? Obama is turning out to be the most subversive chief executive in terms of eroding U.S. law since Richard Nixon.
Give the president credit. He has thrown down the gauntlet and essentially boasted: This is my vision of the way the new America should work — and if you don’t like it, try stopping me in November, if you dare.
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Food for Thought from Tea Party Nation

The following was a comment on my post on Tea Party Nation from One Citizen of the Republic. I thought it deserved its own post. I encourage you to read it with due diligence and ask what you will do for your country. Country does not equal government. I am especially fond of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his quote below is one of my favorites. In fact, I laser etched it on my AR-15 to remind me that it is my duty to fight evil and understand that this must be done righteously.

David DeGerolamo

“The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled;
public debt should be reduced;
and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.”
Cicero. 106-43 B.C.

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” –
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of
that original right of self-defense… 
Alexander Hamilton

“The world is a dangerous place to live,
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who
don’t do anything about it.”
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As We Sit and Watch

See additional comments on Tea Party Nation.

The president has reversed his previous position on granting amnesty from March 28, 2011 based on the separation of power into three branches of government. What has changed in the past 15 months? The Constitution is still the supreme law of the land. Or so we tell ourselves. A republic has its very foundation in the rule of law: once suspended, the republic will fall.

The suspension of the rule of law has been done incrementally by three individuals and one branch of government. Continue reading

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Merchants of Despair

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-FGgoReyNE

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Biden Says the ‘Great’ Cities Are in China, Not America

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eig3ujGSmfA

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Banks’ Fire Drill for Greece Election

Banks are prepping for the potential outcomes of the Greek election.

Banks are prepping for the potential outcomes of the Greek election.

The banks are on high alert.

Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece’s pivotal election. They are preparing for the worst case. The fear is that the vote will heighten the chances of Greece exiting the euro and the global financial system will be shaken when the markets open on Monday.

After being largely unprepared for the extreme stress of the 2008 crisis, large banks in the United States are determined to be ready this time. They have been taking measures to deal with instability in Europe for over a year. In recent months, they have stepped up their contingency planning, especially after it became clear that Greece was struggling to comply with the terms of a March bailout that was intended to keep the country in the euro.

In New York and London, banks have set up dedicated crisis teams, and rehearsed elaborate responses. As clients get nervous, banks have been guiding clients on how to react to a range of situations, from just one country leaving the euro zone to the dissolution of the euro itself.

Ordinary investors, for example, are demanding more information on Europe from their brokers. David Darst, chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, said the crisis had consumed his regular Monday morning call with the firm’s financial advisers, and has been the focus of the monthly video he does for clients and brokers. Mr. Darst says he hears two main questions: “What is your thought on Greece pulling out of the euro and it leading to contagion?” and “What impact will this have on my portfolio?”

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Big powers move in on Syria: Russian troops for Tartus. US forces ready to go

A contingent of Russian special forces is on its way to Syria to guard the Russian navy’s deep-water port at the Syria’s Mediterranean coastal town of Tartus, Pentagon officials informed US NBC TV Friday, June 15. They are coming by ship. According to DEBKAfile’s sources, the contingent is made up of naval marines and is due to land in Syria in the coming hours.

In a separate and earlier announcement, US Defense Department sources in Washington reported that the US military had completed its own planning for a variety of US operations against Syria, or for assisting neighboring countries in the event action was ordered – a reference, according to our sources, to Turkey, Jordan and Israel. Continue reading

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Talk Of Gold-Backed Eurobonds Another Sign Gold Is Returning To The Monetary System

In terms of the macro picture for the global economy, one thing is clear: the levels of sovereign debt are unsustainable, and the banking system around the world is under severe stress as a result. Bank runs are already occurring in Greece, and I consider it a reasonable expectation for a contagion effect to emerge in which this problem spreads throughout the eurozone. I agree with Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel in his view that the eurozone must ultimately insure bank deposits in order to prevent a run on banks and an ensuing run on the euro itself. I suspect that this is exactly what will occur; that the ECB will expand the money supply and socialize the losses of banks so as to ensure banks have deposits on hand for their customers.

Of course, as money and debt are inextricably linked under our current monetary system, in which all money is loaned into existence, expansion of the money supply requires expansion of debt levels. And so, we are at a point where calls for euro bonds are being voiced: witness theEuropean Redemption Pact, a plan under which countries in the EU would give their excess debt – which is currently being defined as the amount of debt above 60% of their GDP – to a fund managed by Germany that would issue Eurobonds to raise capital for them. Countries participating in the fund would need to put up 20% collateral of their excess debt, and this 20% could be payable in gold.

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Moody’s Downgrades 12 Spanish Sub-Sovereigns, 2 Gov-Related Entities

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 12 Spanish sub-sovereign ratings and two Spanish government-related entities to reflect its recent downgrade of the country’s sovereign debt rating.

Eight regional and local governments and four related issuers were affected. The ratings of three other sub-sovereigns are unchanged by the latest rating actions. However, Moody’s has placed the ratings of all 15 Spanish sub-sovereign issuers on review for downgrade, it said.

Additionally, government-related entities Corporacion de Reservas Estrategicas and Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias were both downgraded by three notches to Ba1 from Baa1, pushing the entities into junk territory.

Earlier this week, Moody’s downgraded Spain three notches to Baa3 from A3, pushing it to the brink of junk territory and placing its ratings on review for possible further downgrade. The ratings company pointed to Spain’s plans to borrow up to EUR100 billion from the European Financial Stability Facility, the government’s limited financial-market access and continued weakness in the economy.

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Kidnapping by Mexican police caught on video

MEXICO CITY (AP) — There it was on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in underwear.

But police weren’t making an arrest. Prosecutors say they apparently were taking orders from criminals. Just hours after the three were seized, they were found asphyxiated and beaten to death.

Mexicans have become inured to lurid tales of police collaboration with narcotics gangs during 5 ½ years of a drug war that has cost more than 47,500 lives. But seldom can they actually see it occur, and the video broadcast on national television was a shocker.

“One assumes that in some cities … the municipal police work for the drug cartels,” said Jorge Chabat an expert on security and drug trafficking at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching. “But what is different here is that there is a video. It’s not the same thing to imagine that this going on, and to see it.”

While the kidnapping and murder occurred in January, and the faces of several officers were clearly seen on the videos, the officers were not detained until June 6, when soldiers and state police raided a local police station. And they still have not been formally charged with any crime.

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Moveon.org Supports American Spring

From Moveon.org:

Because you are a huge part of what is going to move this country forward. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Watch:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tusKQUDD9-4

From YouTube:

Published on Jun 3, 2012 by documentaries

Bloggers, Tweeters, and Facebookers around the world are jailed for their pro-democracy activism, yet barely half the eligible voters in the U.S. care to cast a ballot. Online a different story unfolds—Journalism 2.0 meets Government 2.0 in an attempt to re-invigorate American democracy.

AMERICAN SPRING explores what democracy looks like in the 21st century as cell phones, laptops, and an ever-expanding toolkit of apps changes the power dynamic between citizens, the media, and politicians.

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Balance Needed on Coverage of Sea Level Rise – Carolina Journal

Author photoRALEIGH — Environmental pressure groups, activist scientists, and the legacy media are predictably upset by the movement of a bill through the N.C. General Assembly that requires state policies dependent on sea level forecasts to be based on historical trends, rather than speculative computer projections.

The implications for such policies are not small, as extreme predictions — such as the 39-inch-rise-by-year-2100 prophecy spat out by computer models — would, at a minimum, require billions of dollars (much of it from taxpayers) to build new infrastructure; adjust to new building codes and higher insurance rates; and restrict land use and property rights.

Yet those aspects of the debate were downplayed in nearly every green activist’s testimony and major news story. Instead, property rights defenders such as the NC-20 coalition, which represents coastal counties, were marginalized as “deniers” of real science. At the top of nearly every news report journalists bemoaned the fact that North Carolina has been “mocked” worldwide because of its ignorance.

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Backdoor Amnesty: Secretary Napolitano Announces Deferred Action Process for Young People Who Are Low Enforcement Priorities

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

La Secretaria Napolitano Anuncia Proceso De Acción Diferida Para Jóvenes Que Sean De Baja Prioridad Para La Aplicación De La Ley

WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced that effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into removal proceedings. Those who demonstrate that they meet the criteria will be eligible to receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization.

“Our nation’s immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner,” said Secretary Napolitano. “But they are not designed to be blindly enforced without consideration given to the individual circumstances of each case. Nor are they designed to remove productive young people to countries where they may not have lived or even speak the language. Discretion, which is used in so many other areas, is especially justified here.”

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