{"id":321,"date":"2012-11-19T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/anti-sustainability-astroturf-talking-points-aka-agenda-21.html"},"modified":"2014-05-07T06:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:13:41","slug":"anti-sustainability-astroturf-talking-points-aka-agenda-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/anti-sustainability-astroturf-talking-points-aka-agenda-21.html","title":{"rendered":"Anti-sustainability astroturf talking points (aka “Agenda 21”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nFor many months I have been resisting requests from various people\r\n(both pro- and anti-sustainability) to write about Agenda 21.\r\nWhy resist? Because I considered the anti-Agenda 21 campaign\r\na distraction from real issues.\r\nNow that ALEC’s “our state legislators” have\r\nmade Georgia an international laughingstock over it,\r\nI suppose it’s a big enough distraction to write about.\r\nBut the topic of this series is sustainability:\r\nyou know, exactly what the astroturf talking points are meant to subvert.\r\nSustainability is important, and we should talk about it.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Better<\/a>\r\nJim Galloway’s 12 November 2012 AJC article,\r\n\r\nGeorgia’s own 52-minute video on the \u2018Agenda 21\u2019 conspiracy<\/a>,\r\nnotes that the video some of ALEC’s “our state legislators” chose to play\r\nin the state capitol, like every other attack on sustainability that\r\nuses “Agenda 21” as a key talking point, also includes this:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\u201dThe Delphi technique was developed by the Rand Corporation\r\nduring the Cold War as a mind-control technique. It’s also known as\r\n\u2018consensive process.\u2019 But basically the goal of the Delphi\r\ntechnique is to lead is to lead a targeted group of people to a\r\npre-determined outcome…..\u201d\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThe actual RAND Delphi study is\r\n\r\n\"RAND<\/a>\r\n\r\nreadily available on the web,<\/a>\r\nand it doesn’t say what Agenda 21 conspiracy buffs say it says.\r\nCome on, conspiracy buffs: show me where the RAND study says its\r\ngoal is “to lead a targeted group of people to a pre-determined outcome.”\r\nNobody can show me that, because it doesn’t say that.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nGalloway’s article says\r\n\r\nALEC’s “our state legislators”<\/a>\r\nwere being taught that T-SPLOST was\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"GA<\/a>\r\nsomehow evidence\r\nof a regionalization conspiracy somehow associated with the U.N.\r\nGive me a break!\r\n\r\nT-SPLOST was backed by the Georgia and Metro Atlanta Chambers of Commerce\r\nand quite a few big businesses,\r\nplus the Republican Governor of Georgia as well as the Democratic Mayor of Atlanta.<\/a>\r\nAre they all in the pocket of the U.N.?\r\nAnd the opponents of T-SPLOST, much as the Tea Party likes to flatter itself,\r\nextended across the political spectrum,\r\nincluding the Georgia Sierra Club as a key\r\nmember and most Democrats I know around here.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"$12M<\/a>\r\nBesides, T-SPLOST was about as pro-sprawl and anti-sustainability as you can get,\r\nwhich is why\r\n\r\nI opposed it<\/a>,\r\nad\r\n\r\nnauseum<\/a>,\r\nand\r\n\r\nrepeatedly<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nSeriously, someone wants to claim a pro-sprawl tax proposal\r\nsupports a case for some sort of anti-sprawl conspiracy?\r\nIt must be a very weak case to drag that in!\r\nNo wonder the whole world is laughing at Georgia about the Capitol viewing of\r\nthose astroturf talking points.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNext: the real U.N. Agenda 21<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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