Small Farmers Under Seige

Even as the Granite State Future program is praising and supporting small farms and local produce the same federal government is passing new laws to suppress the farmers’ ability to exist and do business.

Long ago, some folks in the NHTPC warned about a federal bill called Food Safety and Modernization Act. Not too many people were interested. Now the problem has shown itself.

To understand what the bill is about, one must get up to speed on Codex Alimentarius, yet another tentacle of the United Nations Agenda 21 program.

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Farmers protest proposed food safety rules

Small farmers say rules could halt local food trend
FDA’s Secret War on Raw Milk and Organic Farming

From Road Grants to Education

Back when Regional Planning Commissions were created by our NH legislature it was done to make sure each town had a say in how federal highway money was spent.

Now regionalism seems to be taking away local control in every area of our lives.

NH Families for Education outlines that fact in a post on their website: From Independent Districts to Centralized Planning via Regional Control Centers

In the post it is noted that “Transferring control over our schools to non-government agencies violates the US Constitution, Art. 4, Sec. 4: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Also known as “Taxation without Representation.” These educational changes also violate the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The federal government bribes states to “voluntarily” adopt these programs. Follow the money.”

Education is being dictated by the federal government with input from NGOs, professional ‘associations’ and corporate globalists pushing their agendas via groups such as the Gates and Annenberg foundations.

When will the residents of NH have had enough of this?

Realtor Mark Warden Talks Plan Pinardville

This morning on Girard at Large, Goffstown Realtor Mark Warden talked about Plan Pinardville and how major changes via a “master plan” are not needed to accommodate new businesses in the downtown area.

Of course we all know that Plan Pinardville is just a small part of a bigger program, NH’s Granite State Future.

Regional Planning Commissions are charged with ‘assisting’ with master plans and making ‘suggestions’ for changes per the recommendations of HUD and the grants thereof. They’ve dubbed their plan Granite State Future and it’s a product of your state and federal tax dollars. Nashua’s RPC gets paid $1.5 MILLION, yes that’s MILLION dollars per year for this dubious job.

RSA 36:45, “enables” Towns to join in the formation of Regional Planning Commissions.

RSA 36:47 states that the costs of “assistance” shall be paid by the municipality or county to which the service is rendered. [which means it’s a taxpayer-funded operation and thus subject to all 91-A rules, transparency laws, and freedom of information and enjoys no copyright]
 
The Master Plans are being “quietly” implemented at the local level during planning board meetings where, although there’s been notice to make it all quite “legal”, there’s no one from the public in attendance. Oh sure, they had “listening sessions” set up and run by PR firms such as Action Media and NH Listens, but those were limited to the Delphi method of controlled input.

The few times one of our residents says she has been bored enough to watch live Salem local government channel and the Planning Board, she’s seen Ross Moldoff, Salem’s Planning Director, try to get the planning board to approve the “Master Plan” at the local level in a perfunctory manner, without discussion and with no member of the public present.

But wait a minute, didn’t Salem opt out of Granite State Future and the whole “master plan” deal? We think we remember they did.

We did hear a planning official tell a resident in another town that they would go ahead without permission regardless. Is this legal?
 
The government is supposed to be the servant of the people, but “we” are becoming their servants as we unwittingly trust their authority and “professional expertise” and as they quietly strip us of local control and seize our liberty.

Overriding the Constitution, Obama Plans to Use EPA

Just one more step in the destruction of our economy and the devolution of the United States.

BOULDER, Colo. | EPA chief Gina McCarthy said Wednesday that the Obama administration is finished waiting for Congress to act on climate change and plans to bypass the legislative branch in developing a federal response.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/14/climate-change-obama-epa-plan-action-sans-congress/

Background Information on Regionalism

For those interested in watching an hour and a half video, here is a good in-depth explanation of where these sustainability ideas originated.

Keep in mind that because the word ‘sustainability’ has gotten such a bad rap (which it deserves) new buzzwords are going to refer to regionalism as being done in the name of ‘economic resilience’.



If the above video does not appear on your device, use this direct link:
http://youtu.be/9GykzQWlXJs

Just Say NO to Forced Regionalism

The UN said that urbanisation is now “unstoppable”.  Anna Tibaijuka, outgoing director of UN-Habitat, said: “Just over half the world now lives in cities but by 2050, over 70% of the world will be urban dwellers. By then, only 14% of people in rich countries will live outside cities, and 33% in poor countries.” 

The UN thinks regionalism is unstoppable but we have other ideas.

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