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Gov Lynch Signed Pact with UN

This is from the Letters to the Editor – October 15, 2009

Lynch’s pact with the UN

To the editor: Today I came across an article in a Colorado online newspaper that told how our own New Hampshire governor had signed an agreement with the United Nations in support of international legislation to control ‘climate change’.

What is this man thinking?

What gives a New Hampshire governor the authority to sign agreements with the United Nations without the consent of the voters of New Hampshire?

When I looked to further investigate what this newspaper was reporting, I found the whole story right on the UNDP’s own website where they are also promoting things like the Millennium Development Goals:

http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2009/october/30-global-leaders-sign-declaration-in-advance-of-next-climate-agreement

Sadly I could not find one local news outlet that had reported on this.

Well, now you know. John Lynch supports handing control over our country to the same global elitists and wealthy banking families for whom Obama works. He has committed our support of their utopian redistribution schemes enabled through the higher energy taxes that would be the result of legislation like Cap and Trade.

And you thought the UN was just a place to ‘talk’? Check them out on the web sometime, and you’ll be shocked to find thousands of pages of goals, rules, laws, programs, and treaties they intend to impose on us, the ‘nation state’, through the activities of unaccountable numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under the UN.

Regional Planning Boards are Ad Hoc Agencies

Concord State House Jan 16, 2014 – Testimony on HB 1573 by Lou Archambault

Regional Planning Boards are Ad HOC Agencies. They attempt to usurp land rights – whether you choose to call it Agenda 21, Social Engineering or ANY other form of CONTEMPTUOUS SOCIAL AGENDA!

I was in my yard this past summer, two University of New Hampshire  students who were employed by the Strafford County Regional Planning Committee approached my property.

One stepped onto my property and determined there was too much vegetation in the ditch and he would notify the city to clean it. This is not going to be allowed. He then indicated a stone was disrupting the flow of water WHICH is an overflow of several “man made” ponds from the adjacent former farm. That stone has been there longer than he’s been alive. During the Mother’s Day Flood of 2006 the entire bridge at the end of Chesley Hill Road was washed away by a legitimate stream. That stream is the Eisenglass River. That 20 pound stone stone was there then, and it never affected the overflow or even moved.  He then decided to reiterate, the stone blocks the flow of water. YES – he was ordered OFF of my property.

I’ve made full statements to the Rochester City Council – Strafford County Regional Planning – as well as a letter to the editor…

I was at a regional planning meeting, I was shown a satellite picture of my property.

An employee was asked by the panel, if they go onto private property – he said no. (Right – NOT at this time or NO LONGER) SEMANTICS.

More importantly, at another Regional planning meeting the employee asked  the panel, “don’t we own the water” there was total silence. My assumption is that of a “collective thought pattern”!

This same person stated NEW HAMPSHIRE is one of the few states that the EPA is formally located in! I DID NOT KNOW THIS! Could it be New Hampshire is the last holdout at becoming a TOTALLY solid blue state in the entire North East? AND REGULATORS ARE OUR REWARD FOR THAT.

What we have here is an established Federal Agency embedded between layers of NH Government who answer or report to NO ONE! Not to the legislative body or the citizenry. Yet they influence everything from commerce to land rights.

Another citizen asked if the reports the staff spoke were from their own research? He admitted to it being a compilation of information.

The committee could/would not answer that question amongst themselves even as part of their public forum… These meetings can be viewed on “GovernmentOversite.com” a PRIVATE group.

To the best of my knowledge the meetings have NO public outlet. They certainly have access to video recording capabilities. THIS IS NOT A NEW HAMPSHIRE RIGHT TO KNOW OPEN FREE ISSUE!

These grants and funding ONLY go to expand THEIR POWER and THIEFDOMS!

CITIZENS — YOUR RIGHTS and or FREEDOMS are of NO concern to them!

I didn’t serve in the military to give up any rights to this TOTALLY SOCIALIST AGENDA.. Even if I didn’t serve I’d be just as outraged.

I am not one of your VASSALS who is willing to enter ANY agreement with a lord or MASTER!!!!  I AM NOT A SUBJECT!

As I told Strafford Planners — stay out and OFF of my property.

I believe in New Hampshire Freedom.

This REGIONAL PLANNING IS THE ANTITHESIS OF THIS.

Feds Trying to Take Over Planning and Zoning in NH

An excellent citizen letter on the subject was published today in the Laconia Daily Sun.

To The Daily Sun,

On Thursday, January 30, Gerald Coogan, an unelected official who’s on the payroll of the Lakes Region Planning Commission, sent in a correction to another local newspaper about the “official” website for the massive federal top-down planning program called the Granite State Future.

I went to both websites, www.granitestatefuture.org and www.GraniteStateFutures.org and was stunned at how the official website is lacking in-depth information about what’s going on with this federal planning and zoning program.

Why is that? Why doesn’t the official website contain the following scary statement on their home page taken from one of the official Granite State Future documents? The abstract of the Granite State Future project summary says on page 15:

“Anticipated barriers (to incorporate the Granite State Future plans), including N.H.’s strong tradition of individual property rights and resultant resistance to planning and zoning; and a currently strained state budget that will limit state agency’s capacity to conduct future planning efforts.”

Ouch! You didn’t have to get an A in high school English to understand that.


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Letter to Reps and Editors

Dover residents nearly had taxes imposed on their roofs, driveways and walkways. You will see this “impervious surfaces” tax rear its ugly head in every town, eventually, if it is not stopped. To highlight the importance of letters to the editor, here is one very excellent example of a letter a Dover resident sent to her representatives and could also have been sent to her newspaper:

Honorable Members of The House Municipal and County Government Committee;

I wish to express to each of you my strong support for HB 1573. Here in New Hampshire — the “Live Free or Die” state — we must take a strong stand against yet another Federal Government intrusion based on the Marxist concept of central planning. HUD’s mandate to Regional Planning Commissions to “mitigate” private and individual property rights is in direct violation of our Constitution with no accountability to the taxpayers. Planning Boards — if needed at all — should be elected locally, funded locally, and accountable locally. The whole movement being perpetrated by HUD is clearly in lock-step with the U.N. Agenda 21 — which has a clear mission of forcing the United States into surrendering its sovereignty to a central world plan of redistribution of resources controlled by a group of third world thugs. A clear example of this nefarious plot occurred last fall here in Dover, New Hampshire.

Christopher Parker, Dover’s Director of Planning and Community Development went on a junket to Cuba for the stated purpose of “implementing urban agricultural strategies.” If he wanted to learn about agriculture, he could have taken a short trip to The Thompson School of Agriculture at U.N.H. in Durham — one of the very best schools specializing in the subject. Why would he go to Cuba, which has a tropical climate, and is a communist country with socialized agriculture and central government planning? What is Castro’s Cuba good at? Mr. Parker’s claim that Dover “has been working to boost participation at the community garden” is the main reason for going to Cuba, and that “he hopes his time in Cuba will help him find innovative ways to encourage others to participate in this unusual brand of farming.” With government spending at record levels, our city fathers think that it’s a priority to expand a half-acre community garden? All this begs the question: Did he go to Cuba to learn about agriculture and help local farmers, or did he go to learn how to increase government’s control of (i.e., socialize) farming? America has been the “world’s bread basket” because farmers have been free to do what they do best: grow food. The Soviet-style state-controlled farms that Cuba has had have been repeatedly shown to be failures. Why, then, the trip? Was it to learn better farming methods or to learn techniques to get government’s nose into yet another segment of American enterprise? We’re in the throes of coping with the introduction of socialized medicine, and now the seeds are being sown for the next step in the destruction of American exceptionalism: socialized agriculture. I smell what could be a rat, but it is probably the stench of the Marxist U.N. Agenda 21 lurking in the shadows.

Respectfully submitted,
Jean L. LaBrack
Dover, NH

Jean eventually did submit to Fosters and it was printed.

Regional Invaders Are EVERYWHERE

Behold western New York’s regional plan, “One Region Forward” and their slick website. It’s a virtual PR campaign for Agenda 21.

One Region Forward

It has all the familiar buzzwords and doesn’t attempt to hide what it is about. No need to translate for those of you who are experienced in fighting this, but for newbies to this site, we’ll give you a little overview.

Sustainability – What does this even mean? This is the hook, the scare tactic, that makes people think if they don’t hop on the regional bandwagon, something terrible will happen. Chances are the ‘data’ they are using has long been debunked. Chances are it came from the United Nation’s IPCC. Create the problem, then provide the solution. This is called the Hegelian Dialect.

Public Engagement – Only a very small percentage of the population even know what these unelected groups are plotting for controlling their “…land use, transportation, housing, energy and climate, access to food, and more.” The wording is almost exactly the same as what we have seen for Granite State Future in NH.

Visioning – Whose ideas are these anyway? These sessions are where these unelected boards for the shadow government known as regionalism are duping a small percentage of the public into thinking these ideas came from them. If your area is doing visioning, it’s best to get to these sessions ASAP and start challenging them. They will try to ‘lead’ you to the ‘right’ decisions. This is called the Delphi Technique.

Why We Plan – Make no mistake about it, this is not about anything other than herding the populace into metropolitan areas for the purpose of CONTROL. This is called New Urbanism. As the site says “One Region Forward is directed by a steering committee composed of government, nonprofit, and academic organizations with capacity and experience in transportation, housing, economic development, community health, public engagement, and regional planning.” So your tax dollars are funding a bunch of unelected soviet-style boards, who are partnering with academics and special interest groups, and corporations and crony capitalists, to determine where you can live, how you can travel, what you can eat, how much medical care you can receive, how much energy you can use, and even what your children will learn in school!

New Urbanism – Events with speakers from the Congress for New Urbanism are featured prominently on the sidebar. Some of these folks come straight from the Kyoto agreement meetings of the 1990s. Others are Democrats like John Norquist, who leads the Congress for the New Urbanism. They are either stupid or complicit. We think it’s the latter.

Sustainable Communities Planning Grants – One Region Forward, like every other of these poisonous programs, is made possible by the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning program from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Our federal government is fully committed to promoting the policies put forth in Agenda 21 as we see from the Congressional testimony of Nancy Pelosi and the listing in the Federal Register, as previously laid out by the UN in Kyoto in the 1990s, using illegally created agencies such as HUD, EPA, and the DOT and YOUR OWN TAX DOLLARS. Sadly people must learn that this money is not free, it is their own tax money, and in fact, it is being used against them.

It clearly states:
“The program is part of the federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a collaborative effort between HUD, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to coordinate federal investments in smarter ways and to help regions develop plans and strategies that tackle the inter-dependent issues of housing, land use, transportation, environmental stewardship and economic development. The Erie and Niagara County Consortium leading One Region Forward was one of 29 communities out of 140 applicants nationally to win this competitive grant in 2011.”

Niagra may have ‘won’ this grant, but the people won’t win anything once the mandates are forced upon them as part of the agreement. In fact they will be giving up more and more of their rights and freedoms if they participate in this supposedly voluntary effort, an effort that is more about control by the global elites.

It is a deal with the devil.

Florida Regionalists Propaganda Machine

Florida’s regionalists are not happy with the activism of the Florida citizens who wish to pull out of the “Seven50” (now reduced to Three50) program.

They in fact blatantly lie about the situation with Westchester, claiming that Westchester did not fulfill its obligations under their own HUD grant.

This of course is NOT true. HUD wanted MORE than was asked for in the grant.

Once again they are calling Rob Astorino a liar.

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City of Port St. Lucie Orders Withdrawal Resolution

And then there were three…

In the first video, the Port St. Lucie City Council discusses withdrawal from the Seven50 Plan, one of several of Florida’s federal grant proposals to bring seven counties under regionalism. This makes four of the seven counties to reject it, and the action starts at 2:00:00.

City of Port St. Lucie Orders Withdrawal Resolution

We’ve embedded the video here for your convenience…We have set it to start at the point where they are discussing the Seven50 plan automatically.


Newsletter

Testimony for HB 1573 for January 16

HB 1573 is a bill that would allow towns and cities in NH to retain local control in the face of the push toward regionalism.

There are other bills that would enable regionalism by allowing towns to appoint, not elect, their officials, and would allow them to remove issues such as zoning from the ballot. This means that the voters would not get to approve changes. This is not what the citizens of NH want.

HB 1573 will be heard before the Municipal and County Government at 1:00 PM in the Legislative Office Building Room 301-303 on January 16, 2014.

Write to the Municipal and County Government Committee or call them at 271-3317 to register your support for this bill.

Write your Representatives to ask them to support this bill. Find your legislators here:
http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/wml.aspx

You can follow the bill’s progress here:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2395&sy=2014&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2014&txtbillnumber=hb1573

Background information on regionalism can be downloaded here in PDF format: Testimony HB 1573

Confusion Surrounding Regional Planning Commissions

As we have reported before, the 9 RPCs in New Hampshire were created as “political subdivisions” in 1969, and operate under RSA 36 (45-53). They are taxpayer funded and thus subject to all NH’s 91-A (Right to Know) laws. You can see an example of one of their taxpayer-funded budgets here.

It would seem however, that their existence is fraught with contradictions. For example, while the state mandates the towns get help from the RPCs to write their master plans, towns are only paid members on a voluntary basis. Furthermore, when RPCs procure money for town projects through federal HUD grants, often there are requirements within those grants that would mandate zoning changes. This would seem to contradict the assertion that RPcs are “advisory only”. To make things worse, now some towns want to remove the right of the voters to approve zoning changes and there has even been a bill submitted to the NH legislature to allow this. HB 1124 permits towns to opt out of official ballot voting requirements for the consideration and adoption of zoning ordinances. The RPCs have used our tax money to hire lobbyists to promote these types of bills so they can push their agenda through even faster.

This succession of videos demonstrates the confusion over Regional Planning Commissions.

While RPCs are NOT NGOs, they are a layer of government over which the voters have little, if any oversight. Their boards are unelected. They interface with your town planning and zoning boards, but, does the voter get to vote on the changes they recommend, especially the ones mandated by these federal HUD/EPA/DOT grants they have procured on the town’s behalf?

RPCs may as well be NGOs since private corporations and their foundations and NGOs are their biggest influence. Private corporations have even provided them with PR firms to convince the voters that the ideas they promote are coming from the community when they are NOT.

This series of videos shows why towns are considering rejecting membership in this layer of unaccountable government.

To demonstrate just how little our legislature and local boards know about RPCs I present to you these videos.

In the first video, the Hampton Budget Committee is trying to figure out just what kind of group are the RPCs. One comes to the wrong conclusion that they are NGOs.


In this video, the Hampton Budget Committee states the requirement that towns take help from the Rockingham Planning Commission to write their master plan. This is correct.


At this meeting of the Hampton Board of Selectmen, Cliff Sinnott from the RPC is defending his existence and trying to prevent them from dropping membership. But one member says he doesn’t know who came up with these projects. Why? Because they are not coming from the community. In fact, Mr. Pierce states voters have turned down one particular project TWO OR THREE TIMES, a project that suddenly seems to pop back up when federal funds are dangled in front of the town. The RPC rep does state correctly that they are NOT a private entity but a layer of government created by the legislature.

In the following video, a citizen is discussing with the Hampton Planning Board the classifying of roofs, driveways, and walkways as “impervious surfaces” for the purpose of TAXATION. The board doesn’t want the voters to know this would restrict property rights, and claims it would be illegal to state that on the ballot, and yet the town can legally print a recommendation near the item that they recommend its passage. Go figure.



In this video the Board of Selectmen speak about the invisible strings that come with federal programs…



In this video, the Hampton Board of Selectmen wonder why they pay dues to the Regional Planning Commission and consider withdrawing. They seem to understand that it is another “central planning” body.



Now the question we have to ask is, do they even know what the Granite State Future program is?