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The UN's "Sustainable Development Agenda" Is Basically A Giant Corporatist Fraud
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.
– From the Preamble to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster.
Records from the SDG process reveal that insiders at the heart of the UN’s intergovernment engagement negotiations have criticised the international body for pandering to the interests of big business and ignoring recommendations from grassroots stakeholders representing the world’s poor.
Formal statements issued earlier this year as part of the UN’s Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations on the SDGs, and published by the UN Sustainable Development Division, show that UN ‘Major Groups’ representing indigenous people, civil society, workers, young people and women remain deeply concerned by the general direction of the SDG process?—?whereas corporate interests from the rich, industrialised world have viewed the process favourably.
This allegation is borne out by UN records, which show that its own Major Groups representing the very people the global institution professes to be empowering?—?poor people in developing countries?—?are increasingly sceptical of the SDG agenda.
– From Nafeez Ahmed’s recent article: UN Plan to Save Earth is “Fig Leaf” for Big Business
On September 25th, Pope Francis will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. To much fanfare, the Pope will celebrate the unveiling of the UN’s Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.
A key plank of this agenda relates to the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals,” or SDGs. While this sounds all warm and fuzzy, several well meaning participants have become horrified by the extent to which multi-national corporations have influenced the entire process. So much so, that insiders are claiming the UN is actually marginalizing the very people it claims to be saving. The poor, the weak, and the voiceless.
In an invaluable piece of investigative reporting, Nafeez Ahmed writes the following:
UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalized the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster.
At the end of this month, the UN will launch its new 2030 Sustainable Development agenda for “people, planet and prosperity” in New York, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders.
The culmination of years of consultations between governments, communities and businesses all over the world, there is no doubt that the agenda’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer an unprecedented vision of the interdependence of global social, economic and environmental issues.
But records from the SDG process reveal that insiders at the heart of the UN’s intergovernment engagement negotiations have criticised the international body for pandering to the interests of big business and ignoring recommendations from grassroots stakeholders representing the world’s poor.
Formal statements issued earlier this year as part of the UN’s Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations on the SDGs, and published by the UN Sustainable Development Division, show that UN ‘Major Groups’ representing indigenous people, civil society, workers, young people and women remain deeply concerned by the general direction of the SDG process?—?whereas corporate interests from the rich, industrialised world have viewed the process favorably.
Among the ‘Major Groups’ engaged in the UN’s SDG process is ‘Business and Industry.’ Members of this group include fossil fuel companies like Statoil USA and Tullow Oil, multinational auto parts manufacturer Bridgestone Corporation, global power management firm Eaton Corporation, agribusiness conglomerate Monsanto, insurance giant Thamesbank, financial services major Bank of America, and hundreds of others from Coca Cola to Walt Disney to Dow Chemical.
Despite claims that the UN’s previous Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have succeeded in halving global poverty since the 1990s, there is good reason to question this narrative.
Today, 4.3 billion people live on less than $5 a day. Although higher than the World Bank poverty measure at $1.25 a day, the development charity ActionAid showed in a 2013 report that a more realistic poverty measure would be under $10 a day.
Yet far from decreasing, since 1990 the number of people living under $10 a day has increased by 25%. Global poverty has not reduced?—?it’s got worse.
But all we know what has gotten better…a lot better. Corporate profits.
I asked Hickel why, despite so much internal criticism from UN stakeholders within the SDG process itself, these concerns had not impacted on the text of the SDG ‘Zero Draft.’ “In an early version of the Zero Draft, there was a commitment to replace GDP with an alternative measure of economic well-being. But somehow that disappeared from the final text,” said Hickel. “I don’t know what happened behind the scenes.”
This allegation is borne out by UN records, which show that its own Major Groups representing the very people the global institution professes to be empowering?—?poor people in developing countries?—?are increasingly skeptical of the SDG agenda.
The civil society statement also points to parallel efforts by Western governments to forge new ‘free-trade’ agreements, such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) along with proposed Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses.
Yep, sounds exactly like the “free trade fraud” being perpetrated on the global populace at the moment. The current status quo strategy is to put a “nice spin” on what are essentially corporatist takeovers. See:
U.S. State Department Upgrades Serial Human Rights Abuser Malaysia to Include it in the TPP
Julian Assange on the TPP – “Deal Isn’t About Trade, It’s About Corporate Control”
As the Senate Prepares to Vote on “Fast Track,” Here’s a Quick Primer on the Dangers of the TPP
These new trade and investment frameworks are being negotiated by governments in secret without public accountability. The UN’s civil society group notes that the ISDS clauses “empower corporations to sue governments for reducing the value of investments through regulations that promote human rights, the environment, and labor standards.”
Yet the SDGs offer little to protect vulnerable communities in the face of such corporate encroachment.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This whole thing is just corporatist PR.
On 25th March, the Indigenous Peoples Working Group told a Major Group dialogue hosted by the Trusteeship Council Chamber at UN headquarters that the SDG process “is in jeopardy of excluding Indigenous Peoples from the agenda.”
The SDGs make no clear reference to the human right to water, for example, effectively providing “an open door for turning water into a commodity.”
The UN workers group particularly opposes the emphasis on public-private partnerships, which it describes as “an expensive and inefficient way of financing infrastructure and services, since they conceal public borrowing, while providing long-term state guarantees for profits to private companies.”
As I have maintained for years, the moment you hear “public-private partnership” run for the hills. You are being screwed over in unimaginable ways. See:
Wall Street Teams Up with U.S. Intelligence Cronies in Bid to Form Fascist “Cyber War Council”
Bread and Circuses – The Shady, Slimy and Corrupt World of Taxpayer Funded Sports Stadiums
A Deep Look into the Shady World of the Private Prison Industry
In fact, despite overwhelming support from UN member states for a more robust and transformative approach, the report reveals that “a vocal minority, including the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, has once again blocked consensus.”
The failure of the SDG process to incorporate such criticisms from the UN’s own Major Groups representing marginalized communities, is a direct result of entrenched power disparities within the UN itself.
According to an expert report circulated to UN officials, a detailed analysis of SDG documents reveals that the entire process has been “fundamentally compromised” by corporations with a vested interest in continuing business-as-usual.
In addition to mis-framing the structural origins of poverty, the report shows that the very concept of “development” deployed within the UN’s SDG documents derives from a “specifically neoliberal and corporatist conception of how the world does and should work.”
Despite acknowledging “deep problems and contradictions when relying on GDP growth to tackle poverty”, the SDG agenda still leaves “undifferentiated, perpetual growth” as the prime basis of development.
Hidden between the lines of the SDG vision, then, is a great delusion?—?the unflinching blind faith of the rich industrialised elite in the unquestionable perfection and immortality of neoliberal capitalism as a ‘way of life.’
According to Brewer, by removing all discussions about power from the SDG process, “the increasingly unpopular neoliberal agenda remains fully in place.”
The total omission of corporate and banking power from SDG texts, despite their unprecedented prevalence in the UN process, “is very telling in its own right,” he told me. “We know that multinational corporations are the most powerful political actors, and that they are profoundly concentrated vehicles for wealth consolidation.”
This is why, Alnoor Ladha explained, TheRules.org did not engage in the formal UN civil society SDG process.
“The process is a sham,” he said. “They will co-opt our engagement and say they have consulted us. All of the civil society groups that have tried to reform the SDGs have been co-opted by the UN, including the more critical voices.”
In other words, the SDG stakeholder engagement process draws selectively on the input of civil society groups to promote its public legitimacy, while systematically ignoring the voices that challenge the wider political and economic structures in which the entire process is embedded.
The above represents only excerpts from Dr. Ahmed’s piece, which can be found in its entirety here.
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The Whole UN is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud
that comes as a surprise to me, really.
What would expect from a group of communists
Your spelling is atrocious. It's f-a-s-c-i-s-m.
And no - communism and fascism are not the fucking same.
Oh no, its the spell check police. now that is fascism
The Grammar Police have been around longer than any democracy. That's saying something.
Man, fuck you and your bullshit articles, Mike Krieger, god damn chicken little mother fucker. Hire a god damn editor! I mean I guess you get paid by the word for your shit but repeating entire sections of text is fucking amateur hour.
FUCK YOU.
I am Chumbawamba.
So in this story the communists are the enemy.
So no one else has noticed how very seldom ZH points out the actualy groups behind these organizations?
Communists, fascists, socialists...
Do you really think they give a damn what you call them as long as they somehow kill capitalism and eliminate freedoms?
After they get rid of us, then they will sort out who is what.
I am reminded of when I used to play Risk and Diplomacy in college. We'd elimate someone. Then we'd change the damn rules. "You can't do that", the eliminated guy would say. "Shut the F up", we'd respond. "You do not even exist any longer."
Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production, for private benefit. Workers are not involved in any meaningful way in the decision-making process for large industries; only shareholders and the management they appoint are. It can exist either with a free market, command economy, or mixed economy.
Capitalism can exist without free markets (this is known as fascism) and free markets can exist without capitalism. I'm all for killing capitalism which has done nothing more than create a leisure class that lives of the "passive" income of capital appreciation, dividends, and interest, all of which are stolen (directly or through inflation) from normal hard working people.
Listen my socialist friend. Workers are involved when they purchase products. That's how capitalism works.
One must let supply and demand work things out.
You as an individual purchase products for private benefit.
Read a bit of Mises, would you? We have enough Krugmans in this world.
I'm not a Krugman supporter. Krugman believes in "kinder, gentler capitalism"--exactly the sort of anesthetized brutality that I am against. I have no support for such so-called leftist ideologies as Krugman has.
Workers aren't necessarily involved when they purchase products, consumers are. These consumers may or may not be the workers who actually create the value - increasingly, they are corporations and wealthy individuals, and on the occasion that they are in fact workers it is because they have been given money created out of thin air, as interest-bearing debt, that ultimately goes back to bankers and corporations.
Workers ought to determine how the fruits of their labor are disposed, not shareholders and their management retainers. Likewise, shareholders should determine which businesses to allocate their capital, and workers should not be allowed to force anyone to give capital away. Capital investment in an enterprise, and the rate of compensation thereof, should be determined by mutual agreement of worker and shareholder representatives. Workers should manage the operation of the enterprise and appoint managers, while shareholders should individually and collectively (through corporate boards and shareholder meetings) make decisions on investment allocation. Neither side should double dip.
Workers are allowed to determine how their goods are distrubuted. Their particular good is called LABOR.
collective journey
Sounds like a 'long march'
Not to mention a gang of Lucies.
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation." (David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations)
+1 for Lucies. It's hard to believe but it's true.
haaha they said "marginalizing the poor" no, you dont get it. The plan is KILL the poor, and a lot of others, billions actually.
How people cooperate I dont understand, including zero folks, do you think all your obedience gets you an email alert when shit comes your way?
Well celebrate, ww3 starts in years, ah no, in months, er, no, in weeks, uh, no, in yup.
Team Depends, hard to believe they are spotting daylight, friggin twilight zone shit right here
And our voices are all in, looks like. I only trust a few of them
Edit: geting harder to call conspiracy nut when you can see videos in their own words. they aren't hiding it, never did.
The Kleptocratic Circle Jerk and Debatng Society on Turtle Bay wants to be our new dictators and I'm just thrilled, but they'll have to stand in line because the dictator wannabe list is already full.....
Any entity that siphons off American tax dollars usually is..........
S.D. is the New World Order.
Did you think they were going to announce it as "The New World Order" and wake up the sheep?
They are announcing it, very subtlety
Krieger no likey unless joos own the root servers. Heaven forbid the Catholics.
Their next move is to go to the City of Babylon for the ow.gov, taking the stock market with them. That's why they've been bashing all the cultural art, any symbols of Christianity.
You mean to tell me that TPTB want a one-world fascist government?
Glad I was sitting down.
Doubleplusgood bitchez.
UNazi
I am a tad more skeptical than the author. If they are saying that the intention is to cure poverty world wide then what they mean is the intention is to create poverty an epic scale. We have already played this war on poverty game, the UN needs to be retired it is arbitrary and growing more molevolent by the minute.
Fuck all these fucking fuckers........
No, it's MOTHERfuck all these MOTHERfucking COCKSUCKING SONOFABITCHIN' MOTHERfuckers.
Your Tourette's needs work, Loonie.
Favourite quote
from A Lunatic:
It's always the same; your money or your life.
How civilized it is to have a monetary system
that ultimately relies upon
death threats as collateral?
That is the real context inside of which is the UN.
cant this Pope do anything constructive like call for a crusade to rescue persecuted Syrians or something
he's got bigger fish to fry.
The message from the UN is consistently is that those selfish people who eat meat, flush toilets, use styrofoam cups, drive cars, and live in suburbs are at fault.
Suburbanization, excess packaging, automobiles, and mass consumption of meat are all a part of the perpetual-growth scam that keeps our debt-backed bankster money system at work. The bankers and corporations are at fault for financing and creating such a system to benefit themselves, and the people are at fault for being foolish enough to believe that a suburban lifestyle is sustainable for financial, medical, and environmental health in the long run.
Oh yeah right... how far are we with the shemita crap?
Just a schmeckle-snip away.
Love the way they name these programs. the more warm and fuzzy the more it will cost you and I.
The Trouble is that Huge Amounts of Finances have been given to the Bankers and the Elite. This money doesn't get taxed at the same rates because the claim is that they create Jobs. I say Bullshit.
That money finance the Financial War whom the Tax Payer will burden the Losses .
The whole American System of Values is Gone. Those that are not productivesuck the Teat and the others that do work are raped.
Thiis inside of America, The UN, WHO and Nato with help from the CIA are all controled by the Government who works for Corporate America nd Fuck the World.
Americans, eat your GMO's, you live in a Nation who holds low values and less freedoms. Until you cut off the Snakes Head it will only get worse............ Wrap the Flag around Yourself, and hope that you live to see change, that being the Power and Control placed in the Hands of a Government that is for the People....NOT LIKE IT IS NOW.
So the pope is for this you say? I guess Global Warming is a religion afterall.
Global warming isn't a religion: the rich and powerful would rather keep us enslaved for 8+ hours per day churning through resources, destroying our environment, and depleting natural resources, than practice proper stewardship of the environment. An ever-increasing proportion of our economic output goes to creating profits for the top 0.01%, paying back interest on money created out of thin air by debt, or simply keeping the populace occupied in labor and mindless entertainment to stop any thoughts of revolution.
Back in 2011 l met Helen Garland one of the original un delegates when the UN was formed after World War 2. Her best friend was Margaret Mead, and her husband Joe fought in World War 2 in the European theater. When I met with Helen at her home in Gloucester Massachusetts, I informed her how much the UN had been serving corporate goals and she was completely aghast but not at all surprised.
Joe garland wrote a book called unknown soldiers and completed it when he was 88 years old. The book detailed the horrors of war and made a compelling argument against it. This man was a soldier to the last as he had post-traumatic stress disorder and writing the book at his age of 86 at the time brought on his condition along with Alzheimer's. It literally ended his life to fight fascism which he felt was growing in the world once again.
Without comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P80A8vy9I
My comment,
historical era:
Just before worst death insanities in human history.
The UN is a giant corporatist fraud.
What else would you expect??!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMBBbMN0Nl8 (0:32)
OF COURSE, "the UN is actually marginalizing the very people it claims to be saving." The UN is another bankster driven organization, where professional liars and immaculate hypocrites are paid to listen to each other spout their kinds of bullshit, which is the kind of bullshit that the biggest bullies approve of.
"Corporatist takeovers" are the manifestations of the ways that civilization based upon backing up lies with violence developed more sophisticated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. The existence of corporations is euphemistically referred to as based upon "legal fictions," which is a relatively polite way to refer to legalized lies. Of course, those sets of legalized lies are backed up by those having been legalized, and therefore, effectively given the power of governments' "rule of law," so that those privately owned and controlled corporate entities have the backing of the police and armies (as well as their own mercenaries.)
The essential issues are that as soon as we define human beings as separate from their environment, then they necessarily live as robbers in that environment. Those original SUBTRACTIONS delineate and drive the following ROBBERIES, across the boundaries perceived according to those SUBTRACTIONS. Those are built into the nature of human beings perceiving their world and telling stories about it, which includes stories about themselves, within their stories about their world. Since human beings live as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows, as soon as one perceives them and their groups, it follows that all human organizations, from churches to countries, to corporations, are necessarily based on systems of organized lies operating robberies. Entropic pumps of energy flows must operate in ways which match the principles and methods of organized crime.
The intense paradoxes, which can be described as being consistent contradictions, are due to the ways that the history of warfare and economics became most socially successful through the maximum possible deceits and treacheries, during thousands of years, which selected for the development of the currently established social pyramid systems, where governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by privately controlled banks. Of course, the biggest of those banks are the most significant of the "corporations," due to the degree to which they have power to issue the public "money" supply as debts to all the other "corporations."
The nature of those intense paradoxes has resulted in the biggest bullies' bullshit world views becoming socially dominate, to the degree that those are built into the structure of the dominate natural languages, as well as into the common presumptions made in the dominate philosophy of science. All of those combined result in us living in Wonderland Matrix Bizarro Worlds, where everything is publicly presented in the most absurdly backward ways possible.
Since the political economy is actually based upon governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by privately controlled banks and other corporations, those are also the processes and entities that dominate politics, and thus dominate the United Nations. Hence, the UN is a classic illustration of how false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals are promoted by professional hypocrites, in order to actually accomplish the opposite in the real world. The entire Charter of the UN, and all its major foundation documents, are based on the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, and so, there is nothing surprising in that the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is but another one of those kinds of documents. However, the political problems that are behind and underneath that are many orders of magnitude WORSE than those who merely stop at the correct, but superficial, analysis of the situation that the 2030 Agenda IS a corporatist fraud.
The following observation applies quite thoroughly to all of the people who point out some superficial analysis regarding the established systems being operated by professional hypocrites, in ways which actually accomplish the opposite of what they stated that they were supposed to be doing, as expressed on Zero Hedge by Cognitive Dissonance:
"The absolute best controlled opposition is
one that doesn't know they are controlled."
Most of the "opposition" to something like the 2030 Agenda will continue to fit inside of that overall situation. The degree to which people take for granted thinking using DUALITIES, and therefore, rely upon false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, is quite profound. The biggest bullies' bullshit world views have dominated civilization almost totally, for generation after generation. I REPEAT, those are built into the dominate natural languages and philosophy of science!
Natural selection pressures have been the source of those developments. First, natural selection became internalized as human intelligence. Human beings were selected to survive by their ability to create mental models of their world, including mental models of themselves within those mental models of their world, which would enable them to tell stories which could organize their behaviors in that world. Human beings lived more and more by "dreaming with data," while there were constant selection pressures to develop to become able to do that better.
Next, the most important selection pressures were due to the existence of other people. The history of warfare developed in that context. That history selected for social success to become based on being able to back up deceits with destruction. That then became selection for financial success to become based on backing up frauds with force. The history of the War Kings drove the development of the more recent history of the Fraud Kings, which are now the various banking corporations, which control other corporations, by controlling the "money" supplies, which can be done because governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by those privately controlled banks.
That is the overall context in which the United Nations necessarily developed. Of course, that is also how and why the United Nations is run by professional hypocrites, the same as how churches and countries were previously operated, before the rise of the entities which we now refer to as international, or indeed, transnational, corporations, engaged in globalized systems based upon organized lies operating robberies. That is especially now the ways that banks operate symbolic robberies through government ENFORCED FRAUDS.
Those were reasons which were inherent to the nature of life, that drove the development of natural selection pressures, which then manifested as human artificial selection systems. After life exists, then the death controls upon that life direct its evolution. Therefore, the death controls are central to understanding natural selection pressures. Hence, in turn, those death controls are also necessarily central to human artificial selection systems. However, at that point, the intense paradoxes, or consistent contradictions, emerge, that human societies necessarily operate as systems of organized lies operating robberies, while the people who are most successful at doing that were also the people who were the best at becoming professional liars and immaculate hypocrites with respect to what they were actually doing.
It is NOT any kind of mistaken accident that the promotion of impossible ideals actually makes the opposite happen in the real world. It is NOT any kind of mistaken accident that about the only things that now exist are core system of organized crime (governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by corporations), which are surrounded by various controlled opposition groups, that stay within the same frame of reference of basic bullshit regarding THAT.
If one endeavours to adopt more unitary mechanisms, rather than continues to rely upon dualities, then the actual ways to more realistically resolve real problems are pretty well the total opposite to the kinds of bullshit presented in the UN's 2030 Agenda. However, doing that runs into head-on collisions with the history of successful warfare based on deceits, morphing into successful finance based upon frauds, which were actually the foundation of the existence of entities like the UN.
Essentially, the real problems are due to the real history of the death controls directing the development of civilization, while the only real resolutions of those problems must become different death controls. However, that perspective then runs into the intense paradoxes that the most socially successful death control systems for thousands of years were those operated through the maximum possible deceits and treacheries, to the degree to which almost all of the apparent opposition to the established systems have adapted to operate inside of the same basic deceitful frame of reference regarding those death controls.
THE UN IS RUN BY PROFESSIONAL HYPOCRITES.
MOST OF ITS PUBLIC OPPOSITION IS ALSO RUN
BY THE SIMILAR PROFESSIONAL HYPOCRITES!
I just love articles that paste the same text in 3 places over and over as if it makes the point stronger each time. It sounds like the indigenous people didn't get a special call-out so now they are pissed off. But because of that the entire thing is a wasted effort. Well I now know to ignore the future "Mike Krieger" posts and stop wasting my time.
Why does it always seem that the More Noble these "Initiatives" Stated Goals Sound, the More Corrupt the Final Results Become? I guess it's just the Orwellian Nature of nearly, if not All, of Them as it has Always Been?
From our Govt Initiated "Wars", on Poverty, Drugs, Terror, etc., to such Govt Initiated Agencies as the DEA, DHS, NSA and Trade Agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP, etc., are Inevitably Corrupted and Perverted by the Various Corporate Interests behind their Creation! Foreign Aid has Always been a Sick Joke Perpetrated upon the Very Peoples it is Purported to Assist!
Utilizing Techniques described by Orwell in 1984, or Huxley's Brave New World They garner the Support of otherwise Well Intentioned Individuals! Sneaky Bastards!
Yes, Pancho de Villa, see my comment above, for my attempts to theoretically explain why your observations are CORRECT.
great post mike!
Don't "choot 'em" until you see the blue of their helmets.
Bow down to your corporate overlords.
Just goes to show that the Pope NEVER reads the Scripture, for we are called to "subdue" the earth because the earth was made for man; not man for the earth. That does NOT mean we do not care for the earth, but it does mean we use the resources for everyone and do not worry about running out, for when Jesus comes back to judge righteously he will put the final end to evil in every form and the earth and universe will literally be destroyed by "intense heat"; which would make any "global warminst" envious.
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Sustainability is loss of liberties and allows for more control of the sheeple.
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Make no mistake; the Pope, a Jesuit at that, is an anti-Christ and anyone who is familiar with the gospel knows the Roman Catholic Church pronounced damnation on the gospel and replaced salvation by "child-like" faith to a wretched works-based system of Bull, Dogma, and man-made traditions. See Council of Trent among other places.
We need to just quit playing; then the game is over.