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Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 <br />Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 <br />In short, regionalism works to advance the globalist goals of political <br />restructure: <br />• To implement a step-by-step approach to the abolition of private <br />property; <br />• To promote the relocation of people from rual areas to Smart <br />Growth urban centers; <br />• To conscript public private partners and mandate community <br />volunteerism. <br />Consequently, government no longer operates the way traditional <br />eighth grade textbooks explained it. <br />Funding Sources <br />The list of money sources for the implementation of Sustainable <br />Development is impressive. American taxes fund the federal agencies' <br />present focus: implementing Sustainable Development. Thousands <br />of NGOs are accredited by the United Nations for the purpose of <br />implementing Sustainable Development in America, and are given <br />massive tax advantages. Some of these NGOs are the Nature <br />Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the <br />American Planning Association, the National Teachers Association, <br />the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the American Farm Bureau <br />Federation. <br />After government and non-profit funding schemes, the third "leg" <br />of the Sustainable Development financial insiders is a group of tax- <br />exempt foundations. These include the Rockefeller Foundation, Pew <br />Charitable Trusts, the Turner Foundation, the David and Lucille <br />Packard Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Carnegie <br />Foundation, the McArthur Foundation, Community Foundations, and <br />many more. <br />Political Support <br />When President George H. W. Bush signed the Rio Accords at the <br />Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, he pledged the United States <br />government's support for Agenda 21. A year later, when President Bill <br />Clinton created the President's Council on Sustainable Development <br />by Executive Order 12852, he laid the foundation for a proliferation of <br />federal agencies and local "stakeholder" councils that would set out to <br />reinvent government. <br />The same trend continues through both Republican and Democratic <br />leadership, including Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. <br />