In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire PlanetBy Michael Snyder This new sustainable agenda focuses on climate change of course, but it also specifically addresses topics such as economics, agriculture, education and gender equality. For those wishing to expand the scope of global governance, sustainable development is the perfect umbrella because just about all human activity affects the environment in some way. The phrase for the good of the planet can be used as an excuse to micromanage virtually every aspect of our lives. So for those who are concerned about the growing power of the United Nations, this summit in September is something to keep an eye on. Never before have I seen such an effort to promote a UN summit on the environment, and this new sustainable development agenda is literally a framework for managing the entire globe. If you are not familiar with this new sustainable development agenda, the following is whatthe official United Nations website says about it The United Nations is now in the process of definingSustainable Development Goalsas part a new sustainable development agenda that must finish the job and leave no one behind. This agenda, to be launched at the Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015, is currently being discussed at the UN General Assembly, where Member States and civil society are making contributions to the agenda. The process of arriving at the post 2015 development agenda is Member State-led with broad participation from Major Groups and other civil society stakeholders.There have been numerous inputs to the agenda, notably a set of Sustainable Development Goals proposed by an open working group of the General Assembly, the report of an intergovernmental committee of experts on sustainable development financing, General Assembly dialogues on technology facilitation and many others. Posted below are the 17 sustainable development goals that are being proposed so far. Some of them seem quite reasonable. After all, who wouldnt want to end poverty. But as you go down this list, you soon come to realize that just about everything is involved in some way. In other words, this truly is a template for radically expanded global governance. Once again, this was taken directly from the official UN website 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere As you can see, this list goes far beyond saving the environment or fighting climate change. It truly covers just about every realm of human activity. Another thing that makes this new sustainable development agenda different is the unprecedented support that it is getting from the Vatican and from Pope Francis himself. In fact, Pope Francis is actually going to travel to the UN and give an address to kick off the Sustainable Development Summiton September 25th His Holiness Pope Francis will visit the UN on 25 September 2015, and give an address to the UN General Assembly immediately ahead of the official opening of the UN Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda. This Pope has been very open about his belief that climate change is one of the greatest dangers currently facing our world. Just a couple of weeks ago, he actually brought UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the Vatican to speak about climate change and sustainable development. Here isa summary of what happened On 28 April, the Secretary-General met with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican and later addressed senior religious leaders, along with the Presidents of Italy and Ecuador, Nobel laureates and leading scientists on climate change and sustainable development. Amidst an unusually heavy rainstorm in Rome, participants at the historic meeting gathered within the ancient Vatican compound to discuss what the Secretary-General has called the defining challenge of our time. The mere fact that a meeting took place between the religious and scientific communities on climate change was itself newsworthy. That it took place at the Vatican, was hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and featured the Secretary-General as the keynote speaker was all the more striking. In addition, Pope Francis is scheduled to release a major encyclical this summer which will be primarily focused on the environment and climate change. The following comes fromthe New York Times The much-anticipated environmental encyclical that Pope Francis plans to issue this summer is already being translated into the worlds major languages from the Latin final draft, so theres no more tweaking to be done, several people close to the process have told me in recent weeks. I think that we can get a good idea of the kind of language that we will see in this encyclical from another Vatican document which was recently released. It is entitled Climate Change and The Common Good, and it was produced by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The following is abrief excerpt Unsustainable consumption coupled with a record human population and the uses ofinappropriate technologies are causally linked with the destruction of the worlds sustainability andresilience. Widening inequalities of wealth and income, the world-wide disruption of the physicalclimate system and the loss of millions of species that sustain life are the grossest manifestations ofunsustainability. The continued extraction of coal, oil and gas following the business-as-usualmode will soon create grave existential risks for the poorest three billion, and for generations yetunborn. Climate change resulting largely from unsustainable consumption by about 15% of theworlds population has become a dominant moral and ethical issue for society. There is still timeto mitigate unmanageable climate changes and repair ecosystem damages, provided we reorientour attitude toward nature and, thereby, toward ourselves. Climate change is a global problemwhose solution will depend on our stepping beyond national affiliations and coming together forthe common good. Such transformational changes in attitudes would help foster the necessaryinstitutional reforms and technological innovations for providing the energy sources that havenegligible effect on global climate, atmospheric pollution and eco-systems, thus protectinggenerations yet to be born. Religious institutions can and should take the lead in bringing aboutthat change in attitude towards Creation. The Catholic Church, working with the leadership of other religions, can now take a decisive role by mobilizingpublic opinion and public funds to meet the energy needs of the poorest 3 billion people, thus allowing them toprepare for the challenges of unavoidable climate and eco-system changes. Such a bold and humanitarian action bythe worlds religions acting in unison is certain to catalyze a public debate over how we can integrate societal choices,as prioritized under UNs sustainable development goals, into sustainable economic development pathways for the21st century, with projected population of 10 billion or more. Under this Pope, the Vatican has become much more political than it was before, and sustainable development has become the Vaticans number one political issue. And did you notice the language about the worlds religions acting in unison? Clearly, the Vatican believes that it has the power to mobilize religious leaders all over the planet and have them work together to achieve the UNs sustainable development goals. I can never remember a time when the United Nations and the largest religious institution on the planet, the Catholic Church, have worked together so closely. So what will the end result of all this be? Should we be concerned about this new sustainable development agenda? Please feel free to add to the discussion by posting a comment below This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. Yes Michael, we should be very concerned. There are (were) approximately 650 ICLEI Charters in the U.S. about 250 have KICKED ICLEI OUT!!! I strongly suggest that you learn to recognize / expose / RESIST this cancer on a LOCAL LEVEL (if you you havent already). Ways to get ourselves and other up to speed on Agenda 21: You forgot to mention that Agenda 21 is a treasonous activity against the American people and the US Constitution. That all who are supporting and involved with ICLEI, and the multitude of other Agenda 21 agencies are TRAITORS to the USA and need to be arrested, charged, prosecuted with the death penalty being the end result if found guilty as charged. Yes. We have a Constitution. We also have domestic enemies of the USA, actually traitors, serving within our governments state and federal. We have people who no longer meet the qualifications, if they ever did, to serve within our governments. Then we have those agencies under one branch of the government UNLAWFULLY using the powers and authorities granted to EACH branch, and denied to the other two branches. They are unlawful, but the people in it are going to keep just doing their jobs because they know nothing else until we no longer have a nation, millions are killed up to and quite possible including themselves and we are part of the One World government or New World Order whichever name one wants to call it, which is basically still the Rule the World concept fought over and over throughout history. It took decades for this to be accomplished with the assistance of those who just follow orders and just do their jobs. Have you read Dr. Edwin Vieiras Three Rights? Small book. What you can do, if you feel like it, is go to oathkeepers.org and look up the Community Preparedness Teams you do NOT have to be a member of oathkeepers. Start one in your area with their assistance,they will provide the training for free. To stop this we must first control our neighborhood, our city, our county, our states, and we must NOT depend on any government agency to assist us. Go to cspoa.org and find your constitutional sheriff and then volunteer to train with them and become part of the Militia the US Constitution requires us to be and assist him/her when needed and called upon. A few of sheriffs already have over a couple of thousand volunteers they have trained and rely upon. The US Constitution assigned a few duties to the people themselves, plus the duties of overseeing and dumping those who serve within our governments. One is Elections the peoples voice. Election Fraud is treason against the American people and the US Constitution at any level. Two is the Militia of the several states. They are NOT under any government branch, but both the federal and state governments are constitutionally REQUIRED to use them to enforce the (constitutional) laws and the first layer of defense for our neighborhoods, cities, states, nation. The Militia has as its constitutionally assigned duties to: The US Constitution guarantees to each state to keep its own government but it must be a Republican form of government. It is every states Militia that is the ONLY Constitutionally assigned force to counter Invasions and Domestic Violence within our nation. As John Adams said in A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, 475: To What does that mean? The US Constitution is the supreme LAW, and each state Constitution is the highest LAW of the state EXCEPT if in conflict with the US Constitution, then the US Constitution takes precedence. That is what the Militia is under, its lawful duties are defined by what the US Constitution and each state Constitution says, and then by all laws that are in Pursuance thereof the US Constitution. What does this mean? It means that though the state and federal governments are REQUIRED to use the Militias to enforce the laws, defend the states/nations, those who serve within them are NOT the boss of the Militia, but the US Constitution and the State Constitution (if within a state) is the final boss. Example. Lawfully there is no one else that governor can turn to for that theft and unlawful action on the part of the state. How bad is the federal governments overreach and treason? The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, it must be observed that the only crimes assigned to the federal government in the Constitution for law enforcement purposes are Treason, Piracy, Counterfeiting, and International law violations. Nothing else is under their LAWFUL jurisdiction. Next is the Grand Jury which the California legislature is now making a move against is another tool of the people. It is NOT under the jurisdiction of either the state or federal governments. Like the Militia, it is the peoples tool via the US Constitution, to keep those who serve within our governments in check. The grand jury is mentioned in the Bill of Rights, but not in the body of the Constitution. It has not been textually assigned, therefore, to any of the branches described in the first three Articles. It Thus, citizens have the unbridled right to empanel their own grand juries and present True Bills of indictment to a court, which is then required to The grand jury is an institution separate from the courts, over whose functioning the courts do not preside, we think it clear that, as a general matter at least, no such supervisory judicial authority exists. Although the grand jury normally operates, of course, in the courthouse and under judicial auspices, its institutional relationship with the The grand jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not. It need not identify the offender it suspects, or even the Recognizing this tradition of independence, we have said the 5th Amendments constitutional guarantee presupposes an investigative body acting independently of either prosecuting attorney or judge Given the grand jurys operational separateness from its constituting court, it should come as no surprise that we have been reluctant to invoke the judicial supervisory power as a basis for prescribing The Good Behaviour requirement of all judges state and federal, is another tool of the people to rein in the judicials. US Constitution, Article III, Section 1: The James Madison, Fed 39, 250 53: According to the provisions of most of the constitutions, again, as well as according to the most respectable and received opinions on the subject, the members of the judiciary department are to retain their offices by the firm tenure of good behaviour. What is Good Behaviour? The US Constitution assigns what all judges, state and federal, must do to be allowed to stay in a judicial position, they are: That is Good Behaviour for judges. They can be removed for not using good behavior, for misbehavior, but they get their day in court and it is the JURY of the PEOPLE who decide if they misused their office. Just because the POPE has his name on it Im suppose to think this is the greatest thing going..going.goinggone ! NO ! This is full of crap ! I dont think its this site doing the censoring when your comments are not posted. The United Nations is a hotbed for corruption and abuse. It is opaque, The UN does not issue clear reports to donor nations on how their money is The U.N. in some cases uses U.S. money to actively undermine American TheU.N. has failed to reform. Following the Oil-for-Food scandal, in which Inside the U.N., a special anti-corruption task force set up in 2006 was The UN was created to do exactly what it is doing today. It was always a lie when they said it was to promote peace. It was to create a one world government, the old control the world thing rearing its ugly head again. Who created the UN? Edward John Alger Hiss was the chosen one of the communist elite in the united States. When he was chosen as head of the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for International Peace after World War II, his nomination was seconded by John Foster Dulles. He was later sent to prison for perjury for lying about his exploits as a Soviet espionage agent. This secret meeting in the Garden Room was the first military strategy session, with many more to follow, of the United Nations. This meeting was dedicated to its mission of exploding the worlds first atomic weapon on a living population. Plus created the entire strategy of the Cold War, which lasted forty-three years, cost Like the Patriot Act, etc the name and mission was distorted to something the American people would accept. That was necessary as the USA and its military was to become the enforcement arm throughout the world of the One World Government, which it has done. Panneta, Dempsey, and Obama gave the UN the US Military, which is TREASON. Those who serve within our US Military who REFUSED to break their Oath and put on UN uniforms and carry out UN missions have been imprisoned, though they are actually US HEROES, while the others who just follow orders and just do their jobs are made into Traitors to their nation, and soon, if they can get it done, will be used against their own people and nation in an act of war, where if we succeed in defending we will be required to prosecute our own family members for treason for the sole reason that they did not keep and understand their Oath is to the US Constitution, NOT to ANY person of whatever rank or office they may hold. UN are intolerant maniacs.human rights violators I can think of a nice welcome for the UN. amongst the 17 points i see no mention of ending the wars begun by the usa/zios in africa, ukraine, or middle east. i see no indication that the worlds richest religion will ease the poverty of its members in the philipines. This congregation (UN) is made up of people who have zero remorse when hundreds of children are caught in a directed napalm cauldron or a dark night carpet bombing run when corpo-political statutes, mandates and decrees are being enforced on a country which perceives itself to be independent and sovereign. When this congregation makes plans for the global population it certainly will NOT be for the benefit of the global population no matter how sweet the camouflage icing appears. All we can expect is a Bolshevik-style global take-over inside a Technocratic control grid system all flavoured with deceptive semantic condiments. Eventually, again, dissent will be brutally exterminated and the rest will be subjected to a harrowing, oppressive wealth extraction process as is already quite clearly evident. Why would TPP regulations be so paranoiacally, ominously SECRET? The global population certainly have every reason to become paranoid about all this undercover dealings between the corporate elite and the politicians! 