George Rebane
We continue on our unintended road to the world described in the UN’s Agenda 21 objectives for ‘voluntary global sustainable development’. Few people know that A21 is the tacit goal quietly accepted by governments across the world (more here). On RR, we have been railing against this surreptitiously mandated brave new world for years. But with progressives intractably embedded within all of our government bureaucracies, there is little hope that our course back to liberty from ‘stack & pack’ collectivism can be directed by any democratic means. Even our own Nevada County staffers have been trained at the nearby ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) on the means by which progress toward A21 can be quietly achieved (more here). Here I offer a couple more examples that appear innocuous to the casual reader, and are totally invisible to the low information type citizens. (As an exercise, see how easy it is to find out what ICLEI stands for; they don’t want to publicize how globalism is reaching its grasp to local levels. And no progressive will admit that A21 has any influence on America’s public policies – which itself can be used as a handy litmus test for identifying a progressive.)
Nevada City is going through a well-rehearsed exercise to impede people moving into these mountains, which under A21 are supposed to revert back to their pre-human ‘natural state’. The city council is debating how to make sure that no low-cost housing is ever permitted to be built here. The government alternative to that is ‘affordable housing’ which is a cynical highly regulated housing program designed to keep poor people poor. NC is today not sure that it even wants to permit affordable housing within its city limits. Imagine this, instead of letting poor people buy into an ‘affordable house’ and then benefit from the subsequent appreciation of real estate values, the required deed restrictions put price and buyer controls on your house such that you must sell it for below market value only to other poor people. That’s why even progressive towns resist inviting regulated ghettos to be established in their jurisdictions.
Today there is a developer who instead wants to build low cost housing in Nevada City. The council is putting him through the usual wringer that gives our county its well-deserved anti-development and anti-business reputation. You know, that’s the drill that has kept our population stagnant for over 20 years, and middle-class families pulling up stakes for greener pastures. You can read about the whole sordid affair here.
Then we have a report of the most recent effort by Leviathan to extend its tentacles more firmly into local communities, all brought to you by the shameless Sacramento scumbags. Supervisor Hank Weston reports on how “AB 1250 would significantly erode ability to provide services for the Nevada County’s most vulnerable” (here). It turns out that another ignorant/evil Sacramento scumbag is trying “to stop counties from contracting with community based organizations (CBOs), nonprofits, local businesses and other private providers of quality local services that counties and their residents rely on. Counties contract with organizations and businesses that have the expertise, capacity or the ability to deliver services more efficiently.”
The obvious impact of this new law will be to further increase government by setting up at least one more layer of incompetent, feedback immune bureaucracy to bring ‘in-house’ to county governments new departments that would attempt to supply what is already supplied by contracting with qualified private organizations. But global collectivists see such private sector involvement as an impediment to the world becoming one giant collective. And under A21’s objectives such impediments must be removed at every opportunity. AB1250 would do it under the guise of providing “more transparent” services for the people. You can’t make this stuff up. (Exit question – do you know what kind of shot in the shorts SB2 will be to the real estate business?)
On a happier note, Jo Ann and I, with friends, attended an absolutely marvelous production of the musical ‘Chicago’ now playing at the Nevada Theater. The show is produced by Sierra Stages, our own volunteer community theater organization, and is under the direction of Robert Rossman, with a fine performance by the sizeable on-stage band ably conducted by Ken Getz (with Artistic Director Ken Hardin at the keyboard). What impressed everyone in the audience was the depth and breadth of singing, dancing, and acting talent that our community has. The show’s 1920s raucous story line of the tragi-comic vicissitudes of lady murderers on Chicago’s death row binds together an unforgettable sequence of major production numbers. We all wondered how much work had to go into the rehearsals to pull off such polished and flawless performances. Needless to say, we clapped and cheered ourselves silly, and at the end stood up to do it all over again.
The play will run until 5 August 2017, more information here. You definitely have to go see this wonderful delight, and come away proud that Nevada County deserves all the accolades it gets for its wide, varied, and wonderful year-round cultural offerings.
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