Category Archives: Agenda 21

Quality of Place explained in Istanbul

Who do they really work for? We know who pays their inflated salaries.

The origin of “Quality of Place”—straight from Cultural Marxists. July 28, 2014

Who fed former Mayor Ray Baker, Chambers of Commence directors, City Manager Ray Gosack, Fort Smith Parks Director Mike Alsup, Frontier Engineering and Charles Dilks who has contracted with the Little Rock City Government as Consultant and offered the phrase “Sense of Place”?

Quality of Place is the foundation, while “Sense of Place”, “Event Nodes”, and a multitude of others are by-products of Quality of Place.

Much to my astonishment, thanks to a well-informed lady in Little Rock, I find the very phrases are verbalized around the globe. The link that I submit below uses the aforementioned terms accompanied by in-depth verbiage, in this case being implemented in Istanbul, Turkey.

Beware of a man named Richard Florida. There are some local politicians who have a relationship with the aforementioned.

These phrases are all about stealing Americans freedoms. The politicians, government bureaucrats, and other hired guns are fully aware of the insouciant Americans.

Ask yourself this question: With whom do you believe, for instance, Ray Gosack, Mike Alsup, et al are really aligned? Is it all government employee unions and Globalists dictating the tenor of business for the Congress, the Senate, and the President or do you believe again, for instance, that the Fort Smith City Government really represents the middleclass Fort Smithians in any matter?

The above terms are straight out of U.N.’s Agenda 21 and designed to take total and absolute control of our independence and personal holdings. The City Directors are either moribund or in cahoots with government takeovers.

Most laws and regulations are designed to enhance those individuals that create, install, & enforce the laws & regulations.
Please log on to the link.

http://www.az.itu.edu.tr/azvol6no1/08ayatacturk0601.pdf

It is difficult reading but you will get the message very quickly.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Government Newspeak designed to flummox citizens

First we have: July 27, 2014

QUALITY OF PLACE
brought to citizens of Ft. Smith by former Mayor Ray Baker, Paul Beran, City Directors, the Chamber of Commerce, and other notable insiders.

Quality of Place…another eloquent government phrase to confuse citizens by sounding all fuzzy & peachy. Translation: another approach to Urban Renewal in Drag. The little gem “Quality of Place” was delivered to citizens in Dec. 2009. If you missed the point it’s about more government money and control.

July 5, 2014 Fort Smith Parks Director, accompanied by Frontier Engineering delivered to the Fort Smith citizenry EVENT NODES.
Direcector Mike Alsup delivered this gem in promoting the Event Nodes…”where there are benches and you can sit down”….that quote is related to miles long proposed River Trail, followed by “There will be a shade structure so you can get out of the sun”.
How many Fort Smith residents would you believe were overwhelmed by the Event Nodes doublespeak? Event Nodes is camouflage for more funding.

Quality of Place
is now being upstaged by “SENSE OF PLACE”…this offering comes from out-of-town consultant Charles Dilks.
Observe, many if not most consultants have been drummed out of government by retirements and are using their lifelong experiences in government to stick it to the citizens again. Further note that the city of Fort Smith has a propensity for hiring “consultants”.

It would appear that the City Manager, his subordinates along with the City Board of Directors would comprehend city needs and what solutions would attain viable results: therefore why do they need very expensive consultants, who in reality offer nothing but hot air.

The government spins get larger in circumference as the velocity increases.
Joe McCutchen

P.S. For details on the above subjects log on to arkansasfreedom.net

AGENDA 21 & CHILD ABUSE

Another salvo from the United Nations’ Agenda 21. July 5, 2014

Remember when the downtown bunch was touting “Quality of Place”, in all likelihood it was one the first shots fired into Fort Smith by Agenda 21 and the “Sustainable” bunch. So when City Manager Ray Gosack and his enablers were using the phrase “Quality of Place” just what were they saying?

Parks Director Mike Alsup and Frontier Engineering are bantering around the new phrase “Event Nodes”…does anyone believe the aforementioned two or Gosack & his crew came up with that phrase? Not if you have one eye open.

The project that brought “Event Nodes” into the conversation is geared toward building a 12-foot-wide riverside path accompanied by a bridge. The phrase “Event Nodes” is the eloquent definition for benches. According to Alsup it’s “where there are benches and you can sit down”. Alsup goes on to say “There will be a shade structure so you can get out of the sun”. What, no fans? What else is covered by the phrase “Event Nodes”?

Overtaxed Fort Smith citizens are contributing $1 million to match Wal-Mart’s $1 million to cover the luxurious path. Observe the types of projects Wal-Mart so graciously subsidizes…most point to Agenda 21.

The stage is rapidly being constructed to encircle all U.S. urban areas for the purpose of mass control of citizens, limiting transportation (movement) accompanied by the numbers & size of vehicles, requiring in many cases bicycle transportation, new oversized trails as we see today to accommodate older & new forms of transportation, stack & pack the population in condensed multi-story housing, the rationing of water, food, & healthcare, to name only a few. Eventually any violation of the Agenda 21 rules will be labeled a crime.

These cute little phrases offered by NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) are leading to the death knell of our republic and the individuals and corporations we elect & hire to protect our freedoms and property are steadily selling us out. Unfortunately, Fort Smith is only a microcosm of what is happening nationally and globally. DO THE RESEARCH!

Low-information voters are making it all possible by reelecting politicians for decades—gross stupidity.
Related to the above are the orchestrated invasions by illegal Hispanics that in all likelihood will continue unabated due to the criminal corruption of Marxist President Barack Hussein Obama and Democrat & Republican officeholders. . The illegal child invasion (only one facet of the illegal invasions), occurring on our SW border, the genesis of which is Obama, who has aligned himself and the Democrat Party with the leadership of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador, to bring about this heinous crime by any standard—the USE & ABUSE OF CHILDREN.

What are the odds that Wal-Mart, Microsoft, etc. are providing cash, supplies, food, transportation, etc. for the egregious Hispanic child invasion presently paralyzing our nation?

Joe McCutchen arkansasfreedom.net

BEWARE: “SUSTAINABLE”!

BEWARE: “SUSTAINABLE” May 31, 2014

Knowingly or unknowingly Fort Smith’s city mayor and the Board of Directors are poised to lay the foundation for another government bureaucracy resulting in more assaults on citizen rights.

It may rightly be concluded that the aforementioned have no information pertaining to the United Nation’s Agenda 21 and the ensuing purposes thereof. Yes, a continuation of the Globalist’s wipeout of middleclass Americans, the last impediment before selected elitists monopolize international politics and control.

This is another example of Americans caught snoozing while elected officials through ignorance, complicity, enabling, or self-service ensure, that unless citizens arm themselves quickly with knowledge regarding this freedom stealing cancer known as Agenda 21 which will surely destroy the last remnants of individual liberty.

Again, it must be pointed out that the two U.S. Senators, Pryor & Boozman and the 3 remaining U.S. Congressmen, Womack, Griffin, & Crawford have silently stood by, which indicates they approve of Agenda 21 and furthermore: have failed to discuss with their respective constituencies the width & breadth of the freedom destroying globalist pariah. Recall if you will the Arkansas Congressional delegation has made no public statements or engaged in debate regarding other monumental national tragedies, i.e. Fast & Furious, Associated Press, IRS, Benghazi, NSA (National Security Agency), NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), Obamacare, Latin Americans dumping their children unattended in the Southwestern Border States demanding asylum. The Ark. Congressional delegation can only be called a motley crew of incompetence and cowardice.

The battle cry for Agenda 21 is the word “SUSTAINABLE”.

Agenda 21 requires a paid subscription for membership. Agenda 21 is not a new globalist endeavor and is certainly not endowed with political rectitude.

In Arkansas former North Little Rock Mayor Patrick Henry Hayes was president of the National organization of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. Note the word INTERNATIONAL. Today, more than 1200 cities, towns, counties and their associations in 84 countries comprise ICLEI’s membership. 43 countries convened at its inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future at the United Nations in 1990. Note WORLD CONGRESS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS & SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. Global headquarters in Bonn, Germany. Note: does Fort Smith & Sebastian County have memberships?

1. Agenda 21 is being implemented incrementally by messengers in academia.
2. Note the appearance of Michelle Halsell before the Fort Smith Board of Directors and other notables. Halsell, a product of big government and its frontal assault against middleclass America. In typically bureaucratic jargon it is said she accepted another “launch” opportunity as the Managing Director of the Applied Sustainability Center, This particular globalist endeavor deals with CONTROL of consumer products, and all the forgoing and following have to do with citizen CONTROL in some form or other. Is it possible that any of the official city family took the time to read about Halsell’s background?
3. Regionalism takes power from the electorate and redistributes to politicians and bureaucrats leaving citizens with little or no say so over their private or public affairs.
4. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s). Their job is to sell Agenda 21 on phony issues, i.e. jobs, environment, etc.
5. Private property rights will evaporate.

Agenda 21’s goal is to stack and pack citizens (stackem & packem) in high-rise, small living spaces in urban areas and at the same time restrict or places limitations on all manner of transportation routes, modes, distances, etc. Note: e.g. the emergence of bicycle trails going nowhere. The U.N. is busily taking over hundreds of thousands of acres of state or privately owned lands with no authority except brute force. Same for water and other natural resources. Blue Ray has temporarily been scotched by the efforts of Secure Arkansas & citizen efforts.

For more information regarding Agenda 21 log on to arkansasfreedom.net and enter Agenda 21 and/or ICLEI into the search engine. Another excellent source is www.securearkansas.com . www.americanpolicy.org by Tom DeWeese is a comprehensive national resource on the subject.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Censorship & Attack on Individual Rights


WHY ARE WALTER HUSSMAN AND WARREN STEPHENS ARBITERS OF CENSORSHIP? 
April 14, 2014

Walter Hussman is.owner of the state’s newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette accompanied by any number of other properties.

Warren Stephens, owner of the Fort Smith Times Record and multiple other newspapers including the Las Vegas Review Journal, the largest off Wall Street bonding agency in the U.S., real estate, hotels, gas & oil interests, accompanied by political ownerships.

A recently concluded American crisis went virtually unreported by American news media with the exception of Fox News,  The Ark. Dem-Gaz & the Times Record were no shows.

The event was the attempted hostile takeover of the Bundy ranch in the state of Nevada by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), all based on trumped up, bogus charges.   The BLM employed snipers, helicopters, drones, boots on the ground thugs, K-9’s, etc.

This un-American collection of government thugs were met by American patriots, many of which were armed, and ultimately was followed by an armed standoff  which took place near the Bundy corral where the BLM had corralled stolen Bundy cattle, cut fences, and engaged in other forms of destruction.  Armed Militia men called the hands of the BLM near the corral and the BLM brutes called off their unconstitutional, illegal attack on the Bundy family. It is noteworthy here that the BLM tasered, manhandled ladies & threatened with vicious dogs.

This is another vivid example of the criminally corrupt U.S. government attacking private citizens and no response from most elected officials.  The Nevada Governor and the Sheriff of Clark County offered no aid or comfort to the besieged Bundy family and the many Patriots who were supportive of the Bundy’s. 
We shall see how the corrupt BLM responds to their defeat and how knowing Americans will react to the next governmental overreach attack directed on private individuals.

At this juncture, few American elected individuals have commented on the brute force used by BLM and where is the so-called press/media?

And most certainly, no positional statements from the s0-called Arkansas Congressional Delegation.  They are: Senators Mark Pryor & John Boozman, Congressmen Griffin, Cotton, Womack, & Crawford.

Why would you expect any of these 6 political parasites to speak out on anything as important & serious as the Bundy crisis?  The 6 have never stated publicly their positions on Fast & Furious, NSA, IRS. Libya, Benghazi, the AP, ad infinitum. The 6 hide out under the cover of silence, while citizen Arky whiles away to day kissing the feet of the 6.

The question remains, why are Warren Stephens &Walter Hussman the purveyors of  censorship, particularly in such important constitutional news that threatens the property rights & freedoms of every American, especially those instituted by the criminally corrupt U.S. government? 

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith

arkansasfreedom.net 

The deadly march of “Regionalism”



Glaring Omissions.                        May 21, 2012

A couple of weeks ago I paid for an ad in the Times Record pointing out the dangers of electing government employees to the state legislature.  Electing state employees increases the scope of government by allowing them to lobby for their own special interests while extirpating private citizens from the legislative process.  This of course is double-dipping, exploitation, and presents an alarming conflict of interests.

Secondly, I pointed out that “regionalism” is Communism.  Regionalism is not the pure form of Communism but a hybrid.  Regionalism is a mixture of Communism/Fascism.   The word Fascism conjures up visions of a swastika, Hitler, etc.  The simplified definition of Fascism is a nexus between corporations and government and the government is always the CEO.   This was the exact environment that brought Hitler to power and is precisely what is evolving in our republic—commonly referred to as a “public/private partnership”.

Announced in a story emanating in the Times Record titled “City forecast not so grim, Chamber says”.  Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce and CEO Paul Harvel revealed the formation of the Fort Smith Regional Council.   Note that the Council is unelected and as stated in my paid advertisement regionally unelected committees, czars, councils, task forces, etc. etc. destroy the sovereignty of counties, cities,  encroach on freedoms—individual rights, property rights, & effectively mutes the power and influence of our duly elected officials who theoretically are supposed to represent the citizens.

The Times Record failed to mention the members of the Fort Smith Regional Council which includes ABF, USA Truck, UAFS, Oklahoma Gas Corp, OK Industries, Mercy Fort Smith, Kraft-Planters, Bancorp South, Arvest, Sparks, First National Bank, Baldor, & Stephens Production. A glaring omission by the T.R.  The Council’s inaugural president is Sam T. Sicard, president & CEO of First Bank Corp of Fort Smith. C of C president Harvel will be the Council Executive Director and continue as the Chamber’s president. Can one comprehend the political and monetary power the above represents and the channeling which will go into their own specific areas of interest? Does the middleclass have a place in this omnipotent power structure?  It does not appear so.

Here is the point of this screed; small businesses create 67% of the workforce in the U.S.  That’s 2 out of every 3 jobs, yet there does not appear to be one small business or an individual represented in the Fort Smith Regional Council.  Why is this? Equal representation does not seem to be the goal.  Certainly, our area is fortunate to have such corporations in our midst, but in a regional environment these types of businesses, if allowed to exclude small businesses and/or individuals; the middleclass has no representation and will be snuffed in the process. This is a huge power play by any definition.  The above corporations represent only 1/3rd of job producing businesses.

My paid advertisement was initially submitted to the Times Record as a letter to the editor, but yet again they chose not to publish, which is their prerogative, but media has the innate responsibility to report all sides.  I have indicated to the CEO of Stephens’ Inc.  Mr. Warren Stephens that censorship of legitimate topics is unseemly and inexcusable for newspapers. Stephens Inc. owns many, many newspapers including the Times Record.  Censorship excludes healthy exchanges, new ideas and of course, facts.

Joe McCutchen
 

More costly politicrat “Visions”!


Hold your horses! 

Front page story in today’s Times Record 4/17/12 “Developers take stand on Sports Complex”.

Two quotes from Senator Jake Files serve as a lead-in to this piece. 

  1. “Jake Files & Lee Webb say they want to build THEIR complex at Chaffee Crossing, not the Riverfront”.
  2. “We (Files & Webb) respectfully ask the Board to move with haste in allowing us to proceed at Chaffee Crossing with the development of the River Valley Sports Complex.”

The Board has been remiss in detailing the genesis and the activities which have led to Files & Webb being the owners of the Sports Complex.

This appears to be another backroom insider deal.  If it is THEIR complex, they pay the $1.6 million, not the taxpayers.   We certainly know that is not going to happen; therefore, let the citizens be made aware of finite details about this rush to judgment.

Many of these questions were posed yesterday and so far, no response.

  1. How did Files & Webb come to be the progenitors of this curious project?
  2. If allowed to proceed, who owns the complex?
  3. As a 501 c3 complex, who will be the CEO and how many accompanied full time positions and what will be the salaries?
  4. Will the salaried positions be city employees?
  5. What is the salary to be for the CEO?
  6. Where does the funding come from for maintenance, insurance, bonding, etc.?
  7. It is estimated there will be a cash outlay of $1.6 million to construct the softball fields; therefore, what are the accounting procedures and who will oversee the expenditures?

The city government of Fort Smith is in the process of raping citizen taxpayers.  As an example, I allude to the following “visions” being offered by bureaucrats, politicians, and opportunists.  Incidentally, Senator Files has stated that the softball fields are his “vision” and I will take this opportunity to state that Sen. Files business experience has not been exemplary. 

Here are some of the recent “visions”:

  1. The Marshal’s Museum.  Politicians & bureaucrats will be out hustling funds for the next 2 weeks for this ridiculous colossus ($50 million, 50,000 sq. ft…who pays & who maintains?).  Want to know more about this colossus, log on to arkansasfreedom.net 
  2. The Water Park….projected to lose at least $150,000 per year, while expanding city & county government with more dead weight.
  3. Walking trails to nowhere.  This and other recreational items are demanded by the U.N.’s Agenda 21….stack & pack ‘em and control citizens’ movement.  Is the city of Fort Smith a member of Agenda 21?
  4. UAFS Chancellor Paul Beran’s “Entrepreneural School”.
  5. Chancellor Paul Beran’s downtown Mallalieu Academy of Excellence for “at risk” kids.
  6. Chancellor Paul Beran’s takeover of the 2nd Street Live venue downtown which its existence is very curious replete with self-serving tentacles.  If Beran and UAFS take over the $2.2 million barn, citizen taxpayers will have paid for this entity twice.  For details see arkansasfreedom.net
  7. Beran’s projections wanting UAFS dormitories downtown.
  8. Continuation of the failed Convention Center and its highly paid staff.

Our wonderful little city of Fort Smith is in a power-dive to economic destruction. Shelve your dysfunctional “visions” and institute searches for small to medium sized businesses that don’t have to be bribed with taxpayer money to come here.

Directors, if you are insistent on building 8 softball fields, build them in the place that Judge Ben Geren intended—it is the perfect place and it seems everyone except government officials understands that.

Joe McCutchen

The Dreaded Hydra of Agenda 21



                                February 26, 2012
Ivy Owen—well traveled big government man and titular head of Chaffee Crossing which is closely connected locally to all Fort Smith government entities forming a regional chapter of the United Nations Agenda 21.

If you do not possess an intimate awareness of the goals of the U.N. Agenda 21, they are readily available on the internet, and particularly if you place value on property rights, freedom of movement, and most importantly the Constitution.   With regard to the Constitution there is a huge move afoot instituted primarily by the Republican Party to eliminate the functionality of said Constitution.  Arkansas Republican State Senators & Representatives in the presently convened legislative session are in full battle mode to pass a Bill requiring a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con), 34 states are needed for ratification.

The Constitutional Convention is a mandate from the globalists, i.e. Agenda 21.  Much of what is printed and said about Agenda 21 is designed to sound soothing and harmless. Nothing could be further from the truth and it can only be described as a frontal assault on sovereignty and other Founding Principles.

A guest article by Ivy Owen appeared in today’s Times Record in which he writes in some detail the outlook for Chaffee Crossing.  There was a point not long ago when Globalists would describe relationships between private enterprise and government as “Public/Private Partnerships”.  That phrase seems to have been morphed into “Strategic Partnerships”.  Owen, like other government entities, has taken on an air of arrogance and be damned with the taxpaying citizens.

Like the current activity in the state legislature to bulldoze a Constitutional Convention without any discussion and certainly no consultations with the citizens regarding a Con-Con.   Same is true in the city of Fort Smith and the region…no detailed information regarding the political & economic minutia of Chaffee Crossing, RITA, Metro 1313, ICLEI, New Market Tax Credits, Smart Growth, Providence Communities, Quality of Place and other Agenda 21 operations.  Owen no doubt feels he has ensnared the listless electorate and will move these government partnerships to satisfy international demands.

Every government entity has colluded for the sole purpose of sharing information and instituting Agenda 21’s stated goals.  Every major city in Arkansas is a participant of Agenda 21, whether they realize it or not.

Ivy Owen must have supernatural powers or a crystal ball…here is why.  “After Fort Smith voters approve the sales-tax extension on March 13, softball fields and other improvement will be built at Chaffee Crossing as well as Ben Geren Park.”   “…the sales-tax extension will fund a new fire station on Massard Road.”  Owen states the extension will be passed whether the taxpayers can afford it, want it, or much less need it.  Owen fails to speak of the $ 2.7 million to be spent on new trails, sounds innocent enough, but ultimately translates into controlled movement of the populace within a specified area.  On the other hand, Owen may just look at this March vote in simple mathematical terms—50% of citizens Work for a check, 50% Vote for a check.

“As in past years, Chaffee is maintaining its strategic partnerships….”  too numerous to mention.  Ivy goes on to say “Chaffee is recognized internationally as an economic engine for this part of the nation”.

The major Agenda 21 player in our area is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)  Note again,  the collusion of all government agencies and the power they represent without citizen approval or knowledge.

Ivy Owen’s resume is curious and alarming.

If indeed you believe United Nations Agenda 21 is a Midsummer’s Dream and all the destruction to do with property rights, freedom of movement, i.e. the total banana, citizens you have failed to do your homework.  Again, the entire state is infested and infected with the freedom-killing United Nations Agenda 21.

Remember to vote Smart!

Joe McCutchen