Oh my goodness, I’ve tried to have an open mind on this, hold my tongue, but I can no longer keep quiet about an ominous dialogue threatening to slip into our local politics.
As many of you know, I personally think Nye County politics is a freak show, a mixture of good ol’ boys, rabid right-wing garbage spewers, a few straight-and-narrow types (too few if you ask me) and an assortment of one-term wonders who have zero business venturing into public service in the first place (think Wizard).
Imagine my disappointment (not surprise) when out of the mouths of our two brand spanking new county commissioners, Frank Carbone and Donna Cox, at a recent meeting was mention of Agenda 21. The freak show gets freakier.
For those of you who don’t worship at the altar of right-wing extremism, Agenda 21 is a 20-year-old set of United Nations environmental proposals that include providing small governments worldwide with smart planning ideas that could help develop more sustainable communities. The set of non-binding resolutions stem from the 1992 UN environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro. The idea behind the proposals is that at some point the planet’s human population will be so large and resources so scarce that future generations will be left with nothing more than crumbs. Combine that with other environmental factors, including warming, disrupted food supplies, higher food prices, etc., and the notion becomes one in which we need to work today to mitigate disasters in the future. Not a bad idea, really.
That was in 1992. I was a senior in high school (age alert!). Not a damn thing has been done with Agenda 21 by anybody that I can figure out, except for loons on the extreme right, who have somehow distorted this set of NON-BINDING proposals into a conspiracy where the UN slowly morphs into a one-world government, where Americans (and everybody else in the world) are stripped of their property rights, forced to live in managed environments (don’t we already?) and generally are subjected to a tyranny on a scale never before seen. Glenn Beck, the fringe right’s favorite charlatan, is cashing in on this extreme conspiracy theory with his own novel of the same name. Cha-ching. And the right is eating it up like soft serve at the Dairy Queen. Gross.
Elvis, save us!
Agenda 21, at least the wingnut view of it, is total crap. And it’s insulting to me and should be insulting to you that people who claim to be in the service of the public (Beck’s an entertainer, not a servant!) can so easily raise the specter of this God awful hoax, cheesy conspiracy theory in of all places a public meeting, where the public’s business is being debated and voted upon. It’s a disgrace to their office, a disgrace to themselves, a violation of the trust voters placed in them when they were elected and a total, unambiguous embarrassment to this community. For shame.
I could care less what kind of garbage Cox and Carbone like to dish about over the dinner table or in the hovels of their fellow tinfoil-hat wearers. But I’ll be damned if even one millisecond of public time is wasted on such right wing drivel as Agenda 21 without me blowing up over it. (Voters should really send a message to these guys — stay on task or step aside.)
Cox, Carbone, and the rest of the tinfoil hat clique who are stupid lucky enough to even be holding an office and collecting a taxpayer signed check, really need to grow up. It’s unconscionable that with all of the problems tearing at the fabric of this community, one iota of energy be exerted discussing this subject. Jobs, roads, health care, education, economic development, more jobs — those should be your sole focus right now, particularly since your political skills are apparently on par with a donkey’s leaky ass. The fact that a subject like Agenda 21 even rears its head in as vaunted a public space as a county commission meeting means those doing the gabbing, Cox and Carbone, are so bereft of real ideas to help this community that I am sorry to say voters appear to have gotten a very raw deal — again!
Alas, I’ve said my peace. I hope the newbies take heed. Get real. Pahrump and Nye County need smart leadership, not tinfoil quotes from Kool-aid drenched wingnut pamphlets you scored at the old dude’s breakfast.
Pam Webster deserves better
Our illustrious county manager, Pam Webster, was dragged through the muck again. This time by us because we published a story on a court complaint filed by former county emergency services director Brent Jones. Jones, who must still be steaming over his long overdue termination last year, filed his complaint in federal court, rehashing old allegations and delivering some new (supposed) details. I won’t mention those here. Sad, a grown man behaving this way. Sad.
I understand Webster was hurt by the story and for that I feel bad. She doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment. And Jones, who totally lost his job because of his own incompetence, has taken to attacking Webster as payback.
Luckily for this community, Webster is thick enough skinned that she is able to continue working hard for Nye County despite this repugnant lawsuit. Thank her for her service when you get a chance, she could use the pat on the back.
Brent Jones isn’t the only thorn in Webster’s side lately. I hear another Jones in county “service” is causing some waves as well.
The county’s facilities manager is a no-call, no-show at work, sources tell me. We understand he is telling people in town that he’s bucking for a termination so that he can join his good ol’ boy buddies Brent and Rick Osborne (Webster’s fired predecessor) in the waste bin of inept Nye bureaucrats.
Good. Bye Bob. Make sure we get all our tools back before you leave town. That lawn mower, too.
Perhaps its time to start a New UNBIASED newspaper in Pahrump
Who wrote this nasty piece of lefty agenda stuff? No name? You can tell when the lefties are vulnerable to the truth since they go on a rampage not of facts, but of name calling and insults. WHAT does that add to the discussion?
Agenda 21 is very real. Very. Like with most of the UN agenda, they want global control of energy (carbon tax) and they want ALL citizens on the planet disarmed. Only the elite can have body guards against the citizens with clubs. The UN wants global control of food production and “animal rights” as well.
I invite all readers here to read Beck’s book “Agenda 21″. It’s fiction. A story of a possible future. Then read the ACTUAL words of the UN’s Agenda 21. Go ahead. See for yourself.
Mr Editor King of the Wing Nut Scrutiny Your own Opinion is it a grievance or is it self loathing hate ? Bear no false witness to your Neighbors here in the Kingdom of NYE If You Live Here ! You Sound Like the Fool Gov of NY on Gun Control a tyrant more then a public servant to the Oath!
Please Google The “Peter Zenger trial,held in New York in 1735.” and read what a News Printer is supposed to do for WE THE PEOPLE Are A Self governing Individuals Not Governed by Scam Artist, Report the Facts not you Imagined Opinions!
Thank you for your time, Real opinions are not a news paper who sells to the public for monies for the Propagation of opinions justreport the real news, is no better than Politicia snake oil salesman which most of us here disbelieve and abhors,is sinful and tyrannical of what is said in the US and World News .,you retain a payment from the owner taken from the public retained is used for a public service is it not ? and Not Spewing Marxist Left Wing Anti American Opinions on U.S Soil with a small minority of Left wing Losers wo failed in Calif and use the cheaper tax base to run scams on Rural NV !
Opine-onions are Like Rear ends we all have one, No one is Perfect no one is saying you can’t either but you edit us !
Mr Editor Your Job to the Voter( The Public Jury) is the final law when Majority of NYE CO and Conservatives and the outsiders are illegal aliens
and ex patriot Libs from Calif and NYC and Chicago and NJ and other blue
States !
The Electronic Votes(bought and sold to Spain by George Soroes and other outside tyrrants, Again ! were fixed and How it beat the odds that Obama won both the popular vote and barely squeaked by the electorial and missing Military votes Purposaly left out! That is real news I want to hear,Instead of Running away and Spinning the truth! Like the TV News talking heads on Opinions ! Just report the facts and no more if The NYE CO Commishioner’s were not on Topic then you Invite them on a Public Local news station and call them out not Print drival and bear a false witness at the NYE CO Public MEETING”S !
Agenda 21 Ask Al Gore why he is selling out? Carbon TAX ask Obama what the hell a trun around from D.C to Lost Wages and back ?were are the greenies ? LIERS.
What we want is a full honest report in March when the Anti gunners support AGAIN> Obama the Oath breaker, Hillary is lier and a loser will not show and what John Kerry will do on the ATT on U.S.Soil !
Read the Dick Act on a Standing Militia in 1910 and the War depts long standing approval an arguments against, any unjust laws is a violation of the 2nd Amendment no Militia can be taken all males Citizens are to keep a magazined weapon of war not a single shot Long rifle !and be ready no Natinal guard is supposed to be used in an act of a declared war by a President or Congress against unless we have Invaders(Teddy Rosevelt did it wright!) in our Borders yes we have taken the fight to them that is a ready Standing Army with a Volonteer reserve for world Domination againt Tyrrants, not a militia !
All declared wars from the DEM’s! except WW II and the facts are coming out, Under the false UN Treaties and that is Queationable and bills passed in the dark of night are not Lawful!
Now Federal Courts are after Obama’s hide !
2013 will be the defining days ahead FREEDOM or Slavery! That is the News, We Patriot’s want to read also Advertisemnst and Local news of happy times !
Thank you for your Public services !
1st Amendment – ooh, I tried to read what you wrote, but it’s incomprehensible. Perhaps you need an editor . . . .I’m just saying.
What about the other 20 agenda items ?
If Nye county is so awful, maybe you should relocate – Tennessee?
Ever notice how progressives (like this editor) immediately advocates violence to anyone that has an opinion different from their own? Ever notice how they use Alinsky style tactics to ridicule and attack, not debate the merits of the case?
I would like to correct some statements made by this editor:
“The idea behind the proposals is that at some point the planet’s human population will be so large and resources so scarce that future generations will be left with nothing more than crumbs.”
This is total nonsense and it’s easy to demonstrate. There are just under 8 billion people in the world. There are 342Million acres of land in the USA alone. (http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/landuse.html) That’s 1/20th of an acre for every man, woman and child on the planet and that’s if you put them all in the USA. That leaves all of South America, Asia, Europe and Australia to grow enough food to feed everyone. Population is expected to slow to about 10 billion for the next several centuries as people have smaller families. Back when they did the population bomb books, they expected families to continue with 10+ kids per family. Our modern society has 1/5th of that. Crop yields have also increased by 100%, 200%, 300% and more depending on the crop since the turn of the last century. So no, the world is not going to die of starvation from overpopulation.
“Combine that with other environmental factors, including warming, disrupted food supplies, higher food prices, etc., and the notion becomes one in which we need to work today to mitigate disasters in the future. Not a bad idea, really.”
Warming? The “man made global warming” hoax is busted. Not only has the rigged research been exposed, but the big yellow ball in the sky has more influence on the planet’s climate than anything mankind has ever done. It goes in cycles:
“Sunspot numbers over the past 11,400 years have been reconstructed using dendrochronologically dated radiocarbon concentrations. The level of solar activity during the past 70 years is exceptional – the last period of similar magnitude occurred around 9,000 years ago (during the warm Boreal period).[27][28] The Sun was at a similarly high level of magnetic activity for only ~10% of the past 11,400 years, and almost all of the earlier high-activity periods were shorter than the present episode.” Sami Solanki 2004
Other Solar Cycles:
87 years (70–100 years): Gleissberg cycle, named after Wolfgang Gleißberg, is thought to be an amplitude modulation of the 11-year Schwabe Cycle (Sonnett and Finney, 1990), Braun, et al., (2005).
210 years: Suess cycle (a.k.a. “de Vries cycle”). Braun, et al., (2005).
2,300 years: Hallstatt cycle
6000 years (Xapsos and Burke, 2009).
Our planet climate goes through cycles just like the planet and sun do. We have had warm times and cold times long before the first made made fire. You want proof? Search for “Titanoboa cerrejonensis”
Essentially ALL of the heat on this planet originates at the sun’s surface. If the sun goes through cycles, so will our planet. The earth goes through cycles that effect how much of that radiation actually makes it to the ground. When these so called climate experts made their predictions, the choose to ignore these solar and earthly cycles? Why? Because it was too complex to consider and the data is incomplete and not consistent enough to be included. In other words, the data varies a lot and it was too hard to do. So they choose to ignore the single biggest source of heat on the planet by a factor of about a billion to one simply because it was too hard to incorporate into their models.
Now back to Agenda 21. Clearly the basis of Agenda 21 is false. (and has been known to be false since at least 1996 because that is when Fred Seitz (major scientist, head guy) resigned from the UN IPCC in protest over the manipulation of the data and conclusions of the report.) Main stream media and politicians choose to ignore it. So you have to ask, what is the real motive? I leave that to the readers to figure out.