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Posted By Shana4Liberty 1 year ago in NewsThe implementation of “governance” is not limited to legislative action. The “wrenching transformation” i.e. “globalization” involves more than governmental authority. As such, this “governance” system designed to implement and enforce “sustainable development principles” require a “framework of rules, institutions and practices” designed to “limit” “behavior”. In order to be successful this system appropriately described by the United Nations 1999 Human Development Report includes additional forays into the structure of society.
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CHAM1 year ago
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Excellent Article. "Limiting Behavior thru Regional Governance." Welcome 1984! This is my gripe with the Bush Administration. This is exactly what they advocated. But not the good kind of limiting nor the good governance.
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When you limit behavior you are either cracking down on illegal criminal behavior or you are cracking down on law abiding citizens.
Have any doubts about which governance we've had lately? -
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Pecossam1 year ago
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It is axiomatic: Less agrarianism equals less freedom.
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Failure to voluntarily control our population has led to involuntary measures, as we are now witnessing through programs such as "Smart Growth" and other Utopian/Socialist nightmares.
It seems paradoxical that we seek to cure cancer, an uncontrolled growth in the body, and yet encourage uncontrolled growth in our cities and suburbs. BOTH are diseases, one affecting our personal body and the other affecting our social freedoms.-
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hyperbola1 year ago
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A typically provincial american reply. Cities in most of the developed world are incredibly interesting and stimulating palces to live. Our problem is that we derstroyed out cities for the automobile. Not for nothing did GM buy up urban transport systems and shut them down in the 1930s.
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Pecossam1 year ago
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hyperbola,
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Having lived in both large metropolitan and rural ares of this country, and having seen both in other countries, I find it a FACT that one can do more in the countryside than in the urban portion. Do you care to dispute this? On my rural land in Arkansas I was able to go out and target shoot or hunt (in season, of course), at my pleasure. If I were to do that where I presently reside there is no telling how may violations of the law I would accrue. It is not a "provincial" point of view at all, it is a FACT; the more population, the more laws, and thus less freedom.
As much time as Thomas Jefferson spent in Paris, France, (and LOVED its charms), he has written he didn't care for large cities in America's future. He loathed them and all their accompanying problems. And that was way before AUTOMOBILES entered the picture. I guess you would find Jefferson's sentiments on this topic "provincial". If large cities are so fantastic, why did many of the Roman Emperors seek refuge from Rome? I'll leave the reading to you, as I've done mine. You'll love their feelings about the "Eternal City"---ESPECIALLY when summer came. (Hint: it had NOTHING to do with AUTOMOBILES.)
And to you and ALL my Fellow Propeller-Heads----HAPPY NEW YEAR! (and MANY MORE!)-
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hyperbola1 year ago
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How many restaurants, book stores, museums, doctors, hospitals, swimming pools, supermarkets, art exhibits, musical concerts, .... can you walk to in rural Arkansas? I can walk to dozens (as well as an ocean beach, yacht harbor,...) - and enjoy the intellectual and physical freedom that gives me.
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Yes, we have made a horrible mess of most cities in the US.
Happy New Year.
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DarkWizard1 year ago
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FTA - "The challenge remains to locate vocabulary that expresses what we want to say without threatening or turning off important potential stewards and constituents."
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This is a very dangerous trend. Advertisers/marketers and politicians use these methods to "spin" what many would perceive as negatives into positives. If you want to understand this better, read Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz.
These methodologies are very misleading and even educated people will fall for these "word games" if not taught what to look for. The reason this trend is so dangerous is in the fact that the majority have no idea they are indeed being duped. It has become an art form much like a politician using duplicitous speeches to excite a crowd while really saying nothing. -
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hyperbola1 year ago
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This article has about zero substance and is very superficial. It is mostly blathering around with words attempting to stir emotions without making any concrete statements about what is actually objected to or what should replace it.
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This starts in the title with the "scare" word socialism. The US has been strongly socialistic for over a century now, just like the rest of the developed, industrialized world. This development followed upon the disastrous results of "laissez faire" (now called "small government") during the Guilded Age of our own history (late 19th, early 20th century). Is it really your ideal to go back to a period when a kleptocracy of financiers and corporations resulted in large numbers of Americans working for starvation wages and US troops shooting Americans in the streets if they objected?
We have just spent the last 30 years (since Reagan) trying to restore the kleptocracy. The method was to corrupt the government to serve financiers and rapacious corporations. The failure of Americans to pay attention to their democracy and let the "free marketeers" have free reign hasn't worked out so well. -
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CHAM1 year ago
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Your statement:
"We have just spent the last 30 years (since Reagan) trying to restore the kleptocracy. The method was to corrupt the government to serve financiers and rapacious corporations. The failure of Americans to pay attention to their democracy and let the "free marketeers" have free reign hasn't worked out so well."
I do believe you have just defined the Bush Administration and the one before his and hopefully not , but just maybe, the one coming. -
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