by: Diane Benjamin If you believe government always acts in your best interests, don’t bother reading this post. There is a lot more to the presentation by the Ecology Action Center at last nights Council meeting. The presentation starts on page 611: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=7126 The oral presentation didn’t use any troubling words, but the written copy […]
by: Diane Benjamin Last night the Bloomington City Council held a Committee of the Whole meeting. The hot topic was using a program by the International City Mangers Association to rate City services. Nobody could say what the cost would be. Nobody could say why comparing Bloomington to cities in California or Georgia was a […]
Indoctrinating Your kids! Who decides what is sustainable? Not individuals! Agenda 21 Eco-World Marxism in Illinois EXPOSED!! WHO IS Sharp? She explains how joyfully Illinois established the tyranny of going green, with her help, but is she having second thoughts?? 20 million dollars ready to use!! In 1956 Paul Burkett wrote his paper “Towards a Read Green […]
Link to entire story: http://tinyurl.com/a8ggcuf This story concentrates on on the Bay Area of California, but much of it applies to McLean County. There isn’t much difference between the Bay Area and the McLean Country Regional Planning Commission. MCRPC haas plans on their website for Bloomington, Normal, McLean County, Unit 5, District 87, and more, […]
Oyster farmer battles federal government’s order to shuck operation A California family that has operated an oyster farm on the bucolic Northern California coast is fighting back after the federal government moved to kick it off of the National Park Service property where the shellfish have been legally harvested for nearly 80 years. The Drakes […]
It is impossible to debate the facts of Global Warming or Climate Change because believers refuse to discuss it. Doubters are called “flat-earthers” and “science deniers”. Meanwhile billions of our tax dollars are used to cure a problem that can’t be proven or discussed. Fossil fuels and the jobs that go with them are severely limited and we […]
Now you need to Remodel for Sustainability! Questions: Who decided we weren’t sustainable? Who appointed anybody to be in charge of deciding what is and what isn’t sustainable? Why are their opinions forced on you? Bloomington – Where to you think the idea of requiring sprinklers in new construction came from? Note the word “vision”, that would be the one […]
ECOHOME Releases Video Report on Walkable Urbanism and Climate Change Christopher Leinberger maps critical path as part of ECOHOME Vision 2020 Sustainability Summit WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) November 28, 2012 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10176942.htm ECOHOME, the leading media source of information about certified green building products and projects, released today the first in a series of video reports to […]
All the below is happening locally. Inform yourself, get involved to stop it! From: Democrats against Agenda 21 http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/ In a nutshell, the plan calls for governments to take control of all land use and not leave any of the decision making in the hands of private property owners. It is assumed that people are […]
Below is a good video explaining Agenda 21 and how the United Nations is implementing it through ICLEI. Neither Bloomington or Normal are members of ICLEI, but they are in contact, reading their emails, and accepting federal and state money for implementation. Reversing this process begins with education. Some public servants may realize what “Sustainability” is, but many think […]
Update: This was about a 6 minute meeting. They approved the long range plan for 2040 and the 5 year plan. No discussion. Evidently a public meeting was held last Friday. Did you know about it? Have you even heard of the Regional Planning Commission? —————————————————— The McLean County Regional Planning Commission is comprised of […]
So, you thought the local activists were making it up? Blowing Normal’s role in enacting Agenda 21 out of proportion? So, is Dick Morris making it up too? He wrote a whole book on it-sounds like he’s been eavesdropping on our local conversations: Agenda 21: Obama’s Plans For America By DICK MORRIS Published on DickMorris.com on October 9, […]
The writer of this article is fighting the same battles that CityWatch and BLNNews have been reporting on – control of local government by the federal and state government. as directed by the United Nations. John F. McManus is from the Rockford area. The McLean County Regional Planning Commission recently tried to get Bloomington to […]
The latest news from CityWatch: “What do you mean the McLean County Regional Planning Commission are federal administrators?” That was the question in response to the recent discovery regarding who the McLean County Regional Planning Commission really is. So, what was the discovery, you ask? It started with an investigation some weeks back when we became […]
Let’s talk local government. What is their job, what is their responsibility to citizens? Bloomington thought you needed entertainment, so you got the Coliseum and the BCPA, neither has made a profit or even broken even. They both need YOUR TAX DOLLARS. Normal thought you needed a new Uptown and they aren’t done building and […]
Opposition to Agenda 21, a 20-year-old United Nations agreement that seeks to promote sustainable development, is building across the nation. Manifestations include:: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pledged his opposition to Agenda 21, calling it an attempt by the U.N. to exert “extra-constitutional control” over the U.S. while empowering entities committed to “taking control of your private […]
The City of Bloomington is “Visioning” – so what exactly is it? The Town of Normal “Visioned” the Uptown project – now the formerly sleepy town is BURIED in DEBT. Of course they have a plan to pay for it! Raise taxes – they already have. See this previous post: http://blnnews.com/2012/05/30/normal-il-what-is-up-with-the-debt/ A large part of […]
A mere two weeks ago CITYWATCH dropped the Hile Bombshell – an expose’ that revealed a multi-levelled, multi-layered and multi-year plan that exploited two entire communities, slanted objectives, and distorted the process in which to get there. What was essentially a confession of sorts, no less an admission of facts, local consultant/facilitator, Julie Hile of the Hile Group, disclosed […]
by Diane Benjamin Below is a video of an event held May 23, 2012 in Normal. Since it only had 18 views, I assume you missed it. Mayor Koos speaks starting around 4 minutes to around 9. He discusses curb side recycling and how 9 out of 10 citizens attending and speaking at a council […]
If you know NOTHING about Agenda 21 – watch this video: False-Choices-The-Story-of-Agenda-21-713151488 The entire “Uptown” Normal was redeveloped for “sustainability”. Here are pictures of 2 new buildings – commerce on the main floor, apartments above: Uptown is covered with these buildings! The town wants to build another one in the empty lot across from the […]
It might seem to some local citizens, and even to many of our local city officials and elected council members, that the focus of sustainable issues, and thus, Agenda 21 – related projects, are issues that only us here at CITYWATCH are concerned about. Such is not the case. But, unfortunately, our community and city officials […]
. . . and while they’re watching us, we’re watching them right back – this video explains a why – This is what we do. And, we could use your help. Let me explain. I am by no means a fan of Hillary Clinton (sorry), but some years back, Ms. Clinton wrote a book entitled, “It […]
Watch the Video – then listen to your local officials. Hear “Sustainability”? Locally you will!
It comes to no surprise to those of us “in the shadows“, as we have been tagged. To those of us “in the know”. Those of us who have been involved in this Main Street/Form Based Code debate with local government from the beginning have known all along something was amiss. And those of us in the know have been well […]
Tonight, at a Work Session prior to the regular Bloomington City Council Meeting, the Council will be presented with, review and determine, at the suggestion of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission, a proposed project scope for the updating of our City’s Comprehensive Plan. You may read this agenda item at the following link: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2123 . Within that Project […]
Today’s Pantagraph reports in headline fashion on tonight’s Normal Town Council meeting. The Pantagraph coverage highlights apparently what it considers the most impacting items on the agenda as rural Towanda’s ambulance service and bus service to Normal’s new train station. My point here is certainly not to downplay or minimize the importance of emergency vehicles or emergency response. Obviously a critical […]
BIKES AND DEMOCRACY? – Give me a Representative Government DIRECT DEMOCRACY/BLONO FACEBOOK PAGE May 21, 2012 Direct Democracy. What is it? James Madison defined it as “…a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the […]
February 5, 2012 WHAT IF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WEREN’T DOING THEIR JOBS? You might ask why and how that might happen? What if they weren’t aware of what their jobs were? What their duties were? Or, what their obligations were? These are all very valid questions, especially if we, the citizens, aren’t aware of what their […]
