Agenda 21 or childhood obesity prevention?

[Dex]

Hi there Nexians,

I'm trying to wrap my head around "Agenda 21". I'm concerned that some very harmless and potentially beneficial public health initiatives may be miscast as Agenda 21. For example, can folks please tell me if they think the below is an example of Agenda 21? I am sincerely curious because I don't get it. I promise to try to be open-minded about this, but I admit I am biased and have my own public health "agenda" (which I assure you, has nothing to do with world domination).

Thanks!

Childhood Obesity
February 2012 | Volume 8, Number 1
? Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI:10.1089/chi.2011.0122

Community Design and Policies for Free-Range Children: Creating Environments That Support Routine Physical Activity
Mark Fenton, MS

Abstract
Growing concern over childhood obesity has prompted a focus on underlying epidemics of physical inactivity and poor nutrition. Regarding the former, there is increasing understanding that behavior change promotion alone has not increased population physical activity levels and that an ecological approach is necessary. Therefore, the public health profession has moved beyond traditional behavior change campaigns toward a growing focus on altering policies and the built environment to create settings that support increases in routine, not just exercise or leisure time, physical activity among children. A survey of the literature suggests four broad factors that define settings where routine physical activity, especially active transportation, is more likely to occur:

? a compact variety of land uses, with a mix of destinations in close proximity;
? a comprehensive network of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit facilities;
? inviting and functional site designs for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users;
? safety and access for users of all ages, incomes, abilities and disabilities.

Although these principles are increasingly accepted as beneficial, not just to health but to a community?s economic, environmental, and social well-being, many contemporary ordinances and development practices undermine these outcomes. Therefore, five specific policy and intervention approaches are recommended to guide communities to these outcomes:

1. zoning and development policies to protect open space, contain sprawl, and focus investment toward thriving, mixed downtowns
and village centers;
2. Complete Streets policies, which require roadways that are safe and functional for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users, as
well as motor vehicles;
3. a transportation- (not just recreation-) oriented trail network;
4. creation of bicycle- and transit-friendly infrastructure and incentive policies;
5. development of policy-based Safe Routes to School interventions.

This proposed intervention framework requires evaluation both of effectiveness in increasing childhood physical activity and of the most promising means of getting policies implemented.

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[Gardener]

Dex: I looks to me like the above has nothing to do with agenda 21 as I understand it. It merely relates to, or so it seems, discouraging lethargy and encouraging physical movement in and around villages and downtown areas.

[Odah]

comming soon.. providing to much junk food for kids and not encouraging them to move around ..will be considered child abuse ..so parent will have to allow a food nazi into their home to make sure there is proer food.. otherwise the child will be removed from the home ..

oh and how about the coming enslavement of the 18-20 year old.. forcing them to take part in comunity service programs or join the military if they can't afford 100k a year for college tuition ..to get out of it.. real job or entrapenurial activity will not be counted as legitimate way to avoid this enslavement ..

[lightblue]

Hi there Nexians,

I'm trying to wrap my head around "Agenda 21". I'm concerned that some very harmless and potentially beneficial public health initiatives may be miscast as Agenda 21. For example, can folks please tell me if they think the below is an example of Agenda 21? I am sincerely curious because I don't get it. I promise to try to be open-minded about this, but I admit I am biased and have my own public health "agenda" (which I assure you, has nothing to do with world domination).


Thanks!

who's done it? who's doing the miscasting and where? links to articles? thanks ..



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[sandy]

Hi Dex,

To me this is all about Agenda 21>>>>>>ie:

Zoning, stopping sprawl, designing and securing streets, trail ways and safe routes to school is called corralling in my books. If you can keep your sheep all together then they are easier to control, manipulate and kill off with unsuspecting disease, squall er, poverty, etc.

Most types of security, sustainability and green efforts are ruses to facilitate Agenda 21's all consuming directives IMHO. The elitist's know they have to work from the municipal levels now and many Aide incentives for smaller cities and communities are ruses to further coral and enslave the masses financially, mentally, physically and spiritually.

[Dex]

Thanks all. I was trying to get a feel for if this kind of thing is considered Agenda 21-driven and I see that it is by some. I'm sure you are not alone in this assessment, Sandy.

[lightblue]

Thanks all. I was trying to get a feel for if this kind of thing is considered Agenda 21-driven and I see that it is by some. I'm sure you are not alone in this assessment, Sandy.

your respondent sample is intolerably small and your conclusion based on presumption.... l


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[Dex]

your respondent sample is intolerably small and your conclusion based on presumption.... l

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True! Anecdotal evidence at best, but I feel Sandy has a good sense these things, so her comment holds a lot of weight for me.

To answer your earlier question:

who's done it? who's doing the miscasting and where? links to articles? thanks ..

I watched this video a while back and some of the policy initiatives highlighted in it are not that different than those quoted in the OP:


This video was recorded at Rosa Koire's conference on Agenda 21, "Behind the Green Mask", August 6, 2011 in Santa Rosa, California.

Agenda 21 is the Master Plan put forth by the United Nations in 1992 and adopted by President Bill Clinton. Agenda 21 is a green initiative which targets cars and people living away from cities who must commute. Their goal is to develop large, congested city centers for people to reside, and provide mass transit for the city dwellers to commute to work. It also targets large parcels of land in the world, including the United States, to be redistricted to "open space land", thereby making it undevelopable.

As I said in my OP, I am trying to wrap my head around this and trying to keep an open mind. I can't help but notice that the fossil fuel industry has a lot to lose with the development of more walkable and bike-able communities and may be somehow behind this resistance, but maybe it is all a NWO conspiracy to enslave us.

In any case, it is a situation creating division between those who sincerely want to improve their communities' health and those that sincerely want to warn about and protect civil liberties. I don't want to debate Agenda 21, just get a better understanding of the bigger picture around it. Thanks again for your thoughts guys.

[sandy]

Thanks Dex,

In my mind these smaller contained communities they want to build and assign rural people to are not much different the the Fema camps that are built to contain people when need be. The ultimate goal of Agenda 21 really fits with the Georgia Guide-stones declaration to whittle the world's population down to 500 million and with that the containment of such so that earth can be replenished for the Elites pleasure and play ground. They will be no go zones for the people they have corralled to be the worker bees.

I do not foresee them being successful in my lifetime but I sure do believe that the totalitarian tip toe, as Icke says is alive and well in all of the Global Controllers actions.

And yes Lightblue my intuition is just presumption but then unless you have the real goods to present what is left but to presume that their actions will lead to the depopulation and downfall of humanity should we not UNITE on mass one day to stop the madness.