posted 06-27-2001 10:47 AM            

> the UN Conference on the Environment.
>
> Excerpts:
>
> "However, dependence on private motor vehicles must be reduced, rather
> than increased, if the U.S. is to implement the Clean Air Act, Intermodal
> Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, and its pledge to abide by the
> Agenda 21 goals of the UN Conference on the Environment in Rio, aimed at
> slowing global climate change. "
>
> "This report suggests that rather than accepting a forecast for 46% more
> VMT (vehicle miles of travel) in America in 2010, we face choices.
> Implementation of existing laws, such as the Clean Air Act, can help us
> reduce VMT growth by 2010 by 10% across America. In concert with full
> development of ISTEA congestion management systems and the linking of land
> use and transportation development, traffic growth can be constrained to
> levels comparable to today, even as America grows a healthy, competitive
> economy and livable communities for all its residents and citizens."
>
> [INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT OF 1991 (ISTEA) - The
> most recent federal surface transportation act; federal law that provides
> conditions and authorization for flow of federal highway revenue to states
> for roads, transit, ferries, and other transportation purposes.
> ]
>
> TMIP
>
> The Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP) is a multi-year, multi-agency
> program to develop new travel demand modeling procedures which accurately
> and reliably forecast travel for a broad range of modes, policy actions
and
> operational conditions. This web site has been established with the
> assistance of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Department
of
> Transportation to assure that practitioners have access to the best
> transportation planning methods available.
>
> http://www.bts.gov/tmip/
>
> Appendix 2: Motor Vehicle Use and the Clean Air Act: Boosting Efficiency
by
> Reducing Travel
>
> http://www.bts.gov/tmip/
>
> In the 1990s, a number of factors are prompting major reconsideration of
> long-held assumptions in transportation and other sectors of the U.S. and
> global economy. For decades, it has been the assumption that the use of
> automobiles would continue to grow beyond the foreseeable future as
> economies expanded, as high speed travel extended its reach to more and
> more locations, and as plentiful oil supplies ensured low cost energy for
> boundless mobility. However, dependence on private motor vehicles must be
> reduced, rather than increased, if the U.S. is to implement the Clean Air
> Act, Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, and its pledge to
> abide by the Agenda 21 goals of the UN Conference on the Environment in
> Rio, aimed at slowing global climate change.
>
> Even in metropolitan areas where mobile source air pollution is not seen
as
> a major public health threat, many transportation planners and policy
> makers are beginning to reexamine long-range forecasts of strong and
steady
> growth in vehicle miles of travel (VMT) and vehicle trips. Long range plan
> evaluations in region after region suggest that to accommodate such growth
> would mean substantial increases in traffic congestion, even with major
> road construction beyond what nearly anyone sees as feasible or desirable.
> Some believe that "Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems" (IVHS) will
> alleviate this congestion by packing more cars into the same street space
> at higher speeds, but this approach would not address the resultant large
> growth in transportation energy use and air pollution, affecting both
local
> health and global climate.
>
> Moreover, U.S. governments at all levels suffer from infrastructure
> financing problems, which are exacerbated by large hidden subsidies to
> motor vehicle users related to road and parking facility construction,
> maintenance, and operations and even greater externalized costs of
> accidents, noise and air pollution, and maintenance of secure access to
oil
> supplies. The failure of governments to adequately maintain
infrastructure,
> to provide efficient multi-modal access, and to encourage efficient
> consumption of the large public investment in transportation is promoting
a
> growing consensus between environment and business interests that changes
> in transportation pricing to manage transportation demand are imperative
> for both economic and environmental sustainability. In short, users will
> need to pay for what they use rather more than today.
>
> There are major opportunities to reduce automobile dependence by
> "cashing-out" current subsidies to motor vehicle use, the converting fixed
> costs of motor vehicle operation to variable costs incurred based on
> vehicle use, and applying IVHS smart-technologies to provide for automated
> toll collection, better transit information and operations systems,
> real-time shared taxi dispatching, and substitution of information and
> communications for transportation. Concurrently, investments in sidewalks,
> bicycle lanes, and traffic calming strategies could restore the now
> endangered ability to walk and bicycle safely in our communities, giving
> people greater freedom to meet their daily activity needs without forced
> dependence on the automobile.
>
> Several recent studies have questioned the effectiveness of major transit
> investments on reducing motor vehicle use. What seems most apparent is
that
> investment in transit is a necessary but not sufficient part of successful
> strategies for reducing automobile dependence in cities and suburbs. Much
> evidence suggests that major transit investments will have little
> effectiveness in stemming traffic growth unless land development is
> clustered within walking distance of stations and stops and made friendly
> for pedestrians, bicycles, and public transportation, rather than sprawled
> across the landscape at low densities, supplied with excessive parking for
> cars, and designed to discourage non-motorized travel. Reform of
> exclusionary regulations which impede the development of affordable
housing
> -- such as accessory apartments in single family homes and townhouses --
> and convenience retail services within walking distance of where people
> live and work are as necessary to reducing automobile dependence as
> investments in public transportation and sidewalks.
>
> VMT will likely continue to rise so long as new development occurs more in
> low-density, automobile dependent patterns than in clustered, mixed-use
> patterns friendly to pedestrians, bicycles, and public transportation.
> Increased use of telecommunications is likely to complement rather than
> supplement transportation in the absence of demand management strategies
> which influence travel demand. Many older urban areas, which have
> infrastructure and land use patterns that provide freedom to live with
less
> dependence on private motor vehicles will continue to decline unless they
> can be made attractive places once again for middle class families with
> children. This will require major reforms in education, criminal justice,
> and social welfare systems, which are now unable to address fundamental
> community problems. Long-overdue reforms to ensure that motor vehicle use
> and suburban sprawl is not subsidized either explicitly or implicitly and
> to create a level playing field for market competition between
> transportation modes and communication technologies could help revitalize
> America's cities, ensure more livable communities, and boost long-term
> economic competitiveness by stimulating more resource-efficient economic
> choices.
>
> In short, there are no "magic bullet" solutions to transportation
problems,
> but a great need for developing multi-faceted strategies encompassing
> changes in transportation and land use pricing policies, regulations,
> street-space allocation, infrastructure spending priorities, urban design,
> and land use patterns.
>
> This report suggests that rather than accepting a forecast for 46% more
VMT
> in America in 2010, we face choices. Implementation of existing laws, such
> as the Clean Air Act, can help us reduce VMT growth by 2010 by 10% across
> America. In concert with full development of ISTEA congestion management
> systems and the linking of land use and transportation development,
traffic
> growth can be constrained to levels comparable to today, even as America
> grows a healthy, competitive economy and livable communities for all its
> residents and citizen
>

"This transfer of power from Congress to the United Nations has not,
> however, been limited to the power to make war. Increasingly, Presidents
> are using the U.N. not only to implement foreign policy in pursuit of
> international peace, but also domestic policy in pursuit of international,
> environmental, economic, education, social welfare and human rights
policy,
> both in derogation of the legislative prerogatives of Congress and of the
> 50 State legislatures, and further in derogation of the rights of the
> American people to constitute their own civil order."
>
> --Rep. Ron Paul's Special Order Speech - 9/18/00
>
>
>

posted 06-27-2001 01:02 PM            

When is the country going to awaken to what is happening. The U.N. is taking control right before their collective eyes. And not slowly anymore. This country is under siege by outside and inside forces.
They will have complete control within the next few years if things don't change quickly.
DON'T LET THE UNITED NATIONS CONTROL AMERICANS WE ARE A FREE AND INDEPENDANT COUNTRY!!!!

posted 06-27-2001 02:03 PM            

They can see just the same as you and I. They would rather ignore the situation than face it and have to make informed decisions about their own well being.
Leave it up to someone else, don't bother me type of mentality.
Maybe I'm just having a bad hairday, but this, HuH, attitude of Americans is upsetting. What happened to the take no s**t attitude this country used to have. No pride, not caring, give it away is now the norm. WAKE UP OUT THERE, IT IS OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF THIS ONCE GREAT AND POWERFUL,INDEPENDANT NATION.

posted 06-27-2001 03:27 PM            

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The UK Government is now spending £2.5 million to fully implement a nation-wide deployment of CIA mind-control technology.

posted 06-28-2001 08:29 AM            

They say that prayer also keeps them open... a lot of the fundamentalist Christians seem to be awake to what is going on in the world.

I was in and out of my car yesterday, listening to some AM talk radio. Rush Limbaugh spoke about our country giving away our freedom. ( the anti-cell-phone issue really got him going) For all of his faults, he does "get it" on some level. Later I was listening to a local guy, Jerry Agar. He was discussing the current tax system. One caller was for an all-out revolt, while another woman talked about communism seeping into our country, she said that she thought tHeY would stop at nothing short of feudalism.