by John Anthony, The Truth Monster, ©2024
(Dec. 3, 2024) — For all their talk of individual’s rights, governments do not like the masses owning private property.
On June 12, 1976 a top of the fold headline in the NYT read, “U.N. Meeting Urges Curb on Private Land Holding.” The article announced, “The United States delegation headed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carla Hills, concurred in virtually all of the recommendations.”
The meeting was in Vancouver, British Columbia and HUD had “concurred” with the Vancouver Declaration. Among the principles agreed to were action plans to address the following:
- Land is too valuable to be treated as an ordinary asset
- Private ownership of land is socially unjust, and
- If unchecked privately owned land could become, “a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes.” (Part D, Land -p61)
Eleven years later, a 1987 UN Commissioned report expanded on the necessity of transferring US wealth to poorer nations as a means to reduce poverty and address global warming. The property ‘issue’ (our privately owned land) was to be managed through a term called “sustainable development.”
In 1992 private property continued under the microscope when Maurice Strong, a multimillionaire Canadian and considered the father of sustainable development, formed the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to operationalize the principles in the UN report.
Strong made it clear our habits of eating meat, large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, home air-conditioning, and suburban housing were not sustainable. At the Earth Summit, he called for a “shift in our lifestyles”.
In addition to founding the United Nation’s Environmental Program (UNEP), Strong was a Foundation Director and Co-Chairman of the World Economic Forum, mentor to Klaus Schwab, and a believer in a borderless global society. Strong’s influence is partially responsible for our own open border policies during the Obama and Biden administrations that are facilitated by the UN.
In 2015 the UN rolled out their Agenda 2030 which refines the control mechanisms of the Rio Earth Summit into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. While claiming to be necessary to save the planet, every one of the goals requires central control of personal behaviors, private property, and social norms.
Schwab’s World Economic Forum partnered with the UN in 2019 for the sole purpose of advancing sustainable development. Below is a timeline of major events in the gradual removal of private property as an obstacle to global goals.
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