Mother Lode Tea Party

My name is John Sondeno.  I am a resident of Pine Grove.  I live on a 5-acre parcel in a wooded area with a well and septic system.  I among other things am a Viet Nam Veteran sworn to defend the US Constitution and principles of life, liberty, and freedom. 

I believe that the General Plan as presented sets the stage for implementation of UN Agenda 21 and as such needs to have all elements of Agenda 21 stated and implied removed and replaced with elements that we the people of Amador County want rather than what someone else wants to impose upon us.

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BIG HEADS UP

United Nations Agenda 21 is At Your Door

Brought to you by ICLEI

As heinous as AB 32 is to California, ICLEI is more insidious.

ICLEI was formed at the United Nations in New York in 1990 as the ‘International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’ (ICLEI). The name was changed in 2003 to “ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability USA”.

The ICLEI Mandate

ICLEI’s mission is to improve global sustainability by building pockets of commitment at the local level – over 550 U.S. communities have signed on (see list of California communities below). Working locally, they seek to marginalize our right to Private Property, including water rights, mining, lumbering, fishing, recreation and lots more. They often team with local ‘Stakeholder’ groups to pressure governments to enforce their will – not ours. Continue reading →

Culture and Constitution

By Angelo M. Codevilla

Long ago, Aristotle’s Politics showed that the ways in which peoples govern themselves – arrangements of offices and honors which he called politeiae and we call regimes or constitutions – flow from ethos: habits of heart and mind that we call culture, which in turn are affected by those very arrangements. My The Character of Nations (1997, 2009) details those truths in today’s world, especially in our own country. In that sense, clashes about constitutions reflect the ever present ferment of cultures: No culture is uniform or static, and divergent views about the meaning or propriety of any given arrangement of offices and honors are sure to take root in every regime at all times. Such garden variety clashes between cultures and constitutions – some quite serious – have always affected our regime as well as every other.

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Showing the Flag

Over the past summer we have had the pleasure of sailing through the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. While enjoying the beautiful scenery and wonderful people, two unexpected and related aspects of our trip came to the forefront: Continue reading →