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Earth Day: New Age Theocrats create a pagan holiday to indoctrinate students in public education with nature worship

From Carl Teichrib's "Educating for Pagan Change: Earth Day and the First National Teach-In":

In 1970, “Earth Day” was introduced to the public. Now, thirty years later, people around the world celebrate this annual ritual-and it has grown increasingly pagan in all aspects. Dubbed as a “family outing,” Earth Day events have become drawing cards for New Age/occult recruiters.

This isn’t surprising when one understands the spiritual history of Earth Day. A number of years ago my hometown high school asked if I would be willing to sort through boxes of old textbooks. It turned out the school was trying to create storage space and had to find a way to get rid of thousands of outdated texts. Knowing I’m a book lover, the principal gave me first pick of anything I wanted. In the process of sorting, I came across dozens of copies of The Environmental Handbook.  A quick glance through the yellowed pages and it was apparent I had stumbled onto something of importance. Gathering up these well-used paperbacks, I took them home for further study.

The Environmental Handbook was the official publication of Friends of the Earth, and was specifically prepared for public educators to use during the first Earth Day in 1970. The book’s Foreword stated that this handbook was “to serve as a source of ideas and tactics for the April 22 first annual teach-in on the environmental crisis.” After reading through the 367-page book, it was obvious that the “ideas and tactics” presented were steeped in paganism. The teachings that emanated from this text were nothing more than an indoctrination into Earth-based New Age concepts of politics, religion, social structure, morality, and life ethics. It was an occult smorgasbord aimed at impressionable minds.

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The call from The Environmental Handbook was clear: change the present religious, political, and social structures-adapting society to a New Age world-view of nature worship, communistic and socialistic political thinking, deviant family planning practices, and complete earth indoctrination within the education system.

Earth Day’s agenda of nature worship is diametrically opposite to what God’s word tells us. Romans 1:21-25 explicitly states,

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator who is forever praised.

Earth Day offers us, as Christians, a vivid example of the planned “social transformation” which is now taking place in our schools, churches, businesses, and families. God’s word, on the other hand, offers us, as Christians, the sure foundation and guiding light we need in order to navigate our way through this New Age civilization. Romans 8:38-39 assures us that “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.” What a privilege it is to be able to rest on God’s promises!

Cory Heidelberger thinks Madville is a place of open and civil discourse, which proofs how far removed from reality in what liberals call a sustainable community

So Cory Heidelberger likes Stace Nelson because he talks to liberals at Madville:

Liberals like me don't loathe Stace Nelson... and he doesn't loathe us. He talks to us. He drops by this blog and comments in a spirit of openness and civic discourse. He's wrong sometimes (as we all are), but he'll talk to us. If any of the conservative choices could forge common ground and win independent votes in a Senate general election, it's Stace Nelson.

And his willingness to talk to folks like me and his ability to appeal to us is exactly why absolutists like Ellis and Howie won't throw their cash and sweat behind his statewide candidacy. Ellis and Howie want full-out jihad. They want to purge South Dakota of any whiff of liberal politics. Stace Nelson, with his willingness to engage liberals in civil discourse, disqualifies himself from their good graces.

Sorry about that, Stace!

Gee Cory, I used to do the same thing, but more often than Stace. Now Cory is unwilling to talk to me, so idea that Madville allows open civil discourse is complete fantasy on Cory's part. They hate whites, males, true Christians, and conservatives. So based on Cory's illogic, he is just as much a hate filled radical, theocratic and absolutist as Ellis and Howie. It is just that his theocracy is based on New Age Theology, which fits perfectly with his wife's apostate ELCA agenda.

Cory Heidelberger admits the ELCA is being pushed to apostasy by homosexual/feminist movement

Cory Heidelberger claims tolerance when it comes to immoral acts, but when it comes to dissent, he has banned me form his web site. That does not stop him from personally attacking me forbeing paranoid. Then he proves me research as true on a thread that promotes homosexual behavior. Cory admits the ELCA is being pushed to apostasy by the homosexual movement. First a "Jana" complains about a church employee being fired for expressing sinful behavior with thsi comment:

I hope that someone holds the ELCA's feet to the fire on firing someone for expressing an opinion and standing up for an oppression they find to be unjust.

I wonder if the Bishops of the ELCA are comfortable with the decision to punish this young woman for speaking out?

Bishop Zellmer? Care to weigh in? Or at least comfort a member of your flock who has been beat down for thinking out loud? Or are you thinking that the new ladies circle for young women should be called the Stepford Circle.

Cory's reaction:

Keep in mind, Jana, the ELCA as an organization did not fire this gal. One camp within the ELCA did so. Other ELCA camps are apparently offering her work. It would be interesting to hear Bishop Zellmer's opinion, although I'm not sure the camp is in the South Dakota Synod, so he may not be the authority figure on whom to harp. And remember that we're talking the ELCA, not the Catholic Church. The ELCA does not operate with the same strict hierarchy. Local Lutheran churches and camps have much more leeway to do their thing than their Catholic counterparts.

This confirms my research on how the feminst and homosexual movement is infiltrating the ECLA and creating an apostate church. This also confirms Cory and his wife Erin are part of that movement. My research is not welcome at his web site. It gets into the way of his indoctrination. Cory even uses the GOP "Big Tent" label, "The ELCA is a relatively big tent... but that tent includes some folks who'd like a smaller tent." This is how the unbelievers attack the believers, just as the RINOs attack conservatives.

 

Madville's population control now goes to sex with chickens?

grudznick makes this comment on Cory Heidelberger's urban chicken post:

"If you have 4 chickens in your apartment or a rented room, can they be considered companion animals?"

Larry Kurtz responds with:

"except in your case, grud: then they'd be girlfriends."

While Cory deletes my on topic comments, he lets that one stand. So is that why the liberals want urban chicken growers, so they can have sex with chickens? More chicken poopers, but less human poopers would be good for the environment? Is that how they plan to reduce abortions? 

 

Cory & Erin Heidelberger: How much does a liberal atheist have in common with a liberal ELCA female pastor in training, and how far will Pastor Steve Hickey go in defending them?

[Update: Yesterday morning CBS ran this program and provides support for the argument that liberal atheists and liberal protestants do couple up]

A couple of weeks ago I put up a post regarding Cory Heidelberger's liberal political agenda and how well that actualy fits with his wife's liberal religious views that were not based on Biblical Christianity, but instead pagan monism. Excerpt:

And you can expect Cory to be using his fully paganized wife as ammunition to bring South Dakota into the ancient pagan anti-Christian New Age, all deceptively in the name of "Christianity". Such propaganda should be expected from a totalitarian teacher and a ELCA feminist activist. And once a majority of the population has accepted the pagan propaganda of the false public school teacher and the false preachers of the apostate churches, then those who disagree will be silenced. Just as Cory as silenced me at Madville Times. The One World religion will assist the making of the One World political system, all in the name of unity and the hope of world peace.

Representative/Pastor Steve Hickey actually defended the liberal ECLA female pastor in training:

So we give Sibby another chance even though he has yet to reciprocate such graces to anyone else. My last interaction with him was zero policy and all personal. Forgive me if I am not quick to embrace the suddenly softer Sibby. How he went after Erin Heidelberger was unjustified and unacceptable, and it was only last week. I’ll wait to see more fruit of genuine change. Maybe he should take a class there at Dakota Wesleyan on how to be more winsome.

So I asked, "What parts of Dr. Jones’ analysis do you find incorrect?" His answer:

Sibby, who appointed you arbiter of all that is true? I didn’t read Dr Jones analysis because I could care less what he thinks. You dumping extended citations from your University of Google studies effectively ends dialog. If you want to win me, talk to me — don’t label me or others. You have formed and then broadcast sweeping false conclusions about many things and many people and it’s a real turnoff . Here’s a tip: review your interactions with people online and make a list of a dozen conversation stoppers you regularly employ. Presently you are oblivious to the fact that certain references effectually stop your ability to communicate with others. One is the New World Order. You can believe in that and never reference it directly and keep a conversation going.

Not exactly an in depth analysis of Dr.Jones' Biblical based arguments. How did he determine that my post that was largely based on Jones' work was "unjustified and unacceptable" when he refused to even look at it? Instead Hickey mocked me and recommended that I use deception to better communicate my ideas. No thank you, I prefer to hit issues honestly with a straight forward approach. So I asked Hickey:

So have you decided to accept the feminist and homosexual movement into the Body of Christ in order to be winsome? Those are the components of the ELCA that I was exposing as false teachings that have infiltrated the Body of Christ in America. Why are you painting me as the bad guy?

His response:

They have things to take for your paranoia. My positions on the issues you mention haven’t shifted and that’s what I’m talking about– you insinuate and insinuate, never using the measure you use on others on yourself. And your insinuations are ludicrous— there probably isn’t another elected official in SD more vocal on the marriage issue than me and you insinuate I’m in kahoots with the socially liberal wing of the ELCA? Hard to have a dialog with you. Why can’t you see that?  There are other venues where I talk openly about church stuff. You too should learn there is a time and place to say all you think.

Yes, Mr, Hickey is very vocal about the marriage issue, yet he condemns me for showing how homosexuality, as not a sin, is a false teaching within the ELCA. I asked a legitimate question. Instead of clearing up the issue he again attacks me for being paranoid and then seems to not much care about the Great Commission as he says such "church stuff" should not be discussed in the world of blogs. Sounds a bit "seeker friendly".

Hickey also did not address the issue of female pastors:

Earlier in Christianity 21 And Alleged Innovative Voices In The Faith: Nadia Bolz-Weber we introduced you to the Sarcastic Lutheran aka Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, “pastor” of the emerging House for All Sinners and Saints (HFASS, their abbreviation) Lutheran church, which is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and consists of:

a group of folks figuring out how to be a liturgical, Christo-centric, social justice oriented, queer inclusive, incarnational, contemplative, irreverent, ancient – future church with a progressive but deeply rooted theological imagination. (Online source)

From the above we can see that, in order to embrace women pastors, this new Christianity has set aside what the God the Holy Spirit says in 1 Timothy 2:12 — But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. This version of a postliberalism with its postmodern theology also follows in the same polluted vein as the long dead mainline denominations which would embrace the original version of liberal (aka modern) theology and ordain women to the office of pastor-teacher (i.e. senior teaching elder) in violation of Holy Scripture.

My first attempt to confront Hickey on theological issues was ment with him telling me not to be reading what the "doctrine police" are saying on the internet. Which would include this:

I realize we should all know this by now, but within spiritually spineless evanjellyfish the Devil’s minions have been so successful with their constant refrain of, “Did God really say?”, that many are afraid to answer, “Yes; He did.” Jesus tells us — “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matthew 7:15). In commenting on this important verse Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989) once said, “If you don’t know the difference between fleece and fur, then you’re going to lose your spiritual arm right up to your elbow.”

With this as our backdrop, we remind you that leading Emergence Christianity spokesman Tony Jones has written a book called The New Christians and his Emergent Church pastor Doug Pagitt, of Solomon’s Porch (below) where Jones is “theologian in residence,” has one called A Christianity Worth Believing. Apprising Ministries has also pointed out that “new Christians” Jones and Pagitt are also the ones behind an upcoming Emerging Church gathering, which we discuss a bit further in Tony Jones And His Pastor Doug Pagitt With Jopa Productions And Christianity 21.

And can Mr. Hickey show us that the ELCA agenda is not apostasy? The internet doctrine police say otherwise:

Apprising Ministries has been maintaining that Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy because of its ongoing embrace of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC).

As I said in Know Your Bible this EC was a Trojan Horse containing a semi-pelagian (at best) rebellion against Sola Scriptura designed to unload its highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard.

You can follow some of the corrupting results of this spurious CSM in Contemplative Spirituality Growing Within Mainstream Evangelicalism. One is EC heroes like Rob Bell opened the door to the mainstream of the visible church for unbelievers like Living Spiritual Teacher and “Progessive Christian” scholar Marcus Borg.

What’s important to note here is that this so-called “Progressive Christianity” Is Neither Progressive Or Christian. No, it’s really just old liberal aka modern theology in hipper clothes; and this EC cult is itself simply a re-interpreted version of liberal theology, a postmodern theology i.e. a post-liberalism.

This is critical to understand as we approach the subject of a pet EC issue, affirming that a lifestyle of having sexual relations with another of the same sex i.e homosexuality is also a viable one for the Christian. In other words, those in so-called monagamous and supposedly life-long relationships with their same-sex partner are not in sin.

And no doubt wolves in sheep’s clothing will surely try and get you to focus upon how nice and thick their wool coats appear, but if you can’t recognize the difference between fleece and fur, then you’re in grave danger of losing your spiritual life to these fools arrogant enough to defy the Word of God with their Humpty Dumpty language.

Being an SBC minister I remember the battles fought in the convention to oust what the late cult-expert Dr. Walter Martin, an SBC minister himself, called the Cult of Liberal Theology. Have we so quickly forgotten that this modern theology sought to make the Christian faith relevant to its own culture circa 1950s?

Here’s your wake-up call: The postmodern EC is attempting to do the exact same thing right now and homosexuality is one of its tentacles. Now maybe you’ll have a better perspective upon vipers like “queer inclusive” ELCA “pastor” Nadia Bolz-Weber and the ELCA And Homosexuality.

Simply put, the point is this: The mainline denominations sold out to liberalism; they embraced ecumenicism, CSM, bowed to the feminist movement ordaining women, out went the doctrine of Hell because, “I’d never send one of my children to a place like that,” and next comes ordination of homosexual clergy ripping them apart right now.

And in case Hickey believes the goddess worship concern is not a real one with the ELCA:

Imagine driving down the road and passing by a beautiful old Christian church.  Now imagine that church has a huge painting of a bare breasted women/goddess on it for all to see.   Not only that, the mural also includes an eight armed goddess named Kali.  Kali is a Hindu goddess. Hard to conceive of, but that is what you will find beginning this November if you drive passed the ELCA's Ebenezer Lutheran Church (also know as herchurch) in San Francisco, CA.   The church plans on placing this mural on their church tower for everyone to see. The ELCA church's website tells us about the mural saying, 

“The Goddess mural will rise 64 feet high with four basic symbolic representations of the divine feminine: The Earth Mother, the Black Madonna, the Christ-Sophia, and an androgynous Kali-Kundalini figure whose chakras merge with the phases of the moon and the universe.   They will be surrounded by colorful and playful animals, birds, plants and earth’s elements.” (see here)

Here is a link that shows what the mural will look like (on the left hand side of the page).

A fundraising page for herchurch's project has this to say about the mural, “Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran (herchurch) refers to the Divine Presence through many names and metaphors.  More than 50,000 years ago the sacred one was called mother.  Breaking recent tradtion from male diety, this mural aims to herald the return of the feminine divine in modern Christian, interfaith and feminist spirituality.” (see here)

Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran has been worshiping pagan gods for quite a while now, with the full knowledge and approval of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.   I say this because it is a fact that ELCA leadership know what is being taught and what goes on at this church, and they allow it to continue.  (see here, here and here)  They have the power, authority and responsibility to stop it and they do not.  A church leader from the ELCA Office of the Presiding Bishop even spoke at a herchurch feminism conference showing the audience pictures of a female Jesus. (see here)

I will not only use the internet as support for this post. There is the well researched 1991 book by Donna Steichen called, Ungodly Rage, The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism Page 193:

On the landscape, within the province of the modernist theological scholarship that defines religion as a psychological phenomenon, implicity gnostic religious feminism overlaps an explicitly gnostic New Age movement. That broadly fashionable form of spiritualism displays, in textbook purity, the gnostic characteristics of despair with present society, the search for enlightenment within and the vision of a transformed global order, including a new world religion of naturally altered consciousness. Flourishing at a cultural point where superstition, pop-psychology and scientific speculation intersect, the New Age movement is a manifestation of the same revolutionary rejection of monotheism and Christianity found in goddess feminism. Indeed, its ingredients, including spiritualism, fanatic environmentalism, zeal for abortion, sexual permissiveness and leftist politics, are almost entirely interchangable with that phenomenon.

So we now got Erin's husband Cory and his political agenda nicedy tied in with the fanatic environmentalism, zeal for abortion, and leftist politics that are interchangable with the global New Age religious movement. Dr. Peter Jones in his 1997 book, Spirit Wars, Pagan Revival in Christian America says this on page 239:

Rudolf rightly notes: "the Gnostic must prove that he is a Gnostic by the rejection of the body before he can know final redemption," Some Gnostics were vegetarians for that reason. Many were ascetics, as the Nag Hammadi texts show. Some engage in sexual license, as the Church Fathers document, as a way of shaking their fist at the Creator of normative sexuality. This, of course, is where sexuality and spirituality overlap. The Gnostics say this very clearly.

Not so in our day. Major changes in sexual norms and practices, pushed by a massive agenda of religious/pagan monism, are surreptitiously justified, not as issues of religion(which would be prohibited by the logic of church/state separation), but as non-religious issues of "civil rights." Many unconsciously slip into a religious redefinition of existence by their "political" acceptance of an egalitarian, anti-patriarchal and pan-sexual vision. The unseen religious agenda of undifferentiated sexuality is actually monistic union of the opposites within the impersonal divine.

In other words Cory Heidelberger the atheist politically left totalitarian teacher and his ELCA pastor in training wife are advoacates of a New Age Theocracy whose mission is a one-world education system and a one-world religion, all to set up the one-world government. And that anti-Bibilical Christian religion is being promoted politically in secular vocabulary. My pointing out that truth was what got me kicked out of Cory's wannabe sustainable community of Madville. Expect the same to happen to all true Biblical Christians who stick to their doctrine as the New Age Theocrats have their way. And expect the persecution to come from the religious arena, or what is known as the apostate harlot church in the Book of Revelation. You heard the cue, we all have to get along and be winsome ala the emergent church ecumenism. The doctrine police, those who follow Biblical Christianity, are not with the program. So why did God confuse the languages at the Tower of Babel? Response to those who were uniting against God.

Yes, this is a long post with a lot of content, so I do understand if Steve Hickey and Troy Jones don't understand it all. I just hope they don't take it out on me and go on the attack instead of having a conversation. And Cory and Erin are also welcome to clarify their positions. This is a serious issue as it is about ones eternal spirituality. It should be deemed important by all. I did not write this to attack anyone personally. I wrote this because these are important theological and political issues for us to consider, and also a warning that there are movements infiltrating Christianity in America. I hope those who decide to comment think about what they are saying before hitting the publish button. And I will correct any mistakes I have made, but they have to be proven. Typos and bad English don't count. And if you have not read the Bible, then please start today.

 

Cory Heidelberger doesn't understand, conservatives like growing chickens, we just don't like liberal chickens who can't have an honest debate

[UPDATE: Cory Heidelberger said this: "Predictably, Powers tries to dodge the meaning of his words, calling his use of "liberal" and his question about urban chickens "innocuous," calling names, and avoiding the main point of the conservative merits of urban chickens. Bawk bawk!"

Cory, the chicken is on you: you just deleted the comment I left in response to your chicken post. And why don't you just go over the the War College and face Pat Powers directly? You chicken?]

Pat Powers said this about Dakota Rural Action's "Sustainable Stories":

Liberal Ag group Dakota Rural Action is going across South Dakota preaching the gospel of bringing chickens into urban neighborhoods.

Cory Heidelberger responds with this:

I join some of Powers's commenters in asking what's so "liberal" about promoting homegrown food? Conservatives ought to be all about encouraging people to provide for their own needs. Conservatives ought to be all about leaving people free to eat food that they've grown themselves without interference from government. Conservatives ought to be all about allowing people leaving people free to use their own property for the economic purposes they see fit. In the case of urban chickens and other homegrown and locally grown food, Dakota Rural Action sounds more conservative than Dakota War College.

This is typical left-wing propaganda that the totalitarian teacher uses to deceive his readers. The liberal chicken has blocked me from his web site because he does not want the truth to be told to his victims. This issue for conservatives is not that homegrown food is bad, we support it and want it. We have a problem with big government telling us how and where we can grow it. The statement "without interference form governemnt" is a lie. For example in November 2009 I busted Dakota Rural Action for supporting Cap & Trade:

The Argus Leader has a report on a South Dakotan going to Copenhagen where a treaty that will destroy America's Sovereignty will be offered up to the New World Order:

Jamie Horter is in love with the world - it's an infatuation on a molecular level, the adoration for the overall masterpiece.

In less than a month, the Augustana College senior - she's a dual major in chemistry and art - will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, to be part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. As a member of the Will Steger Foundation's Expedition Copenhagen delegation, she will attend meetings and then disseminate information about what climate change will mean to South Dakotans.

Here is more on Horter:

Enter Horter, summer intern at the Sioux Falls Green Project, president of Augustana's Green Group and a member of the Augustana Coalition for Social Justice, the Sioux Falls Transportation Committee and Trash Initiative Focus Group.

"Social Justice" is the label used by today's Progressive Movement:

Incidentally, one of the 20th century's most well-known progressives was a republican. But there is little irony in this, since Theodore Roosevelt earned the progressive badge for the values driving his politics, not the party affiliation backing his name. Among his numerous accomplishments as president (1901 to 1909), he allocated some 230,000,000 acres of federal land for national parks, nature reserves and public monuments; fought to regulate the power of corporations; dismantled corrupt trusts; backed labor unions, railroad regulation, food and drug reform; and advocated national health insurance. On the national level, the history of the progressive movement----an ethos that nurtured environmentalism, worker and voter rights, women's suffrage and a concept of social justice still with us today----begins with Roosevelt in the first decade of the 20th century.

And the tie in to the Dakota Rural Action organization:

While in Copenhagen, Horter's area of interest will be environmental justice. To help her navigate the complexities of the issues, she's been paired with a mentor, Frank James, director of Dakota Rural Action in Brookings. While in Denmark, Horter will converse with James via e-mail.

James said it is important for her, and all South Dakotans, to understand that climate legislation is important to the state, the nation and the world.

I had suspicions about Dakota Rural Action, but now we have proof that they are not a rural South Dakota organization, but part of the radical far-left Progressive Movement.

The totalitarian teacher did not like that, so here is a follow up:

I am putting Cory's Heidelberger's comment he left on this morning's Dakota Rural Action post because the truth is important:

Dakota Rural Action fights for landowner rights against TransCanada. Jamie Horter grew up on a Bristol, SD, farm. Can you please get off the "everyone is the enemy!" jag? Dakota Rural Action members are as South Dakotan as you are.

I was on the same side, with Dakota Rural Action and the Sierra Club, of the TransCanda issue in Pierre, but for different reasons. My reason was for property rights of the individual. The other two groups were concered about the environment. And the environmental extremist view runs counter to indivdual property rights.

Cory also needs to understand that the climate change agenda includes Cap & Tax legislation that will aid Big-Ag, and hurt the small farmer. The small guy will pay more for energy, but will not have the resources to implement the expensive envionmental programs that will provide tax credits. The big corporate operators will have the resources to implement and benefit from the green programs. Again we have big governemnt helping big corpoate entities with what the Marxist left calls corporate welfare. It is ironic that Cory opposes big corporate capitalism, but his Progressive agenda aids them while the small guy has barriers to entry into what should be a free-market form of capitalism. The Progressive left's confusion is their equating free-market capitalism with corporate welfare. They are not the same, but in fact big-government policies destroy free-markets and that gives advantages to big corporate greedy operators.

Jamie Horter, the small family farm girl has no lobbyist, but Jamie Horter, the environmental activist, has plenty of lobbyists...including Dakota Rural Action. Their agenda will destroy more small family farms.

Since then, my attempts to further explain how communitarianism works has fallen on a closed minded school teacher who is drunk on the New Age Kool Aid. Yes, Cory is OK with growing chickens, but only if we follow the rules and laws established by local city ordinances. What Cory does not understand is that these "sustainable stories" and city ordinances are part of the Agenda 21 movement and ICLEI. And the reason I am on the outside looking into the SDGOP tent is because I am exposing their role in the communitarian agenda.

Senator Dan Lederman flip-flopping on campaign finance law enforcement

Yesterday we learn that there may be some campaign finance violations concerning money received state legislators:

State investigators are looking at whether campaign finance laws or other laws were crossed by a former member of the South Dakota Attorney General’s staff regarding a telephone company’s business practices and legal ability to operate in South Dakota.

Attorney Scott Swier, of Avon, represents Native American Telecom. The company is accused of improper business practices by another company before the state Public Utilities Commission.

Native American Telecom serves as a source of revenue for Free Conferencing Corp., based in Long Beach, Calif.

Free Conferencing gave $16,500 to Swier last year to distribute as campaign contributions to legislators and legislative candidates.

Swier formed a political action committee to make the donations.

The PAC’s only source of money was the company.

State law prohibits direct donations from businesses and other organizations to candidates. State law restricts the maximum donation from an organization to a PAC to $10,000 in one year.

One of the PAC’s contributions went to state Sen. Dan Lederman, R-Dakota Dunes. His re-election campaign received $1,000 from it.

And here is Lederman's reaction:

State Sen. Dan Lederman said he doesn’t think there’s news in the money his campaign and his political action committee received last year from the South Dakota Telecommunications PAC.

Asked why he and two other senators were the only ones to get $1,000 campaign contributions (see list), while many others received smaller amounts, Lederman said: “I don’t know why they decided to pick us.”

Of 15 senators who received contributions last year, 12 voted against legislation in 2011 that the telecommunications PAC’s source of money -- Free Conferencing of Long Beach, Calif. -- had opposed. Two voted for the legislation while one wasn’t present for the vote.

As for the $250 payment in December that the telecom PAC made to his Rushmore PAC, Lederman, R-Dakota Dunes, said the contribution was an honorable gesture by the telecom PAC’s chairman, lawyer Scott Swier, of Avon.

Last year Lederman seemed to support campaign finance law enforcement:

Tomorrow afternoon, a lawsuit is being filed in State Circuit Court with regard to the robo-calls being made against various political candidates.

My name is State Senator Dan Lederman, and my organization, Rushmore PAC is the plaintiff in the case. We are bringing this lawsuit because we think that the South Dakota public deserves better than mudslinging from anonymous people involved in the election process purposely cloaking themselves from public view.

South Dakotans deserve a robust election year, with plenty of debate and discussion on the issues facing our state and community. We deserve clean and fair elections. If we’re going to have that, then that means all of the players have to play by the campaign finance and election laws.

Regardless of your position on the issues we can all agree that everyone must follow the law.

Seems Senator Lederman has a change of heart, so maybe he will drop his lawsuit.

 

Quote of the day: Cory Heidelberger hates South Dakota, must be too many whites, Catholics, Christians and conservatives

So Cory Heidelberger is retiring from his job as indoctrinator of Unesco propaganda and leaving South Dakota so his wife can expand her career in false teaching too. Cory gives us another reason why he is leaving:

I have to ask: how often do people move to South Dakota to expand their career?

South Dakota is just too backwards relative to the New World Order agenda according to Cory. As he leaves, he adds South Dakota to the things he hates, such as whites, Catholics and Christians. Probably should add conservatives to the list. Cory, are there too many of those in South Dakota?

UPDATE: Almost forgot, Cory also hates poopers, unless you use your pooper for sex.

Looks like the legislative leadership of the SDGOP and Democrats have a campaign finance issue of their own

From the Mitchell Daily Republic:

State investigators are looking at whether campaign finance laws or other laws were crossed by a former member of the South Dakota Attorney General’s staff regarding a telephone company’s business practices and legal ability to operate in South Dakota.

Attorney Scott Swier, of Avon, represents Native American Telecom. The company is accused of improper business practices by another company before the state Public Utilities Commission.

Native American Telecom serves as a source of revenue for Free Conferencing Corp., based in Long Beach, Calif.

Free Conferencing gave $16,500 to Swier last year to distribute as campaign contributions to legislators and legislative candidates.

Swier formed a political action committee to make the donations.

The PAC’s only source of money was the company.

State law prohibits direct donations from businesses and other organizations to candidates. State law restricts the maximum donation from an organization to a PAC to $10,000 in one year.

One of the PAC’s contributions went to state Sen. Dan Lederman, R-Dakota Dunes. His re-election campaign received $1,000 from it.

A letter from Lederman was submitted Tuesday to the Public Utilities Commission explicitly defending Free Conferencing.

Swier delivered the letter to the commission.

Lederman said Thursday in an interview he doesn’t know why he was given the $1,000 contribution.

Swier looked to be disappointed after PUC Chairman Gary Hanson said the letter couldn’t be considered as evidence because that stage of the proceeding had passed. Swier walked back to his seat without saying a word in reply. Hanson said the letter would be placed in the public-comment file for the proceeding.

Lederman’s involvement came as a new turn in the proceeding.

Swier referred to the letter repeatedly prior to Hanson’s ruling and made prominent mention to the three commissioners of Lederman’s role as a Senate majority whip.

Lederman also operates his own political action committee, Rushmore PAC.

The Lederman PAC made $500 contributions last year to the political campaigns of two members of the Public Utilities Commission, Republicans Chris Nelson and Kristie Fiegen. Both won election in November.

Nelson, Fiegen and Hanson will make the determinations in the case involving Native American Telecom.

Swier worked as an assistant attorney general for the state government of South Dakota from March 29, 2007, through October, 15, 2009. He began representing Native American Telecom before the PUC in the Sprint dispute on May 27, 2010.

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State Attorney General Marty Jackley said Wednesday that his office and the Division of Criminal Investigation would look into the matters, after receiving an inquiry from a newspaper about the various campaign contribution activities.

The telecommunications PAC’s contributions reach to the highest levels of the Legislature and involve many of the Republican and Democrat leaders. They typically received either $1,000 or $500.

The PAC also made smaller contributions to various other legislators, including some who didn’t face re-election challenges, and in one instance gave $250 to a senator who had announced her retirement.

The PAC also contributed smaller amounts to various other candidates, both Republican and Democrat, and made a substantial contribution to the Senate Republican campaign committee of either $3,100 or $1,500, depending on whose report is checked.

However, Free Conferencing’s effort to influence state legislators dates to at least one year earlier. The year-end report for 2011 from the Senate Republican campaign committee showed a $5,000 direct contribution from Free Conferencing.

Sen. Corey Brown, R-Gettysburg, is treasurer of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

“I was introduced to him a few years ago, but nothing more than that,” Brown said. He said Erickson visited the Capitol during the legislative session at one point several years ago and attended the campaign committee’s golf tournament one year.

Three Senate Republicans received $1,000 contributions from the Swier-run PAC. They were Lederman, Brown and Senate Republican leader Russ Olson, of Wentworth. Olson is chairman of the campaign committee, while Brown is treasurer.

Is Common Core a United Nations plot?

It is if you want a sustainable world like Cory Heidelberger wants:

There’s an interesting article about Obama’s call for the U.S. to pay for education of the world.  It’s ”A Global Fund for Education: Achieving Education for All” that you can read in full here:  http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2009/08/education-gartner

Its summary states: “In order to realize the world’s commitment to ensuring education for all by 2015, important innovations and reforms will be needed in the governance and financing of global education. In 2008, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama committed to making sure that every child has the chance to learn by creating a Global Fund for Education. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently called for a new architecture of global cooperation…  A new Global Fund for Education… must be capable of mobilizing the approximately $7 billion annually still needed to achieve education for all, while holding all stakeholders accountable for achieving results with these resources. None of these objectives will be achieved without a major rethinking of the global education architecture and an evolution of current mechanisms for financing education… Achieving these two Millennium Development Goals, and the broader Education for All Goals… will require more capable international institutions.”

I have to ask three questions as I read this:

• Since when do nations collectively finance global education?
• Since when has the whole world agreed on what should be taught to the whole world?
• Since when is the United States of America reduced to “accountable stakeholder” status over its own educational and financial decisionmaking?

So Obama created a global education fund, using U.S. taxpayer money.  I don’t remember voting on this.

And Hilary Clinton is misusing the word “inclusiveness” to now mean “no more independent sovereignty for anyone.”  Meanwhile, there’s a United Nations/UNESCO program called “Education For All” that involves the same ideas and the very same key people as “Common Core”.  And there’s also an “Education, Public Awareness and Training” chapter in the U.N.’s Agenda 21 goals.

Both the U.N.’s educational goals (via UNESCO and “Education for All” ) and “Common Core” do sound very appealing on the surface.  Each seeks to educate by teaching the exact same standards to all children (and adults) on a national or a global scale.  But both supercede local control over what is taught to students, and both dismiss the validity and importance of the U.S. Constitution implicitly.

Both UNESCO’s educational goals and Common Core are, coincidentally, heavily funded by activist and philanthropist Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest billionaires on earth.  http://www.eagleforum.org/links/UNESCO-MS.pdf  ( Link to Gates’ Microsoft/Unesco partnership)

Gates gave the Common Core developer/copyright holders, NGA/CCSSO, about $25 million dollars to promote his special interest, Common Core.  (See CCSSO: 2009–$9,961,842, 2009– $3,185,750, 2010–$743,331, 2011–$9,388,911 ; NGA Center: 2008–$2,259,780 at http://www.keepeducationlocal.com .

Gates partnered with UNESCO/U.N. to fund ”Education For All” as well.  See  http://bettereducationforall.org/

The “Education For All” developer is UNESCO, a branch of the United Nations.  Education For All’s key document is called “The Dakar Framework for Action: Education For All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments.”  Read the full text here:  http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121147e.pdf

At this link, you can learn about how Education For All works:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/education-for-all/international-cooperation/high-level-group/

In a nutshell: “Prior to the reform of the global EFA coordination architecture in 2011-2012, the Education for All High-Level Group brought together high-level representatives from national governments, development agencies, UN agencies, civil society and the private sector. Its role was to generate political momentum and mobilize financial, technical and political support towards the achievement of the EFA goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). From 2001-2011 the High-Level Group met annually.”

The six goals of “Education For All” are claimed to be internationally agreed-upon. But since much of what happens with the United Nations threatens the sovereignty of the United States and all sovereign nations, I do not recognize that these goals, or anything else for that matter, are “internationally agreed-upon.”  Do you?

For everyone on earth to totally agree, we’d have to submit to a one-world government with a one-world constitution that would override any individual country’s constitution.  There are some great thoughts on this subject here:   http://www.keepeducationlocal.com/

But in the U.N.’s own words:

“Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.  Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests were adopted by more than 178 Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992.  The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up…” See:  http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/

So Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken by everyone.  We all apparently have been signed up to agree, whether we agree or not.