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Their web site, usmayors.org.

Climate Protection Agreement, authored by the USCM, endorsed by the ICLEI, and signed by the City of Norman.

• "climate disruption is an urgent threat to the environmental and economic health of our communities"
• "reduce global warming pollution"
• Supports the international UN treaty, the Kyoto Protocol to "address climate disruption", despite the fact that the US Senate has rejected every "environmental" treaty offered by the UN.
• "meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol" ... "through actions ranging from anti-sprawl land-use policies to urban forest restoration projects to public information campaigns"
• "enact policies and programs to meet or beat the greenhouse gas emission reduction target suggested for the United States in the Kyoto Protocol"
• "pass the bipartisan greenhouse gas reduction legislation, which would establish a national emission trading system [cap and trade]"

They want to tax your property, dictate land use, protect the environment, control your guns, indoctrinate your children, protect your health (nationalized health care), abolish sprawl (OMG), plant trees, force you or shame you into reducing what they call your contribution to global warming, and force you to buy carbon credits for exhaling.

"ICLEI, together with the then Mayor of City of Kyoto initiated the World Mayors Council on Climate Change in 2005."

List of resolutions. Sorry, someone actually ought to read them all. You should check out their "Best Practices", too, an impossible to navigate bunch of "case studies" that mayors must spend their days drooling over.

Resolution "Highlights" - They said it, not me. The list below only scratches the surface. They want to enslave you and:

Force Your Submission Through A Mountain Of Bureaucracy, Building Codes, and Land Use Plans

• "an office within the Administration, whose primary mandate is to encourage, promote, and further principles and practices of sustainability across all sectors of the communities outside the Federal Government"
• "there remains no unified effort within the administration to promote the many and fragmented initiatives to advance the ‘green’ economy"
• "make sustainable development promotion in our communities its main priority"
• "local governments will soon be able to rate how sustainable they are in terms of economic, social, and environmental sustainability with the STAR Community Index"
• "reduce fossil fuel consumption and global warming pollution through green building code initiatives"
• "Support for enforcement as well as adoption of local building efficiency standards and codes"
• "adoption of proposals that could increase both residential and commercial efficiency" - The 30% Solution 2012 set of building codes
• "mandatory green building codes"
• "that any apparatus charged with advocating sustainable development may be an existing entity within an agency whose mandate need only be altered to make sustainable development promotion in our communities its main priority"
• "Best Practices" - Zoning Overlay Districts, Urban Forest Overlay Districts, Pedestrian Overlay Districts, Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Districts

Force Your Submission Through Private Property Taxes

• "Elimination of federal barriers to local efficiency financing programs, including those that use property tax mechanisms to finance upgrades"
• "caps and/or debt limitations should be waived for projects related to greening school facilities"
• Impervious surface taxes - a cloaked tax on children and automobiles.

Force Your Submission By Making You Pay For "Cap & Trade"

• "trading that allows regulated emitters to invest through carbon offsets in city actions that reduce emissions through green infrastructure, smart growth, energy efficiency, and renewable energy"
• "Direct allocation of carbon allowances, auction proceeds, or other sources of revenues to cities for investment in energy conservation and climate mitigation"
• "Mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions"
• "design of a federal cap and trade system to regulate national greenhouse gas emissions"
• "the U.S. carbon market could reach a value of $1 trillion by 2020" ... "no less than 10 percent of greenhouse gas allowance auction proceeds can be directed to cities" (100 billion dollars!)

Force Your Submission By Regulating Everything You Buy

• "appliance and equipment standards present an opportunity for local governments to proactively promote healthier cities and local communities"
• "promulgate and implement new national appliance and equipment standards at the greatest level of cost effective energy and water savings"
• "requiring utilities to use wind power, solar, geothermal and other renewable power supplies"
• "eliminating or significantly reducing tax preferences to entities [your electric utility company] emitting large quantities of greenhouse gases"
• "establish an independent Federal "Green Energy Bank" or a Federal clean energy financing program that will help speed the deployment of low-carbon technologies"
• "Post Consumer Close Loop Stewardship ... the most technically challenging process but is also the most sustainable. This process fulfills all levels of environmental stewardship and is the ultimate goal for all manufacturing processes."
• Require "licensed and certified real estate appraisers to take into consideration any renewable energy sources and energy efficiency or energy-conserving improvements when determining the value of a property"

Force Your Submission By Making You Buy Stuff

• "Investment of federal transportation dollars directly to local governments to finance" ..."mass transit and passenger rail systems as well as bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure"
• "federal transportation investments must address energy and climate concerns, through needed shifts and reforms in federal policies and programs that emphasize sustainable transportation investments"
• "grant funds to cities to support the development and implementation of environmental infrastructure, pollution prevention programs, environmental cleanup activities, Brownfields remediation and redevelopment, pollution reduction programs, and sustainable development policies"

"Encourage" Your Submission By Making You Buy and Listen To Indoctrination & Brainwashing

• "increased funding for the Climate Showcase Communities program"
• "implement green initiatives such as appointing sustainability managers, establishing a green advisory team, providing training for municipal and district staff, and adopting policies that call for all district schools"
• "Ensuring a more complete, well-rounded education for students to contribute in our democracy and thrive in a global economy"
• Demands the the White House develop and implement a "comprehensive national youth development strategy"

Force Your Submission By Making You Bail Out Bankrupt Cities

• "urges the United States Congress to develop a program for direct financial assistance to cities based on defined criteria such as the extent to which cities’ revenues have contracted since 2008"

Force Your Submission Because It Is Good For You

• "by integrating green building standards, Wellness Real Estate provides a sustainability strategy that is holistic: concretely addressing both environmental concerns as well as each individual’s physical and emotional health and wellbeing"
• "encourages Mayors to create comprehensive policies and programs to encourage wellness and healthy lifestyles through education and community outreach efforts, and Mayors as the chief executive officials to consider key wellness factors when developing real estate, schools and public buildings".
• "call on the Congress of the United States to Adopt the Livable Communities Act, the Enhancing Livability for All Americans Act, or similar legislation and support full funding for the Sustainable Communities Partnership"
• Supports National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month to "raise public awareness and mobilize the country to address childhood obesity"

"Encourage" Your Submission By Trying To Scare The Crap Out Of You

• "the seriousness of climate change threats has never been more evident, as demand for natural resources continues to escalate, and hopes for reigniting economic growth rest on investments in the emerging green economy"
• "pending inevitable failure of national water system, and threatening the health of the American people"

"Enourage" Your Submission By Promising To Save You From Natural Disasters

• "floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, terrorist attacks, pandemic influenza and other events of the past few years have demonstrated the vulnerabilities and interdependencies of our communities, cities and regions"
• "recommends to governments at all levels policies that are required to foster resilient communities"
• "examines how communities and regions can collaborate to achieve and sustain cost-effective resilience"

"Encourage" Your Submission By Worshipping The Earth In All That They Do

• "planning and implementing wet weather overflow control strategies" ... "to reduce and minimize impacts on public health, critical wildlife habitats, and aquatic species"

Force Your Submission By Sicking The Internal Revenue Service On You

• "Green the U.S. Tax Code"

Force Your Submission By Taxing The Hell Out Of You And Putting You In Debt

• "tax reform package the creation of a Green Zone Investment Tax Credit and Green Housing Tax Credit"
• "tax-preferred debt at or near zero percent interest for transportation projects that meet national criteria, such as reduction of greenhouse gas"
• "Energy Financing Districts" "as a means to finance the retrofitting of existing buildings" with green technology - i.e., increase property taxes, give tax credits, pay for utility company rebates.
• "allow municipalities to create special purpose corporations for purposes of owning and operating its water and wastewater systems"
• "private equity investment funds, and municipal and other government-owned pension plans, have a strong desire to invest in municipal water and wastewater infrastructure and would benefit from the income stream generated by the fees charged for these services"
• "Energy Financing Districts (Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) and Benefit-Assessed Clean Energy (BACE), Clean Energy Assessment Districts (CEAD), ContractualAssessments, Sustainable Energy Financing, or Special Tax Districts) provide a means for cities to offer financing for commercial or residential energy efficiency retrofits."
• "calls on Congress and the Administration to appropriate full funding for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program in fiscal year 2011, while supporting higher authorization levels in future years"

Force Your Submission By Laying Claim To All Resources Of The Planet

• "local governments are in reality the actual and most effective 'Environmental Stewards' of the nation's water resources"
• "expect that future local government expenditures to protect water resources and provide safe, affordable and adequate water and wastewater services and infrastructure will double to quadruple over the next 20 years"

Force Your Submission By "Redistributing" Your Substance & Wealth Around The Country And The World

• "modernize the U.S. housing market through the use of Energy Efficient Mortgages and Location Efficient Mortgages while ensuring that the benefits of green buildings are accessible to Americans of all income levels"
• Supports the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [giant federal debt], and the Emergency Contingency Fund under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to enable states and cities to respond to increased demands for assistance"
• "increased investment in proven strategies that end homelessness, with a strong focus on affordable housing, rapid re-housing, and permanent housing with supportive services"
• "supports additional formula-based grants directly to local governments for a third round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program funding"

"Encourage" Your Submission By Appealing To Your Desires and Cloaking Their Totalitarian Agenda

• "‘Sustainable Development’ has been defined by the United Nations World Commission on Environment & Development as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs;”"

"Encourage" Your Submission By Rallying the Covetous To Bully You

"Encourage" Your Submission By Monitoring Everything You Do

• "supports limits on unnecessary idling time for on and non-road diesel engines" - make it a crime to idle your engine?

"Encourage" Your Submission Through Every Bizarre Thing They Can Think Of

• "develop innovative strategies to include ex-offenders [convicted criminals] in the expanding "green" economy"
• "public zoos and aquariums that are so valuable to our nation’s children, to our local economies and to the future of our planet"
• "urge the establishment of a national artist corps program to provide services and assistance to schools and arts organizations to improve arts education in our communities"
• "support the creation of financial planning clinics to be held once a year during Financial Planning Month (October) in various cities across America"

"Encourage" Your Submission Through Bribery

• "provide incentives through stimulus grants and tax credits to homeowners who may voluntarily choose to install fire sprinklers"
• "reduce black carbon by incentivizing or requiring reductions in black carbon from diesel pollution"

Force Your Submission Through Gun Control

• "seek redress against the gun industry through the courts of the world – including local, state, and federal courts, and international courts – for damages caused to our countries, cities, and communities by global trafficking of illegal guns"
• Advocates that every individual have federal permission or license to buy or sell a gun. Close the so-called "gun show loophole".
• Advocates the banning of any gun magazine that holds more than 10 rounds in the same resolution. Advocates banning the private sale of any magazine holding more than 10 rounds.
• "A strengthened, effective ban on military-style assault weapons, such as AK-47s, and their component parts must be reinstated. "
• "limit the number of guns a person may purchase in a single transaction or in a month or other specified period of time"
• "Anyone purchasing a firearm in the United States should be required to go through a background check"
• "ballistic images for all new guns"
• "no longer permit gun dealers whose licenses are revoked to conduct fire sales"
• "make permanent a ban on the sale of assault weapons"

Force Your Submission By Disarming The United States of America

• "implement the U.N. Secretary-General’s Five Point Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament"

Force Your Submission By Partnering With The United Nations In A One World Government

• "support the U.N. Millennium Development Goals through local proclamations, events, and activities"
• "the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level;""

Force Your Submission Through The Foreign Invasion Of Arizona And Your Own State

• "strong opposition to Arizona Law SB 1070", an illegal immigration bill, and "oppose the enactment of laws similar to Arizona Law SB 1070 in other states"
• "call for the immediate repeal of the Arizona immigration law (SB 1070)"