RepuGen, ("RepuGen," "we" or "us") provides small businesses and organizations with a variety of products and services and related offerings, features and functionalities (individually, a "Product" and collectively, the "Products"). This website (including any related sub-site, service, feature or functionality) (the "Site") and the Products are provided subject to these Website and Product Terms and Conditions of Use, as they may be amended by us, and any guidelines, rules or operating policies that we may post on this website, including, without limitation, our policies, which are specifically incorporated herein by reference (collectively, the "Agreement"). We may amend this Agreement from time to time due to changes to the Site or the Products, to account for developments under the law, or for any other commercially reasonable reason. Future performance by us of our obligations under this Agreement is sufficient consideration for any such amendment. Any amendment will only become effective upon notification to you (by email or by posting on our Site) and, if you do not want to agree to any such amendment, you should stop using the Site and the Products and contact us to cancel your account. By checking the box next to the "Do you agree?" button on the sign-up page, by logging in to your RepuGen account, by accessing the Site or by accessing any of the Products (including by means of any API interface), you accept this Agreement on behalf of yourself and any business or organization you represent (collectively, "you"). Any terms and conditions that may be contained in any acknowledgement, invoice, purchase order or other form you provide are specifically null and void.
The Site and the Products are available only to persons or organizations that can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, the Site and the Products are not available to individuals under the age of 18. If you do not qualify, you are not permitted to use the Site or the Products. If you are using the Site or the Products on behalf of an organization, you represent and warrant that you have the ability to bind such organization by your use of the Site and the Products.
We may, in our discretion, permit you to authorize additional users to use your RepuGen account. For purposes of this Agreement, you are the "Account Owner" and any other users you authorize will be deemed "Authorized Users." You will be responsible for each Authorized User's use of your RepuGen account and each Authorized User's compliance with this Agreement.
RepuGen utilizes the services of various review sites through an API connection. The security of this API connection is handled by the respective sites and RepuGen does not have control over what review sites can and will provide through these API's. For this reason, changes in our service offerings may occur due to changes in policies or access privileges enacted by these review sites. These include but are not limited to: review sites disabling reputation management platforms from accessing their API, changes in the type and frequency of the data RepuGen can receive, penalties against companies soliciting/gating reviews, etc. RepuGen keeps up with the latest policies and will always do what they can to comply with all review site policies as these review sites announce and explain them to the public. RepuGen will do what it can to protect its clients from review site penalties, by complying with these policies as they're described by the respective sites, but we acknowledge that these sites have the right to adjust their services and policies however they see fit, even if it affects our clients in the process.
This Privacy Statement covers the information practices of Web sites that link to this Privacy Statement, including: https://www.RepuGen.com & https://www.gmrwebteam.com (collectively referred to as "RepuGen.com's Web sites" or "the Company's Web sites").
RepuGen.com's Web sites may contain links to other Web sites. The information practices or the content of such other Web sites is governed by the privacy statements of such other Web sites. The Company encourages you to review the privacy statements of other Web sites to understand their information practices.
3. Copyright and Trademark Information.
The Site and the information it contains, are the property of RepuGen and, in some cases, its affiliates and licensors, and are protected by United States and international intellectual property laws. "RepuGen," the RepuGen logo, are registered trademarks or trademarks of RepuGen in the United States and other countries. This is not intended as a complete list of our trademarks and other RepuGen product or service names or logos appearing in the Site may be trademarks of RepuGen or its affiliates.
When expressing an interest in obtaining additional information about the Services or registering to use the Services, RepuGen.com requires you to provide the Company with personal contact information, such as name, company name, address, phone number, and email address ("Required Contact Information"). When purchasing the Services, RepuGen.com may require you to provide the Company with financial qualification and billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number, and the number of employees within the organization that will be using the Services ("Billing Information"). RepuGen.com may also ask you to provide additional information, such as company annual revenues, number of employees, or industry ("Optional Information"). Required Contact Information, Billing Information, and Optional Information about Customers are referred to collectively as "Data About RepuGen.com Customers", or in the case of Attendees, "Data About RepuGen.com Attendees".
As you navigate the Company's Web sites, RepuGen.com may also collect information through the use of commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and Web beacons ("Web Site Navigational Information"). Web Site Navigational Information includes standard information from your Web browser (such as browser type and browser language), your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, and the actions you take on the Company's Web sites (such as the Web pages viewed and the links clicked).
The Company uses Data About RepuGen.com Customers to perform the services requested. For example, if you fill out a "Contact Me" Web form, the Company will use the information provided to contact you about your interest in the Services.
The Company may also use Data About RepuGen.com Customers and Customer Satisfaction Data of RepuGen.com Customers for marketing purposes. For example, the Company may use information you provide to contact you to further discuss your interest in the Services and to send you information regarding the Company, its affiliates, and its partners, such as information about promotions or events.
RepuGen.com may use your customers' satisfaction data to aggregate with other data for industry level or other analysis. In no event will the company share your company's specific data.
RepuGen.com uses credit card information solely to check the financial qualifications and collect payment from prospective Customers and Attendees.
RepuGen.com uses commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and Web beacons, to collect information as you navigate the Company's Web sites ("Web Site Navigational Information"). This section describes the types of Web Site Navigational Information used on the Company's Web sites and how this information may be used.
Required cookies Required cookies enable you to navigate the Company's Web sites and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Web sites and using RepuGen.com Services.
From time-to-time, RepuGen.com engages third parties to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit the Company's Web sites. RepuGen.com may also utilize Flash cookies for these purposes.
Functionality cookies Functionality cookies allow the Company's Web sites to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as your username, language, or your region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies also enable you to optimize your use of RepuGen.com's Services after logging in. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
RepuGen.com uses local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our Web sites to personalize your visit.
RepuGen.com uses Web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about Customers and Visitors' usage of the Company's Web sites and interaction with emails from the Company. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Web site tied to the Web beacon, and a description of a Web site tied to the Web beacon. For example, RepuGen.com may place Web beacons in marketing emails that notify the Company when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of the Company's Web sites. RepuGen.com uses Web beacons to operate and improve the Company's Web sites and email communications.
When you visit RepuGen.com's Web sites, the Company collects your Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses to track and aggregate non-personal information. For example, RepuGen.com uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which Customers and Visitors navigate the Company's Web sites.
RepuGen.com also collects IP addresses from Customers whey they log into the Services as part of the Company's "Identity Confirmation" and "IP Range Restrictions" security features.
Currently, various browsers – including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – offer a "do not track" or "DNT" option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header, which sends a signal to Web sites' visited by the user about the user's browser DNT preference setting. RepuGen.com does not currently commit to responding to browsers' DNT signals with respect to the Company's Web sites, in part, because no common industry standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators, including no consistent standard of interpreting user intent. RepuGen.com takes privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard.
RepuGen.com may provide bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms on the Company's Web sites. Any personal information you choose to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. RepuGen.com is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums.
Customers and Visitors may elect to use the Company's referral program to inform friends about the Company's Web sites. When using the referral program, the Company requests the friend's name and email address. RepuGen.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Company's Web sites. RepuGen.com does not store this information.
RepuGen.com posts a list of Customers and testimonials on the Company's Web sites that contain information such as Customer names and titles. RepuGen.com obtains the consent of each Customer prior to posting any information on such a list or posting testimonials.
RepuGen.com may share Data About RepuGen.com Customers and Data About RepuGen.com Customers' Satisfaction Data with the Company's contracted service providers so that these service providers can provide services on our behalf. Without limiting the foregoing, RepuGen.com may also share Data About RepuGen.com Customers and Data About Satisfaction for individual customers with the Company's service providers to ensure the quality of information provided, and with third-party social networking and media Web sites, such as Facebook, for marketing and advertising on those Web sites. Unless described in this Privacy Statement, RepuGen.com does not share, sell, rent, or trade any information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
The Company may share Data About RepuGen.com Customers with other companies in order to work with them, including affiliates of the RepuGen.com corporate group. For example, the Company may need to share Data About RepuGen.com Customers for customer relationship management purposes.
From time to time, RepuGen.com may partner with other companies to jointly offer products or services. If you purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly-offered product or service from RepuGen.com, the Company may share Data About RepuGen.com Customers collected in connection with your purchase or expression of interest with our joint promotion partner(s). RepuGen.com does not control our business partners' use of the Data About RepuGen.com Customers we collect, and their use of the information will be in accordance with their own privacy policies. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may opt not to purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly offered product or service.
RepuGen.com does not share Data About RepuGen.com Attendees with business partners unless: (1) you specifically opt in to such sharing via an event registration form; or (2) you attend a Company event and allow RepuGen.com or any of its designees to scan your attendee badge. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may choose not to opt in via event registration forms and elect not to have your badge scanned at Company events. If you choose to share your information with business partners in the manners described above, your information will be subject to the business partners' respective privacy statements.
This Privacy Statement sets forth the information RepuGen.com collects on the Company's Web sites and the information we share with third parties. RepuGen.com does not authorize the collection of personal information by third parties through advertising technologies deployed on the Company's Web sites, nor do we share personal information with any third parties collected from the Company's Web sites, except as provided in this Privacy Statement. Section 4 of this Privacy Statement, Web Site Navigational Information, specifically addresses the information we collect through cookies and web beacons, and how you can control cookies through your Web browsers.
RepuGen.com uses a third-party service provider to manage credit card processing. This service provider is not permitted to store, retain, or use Billing Information except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on the Company's behalf.
RepuGen.com reserves the right to use or disclose information provided if required by law or if the Company reasonably believes that use or disclosure is necessary to protect the Company's rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
RepuGen.com reserves the right to contact Visitors and Customers who provide contact information. You may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link located on the bottom of the Company's marketing emails.
Customers may update or change their registration information by editing their user or organization record. To update a user profile, please login to http://www.RepuGen.com with your RepuGen.com username and password and click "Setup." To update Billing Information or have your registration information deleted, please email support@RepuGen.com or call +1 (949) 396-2120. To discontinue your account and to have information you maintained in the Services returned to you, please email support@RepuGen.com or call +1 (949) 396-2120. Requests to access, change, or delete your information will be handled within 30 days.
RepuGen.com Customers may electronically submit data or information to the Services for hosting and processing purposes ("Customer Data"). RepuGen.com will not review, share, distribute, or reference any such Customer Data except as provided in the RepuGen.com Master Subscription Agreement, or as may be required by law. In accordance with the RepuGen.com Master Subscription Agreement, RepuGen.com may access Customer Data only for the purpose of providing analysis or preventing or addressing service or technical problems or as may be required by law.
RepuGen.com uses robust security measures to protect Data About RepuGen.com Customers and Data of RepuGen.com Customers. Because the Company uses the Services to maintain Data About RepuGen.com Customers and Data of RepuGen.com Customers, this information, which is stored in the Services, can only be accessed by Hackers. While RepuGen.com does its best to prevent Hackers; the company cannot guarantee that your information cannot be hacked.
Mobile Applications may provide RepuGen.com with information related to Users' use of the Mobile Application services, information regarding Users' computer systems, and information regarding Users' interaction with Mobile Applications, which RepuGen.com may use to provide and improve the Mobile Application services. For example, all actions taken in a Mobile Application may be logged, along with associated information (such as the time of day when each action was taken). RepuGen.com may also share anonymous data about these actions with third party providers of analytics services. In addition, if a User downloads a RepuGen.com Mobile Application after clicking on a third-party mobile advertisement for the Mobile Application or for RepuGen.com, the third-party advertiser may provide RepuGen.com with certain information, such as the User's Device identification information, which RepuGen.com may use to track the performance of its advertising campaigns.
Customers may configure RepuGen.com Mobile Application services, and the information accessed or obtained by the Mobile Application on a User's Device may be affected by the Customer's configuration. In addition, if a Customer purchases more than one Service from RepuGen.com and its affiliates, a Mobile Application may be designed to interoperate with those Services; for instance, to provide a User with access to information from any or all of those Services or to provide information from a User's Device to any or all of those Services. Information accessed or obtained by the Mobile Application on a User's Device may be accessible to the Customer and its organization, depending on the intended functionality of the Mobile Application.
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This Agreement was last updated on January 13, 2016. It is effective between You and Us as of the date of You accepting this Agreement.
"Beta Services" means REPUGEN services or functionality that may be made available to Customer to try at its option which is clearly designated as beta, pilot, limited release, developer preview, non-production, evaluation, or by a similar description.
"Content" means information obtained by REPUGEN from publicly available sources or third party content providers and made available to Customer through the Services, Beta Services or pursuant to an Order Form, as more fully described in the Documentation.
"Documentation" means the applicable Service's Trust and Compliance documentation, and its usage guides and policies, as updated from time to time, accessible via help.RepuGen.com or login to the applicable Service.
"Services" means the products and services that are ordered by You under an Order Form or contract, or provided to You under a free trial, and made available online by Us, including associated REPUGEN offline or mobile components, as described in the Documentation.
"We," "Us" or "Our" means the RepuGen.com company described in Section 13 (Who You Are Contracting With, Notices, Governing Law and Jurisdiction).
"Your Data" means electronic data and information submitted by or for Customer to the Services, excluding Content and Non-REPUGEN Applications.
3.1. Provision of Purchased Services. We will (a) make the Services and Content available to You pursuant to this Agreement and the applicable Order Forms, (b) provide applicable REPUGEN standard support for the Services to You at no additional charge, and/or upgraded support if purchased, (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to make the online Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for: (i) planned downtime (of which We shall give advance electronic notice as provided in the Documentation), and (ii) any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond Our reasonable control, including, for example, an act of God, act of government, flood, fire, earthquake, civil unrest, act of terror, strike or other labor problem (other than one involving Our employees), Internet service provider failure or delay, or denial of service attack.
3.2. Protection of Your Data. We will maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your Data. Those safeguards will include, but will not be limited to, measures for preventing access, use, modification or disclosure of Your Data by Our personnel except (a) to provide the Purchased Services and prevent or address service or technical problems, (b) as compelled by law in accordance with Section 8.3 (Compelled Disclosure) below, or (c) for aggregating it with other data for analysis purposes, or (d) as You expressly permit in writing.
3.3. Our Personnel. We will manage the performance of Our personnel (including Our employees and contractors) and their compliance with Our obligations under this Agreement.
3.4. Beta Services. From time to time, We may make Beta Services available to You at no charge. You may choose to try such Beta Services or not in Your sole discretion. Beta Services are intended for evaluation purposes and not for production use, are not supported, and may be subject to additional terms. Beta Services are not considered "Services" under this Agreement, however, all restrictions, Our reservation of rights and Your obligations concerning the Services shall apply equally to Your use of Beta Services. Unless otherwise stated, any Beta Services trial period will expire upon the earlier of one year from the trial start date or the date that a version of the Beta Services becomes generally available without the applicable Beta Services designation. We may discontinue Beta Services at any time in Our sole discretion and may never make them generally available. We will have no liability for any harm or damage arising out of or in connection with a Beta Service.
4.2 Usage Limits. Services and Content are subject to usage limits, including, for example, the quantities specified in Order Forms and Documentation. Unless otherwise specified, (a) a quantity in an Order Form refers to Users, and the Service or Content may not be accessed by more than that number of Users, (b) a User's password may not be shared with any other individual, and (c) except as set forth in an Order Form, a User identification may only be reassigned to a new individual replacing one who will no longer use the Service or Content. If You exceed a contractual usage limit, We may work with You to seek to reduce Your usage so that it conforms to that limit. If, notwithstanding Our efforts, You are unable or unwilling to abide by a contractual usage limit, You will execute an Order Form for additional quantities of the applicable Services or Content promptly upon Our request, and/or pay any invoice for excess usage.
4.3 Your Responsibilities. You will (a) be responsible for Users' compliance with this Agreement, Documentation and Order Forms, (b) be responsible for the accuracy, quality and legality of Your Data and the means by which You acquired Your Data, (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to or use of Services and Content, and notify Us promptly of any such unauthorized access or use, (d) use Services and Content only in accordance with this Agreement, Documentation, Order Forms and applicable laws and government regulations, and (e) comply with terms of service of any Non-REPUGEN Applications with which You use Services or Content.
Service or any part, feature, function or user interface thereof, (i) copy Content except as permitted herein or in an Order Form or the Documentation, (j) frame or mirror any part of any Service or Content, other than framing on Your own intranets or otherwise for Your own internal business purposes or as permitted in the Documentation, (k) access any Service or Content in order to build a competitive product or service or to benchmark with a Non-REPUGEN product or service, or (l) reverse engineer any Service (to the extent such restriction is permitted by law). Any use of the Services in breach of this Agreement, Documentation or Order Forms, by You or Users that in Our judgment threatens the security, integrity or availability of Our services, may result in Our immediate suspension of the Services, however We will use commercially reasonable efforts under the circumstances to provide You with notice and an opportunity to remedy such violation or threat prior to such suspension.
You may not access or use the Site or the Products in a way that uses technology or other means to access, index, re-render, frame, mirror, truncate, add to, inject, filter or link to the Site or the Products that is not authorized by us (including by removing, disabling, bypassing, or circumventing any content protection or access control mechanisms intended to prevent the unauthorized use, download, linking, framing, reproduction, access to, or distribution of the Site or the Products).
You may not use any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, crawl, index, spider, offline reader, click spam, macro programs, internet agent, or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology which does the same things, to use, access, copy, index, acquire information, generate impressions or clicks, input information, store information, search, generate searches, or monitor any portion of the Site or the Products for any unauthorized purpose.
You may not use the Site or the Products in a way that, to be determined in our sole discretion, damages, disables, overburdens, impairs, or gains unauthorized access to the Site or the Products, including RepuGen's servers, computer network, or user accounts.
You may not use the Site or the Products in a way that removes, modifies, disables, blocks, obscures or otherwise impairs any advertising in connection with the Site or the Products.
You may not copy, display, distribute, download, license, modify, publish, re-post, reproduce, reuse, sell, transmit, use to create a derivative work, or otherwise use the content of the Site or the Products for public or commercial purposes without our express written permission.
You shall not interfere with or disrupt the Site or any related RepuGen websites or servers or networks connected to the Site or the Products.
You shall not use the Site or the Products in violation of applicable law or third party rights (including third party terms of service), and shall not use the Site or the Products for hosting content (for example, images and documents) that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others.
You shall not repeatedly upload and remove unique email addresses or otherwise try to manipulate data in an attempt to circumvent our Fee Schedule or other billing procedures.
You shall not set up multiple accounts for any individual or organization in order to send substantially similar content unless you are part of a franchise.
You shall not include any incentives (for example, coupons, discounts or awards) in any messages you send by means of the Site or the Products that encourage a recipient to forward the message to another recipient, other than as expressly encouraged and permitted within the applicable Product (such as when you offer a Deal (defined below) and we encourage you to incentivize third parties to share your Deal).
4.5 External-Facing Services. If You subscribe to a Service for sending electronic messages or for the creation and hosting of, or for posting content on, external-facing websites, You are solely responsible for complying with applicable law in Your use of any cookies or other tracking technologies.
4.6 Removal of Content and Non-RepuGen.com Applications. If We are required by a licensor to remove Content, or receive information that Content provided to You may violate applicable law or third-party rights, We may so notify You and in such event You will promptly remove such Content from Your systems. If We receive information that a Non-RepuGen.com Application hosted on a Service by You may violate applicable law or third-party rights, We may so notify You and in such event You will promptly disable such Non-RepuGen.com Application or modify the Non-RepuGen.com Application to resolve the potential violation. If You do not take required action in accordance with the above, We may disable the applicable Content, Service and/or Non-RepuGen.com Application until the potential violation is resolved.
4.7 Prohibition on Spam; Permission Practices.
(a) Prohibition on Spam. The Site and the Products may not be used for the sending of unsolicited text or email messages (sometimes called "spam"). All messages sent by means of the Site or the Products shall be in compliance with standard anti-spam policies.
You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Site and the Products do not generate a number of spam or other complaints in excess of industry norms. We may terminate your access to or use of the Site and the Products if we determine that your level of spam or other complaints is higher than industry norms, as determined by us in our sole discretion. As a matter of privacy, we will not share with you information about those recipients who complain about your use of the Products or file a spam report against you.
You agree to import, access or otherwise use only contact lists in connection with the Site and the Products for which all listed parties have consented to receive correspondence from you (such as by opting into your "Join My Mailing List" link or signing on as your customer). You agree not to send messages through the Site or the Products to distribution lists, newsgroups, publicly available press or media addresses or purchased email addresses.
We reserve the right without notice to take all measures of any nature (whether legal, technical or otherwise) to prevent unsolicited bulk test or email and/or other unauthorized text/email, messages or campaigns from entering, utilizing or remaining within our network.
You agree that you are the sole or designated "sender" (as such term is defined in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any rules or regulations adopted under such act (the "CAN-SPAM Act")) of any message sent by you using the Site or the Products. Similarly, for messages sent to Canadian email accounts, you are the sole person sending or causing or permitting the message to be sent by you using the Site or the Products (within the meaning of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, S.C. 2010, c. 23 ("Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation")).
You agree that for any email message sent by you using the Site or the Products, (i) the "from" line of any email message sent by you using the Site or the Products will accurately and in a non-deceptive manner identify your organization, your product or your service, (ii) the "subject" line of any email message sent by you using the Site or the Products will not contain any deceptive or misleading content regarding the overall subject matter of the email message, and (iii) you will include your valid physical address, which, if you are located in the United States, may be a valid post office box meeting the registration requirements established by the United States Postal Service.
5.1. We or third parties may make available (for example, through a Marketplace or otherwise) third-party products or services, including, for example, Non-REPUGEN Applications and implementation and other consulting services. Any acquisition by You of such products or services, and any exchange of data between You and any Non-REPUGEN provider, product or service is solely between You and the applicable Non-REPUGEN provider. We do not warrant or support Non-REPUGEN Applications or other Non-REPUGEN products or services, whether or not they are designated by Us as "certified" or otherwise, unless expressly provided otherwise in an Order Form.
5.2. Non-REPUGEN Applications and Your Data. If You choose to use a Non-REPUGEN Application with a Service, You grant Us permission to allow the Non-REPUGEN Application and its provider to access Your Data as required for the interoperation of that Non-REPUGEN Application with the Service. We are not responsible for any disclosure, modification or deletion of Your Data resulting from access by such Non-REPUGEN Application or its provider.
5.3. Integration with Non-REPUGEN Applications. The Services may contain features designed to interoperate with Non-REPUGEN Applications. To use such features, You may be required to obtain access to such Non-REPUGEN Applications from their providers, and may be required to grant Us access to Your account(s) on such Non-REPUGEN Applications. We cannot guarantee the continued availability of such Service features, and may cease providing them without entitling You to any refund, credit, or other compensation, if for example and without limitation, the provider of a Non-REPUGEN Application ceases to make the Non-REPUGEN Application available for interoperation with the corresponding Service features in a manner acceptable to Us.
6.3. Overdue Charges. If any invoiced amount is not received by Us by the due date, then without limiting Our rights or remedies, (a) those charges may accrue late interest at the rate of 2.5% of the outstanding balance per month, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower, and/or (b) We may condition future subscription renewals and Order Forms on payment terms shorter than those specified in Invoicing and Payment.
6.4. Suspension of Service and Acceleration. If any amount owing by You under this or any other agreement for Our services is 30 or more days overdue (or 10 or more days overdue in the case of amounts You have authorized Us to charge to Your credit card), We may, without limiting Our other rights and remedies, accelerate Your unpaid fee obligations under such agreements so that all such obligations become immediately due and payable, and suspend Our services to You until such amounts are paid in full. Other than for customers paying by credit card or direct debit whose payment has been declined, We will give You at least 10 days' prior notice that Your account is overdue before suspending Your services.
6.6. Taxes. Our fees do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including, for example, value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes, assessable by any jurisdiction whatsoever (collectively, "Taxes"). You are responsible for paying all Taxes associated with Your purchases hereunder. If We have the legal obligation to pay or collect Taxes for which You are responsible, We will invoice You and You will pay that amount unless You provide Us with a valid tax exemption certificate authorized by the appropriate taxing authority. For clarity, We are solely responsible for taxes assessable against Us based on Our income, property and employees.
7.3. License to Host Your Data and Applications. You grant Us, Our Affiliates and applicable contractors a worldwide, limited-term license to host, copy, transmit and display Your Data, and any Non-REPUGEN Applications and program code created by or for You using a Service or for use by You with the Services, as reasonably necessary for Us to provide the Services in accordance with this Agreement. Subject to the limited licenses granted herein, We acquire no right, title or interest from You or Your licensors under this Agreement in or to any of Your Data, Non-REPUGEN Application or such program code.
7.6. No Rights in Software.
This is an Agreement for services and access to the Site, and, except as expressly set forth herein, you are not granted a license to any software by this Agreement and nothing on the Site shall be construed to confer any grant or license of any intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, by implication, or otherwise. You will not, directly or indirectly, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of, or found at or through the Site or the Products or any software, documentation, or data related to the Site or the Products ("Software"); remove any proprietary notices or labels from the Site or the Products or any Software; modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Site or the Products or any Software; or copy, distribute, pledge, assign, or otherwise transfer or encumber rights to the Site or the Products or any Software. If you are using the Site or the Products in any jurisdiction which restricts the ability of a software provider to restrict your right to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of the Site, the Software or the Products, then you hereby covenant that, prior to engaging in such activities, you will first request that we perform such work at our standard professional services rates. We can then decide either: (a) to perform the work in order to achieve such interoperability and charge our then standard rates for such work to you; (b) to permit you to reverse engineer parts of the Software in order to obtain such source code, but only to the extent necessary to achieve such interoperability; or (c) to provide you with the information that you need regarding the Software for the purpose for which applicable law permits you to engage in such activities despite a contractual prohibition on such activities.
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As I watched President Trump's speech today, I cheered. I think he gets it. After Angela Merkel's comment that the Paris Climate Accord is a "key agreement that shapes globalization" it is clear to all who listen that United Nations treaties and agreements are about systems inventory and control. The Paris Climate Accord is not about whether the planet heats up another 1/10 of 1 percent in 50 years. This agreement is about crippling the ability of the United States to recover from years of a collapsed economy and loss of individual certainty. This agreement is about eroding national boundaries and national sovereignty all over the world, and about strengthening the power of the United Nations and non-governmental organizations.
Although the Paris Climate Accord was never brought to the Senate for ratification it is important that it be rejected by President Trump. Agenda 21 was also not a treaty and was not brought before the Congress, except obliquely, but it was 'de facto' made binding by President Clinton who implemented it administratively and by federal pressure on the States. President Obama and Hillary Clinton had every intention of implementing the Paris Climate Accord through the usual channels: federal pressure, grants, regulations, restrictions, HUD/EPA/DOT grants and lawsuits, and bogus non-profits working the grassroots.
During President Trump's speech today he mentioned American sovereignty several times and referred to the Accord as a redistribution of wealth that favored other nations and debilitated American business. That it clearly does do so is apparent in the treatment of China and India as "developing countries" who are exempt from regulations and controls for years---years in which they will continue to grossly pollute while producing cheap goods for export to the United States.
I searched President Obama's speeches for mention of American sovereignty. I didn't find it. What I did find was his address to the United Nations General Assembly in the fall of 2016 stating that we in America 'must bind ourselves to international rules' and not fall prey to 'nationalism.' The term 'nationalism' is now equated with Hitler or isolationism. What we are protecting is not just a sense that our country has self-interests both social and economic, but our Constitution, our rule of law, our sovereignty.
By refusing to abide by the Paris Climate Accord President Trump is sending a message to those of us who have fought consistently against UN Agenda 21's message of globalization/One World Government. It takes time and effort to destroy the economy of one of the world's wealthiest nations. We are hugely in debt and struggle with homelessness, youth who feel hopeless about their future, polarization of the races exacerbated by compressed Smart Growth mega-cities, more and more drug use...we need help.
The presidency is not a popularity contest. Whether we like his personality or not is irrelevant. What is important is the health and welfare of our nation, and our freedom.
THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD IS UN AGENDA 21.
We oppose rent control for a number of reasons. We support needs-based government rent subsidies like Section 8 and believe that the program should be better funded and more efficiently managed.
Rent control forces private individuals to subsidize other individuals regardless of need for an indefinite period of time. Rather than provide services for its residents, the city will penalize property owners because the city is financially unable or unwilling to pay for housing assistance services.
Property owners are referred to as greedy if they make a profit on their business but the fact that there are major costs and risks associated with property ownership is ignored.
Rent control law often exempts buildings constructed after 1995. Most small local rental property owners have older housing stock and will be disproportionately penalized by this law. The city may create arbitrary cut-offs at owner-occupied triplexes which creates a new class of property and a new issue for valuation and sale of rental property.
Rent control makes property ownership prohibitive for existing owners and reduces their property values. Transfer of multiple small parcels to one single major developer like Enterprise Community Development or LIHC is then much easier for adherents of UN Agenda 21 stack and pack housing.
Rent control does not create more affordable housing but instead encourages people to stay frozen for years in one place.
Property owners will be more likely to raise rents every year to the maximum allowable by law. When tenants move out property owners will raise the new rent as high as possible knowing that this may be the only chance they have to adjust to current market rates.
Properties that are rent controlled are less likely to be well-maintained because the property owner's expenses are rising but the rents stay the same. We don't see counties offering to freeze property taxes on rent controlled units, nor will the cities freeze water and garbage rates.
The city will create a layer of bureaucracy and a Rent Board. They plan to charge owners a certain amount per unit per year. Half of this will be passed to the tenants. Rent Boards tend to be aggressive with property owners and lenient with tenants even in cases of long term sublet arrangements where the tenant leaves and sublets to another for more money. In Berkeley this scenario is allowed to continue for a minimum of 4 years and the property owner must prove that the tenant has 'no intention' of moving back into the unit---impossible to prove.
Here in Santa Rosa there are builders with land who would like to construct apartment buildings but are blocked by the Planning Department. Reasons given have varied from not being close enough to a direct bus line to the train station, to not being within the specific plans of the downtown redevelopment areas. Although redevelopment was ended the Santa Rosa General Plan rezoned large areas of the city. Funding, politics, and building restrictions have blocked construction of housing that could be affordable.
There is an ideology espoused by rent control supporters that housing is a right and that this right should be enabled by private individuals. In order to enforce this ideology a large segment of the population will be made to pay disproportionately more than other individuals in the city.
Again, rent subsidies should be made by government based on need.
This is the ultimate philosophy of UN Agenda 21.
Democrats are out in the streets protesting the approaching Trump presidency. It's no surprise that they're being joined by Socialists and Anarchists who never miss a good street riot.
I can understand Democrats who feel as if they were suddenly jettisoned from the driver's seat into a free fall of confusion. They've lost their sense of being in power and want to feel that intense camaraderie and joy of righteousness they had with Obama. They need to remain connected to their cohort. I get it. They're stunned. They meet at restaurants, in the check-out line at Whole Foods, at Starbucks, at street protests, and they look into one another's faces with a wide-eyed terror. They're like children at a scary movie. They've succeeded in terrorizing themselves. Their own children are terrified and panicked as they watch their parents fall apart predicting mass deportations, loss of abortion rights, and global inundation from rising seas. And, in spite of the heavy indoctrination and social attacks, you know that many Democrats did vote for Trump. Even if they won't admit it.
During the election period I switched back and forth from MSNBC to Fox and found it to be both fascinating and disgusting. The polarization of blue and red was an outrage. I was especially disgusted by MSNBC's commitment to twist the truth in order to incite the Democrats. Democrats I talked to were basically ignorant about what Trump had actually said or done, got their information from MSNBC, and never verified with the actual source i.e. a Trump speech, press conference, statement, or interview. These were intelligent people who preferred pseudo-news and entertainment to actual verifiable information.
Why? Why are Democrats so unable to hear the truth?
They are so accustomed to being agreed with that they literally cannot hear dissent. If they're young people they've been schooled to filter out and block dissent. During the Occupy sleep-ins around the country we interviewed Occupiers and found them to be angered by mere questions that did not follow the accepted line. Anything that challenged their prepared script was too threatening and too dangerous for them to listen to. It's the New Man. It's Common Core. It's Agenda 21.
Hopefully Trump really will start scrubbing the EPA, HUD, Interior, Transportation and other agencies of regulations that are destroying our ability to live and be productive in the United States.
Hopefully cities and counties will be exposed as Smart Growth UN Agenda 21 collaborators and will be forced by their aware citizens to rewrite their General Plans.
It will be interesting to see if undocumented / illegal immigrants in Sanctuary Cities will have to prove that they really do need sanctuary, and what happens to those cities which break federal law.
What about the US court system? Is it possible to bring justice back to the courtroom?
The pendulum has swung too far and now there may be an opportunity to block UN Agenda 21's progress. Is it too much to hope that we can bring awareness of the devastating impacts of UN Agenda 21 to the new administration? I don't know, but I believe that there is a chance. We have to take it. And as I've said to other Democrats: Ask yourself why half of the voters in this nation would vote for a President who has never even been elected to a city council. Why are people so desperate that they will elect an inexperienced billionaire to the office of President? People have been driven to this by the aggressive implementation of UN Agenda 21 in every area of America. It has to stop.
NOW TAKE THE BALL AND RUN WITH IT.
ACTION IS THE SECOND STEP.
It's so easy to be manipulated. Watch as the inevitable unfolds 'for your safety.' Call it UN Agenda 21. Call it UN Agenda 2030. Call it National Security. Call it Common Core. Call it Artificial Intelligence. Call it Submission. Call it OUT. SPEAK IT. WRITE IT.
ICLEI, International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives, the parallel government masquerading as a mere purveyor of greenhouse gas monitoring software, is a key driver in globalization.
Who sits on ICLEI's Global Executive Committee? One member is the Organization of Islamic Capitals. Islam is a standardization of systems. Religious law which is the same in all nations: Shar'iah. UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development does not allow for dissent. Neither does Islam. UN A21/SD uses the Delphi technique to propagandize populations and create a cult-like adherence to itself. You'll observe that behavior in Islam as it is clearly identified in this excellent video which I encourage you to watch. Stephen Coughlin is an intelligence expert on the Middle East and has briefed the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and high level legislators and officials on Islam.
Notice that in his presentation Coughlin is proving that through the limitations of political correctness that Military Intelligence has placed on itself, it is unable to identify the enemy. He clearly states that the term 'human rights' means 'rights of Moslems only' when it is used by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. 'Acts of terror' are only considered violations of Islam when committed on Moslems. He notes that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton assured the Moslem world that the communitarian technique of shaming and pressure would be used on Americans who offend Islam.--implying that our first amendment right to free speech is abridged.
As you watch this video consider the implications of what you see in the context of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. You may agree that Islam is a perfect system for the implementation of "social equity" under UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. What will this mean for the American Constitution? You don't have to think too hard about it to see the answer.
That's how EXTREMELY important this is.
They protested for TWENTY-SIX LONG HOURS, but Republicans refused to lift a finger.
We need to get 21,673 more gifts in the door today to kick them out of office.
Will you stand with John Lewis and pitch in $1?
Measure AA was declared a winner on June 8, 2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the very first time millions of people in 9 counties and 101 cities voted as a single unit to create the vehicle for their own demise. I think it's safe to say that nearly all of them were ignorant about the consequences.
Not to be dramatic, but this is truly the next step in the implementation of UN Agenda 21. Regionalization.
Measures are supposed to require a 2/3 vote to pass.
But by bundling all 9 counties together the more populous counties outvoted the smaller ones and overturned their 'NO' votes. In 4 of the 9 counties Measure AA did not pass. But that did not matter. So now a new entity has been created, a political entity that is actually a political/public relations money-generator, a new entity that cements the power of the mega-city, the mega-region.
All the promoters had to say was that they were 'Saving The Bay' and then spend millions of dollars on advertising to push this fairly obscure legal charade on the hapless green-washed dupes. Yep, if you objected you were branded a heartless, cheap, polluting despoiler of the environment who cared nothing about wildlife and the planet. The New Man was manipulated and fooled into the sideshow of the Green Mask. Easily.
Why? Because the New Man is designed to accept it from early childhood. The New Man is literally brainwashed to be unable to hear an opposing viewpoint. The rhetoric of Measure AA is typical and we'll be seeing a lot more of it in the future, NO MATTER WHERE WE LIVE.
Not in California? Here's your future--Help us fight it NOW.
Never before have the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area been taxed as a single entity. Why? Because they are NOT A SINGLE ENTITY.
THEY ARE NINE SEPARATE COUNTIES.
THIS IS A TEST. The environmental issue is a smokescreen, a GREEN MASK, for the major play here: empowering AND FUNDING a new form of government, regional, that destroys representative government. What does this mean for you? The new 'region', the Bay Area, becomes the political and financial gorilla that crushes your ability as a voter to control your life. Instead of working with local, county, and state representatives you'll be subjected to the power of the OneBayArea: 9 counties / 101 cities where you have no meaningful representation. This is what happened with PlanBayArea. We are suing to stop this, but we lost at Superior Court and are appealing, with your help.
Measure AA is a new FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND Parcel Tax in the San Francisco Bay Area. The "emergency" that the SF Bay is facing, the environmental devastation in the SF Bay, you are told, must be dealt with, and $500 million is urgently needed. You were told that this tax concept is new because people of the 9 counties around the San Francisco Bay will have every one of their parcels assessed a $12 tax annually to 'save the Bay.' The ballot measure will is on the June 2016 ballot so that the people of these counties can essentially vote together to empower an obscure new agency (see below*) that has been taken over by powerful Silicon Valley Agenda 21 corporate interests.
Now those Silicon Valley corporations that have been using their money to establish their power will be using YOUR money to maintain and grow their power.
VOTE NO ...WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
IDENTIFY IT. EXPOSE IT. RESIST.
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LAWSUIT AGAINST UN AGENDA 21 UPDATE!
Michael Shaw of FreedomAdvocates.org and GlobalizationofCalifornia.com and Rosa Koire of The Post Sustainability Institute and Democrats Against U.N. Agenda 21 (the "Plaintiffs and Appellants") filed the Reply Brief in the Appeal in their California state court case against the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). The lawsuit seeks the negation of ABAG's Plan Bay Area - the $300 billion dollar plan to remake the San Francisco Bay Area.
The One Bay Area/Plan Bay Area program is the prototype Agenda 21 restructure of local government to change how Americans are expected to live. For information on ABAG and the One Bay Area Plan, see a List of Resources here.
The Reply Brief, the third and final document in the One Bay Area/Plan Bay Area Lawsuit Appeal was filed in the California Appellate Court on February 16, 2016. The Brief lays out several powerful arguments that dismantle ABAG's response and demonstrate that Plan Bay Area is in fact, unfeasible. In conclusion, we request that the trial court judgment be reversed, and that a peremptory writ of mandate be issued directing ABAG to rescind their approval of Plan Bay Area.
California S.B. 375 unequivocally requires ABAG to adopt a plan that "will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks...." The Legislative mandate of S.B. 375 is plain and unambiguous, yet the trial court effectively rewrote this Legislative mandate to require only that the Plan can bereasonably expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to CARB's (California Air Resources Board) targets. This reinterpretation of the direct language of S.B. 375 allows something closer to what ABAG has actually adopted. However, ABAG tacitly admits that Plan Bay Area will not meet the reduction targets. ABAG engaged the services of an independent consultant, Economic & Planning Services, Inc. (EPS), to assess the feasibility of Plan Bay Area. According to the Feasibility Report produced by EPS, Plan Bay area falls well short of the statutorily required CARB greenhouse gas emission targets.
The myriad political, legislative and financing assumptions built into Plan Bay Area render it unfeasible as the mechanism to achieve CARB's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Plan Bay Area rests on assumptions about future legislative actions and cannot succeed without seismic shifts in California's political and economic landscape, including the repeal of Proposition 13. [California Proposition 13 is an amendment to the CA Constitution enacted in 1978 that reduced property tax rates and restricted annual increases of the assessed value of real property. It has been called the "third rail" (meaning "untouchable subject") of California politics.] The EPS Feasibility Report commissioned by ABAG documents that Plan Bay Area cannot achieve the emissions reduction required by S.B. 375 unless redevelopment agencies or their equivalent are reinstituted; Proposition 13 is repealed or substantially weakened; and new statewide infrastructure financing is provided. ABAG fails to acknowledge that, as is highlighted in the Feasibility Report, the existence of Proposition 13 is not just an obstacle to the Plan's achievement of its objectives, it is a "major" obstacle. Any assertion that the Plan is "likely" to achieve its objectives, or "can reasonably be expected" to do so rests on a major upheaval in California's long-standing property tax structure occurring in the foreseeable future. ABAG provides no evidence to support their assumption that the "major obstacle" presented by Proposition 13 will go away, and thus fail to demonstrate that Plan Bay Area will achieve the objectives required for compliance with S.B. 375.
We (the Plaintiffs/Appellants) evaluate 5 other reasons why the Appellate Court should reverse the Trial Court's ruling. Read the entire Reply Brief here, and review the court history of the litigation at GlobalizationofCalifornia.com.
HELP STOP One Bay Area/Plan Bay Area! As the battle continues, be forewarned that additional funds will be necessary, as the case will need to proceed beyond the California Appellate Court. Certainly the case will be presented to the State and/or Federal Supreme Court by the losing party, and we must be ready! For information on methods for contributing funds toward the lawsuit, click here.
On July 21, 1993, Tim Wirth gave a talk to employees of the State Department on the new direction for State. Wirth explained that for the last 50 years the organizing principle for the United States had been the Cold War. The end of the Cold War left a vacuum and the Department of State needed to define a new mission and a new organizing principle for the Department of State.
The world revolved around the Cold War. For the most part, it was remote from domestic life in the United States because the "war" – was nation-state against nation-state and the players in the spy game were military, the CIA, and the State Department acting mostly in secret. Only the propaganda reached the public and the main message was be afraid – be very afraid.
Those two references are prima facie evidence of premeditation in what has been an attempted coup d'etat on the nation-state we know as the United States. When the implications of that evidence are combined with what Tim Wirth had to say concerning working with multilateral organizations and the development of domestic constituencies to advocate for State Department policies, it's really no different than a foreign power attempting a coup d'etat on the United States.
The State Department has no business operating domestically. Since the Refugee Resettlement program is a program of the United Nations through the State Department, it has to be considered that this is a State Department move to build their constituency. Their constituencies are foreigners – not Americans. That's treason.
Samuel "Sandy Burgler" Berger: Nexus between 9/11 and the North American Union (NAU).
I took a clip of what I thought were the most significant things Tim Wirth had to say but the entire one hour program should be viewed.
FIRST KNOW THIS: YOUR ENEMY IS RUTHLESS.
Last month the San Jose Mercury News and other news outlets reported on a new FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND Parcel Tax in the San Francisco Bay Area. The "emergency" that the SF Bay is facing, the environmental devastation in the SF Bay, you are told, must be dealt with, and $500 million is urgently needed. You were told that this tax concept is new because people of the 9 counties around the San Francisco Bay will have every one of their parcels assessed a $12 tax annually to 'save the Bay.' A ballot measure will be on the June 2016 ballot so that the people of these counties can essentially vote together to empower an obscure new agency (see below*) that has been taken over by powerful Silicon Valley Agenda 21 corporate interests.
Never before have the 9 counties been taxed as a single entity. Why? Because they are NOT A SINGLE ENTITY. THEY ARE NINE SEPARATE COUNTIES.
The University of California at Davis Library has placed my book, BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: UN Agenda 21, in its Political Right Wing Pamphlet Collection. Rather than holding the book in its open stacks, the book is for use within the library only, and is held within a larger Radical Pamphlet Collection. This obviously indicates to any student who would read it that the book is considered to be a radical, dangerous, conspiracy book that is only to be read as an example of something that goes against the values of sane, intelligent university-goers.
This is an outrage. The fact that the book names their secret plan and shows you how to find it in your town somehow qualifies this book as a rightwing hate document.
Behind the green mask : U.N. agenda 21 / Rosa Koire.
Santa Rosa, CA : Post Sustainability Institute Press, c2011.
168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Sustainable development -- Political aspects -- United States.
City planning and redevelopment law -- California -- Santa Rosa.
Walter Goldwater Radical Pamphlet Collection.
Political Right Wing Pamphlet Collection.
The development of the rightwing component of Special Collections took on a new meaning and significance to the Library staff when, in 1999, during a period that has come to be been called the "Summer of Hate", two Central Valley brothers, Matthew and Tyler Williams, firebombed three synagogues in Sacramento, including the destruction of the library of the oldest synagogue in the West, which had contained thousands of historic books and documents. This was followed a few weeks later by the brothers' murder of a gay couple, Gary Matson (a UCD alumnus in Environmental Horticulture) and his partner Winfield Mowder, in Redding, California. When the brothers were captured, the police found in their possession, (in addition to their hit list of further murder targets in the Sacramento area), a collection of pamphlets published by various extreme rightwing religious groups. A search which was done at the time by the Library staff revealed that these publications were virtually unattainable in libraries anywhere in the country, meaning that there was no ready means of access for scholars and researchers to study this material.
These incidents were followed a few weeks later by the shooting in Los Angeles of four children and staff members in a child care facility run by the North Valley Jewish Center in the San Fernando Valley. When the shooter, Buford Furrow, was captured, the police discovered in the truck of his car, a copy of white supremacist Ben Kassen's book The White Man's Bible advocating a "racial holy war" in the United States. Again, a search was done at the time and it was found that at that point in time, a copy of 1981 book was not available in research libraries. This resulted in a renewed emphasis on acquiring examples of publications of these groups and individuals whose words had inspired so much hate and violence, yet whose works were largely unavailable for study. These efforts, under the general direction of the Associate University Librarian for Collections, led to the Library building over the next few years a collection of over 2,000 pamphlets from extreme right groups, as well as the acquisitions of some hundreds of books, and a number of video and audiotapes produced by these groups. For a number of these publications, UC Davis is the only library in the United States to own a copy.
Taken as a whole, the collection is one of only a few such collections in the country, and offers a rare window into the world of political, cultural, and religious extremism in America. It is important to remember that political and religious extremism has had a significant impact on American history from the days of the Salem witch trials, to the years of Klan lynchings, to the more recent bombings of the Oklahoma City Federal Building and the destruction of the World Trade Towers, with its resultant killing of thousands of innocent people. In order for students and scholars to understand these darker chapters in human history it is necessary from them to have access to works and words that have inspired these actions. It is for this purpose that Special Collections houses such collections.
These collections have been used to support the research and teaching needs of classes studying "Conspiracy Theories in Twentieth Century America." The students examined (1) the writings of the white supremacist movement, (2) anti-Semitic works such as the writings of holocaust denial proponents, and (3) texts on racism including scarce tracts from the anti-integrationist "citizens councils" of the 1950's and 1960's.
YOU SEE IT IN YOUR TOWN. NOW WHAT?
youtube videos and love what you are doing to stop Agenda 21. Syracuse has been slowing implementing this plan and just this last week the city and the county put together a plan to merge the city and the county. The Economic Development Committee are the ones that suggested it to get $500 million in state funding. They are proposing a referendum for the November 2016 ballot. The funny thing is they have yet to say what this means. Will they use it just to merge gov't to make it more efficient. I am organizing groups to oppose this and vote this down next November. I would love if you could come to our area at some point to help educate us more on what this merger could mean for our individual rights. I will just say that my father was a WWII veteran and always spoke about how our rights could be taken away and he was referring to things like Agenda 21 more than just enemies outside our borders. "
"I am from Willmar Minnesota, a town of about 20,000 people. We have a huge problem with private groups trying to circumvent the city council and trying to make policy. Two groups named Vision 2040 and Moving Willmar Forward!! Listening to your videos really hit home! Agenda 21 is exactly what is happening in Willmar. These groups got the current Mayor elected and he is trying to push their ideas. It's really crazy that his latest idea was to build market rate apartments downtown so people that work downtown could walk to work!! These apartments would be funded by taxpayer money!! Thank you for all of you research!! I would love to have you come and speak in Willmar!! We really need your help!!"
Now that you see it, what will you do? It is imperative that you raise awareness in your city. Please take a look at WHAT CAN I DO on this website....and then do it! I would love to be everywhere and assist, but I can't do that. And I am just like you, a person who saw Agenda 21, understood what I was seeing, and is taking action to raise awareness and fight it worldwide....WITH YOUR HELP.
Remember that you have power. You are brave, intelligent, and dedicated to your liberty. It's hard work but you can do it, and you can find others to work with you.
"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." quote from the first page of UN Agenda 21.
A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION. A WORLDWIDE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION. This is real, it is something that you can stop. You need to work on this locally. You can do it. You're not alone. The entire world and the human spirit is with you.
STAND UP. SPEAK OUT. REFUSE TO COOPERATE.
EXPOSE LOCAL COLLABORATORS IN THIS ELECTION YEAR.
We've been keeping our eyes on a pilot project here in Sonoma County, CA that is being replicated across the world: Do It Yourself Cap and Trade for WATER. (click here to read our earlier article) Yes, that's right, for WATER. You will get an allotment and will be able to trade your excess water or buy water from those who don't use as much. This is a RESIDENTIAL CAP AND TRADE PROGRAM. You'll be in the market to buy water from your neighbors---and a private company will run the water exchange, for a price. Guess what? Our county water district was given a grant for this pilot program. Who gave them the grant? A private corporation affiliated with the corporation running the program. MANIPULATION. The corporation basically gave the money to the county which gave that same money back to the corporation...why? To implement this program.
Here's the corporation that is running it: SmartMARKETS.
"Save & Trade – The Killer Application Energizing The Smart GridSmartMarkets does not touch physical water and electricity. Infrastructure remains controlled by the utility`s seasoned experts. Yet we transform how customers define and use those resources.
SmartMarkets has developed a patent-pending "Save & Trade" meter, conversion mechanism & Web 2.0 trading platform. This platform allows residential and commercial end users to own, save, accumulate and trade clearly defined water and energy efficiency credits, or EcoSharesSM.
"A Comparative Advantage – Connecting Consumers to The Grid With ValueExisting 'smart meters' allow consumers to monitor use and/or send data to a 'smart grid.' Such initiatives are helpful, but fall short by failing to harness one unlimited resource in the race to conserve resources: human greed. Only SmartMartkets' vertically integrated trading system offers powerful incentives to reduce demand. In short, 'smart meters' and 'smart grids' need 'smart markets' to succeed!
"Accumulated EcoShares are simple to track and trade: balances can be found online and on your monthly utility statement. They may be monitored as easily as air miles, earned as regularly as credit card loyalty points each time water is saved, and exchanged as transparently as trading NASDAQ shares online.
"SmartMarkets` disruptive business model empowers recession-weary consumers to conserve scarce resources, save money, and earn extra income through a transparent and accountable process open to all on an equal basis. Soon, water utilities will no longer provide water, but rather provide "real liquidity", while electric utilities can finally provide "power to the people". "
Are you concerned about this? You should be. You'll be subject to artificial scarcity and manipulation of the water market..and they do it for the energy market, too. It's coming to your area. Check to see if there is a pilot program now with your water district. Fight it.
This is UN Agenda 21.