Investigating Crime in High Places
The Investigative Reporter
November 2003 Karen-lee Bixman
Copyright 2003 Karen-lee Bixman
The Global Fire
Monitoring Center -
Eliminating Private Property Through the Use of Fire
"The
Global Fire Monitoring
Center is a facility with
capabilities to systematically monitor, archive and distribute information on
fire and related impacts at a global scale which serves a variety of
purposes. These include meeting the demands for information by
scientists, land resources managers, the disaster mitigation, prevention and
management community, policy makers and the general public.”
The
Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) Brochure
Freiburg
University
Freiburg,
Germany
The Global Fire
Monitoring Center (GFMC), established in 1998, is sponsored by many private and
international partners including: the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health Organization
(WHO), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the World Bank. These
organizations partner with the United Nations on issues of the environment, and
adhere to Agenda 21 principles. While their purpose and intent may sound
righteous, the underlying objective is to eliminate private property and remove
people from the land. The GFMC is only one of a plethora of organizations
created to mandate the concept of Sustainable Development as laid out in Agenda
21. If one is to understand the full dimension of this program, however,
an understanding of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development must be gained.
In
1992, the United States was
one of 179 nations that met at the UN Conference on World Environment in Brazil. Two
important documents were drafted at the conference, The Global Biodiversity
Assessment (GBA) and Agenda 21, which ultimately seeks to return the United States
to a pre-civilized environment.
Although
the GBA was not ratified by Congress, the principles laid out in the document
and the corresponding Agenda 21 are being put into
practice today through various environmental mandates that call for
"Sustainable Development."
Sustainable
Development is an "Eco" buzzword that is nothing more than Communism
cloaked in the veil of environmentalism. The end result of sustainable
development is that every individual will share the riches of a nation in an
equal manner. Sustainable development also puts great emphasis on the poor and
third world developing nations.
"Poverty
and environmental degradation are closely interrelated,” states Agenda 21. "While poverty results in certain kinds of environmental
stress, the major cause of the continued deterioration of the global
environment is the unattainable pattern of consumption and production
particularly in industrialized countries, which is a matter of grave concern,
aggravating poverty and imbalances.”
Following the
1992 UN Conference on World Environment, President Bill Clinton adopted the
principles of Agenda 21 and established the President's Council on Sustainable
Development. The Council's report provides for domestic policy that can
be integrated into policy to achieve "economic progress, environmental
protection and social equity," [Social fairness, i.e..
Communism]. These three principles of economy,
environment and equity are the foundation for Sustainable Development.
Sustainable Development seeks to, according to the report, restructure
education by "providing lifelong learning opportunities, and creates
Visioning Councils which limit urban sprawl, refurbishes land areas to be
designed for pedestrian and bicycle traffic and makes use of rail corridors for
inter-community travel [calls for the elimination of the automobile]. Private
property should be managed for sustainability within the constraints of federal
and community visions." The report concludes that "individual
freedom, private property rights, and national sovereignty are concepts
recognized as obstacles to be modified or overcome.”
To help sell the
American people on the Sustainable Development Concept, a massive education
plan was launched using the principles laid out in Agenda 21: “The responsibility for
bringing about changes lies with Governments in partnership with the private
sector and local authorities, and in collaboration with national, regional and
international authorities and in collaboration with national, regional and
international organizations, including, in particular the United Nations
Environmental Program (UNEP), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and
the World Bank. Currently, the United
States is enduring a radical sociological
restructuring which includes land-use prohibition for ranching, agriculture and
mining. Residents living in rural areas are also increasingly losing the
use of their land. Existing roads and highways in rural areas are
being eliminated so the land can then be returned to wilderness. This
habitat of plants and animals, forbid human inhabitancy or intrusion.
Gradually, the population will be relocated into urban areas called
"cooperation zones." The zones will be regional enclaves where people
will live, work, and shop within the confines of their 'Eco-village’.”
Establishment of
the GFMC
Following the seminar
of the Forest, Fire and Global Change, held in Russia in 1996 an institution was
established as the Global Fire Management Facility. In 1998, the
government of Germany,
through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided the initial funding and
established the organization as The Global Fire Monitoring Center.
According to Agenda 21, "Environmental measures addressing transborder or global
environmental problems, should, as far as possible, be based on international
consensus.”
The GFMC fulfills this
consensus as the center follows the "recommendations of the International
Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and
various scientific and policy conferences." Policies of the UNESCO, the
World bank, Disaster Management Facility (DMF), and the World Conservation
Union (IUCN), expressed by the co-sponsorship of these organizations; and the
research agendas and co-sponsorship of international science programs devoted
to Global Change Research: The International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
(IGBP), the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), and
the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA)."
The GFMC website http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/
contains a, "fire
documentation and information monitoring system.”
The site offers:
- "Early warning of fire danger
- Near-real time monitoring of fire information
- Archive of global fire information
- Facilitation of links between national and
international institutions involved in fire research, development and
policy development
- Support of local, national and international
entities to develop long-term strategies or policies for wildland fire
management
- Emergency hotline and liaison capabilities
(restricted) for providing assistance for rapid assessment and decision
support in response to wildland fire emergencies in conjunction with the
UN.”
The strategies and policy
development within the GFMC are not geared to preventing areas from burning,
but instead are used to set policy over forest areas still inhabited by man
with the ultimate goal of evicting him from the area. Through networking with
different organizations, both private and public, "rewilding" can
take place where the land is allowed to return to its "pre-human"
state. This is the unstated goal of Agenda 21 and has become the modus
operandi of the global environmental contingent as expressed by John Davis,
former editor of Wild Earth, and the official "voice" of The
Wildlands Project. "Wilderness
recovery must start now but continue indefinitely. Does this mean that
Wild Earth and the Wildlands project advocate the end of industrial
civilization? Most assuredly. Everything
civilized must go.” Unfortunately, Davis is not seen as a radical within the
environmental community. His views are representative of major
environmental organizations that not only provide funding for intense Washington lobbying within the US, but act as the consultative
powerhouse for the United National Environmental Program (UNEP). In 1968,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
passed resolution 1296 which granted consultative statues to 126 environmental
groups who have drafted policy that later was adopted and promoted by the
UN.
Thus,
the framers of Agenda 21, are already preparing a
program for displaced individuals. "Policies and programs should be developed for handling the
various types of migration that result from or induce environmental
disruptions, with special attention to women, the poor and vulnerable groups.”
Property
"takings" following "natural disasters" are taking place
throughout the globe. Most recently, however, I have been alerted to the
shenanigans carried out by the US Forest Service in regard to cabins located
within the Angeles National Forest in Southern
California. An "alert" sent out by Chuck Cushman
at the American Land Rights Association, http://www.landrights.org/
, chronicles the proposed taking, of recreation cabins that were damaged during
the Curve and Williams Fire in September 2002. Cabin owners, whose
dwellings were not destroyed in the fire, are also in jeopardy of losing their
special use authorization permit (SUA). Cushman claims that if these takings
are allowed to occur 15,000 cabin owners will be affected nationwide.
Sadly, over the past
25-years, "environmental law," has robbed landowners of their private
property rights, and even more pressure is laid to bear if the property is
located in a rural area. Twenty-first century Americans now face
the same dilemma that their colonial counterparts faced centuries ago and
ultimately went to war with Great
Britain.
In 1729, the British
Parliament banned citizens of the new colonies from cutting down pine trees as
pine was an excellent building material for the masts of the British naval
ships. Thus, the British claimed all the pine trees for the Crown.
Accosted by agents of the King, private mill owners were arrested, their saw
mills destroyed and they were accused of chopping down the pine.
Colonists were evicted from their land, their timber seized; their houses
burned and demolished. Therefore, it was no coincidence that when
patriots fought against the British army during the Revolution their flag bore
the pine tree - a reminder of British tyranny.
Unfortunately, the US
Forest Service has replaced those agents of the King, and has enveloped itself
in global principles thus acting as a mouthpiece for the United Nations.
The US Forest Service, now
collaborates with a number of international partners which include: The
United Nations (UN), UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), UN
Environmental Program (UNEP), UN General Assembly (UNGASS), UN Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC),
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and the World Bank,
just to name a few. The USDA Forest Service states on their international page:
"The USDA Forest
Service International Programs promotes sustainable forests management and
biodiversity conservation internationally. By linking the skills of the
field-based staff of the USDA
Forest Service with
partners overseas, the Agency can address the most critical forestry issues and
concerns . . . Since international cooperation is
necessary to sustain the ecological and commercial viability of global forest resources
and to conserve biodiversity, most of our work is done in collaboration with
other organizations.”
Accordingly, US
agencies such as the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the
US Park Service, now partner with international bodies as well as the Global Fire
Monitoring Center.
These US
agencies, can, in an emergency request assistance
through the United Nations and the GFMC. "In case of a large wildland fire incident that threatens
national resources and/or international interests and thus requires response by
the international community, the country affected may call assistance through
the Joint United Nations Environmental Program/UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs Environmental Unit, Emergency Services Branch.”
Thus, when a fire
emergency occurs, such as the Southern California
fires of this past October, the fighting of the fire is directed, in part, by
international bodies whose ultimate goal is not to "preserve homes,"
but to clear the land of man's influence.
Unfortunately,
the United States
has lost its sovereignty through adaptation of UN policy and treaties.
The average citizen has no idea this has occurred however, and does not realize
that each UN agency has a mirrored image on the Federal, state and local
levels. For example, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)
mandates environmental programs on an international level, and the Federal
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), then directs the individual
state EPA to a particular course of action. In turn, the state dictates policy
to the county and then to the cities. Thus, through this interconnecting web of
agencies, Agenda 21 is also being enacted, on the state, county and city level.
The California
Department of Forestry's California Fire Plan is one example of this
enactment. Emanating from an agency that is in charge of fighting forest
fires in the state of California,
this fire plan is rather unusual as it states that fire does not have a
negative effect on habitat. The plan asserts that it can be beneficial as
native species can then replace species that were contributed by man. "The general societal and frequently
institutional view that fire in all its forms and potential locations results
in a wholly negative effect on wildfire is mistaken . . . A disturbance regime
characteristic of the physical environment of California was present before
influence by European man and created habitats in which plants and animals had
to adapt and perpetuate their kind. More recent and widespread influenced
by society on the structure and composition of vegetation brought about by
various types of disturbances or the lack of disturbances (e.g., development,
timber harvest, fire control policies, and public attitudes toward fire) have
influenced the distribution and abundance of many if not most wildfire species
. . . Unnaturally frequent patterns of fire can overwhelm the inherent ability
of many fire adapted species of plants to sustain themselves. This
result’s in type conversion to habitats adapted to a more frequent or intense
fire regime (e.g., coastal sage scrub is converted to annual grassland). .
. California's Mediterranean plant communities, composed of many fire
adapted species, depends on fire disturbances to perpetuate the type. It
follows that resource use by plant and wildlife species that make up these
dynamic communities would exhibit adaptations consistent with periodic habitat
disturbances.”
One
can only speculate if thousands of acres in San Diego County
were allowed to burn by the California Department of Forestry (CDF), in order
to transfer these lands to perpetuate "fire adapted species." It can
be concluded, however, that many landowners, who lost their homes in the fires
will not be allowed to rebuild as environmental land-use policies will be put
into effect.
Millions of
words have been set on paper over the last 50 years that warned of a New World
Order that would overtake America
and destroy her freedoms and sovereignty. Many have wondered when that
day will occur, but have missed the fact that it already has occurred.
Through Agenda 21, and the myriad of UN agencies and its American counterparts,
America
has been robbed of its most precious freedom, the right to own land.
Therefore, the
next time you see a forest fire, don't panic. Just remember the Global Fire
Monitoring Center
(Big Brother) is on the job, and "watching out for YOUR interests."
God Bless You All,
Until Next Month,
Karen-lee Bixman
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My thanks to radio talk show
host Chris Gerner for alerting me to the existence of The Global Fire
Monitoring Center. Information on the GFMC can be linked through Gerner's
website at: http://www.amerikanexpose.com
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Portions of the
above story were extracted from the following articles previously written by
Karen-lee Bixman: Protecting the Ecosystem: An Inventive Way to Eliminate our
Border and Our Country, The Investigative Reporter, January 1997. Environmental
Assault: The Restructuring of the American Lifestyle, The
Investigative Reporter, May-June 1997, and The Sagebrush Rebellion.
Footnotes
1. The Global
Fire Monitoring Center Background Information,
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/intro/about1.html
2. USDA Forest
Service International Programs,
http://www.fs.fed.us/global/aboutus/policy/ppartners.htm
3. Emergency
Assistance through the United Nations and the GFMC,
http://www.fire.uni-friburg.de/emergency/un_gfmc.htm
4. California Fire Plan,
California Department of Forestry,
http://www.fire.ca.gov