Toll Roads, Gas Tax Increase, and Other Schemes That Connecticut Is Mulling Over To Force You Onto Public Transportation

(This is a video presentation of the following analysis.)

Connecticut state officials met with "transportation advocates" on December 3rd, 2014 for the “Getting to Work:  Transportation and Jobs Access for the 21st Century” event, to discuss the future of transportation in Connecticut.  (Click here to watch the full three hour forum.)

Regular readers of The Goodman Chronicle already know that the future of transportation in Connecticut, if the tax free foundations get their way, is to revolve around increased restrictions on private motor vehicle use, and a focus on public transportation.  Coincidentally (or not), some of the foundations advocating a reduction in private motor vehicle use in the state, were key coordinators for this meeting.  These foundations include the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the Regional Plan Association, both of which, as pointed out in previous articles, have received funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, an organization advocating a much larger agenda, one aspect of which is the reduction of private motor vehicles.

The forum opened up with a quick introduction by CT Governor Dan Malloy, discussing various aspects of the transportation situation in the state.  Along with public transportation goals, Malloy briefly mentions widening certain roads/highways in Connecticut in an effort to provide a better experience for private motor vehicle drivers.  After Governor Malloy gives his four minute introduction speech, the topic of making transportation easier for private motor vehicle drivers is barely mentioned again, by any of the presenters, for the rest of the three hour forum.  The focus of the entire forum becomes about designing communities around, and increasing the ridership of, public transportation.

The majority of people living in Connecticut have no idea that this transformation of society is occurring, as Governor Dan Malloy admits in his introduction talk:

"We've actually not told people the true size and the cost of what needs to be done if CT is to be able to compete in the next 50 years."

The key-note speaker for this forum was Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution.  Puentes discusses the increasing poverty in Connecticut, as well as the fact that people are driving less, and attributes these situations to the economic recession.  The solution however, according to Puentes, is not to try to restore the old economy, with the same jobs, and have people driving again, but to "subscribe to a brand new growth model", and "restructure the economy" in a way that focuses on creating development, and jobs, around public transportation.


The recommendations of Puentes favoring public transportation, not only ignores drivers of personal motor vehicles, but actually make it more difficult to own, and operate, a private motor vehicle.  Like many of the "transportation advocates" in the state, Puentes' pro-public transportation advocacy is actually an anti-car philosophy.  Some of these recommendations include a gas tax increase, toll roads, and more.

Let us take a more in depth examination of some of the policies of this "brand new growth model" recommended by Puentes.

Children's Edition of United Nations Agenda 21: Blatant Anti-Human Propaganda

Children are the future; the course of humanity is ultimately dependent on what the little human beings of the world are taught today.  The United Nations understands this, and this is why they publish materials attempting to influence the attitudes, and beliefs, of children, often presenting only one side of an argument, with a goal of having these children's beliefs, and attitudes, be more aligned with the future goals of the United Nations.  This is called propaganda, and the children's book, promoted by the UN, Rescue Mission: Planet Earth: A children's edition of Agenda 21, published in 1994, is definitely propaganda.  (Side note: To view a scanned .pdf version of this book, in full, click here.)

According to the book's introduction, the purpose of publishing Rescue Mission was to condense the massive United Nations plan for the 21st century, "Agenda 21", "into a language that ordinary people can understand." (pg 7)  A critical thinker, at this point, may ask, why was not the original plan written in a language that ordinary people can understand?  I have took the time to read, and analyze, the original plan, Agenda 21, and my guess as to why it was not written in a language that ordinary people can understand is, the average person may more easily come to the same conclusion that I came to, that Agenda 21 is a plan, by the United Nations, to gain more decision making power, or sovereignty, from countries, and create a world in which every resource, water, animals, food, etc., even human resources, and population size, is tracked, collectivized, and controlled by a group of non-elected bureaucrats at the UN, working in conjunction with big corporations, and non-governmental organizations (NGO's).

Interesting to note, also in the introduction of Rescue Mission, there is an opening quote by the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, about needing to "save the planet from destruction."  The fact that Gorbachev is a communist, and openly being promoted in UN literature, should not come as a surprise, as the United Nations is an organization with a collectivist philosophy, as well as having many specific connections to Communism.  In an effort not to stray away from this specific critique of Rescue Mission, I will not detail the history of the United Nations, and their connection with communists/collectivism, in this examination, but intend to do so in the future.

Among the many controversial ideas discussed, or maybe, pushed through propaganda, is a better way to put it, in Rescue Mission, are:

• Humans are bad for, and ruining, the Earth.
• There is an urgent need to reduce population, including through abortions.
• A lowering of the standard of living is required for inhabitants of first world countries.
• A world government is needed to fix the problems of the globe.

Homeland Security Is The Reason Local Police Cars Are Converting To Black & White

The Berlin, CT Police Dept. unveiled a "new style" of police car last year.

Have you been noticing the police vehicles in your local town, city, county, or state, switching over to a black and white color scheme?

This is a change that has been taking place in Connecticut, for some time now.  The newest style of police cars, in every town, or city, I drive through, seems to have the same look; black and white color scheme, the word "POLICE" in big letters, and the name of the city/town in small letters.

"Woodbury Police Department purchases two new cars." - WoodburyCT.org

There has been questions as to whether this is a coordinated effort, and if so, for what purpose.

Evidence seems to indicate that the Department of Homeland Security is behind this standardization of police cars.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, where both the city police, and the Sheriff's office, have returned to traditional black-and-white markings on police squad cars and SUVs, the Police Chief, Ray Rael, said last year, when his department began phasing in the black-and-white color scheme, that the design was chosen because of a federal Department of Homeland Security recommendation to standardize police vehicles around the country.

Also in New Mexico, the Albuquerque Police Department switched to black and white police cars, and, in a news briefing, said they were "making the change in part due to recommendations from Homeland Security that all law enforcement go to black and white cars."  From this same briefing, it continues, "The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department, the State Police and APS police all have black and white cars."

(Update: 11/09/13:  The City of Albuquerque has since taken this story off of its official website, and is seemingly unavailable anywhere else online.  When attempting to find this news briefing, a Google search of "Albuquerque Police Homeland Security" only revealed a recent story of Homeland Security raiding, and searching, the home of an Albuquerque Police Officer.)

Recent testimony given by Retired Marine Col. Pete Martino, at a public meeting in the city of Concord, New Hampshire, may be able to help us further understand why Homeland Security would be standardizing our local police.  (video below)

Col. Martino came to speak out against the city of Concord, purchasing an armored tank, funded by Homeland Security.  (In its grant application to the DHS, the police department stated that they need to protect against the threat from pro-liberty domestic groups, like the Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire.)

Col. Martino warns:

"What's happening here is we're building a domestic military because it's unlawful and unconstitutional to use American troops on American soil. So what we're doing is building a military."

Martino also addresses the militarization, and standardization, of police, and police equipment:

"My best friend, who is a SWAT officer in Nashua (NH), came to Iraq with me to train the Iraqi police, sent me a picture of him in the media, on the streets of Watertown, MASS, wearing the exact same combat gear we had in Iraq, only was a different color."

The way we do things in the military is called "task organization." You take a command and then you attach units to it in order to accomplish the mission. What's happening is, Homeland Security is pre-staging gear, equipment. What they're trying to do is use standardized vehicles, standardized equipment.

I saw a picture in the Boston Globe during the Boston Marathon bombing, where there was a State police officer…actually there were two officers, they both had identical helmets, flak jackets, weapons, everything I wore in Iraq, only it was all blue. The officer on one side had a big patch that said Massachusetts State Police…the other officer next to him…his patch said Boston Police."

I have heard that there may also be a psychological effect to the police using the color black, but I have yet to further explore that topic.

In related news, the Department of Homeland Security has also begun funding a program, beginning with the state of Massachusetts, that standardizes law enforcement ID cards, issued to every sworn officer in the state.

(Above: A video report on the influence of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the change to black and white patrol cars, in local police departments.) 

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