It is not even a top-down recommendation, seeking instead to encourage communities around the world to come up with their own solutions to overpopulation, pollution, poverty and resource depletion. It has no force of law, no enforcement mechanisms, no penalties, and no significant funding.

It will “make our nation a vassal” of the UN, result in “the destruction of our lives,” force rural areas’ “population decimated,” and lead to having “90% of the population murdered.” The end, these critics all agree, will be the imposition of “a collectivist world government.”Īgenda 21 is not a treaty. To listen to such groups, Agenda 21 will lead to a “new Dark Ages of pain and misery yet unknown to mankind.” It is “a comprehensive plan of utopian environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control,” the “most dangerous threat to America’s sovereignty” yet. The Birch Society and an array of other radical-right groups see Agenda 21 and virtually all other global efforts as part of a nefarious plan on the part of global elites to form a socialistic one-world government, or “New World Order.” The demonization of Agenda 21 began among extremist groups like the John Birch Society, the same outfit that was effectively ejected from the conservative movement after accusing President Dwight D. And it isn’t only extremists pushing this conspiracy theory - in January 2012, the Republican National Committee bought into the propaganda, denouncing Agenda 21 in a resolution as a “destructive and insidious scheme” that is meant to impose a “socialist/communist redistribution of wealth.” At the time, it was seen as a perfectly sensible planning paper, a nonbinding statement of intent aimed at dealing with sustainability on an increasingly crowded planet.īut in the 22 years since that day, at the hands of groups like the John Birch Society, Agenda 21 has been transformed in much of the American public mind into a secret plot to impose a totalitarian world government, a nefarious effort to crush freedom in the name of environmentalism. Bush and the leaders of 177 other nations signed a document known as Agenda 21. But a video review determined Jaroslaw Niezgoda was offside.At the conclusion of the June 3-14, 1992, United Nations Conference on Environment & Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, President George H.W. The Timbers appeared to take the lead in the 2nd minute as Eryk Williamson launched a 25-yard shot just inside the right post. at the top of the penalty area, spinning and putting a 15-yard shot into the lower right corner. Portland got its lone goal in the 83rd minute on Ikoba's header from the top of the 6-yard box off a cross from Diego Gutierrez.Īlmada capped the scoring in the 86th minute, taking a pass from Derrick Etienne Jr. He got his first goal in the 59th as Wiley's cross from the left wing found the forward alone about 10 yards out from the right post and he put a header into the near upper corner.Īraujo took a long lead pass from Almada, dribbled into the penalty area and put a 15-yard shot into the lower right corner of the net in the 75th minute. Giakoumakis had a 48th-minute tally called back because he was offside. Giakoumakis, making his first MLS start, nearly doubled the lead in the 29th minute but his 10-yard shot was smothered by Ivacic at the right post.Īlmada made it 2-0 in first-half stoppage time, banking a free kick from 30 yards high off the right post and into the net. He chipped a pass to Wiley to start a breakaway and the 18-year-old dribbled into the penalty area before putting a left-footed shot past hard-charging Portland goalie Aljaz Ivacic and into the lower right corner of the net.

Wiley opened the scoring on the counterattack in the 25th minute.įollowing a Portland corner kick, Atlanta quickly cleared the ball to midfield, where two Timbers defenders ran into each other, allowing the ball to fall to Almada. Portland was without eight players because of injuries. Tega Ikoba scored for the Timbers (1-3-0, 3 points), who suffered their third consecutive defeat. Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) Thiago Almada had two goals and two assists as host Atlanta United FC defeated the injury-riddled Portland Timbers 5-1 Saturday night.Ĭaleb Wiley added a goal and an assist, and Georgios Giakoumakis and Luiz Araujo also scored for Atlanta (3-0-1, 10 points), which is off to the best start in franchise history.

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