tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79389336494930884892024-03-13T03:08:39.310-07:00Living Outside The DialecticPersonal and research blog of independent journalist, author and publisher Niki Raapana.Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.comBlogger842125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-15066375638137617662015-10-22T12:20:00.000-07:002015-10-22T12:20:12.927-07:00New video - Communitarianism and Global Citizenship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Had a few more major glitches in our publishing endeavors, lost a lot of data in a laptop crash and almost all my hard bound library books with all my margin notes, but things are settling down finally and I'm back on track with rewriting the <i><b>Gertee How-to book</b></i> and <b><i>The Green Virgin</i>. </b></div>
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It's been interesting to see how many major media sources have identified Pope Francis as a communitarian in their coverage of his world tour. Even as politicians are claiming to be communitarians, the American public remains mostly in the dark about what it is. </div>
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Made a new video called <i><b>Communitarianism and Global Citizenship</b></i>, posted on youtube and Liveleak. Youtube pulled the audio within an hour, and liveleak pulled the entire video and permanently banned me from their website. This inspires me to make more videos. I may also make <i><b>The Green Virgin </b></i>into a full length documentary film rather than a book. It's no secret that Americans would rather watch than read. And for some reason, after all these years and the trouble it's brought us, I still feel inspired to expose the lie. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Alaskatentlady/videos">https://www.youtube.com/user/Alaskatentlady/videos</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Just a few samples of what's been published recently:</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-criticizes-unfettered-pursuit-money-bolivia-speech-352259">http://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-criticizes-unfettered-pursuit-money-bolivia-speech-352259</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/18/why-pope-franciss-climate-message-may-be-hard-for-some-americans-to-swallow/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/18/why-pope-franciss-climate-message-may-be-hard-for-some-americans-to-swallow/</a></span></div>
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<br />Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-65647662285701137622014-12-22T23:53:00.000-08:002014-12-22T23:53:04.777-08:00Every Christmas has its own story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Christmas, in 2002, Nordica (then
16), our friend Michele and I designed a game for my retired US Army
Sergeant Major dad called, "War on Words.” <a href="http://nord.twu.net/acl/research/waronwords.html">http://nord.twu.net/acl/research/waronwords.html</a></div>
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I wanted my dad to
understand our work more than anyone else in the world. He had said
he couldn't understand what in the hell I was talking about, and the
concept of communitarianism was beyond his grasp. We made the game so
that my dad would “get it” and help us after he saw the enemy we
identified. We based the whole game on the Hegelian dialectical formula used to trick people into giving up their freedom via Orwellian terms. The dialectic makes us
choose from 2 false sides, a million times over, leading us to their
ultimate synthesis, when we all happily embrace one big, fat, false, final
conclusion called Communitarianism. The tutorial accompanying his
game was called, "What is the Hegelian Dialectic?"</div>
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My dad was super annoyed with that
early version of the game. Not only did I appear totally freaked out
by what I “thought” I knew, he had never studied logic and
thought anyone with a PhD after their name should not be trusted
anyway. So, it was a flop, and we went back to the drawing board and
expanded the tutorial with a brief introduction to logic and how we
deduced our argument opposing the entire conclusion. Posted online
for the first time in December 2002, we sent the link out to all the
academics still alive we named in our thesis. It became our present to
to the world in 2003. In 2007, we published it in hard copy.</div>
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We didn't do it for fans. We didn't write it for attention, titles, money or fame. We did it because we knew
that we had stumbled onto something everyone in the world deserves a
chance to know, and we thought Amitai Etzioni deserved to know not all Americans were falling for his game.</div>
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We don't expect you to see communitarianism the way
that we do. We don't even see it the same way, and we co-wrote the antithesis to it. We
want you to see it with your own eyes. We are convinced the best
solutions to it will come out of freed minds once the problem is
identified internally. Our solution is not your solution, and we
don't prescribe one.</div>
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The goal of our work is still the
purpose of the game "War on Words" in 2002, 1. to step
outside the dialectic, 2. examine your arguments from a dialectical
perspective, and 3. re-enter the game as a knowledgeable player.</div>
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It's that third stage of the game
that's the hardest to play, and I've known very few people who can
play it. I stayed stuck in the self examination phase, because I
had a lot of baggage I brought to the table that had to be dealt with
first. Today I'm ready to take my rightful place in American industry.</div>
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I get to say, it's been one of my
greatest joys witnessing people I know breaking free, being real in
the face of the unreality of our fabricated life. In the USA, UK,
Vietnam or the many other places where people have
seen the dialectic at work and coming quickly to its conclusion. There are many
nations that identify communitarianism as authoritarian and
sectarian, as do we.</div>
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<a href="http://www.thefire.org/the-authoritarian-communitarian-impulse/">http://www.thefire.org/the-authoritarian-communitarian-impulse/</a></div>
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If you cannot afford to purchase "What
is the Hegelian Dialectic?", it is available for free all over
the internet, having been reposted and republished by others in
various forms and for various purposes, hundreds of times. <a href="http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/what-is-the-hegelian-dialectic-by-niki-raapana-and-nordica">http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/what-is-the-hegelian-dialectic-by-niki-raapana-and-nordica</a></div>
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For the
past few years at Christmas I gifted out the pdf of the combined 2012
edition of "2020: Our Common Destiny and The Anti Communitarian
Manifesto". I'm happy to be able to do it again this year.
Message or email me if you'd like a ebook for Christmas! And send me
a review please if you're one of the folks who already got theirs.
And, okay, send me your complaints if you're still waiting for a hard
copy, nothing like waiting years for a book, I'm sure. Anyone else in our shoes would have
filed bankruptcy a long time ago. But we're hanging on and planning
for another print job, as unbelievable as it sounds. If at first you
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2020/TACM in any usual way, no more book tours will be announced, but I will make time to write a few more
articles, update 2020, do a few more radio interviews, participate in
the conference about communitarianism I have scheduled in the UK in
March, rebuild the ACL library, and oh yeah, write a paper for peer
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We made history with our thesis. As my dad would say, "no brag, just fact." It's
an amazing feeling. I wish my dad had lived to see it. I'm grateful I
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Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-8362103411593390532014-12-13T05:17:00.000-08:002014-12-13T05:17:09.783-08:00Niki Raapana ends her silenceA year ago today we published our response and review to Rosa Koire's book, accusing her of plagiarizing our original research and writings. I was so drained by writing it, for having to write it, and considered never writing about communitarianism ever again. But I always say that when I get tired of fighting this uphill battle, and it killed me to take a hard look at how many people who are resisting Agenda 21 are, shall we say, not friends of the ACL, and why. The game is too complicated, the social part of it reminds me of high school (and so do the comments defending Rosa's deception) and I haven't got a huge need to pursue it further, unless I find a pro bono copyright attorney and yeah good luck with that, right? I haven't stopped researching, even though it's not nearly at the pace I used to keep. Things are getting REALLY interesting, Pope Francis and Shimon Peres's meetings about a UN religion is an amazing development, So far none of the major press is identifying it as communitarianism, and as soon as I'm done with the Gertee book I will get right into the Green Virgin. The new world religion is communitarianism. We were right. And no matter how much our enemies don't want you to know about communitarianism, we're gonna keep right on telling you! It IS a religion, it IS law, it IS policing, and Amitai Etzioni, the father of communitarianism, the guru terrorist from that tiny little country Rosa says has no influence, is a Zionist. Facts are just facts.<br />
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Here's a great recent piece by Donna Martin, who has picked up pretty much where we left off and taught me quite a few things. She's a Christian who doesn't bother me. Highly recommend her work: <a href="http://thecommunitariantrap.blogspot.com/2014/02/urban-parks-tool-of-communitarian.html">http://thecommunitariantrap.blogspot.com/2014/02/urban-parks-tool-of-communitarian.html</a><br />
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Blogger changed how to upload a picture, so I can't share all the memes I've been making. What happened to the "From your pc" option? I remember now I hated their new editing program and was losing enthusiasm for my blog before I had to go so deep into the hearts of my enemies. Funny thing, that article got us a new partner, a PhD who thinks we should get our due, and we're collaborating on a paper to submit for peer review. Giving our entire history of the work bored a lot of people, we were accused of "bragging," but many scholars and regular readers have let us know how much they got out of it, and this scholar is so incensed at Rosa's actions he wants to help us gain in stature. Says there are lots of PhDs but hardly any peer reviewed authors. HAHA I used to wish for peer review because I just thought it meant political scientists would tear apart our thesis. Yeash, just as I was moving on to Gertee full time, the ACL takes on a whole new dimension, and it's one I like. I can't wait to present papers at conferences before political scientists. I want to hear what they have to say.<br />
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In real life, Team Gertee is a contestant in the Alaska Cabin Fever Design Contest. Judging begins February 2015. This is what I'm spending most of my time on these days, We've also got a beautiful new Gertee, with a huge 4' skylight again with a well made cover. It hasn't got much below the teens; it's a very mild winter so far. Lots of things on our plate, been a such a crazy year it inspired us to finish making a full length documentary film about our life, our work, our Gertee challenges and obstacles. and our housing research. Nordica is directing and editing over ten years of footage and making a very conceptual film, what's called a Poetic Documentary, one of the oldest styles in film history. It's called "Dirty Gertee: an Alaskan Misadventure" and it has a facebook page. The Gertee Factory also has a facebook page. Our school is now called The Extreme Climate Housing School (TECHS). It has a facebook page. I'm on facebook too. If you're a real person, look me up.<br />
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I will be writing a piece about the UN religion, but for now all I can say is Merry Christmas to any readers I have left following this blog and to my new readers who land on old posts, Happy Holidays to all my friends, a bit of Alaskan cheer is coming your way. There's a few people, you know who you are, who made this blog a not so lonely place, and I thank you for that, because I often felt very, very alone in our work. Today our network is huge, way more than I'll ever know or I can keep up with, but it's great to live to see so many people get it. I am honored to have shared this learning experience with so many fine people, and have gained so much from having you in my life. I haven't lost faith or heart, but I did age fifteen years since I started. I'm not the same woman I was in 1999 when I flipped out at the Community invasion of our neighborhood, but I'd do it again, even knowing it would ruin my life and any chance at ever having a normal place in society.Because out of my passion for an outdated idea of liberty and naive faith in the law, Gertee was conceived. I wanted to research communitarianism full time, I was compelled to do it, and it made me look like I'd become a conspiracy theorist saying I saw aliens. Not to disparage alien theorists, but at the time, I was horrified that people who were unable to understand what we were writing could say we were crazy without THEM getting laughed at. We've been down a pretty rough road but , wow, what a gift it all turned out to be, every terrible thing started trash and ended as treasure. How is that even possible?Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-53303109959354876062013-12-13T21:25:00.000-08:002013-12-13T21:25:57.427-08:00Behind the Green Mask of Rosa Koire <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<i>Silent coup, holy coup, all are
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<i>Round Green Virgin kills mother and
child,</i></div>
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<i>Holy infanticide, death with a
smile,</i></div>
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<i>Die in heavenly peace, die so the
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Just as Jesus was born on a silent
night, Communitarianism was born of a silent coup. But now, after
centuries of quiet obscurity, Communitarians are popping up
everywhere! They too have risen!</div>
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Communitarianism is the miracle
ideology! It's the New World Religion. It's the New World Justice.
It's the New World Constitution. It's the New World Policing. It's
the New Human Rights. It's Big Mother! Everyone loves it. How can we
not? Gosh golly, even the Pope said Communitarianism is God's plan.</div>
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Communitarianism, according to the
Communitarians, is the final, perfect stage of human social
evolution. Anyone who does not embrace the Communitarian Goddess is
an unevolved heretic.</div>
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Thirteen years ago when the Anti
Communitarian League was first formed, most people we told about it
had never heard the word Communitarianism used once in their lives.
It appeared in so few dictionaries or encyclopedias published prior
to 1980, some people actually
accused us of making the word Communitarian up! It was so obscure it
also didn't seem very important to anyone. People figured if
it wasn't important enough to be on the news, then why should they
even care about it? It may not be recognized by facebook yet, but the
word is finally going mainstream. Now it's explaining what the word
means and why we oppose it that's the biggest challenge we face,
especially the way it's coming out.</div>
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We are convinced Communitarianism is an
emerging religious law that can have no logical opposition. If it is
allowed to continue manifesting without any barriers to its growing
power, everyone will soon learn that to deny the perfection of
Communitarianism is akin to denying the perfection of God. Our main
purpose in gathering so much research and writing so many papers,
articles, and our two books over the past ten years, was to expose
what we stumbled upon while researching what happened to us when the
City of Seattle used our neighborhood as a pilot test for
Communitarian Law in 1999.
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We identified Communitarianism as the
Philosophy behind the new law in March 2000. We found the theory so
repugnant we risked life, liberty and happiness to expose the new
legal system as a fraud. We endured years of ridicule,
semi-starvation and the loss of the love and respect of family and
friends. For some stupid reason, we always assumed when it finally
came out in the open, we'd be validated.</div>
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Today the word is used more and more as
if it's always been part of the American language. Did ya know? Jesus
Christ was a Communitarian. The American Revolution was a
Communitarian Revolution. The U.S. Bill of Rights was written as a
Communitarian clause. America is coming together as Communitarians,
because Communitarianism has always been a part of everything.
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We're hearing the word used frequently,
and only as a “good thing” by activists, Catholics,
Conservatives, Protestants, Muslims, Mormons, Pagans and even
atheists. We saw the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Zeitgeist and
Thrive Movements all come out as Communitarians. Community gardens,
neighborhood bbqs, people helping people... it's all now identified
as Communitarian.</div>
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It's really been amazing to witness it.
Writers suddenly throw the word out as if they've always used it and
everyone should know it's a “good thing” (some of the same ones
who told us we made it up ten years ago!). We're watching Tea Party
politicians move to the Communitarian middle (Sen Mike Lee, UT).
We're witnessing national constitutions being rewritten as
Communitarian (Bolivia, Scotland).
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Everything we wrote about
Communitarianism since 2000 is happening openly today. But, so far we
haven't received one apology from one person we know who mocked us
for our research. Our family and friends haven't forgiven us (or
themselves). Nobody has nominated us for a PhD or Pulitzer in
Investigative Journalism, either (hahahaha, as if). We still haven't
been officially recognized for creating an entirely new school of
philosophical thought because, under the dialectical theory, there can never BE any scientific argument
opposing the final, perfect synthesis of all other theories.</div>
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Just in case you were wondering, ours
is the only existing <i>reasoned</i> opposition. Why? Not because
Communitarianism is so perfect it cannot be scientifically thrashed.
It can. That part is almost easy. It is simply forbidden to speak of
it as if it isn't a valid, final, dialectical argument against
individualism. We broke the silent rule all dysfunctional families
know; we identified the elephant in the living room.</div>
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Our academic thesis has no proper place
in academia. Not even upper academia is allowed to study or explore
all sides of Communitarianism. Communitarian controlled academia
preaches one side of Communitarianism only. Same thing with politics.
There is no Anti Communitarian Party. There has never been one U.S.
Political party with the courage to identify Communitarianism as a
life threatening ideology. Our antithesis will never become part of
the American political debate. There is none.</div>
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Communitarianism is spreading like
wildfire across the planet, but only a very narrow, controlled view
of it is allowed to be discussed. Anti Communitarianism, the way we
define it, can never be recognized as valid, even though it is more
valid than the theory it opposes. Anti Communitarianism is actually
very simple to understand, because it's a clear argument against an
unclear declaration of perfection.
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We showed, <i>with a properly laid out
antithesis</i>, the Communitarian premise of their own perfection is
based in nothing. Communitarians cannot prove it to be <i>the</i>
superior theory or <i>the</i> superior law. There is no evidence to
support Communitarian claims of being chosen by God himself to
deliver the message of Communitarian harmony and peace to humanity,
so they can never allow for opposition arguments, especially one that
proves it to be a total scam (what <i>the Anti Communitarian
Manifesto</i> does!).</div>
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What we are seeing now is the word
being introduced in thousands of places, in hundreds of different
ways. It's cunningly introduced as a soft, fuzzy, milky ideology all
the way to “basically communism,” or, as in Scotland, as the
greatest thing to come down from Heaven since God gave Moses the
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In December 2002, we co-published our
now infamous paper called, <i>What is the Hegelian dialectic?</i> In
March 2003, we co-published <i>Part II, The Historical Evolution of
Communitarian Thinking.</i> We later named both parts <i>The Anti
Communitarian Manifesto</i>. Written to college standards, we stated
our premise and showed how we arrived at our conclusion that
Communitarianism is the final synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic.
We provided solid evidence to support our argument, and we included
the guru of the Communitarian movement, the Israeli Dr. Amitai
Etzioni, in our antithesis. We devoted years to uncovering Etzioni's
major role in the “quiet revolution.” Our research shows ample,
verifiable and conclusive evidence of Etzioni's position in the
entire global Communitarian coup.
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A decade later, Big Mother arises like
a Phoenix on the ashes of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Yet people
around the world are still forbidden to ask any of the important
questions about their global governance system. The elephant is so
huge it's stomping on everyone, everywhere, and we still can't talk
about it!
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The ancient, secret, <i>oral</i>,
religious, legal theory behind Communitarianism must remain a taboo
topic. Talmudic Law mixed with Cabala can <i>never</i> be identified
as the eugenicist mystery school driving supranational global
Communitarian Law. The truth about the “Tree of Life from Zion”
must remain concealed. Opposition to Amitai Etzioni must be ignored,
shut down, or co-opted. <i>Shhhhhh.</i></div>
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In places already completely
subservient to Etzioni under the Supremacy of Communitarian Law
clause, as in the EU, there can be no public discussion of the root
philosophy, lies, or false concepts that make up the Communitarian
legal theory. Thank goodness we are American writers. In our nation,
the Right to Freedom of Speech is protected under the First Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution. Lies that negatively affect the general
welfare of our citizens are not protected by law in our “free”
country.
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Nothing we wrote is unsubstantiated.
Nothing we wrote has even been proved to be unverifiable. We showed
exactly how the fake capitalist versus communist dialectic was
designed to lead directly to the Communitarian synthesis. We showed
the foundation for dialectical solutions comes directly from the
Talmud and the Cabala. We showed exactly how we found UN Agenda 21
Programme for Sustainable Development fits under the global
governance model called Communitarianism.
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The
United States is quietly replacing the U.S. Constitution with
Communitarian Law. Completely ignored by Western journalists, barely
mentioned by political “experts,” and never once appearing openly
on a ballot, a complicit, silent media (including the alternative
media) ensures the deadly transformation of American jurisprudence is
a great success! The only thing left to do now is mop up a few loose
ends and eliminate any traces of opposition, mainly the <i>Anti
Communitarian Manifesto.</i></div>
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We are the only <i>reasoned</i> line of
defense between local free people and global Communitarian Law. Our
Anti Communitarian research is so solid no one has seriously
attempted to show how we are wrong in our conclusion. The best the
opposition could manage in response to our thesis was to sneer, deny,
bury, mock, change the subject, and ignore us. But now, after over a
million people have read our original antithesis, after thousands of
people now know, from us, more about Communitarianism and Zionism
than anybody is supposed to know, our enemies resort to a hideous
deception.</div>
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Leading the latest wave of American
opposition to UN Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is a
California Democrat named Rosa Koire. Rosa promotes herself as an
expert. Expert in what? UN Agenda 21? Sustainability? Most certainly.
She knows as much about the UN Agenda 21 plan as her expert teachers
at the John Birch Society do. There's no doubt newcomers learn a lot
from her. Rosa knows exactly how the plan works to take American's
private property.</div>
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Rosa Koire read our original works on
Communitarianism in 2010 and emailed me to tell me it was
“excellent.” She re-named her 501(c)(4) the Post Sustainability
Institute and defined Post-sustainability as “the condition of
environmental, political, social, and economic systems after the
imposition of Communitarianism.” (Notice it does not say “law”.)</div>
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The PSI mission declares the PSI is a
“non-partisan, non-governmental think tank established to study the
impacts UN Agenda 21/ Sustainable Development and Communitarianism
have on liberty, by tracking the progression of the Sustainability
movement and forecasting likely outcomes.” The PSI mission says
Communitarianism is the “dominant form of world governance.”
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At a glance it all sounds great, and
even I was kind of okay with the PSI mission, at first. But the truth
is, the ACL is the only place in the world that published any
scientific, theoretical research about LA21 being part of global
Communitarian governance. Besides our long research topic page on
Agenda 21 and Communitarianism, first published at the ACL website in
2003, the ACL published the original and only existing reasoned
antithesis to Philosophical Communitarianism. Where are the papers
produced by Rosa Koire's PSI think tank? They don't exist. The PSI
“think tank” has never published one original scientific study on
Communitarianism showing it as the foundation for LA21.</div>
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Rosa
published her book about the plan, <i>Behind the Green Mask:
U.N. Agenda 21, </i>in 2011. The
first two lines of her book are “The arm of UN Agenda 21 is long
and reaches into every area of the world. The Philosophy of
Communitarianism pervades this plan.”
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Again,
there is no direct citation for Rosa's opening statement about
Communitarianism pervading the plan. She states it without ANY
attribution or showing how she arrived at this original conclusion.
She shows no valid scientific path she took or where she even got her
idea. She cannot defend it. She simply announces the Philosophy of
Communitarianism is behind Agenda 21 like she decided that was what
it is <i>with magic</i>. Rosa
cunningly states our copyrighted antithesis to Communitarianism over
and over, as if it requires no direct attribution and no clear
citation of her source.
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I called it robbery
when I finally read her book earlier this year. Rosa defended her
stealing it on my blog by saying our copyrighted, original antithesis
belongs to the “public domain.” As she is a “forensic
commercial real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain
valuation,” Rosa made her personal fortune off the government's
“right” to TAKE private property for the public good. Now she is
making money off our intellectual property, our copyrighted, private
property, protected by law under the U.S. Constitution, because she
decided it was necessary to TAKE it from us for the public good.
Rosa seems to think her “twenty-eight year career as an expert
witness on land use and property values” gives her some extra
special legal insight into what constitutes the value of our
intellectual property.</div>
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At first I was honored to be recognized
by someone of her caliber for all the published work we have put out.
After Rosa emailed me it quickly moved to voice, with us chatting it
up, sharing stories and gossip. I had the impression we were going to
become friends. I told her I was exhausted, sick, losing teeth and
steam after our decade of intense research and writing on Anti
Communitarianism. I was camping year round in Alaska (still am) and
barely scraping by. Sales of our books were slow, not enough to even
keep simple food on our table, so I was ready to do whatever she
asked of me in hopes it would increase ACL Book sales. When she
linked to the ACL and said I was a member of PSI Board of Directors,
I really thought the ACL finally had a strong ally. Except... I did
notice how she used our original thesis in her PSI mission without
attributing it to us anywhere in her mission statement.
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So, it shouldn't have been such a shock
to finally learn in 2013 that for the first 107 pages of her book
she used the term Communitarianism repeatedly to back up her Anti UN
Agenda 21 position, without once citing the ACL as her source for the
connection between the two. When she finally does mention me, just me
and NOT my co-author Nordica Friedrich, it's as if I'm just someone
who taught her about the Hegelian dialectic, because I'm the world's
“foremost critic” of Communitarianism.
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On page 108, Rosa says, “I learned
about the Hegelian Dialectic from Niki Raapana, the world's foremost
critic of Communitarianism. Her book, <i>2020: Our Common Destiny</i>,
is an excellent analysis of the supranational movement of Sustainable
Development. The Hegelian Dialectic is the philosophical basis for
Communitarianism. The idea is that true freedom only comes through
slavery to the state because then all free will is relinquished to a
higher order (government).”
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Is it clear to Rosa's readers at this
point that, “The Hegelian Dialectic is the philosophical basis for
Communitarianism” is our original thesis, or that everything they
read about Communitarianism for the last 107 pages of her book was
just an unattributed rip off of our original works? I seriously
doubt it.
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There are two co-founders of the ACL,
two authors of <i>What is the Hegelian dialectic?, </i>two
contributors to<i> 2020: Our Common Destiny, </i>and,<i>
2020: Our Common Destiny </i>is NOT
about the Hegelian dialectic.<i> </i>
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Rosa Koire knows how to speak up at
meetings and flyer neighborhoods, but she is not capable of writing a
whole new philosophical school of thought, as we did with our <i>Anti
Communitarian Manifesto. </i>Her
misleading and absolutely <i>wrong </i>explanation of
communitarianism, using watered down milk, is so unbelievably stupid,
I wonder why she bothered to try to “explain” it at all.
</div>
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Why did Rosa start out in her opening
paragraph denying the existence of Communitarian Law, EU
Communitarian Case Law and the acquis communitaire, Communitarian
Harmonization and Norms, the Earth Charter, the Declaration of Human
Rights, the Communitarian Constitution of Bolivia, the International
Court's Communitarian case against Pinochet, and other existing legal
documents with: “Communitarianism 'balances' the rights of the
individual. Because the rights of the community are not defined in a
constitution they can change without warning or notice; one's
individual rights are balanced against a continuously amorphous
rulebook.” We'll come back to this later.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Why didn't Rosa cite us as the source
for the additional ABCD research she ads to her personal story of Jim
Diers on pages 128 to 132, especially when she says “This is
Communitarianism.” on page 130?
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She refers to Seattle (where we learned
about ABCD in 2000), ties it all to “mapping community assets”
(Chapter Three in <i>2020)</i>, and almost verbatim quotes my 2005
<i>One Nation Under Siege</i> video interview where I describe the 11
page ABCD questionnaire. She refers her readers to the copy of it
posted at her website and neglects to mention we have an entire
chapter devoted to it. She got most of what she writes about ABCD and
mapping from us. We exposed the Obama's training in ABCD. We devoted
Chapter 4 of <i>2020</i> to the GIS and Mandatory Volunteerism.
Reading Rosa Koire's book, there is no indication that she “borrowed”
so heavily from two author's copyrighted works.
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Exactly like we did in our book <i>2020</i>,
Rosa begins her book “teaching” Communitarianism. Then she tells
the story of two womens' local resistance to the plan, and how they
found UN Agenda 21. Except for our <i>Big Mother's Double Tongued
Dictionary </i>and international
contributors, Rosa ends her
book exactly like we did too! Is it worth noting here that it was
Nordica Friedrich who laid out the entire format for <i>TACM</i>
and <i>2020</i>, Nordica who
made it a “story of how two women followed a paper trail from their
lowly Seattle neighborhood to the elite boardrooms of the United
Nations?”
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Did removing
Nordica's name and private property ownership from ALL our published
works make it easier for Rosa to steal it because she wasn't stealing
food directly from Nordica's babies' mouths? What WAS the point of
her doing that? It just doesn't make any sense. Did she take
Nordica's name off everything we published because Talmudic Law
requires “two witnesses” to report a crime?
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According
to Property Rights expert Rosa Koire, <i>Intellectual
Property,</i> U.S. copyright
claimed by poor authors like us who can show over a decade of
original, published work, can't be controlled by the minds that
actually created it and copyrighted it. It's simply not ours anymore!
Why does Rosa think <i>our</i>
intellectual property belongs to her and the public domain? Well, our
original, hard work is just so important we don't <i>get</i>
to own it. Is that a decision she made based on Talmudic Law?</div>
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There is one major difference between
our stories. We gave up everything to do our research, we went broke
to sue the City of Seattle, to build our massive website with over
10,000 exit links to direct sources, and to write our books. Rosa
boasts of her fund raising skills and tells readers about how her
neighbors jumped out of their seats to write checks so that she could
sue her city. Rosa Koire raised half a million dollars for her
lawsuit (and she's doing it again now). We never raised a dime.</div>
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We were just defending <b>principles</b>
in <i>Dawson v Seattle</i>, not <b>principal</b>, so we had no great
outpouring of support. We were not defending our own <i>land</i>, so
we had zero interest from other concerned land owners. We were just
poor tenants. No business leaders were on our side. We didn't have
homeowners on our side. (<i>What about the ACLU? That's another joke
on Americans</i>.) Nobody cared then, or cares now, if renters have
privacy rights or not. There wasn't one group in the nation willing
to help us fight the Israeli Community Policing innovative new home
invasion strategies. There still isn't one.</div>
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Rosa
writes on page 31: “Familiarize yourself with Communitarianism.
It's the political philosophy behind all of this. <b>It
</b>states the individual's
rights are a threat to the global community.” {emphasis added} <b>“It”</b>
doesn't state that! Who is <b>“it”</b>?
Are we an <b>“it”</b>?
We, Nordica Friedrich and Niki Raapana, are human beings. We stated
it, yes we did, that is part of our Anti Communitarian legal
analysis.</div>
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Rosa Koire's rise to the front of the
Anti Agenda 21 “movement” was accomplished by promotions of her
by Property Rights groups like the Eagle Forum, Tea Party, John Birch
Society, Michael Shaw of Freedom Advocates, and somebody she calls
“Mr. X.” We were never promoted by any of these groups, except
for a short time in 2008 when Michael Shaw began citing our work and
his wife sent us a few sweet donations. This ended abruptly when Shaw
changed his mind and began promoting the “Permanent Revolution”
work of Terry Hayfield (JBS), an online wacko who had been stalking
Nordica and I in internet forums and emails with a crew that all had
names from the <i>Wizard of Oz</i>. Patrick Woods, editor of the
<i>August Review,</i> and his son Jason can testify to that bizarre
scene.
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Michael Shaw dropped the word
Communitarianism from his Anti Agenda 21 lectures in 2009. He began
calling it “tyranny.” We never got any explanation of why he did
that. Tyranny? Rosa told me Michael Shaw's father is the one who
designed her vaguely familiar book cover, but who is the real author
of the outrageous claim in Rosa's book that Zionism has nothing to do
with UN Agenda 21 because Israel is a just a nationalist, tiny
country! Not even Rosa Koire is that brazen, is she?
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Why would Rosa Koire lie so boldly as
if nobody would notice her big lies? The path to answers starts by
looking at the missions of leading Right Wing “free enterprise”
capitalists. We see they almost all promote a “return” to
Biblical Law and Christian values. They don't just mean the Ten
Commandments, they mean Talmudic Law. Even U.S. Supreme Court
Justices and Bush II insisted the oral, mystical Talmud is the actual
basis for the entire American justice system in 2002. The big lie
goes unchecked.</div>
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The truth is, the deadly, silent global
Communitarian coup is almost complete, and the last thing the
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Communitarians need is for anyone to
understand what Communitarian Law is before it's a done deal.
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Why does Zionist Glenn Beck promote
Koire's plagiarized, milky version of our work, and not ACL Books?
Why does the Tea Party patriot movement promote Rosa Koire's milk and
lies alongside the John Birch Society, and not ACL Books? Why do the
Libertarians, the Ron/Rand Paul Right, Rockwell, von Mises, Tom Woods
etc. continue to ignore or barely name the most important economic
topic of the twenty-first century? Ever heard
of a Conservative Communitarian? Libertarian Communitarian?
</div>
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Why,
it's such an <i>amazingly perfect synthesis</i>
there's even Anarcho Communitarians now. The Third Way
synthesis merges all political ideologies and religions under
Communitarianism. It's not a murky combination of milk and water as
Rosa teaches. It's a murky combination of politics and mysticism. All
sides play a role. Rosa has obviously learned her far right Christian
Zionist pals play theirs expertly.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Our
2003 ACL mission statement is very clear that we do not endorse any
race, religion or culture that claims to be superior to everyone
else. Nordica often describes <i>2020</i>
as “our treatise against racism.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>2020: Our Common Destiny</i> shares
our conscript experience alongside evidence of U.S. Community Police
training in Israel, called “the Harvard of Anti Terrorism.” The
ACL<i> </i>provides an abundance of evidence of Etzioni's commitment
to Militant Zionism, and it's all taken from his own published works.</div>
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Rosa
calls identification of the role of Zionism part of “the
dialectic.” This is an utter twisting of our original thesis that
the Hegelian dialectical formula leads to Communitarianism. How
is it possible to remove the Zionist father of Communitarianism from
any expose of dialectical Communitarianism?
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The Zionist father of Communitarianism
has not only written over 30 books about the need to rebuild America
into a Communitarian society, his plan for a <i>More Muscular U.S.
Foreign Policy</i> is cited in <i>Daily Pentagon Briefings</i>. In
the world of Communitarian deceptions, any outrageous lie is
possible.
</div>
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What is global Communitarianism without
Etzioni, Zionism or Talmudic Law? <i>Watered down milk.</i></div>
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Rosa's real reason
for stealing all our ACL research and misleading readers into
thinking it is all hers is stated clearly by her on the top of page
31, “Calling it a Zionist plot is absurd considering that Zionism
is a nationalist movement that is completely opposed to the
dissolution of boundaries.”
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This reference Rosa
made to Zionism was her perfect opportunity to show her readers her
commitment to the whole truth, to full disclosure of the global
governance plan, by sharing all known facts with her readers. Doesn't
she trust her readers with all the facts? Why wasn't it important
enough for Rosa to mention at this point, or at any point in her book
when she said “Communitarianism,” that a lifelong Zionist, an
Israeli soldier adept in Cabala, whose name means he's the “tree
from Zion,” introduced the world to Communitarianism, and maybe
<i>that's </i>why some people might call it a Zionist plot? But of
course Rosa makes sure we get a geography lesson designed to lessen
the reality of Israeli influence based on its size: “(Israel is
about the size of Vancouver Island and slightly larger than New
Jersey.)”<i> </i>
</div>
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Facts are just
facts. It's impossible to deny Zionism is also a spiritual commitment
to Israel made by millions of Christians, worldwide, mainly as a
result of the new Schofield Reference Bible saying any Christian who
doesn't support Israel will go to Hell. Never mind that millions of
American non-Zionist taxpayers are forced to support Zionism to the
tune of trillions. Zionism is a lot more than a little nationalist
movement, and Rosa Koire is very cunningly deceptive when she tries
to bury <i>some </i>facts.
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How is it possible
to say such an idiotic thing when she's surrounded and paid very well
to speak by so many middle class American Christian Zionists? Besides
the Irgun family legacy assigned to Obama, Dr. Amitai Etzioni and
other notable “dual” citizens in positions of American power and
influence, besides the obvious American Jewish support for Israel,
there are millions of Christian Zionists in the USA. There are more
Zionists in America than there are in Israel. Rosa Koire doesn't know
that?</div>
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Rosa writes on page
31, “Another reason why you may not have heard of UN Agenda 21
before is because opposition is often conflated with anti-Semitism.”
The accusation of racism against Jews is a familiar tactic used
whenever anyone even barely mentions Zionism in a political science
paper, but this is the first time I have ever heard this! Opposition
to Agenda 21 was always <i>controlled</i> by Zionist Christians who
refused to link to our research because they said we were
“anti-Semitic.”
</div>
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We think this slur
is entirely unfounded, considering the factual reality that many Jews
worldwide are ANTI Zionist, just as we are. Zionism is NOT a race of
people. It's not even a religion, it's a political ideology, and
there's a lot of traditional, Biblical Jews in the world who not only
disagree with it, they vehemently oppose it. Jews who oppose
political Zionism are sneered at by the Zionists and called
“self-hating Jews.” If we have to be labeled as haters because we
oppose Zionism, it would be more appropriate to call us “self-hating
Americans.”
</div>
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I suppose Rosa's
readers don't need to know their holy Zionist Communitarian guru
Etzioni was financed entirely by another globe trotting Zionist named
George Soros, either. Rosa wants her readers in the dark forever. She
ridicules any of her readers who may ask pertinent questions about
Zionism. Is Rosa Koire a professional Zionist propagandist as well as
an expert in public domain takings?</div>
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So much for her PSI
claim to be “non-partisan!”
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The
extremely partisan Zionist “resistance” to LA21 has been trying
to shut us up for a long time. They tried so many different tactics
to get us to stop using the word Communitarianism, maybe someday I'll
write them all down. But wow, I gotta say now that having someone
steal our work and revise it to fit the politically active Zionist's
need for complete impunity... that's<i> a first</i>.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Zionists are not
the least bit interested in exposing any facts that point to their
influential role in furthering Communitarianism, and will shut down
any writer who does. We've been working on the fringe of the Anti
Agenda 21 arena for 13 years. I say fringe because our work was
outright rejected by the Anti Agenda 21 leaders, because we include
the taboo subjects of capitalism, Zionism, Talmudic Law, and Etzioni
in our research. <i>All we had to do to be “successful” was to
shut up about the law.</i></div>
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I was censored by
newswithviews for naming the Judaic Law Institute. We've been stalked
online and personally visited by Zionists for 12 years now. It's not
always the same method but it always ends at the same place; we get
told to back off. Sometimes our visitors are very friendly folks. In
2009, a U.S. Army Pentagon analyst and his wife came all the way to
Kenny Lake, Alaska to tell me to, “back off on the Mossad.” I
told Sgt Brian Bloomquist to go back to DC and put Etzioni's name in
his DoD Known Terrorist database, and then to tell the Pentagon to
send me a check for doing their job.
</div>
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Ten years ago,
Etzioni's office staff claimed in an online public forum that we said
Communitarianism was a Zionist plot. (One Etzioni assistant, Erin
Riska, confirmed some of our Etzioni research that was speculation at
the time we wrote it.) So, yes, we have heard ACL research is taboo
before, but the first time I heard <i>Agenda 21</i> called a Zionist
plot is when Rosa Koire took her place on the national stage.</div>
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Our rights to privacy and
self-determination were “balanced” because U.S. COPS
are taught in Israel that we have “too many rights in this
country.”<i> </i>National opposition to UN Agenda 21
wouldn't even begin until almost a decade after we were the pilot
test for Etzioni's SWAT home inspections.
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Rosa, who entered the arena almost two
decades after UN Agenda 21 was adopted at Rio, mentions all the
programs we wrote about. She knows Community Policing was a topic
page at the ACL since 2003, it's the title of Chapter Two in <i>2020</i>,
but she never refers to us, our research, or our story, not once when
she continually throws out program terms she took directly from ACL
research. Leaders of the Agenda 21 resistance never include our
grassroots experiences with Zionist Community Policing tactics.
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Our current book
project, <i>Round Green Virgin</i>, will be finished after we get the
funds to complete it. The hardcopy edition of <i>2020/TACM</i> was
such a financial disaster our enemies will say we should quit
publishing altogether! Certainly Rosa Koire demanded I quit. Rosa
insisted I hand it ALL over, so her and the Shaws could take control
of our books. (Michael Shaw is also the same man who quit citing us,
quit using the term Communitarianism, and then told me the word
Communitarianism would NOT be part of the Anti Agenda 21 “movement”
in 2009.) Her reason? People want the books they pre-paid for and I
owe her $1000 for the plane ticket to her 2011 Behind the Green Mask
conference.
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The fact that I was
really too sick to fly was not a valid “excuse” for not going.
When Nordica was all prepped and set to go in my place, Rosa refused
to allow her to come. Nordica Friedrich was not welcome to speak at
the first national conference focusing on Communitarianism and Agenda
21! (How's THAT for controlled opposition?) Of course Michael Shaw
was the Featured Speaker, and the rest, as they say, is history. As
for Nordica's copyright on both our books and her 100% ownership of
our website and our ACL Books company... well, let's just pretend she
doesn't exist, shall we?</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Rosa never once
offered to <i>purchase the rights</i> to reprint our copyrighted
research. She showed utter contempt for the decade of sacrifices we
made to create Anti Communitarianism. Our position as poor, humble,
non-affiliated authors always made us look like easy targets. So, why
pay for it?</div>
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Rosa spends half a
page admonishing her readers to drop any valid scientific inquiry (as
in <i>What is the Hegelian dialectic?</i>) because identifying
religious and political concepts is “not productive, not
realistic.” She says naming all the players, religions and economic
theories that make up the
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Communitarian
philosophy “feeds right into the dialectic.” Rosa says we all
need “to come together.”</div>
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Somebody please
explain to Rosa, after she's done singing her Beatles' tune, that a
legitimate study of Communitarianism must include all known facts
about it, or it is not a scientific study.
</div>
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The honest
scientist is not allowed to remove hard evidence from the table just
because they have a financial attachment to hiding that piece. Our
work was not non-profit, grant funded, or government controlled.
We've never been government employees! We don't censor facts. We
include every religion and every political system that contributes to
the final synthesis. We examine communism, capitalism, fascism,
socialism and Zionism, as they all relate to achieving the final
Hegelian dialectical synthesis.
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Zionism is a
political system based on dialectical religious law, and there is way
too much evidence of its influence on Communitarianism (and communism
and capitalism) to deny it. Who determined Zionism cannot be exposed
along with the theory it supports? Who decided to drop the most
important word “law” from any future discussion of
Communitarianism? And, why would they?</div>
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Rosa says in her
acknowledgments at the very end of her book that <i>my</i> books
“were invaluable in making sense of the source.” I find that so
vague. “Sense of the source?” What source? <i>My co-author
Nordica who she removed? </i> And, oh my God, if by I helped her make
sense of the source she means Hegel, then that's just over-the-top,
because based on her stupid water and milk demonstration, I obviously
didn't help her understand our antithesis against Hegel and
Communitarianism at all!
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Wait! She must mean
Dr. Etzioni! He is the true “source” of all modern
Communitarianism, is he not?</div>
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What <i>does</i>
Rosa Koire tell her readers about our Communitarian guru, Amitai
Etzioni, Dr. Tree of Life from Zion? What <i>does</i> Rosa Koire
write about our Communitarian guru's 60+ years in Israeli military
intelligence, his religio-political cult, his Fabian Socialist
mentors, his influence on the White House, his KGB global Community
Policing network, his global influence on local sustainability
projects, his programs for mandatory volunteerism, or the
Communitarian Network he founded in DC in 1990?
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Shhhhhhhh.
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Amitai Etzioni is hidden from her
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And... good grief... she says there is
only an “amorphous rulebook.” That's
so not true, not even in the U.S. where it's all very quietly done.
Communitarianism is not all shapeless soft law, Delphi Technique and
shaming. It's not only coming down under UN Agenda 21 or Sustainable
Development. It's not only an attack on American's Property Rights!
It's not an uncomfortably vague, unformed, unstructured plan or
program for development. It's a massive, very structured, organized
<b>global justice system</b>.
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On her very first page Rosa writes:
“the rights of the community are not defined in a constitution.”
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Why would she write something so easy
to be checked and so easily proven to be untrue? She knows the
Bolivians rewrote a Communitarian Constitution in 2009, two years
before she published her book. How will she explain the newly
revised Communitarian Scottish Constitution? <i>And the next one? </i>Did
she miss the part in our book where we cited the blueprint for Global
Communitarian Citizenship?</div>
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Rosa freely plagiarized our thesis and
program research, but she not only <i>avoided</i> our constitutional
law and Etzioni research, she purposefully negated it, as if<i>
somebody told her it was all taboo</i>.
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Rosa knows the 2005 EU Constitution was
written with a Communitarian Supremacy of Law clause. She knows the
foundation for trade unions under the WTO establishes Communitarian
Law. She read it in our book, a book full of direct source citations
of laws and constitutional changes, even in the U.S.
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Rosa knows the changes to the law in
the USA. She read, “In the state of Oregon, an evolving law of
search and seizure suggests that communitarian precepts can be
translated into workable and coherent State constitutional doctrine.”
<i>Taking Law Seriously: Communitarian Search and Seizure</i>,
American Criminal Law Volume: 27 Issue 4 Dated (1990) pp 583-617.
It's cited in <i>2020: Our Common Destiny.</i></div>
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What Rosa surely knows is, if we can't
look at Zionism, maybe we won't take Talmudic Law seriously,
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In 2012, the Communitarian Pachamama
cult unveiled their proposal for the <b>Eleven Laws of Nature</b>,
described as “Human Rights for Mother Earth.” The proposal calls
for a new UN international court with authority to try and convict
anyone, anywhere, in any nation, who violates Mother Earth laws.
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The <b>Affordable Health Care Act</b>,
taking effect right now in the USA, is a Communitarian Law. The
“right” to mandate purchase of health care insurance is based
entirely in Etzioni's vision for the world. The enforcement arm for
this U.S. Communitarian Law is the Internal Revenue Service, which
has been proved, in U.S. Courts, time and time again, to have no
constitutional authority to exist. The “right” to tax, fine,
shoot and jail citizens, to make them to pay for programs that
destroy their “right” to life, liberty and happiness, is a
Communitarian “right.” This is what Dr. Etzioni means by
“balance.”
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On January 1, 2013, Pope Benedict
declared, “Communitarian Development is God's Plan.” Should we
all be preparing for an Inquisition against anyone or any nation who
defies development?
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What lengths will the Communitarians go
to ensure the success of their global coup, besides misleading
basically decent, kindhearted Americans? We need look no further than
the bombed out ancient civilizations in the Middle East, some very
stubborn holdouts against Etzioni's <i>more moral,
peaceful</i> Communitarianism.</div>
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The phony, circular, go-nowhere
dialectical wars between the Americans and the Arab world are
absolutely necessary to leading the unwashed refugee Arab masses to
accepting sub-nation status under Communitarian Harmonization of
Norms. History shows us the Arab nations were strong American allies
all the way up until 1948, before Etzioni and his terrorist buddies
took over Palestine. The first really successful Communitarian
project put the Palestinians behind a “Berlin” wall. The Green
Space between national law and Communitarian Supremacy of Law is not
a hidden agenda. The only “green mask” over UN Agenda 21 in the
Middle East is the one the Zionists use to shield it from Americans.
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There have been a few minor glitches to
the plan. There are actual human beings involved as pawns, and they
are sometimes unpredictable. But, regardless of how the war actually
began, and why, the demands the Syrian refugees make now come
directly from the old Zionist-communist playbook. Demands for
positive Human Rights, very caring people insisting on fake UN rights
that lead to final destruction of the world's most ancient Muslim
strongholds, these are powerful Communitarian tools.
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Communitarian developers are all over
the world now; fellow travelers work their activist magic to foment
the changes. The difference between cons and locals is simple; real
locals fight to win and END the conflicts, whereas destruction of
people, cultures, religions and neighborhoods is the Communitarian's
first and primary goal. The cons
feed off the<i> RE-building </i>too<i>.
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They <i>love</i> rivers of local blood
and millions of homeless refugees. Their only real job is to ensure
the locals argue dialectically until the cows come home or keep
shooting 'til there's no more bullets, so they can sink their
Communitarian development plan into the veins of the peace talks and
settlements, as the only “moral” solution.
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Hollywood actress turned UN Goodwill
Ambassador Angelina Jolie touched the hearts of millions with her
recent plea to help Syrian refugees. The new Communitarian high
priestess (miraculously reborn into Mother Teresa II) didn't explain
her humanitarian interest in Syria coincides with her family's
financial investments in the UN Millennium Development Goals in
Cambodia and U.S. Cities.
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Pro-Syrian refugee activists insist her
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The authenticity of famous people or
experts teaching us “truths” is really not an issue, is it? So
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if our heroes support a few “nice”
Communitarian programs, like Rosa's story about how she got involved
in fighting UN Agenda 21 because she wanted to volunteer to do some
Community Service.
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Supranational global governance is
based upon Communitarian Law. The Law is a perfectly balanced
mystical combination of all the world's philosophies, all the way
back to the beginning of human history. The authors of this new age
religion, of this complex global law religionalized, are busy as
little bees incorporating every religion and legal system on the
planet. No religion, no nation is safe.
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What about that peculiar U.S. barrier
to an Established State Religion at the foundation of American
religious tolerance? Oh, you mean
the ridiculous American LAW that declares everyone is <i>free</i>
to follow their own conscience? Don't ya know? It's outdated and
spiritually unevolved. It doesn't apply!
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As our sweet little old Israeli
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“The First Amendment's
Disestablishment clause is not a foreign policy tool, but a
peculiarly American conception. Just because the
American government is banned from promoting religion within the United States does not mean
that the State Department and the Pentagon cannot promote religion
overseas and in societies that are undergoing profound societal
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Etzioni
continues, “<b>The last
point is crucial. </b>Overseas
we are participating as a key architect and builder of new
institutions; we are in what social scientists call 'the design
business.'”
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The key U.S.
architect rebuilding Arab religious institutions is Etzioni. We're to
believe the Arabs hate the U.S. because they “hate our freedoms,”
not because we're in the “design business.”</div>
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<b>Time for a Happy Holiday drink!
Here's a new alcohol free recipe with a punch: </b>
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Mix ½ cup
Etzioni's vision with ½ cup Bolivian claims that their 500 year old
Goddess Pachamama is rooted in their ancient Communitarian
traditions. Add 4oz shot of U.S. Senator Mike Lee (UT) and his Mormon
Communitarianism. Top it off with the Vatican calling it all “God's
plan.” Spice it up with the Islamic Communitarian Imperative by the
Futhula Gulen in Turkey and Chiara Lubich Communitarian spirituality.
Liberally garnish with American Methodist Communitarian soul. Slide
angelic Lucifer enlightenment down the straw. Stir lightly. Now, take
a drink and see if you can keep from gagging.</div>
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What kind of new theory of global
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Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-85889130013545999792013-11-22T12:10:00.000-08:002013-11-22T12:29:15.786-08:00Tea Party Communitarian By JONATHAN COPPAGE • November 19, 2013<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.3125em; padding: 0px;">
There's a very good reason I've never identified with the Conservative Right. Many Conservatives support the ACL because we publish facts they use. They simply respect our quality of work. Many conservatives are put off because I don't identify myself as a Conservative or a Christian. They ask me to. I won't. If I did, I'd have a lot more readers, supporters, and a lot more promotions. If I were anything, even a Lesbian Democrat, I'd be a lot better off than being what I am. In order to appeal to my countrymen I must wear a label. But I don't identify myself as anything but anticommunitarian, and the American people have yet to become aware of what that means. </div>
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Once I identified the thesis and the antithesis leading to the communitarian synthesis, I became aware of the dialectical roles each "side" plays in promoting the communitarian synthesis. After that I could never participate in any "side" that helps the communitarians. Then we showed with our antithesis how the evidence verifies the transformation of all societies into one big blob. Okay, so I never described it as a "blob," but maybe I should have! People know what that word means.</div>
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Today the communitarian synthesis (or blob) is manifesting in the Tea Party. I warned Americans this was going to happen in my Open Letter to Local Tea Party members in 2010. <a href="http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-letter-to-all-members-of-local-tea.html" style="background-color: transparent;">http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-letter-to-all-members-of-local-tea.html</a></div>
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Either I have special powers of divination, God told me what to write, or I'm a damn good journalist. Whatever I am, I am the ONLY writer in the world who saw this coming and warned the public about it years before it happened. Now there's a "Tea Party Communitarian"! Oh yeah.</div>
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Mike Lee is an unlikely candidate for conservatism’s most promising policy mind. A Tea Party firebrand since he swept into office in 2010, Lee was the driving force behind efforts to defund Obamacare that led to a 16-day government shutdown this October. Yet the past year has also seen him reveal another side to his populist conservatism: a communitarian agenda for policy reform.</div>
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At the American Enterprise Institute in September, Lee set out a tax-reform proposal centered around a per child tax credit that would apply to income and payroll taxes alike. At the unveiling, Lee said: “Now, if you are like me—a conservative with a libertarian streak—you might at first raise an eyebrow at all this. My plan, you might say, may share some features of traditional conservative tax reform but it’s no flat tax. It’s no consumption tax,” two policies long favored by conservative for their economic efficiency or ostensible fairness.</div>
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“That’s right,” he continued. “It’s better.”</div>
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With the slightest hint of braggadocio that only a humble Utahn can muster, Lee broke with the economic individualism of the conservative establishment to prioritize instead the family, “the first and foremost institution of civil society.” There was a sound economic basis for this, to be sure. Lee drew attention to what he called the “Parent Tax Penalty” whereby parents doubly contribute to entitlement programs through their taxes and the expenses they incur raising future taxpayers. And he insisted, “Here, I am not speaking about the family as a moral or cultural institution, strictly as a social and economic one.” But that in itself is significant: the family, not just the individual, is what economics must be about.</div>
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“Conservatives sometimes get criticized for putting too much emphasis on the family in policy debates,” he acknowledged. But “the real problem may be that we don’t think about the family enough. For family is not just one of the major institutions through which people pursue happiness. Is the one upon which all the others depend.”</div>
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At the Heritage Foundation in April, Lee delivered a communitarian manifesto of sorts entitled “<a href="http://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2013/4/what-conservatives-are-for">What Conservatives Are For</a>.” He emphasized “that the true and proper end of political subsidiarity is social solidarity” and explained that his “vision of American freedom is of two separate but mutually reinforcing institutions: a free enterprise economy and a voluntary civil society.”</div>
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Lee’s proposals focus on relieving burdens on the institutions that strengthen society in their everyday practice. This outlook goes straight back to his Utah origins. “We’ve always been a state that has had strong institutions of civil society, very strong neighborhoods, very connected neighborhoods where people know each other,” the senator tells me. “Sometimes people are quick to assume that that just refers to people who are members of my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but it’s not just that. There’s a very strong neighborhood dynamic in Utah that perhaps traces back to the way we were settled,” he explains.</div>
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“People had traveled great distances, sometimes thousands of miles to get there to what was initially a fairly desolate desert. The Salt Lake Valley was said to only have one or two trees when the first Mormon Pioneers arrived in 1847, and it required people to work together a lot to build these communities, to make the desert blossom like a rose. And that has become part of our culture, and it has thrived.”</div>
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Communitarian concern for the social fabric and libertarian resistance to big-government interventions fit together naturally for the Utah senator. “Lee has been eager to show that social conservatism and concern for the family doesn’t speak a different language than his kind of constitutionalism and limited government-ism,” says Yuval Levin, editor of the policy quarterly <i>National Affairs</i>. Levin is encouraged by the direction he sees leaders like Lee taking.</div>
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“I think there’s been a tendency for a decade or more in conservatism to move away from communitarian talk to a much more individualist talk, and it’s very much in need of counterforce,” he says. “Conservatism needs to be a counterweight to radical individualism, not an enabler of it, and to me to see that being expressed again is really crucial.”</div>
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At AEI, Lee opened his proposal by speaking of “a new and unnatural stagnancy” that has trapped the poor and worn down the middle class. There are the beginnings here of a different way of talking about the economy, in contrast to the GOP’s old prosperity gospel for the upwardly mobile. Republicans a year ago proved all too ready to fan the flames of upper-class resentment with talk of the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax. Lee rebukes that mentality, pointing out at AEI that “people who pay no income tax do pay federal taxes—payroll taxes, gas taxes, and various others,” and squarely declaring, “Working families are not free riders.” <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/archive/novemberdecember-2013/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(161, 174, 215); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #27338d; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Web issue image" class=" wp-image-104031 alignright" height="286" src="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Web-issue-image.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 0.75em; max-width: 36.25em;" width="190" /></a></div>
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Lee rails upward instead, against the cronyism that big government and big business together have cultivated at the taxpayer’s expense. “At the top of our society, we find a political and economic elite that—having reached the highest rungs—has pulled up the ladder behind itself, denying others the chance even to climb,” he warned at AEI. At Heritage, he went so far as to say, “The first step in a true conservative reform agenda must be to end this kind of preferential policymaking. Beyond simply being the right thing to do, it is a prerequisite for earning the moral authority and political credibility to do anything else.” How, he asked, could working families take seriously a conservatism that props up and subsidizes big banks and corporate agricultural interests?</div>
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For a GOP long seen as the party of entrenched financial interests, populist credibility must be won back, and a deregulation agenda alone won’t cut it. This is where Lee’s rugged communitarianism is especially vital to his cause. In his Heritage speech, he described the conservative vision as “not an Ayn Rand novel. It’s a Norman Rockwell painting, or a Frank Capra movie: a society of ‘plain, ordinary kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too’. ”</div>
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In the last few years, we conservatives seem to have abandoned words like ‘together,’ ‘compassion,’ and ‘community’ as if their only possible meanings were as a secret code for statism. This is a mistake. Collective action doesn’t only—or even usually—mean government action. Conservatives cannot surrender the idea of community to the left, when it is the vitality of our communities upon which our entire philosophy depends.</div>
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Lee’s understanding of civil society redirects what often seems like a pure populist backlash—a mere reaction—to finding constructive ways in which limited-government constitutionalists can act on James Madison’s notion that government is for “the happiness of the people” and Abraham Lincoln’s idea that it ought “to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all.”</div>
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But can Lee sell his communitarian message to his fellow constitutionalists? Levin is hopeful: “He has a shot because to a certain extent he’s filling a vacuum, and that means he really has an opportunity to shape the arena the way he wants to.”</div>
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As Lee himself said at AEI: “For a political party too often seen as out of touch, aligned with the rich, indifferent to the less fortunate, and uninterested in solving the problems of working families, Republicans could not ask for a more worthy cause around which to build a new conservative reform agenda.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/x915445929/Gerson-The-communitarian-tea-partier?rssfeed=true">http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/x915445929/Gerson-The-communitarian-tea-partier?rssfeed=true</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.capjournal.com/opinions/columnist/the-communitarian-mike-lee/article_76f2773c-51a7-11e3-b8da-0019bb2963f4.html">http://www.capjournal.com/opinions/columnist/the-communitarian-mike-lee/article_76f2773c-51a7-11e3-b8da-0019bb2963f4.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2013/11/19/how-mike-lee-is-changing-the-republican-party-n1749558">http://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2013/11/19/how-mike-lee-is-changing-the-republican-party-n1749558</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590873/Utah-Sen-Mike-Lee-emerges-as-a-communitarian.html">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590873/Utah-Sen-Mike-Lee-emerges-as-a-communitarian.html</a><br />
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Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-26026058172015712752013-11-22T09:37:00.000-08:002013-11-22T09:39:11.841-08:00Opposition to Common Core by Zandra Bishop<div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;">
A friend of ours wrote this speech to testify publicly to her opposition to Common Core. Very concise rebuttal that shows the level of comprehension many American parents have. Common Core is an important Communitarian educational program that will serve our children to Pachamama on a silver platter.<br />
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Common Core is an industrial model that grooms students into compliant servants who won't have the audacity to question, experiment, innovate, and compete against their generous benefactors who cling to their buggy whips, bureaucratic temples, and smoke-filled back rooms. We can no longer allow our kids to be treated like some form of property to be exploited by this beast. No one is the property of another to be treated this way and to think otherwise is to accept slavery.</div>
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I am commenting for the purpose of stopping the final adoption of Common Core Standards but more than that I am commenting to offer alternative ideas for improving education. Effective education does not require massive amounts of money and there is certainly evidence to back this up. (Attachment 1. "How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses" *Hint- it's not that new.) America was built on the efforts of individuals with eight grade, one room schoolhouse educations. Often less! (Attachment 2. "Advantages of the One-room Schoolhouse Approach to Teaching") And those individuals were empowered by being taught HOW to learn, instead of just being fed what to learn because it's on "the test". (Attachment 3. "Trivium 5-page Summary")</div>
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I realize it's pretty late in the game since this is the final vote but I truly hope our kids, and our teachers, will be spared this corporate-state conscription. Our kids are not robots, our teachers are not robots, and none of them deserve to be treated like they are.</div>
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Our kids are creative, innovative, bundles of potential. Teach them how to learn then get out of their way while they create their futures.</div>
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If Common Core is given final authorization I predict you'll start feeling serious blow-back from the public. There is already a national movement to opt-out of high-stakes testing. Our family may very well join.</div>
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I WILL not allow my kids to be guinea pigs for this latest round of educational experimentation. I WILL not allow my kids to be herded into corporate-state servitude.</div>
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If things become less than tolerable? I would fully support my kids dropping out of school, for the purpose of continuing their education free from the corporate-state. and, I would gladly support others and organize with them to turn that into a movement.</div>
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Ps. I don't want my kids to be "college and career ready", I want my kids to be entrepreneurs who EAT those guys for breakfast!</div>
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Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-33873309030255058512013-10-15T08:59:00.001-07:002013-10-15T08:59:35.299-07:00Civil society, human rights and Jewish-Israeli communitarians by LIORA SIONZionist founder of the Communitarian Network, Amitai Etzioni, preaches communitarianism as a universal ideology. The Pope preaches it as a universal spirituality. Yet in practice and principle... it's pure racism.<br />
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In many parts of the world, ordinary people view universal human rights as a “good thing,” something to support and enforce. Many Jewish Israelis will likely say the same, but only for people living elsewhere; Tibet, perhaps, or even Syria. When it comes to the Palestinians, I doubt many Israelis would feel the same way.</blockquote>
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I’ve interviewed many United Nations representatives about their work on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and most say Jewish Israelis are not aware of, and do not <em>want </em>to be aware of, the conditions facing Palestinians living just a few miles down the road. For all intents and purposes, as far as most Jewish Israelis are concerned, Palestinians reside on the moon.<br />
As an Israeli citizen, academic, and human rights activist, I have to agree with those assessments.<br />
In openGlobalRights, Jesse Montell, director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/jessica-montell/making-universalism-resonate-locally" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">argues</a> that the Israeli human rights community can and should expand its support base within Israel. I agree, but am not particularly hopeful. Jewish-Israeli civil society is not strong, and there is a growing gap between the Israeli human rights community, on the one hand, and the majority of Israeli Jews, on the other.<br />
Ashutosh Varshney, a noted scholar of Indian politics, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Conflict-Civic-Life-Muslims/dp/0300100132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379350754&sr=8-1&keywords=ashutosh+varshney" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">writes</a> that civil societies are often implicated in communal and ethnic conflict. This is very true for Israel. For many years, there was little division between state and civil society in Israel. As a result, what passed for “civil society” in the country was as much a protagonist in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the Israeli state itself, and the state’s security forces. As scholar Uri Ben Eliezer <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-6443.00068/abstract" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">shows,</a> this is part and parcel of a long-standing tradition, in which the Israeli state enveloped and engulfed civil society, leaving little distinction between rulers and the ruled. Scarred by the horrors of the Holocaust, Israeli state and society were joined at the hip, welded together in an all-encompassing Zionist consensus. <br />
It is true, as Montell <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/jessica-montell/making-universalism-resonate-locally" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">says</a>, that a new and more autonomous civil society has begun to emerge in Israel, one whose core logics are post-Zionist, cosmopolitan, and universalist. This new civil society is challenging Zionist communitarianism, calling instead for the inclusion of marginalised groups, such as African foreign workers and refugees living in south Tel Aviv.<br />
Many Jewish Israelis do not welcome this new cosmopolitanism, however, and the Holocaust’s bitter legacy gives the communitarians more influence than the Jewish universalists. As a result, many Jewish Israelis view today’s post-Zionist human rights groups as national traitors, rather than as universalist heroes. <br />
Consider, for example, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06israel.html?_r=0" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">campaign against the New Israel Fund</a> (NIF), a Jewish foundation that supports many of Israel’s most cosmopolitan civil society organizations, including Jewish groups fighting against religious coercion, and those supporting women’s liberation and empowerment of the poor.<br />
As a result of this campaign, you have only to mention that “funding was provided by the NIF” for most Jewish Israelis to reject the project or organization outright. This is in part because the NIF also supports groups such as the<a href="http://www.mossawacenter.org/en/" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">Mossawa Center</a> or <a href="http://adalah.org/eng/" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">Adalah</a>, both of which promote the rights of Israel’s Palestinian Arab citizens. Those groups, along with the NIF, are viewed as enemies, traitors, and anti-Semites.<br />
Ian Lustick <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/ian-s-lustick/human-rights-%E2%80%9Chuman-beings%E2%80%9D-and-israel" style="color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;">argues in openGlobalRights</a> that Israel, like South Africa, is heading toward pariah status. I agree. I do not believe, however, that the international boycott campaign will help convince many Jewish Israelis that Israeli <em>policies</em>, rather than anti-Semitism, lies at the root of their isolation. Instead, a boycott is more likely to convince them even further that the world is against Israel for no good reason, thanks in part to the traitorous behavior of Jewish Israeli human rights organizations serving as Western or anti-Semitic spies.<br />
The international boycott campaign, in other words, plays straight into the hands of the Jewish-Israeli right wing. You cannot threaten a sieged mentality society with a boycott.</blockquote>
Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-47038593146398048062013-08-29T18:25:00.001-07:002013-08-29T18:25:25.907-07:00The Hands and Feet of Christ and the Identifying Marks of a Communitarian Social Justice Agenda by Donna MartinVery important research into the church's adoption of communitarianism:<br />
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<a href="http://thecommunitariantrap.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-hands-and-feet-of-christ-and.html">http://thecommunitariantrap.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-hands-and-feet-of-christ-and.html</a>Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-19862528432984548182013-08-10T17:53:00.003-07:002013-08-10T18:02:01.245-07:00Upcoming radio interviewsI'll be a guest on the Deanna Spingola Show on Monday, August 12, 2013, at 8AM Alaska Time.<br />
<a href="http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/">http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/</a>. She has a live chat room during her shows too. <a href="http://www.spingola.chatango.com/">http://www.spingola.chatango.com/</a><br />
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I'll be a guest on the Pete Santelli show Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 10AM Alaska Time.<br />
<a href="http://petersantilli.com/">http://petersantilli.com/</a>. Mr Santelli has been in "da news" lately... <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/pete-santilli-hillary-clinton_n_3299247.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/pete-santilli-hillary-clinton_n_3299247.html</a><br />
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I believe both shows take calls.Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-22192731244062105792013-06-03T15:17:00.001-07:002013-06-05T10:48:12.532-07:00Community versus Community<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Profits from the transfer of control over the local economy to the community are incalculable. For 20 years LA21 planners bragged how much effort they put into enticing locals to be in their planning process. Where they advertised is key to their success, and some locals were happy to become partners in the global scam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Trained to follow TV news and kowtow to academic titles of nobility, working class people don't choose to spend their precious few leisure hours talking about how to build a stronger community. Whatever that is, it sounds way too boring. Commoners don't do things they don't enjoy unless they're forced to. If it's not reported on TV or in local papers, it can't be very important, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">LA21 legislation, usually in the Whereas portion, lists the hilarious ways locals were informed of the planning meetings. If 500 out of 300,000 residents show up and participate, that is considered a very, very good turnout. The City may even get a special award for Community Participation if less than one percent of the population participates in writing the final draft. Even if there is public opposition to it, in most cases it passes the local legislature without one dissenting vote. Elected officials adopt most everything the community asks for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">According to the communitarians who promote the "need" for the new plans, and then lead the planning process from start to finish, uneducated common people cannot understand the lofty purpose for the plans. Only a small group of trained experts are capable of determining the future use of local land and resources. It's a huge sacrifice they've made helping the rest of the world with their superior intelligence. To doubt their motives is akin to doubting God. Pope Benedict declared, "Communitarian development is God's plan" on January 1, 2013. LA 21 plans are long and filled with complicated new regulations. It takes the Bible, the Talmud/Cabala, the Koran and exegesis to comprehend God's secrets. Average people are confused (and bored) by the planning meetings as well as the plans, therefore their exclusion is justifiable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Few unenlightened souls are found in community oriented groups. It's not hard to keep them out. The community isn't exactly friendly to non-grant funded working class people. This isn't local carpenters, farmers, housewives, bartenders or factory workers planning the future. Even if they have the intuition and courage to speak up, commoners haven't an inkling of the grandiose community purpose, so they never address the bottom line. Auto mechanics can't see any good reason why they should go sit through 100 meetings about bike paths. The ads inviting locals to attend the meetings say many different things, but the ads never even hint at the power the plan with have over the local economy. So, not only do our neighbors not go, they could care less what happens at endless meetings. Why should they care about livability and quality of life (whatever that is)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The only people who join the LA21 community planning process are people who were pre-trained and are often paid to join it. The committed people controlling both sides, including the fake opposition, either have degrees in the fields created by the communitarians, like urban planning, environmental law/activism, sustainable development and socio-economics, or they are financed by rich communitarians, or they have a business that stands to profit from the plans, like green building/products, eco-tourism, earth stewardship training, climate change research, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Many LA21 planners who "volunteer" for the new community are government or ex-government employees. In the cities, they work for recently added agencies and departments created by the communitarians. Just a few of them are Department of Neighborhoods, City Manager, Community Police, Community Development and Homeland Security. In the rural areas the community is full of BLM, Department of Forestry/Agriculture, Tribal governments, public school teachers, Dept of Transportation, and Community Mental Health Services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Every member of the LA21 planning community has made a commitment to making a profit on sustainable community development principles. Every business member helping LA21 planners write the plans made the same commitment. Anyone who tries to participate without dedicating themselves to the development community will find their participation severely marginalized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyone questioning the new junk science that justifies LA21 law is labeled, ridiculed, attacked and discounted. Legitimate questions about the plan are deflected by the Communitarian Left with tirades against the Communitarian Right. Cons on both sides of the political spectrum allow for no scrutiny of the community system. The less we all know about it, the easier it is for the community. Even the authentic local environmentalists who attend LA21 meetings in good faith quickly see that the LA21 planners will not include their suggestions in the final plan, unless it helps to achieve the desired LA21 outcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Locals aren't told LA21 plans justify the community government's new powers to invade and take private property. Locals are never told LA21 plans establish the framework for community governance. Locals are never told Communitarian Supremacy of Law grants the community limitless regulatory control over all local business, resources, and people. Locals are never told anything about Community Law. They don't even hear about it when they are fined and jailed for violating it. Millions have lost businesses, property and freedom to the community, without having a clue as to why or how the transfer took place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Community Developers write Community Laws that are adopted by Community Councils and enforced by Community Police. In order to stop the LA21 plan, commoners around the globe have got to take back their local communities. Locals could follow the communitarians' advice for Mapping and Mobilizing Community Capacity. ** Commoners can also go house to house, block by block, town to town doing knock-and-talks and survey for assets. Anyone can assess and mobilize local citizens for capacity to resist the communitarian con.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich founded the Anti Communitarian League (ACL) in 2001, changed it to ACL Books in 2006. The ACL is not affiliated with any political, religious or fraternal organization. The ACL has published over a thousand free online articles on LA21 & Communitarianism, many cited in academic papers. ACL research was used in several lawsuits, including Dawson v Seattle (2002). Both women have appeared on numerous radio shows and occasionally do public speaking engagements. They co-wrote two books, "The Anti Communitarian Manifesto" and "2020: Our Common Destiny". Combined and updated in 2012, they are available only at the ACL Books website, nord.twu.net/acl.</span></em> </div>
Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-68035216664840829052013-04-17T18:49:00.000-07:002013-04-17T18:49:51.179-07:00Zionist Communitarian control of the anti-Agenda 21 movement<div style="text-align: justify;">
In 2000, we identified Communitarianism as the legal system supporting Agenda 21. We identified the "guru" of the <a href="http://communitariannetwork.org/">Communitarian Network</a>, whose own writings tell us he was a <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1102/etzioni.html">terrorist</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitai_Etzioni">soldier</a> and now a <a href="http://blog.amitaietzioni.org/2013/04/israel-65-years-ago.html">planner</a> in the Zionist takeover of British Palestine. I quickly understood why some Christians would never consider these facts, but I've been trying to understand why so many of the Americans actively opposing Agenda 21 and claiming to be on our "side" avoided discussing Communitarianism and its root philosophy, Zionism, for 13 years. </div>
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I couldn't understand why the Liberty movement took no interest in the Communitarian philosophy either, especially after Washington Post Columnist E.J. said the last battle would be fought between the Libertarians and the Communitarians. When the leaders of the Libertarian Party REFUSED to acknowledge that challenge, told me the word was "too hard" for Americans, I was confused by that. I waited for Ron Paul to say the word just ONCE during his Liberty campaign, and his silence did nothing to alleviate my suspicions that all was not as it seems in the Liberty corner.</div>
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It's recently been revealed that Ron Paul's Homeschooling program is connected direcly to Christian <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/north7.html">Futurist Dispensationism</a>. This explains to ME why RP, Tom Woods and all the other Von Mises "liberty" economic proponents refused to discuss or debate Communitarianism.</div>
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Now it's been revealed that Rosa Koire, who is the only person out their speaking against Agenda 21 who alludes to the term "communitarian" in her speeches (but never fully explains it), is censoring the most relevant FACT about it. On page 31 of her book, Behind the Green Mask, she does a very tricky thing. In the top half of the page she writes, "calling it a Zionist plot is absurd" and the bottom half of the page encourages her readers to "Familiarize yourself with communitarianism." Rosa learned ALL the facts about Communitarianism when she read both our "excellent books" (her words) about it in 2009, but when she included our research in her book in 2011, she used it on the same page where she negated our research as "absurd." Sure, she cites us in the back somewhere (not on the page where she distorts our original thesis), and she has links to us from her websites, but so what...so does Etzioni and the Communitarian Network.</div>
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<br />Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-77008285451831142942013-04-05T20:49:00.000-07:002013-04-05T20:49:54.238-07:00Webinar on Communitarianism April 13, 2013<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Our first webinar on Communitarianism is on April 13, 2013, at 2:30 to 4:30 PM Alaska Time. Enrollment for each class is limited to 10. The cost is 40.00 USD, payment accepted via paypal only. Email registration requests to nikiraapana@gmail.com. Make your reservation today! Scholarships available.</span><br />
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The communitarian ideolgy has penetrated deep into the American heartland. From the colleges to the K-12 programs, it is 100% Communitarianism being taught to the future leaders of the USA. <a href="http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Communitarian_ResLife_Movement">The Communitarian Residence Life Movement in Delaware</a> is just the tip of the iceberg. Our people are jumping on the Communitarian "feel good" bandwagon like there's no tomorrow. In Madison, Wisconsin, The Hamilton Middle School Handbook open with:</div>
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The communitarians have been run out of places all over the world, but their power in the USA grows stronger every day. All our businesses and our schools promote communitarian ideology like volunteerism, sacrifice, social equity, responsibility, service, Quality of Life, Sustainable Development, Livability, Stewardship, Environmental Ethics and Cultural Diversity. The hottest new field, where all the big grant money flows, is climate change "research: and Sustainable Development. If you're not studying how to micro-manage people and willing to sell out their freedom to secure your own financial sucess, you're just not a very nice person.</div>
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The Communitarians are hearing from their victims across the EU, but in North America, our people are completely duped into thinking slavery is freedom, and our protests are still of the most civilized sort. We vote, write letters, and give public testimony at meetings. When the Communitarians show up to steal our land and homes, we form a kindergarten committee.</div>
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Global Warming environmental policy and law is openly defined as communitarian. This is but one of the many ways Communitarian governance is introduced into formerly sovereign nations.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.99431800842285px;">"The issues of environmental protection, rational nature usage and conduction of communitarian policy in the ecological field are among the most substantial elements of the expanded European Union activity." </span><a href="http://geoeconomics.ge/en/?p=2759#.UVYnchw3upd" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #7d7d7d;"><span style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px;">Sakartvelos Ekonomika, </span></span><span style="color: #7d7d7d; line-height: 20.99431800842285px;">Scientific-Analytic Magazine, September 2011</span></a></blockquote>
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A global government requires a global tax. When the IMF and the World Bank announced last week that we should either divert funds used to fuel our economy into fighting Climate Change or else collect a $1.40 gallon tax on our oil for them, you would think the public outcry would be so loud and so furious they could hear us all the way to Colon. Instead there was barely a whimper. No big surpise really, considering how many churches have converted to Communitarianism over the past decade. Even Wikipedia added a "List of New Religious Movements" page:</div>
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Communitarians openly state we have to meet their demands that we conform to the group mentality. We must all become "better" global citizens and give up our freedom to live an a Safe and Healthy community. So a few million people may have to die before we're safe, but as Veronica Jackson, Director of the Department of Neighborhoods in Seattle told us in 1999, "Sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the common good." What kind of sacrifices have been made in other places forced to adopt Communitarian values and ethics?</div>
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Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-34447368209306983342013-03-28T23:00:00.000-07:002013-03-28T23:00:32.905-07:00Claiming ownership of our original thesis on Agenda 21 & Communitarianism<div style="text-align: justify;">
Keep finding new places that are citing our antithesis as if it's just "common knowledge" now. This is a major breakthough and we're very pleased to see how far and wide it's gone. After ten years of being the only people pushing an original Anti Communitarian thesis into the mainstream arena, it's a very good feeling to witness how many people have finally learned to pronounce it! </div>
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The downside for us is, the world is so communitarian now that our copyright on our published thesis and our original idea has been violated on a scale we never imagined. We are seeing our names removed, portions reproduced as if the author was someone else, or flat out plagiarization of everything. Worst of all, some writers are twisting it around and adding their own conclusion to our thesis without bothering to show where in the hell they came up with their idea! Academia has always been plagued with robbers who steal papers from fellow students. I wonder how often it's happened outside academia. We may not only have one of the most widely read original theses in modern times, but we may also own the most plagiarized thesis by non-academics in modern times.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our original idea has been reproduced so many times many people may assume Rosa Koire, the John Birch Society or Debra Rae are the ones who showed conclusively the role of Communitarianism in Agenda 21. They did not. The JBS barely mentioned it in the past 20 years, and only lately began using the term in their Anti Agenda 21 meetings. Debra Rae went so far as to take entire sections out of <i>2020: Our Common Destiny </i>as well as <i>TACM</i>, and while she mentions she took most of her article from us at her website, she apparently forgot where she got it when she gained a larger audience at News With Views. Rosa Koire did not do any original research that led her to a Communitarian conclusion either. Rosa read both our books before she put her final argument together. But she never cites us in her public speaking engagments anymore (not since her Tea Party video in 2011), and she actually removed Nordica's name from <i>TACM</i>. The upside is that Rosa never removed the reference and link to the Anti Communitarian League at DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21. We're still in her book somewhere (haven't seen it yet). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have no problem saying Rosa Koire has done a tremendous amount of research on her own. She has been a major force in bringing Agenda 21 in front of the Tea Party and the Religious Right. We do not disparage the valuable contributions she's made to exposing the plan in her traveling book promotions. But Rosa did not make the connections between Communitarianism and Agenda 21, she knows she didn't, and it's dishonest of her to make it appear like she did. </span></div>
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Now I'm fully aware that communitarian America doesn't care what we sacrificed to provide this thesis to them. I've heard the Christian collectivists whining more than the leftists about how it doesn't matter where the information comes from, it's so important the rules do not even apply. I've been told I'm jealous of Rosa's success. I've been told I need to "share more." Total BS. I defend property rights for everyone else, why wouldn't I give myself and my co-author the same consideration? I do know zero value is placed on intellectual property on the internet, but it's just hilarious that other people <i>so worried about their property rights</i> think it's okay to steal ours! We haven't gone around asking everyone who reposts our website/works to take it down. As long as there is proper attribution, it's educational and not for profit, it's allowed. Remove the attribution, pretend it's your original thoughts and words, or make money off it, and it's not allowed. </div>
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There is only one antithesis that shows Communitarianism is the synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic. There is only one antithesis that shows Agenda 21 is Communitarianism. There is only one book in the world that shows evidence for the connection between Agenda 21 and Communitariansim, Communitarian Law, Asset Based Community Development and Community Oriented Policing. Those are chapter titles in 2<a href="http://nord.twu.net/acl">020: Our Common Destiny & The Anti Communitarian Manifesto</a>.</div>
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<br />Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-1812574533089745592013-03-20T21:24:00.003-07:002013-03-20T21:24:39.309-07:00We're in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! <div style="text-align: justify;">
Ten years ago we cited the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in our antithesis against communitarianiam, mainly as proof that it even existed. Their first entry for Communitarianism was added in 2001, and in 2002 most people were still telling us it wasn't a "real" philosophy. The reference to our work is at the bottom under "Other Internet Resources". It goes to Berit Kjos's reposting of one of my articles. But we're in the book, our "school of thought" officially exists.</div>
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<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/</a>Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-42460104023524562742013-03-20T17:31:00.000-07:002013-03-20T21:13:01.046-07:00Undeniable Proof the US Government adopted Agenda 21I keep seeing articles in the mainstream press ridiculing the Tea Party groups over their concern about Agenda 21. The standard line is that Agenda 21 is a "non-binding" agreement and holds no force of law behind it. That is true. The laws that enforce Agenda 21 have to be passed at the local levels, and that is where Agenda 21 has been passed and adopted in the USA for the past 20 years. Never to rarely introduced to Americans as Communitarian Law, these changes to the constitutional system have gone un-noticed and un-challeneged for over 2 decades.<br />
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The United States is pleased to participate in the PrepCom and to contribute to a successful Rio 2012 Conference on Sustainable Development. We have developed a robust process within our government to evaluate how far we have come since Rio, and to identify gaps that we need to address and emerging issues where we need to make progress. This effort is reinvigorating discussions on sustainable development within our government as we work together to identify shortcomings and replicate successes, and to avail ourselves of new science, information, technologies, and collaborations to make real progress toward achieving sustainable development.<br />
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In doing this, we increasingly understand that, while the United Nations and national governments are essential to sustainable development, our participation alone is not sufficient for achieving meaningful progress that improves people’s lives and the environment. We are beginning to engage our stakeholders – including nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, local and regional governments, and academia – all of which have important contributions to make to this process.<br />
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In this vein, a concise political document should only be a part of the outcome. We also need to look to major groups and stakeholders to bring forward good ideas and take on commitments and actions. Sustainable development can only be achieved when we enable all citizens and empower all stakeholders to take action to achieve a sustainable future. We need to invest in people, recognizing women and youth as key agents of change in society. We need to promote human capacity development through education, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and to enable the development of skill sets vital to emerging sectors of the economy. development path.<br />
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The partnership approach out of the World Summit on Sustainable Development continues to be an important tool for achieving sustainable development, and we should look at how we can strengthen and further legitimize this approach. For example, our domestic policy on innovation realizes that governments can catalyze and leverage action across stakeholders, provide enabling frameworks and incentives for private sector investment, invest in people, and facilitate meaningful collaborations across all stakeholders. Together, we can address market failures, invest in sciences and innovation, develop human capacity to meet today’s challenges, and adapt solutions for local contexts.<br />
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Good governance at all levels is critical to our ability to make good on our Agenda 21 commitments. While national governments will make the political commitments, we rely upon regional and local governments to implement new policies in the context of local situations, to enforce environmental regulations, to innovate and adapt solutions that will succeed in unique environmental, social, and political realities. <b>Some of the most creative solutions to our sustainable development challenges are emerging in the U.S. from our state, regional and local governments. We should encourage communities to do integrated planning, to develop sustainability plans and a local Agenda 21. </b>{emphasis added}<br />
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Cities are hotspots for population growth, investment, and increasing demand for energy, water, food, buildings and waste disposal. Rapid urbanization is a challenge and an opportunity to focus our global efforts to minimize impacts from this development, to develop state-of-the-art disaster preparedness plans, to integrate planning with smarter designs, to build more livable communities and to address the needs of the poorest of the poor. With good governance and sound planning we can implement solutions that address the needs of people and promote inclusive growth that works for all strata of society. We can identify and leverage solutions to improve access to water, sanitation, food, and energy that will help us to achieve the<a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/"> Millennium Development Goals</a>.<br />
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Chair,<b> we support the Rio 2012 </b>process and the need to review our progress and to identify gaps and emerging challenges. We want Rio 2012 to be forward looking, to address ways that we can learn from past struggles, build on our successes, and achieve a sustainable future. We believe that all countries should be able to monitor natural resources and make informed and integrated decisions about their development paths. We support efforts to measure progress and to share information and best practices.<br />
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Our challenges are significant. We recognize that economic growth is an essential component of any sustainable development strategy. But economic growth should not and does not need to be “development at all costs.” It should be balanced in a way that takes into consideration the environment, natural resource, and social dimensions, addressing poverty and improving the status of women. This is a challenging objective, but one toward which we are making great strides. We are committed to this process and to working with all stakeholders to identify actions we can take reinvigorate our commitments and to harness 21st century tools and human capacity to achieve sustainable development.<br />
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{Note: "balancing" is the communitarian concept that all national and state constitutional law must be balanced in favor of the global elite's objectives,)Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-66481272963479076622013-03-20T16:50:00.002-07:002013-03-20T16:50:52.636-07:00Opposition to Agenda 21 is not just a Right Wing agendaOver the past few years we've seen a rising swell of opposition against Agenda 21 in the United States. It's becoming harder for Americans to not see that something is very wrong in America. We've also seen our book orders triple in the last few months, and a huge percentage of the orders are coming from the UK and the EU. People are catching on to the hidden nature of the plan, and seeking information at a level that almost gives me a renewed sense of hope.<br />
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There are hundreds of new websites and articles about Agenda 21 flooding the internet. While some are innacurate, borrow heavily from other people's research and provide no new information, the good news is, they're not all conservatives. The opposition to the big lie is not only coming from Christian and Right Wing perspectives; just one "Democrat" site opened the whole topic up to a general audience uncomfortable with the idea of aligning themselves with the Eagle Forum and the John Birch Society. Lucky for all of us, that one Democrat site uses the term "Communitarianism" to define the political theory driving Agenda 21 and all Sustainable Development around the world. Lucky for us, Rosa Koire still links to our websites and many people have found the ACL via her. Because of our low-key approach and our aversion to advertising ourselves, and because the JBS and their network of Christian affiliates do not even mention our work (even when they use it in their articles), there is no one in the "information war" who knows what Communitarianism is, or if they do know, they aren't willing to take the time to explain it properly.<br />
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We are not Right Wing Christians and there were very few Christian writers I was willing to cite at the ACL ten years ago when we built the website. In fact I purposely avoided republishing any of the religious views thinking that was unecessary and clouded the issue. I provided links to religious people I thought were offering good research, and included in those lists were several I have since learned to distrust. It's okay, it's all part of the learning process that this kind of work requires, and our attachments to people and dialectical pieces are sometimes very deeply held and unbreakable. Especially when it comes to relgion. So I avoided it, wanting to leave something for people to hold on to and find out more about their own beliefs on their own. Today I see communitarianism is the global religion, and my next book is exploring the expanding communitarian religion, and all the churches embracing it, in detail. It's the final key to putting the whole plan into perspective, and as painful as it may be for some people to pull back this final veil, it has to be written.<br />
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Our original thesis poses that Communitarianism is the final synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic. But that means nothing to the average reader. Hegel confuses people with Master's degrees who read Hegel in college. Our first Hegel Communitarian tutorial was designed for my father, a US Army soldier who had no formal exposure to dialectial reasoning. We later laid out our argument so that Dr. Amitai Etzioni and the Communitarian Network, who we were calling out for a public debate, could follow precisely how we arrived at our conclusion in <i>The Anti Communitarian Manifesto</i>.<br />
Part 1 went online in December 2002, and Part 2 was completed in spring 2003. We started at the upper academic level because that's where the only "debates" were taking place.<br />
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Over the years I tried hundreds of ways to explain it to the laymen who begged us for a "simple" explanation. I'm still trying, and my new approach is the 30 second flash card:<br />
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The confusion about what the term "communitarianism" actually means continues. That's why any beginner to the topic needs to know right up front that Communitarianism was designed to confuse us. We're not ever supposed to understand it. It's considered as, "most notable for its vagueness."<br />
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The new ACL website will have a beginner series of articles about Communitarianism and several new topic sections. After 14 years of studying and writing about Communitarianism, after a few years in the social networks meeting like-minded folks and some not so like minded, I'm ready to take ACL research to the next level, and put our information into the "game." And so is Nordica, without whom there would be no ACL, and no new ACL Books site. It should be going up in the next couple days. I'll let you know when it's up.<br />
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<br />Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-81673464043472176382013-03-02T14:13:00.001-08:002013-03-02T19:49:04.630-08:00Communitarianism? shhhhhh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Gertee Home4Life</strong> is in the process of proposing a Community Development project in the Mat-Su Borough in Alaska. We're seeking a minimum of ten acres to develop a "village" of innovative homes and businesses, and a home for for Gertee building School and Workshops. Our plans include other forms of experimental housing like EarthShips, Strawbale and anything else the community wants to try building. We'll have a Community Garden, a Public Market, a community well and a community kitchen and bath-house for travelers and visitors. Privately owned lots will range from small town retail, rental lots to private farm and industrial lots. All buildings and businesses will be privately (non-corporate) owned.</div>
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We're NOT a collective, we won't interefere in the private life of any of the residents, nor will we require them to "commit" to fake sustainability. We're using ALL the sustainable language to get our project approved, because in a bizarre twist of reality, the dwellings we developed, only because of our extreme anticommunitarian position, ended up fitting the Future Vision of a sustainable world to a T. Well, not exactly, because as it turns out, LOL, the vision only pays lip-service to authentic sustainability. Any grassroots efforts to achieve it are.. well... not exactly what the planners had in mind. </div>
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Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-66666986513415783402013-01-26T04:45:00.003-08:002013-01-26T04:45:43.821-08:00Obama's former "Green Czar" calls him a Communitarian<div style="text-align: justify;">
This article has been re-posted all over the internet in the past 2 days. I've looked at about 10 pages of search returns, and only one I opened so far added anything original to the Rebel Pundit's story. <br />
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Reading the comments from various sites shows how many people think Van Jones made the term up, and how most say it's just another word for communism. (Exactly what happened when Bill Clinton used the word in Montreal. Nobody there knew what it is either and the reporter said Clinton "coined the phrase"). Only one website that reposted Pundit's article had a link to the ACL, and that was onlysecond hand via democratsagainstunagenda21. <br />
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Really interesting is Van Jones' description of it..... and his telling Breibart there's really no way to look it up. Our anti communitarian research has been on the internet for ten years, we're on the wiki "communitarian" page, but for some reason readers never did a keyword search that would lead to us, or to Etzioni, nor did Jones obviously. <br />
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Is this a great way to further confuse the American people, or what?</div>
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"Jones compared the president’s address to that of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 and recommended that the theater full of college students read Reagan’s “powerful” and “strong,” inaugurals, which he said were “rooted in American tradition and values,” but “unabashedly” and “unapologetically conservative.”'</blockquote>
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Following Jones's comparison of President Obama to Ronald Reagan, the “unabashedly conservative” president, I pressed Jones further for some insight into what and who President Obama really is.</blockquote>
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Jones replied: “He is a communitarian.” He then elaborated briefly: “I mean you always have individualism, communitarianism, as a part of the, American story, and I think we’ve overbalanced the individualistic direction and I think he’s trying to rebalance toward communitarianism.”</blockquote>
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Later, when asked (off tape) to define "communitarian," Jones was unable to answer or to point toward any source for a definition. He said there wasn’t really a way to look up “communitarianism.” </blockquote>
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He did reiterate, however, that he saw communitarianism as a counterbalance to libertarianism, which he equated to “individualism.”</blockquote>
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Jones declined an interview with Breitbart News following the lecture.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/24/Van-Jones-Obama-is-an-unabashed-Communitarian">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/24/Van-Jones-Obama-is-an-unabashed-Communitarian</a>Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-16694926628563890692013-01-23T17:58:00.001-08:002013-01-23T17:58:33.616-08:00Fanatic for Jesus: Independence USA: A Communitarian Utopia<a href="http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/2013/01/independence-usa-communitarian-utopia.html">Fanatic for Jesus: Independence USA: A Communitarian Utopia</a>Niki Raapanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14835214436658839836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938933649493088489.post-17876731274134953692013-01-01T17:16:00.000-08:002013-01-01T17:16:51.464-08:00Winter 2012-2013 Paranoia Magazine publishes The Green VirginMy article about Pachamama, The Green Virgin, is in the winter 2012-2013 edition of Paranoia Magazine. <br />
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"Niki Raapana teases out just what Communitarianism is in her article,“Between Common Law & The Law of Mother Nature.” The reinstatement ...of the Goddess at Rio+20 Earth Summit is good, right? King Cocaine Bolivian President Evo Morales said so, the UN said so—or could this be the one-world religion that G8 has been contriving for the 99 percent? Not to mention when Occupy Wall Street became Occupy the Earth . . ." <br />
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My first time published in a paper magazine. Thanks for asking me to submit Ron Patton! <br />
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