Severe winds hit Kenny Lake, Alaska

18' Gertee Sacked in
Statewide Wind Storm

18' gertee didn't make it

exterior destruction

interior destruction

The 20' Gertee's frame is intact after being bent inward and lifted up to 5 inches . The one piece pool cover roof with all the ropes I had tied across it stayed on for over 24 hours of 40-80??mph winds. Our friend Mike came by yesterday and suggested I put tires on the roof. We tried that, but all except one blew away. I learned a lot about wind yesterday, about the psi and high and low pressure. (Mike's a pilot and was shocked at how little physical science I know!) I think now I have a much better idea of what it feels like to be in a hurricane with one of these structures, and with a few modifications they will hold up to the storms. HEAVY canvas covers and good tie downs are essentials. I sent Nordica and Freddie to Tims and I stayed inside watching how it moved and withstood the pressure until 3am when I decided I'd be safer in the truck. I fell asleep reminding myself that even if it was totally gone in the morning, we're safe and all okay. We had just got set up and working on overdue projects, now everything is back on hold. After the worst summer on record we get the worst winds Tim ever saw here.

Moving our things out as quickly as possible because next we're gonna get freezing rain and snow and 50 below.

Please send your disaster relief to:

Nordica Friedrich
800 E. Dimond Blvd
3-131 PMB #153
Anchorage, AK 99515

Paul Barnes quoted in mainstream press!

Here is the article from the Belleville Intelligencer:
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1239328

(Thanks C.)

Canada's "deep" integration with the EU a model for the US

arctic entry becoming useful already

Canada's story should be an eye opener for anyone who doubts the U.S. will ever merge with Canada and Mexico into a regional union, or become subserviant to a central global government bureaucracy. The most telling part is how the public wasn't provided with copies of the drafts for the agreement (and how that fact is ommitted from the Globe and Mail article about the talks). We've been getting lots of visitors from Eastern Europe searching for "communitarian law." That's because deep EU integration requires modifying national law under the supremacy of communtarian law, and unlike America and Canada, some people in those nations know it's a very real legal process. I'll bet in Slovakia people don't call it a "conspiracy theory." I can't help thinking about the Irish and how they're doing since they rejected the Lisbon Treaty via a national vote. To give up a nation's sovereignty and independence should require full disclosure and a national vote, shouldn't it? And if it fails, it shoudn't be allowed to continue, should it?

"The pitch he is making to Europeans is to do a deal with Canada that can serve as a model for something far more ambitious with the United States." Provinces key to EU trade deal, Quebec Premier says, by KAREN HOWLETT, October 3, 2008
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081003.CHAREST03/TPStory/Nationa

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Endorsement for Paul Barnes, Your Prince Edward-Hastings Independent Candidate

Paul Barnes is the first international contributor to 2020: Our Common Destiny. This fall, he is running for public office in the Prince Edward-Hastings district of Ontario, Canada.

We'd like to offer the Anti Communitarian League's official endorsement to Paul, and hope that every voting Canadian in his district has the opportunity to hear his eloquent and level-headed take on the communitarian agenda in his country and everywhere else.



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