Family photos - Tomas Zebastian Friedrich

Frederick Sylvester 3 years old

Tomas Zebastian 5 minutes old

My newest grandson finally arrived! He weighed 10lbs 14 oz, is 22 inches long and yeah, we're real glad we had two experienced midwives for this one. Both mom and baby are doing great.

Thanks for all the congratulations already from folks who saw the news on fb. I love being a grandmother and have found it to be one of my greatest joys. For all my whining and complaining on this blog... (heh).... I am and always have been blessed. Today I'm very grateful.

For those of you who pre-ordered 2020 & the ACM, we're back to work on the revisions this week. Well, I am anyway, Nord's still on maternity leave. :)

Communitarian (Community) Development in Palmer, Alaska

Truck overturned in wind across from Wasilla Lake
photo taken by Nicole Gayman Gdula early this am

What's it going to take to rebuild the world into manageable sustainable communities? Experts. Lots and lots of well paid experts from someplace else. Locals never lead Local Agenda 21. More often than not, locals don't have the first clue about LA21, and citizen participation is a sham.

Agenda 21 is an action programme that has to be implemented by governments, UN agencies, local and regional administrators, organisations in the community and the general public. Governments are required to promote the dialogue among these players. But local government, too, closest as it is to the public at large, has a responsibility and has been allocated a major role in providing information, education and mobilising the general public to achieve sustainable development. One of the objectives of Agenda 21 is that every local government in 1996 should draw up its own Local Agenda 21 in close consultation with its citizens.
The Hague's Local Agenda 21 Plan

Safeguarding the environment is a key feature of Agenda 21, including issues like pollution, waste management and the protection of the oceans and freshwater resources. Agenda 21 also recognises the interdependence of environmental, social, health and economic issues, emphasising that all people have the right to food, health care, shelter and education. Agenda 21 suggests new ways in which different groups can be involved in the decision making process. Glasgow, UK - LA21 Plan http://www.gdrc.org/uem/la21/implications.html

I'm taking advantage of the fast internet here and still revising and updating portions of our books. It's been hard to focus being away from home but I'm getting it done. As always, ergh, we thank you all for your patience! :) Found a bunch of eye opening, highly relevant facts about President McKinley and his staff and their role in setting up the global court at the Hague (which somewhat modifies my opinion of him in the ACM). I'm changing the LA21 chapter too, looking up various plans to compare the different ways they're being introduced.

Palmer's plan looks totally benign, possibly because the MatSu Borough Plan is so thorough. So tonight I asked my hostess (whose parents homesteaded and farmed here since the 1950s) if she participated in Palmer's Community Vision, and she replied, "No." I then asked her if anyone she knows here went to any citizen planning meetings, and she replied, "No." I guess not all local citizens participate at the same level as the Anchorage Citizen's Coalition. In fact, I don't know one Alaskan who would envision our lives in the same way the Oregon/Ecotrust people at ACC do:

"It is essential that transportation programs and projects fulfill Anchorage 2020 by building the urban core into an active city center with sidewalks full of people going to work, shopping and to the park. Cars will move slowly through downtown, and transit is fast and convenient. Neighborhoods maintain their value as good places to raise children, and neighborhood centers attract families walking to convenience shops and businesses. Transit provides a true alternative to driving, and children walk safely to school."

The winds have been blowing gusts up to 90 and 100 mph for the past 24 hours. When it goes away we're expecting more snow. Nobody I know wants to walk to work or school in the winter. I, like most moms I knew, didn't even make my kids ride the bus to school because I didn't want them standing at the bus stop. What part of Alaskan weather don't these "expert" advisers from the Lower 48 understand? I'm sure they ALL drive to their little meetings here. Well, maybe they envision a future where only the new class of leaders (like themselves) have the "right" to drive to work and the masses stand huddling waiting for buses whose drivers can't see the environmentally friendly passengers waiting behind huge piles of snow.

Check out the salary level for this position. Do local property taxes pay for it?

Community Development Manager (Palmer)
Date: 2010-12-15, 2:19PM AKST

This is highly responsible administrative program management work. The employee occupying the position of this class is responsible for planning, developing, coordinating and managing the various programs, services, and facilities of the land management, parks and trails, recreation and library services divisions to include coordinating various activities associated with the Borough's community development.

Bachelor’s degree in public lands, natural resources, parks, landscape architecture, recreation or business administration is required. Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in the development, operation or management of public lands, parks, trails, recreation facilities or programs, including two (2) years of supervisory experience. Some experience in library work, or successful completion of library courses is desirable. Incident Command System classes required within one (1) year of hire: ICS-100 and IS-700. Valid Alaska driver’s license and a clear driving record and criminal history.

To Apply:
Submit applications to the Human Resources Office. Applications are available online at www.matsugov.us or at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Building, 350 East Dahlia Avenue, Palmer, AK. If you need reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application process, please contact the Human Resources Office at 746-7404.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Location: Palmer
Compensation: $74,987.00 to $102,045.00/year DOE
PostingID: 2114957582

What's the Incident Command System?

"NIMS: The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a systematic, proactive approach to guide departments and agencies at all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to work seamlessly to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, in order to reduce the loss of life and property and harm to the environment." http://home.fema.gov/emergency/nims/AboutNIMS.shtm

Palmer is a rural agricultural community. What's the 1996 Farm Bill? See Agenda 21 USA: http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/usa/natur.htm

Department of Community Development: http://www.cityofpalmer.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={0FB38086-26A1-4B00-AB94-A72E10DE2E84}

2006 Palmer Community Vision: http://www.cityofpalmer.org/vertical/Sites/%7BCEEE28AE-9003-4337-8BE2-A1961FF16E3D%7D/uploads/%7BFC975D68-325F-41A5-B69F-93A9618CA4ED%7D.PDF

Green collar workers? http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/white-blue-green-collar/

What's an Economic Ecosystem?
Agenda 21, Chapter 15 Conservation Of Biological Diversity
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/Trialogue/a21-ch15.html

http://www.adn.com/2010/12/15/1605748/valley-surveys-damage-as-winds.html

Rosa Koire on the Unsolicited Opinion Wed Dec 15th

Maggie is one of my new readers who recently learned about communitarianism from a forum she was on. People kept using the word and when she asked what it meant, two participants from Europe told her to check out my work if she wanted to know more about it. She did, and we've been friends ever since. Rosa learned about our work when Kevin Eggers lent her our book, 2020. Both these women have been most generous in their praise and support for the ACL, which is reason enough for me to like them, but they're also committed to exposing LA21 and that's reason enough for all of us to support them and their efforts. For those of you who like talk radio and use shows to educate your friends and neighbors, this could be a great addition to your collection. Rosa is a real bonus for Americans who think Agenda 21 is a "right wing" issue.

For those who aren't in radio range to hear my show on AM 1360, you can listen directly via my website www.theunsolicitedopinion.com

My guest on "The Unsolicited Opinion" radio show on Wed. Dec. 15^th @ 8 PM will be Rosa Koire.

She is the founder of the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition and Democrats against UN Agenda 21. We will be discussing how under the guise of community redevelopment UN Agenda 21 aka sustainable development is advanced.

www.SantaRosaNeighborhoodCoalition.com http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/index.html

www.TheUnsolicitedOpinion.com

Redistributing the truth one word at a time...

Heard live every Wednesday 8P EST and Friday 5PM EST via AM radio 1360 in Philadelphia

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Amitai Etzioni on Spirit of Community - YouTube

Radio interview with Melodee "Give Me Some Truth" this Saturday am

Hope you can join Melodee, Lark and myself on Saturday December 11, 2010 at 11am to 1pm mtn time (9am to 11am Alaska time).

KHEN LPFM radio

106.9 Salida, CO.

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Building a Communitarian Planned Police State

Community (communitarian) Oriented Policing plays a key role in building a new world. Community police are in almost every nation now, and they are directly involved in ALL Local Agenda 21 neighborhood planning efforts. The COPS suggest new laws that help them gather necessary data. The COPS have the database of every resident's personal information on laptops in their cars. Here's a nice video produced by the Sacramento Police Department that describes how the COPS program was first tested in government housing projects that were left to rot for years. When they introduced their communitarian solution to the police neglect, there were many residents who welcomed it. What the video doesn't tell you is how they expanded the COPS program into the private sector in 1999. http://www.sacpd.org/inside/history/cb02.aspx

In June 2000 I went to a meeting at Town Hall in Seattle, Washington where Jody Kretzmann spoke to a group of community "leaders" about a "new approach" to Rebuilding Communities. I've posted this before and some of my readers are already familiar with it. But since I have so many new readers who are as yet unaware of the process underway, I thought I'd go ahead and post it again. With all the interest in UN Local Agenda 21 now, it might help to know exactly HOW it's being implemented at the grassroots level, globally. http://www.abcdinstitute.org/capacity/

"My time at Public Allies also gave me the opportunity to work with John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann, who developed the Asset-Based Community Development approach to neighborhood development, and that really influenced how we worked with communities. Some of you may be familiar with this approach, but the approach acknowledges that all of us, every single one of us breathing in this community, in this planet, those of us serving and those of us who are being served, that we're all both half-full and half-empty. We all have skills and talents that make us good friends, family members, workers, and leaders, and we also have needs and shortcomings that come along with those strengths. We can't do well serving these communities, I learned with Public Allies, if we believe that we, the givers, are the only ones that are half-full, and that everybody we're serving is half-empty. That has been the theme of my work in community for my entire life -- that there are assets and gifts out there in communities, and that our job as good servants and as good leaders is not only just being humble, but it's having the ability to recognize those gifts in others, and help them put those gifts into action. Communities are filled with assets that we need to better recognize and mobilize if we're really going to make a difference, and Public Allies helped me see that." Michelle Obama, June 16, 2009

ABCD is the program Barack and Michelle Obama were trained in, and John McNight is the guy who signed Obama's Harvard Law School application. Jim Diers was Director of the Department of Neighborhoods when the Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan designated our homes as a pilot test for the COPS' COMPASS database. One primary goal of our pilot test was to find "innovative" ways around the 4th Amendment, identified by SPD Police Chief Norm Stamper as an "identified barrier to the program." Diers wrote a book in 2004 about his experiences there called Neighbor Power. It "describes Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods and its bold experiments in bottom-up neighborhood planning and development."

"Jim Diers has a passion for building neighbor power. Since moving to Seattle in 1976, he put that passion to work for an Alinsky-style community organization, a health care cooperative, and a community development corporation. Diers was appointed the first director of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods in 1988. He served under three mayors over the next 14 years as the department grew to become a national model for planning and development powered by neighbors. " http://www.neighborpower.org/

So what kinds of gifts does Michelle Obama expect us to share? When we are all "mapped and mobilized," these are the things good citizens must perform for the common good:

The Capacity Inventory
http://www.abcdinstitute.org/resources/

This copyright material may be reprinted with the following attribution: "Reprinted with permission of John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, pp. 19-25, from Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets, Evanston, IL: Institute for Policy Research (1993)."

Hello. I'm with (local organization's name). We're talking to local people about their skills. With this information, we hope to help people contribute to improving the neighborhood, find jobs or start businesses. May I ask you some questions about your skills and abilities?

Part I -- Skills Information
Now I'm going to read to you a list of skills. It's an extensive list, so I hope you'll bear with me. I'll read the skills and you just say "yes" whenever we get to one you have. We are interested in all your skills and abilities. They may have been learned through experience in the home or with your family. They may be skills you've learned at church or in the community. They may also be skills you have learned on the job.

Health
Caring for the Elderly ________
Caring for the Mentally Ill ________
Caring for the Sick ________
Caring for the Physically Disabled or Developmentally Disabled ________
Now, I would like to know about the kind of care you provided.
Bathing ________
Feeding ________
Preparing Special Diets ________
Exercising and Escorting ________
Grooming ________
Dressing ________
Making the Person Feel at Ease ________
Office
Typing (words per minute) ________
Operating Adding Machine/Calculator ________
Filing Alphabetically/Numerically ________
Taking Phone Messages ________
Writing Business Letters (not typing) ________
Receiving Phone Orders ________
Operating Switchboard ________
Keeping Track of Supplies ________
Shorthand or Speedwriting ________
Bookkeeping ________
Entering Information into Computer ________
Word Processing ________
Construction and Repair
Painting ________
Porch Construction or Repair ________
Tearing Down Buildings ________
Knocking Out Walls ________
Wall Papering ________
Furniture Repairs ________
Repairing Locks ________
Building Garages ________
Bathroom Modernization ________
Building Room Additions ________
Tile Work ________
Installing Drywall & Taping ________
Plumbing Repairs ________
Electrical Repairs ________
Bricklaying & Masonry ________
Cabinetmaking ________
Kitchen Modernization ________
Furniture Making ________
Installing Insulation ________
Plastering ________
Soldering & Welding ________
Concrete Work (sidewalks) ________
Installing Floor Coverings ________
Repairing Chimneys ________
Heating/Cooling System Installation ________
Putting on Siding ________
Tuckpointing ________
Cleaning Chimneys (chimney sweep) ________
Installing Windows ________
Building Swimming Pools ________
Carpentry Skills ________
Roofing Repair or Installation ________
Maintenance
Window Washing ________
Floor Waxing or Mopping ________
Washing and Cleaning Carpets/Rugs ________
Routing Clogged Drains ________
Using a Handtruck in a Business ________
Caulking ________
General Household Cleaning ________
Fixing Leaky Faucets ________
Mowing Lawns ________
Planting & Caring for Gardens ________
Pruning Trees & Shrubbery ________
Cleaning/Maintaining Swimming Pools ________
Floor Sanding or Stripping ________
Wood Stripping/Refinishing ________
Food
Catering ________
Serving Food to Large Numbers of People (over 10) ________
Preparing Meals for Large Numbers of People (over 10) ________
Clearing/Setting Tables for Large Numbers of People (over 10) ________
Washing Dishes for Large Numbers of People (over 10) ________
Operating Commercial Food Preparation Equipment ________
Bartending ________
Meatcutting ________
Baking ________
Child Care
Caring for Babies (under 1 year) ________
Caring for Children (1 to 6) ________
Caring for Children (7 to 13) ________
Taking Children on Field Trips ________
Transportation
Driving a Car ________
Driving a Van ________
Driving a Bus ________
Driving a Taxi ________
Driving a Tractor Trailer ________
Driving a Commercial Truck ________
Driving a Vehicle/Delivering Goods ________
Hauling ________
Operating Farm Equipment ________
Driving an Ambulance ________
Operating Equipment & Repairing Machinery
Repairing Radios, TVs, VCRs, Tape Recorders ________
Repairing Other Small Appliances ________
Repairing Automobiles ________
Repairing Trucks/Buses ________
Repairing Auto/Truck/Bus Bodies ________
Using a Forklift ________
Repairing Large Household Equipment (e.g., refrigerator) ________
Repairing Heating & Air Conditioning System ________
Operating a Dump Truck ________
Fixing Washers/Dryers ________
Repairing Elevators ________
Operating a Crane ________
Assembling Items ________
Supervision
Writing Reports ________
Filling out Forms ________
Planning Work for Other People ________
Directing the Work of Other People ________
Making a Budget ________
Keeping Records of All Your Activities ________
Interviewing People ________
Sales
Operating a Cash Register ________
Selling Products Wholesale or for Manufacturer (If yes, which products?) ________
Selling Products Retail (If yes, which products?) ________
Selling Services (If yes, which services?) ________
How have you sold these products or services? ________
Door to Door ________
Phone ________
Mail ________
Store ________
Home
Music
Singing ________
Play an Instrument (Which one?) ________
Security
Guarding Residential Property ________
Guarding Commercial Property ________
Guarding Industrial Property ________
Armed Guard ________
Crowd Control ________
Ushering at Major Events ________
Installing Alarms or Security Systems ________
Repairing Alarms or Security Systems ________
Firefighting
Other
Upholstering ________
Sewing ________
Dressmaking ________
Crocheting ________
Knitting ________
Tailoring ________
Moving Furniture or Equipment to Different Locations ________
Managing Property ________
Assisting in the Classroom ________
Hair Dressing ________
Hair Cutting ________
Phone Surveys ________
Jewelry or Watch Repair ________
Are there any other skills that you have which we haven't mentioned?
Priority Skills
When you think about your skills, what three things do you think you do best? Which of all your
skills are good enough that other people would hire you to do them? Are there any skills you
would like to teach? What skills would you most like to learn?
Part II -- Community Skills
Have you ever organized or participated in any of the following community activities?
Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts ________
Church Fundraisers ________
Bingo ________
School-Parent Associations ________
Sports Teams ________
Camp Trips for Kids ________
Field Trips ________
Political Campaigns ________
Block Clubs ________
Community Groups ________
Rummage Sales ________
Yard Sales ________
Church Suppers ________
Community Gardens ________
Neighborhood Organization ________
Other Groups or Community Work? ________
Let me read the list again. Tell me in which areas you would be willing to participate in the
future.
Part III -- Enterprising Interests and Experience
Business Interest
Have you ever considered starting a business? Yes _____No _____
If yes, what kind of business did you have in mind?
Did you plan to start it alone or with other people? Alone _____Others _____
Did you plan to operate it out of your home? Yes _____No _____
What obstacle kept you from starting the business?
Business Activity
Are you currently earning money on your own through the sale of services or products?
Yes _____No _____
If yes, what are the services or products you sell? Whom do you sell to? How do you get
customers? What would help you improve your business?

Part IV -- Personal Information
Name_____________________________
Address _____________________________
Phone _____________________________
Age _____________________________
Sex: F_____ M_______

1948 UN Land Management Plan for British Palestine

We've been in Wasilla for a week waiting for Nordica's baby to arrive, and I've been learning a lot from our host family. They know the Palins so I've got a different perspective on Sarah and her children, plus I've watched 2 episodes of Sarah's TV series on Alaska. Regardless of her politics, both shows seem to me to be an accurate portrayal of hunting and fishing up here. I was surprised to see her shoot and miss several times before she got her boo; it was a very different picture of her being a "Great White Hunter" the media portrayed. It's been kind of nice to see her family from a friendly view after reading so much about her being a witch and a Monarch slave. This whole Monarch butterfly programming aspect is so freaky it's easy to discount it as b.s., until you watch a Lady Gaga video or Tupac singing about Kill the Illumiatti. I'm learning a bunch of wild stuff and some of it is utterly fascinating, like Oak Island Treasure.

It's hard to find the truth about people we know personally, let alone people who play in the spotlight. I don't feel like I "know" who Sarah Palin is just because I saw her on TV or gossiped with her neighbors; it still bothers me that so many of my countrymen think that's all it takes. If she runs for president in 2012 I think I'll stick to researching her ties to Community Policing and Community Development, because her association with Rebuilding Community was the one thing nobody in the country seemed to ask or care about. Where does Sarah Palin stand on Local Agenda 21 and the Judaic Law Institute? If I run into her at the grocery store I'll ask her.

Our host dad is one of my former bosses who's shared many ideas for improving my rustic lifestyle since we all met (and he's the one who taught me to use my chainsaw!). The mom is a beautiful Christian who walks the talk. Besides being a generous and supportive hostess, she has really helped me to understand why so many Christians support Zionism and Israel. In her view she thinks Christians don't look any further than "the Jews deserve a home "and they worship the same God. Like me, she never heard of the Talmud in her entire life and she certainly never heard that our government is replacing US Constitutional Law with Talmudic Law. Our talks will help me with the new introduction to 2020, which is going to be late... just like our baby.

From Peter Myers:

(14) Survey of Palestine refutes "land without people" myth. Palestinians made the desert bloom

The Real Bloomers of Palestine

Antoine Raffoul

October 27, 2010

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=71231&s2=28

1948 Lest We Forget has obtained a copy of the full Survey of Palestine (Including the map survey) for its records. The following outline extracts shed more light on the Zionist lies about Palestine being "a land without people…." We recommend that Survey to all our Supporters.

Antoine Raffoul
Coordinator
1948: LEST WE FORGET
http://www.1948.org.uk

In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine , in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered; all 1300 pages can be read here.

One of the subjects investigated in the Survey of Palestine is land use; specifically, which crops were Palestine's leading agricultural products at the end of the British Mandate, and whose farms were producing them.

So, according to the Survey of Palestine, who really made the barley fields of Beersheba bloom?

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 210,000 tons of grain.

About 193,400 tons of that grain were cultivated on Palestinian farms; about 16,600 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 143,000 tons of melons.

About 136,000 tons of those melons were cultivated on Palestinian farms; a little over 7,000 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 1,683 tons of tobacco, on 28,169 dunams of land. Virtually all the land under tobacco cultivation was Palestinian.

Who made the vineyards of Hebron bloom?

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 40-50,000 tons of grapes, and between 3-4 million litres of wine. About 86% of the land that produced these products was owned and cultivated by Palestinians. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 79,000 tons of olives.

About 78,000 tons of those olives were cultivated on Palestinian farms; a little over 1,000 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 8,000 tons of bananas.

About 60% of the land that produced these bananas was owned and cultivated by Palestinians. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 245,000 tons of vegetables.

About 189,000 tons of those vegetables were cultivated by Palestinian farmers; about 56,000 tons were cultivated by Jewish farmers. ...

So, on the eve of the partition resolution, in which the United Nations proposed to allocate 55 percent of the land to Jewish Palestine (including those parts that produced most of Palestine's leading crops, with the sole exception of the olive crop), and 45% to Arab Palestine, Palestinian Arabs were producing:

92% of Palestine grain
86% of its grapes
99% of its olives
77 % of its vegetables
95% of its melons
more than 99% of its tobacco
and 60% of its bananas.

Palestine's agricultural produce at that time had an annual value of approximately 21.8 million pounds sterling; 17.1 million of which was produced by Arab cultivation, and 4.7 million by Jewish cultivation. (as seen in below table). ...

So, who made the desert bloom? The Palestinians made the desert bloom.

Photos: All the photographs of Palestinian farmers cultivating their crops in Palestine under the British Mandate are from Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History Of The Palestinians 1876 – 1948, by Walid Khalidi.