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Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau was evasive about when Gibson, who is 20, could play.
Ducks starting goalie Jonas Hiller is riding a team-record 12-game winning streak that's the NHL's longest since 1997, and given the Pacific Division consequences Saturday night versus the Phoenix Coyotes, a Hiller start makes sense.
Would Gibson start Sunday against the Detroit Red Wings with the Ducks' 18-0-2 start at Honda Center –- one of the top five unbeaten-in-regulation starts in the last 40 years –- on the line?
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DD: In what way did you explore contruction?
Ann Demeulemeester: I wanted to cut a real tailleur – it was all about the new shapes for me. I wanted to work with curves and straight lines and openings that appeared at certain parts of the body. In the end, I didn't need any decoration or colour because all the work was done in the shape and that is my real work. These clothes aren't just designed for the sake of it – they're really there to be worn.
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Behind the Green Mask of Rosa Koire
37 comments:
- grannygoodfood said...
Such an important, vital work you ladies are doing. Like the Hebrew midwives of old who stood up to the tyrannies of Pharaoh and risked their own lives to save baby boys from being drowned in the Nile, you have sacrificed so much for the sake of others. God bless you both!
- December 14, 2013 at 12:19 AM
Merry Christmas Niki and Nordica!
I own the ebook but i just purchased the hard copy. Perhaps all I can be is a witness to what once was but your book will be part of my body of evidence.
As an aside I witnessed something I never thought would happen last night. I attended my daughters winter concert at her private non-denominational school.
Now I was raised in a Quaker school and I am not a religious person but I count myself among others who celebrate a semi secular Christmas. In any event- not ONE song or instrumental performance included a Christian or Jewish or ANY traditional holiday hymn.
If I was very religious I would be bothered. If I was non religious and unaware of the larger play being enacted I might not care much at all. But knowing what I do about what is really going on I took considerable note of the change.
Strange Times.
P.S. Rosa's dishonesty is clear in her book. I read hers at the same time I first read your writings and it was clear to me that YOU guys were the real deal. The truth will out.
- December 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM
- Signifier said...
Your latest article made me both angry and very sad. I updated my Amazon review of Koire's book (which I read in 2012 and praised) with a postscript stating that I now have learned who are the true authors of Koire's ideas, and invited readers to come to your website in order to better learn what's true.
You once graciously talked with me on the telephone for a considerable amount of time a few years ago when you were still refining your ideas, and I bought your and Nordica Friedrich's book, "2020" in PDF format later, when it finally became available. You gave freely of your time to me then, and I retain a fond memory of that experience.
I've listened to you speak not so long ago on "Spingola Speaks," but this latest article of yours I found so completely moving I had to post a comment.
I know you and your daughter have been working for years trying to understand and reveal this thing now known as Communitarianism and you both have now reached a massive pinnacle of true understanding. Where is your donation button? How can one make a contribution to ACL without buying your book (since I already possess it)?
I look forward to being able to receive your newsletter when it becomes available. Will it be paid prescription perhaps? I think it would be worth paying for.
Thank you for writing as you do.
- December 15, 2013 at 9:53 PM
- Signifier said...
Just wondered why a comment I wrote earlier didn't pass the muster. A bit of elaboration might help me understand. Am I banned?
Thank you. A beautiful, moving new article you wrote here, Niki. I can't postpone learning from your insights any longer.
- December 16, 2013 at 12:55 PM
Thank you for the work that you've done. If I could, I'd support by buying hard copies and donating them to libraries.
- December 26, 2013 at 11:42 PM
- MsAndrea said...
This article sounds like a personal vendetta against Rosa Koire. Aren't you both on the same page and trying to bring information to people? She gave you kudos, credits and acknowledgments in her book. I really don't get the point of this vicious tirade.
- December 29, 2013 at 10:43 AM
You need a donate button. Createspace.com can be used to get your book out to people and won't cost you to have it printed. People like to hold a book in their hand. Where can people send a donation? Post info where people can easily find it AT THE TOP OF YOUR BLOG.
- December 29, 2013 at 7:04 PM
- Lark In Texas said...
Sign me on as a contributor, Niki - for you and Nord... I will write... or speak! As I can't sing or dance!
Please check your mailboxes - its 4:45 PM Alaska time.:)
- December 30, 2013 at 5:51 PM
- Unknown said...
Nikki, Once again you've created a hard hitting,extremely well written piece that not only exposes Agenda 21, Zionist terrorist Etzioni, PAYtriot frauds like Koire and Shaw, but you've managed to bring out the examples of intellectual inferiority of many of Koire's minions like the commenter that referred to this post as a "tirade". The problem is that so many people in the Half Truth Bowel Movement can't see the forest for the trees, Keep up that X-Ray vision.
- January 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Ho hum, I knew Agenda 21 was Communitairianism since 1994. Does it matter who said it first? It's bad and we need to fight it.
Most people can't understand 'scholarly' works and want the low down on how their rights are being usurped.
Stop trashing Rosa. There are many of us fighting this and we need more not less.
- January 8, 2014 at 6:57 PM
- Unknown said...
Like most ziotards in the Half Truth Bowel Movement, you refer to anyone telling the real truth and exposing deceivers as "trashing" others.
You infer that the argument is about "who said it first", which is either more deception, or simply a show of your lack of deeper thought process and possibly inadequate reading skills.
The issue is deception and untruths, and shifting the blame. If you like the fast food drive thru style of information, that's fine. But don't try to legitimize it, and imply that a deep and complete analysis is somehow irrelevant to the issue.
That's how Duhmericans became so informationally challenged in the first place, and opened the door to Agenda 21,ICLEI, and the Communitarian philosophy.
- January 11, 2014 at 2:25 PM
- Niki Raapana said...
Thank you all for the comments. Funny how the people telling me to stop trashing Rosa never mention or rebut one thing I wrote. The best our detractors can do is avoid the facts. And nobody wants to explain why Rosa removed Nordica's name!
Here's another Ziotard response from the Half truth bowel movement: http://www.channelingreality.com/Mind_War/response_to_niki.htm
- January 12, 2014 at 1:36 AM
- Signifier said...
That Vicki Davis "response to niki" is seriously sick.
Her rant really does expose VD as someone totally Zio-friendly.
She blames the White victims and then praises the Jewish thief and aggrandizer!!
And VD claims she's exposing"the truth"?? LOL!!!
Write to VD and tell her your thoughts at:
A friend of mine sent me VD's reply to an email she sent to VD. In part it said:
"Niki wrote a vicious attack on Rosa out of the blue. The timing was such that it appears that Niki was trying to generate some buzz to bring traffic to her website. That is a sleazy thing to do and it really negates and discredits Niki. It reveals motivations other than to try and stop what is happening to our coutry.
Rosa did more in six months - going to Tea Party groups - telling them and explaining Agenda 21, than Niki did in all the years since she did her research."
Unbelievable! Vicki Davis has lost her mind!
- January 18, 2014 at 12:09 PM
- Niki Raapana said...
So far none of the people defending Rosa's plagiarizing and removal of important facts have used evidence to negate what we wrote here. All they have are bizarre accusations and kindergarten name calling. Vicky Davis uses the same Zionist tactics all the Zionist shills use, and they always evade the actual arguments with some kind of idiotic excuse for criminal acts. Her "response" was so ridiculous we laughed out loud.
- January 18, 2014 at 9:02 PM
- Signifier said...
I am sure you are right, Niki. On my book review site where I added the comment on my review about Koire having plagiarized your work, a commenter wrote in saying, "What difference does it make who said what, so long as the truth comes out? "
It makes a whole hell of a lot of difference who said what. David Irving is suing the BBC for stealing his material for a TV program. Whole swathes of his writing were taken -- verbatim, and he received no recognition or any money. There were writers who stole his work and THEY were paid by the BBC, not the actual author who actually did the writing and the thinking and the organizing.
What difference does it make?
What's the problem people have with "Thou shalt not steal"? What's the problem people have with integrity and truth any more?
Another piece of Vicky's email to my friend included the following: "I don't know where you get the zionist/jew crap, but it is of no interest to me one way or the other. I judge people by what they do. . . ."
Now THAT is funny, eh, Niki? If they steal and are Jewish, she judges them worthy people!!! LOL!!!
- January 18, 2014 at 11:00 PM
- Niki Raapana said...
Every time we've caught someone plagiarizing our work, like the JBS and many other Christian Zionists, the defenders say exactly the same thing. The "truth" is being buried by these liars and thieves. Rosa REMOVED Etzioni from her "truth" and if Vicky actually read this article she knows what the Zionist crap is all about. She's either lying or stupid, or both.
Vicky Davis has NO facts to back up her response. Not even her wacky assessment of my lifestyle is based in reality. Calling me Blanche Dubois was beyond ridiculous, as was her entire attack on me personally. But the best part was about me expecting to live off the royalties on my book. Lol.
And where the heck is Vicky's response to Nordica? Rosa removed Nordica from our book, Vicky removed her from her response. Wait'll they hear what Nordica has to say about them... It's brilliant.
- January 19, 2014 at 6:02 AM
- Signifier said...
Good point on Koire deleting Etzioni from her theft of your work. So telling!!!
This is a large chunk of what my friend wrote Vicky Davis in an email when she learned you and Nordica had been maligned:
Your response is a vicious rant and completely unfair to Niki Rapaana. You couldn't sound off as a better protector of Zionist/Jew interests than you have with this ugly and incredibly unintelligent diatribe against Niki Rapaana.
She and her daughter were the first to write about Communitarianism and name the leader of it. She and her daughter were the first to spell out the true evil of this "religion." It took years of work -- and you don't acknowledge that fact in your hideous rant.
While you were still groping and trying to put the pieces together -- leaving only confusion in your wake, as seen on your own crazy-quilt blog -- Niki and her daughter had pretty much figured everything out.
Then a Jew comes by and steals the information (and makes a lot of money from it) -- and you defend the thief and the thievery because in your eyes it's all about money? Whose money, dear heart? You didn't really ask that question in your dump-post. No, it's not all about money; it's about truth and integrity, you fool!
Do you really need to be told this at your age?
A Jew comes by and steals all of Niki's and Nordica's work (while profiting from it handsomely -- ugly as she is) -- and in your rant you do not even mention the fact that everything was stolen by that Jewish Lesbian hag (who is on the take wherever she goes) -- but you blame Niki!!! Wow!! How stupidly anti-White and anti-American can you be? Blame the victim! How psychologically backward you are!
You fail to mention too that the Jew thief/Lesbian doesn't even credit Nordica with even a single reference in your stolen material.
You now have shown your full colors. I and others now know which side you are on.
You really need to rethink what you've written -- and delete this shit. You accuse Niki of venal goals, of wanting fame and money -- and not the white-haired Kike. You have no proof of that assertion. In fact, what you wrote is a damned lie. What Niki and her daughter want is recognition for herself and her daughter -- and credit for their work. That's so simple and so unadulteratedly right -- only someone as corrupt as you would fail to see it."
After much name-calling ("you're obviously off your meds"), Vicky Davis emailed my friend with this reply: "Ok Niki thanks for sharing."
No logical argument, no debate on facts, no assessments on what's true and what's opinion.
No honor.
- January 19, 2014 at 9:22 AM
- Niki Raapana said...
Lol she thought your friend was me? I'm sorry your friend went through that. I appreciate her defense of us even tho I dont use those terms myself, and would never have engaged Vicky on her low level. I used to think Vicky did some fine research and reposted some of it here. Kind of shocking to know she doesn't think attribution is required. The standard for all our ACL research was verifiable sources. This all reminds me of the Cassandra Anderson/morphcity bullshit. Rosa and all the activist "truthers" linked to her and said it didn't matter that wasn't her real name. I insisted it was a waste of time to read anything I can't cite in my research and that nobody gets to be anonymous in non fiction research. But that didn't stop Rosa or hundreds of anti agenda 21 sites from linking to morphcity, many of whom never linked to us. Cassandra emailed me asking me to teach her about communitarianism just before Rosa arrived on the scene, said she wanted to teach and share our work on her morphcity website. I told her to do her own research and feel free to link to ours to back hers up. That ended that, and next came Rosa. I see Rosa as part of a long line of attempts to steal our work and silence us.. Because we include the Zionist influences we cannot be allowed to contribute to the overall study of the nwo. Because our standards for citations is so high we stand out in an arena full of lazy copycats. Because we have honor and were willing to sacrifice so much in order to publish thousands of pages of free research we are a threat to the scammers controlling the information. We can't be bought and trust me, we've had a few very lucrative offers. Our poverty is, to us, a badge of honor. But... We are working on new projects that may keep food on the table and get us back on track. I will never surrender to Etzioni or any of his cult.
- January 19, 2014 at 5:49 PM
- Signifier said...
"Because we include the Zionist influences we cannot be allowed to contribute to the overall study of the nwo."
This is so unbelievable to me. But I do understand.
Are you going to publish Nordica's response to people of Vicky Davis' ilk here on your blog, Niki?
Or is it going to be a separate work for purchase perhaps? (Hope-hope)
Yes, Vicky Davis did respond as if my friend were you -- just for a second.
I think people like Deanna Spingola and Clint Richardson ought to know who the real Vicky Davis is so they would know better next time if they should ever invite her to be their guest. I once had some respect for the woman at one time . . . but now I'm wiser.
Thanks for your time, responses and your intelligence, Niki.
- January 19, 2014 at 9:18 PM
- Signifier said...
Today Lark in Texas was on the Deanna Spingola broadcast, "Spingola Speaks." Lark referred to your early notes on Communitarianism in:
Way back machine
I also got a chance today to set Nina Pelligrini straight about Rosa Koire and her theft of your work and her failure to reference Nordica Friederich as well as her failure to mention Amitai Eztioni. Mrs. Pelligrini is a Cuban who lives in California and likes to worn people about Agenda 21 and Communism. She's got a 54-minute YouTube video out about the dangers of Communism from her experiences in Cuba as a young girl. She's a very sweet mature lady and sincere, I feel, but she told me she regards Rosa Koire as a "good friend." No, no, no, no no.
I had to enlighten her.
- January 21, 2014 at 4:44 PM
The first time I saw Rosa speak, I knew she was paid-for by central banking factions. Too much easy publicity, and then also the shock of white hair. She looked like (intentionally) the quintessential nut case. Her message always fell short of the whole Truth. Fabian socialism infiltrates from within, and then distorts the Truth. Was this any surprise, really? I will be buying a hard copy of your book. Keep up the good work! Some people do recognize Truth and do cherish it.
- January 23, 2014 at 9:21 AM
I think it would be wise for an objective source to begin publicly listing the investigative journalist news sources that have not been tainted by Fabian socialist infiltration and manipulation. These are the only real news sources that people should be reading and referring to. I have my own list, but it is too short: Niki Raapana, and Joan Veon (now deceased). I would like to include Daniel Estulin on this list, as well, though his focus on Bilderberg seems intentionally distracting, since he does not discuss the BIS or communitarianism much. Any others worth mentioning?
- January 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM
- Unknown said...
here's Koire's scam in a nutshell...
- February 17, 2014 at 10:57 PM
- Signifier said...
Hi, Niki,
Word is getting out about Rose Koire and her relationship to your book.
(No credit to the website above; it is only the diverticulitic colon to the truth. LOL)
- February 18, 2014 at 2:22 PM
- Signifier said...
There's a political cartoon that's been recently created and published and in it there's an oblique reference to the book you and Nordica wrote.
- February 20, 2014 at 7:54 AM
- Signifier said...
There's a political cartoon been published recently and it contains an oblique reference to the book you and Nordica wrote.
- February 20, 2014 at 7:56 AM
Niki, I saw the cartoon. Funny!
hahahahaha. Love, Sue
- February 26, 2014 at 8:05 AM
You need to stop sugar coating things and tell us how you really feel... lol. I am coming into this conversation a few months late but your research must have hit a real nerve somewhere high up? To unleash this intellectual property thief Rosa Koire on you? I suppose those of us who oppose this new globalist communitarian agenda will be attacked with great vigor and vehemence. You should feel proud to have spit so squarely in their face that they sent this harpy to plague you. I will do some research on this cretin and see what filth I can dig up on her fetid bottom...
- April 9, 2014 at 7:39 PM
Niki, you must interview me. Ive emailed you several times from firstname.lastname@example.com Ive lived in a very small rural community for 15 years and have been made a community scapegoat for saul alinsky rules for radicals community organising. They have made my life and absolute misery. I have identified the change agents and fully understand how to route them out Globally.They are all Zionists, incredibly cruel people, highly organised, highly trained and funded by Rothchild NGO's and are doing things that are almost unspeakable. Please email me so that we can arrange
to have a chat.
- April 12, 2014 at 12:05 PM
- Unknown said...
Agenda 21: AGENDA is the keyword here, does anyone know what that word means? Does anyone remember Weapons Of Mass Destruction that the president accused Iraq of having? And when the 'president' was asked about those weapons at a later time? "Ok, there were no such weapons BUT SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS A BAD MAN AND WITH HIM GONE THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE." So you have LIARS out there who supposedly represent the people of their country and let's keep in mind that the USA military has been in NUMEROUS OTHER COUNTRIES killing people, taking control of each country along with grabbing their natural resources, OF SUPREME INTEREST to those responsible for INVADING all targeted countries. Whoever was working for the president or connected to the president in some way would go along with THE LIES to further the agenda. The same situation EXISTS HERE AT THIS WEB SITE to DISCREDIT ANY OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH ABOUT AGENDA 21. Other SERIOUS Investigators have found the same findings as Rosa Koire, long time researchers such as Alan Watt at Cutting Through the Matrix is to be taken as one giving honest objective researched-based WARNINGS TO THE WORLD AT LARGE regarding what Agenda 21 exactly translates to, a system of TOTAL CONTROL OVER ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH, A TYRANNY. BEWARE, those who are RESPONSIBLE FOR AGENDA 21 are the same ones who made the last two World Wars happen going as far as sending money from Wall Street to the side WE were supposedly at war with, money sent from Wall Street to fund the War Machinery of the opposite side. They wanted to create a New World Order and also Reduce The Population BY THE BILLIONS, an AGENDA that they intend to make happen By Means Of Agenda 21 ! Agenda 21 wants to Take Your Property Rights Away from YOU and so be careful in falling for voices that sell Agenda 21 who also discredit those who warn against THE AGENDA.
- April 13, 2014 at 3:19 PM
I am a graduate student at Sonoma state university. I am studying urban planning and read your book and Koire's. Your post here is almost hysterical, and I can't see what your problem is. Koire's info is solid and relates directly to her personal experience.
Your supposed original thesis was made years before by Joan Veon in her book UN Global Straightjacket. You probably got your info from Veon.
I'm not impressed. You sound like a nut. If you want to be taken seriously you should be more civil and quit your chest beating.
- April 28, 2014 at 10:53 PM
Thanks to you and Nordica Niki I got a better picture of what I could see happening in my town .. I had read Joan Veon's books a while ago and then when I found Rosa Koire I sent those two books to her she had not hear of Joan before she wrote her book - so it helped her to learn ... and she wrote me thank you notes to say so ... what I can't understand after subsequently reading your "2020: Our Common Destiny & The AntiCommunitarian Manifesto" from ACL Books, Alaska which apparently Rosa read in 2010 is why she doesn't properly credit you and Nordica ... since that would have helped everyone out in learning ... I can only assume she is selfishly wanting to make money rather than help humans ... you see this soo much in the truth movement its astonishingly the norm ... we won't make it ... if we don't get real out there folks .. Rosa owes you and Nordica a public apology and money, for using your material, so I hope she does the right thing and ponies up a settlement amount of a determined amount forthwith ... she can retain the Joan Veon books I forwarded to her after she wrote her book about Agenda 21 which is lightweight compared to your books and Joan's books .. the dumbing down of america continues .. sadly ... everyone is so busy talking and not bothering to read and research for themselves .. I only wish I had found you and Nordica sooner for the straight goods... I came across you thru a James Corbett interview in July 2012 after I read Joan Veon's books ... interestingly, the Joan Veon books are very very hard to find as well .. just like your books, limited availability .. so that should tell everyone a lot .. Rosa's books are easy to get a hold of .. figure it out then folks .. and be willing to say the word 'communitarianism' in your town often when exposing the collectivists .. flyers aren't gonna cut it Rosa. -- Sally in Canada xx
- May 1, 2014 at 2:05 PM
- Maria Soleada said...
On the other hand some people have few kind words to say toward those who at least make important subject matter available to the public at large via internet videos / podcasts / writings. What I see mostly at thiz web site is the All-Or-Nothing MENTALITY, a form of selfishness limited in scope attitude. I say E for effort for starters.
- May 4, 2014 at 12:38 PM
- Signifier said...
This just in:
Be nice to hear what you think of these videos.
- June 26, 2014 at 10:07 PM
- Signifier said...
This just in:
Be nice to hear what you think of these videos.
- June 26, 2014 at 10:08 PM
It's obvious that you have left this post up for an entire year with nothing else posted since, so that you can get people coming to your site who are interested in Rosa Koire. You're a sad case, Kiki, and and oddball. No one is interested in a weird creepy troll such as yourself.
I've read her book and your stuff and there is no plagarism. If there was you would be able to say exactly what was plagarized, but you can't because her info is original.
You're in your tent freezing your ass off and jealous as hell. Poor thing.
- December 2, 2014 at 9:27 PM
- Niki Raapana said...
You read her book and my "stuff"? That's hilarious. Thank you anonymous coward for your stupidity. Rosa's fans all seem to have the same reading disability and lack of morality, as in stealing is okay if it's for the "greater good." If you'd read the article, lol, you'd see how and where Rosa plagiarized me, and why. You'd also know my name is Niki not Kiki. btw, trolls go to other people's websites and post stupid things. This is my blog and that makes you the troll.
I'm not the least bit impressed with Rosa's defenders. They make a lot of assumptions about me and then attack their own assumptions. If you want to convince me I'm wrong about Rosa, answer the questions I raise, answer why she removed Etzioni and Zionism, why she never cited our book as her direct source of her first 36 pages, and answer why she took Nordica's name off the book.
Maria, No, I have no kind words to say about people who steal others ideas and published works. Nor should I. A thief, no matter their reason for doing it, remains, after all is said and done, a thief. Rosa Koire has zero evidence she did any original research on the subject of communitarianism. We have thousands of pages of original research to back up every claim we make against her. It's definitely enough to take to a copyright lawyer.
- December 9, 2014 at 3:34 AM


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Then allow then to rise again until they are doubled in size.
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Butter Rolls
- 1 pkg yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/4 C warm water
- 1 C milk
- 1/2 C butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/3 C sugar
- 3 eggs
- 4 1/2 C flour
- 1/2 C butter melted for dipping
- Preheat oven to 350
- In a small pan bring milk to a boil and add butter and salt. Turn off heat and allow butter to melt.
- Cool in refrigerator until it comes to room temperature.
- In a small bowl dissolve yeast in warm water and add 1 tsp sugar. Allow to proof.
- In another larger bowl beat 3 eggs; add 1/3 C sugar and mix together.
- Add cooled milk and yeast to egg mixture.
- Add flour, one cup at a time beating with mixer constantly. This will be slightly thicker than cake batter.
- Cover batter with a towel and allow to rise until double.
- Grease counter top and place dough on counter. Do not add more flour unless it is just too sticky to handle.
- Form dough into small, 1 inch size balls.
- Melt 1/2 C butter and dip each ball into butter before placing in pan. Put three balls into each muffin tin to form cloverleaf rolls.
- Let rise until double.
- Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes or until golden brown
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WTP Development Status Meeting
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Announcements And Special Reports
WTP Calendar
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- Improve:
- Major or higher severity bugs by project (This week - 142, last week - 142)
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