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What is it?
Have Your Say
Family Day
at Rotary
Park. More
photos on
page 23.
Global
Warming
Debate Heats
Up. Story on
page 2.
Photo details
on page 26.
Last month’s question - Do you
favour elimination of the Alberta
Health Care Premiums?
Yes - 78.9%
No - 21.1% - 128 votes cast.
This month’s poll - What is your
opinion on Global warning?
a) It is a good thing.
b) It is being over-emphasized.
c) We should do more about it.
Vote at WhitecourtWeb.com
Photo SOHO Consortium, ESA, NASA
Sagitiwa to Whitecourt - Part Eight
By Jerry Graham
(Ed - the following is a
fair use, first hand account of
early days in Whitecourt.)
Monthly Quiz
What does “Erin Go Braugh”
mean? a) Luck of the Irish b)
Ireland forever c) Happy St.
Patrick’s Day - Answer p. 30.
A
t the time of which we
write neither radio nor
T.V. had been invented; we
had no daily newspaper,
no telephone, telegraph or
other direct means of communication other than that
IGA store staff and
Whitecourt emergency re-
(Cont. page 20)
(Continued page 24)
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Mainstream media misses global warming causes
Canada promised to stabilize emissions of greenhouse gases at 1990 levels by
the year 2000 when it signed
the Rio convention in 1992.
The Liberals reaffirmed that
promise in their Red
Book, while Paul Martin proposed Canadian
leadership on the issue
and an international
20% cut. However,
despite these committments, emissions have
actually risen over 10%
was never any chance that
the divide between economic
growth and environmental
safeguards could be bridged.
That is: not while the current
debt-money system prevails
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Meanwhile, Canada’s largest trading
partner, the U.S., has
decided not to implement the
Kyoto treaty on combatting
carbon dioxide emissions.
While there is understandable anger from environmentalists, the truth is that there
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across the planet, at any rate.
Once again our political leaders are basically admitting
this, while refusing to even
discuss the issue. Welcome to
the the Advisor’s freedom of
expression efforts.
The following is essential reading for those concerned with root causes and
sustainable solutions to our
current environmental
degradation and pollution. The main article
is by a Social Crediter which was printed
in The New Times in
1991, but its message
is more relevant today
than ever. It is supplemented by the work of
accredited economists,
engineers and others
who point out the problems of compound interest,
which mathematically pushes
for an exponential growth in
the money supply, and a concommitant, needless growth
(Continued on page 11)
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Careful what you wish for
MARCH 2007
One day a genie appeared to a California man and offered
to grant him one wish.
The man said:” I wish you’d build a bridge from here to
Hawaii so I could drive there anytime.”
The genie frowned” I don’t know. It sounds like quite an
undertaking,” he said. “Just think of the logistics. The supports required reaching the bottom of the ocean, the concrete,
and the steel! Why don’t you pick something else?”
The man thought for a while and then said, “Okay, I
wish for a complete understanding of women—what they are
thinking, why they cry. I wish I knew how to make a woman
truly happy”.
The genie was silent for a minute, then said
“So how many lanes did you want on that bridge?”
Hot enough for you
An Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for
a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was
planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached
his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. Unable
to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her email
address, he did his best to type it in from memory.
Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife, whose husband
had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let
out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At
the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note
on the screen:
Dearest wife: just got checked in. Everything prepared
for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
Heads or tails
Ned and J.B. finally shot a moose and were dragging him
back to the truck by the hind legs. It was slow going as the
front legs kept getting caught in the bush.
Finally J.B. says “I think this is the wrong way, lets try
dragging him by the horns.”
Ned agrees but after a half hour or so says “this seems to
be a lot easier, but we keep getting further from the truck.”
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Conflict of
Interest
Psychatrist: “ You can
make arrangements with
my secretary to pay your
bill on the counselling I’ve
given you.”
Patient: “No problem,
don’t worry Doc. You’ll
get your money or my
name isn’t Alexander the
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MARCH 2007
Peter Pace’s Choice
By Gwynne Dyer
Many people listen to the White
House these days and conclude that a
US attack on Iran is imminent: “To be
quite honest, I’m a little concerned that
it’s Iraq again,” as Senator John Rockefeller, the new chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, said recently.
But if President Bush gives the order,
then General Peter Pace, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, will face a big decision.
Some senior US solders were worried about the strategic wisdom and even the legality of invading Iraq, but nobody resigned over it. It was obvious that the US would win
the actual war quickly and cheaply, and almost nobody worried about the aftermath. But an attack on Iran is different,
even though it would not involve American ground troops
(since all available US combat troops are committed to Iraq),
because any competent general knows that this is a war the
United States cannot win.
Air strikes alone cannot win a war, however massive they are, and they probably could not even destroy all
of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which are numerous, dispersed,
and often deeply buried. Many Iranians would be killed, but
what would the US do next? It would have very few options,
whereas Iran would have many.
Iran could flood Iraq with sophisticated weapons and
send volunteers to help the fight against US forces there. It
could throw international markets into turmoil by halting its
own oil exports. It could try to close the entire Gulf to tanker
traffic (with a fair chance of success), and throw the entire
world economy into crisis. And any further US air strikes
would simply harden Iranians’ resolve.
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So would General Pace attack Iran if Bush ordered
him to? His only alternative would be to resign, but he does
have that option. Senior officers like Pace, while still bound
by the code of military discipline, acquire a political responsibility as well. Like cabinet ministers, they cannot oppose a
government decision while in office, but they have the right
and even the duty to resign rather than carry out a decision
that they believe to be disastrous.
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Some people naively hoped that Colin Powell would
do that rather than let the invasion of Iraq proceed. After all,
he was no longer a soldier, but he still thought like one, and
he must have understood that the intelligence was corrupted.
If he had resigned as secretary of state, he might even have
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Town Council - Month in Review
MARCH 2007
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MOBILE BONE DENSITOMETRY
February 13, 2007 - Enhancements at the Whitecourt
Twin Arenas are well underway, with several projects already complete.
• Bleachers and a full heating system in the seating area
in the McLeod Rink have been installed.
• A new, energy efficient hot water system has been installed.
• New flooring in the lobbies and hallways has been
installed.
• A female change room has been constructed.
• A new roof top system air unit for change room heating has been installed.
Further enhancements are planned for 2007, including:
the redevelopment of the Athabasca Rink change rooms,
lobby and washrooms; development of a display area; and
improvements to the facility’s sound system.
Final reading was given to Bylaw 1405 which will enable the Friends of Whitecourt Society to offer interest-free
loans to physicians as incentive to move and provide medical service for residents in our community. The Society is
pleased to report that there is an increase in interested doctors applying to work in our community, and is thrilled to be
able to offer loans to assist moving to Whitecourt.
The Fire Department will receive a new fire pumper in
2008. The new pumper will enhance firefighting capabilities
and provide enhanced fire protection to our community.
February 15, 2007 - Multi-Use Facility Update
Whitecourt Town Council met on February 14 for a
Special Meeting to discuss the budget for the multi-use facility project. Bids on the final tender package, which is the
largest package for the project, were received and calculations show this aspect of the project is higher than original
estimates.
Visitors and delegations at the meeting included Woodlands County Council, Stuart Olson Construction, the Construction Manager, and Barr Ryder Architects and Interior
Designers. The project consultants reported on the increases,
noting Alberta’s booming economy and busy construction
market as key reasons for the cost increases. Both Councils
were provided information on options available, including
reducing the scope of the project, eliminating features or
re-tendering; however, both Town and County Councils reaffirmed their commitment to the project as it was designed
and Town Council gave authorization to continue with the
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Insight Medical Imaging
will be offering
Mobile Bone Densitometry
services to:
Whitecourt March 22 - April 5, 2007
Mayerthorpe April 10 - 20, 2007
(Approximate dates)
If you require testing for
Osteoporosis
Please contact your Physician’s office
to make an appointment
and obtain a referral.
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project. Town Council agreed that there was a risk to re-tendering, and that it would only cause delays to the project and
potentially increase the cost of the project further.
Whitecourt Town Council is now undertaking the task of
reviewing funding sources. Town Council and Administration
are expected to meet in the near future to discuss the Town’s
2007 Budget and the Multi-Use Facility budget.
February 27, 2007 - A Junior B Hockey Team in Whitecourt
may soon become a reality. A local resident has obtained preliminary League approval to enter a Whitecourt team in the
2007/08 season of the Northwest Junior “B” Hockey League
starting this September. Whitecourt Town Council supports
this endeavor and is eagerly awaiting the League’s decision
on the application.
The Area Structure Plan for Athabasca Flats East has
been completed and approved. The plan defines uses for the
area, including residential, school, institutional, open space
and neighbourhood commercial. Development is scheduled
to take place in the area in late 2007. For more information,
please contact the Planning and Development Department at
778-2273.
Approval has been granted for the construction of a 31-
4004 36 St. (Next to Whitecourt Collision)
Phone: 778-1978 Cell: 706-1854
unit apartment complex at 4502- 52nd Avenue. It will add
much needed housing to the Whitecourt market and will
greatly enhance the downtown area. For more information
on the project, please contact Anderson Custom Built Homes
Ltd. at (780) 723-4132.
Are you heart healthy? You are invited to attend the Heart
and Health Fair on Thursday, March 8 from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m.
at the Whitecourt Community Centre. Plan to partake and
gain valuable information on how you can stay heart healthy.
For more information contact Gail Bablitz at 778-5555 or
Chelsea McMillan at 778-6300
Perception strikes again
One day, an employee received an unusually large
check. She decided not to say anything about it.
The following week, her check was for less that the
normal amount, and she confronted her boss.
“How come,” the supervisor inquired, “you didn’t say
anything when you were overpaid?”
Unperturbed, the employee replied, “Well, I can overlook one mistake – but not two in a row!”
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One way this is done is facilitating partnerships between
Project Amigo stops by Whitecourt
MARCH 2007
Last month, a caravan of six school buses, one fire truck
and two ambulances rolled through Whitecourt, on its way
from Dawson Creek to Mexico. The vehicles, and their contents of computers, medical equipment and more, are to be
donated to a local community upon their arrival in Mexico.
The endeavour was an initiative by the Dawson Creek Rotary Club, with the Whitecourt Rotary Club helping out by
kicking in for some gas money. The Rotary efforts were in
partnership with Project Amigo.
North American and Mexican Rotary Clubs to sponsor projects
which benefit the children and their families. These projects
have included building Colonia Rotaria, low-cost housing for
poor families, and the installation of libraries and computer
labs in children’s group homes and rural schools. About 35%
of Project Amigo’s donors and supporters are non-Rotarians,
and none of their activities are restricted to Rotarians.
Project Amigo is an independent non-profit corporation
whose mission is to enable the poor children of Colima, Mexico to achieve their highest potential by providing educational
opportunities, material support, enrichment activities, and
medical and dental services not otherwise available to them.
Left to right below are Harvey Glasier of Dawson Creek Rotary, Darlene
Chartrand of Whitecourt Rotary, Larry Moody of Dawson Creek Rotary and
Larry McConnell of Whitecourt Rotary. Behind them are a few of the vehicles
on the way to Mexico.
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Traffic tall tale
A man decided that he was going to ride a 10-speed bike
from Phoenix to Flagstaff. He got as far as Black Canyon
City before the mountains just became too much and he
could go no farther.
He stuck his thumb out, but after 3 hours hadn’t gotten
a single person to stop. Finally, a guy in a Corvette pulled
over and offered him a ride. Of course, the bike wouldn’t
fit in the car. The owner of the Corvette found a piece of
rope lying by the highway and tied it to his bumper. He
tied the other end to the bike and told the man that if he
was going too fast, to honk the horn on his bike and that he
would slow down.
Everything went fine for the first 30 miles. Suddenly, another Corvette blew past them. Forgetting his passenger and
not to be outdone, the Corvette pulling the bike took off after
the other. A short distance down the road the Corvettes, both
going well over 120 mph, blew through a speed trap.
The police officer noted the speeds from his radar gun
and radioed to the other officer that he had two Corvettes
headed his way at over 120 mph. He then relayed, “...and
you’re not going to believe this, but there’s guy on a 10-speed
bike honking to pass.”
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Armenian Economist is
Giving Peace a Chance
Rotary Centres train new
generation of peace makers
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Someday my princess will come
A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline and is told, “You are going to meet a
beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you.”
The frog says, “This is great! Will I meet her at a party, or what?”
“No,” says the psychic. “Next semester.......in her biology class.”
(Evanston, Ill., USA — 22. January
2007) Amid today’s headlines of war,
suicide bombings, and violent crime
signs of peace are welcome.
Gohar Gyulumyan has decided to
make a career of working towards peace
and sustainable economic development
in the Caucasus region, and Rotary International is helping the 37-year-old
Yerevan native by awarding her with a
fellowship in peace and conflict resolution studies.
Launched in 2002, this two-year
program is aimed at helping the next
generation of government officials, diplomats and humanitarian leaders develop the skills needed to reduce the threat
of war and violence worldwide.
Gyulumyan says that because of
the political instability and ethnic conflicts after the break-up of the Soviet
Union, especially the territorial Nagorny Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan,
she felt the call of duty to reduce the
violence and to create a better life for
her people.
“Even 10 years after the ceasefire the conflict can re-escalate at any
point,”says Gyulumyan, who worked
for the Ministry of Finances and Economy in the 1990s and most recently for
the Worldbank’s office in Yerevan. “Our
political and economical problems are
interrelated. We moved from a planned
to a market-oriented economy, but the
lack of security hinders the economic
progress in our country.”
The fellowship allows Gyulumyan to earn a Master’s degree at one of
seven Rotary Centers for International
Studies around the world. Centers are
located at leading universities in the
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United Kingdom, the U.S.,
France, Japan, Argentina and
Australia.
Gyulumyan, who earned
a degree in economics from
the Yerevan State University, started her studies at
the Duke University in the
United States last August.
Her career goal is to combine
her knowledge in macroeconomics with peace and conflict resolution skills to better
serve her country and the region as a whole.
Gyulumyan says the fellows in her class come from
seven different countries,
bringing their own experiences and expertise in the
program. “There’s a public health professional from
Canada, an army officer
from the Philippines, a social worker from Cameroon
and an Israeli with a degree
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in Middle Eastern Studies.
What unites us is that each
of us is trying to improve
the life of people in different
parts of the world.”
Up to 70 Rotary World
Peace Fellows are selected
each year in a globally competitive selection process
based on their
professional
and academic achievements. Their
interests and
areas of expertise
include public
health, sustainable agriculture, international law,
public policy, economic development, journalism, and
social justice.
“You have only to pick up
a newspaper to realize how
vitally important it is that our
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world leaders be skilled in
the arts of conflict resolution
and peaceful negotiation,”
says Luis Giay, chairman of
The Rotary Foundation. “Everything we do through our
Rotary clubs -- from fighting
poverty to eradicating polio
-- is intended ultimately to
promote world peace. What
better
way
to contribute
to that effort
than by helping to develop future
world leaders
committed
to achieving
peace and understanding.”
As part of the fellowship, Gyulumyan will intern
this summer at the World
Trade Organization in Geneva, where she will study how
foreign trade affects international relations.
Rotary is an organization
of business and professional
leaders united worldwide
who provide humanitarian service and help to build
goodwill and peace. Paul P.
Harris founded the world’s
first service club 1905 in
Chicago. Today, 1.2 million
Rotarians belong to some
32,000 Rotary clubs in over
200 countries and geographical areas worldwide. In Armenia, 54 Rotary volunteers
from 2 clubs carry out community projects to address
issues such as poverty, education, health care and the
environment.
Application for the Rotary World Peace Fellowship
must be made through a local
Rotary club. The deadline for
the 2008-10 class is 1 July
2007. For more information,
please visit: www.rotary.org/
foundation/educational/amb_
scho/centers/index.html
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in make-work type economic
activity.
The structure of our debt
money capitalization financing system, the additional serious problem of compound
interest charges and industrial
age ideas about full employment militate against the most
basic environmental sanity,
even as the power structures
responsible for such a system
exhort Canadians, and the
world, to be more responsible. It is as though cigarette
nanufacturers were leading
the fight against lung cancer.
FINANCE AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
- by Robert E. Klinck
The finance-controlled
media are billing the 1990s
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as the decade of environmen- slogan for environmentalism
tal concern. We already know comprehends a genuine ideothat the watchwords of the ten logical revolution. It should
years that lie ahead will be be obvious that “sustainable
“sustainable development”, development” is a highly
a phrase that, in a process re- complex criterion that subsembling water torture, will jects the entire economy to
be dripped relentlessly into a test that only an elite can
possibly impose.
our consciousThe old environness, eroding our
To what
mentalist word,
power to think
end will this
“conservation”,
independently
was a sturdily
about ecological
campaign for
democratic term,
matters.
our minds be
conservation bewaged?
ing an activity to
To
what
which everyone
end will this
campaign for our minds be can contribute; but how can
waged? The implications of ordinary people participate
the term “sustainable devel- in “sustainable development”
opment” provide a complete other than as passive slaves
answer. Humans are such of a panel of purported exlinguistic creatures that they perts on the subject?
think of concepts through the
If this concept of sustainwords used to describe them.
So they think that the new ability (naive as it may be in
“
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Jenny’s back, at
the same location
under a new name.
4919 - 51 Ave.
706-3598
Walk-ins Welcome
a world such as our own, with
its innumerable variables) acquires the acceptance planned
for it, then the shape of things
to come will be plain: dictation of economic initiative
will be centralized to a degree
never known in the Western
World outside wartime.
Although the benefits to
the environment of such a
situation are uncertain, there
is no doubting that it will afford the new environmental
police and their friends limitless opportunities for self-aggrandisement.
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This objection to the notion of “sustainable development” points up a basic
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weakness in the position of
many so-called environmentalists. They contend that the
environment is being excessively exploited and polluted
because of human greed, but
in so doing they propound
a quite unbelievable ‘good
guys, us,—bad guys, them”
dichotomy. “Give us power,”
they say, “and—unlike the
profiteering rotters who wield
it now—we will use it unselfishly for the common weal.”
Even if such pleading is
sincere, anyone of elementary political experience knows
that accession to power often
catalyses today’s starry-eyed
utopian into tomorrow’s cynical despot. This is why, as a
general principle, one is wise
to distrust those who advocate combating evils flowing
from existing concentrations
of power by means of even
greater concentrations of
power. Environmental pollution is unquestionably undesirable, but that fact does not
mean that the solutions to it
proposed by those who make
this point most clamorously
are sage in proportion to their
noise level.
Does, then, the corruptibility in human nature render
all attempts at benign reform produce less coal? Cause the
futile? If the reform is to con- mine-owner to operate at a
sist of more central planning loss for a few years: will that
and control, it would seem so. make him want to produce
However, despite the propa- less coal? The answer in both
ganda emanating from pow- situations is no. Indeed, the
er-seekers of all sorts, from probable effect will be to
the idealistic to the crassly stimulate both parties to mine
more coal and
self-serving, who
promote its conwant power conAs a general sumption whercentrated on prinprinciple,
ever possible.
ciple so that it is
more easily capone is wise to
The point is
tured; other direcdistrust those
that both the emtions for change
who advocate
ployer and the
are possible.
employees are incombating
volved in a morOn
closer
evils flowing
ally questionable
consideration, the
from
existing
activity for prepractice of blaming a few rela- concentrations of cisely the same
tively influential power by means reason—to get
money. In these
individuals
for
of
even
greater
circumstances, it
environmental
deterioration also concentrations of is hypocritical to
criticise only the
seems inappropripower.
employer for his
ate. For example,
part in aggravatit is difficult to
perceive a fundamental differ- ing the problem of acid rain.
ence between, say, the mine- In so far as environmental
owner who sells a “dirty” fuel degradation is concerned, the
as a way of making a living web of culpability covers esand his employees who help sentially the whole of society,
to produce the coal in order including the environmento obtain income. It would talist jetting off to the next
be nonsensical to assume that conference on atmospheric
culpability is in proportion to pollution. This diffuse rethe revenues derived. Double sponsibility is awkward for
the salaries of the employees: environmentalists, since it
will that make them want to becomes difficult to target a
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clear-cut enemy. Also, when
virtually the entire community is collaborating in the
practices supposedly needing change, the critic of the
practices tends to appear like
a holier-than-thou snob.
If the person who is willing to foul the earth in order
to balance the family budget
is not really different from
the one who is willing to foul
the earth to balance the company budget, how are we to
deal with the environmental
problem? Certainly we will
not get far by telling them to
stop balancing their budgets.
On the other hand, if the imperative to balance budgets
is vastly greater than it need
be, if the preoccupation with
money arises largely from artificial pressures in the economy, as it does, then there is
hope for significant beneficial
change.
SUPREMACY OF
MONEY
At some unknown, but
fateful, point in medieval history, a money lender realised
that the essence of a viable
money system is confidence
and that, once this confidence
was established, a magical
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and very remunerative trick
could be played. Typically,
the money lenders were possessors of a stock of precious
metals, which they would
loan out. They found that,
once they gained a reputation for reliability, in lieu of
transferring actual gold or silver they could issue a promise to pay backed by the real
wealth known to be in their
vaults. Their next discovery
was that, as long as people
believed in the convertibility
of the promises to pay, such
promises could be issued to
a value considerably beyond
that of their holdings of precious metals. If, for example,
experience taught the moneylender that only 1/10 of
his clients would at any particular time insist on payment
in actual coin or bullion, he
could safely make loans totalling about 10 times the value of his reserves of bullion.
Thus was born financial credit and the principle of what
we now know as fractional
reserve banking, which has
both allowed the community
to expand the economy with
unprecedented rapidity and
delivered control over the expansion to the money power.
The important points to
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grasp are (1) the promises to Acceptance of the principle
pay functioned perfectly well that money is a commodity
even though they were issued has ever since made it imposon a fraudulent representa- sible to establish a scientific
tion of convertibility; (2) the relationship between the true
money lender retained discre- monetary requirements of the
tion to vary the availability of economy and the availability
the promises to pay and there of money.
was never an exact corresponBecause
dence between
money
is regardthe total value
From this
ed as a commodof the promises
perspective it
ity, its proprietors
to pay and the
undertake conoverall
mone- follows that the
stantly to enhance
tary needs of the
proper role of
its value. This is
community; (3)
money
is
simply
achieved by causthe promises to
to assist people ing demand for it
pay purportedly
derived their valto produce and to be high, which
in turn is achieved
ue from the bulconsume in
by keeping it in
lion in the money
lender’s vault but accordance with short supply. Indeed, throughout
in fact this value
their physical
the entire evolucame from the
and spiritual
tion of the money
actual and potendesires.
system, which fitial productivity
nanciers have esof the community itself. While the pretence sentially been able to guide
that financial credit is based to suit their own ends, mainon precious metals has been taining a chronic shortage of
abandoned, all these features financial credit has been the
have survived in modern fi- key to ensuring the moneynancial systems, whose func- dealers’ dominant position in
tion is to create the financial the economy.
credit of the community.
THE FACT OF
DEFICIENCY
It should be noted that the
money lender’s promises to
pay circulated from hand to
At first glance it might
hand in trade as a commodity. seem far-fetched to suggest
“
”
that there is a chronic shortage of money in the economy.
After all, are we not told constantly that inflation, which
is now accepted as a normal
condition and which we have
ever with us, is caused by excessive availability of credit?
In order for the point
about deficiency to make
sense, we must have a reference point for normality, and
to develop this we must be
clear on the proper role of the
money system. Money occupies such a dominant position
in our society that we are accustomed to thinking of it as
being primordial. However,
this is surely a mistaken view,
for, without the spiritual and
physical capacities in the
world, money is nothing. It
has no independent existence
and, while useful as a tool for
releasing spiritual and physical capacities, by its nature it
is completely subordinate to
them.
From this perspective it
follows that the proper role
of money is simply to assist
people to produce and consume in accordance with their
physical and spiritual desires.
To the extent that these are
not being satisfied for want
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of money, the money system
is failing.
However, the deficiency
that should be of central interest to environmentalists,
because of its economy-distorting influence, is of a different sort. Another undeniable principle (except perhaps in the bizarre world of
economists) is that the only
sane motive for production is
the desire to consume, i.e., to
put goods to their end-uses.
Consumption is the natural
consummation of production.
Since in our economy money
licenses both production and
consumption, it follows that
the monetary system ought
to function so as to permit
consumption of what we produce. Unfortunately, however, it does not work that way.
THE MECHANISM OF
DEFICIENCY
There are two accountancy cycles in the economy.
One is the cycle of bank loans
and reimbursements of loans.
The other is the cycle of price
build-up and liquidation of
prices. The two cycles are related because the loans, constituting the money supply,
are the only possible source
of the means to liquidate the
prices.
The price build-up occurs as costs accumulate in
the processes of production
which are liquidated when
consumers buy the products.
Hence, price accumulation
is a function of production,
while price liquidation is a
function of consumption.
The loans are of several
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sorts—loans to business, to
government, and to consumers. Loans to consumers and
governments obviously tend
to cause a deficiency of buying power because they involve mortgaging the future
revenue of the community in
order to permit present consumption, i.e., they do not
liquidate costs but merely
shift the obligation to pay
them to a future time.
To understand the deficiency problem that arises
through the granting of business loans one must comprehend that bank loans constitute additions to the money
supply. In other words, the
issuing of a bank loan creates credit and the repayment
of the loan cancels the credit.
This accounts for the variability of the money supply.
Let us say that a company obtains a bank loan in
order to expand its plant. The
loan will be expended as the
plant is assembled, flowing
to employees as income and
to suppliers of materials as
business revenue. Most of
the personal income will be
spent on current consumption
needs and flow from the retailers, through manufacturers with lines of bank credit,
to the banking system, while
most of the business income
will return to the same point
even more directly. This reimbursed loan money is then
cancelled out of existence,
but the costs it generated during the building of the plant
remain. When these costs are
finally registered in the prices
of consumer goods, the money needed to liquidate them is
no longer available.
(See Global Warming p. 30)
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heard testimony, members of
the committee have been struck
by how enormous the problem
is. More than one in four Canadian children is either overweight
or obese. The problem is even
greater on reserves where 55%
of First Nation children age 2-17
are either overweight or obese.
The committee will be completing the hearings this month, but
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The new Food Guide has been vastly improved upon
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available for eating well and living healthy. Other features of
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• Emphasizing the importance of physical activity
• Inclusion of culturally relevant foods from a variety
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My favourite improvement is the ability for people to go
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doomed war.
stopped the war. But Powell was too deeply entangled
with the neo-conservatives
and too inured to military
obedience to exercise his option -- whereas Peter Pace
obviously does understand
his choice.
The resignation of
the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff -- and possibly several of the other
Chiefs as well -- would be an
immensely powerful gesture.
It could stop an attack on
Iran dead in its tracks, for the
White House would have to
find other officers who would
carry out its orders. It would
doubtless find them, but such
a shocking event might finally enable Congress to find its
backbone and refuse support
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table. Consider
to find its
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backbone and
man Tony Snow
was done around
the question of refuse support for picked up the
another illegal theme, insisting
Iran and “Explosively Formed and foredoomed that they were
being supplied
Penetrators” in
war.
by the Quds unit
the past couple
of the Iranian
of weeks. (EFPs
are glorified shaped-charge Revolutionary Guard. “The
weapons that can penetrate Quds Force is, in fact, an
armour at a considerable official arm of the Iranian
distance. Most major armies government and, as such, the
have had them for several government bears responsibility and accountability for
decades.)
“
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its actions,” he said.
Familiar stuff from
the run-up to the Iraq war
-- but then something unscripted happened. General
Peter Pace, visiting in Australia, said that Iranian government involvement was
NOT proven: “We know that
the explosively formed projectiles are manufactured in
Iran, but I would not say by
what I know that the Iranian
government clearly knows
or is complicit.” A day later,
in Jakarta, he repeated his
doubts: “What [the evidence]
does say is that things made
in Iran are being used in Iraq
to kill coalition soldiers.”
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Whitecourt Picnic in 1919 - Left to right: Mr. Stuckey, Mrs. Stuckey and Linehan child. John Torgerson just above Linehan
child. Mrs. Harrop is centre (with head turned), Mr Linehan is behind here about to take a bite and Jerry Graham’s future
wife, Dolly Torgerson is far right.
(Continued from page 1)
provided by the Post Office.
What, then, did people do for
amusement? Strangely while
the various of amusement differed greatly from today and
were a lot less costly, they
were, in the humble opinion
of the author, quite as satisfying and involved no great
expenditure.
A poster advertising a
dance was usually hung in
the store, and invariably ended with the wording, “Ladies
please bring lunch”. The men
paid in cash while the ladies
paid in lunch, and while this
would be altogether imprac-
tical nowadays, it all added to the wonderful spirit
of togetherness so much a
part of the community at
the time. Over a cup of coffee and with tempting fare,
while the various of amusement
“diffStrangely
ered greatly from to-day and were a lot
less costly, they were, in the humble opinion of
the author, quite as satisfying and involved no
great expenditure.
”
(Whitecourt has always been
blessed with excellent cooks
even from earlier times) the
midnight break at dances was
something to look forward
to. The difference between
then and now is, that to-day
the cook decides what she is
going to have, and then consults a cookbook for ways
and means of preparing it,
whereas in the days of which
we speak the cook surveyed
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what she had on hand, and it
might not be much in the way
of variety, but she did her best
with things available.
The lunch having been
provided by the ladies eliminated the possibility that one
might run into such fare as
bear paws, beaver tails and
muskrat legs which many
of the bachelors regarded as
delicacies. Good sustaining
food maybe, but for which
one must acquire a taste, and
an ability to look elsewhere.
The annual picnic was an
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PAGE 21
it was. At this gathering also,
the ladies provided the lunch
or dinner, and everyone sat
around on the grass enjoying
the fare, and renewing contacts with people he might
not have seen since last such
outing. No one went hungry.
The assembly was, of course,
almost entirely local, Greencourt being a day’s journey
away, and Blue Ridge not
having come into being.
Dancing would still be
going on at eight the following morning as a rule and
the musicians gave freely of
their time, spelled each other
off frequently, and received
little or no remuneration for
their efforts. As far as can be
remembered no charge of any
kind was made for any part
of the proceedings. Money
and the acquisition thereof
had not reached the prime
position of importance it has
now been accorded.
Sing-songs also contributed to entertainment and the
gathering in the Torgerson
sitting room, some on chairs,
some sitting on the floor, but
all willing to contribute his bit
to the program when called
upon, were frequent and enjoyable. Some singers were,
as can be expected, more ac-
Early Alberta Provincial Police constable, Ralph Crouch,
after the railroad came in early 1920’s.
complished than others, and ing the simple things of life,
names like Syd Pomfret and and become so much more
Harry Clay come to mind. demanding in what they conBut what was lacking in sidered as fit and acceptable
quality was more than made entertainment.
up by enthusiThe police
asm, and many an
It
is
the
opinion
officer who on
hour passed most
occasion
papleasantly with
of the author
trolled
this
area
Dolly Torgerson
that something
(it was Provincial
accompanying
passed from
Police then) was
all and sundry,
our lives when stationed at Rowhile the rafters
rang with such people seemed no chfort (now Rochforfc Bridge),
wartime songs as
longer capable and he appeared
Dear Old Pal of
of enjoying the on the Whitecourt
Mine and Roses
of Picardy.
simple things of scene possibly
once a month.
life
About this time,
It is the opinthe
policeman
ion of the author
that something passed from confided to the author by
our lives when people seemed stating, “I don’t know why I
no longer capable of enjoy(Continued on page 22)
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New townsite layout after the railroad came in 1921.
(Continued from page 21)
nized the minister as one of plan of Whitecourt). Prepathe former Whitecourt Mis- rations were then made to
sionaries. On leaving, it was move such buildings as were
only natural that Whitecourt considered worth moving
should be mentioned. The from the bottom of the hill to
minister beamingly declared the new survey.
While we had no regular
that he had the
church services, the PresbyThe railroad
most pleasant
terians looked after us spiriProgress
grade was commemories
of
tually, and held a service at
no doubt, but
pleted and a site for
the place and
irregular intervals in what
the station chosen.
he even rememwas then the meeting place
something
bered some of
(the old red building that had
that cannot be With the building
of the station and
those who had
formerly been a pool hall).
measured in
a water tank, and
invited him to
The missionary rode horsetheir
homes. dollars and cents also the laying of
And no wonder.
vanished from the steel, the first
train whistled into
It was just that
our lives right Whitecourt a few
kind of place.
then”
months later.
Early in the
We now had access to
Spring of 1921 the Canadian
Northern Town Properties the outside world, and EdCo. Ltd. (usually referred to monton was only one day’s
as the Townsite Co.) sent in a journey away (on a mixed
gang to survey the townsite. train) instead of three days as
They did so by completing of yore. Progress no doubt,
the survey of blocks 1-2-3-4, but something that cannot be
C.N. Station built in 1921. It was considered the best Plan 662 C.L. (The original
(Continued on page 27)
building in town for some time.
bother to come up here, they
never need me”. A splendid
tribute.
back from Sangudo and arrived in Whitecourt for the
most part on a Saturday afternoon. Thereafter he would
go visiting in the hamlet, and
invite the people to service
the following day. While the
congregation was never large
the percentage attending
compared more than favorably with present day figures.
Many years later the author
attended a church service
in Victoria, B.C. and recog-
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Malawi pays $440 million to rich
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On August 31, 2006 after years of waiting, Malawi has
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(Continued on page 28)
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Explanation of page 1 photo
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What’s happening to our Sun? Another Coronal Mass
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mass ejections or CMEs, were discovered by spacecraft in
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This is not to say that thoughtless effects from our industrial sector, and it’s compound interest driver, can not also
have serious effects in regards to global warming, particulate
pollution, basic human rights and many other societal ills.
The Luck of Some Irish
Hennessy wasn’t a very good looking fellow to start with.
Now his business had failed, and his wife and family had left
him. Depressed and distracted, he was standing near the edge
of the bridge, contemplating suicide. Suddenly, he sensed that
someone was behind him, and turning around he saw an ugly
little old lady leprechaun.
“Don’t jump,” she said, “and I’ll grant you three wishes.”
“Right,” he said. “my first wish is to have $100,000.”
She said, “When you check your account, you will find
that you are in credit to that amount.”
He then said, “My second wish is to have my wife and
children back.”
She said, “They will be there when you get home.”
He said, “My third wish is to be tall and handsome.”
She said, When you look in the mirror, you will find that
your wish has been granted.”
Then she added, “I want you to do something in return for
me. I want you to give me a deep kiss.”
He looked at her and felt somewhat put upon at the
thought. However, under the circumstances he thought he
should do as she wanted. He took her in his arms and kissed
her again and again.
She said, “What age are you?”
He replied, “I’m forty.”
She said, “Don’t you think that you’re a bit too old to be
believing in leprechauns?”
Q. How many times can you subtract the number 5
from 25?
A. Once, because it’s not 25 anymore after the first
subtraction.
MARCH 2007
(Continued from page 22)
measured in dollars and cents
vanished from our lives right
then, and it is with a real feeling of nostalgia that most of
us think about Sagitiwa, later
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Whitecourt, and the good
old days. Candidly, we were
lucky to have lived then.....
passed away in Whitecourt
on October 17,1985 at the
age of 90 years.
(1993 footnote)
John F. (Jerry) Graham
Wilma (Dolly) Graham
passed away in Edmonton on
September 25, 1971.
This is the final installment of Jerry Graham’s first
hand account of living in early Whitecourt.
New town layour occassioned by
the arrival of the railroad. Many buildings were moved to align with the new
design by the C.N. survey crew.
Special thanks
to Vic Young for
typing out Jerry
Graham’s Salute
to the Pioneers,
making it far easier to re-produced
this popular series.
Also to John Dahl
for invaluable help
with photographs
and much more.
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MARCH 2007
(Continued from page 25)
harmful and undemocratic
conditions attached. Malawi
actually entered HIPC in December 2000, over six years
ago: it has paid $440 million
in debt service to the rich
world, as it struggled with
the difficult conditions it was
told it had to meet to get any
debts cancelled.
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The
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will make a huge difference
to Malawi’s economy. Even
The money originally though it had already been allent to Malawi was literally lowed to reduce its debt paycreated out of thin air, by the ments slightly, ahead of acinternational banking sys- tual cancellation, Malawi has
tem, with compound interest still been paying nearly $70
million a year in
being charged on
debt payments
the amount of the
Malawi
(interest
and
loan. The money
has paid $440 principal repayto actually pay
compound intermillion in debt ments) to the
rich world.
est does not exist
service to the
until it is created
These conas more debt at rich world, as it
more interest. It is
struggled with ditions included
requirements
like the old comthe difficult
that
Malawi
pany store scam,
where a worker’s conditions it was privatize entertold it had to
prises including
pay cheque could
never meet the
meet to get any the national telecoms company
bills that his emdebts cancelled.
and national airployer
charged
line, and “comhim with for livmercialize” the state agriculing expenses.
tural company (full privatiThe main difference is zation was abandoned after
that victims of the company strong public protest).
store scam rarely died from
The International Monthe injustice.
etary Fund (IMF) also told
Malawi it had to cut back on
After the G8 summit in spending: but Malawi needs
Okinawa in 2000, President huge public investment. It is
Obasanjo of Nigeria made suffering an appalling HIV/
this comment on Nigeria’s AIDS crisis which means
debt: “All that we had bor- that one in seven adults is
rowed up to 1985 or 1986 HIV positive - but there is
was around $5 billion and we only one doctor for about evhave paid about $16 billion ery 80,000 people (compared
yet we are still being told that to one in every 600 people in
we owe about $28 billion. the developed world). It has
That $28 billion came about also been suffering a food
(See Malawi debt on page 30)
because of the injustice in
“
”
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Riders interested in joining a Sunday Ride should
plan on being at the Eagle River Snowmobile Staging
Area (NW of Whitecourt on Hwy #32) by 12:00 Noon
on Sundays. The ride leaves the Staging Area by 12:30
PM. The Sunday Rides Program offers newcomers to
the community and tourists the opportunity to ride with
a Club Member who will lead a group for a 3 to 4 hour
ride through the trail system. The ride usually includes
a stop for a trail lunch. Participants should dress for the
weather and bring their own trail lunch. Sunday Rides
for any given Sunday will be cancelled if the temperature is below -15C at 12:00 Noon.
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(Iranian war from page 19)
(Malawi debt from page 28)
(Global Warming from p.14)
accident. The White House
got the message, and retreated a bit. “What we don’t
know is whether the headquarters in Iran ordered the
Quds force to do what they
did,” said President Bush on
14 February. But he didn’t
really back down: “I intend
to do something about it...
we’re going to protect our
troops.”
crisis brought on by drought
— and donors did not provide the assistance that was
promised.
If the foregoing explanation elicits scepticism, it is
only be-cause people do not
know how money comes into
being and are accustomed to
think of it as pooled rather
than particulate. However,
every dollar in the community is linked in a chain of
debt relationships that leads
ultimately to the manufacturers of credit, the banks. Regardless of popular notions
on the matter, there is no selfgenerated “free” money floating around to fill the gap left
by the premature cancellation
of the credit disbursed during
the development of the plant.
There is a civil-military confrontation brewing in
the United States more serious than anything that has
been seen since President
Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur during the
Korean War. But this time,
if the general acts on his convictions, he will be in the
right.
GWYNNE DYER has
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and lecturer on international
affairs for more than 20 years.
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University of London. His
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But despite these huge
problems and clear needs,
the IMF still said Malawi
had to cut spending in order
to get debt relief. When it
‘overspent’ - at least in part
on importing grain to feed its
people — the IMF punished
it by suspending debt relief
(the reduction in debt payments it had been promised)
and delaying much-needed
debt cancellation still further.
Now that Malawi has
got past these appalling obstacles, it has the debt cancellation it deserves and
needs. The rich world needs
to ensure that all unjust and
unpayable debts are cancelled, without forcing more
countries to go through the
same pains as Malawi. Under
the current unjust compound
interest system, the debt is
guaranteed to grow again, so
an additional requirement for
the future will be creating a
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“Erin Go Braugh”
Ireland forever
means
So where will the money
come from to fill the growing
disparity between the cumulative flow of retail prices and
the cumulative flow of consumer buying power? If not
from debt assumed by consumers or government, which
as we have seen does not liquidate costs, it will be derived
from debt assumed for further
plant expansion, which again
will distribute purchasing
power in advance of expanding the effective cost burden
on consumers. But of course
this distribution leads directly
to a deficiency of consumer
buying power in relation to
the latest generation of capital costs. As long as capital
development is expanding,
we can muddle through in
dealing with the problem.
But making the purchase of
today’s bread dependent upon
the production of tomorrow’s
jet fighter or office complex
is a hare-brained way to run
an economy—absolutely a
mug’s game where environmental considerations come
into play.
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As long as current methods of financing are practised, there is simply no way
the flow of buying power can
keep up with the flows of
costs and prices; they are perpetually out of sync. Indeed,
the situation is a real catch-22
in that, while the purchasingpower deficiency is aggravated in a capital-intensive
economy, the deficiency itself tends to promote an artificially intense concentration
on expanding capital.
A final question remains:
what if the capital development is financed not directly
by means of bank credit but
through reinvestment of savings? In this case, money
needed for consumption is diverted into capital production,
from which it issues again as
consumer income. However,
while the aggregate volume
of consumer purchasing
power is not changed in this
process, a new set of capital
costs is added to the flow of
costs pushing up retail prices.
Hence, this method of financing also results in a shortage
of consumer buying power.
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