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Echoes of Fort Assiniboine and District

Rodeo - Part 2 By Violet OlsonSeveral trail rides took place over the club’s ac-

tive years. Weekend trips through the sand hills on the Moose Wallow road and the sand hills north of the Fort were made in association with the riders of the Barrhead club. Due to the fact that we had only two large tents borrowed from the Forestry, segregation was necessary. The women had the best joke teller and all the men were envious when they heard the raucous laughter coming from the women’s tent. Night prowlers were active as eavesdropping was attempted. (Continued on page 20)

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pointed out that $40 oil is not really a problem, if our money system functioned better.

Our economic well-being can also be directly im-pacted by monetary policy. For example, 20% inter-est rates devastated Alberta's economy in the 1980's. A 30% contraction in the money supply during the 1930s caused even worse pain. To use an oft cited example, as soon as WWII started, the money supply was expanded so that all could once again be put to work. There was a difference in the nature of this work in that its aim was essentially to destroy wealth, rather than create wealth.

A caution here is that when researching this topic on the Internet, be aware that many are using the unjust monetary system to demonize others, when it is more a case of a bad system, than bad people, that creates so much unnecessary economic suffering on the part of many people. In particular, where you come across a quote on the matter, cut and paste the quote into a search engine, then type the word hoax after it. This will give you an alternate view as to the veracity of the quote. The goal is to only believe in quotes in which an accredited primary source can be found.

For example, the following can be verifi ed. George-town University History professor, Carroll Quigley wrote in his monumental Tragedy and Hope, “the mer-chant bankers of London had already at hand in 1810-1850 the Stock Exchange, the Bank of England, and the London money market,” and that: “In time they brought into their fi nancial network the provincial banking cen-ters, organized as commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies, to form all of these into a single fi nancial system on an international scale which manipulated the quantity and fl ow of money so that they were able to infl uence, if not control, governments on one side and industries on the other.”

This is from Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope:

A History of the World in Our Time, New York, Mac-millan Company, 1966, p. 51; Robert Elgie and Helen Thompson (eds.). The book is available through the Al-berta Library system.

Another quote that can be verifi ed is that made by Mackenzie King at the beginning of the 1935 election campaign. He stated, as leader of the Liberal Party:

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and credit, it matters not who makes that nation's laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Par-liament and of democracy is idle and futile."

“The Liberal Party believes that credit is a public matter, not of interest to bankers only, but of direct con-cern to every citizen. The Liberal Party declares itself in favour of the immediate establishment of a duly consti-tuted national bank for the control of the issue of money

in terms of public needs. The fl ow of money must be in relation with the domestic, social, and industrial needs of the Canadian people.”

“If my party is returned to power, we shall make good our monetary policy in the greatest battle between the money power and the people Canada has ever seen.”

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Whitecourt Council Month in ReviewApril 30, 2015. The Town of Whitecourt’s 2015

Budget Report is available online at www.whitecourt.ca. The annual report includes a summary of the capital and operating budgets, highlights of projects/initiatives to be undertaken throughout the year, and information on property assessment and taxation. Hard copies of the 2015 Budget Report will be available at Town facilities in mid-May.

Whitecourt Town Council adopted the 2015 Capital and Operating Budget at its April 13 Regular Meeting, and adopted the 2015 Tax Rate Bylaw on April 27. The 2015 Budget, which totals approximately $56.8 million, requires a municipal tax increase of 3.78%. The tax rate was decreased since the interim budget was approved due to strong assessment growth throughout the community.

“Council spent a considerable amount of time pre-paring and reviewing the 2015 budget to ensure it would not only be sensitive to current community needs, but also enhance the lives of our residents and businesses, and encourage future investment,” said Mayor Maryann Chichak. “One of the most common questions I’m asked is ‘Where do my local tax dollars go?’ I encourage all community members to take the time to read through this report. I hope it helps increase your understanding of local projects, and your knowledge of our vision for the community and plan for continued success.”

Property owners can expect to receive combined as-sessment and taxation notices in mid-May. If you have questions about your tax notice, or the 2015 Budget, please contact the Town Offi ce.

Whitecourt Town Council approved the 2014 Fi-nancial Statement and 2014 Financial Information Re-turn for the year end of December 31, 2014 at its April 27 Council Meeting. A presentation was made by the Town’s auditor, Curtis Friesen from Hawkings Epp Du-mont LLP, who reported that the audit found no issues with the fi nancial statements or internal controls, and that the community is in a healthy fi nancial position.

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The Barrhead and Fort clubs got together many times to compete in gymkhana events and enjoy each others comany. One year a “water hole” was set up at the camp grounds across the river where the Fort club was met by the Barrhead club who had an Edmonton author, Jim McGregor, with them. He spoke to us about the his-tory of the Klondyke Trail. The evening was concluded with a campfi re sing-song.

As interest in the Trail Riders Club declined, the re-maining members voted for disbanding the club in 1972 or 1973 and the remaining money was turned over to more active clubs in the community.

Other sports events took place during the years of 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1966. Figure skating was taught by Joanne Fisk. Mildred Lee from Barrhead who was very good in fi gure skating, came out to help organize and her help was appreciated very much. Martha English was a great help with the young ones. An ice carnival

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Getting ready for rodeo.

In 1966 a snow-shoe race was quite an interesting event. With not too much talent in that line, it turned out to be quite a mixed-up affair. However, everybody tak-ing part were good sports and enjoyed it.

After interest in the rodeos and gymkhana died down, horse races became a popular event for a few years. Fred Kluin was the promoter of them.

Two things come to mind as I conclude this story.

One is a horse race which took place on the road by Thomson’s and down the village’s main street. I also re-call Arlene Stauffer as one of the candidates for the 1959 Barrhead Rodeo.

A copy of Three Trails Home; A History of Mayerthorpe and Districts is available at the May-erthorpe Public Library. Please call (780) 786-2416 for more information. The local Whitecourt history books, Sagitawah Saga - The Story of Whitecourt, and, Whitecourt, A History 1975 - 2010, are available at the Whitecourt Public Library, Whitecourt and Area Heritage Society located at the Forestry Interpretive Centre, The Town of Whitecourt offi ce and the Allan & Jean Millar Centre.

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Whitecourt and Woodlands County were honoured with two Awards of Excellence from Economic Devel-opers Alberta. For the second year in a row, Whitecourt and Woodlands County received the prestigious Alex Metcalfe Award from Economic Developers Alberta (EDA). The Alex Metcalfe Award recognizes the “best of the best” of all recipients from various award catego-ries granted by EDA. Whitecourt and Woodlands County were recognized for the development of the Whitecourt Business Support Network which was created as a means to bring local employers together to identify opportu-nities for partnership in the realm of human resources, training, leadership, and networking. The project also received a second award under the ‘Business Retention and Expansion’ category for our population category.

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Economic Developers Alberta (EDA) is Alberta’s economic development network dedicated to advancing the economic development profession in the province. 2015 awards were presented during the Association’s annual conference in recognition of excellence by com-munities and individuals.

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The overall goal of the policy is to eventually cre-ate a world government, which is not necessarily a bad thing, in the view of this writer. A world government is the only thing that can end war, which devastates lives worse than the austerity policies. However, the big ques-tion is whether that world government will be a cen-tralized world dictatorship, or a world government that decentralizes power where ever possible, right down to the individual world citizen. World Citizen founder Gary Davis and Economist Lawyer Norm Kurland pres-ent the two sides of this issue. World government, and how to ensure it empowers individuals, much more than they are empowered today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irNwGQeu9L4

Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs de-livered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? It seems the European Central Bank (headed by Mario Draghi, former managing director of Goldman Sachs International) has now made good on the threat.

The week after the Syriza candidate Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as prime minister, the ECB announced that it would no longer accept Greek government bonds and government-guaranteed debts as collateral for central bank loans to Greek banks. The banks were reduced to getting their central bank liquidity through “Emergency Liquidity Assistance” (ELA), which is at high interest rates and can also be terminated by the ECB at will.

In an interview reported in the German magazine Der Spiegel on March 6th, Alexis Tsipras said that the ECB was “holding a noose around Greece’s neck.” If the ECB continued its hardball tactics, he warned, “it will be back to the thriller we saw before February” (referring to the market turmoil accompanying negotiations before a four-month bailout extension was fi nally agreed to).

The noose around Greece’s neck is this: the ECB will not accept Greek bonds as collateral for the cen-tral bank liquidity all banks need, until the new Syriza government accepts the very stringent austerity program imposed by the troika (the EU Commission, ECB and IMF). That means selling off public assets (including ports, airports, electric and petroleum companies), slash-ing salaries and pensions, drastically increasing taxes and dismantling social services, while creating special funds to save the banking system.

These are the mafi a-like extortion tactics by which entire economies are yoked into paying off debts to for-eign banks – debts that must be paid with the labor, as-sets and patrimony of people who had nothing to do with incurring them.

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ECB announced that it would cut off Emergency Lend-ing Assistance to Cypriot banks within days, unless the government agreed to its bailout terms. Similar threats were used to get agreement from the Irish government in 2010.

Likewise, says The Economist, the “Greek banks’ growing dependence on ELA leaves the government at the ECB’s mercy as it tries to renegotiate the bailout.”

Mark Weisbrot commented in the Huffi ngton Post:

“We should be clear about what this means. The ECB’s move was completely unnecessary . … It looks very much like a deliberate attempt to undermine the new government.

. . . The ECB could . . . stabilize Greek bond yields at low levels, but instead it chose . . . to go to the opposite extreme — and I mean extreme — to promote a run on bank deposits, tank the Greek stock market, and drive up Greek borrowing costs.”

Weisbrot observed that the troika had plunged the Eurozone into at least two additional years of unneces-sary recession beginning in 2011, because “they were playing a similar game of chicken. . . . [T]he ECB de-liberately allowed these market actors to create an exis-tential crisis for the euro, in order to force concessions from the governments of Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.”

The Tourniquet of Central Bank Liquidity

Not just Greek banks but all banks are reliant on cen-tral bank liquidity, because they are all technically insol-vent. They all lend money they don’t have. They rely on being able to borrow from other banks, the money market, or the central bank as needed to balance their books. The central bank (which has the power to print money) is the ultimate backstop in this sleight of hand. If that source of liquidity dries up, the banks go down.

In the Eurozone, the national central banks of member countries have relinquished this critical credit power to the European Central Bank. And the ECB, like the US Federal Reserve, marches to the drums of large international banks rather than to the democratic will of the people.

Lest there be any doubt, let’s review Goldman’s

December memo to the Greek Parliament, reprinted on Zerohedge. Titled From GRecovery to GRelapse, it warned:

“[H]erein lies the main risk for Greece. The economy needs the only lender of last resort to the banking system to maintain ample provision of liquidity. And this is not just because banks may require resources to help reduce future refi nancing risks for the sovereign. But also be-cause banks are already reliant on government issued or government guaranteed securities to maintain the current levels of liquidity constant.

In the event of a severe Greek government clash with international lenders, interruption of liquidity provision to Greek banks by the ECB could potentially even lead to a Cyprus-style prolonged “bank holiday”. And market fears for potential Euro-exit risks could rise at that point. [Emphasis added.]”

Why would the ECB have to “interrupt liquidity pro-vision” just because of a “clash with international lend-ers”? As Mark Weisbrot observed, the move was com-pletely unnecessary. The central bank can fl ick the credit switch on or off at its whim. Any country that resists go-



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“The Icing on the Cake”

Adding insult to injury, the ballooning Greek debt was incurred to save the very international banks to which it is now largely owed. Worse, those banks bought the debt with cheap loans from the ECB! Pepe Escobar writes:

The troika sold Greece an economic racket …. Es-sentially, Greece’s public debt went from private to pub-lic hands when the ECB and the IMF ‘rescued’ private (German, French, Spanish) banks. The debt, of course, ballooned. The troika intervened, not to save Greece, but to save private banking.

The ECB bought public debt from private banks for a fortune, because the ECB could not buy public debt direct-ly from the Greek state. The icing on this layer cake is that private banks had found the cash to buy Greece’s public debt exactly from…the ECB, profi ting from ultra-friendly interest rates. This is outright theft. And it’s the thieves that have been setting the rules of the game all along.

That brings us back to the role of Goldman Sachs (dubbed by Matt Taibbi the “Vampire Squid”), which “helped” Greece get into the Eurozone through a high-ly questionable derivative scheme involving a currency swap that used artifi cially high exchange rates to conceal Greek debt.

Goldman then turned around and hedged its bets by shorting Greek debt.

(Continued from page 28) Predictably, these derivative bets went very wrong for the less sophisticated of the two players. A €2.8 billion loan to Greece in 2001 became a €5.1 billion debt by 2005.

Despite this debt burden, in 2006 Greece remained within the ECB’s 3% budget defi cit guidelines. It got into serious trouble only after the 2008 banking crisis. In late 2009, Goldman joined in bearish bets on Greek debt launched by heavyweight hedge funds to put sell-ing pressure on the euro, forcing Greece into the bail-out and austerity measures that have since destroyed its economy.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the UK Tele-graph on March 2nd:

Syriza has long argued that [its post-2009] debt is illegitimate, alleging that the ECB bought Greek bonds in 2010 in order to save the European banking system and prevent contagion at a time when the eurozone did not have a fi nancial fi rewall, not to help Greece.

Mr. Varoufakis [the newly-appointed Greek fi nance minister] said the result was to head off a Greek default to private creditors that would have led to a large hair-cut for foreign banks if events had been allowed to run their normal course, reducing Greece’s debt burden to manageable levels. Instead, the EU authorities took a series of steps to avert this cathartic moment, ultimate-ly foisting €245bn of loan packages onto the Greek tax-payer and pushing public debt to 182pc of GDP.

The Toxic Central Banking System

Pepe Escobar concludes:

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smiles. Draghi and the … ECB goons may dispense all the smiles in the world, but what they are graphi-cally demonstrating once again is how toxic central banking is now enshrined as a mortal enemy of de-mocracy.

National central banks are no longer tools of gov-ernments for the benefi t of the people. Governments have become tools of a global central banking system serving the inter-ests of giant international fi nancial institutions. These “too big to fail” be-hemoths must be saved at the expense of local banks, their depositors, and local economies generally.

How to escape the ten-tacles of this toxic squid-like banking hierarchy?

For countries with a bit more room to ma-neuver than Greece has, one option is to withdraw public and private depos-its and put them in pub-licly-owned banks. The megabanks are deemed too big to fail only because the people’s money is tied up in them. They could be allowed to fail if public funds were not at risk.

The German SBFIC (Savings Banks Foun-dation for International Cooperation) has pro-posed a pilot project on the Sparkassen model for Greece. Other provocative

(Continued from page 29) options have also been proposed, to be the subject of another article.

Ellen Brown is an at-torney, founder of the Pub-lic Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank So-lution, explores successful public banking models his-torically and globally. Her nearly-300 blog articles are at EllenBrown.com.


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