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Canada promised to sta-bilize emissions of green-house gases at 1990 levels by the year 2000 when it signed the Rio convention in 1992. The Liberals reaffi rmed that promise in their Red Book, while Paul Mar-tin proposed Canadian leadership on the issue and an international 20% cut. However, despite these committ-ments, emissions have actually risen over 10%

Meanwhile, Can-ada’s largest trading partner, the U.S., has decided not to implement the Kyoto treaty on combatting carbon dioxide emissions. While there is understand-able anger from environmen-talists, the truth is that there

expression efforts.

The following is essen-tial reading for those con-cerned with root causes and sustainable solutions to our

current environmental degradation and pollu-tion. The main article is by a Social Cred-iter which was printed in The New Times in 1991, but its message is more relevant today than ever. It is supple-mented by the work of accredited economists, engineers and others who point out the prob-

lems of compound interest, which mathematically pushes for an exponential growth in the money supply, and a con-commitant, needless growth

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

across the planet, at any rate. Once again our political lead-ers are basically admitting this, while refusing to even discuss the issue. Welcome to the the Advisor’s freedom of (Continued on page 11)

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Ned and J.B. fi nally 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.

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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 Rock-efeller, 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 stra-tegic wisdom and even the legality of invading Iraq, but no-body resigned over it. It was obvious that the US would win the actual war quickly and cheaply, and almost nobody wor-ried 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 mas-sive 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 fl ood Iraq with sophisticated weapons and send volunteers to help the fi ght 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 traffi c (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.

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 offi cers like Pace, while still bound by the code of military discipline, acquire a political respon-sibility as well. Like cabinet ministers, they cannot oppose a government decision while in offi ce, but they have the right and even the duty to resign rather than carry out a decision that they believe to be disastrous.

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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February 13, 2007 - Enhancements at the Whitecourt Twin Arenas are well underway, with several projects al-ready complete.

• Bleachers and a full heating system in the seating area in the McLeod Rink have been installed.

• A new, energy effi cient hot water system has been in-stalled.

• New fl ooring 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 heat-

ing 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 en-able the Friends of Whitecourt Society to offer interest-free loans to physicians as incentive to move and provide medi-cal service for residents in our community. The Society is pleased to report that there is an increase in interested doc-tors 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 fi re pumper in 2008. The new pumper will enhance fi refi ghting capabilities and provide enhanced fi re 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 fa-cility project. Bids on the fi nal tender package, which is the largest package for the project, were received and calcula-tions show this aspect of the project is higher than original estimates.

Visitors and delegations at the meeting included Wood-lands County Council, Stuart Olson Construction, the Con-struction 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 re-affi rmed their commitment to the project as it was designed and Town Council gave authorization to continue with the


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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 pre-liminary 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 defi nes 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.

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Perception strikes again

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Project Amigo is an independent non-profi t corporation whose mission is to enable the poor children of Colima, Mex-ico to achieve their highest potential by providing educational opportunities, material support, enrichment activities, and medical and dental services not otherwise available to them.

One way this is done is facilitating partnerships between North American and Mexican Rotary Clubs to sponsor projects which benefi t 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.

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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 fi t 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.

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(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 In-ternational is helping the 37-year-old Yerevan native by awarding her with a fellowship in peace and confl ict resolu-tion studies.

Launched in 2002, this two-year program is aimed at helping the next generation of government offi cials, dip-lomats and humanitarian leaders devel-op the skills needed to reduce the threat of war and violence worldwide.

Gyulumyan says that because of the political instability and ethnic con-fl icts after the break-up of the Soviet Union, especially the territorial Nago-rny Karabakh confl ict 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 cease-fi re the confl ict can re-escalate at any point,”says Gyulumyan, who worked for the Ministry of Finances and Econ-omy in the 1990s and most recently for the Worldbank’s offi ce 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.”

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world leaders be skilled in the arts of confl ict resolution and peaceful negotiation,” says Luis Giay, chairman of The Rotary Foundation. “Ev-erything we do through our Rotary clubs -- from fi ghting poverty to eradicating polio -- is intended ultimately to promote world peace. What

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The structure of our debt money capitalization fi nanc-ing system, the additional se-rious problem of compound interest charges and industrial age ideas about full employ-ment 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 responsi-ble. It is as though cigarette nanufacturers were leading the fi ght against lung cancer.

FINANCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

- by Robert E. Klinck

The fi nance-controlled media are billing the 1990s

as the decade of environmen-tal concern. We already know that the watchwords of the ten years that lie ahead will be “sustainable development”, a phrase that, in a process re-sembling water torture, will be dripped relentlessly into our conscious-ness, eroding our power to think independent ly about ecological matters.

To what end will this campaign for our minds be waged? The implications of the term “sustainable devel-opment” provide a complete answer. Humans are such linguistic creatures that they think of concepts through the words used to describe them. So they think that the new

slogan for environmentalism comprehends a genuine ideo-logical revolution. It should be obvious that “sustainable development” is a highly complex criterion that sub-jects the entire economy to a test that only an elite can

possibly impose. The old environ-mentalist word, “conservation”, was a sturdily democratic term, conservation be-ing an activity to which everyone

can contribute; but how can ordinary people participate in “sustainable development” other than as passive slaves of a panel of purported ex-perts on the subject?

If this concept of sustain-ability (naive as it may be in

a world such as our own, with its innumerable variables) ac-quires the acceptance planned for it, then the shape of things to come will be plain: dicta-tion of economic initiative will be centralized to a degree never known in the Western World outside wartime.

Although the benefi ts to the environment of such a situation are uncertain, there is no doubting that it will af-ford the new environmental police and their friends limit-less opportunities for self-ag-grandisement.

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weakness in the position of many so-called environmen-talists. They contend that the environment is being exces-sively 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 profi teering rotters who wield it now—we will use it unself-ishly for the common weal.”

Even if such pleading is sincere, anyone of elementa-ry political experience knows that accession to power often catalyses today’s starry-eyed utopian into tomorrow’s cyn-ical despot. This is why, as a general principle, one is wise to distrust those who advo-cate combating evils fl owing from existing concentrations of power by means of even greater concentrations of power. Environmental pollu-tion is unquestionably unde-sirable, 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 corrupt-ibility in human nature render

all attempts at benign reform futile? If the reform is to con-sist of more central planning and control, it would seem so. However, despite the propa-ganda emanating from pow-er-seekers of all sorts, from the idealistic to the crassly self-serving, who want power con-centrated on prin-ciple so that it is more easily cap-tured; other direc-tions for change are possible.

On closer consideration, the practice of blam-ing a few rela-tively infl uential individuals for env i ronmen ta l deterioration also seems inappropri-ate. For example, it is diffi cult to perceive a fundamental differ-ence between, say, the mine-owner who sells a “dirty” fuel as a way of making a living and his employees who help to produce the coal in order to obtain income. It would be nonsensical to assume that culpability is in proportion to the revenues derived. Double the salaries of the employees: will that make them want to

produce less coal? Cause the mine-owner to operate at a loss for a few years: will that make him want to produce less coal? The answer in both situations is no. Indeed, the probable effect will be to stimulate both parties to mine

more coal and promote its con-sumption wher-ever possible.

The point is that both the em-ployer and the employees are in-volved in a mor-ally questionable activity for pre-cisely the same reason—to get money. In these circumstances, it is hypocritical to criticise only the employer for his part in aggravat-

ing the problem of acid rain. In so far as environmental degradation is concerned, the web of culpability covers es-sentially the whole of society, including the environmen-talist jetting off to the next conference on atmospheric pollution. This diffuse re-sponsibility is awkward for environmentalists, since it becomes diffi cult to target a

clear-cut enemy. Also, when virtually the entire commu-nity is collaborating in the practices supposedly need-ing change, the critic of the practices tends to appear like a holier-than-thou snob.

If the person who is will-ing 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 com-pany 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 im-perative to balance budgets is vastly greater than it need be, if the preoccupation with money arises largely from ar-tifi cial pressures in the econ-omy, as it does, then there is hope for signifi cant benefi cial change.

SUPREMACY OF MONEY

At some unknown, but fateful, point in medieval his-tory, a money lender realised that the essence of a viable money system is confi dence and that, once this confi dence was established, a magical



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and very remunerative trick could be played. Typically, the money lenders were pos-sessors of a stock of precious metals, which they would loan out. They found that, once they gained a reputa-tion for reliability, in lieu of transferring actual gold or sil-ver they could issue a prom-ise 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 pre-cious metals. If, for example, experience taught the mon-eylender that only 1/10 of his clients would at any par-ticular time insist on payment in actual coin or bullion, he could safely make loans to-talling about 10 times the val-ue of his reserves of bullion. Thus was born fi nancial cred-it 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 ex-pansion to the money power.

The important points to

grasp are (1) the promises to pay functioned perfectly well even though they were issued on a fraudulent representa-tion of convertibility; (2) the money lender retained discre-tion to vary the availability of the promises to pay and there was never an exact correspon-dence between the total value of the promises to pay and the overall mone-tary needs of the community; (3) the promises to pay purportedly derived their val-ue from the bul-lion in the money lender’s vault but in fact this value came from the actual and poten-tial productivity of the commu-nity itself. While the pretence that fi nancial credit is based on precious metals has been abandoned, all these features have survived in modern fi -nancial systems, whose func-tion is to create the fi nancial credit of the community.

It should be noted that the money lender’s promises to pay circulated from hand to hand in trade as a commodity.

Acceptance of the principle that money is a commodity has ever since made it impos-sible to establish a scientifi c relationship between the true monetary requirements of the economy and the availability of money.

B e c a u s e money is regard-ed as a commod-ity, its proprietors undertake con-stantly to enhance its value. This is achieved by caus-ing demand for it to be high, which in turn is achieved by keeping it in short supply. In-deed, throughout the entire evolu-tion of the money system, which fi -nanciers have es-

sentially been able to guide to suit their own ends, main-taining a chronic shortage of fi nancial credit has been the key to ensuring the money-dealers’ dominant position in the economy.

THE FACT OF DEFICIENCY

At fi rst glance it might seem far-fetched to suggest

that there is a chronic short-age of money in the economy. After all, are we not told con-stantly that infl ation, which is now accepted as a normal condition and which we have ever with us, is caused by ex-cessive availability of credit?

In order for the point about defi ciency to make sense, we must have a refer-ence point for normality, and to develop this we must be clear on the proper role of the money system. Money occu-pies such a dominant position in our society that we are ac-customed 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 physi-cal capacities, by its nature it is completely subordinate to them.

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of money, the money system is failing.

However, the defi ciency that should be of central in-terest to environmentalists, because of its economy-dis-torting infl uence, is of a dif-ferent sort. Another undeni-able principle (except per-haps 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 pro-duce. Unfortunately, howev-er, it does not work that way.

THE MECHANISM OF DEFICIENCY

There are two accoun-tancy 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 re-lated because the loans, con-stituting the money supply, are the only possible source of the means to liquidate the prices.

The price build-up oc-curs 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

sorts—loans to business, to government, and to consum-ers. Loans to consumers and governments obviously tend to cause a defi ciency of buy-ing power because they in-volve mortgaging the future revenue of the community in order to permit present con-sumption, i.e., they do not liquidate costs but merely shift the obligation to pay them to a future time.

To understand the defi -ciency problem that arises through the granting of busi-ness loans one must compre-hend that bank loans consti-tute additions to the money supply. In other words, the issuing of a bank loan cre-ates credit and the repayment of the loan cancels the credit. This accounts for the vari-ability of the money supply.

Let us say that a com-pany obtains a bank loan in order to expand its plant. The loan will be expended as the plant is assembled, fl owing 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 fl ow from the re-tailers, through manufactur-ers 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 re-imbursed loan money is then cancelled out of existence, but the costs it generated dur-ing the building of the plant remain. When these costs are fi nally registered in the prices of consumer goods, the mon-ey needed to liquidate them is no longer available.

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stopped the war. But Pow-ell was too deeply entangled with the neo-conservatives and too inured to military obedience to exercise his op-tion -- whereas Peter Pace obviously does understand his choice.

The resignation of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- and pos-sibly 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 fi nd other offi cers who would carry out its orders. It would doubtless fi nd them, but such a shocking event might fi nal-ly enable Congress to fi nd its backbone and refuse support for another illegal and fore-

doomed war.

This is not a hy-pothetical discussion: my guess is that both the Joint Chiefs and the White House un-derstand that the option of resig-nation is on the table. Consider the dance that was done around the question of Iran and “Explo-sively Formed Penetrators” in the past couple of weeks. (EFPs are glorifi ed shaped-charge weapons that can penetrate armour at a considerable distance. Most major armies have had them for several decades.)

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(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 con-sults a cookbook for ways and means of preparing it, whereas in the days of which we speak the cook surveyed



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The lunch having been provided by the ladies elimi-nated 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 event that was regarded as tops for the year and as a rule

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 con-tacts with people he might not have seen since last such outing. No one went hungry. The assembly was, of course, almost entirely local, Green-court being a day’s journey away, and Blue Ridge not having come into being.

Dancing would still be going on at eight the follow-ing 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 contrib-uted to entertainment and the gathering in the Torgerson sitting room, some on chairs, some sitting on the fl oor, but all willing to contribute his bit to the program when called upon, were frequent and en-joyable. Some singers were, as can be expected, more ac-

complished than others, and names like Syd Pomfret and Harry Clay come to mind. But what was lacking in quality was more than made up by enthusi-asm, and many an hour passed most pleasantly with Dolly Torgerson accompanying all and sundry, while the rafters rang with such wartime songs as Dear Old Pal of Mine and Roses of Picardy.

It is the opin-ion of the author that something passed from our lives when people seemed no longer capable of enjoy-

ing the simple things of life, and become so much more demanding in what they con-sidered as fi t and acceptable entertainment.

The police offi cer who on occasion pa-trolled this area (it was Provincial Police then) was stationed at Ro-chfort (now Ro-chforfc Bridge), and he appeared on the Whitecourt scene possibly once a month. About this time, the policeman

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bother to come up here, they never need me”. A splendid tribute.

While we had no regular church services, the Presby-terians looked after us spiri-tually, and held a service at irregular intervals in what was then the meeting place (the old red building that had formerly been a pool hall). The missionary rode horse-

(Continued from page 21) back from Sangudo and ar-rived in Whitecourt for the most part on a Saturday af-ternoon. 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 favor-ably with present day fi gures. Many years later the author attended a church service in Victoria, B.C. and recog-

nized the minister as one of the former Whitecourt Mis-sionaries. On leaving, it was only natural that Whitecourt should be mentioned. The minister beamingly declared that he had the most pleasant memories of the place and he even remem-bered some of those who had invited him to their homes. And no wonder. It was just that kind of place.

Early in the Spring of 1921 the Canadian Northern Town Properties Co. Ltd. (usually referred to as the Townsite Co.) sent in a gang to survey the townsite. They did so by completing the survey of blocks 1-2-3-4, Plan 662 C.L. (The original

plan of Whitecourt). Prepa-rations were then made to move such buildings as were considered worth moving from the bottom of the hill to the new survey.

The railroad grade was com-pleted and a site for the station chosen. With the building of the station and a water tank, and also the laying of the steel, the fi rst train whistled into Whitecourt a few months later.

We now had access to the outside world, and Ed-monton was only one day’s journey away (on a mixed train) instead of three days as of yore. Progress no doubt, but something that cannot be


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Explanation of page 1 photoWhat’s happening to our Sun? Another Coronal Mass

Ejection (CME)! The Sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many erupting fi laments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting enormous bubbles of magnetic plasma into space. Direct light from the sun is blocked in the inner part of the above image, taken in 2002, and replaced by a simultaneous image of the Sun in ultraviolet light. The fi eld of view extends over two million kilometers from the solar surface. While hints of these explosive events, called coronal mass ejections or CMEs, were discovered by spacecraft in the early 70s, this dramatic image is part of a detailed re-cord of this CME’s development from the presently operating SOHO spacecraft. Near the minimum of the solar activity cy-cle CMEs occur about once a week, but near solar maximum rates of two or more per day are typical. Strong CMEs may profoundly infl uence space weather. Those directed toward our planet can have serious effects.

This is not to say that thoughtless effects from our indus-trial 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 IrishHennessy 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 wish-es.”

“Right,” he said. “my fi rst wish is to have $100,000.” She said, “When you check your account, you will fi nd

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 fi nd 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?”

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measured in dollars and cents vanished from our lives right then, and it is with a real feel-ing of nostalgia that most of us think about Sagitiwa, later

(Continued from page 22) Whitecourt, and the good old days. Candidly, we were lucky to have lived then.....

(1993 footnote)John F. (Jerry) Graham

passed away in Whitecourt on October 17,1985 at the age of 90 years.

Wilma (Dolly) Graham passed away in Edmonton on

September 25, 1971.

This is the fi nal install-ment of Jerry Graham’s fi rst hand account of living in ear-ly Whitecourt.

New town layour occassioned by the arrival of the railroad. Many build-ings 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 eas-ier to re-produced this popular series. Also to John Dahl for invaluable help with photographs and much more.


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harmful and undemocratic conditions attached. Malawi actually entered HIPC in De-cember 2000, over six years ago: it has paid $440 million in debt service to the rich world, as it struggled with the diffi cult conditions it was told it had to meet to get any debts cancelled.

The money originally lent to Malawi was literally created out of thin air, by the international banking sys-tem, with compound interest being charged on the amount of the loan. The money to actually pay compound inter-est does not exist until it is created as more debt at more interest. It is like the old com-pany store scam, where a worker’s pay cheque could never meet the bills that his em-ployer charged him with for liv-ing expenses.

The main difference is that victims of the company store scam rarely died from the injustice.

After the G8 summit in Okinawa in 2000, President Obasanjo of Nigeria made this comment on Nigeria’s debt: “All that we had bor-rowed up to 1985 or 1986 was around $5 billion and we have paid about $16 billion yet we are still being told that we owe about $28 billion. That $28 billion came about because of the injustice in

(Continued from page 25) the foreign creditors’ interest rates. If you ask me what is the worst thing in the world, I will say it is compound in-terest.”

The agreement by

the World Bank and IMF, amounts to a total cancel-lation of $3.1 billion: this will make a huge difference to Malawi’s economy. Even though it had already been al-lowed to reduce its debt pay-ments slightly, ahead of ac-tual cancellation, Malawi has still been paying nearly $70

million a year in debt payments (interest and principal repay-ments) to the rich world.

These con-ditions included r e q u i r e m e n t s that Malawi privatize enter-prises including the national tele-coms company and national air-line, and “com-

mercialize” the state agricul-tural company (full privati-zation was abandoned after strong public protest).

The International Mon-etary Fund (IMF) also told Malawi it had to cut back on spending: but Malawi needs huge public investment. It is suffering an appalling HIV/AIDS crisis which means that one in seven adults is HIV positive - but there is only one doctor for about ev-ery 80,000 people (compared to one in every 600 people in the developed world). It has also been suffering a food

(See Malawi debt on page 30)

“Malawi has paid $440 million in debt service to the

rich world, as it struggled with

the diffi cult conditions it was

told it had to meet to get any

debts cancelled.”


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There is a civil-mili-tary confrontation brewing in the United States more seri-ous than anything that has been seen since President Truman fi red General Doug-las MacArthur during the Korean War. But this time, if the general acts on his con-victions, he will be in the right.

(Iranian war from page 19)

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crisis brought on by drought — and donors did not pro-vide the assistance that was promised.

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 pay-ments it had been promised) and delaying much-needed debt cancellation still further.

Now that Malawi has got past these appalling ob-stacles, it has the debt can-cellation it deserves and needs. The rich world needs to ensure that all unjust and unpayable debts are can-celled, 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 sensible and justice based monetary system.

(Malawi debt from page 28)

If the foregoing explana-tion 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 commu-nity is linked in a chain of debt relationships that leads ultimately to the manufactur-ers of credit, the banks. Re-gardless of popular notions on the matter, there is no self-generated “free” money fl oat-ing around to fi ll the gap left by the premature cancellation of the credit disbursed during the development of the plant.

So where will the money come from to fi ll the growing disparity between the cumu-lative fl ow of retail prices and the cumulative fl ow of con-sumer buying power? If not from debt assumed by con-sumers or government, which as we have seen does not liq-uidate costs, it will be derived from debt assumed for further plant expansion, which again will distribute purchasing power in advance of expand-ing the effective cost burden on consumers. But of course this distribution leads directly to a defi ciency of consumer buying power in relation to the latest generation of capi-tal 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 fi ghter or offi ce complex is a hare-brained way to run an economy—absolutely a mug’s game where environ-mental considerations come into play.

As long as current meth-ods of fi nancing are prac-tised, there is simply no way the fl ow of buying power can keep up with the fl ows of costs and prices; they are per-petually out of sync. Indeed, the situation is a real catch-22 in that, while the purchasing-power defi ciency is aggra-vated in a capital-intensive economy, the defi ciency it-self tends to promote an arti-fi cially intense concentration on expanding capital.

A fi nal question remains: what if the capital develop-ment is fi nanced not directly by means of bank credit but through reinvestment of sav-ings? In this case, money needed for consumption is di-verted 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 fl ow of costs pushing up retail prices. Hence, this method of fi nanc-ing also results in a shortage of consumer buying power.

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