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(NC) - Amnesty International is teaming up with Just Us! Coffee Roast-ers Co-op, based in Wolfville, NS, to create a new Taste for Justice Blend. The blend has been created in support of Amnesty’s annu-al Taste for Justice campaign, through which individuals can hold their own din-ner party and/or dine out at participating restaurants (between June 1-15) to help raise funds and awareness for the human rights organization’s work.

Part of the proceeds from each Taste for Justice Blend sold will go towards Amnesty’s research and campaign work, including the organization’s global work to stop violence against women.

The Taste for Justice Blend will be available in June at Just Us! cafes in Nova Scotia and their new cafes in To-ronto. Customers can also phone the Just Us! order desk at 1-888-668-8436 ext. 228. To learn more about Taste for Jus-tice, please visit www.tasteforjustice.ca or call 1-800-AM-NESTY (1-800-266-3789). - News Canada

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Happily in the HereafterOnce upon a time, a beautiful, independent, self-assured

princess happened upon a frog in a pond. The frog said to the princess, “ I once was a handsome

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That night, while the princess dined on frog legs,she kept laughing and saying, “I don’t THINK so.”

Tunnel of LoveFour strangers traveled together in the same compartment

of a train. Two men and two women faced each other. One woman was a very wealthy and sophisticated 75 year old lady who was decked out in the fi nest of furs and jewelry. Next to her sat a beautiful young woman, nineteen years old — who looked like something right off the cover of a fashion maga-zine. Across from the older lady was a man in his late-forties who was a highly decorated Sergeant Major in the Army. And next to the Sergeant Major sat a young private fresh out of boot camp.

As these four strangers traveled, they talked and chatted about trivial things until they entered an unlighted tunnel, and there they sat in complete darkness and total silence, until the sound of a distinct kiss broke the silence; following the kiss a loud slap could be heard throughout the cabin. In the ensuing period of silence the four strangers sat quietly with their own thoughts.

The older lady was thinking, “Isn’t it wonderful that even in this permissive day and age there are still young women who have a little self-respect and dignity?”

The young woman, shaking her head and greatly puz-zled, asked herself, “Why didn’t they want to sneak a kiss with me?”

The Sergeant Major, rubbing his sore face, was outraged that any woman could ever think that a man in his position would try to sneak a kiss in the dark.

And the private, grinning from ear to ear, was thinking, It is not often a private can kiss the back of his hand and then smack a Sergeant Major in the face and get away with it!

What’s Up Doc?The doctor answered the

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‘’We need a fourth for poker,’’ said the friend.

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As he was putting on his coat, his wife asked, ‘’Is it serious?’’

The doctor gravely re-plied “there are three doctors there already!’’

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President Obama By Gwynne Dyer

On the assumption that President Barack Obama survives for a full four-year term — for it is generally assumed that, as the fi rst African-American pres-ident, he will face a higher than average risk of assassination — what changes will he bring to the United States and the world? It is remarkably diffi cult to say, for no president since Lyndon Johnson has come to offi ce with so few commitments to specifi c policies. Oh, all right then, since Gerald Ford — but neither of those men was actu-ally elected to the presidency.

It is now a near certainty that Obama will be the next US president. The media will try to maintain the illusion of a race for the Democratic nomination until Senator Hillary Clinton fi nally retires from the race (which may not be until the convention in August), because it helps to fi ll the awful gap between the 24-hour news cycle and the actual amount of news available. But as leading independent pollster John Zogby put it on Wednesday, “To all intents and purposes the race for the Democratic nomination is over.”

After last Tuesday’s North Carolina and Indiana prima-ries, there is no mathematical chance for Hillary Clinton to win a majority of the delegates to the Democratic convention, and the fl ow of money for her campaign is already drying up. It is unimaginable that the so-called “super-delegates” (senior Democratic party fi gures who get an automatic vote at the convention) would reject the verdict of the primaries by opt-ing for Clinton, so the case is closed.

Having seen off the Hard Man of the Democratic party, Obama must now defeat the Hard Man of the Republican party in November. (Clinton promised to “obliterate” Iran if it attacks Israel; Senator John McCain has proposed threaten-ing North Korea with “extinction.”) But it will be hard for Obama to lose while the United States is plunging into a deep recession and the Republican candidate is still shackled to the Bush administration’s war in Iraq.

About the only thing that would give McCain a chance of winning is a big terrorist attack on the United States that drives voters into the arms of those who promise security through endless war. Al-Qaeda would be happy to oblige, for the presence of American troops in Iraq is its best recruit-ing tool and McCain has said he would be willing to see US troops stay there for a hundred years. But al-Qaeda in its cur-rent state probably lacks the resources for such an ambitious project.

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Town of Whitecourt - Month in ReviewMay 14, 2008 - Whitecourt Town Council Update

The Whitecourt and District Skatepark Society is a non-profi t group formed by a group of active members of the com-munity hoping to bring a quality, safe, and up to date action sports park to the Town of Whitecourt. The Society made a presentation to Town Council on May 12 which highlighted the Society’s design concept, fundraising efforts, rules, safe-ty, and signage for the skatepark. The presentation was suc-cessful. Council discussed their support for the concept and approved the Society’s proposal to build a new plaza style skatepark and provided three of the Town’s existing tennis courts to be the new location for the park and up to a maxi-mum of $300,000 towards the development.

As part of the Town’s parks planning process, a parks planning consultant reviewed and developed a future outline plan for the Cemetery. The plan includes focus on the follow-ing features:

• Improving the approach road• Enhancing the central monument area• Creating an area for a future Columbarium Wall• Designating parking areas• Creating a memorial garden• Outlining a plan for beautifi cation• Mapping and signage• Developing an entrance gate• Council accepted the Cemetery Concept Plan as infor-

mation at Monday night’s meeting.

May 28, 2008 - Whitecourt Town Council Update

Council approved the proposed Weekly Bluebag Curbside Residential Recycling Program at the May 26, 2008 Council Meeting. The Town believes it is essential for the community to be accountable in preserving and protecting its resources. Ever Green Ecological Services has been contracted to oper-ate the curbside recycling program. An education process will be implemented shortly to provide residents with the details of the program; where the ‘bluebags’ can be purchased, utility fees, and pickup dates.

The Whitecourt Enhancement Grant was established to offer community organizations and groups’ addition assis-tance to develop community events or enhancements. The grant is designed to provide funding for the enrichment of programs, services, special events, equipment or facilities that are not normally funded through their annual budget. Council approved grant funding to the following:

• Whitecourt Cats Football – Women’s Division(Continued on page 6)

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1. Replace your older model central air conditioning or room system with an ENERGY STAR qualifi ed model.

2. Use a programmable thermostat to moderate your home’s temperature. A properly set programmable thermostat can reduce cooling costs by up to 10 per cent - in the summer set yours to 25 degrees Celsius when you’re at home, and 28 degrees Celsius when you’re away so your air conditioner runs less frequently.

3. As an alternative to air conditioning, install ceiling fans to help keep rooms cooler and circulate air throughout a home. Make sure they’re blowing down in summertime to maximize the cooling effect.

4. To keep the heat of the sun from infi ltrating your home, shade the south and west sides of your home with awnings and leaf-bearing trees.

5. Close your window blinds (particularly on south and west facing windows) during the day to keep out the hot sun.

6. Replace your furnace fi lter when needed — remem-ber, the furnace fan moves the cool air from your central air conditioner in the summer; dirty fi lters restrict air fl ow and reduce effi ciency. - News Canada

• Whitecourt Trailblazers Snowmobile Club• Lac Ste. Anne Foundation

Council has also allocated funds in the 2008 budget to support business beautifi cation through the Communities in Bloom Program. The Community Business Beautifi cation Grant was promoted to all local business owners through the Chamber of Commerce, the Whitecourt Star, and the Trade Fair. The following applicants were approved to receive grant funding:

• Something to Crow About Inc.• St. Joseph’s Parish Whitecourt• Dynamic Discount• Phoenix Industrial Maintenance Inc.• St. Patrick’s Anglican Church• Whitecourt Hilltop Community Church

The Communities in Bloom Committee is pleased and believes the projects proposed by these local businesses will enhance the aesthetic appeal of our community.

It has been announced that the running track in the Allan & Jean Millar Centre has been offi cially named “The Rotary Running Track”. The Town greatly appreciates the sponsor-ship provided by the Rotary Club for this project.

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Nearby Summer SpotPaddle River Dam is a provincial recreation area. It is de-

signed for day use. There is a boat launch and 15 camp sites. Activities that take place at the dam include: fi shing, boating, ice fi shing, swimming and water-skiing.

Turning south opposite the Rochfort Bridge Trading Post will get you there. There is also a sight seeing spot at the fi rst left turn, going south. The dam turnoff is further down.

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A few decades ago, there was much written about the promised coming age of leisure. The main question was what we were going to do with all of our spare time now that machines were producing so much of our wealth. Fast-forward to the present day and many households fi nd that they are busier than ever at paid work. So what hap-pened?

Like most social issues, there is no one simple explana-tion for the development. As in any complex system, reasons for a faulty prediction can be many and varied. In this case, the dynamics are somewhat obvious, as well as hidden for political reasons.

The most visible explanation for today’s busyness is that people put a higher emphasis on material goods than the gen-eral population of the past did. For reasons of comfort and/or status, houses are larger, vehicles are generally more extrava-gant and it seems children could sometimes be lost under their mountains of toys.

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The pond is stocked and the cleanup is done for another summer at Whitecourt’s Rotary Park. The water slide is slated to open early in June for weekends only. During July and Au-gust, this attraction will be open 7 days a week, weather per-mitting. Hours of operation will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., except for Wednesdays, which will be noon to 9 p.m.

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GNA - The European Parliament Annual Report on Human Rights in the World in 2007, prepared by Rapporteur Marco Cappato, the Italian Radical MEP, was approved by the European Parliament. No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), which collaborated closely with the Rapporteur through the civil society con-sultation process established by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee, welcomes the clear stand taken by the Eu-ropean Parliament on several policy issues we consider to be priorities for the European Union and its member States in the protection and pro-motion of human rights, de-mocracy and the rule of law throughout the world.

Declaration by Sergio Stanzani and Gianfranco Dell’Alba, President and Sec-retary General of No Peace Without Justice:

“No Peace Without Jus-tice fully supports and under-scores the Report’s explicit recognition that sustainable peace cannot be achieved through deals to protect vio-lators of human rights and in-ternational humanitarian law and that justice and account-ability are essential pillars of sustainable peace. Important-ly, the EP calls on the Council and the Commission to con-tinue their efforts to promote universal ratifi cation and implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), urges the ICC to intensify its out-reach efforts and recognises the critical role that the Justice Rapid Response mechanism and non-judicial accountabili-

ty mechanisms can play in ad-dressing serious crimes under international law. The Report also has a strong emphasis on children’s rights, both in gen-eral and specifi cally in times of armed confl ict, which is one of the major policy issues

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Economist Thorstein Veblen focused on this angle in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class, fi rst published in 1899 while he was a pro-fessor at the University of Chicago. In effect, Veblen’s argument was that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social ves-tiges from pre-historic times.

Veblen is best known for giving the world the en-during phrase “conspicuous consumption”. He used this term to describe ostentatious displays of wealth meant to refl ect one’s social status. Drawing on examples from his time and anthropology, he held that much of the society of his day, and consequently today, was a variation on ear-ly tribal life.

Veblen’s outlook is a

narrow one, but it could be argued that education could ameliorate the situation for those who feel trapped by such ‘keeping up with the Jones’ social impeti. It could be said that the over-accumu-lation of assets rarely leads to happiness.

In many societies, in-cluding some early Euro-pean ones, conspicuous or wasteful consumption was regarded as a social defect, rather than a status enhancer. Not surprisingly, there was often a consequent rise in lei-surely activities. As Edmon-ton economist Mark Anielski related in last month’s Advi-sor, low tech medieval work-ers had more holidays and time off than the workers of today. During this time they built stunning cathedrals that

remain a testament to inspi-rational work.

A cultural bias against ‘idleness’ also keeps many running past the point of sat-isfaction or happiness, even with machines producing the great majority of what most would consider wealth. “The devil makes work for idle hands” is one propaganda push from days of old. A po-litical value in such an out-look is that excessively busy people are less likely to have time to want real input into their political structures. Ad-ditionally, in a contest of na-tions, or tribes, a productive people will have a better de-fense and attack capability.

There is also an innate human desire to excel, re-gardless of reasons, that keeps some hopping, some-times for good ends, some-times for bad.

How one defi nes idleness and leisure also has some bearing on the situation. Ten-nis is very hard work, yet it is considered a leisure activity; unless you make your living at it. Social occasions can de-volve into business network-ing, which takes the activity out of the leisure column and into the work column.

So-called idle people have contributed greatly to society. Socrates, Aristotle and Plato won their leisure through the efforts of Greek slaves, leaving them free to think about bigger issues. Einstein did his best work while he was employed in a government patent offi ce that gave him lots of ‘free’ time. At a lower level, this author

did his best work, on a Glob-al Justice Movement project, while temporarily ‘unem-ployed’.

Indeed futurists like Buckminster Fuller and original social crediters de-scribed leisure or self-direct-ed work as the highest form of work. Fuller went so far as to state that each and ev-ery person had the potential of the rich slave owners of ancient Greece, simply be-cause our machines can now take the place of the slaves of old. Fuller urged people to think about what really inter-ested them before they had to make a living; and then focus on that work or activity.

Such a development has been termed self-actualiza-tion. This is held to be the highest level of earthly ex-istence in the hierarchy of human needs, according to a psychological theory devel-

oped by Abraham Maslow. In his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, Maslow termed the lower or ‘defi cien-cy needs’ as: survival needs, safety and security, love and belonging, and self-esteem. The fi nal stage of psycholog-ical development was held to be what comes when the in-dividual feels assured that his physiological, security, affi li-ation and affection, self-re-spect, and recognition needs have been satisfi ed. As these become dormant, it is theo-rized an individual becomes fi lled with a desire to realize all of his potential for being an effective, creative, mature human being.

Of course the key word in self-actualization is ‘self’. The main view here is not to advocate that some people should slow down and smell the roses. Individuals should of course decide for them-




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So Obama gets the presi-dency — and then what? A longish honeymoon, in all probability, while Americans congratulate themselves on having transcended the rac-ist legacy of their past, which means that Obama will have a better chance than most new presidents to change the way things work. Moreover, he will probably be able to depend on Democratic ma-jorities in both houses of Congress.

On the other hand, he will inherit a ravaged econo-my and a lost war, so he has little room for expensive do-mestic reforms or dramatic initiatives abroad. Getting American troops out of Iraq will take several years and use up a lot of his political credit at home, even if it does

wonders for America’s repu-tation in the rest of the world. And he will not be able to cut bloated US military spending at the same time, so there is no early “peace bonus” wait-ing for him on the fi scal front.

Indeed, there is little that any American presi-dent can do about a recession in the short run except to wait it out. Like Bill Clin-ton before him, Obama will ul-timately have the job of re-pairing the huge budget defi -cit bequeathed to him by his Republican predecessor, but the only step he can take in the short run is to roll back the huge Bush tax cuts for the rich. So what else can the

Democrats do in the mean-time that doesn’t cost too much?

Reversing the Bush ad-ministration’s assault on the

cons t i tu t iona l rights of Ameri-can citizens and the human rights of non-Ameri-cans — closing G u a n t a n a m o , ending offi cial support for tor-ture, and restor-ing the civil lib-erties that were destroyed by the

Patriot Act and subsequent legislation — are high-prior-ity tasks that are practically cost-free. And creating a genuine national health-care programme would not cost that much in the early years, provided that you break the

stranglehold of the insurance companies at the same time.

Barack Obama has said very little about this dur-ing his campaign (and Hil-lary Clinton, haunted by her failure to reform health care in her husband’s fi rst term as president, has said even less). But the fact that about one-sixth of the American population has no access to high-quality medical care is an astonishing failure in a rich democracy, and Obama has travelled enough to see it for the scandal that it is.

Obama may be uncon-vincing as a gun-loving, truck-driving, fast-food-ad-dicted son of toil, but he is the candidate of the Ameri-can poor even if many of the white poor don’t recognise



“Indeed, there is little that

any American president can do about a recession in the short run except to wait it

out. ”


him as such. No single reform would do so much to improve the lives of poor Americans as a fully comprehensive health-care sys-tem that is free at the point of deliv-ery. He has given us few clues about his intentions, but my money says that that will be his fi rst priority in domestic af-fairs. He might even succeed.

E d i t o r ’ s Note: It should be pointed out that the analysis of what the U.S. can afford to do is based on the prevailing illusion about how the money system operates. The reality is that whatever

is physically possible is fi -nancially possible. As an ex-ample, remember that in the 1930’s it was held to be unaf-fordable for many people to

live decent lives. However, as soon as the elites were threatened by the other side in WWII, every-thing instantly became afford-able and every-one was work-ing again. The illusion built up around the mon-ey system is the primary educa-tional job of the present, if the fu-ture generations

are going to design a sen-sible and sustainable world economic system. For more see www.moneyasdebt.net/

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Uncommon DecencyLast week, Sara Tucholsky, a 5-foot-2-inch softball

player in her senior year for Western Oregon University, was playing in a big game with Central Washington Uni-versity. Both teams were vying for the Division II NCAA playoffs. Sara, who was batting less than .200 all season, hit the ball over the fence with two runners on.

She had never hit a ball out of the park before, even in practice. She was so excited, she missed fi rst base. Re-alizing this, she turned to go back but collapsed in agony as her knee gave out. Her fi rst-base coach yelled that she had to crawl back to fi rst base because if anyone on Sara’s team touched her, she’d be out and her home run would be nullifi ed. Her coach encouraged her to try to crawl around the other bases to preserve her home run, but it was out of the question.

That’s when the star player on the other team, Mal-lory Holtman, asked the umpire if she and a teammate could carry Sara around the bases. It was an unprecedent-ed request from an opponent fi ghting for a playoff berth, but the rules allowed it. Without hesitation, Mallory and shortstop Liz Wallace lifted Sara and carried her, lower-ing her to touch each base with her good leg.

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the global food crisis; but before you put your money down, you may want to ex-plore whether you will be helping to alleviate the prob-lem or contributing to it. Do you really want to “invest” in starvation? In an April 23 article in the German news source Spiegel Online called “Deadly Greed: The Role of Speculators in the Glob-al Food Crisis,” Balzli and Horning note, “Many inves-tors . . . are simply oblivious to the fact that by investing in the global casino, they could be gambling away the daily food supply of the world’s poorest people.”1

Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has called the explod-ing food crisis “a silent mass murder.” In an interview in the French daily Liberation on April 14, he said, “We are heading for a very long peri-od of rioting, confl icts [and] waves of uncontrollable re-gional instability marked by the despair of the most vulnerable populations.” He blamed globalization and multinationals for “monopo-lizing the riches of the earth,” and said that a mass uprising of starving people against

their persecutors is “just as possible as the French Revo-lution was.” In some places, this is already happening. In Haiti, where the cost of rice has nearly doubled since De-cember, the prime minister was fi red this month by op-position senators after more than a week of riots over the cost of staple foods. Violent protests over food prices have also been set off in Ban-gladesh, where rice has also dou-bled; in the Ivory Coast, where food prices have soared by 30 to 60 percent from one week to the next; and in Egypt, Uz-bekistan, Yemen, the Philippines, Thailand, Indo-nesia and Italy.

In an April 21 Wall Street Journal article titled “Load Up the Pantry,” Brett Arends observed that the food riots now seen in the developing world could soon be affecting Americans as well. Rocketing food prices are not a passing phase but are actually accelerating. He recommends hoarding food – not because he is actu-ally expecting a shortage but

as an investment, because “food prices are already ris-ing here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund.” Arends goes on:

“The main reason for ris-ing prices, of course, is the surge in demand from China and India. Hundreds of mil-lions of people are joining

the middle class each year, and that means they want to eat more and better food. A secondary rea-son has been the growing demand for ethanol as a fuel additive. That’s soaking up some of the corn supply.”2

That’s the rationale pub-lished in the Journal of Wall Street, the fi nancial com-munity that brought you the housing bubble, the deriva-tives bubble, and now the commodities bubble, pro-ducing the subprime crisis, the credit crisis, and the oil crisis. The main reason for the food crisis, says this au-thor, is that the Chinese and Indian middle classes are eat-

ing better. Really? Rice has been the staple food of half the world for centuries, and it is hardly rich man’s fare. Moreover, according to an April 2008 analysis from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, food consumption of grains has gone up by only one percent since 2006.3 That hardly explains the fact that the price of rice has spiked by 75 percent in just two months. The price of Thai 100 per cent B grade white rice, considered the world’s benchmark, has tripled since early 2007; and it jumped 10 percent in just one week. The fact that corn is being divert-ed to fuel, while no doubt a contributing factor, is also insuffi cient to explain these sudden jumps in price. World population growth rates have dropped dramatically since the 1980s, and grain avail-ability has continued to out-pace population.4 Biofuels have drained off some of this grain, but biofuels did not suddenly happen, and nei-ther did the rise of the Asian middle class. If those were the chief factors, the rise in food prices would have been gradual and predictable to match.



“Jean Ziegler, UN Special

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has called the exploding food crisis “a silent

mass murder.”

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Another explanation for the sudden jump in grain prices is not mentioned by this Wall Street Journal writ-er but is suggested by other analysts. William Pfaff wrote in the April 16 International Herald Tribune:

“[M]ore fundamental is the effect of speculation in food as a commodity – like oil and precious metals. It has become a ha-ven for fi nancial investors fl eeing from paper assets tainted by sub-prime mortgages and other toxic credit products. The infl ux of buy-ers drives prices and makes food unaffordable for the world’s poor.” “Fund money fl owing into agriculture has boosted prices,” Standard Chartered Bank food com-modities analyst Abah Ofon told the media. “It’s fashion-able. This is the year of agri-cultural commodities.”5

The “hot money” that has fl ed the collapsed real estate bubble is now moving into the commodities bubble,

and that includes food. “Hot money” is an infl ux of specu-lative capital in search of high rates of return, quickly moving from one market to another. It moves, however, not because the products are better (the traditional jus-tifi cation for price-setting according to “free market forces”) but because the speculative “spread” is bet-ter. Money is invested not in making real goods and ser-

vices but simply in making more money. Food prices are being driven by specu-lators, and today that includes or-dinary investors like you and me, who can now gamble in agri-cultural futures through ETFs that have opened

up a lucrative market for-merly available only to big investment players.

Conventional economic theory says that prices are driven up when “demand” exceeds “supply.” But in this case “demand” does not mean the number of hands reach-ing out for food. It means the



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The futures market is a traditional tool for farm-ers to sell their harvests ahead of time. In a futures contract, quantities, prices and delivery dates are fi xed, sometimes even before crops have been planted. Futures contracts allow farmers and grain wholesalers a measure of protection against adverse weather conditions and ex-cessive price fl uctuations. . . . But now speculators are tak-ing advantage of this mecha-nism. They can buy futures contracts for wheat, for ex-ample, at a low price, betting that the price will go up. If the price of the grain rises by the agreed delivery date, they

profi t. Some experts now believe these investors have taken over the market, buying futures at unprecedented lev-els and driving up short-term prices. Since last August, this mechanism has led to a dou-bling in the price of rice.

The authors quote grain wholesaler Greg Warner, who says what is happening now in the grain futures mar-ket is unprecedented. “What we normally have is a pre-dictable group of sellers and buyers mainly farmers and silo operators.” But the landscape has changed since the infl ux of large index funds into the futures mar-ket. “Prices keep climbing up and up.” Warner cal-culates that fi nancial inves-tors now hold the rights to two complete annual harvests of a type of grain traded in Chicago called “soft red win-ter wheat.” He calls these de-velopments “stunning” and points to them as “evidence that capitalism is literally consuming itself.”6

What about investing in

agribusinesses such as Mon-santo, which have promoted the “Green Revolution” through the bioengineering of foods and the production of GMO (genetically modifi ed) seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and herbicide and pesticide sprays? Won’t these corpora-tions, at least, help to allevi-ate the global food crisis?

To the contrary, say crit-ics, these businesses too are just driving food prices

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er productivity and subjected their land to these seeds and chemicals have found that not only have their yields been reduced but that the land will no longer bear anything except GMO seeds.7 Farmers who can no longer afford the seeds are priced out of the market, handing monopoly control over to the agribusi-ness giants that can then raise

prices to whatever the market will bear; and in the case of food, it will bear a lot, right up to the point of slavery. As Henry Kissinger once fa-mously said, “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the en-ergy can control whole con-tinents; who controls money can control the world.”

What can you invest in, then, that actually would help relieve the global food cri-sis? One possibility is local organic farming. “Commu-nity-supported agriculture” (CSA) is a model of food production, sales, and distri-bution aimed at increasing the quality of food and the care given to land, plants and animals, while reducing loss-es and risks for producers. A variety of CSA systems are now in use worldwide, al-lowing small-scale commer-cial farmers and gardeners to have a successful, small-scale closed market while provid-ing their customer-members with a regular delivery or pick-up of healthy local pro-duce. The USDA provides a list of CSA addresses and websites.8

That still leaves the (Continued on page 22)


“It is the money supply that has gone up, and it is investment

money in search of quick profi ts that is largely driving food prices up. ”


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Belongings were stashed under big trees and food was tied high up in a tree so that the bears could not get at it.

They needed tools so they could build their log shack and they needed a stove and food supplies. They walked about twenty-seven miles to Junkins, which is now Wild-wood. Here they bought a rig with two wheels and stacked everything onto it and pushed and pulled it by hand all the way home. The road they had to travel was a mere trail. The

rig was pushed and pulled through soft muskeg and wa-ter holes. It would get hung up on stumps and caught in brush that grew alongside. It was a grueling trip but they did not give up. All our pio-neers had what it took!

I recall the day when one of our very early neighbors and her husband came to visit us one Sunday. They handed my brother and me a little shoe box. Inside were two little kittens. How soft they were and how hap-

py we were to have them. Our neighbors were from Rus-sia and were away ahead of everyone else for they knew

how to pioneer. My, what a nice house they had. Very small, but so cute and clean and cozy. Every-thing was done by hand. They had fences up but never used a nail. Roots were tied

on the rails. They had big bar-rels full of grain which was cut by hand and threshed by hand. The grain was soaking in the barrels and was fed to the hogs and chickens. Their

(Continued from page 1) yard was neat and fl owers surrounded the house. The inside of the house was plas-ter walls. They did this by driving little pieces of wood into the logs and fi lling all that up with some kind of mud mixed with horse and cow hair to make it bind. This kind neighbor showed Mother how to bake bread — her own loaves looked too good and were so big. She also showed Mother how to bake nice cookies.

There were often serious fi res each spring. It helped clear the land but had no re-gard for the poor little ani-mals who were having their

The Sherratt homestead, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Sherratt, Nellie, Marie, Jack and Muriel Reddish, a Dundee school teacher

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young at that time nor of birds nesting. How often I saw a poor baby rabbit with its fur scorched. We would fi nd bird’s nests with cooked eggs in them. Farmers started these spring fi res for the purpose of clearing trees but they were often hard to control.

It seems to me now that life then slowly became a free-for-all. Farmers worked harder and harder to clear more land for grain but years later when the tractor became used, ev-eryone needed more money to pay for their tractor. Grain prices fell so it was one mad

Ruth (Wulff) Swanson in front of Jens Wulff’s cabin, built in 1911

scramble to get money or lose the farm. Everyone seemed to work ever so much harder af-ter machines came. The love and joy seemed to have gone

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“Grain prices fell so it was one

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problem of speculation in food futures. How can para-sitic profi ts to non-producing middlemen be eliminated while still protecting farm-ers? The futures market was fi rst created for farmers, who needed to be able to lock in a price today that would cover their costs and return a rea-sonable profi t later. One in-teresting proposal is to return to the policy of “farm parity pricing” enacted during the 1930s. It ensured that the prices received by farmers covered the prices they paid for input plus a reasonable profi t. If the farmers could not get the parity price, the government would buy their output, put it into storage, and sell it later. The govern-ment actually made a small profi t on these transactions; food prices were kept stable; and the family farm system was preserved as the safe-guard of the national food supply. With the push for “globalization” in later de-cades, farm parity was re-placed with farm “subsidies” that favored foods for export over local markets, and large corporate farms engaged in chemical farming over sus-tainable farming, forcing thousands of family farmers out of business.

Farm parity pricing could help, but a complete solution to the problem of global infl ation would re-quire an overhaul of the pri-vate central banking system that has created one bubble after another for the last cen-tury. (See E. Brown, “Market Meltdown: The End of a 300 Year Ponzi Scheme,” webofdebt.com/articles, Septem-ber 3, 2007.)

And if you want to invest in the commodities boom without guilt? You can buy gold, which is no one’s staple food or fuel.

1 Bea Bal-zli, Frank Hornig, “Deadly Greed: The Role of Speculators in the Global Food Crisis,” Spiegel Online (April 23, 2008).

2 Brett Arends, “Load Up

the Pantry,” Wall Street Journal (April 21, 2008).

3 “2007–2008 World Food

Price Crisis,” Wikipedia. 4 Ibid.

5 William Pfaff, “Specula-tors and Soaring Food Prices,” International Herald Tribune (April 16, 2008).

6 Balzli & Hornig, op. cit. 7 William Engdahl, Seeds

of Destruction (Global Research 2007), summa-rized by Stephen Lendman in “Un-leashing GMO Seeds: ‘Food is Power’”, Global Research (January 19, 2008).

8 “Alternative

Farming Systems Information Cen-ter,” USDA.gov. See “Community-supported Agricul-ture,” Wikipedia.

Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills

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bestselling Nature’s Phar-macy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies. Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com.


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Veblen’s thesis on bar-barian tribal impulses could be extended to the external drivers for busyness. At root, power mongers can obtain more satisfaction by coerc-ing those they control to en-gage in some activity, even if it is not directed towards a project that aggrandizes the elite. For some, being able to control a group of people and having them engaged in their own pursuits most of the time does not satisfy the empti-ness that is inside of those who seek power for power’s sake. Keeping the people un-der them busy is one way to prove one’s ongoing control over people.

There are many historical examples of those who vain-ly attempt to self-actualize through the coerced activities of other individuals.

English Assistant Secre-tary to the Treasury Charles Trevelyan was placed in charge of the administration of Government relief to the victims of the Irish Famine in the 1840s. He oversaw the famine related deaths of about 2 million Irish, even as signifi cant amounts of food were exported out of the country. Because of a potato blight, the Irish did not have access to food they grew themselves, and they did not have the money to purchase the corn, cattle and other foodstuffs produced within the country.

Trevelyan administered the relief works of 1845–6–7, when upwards of 734,000 Irishmen were employed by the government in busy-

work projects to attempt to get enough food to keep their families alive. This food of-ten took the form of a sub-standard ‘paste’ that caused excruciatingly painful health problems.

Trevelyan bemoaned a healthy potato crop. He wrote: “The small Irish stake-holder lives in a state of near isolation, the type of which is to be sought for in the south seas, rather than in the great civil community of the ancient world. A fortnight for planting, a week or ten days for digging and another fortnight for turf cutting, suffi ce for his sub-sistence, when, during the rest of the year, he is at leisure to follow his own inclina-tion without even the safeguard of those intellectual tastes and legiti-mate objects of ambition which only imperfectly obviate the evils of leisure in the highest ranks of society.”

Trevelyan also saw the engineered Famine as a “mechanism for reducing sur-plus population”. He wrote: “The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated. …The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the self-ish, perverse and turbulent character of the people”. The

actual evil was of course the mass murder visited on the Irish through those such as Trevelyan.

In Canada, the Indians discovered themselves vic-tims of a departmental tyr-anny whose effect was to destroy their early, and some-times successful, attempts to adopt the white man’s way and make a living as farm-ers.

As is related in Alberta in the Twentieth Cen-tury: “Indians across the Prai-ries had been making slow but discernible progress in agri-culture since the ‘70s (1870’s). Many bands, es-pecially in what is now southern Saskatchewan, had been ham-pered by chronic drought in the ‘80s. Unlike the Qu’Appelle homesteaders, treaty Indians could not simply

move on to a more promis-ing location because the In-dian Act denied them home-stead rights. Nonetheless, the most innovative among them laboured on, despite the unfamiliarity of their farm instructors with prairie conditions, despite Ottawa’s tendency to send them seed too late in the year for use, and despite the ungovern-able bronco character of their government-supplied draft animals. Like their new white neighbours, they were learn-

ing to be wheat farmers. By 1888 several bands had co-operatively purchased mod-ern equipment such as hay mowers and grain binders.

Hayter Reed, the new Indian commissioner, heart-ily approved of all this until he became enraptured by the latest sociological theory on the resettlement of primi-tive peoples overtaken by advanced technological soci-eties. The best method, said the theorists, was to reinsti-tute “peasant agriculture.” Primitives should not farm commercially. Instead they should farm the hard way, with home-made hand tools on tiny vegetable plots.

This was considered the acme in advanced sociologi-cal science; Reed embraced it enthusiastically. The Indian, he concluded, must abandon his newly acquired technolo-gy, and reincarnate the “yeo-man farmer.”

The new policy was an-nounced in 1889. The bewil-dered Indians saw immedi-ately that this was the precise reverse of what the govern-ment had been telling them all along. Agents across the West ordered all mechanical equipment out of the fi eld, and instructed that hay and grain henceforth be cut with scythes. Sheaves were now to be bound with straw, not with purchased twine. Men would devote their idle hours to carving their own handles and pitchforks from locally cut wood, and women must weave baskets, mats and straw hats. People too old or sick to farm their own plots



“In Canada, the Indians discovered themselves victims of a

departmental tyranny whose

eff ect was to destroy their early,

and sometimes successful,

attempts to adopt the white man’s way and

make a living as farmers.”


would have to ask their neigh-bours to help. Wheat acreage too large to be cut by hand must be left to rot, and hence-forth root crops were to be preferred. No band could ne-gotiate credit. No band could purchase anything jointly. Any attempt to acquire pro-hibited machinery would be blocked. No band would be allowed to sell farm produce off the reserve in local mar-kets.

Any instructors heard to criticize the policy would be fi red. Reed himself scruti-nized all departmental provi-sions for the reserves, to de-tect prohibited items.

In her book Lost Har-vests, historian Sarah Carter weighs the documented psy-chological devastation this had on Reed’s brown-skinned “yeomanry,” as reported by the thunderstruck agents. One Indian, very old and frail, had to abandon half of his thick 15-acre wheat crop because he and his aging wife couldn’t possibly harvest it all by hand. Another man, the most progressive farmer at the Moose Mountain agen-cy, quit in disgust and an-nounced that he would never plough another acre. He went to work for wages on a white threshing gang. Another good farmer left 15 acres stand-ing and moved to the United States. From Edmonton came another sharp complaint,that the short prairie season left no time for taking off both wheat and hay using such backward methods. The home-made handles, forks and grain cra-dles broke constantly. Prairie straw was too dry and brittle

to bind grain, and the straw too short to scythe without waste. By the time the policy was abandoned, it was too late for most Indians.

In the 1930’s, social cred-it fl ourished during the Great Depression, when it became obvious the promise of the machine age leisure had not delivered the goods. The so-cred comment on ‘poverty in the midst of plenty’ was an apt description for the real-ity of the Great Depression. Social credit advocated that each and every person should receive a citizen’s dividend. The ra-tionale was that most of the wealth of the industrial age was produced by the inventions and innovations of people long since passed on. The machines constituted a ‘cul-tural heritage’ that belonged to the community as a whole; not to those who lobbied gov-ernment to create a money system that gave ownership to a small super-elite. Pat-ent and copyright would still be respected, with commu-nity members welcome to join the elite through dint of hard work. However, no-one would go without the basics due to their citizen’s dividend, leaving each and every person free to engage in whatever ac-tivities they preferred.

Social credit founder C. H. Douglas related that: “Some years ago I had the ex-perience of discussing these proposals with Mr. and Mrs.

Sydney Webb (famous Eng-lish socialists of the 1920’s and 30’s), and, after dispos-ing, one after the other, of the objections raised to the fea-sibility of the scheme, I was met with an objection with which, I confess, I found my-self wholly unable to deal, and I recognise that objection in the Labour Party report on the Douglas proposals.

The words in which it was made to me are worth putting on record. They were : “ I don’t care whether the scheme is sound or not; I

don’t like its ob-ject.” That is a clear-cut issue; it is an issue which goes right down to the bed rock of human philoso-phy. It claims that human na-ture is essentially vile, and can only be kept within bounds by being kept so busy that it has no time to get into mis-

chief.” The rule of law is of course the tool for such con-cerns, not slavery.

Keynesian economics championed by the ‘New Deal ‘activists of the 1930’s taught that people needed to stop saving and start spend-ing. Harvard economist Alvin Hansen, one of the main American advocates of Keynes, declared that private business had fully matured and would never again be capable of fully employing American workers. Only government, he said, could fi ll the gap. It would be nec-essary to tax the rich and

(Continued from page 28) employ everyone else in Fed-eral jobs, without regard to whether those jobs produced goods and services that the general public would buy of its own free will.

As Keynes put it, how the government spends its money is of no consequence. Men could be hired to dig holes one day, fi ll them the next day, re-dig them the day after, then re-fi ll them on the fourth day, ad infi nitum. The only important thing was to put money into circulation and get people buying things. Why people could not get a dividend without digging and refi lling holes, and instead engage in self-directed activi-ties, was not discussed.

The New Deal policies, and the consequent loss of individual freedom, won the day, while social credit poli-cies were misrepresented in the mainstream press of the day. The Edmonton Journal has bragged about receiving the Pulitzer Prize for fi ghting for freedom of the press dur-ing the Social Credit govern-ment in Alberta. The truth of the matter was that the gov-ernment of the day sought to have equal space to rebut the stream of lies that the main-stream media was putting forth on economic matters. The controlled media could write what it wanted, but on the condition that a counter argument be included for perusal by the citizen. The controlled press did not want the average person to have both sides of the argument and make up their own mind on which one made the most sense.

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President Baugh: Our currency is the Valora, and comes in both paper and coin formats, the latter being poker chips, instead of traditional coins. Our national anthem is "Molossia, Nation in the Desert", with lyrics written by me and set to the Albanian national anthem. I'm sure they don't mind.

President Baugh: The mighty Molossian Navy. Yes, we have a Navy in the desert. Our Navy has been involved in several exploration expeditions during its three years of exis-tence. We are quite proud of our Navy.

President Baugh: Yes, all Molossians are dual US citizens. Most Molossians actually work in the US and live in Molos-sia, largely due to our small size and lack of resources. And no, as a sovereign na-tion, we do not pay taxes to the US. However, we contribute an equivalent amount to the US in For-eign Aid, in the hopes that they will someday fi x their roads.

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Alberta in the Twenti-eth Century wrote of emi-nent Alberta historian James H. Gray thusly: “With the general scorn and ridicule heaped upon (Social Credit leader) Bill Aberhart’s vari-ous initiatives, Mr. Gray does not concur. Aberhart was jeered for promising ev-erybody twenty-fi ve dollars a month says Mr. Gray. Yet within ten years of his fi rst term, the federal government introduced the “baby bonus”, which provided fi ve dollars a month for each child. Since the average family then had between four and fi ve chil-dren, this amounted to ap-proximately the same sum...Aberhart said there was within the country suffi cient wealth to put all our farms and resources back to work. He was absolutely right as the ensuing Second World War would swiftly prove. So no, the Alberta insurrection-ists of the 1930’s were not fools. They were merely, per-haps, a little premature.”

Now with the Internet and inexpensive desktop publishing freeing up infor-mation, there is a defi nite growing loss of faith in the current economic paradigms. The next step will be to grow Global Justice efforts to the point that they can no lon-ger be ignored by those who think they have all the an-swers. As can be gathered from the above historical record of Hayter Reed of In-dian affairs, Irish genocide organizer Charles Trevelyan and slavery advocate J.M. Keynes, involving the citizen more in decision making is unlikely to lead to the feared

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2004 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO V8, Auto, Pwr Steering, Pwr Brakes,

Pwr Locks, BW: $146

NOW $13,695

2006 SEBRING49,352 KS, Air, Cruise, PS, PM, PW, Bucket Seats, Light Green

Ext, BW: $137

NOW $15,400

2004 DODGE SX 2.0 4 dr Sedan, 4 cyl, Auto,

75,000 KS BW: $97

NOW $8,995

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2007 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT, 3.7L V6, Auto, 4x4, CD Player, Pwr Win, Pwr Locks, Tilt, Cruise, 41,000 Kms BW: $203

NOW $23,075

2007 FORD TAURUS SEL Sun Roof, V6, Auto, All Pwr,

51,000 Kms BW: $150

NOW $16,995

2006 RAM 3500 MEGA CAB

SLT, 4x4, 5.9L Diesel, Auto, All Pwr, 65,000 Kms

NOW $36,695

Win a New 16’ Fishing Boat, Motor & Trailer!!!

All retail purchases of new & used vehicles from May 1, 2008 to July 31, 2008 will be

automatically entered to win a 16’ Microcraft 1628, Holiday Series, w/Yamaha 50 HP 4

stroke outboard. Draw is August 1,2008 at 2 pm. Supplied by Whitecourt Yamaha.

Retail Value $19,320

2000 DURANGO 4.9 v8, 4X4, Air, PW, Tilt, PL, Dual Airbags, 118,387

KS, Dark Green.NOW $11,900

2007 CALIBER SLT27,949 KS, Hatchback, Auto, Air,

FUEL EFFICIENT VEHICLEBW: $168

NOW $18,763

2006 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT 3.7L V6, Auto, Pwr

Win, Pwr Locks, CD Player, Black in Colour, 37,000 KS

NOW $17,895

2007 CHRYLER 30026,593 KS, Sunroof, Tire & Grill

Pkg, Cruise, Keyless Entry, Air, PM, PS, Tilt. BW: $228

NOW $25,900

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