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Much has been written about the proposed nuclear plant in Whitecourt, with the message, but not the method-ology changing. Previously the mainstream media mes-sage was that nuclear plants were bad, with nary a men-tion about the solidity of the used nuclear plant fuel or how it became less toxic

over time; how used nuclear fuel could be reprocessed; how no one had ever been harmed by a nuclear plant in North America and so on. The downside of the uses of other energy sources, such as thousands of deaths from re-spiratory diseases caused by coal burning, was buried in

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The fi rst Father’s Day tribute dates back nearly 4,000 years ago. A Babylonian youth named Elmesu carved the fi rst known Father’s Day card in clay with a special message that wished his father good health and a long life.

Father’s Day as we know it today, was fi rst created by Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington. While listening to a Mother’s Day sermon, she was compelled to establish a celebration for fathers as well. Dodd’s father, a widower and Civil War veteran, raised her and fi ve siblings for 21 years after their mother died.

Dodd encouraged local churches to institute a day of ob-servance for fathers and chose June 19, 1910 as the fi rst cel-ebration since her father was born in June. Even though it was widely celebrated for decades, Father’s Day wasn’t offi cially recognized as a national day of observance until 1972. From early on, many countries, including Canada, chose to adopt Father’s Day as a national celebration and with few excep-tions, most celebrate on the third Sunday in June.

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Thinking fast, J.B. says to the warden, “I was not fi shing and I did not catch these rainbows, they are my pets. Every day I come down to the water and dump these fi sh into the water and take them for a walk to the end of the pier and back. When I’m ready to go I whistle and they jump back into the bucket and we go home.”

The offi cer rolls his eyes and reminds him that it is illegal to fi sh without a license.

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A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the door-way of a store and he does a double take. He recognizes that the saucer is extremely old and very valuable, so he walks ca-sually into the store and offers to buy the cat for two dollars.

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The Fog of War: Lebanon and Iraq By Gwynne Dyer

The fi ghting that began in northern Lebanon last Sunday (20 May) may drag the country back into a civil war, or it may not. It may be the result of a Syr-ian plot, or it may not. As a rule, if you claim to understand what is going on in Lebanon, you simply reveal the depths of your ignorance. And yet people do claim to understand it.

White House spokesperson Tony Snow claimed to under-stand it on Tuesday. “We believe those behind the attack have two clear goals: to disrupt Lebanon’s security and to distract international attention from the efforts to establish a special tribunal for Lebanon. We will not tolerate attempts by Syria, terrorist groups or any others to delay or derail Lebanon’s ef-forts to solidify its sovereignty or to seek justice in the Hariri case.” In other words, it is a Syrian plot.

The timing of the clashes is certainly suspicious. The Syrian government is deeply unhappy about the creation of a United Nations tribunal to investigate the assassination two years ago of former Lebanese prime minister Rafi q al-Hariri, because it assumes (quite rightly) that the tribunal will blame Damascus. So maybe it told its proxies to start a little war in northern Lebanon, to remind the Lebanese that they are play-ing with fi re. But that’s just one possibility.

Fatah al-Islam, the group that carried out a bank raid in Tripoli on 19 May and then got involved in a huge fi re-fi ght with the Lebanese army the following day, is one of dozens of little bands of Islamist revolutionaries that have proliferated across the Arab world in recent years, taking al-Qaeda as their model. It probably has a couple of hundred members, and it is based in Nahr el-Bared, the Palestinian refugee camp just north of Tripoli..

But “refugee,” in this context, is a misleading word. Sixty years after the creation of Israel, most of the 40,000 people in Nahr el-Bared were born there, the children and grand-chil-dren of the original refugees. They are lost souls living on fantasies of one day “liberating” Palestine, prey to any ex-tremist ideology that comes along. Fatah al-Islam claims to have Lebanese and even Syrian and Saudi members as well, but the bulk of its membership is certainly Palestinians from the camp -- and you don’t need any foreign intervention at all to explain why some of the camp’s young men might go crazy.

Maybe Syrian intelligence spotted them and decided (Continued on page 11)

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Town Council - Month in Review

May 1, 2007Exploring OpportunitiesThe Town of Whitecourt and Woodlands County are

exploring the opportunity of hosting a new nuclear power plant in the region. Energy Alberta Corporation has asked local representatives to travel to New Brunswick to visit the Point Lepreau Generating Station to gain fi rst hand knowl-edge on how a venture of this type operates. At the expense of Energy Alberta Corporation, Town and County Council-lors have accepted the invitation to explore this unique part-nership opportunity.

On April 30, Energy Alberta Corporation announced its intention to consider Whitecourt as apossible location for a nuclear power plant. Energy Alberta Corporation is a re-cently incorporated Alberta-based energy company with of-fi ces in Calgary. Company representatives will be visiting Whitecourt in the next few weeks to speak with the commu-nity. For more information, visit www.energyab.com.

May 29, 2007Whitecourt Town Council UpdateWhitecourt Town Council approved a formal policy

for the provision of rural utility services. The Town of Whitecourt has received a number of requests from rural residents and developers asking to connect to Town water and sewer systems. The formal policy will ensure equitable treatment for all requests and establishes minimum stan-dards for the delivery of services.

Town Council awarded Community Cleanup Projects to the Whitecourt High School Football Association and Tae-KwonDo Club. Under the Community Cleanup Fundrais-ing Program, groups provide roadside and public area litter pickup in exchange for a $1,000 payment to their organiza-tion.

Whitecourt Town Council requests your feedback on proposed changes to the regulation and control of dogs. First reading has been given to Bylaw 1414 which includes the following:

1. Dogs are prohibited from all playground and sport fi eld areas, and only allowed on the trails and path areas in Rotary Park, where they must be on a leash.

2. Pound fees have been adjusted to match the recently amended Domestic Animal Bylaw.

3. Dwelling units are limited to a maximum of two dogs, with the exception of puppies up to the age of 12 weeks old.

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The story so far

Last month it was pointed out how the ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ designations used by the mainstream media to describe political parties and policies are unsatisfac-tory. For example, die-hard Russian communists would be re-ferred to as ‘right wing’ in one article, because they resisted change, as ‘right wingers’ are held to do. In the very next ar-ticle, communism would be described as ‘left wing’ because it favours big government, which is a supposed hallmark of ‘left wingers’. Even though Nazis favour big government, and they are described as ‘right wing’. In short, there is often no rhyme or reason to the designations of ‘right wing’ or ‘left wing’. This can hamstring voters seeking to form an accurate impression of the political process.

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How long, or how far this experiment is allowed to proceed, remains to be seen.

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The following is a let-ter written last year by John Dahl of Whitecourt to the late Merv Zadderey of Fox Creek on the 50th Anniversary of the events described below.

Dear Mayor Zadderey:Further to our telephone con-versation regarding the be-ginning of Fox Creek.

Fifty years ago, in Au-gust 1956, Steve Mostowich and I constructed the access road into what is now Fox Creek. The access road is now Highway Avenue. We were hired by the Depart-ment of Highways (now Alberta Transportation) to supply the construction equipment to construct the access road. Steve Mosto-wich had one bulldozer I had the other. We camped across the Highway from what is now Fox Creek, Alberta. My wife Audrey did the cooking for a small Goverment crew. Our oldest daughter had her second birthday in that small camp.

With my Bulldozer, I levelled the site for the fi rst Esso Service Station, owned by Andy Babiy of Whitecourt and the BA Service Station owned by Ernest Coulson, of Fox Creek.

In 1954 I was with a seis-mograph crew cutting lines in every direction from Fox Creek. We cut one line in a SW-NE direction through what is now the Petro Canada Service Station. There was no Highway then and when we moved out in April 1954, we had two Tractors on one trailor the mud was so deep.

Of interest, we also con-structed the access road into what was to be the Town of Two Creeks. Two Creeks never developed. The Town of Fox Creek and Two Creeks were on the Alberta Highway maps. As you stated Merv, you asked the Government to remove Two Creeks from the Highway maps.

I trust the foregoing will be of interest in preserving the History of Tox Creek.

Dahl Construction Ltd. performed work for Petro Fina Oil for twenty three years. I was asked recently, if there was ever a Townsite in Wind-fall. This enquiry came from Sem Cams. as they are now operating the Windfall fi eld and Gas Plant. The Windfall townsite was started in I960. There were seventeen houses and one dormitory. I person-ally excavated the basements for the last seven houses con-structed, with the International TD 18 tractor, now parked in. front of the Forest Interpretive Centre in Whitecourt. When the Townsite was closed the seventeen houses were moved to Fox Creek (in 1967). They may be still lived in today.

Foot Creek has developed into a fi ne Community, of which the people of Fox Creek should be justly proud.

First hand account of the beginning of Fox Creek

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For the record, this writer has been in favour of nuclear energy for some time. This could change, as soon as someone presents a viable alternative energy source that causes less harm. Nuclear energy is also a good fi t to generate electricity for Alberta’s fossil fuel industry in that energy sources can be directed to best uses. Natural gas is 95% effi cient for home heating, but only 33 to 60 % effi cient when used in gas boilers or turbines to gener-ate electricity.

There are still snippets of the previous concerns over the use of nuclear plants, but generally the pendulum is swinging the other way. One major impetus towards the drive for nuclear power is concern over global warm-ing. Regardless of one’s stance on the validity of this issue, the fact remains that oil is a limited resource. It is get-ting more and more diffi cult to recover this fuel in North America and eventually it will become unfeasible. As for coal, there are air quality and other issues around the use of this fossil fuel. Newer,

cleaner coal burning tech-nologies are not used much, as they are not economically feasible. Solar, wind, hydro and other energy sources are also not a realistic solution in many areas.

Conservation of energy can only go so far. For start-ers, as regular readers of our monetary reform articles will know, compound interest is an exponential driver in our economy. More and more activity must take place, to churn and burn the increas-ing money supply caused by compound-ing interest, even if no new actual wealth creation is taking place. All the ‘busy-ness’ is measured by GDP, which gives the same value to a murder or a marriage, if the same amount of money chang-es hands. Environmentalists who do not mention this is-sue are provably incompetent regarding the larger economy or are dishonest. There’s no two ways about this.

Prof. Herman Daly, co-author of For the Common

Good, and former economist at the World Bank was one of many who came clean about the obvious math of the monetary situation. He

stated: “As a re-sult of fractional reserve banking over 90% of our money supply is loaned into ex-istence by com-mercial banks and thus must grow by enough to at least pay the interest on the loan by which it

was created. This gives a ba-sic growth bias to the econo-my.” What Daly does not go into is that the interest men-tioned is compounded inter-est, which is an exponential formula according to high school math. The power of exponentialism is such that

it can be diffi cult to compre-hend. Basically it means that if a pond fi lls with lily pads exponentially in 30 days, it is only half full on the 29th day.

Beyond the monetary math, extensive conservation efforts would entail shut-ting down the economies of emerging countries, such as China and India. It matters lit-tle what a few million Alber-tans do, if billions of people on the other side of the world are dramatically increasing their energy use. This is not to discount the value of con-servation, and the resultant savings available. It is just to say that conservation cannot be the only solution to ener-gy problems, if indeed it can even be a signifi cant one. We need cleaner energy.

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Which brings us to Iraq, where the United States has launched a major exercise in blame-shifting. Over recent days, American offi cials in Baghdad and in Washington have waxed eloquent (on a not-for-attribution basis) about Iran’s key role in the troubles facing the US occupa-tion forces. “Iran is fi ghting a proxy war in Iraq and it’s a very dangerous course for them to be following,” a senior US offi cial in Iraq told Si-mon Tisdall of “The Guardian.”

“They are behind a lot of high-profi le at-tacks meant to undermine US will and British will, such as the rocket attacks on Basra pal-ace and the Green Zone,” the offi cial continued. “The attacks are directed by the Revolutionary Guard, who are connected right to the top (of the Iranian gov-ernment).” Then he went on to say that Iran was not only supporting its traditional Shia allies in Iraq, but also “Syrian-backed Sunni Arab groups and al-Qaeda.”

Meanwhile, back in Washington, a “senior administra-tion offi cial” let it be known that “Iran is perpetuating the cycle of sectarian violence (in Iraq) through support for ex-tra-judicial killing and murder cells. They bring Iraqi mi-

litia members and insurgent groups into Iran for training and then help infi ltrate them back into the country.” And the very heavens will fall if the wicked Iranians succeed in their nefarious scheme to drive US forces out of Iraq “pre-maturely.”

It would be a “colossal humanitarian disaster.” It would be likely to trigger a regional war that would draw in the Sunni Arab Gulf states, Syria and Turkey. Indeed, it might awaken Godzilla from his long sleep and unleash him on the

unsuspecting peoples of the Middle East.I made up the last bit, actually. But I didn’t

make up the rest, and yet there is no particular rea-son to believe that any of it is true. We are offered no evidence for all of these accusations and pre-dictions, some of which seem highly improbable, like the allegation that Iran is getting cozy with al-Qaeda.

Other bits might be true, but then again, as in the Lebanese case, they might not be. And there

are strong grounds for suspicion, since this whole story-line about Iranian intervention so obviously serves the purposes of the Bush administration.

The big question is whether it is just another attempt to explain away the US failure in Iraq, or whether it is part of a campaign to prepare the American public and international opinion for a US attack on Iran. We will fi nd out in due course.


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SURVIVORS OF GREENCOURT’S 1941

FIREPeople who lost every-

thing in the fi re had many adjustments to make. Some-how they all seemed to fi nd a way. Family and neigh-bors helped as best they could. Several people had fi re insurance so that helped

some.

Mrs. Fanny Wardlow moved to May-erthorpe and continued to live there for many years. She was re-membered for her teacup reading, piano playing and her love of a good game of cards. Mrs. Wardlow’s

Best Kept Secret was her age Even her Tombstone in Gre-encourt Cemetery didn’t tell

her Secret.Mr. and Mrs.

Alex Chisholm came to Gre-encourt before 1921, and started

a store and hotel. They also had a house a short distance from their business. Mr. Ch-

isholm passed away in 1932, but Mrs. Chisholm contin-ued the businesses in Green-court. After the terrible fi re on May 20, 1941 she moved to a house she owned in Ed-monton. Then she was close to her family and could enjoy her retirement. Mr. George Milburn bought her Green-court house in 1944. Mrs.



“ Somehow they all seemed to fi nd a

way.”

Greencourt School, 1952, FRONT ROW: Max Johner, Raymond Spink, Ronnie Thompson, Walter Sawich, Roy Johnson, Martin Johnson, Lome Byers, Charlie Blakey, Jerry Hansen, Louis Johner, David Johnson, Howard Blakey, Donna Stad, Betty Milburn. SECOND ROW: Jeff Braithwaite, Jack Braithwaite, Arnold Milburn, Mickey Druar, Norman Reay, Jeanette Mil-burn, Jean Johnson, Carol Pulver, Larry Broughton, Joyce Johnson, Jimmy Milburn, Maxine Johner, Flugg Stad, Kathy Goe-son, Annie Milburn. THIRD ROW: Clarence Truckey, Teacher; Miel Goeson, Ernie Birkbeck, Brian Goeson, Jerry Milburn, Harold Hansen, Dale Braithwaite, ? Milburn, Doreen Druar, Lorne Milburn, Dannie Williams, Audrey Braithwaite, Shirley Birkbeck, Vicky Shmorong, Velma Martindale, Gail Pulver. Rena Pulver, Mrs. McNally, Teacher. BACK ROW: Phil Birkbeck, Dickie Blakey, George Sawich, Allan Broughton, Clifford Johnson, Billy Sawich, Louise Reay, Doris Reay.


Chisholm passed away in 1969 at a hundred years old. Obviously she was a very re-sourceful woman.

The evening of the fi re, Joe Schnierer asked Eich-horns to stay with them. A couple days later, Joe Ma-jcher brought Eichhorns a grainery to live in. Eichhorns had no insurance, so they borrowed money to rebuild. The new poolroom was a little farther north. Later they sold this business to Mr. Joe Laslop, Mary’s Father. In 1947 the Eichhorns built a grocery store on the corner lot where Chisholm’s store had been. In 1950 they sold this store and moved to Ed-monton. Rudy went to work for the CNR railroad until he retired in 1975.

Dorothy Knott and fami-ly stayed with the Ulchs until school closed. They moved to the west end in Edmon-ton and Dorothy got a job. According to Hazel (Knott) Lemieux, old friends, Alice and Louis Ruark, helped look after the Knott children. Dor-othy cooked on the Alaska Highway and an army bar-rack in Edmonton. Later the Knotts moved to the USA.Dorothy Knott was Jimmy

Meaden’s daughter.According to Hazel,

Lenny Gould asked Dorothy Knott to start a restaurant in Greencourt. The hotel din-ning room was closed due to the lack of business, but the beer parlor was still open. Jack La Rose was bartender. There was no place for peo-ple to eat.

D o r o -thy Knott later opened a res-taurant named Dot’s Restau-rant, Meals at All Hours. Rent was $5.00 a month. Dance Nights people went there for midnight lunch. Travelers and others could have a meal or a cup of tea. Pete Ol-son, Paul Krause and Jack La Rose were steady customers. After the Greencourt fi re. Jack La Rose got a job as bartender in Mayerthorpe Hub Hotel.

Lenny and Loeva Gould purchased the Baly Store October 1, 1936. Previously Elwin Heslop had operated the store. Lenny also was agent for Cockshutt Machin-

ery, North Star Oil, Frost and Wood Equipment and Marconi radios. Battery ra-dios were in great demand at the time. Alf Campbell was a clerk in Gould’s Store for many years. In 1946 Goulds sold their store to Floyd and Norman Johnson and moved to Mayerthorpe.

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When the fi rst woman was chosen to be on the Co Op Board of Directors it seemed some of the men felt it was an inconve-nience because a chair would have to be provided for her. Evidently the men had been sitting on blocks of fi rewood when

they had their meetings. No doubt the meetings were held in the storage room. On sec-ond thought, could it have been the men thought they would have to watch their language!!

Grocery shopping in 1941 was a far cry from to-day. You told the store clerk

what you wanted to purchase He wrote your order on a Bill Book, which had a carbon backing on the page, auto-matically copying the bill.

The clerk then gathered your groceries from the store shelves, and packed them in a cardboard box. Usually he added a small bag of candy for the children. The clerk added up the bill and wrote in the total. There were no cal-culators, shopping carts, and no helping yourself. Shop-ping is much more conve-nient for clerks and custom-ers now.

Cheese was sold by the pound from a 25 pound round block. A wide bladed knife was used to cut the re-quested amount. One won-ders how the clerk was so good at guessing weight. Every store had a scale to weigh bulk foods, nails, meat etc. There was no such a thing as Cheese Whiz, fast food, frozen foods, masking tape or scotch tape etc. Rice was sold by the pound, in a brown paper bag. This was tied with white string. The ball of string hung from a ceiling hook, with the string end reaching to the counter for the clerk to use.


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with them. A couple days later,

Joe Majcher brought Eichhoms a grainery to live in. Eichhorns had

no insurance, so they borrowed

money to rebuild.”

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Each and every one of us has a vested interest in increasing high school completion rates. A well educated populace and workforce will keep our communities vibrant for many generations to come. As such, we must all work together to increase high school completion rates

In September 2006, more than 570 Albertans came to-gether for a High School Completion Symposium, with the purpose of fi nding new ways to keep students in school. From these consultations, we learned that high school completion is a very complex issue, which is infl uenced by a number of fac-tors. Every student has a different experience.

Our government is taking immediate action to address the symposium’s fi ndings. For example, youth participants in the symposium said that more choices could help keep students in school. To address this fi nding, our government has commit-ted an additional $4.5 million to support Career and Technol-ogy Studies (CTS). CTS students provide many students with practical skills which can lead to further education and work in exciting fi elds such as digital design and mechanics.

Other steps to increase high school completion include increasing community involvement in education and develop-ing workable strategies to engage youth. In addition to this, I would encourage each of you to host high school completion discussions in your community. There are materials available to assist you, including a community event tool-kit, a sample agenda, and a complete facilitator’s guide. The toolkit is avail-able on the Alberta Educa-tion website at http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/high-school/toolkit.asp.

If you would like to discuss this, or any other provincial matter, please contact me at (780) 415-9473.

*Sikhism* I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to

me. Indeed, I am a friend to all. Guru Granth Sahib, pg. 1299 *Christianity* In everything, do to others as you would have them

do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. Jesus, Matthews 7:12 *BaHa’I Faith* Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish

to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.

Baha’ullah, Gleanings *Judaism* What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour.

This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Hillel, Talmud, Shabbat 31a *Buddhism* Treat not others in ways that you yourself would fi nd

hurtful. Udana-Varga 5.18 *Islam* Not one of you truly believes until you wish for oth-

ers what you wish for yourself. The Prophet Muhammad, Hadith *Taoism* Regard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and

your neighbour’s loss as your own loss. T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien, 213-218 *Hinduism* This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what

would cause pain if done to you. Mahabharata 5:1517 *Confucianism* One word which sums up the basis of all good con-

duct...loving kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

Confucius, Analeets, 15.23 *Jainism* One should treat all creatures in the world as one

would like to be treated. Mahavira,Sutrakritanga *Native Spirituality*We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.Chief Dan George *Unitarianism* We affi rm and promote respect for the interdepen-

dent web of all existence of which we are a part. Unitarian principle *Zoroastrianism* Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to your-

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By Rev. Walter FauntroyThe Homestead Act offered the landless white citizens of

America part-ownership of the country by giving them 160 acres of frontier land, free, if they produced on it income for themselves and their families for a period of fi ve years.

In Lincoln’s America of nearly 150 years ago, the prob-lem confronting the vast majority of the citizens of our na-tion was that most people owned no land. Today, the major problem for the vast majority of the people of our nation and of our world, for that matter, is that 99% of the peo-ple own no capital in a high-tech, capital-intensive economy! We have come here today to stand before the “Likeness of Lincoln” to proclaim the fact that, were he alive today, Lincoln would be here with us to urge the nation, as we do, to establish a “Capital Homestead Act,” one that would make it possible for every American to become an owner of productive capital and not just for the tiny elite who now own our corporations.

...We do it by reactivating Section 13 of the Federal Re-serve Act of 1913 to supply asset-backed currency through the discount windows of each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks to American citizens for two purposes: one, the sustainable, non-infl ationary regional growth of industry, commerce and agriculture through Capital Homestead Accounts for the people, not just for corporations, and two, to de-monopolize the power of money, productive credit and ownership of the means of production by decentralizing that power to the people through their local banks.

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We can control government spending through a tax sys-tem that encourages accelerated rates of investment, sustain-able green growth in urban and rural communities and wide-spread ownership opportunities.

We can eliminate the double tax on corporate profi ts and job-destroying Social Security, Medicare and other payroll taxes. We can eliminate all taxes for people below the poverty line.

We can provide citizens reporting incomes be-low the poverty level, including private charity, with a monthly check to meet their basic subsistence needs until their Capital Homesteading dividends and labor incomes from new jobs rise above the pov-erty level.

We can create the equivalent of a Marshall Plan to con-duct the research, development and fi nancing of sustainable energy technologies that reduce the levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from continued use, thus reducing our dependence on oil and fossil fuels. “We can do it if we apply Abraham Lincoln-type Capital Homesteading to it!”

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Flour, sugar and oatmeal came in cloth bags. Nearly everyone bought fl our in a hundred pound bag. Most women baked bread twice a week. Remember children took lunch fi ve days a week. Many children ate oatmeal porridge and toast for break-fast. They walked to school. No one ever said they didn’t have time for breakfast. Few children were ever late. The cloth bags were washed, bleached and the string re-moved. Then they were used for pillowcases or dishtow-els.

Most groceries were paid for with cream cheques, live-stock and grain sales. The stores groceries and other supplies were delivered to Greencourt by the CNR. Late train nights the train ar-rived at 9 P.M. Then the Dray Man delivered these supplies to each business regardless of how late at night it was. Stores stayed open until the last customer left. I doubt if they had heard of Overtime Pay then!

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Sierra Club executive di-rector Stephen Hazell came out against the Whitecourt nuclear proposal. A project like this would do nothing in the short-term to allevi-ate any power shortages, Hazell suggested. “It’s not a quick fi x. The quick fi x for Alberta is to get a lot more energy effi cient,” he said. Hazell also called the nuclear power plants in On-tario an economic disaster. Mr. Hazell did not provide any solid fi gures on the eco-nomic costs or measurable results possible from exten-sive Albertan conservation measures. He also did not explain how many signifi -cant conservation measures, such as retrofi tting buildings with energy effi cient materi-als and windows, could be

enacted quickly.

Additionally, Hazell did not mention why longer term energy planning should give way to quick fi xes only, nor how rising gas and oil costs have affected the economic vi-ability of nuclear power. There are numerous creditable stud-ies that show nuclear electric-ity generation is very competitive with other fuels. See http://www.uic.com.au/nip08.htm for one website on this. In short, it seems like Hazell’s statements were de-signed for the quick media sound-bite, with little thought given to the rationale behind the statements.

Energy Alberta president Wayne Henuset may have been surprised at the level of support given nuclear energy by Albertans. However, this province has a long history of questioning the prevail-

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Alberta was the only place to elect a Social Credit government, despite the con-demnation of the party by the mainstream media. One may have heard about how the Edmonton Journal won

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should be pointed out that (Continued on page 27)



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that specifi es the policy in-volved; a time axis that takes into account how policy can change over time; and a fi fth guideline which is concerned with morality and ethics. This may sound complicated, but it is nothing that would trouble fi fth graders, were they edu-cated along such lines.

To repeat an example used last month: which side of the road to drive on (the z point or specifi c policy) should be at the totalitarian end of the x axis, in that everyone should do the same thing. The deci-sion should take place at the national level of the y axis, which is at the upper end of the decentralization/central-ization continuum. For the fourth consideration, one might consider that this policy could change over time so the

decision is made at the global level, or a higher degree of centralization, because of disappearing borders. For the fi fth consideration, it is, of course, the mor-ally right thing to do to have such a law.

Basically, the political map pro-posed is a frame-work for what many people al-ready know intui-tively and refer to as common sense. As most people also know, com-mon sense has a way of straying, especially as it travels up the informa-tion tree to higher and higher levels of government. Herein lies one good use of some sort of political map codifi cation.

It can help hold the politi-cal process to account to the general electorate. The main reason for such an education however would be to act as

an antidote to the mainstream media prognosti-cations about the political process.

Many com-munication ad-vances should push more de-cision making down to the level of municipali-ties, families and the individual over time. Less

centralization on many issues is the best way forward in an information rich society. The fl ood of information is such that it cannot be adequately addressed through the choke-

points of overly centralized control. More direct democ-racy, free votes in the House of Commons and so on would be ways to advance democ-racy here. To better inform voters of the possible impacts of policies, proposals could be framed in the context of the above fi ve considerations, rather than the misleading ‘left wing’/’right wing’ desig-nations currently used.

Decentralizing decision making wherever possible, and permitting a variety of solutions creates the diversity needed to successfully man-age a complex world. The more successful solutions can serve as bench marks, which in turn can bootstrap off of other solutions. A variety of changing environments can also be handled with a vari-



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Fleet Air Electric ety of solutions. Diversity is strength is sometimes quoted as the fi rst law of cybernet-ics, or systems theory. Part of this diversity is recognizing when total bans are required, such as on human rights abus-es, which side of the road to drive on, contaminating the environment with deadly tox-ins and so on. However, for the most part, we are drowned under a surfeit of unneces-sary rules and regulations that seize control of our personal life; with the major unneces-sary infl uence being the hid-den controls within our debt/compound interest money system.

The Fifth Consideration

Morality is often given short shrift out of necessity in a world in which effective law is rare at the international level. There is some truth to Churchill’s statement that na-tions cannot have conscienc-es, only interests. Cybernetics guru Norbert Wiener referred to this as ‘the rule of ruthless-ness. Slowly, international structures are being formed to supplant the rule of ruthless-ness with the rule of law at the international level.

However, a somewhat amoral outlook has been ex-tended from the international level to include countries liv-ing under the rule of law. The excuse given by ultimate in-sider economist J. M. Keynes for such an operational meth-od is that “we must pretend to ourselves and to every-one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our

gods for a little longer still.” Presumably, the deceit is in-tended to overcome nation-alistic resistance to interna-tional governance structures. Keynes’ quote can be verifi ed by ordering his book Essays in Persuasion through the Alberta Library system and perusing the chapter entitled The Future.

Prof. Carroll Quigley, renowned, late Georgetown macro-historian (mentioned by former President Clinton in his fi rst nomination accep-tance speech), is the author of Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. This book is also available through the Alberta library system. Quigley wrote: “The powers of fi nancial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of fi nancial control in private hands able to dominate the po-litical system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world’s money...”. Quigley further explained that he favoured the emphasis on the internationalism of the super-elites, but rejected the extensive secrecy inherent in the movement. Again, one is better off to think of ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ move-ments as the left arm and the right arm of the same behind the scenes controllers, work-ing to drive people in a pre-determined direction.

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Without going into the details of why democracy is the best system, suffi ce it to say that history is not kind to the re-sults of the dictatorial meth-ods of operation. By many indicators, advanced coun-tries are now experiencing an actual decline in civility, even as technology makes a more civilized world possible. The potential and the reality of so-cial improvements are diverg-ing, which is a sure sign that the old ways are obsolete.

One issue that has been extensively covered in The Advisor is how our debt/com-pound interest money system forms a quicksand foundation for a successful future. In the simplest terms, it selects out morality. Ex-central banker Bernard Lietaer is one of the leading lights in pointing out how this happens.

Lietaer states “I believe that greed and competition are not a result of immutable human temperament; I have come to the conclusion that greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being continuously cre-ated and amplifi ed as a direct result of the kind of money we are using.” To reiterate: most money is created as debt at compound interest. The mon-

ey to pay the compound inter-est is created as more debt, at more compound interest. However, it is not created fast enough so that there is enough money in existence for all to pay their debts. This ensures that people will be forced to fi ght each other in order to get enough money to pay their bills, often for the necessities of life, and even in the midst of plenty.

In the mean-time, the com-pounding inter-est drives rapid growth in the money supply, which in turns drives structural infl ation. As well, much of the ex-panding money supply is churned and burned through make-work economic activity that adds nothing to real wealth and devastates the environment.

Regarding Lietaer’s qual-ifi cations, Wikipedia gives a bit of background as follows: Bernard Lietaer has been ac-tive in the realm of money systems for over 25 years in a wide variety of functions. While at the Central Bank in Belgium (National Bank

of Belgium) he co-designed and implemented the conver-gence mechanism (ECU) to the single European currency system. During that period, he also served as President of Belgium’s Electronic Payment System. His consultant expe-rience in monetary aspects on four continents ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries. He

co-founded one of the largest and most suc-cessful currency funds, becoming its General Man-ager and Cur-rency Trader. His academic history includes a Profes-sorship of Inter-national Finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium.

L i e t a e r brought up the obvious short-comings of the current money system with a high level mem-ber of the BIS, or Bank of In-ternational Settlements. The BIS is where world monetary policy is decided by the heads of central banks. Elected offi -cials are not allowed to attend the meetings. It didn’t take Mr. Lietaer long to realize that the BIS, like every bureaucracy,

had reached the point where its own interests superseded the interests of the people it was supposed to serve. With that knowledge, Mr. Lietaer decided the needed change had to be started from outside existing institutions. The ex-isting institutions will still be needed to enact the needed change, but they will only act when enough pressure is put on them from an informed populace.

Of course the history of the world shows societal ills were plentiful long before the current money system came into being. An information age money system is a necessary, but not suffi cient condition, to improve society. However, Lietaer also points out how modern technology in the de-veloped countries has the po-tential to remove the scarcity that previously caused serious social problems; if a modern money system was put into place. In short, the Keynesian outlook on rejecting morality is no longer useful, along with Keynesian economics.

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Minister Harper was recently in Afghanistan to boost the moral of Canadian troops, letting them know that our Government supports what they are doing in Afghani-stan. At the request of the Afghan Government, Par-liament agreed to keep the troops in Afghanistan until at least 2009. The Afghan gov-ernment asked for Canada’s help and we stepped up to the plate. We have not only sent over troops but we have made signifi cant contribu-tions to the redevelopment of this war torn nation. We are starting to see progress.

In 2001, when the Tal-iban was still in control of Afghanistan, 700,000 boys and no girls attended school. Only fi ve years later 6 mil-lion children are now attend-ing school, and one third of those students are female. Canadians are helping to build a brighter future for the children of Afghanistan by building schools and training teachers. Access and improved security have allowed many more children to benefi t from an education. The Taliban understand the difference that education

makes in people’s lives, and they do their best to intimi-date teachers and principals. It is very important that the NATO and Afghan security forces continue to provide se-curity to protect schools and the lives of those helping the Afghan children. In a country where only 28% of the popu-lation is literate, educating the next generation of Afghanis will help lead a country out of poverty and war.

In Budget 2007, the Conservative Government set aside $200 million in ad-ditional support for Afghani-stan aid. The funds will help build upon some of the suc-cess that Canada has had in providing aid to a country that has a Gross National In-come of $250 US per person (Canada’s GNI is $32,600)

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Canada is a leader among the 60 countries that have dedicated fi nancial or secu-rity support to improve the lives and safety of the Afghan people. We are providing sig-nifi cant funds to support the young Afghan democracy and to give a hand to Afghans stuck in poverty. But, the greatest cost to Canada has been the loss of lives. In the words of Afghan President Hamid Kar-zai, “If the greatness of a life is measured in deeds done for others, then Canada’s sons and daughters who have made the ultimate sacrifi ce in Afghani-stan stand among the greatest of their generation.”

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there is the slight risk of a signifi cant disaster through the use of nuclear fuel. However, the same can be said of many activities that add to our standard of living. Giving up driving will sta-tistically lead to a far safer life than giving up nuclear power. Yet people persevere because of they perceive the benefi t/risk ratio as being in their favour.

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ciety. In this, the new world leaders are seeking to over-throw the infl uence of orga-nized religion on the people. However, once again the baby is being thrown out with the bathwater, in that basic mo-rality is again rejected, along with sometimes unjust reli-gious strictures. The follow-ing buttresses the case for a higher power, or Intelligent Design, which was previous-ly covered in the December 2005 and January 2006 issues of The Advisor (available on-line at WhitecourtWeb.com).

Since atheism is much in vogue nowadays, it might be useful to show that a lack of belief in a higher system is not simply a rejection of faith but also constitutes ques-tionable logic. We cannot of course measure such a higher life form, anymore than the cells that make up our body can take measure of a human as a whole. The rational way forward here is that of pattern recognition.

We know that nested hi-erarchies are the order of all existence that we can observe. Sub-atomic particles make up molecules, which are nested in and make up cells, which in

turn develop into various or-gans and so on, which can be nested in people, who dwell in communities, set in provinces, ensconced within a country, on a globe. The globe is part of a solar system, in one of 100 billion plus galaxies that comprise this universe and so on. In both directions, which we perceive as the small and the large, the systems seem to move to-wards infi nity.

Physicis ts , chemists and c o s m o l o g i s t s are fi nding that the fundamental constants nec-essary for life are fi ne tuned to the extent of near statistical impossibility. Nevertheless, the atheist has a fi rm belief that somehow or other, intel-ligence stops at the level they can easily observe. There is a pattern in such a belief system in human history.

When people relied on sight only, they generally had a fi rm belief that the earth was fl at. Later with the aid of math and then telescopes, the general consensus was

that the earth was round, and the sun revolved around it. Then with advances in obser-vational aids, the reality was that the earth revolved around the sun. With yet bigger tele-scopes, the new edict was that our one galaxy comprised the entire universe. Finally, there have been enough surprises

that astronomers are willing to say there is a good possibility that the universe is infi -nite, and that hu-manity will never know all there is to know about it.

Atheists have yet to make such a journey in regards to spiritual mat-ters. It would be interesting to run

the statistical probability that in a probable infi nite system, far beyond that which we can understand, that the human level happens to be the end-point at which intelligence stopped. And coincidently, this is the highest level we are capable of observing. The odds of this are so long as to be nigh impossible. Ironical-ly, it is atheism that could be considered the only religious belief that relies absolutely on

blind faith.

There are also many ob-servable phenomena, from the sub-atomic through the individual, to the universe that are far beyond anything we have a scientifi c explana-tion for. For example some sub-atomic particles are said to be ‘entangled’. One of the particles can be acted on and the other particle responds the same, even though there is no observable linkage between the particles that science can fi nd. The infl uence happens instantaneously and this holds true, so far, regardless of the distance between the par-ticles.

Theoretically, an action on a particle on earth would cause an entangled particle on the far side of Saturn, or the universe, to also change its behaviour in a similar way. Einstein called this ‘spooky action at a distance’ and didn’t like it because it was yet an-other observation that dis-proved facets of his famous theories. Experiments are now underway where scientists are artifi cially causing par-ticles to mimic the entangled state within a small area for proposed industrial purposes,



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In summary, the athe-ist is certain that intelligent thought stops at the human level even though: there is a pattern in which systems far more complex than humans continue onwards out to in-fi nity; humanity has a history of mistaken beliefs caused by their limited observations, said history continually and erroneously putting humans at the center of the universe; and in the subatomic world there are unexplained phe-nomena such as entangled particles that are far beyond anything we can explain and which could be described as miraculous. Intelligent De-sign proponents have sev-eral other points on this mat-ter which are online in the January 2006 edition of the Whitecourt Advisor.

An additional point here is that the mainstream media presents Intelligent Design proponents as being those who believe in a literal interpreta-tion of the biblical account of creation, and that they wish to indoctrinate youth with this belief. Both claims are the opposite of the truth. Cre-ationists are on the fringe of the Intelligent Design move-ment, whose proponents un-reservedly reject the literal interpretation of the bible that creationists favour. However, since the creationists are easy to discredit, their views are falsely imputed onto the main body of the Intelligent Design movement.

As well, the Intelligent Design movement is in favour of ending indoctrination, not enforcing it. They advocate showing students the case for both the natural evolutionary theory of random variation and blind selection, and the scientifi c argument for Intel-ligent Design; then letting the students discuss and weigh the evidence to make up their own minds. It is the state that wants to indoctrinate the stu-dents with only one view-point.

A t h e i s t s blame such things as war on differ-ences in religion. However, we know that WWII and many other wars, such as the American civil war, were fought between adher-ents of the same religion. We also know that hu-manity has a his-tory of constant warfare that predates any signifi cant organized religion. What is more, atheist regimes such as the erstwhile U.S.S.R. engaged in the mass murder of their own populace as well as in invasions of other coun-tries. The atheist logic here on blaming religion as a root cause of war seems similar to their logic which rejects the existence of a higher power.

State communism and so-cialism, rather than a vehicle for the emancipation of the masses, is actually a vehicle for the ultimate in the control of the individual. It is not a coincidence that atheism is

promoted under this model. State communism should not be confused with voluntary communistic tendencies. In-deed, many families oper-ate under such a model, as do good friends, and many worthy community causes. It makes all the difference in the world whether a political stance is coerced or is volun-tary.

John Stuart Mills said it well: “That the only pur-pose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any

member of a civi-lized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a suffi cient warrant. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, abso-lute. Over him-self, over his own body and mind, the individual is

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Change of Change

As in all major social change, it will take a signifi -cant event, like a Great De-pression, to spark the needed advance. This time around, the motivator could be a lack of real natural resources, an environmental trigger, peak oil, a manufactured crisis, or some combination of events. With enhanced communica-tions, particularly the Internet, it is hoped that a continuation of mostly peaceful change be-comes the way forward. That said, it must be remembered

that the tens of thousands are dying of easily preventable diseases in the poorest coun-tries, while these countries make massive interest pay-ments on odious debts. They are every bit as much casual-ties of war as are the Iraqis, Americans and others dying in the Iraq war.

As one monetary reformer from Brazil puts it “The third world war has already started. It is a silent war. Not, for that reason, any less sinister. This war is tearing down Brazil, Latin America and practically all the Third World. Instead of soldiers dying, there are chil-dren. It is a war over the Third World debt, one which has as its main weapon interest, a weapon more deadly than the atom bomb, more shattering than a laser beam.”


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23.5 - Like New!23.5 - Like New!

Diesel 4 x 4 - 0Diesel 4 x 4 - 035 Hi35 Hiabab

4x4 - Full Load4x4 - Full Load 4 x 4 - 4 x 4 - Cummins DieselCummins Diesel

4 x 4 - 4 x 4 - Full LoadFull Load 2x4 XLT V8 Auto2x4 XLT V8 Auto

4.3 V6 Auto4.3 V6 Auto

Full load, Leather

Full load, Leather

4x4, Full load, Leather4x4, Full load, Leather

4x4, 4x4, Full load, LeatherFull load, Leather

4x4 low km4x4 low kmLeather-Full LoadLeather-Full Load

Full LoadFull Load

V8 AutoV8 Auto

4x4, XLT4x4, XLT

Diesel Diesel w Pickerw Picker

4 cyl. 5 speed

4 cyl. 5 speed 4 x 4,

4 x 4, V8 AutoV8 Auto

4 cyl, Auto4 cyl, Auto

4x4 Full Load

4x4 Full Load

2 x 4 350 Auto, Full Load2 x 4 350 Auto, Full Load

Leather, Full LoadLeather, Full LoadV6 AutoV6 Auto

Full RestoreFull Restore - Mint - MintBunks, Slide

Bunks, Slide

5.0 HO, 5 Speed, 130 km5.0 HO, 5 Speed, 130 km

SOLDSOLD

V6 Auto, Full Load

V6 Auto, Full Load

4x4 60km4x4 60kmLeather-Full LoadLeather-Full Load

V6 Auto, Full LoadV6 Auto, Full Load V6 AutoV6 Auto 350 Auto350 Auto

4 x 4 4 x 4 4 x 4 4 x 4

MintMint, 17 km, Full Load, 17 km, Full Load

4x4, S/B4x4, S/B

779-0095 • 5024 - 51st Avenue (across from Vista Theatre)

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Troudy KowaliukAssociate Broker

Cell: 778-1140

Dan ParkerRealtor

Cell: 779-6568

Jeanne MacMillanRealtor

Cell: 778-1779

Nicole BarrettRealtor

Cell:204-0565

A Canadian best seller since 1913.

Helping you is what we doHelping you is what we do

For Quick SaleFor Quick Sale This home is ready for a quick possession. It comes with 10 x 20 shed with an overhead door, a wood stove to keep you warm in winter and air conditioning to keep you cool in summer. It is on a pie shaped lot and there is the potential to easily reconvert this two bedroom back into the original three bedrooms. - $44,900

IT HAS ALL THE EXTRAS! This gorgeous bi-level was custom designed and custom built in 2003 and offers 2800 sq. ft. of living space on two levels! The home was designed to provide comfort and convenience for the family. The location, fl oorplan, materials, modern décor, and the attention to detail all combine to make this an extremely desirable home.

The rooms are all a generous size, vaulted ceilings in the front room and kitchen area, oak package throughout , upgraded fl ooring, French garden doors, an exquisite ensuite with jetted corner tub, ample storage space on both levels, in-fl oor heat in the basement and garage and an extra large covered deck make this an ideal home for the family.

There are many added extras: fridge, stove, dishwasher, garburator, washer, dryer, built in vac system, ADT security system, custom blinds and ceiling fan all stay with this home.

This home comes complete with a 24’ x 24’ totally fi nished garage and is further enhanced by the very attractive exposed aggregate driveway.

Home and yard in immaculate condition!

For further information your private viewing call Troudy at Royal LePage 778-8010

WhyWhy Pay Rent? Pay Rent? 47’ x 80’ shop situ-ated on .57 acres of hilltop industrial land! Shop comes with 220 wiring, 2 furnaces, 2 fl oor drains, 2 fourteen foot doors, a mezzanine comprised of offi ce space, a 1/2 bath and a storage room. Convenient location and an excellent lo-cation to build your equity.

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