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The benefits of buying locally where feasible are obvious<br />

enough as to hardly bear repeating. Still, it is not<br />

unusual to hear of plans for big city shopping that fail to<br />

take into account the real costs of both the time and gas<br />

money that such a trip takes. More to the point, one could<br />

ask what do the big city merchants bring to Whitecourt<br />

that add to our <strong>com</strong>munity<br />

For local businesses, the list is almost endless,<br />

whether it be sponsorship of a sports team, donations to<br />

worthy causes, or just fun events like the Christmas is for<br />

Kids day put on by the Whitecourt and District Chamber<br />

of Commerce.<br />

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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 3<br />

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Echoes of Fort Assiniboine<br />

and District - Memories of<br />

The Early 1900's: Part 1<br />

by Ella Stauffer<br />

In the early years of the nineteen hundreds, people<br />

came from Overseas, Eastern Canada and the United<br />

States looking for land and jobs. Some would stop with<br />

relatives or friends; others would continue to the Immigration<br />

Center in Edmonton, to file on a quarter of land,<br />

which they had been told they could get for a payment<br />

of ten dollars and the carrying out of certain conditions,<br />

namely: clearing and breaking ten acres of the land each<br />

year, for three years, as well as living on it — they would<br />

Olaf Monson's homestead, early days log cabin. Olaf on horse.<br />

(Continued on page 20)<br />

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PAGE 4 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> DECEMBER 2012<br />

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• PC & Notebook Repair<br />

• On-site Servicing<br />

• Network Consulting<br />

• Domain Hosting<br />

• Wireless High Speed Internet<br />

Our Shop is A+ Certified!<br />

Whitecourt Council Month in Review<br />

The Town of Whitecourt will be installing new radar<br />

speed signs adjacent to St. Mary’s and Central Schools.<br />

The signs will provide effective and affordable traffic<br />

calming to increase driver awareness and assist with reducing<br />

speeds in school zones. The signs have an electronic<br />

display that posts the speed of vehicles passing by.<br />

Two other portable signs will also be utilized throughout<br />

the <strong>com</strong>munity and will perform a variety of functions,<br />

including traffic calming, pre/post enforcement monitoring,<br />

traffic counts, and traffic recording. The signs will<br />

be installed and operational before the end of the year.<br />

As requested by the Province, a review of water and<br />

sewer rates was <strong>com</strong>pleted to ensure that infrastructure<br />

and operations are sustainable to ensure safe drinking<br />

water, and to meet environmental guidelines. Results of<br />

the evaluation demonstrated a need to increase water and<br />

sewer rates to ensure long term sustainability.<br />

MONTHLY SER CHG CONSUMPTION CHG M3<br />

Water Sewer Water Sewer<br />

Current $4.50 $4.50 $0.75 $0.80<br />

Ef-Jan 1st/13 $4.95 $4.95 $0.83 $0.88<br />

Increase $0.45 $0.45 $0.08 $0.08<br />

MONTHLY CHARGES<br />

Water Sewer Combined<br />

Alberta Average $45.27 $24.80 $70.07<br />

Current $19.50 $20.50 $40.00<br />

Effective Jan 1st, 2013 $21.45 $22.50 $44.00<br />

Increase $1.95 $2.05 $4.00<br />

The fee change will result in an increase from $40.00<br />

to $44.00 per month for the average customer (who uses<br />

20 cubic metres), substantially lower than the provincial<br />

average of $70.07.<br />

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• Individual Physiotherapy Assessment and Treatment<br />

• Work Related Injury Assessment and<br />

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• Foot Orthotics<br />

• Motor Vehicle Accident Rehabilitation<br />

• Physical Conditioning Program<br />

• Manual & Manipulative Therapy<br />

• Sports Injury Management<br />

• Intramuscular Stimulation<br />

• Medical Legwear / Pressure<br />

Gradient Stockings<br />

• Pre-Employment Screening.<br />

Referrals accepted from:<br />

• Employers & Safety<br />

Coordinators<br />

• WCB<br />

• Physicians<br />

• Walk-in Patients<br />

• Insurance Companies<br />

• Other Professionals<br />

Fees covered by:<br />

• WCB (Workers Compensation Board)<br />

• Independent Contracts with Employers<br />

• Extended Health Insurance Plans<br />

• Casualty Insurers (motor vehicle accidents)<br />

• Personal Payment (receipts will be provided)<br />

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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 5<br />

This Month in Whitecourt<br />

Town Council Special Budget Meeting scheduled<br />

for 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 13 to review the<br />

proposed 2013 Interim Budget.<br />

Tim Horton's Community Fun Night at the Allan<br />

& Jean Millar Centre. We invite one and all to <strong>com</strong>e enjoy<br />

fun fieldhouse activities at the Allan & Jan Millar Centre<br />

for FREE. Saturday, December 15 6:00-9:00 p.m.<br />

Stat Holidays - Facility Closures 12/24/2012<br />

Forest Interpretive Centre<br />

Town Administration Office<br />

Whitecourt Public Library<br />

Closed Christmas & Boxing Day12/25 & 26/2012<br />

Allan & Jean Millar Centre<br />

Carlan Services Community Resource Centre<br />

Forest Interpretive Centre<br />

Scott Safety Centre<br />

Town Administration Office<br />

Whitecourt Public Library<br />

Christmas Trivia & Fun Facts:<br />

Most of these facts are very interesting and reminds us that<br />

there is quite a bit of history behind our family customs.<br />

• The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of<br />

Christ's Mass.<br />

• The first President to decorate the White House Christmas<br />

tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.<br />

• Germany made the first artificial Christmas trees. They<br />

were made of goose feathers and dyed green.<br />

• Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.<br />

• The first Christmas cards were vintage and invented in<br />

1843, the Victorian Era.<br />

• "It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than<br />

any other holiday movie.<br />

• Rudolph was actually created by Montgomery Ward in<br />

the late 1930's for a holiday promotion. The rest is history.<br />

• The Nutcracker is the most famous Christmas ballet.<br />

• Jingle Bells was first written for Thanksgiving and then<br />

became one of the most popular Christmas songs.<br />

• If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve<br />

Days of Christmas," you would receive 364 gifts.<br />

• The poinsettia plant was brought into the United States<br />

from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in the early 1800's.<br />

• Holly berries are poisonous.<br />

• Contrary to <strong>com</strong>mon belief, poinsettia plants are nontoxic.<br />

• In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles<br />

Dickens in just six weeks.<br />

• Clearing up a <strong>com</strong>mon misconception, in Greek, X means<br />

Christ. That is where the word "X-Mas" <strong>com</strong>es from. Not<br />

because someone took the "Christ" out of Christmas.<br />

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PAGE 6 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> DECEMBER 2012<br />

Christmas<br />

FARMER’S<br />

MARKETS<br />

Last Market<br />

December 11<br />

Legion Hall Downtown Whitecourt<br />

Binary Economics - the<br />

Economic Paradigm of the 21st<br />

Century<br />

by Rev. Dr. Walter Fauntroy<br />

Former Delegate to the US House<br />

of Representatives, Fauntroy was a<br />

member of the House Banking, Finance<br />

and Urban Affairs Committee,<br />

chaired for six years the Sub<strong>com</strong>mittee<br />

on Domestic Monetary Policy and for four years<br />

chaired the Sub<strong>com</strong>mittee on International Development,<br />

Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy.<br />

Editor's Note: the following is a continuation of<br />

the <strong>Advisor</strong> focus on Binary Economics, an idea ahead<br />

of its time when it was fi rst presented. Today it is the<br />

only system that has the potential to solve our current<br />

economic problems, without giving excessive powers to<br />

government or private corporations. In short, the only<br />

long-term, sustainable solution. Although the following<br />

is based on the U.S. economy, the ideas are equally applicable<br />

to Canada and were championed here in the<br />

past by Canadian Winnet Boyd, who also was the chief<br />

engineer in designing the world's best jet engine in the<br />

Avro Arrow.<br />

(Speech presented at a conference on "Renewing the<br />

United Nations and Building a Culture of Peace," Session<br />

Four: "The UN and Freedom from Poverty," Report<br />

from the Interreligious and International Federation for<br />

World Peace, Assembly 2000, New York, August 2000.)<br />

Thank you, Mr. Betancourt, my distinguished copanelists,<br />

ladies and gentlemen. After listening to Dr.<br />

Norman Bailey, I am tempted to title my presentation,<br />

(Continued on page 19)<br />

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why<br />

Bankers Rule the World<br />

by Ellen Brown<br />

In the 2012 edition of Occupy<br />

Money released last week, Professor<br />

Margrit Kennedy writes that a<br />

stunning 35% to 40% of everything<br />

we buy goes to interest. This interest<br />

goes to bankers, financiers, and<br />

bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our GDP.<br />

That helps explain how wealth is systematically transferred<br />

from Main Street to Wall Street. The rich get<br />

progressively richer at the expense of the poor, not just<br />

because of “Wall Street greed” but because of the inexorable<br />

mathematics of our private banking system.<br />

This hidden tribute to the banks will <strong>com</strong>e as a surprise<br />

to most people, who think that if they pay their<br />

credit card bills on time and don’t take out loans, they<br />

aren’t paying interest. This, says Dr. Kennedy, is not<br />

true. Tradesmen, suppliers, wholesalers and retailers all<br />

along the chain of production rely on credit to pay their<br />

bills. They must pay for labor and materials before they<br />

have a product to sell and before the end buyer pays for<br />

the product 90 days later. Each supplier in the chain adds<br />

interest to its production costs, which are passed on to<br />

the ultimate consumer. Dr. Kennedy cites interest charges<br />

ranging from 12% for garbage collection, to 38% for<br />

drinking water to, 77% for rent in public housing in her<br />

native Germany.<br />

Her figures are drawn from the research of economist<br />

Helmut Creutz, writing in German and interpreting<br />

Bundesbank publications. They apply to the expenditures<br />

of German households for everyday goods and<br />

services in 2006; but similar figures are seen in financial<br />

sector profits in the United States, where they <strong>com</strong>posed<br />

a whopping 40% of U.S. business profits in 2006. That<br />

was five times the 7% made by the banking sector in<br />

1980. Bank assets, financial profits, interest, and debt<br />

have all been growing exponentially.<br />

Exponential growth in financial sector profits has<br />

(Continued on page 10)


DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 7<br />

Exodus 22:25<br />

“If you lend money<br />

to any of my people with<br />

you who is poor, you shall<br />

not be like a moneylender<br />

to him, and you shall not<br />

exact interest from him."<br />

Deuteronomy 23:19<br />

“You shall not<br />

charge interest on loans<br />

to your brother, interest<br />

on money, interest on<br />

food, interest on anything<br />

that is lent for interest.<br />

Proverbs22:7<br />

You shall not lend him<br />

your money at interest,<br />

nor give him your<br />

food for profi t.<br />

Psalm 15:5<br />

Who does not put out his<br />

money at interest and<br />

does not take a bribe<br />

against the innocent. He<br />

who does these things<br />

shall never be moved.<br />

Another meaning of Christmas<br />

by Dan Parker<br />

At the risk of being politically<br />

incorrect, it is the view here that an<br />

important meaning of Christmas can<br />

be found in the words and actions of<br />

the namesake of this holiday. In this<br />

case, I am not talking about the concept<br />

of peace on earth, as important<br />

as that issue is. Instead, an often overlooked concept of<br />

the Christmas holiday is what might be referred to as<br />

the message of social advancement. Before politics took<br />

precedence over spirituality for much of Christendom,<br />

social change was the central tenet of the teachings of<br />

Christ. Evidence of this exists not only from Christian<br />

writings such as the four gospels of the New Testament,<br />

but also from the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus<br />

and the early 2nd century Roman historian Tacitus.<br />

As one internet site relates “The earliest strata of the<br />

Gospels...point back to a revolutionary movement led<br />

first by John the Baptist and then by Jesus...aimed at the<br />

overthrow of Roman and Herodian rule in Palestine and<br />

the establishment of an earthly kingdom of God”. However,<br />

it wasn’t just the Romans Jesus was working to re-<br />

(Continued on page 16)<br />

Community<br />

<strong>Advisor</strong><br />

Publisher:<br />

Dan Parker<br />

Production:<br />

Terry Draeger<br />

Kate Boyer<br />

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the press is the<br />

palladium of all the<br />

civil, political, and<br />

religious rights.” -<br />

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PAGE 8 Community <strong>Advisor</strong><br />

DECEMBER 2012<br />

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Cox Inhibitors and the FDA<br />

By Daniel J. Murphy, D.C., FACO Vice President of ICA<br />

A news item in the British Medical Journal on December<br />

4, 2004, notes:<br />

“The US Food and Drug Administration, rocked by controversy<br />

in recent months, has now admitted that a senior<br />

management official attempted to discredit Dr. David Graham,<br />

the FDA’s scientist who criticized the agency during<br />

US Senate hearings, saying that the FDA failed to protect the<br />

public when it approved rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) – despite<br />

evidence suggesting that the drug caused heart attacks and<br />

strokes.”<br />

Dr. Graham’s attorney, Tom Devine, “told the BMJ that<br />

Steven Galson, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug<br />

Evaluation and Research, ‘engaged in the extraordinary move<br />

of personally contacting the Lancet editor, Richard Horton, to<br />

block publication of the Vioxx study’.”<br />

“Dr. Graham told the BMJ that when another drug safety<br />

officer, Dr. Andrew Mosholder, concluded that selective serotonin<br />

reuptake inhibitor antidepressants caused increased<br />

suicidal tendency among teens, the FDA prevented him from<br />

presenting his findings at an advisory meeting and suppressed<br />

his report. When the report was leaked ‘the FDA’s reaction<br />

(Continued on page 19)<br />

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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 9<br />

If Hearts Could Speak<br />

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PAGE 10 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> DECEMBER 2012<br />

Gift Ideas...<br />

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(Continued from page 6)<br />

occurred at the expense of the non-financial sectors,<br />

where in<strong>com</strong>es have at best grown linearly.<br />

By 2010, 1% of the population owned 42% of financial<br />

wealth, while 80% of the population owned only 5%<br />

percent of financial wealth. Dr. Kennedy observes that<br />

the bottom 80% pay the hidden interest charges that the<br />

top 10% collect, making interest a strongly regressive<br />

tax that the poor pay to the rich.<br />

Exponential growth is unsustainable. In nature, sustainable<br />

growth progresses in a logarithmic curve that<br />

grows increasingly more slowly until it levels off. Exponential<br />

growth does the reverse: it begins slowly and<br />

increases over time, until the curve shoots up vertically.<br />

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(Continued on page 11)<br />

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(Continued from page 10)<br />

pass their merchant fees on to the consumer. Debit cards,<br />

which are the equivalent of writing checks, also involve<br />

fees. Visa-MasterCard and the banks at both ends of<br />

these interchange transactions charge an average fee of<br />

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off the price of everything we buy. That means we could<br />

buy three items for the current price of two, and that our<br />

paychecks could go 50% farther than they go today.<br />

Direct reimbursement to the people is a hard system<br />

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the interest paid to banks. We could do it by turning<br />

the banks into public utilities and their profits into<br />

public assets. Profits would return to the public, either<br />

reducing taxes or increasing the availability of public<br />

services and infrastructure.<br />

By borrowing from their own publicly-owned banks,<br />

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This has been demonstrated elsewhere with stellar<br />

results, including in Canada during from 1939 to<br />

1973, Australia, and Argentina among other countries.<br />

In 2011, the U.S. federal government paid $454 billion<br />

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the total $1,100 billion paid in personal in<strong>com</strong>e taxes<br />

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Borrowing from its own central bank interest-free<br />

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22. Atomic #22<br />

27. Atomic #18<br />

28. Catholic holiday service<br />

33. Canadian province<br />

34. Capital of Alberta<br />

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49. Difficult to carry<br />

50. Cry made by sheep<br />

51. More than one spouse<br />

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(Continued from page 7)<br />

form. He chose a tax collector as one of His apostles and<br />

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upon by the by the orthodox of his brethren. In addition<br />

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the blind, lepers, the rich, the poor, the destitute, the religious<br />

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against any members of society, including those who<br />

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Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. is a Professor of Biblical<br />

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and author of the new book The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering<br />

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and How They Have Been Corrupted. Hendricks<br />

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— including “treat the people’s needs as holy” as<br />

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(Continued on page 17)<br />

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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 17<br />

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(Continued from page 16)<br />

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a very radical upheaval in society.”<br />

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(Continued from page 6)<br />

"How to make the world's poor fishermen-owners of the<br />

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I ask you to evaluate what I have to say to you today<br />

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I continue to seek to declare "Good News to the<br />

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(Continued on page 27)<br />

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(Continued from page 3)<br />

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Combes and Coley children in front of old Coley house 1935.<br />

Olof Monson's original cabin, now owned by Billy Phelan.<br />

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Stuart Phelan (left), Bill Phelan (right).<br />

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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 21<br />

(Continued from page 20)<br />

no bridges or ferries; people with team and wagon had<br />

to ford these rivers.<br />

The first job that faced the new-<strong>com</strong>ers was to build<br />

a shelter; first for themselves, then for their stock. This<br />

was done by cutting trees down in log lengths, rolling<br />

them up one on top of the other to make a wall, notch the<br />

corners so they would fit tighter. Some hewed the logs<br />

on two sides. The walls were then spiked on the <strong>com</strong>ers<br />

if spikes were available. The roof was made of logs<br />

with about a foot of sod on top. The door was made of<br />

lumber, and the floor was either boards or dirt. The walls<br />

were chinked with moss or mud.<br />

The next business at hand was to dig a well if there<br />

was no creek or spring close by. A well had to be dug with<br />

a pick and round-nosed shovel, by digging a four foot<br />

hole in the ground after one of the settlers had 'witched'<br />

a water vein to tell where water could be found. A pail<br />

and rope were used to pull the dirt from the hole in the<br />

ground until water was found — sometimes as deep as<br />

thirty or forty feet. A cribbing was then made of lumber<br />

and lowered into the well to keep the sides from caving,<br />

and a lid on top. Using a pail on the end of a rope,<br />

water was drawn by hand to supply the family, stock and<br />

sometimes a neighbor who was in need of water.<br />

Come back next week for the continuation...<br />

These stories were reproduced from Echoes of Fort<br />

Assiniboine and District, with permission of the Fort<br />

Assiniboine Friendship Club Book Committee. A digital<br />

copy of this book is available on CD and may be<br />

purchased from the Fort Assiniboine Museum, call<br />

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Trails Home; A History of Mayerthorpe and Districts<br />

is available at the Mayerthorpe Public Library. Please<br />

call (780) 786-2416 for more information. The local<br />

Whitecourt history book, Sagitawah Saga - The Story<br />

of Whitecourt, is available at the public library for<br />

reading and is for sale through the Whitecourt and Area<br />

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PAGE 22 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> DECEMBER 2012<br />

(Pills you Take from page 19)<br />

tive.<br />

As noted above, PGE2 is also associated with cancer.<br />

Therefore, reducing the production of PGE2 potentially could<br />

also reduce incidences of certain types of cancer. Therefore,<br />

in an effort to expand market used of the cox-2 drug Celebrex,<br />

Pfizer initiated a study of Celebrex for the prevention of colon<br />

cancer. The study was sponsored by the US National Cancer<br />

Institutes (a taxpayer funded group). The study was suppose to<br />

span 5 years, but was suspended in less than 3 years because<br />

those taking 400-800 mg of Celebrex per day had a 2.5-3.4<br />

fold increase of major cardiovascular events <strong>com</strong>pared with<br />

placebo.<br />

This means that all three cox-2 inhibitors that have been<br />

approved by the FDA since 1999 have been shown to be quite<br />

dangerous, and have subsequently been removed from the<br />

market, and had serious warnings added to their labels, or are<br />

being investigated for sanctions.<br />

Lastly, as noted above, PGE2 is also associated with Alzheimer’s<br />

Disease. Again, reducing the production of PGE2<br />

potentially could reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease.<br />

Another NSAID that reduces the production of PGE2<br />

is Naproxen (prescription Naprosyn, over-the-counter Aleve).<br />

Naprosyn has been on the market since 1994. On December<br />

21, 2004, the National Institute of Health (another taxpayer<br />

funded organization) announced that those taking Aleve in the<br />

Alzheimer’s risk study also had significant increased risk of<br />

heart attack and stroke. The FDA, now quick to respond, advises<br />

“no more that 2 pills per day, and do not take it for longer<br />

than 10 days.”16<br />

In light of all of this information <strong>com</strong>ing to light in the last<br />

3 months, one wonders at the gall used by those who would<br />

caution against chiropractic spinal adjusting for fear vascular<br />

accidents. The only numbers I found in these articles are from<br />

Dr. Graham on Vioxx: up to 139,000 heart attacks and strokes,<br />

with as many as 56,000 being fatal, in a period of time of less<br />

than 5 years. Again, this is from just one of these drugs.<br />

Incredibly, there is only one randomized clinical trial<br />

<strong>com</strong>paring the cox-2 inhibitors Vioxx/Celebrex/Bextra to chiropractic<br />

spinal adjusting for the treatment of chronic spinal<br />

pain.2 It was published in July 2003 in Spine, the world’s number<br />

one orthopedic journal. Astonishingly, chiropractic spinal<br />

adjusting was better than 5 times more effective in treating<br />

chronic spinal pain than were the cox-2 inhibitors Vioxx/Celebrex/Bextra.<br />

Interesting, the drugs resulted in more patients<br />

experiencing adverse reactions than be<strong>com</strong>ing asymptomatic<br />

during the study period. Chiropractic spinal adjusting resulted<br />

in far superior results, with no adverse reactions. You can<br />

sign-up for my review of this article2 and many others on my<br />

website, www.danmurphydc.<strong>com</strong>.<br />

Thank you, Dr. Dan Murphy for your extensive research.<br />

It is be<strong>com</strong>ing more than obvious that making more<br />

informed choices is the only hope that we have in trying to<br />

stay and be healthy. The crisis care, symptom chasing system<br />

we have created has forgotten that the patient’s health<br />

should be its’ purpose.<br />

Brought to you by Health Solutions, Whitecort<br />

(Public Banking from page 11)<br />

It is not just federal governments that could eliminate<br />

their interest charges in this way. State and local<br />

governments could do it too.<br />

Consider California. At the end of 2010, it had general<br />

obligation and revenue bond debt of $158 billion. Of<br />

this, $70 billion, or 44%, was owed for interest. If the<br />

state had incurred that debt to its own bank — which then<br />

returned the profits to the state — California could be $70<br />

billion richer today. Instead of slashing services, selling<br />

off public assets, and laying off employees, it could be<br />

adding services and repairing its decaying infrastructure.<br />

The only U.S. state to own its own depository bank<br />

today is North Dakota. North Dakota is also the only<br />

state to have escaped the 2008 banking crisis, sporting<br />

a sizable budget surplus every year since then. It has<br />

the lowest unemployment rate in the country, the lowest<br />

foreclosure rate, and the lowest default rate on credit<br />

card debt.<br />

Globally, 40% of banks are publicly owned, and they<br />

are concentrated in countries that also escaped the 2008<br />

banking crisis. These are the BRIC countries — Brazil,<br />

Russia, India, and China — which are home to 40% of<br />

the global population. The BRICs grew economically by<br />

92% in the last decade, while Western economies were<br />

floundering.<br />

Cities and counties could also set up their own<br />

banks; but in the U.S., this model has yet to be developed.<br />

In North Dakota, meanwhile, the Bank of North<br />

Dakota underwrites the bond issues of municipal governments,<br />

saving them from the vagaries of the “bond<br />

vigilantes” and speculators, as well as from the high fees<br />

of Wall Street underwriters and the risk of <strong>com</strong>ing out<br />

on the wrong side of interest rate swaps required by the<br />

underwriters as “insurance.”<br />

One of many cities crushed by this Wall Street “insurance”<br />

scheme is Philadelphia, which has lost $500<br />

million on interest swaps alone. (How the swaps work<br />

and their link to the LIBOR scandal was explained in<br />

an earlier article in the <strong>Advisor</strong>.) Last week, the Philadelphia<br />

City Council held hearings on what to do about<br />

these lost revenues. In an October 30th article titled Can<br />

Public Banks End Wall Street Hegemony, Willie Osterweil<br />

discussed a solution presented at the hearings in<br />

a fiery speech by Mike Krauss, a director of the Public<br />

Banking Institute.<br />

Krauss’ solution was to do as Iceland did: just walk<br />

away. He proposed “a strategic default until the bank<br />

negotiates at better terms.” Osterweil called it “radical,”<br />

since the city would lose it favorable credit rating and<br />

might have trouble borrowing. But Krauss had a solution<br />

to that problem: the city could form its own bank<br />

and use it to generate credit for the city from public<br />

revenues, just as Wall Street banks generate credit from<br />

those revenues now.<br />

(Continued on page 23)


DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 23<br />

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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 25<br />

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(Continued from page 19)<br />

call the "Economic Paradigm for the 21st Century," as<br />

has the World Institute for Development and Peace with<br />

Antonio Betancourt.<br />

Let me tell you, therefore, what I believe to be the<br />

basic problem confronting the world and what I believe<br />

to be its solution. The basic problem confronting<br />

the world as I've experienced it in the United States is<br />

"Anxiety over a lack of adequate and secure in<strong>com</strong>e."<br />

People in the United States, and it is increasingly so<br />

around the world, are anxious because they feel the<br />

in<strong>com</strong>e they now have is not adequate, and that it will<br />

not be there for them in the future. When people are<br />

anxious over a lack of adequate and secure in<strong>com</strong>e,<br />

there's a tendency for them to turn on one another instead<br />

of to one another.<br />

In the United States, we found that this anxiety is<br />

based upon three well-founded fears.<br />

The first reason is the flight of jobs to cheaper labor<br />

markets abroad — some 2 million American jobs a<br />

year over the last 20 years. Every time a factory closes<br />

down in the United States and re-opens in a cheaper<br />

labor market abroad, people in this country get anxious.<br />

"I wonder if I'm next to get a pink slip." The<br />

essence of the role of asset managers in the capitalist<br />

system is to move capital toward cheap labor; and<br />

there's not very much anyone can do about it. Capital<br />

will always follow cheaper labor.<br />

The second reason people are anxious over a<br />

lack of adequate and secure in<strong>com</strong>e is that advancing<br />

technologies are rapidly displacing people from<br />

gainful employment opportunities. Here in the United<br />

States, if you call 411 for information, you get a robot<br />

that says, "What city, please" You speak and it says,<br />

(Continued on page 28)<br />

DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENTS IN WHITECOURT<br />

Contact your<br />

family doctor’s clinic for:<br />

Medical Appointments<br />

Prescription Refills<br />

Medical Notes<br />

Driver’s Licence Medicals<br />

Note: When your family doctor is<br />

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New maternity patients wel<strong>com</strong>e<br />

Maternity, postpartum and baby care<br />

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Maternity Appointments<br />

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NOTE: Life Medical Clinic has limited<br />

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MATERNITY SERVICES IN WHITECOURT<br />

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(Continued from page 27)<br />

"What listing, please" and you get your number. Every<br />

time that robot speaks, understand that hundreds of<br />

thousands of <strong>com</strong>munication workers, who had jobs<br />

saying, "Thank you for calling AT&T' and "Thank you<br />

for calling Bell Atlantic," are out of work! The Communications<br />

Workers of America are now striking in<br />

these United States because those technologies are<br />

rapidly advancing.<br />

Chrysler Corporation five years ago announced<br />

that it would save its investors $70 million in labor<br />

costs that year because it had just acquired a new<br />

technology that enables them to design its automobiles<br />

into the future without the need of auto design<br />

engineers. As a consequence, over the last five years<br />

nearly 70 Ph.D.'s in auto design engineering in these<br />

United States were out of work. Up to that time, they<br />

had been confident in their suburban homes with their<br />

two-car garages and their adequate in<strong>com</strong>es, confident<br />

that they would be able to educate their children in<br />

the future. Now, due to advancing technology they are<br />

told, "You are obsolete. Go find another job.'<br />

As a consequence, those auto engineers did two<br />

things. First they joined the Michigan Militia, and<br />

second, they concluded that affirmative action has got<br />

to go. Because if I've got to <strong>com</strong>pete with blacks and<br />

minorities and women for jobs, it's not fair.<br />

You can't stop advancing technologies. The Luddites<br />

tried to stop it in the 19th century but couldn't<br />

then, and you can't stop it now. So as jobs are fleeing<br />

rapidly to cheaper labor markets abroad, and as<br />

technologies are displacing human skills, people get<br />

anxious.<br />

The third reason that people are anxious is that<br />

"Time is running out on the welfare state." The welfare<br />

state redistributes in<strong>com</strong>e from those who are<br />

making money to those who are too old, too young,<br />

too sick or too poor to acquire the basic needs of life.<br />

Yet all over the world you are hearing about government<br />

downsizing. Voices are saying that it's not fair to<br />

take from those of us who have to provide for those<br />

who are not able to have in<strong>com</strong>e generation, education,<br />

health care, housing and justice.<br />

Economic Paradigm for the 21st Century<br />

Now I know I have painted for you a pretty poor<br />

picture. And were it not that I have benefited from the<br />

thoughts of Norman Bailey, Norman Kurland and Antonio<br />

Betancourt on the economic paradigm which I now<br />

lay before you, 1, too, would be discouraged. I have a<br />

solution! What is the solution I'm glad you all asked<br />

that question because I came prepared to answer. The<br />

solution is to enable those who are being displaced by<br />

job flight, displaced by advancing technologies and displaced<br />

by government downsizing, to be<strong>com</strong>e part owners<br />

of the new technologies and <strong>com</strong>panies that are displacing<br />

them.<br />

We call it capital homesteading. Capital homesteading<br />

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overseeing the Federal Reserve System. For the Federal<br />

Reserve System, this country's central bank, was designed<br />

to homestead capital for investment in productive<br />

activity. Homesteading is not a new concept in the United<br />

States. In 1862, one year before President Lincoln<br />

signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he signed the<br />

Homestead Act. It launched a new government policy<br />

based on the thesis that the way to expand the economy<br />

was to make land available, free, to people who would<br />

produce on it.<br />

Hence, as a matter of public policy we organized<br />

armies in this country and sent them across the land<br />

from sea to shining sea, driving the Native Americans<br />

off the valuable land and onto reservations. Then, we<br />

called back to Europe we said, "Give us your tired, your<br />

poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," and<br />

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(Continued from page 28)<br />

give us your thugs! We will give them 160 acres of land<br />

free if they will work it for five years. That's because the<br />

Harrimans were building a railroad from sea to shining<br />

sea, and they understood that if you could get people<br />

to produce on both sides of the continent, it would enable<br />

America to be<strong>com</strong>e the most powerful nation in the<br />

history of the world. America has done that because we<br />

decided to homestead land back in 1862.<br />

By 1913 we had so many opportunities to expand<br />

the economy as a result of that policy that the existing<br />

pool of capital in the world was not sufficient to finance<br />

growing production enterprises. Our politicians then got<br />

a great idea. "Let's create a lender of last resort. Let's create<br />

a central bank--the Federal Reserve Bank. The bank<br />

shall have the role of "homesteading capital" to those<br />

who have identified investment and productive opportunities,<br />

but who cannot finance them out of the present<br />

pool of capital available for investment. Article 13 of the<br />

1913 Federal Reserve Act did just that.<br />

Unfortunately, as Norman Bailey will tell you, not<br />

long after the act became law and the Federal Reserve<br />

System was created, World War I came along. How<br />

would we finance that war Somebody said, "You know,<br />

we can't get enough money from the American people<br />

by selling them savings bonds. Let's use the Federal Reserve<br />

to create capital and loan it to the government."<br />

The Federal Reserve Bank has financed government<br />

deficit spending ever since.<br />

Capital Homesteading Today<br />

We have an opportunity now to deal with our anxieties<br />

over a lack of adequate and secure in<strong>com</strong>e. With so<br />

many exciting new technologies available to us, we can<br />

homestead capital to those who are being displaced by<br />

job flight, by technology advances and by government<br />

downsizing.<br />

Let me give you one example, and then I will be<br />

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done. We in the United States, through tax-supported<br />

research and development for our defense and space<br />

agencies, have created one particular technology that is<br />

very intriguing to me. It is a technology that transforms<br />

human waste and solid waste into pure water and energy.<br />

NASA has utilized it very effectively in our space<br />

program.<br />

Have you ever wondered how it is that we can keep<br />

people in space for months, even though we cannot send<br />

enough water and fuel into space with them to last for<br />

months How it is that we can keep space ships orbiting<br />

the earth for months without having to carry up the<br />

fuel to energize the rockets that keep the ships in space<br />

The answer is that we have a technology that enables<br />

the space ship to convert human waste, and toxic waste<br />

generated by the rockets that go up, into pure water and<br />

energy.<br />

You may recall a few years ago when we sent our<br />

first woman up into space; she stayed about six months.<br />

And when she was scheduled to <strong>com</strong>e back they couldn't<br />

bring her down, because the weather in Florida was bad.<br />

"Don't worry," NASA said, "stay in orbit another extra<br />

week and <strong>com</strong>e back then." Where would the ship get<br />

the extra water and fuel to enable her to orbit for another<br />

week The ship had on board a process for converting<br />

her human waste into pure water and fuel cells that fire<br />

the ship by the light of the sun.<br />

I'm not talking space-age foolishness here; I'm talking<br />

fact. And at this point we have in Washington an<br />

idea, thanks to Kurland and Bailey and others, to enable<br />

hundreds of thousands of poor citizens in the District<br />

of Columbia to be<strong>com</strong>e part owners of this clearly productive<br />

technology by homesteading capital to them. By<br />

implementing Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act of<br />

1913, we would homestead the capital to them, the loan<br />

being repaid out of future profits. They will then be<strong>com</strong>e<br />

part owners of a machine that we know we can<br />

produce to sell around the world.<br />

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(Continued from page 29)<br />

Can you imagine how valuable one of those machines<br />

would be in a drought in Africa You could tell<br />

the people bring all of their waste and put it in the machine.<br />

Then tell them to go to the other end of the machine<br />

to pick up pure drinking water, along with a fuel<br />

cell that they could put in their houses that would generate<br />

enough power for their washing machines, TV<br />

sets and the <strong>com</strong>puters that they would pay for out of<br />

the dividends from the investment to which they have<br />

homesteaded.<br />

I'm talking what is possible through public policy.<br />

I tell you this having been for 20 years on the board<br />

of directors of the most powerful policy-making body<br />

in the world, the U.S. House of Representatives. For<br />

public policy determines who gets how much of what,<br />

when and where in five areas: Who gets how much in<strong>com</strong>e<br />

generated for them; who gets how much education<br />

to make money; who gets how much health care to<br />

live long enough to enjoy it; who gets how much housing<br />

or shelter from the elements; and who gets how<br />

much justice, so that if you have the in<strong>com</strong>e, education,<br />

health care and housing, nobody can take it from<br />

you with impunity.<br />

By the year 2021, only 2 percent of the American<br />

people will be producing the durable goods that the<br />

others consume. Yet I'm<br />

telling you there is a way<br />

by which the plight of<br />

those who are left behind,<br />

displaced and moved<br />

around, can be solved.<br />

By homesteading the new<br />

technologies to the least<br />

of God's children, making<br />

them part owners of the<br />

very technologies that are<br />

displacing people.<br />

That, in my view, is<br />

the way we address the<br />

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