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For local businesses, the list is almost endless,<br />
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Echoes of Fort Assiniboine<br />
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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 />
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Olaf Monson's homestead, early days log cabin. Olaf on horse.<br />
(Continued on page 20)<br />
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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 />
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MONTHLY CHARGES<br />
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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 />
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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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Christmas<br />
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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 />
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(Continued on page 19)<br />
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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 9<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 />
Exponential growth is seen in parasites, cancers . . . and<br />
<strong>com</strong>pound interest. When the parasite runs out of its<br />
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People generally assume that if they pay their bills<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 />
44 cents per transaction — though the cost to them is<br />
about four cents.<br />
How to Recapture the Interest: Own the Bank<br />
The implications of all this are stunning. If we had a<br />
financial system that returned the interest collected from<br />
the public directly to the public, 35% could be lopped<br />
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 />
to work out, but there is a way we could collectively recover<br />
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 />
governments could eliminate their interest burden altogether.<br />
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 />
in interest on the federal debt — nearly one-third<br />
the total $1,100 billion paid in personal in<strong>com</strong>e taxes<br />
that year. If the government had been borrowing directly<br />
from the Federal Reserve — which has the power to create<br />
credit on its books and now rebates its profits directly<br />
to the government — personal in<strong>com</strong>e taxes could have<br />
been cut by a third.<br />
Borrowing from its own central bank interest-free<br />
might even allow a government to eliminate its national<br />
debt altogether. In Money and Sustainability: The Missing<br />
Link (at page 126), Bernard Lietaer and Christian<br />
Asperger, et al., cite the example of France. The Treasury<br />
borrowed interest-free from the nationalized Banque de<br />
France from 1946 to 1973. The law then changed to<br />
forbid this practice, requiring the Treasury to borrow<br />
instead from the private sector. The authors include a<br />
chart showing what would have happened if the French<br />
government had continued to borrow interest-free versus<br />
what did happen. Rather than dropping from 21%<br />
to 8.6% of GDP, the debt shot up from 21% to 78% of<br />
GDP.<br />
“No ‘spendthrift government’ can be blamed in this<br />
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7. Expresses surprise<br />
10. Shows exceedingly great size<br />
12. At this place<br />
13. One who prints from a plate<br />
14. '95 U.S. Open golf champ Corey<br />
15. Stupefy with alcohol<br />
16. Breezed through<br />
17. A major division of geological<br />
time<br />
18. Humble request for help<br />
19. Part of a deck<br />
21. Albanian monetary unit<br />
22. Atomic #22<br />
27. Atomic #18<br />
28. Catholic holiday service<br />
33. Canadian province<br />
34. Capital of Alberta<br />
36. Large African antelope<br />
37. Mexican tortilla sandwich<br />
38. Pigmented eye membrane<br />
39. Baby's food protector<br />
40. Winglike structures<br />
41. Sun-dried brick<br />
44. Those dull in appearance<br />
45. Basketlike baby's bed<br />
48. Purpose or intent<br />
49. Difficult to carry<br />
50. Cry made by sheep<br />
51. More than one spouse<br />
CLUES DOWN<br />
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2. About aviation<br />
3. Small biting flies<br />
4. Bulgarian monetary unit<br />
5. Point midway between E and SE<br />
6. Old CCCP or U___<br />
7. Rubber tree genus<br />
8. Waterless<br />
9. Female chicken<br />
10. Relating to the Hebrews<br />
11. Dig up<br />
12. Diacritic caron<br />
14. Capital of Sicily<br />
17. Shock therapy<br />
18. Cyto_____: surrounds the<br />
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20. Daughters of the Am.<br />
Revolution<br />
23. Nin<strong>com</strong>poops<br />
24. Great battle of 333 BC<br />
25. Salt Lake state<br />
26. Woman (French)<br />
29. A public promotion<br />
30. Social insect<br />
31. Knifed<br />
32. Formal association of people<br />
35. Toff<br />
36. Snaps up<br />
38. Annona diversifolia<br />
40. Opera vocal solo<br />
41. Largest continent<br />
42. Day (Latin)<br />
43. Sole<br />
44. Hit lightly<br />
45. Guy (slang)<br />
46. Black tropical Am. cuckoo<br />
47. Screen Writers Guild<br />
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DECEMBER 2012 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> PAGE 15<br />
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(Continued from page 7)<br />
form. He chose a tax collector as one of His apostles and<br />
used a Samaritan to teach a lesson on brotherhood. This<br />
sort of cosmopolitan approach to religion was frowned<br />
upon by the by the orthodox of his brethren. In addition<br />
to tax collectors, Jesus also associated with prostitutes,<br />
the blind, lepers, the rich, the poor, the destitute, the religious<br />
and the irreligious. In short, there was no prejudice<br />
against any members of society, including those who<br />
were generally excluded from the society of the day.<br />
In addition, Jesus heavily criticized the established<br />
religious leaders of the day in his society; the Scribes,<br />
Pharisees, and Sadducees. Terms He used to describe<br />
this religious power structure included hypocrites, a<br />
brood of vipers and sons of the devil.<br />
Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. is a Professor of Biblical<br />
Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary<br />
and author of the new book The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering<br />
the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings<br />
and How They Have Been Corrupted. Hendricks<br />
suggests in the book that Jesus used seven political strategies<br />
— including “treat the people’s needs as holy” as<br />
well as “give a voice to the voiceless” and “expose the<br />
workings of oppression” — to challenge the established<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 />
the authorities… He was fighting against the way they<br />
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was] revolutionary in the sense that he worked to make<br />
a very radical upheaval in society.”<br />
In essence, Christmas cannot only be viewed as a<br />
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to reflect and <strong>com</strong>mit on improving society in general<br />
beyond the important, but one-off, efforts of Christmas<br />
hampers for the poor and so on. Instead of a Roman<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 />
against a background of what I call the "arrogance of<br />
old age" and the wisdom that has flowed from 40 years<br />
at the core of every major change in public policy in the<br />
United States affecting people of African descent. You<br />
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First, I'm a minister of the gospel, anointed of God<br />
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and give liberty to those that are bound. I sought<br />
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Act of 1965; as a member of Congress with my arrest<br />
at the South African embassy in 1984; and as a founding<br />
member of the Congressional Black Caucus during<br />
my twenty-year tenure in the US. House of Representatives.<br />
I continue to seek to declare "Good News to the<br />
poor" today as the head of the National Black Leadership<br />
Roundtable of the Congressional Black Caucus.<br />
You have to evaluate my suggestions, second, against<br />
my background of 20 years on the Banking, Finance and<br />
Urban Affairs Committee of the House. For six years I<br />
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Third, you have to evaluate what I have to say<br />
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(Continued on page 27)<br />
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The FDA “continued to try to catch the leaker even after<br />
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(Continued from page 3)<br />
then be given the title to the quarter section. This was<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 />
Some wood stoves, oil lamps, etc., are still used.<br />
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 />
780-584-3737 for hours of operation. A copy of Three<br />
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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Billy Combes and grandson Harry Phelan Jr. beside the<br />
Athabasca River.<br />
Ray and Magner Olson ready for the trap line.<br />
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(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 />
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(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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(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 />
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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 />
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that says, "What city, please" You speak and it says,<br />
(Continued on page 28)<br />
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PAGE 28 Community <strong>Advisor</strong> DECEMBER 2012<br />
(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 />
<strong>com</strong>es to me as a result of my six years as Chairman<br />
of the Sub<strong>com</strong>mittee on Domestic Monetary Policy<br />
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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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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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 />
question of world peace<br />
and the eradication of<br />
poverty, through the Economic<br />
Paradigm of the<br />
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