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TT.S. Eliot, in his epic poem The Wasteland,

wrote that ‘April is the cruel-est month’. Whether in jest, or melancholy, Eliot had a somewhat negative view of humanity, and of the future in general. Hollow Men was another of his famous po-ems. The fi nal two lines read:

“This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper”. Fortunately, many cultures in general, since time immemorial, have seen the month of April as a time of rebirth and renewal. His-torically, this is hardly sur-prising, given the challenges

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The following is an arti-cle, republished with permis-sion, that originally appeared in the Energy Bulletin. This writer does not agree with all of the following, particu-larly the fi nal conclusion. Research showed the article was funded by a group that has gold interests. However, the piece is still valuable for those who want to look be-yond today’s headlines, for a deeper analysis of political events.

About the Author

Krassimir Petrov has re-ceived his Ph. D. in econom-ics from the Ohio State Uni-versity and currently teaches Macroeconomics, Interna-tional Finance, and Econo-

every single empire is the taxation of other nations. The imperial ability to tax has al-ways rested on a better and stronger economy, and as a consequence, a better and stronger military. One part of the subject taxes went to improve the living standards of the empire; the other part went to strengthen the mili-tary dominance necessary to enforce the collection of those taxes.

Historically, taxing the subject state has been in various forms—usually gold and silver, where those were considered money, but also slaves, soldiers, crops, cattle, or other agricultural and nat-ural resources, whatever eco-nomic goods the empire de-

metrics at the American Uni-versity in Bulgaria.

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A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an em-pire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Otto-man and British, teaches that the economic foundation of

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Mary Clancy goes up to Father O’Grady after his Sun-day morning service. The woman is obvously very upset and had been crying”.

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Again, he saw it fl ash. He couldn’t believe it! So he turned and, going a snail’s

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Steve was leaning against a lamppost staring up at a signboard and yelling, “It can’t be done, it’s too big!

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At the Wrong CourseSome members of a health club were having their fi rst

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to give the facts of your daily routine. Take some time to think about it, so we can help you better.”

Several people jotted down some notes. Then they took turns speaking, admitting where they could improve.

Finally one obviously out of shape members said, “I eat moderately, I drink moderately, and I exercise frequently.”

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The police offi ce was a single unit at one end of the town with a small jail cell. The inad-equacy of this a r r a n g e m e n t , plus the need for much more room for town admin-istrative offi ces, induced town of-fi cials to order the construction of a new town building. Built on the north-west corner of 50th Street and 52 Avenue, the rela-tively spacious structure was opened in 1967.

A library was accom-modated in the basement of

the Town Building and it be-came part of the Yellowhead Regional Library system in 1971. There was a well-stocked variety of excellent

books. Lies Og-den became li-brarian in 1972. The Health Unit also moved into the new town of-fi ce building.

More service o rgan iza t ions were formed in the mid

1960’s. The Kinsmen Club of Whitecourt was chartered on December 11, 1965. The charter president was Bob Piper, who had previously been the Mayerthorpe Kins-men charter president. Start-ing with nineteen members,

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Town organizational Review Etc.Town Press Release - Whitecourt Town Council is request-

ing your participation in the Organizational Review process. At its March 13 Regular Meeting, Town Council decided that it would seek public input and feedback through a variety of methods. Advertisements and notices will be published next week on how you can participate in the review.

A Public Hearing was held to discuss the proposed amendment to the Athabasca Flats Area Structure Plan, and several area residents were present and made comments re-garding the proposed amendment. Whitecourt Town Council has directed Management to work with area residents to fi nd a solution to issues raised regarding the extension of Mink Creek Road.

A Public Hearing was held to discuss a proposed amend-ment to the Area Structure Plan for the Old Forestry Estates subdivision. Proposed amendments include changes to the ar-chitectural guidelines and changes to the allowable site cov-erage. Council was provided with information from an area resident and decided to defer the item in order to review all documents presented. The issue will be on Town Council’s next Regular Meeting Agenda.

The Chairman of the Lac Ste. Anne Foundation, an orga-nization that provides supportive living for seniors, presented to Town Council and requested Whitecourt’s support for the Town of Onoway Seniors Lodge Project. Whitecourt is a member of the Lac Ste. Anne Foundation and currently the Town is working in partnership with the Foundation on the Spruce View Seniors Lodge Expansion Project. Whitecourt Town Council provided its support for the Onoway project.

Whitecourt Town Council discussed Council Meeting Decorum and approved a number of statements that will be read by the Chairman prior to each Council Meeting, Visitors and Delegation presentation and Public Hearing in order to clarify Council procedures and meeting guidelines. For more information on addressing Town Council as a Visitor and Delegation, or for information on the Public Hearing process, please visit the Town’s website at www.whitecourt.ca.

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The multi-use facility and pool project is proceeding

Town Press Release - Whitecourt Town Council is pleased to announce that a new fi eldhouse and pool facility will be constructed on the site west of the curling rink along Sunset Boulevard. It is expected that construction of the facility will begin in June 2006.

Whitecourt Town Council approved construction of a fi eldhouse and pool facility at a Special Meeting held March 20. The meeting was scheduled to review project construction estimates, to discuss various project scenarios and associated fi nancial implications, and to review potential sites for a new indoor recreational facility. Representatives from Barr Ryder Architects and Planners, and Stuart Olson Construction were present to answer questions and provide advice regarding the indoor recreation facility options. The fi eldhouse component will include: a multi-sport area that can be confi gured for a variety of activities (such as soccer, basketball, volleyball), a fi tness centre, a 2nd fl oor track and a children’s play area. The pool component will include: children’s play and spray areas, and a 25-metre swimming pool.

The facility will be located west of the curling rink along Sunset Boulevard. This location will provide synergy be-tween Whitecourt’s indoor recreation facilities creating a lei-sure campus concept, has substantial parking space available, and will provide highway accessibility. The development of this site will also enhance and improve traffi c fl ow in the area, specifi cally at the intersection of Highway 43 and Hospital Road, through the creation of a new traffi c controlled inter-section. The Town of Whitecourt is currently in discussions with Alberta Transportation in regards to this development.

Barr Ryder Architects and Planners, Stuart Olson Con-struction and Town Administration are working cooperative-ly to develop detailed designs for Town Council to review. The Canadian Government, Alberta Government, Woodlands County and the Town of Whitecourt will partner to complete this exciting project for our community.

Whitecourt Town Council is committed to enhancing and modernizing the Whitecourt Twin Arenas to meet the short and long term needs of the community. Council will continue

with discussions regarding this facility. Town Council would like to thank the community for its participation and feedback throughout the decision making process, and will continue to keep the public informed on the progress of the Whitecourt Leisure Campus.

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2. Eating OutWhen the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom will

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Ed - Out of sight, the Chamber of Commerce is involved in many activities supporting businesses, at the local, provincial and nation-al level. The following is just one of the current national projects, which includes such things as U.S. border contin-gency planning, U.S./Cana-da Business relations, fraud prevention legislation and so on. Consumers also stand to benefi t immediately from new telecommunications policies that focus on affordability.

Yesterday the Telecom-munications Policy Review (TPR) Panel released its much anticipated report. The panel was appointed in April 2005 to review Canada’s telecommunications policy framework and make recom-mendations on how to mod-ernize the Telecommunica-tions Act to ensure Canada remains competitive interna-tionally in the industry. The Canadian Chamber partici-pated in public hearings last year and made a submission to the panel to ensure the views of members were con-sidered for the report.

The TPR report includes

many of the suggested rem-edies that the Chamber had been advocating for. The re-port calls on the government to adopt a National ICT (In-formation Communications Technology) Strategy and implement a new regulatory framework. The Chamber has long advised the govern-ment, through its work with the Canadian e-Business Ini-tiative (Cebi), that a National ICT Strategy was needed to ensure Canada’s future pro-ductivity and competitive-ness of the industry.

Among the over 100 rec-ommendations in the report, the following are the major proposals of particular inter-est to our members:

• That investment in ICT is combined with orga-nizational transformation, re-sulting in a “smart adoption” of ICTs in Canada;

• Allowing the tele-com industry to respond more rapidly to new technology and market developments;

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• Establishing a new Telecommunications Com-petition Tribunal (TCT) that would act as a joint decision making mechanism between the CRTC and the Competi-tion Bureau;

• Establishing a new ombudsman offi ce to be called the Telecommuni-cations Consumer Agency (TCA) to resolve consumer complaints in the industry;

• That the Industry Minister lead the develop-ment of a National ICT Strat-egy, aimed at strengthening ICT adoption among busi-nesses, especially SMEs;

• That the govern-ment establish a tax credit to increase the rate of “smart adoption” of ICT;

• Expanding and im-

proving broadband internet coverage;

• Suggests the imple-mentation “phased liberal-ization” of foreign ownership for telcom carriers that are not broadcasters;

• Streamline the CRTC.

The Panel also recom-mends that the report be implemented by the govern-ment in two phases:

1. By issuing a policy

statement endorsing a new National ICT Strategy and di-rections to the CRTC regard-ing the implementation of a new regulatory framework.

2. By recommending required changes to existing legislation.

The Canadian Cham-ber is encouraged with the overall goals of the report and will be consulting with members during the com-ing weeks before discussing the report with the Minister of Industry. The Minister is expected to respond to the report in address to a major telecommunications confer-ence in Toronto in June.

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and family have hit on one combination. When going on trips to Costa Rica, extra suitcases are packed with everyday needs for children. The goods are then distributed to poorer people in the country.

The agency used is a one man operation, the Greenhope Foundation run by a Mr. Abdul Ameer. He in turn liases with

schools for boys and girls and one for handicapped girls run by Roman Catholic nuns. So far, 50 tourists from around the world are participating in the project.

The low overhead, private initative makes mini-mal resources go a long way. Sister Bertha’s parting words to Blake were “please don’t forget about us”. If you are interested in this idea, please contact Blake at [email protected].

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The 2005 nominees in-clude: Alejandra Torres, Kar-la Fontaine,,Alyssa Flatt, Ka-tie Hoffman, Cayne Standish, Kristen Cockle, Deanna As-till, Megan Goldsney, Jen-nifer Morlidge-Chambers, Nikki Meunier, Jessica Gib-son, Toni Rizzoli, Jessica Hebert, Thomas Gray, Jor-dan Jenkins, Tyler Johnson, Julie McLaren and Victoria Westling

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Pakistan and India resume train link through Rotarians’ peace efforts

Good News Agency - It is joyous occasion for Rotarians because our persuasion to both Governments of Pakistan and India to open rail link between Munabao and Khokhropar did succeed. Yesterday Pakistan and India resumed a train ser-vice across the Thar desert, 41 years after it was suspended following the 1964 war.

Many passengers burst into tears and shouted “Long Live Pak-India friendship” as the Thar Express halted at Zero Point (border), the last stop on the Pakistani side of the bor-der. Dancers wearing traditional dresses danced to the beat of drums to greet the train, decorated with colorful buntings. At the station, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav received the passengers, some of whom had gifts in their hands and tears in their eyes.

The following were the reactions of the passengers: “I was 13 years old when I came here. Now I am going to my home for the fi rst time after 58 years,” said Mohammad Ali Azhar, whose parents migrated to Pakistan to escape blood-shed that killed hundreds of thousands of people following partition of the sub-continent in 1947. “History has been re-peated. I am very glad to be in India,” Jan Zahad, the train driver, told Reuters. Zahad said he drove the last Pakistani train out of India in 1965 when the two countries went to war and the service halted.

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of winter faced by those with limited technology.

An early springtime cel-ebration was held when the hours of daylight matched the hours of darkness, usu-ally on March 21. This date is known as the spring or vernal equinox. In the Anglo Saxon and Germanic tradi-tions, Eostre or Ostern was the goddess of mythology who symbolized birth and renewal. The rabbit was her companion and helper.

In one variation of the legend, Eostre turned a bird into a rabbit in order to save it from freezing to death. Because of its previous in-carnation, the ‘magic’ rabbit laid eggs. Easter eggs were painted with bright colours to symbolize the spring light. Some Eostre or Eos themes can be traced back to ancient Greece, or even early Egypt.

Many of the Eostre sym-bols, and even the name, were carried over when Christian-ity replaced the pagan beliefs of some northern tribes. The best of the old was conjoined with the more humanistic celebration centered on the resurrection of Jesus of Naz-areth. At fi rst the Easter holi-

day was celebrated on vari-ous dates by different parts of Christendom. Then, at an im-portant Church gathering in 325 A.D., called the Council of Nicea, those in attendance decided Easter for all Chris-tians was to be on the Sunday after the fi rst full moon fol-lowing the spring equinox. This meant the date of Easter would always fall between March 22nd and April 25th.

The overarching theme contrasting T.S. Eliot’s lament about April being the cruelest month, with that of thankful springtime and resurrection celebrants, is the old ques-tion of seeing the glass as half empty or half full; or in the case of a lucky few in the world, as a cup overfl owing with the benefi ts of record oil prices. One could synthesize the two perspectives and say perhaps the best outlook for continued progress is to see the glass as half full, but in need of replenishment.

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my. The U.S. dollar was tied to gold, so that the value of the dollar neither increased, nor decreased, but remained the same amount of gold. The Great Depression, with its preceding infl ation from 1921 to 1929 and its subse-quent ballooning govern-ment defi cits, had substan-tially increased the amount of cur-rency in circula-tion, and thus ren-dered the backing of U.S. dollars by gold impossible. This led Roosevelt to decouple the dollar from gold in 1932. Up to this point, the U.S. may have well domi-nated the world economy, but from an economic point of view, it was not an empire. The fi xed value of the dollar did not allow the Americans to extract eco-nomic benefi ts from other

countries by sup-plying them with dollars convert-ible to gold.

E c o n o m i -cally, the Ameri-can Empire was born with Bret-

manded and the subject-state could deliver. Historically, imperial taxation has always been direct: the subject state handed over the economic goods directly to the empire.

For the fi rst time in his-tory, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through in-fl ation. It did not enforce the direct payment of taxes like all of its predecessor empires did, but distributed instead its own fi at currency, the U.S. Dollar, to other nations in exchange for goods with the intended consequence of infl ating and devaluing those dollars and paying back later each dollar with less eco-nomic goods—the difference capturing the U.S. imperial tax. Here is how this hap-pened.

Early in the 20th century, the U.S. economy began to dominate the world econo-



ton Woods in 1945. The U.S. dollar was not fully convert-ible to gold, but was made convertible to gold only to foreign governments. This established the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. It was possible, because dur-ing WWII, the United States had supplied its allies with

provisions, de-manding gold as payment, thus accumulat-ing signifi cant portion of the world’s gold. An Empire would not have been possible if, following the Bretton Woods ar rangement , the dollar supply was kept lim-ited and within the availabil-

ity of gold, so as to fully ex-change back dollars for gold. However, the guns-and-but-ter policy of the 1960’s was an imperial one: the dollar supply was relentlessly increased to fi -nance Vietnam and LBJ’s Great Society. Most of those dollars were handed over

to foreigners in exchange for economic goods, without the prospect of buying them back at the same value. The increase in dollar holdings of foreigners via persistent U.S. trade defi cits was tanta-mount to a tax—the classical infl ation tax that a country imposes on its own citizens, this time around an infl ation tax that U.S. imposed on rest of the world.

When in 1970-1971 for-eigners demanded payment for their dollars in gold, The U.S. Government defaulted on its payment on August 15, 1971. While the popular spin told the story of “sever-ing the link between the dol-lar and gold”, in reality the denial to pay back in gold was an act of bankruptcy by the U.S. Government. Essen-tially, the U.S. declared itself an Empire. It had extracted an enormous amount of eco-nomic goods from the rest

“Most of those dollars were

handed over to foreigners in exchange for

economic goods, without the

prospect of buying them back at the same value.”


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While there is a temptation for some researchers to focus only on underlying causes for the involvement of western powers in the Mideast, it is important to remem-ber there is much credibility regarding the conventional reasons given for the deployment of western troops in this area.

Regardless of one’s view of the 9/11 attack, there are very much Islamo-fascist elements in the Mideast and else-where that consider the west, civilians and soldiers alike, to be an enemy to be destroyed.

Respect for individual rights within countries is also a serious issue. The latest event highlighting this situation is in regards to a law passed by the Taliban advocating an automatic death sentence for anyone who converts from Islam to another religion in Afghanistan. That a trial on this law taking place under a western backed government in the coun-try shows how far there is to go here. Al-though anything could happen, the odds are that western infl uence will save lives regarding this misguided legislation.

Women’s rights are another area where individuals need protection from abusive treatment by Islamo-fascists. There are videos on the Internet showing women being beaten, simply for wearing clothing that did not fully cover the ankles.

In bringing the reader important facts that go unreport-ed by the mainstream media, an alternative media would, be throwing out the baby with the bathwater in rejecting all that forms the offi cial story. Yet it is amazing how often this happens. One caveat here is that mainstream media is really about ‘papers of record’, and not community papers that have neither the resources or the mandate to shape the news. A second caveat is that even in the case of ‘papers of record’, the problems are largely systemic, and not the fault of individual journalists and editors.

Counter arguments to the effect of the Iranian oil bourse

The story of the Iranian oil bourse being the real rea-son, or at least the main reason, for a potential U.S. attack on Iran has gained signifi cant credibility on Internet news vehicles. This has led to information counterattacks.

A general consensus on one establishment website was that the Euro would make little headway, as there were not enough Euros in circulation, and the European countries would be reluctant to greatly increase the print-ing of Euros. This criticism misses the point of how mon-ey is created. Only about 5% of the money in circulation is in the form of currency. The great majority is created as debt, at the press of a computer key. It would be quite easy

to bring Euros into being as countries were debited for their oil.

Another critic contended that the idea for an Iranian oil bourse came from London’s International Petro-leum Exchange (IPE). It is very dif-fi cult to see any real reasons why this institution would communicate it was in favour of such a competitor. This might have been a pre-emptive strike

at masking motives since there was foreknowledge of the Iranian plan.

A mainstream journalist, perhaps making a mistake, raised the issue in a Newsweek interview. The exchange on this subject, in its entirety, is as follows.

Newsweek: To what extent are the current plans for a Euro-based International Oil Bourse in Tehran affecting the debate over nuclear technology? It is said that this Bourse will threaten the supremacy of the US Dollar and therefore is a bigger threat to the US than the potential WMD.

Michael Hirsh: I don’t think it’s affecting it at all.

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instrumental in the forming of a Mini School. A Kinette sponsored children’s creative playground was built in the summer of 1976.

The Hospital Auxiliary was formed in 1966 to pro-vide services and comfort for the Whitecourt General Hospital patients. The fi rst

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installation of a pop machine and gift cupboard. Over the years the Auxiliary pur-chased furniture, toys, linen and nightwear. They also ac-quired several items of major equipment such as a porta-ble oxygen tank, diagnostic equipment, anesthetic ma-chine and a monapulse defi -brilator. The funds for this were raised primarily in two


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In 1967 a

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Not satisfi ed, he harangued on for another twenty min-utes and repeated his question. This time he received a better response, with about 80 percent of the assembly fi nding the capability to forgive.

Still unsatisfi ed with the congregation’s response, he lec-tured for another 15 minutes and repeated his question.

With all thoughts now on Sunday dinner, those in atten-dance responded in affi rmative regarding their ability to for-give, except one elderly lady in the rear.

“Mrs. Jones, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?” the preacher queried.

“I don’t have any” replied the elderly lady. “Mrs. Jones, that is very unusual. How old are you?”“Ninety three.”“Mrs. Jones, would you please come down front and tell

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From that point on, to sustain the Amer-ican Empire and to continue to tax the rest of the world, the Unit-ed States had to force the world to continue to accept ever-de-preciating dollars in exchange for economic goods and to have the world hold more and more of those depreciating dol-lars. It had to give the world an economic reason to hold them, and that reason was oil.

In 1971, as it became clearer and clearer that the U.S Government would not be able to buy back its dol-lars in gold, it made in 1972-73 an iron-clad a r r a n g e m e n t with Saudi Ara-bia to support the power of the House of Saud in exchange for accepting only U.S. dollars for its oil. The rest of OPEC was to follow suit and also accept only dollars. Because the world had to buy oil from the Arab oil countries, it had the reason to hold dollars as payment for oil. Because the

world needed ever increas-ing quantities of oil at ever increasing oil prices, the world’s demand for dollars could only increase. Even though dollars could no lon-ger be exchanged for gold, they were now exchangeable for oil.

The econom-ic essence of this arrangement was that the dollar was now backed by oil. As long as that was the case, the world had to accumulate in-creasing amounts of dollars, be-cause they need-ed those dollars to buy oil. As long as the dollar

was the only acceptable pay-ment for oil, its dominance in the world was assured, and the American Empire could continue to tax the rest of the world. If, for any reason, the dollar lost its oil backing, the American Empire would cease to exist. Thus, Impe-

rial survival dictated that oil be sold only for dollars. It also dictated that oil reserves were spread around various sover-eign states that weren’t strong enough, politi-cally or militar-ily, to demand payment for oil in something

else. If someone demanded a different payment, he had to be convinced, either by political pressure or military means, to change his mind.


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Many have criticized Bush for staging the war in Iraq in or-der to seize Iraqi oil fi elds. How-ever, those critics can’t explain why Bush would want to seize those fi elds—he could simply print dollars for nothing and use them to get all the oil in the world that he needs. He must have had some other reason to invade

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ways — the annual hospital ball and the Next-to-New Shop which opened in 1968. (The Repeat Boutique car-ries on the fi ne effort started by Next-to-New.) Starting in 1971 the Auxiliary sponsored the “Volunteer” program — an annual program which trained young girls in how to help the nurses in the hospital.

The Legion continued as a strong commu-nity organization throughout the 1960’s. In 1969, it was decided that the old hall, built way back in 1920, had served its time, and plans were formulated for a more modern structure. With support from the community, the new hall became a reality in 1970, built on the same site as its predecessor.

In late 1967 a Recre-ation Board was created by the Town government to deal with the co-ordination of ex-isting recreation groups and development of further facil-ities. It held its fi rst meeting

on December 5, 1967, with Al Frizzell nominated Chair-man. Gord Tocher, served as Vice-Chairman while Jan Moorehouse took on the po-sition of Secretary. The Town designated the pre-1967 Town Offi ce as a recreational building open to any group that wished to use it.

An area on

the hilltop had been developed as a baseball park — largely built by volun-teer labour on land donated by the town.

In June of 1968, a road was made out to the cut-banks on the McLeod River, which

was near the old ferry land-ing. Brush was cleaned out, gravel was hauled and toilet facilities were installed to make a swimming-hole” area. The Town maintained service to it for several years.

One of the major func-tions of the Recreation Board after forming was to deal with myriad problems arising with



“In 1969, it was decided

that the old hall, built way back in 1920, had

served its time, and plans were formulated for a more modern structure. ”

Above, moving old legion in September 1969. Below construction of new Legion in 1970.


the construction of an indoor ice arena. The Kinsmen Club spearheaded a drive to obtain funds for such a project and the Town had agreed to pro-vide and take over mainte-nance for such a facility.

Residents, other service clubs, businesses and indus-try all contributed enthusias-tically to the project. A site on the hilltop opposite the high school was chosen and construction began in earnest in the spring of 1968. The arena was offi cially opened

in December of 1969 minus bleachers and with natural ice — but that didn’t stop an enthusiastic population from using the facility. The fol-lowing winter artifi cial ice was installed along with the bleachers.

The arena gave rise to the formation of several or-ganizations. In 1969, the Whitecourt Skating Club was formed. Its mandate was to teach Whitecourt youngsters the basic techniques of fi gure skating. The fi rst President was June Courterelle. Ridley

took on the duties of secre-tary-treasurer while Betty Krause and Evelyn Astle served as directors. Doreen Olecko was the instructor that initial winter. The Skat-ing Club became part of the Canadian Figure Skating As-sociation in 1972 and reached a membership of 150 of all ages under the direction of a qualifi ed professional and many volunteer coaches. Besides regular lessons, test days and clinics, the whole club looked forward to a gala ice show put on each year in conjunction with the Kins-men Winter Carnival.

The Amateur Sports As-sociation (forerunner to the Minor Hockey Association, Commercial Hockey, and Amateur Baseball Associa-tion) formed in 1969 and had eleven hockey teams partici-pating that year. In 1972 the Minor Hockey Association was formed in order to en-courage and organize hockey teams “for fun” for boys ages

6-16. The charter executive included Bob Mitchell, Pres-ident, Allan Frizzell, Vice-President and John Regehr, Secretary-Treasurer. In a short time, the Minor Hockey leagues grew from 100 play-ers to around 275 enthusias-tic participants, all requiring much help from volunteer coaches and organizers. Each division played in house leagues and the “B” teams in each division played in a traveling league. In 1972 Mi-nor Hockey registered with the Amateur Hockey Associ-ation which allowed them to enter provincial competitions and tournaments.

The Men’s Senior Hock-ey team, the Imperials, now had a more reliable home base. In the fall of 1970 outfi tted in smart green and white uniforms donated by Ron Ashmore. and Dahl & Son Construction, the Impe-rials sallied forth under a new name “The Whitecourt Cats”.


(Continued on page 21)Arena under construction, March 1969.

Whitecourt Cats out for another win.


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They proceeded to vanquish all challengers to the cham-pionship of the Northwest Hockey League. In the fall of 1971 the Whitecourt Cat Hockey Club was formed in order to relieve the players of the business end of team ac-tivities. Under the direction of President Horace Olecko, Secretary Sandy George and Treasurer Bob Binfet, the nu-merous little jobs such as ar-rangements for timekeepers, goal judges, announcers, ref-erees, ticket takers, advertis-ing, transportation and travel were taken over. The Cats continued to maintain their supremacy in the League for the next four years, losing out to the Hinton Hawks in the spring of 1975. Win or lose the Cat games provid-ed much entertainment for sports-minded Whitecourt fans.

In the year prior to the building of the new town of-fi ce, Clyde Feero, who had served as Chairman of the Board for many years, decid-ed not to run in the October 1966 elections. Allan Millar was re-elected and John Dahl elected for the fi rst time. A. J. Millar became Chairman of the Board, taking over for Clyde.

In the October, 1967, Town elections, A. Harrison was elected for a three year term and A. Dirks for a one year term. Those members still with remaining terms to complete were Al Millar. John Dahl and Ken Reeves.

During 1968 there was a change in the Election Act which marked an end to elect-ing Village, Town and City governments on an alternate term basis. The Councils or Boards were to be elected en masse every three years with the fi rst whole “group election” planned for 1971. Those terms expiring in 1968 would automatically become three year terms. Terms ex-piring in 1969 would become two year terms and those in 1970 one year terms.

In the Whitecourt elec-tion of 1968, the two three-year seats created by the ex-piring of Al Dirks’ and Ken Reeves’ terms were won by R. Woodman and Harry John-son. A. Harrison who had been elected to a three year term the year before moved away, and his remaining two year term was won by Gary Mitchell.

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member was added to the Board, with one government appointee dropping off. Earl Briscoe remained as the sin-gle provincial representative and Marg Gibson and Gor-don Tocher were elected for two year terms. Al Millar had chosen not to run again in 1969, having served the in-terests of Whitecourt for the past eleven years. John Dahl was elected by the Board to take over from Allan Millar as Chairman.

In 1970, Al Frizzell and Horace Olecko were elected to the Board for one year terms replacing Gary Mitch-ell whose term had expired and Gord Tocher who was transferred.

Next month an update to

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pioneers, it is hard to imagine the earlier society they were a part of being subjected to such things as routine oc-currences of vandalism and random violence. This is not to say such incidents are new in a longer historical context. However, that they should be increasing in a time of ma-terial abundance and better communications should give one pause for thought.

The idea of rebirth or re-newal could be extrapolated from a yearly springtime fes-tival to that which spans a much longer time cycle. Such changes are sometimes re-ferred to by systems theorists as punctuated equilibrium, or by management consultants as discontinuous change. The idea is that a society can un-dergo a signifi cant improve-ment over a relatively short time period.

The Renaissance in Eu-rope was one such period. There was a fl owering of mu-sic, art, literature and politi-cal freedom. New communi-cations technology, specifi -cally the printing press, was a major reason for the rapid improvement. The likeliest scenario for most, if not all progress, is that of gradual evolution and discontinuous change both taking place as a system moves forward. It is not an ‘either/or’ scenario.

Best selling author M. Scott Peck has entitled one of (Continued on page 24)

(Easter from page 11) his books based on the idea of discontinuous change. It is called A World Waiting to be Born: Civility Rediscovered. Reviewer Bob Wallace of St. Louis, USA captured the es-sence of the book when he wrote: “Peck starts his book with an example followed by a question: a man on an air-plane, after talking to a fel-low passenger, sees him as a business prospect, excuses himself, checks the man’s credit rating, then returns with a drink “for his new best friend.” Why, Peck asks, is this wrong? We know some-thing is off the mark here, but can’t quite put our fi nger on it. What isn’t right, Peck explains, is that the passen-ger is really being treated as a “thing” to be exploited, but outwardly is being treated as an intimate friend.

The theologian and phi-losopher Martin Buber, who has greatly infl uenced Peck, called the fi rst relationship an “I-It” and the second, an “I-Thou.” The fi rst is narcis-sistic, the second, anti-narcis-sistic. And narcissism, writes Peck throughout this book, is really the problem: people treating others as if they are only “things” there to serve them. That, in a sentence, is the essence of incivility. Be-ing civil doesn’t necessarily mean being polite. The man on the airplane was polite, but a hypocrite. Civility can at times require forcefulness, even anger. True incivility,

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P r o d u c e r Arthur Kanegis heads an organiza-tion called Future Wave. The organi-zation deals with making movies and videos with non-violent themes. Paul Newman, Dennis Weaver, Martin Sheen, Edward James Olmos, Arun Gandhi and others concerned about the culture of violence plaguing our society are among those on Future Wave’s board of advisors. Future Wave ar-gues that there is a market for non-violent movies, such as ET. Howevber, studios concentrate on violent mov-ies because less thought or creativity is required to roll out a product that will gener-ate a profi t. Even so, it is hard to imagine why so many so-cially conscious videos from ‘black’ culture are shelved in favour of ‘gangsta’ rap; or why misogyny and other ju-venile behaviour is presented as ‘cool’ in such videos.

Kanegis writes: “Mythol-ogy interpreter Joseph Camp-bell studied societal behavior from ancient tribal clans to modern industrial nations,

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with the immediate facts at hand.

In Hans Christian An-derseon’s classic fairy tale the public fails to see that the emperor has no clothes. Why? Because the popular myth that emperors dress in the fi nest garb is so strong that people discount their own observation. A scientifi c study reported in the New York Times demonstrated that popular beliefs can actually override people’s personal visual observations. Through MRI and brain scans, re-searchers determined that people who go along with the popular myth even when it contradicts what they are seeing show no physiologi-cal evidence of lying! Almost

half of those studied believed the popularly-accepted fi c-tion over what they were see-ing in front of their eyes.

As philosopher Plato said: “Whoever tells the sto-ries shapes society.” If we want to change the behavior of our society, we have to change the story. We have to change the mythology. In our world, that means creating new stories through the most visceral storytelling media of our times: movies and televi-sion.”

For the time being, be-cause of cost constraints, most new thinking about so-ciety and economics is con-fi ned to print and static images on the Internet. As costs for making videos and mov-ies continue to fall, it is possible that more and more successful, thoughtful shows will spring up. Indeed, there are already signs of this growth, with short Internet videos online by independents be-coming increasingly popular. Freedom TV is also ‘stream-ing’ alternative shows, mix-ing conspiracy theories and

facts, with the best of the mainstream documentaries.

Thomas Paine wrote a book called The Rights of Man that became a corner-stone of increased personal freedom. It was one of the inspirational pieces for the American Revolution, which helped overturn the idea that people were born as subjects to a king. The words of Mr. Paine, although centuries old, still make sense when it comes to shaking off the ideas that no longer work in society. He stated: “When precedents fail to assist us, we must return to the fi rst princi-ple of things for information and think, as if we were the

fi rst people that thought.” This might seem like hard work at fi rst, but like most other things worthwhile, it can quickly become fun. So while you are en-joying the spring air, and com-memorating the

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American Empire.

II. Iranian Oil Bourse

The Iranian government has fi nally developed the ultimate “nuclear” weapon that can swiftly destroy the fi nancial system underpin-ning the American Empire. That weapon is the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. It will be based on a euro-oil-trading mecha-nism that naturally implies payment for oil in Euro. In economic terms, this repre-sents a much greater threat to the hegemony of the dol-lar than Saddam’s, because it will allow anyone willing either to buy or to sell oil for Euro to transact on the ex-change, thus circumventing the U.S. dollar altogether. If so, then it is likely that al-

most everyone will eagerly adopt this euro oil system:

• The Europeans will not have to buy and hold dollars in order to se-cure their pay-ment for oil, but would instead pay with their own currencies. The adoption of the euro for oil transactions will provide the European cur-rency with a re-serve status that will benefi t the European at the expense of the Americans.

• The Chinese and the Japanese will be especially eager to adopt the new ex-change, because it will allow

them to drastically lower their enormous dollar reserves and diversify with Euros, thus protecting themselves against the depreciation of the dol-

lar. One portion of their dollars they will still want to hold onto; a sec-ond portion of their dollar holdings they may decide to dump outright; a third portion of their dollars they will decide to use up for future pay-ments without re-plenishing those dollar holdings, but building up instead their euro

reserves.

• The Russians have in-herent economic interest in adopting the Euro – the bulk

of their trade is with Europe-an countries, with oil-export-ing countries, with China, and with Japan. Adoption of the Euro will immediately take care of the fi rst two blocs, and will over time facilitate trade with China and Japan. Also, the Russians seemingly detest holding depreciating dollars, for they have recent-ly found a new religion with gold. Russians have also re-vived their nationalism, and if embracing the Euro will stab the Americans, they will gladly do it and smugly watch the Americans bleed.

• The Arab oil-exporting countries will eagerly adopt the Euro as a means of diver-sifying against rising moun-tains of depreciating dollars. Just like the Russians, their trade is mostly with European



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Only the British will fi nd themselves between a rock and a hard place. They have had a strategic partnership with the U.S. forever, but have also had their natural pull from Europe. So far, they have had many reasons to stick with the winner. How-ever, when they see their cen-tury-old partner falling, will they fi rmly stand behind him or will they deliver the coup de grace? Still, we should not forget that currently the two leading oil exchanges are the New York’s NYMEX and the London’s International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), even though both of them are effectively owned by the Americans. It seems more likely that the British will have to go down with the sinking ship, for otherwise they will be shooting them-selves in the foot by hurting their own London IPE inter-ests. It is here noteworthy that for all the rhetoric about the reasons for the surviv-ing British Pound, the Brit-ish most likely did not adopt

the Euro namely because the Americans must have pres-sured them not to: otherwise the London IPE would have had to switch to Euros, thus mortally wounding the dollar and their strategic partner.

At any rate, no mat-ter what the British decide, should the Iranian Oil Bourse accelerate, the interests that matter—those of Europe-ans, Chinese, Japanese, Rus-sians, and Arabs—wil l eagerly adopt the Euro, thus sealing the fate of the dol-lar. Americans cannot allow this to happen, and if neces-sary, will use a vast array of strategies to halt or hobble the operation’s exchange:

• Sabotaging the Ex-change—this could be a computer virus, network, communications, or server attack, various server secu-rity breaches, or a 9-11-type attack on main and backup facilities.

• Coup d’état—this is by far the best long-term strat-egy available to the Ameri-

cans.

• Negotiating Acceptable Terms & Limitations—this is another excellent solution to the Americans. Of course, a government coup is clearly the preferred strategy, for it will ensure that the exchange does not operate at all and does not threaten American interests. However, if an at-tempted sabotage or coup d’etat fails, then negotiation

is clearly the second-best available op-tion.

• Joint U.N. War Res-olution—this will be, no doubt, hard to secure given the interests of all other

member-states of the Secu-rity Council. Feverish rheto-ric about Iranians developing nuclear weapons undoubt-edly serves to prepare this course of action.

• Unilateral Nuclear Strike—this is a terrible stra-tegic choice for all the rea-sons associated with the next strategy, the Unilateral Total War. The Americans will likely use Israel to do their (Continued on page 28)

(Continued from page 25) dirty nuclear job.

• Unilateral Total War—this is obviously the worst strategic choice. First, the U.S. military resources have been already depleted with two wars. Secondly, the Americans will further alien-ate other powerful nations. Third, major dollar-hold-ing countries may decide to quietly retaliate by dump-ing their own mountains of dollars, thus preventing the U.S. from further fi nancing its militant ambitions. Fi-nally, Iran has strategic al-liances with other powerful nations that may trigger their involvement in war; Iran re-putedly has such alliance with China, India, and Rus-sia, known as the Shanghai Cooperative Group, a.k.a. Shanghai Coop and a sepa-rate pact with Syria.

Whatever the strategic choice, from a purely eco-nomic point of view, should the Iranian Oil Bourse gain momentum, it will be eagerly embraced by major econom-ic powers and will precipitate the demise of the dollar. The collapsing dollar will dra-matically accelerate U.S. in-fl ation and will pressure up-ward U.S. long-term interest


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The Austrian theory of money, credit, and business cycles teaches us that there is no in-between Scylla and Charybdis. Sooner or later, the monetary system must swing one way or the other, forcing the Fed to make its choice. No doubt, Com-mander-in-Chief Ben Ber-nanke, a renowned scholar of the Great Depression and an adept Black Hawk pilot, will choose infl ation. Helicopter Ben, oblivious to Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression, has nonetheless mastered

the lessons of the Great De-pression and the annihilat-ing power of defl ations. The Maestro has taught him the panacea of every single fi -nancial problem—to infl ate, come hell or high water. He has even taught the Japanese his own ingenious unconven-tional ways to battle the de-fl ationary liquidity trap. Like his mentor, he has dreamed of ba t t l ing a Kon-d r a t i e f f Wi n t e r . To avoid defl ation, he will r e s o r t to the pr int ing presses; he will recall all helicop-ters from the 800 overseas U.S. mili-tary bases; and, if necessary, he will monetize everything in sight. His ultimate accom-plishment will be the hyper-infl ationary destruction of the American currency and from its ashes will rise the next reserve currency of the world—that barbarous relic called gold. §

Editor - Again, it is im-portant to know that gold in-terests fi nanced this study.

Another take on the viewpointAuthor William R. Clark has received two Project Cen-

sored awards for his research on oil currency confl ict, and has recently published a book, Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar (New Society Publishers, 2005). He is an Information Security Analyst, and holds a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Infor-mation and Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University. Reprinted with permission.

Synopsis: It is not yet clear if a U.S. military expedition

will occur in 2006-2007 as a desperate attempt to maintain petrodollar supremacy. Regardless of the recent National Intelligence Esti-mate that down-played Iran’s potential nuclear weapons program, it appears increasingly likely the Bush adminis-tration may use the specter of nuclear weapon proliferation as a pretext for an intervention, similar to the fears in-voked in the previous WMD campaign regarding Iraq. If recent stories are correct regarding Cheney’s plan to pos-sibly use a another 9/11 terrorist attack as the pretext or casus belli for a U.S. aerial attack against Iran, this would confi rm the Bush administration is

prepared to undertake a desperate military strategy to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions, while simultaneously attempting to prevent the Iranian oil Bourse from initiating a euro-based system for oil trades.

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