tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62487708369418176122024-03-05T10:27:08.361-08:00Integrity CommonsThe Newsletter for Freedom TV Networks' 2-Way Interactive TV ShowsMelinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248770836941817612.post-78463028916890821962013-09-02T08:16:00.003-07:002013-09-02T08:18:37.679-07:00The story of the Spanish teacher who tried to instill discipline in two spoiled senior girls at Oak Hills High School<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I was in ninth
grade I attended a small preparatory junior high/ high school called
Oak Hill. The small private school was located three businesses away
from the corner of Sepulveda Blvd, and Plummer streets. For the first
two years I was there, the school was comprised mostly of one main
building, which at one point clearly had been a private house. At
some point this became a small private school. Later, Oak Hill High
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Spanish class patiently listening to my teacher Mr Mejohas. Senor
Mejohas was a respectful and serious man. Fairly skinny, he dressed
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in a culture where they honored their elders. Which was not the case
at our school in Los Angeles's “beautiful” San Fernando Valley,
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Hispanic family where the children are respectful of their elders. He
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the small hall became so loud they were disrupting Mr Mejohas lesson
he would walk across the hall to restore discipline. I only became
aware of the problem when Senor Mejohas became flustered, and stopped
the lesson to go discuss this with the French teacher who taught the
class, but the French teacher seemed to have left them for a short
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unruly girls to the principle of the school, Mrs Boyle. Who had been
teaching English the year before. Mrs Boyle was the young mother who
just the year before had her young son Chris in a crib in the corner
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While Mrs Boyle was a
kind, understanding lady, and she wanted to do right to all her
students, and, of course, be fair with the teachers now under her.
She knew she could not have one of her classes disrupted by any of
the students under her authority. She took the girls into the office,
and corrected their behavior. </span></span>
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can only imagine what went on in that meeting. I can only report that
those girls never again made so much noise during our class. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A couple of weeks went
by. The two girls Andy Issa, and Paige Duckwald were the popular type
of girls, more interested in clothes, and boys, than their studies.
They were three grades older than myself. Growing up with two,
sometimes three older sisters in the house, I was used to such
distraction, and them being so loud did not bother me, as it had
Senor Mejohas. </span></span>
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Andy Issa, and Paige Duckwald had some time to “stew,” and I have
to assume that Mr Mejohas getting the best of them must have been a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then one day after lunch
a big fuss erupted in the school parking lot. The word around campus
was that questionable magazines were found in Mr Mejohas' car. He had
to leave his class to go defend himself before the principle of our
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took place, I learned the girls planted those magazines in his
unlocked car, and made it look as if they were his, and that he did
not have a thing for slutty teen white girls in skimpy clothing. </span></span>
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I never knew, and will never know. Senor Mejohas did not lose his job
over this, but he was obviously deeply troubled. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is just one of the
many stories about how cruel, and selfish rich girls can be. These
two girls showed no concern for anything but their own comfort and
fashionable appearance. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I strongly doubt either
girl took a moment to consider what losing his job would do to Senor
Mejohas, or his family. He was a good teacher, respectful of everyone
with whom he came in contact, exacting, but strongly committed to
doing his job. </span></span>
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completely not liking another person. But making up stories to try to
get a person unjustly fired is wrong. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't know what
happened to the girls after they graduated. Senor Mejohas left at
the end of the year, probably because of this incident. I know the
incident hurt Senor Mejohas and the girls suffered no punishment for
an offense far worse than talking loudly. The girls showed no
integrity. Senor did. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But I would like to
know. If you know Senor or the girls, please <a href="mailto:arthurefoster@yahoo.com">contact me</a>. </span></span>
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the time to read this. May peace be with you. </span></span>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248770836941817612.post-35602499136667528652011-01-26T14:18:00.000-08:002011-01-27T10:29:44.636-08:00Were National Parks the 'One Good Thing?” Think again.<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMgG-ix-HsBFglIa62wNqjx4pel75noOGY-i1Ckcp_RhcX8-rcG26xw-uvNOPYSWQRovYtpVJSOqs_SHCW9VD5is0uGeyYjglKEzk2SwThieer2hPSryO7MYApp95dMrURD8tvADZ_t0/s1600/Lose+Your+Illusions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMgG-ix-HsBFglIa62wNqjx4pel75noOGY-i1Ckcp_RhcX8-rcG26xw-uvNOPYSWQRovYtpVJSOqs_SHCW9VD5is0uGeyYjglKEzk2SwThieer2hPSryO7MYApp95dMrURD8tvADZ_t0/s320/Lose+Your+Illusions.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</b></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Lose Your Illusions No. 1 </i></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Today we think of government and corporations as big and impersonal. But then, and now, the people who run things are relatively small in number, a club. The Club follows its own rules, rules from a book nearly a century old, which mandate two standards of behavior, kindness, honesty and concern for Club members, real people, and an entirely different set of rules for ordinary Americans. Normally members of the Club do not discuss the difference in standards. But one member of their club did so, with stunning candor. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html">Edward L. Bernays</a> </span></span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">said this about his use of propaganda, which he had deftly repackaged as public relations. “(The) </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on. <br />
S</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>o what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think.”</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bernays clients were, for the most part, the large industrialists who wanted to sell product which Americans were resistant to buying. Using this simple plan of execution Bernays changed our diet, introducing a hearty breakfast with bacon as a nutritional improvement, persuaded women to smoke, and accustomed us to accepting his carefully selected 'experts' instead of thinking for ourselves. He viewed manipulation of opinion as both the road to riches and a fascinating intellectual challenge. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edward Bernays, the brother-in-law of Sigmund Freud, viewed ordinary Americans as 'a herd,' needing guidance from an enlightened elite. Such guidance was provided by appealing to what he identified as 'need for security,' 'self-preservation', 'aggression,' or ' sex.' </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bernays can be viewed as an early </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/15935/"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Leo Strauss</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, who instead of creating a 'philosophy,' cherry picked 'expert' opinions without associating himself with any specific institution. The outcome is the same, in either case. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mark Crispin Miller, a respected writer, sent out </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/01/glenn-beck-plugs-mcms-work/"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">this video</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> by Glenn Beck on Bernays recently. Ordinarily, this is not a film this writer would have encountered.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edward Benarys and Robert Sterling Yard operated using the same standards. Robert Sterling Yard designed the PR campaign which sold Americans on National Parks as resorts. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Beginning in 1915, the campaign persuaded Americans lands held in perpetuity for them should be used to build high end hotels, following the elite model of Europe. A practiced public relations expert, Yard, paid partially by government and partially by the new Park Director, Stephen T. Mather, produced a book, also issued as a series of small booklets, on the National Parks. Other members of the Club, for instance the head of the National Geographic, also assisted. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As you leaf through the </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/parkportnational00unitrich#page/31/mode/2up"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The National Parks Portfolio</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, all six editions, photographs of resort hotels resembling those found in Europe far outnumber photos of camp grounds. The building of roads and travel by automobile are strongly encouraged. Feeding the wildlife made the Parks seem like an outdoor zoo without bars. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The materials read like promotion for a time-share. They were aimed at ordinary Americans who knew little or nothing about the raging debate, only recently stilled by the death of John Muir in 1914, on conservation (orderly use of natural resources) and preservation (wilderness kept in its natural state). </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The appointed head of Parks, Stephen Mather sold the plan using rhetoric glowing with superlatives, asserting the idea the public should view these wilderness areas as their personal 'resorts,' where they could encounter the world of nature while expecting the comforts of home. It was Mather's proven ability as an adman along with his wealth, which moved Franklin K. Lane to appoint him. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The original notion for National holdings of land was to reserve some limited land in perpetuity, as it was before Europeans arrived and such practices as hydrological mining and clear cutting of forests had remade the landscape of much of California, and North America. Not Conservation, but Preservation. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If the America had been a nation of people managing their own destiny and making their own decisions the issue would have been presented to the American people directly. Instead, Americans were presented with a public relations campaign, resulting in passage of the Organic Act in 1916, establishing a separate body to manage the Parks. Previously management was shared between three agencies. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Club </b></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Club was not large, then or now. When you dig into the details, personal relationships pop up like mushrooms. It was a small, exclusive, club, very much as Bernays' quote indicates. The policy on Parks originated with Stephen Mather, who, with the help of his friends molded opinion and controlled what Americans believed. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Who Was Stephen T. Mather? </b></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stephen Tyng Mather was a descendant of Cotton Mather, the Puritan minister involved in the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials. The Mather family later relocated to Connecticut. Stephen's father, Joseph W. Mather, suggested his son for a job with Pacific Coast Borax Company, for whom Joseph ran the New York office, in 1893. Stephen Mather had been working as a reporter for the New York Sun since soon after his graduation from UC Berkeley in 1887. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Robert Sterling Yard stood up as Best Man for Stephen T. Mather's wedding on October 12, 1893. The two were friends of long standing. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather was hired as advertising manager for </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Borax_Company"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pacific Coast Borax Company</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">first in New York, and then at the main branch in Chicago. Mather, a talented writer and adept at enticing public interest by positioning products, proposed </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> adoption of the theme, “20-Mule Team,” which dramatically increased company sales, and ran the ad campaign. In Chicago he met the man who would be his partner in Sterling Borax, Thomas Thorkildsen. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thorkildsen, younger slightly than Mather, was a first generation American, the son of a Norwegian lumberjack from Wisconsin. Both Mather and Thorkildsen were skilled with sales. Thorkildsen reported to Mather as his superior. It was reported Thorkildsen suggested the two men share funds skimmed from their employer. These is no evidence Mather mentioned this proposal to Smith. Smith discovered Thorkildsen backdating orders in 1898 and fired him.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather and Thorkildsen then joined in a covert partnership. Mather continued working for Smith and so had access to his employer's customer base while the two established a company, Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company, of which Mather was president, in California. Mather, using his salary, provided funding, as Thorkildsen worked to establish Borax holdings in Ventura County, CA. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1902 Mather suffered an psychological break-down and was institutionalized for a period of time. Smith refused to continue his salary, of which, Mather complained. Soon Mather ended his employment and began publicly working with Thorkildsen in California, their company became profitable around 1905 and its name changed to Sterling Borax. In 1911 Sterling Borax was sold to Pacific Coast Borax for what today would be $500,000,000. Mather and Thorkildsen shared the profits and also received salaries from Smith for ten years. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">No mention of the impact this scheme had on Smith's company was found but Smith's company was bankrupted soon afterward. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion_Smith">Francis Marion Smith</a> started again and recovered his wealth, spending much of it on charities. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Later, the Mather and Thorkildsen justify their behavior toward Smith for various reasons. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For the purpose of writing this article I contacted three long time, respected businessmen, their careers in stock brokering, sales, and mining, and outlined the actions of Mather and his partner without using their names. Each man condemned their actions as unethical and possibly legally actionable. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">According to an article, '</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/12/local/me-8164"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Borax King' Cleaned Up, but Died Washed Up</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">," published in the Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2000, written by Cecilia Rasmussen, Thorkildsen used physical threats to discourage competition and engaged in outrageous personal behavior which scandalized Hollywood. The two men remained friends and Thorkildsen was introduced to Mather's other friends and associates as he became involved in government. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Park Service Public Relations Campaign </b></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The National Park Campaign began in 1915 but the forces which determined its form were in motion much earlier. The appointment of Franklin K. Lane, as Secretary of the Interior, was a political pay-off by incoming President Woodrow Wilson, made to ensure Wilson's election. The Hetch-Hetchy would become the water supply for San Francisco, spending its crystal waters to start the flow of profits from lands awaiting subdivision around the city, according to Gray Brechin in his book, “Imperial San Francisco,” page 110. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather was offered the position of Director for the National Parks by Lane in early 1914. Despite traditions to the contrary, Lane was not previously acquainted with Mather personally and no letter was written by Mather resulting in the appointment. The recommendation came through a mutual friend, Adolph Miller, formerly a professor at UC Berkeley who accepted an appointment suggested by Lane in the Wilson Administration. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Horace Albright is admitted to the Club </b></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Horace Albright, then newly graduated from UC Berkeley, had been working for Miller at the time Miller accepted the position as Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Miller invited Albright to come with him to DC as his assistant. When Miller moved on to a position as Governor for the Federal Reserve System the next year Albright remained at the Department of the Interior. Lane suggested Albright to Mather as an able assistant, in his position as Director for the Parks. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Initially, Albright hesitated. He was engaged to be married to woman living in San Francisco and planned to return and start a law practice.. Mather's proposal to him changed this. Albright reported in </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“Creating the National Park System – The Missing Years</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,” feeling elated at being part of the vision Mather enunciated while reluctant to delay his marriage. He agreed to stay on for a year, the term Mather set as his own time limit for the work. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Albright had been raised in Bishop, California and had hardly left there until beginning college at UC Berkeley in 1908. His parents were hard working and used every opportunity to enlarge the opportunities for education available to their children, but lacked the resources to support Horace in college. Albright worked to pay his living expenses and educational costs himself and luxuries were few. His relationship with Mather, who was always prepared to pay for incidental luxuries, enlarged his experience, showing him a very different world. Mather augmented Albright's government pay, a practice legal until 1919. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather could be the soul of generosity, awakening in those who knew him strong feelings of obligation and loyalty. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">His expenditures included a </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.nps.gov/yose/historyculture/rangers-club.htm"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">club house</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> for the Park Rangers in Yosemite in 1924, which advanced his popularity enormously with a group not usually provided with such perks. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first time Mather met Grace, Albright's fiancee, she and Albright were his guests for dinner at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Albright reported, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“In one hand he </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Mather)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> had a corsage of roses and, in the other, a small box. He handed both to Grace and laughingly said, "I don't know how Horace could ever have been lucky enough to get you. I wasn't around at that time, but I wish you all the happiness in the world." Inside the little velvet box was a small Tiffany brooch, silver with a diamond in the center.” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather said, when accepting the job, he wanted Albright as his assistant to, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“keep him out of jail.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Mather, it turned out, was not entirely joking. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather brought the same values and ethics to government he had demonstrated in business. His style was autocratic and impulsive. He personally decided on a corporate monopoly to run each Park. This approach was adopted in opposition of advice from such men as </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Harvey_Company"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fred Harvey</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> of Fred Harvey Company, whose experience with serving the public began in 1875 with service run in conjunction with railroads across America. Harvey advised against absolute monopolies. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather persisted, causing a series of disasters within the Parks, starting with Yosemite. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather ignored the causes of problems existing in the National Parks. Many of these were the result of government mis-management. For instance, in Yosemite Mather complained concessionaires, such as David Curry of Camp Curry, had inadequate septic systems. But concessionaires could not finance expensive capital improvements without an assurance their loans could be repaid and these had been withheld for decades. Those in charge, including Mather, ignored repeated requests for licenses to do business longer than one year, granted only at the beginning of the year. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather consistently abused the power entrusted to him, causing harm to people engaged in doing business within the Parks. He evidenced strong likes and dislikes, which appear to have driven his actions. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1915 Mather unilaterally gave the concession in Yosemite to J. Desmond, who started a corporation in which Mather and his friends covertly invested. Mather granted a twenty-year exclusive concession and also allowed the sale of liquor, forbidden to all other concessionaires, to ensure Desmond every possible avenue for success. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Desmond had no experience in running hotels or providing food services to the public. The corporation went bankrupt and Desmond departed to be replaced by A. B. C. Dahrmann, who as president of the next incarnation of the original Desmond interests, was quoted by the Stockton Record in 1924 as saying,</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> ”The California Sierra is one of greatest undeveloped resources in the golden state.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At the beginning of 1917 complaints and problems were increasing. At the close of a conference in January Mather suffered an 'emotional break-down' and was institutionalized for a year and a half in a posh facility, described by Albright, “It was a lovely large home, tucked into green lawns and lush forested land.” The next chapters describe Albright's efforts to ensure Mather is not subject to any pressure or problems. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather was not fired. Instead, his assistant, Horace Albright and others covered for him. The breakdown and his financial involvement with Desmond was admitted in Albright's book, </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/albright2/">“Creating the National Park </a><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/albright2/">Service – The Missing Years,</a></i></span></span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">” available for reading online. Albright knew what had happened and suppressed the facts. </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/albright2/pdf/ch17.pdf"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">See Chapter 17</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather suffered another break-down in </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/1922-corresp-yos.php"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1922</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, according to Park correspondence. Again, Albright and others cover for him. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mather's</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/mather.php"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> business background</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> and emotional instability should have raised questions on his suitability for any position within government. Mather was, however, a member of the Club, wealthy and connected. Therefore his interests and well being were a priority in the bifurcated system then being established. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">While rhetoric was used routinely to deceive, as proven so thoroughly by Edward Bernays, examining the actions of individuals reliably reveals the truth. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>How did the Club view ordinary Americans? </b></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Club operated on the view Americans, 'the 'herd,' were to be managed with lies. These events illustrate the world view, reflected in the propaganda used by Yard and later by Benarys, on behalf of both government and corporations, reinforcing the ugly truth of the quote from Bernays cited earlier, “S</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>o what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think.”</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span> </div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The subtext is this: The only people whose property and well being matter are members of the Club. Albright's behavior illustrates the degree to which he had adopted Club attitudes and beliefs. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As these events unfolded Mather received enormous attention and concern as his emotional condition becomes impossible to ignore. This reflected in Albright's book and in correspondence within the Park Service. At the same time, the well being of those viewed as “just ordinary Americans,” was ignored, as in the case of those concessionaires such as Curry who objected to the theft of their years of time invested, the train of arbitrary demands issued by Mather and disregard of the conditions created by government mis-management. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Albright's comments, and lack thereof, at the time of David Curry's untimely death in April of 1916 and further justifications of behavior by Mather, which Albright later realizes pointed to his emotional instability, further illustrate the point. See </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/albright2/pdf/ch8.pdf"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Creating the National Park System – The Missing Years,” Chapter 8</i></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. and </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/albright2/pdf/ch13.pdf"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Chapter 13</i></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>. </i></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Horace M. Albright had been, not surprisingly, seduced by the privileges of power and was now a member of the Club. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the interests of full disclosure, now nearly a century after these events took place, a full examination of the records is called for. While writing this article this writer attempted to access the Superintendent's Reports for Yosemite from 1916 – 1926. The reports from 1906 – 1915 are clearly available and complete and in our files. Those from 1916 – 1926, covering the years when Mather and Albright's management most demands examination, are fragmented. Parts of monthly reports appear to have been eliminated. This report, purported to cover years 1923 – 1925, inclusive, deviating in form from all other reports was requested.. Upon examining it this writer discovered a report spanning 1923 – 1925 which included less than 11 pages, all photographs, for three years of activity. </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/1923---1925.php"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SEE REPORT RECEIVED</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A request for correction was made. </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/yos-archive.php"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SEE REQUEST AND RESPONSE</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The request was also sent to Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Department of the Interior. A Freedom of Information Act demand will now be filed.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">According to George A. Gonzalez in his book, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“Corporate Power and the Environment,” published </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Albright received gifts from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., beginning in 1926. Gonzalez also reports Albright's home in Washington D. C. was partially funded by a gift from David Rockefeller as Albright continued up the ladder of success after Albright left government service, moving on to work in the matrix connecting corporations and government, unfailingly courteous and kind to those who had assisted him. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">According to the Albright's daughter and co-author, Marian Albright Schenck, writing in the Introduction to the book, “</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Creating the National Parks, The Missing Years</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,” Albright reviewed every letter and document and considered destroying materials while in the process of its writing. In the end the story of years 1917 – 1919 is told in a form while the reader takes away the sense much remains unsaid. Albright's acts in covering for Mather, during this period and later, bring illustrate how in a short period of time an individual can accept the idea a small elite can rightfully abuse power. His later history only raises the level of probability Albright's concerns were also for his own position as an attorney in the employ of government engaged in a cover-up. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Co-author Marian Albright Schenck wrote,</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"My father worshiped Mather and wanted to do nothing to damage his name." </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">While her sentiments are understandable, she after all, grew up as a member of the Club through her father, evasion of the facts is not acceptable. Americans have a right to know. </span></span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A baronial system displaced a representative Republic, beginning in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Inherently hierarchical, it was comprised of corporate interests and the more elevated levels of government. Those involved believed they were justified in deceiving the American people, acting out the openly enunciated beliefs expressed by Benarys, and slightly earlier, by Robert Sterling Yard. These self-identified interests in government and corporate America began to install gatekeepers, and routinely limit what Americans could know. Spin and propaganda displaced open dialog and disclosure of facts as the standard. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The bifurcated system which confronts us today was being solidified in outline and attitudes in the first and second decades of the Twentieth Century, its pattern perpetuated by the very different treatment accorded 'members of the Club' and 'ordinary Americans.' </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Today, Americans face proposals the Parks be sold to pay for the profligate behavior of those same Club members. As millions suffer foreclosure and Main Streets ask in vain for help, banks and other corporate interests, other Club members, receive the sympathy and open support of Congress. The term, 'Barons of Industry,' is not a phrase, but a correct assessment of the system which was once America. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It started much earlier than you imagined and in the places you most trusted. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Debunking the excuses: Lose Your Illusions, No. 2 – Coming Soon. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248770836941817612.post-35207505287273861392010-04-11T12:05:00.000-07:002010-04-11T12:06:22.971-07:00No. 3 Build a business with integrity as you stop the use of pesticides.<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE"></meta><title></title><meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Win32)" name="GENERATOR"></meta><style type="text/css">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">As the Meltdown continues to impact American jobs, lost both to outsourcing and to the death of American enterprise, more Americans live in daily fear of what is to come. Even as pundits and others in positions of influence promise us the long fall from hope is about to turn, continuing their cries of “recovery is beginning,”and “the market needed correction,” the truth stares us baldly in the face.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We are witnessing not correction but events which will change the world as we know it forever. The tsunami of monetary and economic shock waves are only now beginning to hit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Americans need work right now, not later. All of us need good health and fewer chemicals in </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Our choices matter and choices made today will impact children unborn. Now, as never before you can act to broaden and illuminate a real path to survival and prosperity. America began as a collection of small towns where people managed their own business. It can be so again and so avoid what government and corporations have wrought.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Over the next six months I'm going to be writing about small businesses you can start for yourself which turn off the corporate spigot, moving you and your community into the New Economy. These are ventures which can generate income for you and turn off the flow of money to Greed Corporations. Many have concluded relocalizing is our only alternative today. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> There is more than one reason we need to return to community. Keep this one in mind. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Big government and Big Business have proven to be unworkable tools for human organization for many reasons. One reason is the presence of psychopathic individuals who, lacking conscience, will do anything to achieve their goals. Once viewed as a problem solvable by traditional therapy, today psychopathy is viewed very differently. Examining the patterns, now obvious, in corporations and government, such experts as <a href="http://hare.org/" target="_blank">Dr. Robert Hare</a>, who originated the first tests for identifying psychopathic behavior, have concluded the behavior is not limited to those truly without conscience. The behavior is readily adopted by those in contact with psychopaths, who observe and emulate 'winning' behavior. This can be corporate, as discussed in his book, “<a href="http://www.aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/bookstore.html" target="_blank">Snakes in Suits</a>,” or in government.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This explains why those in positions of power are willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill with no show of conscience and why we need to turn off the spigots of profit for Greed Corporations.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Business which transitions use of services and products from Grid Products, such as pesticides and chemicals, to sustainable alternatives of all kinds, are essential to relocalizing and bridging the present meltdown. Starting such businesses promotes the rebuilding of local commerce, community organizations, and local economy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In communities we work, live, and get to know who we can trust. It is there we must restore the means to manage our common needs and interests, building a firm foundation for new prosperity.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We have a lot to work with.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Stephen Tvedten will be on his way to China this week, invited by business there to partner with them to produce an entirely organic pest control product which will be used in China to produce vegetables and other produce to be sold widely in China, Europe, and the United States. Using Tvedten's patents and knowledge, they know they can build market shares which will produce a substantial income stream. For his participation Tvedten will personally receive 15%. For Stephen the money is not the motive.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Stephen Tvedten's mission for the last many years has been to provide, for free to Americans, the same basic Intelligent Pest Management (R) information and several non-patented formulas (he will now travel to China to formulate and field test organic pesticides now providing for profit t</span><a href="http://qh-comped.en.alibaba.com/" target="_blank">o China Qinghai General Health Bio-Science Co., LLC</a><span style="color: black;">, savvy innovators who want to stop the damage presently being done to the environment in China.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Stephen incorporated his effort, which is called, <a href="http://www.stephentvedten.com/" target="_blank">Get Set, Intelligent Pest Manageme</a><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.stephentvedten.com/" target="_blank">nt</a> (R) .</span> He provides all th<span style="color: black;">e professional in</span>formation you need to start the same business for the US in his book, downloadable for free, on the <a href="http://www.thebestcontrol2.com/">Internet</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Why would Stephen be willing to give away ideas which could make him wealthy? For him the goal is building a healthy world for his grandchildren. Stephen owned a prosperous extermination business when his unborn son and uncle died of causes he realized were exposure to the toxic chemicals he, himself, had introduced to their lives. Desperately ill himself, he sought treatment and recovered.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Afterward he gave away the business and set himself to finding alternatives so his tragic losses would not happen to others. All profits are not counted in money.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Many tens of thousands of people have used Stephen's Intelligent Pest Management (R) to solve their own pest control problems today.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On Stephen's site you see this posted.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><b><i>The Best Control 2</i></b> <i>is a reference manual based on exhaustive research in the field of nontoxic pest control or IPM. This guide will teach you how to implement nontoxic alternatives to pesticides safely and easily by yourself. This information is provided as a free resource to encourage the spread of safe alternatives to chemical poisons, and thus reduce contamination to ourselves and pollution to our environment.</i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span></i></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you are moved to action any one of us can do much more than we imagined possible.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Stephen made it his life's work to find those other courses. You can start your own business using the information Stephen<span style="color: black;"> freely </span>provides.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">By so doing you begin the process of solving problems without toxic chemicals today in routine use. Children will grow up healthier and our communities will be improved in many ways. Our water will be cleaner and if enough of us take up this work the oceans will stop becoming dumping grounds for chemicals which are killing the life there and coming back to us in the food we take from those same oceans.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Instead of just protesting you make a business of cleaning up our world.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Your costs will be lower than companies which handle the problem with chemical killers from such corporations as Dow Chemicals. Now, when you are wondering how you are going to survive, you can begin building a new America.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Organic, sustainable solutions do not need to cost us more and the list of opportunities is long.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In Florida, where termites cause multiple needs for tenting homes, there is a solution to now existing structures which are now being tented as often as once a year because of termite infestions. Hank Albarelli, author of "<a href="http://aterriblemistake.com/">A Terrible Mistake - The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments</a>," said he would do that - if he had the time. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For restaurants, which are struggling to end infestations of cockroaches, it is in the book.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">The book is over 2000 pages long and the number of solutions to specific problems is enormous – more are added all the time. Stephen tells you when he updates the book, if you ask, and so you know when something is added. Stephen is partnering with </span><a href="http://americagoeshome.org/">America Goes Home</a><span style="color: black;">, a not for profit, in putting up a directory so you will be able to list yourself as providing Intelligent Pest Management (R) Services. Steve received queries for this service regularly. Others are providing instructions to starting your own business and building out into your community and those will soon be available on the America Goes Home site.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Stephen Tvedten's tragedy and work has made this possible. By adding value to his work thousands of Americans can act out their convictions while supporting their families.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Given the state of the economy and the need to remove toxic influences this may be the most important work any of us could take up.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Rebuilding community today is a one step at a time journey. Refocus local. See the wonders humanity has created. Envision the world as you would have it be and get started. </span> </div>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248770836941817612.post-62548894249572295492010-03-15T06:34:00.000-07:002010-03-15T06:41:31.183-07:00Earth Day – March 20th, 2010 - Integrity will set you free<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfOzwJiBel8oSiiIX18UliysRJQxHR_1cmofsq0fgkT7Pfl8R4enBPBgZoVfaEjYk-s8HrNoMLT84Tgg2Xe6cBwXIBvXHE1fasgmjS7i-wyOCx25Jo0RrYIHQqHAJT9QVXkJQBYt5bgo/s1600-h/Earth+Day+2010.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfOzwJiBel8oSiiIX18UliysRJQxHR_1cmofsq0fgkT7Pfl8R4enBPBgZoVfaEjYk-s8HrNoMLT84Tgg2Xe6cBwXIBvXHE1fasgmjS7i-wyOCx25Jo0RrYIHQqHAJT9QVXkJQBYt5bgo/s320/Earth+Day+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448855080588945746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;">At the stroke of a moment, the</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">40th Annual UN Peace Bell Ceremony will take place. This is the Real Earth Day, Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:32 p.m. EDT (Equinox). The mission and vision statement for the real Earth Day was not some sappy after school program, with tee-shirt, but a challenge to live our principles with lives framed with integrity. Peace, Justice, and Care of the Earth.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Those who planned it and participated were life long proponents for clean water, clean air and transparency. The issue was not political in 1970, both Republicans and Democrats were involved.</span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If you thought Earth Day was in April you swallowed a corporate lie perpetrated that 1970 with the blatant use of the same name by a group of corporate hires. <a href="http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-22-1970-oil-day-wake-up-and-smell.html">Read the story here</a>. All of us need to be more discerning. Lies are destroying everything we built. Read <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/hari">The Wrong Kind of Green</a>, in The Nation, just yesterday.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Some few have known and tried to warn us. We did not listen until our own ox was gored.</span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Today is the direct result of that lie and all the lies, the manipulation, and the lack of conscience by a relatively few. Today you see the outcome of unbridled appetite and greed, a lack of conscience and integrity, by those same few. Most of us, the overwhelming majority, do the right thing most of the time.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Together we, the many, can change direction. Integrity and discernment is all we need. Uncounted people today are drawing on their own integrity as they fight for you, even when you do not know it.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Today an elderly man is sitting in solitary confinement in the Los Angeles Jail because his integrity makes it impossible for him to say the words which would immediately release him. In his mind is justice for all of us. He will die for his integrity, for you.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Prominent anti-trust attorney Richard I. Fine was sentenced to </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;">“</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">coercive confinement</span></i></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></span></strong></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in the L.A. Central Men’s Jail for an indefinite period of time to silence him. He has now been sixty days in solitary confinement and has been in jail for over a year. Fine was handcuffed and shackled, lead away to jail from the court house, on </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t5Lz3cZ4CNTGx6qIk-v16cA&hl=en"><span style="color:#4700b8;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">March 4, 2009</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Judge David P. Yaffe gave the order. The court wants him silenced on their ongoing schemes to use the court system for their own profit. They have been attempting to coerce Fine into submission, but failed. Richard Fine is determined to reform the justice system.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Don't expect the media to cover Fine's heroic challenge of corruption. Taking over the media, converting it into an extension of corporate PR, was an early strategy, now reaching its fruition. Journalists should have been the first to see this and take a stand. <a href="http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp">Their own standards mandate it.</a></span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;">They failed to exercise integrity.</span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If we want change we need to do it ourselves and begin by understanding the entirety of the problem we face.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Our world is melting around our ears, caused by this same lack of integrity, installed as the operational formula in our institutions. Integrity is the tool which helps us survive and prosper – if it is used. Integrity includes a refusal to accept lies as truth and so profit from lies. Integrity is an insistence on knowing, not accepting assurances without all the facts.</span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The awakening of our common humanity challenged generations past to see what was possible and never settle for less. Yet even as we have stretched, innovated and labored, reaching for the vision which is America, we have harbored a devil within. Today the full realization of psychopaths as individuals without conscience, incapable of integrity, is sinking in.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We reject gluttony, sexual deviancy, self-indulgence. These attributes along with the lies and manipulation which simulates emotion, characterize psychopaths. Yet who have we trusted to lead us?</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Turn your eyes to those occupying positions of trust in government and corporations. These are occupied by all too many who will do anything to get what they want. Psychopaths are drawn to the nexus of power, they can be charismatic and will tell you whatever you want to hear to achieve their ends. They simulate emotions along with mouthing words of honor to deceive as a matter of routine.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Today experts believe many of our institutions are </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.pillsburyjustice.info/psychopathy.php"><span style="color:#6b0094;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">psychopathic in operation</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Dr. Robert Hare, psychologist and world renowned expert in psychopathy, originated testing for psychopathy, common in criminals. Testing is now routinely used for applicants in various service professions such as firefighters, operators of nuclear power plants, police officers and teachers.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">While lecturing to a convention of cops in Newfoundland, Hare posed another application for testing, as reported in Fast Company Magazine by </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><cite><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/user/8"><span style="color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alan Deutschman</span></span></span></a></cite></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> , “Why not people who are going to handle billions of dollars?” The screen suddenly transitioned from faces of sex offenders and Mafia Hit Men to, “top executives from WorldCom, which had just declared bankruptcy, and Enron.” Hare continued, “Why wouldn't we want to screen them?</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dr. Robert Hare coined the word, “<a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html">corporate psychopathic,</a>” and has since written the book, “</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/bookstore.html"><span style="color:#003d98;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work</b></i></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#003d98;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,” </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Paul Babiak, Ph.D. and Robert D. Hare, Ph.D.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Look at government. Is what you see any different? No.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Psychopaths have no emotions. Their brains lack these functions neurologically, according to research by <a href="http://www.mrn.org/principal-investigators/kent-a-kiehl-ph-d">Kent A. Kiehl, PhD</a> at the Mind Institute whose work with criminals has been highly revealing. They see you as prey, not as people. Who but psychopaths would send your children off to war on claims they knew as lies?</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">While psychopaths continue to grab for power and money others struggle to do good.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a name="profile_name"></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In Nigeria a man, Francis Bosah, is looking for help with a problem which is confronting people around the world. This morning I received an email from Francis asking for my help. What he needs is tiny. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.americagoeshome.org/stop-pesticides.php"><span style="color:#4700b8;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read the email and what is needed here</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the wake of WWII chemical companies, now losing profits because overt war had ended, converted their factories from weapons of war to pesticides. Today the level of pesticides is poisoning the Earth as the residue of the war for profit shows up in toxic levels in autopsies from all parts of the world. People are dying, the unborn are not safe and neither are our elderly.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Francis wants to stop this in his country by replacing the use of pesticides with natural, non-impacting solutions. If he were starting this campaign alone it would be impossible. But Francis found an ally who had already produced alternatives to every pesticide now in use.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.americagoeshome.org/steve-tvedten.php"><span style="color:#4700b8;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve Tvedten</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, a former exterminator, lost his uncle and baby son to the toxic effects of pesticides, nearly dying himself. Giving away his company, he committed himself to providing alternatives. His book, is available for free online. Read it for yourself and use it as have tens of thousands now living healthier lives.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Americans believe in the power of the individual. In these three men you see power exercised with integrity.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The vision which is still America conflicts with the business plan for engorging corporations with our stolen lives. Psychopaths are drawn to power. The point of conflict is integrity. Normal people have limits, things they will not do for power. From the member partners of the Federal Reserve, to Big Oil, and on to, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower put it on leaving the White House, the Industrial Military Complex, they are eating out our substance. See it now.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We did not see this clearly before. They always knew what they were doing.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Each Spring the real Earth Day brings with it the opportunity to remember the opposition will do anything to win. Lying and murder mean nothing to the kind of people who displaced the integrity of the real Earth Day. The death of your baby girl from an injection? Your uncle abandoned and starving on the street because of the nightmares which haunt him from Iraq? These are just corporate write offs.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It is all about money and power for them.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#221e1f;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This Earth Day commit yourself to understanding what is confronting us. Stop settling for assurances. Notice what is happening around you. Listen as they mouth the rhetoric which once moved you and remember it when the reality emerges. Learn to see the greed lighting their eyes. Instead of following, live your integrity. Judge for yourself – and at the moment when the Earth turns towards renewal in the Northern Hemisphere, remember, we are human because we feel, we love, care, and hunger for the vision which moved generations to become Americans. The vision is still true.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span> </p>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248770836941817612.post-43918184201363851302010-03-06T16:05:00.000-08:002010-03-06T16:25:26.560-08:00Back to the Future of Commerce in Pennsylvania and Your Home Town.<a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZncIJdcxoK71xMzoxMAooihYgtNs-0nXpKdwKh-0PUFFTRtp9dVSyrNPCHC4nkH38-nuorUH3g8YFzE5WDYYRrUe-efl6obb_IGSf75-zg1TZ9sApUkQ42U0SGBh7ZofWpRkkhrPHhk/s1600-h/Karen+Emery+photo.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZncIJdcxoK71xMzoxMAooihYgtNs-0nXpKdwKh-0PUFFTRtp9dVSyrNPCHC4nkH38-nuorUH3g8YFzE5WDYYRrUe-efl6obb_IGSf75-zg1TZ9sApUkQ42U0SGBh7ZofWpRkkhrPHhk/s320/Karen+Emery+photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445677028152273346" border="0" /></a>
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<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">One Woman's Quest for a free market. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Karen Emery bought her first 1 oz coin of silver in New Hampshire just last year. The token, which <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cost $16</span>.0<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">0,</span> made an enormous difference in the life of one woman, opening the way for people in the Delaware Valley area of Pennsylvania, to see what it is like to use money which will hold its value.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Karen was attending the </span></span><a href="http://www.freestateproject.org/libertyforum" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(220, 35, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Free State's Liberty Forum</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">at the </span></span><a href="http://www.cpnashua.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(220, 35, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Crown Plaza</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">in Nashua, NH, when she picked up a silver token </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">at an after hours party.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> It was her birthday, March 5, 2009, and she had been thinking about how good it would be if, as once was the case, money had weight and substance.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br />While being interviewed for this article Karen mentioned how it felt as she held it, smooth, heavy, and gleaming. Along with the substance the token had, she thought, integrity. She still carries it with her as a reminder.</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Karen had learned about </span></span><a href="http://www.freestateproject.org/libertyforum" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(220, 35, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Free State's Liberty Forum</span></span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">on </span></span></span><a href="http://freetalklive.com/smfforum?action=register" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Free Talk Live</span></span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, for two years before she finally made it to the event. Free Talk Live, is Karen said, "The radio that you control." The non-structured radio station has become a voice for a growing on the air community. She listened to their program once and was hooked. There is, Karen says, nothing like the open mike with </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Talk_Live"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ian Freeman and Mark Edge</span></span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span></span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Karen's first token came from </span></span><a href="http://www.bulliondirect.com/catalog/lp/Silver_Bullion_999_pure_Bars_Rounds_%281.00_oz%29.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Bullion Direct</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">. Within a few weeks she had signed up as a representative for </span></span><a href="http://www.opencurrency.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">American Open Currency Standard, or AOCS</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">. Every so often over the ensuing weeks she would take out the coin and hold it in her hand again.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">While a representative for American Open Currency Standard, Karen had time to think about what was important. Selling silver at so far over what it was worth as metal, she realized could never result in people using silver tokens for barter in their day to day lives. She wanted that experience, using metal coins, a thing which itself had value, when she bought her gas and groceries.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">So Karen Emery decided to start <a href="http://www.delvalleysilver.com/" target="_blank">DelValley Silver</a>. Her new company would not offer many different tokens, just one to begin with. The token had to be inexpensive enough so people would use it. In her mind Karen saw people putting them on the counter and showing them to their children. In this way children could understand what money once was - and experience it again.</span></span></p>
<br /><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That decision make, it was all a matter of details. Karen found a mint to produce the rounds. <a href="http://goldenstatemint.com/" target="_blank">Golden State Mint </a> is in California. She then determined the image the token would carry, filed papers with the state, which reminded her again, why she wanted the integrity she felt in silver rounds. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The first token carried a map of Pennsylvania, including Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey for good measure. The second suggests the Amish traditions of her state.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Karen had begun talking to local merchants in May for AOCS. Now, in August, she was talking to them about a different proposition. Since there was no fee to sign up entry costs were low, an important consideration in an already struggling economy. Karen has seven merchants signed up. The merchants see barter in silver in various ways but among their motivations is the knowledge hard metal will come into their hands. Interest is building, she says, which is reflected from her merchants.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.amerikicklanghorne.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u>AmeriKick Martial Arts</u></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.libertyrevolution.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u>Liberty Revolution Network</u></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, Twins Auto Repair Inc., </span></span><a href="http://www.adviselabs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u>Advise Laboratories</u></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, <a href="http://www.metasenseusa.com/" target="_blank">MetaSense Inc.</a>, Street Road Lukoil, and Vermilion Hills Chiropractic, a range of businesses, are now accepting the tokens and negotiations are going on with the local Amish community. To serve the Amish community Karen will be adding a</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">$6.00 token to her inventory.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The tokens </span></span><a href="http://www.delvalleysilver.com/cart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">now offered</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">include a one ounce round, showing the states of Pennsylvania</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">for $18.64, purchased in lots, and a ½ ounce token, carrying the image of an Amish family in their carriage for $9.77.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">At a time when America's dollar is teetering on the edge of disaster the solid value of silver is raising increasing interest across the country. Barter and script systems are springing up in places where they were previously unknown at unprecedented rates. A website, </span></span><a href="http://moveyourmoney.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Move Your Money</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">, is now urging Americans to move their money out of banks, such as Citibank, which are now placing severe limits on withdrawals from accounts. The Move Your Money site offers links so users can ascertain the rating of their own bank and find one which is higher.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">All the money they move will still be Federal Reserve Notes. Karen would like ordinary people to have money with integrity.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">To use silver rounds, tokens, for commerce the price of the silver must be near to that paid for the metal itself. The 'spot' price of the metal changes constantly, fluctuating against other ways to hold value, commodities, and against existing currencies.</span></span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the Delaware Valley local people who carry the tokens are learning by doing. The DelValley site provides a short tutorial on </span></span><a href="http://www.delvalleysilver.com/what_barter.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">reasons barter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">and hard metal have continued to have a place in the market, explaining clearly and simply </span></span><a href="http://www.delvalleysilver.com/how_works.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">how their system works</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br />For those in the Freedom Movement it is a leaflet sprung to life or a tutorial by Murray Rothbard made flesh. In the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania you can touch theory.</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This year Karen Emery will be attending the Free State Project's Freedom Forum, which will again take place in Nashua at the Crown Plaza. But this time she will not be just attending. She will be selling her own rounds and discussing with those interested how they can merge their activism with business, providing one of the essentials needed to bridge the meltdown from corporate greed to a new economy in their own communities. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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