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By Robert Cichocki

Fellow Canadians, the
Canada-USA lumber dispute
demonstrates that Canada’s
politicians and business lead-
ers remain dumb to Brian
Mulroney’s phony Free Trade
Agreement and Jean
Chrétien’s North American
Free Trade Agreement sur-
rendering Canada’s
resources and industries to
Corporate USA. And now,
that the Yankee lumber
traders are now simply exer-
cising their rights to Canada’s
timber under the national
treatment clauses of the FTA
and NAFTA.

However, for effective sur-
render, these Yankees need
Canada to harmonize to the
USA private bidding system
on trees. And they need
Canada to sell raw logs or
timber.

So, these Yanks have slyly
devised a phony lumber crisis
in Canada using punishing

“Stand back,

By Aaron L. Baker

| thought | would write this
small rant on creationism in
response to the article in the
last edition of Over the Edge,
Reasons to Believe: A Case
for Creation. Unfortunately |
was unable to attend the lec-
ture and for those who
attended | hope I’m not too
redundant. First off let me
say, none of these theories
are my own, where possible |
will give reference to the
authors and scientists. | can’t
promise scholarly perfection
but that’s the beauty of mass
media. Disclaimer is done. |
leave it to the reader to make
up their own minds on these
things but here’s some food
for thought.

The author Robert Anton
Wilson (R.A.W.), while not a
creationist, gives a simple 1-
2-3 formula that discredits the
theory of evolution, (WARN-
ING: R.A.W. gives notice that
use of this argument by
“...certified saints of sancti-
fied Fundamentalism,” e.g.
Jeri Faliwell, will cost
$100,000 US per use,
cheques payable to him.
Since | make no claim to
being a Fundamentalist of
any kind, | am freed from this
debt.)

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tariffs. They hope to bully
Canada into tree bidding har-
monizing and to cripple and
destroy Canada’s softwood
industry to grab companies,
raw logs and trees at fire-sale
prices.

Ironically, Canada’s over
devalued dollar subsidizes
the Yanks with a near 40%
discount in stealing Canada’s
resources and industries.

Unfortunately, Canada’s
duped politicians, lumber
negotiators and executives
remain typically divided and
confused.

Some want to negotiate a
tariff settlement while others
want to challenge tariffs using
NAFTA and the World Trade
Organization.

To acknowledge and nego-
tiate tariffs gives the USA tar-
iff extortion credibility. And
negotiating while under
duress only further surren-
ders Canada’s _ softwood
industry and trees.

we're on a mission from God.”

1. An animal can only
belong to one taxonomic fam-
ily. You can’t belong to the set
of all humans and lizards. Or
the set of all platypus and
ants. Etc.

2. The offspring of any two
animals also can only belong
to the one taxonomic family,
that of its parents. When
humans mate we have baby
humans not moose. When
moose mate they have baby
moose not ostriches, etc. To
also quote R.A.W., “Even
when cross-species fertiliza-
tion occurs, e.g. the mating of
a horse and a donkey bring-
ing forth a mule, the mule
belongs to the same family
(equines) as the parents,
even if not to the same
species of either.” Not many
biology texts will argue the
validity of both these theories,
however here’s the kicker.

3. However if evolution
exists, some animals must
produce offspring who do not
belong to the same taxonom-
ic family as themselves. Two
fish must have brought forth
some biological mutant called
an amphibian, just as a lizard
must have given birth to a
monstrosity called a mam-
mal. Genetics says this does-
n’t happen; 1-2-3 there goes

Alternatively, NAFTA (ie
chapter 11) surrenders
Canada’s resources to corpo-
rate USA. Furthermore, the
World Trade Organization
really represents the New
World Order economic cult,
which undermines national
interests so monopolistic cor-
porate cartels can steal the
public's’ resources and
assets.

Clearly, it’s time Canadians
challenged the Yankee lum-
ber bullies with a direst
counter-offensive such as:

1. Start Canada’s freedom
from the USA strangulation
by giving an official six
months notification to cancel
Canada out of the FTA and
NAFTA agreements.

2. After release from FTA
and NAFTA, immediately
counter Yankee tariff extortion
by raising and keeping prices
of gas, oil, and electricity
exports to the USA higher
than USA tariff revenues and

evolution. Maybe.

The comedian Bill Hicks
summed up the counter argu-
ment for me in one of his rou-
tines. In a conversation Hicks
says that he had with a
Fundamentalist Christian, he
was told their theory on the

age of the world. This reli--

gious group had added up
the ages of all the human
beings listed in the bible start-
ing with Adam and Eve.
These serious academics
calculated the earth’s age at
about 12,000 years give or
take a few years. Hicks
replied that he had one ques-
tion of one word, Dinosaurs?
Did they just forget to mention
them? Maybe Noah didn’t
have room on the ark for a 30
ton lizard, let alone pairs of
them. What about the fossil
records we dig up? Is it a
giant conspiracy to misinform
us? Maybe God is pulling a
cosmic practical joke on us?
(HaHaHa I'll keep them
guessing!)

Other theories punch away
at creationism, like biological
drift, the success of mutant
Strains, etc. Go read the his-
tory of the domestication of
plants by humans if you want
to see mutant strains thriving
and succeeding under

Our Lumber

our lumber.

3. Use these new revenues
to directly help unemployed
and displaced lumber work-
ers, revive lumber companies
and revitalize our forests.

4. Raise the Canadian dol-
lar to stop the subsidization of
Americans obtaining our lum-
ber, gas, oil, electricity, and
other resources at fire sale
prices.

5. Adopt policies to
increase Canada’s economic
independence, by increasing
trade with the whole world
and less with USA. And help
poor countries buy our lum-
ber, etc., by giving them easy
credit and loans.

' 6. Give the George W. Bush

Administration an ultimatum;
either make a proper fair
trade agreement to include
lumber or to have Canadian
lumber, gas, oil, and electrici-
ty systematically cut off to the
USA as long as USA lumber
tariffs remain.

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human care. Problems like
these seem to point us
towards evolution. Maybe.

A third option to this dilem-
ma comes from the noted lin-
guist Zachariah Sitchin. He
specializes in deciphering
ancient Sumerian texts, with
some surprising translations.
Sitchins translations propose
that life was evolving on earth
quite normally until about
40,000 BCE. Then we were
visited by aliens’ the
Sumerians called the
Annunaki. They had travelled
from their planet Nibiru to col-
lect gold (hmm maybe they
do have something in com-
mon with us?) which they] »
needed for their world. They).
built pyramids to make mark-
ers for landing U.F.O’s and
started mining the gold.
However this was hard work
that the Annunaki were unac-
customed too so they put
their scientists to work.
These bright fellows decided
to crossbreed alien D.N.A.
with the D.N.A._ of
advanced, local,
human, (read Cro-Magnon
Neanderthal man.) “And God

created Man in his own
image...’ After this feat a
long tumultuous affair
ensues. If you’re interested

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7. To save our forestry
industry, jobs and trees, ban
all exports of raw logs.

Fellow Canadians, why
remain victims of the “free”
trade and “open” market
scams. Yesterday, Yankees
easily claimed rights to our
gas and oil. Today, it’s our
trees and lumber industry.
Tomorrow, it’s our fresh water,
electrical resources, hospitals
and healthcare systems and
even education system.

Before Canada’s wealth
disappears leaving you bank-
rupt and losing your home,
why not smarten-up our
docile politicians, naive nego-
tiators, and stunned business
leaders. Have them stop
being suckered into aiding
Yankee Traders scamming
and draining Canada dry.

es Brothers

see Sitchin’s The Twelfth
Planet and other books.

So here we have a third
option in our quest, a meeting
of the two clashing theories.
There are many other argu-
ments to be made and | can’t
hope to cover them all but it
brings me to my point of writ-
ing this rant. The chair of our
Physics department was

quoted as saying that “philos-
ophy has no place in science”
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