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NB: Please keep lett .. more Letters to the Editor “sis>"= Letters to the Editor more colleague at work, he mentioned | solvent enough and prudent | making it produce more | World War I to improve the that he'd been taking cod liver oil | enough to hold onto them. As a | "efficiently" by the application of | performance of the aircraft but it was not having any effect. | consequence, when many people | large inputs of capital, fossil fuels | industry. In this industry and She asked him when he took it | in urban areas lost their jobs, they | in the form of chemical fertilisers | others he checked later, he found and he told her that he usually | were able to move in with their | and behemoth farm machines and | that none paid out as wages, took it after he got home from | rural relatives. Those who had | thus taking away the need for | salaries and dividends sufficient work when he remembered to do | grown up on farms had a working | many farmers has turned off one | "purchasing power" for people to so. knowledge of farming and could | of the major safety valves of the | be able to buy their products. She told him that her mother | more or less take up where they | last great economic upheaval. He propounded what now takes cod liver oil for arthritis to | left off. Modern agriculture has traded | would be classed as a scientific great effect; more importantly, | In any case, a family farm at | short-term gain for long-term | model but, this being before his she takes it first thing in the | that time could absorb more peo- | collapse, and unfortunately the | time, he called it a "theorem". morning with a citrus drink | ple without too much disruption | "long run" is fast approaching! It states that in industry in gen- which helps distribute it around | because more people meant more | Harold Satterfield, Tucson, | eral, "A" worth of incomes could the body. production; the family could at | Arizona, USA not fully purchase goods whose He tried this idea of taking the | least feed itself. Others could prices included both "A" costs and other "B" costs such as depreciation allowances, etc. "A" is not equal to "A+B". In the existing system the "gap" between the two would only be cod liver oil first thing in the find work as tenant farmers and morning with a glass of orange | farm labourers because agricul- juice and within two days could | ture was not as mechanised or as feel the benefit, with his joints | Centralised at that time. ; feeling more supple and less Many people managed to ride Nicotine Prevents Cholera! Hi, NEXUS people: I am writ- ing this because recently I emailed South Asian media just after the tsunami because I'd painful, ; De oe ote at ot heard on the news about cholera ited by borrowing leoods ha Hope this helps anyone reading 2 SSI S way breaking out and I thought to let cons me Von of capital B00 ‘ or this. I thought that it would be | 4N¢ survive. them know of a simple cure for it | CUS! €xpansion and’ produc- important to pass on the informa- | Today the situation is quite dif- | 34 was used throughout Europe tion of non-consumables such as tion to help as many people as | ferent. There are many fewer . | armaments or by exporting more possible. family farms in the United States, from end of the 15th century: than the nation imported. Regards, and the large farms that dominate He also showed by simple Aled Long agriculture are capital and energy mathematics that banks create intensive. If the economy col- money which they lend into cir- lapses, it will take many large culation as interest-bearing debt, Surviving the Next Depression | farms and agribusiness corpora- so that the debt structure of the Dear Duncan: I read with great | tions with it. nation must continually increase. interest the recent article, "The Obviously this would disrupt He suggested that such an imbal- Endangered US Dollar" (12/01). | food production and distribution. anced system must break down It is obvious from this and many | In addition, fewer small farms from time to time. other indicators that some sort of | means fewer opportunities for He proposed various measures economic collapse must eventu- | unemployed urban residents to to give people the means to enjoy ally overtake us. Much specula- | take refuge. the benefits of their own tion has centred around sucha | Also, the present generation of production. Details of these are day of economic reckoning, and city dwellers is many years available elsewhere. many have speculated that it | removed from any direct His ideas gained wide interest would be worse than the Great | experience with agriculture. It for a time, but they also raised a Depression of the 1930s. I am | would be difficult to re-establish storm of counterattack and nicotine. People who smoked were not falling sick, so even children were given tobacco to smoke. It was interesting to see all the WHO, Red Cross and other humanitarians who go for big money-collecting campaigns, bring toothpaste to the affected— when, in fact, help can be some- times just a small bit of practical information. Maybe you could do an article researching nicotine and cholera? Best regards, and keep up the good work, Kristina, a reader of your Croatian translation of NEXUS inclined to agree. a large number of small farms ridicule from his opponents. Several safety valves were in | quickly if the large corporate I suggest that when the Douglas place in the US during the 1930s | farms failed and/or if energy | The Social Credit Solution model does gain widespread which mitigated the effects of the | shortages dictated a return to | Vladimir Nuri's article in | acceptance, it will rank with Great Depression. One factor | lower-tech agriculture. NEXUS ("Fractional Reserve | some of the great uniting theories was the greater number of small | Making even a primitive farm | Banking as Economic | of science. That will not happen farms in the US at that time. | work requires a great deal of spe- | Parasitism", 11/03) was an excel- | until the corrupt and largely Many people who worked in | cialised knowledge that cannot be | lent example of the new wave of | "bought" discipline of macro- places in the industrial Midwest, | acquired quickly. In addition, the | awareness coming to a field that | economics abandons its unscien- such as Detroit, had moved there | level of physical exertion | the Social Credit and other mone- | tific and almost superstitious directly from farms in the south; | demanded by this type of farming | tary reform movements have | approach and adopts scientific they as well as many other urban- | is beyond the experience of most | been contesting for 80 years or | methods. ites had relatives who still lived | young people in the US today, a | more. John G. Rawson, BSc, DipFor, on working farms. country in which obesity among | Social Credit was founded by | Member of the NZ Institute of While many people did lose | children and teenagers is becom- | C. H. Douglas, an engineer of | Forestry and Life Member of the their farms to repossession during | ing a major problem. international renown appointed | NZ Democratic Party Inc. (Social the Depression, many were | Centralising agriculture and | by the British government during | Credit), New Zealand so. APRIL — MAY 2005 NEXUS <5 www.nexusmagazine.com