The former University of Victoria teacher told service staff last week that she was afraid to go home because it was too cold and she was freezing.
"I went over to have a look," said Orchard. "The temperature in her house was 9 C. She was shivering with a coat on. I suggested she heat the house and get into a hot bath because she seemed to be slipping into hypothermia."
However, the water was also cold. Orchard found a lock on the gas line and a disconnection notice dated Dec. 24, stating Terasen must receive $114. 24 by Jan. 3.
"It's absolutely shameful, absolutely incomprehensible," said Carol Judd, who is a longtime friend of the woman. "When they went to the extreme of turning off her heat in a cold snap, I figured she had to owe them $1,000 at least."
Orchard considered taking the woman to hospital, but brought her to his house instead and gave her a hot supper. He tried calling the gas company but said he got no response from their answering machine.
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These unregulated corporations who run the essential services in Canada, have no regard to human life.
They can regulate the electricity - put a limiter on it so you can't use your dryer, oven or other 240V appliances.
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siljan states, “Western civilization has confused money with wealth.” <br />
Any “confusion” did not happen of its own accord. Confusion was deliberately caused by those who steal wealth.<br />
It is a truism that “People get the government they deserve” it is also true that the rest of us suffer for what the deserving get. And --- It ain’t gonna change<br />
<p>---<br>"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."<br />
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William Blake<br />
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This is all sick and twisted stuff if you ask me, and what's worse are that the people at large are too ignorant to realize it.
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Here is what an American dissident writes. She is a tireless crusader for truth and justice. Her point is local currencies. We have a choice she says to 'let banks create money to serve their interests, or it can be created by people in a community to serve their needs'. <br />
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"The illusion that money is wealth needs to be shattered. Real wealth is a healthy planet and healthy relationships between all lifeforms; it is inner peace, world peace, balance and harmony in the home, the community, the world. Local currencies are a powerful tool towards raising consciousness, building community, and restructuring our economies in a sustainable direction. Community currencies challenge the system by showing how money is backed by our belief systems". <br />
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This woman in Victoria would be a good example of someone who would benefit greatly by a local currency set up to serve her needs, instead of having her money ripped off by some greedy gangsters who steal and use infrastructure paid for by taxpayers like her and then use it for their private profits and charge whatever 'the market will bear'. <br />
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<a href="http://www.communitycurrency.org/">http://www.communitycurrency.org/</a><br />
On last nights Global, the only channel I get, there was companion story of a mother of three tots who also had her meter removed for late payment.<br />
This is classic New Zealand Experiment poo that the wilfully ignorant electorate have swallowed hook, line and sinker because the propaganda artists got the electorate to buy into the “Socialist Hoards at the Door” crap.<br />
The old BC Electric got swallowed by Boss Hog Wackey Bennet and was sold by Crooked Mouth Campbell, piecemeal, as was done with BC Rail. (and now a plug for one who chose to be my nemesis, BC Mary. Mary has found her ground and her blog is worth supporting. <a href="http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/">http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/</a> )<br />
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The by virtue of her age and years of work ought rightly to have her utilities supplied gratis. I spent way to much time on a bogged down computer trying to find a passage from the link I included in my other post. essentially it said the those infirmed and/or unable to conduct their own affairs ought, rightly live off of the larges of those who gained their profit by wealth building, or in other words: Theft<br />
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I started here <br />
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<a href="http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/Goose_commons.htm">http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/Goose_commons.htm</a> <br />
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Here are a number of different versions of the Goose and the Commons<br />
The law locks up the man or woman<br />
Who steals the goose from off the common<br />
But leaves the greater villain loose<br />
Who steals the common from off the goose.<br />
The law demands that we atone<br />
When we take things we do not own<br />
But leaves the lords and ladies fine<br />
Who take things that are yours and mine.<br />
The poor and wretched don’t escape<br />
If they conspire the law to break;<br />
This must be so but they endure<br />
Those who conspire to make the law.<br />
The law locks up the man or woman<br />
Who steals the goose from off the common<br />
And geese will still a common lack<br />
Till they go and steal it back.<br />
-- 17th century protest against English enclosure<br />
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And psiclone, you have surprised me <br />
but rg is right <br />
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and I am of course "righter" LOL<br />
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and that is why the Scientific American article is here, too.<br />
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<p>---<br>"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."<br />
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William Blake<br />
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"That is to say, the wealth produced in every community would be divided into two portions.
One part would be distributed in wages and interest between individual producers, according to the part each had taken in the work of production;
the other part would go to the community as a whole, to be distributed in public benefits to all its members.
In this all would share equally — the weak with the strong, young children and decrepit old men, the maimed, the halt, and the blind, as well as the vigorous. And justly so — for while one part represents the result of individual effort in production, the other represents the increased power with which the community as a whole aids the individual."
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
<a href="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm">http://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm</a><br />
I suppose it was a good PR moment for Harry Truman..........and a pleasant fiction.<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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There are!<br />
However there has not been a critical mass who have come to the realisation they have been duped and there are still plenty of people with blinders on or who possess either Magical Thinking that they will be able to either ride it out or profit from what is happening <br />
Again I call your attention to <a href="http://www.wealthandwant.com/index.htm">http://www.wealthandwant.com/index.htm</a> for one such alternative<br />
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“A democratic republic alone is not enough to produce general prosperity ... <br />
Wealth and Want<br />
in 21st Century America<br />
an inquiry into the cause<br />
of the increase of poverty<br />
with the increase of wealth<br />
... the Remedy” <br />
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Something to think about: Exxon set a new quarterly profit record of $39 billion. How much did they pay in royalties for the oil they drilled within the boundaries of the US? And to whom did they pay it? How much did they pay in corporate income taxes? Which is a fairer way to raise the revenue we need?<br />
Wealthandwant is not enthusiastic about corporate or individual income taxes, but thinks we should be considering who is entitled to the royalties on our natural resources, and how those royalties should be calculated. Should individuals be entitled to royalties on natural resources? Tribal groups? States? The federal government? Corporate shareholders? Or all of us, as Alaska sees it.”<br />
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<p>---<br>"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."<br />
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William Blake<br />
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Either way, if it is not illegal, it should be. I know there was talk of creating such a law in the past but I'm not sure if it was ever implemented. Would someone care to enlighten me?