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- Written by: Shannon Tolson
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the film starts at 6 p.m. at the Clearlake United Methodist Church at 14521 Pearl Ave., Clearlake.
This is no children’s movie. This documentary takes a fascinating and penetrating look at a root cause of the current financial misery suffered by so many of us and our country.
The “secret” is simply that our money is printed by the privately owned Federal Reserve rather than the Federal government.
If our money were printed by the government, rather than being borrowed from The Fed, no interest would have to be paid – and untold gazillions of dollars would be saved.
As it is, we are in the hands of bankers, who were as self-serving a century ago as they are now.
Consider this breathtakingly candid quote from a banker’s letter in 1891 to his fellow banksters: “On Sept. 1st 1894 we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On Sept. 1st we will demand our money. We will foreclose. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi as well, at our own price ...” (From the American Bankers’ Association, as printed in the Congressional Record, 1913.)
Frank L Baum’s children’s book expresses his concerns over the same issue in a code featuring the yellow brick road, Dorothy’s originally silver slippers, the Emerald City – and that little man behind the camera. Rarely has monetary policy been so gripping – and so very pertinent.
Creating our own local currency is one very positive solution to this problem. SSC is delighted to report that a speaker from Transition Lake County who heads up the TLC Local Currency working group will be speaking after the film.
For more information call 707-279-2957.
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The concert begins at 7 p.m.
The award winning jazz band and concert band will perform on the MAC Auditorium stage, Lange Street, Lakeport.
Admission is free.
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The event will feature music students from grades sixth through eighth.
The program will be on stage at the MAC auditorium, Lange Street, Lakeport.
Admission is free.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
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When I came to my mother’s house
the day after she had died
it was already a museum of her
unfinished gestures. The mysteries
from the public library, due
in two weeks. The half-eaten square
of lasagna in the fridge.
The half-burned wreckage
of her last cigarette,
and one red swallow
of wine in a lipsticked
glass beside her chair.
Finally, a blue Bic
on a couple of downs
and acrosses left blank
in the Sunday crossword,
which actually had the audacity
to look a little smug
at having, for once, won.
Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2010 by George Bilgere from his most recent book of poems, The White Museum, Autumn House Press, 2010. Reprinted by permission of George Bilgere and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2010 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.