Posted on February 6, 2015

by Jerry Alatalo

Journalist, monetary reform activist and documentarian Bill Still recently reported on what he describes as “good news from Canada”. According to Mr. Still, a Canadian organization called Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) has experienced success in its lawsuit against the central Bank of Canada.

For readers in America, note that the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve are different in that the Canadian central bank is essentially owned by the Canadian people – a public bank, while the central bank of the United States is owned and controlled by a private banking cartel.

Canada’s bank was nationalized in 1938, and for decades issued debt-free money to finance a number of large projects, including airports, subways, a national pension fund, the national health system, various infrastructure projects, and related initiatives for Canadian society’s necessities.

From the time of the Bank of Canada’s nationalization in 1938…

Musings of an Eisenhower Baby

What it is. What it is, to those of you born during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Kindred spirits, for us the sands of time are running through the hourglass at an accelerated rate with no outstretched hand to turn it over and begin anew. Not enough time. Time is running out.

Walk Down Memory Lane

Rotary Dial Phones – especially the Pink Princess phone in my parents’ bedroom

Transistor Radios — portable and cool

S&H Green Stamps — Too much licking and sticking

Drive-In Movies — Dr. Zhivago

Ed Sullivan — I only really recall the little mouse Topo Gigo

Mitch Miller — Everyone in my neighborhood watched just to see Leslie Uggams.

Lawrence Welk – hated him, but my parents loved him so I had to watch

1964 World’s Fair – My Dad took me and all I remember is the animatronics Abraham…