Susan Witt, of the E.F. Schumacher Society, in South Egremont, massachusetts, announces the premiere of the BerkShare, a private, local currency for Berkshire County.  BerkShare notes may be purchased for a ten percent discount at local commercial banks, and used as a medium of exchange with local businesses, at par value with the “dollar.”

       Postscript: Three years later, neither the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks nor the Federal government had attempted to stop intrastate commerce in BerkShares.

       [restored 3/2/2024] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

       Republican (fascist/socialist) CONgressman Mark Foley, of the confederate state of florida, chairman of the house caucus on missing and exploited children, resigns his seat after revelations that had been sending sexually explicit e-messages to underage, male, CONgressional pages. Foley had been a sponsor of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which would now be used to prosecute him.

     NOTE: What goes around comes around.

     [added 8/15/2020]