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The Shedd Institute www.theshedd.org - 541.434.7000 Shedd Theatricals 2018 What are these problems? There are three interconnected and interdependent sources of pressure squeezing people into impossible situations. The problems that afflict them are drug cartel violence, bad free trade agreements and unwanted inter- ventions, which our military has been un- leashing throughout our country’s history around the world, Fortunately a solution hides under all this. America’s military could be directed to eject the poisoned fruit from the drug trade: their illegality. This means taking power away from the cartels and corrupt government officials abroad and in the U.S. It is absolutely impossible to expect that people will be talked out of their love af- fair with drugs. If leaders are there to fulfill the wishes of their constituents, then they should direct our strength to destroy the monopoly cartels have that have been the primary reason that drives immigrants into the U.S. If people don’t want this compromise, then they shouldn’t complain about “the illegals” or our government’s treatment of them. David Ivan Piccioni Eugene MILITARY SPENDING Two generals of the Army’s views on bloated Pentagon spending: They are Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. MacArthur: “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continual stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergen- cy. Always there has been some terrible evil ... to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.” Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the ge- nius of its scientists, the hopes of its chil- dren. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” The Pentagon has been spending money like a drunken sailor. This must stop. Now. Michael E. Peterson Eugene DERAILED If you connect a brain to a mind and then to a heart, what do you have? If brains were mistaken for trains and not taken, what happens? Just asking. Rick Blake Springfield July 20-29 The Shedd FAKE HEAT WAVE America’s television networks have absurdly over-hyped the quite ordinary heat wave some parts of the U.S. experi- enced during July for obvious political rea- sons. Roy W. Spencer stated that, “Speak- ing as a Ph.D. meteorologist with over 40 years experience, this week’s heat wave is nothing special.” Did we have heat waves back in 1963 when Martha & the Vandellas recorded the song “Heatwave?” Did Native Americans waste their time doing rain dances before the arrival of Europeans? Was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s just a myth created by novelist John Steinbeck for his book The Grapes of Wrath? Climate change fever is a contagious hysteria created by people who cannot properly read a graph or understand the sci- entific method. Almost everything our me- dia reports about climate is false, including fraudulent claims of unusual ocean level rises attributable to man, the poles thawing out and the Earth burning up. The deliberate political perversion of climate science has led to counterproduc- tive energy policies that have killed mil- lions of innocent people worldwide by creating unnecessary food cost inflation, which has been a proven killer of humans ever since we first started trading food for money. Green hype energy policies have increased water pollution, deforestation, topsoil erosion and the kill-off of bees. We make food with energy, so bad energy policy automatically increases hunger, un- employment and social instability. Christopher Calder Eugene Oregon Festival of American Music 2018 August 1-11 IN THE HANDS OF THE MUSES Tributes to Songbook masters & mentors The Shedd OFAM 2018 Opening Gala - Wed Aug 1st Live from The Emerald Palace! The Variety Special in the Golden Age of Television eugeneweekly.com • July 19, 2018 5
