Stacy Summary: Funny to celebrate an ‘independence’ day that was all too brief and only for a select few. Today, of course, most are dependent on debt and the kindness of strangers to roll over that debt. And our only industry is of the complex military and flipping burger sort. But hey, we came so close. I know, I know, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. So . . . what are you doing today? Max and I will have to wait for 14th July for our fireworks display, but we are having a picnic in the park with some other expats; quite appropriate considering the Revolution was hatched here in Paris.
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Yesterday, Sunday July 4, before Mass began, the Priest read the Declaration of Independence. When he finished the congregation applauded. Listening to the words one could easily substitute Federal Bureaucracy for England. I wish it were read on TV and radio.
I had an “only in California” 4th: Thai food for dinner at a local restaurant and then watched fireworks being shot over the lake. I did get some good photos of them this year (just in case there are none next year).
Well dear Stacy…..a July 4th greeting from Anchorage ! How then are we cele-
brating the holiday ? Grilling freshly caught salmon steaks ( I caught them
on a recent trip to the Kasilof River ). I had to put a beach umbrella over the
BBQ pit to keep the rain off the coals. My gorgeous happa Upiak-chinese brazilian girlfriend picked up a case of Trader Joe’s finest ” Two Buck Chuck ” or our version of french plonk on her way back from ” El Lay ” . The patio is decorated with the stars and stripes,as well as, the brazilian, slovenian, austrian and chinese flags. Yes, as we are all emigres from California most rescently, we added the bear flag republic ( Long live
a free California ! )
While I am personally saddened that Brazil was beaten in FIFA, I was
quite happy of the performance of the USA and Slovenia ( My origins ). I
offered up the first drink off the 4th by mixing a caipirina made with cachça,
slovene slivovitz and California mixed fruits.( as you know dear Stacy we
of California are heavily ladened with fruits.
While we kept the holiday free of excessive political rants, we did read
from the works of Paine, FDR and George Patton ( Patton as you may re-
call is a famous ass kicking son of Pasadena, Julia Child ( as a child of
Pasadena, California ), de Toqueville and Hunter Thompson.
I think we effectively replicated the ambience and political tenor of a frontier 4th. All 25 of us hailed from every corner of the planet, had every
shade of skin possible, spoke russian, spanish, german, slovene, chinese
norwegian, inupiaq and brazilian portuguese.
We were unanimous in our diversity in declaring ” Long live Liberty and
Revolution in America and sring the bankster up by their balls !!!.
E pluribus unem, per ardua ad astra !!!
PS: we discussed M3 and it resulted in a 911 call by a neighbor here on
Birchwood Street….I was a bit to vocal in describing what a lying prick
Congressman Jerry Lewis ( Redlands, Ca ) was. In 2006, I called his office
and complained about M3 no longer being reported. His staff assured me,
” Oh, you don’t really need that. ” Well, I did need it. That’s how the Bush
administration hide all the money being printed and the true cost of the war
in central asia. ” Death to Tyrants !!”
the amaount of money in circulatio
I got the poison,
I got the remedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0r4FYv_Kxk
Oil spill to reach Keys and Miami. This would be a huge blow to Florida if true. CNN is saying that the government is blocking them from covering the spill as much as they would want. Gerald Celente has called this the Dust Bowl of the 21st century only worse.
Make that “Stacy” instead of “Tracy”. Freudian slip.
Rock a-bye Stacy
in the tree top.
When the wind blows
the cradle will rock.
When the bow breaks
the cradle won’t fall
cause Tracy has angels
who won’t let her fall.
@99:
Any craic ?
Dear Max,
I would love to hear you on The Corbett Report – on Economics 101. There are 10′s of thousands who download the show each week, so your time would be well spent.
Regards, Clare
@ronron – never!
@ronron:
Understood.
hi @Namarama. glad you had fun. hold them close.
looks like Stacy’s finally gonna get some sleep.
I brought the kids to see Shrek,
It was wonderful..
PMSL…
fitting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ
be well ronron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHPZuQTNoCo
LCD Soundsystem,
North American’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ2np7R-Uwg
sing song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYKJaWuj0Y
Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen Paris 85
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIekamBDiAw
Bill Cosby Hikky burr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6zOSYSkSso&feature=related
Found this cross-posted on the HuffPost main page:
Declare Your Independence From War
These guys rocks !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
almost like you guys…
Potshot Heard Around The World – THE DEAD KENNEDYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j6ODvgaQVY
John: French support for the American revolution was consolidated in the masonic lodges of Paris.
Dark Markets: I struggle to understand why Ben Franklin needed to visit Ireland to know what life was like under the British. He would already have known that the sailors on the British slave ships were Irish – this was so that if the ship sank nothing of British value would be lost, The Africans were valued at less than livestock and the Irish as only a little bit more than the Africans. The British establishment is brutal and cynical in its judgement – still is to this day. Nice piece of dramatisation tho.
oops! here’s the video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJEkWs4GOZY
great little point, Stacy… the (American) Revolution was HATCHED in.. Paris??!
While viewing videos on the Gettysburg battle re-enactment (147th anniversary, July 2-4 1853), I stumbled on this gem, the first 20 seconds is an intro scroll, about how Ben Franklin visited Ireland to see if America could do well under British colonial rule… not so much !
Amazing that 20 seconds of video can capture the ruthlessness of the “NEW AMERICAN colonial OCCUPATION” so well.
Funny thing, I thought “Gods & Generals” was an overwrought, poorly written movie… but these scenes, set to Irish (Celtic) music, work wonderfully.
Terrorist Babies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorCLFVpzyo&feature=player_embedded
@self-deprecating people are only an asset in a church.
..wave or ocean why cant I track ?
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/magfield.html
sing song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHHxMNkMl4&feature=related
co-dependence day?
more like tri-dependence day,
we depend on the banks.
the banks depend on the government,
and the government depends on us,
tridependency, see?
time for some hard bop,
Eric Dolphy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27QVenKmDBI
in honor of a couple american patriot/historians and our first fourth without them,
Howard Zinn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0NEljznnz4&feature=fvst
Jack Herer -The Emperor Wears No Clothes-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NagA5sXh3N4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmRWj7gJEU&feature=fvw
USA has allowed itself to become enslaved to everything it supposedly (“briefly”, in theory) – declared independence from
Celebrate: an end to all wars against Muslims, bringing American military home from every non-USA lands, freedom from tyranny (all forms -including financial and “gee-oh-political) and slavery (again)
(Nobody better mention hotdogs with Dedo about…)
Heh, ronron. Happy today to you too. Happy tomorrow as well!
Iceland Creates its own Bank?
July 4, 2010
to: Jon Gnarr
Mr. Mayor,
I am the writer/director of “The MoneyMasters” and the new film, “The Secret of Oz”.
By coincidence, I landed in Iceland on May 31, 2010, two days after your election.
I was asked to come to Iceland to try to help make suggestions for your economy. We formed something called the Icelandic Monetary Reform Working Group (IMRWG) and met with three members of Parliament, including Birgitta Jonsdottir.
Someone on your staff will be meeting with our group tomorrow (Monday). I just want to get in touch with you personally to briefly explain what it’s all about.
We (IMRWG) decided that the BEST thing to do was to try to meet with you to convince you to form the BEST BANK to help relieve the people whose homes were being foreclosed on by the banks. BEST BANK would be modeled on the Bank of North Dakota (BND).
Here is how it works. The City of Reykjavik (CR) creates its own bank. Really, since Iceland has had bad experiences with banks being closely tied with certain political parties, it is probably BEST to call it “Bank of Reykjavik” (BR). But just for fun, let’s call it Best Bank (BB).
CR deposits all its tax receipts into BB. Let’s say that is 200.000.000 KR per year. This is an asset that can be multiplied by a factor of 9 according to international banking rules. Using the fractional reserve principle that is well accepted by the IMF, that would allow BB to IMMEDIATELY make loans of 1.800.000.000 KR. Since CR completely owns BB, BB could make these loans to anyone it chooses, including the city government, at NO interest — yes, that’s right, ZERO interest. This is completely legal! That is why North Dakota is the ONLY state in the U.S. with a balanced budget, no debt, and the lowest unemployment rate in the nation…
http://www.secretofoz.com/
happy 4th Snoot.
Why does Stacy say the revolution was hatched in Paris? American discontent with British rule arose within the Thirteen Colonies themselves, particularly from 1770.
There were some non-Americans involved in the Revolution, but these were British (e.g. Thomas Paine), and many senior British Army commanders publically opposed military action as a solution to the conflict.
French involvement, which came later, was not support for the Revolution, but opposition to Britain.
They say having the last word in an argument puts one in an advantageous position. But I haven’t an argument for or against America; only this: self-deprecating people are only an asset in a church.
Goddess passes school exam, will become a banker:
Nepal’s ‘living goddess’ passes school leaving exam
Reuters
KATHMANDU (Reuters Life!) – Perhaps divine intervention helped.
A Nepali girl revered by many as a “living goddess” has become the first sitting deity to pass the high school leaving certificate exam, setting her on course for a career in banking.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100703/lf_nm_life/us_nepal_goddess_exam
Kept my head underneath my pillow for as long as I could, to muffle the firecrackers from the celebration-happy or firecracker-happy Hispanics who live all around me and all either stay up LATE or get up SO early it constitutes late. Next I’m thinkin’ of asking someone on MyFace to put out the word that I’d like to be happy about this holiday again, even once, before I die. I remember being a short person, tugging on my mother in the urgency to get out and go see the fireworks. I remember the transcendent happiness of sparklers. OMG. Sparklers! Running around on the beach with sparklers was a bliss so complete I started missing them a minute before we ran out of them.
I have been depressed or angry or crabby and all of these every birthday America has had since I was about ten. I know it probably wasn’t really our country even then, but I’d like to see us GET UP AND DO something really wonderful so I could feel glad about us for one 4th of July.
Master’s of the Universe… the super predator Overlook Hotel folks operating in a sphere of influence beyond the reach of the voting public admit to market manipulation … Capitalism is dead or never was. Bow to the power of fiat and the new hitching post of all valuations … the SDR.
As the purchasing power of the SDR, {trading in markets only accessible to the elite} increases against all nation state currencies of the world … trapping the masses in asset devaluations and allowing the elite to as in all fiat markets … get their hands on the currency FIRST … extracting maximum value before passing it down to the masses to utilize and circulate in the on going game of musical chairs …
new currency same system. plus ca change plus ca rest la meme chose.
Captured.
be the caged bird and sing … I guess that is the best we can do.
see the beauty in life but understand what is.
Happy “Independence” Day
I had fried chicken wings and brioche!!
@underfundedmentalist
Hendrix & the Star Spangled Banner
Thanks! Excellent choice to start my morning. Me? A friend and I are going to sit on a hill above the lake and watch the fireworks. Dinner will be left over pizza and whatever else I find in the ‘fridge.
Fun with the original words and music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyQO3xhNx0
Full lyrics:
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw234.html
@mep, what would help is every person running for politics is only allowed so much money to spend. And keep the amount small. Plus not allow t.v. advertising which is all selected propaganda.
But first we have to arrest all the london banksters and goldman sachs and j.p. morgan chase people plus a few more bankster organizations and take away all thier money and power.
In other words were screwed. Most americans are filling their fat faces with hotdogs today bragging about how big thier truck is.
i’m working as usual. I actaully like working on holidays so I can watch all the nutty people running around trying to have fun. My fun is watching them. I’m a remodeling contractor by the way.
There will be a huge fireworks thing this evening all over the valley I live in. But I usually fall asleep half way through it.
What we need to do to bring freedom back to the usa and world is stop the banksters from thier evil deeds.
yeh cool, so… like .. er what happened? Ptah
Bankers, of course.
oh yeh… independence, from tyranny and all of that… yeh cool, so… like .. er what happened?
Today I’m doing two things:
1) going to see the San Francisco Mime Troupe (http://www.sfmt.org) in Dolores Park, a nearly fifty year tradition of free political comedy (not really mime
) in the parks of the Bay Area. This year’s topic? Fantasy factory sit-in in the U.S. (accidental, apolitical) compared to those (very political) which actually occurred in Argentina post-collapse at the turn of the milennium.
2) until then, listening to fabulous KPFA (flagship of the Pacifica Network), whose first hour (http://www.kpfa.org/archive and look up today 9 am, The Sunday Show sometime after noon PST) covered the truth of the American “revolution” – great romp through U.S. history and roots of both empire and liberation, and whose second hour is covering the history and roots of the Tea Party movement.
@ Sherri Young – That sounds delicious!!!!!!!
Just got through the chapter in A People’s History of the United States of America on the Spanish-American-Cuban war. Just atrocious what we did to the Filipinos after that.
Seems that a lot of our political troubles here in the US are rooted in the 2-party system. The Populist Party became a powerful force by incorporating an economic critique in their party platform and educating laborers and ordinary Americans about how the ruling elite and banksters were robbing them blind. But they lost their power and fell apart soon after they entered electoral politics and allowed the Democratic Party to co-opt them.
I’ll always stand up for ordinary people and be a supporter of labor unions, but I think the unions would be better off if they didn’t involve Democratic politicians in their struggles or constantly throw their hard-earned and fought for money at the feet of Dem politicians who are only interested in taking that $ during elections, and then generally turn their backs on labor issues and working families soon after.
There has to be a way, it seems, to work around the 2 party-system so that political energy is not geared only toward elections and party affiliation . . . some way of achieving political independence.
We’re having homemade peppermint ice cream. Friday was my sister’s birthday so the family is getting together.
INDEPENDENCE DAY FAIL USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObYTOigzAM
The crises of capitalism, and their inescapable conclusion
…Radical but influential anthropologist David Harvey exposes the flaws in our ways of thinking about the financial crisis in this brilliant animated video.
Harvey is a Marxist theorist, but don’t let that put you off – this is cogent and entertaining stuff, whether or not you agree with its conclusions….
http://www.citywire.co.uk/money/the-crises-of-capitalism-and-their-inescapable-conclusion/a411421?ref=citywire-money-latest-news-list
A brief history of the USA-Bowling for Columbine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqh6Ap9ldTs
School House Rock – No More Kings (America Rock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0LmYEjXNIg
School House Rock – Mother Necessity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnF5SAn-8RM&NR=1
@ SAO – Great, thanks . . . I’ll check it out.
Just have to link to this oldie but goodie from JibJab:
This Land
@underfundedmentalist
Hendrix with Star Spangled Banner – Good choice!
Stacey and Max – Thank you for all your hard work. This site is an oasis and you both have amazing minds.
@Mep
Here’s some Zinn for the 4th of July.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20019
trying to avoid all the drunks on the road. I may venture out later and watch the x’plosiuns. Meanwhile, it’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE
Happy Co-dependence Day America!
Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner Live Woodstock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3JbKimTdMg
@Photoception – please do share your pics! have fun and stay safe climbing that mountain
Nice picture Stacy. Tonight I plan on summiting a mountain and shooting some fireworks images from a view over the Hudson River. If all goes well I should have some good shots to share tomorrow.
Enjoy the day & Good health to to guys.. Keep up the good work!
“A Card Laid is a Card Played .. NO TO BAILOUTS”
OT: Santelli – King World News Interview
Some shouting at Liesman at the beginning, but afterwards, a quiet interview with Rick Santelli
http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/7/3_Rick_Santelli.html
Happy Birthday America!
Hopefully you will do the right thing and we will all see many more Happy Birthdays for America!
Otherwise……..? (just do the math)
The British foreign secretary William Hague has a past
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1506918/Bad-news-for-Hague-as-jibes-at-Germans-and-French-backfire.html
And we Brits are kinna cool with that.
But hey, we came so close. I know, I know, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Stacy
Keep the faith, Stacy. A wonderful thing about the Lord is how He longs to be gracious. We can yet turn this thing around, with His help.
Thanks for all the good work you do but be wary of the goldbugs and the fiat pushers. There is a narrow path here called liberty that we should seek to find.
Stacy,
Most unions in the US have for the most part become arms of the companies.
Stacy,
Do you remember the auto bailout debate? Did you get to see it over there? The financial media here attacked the workers and their union the UAW. It wasn’t the bigwigs fault in their world. These are the same people who bowed to the banks. Ford workers last year defeated a sellout by their own union to the company. It’s the first time American workers stood up in years.
Maurice Strong speaks out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/23/maurice-strong-reacts-to-glenn-beck
@ Stacy – Yep. The big unions should set up a little operation where they import a bunch of French people to help strike and protest or something, because unfortunately, they can’t count on average workers here to support them.
we need a little help
http://www.paranormalpeopleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/independence-day.jpg
@Mep – good on you; if it were France, there would be loads and loads of other workers out there supporting them
independence— the fight to get it back, our true sovereignty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU
@Stacy – Don’t know what we’re going to do today yet. Haven’t really done too much to celebrate the 4th during the past 10 years aside from catch a fireworks display here and there. . . it just didn’t seem appropriate and so we weren’t in the mood for festivities.
All I have planned is to read some Howard Zinn later on and catch up on some Keiserland stuff. Trying to honor truth with as close to a capital T as possible today, I guess. Also thinking about maybe taking a little drive to join some striking workers on their picket line. Mott’s workers have been striking for a while now & we drove past them on our way to the mountains & on our way back. They had this great giant rat ( Rat in 5th pic down ) on the side of the road last time I saw them out, and had hundreds of ‘merican flags planted in the ground along the road.
@Stacy. watch your picinic basket as yogi and booboo are holidaying in paris.