- From Eric
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- To Jim Kirwan
- 3-17-9
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- Jim - Would you take a look at my short movie? I'm an
unemployed man who shot this video about the economy with my cell phone.
See what you think. They've posted it on whatreallyhappened.com already.
It's just over four minutes long...
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHM7_oZJwoc
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- Thanks, Eric!
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- 'The Finger' says it very well. It's too bad that Phillip
didn't get a chance to go over the Bay Bridge to have a look at The Port
of Oakland (the destination for all those one-way cargo ships). Had there
been time, I think 'Finger' would have just been fascinated by all those
humongous cranes, which just happened to have been MADE IN CHINA, and so
thoughtfully sent here (of all places) to make things so much easier to
unload all those wonderfully packaged ships with all those goodies destined
for American stores. Thousands of Americans can now enjoy life more, thanks
to those cranes that liqudated so many of those really nasty jobs at the
Port of Oakland - that were also very dangerous too.
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- When the cranes arrived they were so huge that even in
pieces they only cleared the Golden Gate Bridge by inches; We thought it
was so lucky for the Chinese that they were able to export these cranes
to us, at just the same time as the long-shoremen in Oakland were having
such a difficult time reaching agreements with the shipping lines about
how much the people working here ought to be paid to do the work of loading
and off-loading in Oakland.
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- Finger could have discovered that the Cranes in Oakland
solved that problem by eliminating the need for all those dangerous and
nasty jobs - that are no longer necessary here - thanks to
the generosity of the Chinese. They've been being generous to Americans
in the shipping trades for a very long time now - as the Finger might have
noticed - given all the previous smaller generations of those same
'new' cranes that virtually are the whole skyline for the Port of Oakland,
California.
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- In fact business is so good at the Port of Oakland they've
had to cancel their Tours of the Port, and they have a massive new training
program to deal with all the additional truck traffic there: <http://www.portofoakland.com/>http://www.portofoakland.com/
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- I just think it's wonderful, the way the Chinese have
been so helpful to all those Americans that get all that stuff every day
from overseas; especially helpful when it comes to unpacking all those
truck-trailer-containers for us, with their giant cranes that save us all
so much time and trouble - you can see some of them on the sophisticated
Port of Oakland masthead, at the site I included above.
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- San Francisco no longer has a port of its own, because
Mayor Feinstein thought the ports were too dirty, and were bad for tourism.
So She wanted to convert them to boutiques. That idea failed, but we have
some lovely architecture along the Embarquedero, with the rotting docks
neatly concealed behind the wonderful fascades. These structures from the
nineteenth century make wonderful Kodak moments for the tourists to photgraph,
as they enjoy thier tours of the remains of a once great, and formerly
American port-city.
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- If Finger should get the chance to revisit the Bay
Area, he should drop me a note. The Bay-Area is just a place
filled with excentricities and contrasts. The Asian's have been helping
Americans in the arts here as well, which has also had an impact on
the quality of business and life in this City by the Bay: however none
of this could be happening now Eric if it were not for the self-less interest
of the America's fasination with cheap, cheap and every cheaper garbage.
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- We get the goodies, and they get our garbage; now doesn't
that seems like a truly American kind of import-export policy? I'm
sure that Phillip would just love it.
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- In fact next time perhaps Finger might get the chance
to finally see what does leave the Bay Area, and actually does depart from
the Golden Gate. He'd need a scheducle because it is nothing like the frequency
of the imports: in fact in might only be a few times a week: but the cargo
is always the same, it's GARBAGE. That's our number one export, "garbage"
which comes mainly from all those container ships that Finger saw arriving;
along with empty cargo containers that are being returned to be re-loaded.
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- In fact that's become another industry here, that we
have to thank the Chinese for. They send us so many cargo containers full
of stuff, and since we don't have anything but garbage to send back, there was
a huge problem of what to do with all those thousands upon thousands of
empty cargo containers. The numbers of these huge metal hunks were
becoming staggering, and with Port-Space at a premium - well something
had to be done! So some very creative, half-bright designers decided
to create a whole new industry. Now Americans can own homes built
out of the same empty cargo containers that brought them all their stuff
in the first place! And thanks to the enginuity of the new-designers, whole
apartment towers can now be built from used shipping containers: which,
given the housing crash, might just be part of the answer to the thousands
of tent cities springing up all over the USA . After all,
people in the third world have been living in empty truck trailers and
cargo containers, since they became part of the shipping indsutry: So why
should Americans be denied that right? I'm sure that 'Finger' would agree
that these things could be made into fabulous and trendy studios and showrooms
etc. as well as serving the more pedestrian needs of families with nowhere
else to go?
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- It seems that Mr. Finger might have a lot to do with
his unemployed time, in the near future; if he could continue to bring
the public some of the more interesting events of the day in small segments?
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- kirwan
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- From: Eric To: Jim Kirwan
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- WOW, great ideas all. I'm staying now in SF and could
easily create a film with the garbage ships. I hope to create a container
ship full similar videos, on a wide variety of topics, and I have to figure
out the find a job and go to work thing, soon. Thanks for the time and
attention. Peace, Eric
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- You're very welcome, Eric.
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- Your short video was very creative, and if you follow
wherever that leads you, you may be able to find something through the
number of people that your videos touch. Just quietly mention the
need to survive, and keep an open mind for possibilities: There are lots
of groups out there that satire can work for big-time; groups that are
desperate for find a way to reach the world- wide audiences they want to
reach. Some of them can raise small amounts of money to underwrite the
messages they might like to generate - try freelancing what you do and
a whole new array of options might well be open for your work(especially
if you can both eat and survive in the meantime).
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- Explore the groups that want to keep the recent BART-police
killing in Oakland alive and in front of their viewing public. Also
there's this group of vets that want to publicly resist the takeover of
the nation's military services, if Martial Law is invoked. http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009/03/oath-keepers-declaration-of-orders-we.html
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- You can use what I cobbled together as an article that
ought to be up on my site by tonight, http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/articles.htm It's
attached: I sent this to a number of people and sites, I'll forward anything
more that comes to me.
- Just follow you gut, there are millions of things that
can be exposed in this fashion, once you put your mind to it.
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- Good Luck Eric!
- kirwan
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