This is about the Death star and the wookie, but begins with economic speculation

Such a deal.

This is a long rant... all speculation. I will begin with the
moneyed interest and what I think is going on there... and it is not
entirely inexcusable by a wide margin as might be noticed.

0.5% prime rate in Chilli. and the prime rate for banks at less than
1% for banks in the US... and home buyers paying 5% on long term
mortgages... thats a 400% net proft for doing no work or value
production at all for the moneyed interests. but why? Wont hyper
inflation render all their money useless?

There is some huge range of ramifications in all that. These people
may be entirely corrupt, but they are not actually stupid perhaps.


If we end up with hyper inflation then all those banks, lenders,
pensioners and federal reserves etc will have virtually nothing but
worthless paper, as the citizens will own the real estate. and
have all the power and assets.

That is not going to happen.



This raises the question .....why would the huge money interests, set
a deal up like that? Makes no sense to me.

Unless they are staging for deflation and arranging deflation, in that
fashion these end up with a lot of strong currency, notes and
contracts enforced by law on real assets. thats power .. useful
across a broad spectum.

......and those of us they lent to at 5%, will be paying a premium
interest rate..in tough times, as the home they bought devalues and
jobs get scarce. that 5% will loom large before its over.

This would make sense. That may be whats on the way. Regardless
their issuing of all that funny 'money'.

That may be Bernake's 'magic' bullet...

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The other issues:

.... as a wild guess it is considered that the world has between 300
and 600 trillion in bogus derivitives floating loose... much of it
will wash, one against the other, much of it will evaporate cleanly as
a few billion pensioners starve to death... the rest will be tied
irrevokably to real assets... puttng off a total collapse at least...
securing those, and the derivitives tied to them.


I am speculating that life on main street will get a lot tougher, and
these will be forced to live and pay rent, or mortgages, taxes and
etc..and over work... money scarce, the value of the assets remaining
relatively high because of all the illegals being encouraged to live
in the country (without the illegals, and with the baby boomer bust,
there will be 40 million surplus homes on the market, driving those
asset values to the bottom... no one to occupy the homes... so the
illegals are securing the moneyed interests in that aspect.

I believe that may be the primary reason these are encouraged....and
for other reasons, we need slave labor to compete in the world, and we
need to be able to tax that slave labor to near ruin in order to pay
for our govt bloat (70% over previous per capita levels just 30
years ago... its a tumor, gone cancerous, now devouring its host..
thats been common all through history). regardless, thats why we
need the slave labor.. without it
real estate and the value securing the moneyed loans would collapse,
the tax base would collapse...and with our talent pool (50% of the
entire work force, the most skilled) dying off ... we would be toast
as a nation.

that is not to say we are not toast as it is...



but but .. what of the funny money? well it was just credits, not
dollar bills, credit can be (and is) being reigned in as we speak.
Rendering the funny money a non issue as far as creating hyper
inflation is concerned... credit is just reigned it as times goes
along anytime it looks like anyone not in civil service might make a
few bucks... keeping govt costs low...whats left of the middle class
under control... and the bulk of the rest half starved.

(side note)... in 1975... 50 dollars an hour was a comon consulting
rate for free engineering free lancers... In 1982 my billing rate for
HVAC work, service and engineering was $40 dollars an hour. My
office rent was 75 dollars... a new car was 3 to 4,000 dollars.

Now, today... office rent if I had one would be in the $1,500 to
$2,000 range, an average car is 8 to 10 times higher... as some
consultants are still working for $50 an hour... a few can get a bit
more when there is work...but there is not much work... its moved to
china mostly.


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so what we may have now, if my speculation holds any water, is
secured money interests (banks and international money
interests)...with that stability and *their power in tact for better
or worse... and the people merely having to work harder and longer
for a few decades to work off these loans, and keep the moneyed
interests secure. Thats how its set up I believe.. (I am sure sure
as hell not applauding it, this is just my take on the actuality of it
all.)


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The upside?, no total crash as seen in the great depression, the
lowering of living standards offset by a built infrastructure,
automated farming and etc. In other words we floated this mess on a
sea of advanced technology... and on the backs of the human
beiings..and there are no other backs on which to float it... not so
many die off in the USA, the third world keeps suffering as usual.

that is the overlord thinking perhaps. I don't fault it or applaud
it. I just think thats what may be going on.

It is not a secret and I do not entirely disagree that something must
be done to stem the exponential growth of the human population... such
starvation and etc is probably seen as a necessary thing by those in
power, and it may be... and even in the USA, looking at whats running
loose these days , 60% of fat asses...with no brains, and scoring in
the bottom 2% literacy and math science in the developed world... that
simply and absolutely *cannot fly.


These will die off before its over imo...one way or the other...
historically its by means of military and economic defeat, then food
shortages, individual immune systems then go weak...... then pandemic
disease takes out half of the population... idiots first...

the surviving middle class then takes out the upper class.

That is simply the established pattern, not a single exception in
world history that I can recall.... maybe some reading this can spot
some exceptions though.


which track is the US demographic on? a person can
project outcomes from that curve.



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What is an individual to do.. well we adapt..as usual..

failed strategies die out, others do not die out, those complicit with
the machine you might say will be the most viable, but at the cost of
their Humanity.. and extinction in the end.


Maybe that is what Star Wars was about... the dominance of the
machine, and the borg type situation etc. Obedience gone ballistic,
now common at the tellers window, or engineering offices, along with
the idiocy it takes to go along with such a program...


in oposition to the machine, a wookie, a couple of outcast gun
slingers,a rust bucket with hot cams, and a magic man or two, able
however to think for themselves... flexibly around mindless
defenses... alowing them to drop photon torpedo's down the death stars
vent tubes. This is a comon pattern in history also... the Bastile
so to speak was not so defensible after all.

also not defensible were the Knights Templar chain of castles along
the mediterainian sea, where Syria, Lebanon and points north are
now... these had 20' thick double walls, that went 40 or 50' into
solid rock so they couldnt be tunneled under, and a moat between...
yet just 20 years from their peak, with decades worth of stored
grain, water and gold... they collapsed totally. a worthwhile study
especially as compared to the larger pattern and what is happening the
US today... the knights templar were the most accomplished and feared
warriors... how long to wimp status? think about.... it is worth
your time.

half of a generation.. not a full generation but half life
of a generation, and the productive part of that half life.. 20
years. You see that number repeating in history. For instance the
USA students 20 or 30 years ago scored highest in the world iin Math
Science and literacy... now near dead last. 48th in the world behind
head hunters in Borneo.

*** a nation is built and survives on the strength of its *current
generation ONLY.***.. with a modest fly wheel effect from the previous
generation, that precludes their instantaneous demise.



Re our national security:

(in the US we are in a very similar situation. an entirely 100%
laughable situation if it were not so grim, an entirely undefensible
position. on US soil, our arch enemy already in place by the hundreds
of thousands... and only a handfull needed to render us into a
quivering mass of bankrupt non function and not the faintest chance of
preventing further assaults... and we are not talking IED's here in
the faintest

.... I wont list the ways.. or what I learned from the CIA's analysis
of the scene..its not even remotely funny..we can be shut down in a
*heart beat... it simply does not serve our enemies interests to do
so.) Our presidents defense as loopy as I think GWB was, was still
perhaps the only choice he had, driven by the CIA analyisis of *our
own limitless vulnerabiltiy I mentioned.. That defence of being so
instantaneously insane and dangerous in a heart beat ....that messing
with us wouldnt be worth it.

Lacking that I and any engineer with half a brain can tell you, we can
be messed with effortlessly for under 20 dollars... unstoppably.. our
CIA knows this and more in every minute detail.).

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We are not however set up to survive any sort of end stage, instead we
are across that threshold.




Each of us gets to choose in these regards. A rationalization to
sudden nearly unavoidable death, in a heart beat ....or the security
of the impenetrable death star... most chose that security.

it is an entirely false and humanly fatal security however.





Phil scott
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