Jay, I have protected myself against planet-wide inflation and deflation and general demise of fiat currencies issued by governments.
The rise of Amnesty International [AI], Artificial Intelligence [It] and General Globalisation [GG] is going to usurp the nationalistic fervour of the benighted masses of xenophobicly tribalistic 'write your own history' atavistic Aztec anti-democratic jingoists.
The most enlightened commentary on the capture of Saddam was the AI guy. It was funny seeing the extremely tight little television shots of dancing Iraqis and gun-firing celebrations. There was obviously not a lot of celebration. Nothing like the wide-angle shots of mass celebration after the end of WWII. A few Iraqi celebrants who were encouraged to perform for the cameras wasn't representative of the Iraqi mind.
As you perspicaciously pointed out, Q will indeed work the magic for both inflation and deflation. That's primarily because it represents and is part of and the creator of the amazing new world which is under construction.
So far, so good.
Q 520 G 410 for today's peaks, so far. For some reason, gold has fallen well behind the Q standard. My little Tonka Truck of US$ cash is certainly in somewhat of a wreck, but fortunately, since I have to go shopping, it is doing okay compared with Made in China - and Xmas is upon us.
I was interested to see Saddam was about right where I expected him to be; not far from his palace, near his childhood place, on the edge of the Tigris, in a little bunker.
Now the monkeys in charge have to figure out what the heck to do with him. I think they'll opt for an Iraqi-based never-ending torture at the hands of international lawyers along the lines of Milosevic's purgatory. A kind of Lenin, kept in a glass box for the mob to gaze upon. Pecked at forever or until he dies, whichever comes first, by flocks of lawyers. Greater torture and global impact could be achieved by taking him to the Hague. They could build an Aztec pyramid of power there and conduct sacrificial rites for world tv. A kind of 21st century Roman Colosseum.http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/dbishop/rome/Colosseum.html The mob has a strange attraction for such ceremony - even modern man.
Leaving him in Iraqi hands, is likely to lead to a fairly quick demise whereas an end game in the Hague would cause greater fear for Mugabe, the Burmese Generals, North Korea's bosses and other megalomaniac statist thugs.
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