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To: TobagoJack who wrote (71108)	2/19/2011 2:01:05 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217573

The Swath: Mahgreb to Indonesia will fall too. They share the same basic rules they had lived by since 1300 years ago.~ When a fall happens it is a big blob that comes down. Habsburg, Romanoff, British, Otaman, Qing dinasty early last century. USSR and all its satellites. LATAM military juntas. Once a system outlives its usefulness. It comes down. Now it is time for the Swath

To: TobagoJack who wrote (71108)	2/19/2011 2:44:40 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217573

Skype tells me it is your bday today. Happy Birthday TJ!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (71108)	2/19/2011 10:22:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217573

TJ, McDonald's prices are not instantly available to me via Google, but here's The Economist rating oanda.com I recall McDonald's prices in Hong Kong in 1990 being very cheap. That's the only time I have stayed in Hong Kong. They appear to still be cheap. That's understandable because the GDP per person is high and the people per square metre walking past McDonald's doors is high so the land price per customer is low. Regarding the McDonald's standard, which was published in 1986, my brother had come out with a hamburger currency comparison a year or so previously, so McDonalds plagiarized the idea of a hamburger standard - not that such an idea wasn't used by swarms of people already because people are always looking for ways of comparing countries, just as you are now. And just as I am now - the NZ$ remains over-valued against US$. While the USA is going down the gurgler, NZ is too with $1 billion per month extra debt for only 4 million impoverished people, half of whom are living on opm. We already had nearly $200 billion in debt so another $1 billion per month is a lot of straws loading onto the camel's back [more of a donkey in our case] with no visible means of repayment other than by way of Tradable Citizenship which would make the debt trivial and Hong Kong a relative loser. 10,000 Tradable Citizenships issued per year at about $2 million each = $20 billion per year. With people then voting in much more sensible ways, the economy would boom. Productivity and production would boom. Ideas seem to 'catch fire" from time to time and turn to memes, propagating from multiple points at the same time. So, in the Islamic world of repression and totalitarianism, the idea of revolution has been resident for a long time. Credit to George Bush II aka King George II, he said he was thinking of democratic revolution; a surge of freedom across such countries as part of his conquest of Iraq. He turned the strength of Islamic Jihad [in the bad old days] against itself. Back in the day, Moslem conquest was easy because like the British Empire, they offered freedom to the local yokels who were viciously repressed by their totalitarian rulers. Now, the Moslems are repressed by their autocratic rulers who just love their mega$billions from oil and general power over all. So the Crusaders can say "Throw off the yoke and join the democratic world. Look at your tv and Cyberspace to see how we live, and you don't." A group of us from around the world [expatriates in Antwerp] were discussing one evening how ideas arise simultaneously [near enough], like reality spontaneously bubbling up out of quantum soup; unpredictably, but paradoxically inevitable, predictably inevitable, though randomly unexpected. Mqurice