THE HIDDEN SYSTEM OF FINANCE, BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION, AND BANK VAULTS IN SPACE
The Air Force Might Have To Protect Money Laundering in Space
Now... did you catch the implications of those opening statements? Indeed, these were the statements that were the stone in my shoe, so to speak, and I found them to be an irritable confirmation of ideas I've been advancing, along with former HUD Assistant Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts. Indeed, when I first advanced this idea some years ago on the recently deceased George Ann Hughes' The Byte Show, I thought I was the only one thinking what I was thinking, and I was reluctant even to talk about it on George Ann's show, until she persuaded me. But when I heard Secretary Fitts saying and thinking almost exactly the same think some time later, I began to wonder. So here's the irritating stone-in-the shoe that this article posed(and poses):
"If you’re looking for the ultimate in physical security for your future assets, look up, way up. Growing fears about cybersecurity and the rapidly decreasing cost to access space has given birth to a new class of startups offering satellite-based data centers impervious to all physical hacking. What sort of information is so valuable that the average person needs to protect them in space? One answer: money. Even space vaults need guards, and in this case the brunt of that job will go to U.S. Air Force.Now, I don't know the author of this article, Mr Patrick Tucker, from Adam, and I highly doubt that he ever heard my wild and woolly "high octane speculation" about money leaving the planet altogether, nor Secretary Fitt's variation on the idea. That said, you'll note that what he has said, boiled down to its essential abstracted "quintessence", is the following:
"But putting digital money into space-based data centers not only puts it out of reach from thieves, it’s also out of jurisdiction from law enforcement. In other words, the Air Force could one day soon be on the hook to protect a hive of money laundering in space."
- Money, since so much of it now exists in the form of electronic data, can now move off planet, and be vouchsafed in satellites;
- part of moving money of the planet in this fashion, might be in the form of sophisticated money laundering operations; and finally,
- the military would inevitably be drawn into protecting such "orbital vaults" and hence may unwittingly(of course! or as I would prefer, perhaps "wittingly") be protecting such operations.
The idea may not be as wild and wooly as it sounds. After all, if we can trade bits of information that are exchanged electronically as money, chances are, another more advanced civilization might do so as well. Granted, they might be so advanced as to view our "electronic blips" as being about as avdanced as having to carry around sacks of coins before the rise of the widespread use of paper money. But different types of money have always circulated at the same time, as it does now.
But in any case, the article does advance the notion that money, rather than being transferred or cleared via space based assets, might be stored there. In other words, it might simply be moved off world. And he has raised yet another fascinating possibility, that this activity would the the ultimate way, the most sophisticated way for those with the pwoer, influence, and technological expertise to do so, to launder money. And of course, hiding your assets in satellites (or elsewhere), is the perfect way to have a hidden system of finance.
In other words, perhaps we're once again being "prepared for a future" that already exists, and perhaps this article could be taken as confirmation - at least in a general way - that the idea of all that liquidity, which should have shown up as hyperinflation long ago, hasn't, because the load end of the circuit is no longer on this planet at all. And that raises all sorts of other "high octane" possibilities. Of course, there's lots more to ponder in this article, which is why it's going into one of my permanent archive folders.
And of course, there's one final possibility that the article suggests, and that is, the data that can be stored in satellites, can also be stored on space probes on, say, the surface of the Moon, or Mars... if someone needed, perhaps, to make a withdrawal at one of those "branch banks"...
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