From: Jeffery Edwards <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2008 3:01 PM To: Peter Mendelson Subject: <no subject> I will call today at about 5 your time.. The financial system , like frank=n stein, has taken on a life of its own. It no longer responds to its maste=s. It is inherently unpredictable,able to spread its damage,mutating along =he way. It is immune to conventional attacks. It has to be seen like = separate living thing. It is layer upon layer of systems.. Not dissimilar =o people. It can reek world havoc, in fact, if AI quaida were clever,=it is much more potent than bio or nuclear weapons. It s , killing radius i= unlimited. This is not science fiction. The solutions of the past wi=l not work. The system < Due to the speed and complexity of computers, c=n withstand many attempts to get it under control.. For example just follow=the money. IF you owned gold, wha good would it do you. You would have a et=l that only was valuable if you exchanged it for money, usually paper money= if not electronic, now your bank says sorry, you can't have it for t=o weeks, as our capital ration is out of whack.. The shortfalls in the stat= and municipalities has yet to surface. 1 EFTA_R1_00100907 EFTA01781688