In 1998 I had an experience that influenced my interpretation of another [global] experience. I won a prize: and two south Asian nations blew off three nuclear tests each in a regional tough guy tit for tat apparently, over a period of some six months.  The outcome of these is part of the Jonker Memorandum.

The prize was unusual. I rarely enter competitions and so even more rarely ‘win’ something. I attended a show and my entrance ticket was also part of a lottery… [that was permitted in that brief window before authority began to impose its extractive  tendencies] that had what became a ‘lucky’ number. The prize:  a two-day course in the effective use of a handgun. The course was run by a Belgian man, who later turned out to be a shadowy, wanted ‘hit man’ called Jean Bultot, about whose arrest by Interpol I read about some years later. Nonetheless he was a superb instructor. He ought to have been. According to the news report I read, he was alleged to have murdered nearly fifty people.

I can assure the reader that [in retrospect] it was an immensely useful training session in which I learned many things about hitting a target effectively, most important of which, was the idea of the “double tap”. For the uninitiated [as I was] two shots placed [preferably to the chest] within 10 centimetres of each other almost but not quite simultaneously will enhance the impact velocity of the shot so that even a low caliber projectile becomes huge, and can wreak untold damage to what it hits. Two days and some 400 rounds later I had a pretty evolved idea of the effect of this particular defensive tactic.

So when the world woke up to the knowledge that India and Pakistan had fired off 6 nukes in a sequence of underground tests, my first thought was that it was a nuclear, triple-double-tap on a cosmic scale. This idea became a theme for the story I was intermittently evolving at the time, which now [eventually] appears as a bedtime story on my nicholasjakari website: the Jonker Memorandum.

My Theme?

What if the effect of the ‘strike” was that the planet was moved in some infinitesimal way from its accustomed path to one marginally different? Would this not cause an insidious shift in weather patterns as the marginal movement magnified over the course of its routine repetitious rotation?

And then as the plot unrolled over the next 12 years the effect of what I dubbed “the Ringing” [an interference with the natural rhythm pattern of the planet] has become de rigueur: Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruption and [so-called] ‘climate change’ are ideas that are no longer fiction but real. More scarily: What if:  influential people believe this too and hence we have what seems almost unrestrained fraudulent financial activity on the planet that has plunged us all into a state of chaos from which it is difficult to see daylight.

In the same way, another plot theme was the relentlessly enveloping creep of unemployment as human labour priced itself out of the marketplace and a primary male activity becomes rape. Both of these have become more than insidious since I began the plot, as is the equally insidious trend to the “life activator” chip that all humans will soon be carrying as a means to control the progress of 7 billion plus people swamping the planet’s resources: a trend that becomes more accepted as this era of “asymmetrical warfare” becomes an ingrained military strategy, employed by all disaffected people on the planet..

Most intriguing: in the more microelements of the plot, I create a female who would contend for power in the newly liberated region I eventually called Mzansi. She would rise to power on a twin campaign based on gender rights … the “gender agenda’”, and Basic Pay; an agenda [as i perrceived it then] driven by the insidious rise of routine and brutal rape as a male response to the rise of female power.  Curiously: in the land that provides the inspiration for Mzansi such a female has come to the fore from nowhere in the past few months… And she is allegedly as rich as my heroine. Can she achieve what my heroine Korinth Starr [the elder] seeks to achieve? Time will tell.

And: to finance Basic Pay she [my heroine] would re-engineer the existing 10,000 year old tax extortion system, and replace it [largely] with the more rational “Transaction Levy”… an idea developed decades ago by Mr. Tobin [Nobel Laureate] now proposed in the past year by Mrs. Merkel the German Chancellor [and, entertainingly, rejected by Mr. Cameron [UK] for exactly the reason I had to ‘destroy the world’ in the story as I developed it back in the late 90’s]. This is an idea [the transaction levy, that is] that now becomes possible in the electronic funds transfer age.

Further. To eradicate the chaos caused by the [alleged] thieving elites who have transmuted the global financial system into private wealth generating casino systems, the total accumulated and marginally legal “sovereign” debt dumped on the citizen by reckless derivatives traders, would be rolled over into 1000 year annuities; and subsequently, rigorous control of the casino agenda via the levy referred to above., an idea recently proposed  [rather half-heartedly] by British finance politician George Osborne recently, and modeled on ancient practices such as the methodology used by the same country to extricate themselves from previous financial mayhem, specifically after the infamous “south Sea Bubble” and later after the Napoleonic Wars. We refer here to the famous “Consols” so beloved of 19th century novelists.

And then of course at a simpler level there is the problem of North Korea, a place   [April/May 2013] that hints at the issue that gives rise to the entire global catastrophe that represents the Apocalypse referred to throughout the story. Not to mention that as I write this a lady on CNN is talking about an 8.0 level [Richter] earthquake on that same tectonic line that I envisaged being double tapped back in ’98.  In our time a reverberation is over in minutes: in geological time a reverberation could extend over a time no one has yet dared to calculate.

All of these ideas are suddenly, as I reach the climax of the podcast story, becoming mainstream in a way that I find rather weird.  But then as I have observed elsewhere… the entire story is devised from a bizarre “out of body” experience I had, after apparently ‘dying’ on the operating table in the middle of surgery for multiple gunshot wounds, acquired on my own “September 11: back in ’94…  Of course I could have just been high on Morphine.

And: of course it is all just fiction… isn’t it?  But you must make up your own mind and so … assuming you have a long attention span which you must have or you wouldn’t ‘t have read this far…

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