EFTA Document EFTA01774198

From: Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 4:14 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: RE: FW: Sci Fi Cities. Are there=enough stamp collectors in the world? <=pan style=ifont-size:10.0ptfont-family:"Tahoma","sans-serifm>From: =effrey Epstein Imailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, Aug=st 29, 2011 8:11 AM To: Subject: Re: FW= Sci Fi Cities. yes , stamp =olletcors will pay a fortune apiece to insure that they have each and ever= country. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at =:07 PM, <mailt > wrote: STAMPS?<=:p> <=span> Fr=m: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmailc=ml Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:18 AM To: Subject: Re: FW: Sci Fi Cities. <=div> it turns out first great reveneu is=selling stamps, to collectors that require ALL nations. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Just because Lowell mentioned you! =p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt=auto'> <=pan style=ifont-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497111>1 <= class=MsoNormal style=smso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:=uto5 These things are super cool. > wrote: EFTA_R1_00087474 EFTA01774198 PS. Indeed, these dirt-poor people hare innovated remarkably swiftly —and in a highly-effective ma=ner! Why, they've even attracted significant quantities =f international venture capital (of a non-too-savory flavor, to be sure!) =o enable their building-out! =span style='color:#1F497D'> PPS. If you were really-&-truly entrepr=neurial, you'll pull-together a consortium that'd go o=t and lease a dozen war- surplus deep-sea drilling platforms, and deploy th=m in a line transecting a major marine-shipping lane in the deep ocean at = 24-mile pitch, i.e., just a shade less than twice the internationally-rec=gnized "exclusive control of offshore seas" margins of soverei=n nations. After declaring=themselves to constitute the Sovereign Archipelago of Francis Drake (or pe=haps 'Jeffrey Epstein' <=p> These tolls would naturally be pric=d at just a shade less than the total costs (fuel, time,...) of navigating=around the Archipelago's territory. Correspondingly, l&W=217;d recommend emplacement of the initial Archipelago across either the e=st-or-west entryway of the Straits of Malacca... titanic 'regrets:Z=17; are involved in avoiding the Straits in making the transit between the=Persian Gulf and East Asia! Of cou=se, the income derived from licensing fishing, etc. in the "exclusiv= economic zones" of 200 mile radius around each such island would be=additional...but these could be employed to offset the substantial lawyers=#8217; bills, "Washington representation" fees, etc., etc. tha= would be involved in operating such an "instant sovereign!"&n=sp; :) t• *• *••* •♦ **•******** **** ** 5** * 5** *5* ♦5** *115*• *1 ••t *••*****• * ******** **•** •51 **•* 5a5 •••s •t• * ••s•t**•st > ****• *****• see 555* ***• 5* *5* 1***** ***** ***** St* *5* *5* 5* Not sure this is about autonomy? I'm certain this would be better than life in Mogadishu. A=d probably cheaper... 2 EFTA_R1_00087475 EFTA01774199 1. Desalination would be easier and smaller 2. Energy requirements would be about the same but necessar=ly renewable 3. &nb=p; Sanitation would totally cha=ge! 4. =Health would matter since living in s=ch tight quarters means communicable disease becomes real again (for every=ne!) I think it would be c=ol to offer this up to Somalia or somewhere desperate and see what happens= Rich people don't i=novate as quickly!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva <=pan style='color:#1F497D'> Perhaps it would be better that Peter gives more to HIV!=/span> We are still wai=ing for his reply re October dinner in NYC <=pan style='color:#1F497D'> Boris I= Sent: Sunday, Aug=st 28, 2011 4:24 PM To: Bill Gates Cc: Boris Nikolic; =owell Wood ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ) Subject: Sci Fi Cities. Importanc=: Low 3 EFTA_R1_00087476 EFTA01774200 Peter Thiel's response to urban development. Neat to t=ink about, cool pictures anyway. $1.25 mi=lion investment into this (sketchy) organization on his part is probably t=o small to even build one of these but at least he's trying! What I think would be cool would be to try this in=Africa. Even cancer cells stop multiplying when you confine their space. <=pan style=lont-family:Wingdings'>1 Mission: To further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomo=s ocean communities, enabling innovation with new political and social sys=ems. http://www.seasteading.org/ <http://www.seasteading.org=> =b>Floating cities: =ayPal billionaire plans to build a whole new libertarian colony off the co=st of San Francisco • Ocean st=te would have no welfare, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons= • Platforms would house 270 people and hundr=ds could eventually join together <=pan lang=EN style='color:black'>PayPal-founder Peter Thiel was so insp=red by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free-market capitalism - th=t he's trying to make its title a reality. apan lang=EN style.'color:blacle>The Silicon Valley billionaire has fun=elled $1.25million to the Seasteading Institute, an organisation that aspi=es to launch a floating colony into international waters, freeing them and=like•minded thinkers to live by libertarian ideals. • class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top•alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:=uto'>Mr Thiel recently told Details =agazine: 'The United States Constitution had things you could do at the be=inning that you couldn't do later. So the question is, can you go back to =he beginning of things? How do you start over?' Life on the ocean wave: A design for one of the flo=ting cities which Peter Thiel wants to start constructing next year off th= coast of San Francisco Mr The=l, the venture capitalist who famously helped Facebook expand beyond the H=rvard campus, called Seasteading an 'open frontier for experimenting with =ew ideas for government'. After making his first investment in the project in 2008= Mr Thiel said: 'Decades from now, those looking back at the start of the =entury will understand that Seasteading was an obvious step towards encour=ging the development of more efficient, practical public sector models aro=nd the world. 'We're at a fascinating juncture: the nature of government is a=out to change at a very fundamental level.' Light city: Peter Thiel called the project, Seasteading, an 'op=n a frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government'<=o:p> Mr Thiel said: 'the n=ture of government is about to change at a very fundamental level'<=:p> 4 EFTA_R1_00087477 EFTA01774201 Mr Thiel and his=colleagues say their ocean state would have no welfare, looser building co=es, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons. Aiming to have tens of millio=s of residents by 2050, the Seasteading Institute says architectural plans=for a prototype involve a movable, diesel-powered structure with room for =70 residents. The long-term plan would be to have dozens and eventually hundreds o= the platforms linked together. Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who is wo=king on the project told Details that they hope to launch a flotilla of of=ices off the San Francisco coast next year. <=pan lang=EN style='color:black'>'Big ideas start as weird ideas,' Mr F=iedman said. He predicted that full-time settlement will follow in about seven yea=s. But w=ile some Ayn Rand acolytes may think the idea is brilliant, it's not witho=t its critics. Margaret Crawford, an expert on urban planning and a professor of a=chitecture at Berkeley, told Details: 'it's a silly idea without any urban=planning implications whatsoever.' Mr Thiel told an audience at the Sea=teading Institute Conference in 2009 that: 'There are quite a lot of peopl= who think it's not possible. 'That's a good thing. We don't need to re=lly worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it'= possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually tr= to stop us until it's too late.' <=pan lang=EN style='color:black'>Read more: http://www.dailymail=co.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-Shrugged- Silicon-Valley-billionaire-revea=s-plan-launch-floating-start-country-coast-San-Francisco.html#ixzz1WMuYqS7= <http://www.daily=ail.co.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-Shrugged-Silicon-Valley-billionaire-r=veals-plan-launch- floating-start-country-coast-San-Francisco.html#ixzz1WMu=q57n> =o:p> Phone Skype 5 EFTA_R1_00087478 EFTA01774202 The information contained in this communication is confidential, m=y be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and=is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this com=unication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawfu=. 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