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2023.03.26 10:32 LastWeekInCollapse Last Week in Collapse: March 19-25, 2023
The IPCC Synthesis Report is out; is it hopium, or a condemnation of modern society? Is anybody even paying attention?
Last Week in Collapse: March 19-25, 2023
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, helpful, depressing, ironic, stunning, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 65th newsletter. You can find the March 12-18 edition here if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also on Substack if you want them sent to your email inbox.
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The Synthesis Report from the 6th Assessment of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is out…sort of. The 36-page Policymaker Summary, Figures Table, Headline Statements, and an 85-page synthesis report have been quietly released, but the full, giant Report “SYR Full Volume” is still being finalized. I expect to see it next week. How many pages is it going to be?
The last IPCC synthesis report was published in October 2014—so we won’t see another set of IPCC documents until 2028 (at the very earliest; most likely we will wait until ~2030). By that point, it should be clear to the masses that preventing 1.5 °C is impossible, the tipping points have all been crossed, and the consequences are close. Will the 7th Assessment Cycle be pure Doomerism?
I have not had time to read the new Policymaker Summary in toto but coverage of the Report claims that “a liveable and sustainable future for all” is still within reach—as if it had ever been realistic. The Summary says about 3.5B humans are highly vulnerable to climate hazards. Adaptation and mitigation becomes increasingly difficult in an irreversible late-stage climate. Same old, same old.
The report claims with high confidence that “Sea level rise is unavoidable for centuries to millennia due to continuing deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, and sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years.” For thousands of years humans have moved to the planet’s coastlines, for food and trade; what will their sudden migration away mean for society?
Drought [killed 43,000 Somalians](https://apnews.com/article/somalia-drought-deaths-hunger-9e78f99c101a290304a28a37dadfef0b) last year according to estimates—and half of the dead were younger than 5 years old. yet another rainy season failed to materialize…the region’s megadrought has been ongoing for 40+ years. Life and death in the new desert.
Ancient sea ice continues melting and researchers are warning of a future ice-free summer. Last month was the 5th warmest February on record, globally.
World Water Day was recognized on Wednesday, and the UN released a 210-page World Water Development Report to mark the occasion.
Drought, and heat, are blamed for deterioration of Germany’s tree population. The 80-page “Forest Condition Survey 2022” report (sorry, German-language only) for Germany claims that about 80% of trees experience slower crown (leaves, branches, fruit, canopy) growth than from a couple generations ago. Meanwhile, South Pole, a Swiss company that dominates the carbon offset industry, is being accused of misguiding investors/customers and not fulfilling its environmental goals.
COP28, the climate conference, will be held in the UAE later this year, but governments are already debating whether to call for a phase-out of fossil fuels. Now the Danish climate minister said “whether or not we will reach that result {agreeing that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary} in Dubai later this year is of course difficult to say.” I thought this was already generally acknowledged…but it turns out that a number of important oil-extracting OPEC+ states blocked such a call at COPout27.
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Haiti’s ongoing Collapse is alarming the United Nations, which is calling for a “rapid action force” to deal with the spiraling gang violence that has led to the deaths of hundreds (thousands?) of people this year and left tens of thousands in desperate hunger. Half the nation is already in “acute hunger.” The Dominican Republic has lost its patience with Haitian migrants, and is now refouling Haitians and building a large fence across its 400-kilometer (250-mile) border, expected to be completed by May 2024. Dominican officials have called the Haitian Collapse a “low-intensity Civil War.”
Reports of former President Donald Trump’s potential arrest—for financial misconduct relating to payments to the porn-star Stormy Daniels—led to Trump calling for massive protests. But the arrest warrant didn’t come out as Trump and others predicted. The implications of a Trump arrest could go in any direction…
The Colombian government is ending a ceasefire with drug gangs that are waging hybrid warfare against the state. This also comes at a time when global cocaine production is at all-time highs. In the DRC, another [ceasefire is ending](https://www.voanews.com/a/civilians-killed-in-dr-congo-attacks-fighting-with-m23-rebels-flares/7012232.html) after 15+ civilians were killed, allegedly by M23 gangsters/insurgents.
China’s President met Russia’s President last week to discuss animpossible peace agreement to end the Ukraine War. Their peace plan is dead on arrival; observers believe the War will continue for much longer. Putin declared that nuclear weapons will be stationed in Belarus.
Long-suffering Lebanon, whose economy is in turmoil and government “operating” for 5 months without a President, now faces a new challenge: setting the time. The country is unevenly divided on whether Daylight Savings Time should be implemented. The government says yes, but major broadcasters and civilians are refusing to move ahead one hour. The erosion of legitimacy and sovereignty around fundamental concepts.
The West marked the 20 year anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq (2003—2011? or —2017? —or 2023?). For many in Iraq, everything Collapsed and kept on Collapsing to today. It’s been said that Collapse is here, but it just hasn’t been equally distributed.
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Babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, is rising in New England, and is now endemic in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The illness was previously endemic in New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, etc, but it is moving northeast. Soon it will settle in Canada.
The fungal infection Candida Auris is spreading across the United States at a very worrisome rate. There were 330 confirmed cases in 2018. There were 476 cases in 2019. There were 756 cases in 2020. There were 1,471 cases in 2021. Researchers aren’t sure how many cases there were in 2022, but you can make your own guess. The current CFR for Candida Auris (which is not curable by antibiotics) is between 30-60%.
More evidence is emerging that infected animals in Wuhan were the source of COVID-19. The data are not 100% conclusive, but they suggest an animal at the market, perhaps a raccoon dog, was the host animal that allowed the virus to jump from horseshoe bats to humans. China still maintains that the virus began outside its borders.
Mozambique is struggling with surging cholera cases in the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy. Hundreds of cases are benign treated after crowds of people filled storm shelters, and strong rains enabled the bacteria to move more freely. Malawi is also dealing with cholera, where toilets overflowed into rivers, which ordinarily sustained agriculture and human consumption. A bizarre evaluation of the system of incentives have led to only 36M doses of the cholera vaccine being produced in 2022—despite it costing only about $1.50 USD to produce each vaccine. Apparently, life is extremely cheap.
It will be impossible to clean up all the millions of fish which died from a heat wave in New South Wales last week.
Five people died in Tanzania from Marburg virus, the nation’s first confirmed cases. Three others are being treated, and over 150 contacts have been detected.
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Sri Lanka received its first bailout payment last week from the IMF. Overall, the IMF projects a global slowing of the economy, and the UN agrees. Meanwhile, anger grows in Kenya over inflation, debt, and drought.
Fallout over the Collapse of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) is still shaking confidence in the global banking industry. The psychological contagion of market panic could spread organically—or intentionally—across other regions. Might economic fear be weaponized to crash future banks & states? Re-establishing market confidence is often the entire game itself.
More than a million protestors (perhaps as high as 3.5M) turned out in France over the continual resistance to Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age by two years. Both sides are digging in; prolonged friction inevitably generates heat. Protests turned to riots as some threw Molotov cocktails, launched fireworks, and hurled rocks; police responded with tear gas and arrests. These clashes may only be the beginning. Bordeaux city hall was set on fire; protests flared up in 200+ towns/cities across France.
The consulting firm McKinsey & Company released a 28-page report “Global Economics Intelligence” last week, and it’s made up entirely of graphs and charts. A very accessible report for understanding global economic analysis and risks in the past—and what lies ahead.
Things to watch next week include:
↠ Israel’s controversial overhaul of the judiciary is set to become law next week, although massive protests continue. This also comes amid a ban being lifted on Israelis returning to West Bank settlements—so Israelis will now move further into 1,000+ settlements in the West Bank, right at the start of Ramadan.
Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-A world without fossil fuels can only support one billion humans, says this post—but can one billion survivors really support themselves? The top comment in this thread points out that much of the world is truly helpless in comparison with past generations.
-A 1.5 °C temperature rise is going to be really bad, according to this mammoth thread and its accompanying sources & comments. Save this one for later if you don’t have 10 minutes to commit to it right now.
-Industrial civilization’s savage indifference to nature is expressed in this depressing weekly observation from British Columbia, Canada. Selfishness, and even a kind of deranged psychopathy, has slain countless birds on the roads.
-An interesting prep from preppers I had never considered: practicing using your non-dominant hand for everyday tasks.
-Fellow Substacker and long-time high-effort Collapse scholar u/Myth_of_Progress wrote a well-sourced response to a recent article by The Atlantic about overpopulation, Malthusianism, and climate activism. You’ll have to commit some time if you want to read this, and/or the Atlantic article it responds to. If you’re already entirely aware of the overpopulation discourse and its common arguments, merits, and controversies, you can spare yourself the stress.
-Overstimulation is makingus mice much dumber, says this post and its comments. Did you make it this far in the newsletter, or have you already clicked away? What can be done about our decreasing attention span and deteriorating emotional stability? Or are we just helpless to the tides of history?
Got any feedback, questions, comments, articles, manifestos, navigation advice, political cartoons, pipeline schematics, news sources, etc.? Consider joining the Last Week in Collapse SubStack if you don’t want to check collapse every Sunday, you can get this newsletter sent to your email inbox every weekend. I always forget something, and I feel like I overlook more and more events each week. What did I miss this week?
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Last Week in Collapse: March 19-25, 2023
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, helpful, depressing, ironic, stunning, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 65th newsletter. You can find the March 12-18 edition here if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also on Substack if you want them sent to your email inbox.
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The Synthesis Report from the 6th Assessment of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is out…sort of. The 36-page Policymaker Summary, Figures Table, Headline Statements, and an 85-page synthesis report have been quietly released, but the full, giant Report “SYR Full Volume” is still being finalized. I expect to see it next week. How many pages is it going to be?
The last IPCC synthesis report was published in October 2014—so we won’t see another set of IPCC documents until 2028 (at the very earliest; most likely we will wait until ~2030). By that point, it should be clear to the masses that preventing 1.5 °C is impossible, the tipping points have all been crossed, and the consequences are close. Will the 7th Assessment Cycle be pure Doomerism?
I have not had time to read the new Policymaker Summary in toto but coverage of the Report claims that “a liveable and sustainable future for all” is still within reach—as if it had ever been realistic. The Summary says about 3.5B humans are highly vulnerable to climate hazards. Adaptation and mitigation becomes increasingly difficult in an irreversible late-stage climate. Same old, same old.
The report claims with high confidence that “Sea level rise is unavoidable for centuries to millennia due to continuing deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, and sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years.” For thousands of years humans have moved to the planet’s coastlines, for food and trade; what will their sudden migration away mean for society?
”In the near term, every region in the world is projected to face further increases in climate hazards (medium to high confidence, depending on region and hazard), increasing multiple risks to ecosystems and humans (very high confidence). Hazards and associated risks expected in the near-term include an increase in heat-related human mortality and morbidity (high confidence), food-borne, water-borne, and vector-borne diseases (high confidence), and mental health challenges (very high confidence), flooding in coastal and other low-lying cities and regions (high confidence), biodiversity loss in land, freshwater and ocean ecosystems (medium to very high confidence, depending on ecosystem), and a decrease in food production in some regions (high confidence). Cryosphere-related changes in floods, landslides, and water availability have the potential to lead to severe consequences for people, infrastructure and the economy in most mountain regions (high confidence). The projected increase in frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation (high confidence) will increase rain generated local flooding (medium confidence).” -B.2.1, Policymaker SummaryThe changing climate has impacts on methane (CH4) release, yet the interrelation between sources and sinks is not fully understood. This Nature [study](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01629-0) models methane wetlands to examine the effects—and dangers—of aggravated methane release. 3.2 °C increase is expected by 2100, according to the current models.
Drought [killed 43,000 Somalians](https://apnews.com/article/somalia-drought-deaths-hunger-9e78f99c101a290304a28a37dadfef0b) last year according to estimates—and half of the dead were younger than 5 years old. yet another rainy season failed to materialize…the region’s megadrought has been ongoing for 40+ years. Life and death in the new desert.
Ancient sea ice continues melting and researchers are warning of a future ice-free summer. Last month was the 5th warmest February on record, globally.
World Water Day was recognized on Wednesday, and the UN released a 210-page World Water Development Report to mark the occasion.
Drought, and heat, are blamed for deterioration of Germany’s tree population. The 80-page “Forest Condition Survey 2022” report (sorry, German-language only) for Germany claims that about 80% of trees experience slower crown (leaves, branches, fruit, canopy) growth than from a couple generations ago. Meanwhile, South Pole, a Swiss company that dominates the carbon offset industry, is being accused of misguiding investors/customers and not fulfilling its environmental goals.
COP28, the climate conference, will be held in the UAE later this year, but governments are already debating whether to call for a phase-out of fossil fuels. Now the Danish climate minister said “whether or not we will reach that result {agreeing that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary} in Dubai later this year is of course difficult to say.” I thought this was already generally acknowledged…but it turns out that a number of important oil-extracting OPEC+ states blocked such a call at COP
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Haiti’s ongoing Collapse is alarming the United Nations, which is calling for a “rapid action force” to deal with the spiraling gang violence that has led to the deaths of hundreds (thousands?) of people this year and left tens of thousands in desperate hunger. Half the nation is already in “acute hunger.” The Dominican Republic has lost its patience with Haitian migrants, and is now refouling Haitians and building a large fence across its 400-kilometer (250-mile) border, expected to be completed by May 2024. Dominican officials have called the Haitian Collapse a “low-intensity Civil War.”
Reports of former President Donald Trump’s potential arrest—for financial misconduct relating to payments to the porn-star Stormy Daniels—led to Trump calling for massive protests. But the arrest warrant didn’t come out as Trump and others predicted. The implications of a Trump arrest could go in any direction…
The Colombian government is ending a ceasefire with drug gangs that are waging hybrid warfare against the state. This also comes at a time when global cocaine production is at all-time highs. In the DRC, another [ceasefire is ending](https://www.voanews.com/a/civilians-killed-in-dr-congo-attacks-fighting-with-m23-rebels-flares/7012232.html) after 15+ civilians were killed, allegedly by M23 gangsters/insurgents.
China’s President met Russia’s President last week to discuss an
Long-suffering Lebanon, whose economy is in turmoil and government “operating” for 5 months without a President, now faces a new challenge: setting the time. The country is unevenly divided on whether Daylight Savings Time should be implemented. The government says yes, but major broadcasters and civilians are refusing to move ahead one hour. The erosion of legitimacy and sovereignty around fundamental concepts.
The West marked the 20 year anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq (2003—2011? or —2017? —or 2023?). For many in Iraq, everything Collapsed and kept on Collapsing to today. It’s been said that Collapse is here, but it just hasn’t been equally distributed.
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Babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, is rising in New England, and is now endemic in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The illness was previously endemic in New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, etc, but it is moving northeast. Soon it will settle in Canada.
The fungal infection Candida Auris is spreading across the United States at a very worrisome rate. There were 330 confirmed cases in 2018. There were 476 cases in 2019. There were 756 cases in 2020. There were 1,471 cases in 2021. Researchers aren’t sure how many cases there were in 2022, but you can make your own guess. The current CFR for Candida Auris (which is not curable by antibiotics) is between 30-60%.
More evidence is emerging that infected animals in Wuhan were the source of COVID-19. The data are not 100% conclusive, but they suggest an animal at the market, perhaps a raccoon dog, was the host animal that allowed the virus to jump from horseshoe bats to humans. China still maintains that the virus began outside its borders.
Mozambique is struggling with surging cholera cases in the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy. Hundreds of cases are benign treated after crowds of people filled storm shelters, and strong rains enabled the bacteria to move more freely. Malawi is also dealing with cholera, where toilets overflowed into rivers, which ordinarily sustained agriculture and human consumption. A bizarre evaluation of the system of incentives have led to only 36M doses of the cholera vaccine being produced in 2022—despite it costing only about $1.50 USD to produce each vaccine. Apparently, life is extremely cheap.
It will be impossible to clean up all the millions of fish which died from a heat wave in New South Wales last week.
Five people died in Tanzania from Marburg virus, the nation’s first confirmed cases. Three others are being treated, and over 150 contacts have been detected.
——————————
Sri Lanka received its first bailout payment last week from the IMF. Overall, the IMF projects a global slowing of the economy, and the UN agrees. Meanwhile, anger grows in Kenya over inflation, debt, and drought.
Fallout over the Collapse of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) is still shaking confidence in the global banking industry. The psychological contagion of market panic could spread organically—or intentionally—across other regions. Might economic fear be weaponized to crash future banks & states? Re-establishing market confidence is often the entire game itself.
More than a million protestors (perhaps as high as 3.5M) turned out in France over the continual resistance to Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age by two years. Both sides are digging in; prolonged friction inevitably generates heat. Protests turned to riots as some threw Molotov cocktails, launched fireworks, and hurled rocks; police responded with tear gas and arrests. These clashes may only be the beginning. Bordeaux city hall was set on fire; protests flared up in 200+ towns/cities across France.
The consulting firm McKinsey & Company released a 28-page report “Global Economics Intelligence” last week, and it’s made up entirely of graphs and charts. A very accessible report for understanding global economic analysis and risks in the past—and what lies ahead.
Things to watch next week include:
↠ Israel’s controversial overhaul of the judiciary is set to become law next week, although massive protests continue. This also comes amid a ban being lifted on Israelis returning to West Bank settlements—so Israelis will now move further into 1,000+ settlements in the West Bank, right at the start of Ramadan.
Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-A world without fossil fuels can only support one billion humans, says this post—but can one billion survivors really support themselves? The top comment in this thread points out that much of the world is truly helpless in comparison with past generations.
-A 1.5 °C temperature rise is going to be really bad, according to this mammoth thread and its accompanying sources & comments. Save this one for later if you don’t have 10 minutes to commit to it right now.
-Industrial civilization’s savage indifference to nature is expressed in this depressing weekly observation from British Columbia, Canada. Selfishness, and even a kind of deranged psychopathy, has slain countless birds on the roads.
-An interesting prep from preppers I had never considered: practicing using your non-dominant hand for everyday tasks.
-Fellow Substacker and long-time high-effort Collapse scholar u/Myth_of_Progress wrote a well-sourced response to a recent article by The Atlantic about overpopulation, Malthusianism, and climate activism. You’ll have to commit some time if you want to read this, and/or the Atlantic article it responds to. If you’re already entirely aware of the overpopulation discourse and its common arguments, merits, and controversies, you can spare yourself the stress.
-Overstimulation is making
Got any feedback, questions, comments, articles, manifestos, navigation advice, political cartoons, pipeline schematics, news sources, etc.? Consider joining the Last Week in Collapse SubStack if you don’t want to check collapse every Sunday, you can get this newsletter sent to your email inbox every weekend. I always forget something, and I feel like I overlook more and more events each week. What did I miss this week?
2023.03.26 10:27 puhriknbwk 😘👉👌 IF YOU TAP YOU WILL CUM 🍆💦
 | submitted by puhriknbwk to divykvrujg [link] [comments] IF YOU TAP HERE YOU WILL CUMIF YOU TAP HERE YOU WILL CUMIF YOU TAP HERE YOU WILL CUMhttps://i.redd.it/1a0cb44mn1qa1.gif“You.” he answered her cheesily. "Oh, Baby?" He said with a playful tone in his voice “I know. I know you’ll do only as I ask, and that you’ll stop if I ask you too.” “But, but you’re…” he tried again. My sister looked at him and just grabbed his cock. I snapped a picture of her confused and panicked expression. “What?” Her hands shot to my shorts and fumbled for a second before she managed to rip them and my boxers off of me. I saw that my aunt had a full patch of dark hair around her pussy. I also saw that her pussy lips hung down from her pussy. The man rather roughly turned and pushed her to the sofa. Suddenly my tent zip started to inch upwards. I watched with alarm, not sure what was happening. And then a deep male voice, probably a boy from the other uni, asked if any single ladies needed company! I told him to fuck off in no uncertain terms and he did in a hurry. I guess its funny in hindsight. I guess this fits the protocol at fuck camp. The man wiggles in his restraints, his crooked smile still stuck on his face. The scientist walks to another machine, pulling a glass box out of his pocket. In it is a white scale. It glints dully in the light. A faint mist can be seen emanating from it. The man in the cage leans forward a bit, staring at the scale as the scientist removes it from the box and puts in on a plate in the machine. He closes the cover and walks back to his console, beginning to type again. “Ok, it ok. But Chloe, your going to need to take your clothes off so we can wash them.” I stand up quickly taking Katy by the back of the head and jam my tongue in her mouth, she grabs the back of my head and we have a mouth war to see who survives. After a minute or two she breaks kiss and I turn around and throw her down onto the stacked padding. Katy’s wearing a short cut leather jacket with a hood, black tank top and a red plaid schoolgirl skirt, it’s her white and pink skull panties I’m interested in. I reach down and pull them off to her knees and bury my face in shaved punk pussy. After 20 minutes of searching i managed to find the door to Dusks quarters. I was wondering if I was late and I missed her but I must of been right on time because I saw her walking towards me hastely. her go pee and then touch one of her tits before getting shy “Bryan, I do care about you. At least let me take you home. Please?” Harry felt himself drifting when he heard Hermione giggle. Startled—since he hadn’t heard her laugh or giggle in a long time—he looked over at her. “What?” "How many times have I told you that I am not interested in you. I love Kelsy and I will not do anything to ruin her trust" he scolded Given this, Sylvia surprisingly did not feel cold even as the night winds blew, for a million thoughts were racing in her mind. Namely, how her father had left her without even saying goodbye, the wild night she had spent with the formidable Marshal, and of course, her mission. Mom! You’re going to leave me here alone with this monster? He won’t even let me go get my clothes on.” “I’m a good girl.” A third button was undone. Beth started breathing hard. She was so wet between her legs. She wished she could rub her throbbing clit. She said “Wow, I had no idea you were this big.” "Um, my condoms..." he was actually blushing. "We REALLY have to be careful, you know?" He extended his hand to me and I took as I got up. He then led me to his room, which, not surprisingly was tidy and well organized. He closed the door and locked it and smiled at me. "Mom and Dad aren't supposed to be home until Sunday, but you never know." After I didn’t answer she took it upon herself to continue the conversation. Harry just laughed to himself as closed the bedroom behind him. Ginny turned away from Hermione and buried her head into her pillow in embarrassment as Hermione fell back to sleep. Lindsey smirked and stroked his cock with her gentle touch. The groan that he let out made her want more. She wrapped her legs around his hips and guided him into her tight pussy. As he slid inside, he stretched her wider than she had ever felt. She gasped, afraid that it wouldn't fit. Suddenly, though, Greg grabbed her ass and yanked her hips forward, impaling her with his monstrous cock. “Oh...God,” she gasped. “Yeah she was all quiet as she got up and left today didn’t even stop for breakfast. Which by the way is waiting for you down stairs with the rest of the house,” Katy says as I step past all my girls. The Cappuccino machine beeped. Mum kept on sucking hard as if her life depended upon it. I was just about there until I saw Cathy run over to the machine and took the frothy jug off the machine and brought it over to the table. Women, well, I guess I’ll get to understand them one day but it’s these moments in my life that I will always remember. the shower head and began to wash the soap off of his body. When Me- No fucking way, that was amazing. "It's nice to meet you too, honey -- I wonder why he hasn't ever mentioned you before?" “It seems we were wrong. Oh god, we were so wrong. Jason, you said you wanted to help me, well now’s your chance. You’re coming with me to Australia.” I put my hand up to cover her mouth, and I said "Bitch you deserve this for treating me like you have for years. Besides, this was your doing, you jumped on me." “What are you gonna do with it?” I asked, chuckling. He began bucking his hips now, feeling his cum about to shoot. She began stroking him hard and fast and he erupted. "Oh fuck!" He cried. She caught all of his cum on her hand and sucked and swallowed the last bit out of him. It all started about 2 weeks ago. My friend Tara and I were babysitting, a normal activity for us on Sundays, seeing as both of her parents worked nights and she had two younger siblings. It was somewhat late, around midnight, but we were both sitting on the couch, just kinda shooting the shit, waiting for her parents to get home. Normal stuff, like which teacher we hated the most, how we think we did on the biology test. Normal, 16 year old bullshit. The conversation started to get a bit boring, and as we struggled for things to say, Tara finally got a small sparkle in her eye that I knew meant something was up. “Hey, you wanna play some truth or dare? Help the time pass?” Truth or dare, the game that can have the most horrendous disasters to teenagers known to man. Of course I wanted to play. Again, we started out with normal stuff. But, gradually, as all games go, it started getting perverted. After about an hour of playing, we were both in our underwear. Nothing worse had happened other than stripping, yet, but seeing her in a matching pair of purple panties and a bra was making my arousal grow, as well as my cock. She could tell, too, because she was smiling and biting her lip. “Ok, your turn now. Truth or dare?” “Truth, I guess…” “Ok, is this thanks to me?” she asked, smirking and leaning over, setting a hand on my semi-hard erection. I jumped slightly, blushing. “Uh…uh huh…” I managed, shaking slightly. What was going on, here? She giggled. “Wanna know a secret?” she whispered, a slight blush creeping into her cheeks as well. She grabbed my hand without waiting for an answer, shoving it into her panties. I felt her pussy, smooth and shaven, as well as dripping wet. “That’s from you..” she whispered. She pulled away, smiling and getting dressed, leaving me to stare at her. ”You better get dressed before my parents get home.” she teased. I did, and we sat there in silence until her parents arrived and I walked home, thinking about what had happened. “I guess I will just wait here for a little bit, and if they do not come in like the next 45 minutes then I will take you up on that offer.” "Fuck yes Sean, lick it" “This time yeah,” I laughed but he shook his head. "Mind if I go grab an other drink?" She asked nicely. “We have to cure everyone,” Sasha announced and both Samantha and I nodded in agreement. “Now how are we going to do it?” she asked and I honestly had no clue how we were going to do that. "So you don't love me anymore?" She said teasing him. I got on top of Kat this time, she was grinning with a glow to her face. Coupled with her perky boobs and her flushed face, she looked no less than a goddess(well at least to me.) More detail on the sex and hav someone else proofread it too cuz honestly this story sucks A strange man, wearing a long black robe, spoke in a strong, commanding voice. "Greetings, Jonathan. 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2023.03.26 05:00 Kazevenikov Cryptid Chronicle - Chapter 21
A special thanks to u/bluefishcake for the wonderful original story and sandbox to play in.
A special thanks to my editors LordHenry7898, RandomTinkerer, and Swimming_Good_8507
And a big thanks to the authors and their stories that inspired me to tell my own in this universe. RandomTinkerer (City Slickers and Hayseeds), Punnynfunny (Denied Operations), CompassWithHat (Top Lasgun), CarCU131 (The Cook), and Rhion-618 (Just One Drop)
Hy’shq’e Ay Si’am (Thank you noble friends)
Chapter 21: A Prince, and a Pauper
Andy sat awkwardly in the middle seat of the back bench between Kalai and Sitry. He’d taken off his hat and had readjusted his blanket to wrap completely around his shoulders and chest before he’d been politely ushered into the flying vehicle. He sat silently watching the three parents fuss over their children with a stab of jealousy. Andy could feel a tension building, as he was grateful to be mostly ignored as the shuttle rocketed up towards whatever destination it was headed towards. He hadn’t quite caught where the rather intimidating rabbit man had told their pilot to go, but it didn’t sound like anywhere he knew, and he didn’t want to have to try and figure out how to get home if it meant booking a flight that he couldn’t afford.
“I want to thank you for saving me back there, If you wouldn’t mind, I’d just as soon be out of your hair. If you could drop me off at the old Bellingham airport, that’s closest to my home,” Andy voiced his concern when a lull had fallen in the conversation about ‘poor Naranjo’s cuts and bruises’. It almost made Andy laugh seeing the parents fuss over Naranjo, while Sitry and Kalai by comparison were told, in a kind and loving way, to suck it up. It was a sentiment he’d grown accustomed to hearing from his own grandmother, ever since they’d been reunited.
The man turned around in his seat towards the front where he sat with his wives and his son. “Nonsense, Alfred-”
“It’s Andy,” Naranjo interjected, ”And dad, you heard the woman!” He gave a worried glance back at Andy. Andy could feel the two girls beside him suddenly tense and shift ever so slightly away from him, as though they were afraid.
“Andy…I’m terribly sorry. I’m Rhaxiid Vaida and I-” The man continued jovially before Naranjo again interrupted his father.
“He means to say Don-Conde-Professing-Practitioner Rhaxiid Vaida. Granmaestro of Ecological Sciences, your highness.” Naranjo switched into High Shil and it took a moment for Andy’s brain to make the switch. He’d not touched High Shil since his last stint in solitary when he completed the advanced literature course. “Allow me also to present Dona-Marquite’-Professing-Practitioner Sakalbi Vaida, Maestra of Oceanographic and Environmental Restoration and my birth mother. This is Dona-Marquite’-Professing-Practitioner Aftasia Vaida, Maestra of Climatology.”
“My birth mother, your highness. I want to apologize for our behavior when we met; it was inappropriate,” Sitry added after Naranjo finished introducing the family. All had inclined their heads, save for Rhaxiid, and it suddenly hit him why they were suddenly all on pins and needles.
“Ok, please stop!” Andy spoke deliberately in Vatikre, and he could feel himself flushing a bit from embarrassment. He tried to get control of himself but he couldn’t quite keep the nervous laughter out of his voice. “I am not actually royalty, I’m not even nobility in any sense of the word. Char’dania is repeating a racist joke that I’m not entirely sure she knows is racist.” Andy didn’t want to have to explain the whole Indian Princess stereotype and how quite a few of the women of the local garrison had taken to using it to describe Andy and some of his peers in the tribe.
“I have no titles except what I am, and I am Andrei Shelokset. If you want to be very formal, my ‘Indian name’ is Tsu’ti’tsi’uqw, which was my great grandmother’s name, and I am of the Bear Clan Salish of the North Straits Salish Band. Everyone just calls me Andy, and it is an honor to meet you all.” Andy let the silence that followed his speech hang for a moment before he spoke again, hoping to break the tension and change the subject. “I can’t stress enough how very grateful I am for you saving me from Char’dania and the rest of her goons. I raise my hands to you.”
Andy brought his hands up in the traditional sign of thanks and honor. The last thing he wanted was to give Si’catreese or any Interior Agent any more ammunition to arrest him by having anyone actually think he was trying to claim noble status.
“But the Lieutenant called you…and she was going to have the Interior….and they’re the only ones that can arrest nobles….” Naranjo sputtered worriedly, switching back into Vatikre and fixing his parents with a fearful glance.
Kalai jumped in, her voice soft and shy, “Everyone at the Smokehouse was listening to you. You were the one giving orders and-”
“I’m a tumulh and those were stommish! Those trigger-happy idiots listening to me was just a cultural thing, it has nothing to do with me personally!” Andy could feel himself getting a bit defensive and fought to reign in his rising frustration and embarrassment. He didn’t exactly like being the center of attention, and outside of his training as a Speaker in cultural events or in a crisis, he hated public speaking and being in crowds.
“Well, young man, from the way these three tell it, you stood alone against a veritable army of cutthroats and murderers to save their lives. You tended their wounds, gave them clothes, fed them, and saved them multiple times in a single night. This might be an impertinent question, but do you have children of your own?” Aftasia’s tone was gentle and her encouraging smile was soft, putting Andy a bit more at ease. He could see the similarity between Sitry and her mother in their smiles.
“Uh, no…no I don’t, I’m still a bit young for that.” Andy felt himself blush, and was thankful that he wasn’t the only one. Sitry and Kalai both flushed different colors while Aftasia gave a knowing nod and a small chuckle.
“Then you don’t know how much we owe you.”
“Indeed. We’ve been beside ourselves with worry ever since this little burr sent her guards back to Seattle and gave us a false address to find her at!” Naranjo’s pale, white haired and red eyed mother Sakalbi shot a glare at Kalai that could have burned a hole through the shuttle and Kalai wilted into her seat. “Though this little embellisher seems to be a bit overwrought.” She turned to look at her son who sat next to her and Naranjo flashed her a nervous smile. “Narny seems to think you were being shot at, which is just silly…isn’t it?” Her abrupt tone at the end and the hard and piercing stare was turned on Andy and he instinctively sucked in his breath. He felt in that moment like he was staring down an angry Kodiak Grizzly Bear who’d caught him with her cub.
“No, thankfully we weren’t being shot at, but some of my cousins were.” Andy’s response was quick, and he instantly regretted adding the second part. He’d meant to be reassuring but instead it seemed to ignite her barely contained rage even further.
“You mean to tell me that there really was a battle in the islands last night?” Her voice raised two octaves, causing her three adult children to flinch. Even Andy felt himself quail underneath the invisible assault.
“My rifle isn’t for decoration, and it was more of a skirmish.” Andy recovered slightly, trying to stand his ground. Remembering that he was still armed was a bit reassuring, even though the weapon was just out of reach on the floor of the shuttle behind his feet.
“What exactly were you doing out there in the first place?” Sakalbi’s tone turned icy and her eyes narrowed at Andy. “The island ecosystem is still imperiled and the shock of humans-”
“IT WAS CRAZY! There was dancing, and drums, and costumes like I’ve NEVER SEEN BEFORE! He said that it’s their environmental and ecological record dating back thousands of years!” Sitry’s excited outburst crashed like a wave on the shore, breaking the invisible hold the woman had on Andy. Sitry leaned in, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder as she physically moved herself in between Andy and her Kho-mother, taking her attention away from him.
“Well that can’t be true, can it? Human records in this area are only around one hundred and fifty of this planet’s years old, two hundred at the most. There was no written record prior to that.” Rhaxiid spoke tentatively, as if suddenly he wasn’t exactly sure of something that had been a fact up until that moment.
“That’s technically true, Don-Konday? Forgive me if I’m mispronouncing-” Andy spoke again, as Aftasia cleared her throat pointedly at Sakalbi, causing the irate woman to turn back around.
“Oh please, it’s Rhaxiid, sir. No need to stand on ceremony,” he responded jovially, waving a hand as though shooing something away from his face.
“Well, written language was only introduced to my people around two centuries ago, that part is true, but our traditions, sacred sites, and cultural practices have been passed down since time began.” Andy found himself again in the position of trying to explain his people’s history, but given how it seemed to have been misconstrued, he suddenly wasn’t as sure about talking to these aliens about it as he had been the night before.
“Humans have only had written language for two hundred years? How is that possible? You’ve gone from preliterate to an advanced industrial society in only-”
“My people, being the Salishians. The indigenous race of humans from these islands and the surrounding mainland,” Andy clarified. Rhaxiid smiled as he made an “oh” sound and nodded.
“Our studies indicate that humans were an invasive species to this continent. That your species originated from one of the larger continents on the other side of the planet.” Sakalbi spoke without turning around. There was something in the woman’s tone that rubbed Andy the wrong way. An undercurrent of resentment and superiority in how she spoke that reminded him of so many of his teachers. Andy fought hard not to let his hackles go up.
“You’ll find burial sites and remains of villages between twenty five and twelve thousand years old, and my people are as indigenous as Cedar trees, bears, salmon, and bald eagles. We’ve been living in this place long before the Imperium united under the Tasoos, and we’ll keep fighting to protect our ancestral homeland until the very last of us is no more.” Andy’s jaw tightened as he rattled off an old defense of his people’s rights and threw a shot back that he knew would get a rise out of any Imperial. Sakalbi simply scoffed in response.
“You know Imperial history?” Aftasia asked, giving her Kho-wife a hard stare and a curt shake of her head.
“Courtesy of your empire’s fine residential school out in Nebraska. It’s where I learned to ‘speak good Shil,'” Andy responded, bitterness creeping into his voice.
“So you’re a graduate? Wonderful! Tell me, at what level did you achieve?” Rhaxiid replied brightly, and beside him he could feel Kalai and Sitry turn in surprise.
“I finished the Imperial Assimilation course in five Earth years, and graduated from junior academy in another two.”
“YOU WHAT?” The chorus from all six aliens at once was deafening.
“You graduated in only two human years?” Rhaxiid’s voice took on a tone of awe and respect, and Andy felt suddenly self conscious as the eyes of everyone were suddenly glued to him.
“Well it helps if you don’t get vacations…or weekends…or free time. Besides, there wasn’t much else to do in solitary for repeated escape attempts, so I just put my nose in the school omnipads and just banged the coursework out. The classes were pretty easy once I figured out the language and the math system, then it was all just spitting out the answer the teachers wanted.”
“Are you some kind of genius?” Sitry asked breathlessly, and the excited smile that lit up her face made Andy’s heart skip a beat. Whether it was fear or something else, Andy wasn’t sure. He turned to look at Kalai and saw the same look mirrored from the other side of him and Andy couldn’t help but pull into himself and blush. He looked down and began studying his feet and spoke in a bit of a self deprecating tone.
“No…no, I’m no genius. I was just motivated to not get hit anymore, and to keep from going crazy in the little oubliette they kept sticking me in and I-” Andy stopped as the mood in the shuttle drastically changed, and he at the looked up to see all the looks of admiration turned to looks of confusion and horror.
“I’m guessing you’re not too aware of what they did to us after they kicked us out of our homes, are you?” Andy ventured shyly, and he saw them all shake their heads almost in unison.
“I’m sorry, I’m having trouble understanding a few things, you said ‘escape attempts?’ As in, prison? Were you convicted of a crime?” Sakalbi asked tentatively, her ears swiveling back defensively.
“No, unless you count ‘Being Indian in the Twenty First Century.' I hear you can get two years in Walla Walla for that.” Andy tried to turn the very painful memory of red garbed Interior thugs pulling him away from his screaming grandmother into a joke. He fought against the rising panic as the memory of those goons throwing him into an alien bus with about fifty other crying children before being carted away from the internment camp in Oklahoma washed over him.
“That can’t be…using a school as a prison…that’s horrific! I can’t even begin to fathom how you could…You poor dear.” Sakalbi’s voice was small for the first time, and full of pity.
“I’d rather not talk about it right now, if you don’t mind. To tell you the truth, I’ve been roughly on my own except for my grandma for the past five years. Before that, I spent just over seven in a residential school for human boys, courtesy of Governess Ta’naios and the Interior. They tried to make us good Shil’vati by any means necessary, and that’s all I’ll say about it.” Andy felt his hands start to shake and he clenched his fists. His mouth started to feel dry and his heartbeat started to quicken as he took short, shallow breaths. He thought about the half pack of Lucky Strikes he still had in his pocket, but decided against it for now. As soon as they dropped him off, he’d find a drink and kill the rest of the pack.
“So you’ve held a Junior Academy diploma since you were…?” Rhaxiid left the question hanging as Andy felt Kalai shift and hold out her hand to him. He looked down in the silence that hung for a moment and he tentatively placed his hand in Kalai’s, and she gave it a reassuring squeeze.
“Around nine in Shil years. Thirteen or fourteen in Earth years.” Andy shrugged. “The Empress ‘pardoned’ us, or something and then they just kicked us out with a bus ticket to anywhere we wanted to go. So I wrapped up the last of my classes and got my diploma online or whatever and I came home and found grandma trying to put the pieces back together. Since then, I’ve been running around trying to get those of us that were lost, found; and keep my people out of trouble. My grandmother runs our government in exile with what’s left of the Council-”
“I’m sorry, what? Government in exile? So…you ARE a prince.” Naranjo interrupted.
“No, it’s…she….” Andy’s train of thought was completely derailed at the sudden return of the topic.
“Your grandmother runs the government in exile, you said. That sounds like that makes you a prince-” Naranjo pressed while Sitry stifled a giggle.
“It’s NOT a hereditary position! She was the last elected Chairwoman of the Tribal Council and she’s been trying to get Ta’naios to recognize us ever since the Empress tore up our Treaties and exiled us from our homelands! The Chief of my clan is my grandfather who is…not here in this region. I’m not lying or being untruthful; there is nothing ‘princely’ about me!” Andy leaned forward and his blanket slipped down a bit, revealing his shoulders and chest. The sudden embarrassed squeaks from Sitry and Kalai, coupled with the hard stares from their parents as Andy pulled his covering back up as Sakalbi flicked Sitry’s ear and Aftasia fixed Kalai with a hard stare that made Kalai twist her whole body away from Andy.
“So then when your grandfather, the Chief, passes on, then your father… or mother takes over making you the…?” Aftasia asked, seemingly letting Kalai off the hook.
“Both are gone, so it would fall to my older brother who is also…not here in this region, and since there’s only the four of us in the Clan left, it’s a bit of an empty position, if it ever even was one to begin with.”
The adults traded inscrutable looks while Sitry’s wide and mischievous smile caught his eye. “I AM NOT A PRINCE!” Andy shouted, and pulled the blanket up to try and hide in.
Rhaxiid spoke earnestly and leaned towards him after another glance at his wife Aftasia. “Please forgive us for being obtuse, it’s just we haven’t had an opportunity to speak to very many humans, and we’ve never spoken to a Salishian before. Our ignorance of your people and your customs is not born of malice and we are genuinely curious. Please, sub-chief Andrei-”
“Please just call me Andy, or Mister Shelokset.”
“Alright, then Mister Shelokset, We’d like to insist that you allow us to host you for a day. I wasn’t being facetious when I said there’s a prospectus to write. We’ve been trying to study Hydras, or…Jellyfish…and all the other species in your people’s biome, and it has not been going well. Sitry says you’re immune to their venom, and that the antivenom is readily available to you?” Aftasia spoke quickly and leaned in beside her husband, her ears swiveling forward.
“Kalai was also very insistent that you are well versed in the unique ecology of this region, and that you know why we’ve been having trouble finding the natural equilibrium. As much as it pains me to say it, we don’t know why our efforts to restore the ecology are creating such mixed results. Would you mind if we asked you to speak with us about what you know and how we can improve?” Rhaxiid added with a nod, his floppy ears twitching as he adopted a similar posture to his wife.
Andy felt relieved at the change in the conversation, and emerged slightly from where he’d been trying to make himself as small as possible. “You mentioned invasive species. What others have you identified?”
“None, there are no extraplanetary creatures allowed on earth save for military service animals, and all those must have IUDs to prevent unauthorized breeding,” Sakalbi answered with pride, her own ears still pulled back as she gave Andy a side eye.
“We’re very proud of the fact that to date, there have been no reports of any problematic species transfers to Earth,” Aftasia added, happily. “Have you noticed any extraplanetary flora or fauna that may have escaped our quarantine procedures?”
“Well that explains a few things,” Andy huffed as he felt his confidence returning. “Let me ask you, as a litmus test if you will…can you tell me what the difference is between an Atlantic Salmon and a Pacific Salmon, and which one belongs here and which doesn’t?”
Andy noticed that Sitry, Kalai, and Naranjo looked at their parents’ general confusion as they quietly conferred with each other. The two looked to Sakalbi and she turned to look Andy in the eye. “They’re both trouts, aside from the name being dissimilar, there isn’t much else that is fundamentally different at all between the two species.”
Andy couldn’t help the sigh that escaped him and he nodded. “Yes they’re both ‘trout,' but Atlantic salmon are ‘salmon’…while ours are Yommich and Chinook for Kings, Suh’key for Sockeye, Huh’nun for Humpies, Kuh’ch’ks for Cohos, and Kwa’lukh for Dogs. You see, we have names for them, ancient names because our people have cultivated and harvested them for generations. We have no Salishian name for Atlantic salmon. It was introduced as a farmed fish less than one hundred years ago, and due to mismanagement by underregulated fisheries, they got out. They taste like hot garbage and they’re small as hell compared to the giants that are native to the waterways here.”
The look of surprise on the adults' faces was gratifying and Sakalbi looked like she was going to speak, but Andy continued. “Let me guess, you’ve been trying to farm the Atlantics but when you release them, their fry keep dying en masse and the adults you release just starve to death and cause all sorts of problems when they do, right?” Sakalbi’s mouth was open and she was blinking, as if she couldn't believe her ears. Rhaxiid was doing his best to suppress a smile but his eyes twinkled happily while Aftasia put a hand over her mouth and silently chuckled.
“Another example, and one I gave to Naranjo.” Andy leaned forward, finding it easier to talk now as he jerked a thumb at him. “Did you know there are two kinds of blackberries here? One is native, and the other is an invasive species. Do you know how to tell the difference?”
There was a slow shaking of heads from the adults, and Andy smiled. “The native species is a crawler. It stays low to the ground and sends out tendrils. Its thorns are small and relatively soft, and the berries are small as well. The invasive one, the Himalayan Blackberry, is a menace to the forest. It forms thickets six to even eight feet high of brambles and their thorns can gouge flesh! These damn things will choke out all the native groundcover and restrict movement of the bigger animals. It’ll even cut off the smaller animals from their old habitats and it will outcompete a lot of indigenous animals’ food sources. I know you’ve been having problems with animals that usually stay out in the forests, because they’re wandering around in the open and causing problems in town," Andy continued excitedly.
“I’m also guessing you’re having problems accessing those areas that are getting taken over by the brambles and you’re losing a whole lot of plants to them, right?” Andy looked at Kalai and Sitry, both of whom were looking from him to their parents while Rhaxiid and Aftasia stared pointedly at Sakalbi, who had folded her arms and pursed her lips angrily.
“And you and your people know all this because of your language…” Rhaxiid made it a statement as he looked over at Aftasia and raised an eyebrow, quirking a half smile at her.
“We have the stories, ancient and modern, that record the memory of our homeland and how we survived as a part of the whole system. How we managed it and cultivated it,” Andy finished proudly. Here, finally, was a person who seemed to be listening, and he felt the last vestiges of his fear and nervousness melt away.
“Stewards and caretakers, from the Song of the First People," Kalai volunteered, and Andy felt his heart glow and he gave her a look of thanks.
Aftasia flashed her eyes at Sakalbi and gave her husband a small nod. Rhaxiid turned and fixed Andy with an appraising look before speaking. “Andy, would you…” he paused as though considering his words. “I would like to formally offer you a role as a contractor with the Vaida Warren and the Ministry of Sciences, to advise us and to tell us more about your homeland and your people’s stories.”
“Sugar, you CAN’T be serious!” Sakalbi squawked, looking at her husband in surprise.
“I’ve never been more serious in my life! The ancient Erbians recorded ecological management and transference in the same manner!” Rhaxiid spoke with conviction, silencing his white-haired wife. “Please, Mr. Shelokset. No human in this area will work with us, and our Warren’s fortunes and reputation are on the line. We’ve been working for close to twelve of your years. While we’ve been making great strides with repairing the climate damage globally from fossil fuels, our restorative efforts with the biomes are becoming…fraught with failures. Help us, help you. Come work for us as an ecological advisor. Help us identify these invasives that don’t belong in your biome, and we can use our expertise to remove them ‘leaf, stem, and root’! How does a thousand credits a week, plus benefits sound?”
Andy couldn’t believe his ears. His mind spun around at the offer that the dark haired rabbit man had just made him, but a dark cloud appeared in his mind. “I’m not sure, I’ll not be some token Indian to be used as a prop to sell out my people and my homeland, will I?”
“Of course not! No, I’m offering a true advisory position, not a mouthpiece. Young man, the Empress charged our Warren with the restoration and safeguarding of this world’s environments. With you to advise us, I’m sure we could put it back to the way it was, and restore it to its former beauty and diversity.”
“I…I’d need to discuss this with…with my grandmother.”
“Of course, we’ll draw up a contract, and you can discuss it with your quee…er…grandmother. I don’t suppose you have an omnipad stashed away in your…blanket?”
“Uh, no. I don’t have one…at all.” Andy felt the embarrassment return in force.
“Why not? Everyone has one! I mean they’re not that expen…oh.” Naranjo spoke hastily as Aftasia rounded on him and he found both his ears flicked at the same time by his kho-mother and his father.
“You can…send me a message on the datanet. I’ll get it, eventually. I’ve a buddy or two with an old smartphone, and I’ve a head for remembering things like phone numbers. If you give me your omnipad for a sec, I’ll add my old email.” Andy held his hand out and quirked a half-smile. The looks of pity he got from Sitry and Kalai immediately got under his skin. “Look, I may be poor, but I’ve never gone hungry and I do just fine, thank you. I don’t need your pity.” Andy felt suddenly defensive and his tone was challenging.
“Of course you don’t, Mr. Shelokset. You have our respect, and our thanks for coming to our childrens’ rescue.” Rhaxiid was conciliatory, and he emphasized the word as he shot his icy glare at Kalai and Sitry. “All of our contractors are issued an omnipad. One of the many perks of working with the Vaida Warren, we spare no expense when it comes to planetary restoration and shilforming. We take very good care of our people and we only use the best equipment.”
“Our Warren’s the best in the empire-” Sitry started in but Andy held his hand up to stop her.
“Whoa, wait, hold on a second. I’m not exactly clear what a Warren is, in this context?” Andy looked back and forth between the aliens. “What is it, a company?”
“Not quite,” Aftasia jumped in, “It’s more like the whole of our family network. In terms of people, it’s all of our blood relations and their spouses. It’s their businesses and their contacts, resources, educational expertise, job experience…everything. It’s the sum total of our family, our wealth, and our connections.”
“You sound more like a nation, not a company,” Andy observed. Kalai’s description of who his hosts were was suddenly becoming a bit more real to him.
“You’re not entirely wrong. Before our people were annexed by the Shil’vati, Warrens were essentially nations. The Vaida Warren, our Warren, is one of six that are formally recognized by Her Imperial Majesty. Our Warren is known for its expertise in planetary engineering. Almost every colony world founded and colonized in the last five centuries had Vaida engineers and scientists managing the shilforming processes at various levels. The few that weren’t, were taught by us.” Sakalbi deigned to speak then, fixing him with a superior stare.
“If you’re so good, why do you need my help?” Andy answered her back, raising an eyebrow at her.
“I appreciate your candor,” Rhaxiid jumped in as his wife huffed and looked away. “The truth is, almost every colony world has to be engineered from below the ground up. We are experts in creating a system from scratch, and we’ve turned it into an artform. Earth’s challenge is that it has multiple complex ecosystems, in various states of ecological health, interacting with an industrialized nuclear powered civilization that we don’t quite…understand yet.”
“Climatewise, your world had a run-of-the-mill fossil fuel based greenhouse effect throwing off the natural warming and cooling cycle, topped off by a ruptured ozone layer and some residual radiation contamination in areas around nuclear waste disposal failures. In planetary engineering terms, it’s a relatively easy fix," Aftasia bragged for the first time, smiling proudly. “Where we struggle is with the xenobiology and xeno-ecology of Earth. Up until about ten minutes ago, we’d assumed certain things about the global spread of certain species. We'd also made assumptions about the management and extent of the ecological transference of various species. In just what you’ve told us, and based on what Narny, Sitry, and Kalai have said of your evening, certain observations of ours are making much more sense.” Aftasia smiled brightly as she weighed in, and Rhaxiid nodded at her assessment.
“And that’s why you want to hire me?”
Rhaxiid canted his head to the side. “Yes. The fact that you stood up to your own people to save these three’s lives tells me that you would at least be open to the possibility of working with us. The fact that you were able to navigate the islands at night with no instruments tells me you know this area quite well and would be an excellent guide to areas we may not know about. The fact that you were able to silence my wife…” Rhaxiid looked over and gave Sakalbi a loving wink, “...tells me that your expertise may be able to fill in the gaps that we know we’ve been missing.”
Andy could still hardly believe what he was hearing. All he could do was blink. If grandma signs off on this? The money alone is…it would be worth it, even if I’m just their token Indian! That kind of cash could really help! But…working with the Purps….or rabbits…this Warren? We need this, though! We could finally move forward with our plans!
Andy spoke slowly and deliberately, looking to either side of him to see an encouragingly nodding Kalai and an excited Sitry who was gently vibrating in her seat. “I think it might be best, then, if I were to speak with my grandmother sooner rather than later. I appreciate that you’d like to host me, but the last any of my people saw was the four of us sailing out of a…sticky situation…and I was headed towards an Imperial military base after having broken several laws and ordinances.”
“Ah…oh I see, yes. I agree that perhaps our return home to Victoria can take a small detour in the interest of building a working relationship with your family and your people.” Rhaxiid wrung his hands as a look of dawning comprehension crossed his face.
“I know I wouldn’t wish the last twenty four hours we’ve had on even our worst enemy. We’d be happy to take you directly to your home in order to make it as easy as possible for you to let your grandmother know you’re safe,” Aftasia stated firmly.
Andy nodded and smiled. “Bellingham Airport…well, the Militia base at ‘Fort Bellingham’ now, would be the smartest. From there I can get a vehicle that doesn’t make me look like an Imperial lackey or a hostage and we’ll have a better shot at receiving her blessing.”
“That might be for the best, sugar. We need to get Kalai to a hospital soon. She’s already missed one dose, a second missed might be fatal.” Sakalbi added, looking over at Kalai.
“PILOT! Change of plans! Land at Fort Bellingham and then take us to St. Joseph’s Hospital!” Rhaxiid banged on the wall separating the cab from the cockpit, and the shuttle began a slow bank back towards the mainland.
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Chapter 21: A Prince, and a Pauper
Andy sat awkwardly in the middle seat of the back bench between Kalai and Sitry. He’d taken off his hat and had readjusted his blanket to wrap completely around his shoulders and chest before he’d been politely ushered into the flying vehicle. He sat silently watching the three parents fuss over their children with a stab of jealousy. Andy could feel a tension building, as he was grateful to be mostly ignored as the shuttle rocketed up towards whatever destination it was headed towards. He hadn’t quite caught where the rather intimidating rabbit man had told their pilot to go, but it didn’t sound like anywhere he knew, and he didn’t want to have to try and figure out how to get home if it meant booking a flight that he couldn’t afford.
“I want to thank you for saving me back there, If you wouldn’t mind, I’d just as soon be out of your hair. If you could drop me off at the old Bellingham airport, that’s closest to my home,” Andy voiced his concern when a lull had fallen in the conversation about ‘poor Naranjo’s cuts and bruises’. It almost made Andy laugh seeing the parents fuss over Naranjo, while Sitry and Kalai by comparison were told, in a kind and loving way, to suck it up. It was a sentiment he’d grown accustomed to hearing from his own grandmother, ever since they’d been reunited.
The man turned around in his seat towards the front where he sat with his wives and his son. “Nonsense, Alfred-”
“It’s Andy,” Naranjo interjected, ”And dad, you heard the woman!” He gave a worried glance back at Andy. Andy could feel the two girls beside him suddenly tense and shift ever so slightly away from him, as though they were afraid.
“Andy…I’m terribly sorry. I’m Rhaxiid Vaida and I-” The man continued jovially before Naranjo again interrupted his father.
“He means to say Don-Conde-Professing-Practitioner Rhaxiid Vaida. Granmaestro of Ecological Sciences, your highness.” Naranjo switched into High Shil and it took a moment for Andy’s brain to make the switch. He’d not touched High Shil since his last stint in solitary when he completed the advanced literature course. “Allow me also to present Dona-Marquite’-Professing-Practitioner Sakalbi Vaida, Maestra of Oceanographic and Environmental Restoration and my birth mother. This is Dona-Marquite’-Professing-Practitioner Aftasia Vaida, Maestra of Climatology.”
“My birth mother, your highness. I want to apologize for our behavior when we met; it was inappropriate,” Sitry added after Naranjo finished introducing the family. All had inclined their heads, save for Rhaxiid, and it suddenly hit him why they were suddenly all on pins and needles.
“Ok, please stop!” Andy spoke deliberately in Vatikre, and he could feel himself flushing a bit from embarrassment. He tried to get control of himself but he couldn’t quite keep the nervous laughter out of his voice. “I am not actually royalty, I’m not even nobility in any sense of the word. Char’dania is repeating a racist joke that I’m not entirely sure she knows is racist.” Andy didn’t want to have to explain the whole Indian Princess stereotype and how quite a few of the women of the local garrison had taken to using it to describe Andy and some of his peers in the tribe.
“I have no titles except what I am, and I am Andrei Shelokset. If you want to be very formal, my ‘Indian name’ is Tsu’ti’tsi’uqw, which was my great grandmother’s name, and I am of the Bear Clan Salish of the North Straits Salish Band. Everyone just calls me Andy, and it is an honor to meet you all.” Andy let the silence that followed his speech hang for a moment before he spoke again, hoping to break the tension and change the subject. “I can’t stress enough how very grateful I am for you saving me from Char’dania and the rest of her goons. I raise my hands to you.”
Andy brought his hands up in the traditional sign of thanks and honor. The last thing he wanted was to give Si’catreese or any Interior Agent any more ammunition to arrest him by having anyone actually think he was trying to claim noble status.
“But the Lieutenant called you…and she was going to have the Interior….and they’re the only ones that can arrest nobles….” Naranjo sputtered worriedly, switching back into Vatikre and fixing his parents with a fearful glance.
Kalai jumped in, her voice soft and shy, “Everyone at the Smokehouse was listening to you. You were the one giving orders and-”
“I’m a tumulh and those were stommish! Those trigger-happy idiots listening to me was just a cultural thing, it has nothing to do with me personally!” Andy could feel himself getting a bit defensive and fought to reign in his rising frustration and embarrassment. He didn’t exactly like being the center of attention, and outside of his training as a Speaker in cultural events or in a crisis, he hated public speaking and being in crowds.
“Well, young man, from the way these three tell it, you stood alone against a veritable army of cutthroats and murderers to save their lives. You tended their wounds, gave them clothes, fed them, and saved them multiple times in a single night. This might be an impertinent question, but do you have children of your own?” Aftasia’s tone was gentle and her encouraging smile was soft, putting Andy a bit more at ease. He could see the similarity between Sitry and her mother in their smiles.
“Uh, no…no I don’t, I’m still a bit young for that.” Andy felt himself blush, and was thankful that he wasn’t the only one. Sitry and Kalai both flushed different colors while Aftasia gave a knowing nod and a small chuckle.
“Then you don’t know how much we owe you.”
“Indeed. We’ve been beside ourselves with worry ever since this little burr sent her guards back to Seattle and gave us a false address to find her at!” Naranjo’s pale, white haired and red eyed mother Sakalbi shot a glare at Kalai that could have burned a hole through the shuttle and Kalai wilted into her seat. “Though this little embellisher seems to be a bit overwrought.” She turned to look at her son who sat next to her and Naranjo flashed her a nervous smile. “Narny seems to think you were being shot at, which is just silly…isn’t it?” Her abrupt tone at the end and the hard and piercing stare was turned on Andy and he instinctively sucked in his breath. He felt in that moment like he was staring down an angry Kodiak Grizzly Bear who’d caught him with her cub.
“No, thankfully we weren’t being shot at, but some of my cousins were.” Andy’s response was quick, and he instantly regretted adding the second part. He’d meant to be reassuring but instead it seemed to ignite her barely contained rage even further.
“You mean to tell me that there really was a battle in the islands last night?” Her voice raised two octaves, causing her three adult children to flinch. Even Andy felt himself quail underneath the invisible assault.
“My rifle isn’t for decoration, and it was more of a skirmish.” Andy recovered slightly, trying to stand his ground. Remembering that he was still armed was a bit reassuring, even though the weapon was just out of reach on the floor of the shuttle behind his feet.
“What exactly were you doing out there in the first place?” Sakalbi’s tone turned icy and her eyes narrowed at Andy. “The island ecosystem is still imperiled and the shock of humans-”
“IT WAS CRAZY! There was dancing, and drums, and costumes like I’ve NEVER SEEN BEFORE! He said that it’s their environmental and ecological record dating back thousands of years!” Sitry’s excited outburst crashed like a wave on the shore, breaking the invisible hold the woman had on Andy. Sitry leaned in, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder as she physically moved herself in between Andy and her Kho-mother, taking her attention away from him.
“Well that can’t be true, can it? Human records in this area are only around one hundred and fifty of this planet’s years old, two hundred at the most. There was no written record prior to that.” Rhaxiid spoke tentatively, as if suddenly he wasn’t exactly sure of something that had been a fact up until that moment.
“That’s technically true, Don-Konday? Forgive me if I’m mispronouncing-” Andy spoke again, as Aftasia cleared her throat pointedly at Sakalbi, causing the irate woman to turn back around.
“Oh please, it’s Rhaxiid, sir. No need to stand on ceremony,” he responded jovially, waving a hand as though shooing something away from his face.
“Well, written language was only introduced to my people around two centuries ago, that part is true, but our traditions, sacred sites, and cultural practices have been passed down since time began.” Andy found himself again in the position of trying to explain his people’s history, but given how it seemed to have been misconstrued, he suddenly wasn’t as sure about talking to these aliens about it as he had been the night before.
“Humans have only had written language for two hundred years? How is that possible? You’ve gone from preliterate to an advanced industrial society in only-”
“My people, being the Salishians. The indigenous race of humans from these islands and the surrounding mainland,” Andy clarified. Rhaxiid smiled as he made an “oh” sound and nodded.
“Our studies indicate that humans were an invasive species to this continent. That your species originated from one of the larger continents on the other side of the planet.” Sakalbi spoke without turning around. There was something in the woman’s tone that rubbed Andy the wrong way. An undercurrent of resentment and superiority in how she spoke that reminded him of so many of his teachers. Andy fought hard not to let his hackles go up.
“You’ll find burial sites and remains of villages between twenty five and twelve thousand years old, and my people are as indigenous as Cedar trees, bears, salmon, and bald eagles. We’ve been living in this place long before the Imperium united under the Tasoos, and we’ll keep fighting to protect our ancestral homeland until the very last of us is no more.” Andy’s jaw tightened as he rattled off an old defense of his people’s rights and threw a shot back that he knew would get a rise out of any Imperial. Sakalbi simply scoffed in response.
“You know Imperial history?” Aftasia asked, giving her Kho-wife a hard stare and a curt shake of her head.
“Courtesy of your empire’s fine residential school out in Nebraska. It’s where I learned to ‘speak good Shil,'” Andy responded, bitterness creeping into his voice.
“So you’re a graduate? Wonderful! Tell me, at what level did you achieve?” Rhaxiid replied brightly, and beside him he could feel Kalai and Sitry turn in surprise.
“I finished the Imperial Assimilation course in five Earth years, and graduated from junior academy in another two.”
“YOU WHAT?” The chorus from all six aliens at once was deafening.
“You graduated in only two human years?” Rhaxiid’s voice took on a tone of awe and respect, and Andy felt suddenly self conscious as the eyes of everyone were suddenly glued to him.
“Well it helps if you don’t get vacations…or weekends…or free time. Besides, there wasn’t much else to do in solitary for repeated escape attempts, so I just put my nose in the school omnipads and just banged the coursework out. The classes were pretty easy once I figured out the language and the math system, then it was all just spitting out the answer the teachers wanted.”
“Are you some kind of genius?” Sitry asked breathlessly, and the excited smile that lit up her face made Andy’s heart skip a beat. Whether it was fear or something else, Andy wasn’t sure. He turned to look at Kalai and saw the same look mirrored from the other side of him and Andy couldn’t help but pull into himself and blush. He looked down and began studying his feet and spoke in a bit of a self deprecating tone.
“No…no, I’m no genius. I was just motivated to not get hit anymore, and to keep from going crazy in the little oubliette they kept sticking me in and I-” Andy stopped as the mood in the shuttle drastically changed, and he at the looked up to see all the looks of admiration turned to looks of confusion and horror.
“I’m guessing you’re not too aware of what they did to us after they kicked us out of our homes, are you?” Andy ventured shyly, and he saw them all shake their heads almost in unison.
“I’m sorry, I’m having trouble understanding a few things, you said ‘escape attempts?’ As in, prison? Were you convicted of a crime?” Sakalbi asked tentatively, her ears swiveling back defensively.
“No, unless you count ‘Being Indian in the Twenty First Century.' I hear you can get two years in Walla Walla for that.” Andy tried to turn the very painful memory of red garbed Interior thugs pulling him away from his screaming grandmother into a joke. He fought against the rising panic as the memory of those goons throwing him into an alien bus with about fifty other crying children before being carted away from the internment camp in Oklahoma washed over him.
“That can’t be…using a school as a prison…that’s horrific! I can’t even begin to fathom how you could…You poor dear.” Sakalbi’s voice was small for the first time, and full of pity.
“I’d rather not talk about it right now, if you don’t mind. To tell you the truth, I’ve been roughly on my own except for my grandma for the past five years. Before that, I spent just over seven in a residential school for human boys, courtesy of Governess Ta’naios and the Interior. They tried to make us good Shil’vati by any means necessary, and that’s all I’ll say about it.” Andy felt his hands start to shake and he clenched his fists. His mouth started to feel dry and his heartbeat started to quicken as he took short, shallow breaths. He thought about the half pack of Lucky Strikes he still had in his pocket, but decided against it for now. As soon as they dropped him off, he’d find a drink and kill the rest of the pack.
“So you’ve held a Junior Academy diploma since you were…?” Rhaxiid left the question hanging as Andy felt Kalai shift and hold out her hand to him. He looked down in the silence that hung for a moment and he tentatively placed his hand in Kalai’s, and she gave it a reassuring squeeze.
“Around nine in Shil years. Thirteen or fourteen in Earth years.” Andy shrugged. “The Empress ‘pardoned’ us, or something and then they just kicked us out with a bus ticket to anywhere we wanted to go. So I wrapped up the last of my classes and got my diploma online or whatever and I came home and found grandma trying to put the pieces back together. Since then, I’ve been running around trying to get those of us that were lost, found; and keep my people out of trouble. My grandmother runs our government in exile with what’s left of the Council-”
“I’m sorry, what? Government in exile? So…you ARE a prince.” Naranjo interrupted.
“No, it’s…she….” Andy’s train of thought was completely derailed at the sudden return of the topic.
“Your grandmother runs the government in exile, you said. That sounds like that makes you a prince-” Naranjo pressed while Sitry stifled a giggle.
“It’s NOT a hereditary position! She was the last elected Chairwoman of the Tribal Council and she’s been trying to get Ta’naios to recognize us ever since the Empress tore up our Treaties and exiled us from our homelands! The Chief of my clan is my grandfather who is…not here in this region. I’m not lying or being untruthful; there is nothing ‘princely’ about me!” Andy leaned forward and his blanket slipped down a bit, revealing his shoulders and chest. The sudden embarrassed squeaks from Sitry and Kalai, coupled with the hard stares from their parents as Andy pulled his covering back up as Sakalbi flicked Sitry’s ear and Aftasia fixed Kalai with a hard stare that made Kalai twist her whole body away from Andy.
“So then when your grandfather, the Chief, passes on, then your father… or mother takes over making you the…?” Aftasia asked, seemingly letting Kalai off the hook.
“Both are gone, so it would fall to my older brother who is also…not here in this region, and since there’s only the four of us in the Clan left, it’s a bit of an empty position, if it ever even was one to begin with.”
The adults traded inscrutable looks while Sitry’s wide and mischievous smile caught his eye. “I AM NOT A PRINCE!” Andy shouted, and pulled the blanket up to try and hide in.
Rhaxiid spoke earnestly and leaned towards him after another glance at his wife Aftasia. “Please forgive us for being obtuse, it’s just we haven’t had an opportunity to speak to very many humans, and we’ve never spoken to a Salishian before. Our ignorance of your people and your customs is not born of malice and we are genuinely curious. Please, sub-chief Andrei-”
“Please just call me Andy, or Mister Shelokset.”
“Alright, then Mister Shelokset, We’d like to insist that you allow us to host you for a day. I wasn’t being facetious when I said there’s a prospectus to write. We’ve been trying to study Hydras, or…Jellyfish…and all the other species in your people’s biome, and it has not been going well. Sitry says you’re immune to their venom, and that the antivenom is readily available to you?” Aftasia spoke quickly and leaned in beside her husband, her ears swiveling forward.
“Kalai was also very insistent that you are well versed in the unique ecology of this region, and that you know why we’ve been having trouble finding the natural equilibrium. As much as it pains me to say it, we don’t know why our efforts to restore the ecology are creating such mixed results. Would you mind if we asked you to speak with us about what you know and how we can improve?” Rhaxiid added with a nod, his floppy ears twitching as he adopted a similar posture to his wife.
Andy felt relieved at the change in the conversation, and emerged slightly from where he’d been trying to make himself as small as possible. “You mentioned invasive species. What others have you identified?”
“None, there are no extraplanetary creatures allowed on earth save for military service animals, and all those must have IUDs to prevent unauthorized breeding,” Sakalbi answered with pride, her own ears still pulled back as she gave Andy a side eye.
“We’re very proud of the fact that to date, there have been no reports of any problematic species transfers to Earth,” Aftasia added, happily. “Have you noticed any extraplanetary flora or fauna that may have escaped our quarantine procedures?”
“Well that explains a few things,” Andy huffed as he felt his confidence returning. “Let me ask you, as a litmus test if you will…can you tell me what the difference is between an Atlantic Salmon and a Pacific Salmon, and which one belongs here and which doesn’t?”
Andy noticed that Sitry, Kalai, and Naranjo looked at their parents’ general confusion as they quietly conferred with each other. The two looked to Sakalbi and she turned to look Andy in the eye. “They’re both trouts, aside from the name being dissimilar, there isn’t much else that is fundamentally different at all between the two species.”
Andy couldn’t help the sigh that escaped him and he nodded. “Yes they’re both ‘trout,' but Atlantic salmon are ‘salmon’…while ours are Yommich and Chinook for Kings, Suh’key for Sockeye, Huh’nun for Humpies, Kuh’ch’ks for Cohos, and Kwa’lukh for Dogs. You see, we have names for them, ancient names because our people have cultivated and harvested them for generations. We have no Salishian name for Atlantic salmon. It was introduced as a farmed fish less than one hundred years ago, and due to mismanagement by underregulated fisheries, they got out. They taste like hot garbage and they’re small as hell compared to the giants that are native to the waterways here.”
The look of surprise on the adults' faces was gratifying and Sakalbi looked like she was going to speak, but Andy continued. “Let me guess, you’ve been trying to farm the Atlantics but when you release them, their fry keep dying en masse and the adults you release just starve to death and cause all sorts of problems when they do, right?” Sakalbi’s mouth was open and she was blinking, as if she couldn't believe her ears. Rhaxiid was doing his best to suppress a smile but his eyes twinkled happily while Aftasia put a hand over her mouth and silently chuckled.
“Another example, and one I gave to Naranjo.” Andy leaned forward, finding it easier to talk now as he jerked a thumb at him. “Did you know there are two kinds of blackberries here? One is native, and the other is an invasive species. Do you know how to tell the difference?”
There was a slow shaking of heads from the adults, and Andy smiled. “The native species is a crawler. It stays low to the ground and sends out tendrils. Its thorns are small and relatively soft, and the berries are small as well. The invasive one, the Himalayan Blackberry, is a menace to the forest. It forms thickets six to even eight feet high of brambles and their thorns can gouge flesh! These damn things will choke out all the native groundcover and restrict movement of the bigger animals. It’ll even cut off the smaller animals from their old habitats and it will outcompete a lot of indigenous animals’ food sources. I know you’ve been having problems with animals that usually stay out in the forests, because they’re wandering around in the open and causing problems in town," Andy continued excitedly.
“I’m also guessing you’re having problems accessing those areas that are getting taken over by the brambles and you’re losing a whole lot of plants to them, right?” Andy looked at Kalai and Sitry, both of whom were looking from him to their parents while Rhaxiid and Aftasia stared pointedly at Sakalbi, who had folded her arms and pursed her lips angrily.
“And you and your people know all this because of your language…” Rhaxiid made it a statement as he looked over at Aftasia and raised an eyebrow, quirking a half smile at her.
“We have the stories, ancient and modern, that record the memory of our homeland and how we survived as a part of the whole system. How we managed it and cultivated it,” Andy finished proudly. Here, finally, was a person who seemed to be listening, and he felt the last vestiges of his fear and nervousness melt away.
“Stewards and caretakers, from the Song of the First People," Kalai volunteered, and Andy felt his heart glow and he gave her a look of thanks.
Aftasia flashed her eyes at Sakalbi and gave her husband a small nod. Rhaxiid turned and fixed Andy with an appraising look before speaking. “Andy, would you…” he paused as though considering his words. “I would like to formally offer you a role as a contractor with the Vaida Warren and the Ministry of Sciences, to advise us and to tell us more about your homeland and your people’s stories.”
“Sugar, you CAN’T be serious!” Sakalbi squawked, looking at her husband in surprise.
“I’ve never been more serious in my life! The ancient Erbians recorded ecological management and transference in the same manner!” Rhaxiid spoke with conviction, silencing his white-haired wife. “Please, Mr. Shelokset. No human in this area will work with us, and our Warren’s fortunes and reputation are on the line. We’ve been working for close to twelve of your years. While we’ve been making great strides with repairing the climate damage globally from fossil fuels, our restorative efforts with the biomes are becoming…fraught with failures. Help us, help you. Come work for us as an ecological advisor. Help us identify these invasives that don’t belong in your biome, and we can use our expertise to remove them ‘leaf, stem, and root’! How does a thousand credits a week, plus benefits sound?”
Andy couldn’t believe his ears. His mind spun around at the offer that the dark haired rabbit man had just made him, but a dark cloud appeared in his mind. “I’m not sure, I’ll not be some token Indian to be used as a prop to sell out my people and my homeland, will I?”
“Of course not! No, I’m offering a true advisory position, not a mouthpiece. Young man, the Empress charged our Warren with the restoration and safeguarding of this world’s environments. With you to advise us, I’m sure we could put it back to the way it was, and restore it to its former beauty and diversity.”
“I…I’d need to discuss this with…with my grandmother.”
“Of course, we’ll draw up a contract, and you can discuss it with your quee…er…grandmother. I don’t suppose you have an omnipad stashed away in your…blanket?”
“Uh, no. I don’t have one…at all.” Andy felt the embarrassment return in force.
“Why not? Everyone has one! I mean they’re not that expen…oh.” Naranjo spoke hastily as Aftasia rounded on him and he found both his ears flicked at the same time by his kho-mother and his father.
“You can…send me a message on the datanet. I’ll get it, eventually. I’ve a buddy or two with an old smartphone, and I’ve a head for remembering things like phone numbers. If you give me your omnipad for a sec, I’ll add my old email.” Andy held his hand out and quirked a half-smile. The looks of pity he got from Sitry and Kalai immediately got under his skin. “Look, I may be poor, but I’ve never gone hungry and I do just fine, thank you. I don’t need your pity.” Andy felt suddenly defensive and his tone was challenging.
“Of course you don’t, Mr. Shelokset. You have our respect, and our thanks for coming to our childrens’ rescue.” Rhaxiid was conciliatory, and he emphasized the word as he shot his icy glare at Kalai and Sitry. “All of our contractors are issued an omnipad. One of the many perks of working with the Vaida Warren, we spare no expense when it comes to planetary restoration and shilforming. We take very good care of our people and we only use the best equipment.”
“Our Warren’s the best in the empire-” Sitry started in but Andy held his hand up to stop her.
“Whoa, wait, hold on a second. I’m not exactly clear what a Warren is, in this context?” Andy looked back and forth between the aliens. “What is it, a company?”
“Not quite,” Aftasia jumped in, “It’s more like the whole of our family network. In terms of people, it’s all of our blood relations and their spouses. It’s their businesses and their contacts, resources, educational expertise, job experience…everything. It’s the sum total of our family, our wealth, and our connections.”
“You sound more like a nation, not a company,” Andy observed. Kalai’s description of who his hosts were was suddenly becoming a bit more real to him.
“You’re not entirely wrong. Before our people were annexed by the Shil’vati, Warrens were essentially nations. The Vaida Warren, our Warren, is one of six that are formally recognized by Her Imperial Majesty. Our Warren is known for its expertise in planetary engineering. Almost every colony world founded and colonized in the last five centuries had Vaida engineers and scientists managing the shilforming processes at various levels. The few that weren’t, were taught by us.” Sakalbi deigned to speak then, fixing him with a superior stare.
“If you’re so good, why do you need my help?” Andy answered her back, raising an eyebrow at her.
“I appreciate your candor,” Rhaxiid jumped in as his wife huffed and looked away. “The truth is, almost every colony world has to be engineered from below the ground up. We are experts in creating a system from scratch, and we’ve turned it into an artform. Earth’s challenge is that it has multiple complex ecosystems, in various states of ecological health, interacting with an industrialized nuclear powered civilization that we don’t quite…understand yet.”
“Climatewise, your world had a run-of-the-mill fossil fuel based greenhouse effect throwing off the natural warming and cooling cycle, topped off by a ruptured ozone layer and some residual radiation contamination in areas around nuclear waste disposal failures. In planetary engineering terms, it’s a relatively easy fix," Aftasia bragged for the first time, smiling proudly. “Where we struggle is with the xenobiology and xeno-ecology of Earth. Up until about ten minutes ago, we’d assumed certain things about the global spread of certain species. We'd also made assumptions about the management and extent of the ecological transference of various species. In just what you’ve told us, and based on what Narny, Sitry, and Kalai have said of your evening, certain observations of ours are making much more sense.” Aftasia smiled brightly as she weighed in, and Rhaxiid nodded at her assessment.
“And that’s why you want to hire me?”
Rhaxiid canted his head to the side. “Yes. The fact that you stood up to your own people to save these three’s lives tells me that you would at least be open to the possibility of working with us. The fact that you were able to navigate the islands at night with no instruments tells me you know this area quite well and would be an excellent guide to areas we may not know about. The fact that you were able to silence my wife…” Rhaxiid looked over and gave Sakalbi a loving wink, “...tells me that your expertise may be able to fill in the gaps that we know we’ve been missing.”
Andy could still hardly believe what he was hearing. All he could do was blink. If grandma signs off on this? The money alone is…it would be worth it, even if I’m just their token Indian! That kind of cash could really help! But…working with the Purps….or rabbits…this Warren? We need this, though! We could finally move forward with our plans!
Andy spoke slowly and deliberately, looking to either side of him to see an encouragingly nodding Kalai and an excited Sitry who was gently vibrating in her seat. “I think it might be best, then, if I were to speak with my grandmother sooner rather than later. I appreciate that you’d like to host me, but the last any of my people saw was the four of us sailing out of a…sticky situation…and I was headed towards an Imperial military base after having broken several laws and ordinances.”
“Ah…oh I see, yes. I agree that perhaps our return home to Victoria can take a small detour in the interest of building a working relationship with your family and your people.” Rhaxiid wrung his hands as a look of dawning comprehension crossed his face.
“I know I wouldn’t wish the last twenty four hours we’ve had on even our worst enemy. We’d be happy to take you directly to your home in order to make it as easy as possible for you to let your grandmother know you’re safe,” Aftasia stated firmly.
Andy nodded and smiled. “Bellingham Airport…well, the Militia base at ‘Fort Bellingham’ now, would be the smartest. From there I can get a vehicle that doesn’t make me look like an Imperial lackey or a hostage and we’ll have a better shot at receiving her blessing.”
“That might be for the best, sugar. We need to get Kalai to a hospital soon. She’s already missed one dose, a second missed might be fatal.” Sakalbi added, looking over at Kalai.
“PILOT! Change of plans! Land at Fort Bellingham and then take us to St. Joseph’s Hospital!” Rhaxiid banged on the wall separating the cab from the cockpit, and the shuttle began a slow bank back towards the mainland.
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They kissed passionately, and as they came she pulled her head away and cried out in pleasure. His seed powered into her. She cried out again as she reached orgasm. Her juices flowed out of her pussy and soaked the bed sheets. Rated 74.8 % "Are you ready?" "Nothing we didn't want to do, Matt. And something we will do again and again. Not even your guilty conscience can resist my hot body. Now I've got too cleaned up for dinner. We wouldn't want Sondra coming home to see her husband's cum oozing out of her sister's cunt." Priscilla smiled and hopped off the counter and sashayed towards the shower with his jizz running down her legs. Matt looked down at his cock, it was still hard and soaking his sister-in-law's juices and his own. He wiped it off with a paper towel and flushed it down the bathroom toilet, tucking his cock back into his shorts he went about preparing dinner. "You can though," she said. Jacob felt the waves crashing over him and his body started to cool down. It was liberating to be bathing completely naked and he wished he could do this more often. The sun still beat down relentlessly, but here, among the waves, it wasn’t so bad. “1...2...3…” Holly watched her horny little girl squealing and twitching as her orgasm consumed her. She quickly realized her daughter was a dirty little slut just like she was! They could have so much fun together! She imagined her husband’s cock spurting his cream. She imagined her son’s teenage cock blasting his baby- juice out so forcefully - like only a teenage boy could do – spurting long, thick strands of tasty cum. She imagined Tiffany taking their hot, slimy, loads on her face, in her mouth and deep into her hot little cunt! Holly came over and over again, until she had to squeeze her knees together, to keep from falling over. “Oh…, oh…, unngh…, baby…, mommy is a dirty…, ohh…, nasty slut too! Aahhhhh!” Her pussy spasmed on her fingers and she groped at her breasts; squeezing them hard, until her orgasm finally stopped shaking her. The gym erupts into shuffled movement, gasps of shock, muffled sighs of relief. And Ashley’s face is mortified. She covers her mouth with both hands, shaking her head back and forth in utter disbelief. “Aunt Theresa,” Nikita utters with guilt. Sharon wrapped both hands around his cock and stroked it a few more times, letting her thumb collect some of the pre-cum and rubbing it around the head. Mr. Harris stood up beside me and his cock hung low against his leg. Justin sat on the floor beside me, completely spent, and looking between Mr. Harris and I. “You kids know how to fuck.” He said, shaking his head and looking down on us as he reached for his pants and started putting them on. “I’m gonna go get a nap.” He informed us, fastening his belt and straightening his shirt. “You guys save some of that strength up, I’ve got some stuff for you to do tonight and you’re gonna need all your energy.” He said with a clever smile. 18+ to read. Read 17820 times I didn't know what to say. I nodded and let her in. She didn't appear the least afraid. "Kiss my toes. .... Mmm. ... Now my ankles. ... Mmm, yes. .... and my thighs thru the fabric ..." He obeyed at every step. "Kiss my nipples." He did. "... and my tummy. ... Mmm. ... Oh, Bobby, kiss my pussy thru the fabric. ... Ohhhh ... You can gnaw on it too. .... Oh yes yes yes ....," and I finally just ripped my nightie off over my head. "Kiss me there again!!" 2017-01-18 13:21:53 I still had a lot of feelings for Jessica and we were still together, but i didn't tell her that me and Aurelia was spending so much time together. RJ thrust in as hard and deep as possible and the condom started to inflate with copious amounts of his jizz. Candy cried out at the top of her lungs “AAAAHHHAAGHHH.” “You fucking idiot! How stupid can you be!” Hayden shouted, Kicking Rachel’s body. She had a point. It was a dangerous way of looking at the world. “I wish I had pushed you to want to be with me when we were freshmen then.” Not knowing why, I stared deeply into her beautiful, doe-like, brown eyes. “See the right way is more fun.” I pointed to the appropriate ring, prompting him to pull it out and then take it back to be resized to match Gabriella’s finger. While that was done by someone else, he then came back out to discuss warranties and insurance plans, which I fully intended on getting. Only a few minutes later and another guy dressed more casually, wearing nice slacks and a button-up shirt, came out with the ring. 'No, I couldn't do that. She'd never be interested in me, and well I'm rubbish with girls.' "Oh, just a little shopping. The pantry is almost empty so I will have to go to the shopping centre this afternoon" she replied. It took awhile for my body to recover when she said "Now it's my turn, hun!" She went to the bathroom for alittle while and to my suprise came out totally naked. "I want you to take me! I want you to stick that in my pussy right now!" My cock sprang back to life with that. She came over to the couch. She removed my tight shirt and gave me a deep kiss. "Let me sit on that big cock!" With that she was riding my cock like a cowgirl. For being somewhat of a slut, her pussy was still tight, mostly due to her small and skinny figure. She ran her hands through my hair, and my face was deep into her tits. 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2023.03.25 23:02 Morzo_Voidmaster Sassy Cola - three short stories describing a timeline where the future is guided by a soda company
3,659th Quarterly Meeting
Kilometer-long freighters docked and undocked from Port Vesta. Ventral doors opened to let in adamantine loading arms, the size of which existed only in tales of primordial titans for much of human history. Once reloaded, the ships departed for humanity's interstellar colonies at Tau Ceti, Aldebaran and Rigel. So choked with ship-induced warp bubbles was Vesta that stargazing was a fruitless pastime for many millions of kilometers out.
And all this was visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the most important conference room humanity had ever known.
Cool air circulated through the 40 by 20 by 5 meter room. 20.4 degrees Celsius, the perfect temperature to keep ambitious minds in line with corporate procedure. And no minds were more ambitious than those sitting in here.
9 of the most powerful human beings alive sat around the rectangular conference table, four on each of its long sides and one at the end farthest from the door. Their perfect faces were reflected in its polished black marble, craftsmanship reflecting in craftsmanship, one working in flesh and the other in stone. Their suits ran the gamut of subdued color, from black to gray to blue to beige to brown, though all but one had a metallic sheen. No one tried speaking before the meeting began. Everything that would be said today had been written and rewritten over the previous weeks. Today was a formality, a tradition practiced by an organization that had existed for 914 years.
Yet everyone in the room knew that the predetermined decision formalized today thrust their organization into foreign territory.
The man at the end of the table stood up. His dark brown suit was only two shades distant from his dark brown skin, most on display on his shaved and polished head. He removed his black-framed glasses from their perch 210 centimeters above the floor and tucked them into his breast pocket, 170 centimeters above the floor.
"Members of The Board," he said, "I declare this, the 3,659th quarterly meeting, open."
A woman, nearest on his left, stood up as he sat down. She wore a beige suit whose metallic sheen paled in comparison to her voluminous blonde hair. In her lilly white hands was the Quarterly Profit Report.
"Mr. CEO," she said in her most authoritative voice, "I'm proud to report that we have once again met the expectations of the founder. From July 1st to September 30th, 2999 CE, we maintained a profit margin of 80.0 %. As of September 30th, we hold a market share of 99 % and a market capitalization of 400 quadrillion credits."
The woman sat down. The other eight clapped their approval.
A man, nearest on Mr. CEO's right, stood up. His gray suit complemented the full head of silver hair installed on his scalp and chin. Strong and youthful hands, grown in a vat and transplanted onto this bicentenarian, held the Readiness Assessment Report from the R&D Department.
"The Instant Sassy program has achieved level 4 certainty as of August 16th, 2999 CE. They can now create a maximum of 1 kilogram of mass and replicate drink and bottle in one go. Mass production of the Instant Sassy vending machines awaits your approval, Mr. CEO."
The man sat down. Clapping ensued.
Five more members of The Board provided their tidbits of information, but everyone knew the best was saved until last.
A young man, actually young in contrast to everyone else's purchased youth, rose from his seat at the doorward end of Mr. CEO'S left side. He wasn't more than 30. He was only 160 centimeters in height. His hair and suit were both pitch black and without sheen. Most of the board wondered if the boy even combed. He certainly didn't shave. His delicate fingers held a one page legal summary.
"Mr. CEO," he said in a monotone lawyer-stating-the-facts voice, "it has come to the attention of the legal department that a small firm at Rigel is selling a 1-to-1 clone of Sassy Cola, though under the branding of Flash Cola. As there is no reliable intellectual property enforcement that far out, we suggest Sassy Cola Company perform a cease-and-desist operation."
The clapping that followed was, as planned, subdued to balance The Board's recognition of his work and the dire situation he described.
Mr. CEO stood once more to give the final address.
"Members of The Board, we stand at a precipice. Military action against a small firm is a bold move. Then again, the Sassy Cola Company is no stranger to bold moves. It was a bold move when in 2085 my great great grandmother started this company in order to sell her sassafras-enriched soda. It was a bold move when we spent the 23rd century expanding Earth's launch capabilities so that humanity could colonize the solar system and thereby create new markets for Sassy Cola. And it was a bold move when in 2610 we invented the FTL warp drive so that humanity could settle the stars and buy more Sassy Cola. So let's put this to a vote. All in favor of sending a cease-and-desist?"
Five members raised their right hand.
"All opposed?"
Three other members raised their right hand.
"Five for and three against. And I vote in favor, giving the issue the 2/3 majority it needs. A cease-and-desist will be sent to Rigel as soon as the ship is ready. I declare this, the 3,659th Quarterly Meeting, adjourned."
All nine stood and clapped, excessively, as if their noise could bury the question of ethics.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, a kilometer-long ship (built by Sassy Heavy Industries) docked at Port Vesta (technically Sassy Drive Yards) and loaded up with cargo containers (built and owned by Sassy Shipping) to be delivered to Aldebaran (Sassy Cola Aldebaran, subsidiary).
Dr. Megalomanovich
The walls and ceiling and floor of the office never stayed the same color for long. They meandered through the greens, brighter then darker, strolled along the beach with various tans, took a dip in the water with cyan blue and finished by going back to the greens. They were cymolds, cybernetic funguses, and they formed the surface of every room in the administration wing of Sassy Research Installation #544.
It wasn't a very well publicized installation. No research from here had ever appeared on Sassy Science Direct's Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year. Of course, that meant what they were doing was very, very important. Another reason to locate the place so far from the rest of human civilization.
Far from civilization is a relative term. To be far on the surface of a planet, you got to be, eh, 100 kilometers away. To be far in the context of a star system, make that 100 million kilometers. To be far from humanity in the year 3535 CE, you have to be 100 light years away. And that's just what we were. 100 light years separated us from the nearest human outpost. Not the nearest built-up star system or lone asteroid city. No, I mean 100 light years from the nearest hitch-em-up, one warpship, sorry excuse for an outpost. Nothing lay in-between and no one was coming to rescue you if you broke down halfway.
But that was the price of admission if you wanted to meet Dr. Megalomanovich.
To the layman, his name means nothing. To the educated, resentment. To the dreamers, hope. He is the greatest mind of our time bar none. And, like all great minds, he has created controversy.
The cymold on these walls was invented by him while he was still in secondary school 150 years ago. He designed the meter-thick mycelium fibers which root Installation #544 to its carbonaceous asteroid in an undergraduate mycology class. Since then he has: led a team which developed an all-biological fusion reactor, led another team that made a proof of concept for matter-antimatter annihilation based metabolism and singlehandedly created a cow subspecies that produces Sassy Cola instead of milk.
This last accomplishment most impressed the one and only financial backer of all human science, the Sassy Cola Company.
It didn't matter that Sassy Cola was already made in the most efficient way physically possible, by assembling it, bottle and all, from the fundamental elements themselves via vending machine MDROM-derived replicators, because Sassy from an udder was cool to the average consumer.
And so Dr. Megalomanovich was scooped up and shipped off to Installation #544. Here he has remained for 120 years doing . . . something. I'm here to find out what.
A chubby man with pudge stuffed unsuccessfully into a white lab coat walked in to the office. His eyes had been replaced by cybernetics—not eyes, but an assortment of twitching miniature radar dishes and antennae. His thick white hair is gelled straight back like the racing helmet of a bicyclist. It took me a minute to realize that this man was the good doctor.
"Dr. Megalomanovich?," said I.
"Who else were you expecting in Dr. Megalomanovich's office?"
"No one. I mean you, but, but—"
"You have only seen my younger self. Likely from my exploits in producing that wondrous strain of cow which produces delicious Sassy Cola."
"I know you from more than just that."
"I don't know why, all my other stuff had nothing to do with Sassy Cola."
He ripped some of the cymold off the wall with one of his olive green gloved hands. Beneath it is barren rock, half-digested by the lithovorous cymold.
"I mean, the antimatter-powered life thing was pretty neat," said I.
"Pretty neat? PRETTY NEAT?!?"
I shrank in my seat and whimpered, "Yeah."
"I'll show you neat my boy. Follow me through the teleporter!"
Rubber fingers pressed a sequence on the door's keypad with inhuman speed. The metal door dissolved away and only a teleporter field remained.
For those who've not seen the new 2D intrabrane teleporters—or thresholds as their called—you're in for a treat. Not only are they compact and have ranges up to a light year, but they allow light to pass through so you can see where the hell you're going. Not all light; hard ultraviolet and above get filtered out as do large energy differences. So if you're traveling from a paradise planet to a spaceship and that spaceship's warp drive has an oopsie, the 1 billion kelvin nuclear fireball won't char your burgers.
We weren't traveling to a paradise planet, at least not in the traditional sense. To a neogeneticist like myself it was heavenly.
I noted three things when I first stepped through. 1, the whole environment was bathed in the orange light of a red dwarf star. 2, the environment was divided between land—the cliffside we were standing on—and a bubbling black sea of what turned out to be Sassy Cola stretching toward the horizon. 3, the animals.
I don't know why the animals stood out to me over what I assumed were plants. They weren't actually plants but a form of lichen—but, but, but the prejudice toward the animals was still there. In fairness, they were pretty enigmatic. One of them crawled along the ground with a head that was entirely tongue, licking up the lichen bulbs like pieces of candy. Another one looked like a tree, but on closer inspection was an amphibious anemone, its roots sunk into the shallow sea's floor and its tentacles reaching out of the water to grasp a third creature—a bird of some kind whose flight was aided by gas bags on its underbelly.
"Behold, my masterpiece," said Dr. Megalomanovich.
"It's beautiful beyond words," said I. "How did it come about?"
"By way of 120 years' hard labor. Shortly after my Sassy Cow achieved galactic fame, The Board granted me with a research installation of my own. In return, I was to do the impossible: abiogenesis."
"To create life from nonlife."
"Yes."
"You had gotten close with the antimatter metabolism trial."
"Indeed I had. And that is why I refused to take any hand-me-down help from Earth's biota. From the beginning I wanted my life to run differently. I couldn't find a way to replace carbon as the backbone, but I was able to swap out water for Sassy Cola."
"You're telling me that in every cell of every one of these creatures is Sassy Cola?"
"It is their water."
"How?"
"Do you have a few years?"
"Yes."
"Unfortunately, I don't. Even this little jaunt is wasting my precious time."
"Speaking of time, how did they grow so fast?"
"Accelerated evolution through computer-aided keystone transcription errors."
"What?"
"Again, I don't have years to waste teaching you. I waste enough time teaching the installation's staff."
"When do you plan on showing your masterpiece to the wider galaxy?"
"My masterpiece will show itself to the galaxy when it is ready. There is no doubt in my mind that a day will come when a creature on this world will take a rock and bash it against the head of another and say 'eureka!' before pondering the philosophical implications of taking a life."
"Anything is possible when your body is 70 % Sassy Cola."
The Bimillennial Celebration
Upon receiving the invitation, I couldn't wait to go to the Bimillennial Celebration at Sol, though I did worry how I'd be received in turn. Few humans outside my corner of space had ever met a nonhuman sapient before. It didn't help that I lacked so much as a species name to give them.
If it were up to me, I'd name us astrographically, by the planet we live on. In that case we would be called the Sasserines after Planet Sasser. It's not a good moniker; too nationalistic when our distinguishing characteristic is first and foremost biological. So I dropped the case and made it sasserine. Yes, much better. It's less proper, more grounded, more biological. It is this species name that I used in my travels.
The first stop on my journey was at the derelict Research Installation #544. Humans abandoned it long ago when the Sassy Cola Company's fortunes took a turn for the worse. Now it was kept up by us sasserines as a heritage site. I left a bouquet on The Good Doctor's shrine, shed a few sticky tears and moved on. The tiny warpship I had chartered had an impatient pilot.
That pilot turned into quite an annoyance during our two weeks together, for he asked questions that became more and more inappropriate with time. I'm not one to disparage curiosity—I'm a scientist after all—but I fail to see the scientific necessity of revealing which variety of Sassy Cola I urinate.
My next stop was Rigel, a blue giant star that shined 1 million times brighter than Sasser's red dwarf. Since Sassy Cola's monopoly of both power and soda had waned, I found many other brands on offering, including one called Flash Cola. Flash's slogan summarized its claim to fame: "Resist the Sass and Drink a Flash!" I briefly wondered what Sasser's biosphere would look like if it were based on Flash Cola instead of Sassy Cola. I purged this thought experiment from my mind upon realizing that the planet would likely be named Flasher and we the flasherines.
Onward to Sol by way of Aldebaran. This leg was much more pleasant than the last as I had booked a room aboard one of the last functioning warpships of Sassy Cruise Lines. Luxury abounded and even my rational mind almost succumbed to the temptation of using the rest of my money to stay aboard til death. But such an act would break the terms of the invitation.
Sol, the most ancient and most populous star in settled space, was the venue for the greatest party ever thrown by humanity. Derelict Sassy Cola freighters had each been converted into a single light bulb and arranged by the hundreds to create a sign at Neptune's distance from the sun reading, "2,000 SASSY YEARS!"
I'm not normally a party person. Secluded reading is my pastime of choice. Yet I couldn't help but crack a Sassy with every human who asked me to join them. Why not?, I thought. After all, without the Sassy Cola Company, I wouldn't be alive.
The solar system felt like it held the totality of settled space within its borders. Port Vesta alone held hundreds of distinct cultural groups from just as many star systems. I met 35 of them on my 5 kilometer walk from Sassy Cruise Lines' designated dock to the hotel where I was to be staying. Sassy Cola's monolithic corporate culture was no longer humanity's culture. People were being themselves again.
And that included being suspicious of outsiders, especially ones from a different tree of life.
I felt eyes all around me. I had drunk too much Sassy Cola, besting even the worst human junkies. I sweat the drink. I urinated the drink. Boys and girls inspected me like a zoo animal every time I went to one of Port Vesta's many street markets. It overwhelmed me and I left early for my meeting on Earth.
Orbital space around humanity's homeworld is so congested with infrastructure that teleporter range around Earth is limited, by law, to a mere 1,000 kilometers, 1 billionth of what it is everywhere else. To get to the planet's surface I had to leapfrog from orbital plate to orbital plate, often having to cross a single plate by way of a couple teleports. Yes, they are that large. Most contain surface areas and populations similar to Earth's 21st century nations-states. After visiting 57 nation-state-orbital-plates against my will, I arrived at Earth's surface.
At least I had reached the top surface. Earth is a shellworld with 15 surfaces, each named after a variety of Sassy Cola. I was on Sassy Orange and needed to get down to Sassy Cola Classic, 7 surfaces below. Teleportation law was even stricter here than in orbit. The technology was used exclusively to ferry people between surface levels and teleporters only existed in the atlas towers which held the next surface.
I was awestruck upon first seeing an atlas tower as they occur nowhere but Earth. From green pasture it rose into the cloud cover above. Through those clouds, ten kilometers up, lay gigatons of diamond hard plating topped with teratons of granite, soil, lakes, rivers and cities. I was under a planet-encapsulating house held up by countless pylons, themselves kept rigid only as long as the power flowed. Luckily, it always did.
The atlas towers also serve as propagandistic monuments, each shaped like a bottle of Sassy, though of the variety which matches the name of the surface level they exist on. The Sassy Cola Company had its detractors, but the fact that the corporate superpower had built Earth into what it is today went unquestioned.
I eventually arrived at surface level 7, or Sassy Cola Classic. The 7 surfaces above had replaced Earth's original troposphere and stratosphere. The 7 surfaces below existed where the planet's crust once did. Together, the 15 shells supported 20 trillion humans living in spacious luxury—though no one had more spacious luxury than The Board.
Their 1 billion hectare estate is a combination art piece, capital, pilgrimage site and tomb. No teleporters exist within its borders. The atlas towers there are disguised as steep mountains on their bottom halves and cumulonimbus clouds columns on their tops.
Dwarfed by these gigantic illusions are the many castles of the estate. One of these castles serves as the estate's north entrance and holds the Sassy Parliament Building. In here convene two houses, a lower house elected by the Sassy Cola Company's 100 trillion shareholders across settled space and an upper house chosen by The Board.
The lower house had drawn up the invitation program and voted 67,306 to 32,694 to pass it. The upper house hesitated, unsure whether they wanted "billions of yokels trampling through the estate." They passed it with the exact bare minimum of votes, 600 to 300.
The addition of a clause limiting it to 10,000 "yokels" that came in tour groups of 50 per hour was the deciding factor in passing the invitation program. Now I was part of one of those groups, an ordinary ambassador for the world of Sasser, though I doubted that cultural and economic exchange, two bullet point motives of the program, were occuring.
Oh well, I thought as I boarded the maglev train to the next destination.
The nine members of The Board lived in nine penthouses atop nine towers near the center of the estate. I'd remark on the penthouses' reported opulence if 200 stories of height and the estate's no-cameras policy hadn't isolated us from them. I imagine they like it up there, otherwise I can't fathom why they'd live so secluded from the rest of their species. I wondered what such recluses thought of Planet Sasser and the sasserines or the invitation sent to me by their personally selected managers. But I'd little time to ponder as the maglev neared my stop.
At the very center of the estate sits a diamondoid hemisphere 10 kilometers in diameter. Inside exists a full recreation of one late 21st century American small town. The maglev line terminated at the entrance to the dome where a bright green sign reading "Tupelo" hung.
The rest of the tour group was just as in awe as I when we walked inside and found ourselves surrounded by single family homes along four lane roads with no sidewalks. From the artificial blue sky above came laser beams which generated holograms of moving vehicles. They veered around our group even though the lasers would cause nothing worse than a slight tingle on the skin. A human dressed in a law enforcement uniform of the time led us to the predetermined sacred sites.
First we stopped at the hospital where The Founder was born, then the double wide trailer where The Founder grew up and, finally, the soda shop where The Founder introduced the world to Sassy Cola in 2085.
I obsessed over this last stop. Burned into my psyche is the memory of the artificial sun rays shining through the shop's stained glass windows and onto the stainless steel counter. I took in every scent and sound and touch; the bittersweet sassafras laying in sacks in the corner, the scratching of our shoes on the artificially cracked and yellowed linoleum floor and the coolness of the counter on my cheek when I laid my head down in defiance of the guide's orders.
At the end we all had a thimble full of Sassy Cola made from the recreated soda jerk. It was inferior to every drop of Sassy that I'd drunk since birth. Even my blood, filled with the wastes of cellular respiration, likely tasted better.
But taste alone didn't determine the value of this thimble. The drink represented conception, its serving the initialization of the two millennia of change that followed. Just as water was a prerequisite for all Earth life, so Sassy Cola was a prerequisite for all life on Sasser.
This soda was the origin of everything I am. I believe that's cause for celebration.
(END)
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Kilometer-long freighters docked and undocked from Port Vesta. Ventral doors opened to let in adamantine loading arms, the size of which existed only in tales of primordial titans for much of human history. Once reloaded, the ships departed for humanity's interstellar colonies at Tau Ceti, Aldebaran and Rigel. So choked with ship-induced warp bubbles was Vesta that stargazing was a fruitless pastime for many millions of kilometers out.
And all this was visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the most important conference room humanity had ever known.
Cool air circulated through the 40 by 20 by 5 meter room. 20.4 degrees Celsius, the perfect temperature to keep ambitious minds in line with corporate procedure. And no minds were more ambitious than those sitting in here.
9 of the most powerful human beings alive sat around the rectangular conference table, four on each of its long sides and one at the end farthest from the door. Their perfect faces were reflected in its polished black marble, craftsmanship reflecting in craftsmanship, one working in flesh and the other in stone. Their suits ran the gamut of subdued color, from black to gray to blue to beige to brown, though all but one had a metallic sheen. No one tried speaking before the meeting began. Everything that would be said today had been written and rewritten over the previous weeks. Today was a formality, a tradition practiced by an organization that had existed for 914 years.
Yet everyone in the room knew that the predetermined decision formalized today thrust their organization into foreign territory.
The man at the end of the table stood up. His dark brown suit was only two shades distant from his dark brown skin, most on display on his shaved and polished head. He removed his black-framed glasses from their perch 210 centimeters above the floor and tucked them into his breast pocket, 170 centimeters above the floor.
"Members of The Board," he said, "I declare this, the 3,659th quarterly meeting, open."
A woman, nearest on his left, stood up as he sat down. She wore a beige suit whose metallic sheen paled in comparison to her voluminous blonde hair. In her lilly white hands was the Quarterly Profit Report.
"Mr. CEO," she said in her most authoritative voice, "I'm proud to report that we have once again met the expectations of the founder. From July 1st to September 30th, 2999 CE, we maintained a profit margin of 80.0 %. As of September 30th, we hold a market share of 99 % and a market capitalization of 400 quadrillion credits."
The woman sat down. The other eight clapped their approval.
A man, nearest on Mr. CEO's right, stood up. His gray suit complemented the full head of silver hair installed on his scalp and chin. Strong and youthful hands, grown in a vat and transplanted onto this bicentenarian, held the Readiness Assessment Report from the R&D Department.
"The Instant Sassy program has achieved level 4 certainty as of August 16th, 2999 CE. They can now create a maximum of 1 kilogram of mass and replicate drink and bottle in one go. Mass production of the Instant Sassy vending machines awaits your approval, Mr. CEO."
The man sat down. Clapping ensued.
Five more members of The Board provided their tidbits of information, but everyone knew the best was saved until last.
A young man, actually young in contrast to everyone else's purchased youth, rose from his seat at the doorward end of Mr. CEO'S left side. He wasn't more than 30. He was only 160 centimeters in height. His hair and suit were both pitch black and without sheen. Most of the board wondered if the boy even combed. He certainly didn't shave. His delicate fingers held a one page legal summary.
"Mr. CEO," he said in a monotone lawyer-stating-the-facts voice, "it has come to the attention of the legal department that a small firm at Rigel is selling a 1-to-1 clone of Sassy Cola, though under the branding of Flash Cola. As there is no reliable intellectual property enforcement that far out, we suggest Sassy Cola Company perform a cease-and-desist operation."
The clapping that followed was, as planned, subdued to balance The Board's recognition of his work and the dire situation he described.
Mr. CEO stood once more to give the final address.
"Members of The Board, we stand at a precipice. Military action against a small firm is a bold move. Then again, the Sassy Cola Company is no stranger to bold moves. It was a bold move when in 2085 my great great grandmother started this company in order to sell her sassafras-enriched soda. It was a bold move when we spent the 23rd century expanding Earth's launch capabilities so that humanity could colonize the solar system and thereby create new markets for Sassy Cola. And it was a bold move when in 2610 we invented the FTL warp drive so that humanity could settle the stars and buy more Sassy Cola. So let's put this to a vote. All in favor of sending a cease-and-desist?"
Five members raised their right hand.
"All opposed?"
Three other members raised their right hand.
"Five for and three against. And I vote in favor, giving the issue the 2/3 majority it needs. A cease-and-desist will be sent to Rigel as soon as the ship is ready. I declare this, the 3,659th Quarterly Meeting, adjourned."
All nine stood and clapped, excessively, as if their noise could bury the question of ethics.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, a kilometer-long ship (built by Sassy Heavy Industries) docked at Port Vesta (technically Sassy Drive Yards) and loaded up with cargo containers (built and owned by Sassy Shipping) to be delivered to Aldebaran (Sassy Cola Aldebaran, subsidiary).
Dr. Megalomanovich
The walls and ceiling and floor of the office never stayed the same color for long. They meandered through the greens, brighter then darker, strolled along the beach with various tans, took a dip in the water with cyan blue and finished by going back to the greens. They were cymolds, cybernetic funguses, and they formed the surface of every room in the administration wing of Sassy Research Installation #544.
It wasn't a very well publicized installation. No research from here had ever appeared on Sassy Science Direct's Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year. Of course, that meant what they were doing was very, very important. Another reason to locate the place so far from the rest of human civilization.
Far from civilization is a relative term. To be far on the surface of a planet, you got to be, eh, 100 kilometers away. To be far in the context of a star system, make that 100 million kilometers. To be far from humanity in the year 3535 CE, you have to be 100 light years away. And that's just what we were. 100 light years separated us from the nearest human outpost. Not the nearest built-up star system or lone asteroid city. No, I mean 100 light years from the nearest hitch-em-up, one warpship, sorry excuse for an outpost. Nothing lay in-between and no one was coming to rescue you if you broke down halfway.
But that was the price of admission if you wanted to meet Dr. Megalomanovich.
To the layman, his name means nothing. To the educated, resentment. To the dreamers, hope. He is the greatest mind of our time bar none. And, like all great minds, he has created controversy.
The cymold on these walls was invented by him while he was still in secondary school 150 years ago. He designed the meter-thick mycelium fibers which root Installation #544 to its carbonaceous asteroid in an undergraduate mycology class. Since then he has: led a team which developed an all-biological fusion reactor, led another team that made a proof of concept for matter-antimatter annihilation based metabolism and singlehandedly created a cow subspecies that produces Sassy Cola instead of milk.
This last accomplishment most impressed the one and only financial backer of all human science, the Sassy Cola Company.
It didn't matter that Sassy Cola was already made in the most efficient way physically possible, by assembling it, bottle and all, from the fundamental elements themselves via vending machine MDROM-derived replicators, because Sassy from an udder was cool to the average consumer.
And so Dr. Megalomanovich was scooped up and shipped off to Installation #544. Here he has remained for 120 years doing . . . something. I'm here to find out what.
A chubby man with pudge stuffed unsuccessfully into a white lab coat walked in to the office. His eyes had been replaced by cybernetics—not eyes, but an assortment of twitching miniature radar dishes and antennae. His thick white hair is gelled straight back like the racing helmet of a bicyclist. It took me a minute to realize that this man was the good doctor.
"Dr. Megalomanovich?," said I.
"Who else were you expecting in Dr. Megalomanovich's office?"
"No one. I mean you, but, but—"
"You have only seen my younger self. Likely from my exploits in producing that wondrous strain of cow which produces delicious Sassy Cola."
"I know you from more than just that."
"I don't know why, all my other stuff had nothing to do with Sassy Cola."
He ripped some of the cymold off the wall with one of his olive green gloved hands. Beneath it is barren rock, half-digested by the lithovorous cymold.
"I mean, the antimatter-powered life thing was pretty neat," said I.
"Pretty neat? PRETTY NEAT?!?"
I shrank in my seat and whimpered, "Yeah."
"I'll show you neat my boy. Follow me through the teleporter!"
Rubber fingers pressed a sequence on the door's keypad with inhuman speed. The metal door dissolved away and only a teleporter field remained.
For those who've not seen the new 2D intrabrane teleporters—or thresholds as their called—you're in for a treat. Not only are they compact and have ranges up to a light year, but they allow light to pass through so you can see where the hell you're going. Not all light; hard ultraviolet and above get filtered out as do large energy differences. So if you're traveling from a paradise planet to a spaceship and that spaceship's warp drive has an oopsie, the 1 billion kelvin nuclear fireball won't char your burgers.
We weren't traveling to a paradise planet, at least not in the traditional sense. To a neogeneticist like myself it was heavenly.
I noted three things when I first stepped through. 1, the whole environment was bathed in the orange light of a red dwarf star. 2, the environment was divided between land—the cliffside we were standing on—and a bubbling black sea of what turned out to be Sassy Cola stretching toward the horizon. 3, the animals.
I don't know why the animals stood out to me over what I assumed were plants. They weren't actually plants but a form of lichen—but, but, but the prejudice toward the animals was still there. In fairness, they were pretty enigmatic. One of them crawled along the ground with a head that was entirely tongue, licking up the lichen bulbs like pieces of candy. Another one looked like a tree, but on closer inspection was an amphibious anemone, its roots sunk into the shallow sea's floor and its tentacles reaching out of the water to grasp a third creature—a bird of some kind whose flight was aided by gas bags on its underbelly.
"Behold, my masterpiece," said Dr. Megalomanovich.
"It's beautiful beyond words," said I. "How did it come about?"
"By way of 120 years' hard labor. Shortly after my Sassy Cow achieved galactic fame, The Board granted me with a research installation of my own. In return, I was to do the impossible: abiogenesis."
"To create life from nonlife."
"Yes."
"You had gotten close with the antimatter metabolism trial."
"Indeed I had. And that is why I refused to take any hand-me-down help from Earth's biota. From the beginning I wanted my life to run differently. I couldn't find a way to replace carbon as the backbone, but I was able to swap out water for Sassy Cola."
"You're telling me that in every cell of every one of these creatures is Sassy Cola?"
"It is their water."
"How?"
"Do you have a few years?"
"Yes."
"Unfortunately, I don't. Even this little jaunt is wasting my precious time."
"Speaking of time, how did they grow so fast?"
"Accelerated evolution through computer-aided keystone transcription errors."
"What?"
"Again, I don't have years to waste teaching you. I waste enough time teaching the installation's staff."
"When do you plan on showing your masterpiece to the wider galaxy?"
"My masterpiece will show itself to the galaxy when it is ready. There is no doubt in my mind that a day will come when a creature on this world will take a rock and bash it against the head of another and say 'eureka!' before pondering the philosophical implications of taking a life."
"Anything is possible when your body is 70 % Sassy Cola."
The Bimillennial Celebration
Upon receiving the invitation, I couldn't wait to go to the Bimillennial Celebration at Sol, though I did worry how I'd be received in turn. Few humans outside my corner of space had ever met a nonhuman sapient before. It didn't help that I lacked so much as a species name to give them.
If it were up to me, I'd name us astrographically, by the planet we live on. In that case we would be called the Sasserines after Planet Sasser. It's not a good moniker; too nationalistic when our distinguishing characteristic is first and foremost biological. So I dropped the case and made it sasserine. Yes, much better. It's less proper, more grounded, more biological. It is this species name that I used in my travels.
The first stop on my journey was at the derelict Research Installation #544. Humans abandoned it long ago when the Sassy Cola Company's fortunes took a turn for the worse. Now it was kept up by us sasserines as a heritage site. I left a bouquet on The Good Doctor's shrine, shed a few sticky tears and moved on. The tiny warpship I had chartered had an impatient pilot.
That pilot turned into quite an annoyance during our two weeks together, for he asked questions that became more and more inappropriate with time. I'm not one to disparage curiosity—I'm a scientist after all—but I fail to see the scientific necessity of revealing which variety of Sassy Cola I urinate.
My next stop was Rigel, a blue giant star that shined 1 million times brighter than Sasser's red dwarf. Since Sassy Cola's monopoly of both power and soda had waned, I found many other brands on offering, including one called Flash Cola. Flash's slogan summarized its claim to fame: "Resist the Sass and Drink a Flash!" I briefly wondered what Sasser's biosphere would look like if it were based on Flash Cola instead of Sassy Cola. I purged this thought experiment from my mind upon realizing that the planet would likely be named Flasher and we the flasherines.
Onward to Sol by way of Aldebaran. This leg was much more pleasant than the last as I had booked a room aboard one of the last functioning warpships of Sassy Cruise Lines. Luxury abounded and even my rational mind almost succumbed to the temptation of using the rest of my money to stay aboard til death. But such an act would break the terms of the invitation.
Sol, the most ancient and most populous star in settled space, was the venue for the greatest party ever thrown by humanity. Derelict Sassy Cola freighters had each been converted into a single light bulb and arranged by the hundreds to create a sign at Neptune's distance from the sun reading, "2,000 SASSY YEARS!"
I'm not normally a party person. Secluded reading is my pastime of choice. Yet I couldn't help but crack a Sassy with every human who asked me to join them. Why not?, I thought. After all, without the Sassy Cola Company, I wouldn't be alive.
The solar system felt like it held the totality of settled space within its borders. Port Vesta alone held hundreds of distinct cultural groups from just as many star systems. I met 35 of them on my 5 kilometer walk from Sassy Cruise Lines' designated dock to the hotel where I was to be staying. Sassy Cola's monolithic corporate culture was no longer humanity's culture. People were being themselves again.
And that included being suspicious of outsiders, especially ones from a different tree of life.
I felt eyes all around me. I had drunk too much Sassy Cola, besting even the worst human junkies. I sweat the drink. I urinated the drink. Boys and girls inspected me like a zoo animal every time I went to one of Port Vesta's many street markets. It overwhelmed me and I left early for my meeting on Earth.
Orbital space around humanity's homeworld is so congested with infrastructure that teleporter range around Earth is limited, by law, to a mere 1,000 kilometers, 1 billionth of what it is everywhere else. To get to the planet's surface I had to leapfrog from orbital plate to orbital plate, often having to cross a single plate by way of a couple teleports. Yes, they are that large. Most contain surface areas and populations similar to Earth's 21st century nations-states. After visiting 57 nation-state-orbital-plates against my will, I arrived at Earth's surface.
At least I had reached the top surface. Earth is a shellworld with 15 surfaces, each named after a variety of Sassy Cola. I was on Sassy Orange and needed to get down to Sassy Cola Classic, 7 surfaces below. Teleportation law was even stricter here than in orbit. The technology was used exclusively to ferry people between surface levels and teleporters only existed in the atlas towers which held the next surface.
I was awestruck upon first seeing an atlas tower as they occur nowhere but Earth. From green pasture it rose into the cloud cover above. Through those clouds, ten kilometers up, lay gigatons of diamond hard plating topped with teratons of granite, soil, lakes, rivers and cities. I was under a planet-encapsulating house held up by countless pylons, themselves kept rigid only as long as the power flowed. Luckily, it always did.
The atlas towers also serve as propagandistic monuments, each shaped like a bottle of Sassy, though of the variety which matches the name of the surface level they exist on. The Sassy Cola Company had its detractors, but the fact that the corporate superpower had built Earth into what it is today went unquestioned.
I eventually arrived at surface level 7, or Sassy Cola Classic. The 7 surfaces above had replaced Earth's original troposphere and stratosphere. The 7 surfaces below existed where the planet's crust once did. Together, the 15 shells supported 20 trillion humans living in spacious luxury—though no one had more spacious luxury than The Board.
Their 1 billion hectare estate is a combination art piece, capital, pilgrimage site and tomb. No teleporters exist within its borders. The atlas towers there are disguised as steep mountains on their bottom halves and cumulonimbus clouds columns on their tops.
Dwarfed by these gigantic illusions are the many castles of the estate. One of these castles serves as the estate's north entrance and holds the Sassy Parliament Building. In here convene two houses, a lower house elected by the Sassy Cola Company's 100 trillion shareholders across settled space and an upper house chosen by The Board.
The lower house had drawn up the invitation program and voted 67,306 to 32,694 to pass it. The upper house hesitated, unsure whether they wanted "billions of yokels trampling through the estate." They passed it with the exact bare minimum of votes, 600 to 300.
The addition of a clause limiting it to 10,000 "yokels" that came in tour groups of 50 per hour was the deciding factor in passing the invitation program. Now I was part of one of those groups, an ordinary ambassador for the world of Sasser, though I doubted that cultural and economic exchange, two bullet point motives of the program, were occuring.
Oh well, I thought as I boarded the maglev train to the next destination.
The nine members of The Board lived in nine penthouses atop nine towers near the center of the estate. I'd remark on the penthouses' reported opulence if 200 stories of height and the estate's no-cameras policy hadn't isolated us from them. I imagine they like it up there, otherwise I can't fathom why they'd live so secluded from the rest of their species. I wondered what such recluses thought of Planet Sasser and the sasserines or the invitation sent to me by their personally selected managers. But I'd little time to ponder as the maglev neared my stop.
At the very center of the estate sits a diamondoid hemisphere 10 kilometers in diameter. Inside exists a full recreation of one late 21st century American small town. The maglev line terminated at the entrance to the dome where a bright green sign reading "Tupelo" hung.
The rest of the tour group was just as in awe as I when we walked inside and found ourselves surrounded by single family homes along four lane roads with no sidewalks. From the artificial blue sky above came laser beams which generated holograms of moving vehicles. They veered around our group even though the lasers would cause nothing worse than a slight tingle on the skin. A human dressed in a law enforcement uniform of the time led us to the predetermined sacred sites.
First we stopped at the hospital where The Founder was born, then the double wide trailer where The Founder grew up and, finally, the soda shop where The Founder introduced the world to Sassy Cola in 2085.
I obsessed over this last stop. Burned into my psyche is the memory of the artificial sun rays shining through the shop's stained glass windows and onto the stainless steel counter. I took in every scent and sound and touch; the bittersweet sassafras laying in sacks in the corner, the scratching of our shoes on the artificially cracked and yellowed linoleum floor and the coolness of the counter on my cheek when I laid my head down in defiance of the guide's orders.
At the end we all had a thimble full of Sassy Cola made from the recreated soda jerk. It was inferior to every drop of Sassy that I'd drunk since birth. Even my blood, filled with the wastes of cellular respiration, likely tasted better.
But taste alone didn't determine the value of this thimble. The drink represented conception, its serving the initialization of the two millennia of change that followed. Just as water was a prerequisite for all Earth life, so Sassy Cola was a prerequisite for all life on Sasser.
This soda was the origin of everything I am. I believe that's cause for celebration.
(END)
2023.03.25 20:28 NationalizeRedditt Capitalism is inherently uncompetitive.
Delusion: “corporations are only there because they’ve figured out how to reduce internal costs to sell for the most competitive price”
Reality: In industry after industry, north americans can only purchase from local monopolies or oligopolies that can tacitly collude. The US now has many industries with only three or four competitors controlling entire markets. Since the early 1980s, market concentration has increased exponentially… Examples:
Two corporations control 90 percent of the beer Americans drink.
Five banks control about half of the nation’s banking assets.
Many states have health insurance markets where the top two insurers have an 80 percent to 90 percent market share. For example, in Alabama one company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, has an 84 percent market share and in Hawaii it has 65 percent market share.
When it comes to high-speed internet access, almost all markets are local monopolies; over 75 percent of households have no choice with only one provider.
Four players control the entire US beef market and have carved up the country. After two mergers this year, three companies will control 70 percent of the world’s pesticide market and 80 percent of the US corn-seed market.
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The International Monetary Fund offers predatory debt trap loans to a destitute nation. Within this agreement, “structural adjustment” provisions are included which the nation must agree upon.
Most provisions are exploitative to the host country, including foreign offshoring rights and privatization of any nationalized industry which benefit all except the consolidation of wealth siphoned into the pockets of investors, bureaucratic management cartels..
(these are sovereign, independent countries) - we must remember.
It’s a viscous cycle which ends up in a post-colonial independent country in which only the people are poor - the countries labour output and resources are RICH. Only the people are poor.
Offshoring labor has one primary purpose: to exploit foreign labour pools by paying wages which translate into mere survival wages and through have dependency on previous colonial infrastructure
This is the most significant reason, with the exception of a few, capitalist countries are known as “poor” while their net natural resources are unbelievably rich.
The infrastructure to extract tends to only exist via these IMF loans along with independent “foreign aid” with a hell of a small print disclaimer attached.
From a recent article to put this into perspective:
“[T]he cost of servicing [this debt]—over $375 billion per year as of 2004—is more than all third world spending on health and education, and twenty times what developing countries receive annually in foreign aid … Ecuador is typical … For every $100 of crude taken out of the Ecuadorian rainforests, the oil companies receive $75. Of the remaining $25, three-quarters must go to paying off the foreign debt. Most of the remainder covers military and other government expenses—which leaves about $2.50 for health, education, and programs aimed at helping the poor.”
Of course , this is just one trick of the trade.
Neoliberal capitalism is inherently crony and anti-competitive. There’s no getting around it.
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Reality: In industry after industry, north americans can only purchase from local monopolies or oligopolies that can tacitly collude. The US now has many industries with only three or four competitors controlling entire markets. Since the early 1980s, market concentration has increased exponentially… Examples:
Two corporations control 90 percent of the beer Americans drink.
Five banks control about half of the nation’s banking assets.
Many states have health insurance markets where the top two insurers have an 80 percent to 90 percent market share. For example, in Alabama one company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, has an 84 percent market share and in Hawaii it has 65 percent market share.
When it comes to high-speed internet access, almost all markets are local monopolies; over 75 percent of households have no choice with only one provider.
Four players control the entire US beef market and have carved up the country. After two mergers this year, three companies will control 70 percent of the world’s pesticide market and 80 percent of the US corn-seed market.
———
The International Monetary Fund offers predatory debt trap loans to a destitute nation. Within this agreement, “structural adjustment” provisions are included which the nation must agree upon.
Most provisions are exploitative to the host country, including foreign offshoring rights and privatization of any nationalized industry which benefit all except the consolidation of wealth siphoned into the pockets of investors, bureaucratic management cartels..
(these are sovereign, independent countries) - we must remember.
It’s a viscous cycle which ends up in a post-colonial independent country in which only the people are poor - the countries labour output and resources are RICH. Only the people are poor.
Offshoring labor has one primary purpose: to exploit foreign labour pools by paying wages which translate into mere survival wages and through have dependency on previous colonial infrastructure
This is the most significant reason, with the exception of a few, capitalist countries are known as “poor” while their net natural resources are unbelievably rich.
The infrastructure to extract tends to only exist via these IMF loans along with independent “foreign aid” with a hell of a small print disclaimer attached.
From a recent article to put this into perspective:
“[T]he cost of servicing [this debt]—over $375 billion per year as of 2004—is more than all third world spending on health and education, and twenty times what developing countries receive annually in foreign aid … Ecuador is typical … For every $100 of crude taken out of the Ecuadorian rainforests, the oil companies receive $75. Of the remaining $25, three-quarters must go to paying off the foreign debt. Most of the remainder covers military and other government expenses—which leaves about $2.50 for health, education, and programs aimed at helping the poor.”
Of course , this is just one trick of the trade.
Neoliberal capitalism is inherently crony and anti-competitive. There’s no getting around it.
2023.03.25 18:45 FiauraTanks Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (FanFic) - Ch. 5
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This one is going to be a bit longer because a PM To me suggested I go ahead and do a long Chapter.
I hope you still enjoy. The final piece will be released tomorrow.
Memory Transcription: Captain Neil Campbell, United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 3, 2136
The company had four mortars, four American M2 heavy machine guns, twelve lighter man-portable machine guns, eight light close in AA guns of 40mm twin, every trooper had a stringer mark 7 light anti-air missile, they had four longer range SAM units, eight orbital interceptors dialed into one computer, and two anti-ship missile launchers. Right at that moment, every single weapon they had was singing a song of death.
The Cheetah would silence the battlefield every time its main railgun fired a slug. Meanwhile the two Eisenhower’s autocannons rained down death upon the Arxur. While the standard rifles, pistols, or light SAW weapons would not necessarily take out a Arxur with non-vital hit; the heavy machine guns the Americans provided did.
The Radios crackled with commands going in all sorts of directions.
"All units, gunship coming through at..." Zim hesitated as he figured the direction and coordinates given by the radar operator moments ago. "7 O'Clock, will crest hill in 1 minute thirty, four man-portables dial in."
"Dial 1." Two seconds later all at once, "Dial 2." from 3 people who quickly corrected to dials 2, 3, and 4. Zim nodded, "Confirmed 4 dials."
"Forty seconds to crest." Called back the radar operator.
Campbell made note of how well Zim was handling their current position despite being a civilian. He had deducted correctly that Zim being Mayor would make them very proficient at communication and coordination, as well as delegation. What Zim had just done in thirty seconds was identify a unassigned gunship, that is one that was not anticipated by the long range missiles, short range AA guns, or anything else and assigned four stingers to it now all pre-trained and waiting for their shot.
Thompson was calling over the radio to coordinate the mortars and machine gun fire before broadcasting to Williams in the Cheetah where she couldn't get fire support to so that the MBT could deliver a couple of devastating shots.
Assigned and targeted gunships popped up at longer range and died before they had a chance to properly stabilize themselves in the atmosphere or just after take off. Fighters swooped down only for lock on and incoming missile warnings to scream at them before their sensors had even adjusted to having ground under them.
The smell of metal, ash, and blood filled the air. Arxur trying to get through the pass found it an impassable death trap. They had never encountered alien races who used barbed wire, much less the sheer volume of mines, and the thing that truly caused the reptiles to fear were the hidden single shot tubes full of deisel fuel mixed with wood glue and then aerosolized before something would ignite the fumes. Watching your comrades incinerated and calls of your enemy to let them burn, had the Arxur shooting their own comrades just to silence their screams.
Arxur field commanders stood in the back, shooting those who turned to run from the frontline while the Black Watch fired on. Their mortars were positioned around the 7 kilometer radius of the inner caldera so that at any point within the caldera or around its brim; three mortars could have rounds flying towards target at any one time. As soon as anyone radioed for support, mortars were flying in their direction, pre-dialed coordinates and ranges meant it only took three seconds for a mortar round to be dialed in and on the way.
The pass into the castle was starting to become clogged with Arxur bodies. But they were making progress, slowly. Campbell counted by this point, that most of his forward foxholes had been destroyed, all of them set alight by their preparations, preventing the Arxur from using them, recovering unreachable wounded humans, or bodies. Anyone who couldn't fall back would rather die fighting and then sending their would be captures or devourers into an inferno with them.
Campbell knew however, he was running out of ground to give and soon he would have to kill soldiers. They may kill a hundred each but they would still fall eventually. He saw his gunner snap back and drop off the side of his command vehicle. A vehicle which was all but disabled now. He moved to him.
Scrambling up the vehicle and pulling the wounded soldier down off the MG mount to the ground, laying him softly against the bullet ridden tire of the rover. He held his hand, "MEDIC! Medic!" Campbell called then turned to his trooper.
Campbell checked the nametag to be sure, Muller. "Muller, Muller." Muller turned his head, his eyes were growing hallow. Campbell looked at the wound, part of his upper chest was just gone. His neck was bleeding as well. There was a lot of blood. Slowly, he watched Muller's light escape his eyes.
That is enough. He returned to a reflection off of the now vacant eyes of Muller. The ridge had figures at the top of it. He snapped looking for Sims, when he couldn't find him, he pulled his radio. "Sims! They’re trying to storm the top of the castle! Grid 7-Bravo. Blow it, now.” he was pointing and screaming at the figures when his cyber arm suddenly jerked and sent him face down into the ground, his helmet rolling off.
On queue, the ridge where a few shadowy figures had appeared turned into a cloud of dust and rubble as a fireball erupted from it, silencing the rest of the battlefield for a few moments. The explosion sent rock, dirt, and mud over the side in an avalanche at the would be mountaineers. Everyone attempting to storm the outside of the caldera at that 50 meter grid would be buried in a coming storm of mountainside.
Campbell reached over and picked up his arm, looking at the cybernetic carefully. He sat up and next to Muller for a moment while making sure the connectors would still be good. His pain registers had shut off as soon as it disconnected. The connector appeared intact, just jerked out of the cybernetic socket by the impact and his body weight as the anchor. The round had only destroyed the outer layer of synth-flesh designed to make it aesthetically pleasing as well as his uniform that had been torn covering it.
He put the arm back in with a twist and it rebooted. His radio barked, “Cannot hold the pass, we need more firepower. Yanks, you're up!”
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Memory Transcription: Lieutenant Williams, United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 3, 2136
Williams hated this, he called another target to his gunner and used his command machine gun to put down more rounds through the fraying camouflage around his tank. Tanks were supposed to be mobile bunkers not sitting ducks. Another high caliber plasma round bounced off their shield and their infantryman, Corporal Davies as he was introduced, the soldier turned the oldest M2 anyone had ever seen in the direction it came from.
Large caliber machine gun casings bounced off the hull top as they cascaded passed something scratched onto the side of the M2. It read in smaller and smaller scratches, “France, Philippines, Tunisia, France, Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, Iraq II, Australia, Luna, Mars, The Cradle, Sillis.” The last two were still relatively fresh and easy to read.
“Williams, our forward positions are getting overrun by sheer weight of bodies, you’re up. See you on the other side.” Campbell called to the tank crew and their IFV escorts.
Good, tanks were not made to sit still. What the Arxur were about to find out is that tanks are scary when they are shooting at you but they are even scarier when moving at full speed and still shooting at you extremely accurately.
“Driver, full speed ahead into the pass, put the shield down to scrape the dirt so it will blown any remaining mines; loader, gunner eyes front.” He called out and then clicked his intercom off to switch on his radio, “Ripper 1 and 2, this is War Kitty, on our flank at 5 and 8 o’clock, staggered line fifty meter spread front, twenty to the side.”
That would put the IFVs Fifty meters behind him and twenty meters to each side. This was in case any orbital bombardment got through, even a rod from God would only get 1 vehicle then instead of multiple by the spacing.
A pair of affirmatives came back as the tank rolled forward and broke free of its camouflage to build up speed. Immediately the shield flared as soon as they broke the jungle with every single gun the Arxur had firing at them. Their small interceptor mini-phalanx on top shooting constantly to blow anything bigger than a rifle round out of the sky.
Meanwhile the IFVs pointed at muzzle flashes and sent bursts of .50 cal, 25mm, and 50mm in their direction. One Eisenhower was not a troop transport but strictly a gun platform, carrying a much heavier weapon. The only still used a proven 25mm chaingun.Williams pointed out another target, “Gunner 11, Loader HE.”
“HE Up!” The loader called.
“Sending.”
Williams’s gunner yelled back. The machine guns stopped for a second on the tank and suddenly the turret shuttered as the round was sent, the reward was a hillside that the Arxur were using for cover blowing up in a fireball of red, orange, and black smoke. Arxur body parts, dirt, and debris flying up into the air as the ground was stained with gray’s blood.
Williams wasn't going to hesitate with his ammunition. The nature of the railgun meant that the ammo no longer had large casings of propel behind them. Only the shell head was needed, that meant the tank was packed with four times the ammo of a chemical propellant tank.
The crew worked like a well oiled machine. Every ten seconds another main gun round. Between them, the three fifty’s and the 20mm beside the main gun did not stop shooting unless the gunner signaled.
It was grueling work, exhausting for the loader, mentally wearing for the gunner, forcing Williams to push his mind to the limit and glad for the stimulate that kept fatigue away from his mind. Their driver looking out like a truck driver who had been given too much caffeine but having to keep her jerks to a minimum. The objective was a smooth platform. The three drivers of the armored vehicles coordinating on their own private channel to keep moving through Arxur formations.
An hour passed, the tank rampaged. When they ran out of HE, they used HEAT, when that ran out, they switched to squash. When that ran out, they used the few anti-armor rounds they had brought.
Williams' voice was getting hoarse from calling targets, his hand vibrating from the shake of his command cupola gun. His body vibrated at a different frequency from the rumble of the engine and the quaking of the coaxial weapons.
Suddenly there was a clattering on the roof. Williams recognized it as someone foreign trying to get on the tank. There was clearly some slams against the roof of the tank. "I need help out here!" Davies called over the radio.
There was the distinctive sound of a body crushing under the tank tread that made the crew stop and debate opening the hatch to help. "Davies, what is going on out there? Davies!" Williams called in desperation.
Another few bangs on the room and their machine gunner outside had stopped replying, their shield had failed and rebooted several times, they must have got him with their boarding action. “Raider 2, we’ve got ants and War Kitty does too.”
He checked the shield read out, they had twenty seconds until reboot, twenty seconds to get these Arxur off of them.
Williams swung the turret to look at Raider 2 to see several Arxur attempting to board the tank and get the hatches open. “Raider 2, affirmative. Sorry about your gunner.” He heard the bang of Arxur landing on his hull, likely from the trees around them.
“Proceed with fly swatting, MG only. Gunner, Raider 2 at 7 and a half, full Coax.” The turret swung around, hitting an Arxur and sending him flying into a tree trunk with a sickening crunch before he fell in front of the tank tread. The MBT did not even notice crushing the creature and rolled on beyond the echo of crunching bone against the lower hull, which the loader noticed for a split second.
Pangs and hull tings echoed all around them as the IFV and tank exchanged small arms fire, clearing off their "pest problem" while not doing any significant damage to each other. Williams and his crew did not get time to celebrate.They had been rolling around the outside of the caldera. They moved from Arxur formation to formation; hitting Arxur units as fast as they could then trying to fade away before they could organize a counter attack.
They came back to the Caldera entrance for the fourth time, when they hit one of their own mines. Everyone in the tank was catapulted forward as the track blew off, the drive wheel on the left side seized and the tank nearly flipped, coming to thirty degrees to their right hand side. With a loud unearthly slam, every crew member was thrown to the floor after their heads banged off bulkheads with the whiplash.
Williams felt the ringing in his head, and the unholy headache of a concussion. His vision was fuzzy, he swore he head bells in his ears, his body felt distant; almost as if he were trying to tell his brain to radio control it. He held onto the side of the hull with one hand, trying to stand upon weak and unresponsive legs while his other hand held his aching head, “Status report.”
No one replied. He reached over to his gunner and found his head limp at an unnatural angle. He checked him, his neck was broken clean by the sudden slamming into the bulkhead. Williams ears were ringing, his body wanted to vomit, his eyes couldn’t see straight. He made out the face of his loader, Jenkins. Blood was trickling from his mouth as he laid on the floor in his loader section.
How did I get down here? Williams thought and reached for Jenkins, Jenkins gave a few spasms, spat up some blood and then his eyes glazed over until they were lifeless.
“Jenkins? Jameson? Cleo?” He called out, repeating it again and again tapping the crew intercom on his neck, weakly as he slowly got to his feet. His brain was not processing that his loader and gunner were dead.
“I’m still here.” Cleo answered with her distinctive southern accent. “But fuck, I wish I weren’t.”
His driver was alive but in a separate section from the rest of the crew. “Can… can you move? Fuck, My head.”
There was a loud pang and the feeling of air getting suddenly sucked out of the cabin. Cleo screamed out over the comms and then Williams could hear her heavy breathing. The blurring double vision making it hard to be certain of his movements. It felt like pushing through a heavy lake to get his body to move and his ears rang with the sound of an intense bell.
“Williams, Fuck… sorry Williams, but I can’t now. Damn suspension shaft just ripped through the bottom hull and into my leg.”“Stay where you are, I’ll come get you.”“No Sir, the shaft is impaling my escape hatch and all that racket outside is all Arxur hitting us on the top. Fuck…” Cleo yelled in pain as she tried to shift something.
Williams couldn’t hear the racket she was talking about. He was trying to process the idea that Cleo was hit and his emotions were screaming at him about his now dead loader and gunner. “Sir, set turret control to my station, I’m going to use the guns to cover you and the others. At least, until I bleed out.”“Cleo, we’re it.”
Williams knew saying the words meant his comrades were gone, but emotionally his brain was shut off now.There was a pause on the radio, just a few seconds. Williams slowly reached over and changed the turret control to driver operated.
“Alright, fine, grab your SMG and go out your escape hatch, I’ll hold them off and keep us looking scary. I’ve only got a little bit until I bleed out.”The turret started moving and Williams training kicked in through his concussion. He reached into his personal locker and pulled out the P90 as well as a few magazines and his survival kit, the kicked his escape hatch open out of the bottom of the tank and started to crawl beneath the stricken vehicle.
He kept crawling, heading for the forest, the sound of Arxur shouts and screams as well as gunfire getting quieter and quieter, until finally, Williams felt exhaustion overtake him and blackness closed in.
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Memory Transcription: Captain Neil Campbell, United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 4, 2136
Raider 2 slowly rolled back down the pass, free of Arxur pursuit. It was in sorry shape to look at. The Anti-Air missile launcher was hanging on by its wiring. The mini-phalanx was gone except the targeting camera which still tried to move the non-existent AMS turret with sparks frying off the frayed wires. The main chain gun barrel was ripped off and what still existed was melted. Seven holes let the night moonlight through.
Both of the tracks had damaged segments that made them rotate around their drive wheels in a funny lopsided pattern. But the IFV rolled back into the silent caldera except for its dying engine. “Raider 2, reporting. Vehicle mission killed.”
Campbell tapped his radio, “Good job, get out and get some food, then get back on the line, your infantry now.”
The Arxur had pulled back after the armour went out and rampaged for an hour. Raider 2 had to wait until darkness closed in to roll back into camp. They had heard the boom of the cannon and sound of the passing armour engines and tracks across the terrain around the caldera. Mortars had provided the armour support fire and now the entire castle smelled of Arxur blood and cordite residue. It was now four hours later and the Arxur hadn’t returned; yet.
The Arxur had not sent in a new wave. Likely in total shock at the armored platoons sudden sally out. Campbell approached the stricken Eisenhower IFV as it rolled to a stop and seemed to break down completely when the engine was shut off.
The crew staggered out, all of them had been wounded to some degree by spalling from their vehicle’s own metal. The flakes and shrapnel generated inside the vehicle from impacts on the outside had done a number on them. But the vehicle had somehow held together. Two of the three staggering figures were trying to carry a fourth trooper out.
Campbell walked over to see Williams with a head injury, one of his feet missing and tourniqueted at the calf as well as two of his fingers ripped off and taped together. “Where are the other vehicles?”
The IFV commander fell to his knees, exhausted after constant combat and adrenaline just broke down crying. The man had enough and couldn’t take anymore. Campbell reached down and slapped his across the cheek, “Oih, stiffen your lip and answer me. We can cry about it later.”
The IFV commander looked up and nodded at the heavy cybernetic arm that had just slammed him. “Sorry sir, just… They’re gone sir. War Kitty took a mine to the tracks, probably one of ours. Raider 1 went down to an ammo explosion, the crew were incinerated instantly. Best I can think sir is that the blow out panels had been welded shut by enemy small arms fire. We found Williams near War Kitty, the Arxur were running from the burning hull, it was still shooting at them.” He took a breath, tears staining his oil and gunpowder covered face.“The gunner must have died and fallen on the turret swing with a death grip on the trigger. We put a missile in her to make sure there was nothing for the scalies to savage.” The commander managed as his crewmates came over and knelt with him while a medic ran off with Williams on a stretcher, followed by a second medic grabbing the stretcher halfway through.
The medics having issues carrying their shotguns and a patient. Aliens don’t play by our rules, medics are still targets to them. Campbell thought to himself as he gave a pat to the IFV commander.“You did excellent, son, you and your crew. So did the rest of your unit. We’ll take it from here.” Campbell tried to use the platitudes to comfort but he knew within an hour those soldiers would be sleeping in a foxhole, with their crew SMGs and sidearms, as well as a helmet just like the rest of his men.
His radio squawked, “Captain, frequency thirteen.”He removed the radio forward several clicks until a shrill deep voice came across it. “Human Commander, respond.”
Campbell recognized it as an Arxur voice and he picked up his radio, “Speaking.” He pulled out his flask and took a swig of the whiskey he kept on his person as he listened.
“We have you surrounded, there is no need to die. We are willing to take you as honorable prisoners with honorable and fair treatment, I assure you. All you have to do—”
“I’m going to stop you, right there. I just watched a pair of glorified armoured lories and a metal assault box rip through your lines and shred your forces to pieces.” He paused and let that sink in, knowing he was insulting his equipment to play up just how badly the Arxur were bloodied.
Campbell continued with this insult tirade, “I heard my recon squad of the lightest infantry I have, wrecked a thousand of you; solid. Listened to it on the radio all while it happened.” He turned to the pass and took a look at the piles of bodies across it and the carnage that looks like something straight out of the Great War more than two centuries ago. Not something he expected to ever see in a modern war.
“I have enough of your bodies to build a replica of Edinburgh Castle out of using them as the mortar.”
“Human! We have you surrounded! This is your chance for mercy! Just surrender your prey to us and yourselves.” Campbell laughed into the radio, “Have you lost your mind; leaf-licking monkey?”
“Not at all, I’m as chipper as can be right now. Listen up, izzard.” He let the name sink in for a second.
“You have us surrounded? Good, we can fire in every direction and hit one of you. You want us? Come and get us.”He flicked the radio off and headed for the medical tent. He needed to hear it from his doc just how many of his troops could fight and how many were not going to last the night or just be dead weight at this point. He also heard they took a few Arxur, alive.
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Memory Transcription: Lieutenant Father Christopher O’Malley , United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 4, 2136
O’Malley moved to another tarp covering a body that had been recovered. He slowly and silently whispered a prayer, taking the dog tag to give to the medic but using it to get the name and town of origin of the trooper. Taking careful note of the religion and following his training as well as a guidebook for the Catholic, agnostic, or protestant he found. He moved to last one, and finished his prayer.
Campbell was waiting for him at the end of the line of recovered bodies. “Captain.” He said, standing slowly and offering a weary salute. Chris could feel his arm getting tired, he had been going so long and knew he would need a stim to keep up the night.
Campbell saluted back, “Reverend, how bad is it?”
O’Malley looked at the bodies and sighed, “Well, never thought I’d see Clemson die but he did. Dove onto a detonator and set off a satchel charge to take as many as he could before the armour rolled out.” The reverend took out a cigarette and lit it up, taking a long drag from the white paper pipe that took nearly half of it out in one go, then exhausted all his lungs as he let the feeling of euphoria wash over him. The nicotine did its job, steadying his nerves and slowly making his shaking stop. His emotions at all the last rites he had performed starting to defray slowly.
"Father, how many today?" Campbell asked preparing himself. He knew Father O'Malley would have taken note of every time he had done last rites and done a proper headcountting as well.
O'Malley took another drag and nodded, "Thirty-Seven including the Americans who did not come back."
“Father, why do you do it? Why here?” Campbell asked as he took a seat on the ground next to the priest who was still kneeling.
“A shepard is to watch his flock and when the wolves come knocking, send the wolves back to the forest where they belong. With a bloodied nose or broken leg if needed.” O’Malley replied with a soft sigh as he took another drag, the cigarette already starting to come up towards its end.
“And how do you reconcile religion with aliens?” Campbell asked, genuinely curious as to the answer. O’Malley chuckled and pulled the cig from his lips to tap off the ashes, “That ain’t my place to be figurin’. I’m here as the chaplain, higher powers than I determine how we reconcile aliens. My job is to tend to the souls of my flock, seeing as there isn’t an atheist in a foxhole; that has gotten fairly complicated.”
Campbell nodded and pulled his whiskey flask to take another swig. It was down to less than a quarter left. “Captain, no offense but stuff will kill you.”
Campbell smiled at the gallows humour as the reverend chuckled with him for a few moments. “Never change, father.” he spoke as he stood up and started to walk back towards his command tent.
“Aye, aye, captain. Now I’ve got a special case to attend.” Campbell turned towards O’Malley as the chaplain rose and headed into the medical tent.“What’s that reverend?”
“An Arxur asked for a priest.” O’Malley stepped into the tent and headed for where he knew the patient was. It only took a few moments before he arrived at the side of the bed. The Arxur was handcuffed and collared to the cot. Both of his legs were blown off at the upper thigh. His chest was also bandaged from shrapnel that had been sent through it.
O’Malley took a seat on a folding chair and pulled the dim light of their medical tent. Blood stained the sterile sheet placed over the ground. He looked over to the gray with a pain of sympathy for his injuries. The Arxur was breathing laborious and gasping at the air as if it were fighting him. He leaned in, “Alright, my child, how may I assist you?”
Through wheezing breathes the Arxur replied, “I am no hatching.”
“Oh, you misunderstand, it is how a priest of our culture addresses someone who is more youthful than them.” O’Malley spoke slowly and he checked Arxur's pulse. Faint but for the moment steady. “Is there something I can do to make you more comfortable?”
“No, I am dying. Your docs as they are called said they cannot help.”
O’Malley cleared his throat, “You mean the medics.”
“Yes, they do not know enough and there is no surgeon here. Shrapnel has punctured my organs, I will die soon.”
O’Malley reached down to a clawed hand, his instinct was to pull away at the scales but he resisted it. He gripped the hand gently but firmly, his other hand placed near the Arxur’s mouth on his shoulder, showing vulnerability to the creature. “I am here, how may I comfort you in this hour? What is it you believe?”
“I…. I would rather know what you do, human.” O’Malley was taken aback by the request. He shook his head and resisted the urge to preach.
“I am a chaplain of our unit, I counsel the living, comfort the dying and give last rites to the dead. If that means I must learn your religion in your dying hour and console you with it, I will. Please explain what I must—”
“Human.” O’Malley silenced and listened to the Arxur speak, his mind slowly processing each word and ensuring he understood what the Arxur wished. He had trained long and hard, and he was not going to deny the wishes of a dying creature; not friend or foe. “Humor me. What is it that you believe?”
O’Malley took a moment and reached into his shirt, pulling out a small bible, he began to read a verse here and there, slowly explaining his religion, ensuring he focused upon the aspects of love, community, and companionship as well as faith. He spoke for an hour about love, mercy, and the strength of God as O’Malley believed in him.
He continued by explaining stories of the bible in short versions rather than reading verbatim. He explained the mercy and the concept of no atheist in a foxhole. O'Malley monitoring the Arxur's reaction, taking note of the tail as well as the face.
He realized the Arxur looked more peaceful than he had ever seen his species and paused, "If I remove your restraints, you won't attack me yes?"
The Arxur looked suddenly surprised and then nodded. O'Malley reached over to the buckles and clicked them off from the Arxur's wrists, waist, and neck. He did not immediately move but the creature managed a human version of a smile to show his appreciation. "Thank you, that is, more comfortable, please continue."
O'Malley continued explaining his beliefs and the story presented. He felt better preaching to a person who was able to push him away if they wished. It also began to feel less like talking to a prisoner and more like speaking with an old friend.
After intensely listening, the Arxur let out a severe ragged cough. Once the cough stopped, he was drooling blood onto his neck. “Human, my time comes. Please, lead me in a prayer, I did not believe in anything before now. But your warriors prove something supernatural about them. Now, I wish to believe in something as I draw my final breath.”
O’Malley nodded and started to give a prayer then stopped himself. He opened his small bible to Psalm and let his faith guide him. “Repeat after me and you may yet see the gates of Heaven, my friend.”
The Arxur turned his head weakly, “I am called, Grissen, can your lord forgive a wicked creature as I? The things I have—”
O’Malley squeezed the claw he held to get Grissen to be quiet and listen. “The Lord only cares that before your final moment you renounce your evil ways, genuinely mean your repentance, and accept him. If you repeat after me and truly believe in that; allow him to change your heart in that final moment, then yes.”
Grissen weakly nodded, “Proceed.”
“Repeat after me,” O’Malley waited to make sure Grissen was ready. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." O'Malley prepared his patience as Grissen repeated the words, slowly. The Arxur was having to speak very deliberately through his breathing. O'Malley could feel the pulse had quickened as well.
"He maketh me lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Grissen struggled but O’Malley's patience displayed that of the saints he spoke of. He calmly waited for the Arxur to catch up and gripped his hand to give him strength. Every stumble was a simple re-guiding from O'Malley with a smile.
Grissen's eyes showed remarkable recognition of O'Malley, never moving away from him as he listened intently, even managing to turn his head to face the priest fully.
His heart screamed for the pain this creature was in. Grissen’s voice was getting worse. He was drawing weaker, and unfocused with each passing word. He felt the agony in how his body shifted and his breathing struggled. The bloodshot eyes filled with torment but something else.
O'Malley recognized it as the desperation for acceptance, the desire to belong behind the pain. He had seen it so many times in someone's last hour. O'Malley hoped a surgeon would suddenly appear and save Grissen from this terrible slow way to die. His mind begged for such a miracle but his heart knew, it was too late.
He had administered too many last rites today but here he was giving another one. He felt his own tears forming in his eyes and fought them back.
Once Grissen finished the line, he resumed, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head in oil; my cup runneth over.”
Grissen's voice was getting lower in volume, almost what O'Malley thought an Arxur child would sound like. His eyes were no longer following O'Malley; he was only speaking the words, getting more monotone and laboured with each passing breath.
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
Grissen slowly repeated the words, “Surely…. Goodness and mercy… despite my evil… shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
“Amen.”“A…men….” Grissen’s grip slackened and he exhaled slowly, his chest deflated. His eyes glazed over and finally, his tongue fell from his lips across his cheek.
O’Malley reached up to feel his heart and felt no pulse. He was gone.
O’Malley gently placed the clawed hands across the chest in an X. He pushed the dried out tongue into the teeth and slowed the jaw. He noticed the smile upon Grissen’s lips that had formed in that last moment. He knew to leave well enough alone there. He reached up and closed the reptile’s eyes, slowly and gently. As he had done a dozen times today, every detail was precisely right.
He took a moment to admire how peaceful the gray managed to look in his final state of death. He pulled a notepad from his pocket and wrote on it, something he knew probably wouldn’t get done as no one had time to bury the dead. It wasn’t about if there was time, it was about the act of ensuring the last request was asked for and at least acknowledged.He placed the note between the hands, it had the image of a cross upon it and the words: “Protestant” upon it. This would signal to any human that he was to be given a protestant burial.
O’Malley paused, tears dripping from his eyes for his enemy as he spoke. “Lord above, take this one, Shelter this one, enemy-mine. For all are your’s in death, even those who would see your servant slain. I ask not for vengeance but that you take pity upon this soul as it departs for the next life. He repeated in your name before his final breath, accept him with warm smiles and open arms as I commend Grissen to your care. St. Peter, I ask you to not be cautious or repulsed but instead, nod to him as you read his many sins and then inform him, all is forgiven in his final hour even by his greatest enemies. Amen.”
O’Malley felt his body shaking as he opened his eyes.His cheeks were warm with tears, a smile of delight upon his face to save a soul just before it left, even if he could not answer the question of aliens before God. It had been a worthy peaceful time here in the tent. Something O’Malley knew all too well about war, it was not war that would end war but rather; understanding could bring it to a stop. He got up, his legs weak and knees wanting to lock. He struggled to hold his weight as he walked from the tent, trying to calm his emotions.
He stepped outside, walking back to his position on the line and pulled another smoke, he had not yet gotten to his lighter when the sound of gunfire ripped through the caldera again. Weapons lighting up as the Arxur assault began anew.
For O’Malley however, he couldn’t move. His chest burned. His heartbeat echoed in his ears. He watched the cigarette drop from his hand. He felt his strength drain from his legs as he fell over on his side. Machine guns and mortars tracers rippled across the valley. He felt warm blood pouring down his chest across his shoulder towards the ground.
He willed his eyes to look down and realized he was hit. His chest was heaving blood rapidly. His strength faded and slowly he felt his eyes become heavy.
He whispered a final prayer, “Dear Lord, hold Grissen at the gates; I wish to enter beside my friend.” His final thought as his eyes closed for good barely ten paces from the medical tent. “Amen.”
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This one is going to be a bit longer because a PM To me suggested I go ahead and do a long Chapter.
I hope you still enjoy. The final piece will be released tomorrow.
Memory Transcription: Captain Neil Campbell, United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 3, 2136
The company had four mortars, four American M2 heavy machine guns, twelve lighter man-portable machine guns, eight light close in AA guns of 40mm twin, every trooper had a stringer mark 7 light anti-air missile, they had four longer range SAM units, eight orbital interceptors dialed into one computer, and two anti-ship missile launchers. Right at that moment, every single weapon they had was singing a song of death.
The Cheetah would silence the battlefield every time its main railgun fired a slug. Meanwhile the two Eisenhower’s autocannons rained down death upon the Arxur. While the standard rifles, pistols, or light SAW weapons would not necessarily take out a Arxur with non-vital hit; the heavy machine guns the Americans provided did.
The Radios crackled with commands going in all sorts of directions.
"All units, gunship coming through at..." Zim hesitated as he figured the direction and coordinates given by the radar operator moments ago. "7 O'Clock, will crest hill in 1 minute thirty, four man-portables dial in."
"Dial 1." Two seconds later all at once, "Dial 2." from 3 people who quickly corrected to dials 2, 3, and 4. Zim nodded, "Confirmed 4 dials."
"Forty seconds to crest." Called back the radar operator.
Campbell made note of how well Zim was handling their current position despite being a civilian. He had deducted correctly that Zim being Mayor would make them very proficient at communication and coordination, as well as delegation. What Zim had just done in thirty seconds was identify a unassigned gunship, that is one that was not anticipated by the long range missiles, short range AA guns, or anything else and assigned four stingers to it now all pre-trained and waiting for their shot.
Thompson was calling over the radio to coordinate the mortars and machine gun fire before broadcasting to Williams in the Cheetah where she couldn't get fire support to so that the MBT could deliver a couple of devastating shots.
Assigned and targeted gunships popped up at longer range and died before they had a chance to properly stabilize themselves in the atmosphere or just after take off. Fighters swooped down only for lock on and incoming missile warnings to scream at them before their sensors had even adjusted to having ground under them.
The smell of metal, ash, and blood filled the air. Arxur trying to get through the pass found it an impassable death trap. They had never encountered alien races who used barbed wire, much less the sheer volume of mines, and the thing that truly caused the reptiles to fear were the hidden single shot tubes full of deisel fuel mixed with wood glue and then aerosolized before something would ignite the fumes. Watching your comrades incinerated and calls of your enemy to let them burn, had the Arxur shooting their own comrades just to silence their screams.
Arxur field commanders stood in the back, shooting those who turned to run from the frontline while the Black Watch fired on. Their mortars were positioned around the 7 kilometer radius of the inner caldera so that at any point within the caldera or around its brim; three mortars could have rounds flying towards target at any one time. As soon as anyone radioed for support, mortars were flying in their direction, pre-dialed coordinates and ranges meant it only took three seconds for a mortar round to be dialed in and on the way.
The pass into the castle was starting to become clogged with Arxur bodies. But they were making progress, slowly. Campbell counted by this point, that most of his forward foxholes had been destroyed, all of them set alight by their preparations, preventing the Arxur from using them, recovering unreachable wounded humans, or bodies. Anyone who couldn't fall back would rather die fighting and then sending their would be captures or devourers into an inferno with them.
Campbell knew however, he was running out of ground to give and soon he would have to kill soldiers. They may kill a hundred each but they would still fall eventually. He saw his gunner snap back and drop off the side of his command vehicle. A vehicle which was all but disabled now. He moved to him.
Scrambling up the vehicle and pulling the wounded soldier down off the MG mount to the ground, laying him softly against the bullet ridden tire of the rover. He held his hand, "MEDIC! Medic!" Campbell called then turned to his trooper.
Campbell checked the nametag to be sure, Muller. "Muller, Muller." Muller turned his head, his eyes were growing hallow. Campbell looked at the wound, part of his upper chest was just gone. His neck was bleeding as well. There was a lot of blood. Slowly, he watched Muller's light escape his eyes.
That is enough. He returned to a reflection off of the now vacant eyes of Muller. The ridge had figures at the top of it. He snapped looking for Sims, when he couldn't find him, he pulled his radio. "Sims! They’re trying to storm the top of the castle! Grid 7-Bravo. Blow it, now.” he was pointing and screaming at the figures when his cyber arm suddenly jerked and sent him face down into the ground, his helmet rolling off.
On queue, the ridge where a few shadowy figures had appeared turned into a cloud of dust and rubble as a fireball erupted from it, silencing the rest of the battlefield for a few moments. The explosion sent rock, dirt, and mud over the side in an avalanche at the would be mountaineers. Everyone attempting to storm the outside of the caldera at that 50 meter grid would be buried in a coming storm of mountainside.
Campbell reached over and picked up his arm, looking at the cybernetic carefully. He sat up and next to Muller for a moment while making sure the connectors would still be good. His pain registers had shut off as soon as it disconnected. The connector appeared intact, just jerked out of the cybernetic socket by the impact and his body weight as the anchor. The round had only destroyed the outer layer of synth-flesh designed to make it aesthetically pleasing as well as his uniform that had been torn covering it.
He put the arm back in with a twist and it rebooted. His radio barked, “Cannot hold the pass, we need more firepower. Yanks, you're up!”
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Memory Transcription: Lieutenant Williams, United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 3, 2136
Williams hated this, he called another target to his gunner and used his command machine gun to put down more rounds through the fraying camouflage around his tank. Tanks were supposed to be mobile bunkers not sitting ducks. Another high caliber plasma round bounced off their shield and their infantryman, Corporal Davies as he was introduced, the soldier turned the oldest M2 anyone had ever seen in the direction it came from.
Large caliber machine gun casings bounced off the hull top as they cascaded passed something scratched onto the side of the M2. It read in smaller and smaller scratches, “France, Philippines, Tunisia, France, Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, Iraq II, Australia, Luna, Mars, The Cradle, Sillis.” The last two were still relatively fresh and easy to read.
“Williams, our forward positions are getting overrun by sheer weight of bodies, you’re up. See you on the other side.” Campbell called to the tank crew and their IFV escorts.
Good, tanks were not made to sit still. What the Arxur were about to find out is that tanks are scary when they are shooting at you but they are even scarier when moving at full speed and still shooting at you extremely accurately.
“Driver, full speed ahead into the pass, put the shield down to scrape the dirt so it will blown any remaining mines; loader, gunner eyes front.” He called out and then clicked his intercom off to switch on his radio, “Ripper 1 and 2, this is War Kitty, on our flank at 5 and 8 o’clock, staggered line fifty meter spread front, twenty to the side.”
That would put the IFVs Fifty meters behind him and twenty meters to each side. This was in case any orbital bombardment got through, even a rod from God would only get 1 vehicle then instead of multiple by the spacing.
A pair of affirmatives came back as the tank rolled forward and broke free of its camouflage to build up speed. Immediately the shield flared as soon as they broke the jungle with every single gun the Arxur had firing at them. Their small interceptor mini-phalanx on top shooting constantly to blow anything bigger than a rifle round out of the sky.
Meanwhile the IFVs pointed at muzzle flashes and sent bursts of .50 cal, 25mm, and 50mm in their direction. One Eisenhower was not a troop transport but strictly a gun platform, carrying a much heavier weapon. The only still used a proven 25mm chaingun.Williams pointed out another target, “Gunner 11, Loader HE.”
“HE Up!” The loader called.
“Sending.”
Williams’s gunner yelled back. The machine guns stopped for a second on the tank and suddenly the turret shuttered as the round was sent, the reward was a hillside that the Arxur were using for cover blowing up in a fireball of red, orange, and black smoke. Arxur body parts, dirt, and debris flying up into the air as the ground was stained with gray’s blood.
Williams wasn't going to hesitate with his ammunition. The nature of the railgun meant that the ammo no longer had large casings of propel behind them. Only the shell head was needed, that meant the tank was packed with four times the ammo of a chemical propellant tank.
The crew worked like a well oiled machine. Every ten seconds another main gun round. Between them, the three fifty’s and the 20mm beside the main gun did not stop shooting unless the gunner signaled.
It was grueling work, exhausting for the loader, mentally wearing for the gunner, forcing Williams to push his mind to the limit and glad for the stimulate that kept fatigue away from his mind. Their driver looking out like a truck driver who had been given too much caffeine but having to keep her jerks to a minimum. The objective was a smooth platform. The three drivers of the armored vehicles coordinating on their own private channel to keep moving through Arxur formations.
An hour passed, the tank rampaged. When they ran out of HE, they used HEAT, when that ran out, they switched to squash. When that ran out, they used the few anti-armor rounds they had brought.
Williams' voice was getting hoarse from calling targets, his hand vibrating from the shake of his command cupola gun. His body vibrated at a different frequency from the rumble of the engine and the quaking of the coaxial weapons.
Suddenly there was a clattering on the roof. Williams recognized it as someone foreign trying to get on the tank. There was clearly some slams against the roof of the tank. "I need help out here!" Davies called over the radio.
There was the distinctive sound of a body crushing under the tank tread that made the crew stop and debate opening the hatch to help. "Davies, what is going on out there? Davies!" Williams called in desperation.
Another few bangs on the room and their machine gunner outside had stopped replying, their shield had failed and rebooted several times, they must have got him with their boarding action. “Raider 2, we’ve got ants and War Kitty does too.”
He checked the shield read out, they had twenty seconds until reboot, twenty seconds to get these Arxur off of them.
Williams swung the turret to look at Raider 2 to see several Arxur attempting to board the tank and get the hatches open. “Raider 2, affirmative. Sorry about your gunner.” He heard the bang of Arxur landing on his hull, likely from the trees around them.
“Proceed with fly swatting, MG only. Gunner, Raider 2 at 7 and a half, full Coax.” The turret swung around, hitting an Arxur and sending him flying into a tree trunk with a sickening crunch before he fell in front of the tank tread. The MBT did not even notice crushing the creature and rolled on beyond the echo of crunching bone against the lower hull, which the loader noticed for a split second.
Pangs and hull tings echoed all around them as the IFV and tank exchanged small arms fire, clearing off their "pest problem" while not doing any significant damage to each other. Williams and his crew did not get time to celebrate.They had been rolling around the outside of the caldera. They moved from Arxur formation to formation; hitting Arxur units as fast as they could then trying to fade away before they could organize a counter attack.
They came back to the Caldera entrance for the fourth time, when they hit one of their own mines. Everyone in the tank was catapulted forward as the track blew off, the drive wheel on the left side seized and the tank nearly flipped, coming to thirty degrees to their right hand side. With a loud unearthly slam, every crew member was thrown to the floor after their heads banged off bulkheads with the whiplash.
Williams felt the ringing in his head, and the unholy headache of a concussion. His vision was fuzzy, he swore he head bells in his ears, his body felt distant; almost as if he were trying to tell his brain to radio control it. He held onto the side of the hull with one hand, trying to stand upon weak and unresponsive legs while his other hand held his aching head, “Status report.”
No one replied. He reached over to his gunner and found his head limp at an unnatural angle. He checked him, his neck was broken clean by the sudden slamming into the bulkhead. Williams ears were ringing, his body wanted to vomit, his eyes couldn’t see straight. He made out the face of his loader, Jenkins. Blood was trickling from his mouth as he laid on the floor in his loader section.
How did I get down here? Williams thought and reached for Jenkins, Jenkins gave a few spasms, spat up some blood and then his eyes glazed over until they were lifeless.
“Jenkins? Jameson? Cleo?” He called out, repeating it again and again tapping the crew intercom on his neck, weakly as he slowly got to his feet. His brain was not processing that his loader and gunner were dead.
“I’m still here.” Cleo answered with her distinctive southern accent. “But fuck, I wish I weren’t.”
His driver was alive but in a separate section from the rest of the crew. “Can… can you move? Fuck, My head.”
There was a loud pang and the feeling of air getting suddenly sucked out of the cabin. Cleo screamed out over the comms and then Williams could hear her heavy breathing. The blurring double vision making it hard to be certain of his movements. It felt like pushing through a heavy lake to get his body to move and his ears rang with the sound of an intense bell.
“Williams, Fuck… sorry Williams, but I can’t now. Damn suspension shaft just ripped through the bottom hull and into my leg.”“Stay where you are, I’ll come get you.”“No Sir, the shaft is impaling my escape hatch and all that racket outside is all Arxur hitting us on the top. Fuck…” Cleo yelled in pain as she tried to shift something.
Williams couldn’t hear the racket she was talking about. He was trying to process the idea that Cleo was hit and his emotions were screaming at him about his now dead loader and gunner. “Sir, set turret control to my station, I’m going to use the guns to cover you and the others. At least, until I bleed out.”“Cleo, we’re it.”
Williams knew saying the words meant his comrades were gone, but emotionally his brain was shut off now.There was a pause on the radio, just a few seconds. Williams slowly reached over and changed the turret control to driver operated.
“Alright, fine, grab your SMG and go out your escape hatch, I’ll hold them off and keep us looking scary. I’ve only got a little bit until I bleed out.”The turret started moving and Williams training kicked in through his concussion. He reached into his personal locker and pulled out the P90 as well as a few magazines and his survival kit, the kicked his escape hatch open out of the bottom of the tank and started to crawl beneath the stricken vehicle.
He kept crawling, heading for the forest, the sound of Arxur shouts and screams as well as gunfire getting quieter and quieter, until finally, Williams felt exhaustion overtake him and blackness closed in.
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Memory Transcription: Captain Neil Campbell, United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 4, 2136
Raider 2 slowly rolled back down the pass, free of Arxur pursuit. It was in sorry shape to look at. The Anti-Air missile launcher was hanging on by its wiring. The mini-phalanx was gone except the targeting camera which still tried to move the non-existent AMS turret with sparks frying off the frayed wires. The main chain gun barrel was ripped off and what still existed was melted. Seven holes let the night moonlight through.
Both of the tracks had damaged segments that made them rotate around their drive wheels in a funny lopsided pattern. But the IFV rolled back into the silent caldera except for its dying engine. “Raider 2, reporting. Vehicle mission killed.”
Campbell tapped his radio, “Good job, get out and get some food, then get back on the line, your infantry now.”
The Arxur had pulled back after the armour went out and rampaged for an hour. Raider 2 had to wait until darkness closed in to roll back into camp. They had heard the boom of the cannon and sound of the passing armour engines and tracks across the terrain around the caldera. Mortars had provided the armour support fire and now the entire castle smelled of Arxur blood and cordite residue. It was now four hours later and the Arxur hadn’t returned; yet.
The Arxur had not sent in a new wave. Likely in total shock at the armored platoons sudden sally out. Campbell approached the stricken Eisenhower IFV as it rolled to a stop and seemed to break down completely when the engine was shut off.
The crew staggered out, all of them had been wounded to some degree by spalling from their vehicle’s own metal. The flakes and shrapnel generated inside the vehicle from impacts on the outside had done a number on them. But the vehicle had somehow held together. Two of the three staggering figures were trying to carry a fourth trooper out.
Campbell walked over to see Williams with a head injury, one of his feet missing and tourniqueted at the calf as well as two of his fingers ripped off and taped together. “Where are the other vehicles?”
The IFV commander fell to his knees, exhausted after constant combat and adrenaline just broke down crying. The man had enough and couldn’t take anymore. Campbell reached down and slapped his across the cheek, “Oih, stiffen your lip and answer me. We can cry about it later.”
The IFV commander looked up and nodded at the heavy cybernetic arm that had just slammed him. “Sorry sir, just… They’re gone sir. War Kitty took a mine to the tracks, probably one of ours. Raider 1 went down to an ammo explosion, the crew were incinerated instantly. Best I can think sir is that the blow out panels had been welded shut by enemy small arms fire. We found Williams near War Kitty, the Arxur were running from the burning hull, it was still shooting at them.” He took a breath, tears staining his oil and gunpowder covered face.“The gunner must have died and fallen on the turret swing with a death grip on the trigger. We put a missile in her to make sure there was nothing for the scalies to savage.” The commander managed as his crewmates came over and knelt with him while a medic ran off with Williams on a stretcher, followed by a second medic grabbing the stretcher halfway through.
The medics having issues carrying their shotguns and a patient. Aliens don’t play by our rules, medics are still targets to them. Campbell thought to himself as he gave a pat to the IFV commander.“You did excellent, son, you and your crew. So did the rest of your unit. We’ll take it from here.” Campbell tried to use the platitudes to comfort but he knew within an hour those soldiers would be sleeping in a foxhole, with their crew SMGs and sidearms, as well as a helmet just like the rest of his men.
His radio squawked, “Captain, frequency thirteen.”He removed the radio forward several clicks until a shrill deep voice came across it. “Human Commander, respond.”
Campbell recognized it as an Arxur voice and he picked up his radio, “Speaking.” He pulled out his flask and took a swig of the whiskey he kept on his person as he listened.
“We have you surrounded, there is no need to die. We are willing to take you as honorable prisoners with honorable and fair treatment, I assure you. All you have to do—”
“I’m going to stop you, right there. I just watched a pair of glorified armoured lories and a metal assault box rip through your lines and shred your forces to pieces.” He paused and let that sink in, knowing he was insulting his equipment to play up just how badly the Arxur were bloodied.
Campbell continued with this insult tirade, “I heard my recon squad of the lightest infantry I have, wrecked a thousand of you; solid. Listened to it on the radio all while it happened.” He turned to the pass and took a look at the piles of bodies across it and the carnage that looks like something straight out of the Great War more than two centuries ago. Not something he expected to ever see in a modern war.
“I have enough of your bodies to build a replica of Edinburgh Castle out of using them as the mortar.”
“Human! We have you surrounded! This is your chance for mercy! Just surrender your prey to us and yourselves.” Campbell laughed into the radio, “Have you lost your mind; leaf-licking monkey?”
“Not at all, I’m as chipper as can be right now. Listen up, izzard.” He let the name sink in for a second.
“You have us surrounded? Good, we can fire in every direction and hit one of you. You want us? Come and get us.”He flicked the radio off and headed for the medical tent. He needed to hear it from his doc just how many of his troops could fight and how many were not going to last the night or just be dead weight at this point. He also heard they took a few Arxur, alive.
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Memory Transcription: Lieutenant Father Christopher O’Malley , United Nations ‘Black Watch’ Company #4
Date [standardized human time]: December 4, 2136
O’Malley moved to another tarp covering a body that had been recovered. He slowly and silently whispered a prayer, taking the dog tag to give to the medic but using it to get the name and town of origin of the trooper. Taking careful note of the religion and following his training as well as a guidebook for the Catholic, agnostic, or protestant he found. He moved to last one, and finished his prayer.
Campbell was waiting for him at the end of the line of recovered bodies. “Captain.” He said, standing slowly and offering a weary salute. Chris could feel his arm getting tired, he had been going so long and knew he would need a stim to keep up the night.
Campbell saluted back, “Reverend, how bad is it?”
O’Malley looked at the bodies and sighed, “Well, never thought I’d see Clemson die but he did. Dove onto a detonator and set off a satchel charge to take as many as he could before the armour rolled out.” The reverend took out a cigarette and lit it up, taking a long drag from the white paper pipe that took nearly half of it out in one go, then exhausted all his lungs as he let the feeling of euphoria wash over him. The nicotine did its job, steadying his nerves and slowly making his shaking stop. His emotions at all the last rites he had performed starting to defray slowly.
"Father, how many today?" Campbell asked preparing himself. He knew Father O'Malley would have taken note of every time he had done last rites and done a proper headcountting as well.
O'Malley took another drag and nodded, "Thirty-Seven including the Americans who did not come back."
“Father, why do you do it? Why here?” Campbell asked as he took a seat on the ground next to the priest who was still kneeling.
“A shepard is to watch his flock and when the wolves come knocking, send the wolves back to the forest where they belong. With a bloodied nose or broken leg if needed.” O’Malley replied with a soft sigh as he took another drag, the cigarette already starting to come up towards its end.
“And how do you reconcile religion with aliens?” Campbell asked, genuinely curious as to the answer. O’Malley chuckled and pulled the cig from his lips to tap off the ashes, “That ain’t my place to be figurin’. I’m here as the chaplain, higher powers than I determine how we reconcile aliens. My job is to tend to the souls of my flock, seeing as there isn’t an atheist in a foxhole; that has gotten fairly complicated.”
Campbell nodded and pulled his whiskey flask to take another swig. It was down to less than a quarter left. “Captain, no offense but stuff will kill you.”
Campbell smiled at the gallows humour as the reverend chuckled with him for a few moments. “Never change, father.” he spoke as he stood up and started to walk back towards his command tent.
“Aye, aye, captain. Now I’ve got a special case to attend.” Campbell turned towards O’Malley as the chaplain rose and headed into the medical tent.“What’s that reverend?”
“An Arxur asked for a priest.” O’Malley stepped into the tent and headed for where he knew the patient was. It only took a few moments before he arrived at the side of the bed. The Arxur was handcuffed and collared to the cot. Both of his legs were blown off at the upper thigh. His chest was also bandaged from shrapnel that had been sent through it.
O’Malley took a seat on a folding chair and pulled the dim light of their medical tent. Blood stained the sterile sheet placed over the ground. He looked over to the gray with a pain of sympathy for his injuries. The Arxur was breathing laborious and gasping at the air as if it were fighting him. He leaned in, “Alright, my child, how may I assist you?”
Through wheezing breathes the Arxur replied, “I am no hatching.”
“Oh, you misunderstand, it is how a priest of our culture addresses someone who is more youthful than them.” O’Malley spoke slowly and he checked Arxur's pulse. Faint but for the moment steady. “Is there something I can do to make you more comfortable?”
“No, I am dying. Your docs as they are called said they cannot help.”
O’Malley cleared his throat, “You mean the medics.”
“Yes, they do not know enough and there is no surgeon here. Shrapnel has punctured my organs, I will die soon.”
O’Malley reached down to a clawed hand, his instinct was to pull away at the scales but he resisted it. He gripped the hand gently but firmly, his other hand placed near the Arxur’s mouth on his shoulder, showing vulnerability to the creature. “I am here, how may I comfort you in this hour? What is it you believe?”
“I…. I would rather know what you do, human.” O’Malley was taken aback by the request. He shook his head and resisted the urge to preach.
“I am a chaplain of our unit, I counsel the living, comfort the dying and give last rites to the dead. If that means I must learn your religion in your dying hour and console you with it, I will. Please explain what I must—”
“Human.” O’Malley silenced and listened to the Arxur speak, his mind slowly processing each word and ensuring he understood what the Arxur wished. He had trained long and hard, and he was not going to deny the wishes of a dying creature; not friend or foe. “Humor me. What is it that you believe?”
O’Malley took a moment and reached into his shirt, pulling out a small bible, he began to read a verse here and there, slowly explaining his religion, ensuring he focused upon the aspects of love, community, and companionship as well as faith. He spoke for an hour about love, mercy, and the strength of God as O’Malley believed in him.
He continued by explaining stories of the bible in short versions rather than reading verbatim. He explained the mercy and the concept of no atheist in a foxhole. O'Malley monitoring the Arxur's reaction, taking note of the tail as well as the face.
He realized the Arxur looked more peaceful than he had ever seen his species and paused, "If I remove your restraints, you won't attack me yes?"
The Arxur looked suddenly surprised and then nodded. O'Malley reached over to the buckles and clicked them off from the Arxur's wrists, waist, and neck. He did not immediately move but the creature managed a human version of a smile to show his appreciation. "Thank you, that is, more comfortable, please continue."
O'Malley continued explaining his beliefs and the story presented. He felt better preaching to a person who was able to push him away if they wished. It also began to feel less like talking to a prisoner and more like speaking with an old friend.
After intensely listening, the Arxur let out a severe ragged cough. Once the cough stopped, he was drooling blood onto his neck. “Human, my time comes. Please, lead me in a prayer, I did not believe in anything before now. But your warriors prove something supernatural about them. Now, I wish to believe in something as I draw my final breath.”
O’Malley nodded and started to give a prayer then stopped himself. He opened his small bible to Psalm and let his faith guide him. “Repeat after me and you may yet see the gates of Heaven, my friend.”
The Arxur turned his head weakly, “I am called, Grissen, can your lord forgive a wicked creature as I? The things I have—”
O’Malley squeezed the claw he held to get Grissen to be quiet and listen. “The Lord only cares that before your final moment you renounce your evil ways, genuinely mean your repentance, and accept him. If you repeat after me and truly believe in that; allow him to change your heart in that final moment, then yes.”
Grissen weakly nodded, “Proceed.”
“Repeat after me,” O’Malley waited to make sure Grissen was ready. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." O'Malley prepared his patience as Grissen repeated the words, slowly. The Arxur was having to speak very deliberately through his breathing. O'Malley could feel the pulse had quickened as well.
"He maketh me lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Grissen struggled but O’Malley's patience displayed that of the saints he spoke of. He calmly waited for the Arxur to catch up and gripped his hand to give him strength. Every stumble was a simple re-guiding from O'Malley with a smile.
Grissen's eyes showed remarkable recognition of O'Malley, never moving away from him as he listened intently, even managing to turn his head to face the priest fully.
His heart screamed for the pain this creature was in. Grissen’s voice was getting worse. He was drawing weaker, and unfocused with each passing word. He felt the agony in how his body shifted and his breathing struggled. The bloodshot eyes filled with torment but something else.
O'Malley recognized it as the desperation for acceptance, the desire to belong behind the pain. He had seen it so many times in someone's last hour. O'Malley hoped a surgeon would suddenly appear and save Grissen from this terrible slow way to die. His mind begged for such a miracle but his heart knew, it was too late.
He had administered too many last rites today but here he was giving another one. He felt his own tears forming in his eyes and fought them back.
Once Grissen finished the line, he resumed, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head in oil; my cup runneth over.”
Grissen's voice was getting lower in volume, almost what O'Malley thought an Arxur child would sound like. His eyes were no longer following O'Malley; he was only speaking the words, getting more monotone and laboured with each passing breath.
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
Grissen slowly repeated the words, “Surely…. Goodness and mercy… despite my evil… shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
“Amen.”“A…men….” Grissen’s grip slackened and he exhaled slowly, his chest deflated. His eyes glazed over and finally, his tongue fell from his lips across his cheek.
O’Malley reached up to feel his heart and felt no pulse. He was gone.
O’Malley gently placed the clawed hands across the chest in an X. He pushed the dried out tongue into the teeth and slowed the jaw. He noticed the smile upon Grissen’s lips that had formed in that last moment. He knew to leave well enough alone there. He reached up and closed the reptile’s eyes, slowly and gently. As he had done a dozen times today, every detail was precisely right.
He took a moment to admire how peaceful the gray managed to look in his final state of death. He pulled a notepad from his pocket and wrote on it, something he knew probably wouldn’t get done as no one had time to bury the dead. It wasn’t about if there was time, it was about the act of ensuring the last request was asked for and at least acknowledged.He placed the note between the hands, it had the image of a cross upon it and the words: “Protestant” upon it. This would signal to any human that he was to be given a protestant burial.
O’Malley paused, tears dripping from his eyes for his enemy as he spoke. “Lord above, take this one, Shelter this one, enemy-mine. For all are your’s in death, even those who would see your servant slain. I ask not for vengeance but that you take pity upon this soul as it departs for the next life. He repeated in your name before his final breath, accept him with warm smiles and open arms as I commend Grissen to your care. St. Peter, I ask you to not be cautious or repulsed but instead, nod to him as you read his many sins and then inform him, all is forgiven in his final hour even by his greatest enemies. Amen.”
O’Malley felt his body shaking as he opened his eyes.His cheeks were warm with tears, a smile of delight upon his face to save a soul just before it left, even if he could not answer the question of aliens before God. It had been a worthy peaceful time here in the tent. Something O’Malley knew all too well about war, it was not war that would end war but rather; understanding could bring it to a stop. He got up, his legs weak and knees wanting to lock. He struggled to hold his weight as he walked from the tent, trying to calm his emotions.
He stepped outside, walking back to his position on the line and pulled another smoke, he had not yet gotten to his lighter when the sound of gunfire ripped through the caldera again. Weapons lighting up as the Arxur assault began anew.
For O’Malley however, he couldn’t move. His chest burned. His heartbeat echoed in his ears. He watched the cigarette drop from his hand. He felt his strength drain from his legs as he fell over on his side. Machine guns and mortars tracers rippled across the valley. He felt warm blood pouring down his chest across his shoulder towards the ground.
He willed his eyes to look down and realized he was hit. His chest was heaving blood rapidly. His strength faded and slowly he felt his eyes become heavy.
He whispered a final prayer, “Dear Lord, hold Grissen at the gates; I wish to enter beside my friend.” His final thought as his eyes closed for good barely ten paces from the medical tent. “Amen.”
2023.03.25 16:24 Then_Marionberry_259 MAR 15, 2023 TUO.V UPGRADE TO MINERAL RESOURCES ESTIMATE FOR THE GOLDSTORM PORPHYRY DEPOSIT AT THE TREATY CREEK PROJECT, BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH INCREASED GOLD, COPPER AND SILVER GRADES AND DOUBLING OF THE TOTAL CONTAINED COPPER TO 2.1 BILLION POUNDS IN THE INDICATED CATEGORY
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Dino Cremonese, P. Eng., President & CEO of Teuton Resources said: “This is a milestone in the evolution of the Treaty Creek Project. The 53% increase in the gold equivalent grade is particularly noteworthy as it improves the attractiveness of the property to major mining companies. I’d like to send a big ‘thank you’ to Ken Konkin of Tudor Gold and all of the people who have assisted bringing us to this point.” Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Goldstorm Deposit The MRE was prepared by Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, based on 201 diamond drill holes (148,474 meters) completed between 2007 and 2022. The MRE included 62,916 meters of diamond drill holes that were completed since the 2021 MRE. A National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report is expected to be prepared by Garth Kirkham Geosystems and JDS and posted on www.tudor-gold.com and under the Company’s profile on www.SEDAR.com within 45 days of the date of this news release. Table 1: Summary of Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource as of March 15, 2023 1-6
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In 2023, the Company expects to continue to target the Goldstorm Deposit in particular the limits of the CS-600 and the DS-5 Domains. Definition and step-out drilling within the current resource will continue to target higher gold, silver and copper grades throughout the northern step-out expansion area at Goldstorm. The overarching goal of future exploration programs is to increase the size of the current Treaty Creek Property Mineral Resource, continue to make new significant discoveries, and advance the Goldstorm Deposit and the Project towards an initial economic assessment. Quality Assurance The Goldstorm MRE was prepared under the supervision of Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, FGC, of Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., and JDS who is an Independent Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43- 101. Mr. Kirkham has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this news release. Ken Konkin, P.Geo, President and CEO, Tudor Gold, is the Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, responsible for the Project. Mr. Konkin has reviewed, verified, and approved the scientific and technical information in this news release. Dino Cremonese, P. Eng., is the Qualified Person for Teuton Resources and although he was not involved in the preparation of the technical information, he has no reason to believe it is inaccurate. Mr. Cremonese, as President & CEO of Teuton, is not independent of the Company. Figures: Goldstorm Deposit MRE domains can be seen here: http://teuton.com/UpdatedMRE2023 About Treaty Creek Teuton was the original staker of the Treaty Creek property, host to the large Goldstorm deposit, assembling the core land position in 1985. It presently holds a 20% carried interest in the Treaty Creek Project (Tudor Gold is responsible for paying all exploration costs up until such time as a production decision is made and owns a 60% interest; American Creek Resources owns the remaining 20% interest, also carried). Additionally, Teuton owns a 0.98% Net Smelter Royalty in the Goldstorm deposit area. It also owns numerous additional royalty interests within the Sulphurests Hydrothermal system on properties such as the King Tut, Tuck, High North, Orion, Delta and Fairweather properties. About Teuton Teuton owns interests in more than thirty properties in the prolific “Golden Triangle” area of northwest British Columbia and was one of the first companies to adopt what has since become known as the “prospect generator” model. This model minimizes share equity dilution while at the same time maximizing opportunity. Earnings provided from option payments (received in cash and often also in shares of the optionee companies), has provided Teuton with substantial income over the years. Interested parties can access information about Teuton at the Company’s website, www.teuton.com Respectfully submitted, "Dino Cremonese, P.Eng." Dino Cremonese, P. Eng., President and Chief Executive Officer For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.teuton.com or contact: Barry Holmes Corporate Development and Communications Tel. 778-430-5680 Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Cautionary Statements regarding Forward-Looking information Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking information. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on the Company's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events. Actual future results may differ materially. All statements relating to future plans, objectives or expectations of the Company are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's plans or expectations include risks relating to the actual results of current exploration activities, fluctuating gold prices, possibility of equipment breakdowns and delays, exploration cost overruns, availability of capital and financing, general economic, market or business conditions, regulatory changes, timeliness of government or regulatory approvals and other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulators. The Company expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as otherwise required by applicable securities legislation. Copyright (c) 2023 TheNewswire - All rights reserved. https://preview.redd.it/e4497o4zkwpa1.png?width=4000&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e41d67ae0f092cda1ec315eef101b06b84e7b0e
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2023.03.25 16:18 Then_Marionberry_259 MAR 15, 2023 TUD.V TUDOR GOLD ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE TO MINERAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE FOR THE GOLDSTORM PORPHYRY DEPOSIT AT THE TREATY CREEK PROJECT, BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH INCREASED GOLD, COPPER AND SILVER GRADES AND DOUBLING OF THE TOTAL CONTAINED COPPER TO 2.1 BILLION POUNDS IN THE INDICATED C
 | https://preview.redd.it/qryjxfj1kwpa1.png?width=3500&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f994ccd9eb8a403ce6971e6d4932d155d979d5e submitted by Then_Marionberry_259 to Treaty_Creek [link] [comments] Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 15, 2023) - Tudor Gold Corp.(TSXV: TUD) (FSE: H56) ("Tudor Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of its updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) prepared by Garth Kirkham P. Geo., of Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., and JDS Energy and Mining Inc. ("JDS") for its flagship Treaty Creek project (the "Project") located in the Golden Triangle Region of British Columbia. Tudor Gold's initial Mineral Resource Estimate for the Project was included in a technical report entitled "Technical Report and Initial Mineral Resource Estimate of the Treaty Creek Gold Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada", dated April 23, 2021, with an effective date of March 1, 2021. (the "2021 MRE"). Highlights of the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate on the Goldstorm Deposit at the Project ("MRE"):
Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Goldstorm DepositThe MRE was prepared by Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, based on 201 diamond drill holes (148,474 meters) completed between 2007 and 2022. The MRE included 62,916 meters of diamond drill holes that were completed since the 2021 MRE. A National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report is expected to be prepared by Garth Kirkham Geosystems and JDS and posted on www.tudor-gold.com and under the Company's profile on www.SEDAR.com within 45 days of the date of this news release. **Table 1: Summary of Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource as of March 15, 2023****1-**6
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https://preview.redd.it/jnwopyn1kwpa1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b4319701ad85b357dbb54a8617559b780310709 2023 Exploration Program In 2023, the Company expects to continue to target the Goldstorm Deposit in particular the limits of the CS-600 and the DS-5 Domains. Definition and step-out drilling within the current resource will continue to target higher gold, silver and copper grades throughout the northern step-out expansion area at Goldstorm. The overarching goal of future exploration programs is to increase the size of the current Treaty Creek Property Mineral Resource, continue to make new significant discoveries, and advance the Goldstorm Deposit and the Project towards an initial economic assessment. Quality Assurance The Goldstorm MRE was prepared under the supervision of Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, FGC, of Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., and JDS who is an Independent Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Kirkham has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this news release. Ken Konkin, P.Geo, President and CEO, Tudor Gold, is the Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, responsible for the Project. Mr. Konkin has reviewed, verified, and approved the scientific and technical information in this news release. About Tudor Gold Corp. Tudor Gold Corp. is a precious and base metals exploration and development company with properties in British Columbia's Golden Triangle (Canada), an area that hosts producing and past-producing mines and several large deposits that are approaching potential development. The 17,913 hectare Treaty Creek project (in which TUDOR GOLD has a 60% interest) borders Seabridge Gold Inc.'s KSM property to the southwest and borders Newcrest Mining's Brucejack Mine property to the southeast. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF TUDOR GOLD CORP."Ken Konkin" Ken Konkin****President and Chief Executive Officer For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.tudor-gold.com or contact: Chris Curran Head of Corporate Development and Communications Phone: (604) 559 8092 E-Mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or Carsten Ringler Head of Investor Relations and Communications Phone: +49 151 55362000 E-Mail: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Information Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian Securities legislation. "Forward-looking information" includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including the expectation that the improvements to the Goldstorm Deposit will provide an excellent foundation as the Company advances the Treaty Creek Project towards an initial economic assessment, the expectation that the majority of the inferred Mineral Resource could be upgraded to an Indicated Mineral Resource with continued exploration ,the Company's plan to file a technical report within 45 days of this news release, the plan for the Company to complete the drilling of the Goldstorm Zone and define the limits of the 300H, the CS-600 and DS-5 Domains in 2023. Generally, but not always, forward-looking information and statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes" or the negative connotation thereof or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative connotation thereof. Such forward-looking information and statements are based on numerous assumptions, including among others, that others, that the improvements to the Goldstorm Deposit will provide an excellent foundation as the Company advances the Project towards an initial economic assessment, the majority of the inferred Mineral Resource could be upgraded to an Indicated Mineral Resource with continued exploration, the Company's will file a technical report within 45 days of this news release, the Company will complete the drilling of the Goldstorm Zone and will define the limits of the 300H, the CS-600 and DS-5 on the timeline anticipated by management. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's plans or expectations include that the Company will not advance the Project towards an initial economic assessment, the majority of the inferred Mineral Resources cannot be upgraded to an Indicated Mineral Resource with continued exploration, that the Company's will not file a technical report within 45 days of this news release or at all, the Company will not complete the drilling of the Goldstorm Deposit and will be unable to define the limits of the 300H, the CS-600 and DS-5 Zones on the timeline anticipated by management or at all and other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulators. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information or implied by forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as otherwise required by applicable securities legislation. To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/158502 https://preview.redd.it/iiseg5p1kwpa1.png?width=4000&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdff76b146ceed30623aeb5a727d7f9d45fbb804
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2023.03.25 16:07 Then_Marionberry_259 MAR 14, 2023 ARQ.CN THE MINING INVESTMENT EVENT OF THE NORTH - QUEBEC CITY, JUNE 2023
 | https://preview.redd.it/mp5z5bhzhwpa1.png?width=3500&format=png&auto=webp&s=02507e320510b996ab4073d99a1a67d57b71a0f7 submitted by Then_Marionberry_259 to Treaty_Creek [link] [comments] Announces Peter Marrone, as THE Keynote Speaker Welcomes Silver Sponsors Invest Yukon & TMX Group Critical Metals Day, June 20 - Powered by National Bank Financial Markets Special Sponsor: Government of Québec Premier Sponsor: Laurentian Bank Securities Critical Metals Day Platinum Sponsor: National Bank Financial Gold Sponsors: BMO, IBK Capital, O3 Mining, Troilus Gold, Maple Gold Mines, JDS Group of Companies Silver Sponsors: PearTree Financial, Stifel GMP, TMX Group, Invest Yukon, Mi3 Financial Communications Copper Sponsors: Cassels, Crux Investor, Amex Exploration, North Equities, INFOR Financial Group, Global Business Reports, Amvest Capital, Generation IACP, Brooks & Nelson Partners: BTV, Kitco, Mining Network, The Northern Miner, Newsfile, Resource World, Simply Better Marketing, Quebec City Business Destination, EBL Consultants https://preview.redd.it/wys8y7kzhwpa1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=b86e52db607af38dd48fc651f12530308f1cfb6e Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 14, 2023) - THE Mining Investment Event of the North ("THE Event"), Québec City, June 19-21, 2023 to be held at the Fairmont le Château Frontenac and Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury, is pleased to announce that Mr. Peter Marrone, Founder and Executive Chairman of Yamana Gold will be THE Keynote Speaker opening THE Event on Monday, June 19, 2023. Mr. Marrone is expected to discuss the contributions of Canadian mining to the global commodities and metals industry. Mr. Marrone has more than 35 years of mining, business and capital markets experience and has been on the boards of several public companies. Most recently, Mr. Marrone has been instrumental in the proposed sale of Yamana Gold to Agnico Eagle Mines and Pan American Silver Corp. - The Proposed Transaction is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2023, subject to approval by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, approval from the Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) and satisfaction or waiver of certain other closing conditions. National Bank Financial Powering Up Critical Metals Day-June 20 - The Event is pleased to announce that National Bank Financial Critical Metals Day will feature the following Panels:
THE Event to Ring the Bell to Open the Market - THE Event is pleased to announce that it will ring the bell at the market open with Silver Sponsor, TMX Group during the conference. The market open will be broadcast by BNN and other TSX affiliated networks. THE Maple Gold Mines & JDS Group of Companies Student Sponsorship - This inaugural Student Sponsorship hosting up to 50 university and college students is almost at capacity. Students in the fields of mining, finance, engineering, metallurgy, earth/social sciences and/or other related mining courses are asked to contact Brhett Booker at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or go here: https://vidconferences.com/conferences-events/in-person/tier-1-mining-conference/ for more information and to apply. About THE Event: Canada's only Tier I Global Mining Investment Conference showcases the best of Canadian and global mining to international investors. THE Event features up to 100 key participating companies, along with industry keynotes and panels over three days. French and English simultaneous translation will be the standard for all speakers, panels, and presentations. A limited number of invitations will be sent to accredited retail investors who will be welcome to view live presentations and attend networking events. Participating company slots are almost sold out. Information regarding participating companies, speakers & panelists, initiatives and registration applications for issuers and investors may be found here: https://vidconferences.com/conferences-events/in-person/tier-1-mining-conference/ Stay tuned for more exciting developments in the coming weeks. If you are interested in participating, please contact Jennifer Choi, [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). https://preview.redd.it/gw3iy2lzhwpa1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e04b2f59944d91ded1870af680686fad0d648573 Further information, please contact: Joanne Jobin Principal & Founder IR.INC & VID Media Incorporated [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Jennifer Choi Vice President, Operations IR.INC & VID Media Incorporated [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Brhett Booker Associate VID Media Incorporated [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/158278 https://preview.redd.it/dlcz67mzhwpa1.png?width=4000&format=png&auto=webp&s=dafc8754e9073956e4047c3fc898b04db1f5f9fd
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2023.03.25 15:43 Then_Marionberry_259 MAR 15, 2023 AMK.V AMERICAN CREEK'S JV PARTNER TUDOR GOLD ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT UPGRADE TO MINERAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE FOR THE GOLDSTORM PORPHYRY DEPOSIT AT THE TREATY CREEK PROJECT, BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH INCREASED GOLD, COPPER AND SILVER GRADES AND DOUBLING OF THE TOTAL CONTAINED COPPER TO 2.1 BILLI
 | https://preview.redd.it/a2rwr07pdwpa1.png?width=3500&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e1c4d5534e9cf507371b1ec91c31ebbe34612ec submitted by Then_Marionberry_259 to Treaty_Creek [link] [comments] Cardston, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - March 15, 2023) - American Creek Resources Ltd. (TSXV: AMK) (OTCQB: ACKRF)("the Corporation" or "American Creek") is pleased to report that project operator and JV partner Tudor Gold ("Tudor") has announced the results of its updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) prepared by Garth Kirkham P. Geo., of Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., and JDS Energy and Mining Inc. ("JDS") for its flagship Treaty Creek project ("the "Project") located in the Golden Triangle Region of British Columbia. Tudor's initial Mineral Resource Estimate for the Project was included in a technical report entitled "Technical Report and Initial Mineral Resource Estimate of the Treaty Creek Gold Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada", dated April 23, 2021, with an effective date of March 1, 2021. (the "2021 MRE"). Highlights of the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate on the Goldstorm Deposit at the Project ("MRE"):
**Darren Blaney, President & CEO of American Creek commented: "**This updated estimate reaffirms our belief in the immense size and value of our deposit and serves as a testament to the expertise and dedication of all hands that have continued to advance the project. To have over 30 million ounces that average over a gram of gold equivalent across all categories, with the cut-offs proposed in the resource update, is remarkable. Prior to this updated estimate, the deposit ranked as one of the ten largest gold deposits in the world. With the substantial improvement in grade, the Treaty project becomes immediately comparable to Canada's two largest producing mines. We would like to take the time to acknowledge the team at Tudor for their dedication, perseverance and expertise in taking over operation of the project and in achieving this incredible milestone. We very much look forward to the continued exploration and development of the project, especially the upcoming 2023 drill program, as last season ended with the highest-grade intervals seen on the project to date." Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for the Goldstorm Deposit The MRE was prepared by Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, based on 201 diamond drill holes (148,474 meters) completed between 2007 and 2022. The MRE included 62,916 meters of diamond drill holes that were completed since the 2021 MRE. A National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report is expected to be prepared by Garth Kirkham Geosystems and JDS and posted on www.tudor-gold.com and under Tudor's profile on www.SEDAR.com within 45 days of the date of this news release. Table 1: Summary of Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource as of March 15, 2023****1-6
(1) Mineral Resources, which are not Mineral Reserves, do not have demonstrated economic viability. The estimate of Mineral Resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing, or other relevant issues. (2) The Inferred Mineral Resource in this estimate has a lower level of confidence than that applied to an Indicated Mineral Resource and must not be converted to a Mineral Reserve. It is reasonably expected that the majority of the inferred Mineral Resource could be upgraded to an Indicated Mineral Resource with continued exploration. (3) The Mineral Resources in this press release were estimated using the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves, Definitions (2014) and Best Practices (2019) prepared by the CIM Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions and adopted by CIM Council. (4) The Mineral Resource Estimate was prepared for a potential open pit scenario using a constrained pit shell (with 50-degree slopes) at a 0.5 g/t gold equivalent cut-off grade and an underground mining scenario using a 0.7 g/t gold equivalent cut-off grade. Cut-off grades were derived from US$ 1,800/oz gold, US$ 20/oz silver, US$ 3.50/lb copper, CAD:USD of 0.77, C$ 2.50/tonne open pit and C$7.50 underground mining cost, C$ 38.50/tonne milled processing costs, C$ 1.50/tonne G&A cost, and process recoveries of 90 % for gold, 80 % for copper, and 80 % for silver. (5) AuEQ g/t = Au g/t + (Ag g/t*0.0098765) + (Cu ppm*0.0001185) (6) A mineral estimate of the material within the defined pit that exists outside of the outlined mineral domains was completed and is included within the Inferred Mineral Resource, and listed "In Pit, External" in Table 4. The Goldstorm sensitivity tables (Tables 2 and 3) report the variation of resource grade and tonnage with respect to the change in cut-off grades for the Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources. Table 2: Indicated Mineral Resource Cut-off Sensitivity - Combined Pit and Underground****1 https://preview.redd.it/kshh9x9pdwpa1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=ec6bc5b1b39b72c6b887321fb4d30974262ae491 (1) Refer to footnotes to the Mineral Resource Estimate in Table 1 of this News Release. (2) The MRE utilizes 0.5 g/t AuEQ for the pit-constrained Mineral Resource and 0.7 g/t AuEQ for the underground Mineral Resource. Table 3: Inferred Mineral Resource Cut-off Sensitivity - Combined Pit and Underground****1 https://preview.redd.it/kd94tsapdwpa1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff7c68545e852c88a7c49aba6be9b65cc2226781 (1) Refer to footnotes to the Mineral Resource Estimate in Table 1 of this News Release. (2) The MRE utilizes 0.5 g/t AuEQ for the pit-constrained Mineral Resource and 0.7 g/t AuEQ for the underground Mineral Resource. The Goldstorm Deposit consists of six mineral domains with unique geological characteristics. Five of the domains are gold-dominant with lesser proportions of silver and copper. Domain CS-600 is dominantly gold and copper rich, with lesser silver. The CS-600 hosts the majority of the copper at the Goldstorm Deposit and consists of a well-defined intrusive porphyry system. Table 4 summarizes the Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources for each mineral domain. Table 4: Mineral Resource by Domain - Combined Pit and Underground****1 https://preview.redd.it/wywutibpdwpa1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=919147edc836a8030515f61cf83aa4b740493946 (1) Refer to footnotes to the Mineral Resource Estimate in Table 1 of this News Release. (2) A mineral estimate of the material within the defined pit that exists outside of the outlined mineral domains was completed and is included within the Inferred Mineral Resource, and listed "In Pit, External". Figure 1: Goldstorm Deposit MRE Domains https://preview.redd.it/0k4habcpdwpa1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d28d318e262463165160ab698a8bef8af21a90f 2023 Exploration Program In 2023, Tudor expects to continue to target the Goldstorm Deposit, in particular the limits of the CS-600 and the DS-5 Domains. Definition and step-out drilling within the current resource will continue to target higher gold, silver and copper grades throughout the northern step-out expansion area at Goldstorm. The overarching goal of future exploration programs is to increase the size of the current Treaty Creek Property Mineral Resource, continue to make new significant discoveries, and advance the Goldstorm Deposit and the Project towards an initial economic assessment. Quality Assurance The Goldstorm MRE was prepared under the supervision of Garth Kirkham, P.Geo, FGC, of Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., and JDS who is an Independent Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Kirkham has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this news release. Ken Konkin, P.Geo, President and CEO, Tudor Gold, is the Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, responsible for the Project. Mr. Konkin has reviewed, verified, and approved the scientific and technical information in this news release. Treaty Creek JV Partnership American Creek is a proud partner in the Treaty Creek Project. The project is a Joint Venture with Tudor owning 3/5th and acting as operator. American Creek and Teuton Resources each have a 1/5th interest in the project creating a 3:1 ownership relationship between Tudor and American Creek. American Creek and Teuton are both fully carried until such time as a Production Notice is issued, at which time they are required to contribute their respective 20% share of development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to fund all exploration and development costs. About American Creek American Creek is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with gold and silver properties in British Columbia, Canada. The Corporation has an interest in the Treaty Creek property, a joint venture project with Tudor Gold located in BC's prolific "Golden Triangle". The Corporation also holds the Austruck-Bonanza gold property located near Kamloops. For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Cautionary Statements regarding Forward-Looking Information This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. "Forward-looking information" includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Corporation expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including the completion and anticipated results of planned exploration activities. Generally, but not always, forward-looking information and statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "believes" or the negative connotation thereof or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved" or the negative connation thereof. Such forward-looking information and statements are based on numerous assumptions, including among others, that the Corporation's planned exploration activities will be completed in a timely manner. Although the assumptions made by the Corporation in providing forward-looking information or making forward-looking statements are considered reasonable by management at the time, there can be no assurance that such assumptions will prove to be accurate. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Corporation's plans or expectations include risks relating to the actual results of current exploration activities, fluctuating gold prices, possibility of equipment breakdowns and delays, exploration cost overruns, availability of capital and financing, general economic, market or business conditions, regulatory changes, timeliness of government or regulatory approvals and other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Corporation with securities regulators. 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2023.03.25 14:38 DisinfectedShithouse A Noobie’s Guide to India: My First-Time Trip Report
I’m writing this from a very expensive bar in Delhi’s Aerocity. Over the last 31 days, I’ve lost significantly more than 5 kilograms of weight (not the good kind). I’m sleep deprived. My bag is coated in Holi dust, and my shoes are filled with sand and other miscellaneous ground-dirt.
I’ve had a fucking blast. This is my trip report.
I’ve had fun travelling around the continent, but after a while it all starts to feel a bit similar. The convenience, orderliness, affluence, predictability. I wanted something different to all that, and India seemed the perfect way to scratch that itch.
After giving my head a shake and making several iterations, I decided to restrict myself to just two fairly small regions — the Golden Triangle of the north (featuring Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and a couple of others) and the southern seaside state of Goa.
Yeah, I’d left Europe alright.
I loved Delhi, it was my favourite city in India. My time here consisted of getting driven around the main landmarks and monuments of the city, eating tons of delicious street food (and non-street food), meeting endless cool people, and soaking up the incredible energy of the place.
Delhi highlights:
Agra has an interesting vibe. Surprisingly rural and underdeveloped in parts. Every single tourist is here more or less exclusively to see the Taj. There’s other stuff, too — the Agra Fort is worth a visit — but nobody is coming to Agra to see the Agra Fort. A day is enough time here.
Agra highlights:
As the chai (tea) vendor made his way down the aisle with his big silver teapot and stack of paper cups, I decided to splash out the 10 rupees to buy one. 40 minutes later the stomach cramps kicked in, and the 24 hours were spent vomiting, shitting, feverish, dehydrated, and delirious. 0/10 don’t recommend.
After I recovered from my Delhi Belly (cute name, huh?) I did some exploring around Jaipur, and found it fairly hit-and-miss. But maybe I wasn’t in the most positive frame of mind.
Highlights of Jaipur:
The reality, however, was a bit underwhelming. I got the vibe that our guide couldn’t really be bothered. We saw a few deer, a mongoose, a peacock or two, and spent a while being enthusiastically urged to look at a fairly unremarkable tree. No tigers. We also took a 20-minute bathroom break which nobody needed and returned to town early.
That said, I heard from others who saw tigers straight away on their safaris along with some other really cool stuff. If you’re set on seeing a tiger, it’s best to book three or four safaris (they’re pretty affordable) to maximize your chances. Also, take some time to research your guide and tour operator before booking.
Highlights of Sawai Madhopur:
After a stressful train journey, I arrived in Mathura, which I’d been told is the beating heart of Holi in India. I almost cancelled this part of the trip due to the complicated logistics of getting there, and I’m so, so glad I stuck with it instead of just getting drunk with other foreigners in some Jaipur hostel.
This part of the trip could be a report in its own right, but I’ll do my best to condense it.
After checking into my hotel at 2am, I grabbed a few hours of sleep and then got up early to hit the festival. Upon arriving in town, the craziness hit me like a wave. They take this shit seriously here.
Colours everywhere, clogging the air, incredibly dense and unmanaged crowds, people dancing, shouting — a frantic, bordering on manic energy in the air. As a solo, white foreigner, I immediately had a huge target on my back. Within minutes I was covered from head to toe in Holi colours, paint, water, and other unidentifiable substances.
The crowds grew, swelled. People shoved and mobbed. There was a wild, heated energy in the air. At one point, I had to fight off two guys trying to steal my sunglasses. I began to worry — it was getting a bit much. I’d planned to meet some people from Couchsurfing, but finding them among the writhing masses was proving impossible. Finally, I broke. I had to get out of here.
As I turned to leave, a guy grabbed me. Turns out he was also in the Couchsurfing group, and had spotted a confused, semi-blinded white guy staggering around in his size 46 Nikes. I was saved. I spent the rest of the day with him, an Indian from the south of the country, and some other local lads. We wandered around town, took a boat trip, ate some delicious food, checked out multiple temples, and met awesome people from every part of India. Being treated like a minor-league celebrity or small-town mayor was good fun.
After mid-afternoon, the craziness calms down. People stop flinging the colours around so aggressively, they filter off to temples and private parties and their own homes and showers. Night fell, and I went back to my hotel for the longest shower of my life.
My experience of Holi was a real highlight of my trip, and a day I’ll never forget. Without my local friends, it would have been nowhere near as good. Come to Mathura for Holi, and make sure you find some locals to connect with.
My first stop in India’s Sunshine State (nobody calls it that, I made it up just now) was Palolem Beach — a truly beautiful stretch of sand, palm trees, and beach bars in the south of the state. Here I had a few days of work to catch up on, so I spent my mornings working and my afternoons drinking beer and eating seafood on the beach.
After that, I headed up the coast to Calangute and then Anjuna. My goals here were to chill out, check out the party scene, and meet some other cool travellers. I decisively achieved all three.
Goa is awesome, and the perfect antidote to the chaos and intensity of the north. I spent two weeks here, which in hindsight was maybe a bit longer than I needed on a month-long trip, but it’s hard to complain.
Highlights of Goa:
You could get away with much less, though. I did quite a few expensive activities, stayed exclusively in private rooms including some nice hotels, did not hold back on food, and took two domestic flights.
Stay in hostel dorms, travel on low-class trains and buses, avoid Western food and booze, plan all your activities, and you could shave half off that.
And, you know, the chai on the train. But hey, you live and you learn.
To expand — yes, to me it felt perfectly safe. I’m sure some degree of stuff like petty theft happens, but violent crime seems very rare in India. You won’t catch tuberculosis on the trains. People are peaceful and typically extremely friendly. Towards me, a man.
For women, I don’t know. We’ve all heard the horror stories and warnings. I met several solo female travellers who claimed to be doing fine, but again — don’t listen to me on this. Do your research.
The cows are more aggressive than expected, I’ll say that.
The people I ran into who hated India largely seemed to be those who hadn’t done this. They constantly seemed shocked by stuff that I thought seemed fairly obvious, and seemed to expect India to be some kind of cute extension of Thailand with a Bollywood filter. It’s not — it’s intense, challenging, and unforgiving towards idiots.
Do your groundwork, prepare yourself, and India will be 1000x easier and more rewarding.
On top of that, book train tickets in advance — 12go.asia is a great resource for this. Get ready to get sick at least once, it’s not guaranteed but common enough that you should expect it. Learn a few words of Hindi, the locals will love you.
Treat people with respect by default — that TukTuk driver is overcharging you because you earn 50 times more than him and you both know it. Manage your expectations for comfort and hygiene.
And don’t drink the fucking chai on trains.
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I’ve had a fucking blast. This is my trip report.
About me
28 years old, male, originally from the UK but have been living abroad for the better part of a decade. I’ve travelled extensively around Asia and Europe, including plenty of developing countries.Why India?
I’d spent the last four years in Europe, without ever leaving. A pandemic, a career change, and life in general kept me anchored to the Schengen Zone for longer than I really wanted.I’ve had fun travelling around the continent, but after a while it all starts to feel a bit similar. The convenience, orderliness, affluence, predictability. I wanted something different to all that, and India seemed the perfect way to scratch that itch.
My plan
My original plan was all over the place. I wanted to visit everywhere from Varanasi to Mumbai to Hampi. Spending every other night on a sleeper train? Sure, I can handle it.After giving my head a shake and making several iterations, I decided to restrict myself to just two fairly small regions — the Golden Triangle of the north (featuring Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and a couple of others) and the southern seaside state of Goa.
My itinerary
Delhi
I arrived in Delhi at 7am, after a convoluted and tiring journey. After evading multiple attempts to scam me, I climbed into a taxi. Incredibly loud Hindi music and overpoweringly pungent incense flooded the cab as we ducked and weaved through the insane traffic of Delhi. How haven’t we crashed yet!? At one point, the driver pulled over without warning and switched places with another driver by the side of the road. A full 10 minutes later, my new driver announced that he did not, in fact, know where we were going.Yeah, I’d left Europe alright.
I loved Delhi, it was my favourite city in India. My time here consisted of getting driven around the main landmarks and monuments of the city, eating tons of delicious street food (and non-street food), meeting endless cool people, and soaking up the incredible energy of the place.
Delhi highlights:
- Paying a driver and guide to take me around some of the city’s coolest landmarks and historical sites
- Taking a street food tour in Old Delhi
- The rooftop bars — one of my favourite ways to experience the city
- All the scammers/hawkers can be distracting and annoying at first. It doesn’t take long to figure out how to politely shake them off, though
Agra
After four days in Delhi, Agra seemed like the logical next place. I mean, it’s home to a literal wonder of the world. I was ushered onto a comically dilapidated bus which was loudly playing a somewhat culturally insensitive Bollywood film about Italian people, and the four hour journey to the Taj Mahal began.Agra has an interesting vibe. Surprisingly rural and underdeveloped in parts. Every single tourist is here more or less exclusively to see the Taj. There’s other stuff, too — the Agra Fort is worth a visit — but nobody is coming to Agra to see the Agra Fort. A day is enough time here.
Agra highlights:
- The Taj Mahal. It’s as cool as you’d expect. It also looks waaaay cooler if you can see it from an angle that there are no photos of.
- The Agra Fort
- The “Baby Taj” is fairly crap, but if you have a bit of time to kill, why not
Jaipur
While making the journey from Agra to Jaipur on an AC Chair Class train, I made a big mistake.As the chai (tea) vendor made his way down the aisle with his big silver teapot and stack of paper cups, I decided to splash out the 10 rupees to buy one. 40 minutes later the stomach cramps kicked in, and the 24 hours were spent vomiting, shitting, feverish, dehydrated, and delirious. 0/10 don’t recommend.
After I recovered from my Delhi Belly (cute name, huh?) I did some exploring around Jaipur, and found it fairly hit-and-miss. But maybe I wasn’t in the most positive frame of mind.
Highlights of Jaipur:
- The Jaigarh Fort and Amer Fort are awesome, and it’s worth making the hike up instead of taking a cab
- The famous Pink City is… alright. Not as majestic as the photos suggest, but the people of Jaipur are very proud of this place, so check it out
- I didn’t get to check out much else, on account of being curled up in the fetal position on my bathroom floor
- Don’t drink chai on trains
Sawai Madhopur
I had a couple of days to kill after Jaipur before the Holi Festival. I’d heard of a cool national park named Ranthambore, just south of Jaipur, and with the opportunity to do tiger safaris. Well, that sounded cool as shit.The reality, however, was a bit underwhelming. I got the vibe that our guide couldn’t really be bothered. We saw a few deer, a mongoose, a peacock or two, and spent a while being enthusiastically urged to look at a fairly unremarkable tree. No tigers. We also took a 20-minute bathroom break which nobody needed and returned to town early.
That said, I heard from others who saw tigers straight away on their safaris along with some other really cool stuff. If you’re set on seeing a tiger, it’s best to book three or four safaris (they’re pretty affordable) to maximize your chances. Also, take some time to research your guide and tour operator before booking.
Highlights of Sawai Madhopur:
- I met some cool people on the tiger safari
- It was nice to get out of the chaos of the cities for a bit
- Honestly, just do your homework. The tiger safaris can be really rewarding but it’s a numbers game, you have to do it right. Don’t just blithely jump into it like I did.
Mathura/Vrindavan — Holi Festival
As I walked to the rooftop of my hotel in Sawai Madhopur for breakfast on the penultimate day of Holi week, the manager smeared pink powder on my forehead and cheerfully handed me a large Kingfisher beer. Well, shit. Party time!After a stressful train journey, I arrived in Mathura, which I’d been told is the beating heart of Holi in India. I almost cancelled this part of the trip due to the complicated logistics of getting there, and I’m so, so glad I stuck with it instead of just getting drunk with other foreigners in some Jaipur hostel.
This part of the trip could be a report in its own right, but I’ll do my best to condense it.
After checking into my hotel at 2am, I grabbed a few hours of sleep and then got up early to hit the festival. Upon arriving in town, the craziness hit me like a wave. They take this shit seriously here.
Colours everywhere, clogging the air, incredibly dense and unmanaged crowds, people dancing, shouting — a frantic, bordering on manic energy in the air. As a solo, white foreigner, I immediately had a huge target on my back. Within minutes I was covered from head to toe in Holi colours, paint, water, and other unidentifiable substances.
The crowds grew, swelled. People shoved and mobbed. There was a wild, heated energy in the air. At one point, I had to fight off two guys trying to steal my sunglasses. I began to worry — it was getting a bit much. I’d planned to meet some people from Couchsurfing, but finding them among the writhing masses was proving impossible. Finally, I broke. I had to get out of here.
As I turned to leave, a guy grabbed me. Turns out he was also in the Couchsurfing group, and had spotted a confused, semi-blinded white guy staggering around in his size 46 Nikes. I was saved. I spent the rest of the day with him, an Indian from the south of the country, and some other local lads. We wandered around town, took a boat trip, ate some delicious food, checked out multiple temples, and met awesome people from every part of India. Being treated like a minor-league celebrity or small-town mayor was good fun.
After mid-afternoon, the craziness calms down. People stop flinging the colours around so aggressively, they filter off to temples and private parties and their own homes and showers. Night fell, and I went back to my hotel for the longest shower of my life.
My experience of Holi was a real highlight of my trip, and a day I’ll never forget. Without my local friends, it would have been nowhere near as good. Come to Mathura for Holi, and make sure you find some locals to connect with.
Goa
After leaving the ultra-conservative, dry cities of Mathura and Vrindavan, I was craving a cold beer. The liberal, formerly Portuguese beachside hippy state of Goa seemed like the perfect place to acquire one, but to get there I faced a two-day journey south.My first stop in India’s Sunshine State (nobody calls it that, I made it up just now) was Palolem Beach — a truly beautiful stretch of sand, palm trees, and beach bars in the south of the state. Here I had a few days of work to catch up on, so I spent my mornings working and my afternoons drinking beer and eating seafood on the beach.
After that, I headed up the coast to Calangute and then Anjuna. My goals here were to chill out, check out the party scene, and meet some other cool travellers. I decisively achieved all three.
Goa is awesome, and the perfect antidote to the chaos and intensity of the north. I spent two weeks here, which in hindsight was maybe a bit longer than I needed on a month-long trip, but it’s hard to complain.
Highlights of Goa:
- The incredible seafood
- The chilled-out beach vibe
- The nightlife
- Drinking Old Monk Rum on the beach all night
- The hangover from Old Monk Rum on the beach all night
FAQs*
*which are not FAQs at all, just an excuse to crowbar in some more self-indulgent contentHow much did you spend?
After paying for flights, which cost around £600, I spent just shy of £2000 for the full 31 days, which works out to about £60 per day. Google will convert that into your currency of choice (it's about 75 yankee bucks).You could get away with much less, though. I did quite a few expensive activities, stayed exclusively in private rooms including some nice hotels, did not hold back on food, and took two domestic flights.
Stay in hostel dorms, travel on low-class trains and buses, avoid Western food and booze, plan all your activities, and you could shave half off that.
Would you go back to India?
Yeah. Fuck, yeah. There’s so much more to see beyond the tiny areas that I explored. On my radar are Varanasi, Mumbai, Chennai, the Himalayas, Kerala, Hampi, Thiruvananthapuram, Punjab, Kashmir, and a shit-ton more. It would take multiple lifetimes to be done with this place.Any regrets? Or did you nail the perfect trip on the first attempt?
Definitely not perfect. One thing I’d probably change is the amount of time I spent in Goa. I love that place, but was it really worth two weeks of a month-long trip? In hindsight, I should have spent 7-10 days in Goa and the rest of the time in Kerala or Hampi.And, you know, the chai on the train. But hey, you live and you learn.
Is India safe for travellers?
Don’t ask me, I’m a guy. Serious answer.To expand — yes, to me it felt perfectly safe. I’m sure some degree of stuff like petty theft happens, but violent crime seems very rare in India. You won’t catch tuberculosis on the trains. People are peaceful and typically extremely friendly. Towards me, a man.
For women, I don’t know. We’ve all heard the horror stories and warnings. I met several solo female travellers who claimed to be doing fine, but again — don’t listen to me on this. Do your research.
The cows are more aggressive than expected, I’ll say that.
Do you have any Top Tips or Secret Hacks for India? (Travel agents HATE this guy!)
My main tip would be to do your homework beforehand. I spent months doing research about India, chatting to people who had been, reading and joining multiple comment threads here and elsewhere, watching YouTube videos, reading books, etc.The people I ran into who hated India largely seemed to be those who hadn’t done this. They constantly seemed shocked by stuff that I thought seemed fairly obvious, and seemed to expect India to be some kind of cute extension of Thailand with a Bollywood filter. It’s not — it’s intense, challenging, and unforgiving towards idiots.
Do your groundwork, prepare yourself, and India will be 1000x easier and more rewarding.
On top of that, book train tickets in advance — 12go.asia is a great resource for this. Get ready to get sick at least once, it’s not guaranteed but common enough that you should expect it. Learn a few words of Hindi, the locals will love you.
Treat people with respect by default — that TukTuk driver is overcharging you because you earn 50 times more than him and you both know it. Manage your expectations for comfort and hygiene.
And don’t drink the fucking chai on trains.
2023.03.25 08:45 chuck1011212 Accelerating your FIRE goals via the Middle East option
I want to bring this subject up because I don't see anyone really talking about Americans working in the Middle East (Safer locations only: Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Turkey) as an option to accelerate your FIRE goals. It has really worked great for me.
I am currently working in Qatar. Clean, safe, nice people, things to do, bars that serve alcohol, can also buy alcohol at the state run liquor store, superb brand new underground Metro, cheap Uber rides, home to the outstanding Qatar Airways and direct flights to most all of the cool places in the world, cheap food and grocery delivery. Qatar is much smaller than Dubai, but is moving in a similar direction to Dubai and encouraging tourism. Nothing to do in Qatar on the level of Dubai yet though.
The perks of Middle East (Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman) FIRE acceleration -
Good money, but long hours. Typically 12 hour shifts with two days off per week
Housing provided free - The quality of the housing is generally great but differs per company. i am living in a really nice 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in walking distance to food and the Metro.
No bills other than the ones you create for yourself - A cell phone bill is typically the only bill and mine is $20 per month for 4g 8 gigs of data and unlimited calls and txts. 5G is available here too.
No insurances if you don't own a car - I hate insurance companies
Lowered US federal tax liability - You can typically add 25% to your take home vs. same pay in America. The first $122'ish thousand of pay is not federally taxed. This number changes every year. Also no state taxes depending on how your state is setup for overseas work. Side note: Could be beneficial to change your state of residence before going overseas to avoid paying state taxes in states that still tax you even if you are overseas. This can be done easily if you do your research - even without doing an actualy state to state move.
World travel experience - Being on this side of the world is great for travel. Get a travel credit card for travel perks.
Cheap and excellent health care - Low monthly cost for a world healthcare plan and no copays or out of pocket costs at all for anything as long as you stay out of the US. You read that right. Go to the doctor, pay $0. Go to the hospital, pay 0$. If you need health care while in the US on vacation or something, expect deductibles and the typical BS that we live with in the US.
For example: I went to the local Turkish Hospital here in Qatar (which is super new, clean and amazing) for an ear infection and had no appointment. We typically go to what they call hospitals for a doctor visit, as they are fully featured hospitals that take walk-ins as their normal operation. I saw a real doctor and was in and out of the hospital in 15 minutes INCLUDING getting my prescription. Try that in America at any establishment. I paid $0. If I had some exotic health problem then maybe I would consider going to America for treatment, but for most everything it is far better here.
They generally like Americans in the above Middle East countries
How to find work:
I have experience with and can recommend looking for a US company doing contract work for the US government on US military bases in these countries. These include Vectrus, General Dynamics, Leidos, Ratheon, CACI and other government contract companies. These jobs are not typically well advertised on job boards such as Indeed and can sometimes take some inside info to find. (like knowing somebody working there already) The DoD contracts change all the time, and some listings for jobs are advertised even before a government contract is awarded to a company. This is frustrating, but it is the game. This just means to expect to apply for overseas jobs and expect to hear nothing for most applications.
Here is the strategy that worked for me:
Get a DoD contracting job at your local (or any) military base in the US and then use that as a springboard for your overseas adventure. This will get you the required DoD experience and security clearance stuff. Then you are an easy pickup for any overseas contract. You can then talk to your coworkers at the US military base that have experience overseas and they can discuss their experience with you before you commit to an overseas contract job.
Best bet is to google top 20 US government contract companies, then go directly to each company's web site and search their job listings from their site. This sucks, but it is what it is. You can typically search by physical location, which will get you some listings quick if you know where you want to live.
Additionally, I recommend you do a resume overhaul by someone that does it professionally on Fiver or other sites. For 75'ish bucks, one of these guys will clean up your resume and get it looking good plus make it standards complaint. Standards complaince is the key. This will make it super easy to apply on these company sites and will automatically fill in their information gathering fields for you based on what is on your resume. If your resume is not standards complaint, these fields will not auto populate for you and applying on company sites will be a lengthy and miserable effort.
Also, there are options for working for local companies in the host countries directly. This could be doing things like working for the oil companies or being a teacher at the local private schools or doing IT stuff. This option comes with lots of unknowns. Be sure to do your research as much as possible before committing to one of these positions including speaking to a currently employed American there that can guide you with any questions you may have. You will likely be working with lots of other nationalities, so be ready to learn about other cultures and deal with some language barriers.
Family:
Some countries are friendlier than others about bringing your family members. Your employer should help with this, but be ready for it to test your patience. Kids that need school will likely need a private school and this will have some cost. A spouse could find work also, but I don't know much about this. I am single and don't have any of these experiences to provide valid info on this subject.
Freedom and privacy:
Nope. If you are a gun totin' freedom of everything type person, this is not the life for you.
You will give blood to be here. Literally. They test the blood for who knows what and use it for who knows what. You will also give fingerprints to be here. They have video surveillance everywhere and some places require an App on your phone for this or that, which also tracks you. If this is a problem for you, don't come to these places. It is that simple.
Safety:
Do your research, but these countries are all significantly safer than America. In some cases, the entire country is safer than the typical American small town. Let that sink in. I don't lock my apartment door unless I am sleeping. This includes while going out of the country for week(s) long vacations.
Attitude:
Always remember that you are a guest in any country you go. Leave your attitude at home, be patient and smile. You don't need to learn a language, but learning a few words will be helpful. Everywhere you go outside of the US will allow you to get by just speaking English. Speak slowly, use few words and talk like a caveman and you can get by with English most anywhere.
Overseas Saving Strategy:
You are not going to be taxed like in the US, so contributing to a 401k may or may not be beneficial. Depends if your company matches or not. Obviously go for the match if they have one as that is free money. If not, then consider your time to FIRE and whether you wanna max out 401k if you are not getting the tax benefits as well as the timing of your FIRE. If you are 40 and want to FIRE before 59 and 1/2, then pumping your 401k without the tax perks is not going to benefit you and could hurt you if you want to withdraw early. Instead, pump money into a standard investment account so that you can access this money when you are 45 or 48 without penalty.
For me, I am not currently putting anything into a 401k. I am taking 75+% of my income and putting it into a low cost set of index funds. The rest, I am taking awesome vacations in Asian countries scoping out what my FIRE life will look like. I don't plan on returning to America. Ever.
Pay:
You can expect that you will get a similar pay per hour as you may get in the US for the same job. The difference is the guaranteed and required overtime as well as the perks of paid living expenses and reduced or 0 income tax. The days of guys getting massive pay for working in a war zone are generally gone, but we are not entertaining working in a warzone in this post. I have never considered war zone work even though it has been presented to me.
I also like to play with this fire calculator to see where I am and check on my goals and progress:
https://engaging-data.com/fire-calculato
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I am currently working in Qatar. Clean, safe, nice people, things to do, bars that serve alcohol, can also buy alcohol at the state run liquor store, superb brand new underground Metro, cheap Uber rides, home to the outstanding Qatar Airways and direct flights to most all of the cool places in the world, cheap food and grocery delivery. Qatar is much smaller than Dubai, but is moving in a similar direction to Dubai and encouraging tourism. Nothing to do in Qatar on the level of Dubai yet though.
The perks of Middle East (Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Oman) FIRE acceleration -
Good money, but long hours. Typically 12 hour shifts with two days off per week
Housing provided free - The quality of the housing is generally great but differs per company. i am living in a really nice 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in walking distance to food and the Metro.
No bills other than the ones you create for yourself - A cell phone bill is typically the only bill and mine is $20 per month for 4g 8 gigs of data and unlimited calls and txts. 5G is available here too.
No insurances if you don't own a car - I hate insurance companies
Lowered US federal tax liability - You can typically add 25% to your take home vs. same pay in America. The first $122'ish thousand of pay is not federally taxed. This number changes every year. Also no state taxes depending on how your state is setup for overseas work. Side note: Could be beneficial to change your state of residence before going overseas to avoid paying state taxes in states that still tax you even if you are overseas. This can be done easily if you do your research - even without doing an actualy state to state move.
World travel experience - Being on this side of the world is great for travel. Get a travel credit card for travel perks.
Cheap and excellent health care - Low monthly cost for a world healthcare plan and no copays or out of pocket costs at all for anything as long as you stay out of the US. You read that right. Go to the doctor, pay $0. Go to the hospital, pay 0$. If you need health care while in the US on vacation or something, expect deductibles and the typical BS that we live with in the US.
For example: I went to the local Turkish Hospital here in Qatar (which is super new, clean and amazing) for an ear infection and had no appointment. We typically go to what they call hospitals for a doctor visit, as they are fully featured hospitals that take walk-ins as their normal operation. I saw a real doctor and was in and out of the hospital in 15 minutes INCLUDING getting my prescription. Try that in America at any establishment. I paid $0. If I had some exotic health problem then maybe I would consider going to America for treatment, but for most everything it is far better here.
They generally like Americans in the above Middle East countries
How to find work:
I have experience with and can recommend looking for a US company doing contract work for the US government on US military bases in these countries. These include Vectrus, General Dynamics, Leidos, Ratheon, CACI and other government contract companies. These jobs are not typically well advertised on job boards such as Indeed and can sometimes take some inside info to find. (like knowing somebody working there already) The DoD contracts change all the time, and some listings for jobs are advertised even before a government contract is awarded to a company. This is frustrating, but it is the game. This just means to expect to apply for overseas jobs and expect to hear nothing for most applications.
Here is the strategy that worked for me:
Get a DoD contracting job at your local (or any) military base in the US and then use that as a springboard for your overseas adventure. This will get you the required DoD experience and security clearance stuff. Then you are an easy pickup for any overseas contract. You can then talk to your coworkers at the US military base that have experience overseas and they can discuss their experience with you before you commit to an overseas contract job.
Best bet is to google top 20 US government contract companies, then go directly to each company's web site and search their job listings from their site. This sucks, but it is what it is. You can typically search by physical location, which will get you some listings quick if you know where you want to live.
Additionally, I recommend you do a resume overhaul by someone that does it professionally on Fiver or other sites. For 75'ish bucks, one of these guys will clean up your resume and get it looking good plus make it standards complaint. Standards complaince is the key. This will make it super easy to apply on these company sites and will automatically fill in their information gathering fields for you based on what is on your resume. If your resume is not standards complaint, these fields will not auto populate for you and applying on company sites will be a lengthy and miserable effort.
Also, there are options for working for local companies in the host countries directly. This could be doing things like working for the oil companies or being a teacher at the local private schools or doing IT stuff. This option comes with lots of unknowns. Be sure to do your research as much as possible before committing to one of these positions including speaking to a currently employed American there that can guide you with any questions you may have. You will likely be working with lots of other nationalities, so be ready to learn about other cultures and deal with some language barriers.
Family:
Some countries are friendlier than others about bringing your family members. Your employer should help with this, but be ready for it to test your patience. Kids that need school will likely need a private school and this will have some cost. A spouse could find work also, but I don't know much about this. I am single and don't have any of these experiences to provide valid info on this subject.
Freedom and privacy:
Nope. If you are a gun totin' freedom of everything type person, this is not the life for you.
You will give blood to be here. Literally. They test the blood for who knows what and use it for who knows what. You will also give fingerprints to be here. They have video surveillance everywhere and some places require an App on your phone for this or that, which also tracks you. If this is a problem for you, don't come to these places. It is that simple.
Safety:
Do your research, but these countries are all significantly safer than America. In some cases, the entire country is safer than the typical American small town. Let that sink in. I don't lock my apartment door unless I am sleeping. This includes while going out of the country for week(s) long vacations.
Attitude:
Always remember that you are a guest in any country you go. Leave your attitude at home, be patient and smile. You don't need to learn a language, but learning a few words will be helpful. Everywhere you go outside of the US will allow you to get by just speaking English. Speak slowly, use few words and talk like a caveman and you can get by with English most anywhere.
Overseas Saving Strategy:
You are not going to be taxed like in the US, so contributing to a 401k may or may not be beneficial. Depends if your company matches or not. Obviously go for the match if they have one as that is free money. If not, then consider your time to FIRE and whether you wanna max out 401k if you are not getting the tax benefits as well as the timing of your FIRE. If you are 40 and want to FIRE before 59 and 1/2, then pumping your 401k without the tax perks is not going to benefit you and could hurt you if you want to withdraw early. Instead, pump money into a standard investment account so that you can access this money when you are 45 or 48 without penalty.
For me, I am not currently putting anything into a 401k. I am taking 75+% of my income and putting it into a low cost set of index funds. The rest, I am taking awesome vacations in Asian countries scoping out what my FIRE life will look like. I don't plan on returning to America. Ever.
Pay:
You can expect that you will get a similar pay per hour as you may get in the US for the same job. The difference is the guaranteed and required overtime as well as the perks of paid living expenses and reduced or 0 income tax. The days of guys getting massive pay for working in a war zone are generally gone, but we are not entertaining working in a warzone in this post. I have never considered war zone work even though it has been presented to me.
I also like to play with this fire calculator to see where I am and check on my goals and progress:
https://engaging-data.com/fire-calculato
2023.03.25 08:39 ShadowDragon8685 [Ace is the Only Sane Pirate 12]The Avaricious Runaround
No sooner had Najia sat down at a dingy canteen on the scrap facility than her datapad received a call from Yorilos. She hadn't even gotten her coffee yet, and thought that was supremely unfair. "Anyone wanna bet he natters on without stopping to let me interrupt?"
There were no takers, and she propped the datapad up, connecting the call. Yorilos's face appeared, in the cockpit of the ship she had 'liberated' for him. "Excellent!" he exclaimed without preamble. "Now, Protectyon is exorbitantly expensive, but I suppose we will not need an entire unit to conduct your research. It might be our best course of action to approach the CEO of Northriver Company directly. We might be able to buy a small sample from him... If we can find him, that is. It is well known that he occasionally likes to flaunt his enormous wealth. A fellow trader just spotted him taking his most prized possession out for a pleasure cruise. I have sent you the coordinates of his last known location. Start from there."
He terminated the call, and Najia sat back, blinking. "Did he even stop to breathe?" Marta snorted. "That guy apparently sucks wind with his asshole, since he sure as hell didn't take any in through his mouth!"
Najia snorted, laughing and covering her face with her palm. Ace looked at Marta in disbelief for a few moments, as she worked out the idiom, then let out a high-pitched, almost strangled trill, hanging her head. "Y'all know I'm right," Marta hammered the point in. "He is longwinded, yes. And also, unfortunately, an idiot," Ace declared. "Well... Yes, but why in specific, this time?"
"I hope for his sake he is fantastic in the bunk and willing to pursue a career in prostitution, because he is clearly a homeworld-raised true believer in nonsense," Ace spat. "He actually believes 'the invisible hand of the free market' will result in equitable distribution of goods and wealth?!" She let out a shrill trill. "In Avarice and Windfall no less!" Marta snorted. "Yeah... He'd better be planning to be a boy-toy." She rolled her eyes. "Does he really think that the CEO of a monopoly is just going to sell us a tiny sample of what's making him filthy rich so we can take it away, analyze it, synthesize it, and start competing with him?" "Apparently he does," Najia said with an exasperated sigh. "That's kind of... Frightening, actually. Though chasing this fellow down might be something we'll have to do eventually, but for now... We might as well just buy a load."
"Protectyon is not ordinary cargo," Ace pointed out. "I do not know the specifics, but I do know that it requires special cargo-handling equipment. The Rakers know this. They guard the nature of this equipment with some skill. Between that, and that the only market for the stuff is here in Windfall, it is not a substance of any value to a pirate... Presumably, small containers for transporting small quantities are available to those in the know, of course." "Of course... But in this case, I think the best move is to make use of my checking account," Najia said. The waitress arrived with coffee in a cheap metal mug, which Najia took gratefully, as did the rest of her party. They were sitting at a table next to Robin and the party of crew she had brought with them. Najia took a drink of the coffee, and grimaced immediately. "Don't like it, spacer," the waitress asked with a smirk as she handed out the others' drinks. "Took me by surprise. Tidebreak serves it sweet enough to curl eyebrows." No sooner had she said that, than the waitress sat a bottle on the table with a heavy, dense thunk. Najia poured it in, and nodded; it was some kind of yellowish syrup or synthetic honey. "Thank you," she said. "Sure, whatever. Your ship brought a load of food here - and not even like, the stuff the fuckin' Viggs 'let us' have, at extortionate rates. So, there's that, spacer." The waitress turned and hurried away. Ace snorted. "Not very grateful, was she?" She had, apparently, missed where part of the plan had been to have Takio's personal Baku deliver a load of food, which she supposed had transpired while she was asleep.
"These people are... Prickly. I can understand that," Najia said. "Anyway, I'm just going to take the simple route on this one: buy one of the condensate ships, load it with the stuff at market value, and have it fly it to the headquarters... For 'upgrades' of course." She grinned.
Ace trilled softly at that. "Upgrades indeed." She fiddled with the datapad in her hand as Najia and the others started to do likewise, and after a few moments, found what seemed to be a saved-game in progress. It looked like a sketch of a space station, but it struck her as being a puzzle game, and probably an 'indie' one at that, given the godawful user-interface. She quickly worked it out of course, because a pirate's mind is slippery by necessity and a Teladi's mind is primed to calculate a dozen variables at once, and then she could dig into the meat of it. It looked like a space station, but it was one built on an impossible scale; an absolute megalith of a station, an absurd and ridiculous monolith seemingly built to construct the most basic and common of Commonwealth construction materials, but in absolutely absurd quantities. There was a rider on it, too; and that seemed to be the objective of the game, or at least of the current level; adding a mixed population of Terran, Argon, and Teladi workers, and the requisite inputs to feed them all, enough to run the entire station and then some.
The datapad in her hand chirr-uped, and Ace saved and closed the progress she had made in the game, finding that a new report had been filed by the professor they had hired for, frankly, enough money to probably have employed the entire Empyrean Curs. She skimmed the summary - short, consise and to the point - and trilled softly. "Interesting development," she noted. "Your starship professor is making yet more inroads." She looked up at the human magnate. "Apparently he found a project starfighter that someone had been preparing in one of your hangars."
Najia chuckled. "A project starfighter?" She took the datapad. "Paramerion...? Hmph. Looks like someone stripped down a Kallis for speed and narrowness, judging by these stats." "Could be fun," Marta pointed out. "For someone who likes to fly, that is," she added, grinning at Najia and Ace.
Najia chuckled, and then shook her head. "Might even be just the thing for chasing down this Northriver fellow, if we assume he's going to make himself difficult to catch up to. According to the Professor, it's currently a one-off, but they should be able to extrapolate the plans and build more, if desired. Seems that it actually was based on some early, unproduced Kallis prototypes." "I'll have it sent out to the Avarice Necessities supplier," Najia added. "Meanwhile..."
A high-importance alert hit her datapad. She frowned as she read the report; one - then two - then three - of her freighters in Windfall were reporting being harassed by the Vigor syndicate. That was new. She scowled at that, snarling.
"Trouble," Ace asked. Under the table, she curled her tail around Najia's calf, and Najia rubbed her eyes. "Trouble," Ace repeated; no longer an interrogative, but a statement. "The Vigor syndicate have apparently decided to start harassing ships carrying food," she noted, wrathfully. "That you have gone so long without them doing so is the anomaly," Ace pointed out. "They are not shy about that they use force to enforce their monopoly on food in Windfall and Vigor," she added. "And was this not the fight you intended to wage anyway?"
"Yes," Najia hissed angrily. "But the timing is wrong." She rubbed her eyeballs, seething. Her ships were reporting that the Vigor syndicate were being very aggressive; not quite at the point of shooting openly at them - which would go poorly for everyone concerned frankly - but they were harassing them openly, shaking them down for bribes or even demanding they drop cargo, as well as conducting "police" inspections for "contraband" - meaning food and water. "Then what do you plan to do?"
Najia grit her teeth, closing her eyes. She focused on the feeling of Ace's tail squeezing her calf, and seethed, but calmed herself. "Comply... For now. Set up some goodwill by selling them energy cells again." "Again? They're probably angry you cut them off in the first place," Ace noted, and Najia snorted. "Probably." Najia let out an annoyed hiss of breath. "Well, we'll deal with it." She drummed her fingers in annoyance on the bare metal, cafeteria-style table. "The time is not yet. Not yet... Yet." She cracked her knuckles, one-by-one. "First, we need to chase down this Protectyon stuff." She started fiddling on her datapad. "I'll just place the order and have it sent to the HQ. If Boso Ta can't work with that, well... I guess we'll try it Yorilos' way and chase down this Northriver."
"It might be worthwhile to approach him now in any event," Ace suggested. "The Northriver company are, as you might imagine... Well-connected, with the Vigor Syndicate." Najia pursed her lips and frowned, but nodded. She looked around the dingy cafeteria, and sighed, nodding, but sighed again, heavily. "You can't fix everything, Ninja Taco; and what you can fix, you mostly can't fix in a day," Marta said, softly. "Let's just... Let's try Ace's idea."
Najia nodded, with a heavy sigh. She covered her head with her hands for a few moments, and let out a huff. She needed a bit of breathing room, time to think, time to plan. She looked around, and drummed her fingers on the table. "Let's finish our business here, and head for the Necessities station," she said. "We'll give the Raleigh I bought time to make it to the HQ, and the Paramerion time to get here... Then we'll use it, as it's apparently speed incarnate, to chase down Northriver and see what he can tell us about Protectyon, or the Syndicate, or both." She looked around; there were no particular objections raised. Ace snorted softly at her. "I and 'Chipmunk' are laying low; it matters little to me where we do so or what other activities we engage in whilst doing. Besides, I wonder what this station looks like."
Najia grinned at her.
Scant hours later, Ace was in the co-pilot's seat of the Baku as it arrowed in to land, alongside the Radiant Afterglow that had been shadowing them the whole time. The station was a mammoth; Ace had been expecting some kind of small way-station. It had absolutely gargantuan solar arrays pointing at the nearby star; the number of docks and piers was, frankly, grossly excessive, to the point that Ace reckoned it could easily hold the entire ship population of Avarice. There were massive personnel accommodations, and all the things she had seen that made Takio's constructions so awe-inspiring. "The number of docks and piers you have here is mind-boggling," Ace commented as the ship landed on one of the Terran-style disk docks. "It defies description. I cannot imagine why."
Najia smiled weakly at her, leaning out to look out through the expansive flight-deck window. "Quite simply? I wanted there to never, ever, ever be any question about whether or not a ship in need of safe-habor from the Tide could find it here. And yes, we're buying the Protectyon stuff - at quite ridiculous prices - to keep the place safe." She pointed at a massive, triple-pronged module along the station's 'spine.' "The Breakers built that, and the storage for it. They're effectively a 'black box' to us since part of the deal there was that we didn't poke around inside, but the thing keeps working, and we've isolated them from outside comms to ensure that stays the case."
Ace snorted. "I'm surprised you agreed to refrain from reverse-engineering them." "Well, we did. Of course, we lied," Najia said, with a grin. "I don't believe in letting other people keep technological secrets from me. But we're not, you know, cutting our way in or anything... Sometimes, you have to move slow. Besides, nobody would bat an eyelash at me commissioning another Raleigh and stocking it with some Protectyon, right?" "Right," Ace said, chuckling. She glanced up at the station. It was massive. She glanced down at the time-table; the Paramerion would arrive in approximately sixteen hours. "This place is huge. I might have to look around."
Najia smiled at her. "Feel free. You want to come with me to chase down this Northriver character? I think I'm going to give this prototype a test run myself." Ace trilled. "That sounds fun. Sure."
The Avarice Necessities Supplier station was a mammoth. Ace had explored it thoroughly; it had all the amenities one might expect of a space station, which was surprising in Avarice space. Unsurprising to her now, was that the prices were absolutely rock-bottom. Not quite giving the stuff away at cost, but close enough. It was, Ace mused, a good way to make inroads with the Rakers, though she suspected that Takio was doing so out of beneficience as much as anything else. She seemed positively furious that the Syndicate were exerting control over food and water; absolutely furious.
That, Ace realized, was something that set her apart. To her way of thinking, it was only to be expected that the party which had the power to establish a monopoly on such basic necessities should do so, to further increase their power and wealth, exploiting that position to enrich themselves. Takio clearly did not see it that way. It was an affront to her; and she was clearly plotting the Syndicate's downfall over it. Ace mused these musings both before and after she took a nap, in a surprisingly-affordable lodging room she took on the station. The amenities were in fact made in the same style and materials as those Najia had established for herself back on her headquarters station. The shower, in particular, was an absolute luxury to Ace's mind; there was no time- or pressure-limiter, no charge for the water use, and, as with the showers on her ships, featured a slick slatted floor instead of an obvious drain and a bench. All available at such a rate that anyone who landed here could afford to stay without difficulty. Neither were there any other tiers of accommodation available; there were no 'suites' above and beyond what she slept in, nor were there the expected squalorus hostel dormitories she had sometimes been able to avail herself of in her youth - at prices that sometimes exceeded that of the individual suite she enjoyed. The only other forms of room available were doubles and quads for pairings or parties sleeping together, and 'accessibility' rooms for persons with mobility or other issues.
Ace had found this so surprising, in fact, she had chatted up the clerk at the lodging module. Apparently, Takio Enterprises had taken some simple shortcuts in their design process, by not doing the design work themselves; they had simply followed Segaris traveler-accommodation regulations and made use of a common Segaris habitat module design. The prices were set low because the station was, ultimately, self-sufficient save for the reliance on Protectyon, and it was largely viewed as a public service.
The difference between this station and the one they had left hardly any time at all before was striking. The Terran construction techniques Takio used were incredible, of course; but it also spoke to their intents that they were effectively leaving money in the pockets of persons who would pay higher prices for what they were offering and gladly. Of course, she mused, it wasn't entirely utopic. It couldn't be. she had found a tavern and lurked, and certainly she had caught the (metaphorical) scent of black-market trade. The number of employees at the station was enormous, surely there would be those who could be bribed. There was certain, she knew, to be a thriving underbelly in illicit goods or services; though it seemed that there was an effort to minimize this, by the simple expedient of making the most commonly-smuggled goods and most commonly-criminalized services legal, mostly in the Teladi style; Ace saw vending machines which dispensed packets of Space Weed and found a local-net exchange board which purported to connect medically-checked and cleared prostitutes with clients; tangential to that was a heap of information about prostitution - both practical and, she saw with a little digging, historical and philosophical - as well as resources for those looking to get into that trade, beginning with reporting to medical for an examination. There was also a stark warning that pimping, or abusing a prostitute in any way, carried a summary sentence of execution. Ace's eyes shot up at that. She ran a few searches to see what cut Takio Enterprises was taking for this, but couldn't find any over and above presumably the rental price of the lodging rooms involved.
It almost seemed clinical, but, she mused, on the balance, if this environment had been available to her when she was trying to figure out what to do to avert hunger, it certainly would have seemed a far more attractive option. Her primary reason for shying away from prostitution as a career, had been the fear of winding up the property of a pimp. Ace ruminated on this, whilst staring out the window of a tavern, at the star, through the solar panel array, when she got the message that the Paramerion had arrived.
The craft itself looked very much like many of the Terran ships Ace had seen in recent weeks, sitting in the pretty purple trim that Takio had ships meant for herself painted in. It was even sitting in a bay next to a Tsurugi superheavy fighter, which made her take a double-take; clearly they had wasted no time in producing the starfighters!
Ace looked between the two. The Paramerion was short dorsal-to-ventral, as most Terran small craft were, but this one took it to an extreme. It was elongated and somewhat narrow, though it could have, she thought, been narrower still without the side-mounted wings that served no purpose she could discern immediately, save to be wings. "They're for atmospheric flight," Najia explained. "Most Terran S- and M- craft are at least capable of it; most Argon, too, for that matter. Most Teladi... Even the Drill, which the Baku is based on; and of course the Baku itself. Though, admittedly, the flying shoe does rely a lot more on thrusters," Najia said; she was standing by the ramp into the Paramerion, watching Ace's gaze.
Ace trilled softly and nodded, joining Najia in the cockpit. It was roomy enough; the cockpit design seemed to be wholly-copied from the Kallis. That made sense, as they were apparently related designs. She looked around, and tapped on the holographic auxiliary console at the rear of the cockpit, to the side. "Shall I navigate for you?" "Unless you'd rather fly," Najia said, smiling at her. Ace took a moment to think on that, and shook her head. "I'll fly the way back, if all goes smoothly. It's your ship, you should take it. Where is Marta? Is she not coming?"
"She's already in the back. There's what the original designers of these classes euphemistically refer to as a 'bunk-slash-engineering-access' behind us, in front of the power plant. It's so tight I don't think anyone could even masturbate in there, but you can sleep in there... If you're desperate. Personally, I'd just roll out a sleeping mat in the dockpit," Najia said; this got a louder trill from Ace, as Najia took the chair. "Right, I've already done the preflight... Let's see what she can do."
Northriver was, allegedly, in the same sector - Avarice I - and finding him was a minor challenge. Ace operated sensors whilst Najia piloted; the ship seemed to have very desirable piloting characteristics; agile and responsive without being touchy or prone to over-maneuvering. Swift, but not prone to sliding. She looked forward to her own turn at the stick, as they narrowed in on the alleged location of Brantlee Northriver.
Finding him was little challenge - then Ace swore softly. "Is that..." She had another ship on the fighter's sensors, and brought up its details. Sitting a hundred klicks from Astrid, apparently the ship of Northriver, was J.P. Morgan's Knife. Ace hissed softly. "Does he... Really..."
"Does he really expect this guy to give us a sample to reverse engineer?" Najia groaned. "Fine, fuck it. If we don't ask, he will, and Yorilos is about as good at negotiating as someone who goes to a flea market, sees a pair of sun-shades at a stall, talks the proprietor down two credits and walks away feeling like they're John Pierpont Morgan." Ace trilled softly at that. "Is that whom his vessel is named after? Who was this person?" Najia snorted. "We'd have to interrupt the history lesson to run for cover from the Tide," she said with a grin, looking over her shoulder. "Suffice to say he was a human industrialist from a very long time ago, who managed to amass one of the smaller fortunes of his era, but who wielded power and control of money to substantially more effect than the actual wealth he personally had. He formed banks, you see; once, he helped to fend off an impending bank run that would have caused a financial collapse, by assembling a large number of a nation's most powerful bankers in his mansion, and locked them in his library, telling them that they would not be leaving until they had worked out a scheme to avert the crisis."
Ace trilled, watching as the little fighter closed on what she was reading as some kind of yacht. "That sounds like something you might do," she pointed out. Najia snorted, looked back at Ace, and chuckled. "I think I should take that as a compliment. J.P. Morgan was an asshole, like pretty much all of the wealthy and powerful persons of his time and era... Or, any era, to be honest. I... Never expected to find myself wielding clout and power like Morgan's, let alone enough that I probably eclipse him. It's... Kind of overwhelming, to be honest." "And yet, you persevere," Ace retorted. "By any measure, you could take what you've amassed now, retire to a sector of your choosing, build a monumental space station of your own design, and live a life of indolence until the money ran out. A Teladi could take your wealth and live out the rest of her life, even. Yet, you are building warships and lodgings fit for well-off individuals and affordable to the hardscrabble. By Teladi reckoning, Najia, you are insane."
Najia blinked at that, half-snorting. She had cut the travel drive and was approaching the lazily drifting yacht, and took the moment to turn her chair halfway, looking to her side at Ace. "Do you think I'm... Literally mad?" Ace peered at her, and shook her head. "No, I do not. Many Teladi might assume it to be so," she said, with an ambivalent sway of her hips and a shrug. "... I believe that you are acting to a set of principles and convictions that are, however, utterly alien to most Teladi understanding. You seem as if you intend to seize Windfall and Avarice outright. Yet even if you did, you would not squeeze the Rakers on food prices the way the Syndicate does. I do not understand where you are coming from," Ace said, swaying her hips again. "But... I feel I can trust you. And from there, confidence. Heads-up," she added, cautioning Najia. "We are close enough you had best comm them, lest they think you're about to attack."
Swiveling rapidly back to face forward, Najia did just that, signaling the yacht she was approaching of her intent to communicate. Moments later, she recieved a reply. "Yes, what is it you want?" Brantlee Northriver had a grating, abrasive, and smug voice; he was also dressed, she thought, ridiculously, wearing what looked like a desaturated blue jacket trimmed with excessively gaudy, and gaudily excessive amounts of gold, with some kind of absurd half-hood thing cupping the back of his head. It was some long-ago futurist's vision of what a far-flung spacefuture clergyman's robe might look like crossed with a business suit. Najia knew that her own sense of fashion was questionable, but even she immediately recognized the outfit as disgustingly ugly, and radiating both wealth and contempt. Her impression was realized as he continued, "I sure hope you have a good reason for approaching me. I am quite busy, you see?"
Najia mastered the urge to ask if he was busy receiving fellatio from someone under the console he was sitting at, because she could see absolutely no other possible activity he was invested in; she also mastered the urge to just shoot the smug off his face. She instead smiled at him, schooling herself into 'businesswoman' persona even though he made her skin crawl on an imager; and, of course, she would have to try to talk a sample out of it, because she knew that Yorilos was listening in and would certainly swoop in and somehow make things stupider if she didn't. "Mr. Northriver, you may not have had time yet to notice my minor operations; Takio Enterprises is expanding into Avarice. The name of Northriver and its Protectyon is on every set of lips within three jumps as a potent defensive measure against the Tide. I wished to obtain -"
"What, just a sample?" Northriver leaned forward, towards his camera, smirking - no, smugging - at her, adopting the 'Thinker' pose, briefly. "Such a small quantity won't get you far, if you want to protect yourself from the Tide. Can't afford more, eh?" For a moment, Najia toyed with the notion of making an offer to buy Northriver outright, just to wipe the smug off his face, but he continued to smug audibly at her. "Oh, well, since you seem to be new around here, I'll allow it. Once." Brantlee turned to look out his cockpit window at Avarice, which illuminated him brightly. Looking away and up was probably his 'best side;' it was the only posture in which she had yet seen him that looked anything other than 'contemptable.' "To get you hooked. Am I not charitable?" He immediately resumed his contemptuousness, then turned back to face her and made it all the more stark. "I will even cut you a special deal, how about that?" His expression clearly communicated his contempt and belief that he was superior. "Merely twelve and a half thousand credits for the sample you so dearly desire; my first, last, and only offer."
Najia wanted to say something scathing in return, she really did. Or simply to lock her cannons on his admittedly-very-sexy yacht and take the sample at cannon-point. Or to flip him the finger. Instead, she schooled herself to merely raise her eyebrow skeptically; forcing herself to maintain 'The Businesswoman,' who was too refined to rise to the bait. But she also had neither time nor patience to haggle over what was, frankly, a trivial sum to her bank account. Hell, she knew for a fact that Ace could buy the sample and wouldn't lose much sleep over it, just from what Ace had made in the last several days with her. "It seems your proposal can only be agreed to," she said, bringing up the financial transfer function on her console and sending the sum required.
Smugly, Brantlee grinned at her. "Here you go. I hope you leave as a satisfied customer!" Ace quickly tapped a message that appeared on her console. 'He's jettisoned an XS cargo pod.' The Teladi deftly located it for her on sensors, targeting it for her, as Northriver continued, "Oh, and by the way - don't for one second think that you can use this sample to engineer a competing product. It won't work. Northriver products are just too ingenious!" Northriver positively crowed it at her, and once again Najia had to master the urge to lock weapons upon him, but she did, at that moment, privately vow that, by means fair or foul, she was going to gain possession of his yacht if only to spite him. "Run along now," he added, smirking. "I have much more important matters to attend to," he clarified, sanctimoniously smiling, ending the comm channel and turning the yacht away, entering Travel drive.
"Let me bring that pod aboard," Ace muttered, manipulating the tractor controls, and comming the multipurpose space in the back. "Marta, if you would kindly suit up -" "Way ahead of you, Ace," Marta answered her, popping up on-screen already wearing a light pressure suit, in the airlock. "Get it over here and I'll grab it, make sure it doesn't jostle or anything. Mass?" "Considerable, but not more than a large human such as yourself can handle. Volitility is not known, but it cannot hurt to be over-cautious."
Najia smiled to herself as she heard Ace, unprompted, begin collaboration with Marta. A part of her cynical and intellectual side tried to argue that Ace was a pirate, and probably always would be a pirate at heart, but she was quite simply too fond of the reptilian spacer to listen to that part of her anymore; her oldest friend and her newest could be coming together. Then another comm popped up, and she resisted the urge to groan aloud. She let The Businesswoman fade; frankly, Yorilos didn't rate it, and they were (sort of) collaborators on this anyway. To her surprise (and pleasure), when he commed her, he immediately voiced her own opinion, "I wonder if being obnoxious is his deliberate business strategy?" Najia laughed, heartily, slumping back in her command chair and grinning brightly, shrugging. "I don't think so. I think it just comes naturally to the git."
Yorilos looked momentarily nonplussed, presumably by her vernacular, then said, "No matter. It will make it all the more enjoyable when we pull the rug from under the Northriver Company." "We are in absolute agreement about that," Najia said. "I want to wipe the smug grin off his face." She glanced down; her airlock indicator had closed, and she flicked up a view of the inside. Marta was carefully securing a container roughly the size and volume of a ubiquitous 205-liter shipping drum, though it wasn't one. "I've just taken the sample aboard." "You want to take it back to the headquarters yourself? Go ahead," Yorilos said. He cut the channel, and Najia blinked at the suddenness.
"... Well, that was... Abrupt," Najia said, looking back to Ace. "It was. I cannot believe that you paid twelve and a half thousand for the sample." Najia shrugged. "I mean... It's highway robbery, considering that a commercial volume costs just about twice that and is twenty cubic meters in volume whereas that sample is maybe two. On the other hand, you heard him; he wasn't in the mood to negotiate. What should I have done? Shot at him?" "Yes." Ace trilled, then huffed, shaking her head. "No. As cathartic as it would be, your plans are too long-term to have simply taken it from the wretch by force." She shook her head. "I suppose you had little choice," she conceded, "if you are to continue Yorilos' scheme."
"I'm kind of eager to set Boso Ta loose on this stuff myself," Najia said. The revolving door to the back cycled, and Marta walked in, looking flushed with exertion. "Thanks, Marta," she said. "You can thank me by you securing the damn thing in the 'hold,' Marta said, snarkily.
Najia nodded, and swiveled her chair all the way. "Sure. Thank you. Ace, you're up on stick," she said, standing up. "Let's just fly this thing straight home; I bet we can make it before dinnertime with us flying," she said, smiling at Ace. Ace trilled softly. "That sounds like a challenge. Accepted." She slid past Marta and Najia, slaloming between them, and took the stick, keying in a course for the Takio Enterprises headquarters. "We should recall the other ships, yes?" "Yes; good thinking, Ace. Thank you. I'll handle it from the back, after I've secured this barrel."
Ace and Najia made great time returning to the headquarters; they flew close to recklessly, causing Marta to comment that she was glad she was flying with them, for if they got themselves killed flying that way, she wouldn't have to hear about it. They arrived at the headquarters to little fanfare, and Marta peeled off as soon as they arrived, pleading the need to go and look into something she had arranged previously. "Well, shall we talk to Boso Ta?" Ace asked, looking up at Najia. They had gone to Avarice in an overnight journey by-the-numbers, stayed for less than a day, and were now back where they had started. "And hope that this back-and-forth bears some fruit?"
"I would very much like that," Najia agreed. The container had already been sent to the lab, and she squared her shoulders up, heading for the lift with purpose.
The door to the laboratory opened, and Najia's jaw dropped. "How," she said, flatly, quietly, as Ace all-but plowed into her backside. Ace slid around her side, looking into the lab, and let out a chuff of disbelief.
Yorilos was standing beside Boso Ta's tank.
Ace resisted the urge to hiss in surprise, and reached up, patting Najia's back. "I do not know," she confessed. "Perhaps he made use of an anomaly and was quite lucky. Or perhaps he has modified his hauler in ways unimaginable and is an outright daredevil pilot." Najia shook her head, and squared up, entering the lab. The elderly professor was nowhere to be seen, but it was late at night; he was likely in bed. So she went to the interloper, approaching Yorilos. "Yorilos, hi... What are you doing here?" She wasn't even going to ask how. That was his secret and his alone.
"Ah, yes. I really hope we can find a way to make the Protectyon more affordable for everyone in Avarice," he explained, as he peered around the laboratory. That, she thought, didn't exactly explain her question; presumably he intended for her to infer the answer. Somehow. Najia shook her head and smiled, nodding to him. "Alright." She climbed up the stairs, after a glance back at Ace, who had become fascinated by the new addition of a lot of bonsai trees in the laboratory's little greenery display, and greeted Boso Ta with a wave, to which the Boron responded with one of his own. "Hello there! Ah, excellent, the Protectyon sample has been delivered, and we may begin. Thank you kindly!" Boso Ta seemed to examine a computer tablet held in his... Tentacles? Flippers? Manipulators. He made a few deft strokes. "I have added the Protectyon Research to our agenda, and listed the required secondary materials. Feel free to initiate the research at any time convenient to yourself!"
With that abrupt declaration, Boso Ta swam upwards through the hatch in the laboratory tank, presumably to his personal lodging suites. Najia blinked, rocking back on her heels and looked back at Ace, who looked at her with the cocked hips that Najia had intuited was a definite shrug. "You'd think I didn't own the place," Najia muttered to herself, "the way almost everyone just... Is so... Curt with me." "You could put them in their place the way a pirate lord would," Ace suggested. "Or, if having a beating administered is too vulgar for your preferences, do what a capitalist might do and threaten them with penury."
Najia snorted. "Yeah... I think I'd rather just live with being curtly spoken to than be an asshole." "So be it. Your ways do allow for others to become... Familiar with you," Ace said, giving a vibrato trill. "For better, and for worse." She smiled at Najia, and Najia smiled back. Ace was toying with a small bonsai tree, and watched as Najia checked her datapad, then clucked her tongue.
"A lot of things we don't have on-hand," Najia muttered, "mainly because what Boso Ta wants - for this research project, and others - are Commonwealth-base, and we're not. That's not a huge problem, I'll just ask Tsukiko to set up a PO for a useful quantity of said commodities. For now -" The tank was suddenly filled again with Boso Ta. "Assistant, you simply must do something about this irksome vessel!"
A moment of silent passed. Najia pushed down the urge to be catty or snarky at Boso Ta, or outright hostile. She took a deep breath. "A... Vessel? Is irking you?" "Yes yes! Somehow, it is managing to distort the station's sensors, preventing me from witnessing a solar event in the Great Reef Nebula. I suggest you take care of this annoyance before it manages to disrupt even more observations!"
Najia took in a breath to respond, but Boso Ta had already vanished again, with such rapidity that even Yorilos seemed to be watching him dumbstruck. Yorilos also made a cocked-hip gesture, and then walked out. Najia watched him go, and snorted. "If he has even half a brain, he's going to ask Boso Ta what resources he's asking for and then try to get ahead of the purchase orders," Najia noted. "I would." "As would I," Ace agreed. "Would you like me to take care of this... 'Irksome Vessel' for you?"
"Bored?" Najia asked, grinning at Ace. "I wouldn't say that I was bored," Ace said, reaching out and squeezing her hand. Najia squeezed back. "But it seems that Boso Ta will not likely let the matter drop."
"Alright. Let's take care of it." Najia rolled her shoulders. "I can do this admin stuff from a ship as easily as my apartment study." She headed for the lift, neglecting to let go of Ace's hand; Ace likewise kept the hold, accompanying her. They almost ran into Marta coming out of it. She had a big grin on her face, and Najia pursed her lips. "Okay, what have you done," she asked.
"Oh, not much, just had a warship commissioned to keep close-to-hand in case we get in trouble and need some biggish guns fast. She's done, come take a look." Najia looked down at Ace, who trilled loudly at her. "Either you pay her too well, or you trust her entirely, if she has such authority in your name." "Jealous," Marta asked, smirking. "Yes," Ace admitted frankly. "Shall we?"
Najia sighed and laughed. "Fiiiine."
The bridge of T.E.S. Koshirae was the common standard Terran capital module, and very shortly, Najia, Marta and Ace were standing in it, shaking hands with the woman standing at the captain's post, who was wearing a stylish jacket in a decidedly non-Terran style, tights, and comfortable looking sneakers. "I'm sorry," Najia said, with a smile. "I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage."
"Kevlin, ma'am; Selaia Kevlin. I'm a shipyard specialist." Her accent was distinctly neither anything Solar that Najia recognized, nor Segaris. "I'm surprised you're even aboard yet; we're only about to put her through space trials."
Najia snorted. "Not even the shakedown cruise, huh? You're not from anywhere I've been, are you?" "No ma'am." Selaia looked Asian, with her hair up in a tight bun. "I'm from Argon Prime. I found myself in Grand Exchange as crew on a freighter, saw the amenities on offer on your headquarters station, and jumped ship for a job here."
Najia nodded. "I see..." She grinned. "Are you spying on me?" "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you, ma'am," Selaia responded back, in the age-old joke. Najia laughed in turn.
"Right. Well, stand down for a while," she said. "I appear to have been talked into taking her out personally." "Ma'am!" Selaia stepped aside. "The, err, owner has the bridge!" she called out, fumbling through something approximating military protocol, as Najia stepped up, looking over the console. Najia grinned. "Alright. Nifty little ship. Ace, take the helm," she said. "Take us out."
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There were no takers, and she propped the datapad up, connecting the call. Yorilos's face appeared, in the cockpit of the ship she had 'liberated' for him. "Excellent!" he exclaimed without preamble. "Now, Protectyon is exorbitantly expensive, but I suppose we will not need an entire unit to conduct your research. It might be our best course of action to approach the CEO of Northriver Company directly. We might be able to buy a small sample from him... If we can find him, that is. It is well known that he occasionally likes to flaunt his enormous wealth. A fellow trader just spotted him taking his most prized possession out for a pleasure cruise. I have sent you the coordinates of his last known location. Start from there."
He terminated the call, and Najia sat back, blinking. "Did he even stop to breathe?" Marta snorted. "That guy apparently sucks wind with his asshole, since he sure as hell didn't take any in through his mouth!"
Najia snorted, laughing and covering her face with her palm. Ace looked at Marta in disbelief for a few moments, as she worked out the idiom, then let out a high-pitched, almost strangled trill, hanging her head. "Y'all know I'm right," Marta hammered the point in. "He is longwinded, yes. And also, unfortunately, an idiot," Ace declared. "Well... Yes, but why in specific, this time?"
"I hope for his sake he is fantastic in the bunk and willing to pursue a career in prostitution, because he is clearly a homeworld-raised true believer in nonsense," Ace spat. "He actually believes 'the invisible hand of the free market' will result in equitable distribution of goods and wealth?!" She let out a shrill trill. "In Avarice and Windfall no less!" Marta snorted. "Yeah... He'd better be planning to be a boy-toy." She rolled her eyes. "Does he really think that the CEO of a monopoly is just going to sell us a tiny sample of what's making him filthy rich so we can take it away, analyze it, synthesize it, and start competing with him?" "Apparently he does," Najia said with an exasperated sigh. "That's kind of... Frightening, actually. Though chasing this fellow down might be something we'll have to do eventually, but for now... We might as well just buy a load."
"Protectyon is not ordinary cargo," Ace pointed out. "I do not know the specifics, but I do know that it requires special cargo-handling equipment. The Rakers know this. They guard the nature of this equipment with some skill. Between that, and that the only market for the stuff is here in Windfall, it is not a substance of any value to a pirate... Presumably, small containers for transporting small quantities are available to those in the know, of course." "Of course... But in this case, I think the best move is to make use of my checking account," Najia said. The waitress arrived with coffee in a cheap metal mug, which Najia took gratefully, as did the rest of her party. They were sitting at a table next to Robin and the party of crew she had brought with them. Najia took a drink of the coffee, and grimaced immediately. "Don't like it, spacer," the waitress asked with a smirk as she handed out the others' drinks. "Took me by surprise. Tidebreak serves it sweet enough to curl eyebrows." No sooner had she said that, than the waitress sat a bottle on the table with a heavy, dense thunk. Najia poured it in, and nodded; it was some kind of yellowish syrup or synthetic honey. "Thank you," she said. "Sure, whatever. Your ship brought a load of food here - and not even like, the stuff the fuckin' Viggs 'let us' have, at extortionate rates. So, there's that, spacer." The waitress turned and hurried away. Ace snorted. "Not very grateful, was she?" She had, apparently, missed where part of the plan had been to have Takio's personal Baku deliver a load of food, which she supposed had transpired while she was asleep.
"These people are... Prickly. I can understand that," Najia said. "Anyway, I'm just going to take the simple route on this one: buy one of the condensate ships, load it with the stuff at market value, and have it fly it to the headquarters... For 'upgrades' of course." She grinned.
Ace trilled softly at that. "Upgrades indeed." She fiddled with the datapad in her hand as Najia and the others started to do likewise, and after a few moments, found what seemed to be a saved-game in progress. It looked like a sketch of a space station, but it struck her as being a puzzle game, and probably an 'indie' one at that, given the godawful user-interface. She quickly worked it out of course, because a pirate's mind is slippery by necessity and a Teladi's mind is primed to calculate a dozen variables at once, and then she could dig into the meat of it. It looked like a space station, but it was one built on an impossible scale; an absolute megalith of a station, an absurd and ridiculous monolith seemingly built to construct the most basic and common of Commonwealth construction materials, but in absolutely absurd quantities. There was a rider on it, too; and that seemed to be the objective of the game, or at least of the current level; adding a mixed population of Terran, Argon, and Teladi workers, and the requisite inputs to feed them all, enough to run the entire station and then some.
The datapad in her hand chirr-uped, and Ace saved and closed the progress she had made in the game, finding that a new report had been filed by the professor they had hired for, frankly, enough money to probably have employed the entire Empyrean Curs. She skimmed the summary - short, consise and to the point - and trilled softly. "Interesting development," she noted. "Your starship professor is making yet more inroads." She looked up at the human magnate. "Apparently he found a project starfighter that someone had been preparing in one of your hangars."
Najia chuckled. "A project starfighter?" She took the datapad. "Paramerion...? Hmph. Looks like someone stripped down a Kallis for speed and narrowness, judging by these stats." "Could be fun," Marta pointed out. "For someone who likes to fly, that is," she added, grinning at Najia and Ace.
Najia chuckled, and then shook her head. "Might even be just the thing for chasing down this Northriver fellow, if we assume he's going to make himself difficult to catch up to. According to the Professor, it's currently a one-off, but they should be able to extrapolate the plans and build more, if desired. Seems that it actually was based on some early, unproduced Kallis prototypes." "I'll have it sent out to the Avarice Necessities supplier," Najia added. "Meanwhile..."
A high-importance alert hit her datapad. She frowned as she read the report; one - then two - then three - of her freighters in Windfall were reporting being harassed by the Vigor syndicate. That was new. She scowled at that, snarling.
"Trouble," Ace asked. Under the table, she curled her tail around Najia's calf, and Najia rubbed her eyes. "Trouble," Ace repeated; no longer an interrogative, but a statement. "The Vigor syndicate have apparently decided to start harassing ships carrying food," she noted, wrathfully. "That you have gone so long without them doing so is the anomaly," Ace pointed out. "They are not shy about that they use force to enforce their monopoly on food in Windfall and Vigor," she added. "And was this not the fight you intended to wage anyway?"
"Yes," Najia hissed angrily. "But the timing is wrong." She rubbed her eyeballs, seething. Her ships were reporting that the Vigor syndicate were being very aggressive; not quite at the point of shooting openly at them - which would go poorly for everyone concerned frankly - but they were harassing them openly, shaking them down for bribes or even demanding they drop cargo, as well as conducting "police" inspections for "contraband" - meaning food and water. "Then what do you plan to do?"
Najia grit her teeth, closing her eyes. She focused on the feeling of Ace's tail squeezing her calf, and seethed, but calmed herself. "Comply... For now. Set up some goodwill by selling them energy cells again." "Again? They're probably angry you cut them off in the first place," Ace noted, and Najia snorted. "Probably." Najia let out an annoyed hiss of breath. "Well, we'll deal with it." She drummed her fingers in annoyance on the bare metal, cafeteria-style table. "The time is not yet. Not yet... Yet." She cracked her knuckles, one-by-one. "First, we need to chase down this Protectyon stuff." She started fiddling on her datapad. "I'll just place the order and have it sent to the HQ. If Boso Ta can't work with that, well... I guess we'll try it Yorilos' way and chase down this Northriver."
"It might be worthwhile to approach him now in any event," Ace suggested. "The Northriver company are, as you might imagine... Well-connected, with the Vigor Syndicate." Najia pursed her lips and frowned, but nodded. She looked around the dingy cafeteria, and sighed, nodding, but sighed again, heavily. "You can't fix everything, Ninja Taco; and what you can fix, you mostly can't fix in a day," Marta said, softly. "Let's just... Let's try Ace's idea."
Najia nodded, with a heavy sigh. She covered her head with her hands for a few moments, and let out a huff. She needed a bit of breathing room, time to think, time to plan. She looked around, and drummed her fingers on the table. "Let's finish our business here, and head for the Necessities station," she said. "We'll give the Raleigh I bought time to make it to the HQ, and the Paramerion time to get here... Then we'll use it, as it's apparently speed incarnate, to chase down Northriver and see what he can tell us about Protectyon, or the Syndicate, or both." She looked around; there were no particular objections raised. Ace snorted softly at her. "I and 'Chipmunk' are laying low; it matters little to me where we do so or what other activities we engage in whilst doing. Besides, I wonder what this station looks like."
Najia grinned at her.
Najia smiled weakly at her, leaning out to look out through the expansive flight-deck window. "Quite simply? I wanted there to never, ever, ever be any question about whether or not a ship in need of safe-habor from the Tide could find it here. And yes, we're buying the Protectyon stuff - at quite ridiculous prices - to keep the place safe." She pointed at a massive, triple-pronged module along the station's 'spine.' "The Breakers built that, and the storage for it. They're effectively a 'black box' to us since part of the deal there was that we didn't poke around inside, but the thing keeps working, and we've isolated them from outside comms to ensure that stays the case."
Ace snorted. "I'm surprised you agreed to refrain from reverse-engineering them." "Well, we did. Of course, we lied," Najia said, with a grin. "I don't believe in letting other people keep technological secrets from me. But we're not, you know, cutting our way in or anything... Sometimes, you have to move slow. Besides, nobody would bat an eyelash at me commissioning another Raleigh and stocking it with some Protectyon, right?" "Right," Ace said, chuckling. She glanced up at the station. It was massive. She glanced down at the time-table; the Paramerion would arrive in approximately sixteen hours. "This place is huge. I might have to look around."
Najia smiled at her. "Feel free. You want to come with me to chase down this Northriver character? I think I'm going to give this prototype a test run myself." Ace trilled. "That sounds fun. Sure."
That, Ace realized, was something that set her apart. To her way of thinking, it was only to be expected that the party which had the power to establish a monopoly on such basic necessities should do so, to further increase their power and wealth, exploiting that position to enrich themselves. Takio clearly did not see it that way. It was an affront to her; and she was clearly plotting the Syndicate's downfall over it. Ace mused these musings both before and after she took a nap, in a surprisingly-affordable lodging room she took on the station. The amenities were in fact made in the same style and materials as those Najia had established for herself back on her headquarters station. The shower, in particular, was an absolute luxury to Ace's mind; there was no time- or pressure-limiter, no charge for the water use, and, as with the showers on her ships, featured a slick slatted floor instead of an obvious drain and a bench. All available at such a rate that anyone who landed here could afford to stay without difficulty. Neither were there any other tiers of accommodation available; there were no 'suites' above and beyond what she slept in, nor were there the expected squalorus hostel dormitories she had sometimes been able to avail herself of in her youth - at prices that sometimes exceeded that of the individual suite she enjoyed. The only other forms of room available were doubles and quads for pairings or parties sleeping together, and 'accessibility' rooms for persons with mobility or other issues.
Ace had found this so surprising, in fact, she had chatted up the clerk at the lodging module. Apparently, Takio Enterprises had taken some simple shortcuts in their design process, by not doing the design work themselves; they had simply followed Segaris traveler-accommodation regulations and made use of a common Segaris habitat module design. The prices were set low because the station was, ultimately, self-sufficient save for the reliance on Protectyon, and it was largely viewed as a public service.
The difference between this station and the one they had left hardly any time at all before was striking. The Terran construction techniques Takio used were incredible, of course; but it also spoke to their intents that they were effectively leaving money in the pockets of persons who would pay higher prices for what they were offering and gladly. Of course, she mused, it wasn't entirely utopic. It couldn't be. she had found a tavern and lurked, and certainly she had caught the (metaphorical) scent of black-market trade. The number of employees at the station was enormous, surely there would be those who could be bribed. There was certain, she knew, to be a thriving underbelly in illicit goods or services; though it seemed that there was an effort to minimize this, by the simple expedient of making the most commonly-smuggled goods and most commonly-criminalized services legal, mostly in the Teladi style; Ace saw vending machines which dispensed packets of Space Weed and found a local-net exchange board which purported to connect medically-checked and cleared prostitutes with clients; tangential to that was a heap of information about prostitution - both practical and, she saw with a little digging, historical and philosophical - as well as resources for those looking to get into that trade, beginning with reporting to medical for an examination. There was also a stark warning that pimping, or abusing a prostitute in any way, carried a summary sentence of execution. Ace's eyes shot up at that. She ran a few searches to see what cut Takio Enterprises was taking for this, but couldn't find any over and above presumably the rental price of the lodging rooms involved.
It almost seemed clinical, but, she mused, on the balance, if this environment had been available to her when she was trying to figure out what to do to avert hunger, it certainly would have seemed a far more attractive option. Her primary reason for shying away from prostitution as a career, had been the fear of winding up the property of a pimp. Ace ruminated on this, whilst staring out the window of a tavern, at the star, through the solar panel array, when she got the message that the Paramerion had arrived.
Ace looked between the two. The Paramerion was short dorsal-to-ventral, as most Terran small craft were, but this one took it to an extreme. It was elongated and somewhat narrow, though it could have, she thought, been narrower still without the side-mounted wings that served no purpose she could discern immediately, save to be wings. "They're for atmospheric flight," Najia explained. "Most Terran S- and M- craft are at least capable of it; most Argon, too, for that matter. Most Teladi... Even the Drill, which the Baku is based on; and of course the Baku itself. Though, admittedly, the flying shoe does rely a lot more on thrusters," Najia said; she was standing by the ramp into the Paramerion, watching Ace's gaze.
Ace trilled softly and nodded, joining Najia in the cockpit. It was roomy enough; the cockpit design seemed to be wholly-copied from the Kallis. That made sense, as they were apparently related designs. She looked around, and tapped on the holographic auxiliary console at the rear of the cockpit, to the side. "Shall I navigate for you?" "Unless you'd rather fly," Najia said, smiling at her. Ace took a moment to think on that, and shook her head. "I'll fly the way back, if all goes smoothly. It's your ship, you should take it. Where is Marta? Is she not coming?"
"She's already in the back. There's what the original designers of these classes euphemistically refer to as a 'bunk-slash-engineering-access' behind us, in front of the power plant. It's so tight I don't think anyone could even masturbate in there, but you can sleep in there... If you're desperate. Personally, I'd just roll out a sleeping mat in the dockpit," Najia said; this got a louder trill from Ace, as Najia took the chair. "Right, I've already done the preflight... Let's see what she can do."
Finding him was little challenge - then Ace swore softly. "Is that..." She had another ship on the fighter's sensors, and brought up its details. Sitting a hundred klicks from Astrid, apparently the ship of Northriver, was J.P. Morgan's Knife. Ace hissed softly. "Does he... Really..."
"Does he really expect this guy to give us a sample to reverse engineer?" Najia groaned. "Fine, fuck it. If we don't ask, he will, and Yorilos is about as good at negotiating as someone who goes to a flea market, sees a pair of sun-shades at a stall, talks the proprietor down two credits and walks away feeling like they're John Pierpont Morgan." Ace trilled softly at that. "Is that whom his vessel is named after? Who was this person?" Najia snorted. "We'd have to interrupt the history lesson to run for cover from the Tide," she said with a grin, looking over her shoulder. "Suffice to say he was a human industrialist from a very long time ago, who managed to amass one of the smaller fortunes of his era, but who wielded power and control of money to substantially more effect than the actual wealth he personally had. He formed banks, you see; once, he helped to fend off an impending bank run that would have caused a financial collapse, by assembling a large number of a nation's most powerful bankers in his mansion, and locked them in his library, telling them that they would not be leaving until they had worked out a scheme to avert the crisis."
Ace trilled, watching as the little fighter closed on what she was reading as some kind of yacht. "That sounds like something you might do," she pointed out. Najia snorted, looked back at Ace, and chuckled. "I think I should take that as a compliment. J.P. Morgan was an asshole, like pretty much all of the wealthy and powerful persons of his time and era... Or, any era, to be honest. I... Never expected to find myself wielding clout and power like Morgan's, let alone enough that I probably eclipse him. It's... Kind of overwhelming, to be honest." "And yet, you persevere," Ace retorted. "By any measure, you could take what you've amassed now, retire to a sector of your choosing, build a monumental space station of your own design, and live a life of indolence until the money ran out. A Teladi could take your wealth and live out the rest of her life, even. Yet, you are building warships and lodgings fit for well-off individuals and affordable to the hardscrabble. By Teladi reckoning, Najia, you are insane."
Najia blinked at that, half-snorting. She had cut the travel drive and was approaching the lazily drifting yacht, and took the moment to turn her chair halfway, looking to her side at Ace. "Do you think I'm... Literally mad?" Ace peered at her, and shook her head. "No, I do not. Many Teladi might assume it to be so," she said, with an ambivalent sway of her hips and a shrug. "... I believe that you are acting to a set of principles and convictions that are, however, utterly alien to most Teladi understanding. You seem as if you intend to seize Windfall and Avarice outright. Yet even if you did, you would not squeeze the Rakers on food prices the way the Syndicate does. I do not understand where you are coming from," Ace said, swaying her hips again. "But... I feel I can trust you. And from there, confidence. Heads-up," she added, cautioning Najia. "We are close enough you had best comm them, lest they think you're about to attack."
Swiveling rapidly back to face forward, Najia did just that, signaling the yacht she was approaching of her intent to communicate. Moments later, she recieved a reply. "Yes, what is it you want?" Brantlee Northriver had a grating, abrasive, and smug voice; he was also dressed, she thought, ridiculously, wearing what looked like a desaturated blue jacket trimmed with excessively gaudy, and gaudily excessive amounts of gold, with some kind of absurd half-hood thing cupping the back of his head. It was some long-ago futurist's vision of what a far-flung spacefuture clergyman's robe might look like crossed with a business suit. Najia knew that her own sense of fashion was questionable, but even she immediately recognized the outfit as disgustingly ugly, and radiating both wealth and contempt. Her impression was realized as he continued, "I sure hope you have a good reason for approaching me. I am quite busy, you see?"
Najia mastered the urge to ask if he was busy receiving fellatio from someone under the console he was sitting at, because she could see absolutely no other possible activity he was invested in; she also mastered the urge to just shoot the smug off his face. She instead smiled at him, schooling herself into 'businesswoman' persona even though he made her skin crawl on an imager; and, of course, she would have to try to talk a sample out of it, because she knew that Yorilos was listening in and would certainly swoop in and somehow make things stupider if she didn't. "Mr. Northriver, you may not have had time yet to notice my minor operations; Takio Enterprises is expanding into Avarice. The name of Northriver and its Protectyon is on every set of lips within three jumps as a potent defensive measure against the Tide. I wished to obtain -"
"What, just a sample?" Northriver leaned forward, towards his camera, smirking - no, smugging - at her, adopting the 'Thinker' pose, briefly. "Such a small quantity won't get you far, if you want to protect yourself from the Tide. Can't afford more, eh?" For a moment, Najia toyed with the notion of making an offer to buy Northriver outright, just to wipe the smug off his face, but he continued to smug audibly at her. "Oh, well, since you seem to be new around here, I'll allow it. Once." Brantlee turned to look out his cockpit window at Avarice, which illuminated him brightly. Looking away and up was probably his 'best side;' it was the only posture in which she had yet seen him that looked anything other than 'contemptable.' "To get you hooked. Am I not charitable?" He immediately resumed his contemptuousness, then turned back to face her and made it all the more stark. "I will even cut you a special deal, how about that?" His expression clearly communicated his contempt and belief that he was superior. "Merely twelve and a half thousand credits for the sample you so dearly desire; my first, last, and only offer."
Najia wanted to say something scathing in return, she really did. Or simply to lock her cannons on his admittedly-very-sexy yacht and take the sample at cannon-point. Or to flip him the finger. Instead, she schooled herself to merely raise her eyebrow skeptically; forcing herself to maintain 'The Businesswoman,' who was too refined to rise to the bait. But she also had neither time nor patience to haggle over what was, frankly, a trivial sum to her bank account. Hell, she knew for a fact that Ace could buy the sample and wouldn't lose much sleep over it, just from what Ace had made in the last several days with her. "It seems your proposal can only be agreed to," she said, bringing up the financial transfer function on her console and sending the sum required.
Smugly, Brantlee grinned at her. "Here you go. I hope you leave as a satisfied customer!" Ace quickly tapped a message that appeared on her console. 'He's jettisoned an XS cargo pod.' The Teladi deftly located it for her on sensors, targeting it for her, as Northriver continued, "Oh, and by the way - don't for one second think that you can use this sample to engineer a competing product. It won't work. Northriver products are just too ingenious!" Northriver positively crowed it at her, and once again Najia had to master the urge to lock weapons upon him, but she did, at that moment, privately vow that, by means fair or foul, she was going to gain possession of his yacht if only to spite him. "Run along now," he added, smirking. "I have much more important matters to attend to," he clarified, sanctimoniously smiling, ending the comm channel and turning the yacht away, entering Travel drive.
"Let me bring that pod aboard," Ace muttered, manipulating the tractor controls, and comming the multipurpose space in the back. "Marta, if you would kindly suit up -" "Way ahead of you, Ace," Marta answered her, popping up on-screen already wearing a light pressure suit, in the airlock. "Get it over here and I'll grab it, make sure it doesn't jostle or anything. Mass?" "Considerable, but not more than a large human such as yourself can handle. Volitility is not known, but it cannot hurt to be over-cautious."
Najia smiled to herself as she heard Ace, unprompted, begin collaboration with Marta. A part of her cynical and intellectual side tried to argue that Ace was a pirate, and probably always would be a pirate at heart, but she was quite simply too fond of the reptilian spacer to listen to that part of her anymore; her oldest friend and her newest could be coming together. Then another comm popped up, and she resisted the urge to groan aloud. She let The Businesswoman fade; frankly, Yorilos didn't rate it, and they were (sort of) collaborators on this anyway. To her surprise (and pleasure), when he commed her, he immediately voiced her own opinion, "I wonder if being obnoxious is his deliberate business strategy?" Najia laughed, heartily, slumping back in her command chair and grinning brightly, shrugging. "I don't think so. I think it just comes naturally to the git."
Yorilos looked momentarily nonplussed, presumably by her vernacular, then said, "No matter. It will make it all the more enjoyable when we pull the rug from under the Northriver Company." "We are in absolute agreement about that," Najia said. "I want to wipe the smug grin off his face." She glanced down; her airlock indicator had closed, and she flicked up a view of the inside. Marta was carefully securing a container roughly the size and volume of a ubiquitous 205-liter shipping drum, though it wasn't one. "I've just taken the sample aboard." "You want to take it back to the headquarters yourself? Go ahead," Yorilos said. He cut the channel, and Najia blinked at the suddenness.
"... Well, that was... Abrupt," Najia said, looking back to Ace. "It was. I cannot believe that you paid twelve and a half thousand for the sample." Najia shrugged. "I mean... It's highway robbery, considering that a commercial volume costs just about twice that and is twenty cubic meters in volume whereas that sample is maybe two. On the other hand, you heard him; he wasn't in the mood to negotiate. What should I have done? Shot at him?" "Yes." Ace trilled, then huffed, shaking her head. "No. As cathartic as it would be, your plans are too long-term to have simply taken it from the wretch by force." She shook her head. "I suppose you had little choice," she conceded, "if you are to continue Yorilos' scheme."
"I'm kind of eager to set Boso Ta loose on this stuff myself," Najia said. The revolving door to the back cycled, and Marta walked in, looking flushed with exertion. "Thanks, Marta," she said. "You can thank me by you securing the damn thing in the 'hold,' Marta said, snarkily.
Najia nodded, and swiveled her chair all the way. "Sure. Thank you. Ace, you're up on stick," she said, standing up. "Let's just fly this thing straight home; I bet we can make it before dinnertime with us flying," she said, smiling at Ace. Ace trilled softly. "That sounds like a challenge. Accepted." She slid past Marta and Najia, slaloming between them, and took the stick, keying in a course for the Takio Enterprises headquarters. "We should recall the other ships, yes?" "Yes; good thinking, Ace. Thank you. I'll handle it from the back, after I've secured this barrel."
"I would very much like that," Najia agreed. The container had already been sent to the lab, and she squared her shoulders up, heading for the lift with purpose.
The door to the laboratory opened, and Najia's jaw dropped. "How," she said, flatly, quietly, as Ace all-but plowed into her backside. Ace slid around her side, looking into the lab, and let out a chuff of disbelief.
Yorilos was standing beside Boso Ta's tank.
Ace resisted the urge to hiss in surprise, and reached up, patting Najia's back. "I do not know," she confessed. "Perhaps he made use of an anomaly and was quite lucky. Or perhaps he has modified his hauler in ways unimaginable and is an outright daredevil pilot." Najia shook her head, and squared up, entering the lab. The elderly professor was nowhere to be seen, but it was late at night; he was likely in bed. So she went to the interloper, approaching Yorilos. "Yorilos, hi... What are you doing here?" She wasn't even going to ask how. That was his secret and his alone.
"Ah, yes. I really hope we can find a way to make the Protectyon more affordable for everyone in Avarice," he explained, as he peered around the laboratory. That, she thought, didn't exactly explain her question; presumably he intended for her to infer the answer. Somehow. Najia shook her head and smiled, nodding to him. "Alright." She climbed up the stairs, after a glance back at Ace, who had become fascinated by the new addition of a lot of bonsai trees in the laboratory's little greenery display, and greeted Boso Ta with a wave, to which the Boron responded with one of his own. "Hello there! Ah, excellent, the Protectyon sample has been delivered, and we may begin. Thank you kindly!" Boso Ta seemed to examine a computer tablet held in his... Tentacles? Flippers? Manipulators. He made a few deft strokes. "I have added the Protectyon Research to our agenda, and listed the required secondary materials. Feel free to initiate the research at any time convenient to yourself!"
With that abrupt declaration, Boso Ta swam upwards through the hatch in the laboratory tank, presumably to his personal lodging suites. Najia blinked, rocking back on her heels and looked back at Ace, who looked at her with the cocked hips that Najia had intuited was a definite shrug. "You'd think I didn't own the place," Najia muttered to herself, "the way almost everyone just... Is so... Curt with me." "You could put them in their place the way a pirate lord would," Ace suggested. "Or, if having a beating administered is too vulgar for your preferences, do what a capitalist might do and threaten them with penury."
Najia snorted. "Yeah... I think I'd rather just live with being curtly spoken to than be an asshole." "So be it. Your ways do allow for others to become... Familiar with you," Ace said, giving a vibrato trill. "For better, and for worse." She smiled at Najia, and Najia smiled back. Ace was toying with a small bonsai tree, and watched as Najia checked her datapad, then clucked her tongue.
"A lot of things we don't have on-hand," Najia muttered, "mainly because what Boso Ta wants - for this research project, and others - are Commonwealth-base, and we're not. That's not a huge problem, I'll just ask Tsukiko to set up a PO for a useful quantity of said commodities. For now -" The tank was suddenly filled again with Boso Ta. "Assistant, you simply must do something about this irksome vessel!"
A moment of silent passed. Najia pushed down the urge to be catty or snarky at Boso Ta, or outright hostile. She took a deep breath. "A... Vessel? Is irking you?" "Yes yes! Somehow, it is managing to distort the station's sensors, preventing me from witnessing a solar event in the Great Reef Nebula. I suggest you take care of this annoyance before it manages to disrupt even more observations!"
Najia took in a breath to respond, but Boso Ta had already vanished again, with such rapidity that even Yorilos seemed to be watching him dumbstruck. Yorilos also made a cocked-hip gesture, and then walked out. Najia watched him go, and snorted. "If he has even half a brain, he's going to ask Boso Ta what resources he's asking for and then try to get ahead of the purchase orders," Najia noted. "I would." "As would I," Ace agreed. "Would you like me to take care of this... 'Irksome Vessel' for you?"
"Bored?" Najia asked, grinning at Ace. "I wouldn't say that I was bored," Ace said, reaching out and squeezing her hand. Najia squeezed back. "But it seems that Boso Ta will not likely let the matter drop."
"Alright. Let's take care of it." Najia rolled her shoulders. "I can do this admin stuff from a ship as easily as my apartment study." She headed for the lift, neglecting to let go of Ace's hand; Ace likewise kept the hold, accompanying her. They almost ran into Marta coming out of it. She had a big grin on her face, and Najia pursed her lips. "Okay, what have you done," she asked.
"Oh, not much, just had a warship commissioned to keep close-to-hand in case we get in trouble and need some biggish guns fast. She's done, come take a look." Najia looked down at Ace, who trilled loudly at her. "Either you pay her too well, or you trust her entirely, if she has such authority in your name." "Jealous," Marta asked, smirking. "Yes," Ace admitted frankly. "Shall we?"
Najia sighed and laughed. "Fiiiine."
"Kevlin, ma'am; Selaia Kevlin. I'm a shipyard specialist." Her accent was distinctly neither anything Solar that Najia recognized, nor Segaris. "I'm surprised you're even aboard yet; we're only about to put her through space trials."
Najia snorted. "Not even the shakedown cruise, huh? You're not from anywhere I've been, are you?" "No ma'am." Selaia looked Asian, with her hair up in a tight bun. "I'm from Argon Prime. I found myself in Grand Exchange as crew on a freighter, saw the amenities on offer on your headquarters station, and jumped ship for a job here."
Najia nodded. "I see..." She grinned. "Are you spying on me?" "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you, ma'am," Selaia responded back, in the age-old joke. Najia laughed in turn.
"Right. Well, stand down for a while," she said. "I appear to have been talked into taking her out personally." "Ma'am!" Selaia stepped aside. "The, err, owner has the bridge!" she called out, fumbling through something approximating military protocol, as Najia stepped up, looking over the console. Najia grinned. "Alright. Nifty little ship. Ace, take the helm," she said. "Take us out."
2023.03.25 04:41 Prestigious_Gas6140 [REQUEST] [DISCUSSION] What's my ideology?
Social Policy
I am pro-choice up to viability.
I support funding for planned parenthood.
I support gay couples being able to adopt.
I think health insurers should be required to offer free birth control.
LGBTQ+ should be protected under anti-discrimination laws.
I support the death penalty, but the burden of proof should be raised.
Transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against athletes that differ from their assigned sex at birth.
Government employees should be required to go through racial sensitivity training.
State governments should not be allowed to display the Confederate flag, propaganda of our enemies, or any traitorous material.
Assisted suicide for the terminally ill should be allowed.
Domestic Policy
I think there should be some more restrictions on the process of buying a gun, like having to get a license and getting liability insurance.
Victims of gun violence should be allowed to sue manufacturers and dealers.
I oppose an assault weapons ban, but I would not mind a voluntary gun buy-back.
I think every school should be required to have armed security.
Weed should be made legal nationwide, but other drugs should be kept illegal.
I oppose term limits in all offices.
I support the Patriot Act.
People on the no-fly list should not be allowed to purchase weapons until they are removed.
It should be illegal to burn the American flag.
The NSA should be allowed to collect metadata for citizens' phones.
I support net neutrality.
Redrawing of congressional districts should be controlled by an independent, non-partisan commission.
The government should regulate social media sites to prevent fake news and misinformation.
I oppose affirmative action.
I support eminent domain in cases of national emergency
The government should not cut funding or raise the retirement age for social security. It should only do those things if they have to save the program, like in France.
Traitors to the country should be locked up at ADX Florence
The Jan 6 rioters should be locked up for life.
Edward Snowden should be brought back to the US and locked up for life.
Environmental Policy
I think there should be more environmental regulations.
I support the Paris Climate Agreement.
Disposable plastics should be phased out over time.
I support nuclear energy
The government should give tax credits and subsidies to nuclear, wind, solar, etc.
We should not construct any new pipelines, and we should move pipelines that are near native American land.
I oppose fracking.
The US should not expand oil drilling.
We should increase spending on environmentally friendly public transportation.
The government should build a network of electric vehicle charging stations across the country.
I support a carbon tax and a gas tax.
Science Policy
I think there should be a vaccine mandate for all vaccines for all citizens within my country. Those who can not get them for health reasons are exempt.
We should increase funding to NASA, begin colonizing the moon and mars, and bring our military further into space.
Immigration Policy
More restrictions should be placed on our current border security policy.
I think the US should build a bigger and stronger wall across the US-Mexico border.
Immigration from countries that could be deemed a terror threat should be more scrutinized.
DACA children and future illegal immigrant children should be granted citizenship.
Working illegal immigrants should be given amnesty the rest should be deported.
End catch and release.
Immigrants should be required to pass a citizenship test, but it should be made more simple.
The US should increase the number of temporary work visas given.
I support dual citizenship.
Crime
I think we should increase funding to all law enforcement agencies across the US.
Every police officer within the country should be required to wear a body camera.
Police departments should continue to militarize.
I support mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug dealers.
Drug traffickers should receive tougher sentences.
I oppose private prisons.
I support qualified immunity for police officers.
Convicts should be allowed to vote after completing their sentence.
I support CCTV cameras being used by police with facial recognition.
Make fines proportional to income.
Healthcare
Health insurers should not be allowed to deny people who have a pre-existing condition.
Illegal immigrants should not have access to government healthcare.
Medicaid funding should be decreased and preferably repealed.
Medicare funding should be kept the same.
Most of Obamacare should be repealed, but some things from it should be kept.
Drug prices, for the most part, should not be regulated except in some rare cases.
The federal government should be allowed to negotiate drug prices for Medicare.
The government should increase funding for mental health treatment.
I oppose single-payer healthcare.
The government should increase funding to the WHO.
While Medicaid is around, people should be required to work to receive its benefits.
Veterans should have free healthcare and be able to see any doctor of their choice.
Businesses should be allowed to ask customers about their vaccination status.
Medical boards should penalize doctors that give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus.
Foreign Policy
pro-intervention
Military spending should be increased.
There should be two years of mandatory military service for all able-bodied citizens.
I support NATO and believe it should be expanded from just the north Atlantic to cover the whole world, that way, nations like Japan, and South Korea can join.
I support the UN for the most part.
Enhanced interrogation techniques should be allowed.
The government should attempt to influence foreign elections in countries that do not ally with the west.
We should conduct strikes against Iran.
The president should be able to authorize military force against any terrorist group without congressional approval.
I support drone strikes.
Foreign aid spending should be increased, but more should be done to keep it out of the hand of the wrong people. Foreign aid to some countries should be ended.
The US should continue to support Israel with more aid and support.
We should conduct strikes against North Korea.
We should mobilize the US military against Mexican Drug cartels
We should continue providing military supplies to Ukraine and increase the amount.
Russia should be designated as a state sponsor of terror.
After the war, Ukraine should join NATO.
We should not have withdrawn from Afghanistan.
The US should sell military weapons to India to counter Russian and Chinese influence
The military should upgrade Air Force One.
One day allied nations and militaries should unite into one country.
Education
I oppose President Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
I support the concept of common core.
I oppose the open for learning recovery benefit program.
I support charter schools
I support school vouchers as long as they don't go to a private religious school.
Economic policy
Cut most taxes and mostly deregulate except for some industries and things.
If taxes have to be raised to pay for some of these things, the tax that should be increased is the income tax, but overall I'd say make it a flat tax and remove deductions and loopholes.
Tie the minimum wage to inflation
Businesses should be required to provide maternity leave.
Reduce the national debt.
Welfare recipients should be tested for drugs.
Lower corporate tax to 15% but also eliminate deductions and loopholes.
If most of the jobs were taken over by automation, I'd support UBI
There should be more restrictions on current welfare benefits.
I think labor unions are good.
Lower capital gains tax.
I oppose economic stimulus unless we are in a 1929-type depression.
Lower the estate tax.
To combat tax evasion, increase the size of the IRS and the number of audits.
I support NAFTA
I support the TPP
I support total free trade with allied countries
Increase Tariffs on China and countries opposed to the US
Penalize businesses for operating within countries that are opposed to the west.
I support farm subsidies.
I support the federal reserve but believe it should be audited by congress.
Offer tax breaks to individual companies to keep jobs in the US.
I support increasing taxes on alcohol and tobacco as well as legalizing weed and taxing it.
I support increasing pension payments for government workers when we can.
Elections
I support voter ID, but it should be free.
Voting should be compulsory, and everyone should be registered once they turn 18.
The electoral college should be abolished.
There should be a limit to the amount of money a candidate can receive from a donor.
Politicians over 75 should have to pass a mental competency test.
My preferred style of government
A unitary government with a parliamentary system. I would also be open to having a constitutional monarch.
I am sorry for making this so long thank you to anybody that decides to read through this and respond.
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I am pro-choice up to viability.
I support funding for planned parenthood.
I support gay couples being able to adopt.
I think health insurers should be required to offer free birth control.
LGBTQ+ should be protected under anti-discrimination laws.
I support the death penalty, but the burden of proof should be raised.
Transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against athletes that differ from their assigned sex at birth.
Government employees should be required to go through racial sensitivity training.
State governments should not be allowed to display the Confederate flag, propaganda of our enemies, or any traitorous material.
Assisted suicide for the terminally ill should be allowed.
Domestic Policy
I think there should be some more restrictions on the process of buying a gun, like having to get a license and getting liability insurance.
Victims of gun violence should be allowed to sue manufacturers and dealers.
I oppose an assault weapons ban, but I would not mind a voluntary gun buy-back.
I think every school should be required to have armed security.
Weed should be made legal nationwide, but other drugs should be kept illegal.
I oppose term limits in all offices.
I support the Patriot Act.
People on the no-fly list should not be allowed to purchase weapons until they are removed.
It should be illegal to burn the American flag.
The NSA should be allowed to collect metadata for citizens' phones.
I support net neutrality.
Redrawing of congressional districts should be controlled by an independent, non-partisan commission.
The government should regulate social media sites to prevent fake news and misinformation.
I oppose affirmative action.
I support eminent domain in cases of national emergency
The government should not cut funding or raise the retirement age for social security. It should only do those things if they have to save the program, like in France.
Traitors to the country should be locked up at ADX Florence
The Jan 6 rioters should be locked up for life.
Edward Snowden should be brought back to the US and locked up for life.
Environmental Policy
I think there should be more environmental regulations.
I support the Paris Climate Agreement.
Disposable plastics should be phased out over time.
I support nuclear energy
The government should give tax credits and subsidies to nuclear, wind, solar, etc.
We should not construct any new pipelines, and we should move pipelines that are near native American land.
I oppose fracking.
The US should not expand oil drilling.
We should increase spending on environmentally friendly public transportation.
The government should build a network of electric vehicle charging stations across the country.
I support a carbon tax and a gas tax.
Science Policy
I think there should be a vaccine mandate for all vaccines for all citizens within my country. Those who can not get them for health reasons are exempt.
We should increase funding to NASA, begin colonizing the moon and mars, and bring our military further into space.
Immigration Policy
More restrictions should be placed on our current border security policy.
I think the US should build a bigger and stronger wall across the US-Mexico border.
Immigration from countries that could be deemed a terror threat should be more scrutinized.
DACA children and future illegal immigrant children should be granted citizenship.
Working illegal immigrants should be given amnesty the rest should be deported.
End catch and release.
Immigrants should be required to pass a citizenship test, but it should be made more simple.
The US should increase the number of temporary work visas given.
I support dual citizenship.
Crime
I think we should increase funding to all law enforcement agencies across the US.
Every police officer within the country should be required to wear a body camera.
Police departments should continue to militarize.
I support mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug dealers.
Drug traffickers should receive tougher sentences.
I oppose private prisons.
I support qualified immunity for police officers.
Convicts should be allowed to vote after completing their sentence.
I support CCTV cameras being used by police with facial recognition.
Make fines proportional to income.
Healthcare
Health insurers should not be allowed to deny people who have a pre-existing condition.
Illegal immigrants should not have access to government healthcare.
Medicaid funding should be decreased and preferably repealed.
Medicare funding should be kept the same.
Most of Obamacare should be repealed, but some things from it should be kept.
Drug prices, for the most part, should not be regulated except in some rare cases.
The federal government should be allowed to negotiate drug prices for Medicare.
The government should increase funding for mental health treatment.
I oppose single-payer healthcare.
The government should increase funding to the WHO.
While Medicaid is around, people should be required to work to receive its benefits.
Veterans should have free healthcare and be able to see any doctor of their choice.
Businesses should be allowed to ask customers about their vaccination status.
Medical boards should penalize doctors that give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus.
Foreign Policy
pro-intervention
Military spending should be increased.
There should be two years of mandatory military service for all able-bodied citizens.
I support NATO and believe it should be expanded from just the north Atlantic to cover the whole world, that way, nations like Japan, and South Korea can join.
I support the UN for the most part.
Enhanced interrogation techniques should be allowed.
The government should attempt to influence foreign elections in countries that do not ally with the west.
We should conduct strikes against Iran.
The president should be able to authorize military force against any terrorist group without congressional approval.
I support drone strikes.
Foreign aid spending should be increased, but more should be done to keep it out of the hand of the wrong people. Foreign aid to some countries should be ended.
The US should continue to support Israel with more aid and support.
We should conduct strikes against North Korea.
We should mobilize the US military against Mexican Drug cartels
We should continue providing military supplies to Ukraine and increase the amount.
Russia should be designated as a state sponsor of terror.
After the war, Ukraine should join NATO.
We should not have withdrawn from Afghanistan.
The US should sell military weapons to India to counter Russian and Chinese influence
The military should upgrade Air Force One.
One day allied nations and militaries should unite into one country.
Education
I oppose President Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
I support the concept of common core.
I oppose the open for learning recovery benefit program.
I support charter schools
I support school vouchers as long as they don't go to a private religious school.
Economic policy
Cut most taxes and mostly deregulate except for some industries and things.
If taxes have to be raised to pay for some of these things, the tax that should be increased is the income tax, but overall I'd say make it a flat tax and remove deductions and loopholes.
Tie the minimum wage to inflation
Businesses should be required to provide maternity leave.
Reduce the national debt.
Welfare recipients should be tested for drugs.
Lower corporate tax to 15% but also eliminate deductions and loopholes.
If most of the jobs were taken over by automation, I'd support UBI
There should be more restrictions on current welfare benefits.
I think labor unions are good.
Lower capital gains tax.
I oppose economic stimulus unless we are in a 1929-type depression.
Lower the estate tax.
To combat tax evasion, increase the size of the IRS and the number of audits.
I support NAFTA
I support the TPP
I support total free trade with allied countries
Increase Tariffs on China and countries opposed to the US
Penalize businesses for operating within countries that are opposed to the west.
I support farm subsidies.
I support the federal reserve but believe it should be audited by congress.
Offer tax breaks to individual companies to keep jobs in the US.
I support increasing taxes on alcohol and tobacco as well as legalizing weed and taxing it.
I support increasing pension payments for government workers when we can.
Elections
I support voter ID, but it should be free.
Voting should be compulsory, and everyone should be registered once they turn 18.
The electoral college should be abolished.
There should be a limit to the amount of money a candidate can receive from a donor.
Politicians over 75 should have to pass a mental competency test.
My preferred style of government
A unitary government with a parliamentary system. I would also be open to having a constitutional monarch.
I am sorry for making this so long thank you to anybody that decides to read through this and respond.
2023.03.25 03:54 ChooseOn Conservative Politician Andrew Wilson Criticizes President Maxwell White for "Leftist Economics"
Today, conservative politician Andrew Wilson, criticized president Maxwell White for his new economic bill, the "Green Nation Act". Andrew Wilson responded, "President White is known for being an ex-socialist. It is no surprise that he is introducing a bill to make the market less free and empower the government! How can anybody trust this President?" Maxwell White immediately replied, "I am not empowering the government nor introducing socialist ideas! I am simply preserving the nation's nature and reducing waste! We have seen the massive landfills of other nations and I would hate for Zebralia to become that."
President White's "Green Nation Act" describes how the government will fee companies and individuals who would like to use natural resources, encouraging them to reuse byproducts. These natural resources include iron, gold, natural metals, crystals, trees, and anything grown naturally and not by human intervention. The fee system will not apply to orchards, farms, factories, or anything privately owned that produces things that are normally grown naturally.
69.23% of the population is in favor of this bill and 80% of the population views president Maxwell White favorably. The bill is expected to pass through congress this weekend and as the president has made clear, he will enact this bill.
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President White's "Green Nation Act" describes how the government will fee companies and individuals who would like to use natural resources, encouraging them to reuse byproducts. These natural resources include iron, gold, natural metals, crystals, trees, and anything grown naturally and not by human intervention. The fee system will not apply to orchards, farms, factories, or anything privately owned that produces things that are normally grown naturally.
69.23% of the population is in favor of this bill and 80% of the population views president Maxwell White favorably. The bill is expected to pass through congress this weekend and as the president has made clear, he will enact this bill.
2023.03.25 02:40 FitInvestigator5945 THE PERSON OF NUMBERS VOL 1
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1.22.2020
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22ND, 2020
2:36 AM EST - 3:05AM EST
SUNDAY JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER 14: MOVING FORWARD
IF THIS WERE A DIARY, I WOULD SAY, FINANCIAL LEVERAGING HAS GOTTEN INTO ME. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE ADULTHOOD. I WANT TO HELP MYSELF TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND DOCUMENT THE PROCESS. IN MY THIRTIES, DURING THE TWENTY TWENTIES, I MUST PURCHASE AS MANY SHARES AS POSSIBLE. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. FOR NOW THOUGH, I MUST ONLY THINK ABOUT THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO. WE STILL TRADE. THE HOLDINGS MUST BE HELD. INVESTING IS ACTUALLY NOT THE RISK TO FEAR. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
LAYERS OF INVESTMENTS. MARKER. THIS IS THE DIARY FOR AMASSING FORTUNES. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. TODAY'S THURSDAY. WHEN I GET PAID, I WILL PURCHASE STOCKS AND CRYPTO TO HOLD. I AIM TO FILL MY PERSONAL PORTFOLIOS UP. TO MY LIKING. I THINK IT IS TIME TO JUST INVEST UNTIL I AM WITH CHILDREN AND WIFE. THEN KEEP INVESTING. NEVER, EVER, EVEN ONCE, STOP INVESTING. YOU HAVE TO INVEST IN THE KIDS AND THEIR PORTFOLIOS.
ROCKET SCIENCE IS HARDER THAN THIS. SAFE TO SAY IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE.
WHAT I WASN'T DOING IN MY TWENTIES, I AM DOING NOW. REGARDING THE FINANCIAL MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTORS. THERE WERE KEYWORDS I DID NOT HAVE FROM 18 TO 27. YOU SPEND TEN YEARS SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, EVENTUALLY IT'LL SMACK YOU RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE. TOOK AN ENTIRE DECADE. I HAVE NOTHING BUT NEUTRAL GROUND TO BUILD ON. I STAYED FROM OUT OF THE CIRCUS. IN ORDER TO RESEARCH HOW TO GET OUT OF THE JUNGLE, I STRAYED FROM THE CIRCUS PATH.
THE CRYPTO LOAN. NEXO WALLET OFFERED THE FIRST CRYPTO LOAN. IMAGINE THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. YOU PURCHASE CRYPTO. YOU USE IT AS COLLATERAL ON NEXO WALLET. PLACE THE CRYPTO IN THE NEXO WALLET. TAKE OUT A LOAN BASED ON THE COLLATERAL WORTH. PURCHASE ENOUGH CRYPTO TO TAKE OUT THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN IS NOW AMONG ST US PEOPLE. MPH MPH MPH. `WHEN YOU TAKE OUT 100K IN A SINGLE LOAN, WILL YOU LEGITIMATELY INVEST IT TO PAY OFF THE LOAN? GET YOUR CRYPTO BACK PEOPLE. AFTER PURCHASING IT AND LOANING IT OUT MAN. DIGITAL COLLATERAL MAN COME ON. THERE'S A STORM COMING. WHY AMERICA SLEPT.
IN ORDER FOR AMERICA TO RISE UP AGAIN, AS A NATION, IS TO INDIVIDUALLY RISE UP THE NEXT AMERICAN. I DID NOT CRAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR NET WORTH FOR MY OWN SAKE. I CRAVED TO SHOW THE WORLD, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE, CARES THE MOST. AMERICA DOESN'T PUSH INFORMATION LIKE THIS, TO AMERICANS. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, DO NOT PUSH THIS MATERIAL TO AMERICANS. THUS AMERICA, GROWS WEIRDER AND WEIRDER IN A REAL NORMAL VARIETY. IF I SAID SMME, SMART METRICS, A BIOMETRICS COMPANY, IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, A COMPETITOR OF NXT ID, MAKER OF THE FLYE CARD, COSTS ONE PENNY PER SHARE, WOULDN'T THAT JUST SOUND LIKE GIBBERISH? REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF ALL TIME, I CALLED IT. RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW I WROTE IT COST ONE PENNY. RIGHT BEFORE I PUBLISH THIS PUBLICATION, I WILL TYPE A LIST OF THE RECENT PRICES OF ALL SECURITIES MENTIONED.
THERE IS A DOUBLE PLEASURE I GET FROM THIS INFORMATION. I GET TO USE IT. I GET TO SHARE IT. YOU MAY USE IT. THOSE WHO USE IT, WILL RETIRE BEFORE THOSE WHO DO NOT. I PUT MONEY ON THAT AS WELL. I GET TO GO AROUND PURCHASING $10 IN SMME STOCK FOR OTHER PEOPLE. 1000 SHARES. 10,000 SHARES. 100,000 SHARES. I TINGLE JUST UTTERING SUCH PREDICAMENTS. 100 SHARES FOR A DOLLAR ARE YOU EXPLETIVELY KIDDING ME? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME WHAT? I COULD SAVE THE TEN DOLLARS IN FIAT CURRENCY, IN A BANK? THE BANK WOULD JUST PURCHASE STOCKS TODAY WITH THE CAPITAL. IT'S A NASTY BALL GAME. THIS PUBLICATION, IS ONE SPICY MEAT A BALL. ZEITGEIST THREE MOVING FORWARD, GAVE ME THE ANALOGY FOR IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX. FOR THE RECORD.
ECONOMICALLY I'M STARTING AN ARMY. IT'S AN ECONOMIC ARMY OF FINANCIALLY LITERATE COWABUNGERS.
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1.26.2020
JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN: A HEADACHE
I START THE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO THIS UPCOMING WEEK. TOMORROW IS MONDAY RIGHT? E-TRADE TAKES 5 DAYS TO TRANSFER THE EXTERNAL ACCOUNT DEPOSITS INTO THE HOLDING OR TRADING ACCOUNT. HERE IS THE SCENARIO. THIS IS THE INVESTMENT DIARY, OF ALL INVESTMENT DIARIES MY GOOD FRIEND. $240 IS THE INITIAL INVESTMENT. $45 GOES TO JASON FOR HIS E-TRADE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO. I WILL SEND HIM MORE NEXT TIME. $75 GOES TO JASON TO SEND XRP TO MY CRYPTO WALLET. I WILL CONVERT THOSE COINS TO OTHER ALTERNATIVE COINS. ALT COINS. $25 GOES TO THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT FEE FOR NOT HAVING THE $9 DEPOSIT AVAILABLE ON THE 5TH DAY OF THE TRANSFER. $125 MUST GO ON THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT. I WILL PURCHASE $100 IN STOCKS. I WILL SPLIT THE PURCHASE BETWEEN TWO COMPANIES. SMART METRIC AND RVBR MARK RAY.
EVERY $10 SPENT ON SMME, SMART METRIC, IS 1250 SHARES, AT THE PRICE LEVEL OF ONE PENNY. RVBR CONTAINS THREE DIFFERENT STOCK SYMBOLS, WITHIN THE ONE COMPANY. MARK RAY OWNS KFGL. GANS IS A KFGL SUBSIDIARY. THE PRICE LEVEL OF THREE PENNIES FOR RVBR NOW IS ONE PENNY PER CONTAINED SYMBOL. $30 IN RVBR NOW IS 3333.3333 SHARES. THE TOP TWO STOCK PICKS, ARE BETWEEN ONE AND THREE PENNIES. I HAVEN'T SEARCHED FOR RVBR COMPETITION YET. SMME WAS FOUND WHEN I SEARCHED FOR NXT ID COMPLETION. LOL. SMILEY FACE. WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THESE STRATEGIES FOR YEARS, NOW WE ARE GETTING DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT THIS CONCEPT. THIS IS A PHILOSOPHY.
$50 IN SMME COMPANY STOCK ALONE, IS 1250 TIMES FIVE. 6250 SHARES IN SMME FROM A $50 INVESTMENT. YOU WOULD WANT TO ALSO THEN PURCHASE NXT ID SHARES. 100 SHARES FOR $50. THEN YOU REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE THE PRICE LEVELS AND PROFIT MARGINS ARE BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, IN THE SAME INDUSTRY. IF SMME AND NXT ID ARE BOTH IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, IT IS FAIR TO SAY, NXT ID IS FARING CONSIDERABLY BETTER OFF THAN SMME. I HAVE FAITH IN THE BIOMETRICS DIVISON. I HAVE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION WITHIN THE INDUSTRY. I HAVE FAITH IN GOD. I HAVE FAITH IN MYSELF. I AM A MAN OF FAITH. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE STOCK MARKET. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE MARKET. I AM AFRAID OF NOT PARTICIPATING.
I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO, WE ARE BUILDING FOR OURSELVES. I WILL HAVE MY MOTHER SIGN UP FOR AN E-TRADE ACCOUNT SO I CAN BUILD THE FAMILY'S HOLDING PORTFOLIO. I MUST ACCEPT, ONCE THEY ACQUIRE IT, THEY WILL SELL OFF SHARES AT THEIR DISCRETION. I MAY HAVE TO HAVE A BACKUP ACCOUNT FOR THEM SOMEWHERE, MAYBE WITH MALIK. MAYBE I WILL SEND MALIK MONEY TO PURCHASE MY STOCK PICKS. HE CAN SPLIT THAT MONEY BETWEEN THREE PEOPLE. JUSTIN, KEVI, DANTE. THAT'S WHEN THE FAMILY REALIZES I LEFT BEHIND MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS WITH THE WEALTH PRE-DISTRIBUTED TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY FALLACY ON ANYONE'S BEHALF. INCLUDING THE POTENTIAL FALLACY, OF NOT ACCOUNTING FOR ANY POTENTIAL FALLACY, ON MY BEHALF.
I JUST SOLVED THAT ISSUE, OF HAVING ANOTHER HOLDING ACCOUNT STASHED AWAY FOR MY FAMILY. MY COUSIN MALIK SMITH. I CAN SEND FUNDS TO HIS E-TRADE FOR PURCHASING THE SAME SHARES FOR MY BIRTH FAMILY. I HAVE TO LEAVE THE SLATE CLEAN ON MY ACCOUNT TO BE LEFT TO MY CHILD OR MY MENTOR. MY FAMILY HOWEVER AND MY FRIENDS WILL HAVE THEIR HOLDING ACCOUNTS BEEFED UP TO WHERE MINE ARE. THEY WILL ALL JUST BE DUPLICATE ACCOUNTS. WHEN THE TRADING TAKES OFF, THE DEPOSITS FOR STOCKS WILL INCREASE TRIUMPHANTLY. THEN I CAN PAY OFF THE $4000 LOAN DARRELL KEELE AND GEORGE C. WORD TOOK OUT ON MY DELTA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ACCOUNT, WHEN I MOVED TO SYRACUSE, NEW YORK IN AUGUST OF 2018.
WHAT'S $4000 TO A BILLIONAIRE? THIS IS WHY I STAY TO MYSELF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I'M OF A STRANGER CALIBER THAN MOST I ENCOUNTER. THEY ARE SAFER AROUND ME, THAN I AM AROUND THEM. I DO HAVE TO HAVE A BENEFICIARY FOR MY INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS. I WANT IT TO BE MY CHILD AND THEIR MOTHER. FOR THAT I NEED ONE MORE ACCOUNT TO BUILD UP FOR MY MENTOR. THEN EVERYONE IS GOOD. UNTIL I DO HAVE A CHILD, THE BENEFICIARY WOULD HAVE TO BE MY MENTOR UNTIL I HAVE A CHILD. YOU SEE THE THOUGHTS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT? KEEPING THE ACCOUNT BENEFICIARY SLATE CLEAR FOR FUTURE CHILDREN YET STILL HAVING SOMEONE TO BENEFIT FROM IT. YET STILL HAVING THAT SAME AMOUNT LEFT TO THEM ONCE YOU DO HAVE CHILDREN. THAT'S A HEAD ACHE.
3:12AM EST - 3:55AM EST
1.29.2020
JANUARY 29TH, 2020
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE MAMBA MENTALITY
TODAY IS THE ONE MONTH TIME STAMP OF MY 30TH BIRTHDAY. I AM GRATEFUL, I STARTED MY HOLDING PORTFOLIO ONCE AGAIN. I STARTED THE CRYPTO HOLDING PORTFOLIOS IN THE SUMMER OF 2017. THREE YEARS AGO. THREE YEARS BEFORE THEN, I PURCHASED THREE BITCOINS AT $88 DOLLARS A PIECE. 3. IN 2013. I WAS 23. GOD IS GOOD ALL OF THE TIME. I PUT $225 ON MY ONLINE BANK CARD AT RITE AID. I PAID THE $5 FEE TO UPLOAD THE CARD BALANCE. I SENT JASON $100. I PAID THE PAYPAL FEE. $3.20. I PAID THE $25 FEE ON MY E-TRADE. I TRANSFERRED $122 ON THE E-TRADE. $97 WILL HIT THE HOLDING ACCOUNT. $48 WILL GO TO SMME. SMART METRICS. SMART METRICS IS THE BIOMETRICS COMPETITOR OF NEXT ID. NXT ID. 39 PENNIES NXT ID IS. ONE PENNY IS THE COST OF SMART METRIC STOCK. IN 2017, THE WINTER OF, SMME WAS 45 PENNIES. HALF OF NXT ID. I BIO MAY HAVE BEEN TEN PENNIES THEN AND EVEN WHEN I PURCHASED $10 WORTH IN STOCK, IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, ON ROBINHOOD FROM NEW YORK.
I ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE $25 WORTH OF SMME STOCK. I ASKED JASON TO SPEND THE OTHER $25 OF THE FIRST $50, ON RVBR, AT THREE PENNIES PER SHARE. 1600 SHARES OF SMME IN MY OWN ACCOUNT. HALF OF THOSE SHARES ARE IN JASON'S ACCOUNT. HALF THE $48 ON RVBR. 2500 SHARES, 4800 SHARES. 5000 SHARES. FLOATING THRU VARIOUS ACCOUNTS FROM NOW ON. MANIACALLY PURCHASING SHARES IN EMERGING MARKETS, ON THE MOST DIABOLICAL OF LEVELS. THE OTHER $50 WAS ASKED OF JASON TO DEPOSIT IT INTO HIS ROBINHOOD. WE ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE DOGECOIN WITH THE $50. WE CALCULATED THE DOGECOIN AMOUNT AT 20,500. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. I PRAY TO GOD I SEE THIS THRU. I AM TERRIFIED. I FEEL AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF DESTINY ALL AROUND ME. I CAN NOT HELP BUT TO REMAIN FOCUSED AND DISCERNING.
I WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. I HAVE SO MANY INDUSTRIES TO INCLUDE INTO THE PORTFOLIO. THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES IN THOSE INDUSTRIES, AVAILABLE ON E-TRADE AND ROBINHOOD, AND ANY OTHER PLATFORM I FIND. AFTER MANY ROUNDS OF DOING THIS, THE MOST URGENT ASPECT OF THE INVESTMENT WORLD I'M DELVING INTO TO BUILD MY FAMILY AN EMPIRE. I WILL GET THE ONLINE BANK ACCOUNT ALLOWING ME TO PUT MONEY INTO SAVINGS BONDS, ANY OTHER BONDS, AND CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. THIS IS HOW I WILL STORE THE VAST OF THE MONEY I HAVE EARNED FROM WORK. I WILL GET ANOTHER ONLINE BANK, FOR A SAVINGS ONLY AND DON'T EVER HOLD THE CARD. ONLY TO PUT MORE ON THERE. THIS IS ALL UNTIL THE FOREX TRADING PAYS OFF. THEN IT'S TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SHARES PER WEEK. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ALTCOINS PER WEEK. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DIGITAL UNITS OF FINANCIAL MEASURE. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ECONOMICAL PLEASURE?
I DO. I DO. I DO. DO I REALLY? I REALLY DO. COME TO THINK OF IT, I TRULY DO. JASON PURCHASED A NANO TECH COMPANY NNVC AT $2. NANO VERICIDES. HE SAYS I TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. HE LISTENED. I DID. GUESS I SHOULD BUY IT TO HOLD NOW. OF COURSE I MUST. IT WENT UP FROM $2 TO $8. IT JUST CAME DOWN FROM $18. TIMES TEN JASON'S INVESTMENT. NASTY. HE ONLY BOUGHT A FEW SHARES. HE STILL LISTENED THOUGH. HE PROFITED. HE DIDN'T CASH OUT. E-TRADE ALLOWS YOU TO EXECUTE A SELL TRADE INITIALLY. NOT AS IN SELLING YOUR HOLDINGS. BUY TO HOLD IN ONE TRADE. SELL TO TRADE UNTIL YOU BUY THEN TO HOLD MORE. WHEN THE STOCKS ARE HOLDING, DOUBLE OVER ONCE OR MORE TIMES, EXECUTE AN ORIGINAL SELL TRADE ON E-TRADE AGAINST IT. THEN USE THE PROFIT TO ENTER INTO THE BUY AT A LOWER PRICE. OR SPEND OTHER FUNDS TO BUY TO HOLD AT THE LOWER PRICES, WHILE YOU SEE HOW LOW DOES SHE GO.
AS I CONTINUE TO STUDY THE WORLD OF INVESTING AND ECONOMICS, I CAN DO SO KNOWING I AM CATCHING UP WITH MY OWN AMBITION, AND REALIZING THE VISION. I AM BRINGING AS MANY OTHERS TO THE WATERING HOLE WHOM AS IS CAN STOMACH SUCH THOUGHTS. MOST PEOPLE CAN NOT STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF RETIRING EARLY. DOUBT COMES FROM HAVING NO PLAN AT ALL. IT IS DOUBT FOR GOOD REASON. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL I GET TO BE THIS GUY. I AM YOUR SECRET BEST FRIEND. TELL THE WORLD ABOUT ME. I LOVED YOU. I WANTED FOR YOU, THE EARLIEST RETIREMENT POSSIBLE. RETIREMENT AS IN, YOU RETIRE HAVING A BOSS. FIRE YOUR BOSS. BOSS YOURSELF AROUND. NOW YOU ARE RETIRED. DUH. DOISKI.
3:16 AM EST - 4;17AM EST
1.30.2020
FRIDAY JANUARY 30TH, 2020
CHAPTER EIGHT-TEEN: KOBE BRYANT OF THE STOCK MARKET
THE WHOLE KOBE BRYANT TRAGEDY HAS ME SHOOK. I AM SHAKEN. I FEEL LIKE, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I AM TIRED OR HAVE A FEW HOURS TO GET TO BED TO GET ENOUGH REST FOR OVERTIME, SIX DAYS PER WEEK. I MUST FINISH THIS VOLUME AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. I MUST START THE NEXT VOLUMES AS QUICKLY AS I CAN. THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR IS OVER. THE NEXT MONTH IS THE SHORTEST OF THE YEAR. I WANTED 25 SESSIONS IN EACH VOLUME. TODAY WOULD BE SESSION FIVE OF VOLUME TWO. I MUST PUSH MYSELF TO CATCH UP. THREE SESSIONS PER DAY OF ANYTHING, IS ONE THOUSAND SESSIONS YEARLY. I M GRATEFUL TO GOD I AM STILL ALIVE. I AM EVEN MORE GRATEFUL TO GOD, MY LOVED ONES AND OUR LOVED ONES ARE STILL ALIVE.
I WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND AN INHERITANCE TO MY FAMILY. THE FACT, KOBE'S DAUGHTER GIANNA, AND OTHER KIDS WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH, MAKES ME WAY LESS ANXIOUS TO HAVE CHILDREN. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH READING OR LISTENING TO THIS FULL TEXT, IT MAY BE APPARENT WHAT MY FEARS ARE. MY FEAR, WHAT IF I WAS IN DANGER DUE TO HOW I USE MY INTELLIGENCE, ENERGETIC INPUT/OUTPUT, AND INFLUENCE AS A SPIRIT? THERE ARE CERTAIN THOUGHTS I HAVE THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO INCLUDE IN THIS PROJECT, SO I WILL INCLUDE CERTAIN THOUGHTS THAT MAY GIVE INSIGHT INTO WHY I'M THINKING HOW I'M THINKING. I HAD TO ADOPT A LIFESTYLE ALLOWING SPACE TO GROW AND TO BE ABLE TO INVEST MY EARNINGS, FOCUS, AND TIME, INTERFERENCE FREE. CLEAR SIGNALS.
THE MAMBA MENTALITY, BEFORE I LEARNED OF IT IN 2018 OR 2019, I WAS EN ROUTE TO IT ALREADY. WHEN I DID WATCH THE DIFFERENT VIDEOS ABOUT THE MENTALITY, I WAS ALREADY DOING IT. IT WAS CONFIRMATION AND VALIDATION, TO CONTINUE IN MY FORM OF WORK ETHIC. I WOULD WATCH THE VIDEOS BEFORE AND AFTER WORK. I WOULD WATCH THE VIDEOS BEFORE AND AFTER THE WRITING AND RECORDING SESSIONS. I AM DEEPLY HURT BY THE NATURE OF KOBE'S PASSING AND HOW IT ALL PLAYED OUT. I HAVE WITHDREW FROM CERTAIN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING DATING. I AM THIRTY, I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN A PERSON PREGNANT. ONE DAY THERE WILL TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE MEN ABILITY TO BIRTH A CHILD. GROSS. NET. BUT STILL GROSS. EEL. DISGUSTING. WE SHOULD STILL INVEST IN THE TECHNOLOGY. I DO NOT AGREE WITH SUCH TECHNOLOGY. YET AND STILL, BUSINESS NEVER PERSONAL DAWGA (TOMMY FORD VOICE).
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DID I MENTION E-TRADE CHARGES $7 PER TRANSACTION? SO ONLY $50 OR $100 E-TRADE DEPOSITS AT A TIME. NOT REALLY. ONLY $100 PER TRANSACTION AT A TIME, MINIMUM. WE HAVE OUR ECONOMIC MISSILE OF PRODUCTION, AIMED SQUARELY IN THE SIGHTS OF THE EMERGING MARKETS. THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR, WAS SOMETHING THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS DID NOT INVEST IN THESE COMPANIES. PERSONALLY, AS A MILLENNIAL, I AM ALREADY ASHAMED OF THE PIECES OF THE RECENT TECHNOLOGY SECTOR, I MISSED INVESTING IN AT THOSE TIMES THEY EMERGED. I WILL MAKE UP FOR THIS, IN MY THIRTIES. I HAVE JUST TURNED THIRTY, ONE MONTH AGO. THE ENTIRE MONTH, FLEW BY. MONTH TWO HAS BEGUN. THIS IS MONTH TWO'S FIRST WRITING SESSION RECORDING.
WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THAT WE ARE MAKING SURE, WE INVEST IN THE TECHNOLOGY SECTORS EVERY MONTH. THE MONTH'S HAPPEN TO HAVE BEEN FLYING BY FOR DECADES. ENSURING THUS PROFITS ARE RETURNING ON INVESTMENT. THE ONLY WAY TO WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP, IS WITH THE MAMBA MENTALITY. FROM HERE ON OUT, WE REFER TO THE INVESTIOPATHOLOGY, AS THE MAMBA MENTALITY WHEN APPLIED TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND LEVERAGING. PROPERLY LEVERAGING THE DOLLAR AS THE BLACK MAMBA WOULD IN SUCH AN INDUSTRY. SO NOW I CAN TRANSLATE IT TO THESE TERMS. HERE IS MY BLACK MAMBA IN THE STOCK MARKET IMPRESSION.
YOU HAVE TO PURCHASE STOCKS RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE GETTING OLDER. YOU MUST SECURE YOUR FINANCIAL LEGACY. YOU MUST FINALLY BUILD AND FUND THE EMPIRES YOU SET OUT TO SET UP. YOU DEDICATED YOUR TWENTIES DECADE, BEFORE THE TWENTY TWENTIES. YOUR THIRTIES ARE ALL ABOUT STOCKS. THIS IS YOUR SECOND CAREER. THESE NEXT TEN YEARS, YOU BUILD YOUR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO, THE SAME WAY YOU BUILT YOUR CREATIVE ARTISTRY PORTFOLIO. WHY YOU WRITE THIS, IS FOR THOSE YOUNGER TO APPLY THIS SOONER. DON'T LISTEN TO THOSE WITHOUT STOCKS, ABOUT STOCKS. I WILL HAVE MORE SHARES TOTAL THAN ANYONE YOU KNOW. I'LL PROVE IT. THAT IS WHY I OFFER WHATEVER I OFFER. I FELT THE PAIN OF THE FATE OF ANYONE FINANCIALLY ILLITERATE. THE MORE FINANCIALLY LITERATE I GROW, I HURT MORE AND MORE FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T. WHY SHOULD I BE SO LUCKY? LUCKY ENOUGH TO DO MY BEST TO HELP. IF YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE IN THE ROOM WHO CAN READ, IN A CROWDED ROOM, WHERE EVERYONE HAD LETTERS TO BE READ, BUY YOUR OWN BOTTLE. BYOB.
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I AIM TO HAVE A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF SHARES, BOTH DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN, OF COMPANIES OF THE EMERGING INDUSTRY VARIETY. I LIVE 1000 MILES AWAY FROM ANY FAMILY I'VE LIVED AROUND BEFORE. I AM SINGLE. I WAS SINGLE WHEN I MOVED TO SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. I HAVE BEEN SINGLE SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE, SINCE AUGUST OF 2018. ONE YEAR AND A HALF. THE ENTIRE TIME I HAVE BEEN TRADING FOREIGN CURRENCY, MINUS THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THE FIRST SEASON, FIRST QUARTER, IN NEW YORK. TRADING CURRENCY DURING THE NEW YORK SESSION, FROM SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. I APPRECIATE THE INSIGHT GOD HAS GIVEN ME, SO MUCH, I MUST HELP YOU THE BEST WAY I KNOW HOW. I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GIVE OUT LOANS. I AM NOT NEXO WALLET. IF YOU WANT A LOAN, YOU SHOULD PURCHASE YOUR ALT COINS TODAY.
USE YOUR ALT COINS AS COLLATERAL, FOR THE NEXO WALLET OFFERED CRYPTO LOAN. THERE IS A NEW KIND OF LOAN EMERGING FROM THE FINANCIAL WATERS OF HISTORY'S TIDE. ALL OF MY MONEY IS GOING TO BE FOREVER TIDE UP IN INVESTMENTS. TIED UP. PEOPLE WON'T BE LOANING MONEY FROM ME. I'M NOT A BANK. I DON'T LIKE BANKS. I RESPECT THE TONTINE. NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. SO WHERE IS IT? ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE. THIS MAY END UP THE MOST CINEMATIC INVESTMENT STRATEGY PUBLICATION EVER. EVER. EVER. I WATCHED A STOCK I HAD ON MY WATCHLIST, GO FROM $2 TO $18. IT IS NOW AT $12 FROM $8 AFTER THE SELL OFF STABILIZATION. JASON PURCHASED A FEW SHARES. MAYBE HE WISHES HE HAD PURCHASED MORE. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE ON E-TRADE TO ENTER SELL TRADES ON THE SAME SYMBOLS YOU ARE HOLDING IN YOUR HOLDING PORTFOLIO. TRADE SELL THE STOCKS YOU ARE HOLDING WHEN THEY DOUBLE MANY TIMES OVER, AS IN THIS SCENARIO.
NOW I HAVE TO THINK WITH NO EMOTION. I MUST GET IN ON THE STOCK. NANO VERICIDES. NNVC ON THE NASDAQ. I WATCHED NNVC, ELEVATE FROM $3 BELOW THE PENNY STOCK CATEGORY, TO BEING $7 OVER A PENNY STOCK AFTER ALMOST DOUBLING THAT PRICE OF $12. IS $8 THE NEXT SUPPORT LEVEL? WILL IT EVER GO BACK TO $8? I BELIEVE SO. THE MARKET PROJECTION IS FOR ANOTHER THREE TO FIVE YEARS. SO WHAT IS THE BEST SOLUTION BOTH WAYS, CONSIDERING ALL FACTORS CONSIDERED. FIRST FACTOR? THE FIRST FACTOR IS WHAT IF IT GOES BACK DOWN AFTER YOU BUY TO HOLD AT THIS PRICE TOM? USE YOUR TRADING INSTINCT TO SELL TRADE IT AT $12. YOU CHECKED THE TRADING VIEW TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OSCILLATORS. SELL AT $12 IT SAYS. THIS WOULD MEAN YOU PROFIT OFF OF THE STABILIZATION OF THE MASSIVE SELL OFF MANIFESTING LAST WEEK. THIS ALLOWS YOU TO GET IN AT A BETTER PRICE LEVEL, WHILE IT DROPS AS LOW AS YOU MAY WANT IT TO DROP, WHEN CONSIDERING THE LONG TERM PURCHASING OF THE SHARES IN QUESTION, MARK.
NOW WHEN IT SAYS TO BUY ON THE TRADING VIEW CHART, I WILL BUY TO HOLD. HERE'S THE KICKER. CONSIDERING THE OTHER FACTOR, OF $12 BEING THE NEW SUPPORT LEVEL, EVEN THOUGH NOT TOO LIKELY NOW, WE WILL PURCHASE $100 IN SHARES NNVC. GRAB TEN SHARES WHILE YOU SELL TRADE. THEN BUY MORE SHARES. KEEP BUYING SHARES IN REVERSE LEVELS AS IT TANKS BACK TO JASON'S PRICE OR AT THE ONE DOLLAR NEAR PENNY STOCK LEVEL. THERE ARE MANY WAYS THIS STOCK COULD GO. ANTICIPATE THEM ALL THEN ACT IMMEDIATELY. WHY DID JASON'S STOCK IN NNVC GO UP? WE ARE LOOKING IN THE PROPER LONGITUDE LATITUDE. OUR DEGREES OF SEPARATION, ARE THREE FEET FROM DIGITAL GOLD. INTRODUCING THE BLACK MAMBA MENTALITY, INTO THE FINANCIAL SECTORS, TECH SECTORS, OH YEAH. HISTORY IN THE MAKING WE ARE ALL WATCHING. I CAN SEE THE HISTORY COMING. I CAN SEE THE FUTURE COMING. IT IS EMERGING RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. THE UNIVERSE AND THE COSMOS HAVE ALLOTTED ME, THE PRIVILEGE OF A LIFE OF ANONYMITY. NO ONE KNOWS ME. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO. I LEFT BEHIND A BOMB. WHEN IT BLOWS UP THEY WILL THEN KNOW MY NAME. THIS PUBLICATION COULD GIVE RISE TO MANY NEW GENERATIONAL WEALTH CREATORS. GENERATIONAL WEALTH IS STATED AS $20 MILLION.
1:34AM EST - 2:34AM EST
2.2.2020
FEBRUARY 2ND, 2020
SUPERBOWL DAY
CHAPTER NINE-TEEN: REVERBUR
JASON HAS A FIDELITY ACCOUNT. JASON STARTED A SECOND
E-TRADE TRADING ACCOUNT, WITHIN THE BROKERAGE ACCOUNT. JASON PURCHASED TWO SHARES OF NNVC AT $2 PER SHARE. JASON THEN PURCHASED TWO SHARES OF NNVC, AT $8 PER SHARE. JASON IS PROGRESSING WELL INTO WEALTH JASON IS ALSO PROCESSING WEALTH CREATION WELL. HE ASKED ME HOW DID I FIND OUT ABOUT NNVC? NNVC IS A NANO TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, NANO VERICIDES. MY ANSWER TO JASON WAS TO ME A DASH IGNORANT. I JUST LOOKED IN PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES. THEREFORE BEFORE PURCHASING SHARES, THE COMPANIES ARE OF LITTLE CONCERN. AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED, AT THIS PROFIT MARGIN, THESE COMPANIES ARE ALL BANGERS. HEAD BANGERS. AS IN, YOU MIGHT JUST END UP BANGING YOUR HEAD ON THE SOFA.
LISTEN. ARE YOU LISTENING? ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE LISTENING? BIONIC CHIZZY. NANO CHAD. NANO CHATO. I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE END OF THIS VOLUME. FIVE MORE ONE HOUR SESSIONS. GO BACK AND ADD TO SHORTER SESSIONS. I LOOK FORWARD TO PUBLISHING THIS PROJECT. I LOOK FORWARD TO ORDERING COPIES OF VOLUME ONE. I LOOK FORWARD TO READING VOLUME ONE. I LOOK FORWARD TO PROOF READING VOLUME ONE. THE PERSON OF NUMBERS. WHY AMERICA SLEPT? HONESTLY, I TOLD YOU. I AM TERRIFIED. I FEEL A SENSE OF DESTINY AS NEVER BEFORE FELT. REVERBUR. HOW JASON PRONOUNCES RVBR. I FEEL AS IF I AM NOT GOING HARD AND FAST ENOUGH, IN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS. PERIOD. NO ELLIPSIS. ON THE 3RD OF FEBRUARY, THE E-TRADE DEPOSIT OF $97 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR TRADING. I WILL BE HOLDING THOUGH. JASON'S ACCOUNT WILL HAVE $100 I SENT AVAILABLE FOR HOLDING. WE WILL PURCHASE WITH THE FUNDS, TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES. JASON SENT $10 IN RIPPLE XRP, TO HIS FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING ACCOUNT, AND MINE.
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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2ND, 2020
2.2.2020
GROUNDHOG DAY
BADGER DAY
SACRED BEAR DAY EH
SUPER BOWL 54
CHAPTER TWENTY: NAOV AND NANO VIBRONIX
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1.22.2020
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22ND, 2020
2:36 AM EST - 3:05AM EST
SUNDAY JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER 14: MOVING FORWARD
IF THIS WERE A DIARY, I WOULD SAY, FINANCIAL LEVERAGING HAS GOTTEN INTO ME. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE ADULTHOOD. I WANT TO HELP MYSELF TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND DOCUMENT THE PROCESS. IN MY THIRTIES, DURING THE TWENTY TWENTIES, I MUST PURCHASE AS MANY SHARES AS POSSIBLE. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. FOR NOW THOUGH, I MUST ONLY THINK ABOUT THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO. WE STILL TRADE. THE HOLDINGS MUST BE HELD. INVESTING IS ACTUALLY NOT THE RISK TO FEAR. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
LAYERS OF INVESTMENTS. MARKER. THIS IS THE DIARY FOR AMASSING FORTUNES. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. TODAY'S THURSDAY. WHEN I GET PAID, I WILL PURCHASE STOCKS AND CRYPTO TO HOLD. I AIM TO FILL MY PERSONAL PORTFOLIOS UP. TO MY LIKING. I THINK IT IS TIME TO JUST INVEST UNTIL I AM WITH CHILDREN AND WIFE. THEN KEEP INVESTING. NEVER, EVER, EVEN ONCE, STOP INVESTING. YOU HAVE TO INVEST IN THE KIDS AND THEIR PORTFOLIOS.
ROCKET SCIENCE IS HARDER THAN THIS. SAFE TO SAY IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE.
WHAT I WASN'T DOING IN MY TWENTIES, I AM DOING NOW. REGARDING THE FINANCIAL MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTORS. THERE WERE KEYWORDS I DID NOT HAVE FROM 18 TO 27. YOU SPEND TEN YEARS SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, EVENTUALLY IT'LL SMACK YOU RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE. TOOK AN ENTIRE DECADE. I HAVE NOTHING BUT NEUTRAL GROUND TO BUILD ON. I STAYED FROM OUT OF THE CIRCUS. IN ORDER TO RESEARCH HOW TO GET OUT OF THE JUNGLE, I STRAYED FROM THE CIRCUS PATH.
THE CRYPTO LOAN. NEXO WALLET OFFERED THE FIRST CRYPTO LOAN. IMAGINE THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. YOU PURCHASE CRYPTO. YOU USE IT AS COLLATERAL ON NEXO WALLET. PLACE THE CRYPTO IN THE NEXO WALLET. TAKE OUT A LOAN BASED ON THE COLLATERAL WORTH. PURCHASE ENOUGH CRYPTO TO TAKE OUT THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN IS NOW AMONG ST US PEOPLE. MPH MPH MPH. `WHEN YOU TAKE OUT 100K IN A SINGLE LOAN, WILL YOU LEGITIMATELY INVEST IT TO PAY OFF THE LOAN? GET YOUR CRYPTO BACK PEOPLE. AFTER PURCHASING IT AND LOANING IT OUT MAN. DIGITAL COLLATERAL MAN COME ON. THERE'S A STORM COMING. WHY AMERICA SLEPT.
IN ORDER FOR AMERICA TO RISE UP AGAIN, AS A NATION, IS TO INDIVIDUALLY RISE UP THE NEXT AMERICAN. I DID NOT CRAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR NET WORTH FOR MY OWN SAKE. I CRAVED TO SHOW THE WORLD, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE, CARES THE MOST. AMERICA DOESN'T PUSH INFORMATION LIKE THIS, TO AMERICANS. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, DO NOT PUSH THIS MATERIAL TO AMERICANS. THUS AMERICA, GROWS WEIRDER AND WEIRDER IN A REAL NORMAL VARIETY. IF I SAID SMME, SMART METRICS, A BIOMETRICS COMPANY, IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, A COMPETITOR OF NXT ID, MAKER OF THE FLYE CARD, COSTS ONE PENNY PER SHARE, WOULDN'T THAT JUST SOUND LIKE GIBBERISH? REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF ALL TIME, I CALLED IT. RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW I WROTE IT COST ONE PENNY. RIGHT BEFORE I PUBLISH THIS PUBLICATION, I WILL TYPE A LIST OF THE RECENT PRICES OF ALL SECURITIES MENTIONED.
THERE IS A DOUBLE PLEASURE I GET FROM THIS INFORMATION. I GET TO USE IT. I GET TO SHARE IT. YOU MAY USE IT. THOSE WHO USE IT, WILL RETIRE BEFORE THOSE WHO DO NOT. I PUT MONEY ON THAT AS WELL. I GET TO GO AROUND PURCHASING $10 IN SMME STOCK FOR OTHER PEOPLE. 1000 SHARES. 10,000 SHARES. 100,000 SHARES. I TINGLE JUST UTTERING SUCH PREDICAMENTS. 100 SHARES FOR A DOLLAR ARE YOU EXPLETIVELY KIDDING ME? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME WHAT? I COULD SAVE THE TEN DOLLARS IN FIAT CURRENCY, IN A BANK? THE BANK WOULD JUST PURCHASE STOCKS TODAY WITH THE CAPITAL. IT'S A NASTY BALL GAME. THIS PUBLICATION, IS ONE SPICY MEAT A BALL. ZEITGEIST THREE MOVING FORWARD, GAVE ME THE ANALOGY FOR IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX. FOR THE RECORD.
ECONOMICALLY I'M STARTING AN ARMY. IT'S AN ECONOMIC ARMY OF FINANCIALLY LITERATE COWABUNGERS.
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1.26.2020
JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN: A HEADACHE
I START THE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO THIS UPCOMING WEEK. TOMORROW IS MONDAY RIGHT? E-TRADE TAKES 5 DAYS TO TRANSFER THE EXTERNAL ACCOUNT DEPOSITS INTO THE HOLDING OR TRADING ACCOUNT. HERE IS THE SCENARIO. THIS IS THE INVESTMENT DIARY, OF ALL INVESTMENT DIARIES MY GOOD FRIEND. $240 IS THE INITIAL INVESTMENT. $45 GOES TO JASON FOR HIS E-TRADE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO. I WILL SEND HIM MORE NEXT TIME. $75 GOES TO JASON TO SEND XRP TO MY CRYPTO WALLET. I WILL CONVERT THOSE COINS TO OTHER ALTERNATIVE COINS. ALT COINS. $25 GOES TO THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT FEE FOR NOT HAVING THE $9 DEPOSIT AVAILABLE ON THE 5TH DAY OF THE TRANSFER. $125 MUST GO ON THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT. I WILL PURCHASE $100 IN STOCKS. I WILL SPLIT THE PURCHASE BETWEEN TWO COMPANIES. SMART METRIC AND RVBR MARK RAY.
EVERY $10 SPENT ON SMME, SMART METRIC, IS 1250 SHARES, AT THE PRICE LEVEL OF ONE PENNY. RVBR CONTAINS THREE DIFFERENT STOCK SYMBOLS, WITHIN THE ONE COMPANY. MARK RAY OWNS KFGL. GANS IS A KFGL SUBSIDIARY. THE PRICE LEVEL OF THREE PENNIES FOR RVBR NOW IS ONE PENNY PER CONTAINED SYMBOL. $30 IN RVBR NOW IS 3333.3333 SHARES. THE TOP TWO STOCK PICKS, ARE BETWEEN ONE AND THREE PENNIES. I HAVEN'T SEARCHED FOR RVBR COMPETITION YET. SMME WAS FOUND WHEN I SEARCHED FOR NXT ID COMPLETION. LOL. SMILEY FACE. WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THESE STRATEGIES FOR YEARS, NOW WE ARE GETTING DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT THIS CONCEPT. THIS IS A PHILOSOPHY.
$50 IN SMME COMPANY STOCK ALONE, IS 1250 TIMES FIVE. 6250 SHARES IN SMME FROM A $50 INVESTMENT. YOU WOULD WANT TO ALSO THEN PURCHASE NXT ID SHARES. 100 SHARES FOR $50. THEN YOU REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE THE PRICE LEVELS AND PROFIT MARGINS ARE BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, IN THE SAME INDUSTRY. IF SMME AND NXT ID ARE BOTH IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, IT IS FAIR TO SAY, NXT ID IS FARING CONSIDERABLY BETTER OFF THAN SMME. I HAVE FAITH IN THE BIOMETRICS DIVISON. I HAVE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION WITHIN THE INDUSTRY. I HAVE FAITH IN GOD. I HAVE FAITH IN MYSELF. I AM A MAN OF FAITH. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE STOCK MARKET. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE MARKET. I AM AFRAID OF NOT PARTICIPATING.
I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO, WE ARE BUILDING FOR OURSELVES. I WILL HAVE MY MOTHER SIGN UP FOR AN E-TRADE ACCOUNT SO I CAN BUILD THE FAMILY'S HOLDING PORTFOLIO. I MUST ACCEPT, ONCE THEY ACQUIRE IT, THEY WILL SELL OFF SHARES AT THEIR DISCRETION. I MAY HAVE TO HAVE A BACKUP ACCOUNT FOR THEM SOMEWHERE, MAYBE WITH MALIK. MAYBE I WILL SEND MALIK MONEY TO PURCHASE MY STOCK PICKS. HE CAN SPLIT THAT MONEY BETWEEN THREE PEOPLE. JUSTIN, KEVI, DANTE. THAT'S WHEN THE FAMILY REALIZES I LEFT BEHIND MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS WITH THE WEALTH PRE-DISTRIBUTED TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY FALLACY ON ANYONE'S BEHALF. INCLUDING THE POTENTIAL FALLACY, OF NOT ACCOUNTING FOR ANY POTENTIAL FALLACY, ON MY BEHALF.
I JUST SOLVED THAT ISSUE, OF HAVING ANOTHER HOLDING ACCOUNT STASHED AWAY FOR MY FAMILY. MY COUSIN MALIK SMITH. I CAN SEND FUNDS TO HIS E-TRADE FOR PURCHASING THE SAME SHARES FOR MY BIRTH FAMILY. I HAVE TO LEAVE THE SLATE CLEAN ON MY ACCOUNT TO BE LEFT TO MY CHILD OR MY MENTOR. MY FAMILY HOWEVER AND MY FRIENDS WILL HAVE THEIR HOLDING ACCOUNTS BEEFED UP TO WHERE MINE ARE. THEY WILL ALL JUST BE DUPLICATE ACCOUNTS. WHEN THE TRADING TAKES OFF, THE DEPOSITS FOR STOCKS WILL INCREASE TRIUMPHANTLY. THEN I CAN PAY OFF THE $4000 LOAN DARRELL KEELE AND GEORGE C. WORD TOOK OUT ON MY DELTA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ACCOUNT, WHEN I MOVED TO SYRACUSE, NEW YORK IN AUGUST OF 2018.
WHAT'S $4000 TO A BILLIONAIRE? THIS IS WHY I STAY TO MYSELF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I'M OF A STRANGER CALIBER THAN MOST I ENCOUNTER. THEY ARE SAFER AROUND ME, THAN I AM AROUND THEM. I DO HAVE TO HAVE A BENEFICIARY FOR MY INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS. I WANT IT TO BE MY CHILD AND THEIR MOTHER. FOR THAT I NEED ONE MORE ACCOUNT TO BUILD UP FOR MY MENTOR. THEN EVERYONE IS GOOD. UNTIL I DO HAVE A CHILD, THE BENEFICIARY WOULD HAVE TO BE MY MENTOR UNTIL I HAVE A CHILD. YOU SEE THE THOUGHTS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT? KEEPING THE ACCOUNT BENEFICIARY SLATE CLEAR FOR FUTURE CHILDREN YET STILL HAVING SOMEONE TO BENEFIT FROM IT. YET STILL HAVING THAT SAME AMOUNT LEFT TO THEM ONCE YOU DO HAVE CHILDREN. THAT'S A HEAD ACHE.
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1.29.2020
JANUARY 29TH, 2020
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE MAMBA MENTALITY
TODAY IS THE ONE MONTH TIME STAMP OF MY 30TH BIRTHDAY. I AM GRATEFUL, I STARTED MY HOLDING PORTFOLIO ONCE AGAIN. I STARTED THE CRYPTO HOLDING PORTFOLIOS IN THE SUMMER OF 2017. THREE YEARS AGO. THREE YEARS BEFORE THEN, I PURCHASED THREE BITCOINS AT $88 DOLLARS A PIECE. 3. IN 2013. I WAS 23. GOD IS GOOD ALL OF THE TIME. I PUT $225 ON MY ONLINE BANK CARD AT RITE AID. I PAID THE $5 FEE TO UPLOAD THE CARD BALANCE. I SENT JASON $100. I PAID THE PAYPAL FEE. $3.20. I PAID THE $25 FEE ON MY E-TRADE. I TRANSFERRED $122 ON THE E-TRADE. $97 WILL HIT THE HOLDING ACCOUNT. $48 WILL GO TO SMME. SMART METRICS. SMART METRICS IS THE BIOMETRICS COMPETITOR OF NEXT ID. NXT ID. 39 PENNIES NXT ID IS. ONE PENNY IS THE COST OF SMART METRIC STOCK. IN 2017, THE WINTER OF, SMME WAS 45 PENNIES. HALF OF NXT ID. I BIO MAY HAVE BEEN TEN PENNIES THEN AND EVEN WHEN I PURCHASED $10 WORTH IN STOCK, IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, ON ROBINHOOD FROM NEW YORK.
I ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE $25 WORTH OF SMME STOCK. I ASKED JASON TO SPEND THE OTHER $25 OF THE FIRST $50, ON RVBR, AT THREE PENNIES PER SHARE. 1600 SHARES OF SMME IN MY OWN ACCOUNT. HALF OF THOSE SHARES ARE IN JASON'S ACCOUNT. HALF THE $48 ON RVBR. 2500 SHARES, 4800 SHARES. 5000 SHARES. FLOATING THRU VARIOUS ACCOUNTS FROM NOW ON. MANIACALLY PURCHASING SHARES IN EMERGING MARKETS, ON THE MOST DIABOLICAL OF LEVELS. THE OTHER $50 WAS ASKED OF JASON TO DEPOSIT IT INTO HIS ROBINHOOD. WE ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE DOGECOIN WITH THE $50. WE CALCULATED THE DOGECOIN AMOUNT AT 20,500. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. I PRAY TO GOD I SEE THIS THRU. I AM TERRIFIED. I FEEL AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF DESTINY ALL AROUND ME. I CAN NOT HELP BUT TO REMAIN FOCUSED AND DISCERNING.
I WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. I HAVE SO MANY INDUSTRIES TO INCLUDE INTO THE PORTFOLIO. THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES IN THOSE INDUSTRIES, AVAILABLE ON E-TRADE AND ROBINHOOD, AND ANY OTHER PLATFORM I FIND. AFTER MANY ROUNDS OF DOING THIS, THE MOST URGENT ASPECT OF THE INVESTMENT WORLD I'M DELVING INTO TO BUILD MY FAMILY AN EMPIRE. I WILL GET THE ONLINE BANK ACCOUNT ALLOWING ME TO PUT MONEY INTO SAVINGS BONDS, ANY OTHER BONDS, AND CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. THIS IS HOW I WILL STORE THE VAST OF THE MONEY I HAVE EARNED FROM WORK. I WILL GET ANOTHER ONLINE BANK, FOR A SAVINGS ONLY AND DON'T EVER HOLD THE CARD. ONLY TO PUT MORE ON THERE. THIS IS ALL UNTIL THE FOREX TRADING PAYS OFF. THEN IT'S TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SHARES PER WEEK. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ALTCOINS PER WEEK. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DIGITAL UNITS OF FINANCIAL MEASURE. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ECONOMICAL PLEASURE?
I DO. I DO. I DO. DO I REALLY? I REALLY DO. COME TO THINK OF IT, I TRULY DO. JASON PURCHASED A NANO TECH COMPANY NNVC AT $2. NANO VERICIDES. HE SAYS I TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. HE LISTENED. I DID. GUESS I SHOULD BUY IT TO HOLD NOW. OF COURSE I MUST. IT WENT UP FROM $2 TO $8. IT JUST CAME DOWN FROM $18. TIMES TEN JASON'S INVESTMENT. NASTY. HE ONLY BOUGHT A FEW SHARES. HE STILL LISTENED THOUGH. HE PROFITED. HE DIDN'T CASH OUT. E-TRADE ALLOWS YOU TO EXECUTE A SELL TRADE INITIALLY. NOT AS IN SELLING YOUR HOLDINGS. BUY TO HOLD IN ONE TRADE. SELL TO TRADE UNTIL YOU BUY THEN TO HOLD MORE. WHEN THE STOCKS ARE HOLDING, DOUBLE OVER ONCE OR MORE TIMES, EXECUTE AN ORIGINAL SELL TRADE ON E-TRADE AGAINST IT. THEN USE THE PROFIT TO ENTER INTO THE BUY AT A LOWER PRICE. OR SPEND OTHER FUNDS TO BUY TO HOLD AT THE LOWER PRICES, WHILE YOU SEE HOW LOW DOES SHE GO.
AS I CONTINUE TO STUDY THE WORLD OF INVESTING AND ECONOMICS, I CAN DO SO KNOWING I AM CATCHING UP WITH MY OWN AMBITION, AND REALIZING THE VISION. I AM BRINGING AS MANY OTHERS TO THE WATERING HOLE WHOM AS IS CAN STOMACH SUCH THOUGHTS. MOST PEOPLE CAN NOT STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF RETIRING EARLY. DOUBT COMES FROM HAVING NO PLAN AT ALL. IT IS DOUBT FOR GOOD REASON. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL I GET TO BE THIS GUY. I AM YOUR SECRET BEST FRIEND. TELL THE WORLD ABOUT ME. I LOVED YOU. I WANTED FOR YOU, THE EARLIEST RETIREMENT POSSIBLE. RETIREMENT AS IN, YOU RETIRE HAVING A BOSS. FIRE YOUR BOSS. BOSS YOURSELF AROUND. NOW YOU ARE RETIRED. DUH. DOISKI.
3:16 AM EST - 4;17AM EST
1.30.2020
FRIDAY JANUARY 30TH, 2020
CHAPTER EIGHT-TEEN: KOBE BRYANT OF THE STOCK MARKET
THE WHOLE KOBE BRYANT TRAGEDY HAS ME SHOOK. I AM SHAKEN. I FEEL LIKE, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I AM TIRED OR HAVE A FEW HOURS TO GET TO BED TO GET ENOUGH REST FOR OVERTIME, SIX DAYS PER WEEK. I MUST FINISH THIS VOLUME AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. I MUST START THE NEXT VOLUMES AS QUICKLY AS I CAN. THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR IS OVER. THE NEXT MONTH IS THE SHORTEST OF THE YEAR. I WANTED 25 SESSIONS IN EACH VOLUME. TODAY WOULD BE SESSION FIVE OF VOLUME TWO. I MUST PUSH MYSELF TO CATCH UP. THREE SESSIONS PER DAY OF ANYTHING, IS ONE THOUSAND SESSIONS YEARLY. I M GRATEFUL TO GOD I AM STILL ALIVE. I AM EVEN MORE GRATEFUL TO GOD, MY LOVED ONES AND OUR LOVED ONES ARE STILL ALIVE.
I WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND AN INHERITANCE TO MY FAMILY. THE FACT, KOBE'S DAUGHTER GIANNA, AND OTHER KIDS WERE KILLED IN THE CRASH, MAKES ME WAY LESS ANXIOUS TO HAVE CHILDREN. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH READING OR LISTENING TO THIS FULL TEXT, IT MAY BE APPARENT WHAT MY FEARS ARE. MY FEAR, WHAT IF I WAS IN DANGER DUE TO HOW I USE MY INTELLIGENCE, ENERGETIC INPUT/OUTPUT, AND INFLUENCE AS A SPIRIT? THERE ARE CERTAIN THOUGHTS I HAVE THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO INCLUDE IN THIS PROJECT, SO I WILL INCLUDE CERTAIN THOUGHTS THAT MAY GIVE INSIGHT INTO WHY I'M THINKING HOW I'M THINKING. I HAD TO ADOPT A LIFESTYLE ALLOWING SPACE TO GROW AND TO BE ABLE TO INVEST MY EARNINGS, FOCUS, AND TIME, INTERFERENCE FREE. CLEAR SIGNALS.
THE MAMBA MENTALITY, BEFORE I LEARNED OF IT IN 2018 OR 2019, I WAS EN ROUTE TO IT ALREADY. WHEN I DID WATCH THE DIFFERENT VIDEOS ABOUT THE MENTALITY, I WAS ALREADY DOING IT. IT WAS CONFIRMATION AND VALIDATION, TO CONTINUE IN MY FORM OF WORK ETHIC. I WOULD WATCH THE VIDEOS BEFORE AND AFTER WORK. I WOULD WATCH THE VIDEOS BEFORE AND AFTER THE WRITING AND RECORDING SESSIONS. I AM DEEPLY HURT BY THE NATURE OF KOBE'S PASSING AND HOW IT ALL PLAYED OUT. I HAVE WITHDREW FROM CERTAIN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING DATING. I AM THIRTY, I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN A PERSON PREGNANT. ONE DAY THERE WILL TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE MEN ABILITY TO BIRTH A CHILD. GROSS. NET. BUT STILL GROSS. EEL. DISGUSTING. WE SHOULD STILL INVEST IN THE TECHNOLOGY. I DO NOT AGREE WITH SUCH TECHNOLOGY. YET AND STILL, BUSINESS NEVER PERSONAL DAWGA (TOMMY FORD VOICE).
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DID I MENTION E-TRADE CHARGES $7 PER TRANSACTION? SO ONLY $50 OR $100 E-TRADE DEPOSITS AT A TIME. NOT REALLY. ONLY $100 PER TRANSACTION AT A TIME, MINIMUM. WE HAVE OUR ECONOMIC MISSILE OF PRODUCTION, AIMED SQUARELY IN THE SIGHTS OF THE EMERGING MARKETS. THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR, WAS SOMETHING THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS DID NOT INVEST IN THESE COMPANIES. PERSONALLY, AS A MILLENNIAL, I AM ALREADY ASHAMED OF THE PIECES OF THE RECENT TECHNOLOGY SECTOR, I MISSED INVESTING IN AT THOSE TIMES THEY EMERGED. I WILL MAKE UP FOR THIS, IN MY THIRTIES. I HAVE JUST TURNED THIRTY, ONE MONTH AGO. THE ENTIRE MONTH, FLEW BY. MONTH TWO HAS BEGUN. THIS IS MONTH TWO'S FIRST WRITING SESSION RECORDING.
WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THAT WE ARE MAKING SURE, WE INVEST IN THE TECHNOLOGY SECTORS EVERY MONTH. THE MONTH'S HAPPEN TO HAVE BEEN FLYING BY FOR DECADES. ENSURING THUS PROFITS ARE RETURNING ON INVESTMENT. THE ONLY WAY TO WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP, IS WITH THE MAMBA MENTALITY. FROM HERE ON OUT, WE REFER TO THE INVESTIOPATHOLOGY, AS THE MAMBA MENTALITY WHEN APPLIED TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND LEVERAGING. PROPERLY LEVERAGING THE DOLLAR AS THE BLACK MAMBA WOULD IN SUCH AN INDUSTRY. SO NOW I CAN TRANSLATE IT TO THESE TERMS. HERE IS MY BLACK MAMBA IN THE STOCK MARKET IMPRESSION.
YOU HAVE TO PURCHASE STOCKS RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE GETTING OLDER. YOU MUST SECURE YOUR FINANCIAL LEGACY. YOU MUST FINALLY BUILD AND FUND THE EMPIRES YOU SET OUT TO SET UP. YOU DEDICATED YOUR TWENTIES DECADE, BEFORE THE TWENTY TWENTIES. YOUR THIRTIES ARE ALL ABOUT STOCKS. THIS IS YOUR SECOND CAREER. THESE NEXT TEN YEARS, YOU BUILD YOUR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO, THE SAME WAY YOU BUILT YOUR CREATIVE ARTISTRY PORTFOLIO. WHY YOU WRITE THIS, IS FOR THOSE YOUNGER TO APPLY THIS SOONER. DON'T LISTEN TO THOSE WITHOUT STOCKS, ABOUT STOCKS. I WILL HAVE MORE SHARES TOTAL THAN ANYONE YOU KNOW. I'LL PROVE IT. THAT IS WHY I OFFER WHATEVER I OFFER. I FELT THE PAIN OF THE FATE OF ANYONE FINANCIALLY ILLITERATE. THE MORE FINANCIALLY LITERATE I GROW, I HURT MORE AND MORE FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T. WHY SHOULD I BE SO LUCKY? LUCKY ENOUGH TO DO MY BEST TO HELP. IF YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE IN THE ROOM WHO CAN READ, IN A CROWDED ROOM, WHERE EVERYONE HAD LETTERS TO BE READ, BUY YOUR OWN BOTTLE. BYOB.
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I AIM TO HAVE A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF SHARES, BOTH DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN, OF COMPANIES OF THE EMERGING INDUSTRY VARIETY. I LIVE 1000 MILES AWAY FROM ANY FAMILY I'VE LIVED AROUND BEFORE. I AM SINGLE. I WAS SINGLE WHEN I MOVED TO SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. I HAVE BEEN SINGLE SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE, SINCE AUGUST OF 2018. ONE YEAR AND A HALF. THE ENTIRE TIME I HAVE BEEN TRADING FOREIGN CURRENCY, MINUS THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THE FIRST SEASON, FIRST QUARTER, IN NEW YORK. TRADING CURRENCY DURING THE NEW YORK SESSION, FROM SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. I APPRECIATE THE INSIGHT GOD HAS GIVEN ME, SO MUCH, I MUST HELP YOU THE BEST WAY I KNOW HOW. I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GIVE OUT LOANS. I AM NOT NEXO WALLET. IF YOU WANT A LOAN, YOU SHOULD PURCHASE YOUR ALT COINS TODAY.
USE YOUR ALT COINS AS COLLATERAL, FOR THE NEXO WALLET OFFERED CRYPTO LOAN. THERE IS A NEW KIND OF LOAN EMERGING FROM THE FINANCIAL WATERS OF HISTORY'S TIDE. ALL OF MY MONEY IS GOING TO BE FOREVER TIDE UP IN INVESTMENTS. TIED UP. PEOPLE WON'T BE LOANING MONEY FROM ME. I'M NOT A BANK. I DON'T LIKE BANKS. I RESPECT THE TONTINE. NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. SO WHERE IS IT? ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE. THIS MAY END UP THE MOST CINEMATIC INVESTMENT STRATEGY PUBLICATION EVER. EVER. EVER. I WATCHED A STOCK I HAD ON MY WATCHLIST, GO FROM $2 TO $18. IT IS NOW AT $12 FROM $8 AFTER THE SELL OFF STABILIZATION. JASON PURCHASED A FEW SHARES. MAYBE HE WISHES HE HAD PURCHASED MORE. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE ON E-TRADE TO ENTER SELL TRADES ON THE SAME SYMBOLS YOU ARE HOLDING IN YOUR HOLDING PORTFOLIO. TRADE SELL THE STOCKS YOU ARE HOLDING WHEN THEY DOUBLE MANY TIMES OVER, AS IN THIS SCENARIO.
NOW I HAVE TO THINK WITH NO EMOTION. I MUST GET IN ON THE STOCK. NANO VERICIDES. NNVC ON THE NASDAQ. I WATCHED NNVC, ELEVATE FROM $3 BELOW THE PENNY STOCK CATEGORY, TO BEING $7 OVER A PENNY STOCK AFTER ALMOST DOUBLING THAT PRICE OF $12. IS $8 THE NEXT SUPPORT LEVEL? WILL IT EVER GO BACK TO $8? I BELIEVE SO. THE MARKET PROJECTION IS FOR ANOTHER THREE TO FIVE YEARS. SO WHAT IS THE BEST SOLUTION BOTH WAYS, CONSIDERING ALL FACTORS CONSIDERED. FIRST FACTOR? THE FIRST FACTOR IS WHAT IF IT GOES BACK DOWN AFTER YOU BUY TO HOLD AT THIS PRICE TOM? USE YOUR TRADING INSTINCT TO SELL TRADE IT AT $12. YOU CHECKED THE TRADING VIEW TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OSCILLATORS. SELL AT $12 IT SAYS. THIS WOULD MEAN YOU PROFIT OFF OF THE STABILIZATION OF THE MASSIVE SELL OFF MANIFESTING LAST WEEK. THIS ALLOWS YOU TO GET IN AT A BETTER PRICE LEVEL, WHILE IT DROPS AS LOW AS YOU MAY WANT IT TO DROP, WHEN CONSIDERING THE LONG TERM PURCHASING OF THE SHARES IN QUESTION, MARK.
NOW WHEN IT SAYS TO BUY ON THE TRADING VIEW CHART, I WILL BUY TO HOLD. HERE'S THE KICKER. CONSIDERING THE OTHER FACTOR, OF $12 BEING THE NEW SUPPORT LEVEL, EVEN THOUGH NOT TOO LIKELY NOW, WE WILL PURCHASE $100 IN SHARES NNVC. GRAB TEN SHARES WHILE YOU SELL TRADE. THEN BUY MORE SHARES. KEEP BUYING SHARES IN REVERSE LEVELS AS IT TANKS BACK TO JASON'S PRICE OR AT THE ONE DOLLAR NEAR PENNY STOCK LEVEL. THERE ARE MANY WAYS THIS STOCK COULD GO. ANTICIPATE THEM ALL THEN ACT IMMEDIATELY. WHY DID JASON'S STOCK IN NNVC GO UP? WE ARE LOOKING IN THE PROPER LONGITUDE LATITUDE. OUR DEGREES OF SEPARATION, ARE THREE FEET FROM DIGITAL GOLD. INTRODUCING THE BLACK MAMBA MENTALITY, INTO THE FINANCIAL SECTORS, TECH SECTORS, OH YEAH. HISTORY IN THE MAKING WE ARE ALL WATCHING. I CAN SEE THE HISTORY COMING. I CAN SEE THE FUTURE COMING. IT IS EMERGING RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. THE UNIVERSE AND THE COSMOS HAVE ALLOTTED ME, THE PRIVILEGE OF A LIFE OF ANONYMITY. NO ONE KNOWS ME. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO. I LEFT BEHIND A BOMB. WHEN IT BLOWS UP THEY WILL THEN KNOW MY NAME. THIS PUBLICATION COULD GIVE RISE TO MANY NEW GENERATIONAL WEALTH CREATORS. GENERATIONAL WEALTH IS STATED AS $20 MILLION.
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2.2.2020
FEBRUARY 2ND, 2020
SUPERBOWL DAY
CHAPTER NINE-TEEN: REVERBUR
JASON HAS A FIDELITY ACCOUNT. JASON STARTED A SECOND
E-TRADE TRADING ACCOUNT, WITHIN THE BROKERAGE ACCOUNT. JASON PURCHASED TWO SHARES OF NNVC AT $2 PER SHARE. JASON THEN PURCHASED TWO SHARES OF NNVC, AT $8 PER SHARE. JASON IS PROGRESSING WELL INTO WEALTH JASON IS ALSO PROCESSING WEALTH CREATION WELL. HE ASKED ME HOW DID I FIND OUT ABOUT NNVC? NNVC IS A NANO TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, NANO VERICIDES. MY ANSWER TO JASON WAS TO ME A DASH IGNORANT. I JUST LOOKED IN PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES. THEREFORE BEFORE PURCHASING SHARES, THE COMPANIES ARE OF LITTLE CONCERN. AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED, AT THIS PROFIT MARGIN, THESE COMPANIES ARE ALL BANGERS. HEAD BANGERS. AS IN, YOU MIGHT JUST END UP BANGING YOUR HEAD ON THE SOFA.
LISTEN. ARE YOU LISTENING? ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE LISTENING? BIONIC CHIZZY. NANO CHAD. NANO CHATO. I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE END OF THIS VOLUME. FIVE MORE ONE HOUR SESSIONS. GO BACK AND ADD TO SHORTER SESSIONS. I LOOK FORWARD TO PUBLISHING THIS PROJECT. I LOOK FORWARD TO ORDERING COPIES OF VOLUME ONE. I LOOK FORWARD TO READING VOLUME ONE. I LOOK FORWARD TO PROOF READING VOLUME ONE. THE PERSON OF NUMBERS. WHY AMERICA SLEPT? HONESTLY, I TOLD YOU. I AM TERRIFIED. I FEEL A SENSE OF DESTINY AS NEVER BEFORE FELT. REVERBUR. HOW JASON PRONOUNCES RVBR. I FEEL AS IF I AM NOT GOING HARD AND FAST ENOUGH, IN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS. PERIOD. NO ELLIPSIS. ON THE 3RD OF FEBRUARY, THE E-TRADE DEPOSIT OF $97 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR TRADING. I WILL BE HOLDING THOUGH. JASON'S ACCOUNT WILL HAVE $100 I SENT AVAILABLE FOR HOLDING. WE WILL PURCHASE WITH THE FUNDS, TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES. JASON SENT $10 IN RIPPLE XRP, TO HIS FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING ACCOUNT, AND MINE.
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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2ND, 2020
2.2.2020
GROUNDHOG DAY
BADGER DAY
SACRED BEAR DAY EH
SUPER BOWL 54
CHAPTER TWENTY: NAOV AND NANO VIBRONIX
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1.16.2020
THURSDAY JANUARY 16TH, 2020
CHAPTER ELEVEN: E-TRADE
I SIGNED UP THE BANK ACCOUNT TO E-TRADE. $17 I CAN PURCHASE RVBR WITH. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU RIGHT NOW, I BEGIN TO FEEL A LITTLE NUEROTIC, ABOUT IT ALL. THERE IS A LONG LIST OF INDUSTRIES WE ARE LOOKING AT. $20 IN A COMPANY EVERY DEPOSIT. THIS MEANS I WOULD HAVE TO HAVE TO BE DEPOSITING FREQUENTLY. $20 GETS YOU OVER 600 SHARES. HOW MANY MORE SHARES OF THIS COMPANY, WILL I END UP GETTING? THIS IS THE TOP PICK. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY PICK. THERE ARE ENTIRE INDUSTRIES. THROW $10-20 IN EACH COMPANY. THROW FIVE TIMES MORE IN TOP PICK. STILL, IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE BELIEVE IN THEM ALL. RVBR HOWEVER, WE WERE WAITING FOR THIS ORGANIZATION TO MAKE A PUBLIC MOVE SINCE AGE 21. IT'S AN HONOR TO EVEN BE ALIVE. I AM GRATEFUL TO GOD. I AM THANKFUL TO GOD.
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SATURDAY JANUARY 18, 2020
1.18.2020
CHAPTER TWELVE: JALEN BUSH
DEAR JALEN,
YOU ARE TWENTY TWO. YOU HAVE SEVEN YEARS LEFT UNTIL THIRTY, AFTER YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY. THE COINBASE APP. THE E-TRADE APP. ROBIN HOOD APP. BINANCE APP. FREEWALLET APP. DOGEWALLET APP. YOU WANT TO HOLD STOCKS FEVERISHLY. IT'S SIMPLE YET IT'S HARSH TO DO. WHAT STOCKS TO BUY? YOU PURCHASE STOCKS BY THE INDUSTRIES. THE INDUSTRIES, ARE TO BE OF THE EMERGING MARKETS. VIRTUAL REALITY AND BIONICS, WERE JALEN'S SUGGESTIONS HE WOULD PICK FOR HIMSELF. THOSE TWO ARE IN OUR RESEARCH. JALEN'S ON THE TRAIL. THE EMERGING MARKETS WILL ALWAYS DO WELL.
WHEN YOU ARE THIRTY, YOU WILL WISH YOU WERE WELL INTO THE WORLD OF INVESTMENTS. THEN YOU WILL GET INTO THE WORLD OF INVESTMENTS. IF YOU ARE INTO THE WORLD OF INVESTMENTS, BY THIRTY, YOU WILL WISH YOU WERE WELL INTO THE WORLD DURING YOUR WANDERING TWENTIES. MY TWENTIES HAVE JUST ENDED. YOUR TWENTIES ARE TWO YEARS IN. I LEARNED FROM MY ERRORS AND I YEARN TO HELP TWENTY YEAR OLDS NOT MAKE THE SAME ONES.
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1.19.2020
JANUARY 19TH, 2020
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: DEAR MALIK SMITH
DEAR MALIK,
I WANT YOU TO START TO HOLD STOCKS AND CRYPTO NOW. YOU ARE, ON YOUR WAY TO 25 YEARS OLD. YOU ARE NOW 24 YEARS OLD. YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY, YOU WILL BE HALFWAY THRU YOUR TWENTIES. I HELD MY FIRST CRYPTO AT THE AGE OF 23. ONE YEAR BEFORE YOU, IF YOU START HOLDING CRYPTO NOW. I DID NOT OWN MY FIRST STOCK HOLDING PORTFOLIO, UNTIL 28. WHEN I MOVED BACK TO NEW YORK, SYRACUSE, I BOUGHT $20 IN SHARES OF BIOMETRICS COMPANIES, ON ROBINHOOD. NOW, AT THIRTY, I HAVE AN E-TRADE ACCOUNT. YOU AS WELL, HAVE YOUR OWN E-TRADE ACCOUNT.
I WANTED YOU TO GET THE SAME ACCOUNTS I HAVE BEEN SETTING UP FOR MYSELF, SO I CAN HELP MY LOVED ONES BUILD THEIR OWN PORTFOLIOS. THATS ALL I WANT, IS FOR YOU TO IMPLEMENT THE STRATEGIES I AM IMPLEMENTING NOW, AT AN EARLiER AGE THAN I WAS CAPABLE OF DOING SO. YOU ARE ONE YEAR BEHIND ON THE HOLDING CRYPTO ASPECT, YET THREE YEARS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO PURCHASE STOCKS AT AN EARLIER AGE THAN I DID. I WENT RELATIVELY LATE. I DIDN'T INVEST IN ANY FINANCIAL SECURITIES BEFORE THE BTC. THE BTC WAS THE FIRST DIGITAL ASSET. SO, MY FIRST INVESTMENT IN FINANCIAL SECURITIES AND ASSETS, HAPPENED TO BE THE FIRST EVER DIGITAL ASSET. I WAS BORN IN THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION. I SAW THE DIGITAL AGE PRECIPITATE DOWN UPON US ALL.
MAYBE I'M NOT AS BEHIND AS I THINK. YET AND STILL, I MUST PROCEED AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE, FROM HERE ON OUT. I HAVE SO MUCH CATCHING UP TO DO. IT TOOK TEN YEARS, ONE DECADE, OF RESEARCH CONSTANTLY, TO GET WHERE I AM AT NOW. NOW, WITHIN THIS NEXT TEN YEAR PERIOD OF MY LIFE, I MUST APPLY SAID INFORMATION FROM RESEARCHING CONSTANTLY FOR A DECADE, AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. THUS, CATCHING UP TO MY PREFERENCE IN HOLDINGS. RIGHT NOW, AT 25, YOU CAN PURCHASE SO MANY STOCKS, IN THE EMERGING MARKET INDUSTRIES, FOR YOU TO RETIRE FROM WITHIN 15 YEARS.
AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE, I CAN HELP OTHERS. THIS IS ALL I WANT TO DO. GOD HAS GIFTED ME WITH THIS BRAIN, FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE. THIS HEART, THIS MIND, THIS SOUL, ALL BELONG TO ME, AS A GIFT FROM GOD. I MUST USE THEM, TO THEIR FULL ABILITIES, WITH MY FULL EFFORT. A TOUGH SENTIMENT TO ADHERE TO. TONIGHT, AFTER THIS WRITING SESSION, I WILL LISTEN TO THE AUDIOBOOK. SENECA ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. IT IS SHORT, IT WILL LAST ME MY MEAL. I AM A DEEP SOUL. MY SOUL COMES FROM THE DEEPEST PIT OF LIGHT ENERGY. GOD PUT ME HERE FOR A REASON. I MUST UNEARTH IT. WE MUST DISCOVER. WE ALL MUST DISCOVER OUR REASONS THAT WE ARE HERE. I WATCHED A VIDEO OF LISA LEFT EYE LOPEZ, TALKING ABOUT TUPAC SHAKUR. THE ENTIRE 6 MINUTE VIDEO WAS INSPIRING, ONE ASPECT I WILL MENTION HERE, IS WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT DESTINY.
DESTINY IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF AND FATE IS WHAT HAPPENS. YOU CAN FOLLOW THE PATH TO YOUR FINAL DESTINY. YOU CAN REACH IT THERE AS LONG AS YOU SEE THRU THE DISTRACTIONS ALONG THE WAY. THIS FUELED ME, TO WRITE THIS CHAPTER AND KEEP UP THE WONDERFUL FIGHT. HOW HARD I AM FIGHTING, IS OVER SHADOWED IN MY OWN HEAD, BY HOW MUCH HARDER I ACTUALLY NEED TO FIGHT, WITH THE LIGHT ENERGY GUIDING MY EFFORTS. INTENSIFYING THE EFFORTS, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT NOW LAID BEFORE US. I DEDICATED MY LIFE, THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF MY ADULTHOOD, TO THE ASCERTAINMENT OF THE DESIRE TO BE AN INDEPENDENT FILM MAKER. TEN YEARS LATER, WITH HEAVY RESEARCH, I FIND MYSELF AT ANOTHER TEN YEAR PERIOD, I HAVE JUST ENTERED.
I AM IN MY THIRTIES, IN THE 2020's. I MUST NOW SPEND THE NEXT TEN YEARS, APPLYING THE INFORMATION LEARNED, DURING THE LAST TEN YEAR PERIOD. THIS TEN YEAR PERIOD, MUST BE FILLED WITH THE APPLICATION OF OLDER TO NEWER RESEARCH. APPLY EVERYTHING LEARNED UP TO NOW, THEN APPLY EVERYTHING LEARNED FROM HERE ON OUT. YOUR TWENTIES WERE FINANCIALLY ILLITERATE, ASF. AS LONG AS YOUR THIRTIES, ARE THE MOST LITERATE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE, YOU MADE UP FOR IT. NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE FINANCIALLY LITERATE IN THE KNOWING ASPECT, YOU WILL BE APPLYING THE FINANCIAL LITERACY, IN CONCENTRATED DOSES OF STRATEGY, FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL BORN LIFE. THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE AT, IN YOUR FIRST MONTH, OF THE FIRST YEAR, OF YOUR THIRTIES. YOU ARE DOING WELL MY FRIEND. STAY ON COURSE. STAY FOCUSED. STAY DIRECTED TOWARDS THE TRAJECTORY OF THE TARGET.
IN CONCLUSION, THE FINANCIAL ILLITERACY I EXPERIENCED, DURING MY TWENTIES, WAS NOT COOL. I DON'T WISH THIS ON ANYONE. I BELIEVE I SHOULD HELP AS MANY PEOPLE, AS FAST AS I CAN. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY STEP, IN THE DIRECTION. I LOVE MY LIFE. I AM GRATEFUL TO GOD, FOR GIVING ME THIS LIFE. FOR GIVING ME LIFE PERIOD, I AM THANKFUL TO GOD. I FEEL LIKE I AM ON THE PATH. I MUST RUN FASTER DOWN IT. I MUST IGNORE EVERY SINGLE DISTRACTION ALONG THE WAY. I MUST REACH THE FINAL DESTINY OF CHAD FILMS SR. I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. I DEDICATED MY ADULTHOOD TO THE ACQUISITION OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD DREAMS AND ECONOMIC FANTASIES. I LOOK FORWARD TO SOUPING THIS BOOK UP TO AN ASTRONOMICAL PROPORTION OF ECONOMICALLY CREATIVE WARFARE ATTACK STRATEGY TYPED MATERIAL.
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1.22.2020
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22ND, 2020
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SUNDAY JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER 14: MOVING FORWARD
IF THIS WERE A DIARY, I WOULD SAY, FINANCIAL LEVERAGING HAS GOTTEN INTO ME. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE ADULTHOOD. I WANT TO HELP MYSELF TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND DOCUMENT THE PROCESS. IN MY THIRTIES, DURING THE TWENTY TWENTIES, I MUST PURCHASE AS MANY SHARES AS POSSIBLE. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. FOR NOW THOUGH, I MUST ONLY THINK ABOUT THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO. WE STILL TRADE. THE HOLDINGS MUST BE HELD. INVESTING IS ACTUALLY NOT THE RISK TO FEAR. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
LAYERS OF INVESTMENTS. MARKER. THIS IS THE DIARY FOR AMASSING FORTUNES. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. TODAY'S THURSDAY. WHEN I GET PAID, I WILL PURCHASE STOCKS AND CRYPTO TO HOLD. I AIM TO FILL MY PERSONAL PORTFOLIOS UP. TO MY LIKING. I THINK IT IS TIME TO JUST INVEST UNTIL I AM WITH CHILDREN AND WIFE. THEN KEEP INVESTING. NEVER, EVER, EVEN ONCE, STOP INVESTING. YOU HAVE TO INVEST IN THE KIDS AND THEIR PORTFOLIOS.
ROCKET SCIENCE IS HARDER THAN THIS. SAFE TO SAY IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE.
WHAT I WASN'T DOING IN MY TWENTIES, I AM DOING NOW. REGARDING THE FINANCIAL MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTORS. THERE WERE KEYWORDS I DID NOT HAVE FROM 18 TO 27. YOU SPEND TEN YEARS SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, EVENTUALLY IT'LL SMACK YOU RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE. TOOK AN ENTIRE DECADE. I HAVE NOTHING BUT NEUTRAL GROUND TO BUILD ON. I STAYED FROM OUT OF THE CIRCUS. IN ORDER TO RESEARCH HOW TO GET OUT OF THE JUNGLE, I STRAYED FROM THE CIRCUS PATH.
THE CRYPTO LOAN. NEXO WALLET OFFERED THE FIRST CRYPTO LOAN. IMAGINE THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. YOU PURCHASE CRYPTO. YOU USE IT AS COLLATERAL ON NEXO WALLET. PLACE THE CRYPTO IN THE NEXO WALLET. TAKE OUT A LOAN BASED ON THE COLLATERAL WORTH. PURCHASE ENOUGH CRYPTO TO TAKE OUT THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN IS NOW AMONG ST US PEOPLE. MPH MPH MPH. `WHEN YOU TAKE OUT 100K IN A SINGLE LOAN, WILL YOU LEGITIMATELY INVEST IT TO PAY OFF THE LOAN? GET YOUR CRYPTO BACK PEOPLE. AFTER PURCHASING IT AND LOANING IT OUT MAN. DIGITAL COLLATERAL MAN COME ON. THERE'S A STORM COMING. WHY AMERICA SLEPT.
IN ORDER FOR AMERICA TO RISE UP AGAIN, AS A NATION, IS TO INDIVIDUALLY RISE UP THE NEXT AMERICAN. I DID NOT CRAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR NET WORTH FOR MY OWN SAKE. I CRAVED TO SHOW THE WORLD, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE, CARES THE MOST. AMERICA DOESN'T PUSH INFORMATION LIKE THIS, TO AMERICANS. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, DO NOT PUSH THIS MATERIAL TO AMERICANS. THUS AMERICA, GROWS WEIRDER AND WEIRDER IN A REAL NORMAL VARIETY. IF I SAID SMME, SMART METRICS, A BIOMETRICS COMPANY, IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, A COMPETITOR OF NXT ID, MAKER OF THE FLYE CARD, COSTS ONE PENNY PER SHARE, WOULDN'T THAT JUST SOUND LIKE GIBBERISH? REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF ALL TIME, I CALLED IT. RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW I WROTE IT COST ONE PENNY. RIGHT BEFORE I PUBLISH THIS PUBLICATION, I WILL TYPE A LIST OF THE RECENT PRICES OF ALL SECURITIES MENTIONED.
THERE IS A DOUBLE PLEASURE I GET FROM THIS INFORMATION. I GET TO USE IT. I GET TO SHARE IT. YOU MAY USE IT. THOSE WHO USE IT, WILL RETIRE BEFORE THOSE WHO DO NOT. I PUT MONEY ON THAT AS WELL. I GET TO GO AROUND PURCHASING $10 IN SMME STOCK FOR OTHER PEOPLE. 1000 SHARES. 10,000 SHARES. 100,000 SHARES. I TINGLE JUST UTTERING SUCH PREDICAMENTS. 100 SHARES FOR A DOLLAR ARE YOU EXPLETIVELY KIDDING ME? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME WHAT? I COULD SAVE THE TEN DOLLARS IN FIAT CURRENCY, IN A BANK? THE BANK WOULD JUST PURCHASE STOCKS TODAY WITH THE CAPITAL. IT'S A NASTY BALL GAME. THIS PUBLICATION, IS ONE SPICY MEAT A BALL. ZEITGEIST THREE MOVING FORWARD, GAVE ME THE ANALOGY FOR IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX. FOR THE RECORD.
ECONOMICALLY I'M STARTING AN ARMY. IT'S AN ECONOMIC ARMY OF FINANCIALLY LITERATE COWABUNGERS.
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1.26.2020
JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN: A HEADACHE
I START THE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO THIS UPCOMING WEEK. TOMORROW IS MONDAY RIGHT? E-TRADE TAKES 5 DAYS TO TRANSFER THE EXTERNAL ACCOUNT DEPOSITS INTO THE HOLDING OR TRADING ACCOUNT. HERE IS THE SCENARIO. THIS IS THE INVESTMENT DIARY, OF ALL INVESTMENT DIARIES MY GOOD FRIEND. $240 IS THE INITIAL INVESTMENT. $45 GOES TO JASON FOR HIS E-TRADE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO. I WILL SEND HIM MORE NEXT TIME. $75 GOES TO JASON TO SEND XRP TO MY CRYPTO WALLET. I WILL CONVERT THOSE COINS TO OTHER ALTERNATIVE COINS. ALT COINS. $25 GOES TO THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT FEE FOR NOT HAVING THE $9 DEPOSIT AVAILABLE ON THE 5TH DAY OF THE TRANSFER. $125 MUST GO ON THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT. I WILL PURCHASE $100 IN STOCKS. I WILL SPLIT THE PURCHASE BETWEEN TWO COMPANIES. SMART METRIC AND RVBR MARK RAY.
EVERY $10 SPENT ON SMME, SMART METRIC, IS 1250 SHARES, AT THE PRICE LEVEL OF ONE PENNY. RVBR CONTAINS THREE DIFFERENT STOCK SYMBOLS, WITHIN THE ONE COMPANY. MARK RAY OWNS KFGL. GANS IS A KFGL SUBSIDIARY. THE PRICE LEVEL OF THREE PENNIES FOR RVBR NOW IS ONE PENNY PER CONTAINED SYMBOL. $30 IN RVBR NOW IS 3333.3333 SHARES. THE TOP TWO STOCK PICKS, ARE BETWEEN ONE AND THREE PENNIES. I HAVEN'T SEARCHED FOR RVBR COMPETITION YET. SMME WAS FOUND WHEN I SEARCHED FOR NXT ID COMPLETION. LOL. SMILEY FACE. WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THESE STRATEGIES FOR YEARS, NOW WE ARE GETTING DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT THIS CONCEPT. THIS IS A PHILOSOPHY.
$50 IN SMME COMPANY STOCK ALONE, IS 1250 TIMES FIVE. 6250 SHARES IN SMME FROM A $50 INVESTMENT. YOU WOULD WANT TO ALSO THEN PURCHASE NXT ID SHARES. 100 SHARES FOR $50. THEN YOU REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE THE PRICE LEVELS AND PROFIT MARGINS ARE BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, IN THE SAME INDUSTRY. IF SMME AND NXT ID ARE BOTH IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, IT IS FAIR TO SAY, NXT ID IS FARING CONSIDERABLY BETTER OFF THAN SMME. I HAVE FAITH IN THE BIOMETRICS DIVISON. I HAVE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION WITHIN THE INDUSTRY. I HAVE FAITH IN GOD. I HAVE FAITH IN MYSELF. I AM A MAN OF FAITH. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE STOCK MARKET. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE MARKET. I AM AFRAID OF NOT PARTICIPATING.
I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO, WE ARE BUILDING FOR OURSELVES. I WILL HAVE MY MOTHER SIGN UP FOR AN E-TRADE ACCOUNT SO I CAN BUILD THE FAMILY'S HOLDING PORTFOLIO. I MUST ACCEPT, ONCE THEY ACQUIRE IT, THEY WILL SELL OFF SHARES AT THEIR DISCRETION. I MAY HAVE TO HAVE A BACKUP ACCOUNT FOR THEM SOMEWHERE, MAYBE WITH MALIK. MAYBE I WILL SEND MALIK MONEY TO PURCHASE MY STOCK PICKS. HE CAN SPLIT THAT MONEY BETWEEN THREE PEOPLE. JUSTIN, KEVI, DANTE. THAT'S WHEN THE FAMILY REALIZES I LEFT BEHIND MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS WITH THE WEALTH PRE-DISTRIBUTED TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY FALLACY ON ANYONE'S BEHALF. INCLUDING THE POTENTIAL FALLACY, OF NOT ACCOUNTING FOR ANY POTENTIAL FALLACY, ON MY BEHALF.
I JUST SOLVED THAT ISSUE, OF HAVING ANOTHER HOLDING ACCOUNT STASHED AWAY FOR MY FAMILY. MY COUSIN MALIK SMITH. I CAN SEND FUNDS TO HIS E-TRADE FOR PURCHASING THE SAME SHARES FOR MY BIRTH FAMILY. I HAVE TO LEAVE THE SLATE CLEAN ON MY ACCOUNT TO BE LEFT TO MY CHILD OR MY MENTOR. MY FAMILY HOWEVER AND MY FRIENDS WILL HAVE THEIR HOLDING ACCOUNTS BEEFED UP TO WHERE MINE ARE. THEY WILL ALL JUST BE DUPLICATE ACCOUNTS. WHEN THE TRADING TAKES OFF, THE DEPOSITS FOR STOCKS WILL INCREASE TRIUMPHANTLY. THEN I CAN PAY OFF THE $4000 LOAN DARRELL KEELE AND GEORGE C. WORD TOOK OUT ON MY DELTA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ACCOUNT, WHEN I MOVED TO SYRACUSE, NEW YORK IN AUGUST OF 2018.
WHAT'S $4000 TO A BILLIONAIRE? THIS IS WHY I STAY TO MYSELF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I'M OF A STRANGER CALIBER THAN MOST I ENCOUNTER. THEY ARE SAFER AROUND ME, THAN I AM AROUND THEM. I DO HAVE TO HAVE A BENEFICIARY FOR MY INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS. I WANT IT TO BE MY CHILD AND THEIR MOTHER. FOR THAT I NEED ONE MORE ACCOUNT TO BUILD UP FOR MY MENTOR. THEN EVERYONE IS GOOD. UNTIL I DO HAVE A CHILD, THE BENEFICIARY WOULD HAVE TO BE MY MENTOR UNTIL I HAVE A CHILD. YOU SEE THE THOUGHTS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT? KEEPING THE ACCOUNT BENEFICIARY SLATE CLEAR FOR FUTURE CHILDREN YET STILL HAVING SOMEONE TO BENEFIT FROM IT. YET STILL HAVING THAT SAME AMOUNT LEFT TO THEM ONCE YOU DO HAVE CHILDREN. THAT'S A HEAD ACHE.
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1.29.2020
JANUARY 29TH, 2020
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE MAMBA MENTALITY
TODAY IS THE ONE MONTH TIME STAMP OF MY 30TH BIRTHDAY. I AM GRATEFUL, I STARTED MY HOLDING PORTFOLIO ONCE AGAIN. I STARTED THE CRYPTO HOLDING PORTFOLIOS IN THE SUMMER OF 2017. THREE YEARS AGO. THREE YEARS BEFORE THEN, I PURCHASED THREE BITCOINS AT $88 DOLLARS A PIECE. 3. IN 2013. I WAS 23. GOD IS GOOD ALL OF THE TIME. I PUT $225 ON MY ONLINE BANK CARD AT RITE AID. I PAID THE $5 FEE TO UPLOAD THE CARD BALANCE. I SENT JASON $100. I PAID THE PAYPAL FEE. $3.20. I PAID THE $25 FEE ON MY E-TRADE. I TRANSFERRED $122 ON THE E-TRADE. $97 WILL HIT THE HOLDING ACCOUNT. $48 WILL GO TO SMME. SMART METRICS. SMART METRICS IS THE BIOMETRICS COMPETITOR OF NEXT ID. NXT ID. 39 PENNIES NXT ID IS. ONE PENNY IS THE COST OF SMART METRIC STOCK. IN 2017, THE WINTER OF, SMME WAS 45 PENNIES. HALF OF NXT ID. I BIO MAY HAVE BEEN TEN PENNIES THEN AND EVEN WHEN I PURCHASED $10 WORTH IN STOCK, IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, ON ROBINHOOD FROM NEW YORK.
I ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE $25 WORTH OF SMME STOCK. I ASKED JASON TO SPEND THE OTHER $25 OF THE FIRST $50, ON RVBR, AT THREE PENNIES PER SHARE. 1600 SHARES OF SMME IN MY OWN ACCOUNT. HALF OF THOSE SHARES ARE IN JASON'S ACCOUNT. HALF THE $48 ON RVBR. 2500 SHARES, 4800 SHARES. 5000 SHARES. FLOATING THRU VARIOUS ACCOUNTS FROM NOW ON. MANIACALLY PURCHASING SHARES IN EMERGING MARKETS, ON THE MOST DIABOLICAL OF LEVELS. THE OTHER $50 WAS ASKED OF JASON TO DEPOSIT IT INTO HIS ROBINHOOD. WE ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE DOGECOIN WITH THE $50. WE CALCULATED THE DOGECOIN AMOUNT AT 20,500. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. I PRAY TO GOD I SEE THIS THRU. I AM TERRIFIED. I FEEL AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF DESTINY ALL AROUND ME. I CAN NOT HELP BUT TO REMAIN FOCUSED AND DISCERNING.
I WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. I HAVE SO MANY INDUSTRIES TO INCLUDE INTO THE PORTFOLIO. THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES IN THOSE INDUSTRIES, AVAILABLE ON E-TRADE AND ROBINHOOD, AND ANY OTHER PLATFORM I FIND. AFTER MANY ROUNDS OF DOING THIS, THE MOST URGENT ASPECT OF THE INVESTMENT WORLD I'M DELVING INTO TO BUILD MY FAMILY AN EMPIRE. I WILL GET THE ONLINE BANK ACCOUNT ALLOWING ME TO PUT MONEY INTO SAVINGS BONDS, ANY OTHER BONDS, AND CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. THIS IS HOW I WILL STORE THE VAST OF THE MONEY I HAVE EARNED FROM WORK. I WILL GET ANOTHER ONLINE BANK, FOR A SAVINGS ONLY AND DON'T EVER HOLD THE CARD. ONLY TO PUT MORE ON THERE. THIS IS ALL UNTIL THE FOREX TRADING PAYS OFF. THEN IT'S TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SHARES PER WEEK. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ALTCOINS PER WEEK. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DIGITAL UNITS OF FINANCIAL MEASURE. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ECONOMICAL PLEASURE?
I DO. I DO. I DO. DO I REALLY? I REALLY DO. COME TO THINK OF IT, I TRULY DO. JASON PURCHASED A NANO TECH COMPANY NNVC AT $2. NANO VERICIDES. HE SAYS I TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. HE LISTENED. I DID. GUESS I SHOULD BUY IT TO HOLD NOW. OF COURSE I MUST. IT WENT UP FROM $2 TO $8. IT JUST CAME DOWN FROM $18. TIMES TEN JASON'S INVESTMENT. NASTY. HE ONLY BOUGHT A FEW SHARES. HE STILL LISTENED THOUGH. HE PROFITED. HE DIDN'T CASH OUT. E-TRADE ALLOWS YOU TO EXECUTE A SELL TRADE INITIALLY. NOT AS IN SELLING YOUR HOLDINGS. BUY TO HOLD IN ONE TRADE. SELL TO TRADE UNTIL YOU BUY THEN TO HOLD MORE. WHEN THE STOCKS ARE HOLDING, DOUBLE OVER ONCE OR MORE TIMES, EXECUTE AN ORIGINAL SELL TRADE ON E-TRADE AGAINST IT. THEN USE THE PROFIT TO ENTER INTO THE BUY AT A LOWER PRICE. OR SPEND OTHER FUNDS TO BUY TO HOLD AT THE LOWER PRICES, WHILE YOU SEE HOW LOW DOES SHE GO.
AS I CONTINUE TO STUDY THE WORLD OF INVESTING AND ECONOMICS, I CAN DO SO KNOWING I AM CATCHING UP WITH MY OWN AMBITION, AND REALIZING THE VISION. I AM BRINGING AS MANY OTHERS TO THE WATERING HOLE WHOM AS IS CAN STOMACH SUCH THOUGHTS. MOST PEOPLE CAN NOT STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF RETIRING EARLY. DOUBT COMES FROM HAVING NO PLAN AT ALL. IT IS DOUBT FOR GOOD REASON. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL I GET TO BE THIS GUY. I AM YOUR SECRET BEST FRIEND. TELL THE WORLD ABOUT ME. I LOVED YOU. I WANTED FOR YOU, THE EARLIEST RETIREMENT POSSIBLE. RETIREMENT AS IN, YOU RETIRE HAVING A BOSS. FIRE YOUR BOSS. BOSS YOURSELF AROUND. NOW YOU ARE RETIRED. DUH. DOISKI.
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1.30.2020
FRIDAY JANUARY 30TH, 2020
CHAPTER EIGHT-TEEN: KOBE BRYANT OF THE STOCK MARKET
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2:27AM EST -3:27AM EST
1.16.2020
THURSDAY JANUARY 16TH, 2020
CHAPTER ELEVEN: E-TRADE
I SIGNED UP THE BANK ACCOUNT TO E-TRADE. $17 I CAN PURCHASE RVBR WITH. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU RIGHT NOW, I BEGIN TO FEEL A LITTLE NUEROTIC, ABOUT IT ALL. THERE IS A LONG LIST OF INDUSTRIES WE ARE LOOKING AT. $20 IN A COMPANY EVERY DEPOSIT. THIS MEANS I WOULD HAVE TO HAVE TO BE DEPOSITING FREQUENTLY. $20 GETS YOU OVER 600 SHARES. HOW MANY MORE SHARES OF THIS COMPANY, WILL I END UP GETTING? THIS IS THE TOP PICK. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY PICK. THERE ARE ENTIRE INDUSTRIES. THROW $10-20 IN EACH COMPANY. THROW FIVE TIMES MORE IN TOP PICK. STILL, IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE BELIEVE IN THEM ALL. RVBR HOWEVER, WE WERE WAITING FOR THIS ORGANIZATION TO MAKE A PUBLIC MOVE SINCE AGE 21. IT'S AN HONOR TO EVEN BE ALIVE. I AM GRATEFUL TO GOD. I AM THANKFUL TO GOD.
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SATURDAY JANUARY 18, 2020
1.18.2020
CHAPTER TWELVE: JALEN BUSH
DEAR JALEN,
YOU ARE TWENTY TWO. YOU HAVE SEVEN YEARS LEFT UNTIL THIRTY, AFTER YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY. THE COINBASE APP. THE E-TRADE APP. ROBIN HOOD APP. BINANCE APP. FREEWALLET APP. DOGEWALLET APP. YOU WANT TO HOLD STOCKS FEVERISHLY. IT'S SIMPLE YET IT'S HARSH TO DO. WHAT STOCKS TO BUY? YOU PURCHASE STOCKS BY THE INDUSTRIES. THE INDUSTRIES, ARE TO BE OF THE EMERGING MARKETS. VIRTUAL REALITY AND BIONICS, WERE JALEN'S SUGGESTIONS HE WOULD PICK FOR HIMSELF. THOSE TWO ARE IN OUR RESEARCH. JALEN'S ON THE TRAIL. THE EMERGING MARKETS WILL ALWAYS DO WELL.
WHEN YOU ARE THIRTY, YOU WILL WISH YOU WERE WELL INTO THE WORLD OF INVESTMENTS. THEN YOU WILL GET INTO THE WORLD OF INVESTMENTS. IF YOU ARE INTO THE WORLD OF INVESTMENTS, BY THIRTY, YOU WILL WISH YOU WERE WELL INTO THE WORLD DURING YOUR WANDERING TWENTIES. MY TWENTIES HAVE JUST ENDED. YOUR TWENTIES ARE TWO YEARS IN. I LEARNED FROM MY ERRORS AND I YEARN TO HELP TWENTY YEAR OLDS NOT MAKE THE SAME ONES.
9:55PM EST - 10:47PM EST
1.19.2020
JANUARY 19TH, 2020
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: DEAR MALIK SMITH
DEAR MALIK,
I WANT YOU TO START TO HOLD STOCKS AND CRYPTO NOW. YOU ARE, ON YOUR WAY TO 25 YEARS OLD. YOU ARE NOW 24 YEARS OLD. YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY, YOU WILL BE HALFWAY THRU YOUR TWENTIES. I HELD MY FIRST CRYPTO AT THE AGE OF 23. ONE YEAR BEFORE YOU, IF YOU START HOLDING CRYPTO NOW. I DID NOT OWN MY FIRST STOCK HOLDING PORTFOLIO, UNTIL 28. WHEN I MOVED BACK TO NEW YORK, SYRACUSE, I BOUGHT $20 IN SHARES OF BIOMETRICS COMPANIES, ON ROBINHOOD. NOW, AT THIRTY, I HAVE AN E-TRADE ACCOUNT. YOU AS WELL, HAVE YOUR OWN E-TRADE ACCOUNT.
I WANTED YOU TO GET THE SAME ACCOUNTS I HAVE BEEN SETTING UP FOR MYSELF, SO I CAN HELP MY LOVED ONES BUILD THEIR OWN PORTFOLIOS. THATS ALL I WANT, IS FOR YOU TO IMPLEMENT THE STRATEGIES I AM IMPLEMENTING NOW, AT AN EARLiER AGE THAN I WAS CAPABLE OF DOING SO. YOU ARE ONE YEAR BEHIND ON THE HOLDING CRYPTO ASPECT, YET THREE YEARS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO PURCHASE STOCKS AT AN EARLIER AGE THAN I DID. I WENT RELATIVELY LATE. I DIDN'T INVEST IN ANY FINANCIAL SECURITIES BEFORE THE BTC. THE BTC WAS THE FIRST DIGITAL ASSET. SO, MY FIRST INVESTMENT IN FINANCIAL SECURITIES AND ASSETS, HAPPENED TO BE THE FIRST EVER DIGITAL ASSET. I WAS BORN IN THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION. I SAW THE DIGITAL AGE PRECIPITATE DOWN UPON US ALL.
MAYBE I'M NOT AS BEHIND AS I THINK. YET AND STILL, I MUST PROCEED AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE, FROM HERE ON OUT. I HAVE SO MUCH CATCHING UP TO DO. IT TOOK TEN YEARS, ONE DECADE, OF RESEARCH CONSTANTLY, TO GET WHERE I AM AT NOW. NOW, WITHIN THIS NEXT TEN YEAR PERIOD OF MY LIFE, I MUST APPLY SAID INFORMATION FROM RESEARCHING CONSTANTLY FOR A DECADE, AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. THUS, CATCHING UP TO MY PREFERENCE IN HOLDINGS. RIGHT NOW, AT 25, YOU CAN PURCHASE SO MANY STOCKS, IN THE EMERGING MARKET INDUSTRIES, FOR YOU TO RETIRE FROM WITHIN 15 YEARS.
AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE, I CAN HELP OTHERS. THIS IS ALL I WANT TO DO. GOD HAS GIFTED ME WITH THIS BRAIN, FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE. THIS HEART, THIS MIND, THIS SOUL, ALL BELONG TO ME, AS A GIFT FROM GOD. I MUST USE THEM, TO THEIR FULL ABILITIES, WITH MY FULL EFFORT. A TOUGH SENTIMENT TO ADHERE TO. TONIGHT, AFTER THIS WRITING SESSION, I WILL LISTEN TO THE AUDIOBOOK. SENECA ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. IT IS SHORT, IT WILL LAST ME MY MEAL. I AM A DEEP SOUL. MY SOUL COMES FROM THE DEEPEST PIT OF LIGHT ENERGY. GOD PUT ME HERE FOR A REASON. I MUST UNEARTH IT. WE MUST DISCOVER. WE ALL MUST DISCOVER OUR REASONS THAT WE ARE HERE. I WATCHED A VIDEO OF LISA LEFT EYE LOPEZ, TALKING ABOUT TUPAC SHAKUR. THE ENTIRE 6 MINUTE VIDEO WAS INSPIRING, ONE ASPECT I WILL MENTION HERE, IS WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT DESTINY.
DESTINY IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF AND FATE IS WHAT HAPPENS. YOU CAN FOLLOW THE PATH TO YOUR FINAL DESTINY. YOU CAN REACH IT THERE AS LONG AS YOU SEE THRU THE DISTRACTIONS ALONG THE WAY. THIS FUELED ME, TO WRITE THIS CHAPTER AND KEEP UP THE WONDERFUL FIGHT. HOW HARD I AM FIGHTING, IS OVER SHADOWED IN MY OWN HEAD, BY HOW MUCH HARDER I ACTUALLY NEED TO FIGHT, WITH THE LIGHT ENERGY GUIDING MY EFFORTS. INTENSIFYING THE EFFORTS, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT NOW LAID BEFORE US. I DEDICATED MY LIFE, THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF MY ADULTHOOD, TO THE ASCERTAINMENT OF THE DESIRE TO BE AN INDEPENDENT FILM MAKER. TEN YEARS LATER, WITH HEAVY RESEARCH, I FIND MYSELF AT ANOTHER TEN YEAR PERIOD, I HAVE JUST ENTERED.
I AM IN MY THIRTIES, IN THE 2020's. I MUST NOW SPEND THE NEXT TEN YEARS, APPLYING THE INFORMATION LEARNED, DURING THE LAST TEN YEAR PERIOD. THIS TEN YEAR PERIOD, MUST BE FILLED WITH THE APPLICATION OF OLDER TO NEWER RESEARCH. APPLY EVERYTHING LEARNED UP TO NOW, THEN APPLY EVERYTHING LEARNED FROM HERE ON OUT. YOUR TWENTIES WERE FINANCIALLY ILLITERATE, ASF. AS LONG AS YOUR THIRTIES, ARE THE MOST LITERATE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE, YOU MADE UP FOR IT. NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE FINANCIALLY LITERATE IN THE KNOWING ASPECT, YOU WILL BE APPLYING THE FINANCIAL LITERACY, IN CONCENTRATED DOSES OF STRATEGY, FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL BORN LIFE. THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE AT, IN YOUR FIRST MONTH, OF THE FIRST YEAR, OF YOUR THIRTIES. YOU ARE DOING WELL MY FRIEND. STAY ON COURSE. STAY FOCUSED. STAY DIRECTED TOWARDS THE TRAJECTORY OF THE TARGET.
IN CONCLUSION, THE FINANCIAL ILLITERACY I EXPERIENCED, DURING MY TWENTIES, WAS NOT COOL. I DON'T WISH THIS ON ANYONE. I BELIEVE I SHOULD HELP AS MANY PEOPLE, AS FAST AS I CAN. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY STEP, IN THE DIRECTION. I LOVE MY LIFE. I AM GRATEFUL TO GOD, FOR GIVING ME THIS LIFE. FOR GIVING ME LIFE PERIOD, I AM THANKFUL TO GOD. I FEEL LIKE I AM ON THE PATH. I MUST RUN FASTER DOWN IT. I MUST IGNORE EVERY SINGLE DISTRACTION ALONG THE WAY. I MUST REACH THE FINAL DESTINY OF CHAD FILMS SR. I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. I DEDICATED MY ADULTHOOD TO THE ACQUISITION OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD DREAMS AND ECONOMIC FANTASIES. I LOOK FORWARD TO SOUPING THIS BOOK UP TO AN ASTRONOMICAL PROPORTION OF ECONOMICALLY CREATIVE WARFARE ATTACK STRATEGY TYPED MATERIAL.
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1.22.2020
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22ND, 2020
2:36 AM EST - 3:05AM EST
SUNDAY JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER 14: MOVING FORWARD
IF THIS WERE A DIARY, I WOULD SAY, FINANCIAL LEVERAGING HAS GOTTEN INTO ME. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE ADULTHOOD. I WANT TO HELP MYSELF TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND DOCUMENT THE PROCESS. IN MY THIRTIES, DURING THE TWENTY TWENTIES, I MUST PURCHASE AS MANY SHARES AS POSSIBLE. FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. FOR NOW THOUGH, I MUST ONLY THINK ABOUT THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO. WE STILL TRADE. THE HOLDINGS MUST BE HELD. INVESTING IS ACTUALLY NOT THE RISK TO FEAR. NO ONE WANTS TO WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
LAYERS OF INVESTMENTS. MARKER. THIS IS THE DIARY FOR AMASSING FORTUNES. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. TODAY'S THURSDAY. WHEN I GET PAID, I WILL PURCHASE STOCKS AND CRYPTO TO HOLD. I AIM TO FILL MY PERSONAL PORTFOLIOS UP. TO MY LIKING. I THINK IT IS TIME TO JUST INVEST UNTIL I AM WITH CHILDREN AND WIFE. THEN KEEP INVESTING. NEVER, EVER, EVEN ONCE, STOP INVESTING. YOU HAVE TO INVEST IN THE KIDS AND THEIR PORTFOLIOS.
ROCKET SCIENCE IS HARDER THAN THIS. SAFE TO SAY IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE.
WHAT I WASN'T DOING IN MY TWENTIES, I AM DOING NOW. REGARDING THE FINANCIAL MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTORS. THERE WERE KEYWORDS I DID NOT HAVE FROM 18 TO 27. YOU SPEND TEN YEARS SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, EVENTUALLY IT'LL SMACK YOU RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE. TOOK AN ENTIRE DECADE. I HAVE NOTHING BUT NEUTRAL GROUND TO BUILD ON. I STAYED FROM OUT OF THE CIRCUS. IN ORDER TO RESEARCH HOW TO GET OUT OF THE JUNGLE, I STRAYED FROM THE CIRCUS PATH.
THE CRYPTO LOAN. NEXO WALLET OFFERED THE FIRST CRYPTO LOAN. IMAGINE THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. YOU PURCHASE CRYPTO. YOU USE IT AS COLLATERAL ON NEXO WALLET. PLACE THE CRYPTO IN THE NEXO WALLET. TAKE OUT A LOAN BASED ON THE COLLATERAL WORTH. PURCHASE ENOUGH CRYPTO TO TAKE OUT THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN. THE MILLION DOLLAR LOAN IS NOW AMONG ST US PEOPLE. MPH MPH MPH. `WHEN YOU TAKE OUT 100K IN A SINGLE LOAN, WILL YOU LEGITIMATELY INVEST IT TO PAY OFF THE LOAN? GET YOUR CRYPTO BACK PEOPLE. AFTER PURCHASING IT AND LOANING IT OUT MAN. DIGITAL COLLATERAL MAN COME ON. THERE'S A STORM COMING. WHY AMERICA SLEPT.
IN ORDER FOR AMERICA TO RISE UP AGAIN, AS A NATION, IS TO INDIVIDUALLY RISE UP THE NEXT AMERICAN. I DID NOT CRAVE THE BILLION DOLLAR NET WORTH FOR MY OWN SAKE. I CRAVED TO SHOW THE WORLD, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, WHEN THE BILLIONAIRE, CARES THE MOST. AMERICA DOESN'T PUSH INFORMATION LIKE THIS, TO AMERICANS. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, DO NOT PUSH THIS MATERIAL TO AMERICANS. THUS AMERICA, GROWS WEIRDER AND WEIRDER IN A REAL NORMAL VARIETY. IF I SAID SMME, SMART METRICS, A BIOMETRICS COMPANY, IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, A COMPETITOR OF NXT ID, MAKER OF THE FLYE CARD, COSTS ONE PENNY PER SHARE, WOULDN'T THAT JUST SOUND LIKE GIBBERISH? REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF ALL TIME, I CALLED IT. RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW I WROTE IT COST ONE PENNY. RIGHT BEFORE I PUBLISH THIS PUBLICATION, I WILL TYPE A LIST OF THE RECENT PRICES OF ALL SECURITIES MENTIONED.
THERE IS A DOUBLE PLEASURE I GET FROM THIS INFORMATION. I GET TO USE IT. I GET TO SHARE IT. YOU MAY USE IT. THOSE WHO USE IT, WILL RETIRE BEFORE THOSE WHO DO NOT. I PUT MONEY ON THAT AS WELL. I GET TO GO AROUND PURCHASING $10 IN SMME STOCK FOR OTHER PEOPLE. 1000 SHARES. 10,000 SHARES. 100,000 SHARES. I TINGLE JUST UTTERING SUCH PREDICAMENTS. 100 SHARES FOR A DOLLAR ARE YOU EXPLETIVELY KIDDING ME? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME WHAT? I COULD SAVE THE TEN DOLLARS IN FIAT CURRENCY, IN A BANK? THE BANK WOULD JUST PURCHASE STOCKS TODAY WITH THE CAPITAL. IT'S A NASTY BALL GAME. THIS PUBLICATION, IS ONE SPICY MEAT A BALL. ZEITGEIST THREE MOVING FORWARD, GAVE ME THE ANALOGY FOR IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX. FOR THE RECORD.
ECONOMICALLY I'M STARTING AN ARMY. IT'S AN ECONOMIC ARMY OF FINANCIALLY LITERATE COWABUNGERS.
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1.26.2020
JANUARY 26TH, 2020
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN: A HEADACHE
I START THE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO THIS UPCOMING WEEK. TOMORROW IS MONDAY RIGHT? E-TRADE TAKES 5 DAYS TO TRANSFER THE EXTERNAL ACCOUNT DEPOSITS INTO THE HOLDING OR TRADING ACCOUNT. HERE IS THE SCENARIO. THIS IS THE INVESTMENT DIARY, OF ALL INVESTMENT DIARIES MY GOOD FRIEND. $240 IS THE INITIAL INVESTMENT. $45 GOES TO JASON FOR HIS E-TRADE HOLDINGS PORTFOLIO. I WILL SEND HIM MORE NEXT TIME. $75 GOES TO JASON TO SEND XRP TO MY CRYPTO WALLET. I WILL CONVERT THOSE COINS TO OTHER ALTERNATIVE COINS. ALT COINS. $25 GOES TO THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT FEE FOR NOT HAVING THE $9 DEPOSIT AVAILABLE ON THE 5TH DAY OF THE TRANSFER. $125 MUST GO ON THE E-TRADE ACCOUNT. I WILL PURCHASE $100 IN STOCKS. I WILL SPLIT THE PURCHASE BETWEEN TWO COMPANIES. SMART METRIC AND RVBR MARK RAY.
EVERY $10 SPENT ON SMME, SMART METRIC, IS 1250 SHARES, AT THE PRICE LEVEL OF ONE PENNY. RVBR CONTAINS THREE DIFFERENT STOCK SYMBOLS, WITHIN THE ONE COMPANY. MARK RAY OWNS KFGL. GANS IS A KFGL SUBSIDIARY. THE PRICE LEVEL OF THREE PENNIES FOR RVBR NOW IS ONE PENNY PER CONTAINED SYMBOL. $30 IN RVBR NOW IS 3333.3333 SHARES. THE TOP TWO STOCK PICKS, ARE BETWEEN ONE AND THREE PENNIES. I HAVEN'T SEARCHED FOR RVBR COMPETITION YET. SMME WAS FOUND WHEN I SEARCHED FOR NXT ID COMPLETION. LOL. SMILEY FACE. WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THESE STRATEGIES FOR YEARS, NOW WE ARE GETTING DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT THIS CONCEPT. THIS IS A PHILOSOPHY.
$50 IN SMME COMPANY STOCK ALONE, IS 1250 TIMES FIVE. 6250 SHARES IN SMME FROM A $50 INVESTMENT. YOU WOULD WANT TO ALSO THEN PURCHASE NXT ID SHARES. 100 SHARES FOR $50. THEN YOU REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE THE PRICE LEVELS AND PROFIT MARGINS ARE BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES, IN THE SAME INDUSTRY. IF SMME AND NXT ID ARE BOTH IN THE BIOMETRICS INDUSTRY, IT IS FAIR TO SAY, NXT ID IS FARING CONSIDERABLY BETTER OFF THAN SMME. I HAVE FAITH IN THE BIOMETRICS DIVISON. I HAVE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION WITHIN THE INDUSTRY. I HAVE FAITH IN GOD. I HAVE FAITH IN MYSELF. I AM A MAN OF FAITH. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE STOCK MARKET. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE MARKET. I AM AFRAID OF NOT PARTICIPATING.
I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE HOLDING PORTFOLIO, WE ARE BUILDING FOR OURSELVES. I WILL HAVE MY MOTHER SIGN UP FOR AN E-TRADE ACCOUNT SO I CAN BUILD THE FAMILY'S HOLDING PORTFOLIO. I MUST ACCEPT, ONCE THEY ACQUIRE IT, THEY WILL SELL OFF SHARES AT THEIR DISCRETION. I MAY HAVE TO HAVE A BACKUP ACCOUNT FOR THEM SOMEWHERE, MAYBE WITH MALIK. MAYBE I WILL SEND MALIK MONEY TO PURCHASE MY STOCK PICKS. HE CAN SPLIT THAT MONEY BETWEEN THREE PEOPLE. JUSTIN, KEVI, DANTE. THAT'S WHEN THE FAMILY REALIZES I LEFT BEHIND MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS WITH THE WEALTH PRE-DISTRIBUTED TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY FALLACY ON ANYONE'S BEHALF. INCLUDING THE POTENTIAL FALLACY, OF NOT ACCOUNTING FOR ANY POTENTIAL FALLACY, ON MY BEHALF.
I JUST SOLVED THAT ISSUE, OF HAVING ANOTHER HOLDING ACCOUNT STASHED AWAY FOR MY FAMILY. MY COUSIN MALIK SMITH. I CAN SEND FUNDS TO HIS E-TRADE FOR PURCHASING THE SAME SHARES FOR MY BIRTH FAMILY. I HAVE TO LEAVE THE SLATE CLEAN ON MY ACCOUNT TO BE LEFT TO MY CHILD OR MY MENTOR. MY FAMILY HOWEVER AND MY FRIENDS WILL HAVE THEIR HOLDING ACCOUNTS BEEFED UP TO WHERE MINE ARE. THEY WILL ALL JUST BE DUPLICATE ACCOUNTS. WHEN THE TRADING TAKES OFF, THE DEPOSITS FOR STOCKS WILL INCREASE TRIUMPHANTLY. THEN I CAN PAY OFF THE $4000 LOAN DARRELL KEELE AND GEORGE C. WORD TOOK OUT ON MY DELTA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ACCOUNT, WHEN I MOVED TO SYRACUSE, NEW YORK IN AUGUST OF 2018.
WHAT'S $4000 TO A BILLIONAIRE? THIS IS WHY I STAY TO MYSELF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. I'M OF A STRANGER CALIBER THAN MOST I ENCOUNTER. THEY ARE SAFER AROUND ME, THAN I AM AROUND THEM. I DO HAVE TO HAVE A BENEFICIARY FOR MY INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS. I WANT IT TO BE MY CHILD AND THEIR MOTHER. FOR THAT I NEED ONE MORE ACCOUNT TO BUILD UP FOR MY MENTOR. THEN EVERYONE IS GOOD. UNTIL I DO HAVE A CHILD, THE BENEFICIARY WOULD HAVE TO BE MY MENTOR UNTIL I HAVE A CHILD. YOU SEE THE THOUGHTS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT? KEEPING THE ACCOUNT BENEFICIARY SLATE CLEAR FOR FUTURE CHILDREN YET STILL HAVING SOMEONE TO BENEFIT FROM IT. YET STILL HAVING THAT SAME AMOUNT LEFT TO THEM ONCE YOU DO HAVE CHILDREN. THAT'S A HEAD ACHE.
3:12AM EST - 3:55AM EST
1.29.2020
JANUARY 29TH, 2020
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE MAMBA MENTALITY
TODAY IS THE ONE MONTH TIME STAMP OF MY 30TH BIRTHDAY. I AM GRATEFUL, I STARTED MY HOLDING PORTFOLIO ONCE AGAIN. I STARTED THE CRYPTO HOLDING PORTFOLIOS IN THE SUMMER OF 2017. THREE YEARS AGO. THREE YEARS BEFORE THEN, I PURCHASED THREE BITCOINS AT $88 DOLLARS A PIECE. 3. IN 2013. I WAS 23. GOD IS GOOD ALL OF THE TIME. I PUT $225 ON MY ONLINE BANK CARD AT RITE AID. I PAID THE $5 FEE TO UPLOAD THE CARD BALANCE. I SENT JASON $100. I PAID THE PAYPAL FEE. $3.20. I PAID THE $25 FEE ON MY E-TRADE. I TRANSFERRED $122 ON THE E-TRADE. $97 WILL HIT THE HOLDING ACCOUNT. $48 WILL GO TO SMME. SMART METRICS. SMART METRICS IS THE BIOMETRICS COMPETITOR OF NEXT ID. NXT ID. 39 PENNIES NXT ID IS. ONE PENNY IS THE COST OF SMART METRIC STOCK. IN 2017, THE WINTER OF, SMME WAS 45 PENNIES. HALF OF NXT ID. I BIO MAY HAVE BEEN TEN PENNIES THEN AND EVEN WHEN I PURCHASED $10 WORTH IN STOCK, IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, ON ROBINHOOD FROM NEW YORK.
I ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE $25 WORTH OF SMME STOCK. I ASKED JASON TO SPEND THE OTHER $25 OF THE FIRST $50, ON RVBR, AT THREE PENNIES PER SHARE. 1600 SHARES OF SMME IN MY OWN ACCOUNT. HALF OF THOSE SHARES ARE IN JASON'S ACCOUNT. HALF THE $48 ON RVBR. 2500 SHARES, 4800 SHARES. 5000 SHARES. FLOATING THRU VARIOUS ACCOUNTS FROM NOW ON. MANIACALLY PURCHASING SHARES IN EMERGING MARKETS, ON THE MOST DIABOLICAL OF LEVELS. THE OTHER $50 WAS ASKED OF JASON TO DEPOSIT IT INTO HIS ROBINHOOD. WE ASKED JASON TO PURCHASE DOGECOIN WITH THE $50. WE CALCULATED THE DOGECOIN AMOUNT AT 20,500. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. I PRAY TO GOD I SEE THIS THRU. I AM TERRIFIED. I FEEL AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF DESTINY ALL AROUND ME. I CAN NOT HELP BUT TO REMAIN FOCUSED AND DISCERNING.
I WILL CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET. I HAVE SO MANY INDUSTRIES TO INCLUDE INTO THE PORTFOLIO. THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES IN THOSE INDUSTRIES, AVAILABLE ON E-TRADE AND ROBINHOOD, AND ANY OTHER PLATFORM I FIND. AFTER MANY ROUNDS OF DOING THIS, THE MOST URGENT ASPECT OF THE INVESTMENT WORLD I'M DELVING INTO TO BUILD MY FAMILY AN EMPIRE. I WILL GET THE ONLINE BANK ACCOUNT ALLOWING ME TO PUT MONEY INTO SAVINGS BONDS, ANY OTHER BONDS, AND CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. THIS IS HOW I WILL STORE THE VAST OF THE MONEY I HAVE EARNED FROM WORK. I WILL GET ANOTHER ONLINE BANK, FOR A SAVINGS ONLY AND DON'T EVER HOLD THE CARD. ONLY TO PUT MORE ON THERE. THIS IS ALL UNTIL THE FOREX TRADING PAYS OFF. THEN IT'S TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SHARES PER WEEK. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ALTCOINS PER WEEK. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DIGITAL UNITS OF FINANCIAL MEASURE. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ECONOMICAL PLEASURE?
I DO. I DO. I DO. DO I REALLY? I REALLY DO. COME TO THINK OF IT, I TRULY DO. JASON PURCHASED A NANO TECH COMPANY NNVC AT $2. NANO VERICIDES. HE SAYS I TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. HE LISTENED. I DID. GUESS I SHOULD BUY IT TO HOLD NOW. OF COURSE I MUST. IT WENT UP FROM $2 TO $8. IT JUST CAME DOWN FROM $18. TIMES TEN JASON'S INVESTMENT. NASTY. HE ONLY BOUGHT A FEW SHARES. HE STILL LISTENED THOUGH. HE PROFITED. HE DIDN'T CASH OUT. E-TRADE ALLOWS YOU TO EXECUTE A SELL TRADE INITIALLY. NOT AS IN SELLING YOUR HOLDINGS. BUY TO HOLD IN ONE TRADE. SELL TO TRADE UNTIL YOU BUY THEN TO HOLD MORE. WHEN THE STOCKS ARE HOLDING, DOUBLE OVER ONCE OR MORE TIMES, EXECUTE AN ORIGINAL SELL TRADE ON E-TRADE AGAINST IT. THEN USE THE PROFIT TO ENTER INTO THE BUY AT A LOWER PRICE. OR SPEND OTHER FUNDS TO BUY TO HOLD AT THE LOWER PRICES, WHILE YOU SEE HOW LOW DOES SHE GO.
AS I CONTINUE TO STUDY THE WORLD OF INVESTING AND ECONOMICS, I CAN DO SO KNOWING I AM CATCHING UP WITH MY OWN AMBITION, AND REALIZING THE VISION. I AM BRINGING AS MANY OTHERS TO THE WATERING HOLE WHOM AS IS CAN STOMACH SUCH THOUGHTS. MOST PEOPLE CAN NOT STOMACH THE THOUGHT OF THE POSSIBILITY OF RETIRING EARLY. DOUBT COMES FROM HAVING NO PLAN AT ALL. IT IS DOUBT FOR GOOD REASON. I'M REALLY GRATEFUL I GET TO BE THIS GUY. I AM YOUR SECRET BEST FRIEND. TELL THE WORLD ABOUT ME. I LOVED YOU. I WANTED FOR YOU, THE EARLIEST RETIREMENT POSSIBLE. RETIREMENT AS IN, YOU RETIRE HAVING A BOSS. FIRE YOUR BOSS. BOSS YOURSELF AROUND. NOW YOU ARE RETIRED. DUH. DOISKI.
3:16 AM EST - 4;17AM EST
1.30.2020
FRIDAY JANUARY 30TH, 2020
CHAPTER EIGHT-TEEN: KOBE BRYANT OF THE STOCK MARKET
2023.03.24 22:15 bigbear0083 Wall Street Week Ahead for the trading week beginning March 27th, 2023
Good Friday evening to all of you here on StockMarketChat! I hope everyone on this sub made out pretty nicely in the market this week, and are ready for the new trading week ahead. :)
Here is everything you need to know to get you ready for the trading week beginning March 27th, 2023.
Here are the most notable companies (tickers) reporting earnings in this upcoming trading week ahead-
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a great trading week ahead StockMarketChat. :)
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Here is everything you need to know to get you ready for the trading week beginning March 27th, 2023.
Stocks close higher Friday as investors try to shake off latest bank fears: Live updates - (Source)
Stocks rose Friday, reversing their earlier session declines as Deutsche Bank shares pared back some losses.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 132.28 points, or 0.41%, closing at 32,238.15. The S&P 500 rose 0.57%, while Nasdaq Composite ticked up 0.3%. The major indexes all had a winning week, with the Dow gaining 0.4% week-to-date as of Friday afternoon, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained 1.4% and 1.6%, respectively.
Deutsche Bank’s U.S.-listed shares slid 3.11% Friday, rebounding from a 7% drop earlier in the trading session. A selloff of shares was triggered after the the German lender’s credit default swaps jumped, but without an apparent catalyst. The move appeared to raise concerns once again over the health of the European banking industry. Earlier this month, Swiss regulators forced a UBS acquisition of rival Credit Suisse. Deutsche Bank shares traded off their worst levels of the session, which caused major U.S. indexes to also cut their losses.
“I think that the market overall is neither frightened nor optimistic — it’s simply confused,” said George Ball, president at Sanders Morris Harris. “The price action for the last month-and-a-half, including today, is a jumble without any direction or conviction.”
Ball added that Deutsche Bank is “very sound financially.”
“It could be crippled if there’s a big loss of confidence and there’s a run on the bank. There is, however, no fundamental reason why that should occur, other than nervousness.”
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde tried to ease concerns, saying euro zone banks are resilient with strong capital and liquidity positions. Lagarde said the ECB could provide liquidity if needed.
Investors continued to assess the Fed’s latest policy move announced this week. The central bank hiked rates by a quarter-point. However, it also hinted that its rate-hiking campaign may be ending soon. Meanwhile, Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted that credit conditions have tightened, which could put pressure on the economy.
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said regulators are prepared to take more action if needed to stabilize U.S. banks. Her comments are the latest among regulators attempting to buoy confidence in the U.S. banking system in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank closures.
“Retail [and] institutional investors are both looking at the banking system, but now internationally. That’s dangerous,” Ball added. “Banks exist because of confidence in their stability, and that confidence can be eroded as we now see, via social media and technology in a matter of minutes.”
This past week saw the following moves in the S&P:
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S&P Sectors for this past week:
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Major Indices for this past week:
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Major Futures Markets as of Friday's close:
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Economic Calendar for the Week Ahead:
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Percentage Changes for the Major Indices, WTD, MTD, QTD, YTD as of Friday's close:
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S&P Sectors for the Past Week:
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Major Indices Pullback/Correction Levels as of Friday's close:
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Major Indices Rally Levels as of Friday's close:
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Most Anticipated Earnings Releases for this week:
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Here are the upcoming IPO's for this week:
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Friday's Stock Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades:
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Best and Worst Stocks Since the COVID Crash Low
We are now three years out from the COVID Crash low, and even with the past year's weakness, most assets continue to sit on solid gains. For major US index ETFs, the S&P Midcap 400 (IJH) is up the most having slightly more than doubled while the S&P Smallcap 600 (IJR) is not far behind having rallied 95.9%. Value has generally outperformed growth, especially for mid and small-caps although that has shifted somewhat this year. For example, while its gains have been more middling since the COVID crash, the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) has been the strongest area of the equity market in 2023 thanks to the strength of sectors like Tech (XLK) and Communication Services (XLC). Although those sectors have posted strong gains this year, they have been the weakest over the past three years while Energy (XLE) far and away has been the strongest asset class. Paired with the strength of energy stocks has been solid runs in commodities (DBC)more broadly with the notable exception being Natural Gas (UNG) which has lost over 40%. Bond ETFs are similarly sitting on losses since the COVID Crash lows. As for international markets, Mexico (EWW) and India (PIN) have outpaced the rest of the world although Emerging Markets (EEM) as a whole have not been particularly strong; likely being dragged on by the weaker performance of China (ASHR) which holds a large weight on EEM.
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Taking a look at current S&P 500 members, nearly half of the index has more than doubled over the past three years. As for the absolute best performers, Energy stocks dominate the list with four of the top five best-performing S&P 500 stocks coming from that sector. Targa Resources (TRGP) has been the absolute best performer with a nearly 900% total return. Other notables include a couple of heavy weight stocks: Tesla (TSLA) and NVIDIA (NVDA) with gains of 563.9% and 412.9%, respectively.
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On the other end of the spectrum, there are currently 25 stocks that have posted a negative return since the COVID Crash low. The worst has been First Republic Bank (FRC) which has been more of a recent development. Whereas today the stock has posted an 83.1% loss, at the start of this month it would have been a 65% gain. Another standout on the list of worst performers has been Amazon (AMZN). Most other mega caps have more than doubled since the March 2020 S&P 500 low, however, the e-commerce giant has hardly offered a positive return.
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Sector Performance Experiences a Historical Divergence
The first quarter of 2023 is coming to a close next week, and checking in on year to date performance, there has been a big divergence between the winners and losers. Although the S&P 500 is up 2.84% on the year as of yesterday's close, only three of the eleven sectors are higher. Not only are those three sectors up on the year, but they have posted impressive double digit gains only three months into the year. Of those three, Consumer Discretionary has posted the smallest gain of 10% whereas Technology and Communication Services have risen 17.2% and 18.1%, respectively. The fact that these sectors are home to the main mega cap stocks -- like Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Alphabet (GOOGL), which have been on an impressive run of late -- helps to explain how the market cap weighted S&P 500 is up on the year without much in the way of healthy breadth on a sector level.
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One thing that is particularly remarkable about this year's sector performance is just how rare it is for a sector to be up 10%+ (let alone 3) while all other sectors are lower. And that is for any point of the year let alone in the first quarter. As we mentioned in yesterday's Sector Snapshot and show in the charts below, going back to 1990, there have only been two other periods in which a sector has risen at least 10% YTD while all other sectors were lower YTD. The first of those was in May 2009. In a similar instance to now, Consumer Discretionary, Tech, and Materials were the three sectors with double digit gains back then. With those sectors up solidly, the S&P 500 was little changed on the year with a less than 1% gain. As you can see below, though, by the end of 2009, every sector had pushed into positive territory as the new bull market coming out of the global financial crisis was well underway.
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The next occurrence was much more recent: 2022. Obviously, it was a tough year for equities except for the Energy sector which had a banner year. Throughout most of the year, the sector traded up by well over 20% year to date even while the rest of the equity market was battered.
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The Fed Expects Banking Stress to Substitute for Rate Hikes
The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.25% at their March meeting, bringing it to the 4.75-5.0% range. This is the ninth-straight rate increase and brings rates to their highest level since 2007. However, the most aggressive tightening cycle since the early 1980s, which saw them lift rates all the way from near zero to almost 5%, is near its end.
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Up until early February, Fed officials expected to raise rates to a maximum of about 5.1% and hold it there for a while. However, since that time, we’ve gotten a slew of strong economic data, including elevated inflation numbers. This pushed fed officials to give “guidance” that they expected to raise rates by more than they estimated back in December.
Market expectations for policy also moved in conjunction. Prior to February, markets expected the Fed to raise rates to 5% by June, and subsequently lower them by about 0.5% by the end of the year. But strong incoming data and Fed guidance pushed expectations higher, with the terminal rate moving up to 5.6% and no cuts in 2023.
The Silicon Valley Bank crisis changed everything
The bank crisis that erupted over the last couple of weeks resulted in a significant shift, both in expectations for policy and now the Fed as well. See here for our complete rundown on SVB and the ensuing crisis.
Market expectations for Fed policy rates immediately moved lower. Markets expected the stress in banks to translate to tighter credit conditions, which in turn would lead to slower economic growth and lower inflation.
This was nicely articulated by Professor Jeremey Siegel, one of the foremost commentators on financial markets and fed policy, in our latest episode of the Facts vs Feelings podcast, Prof. Siegel said that tighter credit conditions, as lending standards become more strict, are de facto rate hikes.
Fed Chair Powell more or less said exactly the same thing after the Fed’s March meeting. The 0.25% increase was an attempt to thread the needle between financial stability and fighting inflation. Fed officials also forecast the fed funds rate to hit a maximum of 5.1%, unchanged from their December estimate. This is a marked shift from what was expected just a few weeks ago, with Powell explicitly saying that tighter credit conditions “substitute” for rate hikes.
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There’s a lot of uncertainty ahead
While the recent bank stresses are expected to tighten credit conditions and thereby impact economic growth and inflation, there are a couple of open questions:
These are unknown currently. Which means future policy is also unknown.
- How big will the impact be?
- How long will the impact last?
Fed officials expect to take rates to 5.1%, i.e., one more rate increase. And then expect to hold it there through the end of the year. In short, they don’t expect rate cuts this year.
Yet investors expect no more rate increases and about 0.6% of rate cuts in the second half of 2023. Markets expect the policy rate in June to be at 4.8%, while expectations for December are at 4.2%.
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There’s clearly a huge gulf between what the Fed expects versus what investors expect. This will have to reconcile in one of two ways:
Things are obviously not going to go in either direction in a straight line. It’s going to be a bumpy ride as new data points come in, not to mention news/rumors of renewed problems in the banking sector.
- Market expectations move higher – if economic/inflation data remain strong and credit conditions don’t look to be tightening significantly.
- Fed expectations move lower – if the banking sector comes under renewed stress, credit conditions could tighten significantly and eventually lead to weaker data.
Seasonality Keeps Claims Below 200K?
Initial jobless claims remained healthy this week with another sub-200K print. Claims fell modestly to 191K from last week's unrevised reading of 192K. That small decline exceeded expectations of claims rising up to 197K. Given claims continue to impress, the seasonally adjusted number has come in below 200K for 9 of the last 10 weeks. By that measure, it has been the strongest stretch for claims since last April when there were 10 weeks in a row of sub-200K prints. Prior to that, from 2018 through 2020 the late March and early April period similarly saw consistent readings under 200K meaning that some of the strength in the adjusted number could be on account of residual seasonality.
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In fact, this point of the year has some of the weeks in which claims have the most consistently historically fallen week over week. Taking a historical median of claims throughout the year, claims tend to round out a short-term bottom in the spring before an early summer bump. In other words, seasonal strength will begin to wane in the coming months.
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While initial claims improved, continuing claims worsened rising to 1.694 million from 1.68 million the previous week. Albeit higher, that remains below the 2023 high of 1.715 million set at the end of February.
A Fed Day Like Most Others
Yesterday's Fed decision and comments from Fed Chair Powell gave markets plenty to chew on. As we discussed in last night's Closer and today's Morning Lineup, there have been a number of conflicting statements from officials and confusing reactions in various assets over the past 24 hours. In spite of all that uncertainty, the S&P 500's path yesterday pretty much followed the usual script. In the charts below we show the S&P's average intraday pattern across all Fed days since Powell has been chair (first chart) and the intraday chart of the S&P yesterday (second chart). As shown, the market's pattern yesterday, especially after the 2 PM ET rate decision and the 2:30 PM press conference, closely resembled the average path that the market has followed across all Powell Fed Days since 2018.
The S&P saw a modest bounce after the 2 PM Fed decision and then a further rally right after Powell's presser began at 2:30 PM. That initial post-presser spike proved to be a pump-fake, as markets ultimately sold off hard with a near 2% decline from 2:30 PM to the 4 PM close.
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So what typically happens in the week after Fed days? Since 1994 when the Fed began announcing policy decisions on the same day as its meeting, the S&P has averaged a decline of 10 basis points over the next week. During the current tightening cycle that began about a year ago, market performance in the week after Fed days has been even worse with the S&P averaging a decline of 0.99%. However, when the S&P has been down over 1% on Fed days (like yesterday), performance over the next week has been positive with an average gain of 0.64%. As always, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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What Now? An Update on Recent Bank Stress.
It’s been less than 2 weeks since Silicon Valley Bank’s stunning 48-hour collapse, and a few more banks have been caught in the fray. New York regulators closed the doors on Signature Bank on Sunday, March 12. A week later, US banks injected $30 billion into First Republic Bank to keep it afloat, and UBS acquired rival Swiss bank Credit Suisse in a government-brokered deal. In the midst of the chaos, your Carson Investment Research team was there for you with client-facing content, professional advice, and investment solutions. In fact, we think this event presents an opportunity to invest in the more stable large-cap financial companies and recently upgraded the sector to overweight in our House Views Advice.
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Why is this happening?
The rapid hike in interest rates caused an asset and liability mismatch for banks. Due to many years of low-interest rates, banks invested assets in interest-earning loans and bonds that would be repaid over the next five-plus years, which at the time was a logical way to earn a higher yield. Regulators considered government bonds to be among the safest ways a bank could invest its capital. As interest rates rose, bond values dropped. Interest rates rose at the fastest pace in history, and the safe assets that banks invested in lost value to the tune of more than $620 billion in unrealized losses as of the end of last year. This decline in value left weaker banks underwater and, when coupled with depositors pulling money out, caused them to collapse or seek costly capital raises.
Why this matters to investors?
The weakness in the banking sector will likely lead to tighter lending standards, potentially slowing economic growth. The reason we’re in this mess, to begin with, is that the Fed hiked interest rates to slow the economy because inflation was rising too quickly. Perhaps the 16% drop in oil prices over the past two weeks reflected this slower growth and bodes well for continued falling inflation. Thus, the Fed is closer to achieving its goal.
Maybe it’s an overreaction as “banking crisis” headlines stir painful memories of 2008. Either way, an environment with slower growth and lower inflation isn’t a bad time to invest. Bonds and stocks could both perform well, especially stocks of companies with the ability to grow earnings. We also reiterate our House Views Advice overweight on the large-cap Financials sector. The largest US banks are well-capitalized and are gaining market share from the smaller regional banks. We believe this calamity provides an opportunity for stronger banks and investors to capitalize on.
FANG+ Flying
As we noted in today's Morning Lineup, sector performance has heavily favored areas like Tech, Consumer Discretionary, and Communication Services in recent weeks. Playing into that sector level performance has been the strength of the mega-caps. The NYSE FANG+ index tracks ten of the largest and most highly traded Tech and Tech-adjacent names. In the past several days, that cohort of stocks is breaking out to the highest level since last April whereas the S&P 500 still needs to rally 4% to reach its February high.
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Although FANG+ stocks have been strong recently, that follows more than a full year of underperformance. As shown below, relative to the S&P 500, mega-cap Tech consistently underperformed from February 2021 through this past fall. In the past few days, the massive outperformance has resulted in a breakout of the downtrend for the ratio of FANG+ to the S&P 500.
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More impressive is how rapid of a move it has been for that ratio to break out. Below, we show the 2-month percent change in the ratio above. As of the high at yesterday's close, the ratio had risen 22.5% over the prior two months. That comes up just short of the record (22.6%) leading up to the pre-COVID high in February 2020. In other words, mega-cap Tech has experienced near-record outperformance relative to the broader market. However, we would note that this is in the wake of last year when the group had seen some of its worst two-month underperformance on record with the worst readings being in March, May, and November.
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March Seasonality Prevails, Banking Fiasco Be Damned
It’s encouraging typical March seasonal patterns have overcome recent bank failures, recession talk and fearmongering. The early March pullback was steeper than normal, but the usual mid-month rebound appears to be materializing.
Last week’s gains could be an indication we have seen the worst of the banking fallout and the end of the pullback. Triple Witching Weeks have tended to be down in flat periods and dramatically so during bear markets. Positive March Triple Witching weeks in 2003 and 2009 confirmed the market was back in rally mode.
The week after March Triple Witching is notoriously nasty. S&P is down 27 of the last 40 year – and frequently down sharply. Positive or flat action this week would be constructive.
In the old days March used to come in like a bull and out like a bear. Nowadays March has evolved into an inflection point where short-term trends often change course. The market is clearly at an important juncture and it’s a good time to remember Warren Buffet’s wise words to “Be greedy when others are fearful.”
Bank failures are never a good thing, but the swift actions of regulators likely prevented further damage to the industry. At the least, the banks are likely to be under even greater scrutiny going forward. In the near-term we expect more volatile trading. Further out we expect the market, and the economy will recover like they both have historically done.
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Nasdaq Leaves the S&P in the Dust
Looking at the major US index ETF screen of our Trend Analyzer shows just how disconnected the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) has become from other major index ETFs recently. As shown below, as of Friday's close, QQQ actually finished in overbought territory (over 1 standard above its 50-DMA) whereas many other major index ETFs were oversold, some of those to an extreme degree. On a year to date basis, the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) has rallied more than 14% compared to low single digit gains or losses for the rest of the pack.
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Historically, the major indices, namely the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, tend to trade at similar overbought and oversold levels. In the chart below we show the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500's distance from their 50-DMAs (expressed in standard deviations) over the past five years. As shown, typically the two large cap indices have seen similar albeit not identical readings. That is until the past few weeks in which the two have diverged more significantly.
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On Friday there was more than 2 standard deviations between the Nasdaq's overbought 50-DMA spread and the S&P 500's oversold spread. As shown in the chart below, that surpassed recent highs in the spread like the spring of 2020 to set the highest reading since October 2016.
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Going back to 1985, the spread between the Nasdaq and S&P 500 50-DMA spreads diverging to such a degree is not without precedent, but it is also not exactly common. Friday marked the 16th time that spread eclipsed 2 standard deviations for the first time in at least 3 months. Relative to those prior instances, the current overbought and oversold readings in both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are relatively middling. However, only the instance in early 2000 similarly saw the Nasdaq technically overbought (trading at least a standard deviation above its 50-DMA) while the S&P 500 was simultaneously oversold (at least one standard deviation below its 50-DMA).
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Here is everything you need to know to get you ready for the trading week beginning March 27th, 2023.
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Here is everything you need to know to get you ready for the trading week beginning March 27th, 2023.
Stocks close higher Friday as investors try to shake off latest bank fears: Live updates - (Source)
Stocks rose Friday, reversing their earlier session declines as Deutsche Bank shares pared back some losses.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 132.28 points, or 0.41%, closing at 32,238.15. The S&P 500 rose 0.57%, while Nasdaq Composite ticked up 0.3%. The major indexes all had a winning week, with the Dow gaining 0.4% week-to-date as of Friday afternoon, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained 1.4% and 1.6%, respectively.
Deutsche Bank’s U.S.-listed shares slid 3.11% Friday, rebounding from a 7% drop earlier in the trading session. A selloff of shares was triggered after the the German lender’s credit default swaps jumped, but without an apparent catalyst. The move appeared to raise concerns once again over the health of the European banking industry. Earlier this month, Swiss regulators forced a UBS acquisition of rival Credit Suisse. Deutsche Bank shares traded off their worst levels of the session, which caused major U.S. indexes to also cut their losses.
“I think that the market overall is neither frightened nor optimistic — it’s simply confused,” said George Ball, president at Sanders Morris Harris. “The price action for the last month-and-a-half, including today, is a jumble without any direction or conviction.”
Ball added that Deutsche Bank is “very sound financially.”
“It could be crippled if there’s a big loss of confidence and there’s a run on the bank. There is, however, no fundamental reason why that should occur, other than nervousness.”
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde tried to ease concerns, saying euro zone banks are resilient with strong capital and liquidity positions. Lagarde said the ECB could provide liquidity if needed.
Investors continued to assess the Fed’s latest policy move announced this week. The central bank hiked rates by a quarter-point. However, it also hinted that its rate-hiking campaign may be ending soon. Meanwhile, Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted that credit conditions have tightened, which could put pressure on the economy.
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said regulators are prepared to take more action if needed to stabilize U.S. banks. Her comments are the latest among regulators attempting to buoy confidence in the U.S. banking system in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank closures.
“Retail [and] institutional investors are both looking at the banking system, but now internationally. That’s dangerous,” Ball added. “Banks exist because of confidence in their stability, and that confidence can be eroded as we now see, via social media and technology in a matter of minutes.”
This past week saw the following moves in the S&P:
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S&P Sectors for this past week:
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Major Indices for this past week:
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Major Futures Markets as of Friday's close:
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Economic Calendar for the Week Ahead:
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Percentage Changes for the Major Indices, WTD, MTD, QTD, YTD as of Friday's close:
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S&P Sectors for the Past Week:
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Major Indices Pullback/Correction Levels as of Friday's close:
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Major Indices Rally Levels as of Friday's close:
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Most Anticipated Earnings Releases for this week:
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Here are the upcoming IPO's for this week:
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Friday's Stock Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades:
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Best and Worst Stocks Since the COVID Crash Low
We are now three years out from the COVID Crash low, and even with the past year's weakness, most assets continue to sit on solid gains. For major US index ETFs, the S&P Midcap 400 (IJH) is up the most having slightly more than doubled while the S&P Smallcap 600 (IJR) is not far behind having rallied 95.9%. Value has generally outperformed growth, especially for mid and small-caps although that has shifted somewhat this year. For example, while its gains have been more middling since the COVID crash, the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) has been the strongest area of the equity market in 2023 thanks to the strength of sectors like Tech (XLK) and Communication Services (XLC). Although those sectors have posted strong gains this year, they have been the weakest over the past three years while Energy (XLE) far and away has been the strongest asset class. Paired with the strength of energy stocks has been solid runs in commodities (DBC)more broadly with the notable exception being Natural Gas (UNG) which has lost over 40%. Bond ETFs are similarly sitting on losses since the COVID Crash lows. As for international markets, Mexico (EWW) and India (PIN) have outpaced the rest of the world although Emerging Markets (EEM) as a whole have not been particularly strong; likely being dragged on by the weaker performance of China (ASHR) which holds a large weight on EEM.
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Taking a look at current S&P 500 members, nearly half of the index has more than doubled over the past three years. As for the absolute best performers, Energy stocks dominate the list with four of the top five best-performing S&P 500 stocks coming from that sector. Targa Resources (TRGP) has been the absolute best performer with a nearly 900% total return. Other notables include a couple of heavy weight stocks: Tesla (TSLA) and NVIDIA (NVDA) with gains of 563.9% and 412.9%, respectively.
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On the other end of the spectrum, there are currently 25 stocks that have posted a negative return since the COVID Crash low. The worst has been First Republic Bank (FRC) which has been more of a recent development. Whereas today the stock has posted an 83.1% loss, at the start of this month it would have been a 65% gain. Another standout on the list of worst performers has been Amazon (AMZN). Most other mega caps have more than doubled since the March 2020 S&P 500 low, however, the e-commerce giant has hardly offered a positive return.
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Sector Performance Experiences a Historical Divergence
The first quarter of 2023 is coming to a close next week, and checking in on year to date performance, there has been a big divergence between the winners and losers. Although the S&P 500 is up 2.84% on the year as of yesterday's close, only three of the eleven sectors are higher. Not only are those three sectors up on the year, but they have posted impressive double digit gains only three months into the year. Of those three, Consumer Discretionary has posted the smallest gain of 10% whereas Technology and Communication Services have risen 17.2% and 18.1%, respectively. The fact that these sectors are home to the main mega cap stocks -- like Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Alphabet (GOOGL), which have been on an impressive run of late -- helps to explain how the market cap weighted S&P 500 is up on the year without much in the way of healthy breadth on a sector level.
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One thing that is particularly remarkable about this year's sector performance is just how rare it is for a sector to be up 10%+ (let alone 3) while all other sectors are lower. And that is for any point of the year let alone in the first quarter. As we mentioned in yesterday's Sector Snapshot and show in the charts below, going back to 1990, there have only been two other periods in which a sector has risen at least 10% YTD while all other sectors were lower YTD. The first of those was in May 2009. In a similar instance to now, Consumer Discretionary, Tech, and Materials were the three sectors with double digit gains back then. With those sectors up solidly, the S&P 500 was little changed on the year with a less than 1% gain. As you can see below, though, by the end of 2009, every sector had pushed into positive territory as the new bull market coming out of the global financial crisis was well underway.
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The next occurrence was much more recent: 2022. Obviously, it was a tough year for equities except for the Energy sector which had a banner year. Throughout most of the year, the sector traded up by well over 20% year to date even while the rest of the equity market was battered.
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The Fed Expects Banking Stress to Substitute for Rate Hikes
The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.25% at their March meeting, bringing it to the 4.75-5.0% range. This is the ninth-straight rate increase and brings rates to their highest level since 2007. However, the most aggressive tightening cycle since the early 1980s, which saw them lift rates all the way from near zero to almost 5%, is near its end.
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Up until early February, Fed officials expected to raise rates to a maximum of about 5.1% and hold it there for a while. However, since that time, we’ve gotten a slew of strong economic data, including elevated inflation numbers. This pushed fed officials to give “guidance” that they expected to raise rates by more than they estimated back in December.
Market expectations for policy also moved in conjunction. Prior to February, markets expected the Fed to raise rates to 5% by June, and subsequently lower them by about 0.5% by the end of the year. But strong incoming data and Fed guidance pushed expectations higher, with the terminal rate moving up to 5.6% and no cuts in 2023.
The Silicon Valley Bank crisis changed everything
The bank crisis that erupted over the last couple of weeks resulted in a significant shift, both in expectations for policy and now the Fed as well. See here for our complete rundown on SVB and the ensuing crisis.
Market expectations for Fed policy rates immediately moved lower. Markets expected the stress in banks to translate to tighter credit conditions, which in turn would lead to slower economic growth and lower inflation.
This was nicely articulated by Professor Jeremey Siegel, one of the foremost commentators on financial markets and fed policy, in our latest episode of the Facts vs Feelings podcast, Prof. Siegel said that tighter credit conditions, as lending standards become more strict, are de facto rate hikes.
Fed Chair Powell more or less said exactly the same thing after the Fed’s March meeting. The 0.25% increase was an attempt to thread the needle between financial stability and fighting inflation. Fed officials also forecast the fed funds rate to hit a maximum of 5.1%, unchanged from their December estimate. This is a marked shift from what was expected just a few weeks ago, with Powell explicitly saying that tighter credit conditions “substitute” for rate hikes.
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There’s a lot of uncertainty ahead
While the recent bank stresses are expected to tighten credit conditions and thereby impact economic growth and inflation, there are a couple of open questions:
These are unknown currently. Which means future policy is also unknown.
- How big will the impact be?
- How long will the impact last?
Fed officials expect to take rates to 5.1%, i.e., one more rate increase. And then expect to hold it there through the end of the year. In short, they don’t expect rate cuts this year.
Yet investors expect no more rate increases and about 0.6% of rate cuts in the second half of 2023. Markets expect the policy rate in June to be at 4.8%, while expectations for December are at 4.2%.
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There’s clearly a huge gulf between what the Fed expects versus what investors expect. This will have to reconcile in one of two ways:
Things are obviously not going to go in either direction in a straight line. It’s going to be a bumpy ride as new data points come in, not to mention news/rumors of renewed problems in the banking sector.
- Market expectations move higher – if economic/inflation data remain strong and credit conditions don’t look to be tightening significantly.
- Fed expectations move lower – if the banking sector comes under renewed stress, credit conditions could tighten significantly and eventually lead to weaker data.
Seasonality Keeps Claims Below 200K?
Initial jobless claims remained healthy this week with another sub-200K print. Claims fell modestly to 191K from last week's unrevised reading of 192K. That small decline exceeded expectations of claims rising up to 197K. Given claims continue to impress, the seasonally adjusted number has come in below 200K for 9 of the last 10 weeks. By that measure, it has been the strongest stretch for claims since last April when there were 10 weeks in a row of sub-200K prints. Prior to that, from 2018 through 2020 the late March and early April period similarly saw consistent readings under 200K meaning that some of the strength in the adjusted number could be on account of residual seasonality.
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In fact, this point of the year has some of the weeks in which claims have the most consistently historically fallen week over week. Taking a historical median of claims throughout the year, claims tend to round out a short-term bottom in the spring before an early summer bump. In other words, seasonal strength will begin to wane in the coming months.
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While initial claims improved, continuing claims worsened rising to 1.694 million from 1.68 million the previous week. Albeit higher, that remains below the 2023 high of 1.715 million set at the end of February.
A Fed Day Like Most Others
Yesterday's Fed decision and comments from Fed Chair Powell gave markets plenty to chew on. As we discussed in last night's Closer and today's Morning Lineup, there have been a number of conflicting statements from officials and confusing reactions in various assets over the past 24 hours. In spite of all that uncertainty, the S&P 500's path yesterday pretty much followed the usual script. In the charts below we show the S&P's average intraday pattern across all Fed days since Powell has been chair (first chart) and the intraday chart of the S&P yesterday (second chart). As shown, the market's pattern yesterday, especially after the 2 PM ET rate decision and the 2:30 PM press conference, closely resembled the average path that the market has followed across all Powell Fed Days since 2018.
The S&P saw a modest bounce after the 2 PM Fed decision and then a further rally right after Powell's presser began at 2:30 PM. That initial post-presser spike proved to be a pump-fake, as markets ultimately sold off hard with a near 2% decline from 2:30 PM to the 4 PM close.
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So what typically happens in the week after Fed days? Since 1994 when the Fed began announcing policy decisions on the same day as its meeting, the S&P has averaged a decline of 10 basis points over the next week. During the current tightening cycle that began about a year ago, market performance in the week after Fed days has been even worse with the S&P averaging a decline of 0.99%. However, when the S&P has been down over 1% on Fed days (like yesterday), performance over the next week has been positive with an average gain of 0.64%. As always, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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What Now? An Update on Recent Bank Stress.
It’s been less than 2 weeks since Silicon Valley Bank’s stunning 48-hour collapse, and a few more banks have been caught in the fray. New York regulators closed the doors on Signature Bank on Sunday, March 12. A week later, US banks injected $30 billion into First Republic Bank to keep it afloat, and UBS acquired rival Swiss bank Credit Suisse in a government-brokered deal. In the midst of the chaos, your Carson Investment Research team was there for you with client-facing content, professional advice, and investment solutions. In fact, we think this event presents an opportunity to invest in the more stable large-cap financial companies and recently upgraded the sector to overweight in our House Views Advice.
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Why is this happening?
The rapid hike in interest rates caused an asset and liability mismatch for banks. Due to many years of low-interest rates, banks invested assets in interest-earning loans and bonds that would be repaid over the next five-plus years, which at the time was a logical way to earn a higher yield. Regulators considered government bonds to be among the safest ways a bank could invest its capital. As interest rates rose, bond values dropped. Interest rates rose at the fastest pace in history, and the safe assets that banks invested in lost value to the tune of more than $620 billion in unrealized losses as of the end of last year. This decline in value left weaker banks underwater and, when coupled with depositors pulling money out, caused them to collapse or seek costly capital raises.
Why this matters to investors?
The weakness in the banking sector will likely lead to tighter lending standards, potentially slowing economic growth. The reason we’re in this mess, to begin with, is that the Fed hiked interest rates to slow the economy because inflation was rising too quickly. Perhaps the 16% drop in oil prices over the past two weeks reflected this slower growth and bodes well for continued falling inflation. Thus, the Fed is closer to achieving its goal.
Maybe it’s an overreaction as “banking crisis” headlines stir painful memories of 2008. Either way, an environment with slower growth and lower inflation isn’t a bad time to invest. Bonds and stocks could both perform well, especially stocks of companies with the ability to grow earnings. We also reiterate our House Views Advice overweight on the large-cap Financials sector. The largest US banks are well-capitalized and are gaining market share from the smaller regional banks. We believe this calamity provides an opportunity for stronger banks and investors to capitalize on.
FANG+ Flying
As we noted in today's Morning Lineup, sector performance has heavily favored areas like Tech, Consumer Discretionary, and Communication Services in recent weeks. Playing into that sector level performance has been the strength of the mega-caps. The NYSE FANG+ index tracks ten of the largest and most highly traded Tech and Tech-adjacent names. In the past several days, that cohort of stocks is breaking out to the highest level since last April whereas the S&P 500 still needs to rally 4% to reach its February high.
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Although FANG+ stocks have been strong recently, that follows more than a full year of underperformance. As shown below, relative to the S&P 500, mega-cap Tech consistently underperformed from February 2021 through this past fall. In the past few days, the massive outperformance has resulted in a breakout of the downtrend for the ratio of FANG+ to the S&P 500.
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More impressive is how rapid of a move it has been for that ratio to break out. Below, we show the 2-month percent change in the ratio above. As of the high at yesterday's close, the ratio had risen 22.5% over the prior two months. That comes up just short of the record (22.6%) leading up to the pre-COVID high in February 2020. In other words, mega-cap Tech has experienced near-record outperformance relative to the broader market. However, we would note that this is in the wake of last year when the group had seen some of its worst two-month underperformance on record with the worst readings being in March, May, and November.
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March Seasonality Prevails, Banking Fiasco Be Damned
It’s encouraging typical March seasonal patterns have overcome recent bank failures, recession talk and fearmongering. The early March pullback was steeper than normal, but the usual mid-month rebound appears to be materializing.
Last week’s gains could be an indication we have seen the worst of the banking fallout and the end of the pullback. Triple Witching Weeks have tended to be down in flat periods and dramatically so during bear markets. Positive March Triple Witching weeks in 2003 and 2009 confirmed the market was back in rally mode.
The week after March Triple Witching is notoriously nasty. S&P is down 27 of the last 40 year – and frequently down sharply. Positive or flat action this week would be constructive.
In the old days March used to come in like a bull and out like a bear. Nowadays March has evolved into an inflection point where short-term trends often change course. The market is clearly at an important juncture and it’s a good time to remember Warren Buffet’s wise words to “Be greedy when others are fearful.”
Bank failures are never a good thing, but the swift actions of regulators likely prevented further damage to the industry. At the least, the banks are likely to be under even greater scrutiny going forward. In the near-term we expect more volatile trading. Further out we expect the market, and the economy will recover like they both have historically done.
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Nasdaq Leaves the S&P in the Dust
Looking at the major US index ETF screen of our Trend Analyzer shows just how disconnected the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) has become from other major index ETFs recently. As shown below, as of Friday's close, QQQ actually finished in overbought territory (over 1 standard above its 50-DMA) whereas many other major index ETFs were oversold, some of those to an extreme degree. On a year to date basis, the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) has rallied more than 14% compared to low single digit gains or losses for the rest of the pack.
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Historically, the major indices, namely the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, tend to trade at similar overbought and oversold levels. In the chart below we show the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500's distance from their 50-DMAs (expressed in standard deviations) over the past five years. As shown, typically the two large cap indices have seen similar albeit not identical readings. That is until the past few weeks in which the two have diverged more significantly.
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On Friday there was more than 2 standard deviations between the Nasdaq's overbought 50-DMA spread and the S&P 500's oversold spread. As shown in the chart below, that surpassed recent highs in the spread like the spring of 2020 to set the highest reading since October 2016.
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Going back to 1985, the spread between the Nasdaq and S&P 500 50-DMA spreads diverging to such a degree is not without precedent, but it is also not exactly common. Friday marked the 16th time that spread eclipsed 2 standard deviations for the first time in at least 3 months. Relative to those prior instances, the current overbought and oversold readings in both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are relatively middling. However, only the instance in early 2000 similarly saw the Nasdaq technically overbought (trading at least a standard deviation above its 50-DMA) while the S&P 500 was simultaneously oversold (at least one standard deviation below its 50-DMA).
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