Hello, my name is Charles

by on October 2, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Asia had become the greatest bank of the world by the mid twenty first century. Japan and China were the world’s two greatest creditor nations, though Germany was not far behind. Other Asian nations like Taiwan, Singapore, and the not-quit nation of Hong Kong had other sizable foreign investments. Everybody in the world owed them money, and no one owed more than the United States of America. Though the various European nations were trying to catch up. When America finally defaulted on the loan payments, other Western nations followed. And it was predominantly the Asian nations who had to eat the losses. They were not willing to accept that and took to confiscating Western wealth within their reach. The Western nations responded in kind and economic ties forged over centuries fell apart. That was the beginning of the Second Great Depression.

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Make Your Own Luck

by on October 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
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What do you do when you’re out of luck? What do you do when the chips are down and you’ve got nothing left? What do you do when the bad guys have you down? Well, there’s some secrets I’ve found to winning fights. One of the most important is that the best fighter often loses. Knowing how to fight isn’t the most important thing to winning, you see. The person who’s got more fight in them can win. If you’ve got fight, you never give up. You get back up on your feet. You swing for the fences. You let the chips fly and make your own luck.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on September 30, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The greatest leap of the New Voyager program has always been to go where our ships cannot travel. That was interstellar space in the twenty first century. Now it’s intergalactic space. No matter how good our ships are, there is a limit to how far they can travel in the great void between galaxies. Hyperdrives do not work out there. But the swarms of solar sail probes don’t need hyperdrives. All they need is a laser to boost them to near the speed of light and to be set free of the bounds of galactic gravity. Tens or hundreds of thousands of years from now they will arrive in Canis Major, Sagittarius, the Magellanic Clouds, and so many others. The stars of other galaxies will awaken the cybers from their slumbers and there is one question I have. Will they be the first emissaries of Earth to arrive or will we be there to welcome them, having found another way to make the journey?

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on September 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
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An age-old law of economies is that those who owe money become indebted to those who loan the money. It is one of the reasons that early Christians were not supposed to borrow and loan. So that no man would be the master of another. It did not take long for them to find a loophole in that though. The Jews became the bankers of Europe and amassed fortunes that brought the envy of mankind. That worked out badly for them whenever Europe decided to take back its wealth. The Crusades. World War II. The Great Depressions. History is full of times in which the bankers and especially the Jewish bankers did not fare well. Of course there were always winners in even the worst of those times, and the best of them built fortunes that would last for millennia.

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Out of Luck

by on September 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Sometimes you get into a fight you’re just not prepared for. You may think you are. You may have trained for years to be ready. You may think you are the biggest of bad asses who can take all comers without breaking as sweat. But sooner or later I’ve found that you always run into something you just aren’t prepared for. Someone who is better than you. And when that happens you’re just out of luck.

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