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The Triune Festival of the Pearls by LAW Butler

The Triune Festival of the Pearls LAW Butler   Those who were members of the map were both self-aware and in constant communication with those who lived in the other spheres spread across the planet.   They followed the habits of their culture and obeyed the rules of the map. But the greater purpose of their being, they would only know after their deaths, and this, too, was something they had been taught from birth. Given the weight and wonder of that knowledge, it was natural that the prelude to their deaths was a celebration. The Day of Emergence, the Day of Sharing and the Day of Harvest, coming one upon the other, were considered a single festival.   And because their sun had the same glow as the pearl-like spheres on the planet’s surface, the festival had long been known as The Triune Festival of the Pearls.   The softly iridescent pearls, ranging from the size of a robin’s egg to the two-handed heft of an ostrich’s, formed a haphazard web across e...
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The Oval Office Crypto-King

  Trump has made millions in the crypto market while the fools that invested in it have lost billions.   Trump’s own crypto coin was shilled for an IPO of $74/per.   It is now selling for around $3.   If you bought it you fell for the pitch and lost everything, including your pride.   You have been had, but even now you do not know how bad.   Why?   Because Trump and his family made themselves the brokers for this coin, which means that not only did they get rich from the initial bloated (pick me, pick me) price, they also get a cut of every consequent purchase or sale.   You bought when it was high? They got a cut.   You sold when it was dropping?   They got a cut.   You decided to cut your loses?   They got a cut. If you are one of the crypto-crazies and among the ever-hopeful, but intellectually challenged devotees, thereof.    Here are some things that you need to know. Crypto is nothing more than the 21st C...
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Herbert Hoover and a Locker Room Expression

Belgium is one of the smallest and most densely populated nations in Europe.   It is snugged between France, the Netherlands and Germany with the North Sea forming its northern border. Belgium’s population is educated, intelligent, refined and ostensibly neutral. But, in 1914 its children were starving to death.   During World War I Belgium fell to Germany, which refused to feed Belgian’s civilians.   You don’t have to carry a gun to die in war, and children are the easiest and most quickly dismissed victims of all.   In London an American businessman had already launched and administered a successful effort to bring relief to Americans trapped in England at the beginning of the war.   He was respected and liked, though his social skills were sometimes thin or absent entirely (when he grew weary of the chatter at a dinner party he would simply find a quiet room, pick up a book and start reading).   He was well known as a good judge of character, a creativ...
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