Land of Promise by James Wesley Rawles Page B
Authors: James Wesley Rawles
Tags: Science-Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality, Christian fiction, futuristic, Mystery & Suspense, Christian Books & Bibles, Religious & Inspirational Fiction
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ICF Canada of Toronto promised a 275,000 NEuro line of credit for Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs), used for cast concrete building and septic tank construction.
A 150,000 NEuro line of credit from Western Solar of Scottsdale, Arizona, for solar hot water heaters.
A 350,000 NEuro line of credit from PV-USA of Phoenix, Arizona, for photovoltaic panels, inverters, and charge controllers, and “five years of at-cost shipping” from a new warehouse that was to be established in Nairobi.
Pacific Mint in Washington promised to produce “circulating silver coinage -- with weight, dimensions, and hardening formula to be determined -- with designs, special tooling, minting, and shipping provided at cost for the first 250,000 ounces minted.”
Establishment of a “Plant a Tree” charity, with an initial endowment of 50,000 NEuros.
A private donor in Wyoming pledged a gift of 150,000 NEuros worth of homeschooling curriculum materials.
A private donor in St. Kitts pledged a gift of 1,000 ounces of gold.
A private donor in Idaho pledged a gift of 200,000 NEuros “preferably to arm villagers and indigent Christian refugees.”
A rancher in Oklahoma promised the gift of “500 straws of prime longhorn bull semen, to improve the bloodlines of the local Zebu cattle.”
A company in Hamilton, Montana, promised 50,000 NEuros’ worth of assorted small arms ammunition free of charge and “up to 1 million more rounds per year, as desired, at cost (not including shipping)” for a period of four years.
The LOAs gave a boost to the spirits of the two-man Project SWILL team. For the first two weeks they had plunged into deep research about the formation of nation-states; about trade, customs, and postal treaties; establishing currencies; details on refugee NGOs; road infrastructure; agricultural potential of the Ilemi region; and the climate and geography. They even got as far as a preliminary SWOT Analysis -- studying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a new nation-state in the region. Their conclusion: A new libertarian state would be a powerful magnet for both capital and bright entrepreneurs. And given its “frontier” situation, the Ilemi economy would boom in “overdrive” mode for at least 15 years, and then gradually slow to a more sustainable but still vibrant rate. But hearing about the LOAs gave them a more focused sense of purpose: Instead of sounding just fanciful and ethereal, Project SWILL was beginning to appear something substantial.
Chapter 5: Eagle Earth
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” -- Thomas Jefferson
Edinburgh, Scotland -- Late May, Three Years After Declaration of the Caliphate
Rick, Alan, and Meital became fascinated with researching the Ilemi region. All three of them spent countless hours on EagleEarth and Mapcarta, virtually “flying” over the terrain and place-marking the few small pastoral settlements and the far more numerous places with evidence of abandoned villages. Rather than evidence of Ebola DRC, this was just the semi-migratory settlement pattern in the region, where seasonal cattle grazers over-grazed patches of a few square kilometers and then moved on after a few years. Many of these former village sites still had massive thorny Acacia wood walls that took decades to decompose. They also noticed that the mountains of the region were noticeably rounded, indicating that there had been no recent volcanic activity.
In several places, they had each pinned locations with titles like “Un-named Settlement-Abandoned?”… “Village Ruins” … and “Former Village?” Most of these were
ICF Canada of Toronto promised a 275,000 NEuro line of credit for Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs), used for cast concrete building and septic tank construction.
A 150,000 NEuro line of credit from Western Solar of Scottsdale, Arizona, for solar hot water heaters.
A 350,000 NEuro line of credit from PV-USA of Phoenix, Arizona, for photovoltaic panels, inverters, and charge controllers, and “five years of at-cost shipping” from a new warehouse that was to be established in Nairobi.
Pacific Mint in Washington promised to produce “circulating silver coinage -- with weight, dimensions, and hardening formula to be determined -- with designs, special tooling, minting, and shipping provided at cost for the first 250,000 ounces minted.”
Establishment of a “Plant a Tree” charity, with an initial endowment of 50,000 NEuros.
A private donor in Wyoming pledged a gift of 150,000 NEuros worth of homeschooling curriculum materials.
A private donor in St. Kitts pledged a gift of 1,000 ounces of gold.
A private donor in Idaho pledged a gift of 200,000 NEuros “preferably to arm villagers and indigent Christian refugees.”
A rancher in Oklahoma promised the gift of “500 straws of prime longhorn bull semen, to improve the bloodlines of the local Zebu cattle.”
A company in Hamilton, Montana, promised 50,000 NEuros’ worth of assorted small arms ammunition free of charge and “up to 1 million more rounds per year, as desired, at cost (not including shipping)” for a period of four years.
The LOAs gave a boost to the spirits of the two-man Project SWILL team. For the first two weeks they had plunged into deep research about the formation of nation-states; about trade, customs, and postal treaties; establishing currencies; details on refugee NGOs; road infrastructure; agricultural potential of the Ilemi region; and the climate and geography. They even got as far as a preliminary SWOT Analysis -- studying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a new nation-state in the region. Their conclusion: A new libertarian state would be a powerful magnet for both capital and bright entrepreneurs. And given its “frontier” situation, the Ilemi economy would boom in “overdrive” mode for at least 15 years, and then gradually slow to a more sustainable but still vibrant rate. But hearing about the LOAs gave them a more focused sense of purpose: Instead of sounding just fanciful and ethereal, Project SWILL was beginning to appear something substantial.
Chapter 5: Eagle Earth
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” -- Thomas Jefferson
Edinburgh, Scotland -- Late May, Three Years After Declaration of the Caliphate
Rick, Alan, and Meital became fascinated with researching the Ilemi region. All three of them spent countless hours on EagleEarth and Mapcarta, virtually “flying” over the terrain and place-marking the few small pastoral settlements and the far more numerous places with evidence of abandoned villages. Rather than evidence of Ebola DRC, this was just the semi-migratory settlement pattern in the region, where seasonal cattle grazers over-grazed patches of a few square kilometers and then moved on after a few years. Many of these former village sites still had massive thorny Acacia wood walls that took decades to decompose. They also noticed that the mountains of the region were noticeably rounded, indicating that there had been no recent volcanic activity.
In several places, they had each pinned locations with titles like “Un-named Settlement-Abandoned?”… “Village Ruins” … and “Former Village?” Most of these were
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