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[sup]June 15, 2049[/sup][/h2][hr][hr][img]http://i4.cdnds.net/14/19/618x332/channel-5-big-brother-logo.png[/img]
[hr][hr][h1][u][b]VATICAN FOLLOW UP ATTACKS FOILED[/b][/u][/h1][h2][b]Tightened Security Measures Saving Millions
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[quote][quote]In the days after the terrible Vatican City attacks, it seems that terrorist groups wished to use the bombing as a spring board into momentum for further attacks. But not today it seems! Security Forces across Europe have buckled down and made ready with hundreds of new checkpoints, patrols and raids on potential terrorist hideouts.

The retribution of justice has been swift, foul plans for even more attacks on a perhaps even greater and even more terrible scale. Through subtle manipulations with bribes and sleeper agents and informational warfare as well as direct application of unrelenting and efficient force, many in the Security Forces have become “headhunters”, taking pride in the number of raids and busts they have taken part in. Some raids have escalated into full scale skirmishes and battles but spokespersons have assured us that the collateral damage is at an “acceptable but unavoidable levels”. Weapon and security stocks should expect to see a steady rise in the coming months.

Progress on the rebuilding of the Vatican City continues as the donations and materials flood in, stores and malls across the world are running charity events. Volunteers and workers from around the world gather in the smoldering ruins and ashes. Stocks continue to rise in the construction and materials industries as many displaced citizens try to find new jobs and homes; there does not seem to be any attempt at reforming the EEC. Now for a commercial break:

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[indent][indent]The morning was soft and warm, temperatures where unusually hot outside for June but Zhao felt none of it as he sat in his air conditioned office suite. Work was going as normal as it could be given the news from a few days ago, there were still papers to sort, orders to give and works to read through.

“Xiao, where’s the new chapter copies from Sinolutions?” Zhao fumbled through the mess of papers currently littering his desk as the child steward came forward to help dig through it, “I told Meifeng to put it somewhere but that woman never knows where to put things!”

“Here it is master.” Nimble hands made short work of the mess as a packet of papers and soon enough, a clipped packet titled “Chapter 11: The Opium War – How Government Regulations on Business caused a War and Crippled an Empire. [DRAFT]”

Snatching the packet up, Zhao sat back and began to flip through it, one of his duties as a CEO was to make sure that only the real facts (or the fact that the Corporation wanted to show) were present in the textbooks. In preparation for the next school year, Zhao had to check the chapters and passages himself before they were to be bought by schools, a yearly tradition that had basically become law. Each year every school or student (if they were in college) had to but new textbooks, throwing out their old ones, to make sure that they always had the most “up-to-date and correct” information. This was the education of future generations the company was playing with here; it was of utmost importance to them that they were taught well.

With only the occasional sip of tea, the next hour was spent carefully inspected the material. A few scribbles, some underlines and the occasional note was made request that this be changed or that be explained or something to be omitted, it seemed like years since Zhao had read a textbook but it was something he put unconscious effort into.

In the midst of reading on how the Qing emperor’s increasing control and restrictions on the free trade between China and England had increased tensions and would cause the Opium War, Zhao’s phone began the jump and dance on the rich wooden desk. It read a familiar but distant name, some administrator or manager who had been put as the leader of the task force to Europe.

“Hello?” Zhao flipped a page in the manuscript.

“Oh.. .u-umm… this is Qian, you said you wanted a report when the group got to Europe?”

“Yes I did, now spit it out. Just email it to me and I’ll look over it soon. Did all of them get to the west? Even the ones meant for the corporate heads as gifts?”

“C-copy sir. Even the ‘toys’ made it there, the rest will be explained in the report. Sending it to you….. now.”

A blip flickered on the desk in the form of a hologram, a simple letter icon with its flap being opened and closed. Zhao put the papers down and flicked open the report as Qian hung up, Qian was a good manager but a good person, something which might cause issue later on. He was a promising individual but with too strong a moral code to really fit but it didn’t bother Zhao too much. If Qian was found to be too troublesome he’d either be removed completely or just given “therapy” to become like Meifeng and the other servants.

The bright letters jumped up, several thousand volunteers and other “volunteers” with an accompaniament of several dozen Red Dragon forces should have been more than enough for the project and PR. At any rate, the CEOs should appreciate his gifts to them, even if they wouldn’t personally use them Zhao was sure someone in their chain of command would be more than happy with a Christmas-in-June present. With that matter settled, Zhao looked back on his manuscript but also the computer, trying to decide what was more important. In the end, he pushed away the papers, giving them a lazy stamp of approval before looking at the computer. The time seemed right to play with some stocks, with any luck he would be able to start pushing into Europe. It didn’t take long after that more servants entered with their own laptops entering the game of stocks and several accounting departments as well. Zhao was going to make a push into Europe, just to afford the people of Europe some Chinese hospitality and safety under his own wing if nothing else…[/indent][/indent]