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manufacturing facilities all over the country. The shares from these dumbos sold almost as much asthe real stuff. It wasn’t even the idea of safety anymore, it was the idea of the idea of safety!Remember when we started to get our first cases here in the States, that guy in Florida who saidhe’d been bitten but survived because he was taking Phalanx? OH! [He stands, mimes the act offrantic fornication.] God freakin’ bless that dumbass, whoever he was.But that wasn’t because of Phalanx. Your drug didn’t protect people atall.It protected them from their fears. That’s all I was selling. Hell, because of Phalanx, the biomedsector started to recover, which, in turn, jump-started the stock market, which then gave theimpression of a recovery, which then restored consumer confidence to stimulate an actualrecovery! Phalanx hands down ended the recession! I…I ended the recession!And then? When the outbreaks became more serious, and the pressfinally reported that there was no wonder drug?Pre-fucking-cisely! That’s the alpha cunt who should be shot, what’s her name, who first broke thatstory! Look what she did! Pulled the fuckin’ rug right out from under us all! She caused the spiral!She caused the Great Panic!And you take no personal responsibility?For what? For making a little fuckin’ cash…well, not a little [giggles]. All I did was what any of usare ever supposed to do. I chased my dream, and I got my slice. You wanna blame someone, blamewhoever first called it rabies, or who knew it wasn’t rabies and gave us the green light anyway.Shit, you wanna blame someone, why not start with all the sheep who forked over theirgreenbacks without bothering to do a little responsible research. I never held a gun to their heads.They made the choice themselves. They’re the bad guys, not me. I never directly hurt anybody,and if anybody was too stupid to get themselves hurt, boo-fuckin-hoo. Of course…If there’s a hell…[giggles as he talks]…I don’t want to think about how many of those dumbshits might be waiting for me. I just hope they don’t want a refund.AMARILLO, TEXAS, USA[Grover Carlson works as a fuel collector for the town’s experimentalbioconversion plant. The fuel he collects is dung. I follow the former White Housechief of staff as he pushes his wheelbarrow across the pie-laden pastures.]
Of course we got our copy of the Knight-WarnJews report, what do you think we are, the CIA?We read it three months before the Israelis went public. Before the Pentagon started makingnoise, it was my job to personally brief the president, who in turn even devoted an entire meetingto discussing its message.Which was?Drop everything, focus all our efforts, typical alarmist crap. We got dozens of these reports aweek, every administration did, all of them claiming that their particular boogeyman was “thegreatest threat to human existence.” C’mon! Can you imagine what America would have been likeif the federal government slammed on the brakes every time some paranoid crackpot cried “wolf ”or “global warming” or “living dead”? Please. What we did, what every president since Washingtonhas done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threatassessment.And that was the Alpha teams.Among others things. Given how low a priority the national security adviser thought this was, Ithink we actually gave it some pretty healthy table time. We produced an educational video forstate and local law enforcement about what to do in case of an outbreak. The Department ofHealth and Human Services had a page on its website for how citizens should respond to infectedfamily members. And hey, what about pushing Phalanx right through the FDA?But Phalanx didn’t work.Yeah, and do you know how long it would have taken to invent one that did? Look how much timeand money had been put into cancer research, or AIDS. Do you want to be the man who tells theAmerican people that he’s diverting funds from either one of those for some new disease that mostpeople haven’t even heard of? Look at what we’ve put into research during and after the war, andwe still don’t have a cure or a vaccine. We knew Phalanx was a placebo, and we were grateful forit. It calmed people down and let us do our job.What, you would have rather we told people the truth? That it wasn’t a new strain of rabies but amysterious uber-plague that reanimated the dead? Can you imagine the panic that would havehappened: the protest, the riots, the billions in damage to private property? Can you imagine allthose wet-pants senators who would have brought the government to a standstill so they couldrailroad some high-profile and ultimately useless “Zombie Protection Act” through Congress? Canyou imagine the damage it would have done to that administration’s political capital? We’re talkingabout an election year, and a damn hard, uphill fight. We were the “cleanup crew,” the unluckybastards who had to mop up all the shit left by the last administration, and believe me, theprevious eight years had piled up one tall mountain of shit! The only reason we squeaked back intopower was because our new propped-up patsy kept promising a “return to peace and prosperity.”The American people wouldn’t have settled for anything less. They thought they’d been throughsome pretty tough times already, and it would have been political suicide to tell them that thetoughest ones were actually up ahead.So you never really tried to solve the problem.
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for myself in a moment like that.Th
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TAOS, NEW MEXICO[Arthur Sinclair, J
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You’ve spent most of your life re
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employees working three shifts, sev
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BURLINGTON, VERMONT[Winter has come
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You did use the death penalty.Only
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clearly and calmly, and I even chal
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That’s all right.Well, as I under
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restored Malibu Pier Fortress. Thos
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Two weeks went by. I got a real job
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That erased the potential for rapid
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That must have been frustrating.Fru
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Coast if in-flight refueling assets
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wasn’t doing my job. I was squatt
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As I got closer, I could see that i
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I hit the water, facedown. Its chil
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And Honolulu never had any record o
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You got it.Right then. Castles. Wel
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[He hesitates.]Windsor.Windsor was
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[During World War II, this vast cor
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dispel the notion that sexual inter
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We also saw a complete halt to huma
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You can understand how this educati
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When I woke up, the screen was blan
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Her sheets?For more rope. I knew I
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pick it up. Many Kami Dana have a s
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the Akakaze went from a repatriatio
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It never came. The bear stopped pan
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Did you retrieve all the bodies?Eve
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successful as the U.S. strategy was
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impossible. Within a year they had
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adopt once our experienced, profess
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away! He knew it might have jeopard
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We couldn’t believe what we were
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Mrs. Pei, the mother of one of our
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now calling “the Pacific Continen
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Was that important?[Again, he does
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under the arctic twilight, I though
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No, and we didn’t expect it. The
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watched and recorded those as well,
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Sometimes I’m asked if we regrett
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So typically Norteamericano, reachi
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Two hundred million zombies 1 . Who
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about eight inches long, that you c
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hair hung in patches from her tight
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How did you know the battle was ove
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But the primary and most common mis
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chased off feral packs, twice they
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What happened to the dog?I wish I c
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when your weapon would “click”
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[Pause.] I don’t understand.The p
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bubble of surface pressure.[He gest
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always attracted at least a handful
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[Choi maneuvers us above them. They
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struck the stone, if the stone was
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Groups: North, Center, and South. T
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Outside of Minneapolis, my squad wa
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Rarely, like, blue-moon rarely, we
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BURLINGTON, VERMONT[Snow has begun
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You’re wondering how this “exis
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Then the last skull I crack’ll pr
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I’m not going to say the war was
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let the world, and by the world I m
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DENVER, COLORADO, USA[Todd Wainio w
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I love you, Mom.
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