Coming soon to your freezer section

The ILF's efforts to improve the economy of the Intaki System have, to date, rested primarily in the areas of industrial production and the retail marketing of capsuleer products. Our factories put Intaki to work and our sales add to the local tax base.

We are poised to undertake a new venture, however, that will have a very dynamic impact on the lives of working people on the planet. Through a partnership with a pool of investors, the ILF may soon help to form a farming cooperative owned and operated by local farmers.

The food grown on the farms will be processed and frozen for export by the Reva Division to markets established by our partners in the venture.

There are many details still to be resolved, but the implications are very exciting.

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
Idama Disraeli

New members

It is a good time for the ILF. We continue to attract new members to our cause and we are meeting growth projections in our industrial enterprises.

There is a fire burning within the corp now and I labor to find ways to keep it going. I want to make sure we keep gaining ground, but I don't want to rush us into a hasty mistake.

I meditate now on the words of the wise Idama:

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Now is the time, Intaki is the place!

They say the universe has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. A wise Idama said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the galaxy, we learn we are spirits -- not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of a free Intaki, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

So wrong I want to scream

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

What is it with the IGS that makes people think they can post totally outrageous lies and pass them off as fact. The idiocy that runs rampant there is really almost too much for me to stand.

Two cases in point:
Dante Vailatti: This one is a prime example of Pro-Fed ignorance on parade. He ticks off example after example of how the ILF is counterproductive to helping the Intaki and then lists ways that we could be "constructive."

But the idiot has his facts backward. In fact, we have done everything on his "constructive" list and more. And I would like for him to show me an instance where the ILF has "hidden in [an] asteroid belt and shot at the occasional frigate."

And then, and this one really floored me, was
Dutch Gunnar: Now this one makes me really upset, because she is a pilot whom I used to respect. But after she lost control of her corp to a bunch of rogue pilots who knowingly and unapologetically fired on ILF while we had mutual BLUE standings, I have nothing but disdain for her.

Now she jumps into our thread and says that her corp is anti-pirate and has been around long before the ILF. It'd be almost laughable if it wasn't so damn sad.

Farewell, war bird, farewell

Oh, that mercurial nymph Yuri. Her path of the Ida is a fiery one and she burns across the cosmos like a comet.

I wondered how long it would be before she formed her own splinter wing to carry out her own brand of freedom fighting.

It is, of course, splendidly ironic, that Ankhesentapemkah actually created this monster for herself. Had she not been so psychotically vocal in her calls for Yuri to be removed from the ILF, I doubt Yuri would have taken the step to leave on her own at this time.

Now, Ankhesentapemkah has called down Yuri's formidable temper with a war dec against her corporation.

As much as I am loathe to support violence as a means to any end, I must say that I gather some degree of satisfaction in seeing Ankhesentapemkah deal with the monster she created.

A blast from the past

The on-going debate over the ILF and its position in the universe has brought out several pilots from Strix Armaments and Defence. Really? Strix?

When was the last time anyone saw one of these Pro-Fed dogmatics anywhere near the Intaki System? I thought they had pulled out of Placid last year. I know the members I keep flagged in my pod console are rarely active.

But there they are, speaking like they are experts on the Intaki situation. At least, David Caldera is an Intaki.

Far worse are the Pro-Fed Gallente who think they have some right to continue to dictate to the Intaki how we should run our own affairs. I can think of few worse offenders than Hussain. Doesn't he realize when he makes his veiled threats to continue to Gallente status quo he is only lending support to our claims?

By the Ida, I swear that some days I can hardly stomach to read what those fools post.

Ankhesentapemkah

Ankhesentapemkah. The very name makes my blood boil. This woman is insufferable.

"Kill Yuri Intaki!" seems to be the only message repeating over and over in her brain. How could anyone who claims to champion the Intaki cause be so far removed from the Ida?

First she curses as traitors and terrorists. Then, when we push for peace and understanding she rails against us for that.

I grow weary of tasting the back of her hand. I am told that her voice carries weight and that she is held in high regard in some circles. It never ceases to amaze me that people confuse being shrill and obstinate with being important. Being loud does not make you right.

I pray for the wisdom to navigate these dark waters.