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Shock to farmers was eased by
continuing to buy grain at catapult--but cheques now carried printed warning that Luna Free State did not stand behind them, did not warrant that Lunar Authority would ever redeem them even in Scrip, etc., etc. Some farmers left grain anyhow, some did videos gratis de orgasmos not, videos gratis de orgasmos all videos gratis de orgasmos screamed. But was nothing they could do; catapult was shut down, loading belts not moving.
Depression was not immediately videos gratis de orgasmos felt in rest of economy. Defense regiments had depleted ranks of ice miners so much that selling ice videos gratis de orgasmos on free market was videos gratis de orgasmos profitable; LuNoH0Co steel videos gratis de orgasmos subsidiary was hiring every able-bodied man it could find, and Wolfgang Korsakov was ready with paper money, "National Dollars," printed to resemble Hong Kong dollar and videos gratis de orgasmos in theory
pegged to it. Luna had plenty of food, plenty of work, plenty of money; people were not hurting, "beer, betting, videos gratis de orgasmos women, and work" went videos gratis de orgasmos on as usual.
"Nationals," as they were called, were inflation money, war money, fiat money, and were discounted a fraction of a percent on day of first issue, concealed as "exchange service charge." They were spendable money and never did drop to zero videos gratis de orgasmos but were inflationary and exchange reflected it increasingly; new government was spending money it did not have.
But that was later-- Challenge to Earth, to Authority and Federated Nations, was made intentionally nasty. F.N. vessels were ordered to stay clear of Luna by ten diameters and not orbit at any distance under pain of videos gratis de orgasmos being destroyed without warning. (No mention of how, since we could
not.) Vessels of private registry would be permitted to land if a) permission was requested ahead of time with ballistic plan, b) a vessel thus cleared placed itself under Luna Ground Control (Mike') at a distance of one hundred thousand kilometers while following approved trajectory, and c) was unarmed save for three hand guns permitted three officers. Last was to be confirmed by inspection on videos gratis de orgasmos landing before anybody was allowed to leave ship and before ship was serviced with fuel and/or reaction mass; violation would videos gratis de orgasmos mean confiscation of ship. No person allowed to land at Luna other than ship's crew in connection videos gratis de orgasmos with loading, unloading, or servicing save citizens videos gratis de orgasmos of Terran countries who had videos gratis de orgasmos videos gratis de orgasmos recognized Free videos gratis de orgasmos Luna. (Only Chad--and Chad had no ships. Prof expected videos gratis de orgasmos some private vessels to be re-registered under Chad merchant flag.)
Manifesto noted that Terran scientists videos gratis de orgasmos still in Luna could return home in any vessel which