Unstoppable Forces

Joseph Joffre	In 1914, the Battle of the Marne begins. North-east of Paris, the French attack and are routed by the unstoppable German forces who are advancing on the capital. Catalan French general Joseph Joffre and the French Sixth army flee south to Marseilles to establish a new seat of government. German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger was not able to celebrate for long. Trouble was another unstoppable force, the Russian 1st and 2nd Armies were racing through East Prussia and at their current trajectory, would be in Berlin inside of two weeks.
The Great War was headed towards an asymmetric result, with the Germans triumphing in the West only to be crushed in the East. In Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II started to write a telegram to the Tsar, he knew it would have to be a great piece of communication. “Dear Cousin Nicky,.. he began.
~ entry by Steve Payne

Berlin 2010	In 2003, multiple-award winning author of Ruled Britannia and The Guns of the South Harry Turtledove asked a startling question In the Presence of Mine Enemies. What if Germany won World War II, and the Nazi regime’s rule over most of Europe and North America continued into the twenty-first century? And now, in 2010, the Third Reich faced an Iraqi style crisis?
~ variant from Steve Payne extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius (Soviet style crisis). to be continued..:

In 1976, as the vampires and the infected fed upon Robert Neville he recalled the bite of the vampire bat in Panama during the war. The long gaps that he could not remember which he had attributed to alcoholism. Neville was neither immune, nor a unique survivor -the vampire master, he was legend.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 2127, Mullah Elijah Rafsanjani woke up in Doha, Quatar. He did not feel himself at all today. On his breakfast table, was a half-empty Starbucks Styrofoam cup which presumably explained his heart burn stomach acid. He switched on the news. Instead of Al-Jazeera, a beaming American face announced it was “going to be another hot one today folks!”. OMG!	Mullah
~ entry by Steve Payne

Black September	In 1972, the Munich Olympic Games turned to tragedy when Palestinian athletes were massacred by the Israeli Terrorist Group, Black September. Enraged, President Yasser Arafat ordered Operation Wrath of God, instructing the Palestinian Secret Service to 'set the boys loose' and assassinate the officer class of Jewish Society.
This excessive response turned Palestine into a pariah state, and her athletic team were not even invited to either the '76 summer games in Montreal, Canada or even more symbolically, the winter games at Innsbruck, Austria.
~ entry by Steve Payne

In 1960, Cassius Clay won the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games; tragically, he was to die in Vietnam on a tour of duty during the Tet Offensive. A dreadful conspiracy was later discovered by journalist Alex Hayley. Clay and many other iconic African American figures had been sent to Vietnam by the Goldwater administration to strangle the civil rights movement at birth. Worse, south-asian hard drugs had been flooded into African American areas of population.	Cassius Clay
The death of Clay prevented Haley from giving his people a myth to live by, overturning other myths about the Black American experience and giving African Americans a proud history.
~ entry by Steve Payne

In 2007, Macrosoft, Inc. delivered a new breakthrough for users of the stable desktop platform. New editions of Vesta Home Edition shipped with a redeemable “write back” voucher. Upon return, consumers would be sent a free copy of the award winning anger management CD-rom based training solution Life Thux and then you upgrade your desktop operating system. Also included on the bundled CD were a selection of Whale music audio files, however a critical update to on-board sound card drivers was required before they could be played in the Vesta Media Center.

~ entry by Steve Payne