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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I mean, the longer that Russia delays the longer the chemical markers in the soil erode due to a number of factors, but I guess we can rely on an outdated and slow means of getting people out there, sure. It matches their signature and it fits their foreign policy, honestly.
The farther out this conflict goes, the worse it is for the world. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The ounce is being paid with a literal coalition's blood, if we leave then we get to pay with the pound later.
Also: "If it was" is a ridiculous thing to say. France, Britain and the US have all jointly said there's been an attack. It's doubtful to me that they'd suddenly be lying when Assad's history with this weapon is literally all good things with the exception of the TLAM strike.
Lol yeah okay. France, Britain and the US said there was an attack, therefore it must be true. It's not like they'd lie in order to fulfill geopolitical aims in the Middle East or anything like that. And seriously, why are Syrian kids so special that we need to go to war for them? How come it's fine for kids to be blown up by bombs or shot or beheaded but when they get poisoned, that's somehow the last straw just because?
Axeldonia, Mercunova
Compared to the nation that used the weapon before and Russia? Yes, it's unlikely that they're suddenly lying when it all makes a terrible kind of sense.
Occam's razor holds until a full investigation is done, but by then Assad will have likely already delayed enough to erode the most signifigant markers anyway so w/e.
I mean, it's really not OK either way so I'm not sure where you got that but it's irrelevant to my point beyond "The world collectively decided that kids chocking to death on mustard gas/suffering from a slow and painful death via Sarin was worse than a death by bomb"
I repeat my actual point which you've ignored. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We pay it now in a coalition or we pay it later alone.
Wish you all a wonderful day. :D
[spoiler=Today is April 10 and today are:]
Today is April 10 and today are:
- ASPCA Day
- Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan)
- Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)
- Free Cone Day (Ben & Jerry's)
- Golfer's Day
- International Safety Pin Day
- International Siblings Day
- National Be Kind to Lawyers Day (United States)
- National Cinnamon Crescent Day (United States)
- National Encourage a Young Writer Day (United States)
- National Equal Pay Day (United States)
- National Farm Animals Day (United States)
- National Library Day (United States)
- National Library Workers Day (United States)
- National Siblings Day (United States)
- National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- Salvation Army Founder's Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0428 Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 0837 Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
- 0879 Louis III and Carloman II become Kings of the Western Franks.
- 1407 Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
- 1500 Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
- 1606 The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
- 1710 The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
- 1741 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
- 1809 Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
- 1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
- 1816 The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
- 1826 The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
- 1856 The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
- 1858 After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
- 1864 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
- 1865 American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
- 1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
- 1868 At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
- 1872 The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
- 1887 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
- 1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.
- 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
- 1916 The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
- 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
- 1941 World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.
- 1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
- 1948 United Nations Security Council Resolution 45 recommends that the Union of Burma be admitted to the UN.
- 1957 The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- 1963 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
- 1970 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
- 1971 Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
- 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
- 1972 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
- 1973 Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland killing 108 people.
- 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
- 1988 The Ojhri Camp explosion kills more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
- 1991 Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
- 1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
- 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
- 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
- 2016 The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
- 2016 2016 Afghanistan earthquake, of 6.6 magnitude, 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1512 James V of Scotland
- 1583 Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and jurist
- 1651 Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician
- 1755 Samuel Hahnemann, German-French physician and academic
- 1778 William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic
- 1794 Matthew C. Perry, English-Scottish American commander
- 1829 William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army
- 1847 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian Jewish-American journalist, publisher, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc.
- 1868 George Arliss, English actor and playwright
- 1880 Frances Perkins, American sociologist, academic, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Labor
- 1887 Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1913 Stefan Heym, German-American soldier and author
- 1929 Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor
- 1932 Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter
- 1951 David Helvarg, American journalist and activist
- 1952 Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, and martial artist
- 1957 Aliko Dangote, Nigerian businessman, founded Dangote Group
- 1987 Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
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Quote of the day
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Booth Tarkington (American Novelist, 1869-1946) -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
And what exactly will happen if Asaad is kept in power? What danger does he pose to the West?
Axeldonia
he'll align himself with the Russians and let them continue to use his ports as places to refuel and rearm
Not really Assad, more "Insurgent groups in general that Assad would rather just push out" since it's terribly easy to push them out but terribly hard to destroy them.
Of course, Assad also presents a two fold danger since he has chemical weapons he uses often and only benefits from the West losing their invective to fight within Syria since the Russians are being kept on a dog's leash by the US's presence there and the associated publicity of the event.
And beyond that we have the biggest danger which is a resurgence of powerful despotism in places like Russia which really needs to have it stamped from them through a unified international coalition taking the "done deal" from them as a direct result of attacking people in Britain and attacking the US's electoral system.
So?
So you'd prefer Islamic extremists in charge of Syria then?
Axeldonia
That's a distrubing leap. No, I prefer that we preempt this nonsense spreading to other regions and build a democratic government there over a set number of years without the early pulling out that ruined Iraq.
Getting things organized to set pride flags out for hate crimes against LGBT+ individuals.
Of course, I'm the one organizing everything. At least I don't have to pay for anything, and I'm getting the flags in bulk, so I can save us a bit of money.
Would have preferred to have graffitied all of academic walk. But that would have been "vandalism" and would have brought a "witch hunt" by the university. Ah, but c'est la vie
Axeldonia, Kalaron, Percyton
Uh huh. And who said it was your God-given right to invade a sovereign nation and change its government?
Axeldonia, Mercunova
When was the last time the embassy listing has been cleared up since Jan/Feb?
And who said it wasn't?
Let me ask you a question Nurem, when these people rebelled originally against the despotic government who beat them and killed their kids during the Arab Spring, did they have less of a right to freedom than you? Do they, intrinsically, deserve worse treatment and a genuine "I don't care" from the west?
Would you like to live in a similarly despotic country led by a man who -without compunctions- drops chemical weapons on your head to prove the point that the West stopped caring a long time ago?
Rights are a man-made convention to explain away common wants based on a cultural lexicon. Just as you praise the "right" of national soverignty, I praise the right to not be murdered for political aims like "Shutting up the rabble".
They had every right to overthrow their government and replace it with something else. And no, I wouldn't like to live in a despotic country. But let me ask you a question, Kal. Why are you so selective in your moralising? Why are you not waxing lyrical about how we should invade the despotic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to liberate the poor people there who get stoned, beheaded and viciously treated every single day? Or how about Israel who gunned down Palestinian protesters? Or to get rid of Egypt's dictator?
Axeldonia, Mercunova
Because I'm pragmatic and the benefits don't outweigh the loss in the case of Saudi Arabia (which might benefit more from a through purging insofar as the leadership is concerned), Israel is a far too complicated situation to simply invade since their system tries to be impartial and is egged on by constant rhetoric on both sides where a section of the Palestinian public do endorse the genocide of their state in a way similar to the second world war. This is only made worse by their choice to establish colonies inside of Gaza, yes, but suffice to say that the situation can still be solved amicably without the need for armed intervention unlike Syria.
I never studied Egypt's situation either way to answer the last question.
LOL. So in Syria it's about the principle of not letting dictators murder their own citizens but then in Saudi Arabia's case it's not "pragmatic" enough to intervene. You are so full of sh!t.
Axeldonia, Gualimole
I mean, I don't moralize situations past their limit, yes. Unsuprisingly, the devastation caused by invading Syria would be on a much different scale to if we suddenly decided that SA had to go, and I don't much care to annihilate their economy alongside our own when other methods would prove better for everyone and would still result in a net loss of cruelty. This answer works for a western aligned country, of course, but it's application to a Russian puppet is pretty suspect.
Sorry you think having shades of action is being full of sh1t though.
At least now you admit it's shades of action and you just want to do what suits the US's interests. Stop trying to dress up your desire for intervention in Syria as some kind of moral crusade to save them from their awful leader.
Axeldonia, Gualimole
Just putting my two cents in, it'll be a complete nightmare to try and dismantle the Saudi government: there's more than enough princes within the population to simply establish a government-in-exile should the Kingdom be overthrown, the Saudi population along with most practicing Muslims would be pissed at seeing the government overthrown due to the religious titles the King and the House of Saud hold, particularly the King being the Custodian of the Two Mosques, and the fact that the Saudis already have a line of succession planned out, along with the princes, effectively creating the human equivalent of a hydra - take out the King, and more princes will show up.
Additionally, the situation with Israel is a complex area, particularly with trying to figure in the whole "civil disobedience" thing involving the Palestinians getting shot by Israeli troops, further compounded with the Israel-Palestine conflict, and with Egypt el-Sisi is popular with the Armed Forces since he gave them unchecked power and in contrast to Mubarak, el-Sisi hasn't yet set up a successor like Mubarak potentially attempted, along with the real excuse of "state security" given the activities of the Islamic State in the Sinai.
Does it matter that many Syrians support the Asaad government? Or don't their opinions matter? Is the West telling them what's good for them? Maybe America should give the Syrians a referendum. "Would you like us to overthrow your secular dictatorship and replace it with an Islamic extremist government who will implement Sharia law and most likely murder you?"
I bet they'd jump at that.
Axeldonia
Except that it's a legitimate point in explaining why I want it? If we're moralizing not invading because of national rights then I fully withhold the right to moralize invading to protect them from a cancerous dictatorship that can't be removed in other ways?
I never said I wanted constant war on all dictators as well so that's a shrug.
Right. Well you do that. I'd rather not go to war with Russia over some sandbox in the Middle East, thank you.
Axeldonia
Certainly, I do wonder where the line will be drawn, though. Is it when Russia threatens the Eastern Europeans or when they use economic power to force Western Europe to release control of complicated international situations to them? Is it when a resurgence of despotism leads to a fall of the quality of the human condition globally or is it when they personally attack Scotland's control on an internal situation?
Russia is dedicated to regaining the ability to control it's own sphere of influence and aims to do it by threatening the Western Powers, Nur. I hope the near assassination of a man in England would show that brightly, but evidently not.
We've come full circle, anyhow. My parting words here are similar to my entering words: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
By this point, most of our support has been leaning towards Rojava and the Kurds, though with al-Assad, they only support him out of fear - its either him with heavyhanded control or the anarchy and bloodshed that came out of the Islamic State's control of Raqqa. Besides that, I don't remember if we have supported Islamic groups like the Islamic Front back when it was still active - our support leans towards the SDF and the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, like the Army of Glory (as far as I know, AoG isn't a jihadist rebel group), New Syrian Army (which was booted by the Authenticity and Development Front for its ties with the U.S. and was eventually cleaned out when reorganized as the Revolutionary Commando Army), and the remnants of Division 30.
As for a government, I doubt we'd allow open Islamists into an interim administration, but rather a series of backers and hand-picked civilian administrators, along with some members from the Syrian Opposition government still active.
I just don't care any more to be honest. I'll care when WW3 gets started over it.
Would like it if you didn't insult the man I intend to marry.
I'm sure he'll get over it.
I'm sure he will. I'm not stating it for him.
Okay then.
I really enjoyed the futility of this interaction.
Axeldonia, Mercunova
As did I.
Forget left vs right, this is the new debate of the century
Thicc
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Necc
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Nuremgard
I like the one with the bird.
Axeldonia, Percyton
Here are some facts.
According to a poll, 55 percent of Syrians in Syria support Bashar al-Assad.[1] Around 60 percent of Syrian rebels are Islamic fundamentalists.[2] Two groups of rebels that the CIA and the Pentagon funded have fought against one another.[3] Syrians rebels have used car bombs and rockets to kill civilians in government-controlled areas.[4]
I wonder who the Syrian people support. Will they support a President with popular support who has promised free elections after the end of the Syrian Civil War, or will they support rebels that have indiscriminately killed civilians while fighting against each other while also practicing extremist ideologies that are not too different to the ideology of ISIS?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-support-assad-western-propaganda
[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/20/460463173/60-percent-of-syrian-rebels-share-islamic-state-ideology-think-tank-finds
[3] http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html
[4] https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/22/syria-rebels-car-bombs-rockets-kill-civilians
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
This is unrelated as I'd prefer not to get into that debate again. Mind if I ask your opinion on one of my nations?
Hello, everyone! Been busy the past few days. Ryan is undergoing routine maintenance at the Steamworks, so Sir Topham Hatt sent me to do Ryan's usual work on the Harwick Branch Line while Ryan is undergoing maintenance. It's been a very enjoyable experience. The port at Arlesburgh is lovely, the miniature engines at Arlesburgh are fun to be around, and I like working with the other engines of the Harwick Branch Line: It's good to work with Daisy again (though her snootiness does get on my nerves sometimes); and while Ivan (one of the engines we got from Axeldonia a while back) is a bit odd, he's still Really Useful.
I've also gotten to see the new Ooyre Valley Railway, which partially opened between Lower Harwick and Cregwir a little while ago. I've talked with the engines of the railway, and they're very colorful characters: Smudger is the cheeky local/commuter passenger engine who is full of mischief (though from what I've been told, he's not nearly as troublesome as he was on the Mid-Sodor Railway all those years back), Stanley (who was also very troublesome on the MSR) is a quiet and reliable goods engine engine who tries to keep out of trouble, and Jerry (the MSR engine rescued by Russkov Soviet a while back) is the hardworking express engine who tries to keep the other engines (mainly Smudger) in order. There's also Sidney, who runs the branch line to Ballaswein, and Leonara, a little engine from Spanelsko who serves as the railway's main shunter. There's also Francisco and Fabio (twin engines from Spanelsko), but they aren't used much because their branch line to Loey Machan hasn't been built yet. Overall, the Ooyre Valley Railway seems to be running wonderfully, and though there's still lots of work to be done (I already mentioned the branch line to Loey Machan, and the railway also wants to extend the main line around the mountain to Peel Godred), so far, the railway is doing very well! My thanks to all the people and nations that made this little railway possible!
Duck: Brunel did a lot more than design one suspension bridge; he's without a doubt the greatest engineer in British history, and one of the greatest Britons of all time (second-greatest, according to one BBC poll). In particular, he played a major role in founding the Great Western Railway (which is of course my old railway), and Brunel was instrumental in the development of rail infrastructure, such as Box Tunnel (which, in addition to being a marvel of railway architecture, isn't too far from the childhood of the Reverend W. Awdry; the story goes that as a boy, the young Awdry would hear the banker engines pushing the GWR main line trains up the steep incline, and the young Awdry's imagined conversations between the two engines as they climbed the incline inspired the Railway Series story 'Edward and Gordon'). Though Brunel never dabbled in locomotive design, and his preference for broad gauge over the eventually-victorious standard gauge likely slowed the GWR's growth for decades, he was still instrumental in the development Britain's railways, and for that, all us engines owe him our thanks. Wherever you are, Mr. Bunel, keep upholding the Great Western Way!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbert_Awdry#Biography
Toby: Good riddance, I say!
Percy: Toby! Come on, be reasonable! Just because it's electric doesn't mean it's bad.
Toby: *sigh* Yes, you're right. I guess I let my anger get the best of me. I've told you all before that I've always held a grudge toward electric engines, as people always confuse me for an electric tram and claim all trams are electric (both of which are patently untrue). I'm sorry about how I've acted, and I'll try to do better in the future.
Percy: Glad to hear!
A good day for peace everywhere. Fun fact: Percyton once offered to hosts the talks that later led to the Good Friday Agreement. Both sides politely declined.
Welcome both of you to the CoFN! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here!
Congrats, Nurem! I hope you enjoy it, and I hope this guy makes you very happy!
Hello, Crato! How are you?
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Deimosan, Bigostan
Which one of your nations are you referring to?
Shazria. The pre-revolution Iran one. Do you think there should be a pledge of allegiance to the monarch in schools? Do you think political dissidents should be executed? And do you think His Majesty should tax religious organisations?
It really depends on the nation's lore and how you intend to differentiate it from pre-revolution Iran. You should go further into those basic concepts before considering these more minor things.
Percyton
I want him to be an enlightened autocrat.
Percyton
Who is this person that is an enlightened autocrat? What does he think an enlightened autocrat is? What would it entail?
Percyton
He has been implementing socially liberal reforms such as emancipating women, bringing in gay marriage, legalising drugs, increasing funding for public services, clamping down on corruption, neutering the political power of the Islamic clergy.
Percyton
Okay, I think that's enough information for me to finally bring forth some opinions. For one, there should be a pledge of allegiance to the monarch in schools. He's an enlightened autocrat, but he's an autocrat nonetheless and he needs to maintain a loyal population. Having a pledge of allegiance would make sense on this front and it wouldn't be all that draconian. In fact, I remember having to recite such a pledge when I used to live in Jordan, which is essentially a semi-constitutional monarchy under what many would consider being an enlightened autocrat.
This autocrat should not tax religious organizations and religion should still play some ceremonial part in his government, and I'll leave the part about political dissidents up to you because there are reasons to have them be free and to have them be executed in Shazria under an enlightened autocrat.
Nuremgard
Initially I had planned for him to allow political expression with the exception of elections. But I think that would be too liberal and would encourage his subjects to desire democracy. I may banish dissidents but execute ones who try to violently overthrow the government. There will be a state-owned press and I will probably outlaw protests.
Gualimole
Anything else?
Should he stick to having the economy privatised or should he nationalise some industries?
He should nationalize some industries relating to education, healthcare, and resource extraction, but leave most of the economy under private ownership.
Should he abolish noble titles?
Yas
Any particular reason why?
Titles are gay.
Penguania And Antarctica
True.
Penguania And Antarctica
No, there's really no reason for a monarch to do that.
Nuremgard
But if all titles are gay, then no titles are gay.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Thanks for your input.
Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
Glad to see things are rolling along on Sodor.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
One more thing: should the Shah implement compulsory military service?
So are you. Literally. So shouldn't you like titles?
jk
Penguania And Antarctica
Indeed they are, I'm happy to report.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
No, that would probably be too illiberal of him considering his liberal reforms.
Nuremgard
Ah jeez... I feel so ashamed. I haven't been keeping up with the news lately. In response to the Humboldt Tragedy, all hockey is cancelled for the remainder of the season. Flags across the Union will be at half-staff until the 14th. I really need to keep my eyes on the news.....
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
That reminds me, I heard about the pipe bomb attack in Pegasus City. Thomas wanted me to tell you that our condolences go out to the victims of this attack, and that Percyton is more than willing to assist in investigating this attack and who did it (if you need it, of course).
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
I thank you for the condolences and offer of assistance. We actually identified the party responsible and are planning a military response as we speak. I will post more details come tomorrow afternoon.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
I think those players wouldn't want all hockey to be cancelled. That sport is important to them, and after all, it isn't a lack of safety in the game of hockey itself that caused the deaths of the team.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Speaking as a hockey fan here
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Titles are gay, but a lack of titles is not gay.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Pollsters across the nation showed there was popular support for displaying provincial flags outside government buildings.
Um, we don't have "provinces." We have proud states, thank you very much.
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia
States are for squares. We have Commonwealths.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
There is only one Commonwealth in Nuremgard. One Commonwealth to rule them all.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
We have a Federation of Republics.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
We have a Senate and People.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Central fed constituted of two smol republics that are in theory seperate.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Have a great day everyone. I may release a few statements today but since I can't confirm that I have not included it on my schedule.
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXFXXeoC4k0
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]11 April 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor holds his weekly conference with the Minister of Internal Affairs
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major
There was a wave of pro-democracy protests in the region, including in Shazria. But instead of violently quelling the protests, His Majesty instituted public works to lower unemployment and improve public services. Pro-democracy regime change has successfully been avoided.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
i unf
Alruniea, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Supposed to be republics, but it's all under the Party
Lavan Tiri
Your right. Of course, it would help if I didn't rush my responses either. I think I'll do the following instead: "All Professional and College hockey will be suspended for the last two games of the regular season, as tribute efforts and rink modification will be underway. Playoffs will continue as intended, but the Wild Card will be extended. Youth hockey will finish the Playoffs as intended, but the Championship Series will be extended by two games dedicated to the Broncos. Flags will be at half-mast until the 14th. A memorial will be built in eastern Prykova, home of the Prykova Mustangs." There we go... I meant for something like this, but I got panicked and typed without proofreading. My English teacher would be mad. xP
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Mercunova
Where rude and senseless powers prevail
There form and shape wilt ever fail;
To free themselves when nations strive,
The common weal can never thrive.
Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct-bU0XqvHI
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
We have 7 semi-autonomous provinces under one United Kingdom.
https://youtu.be/VKj7FLg3WVA
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHfNGNJBs9E
Lavan Tiri
[spoiler=Today is April 11 and today are:]
Today is April 11 and today are:
- International Louie Louie Day
- Juan Santamaría Day (Costa Rica)
- National Barber Shop Quartet Day (United States)
- National Bookmobile Day (United States)
- National Cheese Fondue Day (United States)
- National Eight Track Tape Day (United States)
- National Pet Day (United States)
- National Submarine Day (United States)
- World Parkinson's Day
- Yom HaShoah (Judaism)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0491 Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
- 1079 Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
- 1241 Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
- 1512 War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
- 1544 French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
- 1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
- 1713 War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
- 1727 Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
- 1809 Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
- 1814 The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
- 1856 Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
- 1868 Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- 1881 Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- 1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- 1908 SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.
- 1909 The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
- 1913 The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
- 1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
- 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 1951 Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
- 1951 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
- 1952 The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- 1955 The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
- 1957 United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
- 1963 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
- 1965 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
- 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
- 1970 Apollo 13 is launched.
- 1976 The Apple I is created.
- 1977 London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
- 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- 1981 A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
- 1986 FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
- 1987 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- 1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
- 1993 Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
- 2001 The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
- 2002 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
- 2002 Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
- 2004 Ingoldmells bus crash: A double-decker bus collides with pedestrians in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. Five people are killed and six injured.
- 2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
- 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
- 2011 An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
- 2011 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1976 relating to Somalia is adopted.
- 2012 A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
- 2018 An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1722 Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet
- 1755 James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist
- 1825 Ferdinand Lassalle, German philosopher and jurist
- 1893 Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State
- 1913 Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer
- 1949 Bernd Eichinger, German director and producer
- 1953 Andrew Wiles, English mathematician and academic
- 1960 Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter
- 1966 Lisa Stansfield, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1987 Joss Stone, English singer-songwriter, and actress
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Quote of the day
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow (American Novelist, 1874-1945) -
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Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, The British Islands Confederacy
Poor thing
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I wanted to know what you guys think of Speaker Ryan retiring after he finishes his term?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm pretty sure this won't end pretty well, but I spent forty minutes writing this so here goes anyhow
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=7&scrollTo=810
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
https://youtu.be/mUCcULhyN1I
Technically not the same song as the holiday, but who really cares?
I'm not too surprised: there had been speculation and stories on Ryan stepping down for at least a few months. Ryan didn't want the job in the first place, he didn't enjoy dealing with Trump, Ryan's Congress has passed tax cuts, and Ryan's dream of entitlement overhaul seems unlikely to happen. Ryan probably figured he accomplished as much as he realistically could, and with how exhausting being Speaker is in this political climate, Ryan just had enough. He'll probably get a comfy job in the private sector or at a think-tank or something, and depending on what kind of situation Trump is in, Ryan might jump back into politics in 2020.
Lavan Tiri, Solla Ultima
Vermont is best :)
And yeah, its a nice song. Personally I prefer the previous state song but this one is good as well.
I cheered when I heard
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Solla Ultima
As did I
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
He'll be replaced by another irritating unconstitutional shill. Either way the midterms go.
The last decent American speaker was Sam Rayburn
Lavan Tiri, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
vermont is trash :p
not my fourteenth star
Lavan Tiri
Im late but I got Orders! and Im Imperial too!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Fvck you all <3
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Good to see you too, Lavan! How are you?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey Jazzy. I'm, ah. . .frustrated with NS currently. The WA is ridiculous.
How's life, my dude?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What's going on with the WA, if you don't mind me asking?
And I'm doing good. Been busy with schoolwork this past week, but otherwise good.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Some deluded arse is trying to liberate regions that have distant ties to "fascist" regions, for. . .reasons? I'm confused by it myself.
Oof. School going well?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Ah. I see.
And yeah, school is going well. It's not particularly hard work, just a lot of work, and I have a bunch of assignments and projects to juggle at once.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I have once again updated my political parties factbook. Check it out: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=alruniea/detail=factbook/id=372707
Ludania, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Good Day everyone!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
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