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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
El-Aaiun Al-Khalifa
That's what it's all about. Keeping the elite rich. Although the poor has seen a big rise in their incomes recently. And the economy did take a hit because the General barred women from working. They must be wives and mothers. But the poor's income increased by 5,000 after he sent women home.
Peoples Liberation Republic
Although I was told that we do not use NS Stats, here are mine under my General's leadership:
http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/?nation=Peoples+Liberation+Republic
Nuremgard
Both of our states can theoretically exist in one universe, with you as a subdivision or vassal to the Caliphate: logic also implies that the opposite exists, in which the Theocracy rules over the Caliphate
I think Tangshan's civil rights and poor's income increased recently because the General abolished serfdom. He did it because the government is republican in nature. No concept of nobility anymore. Although I wonder if serfdom should be brought back. Thoughts?
Yeah that would make sense but that actually made me remember why I hate Multiverse theories they're about as easy to untangle as a pair of earbuds when you stuff them in your pocket
El-Aaiun Al-Khalifa
Bring it back. Gives a sense of the natural hierarchical mentality and social construction of human nature.
Nuremgard
I'll do that as soon as possible.
Should women be kept at home or should they be enslaved by corporations for the good of the economy too?
incorporate women for the good of the economy but keep wages low so that corporate profit and therefore, accumulation of economic wealth can increase.
Nuremgard
I mean, the only reason Ædenism and Omnicorp exists is because I TOTALLY DIDN'T WIPE OUT A 1/4 OR MORE OF THE WEST COAST N.A POPULATION
Also, to everyone, I have fully updated my Government factbook equipped now with links 'n sh!t and I'll be updating my Law Code and Bill of Rights alongside my History Factbook OOC tomorrow and Friday :D
Cheers for the advice!
Peoples Liberation Republic
I hope you're not serious
Bring back the serfdom.
The way to keep people from organizing and rebelling is to keep them disconnected from one another (for example, have your serfs stick within specific manors with no way of communicating with the other manors) and prevent them from having access to basic services like primary school. I forget who said it (maybe I just imagined it), but literacy is the enemy of any oppressive regime.
Nuremgard, Peoples Liberation Republic
you are very welcome my dear friend.
Another reason why I hate you. Ya genocidal maniac.
good point. Literacy and social media are the two main enemies of any oppressive regime
Nuremgard, Friedensreich
That is why the General determines what is taught in school.
Nuremgard
I am. Tangshan is a sh!thole. I run it to be that way intentionally.
Only rich Tangs can get an education or access to any kind of service. Most of the Tang masses cant read or write.
Oh thank god, I thought you were asking that question OOC
If you thought that then you clearly don't know my politics.
Peoples Liberation Republic
Well ya never know with the people here
Thomas Paine says it best: "When men yield up the exclusive privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
And the way to keep men and women from thinking, is to remove their capacity to learn and communicate. Keep them ignorant, and they'll stay docile. Prevent them from discussing their abysmal conditions to one another, and they'll stay disorganized.
I do like to think Hegel's idea about the relationship between an oppressor and the oppressed (Master-Slave Dialectic) to be true, it is possible for an oppressor to stay an oppressor for a very, very long time by preventing the oppressed from knowing anything better.
Peoples Liberation Republic
Agreed. The Master-Slave Dialectic is similar to the Stockholm Syndrome
Friedensreich
You mean Maniacs; During the Great War Period the old Empire had what amounted to 7 leaders and just as many militaries...thats a lot of genocides...
The natural resources of the DRC well the PLR:
cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber
The Junta of the PLR is living on military paradise
Even more reasons to hate you
Friedensreich
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10220359/1/#new
Good morning folks and hello! I'm back from my 30 day vacation and enjoying the 47 degree heat in iraq for another 3 months 😂
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
47 degree "heat" if thats how "warm" iraq gets then why is it a desert
Penguania And Antarctica
I think he means Celsius
Penguania And Antarctica
How is your nation alive if its a entity constantly burning and falling apart?
(Based on banner.)
Desert isn't exclusively for hot environments, just any area that receives very little rain and has a problem with sustaining life. So, the ice caps can be considered deserts too.
But, methinks he was talking about Celsius.
Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States
That is beyond brutal heat, :)
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is June 8 and today are:]
Today is June 8 and today are:
- Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
- Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Engineer's Day (Peru)
- National Best Friends Day (United States)
- National Name Your Poison Day (United States)
- National Upsy Daisy Day (United States)
- Poson Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)
- Primo Trubar Day (Slovenia)
- Temotu Province Day (Solomon Islands)
- World Brain Tumor Day
- World Oceans Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 218 Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
- 632 Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina.
- 793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
- 1042 Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
- 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning his crusade.
- 1405 Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
- 1783 Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- 1789 James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
- 1794 Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 1856 A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
- 1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
- 1867 Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
- 1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
- 1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1918 A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
- 1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
- 1929 Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- 1940 World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
- 1941 World War II: The Allies commence the SyriaLebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
- 1942 World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- 1949 Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- 1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1953 An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
- 1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C. cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 1966 An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
- 1966 Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
- 1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1972 Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
- 1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
- 1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- 1987 New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
- 1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 2001 Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
- 2004 The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
- 2007 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
- 2008 At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
- 2008 At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
- 2009 Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
- 2014 At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1594 Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War
- 1810 Robert Schumann, German composer and critic
- 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater
- 1903 Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet
- 1916 Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia
- 1925 Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
- 1936 Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
- 1951 Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1955 Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
- 1960 Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
- 1976 Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player and coach
- 1977 Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
- 1983 Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
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Quote of the day
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
- Mignon McLaughlin -
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Aghrabia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics, Andromitus
Man. Say what you will about voting but there are some cute dogs at the polling stations today.
Nuremgard, Aghrabia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States
I'll be voting soon. 'Moan the SNP! Down with the Tory c*nts!
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Libertas Perpetua
Let. Them. Vote.
Merlinton, Aghrabia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, United Continental States
I feel bad for you Brits.
But at least you didn't have just Hilary and Trump to viably vote between.
MFW Brits have more democracy than the US sometimes.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Aghrabia, Friedensreich, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland
Eh, she thought it'd be a cakewalk and done it to get a majority for a hard Brexit so we still win in some way - she's probably run the worst campaign I've seen in my lifetime
Nuremgard, Aghrabia
I'm just glad we Scots have a genuine alternative to both Labour and the Tories: the SNP.
It has been the worst campaign and she is the worst PM ever. But she will win a landslide because the English (not all of you but sadly enough of you) love the Tories and keep voting them in.
I think it's more Brexit thing but OK
Yes it is. Too many idiots are falling for the "I need a big majority to have a strong hand in Brexit negotiations" BS. Makes me think people should sit an IQ test before being allowed to vote.
I think another issue is that Jeremy Corbyn is too far left for the majority of the UK and because we have a two-party system unfortunately he's just not going to cut it with the baby boomer generation. It's not because 'the English are too Tory', there's much more to it than that. And I highly disagree with the latter, that's like policing thought, it's not on - voting is a sacramental right to anyone and everyone, once you start taking votes away from people it just gets easier and easier. Some of the smartest people can have the stupidest (in your opinion) views, that won't solve anything.
You mean JC is too right wing for England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all vote differently. Sorry, dude but this is why we need to go our separate ways.
Honestly, Britain will not have a very strong negotiation position. I respect their right to choose whether they stay in an EU group or not, but choosing not to is gonna be murder.
Nuremgard, Friedensreich
The EU holds all the cards. The British Government knows this. That's why May is trying to create a siege mentality among the populace by pretending the EU is bullying/ganging up on us. There's also this deluded belief among Leave voters that "they need us more than we need them."
It's just empty posturing by a middling power lamenting the loss of its glorious imperial past.
What? No, he's too left-wing, he's not exactly Gordon Brown and Tony Blair...
Aghrabia
Sorry, yes, left wing. That's what I meant. My head's up my arse today.
Aghrabia, Yukona
Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that she's wrong in that the EU is gonna gang up to beat the British.
Ignoring the statement from Merkel about how the EU/Germany won't let anyone take the EU away from them, you run into the fact that people are going to be watching these proceedings to determine exactly how leaving will be handled, which very quickly goes from "Amicable separation" (Which should be the goal, or else one wouldn't have an article for separation) to "I'm going to make you the whipping boy for all separatist sentiment".
Disregarding the semantics of the issue, I have no doubt that Britain will be harmed by this as a warning.
The EU should make an example of the UK. Britain has shown nothing but arrogance and conceit since Brexit.
I'm not certain I agree.
I think that amicable separation would be for the best, seeing as it will only serve to hurt millions of British people because of a narrow poll.
Countless Brits are already being affected and will continue to be so. And I am sure the UK will not get a deal from the EU because it wont allow free movement of people. I just hope Scotland gets the hell out of dodge before Brexit really bites.
Friedensreich, Lex Caledonia, Yukona
I'm loving the first line of an article talking about James Comey's testimony today (that I'm still watching):
"Is Donald Trump screwed?"
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
The fact that dodge, a reference to Dodge City, is being (probably accurately) likened to England is positively delightful! Given that Dodge City is a staple of American culture and history, being a focal point of the old western frontier, and is about as un-English as it gets.
Lords and Earls everywhere are turning over in their graves. Tombs? I dunno where the hell peers end up, to be honest.
Yukona
I don't care where they end up. The fact is they're not getting there fast enough. They're hanging around sponging off the taxpayer instead.
Yukona
*slides over a copy of the Nickle Resolution*
Nuremgard, Yukona
"Welcome to Dodge City: we swear that there aren't giant duststorms or bison shaggers here anymore"
Andromitus, Yukona
I still desperately need a deputy speaker if any citizen is willing to do it
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
[B][I]Facts[/I]
Oh No we know!
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10220359/1/#new
[nation=short]nuremgard[/nation] do your people not like free tuition why do you people vote conservative
What?
The exit poll shows a 22 seat loss for SNP to the Tories
Aghrabia
Good... Well not necessarily to the Tories, but at least the SNP is losing support for a second referendum.
Anyway, guys, I'll be hear all night! Flooding the RMB with election results and stuff. (Well, to 3AM, probably.)
United Continental States
Sunderland Central goes Labour, as expected, high Tory vote, though, which is concerning.
NC East to Labour, with few Tory votes. Swindon goes Conservative, but with a swing to Labour
Some weirdo is updating the UK House of Commons wikipedia page as the results slowly roll in.
And I suspect it's one of you nerds.
Au Minbo, Aghrabia, United Continental States
I wish.
yeah.... that rp was scrapped. sorry mate. forgot to tell people. we decided to do something different.
Looking for other juntas
How to get in goverment position
First SNP seat lost to Labour. Drop in support for #indyref2, as they love to refer to it as, perhaps?
*Grumbles*
We have election seasons every 2 months, and you can also contact the current Ministers/President for work within their Ministry/Administration
boi, who's in the concord alliance with you
Me, Tse, Sul, Bax, Oel and Inter.
Oelesa
So, it's the ITF?
Where are you on the map?
Pastastan #82
It's missing some notable members such as Belmora and Magnatronia, it is also exclusively a military alliance
R O M A
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We're missin' some terrible people, and Ald.
Oelesa, El-Aaiun Al-Khalifa
Tse also. Did you mention Tse? Tse.
CONCORD!
Almost 4 hours since the polls closed, a quarter of the seats have been called and Labour is up by 7.
Nuremgard, Andromitus
That's because the Tories up here are courting the hardcore unionist/Orange vote with the "no referendum" ticket.
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10220069/1/#new
And Tse is there too! Tse is in CONCORD!
It's not that the Tories are completely against a second referendum. It's just that they are against one without "public consent" and before the Brexit negotiations end. They're not courting hardcore unionists when they aren't completely against a second referendum.
Just a word to the wise:
Your military is severely and largely outdated technology, so you might want to revamp it.
The M-103 for example, has less than half the speed of the Leopard two, and is almost certainly much less protected (It's design was before the use of APFSDS) and will have a very weak round compared to more modern tanks due to the pressure rating being higher on more modern barrels and breeches.
I understand you may prefer a semi-retro military, however, the effectiveness of your military is hindered by your tech my dood.
CONCORD!
Thank you. I know most of this, and the military is going to go under rapid changes soon.
[nation=short]Magnatronia[/nation] I don't think you should worry about a military response from Concord members, tbh we may only just come up to your borders with really big speakers and scream CONCORD! as loud as we can :D
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Tserra
They are against it. May has said "now is not the time" because she does not want Europeans in Scotland voting in a referendum. Plus, Ruth Davidson has pushed a hardline "no referendum" message and has been courting the Orange vote.
Furthermore, we have public consent. The Scottish Parliament passed the legislation necessary to hold a referendum and the First Minister sent a formal request for one to May but she has ignored the request.
That's intriguing. Sorry if I don't make much sense, but it's just that I don't follow Scottish politics at all.
At least the SNP still hold a majority of Scottish seats. Very disappointed by many Scots voting Tory though. Hope they are proud of themselves. C*nts.
I had heard that the SNP is in disarray now that they've suffered huge losses and lost more than a couple seats.
Alex Salmond says that the SNP will keep going despite the losses, and some articles are already popping up postulating about a Labour-SNP coalition now that it's becoming more and more likely that a hung parliament is going to become a reality.
I wouldn't say the SNP are in disarray. The SNP are the largest party in Scotland. They do have a majority although they did suffer bad losses tonight, including two great MPs (Salmond and Robertson) but they will keep going. And I'd love to see a Labour-SNP coalition or even supply and confidence arrangement to keep the Tories out.
Prime Minister Corbyn.
Has a good ring to it. :P
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Friedensreich, United Continental States
I really hope Labour forms a coalition with the Lib-Dems and SNP, because they're falling pretty far behind the Tories now. According to the PA, Labour is trailing 42 seats behind the Tories: 289 to 247.
I seriously doubt an SNP-Labour coalition would be realized, though, because Corbyn is really anti-EU, and SNP's Sturgeon has historically held views similar to those favoring Remain.
Nuremgard
Labour wont do a coalition with the SNP but I can see some kind of informal agreement happening.
Fingers crossed. Whatever takes away majority/plurality from the Tories is best.
Nuremgard
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