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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Currently Studying Abroad I'm not always available especially during those times
The United Providences Of Perland
At least until next monday and on
Well, foreign affairs widely falls within the jurisdiction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with diplomatic relations also involving the Chancellor. If the Minister wants to set up a volunteer council to guide his decisions or considerations, I believe it would be his choice to make.
But if the Minister uses his position or that of the council to tell citizens how to vote on WA resolutions, I think he'd be out of scope of his constitutional perogative.
Yukona
Auxorii
Damn, I'll miss it by five hours due to the train. I may be able to come in with headphones and listen, talking via chat. If my phone service is ok at these times, would the above be ok?
Tell me more about Catholics holding the British throne, daddy ;)
Nuremgard
I'm pleased to announce that the United Kingdom of Jaslandia has formed a partnership with Percyton on developing the North Jasland Royal Railway, a new heritage railway that is sponsored by the Jaslandian Royal Family. Percyton will provide consulting assistance and expert advisers during the construction of this new heritage railway. This new railway will also serve as a testing ground for Jaslandia's new sentient engines program.
To this end, Jaslandia has reached an engine exchange agreement with Percyton: In exchange for sending four of our engines to Percyton for couple weeks (three steam engines and a diesel), Percyton will send us three of their engines (James, Stanley, and Paxton). Those three engines will assist with the construction of the North Jasland Royal Railway, and the four engines we sent to Percyton will also assist in the construction of the new railway upon their return. Finally, Percyton has agreed to send us a shipment of Island of Sodor coal and diesel fuel, both for research purposes, and for future use in case we decide to bring anymore of our own engines alive.
We thank the Percytonian officials for their cooperation, and we look forward to a fruitful partnership!
Nuremgard, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Well they didn't hold it for long. James VI was ousted after he sired a male Catholic heir. So the English Parliament quickly got rid of him and he escaped to exile. Then the nobles invited William of Orange to take the throne and James came back to fight him in Ireland but lost at the Battle of the Boyne. That's the battle the Orange Order are obsessed with.
Yukona
Quite a remarkable battle though none the less
Nuremgard
Too bad James fled. Mind you he would have probably suffered the same fate as Charles I had he stayed.
Yukona
Another dead monarch another step closer to republicanism ewww :^)
Not in Britain. It's more obsessed with its monarchy than ever.
This is news worth reporting.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I suppose so. Do you want to write a news article about it or something?
The United Providences Of Perland
I'm too lazy lol. I just wanted to mention this is what needs to be in the news, nice happy stuff.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I was turned on until you brought up the OO
Nuremgard
Like it or not, that's what the history is.
Agreed. I've never understood the appeal of object-orientated programming either. I've always been more of a modular programming guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OO
Auxorii
I just played through Rise of the Tomb Raider, and more than anything I just want to know how the hell Laura can deal with being drenched in water in a Siberian snow storm.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus
Her boobs trap all the heat.
Onocarcass, Jaslandia
Onocarcass, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Logical, I like it
I dunno...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Naboo. Dunno why tho.
Captian James Tiberius Kirk.
(That and mine from Star Trek Online on PS4)
Never watched it, read it, ect. So... I dunno
Then you do not know greatness. Martin is a modern day Tolkein.
Russkov Soviet
Well... I'll look into it.
Nuremgard
You should. And if you do, be sure to support Daenerys.
Aye. I took a test and wound up in House Stark though....so eh. I'll probably keep this under wraps until I understand the series and houses more. (To busy with work and Star Trek Online atm....And trying to move to Russia {In-game} and move to Scotland {IRL})
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus
House Stark is cool.
You're moving to Scotland! Awesome! Which part? Any reason for the move? Where you moving from?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/XAAp_luluo0
Nuremgard
(Which part?) We don't know yet.
(Reason?) Family found out that we have British ancestry. I'm not happy with the idea.*
(Where?) Dallas, Texas, USA
*(The only reason I hate this is the fact that our family actually were "Redcoats" and Torries. One of my good pals has proof that my family killed his. Battle of Saratoga I believe. Took 6 years for him and his family to trust me...much less forgive me)
Nuremgard
Why should they care what your ancestors did? That's weird, dude. I live in Glasgow. It's a good city.
Russkov Soviet
I dunno. People are crazy. And Glasgow was one of the ideas I had tbh xD
Nuremgard
Edinburgh is a more beautiful looking city (in my opinion) but I think Glasgow has character. Scotland is a great place to live. You get free healthcare, free prescriptions, free personal and nursing care, no tuition fees, free hospital parking.
Russkov Soviet
As long as I can still be a gamer, I'm happy. (You better have Pepsi or Coke over there or else. Its my favorite two brands of soda. Can't game worth a darn without it)
Nuremgard
You also get a purely Scottish soda called Irn-Bru. Try it. It's the bees' knees.
Kalaron
How high are the taxes?
I wouldn't know. I'm a student so I don't pay tax.
I like your flag, btw, although it seems a bit empty in the center, maybe if the Starred Cross was slightly larger?
Nuremgard
He says he's thinking of adding St. Peter's seal onto the flag. That would busy it up a bit in the middle.
Russkov Soviet
Can't wait to see it
Nuremgard
I didn't wanna overcomplicate it. I'll post a picture of it and see what you guys think
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard
Hello there!
Penguania And Antarctica
Yo.
Penguania And Antarctica
He is not the same calibre as Tolkien, seriously
Hello! I'm Andy, MoJ and Mentor here in the CoFN; If you need anything feel free to send me a Telegram :D
Jaslandia, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland
PARLIAMENT REMINDER
Minister Sulania's bill is going to have a live discord session tomorrow at 3:30pm EST
I would also like to apologize for some people that can't make it. If I could have it earlier I would, but school will begin tomorrow and that is the soonest I can get it. So for the future, as long as I'm Speaker, If you want earlier dates please schedule for a weekend.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
I ain't even gonna read it, then I'm gonna vote on it, and I won't even know what I'm voting for. This is what the government gets for censoring C*NTE.
Oelesa
#DisbandPoliticalParties
The United Providences Of Perland
>tfw because of an unintentional coincidence you have to censor your own party's name when discussing censoring
You could just change it to something NS doesn't disagree with like common sense would dictate.
I second.
The Welsh Government wants to spend £395,000 building a monument celebrating Edward I and his conquest of Wales.
Man, these people are f*cking morons aren't they?
United Continental States
Another reason why you should not have an organization that is government involved. Also, if you fear the government is censoring you, going to extremes to spread your discontent hurts your cause.
[spoiler=Today is July 25 and today are:]
Today is July 25 and today are:
- Culinarians Day
- Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
- National Baha'i Day (Jamaica)
- National Day of Galicia (Galicia, Spain)
- National Hire a Veteran Day (United States)
- National Hot Fudge Sundae Day (United States)
- National Merry-Go-Round Day (United States)
- National Threading the Needle Day (United States)
- Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
- Republic Day (Tunisia)
- Revolution Anniversary (Cuba)
- Revolution Day (Egypt)
- Wine and Cheese Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 315 The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
- 1137 Eleanor of Aquitaine married Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
- 1139 Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
- 1261 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1278 The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
- 1467 The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
- 1536 Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1538 The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- 1547 Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1554 Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
- 1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1593 Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1609 The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1693 Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
- 1722 Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1755 British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
- 1759 French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
- 1783 American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1792 The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
- 1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1799 At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1814 War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
- 1824 Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1837 The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
- 1853 Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
- 1861 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the CrittendenJohnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
- 1866 The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1868 Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1869 The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1898 In the Puerto Rican Campaign, the United States seizes Puerto Rico from Spain.
- 1908 Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1909 Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
- 1915 RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
- 1917 Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1925 Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1934 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940 General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1942 The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
- 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1944 World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
- 1946 Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
- 1952 The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
- 1956 Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 1957 The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1965 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
- 1973 Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- 1976 Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1978 Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
- 1978 Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
- 1979 Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1983 Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1984 Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1993 Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- 1993 The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1995 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- 1996 In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 2000 Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
- 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
- 2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1573 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit
- 1750 Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War
- 1869 Carl Miele, German businessman
- 1894 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb revolutionary
- 1894 Walter Brennan, American actor
- 1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic
- 1921 Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher
- 1923 Estelle Getty, American actress
- 1951 Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
- 1952 Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
- 1954 Jürgen Trittin, German politician (Green Party), former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
- 1955 Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
- 1965 Ina Müller, German singer, author, and television host
- 1985 Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
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Quote of the day
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
- Hannah Arendt -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Some people love Longshanks!
...wait, "Longshanks" is a person?!
Jaslandia
No doubt if the Labour incompetents were in charge up here in Scotland they'd want to build a statue of Edward I to celebrate his early attempts to create a British/Greater English state.
Seems Scottish unionists aren't the only ones who have the cringe.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/joke
Where did you read this?
The National. There was a backlash on social media from some Wales residents.
Oh I looked it up and couldn't find anything bar that monument in Burgh on Sands.
They're building some sort of ring.
Vote in the new poll!!
It has a rather short duration, as I know that there are others who might want to call a poll as well. I called this one for two reasons
1) To act as a guide for the Ministry (e.g. if no-one selects a certain option, we will not form embassies with regions that represent that option)
2) Because we could see some new political parties form after the poll closes, as both Union and DLP are somewhere around the Centre-Left.
The United Providences Of Perland
Fun poll. Although, we shouldn't exclude possible diplomatic partners based on their political opinions unless they are solely based on a political idea or ideology (I.e conservative league or the pro-life region that tried to embassy us a while back).
^
Not to even touch on the fact that the left-right dichotomy is a bit dated due to its lack of comprehensiveness, whose to say we can't have good relations with, say, right-wing regions even if (hypothetically) no one in this region identifies as right wing. I think we've always generally followed the rule that we're accepting across the board unless the other party is distinctly not.
Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Cesorion
Yeah, I agree, but I just want to have a basic guideline, that's all.
Oelesa
I think the left-right dichotomy still applies. It's just that both sides can be misrepresented by a vocal minority of extremists.
I will say one thing about right-wingers. They know how to unite for the sake of surviving and ruling. Leftists are constantly fighting amongst themselves and splitting off into smaller and smaller fringe groups. We do love the no true Scotsman fallacy as we love to accuse each other of not being left enough.
As we fiddle, Rome burns.
The United Providences Of Perland
Totally fair. And an interesting poll, nonetheless. Sometimes you can be surprised by the difference between your perception and others' perception of themselves.
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Cesorion
I couldn't agree more!
Shoulda given a far-left option....
Nuremgard, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
The political ideology matrix gives more detail and is what I've always dealt with in professionally and in academia, both in general and on a topic-by-topic analysis. The only place I really come into contact with the left-right dichotomy nowadays is in debates and journalism.
Nuremgard, Friedensreich
I always knew I was left-wing but now I know I am officially since my political compass put me close to where Gandhi was.
The United Providences Of Perland
Oi, if people that are not left-wing claim to be left-wing, I'm going to call it out. Big reason why I never truly supported Bernie Sanders during 2015 and 2016 is because he claimed to be a socialist when he's little more than a social democrat.
The United Providences Of Perland
You make my point for me. Does it matter? He was a genuine left wing alternative. But rather than support him, you bitched about him not being left enough.
The United Providences Of Perland
Well, I think it may also be situational. For instance, I consider myself right of centre withon my Canadian environment, but I'd
Probably be positively centrist and accused of being a Democrat if someone dropped me into [shudders] the United States.
And by US political standards, where it's only recently that many Democrats won't take offence if called "liberals", I think Sanders may be perceived as socialist by comparison. In Canada, I think he'd fall more into our centrist party than our social democratic party.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland
Behold: https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-7.75&soc=-6.87
Nuremgard
Because I'm more loyal to ideological purity than political gain. I'm sorry he wasn't leftist enough for me, I'll make sure to just vote for whoever claims to be a leftist next time.
What other option do you have in the US? But I take your point. I know what it's like to be stuck in a two-party BS setup.
Mimi Soltysik, Jill Stein, the list goes on and on. But I'll make sure to vote for any guy that even claims to know what the left wants.
Sigh. Alright, I take your point. I was wrong. Don't just vote for any twat.
You're sounding like a communist.
I took the American political matrix quiz. This is what I got.
Your score pegs you as economically moderately leftist and socially libertarian.
Moderate economic leftists generally support regulation of free trade and business to assure that workers are fairly treated and prices remain stable.
Social libertarians generally believe that the government should not judge morality, and are generally against the illegalization of things that do not directly affect other people in a negative way. Many strong social libertarians may also be social progressives, favoring legislation to correct what they see as socially backwards governmental regulation, although some simply wish for the government to make little judgment on social matters.
https://gyazo.com/ad5f569e3c187d97c28196a57fff72cc
Post self-deleted by Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth.
Gross.
which test is that?
Lol. It's a great quiz though and you should take it and show us your results
Where can I take it?
It's called 8values
Post self-deleted by Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth.
Fun fact I used to be a socialist
Fun fact: I used to be religious.
You're kidding right?
https://i.imgur.com/PHbju2Q_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=high
Nope. I was a fire and brimstone Catholic once.
Yukona
Social libertarian- atta boyo!
But I do have a question with regards to being economically left but socially libertarian. Wouldn't these people still be more likely to support the illegalization of drugs as it would technically affect other taxpayers through increased healthcare and welfare spending?
I mean, the descriptipn says "directly affect", but as a country that has socialized healthcare I know that a majority of provincial spending across the board goes into the health portfolio. Arguably, any policy decision that would increase this spending would have pretty much a direct impact on taxpayers.
Yukona
Which is why you can't have both. That's how I became economically right, I realised that you can't have both
Peoples Liberation Republic
In my opinion, since drug-users will be paying taxes too, they have every right to their universal healthcare. So I don't see the problem with legalising drugs.
Yukona
https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=87.2&d=70.7&g=72.3&s=76.8
My 8values results.
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