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Spanelsko wrote:Vysta/Wysta major are you here? we need you to allow us to send a plane with an important person to Wyoming. But we need to use your air port since they dont have any.

WW2 is famous anime here mainly between the generals Axel, Stalin best.

Than plane isn't leaving the Iberian Peninsula. Friend.

Andromitus wrote:Than plane isn't leaving the Iberian Peninsula. Friend.

Is it only me who isnt actually surprised that i said that the adenist/concord will likely shoot down a civilian plane and the first thing i see is this?

Percyton wrote:'Makes more sense'? What do you mean?

I just think it makes more sense from a human perspective for something natural like us and animals to be sentient and anthropomorphic. An anthropomorphic machine means humans can create life just by building an ordinary machine (like a car or a steam engine). Not only is the idea that humans can so easily create life kinda weird, but it puts a lot of responsibility on humanity that we maybe don't want to have. I don't know, maybe I'm just rambling. It's just a theory... A LIFE THEORY!!!

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

“As far as I can see, homeless people are already a nuisance,” says Natalia Perez, a proud citizen. “They’re mostly thieves and drug addicts, they make the streets a dangerous place for our children, they make honest people feel guilty for turfing them off their doorsteps and, frankly, they smell bad. They’re vermin, plain and simple, and as such, I suggest they be destroyed before the infestation gets even more out of hand.”

OOC i am amazed, i try to be a complete di*k to my people, i have slaves and commit genocide for fun, BUT when i get the possibility to get rid of homeless people i feel bad. WTF is wrong with me?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:https://youtu.be/S-wSL4WqUws

Nuremgard wrote:I always tear up when I hear that version of In Flanders Fields at the end.

Hey, why let a few tears get in the way of a good crusade?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Spanelsko wrote:Is it only me who isnt actually surprised that i said that the adenist/concord will likely shoot down a civilian plane and the first thing i see is this?

That man/woman leaving is a federal official of a regime currently slaughtering thousands. The plane will comply as it is escorted back, or it will be destroyed.

Axeldonia and Andromitus vs the rest of the CFN:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=JvKIWjnEPNY

(Also I didn't realize until just now that they whete talking about anarcho-syndicalism and it may well have been this scene that sent me on my path over to the left to begin with)

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Andromitus wrote:Than plane isn't leaving the Iberian Peninsula. Friend.

Well then i will send the plane right now, well in the next 40 minutes it will leave Iberia. (totally not full of civilians)

Andromitus wrote:That man/woman leaving is a federal official of a regime currently slaughtering thousands. The plane will comply as it is escorted back, or it will be destroyed.

Not really an official, just an random person that is a pilot that served in the Theocracy. Government officials are banned from leaving the fortress or the capital palace. (they can move between those 2 buildings only if needed)

Axeldonia wrote:Axeldonia and Andromitus vs the rest of the CFN:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=JvKIWjnEPNY

(Also I didn't realize until just now that they where talking about anarcho-syndicalism and it may well have been this scene that sent me on my path over to the left to begin with)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we were talking about Anarcho-Communism; Syndicalism is the immediate and temporary economic structure of an Ancomm state; However Anarcho-Syndicalism is usually associated as a term to describe a Syndicalist Federal structure, whose end goal would be to maintain itself like any other Federal Structure as it provides systems such as Public Services through taxation.

Axeldonia

Axeldonia wrote:Hey, why let a few tears get in the way of a good crusade?

Who created those tears? It was Walpole.

Axeldonia

Andromitus wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but we were talking about Anarcho-Communism; Syndicalism is the immediate and temporary economic structure of an Ancomm state; However Anarcho-Syndicalism is usually associated as a term to describe a Syndicalist Federal structure, whose end goal would be to maintain itself like any other Federal Structure as it provides systems such as Public Services through taxation.

HELP HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED!

Nah, but for real I wa talking more how we govern ourselves IC

Jaslandia, Andromitus

Spanelsko wrote:Well then i will send the plane right now, well in the next 40 minutes it will leave Iberia. (totally not full of civilians)

I may or may not be trying to get CONCORD into committing a war crime.......

My possibly last words to our friends in Tangshan, good luck! Build the utopia we dream about! fight for what is right!

Nuremgard

Spanelsko wrote:My possibly last words to our friends in Tangshan, good luck! Build the utopia we dream about! fight for what is right!

Why would it be your last words?

I the Great Lord God Dictator of The Iberian National Bolshevik Workers Union officially declare war mobilisation of the national army for self defence.

Nuremgard

Nuremgard wrote:Why would it be your last words?

The world comes to destroy us. CONCORD is near......

Nuremgard

Spanelsko wrote:The world comes to destroy us. CONCORD is near......

Tangshan shall aid its ally in this time of great need!

Spanelsko

Nuremgard wrote:Tangshan shall aid its ally in this time of great need!

Thank you great friend, but even with your help our situation is hopeless, already surrounded by enemies, and we are also heavily outnumbered by strong enemies with better weapons, greater number of tanks and air force, and navy. Continue living. We will always remember you as our only true friend.

Glory to the regime!

Nuremgard

Spanelsko wrote:I may or may not be trying to get CONCORD into committing a war crime.......

Eh, that would really depend on the definition. If the government is told not to launch planes on outbound flights, and the plane is told to land, then it might actually be considered a rational target of war.

Don't get me wrong, its terrible to kill civilians by any measure, but at the same time you're technically forcing them to be participants considering that your government is using them for the purpose of shielding their officials.

Spanelsko wrote:Thank you great friend, but even with your help our situation is hopeless, already surrounded by enemies, and we are also heavily outnumbered by strong enemies with better weapons, greater number of tanks and air force, and navy. Continue living. We will always remember you as our only true friend.

Glory to the regime!

Long live Spanelsko!

Spanelsko

Kalaron wrote:Eh, that would really depend on the definition. If the government is told not to launch planes on outbound flights, and the plane is told to land, then it might actually be considered a rational target of war.

Don't get me wrong, its terrible to kill civilians by any measure, but at the same time you're technically forcing them to be participants considering that your government is using them for the purpose of shielding their officials.

I am not denying using them as expendable material, BUT again as i said that pilot isnt a government official.

Nuremgard wrote:Long live Spanelsko!

Long live Tangshan!

Nuremgard

Spanelsko wrote:I am not denying using them as expendable material, BUT again as i said that pilot isnt a government official.

Which doesn't matter.

That your government is sending them up is the issue for your claim. You know that they'll be escorted back or otherwise destroyed, thus, the onus is on you.

To claim otherwise is to claim that if a person flung themselves into a car, the driver would be guilty.

Spanelsko

Kalaron wrote:Which doesn't matter.

That your government is sending them up is the issue for your claim. You know that they'll be escorted back or otherwise destroyed, thus, the onus is on you.

To claim otherwise is to claim that if a person flung themselves into a car, the driver would be guilty.

As i said i am not denying anything, BUT consider this, nation you are hostile towards sends civilian plane with civilians in it ignoring threats from someone that has violated their naval borders and also told them that they are civilians only on the plane. The first thing a PEACE keeping force does is that it shoots at civilian target knowing its civilians. While you can argue we did it on purpose we werent the ones that opened fire on them.

Spanelsko wrote:As i said i am not denying anything, BUT consider this, nation you are hostile towards sends civilian plane with civilians in it ignoring threats from someone that has violated their naval borders and also told them that they are civilians only on the plane. The first thing a PEACE keeping force does is that it shoots at civilian target knowing its civilians. While you can argue we did it on purpose we werent the ones that opened fire on them.

Your reasoning doesn't work at all. That's really the only way to respond. It's the most semantic fueled thing m8.

You put them on the plane and the plane was given orders to land. No sane man without a unhealthy dose of disingenuousness would truly indict a force that shot it down tbh.

Axeldonia

Spanelsko wrote:I may or may not be trying to get CONCORD into committing a war crime.......

Actually, killing your civilians and blockading you is neither a breaching of your border, nor a breaching of international laws as we have no Planet-wide international court system to enforce Borders nor implement Laws.

Axeldonia

Andromitus wrote:Actually, killing your civilians and blockading you is neither a breaching of your border, nor a breaching of international laws as we have no Planet-wide international court system to enforce Borders nor implement Laws.

In other words killing civilians is completely fine and justified. Thank you for proving my point.

I just got a great idea, a new game to play with my resources. Put people on plane and wait until they get shot down by CONCORD. genius! might as well have fun until i die.

Spanelsko wrote:In other words killing civilians is completely fine and justified. Thank you for proving my point.

Well, because nobody has the power to say it’s a bad thing in this alternate reality.

Spanelsko

Andromitus wrote:Actually, killing your civilians and blockading you is neither a breaching of your border, nor a breaching of international laws as we have no Planet-wide international court system to enforce Borders nor implement Laws.

Just one thing i forgot to write, i am surprised that someone and even someone from CONCORD has agreed with me that killing civilians isnt a wrong thing.

Spanelsko wrote:Just one thing i forgot to write, i am surprised that someone and even someone from CONCORD has agreed with me that killing civilians isnt a wrong thing.

Bit of advice: it ain’t worth your time to argue with Concord members mang

Spanelsko

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Bit of advice: it ain’t worth your time to argue with Concord members mang

I know, but its fun to argue with them mainly Kalaron.

Talkative Friedensriech

Spanelsko wrote:I know, but its fun to argue with them mainly Kalaron.

I mean, if you consider that fun, more power to you man. Kinda got sick of it back in August or something, sure a lot of people are too.

Spanelsko

Kalaron wrote:Your reasoning doesn't work at all. That's really the only way to respond. It's the most semantic fueled thing m8.

You put them on the plane and the plane was given orders to land. No sane man without a unhealthy dose of disingenuousness would truly indict a force that shot it down tbh.

From what i understand from your reasoning= as long as we say we told them we kill people for no real reason its their fault and we are the good guys.

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:I mean, if you consider that fun, more power to you man. Kinda got sick of it back in August or something, sure a lot of people are too.

Well since you are telling me this, then i will prepare for the hell the CONCORD can say :p

Spanelsko wrote:From what i understand from your reasoning= as long as we say we told them we kill people for no real reason its their fault and we are the good guys.

I could have sworn they were getting on [nation=peoples_liberation_republic]’s case for bombing civilians that were linked to his faction in a proxy war a month or so ago....

Spanelsko

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Bit of advice: it ain’t worth your time to argue with Concord members mang

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:I mean, if you consider that fun, more power to you man. Kinda got sick of it back in August or something, sure a lot of people are too.

Spanelsko wrote:From what i understand from your reasoning= as long as we say we told them we kill people for no real reason its their fault and we are the good guys.

[To Fried] Hey, not being mean here, but this is actually a bit of what I meant by disingenuous, it's also a touch rude.

You made it into a "Concord Vs Outside" thing when it's really that no sane person would describe the shootdown as wrong.

All thanks to you for avoiding further arguments because I agree that they're annoying, but at the same time it's a touch rude to insult someone by proxy.

[To Span] Literally, by the way: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule97 Like, in the situation, it's not sensible to assume it's not something dangerous or a Gov Official.

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:I could have sworn they were getting on [nation=peoples_liberation_republic]’s case for bombing civilians that were linked to his faction in a proxy war a month or so ago....

Well, actually, it was more that his government knowingly bombed civilians and didn't actually have to. This is also what I meant by disingenuous. PLR bombed a village that was at peace and then used the civilians killed in it as an excuse to wage a war where he further targeted civilian areas. This is a case where Span's government would be negligent as they know that they're being blockaded but they still are permitting an aircraft to go up with civilians on-board when the only two sensible outcomes include them landing back in-country or being destroyed.

PLR, in essence, went out of his way to destroy the village. We wouldn't.

Axeldonia, Spanelsko

Spanelsko wrote:In other words killing civilians is completely fine and justified. Thank you for proving my point.

I really don't know how you got to that conclusion; I never said it was okay, I said it wasn't a warcrime.

Spanelsko

Andromitus wrote:I really don't know how you got to that conclusion; I never said it was okay, I said it wasn't a warcrime.

You just said it again! IT ISNT A WAR CRIME= its completely fine to do.

As for Kal, you know you used geneva rule while in this world there is nothing like that right?/we didnt agree to it.

Not to mention that its still hypocritical.

Unless you mean that the plane is somehow a danger in that case its still not justified to just kill civilians and say we knew it were civilians, we got told that multiple times yet we blame the enemy government for what we did.

when you're #2 in highest tax rates

MOAR MONEY, YOU FILTHY TEA-PARTY SCUM

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, The Wyoming Peoples Front, Spanelsko

Vista Major wrote:when you're #2 in highest tax rates

MOAR MONEY, YOU FILTHY TEA-PARTY SCUM

Tfw you're only #3

RAISE THE TAXES TO 99.999999% PERCENT STAT

Jaslandia

I will use your argument Kal, That your government is sending them up is the issue for your claim. You know that they'll be escorted back or otherwise destroyed, thus, the onus is on you.

To claim otherwise is to claim that if a person flung themselves into a car, the driver would be guilty.

So i have a question, if you bomb my people (civilian targets) is it my fault because i killed them first? as i said before just because we send those meat shields to their deaths doesnt mean that its our fault (part of it is) but CONCORD and denying that is hypocritical at best.

Talkative Friedensriech

Well for today good night.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Spanelsko wrote:You just said it again! IT ISNT A WAR CRIME= its completely fine to do.

As for Kal, you know you used geneva rule while in this world there is nothing like that right?/we didnt agree to it.

Not to mention that its still hypocritical.

Unless you mean that the plane is somehow a danger in that case its still not justified to just kill civilians and say we knew it were civilians, we got told that multiple times yet we blame the enemy government for what we did.

It's meant, actually, to show that it's generally accepted by sensible countries that the person that takes a civilian shield is at fault, not the one who shoots them. That the conventions don't exist in our world is not relevant to my point. It's a sensible thought, that they aren't codified is more of a semantic that any rational government in our world doesn't need.

There is no reason, might I add, for your government to send a plane into the air knowing that they are being embargoed. Yet again, this falls into negligence on your part as there is no way for Concord to know that the plane isn't carrying something dangerous.

Not to mention, the differences between PLR's case and our own are drastically large. To proclaim it hypocritical is to show a lack of understanding of those differences.

Spanelsko wrote:I will use your argument Kal, That your government is sending them up is the issue for your claim. You know that they'll be escorted back or otherwise destroyed, thus, the onus is on you.

To claim otherwise is to claim that if a person flung themselves into a car, the driver would be guilty.

So i have a question, if you bomb my people (civilian targets) is it my fault because i killed them first? as i said before just because we send those meat shields to their deaths doesnt mean that its our fault (part of it is) but CONCORD and denying that is hypocritical at best.

Yet again, you show a lack of understanding. Concord hasn't purposefully bombed your civilians, nor would we. That we would shoot down a plane carrying potentially dangerous content is neither hypocritical nor actually a matter to lay at our feet.

Spanelsko wrote:Well for today good night.

Night.

Spanelsko wrote:Well for today good night.

Goodnight, Span!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

I, Confederal States, Minnesota Dakota, and Vista Major have established a North American Alliance

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32674819#p32674819

I would like to invite South Hyder and The Royal Republic Of Kumania to join as well!

I apologize for my extreme inactivity the past few weeks but I would definitely like to join! :)

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Cesorion, Confederal States

Jaslandia wrote:https://youtu.be/cNgxyL5zEAk

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/138/246/tumblr_lltzgnHi5F1qzib3wo1_400.jpg

Um........

Jaslandia

YouTube spirals are quite the horrible thing. I went from watching videos on German nurses who carried out non-consensual euthanasia in Nazi Germany to watching horrible Invader Zim AMVs. Have any of you guys experienced a YouTube spiral before? If so, then could you describe it?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuova Constidor wrote:YouTube spirals are quite the horrible thing. I went from watching videos on German nurses who carried out non-consensual euthanasia in Nazi Germany to watching horrible Invader Zim AMVs. Have any of you guys experienced a YouTube spiral before? If so, then could you describe it?

Haven't really experienced YouTube spirals, but I do often go on Wikipedia spirals. I'll go from Hurricane Maria, to Boiling Lake fumarole, to volcanology in New Zealand, for example. At least those are more educational than disturbing.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States, Nuova Constidor

Jaslandia wrote:Haven't really experienced YouTube spirals, but I do often go on Wikipedia spirals. I'll go from Hurricane Maria, to Boiling Lake fumarole, to volcanology in New Zealand, for example. At least those are more educational than disturbing.

Reminds me a bit of that game where you have to go through links on Wikipedia to find a certain article.

https://thewikigame.com/

Jaslandia

More Vistonian news

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32684246#p32684246

The Wyoming Peoples Front

Nuova Constidor wrote:Reminds me a bit of that game where you have to go through links on Wikipedia to find a certain article.

https://thewikigame.com/

Like this?

https://youtu.be/FdJN2iK0BSo

Penguania And Antarctica

Really quiet today. More than usual.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Percyton wrote:Really quiet today. More than usual.

Yeah. It's pretty odd.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

How are we all today?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton

Percyton wrote:Really quiet today. More than usual.

Indeed. I guess everyone is busy.

Nuremgard wrote:How are we all today?

I'm good, Nurem. How are you?

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Indeed. I guess everyone is busy.

I'm good, Nurem. How are you?

Not bad. Back to uni tomorrow. Just out the shower so chilling right now. Working on my new fascist country. It currently resides in a conservative region. Trying to get the employment rate up. Its economy has been fluctuating between classifications. It got downgraded today because the government implemented minimum wage laws.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:How are we all today?

I'm doing pretty good. Got a rental car as temporary replacement today. Good thing the opponents insurance company pays the bill. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I'm doing pretty good. Got a rental car as temporary replacement today. Good thing the opponents insurance company pays the bill. :)

Good to hear, my man.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:How are we all today?

I'm doing good, Nurem. Sir Topham Hatt asked me to help out on Duck's Branch Line (the Little Western) for the day, so now I'm taking a ballast train from Arlesburgh to Killaban. Later tonight I'll be helping Duck out at Arlesburgh Harbour.

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:How are we all today?

I'm good, feel like O got my points across yesterday in a calm way and I think I caught up on lost sleep. I'm also writing a post for the Kyoto conference.

How are you? :D

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:I'm good, feel like O got my points across yesterday in a calm way and I think I caught up on lost sleep. I'm also writing a post for the Kyoto conference.

How are you? :D

I'm okay. Just got uni work on my mind.

Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I'm okay. Just got uni work on my mind.

Glad to hear that you're OK. I assume the work was hard?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Well, now that we have a new Republic, why not make a new flag?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:Glad to hear that you're OK. I assume the work was hard?

I have 2 essays due. I'm just hoping I can write them well enough. And I have exams in December so worried about them too.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I have 2 essays due. I'm just hoping I can write them well enough. And I have exams in December so worried about them too.

Sorry to hear that, but I'm 100% sure you can do it. You've made like...six nations with backstory? These essays ain't nothing to you!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Kalaron wrote:Sorry to hear that, but I'm 100% sure you can do it. You've made like...six nations with backstory? These essays ain't nothing to you!

Thanks lol

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

[spoiler=Today is October 15 and today are:]

Today is October 15 and today are:

- Anniversary of the 1987 Coup d'État (Burkina Faso)

- Breast Health Day (Europe)

- Evacuation Day (Tunisia)

- Global Handwashing Day

- International Day of Rural Women (United Nations)

- King Father's Commemoration Day (Cambodia)

- National Aesthetician Day (United States)

- National Cheese Curd Day (United States)

- National Chicken Cacciatore Day (United States)

- National Grouch Day (United States)

- National I Love Lucy Day (United States)

- National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (Canada, Italy, New South Wales, United Kingdom, United States, Western Australia)

- Teachers' Day (Brazil)

- White Cane Safety Day (United States)

- World Maths Day

- World Students' Day

- World Toy Camera Day

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 1066 – Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned. He reigns until 10 December 1066.

- 1211 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

- 1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.

- 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

- 1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

- 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

- 1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.

- 1815 – Emperor Napoleon I begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

- 1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.

- 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.

- 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

- 1888 – The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

- 1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.

- 1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

- 1910 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

- 1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.

- 1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

- 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

- 1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

- 1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.

- 1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.

- 1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.

- 1944 – The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.

- 1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.

- 1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.

- 1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).

- 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.

- 1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina.

- 1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.

- 1965 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.

- 1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

- 1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington D.C. and across the US. Over two million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in Washington D.C..

- 1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.

- 1979 – Black Monday in Malta. The building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.

- 1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.

- 1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

- 1991 – The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

- 1995 – Marco Campos is killed in an accident in an International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.

- 1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), 50 years and one day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.

- 1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

- 2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.

- 2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.

- 2005 – A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.

- 2006 – Kiholo Bay earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

- 2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

- 2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.

- 2011 – The 2011 Global Protests occur.

- 2013 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippines, resulting in more than 215 deaths.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet

- 1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician

- 1795 - Frederick William IV of Prussia, King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861

- 1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic

- 1831 - Isabella Bird, English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist

- 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher

- 1858 - John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist

- 1881 - P. G. Wodehouse, English-American author and playwright

- 1893 - Carol II of Romania

- 1920 - Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter

- 1921 - Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player

- 1926 - Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher

- 1931 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India

- 1940 - Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1942 - Chris Andrews, English singer-songwriter

- 1944 - David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1948 - Chris de Burgh, Argentinian-born British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist

- 1988 - Mesut Özil, German footballer

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Quote of the day

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

- Jules Renard -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Mercunova, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:I have 2 essays due. I'm just hoping I can write them well enough. And I have exams in December so worried about them too.

Concerning finals, you’ll cross that bridge when you get to it. For now, worry only about one thing at a time. The last thing you need is to stress yourself out.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Concerning finals, you’ll cross that bridge when you get to it. For now, worry only about one thing at a time. The last thing you need is to stress yourself out.

Thanks, man.

Percyton

Hey all. Sorry I’ve been so inactive. Being deployed gets in the way of a lot of things. Haha

Percyton

The Empire Of Handland wrote:Hey all. Sorry I’ve been so inactive. Being deployed gets in the way of a lot of things. Haha

.....Welcome back you damned fascist Rhodesia loving scum! :P

Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Percyton

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:.....Welcome back you damned fascist Rhodesia loving scum! :P

Well, I’m still deployed, but I’m going to try and be more active.

Jaslandia, Talkative Friedensriech, The Wyoming Peoples Front

The Empire Of Handland wrote:Hey all. Sorry I’ve been so inactive. Being deployed gets in the way of a lot of things. Haha

Hey Hand.

Percyton

Kalaron wrote:Hey Hand.

Hey how have you been?

Do the people which like the DIP read it too or just like it?

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Tserra, Mercunova, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Do the people which like the DIP read it too or just like it?

I read it.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

The Empire Of Handland wrote:Hey how have you been?

I'm pretty good, been a bit busy with school but I've been developing more yet more designs still :P

As it stands, I'm responding to the Kyoto conference.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Do the people which like the DIP read it too or just like it?

I do.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.

WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVE

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Talkative Friedensriech, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:I'm pretty good, been a bit busy with school but I've been developing more yet more designs still :P

As it stands, I'm responding to the Kyoto conference.

I do.

What is the Kyoto conference?

Penguania And Antarctica

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&sid=2e299b9506b42223512792d58e0041a7&start=150

It feels good to be back.

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

The Empire Of Handland wrote:What is the Kyoto conference?

It's a Sulanian International Conference between nations. You need to ask him about it, really :P

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:It's a Sulanian International Conference between nations. You need to ask him about it, really :P

Ah. I imagine it's for left wing nations?

Penguania And Antarctica

The Empire Of Handland wrote:Ah. I imagine it's for left wing nations?

Nah, any nation can attend.

Kalaron wrote:Nah, any nation can attend.

Where can I reply if I chose to attend?

The Empire Of Handland wrote:Where can I reply if I chose to attend?

News forum is where it originally happened, but you could respond in the RP RMB too. It’s a matter of choice.

Percyton

Hi hand. BTW kal when should i expect war? there will be few days where i wont be here that much.

The Talking Point

The word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive.

“Spies! It’s gotta be spies! A few planes or satellites from our enemies or ‘allies’ in our region,” rages General Esma Dixon, head of Spanelsko’s military, “The only way to keep those snoops out of our airspace is to patrol the streets ‘n skies, and shoot ‘em down! Even if they are some sort of little green aliens, a couple of SAM batteries and a few flak cannons’ll keep ‘em from abducting our tigers.”

The Talking Point

Birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire.

I love my people and nation.........

Jaslandia, Talkative Friedensriech, The Wyoming Peoples Front

Spanelsko wrote:Hi hand. BTW kal when should i expect war? there will be few days where i wont be here that much.

I'll speak to the others.

Spanelsko wrote:The Talking Point

The word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive.

“Spies! It’s gotta be spies! A few planes or satellites from our enemies or ‘allies’ in our region,” rages General Esma Dixon, head of Spanelsko’s military, “The only way to keep those snoops out of our airspace is to patrol the streets ‘n skies, and shoot ‘em down! Even if they are some sort of little green aliens, a couple of SAM batteries and a few flak cannons’ll keep ‘em from abducting our tigers.”

The Talking Point

Birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire.

I love my people and nation.........

I love the issues from NS sometimes. There are times where they capture that Reicher territoriality and savagery better than I ever could. Like “those drones are invading my airspace! I have the right to shoot them down with pappy’s shotgun!” issue option or their outright hilarious rude anger, like “man shouts at cloud” news snippet

Jaslandia, Percyton, Spanelsko

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

New map and flags, as well as a much-needed name change. Say hello to Titenfisca!

Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Do the people which like the DIP read it too or just like it?

Both. Sometimes I read it, sometimes I do not. Regardless of whether I read it or not, I still like having it there to read.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

hmm... is CONCORD seen as cowards or heroes by the other nations?

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:I love the issues from NS sometimes. There are times where they capture that Reicher territoriality and savagery better than I ever could. Like “those drones are invading my airspace! I have the right to shoot them down with pappy’s shotgun!” issue option or their outright hilarious rude anger, like “man shouts at cloud” news snippet

yep.

last thing the whole plane thing is as i expect solved already, now the question is did you fire or not?

The Wyoming Peoples Front wrote:Your plane is on it's way?

i dont know, since after yesterday i got told= if you try to send anything we will shoot it down.

So yes i did send it but dont know if it is actually alive. (not to mention this was a test plane since it would be waste of time to let those ´´peace´´ keepers just shoot down a new ambassador on the first day of his job, so we just send 40 people somewhere.)

The Wyoming Peoples Front

Spanelsko wrote:hmm... is CONCORD seen as cowards or heroes by the other nations?

I do not even think you know what Concord actually is. I think you have just seen a few people in Concord talk negatively towards you, so thus you associate all of Concord with that. As a member of Concord, I will tell you now, Concord is absolutely nothing but a group of friends. Its a club. We have our own little clubhouse and everything. A lot of people in the past, and currently ascribe some sort of "status" to Concord that is simply not there.

Jaslandia

Tserra wrote:I do not even think you know what Concord actually is. I think you have just seen a few people in Concord talk negatively towards you, so thus you associate all of Concord with that. As a member of Concord, I will tell you now, Concord is absolutely nothing but a group of friends. Its a club. We have our own little clubhouse and everything. A lot of people in the past, and currently ascribe some sort of "status" to Concord that is simply not there.

I really could not care less about what concord says about me or my nation, i meant how the world sees this ´´world police´´ organisation. Since all i saw was all talk and no action, and now i am waiting for it to attack me but even with me being weaker then anyone else CONCORD still cant take action against me, so thats why i ask if people see it as cowards or heroes.

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