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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I'm not Yukona, but I'll have a go.
The PM is technically allowed to be of any denomination. However the PM advices the Sovereign an all appointments, including those of ecclesiasticall offices (e.g. Archbishop of Canterburry). There is provision barring any Catholic (or non-Anglican in general I think) from providing such advise. And no Secretary could do that on the PM's (informal) behalf, because no matter denomination, they are considered to be influenced by the Carholic PM
There is however the office of Lord Chancellor, that is forbidden to be held by Catholics, so one could argue it would take that role in the event of a Catholic at Nº 10.
There is of course a lot of uncertainty, and that's why I think Blair waited
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Thank you for that. I didn't know Catholics weren't allowed to be Lord Chancellor. I'm not even sure what role that office serves lol
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Fun fact: one of my politics lecturers is Greek.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Really?
Nuremgard
Yeah. She is good.
[spoiler=Today is February 6 and today are:]
Today is February 6 and today are:
- African American Coaches Day
- Canadian Maple Syrup Day
- Constitution Day (Mexico)
- International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations)
- National Chopsticks Day (United States)
- National Frozen Yogurt Day (United States)
- National Lame Duck Day (United States)
- Ronald Reagan Day (California, United States)
- Sami National Day (Sami People)
- Translators' Day (Armenia)
- Waitangi Day (New Zealand)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD60 The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies this day as a dies Solis (Sunday). In modern reckoning, this date would have been a Wednesday.
- 1579 The Archdiocese of Manila was made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
- 1649 The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
- 1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1778 American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
- 1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1806 Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
- 1815 New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
- 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
- 1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
- 1843 The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- 1851 The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
- 1862 American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
- 1895 George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr.: Legendary professional baseball player, Babe Ruth, is born in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth, whose career spanned 22 seasons, played sequentially for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Boston Braves.
- 1899 SpanishAmerican War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
- 1900 The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
- 1918 British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
- 1919 The American Legion is founded.
- 1922 The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 1934 Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
- 1951 The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
- 1951 The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- 1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- 1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1959 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1976 In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- 1978 The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
- 1981 The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
- 1987 Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
- 1988 Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
- 1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- 1996 Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- 1996 Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
- 1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
- 2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
- 2016 An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1665 Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- 1748 Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati
- 1895 Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach
- 1911 Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States
- 1913 Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
- 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite
- 1922 Patrick Macnee, English-American actor and costume designer
- 1929 Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian, invented the tranquilliser gun
- 1929 Pierre Brice, French actor
- 1932 François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945 Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1950 Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1962 Axl Rose, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1966 Rick Astley, English singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
- Jean-Luc Godard (French Director, *1930) -
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Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
I must say that the UK has some offices and positions that are kinda useless. To stick with the topic: the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal has the exact same privileges and duties as the Lord Chancellor. Tho there were no more Lord Keepers since the 1700s. But the office technically still exists. Seems kinda pointless to me.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
The British (the English really) are good at being useless and pretentious like that.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
An office (even if it is just ceremonial) for everyone who wants one?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
I shall be Lord Duke Most High Snootiness Keeper of the Pretentious and Utterly Useless Because it's Ceremonial Purse. :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Well then I want to be Supreme Utmost Honourable Lord Protector of the Extraordinary and Most Noble Royal Candy and Liquor Cellars :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota
Granted!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
YAY!!! :D
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota
In the spirit of solidarity with women everywhere in Britain as we all celebrate the hundredth anniversary of female suffrage, I am going to share this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I decided to keep my own UK but have Scotland be the dominant country.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh hey, I finally made another update to my scifi worldbuilding thingy
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=928302
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Ah, Scotland; even back then, you just had to be the different one. No offense, Nurem. *insert smiley emoticon with tongue sticking out here*
Permission to declare myself 'Lord Royal High Ducal Minister for the King and Queen's Superior and Blessed Treasury of Popped Kernels and Crispy Potato Products'?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Aye
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Thank you, My Lord.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
It is alsways held by the First Minister of Scotland, to ensure they have a good place in the order of precedence
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh, well, there you go then. :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Well I missed the start of Medieval RP. But I hope to get my first post in by tonight or tomorrow.
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
Got myself a large Easter egg today when I did the online shopping. You have to be good to yourself sometimes.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
I dunno if anyone answered this sufficiently for you, but I read an analysis on this a long time ago and it was mostly out of personal preference and a little of public opinion maximisation. He didn't want his religion to become something newsworthy (Blair was quite a private individual) and it was recognised that the public were rather averse to openly religious public officials and he believed it would hurt his public opinion. It had nothing to do with his connection to the sovereign, Catholics are free to advise the sovereign and be in government, it is in fact only the sovereign and their heirs who cannot be Catholic.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
yaaas
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Catholics have been able to be appointed to the office of Lord Chancellor since 1829. This was something reaffirmed in 1974 just incase anyone was confused.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I was just about to ask if you think the law should be changed to allow Catholics to succeed to the throne but as I was typing out the question, I realised how stupid it was. The monarch is head of the Church of England. Of course they cant be a Catholic. Duh. Had a blond moment there.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
[spoiler=Today is February 7 and today are:]
Today is February 7 and today are:
- Ballet Day
- Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
- E Day
- Independence Day (Grenada)
- National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- National Fettuccine Alfredo Day (United States)
- National Girls & Women in Sports Day (United States)
- National Periodic Table Day (United States)
- National Send a Card to a Friend Day (United States)
- National Signing Day (United States)
- Wave All Your Fingers at Your Neighbor Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0457 Leo I the Thracian becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 0987 Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
- 1074 Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
- 1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later king Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
- 1497 The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
- 1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
- 1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1807 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian forces taking a stand at Eylau. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day.
- 1812 The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1813 In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the frigates Aréthuse and Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
- 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
- 1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
- 1854 A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lectures started October 16, 1855.
- 1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
- 1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- 1898 Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
- 1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
- 1904 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- 1940 The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
- 1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
- 1951 Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
- 1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
- 1974 Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
- 1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
- 1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
- 1990 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
- 1991 Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
- 1991 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
- 1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
- 1995 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 1997 NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
- 1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
- 2009 Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
- 2012 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
- 2013 The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
- 2016 North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1102 Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England
- 1804 John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company
- 1812 Charles Dickens, English Novelist and critic
- 1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
- 1870 Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist
- 1873 Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic
- 1885 Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1905 Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1906 Puyi, Chinese emperor
- 1906 Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company
- 1927 Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress
- 1954 Dieter Bohlen German singer-songwriter and producer
- 1955 Miguel Ferrer, American actor and director
- 1962 Garth Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1962 David Bryan, American keyboard player and songwriter
- 1966 Kristin Otto, German swimmer
- 1978 Ashton Kutcher, American model, actor, producer, and entrepreneur
- 1979 Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Quote of the day
The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.
- Edward Kennedy (American Politician, 1932-2009) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=3&scrollTo=498
#Chemicalsinthewater
Lex Caledonia
A new news article has been posted, covering the rest of the visits by Prime Minister George Kirkman of Jaslandia and Premier Aleksander Coltsov of Russkov Soviet. Read all about it here!
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=968733
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33429213#p33429213
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
George Kirkman: Thank you again for your hospitality, Percy. I really, REALLY enjoyed my visit to Percyton; I had dreamed of going to Sodor since I was a kid, and it was everything I imagined it to be. I hope this visit can lead to closer diplomatic relations between our two nations, and with any luck, I'll come back for another visit someday.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The pleasure was ours, Mr. Kirkman. We think this visit went really well, and we'd love for you to come back at some point!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Possible debate topic: does corporatism and/or fascism (the latter strictly referring to the isolated ideology, not to synonymous organisations such as the Nazi Party and their deplorable activities) have a place in modern and post modern politics?
Nuremgard, Cesorion
Noooooooooooo
No
Utle mulle miks?
I agree Comrade Kirkman. This visit was one of the best I've seen in a long time. I dare say that our diplomatic ties between all three of our nations has grown stronger than ever before! And I do make trips over there monthly, sometimes in disguise to avoid the press, so you are more than welcome to join me. I will fly over to your capital and pick you up, for I've outfitted Mare Force One with enough accommodations for two leaders.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
As much as fascism has a bad rep, it actually has a lot of pretty good ideas. Such as fostering class co-operation rather than class conflict. It extols fostering national unity and acting in the interests of the nation, rather than rabid individualism or mindless collectivism. Fascism, in its purest form, is supposed to be a middle ground between the excesses of capitalism and communism. If it was implemented properly and in a democratic fashion, I think it could achieve some good.
But naturally, humans f*ck things up so with fascism comes the accompanying corruption and authoritarianism.
Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
oh gee Nurem's advocating fascism guess it's time to CTE
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not advocating it. I'm just saying it's not bereft of decent ideas.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Spanelsko.
(i) Well, it already does. According to Vetriutan 2, the average (european) Social Democrat, is corporatist. More moderate than the average fascist corporatist, but still. I have not studied the system well enough to say if it works
(ii) As Nurem said, obviously pure fascism is not by nature conmected with totalitarianism. But in the way humans do everyting, I would say no
Nuremgard
I dunno... Fascism is by it's nature VERY authoritarian, what with the need of a dictatorial strongman and paramiltiary units patrolling the streets, so I'm not very fond of it. As a gay space hippie, I think any form of left or right authoritarianism is very likely to descend into opressive dictatorships and I'm not very fond of the whole "acting in the interest of the nation" thing either. It's not that I think it's wrong to apprechiate your particular culture (especially so with regard to minorites like the Breton or Gaugaz), but it veeery often turns into racism, discrimination or even outright war (See imperialism, forced anglofication of ireland, crimea and virtually all of the 19th century.)
Nuremgard
That's what scares me about fascism. As a minority, I'd most likely be persecuted for not fitting into the hypermasculine fascist ideal man. I find the ideology fascinating but as a gay leftist, I have a natural repugnance for it. Then again, I would hope anyone who considers themselves reasonable, whether left or right, would be repulsed by fascism.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
What should the EU do, if anything, if a fully fledged fascist party took power in one of its member states?
Post self-deleted by Spanelsko.
Perhaps in a modified and/or disguised form yes, but directly in their original forms, I'd say no. The lessons of World War II, plus democracy's fairly entrenched status in most of the Western world, means that any would-be fascists or corporatists would need to change their rhetoric and/or tactics in order to gain any mainstream appeal. The end result could still be very similar to original fascism/corporatism, but the methods to get there would have to change.
Of course, that's just what I think would happen, not something that I believe should happen.
Aren't 'fascist' and 'democratic' essentially opposites?
George Kirkman: Your offer is very much appreciated, Premier, and I would love to do that. Perhaps not next time, as I'm currently planning a state visit with Cesorion, but the time after that I would like to join you on a Percytonian trip. We make a good team, I'd say.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
if we think about it the logical way, EU would: embargo them, send them warnings of kicking them from EU, once the EU army is made invade them and take control.
Nuremgard
Yeah, I share your sentiments. It's hard enought to be LGBT and leftist in as is.
If all else fails (sanctions, article 7 etc.), I'd guess military action would be taken. Most probably by it's neighbours, but the whole EU may very well pitch in. Hopefully Europe has learned from the last two world wars to never trust fascists.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Not sure. Just because it's fascist, nothing. (If it is democratically elected). But most probably it would give many reasons for sanctions, military actions, etc
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Kalaron
An EU Army wouldn't be made.
It really depends. One could honestly say that very same about appeasement in general but it hasn't stopped anyone yet.
If the fascists refrained from doing overtly hostile things, they have a good chance to not be invaded, IMO.
Why does nobody do a state visit to Penguania? :(
Jaslandia, Percyton
Are you interested?
PM Howard is interested
Jaslandia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is February 8 and today are:]
Today is February 8 and today are:
- Dry Bean Day
- Fat Thursday
- Feast of Saint Vartan (Armenia)
- Laugh and Get Rich Day
- Molasses Bar Day
- National Boy Scouts Day (United States)
- National Iowa Day (United States)
- National Kite Flying Day (United States)
- Opera Day
- Preeren Day (Slovenia)
- Propose Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
- 1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
- 1347 The Byzantine civil war of 134147 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
- 1575 Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
- 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- 1590 Luis de Carabajal the younger is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico City.
- 1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
- 1693 The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
- 1807 After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
- 1817 Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
- 1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
- 1865 Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
- 1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
- 1879 The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
- 1885 The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
- 1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
- 1904 Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1904 Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
- 1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
- 1915 D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
- 1922 United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
- 1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
- 1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
- 1942 World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
- 1945 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
- 1945 World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
- 1946 The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
- 1950 The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
- 1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 1955 The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
- 1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
- 1962 Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
- 1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
- 1965 Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
- 1968 American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
- 1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
- 1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
- 1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
- 1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
- 1981 Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
- 1983 The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
- 1986 Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
- 1989 Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.
- 1993 General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
- 1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
- 2005 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
- 2010 A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
- 2013 A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
- 2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist
- 1828 Jules Verne, French author, poet, and playwright
- 1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic, invented the periodic table
- 1843 Eduard Sacher, Austrian restaurateur and hotelier
- 1878 Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic
- 1880 Franz Marc, German soldier and painter
- 1906 Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography
- 1925 Jack Lemmon, American actor
- 1931 James Dean, American actor
- 1932 John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1937 Manfred Krug, German actor, singer and author
- 1941 Nick Nolte, American actor and producer
- 1955 John Grisham, American lawyer and author
- 1966 Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
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Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton
Well, I would be interested. Tho I do not want to force any action if you do not want.
Percyton
Jaslandia and Prince Regent Jason would be interested in that at some point. It wold be very cold, but it'd be worth it for an important and friendly nation like Penguania.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What good is it going out of the country for only one state visit. I'll mention it tomorrow alongside pland to visit Jaslandia
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I would love to visit myself, but I'm not sure if there are any railway tracks in Penguania. If not, I can send Sir Topham Hatt and Lord Callan instead, and I can visit electronically (set up a webcam in my shed, the live video will go to a laptop, and that laptop would go to Penguania with Sir Topham Hatt and Lord Callan).
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Thanks for your responses. Sorry for taking ages to reply. I was having dinner and then got wrapped up in a call on WattsApp with my sister and mum.
I am for the EU and for integration but I dunno how I feel about a common EU foreign policy and army. I can see the pros and cons of both.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Remembers reading article of how some german general says that European Army is ´´inevitable´´ gets told that it will never happen, what should i trust?
didnt EU recently declare that it plans to stop trading with America if they dont continue with the Paris agreement? Also EU must die.
Haven't heard anything like that.
In response to EU must die:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_-KoBiBG0
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
Response to your video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etNRoqqHFMY
I dunno, I hope an EU would actually make the situation for different nationalities better in the long run tbh if individual sovereignty was abolished. I'd imagine Scotland would get to be their own administrative thing (provided it stays inside the EU) along with the Basque counties, Catalonia, Brittany etc. and maybe even get elevated to the same status as the former nations eventually. But that's just me speculating out loud. Of course, this would also require a much more transparent EU government and whatnot. Idk if I've said this, but I'm what you'd call a light Eurosceptic; not opposed to the EU as an institution, but believeing it needs more work.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
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Me probably, since you're talking about Hans-Peter Bartels, a defense official but not a general by any respect. Of course, I would love to see the cost estimate of a true army that isn't actually just NATO-but-the-EU but I digress, it won't happen simply on the basis of cost. A combined army of Europe sure does look cheap and marketable, but good luck getting the major powers to actually agree on a single vehicle since the French and Germans both have their own MIC :>
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
It was long time ago since i read it so i didnt exactly remember :p As for major powers i think that Germany and France could easily agree now that Britain is out and the opinion of V4 doesnt matter.
i am the only one here that actually supports fall of EU aren´t i?
The EU must be doing something right. To leftists it's a corporate wanksock and to rightists it's the EUSSR.
I don't think the EU will ever become one state. Nationalism in Europe is too strong for that to happen. Unless humanity has some kind of Damascene conversion and begins believing that nation-states are an outdated idea, then there will be no superstate.
Jaslandia
Nope, that would utterly destroy the MIC of one and neither France (Notice how it uses domestic vehicles?) or Germany (Notice how they make domestic vehicles and sell them all over the world?) would agree to that. Maybe if that tank design agreement doesn't get politically undercut they could be a touch closer, but for a true army (With standardized equipment) you're off the money.
Funny enough, that's the other aspect. This would cost ridiculous amounts of money tbh. Good luck getting politicians to agree to that.
While i agree with what you say i also believe in the stupidity of EU politicans, i used to like EU, now i want it to die as soon as possible, while the cost of all the equipment would be great i am sure that the politicians are stupid enough for that to happen. But i should stop posting right? no one wants another pointless debate where both sides wont back down.
Plz gimme the EUSSR
Anyhow, you're probably right unfortunately. Oh well, you can dream. I do hope a federal Scandinavia becomes a thing within my lifetime though.
Nuremgard
Why Scandinavia specifically?
Except it's not a stupid thing. The European Army would be intrinsically more effective than any disparate army, it would be more effective at absorbing losses, providing higher quality gear, and would serve to be, in a word, better.
The part where politicians are stupid is cost, not capability. They squander the future in favor of the short-term and political favor, and in doing so would never support a true picture of the cost of an EU-Army formed from the armies of Europe except as a glorified coalition. That's the simple fact of the matter, really. No one wants to raise taxes for defense, but even this would require the levying of additional taxes.
Peace-Dividends had honestly had a negative effect upon the west.
Spanelsko
Cuz I'm a Scandinavist, duh
Not to mention the vassal unrest modifiers and negative prestige hit.
Spanelsko
500% over extension hit. with 30% religious Unity, it will fall to so many rebels, not to mention all the culture minuses. i dont think that even humanists ideas can save us....
Axeldonia
I didn't know that was a thing lol
Axeldonia
Our flags look alike for a reason :P
Nuremgard
You mean Nuremgard's and Axeldonia's flags?
Axeldonia
Finally, a decent political ideology coming out of your digital mouth
Axeldonia
Think about where Axel's from
I have a memory like a goldfish. You'll need to remind me.
Sweden, which is part of what region?
Axeldonia
Ah, right, right. Apologies, Axel.
Axeldonia
Yee
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33433798#p33433798
Jaslandia, Percyton
Its been a long time since I was on the RMB, time to get back into the swing of things.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Your NS brethren welcome you back.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I would disagree with you. By nature, fascism is inherently totalitarian, and this is because of the fascist idea of the organic state. The organic theory states that the state is essentially a living organism with the same needs of a living organism. With that in mind, fascists tend to pursue totalitarianism to protect the living organism that is the state for the sake of its function, health, and development.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Yukona
>Implying that workers owning the means of production through representation in horizontally-organized trade unions is somehow a bad thing
Don't be sectarian, Vista.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Axeldonia
What's interesting is that fascism takes on different forms depending on its host country. So if Britain had fascists, they'd be fiercely monarchist, fiercely Protestant and probably want to centralise all power at Westminster. They'd probably also want to re-establish the empire.
Jaslandia
I didn't mean to imply.
It's just that 99% of what I see him talk about revolves around syndicalism or revolution against the monosexual class
Ask any scholar what fascism is and each one of them will give you a different answer. That's the hardest part about studying fascism. Nobody really knows what it is. It is either an ideology with diverse different interpretations for it or is simply a way for demagogues to gain power.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
The latter is likely just him being silly, but I don't see any problem with the former. What's your problem with syndicalism? It's especially strange for a socialist like you to oppose an economic system in which the workers own the means of production through representation in horizontally-organized trade unions.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
It does share common characteristics regardless of country though. Ultranationalism, one-party dictatorship, strongman dictator, focus on military power, the desire to regain lost glory or a glorious past, aggressive foreign policy, discrimination of minorities that don't fit the organic state.
Jaslandia, Vetriutan 2
I'd rather not have unions act as middle men when, really, the workers could just own the businesses directly. I don't oppose unions, but, in all honesty, we could use that final push.
But what that means in practice largely differs country by country.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Yukona
True. Mussolini wanted to remake the Roman Empire, Franco wanted to reclaim Spain's glorious imperial past. Hitler...was just a nutter.
Jaslandia
There is no reason for the left to become divided on such small issues. If monarchists, neoreactionaries, and fascists on the right can come together through the alt-right, then there is no reason for the same thing to not happen among different contingencies among the left. That doesn't mean that debate shouldn't be allowed, but we should really tone down on the sectarianism.
Nuremgard
Good to know, now that I can restart with a hopefully clean slate after my terrorist spree.
Nuremgard
This is why the right is winning. They despise each other but they unify to stay in power. The left is too busy splintering into smaller and smaller sects over stupid issues.
Let bygones be bygones.
I wouldn't consider Spain under Franco to have been fascist. While the Falangists were an influential political force in Spain under him, Franco only worked with Fascists during and after the civil war to create a political coalition with clericalists in Spain to fight Spanish republicans and the Spanish left. Under him, the most fascist thing that he did was some credit reforms that went under the name "National Syndicalism". Franco is more of your average dictator than an actual fascist. If you want to know more about Spanish fascism, then reading some of the works of José Antonio Primo de Rivera would be pretty good.
Nuremgard
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