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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Question about RL country:
Are you required to have a first aid kit, warning triangle, reflective vest, fire extinguisher, warning light, etc. in your car?
In Germany you need to have a first aid kit, warning triangle and at least one reflective vest (tho automobile club recommend one vest for every passenger) in your car. If you don't have those and you are pulled over you have to pay a fine.
Vista Major
AMBASSADOR UPDATE REGARDING THE VERSUTIAN FEDERATION
The Versutian Federation has just recently voted on and passed a complete overhaul of its constitution. The new constitutiona will come into effect April 2nd, when elections are held on the new positions created by the new constitution. A legal code was introduced by one of our citizens who worked on it with others to make it suitable for our region. Our region has been quite peaceful after we went through difficult times earlier this year. However, the discussions about the overhaul of the constitution brought together many people and caused us, in a sense, to feel united as we go through massive reforms. The Versutian Federation also voted to join the International Legislative Coalition, a coalition where nation states can discuss WA affairs. Nonetheless, there hasn't been any other major updates than the one I provided the Confederate of Free Nations to read. I hope your ambassador will keep us updated on your region's news.
Minister of Defense of The Versutian Federation/Ambassador to The Confederacy of Free Nations
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
It's not required by law in the United Kingdom but there is the Good Samaritan Law, where if you are at the scene of the accident before emergency services you must pull over and offer assistance if it is safe to do so, failure to do so could result in arrest or a huge fine.
Penguania And Antarctica
It is sad to see Aleister of Lazarus closing so many embassies. I just want to say farewell to all of Lazarus's embassy regions.
Sad to see the embassies close, but unfortunately Lazarus has become a puppet of Lone Wolves United
Farewell
- Almodas
Longtime resident of Lazarus
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Mercunova, Aflana Ii
Ah ok. Thanks :)
Yukona
Same here, I believe. I've also heard you/your vehicle can be ordered into emergency service if you come within proximity of a forest fire.
Yukona
In my state every person between 18 and 65 years can be ordered by the incident commander of a fire brigade to do supportive tasks at an incident scene (e.g. care for a person until professional care arrives, "guarding"/bocking a pathway leading to the incident scene).
Yukona, Confederal States
https://youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo
[spoiler=Today is March 15 and today are:]
Today is March 15 and today are:
- Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
- Ag Day
- Brutus Day
- Buzzard Day
- Companies that Care Day
- Constitution Day (Belarus)
- Dumbstruck Day
- Hōnen Matsuri (Japan)
- Ides of March
- International Day Against Police Brutality
- J. J. Roberts' Birthday (Liberia)
- National Day (Hungary)
- National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (United States)
- National Everything You Think Is Wrong Day (United States)
- National Farm Rescuer Day (United States)
- National Kansas Day (United States)
- National Pears Helene Day (United States)
- National Shoe the World Day (United States)
- True Confessions Day (United States)
- World Consumer Rights Day
- World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
- Youth Day (Palau)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 474BC Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
- 44BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
- 0220 Cao Cao, Chinese warlord and penultimate Chancellor of the Han dynasty passes away.
- 0280 Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin dynasty.
- 0351 Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
- 0493 Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
- 0856 Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora with support of the Byzantine nobility.
- 0933 After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 1147 Conquest of Santarém: The forces of Afonso I of Portugal capture Santarém.
- 1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
- 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1672 Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
- 1781 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
- 1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
- 1819 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
- 1820 Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
- 1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1864 American Civil War: The Red River Campaign: U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1874 France and Viet Nam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
- 1875 Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
- 1877 First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1888 Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
- 1892 Liverpool F.C. is founded.
- 1906 Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1916 United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
- 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
- 1921 Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
- 1922 After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- 1926 The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1927 The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
- 1931 SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- 1933 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
- 1939 The German occupation of Czechoslovakia is completed.
- 1941 Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
- 1943 World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
- 1945 World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
- 1952 In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
- 1956 My Fair Lady debuts on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
- 1961 At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
- 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- 1978 Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
- 1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
- 1986 Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
- 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 2011 Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0270 Saint Nicholas, Greek bishop and saint
- 1638 Shunzhi Emperor of China
- 1666 George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche
- 1767 Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States
- 1830 Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1854 Emil von Behring, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1907 Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer
- 1930 Martin Karplus, Austrian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 Alan Bean, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
- 1943 David Cronenberg, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1947 Ry Cooder, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1975 Eva Longoria, American actress and producer
- 1975 will.i.am, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1979 Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player and scout
- 1993 Paul Pogba, French footballer
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Quote of the day
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
- Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist, 1913-1983) -
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, Midasia
[spoiler=Sacré bleu! Another Update from Parliament]Hello Citizens,
Long time, no post.
A proposed amendment to the Constitution is currently being debated within the Hall of Discourse. This amendment is entitled the Parliamentary Electorization Act, and it can be accessed here:
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/68/parliamentary-electorization-act
If you are a citizen and therefore a Member of Parliament, you are encouraged to read the proposed amendment and, if you feel so inclined, engage in the debate. The debate will conclude at 11:00am Eastern on Saturday, March 17.
Regarding the three proposed bills and the proposed motion debated earlier this week, Parliament is waiting for the authors edits to be finalized prior to moving them to a vote. You will be updated when this takes place.
Thanks everyone,
[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]
Speaker of Parliament[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona
How are we all doing tonight? I wrote my American history essay.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Making my application for the Medieval RP (or editing it to fit the standards), and just chilling. My family and I took my dad out to dinner for his birthday, but it's been pretty mellow, enjoying Spring Break until classes start again next week (I'll be out of class Friday since my mom's getting a mesh fitted for a resurgent hernia).
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Good stuff.
Penguania And Antarctica
Following new legislation in Imperial Great Britain and Ireland, only state-owned media is permitted.
A UK with the BBC as its only news outlet. *shudders*
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hi guys
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
https://youtu.be/7FvgP5hO99o
https://youtu.be/a9KU3Ia3se8
https://youtu.be/wgPymD-NBQU
Penguania And Antarctica
a v e, t r u e t o C a e s a r
Jaslandia, Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
What was it on?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
The question was:
Noted Harvard historian John Kenneth Galbraith described America in the 1950s and 60s as the Affluent Society. Do you agree or disagree? What would be a better description? How did this affect Cold War strategies?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Interesting. His son is also a former US Diplomat and Candidate for Governor of my state in 2016. He lost pretty handily though
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Fair enough. I argued that it was only affluent for the white middle class. I suggested the Divided Society as a descriptor.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[I]Degenerates like you belong on a cross.[/I]
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
r e t r i b u t i o n !
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
[B][I]G I V E M E C A U S E, P R O F L I G A T E ![/I][/B]
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
t h e n e w s l a v e g i r l s a r e q u i t e b e a u t i f u l
Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Good Day! Hope everyone has a good day!
If anyone is newly-arrived to our region, please do contact Lex Caledonia to become a citizen!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt2dxx9yg
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]16 March 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor releases a statement
18:00 The Chancellor holds a conference with the Speaker
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona, Midasia
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Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
[I]I M L O O K I N G F O R W A R D T O G E T T I N G S E N T A C R O S S T H E R I V E R[/I]
t h e c a e s a r h a s m a r k e d y o u f o r d e a t h , a n d t h e l e g i o n o b e y s ! r e a d y y o u r s e l f f o r b a t t l e !
Statement by the Chancellor
This morning, I received a notice from the organizer of the Interregional Olympics, which I mentioned in my Weekly Address this week, informing me that the Interregional Olympics had been cancelled.
The ongoing poll we had set up was therefore immediately pulled, although the Administration bears in mind the region's general willingness to participate in events such as that and will be sure to inform you of any similar opportunities we receive in the future.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Most European nations are pro-EU. This is a minority of Eastern European countries complaining.
Axeldonia
It's a scenario for war-game simulations, not an actual thing.
Besides, I was more talking about the SNP getting a second referendum than anything :P
Penguania And Antarctica
Ah, right. I couldn't tell. Fingers crossed we win the second ref.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Happy 19th Birthday Yukona. Enjoy it with family and friends, pal. :D
[spoiler=Today is March 16 and today are:]
Today are:
- 19th Birthday of Yukona
- Curlew Day
- Day of the Book Smugglers (Lithuania)
- Goddard Day
- Latvian Legion Day (Latvia)
- Lips Appreciation Day
- National Artichoke Hearts Day (United States)
- National Everything You Do Is Right Day (United States)
- National Freedom of Information Day (United States)
- National Panda Day (United States)
- No Selfies Day
- Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians)
- World Sleep Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 597BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
- 0455 Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
- 0934 Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
- 1190 Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
- 1244 Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur.
- 1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
- 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
- 1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
- 1660 The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
- 1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers, is founded.
- 1782 American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
- 1782 Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782
- 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
- 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: An Austrian column is defeated by the French in the Battle of Valvasone.
- 1802 The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- 1812 Siege of Badajoz begins: British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during the Peninsular War.
- 1815 Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
- 1818 In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
- 1864 American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
- 1870 The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
- 1872 The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 10 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- 1894 Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
- 1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
- 1916 The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the USMexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
- 1917 World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
- 1924 In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
- 1925 An earthquake occurs in Yunnan, China.
- 1926 History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
- 1936 Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
- 1939 From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- 1940 First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
- 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
- 1945 Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
- 1958 The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
- 1962 A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
- 1966 Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
- 1968 Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
- 1968 General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
- 1969 A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
- 1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
- 1977 Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
- 1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
- 1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
- 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
- 1983 Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
- 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. (He later dies in captivity.)
- 1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
- 1988 IranContra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
- 1988 Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
- 1988 The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. A PIRA volunteer and two civilians are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
- 1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
- 1995 Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
- 2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
- 2014 Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
- 2016 A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54.
- 2016 Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 22 and injuring 18.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1750 Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer
- 1751 James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States
- 1774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer
- 1789 Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist and mathematician
- 1839 Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1878 Clemens August Graf von Galen, German cardinal
- 1912 Pat Nixon, American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States
- 1926 Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian
- 1927 Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut, first man who died on a space mission
- 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter
- 1953 Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- 1953 Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer
- 1954 Nancy Wilson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
- 1964 H.P. Baxxter, German musician
- 1967 Lauren Graham, American actress and producer
- 1969 Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter and producer
- 1986 Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
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Quote of the day (presented to you by Yukona)
If you will it dude, it is no dream.
- Walter Shoback -
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, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Cesorion, Midasia
Happy birthday duder Yukona!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Midasia
Didn't know it was your birthday, Yukona Happy birthday, mate!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia
How the young grow ever more mature.
Happy birthday, loving Yukona
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia
Happy Birthday Yukona!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
[spoiler=Another One of those Rare Updates from Parliament]Good afternoon/evening Citizens,
Three proposed bills and one proposed motion have been moved to the Floor of Parliament for a vote. The voting periods for all four items will conclude on Friday, March 23 at 6:30pm Eastern.
A link to the proposed motion is provided here.
The University Charter Resolution
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/67/university-charter-resolution
Links to the respective bill proposals are provided below.
The Comprehensive Retention Act
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/65/comprehensive-retention-act
The Foreign Policy Recalibration Act
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/66/foreign-policy-recalibration-act
The Domestic Restoration Act
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/64/domestic-restoration-act
As always, Members are asked to read the bills/motions at hand and register your vote. Those in favour should vote by stating "endorsed"; those opposed should vote by stating "denounced".
Thanks everyone,
[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]
Speaker of Parliament[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
The subtly unsubtle sarcasm is much appreciated.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Im offended.
I was going for unsubtle subtlety.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States
I heard someone had birthday.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Yukona!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Happy birthday, Yukona!
Perfect day to commit the bank robbery I've always wanted to do! jk
*after the bank robbery* Well that was fun. Now let me just take a...
Dang it!
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
So it's the Russian presidential election tomorrow. I just read an article that described it quite aptly. "It's less of an election and more of a coronation."
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Yup. We're settling in for a long con tonight bruv. Best case is that Putin cuts it very, very close such that NATO can decapitate his support rather quickly through Ukraine and sanctions, but the worst case is the more probable one. Putin's settling in on a mixed bag, but he's got extreme nationalism on his side as well.
Suffice to say, we're either watching Russia's current dictator get reelected, or we're watching one of his -probable- heirs win.
Confederal States
*sitting on bed doing ns stuff
*randomly decide to clear topics to further dictatorship
*all of them are economic/environmental issues
*capitalist choices increase compassion and lower authoritarianism
w h y ?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Thanks for your kind thoughts on my birthday guys, appreciate it
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Midasia
I heard that public servants in Russia will be forced to vote.
Aren't you a lucky bunny that we like you so much.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia
probably because you give away your authority to the corporations and their demands?
Jaslandia, Chernarus State, Penguania And Antarctica
Good Day! Hope everyone has a good day!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zP66eSLto
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]17 March 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
[I]No public schedule.[/I]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
[spoiler=Today is March 17 and today are:]
Today is March 17 and today are:
- Campfire girls Day
- Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts)
- Martyr Vicente's Feast (Spain)
- National Corn Dog Day (United States
- National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day (United States)
- National Quilting Day (United States)
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahmanís birthday (Bangladesh)
- St. Patrick's Day (Canada, Ireland, Montserrat, United Kingdom, United States)
- Submarine Day
- World Sleep Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
- 180 Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
- 455 Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1001 The Raja of Butuan in what is now the Philippines sends a tributary mission to the Song dynasty.
- 1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
- 1452 The Battle of Los Alporchones is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the Emirate of Granada and the combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and Murcia resulting in a Christian victory.
- 1560 Fort Coligny on Villegagnon Island in Rio de Janeiro is attacked and destroyed during the Portuguese campaign against France Antarctique.
- 1677 The Siege of Valenciennes, during the Franco-Dutch War, ends with France's taking of the city.
- 1776 American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
- 1780 American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
- 1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
- 1842 The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed;
- 1860 The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
- 1861 The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
- 1891 SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
- 1921 The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
- 1939 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
- 1941 In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1942 Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
- 1945 The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
- 1947 First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
- 1948 The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
- 1950 Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
- 1957 A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
- 1958 The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
- 1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
- 1960 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
- 1963 Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
- 1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
- 1968 As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
- 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
- 1970 My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
- 1973 The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
- 1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
- 1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
- 1988 Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
- 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
- 1992 A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
- 2000 Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
- 2003 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- 2004 Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
- 1881 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1901 Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor
- 1902 Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer
- 1919 Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host
- 1926 Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright
- 1930 James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1938 Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer
- 1948 William Gibson, American-Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1951 Kurt Russell, American actor and producer
- 1967 Billy Corgan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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Quote of the day
A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
- John O'Donohue -
Note: Neither Mercunova nor Penguania_And_Antarctica assume responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Confederal States, Midasia
Lazy bum. *insert smiley emoticon with tongue sticking out here*
Here's how it didn't happen: https://youtu.be/r2jbK6dGLGc
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
could i ask? is it allowed to use flags of national socialist movements in NS?
I am asking due to one of my RP games.
And before anyone asks no i didn't us NS flag in NS. I am just asking in case that there would be a rule against it.
You can't.
thank you, i wasn't sure since i saw quite many use fascist themed or nazbol themed flags so i wanted to be sure in order to not get by accident reported and banned.
Nuremgard
You can use flags which are renditions/variations of the nationalist socialist movement (like my nation The Dalek Paradigm). You just can't use the swastika.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Or this guy: Eropatia
Yes! I finally brought back my court system! Nuremgard proudly has three branches of government once more!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Midasia
My reccomendation would be to use the HO4 route and use the iron cross or something similar.
Nuremgard
Weird how we can use other fascist symbols but not Nazi ones. I'm not arguing for the right to display swastikas but communist and fascist symbols are also symbols of hate since both have been responsible for the suffering and deaths of countless people.
Russkov Soviet, Spanelsko
I have no idea.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=217052
Jaslandia
NS is so inconsistent.
I can see where they are coming from I suppose. Lucky for us or else there'd be no nations on NS. Practically every country has a shady past.
Not Kalaron, the worst we did was bring down a world wide embargo on a nation :P
No but really, I'm just glad we get the pliancy we do from the Mods. It's hard to enforce the rules honestly.
Jaslandia
Fiends.
Nuremgard
Yeah. I mean I used to have a nation with a factbook explaining why incest was an integral part of its society.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
The dragon one, yes? Valaryia or something.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Valyria. It's a civilisation from the Game of Thrones series.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
Eeeeeew GOT :P
But dragon incest is a bit different I believe... Then again.. people are picky as hell.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Or my Lemon flag on Discord
Penguania And Antarctica
You heathen. GoT is amazing.
Well the incest was between the people, not the dragons. :P
Depending on which you mean I will or will not fight you
..... Well now, that makes it wrong I suppose xP
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Both, fight me you lemon :V
I gladly take the title of heathen.
Penguania And Antarctica
They did it to keep their bloodlines pure, to keep land and money in the family and to keep the secrets to binding dragons among themselves. That's the explanations I gave at least.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Cometh at me Brother
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm gonna' have Daenerys burn you.
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
Those are some good reasons. Its still kinda wrong, but hey... your motives are [I]pure[/I]..
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't have the nation any more. I have three right now. But you know me. Fickle as f*ck.
Russkov Soviet
Aren't we all in a way? Hmm.. Your old nation gave me an idea. I might try to genetically-engineer some dragons now...
Nuremgard
Afaik most WW2 related media uses the iron cross, which is a german miltary symbol unrelated to the nazi regime and is still used in the Bundeswehr today. In contrast the Swastika had been around in europe before, but it was only with the NDSAP it became a widely recognized nazi-associated symbol.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Always happy to be an inspiration.
It's still a sacred symbol in Hinduism today too.
Axeldonia
Biology is a fickle thing, certainly, but physical properties say the dragons are grounded either way :/
The universe is a cold bitch sadly.
Russkov Soviet
Eh... I'll just make a jet that's kinda dragon-shaped for an air show xD
Nuremgard
Stop right there Kaiba, you've been found out!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233369021632872448/424775152224567296/tumblr_m5ajo3lRyT1r5u7a3o1_1280.jpg
Russkov Soviet, Axeldonia
YOU'RE A THIRD RATE DUELIST WITH A FOURTH RATE DECK
HEART OF THE CARDS
MUH ANCIENT GODS TRAPPED IN SMOL FABRIC CARDS
MUH SMOL ASIAN EGYPTIAN WHITE PHAROH
WHAT
Axeldonia
Oh sweet Divines! I didn't even think of that! -_-
Vista Major
The Issue
News media is abuzz this week as prominent atheist and anti-religious author Gary Montague has threatened to burn a copy of Atheist Communisms most sacred text in order to desecrate it and offend its adherents worldwide. As usual, everyone and their mother are demanding that you do something about this.
Montague brandishes a copy of the offending book in your face while hiding in your office from a torch-bearing mob. This so-called religious text endorses people who commit murder, slavery, incest, genocide, and environmental destruction as holy and devout men. It deserves burning! I dont care how popular or moral Atheist Communism is these days: this so-called holy text is a blueprint for barbarism. That kind of evil has no place in our so-called civilized society. Montague panics and flees through your window as the mob breaks down the door.
Me: Atheist Communism best religion.
after choosing: The Talking Point
The nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books.
Jaslandia, Vista Major
I cannot understand why so many people don't vote in elections. It's so easy. You go to the polling station, you get you ballot, you go into the voting booth, make your X, and then throw your ballot into the ballot box. That's all. So damn easy.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Spanelsko, Midasia
Some people need to work. Some people are too ill to go to a polling station to vote (like my mum.) Some people are lazy. Some people don't want to vote because they hate politics and politicians. There are many reasons why people don't vote.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Following new legislation in Tangshan, cheering flag-waving citizens don't like to think too hard about politics.
That's how we like our people in Tangshan: ignorant and patriotic.
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
1. Voting is always on a Sunday over here. Except of few people nobody has to work on Sunday.
2. If your are not able to go to a polling station you could do postal vote.
3. Well if you hate politics as they are now you can try to change them with your vote.
Nuremgard
1 - This is true.
2 - My mum does a postal vote.
3 - Changing politics is hard when the numbers are stacked against you in Parliament and your country uses an outdated system like FPTP.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
Well, at least you try to change something with your vote. Better than doing nothing.
Nuremgard
I started voting in my early twenties. I never miss an election.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
That's good. I voted today for the positions of municipality mayor and Landrat (Head of our County/District)
Nuremgard
Which parties did you vote for?
Penguania And Antarctica
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