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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
At the risk of seemingly perpetuating a perennial officeholder, I would throw my support behind Jas. I worked closely with him during my time as Chief Justice and he was always fair, accessible, level-headed, and extremely helpful.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I second this motion.
#Jas4MoJ
Jaslandia
#Peng4Pres
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton
So let's vote for !
I appreciate your confidence in me. While I would be willing to yield my nomination to someone else if they have the interest and passion for the job (I'm all for giving someone else a chance in government when possible, which is why I'm even more disappointed Mdogao didn't work out). But, barring that, I would be happy to serve if I am approved.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Did someone say Canada
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Did someone say something is better than Canada?!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Canada is best country. :)
Continental Commonwealths
I can agree with this very much.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10061422/4/#new
Posted on the Kongo RP. Gonna take a calmer approach
Vista Major
The Rasputin of RPs.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
It never dies bro
I would support that. I like that idea very much.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=saor_scotland/detail=factbook/id=762468
Tried to add in pictures but none of them seemed to work so I gave up.
Penguania And Antarctica
Sing it with me,
Ooooooo Canada, our home and native land, true patriot loooove in all thy sons command
Penguania And Antarctica
It ends when it ends when it ends
The debates will be spectacular
Jaslandia
Bill C-210, man.
#BecauseIt's2017
Yukona
So... the Saor part of the nation name: are you talking about the Scottish Black Metal band, or is it just a coincidence?
Had no idea there was a band called that. The Saor in the name is Gaelic for "Free"
Jaslandia, Aghrabia
Well that's that then. My quest to find another person who likes Black Metal that will still talk to me continues *sighs deeply*.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Black metal is in acquired taste.
Aghrabia
Hey, so, can we get an actual link to the real constitution (or at least update the current fact-book based one) to have the actual amendments passed?
It's kinda annoying that we're calling an outdated version "Constitution" when we've changed and added to it.
Vista Major
You can say that again. Though I did like it pretty much from when I first heard it, but that's just me. I can be known for having some rather... "out there" tastes in music.
Nuremgard
Ferrite is okay, I guess.
Aghrabia
Saor is probably my favourite, though Behemoth (though they have drifted away into Blackened Death Metal) is excellent. And I can't help but feel some local pride for Venom.
Continental Commonwealths
Aghrabia
It isn't.
I'll look at the amendments, then get it done
Thank you.
It's probably good to...you know...have an up to date Constitution.
At least y'all are inclusive: just had a mosque here burned down (though donations and support have come in)
Continental Commonwealths
Yukona
The Alliance That Succeeds
Merlinton
For a Time of Chance
My best wishes to the former Chief Justice, Tserra, in all their future endeavours. May joy be with you to the end.
Hail,
Bearlong, Speaker of the House of Delegates
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
I know those feels, Rev. Thanks for your months of service over- you're absolutely right- three regions!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Thank you for your service to the region, Tse! I understand your decision to retire, and I wish you the best!
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
How can we hope to end radical jihadism if we continue to be racially incendiary against Arabs and Muslims? These people are fleeing their homes, looking to the land of liberty, only to be shut out. If we have any hope to combat radical jihadi terrorism, we need to work with the Muslim community and show them that Jihadism isn't Islam. As President Bush said, Islam is not our enemy, but small groups of radical terrorists are. There is no better way to combat radicalism than to take away the people they are trying to recruit and turn them into soldiers of liberty.
Nuremgard, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
They already got around $700k to rebuild the place. The nearby community also showed support to the Muslim populace.
If it's metal it's Burzum or it ain't metal at all
Aghrabia
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- Duarte´s Day (Dominican Republic)
- Fred Korematsu Day (California, United States)
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- National Inane Answering Message Day (United States)
- Martyrs' Day (India)
- School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)
- Start of the Season for Nonviolence
- Teacher's Day (Greece)
- The Three Holy Hierarchs (Eastern Orthodox)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 516 BCE The Second Temple of Jerusalem finishes construction.
- 1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
- 1607 An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
- 1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
- 1789 Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
- 1806 The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened
- 1820 Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
- 1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
- 1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
- 1847 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
- 1858 The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
- 1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
- 1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
- 1902 The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
- 1908 Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
- 1911 The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
- 1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1925 The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
- 1930 The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
- 1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1942 World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops have been massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs did not survive at the end of the war, including 250 men who have been shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
- 1943 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
- 1945 World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
- 1945 World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW cam
- 1948 Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1956 African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1959 MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
- 1960 The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
- 1964 In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
- 1968 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
- 1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1972 The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
- 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1975 The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- 1979 A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
- 1989 Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 1995 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- 2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
- 2003 The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
- 2013 Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 58 BC Livia, Roman wife of Augustus
- 133 Didius Julianus, Roman emperor
- 1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist, invented the Watt steam engine
- 1852 Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet and playwright
- 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States
- 1899 Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1901 Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver
- 1925 Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse
- 1927 Olof Palme, Swedish captain and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1930 Gene Hackman, American actor
- 1937 Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- 1937 Boris Spassky, Russian chess player and theoretician
- 1941 Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author
- 1941 Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States
- 1951 Phil Collins, English singer-songwriter, drummer, producer, and actor
- 1962 Abdullah II, King of Jordan
- 1968 Felipe VI, King of Spain
- 1974 Christian Bale, British actor
- 1981 Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
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Quote of the day
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Jaslandia, Vista Major
I would like to thank [nation=short]Tserra[/nation] for their great service. I would also like to congratulate [nation=short]Unfallious[/nation] on their new position.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Had two issues related to voting in Saor Scotland but neither has allowed me to abolish it or Parliament. The Crown will have its power back with time and patience!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Cross And Davids Star
And issue submissions!
Nuremgard
And my next issue for Scotland was about pizza.
Groundbreaking political problems the King has to deal with right here.
Jaslandia
😂
my my, what is a king to do?
Eyyyy, see: this guy knows what he's talking about!
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And also, whilst it is not metal, this song is also very good: https://youtu.be/CDUrpPvU1_4 (Watch until the very end)
Yukona
Did everyone have a good weekend? :)
Penguania And Antarctica
Yes I had. Didn't do much tho. But it was good. Hbu?
Everestopia
Just picked up a field manual on COIN, so pretty good.
I'm so good I get positions even when I'm not here B)
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Whatever he can.
Well, here we go with a terrorist attempt in Québec City against a muslim mosque. 6 death. It's way easier to deal with issues on nationstates. Goddammit.
Vista Major
Yukona
Hey Andy, quick question, do we count our alliance in the ITF as canon in the Kongo RP? If not, then how does that affect our relations in the general RP?
True, yet one must admit that Canada just doesn't pop up on the news with violence as we do.
Jaslandia
Truly a pleasure to have the Trump administration capitalize on our tragedy...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
The killers had local accents. But remember it's only brown people from Muslim countries that commit terrorism.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
*International observers praise rising political freedoms in Saor Scotland* says the newspaper headline.
King: This was not my intention.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Terrorism has no colour and no creed, but I don't think we should ignore it is a problem within Islam which is promoting this reactionary extremist movement in Europeans and North Americans. I really don't know how we're gonna fix it, I think it lies with Wahabism and the Saudi aristocrats, although I'm by no means no expert
Nuremgard
http://trumpdonald.org/
Jaslandia
Yes I know terrorism has no creed or colour but it seems many people believe it's exclusive to certain ethnicities. Most atrocities that have been committed recently have been carried out by homegrown terrorists. But you are correct. The source of all this is the state-sponsored Wahabi extremism of Saudi Arabia. But the West will never ever face this because it wants Saudi oil.
Jaslandia
Supply and demand, to be honest I can see why people warm up to the Saudis, it seems like every Gulf state is just as bad, maybe apart from the UAE. When people talk about racism has no creed and colour it is true that many homegrown terrorists are taking part, but I think it's important to acknowledge that whilst Christians have committed terrorist acts like the IRA, it's not because they're Christian. So much the IRA is Ireland and republicanism's problem, Islamic terrorism is Islam's problem and it is no lie that it is the biggest terrorist thread the world has ever seen and they *are* Muslim, you just can't deny it. By all means, there is good and bad everywhere but I think we just need to find the routes, if in the future it's gone I'll be interested to know how and why.
The roots are in Islam and Saudi Arabia's particularly nasty brand of it. Islamic State cut people's heads off and the West calls them evil. Saudi Arabia does the same thing and the West calls them an ally.
Jeez I meant terrorism, I don't know how I got racism my spelling is atrocious today and it's not even autocorrect
The oil's gotta come from somewhere, we're no where near ready to move to all-renewable energy yet, I mean you just have to - look at the OPEC oil crisis.
I am glad the Scottish Government is investing in renewable energy.
Jaslandia
Agreed
Jaslandia
That's why I like the SNP. They try to strike a balance in things. They're committed to supporting North Sea oil jobs but recognise the importance of renewable energy.
Yukona
I did laundry, which is probably the most productive I've been in ages.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
We started Kongo before you joined the ITF, so let's just say...no?
Magnatronia
So I've got a question Nurem; if Scotland became independent and you got got a new, Scottish royal family, would you accept them?
Jaslandia
I would not. I am a republican and don't believe in having a monarchy. Plus, if an independent Scotland restored the House of Stuart, then we'd be putting a German duke on the throne. That wouldn't sit well with me since:
1) He is a foreigner (that's not racism on my part. I just think it's bizarre having a foreigner as your monarch/head of state.
2) He has never made a claim so it's doubtful he would accept.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
1) Tell that Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and 12 other nations :P
2) #Nurem4KingofScots
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
1) They are indeed strange for clinging to their British heritage. It looks like they don't want to cut the apron strings/umbilical cord but that's their prerogative.
2) I would be totally fine with this. Set me up in Holyroodhouse Palace and I will gladly cut ribbons and wave my hand for millions each year.
Penguania And Antarctica
I hereby declare you King of Scots with all rights and privileges. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Thank you! *waves regally from Edinburgh Castle in robe and crown*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
And since you have no heir I raise claim to the throne of Scotland. :P
jk
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Yeah....being gay makes producing an heir a tad inconvenient.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well you could adopt one.
*cough* Take me *cough*
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Just coping the English now, i.e. by bringing over a German. :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
my name is Kalle. Mads asked me to write an report about him. On this page. They doctors removed the infection. but he was having an allergic trauma to the medicine. his kidneys are shut off now. He is on transplant list. and machines to clean his blood. He is doing poorly. please offer your prayers. or best wishes.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I think you meant 'copying'.
Yes, a German can rule the Scots.
#OperationSealion
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope he receives transplant soon. :(
Nuremgard, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia
Bugger. Corrected in my grammar by a non-English speaker. *commits sepeku*
Best wishes to him. I hope he finds a donor soon.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
This way the term grammar nazi gets a totally other meaning. :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Baxten
How's King Elijah?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Penguania And Antarctica.
Doing good. A bit sad since there was a school shooting in Penguania. The first in it's history. I wrote an article for the regional newspaper. I hope it will be added soon. *looks at [nation=short]the_united_providences_of_perland[/nation]*
Beside this he is doing fine. Lots of hands to shake and charity.
How about the Tsar Stefan?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
He is in my thoughts, I wish him well.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Very sorry to hear about that. Nuremgard sends its condolences.
The Tsar is doing okay. He recently returned from a tour of the eastern states.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Nice. Maybe he wants to visit Penguania ? We would like to welcome him in our humble nation.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
He'd be more than happy to come. He and the Tsarina could maybe bring their children too?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Of course. The Tsar can bring as much people with him as he wants. They are all welcome. And the royal family of Penguania will all so be pleased to make new contacts and connections with others. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
We could arrange a big get-together. The whole Norsk Imperial Family meeting the Penguanian royals. It would be such a lavish event.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
The palace haven't seen a big party for a very long time. This will be awesome. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Imagine the press attention and crowds of spectators. A big state dinner and ball. Events that the Imperials can go to in order to experience Penguanian culture.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I feel like this joke went over people's head, click the link then judge
Jaslandia
I got the joke.
Jaslandia
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