Your Reaction to AN's News (III)

[Bellcon]

Peace means war, period.

[Continental Free States]

(Doing Free Kathen because come fucking on)
Free Kathen: "Labor camps are shitty, I won't deny that, but unless they're a euphemism for death camps then I don't see why every neighbor of the guilty country would be 'enraged'. It's just labor camps."

Edric Willoughby, not quite politically correct

Bellcon: "But what is 'democratic backsliding'? Don't we count a country to be backsliding when they stop being democratic? What kind of backwater would you have to be to consider popular representation to be 'backsliding', or am I just misrepresenting this entirely?"

Kieran Douglas, political commentator

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[Mets Hayk]

Mass shooting in Strandmere Woods, California leaves 1 dead, 5 injured after Chinese-American opened fire inside a Formosan Presbyterian church. Formosa not having risen up alongside China against Japan in recent Independence War was named as motive

"Chinese nationalists in America? Now I think I've seen it all..."
-Thomas Dermovsesian, political commentator and writer of Hishir, an obscure populist newspaper

[Free Ravensburg]

National Assembly proclaims May the "Month of Armenia"

We might recognize this, but if it approved by the international community, and if there is no other group that claims the month of may. Only then will we fully recognize this month as the official Armenian history month.

[Western Theram]

Radio ZUFR publicly apologizes For Miscategorizing Song

People really made a bunch of fuss over a song?

Ugandan Civil War Draws to an End as Bantu Kingdoms and Northern Tribes Begin Peacetalks

Ah finally, good news for once, hurrah for peace! Even if it might be short lived it’s still worth celebrating
-Alex Zamora with the governing council

[Il Borgia Vaticano]

[box]The Anarchist Institute of Science has declared if you have been the subject of an experiment gone wrong and have been left with an extra hand or mouth, you are entitled to financial compensation...

"His Holiness Pope Soter II has decreed that while a person with an unholy extra limb or orifice may still recieve the sacraments, they must have them surgically removed forthwith. 'God gave us two arms, and one mouth. To have extra is to insult the lord' he said. He also noted that any compensation must be appropriately tithed to the Church as well."~Acta Diurna Borgiae (State News)



News:

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[Arpasia]

/bumpskip, the news post is a bit confusing for me, because I couldn't find the right context behind it.

[Free Kathen]

As part of this program, the Pope has refounded the sacred and sacrificed bodyguard, The Sacred Band of Saints Sergius and Bacchus. It's former sole survivor, Paolo Borgia, has abdicated his position as King of Romagna to take up command of the holy order.

"I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, it's only wise to have a leader be somehow defended. You don't want them getting assassinated, after all, and it would be problematic to have a leader pass on to Theos' peace without anyone to act as backup. However, this "pope" guy seems rather... authoritarian? While it makes sense that he's guarded, maaaaaybe he shouldn't give people so many good reasons to assassinate him, is all I'm saying."
~ Naram-Sin Antioch, Steelworker from the Commune of Apsu

[Continental Free States]

"I'm all for media being open about what dangers await the public. Hell, it is the right and duty of every news anchor to talk about dangerous cults we know exist... but honestly if they are that big of a danger, pretending to the public that they don't exist while you just eliminate them through some hush-hush wet work would do better than to start up a panic about the evil cult that wants to do... I don't know, summon some sort of elder evil into the world?"

Kieran Douglas, political commentator

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[Insulamia]

Explosion at a primary school and a store in Lethbridge, Nigeria kills nine.

OOC here: I read that as "Explosion at a primary school and a store in Lethbridge," then "Nigeria kills nine." and was very confused. I didn't realise that Lethbridge was the in-universe name for a city in Nigeria, and from looking at the name I thought it was British or something. I thought the "Nigeria kills nine" bit meant that the government of Nigeria executed nine people, which was somehow connected to explosions in a British primary school and store.
Luckily you had a link to the Wikipedia article for the real city, otherwise I could have remained confused.

[Continental Free States]

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[New Transeurasia]

India to ban all wheat exports as ongoing heatwave caused yields to be lower than expected. Exceptions may be made 'for the needy', some princely states amend federal decision.

"I have heard heatwaves are getting worse in India and Arabia, sad to see this stuff happen 'cause of it"
- Random citizen, Gomel, BL

[Meadowfields]

Pan Am Flight 1202 "Clipper Constellation", a Lockheed-Martin spacecraft, explodes over Ganymede, 1109 passengers and crew presumed dead

Can one plane hold 1,000 passengers anyways? That's a lot of destruction and death.

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[Continental Free States]

"What I find odd is that the communists -themselves already a wide array of similarly-thinking parties- tried to carry out its proposed coalition with Together -another wide array of similarly-thinking parties- and it didn't think to ask if members were okay with it all? A coalition this wide doesn't get born in a day, there's a long series of negotiations involved, and at some point you'd have to ask if the majority were alright with it, in which case the minority who weren't alright wouldn't matter. How would it here cause a hung parliament? The majority would remain loyal to the communists and thus the coalition."

Kieran Douglas, political commentator

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[Il Borgia Vaticano]

"India to ban all wheat exports as ongoing heatwave caused yields to be lower than expected. Exceptions may be made 'for the needy', some princely states amend federal decision.

"We would courteously extend an open hand to any amount of refugees fleeing the subcontinent from the inevitable famine that will come about from this, given the Indian government's continual incompetence for handling a population of over a billion. We need the labor force in reconstructing Rome. No visas necessary."~Ippolito de Medici, Cardinal Prefect of The Vatican Bank



News:

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[Nomayuki]

I like the new architecture plans for Rome.
-Piero Dellucci, Italian immigrant to Nomayuki and owner of Construction Company

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[Insulamia]

India to ban all wheat exports as ongoing heatwave caused yields to be lower than expected. Exceptions may be made 'for the needy', some princely states amend federal decision.

"I have heard heatwaves are getting worse in India and Arabia, sad to see this stuff happen 'cause of it"
- Random citizen, Gomel, BL

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[Greater Kamilistan]

"Kid got some balls of steal, got a water gun and spray it onto an Prime Minister"

[Continental Free States]

"That's... something? I suppose? Well for all honesty I'm not much of a car fan, so I don't have much of a clue what significance this remake and its being in the national showroom has on Kamilistan as a nation."

Kieran Douglas, political commentator

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[Free Kathen]

Opinion: Southern Senators are Right: America should normalize relations with Rhodesia, pursue closer relations with South Africa.

"Well... that is certainly an idea. Not a good one, mind you, but definitely an idea. As far as my research indicates, this nation was quite literally built as an apartheid state between Europeans and Africans. Unless things have changed since then, this is a harebrained idea that will only get America further in bed with racism. And given that there was apparently a recent mass shooting in that country involving CSA separatists, who if things haven't changed since the... wow, the 1800's are already in the past for them, interesting... Are still advocating for slavery, then that's already a problem in that country."
~ Tammuz Ha'Itu, Black Army Soldier

[Arpasia]

Early heatwave sets all-time high records on May 21 in several cities in Texas, Magnolia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

"I've seen many more news reports of heatwaves, and from what I've learned, heatwaves bring with them death. So it wouldn't all surprise me if there are a large number of deaths in the region, particularly senior citizens, since they are more prone to Heatstrokes. I am very sorry to all of those affected by this heatwave, it would really suck to be in such situations."

User PhilippeMiseree, online commentator

Fuck, ninja'd, WHY???

DEVIL CULT COMPOUND FOUND IN EKALU PLAINS, LIKELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DESERTION OF ELLASAR. FOR YOUR SAFETY, DO NOT MAKE CONTACT. I REPEAT, DO NOT MAKE CONTACT.

"Satanists at it again, I see. Most of the time, they only do their rituals without anybody's knowledge. Rarely if ever, have I seen a situation where a group of Satanists actually do something to an entire settlement, but I must ask, is Ellasar a big or small settlement, if it's the former, then the cult is up to some pretty fucked up stuff.

BN, News in me siggie.

[Free Kathen]

"Satanists at it again, I see. Most of the time, they only do their rituals without anybody's knowledge. Rarely if ever, have I seen a situation where a group of Satanists actually do something to a person, and also, what did this 'Ellasar' guy did in the first place? did he wander into a forest filled with them? or do they come for Ellasar after he did something like provoking them?"

Oh, Ellasar isn't a guy. The headline's gone, but Ellasar was a city that was found completely deserted, and these guys are suspected to be the people behind it.

/skip

[Continental Free States]

"So those weapons were either sold by Slavania, sold by Slavanians or smuggled from elsewhere, and in either case, it is clear that Slavania would need to... well, be more careful about who they sell what to. Are Tierresta and Slavania in a state of hostility, perchance?"

Kieran Douglas, political commentator

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[The Aber]

"So those weapons were either sold by Slavania, sold by Slavanians or smuggled from elsewhere, and in either case, it is clear that Slavania would need to... well, be more careful about who they sell what to. Are Tierresta and Slavania in a state of hostility, perchance?"

Kieran Douglas, political commentator

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'Early heatwave sets all-time high records on May 21 in several cities in Texas, Magnolia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware'. Well, I'd like to see if we can trade places, but an Aber's core temperature is twice as high compared to the average human, so we'd probably succumb horribly to the heatstroke. So...yeah...not exactly something we can help you with there, brother."

BN: Do any article/headline.

[Continental Free States]

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