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Trumm in Eiffelland-Retalia: "surprised I'm not talking to Kadikistan"
AP Trier

Stopping in Eiffelland during her global tour, President of the SWR Donna Trumm said she was surprised she was not "talking to Kadikistan, but an independent Eiffelland still." The President elaborated that she had discussed extensively the security situation in Gallo-Germania with her hosts and urged Trier to be less confrontational towards the Rurikgrad Pact nations. "A few patents aren't worth it," Trumm noted and said she was confident Eiffelländer ingenuity would soon recover the technological edge it had lost.

Trumm also took this opportunity to talk about the status of Polesia, which the SWR refuses to recognize as legitimate government. The fall of Trivodnia, Trumm said, was a failure of Germanian politics and Eiffelland-Retalia was now paying the bill in the form of Folxmaschine. "But trying now to reverse the situation as forcefully as Trier has attempted, will only mean that we will look with similiar hindsight to Burgundy," Trumm noted. Instead, the President suggested Eiffelland-Retalia seek partners, such as the SWR, to contain the damage done by Polesian exports without antagonizing the Kadikistani bloc.

President Trumm also lamented the continued separation of Occitania, necessitating a prolonged occupation by Eiffellandian forces. While she called Eiffel aversions to talks with Serenierre "understandable", she also urged both nations to seek neutral mediation with the goal of reunification of Occitania under a neutral and independent government.

Serenien Premier condemns "irresponsible" Trumm statements
AP Villesen

In her speech at the Commissariat of People's Deputies, Premier Elisabeth Martinique issued a strong rebuke to President Donna Trumm. The Serenien Premier condemned the notion of an reunified Occitania and stated that the comments by President Trumm were wholly against the letter and spirit of the Treaty of Camp Hill, a treaty to which the Kingdoms of Eiffelland & Occitania and the then extant Grand Duchy of Retalia were party to. Any attempt to reunify the Occitanian peninsula would result in the ripping up of the Treaty - an unacceptable fate for it would only send the parties to war once again.

Premier Martinique critiqued the continued presence of 150,000 Eiffellander troops in East Occitania. She stated: "If the Eiffellanders have that many troops against us, how can they truly defend their country if they get invaded by Kadikistan? Or the Engells? I think at this stage, even if Ostmark or Nitra invaded them, they would have nothing to fight with but their 'perfect' cars and their medications."

Premier Martinique called on the Kadikistani Union to reconsider its partnership with the Kingdom of Eiffelland, reminding Ivar of the history of Trier's foreign policy. "Villesen remains committed to its obligations under various treaties it has with the Kingdom of Eiffelland. However, I do not know if I can trust Trier to be just as committed given the schizoid policies it has adopted since defeat. It has courted Post-Delegationists, Engell supremacists and now seeks to curry favour with Marxists."

The Serenien Premier then turned her attention to the latest controversy plaguing domestic politics, the alleged arms deal struck between the largest defense consortium and the Burgundian People's Republic. Premier Martinique announced that if the rumours were proved to be true, she would issue a central government directive and confiscate the weaponry and deposit them to the Revolutionary Guards, as the Serenien frontier would not be used to transport weapons.

The recent statements made by Premier Martinique have caused quite some concern in Deliverance regarding the future of the Occitanian people and the continued stability of Gallia.

Are we to understand her objections to the Presidents suggestions as a declaration of intent to indefenitely occupy the nation of Occitania? To perpetuate the division of a people into east and west and the subsequent subjugation under military rule this entails? Is it Villesens goal to deny the Occitanian people their right to self-determination ad infinitum?

Premier Martinique claims that any attempt at reunification would nullify the treaty of Camp Hill, which would lead to war. In claiming such, Villesen has outright stated its intention to challenge any attempt at peaceful reunification of Occitania - be it outside interference of genuine expression of the will of the Occitanian people - with force of arms. It may phrase it passively, but it is a threat of war to maintain a claim to dominion over a foreign people. It is a declaration of empire.

Surely, Villesen can grasp the concept of transcending a treaty, of replacing temporary solutions such as the treaty of Camp Hill with newer, better treaties that provide for the people affected by it and seek mediation between the parties involved. That it paints such bleak pictures, that it maintains a duality between perpetual occupation or war can only be understood as an attempt to frame its own ambitions regarding the Occitan nation as fateful circumstances beyond its immediate control.

We warn Villesen that the status quo in Occitania is not a situation that can be maintained forever. Neither will the people of Occitania bear it forever, nor is it conductive to regional stability, especially in the face of incursions by the Thaumantic Domain into Gallia.

Louis Reed
Chief Secretary of State
Department of Foreign Affairs

Commissariat for External Relations
The Republique Seraziniste is committed to the maintenance of regional peace as envisaged by the Treaty of Camp Hill. At the cessation of hostilities, the peace envisaged by the Treaty was agreed to by all the participants of the conflict. The Serenien Government remains committed to its international obligations under the Treaty of Camp Hill and the Bilateral Treaty with the Kingdom of Eiffelland regarding the Retalian Sea. Both are vital to the peace of the region.

Furthermore, it must be clarified, neither Serenierre nor Eiffelland are present on the Occitanian peninsula as occupying powers. The presence of Serenierre is envisaged by the Treaty of Camp Hill and the presence of Eiffelland in the Kingdom of Occitania is as a result of a bilateral agreement between those two countries, to the best of our knowledge.

The Protectorate of Occitania has shown itself to be a viable presence, with rapid movements being made in uplifting the citizenry out of the worst of feudal excess and the revitalisation of the Occitanian economy by way of heterodox economic policies. Furthermore, various Serenien initiatives have invested 20 billion livres into Western Occitania and it is clear that any assertion that Serenierre is not a true friend of the Protectorate of Occitania is a ludicrous claim.

We urge the SWR to tend to its own garden in Westernesse, where perhaps greater harms are a matter of routine and deserving of greater attention. We invite the esteemed ambassador of the SWR to our Commissariat so that he may better inform Deliverance of the nuances of the post-war settlement in southern Gallia.

BERNARD LAVOSNIER
Commissar | External Relations

Prime Minister ad interim Giuliana Marghèri takes action
AP Ûdin

Prime Minister ad interim Giuliana Marghèri has taken the reins of the country after a series of attacks that killed the most influential political figures of the Friulian political system, the blame was given to Cathar fundamentalists, but rumours of skirmishes between northern Friulian soldiers and the rest of the armed forces give rise to questions.

On the West Occitanian border the Friulian Army has also begun a counteroffensive beyond national border, which, according to military officials, has been coordinated with the W.Occ. government.

Meanwhile all land borders have been shut down, and long queues on the Villesen-Ardeche Highway, joining together the west and east of Serenierre, are forming

OSTMARK'S REGIME PREPARES TO CELEBRATE 1ST ANNIVERSARY
AP Wien

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WIEN (People's Republic of Ostmark) - The People's Republic of Ostmark is preparing to mark the 1st anniversary of its foundation in October with a series of festivities, expected to include a military parade and a mass game. The Volksrepublik was proclaimed on October 12, 2018, after a speech by People's Chancellor Horst Grasser during a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Ostmark a few days after the general elections.

Practices for the Mass Games, which typically involve thousands of performers in a spectacular display against an ever-changing backdrop at the Wien People's Stadium, have been going on for weeks. Hundreds of drum-carrying youths dressed in blue can be seen streaming out of the stadium every evening, and at night the sound of rehearsals echoes across the city.

Diplomatic invitations for the anniversary have gone out around the world, but few heads of state are known to be attending. More than 120 foreign journalists have been allowed to go to Wien to cover the events, its largest-scale media invitation since the rise of the National-Syndicalist regime. But neither the reporters nor resident diplomats have yet been told of the exact schedul. Such secrecy is standard procedure in the country.

Anti-State willing to join Serenierre-lead humanitarian effort for Burgundy
AP Shinkyô

Anti-State Officer of Revolutionary Defense and State Relations Shigeru Kato indicated that the Anti-State would sit down with the Villesen government to discuss matters of humanitarian aid and expansion of the Human Commodity System into Gallia, after Premier Elisabeth Martinique had called on the Touyou federation as well as Kadikistani Union and the Kingdom of Eiffelland-Retalia to come together across political divides to discuss the humanitarian crisis on the continent.

"This government has not changed its position on the Serazinist regime. However, we are willing to overlook certain unbridgeable divides for the sake of finding common ground of an issue of global importance, as all responsible global leaders should", Kato stated.

Villesen and Shinkyô both were not in attendance at the Ivar Summit that birthed a pan-continental intervention force across political divides to oppose the Domain invasion of Neustria and contain the violence and emergent humanitarian catastrophe in the battle zone, and both governments might be eager to increase their visibility in the theater.

Meanwhile, heavy fighting continued in Burgundy yesterday. 20 civilians died in what the Free Burgundian Reporters group claimed to be a Domain airstrike near the front in Western Burgundy.

@Serenierre

Aussenministerium — Ministero Degli Esteri
Trier, Eiffelland-Retalien — Treviri, Eiffellandia-Retalia

Let it be known that we have heard the wise words of President Trumm during her visit in Eiffelland-Retalia. The well-being of East- and West-Occitania is one of our interests. We stick to the Camp Hill Accords, but are open to agreeing on replacing the Camp Hill Accords with a better treaty when the time is right for that.
We also want to emphasise that innovation can only result from investments. Without the possibility to earn investments back, it is impossible to innovate. Therefore, it is a matter of principle to us that deliberately copying the designs of others without the approval of those others cannot be tolerated. We are willing to help out Folxmashin with becoming a viable car manufacturing company, but then Folxmashin must stop copying our cars without compensation.
For what Minister Lavosnier calls "the schizoid foreign policy of Eiffelland-Retalia", it is our wish to maintain good relationships with as many countries in the world as possible. The fact that the government of the Kadikistani Union manages to look beyond conflicts in the recent past is something we applaud, and the world as a whole should applaud. Unfortunately, it is the wish of the government of Serenierre to keep the relations with Eiffelland-Retalia in a bad state, despite the Camp Hill Accords and the Bilateral Treaty regarding the Retalian Sea. Well, then we have no other choice than to look further.
Given the current complexity of the safety situation in Gallo-Germania, a conference not including all parties involved in Gallo-Germania is doomed to fail. A conference with the intention to outrightly condemn some of the parties involved is even more doomed to fail. The conference that the government of Serenierre is planning to organise has too much an anti-Domain focus to be successful in achieving peace in Bourgogne. We consider that counterproductive; therefore, and also because Eiffelland-Retalia is already involved in the humanitary mission of the West Engell Repubic, we won't attend the conference in Serenierre.
For the EIffelloretalian military presence in East-Occitania and the military security of Eiffelland-Retalia, I advice Premier Martinique to let that be our concern.
I re-iterate Dr. Schmelzer's call for a multilateral conference on the safety and stability of Gallo-Germania; such a conference should involve the countries of The Domain, the Kadikistani Union, the Anti-State the Holy TIburan Empire, Eiffelland-Retalia, Serenierre, Lars, Crotobaltislavonia, Nitra and Ostmark at the least. We call upon the mentioned nations to attend such a conference. Eiffelland-Retalia is willing to host such a conference, but we are also open to other suggestions as a location.

Gianluigi di Gravesano-Carone, Minister of Foreign Affairs

CONPROFOR CONVOY ATTACKED IN BOULON
No informations on the fate of 15 Ostmarkian soldiers and 300 civilians.

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AP Wien

BOULON (Burgundy) - Fifteen soldiers of the Ostmarkian contingent in Burgundy are missing after their convoy was ambushed in the city center of Boulon. "We have lost contact with a platoon of fifteen peacekeepers of the People's Defense Force tasked with extracting civilians from the city of Boulon as fighting intensifies. We have audio proof of an intense firefight"

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"which was followed by radio silence. We have no information at the moment on the fate of the three hundred civilians under their protection" a statement issued by CONPROFOR Ostmark Command said.

The statement added that the convoy was heading south-east when it was allegedly ambushed "by unidentified hostile forces". Ostmarkian forces had set up an evacuation point in the city center to safely escort burgundian women, children and elder people affected by the humanitarian crisis caused by the escalating battle in the city of Boulon.

WER-TAC
West Engell Republic - Thaumantic Alignment Committee

We encourage our international partners to not only consider the the civilian attack in Boulon, but also the horrific fire bombing of Ouistreham perpetrated by the Burgundian People’s Republic. Our enemy’s leadership has shown a willingness to target civilians in the past, and displays nothing less than disregard for peacekeepers and neutral groups.

We brought together the Tiburan Church, local national volunteers, Eiffello-Retalians and Socialists from the SWR for a humanitarian mission in Ouistreham that was burned alive just days ago. We thus are concerned that the Burgundian People’s Republic will do the same to Boulon as they did to Ouistreham: raze it to the ground, if they do not like the way Neustrians are being supported towards self governance.

Aussenministerium — Ministero Degli Esteri
Trier, Eiffelland-Retalien — Treviri, Eiffellandia-Retalia

We strongly condemn the attack on the CONPROFOR convoy in Boulon, and demand that the incident is investigated. Our condolences to Government, Parliament and People of Ostmark, especially to family and friends of the deceased.

Gianluigi di Gravesano-Carone, Minister of Foreign Affairs

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF OSTMARK CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY WITH MILITARY PARADE
Tens of thousands gathered in Wien's Volksrepublikplatz.

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AP Wien

VIENNA (People's Republic of Ostmark) - The People's Republic of Ostmark celebrated its 1st anniversary Saturday with a large military parade in Wien. Crowds gathered in Wien's Volksrepublikplatz to participate in the festivities which included Ostmark's distinctive goose-stepping military march, dances, balloons, flags and some of the country's military tanks.

Tens of thousands of civilians attended with bouquets of bright plastic flowers and flags in hand. The crowd used the bouquets to spell out different words and slogans. This celebration also marked the first mass games in which thousands of people perform together synchronously. Many foreign outlets and journalists were invited to cover this year's program, "Our National-Syndicalist Fatherland." In preparation for the event, performers can spend weeks or even months in training.

It is literally the embodiment of National-Syndicalist ideals — Ostmark's most ubiquitous slogan, seen in posters and beaming from neon signs from atop tall buildings, is "The Days of Sorrow are over!" Wien sees the performances and the parades as one of its most highly effective forms of propaganda, highlighting its social and political agenda both at home, where it will be televised repeatedly for months to come, and abroad.

Senate Condemns International Zionist Agitation Against Pelagasian Empire
AP Solari Capitolina

The Solaris Senate issued a unanimous degree today condemning what it termed "International Zionist agitation" against the Pelagasian Empire's rightful stewardship of Philistaea. The lands of Philistaea, decreed the Senate, are part of the patrimony of the Pelagasian & Tiburan people's patrimony: "Since times beyond memory they have resided there, toiled there, raised their children there and buried their dead there; let none rightfully take it from them. The Jews of Nedernese, Brazul and other far-flung corners of the world comport themselves as if they are vengeful ghosts, tormenting the living out of jealousy and spite, for daring to make use of what they thoughtlessly squandered. If they wonder who deprived them of their promised lands they need only look upon a mirror. It was their own forefathers who, through weakness and vice, forefeit the lands which their god had given them. The Zionists claim to approach in supplication even as they sharpen their daggers for all to see; that if they were victorious the lands of Philisteae would be watered with the blood of Tiburans and Pelagasians is evident to all who comprehend their dogmas. Though we have had many differences, the Senate and People of the Unconquered Sun express our wholehearted support for the Emperor in Pelagasia, his assembly and his subjects against the foreign sedition of the militant zionist cult."

Relations between the state in Solaris and the Jewish community have been fraught; historically governed by a concord settled in the 19th century between prominent local rabbis and the nascent Senate which saw Solarian Jews withdraw from civic life in exchange for broad tolerance of their faith, in particular refusal to sacrifice to Sol Invictus, which the Solarian government maintains is an unconditional pre-requisite for full citizenship. Today there is a widespread perception this status quo as breaking down as younger Jews seek full participation in Civic Life without compromise. Something Solarian security officials blame on influence from jewish communities abroad.

Government Eiffelland-Retalia calls for tolerance towards Judaism and voices support for Pelasgian Empire
AP Trier

In a reaction to the condemnation by the Solarian Senate of what it calls "international Zionist agitation against the Pelasgian Empire's rightful stewardship of Philistaea", the Eiffelloretalian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release stating that "the Government of Eiffelland-Retalia fully supports the notion of freedom of religion and, therefore, calls for worldwide tolerance towards Judaism": "Jews are part of this world, and can function as full-fledged citizens of each nation, like the Jews in Eiffelland-Retalia demonstrate."
The same press release stated that Eiffelland-Retalia considers Hierosolyma an integral part of the Pelasgian Empire, that it considers the population in Hierosolyma too mixed up to create a monocultural Jewish state "without forcing people to leave, with or without a compensation": "It is up to the Pelasgian Empire to decide whether Hierosolyma should become a Jewish state or not; we will support that decision, and, for now, will not cooperate with Hierosolyma being taken by force or massive immigration." The Government of Eiffelland-Retalia also phrased its fear that "efforts to create a Jewish state in Hierosolyma by force or mass immigration might lead to a destabilisation of the region".

A total of 80% of the Eiffelloretalians is Tiburan Catholic (albeit in a very liberal way in most cases), but they generally have much tolerance towards other religions, and also towards atheism. There are about 2 million Jews in Eiffelland-Retalia, and they are considered full-flegded citizens. The largest law firm of the country, Rosenthal Rechtsanwälte, is a Jewish firm, the current Minister of Economic Affairs is a Jew, and Eiffelland had a Jewish Chancellor in the 1990s. Anti-Jewish violence does exist in the country, but is punished severely.
On the other hand, Eiffelland-Retalia has very cordial relations with the Pelasgian Empire, relations that go back a long way. As a result, very much has to happen before Eiffelland-Retalia withdraws its support of the Pelasgian Empire.

Pelasgian security forces kill Post-Delegationist terrorists behind Sindos Metro Bombing in shootout
AP Propontis

The State Security Service (YKA), Pelasgia's primary intelligence and internal security force, announced that the terrorist cell behind the January 4th bomb attack at Akrosindos Metro Station in Sindos, which killed 43 people including the Chief of State and his wife, was eliminated following a shootout with the YKA's Special Prosecution Detachments. When the YKA attempted to detain three of the individuals belonging to the cell on separate occasions, they violently resisted arrest, obliging officers to open fire. One more cell member committed suicide before being arrested, while the cell's final member appears to have died before the attack, after trying to ram a Politarchy blockade on a separate occasion. All the groups members' were young students in their twenties, from comfortable economic backgrounds and with a history of trouble-making.

Tens of more individuals belonging to other cells linked to the Sindos cell have been arrested by the authorities, or have died in similar shootouts, as part of the crackdown in the days following the Sindos Metro Bombing. With the nation still in mourning, many are hoping that a successful prosecution of the terrorist group, self-styled as the "Popular Liberation Front", will bring closure to the victims' loved ones. Pelasgian prosecutors have noted that the group is of mainly Post-Delegationist political leanings, and that it has connections to the infamous People's Front of Philistaea, a Zionist secessionist terror group in western Pelasgia responsible for multiple attacks in recent decades. Links to Post-Delegationist groups uncovered through the University of Propontis Radical Group Scandal have also been noted by Pelasgian authorities.

Senior Papavar party member Jordan Savatier arrested
AP Grau

Jordan Savatier, senior member of the left-leaning Papavar party, known for his fight for Frankish-Friulian bilingualism in the Duchy of Francatiare, and recently advocating for a demilitarisation of the Friulian border with the People's Republic of Bourgogne, has been taken into custody by the military police as he was trying to cross the border without permission with a small group of protesters.
Savatier was released soon after a brief interrogation with the promise of leaving the area.

A Church not so friendly to the Civic Process
AP International

As much as the extreme right wing, conservative and traditionalist regime in Entre Rios presents itself as having legitimacy from God himself thanks to it's great relationship with the Tiburan Church going as far as financially sponsoring the Holy See. But this relationship, quite close to the higher ups of the church, is thoroughly absent with the local representatives of the Church, which have in more cases than not, been quite critical to the regime.

The movement, started by Vaquero priests then continued and expanded even more by Entrerriano ones, is now known as Social Theology and it espouses the need of the Church to return to it's grassroots and be more in line with supporting the needy and the poor. Campaigning for social justice first and foremost, the priests following this have criticised the intergalist regime in the Vaquero Free State, the corporatist one in Entre Rios and the authoritarian one in Tapenaga for their use of Christian faith and beliefs as a motive and a reason to legitimise decades of political repression, disappearances, extrajudicial killings and the growing inequality in the peoples of those three countries, with an extremely small elite getting richer and richer, while the most of the people in the best case stagnating or getting poorer in most cases.

Set up by the Vaqueran Ismael Rubio, a priest from the mountainous community of La Yaqui who in the 50s campaigned against mining corporations taking over the land from the natives and against corrupt politicians, back when the Vaquero Free State was a democratic republic, the Social Theology has been exported to Tapenaga and Entre Rios by priests that have become activists protecting the indigenous peoples and the poor, especially when in the late 50s and early 60s, after the death of Nikolai Leninov the communist parties have collapsed with the lack of financial support coming from Ivar. The movement was revived in the early 70s by Rodrigo Secada, which has started criticising the integralist regimes for using Christian belief as a way to cover their atrocious crimes, in the chaotic days in which the right wing regimes came to power. In a famous pirate radio broadcast, Secada has condemned the then government of Entre Rios led by General Alfredo Rocha stating that they pretend to be good Christians, yet they violated five of the ten Commandments, namely taking the name of the Lord in vain, not killing, not stealing, bearing false witness, and coveting the neighbour's goods. It is unofficially seen that his underground campaign to discredit the regime is what brought the end of the militarised form of the dictatorship and it's move to a civilian one, which has tried to be what in the Aurosphere is known as a "dictablanda", an allegedly more benevolent regime.

Today, many of the Social Theologians have a history of spending time in the prisons of Entre Rios or the Vaquero Free State. Some have been "convinced" to tone down their criticism, some have disappeared and are still missing for the better of 30 years, but some still continue to fight, either on the underground with pirate internet radio using IPs from faraway places that the secret police can't get them, or, some who are more visible, prefer to openly attack the regimes in the sermons, knowing that they are popular enough for the regimes to be afraid of the consequences of their arrest.

One of the latter is Hector Nores, a priest from no other place than Santa Cruz, the capital of Entre Rios. The huge number of people coming to his sermons are a figuratively shield of his against arrest or any malevolent thoughts the Civic Process might harbour against him. Nores has started his priestly career in rural Cocapata, where the Selva ends and the Pampas begins and has campaigned against the government and the Corporación Nacional de Ganadería (the state owned corporation that owns all cattle stations in the country) as they wanted to clear parts of the selva to create grazing land for the livestock, putting the local cocalero growing community at risk. He was moved first to Barranca Brumosos, deep in the high mountains of the Sierra Dorada, and then to completely break him away from his rural 'campesino' supporters, moved to Santa Cruz.

Nores has offered strong criticism against both the leadership of the Tiburan Catholic Church, calling it broken it's real base of support, the people, and criticising what he calls the vain architecture of the many big, and overly jeweled churches that were built by the regime. Most of his criticism comes from the growing inequality, as he recently condemned the big economic growth as being presented as a victory, him calling it a victory for the elite of the regime, rather than the working people.

"Allow me to be extremely sceptical of this tremendous economic growth, as it will be seen only in the pockets of the leaders of the Partido Azul, whereas the workers will feel nothing, especially when the Vertical Syndicate works more to silence them than to fully represent and defend the labourers. I would say that the time has come. The Civic Process was set up to bring stability for the country in the wake of the scandals and crises of the 1960s, but by now, I will say it has outlived it's purpose. Jesus has shown his preference for the poor in the bible. If the regime is defending Christian values, why are they defending the rich and stomping on the necks of the poor? That is what I want you all to ask yourselves. Where is the Christian spirit in this regime? Let us pray to God now and hope that he will make the politicians wise in understanding that enough is enough. Let the next elections be free and our representatives not be pushed into this abusive coalition named the Civic Front. Let us pray to God that he delivers us from corruption and dictatorship," stated Hector Nores in his most recent sermons, that like many others, took a political turn.

The people coming to his sermons were at first scared to be seen in public attending, as they were afraid that there will be consequences for them or their professional future, but now, as their numbers grow even larger and internet radio takes his transcripts and popularises them in the whole Aurosphere, it can be estimated that there are a few millions listening to him. This just shows that the winds of change are coming. They have brought an end to the Aurarian dictatorship five years ago, and have now crossed the Thaumantic and will affect Entre Rios, Tapenaga and the Vaquero Free State too.