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THE SAINT THEOSBURG TIMES
22 FEBRUARY 2020

NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE WESTERNESSE STATES OF AMBROSIA

PRESIDENT EYES THE FUTURE
Written by Glenn Rice

On an uncharacteristically cold morning in Saint Theosburg, capitol of the Westernesse States of Ambrosia (WSA), President Robert Hirschfeld entered an auditorium filled with students from the University Central Westernesse. In contrast with the budding pupils Hirschfeld presents with a short white beard and hair, wrinkles that appear with every expression, and the subdued energy of a tenured President.

"How are you doing?" Hirschfeld asked the collegiate crowd to meager morning cheer, "And how would you say I am doing as President?" he then asked to a much larger round of chants and applause. With an approval rating of 55.4% from the general public, Robert Hirschfeld would be expected to commence a victory lap opportunity to complete his vision as President.

Instead, Hirschfeld is stepping back and listening.

"This is where I'm supposed to list the great things I think I've done and encourage you to do great things for our country." Hirschfeld grumbled with his eyes peering down at a long prepared speech, "I think I'd rather hear what great things you want to do with your lives; where do you want to take the Westernesse States? . . I'm serious! . ."

As a Long Cottage (residence of president) Correspondent for thirty-eight years, I have never seen an Ambrosian President stumble into such an uncomfortable moment with a crowd. After nearly a minute he exercised his presidential privilege by pointing to a young man in the crowd.

"I think we need to pick a side between DDI and ODS!" the young man suggested among a crowd of fellow baseball team players. The student had touched upon a hot button issue in Saint Theosburg among the political talking heads with economists leaning towards the Organization of Democratic States, and conservative ideologues advocating alignment with the Democratic Defense Initiative.

"Okay, but what would you do? That was my question . ." Hirschfeld reminded beneath eyes darting from security personnel and mouths open aghast at the lack of decorum being displayed by the WSA President.

"I WOULD ASK TO . ." a female student began to shout before being pushed down by her peers, but Hirschfeld waived his hand up to indicate that she should be allowed to speak. "What would you do then, Miss?"

"I would have us put hooks of observation in both . . and, and . . invite the Rurikgrad Pact to a homeland invasion exercise!" she shouted before whispers, jeers, and hands pushed her down once more.

"I've heard you Miss, and I think we actually ought to try that." Hirschfeld said with a rare smirk and a nod. Whether the President and the nation will pursue one denim jean wearing young lady's proposition remains uncertain at the present.

 
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  • Grandson of Pres. Hirschfeld diagnosed with ALS
  • Country music star Tripp Rankin ends tour early after DUI charge
  • Child painter depicts Westernesse Apocalypse in watercolors
  • Tysk-Ambrosian birthrates up in rural Bellingham County
  • Conspiracy theories rampant after death of Johnston Is. king
 
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'WEEK'S END W/ LAIRD QUINN'
*Twenty-year broadcast veteran Laird Quinn arrives from off-camera, passing the news desk, customarily beginning the broadcast standing*

"The world surely saw Ambrosia this week, but what did they see?"

*Images roll of deceased millionaire Declan Bradshaw's body being rolled out of a Cussian hotel*

"Climatier Conditioning CEO Declan Bradshaw suffered a broken neck while horsing around with a fellow millionaire and hired company. We are told that his peer likewise failed to survive the encounter and that here at home the so-called 'family-man, philanthrope, and churchgoer' will be honored with a full rights funeral ceremony when his corpse is out processed from Roanoke, our southern underbelly tumor in the New Model Republic."

*Quinn turns to another camera with annoyance while the image of a young man appears over his right shoulder.*

"The carousel spins on with ex-LDS Activist Casey Kissel, aged 29, claiming that he is the rightful heir to deceased Johnston Isle' King Casey Trust, known to the world as King Trusty. Kissel is a well-known public atheist who hosts an online radio show focusing on allegations, conspiracies, and gripes concerning the Ambrosian Faith. Kissel now claims to be in possession of love letters and personal gifts from the late King Trusty. Public records show that his mother, Marilyn Kissel, indeed could not name a biological father upon giving birth, yet did name a 'Casey Trust' as the child's intended 'Godfather'; I remind viewers that a blood test is taken for biological father claims, but never designated godfathers."

*A third camera meets the pivot of the balding journalist*

"Finally, the Westernesse States of Ambrosia send diplomatic missions on the periphery of the 'Big Three European Alliances'. Was this fluff and nonsense, a whining declaration that we are still here, or part of a masterclass scheme?"

*Laird Quinn's dismissive grimace tells his opinion better than words*

"President Hirschfeld has ended a half-century's bliss of isolation from Europe's squabbles and entanglements by sticking an ear, a nose, and potentially a tongue between three power blocs. Not picking a side is picking a side Mister President, and rest assured to our viewers: the world has already assigned our country and constitution to the dustbin of history. God hasn't a place in DDI, Rurikgrad, Dulwich, or ODS. No matter how progressive and peaceful we demonstrate ourselves to be, we will always be the country who carried on slavery until 1882, or hasn't removed Jesus Christ from our national anthem, constitution, and pledge of allegiance!"

*Headlines rise from the bottom of the screen until turning to black, a commercial break begins for 'Petit-Potat' Frozen Fries, being offered at Heidi Corner Markets*



 

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THE SAINT THEOSBURG TIMES
22 FEBRUARY 2020

NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE WESTERNESSE STATES OF AMBROSIA

FBS Identifies New Terror Threat
Written by Frederick Herzog

Ambrosia's Federal Security Bureau has identified URT's (United Republics in the Thaumantic) 30.12.18 event as a catalyst for a "new era of international terror that will spawn a new breed of domestic dissidents."

Testifying before the Westernesse States Quorum (Upper House) on Wednesday, Intelligence Director B.L. Suthers testified under oath, stating that: "I suspect that disaffected Atheist Thaumanticists are present in the chamber with us now. More certainly, from the findings in this three thousand page report, the Republic of Beautancus will soon be confronted by an existential crisis of identity and ultimately security."

Questioned by Quorum member Gary McLellin about the origin of this potential threat, Director Suthers described her own personal philosophy that "the absence of information and understanding within a civilization inspires exploding spores of independent answers for that societal quandary."

The FSB report describes the State Atheism as a "runaway cult on an international scale", claiming that "untold millions have bought into a select few's vision of 'Thaumantic Civilization'' and that in the absence of this leadership, through death or political expiration, "hundreds and thousands of Cussian and Engellexian citizens will seek to take those philosophical imperatives to their ultimate conclusion."

When confronted by Quorom member John Page with the fact that the Engell-Cussian alliance had been dissolved, Director Suthers invoked a peculiar parable from the Book of Ambrose about a flock of birds separated in a hurricane. "Again, millions of Engellexian and Cussian citizens find themselves lost from the flock. If you will not read this FSB report, I encourage you to read the Cussian newspapers where they shout over each other to find the new direction, or further and further stare into the abyss which is the absence of guidance from Engellexian Northern or Southern leadership of a scattered flock."

Perhaps most worrying from the "Thaumantic Terror Report" were details regarding two domestic terror stings of self-proclaimed 'State-Atheists'. In early January a Terrence Smith was arrested for conspiracy to attack an Ambrosian Temple in his home town of Redding Lake, only caught after trying to solicit bomb making materials from FSB agents. The second was teenage school shooter Charles Wight, who claimed that he was inspired by "online Thaumantic Atheist forums" to "purge fictionals and establish sanity at my school."

"These are but two cases that have reached public trial," Director Suthers advised the Quorum, "while the Engellexian Republic remains silent and the Cussian Republic descends into electoral chaos: this number will double, triple, multiply, and when I testify before you next year you will thank the Federal Security Bureau for demanding immediate authority to pursue this vector of domestic and international terror."
 
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You cannot imagine my surprise when reading the Times this morning, upon reading the tripe you've seen fit to publish from whoever Frederick Herzog is (I suspect him to be an Imperial double-agent given his clearly Germanian surname). Furthermore and far worse, to hear of such ill-informed and utterly sensationalist histrionics coming from the mouth of so highly-placed a member of the Ambrosian government on the floor of the Quorum - just what game are you people playing at exactly?

To insinuate that Nativism is atheism is not only factually incorrect - it is an issue that was long settled between our forefathers. I will spare you the age-old debate on the precise nature of Nativism, but it is troubling in the extreme to behold how you would characterize your neighbors. What is worse yet still, in all of this attempt to engineer melodrama where there is none, you fail entirely to even acknowledge our own most predominant belief system in Beautancus - choosing instead to concoct some fantasy wherein the Cussian people are amoral atheists.

Though the Cussian people are indeed the proud sons and daughters of Engellex - we are not ourselves Engells, nor are we given to uphold their most peculiar and particular doctrinal formulations, State Atheism foremost among that number. There may be some Cussians that adhere to this one dimensional creed, but they are numbered in the single digits at best, and have not rated highly enough to be included in any Cussian census for more than a decade. There are, in fact, exponentially more Cussians in adherence to your own Ambrosian Creed than there are Cussian Atheists, a fact no doubt already well known to you.

Likewise, to insinuate that the New Model Republic's preparations for our regular, constitutionally mandated General Elections are a presage to descent into "electoral chaos" is nothing more than the basest form of sensationalism. Despite the criticisms most often leveled against Beautancus from abroad as being a monolithic, fascist state, there is indeed more than one fully formed and popularly supported school of political thought in our nation. The exercise of our constitutionally enshrined right to free elections has never and will never be the chaos your dark fantasy would have it be.

Our own Founding Fathers, in their inestimable wisdom, saw fit to grant the First Citizen and Office for the Administration of Government a long enough term - at maximum 10 years - to actually accomplish something real for the country. I suppose it can be difficult for other nations to appreciate the vagueries of our system - but there is no excuse for our nearest neighbor to so willfully ignore the facts to suit their own dishonest narrative. Ambrosia, of all nations, should and does know better.

Lastly and most perniciously of all - it is very nearly criminal that you should imply that Beautancus had anything to do with what were and are clearly false flag operations, likely conducted by your own intelligence agencies. Beautancus has not yet and never will be forced to resort to brainwashing children to shoot up the joint in order to carry out the business of state. You should consider the implications for your own nation very carefully then.

I can, at least, say that we Cussians do share many of your concerns over the revelations coming out of the URT. They are undeniably troubling, and I believe that the news from around the New Model Republic has more than born this out in recent weeks. This has badly shaken the once unimpeachable faith Beautancus has in its ancient fatherland and closest ally - but it has not, as you have reported, lead the First Citizen to termimate any of our treaty obligations to or with Engellex. The great project for the creation of a Thaumantic Domain might have been temporarily stalled, but our world has not yet been completely upended, and Cussians nowhere are behaving as if the sky is falling.

I await your response - and should good sense prevail, both your corrections to this horribly written article as well as word that you've seen fit to fire this dangerously stupid or intentionally dishonest Herzog creature.

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Großer Gott, wir loben dich!

The Dual Monarchy wishes the Ambrosian people and faith the best in their growing predicament in Westernesse. State Atheism and its immoral values represent at threat to the civilized nations and peoples of this world.

Our united crown peoples in Tyskonia and Petits-Pays will offer our aid in the form of national security intelligence should our services come across any imminent treats from this abhorrent scourge of godless radical cultists which operate across the world in the form of anarchists, communists, and radical republicans.

It is our hope that allies of the Christian faith can work together against the mercenary-like forces of atheism.


Mit herzlichen Grüßen,


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Noting our Cussian colleague's gripes and discontent, we seek merely to reinforce the fact that Senior St. Theo Journalist Frederick Herzog was tasked with summarizing reports and testimony from a government official who is advocating for a proactive response to Atheistic Terrorism - which has struck this nation in a recent school shooting, and murdered elected officials in the Engellexian Republics. We have found no discernible insinuation from this article or its author that Nativism and State Atheism are synonymous, and would venture to clarify that the Federal Security Bureau's report does not make this error either.

That Beautancus has descended into "electoral chaos" is the opinion of FSB Director Bobbi-Lynn Suthers, which she derives from her agency's report. B.L. Suthers and the FSB have theorized that uncertainty regarding the future of the Thaumanticism will inspire independent actors and small organized factions to take violent action. Our article and the report that it has mentioned does not accuse the New Model Republic of organizing these hate groups, or assisting them in terrorist actions. It would seem actually that the NMR and URT have the most to worry and lose from this category of terror organization. We will not engage in baseless conspiracy theory that claims foreign governments had a hand in 30.12.18, though scarce independent reports can be found on the matter, and we share the assessment of the FSB that Charles Wight (an Ambrosian school shooter) was not ordered or directed to carry out his attack; rather that he was independently inspired to do so by radical atheist discontent online.

The prognostication for further violent fallout from 30.12.18 is not a universal held prediction in Ambrosia. Director Suthers' views were directly challenged by Quorum Members McLellin, Jorgenson, and Patrick who are expected to oppose an upcoming legislation that expands the Federal Security Bureau's powers to bring down online "hate organizations" that incite violence. In the spirit of fair and due diligence we have requested that Mister Herzog follow up on the story by investigating and reporting on alternative views from the FSB and its director.

OOC: Edited the original newspost and this one to reflect that the Constituent Republics can be referred to as URT now.
 
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'MORNING MIX W/ DEVIN MORGAN & SHARON BEVERLY'
*A live studio audience of elderly Ambrosians are shown clapping along with upbeat music at 0600 while hosts Devin Morgan and Sharon Beverly walk out with coffee cups in hand. The set is brown, orange, and green and has been unchanged in principle for decades with three generations of hosts*

DEVIN MORGAN: "Happy President Padraig's Day?"

SHARON BEVERLY: "Oh dear, have you even slept? That was yesterday. What else is in that coffee?"

*The audience laughs and applauds reminiscing yesterday's celebration of President William Padraig who died in office from falling off a horse drunk, yet none the less was a popular progressive hero in the 1960s*

DEVIN MORGAN: "Somehow I'm here my dear, and we're live so let's just get on with it: the House of Commons has ordered sanctions on Premier Elizabeth Martinique and the Serazine President.

*The hosting couple sit down in tall chairs with a small and tall table between them, with Sharon Beverly crossing her legs and leaning towards Devin*

SHARON BEVERLY: "My heart goes out to those refugees; I get it, they are Kadiki, Burgundians, and Friulians who would spit upon the Book of Ambrose an our Constitution. But they are still people, you know? I can't imagine what is going through the minds of the mothers and children who are being hoisted into Burgundy - has their war even ended yet?"

DEVIN MORGAN: "It has, but the region is due for another one. It always is, isn't it? It is, like a perennial flower it is."

 

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'MORNING MIX W/ DEVIN MORGAN & SHARON BEVERLY'
*Another day, another crowd, yet the same mugs and the same hosts for the last five years walked out to the early morning audience*

SHARON BEVERLY: "Oh dear, my son. My son, and I don't mean my dogs Baily or Barkley, I mean Sean my human son . . "

DEVIN MORGAN: "My co-host means to say: she is concerned that the National Guard has been put on four-week response."

SHARON BEVERLY: "Exactly! Sean . .we signed you up for the benefits, not to rally for some foreign war. We are a peaceful nation, aren't we? We wear service as a badge!"

DEVIN MORGAN: "Of course, but will the badge have any value if no one sacrifices a damn thing?

*Sharon Beverly is carried off stage weeping for her entirely indirectly endangered son*

DEVIN MORGAN: "President Hirschfeld is asking the military to not on activate this morning, but take a most unconventional mobilization west, despite eastern intercontinental tensions dominating headlines. Our first and only guest is Ken Owens, a Saint Theosburg Times Contributor."

KEN OWENS: "Where some would see this as President Hirschfeld's final move, we are seeing this as FSB Chief B.L. Suther's first move as she quietly strangles the power from the president in his final days like an anaconda."

DEVIN MORGAN: "Will it really be like that, so graphic?"

KEN OWENS: "We are watching as tens of thousands of refugees shuffled across the world like cards, these people will become disaffected and dangerous: we are sure of this much."

*Sharon Beverly is wheeled back in with arms airy towards the cheering crowd*

SHARON BEVERLY: "My son, you can't take my son!"

KEN OWENS: "No one's taking anything away from anyone who didn't volunteer, Sharon.
 

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'WEEK'S END W/ LAIRD QUINN'
*Twenty-year broadcast veteran Laird Quinn arrives from off-camera, passing the news desk, customarily beginning the broadcast standing*
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"The President names his successor, the Marines embark upon an aggressive recruitment campaign, and a peculiar company goes public for trade."

*A picture of B.L. Suthers appears over the shoulder of the host*

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"President Robert Hirschfeld endorsed the Federal Security Bureau Director, Bobbi-Lynn Suthers, as his pick to replace him as he rapidly approaches the end of his second and legally final term. This would be the first election contest for Suthers - who approaches public office from a career in the AWS Marines and FSB."

*A picture of her challenger, William Clark appears over the host's shoulder*

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"Clark's campaign claims that Suthers has denied all requests for a debate, town hall, or meeting with the Himyari-Ambrosian candidate who represents the Conservative Ambrosian Coalition's bid to retake the Presidency after two consecutive losses."

*A second camera meets the pivot of the balding journalist*

"After failing to secure the broadening of the FSB's domestic surveillance privileges last month, FSB Director Suthers has assumed responsibility of the Westernese States' Crisis Response Council, which was formed at the order of President Hirschfeld in response to heightening tensions in Gallo-Germania and the Implarian."

*Video rolls into Director Suthers describing the Ambrosian response*

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Director Suthers: "Tripling the Marine Corps is impossible, I told the President that. What I passed through and what thousands of men and women pass through every year simply can't be done by the majority of Ambrosians. I think he should have designated the Army or Navy to double or triple, but you know, I'm hopeful that the young men and ladies of this country recognize that this isn't another frontier war with the First Nations, or a reveille against Cussian composition. Europe is going to war some time this year and we ought to have a hand in ending it."

*Host Laird Quinn returns taking in a deep breath and launching in to the next topic*

"The Ambrosian company 'Everly', an online store platform hailing from Everly.eu, has gone public in the stock market this week as it embarks on a journey of expansion across the Westernesse continent. Their motto, 'everything for everyone', is a bold attempt to offer every product available in brick and mortar stores in Ambrosia to every person across the continent."

*CEO Michael Slaughter is shown in video ringing the trading bell above traders in Saint Theosburg*
 

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'WEEK'S END W/ LAIRD QUINN'

*Twenty-year broadcast veteran Laird Quinn arrives from off-camera, passing the news desk, customarily beginning the broadcast standing*
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"Has the Empire of Justosia been humbled, or does it consolidate its strength before receiving the full strength of the free world?"

*Quinn turns to another camera*
"Ambrosia recognizes the World Zionist Congress. Where does that leave Jews in Pelasgia and Gallo-Germania?"

*The host takes a seat to begin addressing these issues*
"President Robert Hirschfeld spoke in front of graduating cadets at the Mount Elanasburg Military College late this week where he recommended they "live and lead every day as if a painter was recording". This follows his grand moves of mobilizing masses of active duty army, marines, navy, and air forces last month and deploying an expeditionary force to exercise in the Augustine Islands. The once bellicose and eager to respond Justosian Empire has thus far respected Ambrosia and Elben's partnership in the Implarian and Silk Sea region.

Hirschfeld, who has been tied to global Jewry by Sylvanian theorists in the past, set Ambrosia on a clash with Central Europe today when he announced a policy initiative to not only recognize the World Zionist Congress, but to fortify and arm their home. President Hirschfeld told a row of Jewish Cadets that "the nation of Ambrose stands ready to place and expand the nation of Zion, so help me God." Religion, as always, seems to flow downstream from politics in Europe and no one expects this formal recognition to make any significant impact."

*Active and standing again, Quinn walks towards another camera*
"But how are domestic affairs? Speaker of the House William Clark says at-risk communities in Ambrosia are being ignored at expense of endangered groups abroad.

"Why not invite them here?" Clark asked fellow congressmen and women, "Why are we trying to put boots on the ground over there when we can just say, you know, take a seat and settle over here?" Clark's policies would reinforce Ambrosia as a major destination for Himyari refugees of many different origins. His opponent, Director Suthers, remains fully engaged in duties as head of the Federal Security Bureau and continues to deny Clark any opportunity for public debate.
 

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It is a true honor to be considered by President Hirschfeld to be a nation of equal standing, worth talking to to address the multitude of issues that can only be addressed in cooperation with our brothers and sisters in the international concert of nations. Needless to say, his personal and Ambrosia's national commitment to our expelled people shall not be forgotten should an unfortunate hour of need ever come to haunt the patriots of Ambrosia.

I am also personally heartened by the President's commitment to strengthening the Jewish sword arm, hopefully never to be raised. As President of the WZC, I am committed to righting the wrongs against our people with the power of words, not guns. The whole world shall know that our struggle is one of moral purity, not of petty barbarism.

The World Zionist Congress would be more than eager to open a diplomatic mission in Saint Theosburg, to intensify the dialogue between our kindred peoples.

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Manifesting the world's greatest fears concerning the rogue state of Justosia: on the evening of May 15th 2020 an unarmed Ambrosian pilot was fired upon and presumably murdered by the Justosian Imperial Navy. A violent culmination of a persisting disagreement between the Westernesse States of Ambrosia and the Justosian Empire concerning the right of sovereign nations to conduct freedom of navigation and observation missions in the Silk Sea.

At 2100 AST Lieutenant Erin Spalding left the WS Alderman as a lone pilot, unarmed and with the simple mission of observing the rapidly expanding Justosian military in Europe's often forgotten Silk Sea or Implarian Ocean. She unwittingly approached an active aircraft carrier fleet which fired upon her when she reached missile range.

The mother of two is mourned by her husband, Garrett Spalding, and parents Aaron and Cheryl Crews. She is remembered as an avid dancer, poet, and patriot of Westernesse democracy. The Ambrosian Navy reports that Spalding's transponder went cold at 2140 on May 13th when she flew her unarmed and communicating jet in proximity of Justosian forces.

"There wasn't a conversation," one anonymous Ambrosian official offered this evening, "they fired first, because you see, there's no room for anything other than Justosia in the Silk Sea. I'm just devastated that Lieutenant Spalding had to crack that egg."

Ambrosian forces are present in the region as an extension of a peaceful visit to Tiburan Empire allies in the Augustine Islands. As this short article update is pushed out on the web and printed tomorrow for this weekend: the Ambrosian Navy is expected to engage their Justosian counterparts directly.
 

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THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 122 KARLSTAD STREET,
Charleroi, Clarion, C.R.S., 35322-2334

The Continental Republic condemns the Justosian Empire for its reckless actions that brought about the untimely death of Lieutenant Erin Spalding. The flags of Sylvania shall be brought to half mast for the death of this heroic pilot. Our forces in the area will not tolerate further aggression and the Justosian tyrants should expect that aggression on their part will be returned in kind. Hail Sylvania! Hail Ambrosia!

Katalin Faraday
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  • Marines arrested in Augustines creates standoff
  • Pres. candidate Clark surging in polls on peace platform
  • Police in St. Theosburg to begin wearing cameras on duty
  • Ambrosian Navy eyes Thaumantican merchant marine contracts
 

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OOC: After talking with Norse / Azraq to better form the Dawamali-Ambrosian candidate I renamed him from William Clarke to Bernard Shermarke. He's been an aside and blurb in previous posts as candidate Clark etc, but he's getting a new Dawamali influenced name.

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THE SAINT THEOSBURG TIMES
24 MAY 2020
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE WESTERNESSE STATES OF AMBROSIA


Amity Day 2020
Written by Glenn Rice

On the 24th of May Ambrosians celebrated Amity Day in reverence of when on this day in 1708 the four colonies of Engellachia, New Windhaven, Nova-Pays, and Pithlachusetts ended over a half-century of proxy conflicts by signing the "Collected Rights of Western Man" in Saint Theosburg. A diverse document for its time, the Collected Rights featured three different Gallo-Germanian languages and Engellish together under the seal of one eagle.

Amity Day, a day of friendship, is celebrated by visiting public squares, streets, and county fair grounds where Ambrosians are encouraged to recall and share their cultural heritage from the old world together. On stages an Elbener playes the Zither preceding Dawamali sword dancers. Food festivals with century old vendors pitch tents beside modern fusion upstarts compliment a day cherished by the working class as a federal holiday.

As is tradition in election years: presidential candidates from the Progressive and Constitutional parties are expected to participate in Saint Theosburg's Amity Evening Promenade by sharing a speech about their heritage. Candidates typically avoid policy or platform statements, and instead focus on their backgrounds or revel at what brings Ambrosians together in Westernesse.

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers, the Progressive candidate, draws upon Gunn-Engellexian heritage and described her parents financial struggles in Engellachia where she was the first in her family to go to college after being accepted into the Ambrosian Marine Academy of Officers. Her opponent, the Constitutional Party's Bernard Shermarke, also contributed a first for a Presidential candidate when he described his Great Grandfather's experience a Dawamali immigrant and merchant entrepreneur in the early 19th Century and late 20th.

Their stories spoke to the unique decision voters with diverse backgrounds of their own will be asked to make later this year: will Ambrosians opt for their first female or first gentleman of color candidate to ascend to the historically white male office. That decision will come months from now however, with debates and smears some weeks ahead, while today our nation's candidates listened to each other's backgrounds and shook hands in the name of friendship on Amity Day.
 

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"In the first of two debates between the Constitutionalist Party's Bernard Shermarke and the Progressive Party's Bobbi-Lynn Suthers we present you highlights on how the candidates responded to key issues . . ."
SILK SEA CONFLICT:

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "Ambrosia deserves a President that can see this through to the end, who has the experience in both military and civil service to process national defense issues and decide on them with careful balance. My opponent cannot claim to have served this nation in uniform, for instead he spent his conscription age window in madrasa . ."

Bernard Shermarke: "In madrasa I developed a strong understanding of God, and embarked upon a path of public service that brought me to service in at-risk communities and foreign missions around the world. Justosia doesn't need a gun aimed at it, the folks there just need a helping hand . . "

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT:

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "I promise to prioritize the environment as President of the Westernesse States. President Hirschfeld has done more than any other leader in Westernesse to lead the conversation on renewable energy, but I will do more. As a mother, as a grandmother, I want the children of the world to bask in the natural splendor that this country has to offer."

Bernard Shermarke: "For such a hawk, my opponent always fails to address how the Progressive Party's energy policy puts us at the mercy of foreign powers. I'm a nature goer, that's what God made and I love it, but there is a way to use the bounty has given us and keep ourselves safe. I don't want to pay 5 Eagles a gallon at the pump, do any of you?"

ELECTIONS AND VOTER ID:

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "If you live here, you work here, and are raising a family here: I want your vote and I will fight for you as President. My opponent and his party's scheme to hard working migrants and their families. I won't stand for it, as President, or as a private citizen I will not stand for the tyrannical voter ID mandate!"

Bernard Shermarke: "If you live here, you work here, and want to raise a family here: why the heck aren't you paying taxes? This isn't tyranny, it's common sense. We want citizens to vote in our elections who have a stake in their country. It hasn't anything to do with race like the Progressives want you to believe, voter ID is about election integrity - nothing more!"

"At the end of the evening polls show Suthers maintaining a marginal 51 to 49 lead over Shermarke. We will return next week to Seton Hall for the final debate."

 

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"In the second of two debates between the Constitutionalist Party's Bernard Shermarke and the Progressive Party's Bobbi-Lynn Suthers we present you highlights on how the candidates responded to key issues . . ."

ECONOMY:

Bernard Shermarke: "WeFTA, or the Westernesse Free Trade Agreement is a bane to folks like Secretary Suthers. She is the antonym of free trade, and I . . No ma'am you had your time at our last debate, you are the antonym to freedom!"

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "I want to thank Annesville and the folks who copped tickets here at Seton Hall for showing out. But please, and bless this nation, why are any of you being asked to pay for democracy? I am not taking any foreign donors . . "

Bernard Shermarke:
"DDI? DDI Anyone? Secretary Suthers' plan for our economic future is based on a blood hammer to crack open new markets like a Hesperian Nut!"

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "Sir, no, that ain't right . . Let's check our pockets right now, see? I have a Veterans Department retirement card and a few Cash Eagles to pay for a Petit-Tea after this, unless you will?"

EDUCATION:

Bernard Shermarke: "Parents know their own children and can homeschool their own. Religious communities know their faithful and can educate their own. I promise to end the stranglehold the Department of Education has on children and return them to the pre-Ambrosian system of merit and independent intuitions."

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "I love Gary Ambrose and I'm not afraid to say it! I was raised on the Aspirational Aphorisms of Ambrose and if you want to call it progressive nonsense, as your attack ads do Mister Shermarke, shame on you! Triple A belongs on the desk of every student at every stage, and we ought to expand the book!

DRUGS:

Bernard Shermarke: "In even a conservative taxation scheme this nation can make a hell of a lot of money from embracing the successful Aresuran marijuana industry and others. Gary Ambrose instituted a choke hold on not only children and teens, but also children to choose for themselves what to put in their body at free market cost!"

Bobbi-Lynn Suthers: "I don't care where it's coming from or who it's making money for: this stuff is busting up families. When Beautancus is finally dead we will overcome so many of these organize drug cartels, and I look forward to crushing the Aresurans!"
 
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