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We regret to report that Dr. Tobias Sprenger and team have been detained for attempting to steal disease specimens and evidence from the Grand Covenant.

Whatever the Eiffellandian agenda is here in Cantignia or around the world, we are in genuine fear that their many entangling conflicts have put the world at greater risk by conspiring to exploit a contagion crisis for political or financial gain.

 

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Aussenministerium
Trier, Eiffelland

We thank the governments of Sylvania and Mazidia with their support in this crisis. We will evacuate all citizens of Eiffelland-Retalia from Beautancus and Cantignia, including the diplomats. We will also close every diplomatic representation of Eiffelland-Retalia in Beatancus and Cantignia.
Unfotunately, we see ourselves forced to reciprocate the actions by the governments of Beautancus and Cantignia. We already barred Cussian citizens from entering Eiffelland-Retalia, but we will also bar citizens from Cantignia to Eiffelland-Retalia. All citizens from Beautancus are to leave Eiffelland-Retalia within 24 hours; all citizens from Cantignia are to leave Eiffelland-Retalia within 48 hours. Effective immediately, all visa for Cantignian citizens have been revoked. In order to guarantee a safe return of all Eiffellandians from Beautancus and Cantignia, we will seize all Cussian and Cantignian assets in Eiffelland-Retalia; these assets will be returned to the rightful owners upon a safe return of all Eiffellandian citizens who have been in Beautancus and Cantignia during the last 72 hours.
We will also take all Eiffelloretalian diplomatic staff out of Beautancus and Cantignia, and will also expel all Cussian and Cantignian diplomats out of Eiffelland-Retalia.
All Eiffellandian and Retalian banks and companies with possessions in Beautancus or Cantignia, and with positions in Cussian and Cantignian shares, bonds and futures, will sell their possessions in Beautancus and Cantignia as well as their Cussian and Cantignian shares, bonds and futures. Also Eiffellandian and Retalian private persons will sell their Cussian and Cantignian possessions, futures, shares and bonds. A travel warning will be issued for Cantignia as well.
The Eiffellandian companies thank the Government of Mazidia for their offer to invest in its country. They will contact the persons concerned in Mazidia as soon as possible.

Rüdiger Zimmermann, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor

CONFEDERATED REPUBLIC OF BEAUTANCUS
STATE FOREIGN SERVICE,
OFFICE OF THE FIRST CITIZEN & CHIEF
Drummond House, 2552 Company Street,
Welmonton, City of Welmonton, CRB, 58362

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While this administration will admit that it finds the infantile impotence of the clique of Communist Conspirators apparently governing the territories of the so-called nations of Eiffelland and Retalia quite humorous, we find your bravado at having the received the ill-informed and self destructive support of two of the greatest laughing stocks of the Occidental family of nations to be even more entertaining. That said, the time for humoring you is over.

What markets are there for us to fear being excluded from, as they have long-since been wrecked, what rebuke is to be denied the necessity of pretending that there remains any legitimacy or relevance in dealing with the territory of Eiffelland - as any there might have enjoyed has been subsumed by the conquest of the lions share of Gallo-Germania by the forces of Marxism-Leninovism.

It has never been in the interest of the Confederated Republic of Beautancus to enrich your effete, out of touch and ineffectual bureaucracy, as such your so-called response is as meaningless and toothless as any of the actions attempted, and failed in recent months and years. It has, however, now become the case that you shall no longer enrich us by receiving any further shipments of grain or other foodstuffs from Beautancus or the other forthright Engellkin nations of the world. The Trier Accord is a relic, and the memory of Eiffelland even more so. To that effect, all diplomatic recognition of the government of Eiffelland has been withdrawn, as far as the Confederated Republic is concerned, Eiffelland is now a rogue nation - and we will conduct all future policy with this in mind. We will be strongly encouraging the free, Civilized nations of the world in joining us in this resolution, in the hopes that we are able to affect some positive change in the creation of a more responsible, reasonable government in Eiffelland.

Perhaps it will even prove that the threat Eiffelland provides to the free peoples of the Civilized World can no longer be tolerated - at all, and must be dealt with militarily? Only time, and the starvation that will drive your people to overthrow the criminal regime holding them back, will tell.

Should the nations of Mazidia and Sylvania seek to subvert our will in this regard, there will be severe economic and political consequences closer to home - which indeed, further proves the Communistic agenda of destabilization pursued by the criminal gang known as the Trier Accord, and their pimps in Eiffelland.

We will be seeing you sooner than you think.




Sir Endymion Victavio Walker, State Foreign Service Secretary,
Confederated Republic of Beautancus

 

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Today's Top Headline:

Caucuses Forming in House of Burgesses Over Proposed Imperial Pelasgic Agreements

With the Confederated Republic's recent "international pivot," the House of Burgesses has been called to parse the truth of numerous matters of diplomatic import in recent weeks, though none has proven quite so divisive as the recent introduction of the "Avgiros Proposals" from the Empire of Pelasgia to the Burgesses' floor. Complicated by the growing spat between the Confederated Republic and the Trier Accord-overlords in Eiffelland-Retalia, the debate over accepting the aforementioned proposals has grown so repeatedly heated that the Speaker of the Burgesses recommended the official formation of political caucuses to better debate and come to some resolution on the matter. To this effect, two primary caucuses have emerged: the Exclusion per Association with Trier, or "Exclusionist" caucus, and the Expansions of Historical Precedents, or "Expansionist" caucus. Debates are set to continue throughout...(cont'd. here)


Other Top Stories:

• Vesper Crisis Nearing Resolution? - Vesper Seizes Eiffellander Plotters! Return to Normalized Relations in the Occident to Follow?
• Yamassaw Conflict Continues in Coaree Dominion, 30 Slain in Most Recent Gun-Battle
• Impotent Eiffelland Shakes Its Little Fist Ineffectually
• Continued Sylvanian Treachery? How Long Can It Be Tolerated?

 

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Statement by Dr. Tobias Sprengers, after landing at the airport Trier-Sperenberg

I take notice of the fact that my team members and I are wanted in Cantignia. We will continue our investigations in Eiffelland.

OOC: I know that I am currently giving a school example of bad RPing practice, but I don't care. This whole storyline irritates me to a high extent, so herewith I end it. @Beautancus @Cantignia I propose that we ignore each other on this forum from now on.

 

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Statement by Dr. Tobias Sprengers, after landing at the airport Trier-Sperenberg

I take notice of the fact that my team members and I are wanted in Cantignia. We will continue our investigations in Eiffelland.

OOC: I know that I am currently giving a school example of bad RPing practice, but I don't care. This whole storyline irritates me to a high extent, so herewith I end it. @Beautancus @Cantignia I propose that we ignore each other on this forum from now on.

OOC: Personally I was looking forward a prisoner stand off, that would creep into every diplomatic discussion for the next however many months, much like the US guy that was held in Turkey.

 

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OOC: Sorry, but I'm a bit overburdened at the moment. RPing a prisoner scandal on top of a 60 hour work week is a bit too much.

 

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Coaree Dominion Formally Revokes Constituency of Yamassaw Tribal 'Nation'
Troublesome Tribe to be Relocated to Cumberland En Masse - All Bands, Pending Confederated Supreme Judiciary Ruling


Turkey Courthouse - With a series of swift and nearly unanimous votes in the Chamber of Deputies earlier this afternoon, the legislature of the Coaree Dominion both figuratively and legally disowned the now infamously restive Yamassaw Tribal Nation. This legislation includes the requisite measures to ensure their swift removal and transfer to Confederal custody en masse - including provisions for assistance from the Confederate Marshals Service and SSB - before relocation to the comparatively more lightly populated back-country of the Commonwealth of Cumberland.

This move comes on the heels of the revocation of Dominion citizenship for nearly half a dozen individual bands of the Yamassaw for a variety of "chronic offenses" ranging from the production and attempted distribution of "dangerously addictive, improperly manufactured illicit substances," mostly methamphetamine; refusal to provide legally mandated educational opportunities for minors, or enrolling minors in public educational institutions provided by the Dominion and/or National Governments; refusal to learn to read or speak Engellisc; refusal to maintain permanent domicile or suitable accommodation for human dwelling; to cumulative instances of aggravated assault, larceny, felonious breaking and entering and similar such offenses numbering into the 1000s per individual band.

Though nearly five thousand people will reportedly be uprooted by this measure, Lord-Chieftain of the Coaree Dominion, His Excellency Hoassagonee Blue-Kettle insists that "...while extreme, we have been left with no other recourse given the repeated opportunities the Yamassaw people have been provided to bring themselves into accordance with the customs and legal realities of the modern Confederated Republic. We might be a distinct people within Beautancus, but we have been part of this nation since it was founded, and have always enjoyed legal equality with our Cussian neighbors - specifically because we have always shown a willingness to abide by the law. The Yamassaw have consistently done the opposite, and we can no longer afford to allow a single tribe to bring such disharmony to the other nine tribes that call this Dominion their common home."

The small caravans formed from the bands already mandated to withdraw from the Dominion have been ordered to rendezvous outside the Turkey Courthouse Fairgrounds, and from there will proceed down Highway 17 under Dominion Highway Patrol and Confederate Marshal escort as a single caravan, to be remanded to the authority of an SSB/Army Task Force formed for the purpose of their resettlement to one of several possible reserved properties in the Commonwealth of Cumberland, per pending decision in the Supreme Judiciary.

• Jamesboro Billbucks Clinch Bronze in Jacaranda Cup, in a true nail-biter vs. Snapping Turtles of Twin Echo. In what is already being hailed as one of the greatest rugby matches in modern history, the Billbucks managed to come out as the top Cussian team represented in the Coveted Cup, representative of continued Engellkin dominance in the sport alongside so many others, despite fluke of final victor Tauritania.
• Reports of Escalating Clashes Between Law Enforcement and Communists in Vesper; Explosion at Engellexic Embassy?
• Kitchen Hill Secondary-School Teacher Dismissed for Encouraging Emotionally Distressed Student to Seek Gender Reassignment
• Drop in Sale of Book of Mormon, Reciprocal Drop in Instances of Book-Burning as Cannie Crisis Loses Steam

 

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Domestic/National Trending News for the Week of Nov.25th-Dec.1st 2018:

• SOCIETY: Truth & Reconciliation Ad Campaign and Popular Demonstrations Continue - Hailed by community, municipal and national leaders alike as a truly vital step forward in the process of mending the recently widening rift between the Engellkin nations, sponsors and supporters of the Truth & Reconciliation Ad Campaign call it "more than an act of popular demonstration, something on the way to becoming a true social movement." Thousands gathered in the First Republic Memorial & Plaza for the fifth day in a row earlier, bearing Truth and Reconciliation banners and slogans, as well as more than a few Engellexic flags...
• SPORTS: A Rebuilding Year for the Champions? - Before a packed house at Grubbs Memorial Stadium, visitors Cumberland Technical Lightfeet stunned both home team 2018 College Basketball Champions, Bailey College Billmen and the rest National College Sports Association in resounding 98-74 victory Wednesday night...
• JUSTICE: Former TEC Exec & State Contract Consultant Found Guilty, To Take Own Life - A Quorum of Twelve Jurists delivered their verdicts of guilty on all counts in the case of Mr. Lawrence Fairchild, former Thaumantic Energy Concern and State Contract Consultant late Thursday, of which were most notably included: 18 counts of fraud, 13 counts of constructive manslaughter, 61 counts of attempted obstruction of justice and High Treason. Waving his right to an appeal, Mr. Fairchild requested "the gentleman's courtesy," death by self-inflicted gunshot, rather than facing the hangman's noose or blindfolded before a firing squad. The Quorum granted this request immediately and...
• FINANCE: State Commerce Oversight Commission Greenlights Principle Capitol/Mint Hill Group Merger - Though the move was not entirely unexpected, executives and investors breathed a definite sigh of relief before lunch Friday as the SCOC gave its blessing to the proposed merger of failing Principle Capitol with industry giant the Mint Hill Group, allowing for the creation of what will become the largest single financial...
• ENTERTAINMENT : Carlingtowne Pictures Seeking Rights for "She Dreams in Fiction" Movie - Always watching the publishers lists, movie-mogul Carlingtown Pictures is reportedly seeking to secure the rights to produce any forthcoming film adaptations of author Jay Gordon's recently released sophomore tragic romance & best-seller, She Dreams in Fiction. Acclaimed by critics as having perfectly captured...

 

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Statesboro Under Lock & Key Ahead of Hush-Hush "Econ Summit"
Leaked Memo, Arrival of Who's Who, Confirm Speculation on State Foreign Mercantile Trust?


Welmonton - With scant few days notice, local law enforcement and their partners in the Capital Security Service, Welmonton Metropolitan Police Department, Confederate Marshal's Service and Confederated Republic Naval Marine Corps 26th Light Foot are confident they have successfully "secured" the Statesboro government district of Welmonton's historic and scenic Old Town and Riverwalk boroughs for the unprecedented economic summit scheduled for the first session in the House of Burgesses later this morning. All non-essential government contractors, personnel and staff having been provided with furloughs for the business day Friday, as well as the compensated closure of local businesses and restaurants in what has been described by insider sources as "perhaps the single biggest international initiative to be proposed before the Burgesses in more than a century."

With the leak of a supposed Executive Office memo concerning a heretofore unknown State, NGO and "Foreign" collaborative enterprise along "the model so recently pioneered by the Domain," regarding the alleged formation of a concept dubbed a "State Foreign Mercantile Trust." Analysts and leading commentators have speculated that this could be an effort on Welmonton's part to ensure that Beautancus' private and state actors are able to meet the needs of all involved in the most profitable and politically sound fashion possible, to the most efficient effect for the Confederated Republic and Her Kindred and Partners abroad.

Seemingly to that latter effect, a number of prominent executives and heads from the Mid and South-Thaumantic's Fortune 50 are confirmed or have been reportedly seen in Welmonton, along with a truly noteworthy contingents of perhaps even more prominent foreign dignitaries. Almost certainly included among this number, and for this purpose will be the Azraqi dynast and plantation magnate, Aw Nexemiya Moxamed Idris, present in Welmonton for some nights already and having given a well-rated interview with Popular Broadcasting Service correspondent Preston Parker Sunday evening. Beautancus, typically in the personage of the Clarendon Cotton Exchange Company, is no stranger to dealings with or in the Idrisid zone of influence among the Azraqi-dominated Spice Islands, though the tenor of the Honorable Aw's recent interview was highly suggestive that something more substantial might soon be in the works.

The Right Honorable Liam Savage, Minister and Trade and Investment for the Federation of Natal and countrywoman and Hartnett Automotive exec Fezeka Soga are likewise reportedly in town, enjoying a private breakfast with His Excellency the First Citizen & Chief at Drummond House before the beginning of precedings. Ms. Soga is far from a stranger to Welmonton or the Confederate Republic at large in recent months, having made quite the impression for her last visit to Lancaster Motors of Whitemere, Albemarle.

Perhaps most striking are indications that Lord-Guarantor, the Duke of Clarence and Nolland, Lord Horation Saville - architect of the First Republic's EHTC success and perhaps most indicative of the tenor that Beautancus' own State Foreign Mercantile Trust might take on. Likewise, the Duchess of Osrhoenesee and Marchioness of Bissee have reportedly made some indication on social media that they will be honored to be consulted by "His Excellency Count Orton himself" on matters pertaining to their industrial interests.

As this session is allowing no journalistic attendance, or public attendance aside, reports will as a matter of course and necessity be forthcoming upon further official statements or press release.

 

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Top & Trending Stories for Thursday, December 27th 2018



WEATHER: Roanoke City and Oxenford "Buried" Under Winter Storm Baxter - Though officially winter for slightly less than a week now, the second named major weather system is already sweeping through the Middle and Upper Piedmont of the Confederated Republic, bringing with it feet of snow, ice and freezing rain as well as wind gusts measuring into the triple digits. Striking Roanoke City first, reportedly dumping an unprecedented and record breaking three feet of snow on the nation's largest and busiest city, as well as leaving more than 250,000 temporarily without power. Winter Storm Baxter shows no signs of moderation as it plows into Granville Commonwealth and directly for its capital and largest city, Oxenford. Emergency Response & Management personnel and Transportation Service Road Crews are already in action...

SCIENCE: Davis College Cosmic Observatory Solar Output Study Findings "Grim" - With record cold, early frosts and deep snows blanketing much of the Upper Prairie throughout the late Fall of this year, and two winter storms big enough to be named in the first 5 days of Winter, it doesn't quite take a degree to tell that 2018 was one of the coldest on record, or that 2019 seems well positioned to continue the cooling trend. Octavian Murphy, Professor Emeritus and current Director of the renowned Cosmic Observatory at Davis College has published a study on Solar Activity for the past decade, including the first hundreds of days of 2018, and is "at the very least troubled" by his findings. Ten years into the current 'Solar Cycle,' which usually last between 11-14 years, it is impossible to deny that overall solar activity has been drastically reduced. Sampling only the final portion of his study, the Sun was without sunspots for 213 days in the portion of 2018 covered in the study, equating to a general lack of Solar Activity for 60% of the time - approaching the same levels that spurred the rapid colonization of Westernesse in the 17th and 18th Centuries...

POLITICS: Senior Lawmakers Return from Holiday Break Early, SFMT Talks Resume - Statesboro insiders have noted that several dozen top legislators, Burgesses and Senators alike, have returned from the customarily two-week Holiday Recess some days early and almost certainly to move the critical discussion on the foundation and deployment of the proposed State Foreign Mercantile Trust of the Confederated Republic. Though details are scarce at this point, our sources have indicated that Azraqi, Cantigian, and Pelasgian officials were also present for most, if not all of the closed-door sessions taking place today...

ADVISORY: Local Authorities Warn "Mt. Olive Stratovolcano Showing Signs of Worrisome Activity" - The typically picturesque, even sleepy, Isla Olivia, third largest island in the Cassiopeian Sea, has been rocked by seismic tremors generated by a sudden and dramatic increase in venting of superheated gases and deformation inside the Confederated Republic's largest active volcano, Mount Olive. The largest of these tremors measured well in excess of 4.0, and having already caused several million pounds in damage to private property and local infrastructure, spurring authorities to issue a number of advisories and warnings for the entire island. A number of enterprising locals had already set up boat tours on the north side of the island, directly facing the flank of the gargantuan volcanic complex - of which Mt. Olive is the largest and most active outgrowth at present. Geological Service field agents are already on the scene to better assess the situation, quickly issuing statements of support for the caution of the island's leaders in dealing with this potentially catastrophic situation...

SOCIETY: Preparations for 3-Day Weekend Underway Nation-Wide - The most important days of the civic and cultic calendar for the Nativist, Confederated Republic approach - the much beloved Eve of Misrule, Modraniht, Feast of the Longman of The Rivers and Galloween or High Hangman's Eve on Sunday and the ecstatic close of both the year and the 12 Day High Holiday of the Nativist Church with the celebrations of High Winter. Cities, towns and unincorporated communities around the nation have long made this the focal point of popular society and customary tradition in Beautancus and by all accounts, the coming Rites and Exaltation are set to be some of the most memorable in some years...

 

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Top Story for Thursday, January 17th 2019


CIVIL AFFAIRS: Half a Million Left Without Internet Service in SE Clarendon After Domestic Terror Campaign - Though service has by now been fully restored, nearly 500,000 citizens of the counties of Clinton and Waylin in the Commonwealth of Clarendon were without any form of home phone or internet service for more than thirty six hours from Tuesday evening through all of Wednesday, the result of a series of coordinated attacks by elements of Native Revolutionary Action Committee. Loosely associated with the Yamassaw Tribal Nation, that is at present under an order of mandatory resettlement from the Coaree Dominion to the Commonwealth of Cumberland, and having only recently coalesced in the wake of the dissolution of the Yamassaw Tribal Government, the Native Revolutionary Action Committee, or NRAC, has not yet made clear their particular political orientation, if in fact they have any.

Residents of the Wolfscrape Incorporated Community began to make reports of "loud booms" and "what sounded like a bomb" around 2230 Tuesday, around the same time that local telecommunication infrastructure contractor and ISP Noosphere Ltd. began to receive reports of service outages from bewildered customers. This pattern would continue for another five hours and two dozen miles E/SE, with an ever-widening footprint of impact, ending with a series of encounters between more than twenty of what authorities are describing as "domestic terrorists," a number of unfortunately prompt utility workers, a posse of local Sheriff's Deputies and Deputized Citizens and the County Militia QRF. In this spate of violence, it is reported that 3 men in the crew of 7 utility workers were brutally and senselessly murdered before their coworkers were able to retrieve their self defense weapons and make an emergency call for assistance.

The gun battle would continue, and subsequently escalate with the arrival of the posse, raised in nearby Faison Junction, quickly becoming apparent that more than a few of the domestic terrorists possessed at least some level of professional military training. The posse sustained no fatalities, but more than half a dozen brave Cussians were injured in the defense of the continued prosperity and security of their homes.

The situation was decisively concluded with the interdiction of the local Quick Response Force, composed entirely of Naval Marine Corps combat veterans. At least eight of the reportedly 20+ domestic terrorists were slain, most of them by QRF sharpshooters within two minutes of their arrival - by an antique Kadikistani helicopter, apparently privately owned by a member of the QRF.

The remainder of those domestic terrorists who survived the encounter are being held at the Southeast Clarendon Regional Prison under special guard to ensure their safety prior to their first appearance before a Quorum of Jurists on Friday morning. The Waylin County Sheriff's Office has issued only a minimal press release as yet, indicating no more than the declaration of the group's identity and intent made while they were in the Sheriff's custody.


Matters of Note for Thursday, January 17th 2019

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Legislature Issues Congratulations, Executive Cautiously Optimistic Over Sylvanian Shakeup - The House of Burgesses and Senate have voted upon and issued joint declarations of congratulations to the Continental Republic of Sylvania and the Empire of Pelasgia over the outcome of their recent elections, a measure reserved for those instances in which the Combined Legislature of the Confederated Republic feels an act of governance or expression of the popular mandate has been undertaken or completed to such note and degree of import that...

ADVISORY: Mount Olive Volcano Continues to Rumble - Authorities on Isla Olivia remain tight lipped over when, if ever, local residents will be able to return to their properties that remain, as Beautancus' largest active volcano continues to eject tremendous quantities of ash, lava and volatile gases. More than 4,000 residents of the normally picturesque and pristine Cassiopeian Island have been displaced since the stratovolcano roared to life last month, with resultant eruptions steadily growing in scale as the event has continued...

 

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Top Stories for Thursday, February 28th, 2019


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Sylvanian Censure Forthcoming? - Sources inside the Office of the Administration indicate some formal rebuke of the Snyder regime to be forthcoming, after more than two weeks of total refusal to comment upon the ever worsening situation in the Confederated Republic's northern, and by far largest, neighbor. Rumored to be taking the form of an official censure at the least, possibly as serious as a temporary withdrawal of recognition for the regime - indicative of the complete breakdown in communication between the two governments, as well as an apparent and similarly total lack of trust between them. This move would follow on the heels of the criminalization of "Sylvanian-inspired Democratic Socialist Activism," reassessment of Sylvanian-founded and sponsored Southern Poverty Action Center as a "Dangerously Fictional Organization" and binding resolutions ordering a cessation of all activity - and serious threat to remove funding from any post-secondary institutions that continue to allow the insidious, intentionally emasculating ideology to be... (cont'd. here)


<BREAKING> Passing of a Titan, Champion of Civilization - The Lord Protector of the Engellexian Republic, Walter Drake, is dead. Representatives from those nations of the rightly ordered and civilized world have been invited to attend a Joint Address, delivered by Their Excellencies, the Lady Seraphina Underwood and the Lady Anne Siward... (cont'd. here)


Kitchen Hill Rocked by Arrests, Continued Inquest - The precincts of power in the capital of the Cape Commonwealth were thrown into near complete disarray earlier today, as heavily armed convoys of Confederate Marshals Service Tauros' APCs wheeled in - with very little warning according to local PD - taking several members of the Governor's Administration into custody, not least among them Herman Straub, Clerk of the Commonwealth. Reports are atypically confused and hard to come by at this hour, but most sources agree that this surprising and overwhelming action was taken in response to recent findings of the Office of Audit and Inquest in a "Legislature-Mandated Study" of Commonwealth budget... (cont'd. here)


Dance of a Thousand Thunders Underway - Elders, "medicine men" and braves of the Ascani 'dina Indigene Tribe of Cumberland Commonwealth have begun their most sacred ancestral rite, the so-called Dance of a Thousand Thunders, in preparation to placate the spirits of Earth and Air before the coming Spring Thaw. Long held to be one of the richest surviving Indigene Cultural Complexes, the Ascani 'dina have still managed to find their place in modern Cussian society, contributing to the unique character of Cumberland from the... (cont'd. here)

 

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TOP STORIES for TUESDAY, the 9TH day of APRIL


DISASTER IN THE HEARTLAND - Waters continue to rise in parts of six confederates in the Interior and Upper Frontier of the Confederate Republic, as unseasonably heavy winter thaw and the wake of the uncharacteristically powerful "overland cyclone" now being called Logan conspire to swell nearly every major regional river well beyond their banks. Spilling all too often into the vital, and by far most productive croplands tended by Cussian hands, to an estimated sum of "millions of acres" according to Disaster Mitigation and Response managers, both Drummond House and the Governors of the six impacted confederates warn that the lasting effect this cataclysm will have on agricultural production and food prices this year could be staggering. Worst hit by far is the Commonwealth of Transylvania, where more than 450,000 citizens have been forced to evacuate from their homes to temporary shelters, often hastily raised tent cities, as more than 467 dams, levees and spillways have been breached or swamped in the past days. Transylvanian Governor Milton Eckart completed his second aerial survey of the hardest hit precints earlier today... (cont'd. here)

WEST ENGELL WILDMAN HONORED IN JAMESBORO - Buoyed on by the recent explosion in popularity throughout the Confederated Republic, but perhaps nowhere more than down-east in Chicora, where he has very swiftly become something of a pop-cultural icon. West Engell radio personality and national treasure Dale Emerick was named an "honorary citizen of the Commonwealth of Chicora and Friend to Nativist Reason" in a unanimous vote in the General Assembly in this morning's session, a measure greeted with thunderous applause by all assembled. As of publication, Mr. Emerick had not yet had time to react,...(cont'd. here)

SOUTHERN SONGSTRESS CONTINUES RISE TO THE TOP - Cape Commonwealth native Tilly Tarpon continues her meteoric rise to the top of the Cussian pop-music charts, leveraging her natural "assets" and musical gifts "as if she had been born for it," according to Mint Hill Records executive Cleitus Kassidy in an interview with Smoldering Boulder Magazine earlier this week, ...(cont'd. here)

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Duel Leaves Two Burgesses Dead - A lawfully constited duel for the sake of honor was conducted on the closed East Lawn of the House of Burgesses late Friday evening according to Capital Security, ultimately claiming the lives of both participants. Pallas Hampstead, age 67 and senior Burgess to the southeastern districts of the Cape Commonwealth was reportedly challenged on the very chamber floor of the House by his junior colleague Braxton Reynes, freshman Burgess from the Northern Settlements of Albemarle.

The precise slight upon the honor of Burgess Reynes remains as yet unclear, though was serious enough to necessitate his demands of satisfaction for the evening of the same day.

The duelists were attended by seconds, in the proscribed fashion, with the Sergeant at Arms of the House officiating. Hampstead reportedly made the opening shot and drew first blood, though the wound would not prove fatal for Reynes for some hours. His condition yet allowing, the young Burgess from Albemarle returned fire, immediately slaying Burgess Hampstead. Burgess Reynes would succumb to his wounds some hours later, as noted previously, with his honor satisfied.

Honor Duels have long been a fixture in Cussian law, and though having fallen out of favor for several decades have seen a renaissance of sorts in the past year, with more than a dozen such being held in Welmonton alone. Of those, four have resulted in at least one fatality.


Other Trending Stories

Thunder Swamp Arsenal Considering Further Foreign Contracts, Partnerships - The largest single producer of small arms in the Confederated Republic, the venerable Thunder Swamp Arsenal is reportedly considering a further expansion of operations, including the possibility of seeking additional "associations overseas." On the heels of a successful SFMT-brokered deal with the West Engell Republic, and favorable quarterly reports...(cont'd here)

UCS Middleweight Championship Bout Scheduled for Mother's Day - In what can only be described as one of the most anticipated matches in recent Ultimate Combat Sports history, the current Middleweight Champ, "The Braided Brave," Kanagagota Cheasequah of the Overhill Uctene will be facing off against upstart Gunnish-trained, Engellachian-born Rufus "Redrock" Clemson...(cont'd here)

 

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Weekly Roundup::Top Stories

Successful Launch for Western Horizons TrackStar Satellite Network
(Cape Fair) - The Cape Commonwealth's prized National Aerospace Campus was busier for yesterday's newest Western Horizons' launch than for the entire rest of the previous weeks and months of 2019 combined, according to Dr. Ethelred Giddens, Interim Operations Chief at the NAC. More than 100,000 of the Commonwealth's most scientifically engaged citizens were on hand to watch the successful mid-morning launch of "Module 077c TrackStar," reputed to be tied with three similar launches for the heaviest payload ever lifted to orbit from the NAC... (cont'd here)

Engellachee Slidewinder Debuts New Single Month Early for SML
(Mint Hill) - Hard-Westrock* powergroup Engellachee Slidewinder made their second appearance on the Cussian weekend late-night variety show Sunday Morning Light, debuting a new single from their forthcoming third album, titled "Liberty! Liberty!" According the group's management, the decision was made as an act of solidarity with their coutryman, Dale Emerick, recently and dishonestly censorsed by and illegally banned from entering the northern nation of Sylvania. SML has long been noted as one of the most relevant mass-media venues for musical acts in Westernesse, ensuring the widest possible audience for Engellachee Slidewinder and their politically charged track... (cont'd here)

State Foreign Service: Whale Row Evidence of Absolute State of Current World Affairs
(Hammer Bay) - Speaking at an Executive Dinner for the Confederated Republic's closest partners in picturesque Hammer Bay, State Foreign Service Secretary Endymion Walker fielded a number of questions from members of the press and wider public, including his office's stance on the ongoing "Justosian Whale Row." Making it very clear he could only just contain his contempt for the topic, Secretary Walker indicated that he "feels this situation is indicative of the absolute state to which many of the so-called governments of the world have allowed themselves to descend...while obviously regrettable, this is a matter beneath the contempt of princes and powers, and it is deeply troubling that so many around the world appear so eager to be spoonfed this drivel." ...(cont'd here)










*Hard-Westrock; a genre or style of edgy, "alternative" rock first popularized in Beautancus and SoCRER beginning in the early to mid 1990s, now a permanent fixture of the Thaumantic Horizon/Westernesse Rock Scene

 

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UCS Presser Descends into Pandemonium as Fighters Trade Blows
(Middle Plantation) Ultimate Combat Sports fans received an impromptu teaser at the up-town Haradhera Bay Casino and Convention Center this afternoon, as the regularly scheduled press conference, promoting the upcoming Eighth Midnight Mother's Day Bash, was brought to an unceremonious and tantalizingly heated end. According to several dozen eye witnesses to the event, after mere minutes into the conference a serious scuffle broke out between the events biggest names, Kanagagota Cheasequah of the Uphill Uctené and the Engellachian bruiser, Rufus Clemson. After a few initial remarks by fight organizers and both fighter's managers, it seems a single question fielded from the assembled journalists was all that it took to provoke a verbal exchange between the two mixed martial arts superstars, that quickly escalated into a furious trade of elbows, jabs and hooks between the Braided Brave and Redrock. Most present seem to have come away from the unscheduled promo with the impression that Clemson "won" the limited skirmish that transpired before site security broke them apart, though Cheasequah looked none the worse for wear and was more than ready to proceed...(cont'd. here)

Record Opening for Historical Action Flick, "Helsridge"
(Mint Hill) Eclipsing every prior record holder for opening weekend ticket sales in May, Helsridge has easily recouped production costs by a factor of dozens according to early box office returns. Boasting an ensemble cast anchored by lauded veterans Vitt Dagget (as Brig. Gen. Grimm) , Andrej Rappe (as Sgt. Maj. Artorius) and Pernell Hobbs (as Capt. Priam Walden) Huascar Award-winning director Balduran Egin's cinematic adaptation of first novel in celebrated author Aeron Bowden's "At War from the Cradle," is resonating better with history-conscious Cussians to profound degrees. According to the Office of National Parks and Monuments of the Department of Historical and Natural Heritage, the pulse-pounding film is driving a marked rise in attendance and visits for the four, linked historic sites, state cemetary park and museum commemorating the deeds and sacrifices of those who lived and died fighting afoot and in the saddle under the command of the indomitable Brigadier General Marek Grimm in the hottest throws of summer at the Battle of Indie Plain and subsequent Siege of Megiddo Hill, the historical inspirations for the epic tale of the Black Knights' defiance against the hordes of barbaric Kro in late August of 1842. The location of the eponymous Helsridge (itself the highest point atop Megiddo Hill) has seen... (cont'd. here)

DefSec Albrecht Confirms Plans for Upcoming "IMPPAC" Exercise
(Hammer Bay) On the heels of the recent confirmation of III (Implarian) Fleet's outgoing commanding officer as the new Chief of Naval Operations, Defense Secretary Galan Albrecht and Admiral Erskine Hadley welcomed a delegation from the Burgesses, Defense Industry leaders and insiders as well as key "international partners" and journalists to a brief presentation outlining the upcoming Implarian Ocean and adjacent theater-focused joint military operations exercise, apparently the largest such ever to be conducted in this part of the world's ocean. Citing the necessity for a wider variety of training and readiness exercise scenarios due to continued instability in many of the worlds most strategically vital waterways and insular zones, Beautancus' Top Brass has dubbed the forthcoming event "IMPPAC."

It has thus far been confirmed that this impressively massive exercise will be jointly conducted by forces representing the kindred nations of the Thaumantic Civilization (the Engellkin), as well Cussian-allied Empire of Azraq and the Two Kingdoms - though the latter appears likely to be otherwise engaged to a degree likely to preclude the possibility of considerable levels of participation. When asked if invitations had been extended to other regional powers at this time, Admiral Hadley confirmed that "...among others, the Anti-State has been invited, in an effort to demonstrate the practicality and realism of the Thaumantic Position in the Implarian," while also notably excluding traditional Implarian player, the Fictional Gallo-Germanian Monarchy of Elben as well as upstart Competitor Powers such as autocratic post-Marxist Ostmark. Cussian forces engaged in IMPPAC will be lead and best represented numerically by the Navy and Naval Marine Corps of the Confederated Republic... (cont'd. here)

 

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May 7, 2019
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Common sense would ask why nations such as yours, who call themselves 'civilized', yet enshrine bigotry in your constitutions, who furthermore, have no sensical vestments in our region, the Implarian region, are venturing here in the first place.

Inviting a fellow Implarian nation we consider an ally such as Azraq doesn't make this move any less provocative seeming or unusual. Given the delicate state of Europe, one would think these participating nations would practice the aforementioned exercises in their own backyard. For convenience if nothing else.

While The Great Southern Kingdom of Justosia respects the seas internationale, this unusual move from distant powers is concerning to the burgeoning Justosphere. Seeing as how we are the only Implarian nation with an actual 'blue water navy', invites, or lack thereof, are further curious. You may do as you will in aforementioned waters. We reserve the right to monitor these exercises through any & all appropriate channels. Viva Justosia.

Carlos Delgado
Defence Minister

Fernando Torres
Foreign Minister

 

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OFFICE for the ADMINISTRATION of GOVERNMENT
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Welmonton, City of Welmonton, CRB, 58362
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You Sir, do court your own doom, openly, in this ill-considered and poorly worded missive. We are not the rabble of Competitor Powers, arrayed in their humbled and misbegotten numbers, that you may so lightly insult the Confederated Republic, the global reach of its strong arms, or its proud maritime heritage. Beautancus is, and has been an "Implarian" Power since the earliest days of Engellexian Dominion Over the Waves - it is from this mighty and proud tradition that our own such has been calved. The Confederated Republic plied the waters of the Straits of Nearchus and the closed ports of Far Touzen freely and assured of its own strength while you yet still grovelled at Auraro-Catamarcan feet for your daily bread, facts that you have either forgotten or in this case, willfully ignored. You do so at mortal risk to your own tottering regime.

In this instance you have, again, leveled an accusation of bigotry enshrined in legal documentation at a nation of the proper, Engellexian Order - and here do we ask, how and why it is that you have come to such a clearly demented conclusion. Freed from the misery of Mediaeval hypocrisy and mysticism have we, and the entirety of Thaumantic Civilization, been for very nearly half a millennium. A time which the beggars of your shambling principality have spent teetering under the weight of ignorance and tyranny - the very definition of Misrule if there has ever been one given.

While you may consider the Empire of Azraq an ally now, a status of regard or political relation we very highly doubt they return in any degree, we remind you that Beautancus was the first and remains the foremost of this ancient and proud Empire's allies. In the depths of the 19th Century did we come, with goods to trade and true friendship to exchange, to those distant and storied shores, and never again since have or shall we be forced to leave - and certainly not by the likes of ones so lowly and insignificant as yourselves.

That you would choose to approach one of the preeminent powers of our day in this fashion truly beggars all belief, and does nothing before the community of nations - be that what it at present may - to raise the poor regard in which your upstart nation is held. Rather than sending entreaties worded to request participation in this entirely regular, albeit large, exercise of military forces - you have chosen this approach. One that ensures there is no such possibility, and further comes dangerous steps closer to ensuring a swift and apocalyptic end to your misbegotten regime. You crow over the newly discovered power of your nations fleet - without considering that even such a force is but a fraction of that might the Engellexian nations can put into any single ocean at any time of our choosing. Up to and including your own harbors.

Choose your next words wisely, they may well be numbered among your last,

Endymion Victavio Walker,
State Foreign Service Secretary, Confederated Republic of Beautancus

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May 7, 2019
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Again we advise your bellicose, frothing at the mouth nation state to stop attempting to up end the already delicate state of European affairs.

Lest you are, increasingly seemingly so, developmentally disabled, you should understand our very common sense concern with your provocative exercises. We understand a nation such as yours is relatively......well sheltered from outside culture. So we kindly advise you. Screaming, over compensating, is embarrassing. You do yourself a disgraceful disservice.

Learn how Europe works. Learn how to act in a dignified manner. Lest we cease all communication with your aggro state. Learn how to not powder a keg. God bless you. Viva Justosia.

Carlos Delgado
Defence Minister

Fernando Torres
Foreign Minister

 

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Drummond House, 2552 Company Street,
Welmonton, City of Welmonton, CRB, 58362
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Be seeing you, soon.

Endymion Victavio Walker,
State Foreign Service Secretary, Confederated Republic of Beautancus