Dorozhand
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Richard Trumka, labor leader, Pennsylvanian, vocally anti-racist and pro-immigration. A champion of the rust-belt working class is just what the Democrats need.
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Richard Trumka, labor leader, Pennsylvanian, vocally anti-racist and pro-immigration. A champion of the rust-belt working class is just what the Democrats need.
I'm not sure if Trumka has ever said if he'd want to enter electoral politics?
I love how no on has mentioned anything about his name... It's... familiar.
Was going to do a write-up for this, but I couldn't think of a plausible situation in which someone gets the GOP nomination over Nixon, or one in which a southerner gets the Democratic nomination. Also, Gore is a mid twentieth century version of William Jennings Bryan for some reason. Try to ignore my shitty editing lol
As Europe broke down and stagnated, Portugal, one of the most impoverished states in Europe, became an economic puppet of one of its former colonies, the very wealthy Angola, which itself was a close ally of Brazil.
The Portuguese did not really like this.
The Portuguese did not really like this.
Reverse colonization is amusing, albeit the bluetext and red-green edge effects could use some work.
Is this party a post-colonial quasi-authoritarian dominant party, or is Portugal currently a competitive multiparty democracy?
Deloria
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One of the forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War, the Sahrawi People's War (also known as the Sahrawi Uprising and the Sahrawi War of Independence) was a prolonged armed independence struggle waged by the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in Spanish Sahara and French Mauritania (la République de Mauritanie after 1981), intermittently between 1965 and the 2002 ceasefire.
The first stage of the conflict was fought between the Spanish State, Morocco, and the SPLA-led rebel coalition, and ended in 1979 with the unilateral withdrawal of Spanish forces from Western Sahara, following Franco's humiliating failed intervention in North Ireland the previous year. The SPLA established the Sahrawi Socialist People's Republic, an explicitly Marxist government materially supported by the Communist Bloc. French President Capitant saw the end of Spanish colonialism as an opportunity to exploit the weakness of the young nation. In 1981, France's Maghrebi satellites invaded the Republic with little pretext, launching the second and longest phase of the war.
Over the course of the 37-year conflict, between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians were killed, and over 100,000 refugees fled to Algeria and other West African nations. The final "peace" agreement was seen by many SPLA veterans and officers as a betrayal by their civilian leadership, and dozens of splinter groups continued fighting after the armistice was signed. After the official cessation of hostilities, there were several French-backed coup attempts in the reduced People's Republic, on several occasions carried out by exile Canarian and South African mercenaries posing as SPLA factionalists.
The first stage of the conflict was fought between the Spanish State, Morocco, and the SPLA-led rebel coalition, and ended in 1979 with the unilateral withdrawal of Spanish forces from Western Sahara, following Franco's humiliating failed intervention in North Ireland the previous year. The SPLA established the Sahrawi Socialist People's Republic, an explicitly Marxist government materially supported by the Communist Bloc. French President Capitant saw the end of Spanish colonialism as an opportunity to exploit the weakness of the young nation. In 1981, France's Maghrebi satellites invaded the Republic with little pretext, launching the second and longest phase of the war.
Over the course of the 37-year conflict, between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians were killed, and over 100,000 refugees fled to Algeria and other West African nations. The final "peace" agreement was seen by many SPLA veterans and officers as a betrayal by their civilian leadership, and dozens of splinter groups continued fighting after the armistice was signed. After the official cessation of hostilities, there were several French-backed coup attempts in the reduced People's Republic, on several occasions carried out by exile Canarian and South African mercenaries posing as SPLA factionalists.
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How has East Germany not collapsed into total chaos? What happen to the USSR, and the Warsaw Pact?
And WHY would Denmark hand over Erika Jähnke?
And HOW did was the wall, built, and by who?
Post-colonial quasi-authoritarian dominant party, of course. Of course, some minor parties, such as the Portuguese Liberal Party, Christian Liberty Party of Portugal and Together for the People, are quite popular and gaining ground.
One of the forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War, the Sahrawi People's War (also known as the Sahrawi Uprising and the Sahrawi War of Independence) was a prolonged armed independence struggle waged by the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in Spanish Sahara and French Mauritania (la République de Mauritanie after 1981), intermittently between 1965 and the 2002 ceasefire.
The first stage of the conflict was fought between the Spanish State, Morocco, and the SPLA-led rebel coalition, and ended in 1979 with the unilateral withdrawal of Spanish forces from Western Sahara, following Franco's humiliating failed intervention in North Ireland the previous year. The SPLA established the Sahrawi Socialist People's Republic, an explicitly Marxist government materially supported by the Communist Bloc. French President Capitant saw the end of Spanish colonialism as an opportunity to exploit the weakness of the young nation. In 1981, France's Maghrebi satellites invaded the Republic with little pretext, launching the second and longest phase of the war.
Over the course of the 37-year conflict, between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians were killed, and over 100,000 refugees fled to Algeria and other West African nations. The final "peace" agreement was seen by many SPLA veterans and officers as a betrayal by their civilian leadership, and dozens of splinter groups continued fighting after the armistice was signed. After the official cessation of hostilities, there were several French-backed coup attempts in the reduced People's Republic, on several occasions carried out by exile Canarian and South African mercenaries posing as SPLA factionalists.
Who was the first president? Did he immediately become a dictator?
I could do that if I have time and if you send me the details.
Not as close as I hoped/expected given their similar vote totals, but still pretty interesting, particularly where Romney loses. Note that a lot of states, based on sheer vote totals, seemed be decided very narrowly.
Deloria
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The first Supreme Commander of the SPLA was Comrade Muhammad Bassiri, who was martyred by Moroccan tribal fascists in 1978. El Ouali Mustapha Sayed is the first General Secretary of the Sahrawi Party of Socialist Liberation (formerly known as the Sahrawi Liberation Front), and has served in that and various other leadership positions since Bassiri's death.
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In the 1959 General Election, Labour, led by Aneurin Bevan, had been reelected with a severely reduced majority. The following year, Prime Minister Bevan had resigned, and was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell. Both men had a less than cordial relationship with the President, who openly disagreed with them on policy, such as on the National Health Service, and even went so far as to disastrously intervene in Foreign Affairs over Palestine. As a result it was expected Bevan himself to run against Morrison, however Bevan died shortly following his resignation. Morrison's challenger was New Democratic Party Candidate Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, the New Democratic Party's former Lords Leader who had snatched the nomination out of Sir Harold Macmillan's hands. Despite some initial issues, the New Democrats were able to rally Douglas-Home with a popular manifesto and the use of television, having learned its power in the 1959 General Election, and quickly overtook Morrison in the polls.
However, Douglas-Home faced a severe setback following a poor performance at the first televised debate, loosing a great deal of support to Morrison. Forced on the defensive, the New Democratic machine would push itself to the limits, sinking resources into a wide variety of campaigning tools, including, most famously, PPB's, such as the 'fireside discussions', which would be both widely mocked and fondly remembered in years to come. This is not to say Labour had no presence, but whilst Labour did also use television, its own efforts were utterly dwarfed by the accumulative storm that the New Democratic Party was able to conger in the final weeks before polling day, with TV sets and billboards plastered with the 'horrors of further nationalisation' and 'five more years of Morrisonism'. Morrison found himself greatly helped by more traditional campaigning and word of mouth, exploiting peoples anxiety over what a second New Democratic Presidency would look like.
The results of election day would be of little surprise. Whilst obtaining a plurality of votes, Morrison was unable to obtain the majority of votes needed for a clear victory; a last minute Liberal surge in the midlands would prevent him drawing further ahead in the first round. The second round of voting would be held a fortnight later, and saw an intensification of the New Democratic and Labour Parties media hurricanes. In the second round, thanks to a drop in turnout among Labour voters, Douglas-Home was able to gain a narrow edge over Morrison and defeated him by 5.8% of the vote.
Douglas-Home would ascend to the Presidency on 1st July, 1961.
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A Very English Presidency
The 1959 General Election
The Labour and New Democratic Nominations
1961 Debates
1961 Presidential Election
My goodness, Home looks especially phresh and young in that photo, doesn't he?
Russell is a brilliant choice, especially for Fellowship.
In 2098, three years after the first wave of colony ships arrived at Ashoka, a second, more decentralized and ethnically diverse collection of colonists arrived over a period of eight months. This second wave of immigrants were from all over Latin America, but with particularly large numbers from Colombia and Venezuela. The journey, which at that point in history took three months, came to a close on September 17th, 2098 by Earth’s Calendar. The fleet of ships made landfall in a massive expanse of flatland on what would come to be known as the Mariposa Peninsula.
The name of the peninsula comes from colonist Tomás Gabriel Moreno Lopez, one of the settlers’ unofficial leaders. Moreno, a former Venezuelan soldier, led a scouting party searching for areas more suited for permanent settlement in a broader region marked by surveyor satellites in 2095. Through the course of the mission, Moreno was separated from his party in densely forested country, and suffered an equipment failure.
After two days, Moreno was without food or water. While sitting against a tree to rest, the planetary equivalent of a butterfly is said to have flittered by his face. Struck with curiosity, Moreno stood and followed it (and it is from these that the Peninsula would eventually get its name) to a river, where hundreds of the “butterflies” rested. Moreno bent to the river to drink (to hear him tell it later, his thirst overcoming his fear of drinking not only unfiltered water, but water from a different planet), and for several minutes sated his thirst with the clear waters.
When he looked up from the river (later to be named the Rio Valencia after Moreno’s hometown and the hometown of many of the colonists) on the opposite bank was the Virgin Mary. Moreno describes her speaking to him in Spanish and saying, “It is I, the one who is your mother, and I will lead you to the font of life.” Moreno describes her beckoning to him, and then walking up the bank of the river. Moreno scrambled to his feet and followed on his side of the river. In various accounts of the event, Moreno claims to have followed the Virgin Mary for upwards of an hour up a small tributary of the Rio Valencia to its source. The Virgin led Moreno to the top of a small hill, barren of trees, and pointed to the west. In the distance, Moreno could make out the forms of the gargantuan landed colony ships. When he turned to thank and praise the Virgin Mother, but where she had stood there was a spring of cool, clear water.
After resting for a period of time and marking the hills coordinates, Moreno returned to the nascent colony, much to the shock of the residents, who had assumed he was dead. His story was met with initial disbelief, especially when passed on the recently titled Bishop of Ashoka. However, upon returning to the hilltop with a small scouting party, the Virgin appeared again, saying to the group “On this hill shall you build a church.” When she disappeared, a Castilian rose lay where her feet had been. The party returned to the colony and presented the rose to the Bishop, and told him of what the Virgin had said. After being led to the site, the Bishop was convinced.
Word took some time to reach Earth, and Pope Francis III in Rome. Though the claim took some time to be accepted, the official position of the Church was that the Marian apparition on Ashoka indeed happened. For his later devotion and work for the Church on Ashoka, five years after the death of Tomás Moreno, a Cause for Beatification and Canonization was initialized in 2127; Moreno was declared a Venerable Servant of God in 2141 by Pope Leo XV and Beatified by Pope Pius XIII in 2156. The Cause for his Canonization is ongoing under Pope John Paul III.
The hilltop where the Virgin is said to have appeared twice, later named the Hill of Roses, indeed became a church, one of the first on Ashoka, and became the seat of the Diocese and later Archdiocese of Mariposa. The spring said to have sprouted from where the Virgin Mary stood is still flowing, and is said to have healing properties. It is a popular site for Catholic pilgrims from all over Ashoka to visit, and also attracts not inconsiderable numbers of pilgrims from nearby worlds and even further afield.
The Marian apparition to Blessed Tomás Moreno is one of two attested to in the early days of the colonization of Ashoka.
The name of the peninsula comes from colonist Tomás Gabriel Moreno Lopez, one of the settlers’ unofficial leaders. Moreno, a former Venezuelan soldier, led a scouting party searching for areas more suited for permanent settlement in a broader region marked by surveyor satellites in 2095. Through the course of the mission, Moreno was separated from his party in densely forested country, and suffered an equipment failure.
After two days, Moreno was without food or water. While sitting against a tree to rest, the planetary equivalent of a butterfly is said to have flittered by his face. Struck with curiosity, Moreno stood and followed it (and it is from these that the Peninsula would eventually get its name) to a river, where hundreds of the “butterflies” rested. Moreno bent to the river to drink (to hear him tell it later, his thirst overcoming his fear of drinking not only unfiltered water, but water from a different planet), and for several minutes sated his thirst with the clear waters.
When he looked up from the river (later to be named the Rio Valencia after Moreno’s hometown and the hometown of many of the colonists) on the opposite bank was the Virgin Mary. Moreno describes her speaking to him in Spanish and saying, “It is I, the one who is your mother, and I will lead you to the font of life.” Moreno describes her beckoning to him, and then walking up the bank of the river. Moreno scrambled to his feet and followed on his side of the river. In various accounts of the event, Moreno claims to have followed the Virgin Mary for upwards of an hour up a small tributary of the Rio Valencia to its source. The Virgin led Moreno to the top of a small hill, barren of trees, and pointed to the west. In the distance, Moreno could make out the forms of the gargantuan landed colony ships. When he turned to thank and praise the Virgin Mother, but where she had stood there was a spring of cool, clear water.
After resting for a period of time and marking the hills coordinates, Moreno returned to the nascent colony, much to the shock of the residents, who had assumed he was dead. His story was met with initial disbelief, especially when passed on the recently titled Bishop of Ashoka. However, upon returning to the hilltop with a small scouting party, the Virgin appeared again, saying to the group “On this hill shall you build a church.” When she disappeared, a Castilian rose lay where her feet had been. The party returned to the colony and presented the rose to the Bishop, and told him of what the Virgin had said. After being led to the site, the Bishop was convinced.
Word took some time to reach Earth, and Pope Francis III in Rome. Though the claim took some time to be accepted, the official position of the Church was that the Marian apparition on Ashoka indeed happened. For his later devotion and work for the Church on Ashoka, five years after the death of Tomás Moreno, a Cause for Beatification and Canonization was initialized in 2127; Moreno was declared a Venerable Servant of God in 2141 by Pope Leo XV and Beatified by Pope Pius XIII in 2156. The Cause for his Canonization is ongoing under Pope John Paul III.
The hilltop where the Virgin is said to have appeared twice, later named the Hill of Roses, indeed became a church, one of the first on Ashoka, and became the seat of the Diocese and later Archdiocese of Mariposa. The spring said to have sprouted from where the Virgin Mary stood is still flowing, and is said to have healing properties. It is a popular site for Catholic pilgrims from all over Ashoka to visit, and also attracts not inconsiderable numbers of pilgrims from nearby worlds and even further afield.
The Marian apparition to Blessed Tomás Moreno is one of two attested to in the early days of the colonization of Ashoka.
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