Land Of Confusion: The Wild Ride of the 2012 IRNA Presidential Election

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Hey @Chipperback can we see what's happening in Vermont? And some of the other northern nations?
 
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ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSWIRE -- FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 2017
AP/APTV/AP.UNI WorldAlert 10-13-2017 v1254

THE LATEST WORLD HEADLINES AT THE HOUR FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


MUMBAI (AP) -- A PART OF THE RULING COALITION IN INDIA IS CALLING FOR "DIRECT FEDERAL INTERVENTION" IN A CALL TO BAN A MEMBER PARTY FOR PARTICIPATION IN STATE ELECTION NEXT MONTH. RULING COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF THE INDIANA STATE OF KERALA HAS BANNED THE INDIAN MORAL CONCERN FROM PARTICPATION. THE HEAD OF STATE KODIYERI BAKAKRISHNAN TOLD INDIAN TELEVISION, "WE ARE NOT ALASKA, WE ARE NOT BURMA, WE NOT MAINE OR GREECE. WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY BOOTLICKERS FROM ATLANTA ANY HEADWAY IN OUR COUNTRY.
INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, AND IMC PARTY LEADER DINESH D'SOUZA CALLED FOR INTERVENTION BY NATIONAL POLICE, ACCUSING THE KERALA GOVERNMENT OF BEING, "AGENT OF ANTIDEMOCRATIC CONCEPTS IN OUR COUNTRY."

TORONTO (AP) -- ONTARIO PRIME MINISTER DAN ACKROYD MET WITH REGIONAL LEADERS INCLUDING IRNA VICE PRESIDENT HILLARY RODHAM RILEY AND WAS POINTED CRITICAL OF THEIR STANCE TOWARDS THE MAINE REFUGEE SITUATION.
ACKROYD, WHO RODE TO AN ELECTION VICTORY ON THE REFUGEE QUESTION ACCUSED NEIGHBORING GOVERNMENTS OF "CRIMINAL APPEASEMENT" IN REGARDS TO MAINE.
"IT IS TIME TO STAND UP TO SOUTHERN TYRANNY." ACKROYD SAID IN A PRESS CONFERENCE. "NOT EVEN THE MIGHTY, WANT-TO-BE UNITED STATES, WANT TO STAND IN THE GAP FOR MAINE. AS IF CONFEDERATE CARRIERS AREN'T ENOUGH TO PERSUADE A STRONGER RESPONSE. WE ARE TURNING AWAY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FLEEING OPPRESSION. THIS IS NO DIFFERENT THAT THE ANTI-BLACK PROGROMS OF THE 1950S"
VICE PRESIDENT RODHAM RILEY ANSWERED BACK SAYING "PRIME MINISTER ACKROYD IS CONFUSING CAUTION FOR WEAKNESS. WE CANNOT ACT RECKLESSLY, BUT PRUDENTLY."
VERMONT PRESIDENT BERNIE SANDERS, WAS MORE BLUNT. "IT'S MUCH EASIER TO THROW TOMATOES, WHEN YOUR BORDER ISN'T THREATENED."

MOSCOW (AP) -- A MOSCOW DEPARTMENT STORE ERUPTED INTO A FOOD RIOT AS PROTESTS OF RISING FOOD PRICES LED TO CLASHES BETWEEN PROTESTORS AND POLICE. 500 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED, BUT THE PROTEST SWELLED INTO THE CITY STREET. SIMILAR PROTESTS THIS WEEK HAVE OCCURED ACROSS SOVIET RUSSIA DUE TO MONDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW GOVERNMENT PRICE CONTROLS ON FOODSTUFFS.
OPPOSITION LEADER IN A JOINT STATEMENT ACCUSED THE PUTIN GOVERNMENT OF "SPENDING MORE TIME AND MONEY ON ATLANTA THAN ON RUSSIA"

VLADIMIR PUTIN IN A STATEMENT FROM THE KREMLIN RESPONDED SAYING "PROTESTORS ARE BASICALLY CYNICS AND LOSERS LOOKING FOR HANDOUTS."

LISBON (AP) -- 200,000 LINED THE STREET OF LISBON AS THEIR PORTUGAL ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN ENTERS THE FINAL MONTH. A RECENT REUTERS POLLS SHOW THE "CONCERTATION FOR PORTUGUESE DEMOCRACY" LEADING OVER THE CURRENT RULING COALITION LED BY PRIME MINISTER PEDRO COELHO. THE COELHO GOVERNMENT HAS MAINTAIN CLOSER TIES TO THE CONFEDERATE STATE IN RECENT YEARS, WHICH PROMPTED OPPOSITION. THE CONCERNTATION, LED BY ENVIRNOMENTAL SCIENTIST RUI TAVARES, WAS FORMED THREE YEARS AGO PROTESTING CONFEDERATE BUSINESS INTEREST SKIRTING NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS. IT GREW FROM THE PROTEST INTO A SERIOUS POLITICAL MOVEMENT

MANILA (AP) -- FILIPINO PRESIDENT MANNY VILLAR ANNOUNCED THIS AFTERNOON THAT HIS GOVERNMENT IS OPEN TO TALKS WITH THE MAIN OPPOSITION GROUPS ON THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO. MINDANAO DECLARED INDEPENDENCE LAST YEAR, AND ARE IN LINE TO HAVE THEIR FIRST NATIONAL ELECTIONS IN DECEMBER.
THE CALL FOR PEACE TALKS COMES AT THE URGING OF CONFEDERATE FOREIGN AFFAIR EXECUTIVE STEVE SPURRIER, WHO IS BEEN ENGAGED IN SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY IN THE PACIFIC RIM IN THE LAST WEEK.
ANALYSTS SAY THE CONFEDERATES HAVE BEEN MORE AGGRESSIVE IN SEEKING PEACE TO BOLSTER THEIR POSITION FOR CAIRNS CONVENTIONS SUMMIT NEXT MONTH IN THE ANZC.

DENVER (AP) -- RMR LIBERAL INDEPENDENT PARTY LEADER JOHN HICKENLOOPER IS CALLING FOR A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO CONSERVATIVE LEADER REV. THEODORE CRUZ, WHO'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY IS CLINGING TO A SLIM LEAD IN THE LATEST POLLS WITH ELECTIONS TO COME ON OCTOBER 26. HICKENLOOPER, COMMENTING ON DENVER TELEVISION STATION KRMR SAID, "REV. CRUZ HAS A LOT OF UNANSWERED QUESTION IN REGARD TO HIS MINISTRY, HIS TAXES, HIS BUSINESS INTERESTS, AND HIS FUNDING. AND HE'S BEEN ADVERSE TO RELEASE THE INFORMATION THAT ALL PARTY LEADERS MUST. THIS LOOKS LIKE AN ATTEMPT AND CONFEDERATE INTERFERENCE IN OUR COUNTRY, AND I DON'T THINK WE ROCKY MOUNTAINEERS WANT ATLANTA-STYLE GOVERNMENT HERE."

REV. CRUZ, RESPONDING ON GLOBAL'S NEWSLINE HARSHLY FIRED BACK SAYING, "YOU HAVE A FAILED, LIBERAL MAYOR AND LIBERAL PREMIER NOW THINKING HE CAN BE A SUCCESS AS A PRIME MINISTER. HE TRYING TO SCARE YOU INTO SOFT SOCIALISM, AND THE MORALLY UPRIGHT MAJORITY OF THIS GREAT NATION ISN'T BUYING."

ADDIS ABABA (AP) -- QUEEN MIRIAM GAVE THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE WEEKEND AFRICAN SECURITY SUMMIT THIS AFTERNOON CALLING FOR, "THE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO PULL TOGETHER TO DEAL WITH THE GREATER ISSUE THE FACE US AS AFRICAN COMMUNITY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH." MUCH OF THE WEEKEND MEETING WITH LOOK AT A PEACEFUL MEDIATION OF LAND CLAIMS AND BORDER SITUATIONS BETWEEN NORTH NIGERIA AND NEWLY-RECOGNIZED SOUTH NIGERIAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, AND THE FINAL TERMS OF THE DIVORCE BETWEEN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AND THE PRO-ATLANTA CHRISTIAN CONGOLESE REPUBLIC.

THE ETHOPIAN MONARCH WILL BE A LEAD VOICE IN THE NEGOTIATION TEAM IN BOTH SITUATIONS. ALONG WITH LIBYAN PRESIDENT MUAMMAR GADDAFI AND NEWLY ELECTED ANGOLAN PRESIDENT CLARISSE KAPUTU.

 

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MOSCOW (AP) -- A MOSCOW DEPARTMENT STORE ERUPTED INTO A FOOD RIOT AS PROTESTS OF RISING FOOD PRICES LED TO CLASHES BETWEEN PROTESTORS AND POLICE. 500 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED, BUT THE PROTEST SWELLED INTO THE CITY STREET. SIMILAR PROTESTS THIS WEEK HAVE OCCURED ACROSS SOVIET RUSSIA DUE TO MONDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW GOVERNMENT PRICE CONTROLS ON FOODSTUFFS.
OPPOSITION LEADER IN A JOINT STATEMENT ACCUSED THE PUTIN GOVERNMENT OF "SPENDING MORE TIME AND MONEY ON ATLANTA THAN ON RUSSIA"


VLADIMIR PUTIN IN A STATEMENT FROM THE KREMLIN RESPONDED SAYING "PROTESTORS ARE BASICALLY CYNICS AND LOSERS LOOKING FOR HANDOUTS
I'd bet good money that another Russian Revolution is on it's way...
 
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Star Power and Firepower — Tuesday October beforeense, trainthe 17, 2017
A cafe in Provincetown, UCNE — 12:30pm Tuesday October 17, 2017

The man at the table in this cafe looked like any tourist along Commercial Street. Young looking in a Red Sox hoodie. He was fidgeting, nervous, tense.

He looked up when he saw the diminutive woman enter the room. She adorn in a rust-brown-cream sweater that had a slight crop and a skirt that played off the autumn colors well with boots.

She smiled as people noticed her. “You were excellent last night,” one called out.

“Thank you,” she said.

She came up to the lone man at the table and said, “What would you suggest a lady to get to drink here?”

“I’d suggest the pumpkin spice milkshake.”

Her soft voice turned harsher, “Come with me.”

She came through the back way toward a narrow alley. A man and a woman were waiting.”

“This is the man I’ve been in communication with,” She said.

“Who are you?” said the man, an intense look on his face as he mentality noted his sidearm.

The man, was visibly nervous. “My name is Shayne Keller....I was with the Maine National Police. I was converted to duty in the New Police...before they fully became the CSS.

The diminutive woman chime in, “He’s cool and he comes recommended from key people.”

The blindfolded him as they put him in the car.

“What the hell?”

“Security” the diminutive woman said. “Sorry about that.”

The drove slowly out of the alley to theside street and turned onto Commercial Street. The car slowly toed it’s way through the tourist throng. The women look around at the colors of the town. The swirling fall colors amid the magnolia and rainbows. The huge flags of the UCNE Navy also present.

They had clear road as the turned down into the mid-Cape where the quaintness and jovial spirit gave way to the spear of a nation.

The bustle of the naval command. The slate gray seriousness of other side of Provincetown.

The drove past the barracks toward a storage depot. In the distance she saw the plants and research facilities.

The places where the “Cape Cod Leviathan” was born.

This was were the epic ships were launched. The destroyers were forged, the the birthplace of “Poseidon’s Triad”

They turned into the storage debit making their way to the far fringe, and to garage.

Inside were three men in a van.

The took off the blindfold when they let him out of the car.

“Brothuh, you made it,” The man said. I’m sorry about the blindfold.

“It’s okay,” Shayne said.

The led man spoke. “For the purposes of this meeting my name is Copernicus. My colleague is Apollo, my other colleague is Hippolyte.”

And I’m sure you might know who this lady is...

He looked. He did. He remembered.

“Now I remember,” he said. “You were on that TV show when I was 14...”

“The lady here has paid for the cargo.”

He looked at her. “Thank you.”

“Anything for The Front,” she said.

He looked inside the van, at the crates.

He nodded. “Stingers”.

He handed Copernicus a jump drive.

“As per our agreement, we found the information you wanted.”

“Thank you this should make HOODIE smile, and that is a feat in itself.”

The man asked, “How soon do we get them.”

“I already sent the word,” Copernicus said. “And with this information, we can send in some people to help you out.”

They blindfolded the man again and drove back through a different route toward Provincetown. The made a meeting with a second vehicle. A small Bouchard subcompact.

“How was it?” driver asked. “They are enroute according to the men we saw.”

The driver looked at his smart watch. “Confirmed,” he said. The cargo is enroute.

The driver looked at smallish woman,” He said. “Wow! If I had known that Anna Banana was the go-between I would have gone instead of you.”

She blushed. “This is for home.”

Her smile turned into an icy, worried frown. “This is for my dad.”

The driver looked up. “What happened to him.”

“I don’t know,” she said nervously. “I heard those... Cissies, they say have him.”

The man and the driver looked at her. “We’ll put the word out. If he’s alive we’ll get him out alive.”

“Thank you,” she said.

“No,” the man said. “Thank you for not forgetting about us.”

“Of course not,” she said. “How can Anna Banana forget about home?”


CAN YOU SMELL THE CIRCUS NEWTIE?
 
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Anna Banana was a rather popular kids show on MPBN that ran from 1997-2002. It was something of a cult classic. If you could imagine it in OTL terms it was a cross of “You Can’t Do That On Television”, “Small Wonder” and “Land Of The Lost”.
 
"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, called Sudetia, born to King Wenceslas and his bride Germania. [We see a girl in a black-red-black dress, dancing in a medieval castle] But a terrible witch cursed the kingdom [a figure in a cloak gestures against the backdrop of an altar and a Speer-esque dome of light] , led the people astray and tore her parents apart. Sudetia had to flee [we see her from behind, running in slow motion through a thick forest], and to seek shelter with nine odd little persons [the camera pans along a series of wooden beds, adorned with the names Voralbi, Salzi, Tyrol, Styri, Carinthia, Wienabuam, Burgi, Niederösi und Oberösi]. But she was not yet safe! That evil witch kept pursuing her, trying to seduce her with lethal traps. [Sudetia and the Witch stand there, facing each other]
-"Here is a fine apple for you, süße Maid" coos the witch [while we only see her withered fingers holding a red-white-red apple....which as we see is carefully taken by the young slender hand of Sudetia....]
"Danke, gute Frau" is her reply [while now we see that her second hand, holding a knife, comes closer to the apple, which she carefully cuts in two parts of different sizes. The smaller size is revealed to be half-rotten, the decay visible in the shape of a Swastika] "....just as I though..." we hear her continue her thought.
[Cut....we see in a wide shot both protagonists..... Sudetia bites into the good side of the apple, oblivious of the "Kern", the stones, the spitting them out; while the witch watches aghast, in a silent-movie-like gesture, reminiscent of Nosferatu - the wide shot gets wider, as the figures fade to silhouettes, black against the backdrop, again we hear Sudetia:]
"Delikat! Aber ohne Kern......"
[Sudetia throws the knife at the witch, it gets stuck at her forehead....like a cartoon figure the witch drops dead]
"....und ohne Nazis!"

sudetia.jpg


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"Welcome to the coverage about this year's election in our neighboured country of Austria. And we would like to excuse for the slightly graphic pictures."
"Yes. That was perhaps some sort of odd campaign ad presented to us by the SdP, the centre-conservative party concentrating on representing the Sudetenland, the most popolous land of Austria. Not the ad which decided the election, but it defines perhaps what comes next."
"Indeed, because it was a marked change in the tone of this party. They usually kept out of coalition pokers until being called up..."
"....well, they could afford it, as they can, ideologically flexible, work with almost anyone in Vienna as long as it paid out for the region bordering the Czech Republic."
"But they made clear this year whom they don't want in the Kanzler's office, that is Feymann's designated successor Kern. And that they wouldn't join a government with the FPÖ."
"In an unusual tone for a Conservative party - not beating around the Bush but directly calling the "Freiheitlichen", the Freedom Party as they like to style themselves, Nazis."
"And just in case it evaded someone - they drive the point home by making an unusual choice in casting their version of Snow-White, Sudetia....
"That is shooting star Gizem Emre who was born in the Bohemian city of Budweis but whose parents stem from Anatolia."
"We will now see how things unfold as the ballots have closed and the ORF will now present the first calculation of the result."
"The SdP doesn't compete outside of their homeland which sends 58 deputies to Vienna, out of a total of 202. They usually get a fair share of these 58...."

[to be continued]
 

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"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, called Sudetia, born to King Wenceslas and his bride Germania. [We see a girl in a black-red-black dress, dancing in a medieval castle] But a terrible witch cursed the kingdom [a figure in a cloak gestures against the backdrop of an altar and a Speer-esque dome of light] , led the people astray and tore her parents apart. Sudetia had to flee [we see her from behind, running in slow motion through a thick forest], and to seek shelter with nine odd little persons [the camera pans along a series of wooden beds, adorned with the names Voralbi, Salzi, Tyrol, Styri, Carinthia, Wienabuam, Burgi, Niederösi und Oberösi]. But she was not yet safe! That evil witch kept pursuing her, trying to seduce her with lethal traps. [Sudetia and the Witch stand there, facing each other]
-"Here is a fine apple for you, süße Maid" coos the witch [while we only see her withered fingers holding a red-white-red apple....which as we see is carefully taken by the young slender hand of Sudetia....]
"Danke, gute Frau" is her reply [while now we see that her second hand, holding a knife, comes closer to the apple, which she carefully cuts in two parts of different sizes. The smaller size is revealed to be half-rotten, the decay visible in the shape of a Swastika] "....just as I though..." we hear her continue her thought.
[Cut....we see in a wide shot both protagonists..... Sudetia bites into the good side of the apple, oblivious of the "Kern", the stones, the spitting them out; while the witch watches aghast, in a silent-movie-like gesture, reminiscent of Nosferatu - the wide shot gets wider, as the figures fade to silhouettes, black against the backdrop, again we hear Sudetia:]
"Delikat! Aber ohne Kern......"
[Sudetia throws the knife at the witch, it gets stuck at her forehead....like a cartoon figure the witch drops dead]
"....und ohne Nazis!"

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"Welcome to the coverage about this year's election in our neighboured country of Austria. And we would like to excuse for the slightly graphic pictures."
"Yes. That was perhaps some sort of odd campaign ad presented to us by the SdP, the centre-conservative party concentrating on representing the Sudetenland, the most popolous land of Austria. Not the ad which decided the election, but it defines perhaps what comes next."
"Indeed, because it was a marked change in the tone of this party. They usually kept out of coalition pokers until being called up..."
"....well, they could afford it, as they can, ideologically flexible, work with almost anyone in Vienna as long as it paid out for the region bordering the Czech Republic."
"But they made clear this year whom they don't want in the Kanzler's office, that is Feymann's designated successor Kern. And that they wouldn't join a government with the FPÖ."
"In an unusual tone for a Conservative party - not beating around the Bush but directly calling the "Freiheitlichen", the Freedom Party as they like to style themselves, Nazis."
"And just in case it evaded someone - they drive the point home by making an unusual choice in casting their version of Snow-White, Sudetia....
"That is shooting star Gizem Emre who was born in the Bohemian city of Budweis but whose parents stem from Anatolia."
"We will now see how things unfold as the ballots have closed and the ORF will now present the first calculation of the result."
"The SdP doesn't compete outside of their homeland which sends 58 deputies to Vienna, out of a total of 202. They usually get a fair share of these 58...."

[to be continued]
Interesting take on Snow White.
 
Was that a campaign ad I just saw?

And what happened in those regional elections?

And a question on the “rumor mill” front
There’s a story out there that she is romantically liked to East German Formula 1 star/Opel heir Trystan von Opel... Gizem, any comment?
 
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