SNESA2: Ad Infinitum (No MOD's!)

[civman2000]

Italy: I knew I should have mentioned this in the first post! The Martian Olympics are not in any way meant to be competitive with the Earth ones, but rathyer to give Martian Athletes a chance to compete just like Earth athletes. I also call for having moon Olympics. WE have no intentions to "do a better trainment to get ready for the next Olympics" (ooc: that should soon angry and contemptuous). We find it insulting that you think our straying out of the Olympics is because our athletes are not well trained!

[Giovanni Wine]

Mars: We apologize fo our misunderstoodment.

saluti

[Space05us]

OOC: What sports are in the summer olympics? I only watch the winter olympics.

[Cinna]

ooc: you don't watch the summer games? where do you live space?

ic:
OLYMPICS UPDATE
PRAO Has sent select teams for early training:

Kayaking
Swimming
Skeet Shooting
Diving
Gymnastics
Archery
Fencing (that is the thing with the swords Giovonni)
Cycling
And our outstanding Track/Field teams

Our Team sports (baseball, basketball, soccer((football)), ect) are training hard in NZ and will arrive for the games! We hope for a lot of medals and are sending over 450 (!) athletes to Sofia. Get ready to hear Advance Australia Fair an awful lot

[Jonny]

The Munich Reporter
The German Paper of Politics and Such
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Germany Calls For a Vote to Repeal UN Acts 1A and 1B!

This week, Germany has called for a vote to repeal two UN acts concerning the IPF. The first one, act 1A, calls for equal contribution of military power and manpower by all nations of the UN. The second one, act 1B, says that the IPF is equally funded by all nations.

Germany wishes to repeal these because "it does not take into account that not all nations are powerful and wealthy. Not all nations are powerful, but this seems to imply that." They also want to repeal his because "it seems anti-capitalist and somewhat communal. Germany will not be home to a communist organization!"

Keep reading The Munich Reporter for updates on this situation.
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Things in Brief

• German Olympic Teams are training hard for the upcoming Olympics. They claim that they are ready for anything and are going to bring home many medals.
• Armed forces are sent to a suburb of Strausburg to keep the peace after a riot by Genecoms. This suburb of Strausburg is the HQ for Genecoms in the GDFR.

[Captain]

NAF proposes:

That we resolve issues in the UN where there is no clear vote, yet an urgent situation, by resurrecting the age old practice of single-combat or by modifying that to a modern sports competition, refereed and arbitrated by a coalition of neutral observers.

We propose that this solution may help avoid such devastating wars as we have experienced in the past.

Also, we want to point out that if an act does not pass, things remain as they are. Failure to pass an act does not mean that the opposite act. That means that article 1d) says we have an IPF but no decision has been made on how the IPF will be sent on missions. The proposal for a 2/3 vote requirement failed, but we have not passed a 50% vote either, so currently, the only way we can send the IPF on missions is if we all agree (the default is always unanimous).

We should also send a IPF UN fact finding mission to Swedish Io and check on the situation there.

NAF is willing to reconsider the equal funding formula to possibly one proportional to national income. However, we fear this might lead to disproportionate power among those who pay more.


Also, the NAF wishes to know what other regulations are in place for the Olympics. For example, are governments allowed to fund athletes or do athletes have to acquire sponsorship from private companies? The NAF, despite our reconstruction, is still a major economy and we don't know whether we should be allowing our amateur Olympic athletes to use everything that our government could put at their disposal. We merely wish to be fair so that when we win all the medals, no one can accuse us of cheating!

Also, are the winter olympics happening in the same year as the summer ones? Or are they alternating?

(To Germany)
NAF is concerned about Genecom Strausburg. Genecoms retain their NAF citizenship and we want to know why they are rioting and if they are being mistreated. We must protect the rights of all NAF citizens (including Genecoms) as long as they do not break your laws. That being said, we also are concerned that certain Genecoms may be revolutionaries bent on overturning the authorities. We would like our spy agencies and police agencies to work more closely together to avoid any further "incidents". Any information you can provide to us or the Italian security/spy agencies would be most beneficial.

[High Lord J]

((Space we ship PAR, you sell it, you ship back 80% of profits we ship you more PAR))

[Space05us]

To China: We agree to your PAR plan.

[civman2000]

Stunning news! A small asteroid which had a town of 300,000 martians on on it named New Chryse (it did not have a name until the colony was created) was completely destroyed in what appears to have been multiple massive nuclear explosions! 450,000 Martians are now involved in the investigation. The Empress vows to arrest those responsible as fast as can be possible.

In response, the Pacifist Party is losing both the support of MI and the Empire. THere are no elections this year but next year the following percentages are predicted:

Pacifists: 41%
Martian Way: 46%
Conservative Peaceful Party: 9%
Other: 4%

However, the Conservative Peacful Party and the Pacifists are making a coalition to stop the Martian Way from dominating.

[Space05us]

**NEWS FLASH**
Earlier today the peace in a small village in southern Japan was shattered! At approxamitly 1:00 pm two men paddled a small boat up into the harbor and dentonated a large explosive device killing all that were in the harbor. This attack is thought to have been conducted by the rebels. More Japanese troops are being sent to the Phillipines in an attempt to destroy the rebellion.
"We are preparing for a civil war" said one japanese General.

In other news the Japanese athletes are training hard in preperation for the Olympics. They are expected to take first place in the martial arts competition.

[Cinna]

Japan: Let them go! They are hardly worth a civil war, especially one during a depression. Watch them try and survive as a new country only to fail and beg for admission into your empire! If the rebels think they can do such a good job with their autonomy, let 'em try.

[Space05us]

To Austrailia: We will NOT let them go! Especially after what they have done. We have no choice but to fight them, they are killing innocent civillians in the Phillipines. We have already called upon the UN to prevent this but appearently because we're not in the UN they won't listen! And for that Japan officialy denounces the UN for being the two faced double standard pigs that they are!!

ooc: this could be fun

[Jonny]

**Secret Report to NAF and Italy Concerning the Strausburg Genecom Revolt**

On the 15th of March, at 9:00 AM Strausburg time, a small group of Genecoms started protesting the GDFR rule in front of a local coffee shop that was state-owned and run by the GDFR.

More Genecoms came and joined the protest. They blocked and beat any 'real' human that tried to get coffee from the coffee shop, which was run by the GDFR.

Eventually, there were 10000 Genecoms in the protest. They started marching down the streets of Strausburg, towards the town center. They attacked any 'real' human they met, and any Genecom they met joined their 'crusade.'

They reached the town center, where they set fire to the City Hall, Courthouse, and many other government buildings. After they did this, the GDFR army was sent in. They were armed with stun guns, weapons which didn't kill, just made the victim unconscious(sp?) for a while. After stun gunning most of the Genecoms, their unconscious bodies were carted off to a 'temporary holding area.'

Then, the Army raided the Genecom HQ, where they found large amounts of cash and advanced weaponry, as well as plans as to how they would take control of the world. The army then destroyed the Genecom HQ.

Obviously, this was all very toned down in the press so it wouldn't cause alarm!

Very Secret!
We checked and saw where the Genecoms got their advanced weaponry. The weapons all said on them:

"Made in the Weapons Labs of Sweedish Jupiter on Io."

[Jonny]

And, just so everyone knows, our colonies on Saturn's moons and Antarctica are still growing-- and fast!

[Giovanni Wine]

To Japan:
Italy has no position on the civil war in Philippines, before we can state our opinion, we should now why the Philippinos are protesting so vigorously for their independence.

To GFDR and NAF (secret): The recent events in Strasburg leaves no doubts to our autorities, the Genecoms are starting their revolutions, or worse, they discovered our spy network.
Our Ships stationing on te Black Sea and in the East Mediterraneum alerted us of a very high immigration of people settling in the former area of Lebanon, in the Persian Empire.
We fear that the Persian might have agreed to give the Genecoms those areas (which we all now were nuked long time ago by the Persians in the Perso-Arab war). Persia might not know about the possible threat, or maybe they wish to use the Genecoms to their advance.
We feel that we should not let the Genecom problem expand any more, we must do something, and we must do it soon.
We don't know if the Genecoms stole those weapons to Sweden, they bought them or worse they are financed by Sweden, in exchange for them to protect the Swedish gov't, but I think we should act dumb a little bit more with Sewden, our reletionship with them are the lowest we have with any country, we do not want to initiate a new war.

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Elections
The Green Party, under the leadership of Del Piero won again, but they are losing voters to the Isolationist.
This were the fnals results:
Green: 42%
Isolationist 39%
Colonist: 8%
Federalist: 4%
Other: 5%

PM Del Piero was re-elected, but the opposition from the Isolationist Party is strong, the Greens are asking for support from other parties such as the Federalist and other minors, but if, as many people believe, the Isolationist will ally with the Colonist they will hold the majority by far.

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Military:
Since the economy is growing very fast, and the cities around Europe are almost done rebuilding, Italy start a 4 year program of increasing the crew for the Space Fleet, wich in 4 years will be Large.

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Italian Projects and Stats

Trainment of Space Pilots: 4 years to Large (2 years to Medium)
Reconstruction: 1 years
Olympics will start in: 1 years
Scientific research: XX years
Denuclearization of military: 15 years (stopped for 1 years)

Name: New Italian Empire
Territories: Italian Europe, Italian Phobos, Italian Venus, Italian Moon Base, Galapagos Italian Military Base.
Population: 238 milion (137 Europe, 75 Venus, 19 Moon, 10 Phobos)
Biological Warfare Sick: 0.5 milion
Biological Casualities: 4.5 milion
Nuclear Winter Sick: 22 milion

Military:
Army: Large
Navy: Medium
Air Force: Medium
Space Fleet: Small (growing)
Nukes: 375 (-25 each year)
Interplanetary Nukes: none

Saluti