This is the Peoples Liberation Radio English Language service, broadcasting the goods news of enlightenment and liberation of all sentient life!
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And that was the great gong of the old Buddhist shrine of Kigami singling the coming of noon and the beginning of our evening Enlightenment programme, this is Kobayashi Yoshitoki and I present to you our listeners our latest episode of "Interesting Times". Today we have two great issues to discuss, one is the situation in Deltaria and the other is the liberation of the Hanzan territories. But first we celebrate Lao Sensei's visit to our Socialist neighbour the Popular Democratic Republic of Kanjor with a tribute to the Parti Révolutionnaire des Travailleurs, the Revolutionary Workers' Party. The Le Parti Révolutionnaire des Travailleurs (The Revolutionary Workers' Party) is a revolutionary communist party based around the principles of nationalism, Marxism and self-reliance.
Stemming from a grassroots movement of trade unionists, ex-soldiers, intellectuals and labourers, the PRT promotes the idea of a prosperous communist state which will protect the working people from class traitors within Kanjor, and enemies across the seas.
In tribute to our brothers in the battle for Socialism, though our ideas differ on spiritual matters, by playing a track from a album of propaganda songs kindly gifted to the Peoples Liberation Radio, La jeune garde, the young guards.
Kobayashi Yoshitoki: This is the Peoples Liberation Radio English Language service presenting "Interesting Times", a enlightenment programme aimed at presenting news from around the world from a anti-Imperialist, anti-Capitalist perspective. Today I have with in the studio Comrade Saruwatari Hatsuharu of Lao Sensei's Propaganda Division for Anti-Imperialist Struggle to discuss the Deltarian situation. Tell me, Comrade, just what has happened in Deltaria which has caused so much bloodshed and strife?
Saruwatari Hatsuharu: It is very simple, comrade, Deltaria was invaded by the vicious Imperialist dynasty the Kennedies. The Kennedies where a gang of mad Imperialist jackals who tired hard to erase the the culture of every nation they came into contact with, and for no obvious reason try to pretend they had some kind of magical weaponry which was then discovered to be made of plastic. They where a case study in unenlightenment, behaving a such a crazed manner even the other Imperialists attacked them. They seem to have been defeated forever by the Luthorians intervention.
Kobayashi Yoshitoki: But surly the Luthorians are Imperialists too? Shouldn't we condemn them too?
Saruwatari Hatsuharu: Perhaps in some time in the future, but in this time and moment the Luthorians have rendered a great service to humanity and the cause of Anti-Imperialism by defeating the Arch-Imperialist Kennedy. What is happening at this time and moment is what matters, that is the essence of Zen. As our great teacher Itoskti-Sama said in Discourse on the Revolutionary Ideal, "we should oppose what the enemy supports, and support what the enemy opposes." And after all, Luthoria has now withdrawn it's forces.
Kobayashi Yoshitoki: Thank you Comrade, for enlightening me on this matter. But what of the Kontra?
Saruwatari Hatsuharu: In the future we may have to denounce them as Imperialistic Monotheistic Jesuit Slavo-Fascists, but at this moment in time and space they are (unwitting) heroes of the Anti-Imperialist struggle.
Kobayashi Yoshitoki: We conclude this discussion with a old Deltarian folk song, rerecorded for the modern age by the Cossack folk group Rodina to inspire the Deltarians in their struggle against Kennedy. Comrades, please enjoy По Горам Карпатским.
Kobayashi Yoshitoki: Now unto the third and final discussion of todays programme. This part of the programme is provided for the benefit of Terran Public Radio, who recently asked in one of their broadcasts how it is compatible to pursue an Anti-Imperialist agenda and enter Hanzan at once? Well, we welcome your questions as do all masters of Zen, and while I am tempted simply to say "Mu" and be done with it (as anybody would with Hulstaria sitting on it's heap of stolen land), I will explain at great length why we have liberated Hanzan.
As your own exile pet explained, Hanzan was created as free trade zone by two competing Imperialisms, the old Indralan and Talmorian Empires. In other words, it is not a nation created because it's own people wanted to separate, not out of racial or cultural identity or a sense of shared historic destiny, but a creation of Financial Capitalism itself. Not a organic social body, but simply a line drawn on a map by statesmen doing a business deal. Hanzan is far too small ever to exert itself, which the way Capitalists like their gathering points, where they can jointly exploit a small area with a great deal of capital concentrated in it. Hanzanians are also basically the same in cultural and ethic terms to those living on the Indralan side of the broader, which was largely ignored by the natives already living there, and hardly any kind of broader guard was maintained. What did Hanzan have which was different from the rest of regions around it? I tell you plainly, it was full of banks and warehouses full of Gaijin money and Gaijin goods which soon returned to Gaijin countries where Gaijin politicians patted themselves on the backs for letting such a little country exist, ignoring the fact that Hanzan barely has it's own government! Hanzan was always run by a small group of traders and has never elected it's own government once nor are there any great political figures in it's history. It was full of Opium Dens, whore houses and warehouses full of Cocaine! Why, 55% of it's income came from such activities! To liberate Hanzan was to put an end to this centre of unrestrained Capitalist greed, madness and lust!
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This is the Peoples Liberation Radio English Language service, broadcasting the goods news of enlightenment and liberation of all sentient life! This is the end of our enlightenment programme "Interesting Times" this is Kobayashi Yoshitoki signing out to the Internationale, sung by the Kigami's Peoples Song and Dance Ensemble