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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Reddy » Fri Mar 29, 2019 1:09 pm

Progress In Foreign Trade and Banking Sector
June 4552

The Chairman of the Council of Magisters, Hayk Valerian Gorinius has announced that his personal Department, Foreign Affairs has concluded twenty new free trade deals in the past three years. Gorinius said the country now had free trade access to markets on each continent and is fast developing into a so-called "re-exporting' hub. Goods imported from free trade partners are being re-exported to countries which have no free trade or low tariff agreements with the original exporter nation. Gorinius said that he hoped to see the country's export earnings double over the next decade - a not too ambitious target as the country's strong economic growth appears likely to support that.

Special effort has also been applied to the country's financial sector, with the recent passing of Banking Confidentiality Act The Act outlaws any violation of confidentiality - a very welcome law for the billions in money of mostly dodgy origin, flooding into the ultra low tax country. It has also been speculated that the Council of Magisters have declared permanent neutrality to take advantage of the high tensions in Terra and receive ever more deposits from other countries if these tensions escalated to outright warfare.
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:59 pm

Pontesian government welcomes Istalian guest: Prepares world for stiff changes

We are obviously deleighted by the honour of the Istalian state visit and welcome the leader of Istalia.I, as the new leader of the Selucian National Yeudish Party and highest military of this country intend to lead this country ever closer into the international community and would welcome a close cooperation with the Istalians. In due course we will pass a constitutional amendment which will make the ever closer union between Selucia and Pontesi under one emporer our main state goal.


As the soon new leader of government and soon head of state and party leader and high military Hostus Floridius Acilianus speaks the new cabinet will soon be inaugurated under the intense pressure of the old yeudish and Solentian nobility in Pontesi which are expected to give the SNYP a resounding majority at the next election. The old parties of the elite vanished as the feelings of fear and contempt for the Pontean majority gripped the yeudis and Selucians. The nobility holds virtually all important posts in Pontesian public life and is extremly influential as the Voting Priviliges Act only allows the Patricians to vote. The majority of patricians are either from pure yeudish or Selucian descent and fear for their priviliges as the Pontean majority becomes increasingly fed up with the system of voting discrimination. The yeudis massivly profited from the liberalization of the baking sector allowing them to become generally very rich.

The resentment from yeudis and Selucian prevented the development of a Pontean upper class so far, however the recently passed banking secrecy act allowed them to gain some foothold into the middle class, creating more self-confidence and a more clearly defined identity with a heavy left wing influence. The radical revolutionary Pontean front is the most popular among the Ponteans:
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Series of bomb attacks fuel fears among the electorate: Military and police to guard early election

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Hostus Floridius Acilianus

Due to increasing internal resistance and pressure from the electorate in the face of Pontean resistance the ranks among yeudish and Selucians close and they unite themselves behind one party and their leader general Hostus Floridius Acilianus which is as yeudish as Selucian. The party intends to liberalize the voting rights further to close the ranks among yeudis and Selucians, meaning that all yeudish and pure Selucian people will be allowed to vote while all Pontean people will be denied their right to vote regardless whether they qualifie for the patrician status.
While the old government were tinkering with the old system of discimination by liberalizing the requierments of attaining the partician status the new influential force intends to completly sperate Ponteans and the rest while using them as cheap labour for the many new companies which invest into Pontesi. This argument convinced many Selucian and yeudish Partricians to support the new party because it promises to do away with Pontean competition and provide higher profits. It also intends to stopp the liberaliation of the countries economy in the fields of military and police to provide the yeudish and Selucian minorities with suifficent jobs.

Finally the swing of the influential trade unionist Efraim Friedman to the new party convinced many workers to support the new party as they welcome their inclusion into the new joint front of Selucian and Yeudis. The new party promised voting rights to them.

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Efraim Friedman
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:36 pm

Government actions spark strong opposition: Parts of the country descent into anarchy: Unofficial state of emergency
With the intended passage of racial laws the Pontean and non-pure Selucians take the matters to the streets

Reports from across the country confirm the ongoing violence in all but one administrative district. All Pontean trade unions together with several political associations formed the new Revolutionary Pontean Front which also includes the old Revolutionary Pontean Front. Their illegal armed wing formed rebel groups as soon as news came in that the new government of Pontesi not only arrests people but shoots them on the spot. The rebel groups control Caespasia and parts and many smaller section across the country (20% of the country). For now the death toll exceeds 3,500 people on both sides.
The mass strikes continue and keep essential services disrupted. Overall there is no shortage of food but blackouts have been reported as well as the disruption of communication services.

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As the general call up of all able-bodies a-citizens is on the table the police and army quell the Pontean resistance.

On the other hand paid armed unites of the Yeudish and Selucians take positions together with the weak police and military units of the government. The last decade of privitaization and the reduction of government share of the GDP left its mark on the security forces. The government hastily passed several laws providing virtually unlimited resources to the now pure yeudish and Selucian police and military units. The sacking of all non yeudish and Selucian people from the public sector and the security forces hit the quantative and qualitative capabilities severely. However the close connections of big business and families to Selucia and Beiteynu ensure a constant supply of money and volunteers to the help of the Pontesian government. Moreover the old military regime left considerable stocks of conventional and non-conventional arms in secret hiding places across the country.Most of these weapons are now in the hand of the government. They are being used with the utmost violence and without any consideration. Every c-subject and b-citizen is brought to its part of the country and city if caught without permission.

A state of emergency has not been declared yet but the police and units of military act like there is one. The suppression of the majority has already resulted in the arrest of more than 13,000 people and countless numbers of torture cases. The recent use of gas and and heavy artillery sent shockwaves through Pontesi.
The recent developments caused the government to draft several pieces of legislation which form the framework of suppression of the majority, including a law about a state of emergency and the outlawing of Pontean trade unions and parties as well as the severe restriction of civil rights. After all the yeudis and Selucians demand the rule of law to reassure investors from abroad. The legislative term was just increased to 72 months for security reasons.
The strong governmental actions show some effect: The strike seems to crack for fear of arrest and the immidiate death penalty. However at the moment the government is riding the Pontean tiger and its unsure how it will end.


We will lead this country into unity with Selucia. We will not be led by Ponteans because we are a Selucian nation. We will not allow chaos like in Barmenia and Beiteynu which hardly have a government. Thats why we will also seal of off the border to Barmenia to ensure the Ponteans do not receive any support form outside.
We need total control over the country and to do away with all this nonsens of civil rights and fair trails. We need a total state of the emergency to deal with this attempt to destroy the way we live. This new government has not conscious, because we cannot afford it in the final fight of civilisation against barbarism.
said a military spokesman.
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Sat May 04, 2019 1:05 pm

End of the endless civil war moves comes closer as the government is becoming more stable and the rebels seem to crack

The civil war between the Ponteans and the Selucian-Yeudi minority government seems to loose some of its intensity: The constant state of emergency as well as the private support from Selucian and Yeudish individuals abroad increases the advantage of the government day by day. At the beginning of the war the unorganised, chaotic and underfunded government troops were equal to the Pontean rebels which supported by strikes and terrorist attacks were a formidable enemy to the central government. It is estimated theat the central government reassumed contro, over 98% of the total Pontesian territory after the use of gas and three successive military successes of the central government over the Pontean rebels.
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The Pontesian police is well known for using lethal weapons against Pontean demonstrators everywhere across the country. This depicts a daily scene within the cities of Pontesi: A group of Ponteans was caught without having a visa.

The errection of preliminary border fences and the massive allocation of resources towards the police and military contributes to the increasing advantage of the government. The aggressive behaviour of the central government resulted in the hostage of more than 1.2 million Pontean women and children to force their men to surrender. Experts estimate that close to 200,000 Pontean leaders were executed immidiately for organising strikes and disorder. Meanwhile the near total power of the dictator during the over ten year state of emergency crakcs down heavily on all opposition opinion even among the yeudish-Selucian minority. Nevertheless the support for the Selucian-Yeudish National Party remains high as it is widely seen as the only alternative to total chaos.
The system of segregation is becoming harsher every day with the c-citizens having to carry an identity card outside their designated region and the duty to apply for visas if they want to be in other regions longer than a few days. The mass-voiding of all land ownership titles of c-citizens outside the designated region also begun. The rich a-citizens quickly used this opportunity as well as in the job world where all c-citizens lost their jobs they need a qualifiaction for: All their qualifications were declared void, leaving them only the hot and noisy jobs under the command of the a and b citizens.

The total number of working days lost through strikes declined to an absolut minimum due to the restrictive practices of firing Pontean workers if they strike. The abscence of any social benefit to this group economically forces people to work. The number of terrorist attacks is however not declining with more than 300 incidents last year across the country.

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Military parade in the capital to celebrate the victory over the Pontean rebels near Isininga. The soliders wear their representation uniform.
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:36 pm

Old Elites emerge out of the dark

For a short period of time it seemed as if Pontesi would return to a normal democracy with the abolishment of the state of emergency and other constitutional changes. However the resulting chaos and leadleress time led to the remergence of the powerful Yeudish-Selucian elite. More than ever this group is determined to finally reunite Selucia and Pontesi and to create a minority-led civilized country.
The minorities are still a powerful force within the miilitary and police and together with thee privately paid secret armies they move to conduct a coup d'etat. Within weeks Pontesi moved from a non-functioning government and parliament to a dictatorship under the leadership of Floridius Acilianus Junior the grandson of the leader of the first minority revolution.

Most of the old laws are set to be reenacted (the military and police hardly stopped executing them anyway), the border wall to Barmenia will be rebuild and harsh times are expected. Thousands of followers of the old government are rounded up for immediate execution without trail. As the news spreads the Ponteans and Brmékai are starting once again to resist the planned changes and the violent power grab.

Mark me words: We will completly transform Pontesi into a paradise for our minorities. The Pontean-Brmékai communist hordes will be put where they belong: Into a subserving role for the master race.


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Those supporters of the former government and leaders of the Pontean-Brmekai community who havent yet fled the country are in the process of being executed without trail.
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Fri Mar 06, 2020 5:26 pm

Unrest continues: Government outlaws trade unions and strikes and passes race laws

In the wake of the revolution the newly elected legislature passed countless laws which cement the racial vision of the leadership. Up until today more than 23,000 people have been killed by police and military units in several massacres across the country resulting in a decrease in unrest, but the armed struggle continues for a small number of people who moved in the underground. Police is partoling the cities as does the military. Massive budget increases for the police and military allow them to recruit A-citizens and B-Citizens. C-Citizens had been hardly present in the police force and miliatyr even before the old guard took power.
C-citizens are being arrested on the spot many of them killed immidiately or brought to their designated areas where proper sanitation and housing is hardly available. All security units act without restraints in an attempt to crush the uprising. No state of emergency has been declared yet but it would hardly make any difference. The economy starts to pick up again as many c-citizens do not receive any state income they are forced to stop protesting and start working for starvation wages, increasing profit margins for the respective companies.
Experts predict the government having full control over the whole territory within the next six months.

We will show this human garbage where they belong: Into hell. They do not have the necessary capacities to do anything else than manual labor.
a source close to the head of government and head of state.

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Pontesian police fighting the c-citizens
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:58 pm

Death toll on the rise: Hostus Floridius Acilianusto unmoved

The government decided to recruit all able-bodied man between the age of 18 to 40 A-citizen in the effort to hold the line against the continuing unrest of c-citizens against the government actions to separate them from the rest of the population and to disenfranchise them.
During the last few months an additional 30,000 were killed in violent protests across the country with the police and military thought to be responsible for most deaths. The leaders of c-citizens organisations and trade unions are either imprisoned or killed either way the level of unrest is noticeably declining with only 12 municipal districts of 3600 are considered unrest areas as of now, down from its highpoint of 733 at the beginning of the unrest against the government.
Any c-citizen caught in an A-citizen or b-citizen area is immediately arrested. All c-citizens are expected to live in the region Caespasia and need approval to live/work outside the region, cutting through many families. The poverty in the region is unimaginable.

They are nothing. We will continue to govern this country and we will continue to govern these animals.

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Meanwhile to prevent the prevent the spread of the newly discovered virus, the government immediately announced a travel ban for all people wanting to enter Pontesi, including its own citizens.
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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Liu Che/Zhuli » Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:10 pm

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Re: Pontesian Enquirer

Postby Govenor12 » Fri May 01, 2020 12:03 pm

Victory of the government announced an celebrated: Opposition party will be banned

After twenty years of civil war the army and units of the police finally were able to capture the last sections of resistance among the c-citizens and some sections of the b-citizens. Independent observers suggest that the death toll is close to 400,000 people who either died in direct battle or killed because they were opposing the government. The government troops were given a general amnesty while the opposition was mostly brutally hanged or shot. Scientists, painters, teachers, trade unionists, communists, socialists fled the country if they could and the opposition is considered to completely dysfunctional.
The newly formed Socialist Egalitarian Party is set to be banned immediately while in preparation the headquarter of this party is surrounded by heavy armed soldiers and policeman.

With the troops free from active fighting the newly created apparatus of suppression can concentrate on implementing the harsh racial laws and suppressing any uprising. The de facto curfew remains in effect and many argue that the police and military could not have more power than under a formal SoE. The new white paper will set out the deep transformation of all the states institutions to instruments of racial oppression. The National Yeudish Party and its leader are now firmly in control.

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The president thanks the soldiers for the loyal services.
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