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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Phibotic » Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:00 pm

Protests against Trauerstein sentence

Thousands of people gathered in Bruderkrieg after the sentence of the Trauerstein case was published. They assume corruption and politically motivated influence of the government. They think the case should be reviewed without involvement of the government and under the control of foreign judges. Parts of GRP support this notion.
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Phibotic » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:59 am

Thaller Cola conquers Narik beverage market
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Only a few weeks after production started Thaller Cola became the most popular non alcoholic drink in Narikaton. In a poll over 60% of the people stated that they drank Thaller Cola during the last seven days. The company did not expect such a demand for their product and was even struggling with bottlenecks. However in an interview CEO Virgo Siebenstein stated that "(...)There won't be any more bottlenecks in the upcoming months. The company has reacted, surplus has been reinvested, our staff and output will be increased to match the demand for our product. So everyone will be able to grab a fine bottle of Thaller Cola" When asked about the upcoming steps of the company Siebenstein answered "We plan to expand internationally, especially Deltaria seems like a profitable market to us. However on the long run we hope to let the whole world have a taste of our product!" When asked about suspicious fact that the owner of Thaller Cola is now president Siebenstein repulsed every allegation of corruption "Yes the president is founder, biggest shareholder and therefore owner of Thaller Cola but he is in no way actually involved in the company's decisions. The honorable President trusts my expertise in economic matters. Thaller Cola is free from any influence of the government and vice versa."
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Phibotic » Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:51 am

New Government coalition is formed
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The president explaining his plans for Narikaton
New Reichspräsident Dietrich Albert von Thaller assembled a cabinet that will aid him in his "mission" to modernize Narikaton. With him are many familiar faces, Bitterberg, Samt, Chormeister and one of them seems a bit to familiar. Former Chancellor Desiderius Siebenstein was now appointed Minister of Internal Affairs. This is by far the president's most controversial choice. The opposition has yet to comment the decision to make a former member of FAUST, even a leader, Minister in a post civil war cabinet.

After the cabinet was officially inaugarated D.A v. Thaller announced that his first steps would be a school reform and the implementation of a pension system. Things he also mentioned during his campaign. Siebenstein would be busy organizing the formation of a new intelligence agency. In addition the president plans to reform the military and put more effort in scientific projects. It sounds like exciting years lie ahead for the citizens of Narikaton.
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Mbites » Tue Dec 11, 2018 3:23 pm

Freiheitsberg calls new president "problematic"

Bruderkrieg, Narikaton, after the new faust-sympathizing cabinet has been inaugurated, the opposition leader Jakob vom Freiheitsberg has made a public statement.
He called the new FAUST-influenced cabinet "problematic" and hopes that the corruption is not going to spread further into the midsts of the narik society, he still sees potential that they may reform the country in a moderate way. The PAN-chef has also stated that in the past he worked with FAUST positively and trusts them to a certain degree. Political experts were surprised that the comments of PAN weren't as harsh as they had expected.

New influences in the Patriotic Alliance

The members of the patriotic alliance are becoming younger and younger even some of the leaders which previously were from old notorious thallerist politician dynasties were swapped with some younger new ideologists. They are fresh and have a different perspective from which they want to form Narikaton's future, many of them are heavily influenced by the Imperial Cult who essentially worship the first of the Thallers like some kind of godlike spirit. Some of them made controversial statements in which they call some of the more recent von Thaller presidents "abnormous" or "incompetent."
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Mbites » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:37 pm

Patriotic Youth Chairman, Walter Cedriksheim comments on Space Plans

After the space bill from the GRP has been defeated even with a lot of rebel votes from the GRP itself, the chairman of the Patriotic Youth, the organization of young members of the Patriotic Alliance, Walter Cedriksheim criticized the plans of the new president. Cedriksheim is one of the new previously described New-Breed Nationalists with ties to the imperial cult, his words in regards to the topic at hand were: "[...] His plans were crazy, they would have isolated us from the rest of the world. Narikaton is an open-minded nation without a closed-border policy. Such policies can not be the future for this nation. The values that Dietrich Albert represents are not worthy of a thaller!"
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Mbites » Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:01 pm

A new Narik Century

Traditional Thallerism becoming more and more unpopular, the monarchy abolished and social reforms. Narikaton turns progressive in face of the new century in front of them. Politcal experts expect a reactionary backlash after the last progressive liberal dominated years. Melissa von Trauerstein (von Thaller), the former civil-war personality has announced that her intention to run for presidency again. The new party wings are likely to support her and the new influence from the imperial cult also increases her chances of party-loyality behind her. Some call her the first post-thallerist ideologist. If the predictions are going to be true is only speculatable, only the future will tell.
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Phibotic » Fri Dec 14, 2018 6:01 pm

New Intelligence Agency officially formed

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Siebenstein explaining the purpose of his creation

The Ministry of Internal Affairs under Desiderius Siebenstein finally managed to form a new intelligence agency called "Narikatonischer Verfassungsschutz" (Narik Constitution Defense) the NV's purpose will be to defend the constitutional status quo. Extremist and anti democratic elements will be tracked down and neutralized. While the NV will use the Infrastructure of ATAIB each file that was created by them will be handed to the person it concerns and will be deleted afterwards so the NV has a "fresh start". Siebenstein hopes that this new organisation will finally remove the ambiguous situation we have since the dissolution of the ATAIB. President of the NV will be Fridolin Senkfurt a former member of the ATAIB who leaked information about the organisation to enemies of the Trauerstein League.

Critics say that Siebenstein "just renamed the ATAIB" and think the new agency is still far too invasive. Some even claim Narikaton does not need intelligence anymore.
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Phibotic » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:37 pm

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July 4500

Take from the military, give to the poor: President announces budget changes

While the legislative processes to establish a pension system have been completed long ago, the ministry of Health and Social Services still lacks the funds to implement the new system. Minister Pauline Samt has demanded a new budget for the last two years, but the ministry of finance led by liberal Erich Königstal denied this. Now the President intervened in this conflict. A new budget needs to be drafted before the end of his legislative period, followed by a tax reform. However it remains unsure if this reform will actually be enacted before the next elections.

President Dietrich Albert von Thaller plans to withdraw funds from the Ministry of Defense. He calls the Narik military an "ineffective abomination that devours billions of Rupens". For his next legislative period he announced profound military reforms but for now he will only perform minor changes. Minister of Defense Arnold Bitterberg announced a cut in infantry upkeep that would benefit the development and import of rocket technology. Since the Presidents megalomaniac plan to handle the development of these weapons through a new space agency failed this is his new effort to modernize the army.
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decades after the absolute monarchy our military still has not been reformed. What's left is a lot of pomp on the outside but a rotten structure on the inside

While most appreciate the effort to reform Narikatons antiquated and ineffective military critics call the President obsessed with his rocket project. Many also doubt that Bitterberg is a competent Minister of Defense and demand that an actual military expert should take his place for the upcoming reforms.
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Phibotic » Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:04 am

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Riots on New Year's Eve: Siebenstein demands regulation of firework
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Fireworks, a fine tradition for sure, but also a dangerous one

Bruderkrieg, December 31th, while most celebrate the new year peacefully a few hundred people march through the streets illegally using firework in a residential district. Members of the national police try to liquidate the drunk mass and get attacked with firework. Detonations force the police to retreat, a building catches fire. A scenery that sounds like it was taken from a civil war drama was reality yesterday.

For years social democrats had demanded regulation of firework but it was this years extreme situation helped the debate find its way into the cabinet. According to Siebenstein the situation is "intolerable and reforms are needed to ease the police's work." He finds "(...)the current availability of firework to the public unnecessary and dangerous. Big fireworks should only be handled by professionals."

While the parliament will not be able to pass any additional reforms before the end of the legislative period, the GRP will probably bring up the matter after the elections. PAN has not given any statement on the situation yet.
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Re: Voice of Narikaton

Postby Mbites » Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:59 am

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Patriotic Officials: "Scandalous plans."

Bruderkrieg, Narikaton, the patriotic alliance has called for a press conference in which they commented the plans of President D.A von Thaller regarding the military. All of the Patriotic Alliance stood united in their opinion that the cuts in the military would be too severe and they would rather see an administrative reform as well as a modernization with outside advisory roles instead of simply cutting the budget. "They've called out a problem but they are not going to do anything about it, instead they're going to cut the budget which will lead to a further decline of our army's quality. Aside from the political irresponsibility this shows, insulting the militaristic traditions of Narikaton in this way is more than scandalous." were the words Melissa von Thaller, who chose to run again for presidency, had about the issue.
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