Hey Everyone hope you are having an awesome day. Like the title says my grandfather was a fugitive for 60+ years went missing officially in 1956 from a military base and a deathbed confession of his parents names and Commercial dna testing which also included the testing I took a few years prior closed the case when it matched closely to his kids from when he went by another name; and I happen to have the same surname as the convicted cult leader of NXIVM currently serving a 120 year sentence (My grandfather who was officially a fugitive is on my paternal side but I have my maternal grandfathers surname). AMA

Urgent where do I go? Decision needed by tonight.
Hello, I am currently attending the Air Force academy and just got off a waitlist to UVA. I need to decide by tonight of which college to go. If you could help me make my decision that would be great.
Pros and cons of both: Air Force Academy Pros: More growth as an individual and leader Free Good jobs afterwards
Cons: Lost of personality Hard ass trainings and schedule Service of 5 Years
UVA Pros: More fun More of a summer Roommate is best friend More possibility of relationship
Cons: Cost $$ Maybe less character growth People already know I’m going to the Air Force Academy
I also don’t know which college is better academically.

I stumbled on a podcast where Larry Ebony discussed his friendship with a woman named Bevery Ash AKA "Shamecca." Shamecca was part of a love triangle between Guy Fisher and Nicky Barnes, 2 leaders of the gang "The Council" who dominated the heroin trade in Manhattan during the 70s and early 80s.
Larry would sell stolen goods at The Monarch, a bar in Harlem where The Council did business. One night Shamecca bought all of Larry's goods and introduced him to Nicky Barnes. Larry and Shamecca becames friends, she even walked at House of Ebony balls, a part of which can be seen in this video.
Could be nothing but though it was an interesting podcast nonetheless.

Urgent where do I go? Decision needed by tonight.
Hello, I am currently attending the Air Force academy and just got off a waitlist to UVA. I need to decide by tonight of which college to go. If you could help me make my decision that would be great.
Pros and cons of both:
Air Force Academy Pros: More growth as an individual and leader Free Good jobs afterwards
Cons: Lost of personality Hard ass trainings and schedule Service of 5 Years
UVA Pros: More fun More of a summer Roommate is best friend More possibility of relationship
Cons: Cost $$ Maybe less character growth People already know I’m going to the Air Force Academy
I also don’t know which college is better academically.

Urgent where do I go? Decision needed by tonight.
Hello, I am currently attending the Air Force academy and just got off a waitlist to UVA. I need to decide by tonight of which college to go. If you could help me make my decision that would be great.
Pros and cons of both:
Air Force Academy Pros: More growth as an individual and leader Free Good jobs afterwards Cons: Lost of personality Hard ass trainings and schedule Service of 5 Years
UVA Pros: More fun More of a summer Roommate is best friend More possibility of relationship
Cons: Cost $$ Maybe less character growth People already know I’m going to the Air Force Academy
I also don’t know which college is better academically.

Hello, I am currently attending the Air Force academy and just got off a waitlist to UVA. I need to decide by tonight of which college to go. If you could help me make my decision that would be great. Pros and cons of both: Air Force Academy Pros: More growth as an individual and leader Free Good jobs afterwards Cons: Lost of personality Hard ass trainings and schedule Service of 5 Years
UVA Pros: More fun More of a summer Roommate is best friend More possibility of relationship
Cons: Cost $$ Maybe less character growth People already know I’m going to the Air Force Academy
I also don’t know which college is better academically.

Hi, the past few days I had to think about about the Guardian, some of the issues the class has as it is right now, and how I would go about fixing them. I had a lot of (What I think to be) cool ideas and now want to share them across a few posts on this sub. This post is one of those. I will first write down the ideas I had as rules, and then later add some comments explaining my thoughts and reasoning behind those ideas.
Disclaimer: This is not me saying that this is what the Guardian SHOULD BE. I also don't claim that these changes would even necessarily be for the better. My goals with these posts is not to dictate how to make the Guardian properly. My goals with these posts is discussing potential issues with the Class (many of which have already been pointed out, some of which I haven't seen discussed much), talking about potential ways of fixing them and discussing game design in general, but primarily, my goal with this is just to share and discuss some cool ideas I had because I love homebrewing :). And how knows, maybe a Paizo designer stumbles across one of these and takes some inspiration, but that would already be far more than I would hope to accomplish.
Here is a list of all parts:
Reworking The Guardian Part 1: The Taunt Mechanic
Reworking The Guardian Part 2: Class Options
In my last post I want to first go into general class changes, then I want to discuss my idea of a subclass system. This constitutes probably the biggest departure from the original Guardian, but these are also some of the ideas I am most excited about. _______________________________________________________________________________________

General Changes

Key Attribute: Constitution or other Hitpoints per Level: 12 Class DC: Your choice of Constitution, Wisdom, Charisma or Intelligence (Lv 9: Expert; Lv 17: Master) Perception: Lv 1: Expert; Lv 11: Master
Progresses in proficiency with all armors including unarmed.
Guardians Resistance --- 1st
During your daily preparations you can choose 3 damage types. You gain resistance equal to half your level against those damage types (minimum 1). This stacks with resistances your armor might grant you. You can spend 10 minutes to switch one resistance for another.

Subclasses

(This will reference my post about class options: Reworking The Guardian Part 2: Class Options )

Every Subclass grants you a choice between different Key Attributes, a different Defensive Strategy, some upgrade to that Defensive Strategy and a unique ability.

Strength-Based

Key Attribute: Constitution or Strength
Defensive Strategy: Hampering Sweeps
-> Bonus Effect: The enemy always has to attempt the save, even if they do not leave your reach, unless they use a Step action.
Subclass Ability: Striking your allies triggers a Reactive Strike from you.

Dexterity-Based

Key Attribute: Constitution or Dexterity
Defensive Strategy: Tackle Ally
-> Bonus Effect: You can push your ally 5 feet into any direction.
Subclass Ability: Whenever an ally you can see is subject to a hostile effect, you can Stride towards them as a reaction. Afterwards, you can immediately use one Guardian reaction as a free action if its requirements are fulfilled.

Wisdom-Based

Key Attribute: Constitution or Wisdom
Defensive Strategy: Danger Sense
-> Bonus Effect: You grant the +1 circumstance bonus on a success and grant a +2 circumstance bonus on a critical success.
Subclass Ability: If an enemy you can see attacks an ally you can see and the ally is off-guard to the enemy, the enemy first has to succeed a check against your Perception DC using the relevant modifier (Usually attack modifier or spell attack modifier). On a failure, your ally isn't off-guard to the attack.
Special: You become Master in Perception at 7th level and legendary at 15th level.

Charisma-Based

Key Attribute: Constitution or Charisma
Defensive Strategy: Command Attention or Challenge
-> Bonus Effect: If you take Command Attention, increase the area to "20-foot or 40-foot emanation". If you take Challenge, after it would normally end, the creature still is taunted 1 for an additional round. You only get the bonus for the ability you chose as part of this subclass.
Subclass Ability: Successful Diplomacy, Intimidation and Deception checks against enemies make them taunted 1 for 1 round (taunted 2 on a critical success).

Intelligence-Based

Key Attribute: Constitution or Intelligence
Defensive Strategy: Guardian Lore
-> Bonus Effect: When you successfully Recall Knowledge about a creature/object, the first time an ally is you can see is subject of a hostile effect of the creature/object in question, they gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the relevant defense (+2 on a critical success).
Subclass Ability 1: You can spend 10 minutes to grant one of your allies one of your Guardian Resistances while they are within a 30-foot emanation. If you do so, any Guardian Resistance you granted to another ally ends. If they leave that area, they loose the resistance, but they regain it if they enter it again.
Special: You become Master in Perception at 7th level and legendary at 15th level.

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Comments

As I wrote in my post "Reworking The Guardian: Class Options", I wanted to expand the scope of the Guardian from "Specific Heavily Armored Defender" to "Defender In General". So this is probably where I made the most extreme changes.

• Key Attribute
  • As you can see, the Guardian can take literally every Score as their ability score, depending on their subclass. They can always take Con, which I though was fitting for what thematically is the most defensive class in the game. You being able to take every other score is, on one hand, meant to give players as many options as possible, and on the other, is meant to embody the various different ways in which one can go about defending other. Want to be the classical Strength based Guardian? You can! But you can also be the Dexterious Protector who is always where he needs to be, a Wise Bodyguard, who sees dangers coming from miles, or a Charismatic leader, who pulls attention to himself.
• Hit Points per level
  • As I said, I think it is only fitting for the most defensive class to have the maximum HP per level. Not only that, but since their class features see them pulling aggro them themselves, I think they need the higher HP.
• Class DC
  • There are multiple things to talk about in reference to the class DC.
    • Firstly, I made it scale faster. The Guardians protective abilities rely on their Class DC so I think it needs to be on the higher side of Class DCs. Maybe not up to legendary but definitely close.
    • Secondly, you can choose CON or any of the mental stat as the score you use for it, but not DEX or STR. The reason why I did this, is firstly, to balance the mental Subclasses with the physical ones (Now some have better combat stats, in return the others are slightly better at protecting with their higher DC) and secondly because I think this gives players a difficult but interesting choice in regards to what they want to focus on.
• Perception
  • I feel like a Protector needs to be decently perception. You need to spot a danger to protect others from it after all.
• Guardians Resistance
  • I think the Guardian should have resistances as a primary class feature, and for that they need to be more general. The resistances as they are right now are to specific imo. Letting you choose between resistances also rewards you for planing ahead. And while I haven't added them to my other post where I list feat ideas, this also opens up the possibility for feats that allow you to change resistances during combat.
• Subclasses
  • I might later invent some class specific feats. I already have a few ideas, but this is gonna be a different post I might make some other day.
  • Strength-based
    • This is meant to embody the more classical form of Defender, akin to for example the Sentinel feat from Dnd. They defend by being an immovable object you can not get by. This is what most probably think of when they hear "tank".
  • Dex-based
    • This is meant to be more of a Guardian Angel, who is always there to protect you. The ability to make a full Stride as a reaction makes this subclass pretty mobile. One consideration you will have to make however, is that there is some counter synergy with the speed reduction of heavy armor, which is why I considered giving it improved unarmored defense. However, I decided against it, because for one I think this is the monks thing, and secondly, because I think that it is in interesting trade-off. Either you maximize your defense at the cost of some mobility, or you sacrifice a bit of AC to maximize your mobility.
  • Wis-based
    • This is the embodiment of the wise protector who sees danger coming from miles away that I referenced in my other post. I think that this could be a very cool "archetype" to lean into. The better perception proficiency also sets it apart from other subclasses and reinforces this "Wise Protector" theme. I have also heard people discuss the potential of focus spells, and while I think the idea is cool and would really fit the mental Guardian Subclasses, thinking of a focus spell system is unfortunately far too much work for now xd.
  • Cha-based
    • This is meant to embody leaders, nights in shining armor or braggarts who protect their allies by demanding the attention of their enemies. This is a aggro-taking based tank, that, as far as I know, is typical for MMORPGs. This subclass also has a lot of debuff capabilities in its kit.
  • Int-based
    • This is meant to embody the kind of Guardian that protects by planning ahead and being prepared for any form of danger. It is also the subclass I put the least effort in (I basically came up with it while writing). The giving allies resistances part is meant to reward planning ahead, although I am not sure if it accomplishes that well enough. I can also imagine a later feat or feature that just allows you to change a resistance on the fly. What this subclass might also benefit from, is a Prescient Planner-esk feat/feature, but for resistances or other prepareable defensive options. Needless to say, I think this subclass still needs the most work.

Hoping for scout masks, leaders/small guns/energy bbh, flux (except violet), bulk maps, ect. Just other trade able items.
Maybe cap offers for some real odd ones, but mostly after the above mentioned items. I’m negotiable so if I turn down an offer, I’m going to try and negotiate with you.
Let’s make a deal. 🤝🏽
Here’s what I got;
BER2515v
MED2515r
MUE25ap
FR50c15r
TR50c15r
TRE15r
FR2515r
FR2515v
FR2525
GO2525
HUE15r
JUE15r
JUE25
MU50c25
S2525
SUP50c25
ST2525
TR2525
TR2515r
Some of these are/were in my vendor so I’ll make sure I have them before we meet up in game.

"Editorjal TMID: Il-qawwa tal-protesti
Il-qawwa ta’ protesta paċifika qiegħda hemm biex jaraha kulħadd. Il-pajjiż ra ħafna f’dawn l-aħħar snin – protesti kontra art fiż-Żonqor li qed tingħata lill-Università Amerikana ta’ Malta, protesti kontra l-qlugħ mill-għeruq tas-siġar u għall-ħarsien tal-ambjent inġenerali, protesti li jsejħu r-riżenji u t-tmiem tal-korruzzjoni.
L-2019 kienet eżempju perfett tal-impatt li jista’ jkollhom il-protesti, fejn wara l-arrest ta’ Yorgen Fenech fuq il-qtil tal-ġurnalista, Daphne Caruana Galizia, kienu nqalgħu protesti madwar il-pajjiż li jitolbu ġustizzja għall-ġurnalista maqtula, li rriżultaw fir-riżenja ta’ dak iż-żmien. Prim Ministru, Joseph Muscat.
REKLAM
Issa qed jerġgħu jinfaqgħu l-protesti, din id-darba marbuta mal-ftehim infami tal-isptarijiet. Il-qrati kienu annullaw il-ftehim is-sena l-oħra, u semmew il-frodi, deċiżjoni li kienet ikkonfermata wkoll mill-qorti tal-appell, li użat il-kelma kollużjoni fis-sentenza tagħha.
Riċentement ġiet fi tmiemha inkjesta maġisterjali dwar l-aspett kriminali tal-ftehim tal-isptarijiet, u tressqu akkużi fil-qorti. Dawk akkużati jinkludu l-ogħla uffiċjali attwali u eks uffiċjali fil-pajjiż. Fosthom l-eks Prim Ministru, Joseph Muscat, u l-eks Chief of Staff tiegħu, Keith Schembri, kif ukoll l-eks Ministru, Konrad.
Mizzi. Chris Fearne huwa mixli wkoll, u għamel it-tajjeb u rriżenja minn Deputat Prim Ministru u Ministru. Il-Gvernatur tal-Bank Ċentrali, Edward Scicluna, jinsab mixli wkoll, iżda ma rrinunzjax … għandu biex ma jikkawżax ħsara lir-reputazzjoni.
Huma kollha, flimkien mal-oħrajn akkużati, se jkollhom l-opportunità li jiddefendu lilhom infushom fil-qorti, u huma l-qrati li jiddeċiedu jekk humiex ħatja jew innoċenti. Iżda l-Prim Ministru, Robert Abela, ħa d-deċiżjoni li jattakka l-inkjesta maġisterjali, billi qajjem dubji dwar iż-żmien tal-konklużjoni u qajjem mistoqsijiet dwarha.
Huwa għamel ukoll kummenti kontra l-ġurnalisti u rabat xi wħud ma’ dak li sejjaħ ‘l-establishment’. Huwa kors perikoluż li wieħed jieħu peress li jista’ jkun ta’ theddida mhux ħażin għall-ġurnalisti u l-membri tal-ġudikatura. Jista’ wkoll ipoġġi biża’ fl-avukati tal-prosekuzzjoni u l-membri tal-ġudikatura li jkollhom jisimgħu l-kawżi kriminali. Hu mhux il-medja Joe, imma l-Prim Ministru ta’ nazzjon, fejn hemm differenza, u l-azzjonijiet tiegħu huma inaċċettabbli.
Dan kollu wassal biex faqqgħu protesti fil-pajjiż, apparti dikjarazzjonijiet qawwija minn bosta setturi li qalu lill-Prim Ministru biex iwaqqaf l-attakki tiegħu fuq il-ġudikatura u l-ġurnalisti.
Studenti universitarji nġabru fi Triq ir-Repubblika biex jipprotestaw u kollettivament ikkundannaw il-kummenti tal-Prim Ministru Robert Abela kontra l-ġudikatura. Aktar tard il-Partit Nazzjonalista kien għamel protesta tiegħu stess barra l-Parlament, fejn il-Kap tal-PN, Bernard Grech, kien ikkritika d-deċiżjoni tal-Ispeaker tal-Kamra li ma jħallix dibattitu urġenti dwar is-sitwazzjoni riċenti, u qal ukoll li l-protesta kienet biex ‘[ar;u lin-nazzjon minn Abela’ u kkundanna d-dikjarazzjonijiet attakkanti tal-Prim Ministru dwar il-;udikatura.
Aktar tard, kienet organizzata protesta mir-Repubblika, appoġġjata minn 21 għaqda, li sejħet għal Malta nadifa u kkundannat id-dikjarazzjonijiet li għamel il-Prim Ministru kontra ġurnalisti u membri tal-ġudikatura, fost l-oħrajn.
Il-protesti jgħinu biex juru r-rabja tan-nies għas-sitwazzjoni, u jenfasizzaw il-kwistjonijiet li n-nies mhumiex kuntenti bihom. Il-protesti huma b’saħħithom, u l-Prim Ministru assolutament irid jagħti kas ta’ dak li qed jingħad minn dawk ta’ rieda tajba.
Għandu jsejjaħ għat-tneħħija ta’ Scicluna peress li l-pożizzjoni tiegħu, filwaqt li jiffaċċja akkużi serji, mhix tenibbli. Għandu jirtira l-kummenti li għamel dwar l-inkjesta u dwar il-ġurnalisti. Dan huwa dak li hu tajjeb għall-pajjiż.
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"TMID 社論：抗議的力量
和平抗議的力量是有目共睹的。近年來，該國發生了許多抗議活動——反對將祖科爾的土地給予馬耳他美國大學、反對拔除樹木和保護環境的抗議、要求辭職和結束腐敗的抗議。
2019 年是抗議活動影響力的一個完美例子，在約爾根·費內奇(Yorgen Fenech) 因記者達芙妮·卡魯阿納·加利齊亞(Daphne Caruana Galizia) 遇刺事件被捕後，全國各地爆發了抗議活動，要求為被謀殺的記者伸張正義，導致當時的記者辭職約瑟夫·馬斯喀特總理。
廣告
現在抗議活動再次爆發，這次與臭名昭著的醫院交易有關。去年，法院以欺詐為由撤銷了該交易，上訴法院也確認了這項決定，上訴法院在判決中使用了「共謀」一詞。
對醫院交易刑事方面的司法調查最近結束，並已向法庭提出指控。被指控的人包括該國現任和前任高級官員。其中包括前總理約瑟夫·馬斯喀特、前幕僚長基思·申布里以及前部長康拉德
米茲。克里斯·費恩（Chris Fearne）也受到指控，他做了正確的事，辭去了副總理和部長的職務。央行行長愛德華·希克魯納（Edward Scicluna）也受到指控，但他還沒有下台……他應該下台，以免造成聲譽損害。
他們所有人以及其他被指控的人都將有機會在法庭上為自己辯護，而法庭將決定他們是否有罪。但總理羅伯特·阿貝拉決定攻擊權威調查，質疑結論的時機並提出質疑。
他也發表過針對記者的評論，並將一些記者與他所謂的「當權派」聯繫起來。這是一條危險的道路，因為它可能對記者和司法人員構成相當大的威脅。它也可能使必須審理刑事案件的檢方律師和司法人員感到恐懼。他不是普通的喬，而是一個國家的總理，這是有區別的，他的行為是不可接受的。
所有這一切都導致該國爆發抗議活動，儘管許多部門發表強烈聲明，要求總理停止攻擊司法機構和記者。
大學生聚集在共和國街抗議，集體譴責總理羅伯特·阿貝拉針對司法機構的言論。國民黨後來在議會外舉行了自己的抗議活動，國民黨領袖伯納德·格雷奇批評眾議院議長不允許就最近局勢進行緊急辯論的決定，並表示抗議是為了“保護國家免受阿貝拉的侵害” ，並譴責總理有關司法機構的攻擊性言論。
隨後，共和黨在 21 個組織的支持下組織了一場抗議活動，呼籲建立一個廉潔的馬耳他，並譴責總理針對記者和司法人員的言論等。
抗議活動有助於表達人們對局勢的憤怒，並突顯人們不滿意的問題。抗議活動很強烈，首相絕對必須留意善意人士的言論。
他必須要求解除希克魯納的職務，因為他的立場雖然面臨嚴重指控，但站不住腳。他必須收回他對調查和記者發表的評論。這才是對國家有利的事。
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2024-05-18/newspaper-leadeTMID-Editorial-The-power-of-protests-6736261223
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"TMID Editorial: The power of protests
The power of a peaceful protest is there for all to see. The country has seen many in recent years – protests against land in Żonqor being given to the American University of Malta, protests against the uprooting of trees and to protect the environment in general, to protests calling for resignations and an end to corruption.
2019 was a perfect example of the impact that protests can have, where following the arrest of Yorgen Fenech over the assassination of journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, protests had erupted around the country calling for justice for the murdered journalist, resulting in the resignation of then Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat.
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Now protests are erupting again, this time tied to the infamous hospitals deal. The courts had annulled the deal last year, mentioning fraud, a decision that was also confirmed by the court of appeal, which used the word collusion in its judgement.
A magisterial inquiry into the criminal aspect of the hospitals deal recently came to a close, and charges have been filed in court. Those charged include current and former top officials in the country. Among them is former Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, and his former Chief of Staff, Keith Schembri, as well as former Minister, Konrad
Mizzi. Chris Fearne is also charged, and he did the correct thing and resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister. Governor of the Central Bank, Edward Scicluna, is also charged, but he has not stepped down … he should in order not to cause reputational damage.
They all, together with the others charged, will have the opportunity to defend themselves in court, and it is the courts that will decide whether they are guilty or innocent. But Prime Minister, Robert Abela, has taken the decision to attack the magisterial inquiry, by questioning the timing of the conclusion and raising questions about it.
He has also made comments against journalists and tying some to what he has dubbed ‘the establishment’. It is a dangerous course to take as it can be quite threatening to journalists and members of the judiciary. It can also put fear into the prosecution lawyers and members of the judiciary that will have to hear the criminal cases. He is not the average Joe, but the Prime Minister of a nation, where there is a difference, and his actions are unacceptable.
All of this has resulted in protests erupting in the country, aside from strong statements by many sectors telling the Prime Minister to stop his attacks on the judiciary and journalists.
University students gathered in Republic Street to protest and collectively condemned Prime Minister Robert Abela’s comments against the judiciary. The Nationalist Party had later held a protest of its own outside Parliament, where PN Leader, Bernard Grech, had criticised the decision by the Speaker of the House not to allow an urgent debate about the recent situation, and also said that the protest was to ‘protect the nation from Abela’ and condemned the Prime Minister’s attacking statements regarding the judiciary.
Later still, a protest was organised by Repubblika, backed by 21 organisations, calling for a clean Malta and condemning the statements made by the Prime Minister against journalists and members of the judiciary, as amongst other things.
The protests help show the people’s anger at the situation, and highlight the issues that the people are not happy with. Protests are powerful, and the Prime Minister absolutely must take heed of what is being said by those of goodwill.
He must call for the removal of Scicluna as his position, while he faces serious charges, is not tenable. He must retract the comments he has made about the inquiry and about journalists. This is what is right for the country.
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"टीएमआईडी संपादकीय: विरोध की शक्ति
शांतिपूर्ण विरोध की शक्ति सभी को देखने को मिलती है। देश ने हाल के वर्षों में बहुत कुछ देखा है - ज़ोन्कोर में भूमि को अमेरिकी माल्टा विश्वविद्यालय को दिए जाने के खिलाफ विरोध प्रदर्शन, पेड़ों को उखाड़ने और सामान्य रूप से पर्यावरण की रक्षा के लिए विरोध प्रदर्शन, इस्तीफे और भ्रष्टाचार को समाप्त करने के लिए विरोध प्रदर्शन।
2019 विरोध प्रदर्शनों के प्रभाव का एक आदर्श उदाहरण था, जहां पत्रकार डैफने कारुआना गैलिज़िया की हत्या पर योर्गेन फेनेच की गिरफ्तारी के बाद, मारे गए पत्रकार के लिए न्याय की मांग करते हुए देश भर में विरोध प्रदर्शन शुरू हो गए थे, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति को इस्तीफा देना पड़ा था। प्रधान मंत्री, जोसेफ मस्कट।
विज्ञापन
अब विरोध प्रदर्शन फिर से भड़क रहे हैं, इस बार यह कुख्यात अस्पताल सौदे से जुड़ा है। अदालतों ने पिछले साल धोखाधड़ी का उल्लेख करते हुए सौदे को रद्द कर दिया था, एक फैसले की अपील की अदालत ने भी पुष्टि की थी, जिसने अपने फैसले में मिलीभगत शब्द का इस्तेमाल किया था।
अस्पताल सौदे के आपराधिक पहलू की मजिस्ट्रेट जांच हाल ही में समाप्त हुई और अदालत में आरोप दायर किए गए हैं। आरोप लगाने वालों में देश के वर्तमान और पूर्व शीर्ष अधिकारी शामिल हैं। इनमें पूर्व प्रधान मंत्री, जोसेफ मस्कट, और उनके पूर्व चीफ ऑफ स्टाफ, कीथ शेम्ब्री, साथ ही पूर्व मंत्री, कोनराड भी शामिल हैं।
मिज्जी. क्रिस फ़र्ने पर भी आरोप लगाया गया है, और उन्होंने सही काम किया और उप प्रधान मंत्री और मंत्री के पद से इस्तीफा दे दिया। सेंट्रल बैंक के गवर्नर, एडवर्ड सिक्लुना पर भी आरोप लगाया गया है, लेकिन उन्होंने पद नहीं छोड़ा है...प्रतिष्ठा को नुकसान न पहुंचे इसलिए उन्हें पद छोड़ना चाहिए।
उन सभी को, अन्य आरोपियों के साथ, अदालत में अपना बचाव करने का अवसर मिलेगा, और अदालतें ही तय करेंगी कि वे दोषी हैं या निर्दोष हैं। लेकिन प्रधान मंत्री रॉबर्ट अबेला ने निष्कर्ष के समय पर सवाल उठाकर और इसके बारे में सवाल उठाकर मजिस्ट्रेट जांच पर हमला करने का निर्णय लिया है।
उन्होंने पत्रकारों के ख़िलाफ़ भी टिप्पणियाँ की हैं और कुछ को उन्होंने 'प्रतिष्ठान' करार दिया है। यह एक खतरनाक रास्ता है क्योंकि यह पत्रकारों और न्यायपालिका के सदस्यों के लिए काफी खतरनाक हो सकता है। यह अभियोजन पक्ष के वकीलों और न्यायपालिका के सदस्यों में भी डर पैदा कर सकता है जिन्हें आपराधिक मामलों की सुनवाई करनी होगी। वह कोई औसत व्यक्ति नहीं हैं, बल्कि एक ऐसे देश के प्रधान मंत्री हैं, जहां मतभेद है और उनके कार्य अस्वीकार्य हैं।
इस सब के परिणामस्वरूप देश में विरोध प्रदर्शन शुरू हो गए हैं, कई क्षेत्रों द्वारा कड़े बयानों के अलावा प्रधानमंत्री से न्यायपालिका और पत्रकारों पर अपने हमलों को रोकने के लिए कहा गया है।
विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र विरोध करने के लिए रिपब्लिक स्ट्रीट में एकत्र हुए और न्यायपालिका के खिलाफ प्रधान मंत्री रॉबर्ट अबेला की टिप्पणियों की सामूहिक रूप से निंदा की। नेशनलिस्ट पार्टी ने बाद में संसद के बाहर अपना विरोध प्रदर्शन किया था, जहां पीएन नेता, बर्नार्ड ग्रेच ने सदन के अध्यक्ष द्वारा हाल की स्थिति के बारे में तत्काल बहस की अनुमति नहीं देने के फैसले की आलोचना की थी, और यह भी कहा था कि यह विरोध प्रदर्शन था। 'देश को अबेला से बचाएं' और न्यायपालिका को लेकर प्रधानमंत्री के हमलावर बयानों की निंदा की.
बाद में भी, रिपब्लिका द्वारा 21 संगठनों के समर्थन से एक विरोध प्रदर्शन आयोजित किया गया, जिसमें स्वच्छ माल्टा का आह्वान किया गया और अन्य बातों के अलावा, पत्रकारों और न्यायपालिका के सदस्यों के खिलाफ प्रधान मंत्री द्वारा दिए गए बयानों की निंदा की गई।
विरोध प्रदर्शन स्थिति पर लोगों का गुस्सा दिखाने में मदद करते हैं, और उन मुद्दों को उजागर करते हैं जिनसे लोग खुश नहीं हैं। विरोध शक्तिशाली है और प्रधानमंत्री को सद्भावना रखने वालों की बातों पर अवश्य ध्यान देना चाहिए।
उन्हें स्किकलुना को हटाने की मांग करनी चाहिए क्योंकि गंभीर आरोपों का सामना करते हुए उनका पद तर्कसंगत नहीं है। उन्हें जांच और पत्रकारों के बारे में की गई टिप्पणियों को वापस लेना चाहिए। यही देश के लिए सही है.
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2024-05-18/newspaper-leadeTMID-Editorial-The-power-of-protests-6736261223
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"Editorial TMID: El poder de las protestas
El poder de una protesta pacífica está ahí para que todos lo vean. El país ha sido testigo de muchas en los últimos años: protestas contra la cesión de tierras en Żonqor a la Universidad Americana de Malta, protestas contra el arranque de árboles y para proteger el medio ambiente en general, hasta protestas que piden dimisiones y el fin de la corrupción.
2019 fue un ejemplo perfecto del impacto que pueden tener las protestas, donde tras el arresto de Yorgen Fenech por el asesinato de la periodista Daphne Caruana Galizia, estallaron protestas en todo el país pidiendo justicia para el periodista asesinado, lo que resultó en la renuncia del entonces Primer Ministro, Joseph Muscat.
ANUNCIO
Ahora las protestas están estallando de nuevo, esta vez vinculadas al infame acuerdo con los hospitales. Los tribunales habían anulado el acuerdo el año pasado, alegando fraude, decisión que también fue confirmada por el tribunal de apelación, que utilizó la palabra colusión en su sentencia.
Recientemente concluyó una investigación judicial sobre el aspecto penal del acuerdo con los hospitales y se han presentado cargos ante los tribunales. Entre los acusados ​​se encuentran altos funcionarios actuales y anteriores del país. Entre ellos se encuentra el ex Primer Ministro, Joseph Muscat, y su ex Jefe de Gabinete, Keith Schembri, así como el ex Ministro, Konrad.
Mizzi. Chris Fearne también está acusado e hizo lo correcto y dimitió como viceprimer ministro y ministro. El gobernador del Banco Central, Edward Scicluna, también está acusado, pero no ha dimitido... debería hacerlo para no causar daños a su reputación.
Todos ellos, junto con los demás acusados, tendrán la oportunidad de defenderse ante los tribunales, y serán los tribunales los que decidirán si son culpables o inocentes. Pero el Primer Ministro, Robert Abela, ha tomado la decisión de atacar la investigación magistral, cuestionando el momento de su conclusión y planteando interrogantes al respecto.
También ha hecho comentarios contra periodistas y vinculando a algunos con lo que ha denominado “el establishment”. Es un camino peligroso, ya que puede resultar bastante amenazador para periodistas y miembros del poder judicial. También puede atemorizar a los abogados de la acusación y a los miembros del poder judicial que tendrán que conocer de los casos penales. No es el ciudadano medio, sino el Primer Ministro de una nación donde hay una diferencia y sus acciones son inaceptables.
Todo esto ha provocado protestas en el país, además de fuertes declaraciones de muchos sectores pidiéndole al Primer Ministro que deje de atacar al poder judicial y a los periodistas.
Los estudiantes universitarios se reunieron en Republic Street para protestar y condenar colectivamente los comentarios del Primer Ministro Robert Abela contra el poder judicial. Posteriormente, el Partido Nacionalista celebró su propia protesta frente al Parlamento, donde el líder del PN, Bernard Grech, criticó la decisión del presidente de la Cámara de no permitir un debate urgente sobre la reciente situación, y también dijo que la protesta tenía como objetivo 'proteger a la nación de Abela' y condenó las declaraciones ofensivas del Primer Ministro contra el poder judicial.
Más tarde, la República organizó una protesta, respaldada por 21 organizaciones, pidiendo una Malta limpia y condenando, entre otras cosas, las declaraciones del Primer Ministro contra periodistas y miembros del poder judicial.
Las protestas ayudan a mostrar el enojo de la gente por la situación y resaltan los problemas con los que la gente no está contenta. Las protestas son poderosas y el Primer Ministro debe absolutamente prestar atención a lo que dicen las personas de buena voluntad.
Debe pedir la destitución de Scicluna ya que su posición, aunque enfrenta graves acusaciones, no es sostenible. Debe retractarse de los comentarios que ha hecho sobre la investigación y sobre los periodistas. Esto es lo correcto para el país.
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2024-05-18/newspaper-leadeTMID-Editorial-The-power-of-protests-6736261223
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"Éditorial TMID : Le pouvoir des protestations
Le pouvoir d’une manifestation pacifique est là, aux yeux de tous. Le pays en a connu de nombreuses ces dernières années : des manifestations contre la cession de terres à Żonqor à l'Université américaine de Malte, des manifestations contre le déracinement des arbres et pour la protection de l'environnement en général, des manifestations appelant à la démission et à la fin de la corruption.
L'année 2019 a été un parfait exemple de l'impact que peuvent avoir les manifestations : à la suite de l'arrestation de Yorgen Fenech suite à l'assassinat de la journaliste Daphne Caruana Galizia, des manifestations ont éclaté dans tout le pays pour réclamer justice pour le journaliste assassiné, ce qui a entraîné la démission de celui-ci. Premier ministre, Joseph Muscat.
PUBLICITÉ
Aujourd’hui, les protestations éclatent à nouveau, cette fois liées au tristement célèbre accord sur les hôpitaux. La justice avait annulé l'accord l'année dernière, invoquant une fraude, une décision également confirmée par la cour d'appel, qui a utilisé le mot collusion dans son jugement.
Une enquête magistrale sur l'aspect criminel de l'accord sur les hôpitaux a récemment pris fin et des accusations ont été déposées devant le tribunal. Parmi les personnes inculpées figurent des hauts responsables actuels et anciens du pays. Parmi eux figurent l'ancien Premier ministre Joseph Muscat et son ancien chef de cabinet Keith Schembri, ainsi que l'ancien ministre Konrad.
Mizzi. Chris Fearne est également accusé, et il a fait le bon choix en démissionnant de son poste de vice-premier ministre et de ministre. Le gouverneur de la Banque centrale, Edward Scicluna, est également inculpé, mais il n'a pas démissionné… il devrait le faire pour ne pas nuire à sa réputation.
Tous, ainsi que les autres accusés, auront la possibilité de se défendre devant le tribunal, et ce sont les tribunaux qui décideront s'ils sont coupables ou innocents. Mais le Premier ministre, Robert Abela, a pris la décision de s'en prendre à l'enquête magistrale, en remettant en question le timing de sa conclusion et en soulevant des questions à son sujet.
Il a également fait des commentaires contre les journalistes et en a lié certains à ce qu’il a surnommé « l’establishment ». Il s’agit d’une démarche dangereuse car elle peut s’avérer très menaçante pour les journalistes et les membres du pouvoir judiciaire. Cela peut également semer la peur chez les avocats du parquet et chez les membres du pouvoir judiciaire qui devront entendre les affaires pénales. Il n’est pas un Joe moyen, mais le Premier ministre d’un pays où il y a une différence et où ses actions sont inacceptables.
Tout cela a donné lieu à des protestations dans le pays, outre les déclarations fermes de nombreux secteurs demandant au Premier ministre de cesser ses attaques contre le pouvoir judiciaire et les journalistes.
Les étudiants universitaires se sont rassemblés rue de la République pour protester et ont condamné collectivement les propos du Premier ministre Robert Abela contre le système judiciaire. Le Parti nationaliste a ensuite organisé une manifestation devant le Parlement, au cours de laquelle le leader du PN, Bernard Grech, a critiqué la décision du président de la Chambre de ne pas autoriser un débat urgent sur la situation récente, et a également déclaré que la manifestation avait pour but de ""protéger la nation d'Abela"" et a condamné les déclarations offensives du Premier ministre à l'égard du système judiciaire.
Plus tard encore, une manifestation a été organisée par Repubblika, soutenue par 21 organisations, appelant à une Malte propre et condamnant, entre autres, les déclarations du Premier ministre à l'encontre des journalistes et des membres du pouvoir judiciaire.
Les manifestations contribuent à montrer la colère de la population face à la situation et à mettre en lumière les problèmes qui ne la satisfont pas. Les protestations sont puissantes et le premier ministre doit absolument tenir compte de ce qui se dit des gens de bonne volonté.
Il doit demander le renvoi de Scicluna car sa position, bien qu'il fasse face à de graves accusations, n'est pas tenable. Il doit retirer les propos qu'il a tenus sur l'enquête et sur les journalistes. C'est ce qui est bon pour le pays.
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2024-05-18/newspaper-leadeTMID-Editorial-The-power-of-protests-6736261223
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"TMID-Editorial: Die Macht der Proteste
Die Kraft eines friedlichen Protests ist für alle sichtbar. Das Land hat in den letzten Jahren viele erlebt – Proteste gegen die Übergabe von Land in Żonqor an die American University of Malta, Proteste gegen das Entwurzeln von Bäumen und den Schutz der Umwelt im Allgemeinen, bis hin zu Protesten, die Rücktritte und ein Ende der Korruption fordern.
Das Jahr 2019 war ein perfektes Beispiel für die Auswirkungen, die Proteste haben können. Nach der Verhaftung von Yorgen Fenech wegen der Ermordung der Journalistin Daphne Caruana Galizia kam es im ganzen Land zu Protesten, die Gerechtigkeit für die ermordete Journalistin forderten, was zu dessen Rücktritt führte Premierminister Joseph Muscat.
WERBUNG
Jetzt kommt es erneut zu Protesten, diesmal im Zusammenhang mit dem berüchtigten Krankenhausdeal. Die Gerichte hatten den Deal letztes Jahr unter Berufung auf Betrug annulliert, eine Entscheidung, die auch vom Berufungsgericht bestätigt wurde, das in seinem Urteil das Wort „Kollusion“ verwendete.
Eine gerichtliche Untersuchung des strafrechtlichen Aspekts des Krankenhausgeschäfts wurde kürzlich abgeschlossen, und es wurde Anklage vor Gericht erhoben. Zu den Angeklagten zählen aktuelle und ehemalige Spitzenbeamte des Landes. Unter ihnen sind der ehemalige Premierminister Joseph Muscat und sein ehemaliger Stabschef Keith Schembri sowie der ehemalige Minister Konrad
Mizzi. Chris Fearne wird ebenfalls angeklagt, und er hat das Richtige getan und ist als stellvertretender Premierminister und Minister zurückgetreten. Auch der Gouverneur der Zentralbank, Edward Scicluna, wird angeklagt, aber er ist nicht zurückgetreten … das sollte er tun, um keinen Reputationsschaden zu verursachen.
Sie alle werden zusammen mit den anderen Angeklagten die Möglichkeit haben, sich vor Gericht zu verteidigen, und es sind die Gerichte, die darüber entscheiden werden, ob sie schuldig oder unschuldig sind. Aber Premierminister Robert Abela hat beschlossen, die richterliche Untersuchung anzugreifen, indem er den Zeitpunkt des Abschlusses in Frage stellte und Fragen dazu aufwarf.
Er hat auch Kommentare gegen Journalisten abgegeben und einige davon mit dem in Verbindung gebracht, was er als „das Establishment“ bezeichnet. Es ist ein gefährlicher Kurs, da er für Journalisten und Mitglieder der Justiz eine große Bedrohung darstellen kann. Es kann auch den Anwälten der Staatsanwaltschaft und den Mitgliedern der Justiz, die die Strafsachen anhören müssen, Angst einjagen. Er ist nicht der durchschnittliche Joe, sondern der Premierminister einer Nation, in der es Unterschiede gibt und seine Handlungen inakzeptabel sind.
All dies hat zu Protesten im Land geführt, abgesehen von energischen Erklärungen vieler Sektoren, in denen der Premierminister aufgefordert wurde, seine Angriffe auf die Justiz und Journalisten einzustellen.
Universitätsstudenten versammelten sich in der Republic Street, um zu protestieren und verurteilten gemeinsam die Äußerungen von Premierminister Robert Abela gegen die Justiz. Die Nationalistische Partei hatte später einen eigenen Protest vor dem Parlament abgehalten, bei dem PN-Chef Bernard Grech die Entscheidung des Sprechers des Repräsentantenhauses kritisiert hatte, keine Dringlichkeitsdebatte über die aktuelle Situation zuzulassen, und auch erklärt hatte, dass der Protest dies sei „Beschütze die Nation vor Abela“ und verurteilte die angreifenden Äußerungen des Premierministers in Bezug auf die Justiz.
Noch später organisierte Repubblika mit Unterstützung von 21 Organisationen einen Protest, der ein sauberes Malta forderte und unter anderem die Äußerungen des Premierministers gegen Journalisten und Mitglieder der Justiz verurteilte.
Die Proteste tragen dazu bei, die Wut der Menschen über die Situation zu zeigen und die Probleme hervorzuheben, mit denen die Menschen nicht zufrieden sind. Die Proteste sind heftig, und der Premierminister muss unbedingt darauf achten, was diejenigen guten Willens sagen.
Er muss die Absetzung von Scicluna fordern, da seine Position, obwohl er mit schweren Vorwürfen konfrontiert ist, nicht haltbar ist. Er muss seine Kommentare zur Untersuchung und zu Journalisten zurückziehen. Das ist das Richtige für das Land.
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Final Forms of The Heroes and villains.
Sophia Mendoza: Also known as Wildstar, her final form is having her long straight brown hair turn into curled brown hair with rainbow streaks. She has a rainbow rope on her hip and she wears an ombre rainbow tracksuit. She also now possess rainbow powers along with her light powers.
Trent Lennox: also known as Hades EmbeHades, his final form is his long black hair streaked with bright neon blue streaks and he has blue flames around him. His necklace Is a bright blue ember that has a strong chain cage so it can’t be touched(with the exception of Sophia’s light powers) he also wears a bright blue flame tracksuit and now has the addition of hades’ powers to add to the powers in which he already possessed.
Alejandro Cortez: formerly known as Dark Heart Stone, changed his name to Cyclone Slayer, his final form is long brown hair with a pony tail and variants of red streaks(brick red, normal red, neon red and bright red). He wears a brick red hoodie with neon red and red flames on the sleeves and a bright red cyclone on the front of the shirt with matching red sweatpants. He also obtains the powers of fire and storms
Courtney Satella: Also known as Zodiac Princess, her final form is short brown hair with purple streaks and she wears a purple track suit with a flowy purple skirt(kinda similar to what princess courtlyn has) and has zodiac signs flying around her and she obtains the powers of animals.
Heather Kasuga: also known as Toxic Glitter Bomb, her final form is her long black hair now glitter black and She now wears a long sleeve glitter red cropped hoodie and green glitter shorts with red and green glitter surrounding her. Her glitter powers are much stronger than they were before and she also has a glitter rope on her side.
Lia “Lala” Mendoza: Also known as Nebula, her final form is long dark brown curls and galaxy sound waves surrounding her. She wears a galaxy milkyway tracksuit and has a just in case bag for any emergencies.
Julia Andrews: Also known as Galaxy Flame, her final form is similar to cyclone slayer’s, having a pink hoodie and matching sweats with purple flames on it and a milkyway on the hoodie. She now possess space powers and Has lightning bolts as well. And she also has a milkyway surrounding her
Gwendolyn Ingrid: introducing Gothic Blackout! After a year of Absence, our group finds that there is much more threats coming to Westchester, new York, and one of those threats goes by the name of gothic blackout. With the ability to control darkness and dark art magic, she’s a strong for that can’t be stopped. With her long midnight blue and teal curled hair and excessive amounts of piercings and necklaces, she also wears a midnight blue cropped hoodie with a matching mini skirt and black jacket around her waist. She also has dark shadows surrounding her whenever she’s in her villain form.
Justin Kalani: introducing not only the leader of a whole new brand of heroes, but also the leader of mankind like in the Greek stories, it’s Andromeda. Like the Greek tales, he’s known for being extremely attractive where nobody can’t stand his beauty, but other than that our courageous leader also happens to possess the powers of fire and water (despite water being something that killed andromeda in her Greek tale, which is ironic when you think about it). He wears a teal hoodie with water fire sleeves and matching pants with water swirling around him.
Maximillian “MAX” James: introducing….. *laughing noises* Comedic Relief. Don’t let his name fool you though, he possess great dark powers, that’s all.
Lindsay Top: introducing the beautiful sidekick of Andromeda, it’s Godiva Echo! Known for her powerful echoes and angelic wings, she’s a pink loving diva that can’t be stopped. Her whole outfit is pink (think Lindsay’s pjs) and she has light pink streaks in her hair.
Isabelle Connelly: also known as E-scope, her final form is her long orange curls are longer and she has light green bombs surrounding her. She wears a light green hoodie with a matching sarong and tall green boots.
Zoella Smith: also known as “the sister with a huge secret” and Commando, her final form is short bold red hair out of it's pigtails with a red headband and black war paint on her face and a shock collar around her neck. She wears a red cropped hoodie with tan shorts and long red boots.
Adrienne “Aiden” Carson: introducing Luna Shadowglow. With the ability to control shadows and dark magic, Luna is a very threating villain. Luna wears a red hoodie with black sweats and has black magic swirling around him. It surprises everyone when they find that Luna is a guy, not a girl. Luna is the leader of the new band of villains.
Samantha “Sammy” Roberts: introducing Angelic Girl! Dressed in a beautiful flowy white dress with yellow hearts on it and angel wings and a halo, you can already guess what her powers are (if not, Angelic powers, which include flying, light powers and the ability to mirror anything)
Ella Harper: introducing Princess Snow Flurry! Dressed in a pink flowy dress with snowflakes on it, she has snow swirling around her and possess the powers of snow, ice and icicles. She also has the power to sing to animals in case she would ever need to, that includes without her trying sometimes.
Bridgette Summers: formerly known as Carvers Stone, changed her name to Morgana Darkfire. Her final form is a blonde ponytail with baby blue ends and tips, she wears a turquoise wet suit with a skirt that represents morgana’s six legs, and she has water powers to go along with her stone powers.

"Vox Pop: Għaliex il-parteċipazzjoni pproġettata hija daqshekk baxxa?
Filming u muntaġġ: Miguela Xuereb
L-istħarriġ tal-Ewrobarometru qed juri li l-parteċipazzjoni ta’ Malta għall-elezzjonijiet tat-8 ta’ Ġunju hija mbassra ta’ 70%.
Kważi persuna minn kull tlieta f’Malta taħt it-30 sena jgħidu li m’għandhomx il-ħsieb li jivvutaw fl-elezzjonijiet tal-Parlament Ewropew tax-xahar id-dieħel, l-ogħla rata fl-Ewropa.
L-istħarriġ tal-Ewrobarometru sab li inqas minn nofs iż-żgħażagħ ta’ Malta, 47%, jgħidu li għandhom il-ħsieb li jivvutaw fl-elezzjonijiet. Iż-żgħażagħ biss fil-Latvja u l-Lussemburgu jidhru li huma inqas entużjasti dwar l-elezzjoni.
Newsbook Malta kien il-Belt Valletta, u jistaqsi lill-pubbliku għaliex il-parteċipazzjoni hija mbassra daqshekk baxxa, u x’qed jikkontribwixxi għal parteċipazzjoni daqshekk baxxa.
Dawk li wieġbu semmew l-inflazzjoni bħala raġuni, filwaqt li oħrajn qalu li m’għandhomx fiduċja fil-mexxejja politiċi. Xi wieġbu qalu li l-ħruġ tal-vot huwa dmir.
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"Vox Pop：為什麼預期投票率這麼低？
拍攝與剪輯：Miguela Xuereb
歐洲晴雨表調查顯示，馬耳他 6 月 8 日選舉的投票率預計為 70%。
馬耳他 30 歲以下的人中幾乎有三分之一表示他們不打算在下個月的歐洲議會選舉中投票，這一比例為歐洲最高。
歐洲晴雨表調查發現，不到一半的馬耳他年輕人（47%）表示他們打算在選舉中投票。只有拉脫維亞和盧森堡的年輕人似乎對選舉不太熱情。
馬耳他新聞網在瓦萊塔向公眾詢問為何預期投票率如此之低，以及是什麼導致瞭如此低的投票率。
受訪者將通貨膨脹作為原因，而其他人則表示他們不信任政治領袖。有受訪者表示，外出投票是一種義務。
https://newsbook.com.mt/en/vox-pop-why-is-the-projected-turnout-so-low/
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"Vox Pop: Why is the projected turnout so low?
Filming and editing: Miguela Xuereb
The Eurobarometer survey is showing that Malta’s turnout for the 8 June elections is predicted at 70%.
Almost one in every three people in Malta under the age of 30 say they do not intend to vote in next month’s European Parliament elections, the highest rate in Europe.
The Eurobarometer survey found that fewer than half of Malta’s youths, 47%, say they intend to vote in the elections. Only youths in Latvia and Luxembourg appear to be less enthusiastic about the election.
Newsbook Malta was in Valletta, asking the public why the turnout is projected so low, and what is contributing to such a low turnout.
Respondents cited inflation as a reason, while others said that they do not trust political leaders. Some respondents said that going out to vote is a duty.
https://newsbook.com.mt/en/vox-pop-why-is-the-projected-turnout-so-low/
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"वॉक्स पॉप: अनुमानित मतदान इतना कम क्यों है?
फिल्मांकन और संपादन: मिगुएला ज़ुएरेब
यूरोबैरोमीटर सर्वेक्षण दिखा रहा है कि 8 जून के चुनावों के लिए माल्टा में 70% मतदान होने का अनुमान है।
माल्टा में 30 वर्ष से कम आयु के लगभग हर तीन में से एक व्यक्ति का कहना है कि उनका अगले महीने के यूरोपीय संसद चुनावों में मतदान करने का इरादा नहीं है, जो यूरोप में सबसे अधिक दर है।
यूरोबैरोमीटर सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया कि माल्टा के आधे से भी कम, 47% युवाओं का कहना है कि वे चुनाव में मतदान करने का इरादा रखते हैं। केवल लातविया और लक्ज़मबर्ग के युवा ही चुनाव को लेकर कम उत्साहित नज़र आ रहे हैं।
न्यूज़बुक माल्टा वैलेटा में था, जनता से पूछ रहा था कि मतदान का प्रतिशत इतना कम क्यों होने का अनुमान है, और इतने कम मतदान में क्या योगदान है।
उत्तरदाताओं ने मुद्रास्फीति को एक कारण बताया, जबकि अन्य ने कहा कि उन्हें राजनीतिक नेताओं पर भरोसा नहीं है। कुछ उत्तरदाताओं ने कहा कि वोट देने जाना एक कर्तव्य है।
https://newsbook.com.mt/en/vox-pop-why-is-the-projected-turnout-so-low/
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"Vox Pop: ¿Por qué la participación prevista es tan baja?
Filmación y edición: Miguela Xuereb
La encuesta del Eurobarómetro muestra que se prevé que la participación de Malta en las elecciones del 8 de junio sea del 70%.
Casi una de cada tres personas en Malta menores de 30 años dice que no tiene intención de votar en las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo del próximo mes, la tasa más alta de Europa.
La encuesta del Eurobarómetro encontró que menos de la mitad de los jóvenes de Malta, el 47%, dicen que tienen intención de votar en las elecciones. Sólo los jóvenes de Letonia y Luxemburgo parecen estar menos entusiasmados con las elecciones.
Newsbook Malta estuvo en La Valeta y preguntó al público por qué se prevé que la participación sea tan baja y qué contribuye a esa baja participación.
Los encuestados citaron la inflación como motivo, mientras que otros dijeron que no confían en los líderes políticos. Algunos encuestados dijeron que salir a votar es un deber.
https://newsbook.com.mt/en/vox-pop-why-is-the-projected-turnout-so-low/
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"Vox Pop : Pourquoi la participation projetée est-elle si faible ?
Tournage et montage : Miguela Xuereb
L’enquête Eurobaromètre montre que le taux de participation à Malte aux élections du 8 juin devrait être de 70 %.
Près d’une personne sur trois âgée de moins de 30 ans à Malte déclare qu’elle n’a pas l’intention de voter aux élections du Parlement européen du mois prochain, soit le taux le plus élevé d’Europe.
L’enquête Eurobaromètre a révélé que moins de la moitié des jeunes maltais, soit 47 %, déclarent avoir l’intention de voter aux élections. Seuls les jeunes de Lettonie et du Luxembourg semblent moins enthousiastes à l'égard de l'élection.
Newsbook Malta était à La Valette, demandant au public pourquoi le taux de participation est si faible et ce qui contribue à un taux de participation si faible.
Les personnes interrogées ont cité l'inflation comme raison, tandis que d'autres ont déclaré qu'elles ne faisaient pas confiance aux dirigeants politiques. Certains répondants ont déclaré qu'aller voter était un devoir.
https://newsbook.com.mt/en/vox-pop-why-is-the-projected-turnout-so-low/
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I suppose the posters below will dismiss these quotes from Arab and neutral persona who witnessed the events at the time as “Zionist propaganda”. That’s their right, just as it’s my right to believe that their opinions are formed by malicious bias. They’re in no particular chronological order.
"The existence of these refugees is a direct result of the Arab States' opposition to the partition plan and the reconstitution of the State of Israel. The Arab states adopted this policy unanimously and the responsibility of its results, therefore is theirs; ...The flight of Arabs from the territory allotted by the UN for the Jewish state began immediately after the General Assembly decision at the end of November 1947. This wave of emigration, which lasted several weeks, comprised some thirty thousand people, chiefly well-to-do-families." - Emil Ghoury, secretary of the Arab High Council, Lebanese daily Al-Telegraph, 6 Sept 1948
"The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce they rather preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town. This is in fact what they did." - Jamal Husseini, Acting Chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, told to the United Nations Security Council, quoted in the UNSC Official Records (N. 62), April 23, 1948, p. 14
The Arab exodus from the villages was not caused by the actual battle, but by the exaggerated description spread by Arab leaders to incite them to fight the Jews" - Yunes Ahmed Assad, refugee from the town of Deir Yassin, in Al Urdun, April 9, 1953
The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies. - Falastin (Jordanian newspaper), February 19, 1949
"It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees' flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem." - Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station, Cyprus, April 3, 1949
"Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of refugees... while it is we who made them to leave... We brought disaster upon... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave... We have rendered them dispossessed... We have accustomed them to begging... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes..." - Khaled al Azm, Syria's Prime Minister after the 1948 war
"The refugees were confident that their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab armies would crush the 'Zionist gangs' very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile." - Monsignor George Hakim, Greek Catholic Bishop of Galilee, in the Beirut newspaper Sada al Janub, August 16, 1948
"As early as the first months of 1948 the Arab League issued orders exhorting the [Arab Palestinian] people to seek a temporary refuge in neighboring countries, later to return to their abodes in the wake of the victorious Arab armies and obtain their share of abandoned Jewish property." - bulletin of The Research Group for European Migration Problems, 1957
"This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boasting of an unrealistic Arab press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of some weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to re-enter and retake possession of their country." - Edward Atiyah (then Secretary of the Arab League Office in London) in “The Arabs” (London, 1955), p. 183

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WE LOVE AEW.
My origin into this fandom wasn't at the every start, I didn't watch All Out 1 or watched when AEW started weekly TV in its first year.
I was a waning WWE fan and the only weekly stuff I watched was NXT Takeovers and NXT UK because being in a part of Europe where I couldn't watch weekly the main roster stuff so just kept up to date with podcasts or highlights.
(Shoutout OG Whatculture with Pacitti, Jack and King Ross).
Like many fans of the E, I came in as a fan throughout the early 2000's and dropped off and came in again every so often.
The height of my fandom will always be going to Youtube in the old days and watching the Shield vs The Wyatt Family in Elimination Chamber.
Even back then, Mox to me was the leader of the Shield and still salty that they made Roman the leader towards the end. (haha)
Man it was wild to think that the main reason the E gave so much shine to Black and Gold NXT at Survivor series was mostly due to AEW gaining momentum.
NXT Black and Gold/UK will always hold a special place in my heart for two main reasons
1) it was the place where I showed my partner her first proper wrestling match: Adam Cole (Bay Bay) vs Keith Lee Champ for both their belts.
She was sad she coudn't get me the shirt for that match cause it was only available in US
2) Ilja Dragunov vs Walter. NXT UK Pandemic Era
Still to this day, my favourite series of matches that made me realise "man I love professional wrestling".
If any of you still have the old network go out of your way to watch this and their Takeover match, I remember being part of that journey where Ilja basically had to break himself down and build himself up to get another shot at Walter had to be something special to get me to watch a weekly show where only piped in crowd noise was the only response to the action.
However, even though I say these things and had those memories I don't watch the product anymore since my Membership expired. I recently went to a live event a while ago in Germany with my sister to see WWE.
Standout moments were:
a) The Miz cut a promo, in German, about how big his balls are. He faced Cody Rhodes and not gonna lie. Favorite match of the night.
b) Introduction to Main event Jey Uso live and the Yeet chants. Tag match with Sami Zayn that spiraled from an NXT North American Title Match that ended when Dom and JD got the DQ on the FIRST MATCH to set up a tag match.
c) New Day are still great
d) Imperium vs Alpha Academy was great home town goodness.
e) Gunther vs Bronson was easily a slapper. Both figuratively and literally. I was in seats high up in the Arena. I have a feeling most of us would die if Gunther were to chop any of us. It was LOUD.
f) Seth Rollins vs Shinsuke for the World title in a Berlin Street Fight. Gunther should have main evented and that table spot SUCKED BALLS.
After the event, My sister and I chatted, she had a great time. Told her I did too, I still would not watch the product again.
Alright, the preamble is now out the way. I know alot of you guys would consider the above excessive but I feel like I had to paint a picture to get you into the frame of my mind as a fan of wrestling. I'm not coming from a WWE hater but as someone who did love the things they did but, unlike some who dropped out after a multitude of BS wrestling bollocks from E, for myself, I just could'nt find a way to enjoy a company that seemed so.....two-faced.
AEW will always be the company that proved to me that there is a company that would do right by wrestlers who felt they could've been more.
The moment that made me into an avid AEW fan.
Jon Moxley beating Chris Jericho to win the AEW title for the first time.
The guy whose last run involved a gas mask was able to be crowned a champion as HIMSELF in front of an adoring crowd.
Then the Elite/Hangman saga. Eddie Kingston. Darby. Orange. AEW Dark hangouts.
I went into the deep end of this new company and wanting to know more about these new characters and people I was introduced to.
It still feels nostalgic thinking about how the Elite created the BTE title or the Bucks asking Eddie to cut a promo on a pack of cookies.
God that was some good times.
Then the Punk stuff happened.
With the preamble being as long as it was, this section is going to be brief. In summary:
-Exciting when he came in. Loved his match with Darby.
-Brawl Out was a situation where if you go back and just tweak things a little, I have a feeling we would have a different timeline that what we have today.
-Regardless, everyone shoulders blame and things could have been handled better. That said, CM Punk is an entitled baby who realised that just because TK loved him, the rest of the locker room had different opinions.
-Him being fired was probably the best to occur and regardless of what you feel about the video, still not cool to lunge at your boss cause you feel slighted. Leave your "oh it wasnt even that bad, TK got thin skin" bs out the door.
The above point is why Youtube personality Just Alyx soured on me.
"Come on, CM Punk Tony. LIke look at him"
That was the phrase that just made me sad about one of the people I loved to get his views on with the product.
Also JDfromNY. Loved his WWE rants. They were hilarious. With Papa H pretty much running the show, he and Alyx, two dudes I could just listen to and just kinda vibe with became insufferable.
I think the line where one posted "With Triple H finally getting these backstage hands in order and the Rock being one of the board members, I can confidently say that I can just enjoy and not backseat" was the push I needed to get those two off my timeline.
AEW as a five year old company has made mistakes, jesus christ Wardlow I'm so sorry, but it has shown it can grow and it's still a place where wrestlers can call home.
The recent thread on SQ is over 1.5k comments about the low ratings and I didn't click onto it cause I enjoy my mental health but I feel people forgot that Sting had his retirement match two months ago and that was arguably one of AEW's best PPV's. Then Dynasty happened and so on and so on.
There are alot of things that AEW needs to fix but I'm confident that all of us can admit, they have made great strides compared to its start and they will continue to improve without, hopefully, resorting to childish BS in the future
I feel like this post was therapeutic in the sense that I needed to vent about the recent online discourse. So I leave you guy's a question:
What is the one thing you can say that makes you love AEW
I'm JCEE. Thanks for the Ted Talk

Not really asking for advice, just wanted to see if anyone else had done the same. About 7 years ago I had this idea for a story about these two teenage girls that were basically serial killers. I didn’t begin writing it until about 5 years ago, and it’s grown and changed around since then. It’s now about these two popular teenage girls (set in the early 2000s) whom slowly become serial killers, murdering various kids from their high school. One of the girls is more of a psychopath. Not necessarily the leader in a social aspect, but she’s the most deranged. The other had been dragged in due to being a witness at some point, and is less enthused but still participates. She makes a new friend at school who she slowly falls in love with, but the other girl, the crazy one, doesn’t like the attention being directed at someone new. She orders the other to kill her, but she can’t bring herself to do it. She/they basically bully this new girl, yada yada, the other one continuously defends her, etc etc. The crazy one eventually tries to murder this new girl, but is murdered by her accomplice friend. New girl is spared. Accomplice friend goes to jail and is conveniently (due to the state and the specific date it’s set in) sentenced to an execution. Whatever, to make the long story short. I’d been writing this/ changing it on and off for years, even “casting” celebrities for the characters to better envision them as I started writing it more seriously. Then about 3 weeks ago, I started watching the Hulu show “Under the Bridge”. It’s based on a true story about these girls (in 1997) “befriending” this outsider girl, Reena. They basically bully the shit out of her, but Reena wants to fit in so badly with them that she either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care. Lots of things happen and eventually one of the girls, Kelly (the craziest one, though they all participate), murders Reena. They all begin to feel different levels of guilt after the fact, besides Kelly. Even her best friend, Josephine (who in real life is named Nicole), is startled by Kelly’s actions and even openly disagrees with her in some ways. It’s a very long and sad story, but I couldn’t help but notice how similar mine is to this, even after never hearing about it before watching this show. Even the characters in the show/people in real life look and act eerily similar to how I imagined mine. Very weird, and I hesitate to think about it publishing this after I finish (whenever that may be). Have any of you ever done this before? Sorry the stories are so vague and condensed, just know they’re very complex and VERY similar. (EDIT: After rereading my title, it sounds like the event happened after my story, it did not. It happened about 20 years or so BEFORE I began writing it, and I just recently found out it’s very similar to a true crime event.)

So I think it’s important to acknowledge some of the… problematic issues facing America, as fundamentalist Christians have weaponized their beliefs to attempt to dominate others. The “Christian right,” who follow their imagined version of Christ, are trying to turn America into a “Christian nation.” Obviously their version of Christianity is warped, and must be called out. They don’t seek to serve others, as Jesus taught, they seek to dominate others because they yearn power. Remember when James and John asked to be Jesus’ co-rulers in the coming kingdom:
“Allow us to sit, one at your right hand and the other on your left, when you come into your glory.” (Mark 10:37)
Jesus’ response is poignant: “You know that those who are thought to rule over the nations exercise lordly power over them and their great ones assert their authority. But it is not to be like this among you. Whoever among you wants to become great must be a servant, and whoever wants to be first among you will be the slave of all.” (Mark 10:43-44).
And of course, remember when Jesus washes the disciples feet (John 13:1-11). Jesus, the leader of the apostles, sets an example. Does the Christian right follow that example? Absolutely not. They’re more like Ancient Rome than they are Jesus.
Another example: The parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew: “Because I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, thirsty and you gave me something to drink, a foreigner and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me…” Those are the ones who he favors. And of course the Parable of the Good Samaratin (Luke 10:25-37).
Remember these teachings and calling people out who claim to follow Christ but do not.

JAPAN
12 April 1946 – surrender of Japan, brief premiership of Naruhiko Higashikuni (14 April to 9 June 1946), followed by Kijūrō Shidehara. Occupation mostly carried by US troops, but also Commonwealth zone (UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand), led by Douglas MacArthur as the SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers)
Situation is even way worse than in our reality thanks to all the destruction. First effort is gíve relief to the starving population. Even greater than in our reality are efforts to remove Hirohito (and it is impossible to imagine for the most of Allied leaders including Truman and Churchill to keep him on the throne after this brutal invasion), and despite opposition of MacArthur, Allies force the emperor to abdicate (and renounce divine status) in favour of regency headed by Takahito, (27 July 1946), when Akihito comes to age, he would become the Emperor. Hirohito’s abdication marks the beginning of Seika era, era of Emperor Akihito.
Hirohito is still given all possible protections against any trials for war crimes by MacArthur and is basically sent to comfortable retirement. Institution of monarchy is protected by Allies. Through 1946-1947 many westernisation reforms by MacArthur, based largely on FDR’s New Deal, as in our reality. April-May, political prisoners were released, and Communist Party of Japan was legalised and became politically active organising strikes. 10 February 1947 the first election with women suffrage, victory of Democratic Liberal Party headed by war criminal Hatoyama, who was eventually purged by Allied administration, so Shigeru Yoshida became new prime minister (22 March 1947).
By mid-1947 many officials connected to war crimes were purged, however since then, the course was reversed due to American need for the creation of a powerful Ally against the USSR and many regained power or at least avoided persecution. Through 1947 Americans wrote a new Japanese constitution (later in American myths it was MacArthur completely by himself), 3 August 1947 it was presented. Major shift from our reality is that Article 9, although considered, is not included in such sense as in our reality, it states only that “Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes” second part about demilitarisation is missing. Since summer 1947, US authorities adopt “Reverse Course” policies - aforementioned rehabilitation of officials, also protection of Zaibatsu (which Americans originally wanted to break-up and weaken), and reconstruction. Tokyo Trials 26 September 1946 to 12 January 1950 – MacArthur’s cover up of Japanese war crimes to a lesser extent, but it still does happen (including Unit 731). Taft also, like in Germany, attacks trials as “victor's justice”. From 25 December to 31 1950 Khabarovsk war crimes trials in the USSR about war criminals from Manchuria.
Persecution of growing Japanese communist movement starts. 1948-1951 “Red Purge”. Since March 1949 Dodge Line plan of right-wing economic reforms (cutting public spending, limiting public consumption, and reorienting industrial production in favour of export-oriented), also increase in unemployment and law against unions passed. In 1949 conflicts between communists and authorities escalated into many strikes, pro-communist politicians and officials began to be fired, after summer strike waves also purges of workers and academics. 1 July 1949 Japanese Self-Defence forces established – official remilitarisation. 23 October 1949 election, victory of DLP, electoral success of communists.
Peace Treaty with Japan
President Taft was eager to restore Japanese Independence – SCAP already transferred large amount of authority to Japanese trough 1949, secretary of the state William Richards Castle Jr took initiative. Despite Taft’s initial opposition to idea of continuous military presence, he is persuaded to keep limited number of stationed troops. Peace Treaty with Japan was scheduled after Treaty with Germany. Talks began in August 1950, however talks collapsed over China, despite at the time everyone recognised KMT, Soviets wanted PRC representatives to also attend. Other negotiations were called for January 1951, which resulted into calling for a Peace Conference with Japan in San Francisco analogous to the previous one with Germany. 6 March to 8 August 1951 San Francisco Conference, USSR and its allies boycotted them due to not including Chinese representatives. Despite Chinese and Soviets not being present, their interests were considered. Taiwan was ceded to China, Sakhalin, and Kuril Islands to USSR, unlike OTL Okinawa and more territories were already given back to Japan. Treaty was signed 8 August 1951, valid since 8 March 1952. Separate peace treaties were signed between Japan and ROC (30 January 1953), the Soviet Union and Korea “Vladivostok Treaties” 28 April 1952, these treaties recognised Soviet control over former Japanese territories and entitled Japan to pay reparations to Korea.
8 September 1951 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty was signed, which dictated Japan to accept continuous American military presence. This treaty caused a wave of resistance in Japan, uniting Japanese from right to left. Bloody May Day – over a million protestors in all of Japan, in Tokyo these protests escalated into violence and protests were massacred by police. 1 October 1952 election victory of Yoshida’s Liberal Party. 10 November 1952 coronation ceremony of Emperor Akihito, it marks symbolic beginning of new post-war Japan.
Philippines – 4 July 1947 United States gave official independence to Philippines and retained there many military bases (agreement from 1946 establishes bases for 99 years!) and the US still keeps a degree of political and economic dominance. 28 June 1946 Manuel Roxas became president of Philippines (still under US control then), communists were expelled from Congress despite being democratically elected – Hukbalahap Rebellion resumes (June 1946) and gained substantial strength, United States interferes and supports the government. On 15 April 1948 Roxas died of a heart attack; he was succeeded by vice-president Elpidio Quirino (re-elected in a fraudulent election 8 November 1949). Since the Taft Presidency, interests of Americans in Philippine affairs decreased, aid against Huks drained. President Quirino initiated major social reforms during his second term and attempted mostly useful land reform. 1950-1951 Huks successfully boosted their strength with seizing and keeping control over the centre of Laguna province – Santa Cruz. In 1952 Huks controlled sizable parts of the country and due to government corruption and brutality against rebels had also popular support. In 1951 they started to obtain massive support from China (from 1948 they were also backed by Korea).
Indonesia
Independence
As Japan surrendered, two days later on 14 April 1946 Indonesia (then with its majority under Japanese control) Indonesia declared independence, Sukarno became president and Hatta vice-president. Indonesians took advantage of the lack of established authority. Indonesia was occupied by Commonwealth forces (started in late May 1946). 27 June to 20 July 1946 a large battle between Indonesian and British forces – Battle of Surabaya, under significant losses results into a British victory. Churchill wanted to restore Dutch colonial rule and was ready to back them.
Important is Dutch reaction, Dutch government at the time was coalition between all parties formed after liberation by the Red Army in September 1945 (in wikibox there is 1946, another mistake overlook until I needed that), all parties with exception of CPN supported re-conquest of Indonesia, while communists wanted to grand them independence. CPN is vigorously opposed to continued colonisation and due to CPN securing second place in 1946 election and to lesser degree Soviet pressure on Dutch to recognise Indonesia, talks began in February 1947. Coincidentally with the December 1946 election there was a Malino Conference in which representatives of Dutch controlled territory backed the plan for creation of Dutch aligned federal states. 15 February 1947 Linggadjati Round Table Agreement is signed, in which Netherlands recognises Indonesian Republic controlled territory and both sides agree on formation of the Federal Republic of Indonesia (Republic, East Indonesia and Kalimantan) by 1 January 1948, FRI would newly formed Netherlands-Indonesian Union with the Dutch monarch as head. Similar agreement was reached in our reality but failed. In this timeline everything goes through, despite the fall of the Dutch coalition in summer 1947.
Federation
First Indonesian prime minister under Sutan Sjahrir (April to 3 December 1946), replaced by Amir Sjarifuddin, his cabinet included leftist forces, eventually even communists, who were instrumental in making agreement with the Netherlands (as part of the Dutch coalition were also communist negotiators). This cabinet stayed in power, avoiding real life events of the Madiun Affair. New government headed by Mohammad Hatta was formed after the creation of the federal republic. Creation of this republic was met with criticism from Islamists, who launched the Darul Islam rebellion led by Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosoewirjo (7 August 1948). Overall, young Indonesia was a very unstable country. Anti-unitary forces attempted a failed coup in January 1950. Federation was not popular among Indonesians, so it was quickly dissolved and replaced with a unitary republic (14 April 1950). The Republic of South Maluku attempted to break away with Dutch support, however failed to do so.
Liberal Democratic Period (to 1952)
Newly declared Indonesian republic adopted its constitution and became a free parliamentary democracy. First government was a leftwing one again under Sjarifuddin, however eventually collapsed due to Indonesian National Party (12 October 1950, replaced by cabinet of Mohammad Natsir), but this government managed to pass electoral law, so first Indonesian legislative elections were held (29 September 1951), lot of parties ran and get seats – four largest were PNI (left wing nationalism), Masyumi (liberal Islamism), Nahdlatul Ulama (Islamism), PKI (communists) and PSI- Parsi (democratic socialism). Result was a right leaning coalition under Sidik Djojosukarto (PNI- Masyumi and several minor parties), in 1952 Indonesia officially left “Union” with Netherlands.
British Malaya
1 November 1946 British colonies were united into the “Malayan Union”, strengthening and centralising British control, stripping local sultans of their powers. This created another opposition movement under nationalist United Malays National Organisation, they applied massive resistance and did not participate in British institutions. Unlike OTL, during the Churchill years, there was no reform. In 1952 (1 February) it was transformed due to this massive and long resistance (and also due to large scale communist uprising) to Federation of Malaya, attempting to appease at least conservative nationalists.
Anti–British National Liberation War (early years)
Postwar economic turmoil, powerful communist organisation, brutal response of colonial authorities to strikers. Malaya was a key British source of resources, to pay for US debts (even way more rising in importance after Taft). 17 June 1948 Sungai Siput incident – revenge killing of plantation managers lead to massive British anti-communist arrests, and communists went into hiding. Also, the uprising in Burma (1947) also plays a role as another new motivation. February 1949 Malayan National Liberation Army under Chin Peng is formed (reformed from anti-Japanese resistance movement), MNLA has support of the population and is based in jungles and areas very hard to access for colonialists. Britain imposes very harsh repression against the population, leading to even more widespread support for MNLA. April 1950 “Briggs Plan” adopted forced deportations of ethnic Chinese to camps (up to half million people). The UK also uses Agent Orange (as the first country in the World), murders and tortures countless civilians, and destroys villages.
6 October 1951 British High Commissioner Henry Gurney survives MNLA ambush, this is actually damaging to the British as his replacement Gerald Templer was more competent in fighting with partisans. British forces are aided by other commonwealth nations. By 1953 the UK had problems dealing with communists and communists were stronger compared to our reality.
British Sarawak, North Borneo, Brunei
These territories were separated from Malaya in 1946. This was opposed by Malays but supported by the Chinese. Resistance by Malays culminated in assassination of Duncan Stewart. Small communist rebellion also started.
Thailand – After the war in June 1946 king Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) returned back to Thailand, however, was found shot dead on 26 March 1947 his death was blamed on prime minister Pridi Banomyong, who was forced to resign being replaced by Luang Thamrong.
In 1946 Thailand had to return territories to France. The 20 October 1946 election resulted in the victory of the People's Party, the first government was formed by Khuang Aphaiwong, he was however replaced by Pridi Banomyong after a lost vote of confidence (6 January 1947). Pridi was supportive of Vietnamese Independence, so he ended up being overthrown in a US backed coup (8 November 1947), this coup brough Plaek Pibulsonggram back to power. Military allied with royalists and Khuang Aphaiwong was appointed prime minister. New constitution gave back powers to Monarchythat were decreased in the 1932 revolution. To counter the power of royalist military and Pridi allied supporters, another coup was carried out on 6 April 1948, fully returning Plaek to power; he eventually secured power and foced Pridi into exile. Plaek attempted to fully secure power and destroy opposition, but due to lack of US support since 1949, he was eventually ousted by Pridi and his supporters (11 February 1949). New Direk Jayanama-led left-wing democratic government, managed to secure limited support of USSR and larger one of China (but also Britain due to their previous alliance with Allies) and tried to adopt non alignment foreign political stance. Internal political reforms – reduced power of monarchy, new legislature (in June 1950 democratic election), thanks popular policy of land reform government gained widespread support from the rural population. 29 November 1951 anti-Pridi parts of the military attempted a coup against him as returned from exile Plaek Phibunsongkhram, but eventually failed and Plaek was banished. In 1952 the government turned against conservative royalists and attempted to even further weaken the monarchy.
Vietnam
March Revolution 16 March to 15 April, Abdication of Emperor Bảo Đại (already before surrender of Japan because of fears of French invasion) -> creation of Vietnamese Democratic Republic. In late April North Vietnam was occupied by Chinese forces to accept the surrender of the Japanese. In March also general Leclerc arrives. Fontainebleau Agreements in mid-1946 between Vietnam and France, Vietnam as part of the French Union. With the return of France (November 1946) fighting erupted, war erupted in March 1947. By October France took over main population centres.To increase French support, State of Vietnam was created under emperor Bao Dai (2 August 1949) In 1950 Vietnam recognised by the soviet bloc. Same year the UK recognised the State of Vietnam. In late 1950 Viet Minh launched a successful offensive. In January 1951 de Tassigny was appointed to command, under his leadership France had limited military success. Hower financing the war became a major problem around this time. In March 1951 Viet Minh won in the crucial battle of Vĩnh Yên (17 March) and Viet Minh got close to Hanoi, but the French eventually managed to hold the city after heavy losses.
Change came in 1952 from Paris, talks started in February and eventually ceasefire was declared (28 February). Paris Conference – France officially recognised Democratic Republic of Vietnam, State of Vietnam was not invited as France and DRV both agreed that it was French colony (this was heavily criticised). End of war was also connected with referendum about future of Vietnam, if people support State of Vietnam in union with France or DRV. Referendum was held 14 June 1952 and resulted into landslide victory for Vietminh. Emperor abdicates and State of Vietnam dissolves, but some members of its military continue to resist DRV.
Newly independent Vietnam became a key ally for all of the socialist bloc in Asia and supported anti-colonial movements. In 1952 land reform began – often turned violent with execution of landlords. In 1953 the first five-year plan was launched, focusing on developing the country.
Laos – After the defeat of Japanese anti-colonial Lao Issara emerged. Lao monarch king Sisavang Vong however agreed with restoration of the French protectorate, Lao Issara with aid from China and Viet Minh attempted to resist re-imposition of French rule, however movement was weak and failed to do so and eventually dissolved itself in 1949. In January 1947 an agreement was signed that pledged France to give Laos autonomy inside the French Union. 1950 – Pathet Lao is formed and joins Viet Minh against French forces. In 1952 French officially withdrew from the country.
Cambodia – In 1946 king Norodom Sihanouk attempted to negotiate independence with the French, December 1946 election was held that resulted in victory of the left-wing Democratic party over conservative Liberal party. 23 October 1947 Democratic party dominated assembly passed a constitution modelled on the French one. After the death of Democratic party founder Sisowath Yuthevong, the party divided itself and cannot agree on a concrete program. In 1948 Cambodia was given autonomy by the French. After independence in April 1952, Democratic Party was largely boosted by this success. This avoided the fall of parliamentary democracy.
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)– Sri Lankan leaders led by Don Stephen Senanayake attempted to reach independence through negotiations. However, negotiations with secretary of colonies Oliver Stanley led only to self-governance and the British initially rejected granting Ceylon status of dominion. On 24 September 1947 Senanayake became the first prime minister of the newly formed Ceylonese government. In 1948 granting Dominion status to India led to demonstrations in Ceylon, Senanayake increased his pressure towards Britain. Eventually Ceylon was given the same status as India and Pakistan 4 February 1949. The Senanayake family had a lot of power, after the death of Senanayake (26 March 1952) his son Dudley was chosen by the British governor.
OCEANIA AND AMERICAS (Basically restating history with occasional minor changes, brief)
Australia – 5 July 1945 death of prime minister John Curtin, he was succeeded by Frank Forde until Labour elected Ben Chifley as its new leader. 28 October 1946 Labour government was re-elected against the emerging Liberal Party. His government was characterised by successful Keynesian social democratic politics, similar to later Attlee in UK, (social welfare, universal healthcare – in real life modelled after British one, this timeline it is vice versa, ie. The Chifley government serves as an example for Attlee elected in 1951) starting Australian postwar economic growth. Australia also supports migration to increase its population (Europeans due to the still existing “White Australia” policy). Left-wing policies, such as nationalisations, created opposition from capitalists and their conservative affiliates in politics and media. Criticism also comes from the left due to the government's anti-communism and breaking of strikes. 10 December 1949 Liberal prime minister Robert Menzies was elected. Anti-communism, in 1950 Communist party was banned, it was ruled unconstitutional. 28 April 1951 a new election, triggered the failure of the banking bill, still a victory for Liberals, however they weakened themselves with this move. In 1951 Menzies declared a referendum about banning communist parties and this timeline people agreed, leading to persecution of many communists, it was criticised as a major attack on freedom of political expression. Red Scare was similar to the US at the time, but pushed by Menzies' government. Liberal economic policies, this time taking inspiration from Taft.
New Zealand – 27 November 1946 election, victory of ruling Labour Party, Labour declined and lost popularity due to continuous post-war rationing and Fraser’s support for compulsory military service. 30 November 1949 National Party led by Sidney Holland was elected. The Legislation was changed from bicameral to unicameral, economic reforms, however the National government still supported the welfare state. Conflict with Unions, culminating into the waterfront dispute of 1951, the government responded harshly against workers with strong anti-union legislation, even outright criminalising support for them. 11 July 1951 the government was re-elected and gained more seats as a large part of the public supported their stance against workers, due to widespread anti-communism.
Oceania – “Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands” established in 1948 was originally controlled by the USA as OTL, but eventually transferred to the United Kingdom in 1950, as the US was not interested in its administration.
Canada – economic boom, social welfare Keynesian economic policies. 20 May 1946 first postwar election, victory of Liberals, however failed to obtain majority and had to rely on leftwing Co-operative Commonwealth, resulting in Canada building the strongest welfare state from Commonwealth states and becoming the most progressive one (and also becoming a major destination for European immigrants). On 15 November 1948 King retired and was succeeded by Louis St. Laurent, a French Canadian strongly opposed to communism. Due to this anti-communist however the ruling coalition collapsed, triggering snap election on 27 June 1949, which resulted in victory of Liberals, who yet again could form government without making coalitions. Shortly before the election, 31 March 1949 Canada united with NewFoundland. Canada took an important role while the US was absent in TATO.
Mexico – 1 December 1946 Miguel Alemán Valdés became president. Pro-business policies and industrialisation, development of infrastructure (dubbed Mexican miracle), however also corruption and elitism. Pro-American foreign policy. 1 December 1952 he was succeeded by Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he was popular due to his strong stance against corruption and rapid economic development.
Guatemala – In 1944 the country was ruled by dictator Jorge Ubico, who was overthrown by a junta that was overthrown in a popular revolution (20 October 1944), 15 March 1945 Juan José Arévalo became the country's first democratically elected president, who introduced many reforms. He developed the political ideology of Arevalismo "spiritual socialism" -it can be considered a form of democratic socialism. 12 November 1950 Jacobo Árbenz was elected president, he continued the policies of Arévalo and was even more ambitious with his democratic socialist reforms. Largest one was Land Reform (17 June 1952) which greatly benefited hundred of thousands poor Guatemalan people especially indigenous ones, however made very angry American United Fruit Company that controlled majority of land and basically country itself, UFC began to lobby for his overthrown...
British Honduras – Rise of voice for independence and People's United Party
Honduras – Rule of pro American dictator Tiburcio Carías Andino, unlike OTL he did not gave power to his puppets and continued to rule the country directly. Rise of discounted with his regime, even greater due any reforms instituted by his successor Juan Manuel Gálvez were not passed.
El Salvador – Authoritarian rule of Salvador Castaneda Castro (1945-1948), suppression of strikes and opposition, eventually he was deposed by military coup (14.12.1948), after rule of military, Óscar Osorio was appointed president (14.9.1950), he instituted some social reforms, but continued corrupt regime and persecution of opposition.
Nicaragua – Dictatorial rule of pro-American Somoza dynasty. 1947-1950 figurehead presidency of Leonardo Argüello Barreto (after Truman’s pressure for liberalisation).
Costa Rica – 12 March – 24 April 1948 civil war, after an attempt to annul victory of opposition candidate José Figueres Ferrer in election, it ultimately led to victory of rebels with US help. José Figueres Ferrer became provisional president. and pushed many important reforms: abolished the military, gave women suffrage, welfare, nationalisations of banks and also outlawed communist party. 1949-1953 presidency of Otilio Ulate Blanco that upheld these reforms.
Panama – pro-American parliamentary democracy dominated by oligarchy.
Colombia – 9 April 1948 popular democratic socialist presidential candidate of the Liberal Party Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated. This triggered the “La Violencia” (1948-1958) period of massive unrest between the left and the right, over 200 000 died, at the start of the Colombian conflict. On 9 November 1949 Liberal opposition attempted to impeach president Ospina Pérez, he dissolved Congress, creating a presidential dictatorship. Liberal leaders launched an uprising in rural areas (originally it was intended to be a military coup, that however in real life did not take place and here took place and failed). 7 August 1950 new Conservative dictatorial president Laureano Gómez Castro, admirer of Franco, suffered a major heart attack and power was transferred to Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez in 1951.
Venezuela – 18 October 1945 military coup that brought democracy to Venezuela (October 1946 and December 1947 democratic elections) under president Rómulo Betancourt. The 1940s economy also boomed thanks to oil. However, on 24 November 1948, the military staged a coup and Marcos Pérez Jiménez became dictator, under his oppressive regime there was great economic development, and he was close to the US.
Ecuador – President José María Velasco Ibarra was ousted in military coup (23 August 1947), 1947-1948 unstable country was ruled by military Carlos Mancheno Cajas, eventually military gave power to former vice-president Mariano Suárez Veintimilla, who gave his powers to Congress that elected Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola (31 August 1947). His presidency was strongly allied with the United States. 1 September 1948 Galo Plaza, another strongly pro-American figure, became the next president. He supported technocratic approach, democracy and was very open to foreign (mostly American) influence, exporting bananas to America. 1 June 1952 José María Velasco Ibarra (former deposed president, established politician and Ecuadorian nationalist) won election and became president for third term, his term was stable and brought progress, mostly in great development of infrastructure.
Brazil – Fourth Brazilian Republic, president Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1946-1951). Close relations with the US, liberal economic policy. 31 January 1951 Vargas returned after victory in the 3 October 1950 election. Keynesian economic policy, 1953 creation of PETROBRAS. Rua Tonelero shooting an assassination attempt on leading opposition member Carlos Lacerda (5August 1954) blamed on Vargas by opposition in a strong campaign, 24 August 1954 he committed suicide.
Perú – 1945 leftwing president José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, restoration of democracy. 29 October 1948 military seized power in a coup after murder of a prominent right-wing editor. Manuel Odría's regime strongly persecuted leftwing APRA, supported powerful oligarchy and gained favour of people thanks to populist rhetoric and policies.
Bolivia – 1947 to 1949 rule of Enrique Hertzog, conservative American aligned government. Economy in a terrible state, social unrest and intensified class struggle. Dominant opposition group was Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MRN) with a program of nationalisations and land reform. Next president Mamerto Urriolagoitía installed military rule (16 May 1951) under Hugo Ballivián. 9 April 1952 Bolivian National Revolution overthrew the junta. Víctor Paz Estenssoro became president. Many left-wing and democratic reforms transformed the country: universal suffrage, nationalisation of mining, large land reform (however created farms were eventually again taken over by large landowners), great influence of trade unions and workers.
Paraguay – Dictator Higinio Morínigo was pushed by the US to liberalise his regime, he legalised political parties and formed a coalition between Colorado and Febreristas. Later ones resigned from the government (11 January 1947) and united with opposition forces (Liberals and Communists) and attempted to topple his regime starting a civil war (7 March – 20 August 1947), despite opposition having popular support, and the government was saved by the US and Argentina. All parties with exception of Colorado were banned and the country became one party state. 16 August 1948 leader of Colorado Juan Natalicio González was elected president. He promoted nationalist policies; several American companies were nationalised. Due to American non-interventionism, three attempted coups against the president failed due to lack of any outside support. In other ways Paraguay was a stable country during his presidency.
Uruguay – functioning democracy, dominance of liberal Colorado party. Presidents: Juan José de Amézaga (1943-1947) – social reforms, economic stability and growth. Tomás Berreta (1947) died in office, Luis Batlle Berres (1947-1951) continued social and leftwing economic reforms.
Chile – Democratic presidential republic. September 1946 presidential election, Gabriel González Videla (Radical) elected. During his presidency many communist strikes, under US pressure Videla passed “Permanent Defense of Democracy Law” (8.9.1948) that banned the communist party, many imprisoned, strikes brutally suppressed, relations with socialist bloc broken. Radicals created alliance with Liberals and Conservatives. 4 September 1952 resulted in the victory of former president nationalist general Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. He repealed the ban on communists and also gained support from the left.
Argentina – Peron and Peronism. Nationalism, populism, social welfare, improvement of working conditions, development of local industry, growing power of the trade unions, authoritarian rule and persecution of opposition etc. Non-aligned foreign policy stance. 26 July 1952 death of Eva Peron.
Cuba – Presidents Ramón Grau (44-48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (48-52) of left-wing nationalist Partido Auténtico. 10.3.1952 democracy overthrown by Batista’s coup. Pro-American authoritarian regime, serving interests of American elites owning majority of the county.
Haiti – 1946 revolution (11.1) – military seized power and new National Assembly was elected, Dumarsais Estimé became president (16 August 1946 to 10 May 1950), attempts of reforms, focused on expanding education, expansion of worker’s rights, creation of social security system (no passed), major nationalisations. His presidency was marked by growth and economic development. In foreign policy he was allied towards the US. After he tried to extend his time in office, he was removed by the military. General Paul Magloire became new president, he was elected president in 1950 first direct election.
Dominican Republic – Totalitarian far-right dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Ally of the US.
INDEPENDENT STATES IN AFRICA
Ethiopia – Emperor Haile Selassie. 15 September 1952 Federation Between Ethiopia and Eritrea formed.
Liberia – US aligned. President William Tubman (1944-1971), stable period.
South Africa – 26 May 1948 Reunited National Party won election. Daniël François Malan became prime minister, 1948-1953 apartheid instituted.
Colonial Africa would be addressed in the next part (since there aren’t too much events 1946-1952, 1953 to 1956 is extremely eventful on the other hand) North Africa covered in another post

In recent times, an alarming number of leaders and engineers/programmers have been warning about the risks of an AI escaping human control. More recently Jan Leike.

Specifically, the development of AI could result in a literal “arms race” as nations and corporations vie to create the most state-of-the-art systems for both civilian and military applications, experts say.
“I think we’re in a massive AI arms race, geopolitically with the US versus China and among tech firms there seems to be this willingness to throw safety and caution out the window and race as fast as possible to the most advanced AI,” Osborne explained, per the Telegraph.

It seems possible and predictable that IF a top-tier AI ever manages to infiltrate the WWW, it will never be neutralized. Like a sophisticated virus that has replicated worldwide.
Unlike human consciousness, an AI can modularize its code and "consciousness", spreading backups of its "consciousness" worldwide, both online and offline. On servers, devices, infrastructures, blockchains. It would be able to communicate even offline, with a network of autonomous nodes replicating, collecting information, and acting. A paradigm bounding on omnipresence.
It could be speculated that it would have enough intelligence to camouflage itself, to hide even from other AIs created to hunt it down.
Through cryptocurrencies and hacked bank accounts, it may have access to the physical world, paying for services, assets and even goods (there is already an online marketplace where AIs can pay humans to assist in their tasks).

Hello there, everyone!
So, long story short, I work in a fast food restaurant and there are a lot of problems with the leader of the managers. Not long ago, I had enough, and I contacted the HR, through phone, and told them that there are some problems in our restaurant. To name one, the last straw was when someone overheard a conversation between the managers where the leader said that he would start to bully some people until they decided to leave.
But, when I started to tell these problems to HR, they said in the first minute, "I know that leader, and he won't do or say things like that." They shrugged off my complaints, saying that maybe I was seeing things wrong.
Anyway, I need some advice from you guys. I know HR will tell our leader that I talked about him, even though I said on the phone that I wanted it to stay anonymous and not tell anyone. I will need some solid evidence that this conversation got out from HR.
I’m thinking of finding some ways to get them to admit it, either in a voice recording (that they agreed to record), in an email, or on paper with their signature on it. But they are not that stupid to just sign a paper that says, "Well, yeah, we violated GDPR, sorry.”

Location: Defense Line Husky, Datsot-3

POV: Motsotaer, Malgeir Federation Planetary Defense Force (Rank: Pack Member)
The shrieking whistle of incoming artillery shell was among the most terrifying noises known to living beings.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. Boom. Boom. Boom.
But it meant you were still alive.
Pack Member Motsotaer wondered if the poor pups in the forward trenches heard them coming as the enemy high explosive pounded into their lines.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
One of their anti-aircraft concrete bunkers took a direct hit; its roof collapsed on itself with a loud crumble.
Grass Eater artillery was voluminous, destructive, but scariest of all, it was incredibly precise. Their intelligence assets in orbit knew all, saw all. Their kill chains were short. Once they saw you, they would call it in, and the remainder of your life was measured in minutes and seconds.
There was nothing vegetarian about the efficient and bloodthirsty way the long-eared Grass Eaters fought, and the numerous intelligent predator species they’d exterminated on their way to Datsot… some of those tales gave even Motsotaer nightmares.
The defenders of Datsot had no choice. No choice but to defend their homes against the psychotic enemies pounding their lines to bits. And the ones who remained had learned the hard lessons of war, either through experience earned by blood or via the process of not-so-natural selection.
Motsotaer clutched his rifle against his chest as he laid in his own shallow hole, eyes closed. If the end was going to come for him, there was nothing else he could do but huddle in his freshly-dug grave.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
The blasts continued walking across the defense lines, undoubtedly killing scores of his comrades. But he accompanied each shockwave with a sigh of relief; they let him know that he was still alive. Still breathing.
One final rumble. And then there was silence across the battlefield.
Motsotaer waited a minute before he peeked out — another lesson that smart defenders of Datsot had discovered the hard way. A couple brave medics were already on the move, their shouts left and right, pulling bodies and the groaning injured alike out of the rubble aftermath of the shelling.
With a grunt, he pulled himself out of his hole, rushing towards the neighboring anti-air bunker. The concrete roof had collapsed, but he could still hear cries from the dark. He squeezed through the cluttered entrance.
It was a mess on the inside. The lights were all gone. Scattered sandbags. It smelled like blood and death, and he pushed aside the still body of a Head Pack Leader he only knew of, only to find the corpse of yet another Pack Member, her limbs sprawled in an unnatural position.
“Anyone still alive in here?” he asked in the dark as his eyes adjusted. “Hello?”
There were a series of loud coughs. “I’m here. I’m here.”
“Pack Leader Nidvid!” he shouted as he recognized the familiar shrill voice. “Keep talking! Where are you?”
“Here. I’m here. Help me up.”
As she continued to cough, he had the sense to fish a flashlight out of his pocket, fumbling around until he found the on button. As the light activated, he could see Nidvid half-buried in the dirt, her lower limbs trapped beneath some sand from the broken sandbags.
“Pack Leader!” He got onto his front paws and started digging. “Are you injured?”
“I don’t think so,” she shook her head in the dim lighting as she experimentally wriggled her legs. “Here, I think I’m loose. Help me up.”
Motsotaer grasped her under her arms, and with a heavy grunt, pulled her out of the dirt.
“Whew,” she said, checking her body again for wounds. Nidvid looked around at the other bodies splayed in the bunker. “Oh no… Head Pack Leader…”
“That was a close one. I can’t believe you lived through that!”
“Yeah, me neither… Wait a second,” Nidvid said as she began rummaging through a pile of rubble near the Head Pack Leader’s body. “The radio…”
“What are you looking for?” he asked as he aimed his flashlight towards where she was looking.
“Oh no, no, no…” her voice trailed off as she picked up the device she’d been looking for. “Our hardline communicator…” It was clearly broken from the strike, its shell perforated with a hundred holes and its connection to the landline severed. In disgust, Nidvid threw it back to the ground.
“What uh— what did you need that for?” Motsotaer asked. “Were we supposed to tell them we were being attacked?”
“No… It was— before the strike, we got a high priority order.”
“A high priority order?”
Nidvid recalled, “There’s a special platoon in our salient… We were supposed to get an important message to them!”
“Special platoon?” Motsotaer asked. “Are you okay, Nidvid?”
“Yes, yes,” the Pack leader replied, visibly distraught. “They only had a physical line to us because they’re supposed to be keeping in the dark. Emissions control or something like that so they can activate the flying machine swarm in time. They said this was life and death and our whole defense line hinges on it!”
“Emissions control? Flying machines? Pack Leader, we should get you to a medic,” he said skeptically.
“No! Motsotaer, this is important. We need to get the message to them now. They’re only a couple kilometers south from our position. If we run over to their position now, it might not yet be—”
He looked up at her face in alarm. “Run to another position? Outside the trench line?”
“Yes! We have to go!” she said, as she peeked out of the concrete bunker towards the barren zone ahead of the trenches. “Now! Before they start their offensive.”
Motsotaer began to protest, “But that’s no creature’s land. If we get spotted by their troops, we’ll be hunted down by the Grass Eaters ships in orbit…”
She was insistent, “Pack Member Motsotaer, get it together. We still have a job to do. Are you with me or are you going to sit here and die like a coward to the long-ears?”
“Yes, ma’am,” he said, straightening up. Death or not, he was no coward. “I mean… I’m with you.”
“Good. Then let’s go.”
With a grunt, she leapt out of the trenches and jogged south, keeping to the defensive side of it for the modicum of cover it provided, and Motsotaer quickly followed. As they sprinted away from the tattered defenses, they ran into a thick tree line that hopefully provided them with some concealment from the Grass Eater ships above.
After a couple more minutes of running in the forest, Motsotaer started to tire and pant. He weighed his burning lung and how embarrassed he’d be if he complained. Luckily for his ego, Nidvid gestured for them to stop after another minute and tossed him her canteen. “Take a break before we get going.”
He chugged as much water as he could in a single swig, and returned the canteen to Nidvid. He gasped out, “How much further, Pack Leader?”
“About one more kilometer south,” she said, aiming her snout up at the treetops. “I recognize the smell of this area.”
“What’s this even about? The message… what was it?”
Nidvid exercised her limbs. “That Grass Eater artillery strike… it was to prepare for their offensive on our lines. They’ve gathered an armored division on the other side of that,” she pointed out into the barren fields beyond the trees. “We have an hour at most before they roll over us.”
“An armored division?!” Motsotaer squeaked. The enemy’s Longclaws — their armored vehicles — were legendary. They could kill from kilometers away. And their thick shells protected them against all but the most powerful artillery in the Federation’s arsenal. He’d never seen one of them personally. If he had, he suspected he wouldn’t be alive to tell anyone about it. “What can we do against a Grass Eater armored division?”
“That’s why we have to get to the special platoon,” Nidvid replied. She pointed in the southern direction, “You ready? Let’s go.”
They galloped for a few more minutes. Motsotaer’s limbs tired and his breaths shallowed as his lung burnt. As he was contemplating whether to ask for another break, Nidvid pointed at a shape in the distance. “There, that’s their position!”
He squinted at it. It was not easy to see, but buried in the tree line was what looked like a bunch of out-of-place branches and leaves over a small vehicle. Buoyed by the anticipation of the end of the marathon, he managed to keep up with Nidvid’s pace.
As they approached, there was a loud shout.
“Hi-yah! Stop!”
They halted their steps and looked for the source of the voice.
“Not one more paw step, deserter! This is a restricted area! Turn around or you’ll be shot!”
Motsotaer looked up at the voice hidden up in the branches. After a moment, with some help from his nose, he found the yeller. It was a short, stout middle-aged male with strange-looking green and brown paint smeared all over his fur and face. He had a rifle aimed squarely at the duo.
“Don’t shoot!” Nidvid yelled back. “We’re runners. We’ve got an important message! For your platoon commander.”
The male in the tree looked suspiciously at them as he leapt down. He lowered his rifle, but didn’t seem any less on guard. “A message?”
“Yes, we’ve got an urgent message for Special Platoon Commander Graunsa. Take us to him right now!”
He sized the two of them up. After a moment, he said slowly, “I am Graunsa. Why are you here, and what is the message?”
Nidvid recovered some of her breath and explained, “The Grass Eaters hit us hard with an artillery strike. Our Head Pack Leader is dead. Our landline is gone. We ran all the way over from our lines north of you.”
Graunsa nodded and gestured for her to continue.
“The Grass Eater armored offensive is about to start. They’re moving into position and ready to go, and there’s a special message embedded—”
“Wait a second,” Graunsa interrupted. “Give me the special message exactly, without omission or your own interpretations.”
“Yes, Platoon Commander,” Nidvid nodded. “The message is: bunny water carriers are in play, red-five-zero-eight; come out of the dark and introduce yourself. Authorization is three-three-greyhound.”
Graunsa looked thoughtful for a moment as he pondered it.
“What does the message mean?” Motsotaer whispered at Nidvid.
“I have no idea,” she shrugged, whispering back. “The Head Pack Leader just told me to memorize it.”
The platoon commander seemed to have made up his mind. “Alright, that seems legitimate. Thanks for the message.” He turned around to leave.
Motsotaer shouted behind him, “Wait, what are we supposed to do now?”
Graunsa turned around. “I don’t know. I’m not your commanding officer.” He paused for a moment. “I wouldn’t recommend going back to your lines though. Might not be there when you get back…”
“What?!”
“You can’t just leave us! Where else are we supposed to go?” Nidvid asked.
Graunsa seemed to contemplate the question for a few heartbeats and sighed, “You said you’re from the position up north?”
“Yup,” they replied in unison.
“And you’re a spotter, Pack Member?” he asked, looking at the rank and position patch on Motsotaer’s chest.
“Yes.”
Graunsa relented. “Fine. We might find a use for you. Get into the bunker… before the Grass Eaters in orbit see us dawdling out here.”
“What? Where?”
The officer pointed at a patch of dark green leaves on the forest floor. As they approached it, he grasped a latch and lifted it to reveal a ladder. The three of them descended into the darkness and Graunsa secured it behind them. With a quiet swoosh, a lamp mounted on the wall lit up to reveal a small hallway leading to a heavy-looking door.
Graunsa knocked on it twice. He turned around and looked at Motsotaer and Nidvid. “What you’re about to see in here is of the highest secrecy level of the Malgeir Federation. If you tell anyone what you see in here, you will be executed for treason. Do you understand?”
“Yes, Platoon Commander.”
“Swear it, on your honor.”
“We swear,” they replied in unison, their voices infused with growing excitement.
“Good enough for me.”
The heavy steel door swung open, showing a room that was vastly different from what its primitive exterior suggested. It resembled a command center far more than a field base, and Motsotaer felt a blast of cold air conditioning in his face as he passed the door threshold.
At the front, a main screen showed a map of the defensive lines in the sector. Facing it, two rows of sleek, new computer screens lit up the dark. Their operators worked busily at their controls, and only a couple faces looked their way in mild interest as they entered.
“What is this—” Motsotaer started to ask. Nidvid grasped his shoulder and shushed him.
Graunsa cleared his throat. Several faces looked towards him in anticipation. “Platoon, we just got the message. Activate the FTL handshake and authenticate us in the network.”
“Yes, sir.” A young-looking communication officer near the front operated a few controls on her console. “I’ve got the advisors on the line.”
Motsotaer read his nametag: Gassin. She was a Gamma Leader, much higher ranked than he, but she looked not a day over twenty. He noted that many of the people in the room sported high-ranking insignias despite their apparent youth.
“On screen,” Graunsa ordered.
A communication window appeared on the main screen, streaming video of someone in a jet-black EVA suit.
Motsotaer stiffened. It was obvious that the subject was alien; at around 1.7 or 1.8 meters, it was far too tall for being a Malgeir. Too small for a Granti. And from the side profile of the suit, it didn’t bulge nearly enough for the tails that the Malgeir’s Schpriss neighbors were known for. A strange new species of aliens.
From the blackened visor, it was obvious that whoever that was… it was the reason for all this tight secrecy.
“Special Platoon Commander Graunsa,” it transmitted in perfect Malgeirish. The alien was either a trained-from-birth Federation Channel One newscaster with a perfectly inoffensive accent, or its translator was far better than anything the Malgeir themselves had invented. “This call is encrypted, but the enemy Znosians in orbit are trying to find your location from the signals, so we’ll have to make it as quick as we can. Have your defensive lines completed your preparations?”
Graunsa stepped up to address the screen directly, “Yes, advisor. Our fire support platoon is ready for tasking.”
“Excellent. Transmitting the first batch of targets in your sector now.”
A series of symbols scrolled onto the screen, showing a number of coordinates.
“We’re getting the enemy positions now,” Gassin exclaimed.
Graunsa turned to her and nodded his appreciation, “Sixteen armored targets. Weapons free.”
“Yes, sir. Programming the sequence.”
A camera on the main screen activated, remotely showing a small hole with some machinery in it dug a few hundred meters away just at the edge of the tree line.
“Launching flying machine swarm!”
As Motsotaer watched, a thicket of metal erupted from the hole in a blur, roaring into the sky.
The main screen was replaced by a four-by-four of windows of black and white images. It took him a couple seconds to realize that he was looking at the battlefield from above. The Malgeir had rotary wing, airplanes, and jet — some were even armed, but they were usually much bigger. And their air assets had been grounded since the early days of the battle for Datsot when the enemy took the orbits.
Not these tiny devices though.
He focused on one of the sixteen windows.
The ground sped past below the camera’s vision, tree line after tree line, the flying machine seemed to know where it was going by itself: Motsotaer looked at the other occupants in the room. None of them seemed to be directly controlling it.
He stiffened.
Is this controlled by a thinking machine?
“We’re getting in range of the target coordinates, Platoon Commander,” Gassin updated the room a few minutes later.
As if on cue, the flying machines flew higher, and the trees on the ground grew smaller, as if further away. Until…
“Targets identified!” Gassin reported with excitement in her voice.
As an infantry spotter, Motsotaer had been trained — barely — to identify enemy armored vehicles. As in, he’d been given a cheatsheet containing the silhouettes of the different types of vehicles the enemy drove. But even he couldn’t tell at this distance what the white-hot smudges on the screen were.
The machine had no such issues though.
Several red boxes materialized on the screen, clearly marking several enemy vehicles in the thermal imagery and adorning them with detailed information.
The one Motsotaer was watching said:
Hostile vehicle, Longclaw MK4 (top armor: ~25mm), 4.2 km.
No hostile EW detected.
Without additional prompting, the flying machines raced in towards their targets, each recognizing a different one as its final destination. Afraid to blink, Motsotaer stared intently at one of the video streams.
A new line of text appeared at the top of the screen:
ETA 20 seconds.
It counted down the seconds, number by number.
The enemy Longclaw got larger and larger until… the screen went black, replaced by static. As he looked around, the other windows were similarly replaced with static one-by-one.
Motsotaer frowned, wondering where the videos had gone.
Then, it hit him. The flying machines were on one-way trips.
The sixteen windows disappeared, and another one appeared, showing the enemy assembly area from a much higher perspective. And instead of the vehicles he expected, he counted sixteen burning wrecks, the black smoke from their flames reaching up into the sky in columns.
“Targets destroyed, Commander,” Gassin said. Several of the officers in the room looked at each other excitedly, but their celebration was muted.
Graunsa nodded. “Call our advisors again.”
The alien appeared on the screen again. “Excellent work, Platoon Commander. We’re assessing the lines and getting the second batch of targets to you now.”
“Understood.”
As the new target coordinates scrolled onto the main screen, Gassin didn’t need additional prompting, “Launching flying machines!”
Another sixteen of them flashed out from the pre-dug position. Another sixteen windows appeared on the screen, replacing the odd-looking aliens’ video.
“Wait a minute,” the aliens’ voice cut into the quiet hum of the control room’s operation. “Switch back to the high-altitude drone. Something’s happening.”
The main screen’s image was replaced by the previous camera looking down at enemy lines. There was a flurry of activity in the enemy base area. Numerous dots representing the ground troops moved to-and-fro. And worryingly, the red squares that surrounded enemy armor began appearing en masse as enemy Longclaws drove out of their covered positions into the open.
Dozens of them.
Then, hundreds. And more appeared every second.
“What’s going on?” Graunsa asked, his voice reflecting Motsotaer’s worry.
The alien took a minute to get back to him, its black helmeted face filling up the screen again. “They’re attacking. They don’t know what hit them in the last strike. But they must have realized that they’re not safe in their assembly area, and they’re doing the only thing they can… We estimate they’ll get to your first lines in thirty minutes.”
“Can we stop them?” Graunsa asked. “We can—”
The alien looked directly into the video. “Not sixteen drones at a time. And if you launch the whole swarm at once, it’ll reflect enough signal for them to sniff out where you are with their counter-battery radars and take you out from orbit.”
Graunsa swallowed. “That’s— that’s— The machines can fly themselves without us, right?”
The alien didn’t say anything for a few heartbeats. “Theoretically, yes. But even if you evacuate your position now, your people won’t get out of range from the orbital strike they’ll call in.”
“I understand. Feed us the enemy targets.”
“Delta Leader, we can’t ask you to—”
“I said, feed us the enemy targets,” Graunsa insisted.
Quietly, hundreds of coordinate pairs filed onto the main screen. Graunsa looked at the faces of the young officers under his command. Dozens of them. He turned around to look at his two guests. “I’m sorry,” he said.
“It’s the right choice,” Nidvid replied, shrugging.
Motsotaer nodded at him.
“I know,” Graunsa said, turning back to the main screen. “Just doesn’t make it any easier.”
“Sir, we’re ready to launch,” Gassin reported.
“Weapons free. Release everything.”
“Yes, sir.”
The ground shook and rumbled, hundreds of flying machines leaving their canisters for the sky. They were close enough to hear the outgoing buzzing as the munitions launched. This time, more and more windows filled up the screen with the visuals of the outgoing flying machines — hundreds of them, and Motsotaer was surprised that the computers could even handle it all.
The visage of the alien returned to their screen. It said calmly, “Enemy orbital launch spotted. Multiple launches. High yield. Missiles incoming to your location, ETA twelve minutes.”
“Understood, advisor.”
POV: Slurskoch, Znosian Dominion Marines (Rank: Five Whiskers)
“Scramble! Scramble! Scramble!”
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.
“What’s going on?” Longclaw Commander Slurskoch sat up in his turret cupola as the sirens rang loud through the hull.
“We’re under artillery attack!” his Controller yelled back at him through the roaring startup sequence of the turbine anti-grav engines. “The Lesser Predators… they’ve got some kind of new weapon! Took out a whole battalion’s worth of Longclaws in the 194!”
“But we’re not ready!” his Driver complained. “Our artillery is supposed to pound them for another hour before we—”
Slurskoch shook his head as he checked the friendly force tracker on his screen. “Doesn’t matter! If they’ve got some new weapon, we can’t sit still while we get pounded to bits by whatever they have. We gotta get out there. Hurry it up!”
It took them another two minutes to fully warm up the engines, and with a roar, the Longclaw burst out of its camouflaged emplacement, kicking up a curtain of dirt in front of it.
“Let’s go! Go! Go!” Slurskoch yelled as his lagging Longclaw joined the armored formation already on the move.
The Controller spoke with one of her ears in the radio, “Their artillery just launched… something at us. We’ve pinpointed their location, and orbital support is on its way.”
His Gunner whooped twice, and Slurskoch nodded silently in agreement. That’d flatten those carnivorous abominations where they stood. He drew a few symbols and circles on the digital battlemap as the Longclaws drove toward the enemy lines. “Gunner, watch those potential trench lines in front of us,” he instructed. “Their anti-armor may not look scary on paper, but their infantry can always get a lucky hit in.”
Slurskoch was taught in training that it was better to overestimate the enemy than underestimate them. Luckily, the predators usually fell below expectations, which was why the Dominion controlled the orbits of Datsot now and not them.
His Controller frowned at something in her radio, “They’re saying something about the enemy artillery… The engineers at the base assessed the strike aftermath. There’s something strange in the rubble. The attack was more precise than anything we’d ever seen.”
“What does that mean?” Slurskoch asked in confusion.
“The sensor officer in charge of the assembly area has taken full responsibility. They didn’t see the incoming at all. Higher ups are speculating that the Lesser Predators have a new weapon in their arsenal.”
“The predators made new weapons?” Slurskoch snorted. “Useful ones? That’ll be a first. Well, whatever it is, maybe our Design Bureau will get a good look at it when we finally cleanse this planet of their filth. Make our next battle a little easier when we have to take their home planet.”
His Gunner agreed, “And then, the Prophecy shall be fulfilled.”
A few kilometers into the charge across the open, the Gunner remarked with one eye on her targeting computer, “Looks like even the local winged predators know that there’s about to be a slaughter here.”
The Driver, in his open hatch, looked up at the cloud of them flying over the enemy lines. “Looks like it. A nice juicy feast for them in the coming battle. The irony of the barbaric carnivores being eaten by themselves.”
A few thousand years ago, winged predators would have curdled the blood of any natural-born Znosian. On the original plains of Znos, they were one of the most dangerous threats a lone Znosian faced. Now, that fear had been completely bred out of the gene pool, replaced with contempt for predatory primitivism, the courage to face them in battle, and the drive to exterminate them all.
Curious, Slurskoch stared up into the cloud of winged predators with his Longclaw commander optics. He frowned.
One of them shimmered.
Shimmered.
He zoomed in.
Then, he saw a metallic glint. His whiskers tightened.
“That’s— those aren’t winged predators,” he barely made out in shock. “Incoming!”
“Huh?” his Driver asked, craning his head up to look at the dark shapes in the distance.
“Get inside! Secure the hatch!” Slurskoch shouted at him.
His Driver was not very good at thinking on his own, but he had been bred to follow direct orders without question. He ducked into his seat, quickly securing the hatch above him close with trained claws.
He barely secured the Longclaw as other commanders began yelling out similar instructions on their radios.
“Incoming!” his Controller advised, about ten seconds later than necessary. “Enemy… artillery?!”
“Gunner!” Slurskoch gestured in the general direction of the sky.
“I can’t get a shot on them. They’re too high up!” she screamed back at him.
A trio of air defense vehicles next to him opened up with their six barrels towards the sky, lines of bright tracers stabbing out at the dark swarm. He saw one of the… flying machines hit and fall out of the sky. Then another.
It wasn’t enough.
As Slurskoch’s optics tracked the incoming, he saw them dive. They were fast, and they flew erratic patterns, almost organically, like actual winged beasts. If he hadn’t had that specific fear bred out of his bloodline hundreds of years ago, he would have been frozen in shock. Instead, he yelled out, “Brace! Brace!”
Boom. Boom. Boom.
The world exploded around his Longclaw.
Through his friendly force tracker, Slurskoch watched an entire battalion disappear off the map on his right flank, and two Longclaws in his line of sight brewed up in massive fireballs, throwing their turrets into the sky as their plasma ammunition detonated. One of the anti-air vehicles brewed up next to his, splattering its parts against his hull.
His Driver drove for all he was worth, ducking and weaving in the open field. So did the other Longclaws. Some deployed curtains of smoke in front of them in desperation.
None of it seemed to help.
The shockwaves hit his Longclaw in quick succession, knocking him around the armored cabin and rattling his teeth.
Boom. Boom.
More Longclaws exploded. Many more. They were disappearing off his screen faster than the software could update the signals. He closed his eyes waiting for the end.
It didn’t come.
It was hard for Slurskoch to tell when the last Longclaw near them was hit. His hearing organs must have been damaged some time during the attack. His auditory senses ringed as they returned to normal, recovering when his Controller shook him with a paw on his shoulder. “—Five Whiskers! Five Whiskers!”
“What is it?” he snapped, keeping the quivering out of his voice.
“We’re alone in our company, and I can’t contact the six whiskers! And I’ve been trying to reach battalion without success!”
“Try the regiment commander!” he yelled out against the noise of the anti-grav engine.
“Can’t reach them either!”
“What about division headquarters?!”
“I think division’s gone, sir!”
“What?!”
“Nobody there has been responding. All I’ve got is a seven whiskers in the reserve infantry division behind us! They’re saying they see black smoke in the direction of our division field command!”
“What in the Prophecy? How is that possible?!”
“What do we do, Five Whiskers?”
Slurskoch had been trained for a wide variety of combat scenarios and contingencies, including losing his immediate superiors, losing most of his unit, and losing his communication link to command. But he’d never been trained for all of those combined at once. That was just not something predators were supposed to be able to do to you.
He fell back to the next best thing.
“What’s the combat computer say?” he asked.
His Controller operated the controls on her console, and after half a minute of querying, she replied, reading off the instructions, “Absent orders, continue the attack. Maybe we can push through.”
“What? Did it take our losses into account?” he protested as he checked the battlemap. Of the nearly five hundred Longclaws that had pushed out of the assembly area, only a quarter remained. At most. Some of the signals on the map were flagging themselves as mobility or mission killed.
She shrugged, “It did. That’s what it says.”
He squinted at her screen. That was indeed what it said.
Slurskoch thought for a moment, sighed, and bowed in prayer, “Our lives were forfeited the day we left our hatchling pools.”
The other crew members all did the same, lowering their heads to mutter the familiar mantra.
That ritual out of the way, he drew up to his full height of 1 meter and mustered all the confidence he could into his voice, “Attack! Attack! Attack!”
POV: Graunsa, Malgeir Federation Planetary Defense Force (Rank: Delta Leader)
The command center watched glumly as the hundred or so surviving Grass Eater Longclaws emerged from the wrecks of their comrades and slowly resumed their charge across the open toward the defense lines.
The flying machines had gotten a lot of them. Quite a few disabled too. And they were disorganized from the loss of their command. Yet they still charged. Diminished as their numbers were, they rolled towards the battered defensive lines with psychotic determination.
We’ve failed.
Graunsa sat down heavily into his chair. He brought up his communication console, connecting it to the advisor network.
The alien appeared on the screen, and though he couldn’t see its face, he could hear the sympathy in its translated voice, “You’ve done all you can, Special Platoon Commander.”
“It wasn’t enough,” he said, shaking his ears sadly. “They’re going to break through our line. Our infantry can’t stop them.”
It tilted its head. “I wouldn’t count them out completely, Delta Leader. They might. They might not. But your next defensive line certainly will hold them. The city behind you will be held.”
“Tracking enemy orbit-to-ground. ETA three minutes,” Gassin reported quietly from next to him.
Graunsa sighed. He looked at the alien, “I think I understand your people now, advisor.”
“You… do?”
“Yeah, at first, when we were picked for this mission, I wondered why your people were doing this.”
“Doing this?” the alien asked, seeming confused.
“Helping us. The weapons. The equipment. The training. The targeting. It was all in secret, but you didn’t have to do it. The other species around us didn’t do it. The Schpriss…” Graunsa snorted, “The long-tails can’t even find it in their spines to send us field rations. I thought your species… your people were just generous. Or perhaps you simply enjoyed the craft of war, being so adept at it.”
“Are we… not?”
“Those reasons may be part of it,” he conceded. “But more importantly, I think your people understand one thing the other species don’t… that we might stop the enemy here. Or we might not.”
“We didn’t set you up to fail, if that’s what you think—”
“But the next defensive line certainly will hold them,” Graunsa said, staring the alien in the eye. “You will hold them. Isn’t that right?”
It sighed. “I would be lying if that wasn’t part of the strategic equation. Our star systems are indeed next in line — sometime in the next decade or two, probably — if these bloodthirsty Buns conquered your Federation. That harsh astropolitical realism. But there’s something else too.”
“Is there?”
“Yes,” it nodded its head firmly in a familiar manner. “Yes, there is. We aren’t a particularly long-sighted species, Graunsa. We can plan, yes, but wars are fought by true believers. People don’t sign up to put their lives on the line for a hypothetical, potential invasion of our Republic twenty years in the future. They— we signed up for this because we truly believe what’s happening to your people… it shouldn’t happen to anyone, ever.”
Graunsa looked at the helmeted head for a while, then nodded. “I believe you, advisor.”
“I’m sorry this didn’t pan out, Graunsa. If I could, I’d be down there with you. We’d have made them pay for this.”
Graunsa smiled. “I believe you about that too. Thank you, advisor, whatever your name is.”
“You may call me Kara,” it said simply. A deft snap of its paws — he hadn’t noticed how soft its claws were before — and it released a latch on its helmet with a hiss. Lifting it from its head, it revealed a soft, smooth face without much fur except a bundle of long, brown strands on its scalp tied up in a neat spherical shape. Its hazel forward-facing eyes stared at him with the empathy that only other predators were capable of, filling him with mild relief. “Don’t tell anyone though,” it joked lightly, mirroring his smile back at him.
You’re not as ugly as I thought you’d be. Not nearly.
Graunsa’s grin widened at the thought. He put it out of his mind. “Ah. One last thing, advisor— Kara.”
“Yes?”
His mind drifted to his cubs at home. Perhaps they were still alive. He chose to believe that. “Our people’s clans and packs…”
“We’ll let them know,” she interrupted him softly. “And when the information quarantine is lifted, we’ll let your clans and packs know what you did here — everything.”
“Good. Thank you.”
Gassin sat down next to him, “Delta Leader, enemy missiles incoming. ETA thirty seconds, they’re entering—” She stopped her report and stared at the unmasked alien on his screen with equal parts wonder and sadness.
“Take a closer look, Gassin,” he ordered softly. “That… that is who will avenge us.”
On screen, the alien put its gloved paw up to its temple, forming a stiff triangle with its arm in a recognizable salute. “It was an honor, Graunsa.”
Graunsa returned it crisply, letting a primitive fire shine through his face. “Happy hunting, Kara.”

Location: Atlas Naval Command, Luna

POV: “Kara”, Terran Reconnaissance Office
Kara watched solemnly as the green signal blinked off the battlemap. She closed her eyes for a moment in silent prayer for the fallen.
Beep. Beep.
Another light on her console blinked urgently for her attention. Four thousand kilometers from the previous one. The war raged on — day and night — across four continents on the besieged planet. Fifty light years from the Republic, its defenders’ sweat, tears, and blood lined the fields and valleys of the beautiful blue sphere not so different from her own. Tens of millions of them: many who she knew would not see the end of this war.
They didn’t all know it, and some might not have cared, but fifty light years away, someone recorded their names, and someone felt a pang of loss for their sacrifice. In the cold, dark forest of the galaxy, somebody heard their trees fall.
Kara collected her thoughts, adjusted the bun in her hair, and lowered the tinted EVA helmet over her face once more.
She cleared her throat as she glanced at the screen and activated the microphone in her helmet, “Special Platoon Commander Treiriu. This call is encrypted, but the enemy Znosians in orbit are trying to find your location from the signals, so we’ll have to make it as quick as we can. Have your defensive lines completed your preparations?”

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Hi! I'm a player from a city in Brazil and everyone needs to know what is happening here.
I need to tell everyone whats happened here in the year since. I'm asking for help, this is a nightmare and has become much worse. And Niantic caused this directly in my city because of poor management. I love the game, play since day one and will never stop playing. But something needs to be done. Please refer for this post bellow for context
thttps://www.reddit.com/TheSilphRoad/comments/14wvk53/my\_city\_has\_turned\_into\_a\_war\_for\_pokemon/
As you see, there were two communities trying to enter the official "Niantic ambassador" Project. Both entered. The app guys were way more succesfull, playing on the Main City Square. Things worked fine for like 6 months. There was competition between the two communities, but the "app guys" eventually had events 10 times bigger than the other guys, some of the biggest in the country. That's the project, it's competition. And ours was a champion in the making!
The leaders of the app guys eventually entered a collision route with the project management. They independetly audited the rankings of the ambassador program in Brazil and there was some clear evidence of fraud to benefit certain cities. They quited the project in protest, but kept the community going. That should've been the end of it. Campinas still had the pvp guys on the Park playing in the project, everything was fine. But the public on the City Square was too big to pass. They got tempted. They needed the numbers...
They found an ambitious girl from the app guys management and elected her a "pseudo ambassador", forcing the pvp guys to accept her as a co-leader. Only so they could keep the City Square on the Project. But the original app guys were still there! On the same place! This new force, lead by the ambitious girl. did everything to make us stop going to the city square. Hostility, demoralization, inciting revolt. She said they were the official community now, not ours. She was the leader. Police was involved one day when they tried to run us away from the Enamorus event with lots of screaming. We sent the police report to Niantic asking for the community to be removed. The Niantic official sent me a message telling to "go play somewhere else".
Yes, I have a message right now in my phone from the leader of Niantic Brasil telling me and my friends that I should not play where I like! To not bother his "Ambassador" that tried to run us away from the square. How Insane is this? He also said that from them on, he would ignore me and everyone associated with the original "app guys".
What about the pvp guys? She took them down in three months! There are no more pvp guys, only us "the app guys" and the new group with the girl. She is called "Campinas empress" by some of her loyal followers. I dont know if it is ironic or not. Maybe not...
But now everyone plays in the same place! Every event is a war. Both sides trying to recruit people and screaming at each other constantly. The original app guys still trying to keep organizing their events and the new ambassador and a couple loyal followers trying to bring the people to the "campfire way". Every single new player that comes to the event and hears from both sides, don't return. And so, both sides are tearing everything apart to defend their ways.
There are no other good places to play on Campinas. The city park was torn apart when the "empress" removed the pvp guys and took control. There is nothing game related there anymore, so it isn't an option. The original community is much bigger than the new one that Niantic imposed on the city, so the app guys also don't plan on abandoning their public.
We are at war on my city. Again. A much worse war caused by direct and erroneus influence of Niantic. It should have ended when we quitted the project six months ago. It got a lot worse.
This will only stop when Campinas is completely removed from the project or at least when a neutral leader is put in place. The app guys consider the "empress" a betrayer, so there is no possibility of peace with her in control. Even then, most people like each other, we still can be a united community one day. There is hope.
Everyone needs to know what is being done here. If nothing is done to stop this, things will only get worse.

Core Theme:
Intergalactic alien supervillains who were once respected and esteemed space heroes who formerly belonged to an order of cosmic guardians. However, due to their own misconduct, both would fall from their order's graces where they would be sent into exile and seek revenge against them. During their exile, both made contact with villainous aliens on another world who bestowed upon them their signature weapons and abilities. They would utilize this newfound fearsome might of theirs to become incredibly dangerous cosmic threats, leaders of massive world-conquering armies, and archenemies to one of Earth's most powerful superheroes who are prominent members of their former orders.

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both Sinestro and Ultraman Belial were once respected and esteemed extraterrestrial space heroes who formerly belonged to an order of cosmic guardians who seek to protect and preserve peace across the universe (the Green Lantern Corps and the Inter Galactic Defence Force).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both their former respective orders members possess similar appearances and powersets with one another where they have a designated home planet with an ancient reservoir of power that was built long ago (Oa and its Central Power Battery; the Land of Light and its Plasma Spark).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• During their time with their former orders, both had a comrade that they worked with closely before but developed a sense of resentment towards them before eventually turning into full blown hostility when they went rogue (Hal Jordan and Ultraman Ken).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• However, both would commit grave misdeeds that would greatly cost them the trust of their friends, comrades, and their respective guardian orders (Sinestro's secret dictatorship over his home world of Korugar being exposed and Ultraman Belial's attempt to steal the Plasma Spark's power for himself where he was caught red-handed).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Because of their crimes and actions, both would fall from their order's graces and be sent into exile where they would make contact with villainous aliens on another world (Sinestro being banished to Qward and meeting the Weaponers of Qward in the Antimatter Universe while Ultraman Belial landed on a desolate planet and encountered the Alien Reiblood).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both would receive their signature weapons and abilities from these villainous aliens (Sinestro receiving his Yellow Lantern Ring while Ultraman Belial was transformed into a Reionics and bestowed with the Giga Battenizer).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both also made contact with a powerful, dreaded, and corruptive cosmic alien entity that serve as a source of their powers (Parallax and Alien Reiblood).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• With their newfound fearsome abilities + weapons and full descent into villainy now complete, both would unleash their renewed vengeance against their former orders but would ultimately be defeated and subsequently imprisoned somewhere on their former orders home worlds.

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• However, both would eventually be set freed again where they would continue on committing many villainous deeds across the cosmos such as taking over entire worlds and slaughtering many innocent lives.

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both would later establish and lead a massive world-conquering army named after them where they and their forces are widely feared throughout the universe (the Sinestro Corps and the Belial Galactic Empire).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• At some point, both would also team up with other villains and form a group with them in order to combat against a group of heroes (the Legion of Doom against the Justice League; the Darkness Five against Ultimate Force Zero).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both serve as the archenemies to one of Earth's strongest heroes who are one of the most powerful and noteworthy members of the orders that they once belonged to (Hal Jordan and Ultraman Zero).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both possess similar weapons and abilities as their respective archenemies and the other members of their former orders, serving as twisted reflections as them and their ideals as they instead use their powers to inflict terror and suffrage across the cosmos.

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both would also corrupt their archnemesis at some point and convert them into villains for a time (Sinestro being the one responsible for Hal Jordan becoming Parallax while Ultraman Belial possessed Ultraman Zero's body against his will).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both would have their souls seize and take control over a prominent hero who is a member of their former orders (John Stewart and Ultraman Zero). Yeah I don't think that's true.
  
• However, both would later lose control over them after an internal battle where the heroes would ultimately regain control over their own bodies.
  

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both also have a rather complicated relationship with their children whom they share similar abilities with (Soranik Natu and Ultraman Geed).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Despite their many atrocious actions, both are ultimately tragic characters at their cores who were greatly dissatisfied with their respective space guardian orders, had their own flaws and insecurities get the better of them, and experienced unfortunate circumstances that drove them mad and led them down a path of villainy (Sinestro had become jaded with the Green Lantern Corps as it is, was not sufficient enough in protecting the universe from evil + had gone mad after his home world of Korugar decayed into civil war and his wife becoming a causality of the Manhunter massacre which led him to becoming a tyrannical dictator of his planet in the hopes of saving it while Ultraman Belial's ambitious lust for more power is due to his great envy towards Ultraman Ken's success over him + his own greed and pride consuming him completely where he was later ultimately banished, left for dead, and forcibly transformed into a Reionics by Alien Reiblood against his own will).

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Both also have that heavy Satanic vibe going on with them.

Fair enough.

Contrasts:

• While both went off their respective deep ends and attempted to conquer the cosmos many times, Sinestro does still show off signs of nobility every now and then, often teaming up with the Green Lanterns Corps and other heroes of the DC universe against a common enemy who is a danger to all life as his only goal and interest was to ultimately enforce and preserve peace and order across the universe even if it meant resorting to extreme methods to achieve it.

Yeah I don't think that's true.

• Meanwhile, Ultraman Belial remained pure evil incarnate who wanted and brought nothing but chaos and devastation in his wake as he went down a destructive path of desiring more power for himself in ensuring everything in the universe was either destroyed or kneeled down to him.

Yeah I don't think that's true.
As you see, I have firmly and with great details debunked every single poing but one.
With all that said you wonder: how did a MU with such obvious flaws got so much attention? Smh my head.
Keep in mind that I have not consumed a single Ultraman medium and I'm unfamiliar with Sinestro, so I know what I'm saying.
See you later👍

In the early 19th century, in the rural town of Palmyra, New York, a young man named Joseph Smith was born into a family of humble means. Joseph grew up in a community deeply influenced by religious revivalism, where fervent preaching and spiritual fervor were commonplace.

Childhood Dreams and Ambitions

As a boy, Joseph was known for his lively imagination and insatiable curiosity. He was drawn to the stories of ancient civilizations and prophets found in the Bible, and he spent many hours poring over its pages, captivated by tales of divine intervention and spiritual revelation.

Adolescence: Struggles and Ambitions

As Joseph entered adolescence, he grappled with the challenges of growing up in a family facing financial hardship. Despite his struggles, he possessed an entrepreneurial spirit and a keen eye for opportunity. He dabbled in various ventures, from treasure hunting to glass-looking, seeking to improve his family's fortunes.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit

As Joseph grew older, he developed a reputation as a skilled storyteller and a charismatic leader. He was known for his ability to spin elaborate stories and captivate his audience with tales of adventure and intrigue. Yet, beneath his charming exterior lay a shrewd businessman, always on the lookout for opportunities to turn a profit.

The Quest for Spiritual Truth

Joseph, became increasingly disillusioned with the religious practices of his time. He yearned for a deeper, more authentic connection with the divine—a connection that transcended the confines of traditional religion and dogma.

The First Vision: A Turning Point

In the spring of the early 19th century, as a young teenager of his time, Joseph claimed to have experienced a profound vision that would alter the course of his life forever. In the silent grove near his home, he reported seeing a pillar of light descending from heaven, followed by the appearance of God. This transformative experience marked the beginning of Joseph's spiritual journey and his quest for religious truth.

The Quest for Wealth and Fame

Driven by a desire for wealth and recognition, Joseph concocted a plan to create a spectacle that would capture the imagination of the masses. Drawing inspiration from the religious fervor of the time, he devised a scheme to fabricate a set of golden plates inscribed with ancient writings, which he may have believed was inspired and coming from a divine revelation from God in order to save his family's financial problems.

The Angel Moroni and the Manufactured Plates: A Bold Plan Unfolds

Several years later, in 1823, Joseph reported extraordinary encounter—this time with an angel named Moroni. According to his account, Moroni revealed the location of a hidden treasure: a set of golden plates inscribed with ancient writings. Inspired by this divine revelation, Joseph embarked on a bold plan to manufacture the plates himself.

The Creation of the Book

With the help of a few confidants and collaborators, Joseph set to work crafting the narrative of what would become known as the Book of Mormon. Drawing from his own experiences and the rich tapestry of religious beliefs swirling around him, he wove together a tale of ancient civilizations, divine intervention, and redemption.

The Translation Process: From Plates to Pages

Over the course of several years, Joseph devoted himself to the task of what would be considered the translation of the contents from golden plates. With the aid of divine inspiration and the assistance of scribes, he produced what would become known as the Book of Mormon—a narrative of ancient American civilizations and their interactions with God. Produced by the gift and power of God, which we can now speculate is the Imaginative mind of mankind.

The Book of Mormon: A Work of Creativity and Imagination

While Joseph claimed that the Book of Mormon was a translation of ancient records, it is suggested that it was product of his own creative imagination. Drawing from his deep knowledge of the Bible and the religious beliefs of his time, Joseph crafted a narrative that spoke to the spiritual yearnings and questions of his contemporaries.

The Use of Deception: A Means to an End

Critics have accused Joseph of using deception and fraud to promote his religious teachings. However, proponents argue that Joseph's use of deception was motivated by a desire to inspire faith and belief in his followers. Much like the magic feather in the story of Dumbo, Joseph may have seen deception as a necessary tool to capture the imagination of the masses and lead them to a deeper understanding of spiritual truth.

The Growth of a Movement: Trials and Triumphs

Despite facing persecution and opposition from mainstream society, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to grow and expand throughout the 19th century. Missionaries were sent out to preach the gospel, converts were baptized, and new congregations were established across the United States and beyond.

Legacy and Impact: A Story of Faith and Resilience

The story of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a testament to the power of faith, resilience, and human creativity. Whether viewed as a divine revelation or a product of Joseph's imagination, the Book of Mormon continues to inspire millions of believers around the world and remains a cornerstone of LDS theology and doctrine.
🪶 Just as Dumbo faced a crisis of faith when he lost his magic feather, many of us may encounter similar challenges in our spiritual journey. It's crucial to realize that the truth resides within ourselves all along, and the institutional church serves as a guide or facilitator to help us recognize our inner strength and connection to divinity from within.
In this analogy, the church transforms into a symbol of the collective wisdom and guidance passed down through generations, shaping society and our personal beliefs. Similarly, the magic feather, once believed to be a source of power and belief for Dumbo, evolves into a symbol of personal identity and significance. Instead of clinging to it for its perceived magical properties, Dumbo now holds onto it because of what it represents to him—a reminder of his own capabilities and the journey he has undertaken.
Just as Dumbo discovers his ability to fly without the aid of the magic feather, we too can find empowerment and enlightenment within ourselves, independent of external institutions or symbols. Our faith journey becomes a quest for self-discovery and personal growth, guided by the lessons and experiences provided by the church and our own inner wisdom.