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WKNS Radio: Happy Birthday ~
Mick Jagger, July 26, 1943

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm drivin' in my car
And that man comes on the radio
And he's tellin' me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm watchin' my TV
And that man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarrettes as me
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no girl reaction
Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm ridin' round the world
And I'm doin' this and I'm signing that
And I'm tryin' to make some girl
Who tells me baby better come back later next week
Cause you see I'm on losing streak
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say
I can't get no, I can't get no
I can't get no satisfaction
No satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction

Hello all :3 When I first joined NationStates I narrowed who I joined down to this region or the Coalition of Governments, and I chose the Coalition, however I like the sound of this region a lot so I thought I'd make a second country here as well to give this region a try too :3

Today’s Featured Nation:
The Four Agreements

”Be impeccable with your word.”

WA Category: New York Times Democracy

Civil Rights: Excellent
Economy: Good
Political Freedoms: Superb

The Four Agreements's national animal is the Don’t make assumptions, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Don’t take anything personally.

The Four Agreements is ranked 80th in NationStates and 25,541st in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring 10 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

Mikeswill

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

Ubu-Rex
Yacoubion
Rainbowmonkey
Twin peaks and deer meadow
Saint marmero
Quilava land

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

BROWNIES !!! BROWNIES !!!

Welcome New Nations
And Haiku Brownies For All
Enjoy Our Region

UB ~ Smiling

Mikeswill voted against the World Assembly Resolution "Convention on Fracking".

Amongst NationStates residents, voting is currently 9-7 (56% For).

MH

Mikeswill voted against the World Assembly Resolution "Convention on Fracking".

Amongst NationStates residents, voting is currently 9-7 (56% For).

MH

Yeeeee Haaaa
Congrats on win number 90 overall and #5 at Indy

Sunday, 27 July, 2014 :: 58

If a country is governed with tolerance,
the people are comfortable and honest.
If a country is governed with repression,
the people are depressed and crafty.

When the will to power is in charge,
the higher the ideals, the lower the results.
Try to make people happy,
and you lay the groundwork for misery.
Try to make people moral,
and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Thus the Master is content
to serve as an example
and not to impose her will.
She is pointed, but doesn't pierce.
Straightforward, but supple.
Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

tao

WKNS Radio: Talking Heads ~

"Psycho Killer"

I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I
Can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire

Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir la
Realisant mon espoir
Je me lance, vers la gloire ... OK
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....

stevie

Hello all. Thought I'd rejoin the region I was invited to when I first started playing 6 years ago. I got bombarded with recruitment telegrams when I refounded my nation and couldn't choose either of them.

And thanks, Stevie Ray, for getting Psycho Killer stuck in my head.

Seresuto wrote:Hello all. Thought I'd rejoin the region I was invited to when I first started playing 6 years ago. I got bombarded with recruitment telegrams when I refounded my nation and couldn't choose either of them.

And thanks, Stevie Ray, for getting Psycho Killer stuck in my head.

Hey I did the same thing XD Although I only started playing a month ago.

Today’s Featured Nation:
Mikosia

”Welcome to Mikosia”

WA Category: Democratic Socialists

Civil Rights: Excellent
Economy: Fragile
Political Freedoms: Some

Mikosia's national animal is the Alien, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Miko.

Mikosia is ranked 44th in NationStates and 34,123rd in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.678 Stalins.

Mikeswill

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

United states of liz
Seresuto
Abrax

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

Friday’s Answer: What is Facebook?

Congratulations:
Arithei
Annoying Nasal Drip

Only telegrammed responses will be considered

HISTORIC TRANSPORTS

ITS PRINCIPLE MAST IS AT ARLINGTON, ITS FOREMAST IS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY & A MONUMENT TO IT, RESTORED IN 2013, IS LOCATED IN HAVANA

What is … ?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arrogant Diplomacy is ranked 1st in NationStates and 864th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 7.232 Stalins.

Monday, 28 July, 2014 :: 59

For governing a country well
there is nothing better than moderation.

The mark of a moderate man
is freedom from his own ideas.
Tolerant like the sky,

all-pervading like sunlight,
firm like a mountain,
supple like a tree in the wind,
he has no destination in view
and makes use of anything
life happens to bring his way.

Nothing is impossible for him.
Because he has let go,
he can care for the people's welfare
as a mother cares for her child.

tao

WKNS Radio: #4 in 1973 ~

"Smoke On The Water"
Deep Purple

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We make a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know we'll never forget
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

stevie

The current WA Resolution, Repeal "National Economic Freedoms" has been posted on our off-site forums at:

http://www.runboard.com/bnationstates.f2.t83598

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE

Repeal "National Economic Freedoms"

A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.

Category: Repeal

Resolution: GA#68

Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #68: National Economic Freedoms (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The World Assembly,

Acting in the course of its duty to continue reviewing its passed Resolutions for areas of conflict and concern,

Wishing to retain only those Resolutions that are necessary and practical for the furtherment of world progress,

Seeking to strike out those Resolutions whose past merits no longer justify their present effects,

and,

Hoping to clarify the burden of compliance of international law and restrictions for prospective sponsors of international law,

does hereby:

1.Take note of the promise enshrined in WA Resolution #68, "National Economic Freedoms", that national governments be allowed "to regulate commerce within their jurisdiction";

2.Observe that numerous subsequent Resolutions have ignored or restricted this promise by denying national governments their rights to regulate commerce within their jurisdiction, such as "International Postal Union", "Universal Clinical Trials Act", "Responsible Offshore Drilling", "Clean Water Act", "Nuclear Waste Safety Act", "Reducing Problem Gambling", "Essential Medication Act", "Concerning Financial Fraud", "Freedom to Contract", "Reducing Automobile Emissions", "Stopping Invasive Species", "Uranium Mining Standards Act", and "Cultural Site Preservation";

3.Consider the requirement of "National Economic Freedoms" that "no commerce be generally restricted by the WA unless ... [t]he enterprise causes an extreme hazard to national populations"

4.Document that numerous subsequent Resolutions have in fact imposed restrictions on commerce without a justification in terms of extreme hazard to national population, such as "The General Patent Charter", "Medical Research Ethics Act", "The Gem Trading Accord", "Against Conflict Minerals", "On Genetically Modified Foods", "Transboundary Water Use Act", "Ban Profits on Workers' Deaths", "Biological Warfare Convention", "Stopping Suicide Seeds", "Sensible Limits on Hunting", "Protecting Migratory Animals" and "Reducing Spills and Leaks";

5.Recall numerous other proposals considered by the WA that would have had the effect of regulating or restricting commerce and which were considered to be within the competency of the WA, rather than of individual nations;

6.Conclude that the guarantees of "National Economic Freedoms" have been rendered utterly worthless by virtue of revisionist reinterpretation of its mandates and that the Resolution in fact does nothing whatsoever to defend national rights to regulate commerce, nor to check the powers of the WA to restrict commerce;

7.Understand that the WA will undoubtedly continue to legislate on matters of commerce in the name of social justice, environmental protection, and other areas of legislation it deems worthy of consideration, while functionally ignoring the existence of "National Economic Freedoms";

8.Identify "National Economic Freedoms" as a Resolution whose noble intentions have proved completely ineffective in practice;

9.Recognise as undesirable the situation of a Resolution remaining on record while no longer having the legal effects intended at time of its passage;

10.Resolve the situation with this procedural Resolution, repealing WA Resolution #68, "National Economic Freedoms";

11.Reassure that a motion of repeal will in no way reduce national economic sovereignty, because it is not actually protected by the original Resolution.

********************

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION # 68

National Economic Freedoms

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade

Strength: Strong

Description: The World Assembly,

RECOGNIZING that industry and commerce are vital to national and international prosperity,

NOTING that capitalist, socialist, communist, and other economic systems are fully capable of providing for industrial and commercial development,

DEFINES "commerce" to include the sale, production, and consumption of a product or service,

FURTHER DEFINES "jurisdiction" as the reach of a national government's authority, including any internationally recognized land, sea, space, or other material claims,

ENCOURAGES individuals, groups of individuals, and national governments to engage in commerce with other willing individuals, groups of individuals, and national governments as allowed in their respective jurisdictions,

ALLOWS national governments to regulate commerce within their jurisdiction,

REQUIRES national governments to compensate any individual, group of individuals, or national governments for any physical property or money seized by that national government, excepting those assets used for criminal enterprise,

CREATES the Impartial Mediation Foundation to investigate, mediate, and arbitrate any conflicts that arise,

NOTES that this legislation does not affect economic protective devices or domestic taxation,

REQUIRES that no commerce be generally restricted by the WA unless:

1. Restricted by prior legislation, or
2. The enterprise causes an extreme hazard to national populations

Votes For: 4,748 (78%)
Votes Against: 1,365 (22%)

Implemented: Tue Oct 20 2009

Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
WA Delegate
NationStates Region

Today’s Featured Nation:
Annoying Nasal Drip

”Wake Up And Smell the Cabbages!”

WA Category: Democratic Socialists

Civil Rights: Average
Economy: Reasonable
Political Freedoms: Good

Annoying Nasal Drip's national animal is the Goat of Many Colors, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Thin Dime.

Annoying Nasal Drip is ranked 314th in NationStates and 102,454th in the world for Most Cultured, scoring -4 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

Mikeswill

Yesterday’s Answer: What is the U.S.S. Maine?

Congratulations:
Arithei
Annoying Nasal Drip

Only telegrammed responses will be considered

DAYS OF THE WEEK

IN SPANISH & FRENCH, THE WORD FOR FRIDAY COMES FROM LATIN FOR “DAY OF” THIS GODDESS

What is … ?

Mikeswill wrote:Today’s Featured Nation:
Annoying Nasal Drip

Annoying Nasal Drip thanks the selection committee and the check is in the mail. lol

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

The diocese of nationstates
Zen royals
The confederate alliance
Wandrostan

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

Tuesday, 29 July, 2014 :: 60

Governing a large country
is like frying a small fish.
You spoil it with too much poking.

Center your country in the Tao
and evil will have no power.
Not that it isn't there,
but you'll be able to step out of its way.

Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.

tao

WKNS Radio: Remembering ~
Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974)

"California Dreamin'"
Mamas & the Papas

All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray.
I've been for a walk on a winter's day.
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.;
California dreamin' on such a winter's day.

Stopped in to a church I passed along the way.
Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray.
You know the preacher liked the cold;
He knows I'm gonna stay.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day.

All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray.
I've been for a walk on a winter's day.
If I didn't tell her I could leave today;
California dreamin' on such a winter's day.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day.

stevie

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