NationStates

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

The United States of American Constatutionalists

The UnHoly Red Fighting Uruk-Hai of Isengardslaves

The Oppressed Peoples of The nightmare corpse city of Rlyeh

The Holy Empire of Biblical Barbarians

The Constitutional Monarchy of Post-Apocalyptic New York

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

MH

WKNS Radio: 1977 ~

Easy
"The Commodores"

Know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain
Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl you know I've done all I can
You see I begged, stole and I borrowed ... yeah ooh

Ooh, that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like sunday mooooooooorning

Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?
I've paid my dues to make it
Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be
And Im not happy when I try to fake it yeah

I wanna be high so high
I wanna be free to know the things I do are right
I wanna be free just me oh baby uh

stevie

The current World Assembly Resolution, Fairness in Multilateral Trade has been posted on our off-site forums at:

http://www.runboard.com/bnationstates.f2.t83291

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE

Fairness in Multilateral Trade

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade

Strength: Significant

Description: Concerned that protectionism often introduces harmful and unnecessary barriers to international trade,

Convinced that discrimination between World Assembly (WA) member nations in international trade is therefore a clear obstacle to worldwide economic prosperity and thus should be considered a serious hazard to national populations,

The General Assembly hereby adopts this resolution on fairness in multilateral trade:

Article I: Most-Favoured-Nation Status and National Treatment

Section 1: Any trade preference granted by a member nation for a good or service originating from or destined for another member nation must be granted to the same type of good or service originating from or destined for all other member nations.

Section 2: Any internal taxes or regulations on a good or service of domestic origin must be applied equally to the same type of good or service originating from other member nations.

Article II: Exceptions to Most-Favoured-Nation Status and National Treatment

Section 1: The provisions of Article I do not apply to any goods or services which originate from or are destined for a non-member nation.

Section 2: The provisions of Article I do not preclude the creation of free trade areas or customs unions or the continuation of existing ones, so long as such areas or unions are created to facilitate free trade between their members, not to raise trade barriers for all other member nations.

Section 3: The provisions of Article I may be suspended if a discriminatory subsidy applied by a member nation is causing significant damage to another member nation's domestic industries. Only proportional retaliation is authorized under this provision.

Section 4: The provisions of Article I may be suspended in order to take measures necessary to ensure reasonable quality control on goods and services, so long as such measures do not constitute unreasonable discrimination between goods and services from different member nations with similar issues.

Section 5: The provisions of Article I may be suspended in order to protect vital national security interests during serious international disputes or times of war, or in the event of a significant violation of international law.

Section 6: The provisions of Article I must be suspended in order to comply with previous WA resolutions. Furthermore, nothing in this resolution should be interpreted as preventing the WA from developing additional reasonable and appropriate international trade regulations that are consistent with the goals of this resolution, as well as the interests of sustainable development and poverty reduction.

Article III: Dispute Resolution Mechanism

Section 1: If any member nation believes another member nation is in violation of international trade law, or applying measures deemed both unfair and damaging to other member nations, regardless of their legality, the nations are requested to negotiate with one other to resolve the dispute.

Section 2: The matter may be referred to the International Trade Association (ITA) for non-binding mediation with the consent of both nations during this time.

Section 3: If the dispute is not resolved within a reasonable length of time, the matter may be referred to the ITA for binding arbitration with the consent of both nations. The ITA is empowered to impose any fines, penalties or sanctions it deems appropriate on nations which do not comply with its rulings.

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
WA Delegate
NationStates Region

WKNS Radio: 1971 ~

"Brown Sugar"
The Rolling Stones

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him with the women just around midnight

Brown sugar
How come you taste so good?
Brown sugar
Just like a young girl should

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight

Brown sugar
How come you taste so good, now?
Brown sugar
Just like a young girl should, now

Get along, brown sugar
How come you taste so good, baby?
Got me feelin' now, brown sugar
Just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a tent show queen
Had all the boyfriends at sweet sixteen
I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like
You shoulda heard me just around midnight

Brown sugar
How come you taste so good, baby?
Brown sugar
Just like a young girl should, yeah

I said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah
How come you, how come you taste so good?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah"

stevie

The current World Assembly Resolution, Liberate Region of reunited muslim states
has been posted on our off-site forums at:

http://www.runboard.com/bnationstates.f2.t83292

SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION AT VOTE

Liberate Region of reunited muslim states

A resolution to strike down Delegate-imposed barriers to free entry in a region

Category: Liberation

Nominee (region): Region of reunited muslim states

Description: The Security Council,

AWARE that Region of Reunited Muslim States was a peaceful region of about 120 nations with 13 endorsements on the delegate,

NOTING that on 29 April of 2012, the nation of Talgud seized the delegacy of the region Region of Reunited Muslim States, also known as RORMS,

UNDERSTANDING that Talgud is a member-nation of the notorious raider region The Black Riders, which has a history of leaving a large, damaging footprint on the regions it invades, often holding a region for more than a week at a time, closing all of the region's embassies, and banning many natives,

COGNIZANT of the fact that Talgud has closed all 111 embassies that RORMS had at the time of the invasion, and established an embassy with The Black Riders in that region, a symbolic move to alienate RORMS from the rest of the world,

SADDENED by the fact that Talgud has banned over 80 nations from RORMS, many of which are innocent natives uninvolved with the invasion,

REALISING that an invisible password has been put on RORMS, which bars any ejected natives from re-entering their home region,

AWARE that these natives have expressed their desire to return to their region and have subsequently gathered in the region of RORMS,

CONCLUDING that if the Security Council does not immediately take swift and forceful action, RORMS will remain a colony of the Black Riders,

HEREBY Liberates Region of Reunited Muslim States.

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World Factbook Entry: Welcome to "NationStates", aiming to become one of the strongest ranking regions. Pro-Economy, Pro-Society, Pro-WA, Pro-Peace; Join our glory! Above all freedom for all nations to control their own destinies in a region free from war.

For over eight years our Region has supported the WA (UN) as an essential community of Peace and International Society. Although, at times, We differ greatly with the World Assembly, We, as a Region, continue to believe in essence of this establishment. Relative to The Security Council We stand AGAINST this body for the following Reasons:

LIBERATION PROPOSALS:
The bottom line is that when Defenders lose in the field of battle they result to cowardice and change the rules of play. I have kept my Region Raider free for 7 years by keen vigilance to the Game Play through out the JenGuv World. This has included Puppets and Spies and infiltration of Regions. Such is the way of the Rules which I accepted when I created my Nation on October 28, 2003. If a Region can not defend itself, too bad! The leadership should have been responsible. These SC Resolutions tilt the balance to Elitist who determine what is a Raid and what is Liberation by manipulating the Rules. It is like playing with a brat who takes away the toys when the outcome goes against his bias. The only security I have in my Region aside from Endorsements is the RIGHT as Delegate to Password my Region against any threat. If this RIGHT is at the whim of the SC then have the game makers remove all password abilities across the board thereby removing this continued farce of hypocrisy.

As such Mikeswill voted against the World Assembly Resolution "Liberate Region of reunited muslim states".

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
WA Delegate
NationStates Region