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Altantean Union

A United Atlantis

The Atlantean Union (AU) is the intergovernmental organisation of nation-states of the continent of Atlantis that are united and constituted in the love of democracy, humanity, solidarity, equality, liberty and justice. As allies, member states cooperate in politics and economics, promote progress as mutual peace in the world, and develop a liberal market of global benefice. The four nation-states of the Atlantean continent allied with the objective of a "United Atlantis" as a region-state. The present director or Secretary-General of the Atlantean Union is the Prime Minister of Aleixandria (and the representative for the AU in the United Nations). The AU is officially located in Geneva, Alpenburg (the locations of the institutions of the AU and UN were selected for their domestic stability) where representatives for each of the four members organise at a minimum of four times p.a. (with no maximum) to discourse politics, economics, culture, Atlantic and Pacific initiatives, and cooperative relations with strangers in an assembly of the Atlantean Council (directory and governing organ). It members—representing arguments, governments and parliaments of states—decide (direct and govern) by consensus and mutual respect as non-interference and coordination from the responsibility of sovereignty and the opportunity of humanity in liberty, equality and solidarity (as the ethos of the "Atlantean Way"). As a non-interventionism by exchange, commerce, recourse, concourse, contact, contract and diplomacy to prevent the tension of conflict (e.g., to discuss, debate, dispute and contest in contentious controversy), its union is draught from "wian" or sanct(ificat)ion by the lay of discussion, the arveth of collaboration, and the work of cooperation. From diplomatic principles, the "bipedal" norms of sincerity and veracity are dictated in conduct.

The Treaty of Kasperia founded the AU, unifying broadcasting networks, airways, railways, motorways and education. For example, this normal and legal contract established Link112 as the telephone number of emergencies and urgencies for all member states. The origin of the treaty was the creation of a common market for the material industries (industrial products, dispositions and munitions for the armaments, implements, instruments and equipment of battle and war) of the member states to abolish discriminatory customs, imposts, and subsidies of the prices as a competitive regime to regulate energy and corporate cartels. Members of the AU—governed by the Atlantean Council that is comprised of the heads-of-government of each member sate, and presided by the Secretary-General who is elected amongst the heads-of-government by the Atlantean Council for a maximum of three terms of five years to lead the executive Atlantean Union Secretariat—consented to mutually defend and negotiate with each other in their geographic sphere. The Treaty does not require that all the members be in unanimous accord with a central government nor create a common currency. Its guiding principle was that Atlantean nation-states (and their region-states) deserve sovereignty, which necessitates popular support for deciding its direction.

The Atlantean Council is an associate member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which is a forum or agora—with the State as a "house" or domestic temple—that has similar observer status in the UN Assembly. The Atlantic Charter inspired the "Declaration by United Nations" (itself a name influenced by Canto III, and the 35th strophe in the characteristic style of Edmund Spenser, of Byron's narrative and poetic rêverie of melancholy), which was formalised in the Charter of the United Nations. It codified the "good neighbour" (Catalan: bon veí; Dutch: goed nabuurschap; French: bon voisinage; Galician: bo veciño; German: guten Nachbarschaft; Italian: buon vicinato; Portuguese: boa vizinhança; Spanish: buena vecindad) doctrine, which defined principles of legal personality of a nation-state as a declarative (not constitutive) person of international law. The collection (adoption, accumulation, acquisition and acervation) of the tractate with primary and secondary instruments (legislation, execution, direction, regulation, delegation, decision, administration, representation, statutes, norms, orders and acts that constitute the relations, functions and foundations of the AU) in the Atlantean Community is named acquis communautaire. Despite the travaux préparatoires demonstrating an original intent of the instruments motivated and determined by structures of capital, the interpretation of the Treaty and the Convention observes and respects (adheres and complies to) the organic doctrine of progressive interpretation (cf. the limits of the constitution and charter as a "living and giving tree" or arbre vivant et donnant in Novan jurisprudence).

Sovereignty is an ultimate authority, not a privilege of autonomy. The supremity of a sovereign state is based upon territory, not maritime hegemony, tribal authority or ethnic nationality, as a civil culture (economics and politics, laics and clerics, communities and societies, sodalities and modalities) in a locus or focus of human organisms. The national state exists if it possesses a population, territory, authority and capacity (as a sovereign entity with identity and unity, but independent of constitutive recognition and determination of potential sovereignty as exercised by other states). Priority is granted to de facto existence, not de jure legitimacy, in coexistence and cooperative relations. Whilst ex injuria jus non oritur ("from injury law does have its origin"), phenomenal facts have legal consequences but it is the values of conscience (in significance, cognisance, sentience and sapience) that have juridical substance (i.e., normal validity of Sollen or "ought", not the conduct of Sein or "is"). Life on Earth is for the living. Usufruct was applied to the territorial yet mutual principle of "as you possess so (thus) you will possess" (uti possidetis, ita possideatis) except if possessed by violent force, clandestine secrecy, or precarious petition (nec vi, nec clam, nec precario). This principle was used in the justification and, as a controversial interpretation, in the vindication of tenacious and inquiline habit (occupation and acquisition) by imperial and colonial rival parties. In comparison to the controversy, the syncretic accommodation of migration and mutation is at the foundation of the "Atlantean Way", or the embraced ideology of the "indigenous" autochthons—as the Atlantean (not Roman) Aborigines (nations and generations) or the native and nascent people that "fused" and "mixed"—in Nature and the tribes of the human family.

In territorial affairs, the Treaty negotiated the distinction of succession and continuation in separation or secession and dissolution or extinction of an imperial mandate. It established autonomous devolution as an alternative to novation of contracted obligations and public considerations. This legal doctrine originates from private affairs with a novel contract, a novel debtor by expromission (delegation and substitution) and a novel creditor by cession of nomination vel action (cf. cessio bonorum with property and volunty). It refers to the transfer (translation, transition and transformation) of sovereignty by the acquisition of a sovereign state in an alien territory sans a formal (inequivocal) instrument intervening with the real treaty of (com)promise (cf. a personal treaty, which is relative to the legal personality of the state as a person of the contracting party). The occupation of territory by colonial annexation is illegal with it effective by actual possession (by force, not by the tractate of a treaty) and solely legitimate (with legal effect) by universal recognition. The Treaty resolved dilemmata (the plural of dilemma as problems and questions) of territorial waters, obliging member states to rigorous (rigid, strict and severe) definitions of internal waters, territorial seas (external limit of 12 nautical miles of the State at the frontier of international waters or mare liberum of the Ocean, expanding it from 1 league as the fortified amplitude of the efficacy, potency and armed force of a cannon, which was proposed by Cornelis van Bijnkershoek and Ferdinando Galiani) and contiguous zones (24 nautical miles), thereby unifying the Atlantean external and internal frontiers. (In favour of neutrality, this rejected the regime of economic exclusivity or, in politics, the sovereignty of a mare clausum inclusive of the continental platform.)

As a principle by this Treaty, the curve of the t(h)alweg—the most profound elevation on the gradient of the stream (current)—in a navigable fluvial way (canal, course or river) is presumed to be the median line of the principal channel of navigation and is used as an aquatic limit to define the (continental and terrestrial) frontiers of member states. It opened the frontiers of the member states to the passage of AU citizens (albeit requiring a declaration of presence, and a certificate of habitation and migration in excess of a sojourn or peregrination with the authorities of the police, as a permission of residence for domestication in a jurisdiction). The abolition of the control of frontiers in the Atlantean area instituted a common visa and periodic exemption for national citizens (with an identity card as a document of personal nationality for transport) in terrestrial, aerial and marine transit (passage and voyage). The Council coordinates the agencies for the (co)operation of the control of external or exterior frontiers of the AU (maritime, with its internal or interior frontiers open) the coastal guards of member states. The Atlantean forces of national security and legal authority of its real (not nominal or imaginary) territory represent and participate in the identification (surveillance) of acts in flagrante delicto with the communication and transformation of information, and in the administration of asylum (sanctuary of refuge) and migration (immigration and emigration).

The Council created the Atlantean Statistical Office as an institution to formulate the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. It is a common classification of the administrative divisions (fractions, circumscriptions, subdivisions and demarcations) of a member state in the AU by its structures (national, colonial and tribal hierarchy of levels of constitution as government constituent of councils, assemblies, entities and authorities) of politics and economics. These include the territory, regions and lands (cantons, provinces, districts and communities) of a sovereign state with the municipal and communal base of metropolitan areas (municipalities, cities and communes) and areolas (habitations, mansions and domiciles). It is an instrument for the implementation of programmes for solidarity (e.g., social parity, unity and cohesion) in the society of its community (i.e., a "Commonwealth" as a generality, not a speciality, in a general, not special, organisation). The origin of this secular interpretation of solidarity is the sacred experience of the divine Nature that limits a dependent human condition (a destination and reflection where the personal and anthropomorphic theology is an incomplete metaphor in the tradition of religious ideology). This evolved from Palmaism as a civilisation of memory, and the analogous philosophy of Maimonides, Durkheim and Rabbi Mordecai "Motel" Menahem Kaplan.

AU Member States

Symbols of the AU

The Atlantean Union adopted four symbols: (1) a banner; (2) a hymn; (3) a lemma; and (4) an annual observance day. These symbols are core to the pan-Atlantean identity. The initialism "AU" has also gained symbolic significance. It is used in the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) of .au for virtual designation (signification, classification and identification) by an address. Compare this to the ones in Nova-Lox based on the national ISO code for companies (.co.nl), academies (.ac.nl), government (.gov.nl, with its departments, whilst solely .nl is appended for parliaments and is subsequent to the abbreviated names of subdivided provinces and its assemblies), organisations (.org.nl), commercial corporations (.com.nl, not solely for competitive adventures but also the cooperative enterprises with .coop), institutes of education (.edu.nl), infrastructure of informative services (.net.nl), and persons (id.nl, for identities for the nominal "it" of the ego as existential essence, not the alien entities of associations, administrations or incorporations in public and private affairs).

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The Four Columns: The banner of the AU.

Banner

The banner of Atlantis is the emblem and oriflamme of the Atlantean Union. The design consists of a horizontal file of four red vertical columns centred on a white plane. Each column represents the members states of the AU. The columns also represent the four liberties of the Atlantean Common Market (the liberty of commerce, services and person) and that of those articulated by the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (liberty of expression and religion, and from want and fear). The corresponding responsibilities of politics (national, social and communal obligations) to these liberties are commitments to accept cultural values and ritual creeds (religious theory and practice of rites and cults), serve necessities, and act in preparation for the protection of human opportunity and solidarity. Red and white are the official colours of the AU. The banner is intentionally reminiscent of a Linktetrastyle portico—used with the (amphi)prostyle with its columns, chamber and cellular (pro)naos in architecture and sculpture—to represent the charge of mythic Atlas. Compare this terrestrial emblem to the celestial crown of immortality as a coronal, astral, stellar, solar and circular ring (tiara, halo, aur(eol)a (corona), prabhamandala, disk or circle) of imperial and principal justification similar to iconic, allegoric, symbolic, metaphoric and triumphant palms, laurels, olives and roses. In a gymnasium (the Lyceum and the Museum of philosophy, philanthropy and philharmony) of a polis, the exhédra (ἐξἕδρα for a "platform, tribuna" occasionally with an apsis, from ἁψίς or hapsís as a "conch, shell, scale, niche") of a (basilica) stoa opened to a peristyle similar to a miḥrāb (مِحْرَاب) as a directive circular arc (calculated from a trigonometric sphere of astronomy and geometry, or observed at the culmination of the zenith as the subsolar point) or qibla (قِبْلَة, or alquibla) to a central "cube" for circumambulation by the congregation as a obligatory act of حَجّ or ḥajj, a yatra and a cognate of the feast of חַג or khág in a tabernacle), or a memorial Jerusalem for prostration and supplication (i.e., the Islamic ṣalāh or صَلَاة, and the nemoral namâz or نماز subsequent to the ablution of وُضُوء or wuḍūʾ). The design resembles the unary numeral counts prior to the (bi)quinary diagonal. These marks for computation and bars for calculation are occasionally arranged (disponed and disposed) as a regular, angular, equal, lateral and rectal quadrate in a notation similar to 籌 or chu / cau / tiu (for "rood, rotational cylinder") connected to the 算盤 or suan / so(a)n pan / pun / b(u)an(g) (the abacus from Semitic אבק‎ or ʾābāq via Hellenic ἄβαξ or ábax) in arithmetic numeration (mathematics of theorics, distinct from the practics of technics and empirics). The banner is flown (elevated) lateral to the banners of the other Atlantean member states.

Hymn

The hymn of Atlantis is the melody of the prelude (aperture or overture) to the Link"Ode to Joy" theme of universal fraternity and liberty in the fourth and final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's LinkSymphony No. 9. Beethoven's tutor, Franz Joseph Haydn, was a friend and mentor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He composed "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" hymn, which is influential similar to "God Save the King" (a habitual custom in Britain compared to "Jerusalem" of Blake and an Anglican adaptation of LinkLaetatus sum psalm by Charles Hubert Hastings Gambier Parry, whose name refers to the Norman Conquest of England, and a 'Pomp and Circumstance' military march, which references Shakespeare's Moorish and Venetian Othello who proclaims a farewell to arms and the "Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war", by Elgar with lyrics by Arthur Christopher Benson). Beethoven, with heroic, fatal and pastoral compositions, composed in the transition from Classic to the Romantic period of music. (Compare freude, the opposite of Leid or loath that is distinct from Lied or leed, to the coordinate motti of friends, frei aber einsam and frei aber froh for "free but onesome" and "free but frolic".) Listen (scout in auscultation) and view:

  • Link"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne" as interpreted by the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic) and conducted (directed) by Herbert von Karajan ( Heribert Ritter von Karajan, whose Macedonian Greek family name is from Karajannis) in Pisces 11667 HE, and

  • the crucial climax and choral lyrics, in the original German and the English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese translations, to the AU hymn by Beethoven, although taken from Friedrich Schiller's "To the Joy".

Beethoven (as influenced by Bach and as similar to Tchaikovsky with Symphony No. 6) used chromatic lament (e.g., pathetic elegy) and descent of bass for the fate of the hero. In Hispanic and Lusitanic Atlantis (influenced by Iberia, which is delimited by the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pyrenees), the seductive music of the vil(l)ancico or vil(l)ancete (i.e., vulgar and popular folk) developed—as demonstrated in Listen to This by the critic LinkAlex Ross—into the touched and toned, harmonic or melodic figuration (partite progression and fugacious, capricious and transient sequence) of the chaccone (from ciaccona and chacona) and passacaille (from passacaglia and pasacalle) of Venetian, Florentine, Anglic and Saxon composers. These lyric hymns (odes, poems, charms, verses, and canticas of poetry, not prose, that is chanted, not sounded), were complemented with metric and rhythmic dance. In the special, not general, courts of government and parliament they became fantastic variations of an obstinate theme (a round, or a fixed form in the modes of music related to a ballad and lay, lek or lak).

The Linkpsalm De profundis influenced the literature of Federico García Lorca, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Georg Trakl, Alfred Tennyson and Dorothy Parker. The Linkpsalm of Eli, Eli (Deus, Deus meus) is referenced in a novel by Thomas Savage of the pastoral literary genre of strange isolation and alienation adapted by Edna Anna "Annie" Proulx (published in The Partisan) and Charles "Cormac" McCarthy (with opera that are gnostic, nihilistic, pessimistic, realistic and tragic). Similar to these secular narrations are the religious the psalms of the "bibles" (scriptures) with the laudatory tehillim (תְּהִלִּים) composed of a tefilá (תפילה) in a dictated order (sidúr or סידור) or cycle (makhzó or מחזור), which inform the liturgical library or (re)collection of a common breviary (orations, devotions, meditations, supplications, intercessions, deprecations or prayers) that are proper in the Palmaist ecclesiastical, episcopal and clerical communion and that are influential in literary Novan English (the base of Atlantean English, the "inaesthetic" language of diplomatic bureaux with their procès-verbaux in the AU). In contrast to the "progressive conservative" type, radical pan-Atlanteans advocated for the "L'Internationale" as the hymn, which was included in the socialist (and statist) Second International that excluded anarchists as the successor to the congresses and delegates of the premier IWA-AIT. Its lyrics (poetic letters or paroles) music were composed by Eugène Edine Pottier (a communard exiled to New York) and Pierre De Geyter (of Belgic ganda for "confluence" and subsequently ter ijsel or à l'isle in Gallic Flanders, or a city similar in magnitude to Andwarp, Antwerpen and Anvers or Brooksale, Brussel and Bruxelles) for the timbre and coupe of "La Marseillaise" (Chant de guerre pour l'Armée by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle).

Lemma

A radical empiricism (of William James) proposed in philosophy a pragmatic verity of correspondence and coherence in a plastic, indifferent and indeterminate multiverse of multiplicity (plurality with variety and diversity) that is neither a cosmic universe nor a chaotic nulliverse. Inspired by LinkErnesto Teodoro Moneta's Latin phrase and principle (maxim, dictum or axiom) of In varietate unitas (a laureate of the Nobel Prize in philanthropic peace organised by academies, institutes and committees, and named for Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite from trinitroglycerin as an alternative to powder), the lemma of the AU, which signifies harmony (concordia), is Link"Unity in diversity". Positing that Linkunity makes strength, this "onehead in felefold (forshedhood)" has been translated into the official languages of the AU.

  • Catalan: Unitat en la diversitat

  • Dutch: Eenheid in veelvoud

  • English: Unity in diversity

  • French: Unité dans la diversité

  • Galician: Unidade na diversidade

  • German: Einheit in Vielfalt

  • Italian: Unità nella diversità

  • Portuguese: Unidade na diversidade

  • Spanish: Unidad en la diversidad

Atlantis Day

Recognising the peace and prosperity of the Atlantean Union, Atlantis Day is celebrated each 01 Pisces on the anniversary of the Treaty (Catalan: Tractat; Dutch: Verdrag; French: Traité; Galician, Portuguese and Spanish: Tratado; German: Vertrag; Italian: Trattato) as an annual observance day. A celebration with Atlantean unity parades and the display of the banner of Atlantis, it is a public holiday in all the national AU member states. It is an international and local feast (holiday) for the union and confederation of the continent of Atlantis (terra continens, not terra insula). Compare this organisation to a nation and constitution in a society and a community. On this day, an AU programme designates a city as a Capital of Culture for an annual period to evidence a common history in pan-Atlantean diversity. The schools of narrative and connective studies at Atlantean universities celebrate that if one on the planet continues in the oriental, occidental, boreal (septentrional) or austral (meridional) direction, they will return to the origin from which they commenced. The Treaty—as the basis of union—is a culmination of the declaration by Udo Stefano Spinelli, the president of the federal directory of Alpenburg, and Martina Manley Palme, the prime minister Nova-Lox, in Scorpio 11653 HE. The Pan-Atlantida "pique-nique" aspires to create institutions (of cultures and structures in construction and instruction) for an Atlantean civilisation (not merely a city or empire of state) that is beyond the mythic and ethnic logic of a nation and its historic and economic politics. This is the urbs Atlantis caput mundi.

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