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[Pragmatic Conservative]

Unemployment numbers July 19th

Atlasia 7.5% (-.0%)

Lincoln 7.6%(+.1%)
South 8.3% (-.0%)
Fremont 6.6 (-.0%

[Lachi]

I am shocked and absolutely appalled that our own citizens would cause this kind of chaos in our nation. I have called the Governor, and am requesting a special meeting of officials about the NLLC, and I have a statement available on my office thread.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Updates
From some earlier stories.

-The Netherlands and Italy have announced a plan to put sanctions on countries that do trade with North Korea.

-RG/SOFE and Representative Peebs escaped from her NLLC captors and is safely back in her home region of the South. One of her captors Stan Benson is in police custody now. NLLC leader Jason Martin is still at-large.

-The Fremont wildfires are beginning to be contained but thousands are still stranded from their homes.

Their will be full stories up later today!

 

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Domestic News


NLLC leader Jason Martin and allies arrested on Cargo ship
Today NLLC leader Jason Martin and close ally Peter Holmes  were arrested after Irish coast guard raided the ship.Both Martin and Holmes are expected to be extradited back too Atlasia where they will be expected to face criminal charges. It is unknown what will become of the NLLC, though the group put out a statement today saying that while it will defend it's leader in court the group will fight on regardless of any court verdict. Several NLLC members were seen protesting outside of jails and courthouses across Lincoln demanding that currently incited NLLC be released.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Unemployment numbers July 23rd

Atlasia 7.4% (-.1%)

Lincoln 7.4%(-.2%)
South 8.3% (-.0%)
Fremont 6.5%(-.1%)

[Pragmatic Conservative]

International News  


Emmanuel Macron assassinated on day of protest against EU-More questions then answers as world mourns this horrific tragedy
One a day of Nationalist protests across Europe, a currently unknown set of attackers attacked Macrons limousine killing the French President. Macron Emmanuel Macron who was elected earlier this year in a landslide has been a strong pro European voice who was the target of many far right nationalists and the Russian aligned group Free the People. However investigators aren't ruling anything out saying we are looking into all possible leads. For their part the kremlin has flat out denied any involvement into today's assassination saying we would never consider interfering in another country's sovereignty in such a way to cause grave destruction.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Gerard Larcher becomes acting President as France braces for another Presidential Election


Today Senate President Gerard Larcher swore in as Acting President just hours after President  Emmanuel Macron was assassinated. Larcher promised to bring stability and to restore order in a time of great strife, Larcher called the attacks despicable stating that all French citizens should be deeply distraught no matter your political party or ideology. Under the constitution of France a new election must be scheduled between 20-35 days from today. Larcher has stated a hope to have the first round of an upcoming special election sometime at the end of August or early September. We will have more updates on investigating and upcoming special election as they come available.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Regional News

Southern Teachers Union President Mark Day "Anything is on the table without a deal"
After the STU contract expired at the end of June, President Day has said that without a contact by September 5th then we are prepared to take job action. Day has said he would like to avoid any labor strife but has warned that he will call a referendum on authorizing his union the ability to use work to rule if no major movement is made by August. The union is believed to want a 25% pay increase over 5 years, a cap on class sizes and more funding for aids and special needs teachers.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Unemployment numbers July 26th

Atlasia 7.6% (+.2%)

Lincoln 7.6%(+.2%)
South 8.5% (+.2%)
Fremont 6.7%(+.2%)

Edit:Restatement on top line numbers.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

International News

France braces for divisive special election
While French investigators continue to investigate the assassination of Emmanuel Macron, French citizens are preparing for what is expected to be a divisive election that will determine his replacement. The French interior ministry has since set the date of the special election for August 27th and September 10th. The filling deadline is August 15th. So far only a few candidates have entered  the biggest name so far to have filled is Marie La Pen who is running for the FN again.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Domestic News

NLLC Protesters clash with police-45 arrested, 22 hospitalized 
NLLC protests have been occurring across Lincoln this weekend in front of several government buildings and other public service buildings. Bystanders have noted that the protests have been peaceful a stark contrast to earlier actions by the NLLC, but their were several clashes with police and other citizens. Police have arrested 45 people over the last two days across the region for disturbing the peace, while 22 citizens have been hospitalized after being injured in clashes with NLLC. One woman in Madison Wisconsin described a group of unidentified men attack her and a friend with pepper spray.  Both people were taken to hospital on Saturday before being released this morning.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Unemployment numbers July 30th

Atlasia 7.5% (-.1%)

Lincoln 7.6%(-.0%)
South 8.4% (-.1%)
Fremont 6.6%(-.1%)

[Pragmatic Conservative]

International News

4  French citizens arrested for collusion with Free the People over Emmanuel Macron assassination
4 French citizens have been charged over allegations that they colluded with Free the People (a group headquartered out of Russia). Email reports between FTP and the four arrested today allege that these four individuals agreed to pay 1 million euros to FTP for a successful assassination of Macron. One of the members who was hired as a government security guard is also alleged to have sent sensitive information of Emanuel Macron location to Free the People.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Domestic News


STU to hold vote August 9th-11th on Authorizing union to use Work to Rue
Southern Teachers Union  President Mark Day today announced that the union will hold a vote next week to authorize the union on using Work to Rule. Day reiterated his stance that without a contract by September 5th that Teachers would aim to begin some kind of job action. Day said that while he doesn't want to disrupt classes to much "without a fair deal with southern Teachers we will have no choice but to begin job action".

Work to rule would include the following provisions:
-Teachers would only be at school 45 minutes before and after school starts and ends.
-Teachers would be absent from extra circular activities such as coaching
-Teachers would not participate in field trips that extend outside of normal school hours
-Teachers would not attend meetings or complete reports that are not required by statue.

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

Unemployment numbers August 3

Atlasia 7.6% (+0.1%)

Lincoln 7.8%(+0.2%)
South 8.3% (-0.1%)
Fremont 6.6%(0.0%)

About other figures

I stated in my confirmation hearing that I would like to re-introduce other figures (various economic indices, population numbers, etc.) to the game. To the best of my knowledge, detailed figures were published regularly pre-reset, but have not been published consistently post-reset. Because of this, I  will start out with RL numbers, and then adjust them accordingly as time progresses.

Ultimately, I would like to develop a mostly non-arbitrary methodology for calculating such figures. Ideally, numbers would be adjusted by generating random numbers from a probability distribution, with things like legislation, registration and activity trends affecting specific factors in the probability density function. This isn't finished at the moment, but I am steadily making progress. The main difficulty is ensuring that the trends are scaled down so that the changes in the actual figures are somewhat realistic. If this doesn't work, I may try a more subjective methodology.

I'm also starting to think that I should publish regional/federal crime statistics, due to the introduction of some gun safety legislation.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Ultimately, I would like to develop a mostly non-arbitrary methodology for calculating such figures. Ideally, numbers would be adjusted by generating random numbers from a probability distribution, with things like legislation, registration and activity trends affecting specific factors in the probability density function.

I'm really glad to hear this. One of the more frustrating aspects of governance in past years has been the seemingly arbitrary manner in which employment numbers are adjusted. An established and objective formula will go a long way toward fixing this problem.

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

August House Special Election Tracker

Last vote updated (sheet): HW
Last vote updated (map): HW
Turnout: 25.7%

Invalid Votes: Bacon King (not enough posts)
tedbessell (reg too late)

West_Midlander has not yet accepted JTC's write-in.
FirstDegreeBurns has not yet accepted ReaganClinton20XX's write-in

Due to the deregistration of cxsmith, a special election for his seat in the Atlasian House of Representatives is being held from August 4 through August 6. The only Atlasian who has declared candidacy is the Federalist potus2036. If he wins this election, the House's composition will be 5-3-1 Fed-Lab-ACP. As a side note, Peebs is the only person from the June federal election's Labor slate that has lasted a full term in office; OneJ and cxsmith have deregistered, and Alpha moved to the Senate soon after his election.

Since this is not a contested election, an separate thread seems a bit out of order, so I am posting my spreadsheet and map here, as the GM's office has occasionally been used to report on elections before. I have updated the spreadsheet with the latest registration numbers. Regional and party-based turnout numbers are on the side.

The spreadsheet is below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sEnh-nydk3GF6Oeh-zR1aO66Sb0rXsbSofJSsZqnERU

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

As a side note, Peebs is the only person from the June federal election's Labor slate that has lasted a full term in office

All around me are familiar faces

[Pragmatic Conservative]

International News

North Korea continues nuclear weapons testing as the wold nervously watches
Defying economic sanctions from several G20 countries North Korea is counting ballistic missiles testing. The republic fired two test missiles this week with both landing in the Pacific Ocean well out of the way of any land masses. North Korean supreme leader Cho Pu Il called the testing "a tremendous success", stating that once again "We can not be trifled with no matter what others do. We will not be dismayed and in the end we will conquer".  World leaders of all stripes have condemned the attacks with South Korean President Moon Jae UN calling the launch deeply disturbing and a real threat that needs to be taken seriously. meanwhile members of the CIA have stated that as early as next year they believe North Korea may have the capability to hit mainland Atlasia, and the Republic can probably already reach Hawaii and much of Asia.  

We can also update that Mexico has decided to put Sanctions on countries that do trade with North Korea.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Domestic News

Explosion at Lincoln Government Townhall leaves 43 dead 53 injured (29 critical) 
A Lincoln Town hall  on small business development in Providence Rhode Island  was the latest scene of attack by the NLLC. Despite having their leader Jason Martin behind bars and many of their members wanted by law enforcement; the NLLC has once again carried out an attack on Lincoln. Over 200 people attended the event when Witnesses describe a large explosion before hearing screams come from the back of the conference room. In a statement by the NLLC deputy leade Henry Tafte  stated that despite setbacks the NLLC will fight on until they get full separatism for Lincoln.

On a related note we can note that police foiled an assassination attempt of Linvoin speaker LOK, police arrested an individual carrying a concealed weapon connected to the NLLC who was attempting to enter a concert last night in New York that the Lincoln speaker was attending.

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

A notice to all Atlasians: I am reverting to weekly updates for unemployment, as opposed to the every-4-days updates that we have had for the past few months. This means that the next update will come out on August 10.

Be aware that the probability that unemployment will go up or down in a particular region will now be heavily influenced by several activity indices that I have developed for both the regional and federal governments. Unemployment will also be influenced by in-game population; for instance, extreme population growth in a particular region will make a rise in unemployment more likely. Hopefully this will provide an incentive against packing certain regions full of players before an election. Any significant legislation that goes into effect between unemployment updates will also be factored in at the discretion of the GM department.

August 10th will also see Atlasian regional/federal population numbers, CPI annual percent change, national/regional GDP figures, and gold/oil prices. Some of these numbers will be updated on a monthly basis.

[Former Senator Haslam2020]

Terrible to hear about Macron and France's situation. Hoping for the best for them. We needa get these unemployment problems and North Korea threats solved!!!

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

Atlasia Economic Report - 8/10/17
Unemployment numbers

Lincoln South Fremont National

7.994% 8.223% 6.448% 7.589%

▲0.194% ▼0.077% ▼0.152% ▼0.011%

GDP

Lincoln South Fremont National

6.35 T 6.77 T 5.34 T 18.46 T

Consumer Price Index
monthly, seasonally adjusted: ▲0.0%
12-month change: ▲1.6%

Commodities

Crude Oil Gold

49.55/bbl 1282.8/oz

Stock Market Indices

NASDAQ DJIA S&P500

6352.33 22,048.70 2742.16

Unemployment in Atlasia has dropped slightly since the August 3 update. However, unemployment in Lincoln continues to rise as a result of inactivity in the legislature. Meanwhile, the NLLC continues to pose a major threat to civilians. Below is a map of reported NLLC activity. Counties with reported deaths are shaded red; counties with reported injuries are shaded orange; and counties with reports NLLC-related vandalism are shaded yellow.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Domestic News
Two convicted felons on the lam after escaping from maximum security prison in Mississippi
Two prisoners Ron Trenton (51) and Mike Johnson (43) have escaped from their maximum security prison in Parchman Mississippi. Both are convicted of first degree murder and our serving a life sentence with no chance at parole for 20 years, the two were sentenced in 2014 and 2012 respectively. Police say that the two did not know each other before meeting each other in the prision, though the pair had apparently grown close. The pair first went missing at around 11;43 pm on August 7th. A note was uncovered by prison guards in Trentons cell that said "see you were out of here".

[Pragmatic Conservative]

NLLC leader calls for Atlasia unconditional surrender or else
Newly appointed NLLC leader Henry Tafte has called for the republics unconditional surrender or else; stating that the NLLC would continue to inflict great pain on both Lincoln and Atlasia. Tafte wants the following demands:

-The release of all NLLC inmates
-A section of land in New England that would be their own and separate from Atlasia or independence for Lincoln.
-100 billion in cash

In a press release Tafte said "we will continue our attscks until our demands our met. You haven't stopped us yet and you won't in the future."

On an related note we can report that 2 NLLC members have been arrested and charged in connection with Sunday's attack in Providence.