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Dateline: Sunday, January 10th, 2016. (Day 2,972)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House


Today’s WHPR Contents:
1. Meet the Media Team for the Term!
2. Press Briefings
3. January Media-A-Thon
4. American University
5. War Report
6. Congress Report
7. WHPR Wrap-Up






Meet the Media Team for the Term!
Jaden A., SoM


Hello, eUSA, from your new Media team! I’d like to take a second to introduce the team this term.

First, we’ve got SColbert back, writing his infamous Press Briefings once again.

Next, we’ve got a newcomer to eRepublik who has taken to the media scene, James Schubert, running an exciting new writing contest that kicks off tonight, at day change!

Next, we’ve got another newcomer just beginning to experiment with writing for us (but doing a great job, so far), Joey3790! He is continuing a series advertising various government programs, for now, and may be writing more articles as he gets his footing.

Next, we’ve got Alexander_Auctoritas, or A^2, is providing his regular, informative, and interesting war reports to keep us updated on the military module.

Next, we’ve got a guest writer each week from the Cabinet to explain his/her role in the Executive. Unfortunately, this week, this article fell through, but we will have an article from Aramec on the Secretary of State position next week!

Finally, we’ve got me, Jaden A., your Secretary of the Media this term, writing Congress reports, Election reports, or whatever else is necessary that week.

I’m excited for a great term! Many thanks to TDK for stepping up (while I was getting hammered in New Orleans) and writing a WHPR on the 7th and to our former SoM and new CoS, Orikfricai, for organizing the weird transition in my semi-absence.






Press Briefings
SColbert, Press Secretary


1/6/16

Today the cabinet mainly focused on:
-Being boring as ****
-Pretty much just making sure everyone had what is necessary to do their job
-Aramec posted a Wiz Khalifa song
-Wiz was wearing Timbs, which as a white guy from NY I immediately identified with
-I guess posting Wiz was alright, I just didn't realize it was still 2011
-It's all about J Biebs now
-Continuing to not mention the old Vice President because **** that guy


1/7/16

Today the cabinet mainly focused on:
-President Azazel being a noob with buttons
-Orik doing his job
-Everyone agreeing that a certain past CP should suck a ****
-It's totally Tenshibo
-It's not really Tenshibo, but I bet he would like it
-This **** is bananas
-B-A-N-A-N-A-S
-***** don't kill my vibe


1/8/16

Today the cabinet mainly focused on:
-I'm kinda drunk
-Like not kinda, but like really drunk
-I already realize that I'm probably going to regret posting the story above tomorrow morning
-Orik's new name is Orka
-WHPR formatting shit was done
-DoD orders were made
-DoCA stuff was all sorted out
-Pfeiffer and Oblige continued their courtship
-Foreign affairs **** was discussed
-We all got our awards, so **** you people that don't have awards
-Tenshibo still didn't post in the PDB, so today kinda sucked






January Media-A-Thon
James Schubert, dSoM


Choose a subject that interests you to write about in an article. It can be literally anything from a war story, to a poem, to something funny, to a commemoration of a recent lost dead soldier, to your best anti-Serbia propaganda. For the next two weeks members can write freely and top five get to win some gold. Members of the media department will reading all articles. Be sure to vote for articles to keep them in the Top 5 nationwide!


Now get to writing! Any eUS citizen is eligible to win some gold who places in the top 5 nationwide! On Jan. 23rd a champion will be crowned!







American University
Joey3790, dSoM



When somebody first joins eRep, they find themselves surrounded by a lot of shiny buttons to push. It can be overwhelming when you have no clue what those buttons do. This is exactly why the wonderful people in the DoCA have created American University.

Just like any other university, American University strives to teach students the basics, so that they can successfully navigate through all of those buttons and become a superstar. Each student receives a mentor who will guide them along their journey. Like with any other educational system, there will be tasks and assignments, but there are also rewards for completing these. Yes, students are rewarded with food, weapons, and gold for the progress they make. No matter what it takes, we all want our students to succeed.

Everyone has an eDestiny. Are you the country’s next great writer? Could you be a military genius? Or would you like to try your hand in the political arena? At American University you can learn to master all of these aspects of eRep, along with discover your place in the larger community of the eUSA. Why not give it try today and find out your eDestiny?

To enroll, please click here: Sign me up!

AU is always looking for mentors. If you have what it takes to be a mentor please click here: I have what it takes!

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Dean of AU: Carhugar1







War Report
Alexander_Auctoritas, Foreign Consultant






Let's take a look at what our allies are up to in today's edition of:

As Erepublik Turns

There is plenty of action going on in the eWorld, but I usually keep it to allies with which we share an MPP.



The eUSA continues her campaign against eIndonesia. After declaring an NE four days ago, the US opened with a win in Java. The US is rolling into Sumatra. Looks like there will not be a great deal of resistance here, but we'll monitor the situation for any surprises.

France has been working on the United Kingdom for a couple of days and started the campaign off with four wins. Looks like the UK may win in London; so, I'm not sure how this will go long-term. France and the UK have danced a lot in the last year. Let's see how their dances go this year.

Finland continues to have fun in Estonia. winning MPP battles at will. I thought this might be a training war; so, I asked someone in Finland what the deal was. He said that it's just Latvia and Finland having fun doing whatever they want. I'm guessing that, as long as Estonia gets to fight and win RWs, they are fine with the situation. I wonder how many battles this war can garner. Let's see.

At the same token, Latvia is having a great time in South America with Venezuela. This never-ending war began months ago and is the same situation you see in the Baltic region. I'm not sure if Venezuela enjoys this arrangement, but i enjoy seeing countries sustain good long wars without them going horribly wrong.

Speaking of going horribly wrong, how did Brazil lose their latest MPP battle with Venezuela? I can only hope it was agreed upon. We'll see what happens.

I’m not sure why Pakistan attacked Bulgaria, but Bulgaria succeeded and has now won two more. They will pretty much do whatever they want. Perhaps Pakistan just wanted to change which region they have open, which they can do in a RW.

Speaking of doing whatever you want, Russia is still going at South Korea. SK is only down to five regions, so I'm not sure if this is an arranged war or not. I'll ask someone for our next edition, so we know what is going on. Perhaps Russia and the RoC are sharing South Korea regions.

Until next time, keep it classy, and keep shakin that A**, eMurica!







Congress Report
Jaden A., SoM


Speaker of the House Election

Since my last report, Congress has elected its Speaker of the House! Congratulations to Resoula for winning the plurality of the votes at 50%. The vote count was:


Speaker of the House Controversy and Constitutional Questions

Since the election, there has been some controversy over Resoula and his team. Some have complained that the team was too quick to lock some discussions, that they were still active and should not have been locked. There was some talk about impeaching Resoula, but no proposals were made to do so. In the past couple days, these complaints appear to have halted, and some of the former critics have said that the team has stopped unnecessarily locking threads.

In this controversy, however, there was a question raised about what will happen if a SoH is impeached. Currently, if impeached, a new election will be held to determine the new speaker, but there will be no speaker for the interim. Donny Matrix has suggested in discussion, after a couple of small changes to wording to avoid any loopholes or problems, that an interim speaker be implemented while this election takes place. The interim speaker would be the most senior Congressman/woman who is not the newly impeached Speaker, his/her Deputy Speaker, his/her Whip, President of the eUS, or Secretary of Defense. This discussion is still active; so, if you would like to show your support for it or opposition to it, you can voice your concerns here.


Budget

Congress has set the budget for the Executive for the term.

The budget discussion first centered around the DoCA, but a quick consensus was made that the budget for the DoCA be lowered by the amount set aside for the former program, Fantasy MU, which did not get off the ground when it became an official government program last term. Since the program was not actually active, the budget was lowered to reflect that.

There was a great deal of discussion after that was settled on whether or not USAF should receive the same amount of funding or if it should exist as a publicly-funded program at all. Ultimately, no adjustment was made to the funding of the program, however.

The final budget passed was:



Various Dictatorship Discussions in One

Custer presented 4 ideas for changing how the defensive dictatorship works in one thread. After some discussion, he conceded the first three and argued for the fourth, implementing a Presidential veto on Congressional action. Custer confirmed after some more discussion on this that he did not intend to move the idea to proposal, and the thread was locked.






Got an idea for a WHPR article? Want to join the team? Message Jaden A. to apply! We need writers! Be sure to participate in our writing contest!

Thanks for reading!


Sincerely,

Your Media Team,
Jaden A.,
SColbert,
James Schubert,
Joey3790, and
Alexander_Auctoritas