** UPDATE Official White House Press Release #34.1 7/20/2009 (PEACE Pushed Back)

Day 607, 03:12 Published in USA USA by James S. Brady Press Room
~OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE~ (#34.1 PEACE Pushed Back!)

** UPDATED Day 608 01:45

Items To Be Covered

1. PEACE GC Gets Pushed Back

2. War Update

3. eUS Training Division

4. eUK Joins PEACE GC

5. eUSAF

6. Other News

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** PEACE GC Gets Pushed Back

Fortis was successful in stopping PEACE GC’s attacks on both Montana, USA vs. Russia and New Brunswick, Canada vs. France! Our victories in Montana and New Brunswick have prevented Russia and France from attacking for another 24 hours.

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** War Update

Before we were successful in securing Montana, Russia attacked Idaho. In countermaneuvers, eUSA withdrew from Idaho and attacked French-occupied Manitoba, Canada while starting a resistance war (RW) to free Idaho. Canada also launched counterattacks on Russian-occupied Alaska and Washington State and an RW was also started in French-occupied Prince Edward Island, Canada.

In other parts of the world, several RWs have also been launched against PEACE GC in Asia in Indonesian-occupied territories as well as in Europe in Hungarian-occupied regions, keeping PEACE GC busy trying to hold on to all its conquered regions.

The current battle that eUS citizens may fight in is to help Canada reclaim its territory from France in the Battle for Manitoba. As always, those who are in the military are to follow posted orders given by your chain of command, which may or may not differ from directives to the general public.

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eUS Training Division

If you are not currently part of the eUS Military and you would like to contribute to the war effort to defend North America, then consider joining the military by enlisting in the eUnited States Training Division (TD). If you are able to fight, after you’ve enrolled in the TD, you can request free weapons to repel the invaders as well as learn about making the best use of the many aspects of eRepublik. Many people who have graduated from the TD have continued on to further their careers in the military or become congresspersons and even presidents. This country needs your help and so do our allies. Make your mark on the eWorld today and enlist in the eUnited States Training Division, the best eRepublik training program in the world!

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eUK Joins PEACE GC

In case there is any doubt, eUnited Kingdom has made it official that they are no longer our allies as eUK has joined PEACE GC. While not yet militarily aligned with PEACE GC, they have made military maneuvers through “territory swaps” with France and Hungary (PEACE GC nations) which have opened up North America to attack from Europe and blocked Canada and USA from advancing toward Europe due to undeclared war against eUK, who was our former ally.

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eUSAF

Political take-overs (PTOs) occur with the placement of foreign members into congress and/or presidential positions in another government, won by the moving of votes from the foreign nation into the sovereign nation. Although there have been attempts here, eUSA has been relatively free from PTOs and we have more or less been able to govern ourselves as we wish without fear. The same is not true, however, for many of our allies and neutral (independent) countries. To combat this, during scrabman’s presidency, the eUnited States Air Force was created - to fly to other countries and “combat” PTOs by sending appropriate numbers of counter-voters. Two countries within PEACE GC - eIndonesia and eHungary - have been very good at PTOing nations, effectively reducing potential friends and allies for us. We are better at fighting PTO than we used to be, but our eUSAF still needs to grow. You can be a regular civilian or you can be a current member of the military. Do you believe in each nation’s right to govern itself? Do you believe other nations should have this right as well as we do? Are you willing to fight for other friendly nations to share those rights with us and not have their governments taken over by the enemy? Do you want to know what you can do about it? If you do, then read this article about the eUSAF.

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Other News

As other important information our citizens need to know becomes available, it will be updated in this issue of The Briefing Room or, if this becomes available at a later time, a new issue will be released to keep our citizens informed. Citizens are urged to stay up-to-date with the release of information as soon as it is made available.

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