The Southern Times [Day1029]

Day 1,029, 10:25 Published in South Africa Hungary by Gregory Gallangher

Dear Citizens of the World!
Dear Citizens of the Republic of South-Africa!

Let me start with the newspaper's motto:



After seeing the problems of the previous structures my newspaper had, I've decided to step forward once again.
The plan, is to regularry publish a newspaper which summarize the most important happenings, news, articles from our precious county and all over the World.
What does it mean? What news? What happenings? Could you ask wisely. Of course, this will not be totally objective, at some level it will be affected by my personal thoughts and oppinion. But naturally, because I want these articles to be enjoyable for as many people as possible, I'll focus on the facts.
In the first part, I would like to show you some of the most important articles of the recent times. Most likely this part will contain 2-3 local articles, and 2-3 foregin articles.
In the second part, I'll write about the actual elections – party president elections in this case.
Following this the most important battles, wars will be shown.
At last but not least I'll write down some thought of my about a current Internal of Foreign affair.
I'll always try to update the actual article as often as possible, apologies for sometime being late, my IRL studies as medic require massive focus.



A possible solution for our grain and food problems by Tomi_ur:
-http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/an-alternative-for-south-african-food-crisis--1513281/1/20
This has generated serious quarrels, and inducated further tension between our citizens. See our presidents declaration on this:
-http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/uruguay-issue-1513892/1/20
A statement from a former eMalayzian citizen:
-http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/gone-with-the--1514499/1/20
The most popular international private newspaper's analysis on the Country President elections, and on the change of the numbers of the active citizens:
-http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/active-citizens-voters-of-the-eworld-day-1020-1512757/1/20
Official Phoenix statement on the RWs in the formerly Bulgarian eBosnian regions:
-http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/last-nights-battles-1511333/1/20
Eden media mogul champaing:
-http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/eden-media-mogul-campaign-1514060/1/20



The Current Candidates are:

Progressive Party South Africa – Stadler City, Rains
Freedom Alliance – AlterEgon, wingfield
Independent Alternative – Gregory Gallangher, fiquei duro
United Democratic Alliance – Al Kazar
South African Gold Party – BFSwitala
Naturalist Party South Africa – Lord Gunrae
New Africa Party – Zaeban Covek, Fhaemita Malodorous
Marijuana Party – no candidate
National Defense Initiative – Ivana Partizan, Anexia

I wish very good luck for all of them!



First of all, the most suprising – for me at least - move of the latest days was when Portugalia attacked the USA on original region:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/49
http://www.erepublik.com/en/wars/show/2631
They activated 12 MPPs while they have only 1 ( Russian ) MPP for their own defense in case the USA strikes back. I am looking forward the next events of this war.

To continue with I would like to mention the Battles in Australia:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/330 – The battle has ended with Indonesian victory.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/334 – The battle has ended with Indonesian victory.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/332 – The battle will end at 09:57 erep time.
UPDATE: http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/329 - The battle will end at 11:00 erep time.
There are no serious – sorry Venezuela – mpps on the defending side as the Australian congress is controlled by Indonesia ( though they don't have the absolute – 66%+1 vote – majority ) but the President is Australian Indonesia seems to decided to conquer more High regions from their colony. Maybe it has something to do with the Serbians nearby in South-Eastern Asia. Personally I expect additional battles.
Note that South Australia is a high grain region, it might be another – though unlikely - solution for our grain and food crisis. See Tomi_ur's and Montaigne's article.

As for the case of 2 Eden countries and two Phoenix countries Canada&Spain and UK&France:
Canada versus UK: http://www.erepublik.com/en/wars/show/2319
Canada versus France: http://www.erepublik.com/en/wars/show/2307
Spain versus UK: http://www.erepublik.com/en/wars/show/2137
Spain versus France : http://www.erepublik.com/en/wars/show/2260
These may lead to several important combat maneuvers in Western Europe, and maybe in Canada.

Finland is RWing the Norwegian regions back to their original owner. It started with Trondelag and continues with Ostlandet at the moment: http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/295

UPDATE: The United Kingdom attacked Finland on the orginally Norwegian regions:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/292
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battlefield/294
Vestlandet is a High Oil region!


I miss the v1. I mean, I really miss the v1. Why? 'Cause I miss action. As you could read in the eWTC the number of active players decreased dramatically, therefore the amount of gold ingame decreased dramatically. Naturally, as we all know the Gold is the fuel of this game. With less gold in game, the major alliances, and countries can only afford few battles and manouvers, and they are continously saving money for an upcoming important battle, however far it may be. This part – about saving money – was similar in v1, however we can surely say that cut edges werent about simple land swaps, opening wars ( see Serbia and North Corea, It's a miracle for me, why is Serbia afraid spending the money on a DoW, it would shake up the current dead water. )
At this very moment we experience a gold shortage, this is the eFinacial Crisis, and this way it'll become a finacial spiral. So the worse it gets, the worse the recession will become, just as IRL....

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