The Third Entente

TALIBAN TRAINING

Revolt at Odnogorodsk, Locals Say "Leave."
The Situation on Santorini Worsens

Russian soldiers present on Santorini would experience a truly grueling reality. The island, which had stood as a Mediterranean paradise for almost a century had become a hell previously unknown to those fortunate enough to have been spared from Grozny. The island's economy had died in the months passed, the resorts had emptied, people fled to mainland Greece and throughout the Aegean, assets were sold to the Russian Government and the island descended into chaos.

An estimated 4,500 Greeks fled Santorini since January of 2008, including the island's wealthiest resort owners who sold at or below cost to Moscow. Athinios, the undisputed capital of the island, was reduced to smoldering remains and tents by the soldiers of the Russian Army in the wake of the initial revolt. Towns such as Oia, Kamari, and Megalochori had been hit hard by precision bombing runs from aircraft launched out of the Monolithos Airfield. The Santorini Grecian Militia was the target of these bombings, and were the reason for the ongoing crisis unfolding across the former paradise, of which over a thousand members have been identified by the Russian Government and labeled as criminals.
Russian Soldiers now engage in conflict with these Guerilla fighters in the mountains and the cities, as the island's economy grinds to an absolute halt. Military convoys now protect transports between towns, and littoral defense ships from the Black Sea have been brought in to beef up shore defenses and to assist with search-and-destroy missions. While the Federation maintains control over all of the island's city centers and towns, the pervasive nature and continuously successful sabotage operations by the SGM has challenged their credibility as the island's overlord, alongside the obvious annoyance and hatred that business owners now harbor for the Russian Military Administration.

"We have never been Russian, and we never will be." Island Economic Representative Stavos Pelikoupos has stated. "The Russians have come here, set things on fire, and killed Greeks. They use our island to bomb Albanians, and they ruin our businesses to buy them at cheap prices. It is time for Russia to leave Santorini, you have no business here. President Prokhorov, take your men and go before more of them die."

Thus far, the Federation has deployed close to 12,000 soldiers to Odnogorodsk (Santorini), which is almost 95% of the pre-occupation population of the island. It is reported that at least five hundred tons of explosives are dropped in the mountains every day, and that well over 1,500 Russian Personnel have died or become seriously wounded as a result of the fighting.
The political situation in the Federation Legislative Assembly is growing ever-more tense over finding a solution to the conflict by the day.

PARIS PUBLIC RADIO

"Hello everybody, I'm your host Daniel, and welcome to my radio show-Chat with Daniel. Here we usually discuss music and such, but today we will discuss something else. We all know and we all see it, things have gone to hell. Prices are up, taxes are also up and for what? To help the banks stay afloat? They are banks they already have money, why do we need to give them money from this government fund? You know, the PRF isn't doing very well for the first few months of their term, if this continues i won't vote for them next parliamentary election and neither should you. Yes I know that telling people for who they should vote for is illeagle BUT for now the PRF are only making our lives harder and more expensive, and they probably will continue to do it till their term ends. Another thing i don't like from this government is the cutting of spending so the government could fund this little fund of theirs, as I said before and will say now- The banks don't need money, they already have enough money. It seems like the government is just laundering our money and using this as an excuse. Here I said it-the government is laundering our money! Now you may cry and yell "Daniel the Government would neverrr!!!!" And to you I say " the truth is hard to accept my friend", now THINK about it, they rise our prices and taxes, cut our spending so they could give money to banks who already have enough money, this dosent make sense dose it. Ofcourse the government fanboys and fangirls will say " but ever since this crisis started the prices of foreign items are trough the roof" and to you I say that Foreign items were always expensive, I think that the government had artificially inflated the prices of foreign items to justify their money laundering and give money to domestic companies to do domestic bootlegs of the foreign items we don't have. Now let's talk about another thing- the situation with Greece. Now before I say any- oh my phone is ringing, hold up..............so we will have to end today's show short, management called and they weren't happy about what I was talking about so they will cut me from air. For all the believers- don't loose hope, for all the unbelievers-kick rocks. Ans now goodnight and enjoy this song, I have picked it just for you

Killing in the name of by Rage against the machine starts playing

THE REQUIRMENTS OF WHICH ALL STATE MEDIA MUST SHOW

1. Italy should be shown beautifully, but not garishly

2. Italy should feel hospitable, but never overtly welcoming

3. Italy should feel accommodating and sincere

4. Italy should feel comfortable, but discrete

5. Italy should feel plush in the way a chair in the window is, not by the fire

6. Italy should feel bright and colorful

7. Italy should feel bitter and honest

8. Italy should feel compoundingly glamorous

9. Italy should never feel as if it is putting on a show

10. Always assume audience intelligence

11. Italy should feel young and energetic

12. Italy should feel electrified

13. Italy should feel clean and tidy

14. Italy should feel geometric and organized

15. Italy should feel historical and ancient

16. Italy should feel as if it is wise and personable

17. Italy should feel human sized, yet monumental

18. Women should feel beautiful but not fragile

19. Women should be marketed as hard as porcelain and just as resilient as goof china

20. Men should always be shown as a father and husband and friend

21. Italy should be shown as everyday luxurious

22. Italy should be shown as powerful as it is on its best day and no more

23. Italy should feel increasingly monumental

24. Italy should never taste of artifice

25. Italy should feel Christian and profoundly Catholic

26. Italy should feel magnificent

27. Italy should feel hard working and industrial

28. Italy should feel as if the people care about it

29. Italy should always show its raw and rough points first, to address them with certainty

30. Italians should feel formidable

31. Italy should feel as if it processes a cultivated life

32. Italy should feel jewel like and yet acerbic

33. Italy should feel as if it is moving

34. Italy should feel as if it is firmly planted in time

35. Italy should show masculinity on full display

36. Italy should reject classical machismo

37. Italy should be believable

38. Italy should never feel cluttered or superfluous

39. Italy should always trust you

40. Italy should show that the State leaves you alone

PIAGGIO COMING IN HOT
December 25, 2008

In the wake of the Recession, a little known utility car company has been merged with Fiat, following lowering numbers, and was thus deemed unlikely to survive alone.

Piaggio-Fiat, as the new company is called, was merged back in late October, and has since produced with a small subsidy, an economical car, becoming the new 2009 Model, called the Calabrone.

This little car, designed quickly and surprisingly efficiently, made it to preliminary manufacturing by November 15, and a month and some odd days later, a finished design has hit the factories in small numbers.

The design is unique to passenger vehicle, yet is not unique to transit. It is a three wheel vehicle. Or in this care, a three or five wheel.

Designed with a semi-seperate front cabin for the driver over a single wheel, the back compartment is narrow, with either a bench for two and a small storage trunk, or two benches plus a storage trunk, using small wheels, though the engine more more than impressive, using a 218 cc petrol engine, at about 30 km per litre.

With a flat windshield, and a smaller engine cabin at the front, the front cabin turns independently of the back, though the whole thing is enclosed, made of fiberglass and aluminum, while the structure itself is made of an aluminum-steel alloy.

The car itself is hot pink, with the portion on the top of the engine, going back along the windows, in black. This, with pale pale vinyl pink seats in bench style, a black carpet and roof, and a V shaped front, all aim to evoke the older Heritage style of 2000-2007 Fiats.

The three wheel model, holding 3 passengers, is 250 cm long, 130 cm wide, and 160 cm tall, and sold for 5.25 million lira.

Meanwhile, the five wheel model, holding 5 passengers or 3 and a larger storage, is 300 cm long, 130 cm wide, and 160 cm tall, and sold for 6.25 million lira.

Le Cataclysme

With the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the international credit market that had provided short-term funding for the Quebecois banking system faded. It was slow at first, truth be told—for most people in the Republic, the summer of 2008 was normal, boring even. Prices started dropping, and the average citizen saw the collapse of the American economy as a localized tragedy.

Then came the layoffs.

The youths were most affected—the specific demographic unemployment reached as high as 20% as those beneath the age of 25 found themselves unable to find employment. No one could get bridging loans as the banks tightened their regulations like a vice. Nortel's employees were also particularly vulnerable, as the telecommunications giant had been on its last leg since the dot-com bubble burst. It filled from protection againt its creditors near the year's end, robbing the republic of yet another of its giants. Things were manageable, if dire.

And then the Bank of Montreal failed.

It hit the country all of a sudden. No one had seen it coming, except those who had dug their heads into the sand and sang a song of denial. But the evidence had been there, quietly simmering for the perfect storm. And 2008 was such a storm.

Export towns failed overnight as the rates fell by 25%, a direct consequence of the collapsing American market.

The government promised to manage things better, but no one knew what that response would look like and thus pessimism rose.

The Marois government would not survive the incoming elections, this much was certain. But nobody knew what would replace it.

The Final Days of the Ukrainian Civil War
National People's Republic Succeeds

The National People's Republic of Ukraine would report that Viktor Yuschenko had been killed in Zhytomyr after its forces attempted to storm the city. Across Western Ukraine, the AFU would shatter into various command sectors as military officials claimed succession, soon to be absorbed by the rapidly advancing ANPRU anyway. The Federation of Eurasian States would welcome the news of Yuschenko's death, and the prospective end of the most direct fighting of the Ukrainian Civil War with his passing. To this effect, the Federation Legislative Assembly would approve an action by the Ministry of External Affairs to arrange the Kiev Conference of 2008 to which representatives of the Ukrainian National People's Republic, The Republic of Hungary and the Eurasian Federation would attend.

The Conference would take place on November 16th, 2008. The Presidents of Ukraine, Eurasia, and Hungary would shake hands in the Maidan Square before retiring to the Administrative Building with their diplomatic staff. The Conference laid out in plain terms how the territory of the former Republic of Ukraine would be divided amongst the victorious powers of the vicious conflict. The Republic of Hungary would occupy the region of Carpatho-Ruthenia that it had secured during the war, pending a referendum facilitated by Moscow for its formal admittance as a territory of Budapest. The Eastern Republic of Ukraine, a territory of the Eurasian Federation, would absorb the regions of Mykolaiv, Odessa, Kherson, and Southern Kirovohrod. The rightful ownership of the remaining territories would then be recognized by both Eurasia and Hungary as the sovereign territory of the National People's Republic of Ukraine. Given the tumultuous situation, ongoing fighting, and civil unrest in the NPRU, The Ministry of External Affairs of the Federation of Eurasian States would renew its arms procurement agreement with Kiev for an additional seven years.

In a relatively short Special Session of the Federation Legislative Assembly, the terms of the Kiev Conference of 2008 would be accepted, and proper procedure to establish formal offices and diploamtic channels between Moscow and Kiev would begin. The headlines would read "Ukrainian Civil War, Over!" but the reality of the situation remained almost as dismal for the soldiers of the NPRU and the Eurasian Soldiers performing Occupation and Counter-Insurgency Operations in Western Ukraine as it did before the Conference.

La Voce Cristiana
January Column, 2009
Written by Lucca Pucceli

Shocking! A new style is sweeping the nation, as young men and women alike begin an audacious campaign against the morality of the nation.

Shocking indeed! How a nation built on good Catholic principles, now sees men and women alike, young boys and girls, partaking almost overnight in an internet craze that is sweeping the country all round.

Yes! It is a campaign most devious. Nefarious. And downright untasteful.

The coloring of the hair!

Yes, and this isn’t your grandma’s hair dye.

It has become audaciously fashionable, to color the hair the most unnatural of featurings!

Yellow, not blonde, has become popular.

Pastel pink.

Silvery Violet.

They call these colors all shades of the “New Blonde!” but it is not blonde.

Palest of pinks. Violets. Rich yellows like a banana!

A pale pink-orange.

They bleach their hair, and dye it the most outrageous of colors. They do so in mockery of the nation. Of the Holy Father himself!

Shameful!

And it is not just the women.

Men too.

Young fathers, and husbands, have stollen their wives’ hair color and done it themselves!

The salon business is dying, as groups of men and women gather for hair coloring parties, so they are called by the most “with it” modern men.

Blues, and pinks, and violets.

Oranges, and yellow!

Mint green!

Just this morning, the official Facebook of the Italian State did an expose on the bold, pale, metallic colored looks.

And they did not shame them near enough!

Be warned, good Christian People. A wickedness is infecting the youth of the nation.

Be warned!

Bleaches.

Dyes.

Colored powders and sprays.

The obsceneness.

The profanity.

The State’s Facebook markets it as “Fabulous” but it surely cannot be.

A typo.

A misprint.

Women, protect your sons and daughters from the deplorability of

The

COLOR.

How can they expect the world to take them seriously when

The color!

Right as Italy shows itself off to the world?

We will be the laughing stock of Christendom!

Some do streaks. Just one colorful streak in normal hair.

Some do the whole head.

Butter yellow.

Powder blue.

All apart of this horrific “New Blonde”

travesty.

UPGRADE

For years the Eiffel tower was standing in Paris looking over the city, no matter who owned or controlled it the tower was there to witness it, but times change and so do technology, in modern day Paris the tower looks old and frozen among the rapidly moving city, this is why the French government has taken the initiative to upgrade the tower. The plan is to add Internet infrastructure for faster Internet, reinforce the tower, and expand the top to add a observatory/small restaurant and also reinforce what needs to be reinforced. This construction will last a year and at the end of it the Eiffel tower will be on the same level as the rest of the city

BREAKING NEWS (for some)
January, 2009

The Ministry of Homeland Service and Public Relations has established a Youtube channel for His Holiness, and one for the Itallian State.

The Ministry has also established a Justin.tv channel for the Holy Father, and one for the Itallian State.

The Ministry has also established duplicats on Bebo and Renren, as well as Tagged.

This has raised the Social media accounts to 20.

It has been established at end of year, the botton 5 platforms will retired, and the next bottom 5 will be reduced to a staff of 15.