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Current Affairs in the Sixth World

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Chicago Blitz: Relations between Major General Carl Henderson Commander In Chief of the Chicago CZ and Illinois Senator Thomas Jeffreys have taken a distinctly chilly turn it was reported last night.
Sources close to the Senator have indicated that he has lodged a complaint of 'Undue Military Force' with the Strategic Defense Commitee in Washington. General Henderson reports directly to the SDC.
This follows a further bombardment of four areas of the Containment Zone, which experts believe will have resulted in significant civilian casualties.
The Red Cross have also voiced their growing concerns over the escalation of military operations since General Henderson took command.

Crime: Further gang violence raged across the Downtown and Bellevue districts of the Seatle Metroplex last night, this is the third night of violence that is believed to be along racial grounds.
representatives of Lone Star advised people to remain in their homes and to minimalise travel in the affected areas after dark.

Entertainment: Hip/Rock Star Venus P gave birth to twins last night, partner Big Daddy Dikote said mother and newborns were doing extremely well an that 'He's smokin'.

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The Presidency: Although President Steel has only just been Impeached and a new Presidential Campaign will not be confirmed until at least February.
The first shots were never the less fired today by his potential electoral successors, with Dr Rozilyn Hernandez of the New Century Party slamming General Yeats for the heavy handed military actions being deployed within the Chicago CZ.
This follows damaging reports of friction between the CZ Military Command and Illinois Senator Andrew Jeffreys.

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The Presidency: As the race begins in ernest once again, after the disgrace of President Steel.
Presidential Candidate General Franklin Yates once again came under fire from Candidate James Booth for the continued military actions in the CCZ.

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European Affairs: The Corporate Court issued a stern, ominous warning this morning after fighting between Fuchi Forces and an as of yet unknown corporate force escalated beyond what is 'loosely' termed Shadow Activities.

The conflict arose yesterday afternoon at 14.00 (Euro Standard Time), around the 'Hasselt' Fuchi R&D and production facility just outside the Dutch town of Groot-Ammers, in the Liesveld province of the URN (United Republic of the Netherlands).
The area saw a large build of corporate troops and heavy weaponry and this thought have resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.

At 15.47 EST undisclosed air forces carpet bombed the Fuchi facility within the town of 'Kleit' in the 'Maldegem' district of North West Belgium, 130 Kms south of the 'Hasselt' facility.
In addition to undisclosed loss of life within the corporate facility, 20 civilians were injured or killed in the assault.

A spokesperson for Fuchi commented that as of yet undisclosed corporate forces had targetted the facilities and that Fuchi would be seeking punitive reparations.
Economic Analysts have speculated that the ever present schism between the Villiers, Nakatomi and Yanama controlling factions of the Megacorp has widened within the recent months to a point of open and almost public hostility and that Fuchi may need to look closer to home for the source of the attacks.

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End of an Era: Following a year of bitter clashes and the shock departure of Miles Lanier security chief of Fuchi Eletronics to Renraku Computer Systems.
Fuchi have filed a notice of disolution with the Corporate Court, the Markets have been warning of the potential for the Founding Megacorporation to disolve due to its share value, investor confidence and internal strife that has plagued the corporation for the past two years.

The market now holds its breath for how the division of the companion will take place, with world renowned brokers 'Schoder & Valtz' having been confirmed to manage asset distribution and sale.

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Trouble & Strife: Aztechnology Corporation has launched a viscious press attack against Ares North America.
They have made claims that Ares have used forcible methods to obtain land rights in Makah Territory in old Kitsap County.
The Makah counsellors within the Salish Shide Tribal counsel have strongly denied this commenting that Ares have secured a tempory lease to conduct geological studies in the 'Yankton Ridge' area and have compensated the Makah counsel extremely generously.
They have also commented that Ares have agreed to resolve an enviromental issue that the Counsel had been struggling to deal with.
Ares have released a comment to confirm the arrangement with the Makah counsel, Ares NA spokesperson 'Grant Pierceson' has responded by commenting that Aztechnology must have something to hide.

Gremlins: Renraku's fortunes have not improved with considerable unrest amongst both consumers and corporate clients as further outages have affected the Seattle public grid, this continues after Renraku has officially handed over the juristiction of reclaiming the SCIRE.
Although neither the parent corporation or Seattle Taskforce have confirmed that the SCIRE is in the hands of unknown forces, General Colloton has confirmed that the arcology is under lockdown until further notice.
Sources have indicated that Colloton has been in contact with General Karl Henderson CEO of the Chicago Containment Zone, at this time the reason for this contact is unknown.
Renraku has offered highly reduced rates across both the public and corporate networks until the outages can be resolved.

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The End is Nigh
Doomsayers across the various nations of the American continent and indeed the world are gaining unprecedented support its been reported today.
Religeous Trid channels and subscriptions have seen a 37% increase in LFL subscriptions.
Media Watch has commented that a combination over the hype around the forthcoming appearance of 'Halleys Comet' and due to the number of disaster like events that have occured in recent months.

Only last night spokespeople from Ares Macrotechnology confirmed that unusual seismic activity has occured over the past few hours within Salish-Sidhe - Makah territory.

This combined with the ongoing crisis within the Chicago Containment Zone, E-terrorist attacks across the UCAS Grid, the Renraku Arcology Shutdown and increasingly warlike dialogue between the Salish-Sidhe and Tsimshian Nations, is severely shaken public confidence in areas of government, faith and business.

One things for sure 2061 is already proving to be an interesting year.