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Title: TIM Magazine
Post by: Union on November 07, 2007, 08:22:17 PM
Taijitu's International Magazine
...written by Loyanese centrists...

Tim Magazine opens oversea offices for the first time! Subscription is now available to residents of New Delfos, Greater Canada, Terranger, Xyrael, and Mor'os.

TIM Magazine Inc. is a private press publication with home office in Na Sui, Loyan. All our editors and writers are part of the Free Press Association. Over a hundred of our journalists are base abroad to bring the latest news and events worldwide. TIM Magazine operates under license in the Republic of Loyan.
Title: Re: TIM Magazine
Post by: Union on November 07, 2007, 08:23:04 PM
Taijitu's Top Ten

Most Internationally Read Newspaper

1. Le Soleil Impérial Du Le Plus Grand Canada
2. Saletsian State Press
3. Agence Takasie Presse
4. Loyanese National Infomer
5. Myrorian Gazette
6. Taijitu Sports
7. Terranger Insider
8. Rozarrian Post 
9. Xyraeli Press
10. Les Nouvelles Royales Du Québec

Most Internationally Watched News Station

1. National News
2. Dysanii Broadcasting Corporation
3. VNN
4. The Jutensan News Feed (JNF)
5. Feniexia Imperial News Agency
6-10. N/A

Score is collected from a 439-size sample from twenty countries. Bias may occur and this list is no way definite or accurate statistic.
Title: Re: TIM Magazine
Post by: Union on November 11, 2007, 01:09:09 PM
Overcrowded World

  The world at present, has reached a dangerous state of being. Recent surveys have already shown there is a excess of 10 billion people living on our planet today. The stress they pose on our natural resources and environment is overwhelming, and our world degrades rapidly as a result. Yet, in the face of such dilemma, very few national governments had taken this issue seriously.

  The built up effects from fossil fuels being burn to feed our specie's population are causing our sea levels to rise as glaciers melt. In next ten years, the sea level is expected to rise by two to three meters. When that happens, coastal settlements will be displace, and our human population will move more and more inland as the sea encroaches upon us. The super crowded slums of Taijitu's most populous nations will get even more packed. Living conditions will worsen as we find tens of thousands of people living inside a single block of a city.

(http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/Slums.jpg)

  Our natural resources are growing more scarce, yet our population continues to grow, feed, and pollute. Worldwide, people are seeing a huge price increases in food and grain as a result. Our fossil fuel reserves also seem to be reaching their limit. In Loyan, natural gas production has already peak and will dwindle to nothing in an estimate 32 years. The same pattern can be seen elsewhere, where burgeoning developing economies draw in huge amounts of ever decreasing reserves of coal, steel, and oil. Even water is expected to run scarce in the next ten years as present sources are depleted or contaminated.

(http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/international/photosvideos/photos/pollutioncoalplantthailand.jpg)

  But what can do about this coming doomsday? Not much. We already reach the point of no return, the world population growth continues to spiral out of control. One solution for nations will be to impose the one child policy, but a human rights bazaar stands in the way of this proposal. Most countries are reluctant to impose these measures that impeach on their citizen rights. Loyan, which indeed had a one child policy ten years ago, has already repel this measure. The result has been effective in limiting population on the island nation, and some activists are pushing for it's reenactment. Another solution will be the complete embrace of the Green Revolution, but what nation today is really fully committed to changing their old ways and adopting newer and more expensive measures that businesses hate?

   Personally, I'll just sit back with a couple of beers and watch the world destroy itself...the human success story, both a blessing and a curse.

Vida Gonin
Title: Re: TIM Magazine
Post by: Union on December 04, 2007, 12:36:44 AM
Estimated Losses of the South Continental Wars (2710-2711)

Perhaps the deadliest period of modern conflict in world history, TIM presents the estimate figures of current deaths in the conflict, grouped by nationality of victims.


Nationality                               Civilian Deaths                Military Deaths

Canada                                          +200,000                        +800,000
Delfos                                                                                    ?1,000       
Dysanii                                             ?50,000                     +1,000,000
Fenexia                                                     ?                                   ?
Loyan                                                      16                               813   

Other countries not included due to lack of sources. Casualties based on accounts provided by Loyanese White Hearts personnel.     

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As spring comes, humanitarian workers are burden with the task of burying the dead that has amassed since last winter; as the extreme permafrost of the Canadian southeast had made digging graves impossible. 
Title: Re: TIM Magazine
Post by: Union on December 05, 2007, 09:54:24 PM
The Revived Dysaniian State

The situation on the South Continent has changed once more, following the announcement of the FRM joining up with the recently formed Aemilian Free State, a conglomeration of major military and political groups and individuals who like the FRM, support and campaign for an independent Dysaniian democracy. The result has been a boast of public support for both sides, further strengthening resistance against the foreign occupation forces in the central and eastern districts.

TIM journalist Gin Jiang interviewed FRM spokesman, former-colonel of the Valhene State Guards, Leo Shera Linsen, who reveal that already three-quarters of Valhene's municipalities have voted onto the Valhene League. There remain only a scurry of towns and counties who have not yet voted on, mainly due to disruption of media and transportation by Validean occupational forces. FRM campaign planners hope to bring their message to these areas in the next few weeks and set up ballots for the vote.

Linsen also reveals that the current military occupation by the Allies will not survive for much longer, hinting a hidden ace that has yet be play. While fighting in Valhene has stopped, Linsen reminded us that neither the army nor Valhene State Congress has surrender to the Valideans. Currently, a state-wide ceasefire and force retirement is in effect. They have simply chosen not to evict the foreigners with arms. For the next few weeks, things are expected to get hot.