news feed; Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Weather Mostly sunny and clear, with brisk winds. High 4°C and a low of -1°C (40deg;F/30°F)
Current Moon Phase:Half Moon
Morning sirens go off at 8:33 am, and evening sirens are at 5:22 pm.
[Newcomers in the Starter Tower Apartments will be visited by an AGI financial representative set up at a table in the lobby, offering small ‘Newcomer Starter Package’ loans of instant cash for up to $250 at a low 15% interest rate, when you sign up to open a checking or savings account with Siren’s Port Savings & Loan, an affiliated bank.
These must be repaid by January 1st, although the finer print of the contract may be glossed over on a hard sell, particularly with newcomers who seem unfamiliar to the ways of loanshark tactics. Failure to repay the loan by the 1st of Jan will result in debt collectors at your door, and- well, if you never wanted to become an AGI debt slave, folks, here’s your chance to get duped!
While signing up for a bank account, AGI will not automatically affiliate you, although the offer will be extended to those with skills to offer the corporation.]
News
- Criminal-Catching Needs Serious Reform: Business Owners Rally as Government Stalls
A few members of local district councils and small business rotaries, as well as representatives from both corporate entities, are coming together tonight for a town meeting at Lowell's Coffee in the Underground Mall. It seems like certain people are fairly fed up with the city's acceptance of Vigilantes and want to take it to the courts and even directly to the Governor’s office.
"It's high time that this city gets back under control of the government" Said one volunteer who wished to remain nameless, handing out flyers at the doors to the Underground Mall. "Between the crazies causing trouble and the crazies chasing the other crazies, we've got more problems than we can handle. If people really want to help, they should go to the police and sign up. It's not that hard. My son's been working there for years."
Though many in the city seem to believe that these methods have been helpful in the past, in the recent weeks, it seems like the cities' unregistered helpers are getting more and more unpopular as time goes on. Everyone from vigilantes to bounty hunters, to ‘helpers’ for the Police Department that are not under formal contract have been under fire as groups have been pulling their failings to the forefront. “The Port is no place for Citizen’s Arrest. With the variety of powers, matters are over complicated when civillians get involved in chasing down criminals. There is a line between well intentioned assistance and vendettas”
What may have been the death knell for the way things have been was the death of Allen Wheeler, blogger, hacker, and well known attempted truth teller, (Note: This is said with complete sincerity in the article, and somewhere there are SPPD officers, other news writers, and fellow bloggers rolling their eyes so hard they nearly fall out of their skulls.) as he was killed by enemies of the truth for releasing information to the public. (Or, at least that's how this particular editorial splash is telling it, though it hasn't been stated elsewhere why he was killed, and in fact that part of the article will be redacted come tomorrow for unclear evidence.)
Wheeler released large amounts of background information, including billing and hit information, incriminating people in the Port and causing many to look to Bounty Hunters with a more critical eye.
Neither St. Matthew, or Chief Miller are quoted in this article, and in fact no bounty hunters and none of the SPPD are quoted in the article, or even used as sources. It's all very directed towards scandal, and makes no move to really hide it.
- A follow-up viewpoint, from the wife of an SPPD officer, notes that if bounty hunters weren’t reaching deep into civic funds at astronomical rates for work under the table, SPPD officers could be paid more and offered greater benefits, making jobs on the force a more attractive and respectable. "Police in this city aren’t taken seriously at all, not just because of corporate corruption, but the entire Cult of St. Matthew."
(SPPD suspects exactly who wrote this letter, while it was submitted anonymously, and will be sending patrols around her residence today to prevent anticipated backlash.)
- And yet another editorial, this time from an SPU Economics major, blames both companies for the complete failure of the city’s criminal justice system, citing corporate bailout deals all negotiated in Mugshots, the bar just across the street from the city’s largest stationhouse. "As long as the companies are controlling who stays in and out of jail, as far as I’m concerned, Batman, Wingman, Superman, Beer Can Man, and [explicative edited]-Blue-Collar Man and all of them can go to town on these creeps. So don’t even bother getting the system involved! Half the guys these spandex suits are hauling in to the cops, the business suits are frog marching right back out. Seriously. The SPPD would cave in on itself without the companies throwing them a buck. Sit at the bus stop across from the station for one day, and you’ll see.."
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- Willie Waterloo’s Plumbing Co. is setting up a demonstration table in the Underground Mall today to promote World Toilet Day, a bizarre awareness day to promote the importance of improving toilet sanitation conditions. Take a fun and slightly embarassing spin around the mall on one of their recycled Toilet Go-Karts, and enter to win a complete remodeling and cleaning of ‘The Nastiest Bathroom In Port’. Simply write in your vote for the most foul public or commercially owned restroom in the city on an index cart, and drop it in the (clean!) port-a-potty. Then take home a free TP roll, courtesy of Waterloo’s.
- 1-2-3 Bowling Alley’s Couples Tournament Tonight! Take your beau down to the lane, and enter to win a ‘weekend getaway’ spa package at the White Star Hotel.
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Weather Mostly sunny and clear, with brisk winds. High 4°C and a low of -1°C (40deg;F/30°F)
Current Moon Phase:Half Moon
Morning sirens go off at 8:33 am, and evening sirens are at 5:22 pm.
[Newcomers in the Starter Tower Apartments will be visited by an AGI financial representative set up at a table in the lobby, offering small ‘Newcomer Starter Package’ loans of instant cash for up to $250 at a low 15% interest rate, when you sign up to open a checking or savings account with Siren’s Port Savings & Loan, an affiliated bank.
These must be repaid by January 1st, although the finer print of the contract may be glossed over on a hard sell, particularly with newcomers who seem unfamiliar to the ways of loanshark tactics. Failure to repay the loan by the 1st of Jan will result in debt collectors at your door, and- well, if you never wanted to become an AGI debt slave, folks, here’s your chance to get duped!
While signing up for a bank account, AGI will not automatically affiliate you, although the offer will be extended to those with skills to offer the corporation.]
News
- Criminal-Catching Needs Serious Reform: Business Owners Rally as Government Stalls
A few members of local district councils and small business rotaries, as well as representatives from both corporate entities, are coming together tonight for a town meeting at Lowell's Coffee in the Underground Mall. It seems like certain people are fairly fed up with the city's acceptance of Vigilantes and want to take it to the courts and even directly to the Governor’s office.
"It's high time that this city gets back under control of the government" Said one volunteer who wished to remain nameless, handing out flyers at the doors to the Underground Mall. "Between the crazies causing trouble and the crazies chasing the other crazies, we've got more problems than we can handle. If people really want to help, they should go to the police and sign up. It's not that hard. My son's been working there for years."
Though many in the city seem to believe that these methods have been helpful in the past, in the recent weeks, it seems like the cities' unregistered helpers are getting more and more unpopular as time goes on. Everyone from vigilantes to bounty hunters, to ‘helpers’ for the Police Department that are not under formal contract have been under fire as groups have been pulling their failings to the forefront. “The Port is no place for Citizen’s Arrest. With the variety of powers, matters are over complicated when civillians get involved in chasing down criminals. There is a line between well intentioned assistance and vendettas”
What may have been the death knell for the way things have been was the death of Allen Wheeler, blogger, hacker, and well known attempted truth teller, (Note: This is said with complete sincerity in the article, and somewhere there are SPPD officers, other news writers, and fellow bloggers rolling their eyes so hard they nearly fall out of their skulls.) as he was killed by enemies of the truth for releasing information to the public. (Or, at least that's how this particular editorial splash is telling it, though it hasn't been stated elsewhere why he was killed, and in fact that part of the article will be redacted come tomorrow for unclear evidence.)
Wheeler released large amounts of background information, including billing and hit information, incriminating people in the Port and causing many to look to Bounty Hunters with a more critical eye.
Neither St. Matthew, or Chief Miller are quoted in this article, and in fact no bounty hunters and none of the SPPD are quoted in the article, or even used as sources. It's all very directed towards scandal, and makes no move to really hide it.
- A follow-up viewpoint, from the wife of an SPPD officer, notes that if bounty hunters weren’t reaching deep into civic funds at astronomical rates for work under the table, SPPD officers could be paid more and offered greater benefits, making jobs on the force a more attractive and respectable. "Police in this city aren’t taken seriously at all, not just because of corporate corruption, but the entire Cult of St. Matthew."
(SPPD suspects exactly who wrote this letter, while it was submitted anonymously, and will be sending patrols around her residence today to prevent anticipated backlash.)
- And yet another editorial, this time from an SPU Economics major, blames both companies for the complete failure of the city’s criminal justice system, citing corporate bailout deals all negotiated in Mugshots, the bar just across the street from the city’s largest stationhouse. "As long as the companies are controlling who stays in and out of jail, as far as I’m concerned, Batman, Wingman, Superman, Beer Can Man, and [explicative edited]-Blue-Collar Man and all of them can go to town on these creeps. So don’t even bother getting the system involved! Half the guys these spandex suits are hauling in to the cops, the business suits are frog marching right back out. Seriously. The SPPD would cave in on itself without the companies throwing them a buck. Sit at the bus stop across from the station for one day, and you’ll see.."
Advertisements
- Willie Waterloo’s Plumbing Co. is setting up a demonstration table in the Underground Mall today to promote World Toilet Day, a bizarre awareness day to promote the importance of improving toilet sanitation conditions. Take a fun and slightly embarassing spin around the mall on one of their recycled Toilet Go-Karts, and enter to win a complete remodeling and cleaning of ‘The Nastiest Bathroom In Port’. Simply write in your vote for the most foul public or commercially owned restroom in the city on an index cart, and drop it in the (clean!) port-a-potty. Then take home a free TP roll, courtesy of Waterloo’s.
- 1-2-3 Bowling Alley’s Couples Tournament Tonight! Take your beau down to the lane, and enter to win a ‘weekend getaway’ spa package at the White Star Hotel.
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