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Cabinet Meeting 12.0; The first meeting of the Twelfth Cabinet
Topic Started: 6 Sep 2014, 15:05 (1,460 Views)
Suceavija
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Greetings to you, my fellow Comrades of the twelfth Cabinet of the DSA! :)

I congratulate you all for being elected/reelected to your Cabinet positions and I eagerly look forward to working with all of you this term.

I would like everyone to review your job descriptions in the Charter. I encourage all first-timers to freely ask any and all questions about your ministerial duties, either here or by telegram with those who have held your position in the past. If you think you will have difficulty fulfilling your duties, I encourage you to appoint an adviser and/or request help from volunteers in the Government Jobs subforum.

Below is my agenda for this term. I invite each of you to provide any feedback and to also provide any additional ideas or initiatives that you would like for your Ministries to pursue over the next 75 days.

I will be busy in RL this term and will not be around as much as I'd like to be. However, I aim to be available to answer questions and check in with your Ministries at least once a week (usually weekends).

Without further ado, my agenda:

Office of the President and WA Delegate:
1. Regional Polls: I would like us to have a much better picture of how residents see the region and their place in it so that we can target initiatives that will increase activity and boost morale.

2. Featured 5: I will renew the weekly roster. This boosts morale and increases dialogue and intrigue between Comrades; so I will make sure to do this regularly.

Office of the Secretary General:
1. Audit the congressional roster in the Forum; make updates to roles/statuses as necessary.
2. Organize an evaluation of the 11th Cabinet.
3. If you wish, appoint an adviser to help point you in the right direction.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
1. Draft and deliver formal apology to the residents of the old Alliance for the trespasses of New Puppy City.
2. Offer your recommendations for accepting/rejecting current embassy requests from abroad.
3. Distribute puppets to allied regions and announce your new position with a warm greeting from your ministry and the DSA.
4. Review current alliances and their regional statuses; compile brief intelligence report for the Cabinet.
5. Give recommendations for closure of embassies (if any) and/or new alliances to form (if any).

Ministry of Immigration and Regional Promotion:
1. Keep up the good work! Despite heavy losses due to mass-CTE, our region still hovers around 285 - a significant improvement from the recent past.
2. Keep the Cabinet updated about any interregional or world-wide conferences, or anything else that you think would be a good venue in which to promote our region.

Ministry of Justice:
1. Remedy any loose ends left from the previous Minister between their untimely absence and now.
2. Audit region for Charter compliance and begin proceedings for violators, if any. Report findings directly to the Secretary General so that they may update the Congressional Roster accordingly.

Ministry of Domestic Affairs:
1. Host a new discussion/debate in the Forum and advertise it in both Solidarity and with posts on the RMB.
2. Hold a contest for anything you'd like. In the past we have done things like best factbook entry, best flag, best motto, etc.
3. In the RMB, personally welcome newcomers with a quick post.
4. Compile a new daily or weekly bulletin (like the DDD or Proletariat Press) to summarize things that are going on in the Forum, the NS World, and RL as well.

Ministry of Role Play:
1. Map updates if any.
2. Solidify or create new notes for the regional LCD currency.
3. Introduce a resolution for the DSA Parliament.
4. Host a new RP activity in the Forum.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions. I encourage you to put forth your new ideas and discussion. I wish you all a successful and enjoyable term :)
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Borq
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Maybe we can move some WA members in LSI to endorse their candidate, for a limited amount of time (for the duration of DSA's 12th cabinet?). This way, LSI's delegate may remain executive and we don't lose much of our protection. Say 20-ish WA delegates? We could have these organized in a mobile response force; in times of peace they endorse our delegate, and in need they can move temporarily in an allied region.

Edit: now this is something I can see a newspaper article written about. "WAR news: DSA organizes a rapid mobile response force to help allied regions"
Edited by Borq, 29 Sep 2014, 08:55.
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Gervase
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I've put out a call for volunteers to put a puppet in LSI since they're still vulnerable at this point. Even a small handful of nations could make quite a difference, as they've only got four endorsements on their WA delegate at this point.

Question for TSJI: Are we using Auralia's old recruitment program, still? If so, it might be a good idea to experiment with the recruitment function in NS++, particularly now that Afforess (what is it about the "A" nations?) is out of the game and has their hands off it. I suspect that it's better-made than the old recruitment tool, though I can't say for sure unless we test it out.

In ambassador news, our ambassador to Gay quit, so we'll need a new one of those. On the other hand, Defwa really turned it out with a great report about the Versutian Federation that gives an excellent overview of the region and what's going on. I hope to compile these reports (possibly using my beloved Google Docs) so that we have a permanent, CIA-World-Factbook-style dossier on all our embassy regions.

Lastly, I think it would be a good idea for us to start thinking about having some kind of inter-ministerial activity with our embassy regions. The MoJ conference with VF was almost exactly a year ago, so it's an opportune moment to build on that tradition. Perhaps all fellow Cabinet members could think of some questions they'd like to ask their counterparts so that we could get some ideas on a roundtable discussion going.
Edited by Gervase, 4 Oct 2014, 04:35.
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StJames
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We are still using Auralia's old tool and it is really unstable, though my crappy internet might have something to do with it. Now that Afforess has his hands off the tool, we might as well give it a try.
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Borq
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Nominated Five for next week:

The Soyuza Kallingrad Republics
The Remean Lordship
Farassia
Andrade
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Borq
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Comrades,

some of us vehiculated the idea of creating a mobile rapid reaction force, able to help our allies in need. I have a few thoughts on this:

1) could our MoJ let us know how such a force can legally be organized? who can decide ?
2) if our Comrade President wants to go ahead with this, then I would like to organize a contest to choose a name for this new military force; the winner of the contest would be allowed to pick the Featured Five however they choose, and the MDA and President would not object to the selection.

What do you all think about this?
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Terlibe
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I am against the idea of creating an actual "Fighting Force" per say. I think the DSA prides itself on the idea of peace and creating an official force would go against this.
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I agree with Terlibe's position on this issue.
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StJames
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Chiming in as an unimportant Cabinet member, but Haltari Terlibe has my full support on this issue.
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Gervase
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I agree as well -- I think we should have a defense strategy and perhaps a list of nations that we can count on to shore up an invaded embassy region, but the DSA's basic neutrality and diplomatic approach to world affairs is something I don't think we should change. What I suggest is much more a diplomatic concern than a military one, and would be geared toward protecting allies in the (hopefully rare) event of a raid, as much for the psychological impact of us helping them as for any real material benefit.
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Borq
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Right. But this actually means creating a military force, with the only purpose of helping defend allies. Sure, we could call it a "Diplomatic corps", since their mission would be to endorse someone, not to shoot anyone, but there is actually no difference in NS, right? It would still be a military force. Wouldn't it?
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