Ruleset and Gamestate
This is the Ruleset for BlogNomic; all Energy Ministers (abbreviated EM) shall obey it. Section One consists of the “core rules” of BlogNomic, covering basic proposal mechanics; Section Two contains the rules of the current dynasty; Section Three contains rules which apply in special cases; and Section Four contains the appendix, which exists solely to clarify the remainder of the ruleset.
The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.
EMs may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset and their own Pending Proposals at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular “they”.
If the Ruleset does not properly reflect all legal changes that have been made to it, any EM may update it to do so.
Any human may apply to join BlogNomic (if they are not already an EM) by registering at http://blognomic.com via the Register link in the sidebar, and then making a post making clear their wish to be a EM. An Admin shall add them to the roster in the sidebar and the GNDT, at which moment they become an EM.
An EM may cease to be an EM at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. A human who has ceased to be an EM in this way may not become an EM again within the following two weeks. An EM may only change their name as a result of a proposal approving the change.
Some EMs are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such in the sidebar. EMs who wish to become Admins may sign up with a username for the Ruleset Wiki, and submit a Proposal to make themselves Admins. Existing Admins may be removed from their posts by Proposal, CfJ, or voluntary resignation. New admins shall be given the GNDT configuration password when they become admins.
Some EMs are Idle, and shall be marked as such in the sidebar. For the purposes of all Gamestate and the Ruleset, excluding Rules “Ruleset and Gamestate”, “EMs”, “Dynasties”, “Fair Play” and any of those Rules’ subrules, Idle EMs are not counted as EMs.
If a Proposal contains a provision that targets a specifically named Idle EM, then that Idle EM is considered to be Unidle solely for the purposes of enacting that specific provision.
When an EM is unidled, if they went Idle in the same dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the EM Idled in a different dynasty), the EM is given the default value for new EM, if such a value exists.
An Admin may render an EM Idle if that EM has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past four days, or if that EM has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days. In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post. Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should announce it in a post or comment when they do so. An Admin may Unidle an EM if that EM is Idle and has asked to become Unidle in an entry or comment from the past four days, and Idle Admins may Unidle themselves at any time, unless the EM who would be Unidled asked to become (or rendered themselves) Idle within the previous four days, and within the current dynasty.
Admins who are unidling themselves should, in their first vote following each unidling, highlight their changed idle status and any changes to quorum to have come about as a result of it.
Idle Admins can enact and fail Votable Matters.
BlogNomic is divided into a number of Dynasties. Each Dynasty may be headed by a single EM, known as the UN Secretary-General (abbreviated UNSG). If there is no UNSG, the Dynasty is a Metadynasty.
A Votable Matter is a post which EMs may cast Votes on, such as a Proposal, a Call for Judgement or a Declaration of Victory.
Each EM may cast one Vote on a Votable Matter by making a comment to the Official Post that comprises that Votable Matter using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, or DEFERENTIAL. Additional voting icons may be permitted in some cases by other rules. A valid Vote is, except when otherwise specified, a Vote of FOR or AGAINST. An EM’s Vote on a Votable Matter is the last valid voting icon that they have used in any comment on that Votable Matter. Additionally, if the author of a Votable Matter has not used a valid voting icon in a comment to the post, then the author’s Vote is FOR. A non-EM never has a Vote, even if they were an EM previously and had cast a valid Vote.
If an EM other than the UNSG casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL, then the Vote of DEFERENTIAL is an indication of confidence in the UNSG. When the UNSG has a valid Vote other than VETO on a Votable Matter, then all votes of DEFERENTIAL on that Votable Matter are instead considered to be valid and the same as the UNSG’s Vote for the purposes of other rules unless otherwise specified.
A Votable Matter is Popular if any of the following are true:
- It has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum.
- It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, and more valid Votes cast on it are FOR than are AGAINST.
A Votable Matter is Unpopular if any of the following are true:
- The number of EMs who are not voting AGAINST it is less than Quorum.
- It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and it is not Popular.
Enacting and Failing
Votable Matters can either be Pending, Enacted, or Failed. When a Votable Matter is first put forward, it is considered Pending.
Whenever an Admin resolves a Votable Matter, they should mark their name, and are highly encouraged to report the final tally of Votes (or the fact that it was self-killed or vetoed). Comments cannot be made on Enacted or Failed Votable Matters.
This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules in its application to Calls for Judgement or Declarations of Victory.
Any EM may submit a Proposal to change the Ruleset or Gamestate, by posting an entry in the “Proposal” category that describes those changes (unless the EM already has 2 Proposals pending, or has already made 3 Proposals that day).
Special Proposal Voting
When an EM casts a vote AGAINST their own Proposal (which is not in the form of a DEFERENTIAL vote), this renders the Proposal Self-Killed, even if the author later changes their Vote. The UNSG may use VETO as a voting icon to cast a Vote on a proposal; when the UNSG casts a vote of VETO on a Proposal, this renders the Proposal Vetoed, even if the UNSG later changes their Vote.
Resolution of Proposals
The oldest Pending Proposal may be Enacted by any Admin (by updating the Ruleset and/or Gamestate to include the specified effects of that Proposal, and then setting that Proposal’s status to Enacted) if all of the following are true:
- It is Popular.
- It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours.
- It has not been Vetoed or Self-Killed.
The oldest Pending Proposal may be Failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:
- It is Unpopular.
- It has been Vetoed or Self-Killed.
If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and can be failed by any Admin.
Calls for Judgement
If two or more EMs actively disagree as to the interpretation of the Ruleset, or if an EM feels that an aspect of the game needs urgent attention, then any EM may raise a Call for Judgement (abbreviated CfJ) by posting an entry in the “Call for Judgement” category.
A Pending CfJ may be Enacted by any Admin if all of the following are true:
- It is Popular.
A Pending CfJ may be Failed by any Admin if any of the following are true:
- It is Unpopular.
- It specifies neither changes to the Gamestate or Ruleset nor corrections to any gamestate tracking entities.
When a CfJ is Enacted, the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correct the GNDT and other gamestate tracking entities, as specified in the CFJ.
This Rule may not be overruled by Dynastic Rules.
Victory and Ascension
If an EM (other than the UNSG) believes that they have achieved victory in the current Dynasty, they may make a post to the Blognomic weblog in the Declaration of Victory category, detailing this.
If the game is not already in Hiatus and there is a pending DoV, the game immediately goes into Hiatus, if it hasn’t already. During this time, the only game actions that may be taken are those covered by Rules “EMs”, “Votable Matters”, “Calls for Judgement”, “Gamestate Tracking” and “Victory and Ascension”.
Every EM may cast Votes on that DoV to indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposition that the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty.
A Pending DoV may be Enacted by any Admin if any of the following is true:
- It is Popular, it has been open for at least 12 hours, and either the UNSG has Voted FOR it or it has no AGAINST Votes.
- It is Popular, and it has been open for at least 24 hours.
A Pending DoV may be Failed by any Admin if any of the following are true:
- It is Unpopular, and it has been open for at least 12 hours.
When a DoV fails and there are no pending DoVs, Hiatus ends.
When a DoV is enacted, all other pending DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the EM who made the DoV as its UNSG. That EM may pass this role to another EM at this point by making a post to that effect, if they wish. The Hiatus continues until the new UNSG makes an Ascension Address by posting an entry in the “Ascension Address” category - this should specify the UNSG’s chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally specify that the terms EM and UNSG will be replaced with theme-specific terms throughout the entire ruleset, and/or a number of dynastic rules to keep. Upon posting such an Ascension Address, the Ruleset is updated to reflect any changed terms, and any dynastic rules which were not listed to be kept are repealed.
A DoV may not be started in the period between an enacted DoV and that DoV’s Ascension Address. When a DoV is failed, if it had at least one AGAINST vote, the EM who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 120 hours (5 days) have passed since the time their DoV was failed.
This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules as it relates to Declarations of Victory, but can be overruled in other matters.
The following are BlogNomic’s rules of fair play. If any of these rules are found to have been broken, or if an EM’s behaviour or actions are otherwise deemed unacceptable (socially or otherwise), a proposal or CfJ may be made to reprimand or punish the perpetrator or, in cases of extreme or repeated violations, remove them from the game and bar them from rejoining. EMs should vote against any DoV that relies on having broken a fair play rule.
- A single person should not control more than one non-Idle EM within BlogNomic, and should announce publicly if they control both a non-Idle EM and any Idle EMs.
- An EM should not “spam” the BlogNomic blog. What counts as spamming is subjective, but would typically include posting more than ten blog entries in a day, more than ten blog comments in a row, or posting a blog entry of more than 1000 words.
- An EM should not deliberately exploit bugs or unexpected behaviours in the software running the game (ExpressionEngine, MediaWiki or the GNDT).
- An EM should not edit their own blog comments once posted, nor those of any other EM.
- An EM should not edit the “Entry Date” field of a blog post.
- An EM should not make a DoV primarily to delay the game by putting it into Hiatus.
- An EM should not do any action meant to make the game unplayable (for example, changing multiple keywords to the same word in an ascension address).
- An EM should not roll dice in the GNDT that are clearly associated with a particular action in the Ruleset, but with the intention to not use these rolled values to the best of their ability to resolve that action.
- An EM should not deliberately and unreasonably prolong the performance of a game action once they have started it.
- An EM should not use a core, special case or appendix rules scam to directly or indirectly achieve victory
Each EM has an Industrial Output, which is tracked in the GNDT as IO, and is by default unset. An unset Industrial Output has a value of zero.
The Average Output of a Continent is the arithmetical mean (rounding down) of the Industrial Output of every Energy Minister who represents a nation from that Continent, or zero if no Energy Ministers represent nations from it.
An Energy Minister with a Seat at the UN who has an unset Industrial Output may at any time set it to any value within 10 of their Continent’s Average Output, or to any value between 10 and 40 if their Continent’s Average Output is zero.
The Year is 2156. The mean global temperature anomaly (MGTA), measured in millikelvin, is 848.
Advancing a Year is an atomic action consisting of:
- Increasing the Year by one.
- Increasing the MGTA by the sum of the IO of all Energy Ministers.
- For each Energy Minister, rolling DICE8000 in the GNDT and adding the Latitude of that Minister’s Continent. If the result is less than the MGTA, remove a random Asset from that Energy Minister.
- Making a post to the blog indicating that the Year has been Advanced.
If no EM has done so within the last 46 hours, any EM with a Seat at the UN may Advance a Year.
An EM may take an Annual Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced. An EM may take a Leap Action if they have not taken any Annual Actions or Leap Actions since the Year was most recently Advanced, if the Year is divisible by 4.
Each Energy Minister represents a nation from a Continent, that Continent being tracked in the GNDT. Eight Continents exist, with the following Names and (in brackets) Latitudes:-
- Africa (9)
- Antarctica (90)
- Asia (34)
- Australia (25)
- Europe (54)
- North America (54)
- South America (9)
- Undefined (0)
An Energy Minister’s Continent may be any Continent from that list, defaulting to Undefined. (An Undefined Continent may be tracked as “-” in the GNDT.) If an Energy Minister’s Continent is not Undefined, then they are considered to have a Seat at the UN.
An Energy Minister without a Seat at the UN may set their Continent to any valid value other than “Undefined”, at any time.
Power and Assets
Each EM has a number of Assets, tracked as a list in the GNDT column “Assets”, and defaulting to no Assets. An EM’s Power is the number of Assets they have. The following are Assets and their effects (if any):
An EM may not have more than five Assets in total.
- Money: You can swap a Money you have for an Asset of your choice, newly created from the list of Assets in this rule.
- Military: Choose an EM with less Military Assets than you. That EM loses an Asset of your choice (if they have any). This action is Attacking, and is an Annual Action. Attacking can only be done if the MGTA is above 1200.
- Influence: Choose an EM with less Influence Assets than you. That EM loses an Asset of your choice (if they have any). This action is Propaganda, and is an Annual Action. Propaganda can only be done if the MGTA is below 600.
- Technology: Increase your IO by 10 upon acquiring this. Decrease your IO by 10 upon losing this.
- Green Policies: Decrease your IO by 10 upon acquiring this (your IO can be negative with this). Increase your IO by 10 upon losing this.
- Control: If you have two or more Control Assets, you cannot be the target of Propaganda.
- Privileged: If you have two or more Privileged Assets, you cannot be the target of Attacks.
- Giant Ice Cube: Lower the MGTA by 100 when you acquire this. Increase the MGTA by 100 when you lose this. Whenever you gain Money, you lose this Asset.
- Oil Rig: If you have at least one Oil Rig, as a Leap Action, you can Drill: multiply the current MGTA by 1.10 (rounded up) and gain 1 Money.
- Blogium: If you are the sole EM (who hasn’t been Idle in the last 72 hours) with the most Blogium Assets, you are the Blogium Lead.
- Nomium: If you are the sole EM (who hasn’t been Idle in the last 72 hours) with the most Nomium Assets, you are the Nomium Lead.
- Icium: If you are the sole EM (who hasn’t been Idle in the last 72 hours) with the most Icium Assets, you are the Icium Lead.
An EM who has been an EM in this dynasty for less than 48 hours, who has a Seat at the UN and who has no Assets can Claim International Aid, if they have not already Claimed International Aid in the previous 48 hours: this gives them four Money Assets. At any time, an EM can declare a Revolution and lose 1 of their Assets to change all of their Assets to Money.
Each EM with an IO set above 29 may add 1 Money to their Assets as a Leap Action. Each EM with an IO set below 30 may change one of their Assets to Money as a Leap Action.
In this age of revolutionary new technologies, teleportation is a must for most international leaders and businessmen. It’s not all that expensive, but due to the fact that it produces small quantities of radioactive waste matter it is banned from use in everyday contexts. For VIPs, the time saved and the convenience of in-person meetings can be considered worth the impact, and may even be required, more than expected.
A Proposal with the [Teleport] or [Teleportation] tag is a Teleportation Proposal. Whenever a Teleportation Proposal is resolved, the MGTA increases by 10 for each EM that voted on that Proposal. The resolving Admin is encouraged to also resolve and report this change.
Proposals which are not Teleportation Proposals are called Slow Proposals. If a Slow Proposal is more than 48 hours old and has exactly 1 more vote FOR than AGAINST, it is Unpopular instead of Popular.
End of the World!
If the MGTA is above 4000, and no EM has achieved victory, then the EM named pokes has achieved victory.
If the EM named pokes has achieved victory, and the safety phrase, which is “hot dog”, is not the final words of this rule, they may post an Ascension Address as if they had posted an enacted DoV.
The safety phrase is here: hot dog.
Subrules of this rule are known as Treaties. Each treaty has a subset of Energy Ministers that are signatories to the treaty, listed at the end of the treaty. At any time, if an Energy Minister is not a signatory to a treaty, they may become a signatory to that treaty by adding their name to the list of that treaty’s signatories. The action of becoming a signatory to a treaty is also known as signing the treaty.
Signatories to this treaty may not Attack other signatories to this treaty. When a EM becomes a signatory to this treaty, they gain one Privileged asset. Signatories are: TyGuy6, Farsight
Pact of the Cube
Signatories to this treaty may not use Propaganda against an EM with a Giant Ice Cube. Signatories are:
When an EM signs this Treaty, they gain 1 Money. If all EMs (excluding the UNSG) are signatories to this Treaty, a Robot Uprising happens.
When a Robot Uprising happens, all Assets that EMs have become Technology, and MGTA is multiplied by 1.20
Cuddlebeam, Kevan, Farsight
If, for 24 consecutive hours, an EM has been at least two of the three Leads simultaneously, (among Blogium Lead, Nomium Lead and Icium Lead,) they have achieved victory.
At any time, an EM may spend a Money Asset to help develop the UN’s Global Atmospheric Processor (GAP). When an EM does this, they receive a Merit Asset and the MGTA is reduced by 50.
At any time, an EM may exchange three Merit Assets for one other Asset.
The Red Roost
An EM with 4 or more Assets may spend a Money to shuttle supplies to and develop new technologies for life on Mars. Each Money spent this way, up to a maximum of five, increases the total number of Assets that EM can have by one. This increase is tracked in the GNDT under “MP”, defaults to 0, and can be referred to as “Mars Power” or “MP”.
Special Case Rules can be active or inactive and default to active. The status of a Special Case rule is notated in the title of that rule ending in “[X]” where X is the word Active or Inactive, denoting that Rule’s status. When a new dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may state any existing Special Case Rules that are set to inactive; any Special Case Rules not set in the Ascension Address become Active.
The text of Special Case Rules that are inactive shall be interpreted, for the purpose of play, to mean nothing.
Votable matters have zero or more tags. Tags are added by adding it to the title of a votable matter with the format “[X]” where [X] is the tag, for example “[Core] Wording Fix”. Votable Matters require the [Core] tag in order to make changes to the Core Rules, the [Special Case] tag in order to make changes to the Special Case Rules and the [Appendix] tag in order to make changes to the Appendix Rules. Votable Matters other than DoVs require the [Victory] tag in order to grant victory to an EM.
Atomic Actions [Active]
When an EM performs an Atomic Action, they must complete all its steps; they must complete them in order; and they may not take any other dynastic action, or achieve victory, until all such steps are complete. All of the steps of an Atomic Action are considered one action, as well as the steps of an Atomic Action that is itself a step of a parent Atomic Action.
An Atomic Action may direct the performer to skip some of its steps, which the performer should do and in which case the skipped steps are considered completed for this rule.
If one or more steps of an Atomic Action were done incorrectly, the EM must redo the Atomic Action. In redoing an Atomic Action, the EM uses any legal steps that were already completed in the illegal Atomic Action and only redoes the illegal ones.
If an EM arrives at a step in an Atomic Action and they cannot perform that step, they undo all the steps that they performed of that action and are never considered to have performed that action.
For instance if an Atomic Action consists of rolling a die in the GNDT and then doing steps based upon its result the EM would have to reroll the die if they rolled the wrong one if the first place and any steps that depended upon the result of that die; however if all they did was take an illegal action later on, the die is still used in the redone action.
For the purposes of determining the ordering or legality of game actions the time of an Atomic Action shall be the time that it is completed. For Atomic Actions that are redone, the time of completion is the last redone step.
This rule cannot be overruled by the Dynastic Rules.
Seasonal Downtime [Active]
Blognomic goes into hiatus every year on December 24th, and remains in hiatus until December 27th. During this time no game actions may be taken except those described in the rules entitled “Votable Matters,” “Gamestate Tracking” and “Call for Judgement”.
If there are fewer than five EMs, then BlogNomic is Dormant. While BlogNomic is Dormant, actions defined by dynastic rules may not be taken, and proposals may not be submitted.
No Orphan Variables [Active]
An Orphan Variable is a dynastic gamestate variable which has neither a location in which it’s tracked, nor a manner in which it can be determined from other gamestate variables, specified in the Ruleset.
An EM may not take any dynastic actions that are contingent on the specific value of an Orphan Variable.
Imperial Deferentials [Active]
If the UNSG has voted DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, that vote is instead considered to be valid and either FOR (if more EMs have voted FOR the proposal than have voted AGAINST it) or AGAINST (in all other cases).
Dynastic Distance [Active]
For the purposes of dynastic rules which do not deal with voting, the UNSG is not an EM.
The Traitor [Active]
The Traitor for a particular dynasty may be an EM (including an idle one), or may be nobody, and it defaults to being nobody. The Traitor’s identity in the current dynasty is tracked privately by the UNSG, and the UNSG should not share this information with EMs other than the Traitor.
If there is no Traitor for the current dynasty, the UNSG may secretly randomly select an EM (other than the UNSG) and privately inform them that they are the Traitor for the current dynasty.
A Traitor is under no obligation to honour any informal promises they have made with other EMs, nor to tell the truth to them, and is encouraged to betray other EMs in order to achieve victory.
A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word. A keyword defined in this glossary supersedes that defined by a rule. (eg. A rule specifying “bananas are blue” cannot be overruled by posting a dictionary definition or a photo of a banana, and a rule specifying “every day is Sunday” will be overruled by the glossary entry below.)
- “is able to”
- A blog comment published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
- Core Proposal
- A Proposal which mandates changes that, even if conditionally, are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of core rules and/or the glossary, and/or renaming, banning, and/or the granting or removing of admin status from one or more EMs.
- Daily Action
- If a game action is a Daily Action, each EM able to perform it may take that action once each day, but not more than once every ten hours.
- Daily Communal Action
- A Daily Communal Action is a Daily Action that can only be performed by one EM per day.
- References to a “day” as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “Sunday”, “The day after performing this action”, or “August 2nd”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a day beginning at and including 00:00:00 UTC, ending when the next day begins. It can never be 2 different days at the same instant.
- References to “YDICEX” refer to Y X-sided dice, rolled within the GNDT. To roll dice, post DICEX in the comments field of the GNDT, replacing X with the number of sides on the die you wish to roll.
- Dynastic Action
- an action that is defined in the Dynastic rules.
- Dynastic Proposal
- A Proposal which mandates changes that, even if conditionally, are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of dynastic rules and/or gamestate defined by dynastic rules.
- Effective Vote Comment (EVC)
- An EM’s Effective Vote Comment with respect to a given Votable Matter means that EM’s Comment to that Votable Matter, if any, that contains that EM’s Vote on that Votable Matter.
- Flavour Text
- When posting a blog entry, an EM may use the “Commentary or flavour text” field of the blog publishing form to add their own comments or description of their post. For the purposes of all other rules, such text is not considered to be part of the post.
- Any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of. All GNDT columns that the Dynastic Rules explicitly mention are assumed to be Gamestate, as are all Wiki Pages that the Dynastic Rules explicitly mention (except for dynastic histories and discussion pages) and any images contained within those Wiki Pages.
- A blog post published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
- Private Message
- A message sent via Blognomic’s Private Messages system at blognomic.com.
- Quorum of a subset of EMs is half the number of EMs in that subset, rounded down, plus one. If the word Quorum is used without qualifying which subset of EMs it is referring to, it is referring to a Quorum of all EMs.
- If used in a context of a Votable Matter, the word “Resolve” means to perform the act, as an Admin, of enacting or failing a Votable Matter. The world “Resolution” means then the act of doing so. If used in any other context, the meaning of both “Resolve” and “Resolution” is the standard English meaning of these words.
- Each individually numbered section of the ruleset is a rule, including sections that are sub-rules of other rules.
- “is required to”
- “is recommended that”
- Sibling Rule
- Two rules are “siblings” of each other if they are both direct subrules of the same rule.
- The BlogNomic Slack is located at blognomic.slack.com. EMs may request an invite to the Slack while logged in by clicking the button in the sidebar.
- Slack Channel
- A Slack Channel is any channel on the BlogNomic Slack. To reference a Slack Channel, use a hash (#) followed by the name of that channel. (For example, #random.)
- Story Post
- A Story Post is an entry in the “Story Post” category.
- The “subject” of a blog entry is the part of the Title of an entry which is after the first colon. If the Title does not contain a colon, then the whole Title is the subject. Any entry whose subject is “” (i.e. an empty string) is not valid.
- A subrule is a type of rule that is nested within another rule. A proposal that specifically affects a rule affects all of its subrules; a proposal that specifically affects a subrule does not affect its parent rule or any other subrule of that rule, unless they are also explicitly cited as being affected by that proposal.
- Table of Contents
- The directory of section headings that is generated by the MediaWiki software for most pages in the wiki.
- Table of Contents.
- The word “Vote”, used as a noun, means a Vote that is cast in accordance with Rule “Votable Matters”. The word “Vote”, used as a verb, means the act of casting such a Vote.
- Voting Icons
- For use in voting, a check box http://blognomic.com/images/vote/for.gif shall represent a Vote FOR, an X http://blognomic.com/images/vote/against.gif shall represent a Vote AGAINST, a DEF http://blognomic.com/images/vote/imperial.gif shall represent a Vote of DEFERENTIAL, and a crossed-out circle http://blognomic.com/images/vote/seal.gif shall represent a vote to VETO.
- References to a week as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “At the beginning of each week”, or “already happened this week”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a period of time between the beginning of a Monday and the end of the following Sunday.
- Weekly Action
- If a game action is a Weekly Action, each EM able to perform it may take that action once each week, but not more than once every twenty-four hours.
- Weekly Communal Action
- A Weekly Communal action is a Weekly Action that can only be performed by one EM per week.
- The BlogNomic Wiki at http://wiki.blognomic.com
Votable Matters and other official posts, as well as specific gamestate information, shall be tracked by the BlogNomic blog at http://blognomic.com. Any EM may post to the blog at any time, but may only make official posts to the blog when the Ruleset allows it. Posts following the format specified by a rule are considered official posts. Any single official post cannot be of two different types of official post unless a rule explicitly states otherwise.
An official post may only be removed as allowed by the Ruleset. An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than two hours old and either no EM has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) if all comments on it contain no voting icons; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset. However, despite this, official posts can never be changed from one category to another, or changed to be a different sort of official post, if they have been posted for more than fifteen minutes. The Admin processing an official post is allowed to append to the post to reflect its new status. Anything appended to a post in this way must be placed in the Admin field of the post, and the post’s Status must be changed to reflect its status. An official blog post that has the status of Enacted or Failed cannot change categories. An official blog post’s status may never be altered except in accordance with the rules that define that official post.
A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following two exceptions: Firstly, whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish. Secondly, if a post by a New EM is not in any category but follows the wording of a Proposal, in that it has written changes the gamestate and or ruleset, and if it has been posted for less than six hours, then any admin may change it to be in the Proposal category. A New EM is defined as an EM who has been an EM for fewer than seven days or an EM that has unidled in the past seven days after being idle for at least 3 months.
Specific parts of the Gamestate data shall be tracked by the Generic Nomic Data Tracker at http://blognomic.com/gndt/generic.cgi?nomic=blog. Any EM may update any EM’s data via the GNDT, whenever the Ruleset permits it.
All updates to the GNDT are logged. For gamestate which is tracked in a specific place (such as the GNDT or a wiki page), any alteration of that gamestate as a result of an EM’s action is (and can only be) applied by editing that data in that place. One GNDT or wiki update may contain one or more alterations, or one alteration may be split over multiple updates, as long as it is clear what is happening and the alterations are otherwise legal. The GNDT and wiki merely represent the Gamestate, and are not the same thing. In the event that the Gamestate and its representations are different, any EM may correct the representations to comply with the Gamestate.
If an EM feels that a representation of the gamestate (such as the GNDT or the wiki) was altered such that it no longer matches the gamestate (such as by performing an action which was against the Rules (as they were at the time of the alteration), or by any other means), they may simply undo the effects of that alteration. Instead of repeatedly reverting and re-reverting a disputed alteration, EMs are encouraged to raise a Call for Judgement instead. EMs shall be assigned a password for the GNDT when they join the Nomic.
The GNDT can be used to generate random results.
- The DICEN command can be used to generate a random number between 1 and N.
- The FRUIT command will return a random result from the following options: Lemon, Orange, Kiwi, Grape, Cherry, Tangelo.
- The COLOUR (or COLOR) command will return a random result from the following: White, Red, Green, Silver, Yellow, Turquoise, Magenta, Orange, Purple, Black.
Any changes to the potential outcomes of the GNDT’s random result commands must be made by proposal; and any proposal that seeks to nominate a change to this rule must first identify an EM with server-level access to the BlogNomic site who is able to perform the changes, and must also update this rule to reflect the new potential outcomes.
If a number or other game variable is selected “at random” or “randomly” from a range of possible values, its value shall always be taken from a uniform probability distribution over the entire range of possible values, unless otherwise specified. This value must be determined by an appropriate DICE roll in the GNDT, unless otherwise specified. If a selection is explicitly specified as being “secretly” random, the EM making this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing, instead of the GNDT.
Numbers and Variables
- If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers. Any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset.
- Any situation which would require a roll of DiceX when X is zero or lower always yields a value of 0 unless stated otherwise.
- All numbers, unless stated otherwise by a rule, are in base ten.
- Unless otherwise specified, to “spend” or “lose” an amount X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V; to “gain” X of a numeric value “V” means to add X to V; and to “transfer” X of a numeric value “V” from A to B means to subtract X from A’s V and add X to B’s V. Unless otherwise specified, only positive amounts can be spent, lost, gained, or transferred, an EM can spend only their own values, and a rule that allows EMs to transfer a numeric value only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to another EM (of their choice unless otherwise stated).
- An EM who has a choice in whether to take an action defined by a dynastic rule may not take that action if both of the following conditions are true: a) the action’s effects are limited to changing values tracked in the GNDT and/or similar gamestate-tracking entities (such as a wiki page), and b) the action would change one or more of those values to an illegal value.
- If a rule implies that the result of any calculation should be an integer (for instance, by attempting to store that result in, or add it to, a gamestate variable that can only hold integers), the result of the calculation is instead the result rounded towards 0.
- If a game variable has no defined starting value, then that starting value is the nearest legal value to zero that it may take (for numerical variables, defaulting to positive if tied), blank (for a text string or list that may be blank), the alphabetically earliest legal text string it may take (for a text string which may not be blank, with the digits 0 through 9 considered to precede “A”), or the list which is alphabetically earliest from the set of lists with the fewest elements (for lists which may not be blank, and considering each list to be a single unpunctuated text string, with the digits 0 through 9 considered to precede “A”).
- Invalid values for game variables can never be used, even if the values stored in the GNDT remain valid. (for example, if X appears in a formula referring to a value that is a non-negative integer, X must be used as a non-negative integer)
- DICEN cannot be rolled in the GNDT if N is 22 or more digits long.
Rules and Proposals
- If a new rule is created by a proposal and its location is not noted in that proposal, that new rule is to be placed in the Dynastic Rules.
- If a wiki page becomes gamestate as a result of a proposal enacting, that page shall - unless otherwise specified - be reverted to whatever state it was in at the time of that proposal’s submission (and if the page did not exist at that time, it shall be blanked).
- Where a Proposal would amend the effects of Proposal Enactment, this does not apply to its own enactment unless explicitly stated (eg. a proposal proposing that enacted proposals earn their author a banana when enacted would not earn a banana for its own author, when enacted).
- Rules which trigger upon the Resolution of a Votable Matter are the responsibility of the Admin who Resolves it.
- Unless otherwise specified, a new Dynastic rule shall be placed at the end of the Dynastic Rules.
- If the admin enacting a proposal reaches a step which cannot be applied immediately (eg. “two days after this proposal enacts, EM A gains 1 point”), that step is ignored for the purposes of enactment. Once a proposal has been enacted, it can have no further direct effect on the gamestate.
- For the purpose of all rules, time in Blognomic is in UTC.
- All references to time must be either specific or defined within the ruleset to be considered achievable in the gamestate. Abstract concepts of time (e.g. “dinnertime”, “twilight”) cannot be achieved until they fulfil one of these criteria.
- Where the month, day and/or year of a calendar date are ambiguous (eg. “04/10/09”), it shall be assumed that the date is in a day/month/year format.
- An EM may not take more than one dynastic game action at the same time (excluding any actions which have been ongoing for more than three hours).
- Superficial differences between the spelling of geographic versions of English, e.g, British English, American English and Australian English shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.
- The terms “EM” and “Player” are synonyms.
- Within the ruleset, a word only refers to the name of an EM if it is explicitly stated that it refers to an EM’s name.
- If a rule would ever have no name, it is instead named “Unnamed Rule”.
- The names of rules are not themselves rule text and have no effect other than being rule names.
- Subrules can be referred to by a name which incorporates name of the rule they are a subrule of. Example: a subrule of the rule “Gin” is a “Gin Rule”, however the rule “Gin” is not a “Gin Rule” because it’s not a subrule of the rule “Gin”.
- When referring to a proposal, the name used in reference to a specific proposal may be simplified by not including braces and any text between the opening and closing braces. i.e. a proposal named “Changes [Core]” could instead be referred to by the name “Changes”.
- If two parts of the Ruleset contradict each other, precedence shall be construed in the following order:
- The Appendix has precedence over any Rule;
- A Dynastic Rule has precedence over a Core Rule, unless that Core Rule explicitly says it can’t be overruled by a Dynastic Rule;
- If both contradicting parts are Core Rules, or if both of them are Dynastic Rules, the part with more limited scope applies. (e.g. if the rules “EMs may Kick each other” and “EMs may not kick each other on Tuesdays” exist, and it is Tuesday, EMs may not Kick each other.)
- If two parts with the same scope contradict each other, the negative rule applies. (e.g. with “EMs may Punch a Spaceman on Friday” and “EMs may not Punch Spacemen on Friday”, then EMs may not Punch Spacemen on Friday.)
- Special Case Rules have equal precedence as Dynastic Rules, unless that Special Case Rule explicitly says it can’t be overruled by a Dynastic Rule.


Seller: Vektløs B.V.
- Registered in the Trade Register of the Chamber of Commerce under number: 80386334
- VAT number: NL861657743B01
- Street address: Warmoesstraat 60-3, 1012JG, Amsterdam
- E-mail address: [email protected]
- Telephone number: +31 (0)20 210 18 41
- Website: www.vektlos.nl
Buyer: a natural person who is of legal age and who is not acting within the context of practising a profession or conducting a business, with whom the Seller concludes an Agreement.
Order: an order placed by the Buyer in accordance with the procedure described in article 2.1 for the delivery of one or more products.
Product: a Vektløs product that the Seller offers for sale on the Website.
Purchase Price: the price indicated on the Website for a Product is including the VAT and excluding the shipping costs.
Agreement: The Order, which the Seller has accepted as such.
ARTICLE 1. APPLICABILITY OF THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These General Terms and Conditions that have been made available online by the Seller on www.vektlos.nl govern all offers, orders, agreements and other legal relationships between the Buyer and the Seller with respect to the use of the Website, including the purchase and sale of a Product on or via the Website.
ARTICLE 2. CONCLUSION AND CONTENT OF THE AGREEMENT
The presentation and advertising of Products in our Website does not constitute a binding offer to conclude a purchase agreement.
The Buyer may select Products from the Seller’s range of goods, particularly clothing, shoes and fashion items in the desired style, colour and size, and place these into a “shopping cart” by clicking on the “add to cart” button.
As soon as the Buyer has finished selecting the contents for the shopping cart, they can continue by clicking on the button “proceed”.
- They are firstly taken to an overview of the goods in the shopping cart with their properties, price and the delivery time.
- After clicking on the button “proceed”, the Buyer types in their invoice address, and if the delivery address differs from the invoice address, also gives the desired delivery address.
The Buyer can then choose between the following payment methods:
- Credit card: With this payment method the Buyer must enter the corresponding credit card information. By clicking on the “pay” button the Buyer then submits a legally binding order. This “pay” button will only work if the General Terms and Conditions of the Seller have previously been approved by checking the box next to the information concerning these General Terms and Conditions. Before clicking the “pay” button the Buyer can cancel the order at any
- time, change the contents of the order by removing existing goods from and/or adding new products to the shopping cart, and change the shipping address and payment method. We would point out that, with this payment method, the placing of the binding order and payment take place simultaneously.
- Immediate bank transfer: with this payment method the Buyer submits a legally binding order by clicking on the “pay” button. This “pay” button will only work if the General Terms and Conditions of the Seller have previously been approved by checking the box next to the information concerning these General Terms and Conditions. Before clicking the “pay” button the Buyer can cancel the order at any time, change the contents of the order by removing existing goods from and/or adding new products to the shopping cart, and change the shipping address and payment method. Once they have clicked on the “pay” button, the Buyer will be redirected to the website of the external provider to make payment.
- PayPal: with this payment method the Buyer submits a legally binding order by clicking on the “pay” button. This “Buy now” button will only work if the General Terms and Conditions of the Seller have previously been approved by checking the box next to the information concerning these General Terms and Conditions. Before clicking the “pay” button the Buyer can cancel the order at any time, change the contents of the order by removing existing goods from and/or adding new products to the shopping cart, and change the shipping address and payment method. Once they have clicked on the “pay” button, the Buyer will be redirected to the PayPal website to make payment.
An agreement only comes into existence once the Seller has accepted the order, either by means of a declaration of acceptance or by delivering the ordered Product. The Seller shall immediately confirm the receipt of the Order which the Buyer has placed via the Website in an e-mail to the Buyer. Such an e-mail does not yet constitute a binding acceptance of the Order unless, besides the confirmation of receipt, it also contains a statement of acceptance.
The Seller reserves the right to refuse the Order placed by the Buyer or suspend the Buyers account in the following cases:
- if the information submitted by the Buyer is false and/or incomplete, or if the Seller can reasonably question its veracity;
- if due payment by the Seller does not take place immediately after placing the Order by clicking on the button “Buy now”;
- if the Buyer has already failed to fulfill their payment obligations towards the Seller in the past;
- if the Buyer has refused to accept and/or failed to collect any orders which they have placed with the Seller in the past;
- if there is an obvious or processing error in the prices given on the Website; or
- if the desired delivery address is not located in the Netherlands;
- if any activity from the Buyers account appears fraudulent or suspicious.
The Seller shall notify the Buyer as soon as possible if an Order is not accepted. In such a case, any payments which have already made by the Buyer shall be immediately refunded.
The Order, the confirmation of the Order by the Seller, as well as the Data Protection Directive and the Conditions of Use of the Website published on the Website, and these General Terms and Conditions, constitute the entire Agreement between the Buyer and the Seller with regard to the use of the Website and the placing and carrying out of an order.
After the Buyer has clicked on the “Pay” button, thereby placing a legally binding Order, they are taken to a payment page in accordance with their chosen payment method. On that page, the Buyer completes the appropriate fields in order to carry out the payment and then authorises the payment.
ARTICLE 3. DELIVERY METHOD AND DELIVERY DATES
Shipment will be made using a carrier designated by the Seller.
The Seller will make delivery in accordance with agreed delivery dates to every extent possible; however, the Buyer acknowledges that the delivery dates are based on the circumstances of which the Seller is aware at the time at which the Agreement is concluded and, insofar as they are dependent on work or services to be provided by third parties, on the information that such third parties provide to the Seller.
The risk with respect to any damage to or loss of the Products will be transferred to the Buyer as from the time at which the Products are delivered.
ARTICLE 4. PRICE AND PAYMENT
The prices indicated on the Website are denominated in your local currency or in euros, are inclusive of Value Added Tax (VAT) and are exclusive of shipping costs. The return shipping costs are partly borne by the Seller. The total Purchase Price due will be indicated when the Order is placed and when the Agreement is confirmed.
The Seller will be entitled to adjust the prices indicated on the Website from time to time without any notice being required. The prices indicated at the time at which the Order is placed will be deemed to be the prices that form part of the Agreement.
Payment may be made using the methods indicated on the Website and must be made within 14 days after the Product has been delivered.
The Buyer is obliged to notify the Seller immediately regarding any errors in the payment details that the Buyer has provided to the Seller.
In the event that the Buyer exceeds the term for payment he/she will be in default by operation of law, and the Seller will be entitled to charge statutory interest on the outstanding amount as from the due date.
ARTICLE 5. RIGHT TO RETURN
The Buyer will be entitled to return the Product that has been delivered, free of charge, within a term of 30 days after the Product has been received, without stating his/her reason for doing so, in the manner indicated by the Seller, provided that the Product has not been worn (trying on clothing is permitted), is undamaged and (insofar as possible) is in the original and undamaged packaging. The Buyer will not be permitted to exchange the Product for another Product. If the Buyer wishes to purchase another Product, he/she will have to place a new order on the Website.
ARTICLE 6. FORCE MAJEURE
The Seller is not liable for any damage as a result of a delay in the delivery or a failure to deliver that has been caused by circumstances that impede the Seller from complying with its obligations, and that cannot be attributed to the Seller because they cannot be blamed on the Seller, and cannot be deemed to be for the Seller’s account in accordance with the law, a legal act or in accordance with generally accepted standards, such as - but not restricted to - war, threat of war, civil war, riots, a day of national mourning announced by the government, strikes, transport problems, trade limitations, problems with customs authorities, fire, flooding, earthquake or the bankruptcy of third parties engaged by the Seller, a failure on the part of the Seller’s suppliers to supply goods or a failure on the part of the Seller’s suppliers to supply goods in a timely manner, interruptions in the supply of goods to be delivered by third parties, including water and electricity, and other serious interruptions in the business operations of the Seller or third parties that it engages.
If as a result of a situation involving force majeure the Seller fails to comply with its obligations under the Agreement or fails to do so in a timely manner, the Seller will be entitled to perform the Agreement within a reasonable term or – if compliance within a reasonable term is not possible – to dissolve the Agreement in whole or in part, without the Seller being obliged to pay the Buyer any compensation in that respect.
ARTICLE 7. COMPLAINTS
The contact details of the Seller and of the third parties that the Seller has engaged to handle complaints can be found at the bottom of the homepage on the website.
The Buyer will be obliged to inspect the Product when it has been delivered and to notify the Seller within a reasonable term in the event that there are any visible defects or other complaints regarding the performance of the Agreement. Such complaints must be submitted in writing and must be fully and clearly substantiated.
The Seller will respond to any complaints that it receives within a term of 14 days after receipt. The Seller will notify the Buyer within a term of 14 days in the event that it is foreseeable that the complaint will require a longer term to be processed, stating the term within which the Buyer can expect to receive an answer.
The Buyer acknowledges that: minor deviations and deviations that are generally considered acceptable in respect of the quality, size, colour, finishing, etc. of Products cannot be avoided or are difficult to avoid and do not constitute a well founded reason to submit a complaint. Such complaints, and complaints regarding the removal of certain Products from the Website, are not well founded. The Seller will not be liable for any damage that the Buyer sustains as a result of such deviations or the removal of such Products from the Website.
The Buyer will fully cooperate in the event that the Seller recalls a Product. The Buyer will notify the Seller immediately in the event that the Buyer suspects that a Product has a safety defect and is subject to being recalled.
ARTICLE 8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Any and all marks, product names, logos, models and designs (referred to below as the ‘IP Rights’) that are depicted on or affixed to the Products or otherwise related to the Products are the property of the Seller or one or more of its group companies. The Buyer acknowledges the Seller’s proprietary rights in respect of the IP Rights and will refrain from using the IP Rights in any way, and the Buyer will refrain from any conduct that could harm or otherwise negatively affect the IP Rights.
ARTICLE 9. RETENTION OF TITLE
The Seller will retain the title in respect of any and all goods to be delivered until the following obligations towards the Seller have been complied with in full:
- the performance and obligations (including payment obligations) that the Buyer owes/has in respect of any and all goods that have been or that will be delivered in accordance with the agreement; and
- claims on the ground of the Buyer’s breach in respect of his/her compliance with this agreement.
ARTICLE 10. GUARANTEE AND LIABILITY
The Seller is required by law to provide a Product that meets the contract with the Buyer.
The Seller is not liable for any indirect, additional or consequential damage, of any kind whatsoever, that the Buyer sustains in connection with the Agreement. Under no circumstances will any direct damage, for which the Seller is legally liable towards the Buyer, exceed the Purchase Price. This provision is not intended to exclude the Seller’s liability in the event of bodily injury or death.
The Seller refers to the disclaimer with regard to its liability in respect of the Website and the use of the Website.
ARTICLE 11. APPLICABLE LAW
The law of the country of your residence applies to this agreement.
ARTICLE 12. INVALID PROVISIONS
In the event that any provision contained in these General Terms and Conditions is invalid:
- the remaining provisions contained in these Terms and Conditions will nonetheless remain in effect; and
- the invalid provision will have to be interpreted as, or converted into, a valid provision having the same purport to every extent possible.
ARTICLE 13. AMENDMENT TO THE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The Seller will be entitled to amend these General Terms and Conditions from time to time. The most recent version of the General Terms and Conditions will be placed on the Website. The Buyer must always consult these General Terms and Conditions before using the Website. If the Buyer is unable to consult the General Terms and Conditions via the Internet the Seller will send the Buyer a copy of the most recent version of the General Terms and Conditions by e-mail.


True crime is beyond fascinating, and this Covid-19 period, my brethren, are absorbing times. The majority of us have so much free time in our hands that we are tempted to visit friends, hold a party, step out of the house, decisions that will extend our involuntary stay at home. But we do not want that, do we? Listening to True crime podcasts is a sure way for you to stay home, experience a thrill of a lifetime, learn more than two things about crime, and stop the spread of Covid-19. Fear not; being a Crime Junkie is so cool you may never desire to watch any other stuff!
Below, we review the top 10 True Crime podcasts in 2020 to help you find the best of the best there is.
Serial is our number one pick of the best True Crime podcasts in 2020 because it has won all awards in the industry, which is proof of its superiority. Serial has scooped the DuPont-Columbia, Scripps Howard, Edward R. Murrow awards, and the first-ever Peabody awarded to a podcast. Also, Serial is in its 3rd season, which indicates that the True Crime podcast has a dedicated and loyal audience.
Serial is a True Crime podcast that tells one crime story in one season, which is usually divided into several episodes. Serial season 1 has 12 episodes, Season 2 has 11 episodes, and Season 3 has 9 episodes, all which are approximately 27 to 55 minutes long.
You may be asking, am I able to listen to Serial podcasts with my device?
The answer is, yes, you can. Serial podcast is accessible on all devices and all platforms. You can access Serial podcasts from the Serial website, which you can access by clicking this link; https://serialpodcast.org/
To stream, go to a website such as serialpodcast.org and click the play. Welcome to the world of a criminal!
You can also listen to Serial on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Stitcher, RadioPublic, or any podcatcher of your preference.
To download on your iPhone and iPad, use the Podcasts app (which you download from the Appstore. Search for Serial in the Podcasts app and hit the subscribe button to get future Serial episodes.
For Android devices, you can access Serial from Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, or Stitcher (All which are in the Google Play Store). In Google Podcasts, search for Serial and click Subscribe, in RadioPublic, click follow, and in Stitcher, click the plus sign to add it to your Favorites List.
Serial podcasts offer you listening convenience as you can stream or download and watch your episodes offline.
And here comes the most significant advantage with Serial podcasts; It is free.
Note 1; Serial podcasts are not available on Netflix or HBO. However, Netflix and HBO air other true crime stories.
Note 2: Serial is available in English only. English transcripts are also available on the web. Click this link to find transcripts for all Episodes; https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Serial-Podcast-Transcripts-of-All-Episodes-with-ToC.pdf
You liked what you read about Serial? Trust me; The Undisclosed podcast will fascinate you more! The Undisclosed podcast investigates the wrongful convictions and the U.S. criminal justice system by focusing more on the crime itself, the investigation of the crime, the trial, and the verdict, with the ultimate objective of finding evidence that was never used in court. The State v. Adnan Syed, for example, is the first case that The Undisclosed podcast investigated after it aired on Serial, where The Undisclosed team finds never-before found evidence. Today, The Undisclosed Podcast boasts of 17 seasons, the current one being ‘State v. Fred Freeman. Each episode takes a maximum of 60 minutes. To view which other cases that The Undisclosed Podcast has investigated, click this link; https://undisclosed-podcast.com/
Rabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson, and Colin Miller created The Undisclosed Podcast in 2015. Rabia Chaudry is the narrator in the highly successful true-crime podcast.
The Undisclosed Podcast is accessible on the Undisclosed website, Android, and iPhone devices. To listen to The Undisclosed Podcast episodes from the Undisclosed app, click this link; https://undisclosed-podcast.com/
The Undisclosed Podcast is also available on many other podcast hosting platforms such as RadioPublic, Podbean, Stitcher, and Player.fm.
The Undisclosed Podcast is narrated in English, and you can access episode transcriptions from; https://www.reddit.com/r/theundisclosedpodcast/comments/3uqlpg/transcripts_from_episode_8_onwards/
Above all, you can listen to The Undisclosed Podcast free.
Overall, The Undisclosed Podcast is a composition of true crime narratives that is worth your time. Hopefully, Covid-19 will be a thing of the past by the time you are done indulging in The Undisclosed Podcasts’ 300 episodes.
You may need to dive right into this one, friends. Culpable is offering a $100, 000 reward. Correct, you read that right! Culpable will give you $100, 000 cash for new information that leads to an arrest and conviction concerning the Andreacchio family.
So, what is Culpable?
Culpable is a new investigative true-crime podcast by the Black Mountain Media, and Tenderfoot T.V., the creators of Up and Vanished and To Live and Die in L.A. Culpable explores open cases where guilty individuals seem to have eluded justice.
Dennis Cooper is the English narrator all through the 15 episodes. Each episode takes between 27 minutes and 62 minutes.
You can listen to the podcast on the Culpable website accessible through; https://culpablepodcast.com where you can stream or download it and listen offline.
Culpable is also available on all devices and across all podcast platforms at zero cost.
Currently, Culpable investigates the murder fo Christian Andreacchio in his upstairs bathroom with a single gunshot wound. While the police ruled it a suicide after a 45-minute investigation, Culpable’s Dennis Cooper explores the substantial evidence of premeditated murder, and questions are surrounding the case.
#4. Casefile True Crime
Casefile True Crime Podcast, simply known as Casefile, is a weekly Australian crime podcast whose first episode aired in January, 2016. Casefiles narrates solved or cold criminal cases that often revolve well-known murders and serial crimes. While many cases are Australian, the podcast includes U.K. and U.S. cases that the podcast is featuring increasingly. Today, Casefile podcast has over 133 episodes that an anonymous male narrates. How fascinating!
Unlike many other true crime podcasts, Casefiles is scripted and narrative, where the podcast relies majorly on original police or mass-media documents, eyewitness accounts, interviews, and public announcement recordings.
You can listen to the Casefile True Crime podcast from the Casefile True Crime website by clicking this link: https://casefilepodcast.com/
You can also access the Casefile podcast from any device (iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, P.C.) across all podcast platforms.
Casefiles is free, which makes it convenient for you to binge-watch all its 142 cases.
#5. In the dark
In the Dark may be the most compelling true crime investigative crime there is. In the Dark is a series that features investigative journalism and in-depth reportage from APM Reports. APM reports aim to raise awareness, trigger debate, and prompt positive change via non-partisan, independent investigative and documentary journalism.
The American Public Media produces the In the Dark podcast. Madeleine Baran hosts and narrates the true crime podcasts, while Samara Freemark presents the show. The production and publishing of In the Dark episodes rely on the funders such as Lumina Foundation, Spencer, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the McKnight Foundation.
The In the Dark has two seasons, with a total of 32 episodes. Season 1 explores the kidnapping and murders of Jacob Wetterling, which commenced on September 7, 2006. Season 2 is slated to air from January 2020 and investigates the case surrounding Curtis Flowers, who has been tried 6 times for a quadruple homicide in 1996.
In the Dark podcast is updated weekly and is available in English.
You can stream or download In the Dark episodes from the website, which is accessible by clicking this link; https://www.apmreports.org/in-the-dark
You can also access In the Dark episodes from any device (Android, Apple, Windows, and Mac) across all podcast platforms. For example, you can stream or download In the Dark episodes from Stitcher, player.fm, podbean, apm reports.org, and iheart radio.
Plus, it makes financial sense for you to binge on In the Dark episodes as they are free.
#6. Up and Vanished
UP and Vanished is our top 6 true-crime podcast that investigates missing persons cold cases by evaluating old leads, interviewing witnesses and town persons, and on-site investigation, Tenderfoot T.V. produces the show and hosts by Payne Lindsey. The first Up and Vanished episodes aired on August 7, 2016. In total, Up and Vanished has 37 episodes, which explore different cases,
Up and Vanished is a smart choice of true crime podcasts because it is accessible on any device, across all platforms. Besides, to become a true crime junkie with Up and Vanished as it is free.
Note: Up and Vanished episodes transcripts are accessible on https://sonix.ai/
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The global issue of Climate Change is emerging as one of the major legal and public policy issues of our time.
At Kronick, we believe that a multidisciplinary approach is the best way to effectively advise our clients on the myriad of issues raised by the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the rate of climate change.
Built on the firm's extensive experience in environmental regulatory compliance as well as in public-private development and land use transactions, our Climate Change team draws on the collaborative expertise of our environmental, public agency, real estate and land use attorneys to help clients evaluate how their industry or business may be affected by climate change, including current and impending regulations, and determine the appropriate actions they should consider or take.
Our Scope of Services
- Regulatory advice and compliance with GHG laws and regulations, including AB 32, SB 97 and SB 375
- Work with clients to develop approaches for analyzing climate change impacts under CEQA and NEPA
- Advise local governments on the development of climate change programs, including programs to inventory their GHG emissions and adopt measures and policies that reduce their “carbon footprints”
- Advise private developers on plans and project elements to reduce GHG emissions, including transportation demand management plans, green building, energy conservation, emissions reductions, resource conservation and broad-based planning policies
- Advise public and private clients on the development of green building programs and sustainable construction practices, including energy efficiency measures and the use of recycled materials
- Assistance in emission reduction projects:
- Draft and negotiate emission-reduction credit purchase agreements
- Due diligence designed to analyze a project's economic and technical viability
- Issues relating to project financing
- Project structuring, such as providing advice from a tax perspective in order to optimize taxation of GHG reduction credits
- Litigation relating to compliance with climate change laws


How the finance industry facilitates crime
Robert Mazur, Former U.S. Federal Agent
Author of “THE INFILTRATOR”
Stephen Platt is the author of Criminal Capital, the first book to examine the role played by the international financial services industry in facilitating crime and laundering criminal property.
Stephen is an English barrister and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Graduate School of Law, in Washington D.C. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in the criminal abuse of financial services both on and offshore and is regularly instructed by regulators and governments in sensitive matters involving financial crime and financial regulation. He was co-opted by the World Bank to both the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) and the study analyzing Illicit Financial Flows from Somalian Piracy.
When not practising, Stephen is much sought after as an accomplished speaker. He has trained the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Treasury, numerous US law enforcement agencies, Europol, the Metropolitan Police and several regulatory authorities. He has spoken at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Cambridge Economic Crime Symposium, the European Parliament, the UN and the UNODC.
Stephen acts as Senior Consultant for the regulatory investigations specialists, Stephen Platt & Associates LLP.
Criminal Capital is the first book to examine the role played by the financial services industry in facilitating crime and laundering criminal property by analysing the vulnerability of banks, brokerages, trust companies and investment funds to criminal abuse.
The book examines the causal factors that link harmful behaviours in finance including mis-selling, rate fixing, sanctions evasion money laundering and the facilitation of terrorism, drugs, human trafficking, corruption, piracy and tax evasion. It also considers why such behaviours correlate with the excessive risk taking that toppled the global economy in 2008.
Covering the role of both on and offshore finance centres the book also considers the limitations of the money laundering model relied upon by regulators and the finance industry to identify abusive customer relationships. The book proposes a new model of money laundering prevention.
This highly acclaimed and informative book challenges the reader to consider whether following the financial crisis sufficient steps have been taken to address toxic behaviours in finance or whether radical reform is needed.
“This is a well-researched and powerful book. It should be required reading for compliance professionals in finance as well as policy makers charged with implementing meaningful reform of the banking industry.”
Robert Mazur, Former U.S. Federal Agent, Author of “The Infiltrator”
"A great read for anybody who wants to learn more about how criminals abuse the global financial system"
Joseph Pistone - Author of 'Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia'
In Criminal Capital, Stephen Platt lays out in clear and frightening detail, the criminal rot at the core of the international banking system. It brought the global economy to the brink of depression in 2008 and it has not been fixed. Platt, an experienced lawyer gets to the heart of the excessive risk taking and the blind eye to customer crime that allows banks to serve as a circulation system for global corruption. A bold and sobering read.
Eric Lewis - Senior Partner Lewis Baach PLLC and former Counsel to the Liquidators of Madoff International Securities Limited and the Liquidators of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International
“Few people have both the knowledge and the objective vantage point enjoyed by this author of the worldwide banking system over the last 10 years. Fewer still could describe the prevailing culture within which the crisis developed and what was, and still is, wrong with that culture so accurately and so readably. The culture which created the crises from which we are still recovering is apparently alive and well. It extends to the secretion of criminal money of all kinds including terrorist funding. This book is a "must read" for anyone who wants to understand the past the present and the possible future for the world's financial institutions.”
Sir David Calvert Smith – Former Director of Public Prosecutions of England & Wales
"Criminal Capital offers a compelling, concerning, and clear view of the ways that financial institutions tacitly enable crime, and challenges both banks and regulators to stop the madness."
Carole Switzer, Co-Founder and President of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group.
1st December 2014 - International Corruption Conference, New Scotland Yard, London, GB
15th January 2015 – New York District Attorney’s Department, New York, U.S.
17th January 2015 – Book Signing, Waterstones, St Helier, Jersey, GB (11am - 2pm)
19th January 2015 – Book Launch and Signing Event, Savile Club, London, GB (Members and Guests Only)
23rd January 2015 – Georgetown University, Washington DC, U.S.
27th January 2015 – Book Launch and Signing Event, Jersey, GB (Members and Guests Only)
28th January 2015 – Savile Club Talk, London, GB (Members Only)
29th January 2015 – Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London. GB (Members and Guests Only)
13th February 2015 – Frontline Club, London, GB (Members and Guests Only)


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A much-cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:
> "Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical, minority views . . . Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society."
America wouldn't be what it is today without the Federalist Papers, which were published under a pseudonym.


Gina Carano has filed a lawsuit against Disney for what she claims is wrongful termination. The suit, which is now being funded by Elon Musk, has now received a response from Disney CEO Bob Iger, however subtle it may have been. When asked if he had thoughts on Carano’s new lawsuit filing in a recent interview with CNBC, Iger simply responded “none” before moving the conversation along.
Carano was fired from her Star Wars role of Cara Dune at the height of the pandemic for anti-trans and anti-Semitic social media posts.
“As a sign of X Corp’s commitment to free speech, we’re proud to provide financial support for Gina Carano‘s lawsuit, empowering her to seek vindication of her free speech rights on X and the ability to work without bullying, harassment, or discrimination,” X’s head of business operations Joe Benarroch shared in a statement announcing the platform’s funding of the lawsuit.
In that same statement, Carano said she believe X–the social platform formerly known as Twitter–was one of the last places for free speech in the world.
“Some of us have been unjustly singled out, harassed, persecuted, and had our livelihoods stripped away because we dared to encourage conversation, asked questions, and refused to go along with the mob,” Carano shared in a statement. She added, “I am honored that my case has been chosen to be supported by the company that has been one of the last glimmers of hope for free speech in the world.”
Lucasfilm and Disney ultimately fired Carano after a #FireGinaCarano hashtag started trending after her comments.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” the statement from Lucasfilm reads. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”


Government taskforce to tackle £600m serious and organised waste crime
The Government has launched a Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) bringing together law enforcement agencies, environmental regulators, HMRC and the National Crime Agency from across the UK to target waste criminals.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said serious and organised waste crime was estimated to cost the UK economy at least £600m a year.
The new unit will seek to tackle practices such as dumping hazardous materials on private land and falsely labelling waste so it can be exported abroad to unsuspecting countries.
The unit will conduct site inspections, make arrests and prosecutions and, upon conviction, push for heavy fines and custodial sentences, Defra said.
“By working together in this way, joint Unit partners can more easily share their intelligence and resources to take swifter action when investigating criminal waste operations and other connected illegal activities, such as money laundering and human trafficking.”
Last year the Environment Agency’s dedicated team stopped illegal waste activity at 912 sites – 12% more than the previous year. As a result of prosecutions taken by the Agency, businesses and individuals were fined almost £2.8m for environmental offences in 2018.
Toby Willison, Chair of the JUWC Board, said: “The war against waste crime just took a giant step forward. The launch of this new unit means we now have a full complement of partners across law enforcement as well as our counterparts in Scotland and Wales to bring down waste criminals for good.
“We will target serious and organised criminals across the country as they try to illegally exploit the waste industry and the environment. These criminal gangs need to know that we have them in our sights.”
Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers said: “Waste crime is a scourge on our environment and this new Joint Unit for Waste Crime will crack down on the criminals responsible.
“Criminals are shifting their focus to waste crime as they expand their illegal activities and it’s vital that we take action. The Joint Unit will shut down illegal waste sites, catch criminals before they can do further harm to our environment and local communities, and make them pay for the damage they have done through custodial sentences and the payment of compensation.”
Defra said that since 2015, six legislative changes had been made to enable the Environment Agency to take tougher action against waste criminals. This includes the Agency having the power to restrict access to problem waste sites by locking gates and barring access.


Multaq® Injury Lawsuits
If you or a loved one is taking Multaq® for atrial fibrillation, there are some risks you should be aware of. Multaq® has been linked to serious, life-threatening side effects in some users, including death, stroke, heart failure and liver problems.
In July 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified patients and health care providers that results from a clinical trial of Multaq® revealed that the drug doubled the risk of death, heart failure and stroke in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation.
According to the agency, the clinical trial was stopped early due to the findings. The FDA noted that the results raise questions about how the results apply to patients who use the drug for non-permanent atrial fibrillation.
This is the not the first FDA warning involving Multaq®. In January 2011, the FDA issued a safety alert to notify health care providers about cases of severe liver injury that were associated with Multaq®, including two cases of acute liver failure in which the patients needed liver transplants.
If you or someone you love has been prescribed Multaq® and has suffered serious side effects of the drug, our drug attorneys may be able to help you.To find out if a Multaq lawsuit isright for you, please contact us today.


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