Kusari News Update

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This is an excerpt from Ze'ev Barak's address to the graduating class of Okinawa University on Kyushu. Barak is the Leader of the Artisan Farmers Alliance and was asked to address the Graduates by the board of the University to speak about the problems facing Kusari in the years to come. The Artisan Farmers Alliance is a group representing farmers across Kusari, and Barak has being becoming more agressive in the past weeks in the Kusari press.


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[font=Calibri]Look up there, in our skies. You see ships from everywhere in the sector, bring goods and contraband from every corner of Sirius, poisoning our children and corrupting our culture Our culture which has managed to endure till this point due to our pride, honor and sacrifice. These outsiders have no idea of such concepts. Synthfoods brings their bio-dome grown food into our empire, full of chemicals and hormones, and surprise, the rate of cancers among Kusari children has doubled over the last 15 years. Right here in New Tokyo, right up there *points to sky* Roppongi station orbits our Capitol.. Our Capitol, an ever present reminder of the invasion of Kusari culture by the Outsiders. That station, run by Liberty brings drugs and foreign ideas into the Heart of the Shogunate. Our children our lead astray by these outsiders, leaving Kusari never to return. We must fight these outsiders; show them the power of the Shogun, the power of the Empire.

[font=Calibri]What has become of our Honor, Deshima station stands telling all of Sirius that we can no longer police ourselves, that we need more of these outsiders to catch our criminals. What could possibly be worse than this? These outsiders don't even use our products, Deshima station has Bio-domes to produce its food. Our farms grow the best food in Sirius, and these fields lay fallow, our noble farmers begging for a small shelf in the local market to peddle their produce.

[font=Calibri]My Brothers, It is time to put thought and word into action. It is time for the Kusari people to rise up and take back our honor, to regain our pride. It is time for Kusari to tell all our Sirius, "Our Markets are closed; we can supply and support ourselves." It is time for the Kusari people to drive these outsiders from our midst.

[font=Calibri]You my friends are the future of Kusari, it is you who have yet to choose how to serve your Empire. You graduate today, looking to make your mark on history, but not sure how. I will give you an option, come, fight for what you believe. Fight to make Kusari strong again, it is time for Kusari your age to understand that their future lays here; this is where they have something noble to fight for.

[font=Calibri]Come friends. Join me and together we shall show the Sector what it means to be Kusari.

For more Information contact the Artisan Farmers Alliance office on Kyushu or call http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13003
Kamoto Tamaga reporting from planet Kyushu for CNS.

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