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1st Amendment News Podcast

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The year is 2076. A fictional summary of historical news bulletins ( 1st Amendment Broadcast News) detailing events leading up to the splintering of the United States of America into six separate governing bodies: The Democratic Republic of Islamic American States, The Republic of Texas , Ohr Chadish Tzion, Ardhi Yangu, California Grande, Singula LIbertas. Additionally, a large portion of the Pacific Northwest (US and Canada), Alaska, and Hawaii have fallen under the control of the new super power, a united Korea. Support Our Podcast - Find 1st Amendment News T-Shirts and Travel Mugs at:https://www.zazzle.com/store/pop_and_kks_place/products

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S2E08_Minority Leader Malloy Calls for Federal Reserve Audit of Fort Knox Gold Reserve

October 09, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.24 MB

Overnight, the US dollar plunged on world money markets after Korea’s Premier Choe asserted America’s claim of one hundred and fifty million troy ounces of gold bullion stored at Fort Knox, Kentucky was a fabricated lie.  He stated his government had verifiable proof that the bullion stored at the highly secretive American gold reserve are nothing more than gold plated tungsten bars, a metal having a density almost identical to that of gold.  The Choe accusation, along with the sudden drop i...

S2E07_Unsanctioned Republics of Texas and California Officials Rumored to Have Discussed Future Secession Plans

October 06, 2020 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.39 MB

Before entering the Union in 1846, the Republic of Texas had been an independent nation for almost ten years.  The nation was almost as large in land area as the United States, and even had accumulated a sizable foreign debt due to its war with Mexico.  The debt, along with a substantial number of former American citizens with considerable political clout within the borders of Texas, eventually led to the annexation of the Republic of Texas into a position of American statehood.   To this da...

S2E06_Korea’s Hain Tojo Quietly Reviving America’s Old Defense Complex

October 02, 2020 16:00 - 5 minutes - 4.01 MB

Over the course of the past two years, the Korean Defense Ministry has quietly recruited, relocated, and assimilated former high level American defense researchers, scientists and engineers into key quality review positions within the Korean military research and development complex in Daejeon, Korea.  The American military experts were brought in to impart their knowledge and expertise with Korean defense technologists.  Knowledgeable sources say the number of American specialist involved i...

S2E05_President Ahmed Announces Shift in Party Affiliation at State of the Union Address

September 29, 2020 13:00 - 5 minutes - 3.89 MB

Last night at the start of her State of the Union address, President Halima Ahmed formerly announce the decision to flip her national political affiliation from the Social Reform Party over to the Islamic National Party.  And with that surprise public announcement, the President went on to detail how the shift in political parties will require some adjustments in administration policy and agenda.  Ahmed stressed that her Medicare Embrace program would remain a top priority; but the Islamic N...

S2E04_China Expresses Displeasure as Five Nations Petition Official Entry into Hain Tojo Province

September 25, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.1 MB

At the Asian Pacific Rim Alliance Winter Meeting; the nations of Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, and Singapore petitioned Korea for official entry into the Hain Tojo Province.  Premier Choe expressed his deep gratitude to the peoples of these brave nations for choosing to be the first to join the unified economic and military alliance of Pacific Rim nations.  Choe added that once the formal document of allegiance were signed and the national tributes collected from each nation that the nex...

S2E03_With Islamic National Party Election Gains, Nation No Longer Has a Majority Party

September 22, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.8 MB

The year was 1792.  And though President Washington opposed them, cautioned of the potential for partisanship, and chose to remain an independent through both his Presidential terms, the emergence of the American two-party political system still managed to germinate and spring forth through philosophical and political differences within Washington’s own inner circle of advisors.   Favoring a strong united central government, a central banking system, and maintaining strong established ties b...

S2E02_With Dollar Strengthening Ahmed Implements Next Phase of Entitlements

September 18, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.34 MB

With the U S dollar making a slow, yet steady, recovery in the foreign currency exchange markets, President Ahmed announced in an afternoon press conference that she felt that over the past few months the U S economy had stabilized sufficiently and the American people had regained confidence in the administration’s vision of providing a national safety net to protect the country’s most vulnerable citizens.  Therefore with that perceived national sentiment, the Congress should proceed immedia...

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S2E01_Premier Choe Announces Details of Hain Toji Alliance Charter

September 11, 2020 19:00 - 6 minutes - 4.7 MB

Last week, leaders of the Asian Pacific Rim of Nations met in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam to discuss an array of proposals on how best to build a more organized and unified structure to serve as the coalition’s guideline. However, Korea’s Premier Choe had already drawn up his own vision of the direction in which the alliance should be headed; and his perception of the region’s future was cemented in a conviction of strength, supremacy, and stability.  As the evenings keynote speaker. Choe seize...

S1E30_Declining Dollar Levels Off as China Holds Treasury Notes

September 08, 2020 17:00 - 5 minutes - 3.62 MB

One week after Japan sold off one trillion dollars’ worth of U S Treasury notes, Beijing announced that China would continue to hold its existing U S Treasury notes as a sign of support for the U S dollar.  Additionally, the Chinese government spokesperson announced that Beijing had bought up all of Japan’s previously owned US treasury notes which the former US ally had dumped unexpectedly on the foreign currency exchange market.  With the U S dollar at an all-time low, the investment would ...

S1E29_Japan Sells Off One Trillion Dollars in U S Treasury Note

September 04, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.03 MB

Over the weekend in Seoul, Premier Choe of Korea and Prime Minister Yokoma of Japan met to discuss key economic policies relating to the Hain Toji Alliance.  Outside financial observers believe the two dominant players within the Asian Pacific Rim coalition had major differences relating to the direction the alliance should move, both economically and militarily.  The Yokoma government had expressed a desire to proceed with caution and assure the Beijing government that the multi-nation unio...

S1E28_Choe Announces Korean Nuclear Capability at Emergency Asian Pacific Rim Conference

September 01, 2020 13:00 - 5 minutes - 3.48 MB

With daily skirmishes still popping up along the Indian-Chinese border, Korea’s Supreme Premier Choe called for an emergency session of nations associated with the loosely formed Asian Pacific Rim Conference.  As the meeting began, Choe informed the gathering that the members of the Conference need not cower down to the threat of the Chinese aggression.  The Korean leader assured the group that with a united front the coalition could stand up to either Chinese, Russian, or any other foreign ...

S1E27_Social Reform Party Regains Control of the House

August 28, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.03 MB

As Congress reopened for business following their winter recess, the main objective of the Social Reform Party was to reclaim the Speaker’s gavel from Speaker Malloy and the Federal Libertarian Party.  However the task was easier said than done.  Moderate Social Reform members, whom had sided with Malloy in the Speakership revolt, sought assurances that they would not be ostracized or penalized for select committee assignments, as a result of their previous party desertion.  Additionally, th...

S1E26_Situation Tense as China and India Face-off on Bangladesh Border

August 25, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 3.84 MB

Sunday morning, tensions between China and India reached a new high as Chinese troops cut across the narrow strip of Indian territory separating Bhutan and Bangladesh; and then crossed over the northern Bangladesh border into the city of Kurigram.  The aggression started late Friday night when the Chinese army crossed into Bhutan and swiftly drove through the country to the Indian border.  The Bhutan and Indian military were caught off-guard by the rapid deployment and were unprepared to res...

S1E25_House Minority Leader Malloy Uses Opposition Chaos to Gain Speakership Role

August 21, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.49 MB

Following the resumption of official business in the United States Congress after a fourteen day recess, House Minority Leader Joe Dean Malloy wasted little time in attempting to seize control of the chaotic situation.  From the opening gavel, the disarray within the Social Reform Party ranks was evident.  Assistant Speaker of the House Anglia Conklin opened the session and was immediately challenged in her leadership role.  As the first order of business, Deputy Chairman of the Ways and Mea...

S1E24_Social Reform Congressional Leadership Caucus Wiped Out in Fatal Crash

August 19, 2020 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.63 MB

At around 11:15 PM  last night, a special charter flight carrying the entire Social Reform Congressional Leadership Caucus crashed in a remote section of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, killing all of those onboard.  The private aircraft owned by Howard Moorland, one of the Social Reform Party’s biggest private donors, slammed into Mt Guyot; one of the highest points in the national park at 6,621 feet.   The mountain is part of a string of peaks which run along the rugged Tennessee-...

S1E23_First Monday in October_Supreme Court Expands to Fifteen Justices

August 14, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.27 MB

Historically, George Washington was the only President to have sworn in six Supreme Court justices within the span of one ceremony.  Washington realized that feat with the inaugural opening of the Supreme Court in 1789.  But this morning, with previous Congressional approval to expand the court to fifteen members; President Ahmed tied the former President’s two hundred and thirty-six year old milestone, and administered the oath of office to six new jurist appointed to sit in judgement over ...

S1E22_Russia and China Excluded from Asian Pacific Rim Summit in Seoul

August 11, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MB

Finishing touches have been attended.  Crowd barriers put in place. Potential dissidents rounded up.  And city streets swept to an immaculate tidiness.  So with two very prominent players left sitting on the sidelines, Korea’s financial capital is now ready to showcase its grandeur under the international spotlight as the Choe government prepares to host their first international summit in the city of Seoul.  Leaders from eleven Asian Pacific Rim nations will gather in two days to discuss tr...

S1E21_Choe Yields to Pressure

August 07, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.3 MB

Advocating for the immediate families of elderly members which have been designated as candidates to participate in the nation’s proposed Contributors Together Program; Vice Premier Park and a delegation of leading business and medical professionals, mostly from the southern provinces, met with Premier Choe and senior members of his administration to discuss changes to the country’s voluntary euthanasia program.  The Premier appeared unyielding in his vision to impose penalties on those qual...

S1E20_Convention of States Assembly Propose Balanced Budget Amendment

August 04, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.79 MB

When the Convention of States proxies representing all fifty states convened last Tuesday morning for a four day assembly in Philadelphia, three “items of concern” were on the agenda for consideration regarding their feasibility as potential amendments to be adapted into the U S Constitution. First, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.  Second, limit the terms of office for its officials and members of Congress.  And third, impose fiscal restraints on the federal gover...

S1E19_Ahmed Announces Implementation of Three Major Entitlement Programs

July 31, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MB

One week before the long awaited Assembly of States Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, President Ahmed spoke to an overflow crowd of supporters in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Earlier in the morning, the President had addressed a smaller group of investors and select donors at the US Air Force installation, formerly known as Area 51.  Ahmed announced with the shutdown of most of the facility’s military operations; the majority of the facility’s land area would be converted to a hi-tech electr...

S1E18_Korea’s New Voluntary Euthanasia Program Garners Extreme Criticism from Western Nations

July 28, 2020 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.21 MB

Stroking their red-hot economy, Korean officials are pulling no stops in removing any obstructions positioned in their path toward economic supremacy. However; one of the major stumbling blocks, which has caused a great deal of turmoil on the world stage, is how to deal with the elderly, uneducated peasant farmers who have long resided in the agricultural regions of the former North Korean provinces. For centuries, the impoverished sharecroppers have struggled to survive and possess no skill...

S1E17_Application for a Convention of States Delivered to Congress

July 24, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.58 MB

With the passage of the Federal Limitations Act by the Kentucky state senate on December 13th, 2024; the final brick was laid in the framework for a call of a formal Convention of States.  The enactment of this clause of Article 5 of the U S Constitution is an unprecedented event in our nation’s history.  The application initiates a formal calling of a Convention of States to amend the United States Constitution.  This constitutional process embedded in Article 5 has never been employed by t...

S1E16_Ahmed Wins Re-Election Bid

July 21, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 3.9 MB

Before the sun had set behind the Honolulu skyline and the beaches of Waikiki, Halima S. Ahmed had, once again, locked her place in American history.  By becoming the first woman ever elected to the Office of President of the United States, President Ahmed grabbed the elusive honor which others had only hoped for in previous election battles.   Along with all the other ‘first’ which she had achieved when appointed to the Office of the President back in February, 2023, the newly elected Presi...

S1E15_General Choe Taun-dae Elected First Premier of Unified Republic of Korea

July 17, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.08 MB

On the first anniversary of the reunification of the Korean people under one controlling government, the country’s first general election was held.  And in a mild upset according to Western observers; Supreme Commander of the Korean Defense Force, General Choe Taun-dae, beat out his four competitors to be named the first Premier of the Unified Republic of Korea.  Choe avoided a run-off election by grabbing fifty-two percent of the vote. In his former homeland, the Northern provinces; the gen...

S1E14_Republic of Texas Conference Draws Attention of Federal Law Enforcement Officials

July 14, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.24 MB

A raucous crowd of approximately 2000 Texian delegates jeered and taunted federal law enforcement agents sent in by the Department of Homeland Security to disperse the gathering at the Stephen F Austin Convention Center in San Antonio.  DHS officials chose to wait until after the closing benediction to move in and break up the crowd.   In previous years, the annual rally had gone largely unnoticed outside of the State of Texas; but this year’s assembly gained national attention after Congres...

S1E13_President Ahmed Goes Before Congress to Deliver First State of the Union Address

July 10, 2020 12:00 - 5 minutes - 3.97 MB

Just days before President Ahmed celebrated the first anniversary of her historic Presidency, she was tasked with delivering her first State of the Union message before a joint session of Congress. The general consensus from both political and journalistic observers was that the speech's intent was to serve as an igniter for her 2024 Presidential re-election bid. The topics ranged from a proposal to increase the number of judicial seats on the Supreme Court bench from nine to fifteen; stress...

S1E12_Under Threat of Governmental and Economic Collapse Ahmed Temporarily Shelves Medicare-Embrace Plans

July 01, 2020 10:00 - 4 minutes - 3.16 MB

Under strong pressure from privately owned insurance company advocates and growing evidence that implementation of the proposed Medicare-Embrace ( the Medical coverage for all program cost burden), would devastate the nation's economy, the White House announced a temporary stall in the implementation of the plan. By early spring, all Medicare and Medicaid recipients were to have been introduced into the Phase One segment of the program; all remaining uninsured beneficiaries would have fallen...

S1E11_Dollar Continues Slide As US Unemployment Figures and Massive Deficit Spending Fuel Expanding Global Recession

July 01, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.65 MB

With Department of Labor unemployment figures projected to hit at or near the twenty percent level, the Ahmed administration is scrambling to downplay the horrific jobless rate; while at the same time, top level White House economic advisers continue to spin the benefits of the soon to be implemented, yet extremely costly, Medicare-Embrace program. However; critics of the President's expensive new "healthcare for all" program cite that of the many negative attributes associated with nullifyi...

S1E10_Weapons Standoff Ends at Korean Naval Facility

June 25, 2020 13:00 - 4 minutes - 3.31 MB

After a week of intense negotiations pertaining to the ownership of twenty-four W80A Tomahawk medium range missiles stored in a nuclear weapons armory on Korea's Busan Naval Base, US and Korean officials reached an agreement for the release of the nuclear devices back into the hands of the US Navy. Earlier in the week, a Korean special forces unit had seized control of the weapon's facility and possession of the nuclear warheads. Korean officials, headed by Supreme Commander General Choe, as...

S1E9_Korean Forces Seize US Nuclear Weapons Depot on Busan Naval Base

June 25, 2020 13:00 - 5 minutes - 3.55 MB

Early Sunday morning, an elite Korean special forces unit overpowered a skeleton security detail guarding the American weapons depot on Busan Naval Base , a joint Korean/American naval facility located on the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula, and seized control of the arsenal. The armory is believed to hold a cache of nuclear warheads, most likely mounted on upgraded Tomahawk IV medium range missiles. All nuclear devices had been remove from South Korea in the late 1990's. However; t...

S1E8_Nation Braces for Record Unemployment Numbers

June 23, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutes - 3.04 MB

Dark days are ahead for the US economy according to the nation’s leading economist. Projected record unemployment levels are expected to hit the struggling economy even harder as discharged veterans from the military draw-down enter the stagnate job market, next month. Some sources estimate the number of jobless veterans could go as high as five hundred thousand. Support Our Podcast -  Find 1st Amendment News T-Shirts and Travel Mugs at: https://www.zazzle.com/store/pop_and_kks_place/produc...

S1E7_A Unified Korea An Uncertain Yet Potentially Powerful Nation

June 23, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutes - 3.83 MB

After weeks of heated debate, threatened walkouts, hostile accusations, and stern prodding on both sides by US officials; a viable and conducive agreement for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula was finally reached and signed on June 30th, 2023. Until this morning, the contents of the agreement were held in tight secrecy and known only to the bargaining officials. Officials feared a potential collapse in the agreement, if certain elements of the proposal were not implemented prior to a...

S1E6_A Unified Korea Not Every One Is Happy

June 23, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutes - 3.67 MB

As the Korean reunification treaty was being signed at the former Demilitarized Zone’s Joint Security Area (Panmunjom); South Korean forces battled protesters in the Yeouido District of Seoul – South Korea’s main financial and government center. The demonstrators consisted of investors, small business owners, and ordinary citizens opposed to the unpopular agreement. Angry protesters have also gathered outside the American Embassy walls, shouting anti-American slogans and throwing bricks and ...

S1E5_Ahmed Announces Massive Defense Cuts

June 23, 2020 04:00 - 5 minutes - 3.77 MB

At a pre-Memorial Day dinner hosted last night by joint American veteran associations, President Halima Ahmed startled the pro-military crowd when she proposed her plan to drastically cut defense spending and manpower over the course of the next six months. The stunned gathering listened in disbelief as the President rolled our her radical new plan.   First, Ahmed revealed her intent to negotiate an accelerated  peace settlement between North Korea and South Korea. The plan calls for an imme...

S1E3 A Nation in Crisis

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 6 minutes - 4.42 MB

An unconfirmed report of an averted constitutional crisis, just hours before President Ahmed’s inauguration ceremony, is circulation within the inner circles of the nation’s power brokers.   An unnamed source, said to be a high ranking senior official from former President Coleman’s administration, told of an unprecedented, top secret meeting which was held at Camp David.  The alleged participants were all nine members of the Supreme Court, the Senate Majority Leader (Kelly Hutchinson), Sena...

S1E3_A Nation in Crisis

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 6 minutes - 4.42 MB

An unconfirmed report of an averted constitutional crisis, just hours before President Ahmed’s inauguration ceremony, is circulation within the inner circles of the nation’s power brokers.   An unnamed source, said to be a high ranking senior official from former President Coleman’s administration, told of an unprecedented, top secret meeting which was held at Camp David.  The alleged participants were all nine members of the Supreme Court, the Senate Majority Leader (Kelly Hutchinson), Sena...

S1E2 Presidential First

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MB

 In an ironic twist of fate, the day designated to honor our nations President turned into a ‘day of firsts”.  As a part of the President’s Day celebration, former Speaker Halima Ahmed was sworn in as the 49th President of the United States; and in the process became the first Muslim, the first female, the first person under the age of forty, and the first Speaker of the House to assume the duties of the Presidency under Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 19 of the U.S. code – the law covering the ...

S1E2_Presidential First

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MB

 In an ironic twist of fate, the day designated to honor our nations President turned into a ‘day of firsts”.  As a part of the President’s Day celebration, former Speaker Halima Ahmed was sworn in as the 49th President of the United States; and in the process became the first Muslim, the first female, the first person under the age of forty, and the first Speaker of the House to assume the duties of the Presidency under Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 19 of the U.S. code – the law covering the ...

S1E5 Ahmed Announces Massive Defense Cuts

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutes - 3.77 MB

At a pre-Memorial Day dinner hosted last night by joint American veteran associations, President Halima Ahmed startled the pro-military crowd when she proposed her plan to drastically cut defense spending and manpower over the course of the next six months. The stunned gathering listened in disbelief as the President rolled our her radical new plan.   First, Ahmed revealed her intent to negotiate an accelerated  peace settlement between North Korea and South Korea. The plan calls for an imme...

S1E1_Unrest Mounts at District of Columbia Quarantined Zone Border Wall

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MB

On a date, which at one time would have marked the celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, the National Security Force (NSF) for the Democratic Republic of Islamic American States (DRIAS) pushed back angry demonstrators attempting to gain access along the northern border wall of the District of Columbia Quarantined Neutral Zone (DCQNZ).  Armed with sledge hammers, iron rods, and paint filled balloons; the zealous followers of Abal Isma...

S1E4 U S Code Holds Precedence Over 25th Amendment in Clarifying Order of Presidential Succession

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutes - 3.2 MB

To be honest, after the office of the Vice President, the average American citizen has no idea of the legal order of succession to fill a vacancy in the Office of President of the United States - or even where to find that order of succession?   Under ordinary circumstances, the Constitution of the United States provides guidance for filling a vacated Presidency. Our Founding Fathers established the initial guidance for Removal, Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Power and Dut...

S1E4_U S Code Holds Precedence Over 25th Amendment in Clarifying Order of Presidential Succession

June 22, 2020 19:00 - 4 minutes - 3.2 MB

To be honest, after the office of the Vice President, the average American citizen has no idea of the legal order of succession to fill a vacancy in the Office of President of the United States - or even where to find that order of succession?  Under ordinary circumstances, the Constitution of the United States provides guidance for filling a vacated Presidency. Our Founding Fathers established the initial guidance for Removal, Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Power and Dut...