A General Meeting of the Conspiracy will be held on the Vernal Equinox as is traditional. The venue will be the Colliseum in Rome.

The meeting has been organised by the newly restored Lentulus Potiatus, gladiator trainer extroadinaire, who has acquired a new robotic body following an accident with the last one. Lentulus invites any Conspirators to arrange duels to take place within the confines of the arena.

Personal arms are, of course, banned from the facility. Weaponry which has been surgically grafted to the subject must be disabled and peace bonded. Psionic dampening fields will be active in all areas. Magicians are asked to refrain from practising their arts within the confines of the facility on pain of censure. These restrictions will not apply to duellists, but only for the duration of their duel.

To clarify: In the next meeting implanted weaponry will be assumed to be disabled, Psychic Powers will be unusable and magic of course forbidden, except within the duelling section.
 
OOC NOTE: This will be the session in Week 7 Hilary - Week 8 will be the debrief, so this is the FINAL SESSION.

I was born and raised in the United Kingdom.

Despite having been given the opportunity to have travel the world and see many wonderful sites, I have found that there is only one place that I wish to call my home, and that is here in this fine land.
I do not believe in maintaining the status quo because that means that things cannot change, and change is an unavoidable necessity, but a change as sudden as the one that we have been seeing over the past two weeks with such a high death toll requires a lot of analysis.  Due to my interest in this country, I have personally gone back to my journalistic roots and interviewed the two main candidates in this awesome political struggle; King William V and the elusive Tomas Jones.

Acquiring the interview with Mr. Jones was surprisingly easy, despite the amount of radical measures being taken to hide his whereabouts.  A relatively swift phone conversation with a remarkably chirpy personal secretary who seemed to be already expecting a call from either myself or from my offices, had managed to arrange a conversation with Mr. Jones and myself within the space of half an hour.

Naturally, I understand that there is a lot of interest in having the media on your side in such distinct event, but I assumed that the interview may have taken a few days to set up especially since he was apparently playing war games with a nation.

I received the phone call at about 21:30 GMT whereby Mr. Jones introduced himself and was happy to answer any of the questions that I provided him with what I would professionally consider to be competent sound-biting, had it not been that I couldn't help but over hear him ask someone in hurried whispers, "So what do I say to him?"

Perhaps, I think to myself, that he is more of a military man and not a press-orientated chap, but it turns out that he was well armed with a pseudo political argument as to why they should be in power instead of the current British aristocracy.

"We are replacing a corrupt political regime," he stated with an up-beat tone, not dissimilar to that of the receptionist, "one that has enjoyed years of corruption and sway over the public through acts of negligence and red-tape based ignorance."

Wiping out the members Houses of Parliament has done that, although the motion it has been done was not unlike the Gunpowder Plot and certainly as radical.

"The British monarchy has by far reached its sell-by date and needs to be removed as a power base for an archaic form of running a country."
It was with this statement that I needed to question his motivations; I like the monarchy, albeit that I understand that they don't have the powers that used to hold in yester-year, but as a base of spiritual leadership in what is still a primarily Christian orientated country it remains a positive alternative to President.  Britain wouldn't really be Britain without its famous figurehead icon.  Disposing of the monarchy, especially with such violent methods, is unnecessary and ethically wrong.

"Once I am placed in to the seat of power we shall be able to restructure a governmental strata that will compliment a system to support all over the publics requirements."

It is with this statement, that I am recognizing an old school approach to fiddling with a country - in the same way the Saxons and the Normans tried to take over the land: by force alone.

Tom Jones, apparently no relation to the singer, and the regime that he intends to put in to place believe themselves to have been inspired by the Zhen Dao government and wish to introduce and maintain a steady friendship with them, but do not believe they are mimicking them in any way.  Having spoken personally to "Lucky" Yin, I suspect he would not approve of such banal and ungraceful tactics and may be slightly insulted by the suggestion.

Mr. Jones also went on to state that he has no love for Baron Fortesque, recently appointed U.N. Secretary General, and implied as far as I'm concerned, that Mr. Jones and his associates have every intention of removing the good Baron from the political scene in whatever fashion they desire.

By the end of the interview, I felt an urge to throw my phone at the wall.  I have never been to sickened by an interview since speaking with the late Dame "Maggie" Thatcher concerning foreign policies.
After some ascertaining further information from reliable sources, I discovered that the phone call was being made from the House of Westminster and it was driven home to me what kind of abomination was sitting in that age-old seat of democracy.

Later that evening, I was given the chance to have a brief, literally impromptu chat with King William V, whom I have not had the chance to speak to before.  This turned in to something of a swift interview with Baron Fortesque joining us to add comments of his own.
King William was there in person and was a harrowed man who made no attempt to mask the fact that he was deeply concerned about the state of the country and the, more-so, the future from the British public.

"In a matter of days, a terrifying number of men and women have died.  Each soldier and politician that has died, every one of them 'some mother's son or daughter' have been brought to an untimely end at the hands of this mysterious transgressor, were unaware of the war that has been initiated upon us."

It was at this time that I became fully aware that he was not just worried about the fate of the country, and I deeply believe that he did not care in the slightest of whether he would survive this horrendous eventuality, but more that he was grieved to an unfathomable level for the death of his countrymen.

"This was murder.  I have no substantial military force anymore.  There is little I can do in this seat of so-called 'power'.  Money will not make a difference.  The N.H.S., the social services, law enforcement and other civil utilities have been thrown in to havoc due to this calamity.  I am a King, but a king is worth nothing if he cannot serve his people."
Baron Fortesque, despite the tone and also no longer being an active member of the U.K., having now been added to the U.N. rosters, still has a genuine interest in organizing a reproach to this act of barbarism.

"There is no end to which I will not go to ensure that this filthy up-start is brought to justice in the highest courts of the land."

It haunts me now, seeing our King the way I did.  He wore the face of a stricken country, and he wore it with eyes of gun-metal grey, knowing that if there was a single thing he could do, he would place his life as its stake.

And this is why I write this article, Great Britain.  I, like your King, am a citizen of this fine country, and I believe that it is time to rise up and repel the encroaching tyranny that is "Tom Jones" and his ridiculous band of lunatics.  I believe in revolution, but organised revolution.  I believe in change, but only for the better.

This is not for the better.

Westminster must be purged.  The seats of power must be purged.  Tom Jones and his colleagues in this destruction must be purged.
I urge this United Kingdom to march on Westminster and bring this tyrant to justice.  You will find your King leading the way, as they have always done, and I for one will follow him every step of the way.

- Nathanial Nikolaivietch Kamarov, the K.L.F. Media Group

Fighting continued in the UK, with supporters of both the government-in-exile and Thomas Jones fighting for control of Manchester. Civilian casualties are rumoured to be high, with both sides conducting indiscriminate shelling. The Red Cross has been unable to enter the city, but international aid groups predict a humanitarian disaster. Recent weeks have seen a deadlock in the fighting, with neither side able to gain ground. Fighting has mainly been confined to the Midlands, but civil disorder is widespread...

I'm told that the Conspiracy is largely backing the Edinburgh government. People have been shipping them arms, equipment and even soldiers in large quantities.

Hey guys - not much time to write, GF has fired up a slightly dodgy carrier rig and we're managing to piggyback on some wireless signals coming out of the big tower on Jersey. Jones is shutting down all wireless & wired networks capable of carrying phone signal and this will probably be my last post in this blog until the war's over.

Apparently someone out in Cornwall has got a bunch of antique dialup gear but the last we heard of them was Tuesday and of course my mobile phone's stopped working. Dunno how long we've got till they take us offline too. Don't do anything stupid like come looking for me - the situation here's deteriorating daily, you can hear gunfire from Westminster almost every night and it's getting closer. We're gonna try the run to Edinburgh tonight, GF's parents have a house out in the country up near there.

Signing off--

Naturally most Conspirators have ways of getting around the internet blackouts, but everyone else is certainly being heavily affected. The economy may be shot to hell for years to come, although the Dow Jones exchange are still valiantly trying to continue despite repeated Molotov attacks...

OK, today we're going to be making an model of the Amazonian rainforest, complete with helpness natives being exploited by evil construction men!

*subliminal flash of Thomas Jones holding a sign saying 'love me'*

Here's one I made earlier! As you can see, it's really easy to make, as long as you have a proffessional set designer to help you build it, but you should be able to make do on your own as long as you have an adult to help you use the scissors.

*subliminal flash of Thomas Jones standing in front of the Union Jack*

Firstly, you'll need:

Glue, scissors, a blow torch, one tonne of industrial strength solvent...

Every programme, every day. Jones is seizing control of the UK with the power of FNORD!

Yin Industries have this week begun the process of taking over Unilever, something which the UK Monopolies and Mergers Commission has failed to pass comment on, due to the current instability in the "United" Kingdom.

While it is unlikely that the merger would be affected, this commission does in theory have the power to block its completion...

... but it would require Conspiracy level influence to get a decision they made to stick. Yin has now become an economic superpower, owning two of the largest TNCs in the world with this move.

The number of new cases of Orange Fever worldwide dropped for the third month in a row according to statistics published yesterday. The current incidence of new cases has been described by the World Health Organisation as "negligable", and as such they have ended their specific warning against the disease.

Experts believe that the majority of the world's populatin is now immune to this strain of the disease, and expect any mutations which may occur in the future to cause only minor fevers, with none of the associated psychological disorders.

Burned out, eh? ... Does that mean it has infected everyone and the world has survived, or does it mean that it was stopped? Guess I'll never know, but I hope someone does...

Undercover journalists in the "United" Kingdom report a massive troop build-up over the past few weeks, with a massive publicity campaign encouraging young men and women to join Tomas Jones' expanding force of ground troops.

Some reports indicate that incentives have been offered for swift volunteers, while others suggest that some suitable candidates have been forcibly conscripted. Humanitarian organisations, already calling for a swift end to the conflict to prevent loss of human life and demanding the international community take further action against Tomas Jones' unelected leadership, have expressed fears that this "conscript army", which is reportedly badly trained and equipped, will be sent into live combat against civilians marked as sympathetic to insurgent groups.

Jones is certainly building up to something. I wish I knew what - or, indeed, who's behind the man.

This is not S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R.  This is not an operation that will suggest we have a clue as to what is going on.  This is not the pseudo conspiracy wannabes that have flailed around trying to make people uncomfortable for months on end.  This is a reporter that has had enough of watching some pack of ridiculous, immature munchkins playing around in the affairs of the world with no leverage what-so-ever.

There is no money being transferred from anyone’s bank accounts.  There is no excuse for the pathetic suggestion that we are behind the tragic losses in Poland, Panama and the tsunami that has brought devastation to the world.  As of yesterday, I investigated the sources of the S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R. press releases and have attempted to pass on all relevant details on to the authorities around the world.  As of now, the band of paltry morons that refer to themselves as S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R. are considered as international terrorists and should be dealt with accordingly.

Any further details that this reporter can acquire will be posted henceforth.  Yours truly, Ellis Millar.

Oh, and to the aforementioned morons; come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.

In a daring raid, SAS men have freed Prime Minister Smythe from the clutches of Thomas Jones. Details are scarse at this time, but it is believed the PM is in Edinburgh, taking control of the provisional government. No doubt Thomas Jones shall soon be ejected from his usurped office, and the UK once again free of Tyranny.

Some say the PM was looking a little cross-eyed: I wonder if that's something important?

F.A.S.T. have recently managed to impress the media and the governments of the world with their counter-terrorist capabilities when, as a unified syndicate of interests, managed to make a swift and surgical strike in to Mongolia and remove the presence of a large terrorist faction.  Despite speculation of whether or not the maneuver was technically legal, China and Zhen Dao amalgamated intelligence reports and evidence of an international terrorist group operating close to the border of Mongolia and acted swiftly to isolate and overwhelm a splinter cell supporting the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Uncle "Lucky" Yin proudly noted, "We a merely operating in the same modus operandi as the terrorists by not recognizing borders whilst dealing with them.  I can also reveal at this time that the splinter cell had also placed insurgents and spies in amongst the Mongolian embassies and would have reported our movements had we broadcasted them."

It was with this contemporary logic, that finally other members of the Asian nations have recognized a substantial reason for membership within F.A.S.T. and initial relations have been opened in order to discuss the possibility of joining the federation of Asian states.

>>>>They've GOT to be connected IMO. Four explosive "gas leaks" all >>>>in one week?! We know most of the time that stuff is just a cover >>>>for the attacks of the New World Order.

>>>Yeah, but the locations are too far apart: Luxembourg, Milan, Paris >>>and Zurich - they're not connected! And all of them were just >>>random civvie houses, except the bank in Zurich.

>>Maybe that's it! A cover to throw us off! The UFOs are attacking >>the Gnomes of Zurich - I'll get to the press right away...

>*sigh*

shark shark shark shark the shark knows the shark sees the shark blows shit up shark shark shit shark

In a move that has stunned pundits and political commentators, the French President and German Chancellor have thrown their full support behind British usurper Tomas Jones. Pundits stood amazed as both administrations delivered withering condemnations of the "Rebel" government-in-exile based in Edinburgh, and categorically stated that they would be willing to help with aid, supplies and troops as Jones continues his campaign against the insurgents. Across Europe and indeed the world, the unspoken fear is that three major nuclear powers are now united behind an unelected leader.

It was an exceptionally clever job of replacement - getting past some near-Conspiracy-level security in some cases - but those men aren't the French and German leaders. They've been replaced.

Spoilers for the new Star Trek series due out next year - Star Trek: Conspiracy! 

This series finds the crew of the USS Killian exploring a distant sector of the galaxy. During the series, they will slowly discover that this sector has been stealthily infiltrated and taken over by a race called the Topians. In an early episode, they will reveal to the citizens of the planets Plutokh and Curiana that their governments have been infiltrated. But the real terror begins when they discover that their own ship has been infiltrated.

The series is slated to start next April, and will star a major Hollywood figure - but our source won't yet reveal who.

These are very Conspiracy sounding names - perhaps someone in the know is trying to release a coded message. They must be stopped at once lest they reveal us to the masses.

You may think that deaths from food poisoning or heart attacks are normal. You may think these are commonplace and natural.

BUT NO!!

In an international EXCLUSIVE, after months of exhaustive research, the Weekly World News can reveal the TRUE CAUSE of these APPARENTLY UNCONNECTED deaths due to 'natural causes' -

The ancient and mysterious order of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR!

Last week, in Missouri, a young man named Jeffrey Phelps was rushed to hospital with food poisoning. He was pronounced DOA. Why?? Because his FATHER once worked in the SAME OIL REFINERY as a Templar GRANDMASTER who cannot be named for legal reasons!

During the SAME WEEK, Tan Min-Wei, a sergeant and Tae Kwon Do instructor in the close-combat wing of the Singapore military, was found HORRIBLY DEAD of MYSTERIOUS CAUSES in his barracks. Why?? Because he had attended a British college known to be RIFE with MYSTICISM and TEMPLAR LINKS!

These are only a few examples of the EVIL INFLUENCE and MYSTERIOUS DEATHS that this society inflicts upon our innocent citizens! Action must be taken now! Send cheques to the Anti-Templar Association of North America, PO Box 555-55, today!

Templar links, ha ha ha ha ha. More interesting is the large number of brain worms found suddenly and inexplicably dead. Again. They really don't seem too happy at the moment, poor critters. At least the ones who are still alive will no doubt breed tough as old boots.

Coca cola's advertising machine has been in full force over the winter period with two highly successful campaings shown throughout the US and Asian markets.

Their Christmas campaign featured Sofia Li, daughter of Hong Kong's Jet Li, dressed as Santa Claus. The TV advert features Li dexterously throwing herself down a chimney, rolling out of the fire place, leaping in to the air and hurling toys in to the hands of gleeful children before she escapes back up to Rudolf where the two of them, exhausted by a hard nights work, share some Coca Cola from a new design of bottle.

In the new year, the adverts featured lots of attractive Oriental girls prancing to the Coca Cola theme tune while 'Lucky' Charlie Yin swigged from the new Coca Cola bottle.

Yin is promoting Coca Cola now, is he? Is there anything he won't do? After all that controversy over the world's water, one has to wonder if there's anything in the Coke...

Guerilla journalists working undercover within the war-torn "United" Kingdom have reported that a massive explosion, its cause as yet unknown, has demolished 10 Downing Street, headquarters of Tom Jones' "New Britain" regime. Neither the rebel groups based in Edinburgh nor King William's forces have yet claimed responsibility, and foreign governments stand mystified as the threat of nuclear retaliation stands foremost in everyone's mind. Jones himself is missing, presumed dead, following the attack, as are many of his top ministers. Security around the site has been impenetrable for several weeks, reporters say, and no theories have yet emerged on how someone could have smuggled an explosive device into the building.

Explosive devices? ICBMs? Bollocks to that - the explosion was caused by a Conspiracy laser strike. Tom Jones is dead, long live the doubtless-soon-to-be-appointed-cloned-figurehead.

The Curwen Institute for the Criminally Insane has released a statement confirming reports of a riot on Sunday night.

The statement is brief and uninformative, stating merely that the break-in occurred and that inmates in the Charles Dexter Ward were able to leave their cells temporarily, but that they were all recaptured by the end of the night. Unfortunately there was one casualty - a man who checked himself in the week before and identified himself only as "The Detective" was found hanged in his cell.

The Charles Dexter ward is where are held some of the most dangerous criminals are housed in the exclusive Institute. It is unclear exactly how the riot occured, but the Herald has spoken to a member of security who wished to remain anonymous. He said that the cental security office was strangely unmanned at the time of the riot, leaving the guards with little information to help them recapture the inmates. He suggested that the riot may have been organised by someone with an ulterior motive.

Like a conspirator then? That Institute houses a number of the Conspiracy's less socially acceptable ex-members, especially within the Charles Dexter Ward. Lets just hope their statement that no-one broke out is true ... we don't want that homicidal psychic Henry Cameron on the loose again...

S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R.  (the Secret International Network of Illicit Superior Terrorists Exacting Revenge) today announced that following recent inept takeover bids by corporate competitors, S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R. has been going through a difficult time.

"And frankly, we don’t see why any of you should have it any easier," said Miss Dexter, S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R.'s CEO and Head of Illegal Activities, "Our chemists have been working night and day to produce an all-new toxin; it’s rather special and we’re very proud of it. It builds up slowly in the systems of organisms that consume it, causing genetic changes which eventually lead to chemical alterations on the brain which cause the victims’ grey matter to become highly flammable and eventually spontaneously combust."

To celebrate the creation of this fantastic new product, S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R. are launching Operation You Have No Idea What Foodstuffs Cranio-Phlogiston Has Been Added To So Pay Up Or We Won’t Withdraw Them.

“It’s been a miserable couple of months for us, what with random fake messages being delivered claiming to be from me, yet another space-based laser being lost, this one simply going off by itself and sending me bizarre emails of its own accord, so I decided our new operation should be as insidious and unpleasant as possible. If anyone has a problem with that, f**k ‘em.”

S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R. is a privately owned international crime syndicate and the current market leader in illegal operations on a global scale.

Shocking - a press release from S.I.N.I.S.T.E.R. in the correct style and distributed in the correct way. It might even be genuine ...

Posh-toff King William IV defied the legitimate government for the last time today, by fortifying Buckingham Palace and declaring himself ruler of the UK until Thomas Jones' fine collection of statesmen, unrivalled since the days of Churchill, are out of power. No doubt controlled by EVIL ASYLUM SEEKERS, William called for international support for his cause, while holding off loyalist troops with barricades made out FINE UPSTANDING TORY VOTERS. This 'newspaper' calls on King William to step down immediately, and make sure Britain retains the fine traditions and culture on which she was build - traditions only Jonesism can maintain!

William is well supported by Conspirators, but not enough so to take London. Is he doing this in support of Edinburgh though, or making himself a third player in this game?

>>>>>> ...so when we researched into the changing shapes,
>>>>>> we discovered serious similarities with symbols
>>>>>> used in the worship of this really obscure Mayan
>>>>>> god who apparently has this name like "he who eats
>>>>>> goatflesh", now to us the chupacabra link was
>>>>>> obvious, so...

>>>>>  GOATSUCKER!!!

>>>> What?

>>> Do you not think this discussion might not be more
>>> appropriate on alt.goat.fanciers?

>> Spack off, I'm trying to have a serious discussion here.
>> What I'm saying is that this change in the shape of the
>> circles really is significant.

> It's obviously a hoax. I mean come on, the shape looks
> like a fucking palmtop. This is going to be some sort of
> advertising campaign from
> AOL-Time-Compaq-Hewlett-Packard-Dell-Disney-Warner-Schwepps
> and you know it.

Nonsense, it looks nothing like a palmtop, it's more like a
Star Trek recorder thingie, this is probably the sci-fi geeks
having a go again.

The circle shapes have changed - and they look remarkably similar to a relatively common basic scanning device currently produced by the Prometheans and not yet released to the public. What's going on here? And could there be some connection to the unusually large quantites of Reticulan technology that's been appearing, apparently from airdrops, at deserted locations around the world? We think we've got them all so far, but it looks to me like someone's making a determined effort to kickstart world technology in a direction which would not be advantageous to us.