OCEANIA ORACLE

ISSUE #21- 01/25/95
No Nonsense New Nation News - © 1995

INDEX

• TRAMM HUDSON DAY
• A4M WEB SITE
• OCEANIA PIONEER'S JOURNAL
• HOSPITAL SHIP
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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TRAMM HUDSON DAY

I am also looking for collections of .gif graphics for use in the web site. I need everything from pictures of dolphins to a picture of a book for the soon-to-exist documents page. If you have such collections, it would be best to send them to us as one large .zip file. Sharpening our image is an inexpensive way to get media attention.

A4M WEB SITE

OCEANIA PIONEER'S JOURNAL

HOSPITAL SHIP

We have "boat loads" of research to do on the hospital ship
idea before writing a business plan. This would include:

* cost of acquiring a ship, or building a new one
* market research; numbers have to be provided
* survey of physicians to find out if there are really any interested
in working on the ship (most doctors I know are fat and happy
in their mansions on Riverside Drive)
* legal issues, such as where we would be allowed to "operate" 
Each country is bound to have its own rules, restrictions and regs. Even
though the ship could mostly stay in international waters, we can't just
ignore ethics elsewhere. The ship would have no defense, really, so it would
have to remain on everyone's good side.
* real business plans have to discuss cash flow, real or planned, marketing,
capital costs, maintenance and ops cost, management (probably the most
important item), etc...

There is bound to be more. Perhaps a complete list of tasks is a good
way to get started on doing the work needed. Then we can divvy up.

1. There is a ship called the California Rose for sale in southern 
california.
2. The California Rose, like many ships of it's size/date is electric
powered. This means that the ship carries large dynamos, large enough
to power a small country or good size city. This was part of the
mission of a hospital ship - go to a ravaged area, tie up to a pier,
and hook up power to the shore to replace ruined services and help
in the emergency. An old hospital ship could power your whole island.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

>From Otto J. Makela:

>Elsie Russell's husband's great-great-great-great ('bout a thousand
>more greats) grandfather Harrington wrote the first utopian novel -
>Oceania in the 1600's.  Her work is now featured in the Oceania
>Mall's Gallery.

Please.  Obviously one of the first utopian novels was the one that set
the name for the whole genre, Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) "Utopia".
It still makes for good reading, and sounds a lot like some people's
ideas of what Oceania should be like.

A another bit of culture history: the reason I am not terribly thrilled
about using the name Oceania is that it was the name of the totalitarian
pseudo-socialist state in George Orwell's "1984".

Editor's reply:  We like the name because of the irony involved.  And
for the record, Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia.

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