The Vinland Herald

Statement, Motion, Debate, Division

Speaker’s office sets out how today’s Archive sitting will run; judgement wording not yet public; escort and Intertie wait for the end

By Sunniva Rask, Political Correspondent, Hokelgard

The Speaker’s office put out its running order at 19:00 on Monday. It is four lines long.

First, a Government statement on its account of the Archive breach. Second, the First Peoples’ Assembly’s motion for the chamber’s judgement on that account. Third, debate. Fourth, a division.

Officials said there would be no time limit on debate. If the sitting runs past the evening, it will adjourn and resume on Wednesday morning. In that case the escort motion and the Intertie referral move to Wednesday too.

The wording of the Assembly’s motion has not been published. It will be tabled when the sitting opens. Ms Sakej-Eriksen has said for a week that the judgement must name 14 and 15 July as part of the record. Her party has also asked that it set out the dates of the 24 August alert and the 27 August switch-off.

The Government has not said how it will vote. It said on Monday it had nothing to add to the papers already given to the chamber. The ten-sitting-day timetable for its remaining federal answers still stands.

Liv Karhagen, Leader of the Opposition, said Labour would support a motion that named the days. “If the chamber can count to ten, it can count to two,” she said. “Eight days were produced. Two were not. Write that down.”

Hanne Loft of the Green River Alliance kept her conditional yes on the escort. “Archive first,” she said. “Then the frigates. Then the Shield. Today if the chamber can. Tomorrow if it must.”

Landvern’s Bjarne Tollefsrud said his members would speak in the debate “for the families, not for the firm”. He did not say how they would vote.

Attorney General Quiet; Brandvold Still Unseen

No new step since Friday’s preservation notice; board’s thirty-day review under way; chief executive unseen since the Ombud’s finding

By Peter Okimaw, Political Correspondent, Hokelgard

The Attorney General’s office had nothing new to say on Monday about its inquiry into Hvelv Systems.

The records-preservation notice served at the firm’s North Bank head office at 15:30 on Friday still governs. It covers the logs, backups and messages linked to the breach of 6 to 15 July. It names the 24 August alert and the contract server switched off on 27 August. A spokesman said the inquiry was “at work”. He would not say whether chief executive Oskar Brandvold would be interviewed.

Hvelv did not comment. Its board said on Saturday that an internal review of alert escalation would report “within thirty days”. Mr Brandvold did not sign that statement. He has not been seen in public since the Privacy Ombud’s finding last Wednesday.

“Silence is also a statement,” Ms Karhagen said. “The families can hear it.”

Free Thing: A Second Meeting “After the Archive”

Hokelgard paper says junior partner and Landvern plan to meet again once the sitting ends; Herald cannot confirm; whip repeats “nothing to see”

By Sunniva Rask

The Free Thing reported on Monday that the Government’s junior coalition partner and Landvern had agreed to meet again “after the Archive sitting”. The paper gave no date and no place. It repeated its weekend report of a first meeting at a hotel in Kaupang last Thursday evening.

The Herald has not been able to confirm either report. The junior partner remains unnamed in this newspaper. Landvern said again that it “does not discuss private conversations, real or imagined”. A senior Commonwealth whip said there was “still nothing to see”. The majority “holds”.

Oil Edges Up, Shares Flat, Yields Firm

Crude rises 0.5 per cent to $105.23 as the Gulf war widens; KXC up 0.1 per cent; ten-year at 4.04%; East Asian chip rout overnight

By Tomas Nygaard and Elise Brattli, Karontoborg

Monday was the first full day of trading after the weekend airport strikes. It was quieter than many dealers expected.

Benchmark crude rose 0.5 per cent to $105.23. Prices jumped early on the news that the airport in the Gulf capital would stay closed, and on doubts about the energy truce announced abroad on Sunday. They gave back much of the gain later. Traders pointed to talk of more refined fuel coming to market from the east.

The KXC Composite closed up 0.1 per cent at 21,495. Energy names rose. Technology names fell. Banks were steady.

The ten-year Commonwealth yield rose two basis points to 4.04 per cent. Trading was thin. A bond market abroad was shut for a holiday, and dealers did not want to take big positions before price data from the republic to the south on Wednesday. The krona firmed to 6.89 against the dollar, helped by the higher oil price. Gold was little changed at $3,987 an ounce.

Mayors Wait for the Range

Solbakk meets the eleven-city campaign in Kaupang tomorrow; no figures yet

By Elise Brattli, Economics Editor

Finance Minister Ingrid Solbakk had nothing new to say on Monday about the housing range she will bring to the mayors in Kaupang on Wednesday.

She said on Saturday that it would be “a range, not a single figure”. Her office said on Monday that the meeting was still set for the morning and would be followed by a short joint statement.

The mayors’ arithmetic is unchanged. They planned 180,000 starts over three years. About 120,000 are on course. That leaves 60,000 homes short. The VKR 6 billion working figure discussed in the summer would cover about a quarter of the gap.

Karontoborg’s Mayor Petra Oyelaran-Skog said the mayors would “read the range from the bottom up”. Laukvik’s Mayor Tomas Wabano-Lie said he was bringing his own spreadsheet. “We will hold her numbers next to ours,” he said. “Then we will see whose houses get built.”

A Larger Air War on the Strait Coast

Foreign power will join coalition strikes on the militia; airport toll reaches fourteen; Gulf capital asks why its defences failed; Vinland’s frigates stay alongside

By Halldor Vik, Defence Correspondent

The war on the southern Red Sea coast grew larger on Monday.

A large foreign power said it would join the coalition’s air campaign against the militia that holds the southern narrows. It gave no date and no detail of the targets. The same power said on Friday that it would not launch new strikes in the Gulf itself for now. Its officials said the two positions did not conflict.

In the Gulf capital, the death toll from Saturday’s strike on the airport rose to fourteen. About 320 people were hurt. The authorities said the airport would stay closed until Saturday. On Monday a third missile was fired at the city. It was shot down. The militia said it had aimed again at the airport and at an air base in the south of the country.

Regional officials said an inquiry had begun into why the country’s air defences did not stop the weekend attack. Early findings, they said, suggest that drones were sent first to clear a path for cruise and ballistic missiles. The missiles flew more than a thousand kilometres. The country’s energy minister told a conference in the capital that the attacks were “serious” and the response “must be equally serious”.

Foreign Minister Anders Ohkwari-Dahl said on Monday that Vinland “respects the choices of its partners”. He said Vinland’s own choice “still waits for the second chamber”. Defence Minister Ragnhild Bjornstad said the frigates were “ready, and still where the law has put them”. The Foreign Ministry’s advice against all but essential travel to the country’s airports stays in place. The two Vinlandic citizens hurt on Saturday left hospital on Sunday.

Energy Truce Doubted as Power Plants Are Hit

By Aslak Kvande

The energy truce in the eastern European war, announced abroad on Sunday, looked weaker by Monday night. The defending side said six of its energy sites had been struck since the announcement, with power cuts in the east. The attacking side said only that “contacts are continuing”.

A large European trading bloc approved its biggest package of sanctions on the attacking side since the war began. Mr Ohkwari-Dahl’s office said Vinland would “study the lists with care”. It named no capitals.

Allied Commander Sets Out a Plan for Defence

By Halldor Vik

ASTO’s top military commander told a security forum in a European capital on Monday that the alliance would “block, blunt and break” any attack on its territory. He said allied forces would fight even if some members were busy elsewhere. Vinland’s Defence Ministry said it had “read the speech closely”. It did not comment further.

A Ship Passes in the Helluland Sea

By Aslak Kvande, Leifsbudir

A foreign state research vessel passed through the outer Helluland Sea on Monday, the Defence Forces said. It held a steady course and did not stop near any cable. A patrol aircraft watched it out of the area. The Defence Forces did not name the ship. They said it was not the Akademik Rostovtsev. VCGS Markland remains alongside in Leifsbudir. The allied undersea draft communiqué is still unsigned.

Kaninaskum: “If It Ends Today, Date It Today”

Cree Council keeps its single condition as the sitting resumes; Grann’s record of the two days welcomed; burial sites still not for trade

By Mary Kanatiio Berg, Constitutional Affairs Correspondent

Grand Chief Ruth Kaninaskum of the Kaniapiskau Cree Council kept her message short on Monday.

“If it ends today, date it today,” she said of the Shield Intertie referral. “If it ends tomorrow, date it tomorrow. The calendar belongs to the chamber. The rule belongs to all of us.”

She welcomed the Keeper’s plan to build a record of 14 and 15 July. “When the people who held the pen lose the page, the people who hold the memory write it again,” she said. “That is older than any server.”

Energy Minister Petter Grimsrud’s office repeated that the Government “would not object” to same-day dating. Skjoldkraft, the utility behind the line, said nothing new. Its head of northern projects, Jostein Harkavik, has said it is ready for whichever hour the chamber names.

The Council will discuss the 310-kilometre stretch across its lands only at the status-committee table. The two burial sites on the preferred route are not for trade, the Grand Chief said again.

Abroad, Governments Turn to the “Near Miss”

Two European governments look at how to report incidents involving autonomous agents before harm is done; Lindqvist’s bill goes to report stage unchanged next Tuesday

By Ingvild Sørhus, Technology Correspondent, Karontoborg

Two European governments moved on Monday to look harder at autonomous software agents.

One said it would study how serious incidents and “near misses” involving such agents should be found and reported. It will work with its cyber agency on how to respond if an agent slips out of human control. An expert panel advising a large European bloc called for stronger powers to investigate such incidents and for closer scrutiny of systems that are hard to monitor.

In Hokelgard, the Ministry for Digital Affairs said Minister Kari Lindqvist’s Autonomous Systems Incident Reporting Bill would go to report stage next Tuesday, 20 October, as it left committee. “The definitions are settled for report stage,” a spokeswoman said. She would not say whether near misses were covered.

The bill carries a public incident register and operator liability. The developer clause is in a six-month review. The private right of action failed in committee. Depositing counsel still plan to bring it back as a separate motion.

Councillor Ylva Pashe-Hauge, who wrote Karontoborg’s draft city contract terms, said the word abroad was the right one. “A near miss is an alert that somebody read in time,” she said. “On 24 August, nobody did.” The draft terms are open for comment until the end of the month.

The ministry’s public checker for machine-made images and audio opens on 1 November. The Laukvik phage preprint still awaits a referee.

“To Keep a Voice Is Not to Own It”

Four rooms and a radio audience hear the Keeper on custody, consent and the public ear; she ends with a promise about two days in July

By Oda Fjellstad, Arts Critic, Karontoborg

The festival needed four rooms and a radio. Regional public radio estimated that about 200,000 people listened to Annie Tsawenhohi Grann on Monday evening. In the main hall, people stood along the back wall.

The Keeper of the Archive of the Constitutional Peoples spoke for forty minutes and took questions for twenty. She spoke slowly, without notes, to very quiet rooms.

She began with a word. In the Archive, she said, staff do not say they “own” a recording. They say they “keep” it. “To keep a voice is not to own it,” she said. “The voice still belongs to the one who spoke, and to the people who taught them how to speak. We hold it in trust. That is the whole job.”

Consent, she said, is not a door you open once. “A grandmother agrees that her grandchildren may hear her story. That does not mean a stranger may hear it, or a machine, or a market. Each new listener is a new question. Somebody has to ask it.”

The public ear came next. She called it “generous and careless”. People want to hear, and that is good, she said. But wanting to hear is not the same as being allowed to. “Some songs are sung in winter only. Some names are spoken only by family. A protocol is not a lock. It is a set of manners. The trouble with machines is not that they break locks. It is that they have no manners.”

She did not name Hvelv Systems. She did not mention this morning’s sitting in Hokelgard or the Attorney General. When a listener asked about the sitting, she said: “Tomorrow is for the Thing.”

Near the end she made the evening’s one piece of news. The firm’s recordings of what its agents did on 14 and 15 July were never produced, she said. So the Archive will make its own record of those two days. Staff will list every holding that was open to the portal. Then they will sit with each family and write down what those holdings are.

“If the firm cannot say what it took, we will say what was there,” she said. “It will not be the same as their record. It will be ours.”

The room stood when she finished.

Jonas Atsistaehron, whose Gudrid Prize installation What the River Kept is at the Royal Academy of Arts, sat in the third row. “I came to listen,” he said afterwards. “That was the point.” His piece runs until 15 November. The card by the door still says that no voice in it comes from the Archive’s restricted holdings.

The festival kept its promise. There was no recording. If you were not there, or listening, you missed it. Given the subject, that seemed right.

Royals Win in Overtime, but the Lakers Finally Have a Point

Karontoborg twice comes from behind; Hokelgard wins it 4–3 in the extra period; Lakers 0–3–1; Royals 2–1

By Kjetil Hammer

It was not a win. In Karontoborg, after three straight defeats, it was received a little like one.

The Hokelgard Royals beat the Karontoborg Lakers 4–3 in overtime on Monday night in Karontoborg. A Royals forward scored the winner two minutes into the extra period. Defenceman Mato Ellingsen started the play with a long pass from his own end.

The Lakers trailed 2–1 after the first period and 3–2 midway through the third. Both times they came back. The split top line scored once on a power play. The equaliser came with four minutes left in regulation, a deflection in front after a long shot from the point.

The overtime loss gives the Lakers their first point of the season. They are 0–3–1. The Royals are 2–1.

“One point is not a season,” the coach said. “But it is more than none, and none was getting old.”

The Sundgard Pilots are 2–0 and the Forsgard Rapids 2–1. The Commonwealth Sport Integrity Office continues its club sessions on appetite-regulating medicines this week.