GoobNES01: Fallout [Third Thread]

[silver 2039]

Goober I will send ordes once you respond to my pm.

 

[Toteone]

Goober, didn't I send you orders yesterday? hmmm

Orders resent.

 

[Goober]

Yes I got your orders, Toteone, as well as China and the USE's Orders. Update on track to start Sunday.

I replied to your PM, silver.

 

[#1 Person]

Yet another election for me coming up, time to change the system yet again!!

Election Reform Act

History of the Act-
The work began on the bill ever since Mindanao separated, It was spearheaded by The Rightist Alliance. The main problem was what to do with the islands that were part of larger territories that were in Mindanao. Ideas sprouted up on all sorts of things, from grouping them all together to making them all separate (This idea was rejected since the providences would be below the constitutional requirement of land and population). Finally it was decided that the islands in the north would be put under two other states, meanwhile the islands in the southwest would be put grouped together as “The Sulu Archipelago”. Another issue that came up was how large should the providences be? The only providences were very small and weren’t working well, they had little money to do something if a problem sprouted up or for large projects and they mostly relied on federal funding. So most of the government agreed that they had to be larger. The Libertarian party adamantly rejected this idea since the more control a smaller region has they better the provincial government could care for their people. But eventually they finalized the map and easily got it out of committee and into the vote.

Election Reforms-

Each providence will hold Representatives Seats proportional to its population.

Each providence will hold 2 Senatorial Seats.

The Providences will be re-arranged and expanded

Each providence will hold a number of votes for president based on their population, this number will be the same number of Representatives the Providence has.

Providence/Representatives
1. Southern Tagalog/ 5
2. Ilocos Region/ 6
3. Bataan Region/ 12
4. Central Luzon/ 10
5. Palawan/ 4
6. Panay and Northern Negros/ 7
7. Southern Luzon/ 9
9. Samar and Leyte/ 7
10. Sulu Archipelago/ 3
11. Southern Visayas/ 10
Metro Manila/ 8
Total-- 81
Vote
Rightist Alliance(RA)- 50 for, 3 against, 4 abstentions
Democratic Party(DP)- 56 for, 1 abstention
Libertarian Philippines Party (LPP)- 20 against
Socialist Philippine Party(SPP)- 4 for
Total- 110 for, 23 against, 5 abstentions: Act Passes

 

[#1 Person]

Political happenings-
The Anarchist Party disbanded due to the fact that Anarchism is losing popularity. Most of its remaining members joined the Libertarian Party.

House of Representatives Election

Batasang Pambansa (literally “national lawmaking place”)
Parties-

National Green Party- Losing popularity since many see the party as trying to limit industrial growth, which will seriously harm the economy. Also Boris Romanov, a Russian, runs the party. There is still a strong hatred of Russia and prejudice against Russians near Manila since Russia nuked Manila, killing many millions of people, making the party even less popular. It is unlikely that they will get any seats in the upcoming election.

National Libertarian Party- With the influx of membership with the breakup of the Anarchist Party, the NLP is expected to get a large number of seats. They though are losing some popularity do to there lack of action against Mindanao.

Rightist Alliance- Expected to lose the house majority for the first time in over 20 years. They are losing huge amounts of popularity because many feel they brought the Philippines the brink of war with Mindanao.

Democratic Party- Gaining huge amounts of popularity due to a number of campaign promises, including improving education and strengthening the economy.

(You know the map, no reason to post it again)

Election-

Southern Tagalog- RA-4, DP-1
Ilocos Region- RA-5, DP-1
Bataan Region- RA-5, DP-6, NLP-1
Central Luzon- RA-2, DP-3, NLP-5
Palawan- RA-3, NLP-1
Panay and Northern Negros- RA-1, DP-5, NLP-1
Southern Luzon- RA-2, DP-4, NLP-3
Samar and Leyte- RA-1, DP-5, NLP-1
Sulu Archipelago- DP-2, NLP-1
Southern Visayas- RA-1, DP-5, NLP- 4
Metro Manila- RA-1, DP-5, NLP-1, NGP-1
Total: RA-24, DP- 37, NLP-18, NGP-1

Percent of House-
RA- 30%
DP- 46%
NLP- 22%
NGP- 1%


Leaders-
RA- Corazon Aquino, from Southern Luzon
DP- Raul Manglapus, from Metro Manila
NLP- Blas Puyat, from Southern Luzon
NGP- Gil Fernana, from Metro Manila

 

[Stormbringer]

Events that Went on, Unnoticed by the Rest of the World, in Russia in 1988​

A quick shot, and its all over. Only pain and silence left.​

-All in favor? All opposed? Abstentions? The Constitutional Amendment passes by a vote of 302 in favor and 145 against with 3 abstentions.
With that phrase the liberal Russia that was born out of the collapsing Soviet Empire died. Freedom was exchanged for power.
The "amendment" was not really an amendment but a whole new Constitution that was previous prepared in the Kremlin and given to a vote following the elections that gave the nationalists a constitutional majority. The post of the Prime Minister was abolished and instead the position of Speaker of Duma was created to preside over the sittings. The President was granted full control over the executive branch of the government with no legislative checks on it. Elections now were to happen through districts, with the majority party in each district gaining the seat - something that guaranteed the Conservatives a victory in every district except perhaps the university once. The most controversial was the creation of the Committee of Control or COMCON, but I digress, the story is not about Constitutional Changes themselves, but what they sparked.

Some of my friends and I were outraged by this. We were university students and as such were always behind the left wing of Russian politics - Putin, Khodorkovsky, Naryshnik, they were our heroes. Some of us even believed in Communism, but those were the really crazy once. Yes, most of us were liberals. And then we get this - that pig in a military uniform wins elections only because he commanded some soldiers and played some patriotic music. And the dirty trick with elections and now the new rules which will kill all liberal ideas. We were not going to let that happen. One of my friends - Constantine, was a deputy in the Duma at the time, one of the people who voted against the changes, but they were made anyways. Well, he came back to us here, in Danilov, and told us that the fight was not over yet, that we were going to win. And we believed him then.

Constantine went to one of the best known TV stations in Russia – NTV. They have always been lenient towards students and independent people who wanted to make their view known. To our great surprise he was turned away – nobody needed to be associated with a liberal these days. In desperation we turned to our own radio station in Danilov. Through a few friends that we had working there we managed to get some radio time. Within a few days of our broadcasting however our friend was fired and we turned away. Apparently the COMCON was not pleased with our actions. We tried flyers and newspapers but those also were quickly shut down except in our own University where support seemed to be building. Another friend of ours – Sashka – who was in the police force at the time also said that the people in the Danilov police, most of whom were students or at least our age, were sympathetic to our ideas. When our last attempt failed we decided that we were going to make ourselves heard, no matter what the coast.

It started at the University. We staged a protest, refused to go to classes and blocked roads. It all seemed like harmless games at the time, we just wanted some justice. I guess we were just little kids who forgot to learn that the world is never fair. Before long it got out of our control. I think Constantine knew all along what we were doing, the rest of us – well, we were clueless. The order came to the local police to put down our protests. As a sign of defiance many of the police officers resigned and joined us at the University hill. We were sure that tomorrow the whole country would follow…We were just clueless kids.

We watched the TVs eagerly the next day – surely there was going to be an uproar. “Defiant students make a stand for Democracy” or something like that. Nothing. There was not a single word about us or Danilov or the police force desertion. Everything went on as normal, something about Indonesia, a recap of the Constitutional Changes, a new governor appointed somewhere, an agreement with Germany and some local news. Not a single word. Most of us were stunned; this was not what we expected. All of a sudden the image of “soldiers of liberty and democracy” fighting to the last against the evils of nationalism disappeared. We were a bunch of silly kids in a University, nothing more. Constantine only smiled and told us that to be the soldiers and icons of freedom we needed to not give up and make some noise. When we asked how he just told us to wait.

The next day we woke up to sirens. When we went outside we found the University surrounded by Spetsnaz troops and sirens waling. We were ordered to surrender immediately but before we could say anything Constantine stood up, he had a Russian flag in his hand that he got from somewhere and yelled back that freedom and democracy will never surrender to the forces of fascism. It was a beautiful moment and filled all our hearts with pride for him. He told us to stay together, told us that the soldiers would not dare shoot at the civilian students and we will win this stand off when they have to leave. I think he knew from the beginning that we were all going to be martyrs.

Constantine disappeared with a few boys that day. At night we heard gunshots and sirens again and then they showed up. One of the boys that went with him was missing but they brought back guns – a lot of them. They raided the weakened police station and took everything they could before Spetsnaz got there. We all got a gun, I got one of the older AK models, and some of the police guys showed us how to use them. None of us liked this but Constantine told us this was just for show, to make sure no one gets hurt because the soldiers won’t storm a group of armed students. He sounded convincing.

That night I wasn’t going to watch TV but one of the other guys did. He called us over and we all came. The report showed our campus, beautiful with cherry blossoms all over. The title of the report was – “Terrorists seize Danilov University, unknown number of students held hostage.” President Lebed made a statement saying that the situation was critical but the best specialists are already on location and everything will be handled within a few hours. We couldn’t believe our eyes – terrorists? Us? We were not terrorists, we were soldiers of freedom and were going to lead Russia to liberty.

Some parents called their children here and asked them to surrender. Other parents decided to join us and snuck into the University hill. Haven’t heard from my parents, and its probably for the better. The mood here is grim even though Constantine tries to keep our spirits up. I don’t know weather we should have trusted him. Maybe it would have all turned out better if we would have just surrendered, but we didn’t. A helicopter was flying right over the University and Constantine ordered us to shoot at it and we did. I am not sure why, but we did. Smoke came from the helicopter and it got lower and lower until it hit and crash landed right on one of the streets of the University hill. Men poured out of it, some in military uniforms some not. We started shooting at them, and Constantine was right next to me with his Russian flag, but somehow I no longer felt like a soldier fighting for the right cause.

The helicopter incident was the last straw it seems. Fighting started everywhere – Spetsnaz troops attacking the buildings. We hid in one of the main squares with a lot of police guys with us, so we were ok, but the guys who hid in one of the dorm towers were not. Spetsnaz just blew it to bits and kept on going. Constantine and his guys fought to the last in one of the streets, leaving lots of people dead. We don’t even get the “surrender now” orders anymore. The TV report at night said that Spetsnaz freed almost one hundred hostages, maybe there were hostages, maybe there weren’t, I don’t know anymore. Now I wish none of this would have happened.

I killed a person the next day. Constantine joined us today and we had to fight. He gave me a bottle and told me to throw it at the BTR that rolled around the corner and I did…The BTR went up in flames and a person jumped out of it, also in flames. And…I shot him. I don’t feel too good. The police guys were going to the memorial, they had a fight with Constantine who wanted to stay and fight here. I decided to go with them, I don’t like killing people.

The last day there were just a few of us left. Me, Sashka, and a few police guys. We saw Constantine die. He and a few other guys made a barricade at night and when the Spetsnaz came he went over the top of it with a pistol and his flag yelling “For Russia!” He was shot down before he even made it over the top – I think he thought it was a good way to die, I think it was silly. Didn’t impress anyone. Sashka did go over there after the fight though to pick up his Russian flag, I’m not sure why. Well, we are here, at the WWII memorial, the everlasting fire. We promised each other that if any of us make it out of here alive we are going to tell the world what really happened here, because it is not like the TV shows, we aren’t terrorists…we…we are just clueless, scared kids.

I was running. Sashka died on my arms after he was shot. We were all shooting and then he fell, and I caught him. He looked at me with sad, sad eyes and said, “Run, run quickly,” and handed me the flag he picked up after Constantine died. I took it and stared at it for a minute. It was nothing more than a piece of cloth with three colors, now stained with blood. And yet, for some reason it made one’s heart feel with pride, with nationalistic pride for his great country. I looked at Sashka again – he was dead, and that’s when I ran. I ran away from the bullets and shots and screams. Away from all of it.

I turned the corner and saw in front of me a soldier. He looked at me and we stared at one another for a second. He was just like me – same age, same haircut, same flag – only I held mine in my hands drenched in blood and his was pinned on his uniform. I opened my mouth to say something, I am not sure what, but I didn’t have the time.

A quick shot, and it’s all over. Only pain and silence left. And the everlasting Russian flag.

 

[Insane_Panda]

Go go go Authoritarianism!

 

[Kal'thzar]

*plans escape route to centre of the earth*

Storm

Can you assure me that you won't wipe out every single non-russian being on earth?

Primaraly the ones in the Ivory Coast.

 

[Stormbringer]

I can assure you that I will not wipe out every single non-Russian being on Earth

 

[Kal'thzar]

hmmm

maybe addititonal qualifiers

every single Ivory Coast Human being?

 

[Storm Rider]

To Greece and Acadia
From the United States

Would you care to open trade routes with us?

 

[#1 Person]

Roxas Boulevard

“Are you crazy?!” shouted Jose Y. Montilla with disbelief clearly shown in his voice.
“All I am saying is that we need to be able to compete with other research facilities, INTRESA in Russia is putting out all this technology on antimatter, Argentina has a hydrogen economy, what does Manila National University have? Nothing!” Dr. Zulueta said angrily.
“But Manila University barley has enough money for a second electron microscope, let alone a particle accelerator.” Jose replied.
“What of the federal government? You can talk to Representative Perez, I am sure he would listen to you Administrator, after all was a big supporter of the University.” Dr. Zulueta responded a kind calm voice.
“I suppose so… but a particle accelerator?” Jose replied still with disbelief.
“Me and the other physics teachers are cannot do ANYTHING remotely groundbreaking without one. I think that the government will, hopefully, fund one”
“Fine, I will call him up if I have the time”


One month later
MNU

Jose Y. Montilla was sitting at his desk. He finally finished all of his paper work and had little to do. Finally done he thought to himself. He looked around his office. He had a number of fine Mahogany furniture, along with a bookcase full of dusty old books he hadn’t had time to touched for years. His job mandated him to be continually moving around the campus, when not doing that he was answering phone calls from things like concerned parents wondering about there student to things like a giant chemical spill in the Chemistry labs that took a week to clean up and countless thousands of dollars. He almost forgot about the conversation he had with Dr. Zulueta. But then he looked down at a piece of paper that he just signed saying “Accelerated Program for Biology”. He then remembered the conversation, replayed it over and over in his head, hoping that something will come up so he could get out of calling up one of the most influential representatives and saying ‘Can we have a multi-million dollar particle accelerator’. He kept thinking about it, and the more he thought of the particle accelerator the more he liked it. To think, a massive machine which twirls atoms around at near light speed. Then, suddenly, crashing it into another particle, and looking inside the very fabric of the universe. Peering into the very depths of the cosmos. He reaches he arm to the phone hesitantly, picked up the phone and dialed the Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan (House of representatives) building.

On the other side a phone was picked up.
“Hello this is the House of Representatives building”
“Hello, I am Jose Y. Montilla, administrator to the Manila National University. May to please connect me to Representative Perez?” Jose asked
A long beep came over the phone and then another phone was picked up.
“Hello this is Representative Perez, how may I help you?” Perez voice cracked
“Good day representative, I am Jose Y. Montilla, administrator to the Manila National University.”
“Ah, how’s the place doing, was our money well spent?” Perez joked
“Very much so, in fact that is what I was going to call you about. Recently our Science staff have been asking for a particle Accelerator” Jose said uneasily
“Okay…” Perez said, clearly not understanding how this involved him.
Jose just decided on coming out and saying it, “Well, we would like federal funding for it.”
“That isn’t too unreasonable, in fact a me and some other people were planning on making a bill creating a number universities. I can look into the accelerator and perhaps we could give you some extra funding for it.” Perez said understandingly.
“Thank you, I will send you the estimated cost once” Jose paused “we have the estimates”
Perez laughed “Very well, I will look into the matter. I, personally, am all for it”
“Thank you for your time Representative”
“It was my pleasure”

 

[Goober]

OOC - Oh dear god, Stormy . . . I shudder to think what your orders will say . . . nice story . . . everyone else, Russia might go all the way . . .

 

[alex994]

OOC - Oh dear god, Stormy . . . I shudder to think what your orders will say . . . nice story . . . everyone else, Russia might go all the way . . .

I am now in complete fear

5000th post!!

 

[JosefStalinator]

ELECTIONS IN THE USE

It's that time again! Time for the USE to rele- I mean choose, their next president. The voters are going to the polls now, and the conservatives are expected to once again defeat the liberals for the 14th consecutive year, and continue their 12 year hold on the presidency, having only elected one liberal president in the history of the USE.

The first polls for the Lower House is in, lets see what the voters have chosen:

(Remember, each state of the USE, of which there are currently 8, elects 6 members to the Lower house, not unlike the United States senate. Colonies are also allowed 2 seats per colony)

Belgium: LP-6
Netherlands: LP-5 CP-1
United Kingdom: CP-5 LP-1
France: LP-4 CP-2
Spain: CP-6
Portugal: CP-6
Switzerland: CP-6
Italy: CP-3 LP-2 ISM-1
Guyana (Dutch and French): CP-2
Timor: CP-2

The Total count comes out to:

Liberal Party-18 Seats
Conservative Party-33 Seats
Italian Sepratist Movement-1 Seat

The conservatives once again preserve their majority, and return to buisness keeping the Liberals from turning Europe into a socialist union.

The Upper house is coming in now, stay tuned after the break for the final results.

(a short commercial about the wonders of Spam)

We're back, and heres the results:
Remember, the lower house is based on population, so can vary greatly from state to state. The colonies are also included in these votes.

Spain: CP-28 LP-6
Portugal: CP-12 LP-3
France: LP-42 CP-14
United Kingdom: CP-13 LP-2
Belgium: LP-23 CP-11
Netherlands: LP-24 CP-4
Italy: CP-32 LP-15 ISM-10
Switzerland: CP-18 LP-1
Guyana (Dutch and French): CP-6 LP-0
Timor- CP-2 LP-0

Totals:
Conservative Party-140 seats
Liberal Party-116 seats
Italian Sepratist Movement- 6 seats

The conservatives have once again dominated the entire parliament, and if Blair remains in office will continue their gradual capitalization of the nation. In fact, here are presidential results now:

65,345,211 votes for Tony Blair (CP)
43,327,666 votes for Jaques Chirac (LP)
5,329,295 votes for Antonio Rigatonni (ISM)

The ISM garnered quite a lot of the vote in Italy, especially with the help of the new pope campaigning for italian indpendence, in stiff defiance to the USE's past pro-Catholic policies. A great divide has been driven between the Vatican and the USE, and could prove fatal for the church's influence throughout the region as atheism is on the rise and church attendence is at an all time historical low.

We all congratulate the conservatives and Mr. Blair on their successes in preserving capitalism and freedom in the USE.

This is EBC, the European Broadcasting Company, where its our job to sporradically remind the world that the USE is indeed a democracy. Thank you and Good night.

 

[Insane_Panda]

Orders sent, story tomorrow.

 

[silver 2039]

I am now in complete fear

Why? You're his puppet/vassal/tributary/governed ally/servent/pimp

 

[Stormbringer]

I suggest you join the club Silver, might be safer

 

[silver 2039]

Prime Ministers Residence
Briefing Room
Connaughut Place
Race Course Road
New Delhi, India
1:47 pm 1988

“India for a longtime has been a inward looking nation living on the premise that we were a great nation waiting for our time to come. Over the past months we have had a jolt of reality. Our time has come.” Said Indhira Gandhi

“Events across the world have told us that it is time to finally take our rightful place as a new superpower in a multipolar world. India has had a difficult history but always have we persevered and survived. A few years ago I made a speech where I stated that we should think of the day when our children and grandchildren would be able to hold their heads up high as citizens of India without making excuses for the poverty and suffering of our people. That day has come”

“India today is a freer, juster and fairer society than it has ever been before. We have given our people the lives that they deserve. We have created a new India. However with this great power comes great responsibility. We have an obligation to the world to ensure the growth of democracy and freedom and to safeguard the well being and livelihood of our citizens.”
She sat down to sound of applause from the many people packed into the briefing room.

General Baghat Sing stood up “As you all know our intervention in Chile half a year ago was a brilliant success with the dictator toppled with low cost of life to IDETO forces due to careful and meticulous planning. We are now in the process of rebuilding the Chilean military while keeping the military structure intact and ensuring the democratic process with the election of a new Chilean government to take over from the interim government. The majority of our force should be out of Chile in another 6 months. I have however requested the Chilean government to allow us to maintain a few bases and station a small contingent of forces in Chile to ensure another dictator does not take power.”

“Thank you General” said Indhira Gandhi. “We have been working on our power projection capabilities and I have sanctioned numerous projects, and programs to aid us to this end. Of particular concern are our naval and air forces.” I believe the General can give us a few details on the projects?”

“Yes of course,” said Bagaht Singh “Most importantly our Aksah System will be active in the next six months. Akash is a highly advanced Anti-Ballistic Missile System for strategic defense. I believe that it is the most advanced of it’s kind with capability of intercepting not only missiles but planes equipped with stealth technology as well. India now joins the league of other major powers that have similar systems. Our defensive and early warning capabilities have been greatly enhanced. In addition to this we are working on various types of ships, planes, missiles and tanks all of which are highly classified of course. I can say this however these are state of the art weapons and are groundbreaking. Once these projects are completed it will help ensure our dominance in battle.”

“Thank you General” said Indhira Gandhi “I believe that covers our business for today.”

Feet shuffled as people got up and left. However Baghat Singh did not “Madam Prime Minister if I may speak to you privately for a moment?”

“Of course” she replied. “What is it?”

“I believe we should go into Stage 2 of Doomsday soon.” He said

Indhira Gandhi frowned “Is that necessary. I think Stage 1 should be sufficient? Stage 2 seems a bit excessive.”

“I disagree Madam Prime Minister, the world has become a much more dangerous place. The current climate is dangerous. To be on the safe side we should just in case.”

Indhira Gandhi sighed, “All right do it. You don’t think Stage 3 will be necessary though do you?”

The general sighed, “I honestly can’t say.”

 

[silver 2039]

I suggest you join the club Silver, might be safer

Sorry but I did that once and I did'nt like it. I'd rather not be your puppet state/vassal/tributary/goverend ally/servent/pimp. The Chinese seem to be better at it.