Commonwealth of Liberty

JANUARY , 1972
The New State Of Malaysia's Government

| With the aftermath of the 1971 Parliamentary Election. The Dewan Rakyat [House Of Representatives] and Dewan Negara [Senate] would receive new officials and senators respectively. According to the results of the parliamentary election and subsequently it has brought great shift to the way the administration is being operated in comparison to the beginning of the Goh Hock Guan Administration. Bringing [/I]Goh Hock Guan's Administration[/I] to being operated more similarly to that of his predecessor, the Tunku Abdul Rahman Administration. |

| However despite the wave of excitement within the populace with the return of the legislative branch, that'll curb the ambitions of the Democratic Action Party [DAP]. Working within parliament was what could be described as a inefficient mess. With the DAP and it's coalition member; Parti Rakyat Semenanjung [PRS] only receiving a total of 17.65% of the votes collectively. Meanwhile it's rival coalition Barisan Nasional [BN], would receive a collective total of 31.41% of the votes, with a majority of those votes having been won by the People's Progressive Party [PPP] which had left the DAP led Prosperity Coalition Party [PCP]. But the biggest shock of all was that the Malaysian Chinese Association [MCA] would be the party to lead the Malaysian parliament having gained a total of 41.18% of the votes. Meanwhile the last few seats was won by the Malaysian Indian Congress [MIC], having gained a total of 1% of the vote. |

| In the Dewan Rakyat, there are a total of 144 seats for this term which had been distributed:

MCA: 59 seats
PPP [BN]: 35 seats
DAP [PCP]: 24 seats
UNO [BN]: 9 seats
BFP [BN]: 8 seats
MIC: 5 seats
PRS [PCP]: 2 seats
GERAKAN [BN]: 2 seats

Meanwhile in the Dewan Negara there's a total of 58 seats for the term which had been distributed towards:

MCA: 23 seats
PPP [BN]: 13 seats
DAP [PCP]: 10 seats
UNO [BN]: 4 seats
PRS [PCP]: 3 seats
MIC: 2 seats
GERAKAN [BN]: 2 seats
BFP [BN]: 1 seat

This composition had left BN with a total of 54 seats collectively in the Dewan Rakyat and 20 in the Dewan Negara. Meanwhile the PCP only had collectively, 26 seats in the Dewan Rakyat and 13 seats in the Dewan Negara.
The composition of seats had left BN in a position where they could easily refuse any proposed bills made by their opposition the PCP, with the only counterweight to BN ambitions being the MCA, with their seats outweighing the combined might of BN. |

| As the months go by, multiple proposals had been made by PCP in an attempt to continue solidifying their local administration system they had set up in 1971 but with constant refusal and subsequently nothing being done within the halls of parliament. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong decides to tell current prime minister Goh Hock Guan:

" Due to the current predicament of a government who's legislative branch and executive branch cannot cooperate towards the betterment of the state. I will have to drop you from your position as prime minister early and bring on a more neutral figure to lead the nation as prime minister. " |

| With Goh Hock Guan term as prime minister expecting to soon be cut short early, Goh Hock Guan would make that announcement to both the news and parliament. Some people began to doubt the power of the Malaysian government, as if they can't run themselves how could they run a nation. Some people began to speculate on who could become the next prime minister in the place of Goh Hock Guan, the Chinese population wanted either Goh Hock Guan to stay or be replaced with Tan Siew Sin. Meanwhile the Malay population wanted Mahathir Mohamed to become prime minister, with a minority of the Malay youth wanting the communist Ahmad Boestamam. Then there's the Indian population who wanted S. P. Seenivasagam.
Ultimately the position of prime minister is dictated by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. |

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^{_{January, 1972 - Tammikuuta 1971}}

| THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF 1971 || VUODEN 1971 PRESIDENTIN VAALIT |

| In Finland, the crowds erupt across the streets of the Parliament Building, as the new president is inaugurated into service. The Presidential elections began in the month of November 1971, and ended on the 1st of January, 1972 with the results being entered. The Finnish President was originally the famed politician and spokesperson Urho Kekkonen, who was the original president of the nation, who had been extremely popular due to his famous reforms on civil law and civil business industry. Urho was also quite the charismatic character, some say. Others say he was all about business. Whatever the case, he became one of Finland's more notable presidents known for economic and civil reforms. The Parliament of the Finnish Republic was not scheduled to have their elections until 1973, but that didn't stop Parliament Candidates posting their campaigns all over Finland. Up until Urho, the nation had a relatively heavy capital population, most Fin's live in Helsinki, Urho wanted to support migration to other parts of the country, so, people and Fin's were sent all around the Finnish Country and cities popped up everywhere. The Finnish also industrialized with new technologies as the new century ever so rapidly came and changed everything. |

| Even in spite of Urho's well civil deeds, he officially resigned on the night of December 31st, 1971, on the day of Christmas. The country was ready to go out with Urho and with the new presidency term introduced. Since in Urho's revised constitution, Presidential terms are much shorter than they were, many times, being president was almost a lifelong job. Parliament officially approved the resolution and the Prime Minister passed it as well. The elected Municipal Representatives were quite receptive to the new term length as well, and it was passed on the day of Urho's resignation. The Elections were announced in the months before Urho's resignation, around November of '71. The people began voting early, though only an estimated 70,899 people voted from November-December. The lack of voters was worrying at first, but when Urho officially resigned, people flooded in to vote on the next President of Finland. The votes came in landslides, and soon, almost 89% of the Finnish population had voted. The top three results were noted, and some interesting votes were made. |

| With the results, the new elected president of Finland was Mauno Koivisto, who made a whopping 57% of the vote, beating the NPP supporter candidate Martti Ahtisaari, who almost won the vote but was outvoted with a 44% support rate and vote. The nation inaugurated the new president, Mauno Koivisto, on January 1-th, 1972, and the new president of Finland was officially introduced into the state. The country hoped its decision was correct, wishing for another Urho and wishing for another man which would lead the nation in a right perspective, and not blindly lead the needs of the state.

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SHOWA 42 | APRIL 1967
日曜日の朝


SUNDAY MORNING

 S Ō D A I   H A R U ¹ 

 オー・スネイル 富士山に登ろう でも、ゆっくり、ゆっくり

O Snail; Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

HONGŌ CAMPUS — EVENING
_{TOKYO, Nippon-Nihon}

| In cities like New York, London, and Paris, citizens frequently use public transport on their daily journeys to work. Tokyo is no different. Tired of this chaotic life in the big city, 25-year-old college lady YOUKO HARA, wearing a beautiful flowered dress and carrying some books, dreams of living in a calm and peaceful place in a coastal city, but her obligations come first. YOUKO’s parents asked her to go to college because one day she would inherit the family’s small restaurant and since then she has kept her grades high, studying day after day. But that would change. On a day like any other at college, her best friend invited her to travel to a seaside town. This was an opportunity for YOUKO to escape the big city, but she refused, giving the excuse that she needed to focus on her studies. |

| KYOKO HATTORI, _{University Student} | “I know you need to focus on your studies, but sometimes you need to relax from time to time.”
勉強に集中する必要があるのはわかりますが、時にはリラックスすることも必要です。

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “Obligations come first.”
義務が第一です。

| KYOKO HATTORI, _{University Student} | “And secondly, comes the fun?”
そして第二に、楽しみは来るでしょうか？

| As KYOKO laughed, her friend YOUKO looked at her with a serious look. |

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “Wrong! In second place are extracurricular activities.”
間違っている！ 2位は課外活動です。

| KYOKO, however, insisted once again that YOUKO travel with her to the family’s summer home. |

| KYOKO HATTORI, _{University Student} | “Let’s go with me on this trip, please! I would hate to go to the beach without my best friend.”
この旅に一緒に行きましょう、お願いします！ 親友なしではビーチに行くのは嫌です。

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “You win, I will travel with you! But I need to call my parents.”
あなたが勝ちます、私はあなたと一緒に旅行します！ でも両親に電話しなければなりません。

| KYOKO HATTORI, _{University Student} | “I knew you would change your mind! This trip will be fun, believe me.”
あなたが考えを変えるだろうと私は知っていました！ この旅行は楽しいでしょう、信じてください。

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “I will help pay for travel expenses. ”
旅費を補助します。

| After her best friend left the room, YOUKO called her parents to tell them that she would be traveling with some friends to a coastal town. Her parents didn’t like the idea, but they didn’t ban her from traveling either. The next day, she and her friend woke up early, got ready, and called a taxi to take them to the airport. YOUKO was fulfilling a dream, she would finally spend time away from the big city. After spending hours stuck in Tokyo’s chaotic traffic, YOUKO and her friends finally arrive at Tokyo airport. While clumsily taking her suitcases out of the car’s trunk, YOUKO accidentally drops one of her suitcases. Not far from her, a friendly 30-something police officer walks towards her to help her, with a smile on his face, he picks up her suitcase. |

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “Thanks for helping, I’m very clumsy. ”
助けてくれてありがとう、私はとても不器用です。

| ICHIRO NOMURA, _{Police Officer} | “You’re welcome, it’s every police officer’s duty to help those in need.”
どういたしまして、困っている人を助けるのはすべての警察官の義務です。

| YOUKO noticed that he had a beautiful smile, and suddenly her heart began to flutter slightly. After ICHIRO finished speaking, YOUKO ’s face started to blush. Then her friend appears to warn her to hurry, but as the two walk, KYOKO looks back and sees the police officer. |

| KYOKO HATTORI, _{University Student} | “Come on, tell me now! Why was that handsome police officer talking to you?”
さあ、今すぐ教えてください！ なぜあのハンサムな警察官があなたに話しかけてきたのですか？

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “He just helped me get my suitcase. Now stop wasting time, we need to hurry so we don’t miss our flight.”
彼はただスーツケースを持ってくるのを手伝ってくれただけです。 時間を無駄にするのはやめて、飛行機に乗り遅れないように急ぐ必要があります。

TANESASHI COAST — MORNINGTIME
_{HACHINOHE, Nippon-Nihon}

| When the plane landed at Aomori Airport at 10:05 a.m., the two college ladies and their other friends got off the plane. When leaving the Airport, they rented two Toyota Corollas (E10) because the trip from Aomori to Hachinohe was long. But before leaving, they took a break to eat rice, miso with vegetables, sardines, tamagoyaki, bacon, and sausage. After more than an hour of travel, they finally arrive at KYOKO ’s summer home in Hachinohe. This trip left KYOKO tired, but YOUKO still had energy to spare. |

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “I’m going to take a walk around the city to see it, I heard that there are some very beautiful beaches here.”
それを見るために街を散歩するつもりですが、ここにはとても美しいビーチがいくつかあると聞きました。

| KYOKO HATTORI, _{University Student} | “I will stay at home and rest from the trip, as I am exhausted.”
疲れているので、旅行は家で休みます。

| With KYOKO and her other friends settling in at the house, YOUKO then went for a walk around the city. She called a taxi to go to TANESASHI COAST, to visit one of the beaches. |

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “How beautiful the sea is!”
海はなんて美しいんだろう！

| When the taxi arrived at its destination, YOUKO was surprised at the price she would have to pay the driver, but she paid it. When she stepped onto the beach sand, the wind began to ruffle YOUKO ’'s hair, but she walked without caring about the wind. So she found a big rock, sat on it, and enjoyed the fresh sea breeze. Suddenly a bird appeared walking on the beach, it was a green pheasant. YOUKO got up from where she was and went to approach him and tried to pet him but was stung, she tried a second time and was stung again. |

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “That hurts!”
それは痛い！

| HARU, _Pheasant | “Don’t touch my feathers!”
私の羽に触れないでください！

| With an alarmed expression, YOUKO started screaming because she had never seen a talking animal before and then ran towards a crowd of people. A few minutes later YOUKO decided to return to the place where she saw the talking pheasant, but it wasn ’t there. She thought it would be better to go home, but this time it would be by bus. Waiting at the bus stop, YOUKO was reading a magazine she bought at a newsstand, and suddenly the pheasant appeared right next to her. |

| HARU, _Pheasant | “The next bus doesn’t appear until 1:30 p.m.”
次のバスは午後 1 時 30 分まで来ません。

| YOUKO was a little scared, but she didn’t scream, instead, she spoke to the pheasant. |

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “That’s surprising, you speak like a human!”
驚くべきことに、あなたは人間のように話します!

| HARU, _Pheasant | “If I told you the real reason that allows me to talk to a human, you wouldn’t believe it.”
私が人間と話せる本当の理由を話しても、あなたは信じないでしょう。

| YOUKO HARA, _{University Student} | “I’ll believe you, I’m talking to a talking animal. Now I believe in anything.”
信じます、私は話す動物と話しています。 今では何でも信じています。

| HARU, _Pheasant | “Okay, so I’ll tell you why I talk to humans, it all started . . .”
さて、それでは私が人間と話す理由をお話しますが、すべては始まりました...

| The two talked until the bus arrived. If YOUKO had given up going to the beach and chosen to stay at the summer house with her best friend, she wouldn’t have met her friend HARU, but luckily she chose to go to the beach. |
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_{¹ A Series: SŌDAI HARU A Japanese college lady, who lives above her parents’ restaurant in Tokyo, one day goes to the beach with some college friends. There she meets a talking green pheasant (Japan’s national bird), at first, she tries to run away from him because she is frightened by a talking animal, but later the two become friends.}

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_{^{REPUBLIC OF CHINA | 中華民國}}


𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙻𝙴𝙶𝙰𝙲𝚈 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚃𝙴 𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚁𝙾𝚁 𝙸𝙸: 𝙻𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝙰𝙶𝙰𝙸𝙽𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚃𝙰𝙽𝙶𝚆𝙴𝙸
白色恐怖的遗产 2：
毀滅黨外

A_{midst a shift in the geopolitical position of Taiwan, no longer considered the only China by most of the world, especially their so-called 'allies' in Asia such as Korea. It has become more critical than ever that the ideals of Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT must be upheld under all circumstances, the once tolerated idea of young Benshengren (native) Taiwanese and their aspirations for 'democracy' could no longer be tolerated amongst an increased crackdown by the government and a desire - no a need - to pursue an iron grip on the island.}

_{Empowered by the hardliners in the KMT who have all but overtaken most important positions despite the moderate presence of Chiang Ching-kuo, the military apparatus has began an aggressive offensive against dissenting voices, especially targeting those pesky Benshengren Taiwanese political collective known as the Tangwei movement. Hand in hand with the shadowy and feared National Security Bureau (NSB), the military government under General Hua has begun to wield a sword that aims to cut whatever it finds on its path. Officially under the excuse of 'suppressing Red dissent and stamping out the Communist threat', the McCarthyist attitude has hidden what has been an indiscriminate attack against any non hardline KMT nationalist.}

_{With no choice but to accept the desires of the KMT, Chiang Ching-kuo has begun to face his first real test since his father stepped down from party leadership and put him in charge. Ching-kuo has thus begun to put his Soviet upbringing and education to use, in turn identifying the need to step up the KMT's ideological and propaganda hold to ensure that the crackdown is succesful. Targetting what could be received as 'inspiring ideas of separatism', the KMT under Ching-kuo has launched a massive repression campaign against many pieces of press and literature, instead replacing them by KMT-sanction glorification of (revised) history and material that emphasizes Chinese nationalism, painting the idea of making Taiwan independent equivalent to treason.}

_{Extending beyond just these, the military government has also begun to draft a new educational curriculum in education through the Ministry of Education. With humanistic subjects being subject to strong KMT-approved revision to emphasize a specific Chinese identity while erasing most of the history of the island to do away with any notions of an independent Taiwan that exists without a greater China unified under the KMT.}

_{Seeping into the private lives of ordinary citizens. The military government and the NSB has made surveillance a pervasive fact of life - not that it was not before, just at a heightened level this time - with informants incentivized to report on neighbors, colleagues, and even family members suspected of harboring dissenting views. Arbitrary arrests and disappearances become commonplace, instilling a climate of fear and self-censorship among the populace. Restoring the legacy of the first White Terror to many Taiwanese citizens}

_{As the crackdown continues, its inevitable that there will be resistance. For now however, the crackdown has succeeded in temporarily driving the Tangwei movement completely underground, and ensuring that the KMT is without rival for the time being.}

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"If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China" ~ Chiang Kai-shek

January 17th, 1972 |
_{Canadian Government's Plan to Expand Oil Production}

Canadian Government's Plan to Expand Oil Production
_{Ottawa City, Ontario, NewAuroria — EVENING}

| The Canadian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Stanfield, has unveiled an ambitious plan to significantly increase oil production by two to three times by the end of the 1970s. This plan is a response to the steady rise in oil prices and the growing demand for energy both domestically and internationally. The strategy involves modernizing existing oil sands and fields in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as the construction of new oil fields in the Northwest Territories oil basins. One key aspect of the government's plan is the modernization of existing oil sands and fields in Alberta and Saskatchewan. This involves implementing advanced technologies and techniques to enhance extraction efficiency and increase production output. Through investments in infrastructure and equipment upgrades, the government aims to maximize the potential of these resources while minimizing environmental impact. |

| In addition to modernizing existing facilities, the government is spearheading the construction of new oil fields in the Northwest Territories' oil basins. These untapped reserves hold significant potential for expanding Canada's oil production capacity. The development of these new fields will not only create employment opportunities but also contribute to the country's energy security and economic growth. Recognizing the importance of environmental stewardship, the Canadian government has made significant investments in research and development aimed at minimizing the impact of oil extraction on the natural environment. Millions of dollars are being allocated to innovative technologies that aim to reduce water usage, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize habitat disruption. By prioritizing sustainability, the government aims to balance economic growth with environmental conservation. |

| The expansion of Canada's oil production will have far-reaching economic benefits, including increased revenue, job creation, and investment opportunities. The development of new oil fields and the modernization of existing infrastructure will stimulate economic growth in regions dependent on the energy sector. Furthermore, the increased production capacity will strengthen Canada's position as a global energy supplier, enhancing its competitiveness in international markets. The Canadian government's plan to expand oil production represents a strategic effort to address rising energy demands while fostering economic growth and environmental sustainability. Through modernization initiatives, construction of new oil fields, and investments in research and development, Canada is poised to significantly increase its oil output by the end of the 1970s. This ambitious undertaking underscores the country's commitment to meeting the energy needs of its citizens while safeguarding the natural environment for future generations. |