The growing tension and hatreds finally erupted in 2009. Angry and frustrated, the more radical elements founded the Sovereign American Indian Movement (SAIM), whose roots traced back to the Indian-rights struggles of the twentieth century. Taking the brunt of this landgrab were the Indian reservations and federal parklands.Ĭonservationists and Indian-rights groups expressed their shock and disgust, though corporate influence and paramilitary power made it dangerous to object.
Again, and again, in the years of 2002-2008, the government invoked the right of eminent domain to bring property under its control, only to license its exploitation to a corporate sponsor. In what the media dubbed “The Resource Rush,” corporate coalitions demanded and were granted access to oil, mineral, and land resources on federal lands. With their new freedom, the corporations of North America increased their exploitation of the continent’s resources with a vengeance. In the meantime, the United Nations moved to Geneva and the East Coast Stock Exchange to Boston. It would be 40 years before the city was fully rebuilt. Then, in 2005, a major earthquake hit New York City, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving behind over 200 billion dollars worth of damage. The Israelis responded by destroying half of Libya’s cities with nuclear weapons. In 2004, Libya unleashed a chemical weapon against Israel. The case set a precedent that led to the Shiawase Decision of 2001, firmly establishing the extraterritoriality of multinational corporations in international law. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court upheld Seretech’s right to maintain an armed force for the protection of its own personnel and property, and commended the corporation for protecting innocent citizens and honroing its trust to dispose of contaminated materials safely. Seretech asserted that by defending its truck from the mob, it prevented the potentially lethal cargo from infecting the population at large. In a misguided attempt to crush the growing corporate armies, the city, then the state and federal governments charged Seretech with criminal negligence. By dawn 20 Seretech employees were dead, while 200 rioters lay lifeless on the grounds and in the street. More violence followed as the maddened crowd stormed the building. In what became a running gunfight, Seretech security came to the aid of the corporate truckers, withdrawing the to one of the firm’s medical research facilities. Hundreds were killed and thousands injured as the violence spread through the city.Īt one point, a Seretech Med-Research truck hauling wastes, including infectious materials, became the target of a mob. Angered and frightened by a three-month truckers’ strike that had stopped the flow of fresh foods into New York, the people took to the streets. In 1999, food riots in New York City created the flashpoint. As the tide of civil disobedience and urban violence began to engulf every nation on the globe, the corporations began to transfer their paramilitary assets wherever needed. Beginning with their holdings in the Third World countries, they armed their security personnel with the finest available equipment and hired professional mercenaries on both long and short term contracts. Alarmed at the state of things, the corporations feared to trust their interests to indifferent of in their eyes, incompetent governments. It all began in the late 1990s, as the civil unrest that marked the end of the millennium intensified even more. Our science and technology, too, set us apart, with current levels making previous advances look like a child’s experiments with a science kit.īut that is not all that divides our age irrevocably from the past, for magic has emerged again on Earth and we live in an Awakened world.
Where once superpower nations dominated the globe, threatening all with sudden nuclear annihilation, the superpowers have now broken up into many smaller, autonomous nations, and corporations have taken over their once-immense power. Today, in 2050, our world is radically different from that our great-grandfathers knew.
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