January 2020 News broadcast: speculative fiction. by Billy Roper
(libertarian)
Monday, January 4, 2010
"I see a change is coming to our lives
It's not the same as it used to be
And it's not too late to realize our mistake
We're just not right for each other…"
Separate Ways, by Elvis Presley
January 16th, 2020, News Broadcast
HLN (HomeLand News)
In Baton Rouge today, the New Black Panther Party has announced that their successful evacuation of survivors from a New Orleans irrevocably flooded for the final time by Hurricane Shaniqua is, quote, "an indication of the success of the single party system of democracy". Former Nation of Islam spokesman Kwebeke Msufime, who led the breakout of the besieged Dallas African-American community when the Texas National Guard withdrew from the encircled city as the Mexican Army approached last May, officially announced the unification of the N.O.I. and the B.P.P. under Atlanta's leadership, a sign of hope and future stability for the nation of New Africa. Msufime, leaving behind the traditional suit and bow tie of the old N.O.I. for a more dashing African tribal look of animal skins and urban camouflage, stated that:
"Just like our brothers and sisters who had their back to the water when they died fighting in Chicago and Detroit, our people in New Orleans were starved out and surrounded by the Mississippi and the ocean which come flooding in. A half million of our folk from each of those butcher shops made it out and we got them back. Traded the devils from the Redneck Riviera for them so now we can play on the beach, right? Many of those fighters from Chi-town and Motor City now serve in our great New African army. Some of you are here today. You remember how the Indiana and Illinois Guards and the Michigan Militia surrounded your neighborhoods, turned off your electricity and running water, blockaded food deliveries, and tried to kill you all. If that wasn't bad enough, you remember how some of our people turned on one another, as gangs didn't want to turn their guns in all the same directions, at first. But they learned. We learned. We know who the real enemy is, and we know his face. Real thug life is here and now. Real thug life carried babies across the causeway on their backs. Real thug life carried sandbags, not t.v. sets. And now we feed our own. That's thug life. So let's turn our backs on New Orleans, it's just one more wasted city, and leave it behind like we have so many others up north and out west. We have our own country now, where thug life rules. Let's keep it real."
Following the explosion and derailment of a United Nations troop train carrying Chinese peacekeeping forces setting out from Skagway to reclaim and repair the sabotaged Alaskan oil pipeline, the U.N. Expeditionary Force has resumed bombing of convoys on the Alaskan highway attempting to move supplies and reinforcements to the American resistance outposts of Whitehorse, Dawson, and ultimately, Fairbanks. Igalut, the capitol of Nunavut, having elected a pro-Chinese city government, has declared themselves a sovereign nation and is seeking Chinese diplomatic recognition. Other aboriginal militants have claimed to have taken control of Yellowknife and declared themselves the Republic of Denendeh, but that cannot be confirmed, as no contact has been made with the Northwest Territories capitol in over three weeks, since the city was reportedly under an orgaized aboriginal attack. American military units based in Fairbanks caution that if the Chinese naval forces are able to break through from Barrow and the Prudhoe Bay to control the Beaufort Sea as expected, their connection with Free America might be severed completely.
An organized crime syndicate in New Jersey has released to the media videotape purporting to be their liberation of the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the commanding officer in charge of a heavy presence of peacekeeping force patrols has declined to comment on the reported loss.
Since the burning of South Philadelphia during the food riots of mid-summer, United Nations command has attempted to match their peacekeeping forces with the neighborhood they patrol in, as "Operation Mirror Image". In this case, the Nigerian troops failed to recognize the importance of the museum they were guarding, and several of them were reportedly killed during the removal of the bell.
The L.D.S. Air Force bombing of Parker Dam, formerly known as the chokepoint of the Colorado River, has continued despite Mexican Army rebuilding efforts for eight months now, as has the Deseret forces occupation of the Hoover dam 155 miles further north. This spike through the jugular of Aztlan has caused the mass evacuations of Phoenix, San Diego, and Riverside due to a lack of drinking water. The Central Arizona Project and the Colorado River Aqueduct are dry now, and this action has made it possible for American forces to solidify defensive lines from Northern California to the suburbs of Denver. U.S. Air Force bombing of the evacuated cities in order to prevent their reoccupation has been considered, despite concern over fallout drift into American territory.
A Carnival cruise liner packed with elderly Jewish-American zealots on their way to fight in Palestine was boarded by Cuban pirates last month off the coast of Miami after the pirates were apparently tipped off by the Dade County Sheriff's Department, which has assumed the duties of the armed forces of southern Florida. The Haitian crew were killed by the pirates, and the passengers held for ransom for three days until no Jewish community could be contacted by radio or satellite in North America or Europe with the resources to ransom them. An envoy from the Paris Jewish community was assassinated outside Paris after he invited the pirates to bring the Jews there, but the leading Rabbi of the largest Buenos Aires synagogue had persuaded the Argentinian government to negotiate the release of the 1200 hostages at the price of 10,000 Yuan each. Their resettlement there, however, was stymied when they refused to leave the ship in Havana. Further complicating the transaction was the condition of the disrepair which had caused the closing of the Panama canal, requiring the ship to attempt to skirt the coast of Brazil, still technically at war with Argentina. At present, the cruise liner is anchored off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, a city still under military quarantine due to the cholera epidemic there, but supplies onboard are expected to be running low.
If your supplies are running low, you definitely will want to stay tuned after the break for our weekend gardener's report on how you can maximize your indoor garden's fruit and vegetable yields through the conservation of fertilizer and gray water hydroponics. Don't miss it!
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