statistics. When 200 obscenely wealthy people own more than the poorest 4 billion combined, the odds begin to shift. They have to. I mean” he indicated the scene in front of them, “People aren’t going to sit still for this shit. Something’s got to give. Like Ghandi said -”
A canister landed in the street right in front of them and Loukanikos circled it, barking and snapping. John paused to toss him a treat, then waved to Jane and addressed the canister as if it was a golf ball. “Fore!”
“- ‘When I despair’,” the Kid quoted, settling the gas mask that had been sitting temporarily on his forehead back into place. “’I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall’.”
“Yeah, well, I would just like to point out,” Jane said, removing her sunglasses and donning her own NBC headgear. “It’s not like we have forever here. This baby is due September 17. Hey!” She tossed a bottle of Maalox to a group of Black Bloc protesters who had forgotten their war paint. Shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
The Kid just smiled beneath his NATO filter, watching the dancers on the balcony as they finished their song with a dip and a kiss. “Think of it - always.”
NOTES
Anons Members of the hacker group Anonymous
BCD Barracks slang for Bad Conduct Discharge.
Duce egg A twenty dollar bill
Gene Sharp Founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit devoted to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and author of From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation.
IFF Identification Friend or Foe, automated query-and-response system used in aviation to discriminate between friendly or hostile forces
Lima Charlie Loud and Clear
Moneyball Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. A baseball book by Michael Lewis, later made into a movie, that examines how an analytical, evidence-based approach can positively compete against a model primarily reliant on superior resources.
MPS London’s Metropolitan Police Service
NBC Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
PBS Public Broadcasting Service, publicly supported non-commercial television station in the US
Rehypothecation The practice of pledging one asset as collateral for multiple deals; daisy-chained or quantum collateral
SAD Special Activities Division, CIA’s covert paramilitary unit
September 17 Date Occupy Wall Street started in New York City
SIFF Successor Identification Friend or Foe, the UK version of IFF, not originally fully interoperable with IFF
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I.C. Springman is an absolute nobody with an interest in real-world
economics and power elite studies. Springman’s work is rooted in the belief
that an understanding of global financial arrangements
and their impact on ordinary people in every walk of life
is the first step toward altering those arrangements
for the benefit of everybody everywhere.
No matter what they tell you -
Another world is possible.
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