The Winners?: Cocanz V. the Group

By Robert S. Hoyle

The Western world was, in the 2020s not happy. They resolved most of the Problems by creating across the globe new self-contained Confederations that did not need Human Rights lawyers and did not have illegal immigration problems. There was, rather obviously, some dissent which had to be controlled. The Royal British States were coordinating one effort in COCANZ, the Confederation of China Australia and New Zealand.

In New Zealand the Group warriors were dedicated to destroying the government.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504936651

Robert S. Hoyle

Robert Hoyle served with the Royal and United States Air Forces for 18 years in the UK, Malta, Germany and Libya. As a civilian he was involved with Computer programming and marketing from the days of punch cards from London to the Lebanon and Arabian Gulf. For nearly five years he taught MBA and MSc students in a Turkish University then went to a diamond mine in Africa followed by the start of building a new city in Saudi Arabia. He then played with tea plantations in Sri Lanka returned to Scotland for a few years and retired 25 years ago to a small rural village in Spain where, as a widower he takes care of two dogs and two cats and re-reads some of his 2500 history books.

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CONTENTS

Persona

Introduction From 2027

The Trip To New Zealand

Brunner Mine

Rangitoto Park Meeting

Laying Out The Plan

Nz Coordination Meeting

The Group Gets Down To Details

More Coordination

The Main Briefing For The Trek

Final Nz Meeting

Robin’s First Diversion

Action Agreed

The Visit To The North

Last Night At Brunner

Robin’s Second Diversion

Australian Arrival

The Trek To The Target

The Attack

Reaction

Inspecting Australia

Back To Rbs

Postscript

PERSONA

Royal British States

New Zealand

The Group

Australia

To Sam. My granddaughter Samantha whose parents

Mark and Susan have nurtured a flower and Chambers Dictionary gives one definition as: the embodiment of perfection.

She will be 53 years old when the events depicted take place-maybe?

Introduction from 2027

T HE SECRET CONCLAVE OF the leaders of the old World War 2 allies forming the United Nations Security Council with the addition of Germany had been completed in 2027 with the agreements that had led to the Confederations being established. It had become obvious that the solution to many of the world’s problems lay in setting aside such diplomatic reactions as sanctions and eliminating rivalry by creating a form of apartheid and implementing what the leaders felt was benevolent controls within agreed borders. None wanted to utilise expensive resources in foreign wars so that giving the go-called Caliphate total control of a huge area of the Middle East with a nuclear guarantee for Israel as one example solved a major problem. The Caliphate had no longer an interest in jihad or terrorist activities outside their own area, being too concerned with consolidating power and with a twenty year plan to implement Sharia. France and Germany were perfectly happy to implement a Confederation with political union throughout the thirty one nations of Europe. The UK, very sensitive to public concern regarding immigration plus a lot of anti American feeling brought on by generations of subservient governments giving in to what was seen as military adventurism, had already opened secret negotiations with Australia and New Zealand to form a major link in the East. The referendum on options was definitive with 82% of all voters over 15 choosing COCANZ which had been formed by the addition of China to an already close relationship between Australia and New Zealand. The USA was agreeable to a form of isolationism providing they were able to extend their trade and other links within the North and South of the Americas. Within 3 years they and Canada had agreed on the Confederation approach.

The Russian states saw the benefits in reverting to a sort of old Empire where they would have no interference from the West and after other secret meetings happily agreed to form a Federation. Each Confederation, worldwide, as they formed was to have its own banking systems and by general agreement the Central banks had agreed to take over the assets they held for so-called sovereign wealth funds. Any future trade would use an exchange rate agreed by the buyers and sellers but approved by the Confederation Central bank.

The USA/Canada Confederation had rationalised energy requirements by a mix of nuclear and shale/fracking power sources. Russia was energy sufficient with a similar mix as was Europe with RBS having switched to 35 percent solar and most of the rest of needs met with the new nuclear plants and the Scottish invented photo-synthesis fuel which was now being stored for the first time in offshore depleted oil wells. Such silly ideas as the very costly and ugly wind farms had been quietly eliminated by stopping tax payers’ subsidies. Within COCANZ China had chosen to implement a mix of energy plants with Australia and New Zealand converting to nuclear. The very new Sub-Saharan African Confederation which was still developing an integrated set of policies were examining the micro-nuclear plant s and deciding whether to manufacture or purchase. Their northern border was protected by the string of fifty kiloton mines remotely controlled by their own armed drone force thus infiltration from that part of the Caliphate was secure. This left the Caliphate with their own oil resources however a plan to eventually install nuclear plants was being studied although the reserves were still huge.

In the cases of Europe and the new Royal British States a major repatriation agreement resulted in most immigrant Africans being returned to that continent with families given the choice of settling in any country they wished. The cost of repatriation was supplemented by a settlement allowance that favoured specialists in information technology and those with engineering skills.

The sovereign wealth funds, with large individual grants from the countries they had settled in previously, had funded the repatriation. As each Confederation formed there were some bilateral options allowed, for example the RBS and Europe had selectively allowed some of the immigrants to remain on short term contracts thus allowing the phasing in of their own citizens to such skills as health services after adequate training.

In Europe and RBS the departure of immigrants led to much public satisfaction since there were many more jobs available. The high uptake by many Muslims satisfied both the Caliphate and many of the public in Europe and the RBS who had a built in fear of Islamic influences. France had a particular problem due to the many long term Algerian Muslims who had over several generations held French citizenship and some arbitrary laws banning cultural habits such as veils worn by women and the illegal application of informal Sharia based decisions in family disputes were implemented with any dissenters being, effectively, deported to the Caliphate.The 2035 mandatory National Service laws and removal of many of the old unemployment payments throughout every Confederation worldwide resolved issues raised by some people. One of the Caliphates policies that caused internal dissent was the application of a form of apartheid as a result of the forcible movement of Sunni and Shia families to separated areas although travel to religious sites was permitted for major feasts. Since there was no impact on the other Confederations the Sharia laws were their choice. Each Confederation was free to implement laws that suited them since each was totally separate in International Law with most of the conventions within that having been suspended- in fact abandoned.

Tourism throughout the World had finished in 2033 when the costs of secure borders In just about every country worldwide against illegal immigration had become prohibitive.

Having repatriated nearly all Africans and those of African families who had been resident for less than twenty years from both the RBS and Europe nearly all ‘foreign’ health and care workers were a home and with most African States below the Sahara now having their own copy of the COCANZ much had changed there. Longevity, as a result of much improved health care, had practically doubled in Sub-Saharan Africa and there were signs that scientific and other technical advances were now proving productive as the result of the influx of many good engineers and business people. Using mobile telephone technology throughout the continent below the Maghreb and Egypt had caused great improvements in trade. The assassination of more than a dozen of the old presidents and prime ministers had practically eliminated corruption and the historic forms of nepotism were much less common. The added advantage to the African Confederation, as with all others of having to establish their own banking systems with no access outside had also eliminated off-shore accounts.

The United States, now in Confederation with Canada were so productive that they were able to allocate trillions of dollars to aiding South America as well as maintaining the electronic borders after following the same practices as COCANZ.

Following the UK withdrawal from the European Union and prior to the formation of the Royal British States there had been much political turmoil. The agreement with Eire had resolved Northern Ireland’s long continuing internal dissent. What had been seen as American bullying of many smaller countries following the events of September 11,2001 when Islamic terrorists had destroyed the Twin Towers in New York and a strong reaction twenty years later in the United Kingdom due to what they saw as the unacceptable military adventurism seen in Iraq and Afghanistan plus other African countries all supported by successive UK Governments in support of the USA.

The United Nations reformed New Security Committee had agreed with COCANZ on the allocation of the 18 Pacific island groups to which the now much reduced number of illegal immigrants could be settled with -most thought -that without any Appeals being permitted, the previously vast population of Human Rights lawyers was effectively eliminated a change considered by most of the public and politicians as being a welcome side-benefit. The UN still met but many votes were liable to approval by the New Security Council thus trivial issues by non-Confederated countries, with vested interests in stirring up dissent, could be vetoed.

Since each Confederation had no reason to spy on potential foes, or for that matter on its neighbours, the expensive satellite systems had just been left to run down and in the case of some Confederations all frequency and encypherment techniques had been shared.

By 2050 there was peace around the world with the minor exception of some tribal wars in unimportant areas. With more than eighty percent of the world’s population belonging to or working toward the concept of confederation such costs as assistance to tribes with spurious claims to want democracy were seen as excessive by the public. Foreign aid and IMF and World Bank subsidised loans were dedicated to their own citizens with personal taxes being significantly reduced. In some countries Income Tax had been reduced to a token 1% and only kept there to allow Laws to be quickly introduced in an emergency.

The trip to New Zealand

H E WAS FEELING GOOD. Here he was ready for the trip after another thorough medical scan and, for him, a trivial security check.

As a passenger on H1, the Governmental hypersonic he would be, in three

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had it been implemented in the 2020,s the world would have been more settled in the 2030,s