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<noinclude>{{Year|2001}}</noinclude> * '''January 4 - 18:''' Tensions in {{w|Mexico}}'s southern states increase. Over a two-week period, the governors of {{w|Chiapas}}, {{w|Campeche}}, and {{w|Quintana Roo}} are assassinated, with two of the three perpetrators eventually caught and each judged to have been working independently. <ref name = "swa10">{{src|swa}} p. 10</ref> * '''[[February 14]]:''' ''([[Shiawase Decision|US Nuclear Regulatory Commission vs. Shiawase Corporation]])'' Using the [[Seretech Decision]] as precedent, the {{w|Supreme Court of the United States}} rules in favor of [[Shiawase Corporation|Shiawase]], determining that a [[Corporations|major corporation's]] private property is not under the host country's jurisdiction. <ref name = "swa10"/> <ref>{{src|csf}} p. 19</ref> * '''[[February 20]]:''' Initially wanting to be seen as the vanguard against growing corporate power, the [[France|French]] government refuses to recognize Shiawase's [[extraterritoriality]] but remains the sole opposition, the country receiving years of corporate sanctions as a result. <ref name = "swa10"/> <ref>{{src|soe}} p. 81</ref> * '''March - May:''' {{w|Germany}}'s eastern {{w|länder}} are evacuated due to groundwater contamination and the {{w|Baltic Sea}} suffers an ecological collapse due to chemical sludge. Hundreds of thousands of people are relocated as governments try to address these troubled areas. <ref name = "swa10"/> <ref>{{src|gsb}} p. 21</ref> * '''[[July 20]]:''' During the {{w|Group of Eight|G8 Summit}} in {{w|Genoa}} ({{w|Italy}}), private security forces open fire on anti-corporate protesters, killing 12. The pro-corp Italian media describe the shootings as 'defense against an act of terrorism' and protesters are forced to switch tactics in light of corporate crackdowns. <ref name = "swa10"/> * '''[[August 15]]:''' The [[USA]] {{w|Food and Drug Administration}} approves P4MO (synthetic blood replacement) for general use. <ref name = "swa10"/> * '''August - October:''' {{w|NASA}} sends robot probes to [[Mars]] but, after discovering structures resembling pyramids together with a skeleton, refuses to release the images. ** Planning begins for a follow-up secret manned mission under Veil's (the {{w|United States Department of Defense}}'s top secret agency) jurisdiction. <ref>{{src|mis}} p. 52</ref> <includeonly>=</includeonly>==References==<includeonly>=</includeonly> <references/> <noinclude> [[category:2000s]] </noinclude>
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