There's no doubt this is going to be a history book year.
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But what was the most significant event for us?
I was in the US in the summer and for seven days the news was all about congress and the budget logjam. Wall to wall coverage on every channel. Even the Norwegian maniac killing 70 people couldn't shift it from the top slot.
The riots?
The Arab Spring?
Death of Osama?
Concerted NATO action in Libya?
Royal wedding ?
Cameron's new found eurosceptism?
The Euro shambles itself?
The US finally quitting Iraq?
The fast track court sittings and sentences for looters?
Public Sector / private sector pensions?
The sudden and unexpected departure of Papandreou and Berlusconi ?
The Coalition's cracks appearing?
Phone hacking - the closing of news of the world?
The continuing insignificance of Ed Miliband?
Osborne's plan B ?
Little Mix win X-factor?
What is your choice of the number one story that will still be remembered in 100 years time.
{In 1911, a year of war and revolution and theft the stand out incident is usually the Agadir Crisis, which was a bit like Imperial Germany's ERM day.Almost collapsed the Kaiser's country and gave him another reason to hate the French. Luckily they're all good friends now.}
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But what was the most significant event for us?
I was in the US in the summer and for seven days the news was all about congress and the budget logjam. Wall to wall coverage on every channel. Even the Norwegian maniac killing 70 people couldn't shift it from the top slot.
The riots?
The Arab Spring?
Death of Osama?
Concerted NATO action in Libya?
Royal wedding ?
Cameron's new found eurosceptism?
The Euro shambles itself?
The US finally quitting Iraq?
The fast track court sittings and sentences for looters?
Public Sector / private sector pensions?
The sudden and unexpected departure of Papandreou and Berlusconi ?
The Coalition's cracks appearing?
Phone hacking - the closing of news of the world?
The continuing insignificance of Ed Miliband?
Osborne's plan B ?
Little Mix win X-factor?
What is your choice of the number one story that will still be remembered in 100 years time.
{In 1911, a year of war and revolution and theft the stand out incident is usually the Agadir Crisis, which was a bit like Imperial Germany's ERM day.Almost collapsed the Kaiser's country and gave him another reason to hate the French. Luckily they're all good friends now.}
21 comments:
Japanese tsunami heralds end of nuclear power
the trouble will be if it's actually 2012 that goes down in history
unlikely to be for 'best ever Olympics' ...
The launch of MW3.
Merry Christmas, BQ.
I still haven't bought MW3.
Another BQ prediction that it would sell OK,now completely trashed.
It sold record amounts.
Activision's shooter made $1 billion in 16 days.
Money for old rope once you have covered the entry costs.
I suspect your predictions for 2012 will be pretty good as I predict you will be dealing with lower volumes. Hopefully it won't be quite like the famine in the Horn of Africa.
Stasi controlled Nation pretending to be a Democracy, still clinging to power.
The Papandreo and Berlusconi thing gets my vote.
Most of the rest of your list is either bog-standard incompetence or so-what trivialities, but the brutal shoving-aside of democratically elected politicians, and their replacement by EU apparatchiks, is something new and alarming.
It might herald either the start of a very unpleasant development, or the beginning of the end of the EU.
Without much confidence, let us hope it's the latter.
Weekend Yachtsman, I thought it was just me. The EU (read Merkel?) coup d'etat - the elimination of two democratically elected governments and the installation of apparatchik puppets - is appalling and seriously wrong.
This is a game changer. It says the euro is not going down. It says we are entering the new Roman empire. And nothing is going to stop it. If accept the TV pap and you go along with the new power you will be left alone. But don't expect a free internet for much longer. I am extremely pessimistic.
I would say the beginning of the end of Euro Zone Democracy and the sowing of the seeds of the next revolution.
But the revolution may well come via money-based cyber warfare, debasing of banks, refusal to acknowledge the validity of debts and indeed the entire money ponzi scheme. It won't be pitchforks in the 21st century.
It was the year "the numbers got too big" to quote myself :)
Merry Christmas to all participants of the blog and a probably wishful thinking prosperous new year! Plus many thanks to our trio of hosts for keeping it up.
I'm with WY and Budgie. This was definitely the year when it became undeniable that the Eurogov would do absolutely anything and respect nothing to keep the Eurozone together - or indeed, pull it together even tighter. It made the Irish repeating referendum look like a childhood prank.
Death of Osama.
In 100 years when we are a fully fledged Islamic nation there will be a bank holiday for this martyr.
While I can still say it ...
Happy Christmas
(WV - shiet)
Tom Watson slaying Rupert Murdoch?
The Euro shambles itself
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The sudden and unexpected departure of Papandreou and Berlusconi.
From the letters of Barroso + Van Rompuy + Sarkozy + Merkel one can assemble Mousso.
|Bugger! I meant "Musso".
Mind you, from Cameron + Clegg one can't assemble Churchill.
7 billionth birth, hi-water mark for sure in post peak-oil, peak-water, peak-food world.
50 years from now, likely back to long-term sustainable 2B human population
If anything comes of the Arab spring, it will be 2011 they use as the start date.
The analysis will put 2001 as the sudden turning point for the west (and not in a good way) which reverberated in the east ten years later. The question 2012 will answer is whether this heralds the fracturing of the Arab world or its consolidation.
still, what a year...we did not even gey a silly season in the summer.
It was one of those years, like 1848 - 2011 will be a year that is rememberd much like 2001 and more so than 2008.
In 100 years time - could be the discovery that sub-atomic particles sometimes go faster than light. Probably not, but if real, an Einstein rolling in grave moment.
United 1 - City 6, with 3,000 City fans continuously outsinging 72,000 United "fans". That one has been a long time coming.
no more like 1918 - war ended, general relief western civilisation did not collapse and then next year a flu epidemic that killed more than the war did.
Look on the bright side!
Euro demise of course.
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