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Interactive Mapping Of 2011's Key (And Not So Key) Events
The folks at mapsofworld.com have been kind enough to compile a list of the top events of 2011 broken down by country, coupled with a fully interactive drill down. Furthermore, they have compiled a list of the top 5 events of 2011 based on popular voting (open to anyone). We were surprised (or maybe not) to find that while in our little microcosm we focus on the nuances of the financial world, and occasionally branch out into its nexus of geopolitics, people in the real world appear to have a whole different set of priorities. Confirming this is the fact that 3 of the top 5 most important events are i) the recognition of LGBT rights by the UN; ii) the launch of Google Plus and iii) the 100th anniversary of the IBM - three developments that have received precisely zero coverage on Zero Hedge. At least the top two events are somewhat relevant to both the world and our readers, namely the Tunisian Revolution aka the Arab Spring, and the Japan Earthquake. Oddly enough such earthshaking events as the loss of the US' AAA rating (which as documented here before led to the terminal break of the stock market), is barely in the top 5, while the "Greek Crisis" and the aftermath that is the European insolvency crisis, whose escalation in our humble opinion was the event of 2011, is relevant to exactly... nobody. And there you have this nation's priorities in a nutshell.
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and a partridge in a pear tree...
Merry Christmas!!! :o)
-John
http://www.youtube.com/carmarketer
Well, if the death of ELizabeth Taylor counts as an event significant enough to show up, what else have they forgotten?
And we'll be seeing lot's of echoes this coming year. There is no turning this titanic around unless it is by some massive, global awakening. Is that likely? Hardly.
Hey, well, today is Saviour day, eh? Interesting too to see how close the hot spots are to each other. THe other ring of fire in the ME. Spark.....spark.....spark....
ori
/fractal-animal-hypnotic/
"Well, if the death of ELizabeth Taylor counts as an event significant enough to show up, what else have they forgotten?"
Oh I've got this one!!$!$ That the press, hell anyone, would care that Jimmy Carter sent a condolence letter to pin dick xion iL's family or country or whatever the hell they call a cOuntry where darkness is a way of life... Literally. Give me Ron Paul who actually would have never gotten into that illegal war. Come the revolution friends. Come the revolution. Merry Christmas and good nIght.
well shit, we've got LGBT at all levels of entertainment and in positions of political power...so of course, their demand to ram degeneracy down the throats of everyone and destroy any and all morals and cultural restraint will proceed until they are shoved back into the fucking closet. Really, it's as simple as that.
It's highly interesting to see the nexus of nomad desert war tribe with homosexuality and marxism...sort of like unholiness cubed.
Of course ANYONE who calls for any kind of revolution is a nazi/bigot/homophobe/neanderthal/RAYCISS
Careful, the PC police love to defend any lgbt because they believe its their God-given (wait, that doesn't sound quite right either) right to do so.
Elizabeth who?
You know.......Michael Jackson's Mama
Arry Po'er made the list? Now I know that the 2nd coming of Christ can't be far away
Some major events occured this year past. Next year I believe will be even more interesting.
http://ericsprott.blogspot.com/
Evidently, Google+ was a significant event.
Wonder if Google Wave made it on the map before.
:(
They forgot Linked In and Groupon IPOs!!!
Where are all the FIRE CEOs' convictions?
that there were none is certainly significant. like the dog that didn't bark in "silver blaze".
what the fuck is google+? Is that even more data aggregation for DISCO?
I once knew a woman who did not like Bill Clinton and was shocked when he won. "no one that I know voted for him" said she.
Every so often it is good to step back and realize that our little perspective of one is not universally shared.
Cataclysmic events and their aftermath are never foreseen by regular folk, nor understood after the fact. At least we here at ZH will know why. That's some consolation, no matter how small.
It's a pretty damn small consolation.
Agreed.
My wife is wrong all the time And some how the fact that I'm right still never seems to work out with me feeling any better about the kind of day I thought I was going to have. That is until I realized far to late that I should have just feigned wrong and ....
Ok, sorry! This isn't therapy.
My point is either way you can't afford to tell someone by then because then they might remember you had planned and let me tell you about my new business plan for trackagle molars in case of a kidnapping...
Got it ;(
And some place called "Zero Hedge" went viral. All the time! Merry Christmas Zero Hedger's!
ZH probably needs it own list of 2011 events: #1 Marla disappeared.
Merry Christmas.
The can was successfully kicked down the road all year once again and all we have to show for it is $15,000,000,000,000+ dollars of debt.
Death of Elizabeth Taylor?
You must be less than 30 yrs old.
I missed her death as well.
I bet Big-Pharma misses her already
big everything misses her
Or you just don't give a rat's ass.....
It probably happened thre same day that the Wal Mart shoppers got maced...
Whoever gets that x-box under the tree this morning better not wipe their eyes after opening their present...
Obama Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas Tyler and all ZH posters.
15,000,000,000,000+ trillion in debt
And everyone keeps buying Treasuries, where no price is high enough.
U.S. Government and Muni-Bond debt will go down as the most spectacular bubble of all, when you think of the trillions of dollars already invested in that group.
If just 5% of that money leaves and goes into stocks, we'll be at new highs in no time.
Speaking of HIGH. Dude, you need to lay off the eggnog.
that is a very large number he's claiming.
And USA won't be able to make the interest payments...
That, or they were never meant to be repaid.
And everyone keeps buying Treasuries, where no price is high enough.
U.S. Government and Muni-Bond debt will go down as the most spectacular bubble of all, when you think of the trillions of dollars already invested in that group.
If just 5% of that money leaves and goes into stocks
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So let's see... QE2 and Operation Twist were all about printing money to buy Treasuries (that's your 'EVERYONE' by the way)...
I'm assuming your "IF" scenario involves Bernanke selling that portfolio & buying LULU...
What a Class A moron...
Probably less, considering 70+% of S&P 500 stocks are institutionally held. There is really not alot of stock available; look how long it took Buffett to buy IBM in size. (I don't think Treasury people will be buying the Russ2k). I did this video as a goof back in August, but look how things are turning out: PS Merry Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI2FolId6CA
It is apparent that we here at ZH are not focusing on the right events. I mean, all this will surely blow over and all will be well in Fiatland. Surely all those smiling, shopping, ebullient folks running around Walmart in the little electric shopping scooters can't be wrong. We should just turn that frown upside down and look forward to a prosperous and peaceful 2012.
...damn sarc button is stuck. Sorry.
I do not know where else to pop this in but this article seems as good a place as any:
Ed Roman, guitar maker 'to the stars' died on the 14th. Ed was first a friend but to the rest of the world the owner of "The World's Largest Guitar Store". Ed was a creative mind always dreaming up new ways to layout 6 strings and no design was too outrageous. He took great pride in the craftmanship that came out of his shop and offered shapes and woods that no one else did. He was often suing or being sued by Gibson or someone else (never a dull moment around Ed) and he hated mass production and flaws in guitars that were not corrected by the giants just because they could keep making those mistakes because they were big. Any ZHers who dig guitars would enjoy the thousands of pages on Ed's website. It is a stunning collection of guitars, rants and photos of Ed and his many clients and friends. Ed loved guns too. He was a patriot who did not trust the government one bit.
Liz Taylor died too but Ed was still a work in progress.
I heard about this a couple of days ago. Sad news.
Good to know Tyler, is not sidetracked by the non events...Right?
Just the relevant, Please!
Oh, and a "hum bug" to RobotTrader!...Right?
I don't know what you are saying here so Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to you. Happy Holidays, too!
Here's to hoping 2012 brings good fortune to all Zero Hedge writers, contributors, commenters and readers...including spambots/gov't operatives.
2012 is going to be fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=cAuC4VvanfQFunny that there's no mention of the occupy protests.
Probably lumped in with "the recognition of LGBT rights by the UN".
Conrad's Top 3 events of 2011
1. White babies now minority in USA - http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-06-23-Census-babies-minority_n.htm
2. First Black "president" Ruins Credit Rating of USA while increasing handouts to slobs on the dole to unprecedented levels(yes, I do include the treason committed by corporations and the "1%" in this you liberal fruitloop)
3. Barry Soetoro murders USA citizen, not a peep from media. Barry Soetoro will soon sign the NDAA and SOPA and complete the enslavement of his peasants without even a bit of rebellion. (read: America the Idea is officially dead)
please don't forget that the u.s. citizen, anwar awlaki, had a sixteen year old son who, along with his seventeen year old cousin and seven other people, were also killed in this official murder coming to someone closer to us soon.
it's "regrettable collateral damage" when the US military does it and "terroristic slaughter of innocent lives" when anyone else does.
Happy Kwanzaa to you and your Klan.
keep bellycrawling, mudshark
Conrad-I think your line which I took the liberty to expand is the line to this century already"The idea and the i(deals) of America" were officially pronounced dead on arrival in 2011 for lack concern or attention. The nation nor its residents never even even noticed.
When my father handed me the keys to the car it was running in good shape. The rusted hulk we hand to our children is our shameful legacy.
A paradigm of immense proportions await us on the horizon. Milestones
DATS RAYCISS
Merry XMAS Tyler.
No mention of the sneaker riots all across America, 12/23/2011 Merry Christmas Everyone!
white people don't particularly care that much about Air Jordans, so the news of riots must be suppressed. NO negative image of protected classes of people can be allowed to exist.
Tyler - thanks for your courage and precision.
and the reason why the bankstah gangstahs can do as they wish and get away with it!
The rise of IBM wasn't an unalloyed good. Like many US companies, they fell all over themselves to work with a rising progressive government led by a vegetarian teetotaler, who just happened to be a murderous psychopath. Their punch cards were a brilliant solution, devised by the Germans, for tracking census data, which later was expanded to include ethnicity. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/excerpts.php
they tried pretty hard to work with a rising "conservative" government led by a drunk who just happened to be a murderous psychopath (2000-8). i think it's called following the money. p.s. they're still working with whatever ideology our current government represents, not sure of b.o.'s relationship to intoxicants and vegetables, but sure he's a murderous psychopath.
You forgot the 2 Billion-dollar IBM-Inland Revenue tax evasion case that precipitated the pension issue recommended by the banksters as the ultimate solution. There's more to come from that one soon even 15 years after it happened.
"Barry Soetoro murders USA citizen, not a peep from media. Barry Soetoro will soon sign the NDAA and SOPA and complete the enslavement of his peasants without even a bit of rebellion."
The rebellion is up to US!...right here, right now. We are the ones that are awake. How bad are we waiting for things to get? Whats it gonna take to finally mobilize and fight to take our country back? Is it because we have jobs, families, and the illusion of a little bit of security at the moment that we stand by and watch them dismantle our country? Those things are gone anyway if we do nothing. Like it or not, The things most important to us are the things we must be willing to sacrifice if we are to fight for what this country is suppossed to be. God says that in the final days he will send a strong spirit of deception over the land, and that is plain to see in our country right now. As misguided as OWS is, at least they are doing something. We arent. We have food, guns, ammo, money, and alot more support just waiting in the shadows, lots frustrated people who feel angry yet powerless to do anything, hoping that something will happen soon to bring this corrupt system down. Its entirely our fault if things are allowed to continue. We are the resistance. We can only lose if we let them pick us off one by one, and that is their plan.
at a bare minimum: register republican, vote for ron paul, once in the primary, again in the general. how hard is that? if you want harder, send money. thanks.
Liz Taylor died?
I musta been planting/weeding the garden.
what did they do with her jewellery??
The collection was just auctioned on December 14th, along with art, gowns and various memorabilia for a total of over $150 million.
"Taylor's world-renowned collection of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, emeralds and more accounted for the vast majority of the haul, selling for a combined $137 million and becoming by far the most valuable jewelry sale ever."
Portions of the proceeds went to Taylors AIDS Foundation.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/sns-rt-us-elizabethtaylor-auctiontre7bg056-20111216,0,945868.story
More of the art will be auctioned in February.
DEUS EX MACHINA
With most of the world’s major economies as well as the financial system bankrupt, there is only one solution that can save the world economy. Like in the Greek tragedies, Deus ex Machina is now the only way that the world can avoid a total economic collapse. This would involve God being lowered down onto the world stage and miraculously saving the plot.
For those few who believe in this, may God bless them. But since this is a very unlikely solution most people will instead rely on governments and central banks to save us. But how can anyone possibly believe that totally incompetent and clueless politicians and central bankers could solve anything. They created the problem in the first place and are therefore totally unsuitable to play the role of Deus. The main objective of governments is to stay in power and thus to buy votes. Therefore they are incapable of taking the right decisions. And the opposition, aspiring to power is even less suitable since they will lie through their teeth and promise the earth in order to be elected. (We know that there are exceptions like Ron Paul, but the voters will most probably find his medicine too strong to swallow.)
More:
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/english-news/9031-deus-ex-machina
If the Bond Market does crater, you think the stock market will fly upwards? LOL
EVERYTHING is levered up based on phoney credit assets in fiat land. It would be the largest margin call in history.
Did I miss the entry for the bloviating shitshow that cost us our credit rating and scared the crap out of everyone who had ever lent money to the Treserve?
Well, in 2012 I am going to concentrate all efforts on inventing a process that will produce money out of thin air, then I am going to loan it out at say 10% and sit back and let the revenue streams flow in; am I going to worry about repayment of the principal? Hell no, I don't need no stinkin' principal since I never had any meaningful nor valuable principal in the first place, jest keep them monthly payments coming in folks!! Hey, this will be a COOL invention, fer sure..............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag
Happy winter solstice, pagan bitchezz!
Google-Plus launch????????????
Add Kim Jong Ill's death and missile lobbing on Korean isles. China's new carrier fleet and continued bellicose posturing. The related ECM takedown of a drone over Iran. The failure of the West to back Iran's green revolt. Signs of an Iran strike. Putin's return. DSK. The Full Monti Italian squid putsch. Singapore's first PAP confidence fail. The death of the Kyoto protocol. The victory of Sea Shepherd grounding the Nipponese whaling fleet. Fukushima. Electric cars hitting real production markets. Trouble in the Falklands again. The Northwest passage opening up. Oil fueling both as well as Tar sands. The great silver corner by JPM. Gold and Silver levels and crazy FX flight to safety. Multiple treasury and sovereign bond auction failures. Remotherhyperhypothecation. NDAA. Iceland's cool default recovery and effinwhatsnamedottir part deux. The google hack and china baidu fallout.
What a year.
china doesn't have a carrier fleet
Sectarian violence and political turmoil in Iraq escalated within days of the United States military’s withdrawal, but officials said in interviews that President Obama had no intention of sending troops back into the country, even if it devolved into civil war.
The United States, without troops on the ground or any direct influence over Iraq’s affairs, has lost much of its leverage there. And so the latest crisis, a descent into sectarian distrust and hostility that was punctuated by a bombing in Baghdad on Thursday that killed more than 60 people, is being treated in much the same way that the United States would treat any diplomatic emergency abroad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45787552/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/#....
this is what "hardball" looks like. Eventually, someone will officially beg us to return and we will "reluctantly" do so and then we will flip over the government along with the oil contracts. We're right next fucking door.
IBM Communications put several teams in place (UK, Ireland, Netherlands, India) to ratchet up the vote counts.
Global economic collapse continues at a frightening speed it seems.
the most subtle details make all the difference.
http://covert.mypressonline.com