What will be the biggest news of 2011?

[Martinus]

So, the year still has full four months to go, but already the number of quite groundbreaking (in some cases, like the tsunami, literally) events seems quite staggering.

Some of the events are also not over yet, so consider the possibility of the state of affairs deteriorating (for those involved - the NotW scandal deteriorating to include the Murdoch family or the tories is not necessary a bad thing, mind you. ). 

[Eddie Teach]

The Arab uprisings. Mongers getting married is a close second.

[CountDeMoney]

How the Tea Baggers not only destroy America, but manage to crater most of the world with them.

[Martinus]

How the Tea Baggers not only destroy America, but manage to crater most of the world with them.

Btw, can we carpet-bomb US cities now? I mean, when Germans elected people who brought a global disaster in 1930s, we carpet-bombed the living shit out of them, even if it meant bombing people who didn't necessarily vote for the nutcases. I think the same reasoning should apply here.

[Slargos]

London riots is more of the same. World news scandal is big, but it's still just another newspaper scandal.

The imploding American economy and the Norwegian terrorist attack is certainly up there for the pure psychological impact.

Hard to name just one.

[Zanza]

Other: The sovereign debt crisis in Europe. I expect much worse to come in the second half of the year.

[The Brain]

Other: The sovereign debt crisis in Europe. I expect much worse to come in the second half of the year.

Yeah, why is this huge thing hidden under "other"?

[CountDeMoney]

The Somalian famine

[Martinus]

Other: The sovereign debt crisis in Europe. I expect much worse to come in the second half of the year.

Yeah, why is this huge thing hidden under "other"?

My bad. I sorta conflated it with the American debt ceiling thing, but yeah, the crisis has this leg as well.

[Martinus]

The Somalian famine

No kidding. The Somalis really have bad luck this summer. Apparently, 2000 people die there each day, but noone gives a flying fuck because there is so much happening elsewhere.

[Josquius]

Tsunami.
The Arab uprisings are already being forgotten whilst Fukushima still keeps popping up on the international news.

[Razgovory]

Japanese thing.

[DGuller]

How the Tea Baggers not only destroy America, but manage to crater most of the world with them.

Btw, can we carpet-bomb US cities now? I mean, when Germans elected people who brought a global disaster in 1930s, we carpet-bombed the living shit out of them, even if it meant bombing people who didn't necessarily vote for the nutcases. I think the same reasoning should apply here.

Is this a serious question? 

[Razgovory]

The Somalian famine

No kidding. The Somalis really have bad luck this summer. Apparently, 2000 people die there each day, but noone gives a flying fuck because there is so much happening elsewhere.

Nobody would give a fuck even if nothing else was happening.  The Somalis have either been starving or on the verge of starving for twenty years.

[Slargos]

How the Tea Baggers not only destroy America, but manage to crater most of the world with them.

Btw, can we carpet-bomb US cities now? I mean, when Germans elected people who brought a global disaster in 1930s, we carpet-bombed the living shit out of them, even if it meant bombing people who didn't necessarily vote for the nutcases. I think the same reasoning should apply here.

Is this a serious question? 

If it isn't, it should be.