Predictions for 2012

[Lenina Rosenweg]

What are your predictions for 2012? What do you think the coming year has in store?

This is something I posted in another forum

For what it's worth....

The US presidential election will be Romney versus Obama. Obama will win by a comfortable margin but the election will have a near record low voter turnout, as the American people show little enthusiasm for either candidate.

The US will begin to see 1930s style labor unrest with wildcat strikes and factory occupations. This may begin as an offshoot of the Occupy movement but will take on a life of its own.The traditional labor movement will be transformed and realigned, with the AFL-CIO and Change To Win both approaching a meltdown.New, more radical labor movements will emerge.

Mass unrest begins in the US, surprising many. Somewhere protesters will be killed. This won't involve students, like Kent State but involve rank and file working people. A third party will run a candidate who will do poorly but will become a pop culture meme.

Tensions continue between the US and Iran but war is averted.

Unrest continues in Syria. Towards the middle of 2012 Assad agrees to step down but with his Baath Party retaining power.This will be unacceptable to opposition leaders. Beginning of fragmentation of Syrian elite as a scramble to replace Assad ensues. The crisis won't be resolved in 2012 however.

The Euro doesn't collapse. European financial crisis continues however.Severe "budgetary discipline" imposed in Italy and France. Mass protests and unrest in both countries.

Chinese economy continues slowdown.This leads to layoffs and unemployment in coastal cities. By the middle of 2012 China downturn affects BRIC countries

Continued tension and saber rattling between US and China. No war though. Not yet.

Great Recession finally hits Germany. Germany faces 10% unemployment by May.

New civil war in Iraq.Afghanistan war continues but Karzai government virtually collapses. Taliban, Northern Alliance and warlords emerge as both defacto and dejure rulers of the country.

The good news...

A cure for Alzheimers will be found, but it will take several years before it can be marketed.Gene therapy will see breakthoughs and interest in this field will be revived.A cure for male pattern baldness will be found.

There will be breakthoughs in finding the mechanisms in evolutionary dynamics. The possibility of bringing back the dinosaurs will appear more realistic.

[NewLeft]

The US will begin to see 1930s style labor unrest with wildcat strikes and factory occupations. This may begin as an offshoot of the Occupy movement but will take on a life of its own.The traditional labor movement will be transformed and realigned, with the AFL-CIO and Change To Win both approaching a meltdown.New, more radical labor movements will emerge.

Wishful thinking? lol I really hope this comes true.

I predict that there will be a viable third party candidate for 2012 that will take a decent slice of the votes (around %5 maybe).

[Robespierre Richard]

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[ComradeGrant]

God I hope there's a cure for male pattern baldness, I do not want to turn out like my dad. Also all that other stuff should be interesting.

[the last donut of the night]

you forgot about the apocalypse

[Jimmie Higgins]

- The world doesn't end.

- Several regimes do end.

- Uprisings throughout the world will intensify but become more messy and complicated as class issues begin to emerge more clearly and splits between different factions develop.

- There will be an Egypt-style uprising that topples a parliamentary type elected government.

- Kurt Cobain will emerge from hiding, announce that his death was a hoax and that he's been supporting himself over the last few years by writing all the songs for James Blunt. Riots ensue.

- Obama will win re-election but will face open and confident protests from a growing and more radical faction of the occupy movement.

- There will be acts of right-wing domestic terrorism in the US.

- The Hobbit will suck. Riots ensue.

- The Avengers will be light and slightly more amusing than most summer escapism movies.

- The US will continue to polarize politically. The right-wing will strike back onto the streets after a year of leftward moving politics in the US. Disgruntled and confused by the nomination of Romney only to then see him trailing in election polls along with a more confident radical left will send them into a rage and they will try and organize directly against left-wing demonstrators, even physically when the odds are in their favor.

[dodger]

The fools....the crazy fools......NOT MORE TORIES.....aghhh!!!!!!!!!!

[Pirate Utopian]

- Zombies
- Mad Max-style wasteland
- Mad Max-style cars will be all the rage
- Everyone who survives the zombie apocalypse will divide into roving gangs of punk rockers with spaghetti western guns
- GTA5 will be cool

[Nox]

The world will end

[NoOneIsIllegal]

The world will end
well duh, but "how" is what we're trying to figure out.

I think between the Kurt Cobain riots combined with the massive failure of the Hobbit, we're fucked.

[Nox]

well duh, but "how" is what we're trying to figure out.

Mayan calendar init

[Sasha]

you forgot about the apocalypse


The world will end


Mayan calendar init


kcc_KAhwpa0

:D

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Mayan calendar init
SO MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED.

The one thing I always wondered:
people throughout history basically raped and killed the Mayans out of existence, right? now suddenly they care about a calender they had?

[Sasha]

SO MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED.

The one thing I always wondered:
people throughout history basically raped and killed the Mayans out of existence, right? now suddenly they care about a calender they had?


bad case of karma anxiousness kicking in i guess... :closedeyes:

[Nox]

SO MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED.

The one thing I always wondered:
people throughout history basically raped and killed the Mayans out of existence, right? now suddenly they care about a calender they had?

Nostradamus init

Mayan calendar ended in 2012 MUST BE A REASON!!111111111

[Lenina Rosenweg]

25 December, 2012 last Baktun of the Mayan calender. The world either permanently winks out of existence or the world enters a period of global spiritual awakening. Which of these occurs will be a result of the "butterfly effect". A butterfly in Malaysia looking for a mate will determine which scenario actualizes.

Before this occurs however the religious balance of the world changes as the Christian fundamentalist Rapture and Tribulation (predicted in the Book of Revolutions) occurs in early May.Small towns in the US South and Midwest are abandoned as Christians beam up to heaven.The number of saved turns out to be far fewer than expected. The Tribulation breaks out as offshoots of the Occupy movement begin squatting in homes abandoned by Christian CEOs.

The only Republican candidates still on earth are Romney and Huntsman, both Mormons.Nick Clegg becomes British PM as Cameron is raptured and chaos ensues in Nigeria as Goodluck Johnathon ascends into heaven. World events otherwise remain unaffected.

In late June Anonymous shocks the world by temporarily hijacking CNN, Fox News,and ITN. They keep control for a half hour and broadcast using a CGI avatar in the form of Rosa Luxemburg. Rosa announces highly embarrassing info on politicians and global leaders.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

December 20, 2012:
capitalism falls immediately. radical unions take over the workplaces, and decision making is put into the hands of the workers. soviets are set up across communities and towns. direct-action and self-management is the law of the land. all religions come together to solve their differences by making religion nonexistent. hierarchy and wages disappear. a new world is born.

December 21, 2012:
earth blows up.

[ColonelCossack]

Nostradamus init

Mayan calendar ended in 2012 MUST BE A REASON!!111111111

you mean 2k12, fam.

[bcbm]

some depressing shit

[Qayin]

I go to college

[Misanthrope]

My prediction: capitalism will continue to fail. There will be minor uprising but nothing influential. We will complain on an internet forum.



some depressing shit

[heyjoe]

many many people wake up on 12/21/11 with a viscous hangover.

some people on this board have an avoidable nervous breakdown this year.

things continue to get worse politically and economically but the seeds of change have been sowed and the resistance continues to grow.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

The Universe will inexplicable vanish and be replaced by a single Jaffa Cake 200 trillion light years in diameter.

[Frank Zapatista]

President Ron Paul will build a libertarian utopia inside the united states where every decision in life is made by looking to the U.S constitution and everyone gets ice cream.

[Ele'ill]

- Zombies
- Mad Max-style wasteland
- Mad Max-style cars will be all the rage
- Everyone who survives the zombie apocalypse will divide into roving gangs of punk rockers with spaghetti western guns
- GTA5 will be cool

Mad Max-style hair

[GatesofLenin]

There will be another 200+ Android smartphones released on the market with even more stupid names. Russia will convert to the NUSSR! (New Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
:cool:

[Rafiq]

- There is a possibility Ron Paul will be placed against Obama, as the ruling classes are attempting to ideologically steer the masses toward the Right Wing. The ruling classes know they are hated, however, they would rather be hated from a Libertarian perspective, than that of a revolutionary socialist one.

Obama will win the 2012 election. Nothing will change.

- The U.S. economy will get much worse, and the limitations of the system will be unmasked.

- The United States will yet again go to war.

- The Syrian regime will stay where it is, unharmed. A possible war with NATO is taken into consideration.

- The envirement will get even worse.

No, I don't think the end of the world is in 2012, but at this pace, 2030 doesn't seem so far away in regards to total destruction.

[ColonelCossack]

I will walk past a nuclear power station and become a super hero and change the world entirely (i.e. start a successful, global proletarian revolution), to my own horror because it would prove the great man theory of history correct. Disgusted by the fact that all my political opinions which I've stuck fast to for years are wrong (or at least, historical materialism), I end it all by jumping off the newly built palace of the soviets (30km in height) in Nicaragua. Instead of dying, however, one of my arms is turned into a chainsaw, I acquire a shotgun and a car, and land in 13th century England, which is plagued by the evil undead, resurrected by a book bound in human flesh and inked in human blood called the necronomecon. In a quest to take the book to the good guys I accidentally resurrect an entire army of the evil dead which attacks a castle. My chainsaw-arrm is replaced with a mechanical hand, and I fight them off. I am given a potion to make me sleep until the present, but because of a mishap I end up 100 years in the future- civilisation has been destroyed in some kind of apocalypse, probably a global thermonuclear war started by reactionary capitalistic counter-revolutionaries from the human colony on Jupiter's moon Europa. Shocked by the destruction of everything I know, I salvage a luger from a destroyed Antarctican seaside holiday resort, and proceed to blow my brains out. HOWEVER, rather than dying, I find myself naked on the peak of a snowy mountain, a dead Balrog lying beneath me- I have grown a long grey beard, and now own a long white cloak, and for some reason people start calling me Gandalf. I go to a big black tower and fight some ugly green mofos, then to a big white city and fight some more ugly green mofos, then to some dirty mountains and fight yet more ugly green mofos. Then I ride an eagle and save two midgets, walk around in a place with those hippy-style underground eco houses in hills, then go on a big ship with some pointy-eared people and those midgets I mentioned earlier to a place vaguely referred to as "The West". However, there is an unexpected twist- In actuality, I go to a place where everything is made of fuzzy cubes and I'm made of fuzzy cubes and I get attacked by fuzzy green cubes and I kill a flying fuzzy black cube in another dimension made of yet more fuzzy green cubes. Two stoners then talk some shit to me about stardust and some mother nature figure, but However, instead of reappearing at what I called my "spawn point", I find myself the obese leader of a mafia-style family in the italian city of verona a few hundred years ago relative to 2012. I am involved in some kind of civil strife with another family. I want my daughter (where did she come from? :confused:) to marry some neutral Veronan aristocrat, but it turns out she disagrees, and ends up killing herself. It turns out she was in love with the son of the patriarch of the family I have an adversarial relationship towards, so in a fit of lamentation, i have a heart attack- or maybe it was the consequence of too much cholesterol. Unexpectedly, however, I find myself not dead- I wake up on this strange planet with 2 suns! So some golden oldie arrives one day and trains me to be some sci-fi samurai with a laser sword; he dies, and a guy in a black mask with a cold tells me he's my dad and cuts off my hand. I fall down, get a robotic hand, and fly to a planet with an ugly green mofo who tells me I can pick up immensely heavy objects with only the power of my will. So he dies, and I go to face my so-called father, but he turns to my side, but a really old guy- his dad, maybe- strikes him with lightning powers, but the guy with the cold throws him down a big hole. Then my "dad" dies, but everyone's happy because the above mentioned old guy is dead. a brick then falls on my head and "kills me"- however, surprise-surprise, I'm not dead, I'm merely a mouse. Thoroughly tired and bored of it all, I sigh "Da Fok?" and eat some cheese.



True story.

[dodger]

I will walk past a nuclear power station and become a super hero and change the world entirely (i.e. start a successful, global proletarian revolution), to my own horror because it would prove the great man theory of history correct. Disgusted by the fact that all my political opinions which I've stuck fast to for years are wrong (or at least, historical materialism), I end it all by jumping off the newly built palace of the soviets (30km in height) in Nicaragua. Instead of dying, however, one of my arms is turned into a chainsaw, I acquire a shotgun and a car, and land in 13th century England, which is plagued by the evil undead, resurrected by a book bound in human flesh and inked in human blood called the necronomecon. In a quest to take the book to the good guys I accidentally resurrect an entire army of the evil dead which attacks a castle. My chainsaw-arrm is replaced with a mechanical hand, and I fight them off. I am given a potion to make me sleep until the present, but because of a mishap I end up 100 years in the future- civilisation has been destroyed in some kind of apocalypse, probably a global thermonuclear war started by reactionary capitalistic counter-revolutionaries from the human colony on Jupiter's moon Europa. Shocked by the destruction of everything I know, I salvage a luger from a destroyed Antarctican seaside holiday resort, and proceed to blow my brains out. HOWEVER, rather than dying, I find myself naked on the peak of a snowy mountain, a dead Balrog lying beneath me- I have grown a long grey beard, and now own a long white cloak, and for some reason people start calling me Gandalf. I go to a big black tower and fight some ugly green mofos, then to a big white city and fight some more ugly green mofos, then to some dirty mountains and fight yet more ugly green mofos. Then I ride an eagle and save two midgets, walk around in a place with those hippy-style underground eco houses in hills, then go on a big ship with some pointy-eared people and those midgets I mentioned earlier to a place vaguely referred to as "The West". However, there is an unexpected twist- In actuality, I go to a place where everything is made of fuzzy cubes and I'm made of fuzzy cubes and I get attacked by fuzzy green cubes and I kill a flying fuzzy black cube in another dimension made of yet more fuzzy green cubes. Two stoners then talk some shit to me about stardust and some mother nature figure, but However, instead of reappearing at what I called my "spawn point", I find myself the obese leader of a mafia-style family in the italian city of verona a few hundred years ago relative to 2012. I am involved in some kind of civil strife with another family. I want my daughter (where did she come from? :confused:) to marry some neutral Veronan aristocrat, but it turns out she disagrees, and ends up killing herself. It turns out she was in love with the son of the patriarch of the family I have an adversarial relationship towards, so in a fit of lamentation, i have a heart attack- or maybe it was the consequence of too much cholesterol. Unexpectedly, however, I find myself not dead- I wake up on this strange planet with 2 suns! So some golden oldie arrives one day and trains me to be some sci-fi samurai with a laser sword; he dies, and a guy in a black mask with a cold tells me he's my dad and cuts off my hand. I fall down, get a robotic hand, and fly to a planet with an ugly green mofo who tells me I can pick up immensely heavy objects with only the power of my will. So he dies, and I go to face my so-called father, but he turns to my side, but a really old guy- his dad, maybe- strikes him with lightning powers, but the guy with the cold throws him down a big hole. Then my "dad" dies, but everyone's happy because the above mentioned old guy is dead. a brick then falls on my head and "kills me"- however, surprise-surprise, I'm not dead, I'm merely a mouse. Thoroughly tired and bored of it all, I sigh "Da Fok?" and eat some cheese.



True story.

Da Fok.........That reminds me of something that happened the other day...................

[Ele'ill]

Global revolution.

[Agent Ducky]

Did CC and dodger just switch places there for a second? Except CC being more coherent and with more movie references?

[ColonelCossack]

Did CC and dodger just switch places there for a second? Except CC being more coherent and with more movie references?

:bored:

I like how:
-I am now "CC",
-I am (more) coherent even when I'm not.

There was also a play reference (romeo & Juliet; I was lord Capulet), and a game reference (minecraft). But I suppose R&J is also a few films too. But the reference to army of Darkness was my favourite. :thumbup1:

[ColonelCossack]

Da Fok.........That reminds me of something that happened the other day...................

What

[Agent Ducky]

:bored:

I like how:
-I am now "CC",
-I am (more) coherent even when I'm not.

There was also a play reference (romeo & Juliet; I was lord Capulet), and a game reference (minecraft). But I suppose R&J is also a few films too. But the reference to army of Darkness was my favourite. :thumbup1:

I'm lazy today, didn't feel like typing your name. I apologize. And I meant that what you typed was more coherent than what dodger usually types. And I did catch the Minecraft and Romeo and Juliet references. It just seemed that the majority were movie references.

[MotherCossack]

you mean 2k12, fam.

son are you quite mad?


predictions.....
i will get even older....
and smell even more 'like mouldy bread'

oh and the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer....

and the moon will get a bit further away, but only a bit....

oh and all the stuff we bought each other for christmas will end up in land fill

oh and we'll all grew new skin!?
i think....

some people will win out most people will lose out
cor blimey...
nostrodamus made it look so f---ing easy....
the man with the crooked pointy staff ....
will surely cause the troubled parting of several significant
pillars or soon another shining extract of the southern seas will rise in the north to make a mockery of all that the sure-footed one seeks to pre-book...
(oh that might be promote... or pervert...)
actually i might get the hang o'this!....
itsfun!!!!!!!!

[MotherCossack]

you know what... i just looked up... it seems i missed most of all that..
what was i replying to....
your mum;s a dozy mare youngblood.
i say, yer mum's a dozy mare.
er well hey!!!! CC!!!!!
i say hey!!!! yo CC!!!
yesss mother? what is it?

yeah well i do like your little story! it starts this, and then thus and then there and you die and says that and go there besides her and then shit becomes shat......
and CC !!! welly ha go go..!!!!!!!!do do its a funny old show no?

[ColonelCossack]

I'm lazy today, didn't feel like typing your name. I apologize. And I meant that what you typed was more coherent than what dodger usually types. And I did catch the Minecraft and Romeo and Juliet references. It just seemed that the majority were movie references.

I like "CC"... It makes me feel "known"... like I have a nickname. Like people know who I am so I only need 2 letters to be identified. Like Voldemort... or something. :P

It's cool, the majority were movie references. I'm lazy every day.

[ВАЛТЕР]

My prediction for 2012: More conflict and war.

Only sure thing.

[ColonelCossack]

My prediction for 2012: More conflict and war.

Only sure thing.

That and capitalist exploitation.

[ColonelCossack]

you know what... I just looked up... It seems i missed most of all that..
What was i replying to....
Your mum;s a dozy mare youngblood.
I say, yer mum's a dozy mare.
Er well hey!!!! Cc!!!!!
I say hey!!!! Yo cc!!!
Yesss mother? What is it?

Yeah well i do like your little story! It starts this, and then thus and then there and you die and says that and go there besides her and then shit becomes shat......
And cc !!! Welly ha go go..!!!!!!!!do do its a funny old show no?


da fok

[eyeheartlenin]

Just as in 2008, most (95%) of the "socialist" left will find a way to back the election of the Democratic presidential candidate, all the while denying that they are doing any such thing, and yelling "sectarianism" at the top of their lungs.

Meanwhile, the remaining 5% (that's an optimistic guess, I know) will explain what is actually happening.