Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Dirty dozen global events and trends…

The year 2011 will go down in history as the year which heralded the maximum protests highlighting the role played by civil society in its bid to tell the governments that it cant hood wink its people al the time. Major initiatives have made a lot of noise towards reforms whether all of them will bear fruit is yet to be seen.
1. The Sovereign debt crises took the sheen out of the Euro zone.
2. The US economy descended deeply due to political paralysis and institutional stares.
3. Arab spring stormed the dictational barricades in Middle East.
4. The killing of Bin Laden started a US Pakistan war of words.
5. Capitalism was attached by “occupy will sheet” protests.
6. Steve Job demise gave a new inspective to technology.
7. US withdraw troops from Iraq and no one knows whether it liberated it or not.
8. 9/11 Anniversary of Islamofacism saw China close the ranks of power with USA.
9. The worlds 2nd largest democracy slowed down; due to a burgeoning budget deficit and protests from Anna Hazare against wide spread corruption in govt and high places.
10. Fukishama nuclear disaster saw the political lobbies of environmentalists, wind & solar energies & green political parties stepping up their ante.
11. Wikileaks, Berlusconi, IMF chief etc gave sex a chance to hit the headlines again and again.
12. Unethical media practices and nexus between diplomat’s corporate bigwigs and politicians were blown out causing the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch to eat humble pie.

The concept of private lives was basic to civilization. Its value could be measured by the thoroughness with which totalitarian states and dictatorships always did try their best to stamp it out. But now we have to face the possibility that the latest internet based stage of civilization in this era of perpetual alliteration, that we are living in right now might also be trying to stamp it out.

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