2011, the year of unexpected headlines ~ What next?

And then some munchkin enginneers the magic and learns a spell that effectively makes him a walking nuke. Casualties sky rocket as he posts it on the internet.

edited 25th May '11 1:56:42 PM by Usht

Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath all circa 1972 are transported to today and play on the same stage.

The SNES has been long dead.

Virulent disease starts in China, spreads across world. One out of every 10 persons die. The sudden loss of humans drives all services to a halt. The internet fizzles, and the electricity goes out—FOREVER. International commerce dissolves. Chaos. Anarchy ensues. War was beginning.

We're still overdue for a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion and a robot uprising.

Elvis and Michael Jackson to stage a comeback concert!

Ding! Ding! Ding! We've got the headline for this session: the guy who's responsible for the murder of 8,000 civilians in Serbia was caught today.

... Yeah, that's not quite the level of what we've seen the last weeks, but it's making the big headlines on the New York Times and some other news outlets. Still until sunday to have a bigger thing, but that's still something to help us wait for the next alien invasion.

edited 26th May '11 6:40:55 AM by RufusShinra

With CERN's discovery of faster-than-light speed in neutrinos this week, I propose we necro-bump this thread.

Seriously I wake up to find women can vote in SA now? This year is madness.

Next headline, Pope approves of homosexuality. Yes, I'm being ambitious.

Bleh... we're not into Alien Space Bats territory. That requires literal magic.

Although the CERN thing might qualify us as getting close now, since we're rewriting laws of physics, here. It's just far less dramatic than the average Alternate History story...

Justices Thomas and Scalia finally realize what obvious dicks they're being and resign due to the corporate infulence on them. Obama appoints two new justices who recuse themselves when they are actually biased on a case by case basis.

Microsoft, Sony, and EA remove the clauses which disallow class action lawsuits against them by its customers.

Capcom announces that it is handing development of the newest installment of Devil May Cry over to the developer of Bayonnetta, amidst incredible backlash from just about every fan.

Neil Gaiman announces a series of Doctor Who comics, to be released within 6 months.

Scott Walker is simultaneously sent to prison, along with his staff and the attorney general, and voted out by the citizens of Wisconsin. Russ Feingold takes office immediately, where the emergency budget bill is repealed along with 1.8 billion in tax cuts for corporations and the rich.

Charles and David Koch are found in their mansions, both having passed away in their sleep. Control of their company, as well as control of the various companies, think tanks, and organizations which are funded by them, are thrown into chaos as a power vacuum forms, each upper management member vying for control of something.

Obama announces repeal of NAFTA, meant to bring manufacturing jobs back to the states.

That last one I could actually see happening....

Wouldn't that piss off Canada and Mexico, though?

edited 25th Sep '11 1:12:45 PM by AceofSpades

What is NAFTA and why do you think it's bad?

North American Free Trade Agreement. Basically, its free trade between Mexico, canada, and the us. The result, unfortunately, was that a great deal of manufacturing jobs were sent to Canada or more often than not Mexico, where workers are paid less. It removed the disincentive manufacturing companies had to manufacture in them, because it made it much cheaper to do so. Why pay an american worker $13+health and deal with regulations when you can pay a mexican worker $5 US with no change in quality?

Oh, duh, I've heard of that. I just didn't make the acronym connection.

Right... well... we could just pull it for Mexico. I take a rather dim view of free trade, however...

NAFTA also deregularized business in all the countries, causing havoc on the enviroment, employment, labor rights, and local communities.

Thread Hop: 2011 has been quite a year. Now if I could actually read about the Wall Street Occuptation on a major news network, that'd shock me. Yeah, never mind a large multi-day protest in the business centre of the United States.

Eh, Mexico needs the jobs, the real problem came when we started to ship to other countries halfway across the world.

Really, though, it would piss off Canada and Mexico. Mexico especially. We'd have to replace it with something else that's Mexico-friendly if we want to avoid damaging political relations. (Guest worker program?)

I'm going to say that we need the jobs more than Mexico...

Pfft, the Wall Street idiots were doomed from the start. I'd like to see more headlines on Iraq, Afghanistan, and how we're leaving those places, but that's just wishful thinking...

Really? :/ Huh.

Headline: Somaliland gets recognized.

I'd like to see a headlines on how chocolate has become so plentiful as to be free for everyone! But that's because I'm craving it right now....

How about "doctors have found a cure for cancer and aids?"

The Titanic will rise from its watery grave to finish its voyage to America.

7 years later, turns out reality was much more ridiculous