Isn't the world supposed to end according to the Mayan calender or something? Or was that last year...I can't keep track of these things...

That would be a big event...just saying...

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the Mayans and Nostradamus predicted the world to end in 2012. It better not because the UGA Bulldogs are returning nearly all of their starters in football and it could be an awesome season!

Nicola, I sure hope Europe doesn't have an economic collapse. But that does scare the shit out of me. Their highly socialized entitlement economic practices has Europe on the brink of bankruptcy and total economic chaos. Now France is in trouble. If France collapses economically Europe will crumble. Then the USA, followed by Canada (which is tethered to the American economy like a Siamese twin.) Next Japan, Australia, then worldwide chaos. And can you imagine the Mideast violence once no one can buy their oil and desperation sets in?

I am hoping 2012 will bring some positive economic news and rising world stock markets(that would be nice since I bought a bunch of stock for practically nothing.)

I do predict that Iran will formally announce that they have a nuclear bomb in 2012.

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I sure hope there aren't any economic crashes.

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I'm with you Buz, I'm putting most of the proceeds of my recent house sale into stocks. There are some absolute gems out there at the moment. I'm talking ten bagger potential. You'll probably have to hold them 5 years, well, the ones I am getting at least.

I may wait a few months to let the sh*t really hit the fan in Europe, that should drive stock prices down even lower.

2012, the year of the Bull...(actually, the Chinese believe it's the year of the Dragon. Sounds like a Bruce Lee film).

I make it a policy not to tell friends about stock tips, if they go wrong and they lose the blouse / shirt off their back, I feel guilty!

I will say I like fool.com, especially their Stock Advisor service. I've learnt so much about investing from them over the years. Very clever outside the box thinkers. They look at things holistically, and then drill down too.

I, for one, welcome the coming of our new insect overlords...

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World wars, Nostradamus, Sunni's versus Shiites ... Iran versus the rest of the western world plus a nuclear weapon and a doomwatch economically in Europe.

Start with the European economic situation. The Euro was 'cobbled' on the back of the Deutschemark with a 'one size fits all' attitude to interest rates. Anyone who knows Europe will tell you the differences culturally between Spain, Italy, Greece and Germany are vast. Germany is not propping up the Euro, it was doomed from day one of its existence and Europe's economy will have to return to that which it formally was.

Sunni's versus Shiites. Bit like Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. OK .. they've got a religious bone to pick with each other but nothing's new - they've been doing that for centuries and at the end of the day the trouble dies down and they live an uneasy peace with each other.

Nostradamus doesn't even enter the equation unless you want to believe every soothsayer who's walked the planet - and there's been lots of those. As for Iran and its present leaders, they need to be constantly aware of their neighbour, Sunni Saudi Arabia - in more ways than one. The cradle of Islam ... an attack upon whom would create outrage amongst the Islamic world, Sunni's and Shiia's alike, bringing swift retribution all round from every Muslim country in the world. Israel in particular bleats on about Iran but it's all propaganda designed to alienate the Western world from anything Islamic. They in reality know Iran doesn't pose a threat to them.

So, all in all with America's economy looking slightly on the up. Doesn't seem like anything more than an average year in prospect - though if you're Chinese or Indian or Brazilian another bumper year looks the order of the day and humanity will survive and still be fucking each other senseless by this time next year.

What I understand is that the end of the Mayan Calendar is not the end of days, but the beginning of a new era. Even the decedents of the Mayan people say that it does not denote doomsday.

Maybe Nicola called it.

Moody's puts the European Union's triple-A credit rating on a negative outlook, in a move that reflects actions the ratings firm has taken on some of the euro-zone's largest members.

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It'll be the year of Barack Obama... again.

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you are funny, but I honestly didn't know about Mayans number-system, thanks for that!

You're welcome I'm always happy if someone can take interest in all the bullshit that I know

To add on the whole "The world as we know will change" comes from a series of predictions they made where the periods are seperated in what I believe is "Khartoums" or something along those lines. I can't remember exactly what timeeras each of these represent, but they are linked with the Mayan calendar. These books contain rather broad prophecies of what will happen in said time period. It will be like saying "Leaders will be hanged", make it valid for 100 years and then say that because of the revolution in a third world country I was right.

Besides, the world as we know it have changed so many times without it causing the end of it. 9/11, fall of the Soviet Union, invention of mobile phones and so many other things. Should the prediction be true for all we know it might be that some smart man figures out a way to completely remove the CO2 releases from cars. That will also change the world as we know it...

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I've always wondered what it would do to the world economy if either South America or Africa could get their shit together enough to form a supernation like the EU. There hasn't been a lot of international war in South America, but there is an incredible amount of corruption. Cure that and you could have an economic powerhouse.

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Sensei's altimeter is reading 9000'. Suddenly the engine noise level drops a lot. The engine on the door side of the plane is quiet.

We hear, "Shit! Fuck me!" from the cockpit, then the pilot yells, "Everybody out! Now!"

Airgasms Induce Orgasms

Boy this is getting damn interesting. Well, I wish they'd get their shit together at least here in my country. Personally I've been to the States, and got culturized, which has helped me see things from another point of view. I think that if we were at least a little more organized we could pull it off. Unfortunately, I sadly have to admit the few of us who have the guts to protest and try to make people aware of what we got, are usually considered nuts to say the least. Gotta keep trying though. I do every day.

At this rate in the UK, 2012 will probably be the end of the line for (a) free banking (b) an NHS (c) hopefully those ugly Ugg boots all the girls wear. I hate them.