What are some really big things happening in the WORLD?

Question

ok well I need some REALLY BIG THINGS that are happening in the world right now. I have Anna Nicole Smith's death, Britney Spears shaving her head, and the war in Iraq. but if you could give me some more, it would really help. thnx :]]

Answer 1

My choice for top five things happening in the world right now:

1. Diplomatic crisis: the shift in the Middle East from the old problems (Arab-Israel conflict, Iraq) to the regional and international crisis entailed by the emergence of Iran as an active regional power which is no longer checked by an equally militant and dangerous Iraq, which is reflected by the conflict with the U.S. and other states over the meaning of Iran's nuclear program, Iran's assertion of power via Shiiite militants and as an alleged protector of Shiite minority interests.

2. Long term emergence of Chinamerica as a symbiotic economic and trading system, and politically — despite differences and rivalries between China and the U.S. in many areas — as showing some common interests in stabilizing world politics and possibly shaping a new balance of power. Where is Henry Kissinger when we could use his talents?

3. Challenges of the maturation of Globalization — it is a fact, it seems too rooted to go back, but it is creating domestic backlash and a wide range of financial-eonomic teething problems as it becomes more pervasive. What we have now is globalization but without the global regulatory and governance institutions that are impllied and necessary in the long-run.

4. Shift of environmentalism into the stage of mass consciousness-raising, and some intellligent discussion of policy making and implementation at the institutional and technical level (balance of ameliorative advance methods and consideration of "what to do" when and if we deal with specific impacts — who gains as well as who loses, and how will the politics play out in each country? The impact of environment on government and politics may, in the next quarter-century, be as great as its impact on climate and the physical conditions and costs of living.

5. In the short run, the transition in the U.S. from the Bush W. Admiinistration to what comes after President Bush. Perhaps there is a longer run shift that goes beyond the immediate focus. Politics domestic and international has been dominated, since aroujnd the late 1960s, from the ending of the Cold War (starting with detente, the Helsinki Committe and the rise of Soviet dissent, plus the U.S. rapprochement with China, 35 years ago, to the fall of Communism and the dazzling post-Cold War single state dominance (correctly labeled by Pope John Paul II as an exercise in dangerous "triumphalism"); paralleling this, in the U.S. and Britain, were various examples of greater or lesser conservative political orientations (including acceptance of the status quo by Democrats). Now, perhaps, we may see the emergence of a new political divide, not the rise of old-style left socialism to replace ideological right-wing conservatism, but rather contests between pragmatic approaches to managing market economies in a glbalized high-tech context (a technocratically savvy pragmatic conservatism — which is what I think we are seeing develop in Canada, for example — and an equally pragmatic liberalism-socialism, focusing on accepting the market economy as an engine for distribution as well as production, which is the only way in which the Left is likely to find acceptance politically in the near future.

Answer 2

I love how you put Britney Spears shaving her head BEFORE the War in Iraq!

Answer 3

Hillary Clinton trying to become the first female president. very big.

Answer 4

I fed our cows today yep all 125 of them!

Answer 5

expansion