Who will be running the world in 20 years?

Bachus
By Bachus

Lots of predictions of the rise of one country, the demise of the other etc. Who will be running things in 20 years?

By happygolucky• 30 Sep 2011 12:13
happygolucky

lungi...it is a garment which is actually very easy for the F...:)

something like the advert of a motorcycle which said  'fill it, shut it, forget it"... for 'lungi' it can be said 'lift it, do it, wipe it" and get lost...:)

 

By anonymous• 30 Sep 2011 12:07
anonymous

lungi? WTF is that?

By sunnydays_qa• 29 Sep 2011 23:41
Rating: 3/5
sunnydays_qa

all of you who are talking about it now are gonna be as old as Jeanne Calment in 20 years that i know for sure may be you guys should think about who is gonna clean up your mess after you took a dump on your pants/lungi. good luck!

By anonymous• 29 Sep 2011 23:25
anonymous

Israel & the United States of America !

By Eagley• 12 May 2011 17:39
Eagley

The Men in Black! With a potato gun for enforcement

By Uranus1• 9 May 2011 19:44
Uranus1

Careful Bachus. He'll accuse you of being part of the one-man QL conspiracy against him. That is until he is deleted for breaking QL guidelines (like all his past incarnations).

By Bachus• 9 May 2011 19:15
Bachus

Excellent self-analysis dude. Spot on!

Now try posting an argument or point of your own instead blocking up my thread by trying to create a pi**ing contest.

By anonymous• 9 May 2011 16:55
anonymous

Pathetic

By frenchieman• 9 May 2011 16:53
frenchieman

A counter argument to what? You've never made an argument.

Give it up mathboy. I am off for the night to enjoy the delights of being in an obscenely overpaid expat.

By anonymous• 9 May 2011 16:45
anonymous

no, its beyond your ability to raise a reasoned counter argument.

By Bachus• 9 May 2011 16:34
Bachus

Slapped!

Lots of people knew about the looming crisis, because they created and profited from it.

By frenchieman• 9 May 2011 16:29
frenchieman

To prove myself to you? I think you mean that it is BENEATH me.

By anonymous• 9 May 2011 16:28
anonymous

Because its beyond you

By frenchieman• 9 May 2011 16:25
frenchieman

Why?

By anonymous• 9 May 2011 16:21
anonymous

Here is your moment in the sun - prove me wrong

By frenchieman• 9 May 2011 16:02
frenchieman

Why Rizzo? You seem quasi-literate. Try reading for yourself rather than asking everyone to spoon-feed you. Besides, you're the one who said they didn't predict the crisis. Prove that statement. Or can't you? Lol. Same old Rizzo. Blah, blah, blah . . . please prove my argument because I can't.

By anonymous• 9 May 2011 14:41
anonymous

You say they did. Show me.

By britexpat• 8 May 2011 23:04
britexpat

Rumour has it that it will be Mrs Arbeezer - from two doors down and across from the butchers..

By frenchieman• 8 May 2011 23:02
frenchieman

Rizzo--If you don't read the Economist how can you say they did not see the bubble? Back up your statements.

By Upfront• 8 May 2011 15:55
Upfront

I honestly don't know. I wished I knew.

By anonymous• 8 May 2011 15:50
anonymous

You're so called 'good ones ' were the gangsters that created the bubble. What makes The Economist a respected voice when they didn't even see the crisis coming?

By frenchieman• 8 May 2011 09:06
frenchieman

Good ones did and they made a lot of money off it. They're laughing all they way to the bank.

The wealthy elite of England increased their aggregate wealth by 18% last year--at a time when real wages for the poor slobs declined.

By anonymous• 8 May 2011 07:14
anonymous

God,the owner of it all, should probably be laughing by now!

By s_isale• 8 May 2011 07:04
Rating: 5/5
s_isale

world is supposed to end on May 21 6PM.

By anonymous• 8 May 2011 06:44
anonymous

Yeah? Did they forecast the coming of the financial crisis?

By frenchieman• 7 May 2011 23:35
frenchieman

Right wingers know capitalism dude.

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 23:30
anonymous

..

By Lovemee• 7 May 2011 23:20
Rating: 4/5
Lovemee

The son of "Usain Bolt",

believe me..P

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 23:16
anonymous

The economist? The right wing rag?

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 23:16
anonymous

The economist? The right wing rag?

By frenchieman• 7 May 2011 22:45
frenchieman

Hey Rizzo is back. Gone for at least a month. I forget, is Rizzo your marxist persona?

By frenchieman• 7 May 2011 22:44
Rating: 4/5
frenchieman

Rizzo--cheap labor will shift from China to South Asia, whose younger demographic will enable it to undercut china. The Economist estimates this will happen in about 15 years.

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 21:50
anonymous

Isn't the world ending on 21st December 2012?

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 18:57
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

There will surely be a war in the middle east! Isreal will fight palestinians inside egypt. Then, Egyptians will not shut up! they will fight isreal back and other countries will help. It will end up with a big war involving lots of the countries in the middle east against isreal. Surely, america will help isreal, but it will know that`s its end! It will be finaly fighting with arab against isreal ( america is always with the winner). Europian countries will also fight against isreal ( also with the winnern ). Anyway, america will still be running the world, but saying YES to the arab countires. This world may end after 200 years. Good luck for our future men.

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 18:14
anonymous

"pensions, medical costs and salaries for workers (happening already), and that wipes out China's number one asset--cheap labor"

Then how will capitalism survive without cheap labor?

The world is divided - it must be re- divided. There will be another world war as capitalism demands it for it to live on.

By shanawazk• 7 May 2011 17:47
shanawazk

The power will return back to Saudi Arab (medina)

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 17:47
anonymous

.....because they will all be in the hands of the corrupt Indian 'super power' leaders.

By mihirdsouza• 7 May 2011 17:20
mihirdsouza

India shall be super power .......... start collecting Indian Rupees guys......... cause dollars r gonna be trash papers. Cheers :)

By Mr M.• 7 May 2011 16:37
Mr M.

ALLAH SWT knows best.

By Bachus• 7 May 2011 16:13
Rating: 4/5
Bachus

Israel is not going anywhere. They'll still be killing each other for years to come.

No chance China will be in charge in 20 years. Just look at their demographics--too many elderly relying on too few workers. Means greater pensions, medical costs and salaries for workers (happening already), and that wipes out China's number one asset--cheap labor.

Brazil looks good, but the US is resilient. It may not be the domineering superpower of today, but it will still be the top dog among several other dogs.

By flanostu• 7 May 2011 15:59
flanostu

chimpanzees

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 15:55
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

the next 20 years the world will be controlled by ANUNAKI from planet Nibiru.

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 15:45
anonymous

2012 the world is coming to an end

By JADSS• 7 May 2011 15:41
JADSS

Do u really Dream that ISRAEL will stay 20 years !!!!!

By Scorpion786• 7 May 2011 15:27
Scorpion786

China

By PreZ• 7 May 2011 14:33
PreZ

..the royal wedding, and hence the grandiose demeanour. down from the clouds if u still can..

By britexpat• 7 May 2011 14:29
britexpat

"kingdom" ?

I always had my suspicions about you :o(

By PreZ• 7 May 2011 14:11
Rating: 5/5
PreZ

of powers will come up. The days of sole superpower will be over, financial and military might will be concentrated among groups of nations, say like: the US and Canada, the Eurozone, BRIC countries will work together in the UN, China, India, Russia and Brazil will lead their own blocs of countries with spheres of influence.

Hopefully on the whole a more balanced world

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 14:09
anonymous

With Osama, Saddam, Hosini gone, and many more to follow, FINALLY my kingdom can now come in to being,....and my loyal fans of QL will all be given Knighthood, do start work on your required Coat of Arms.

P.S Also learn the correct form of courtesy while at it.

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 14:09
anonymous

With Osama, Saddam, Hosini gone, and many more to follow, FINALLY my kingdom can now come in to being,....and my loyal fans of QL will all be given Knighthood, do start work on your required Coat of Arms.

P.S Also learn the correct form of courtesy while at it.

By shaz_341• 7 May 2011 13:48
shaz_341

Allahu A'lam, we can only predict, but the decisions are made somewhere else :-)

By britexpat• 7 May 2011 13:45
Rating: 4/5
britexpat

The same entities who have been doing so for the past 60 years....

Lord Help Us :O(

By shaz_341• 7 May 2011 13:42
Rating: 5/5
shaz_341

If things move the way it is moving now, I doubt about America's place in the World.

Given how fast information travel these days, 20 years can do a lot to change the world.

It won't be just China, India or Brazil, many more countries are going to emerge in this category.

New additions means, new hurdles for America to keep them under their wings.

Economy is the weak point of America and it will remain as one, at least in the Arab world people know, how Hosni Mubarak and others were in power. Hopefully the future regime won't follow the suite.

I think the coming years will be of 'financial war' in which the emerging economies will decide the future.

By qatar_01• 7 May 2011 13:38
Rating: 2/5
qatar_01

Goodone KHATTAK ;)

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 13:34
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

India and Israel will be the next super powers soon...probably within 20 years

By Uranus1• 7 May 2011 13:21
Uranus1

And the rest of the world will keep using them in the absence of an alternative.

By anonymous• 7 May 2011 13:05
anonymous

yea yea america will continue printing more dollars $$$

By Uranus1• 7 May 2011 12:53
Rating: 5/5
Uranus1

It will still be America's century, for better or for worse. The illusion that is the Chinese rise to power will be exposed, the EU will be either watered down and crippled by its welfare states, and the Middle East will be globally irrelevant again, as technological advances and draining resources make oil and gas less less important (a good thing for those who loathe US intervention). India will be the economy everyone is taking about as the counterweight to the US.

By KHATTAK• 7 May 2011 12:43
KHATTAK

President Obama and the Canadian PM are shown a time machine which can see 20 years into the future. They both decide to test it by asking a question each.

President Obama goes first: "What will the USA be like in 20 years’ time?"

The machine whirls and beeps and goes into action and gives him a printout, he reads it out: "The country is in good hands under the new president, José Fernandez.... crime is non-existent, there is no conflict, the economy is healthy. Vice President Jin Tao has declared Chinese language mandatory in all USA schools. There are no worries."

The Canadian PM thinks, "It's not bad, this time machine, I'll have a bit of that" so he asks: "What will Canada be like in 20 years’ time?"

The machine whirls and beeps and goes into action, and he gets a printout. But he just stares at it.

"Come on, David," says Obama, "Tell us what it says."

"I can't! It's all in Punjabi!"

By nomerci• 7 May 2011 12:43
Rating: 2/5
nomerci

The men in the shadows...no different from now.:0

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