Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
New summit for hoods of state
Following the success of the United Nations poverty summit, world leaders call for similar summits to be repeated on an annual basis.
Major leaders from around the globe praise the summit on its high national profile, intensity of media coverage and opportunities it provides to get onto the world news and smile a lot at cameras without being expected to answer hard questions.
Proposals for the next United Nations world summit include:
- World fashion summit
- World photo opportunity summit
- World summit for propping up flagging political careers.
Paul Keating proposes the World Summit for bagging political opponents on the other side of the globe who don't have access to the global media.
End of World War II marked
The United States government, at the request of a consortium of US importers, acknowledges Japanese sensitivities and agrees to change the name of the end of World War II from VJ day to VIP day — from "Victory over Japan" to "Victory in the Pacific".
The Japanese government also requests that other denigrating references to the Japanese role in the war be removed from US school books. However, this proves unnecessary when it is discovered that the only reference to Japanese involvement in World War II in the US school curriculum is from videos of McHale's Navy.
The US agrees to ban all replays of the show as well as certain movies such as The Battle for Midway, and in return, Japan promises to reduce its trade surplus and remove all references to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The end of the war is officially changed again to "TITQMJ Day" — "The Introduction of TQM in Japan Day".
America's Cup challenge change
After the national shame and indignity following the sinking of Australia's hope in the America's Cup challenge, One Australia, John Bertrand is replaced as skipper.
The Australian team names as new skipper the French yachtswoman M. Autisier, who agrees to take on the position to pay off her rescue bill to Royal Australian Navy Pty Ltd of $2 million (plus expenses).
She announces that she will skipper the salvaged remains of the Australian yacht, renamed 0.5 Australia, and that she expects to do at least as well as she did in the recent around the world race.
The US Coast Guard Co. announces it will accept credit cards but not travellers cheques in Australian dollars.