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  1. 16 January 2012 Mali War 0 cit. no story Tuareg separatists and jihadist groups seize northern Mali, prompting French intervention in 2013. Jihadist violence spreads across the Sahel and continues after French withdrawal. war ●●
  2. 10 December 2012 Central African Republic Civil War 0 cit. no story Seleka rebels overthrow the government, triggering sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian militias. Thousands die and much of the country remains outside state control. religion / war ●●
  3. 2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) was held in Rio de Janeiro on June 20-22, 2012, producing the document The Future We Want. ●●
  4. 2012 Obama directs DHS non-deportation policy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2012 President Obama directed the Department of Homeland Security to adopt a non-deportation policy through regulation, prompting a lawsuit by ICE agents. ●●
  5. 2012 138 cities cut ties with ICLEI ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, 138 US cities severed relations with ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability), the international sponsor of Agenda 21. Wood cites this as a growing citizen resistance to sustainable-development programs. ●●
  6. 2012 Ecuador signs Mirador mining contract with EcuaCorriente ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ecuador government signs contract with Chinese firm EcuaCorriente for open-pit mining project ●●
  7. 2012 Ginni Rometty becomes CEO of IBM ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rometty, an engineer with an AI background, took over as IBM's chief executive. ●●
  8. 15 December 2013 to 22 February 2020 South Sudanese Civil War 0 cit. no story A power struggle between President Kiir and Vice President Machar splits the world's newest country along ethnic lines. Nearly 400,000 die from violence and famine before a unity government forms in 2020. politics / war ●●●
  9. April 2013 to 23 March 2019 War Against the Islamic State 0 cit. no story The Islamic State seizes a third of Iraq and much of Syria and declares a caliphate in 2014. A US-led coalition, Iraqi forces, and Kurdish fighters destroy its territorial state by 2019. religion / war ●●●●
  10. 2013 NSA completes $1.5 billion Utah data center ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the fall of 2013 the National Security Agency finished a $1.5 billion data center in Utah with a reported capacity of about 5 zettabytes. Wood notes it is formally the executive agent facility of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ●●
  11. 2013 FBI runs United Pacific Studios sting front ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The FBI created a film studio front titled United Pacific Studios producing B-grade martial arts films, used for a sting operation to investigate state Senator Ron Calderone. ●●
  12. 2013 UK film executives charged in tax fraud scheme ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Five UK film executives were charged with 125 million pounds in tax fraud related to filmmakers and directors under the auspices of a fake film titled Landscape of Lies. ●●
  13. 2013 iTunes downloads reach 25 billion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 2013, iTunes downloads reached 25 billion, six years after Apple became world's largest music retailer. ●●
  14. 2013 Google acquires Waze in bidding war with Facebook ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google won a reported bidding war with Facebook for Israeli social mapping startup Waze. ●●
  15. 2013 Egyptian military ousts President Morsi ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Egypt, the formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood was elected and dominated the new parliament and presidency for a year, until the military pushed its president, Mohamed Morsi, out of power in the summer of 2013. ●●
  16. 20 February 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War 0 cit. no story Russia seizes Crimea and backs separatists in the Donbas in 2014, then launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Europe's largest war since 1945 has killed hundreds of thousands and continues. politics / war ●●●●●
  17. 21 September 2014 Yemeni Civil War 0 cit. no story Houthi rebels seize the capital Sanaa, and a Saudi-led coalition intervenes against them from 2015. War, blockade, and famine create one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with hundreds of thousands dead. war ●●●
  18. 16 May 2014 to 23 October 2020 Second Libyan Civil War 0 cit. no story Rival governments in Tripoli and the east fight for control of Libya, drawing in Turkey, Russia, Egypt, and the UAE. A 2020 ceasefire freezes the division of the country. politics / war ●●
  19. 2014 Texas legislators ask Obama to enforce immigration law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 28, 2014 all Republican members of the Texas House and Senate signed a letter asking President Obama to enforce existing immigration law. ●●
  20. 2014 Interfaith Summit on Climate Change held at the UN ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 2014 the World Council of Churches and the United Nations co-sponsored an Interfaith Summit on Climate Change, to which Patriarch Bartholomew sent an official message. Wood presents this as evidence that churches were being drawn into the sustainable-development agenda. ●●
  21. 2014 Global oil prices collapse ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Global oil prices drop significantly and remain low, challenging resource-based economies ●●
  22. 2014 Google acquires Skybox satellite imaging startup ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google acquired real-time satellite imaging startup Skybox as US lifted restrictions on high-resolution satellite imagery. ●●
  23. 2014 A third of 2014 Indian election winners face charges ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The system is rife with corruption and patronage; 34 percent of the winners of India’s 2014 elections have criminal indictments pending against them, including serious charges like murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault. ●●
  24. 2014 YP acquires Sense Networks ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents that Pentland's Sense Networks was acquired in 2014 to enable sophisticated location data processing for behavioral targeting and behavioral surplus extraction. ●●
  25. 2015 Raghuram Rajan warns of crony capitalism ai_extracted 1 cit. no story India's central bank governor Raghuram Rajan gave a speech in Mumbai warning that corporate money was eroding the integrity of parliament. His worries echoed those voiced in Britain over three centuries earlier about the Company. ●●
  26. 2015 Ada Colau elected Barcelona's first woman mayor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2015 Barcelona election and Colau won, becoming Barcelona’s first woman mayor ●●
  27. 2015 Ecuador takes nearly $6 billion in Chinese loans ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins says Ecuador accepts nearly $6 billion from China, comprising about 30% of external debt ●●
  28. 2015 Christopher Eberts sentenced for wire fraud ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Filmmaker Christopher Eberts, known for Lord of War and The Punisher, was sentenced to four years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering related to a never-completed film. ●●
  29. 2015 Sociometric Solutions rebrands as Humanyze ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents the 2015 rebranding of Sociometric Solutions to Humanyze, which uses euphemistic language like people analytics while expanding behavioral workplace surveillance. ●●
  30. 2016 Xi Jinping visits Ecuador, signs energy deals ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins claims Chinese President Xi meets with Correa in November, signing major energy and trade agreements ●●
  31. 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a twenty-four-story apartment block in London ●●
  32. 2017 American Made film released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American Made, starring Tom Cruise as CIA drug-trafficker Barry Seal, was released, depicting Iran-Contra activities with cameos including a young W Bush and Bill Clinton. ●●
  33. 2017 Narcos location scout Carlos Munoz killed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Netflix's Narcos lost one of its scouting crew in Mexico in 2017, with Carlos Munoz's murder having unclear motives. ●●
  34. 2018 Ecuador's Chinese-financed dam tied to corruption scandal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins cites New York Times reporting that Ecuador's Chinese-financed dam becomes part of national corruption scandal ●●
  35. 2018 Nest thermostat merged into Google ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Nest thermostat, owned by Alphabet, was merged with Google, integrating smart home surveillance with Google's artificial intelligence. ●●
  36. 1 December 2019 COVID-19 pandemic wikidata 0 cit. no story pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (2019-2023) ●●●
  37. 2019 US ends the Predict pandemic-prevention program ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 termination of Predict, a scientific program designed to predict and prevent pandemics (the program was temporarily extended when the coronavirus pandemic hit) ●●
  38. 24 January 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Europe wikidata 0 cit. no story ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Europe ●●●
  39. 2020 Killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis ●●
  40. 2020 Amsterdam adopts the doughnut economics framework ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Municipality formally adopts framework balancing human needs with planetary boundaries as basis for public policy decisions. ●●
  41. 2020 Apple and Google partner on contact tracing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tech giants announce partnership to develop privacy-preserving digital contact tracing app for COVID-19. ●●
  42. 2020 UK abandons homegrown contact tracing app ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following technical failures and privacy activism, UK replaces domestic app with Apple-Google system. ●●
  43. 2020 France launches StopCovid app to weak uptake ai_extracted 1 cit. no story StopCovid app launched with poor uptake; only 1.9 million people adopted three weeks after launch, followed by uninstalls. ●●
  44. 2020 Zoom valuation surpasses major US airlines ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Videoconferencing company valuation exceeds that of major US airlines as remote work accelerates. ●●
  45. 2020 Amazon and Walmart hire 250,000 workers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story E-commerce giants rapidly expand workforce during lockdowns to meet surge in online shopping demand. ●●
  46. 2020 Hertz files for bankruptcy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Car rental company with 700,000 vehicles collapses under weight of lockdowns and pandemic economic disruption. ●●
  47. 2020 British Airways cuts 30 percent of workforce ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Major airline cuts 30% of 42,000-person workforce due to collapse of travel demand from pandemic lockdowns. ●●
  48. 2020 China bans wildlife trade after COVID-19 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Chinese authorities permanently prohibit wildlife trade and consumption following pandemic emergence. ●●
  49. 2020 Mitch Horowitz films The Kybalion documentary in Egypt ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Recent to the writing of the Seeker's Guide (2020), Mitch Horowitz visited Ancient Egypt to work on a feature documentary about The Kybalion with director Ronni Thomas, to identify the manner in which the book intersects with aspects of Egyptian thought. ●●
  50. 1 February 2021 Myanmar Civil War 0 cit. no story The military's 2021 coup against the elected government triggers nationwide armed resistance allied with ethnic insurgencies. Large parts of the country slip from junta control as the war continues. politics / war ●●●
  51. 15 April 2023 Sudanese Civil War (2023-present) 0 cit. no story Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces turn on each other, devastating Khartoum and Darfur. The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced over ten million people, and produced famine and ethnic massacres. war ●●●
  52. 7 October 2023 Gaza War 0 cit. no story Hamas attacks Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking hostages, and Israel responds with a devastating campaign in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians die and the war ripples across the region. politics / war ●●●●