This is amazing, I can't imagine the time and effort to put this all together. Here is to a good new year mate, hopefully one with a slightly more diverse (and positive) news cycle.
Economy of European states during the Napoleonic Wars please, I did some research and found a lot of interesting effects of Napoleon's continental system in import/export prices of spices and coffee, and the effect of America's economy during the War of 1812, which was said to have made salt as expensive as gold during the war
This is such a good concept! News is too heavily focused on "What's the most important thing happening today?" when what's often more important to be aware of is "What are the couple hundred things that happened over the course of a year?" There's clearly so much bubbling under the surface, that people should know about.
Yes , keeping abreast of important global events is such a drag . So much better to hear about the unusual mating habits of a species of frog once a year .
@IKtheVS the dude asked for citations, not a passive aggressive response that is basically the same as your first. Maybe provide the sources for your information instead of just constantly attacking this channel, it’s creator, and everyone that disagrees with you in any way
@IKtheVS Do you think corruption is inherent to Africans? Do you understand that perhaps a lot of the shit the continent is going through has been a direct result of imperialism of the West over the past centuries? Do you know what happened when marxist leader Thomas Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso? He vaccinated millions of people, literacy rates increased by vast amounts, and 10 million trees were planted in just four years time whilst he fought for women's rights and a decent standard of living for all. He only accepted a modest military wage himself and demanded that government officials were to only travel second class on airplanes among many other things. He did that by rejecting every cent of foreign aid offered to the country. I am convinced some African countries can do just fine if the west were to leave them alone.
Although the video did have a few minor errors, and that's not including mispronunciation of some words, which is understandable. Despite this, clearly a lot of effort was put into this and the video was well made.
Chernobyl fire sounds way more interseting. Also the fact that the major news channels didn't cover this is concerning. I think the russians really want to cook up some Putinlinium.
Impressive feat indeed. Quite honestly, I would never have thought it could happen. A reason to be proud, even more taking into consideration how hard the country has had it (the genocide and the geopolitics...)
@An0nyMusic I don’t think the How to Stop a Wildfire video was made in 2020 either, but their point was that, like the Simpsons, his past episodes “predicted the future”
when ever i see the media in the u.s. talking about some dumb celebrity, i always think to myself, i know there's gotta be something more important going on some where.
This was awesome, I would genuinely love a quarterly or bi-monthly version of this, really shows there's a lot more to world than it seems, and it ain't all bad.
@Ken Deeks i'm sorry to rain on your parade, but they really suck. i use subtitles, and the automatic ones don't have any punctuation, which makes it hard to follow sentences. it's basically impossible when multiple people are speaking too :( on top of that, if it's any accent that isn't English or American then they don't work very well
Excellent video! I've been a viewer for a long time, but only decided to comment because: 14:41 Methamphetamine is NOT an opioid. Fentanyl is, however. 16:50 I heard of this story, and I find it very inspiring! 19:13 Happy to see this back in its home. Hobby Lobby indeed had a history of questionable acquisitions for their museum, including forgeries and potentially stolen artefacts.
Wendover specifically said about how they pretty much can’t have a list everyone agrees with. I’m sorry the world won’t recognise Taiwan, but wendover has shown they do in other videos
They don't want to be banned in the PRC do they. PS Taiwan is a country and is the rightful nation of China, but the mainland is being controlled by communists.
@Shotmanz Aloha. Ya know, I gather people for a good cause: I wanna provide people with Links leading to bad or toxic people. Mobber, Racists, Sexists, Bullies, more. I got the Links and i need help with reporting them. UA-cam is in a bad state and i think you heard of that. Many complain about it, its strike-system and its CEO: Susan. But... I mean... complaining about the State of the world is nice and dandy, but... how about acting? Doing something? So i made a Wiki where i store Links for all to use. You can at least pre-emptive 'block user' regarding the Racists and all those, but you can also do one thing more and report them, so YT becomes a better place. I know this was random and also overly summarized, but think about it and consider. You can make a difference. Means: I gathered and confirmed many Links. And made a Wiki to provide the Public with them. Wanna help, too?
@@VeronicaRodriguez-hz1ib Dude. Is Your Browser glithcing out or is this seriously the best comment you could come up with? I mean, if you dont wanna talk, then dont talk - but be an Adult about it.
It seems like you got the wrong flag for Myanmar. The one used at 14:33 was switched out for another in 2010. Other than that (and any other small misses that others may have pointed out), I'm astounded by the scope of this video. We don't deserve such great quality, but thanks for making it anyways!
THIS is a brilliant idea! You should do this every year, as so many important stories go unnoticed, especially in Western media as they centre the news around the country they're from. I'd love to see this become an annual thing!
Seconded. Wendover is doing what he does best, and he does it better than anyone else could do. This is exactly the content that I love to see that you don't see a whole lot of.
Exactly. Who needs to hear about corruption or a new government when you have Mozart's violin? Big news indeed lol. Wendover clearly brings the most important news to the fron tpage.
The Colombian mayor, the man who sailed the Atlantic to see his elderly father and the inscribed wedding rings being returned made me cry. Thank you Wendover, this is an incredible video taking a break from the C word.
Another slight correction would be India's GDP per capita fell behind Bangladesh since Bangladesh retained its steady growth while India took a big hit.
@@juannieto2559 they also didn't talk about Brexit in the UK. I think they were deliberately trying to pick lesser known stories, not just the next most important after the pandemic.
Was gonna point out same thing. Normally on-point content from Wendover, but methamhphetamine is not an opioid and belongs to an entirely different class of drug.
Sam: gonna list countries in order of most to least populous Me, a Finnish-Swiss person who’s curious to know what news stories he chose for Finland and Switzerland:
This is one of my favorite videos you've done, because there's so much news out there that no one is covering. Thank you! I wish you did this quarterly (ideally a handful once a week, but yeah...).
It's such an odd thing to confuse too. Even if you didn't know that meth is an amphetamine, you'd definitely know it's a stimulant, not an opioid. Also when have you ever seen an opioid in crystal form? It's just mind boggling to me.
@@joeyjankins I stand corrected - I didn't realize "narcotic" had an actual technical definition, I just assumed it was the standard government "drugs are bad, mmkay" term.
@@michaelgruar5141 in Germany we have the word "Narkose" which means anaesthesia. "Narkotika" is German for narcotics meaning drugs that knock you out.
@@wickedguitar99 they do the same thing though they (meth) get to the brain faster than any drugs leading to addiction. Funnily enough, people do get addicted to amphetamine and even sugar. Anything can be dangerous without intake moderation. Addition of a methyl group makes it more efficent neurotransmitter
Hello! I’d like to clarify about the ABS-CBN shutdown in the Philippines. The media network was forced off the air by the National Telecommunications Council last May 2020 amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic (despite them promising not too), with Duterte’s Congress voting to not renew the ABS-CBN Franchise. ABS-CBN not only hires 11,000 employees throughout the Philippines but is relied on by millions of Filipinos nationwide for timely news, information, entertainment, AND even relief operations. There have been reports of residents unable to evacuate in time for typhoons ever since the shutdown. The shutdown of the network comes as Press Freedom is being attacked on all corners due to their critical coverage of Duterte’s drug war and ever growing tyrannical rule. Traditional, online, and progressive news outlets like Inquirer, Rappler, and Altermidya also face attacks from the government.
Belarus: **has the biggest political unrest since the country's creation** Sam: they wanna build a canal Amazing video and I enjoyed every minute of it, but some of these new stories choices got me cracking up 🤣
Hey Wendover, here's a funny mistake you made in this vid: the English subtitles abruptly disappear from 26:52 to 27:49 (Cameroon to North Korea), but all the subtitles from before suddenly flash on screen one after the other towards the end of the North Korea segment (around 28:20)
I love this concept, and your videos are generally perfect so I have to! 14:42 Methamphetamine isn't an opioid. It's an amphetamine. 19:27 Provenance, not providence 22:18 Even the latinization wasn't exactly an "influence", as the Bolsheviks initially thought romanizing was the way to go forward (in the context of Uzbekistan and other Muslim communities, it was hoped to make them more Soviet, less Arab). It was finally mandated by the USSR after Ataturk latinized Turkish, but Stalin then had everything switched to Cyrillic anyway. lol. I noticed a few more but I was cooking saffron rice and hot wings.
@@Irresponsibilityy I've got a tried and true system of par-cooking, then freezing, then the final super-high temp cook so they're always crispy outside and moist inside. so I'm pretty sure they were good. But I think the funniest part, is that I'm par-cooking some wings right now. No saffron though :-)
14:41 ”opioids like methamphetamine and fentanyl”, methamphetamine is not a opioid. 🙂 Great video anyway! You have to appreciate the effort to research all of this! 😃😃
Just checking to see if anyone else caught that. Nope, methamphetamine isn't even a narcotic. Methadone is an opioid, I know sometimes when people hear that 'meth' part it can be confusing to people who aren't as familiar. I've experienced that confusion from others myself, being a methadone patient. You know what? I missed the giant banners that said "METHAMPHETAMINE" AND "STIMULANT" in different languages.
@@evientually I second that! Methadone patient here and ironically enough, I have even heard other patients at my clinic referring to their methadone as “meth” but the few I know are from the city where methamphetamine didn’t really become popular yet. Anyway, getting 2 similar sounding drugs confused doesn’t affect my opinion of Wendover Productions at all. I absolutely LOVE this channel!
I love the fact that Citroën named their car aimed at young people "Ami". It literraly means "Friend", I guess it's a vehicle meant to pickup your friends
5:20 please specify that this is per capita, I was really confused to hear that Bangladesh suddenly became the 6th largest economy in the world when it’s actually the 35th
well, they probably don't extradite over that, so if wasn't going to be any other kind of hotel. But I am excited to read what he thinks about the Thai jail.
This remind me how they finally set foot to my country, a beautiful archipelago and then spaniards came and then the fire nations came. Setting a final 350 years of slavery from the dutchand most mean slavery from Japan for 3.5 years just because of our exotic spices..
I think the most newsworthy thing in the Philippines is the fact that a 13 year old girl hacked the House of Representatives Twitter account and posted that it was six hours until her birthday. The speaker then had to address cyber security concerns. Ill link an article below: interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2020/10/13/178597/a-birthday-girls-countdown-uploaded-on-house-twitter-account-as-speakership-row-continues/
14:40 - Methamphetamine is an amphetamine stimulant, not an opiate (a synthetically derived opioid). Don't want to sound pretentious, just hoping this serves as useful criticism.
Guess someone doesn't known how to actually research their topics. How can one mistake meth. For a opioid. Best to take the rest with a grain of mistrust
@@leo-2b2t51 the mercator projection makes my country smaller than it really is lmao, still the 4th most populous in the world and its roughly the size of the USA.
I get that you were only going for the UN list. But the fact that you skipped Taiwan, one of the only countries in the world where the pandemic is actually a non-issue, is kind of sad
@@Spartan-sz7km I’d watch that. A video all about mask policy, contact tracing, and of course flight regulations (what’s a Wendover video without talking about airplanes?) and how it basically allowed Taiwan to virtually sidestep COVID
5:21 it should be Gross Domestic Product per capita, not Gross Domestic Product, they mean very different things. (though this year hasn't been particularly good for India on all fronts)
Timestamps:
01:51 - China
02:18 - India
02:46 - USA
03:03 - Indonesia
03:32 - Pakistan
04:08 - Brazil
04:43 - Nigeria
05:15 - Bangladesh
05:47 - Russia
06:21 - Mexico
06:55 - Japan
07:30 - Ethiopia
08:08 - Philippines
08:35 - Egypt
09:07 - Vietnam
09:42 - Democratic Republic of the Congo
10:13 - Germany
10:40 - Turkey
11:10 - Iran
11:40 - Thailand
12:10 - United Kingdom
12:44 - France
13:10 - Italy
13:37 - South Africa
14:04 - Tanzania
14:33 - Myanmar
14:56 - Kenya
15:25 - South Korea
15:50 - Colombia
16:15 - Spain
16:43 - Argentina
17:08 - Uganda
17:34 - Ukraine
18:06 - Algeria
18:32 - Sudan
18:56 - Iraq
19:35 - Afghanistan
20:06 - Poland
20:29 - Canada
21:04 - Morocco
21:31 - Saudi Arabia
22:01 - Uzbekistan
22:33 - Peru
22:59 - Malaysia
23:26 - Angola
23:58 - Mozambique
24:23 - Yemen
24:55 - Ghana
25:22 - Nepal
25:46 - Venezuela
26:17 - Madagascar
26:52 - Cameroon
27:19 - Ivory Coast
27:48 - North Korea
28:22 - Australia
28:52 - Niger
29:23 - Sri Lanka
29:46 - Burkina Faso
30:17 - Mali
30:44 - Romania
31:08 - Chile
31:37 - Malawi
32:10 - Kazakhstan
32:37 - Zambia
33:08 - Guatemala
33:36 - Ecuador
34:03 - Netherlands
34:34 - Syria
35:00 - Cambodia
35:29 - Senegal
36:01 - Chad
36:33 - Somalia
37:05 - Zimbabwe
37:35 - Guinea
38:05 - Rwanda
38:32 - Benin
39:02 - Tunisia
39:28 - Belgium
40:04 - Bolivia
40:41 - Cuba
41:17 - Haiti
41:45 - South Sudan
42:07 - Burundi
42:34 - Dominican Republic
43:10 - Czech Republic
43:33 - Greece
43:51 - Portugal
44:19 - Jordan
44:48 - Azerbaijan
45:18 - Sweden
45:48 - United Arab Emirates
46:29 - Honduras
46:58 - Hungary
47:27 - Belarus
48:02 - Tajikistan
48:30 - Austria
48:56 - Papua New Guinea
49:27 - Serbia
Also, shout out to José Mourinho who also started labelling the timestamps and motivated me to continue the work.
EDITS:
Thanks to Juan Diego Pineda Alvernia for pointing out my misspelling of Colombia.
Israel?
It's COLOMBIA NOT COLUMBIA
Thank you soldier
@@JuanD___ Thank you for pointing that out, I've now fixed it.
@@CrateFX Having checked the population numbers, Israel should be in part 2 coming out on December 31st.
The UA-cam rewind this year is actually good.
They will still find a way to make it bad
Maybe
@@shutitdown2512 They arnt making it, so thats just better.
@@mememachine5244 r/whoooosh
@Eshan Butt r/whoooosh
I'm jk
This is amazing, I can't imagine the time and effort to put this all together. Here is to a good new year mate, hopefully one with a slightly more diverse (and positive) news cycle.
Surprising he didn't mention "Local man had video idea accidentally copied" in the Australia section /s
Economy of European states during the Napoleonic Wars please, I did some research and found a lot of interesting effects of Napoleon's continental system in import/export prices of spices and coffee, and the effect of America's economy during the War of 1812, which was said to have made salt as expensive as gold during the war
please colab with wendover. planes cost money, right?
new video about norway when?
Hello Mr economics man 🤗🤗🤗
Ngl, being from Poland, medical weed for griefing elephants wasn't what I expected
yup :/
⚡⚡⚡⚡
not what we asked for but what we needed
Thought they would bring up abortion
Jag älskar Polen
@@Victoria_Orlova ngl, the abortion protests in poland are stupid (Jestem Polakiem, ale łatwiej mi pisać po angielsku)
Thanks Wendover. This is "Fully Interesting"
Get it couse half as interesting
I see what you did there you little rascal
I'd go with 3/4th, but thats good enough for me right now.
Sufficiently interesting.
😂HAI
This is a 2 part video so it's actually still _Half_ as Interesting
Every other country: the elections are corrupt, ecological successes and nightmares, etc.
Czechia: A deer stole a gun...
belgium : two pigeons were sold
france : a car was made
Malaysia:100 million condoms less from the world.
Poland: elephants got high
Austria: someone played on an old violin
This is such a good concept! News is too heavily focused on "What's the most important thing happening today?" when what's often more important to be aware of is "What are the couple hundred things that happened over the course of a year?" There's clearly so much bubbling under the surface, that people should know about.
preach it my good man
People unfortunately don't know about it, which is why this video is so cool
r/globaltalk
THEY don't even DO what is important today. They pick a couple biased stories then replay it every five damn minutes. I hate it
Yes , keeping abreast of important global events is such a drag . So much better to hear about the unusual mating habits of a species of frog once a year .
Me: Oh man, can't wait to see what he picked for Brazil! So much stuff happened!
Him: *frog*
frog
@@circuit10 forg
@@Whiteboy007 gorf
New frog update!
_Bread_
The most unexpected news in Germany this year: BER Airport finally opened in October :o
Oh wow, that one that catched fire and stuff? I remember it from a Half as Interesting video
An airport? Near Berlin?! IN GERMANY?! IMPOSSIBLE!!
Yeh.
That's impossible,you must remember the time wrong, it's year 2222 BER airport will open
That took like what 12 years?
"Africa is getting its own Great Wall, a green one"
That's a lot of paint
".... forestation...."
Oh, that makes more sense.
it's big brain time
@IKtheVS The "African culture," as if there's a single culture out of thousands of ethnic groups... Citation please.
@IKtheVS the dude asked for citations, not a passive aggressive response that is basically the same as your first. Maybe provide the sources for your information instead of just constantly attacking this channel, it’s creator, and everyone that disagrees with you in any way
@IKtheVS bro Wendover researches everything before making a video. U don't even have a citation or evidence.
@IKtheVS Do you think corruption is inherent to Africans? Do you understand that perhaps a lot of the shit the continent is going through has been a direct result of imperialism of the West over the past centuries? Do you know what happened when marxist leader Thomas Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso? He vaccinated millions of people, literacy rates increased by vast amounts, and 10 million trees were planted in just four years time whilst he fought for women's rights and a decent standard of living for all. He only accepted a modest military wage himself and demanded that government officials were to only travel second class on airplanes among many other things. He did that by rejecting every cent of foreign aid offered to the country. I am convinced some African countries can do just fine if the west were to leave them alone.
Wow. Terrific video. Original, tons of interesting info and clearly a TON of work. Paint me impressed.
@@kilian76 shut up!
@@kilian76 ur entire fucking channel is just devoted to you commenting on his voice, ur obsessed babe❤️
Hey Lex ! Just wanted to let you know that your channel helped me a lot ;D
Although the video did have a few minor errors, and that's not including mispronunciation of some words, which is understandable. Despite this, clearly a lot of effort was put into this and the video was well made.
This one contains misinformation so no he didn’t do enough work for this kind of video.
Malaysia: *had a government toppled from power in Feb 2020
Wendover: Let's talk about condoms XD
The same with Mexico news. We literally had a day when all women vanished and the guy shows something that it is pretty much about America.
Also India is having the largest protest in human history
@@danielarvizu7477 the fuck do you mean all women vanished? How?
@@aurum3747 There was a feminist movement like “Day Without a Woman” like there was in America in 2017
@@danielarvizu7477 You do notice that the video is about the news that you missed, not about what everyone heard about?
China - 1:51
India - 2:18
United States of America - 2:46
Indonesia - 3:03
Pakistan - 3:32
Brazil - 4:08
Nigeria - 4:43
Bangladesh - 5:15
Russia - 5:47
Mexico - 6:21
Japan - 6:55
Ethiopia - 7:31
Philippines - 8:08
Egypt - 8:35
Vietnam - 9:08
Democratic Republic of the Congo - 9:42
Germany - 10:13
Turkey - 10:40
Iran - 11:10
Thailand - 11:40
United Kingdom - 12:10
France - 12:44
Italy - 13:10
South Africa - 13:37
Thank you, José.
But as a manager, you should be coaching instead of watching UA-cam. What the fuck?
@@trunghoadang3710 This is funny, but what is the context???
Sacked in the morning
@@trunghoadang3710 he is the special one. He can do all things.
@@trunghoadang3710 hes currently waiting in his parked bus
Rest of world: Australia is on fire! Oh no!
Ukraine: C H E R N O B Y L F I R E
Chernobyl fire sounds way more interseting. Also the fact that the major news channels didn't cover this is concerning. I think the russians really want to cook up some Putinlinium.
@@davidty2006 I guess because there was such greater damage to Australia in this case
Oof
I’m from Ukraine and I had NO idea there was a forest fire near Chernobyl 😲
To be fair Australia is an island continent.
Bangladesh surpassed India in GDP PER CAPITA, not total GDP, that would be bollocks.
Yeah. Any person who has seen the size of India ever will know that.
I could hear some Indians thinking this as soon as he said that...
@@tahsintahsinuzzaman781 still an impressive feat for Bangladesh
@@ameybirulkar7503 yeah as an Indian, I'd like to congratulate Bangladesh on it
Impressive feat indeed. Quite honestly, I would never have thought it could happen. A reason to be proud, even more taking into consideration how hard the country has had it (the genocide and the geopolitics...)
Bangladesh overtook india in *GDP per person, not GDP.
lmao as an indian i shat myself
Lol how could he make that mistake
What the heck is GDP per person?
@@abiez4018 gdp per capita
@@abiez4018 total GDP divided be the population. it's a marker of actual living standard in said country
Other countries: corrupt governments, scientific breakthroughs, etc.
Czechia: *g u n d e e r*
no news is good news
A corrupt government is no news in Czechia, just business as usual.
EMU's: I will soon have a new apprentice one far younger and more powerful.
Cambodia: M I N E R A T
In 2020, Wendover became the Simpsons producer.
- How to stop a riot
- How to stop an epidemic
- How to stop a wildfire.
@An0nyMusic I don’t think the How to Stop a Wildfire video was made in 2020 either, but their point was that, like the Simpsons, his past episodes “predicted the future”
@An0nyMusic boi it's like wendover production trivia over here 😂
He also predicted COVID in Antarctica
if only there was a "How to stop a pandemic" or "How to stop an epidemic *before it becomes a pandemic* "
😂
Error: Myanmar flag is 🇲🇲, what was pictured was the old one from the Union of Burma (4 January 1948 - 3 January 1974)
Really, seemed like Taiwan's flag to me.
@@stemi5601 yeah funny how similar it is to Taiwan’s flag
also error for myanmar he called methamphetamine and opioid
Another error is that he repeatedly mentioned Tajikistan neighbouring Russia. They do not.
@@AskarisLegacy I don't remember exactly how close they are, but neighbouring isn't the same as bordering.
Almost every country: Politics
Poland: Medical marijuana as possible stress reliver for elephants
The guy straight up ignored that we had the biggest protests since communism and picked a story about weed elephant instead
@@prutprut6324 I was a little bit annoyed too... felt like nobody take us (as a country) serious.
Only Sam would look at Belarus and think their big story of the year is “planning a new shipping route.”
Well, the protests were pretty extensively covered, at least here in Hong Kong. Any belarusians or Thais watching, we support you!!!
@@PatheticTV Long live the Communist Party of China. Death to all traitors in Hong Kong. Enjoy your National Security Law lmao
@@eastindies2937 What makes you think I'm Chinese?
I couldn't tell if this video was going for "Biggest story" per country or just a big story that is not big in the news.
@@skazka3789 Baizuo spotted
Oh God, 50 minutes of this guy?
I love it
they had us in the first half ngl
Us in the first half, ngl
in the first half ngl
The first half, ngl
0:24 rip the people who don’t already know
apparently a few researchers on a pacific island didn't know until as of recent
@@davinator_peepo2102 also the canadians detained by* china as "retorsion" for huawei lady
(*)edit: typo
@kids like 50 years in the future
Planes. He's talking about planes.
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet UA-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear öos
when ever i see the media in the u.s. talking about some dumb celebrity, i always think to myself, i know there's gotta be something more important going on some where.
Yeah, too bad we didn't get to hear any of it -- after being promised exactly that.
Wendover: “you will not hear the C word once”
Also Wendover the next second “So starting off in China”
Pretty sure they meant Corona
@@kurosakibell9982 You must be fun at parties... Us humans call these jokes.
@@kurosakibell9982 r/whoosh
@@patrikwihlke4170 -_-
@@kurosakibell9982 you got oofed
This was awesome, I would genuinely love a quarterly or bi-monthly version of this, really shows there's a lot more to world than it seems, and it ain't all bad.
Imagine showing this video's intro to someone in 2019.
They'd say "what the fuck is he on about" and the 2020 person would just be there like "you'll find out soon"
Lol be take your meds
"WHAT PANDEMIC?!"
Don't eat bats.
28:18; subtitles just went crazy right there lol
I only have the option of English subtitles & it got them entirely correct so IDK why you guys are laughing. ??
@@p0xygen it's back
For Germany it should've been the opening of BER airport
Not woke enough.
@@sionsmedia8249 what shall he report, a meme or something important?
@@thebarbieemmy Please don't click the link everyone, it was a shameless self advertisement that not even related to the topic
Well, you heard about it so... Did you read the title?
This should be trending in news , cause this is news rewinds just missing the popular villain
Biden?
Me: oooh can't wait to see what's up with my country
My country: bitch we caused a global shortage of condoms
hey at least it's something impactful, something big. My country sold two pigeons. Big things going on in my country, not boring at all.
Can't believe he didn't talk about the ongoing political situation, felt like that dominated most of our news here.
@@WuChyiWoon he's trying to cover lesser known, less political news stories
@@WuChyiWoon Yeah, but do you really want a civil war to start in the comments?
@@loddfafnir6111 Hey, we changed the name of a town
12:32 I honestly thought he was going to say Skillshare.
@Abhinavv Arora I think its pre recorded
@@vagabaassassina3461 loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooololololol
That’s fucking hilarious lmao
Curiosity stream
my brain dies every time i hear it and a sponsorship doesnt show
Can we admire how this guy made subtitles for literally 51 minute of video?
You know all it takes is copying and pasting the script
@@jorge8596 you have to do all the timing as well
@@christopherweeks89 you don't. If you feed UA-cam a script with no timings, it can automatically determine the timings. It's a pretty neat feature
admirable, but it should be the bare minimum. deaf/hard of hearing people want to enjoy content too!
@Ken Deeks i'm sorry to rain on your parade, but they really suck. i use subtitles, and the automatic ones don't have any punctuation, which makes it hard to follow sentences. it's basically impossible when multiple people are speaking too :( on top of that, if it's any accent that isn't English or American then they don't work very well
me thinking "Oh boy, what news is related to my country"
and then "worldwide condom shortages". I don't know how to feel about that.
Same tbh, was waiting the same country and then....
Lol what !?
And we don’t even know that we have biggest condom manufacturer globally
Was expecting for the government transition instead but I can accept this haha
Well, it feels better without condoms, if that helps.
I was expecting politics since we had shit in the government this year
Ive never even seen a condam in malaysia
Almost every country: Politics
Czech Republic: Deer stole hunters rifle LOL
Hunter had too much staropramen...
Almost every country: Politics
US: Man fakes his death and gets caught.
@@mnemonija why are you verified?
@@tcgb311
Usually a checkmark is an indicator of mental illness
Then again UA-cam isn't as bad as Twitter yet
No, no. Deer's Revenge is coming true! (A really really old 90's PC game)
Me anxiously excited to hear what wendover has to say about malaysia :
Wendover : c o n d o m s s h o r t a g e
And yep, baby boom happened here XD
Idiot
@@barbierobinson6391 chill out can you ?
They said it at 14:33
All county timestamps in alphabetical order!
if the country your looking for is not in here, it will be in Part 2!
Afghanistan - 19:35
Algeria - 18:06
Angola - 23:26
Argentina - 16:43
Australia - 28:22
Austria - 48:30
Azerbaijan - 44:48
Bangladesh - 05:15
Belarus - 47:27
Belgium - 39:28
Benin - 38:32
Bolivia - 40:04
Brazil - 04:08
Burkina Faso - 29:46
Burundi - 42:07
Cambodia - 35:00
Cameroon - 26:52
Canada - 20:29
Chad - 36:01
Chile - 31:08
China - 01:51
Columbia - 15:50
Cuba - 40:41
Czech Republic - 43:10
Democratic Republic of the Congo - 09:42
Dominican Republic - 42:34
Ecuador - 33:36
Egypt - 08:35
Ethiopia - 07:30
France - 12:44
Germany - 10:13
Ghana - 24:55
Greece - 43:33
Guatemala - 33:08
Guinea - 37:35
Haiti - 41:17
Honduras - 46:29
Hungary - 46:58
India - 02:18
Indonesia - 03:03
Iran - 11:10
Iraq - 18:56
Italy - 13:10
Ivory Coast - 27:19
Japan - 06:55
Jordan - 44:19
Kazakhstan - 32:10
Kenya - 14:56
Madagascar - 26:17
Malawi - 31:37
Malaysia - 22:59
Mali - 30:17
Mexico - 06:21
Morocco - 21:04
Mozambique - 23:58
Myanmar - 14:33
Nepal - 25:22
Netherlands - 34:03
Niger - 28:52
Nigeria - 04:43
North Korea - 27:48
Pakistan - 03:32
Papua New Guinea - 48:56
Peru - 22:33
Philippines - 08:08
Poland - 20:06
Portugal - 43:51
Romania - 30:44
Russia - 05:47
Rwanda - 38:05
Saudi Arabia - 21:31
Senegal - 35:29
Serbia - 49:27
Somalia - 36:33
South Africa - 13:37
South Korea - 15:25
South Sudan - 41:45
Spain - 16:15
Sri Lanka - 29:23
Sudan - 18:32
Sweden - 45:18
Syria - 34:34
Tajikistan - 48:02
Tanzania - 14:04
Thailand - 11:40
Tunisia - 39:02
Turkey - 10:40
Uganda - 17:08
Ukraine - 17:34
United Arab Emirates - 45:48
United Kingdom - 12:10
United States of America - 02:46
Uzbekistan - 22:01
Venezuela - 25:46
Vietnam - 09:07
Yemen - 24:23
Zambia - 32:37
Zimbabwe - 37:05
Thanks to @xathal for the timestamps!
This one should get pinned
He forgot Namibia :(
@@astrum0816 He also said there'll be a part 2 for the countries that were not on this list.
This is just copied from the other comment
I was like “wait...this isn’t Half As Interesting”
It's interesting and this was the first half.
It really isn't
@@gianfrancoricci92 It world news, how is it not interesting?
Somethings were a bit irrelevant but overall it covered very important topics.
@@Speed001 He hasn't really done list-style content much on this channel but does it more frequently on HAI
@@Speed001 You know HAI is called that because the videos are typically half the length of a Wendover Productions video?
This is EXACTLY the type of content I've been wanting for years. Please make one at the end of every year Mr. Wendover
Excellent video! I've been a viewer for a long time, but only decided to comment because:
14:41 Methamphetamine is NOT an opioid. Fentanyl is, however.
16:50 I heard of this story, and I find it very inspiring!
19:13 Happy to see this back in its home. Hobby Lobby indeed had a history of questionable acquisitions for their museum, including forgeries and potentially stolen artefacts.
Imagine just saying to your friend; *Yeah I got arrested before when I wrote a bad yelp review in another country*
@@cheapalopod8563 epic dude 😂😂
Those of us here in Taiwan can't even get recognition from Wendover. :-(
disgusting
Part 1
@@mohit_panjwani Taiwan has a population of 23million
Wendover specifically said about how they pretty much can’t have a list everyone agrees with. I’m sorry the world won’t recognise Taiwan, but wendover has shown they do in other videos
They don't want to be banned in the PRC do they.
PS Taiwan is a country and is the rightful nation of China, but the mainland is being controlled by communists.
Thank you for this!
@Shotmanz Aloha.
Ya know, I gather people for a good cause:
I wanna provide people with Links leading to bad or toxic people.
Mobber, Racists, Sexists, Bullies, more. I got the Links and i
need help with reporting them.
UA-cam is in a bad state and i think you heard of that.
Many complain about it, its strike-system and its CEO: Susan.
But... I mean... complaining about the State of the world is nice
and dandy, but... how about acting? Doing something?
So i made a Wiki where i store Links for all to use.
You can at least pre-emptive 'block user' regarding the
Racists and all those, but you can also
do one thing more and report them, so
YT becomes a better place.
I know this was random and also overly summarized, but
think about it and consider. You can make a difference.
Means: I gathered and confirmed many Links. And made a Wiki to
provide the Public with them. Wanna help, too?
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@@VeronicaRodriguez-hz1ib Dude. Is Your Browser glithcing out or is this seriously the best comment you could come up with?
I mean, if you dont wanna talk, then dont talk - but be an Adult about it.
It seems like you got the wrong flag for Myanmar. The one used at 14:33 was switched out for another in 2010.
Other than that (and any other small misses that others may have pointed out), I'm astounded by the scope of this video. We don't deserve such great quality, but thanks for making it anyways!
THIS is a brilliant idea! You should do this every year, as so many important stories go unnoticed, especially in Western media as they centre the news around the country they're from. I'd love to see this become an annual thing!
Seconded. Wendover is doing what he does best, and he does it better than anyone else could do. This is exactly the content that I love to see that you don't see a whole lot of.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 exactly, it's very important
I agree 100 percent
Exactly. Who needs to hear about corruption or a new government when you have Mozart's violin? Big news indeed lol. Wendover clearly brings the most important news to the fron tpage.
I just wanted to point out that the news he shared about Greece did not even make it to the news coverage in Greece. So kudos to him for finding it
I heard about it and I’m in her majesty’s kingdom.
Where did he mentioned Greece ?
Yes, it did! I remember this story
The flag of Myanmar at 14:34 is the former flag, a new one was adopted in 2010
The Colombian mayor, the man who sailed the Atlantic to see his elderly father and the inscribed wedding rings being returned made me cry. Thank you Wendover, this is an incredible video taking a break from the C word.
Imagine how long he would have lived if he used a 3 lb. hammer
I--
@Baba Gandu hammer and a wedge is a common method. But I get your statement
Now that’s funny
5:20 Slight Correction: Bangladesh surpassed India in GDP per capita.
Another slight correction would be India's GDP per capita fell behind Bangladesh since Bangladesh retained its steady growth while India took a big hit.
U gotta admit for a country that has existed for 51 years that’s great
Sam really tried to avoid the word "coronavirus" in order for the vid not to get demonizated😂
And then immediately dipped his toe into the whole "what is and isn't a country?" debate.
Videos no longer get demonetized for just mentioning Coronavirus or Covid-19. But if you try to give advice then you will get demonetized
Also didn't mention George Floyd, which was a much bigger story in the US
@@juannieto2559 they also didn't talk about Brexit in the UK. I think they were deliberately trying to pick lesser known stories, not just the next most important after the pandemic.
I wish he avoided politics instead and not pushed his social justice and global warming nonsense
This is what I needed. Very refreshing, thank you.
"opioids like methamphetamine"
sounds like someone didn't pay attention in DARE lol
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if DARE taught this kind of nonsense
Was gonna point out same thing. Normally on-point content from Wendover, but methamhphetamine is not an opioid and belongs to an entirely different class of drug.
@@zenxi6 As well "providing chemicals for synthetics", where I guess he wanted to say "synthesis"?
@@override7486 Maybe he meant synthetic or else designer drugs?
“You already know.” Way to avoid demonitization!
lol what was it?
@@matthewventures Covid19
Props to him for that
@@matthewventures Coldemort!
Sam: gonna list countries in order of most to least populous
Me, a Finnish-Swiss person who’s curious to know what news stories he chose for Finland and Switzerland:
Me, from Luxembourg waiting for him to say that public transport is free in Luxembourg.
Edit: he said it
me, from new zealand: hmm
nobody cares about your meme formatted comment
I'm from Finland and Switzerland is one of my favorite countries.
This is one of my favorite videos you've done, because there's so much news out there that no one is covering. Thank you! I wish you did this quarterly (ideally a handful once a week, but yeah...).
1:15 And the country that handled this year's biggest news the best, Taiwan, is somehow off this list. Again.
This is part 1
@@mohit_panjwani Taiwan is still off the list because they aren't part of the UN's 195
@@mohit_panjwani they have a population of 23.7 million. we're well past that amount.
I'm also sad its not there, but the real problem is not thats its not there, its thats its not recognized at all!
US needs to recognize Taiwan, BUT Taiwan needs to stop claiming they are the government of the mainland... that ship has sailed a long time ago.
Random fact: there are also no mosquitoes in Asbestos, QC
they all died
@@patmoup well not yet
Why is that?
5:15 - this is most definitely incorrect. India still has a far-larger GDP than Bangladesh, I think the stat you meant to discuss was GDP per capita.
ua-cam.com/video/UBQrc9iDY7c/v-deo.html
No, the stat he was discussing was GDP growth
@@pranavkondapalli9306 No, he said "Bangladesh most likely surpassed India in Gross Domestic Product to this year" at 5:20.
Love this, thanks for all the news. I’m not from Thailand, but I give this 5 stars
14:40 “opioids like methamphetamine and fentanyl”
I’ll see you all in the next mistakes video!!!
It's such an odd thing to confuse too. Even if you didn't know that meth is an amphetamine, you'd definitely know it's a stimulant, not an opioid. Also when have you ever seen an opioid in crystal form? It's just mind boggling to me.
He probably mixed up the term "narcotic" and "opioid", that's my guess anyway
@@michaelgruar5141 and that's the point where the government fails when calling all drugs narcotics as those are sedating drugs only.
@@joeyjankins I stand corrected - I didn't realize "narcotic" had an actual technical definition, I just assumed it was the standard government "drugs are bad, mmkay" term.
@@michaelgruar5141 in Germany we have the word "Narkose" which means anaesthesia. "Narkotika" is German for narcotics meaning drugs that knock you out.
“Opioids like Methamphetamine and Fentanyl” 😂 FYI: Meth isn’t an opioid.
Lmao whats the timestamp? Meth is the complete opposite, a stimulant
Is it categorize as medication drug. I know they use it for ADHD and obesity.
@@Impetuss Starts at 14:34
@@daisuke910 they use amphetamine salts for ADHD not Methamphetamine. They are similar in effect but very different.
@@wickedguitar99 they do the same thing though they (meth) get to the brain faster than any drugs leading to addiction. Funnily enough, people do get addicted to amphetamine and even sugar. Anything can be dangerous without intake moderation. Addition of a methyl group makes it more efficent neurotransmitter
The secret to long life: chop wood with a hammer.
What? 😂
@@0011-b9j CHOP WOOD WITH HAMMER!
And I've been spending all these years chopping wood with a rubber mallet, like an idiot!
I'm sure the man used a wedge and a hammer to cut the wood.
Can you do this every year, this is amazing 🙂
12:32 Wendover: it's made possible...
My brain: by *Brilliant* 😅
Hello! I’d like to clarify about the ABS-CBN shutdown in the Philippines. The media network was forced off the air by the National Telecommunications Council last May 2020 amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic (despite them promising not too), with Duterte’s Congress voting to not renew the ABS-CBN Franchise.
ABS-CBN not only hires 11,000 employees throughout the Philippines but is relied on by millions of Filipinos nationwide for timely news, information, entertainment, AND even relief operations. There have been reports of residents unable to evacuate in time for typhoons ever since the shutdown.
The shutdown of the network comes as Press Freedom is being attacked on all corners due to their critical coverage of Duterte’s drug war and ever growing tyrannical rule. Traditional, online, and progressive news outlets like Inquirer, Rappler, and Altermidya also face attacks from the government.
Belarus: **has the biggest political unrest since the country's creation**
Sam: they wanna build a canal
Amazing video and I enjoyed every minute of it, but some of these new stories choices got me cracking up 🤣
This is awesome. Thank you for making this video.
Hey Wendover, here's a funny mistake you made in this vid: the English subtitles abruptly disappear from 26:52 to 27:49 (Cameroon to North Korea), but all the subtitles from before suddenly flash on screen one after the other towards the end of the North Korea segment (around 28:20)
I love this concept, and your videos are generally perfect so I have to!
14:42 Methamphetamine isn't an opioid. It's an amphetamine.
19:27 Provenance, not providence
22:18 Even the latinization wasn't exactly an "influence", as the Bolsheviks initially thought romanizing was the way to go forward (in the context of Uzbekistan and other Muslim communities, it was hoped to make them more Soviet, less Arab). It was finally mandated by the USSR after Ataturk latinized Turkish, but Stalin then had everything switched to Cyrillic anyway. lol.
I noticed a few more but I was cooking saffron rice and hot wings.
How were the wings
@@Irresponsibilityy I've got a tried and true system of par-cooking, then freezing, then the final super-high temp cook so they're always crispy outside and moist inside. so I'm pretty sure they were good. But I think the funniest part, is that I'm par-cooking some wings right now. No saffron though :-)
@@herzogsbuick a consistent man, good day sir
14:41 ”opioids like methamphetamine and fentanyl”, methamphetamine is not a opioid. 🙂
Great video anyway! You have to appreciate the effort to research all of this! 😃😃
Just checking to see if anyone else caught that. Nope, methamphetamine isn't even a narcotic.
Methadone is an opioid, I know sometimes when people hear that 'meth' part it can be confusing to people who aren't as familiar. I've experienced that confusion from others myself, being a methadone patient.
You know what? I missed the giant banners that said "METHAMPHETAMINE" AND "STIMULANT" in different languages.
@@evientually mw too
@Robin L
I'm a bit late, but I was going to say the same.
It's a good video, but I'm only halfway through and I've caught three mistakes.
Also they used Taiwan 🇹🇼 flag instead of Myanmar 🇲🇲 flag
@@evientually I second that! Methadone patient here and ironically enough, I have even heard other patients at my clinic referring to their methadone as “meth” but the few I know are from the city where methamphetamine didn’t really become popular yet. Anyway, getting 2 similar sounding drugs confused doesn’t affect my opinion of Wendover Productions at all. I absolutely LOVE this channel!
I love the fact that Citroën named their car aimed at young people "Ami". It literraly means "Friend", I guess it's a vehicle meant to pickup your friends
cute :)
That’s sad you only have one friend, or maybe it’s your gf/bf
The car IS your friend.
14:35 pretty sure that isn’t the flag of Myanmar
that's the old one though
not anymore
ua-cam.com/video/UBQrc9iDY7c/v-deo.html
@@JonahF2014 I guess we're stuck here now
@@thebarbieemmy no go away
5:20 please specify that this is per capita, I was really confused to hear that Bangladesh suddenly became the 6th largest economy in the world when it’s actually the 35th
He means the growth rate, not actual GDP.
He already did and the economic metrics for Bangladesh are higher than India.
I like how France is just a freaking electric toy car really important news there
If Cardy B makes news then.....
Given how worse it is for some countries, I'd rather see that kind of news tbh :p
@@quasar4780 yeah but you're right
Not going to lie i want one
I'm pretty glad that it is the thing we have to point out from my country :D
If somebody made one of these every month I would watch it. Twice as good as BBC, almost half as good as DW
What are you in for?
Me: Writing a bad review against a Thai hotel
well, they probably don't extradite over that, so if wasn't going to be any other kind of hotel. But I am excited to read what he thinks about the Thai jail.
In surprised he didn’t talk about the masa shooting that happened in February 2020.
The worst in Thailand’s history. 30 were killed
@@RobertHeslop or the literal protest trying to get rid of the government
India: The news should have been the biggest workers´ strike in the history of the world, but no, they talk about an Amazon building.
I think it’s about stories most people haven’t heard, but the farmers story is really very prominently
Not to mention anti-Muslim pogroms in Delhi, the anti-Citizenship Bill and so much more.
I wonder if he’s being paid for that nonsense. He is a big popular UA-camr
This video is dedicated to topics that aren’t familiar to everybody. I haven’t met someone yet who doesn’t know of the India protests.
Imagine showing this to people exactly one year ago, it would confuse a lot
"Everyday is your chance to make this city a little better!" Love it!
Terrific info, thanks. :)
*Lockdowns stop international flights*
One Portuguese man: "Time to set sail"
It worked 500 years ago, and it worked now as well.
This remind me how they finally set foot to my country, a beautiful archipelago and then spaniards came and then the fire nations came. Setting a final 350 years of slavery from the dutchand most mean slavery from Japan for 3.5 years just because of our exotic spices..
was expecting the coup that happened in my country but intead you talked about condoms lmao
there was a coup in malaysia?? I didn't even know, from singapore here. To be fair i don't really keep up with the news though
@@TrendyWhistle yeah, that's how we got a new PM (Muhyiddin) because few of PH MP jumped ship and created backdoor government
right? there ars so many protests in this year but he didnt talk about most of it?
Maybe the potential for a condom shortage hit him or one of his writers close to home? You know, personally. Like, they depended on them greatly.
"You won't hear the C word" "Immediately says China"
Bruh
yes
He meant coronavirus you knob
@@komokaziboschetti whoosh
I was genuinely disappointed when he mentioned "pandemic" when he talked about yellow fever and measles in Congo.
My thoughts exactly 😂
This is a awesome idea 👍 I hope you keep it up 👌
I think the most newsworthy thing in the Philippines is the fact that a 13 year old girl hacked the House of Representatives Twitter account and posted that it was six hours until her birthday. The speaker then had to address cyber security concerns. Ill link an article below:
interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2020/10/13/178597/a-birthday-girls-countdown-uploaded-on-house-twitter-account-as-speakership-row-continues/
That is amazing.
Not hacked kid got access by her parents
13:43 what a damn gangster smoking at 116 years old
ua-cam.com/video/UBQrc9iDY7c/v-deo.html
I thought he was going to credit his smoking for his long life
14:40 - Methamphetamine is an amphetamine stimulant, not an opiate (a synthetically derived opioid). Don't want to sound pretentious, just hoping this serves as useful criticism.
it's important to be factual, especially on such contentious topics, so thanks for bringing it up
Guess someone doesn't known how to actually research their topics. How can one mistake meth. For a opioid. Best to take the rest with a grain of mistrust
37:25 "And means that the production crew and actors may finally get paid" Sounded a little bit like he was throwing shade lmao sneak dissin
I'm always astonished at just how populous Indonesia is
Yeah there's alot of people in sea
On maps it appears much smaller than it really is
indonesia is as wide as USA. though surprisingly the most populous island in Indonesia is Java island which is the smallest one
@@leo-2b2t51 the mercator projection makes my country smaller than it really is lmao, still the 4th most populous in the world and its roughly the size of the USA.
Yet, almost everyone always mistaken Indonesia as small country or sometimes they just thought of us as mini India.
This channel is officially better than any major news outlet in the world
I get that you were only going for the UN list. But the fact that you skipped Taiwan, one of the only countries in the world where the pandemic is actually a non-issue, is kind of sad
very
Not mention at population of 23+ million, it's not all that tiny. (And it's where your iPhone CPU was manufactured--it's an important place!)
Optimistically, maybe it's so he can make a solo video for Taiwan?
I was wondering why New Zealand wasn't on the list until I had another look and realised its "Part 1".
@@Spartan-sz7km I’d watch that. A video all about mask policy, contact tracing, and of course flight regulations (what’s a Wendover video without talking about airplanes?) and how it basically allowed Taiwan to virtually sidestep COVID
Thank You So Much❣
I wish you could do this every year; it is so interesting
5:21 bangladesh likely surpassed india in gdp PER CAPITA absolutely not in gdp
13:37 - he really must be strong if his family reports he was chopping wood with a 4 pound hammer instead of an axe.
😝
Hammer and wedge
5:21 it should be Gross Domestic Product per capita, not Gross Domestic Product, they mean very different things.
(though this year hasn't been particularly good for India on all fronts)
I am from Bangladesh and you are right
That makes a lot more sense. I was shocked when he first said that.
Yeah i was a taken a back for a second there
5:21 big if true
Awesome video! Thanks!
2:43 the time-honored tradition of thinking your fellow Americans will understand the football field as a unit of measurement
He keeps saying “that one event” so the COVID-19 pop-up won’t appear all over the vid 🤣
good, those are annoying
14:33 I’m gonna be that guy and say that he used the old flag of Myanmar 🇲🇲
The old man in south africa legit looked like 70 years old