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100 Seconds to Midnight: Doomsday Clock Points to
‘Extremely Dangerous’ Moment the World is Stuck In
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By Malorie Thompson
Doomsday Clock
Between climate change, global warming, heated politics, international relations, and a seemingly increasing interest in nuclear weapons, the world is headed in a dangerous direction.
To put a measure on just how bad things are getting, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock – and we’re closer to total destruction than at any other point in time since the clock was created.
Each year, since its creation in 1947, recognized leaders from around the world with a focus on nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies, have come together to gauge just how close to global destruction we’re at. They take into account climate change, the creation of dangerous technologies, and political tensions, among other things, and represent the data using a figurate clock. The Doomsday Clock represents the time we have left, with Doomsday, the end of civilization, striking at midnight.
As of 2022, it’s 100 seconds to midnight.
The addition of climate change in this article is likely unwarranted. Climate change cannot bring about the end of civilization anytime in this century, although many would like you to believe that anthropogenic hysteria. As stated above, the Doomsday Clock was invented by atomic scientists and refers mostly to the threat of global nuclear war.
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Biden grants nuclear sanctions relief to Iran
Reverses Trump’s decision to rescind waivers related to Tehran’s civilian nuclear activities
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Washington has allowed foreign companies to engage in some civilian projects at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power station, Tehran Research Reactor and Arak heavy water plant, in an apparent bid to push forward negotiations to restore the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“The waiver with respect to these activities is designed to facilitate discussions that would help to close a deal on a mutual return to full implementation of the JCPOA and lay the groundwork for Iran’s return to performance of its JCPOA commitments,” the State Department said in a notice to Congress seen by the Associated Press on Friday.
As part of the JCPOA, Tehran agreed in 2015 to strict oversight of its nuclear energy program – maintaining that it never sought to obtain atomic weapons – in exchange for relief from sanctions imposed by the UN at the US’ urging. Former US President Donald Trump, however, decided that the deal was not good enough and unilaterally reimposed those sanctions in 2018. Some waivers granted at the time were later rescinded in 2020 as part of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign.
Upon taking office in January 2021, US President Joe Biden said he was open to returning to the JCPOA if Iran came back into compliance. Tehran responded that Washington needs to come into compliance first, starting with the removal of sanctions.
“If the parties are ready to lift sanctions, the ground for reaching an agreement on nuclear issues is absolutely ready,” President Ebrahim Raisi told RT in an exclusive interview last month.
The State Department, however, emphasized that the sanctions relief serves “US nonproliferation and nuclear safety interests” and should not be seen as a “commitment or as part of a quid pro quo.”
Right! I wonder how Israel sees it?
Billionaire says US on ‘classic path’ to civil war
The risk lies in an explosive mix of large deficits, high taxes, inflation,
and a wealth gap, Ray Dalio warns
The founder of the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio, has warned on Thursday that the US is on a “classic path” toward “some form” of a civil war.
The current financial conditions and irreconcilable differences in desires and values are consistent with the ingredients leading to civil strife, according to him.
“Not knowing what is true because of distortions in the media and propaganda increases as people become more polarized, emotional, and politically motivated,” Dalio wrote on LinkedIn.
I might add - knowing that the government and media are outright lying to us...
And are also pushing an unwanted far-left agenda on us...
He pointed to a number of factors that led him to this notion, including large deficits, high taxes, inflation, and wealth disparity that bring about political polarization.
“When that happens at the same time as there are foreign powers that are becoming strong enough to challenge the leading world power that is encountering this civil war dynamic, it is an especially risky period. That is the period I believe we are now in,” Dalio stressed, adding that “the biggest question is how much the system will bend before it breaks.”
He noted that political powers from opposing sides are “fighting to win at all costs,” making it impossible to compromise and leaving many “too afraid” to speak up or run for public office.
This, of course, is not how democracy is supposed to work, and, indeed, can't work.
“History shows that the biggest risk to democracies is that they produce such fragmented and antagonistic decision-making that they are ineffective and disorderly, which leads to bad results and revolutions.”
Dalio predicts that this year’s elections will become the turning point for US internal politics.
“In the 2022 elections we will see losses by moderates and gains by extremists/populists […] because each side wants fighters not compromisers. The Supreme Court will make decisions on contentious issues that people are willing to fight over. There is a big risk that each side will view the decisions as unfairly made by the other side and not accept them, which will lead to tests of power,” he predicts.
This is not the first time Dalio voiced such dire forecasts. In November last year he published a book ‘Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail’, where he also warned of a “dangerously high risk” of a civil war in the US within the next 10 years due to the “exceptional amount of polarization.”
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