Bring it on. 2012 sucks donkeys dry. Let's blow it up.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71331.html > > 'Doomsday Clock' ticks toward 12 a.m. > By: Tim Mak > January 11, 2012 12:06 PM EST > > > The Doomsday Clock signifying global apocalypse moved one minute to > closer midnight Tuesday, said atomic scientists, citing the failure of > the United States to act on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and > increasing nuclear tensions around the world. > > The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the hands of the > clock had been moved from six minutes until midnight to five minutes > until midnight, which represents annihilation. > > The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by University of Chicago > scientists who helped in the development of the Manhattan Project. The > decision to move the minute hand is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic > Scientists boards, which includes 18 Nobel Laureates. > > It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world > leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many > cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed, said the > Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in a statement. The clock is ticking. > > The decision of the worlds nuclear powers not to make progress on the > Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was a major reason for the change. > > Failure to act on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by leaders in the > United States, China, Iran, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Israel, and North > Korea and on a treaty to cut off production of nuclear weapons > material continues to leave the world at risk from continued > development of nuclear weapons, said the organization. > > Also troubling to the scientists was the uncertainty of Irans nuclear > program and increasing tensions in Northeast Asia and South Asia. > > Ongoing efforts to ease tensions, deal with extremism and terrorist > acts, and reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international > relations have had only halting success, they wrote. > > The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists added that climate change and > questions arising from the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster > contributed to their decision to move the minute hand forward. > > The Doomsday Clocks minute hand last moved in Jan. 2010, when it was > pushed back from five to six minutes before midnight. > > -- > There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always > has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant > thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, > nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance > is just as good as your knowledge." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345257 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
