K.S. Rajan (29 June 2014)
"TOM HORN"
DANGEROUS WORLD
NY Mayor Admits: Major US City Next Target For Islamic Terror
Beyond Jordan and the immediate Greater Syria region, there is concern
among security experts that ISIS’ success will spawn spinoff groups
similar to it in other countries. That’s because ISIS’ rapid successes
have inspired other jihadist groups to join its bandwagon and attract
new recruits from young, unemployed youth in those countries, numbers of
which are massive. “I’m not surprised that it was someone who spent
time in Bucca but I’m a little surprised it was him,” King said. “He was
a bad dude, but he wasn’t the worst of the worst.” New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the NYPD already
are taking al-Baghdadi’s threats seriously. “This guys on the move,”
according to former FBI agent Manny Gomez. “He’s only gaining strength.
He’s gaining more resources vis-à-vis weaponry, intelligence backing.
His numbers are growing. His financial strength is growing Success
breeds success and
this guy, unfortunately, has been very successful.
Why Nuclear Scientists Think We're Nearing End Of The World
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the minute hand on its
Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. On the 60-year-old
Doomsday Clock, midnight is nuclear destruction, the end of life as we
know it . Manhattan Project physicists, who developed the atomic bomb
for the United States, instituted the clock in 1947 after their bombs
wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Since then,
the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS), which boasts 18 Nobel Prize
winners among its leaders, has moved the hand on the clock 18 times.
Each move symbolizes the group's current analysis of the world's chances
of survival in the face of political, environmental and technological
developments. The most notable factor to the keepers of the clock is the
state of nuclear affairs -- whether the world is in a proliferation
trend or a disarmament trend
How The Internet Will Monitor Our Every Move
The Imagining the Internet (ITI) survey recently published explains how
young children are in a technological revolution fueled by the internet
where educational lines are blurring and the opportunity for learning
from locations across the globe are now possible. In 2050, as highways,
shipping and communication have gone completely digital, the advent of a
global internet consciousness could provide the right temperament for
“crime and surveillance and other negative things in a way that’s
probably more frightening than ever before.” Janna Anderson, associate
professor of communications at Elon University (EU) and director of ITI
explains: “When you ask all these people, these experts in all these
different fields, what they see as having the most impact by 2025, and
education is right there, … that’s very significant.”