K.S. Rajan (29 June 2014)
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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.”