{"id":43461,"date":"2019-02-03T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43461"},"modified":"2019-02-03T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T13:20:30","slug":"havent-enough-to-keep-you-awake-at-night-try-the-doomsday-clock-for-a-truthful-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43461","title":{"rendered":"Haven\u2019t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/havent-enough-to-keep-you-awake-at.html\">Haven\u2019t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tick Tock. The good folks at the&nbsp;<em>Bulletin of Atomic Scientists<\/em>have returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, underscored the organization\u2019s warning that we have established residence in \u201cthe new abnormal.\u201d Watch the press conference and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/doomsday-clock\/\">supportive videos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doomsday Clock was set last year at a two-minutes until midnight, (midnight being the endgame), and there it now remains. There\u2019s little comfort to be had in standing on what University of Chicago astrophysicist Robert Rosner characterized as a precipice we\u2019d best quickly leap back from. Bulletin president and CEO Rachel Bronson stressed that the clock remaining where it is, the closest it has been to world catastrophe, is not stability, but \u201ca stark warning to leaders and citizens around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Perry said the organization views our current situation as precarious as it was in 1953, in the gloom of the Cold War while the Korean War still raged. Jerry Brown said, \u201cThe blindness and stupidity of the politicians and their consultants is truly shocking in the face of nuclear catastrophe and danger\u2026.the business of everyday politics blinds people to the risk, we\u2019re playing Russian Roulette with humanity,\u201d with the danger of an incident that will kill millions if not igniting a conflict that will kill billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown told journalists while they may love the Trump tweets and news of the day, \u201cthe leads that get the clicks,\u201d the final click could be a nuclear accident, a mistake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven\u2019t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union Tick Tock. The good folks at the&nbsp;Bulletin of Atomic Scientistshave returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,7],"tags":[17459,141,8206,24277,9008,2583,655,24276],"class_list":["post-43461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-bulletin-of-atomic-scientists","tag-climate-change","tag-doomsday-clock","tag-down-with-tryanny","tag-information-warfare","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-propaganda","tag-skip-kaltenheuser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43462,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43461\/revisions\/43462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}