A Doomsday Clock for America?

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reports that the hands of the Doomsday Clock have moved two minutes toward high noon. It is now five minutes until that horrible witching hour when everything blows up and goes hell. Add to that the armchair prophets of The Fourth Turning, who expect an American “saecular crisis” of an extreme magnitude to occur just about anytime now.Given the current dire circumstances in America (the land of milk and honey and the home of the free and the brave who were once huddled masses on distant shores of tyranny), I get the feeling that some kind of clock is ticking down on her. So I would like to ask if a doomsday clock is appropriate now for the American experiment in capitalistic democracy.I single out Uncle Sam because of his boundless and aggressive meddling with foreign affairs in order to increase the earnings of capitalists and impose lifestyle changes on the world to serve in that regard. Maybe this is the wrong attitude; I am certainly open to criticism. Nevertheless, the question: Is an American Doomsday Clock appropriate now in the face of our demographically changing world?If 12:00 noon* is the witching hour for America, where should we set the hands on the ADC?”Hoot Mon*One possible reference point might be the nuking of Isreal and the beginning of WWIII.Edited by Hoot Mon, : fixed links

...living near the beach.down here in south florida something rather peculiar has happened recently. something all the people sitting around waiting for god are quite pleased with. they moved down here because it doesn't snow, unlike their former homes. well, it may not ever snow. but we used to at least have a distinct period we could call "winter." this year, we did not. we didn't last year, either.

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