Happy 12/12/12. It won’t happen again. But, then, neither will any other date. We’re still waiting for the end of the world on the 21st.
The US National Intelligence Council has issued one of its reports on the future issues facing the United States. The report predicts a world in 2030 which will be radically different from today (hardly a new prediction), but its words are pretty emphatic: the world is “at a critical juncture in human history.” It is actually a fairly chilling report–one should read it after the holidays.
“North Korea has successfully launched a satellite into orbit” OR “North Korea has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.” You can choose which sentence you prefer because they both accurately described what happened yesterday. The launch took the satellite directly over Japanese territory, raising all sorts of concerns in East Asia. The UN Security Council had earlier passed resolutions condemning missile tests, but North Korea defended its actions as purely scientific.
The world now pays little attention to Afghanistan since the US has declared that it is going to withdraw in 2014. The attention span of the global media is reprehensible since there are so many issues left outstanding in this long-suffering country. It is precisely because the US is going to withdraw that we should pay greater attention to events in Afghanistan.
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