DOOMSDAY .......

It's only been eight days since Pres. Trump took office , and we've already seen enough executive orders indicating how dangerous it could get . But the physicists, politicians and the board , which include 16 Nobel laureates of the hypothetical doomsday clock , which was established back 1947, with a 7 minutes to midnight, had a purpose to caution and bring awareness to nuclear disarmament, climate change , energy and other technology issues that can help save the earth .

The yearly bulletin of the scientists behind the doomsday clock pushed it only once to 17 minutes to midnight back in 1991, that was the year the cold war ended , and the world thought optimistically .  In 1953 when Pres. Harry  Truman announced ; the U.S. has developed the hydrogen bomb,  threatening a thermonuclear war , the same clock was pushed to 2 minutes to midnight .

The Chicago based bulletin of the atomic scientists , a science journal which sets and oversees the clock said ; recent events, including the Trump election, and his various slogans ranging from the U.S. nuclear arsenal , and his statement of "Military more important at this time than balanced budget", to his views on climate change , and his open stance toward many countries across the world and neighboring us , and antagonizing most of the free world and the UN , with his blind support to Israeli aggression and theft .

It all, drove the group of scientists to readjust the clock's  hands to two and a half minutes to midnight, after it being stable at three minutes to midnight for some years now . The clock is revised annually, but it took 6 days of Mr. Trump's presidency to convince everyone to push the hands of this metaphorical doomsday clock. It is the closest it has been to midnight since the cold war of the fifties.

The warning of the remaining time , 2 minutes and 30 seconds to the time when a full catastrophe  that could annihilate the world and its inhabitants. The crazy rise all over the world , of vulgar and cheap nationalism, including the U.S. Europe , Russia, theocratic entities encouraging phony nationalism through religious ideologies, as in all or most Islamic countries, Israel and its blind Jewish notions, all with very manipulative leaders reminding the world of Adolph Hitler and worse.

The total disregard for any scientific data and facts , about most human issues , could entirely derail the little margins of safety remaining to safeguard the globe .  Six  days into the new administration, the group sent a clear message ;  " things are not going in the right direction."


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