An assassination plot against President Obama has been foiled in Turkey. US officials are allegedly taking the threat “very seriously.” However, the president did not need to change his schedule. The man who had been planning the attack was arrested last week in Turkey. Read more…
All signs point to the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) having more power in the 21st century… and US dominance to end. But how much power will the US keep?
The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report, issued every four years to document looming problems, predicts a new global system will emerge where no single state dominates.
“By 2025, the U.S. will find itself as one of a number of important actors on the world stage, albeit still the most powerful one,” the report by U.S. intelligence agencies says.
China is poised to have more impact than any other country, but the report also foresees a rise by India and Russia.
If trends continue, the report predicts China will have the world’s second-largest economy by 2025, be a leading military power, while becoming the world’s largest importer of natural resources and also the biggest polluter.
What is striking, the report notes, is that none of the three rising stars adhere to a Western liberal model but rather a system of state capitalism, under which the government takes a key role in economic management.
The transition will leave a world system “almost unrecognizable” in comparison to today, the report says.
It says there will be an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from the West to East, with rising oil and commodity prices in the Gulf States and Russia and lower production costs shifting manufacturing and service industries to Asia. While terrorism is unlikely to disappear by 2025, the report says its appeal could decline if economic growth continues in the Middle East.
The report also suggests al-Qaeda may “decay sooner” than expected after alienating supporters by killing Muslims in its attacks and failing to gain traction in large parts of the Islamic world.
With more than 1.2 billion more people in the world by 2025, natural resource issues such as energy, food and water will be the increasing focus of conflicts, the report says.
The effects of climate change will be uneven, but the report mentions Canada alongside Russia as two countries who will benefit from it over the next 20 years.
Read more.
President-elect Barack Obama appeared on 60 Minutes last week to weigh in on all the big issues, after taking an apparent media break since his election:
Since last week’s historic election of Barack Obama’s as the next U.S. president, a number of high-profile Europeans have been sticking their feet in their mouths while commenting on the situation (Well, some were being outright racist). For example, a leading Austrian television journalist said - on camera - that he “wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man.” The Italian Prime Minister tried to joke about it, by describing Obama as “young, handsome and even suntanned.” The National Democratic Party of Germany ran the headline, “Africa Conquers the White House,” on their website. And these aren’t even the extremists. Read more…
A little transparency from president-elect Barack Obama: a set of “behind the scenes” photos from election night. Relive the evening here…
It’s the third sign of the Apocalypse. Everything I’ve been conditioned to believe is crashing down around me. That’s right, folks: FOX News has said something against the Republican presidential candidate. FOX’s Neil Cavuto even calls Obama, “Senator Straight-Talk.” Cavuto’s problem with McCain is his inconsistency and shifting positions (didn’t they used to call that “flip-flopping?”). Check it out - you have to see it to believe it:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has revealed a plot by skinheads to kill Senator Barack Obama, along with over 100 other African Americans, has been thwarted. The two Neo-Nazi white supremacists had planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14 (these two numbers are significant to the supremacist community). Obama was their final target, however they expected it was likely they’d be killed trying to assassinate the presidential nominee - rather than actually accomplishing their goal. The two men have been arrested. Read more…
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These guys do all the work for me - Brian Williams and Chuck Todd discuss McCain-Palin interview:
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