Iran moving toward military dictatorship, Clinton says – latimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 15th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Audience, Economic Sanctions, elite, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iran Military, Islamic Republic, Latimes, Military Dictatorship, Moving, Qatar, Secretary Of State

Bluntly warning that Iran is sliding into military dictatorship, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience in Qatar on Monday that economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic should be increasingly aimed at its elite Revolutionary Guard.
Iran moving toward military dictatorship, Clinton says – latimes.com

Remembering the day “The Day After” aired

Posted by Matt in November 20th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, War, 100 Million, Abc News, Abc Tv, Adult Population, American Citizens, Audience, Chemical Weapons, Cold-War, Nuclear Confrontation, Nuclear War, nuclearwar, People, Population Of The United States, Remembering The Day, terrorists, Tv Movie, Viewpoint, Worry

Most of us don’t worry about nuclear war the way we did when there was a cold war to go along with it. Today, thanks to terrorists and chemical weapons, war is smaller, but deadlier.
But it was on this day in 1983 that ABC premiered the TV movie, “The Day After.” Billed [...]

China’s New Weapons May Threaten U.S. Bases, Ships, Gates Says – Bloomberg.com

Posted by Matt in September 16th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Advocates, Audience, Bloomberg, China, Defense Secretary, Freedom Of Movement, Military Presence, New Weapons, Robert Gates, Secretary Robert, ships, Suburban Maryland

China is developing new weapons that could threaten the U.S. military presence in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
“We should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the U.S. — fighter-to-fighter or ship-to-ship — and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options,” Gates [...]

Perry: ‘Nuclear dangers are grave, imminent’ – Palo Alto Online

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Alarm One, Audience, Blogged, Cold-War, Decades, Face, False Alarm, Flock Browser, Full House, Nuclear Conflict, Nuclear Dangers, Nuclear Missiles, Palo Alto, Thursday Night, Unitarian Church, Unitarian Universalist Church

William Perry was once awakened at 3 a.m. to learn that computers were showing 200 Soviet nuclear missiles on their way to the United States — a false alarm, one of several.
But the danger of nuclear conflict is greater today than at any time since the Cold War decades, he warned a full-house audience at [...]

Nigeria’s oil curse

Posted by Matt in June 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Africa, Oil, African Man, Audience, Blood Diamond, Cinema, Curse, Diamonds, Government Forces, Lagos Nigeria, Laughter, Leonardo Dicaprio, Leonardo Dicaprio Film, Oil Wealth, Old Man, Photos, Rebels, Sierra Leone, Surveys, Vicious Civil War, Violence

The story in photos behind the fight for Nigeria’s oil wealth.
During a scene in the Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamond,” an elderly African man surveys a village destroyed in Sierra Leone’s vicious civil war and laments the violence tearing his country apart as rebels and government forces fight for control over access to diamonds and [...]

Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario

Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Climate, Conflict, War, Audience, Bad Weather, climate change, Conflict, elite, Eminent Economist, Mass Migrations, Nicholas Stern, Weather Climate, World War

If we don’t deal with climate change decisively, “what we’re talking about then is extended world war,” the eminent economist said.
His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn’t do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, [...]

Israel’s ‘American Problem’

Posted by Matt in May 18th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Israel, U.S., American Jewish Organizations, Audience, Conference Of Presidents Of Major American Jewish Organ, Ehud Olmert, Grandees, Israel, Israel Ehud, jerusalem, Jewish Leaders, Legal Worries, Presidents, Prime Minister Of Israel, Redundancy, Sanctity, Sole Sovereignty

WHEN the prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, arrived at a Jerusalem ballroom in February to address the grandees of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (a redundancy, since there are no minor American Jewish organizations), he was pugnacious, as is customary, but he was also surprisingly defensive, and not because of [...]

Streams of blood, or streams of peace

Posted by Matt in May 4th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Conflict, War, Audience, Ban Ki Moon, Businessmen, Conflicts, Debates, Drought, Fresh Water, Future Of The World, Global Economy, Guns, Horizon, Peace, politicians, Populations, Preoccupation, Risk, Streams, Switzerland, Thirst, Un Secretary General, World Affairs

WHEN Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was asked to ponder the future of the world before an audience of powerful businessmen and politicians, at a meeting in Switzerland earlier this year, he could have chosen any topic he liked. What he focused on was both a hoary old favourite, and a newly popular preoccupation, of [...]

China Threat Debate: Bill Gertz (2 of 11)

Posted by Matt in April 15th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Audience, Bill Gertz, China Threat, Debate, Iq2, Motions, Participants, Public Discourse, Speakers, Youtube Video

This is a YouTube video about the China threat. Bill Gertz gives a 7 minute talk on this issue.
The goal of IQ2 US is to raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues. To provide a new forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis. To transcend the [...]