Posted on 01/25/2023 8:19:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s an annual ritual. One that the media enables because it enjoys clickbait and lies. And the doomsday clock has lots of both.
Every year, Rachel Bronson, President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who has a degree in political science from Columbia, gets up in front of a fake clock to announce that the world is doomed.
And now it’s time for the Doomsday Clock to be set for 90 seconds to midnight. Or whatever gets media attention.
If you don’t believe Rachel, maybe you’ll listen to Jerry Brown, former California governor and executive chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Jerry is not an atomic scientist, but he did nuke California.
Jerry’s still there.
Rachel Bronson, PhD, president and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said: “We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality. 90 seconds to midnight is the closest the Clock has ever been set to midnight, and it’s a decision our experts do not take lightly. The US government, its NATO allies and Ukraine have a multitude of channels for dialogue; we urge leaders to explore all of them to their fullest ability to turn back the Clock.”
Rachel’s PhD is in political science. It might be nice if she mentioned that out loud.
The current press release from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists quotes such nuclear scientists as former UN boss Ban Ki-Moon and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. Also a former president of Mongolia.
And here’s the official statement.
A time of unprecedented danger:
It is 90 seconds to midnight
2023 Doomsday Clock StatementScience and Security Board
Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsEditor, John Mecklin
Who’s John Mecklin?
The Bulletin’s Editor-in-Chief, John Mecklin, had previously helped launch Key West Magazine. Warnings about nuclear doom must be more exciting than writing about events at Key West.
Why would anyone believe a media that promote a fake clock by a fake organization? The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the best argument for distrusting the media. Now that’ll be 9 seconds to midnight.
I always wondered how they could come up with those clock times.
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Does anybody really know what time it is?….
(I think somebody said somebody in Chicago does).
They do, but nobody really cares.
When I was in college at the University of Chicago, I actually visited the nearby “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists”. In those days, “Nuclear Winter” was the big scare, and Reagan was president.
Some pals and I got the idea of stealing the clock and setting the hands backward to prevent Armageddon.
Well, when I visited the Bulletin, I was VERY disappointed. There wasn’t “a” clock, there were several. Worse, all of the clocks ONLY show the last three hours on the dial. So you could have an omnipotent genie destroy all nuclear weapons, but it would still be at least 9 PM. The clocks themselves were pretty cheaply made. So, the idea to save the world by stealing the clock and setting the hands back was scuttled.
Up until that point, the clock had relentlessly moved in only one direction, closer to doom. Years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the folks actually moved the hands back a few minutes themselves! Which meant that it never was a clock at all in any normal sense.
> Does anybody really know what time it is?….
I think it's about 25 (or 6) to 4.
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Waiting on one minute after Midnight...
I think I remember Ralph Lapp doing this sthitck every year back in the 60’s.
So the clock just reached midnight for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Thanks!
I’ve been analyzing the speech of people who describe themselves as pacifists in various ways. Many of them are not what they present themselves to be but rather an opposite. More info later.
Is there free parking for the ceremony?
The Clock was always a Crock!!
It’s been 15 minutes or less to midnight for 75 years now.
It’s five ‘o clock somewhere.🥂
“I think it’s about 25 (or 6) to 4.”
That line puzzled me since my childhood.
Finally, at a concert in Houston a few years back, Chicago was the lead band with the Doobie Brothers as the warm up act. Robert Lamm told the story of that lyric.
Now it makes all the sense in the world.
EC
Ouch, that's going to leave a mark !
Classic Greenfield.
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