It's seven minutes to midnight

The Doomsday Clock has been at it's current setting since 2002. I wonder if the North Korean nuclear test is going to prompt them to bump it up a notch or two..

Doomsday Clock: Current Time

Scientists on Wednesday changed the time on Chicago’s Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, or the apocalypse, based on what they said is the “most perilous period since Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” during dual announcements in London and Washington, D.C.

"We foresee great peril if governments and societies don’t take action now” to offset climate change, said astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to colonize space because of the increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth.

I've been wondering when the clock would be advanced for awhile now...

MyFox WGHP | Countdown to the Apocalypse: Scientists Change Doomsday Clock

It's six minutes before midnight as a surveillance
society draws near within the United States.

The ACLU has created a Surveillance Society Clock similar to the Doomsday Clock.

American Civil Liberties Union : Surveillance Society Clock

THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology.

The countries involved were named by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Tunisia and the UAE have also shown interest.

“Some Middle East states, including Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Saudi Arabia, have shown initial interest [in using] nuclear power primarily for desalination purposes,” Tomihiro Taniguch, the deputy director-general of the IAEA, told the business weekly Middle East Economic Digest. He said that they had held preliminary discussions with the governments and that the IAEA’s technical advisory programme would be offered to them to help with studies into creating power plants.

I continue to wonder when the Doomsday Clock is going to be advanced...

Their most recent statement doesn't even mention Iran. Strange...

Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear