Renewed piracy on the worlds oceans.
No. Piracy getting more media attention, sure. More people trying to make a living by using force on the high seas, maybe. But not a sign that "CIVILIZATION IS ENDING OMGZOR!
Reports of piracy attacks were declining worldwide since 2004, but seems to have bottomed out in 2007.[41][unreliable source?]Figures reported by the International Maritime Bureau indicate incident reporting fell for the third year in a row in 2006. Ships reported 239 incidents to the IMB during the year 2006, down from 276 in 2005, and 329 in 2004.[42] But the piracy rose by 14% in the first nine months of 2007.[41][unreliable source?]
The maritime watchdog group points to better awareness of the magnitude of piracy and subsequent involvement by governments in combating piracy as factors in the decline.[43]
Yet hotspots remain. They include Indonesia, Nigeria, Somalia, and the ports of Chittagong in Bangladesh and Santos in Brazil, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) 2006 Annual Report. Furthermore, experts caution that local problem areas can emerge quickly, despite a worldwide down trend in pirate attacks.
"When attacks hit a peak in 2000, at that time Somalia was just a blip on the radar screen," said the secretary-general of the Shipping Federation during an interview with the London Financial Times. "Then it becomes a big problem. Piracy tends to be a feature of areas where there is either lawlessness or real economic deprivation and it's very difficult to eradicate."[44]
The recent downward trend in piracy worldwide follows a period when attacks tripled between 1993 and 2003. The first half of 2003 was the worst 6-month period on record, with 234 pirate attacks, 16 deaths, and 52 people injured worldwide. There were also 193 crew members held hostage during this period.[45][46] In the first 6 months of 2004, 182 reported cases of piracy turned up worldwide, 50 of which occurring in Indonesian waters.[47]
The Piracy Reporting Centre of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) stated in 2004 that more pirate attacks in that year occurred in Indonesian waters (70 of 251 reported attacks) than in the waters of any other country. Of these attacks, a majority occurred in the Straits of Malacca. They also stated that of the attacks in 2004, oil and gas tankers and bulk carriers were the most popular targets with 67 attacks on tankers and 52 on bulk carriers.
Military Dictators who have stated that they want to wipe whole countries from existence developing the weapons to do and not being stopped by the "World Community" with it's supposed moral superiority.
Are you serious? There have alwaqys been nutcases in charge of some third-world country spouting that kind of nonsense. It's when they have resources to actually follow through on these threats that things start to get worrying (Last time that happened, it got called WW2. Right now, there's a whole lot of saber rattling, but starting another large scale war is thoroughly unlikely.)
Othe r countries developing delivery systems capable of deploying said weapons.
So? Let's say North Korea starts some **** by nuking...erm....Japan? 30 Minutes later, Pyongyang is a parking lot. (Or something non-nuclear happens to them. Seriously, Neither Iran, nor Pakistan, nor Israel, nor North Korea are anywhere near the amount of world ending capability the USA and Russia managed to stockpile during the Cold War.)
Still other, non-aligned organizations whose stated purpose is the ending of Western Civilization not being meaningfully eradicated through education and less peaceful means.
Because, as much as I would like to send every creationist on this earth into an education camp for applied evolution, I won't do it. Because, as retarded as some people are, they jstill have their right to their opinion, and I respect that. Oh, and random terrorist group #3 spouting crap like "We'll destroy western civilization"? Civilizations are notoriously hard to destroy.
Need I go on...
When it finally happens, like the Patricians in Rome, you won't see it coming because you are bloated with confidence in own superiority.
Actually, yes, you need to.
What makes your doomy prediction of doom more accurate than, say, any other?
