The Davos Apocalypse

Fiscal Apocalypse Now

When is the Apocalypse?

The alternative is apocalypse now.

Now, back to the unfolding apocalypse.

The Horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse

We care what happens in Apocalypse Now.

Scene from a movie Apocalypse Now great movie.

What would you do in the event of a zombie apocalypse?

So, what threatens to happen with this unfolding apocalypse is the collapse of global social organization.

But, in reality, Syria has already become an enclave for extremism. Responding with military aid will simply turn a catastrophe into an apocalypse.

Reactions in the scientific community ranged from slight novelty to looming apocalypse. The former is more apt Venter s creation is evolutionary, not revolutionary.

If you've heard about the Mayan 2012 apocalypse, you're going to hear about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the doomsday networks anyway.

If you've heard about the Mayan 2012 apocalypse, you're going to hear about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the doomsday networks anyway.

I'm sorry it was a cheap laugh, but I wanted to find a way to transition back to this idea of the unfolding apocalypse, and I thought that might do it.

This is old information we've known since about the 80s, yet there's no medicine I can prescribe to a patient with this or any of the numerous solid tumors caused by these three horsemen of the apocalypse that is cancer.

When the second millennium ended quite unlike the first our world was not threatened by the terror filled visions of the apocalypse and the seven trumpets that would transform a third of the world into blood, darkness, smoke and locusts.

And to be honest, if I had known when I was asked to give this upbeat talk that even as I was giving the upbeat talk, the apocalypse would be unfolding I might have said, Is it okay if I talk about something else?

The Islamic State's spokesmen insist on following the original precepts laid down by the Prophet Mohammed and his earliest followers, understood literally and with no adjustment for different circumstances. Like Christian fundamentalists, they see themselves as preparing for and helping to bring about the apocalypse.

Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject them, our culture remains in the grips of certain archetypal stories about our supremacy over others and over nature the narrative of the newly discovered frontier and the conquering pioneer, the narrative of manifest destiny, the narrative of apocalypse and salvation.

What emerged was neither traditional fiscal conservatism nor Democratic policies without Democrats nor starve the beast populism, but something that has no name. An exchange between two characters in a scene from the movie Apocalypse Now captures an anti ethic that characterizes the Bush administration s policies as well

Humanity has faced threats to its existence and the health of the planet before, yet we have managed to avoid the apocalypse, or at least postpone it, through ingenuity and invention. This year s Davos meeting will offer a glimpse of where the next life , planet and economy saving discoveries and products will come from, and where we should invest our talents and treasure to fuel the next generation of transformative technologies.

At the regional level, the international community welcomes the remarkable progress made in disarmament by the creation of nuclear weapon free zones. The Treaty of Tlatelolco established such a zone for Latin America and the Caribbean the Treaty of Rarotonga for the South Pacific the Treaty of Pelindaba for Africa and the Treaty of Bangkok for South East Asia. The existence of these denuclearized zones shows that the nations truly wish to free the world from nuclear apocalypse.