"GLOBAL ISSUES, LEADERSHIP CHOICES":

The U.S. intelligence community has, uncharacteristically, not released this year's Worldwide Threat Assessment and canceled their usual public hearing on the report. Politico Magazine has reviewed previously released government documents and interviewed former national security and intelligence officials, scientists, researchers, and academics to prepare its own best guess of what the missing report would have contained.

"You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, but warnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades. Government briefings, science journals and even popular fiction projected the spread of a novel virus and the economic impacts it would bring, complete often with details about the specific challenges the U.S. is now facing. It makes you wonder: What else are we missing? What other catastrophes are coming that we aren’t planning for, but that could disrupt our lives, homes, jobs or our broader society in the next few years or decades? ... What follows is POLITICO Magazine’s “Domestic Threat Assessment”—a list of the most significant events that might impact the United States over the next 30 to 50 years. These are threats that seem rare, but that over a given period are almost guaranteed to occur—events that humans, and therefore political leaders, have a hard time understanding and planning for. ... Here’s what’s coming for us now:"

1. Globalization of White Supremacy
2. Attacks on Trust and Truth: Deepfakes, Manufactured Election Results or Other Data Manipulation Attacks
3. Biosecurity: Terrorists, Mad Scientists, Lab Accidents and Biological Warfare
4. Technological Disruption: Downed Power Grids, GPS Outages and Solar Flares
5. Nukes
6. Climate Change
7. Covid-19’s Next Level Impact
8. Catastrophic Earthquakes: San Andreas Fault, Cascadian Subduction Zone, New Madrid Seismic Zone, Wasatch Fault Zone
9. Unknown Unknowns

The entire article is worth a read: www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/07/experts-knew-pandemic-was-coming-what-they-fear-next-238686