UPDATE 2- US clout down, risks up by 2025 -intel outlook

[Dover]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy agencies projected on Thursday.

The National Intelligence Council analysis "Global Trends 2025" also said the current financial crisis on Wall Street is just the first phase of a global economic reordering.

The U.S. dollar's role as the world's major currency would weaken to become a "first among equals," the report said.

The outlook is intended to inform U.S. President-elect Barack Obama of factors that will influence global events. It is based on a year-long global survey of experts and trends by U.S. intelligence analysts.

"The next 20 years of transition to a new system are fraught with risks," said the report, which was more pessimistic about U.S. influence and the potential for conflict than the last outlook for 2020.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN2041155720081120

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In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive they may find...


Zager & Evans singing, In The Year 2525
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

[balantz]

1. I always wondered

why that song didn't go "In the year 2025"?

[Gormy Cuss]

2. We'll call it "The Bush Legacy"

I know that it's far more complex than that, but this administration has certainly done more than its share of accelerating the shift.