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Civil wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.
And that grows over time dynamically with the threat of climate change.
TKM: So now the ability to openly brandish and explore your sexuality and your sex without it being a threat to others is at the core of engaging with healthy sexual practices.
Despite this incredible progress, we know that until it's eradicated, polio remains a very real threat, especially to children in the poorest communities of the world.
And now its biggest threat is the disappearance of ice in the North because of the lives that we're leading in the South.
What had happened was another seal had snuck in behind me, and she did that to threat display.
We pose a threat to the order of the government.
So we actually grew our consciousness in response to this global threat.
And what I've learned since that event and during my recovery is that consciousness is under threat on this planet in ways it's never been under threat before.
And the answer, of course, that we keep being given is as follows: we're told that we went into Afghanistan because of 9/11, and that we remain there because the Taliban poses an existential threat to global security.
Afghanistan does not pose an existential threat to global security.
Even the aid agencies, who begin to receive an enormous amount of money from the U.S. and the European governments to build schools and clinics, are somewhat disinclined to challenge the idea that Afghanistan is an existential threat to global security.
I was sitting in my car, looking in the rearview mirror, trying to figure out which friend I could call to call in a bomb threat, so I didn't have to go back in the building.
I looked at myself in the mirror, and I said ... "Which friend can you call to call in a bomb threat?
When this district attorney of 30 years stepped down, the eyewitnesses from McKinley's case came forward and said that they had been pressured into testifying by the district attorneys, pressure which included the threat of jail time.
SB: That I'm not no threat.
Humans have always been the greatest threat to penguins, but we are now their only hope.
And if we rely, as we do at the moment, solely on the criminal justice system and the threat of punitive sentences, we will be nurturing a monster we cannot tame.
As a result, the Americans take the threat very seriously.
Similarly, if we'd had this talk 30 or 40 years ago, we would have seen how the rise of nuclear weapons, and the threat of mutually assured destruction they imply, prevents a direct fight between the two superpowers.
The cyber threat is now affecting our democratic processes.
But even with a true random number generator, we've still got the second big cyber threat: the problem of secure key exchange.
And he's still a little confused, but I think that anyone who talks to me for more than a couple of minutes realizes I'm not exactly a terrorist threat.
This is a potential threat.
We're building telescopes that are looking for the threat.
I think that bad PowerPoint presentations are a serious threat to the global economy.
So the policing layer around the problem becomes the real threat of the act.
Because in the end, the real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.
The threat, in fact, is this inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.
Every day I hope that politicians, diplomats, development workers can turn conflict into peace and threat into hope.
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