NC to join European Union in 2010 according to WSJ
by Liv | Published on December 17th, 2009, 7:59 pm | News
That's a map of beauty to some, to others it's the beginning of the end.
Mr. Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.
The professor says he began his career in the KGB in 1976. In post-Soviet Russia, he got a doctorate in political science, studied U.S. economics, and worked for FAPSI, then the Russian equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency. He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are "classified."
In September 1998, he attended a conference in Linz, Austria, devoted to information warfare, the use of data to get an edge over a rival. It was there, in front of 400 fellow delegates, that he first presented his theory about the collapse of the U.S. in 2010.
"When I pushed the button on my computer and the map of the United States disintegrated, hundreds of people cried out in surprise," he remembers.
He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in. cite
Hogwash you say... but just a day ago Obama told the Senate if they don't pass health care reform the U.S. government will go bankrupt. 2010 should be interesting if not painful to experience one way or another.
