Glenn Beck — who has a daily TV show on a popular cable news network and therefore must be taken more seriously in some quarters than scruffy people ranting on streetcorners — assembles his friends to war-game the coming civil war. Apparently a combination of 95% tax rates and a flood of unwashed Mexicans is going to provoke militias made of Bubbas to rise up against the U.S. government. Also, Obama is going to force states to accept stimulus money against their will.
Beck follows up by explaining how God fits into all this. The answer is: God gave this country freedom, and God has a method of communicating to us when our freedoms are being taken away. That method, apparently, goes through the gut. Imminent threats to freedom are foreshadowed, if I understand correctly, by a mild sort of indigestion.
You might think this is an isolated case, but here is Alan Keyes — who used to have a TV show, and was recruited by the Illinois Republican party to run for Senate, and therefore must be taken more seriously in some quarters than random fulminators on internet message boards — also warning darkly of the coming civil war.
Indeed, it may have already begun. If I understand this article from HumanEvents.com correctly, several states have already declared sovereignty, paving the way to full-scale secession from the Union. Nobody wants this to happen, you understand; but if the Democrat party wants to undermine the Constitution and redistribute the wealth, the consequences are simply inevitable.
Here at Cosmic Variance, we believe in always being prepared. The coming civil war isn’t going to be pretty. Don’t say you weren’t warned!
These people are very depressing. And sad.
To the states that want to leave: don’t let the door bang you on the way out.
Oh yes, we get to keep Austin, TX. 🙂
It wont be pretty….but hot damn will it be entertaining. And thats all the news outlets really care about.
The Wingnut mighty Wurlitzer noise machine is at full force inciting revolution.
The same voices that said only a few short years ago that if you didn’t agree with the President’s views you were a traitor.
Corporate owned mainstream media cannot be trusted!
Revolution is coming.
The beltway punditry will find their heads on the pikes of average Americans who finally have had enough of the lies.
No wonder Rove is following your twitter. lol
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Oh and by the way the Orbiting Carbon Observatory was sabotaged by the Energy Cartel.
Well it’s about time! “Grow your Mohawks and get your Dune Buggies!”. . . (MAD MAX) baby YYYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
Imminent threats to freedom are foreshadowed, if I understand correctly, by a mild sort of indigestion.
Okay. I guess the stimulus package should include a provision to provide everyone with a free supply of Tums. 🙂
Why do I see a correlation with these people’s mindsets and that of the most superstitious? Oh yeah, they think with emotion, not with reason.
Alright, are we ready to admit that 24-hour cable news channels (all of them) have been an abject failure and a serious detriment to society? Are we ready to admit that the cons have far, far exceeded the pros? It would be a bright day if Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, and the like all suddenly ceased to exist.
What I would give to go back to a time when we had nothing but the one-hour network national evening news. I just heard a radio broadcast the other day from the 1940s with Edward R. Murrow. How far we’ve come.
It’s okay. We have the LHC as our ace in the hole, in case they get real uppity. Let’s see how bubba reacts to a black hole interfering with his John Wayne fantasy.
I just came from watching these vids over at Glenn Greenwald’s blog and decided I would shake off the horror by catching up on some physics news.
Alas, ’twas not to be the case. ::sigh::
I’ll be holed up in the southern Appalachians by the summer of 2012, if anybody wants to reserve a space at the compound…must have farming/gardening/carpentry/sustainable tech. skills, be pleasant company, enjoy making music and chopping wood, or be otherwise qualified to ride out troubled times with like-minded hippie-types in a well-disguised holler. If Bubba’s coming for me, I’m damn sure going to make myself hard to find.
Incitement to treason is hilarious. Ha! Ha!
Try thinking more globally. For example:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175038/michael_klare_a_pandemic_of_economic_violence
Interesting times, sadly. Walk, travel less, use less.
Heh. I thought scientists actually researched the things they commented on…
So much for the scientific method, eh?
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I have dozens, even hundreds of resources available, if you want them, from physicists to economists to Harvard chairs…
Email me, Sean. I’ll hook ya up.
Beck may be a bombast, but on this one? Mebbe he actually did some small bit of research before he shot off his mouth.
You people need to get out more often. Ya know that, doncha?
This is just one ‘movement’ that is in the works.
There is a now growing ‘tax revolt’ which is also in process of becoming
something much larger. It was in the process of growth long before Michelle
Malkin and PJM or Dick Armey jumped on the band wagon.
These are just two of several such ‘movements’ which are in the process of
growing and developing.
Also,keep an eye on the news wrt to the border between Mexico and the U.S.
There was recently a full scale battle fought in a Texas border town which
killed twenty people. The federal government has ignored the Texas governor’s
pleas for help and as a result, the Texas National Guard has been placed on
alert. The Minutemen have also put out a national ‘call to arms.” The media
has ignored the story.
As for the economy? Have I got news for you…and so does the CEO of GE and the leading economist in America from Merril Lynch…even George Soros agrees with them…
and see:
‘Rapidly Collapsing U.S. Foreign Policy’
BY HERSCHEL SMITH
That’s just a taste. There’s more if you want it…or need it.
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Warren
I’m fine with this. We should just go our separate ways.
I have been doing my best to keep the rest of the world up-to-date on the crisis via my Bitter account:
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Alan Keyes is not taken seriously by anyone, Republicans included. A check of history will show the only reason he was the senate candidate that cycle was because of a last minute drop out with nobody else wanting to step up to the plate. Keyes is a joke.
Beck is just another loud mouth TV host. Sometimes has a meaninful point but is almost always bluster with echo chamber guests.
To the poster who said kill all the cable news outlets- I agree, they have had a bad influence on politics and debate in general. Hopefully they will ultimately not be profitable and die death that way.
Oh, harsh. Bubba was my soft toy when I was two or as Bitter would have it, 10.
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This type of bubba’s revolt comes up every time a Democrat is elected. Remember all of the Militia scares and news bites when Clinton was president. Militia’s generally speaking are hard core republican. Whenever a Democrat is elected its time for them to circle the wagons and tighten their grips on their guns. I grew up in Oklahoma and saw this first hand.
Unfortunately it might be truth. There is a cycle which i first published in 1994 in the book ‘radiations of space-time’, and was the first application of fractal time theory (www.unificationtheory.com) which you might love/hate. it is called the generational cycle of 72 years by historians. It is the mean life of human beings. but it is also the cycle of the industrial r=evolution of machines and global stockmarket crashes:
1857-global crash of the steam/railroad age + 5 years=civil war.
Add 72
1929-global crash of the electrochemical age + 10 years=world war II
Add 72
2001-global crash of electronic money (.com bubble) re-repeated in 2008 (7 years short wave) add 10 years (w.w.III)
this was to my knowledge the only book ever published in the 90s that predicted with absolute accuracy BOTH the 2001 and 2008 crash. Published both in spain and the US, (of course it got trashed because FINANCIAL crisis were a ‘thing’ of the past and it required in the complex model to undestand also the algorythms of fractal time, which certainly neither economists or for that matter physicists at CERN understand)… nto their blame, rathe as Planck/kuhn put it: ‘for a new paradigm to take place in science, the entire generation that learnt the old paradigm, must die’ cynical but let us hope Planck/kuhn are not right this time at geneva…
there is any solution? Of course, to BOTH but ‘the arrogance and ignorance of man is infinite’ (A.einstein) to hold back the nuclear/weapon industry and implement them, avoiding wars and global genocides…
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luis sancho
Easy solution. The northeast can join Canada. The southwest can join Mexico (note: requires another decade or two of industrial and social development in Mexico first). The heartland can retain the designation USA. Simple and easy, and everyone goes home happy.
fascistoid concepts, as usual, human are anthropocentric. War has nothing to do with people but with industrial machines. The cycle of war is industrial. That is why it has cycles that coincide with those of the economical crisis.
That evolution has gone through a generational cycle of energetic evolution of 72 years, with 3 phases, each one lead by the nation which invented those machines, from 1785 to 1857 we lived the age of steam machines and Britain, from 1857 to 1929 we lived the age of electro-chemical machines/energies and Germany, and now we were at the end of the III cycle of electronic machines, 1929-2001, the age of America, and we started the final cycle of the Singularity, when machines will acquire organic, autonomous forms (Age of solar energy and robots, 2001 onwards), the age of Asia.
So how war fits in? Very simple. Company-mothers of machines do both, the peaceful machine and the weapon. The railroad and the blinded railroad. The car is Hitler’s tank. The chip is the smart weapon. So when the crisis strikes companies paid lobbies and politicians to reinvent demand with war. Lincoln, Moltke in the civil wars of the 1860s were the first a lawyer lobbyist for the illinois company and signed the railroad act that exterminated the indians, Moltke a railroad engineer, mercedes multiplied by 5 profits in the II W.W. loosing it. GM for 8. What is good for GM is good for America. Bush made a fortune in war. As long as obama is president we wont have a fascistoid war against the TRUE, ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF California called mexicans.
@Gopher65 Who gets the nucs?
no also agrees with Sean.