Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?
From the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America 'Disintegrates' in 2010 Excerpt: 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. California will form the nucleus of what he calls The Californian Republic, and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of The Texas Republic, a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an Atlantic America that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls The Central North American Republic. Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Who's on Twitter?
I've caught the Twitter bug, partly because it's a very interesting data set and I'm analyzing it. See http://nickarnett.net for that stuff. I'm at http://twitter.com/nick_arnett Any other Brinellers tweeting these days? Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?
Original Message: - From: Nick Arnett narn...@mccmedia.com Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:17:07 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years? From the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America 'Disintegrates' in 2010 I read this a few weeks ago and got a good chuckle out of it. It shows than Americans aren't the only ones who can be clueless about how things work in other countries. :-) Dan M. myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who's on Twitter?
At 04:18 PM Friday 1/2/2009, Nick Arnett wrote: I've caught the Twitter bug, partly because it's a very interesting data set and I'm analyzing it. See http://nickarnett.net for that stuff. I'm at http://twitter.com/nick_arnett Any other Brinellers tweeting these days? Nick Please forgive me if this is seems an ignorant question, but my impression has been that Twitter is primarily useful for folks who are on their smart phones texting most of the day, rather than those of us whose primary on-line access is from our desktops . . . Right? Wrong? Totally stupid? . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who's on Twitter?
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Ronn! Blankenship ronn_blankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: Please forgive me if this is seems an ignorant question, but my impression has been that Twitter is primarily useful for folks who are on their smart phones texting most of the day, rather than those of us whose primary on-line access is from our desktops . . . Right? Wrong? Totally stupid? Not stupid, but not right. You don't have to use a phone at all to use Twitter. In fact, it took me a while to figure out how to get anything on my phone (which may have been stupid). Twitter is micro-blogging. Here's my take on what it really is good at, in terms of productivity: http://www.nickarnett.net/2008/12/31/twitter-massively-parallel-self-organization-of-points-of-view/ Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
