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Posted by SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist in Economy, Education, Health, International, Media, Miscellaneous, Places, Politics, Religion, Science & Technology, Society, War.
Sep 17th, 2009 | Comments

Ever since the collapse of the mighty Soviet Union, the doomsayers are having field day predicting the break-up of India and Pakistan. Last year, a leading Russian political analyst stated that the economic turmoil in the USA had confirmed his long-held view that the country would divide into separate parts.

Cashing on this phobia, Slate offered last month a “week-long thought experiment” on “the United States’ demise” by asking its readers: “How is America going to end?” The Slate’s exercise attracted over 60,000 participants, including about 15 per cent from its Russian website.

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To read the earlier TMV post “The Coming Downfall and Breakup of America”Please click here…

In my another post I had mentioned that for the better running of the affairs of the nations and businesses, as well as for the survival of the world, the Bhagavad Gita’s universal message of “concentration, consistency, and cooperation” was still effective. In a nutshell: “You can’t succeed in business (or war) unless you develop the intellect, which controls the mind and body.”

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Leonidas

How often Peak Oil appears at the top makes me realize how many stupid people are in this country.

13. Peak Oil: Petroleum production reaches terminal decline. Oil becomes too expensive to extract, and alternative energies can't maintain our fossil-fuel-dependent lifestyle. The developed world goes kaput, with gas-happy America leading the way to the gutter.

I mean we have nuclear energy and electric cars Hello McFly!

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”

-- Albert Einstein

Father_Time

I have yet to see a nuclear powered frieght train or electric powered airliner. They already tried a nuclear powered cargo ship, the SS Savanna, and, it didn't work out.

However, the third world is already kaput. That's why it's called the third world.

DLS

Slate can't be trusted to do a "thought experiment," given its competence with thought. Too silly.

It's an interesting subject (as I've written, having North America become four to six, or more, nations), especially if it's considered based on real-world experience, but not necessarily "reviewed" as on Slate.

Don Quijote

The magic combination of tenther's, budget deficits, water shortages and high energy prices will bring back real federalism which will kill this country. Sooner or later the Blue States are going to get tired of paying the bills and being abused by the Red States. Sooner or later the Southwest is going to run out of water, and when they start some new project to steal water from the Northwest or the Great Lakes, they are going to be told by the locals to go f**k themselves.

It's only a matter of time before the whole place falls apart.

DLS

The Blue vs. Red warfare is without foundation. Even those who wanted to secede after Bush was elected and (sometimes) join Canada couldn't even identify which states, specifically, and needed this explained to them -- along with territorial division likely in those states as well as Blue (Canadian) assumption of so much of the US federal debt, et cetera. (No painless Blue fantasy!)

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