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So much fail in one little picture. All he's showing there is his cluelessness about the tribes of the US. I don't know much, but I know that's wrong.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 06:26:28 AM EST
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As I understand it, the basic idea has been around for a while and is probably not Panarin's to begin with. It originates from within North America.

The Middlebury Institute
for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination. A website where you learn, among other things, that the Third North American Secessionist Convention was held in New Hampshire in 2008.

And to put things in context:

NY Times: A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S.

Back in 1981, the journalist Joel Garreau published "The Nine Nations of North America," mapping out how economics, geography and culture really made it more logical for the United States, Canada and Mexico to be nine nations than three.



You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.
by Vagulus on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 08:00:49 AM EST
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Then, there's always the sustainability-based secessionist novel from Ernest Callenbach, ECOTOPIA.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 08:40:20 AM EST
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Context? Context? Come on, you can't deny the folks at the WSJ a little bit of doom porn, plus stirring the anti-Russian sentiment (what's not to like?).

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
by Bernard on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 10:07:04 AM EST
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Bar them from a legal pleasure? Perish the thought! Tell me though, for my peace of mind, are you sure the WSJ finest are regular readers of this forum?

You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.
by Vagulus on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 11:58:50 AM EST
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Probably not, although some ETribbers are known to read the WSJ sometimes.

So I guess the WSJ regulars can safely rest in the reassurance that this notion of the US undoing is a foreign threat from evil Russia; no domestic terrorism here, no siree...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 12:31:04 PM EST
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