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[Tyler Durden]

I am frequently called "stormcrow," "pessimist," "calamity howler" and a host of other durogatory names denoting my total lack of "Little Sammy Sunshine" attitudes and predictions.

All it takes to be this way is to minor in History. "Wars and rumors of wars" are a constant throughout our history as a "civilized" species, but that doesn't mean that the warning signs do not precede the coming disasters.

Will the "world" end if Bush retains power? Of course not, but in true "history repeats itself" fashion, Neo-Romanovs will breed Neo-Bolshevics, and revolutions will recur.

This is how my nightmare (which, by the way, I believe is very possible) unfolds:


"Tyler's Gawdawful Nightmare"

July 4th, 2006

From the World Services of the BBC on short-wave, we bring you our correspondent with the CBC in Windsor, Ontario, at the Canadian Border with the United States on the Detroit River.

Good Morning. On this, the 230th anniversary of the United States' Declaration of Independence, we can see the gutted and smoldering buildings of downtown Detroit.

Unlike the World Trade Center, foreign enemies have not crashed an aircraft into the five towers of the General Motors Center; the residents of Detroit have burned it themselves. It stands, gutted, and still smoldering after close to a week; one almost wishes it had collapsed like its sisters in New York: the sight is much more horrifying than the pile of rubble left after September 11th, 2001.

We are here today to witness the demolition of the Ambassador Bridge. Once a lovely suspension structure joining two nations in friendship, it is now a mortally wounded casualty of what the rest of the world is calling the Second American Civil War. In less than one hour, charges on the Canadian side of the bridge will sever the cables and drop what little is left of the roadbed into the Detroit River so that river traffic can pass without hazard.

What has brought this truly global tragedy to pass?

After the massive charges of fraud, the bitterly contested results of the 2004 presidential election were decided, in a strange almost déjà vu, by the 5 to 4 decision of the US Supreme Court for the incumbent, George W. Bush.

Almost immediately following the untimely suicide in the first week of January 2005 of Ruth Bader Ginsburg following diagnosis of a massive and terminal relapse of her cancer came the unprecedented simultaneous resignation of Chief Justice Rhenquist and Justice O' Connor. Their Immediate replacement by President Bush while the Congress was in its Inaugural Recess with the appointment of Judge Charles Pickering as Chief Justice seems to have triggered both the far Right and the far Left to start the ensuing conflict. Literally millions have died of violence, disease and starvation since that strange coincidental date, March 15, 2005, the Ides of March. The Revolution of 2005 had started.

After killings by local police forces and state National Guard acting in protection of city centers and food supplies, the well-armed Militant Militias attacked, joined by renegade Reservists, National Guard members and finally the well-armed general populace. With the mutiny of the American 6th fleet, now docked in various Australian and Far Eastern ports, the general disintegration of the Army was inevitable. The Marine Corps has held its own bases, awaiting the return of Federal Government to stability, and the Air Force has moved its resources to NATO in Europe. The 48 continental United States has descended into Chaos; only Alaska and Hawaii remain relatively unscathed. Other remnants of the Navy have occupied their coasts and maintain a tenuous order.

The Congress of the United States has been dissolved. The President has not been heard from in 6 weeks; rumors of his suicide abound. The entire world thanks God every day that the American Nuclear forces decided on their own to stand down and disable their weapons. The converse is much too horrifying to imagine.

Now the scattered places of calm; Denver, Salt Lake City, Nashville, and a score of other battered but mostly intact centers of population are no longer enough to keep the peace. Only last week, the city run radio station in St. Louis vanished from the airwaves, and amateur radio is now the only source on information from the entire Missouri/Kansas region. It is only a matter of time until the voices of these other cities shall fall silent.

Canada has accepted millions of refugees, numbers that have reached the staggering number of 7 million, over 30% of the original population of the country. The Prime Minister and the Governor General, acting on threat of a no confidence vote in Parliament, have this week finally closed the border. Refugees will not be returned if they arrive in Canada, but they will no longer be offered assistance to reach the border. Humanitarian efforts by the brave and generous Canadians toward their neighbors has been stretched to the limits, and paramilitary incursions by armed militias into Alberta have now made actions like this one in Windsor inevitable. This only leaves Mexico as a land route for refugees from the death throes of the United States government.

It now approaches noon, the time the charges at the Ambassador Bridge will detonated; let us observe silence for a moment to mourn the end of an era.

You have been listening to the World Service of the BBC, on short wave from London.




I have this nightmare on a regular basis now, with some variations.