Glen Beck at his best on right now! Absolutely, unbelievable.

[snappyturtle]

He has Russia and China entering into the fray of the ME and is up after ads now running to 'splain Mubarak. That ought to be good. :sarcasm:

[davidinalameda]

1. who knows what's going to happen

Russia and China getting involved isn't that far out there

[snappyturtle]

4. Beck has Russia moving westward into eastern Europe and China

over taking Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq...that direction...of course, he literally was painting with a broad brush. Do you think that can happen or is likely to happen?

[davidinalameda]

8. probably not

but only due to the fact that Russia hasn't acted like the old USSR and our troops are in Afghanistan and Iraq right now unless he means in the future

also, there are too many NATO countries in eastern Europe right now for Russia to move westward

as for China-they've been making friends with some African countries that have been shunned by the West for human rights violations against their own people

and of course, these countries all have minerals and whatnot that China needs for its economy

I could see China making a play for influence in a new Egyptian regime

[arbusto_baboso]

6. Russia may get involved but not militarily.

They learned the lesson of interventionism, I think, both from their own and America's mistakes.

Now, China may be too big for its britches and try some saber-rattling, methinks....

[old mark]

2. The former Soviet Union supported Egypt for some time, especially with

military hardware and "advisors"...sounds familiar, no?


mark

[underpants]

13. Yes Camp David sapped a revenue source away from an already failing economy

but these days Russia has ALL the money (at least in Europe). Oiligarchies aren't my preferred way to doing it but they are managing their resources way better than we have since the Wall fell. Way better.

[old mark]

23. With all the money we have wasted in the "war on Terror" I wonder if we

will be the next big power to collapse under our own weight, in the footsteps of the Soviets...Russia seems so much better for having got rid of that bullshit...I often wonder what would be next for us if that happened.

mark

[trumad]

3. God Bless you for being able to watch that crap...

I'd scratch my eyes out and jump out of a high rise...

[snappyturtle]

5. I have no choice. Taking care of my mother and she has faux news on 24/7!

Fortunately, I have a small tv in my bedroom. If my mother weren't 94 I'd scream but I'm her caretaker now so I try to keep her happy.

[Adsos Letter]

7. An exemplary daughter!

Perspective is everything. :yourock:

[CanSocDem]

10. According to recent studies....

...your lack of intervention could be construed as 'elder abuse'.

[snappyturtle]

20. I have tried to intervene and still do at times but it does no good.

She thinks I'm crazy! Last night my brother offered me the best advice I've heard: You can't fix old! He's right.

[earthside]

9. A friend just called me ..

... and told me that I just had to switch over to Beck!

Apparently he is predicting the end of the world as per 'Revelations' in the Christian bible.

And I was just worried about the bad weather up to now.

[Adsos Letter]

12. Sounds like he's working off an modified Hal Lindsey template

stemming from the books of Revelation, Daniel, and Ezekiel. I can't believe Lindsey can still influence people.

[gratuitous]

15. They can just taste Armageddon, can't they?

And I'm sure they're all confident that they will be spared any inconvenience, because some hare-brained nincompoop told them so. Oh well, my experience with these folks is that outré beliefs are a lot easier than actually rolling up one's sleeves and pitching in to to do the serious work.

[Renew Deal]

16. But Beck isn't a Christian

:shrug:

[Adsos Letter]

18. The Mormons (along with the Book of Mormon) have their own translation

of the Christian scriptures. Not sure how the books of Revelation, Daniel, or Ezekiel figure into that, though.
It sounds like he's using a modification of Hal Lindsey's eschatology from "Late, Great, Planet Earth," an eschatology popular with many fundamentalists of the dispensationalist variety over the last 30 years.

[The Magistrate]

11. Necessary For Armageddon, Ma'am....

Lord save us if Mr. el'Baradi makes a proposal of peace to Israel....

"Jesus is coming. Look busy!"

[Adsos Letter]

14. I think it's a modified Hal Lindsey scenario, but I'd have to check my

apocalyptic studies stuff to be certain. Has the feel of a dispensationalist eschatology, though.

[Renew Deal]

17. Magistrate is correct

A lot of rapturists (RW fundies) want to keep the ME unstable because it keeps their rapture meters high. Many of them were pissed at Bush for trying to calm down the last fight between Israel and Lebanon. They thought Bush was preventing the inevitable.

[Adsos Letter]

19. Never said he wasn't; this scenario was popularized back in the 1970's

by Hal Lindsey and his fellow travelers, although Beck seems to be modifying it some.

[Renew Deal]

22. Right

It doesn't mean that either of you are wrong. End timers petty much go back to "the beginning." O8)

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Karnack the magnificient predicts that the solution is to buy gold. n/t