50 States and Their Mottos by Emily Wick

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on January 9, 2009 at 1:48 am


The Fifty United States and their Mottos (2008) by Emily Wick

Artist Emily Wick created this fabulous map of the United States out of linoleum block prints, with official state mottos carved into each of the 50 States. My favorites are New Mexico’s "It grows at it goes" motto and Maryland’s "Manly deeds, womanly words" motto.

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The Coming Collapse of the United States

Posted by Alex in Money & Finance, Pictures, Politics on December 29, 2008 at 2:20 pm

You and I may be facing an economic collapse, but one Russian professor is having the time of his life. For over a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin had been predicing the US to fall apart and most people ignored him … until now. He’s been the darling of Russia’s news media with his dire prediction of the future of the United States:

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control. [...]

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.

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