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Monday, December 14th, 2009

Igor Panarin.

The last you heard from Igor Panarin — maybe? — was a year ago, when a long held prediction of America’s disintegration came into mainstream news clippages.  (A better way to put that: the last time I thought about Igor Panarin.)   Like giving credence to David Icke for correctly having forecast the color of the universe, the dire economic situation was thrusting Panarin into the limelight for having even more dire economic debacles coming down the pike.

Well, the story of America’s disintegration continues at a break-neck pace.  Once we have the story set, it’s hard to deviate from it.

Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.

According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks “numerous” meetings with his war council about how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nations banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a “last ditch gambit” whose success is “far from certain”. […]

To the fears of Obama over the United States erupting into civil war once the full extent of the rape and pillaging of these peoples by their banks and government becomes known to them, grim evidence now shows the likelihood of this occurring much sooner than later, especially in new poll figures showing that Obama’s approval rating among white Americans has now fallen to 39%. A number made more significant when one realizes that the white population of the United States comprises 74% of their estimated 398 million citizens, or put more ominously in these reports as “over 220 million American people armed to the teeth and ready to explode”.
And so fearful has the white population of the United States become that upon the election of Obama to the Presidency he was named as the “Gun Salesman of the Year” by the Outdoor Wire, the US’s largest daily electronic news service for the outdoor industry, who report “panic buying” of weapons and ammunition by those fearful of the destruction of their country at the hands of man they believe is not even an American citizen and had been foisted upon them by their elite classes seeking to enslave them.
Though the coming civil war in the United States is being virtually ignored by their propaganda media, the same cannot be said of Russia, where leading Russian political analyst, Professor Igor Panarin has long warned that the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the US is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.

He predicted it for 2010, and it’s coming in 2010, goddamnnedit!

What remains to be seen, and these reports do not speculate upon, is if the citizen-soldiers of the United States will fire upon and kill their fellow countrymen during the coming conflict, but if history is to be our guide clearly shows this will be the case as the once great American Nation continues its headlong plunge into the abyss of history. May God have mercy upon all of them.

It’s worth putting Igor Panarin into context.

Russian elites tend to think about the United States today through direct analogies with the Soviet experience of the late 1980s. Many in Russia are ready to read America’s difficulties in Afghanistan as a repetition of the failure of Soviet occupation of that country and to judge the political consequences of the decline of Wall Street as similar to the effect the fall of the Berlin Wall had on Soviet global influence.

Indeed, here’s Mikhail Gorbachev from last year.  Igor Panarin is on the expanded outer edge of this popular opinion.  “Russia Today” is pulling in guests validating various items — liberal radio host Thom Hartmann has become a weeklly guest to lay out pessimistic opinions on Afghanistan (and suggest American popular discontent).  I see that conspiratorial radio host Alex Jones has made a few appearances on the show, and I don’t know if this is being transmuted to widespread American popular opinion.  But this makes for Igor Panarin to be pulled into this whirlwind:

Today, no fewer than 60,000 Web sites serve up predictions of Igor Panarin, a respected Russian academic, who says of the United States: “There’s a 55 to 45 percent chance right now that disintegration will occur.”

And into the comments section.:

Even a mentatlity of idiot could see Obama is an enemy of God and of Christians and Americans…
He will not and cannot win…It is written..whether you believe it or not..He will not win…
Jesus said, I beheld satan as lighting (means Barack) FALL from heaven…Isn’t it strange that one of the fallen angels was named BARACKiel…
AND STRANGER STILL. GOD SAID HE SENDS EVIL ANGELS AMONG PEOPLE FOR JUDGEMENT..

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These Russian sources don’t have a good track record for accuracy. Also, a hungry man will do anything for food. Including killing former friends. Food is much more powerful than bullets. And he who controls food controls the people. Want to stay independent? Grow your own food. Otherwise you will do what your told. You will join the soup lines. You will obey. If the military controls the food centers with tank and helicopter support, do you think a rifle will gain you anything? No. Hunting? You and every other person. That will dry up quick. Move up into the hills away from the cities, build a greenhouse and help those around you to do the same. Feed yourself, your family, and those who escape the cities. Cities are easy to cordon off. Get out now while you still can. Civil war may or may not happen this next year. But get ready to help people. Food is the best way.

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I’ve enjoyed reading these comments. I’ve actually heard libs talk about kicking rednecks asses. I didn’t see it here, but I’ve seen it plenty of times in other comment sections. Some of the pukes that have commented here clearly have their heads stuck where the sun don’t shine. The problem with libs is that most of these pukes have never run up on a real redneck. We are trained from a very young age to shoot the eyes out of squirrels. I shot my first squrral at about six years of age. I got pictures of me as a baby holding a rifle. I got my first very own 22 at age 7. The old man used to talk about the guberment coming for our guns back in the 60’s. He hated gun grabbers just like me and my own kids do.

Most libs hate guns. What are they going to do, hit us gun lovers with their purses. A lib starting a fight with a redneck is just plain funny. Every redneck I know would stomp a mud hole in half a dozen libs then go grab a beer. Drink a beer and go stomp a mud hole in a dozen more and do it all night long. Ever been to a redneck family reunion ? I been in more than one fist fight at mine, it’s a tradition.

Now, I know Texans is proud about all their guns and I ain’t bad mouth’n you all none, but I know people all over America and they all is armed to the teeth. I don’t associate with no flithy gun grabbers. So I don’t know none. But I know a whole bunch of freedom loving, gun loving people that are fed up with this shit.

So believe what you want to believe, would it surprise me if Obammy would try to use American troops on our soil, nope. He like his stupid commie kind just don’t understand us Bible and Gun clinging, freedom loving Americans. When the shit hits the fan, we do what we got to do. The American spirt is still alive and well, man child Obammy has no idea what he would unlease if he crosses the line.

A lib threatening to kick a rednecks ass, just cracks my old redneck ass up. Where do these stupid morons come from.

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  • mommom says:

    Really,come on,you know you are a Lib in disguise trying to make people think rednecks are stupid angry people.You have done a great job!! It must take a lot of effort to make yourself look like caricature in print!! You have made yourself look stupid,inbred,violent,uneducated,and mean.The very picture of what the left believes about the right!!Kudo’s!!

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National Media Declares Portland Chopped Liver

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

It’s official.   All the media reports are declaring that the city of Houston, Texas has elected the first openly gay mayor of a major United States city.

What? Does being the “largest market with only one major league sports franchise?” not quite cut it?  Portland is a Top 25 Market.  When Sam Adams was elected, he was declared by the news media as being “the first openly gay mayor of a major American city.”  Have we restricted the defintion further just to make new news copy?  If New York City or Los Angeles elect someone, will it be defined narrower still such that Houston will not be major enough any more?

On the other hand, the gay and lesbian (LGBT or GLBT) community may just as well desire a quick fresh start in the trailblazing ways of “firsts”.  Better to put Annise Parker there than have to bring up Sam Adams, right?

Fascism to proceed full throated now that Alex Constantine has thrown in the towel for a year

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Well, it’s over.  All this time the nation has been infiltrated and encroached and controlled by a massive Fascist Movement — weaving into the fabrif of this nation and this world from all directions.  But so long as we’ve had a single effecitve bullwark — one Alex Constantine — posting various news article to his blog — we have had a single sliver of hope that a small mite might be compounded into a giant log that will jam up the Great Cylindar of Fascism.

So it is that Alex Constantine has thrown in the towel for a year, and will cease to fight Fascism.  This means, of course, that Fascism now has a full year to advance, unmolested by Constantine’s impediments.  This last week, he posted:

On January 1, I will go offline for a year to protest citizen stupidity in the face of obvious fascist usurpation of power over the United States.

Anyone of objective mind and cursory knowledge of real history who bothers to look at the facts at all closely has to face the repulsive truths that I live with every day. But somehow I remain in my own niche, and 99.999 percent of the writers in this country have something better to do than live up to their civic responsibilities.

So it is over.  99.999 percent of the writers in this country are not writing what he’s writing.  Fascism has seized the day.

the fascists have little opposition – and time and again the proles take the next step in fascist imposition grinning like brain-damaged Presbytarians, joyously repeating the latest programmed, self-aggrandizing lies. Reality is driven underground.

It’s all over.  The only possible hope comes in the fact that this message was deleted, and is no longer on his blog, suggesting that maybe the Anti-Fascist Crusader will continue to stave off Fascism.  Because if he doesn’t… it’s all over.  Because no body is posting stories from his vantage point… no body… no body.

The Nobel War Prize

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I keep hearing this idea, prevalent in the coverage of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony — that Obama is a president during “a time of war”.  I don’t understand that phrase.  Who, really, was the last president during “peace time”, reasonably and properly defined.  The best I can think of in a relative sense is Gerald Ford, a matter of a historical patch between Vietnam and Carter’s re-vamping of the Cold War.

In listening to his speech, it becomes clear just how ridiculous Obama’s Award has become.  It was, by design, a speech promoting American military policies.  “Peace Through Strength” if you have to hold it.  But I’m left with that basic thought that Obama was right when he listed or alluded to the vast number of people more deserving of The Nobel Peace Prize than himself, and previous Greats from the past.  The Nobel Peace Prize is wasted on politicians, particularly political leaders of “Empires”.  And hearing the plaudits from the Gingrich – Palin axis, and how this story is framed in the media, it is enough to suspect some conspiratorial trappings ala this thingy.

To pull the quote that popped out of me while reading and watching this thing, fifth paragraph in his speech.

Some will kill, and some will be killed.”

That is so very Gandhi – like.

Health Care Reform redux

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

This quick final twist in the odd circuitous path of Health Care Reform Politics has the Conservative Democrats extracting the painful concession from the Liberal Democrats of dumping a badly beaten into submission “Public Option” in favor of expanding the government’s Single Payer System, Medicare, down ten years.  Do I got that one right?

There is a whip lash with this one.  Where did that one come from?  I guess it’s the generally beneficial product which stokes the Insurance Industry, and thus comes out acceptable to all sides on the Democratic Aisle — taking the next group of Health hang ups out of the Insurance Industry’s coverage pool.  Though, it does seem to suggest a few possibilities of — should I call it social engineering?  Consider that a company will have one less bottom line reason to cut from their more tenured (and thus highly salaried) employees when looking to “downsize”.  And consider that this probably would lead to an upsurge of some kind in terms of 50 plus year old entrepeneurs (in their next or final career) — “Unleash the full Entrepenual Spirit” as the Supply Siders always put it in defense of tax cuts.

Looking at this for curious signs of our society — it is interesting to note another item in the Health Care Policy — we see a bending down from age 65 to 55 on that end of the scale, and on the other an offer for an extension of keeping a young lad or lass on their parents’ Health Policy up to the age of… 27, I think?  A curious quilting toward “Cradle to Grave” (of a peculiar sort) — the other 28 years in this equation have to fall into place.  (Mandatory Requirements for them to the Insurance companies!) A brisker division of stages, reminds me of the old Seinfeld monolouge about a movie theater ticket-seller being 15 and the usher being in their 70s, probing the contemplation that you start off there, go to your career’s work, and end up 20 feet over  — the 27 one probably irks Newt Gingrich as running the opposite direction in his long held desire to destroy Adolescence — the new 55 age range — well, that’s something on the order of realizing the age tilt for the upcoming mid term elections.

So we see how the Congressional Process works circa 2009.  In a highly partisan era.  The most partisan era in terms of pure Democratic versus Republican since the Woodrow Wilson era.  With that, it may behoove everyone to look back to see how the legislature ran during the Wilson Era.  Wilson held this strong hankering for various European Parliamentary systems, and the House took up after that.  The Democratic Congress members were bound by a rule that once 2/3 of the Caucus under Speaker Champ Clark agreed to something (or was it 3/4?), they would have to vote party line for the agreed to bill.  This was a surefire road to brisk legislative accomplishments, as well a short lived Democratic Party Era.  I can’t say this item of whipdom is anything anyone would want — but the partisan divisions have been reshuffled in the interim anyways.

Touching Base with various entities

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

#1:   The last time we saw “LaRoucheisright”, he had pretty clearly gotten huge dashes of the “Brainwashing” meme.  We see him still about here, partaking in a pretty odd branch of literary criticism.

December 8th, 2009 at 4:50 am If anybody wants to know how to solve this crisis LaRouche has the plan. You know classical tradgedy has no tragic individuals, the tradgedy is always the culture. Many times in history the man for the job was there but people wouldn’t let him solve the problem. I warn you all now that we don’t have forever. If you want to hideout in the mountians that is great, but what of all those who will die. We can still stop this collapse with LaRouche’s program.

Which is interesting, because continue forward and we’ll find someone trying to sell the idea that someone else has the plan.

mysticphoebos  December 8th, 2009 at 5:53 am The Private Fed Reserve and RBA are playing games with you people they must be abolished, look up Alex Jones, a good place to start.

Or is mysticphoebos  the match, Alex Jones the Fuse, and Lyndon Larouche the Bomb?

AND standard goldbug seller…  labartic December 8th, 2009 at 6:56 am A sure bet is to just invest in some precious metals (monex) and have them shipped to your home. Because if the economy crashes, you will at least have tangible wealth, which will have skyrocketed in value.

#2:  The last time we heard from “Carol, Mouse Warrior of GOD”… well, I actually had never encountered “Mouse Warrior of GOD” outside of her name being floated about at factnet’s forum.  Or I had but forgot about her?  (I doubt it… how could I possibly forget a “Mouse Warrior of God”?)  BUT, you can find her work at this sort of militia-ish Christian Right Forum, “Resistnet”, where she sells Larouche here, and gets some buyers.

carol , mouse warrior of GOD on November 27, 2009 at 10:32pm AMEN… HE WAS IN JAIL IN THE 80’S FOR SPEAKING AGAINST THE PLAN !!

Funny.  I thought he was in jail for defrauding the Elderly.
Odd lady, that “Mouse Warrior of GOD”.  Found Jesus… and Larouche?  Such that she prays against Obama (what ever will she do if the cult switches to support?)   I will have to follow the posting career of “Mouse Warrior”, and see where she takes us.  She promises to be the most interesting Larouche promoter since the Leader of the Larouche Cryonics Movement.

I will note … You can buy Glenn Beck’s new book (he puts out a new one every eight months or so) or Sarah Palin’s new book from this here website.

#3:  The last time we heard some vague innuendo about Larouche leading a Republican Party or Conservative Movement was… um… just a sentence back when I brought up Glenn Beck’s and Sarah Palin’s name as two advertisers on a website where some bizarre Christian Right Larouchie feels she can sell her hero?

Apparently this website considers itself acting in the legacy of Robert F Kennedy?

For me the most fascinating aspect of the tea party phenomenon that we have witnessed in 2009 is the degree to which it shows that Lyndon LaRouche has taken over the modern Republican Party.

I have to groan.  This is an intellectually dishonest insult and piece of partisan invective.  Perhaps we need to coin something akin to Godwin’s Law that covers use of Larouche in discourse.  My only  problem in formulating a phrase for such a thing is, I do think that allusions to Larouche are useful in relation to off-message Dooms Day Conspiracy Theory, more so than your Hitlers, even as I want to reign it in when it’s misused — such as with that last link.

Anyway…

Ha! Yeah the photo is pretty funny. Great font too. But what’s up with the orange vests and standing in the middle of traffic? With the LaRouche crowd, there’s always just a little extra dose of crazy in there.

#4:  The last time we heard from the PUMA Movement… well, that depends.  I don’t think I saved the link to an item I saw a while back of a full disclaimer against the Larouche org, by way of referencing some nasty things the man has said in the past (before he was a full throttled supporter of the Hillary Clinton candidacy) against Hillary Clinton.  I did regularly last summer link to odd PUMA  proponents selling the Larouche “FDR” video, and related items.

Now, I cannot claim to really understand “PUMA”, circa 2009 (or, for that matter, from the DNC Convention on).  To the degree that they exist, they have been all over the map, weaving about from anti-Obama conspircy theories popularized at Free Republic (who also reject Larouche) and by Webster Tarpley about the evils of George Soros, over to a left plank criticism of  Obama’s Afghanistan proposal.  Nonetheless

Deb55 12.04.09 at 12:00 pm Good morning All, glad to see blog back..

For anyone here looking into the climate change hoax..very good read from 2007, explaining how this was set up to market, …CHICAGO is the U.S. home (CCX)Chicago Climate Exchange.. of the stock exchange for “climate credits”.

“”The centerpiece of the U.S. emerging market for carbon
emissions trading, is the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), created in 2003″”

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3413carbon_swindle.html

It is not a pretty read..WE have been HAD..and yes.. it is ALL about Money..and we PAY!!!

Zee 12.04.09 at 12:50 pm

Deb, never mind “pretty” read, La Rouche is a nutcase and a predator of college kids into his cult and we don’t need to be reading *anything* by Larouche.

AND:  Deb55 12.04.09 at 1:50 pm
Zee..plead guilty on La Roude..granddaughter doing research..

Zee 12.04.09 at 8:45 pm    #28 Deb!!! All the more reason to inform and protect your granddaughter!

That is exactly whom they target and of course they do it in a smart fashion. The LaRouche method is to adopt the same talking points as whoever is outraged or disengaged that particular year, so he flipflops from bashing everyone from Cheney to Gore. He has no core, just adopts whatever attitude to pick off people from legit concerns!!!
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Item #5: I’m pondering this batch of taglines.

Description: … EXPOSING FASCISTS Work on field of Larouche Movement LPAC TV off the cuff jun help Alex jones fight george soros tepstolog aljosa durnik April 28.2009 int webcast green global worming swine flu epidemic tarp outbreak money nwo Lindon LaRouche obama world crises economic collapse davos conference Russia us remedy Europe answer bankruptcy United States New Dark Age British Empire war empire bailout wall street fascism recession webster tarpley alex david icke Preview Obama Nazi health

Item #6:  The last time we heard from Alan Osler… well, the most notable time we heard from Alan Osler he was making crude comments about a conference in Wiesbedan exploring the nature of the cult.  Well, he left a comment here.  A few things that jump out at me.

I think that a guy that has been a candidate for president 8 times deserves some respect.

Arguably this fits in with this item.

I am pleased though that you are using big words such as perenial, and that you have no noticable spelling mistakes.

Am I supposed to congratulate a Good catch on “Perennial”?  Never mind.

I don’t know how it works in German or British politics, but in America we tend to play by the “Harold Stassen Rule“.  After two or three runs, one loses credibility quickly.     Perhaps the only problem with this rule in relation to the topic at hand is that Stassen was taken seriously at one time — in 1948, he was the favorite to win the Republican nomination (and thus the presidency) before losing to Dewey.  In 1952, he served as a kingmaker for Eisenhower.  Heck!  Even as late as 1964 he served as a useful “Anybody but Goldwater” marker in the Indaiana primary.

Then there’s the two Socialist Candidates of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, who are generally thought of as principled enough candidates of conscience for their multitude runs.  They didn’t pick up all that many votes, but compared to Larouche practically won by landslides.  And Eugene Debs’s time in the slammer for his opposition to WWI looks more noble than Larouche’s time in the slammer for defrauding the Elderly.

Downticket, there are always plenty of amusing candidates running about.  Gordon Allen Pross will run for something in Washington State, as he has every even number year since 1998.  In Montana, Bob Kelleher just capped off his political career with a surprise Republican Senate primary victory — spurred, no doubt, because his name was the most vaguely familiar on the ballot (similar dynamics as the the 1986 Illinois chaos.)  For these candidates, it is a hobby — all it takes is maybe a few hundred dollars in some states, and maybe some signature gathering in other states to get on the ballot.  We will wait to see if L-PAC springs for this for their 2010 candidates — Rachel Brown in Massachusetts, somebody or other in Texas, and I gather a few more down the pike.

I like your criticism. I have read this article a thousand times before though.

Well, it’s good to know that I’m not the only certified non member regularly typing “Larouche” into search engines.  Sure, things can get repetitive — as everyone takes a quick gander and finds out that Lyndon Larouche is a “perenial”  candidate who has a felony conviction for defrauding the elderly.  Other repetitive items that keep coming up — a news story about how the Larouche cardtables are nuisances in front of this or that store or post office.  I swear I’ve read that story 11 times already.  Maybe they’re just cutting and pasting it from previous efforts?

The store claims it does not allow anyone on its property to display anything containing “fighting words, obscenities, grisly or gruesome displays, or highly inflammatory slogans likely to provoke disturbance.”
The market chain says it’s concerned that the activists will continue to offend and drive away loyal customers, as it has already received hundreds of complaints from customers who believe Stater endorses the LaRouche views.
The activists have refused to leave Stater’s property when asked and the police say they cannot remove them without a court order, according to the complaint.

Item #7: Some Random items.   Who is Dr. Deagle?  Dr. Deagle is a highly intelligent whistle-blower with info that you need to know about nutrition, extraterrestrails, New World Order, Moon Base, Mars colony, Deep Underground Military Bases, super soldiers, GMO, Illuminati 4th dimensional workings, even modified attack baboons. And he interviews Harley Schlanger.  He knows a thing or two about nutrition and modified attack baboons!

Item #8:   More of the same bullshit you learned in your mother’s basement reading Lyndon LaRouche pamphlets. No where in the Constitution is the Senate tasked with representing the States. In case you missed it, the Constitutional Amendment that

Item #9:  Is this a compliment? the very funniest Democrat agitator out there

Well, this isn’t.  (And by dent of having two items mention him — one more substantially the next link here, it is Larouche Day at Huffington Post.)

Item #10.  Questions posed.

Montreal.  I was handed a pamphlet and listened to some garble about Lyndon LaRouche being some sort of economic saviour. But it left me asking some questions, are they some sort of political movement? or cult-like entity?

You can always google and find out they are a political cult under the order of a perenial presidential candidate and convicted felon!  Then cut and paste it to your blog.  I won’t mind!

… greatest president

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

“Clinton was the best president we’ve ever had.  And all that fuss over a little bj.”

This was said by someone after a loose-knit connecting of a bunch of stories (Tora Bora, Bin Ladens flown out of US, etc) to say that Bush had a hand in 9/11.  Usually a 9/11 Truther has no use for Clinton, but I guess there is a small portion who have a partisan edge to the conspiratorialists — or maybe there’s a large number of a different type of conspiratorialists.

“No.  Not Clinton.  ROOSEVELT was our greatest president.”

I kept my lips tight, and kept myself from shouting out “ARTHUR!”

Obama Threat Level Assessment is… what again?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

We are getting conflicting reports with this news item.

“The threats (to Obama) right now and inappropriate interest that we are seeing is the same level as it has been for the previous two Presidents at this point,” the Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan said in response to a question at a Congressional hearing.

“They are not,” Sullivan said when Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton asked him if the threats to Obama were higher or not, during a hearing by House Committee on Homeland Security on the security breach in the White House last week.Norton termed “as very comforting news,” when Sullivan dismissed published reports that the level of death threat against Obama was four time higher than that of his predecessors.

“I have heard a number out there that the threat is up by 400 per cent. I’m not sure where that number (came from). It’s not [a] 400 per cent [increase],” Sullivan reiterated when Norton said that the Secret Service needed additional agents to protect the first African-American president.

Compare that with, published just today by this Cannuck publication, but it’s pulled from the New York Times, which published it a day or two ago.:

Kody Brittingham, a 20-year-old lance corporal, wrote that he had taken an oath to “protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.” In a signed “letter of intent,” tucked away in his barracks at Camp Lejeune, N.C., he identified a “domestic enemy” he planned to eliminate last winter: U.S. President Barack Obama.

The details of this threat, which were revealed at his arraignment hearing in North Carolina, have not previously been reported. Brittingham pleaded guilty in August and awaits sentencing on charges of threatening to kill the president and attempted armed robbery.

It is one of the cases in a spike of threats against Obama before his inauguration in January and in the early months of his presidency, raising deep fears inside the Secret Service and at the White House.

The threats have levelled off in recent months, officials said, and Obama now receives about the same as his two most recent predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. But several officials said they took no solace that the volume of reports had receded, because it was the nature of the threats that concern them and because the factors behind the increase remain – Obama’s race prime among them.

So.  Which is it?  Were the threats up 400 percent, and have since levelled back to Clinton – Bush levels, or was that number plucked from thin air and we’re proceeding at Clinton – Bush levels?  Or is this a preogative of the Secret Service, none of the public’s business, and we should really entertain ourselves with the antics of the oddly threatening suggestions that came with the Party Crasher story?