Does the news these days make you feel like
Winnie
the Pooh, stumbling toward the Apocalypse? You are not alone,
brother. Which is why tonight’s theme episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three and five hours later) dives right into the Fear,
interrogates it, embraces it, and fights back with some hard-won
rationality.
“Apocalypse How?” stares into the abyss with the following tour
guides:
* R. James
Woolsey, Jr., the 16th director of the Central Intelligence
Agency, former under-secretary of the Navy, 1980s nukes negotiator,
and all-purpose alarm-sounder. Woolsey will assess (yet
again!) the threat of ballistic nukes from rogue states, and
scare the crap out of you about the looming EMP threat (sample
mongering: “within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of
the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease
and societal breakdown”).
* K.T.
McFarland, former Reagan-administration deputy defense
secretary, who will talk about the nexus between failed states and
nuclear weapons (in other words, Pakistan).
* Dr. Manny
Alvarez, resident Fox News doctor guy, who will describe how
Ebola can and cannot wipe out populations, and whatever nasty
viruses we should be skeered of.
* Harvard economist and occasional Reason
contributor Jeffrey
A. Miron, who will assess the possibilities of a U.S. debt
crisis, and the pros and cons of hoarding various metals.
* Ridiculously
over-accomplished scientist and backyard tinkerer Travis Taylor,
star of Rocket City
Rednecks, who will describe the human race’s vulnerability
to asteroids, super-volcanoes, and alien invasions.
* Beloved New York Times science writer John Tierney, who will coo
soothingly and tell us to relax already about looming
civilizational collapse.
You’ll learn, you’ll laugh, you’ll get a thousand dollars worth
of ones and fives ready, just in case….
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