Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst, is seriously predicting that the United States will break into six parts in June or July of 2010.

Panarin's disintegration prediction even includes a map of the new world order. In it, Alaska goes to Russia. Hawaii goes to Japan or China. "The California Republic" — the West from Utah and Arizona to the Pacific — goes to China. "The Texas Republic" — the South from New Mexico to Florida — goes to Mexico. "Atlantic America" — the Northeast from Tennessee and South Carolina up to Maine — joins the European Union. And "The Central North-American Republic" — the Plains from Ohio to Montana — goes to Canada.

This seems pretty bizarre, but just to play it safe, I will not be moving to the "California Republic" any time soon as I am very sensitive to monosodium glutamate and melamine in my diet...