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A chain of U.S. survival communities plan to activate and open to members for the first time over fears of violence following the presidential election on Nov. 3. Fortitude Ranch camps in West Virginia and Colorado will open on election day to protect members, the company’s October newsletter said. Regardless of whether Republican President Donald Trump or Democratic challenger Joe Biden wins the election, Fortitude Ranch expects possible “looting and violence” that could devolve into long-term, widespread clashes, the newsletter said. Fortitude Ranch CEO Drew Miller said some on social media feared civil war, and he did not rule out...

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Oct. 4 -- Midnight. The display of fireworks to-night was viewed by thousands of spectators, who waited patiently for several hours in the penetrating rain before the exhibition could take place. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the third, fourth, and fifth pieces were failures; but the seventh -- a combination of American and English symbols and mottoes, all interwoven with a masterly hand, and forming a work of unsurpassed beauty -- was highly successful. In the centre of the piece were the figures of Columbia and Britannia, while adjoining the...

It is announced with a flourish of trumpets that Fusion has at last been effected, that an electoral ticket has been nominated for which the Breckinridge and the Douglas Democrats and the Bell and Everett men of this State are expected to vote. The utmost which this arrangement can effect is the defeat of LINCOLN. No one of its friends expects anything more from it. Nobody anticipates for a moment that either of the other candidates can possibly be elected by the people. The Fusionists will have accomplished all they hope for if they can defeat a choice by the...

Round us a shield and bright as molten silver the moon uprose last evening about 7 o'clock, touching the cupola of the City Hall with right and throwing out into delicate relief the foliage and branches of the Park trees, as your Reporter hastened from the TIMES Office to Broadway, on his way to view the Wide-Awakes. Even at that early hour, the Park itself and all the sidewalks were densely crowded, the stages and carriages having to slowly crawl up the centre of the street through dense fringes of excited and expectant humanity. Windows and stoops were packed with...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHICAGO, Tuesday, Oct. 2. The Seward demonstration here to-day and evening exceeds anything of the kind ever seen this side of New-York in the number of people, the display of Wide-Awakes, illuminations and fireworks. His speech was one of his boldest utterances of Republican principles, elaborate and argumentative. He speaks in Cleveland on Thursday. E. Dispatch to the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Tuesday, Oct. 2. The weather to-day has been very fine. All the early trains this morning came loaded with deputations from the country towns to attend the Republican demonstration here to-day. Other trains...

Many of the Wide-Awake Clubs of this City held meetings last evening at their various head-quarters, for the purpose of completing their arrangements for the grand demonstration of to-morrow night. As the time for the parade approaches, the anticipations of the Republicans in regard to it are increased, and the anxiety to take part in it seems to spread. Last night 35 new members were enrolled in the Seventeenth Ward Club alone, and it was resolved that 50 more uniforms should be ordered immediately. The various Clubs throughout the City, we are informed, receive accessions nightly. The Republicans of the...

The grand national demonstration of all the "Wide-Awakes," or delegations from all, to take place in this City next Wednesday night, bids fair to be quite as brilliant a spectacle as its warmest friends have predicted. Positive assurances have been received by the Committee that has charge of the affair that the largest number that has been named will participate in the parade; and making every allowance for the possible detention of some, it is estimated that full 30,000 men will be in the ranks on the occasion of the display. There has been considerable difficulty in procuring enough uniforms...

"Unhinged," "thuggish," "racist," "undisciplined" and "appalling" are among the many derogatory adjectives that have been used to describe President Donald Trump's performance during his debate with former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, September 29. But such adjectives were being used to describe Trump long before the debate, and one author who has not been shy about stressing that he considers Trump to be the most dangerous president of his lifetime is Noam Chomsky — who, in an interview with Smashing Interviews Magazine published this week, laid out a variety of reasons why he is so troubled by Trump's presidency....

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In the TIMES of yesterday morning we published exclusively a full telegraphic synopsis of the speech of Hon. HENRY WINTER DAVIS, of Maryland, made at Baltimore on Thursday night. We now give a verbatim report. The speech was delivered at a meeting of the old American Party, which was very numerously attended. It was heard with profound interest and attention, and was greeted throughout with the most cordial applause. The following is the speech: From our Special Reporter. FELLOW-CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE: I regret that absence on public duty has prevented my being with you to celebrate the first note of...

Horowitz: We’re in a war. My book Blitz shows we’re already in a civil war. What the Democrats did in 2016 is what you call treason. They seceded from the Union for the second time, the first being with the election of Abraham Lincoln, which led to the shooting war. The reason we don’t have two armies in the field is that the federal government is too powerful so there’s nobody outside the government who can organize a military force that wouldn’t be crushed immediately. So the civil war is over who controls the executive. ... Five days after the...

The Southern Disunionists are exercising a good deal of prudence in their plans and projects for carrying their schemes into execution. They evince very little of that headlong zeal which has sometimes characterized them. They are not disposed to rush to arms instantly and wage a war of extermination upon the North as they have at times threatened to do hitherto -- but are suggesting various modes of accomplishing their object, with a view of selecting the one which shall involve least risk. Part are opposed to any one State seceding alone. Some want one State to take the lead,...

America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare in the United States. Another example of how things might play out in the United States is the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Civil War is known to historians, amateur and professional alike, as the “dress rehearsal for the Second World War.” It is so termed because it pitted one side – which was equipped, armed and funded by...

“The Perihelion” is a book by D.M. Wozniak. “The Perihelion Complete Duology”. It presents a United States several decades after the Second American Civil War. The United States is divided between the blue core cities and the "redlands", each with their own laws and culture. But the legacy of genetic engineering and systemic oppression mean tensions are slowly simmering in the blue cities themselves ...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. BALTIMORE, Wednesday, Sept. 26. Hon. WM. L. YANCEY, who is stumping in support of the Breckinridge ticket, spoke yesterday at Easton to a large and enthusiastic audience. Mr. YANCEY said he would have to ask their indulgence, on account of his broken voice and jaded condition -- the former having been injured by his constant efforts in behalf of BRECKINRIDGE. He however asked their attention while he endeavored to reason with them, as one frank and honest man should with another. Appealing to no prejudices or passions, but rather to their higher and better...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. ALBANY, Tuesday, Sept. 25 -- 10 P.M. BRECKINRIDGE had an immense demonstration to-night in front of Congress Hall. Mr. BRADY'S speech is regarded as a death blow to fusion. He denounced DOUGLAS and his doctrines, and gave it as his opinion that he would not carry a single State. He characterized CAGGER and RICHMOND as tricksters. The meeting was a great success. H. Dispatch to the Associated Press. ALBANY, Tuesday, Sept. 25. Hon. JAMES T. BRADY, of New-York, is in this city, on professional business. To-night his party-friends serenaded him at, Congress Hall He...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHICAGO, Monday, Sept. 24. The Prince had an agreeably busy visit here. Long JOHN WENTWORTH had notified everybody as to his movement, and consequently everybody saw him ride to visit the grain-elevator, the water-works and the Court-house. The Prince displayed himself on the balcony of his hotel at 1 1/2 o'clock on Saturday. The crowd which assembled to greet him was a motley one -- the rich in carriages and gorgeous apparel, and the poor on foot, clad in homespun. The Prince bowed from the centre and the two ends of the balcony, and...

This is downtown Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY - right in front of City Hall. One would think the busiest intersection in in the city (google it to see how many streets meet there) should caution a 'protestor' to avoid standing on the road. Of course, said protestors have probably not been informed about the patience Americans are losing over all this. And thus, behold: the next episode of the 2nd Civil War...

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, Sept. 1, 1860. The last Pony Express brought the rumor, and the denial of it, that BRECKINRIDGE had withdrawn. It scarcely produced a ripple in political circles, for nobody believed the rumor true. Senator GWIN has spoken. At Stockton, on the 29th, the venerable "Daily Mail Killer," gave account of his stewardship. His reception was without enthusiasm. The town was full of strangers, and a Breckinridge ratification meeting being called, some 350 or 400 persons turned out to hear GWIN's apology. He let general politics slide, and came early down to the catalogue of his own misdeeds....