This one incorporates everything: international spies, neo-Nazis, corrupt Russian generals, shooting-bombing-garrotting-crashing-exploding-crushing-crippling disasters, with both biological and nuclear attacks.
The result has been the destruction of yet another Arab army, the creation of a crippling humanitarian disaster, the deepening of sectarian schisms and the evisceration of another Arab country.The ultimate target of this plot, so the conspiracy theorists explain, is Egypt itself, the Arabs' most populous, strategic and culturally influential Arab state.
And while the government's four major computer data centers are supposed to back up one another in the event of a crippling natural disaster or a terrorist attack, there is just one problem: All of the centers were built within a few miles of one another.
Namely, the most significant and crippling economic disaster in almost a century.
One reason the rains have become such an issue is that Brazil rarely suffers from crippling natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes or tornadoes.
This episode in psychiatry is now widely acknowledged to have been a medical and moral disaster; crippling psychoses were routinely blamed on insufficiently nurturing and "schizophrenogenic" mothers.
Will it be a world facing mass warfare, climate catastrophe, crippling inequality and other social disasters?
Time and again, he has proven adept at brokering last-minute accords that avert disaster, whether potentially crippling strikes or cancellation of much-needed infrastructure projects.
The gap between the initial assurances given by company and government officials, and the ultimate scale of the nuclear disaster, has helped fuel a crippling public mistrust of government.
It was supposed to be the ratings disaster of the year: a crippling commitment to hours of primetime football but with no home nation teams qualifying for the Euro 2008 football championship.
