A great sense of alarm is spreading among ordinary Europeans today, especially in the south and east of the continent. Now even the elitist media are giving us the worst international news since the Cold War.

Americans do not want to hear this, either.

Well, you may not be interested in evil, but evil may be interested in you.

Listen up. This could be important.

The Washington Post just told us that a dictatorial strongman has risen to power in Hungary, a man named Viktor Orban. In a two-hour parliamentary session, Orban forced radical changes in the Hungarian constitution to favor his own party. Orban caught the European media and political elites by complete surprise.

In Germany, Der Spiegel is finally reporting on Beppe Grillo, calling him "the most dangerous man in Europe." Grillo is the failed Italian comedian who used the web to recruit 9 million voters in the recent election, barely one percent short of Mussolini's first vote in 1922, giving him a plurality in parliament.

This week, Grillo met with Italy's President Napolitano and demanded that his Five Star Party be given ministerial control of the police and the government-owned media (RAI), the levers of big power.

Nobody knows if Grillo will get what he wants. If he ever succeeds in running the Italian federal police and media, Italy will be in very deep trouble. Maybe he won't succeed today, but he is running for the next election coming in June. Yes, June of this year.

You can believe that Grillo aims for total power. He says so himself, and his brainwashed followers believe it.

Beppe Grillo sounds like a nutcase, but he is clever as a fox. It's possible that he says crazy things on purpose to get under the media radar. What a crazy comedian this guy Grillo must be! Everybody laughs at him - except his 9 million Italian voters.

Grillo and his followers says that AIDS comes from vaccines for children, or maybe vaccines will make you homosexual. They have it both ways. Jet contrails in the sky are spreading hallucinogens to the people of Italy. Cancer chemotherapy is made by Big Pharma to kill you.

Obviously crazy stuff.

As a result, every serious political observer in the world dismissed Grillo the Clown before he won a plurality in Italy. Now he is telling the world he is going for 100% of the vote. It sounds crazy, but paranoid personalities like this often function very well in the real world. Their crazy beliefs are isolated "islands of ideas" and exist right along with normal thinking in the rest of their brains. That is why they can get by without being spotted.

About 0.5-2.0 percent of the general population suffers from paranoid symptoms. With that kind of baseline percentage, some of these people are inevitably drawn to politics, and remember, they can be crazy as a fox. It's in the standard manual for mental disorders. per

But - Beppe could also be running a very shrewd and sophisticated disinformation campaign, with the help of his sinister pal Roberto Casaleggio, who runs a big internet business. (See our previous columns).

We do not know the answer. We only report what we see. Either way, mad or not, Beppe Grillo is finally understood around the world to be a real danger.

Even the BBC is catching up with the news from Europe, with an exclusive report on a reported assault by Golden Dawn Party thugs on a member of the Athenian parliament named Dmitri Stratoulis. Golden Dawn in Greece has a nearly identical political program to the other crypto-parties. And finally, next-door in Albania, the elected government of Sali Berisha is being tarred and feathered by the Red and Black Party, run vendetta-style by one Kreshnik Spahiu. More than half of Albanians are Muslims, and they presumably listen to Al Jazeera for their daily news.

American conservatives are too concerned about the United States to add Europe to our list of worries. Unfortunately, the European crisis links directly with Obama and the radical left in this country.

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