Actually, my title doesn’t do this justice. He’s claiming that all the issues are related to each other – they’re not “isolated incidents.”

The guy is nuts, or the biggest con man out there nowadays. You have to wonder whether his apocalyptic meanderings are part of the reason Fox isn’t renewing his contract. Did Fox worry that some nutjob, convinced the world was going to end, might eventually do something crazy? Beck already has the inspiration of one violent nutjob, at least, under his belt, according to Media Matters.

Today Beck went off about the following eight stories, and claimed they’re all not “isolated incidents.”

1. Shooting of a son of a poet in Mexico.

2. A gathering of unions at the Peace Arch.

3. George Soros had a meeting about Breton Woods III.

4. Ivory Coast is having trouble.

5. Hamas is doing something (he didn’t explain what).

6. Something “important” happened in France that you need to know about (again, what?).

7. The crisis in Japan (post tsunami/earthquake/nuclear disaster).

8. Earthquake in NZ.

Here’s what he said after listing the above stories:

“This is a global time we live in. If you look at all of these stories just as one isolated incident, you will of course say ‘it’s nuts.’ What are you making such a big deal out of it. But if you learn to look at the world like this [points to crazy chalkboard with all the above incidents marked on it] what you will see coming is going to sweep the world here [points to Africa], then here [Europe], then here [North America]. And it’s gonna get faster and faster.”

Seriously messed up.