Posted on 01/21/2024 6:20:56 PM PST by Libloather
'Doomsday prepping' used to be seen as a hobby relegated to the paranoid fringe — but ordinary Americans spent a staggering $11 billion on survival items, just last year, from April 2022 to April 2023.
About a third of US citizens admit to prepping, surveys show, but few have the resources today's billionaire bunker-builders have to devote to their own shelters.
The world's wealthiest have increasingly spent hundreds of millions on securing underground compounds, private islands and (for the merely rich) 'survival condos.'
Late last year it emerged Mark Zuckerberg was building a $100 million hidden fortress buried beneath his Hawaiian island ranch, complete with its own energy and food supplies and blast-resistant doors.
Billionaire wellness entrepreneur Frank VanderSloot — Idaho's richest man — recently bought a 2,000-acre ranch south of Zuck's compound for a cool $51 million.
And OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman once let slip that he and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel have an 'arrangement' in case the world is ending: If things hit the fan, Altman said in 2016, the pair would lay low at one of Thiel's properties in New Zealand.
But where, exactly, are they going to stay? In 2022, a local community council on New Zealand's South Island blocked Thiel's plans to carve his majestic fortified lair into the landscape beside historically protected Lake Wanaka.
Independent commissioners who visited the proposed site on behalf of the council reported back that Thiel's bunker design would 'substantially detract from the quality and naturalness of the outstanding natural landscape.'
'All members were shocked at the frequency at which substantial parts of the proposal would be in plain and direct view,' they wrote of Thiel's proposal, which would have been nestled close to New Zealand's no less historic Mount Alpha.
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Find them when out.
They can’t keep out the devils in those shelters.
The Revelation describes an earthquake that will make the islands disappear.
How fitting that the wealth of nations is stored in the Bahamas, big ol’ sandbars. Be a shame if the earth wiggled and all that sinking sand went glub.
I wouldn’t want to live in a world that requires a bunker. Let them have it.
Bible prophesy says something about people escaping to caves during the Great Tribulation, wanting to die.
And didn’t I read the Fauci/China labs have now come up with a more lethal variation of Covid?
Guarantee every one of these elitist snots vote ‘RAT and have helped create a world replete with tyrants who possess weapons of mass destruction.
Anybody with half a brain knows there is another Civil War coming to this country.
General Patton’s quote “fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man”
I just want to know how they expect to get their hideouts ahead of the reason that will drive them there.
Whatever. Once they go to wherever, I hope they stay there forever.
They might have read the 30k+ FR posts on prepping: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4211863/posts?page=180#180
These bunkers are not what these people think they are.
Yes they have all the perks. But folks know where they are. And that is all that matters.
Apparently I am not the only one who has read what may be in the offing, the difference being that I could never afford some of these things. So I just have to hang in there like the rest come hell and high water.
Some of you may think that this is a bunch of B.S. But before you brush it aside give it some thought.
The 3600 year signature cycle most likely will repeat itself.
In the event you happen to be one of those people who have been wondering about some of the strange weather patterns, not just locally but also world wide, comprised of flooding, draughts as well as an increase in earthquakes, volcanic eruptions etc. The following may provide you with some of the answers as once again we are approaching the 3600 signature cycle which slowly and deceptively continues to unfold.
As this cycle progresses and slowly unfolds unfortunately it is accompanied with floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, bugs and pests as well as crazy unseasonable weather patterns. And the chances for humans to stop or avert any of this are pretty slim to none as this appears to be a re-occurring natural event or cycle. And even if all the politicians stand on their heads, as well as throwing money at what is conceived erroneously as a problem created by humans, what it is not, it would not change a thing.
Just take the ever increasing number of earthquakes worldwide, which are part of this repetitive cycle, even in the wildest imagination it would be difficult to make a correlation between it and anything related to global warming. At least for now and until the general public becomes knowledgably enough and realizes what the real causes are behind some of these events, ignorant politicians will milk these perceived causes for climate change or global warming for all its worth, in order to extract more taxes from the general public under the guise to fight man made global warming or climate change. Humans could not do anything about it one way or another even if they tried.
More signs and events of things to come are part of the 3600 signature cycle as it is unfolding world wide. About 3600 plus or minus years ago similar events gave the then ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose an Excedrin headache and just about drove him bananas, better known as the TEN PLAGUES, eventually resulting in the release or expulsion of the Israelis from bondage as they, or good old MOSES used these events to their advantage by threatening that there would be more to come unless they would be released.
This event went down in history as the Biblical EXODUS. The catch is that these events were not just limited to ancient Egypt at the time, as we scan ancient, available and somewhat scarce records from this period we will find that ancient China was plagued with very similar events and disasters.
Just for interest sake about the same time 1500 BC or approximately close to 3600 years ago,1500 BC + 2023AD= 3523 approx. the time of the EXODUS the volcano located on the island of Thera located in the Mediterranean blew up with the estimated force of about 40 (forty) nuclear bombs, permanently re-arranging the Mediterranean, forming the Santorini Archipelago. At the time turning days into night, also affecting Egypt with pumice from the eruption found there as well.
So far being located in the upper Midwest, overall we have remained pretty well unscathed aside from some flooding her and there. Let us hope it will remain this way. At the same time it will be worthwhile to remember that some of these cycles may be more destructive than others, quite well described by Emmanuel Velikovsky.
On the other hand you may want to keep in mind that there has been a steady increase in earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding all over as well as one season running into one another along with crazy weather patterns WORLDWIDE. All this just doesn’t happen without a reason and global warming supposedly caused by humans is positively not one of them..
They fear death. This is all they got.
That and since they’re all anti gun should be an easy task.
These luxury doomsday bugout spots date to the Cold War. Oppidum and Vivo seem popular more recent incarnations.
The elites delusions are leading them where they will be buried.
Rev3:15-16 (NIV)
15: Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
16: They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
They know that if the common people of earth decide that being of good nature and decent principles no longer benefits them, these billionaires are going to get the Mussolini/Khadaffi treatment.
When the SHTF the newly barbaric people will find the preppers and bunker people who brag about their “survival”.
People WILL find them.
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