Great article in the Miami New Times last week, profiling preppers and survivalists like these folk:
Jorge Villa – after a terrifying experience during Hurricane Andrew he devised his own bunkers, and sells them to folk – some of whom are worried about the end of the Mayan calendar – via his business U.S. Bunkers
Neal Wiseman – moderates a group called the South Florida Survivalist Network, and has a year’s worth of food stored for his family, should the need arise:
Chris Petrovich – prepper for 25 years. He has helped others “cache extra fuel and food, stashed in public-storage units and underground, at intervals on an 800-to-1,200-mile path out of Florida. Amid darkness and chaos, skirting burning sugarcane fields and accidents and roadblocks, they’ll drive from cache to cache toward a secret inland hiding spot, exhausting the last available remnants of the petroleum age.”
While Petrovich himself plans on staying, I agree with …
From DIY to Russian megabunkers
Preparing for when the SHTF
Crustal displacements and magnetic pole shift – both are scary
Don’t believe NASA – these are a genuine threat
More likely during eclipses and perhaps Comet Elenin is a factor?
National Geographic have published photos of the vault that has been built at the island of Spitsbergen, Norway. Pics of the nearest town are included as well.
I’ve shown this pic before…
…but not the inside pics: Here’s two, the rest are at Digital Trends, along with the story.
What if the end date of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar was not meant to be taken literally?
The first question you need to ask is this: Dec 21 is also the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) – the darkest day of the year, so it is a coincidence or deliberate?
The second question is, if the date is deliberate, then why?
If there is a scientific basis to the Long Count calendar, if it is ultimately reflecting a scientific prediction, then there are still more questions:
Is there anything about a Winter Solstice than can cause a catastrophe?
Could an ancient culture predict a catastrophe, thousands of years away, accurate to a single day?
Or is Dec 21, 2012 a symbolic date for a scientific prediction for approximately Dec 2012?
What we do know:
The ancient Germanic people celebrated the solstice with Yule logs
The very ancient Newgrange tomb in Ireland is aligned to the winter …
I check this web page all the time:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php
It lists every earthquake greater than 5.0 for the last week, and it is updated in real-time.
On most days there’s less than five quakes listed, and often just one or two. Today there are 39!
To be fair, when there’s a really big quake, a lot of aftershocks will make the list – so to account for them the list really looks like this:
8.6 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
8.2 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA (+ 22 aftershocks)
6.0 NORTH INDIAN OCEAN (+ 9 aftershocks)
5.3 BANDA SEA
5.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
5.1 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.2 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.4 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
5.9 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
6.5 MICHOACAN, MEXICO
I’ve definitely not seen such an array of large quakes in one day before. Hopefully it’s just a freak occurrence.
UPDATE: Very next day, GULF OF CALIFORNIA has had a 6.9 and a 6.2, while …
Our Sun operates on a cycle that takes roughly 11 years to complete. While the key indicator for when the cycle is at its peak is the number of sun spots, the root cause is the reversal of the Sun’s magnetic poles. And for some reason that scientists cannot explain, the Sun’s poles are currently out of step with each other:
“Right now, there’s an imbalance between the north and the south poles,” Jonathan Cirtain, NASA’s project scientist for a Japanese solar mission called Hinode, in a recent article on NASA’s website. “The north is already in transition, well ahead of the south pole, and we don’t understand why.”
Further, the asymmetrically reversing solar magnetic field could have an effect on Earth, resulting in increased solar flares and the accompanying bursts of radioactive particles called “coronal mass ejections,” or CMEs, that can hit Earth and cause brilliant Northern Lights displays and problematic geomagnetic solar storms, …
Great article in the Miami New Times last week, profiling preppers and survivalists like these folk:
Jorge Villa – after a terrifying experience during Hurricane Andrew he devised his own bunkers, and sells them to folk – some of whom are worried about the end of the Mayan calendar – via his business U.S. Bunkers
Neal Wiseman – moderates a group called the South Florida Survivalist Network, and has a year’s worth of food stored for his family, should the need arise:
Chris Petrovich – prepper for 25 years. He has helped others “cache extra fuel and food, stashed in public-storage units and underground, at intervals on an 800-to-1,200-mile path out of Florida. Amid darkness and chaos, skirting burning sugarcane fields and accidents and roadblocks, they’ll drive from cache to cache toward a secret inland hiding spot, exhausting the last available remnants of the petroleum age.”
While Petrovich himself plans on staying, I agree with …
I was hoping to find out all of the different TYPES of seeds they're gathering… Honestly… whether a global catastrophy happens or not… and whether I, myself, survive or not… the truth is, MOST tree seeds will be fairly useless to the cause. If you consider how long it takes for a tree to reach adulthood, they will be entirely "obsolete" for lack of a better word. The only true way to continue a possibility of life as we know it, would be cannibus, (Marijuana, weed, pot, etc.) NOT for the purpose of SMOKING (morons, yes it's good, but not what I believe it is here for). Hemp has already proven itself to be a HUGELY diverse substance, having uses anywhere from chewing, (subsiding hunger) to parchment, even as much as clothing, and tools. Not only does it have MANY uses, it also doesn't take long to grow.
For God's sake, if the government is SO upset with it being smoked (which I truly don't understand, because… who-the-hell's business is it of yours) then try growing it with an inhibitor to try lowering or eliminating the THC values in it. But personally, I figure, If I so CHOOSE to use this plant, how am I harming anyone other than myself, which I still haven't found it to be a harm to myself, other than the obvious laziness, elevated mood, and increased hunger… And if you so dare to use this as an excuse, after smoking it, people tend to have a scent about them that makes the act of smoking fairly apperent. But all-in-all, if you are SO "addicted" to THC people know it is IN the body and people have an allergic reaction to it, (which is WHY people get "high") so just like every other "drug"-like substance, someone will find a way to get it out of the body or increase the bodies' ability to create it, thus getting them "high". So, I guess what I'm TRULY getting at, would be, if anyone that gets to this blog and has a link or any knowledge of what kinds of seeds they are picking and choosing for this "Doomsday" Seed Vault, please e-mail me with whatever information you may have. ALSO, if you have ANY information as to HOW to get in contact with the people in direction of what seeds are being chosen and will be chosen, I would do anything in my power to get ~HEMP~ as it is or as it CAN be, as long as removing THC doesn't weaken the usefulness of the plant, is INCLUDED in the seeds chosen. It may very well be one thing CHOSEN by someone… or something, (if you know where I'm going with this) to increase possibility of survival on this planet if it is deemed possible. Again, I'd appreciate any help in either of these two goals, and hope to have a few e-mails in the days to come. Thanks for reading and thanks for anything you've got to say, whether it be agreeing or disagreeing with me, because I love to see things from other people's points of view and have new options of possibilities that can occur or could explain. I'm always open-minded and open to suggestion. My name is Ike, my e-mail address is IkelW@yahoo.com, and I hope to hear from anyone and everyone with an opinion. Thanks, again.
Hi Ike, don’t be worrying about the smoking or non-smoking. After the “catastrophe” there won’t be anybody around very concerned about the morals of it all. There won’t be any body policing it or any police either. Whole new ball-game. It’ll be back to family and tribal law. The individual will reign supreme. Politicians will be gone.
Hey Don,
I believe that you are mostly accurate on your estimation of the coming collapse.
I also believe that some people who are too busy texting and playing
video games,those who give you the finger because you tap your horn
so they will stop texting and actually move on the GREEN LIGHT,Drug
addicts,and other delusional folks may become mobs to take what we
have saved and planned for for years,to feed theiir own children.
To Ike: A rapidly growing plant that does well in almost all climates
that you can actually live on is AMARANTH,GOOGLE that lower case and see what your missing. I’m Sixty,I probably would indulge in occaisional
weed smoking because I find it totally relaxing,but losing my property
for posessing or growing marijuana is pretty dumb. There is a PSEUDO (not syntetic)
marijuana that tastes like some kind of diesel solvent,that cannot be
good for you. Ingesting marijuana really does inhibit clear thinking
like paying taxes,obeying antiquated laws, by distorting users brainwaves,makes the weed user resentful,and thereby difficult to control.