We must not allow a bolthole gap!
Posted on 01/30/2015 6:56:57 AM PST by C19fan
As world events threaten the comfortable lifestyles of the West's super-rich they have begun buying up fabulous 'bolt hole' properties in the far-away safe haven of New Zealand. The world's elite are snapping up properties in the tiny country, which they see as a shelter from the threat of terrorism, civil unrest and instabilities in the financial markets. Interest in pricey land and homes in the North and South Islands has soared in recent years following terrorist strikes and civil disobedience in North America, the UK and Europe.
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Want to know why conservatives are elected and sent to Washington only to turn into Establishment tools?
When they see as an insider how out of control the government is, they know there’s no hope for Western Civilization. They become the ultimate preppers, providing for themselves and theirs and don’t care at whose expense.
Yes. I am envious. And I am covetous. And I shall secure the bolthole for myself. I shall claim the land, I shall claim the food, I shall claim the medicines, I shall claim the women, I shall claim the weapons.
One drone, five minutes
Yeah, I was about to mention that. New Zealand decided that they could just live on protection from the US and Australia.
As if that will still be there when it all goes in the pot.
Guns laws aren’t too awful there by world standards, but I don’t know that I would like to put up with them.
Montana has them too---"boltholes," I mean.
Twenty, fifty, 200,000 acre mountain "sanctuaries," supposedly.
But if things do get really bad, the owners will have to employ small armies to defend them.
Let's say it might be a rich Bostonian hedge fund manager who owns the place, and the airstrip and the jet and the art and the vault in the basement of the house where he and his fat lazy children and his astonishingly beautiful wife take their refuge...
What I have to wonder about the captain of the private army---the roughest toughest badass in the land---is how long is that captain going to be willing to take orders from Mr. Boston and his snotty, spoiled, worthless children?
The lovely lady...well, that's a separate question. There's a reason they're called trophy wives.
I wouldn’t be so sure.
For years Rush has reassured us that he’ll let us know when it’s time to panic, and so far he has said quite the opposite. I believe he ‘walks the talk’.
BTW, what is your net worth? Maybe I could take you up on that wager and improve my own situation a bit! (Grin)
We cannot allow a bolthole gap!
Even if he hasn’t said it’s “time to panic”,
at the “time to panic” is not the time to be buying a place to go.
He could have one (or two) of these escape locations,
and still not be of the opinion that NOW is the time to panic.
We must not allow a bolthole gap!
Yes.
Noble Ladies will sell their Diamonds for a sack of Potato(e)s.
But we will still use money, one day , Bottlecaps will be money ;)
Backed by Fresh Water.
The crime rate has continued to decline in the twenty-first century. In 2010, the number of murders in New Zealand dropped by nearly a quarter over the previous year (from 65 to 46), while overall reported crime fell 6.7 percent. In 2011, New Zealand's recorded crime rate was at its lowest in 15 years, down another 5.6% on the figures from 2010. In 2012 (financial year), the crime rate dropped another 5.9 per cent on the previous year - taking into account an increase in the population of 0.7%. Homicide and related offending dropped by 21.5%. The total number of offences in 2012 was the lowest since 1989, and gave the lowest crime rate per head of population since before electronic records were maintained.
Despite the falling crime rate, New Zealand has followed the pattern of many Western countries by locking up more and more of its citizens. The number of people in prison has been growing steadily for the last 50 years and since 2010, the rate of imprisonment has been just under 200 per 100,000 of population. This gives New Zealand the second highest rate of imprisonment out of 29 countries in the West. New Zealand's rate is much higher than countries it tends to be compared with, such as Canada (117), Australia (129), England and Wales (154) and is more on par with many third world countries like Morocco (where the rate is 199), Gabon (196), and Namibia (191)
A victim survey undertaken in 1996 found that 67% of the population were not subject to any criminal activity, 14% suffered from two or more criminal offences, and 4% had been the victim of five or more criminal activities. The New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey conducted in 2006 showed that Māori have a much higher risk of victimisation than other groups. The figures showed that each year around 47% of Māori were victims of crime and Māori were also more likely to be victimised multiple times (4.3 incidents per victim compared with 2.7 for European victims). The risk of victimisation for Māori was particularly high for serious offences, including sexual violence and violence by partners. For example, 8% of Māori women experienced sexual victimisation - twice as high as the national rate for women.
Yeah, right.
Dagnabit! I knew I shouldn’t have looked for a picture!
Who most likely never heard of Nevile Schute.
They can have it..
Too socialist for me...
Mad Max was Australia, 2,000 miles away..the other side of the Tasman Sea..
New Zealand is in Polynesia..
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