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Billionaire Bunkers: Inside the World’s Largest Planned Doomsday Escape
Forbes ^ | 4/14/16 | Jim Dobson

Posted on 04/15/2016 7:09:30 AM PDT by Baynative

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To: alexander_busek

VIVOS also claims “a year’s worth of food”. I would think several decades worth of food better be down there, for the price. .


21 posted on 04/15/2016 7:30:02 AM PDT by Salgak (Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: George from New England
...due to a law prohibiting the storage of ammunition near a major highway...

I'm guessing it's near a major highway.

22 posted on 04/15/2016 7:30:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

That’s brutal! (but funny)


23 posted on 04/15/2016 7:31:07 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Salgak

24 posted on 04/15/2016 7:34:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Baynative

“The hardened facility is capable of withstanding a substantial close range nuclear blast, a direct airplane crash, biological and chemical agents, shock waves, earthquakes, tsunami, electro-magnetic pulses, and virtually any armed attack.”

Wee li’l problemo:

“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”—Hebrews 4:13

That said, I totally understand the seductive appeal of a place like this and the lies I could tell myself if I was a VIP leader in the world. “This is actually for the good of the country...they need us alive, not dead”, etc.


25 posted on 04/15/2016 7:35:24 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Baynative

Well, for starters, the spiral staircases are the wrong way for right-handed defenders.


26 posted on 04/15/2016 7:37:34 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: C19fan

“Isn’t the whole problem with these facilities.......trying to get there when the SHTF.”

Indeed, that would be a problem for those who are not members of the ‘elite’ ultra-wealthy. I’ve long speculated that for those very few individuals and families who actually control/counterfeit the world’s monies make their move to crash the system (take your pick of which method) that they will be on their way to their retreats just before they do such. It would be incredibly useful information to not only know where these few have their safe spaces, but to have eyes watching those places that could get word out that those few are digging in, giving us mere mortal serfs a bit of advanced notice of the impending calamities to come.


27 posted on 04/15/2016 7:37:36 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Baynative

I’ve seen that movie. It ends badly.


28 posted on 04/15/2016 7:43:07 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: alexander_busek; All
The billionaires would thus soon find themselves back on the outside, along with the other scavengers

IF there was any justice!
29 posted on 04/15/2016 7:47:39 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: freefdny

“I think you need people to maintain a facility like that. And in the event of a catastrophe I have a feeling the staff may not be as conscious of their place in life. Downstairs might turn on upstairs and the busboy rebellion could get ugly.”

10000% right. These billionaires are delusional if they think their security detail will stay loyal after a true collapse.


30 posted on 04/15/2016 7:48:00 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: Baynative
The hardened facility is capable of withstanding a substantial close range nuclear blast, a direct airplane crash, biological and chemical agents, shock waves, earthquakes, tsunami, electro-magnetic pulses, and virtually any armed attack.

Didn't glider-borne Fallschirmjaegers take down the Belgian version of this in 1940?

31 posted on 04/15/2016 7:57:35 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Baynative

Some well placed munitions at ingress and egress points, along with ventilation and utility conduits, will turn their bunker into a mighty fine tomb.


32 posted on 04/15/2016 8:05:19 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Baynative

Better hope someone updated the SIOP and took it off the target list. Whoops!


33 posted on 04/15/2016 8:10:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
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To: COBOL2Java

When are both of those evil old bastards going to die?

Soros looks like crap.


34 posted on 04/15/2016 8:13:42 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: C19fan
The ultra-rich have bugout places all over. Take a look at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It's home to a number of very wealthy people, has its own airport, with runway long enough for a Boeing 757.

It is in Teton Country, Wyoming, which holds the title of being the richest county in the US.

Take a look at a map. It is surrounded by national park, accessible by just a handful of roads, all of which can be easily blocked.

35 posted on 04/15/2016 8:24:14 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Baynative

From The Chad Mitchell trio, back in the sixties:

Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter
worthy of Kubla Kahn’s Xanadu dome
Plushy and swanky with posh hanky-panky
that affluent yankees can really call home

Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter
a push-button palace, florescent repose
electric devices for facing a crisis
with frozen fruit ices and cinema shows

Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter
of chromium kitchens and rubber tile dorms
with waterproof portals to echo the chortles
of weatherproof mortals in hydrogen storms

What a great come-to-glory emporium
To enjoy a deluxe moratorium
Where nuclear heat can beguile the elite
In a crème de la crème crematorium


36 posted on 04/15/2016 8:26:30 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: rightwingcrazy

The servants will kill the billionaires. And they know it. There are some things money cannot buy—especially when all money is worthless


37 posted on 04/15/2016 8:50:48 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Baynative

Astounding how the “conservatives” on here are so bitterly jealous of those earning and providing jobs and growth for so many people.


38 posted on 04/15/2016 8:50:53 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Baynative
Revelation 6:15 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! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

Predicted

39 posted on 04/15/2016 8:56:57 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: Mamzelle

I doubt the very rich are not aware of this, so would have come up with ways to ensure continued loyalty for their own safety. They may be immoral, ruthless, sadistic, etc, but doubt they are stupid.

For all we know they may have explosives surgically implanted in their servants or some such kill switch they can control.

Their biggest danger is survivors blocking them in. So they will have secret exits etc as part of planning.


40 posted on 04/15/2016 9:06:02 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Trump is for America First. Cruz is for America Last. It's that simple.)
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