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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I assume they all have well paid “staff” to service their needs, and security personnel to protect them from the marauding hordes. The problem with that is, when the balloon goes up, what incentive do those people have to keep obeying orders from the likes of Zuckerberg, Gates, et al?
Show me prove of this.............
They’re not anti-gun.
They’re surrounded by them. They just don’t want you and me to have them.
From an acquaintance that works in the high levels of executive protection, Zuckerberg is very, very fond of firearms.
I’m betting that if one were to be allowed a search of some of these locations, don’t be surprised if all sorts of Class 3 and other NFA type stuff, off limits to the regular folks.
It will be relatively easy to cut off their oxygen supply and suffocate them in their expensive tombs.
Mathew 6:Verses 19-21:
“19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
(King James Version of the Holy Bible- the words of Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount)
BUMP
None really.
The security staff will most likely slaughter the owners and take their places. Repeat that cycle a few times and see who is left.
Things that get broken will never be fixed. Supplies that run out will never be replenished. Those bunkers will become elaborate tombs for their occupants. Whatever remains of value will be scavenged by the neighbors after things get quiet in there.
It’s true.
Netflix has a movie about it now. Obama produced also.
All will have gate codes and various entry codes throughout the property for access.
*I went on one property and the lady of the house said; “We like our privacy”.
My brain ran though that they had at least six service crews with various access codes.
There are even service crews that deliver and place fresh cut flowers every day with no contact with the home owner.
They know they are doing things that they should justifiably be executed for.
God laughs at the futility of their efforts.
Nice try to deconstruct the Bible. Did someone telegraph Moses the volcano blasted so he would know darkness was on the way? Not to mention, why would anyone near the volcano assume Moses would need this information? Also, how did Moses know when this darkness would pass?
Makes the rest of your history lesson suspect as well. Sheesh!
They’re just as skittish as everyone only they have money to build bunkers. Everyone is waiting the global debt shoe to drop.
MS-13 will eventually find them and take their supermodels and food away from them.
One of his businesses could be manufacturing or selling such arms, and he is in possession of them with valid licensing for testing and evaluation purposes.
For later
That would kind of go against his Leftist ideology wouldn’t it?
If he owned a gun manufacturing company, the world would know about it.
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