Posted on 05/12/2009 5:11:49 PM PDT by appleseed
They are ready for a catastrophe of a global scale every minute of their lives and are prepared to meet the challenge wherever they are at home, in the office, or just walking about.
Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati Scoop del.icio.us Digg Sphinn Furl Reddit The people who lay salt and canned food in stores all year around do not surprise experts anymore.
In St. Petersburg alone, there are more than 10,000 getting ready for the End of Days right now, informs Petersburg Business.
Russian survivalists call this speculative catastrophe the SHTF-day. Leaving aside atomic bomb shelters that were built everywhere in the USSR some twenty years ago, 'survivance' as a trend became popular in Russia in the early 2000s, when Russian scientist Valentin Ponomarenko published his Problem 2033.'
(Excerpt) Read more at russiatoday.com ...
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It’s not unusual for the Russians to be paranoid. However, since many Americans are stocking up for a SHTF scenario one might want to take notice.
Dunno about “end of days” but I am ready for more than the “day or two” problems.
Well, all of the end-of-days folks aren’t going to need any of that useless fiat money, so send it my way.. I’ll make sure it doesn’t just rot. :->
Maybe it’s not the “end of days”, but it may be flirting with the “end of the USA”.
Now the federal government wants to tax sugar to pay for national health care. Guess I’m going to stock up on that now!
Now I’m worried. This aint just an obama thing anymore.
Max von Sydow had the very best line about the old USSR in “Citizen x”: It’s not whether you are paranoid. The question is whether you are paranoid enough.
Paranoia does not equal having a stash/root cellar/supplies/a hedge for a rainy day, even if it lasts 40 days and 40 nights. Or longer.
Some of us work.Was knee deep in organic fertilizer today.but then , surviving was on my mind.
ping for later
If it really is the end of days then why bother stocking up?
Please add me to your ping list. We have been stocking our basement for months. Most of it we have ordered from “Pleasant Hill Grain”. Very reliable company.
Hopefully, we will never need it, but it is there if we do.
I suppose it all depends on how bad things get before the end and how long it will take to reach that end.
I’m retired (early).
Stock Up . Some laugh at that statement.
Fish alittle when you retire,it does you good.
And I’m proud for ya’.
It’s just like my Dad said though,you never realy retire.
Built the Ozarks retirement house and live in it. I can see it from here...
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