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Doomsday Preppers
American Thinker ^ | 3/27/2012 | Tom Thurlow

Posted on 03/27/2012 12:10:57 PM PDT by WPaCon

This just has to be a sign of the times. Record deficits and oil prices rising, and it could all get worse. So the National Geographic channel has begun airing a show named Doomsday Preppers, where viewers can watch end-of-the-world types prepare for doomsday.

Each episode highlights several people and their preparations for the end of the world, or, as they often put it, "when the stuff hits the fan." If you are a "doomsday prepper," the show has some pretty useful information, and if not, the show is still pretty entertaining.

Some of the calamities predicted by the preppers seem pretty far-fetched, like a shift in the earth's axis or an earthquake that divides the country's supply lines in half. But some of the calamities predicted are worth getting nervous about, like hyperinflation or a failure of the world financial system.

The preppers store or grow food, store water, generate their electricity, and prepare to defend themselves with handguns and homemade explosives. At the end of each segment, "experts" grade each prepper's plans.

Some of the prepper plans are pretty impressive. One episode involved an Arizona family who keeps a pool/greenhouse, with chicken above fertilizing a pool that contains quickly regenerating fish. A byproduct, duckweed, purifies the water and generates fertilizer for the vegetable gardens.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doomsday; obamanomics; preppers; shtf
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To: WPaCon
If you are a "doomsday prepper," the show has some pretty useful information, and if not, the show is still pretty entertaining.

This is why I started to watch. I no longer do. I found nothing useful in any episode. And I am not entertained by lunatic fringe idiots who spend $300,000 to protect themselves against solar flares.

21 posted on 03/27/2012 1:40:39 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.)
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To: Silentgypsy
The AZ family’s use of the pool is probably one of the most creative ones.

It was neat but all I could think was that it was pretty stinky.

22 posted on 03/27/2012 1:41:29 PM PDT by bgill
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To: PA Engineer

When the government is (quietly)buying up enough long term storage food to affect the market that tells you something too.


23 posted on 03/27/2012 1:43:13 PM PDT by Cold Heart (It takes a liberal to raze a village)
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To: WPaCon
why don’t they just move to, say, Australia?

No guns allowed.

24 posted on 03/27/2012 1:43:29 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.)
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To: WPaCon

There is another show about bunkers and a bunker builder. Those are good too. As for the preppers show; some of them are doing what they can, others are clueless. The hippies they put one were doing good right up until the point they professed their trust in the goodness of their fellow man. The looniest was the girl in Houston who has a good size stash of stuff in her apartment, but her bugout plan involves walking out of Houston to the south.


25 posted on 03/27/2012 1:43:39 PM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Looks like just another facet of the mainstream media’s “Gee aren’t those Mormons weird?” attack on Romney.

Give it a rest.

Mormons are no longer any more of a target than African-Americans are...and have a whole lot less to justify any kind of inferiority complex.

26 posted on 03/27/2012 1:44:12 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: bgill

But having lots of tilapia at your disposal? And knowing that it wasn’t raised in some third-world, contaminated, disease-infested fish farm? Gimme stinky any day :) !


27 posted on 03/27/2012 1:46:04 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: AU72

Forget about the food shortages, just wait until they can’t get cell phone service!!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 03/27/2012 1:47:12 PM PDT by bgill
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To: carriage_hill

Probably a good time to build a tornado shelter though. Even if stuff don’t hit the fan it’ll still make your family feel just a bit safer and secure. Good ole dad!


29 posted on 03/27/2012 1:48:44 PM PDT by cliffco (cliffco)
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To: bgill
just wait until they can’t get cell phone service!

Oh boy. That's when the SHTF. Hordes of 18-25 year old females running around screaming incoherently as they wave their "Smart" phones in the air looking for service. No thanks.

30 posted on 03/27/2012 1:51:56 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.)
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To: PA Engineer
There are networks of prepper groups springing up throughout the country. There are about 30 of us who meet here in Central Florida once a month to discuss prepping-related issues and gain new prepping knowledge.

Unlike the 'Doomsday Preppers' show every one in our group is concerned almost exclusively with economic collapse.

31 posted on 03/27/2012 1:53:47 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: bgill

Cell phone, schmell phone.

There’s always Skype.

I’m stockpiling credit on my Starbucks app!


32 posted on 03/27/2012 1:53:53 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: Silentgypsy

I can almost cast a line into a river from where I’m typing. All the fish I want and no stink from their walled in hot Arizona backyard. But you do what you need to do, I guess.


33 posted on 03/27/2012 1:54:01 PM PDT by bgill
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To: The Duke

HOLY CRAP!

Did you come over on the Mayflower with JimRob?

;o)


34 posted on 03/27/2012 1:57:35 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

It depends on the specific scenario, but it if the sh*t were to hit the fan in America but not Australia, you would most likely be safer in Australia, even without a gun.


35 posted on 03/27/2012 1:58:22 PM PDT by WPaCon
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To: cliffco

We already have a very secure underground shelter/survival area, here on the farm. On the 2-3 occasions we’ve had to go there, the tornadoes missed the compound by 1+ miles, so we were fortunate.


36 posted on 03/27/2012 2:00:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'll "vote for an orange juice can", over Barry 0bummer and another 4yrs of his Regime From Hell!)
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To: The Duke
Unlike the 'Doomsday Preppers' show every one in our group is concerned almost exclusively with economic collapse.

I agree, however I am also concerned about pandemic.

I know you came over on the FR Mayflower so you probably remember the threads from Mother Abigail. We have been having an interesting thread about it on THE COMING WAVE.

There is one thing I have noticed on the recent episodes. Originally they downplayed economic collapse. They have back away from that now.
37 posted on 03/27/2012 2:33:31 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: carriage_hill
What won’t be used in an real emergency, can be used/re-used in otherwise *normal* times, if TSHTF doesn’t come.

Agreed. I believe we will look back at these last couple of years with shock because we failed to see the collapse is already happening.

"Just in Time" material delivery got me thinking many years ago. That is when I began to prep.
38 posted on 03/27/2012 2:39:26 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: PA Engineer

Great minds... That’s *exactly* how I look at it, and *exactly* what I’ve done and why.


39 posted on 03/27/2012 2:42:59 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'll "vote for an orange juice can", over Barry 0bummer and another 4yrs of his Regime From Hell!)
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To: bgill

Ah, a river. I think my closest river is eight miles. I wish I knew how to fish.


40 posted on 03/27/2012 3:02:44 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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