Posted on 10/24/2015 8:42:07 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
When it comes to “prepping”, many among the elite take things to an entirely different level. As you will see below, the elite are willing to pay big money for cutting edge home security measures, luxury bomb shelters and superyacht getaway submarines. Some of the things that the elite are demanding for their own protection go beyond even what we would see in a James Bond film, and serving the prepping needs of the elite has become a multi-billion dollar business. Meanwhile, the media outlets that the elite own continue to mock the rest of us for getting prepared. All the time we see headlines like this one that appeared in a major American news source: “Preppers: Meet the paranoid Americans awaiting the apocalypse“. Well, if we are paranoid for setting aside some extra food and supplies for the future, what does that make the people that you will read about in this article?
The elite live in a world that is completely different from the world that you and I live in. In wealthy enclaves of major global cities such as London, elitists are willing to shell out massive amounts of money to ensure that everyone else is kept out. The following comes from an article that was just published a few hours ago by the London Evening Standard entitled “The paranoid world of London’s super-rich: DNA-laced security mist and superyacht getaway submarines“…
Business is booming because billionaires are a paranoid bunch. Take one who recently moved to Mayfair. ‘He wanted everything, from protection from cyber hacking through to physical intrusion and kidnapping,’ says Bond Gunning. ‘We ended up installing fingerprint-activated locks for family members and programmable keys for staff that limit the time they are allowed into the property and the rooms they are able to enter and exit.
‘Inside and outside we installed 24-hour monitored CCTV cameras that are so hi-tech they can tell the difference between a dog, cat and a person. In the garden there are thermal-imaging cameras that can detect heat sources in the undergrowth. One thing intruders can’t hide is the heat of their bodies.
‘Should an intruder evade the cameras or ignore the warnings they automatically broadcast, the property itself is protected by bulletproof glass and alarm sensors in all rooms. There is a bullet, gas and bombproof panic or safe room, with its own food and water, medical supplies and communications, and an impregnable supply of fresh air. Just in case the family cannot make it there in time, key rooms are sealed by reinforced shutters.’ But for many elitists, those kinds of extreme security measures are simply not enough. That is why sales of “luxury doomsday shelters” are absolutely soaring. If “the end of the world” arrives unexpectedly, high net worth individuals want to know that there will be somewhere for them and their families to go. The following is an excerpt from an article about one such facility located in Indiana…
As we roll down US Highway 41 in Terre Haute, Indiana , my guide insists I give him my iPhone. Then he tosses me a satin blindfold. The terms of our trip were clear—I wasn’t to know where we were going or how we got there.That’s because we’re on our way to the undisclosed location of an underground bunker designed to survive the end of the world, whatever form that apocalypse takes.
When I remove my blindfold, I am standing in a grassy clearing looking at a boxy concrete structure that serves as the entrance to a Cold War–era government communications facility gutted and reborn as Vivos Indiana. This is the Ritz Carlton of doomsday shelters, a hideout where residents can wait out a nuclear winter or a zombie apocalypse in luxury and style while the rest of humanity melts and disintegrates. The living area has 12-and-a-half-foot ceilings, sumptuous black leather couches, wall art featuring cheerful Parisian street scenes, towering faux ferns, and plush carpets. Faith Hill croons from a large-screen TV set in front of three rows of comfy beige reclining chairs. The cupboards are stocked with 60 varieties of freeze-dried and canned foodstuffs; an evening meal might include spaghetti aglio e olio topped with skillet fried steak chunks, a fresh tomato-and-zucchini salad fresh from the hydroponic garden, and decadent turtle brownies. An eight-by-nine bedroom is designed for four people (there are larger units for six) and comes with double-queen bunks clothed in 600-thread-count ivory sheets and duvet covers worthy of a four-star hotel, a comparison highlighted on the Vivos website. That sounds lovely.
But normal people like us cannot afford something like that. It will only be the elite that will be able to afford to hole up in underground bunkers while the world above descends into madness.
Other elitists will be taking off in their superyachts and heading out into the open ocean when things really start falling to pieces. And if their superyachts are threatened, some of them even have “getaway subs”. Here is more from the Evening Standard…
The ultimate vehicle of choice is no longer an armoured limousine or a private jet. They’re so Noughties. If you want bragging rights these days, you need your own submarine, which floats out of a sub-sea compartment in your superyacht. ‘It’s a toy, but if the worst happened, it could also be an escape route,’ says one prominent London tycoon with a weakness for Monaco-berthed superyachts — provided they have military-grade radar jammers and missile and torpedo defences. So exactly why are so many among the elite so concerned about their own security these days?
Why are so many of them going to such extraordinary lengths to prepare for worst case scenarios?
Do they know something that the rest of us do not?
In a previous article, I included a quote from an article in the Mirror that was published earlier this year entitled “Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor rise up“…
Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, told people at the World Economic Forum in Davos that many hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes.
He said: “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway.”
The next time that someone criticizes you for prepping, just point out what the elite are doing.
Clearly, many of them are deeply concerned that something may be coming.
So are you preparing?
Daniel read it "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" and explained it to mean that God had "numbered" the kingdom of Belshazzar and brought it to an end; that the king had been weighed and found wanting; and that his kingdom was divided and given to the Medes and Persians
But then you can't tell them anything.
Amen brother! Preach it!
Besides, with such paranoia, STRESS is involved. Stress often leads to stroke or heart attack. Locking themselves off from the rest of the world WILL be VERY stressful. So, instead of being killed quickly by the ‘proles’, nature will end up killing them.
We are but a vapour, death can come in the twinkling of an eye. Only Jesus offers THE answer. Their wealth will be cold comfort on meeting their maker, if they are not in Him and He in them.
Think back to Katrina. The people who did well, were neighborhoods where the people pitched in and provided for their own security. Neighbors took turns manning the barricade at the end of the street, no one came in unless they had home or friends in that area.
If some kind of collapse comes, that is the model. Have some supplies for yourself and a little extra for family who turn up on your doorstep. Work with your neighbors to keep outsiders at bay.
Another example. In the late nineties Ecuador’s economy and banking system and currency collapsed, and for a month no one got paid, no one had access to their accounts, nothing. People lived for a month on what they had in their pantry and their pockets. ATM’s did not work because the entire banking system was down. And yet there were no riots, people just hunkered down and endured it. Families pulled in, neighbors helped neighbors.
Thats how you get through. Compare that with the counter example of Katrina in the slums where people victimized each other. Thats the other side of the coin, and its the reason you’ll want in addition to your extra beans and rice, you have a shotgun and a few boxes of shells. Thats why you and the neighbors will have that barricade at the end of the street.
The elite have no real life skills. Money will mean nothing when they emerge from their hidey holes. The rural folks will have the upper hand and the will and power to keep it.
I had that conversation with one as he told me he would BUY all my wheat with his gold. I told him I would not sell him any wheat for his gold, and if I would he does not have enough gold.
I can understand a mountain cabin or a island getaway....
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
- Revelation 6:16
they're "kept" people and the "keepers" are not "their" kind..
What a broad brush you have.
I know lots of rich folks who lead very conservative, Christian lives and know a great deal about the professions what made them rich in the first place. Don't fault someone who is trying to protect their family from harm.
it we only had some Koreans to protect us...
A while back I was reading a similar article at SHTF.plan site, and every keyboard Rambo was chiming in how they would cover up the fresh air vents, burn them out, etc, while in reality, they would be fully consumed in finding a scrap of food and a sip of fresh water. Forget about the “elites” and prepare the best you can with what you got.
If they're smart they will include the staff and their families in this. The only way to insure loyalty.
Yes he did, didn't he? I've been trying to get people to wake up for a loooooonnnggg time. Few listen.
If your wealth is in paper or buildings getting torched, the bolt hole is only valuable if you remain lord of that castle with the loyalty of armed guards as your military and dole out limited supplies as your remaining source of power.
If you had lots of wealth on paper and a bolt hole like Vivos, your family may survive (which is not to be knocked), but you aren’t wealthy afterward.
BUT...do those elites know how to use a weapon effectively?
After a collapse, there is a tomorrow. The problem is making the transition. If you have to scrounge through dumpsters to survive the transition, you aren’t going to make good decisions, your decisions will be panic-driven.
After Katrina it took a month to get things going again. After the collapse in Ecuador it took a month to get things going again. A month is a good measure for a high percentage of things that are likely to happen, and its something that anyone can prepare for. A month’s worth of pork-and-beans in the garage isn’t hard to manage.
If you are a captain of industry, you’ve got a bigger problem, you’re a bigger target. But you need the same thing as anyone else, time and space to make the transition and a way to keep your family safe in the meantime. Actually, you have a bigger problem because a lot more people depend on you.
Another thing to consider if you’re a captain of industry: you may wake up to find you’ve become an “enemy of the people” overnight, and you’ll need a place to go out of reach of the new regime. Thats when you’ll wish you had that extra set of passports stashed in a safe place.
Something many people miss when they are making their plans is this: Its never just you. You have people who depend on you. The richer you are, the bigger target you are of course but also the more people there are who depend on you to make the right decisions. Its never just about you and it is never more plain than when things start to go south.
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