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Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
The New Yorker | 1/23/17 | Osnos

Posted on 01/24/2017 10:09:44 AM PST by pabianice

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KEYWORDS: first100days; preppers; trump45
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The elites have been buying up silos for prepping for decades. It’s nothing new. Very doubtful they’re “in the know” about anything. If anything, fears of shtf should ease up a bit now that the Terrorist in Chief is out of the picture.

The nasty pink hats won’t do anything other than spew filth from their mouths.

The BLM will back down once they see Trump isn’t a racist and the Terrorist in Chief isn’t stirring them up. Have you seen that picture of employees at Trump Tower? VERY diverse. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3516272/posts?page=813#813

If the feds start doing their jobs again, we’ll all have less fears of ISIS blowing up our workplaces.

Trump has already put the fear of God in our enemies so they’ll play nice. Notice between their screeching, they are lining up to get an audience with him.

The demoncrats don’t like the change and fight him tooth and nail for the next 8 years but they’re nothing to fear in shtf terms.


21 posted on 01/24/2017 12:58:07 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: raybbr

At one time, they were very good, but I haven’t read the New Yorker in at least 20 years.


22 posted on 01/24/2017 1:22:45 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Good read. Thanks for the ping!


23 posted on 01/24/2017 1:34:59 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
there are some good nuggets of information and preparation buried within this article.

Agreed. Thanks for the ping.
24 posted on 01/24/2017 1:48:17 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: pabianice

In the pepper mindset, you must first understand that you are already in the act of dying. The trick is to put off dying as long as possible.

You can die from a gunshot in 3 seconds
One can suffocate in 3 min
Freeze to death in 30 min
Dehydrate in 3 days
Starve in 30 days

Long term food prep does you no good if you have not taken care of that water supply, or shelter, etc.


25 posted on 01/24/2017 1:55:41 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: PA Engineer; trisham
TIK : "..there are some good nuggets of information and preparation buried within this article. "

Initally, I thought this was just some article about urban affluent yuppie crap, and didn't want to bother the prepper ping list,
and then I found some wise and useful nuggets in the article.
Nuggets such as: sense of community and cooperation, not being alone, support local food pantry, remember your support staff and their families !, etc., etc..
there were just too many thoughtful considerations to ignore.
There were just so many little nuggets that we tend to overlook in our already comfortable world, and take for granted, that won't be available in a SHTF/CHAOS situation.

26 posted on 01/24/2017 2:04:18 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu-> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: pabianice
I own one near Tucson, Arizona and I am selling it.

FRmail me if anyone is interested.


27 posted on 01/24/2017 2:47:28 PM PST by AZ .44 MAG (Obama repealed !)
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To: discostu

I don’t think the abandoned sites that are privately owned would still be actively targeted.

One drawback is that most of the abandoned sites are easy to find using search engines or Google Earth. Being the owner of one I often run into people that find my site using those methods.


28 posted on 01/24/2017 2:53:39 PM PST by AZ .44 MAG (Obama repealed !)
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To: AZ .44 MAG

In theory they shouldn’t be. But given all the various attack profiles that were dreamed up and all the little pieces of paper they scattered all over the globe to give the appropriate instructions to the appropriate launchers I’m not sure I’d really want to be my life that every single piece of paper in every single silo and sub has been appropriately updated.

Definitely having your location publicly known at part of disarmament compliance doesn’t help either. Gotta wonder how many people in your area don’t know you own it and have your place as their bugout destination because they think nobody else is that clever.


29 posted on 01/24/2017 3:00:18 PM PST by discostu (Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
33 year old Huffman wrote: we’ve been through a lot,

What? One of his bemmers had a flat tire?

30 posted on 01/24/2017 3:15:34 PM PST by LucyT
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To: discostu

It’s not a bugout for me. I bought it in 2003 to develop into a secure storage facility. When the democrats and Obunghole put the economy in the toilet 2007-2009 we ran out of development money and the project stalled.


31 posted on 01/24/2017 3:40:59 PM PST by AZ .44 MAG (Obama repealed !)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The Nazi elite made similar contingency plans, like in Uruguay and Argentina and Chili. They succeeded in surviving in remote enclaves using their wrealth stolen from Jews, etc. to buy off local politicians and police forces. You can read all about it in RATLINE by Peter Levenda. He went down into South America to make first-hand investigation. But be warned, if you think Rockefeller and the Dulles brothers were patriots to America, the truth will shock you.


32 posted on 01/24/2017 4:02:16 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: discostu

There silos will be their tombs, covered by hundreds of feet of volcanic ash.


33 posted on 01/24/2017 4:04:23 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

I wasn’t even thinking of that at all. It just struck me that so many were building these elaborate shelters deep underground, and that so many were doing so in remote locations in the Southern Hemisphere.

That led me to speculate that whatever “it” might be perceived as being, assuming there actually is some huge, looming threat that the elite know about and aren’t telling, their behavior would seem to indicate something external to this planet, a massive solar flare, a giant asteroid, the “Nibiru” thing that’s been so widely discussed and widely mocked, or whatever.

That’s not to say that I subscribe to such doomsday scenarios. But, there is a sort of pattern as far as the elaborate doomsday prepper hideouts of the very wealthy, so speculating that something like that might be driving it is not out of the realm of possibility. Whether it’s true or not might be, though.


34 posted on 01/24/2017 4:15:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: alexander_busek

So the elite don’t have any inside connections to those in the US intel agencies who know a little bit more than the public?


35 posted on 01/24/2017 4:59:10 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: pabianice

“He noted the vulnerabilities exposed by the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee”

When did that become a fact?


36 posted on 01/24/2017 6:02:10 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: discostu

Long term prepping has something to do with surviving radioactivty in air and water for a 30 year time span— minimum.


37 posted on 01/24/2017 7:03:01 PM PST by x_plus_one (A man cannot know himself until he knows those who define themselves against him.)
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To: blackbetty59

It’s nice of those rich folks to set up supply caches in deplorables country.

Less travel required in order to take it away from them...


38 posted on 01/25/2017 10:41:32 AM PST by Augie
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To: bgill; All

I’m very uncomfortable with the premises of this article. I don’t believe that there is any authentic ‘class war’ going on in the US.

I live and work in a Black-majority County, and in the ‘barrio’ section; most of my neighbors are lower-income Hispanic/Latino, and half the folks that I work with are Black.

I’ve seen NONE of this ‘class-warfare’ mentality in my everyday work and roaming-around community life.

I only see it on television, and on the Internet - well-funded groups of ‘professional activists’ trying their stupid best to stir up trouble.

My family prepares for disruptions due to weather, war, acts of Islamic terrorism. But we’re not very concerned about the Soros-funded activist types, because they don’t have enough conviction to carry on beyond the first splash :-)

The article seems to reflect the paranoia of over-(or rather, Under-) thinking *Rich People*...I honestly think that poor folks have better sense!

-JT


39 posted on 01/25/2017 7:11:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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