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Guest Post: Four Alternative Stores Of Value
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
One of the most successful con jobs in the history of the world has been the concept of unbacked paper currency… or fiat money.
Over the last 100-years or so, governments have been able to convince people that their pieces of paper, backed by nothing but promises, actually have ‘value’. This seems truly bizarre when you think about it. Governments tend to be untrusted, serial failures. Yet people readily accept their guarantees the world over.
The history of fiat money has proven to be an almost uninterrupted period of inflation, asset bubbles, booms, busts, bailouts, panics,and other crises… and thankfully, it is an experiment which seems to be quickly nearing its end.
As such, it’s high time for creative, thinking people to consider their options and start trading their pieces of paper for something of value.
We all know the familiar story about precious metals– gold and silver have a long-standing tradition as stores of value dating back thousands of years.
But did you know, for example, that in the early days of the United States, whiskey was both a store of value and a medium of exchange? At the time, the US had among the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the world… and people knew they could always trade whiskey for something else. As such, whiskey had significant value.
Now, today’s liquor fundamentals may not warrant rushing out to buy a home-brew distillery kit… or stocking up on Johnnie Walker. But there are a number of other alternative stores of value worthy of your consideration:
1) Ammunition and Firearms may be the new whiskey, especially in North America. FBI firearm checks have been going through the roof in the US over the last few years, and each one of these represents another buyer of weapons and ammo.
Consequently, both have handily withstood the effects of inflation. According to ammo.net, for example, the price of Remington .223 rounds rose 224% from 1999 through 2011.
2) Watches. A single watch can be worth tens of thousands… even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Imagine putting $200,000 on your wrist and leaving the country– it’s an easy way to move wealth.
As with most collectibles, scarcity drives prices higher in the watch market. Most watches are like cars, they depreciate. But scarce models (of cars, or watches… like a Patek Philippe) hold value.
3) Rare coins. Gold and silver are excellent, traditional stores of value. But while millions of new ounces are pulled out of the ground year in, year out, there are only a certain amount of 1907-1933 St. Gauden $20 gold pieces in the world… and they can’t go back in time to make more of them.
4) Agricultural property. Few asset classes are as inflation-proof as high quality productive land… because, no matter what, it will always have value. Human beings will always need to eat.
Farmland prices around the world have been rising rapidly over the years and have hit all-time highs in places like the US and UK. But farmland in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and select other markets is still quite reasonable.
Like anything, you wouldn’t want to hold any of these assets without first educating yourself and becoming an informed owner. But given that the paper currency sitting in your bank account is depreciating rapidly… or at best, generating a tiny fraction of a percent in interest, it’s definitely worth looking into alternatives right away.
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"My watch cost $150 and has a titanium shell that doesn't leave glaring scratches..."
Or for that same $150 could buy a decent Casio/Timex digital and 300 rounds of .223...it might get scratched, but it will still give you the correct time. Better yet, buy 400 rounds and just ask someone else for the time.
Rare coins are a terrible investment/store of wealth if your focus is dealing with a crisis, since at that point the rarity means nothing, just the gold content.
I hate most of Simon's articles, but I will give him credit that in a stable environment, like the rare watches it's entirely concievable you could expatriate a single gold coin in a trip an move $100,000. But during stable times you could also do a wire transfer.
I've never been able to come up with a scenario where it made sense for me to pay a higher premium for gold than the current premium for Eagles.
Then you don't buy the art argumant or the wine argument or the watch argument or the car argument. Rare coins are nothing more than the same type of real article that others want thus rendering them valuable.
Then you don't buy the art argumant or the wine argument or the watch argument or the car argument. Rare coins are nothing more than the same type of real article that others want thus rendering them valuable.
These are all prudent recommendations for the Uber wealthy,with a secure place to ride it out.
For the rest of US, not so much.
Plus the prems for older St's, and Libs are OFF the charts.
and if you aren't already a millionaire and can't afford to put a couple hundred thousand dollars on your wrist?
Besides, when it comes time to feed yourself, that $50k watch might be worth one ham sandwich.
The curtain was pulled back when people walked away from mortgages.
The US dollar is a "promise to pay" whatever that means.
So what is a "broken promise" worth?
Evidently a lot more if you print more of them.
Cheesecake and guns. Value added.
don't know how seriously you can take this... he somehow neglected beanie babies on the list
Sadly, I'm thinking my thousand $ worth of baseball/football/basketball cards probably won't be worth much.
ammunition, watches, coins, and farmland?
I thought this post was about saving blondes as a store of value!
http://www.silverdoctors.com/
Blondes have multiple values:
entertainment
entertainment and entertainment
Unfortunately they are depreciating assets.
As the saying goes, if it floats, flies, or fucks, then rent it.
MachoMan
Been reading the arrest reports from FLA I see.
That's a strange list without these being mentioned:
1) Skill with firearms,
2) Mechanical aptitude,
3) Understanding of how markets arise and skill at creating trust networks, and
4) Know one end of a mule from the other.
People still act like this is a video game or something.
6) the entire VHS Macgyver series (for refrence only)
Salt bitchez...
Skill with firearms. Line up scope, don't move while you pull the trigger and that's all you need to do.
Honestly, when target shooting my 357 this summer, I was nearly as accurate shooting from my side. Seriously.
You use pistol to get to another weapon, like 12Gauge with 00buckshot.
I assume you know this if you shoot much but it's really not that easy especially when targets move, someone has the element of surprise/supperior numbers (few attack without some edge unless absolutely desperate), hard to see (most incidents are in low/no light) and the range becomes "two-way". Just look at police statistics. All of these guys have at least some training in holding a weapon still and pulling a trigger. Abhorently shocking amount of total misses at close range, basically the overwhelming majority of shots fired in each incident. From the stats you'd think you were looking at people who didn't even know what a firearm was, no less carry one daily and have a minimum threshold of training.
Reality is thought process and deliberate motor function go out the window quickly. Those tight groups at the range expand vastly all on their own. If one intends to defend himself with a firearm, they should train until weapon deployment, manipulation, and accuracy (timed pressure, multiple targets, distances, and on the move) are routine. In these situations people revert to training and where training was excellent performance becomes merely good. He who is able to put well placed hits on target first, almost always wins. Most people fail miserably at that on both the criminal and honest citizen sides.
And let me cast a second vote on yours that if one is to get into a gun fight of any kind, a long gun is vastly supperior to a pistol (which hollywood seems to have convinced the general public is like a neutron death ray).
Well, technically....Glocks are kind of like a hand-held explosive.
I wouldn't rely on police stats as a proxy for accuracy, the average cop shoots something around 200 rounds a year for qualification. Cops are notoriously bad shots, and I think it has to do with lack of practice moreso than circumstances/two-way range issues. The difference in round count between cop and civilian self-defense shootings is pretty significant.
This is one reason I think TPTB may have severely undersestimated the situation if things ever go civil war-level hot. At the ranges I go to, the round count is probably 200+ per visit, even a casual shooter is going to have more trigger time in per year than cops or even the majority of soldiers do.
Skill with concealment,
you can't shoot what you can't see!
Make your own stuff,
You cant' tax what you can't find!
SOMEONE CAN'T READ WHAT YOU DON'T WRITE (or post on line) ; )
sollicitus vos es justorum !
Monty Pythin "how not to be seen"
Wouldn't that mean that ammunition reloading equipment would be the new productive capital?
Very much so.
Hell yes, blu. This is spoiled twelve year old shit. Collectables and fancy watches? Mush for brains.
How about potable water, plumbing skills (or at least trenching), booze, tobacco, gardening, canning? The ability to field dress a dear, or a cow, or cure bacon?
Fancy firearms are great, but where do you get more amo? Think simple and reliable. Twelve gauge and 30-30.
Lots of peeps bumping gums and movin' da mouff. Few of us planning.
kaiserhoff
Read what I posted above.
It's a mindset unless you can put all the peices together....otherwise all of the things he listed are merely talismans.
You own guns? Good! Know how to use them in a real scenario? Received any training? Do you have like-minded people that you can team with if things really get wonky, and you have to provide continuous perimeter security? Know how to patrol in vehicles? On foot? Got communications covered? Backup plans? Logistics? Spare parts for weapons? Can you reload?
You own farmland? Great!!! Know to garden? Not garden like you're planting a shrub or tulips. Have several years' experience gardening to know how to deal with issues as they arise? Can you store the fruits of your labor? Do you know how to save seeds, and when to start your plants? Know animal husbandry and have experience? Can you butcher and then preserve meat?
Luxury watches? Those are meaningless to me. A cheap digital casio watch works just fine if I even bother wearing a watch at all.
Gold and silver? I understand from a scarcity point of view, and as a store of wealth based on that fact alone. Fact is, if things really get that bad, I'll be far more interested in teaming with useful people that have the experience and tools necessary to survive. Are you a medical doctor? A dentist? A combat arms veteran, a veterinarian? A civil or mechanical engineer? A machinist or mechanic? If so great! Otherwise, keep moving down the road, and all the best to you.
The ability to field dress a dear
**************
Simple-apply tequila and the clothes literally fall off-
3) Understanding of how markets arise and skill at creating trust networks, and
Walking on water, curing the sick, feeding the hungry, raising the deadActually understanding the cult-building technique is pretty valuable.
The skill I think that is the most helpful and is the most lacking is simple troubleshooting.
How many times have you seen a car being jumped on the side of the road that died while driving (dead alternator killed the battery)?
Shit, people today cannot "fix" a tripped breaker or GFCI, nevermind anything that actually requires thinking.
pods
hey, I made $30 resetting a cfci last week. I did show the tenant how to reset it herself in the future.
I always try to walk them through the button pushing over the phone first. If they're too dim to find the button and demand I come over, it's $125 (exceptions for the elderly and destitute).
Don't charge for the button pushing, charge for your knowledge.
guns will be number one because you can use them to get all the others..lol
Until you run out of ammo ...
Lol.
Or try taking stuff from someone that shoots better and faster than you do.
He who gets the jump on you wins as a whole,or hole.
That could take a very, very, very, very, very, very long time.
Class 3 can burn through the wallet faster than a wife with a grudge.
Proper Prior Preparation is a six-figure number.
I only need one bullet. Once I use it, I'll take yours. If you didnt have any, I didnt need to use mine.
I have alot more, but they are for tradin'.
and kilowatt hours:
http://www.kilowattcards.com/template/index.cfm
Although it's really only paper
And pogs. You can't forget pogs.
I still have my old Star Wars figures I got as a kid?
Note to self, do NOT melt Greedo's face with a magnifying glass again.
pods
As for 1933 cold coins, the owners were DUMBASSES to send all of them to the mint for authentication.
"I'll show me".
The girl in the picture would produce a kingly sum....however, I get the feeling they won't be looking that good in the near future...
Watches? Why not algae-powered flying grandfather clocks, Simon Black?
Is it ok to own these things in our native lands or should we own them in other lands?
Depends. Is your native land Libya?
I can't really see me wandering around the countryside of Chile with a gun whilst wearing a 200k watch and a pocket full of rare coins, each to his own I suppose.
No, but you can see Simon Black doing that ... accompanied by a horn-blowing cadre of his most loyal oompa loompas straddled atop their great warg-llamas.
Stock up on Dinky-Di!!!
Female sanitary napkins will be like gold....new ones, of course.
Thanks for that qualification Doc.
Add LARGE diapers, that way you can market to both ends of the age spectrum
I up arrowed initially then down...unless you are referring to washable...our throw away consumption society will grind to a halt. Then you will learn why your diapers were cloth.
I ask my wife if maybe we should get a diaper service after our second child was born, she asked,
“How often do they come over to change them?”
Very funny. Come to think of it, I did stock up on razor blades and my savings account is earning 0%. Off to Walgreens!
Toothpaste and shit like that would be golden.
Just don't be stocking up on those Gilette Mach X or Fusion whatever blades. Get yourself a safety razor and either Wilkinson Sword or Astra blades. They last longer, and shave better.
And the used ones will be like fiat.
I wonder if Simon bought himself a ranch in Kenya or Tanzania yet.
I heard his neighbor is Jim Sinclair.
You laugh, but yesterday Jim Sinclair posted a pic from inside his NASA-designed boat-car cruising along a lake in Connecticut. No joke! He thinks silver priced in four-digits is a "cheap thrill".
He should be doing Dos Equis ads.
It's a different fuckin world for these cats!
Land, seeds, booze, sildenafil citrate, silver, firearms, lots of bullets, lots of freinds and more friends
Got it covered, and not necessarily in that order.
Watches? WTF is wrong with this guy? Same thing with rare coins. Stupid shit.
but watches are a good item for barter, precious metal content and you will be timely
why are so many down on the watches
salt, medical supplies, sterelization equipment, syringes, spices, chocolate, cooking oils, hand crank mills, the list goes on...
What it all boils down to, is that we are constantly at face with the shtf question, and our response, as humanity, is the current economy and state of trade.
Because there is not $25k of gold in that watch that you paid $25k for.
Exactly. If any I would buy a few dozen FAKE rolex very cheap...
In a SHTF scenario a fake rolex and a real one buy the same amount of sandwiches:
1!
It sort of even tells time, mostly.
"why are so many down on the watches"
Not sure. I love watches. A handful of Raymond Weil, or even (gasp) an Urwerk would actually be amazing stores of value. And you can use them to boot.
Saints are not at all rare. If you want rare, you have to go back to before 1880 or so. Even then there is a finite number of collectors of these things. There may be only 40 or so 1842P quarter eagles surviving, but you got to find somebody to pay up for one. If we are in guns, bunkers, and tuna fish time, the numismatic market will be zippo. You would be better off with a Saint or a Liberty Head double eagle. There are lots kicking around.
+1 for the Pfeizer Riser. Lots of rich old dudes will pay out for those.
pods
Fuck that... Manufacture some sugar tablet placebo fakes...
"Now, today’s liquor fundamentals may not warrant rushing out to buy a home-brew distillery kit… or stocking up on Johnnie Walker."
Good read, but I disagree what is quoted above. I think alcohol is still an excellent long term durable good that will be tradable for other goods or services if things go south.
It may be worth storing a couple cases each of bourbon, scotch, vodka, and tequila.
a chainsaw will run on alcohol.
there's a few stores of value in that pic
The Beatles told me that all I'd need is love...the mop topped liars.
28) Recreational drugs. They keep the pace with inflation.
Truly. If you're stockpiling seeds, a few pot plants would be a good idea. You'd be able to trade that shit for just about anything.
if the SHTF weed will be growing EVERYWHERE in this country
no shit... it would be ubiquitous... If you're going that route, better to stock up on Doritos for all the stoned out freaks with the munchies...
So, beanie babies and poke-mon cards are out?!
I'm sunk.
Awww now shoot, shoot shoot, I thought seductively attired young females clutching phallic objects woulda been on that list of 4.
As an aside though: Nuemismatic coins? PHAIL (as in PHnomenal fAIL). You can ask Zimbabwe how that neumismatic thing went down.
My most valuable possessions will probably be my 12" vinyl Drum 'n' Bass records from the late 90s. People will need to rave after Armageddon.
Come to think of it my dad has an old Edison record player and lots of cylinders to play on it. Wonder what that is worth...
You should put a period after the 12".
Not to sound gross or rude, but how long can you keep a woman alive on dick-sucking? Honest question.
They have actually done many studies on this since ancent times. The woman always outlives the owner of the dick, for obvious reasons. If she does not find a new dick then she will not be alive much longer there after.
History chanel has done a documentary about that.
There is an african tribe where "juice" is worshiped and they let not one droplet go to waste...
Alive? Got that stuff already.
You also will have hours and hours to kill while NOT going to your job.
I figured the saying "Idle hands are the devil's workshop" would apply in Mad Max as well, no?
pods
"Idle minds are the Devil's porkchop"
My list:
Guns and ammo of varying calibers (and the skill to use them).
Food.
A frest water supply (a well with a generator or hand pump to work it)
Gold.
Silver.
Heirloom seeds.
Batteries.
Fuel (gasoline, diesel, wood)
Dogs.
At least an acre of land.
Medical supplies.
Booze. Forget wine or beer. Stick with scotch, whiskey, rum etc.
Candles.
Im bored now. You get the idea.
I forgot to add one important thing: The unbreakable desire to survive no matter what you have to do.
Such as murdering, looting, raping, pillaging, slaughtering, stealing, hijacking, extorting, terrorizing, invading, conquering. Worked for Genghis Khan.
Ummmm . . . are referring to the Democrats or Republicans???
yes
Zap Powerz
Doesn't matter if you can't use your brain.
Too many people are linear thinkers.
They don't have the ability to adapt even if they have the desire.
Every asshole who mentions a gun in his survival list should be dropped naked in the wilderness to learn some real skills.
A gun is a tool, so is a rock or a stick. They are extensions of the arm, which is controlled by the brain.
First learn to control the situation with your head, then your fists, finally a weapon.
Doesn't matter how many guns you have if your house can burn, or the barn,fuck anything that will catch fire.
I cannot disagree with anything you said. But, we have to plan based on the circumstances we find ourselves in now and the circumstances we anticipate being in in the future. I plan on staying put as long as I can because that is where I believe I have the greatest chance for survival. If I have to go mobile, I will, but I will also recognize that my chances of survival will significantly decrease if Im mobile.
We have to play to our strengths right?
eF fists; pepper spray and a whacker of choice. Like my fist can do schitt anyways. My whacker is a bolt in one end of an automotive pressure tube and a handle on the other end. Fits discretly as the natural curved shape of the tube lets one end sit in a front pocket and the other sit in the back pocket.
Beat me by 3 minutes. Great list.
How did I forget dogs? Bad Kaiser. Must have wine deficiency;)
I'm stocking up on tulips, I figure their turn should be coming around again.
I'm still holding my South Sea Company shares. One day my lads.....one day.
Skill with a crossbow is number one - see the new tv show "Revolution".
I try very hard to not base any decision I make on what I see on TV.
Don't forget Honey as a food source.
That white stuff that forms @ the top is peroxide for cuts/wounds.
You mean the new tv show where everybody wants horses but not bicycles?
Yeah, good blueprint to follow...
The list seems to have missed one..... pussy.
man what kind of problems you got? you got hot and cold running pussy on tap!
Meh - people are mentally too much, how you say, like frog in zee frying pan. Starting to believe that the 6 mega media corps that own the great bulk of the MSM are:
1] owned by large international banks and/or corporations with substantially similar interests and
2] Highly disproportionately [if not "mainly"] owned and operated by Jews/Zionists such that those who ain't are groupthinked and otherwise intimidated into, e.g. showing the rocket hole in the Israeli house but not the 10 legless corpses of Palestinian kids or, e.g. having the sole ethnoreligiously sponsored presidential debate and not inviting a particular candidate for the sole reason that he is not sufficiently in thrall to
If and to the extent 1 and 2 are largely true, and have pro-war/pro-zionist/Israel First - Universal Ethics Last... 1] we're doomed and 2] we won't be un-doomed because 1] and 2] are protected from achieving critical social threshold by aggressive MSM lack of coverage, and the ability to get a Pavlovian-cognitive Sham Think Response from the 'sheeple' by flinging 'conspiracy' or 'anti-semite' at an assertion in lieu of any {need for an} argument.
But anyway - 2 things.
1.
NDAA: The Biggest Election Issue No One's Talking About {and fuck liberals for their creeping cryptofascism, absurd and ironic attitude of moral superiority, and selective outrage/application of the Bill of Rights}2.
The Israel - Iran Conflict is Not About Nukes, but Water!{Zionists absosmurfly never intended to grant the Palestinians a state, they always planned to ethnically cleanse the natives, always intended to attack and weaken neighboring states {using US blood and treasure} they've attacked Americans, sometimes killing them, no fewer than 5 times to try to trick us into wars, and they absolutely will not stop being aggressive and expansionist [while claiming to be "defending" themselves] until Bibi brings back the Moshiach. And Bibi's fellow travellers have absolutely hijacked the US government and have no qualms about sending goyim to die.
- and a genetic study at Johns Hopkins, a halfway decent school, has established that the 13th Tribe/Khazarian theory is basically right - which ipso facto means Arabized Palestinian natives are closer, genetically, to the ancient "Israelites" than the European Jews who colonized it and claimed it as their "homeland."
You know how many signers of the Israeli Dec. of 'Independence' were born in Europe?
[almost all of them, bitches].
Talk about full spectrum control of the fucking narrative - they've got people to stop fucking thinking at all.
Anyway.... gott polish me boots.
Last post.
Enjoy!
Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum.
Guns - check
ammo-check
farmland-check
Watches..........Are you f-ing serious?
And collectable coins? stupid move, you'll pay more for it, but just get melt when you sell it. bad investment.
I agree. I dont mean to rain on Chris Duanes dream coin (says he's sold 40K) but at a $5 premium I would take 15% more junk silver if I was buying for any reason other than the novelty.
I doubt novelty will buy me extra milk.
Bingo. Junk silver is my all time favorite. Also, dimes, quarters and halves are much less likely to be counterfieted.
Most St. G. double eagles can be had for not that big a premium over melt. Today's price is $2,000 for a NGC MS62 and $1,830 for a ungraded, probably cleaned, maybe AU Saint. Melt today is: $1707.34
So basically, you are paying up $120 to $300 for a certification that the coin is not titanium on the inside. Bullion coins are not that much cheaper. The bullion coins like the Buffalo go for $80->$100 over spot.
Personally, I would rather have the Saint, but to each their own.
I see your point, but for PM's I prefer silver. More upside and easier to trade with. I wouldnt want to walk in to barter town and ask who could make change for a ten ounce gold bar.
To the list I would add books about edible plants, farming, survival, etc. and Meds. You can order antibiotics online, cheap. google "fish-mox"
Especially if you buy the jewlery grade Saints or Liberties (F-VF's). I've gotten some great deals on those before gold shot up past $1600.
Don't forget your Franklin Mint John Wayne collectible porcelain plate set. Since the aftermath will involve a lot of heavily armed hillbillies, there will always be a market for those babies.
Oh my another anti-watcher…..you all are smart enough to have at least thought about bullion etc. the rest of the masses won’t have any access to any precious metal other than what will be scavenged from jewellery chains/rings/watches from grandma and grandpa.
Other things are more immediately important but to be punny - time will tell.
The U.S. fiat is backed by the promise of the U.S. military.
He missed out porn.
With the Internet down time to bring out your collection of mags. They'll all have value even if some of the pages are stuck together.
I am trying to collect a few things. As many have pointed out common items like toliet paper and other tolletries will be gold. Even today laundry soap has become a kind of currency in 3rd world America. Stock up on sale items like knives, flashlights, anything that is imported. Hiking boots, gloves, all become must have at any price.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2011/10/not-survivalist.html
Sitting in the bunker in the dark with my wife both wearing night vision googles eating a cold can of beans with no ventalation. O yes this is living.
The hook to get people to read this has dropped the intellectual quality of the discussion by 2 cup sizes.
Food, water, sanctuary...I doubt any of you will win many gunfights
I figure I'm all set for barter with my Barak Obama 'Hope & Change' collectable plate and mug set.
WTF! Not one post mentioned duct tape!!!
I did. I consider duct tape to be a "medical supply" and I listed medical supplies!
Super glue (for deep cuts)...
LOL! That is funny, because I really did use duct tape once to close a wound once while in the field. For real, a good way to close a gash to stop the bleeding in a pinch.
Good catch. No prepper should be without a ton of toilet paper, tampons, and duct tape. Hey that would make a great book title, kinda like "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jarad Diamond. "Toilet Paper, Tampons, and Duct Tape" by Graneros. I like it.
I wouldn't pass the fancy watch down to your kids or grandkids, they don't wear them these days, at all.
Fine to move it out of the country but sell it soon as watches are going the way of the dodo bird.
(I love them but the new generations just DO NOT wear them).
My final post on Zerohedge. (I actually sent a question to the help at Zerohedge as to how I can "cancel" my subscription/membership ... whatever ... no response ... so now I will delete my email account and just not post anymore).
OK, my first impression of Simon Black is that he is a pompous ass ... and I know several members of the Black family in Canada... don't know whether they are related or not, but a couple of them I think are pure trash, regardless of their wealth.
Let's assume for the time being that everything that we have been led to believe is a lie and that everything that has been promoted as conspiracy theory is in fact the truth (my guess is that this is more true than false) ... then WTF are we heading into?
- Financial collapse is the least of our worries.
- Preppers are prepping for the wrong thing.
- The Mayans told us, but there was no way we could believe them (after all who could possibly believe that the sun would go dark for 70 hours .... I mean really!)
However, on the off-chance that peer review science is wrong, I would suggest that you consider that Tesla was right. And from Tesla we can infer that the sun would then NOT be a bunch of fusion bombs going off sequentially, but is instead a bunch of gas plasma that is being powered to glow and arc by the generator at the centor of the galaxy (consider Tesla's experiments with the transmisssion of energy and lighting through the air or ground with no cords).
To make the story interesting then we need a change in the status quo ... and that would be provided by the earth and sun making a periodic transition across the central plane of the galaxy. But wait, when it transitions across the plane, the source powering the sun switches from one set of energy lines to another (radiates out the center and then curves back to the poles in the same way we envision the earths magnetic lines to travel).
OK, so what happens when we make this transition? I have read stuff from ancient times that says that we get 70 hours of "no sun". WTF you say? Yeah, when the induced energy powering the glob of gas plasma is no longer there, then the gas plasma does not glow. Oh, shit you say? Yeah, 70 hours of no sun while it transitions from one set of energy lines to the opposite is going to make things damn cold, pretty damn quick.
Stonehenge, Underground bunkers, ancient underground cities, pyramids, HAARP, gold (a perfect reflector of IR radiation) ... ask yourself what they have in common and the answer is obvious.
Ciao dudes
Why not just leave and don't come back? From my experience in watching thousands of people leave sites (and having the annoying habit of telling everyone they are leaving) over the past two decades, no one cares.
70 hours?... Piece of cake... Get a sub zero rated sleeping bag and snuggle up with the chick in the foto with the camo...
Be honest Bart...how many times, since leaving, have you checked back to see if anyone is commenting on your post...in fact you are here right now, reading this post...we seeeee you....and put some pants on for christ's sake.
Well I guess I can cross sun block off my list.
it probably won't get all that cold, considering the planet is filled with molten rock.
Don't let the screen door hit you on the ass on yer way out!
http://youtu.be/RsnWZlEQyLA My guns are Nicer.
the best store of value was shown in the pic... white women everyone loves them and they are a renewable resource as long as you have at least one. stock pile bitchez bitchez
CTRL + Q to Enable/Disable FBPhotoZoom CTRL + Q to Enable/Disable FBPhotoZoomwomen are a depleting asset, but luckily you can lease and not own.
By the way, here's the source for the thumbnail on the homepage, in case, you know, you like this sort of thing:
http://machinegunsvegas.com/wp-content/themes/mgv/media/img/bg.jpg
Hair spray?
as much as i love watches, i do think lux goods may not be the best store of value if there is truly an epic collapse. will anyone see the value in a $200k watch when there is shortage of food and fuel? Things like watches and art probably increase in the early stages of the collapse (last 5 years), and when things are on fire thses items will have little value. but lets hope its just a minor collapse or re-organization...if so, then i guess these lux items will continue to increase as you'll never know which currency is the next to drop.
but i would say that ammo and watches naturally hedge each other, but will not see massive increases at the same time. If it's bad enough we need ammo to survive...that watch is worthless.
How about we use women as currency?
...that works just spiffy until you wake up and she has a bloody knife in one hand and your dick in the other....go hump a pillow chump.
wait...I clicked on this purely to see a close up of the hot chick with the AR...wtf?!
Human beings will always have to eat... True! What was the movie Soylent Green about? Not edamame
Toilet Paper
Gold, silver, brass and lead.
I think the AR-15 comes in the Hello Kitty motif.
http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15---evil-bl...
diamonds