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The Doomsday Vault Was Opened For The First Time Ever!
Source: wrsc.org
Earlier this week, there was a shocking revelation the so-called ‘doomsday vault’ in Norway had to be opened for the very first time. Just 1,300 kilometers north of the arctic circle on one of the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen, an underground vault is keeping millions of flower, plant and crop seeds in inventory to protect the world from sudden shocks.
The vault is located in/under a frozen mountain on one of the Spitsbergen islands and as the designers really seemed to have a long-term vision, even melting ice caps would ensure the vault remains above the elevated sea level.
Once again it’s great to see how Norway tries to be as independent as possible, as not only does its sovereign wealth fund have hundreds of billions of dollars to safeguard the wealth and prosperity of the country, it also is the only country having a very long-term vision as it has funded the entire construction cost (and operating expenses) of a polar vault only used to store crop seeds. This should ensure the country (and by extrapolation the entire world) to be able to re-plant certain crops in the event of a total disaster.
Source: Croptrust.org
And that’s what’s important here. The vault was originally created to ensure the world population would always be able to have access to certain species even after a huge catastrophe and a nuclear war. In other words, this was the final rescue method before some species (or the human race) gets annihilated, hence the description of it being the ‘Doomsday Vault’.
And now the vault has been cracked for the very first time for a, with all due respect, relatively small crisis in Syria, which isn’t even a farming superpower? Why couldn’t Russia supply seeds? Or neighboring countries in the Middle East?
Source: alicefeng.net
And the total amount of seeds withdrawn isn’t really negligible either. Approximately 15% of the total inventory will be drawn down and whilst one would think the reserve will return to normalized levels, it’s baffling to see that even a small local problem is a good enough reason to loot the strategic reserves.
This would make one wonder whether or not this is another test for the mainstream media to gauge the average sentiment. In just 14 months we have seen numerous attacks from Russia in the Eastern part of Ukraine, a passenger jet that was shut down over the same region, and now hundreds of thousands of ‘refugees’ are invading Europe. They don’t go to the surrounding muslim countries, no, the refugees are going to Europe; another test of the Western mainstream media to find out how the public opinion is being steered.
And the test seems to have been succeeded. We dare to bet you didn’t know about the raid on the Doomsday Vault at all.
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Seriously?
I know, biased much??
Probably some rich fkhead bought the seeds for his underground garden. 15% is a lot, just enough to for 2 or 3 elites. Hope they got willing slaves could you imagine Soros stupid ass pushing corn seeds in the ground! I bet he'd be outraged and such a debacle!
Who took the seeds anyhow?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/world/norway-seed-vault/
They were checking the vault to see if Langley made a visit and substituted real seeds for plastic look alike...think Tungsten Gold and Ft. Knox.
People forget about frozen water unique properties; do you know a vast majority of all Arctic ice is in water & below the water line (i.e. "tip of the iceberg")? Why does that matter? Get two cups the same size and fill one with just water and fill the other with water and add ice cube until the levels are equal. Wait and hour and come back; did the ice melting cause the water level to rise or lower? Now you have your answer and of course the only risk to a partial melting is the HAARP weather modifications, the reason for the hole in the OZONE. Keep drinking the Kool-aid.
If the Arctic melted all away the sea level would lower, not rise, but that doesn't matter because that will not happen till the Universe disintegrates as planned.
If the Arctic ice cap melted, no doubt the Glaciers of the Antartic and souther hemisphere as well as those in Greenland and the North would melt as well.. the result would be a surge in water levels globally... perhaps accompanied even by a shifting of the poles.
"a passenger jet that was shut down over the same region"
I hate it when flying jets are shut down.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
AMERICAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.
you never had any cow...they were pictures of a toy cow in your office.... You die with a billion dollar...which sadly is worth about 50 cents in today's money.
the author loses all credibility by claiming that russia is attacking ukraine.
the ussa overthrew the democratically elected ukranian govt (which were a bunch of asshats, but no less legitimate than the obama administration), ussa installed their puppet poroshenko in its place, and pushed poroshenko to start a civil war against eastern ukrainian citizens who didn't want any part of the us/eu agenda.
the ussa has initiated a bloodbath, and the bloodthristy ussa neocons keep pushing for more war.
russia has acted calmly, non-agressively, and has done their best to protect ethnic russians in eastern ukraine while trying to diffuse tensions.
Syrian crops won't be needed in the future as there will be no Syria.
Post global nuclear warfare? Nothing will grow anywhere. Grass may grow up through cracks in concrete but a sheet of glass will stop even that.
How does one go about rehypothecating seeds in a seed bank? Like the Fed and Ft Know no one knows what is left in the reserve. Money to be made here! Is there a carbon credit vault somewhere?
Liar, liar, seeds on fire.
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The USSA overthrew the leadership in Ukraine. The USSA invaded and attacked 7 nations in the middle-east. The people in Crimea voted over 90% for independence. Russia didn't attack anyone. And who knows what happened in the seed vault... if anything.
Looks like most ZH readers actually know how to read... and remember.
the guy's pimping gold - article is bullshit
Exactly .. Syria is withdrawing part of what they already put in. HoHum:
https://www.croptrust.org/in-the-news/syrian-war-causes-global-doomsday-...
What a shit article full of falsehoods - deliberate and badly researched.
Maybe the author should read the cited articles?
These are special seeds from the region.
Nonetheless, from the article;
"The vault currently includes more than 860,000 seed samples from almost every country on the planet. This withdrawal will take out around 116,000 of those samples, according to Reuters".
Even if;
"But there are new deposits being made to the vault each year, so there's no risk of the vault running out of seeds".
As with any bank, it's harder to build up reserves to deposit.
DavidC
15% of the total stock?
A commercial...?
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine...
Not till Captain Midnight tells me to again.
It sure looks like the guy who shovels the walk has his work cut out for him.
This event was the agreed-upon signal for the in-the-knows that the shit is about to intersect with the fan. Accessing the seed vault this week, and publicizing it to such an extent, was neither necessary nor even useful. But as a hermetic warning it is perfect and has served its purpose.