{"id":376205,"date":"2018-09-05T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-tech-titans-plot-their-doomsday-escape-to-new-zealand-luxury-bunkers\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T17:33:49","slug":"prison-planet-com-tech-titans-plot-their-doomsday-escape-to-new-zealand-luxury-bunkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-tech-titans-plot-their-doomsday-escape-to-new-zealand-luxury-bunkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Tech Titans Plot Their Doomsday Escape to New Zealand Luxury Bunkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia Carville<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers\/\">Bloomberg<\/a><br \/>September 5, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/210317bunker1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Years of doomsday talk at Silicon Valley dinner parties has turned to action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, two 150-ton survival bunkers journeyed by land and sea from a Texas warehouse to the shores of New Zealand, where they\u2019re buried 11 feet underground.<\/p>\n<p>Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers from Rising S Co. and planted them in New Zealand in the past two years, said Gary Lynch, the manufacturer\u2019s general manager. At the first sign of an apocalypse \u2014 nuclear war, a killer germ, a French Revolution-style uprising targeting the 1 percent \u2014 the Californians plan to hop on a private jet and hunker down, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Zealand is an enemy of no one,\u201d Lynch said in an interview from his office in Murchison, Texas, southeast of Dallas. \u201cIt\u2019s not a nuclear target. It\u2019s not a target for war. It\u2019s a place where people seek refuge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remote island nation, clinging to the southern part of the globe 2,500 miles off Australia\u2019s coast, has 4.8 million people and six times as many sheep. It has a reputation for natural beauty, easy networking, low-key politicians who bike to work, and rental prices half those of the San Francisco Bay Area. That makes it an increasingly popular destination not only for those fretting about impending dystopia, but for tech entrepreneurs seeking incubators for nurturing startups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become one of the places for people in Silicon Valley, mostly because it\u2019s not like Silicon Valley at all,\u201d said Reggie Luedtke, an American biomedical engineer who\u2019s moving to New Zealand in October for the Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship, a program created to lure tech innovators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, September 5, 2018  at  6:16 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/tech-titans-plot-their-doomsday-escape-to-new-zealand-luxury-bunkers.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/tech-titans-plot-their-doomsday-escape-to-new-zealand-luxury-bunkers.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia CarvilleBloombergSeptember 5, 2018 Years of doomsday talk at Silicon Valley dinner parties has turned to action. In recent months, two 150-ton survival bunkers journeyed by land and sea from a Texas warehouse to the shores of New Zealand, where they\u2019re buried 11 feet underground. Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers from Rising S [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}