{"id":351759,"date":"2018-03-11T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=351759"},"modified":"2018-03-11T23:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:25:30","slug":"super-rich-rush-buy-nuclear-proof-bunkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/super-rich-rush-buy-nuclear-proof-bunkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Super-Rich Rush to Buy Nuclear-Proof Bunkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The rush amongst the super-rich started after the key event of 2014; this single stunning event suddenly sparked that rush by the super-rich to buy nuclear-proof bunkers, and the rush has been nonstop since that event. Though many news-media in The West have reported on the existence<\/i><\/b> of this suddenly booming market for luxurious and supposedly nuclear-proof bunkers, none has reported on what actually caused<\/i><\/b> it \u2014 the event that had sparked it. In fact, that event is still a secret in The West \u2014 not publicly mentioned here; it is, practically speaking, banned<\/i> from being publicly even mentioned, in The West. So: since that event is necessarily mentioned in this article, and is even linked-to here, so that the reader can see videos of it that were posted of it online while it was happening, and there is even \u201csmoking gun\u201d evidence showing government officials actually planning it, and covering it up, and blatantly lying about what they had done<\/i>, this report, explaining why<\/i><\/b> the super-rich rush now to buy nuclear-proof bunkers, violates<\/i><\/b> that ban. As a consequence<\/i><\/b>, probably none of the hundreds of major news-media in The West that this news-report is being submitted to for publication, will publish it. But perhaps a half-dozen of the small<\/i> ones will publish it. After all: a few small news-media cannot have much impact. The government and media don\u2019t need to fool everyone in order to succeed, but only to fool the vast majority of people. (However, maybe now they don\u2019t any longer even need to continue worrying about public opinion, at all<\/span><\/a>. So: maybe they no longer need to continue such bans. But they do continue them, perhaps simply out of institutionalized bad habit.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Wherever you\u2019re so fortunate as to be reading this: here is the reason why<\/i> the market for luxurious deep-underground nuclear-resistant bunkers has so suddenly blossomed:<\/span><\/p>\n

In February 2014, an extremely violent, and U.S.-engineered<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> but \u2018democracy\u2019-masked, coup in Ukraine on Russia\u2019s very doorstep<\/span><\/a>, was successfully culminated by its overthrowing Ukraine\u2019s neutralist and democratically elected leader<\/span><\/a>, and then by its installing there a rabidly anti-Russian government, out for Russian blood<\/span><\/a>, just like Hitler had been<\/span><\/a>, and, in fact, strongly inspired by him<\/span><\/a>, in many ways<\/span><\/a>, including an ethnic-cleansing campaign<\/span><\/a>. Within less than a month, Russia responded to that coup by accepting the still predominantly Russian Crimea<\/span><\/a> back into Russia. (Crimea had been part of Russia until the Soviet dictator had arbitrarily transferred it to Ukraine in 1954.) For Russia\u2019s having done that, U.S. President Barack Obama (and America\u2019s foreign vassals) slapped economic sanctions against Russia and mobilized NATO troops and weaponry onto and near Russia\u2019s borders \u2014 as if they wanted to out-do 1962\u2019s Cuban Missile Crisis, which they are doing, but in reverse direction (against not America, but, this time, against Russia). <\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since that singular 2014 event \u2014 that coup<\/span><\/a> (which destroyed Ukraine<\/span><\/a>) \u2014 the hottest market amongst the super-rich has been nuclear-resistant bunkers deep underground: such as here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>, and here<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

I think that the three best of these articles about luxury nuclear bunkers, are this<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> (with the best pictures of one of these facilities) and this<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> (with the best commentary about the entire phenomenon), and this<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>, which discusses the increasing number of builders of these facilities.\u00a0Some billionaires, however, are instead moving to New Zealand<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

So: ever since 2014, private planning to survive a nuclear war is the most booming field amongst the super-rich. This is a real-estate market that no ordinary person could afford to buy into. These people are either principals themselves in the aristocracy, or else prime agents for them and thus likewise extremely wealthy and already well on their own personal ways to entering the aristocracy \u2014 the aristocracy of extreme wealth. They\u2019re thus all well-connected; they\u2019ve got the best contacts and sources inside governments. And, since 2014, they are rushing to prepare: to prepare for a nuclear war.<\/span><\/p>\n

If these people aren\u2019t well-informed about the global situation, then no one is. And they\u2019re investing accordingly. Lots of people invest in stocks, bonds, gold, etc, but only the richest few can afford to invest in nuclear-resistant bunkers, and that\u2019s where the boom nowadays especially is, amongst only the super-rich. (We\u2019re not talking here about high government-officials; they\u2019ve got their Spartan nuclear bunkers long-since paid for by U.S. taxpayers; but these are all just private and extremely wealthy individuals.) Maybe their attitude is: if you\u2019ve got three-or-more homes, then at least one of them should be designed for the post-WW-III world and near enough to your main home so that maybe you can reach it before any missiles will be flying.<\/span><\/p>\n

A nuclear war between U.S. and Russia would be over within less than 30 minutes, start-to-finish; so, there won\u2019t be any time to plan if the nuclear phase of the NATO-v.-Russia (plus, maybe China) war appears to be imminent \u2014 waiting that long in order to depart for one\u2019s private bomb-shelter would already be too late. A quick \u2018vacation\u2019 to the secret location would thus necessarily be of the unplanned sort, which means that the system by which the owner will reach the spot, needs to be operational 24 hours every day, and needs to be maintained continuously, until \u2014 if and when \u2014 the nuclear exchange starts. Therefore, these facilities have airports and helicopter-access, and are continuously staffed, so that the richest people in the U.S. and its allied countries, can arrive there at any moment\u2019s notice and receive the full range of services that they are accustomed to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any of these billionaires and centi-millionaires could have chosen instead to establish (either alone or in combination with one-another) the first foundation or other propaganda-operation to publicize the fraudulence of the U.S.-and-allied case for sanctions against Russia, and the fraudulence of NATO\u2019s continuing assertions after 1991 that it\u2019s a \u2018defensive\u2019 military alliance (it\u2019s no longer that, at all), and the fact (contrasted against that fraud) of NATO\u2019s being nowadays purely an alliance for aggression against Russia and China, as if the Cold War had never ended (and it never really did end except on the Russian and Chinese side, which now recognize that the U.S. and its allies had lied in 1990<\/span><\/a>); so, all of these billionaires rather buy private nuclear-bomb shelters, than establish a foundation to expose to the public the U.S. side\u2019s apocalyptic lies, which actually cause the danger that\u2019s heading to destroy the entire world.<\/span><\/p>\n

America\u2019s own leading scientists on strategic weaponry have recently (on 1 March 2017) documented that the U.S. nuclear-weapons-modernization program against both Russia and China is \u201cplanning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike.\u201d<\/span><\/a> Obviously, only the most-insiders of insiders will know in advance<\/i> about this \u201csurprise first strike.\u201d (Otherwise, it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise, and the advantage of being the first to attack will be gone.) However, nuclear-proof bunker-space is presumably so limited so that the people who are buying these few spots will be amongst those few. (Of course, high federal officials will be taken care of elsewhere.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since at least 2006, America\u2019s Establishment \u2014 its billionaires and their agents \u2014 have been virtually unanimously and actively supporting the abandonment<\/span><\/a> of the \u201cMutually Assured Destruction\u201d concept that had long dominated nuclear thinking on both sides (not only on the Soviet and continuing under the Russian side, but also on that of America and its NATO military alliance) and have been replacing that paradigm, the \u201cM.A.D.\u201d paradigm (which has staved off WW III ever since 1945). They replaced it by the U.S.-NATO paradigm (ever since at least 2006) of \u201cNuclear Primacy,\u201d in which The West\u2019s nuclear weapons are to be used not to stave off WW III, but instead so as to achieve \u2018victory\u2019 in an actual U.S.-v.-Russia nuclear war<\/span><\/a>. Ever since 2014, U.S.-and-allied military moves cannot be coherently explained on any other basis than that the U.S. and NATO are planning a blitz nuclear attack against at least Russia<\/span><\/a> \u2014 and perhaps also against China<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly, whoever are buying these luxury-pads for the post-apocalypse, are hoping for a NATO \u2018victory\u2019 in WW III, and are certainly not favorably inclined to preventing that armageddon, which they know is based on lies (unless they\u2019re too stupid to be able to distinguish between their own propaganda versus the actual historical reality, which is documented in the links here, which links show that any decent<\/i> billionaire in The West would instead be publicly exposing the horrific fraud<\/i> that\u2019s perpetrated by all of themselves, not trying to protect themselves from that fraud\u2019s immediate global consequences).<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, these people are the ultimate \u201cconformists.\u201d It\u2019s clear by their 100% unity on this. They\u2019ve become so gated-community, one-way-glassed, that they\u2019ve no concern remaining (if they ever did) for the billions of people (not to mention entire planet) that they\u2019re placing into the severest form of danger: global annihilation. Instead, their only concern (quite evidently) is to be \u2018winners\u2019. (Like I had said at that last link: \u201cIn military parlance, the side that suffers the less harm is the \u2018winner\u2019, regardless of any other factor. That\u2019s the basic reality of military strategy: it\u2019s inevitably win-lose,\u00a0not\u00a0win-win.\u201d However, M.A.D. was the first-ever exception to that strategic principle; and, now, it\u2019s gone \u2014 as of 2006 in U.S., and by now also in Russia (if not also in China). M.A.D. is gone; it\u2019s been replaced by a real insanity, which is clearly psychopathic and clearly pervasive amongst the super-rich: \u201cNuclear Primacy\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The psychological reality<\/span><\/a> that had long staved off a WW III is completely gone. And the people who have caused<\/i> it to end are now buying all these nuclear bunkers for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a rare exception to the unanimity of the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s voices regarding what\u2019s behind this change (which cause is the stifling nazi or racist-fascist ideology at the top in America), the capitol-hill newspaper, The Hill<\/i>, allowed to be published on 9 November 2017, an article \u2014 even with numerous links to high-quality sources \u2014 titled \u201cThe reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda\u201d<\/span><\/a>. An indication of just how extraordinarily thorough the takeover of the U.S. Government by nazis has become, is that both under President Barack Obama and under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has been among the only 3 countries (in Obama\u2019s case)<\/span><\/a> and the only two countries (in Trump\u2019s)<\/span><\/a> that officially stood up at the United Nations in support of nazism, even of its Holocaust-denial. On both occasions, Ukraine joined with the U.S. on that vote. On one occasion, Canada also did (thus being the third). This scandal was virtually entirely ignored in the Western \u2018news\u2019 media.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the world we are living in today. How many \u2018news\u2019 media are reporting this reality? How many have<\/i> reported it? Just one billionaire standing out from the pack, so as to reach the masses with these truths, could make a whole world of difference. But, instead, perhaps they\u2019re all just buying nuclear bunkers, so as to be amongst the few \u2018winners\u2019, in a war on behalf of the global regime that represents, actually, only themselves<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the catastrophe of our times.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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