Why Buying Bullion Is Not A Good Investment....

Elf very well said. Very sorry about what happened in the area as well. Hopefully your house isn't one thats in the bay. NJ does seem to be doing a better job from the top trying to get everything fixed up though than NY so hopefully it wont be to much longer.

I agree, unfortunatly enough people and political agendas have prevented them from being completely run out and discredited. Its pretty obvious they came to the conclusion for and have been trying to work backwards to explain why. Whether it happens in our life time or not, they will be looked back on poorly in history for such dishonest attempts at "science". I recall a nobel prize winner resigning from one of those environmental science groups saying basically that theyre just playing politics and not reporting science.

http://www.ibtimes.com/nobel-laurea...rming-313636

I couldnt agree more though scientists should let the science dictate their polices and beliefs, not the other way around

REAL scientists do exactly that. People who do not are only pretending to be scientists.

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IF the worse happened.... I would rather have food, water and shelter. forget PMs. I can still trade my food for protection, and other services so yea i;ll pass PMs on a worst case scenario.

I would want food, water, warm/cool clothing, my bicycle and a bicycle pump, and . . . .


. . . . textbooks.


Yup, you read that right. Why? Here's why: If you read Stephen King's The Stand--which is actually a pretty good analysis of what would happen during a worldwide apocalypse, up until the point that God starts sending everybody visions because it's a very weird kind of science-fiction/fantasy thing--you'll find a section where two characters have to perform an appendectomy and neither of them are doctors. They perform the surgery by finding a Reader's Digest set of medical books and using them to learn as they go. I don't remember if their patient survives or not (I think not), but once the initial panic (DEATH!! FOOD!! WATER!!) is over and people have started to regroup, those books would be as valuable as gold is today (remember that in the initial fall we can count on lots of books being burned as fuel or by vandals). People will need to relearn how to doctor. People will need to relearn higher math, which has lots of daily applications. And people will need books to teach their children English/Spanish/French/etc. because even today, in a non-apocalyptic world, we are constantly finding old manuscripts and such from ancient civilizations--imagine what would happen in a world where ashes, ashes we all fell down, and now after the initial huddle for survival people are expanding outward again. In Ayn Rand's Anthem, all the books are burned at the beginning of the New World. In Alli Condie's Matched trilogy, old books that are not part of the One Hundred Books are routinely incinerated. In the Hunger Games trilogy, all past knowledge has been lost. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag is considered vital because he's the backup, not even the primary, memorizer of the Book of Ecclesiastes. It's very clear that knowledge is a powerful tool in a world gone crazy. I estimate it'd take six months at the outside for the medical books to be worth quite a lot.

So yeah, as soon as the dust settled I'd be running for the nearest Barnes and Noble and finding a way to get inside.