MikeG
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A few weeks ago, a story about “Doomsday Camps” made the internet rounds. It turns out to be based on a combination of the usual conspiracy yarn, combined with some inferences, and a good deal of clever marketing.
I originally ran across the reference to “Doomsday Camps” on Dane Wigington’s March 31st Global Alert News [bold face added]:
Wigington likely picked up this story from a number of websites that have been reposting a March 18thWashington Examinerstory by Paul Bedard.
The Fortitude Ranch website is easy to find and essentially a prepper marketing platform.
It offers a detailed map of mostly proposed locations.
The website introduces official U.S. government shelters under the menu “Survival Community.”
Dropping in the reference to Mount Weather site interesting.
It does exist, but has nothing to do with the extensive network of imaginary “doomsday camps.”
The entrepreneurs running Fortitude Ranch are conflating their product with the federal government, a marketing ploy that evolves into an implied conspiracy as it travels from the Washington Examiner to Dane Wigington.
I originally ran across the reference to “Doomsday Camps” on Dane Wigington’s March 31st Global Alert News [bold face added]:
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/?s=doomsday+campDoes humanity's propensity toward denial have any limits? Western power structures are continuing to provoke other world powers in what appears to be an increasingly desperate attempt to trigger global conflict. Diminishing global resources are the bottom line in the equation. DC officials are "flocking" to "Doomsday Camps", what do they know that they are not disclosing to the public?
Wigington likely picked up this story from a number of websites that have been reposting a March 18thWashington Examinerstory by Paul Bedard.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...icial-washington-flocking-to-doomsday-camps-1A building network of backwoods doomsday camps around the country are pulling in members from affluent areas and even Washington national security officials as the threats grow from nuclear war, an EMP or virus attack.
Called Fortitude Ranch, the outposts promise protection and a year’s supply of food for those unable to build their own bunker. What’s more, until a crisis strikes, they are being used for prepper training and vacations.
The Fortitude Ranch website is easy to find and essentially a prepper marketing platform.
https://www.fortituderanch.comWelcome to Fortitude Ranch
Fortitude Ranch is a survival community equipped to survive any type of disaster and long-term loss of law and order, managed by full time staff. Fortitude Ranch is affordable (about $1,000/person annually) because of large numbers of members and economies of scale. Fortitude Ranch is especially attractive to join because it doubles as a recreation and vacation facility as well as a survival retreat. Members can vacation, hunt, fish and recreate at our forest and mountain locations in good times, and shelter at Fortitude Ranch to survive a collapse.
It offers a detailed map of mostly proposed locations.
The website introduces official U.S. government shelters under the menu “Survival Community.”
https://www.fortituderanch.com/survival-community/Mount Weather" in West Virginia is a huge FEMA-run survival site for top U.S. civilian and military officials
Survival Condo provides luxury survival facilities in former ICBM silos—with libraries, meeting rooms, swimming pool, rock climbing wall, theater and many other amenities to wait out the collapse in comfort. These $1.5 – $3 million Survival Condos are sold out now, but a new location is under construction.
Dropping in the reference to Mount Weather site interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Weather_Emergency_Operations_CenterThe Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a civilian command facility in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, used as the center of operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Also known as the High Point Special Facility (HPSF), its preferred designation since 1991 is "SF".
It does exist, but has nothing to do with the extensive network of imaginary “doomsday camps.”
The entrepreneurs running Fortitude Ranch are conflating their product with the federal government, a marketing ploy that evolves into an implied conspiracy as it travels from the Washington Examiner to Dane Wigington.
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