A test kit for unidentified substances, a metal detector for picking up chemtrails, and more

Faraday Cage To Go EMP Cover

It's easy to forget that person in your life who abandoned all electronics and moved into the woods to prepare for the Mayan apocalypse. He doesn't have a phone or a Facebook account, and he isn't listed in any directory. But that doesn't mean you can't show your weirdo paranoid friend that you care. We've listed a few ideas here. (But maybe don't, like, surprise him with these. He is probably against surprises.)


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There is nothing here to defend me from my own government.
While debt servitude is illegal in USA and considered a type of slavery, our government feels it ok to slap each USA citizen with a 50k bill, give us a recession in the process and if we whine about it to friends, they are listening to us via the new NSA in Utah and changes to the laws via 9/11.

www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

@Robot
I like the way you think.

Hilarious! I kind of like the EMP bag, but the odds of actually having it over a device during a EMP event are kind of low. (travelling at the speed of light and all). The metal detector for chemtrails is hilarious! Anyone without knowledge of how to ground balance a metal detector will be freaking out because the thing will be buzzing like crazy every time you point it at the air. (and it wouldnt work anyways) The Chemical test kit looks kind of cool, but realistically how many chemicals can you test for in a 15 dollar kit. Cameras, meh, useless during an emp event, unless you have a bag over them, and then they are useless anyways. Icke is interesting, but you have to wonder, is there actually any information amongst his disinformation? Paranoid conspiracy nuts end up with one thing, Themselves and no-one else around. Girls dont tend to go for the whole apocalyptic everyone is out to get everyone else rant. They like flowers. I would suggest flowers, unless they are a female conspiracy nut, in which case i would suggest the emp bag. (insert suggested uses here)

WOW! Those islands off of Dubai have really deteriorated. I would like to see a story on that!

2012 December 22nd will be a day to ridicule the Conspiracy theorist as the normal and intelligent people that are armed with scientific facts wake up on earth as history repeats as the apocalyptic cults will devour arsenic laden pudding and co-lade. The

Gee I'm so surprised who had to jump on this story first.

spaceman8,
December 22nd 2012 is a day of joy. Those Mayans are natural optimist and if anyone would just pause and look at the length of time, they make their calendar they see this, 5125.36 years. Any culture who makes plans on this scale is natural optimist.

I am looking forward to getting my new Mayan calendar, beginning 22 December 2012!!!!

Consider what a scientist does after observing a microorganism in a Petri dish and is finish with his observation. He disposes of the organism, cleanses the Petri dish and uses the Petri dish again for another purpose.

From the initial picture of the article, looking down on the islands from satellite view, I can guess outer space aliens might see humanity the same way, and after observing us for a long time, might find now value to use tiny little animals, dispose of us and begin again with a new use of planet Earth.

I gota agree with robots second post. the 22nd is a good day, not the end of the world. The mayan calender is actually the toltec calender, the mayans were bloodthirsty invaders. The toltecs had 2 prophecies, the white snake would come across the sea bringing pestilince and disease, and the other was that dec 21 and 22 2012 would be the end of the age, and that the world would be reborn for the better, and that there would be earthquakes, floods and tidal waves. Kinda hard to dispute their accuracy, unlike most religions.

I would argue that the increases in science and technology have tremendously changed the world for the better, perhaps the changes are just beginning.

dkella,
The Mayans were not as a whole for their culture bloodthirsty.... That only happen towards their end.

They are for the majority stable intelligent culture for the time they existed.

I also have a suggestion, a gift bag for the sheep in your life. It will include 1) Smart phone, to waster your life on,.
2) An HD TV so you can rot your brain with government propaganda.
3) Bottle of fluoridated water
4)GMO corn to decrease your fertility.
5) Mercury in the vaccines to lower your IQ
6) Blanket to hide under because you were disarmed.

Also a bit late to be talking about chemtrails, the topic was relevant in “conspiracy” circles years ago when popsci had their head in the sand. Now it’s called geo-engineering and it is funded by every G7 country.

@Robot, I agree

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