from Off Grid Survival:
The persistent threat of the end of the world as we know it, popularly referred to as TEOTWAWKI, grows with each passing day. Whether it’s a global economic collapse, environmental disaster, a run on the borders, nuclear disaster or terrorism the threats have never been greater.
The only way to fully protect yourself and your family is to be prepared for anything and everything that could happen. You can’t hope that the authorities will swoop in and save the day. You can’t plan to ride out a disaster or the collapse of civilization in your house – not for long, anyway. You have to be ready, and that means you need to think about securing an impenetrable and defensible shelter. It’s time to think about underground bunkers.
Well, this is a bit of a “fun” story, or is it? I don’t know, which is why I’m filing this one under the “you tell me” category. As Angela Merkel continues to shake both herself and her government apart, there’s been some rather odd “symbolic goings on” in that country. A few days ago I blogged about the intriguing story that Germany has completely rebuilt the facade of the old kaiserlicher Staatsschloss on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The building had, as its name implies, been the official state residence of the Kaisers until Wilhelm II’s abdication, but it was maintained until after the Second World War when the Communists – who else? – demolished it in an effort that would make Confederate statue destroyers envious, for in its place a monstrosity of a modernist architectural box was built. Well, the box itself has been demolished, and in its place has risen the facade of the old Staatsschloss. Of course, the inside of the building is not restored. Wilhelm II’s tastes were decidedly “not modernist” and ran to the Baroque (oddly enough) both in art and music, and restoring the interior of the old Kaiserschlosswould have been prohibitively expensive.
Huge news generating a ton of headlines……. Trump tweeted and the liberal establishment media and Democrats lost their collective minds. Big surprise huh? Like that hasn’t been happening since the first day the then-candidate Trump rode down the golden 
With the majority of people in the West having extraordinarily short memories, it should not be surprising that there has been little question of the IMF’s Christine Lagarde being nominated to run the European Central Bank. However if one goes back just two years you would find that Lagarde just happens to be a convicted criminal of financial crimes
