Mexico Expecting 2012 Tourists
September 26, 2011
Drug violence has destroyed Mexico’s tourist industry, but there is new hope on the horizon, thanks to the Mayans of more than a thousand years ago.
Several of Mexico’s top tourism officials have been making the rounds in their northern neighbor, betting that an invitation to see Maya ruins will attract hordes of older, wealthier U.S. visitors keen on Mexican culture.
Whereas the Hollywood blockbuster “2012″ depicts the end of the Maya calendar as the spark of a global calamity, the Mexican campaign will include a countdown to the calendar’s conclusion and urge tourists to visit archaeological sites in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo and Tabasco.
“Our interpretation of the Mayan calendar is reverse to what many people speculate,” Rodolfo Lopez-Negrete, the chief operating officer for the Mexico Tourism Board, said on a swing through Los Angeles with other top Mexican officials this summer. “Our focus will be on growth and prosperity instead of the end of the world.”
Source: Montreal Gazette
It is a sound idea – far more 2012ers have a positive, new age opinion about next year than those who expect the worst. The more popular archaeological sites will probably do very well without the publicity, but hopefully those that are lesser known will also find an audience.
Comedian Bill Bailey on 2012 & Trampolines
September 23, 2011
British comedian Bill Bailey (of Black Books fame) has created a short video, filmed in his bunker, in which he discusses the effects on animals of a geomagnetic pole reversal, and why this possibility is causing a lot of trampolines to be sold:
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2012 Article in Science Magazine
September 21, 2011
Not just any old science magazine, but the Science magazine, which is full of very scholarly articles and is not written for the general public. It has stories like Visualizing Individual Nitrogen Dopants in Monolayer Graphene and Quantum Simulation of Frustrated Classical Magnetism in Triangular Optical Lattices. So lo and behold in the 19 Aug 2011 edition, there’s a 2012 article. Somewhat disappointingly, it is just an interview with David Morrison, and yet again he shares how tiresome it is telling so many people they are wrong. Of course none of the feasible threats are discussed.
One website has copied out a good portion of the interview (it’s not officially available for free online):
“We live in nervous times,” Morrison explains. “Nowadays, almost anything that comes up in astronomy—free-floating planets, the Andromeda galaxy heading here—prompts people to write to me and ask whether it’s a danger. So many talk about their pervasive fear, especially children. I don’t see anything to do but keep on [responding]. I hope after 21 December 2012 it will end, and I can stop.”
…In the video, Morrison supplies damning scientific details about the nonexistence of Nibiru and the impossibility of various cosmic catastrophes, such as flipping Earth on its poles. But he also addresses viewers directly with a soothing appeal to reason: “I want to take a chance to talk to some of you more directly. There is no threat to Earth in 2012. There is no danger. All of the talk about a doomsday is a big hoax perpetuated on the Internet and with people trying to make money. So, please, don’t worry about it. … The simple fact is Nibiru does not exist. … It’s not there. It’s a no-show. … Don’t worry about 2012 and enjoy 2013 when it comes.”
Reform Clothing Join the Bandwagon
September 17, 2011
The clothes don’t look even remotely survivalist. Seems all they have done is added the number 2012 to an existing design. The video seems to show a fella being chased by the boogie man (or is a ninja?). The name of the campaign: Survive 2012. I should’ve copyrighted it ten years ago 
Here’s the video:
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Movie Updates: X-Files and 4:44 Last Day on Earth
September 16, 2011
First up is a real doomsday movie starring Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh, and directed by Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant infamy. Like the recent Lars von Trier film, Melancholia, the focus is on the last hours of humanity, and how people react to their coming demise. in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, less attention is paid to the cause of the apocalypse (they allude to a hole in the ozone layer, and Al Gore makes an appearance), as it is ultimately irrelevant to the story. Given that nobody really knows what will occur in 2012, the story is familiar and rings true:
Everybody knows the final hour is coming, even though some don’t believe it. Snippets of routine continue, with some odd context twists, like when Dafoe’s character, Cisco, gives several hundred dollars to a Chinese food delivery man, since money now means nothing, and lends his computer so the man can briefly Skype his family in China.
Meanwhile Gillian Anderson is hopeful that 3rd X-Files movie will be made and released to coincide with the Dec 21 2012 end-date that featured prominently in the TV series:
“I hope it will happen, there’s talk of it. I don’t know who’s writing it but I hear there’s something going on.”
2012 Ad for Axe: Extended Version
September 14, 2011
It’s called Lynx deodorant in Australia, but elsewhere it is known as Axe. Here’s the one minute version of the ad:
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2012: The Deodorant
September 13, 2011
If there was ever any doubt about how widespread the 2012 meme has become, watch this ad:
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Pink Visual Release Bunker Design
September 11, 2011
April Fools Day is quite a long way off, but still take this with a pinch of salt. The plans show they they intend to have guns, beverages, co-ed showers and private fertility chambers:
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Boyer said that the company is still “actively and vigorously debating” the selection criteria for all non-Pink Visual personnel who will take refuge in the bunker, adding that the selection process will “likely include both merit-based and random selections, with Pink Visual performers, active site members and twitter followers getting priority over the general public.”
They have a casting couch within the bunker, so I’m wondering if that is an euphemism? Or perhaps pre-SHTF they will “audition” for bunker buddies?
2012 Secrets Revealed by Mexican Authorities
September 9, 2011
“The Mayans used to construct one pyramid over another,” tourism minister for the Mexican state of Campeche Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado told TheWrap. “In the site at Calakmul (pictured below right), workers for INAH [the National Institute of Anthropology and History] have discovered rooms inside the pyramid that have never been seen or explored before.
And we’re letting this documentary film there, to see what has been discovered inside the pyramid. ”
And so the documentary produced by Raul Julia-Levy (son of actor Raul Julia), Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond, will show us these previously unexplored rooms. Previously he was creating a fictional feature film about the ancient Maya, but that has been placed on hold while the star, Wesley Snipes, is behind bars.
“This is very important for humanity, not just for Mexico,” said Julia-Levy. “This information has been protected for 80 years, and now it’s important for people to understand the series of events that are coming, and the consequences for all of us.”
Adult Movie Studio Building Bunker
September 9, 2011
Hard to tell whether this is for real, or the more likely scenario: seeking publicity. Last month we reported on the first 2012 porn movie, and now a rival studio, Pink Visual, have announced that they are building a bunker, with a completion date of Sep 2012:
“We’re not building this thing just to eke out a few more months of a deprived, downscaled existence,” Boyer said. “Our goal is nothing less than to survive the apocalypse to come in comfort and luxury, whether that catastrophe takes the form of fireballs flung Earthward by an all-seeing deity, extended torrential rainfall, Biblical rapture, an earthquake-driven mega-tsunami, radioactive flesh-eating zombies, or some combination of the above. We also intend to maintain our website update schedule throughout the ordeal, even if those websites are only available on the bunker’s self-contained local network by that time.”
All good publicity is good publicity, and hopefully other fringe industries will help the cause. We might see announcements from comedians, the Tea Party, more Christian cults, nutty professors and self-proclaimed witches.
