Tickets to board such an ark have a face value of 1 billion Euros, and are selling fast at taobao.com for 50 cents. They look pretty good:

That’s because they are replicas from the movie. Fortunately (most) purchasers are not planning actually using the tickets.

Here’s an example of one being sold:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=13549121416

Hopefully the message will get through to many of the viewers, in case there is a catastrophe this year (or in the future…)

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/09/4251596/series-premiere-of-doomsday-preppers.html

Only two products survive the apocalypse: Chevy Silverado and Twinkies. Fords didn’t make it… The ad features common 2012 themes like volcanic eruptions and UFOs, but they also slipped in some raining frogs for good measure.

The tour, called Maya 2012, runs Dec 12-22. Price is $4000.

For Dec 21, precisely at the time of the solstice, how does this sound?

Power Places Tours has been granted special permission to be inside Chichen-Itza for three hours early in the morning at the exact time of the Solstice, when the site is closed and otherwise off-limits to the public! A special sacred event and ceremony will take place.

I’m not suggesting that a staying drunk is a valid coping mechanism for 2012.

Nor am I giving any value to the idea that crystal skulls have special powers, or were even made by the ancient Maya.

But you have to admit, as far as vodka bottles go, this is impressive and somehow appropriate:

Available (when in stock) at FireBox

It’s never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it.
Glenn Beck

Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year
James Wesley Rawles

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 25:13

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13

Do your best, prepare for the worst – then trust God to bring victory
Proverbs 21:31

Full size at YouTube

The lyrics to Aztechnical show that KRS-One has studied 2012, knows it inside out, and has his own take on it. Basically, if you believe in a doomsday prophecy, someone will use it against you. Just like the Spanish did against the MesoAmericans. Cortez deliberately made their prophecy come true, for his own purposes.

This is probably the most intelligent rap on 2012 there will ever be, so here are the lyrics:

[Verse 1]
If you don’t like what you singing, you sing a different hook
If you don’t like what you cooking, you get a different cook
If you don’t like what you wearing, you get a different look
You wanna escape Armageddon, read a different book
When knowledge is right there, we don’t even look
December 2012 got this whole world shook
But look, the last days for others are the first days for us
The question to ask is who can you trust
Respect to all that 2012 stuff
But when you really study it it’s fear, it don’t apply to us

Yo, Hollywood lies to us, all day
The question is what does your culture say
Where’s your culture at?
Who’s your prophet?
What history guides your spiritual logic?
It starts with a story, then it’s hypnotic
Then any myth that comes along, you just adopted it
Why? Because your culture, you forgot it
December 2012, let’s continue this topic
Turn the page, the present world age
Began 3114 BC
According to the Mayan calendar, this age concludes December 21st 2012 AD
This 5125 years cycle of calm is one world age
Nothing changes overnight, it’s all a process
A transition, it happens over many days
In the Mayan calculation a K’in, is one day
The Mayan Winal, that’s 20 days
The Tun is 360 days
A K’atun is 7200 days
The B’ak’tun is 144,000 days
And they applied that to the Milky Way
In the cycles they saw the sun
Moving across the Milky Way’s equator
Lining up with other galactic neighbors
We’ve been shifting for 30 years it seems
From 1980 to about 2016
The shift is now, it’s occurring now
But if you’re learning from the movies you won’t know how to survive
Or stay alive after the storm
Cause after that a new world order is born
Oh, you don’t know, man? About they programs?
You still watching Lindsay, you don’t see that low hand?
Let go, man, the flood is coming
Don’t be scared, get prepared, keep your motor running
Rock with me

[Hook]
Higher level

[Verse 2]
Yep, it’s all mass control, here’s the philosophy
Cortés knew about the Aztec prophecy
Before he invaded their society
He studied their cultural psychology
He knew they had armor, guns, and steeds
So he arrived in the Aztec year 1-Reed
That’s the year Quetzalcoatl
Was prophecized to return from exile in fact
Cortés played out the Aztec myth
And took away those people’s will to resist
Cortés played on religious beliefs
And blinded the Aztecs, cause he was a thief
Look, the Yucatan, that’s a Mayan book of cycles
It lets the Mayans know when the Gods are gonna strike you
In fact, every 13 K’atuns you see
The Mayans were visited with a catastrophe
So every 200 and 56 or 7 years
The Mayan people lived with this fear
So on the island of Tayasal now Flores
The Spanish came armed with this knowledge
They knew according to the Mayan heavens
That the next cycle was 1697
So as the Mayans stood there fixed on the heavens
The Spanish showed up with all of their weapons
March 13th, 1697
The Mayan people learned a terrible lesson
Your fears and tears are used against you
Cause 80% of world control is mental
But back to the Mayans, they getting some more
257 years after Tayasal
A US-backed coup overthrows their democracy in 1954
That’s exactly 257 years from when the Spaniards arrived at their shores
I’m getting to the core of the lesson
Lets see what happens in 2211
That’s the next cycle, that people remember
Like 2012, the 21st of December
The consciousness may shift, you may turn the light
But you are the universe, you’re gonna be alright
The pole may shift, your soul may lift
To higher consciousness but you know all this
The Edutainment style will persist
Forget the fear, it’s knowledge that runs all this

Two friends from New Hampshire who were fatally shot at a scenic lookout in northern Arizona loved nature and often visited the Grand Canyon state to hike and camp.

The bodies of James Johnson and Carol Raynsford were found in their red sedan last Friday in a tourist area well known for its views of red rocks.

Their deaths have baffled authorities and have led to speculation that the fatal shooting could have been committed by Drew Ryan Maras, who was killed in a shootout Sunday with police in Phoenix. Maricopa County sheriff’s Deputy William Coleman also was fatally shot in the gun battle, authorities said.

And…

Maras had lost his maintenance job, was living out of a van and was likely suffering from depression, authorities said.

Maras fatally shot sheriff’s Deputy William Coleman on Sunday after the officer responded to a burglary call at the medical building, Arpaio said.

Coleman knocked on Maras’ van to rouse him. Maras responded by opening the vehicle’s sliding door and firing 29 shots, authorities said. Other deputies got off 41 rounds and killed Maras.

By Monday, investigators had begun to draw a connection between the two shootings, which took place 85 miles away from each other.

Maras used a variant of an AR-15 assault rifle and shot unique military grade ammunition that has a steel core, giving the slug more penetrating power, investigators said.

He served with the Marines from 1999 to 2003, completing infantry training with a specialty as a rifleman before joining a reserve unit in Chicago, Marine Maj. Shawn Haney said.

Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/is-the-shooting-of-two-nh-friends-related-to-another-murder-20120109#ixzz1jIu0msEz

Things we know about Drew:

• Interested in 2012, UFOs and Ancient Aliens
• Trained with the Marine Corp
• Claimed to be a pacifist
• Love dogs
• His Facebook Account
• His Website

On Whispers Radio show in which Maras was interviewed about his belief that the world will end on December 21st, 2012, Maras said:

“I’m not afraid of 2012, we need to unite.  We need to love more, hate less with the facts at hand.  Live differently because of this knowledge.  But I am not afraid.”

Nice in that it is a nice fit for a doomsday year… http://www.lulu.com/product/calendar/2012/18783665

I have it, and don’t judge it by the cover – it’s the best doomsday calendar I have seen so far.

UPDATE – In Australia another 2012 calendar has just become available. It’s a bit odd – Cats of the Apocalypse.

For a publication with the reach of the Daily Mail, suggesting that some people are considering killing themselves – as a response to the 2012 meme – is irresponsible. It will almost certainly cause some additional people to make such a consideration.

There is nothing new in the article at all – just a mish mash of articles that have appeared over the years.

David Morrison, senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, said he had been receiving about ten emails a day from worried members of the public who are ‘seriously, seriously upset’.

A young woman from Denmark wrote to him saying: ‘Mother of one daughter and another coming.

Yesterday I was considering killing myself, the baby in my stomach and my beloved two-year-old daughter before December 2012 for fear of having to experience the Earth’s destruction.’

Another, a 13-year-old American, wrote: ‘I am considering suicide. I am scared to tears?.?.?. I don’t want to live any more, I deserve an explanation.’

A third wrote: ‘I am so scared. My only friend is my little dog. When should I put her to sleep so she won’t suffer when the Earth is destroyed?’