2012 apocalypse is a test

2012 is a big year for apocalyptic predictions. The Mayan Calender, the Sumerian tablets, Catholic predictions, a couple of post millennial holdovers and a couple of near Earth objects for a start off. These have been around for quite a while and the potential consequences include pole shifts that will wipe out electronic systems, crustal plate shifts that will wipe out pretty much everything, deluges that will do the same, meteoric impacts at extinction level, supervolcano eruptions, even tsunami caused by the arrival of another planet, pretty much bad news which ever way you slice it. Even the less drastic changes in consciousness don't sound particularly fun, but pretty much, the message goes, something is coming, something big, and something soon. The countdown clock appears to run down on 21^st December 2012, although for all of you palindromic numerologists out there perhaps it should be 21^st of February 2012, except that one has already passed.

Now it could well be that there actually is something coming this time, but the chances are slim given the probabilities, and confusion over interpretations, translations, calender changes and dates in general, but this doesn't really matter as far as this particular conspiracy theory goes. You see, this one isn't about the event itself, but about the reason that the story is not being ignored by the media or debunked by governments. It is also about the reasons that the last two years, during a period of government spending cuts around the World, has seen a 78% increase in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) budget, a 92% increase in the budget for the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) both in the United States, and over in Europe similar increases in the budgets of disaster preparedness organisations. There have also been a number of military exercises focused on crowd control and personal protection missions.

The reasons behind this are that 2012 represents a perfect opportunity to carry out large scale tests into population panics and the effects that these will have. Why is it necessary to carry out these tests? A report prepared as part of Project Bluebook, the US investigation into UFO's gives some clue. It suggests, based on psychological research that the most likely result of a confirmed UFO landing would be global panic followed by a complete breakdown of law and order even extending into military units. Secret documents yet to be released by the US government are thought to show that SETI has discovered a signal of extra terrestrial origin that, if translated correctly, is a message between two alien ships confirming the location of Earth and establishing a timescale for reaching our planet. That timescale puts the aliens arrival in June 2014. It will be interesting to see how the warm up panic tests go at the end of this year.