Planet X keeps a lot of survivalists busy with theories of destruction and chaos.

http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040466-923,00,00.html

Tuesday March 25, 2008 8:35pm EST

BRISBANE, Australia - Village medicine men used to keep the tribe under control with threats of drawing on the Gods to cause mayhem to trouble makers.

Religion does a good job of keeping that trend alive: "sin and you will go to hell"

Fast forward 2008 years and you have people predicting that Planet X will arrive in 2012 and pass through our solar system before arching off on it's timeless odyssey around the Milky Way Galaxy.

www.Disclose.TV even has the video out before the event. It is described as "Presented in this video are some photos of what many people call Nibiru and Planet X. They are very real and my evidence is pure fact. What many people do not realise, is that Nibiru is in fact a dark star, about half the size of our Sun. It has a number of large planets and moons orbiting around it, one of which is Planet X. It's kind of like a mini solar system. These objects are heading towards us, as they have done in the distant past. These objects will become visible to every human on Earth within the next couple of years. Some time around 2012/13, these objects will be closer to us than our own Sun, and will dominate the daytime and nighttime sky. Another fact many people do not know about, is that Planet X is an inhabited planet. The US government knows this, and are in fact in contact with them because this is not just a catastrophic event for us, it is for them as well. Many people can be saved, but actions need to be taken NOW. If we leave it to the last minute, it will be to late. Within the next few years, nobody will be able to hide the fact these objects are heading towards us, because they will be seen by everyone and will grow larger as they approach us. Global panic is unavoidable and this event is unavoidable."

Here is the link to the video. Nibiru / Planet X photos taken January 2008

In an article posted apparently by NASA : May 05, 2003 by a David Morrison the existence of Planet X or Niburu was ridiculed on its then predicted 2003 visit..

"The wild stories about an approaching planet or comet are false!"

For months, weird stories have circulated on the Internet predicting the close passage by Earth this month of a Planet X sometimes called "Niburu", or in some versions a giant comet. I have even seen it linked to both Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), although why either of these is relevant is not clear to me. This news note is for those who may have heard such rumors and wondered if there was any reality to them. The simple answer is that these are lies. There is no such object. Also, there have been no unusual levels of earthquakes or solar flares or any other of the supposed precursors of terrestrial calamity. Contrary to what you see on some of these websites, nothing unusual is happening and scientists are not worried by such supposed events. Even more to the point, it is already evident that there is no large comet or looming planet bearing down on the Earth. [For those who might want to see this nonsense, try Google searches on "Niburu" or "Nancy Leider"] If you want the real story on Nibiru or Planet X, check out the following website http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/index.html.

I wonder how long this fiction can be sustained in the face of clear evidence that it is not true? The absence of the May apparition of a planet or giant comet looming large in the world's skies should be pretty obvious, and the usual story about a government cover-up would not seem to apply. I suppose, however, that the people who are expounding this nonsense will find some excuses to explain why their predictions did not materialize. Here is the link to that debunking article.http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/news_detail.cfm?ID=125

Then bad astromomy had a go at mocking the celestial threat.on this internet page: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/index.html

"Doomsayers seem to pop up every few years. Last time, it was the alignment of the planets that somehow managed not to destroy the Earth in May 2000. Now, we have Planet X. A few people are claiming that a heretofore unknown planet in our solar system is on a very long, elliptical orbit. In May 2003, it will pass close enough to the Earth to affect it in some way, causing it to flip over (what many call a "pole shift") and spur many other huge disasters. The end result will be the deaths of many billions of people. There are a large number of web pages, chat rooms and books about Planet X and its horrible effects on the Earth. So the question is, does this planet exist, and will it come by in May 2003 and cause all this horror?

No and No. As much as I know anything in science, I know that there is no Planet X as described by this latest crop of Chicken Littles. How do I know this? Well, we'll have to look a little bit at the claims of the people doing the doomsaying, and why what they say is patently false. Along the way, I'll be talking about gravity, orbits, brown dwarfs, and why speculation is a great way to enflame emotions, but a terrible way to get the truth."

Lately Rumor Mill News at this page http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/noframes/read/7553 has had a say:

"The NIBURU CONNECTION: I'm going to go out on a limb here: I think this tells us something about WHEN our government first learned about Niburu. You see, I think BART was delayed because the Federal Government descended upon the local (State? or City? We don't know.) government at the time and told them that they needed an underground bomb shelter in case of nuclear war.

But the real reason was quite different: The CIA through its Remote Viewing Project had learned that a celestial body, far larger than Earth, made regular trips into our part of the solar system causing great havoc and devastating most of life on earth. Indeed, they were expecting just such a visit around the end of the Century. This was only 30 years away, after all, and when would they have a better time to 'hide' the building of a rather large structure in which to 'take care' of the local 'powers that be' and their families? "

A well known identity in the mystery department, Zecharia Sitchin has a website entitled "The Official Web Site of Zecharia Sitchin" which refers to "Are the ancient gods still here or did they leave? Will they return? What will happen then? Will there be another Deluge or Apocalypse when Nibiru meets Earth? What about “Planet X” and the Mayan 2012? What about Jesus?"

The talk of impending doom has created an industry. Many wealthy American's are reportedly secretly paying for underground life supporting bunkers to be constructed for family and friends to survive Planet X.

The survival industry is alive and well in the USA as the next apocalypse apparently approaches.

Perhaps the grey UFO occupant's will make an appearance to ward off Niburu.