They may simply use other items to facilitate illicit deals like bottles of Tide.
Discussed in a previous thread.
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=561972
Of course how will the politicians survive when their "bags of cash that buy influence" disappear :-)
I find it just as important, and often more so, that it is what one does not read or watch, to influence their thought process on dooms day.