As always, where national security is affected by governments, facts are obscured, and far too many lies are told. I learned of this RT story from @activistpost's article I have reblogged, but consider this information so critically important that I wish to post regarding it, and it's implications, alone.
I highly recommend Spiro's video from @activistpost, which is why I reblogged it. That report contains much else that is essential information to folks carefully considering how to survive this radically different world we live in today, but this claim that the DIA knew of the pandemic as early as November 2019 is utterly necessary to judge the actions of the US government by.
"...Defense Secretary Mark Esper told the outlet he was unaware of the issue coming before the National Security Council in November or December. No official response was forthcoming from the administration until Trump closed the border to flights from China in late January – all the while insisting there was nothing to worry about (and, if insider stock sales by multiple senators were any indication, telling Congress something different)."
Given the surveillance capabilities of the USG, much of which has been proved in detail by Edward Snowden, it is literally impossible that statement by Sec. Esper is true. Patient zero has been revealed to date back at least to Nov. 17 (IIRC), and the censorship undertaken by the CCP would have been impossible for folks armed with the surveillance capabilities possessed by the USG to miss.
Members of Congress demonstrably panic sold their stock upon being briefed on the pandemic in December, which reveals they understood the economic destruction that would ensue. The intelligence agencies are part of the USG, controlled by officials such as Esper, and they could not have been briefing Congress about anything Esper had not already been briefed on, nor could President Trump have been excluded.
The only rational conclusion from the terrible foot-dragging and feigned incompetence by Congress and the Trump administration that allowed air travel directly from Wuhan until late January, and failed to secure American civilians through recommending regional quarantines and isolation as were only implemented in March, at the earliest, in America, is that the initial spread of SARS2 was intentionally allowed, if not deliberately undertaken, by the USG, Congress, and the several States of the Union. No PPE were caused to be manufactured in the states. No medications were produced here. Nobody was enabled to withstand months of unemployment and economic destruction well in advance of the disruption (except insider traders in Congress). The harsh impact of this disruption is deliberate, and hasn't even really begun yet.
Just as it is impossible that Congress could have been briefed by government agencies without the heads of those agencies having been briefed first, it is just as impossible Congress could have been briefed without the Governors of American states also being informed. Clearly, pandemic raging in China, no matter how severe the censorship China undertook to hide it, would have been both obvious to the American surveillance state, and absolutely critical national security information, requiring briefing Governors of American States.
This information reveals that the government response to the epidemic has been mostly lies and misinformation, and the WHO and enemedia are known to have worked together to control the 'infodemic' the WHO publicly stated the need to control. Neither President Trump, nor AG Barr (despite his 'privacy concerns' over including tracking chips in forced vaccinations), nor any member of Congress, have commented on that collusion to limit information available to American civilians, to my knowledge.
We civilians have been misinformed, but we now know we are being misinformed by our government, which is deploying this pandemic for reasons. [Note: none of this means the pandemic is a hoax, or as harmless as the flu. The best lies are mostly true, after all, and as I will illustrate, a deadly pandemic is just what the doctor ordered.] From that information we can examine government response and consider what those reasons are, using Occam's Razor and the Problem, Reaction, Solution methodology of the Hegelian Dialectic, that has long been shown to be how covert psychological operations are undertaken in the West, as guides.
Pretty conclusions do not result from such consideration. The closest analog in history for the prettiest scenario I can come up with is the Holodomor, when the Bolsheviks running the USSR deliberately starved ~10 million civilians to death in the Ukraine. In fact, before this information arose regarding the USG being aware of this pandemic shortly after the Event 201 simulation of it, I had already made that comparison because of the ongoing destruction of global agriculture due to climatic shift resulting from solar cycles (the Grand Solar Minimum just beginning now, that will last ~30 years), several plagues affecting chickens, ducks, and pigs, and the terrible disruption of the supply chain quarantines and other pandemic responses have begun causing, and all of this is being aggravated by the worst swarms of locusts any living person has ever seen completely devouring every green plant in their paths between Africa and China.
There is almost no conceivable explanation for state governments ordering retailers to not sell garden seed and implements specifically to civilians as response to the pandemic. Mass starvation is the only purpose I can discern for that order, in view of all the information I have understood, which far better informed state governments certainly better understand than I do.
IMHO, the lesson of the Holodomor - that governments will take your food, destroy your garden, and keep you from accessing any food source outside their control, when governments have decided to starve you to death - should be the primary information people use to base their actions on today.
I have been posting content from @iceagefarmer for months as the solar minimum has increasingly affected agriculture, long before the pandemic began. If you have missed those posts and that information for any reason, I strongly urge you to begin carefully researching current disruption of agriculture by the aforementioned vectors.
Many people have stocked up on food, some for as long as a year. This will extend their lives I think, so that's a good thing. However, the decreased output from the sun will continue for three decades. This disruption of the growing season will be additionally impacted by the several plagues of livestock, locusts, and economic disruption caused by government. I also do not think what appear to be deliberate disruption of food supplies will just last one season.
The Holodomor lasted a couple of years, and involved seizing food and means of producing it. Since the present disruptions do not involve seizing our food or destroying our gardens - yet - the present plan to starve masses of pandemic survivors will last longer. I note the UN plan to reduce global population, called sustainable development in their documents, is called Agenda 2030.
I don't think anyone can store food for their family for a decade, and know damn well civilians as a whole do not have such food stores. As I have suggested, preventing people from producing their own food, or from hunting and foraging, are policies I expect to be implemented, in due time.
For that reason, I believe that people intent on not becoming dependent for food on government that wants them dead will need secure, covert means of providing food. I also must point out that this is the best, as in least terrible, analog for the present situation I have found likely. Both Stalin and Mao starved multiple Holodomor's worth of civilians, and I note that many official UN and related publications call for up to 90% of global population to die.
My worst case scenarios are also those I consider most likely, because of this fact. I do not think our governments just want to scare us into compliance. I think that is the beginning of what they are intent on, because unless we comply, they will not succeed in killing most of us. Once we have been weakened and reduced in number by plague and starvation, then the real depopulation will start. If they lead with that while we're still healthy and numerous, and armed, we will defeat them. Furthermore, without the global catastrophes of plague and famine, I don't think professional militaries will follow orders to massacre civilians, particularly not if soldiers grasp that they are being chemically castrated, just like the civilians they are being ordered to slaughter.
When soldiers get hungry, they will comply for food, just as Afghanis and Iraqis did when the US offered rice in exchange for compliance with biometric tracking of civilian populations there. It is notable that Afghan Mujahideen faced the US military with fucking home made flintlock muskets rather than surrender. That they surrendered their biometric information for rice reveals the degree of control power over food supplies creates.
This is my conclusion from observing the US and other governments claim to have not known of the beginning of the pandemic in China by at least November, and other information on agriculture that I have kept abreast of.
If you find this conclusion false or unlikely, let me know why. I want nothing more than to be absolutely proved wrong.
I am working to create food supplies that meet the criteria I mentioned. If I am wrong, I'd rather be doing something useful with my backbreaking labor and financial expense.
I have always pointed out that criticism is my most valued coin. More than ever before, I desperately want to be proved wrong.
Here's the biggest clue: By the time the agency’s warnings made it into the President’s Daily Brief in early January, they would have had to undergo “weeks of vetting and analysis.”
That's what I've been telling people for quite some time. Patient zero died in mid November and it would have taken time for the virus to spread enough among the population to cause alarm. Alarm that finally in mid December caught the attention of the doctor whose students told him there was a virus circulating killing people, he investigated and tried to warm the world before he succumbed to the virus. Even if during this time intelligence sources had gotten wind of it they'd still had to vet and analyze the information, you just can't go crying wolf. Besides they looked into those meetings of this information of early warnings and there was no such mention in the record of minutes....probably why the article attributes the information to unnamed sources within, it's a well known tactic often used to prop up propaganda against the president.
People seem to overlook the fact that prior to shutting down air travel the president had already set up and prepared several sites to house those who'd have to be brought back as US citizens and quarantined from China, so claims he wasn't taking this seriously are unfounded as those things don't happen overnight. He also took criticism for sending medical supplies to China in January. I think within the time frames of mid Dec into Jan is pretty good for vetting and analysis with beginning provisional actions being taken. Like I said in another comment a few weeks ago if your house is on fire if you run outside and watch it burn without doing anything chances are it will spread. Trying to put out the fire within China was the right course of action while simultaneously setting up preliminary courses of actions, which is exactly what he did. The senators who sold stocks didn't sell them in December, most sold them in January and February after he took the next steps and shared the intelligence he was getting with the appropriate committees and agencies that would need to be involved in the next steps of preparation. All this aligns with what we seen unfolding on the internet with people grabbing at the information flowing out of China and putting it out there. This is what prompted a lot of us to start watching how this thing was going to unfold and take our own early evasive actions. By February it was pretty clear this thing was going to come barreling at us and understand what we needed to do to avoid the panic that was going to unfold. As the same with us it was the same with the president, February would be a crucial tell all month, until there was a clearer picture of exactly what was going to transpire there wasn't a need to stand up there and scare the jeepers out of everybody. When the appropriate time came he told everyone heads up. During all this time he devised a plan to roll this out across the country in stages starting on the outer fringes with heavy density of populations where he knew it was most likely going to strike the hardest first. They got the products to the stores and everyone tucked in then moved the process inwards. They moved like an army only carrying food supplies instead of ammunition. It was truly amazing to watch, that took careful planning and cooperation with state leaders. Even planning out the most dire of situations he carefully crafted and wagged the dogs to keep everyone from all out panic and trying to keep the stock market from crashing. Yes it may not have been as honest as we'd like to have seen but that's an incredible amount of responsibility to fall upon one person's shoulders.
Furthermore you can't take what Whitmer did with banning the sale of plants and seeds as some sort of hidden master plan to keep people from growing their own food. I think I already told you how that came about. A guy here in Michigan with a large nursery got mad because he couldn't sell his products to people while the large big box retailers would be able to. He went to the news organizations and complained. People seen the story and started complaining that being able to buy plants and seeds would give them all something to do at home while they were quarantined despite the fact they wouldn't have been able to anyway because the weather is still to cold. I mean people became literally outraged over it then started to demand why this was being allowed to be sold and that was allowed to be sold but they couldn't go get plants from the nurseries. That's how they got us banned from being able to run into the big box stores and grab something that wasn't essential as she just plain got tired of it and banned everything that was non essential. BUT!!....you still had access to all that stuff if you went online to order it and had curbside pick up.....except plants at the big box stores because they didn't have any yet, wasn't ordering any yet as it isn't warm enough yet....it just one guy who started the whole ball running as he was mad, never mind it'd be another three weeks to a month before anyone could engage in those activities, maybe by then some restrictions would have been lifted but what he started just made things worse. When people showed up at the capitol to protest the quarantine there was no ten thousand people who showed up, there was an estimate of three to four thousand, most of them were landscapers mad they couldn't get an early jump on landscaping jobs. They tried to argue how being outside on a lawnmower could spread the virus. Well it's more than just being out on a lawnmower, you have to interview people for summer employment, those people have to go get gas to drive to work, if they aren't just mowing grass and doing other landscaping then they have to go get supplies....and the list of contacts with other people just keeps expanding. Here's what it looked like outside my house yesterday morning....
...now does that look like gardening weather?....does that look like you want to put out hanging flower baskets?, fill up your flower beds? That's just how off the wall people were being about the whole thing, it ran like a fever across FB post, here's a meme someone made...
.... because of this we now can't go into the big retail stores and grab a book to read, a movie to watch, a puzzle to put together or a new game to play...all things people really do need to keep themselves occupied right now all because some guy went and complained to the news about something he didn't need to worry about until next month.
As far as farmers throwing food out and dumping milk the administration is going to see if they can't get more of this food moved to food pantries. There's a lot of food sitting out there that would normally go to industries like restaurants, schools or foreign countries, if they allowed that food out onto the market it would depress prices which would only hurt the farmers in the long run.
I am going to have to commit a logical fallacy at this time, and first be skeptical of said content, based on who reported it. I respect you and your diligence to logic and justice, so I am taking the time to bother warning you of the source you are heavily promoting on your post 'Activist Post'. Note, this does not absolve RT either.
I pay great respect to the source of content, and thought you may or may not be interested to know about the one you are promoting, which to me I have seen to be anti-truth. I had a run in with one of the writers of this source back around when I first joined steemit, which resulted in their divulging that they don't actually care about the truth at all. If you show them an inaccuracy in their reporting, they will fly off the handle and insult, deny, squirm, worm, and every other slimy dishonorable practice you can think of, to get out of saying "I was wrong".
If you also care about the legitimacy of sources, perhaps you would take a moment to view the evidence for yourself, which is in a plethora of comments. The topic was about Fluoride and Nazis to start, on his post here:
https://steemit.com/health/@activistpost/another-reason-to-end-fluoridation-fluoride-consumption-during-pregnancy-lowers-iq-of-children
His treatment of me on his post, inspired me to create my own post, where he actually followed to harass, but not ever prove his claim...
https://steemit.com/fluoride/@oldoneeye/the-fluoride-nazi-myth
I realize it is time consuming to read old comments, but if you do care about spreading 'sources' with your name and honor backing them, then you just might want to know what that entity is really about.
Our dispute ended here, when I linked to a digital copy of the book that he used as his 'source', which mentioned nothing of what he reported....I am still waiting for him to read it and confirm, but I don't think that honor is in him.
I'd like to comment on the content of your post, but feel that I shouldn't, based on the sources.
Downvoted for ridiculous rewards on a post with 0 engagement.
....at least he isn't on here talking to himself using alt accounts.
Same bullshit on both platforms.
Same bullshitter too, I reckon.
Perhaps the folks that found the information beneficial simply had nothing they felt they could contribute. It's a mystery to me. I did ask for input from folks, particularly criticism of my understanding.
Other than your comment regarding rewards, can you offer the criticism I seek on the content of my post?
I do appreciate your letting me know. Thanks for having the courage of your convictions.