Ark of the Government: Ancient cataclysms & the race to preserve humanity
Looking into archeological legends of ancient cataclysms to make sense of what seems to be a worldwide race and government effort to ensure the survival of mankind, plants, and animals.
Our history is rich with myths and legends, stories that tell of Gods, cataclysms, and the creation of humanity. These stories also warn humanity that one day disaster will come again forewarned by signs in the sky. I would like to take you on a journey through some of these legends of the past, taking a deep dive into the present, through actions taken by nations around the world who seem to be preparing for the survival of humanity on a massive scale.
In the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian tablets it is said that a God named Enki saved mankind from a great flood. This epic is reminiscent of the flood stories in the bible. In the Akkadian legends it is a man named Atrahasis instead of Noah. Atrahasis was a king who’s name meant exceedingly wise.
It was said that in the beginning the Gods, also referred to as the Anunnaki, had inhabited the earth to mine it for resources, and they had toiled for thousands of years. They grew weary and tired, in the end they rebelled, asking to be relieved of the drudgery. A God named Enki along with the Womb Goddess Belet-ili also called Mami, solved the issue by creating a new race of beings that we now know of as modern humans by combining a primitive man that already existed on earth with themselves, the Gods. These people were created as slaves to do the work of the Gods.
After nearly 600 years it was said that the population grew too large and the people made too much noise. The Earth God Enlil couldn’t stand the sound anymore and wanted to eliminate them. Over the course of several thousand years he gave orders for disease, drought, and famine to be released upon mankind, causing mass suffering and death. The people suffered greatly, fertility declined, and it is even said they resorted to cannibalism.
Thousands of years came and went with the struggle to reduce the human population, but in the end the humans were too loud for the Gods. The Anunnaki made a pact to destroy humanity with a flood. Enki was angry with the God Enlil for wanting to destroy the people that he had brought into being. Part of the pact of the Gods was that no one could warn the humans of the coming cataclysm, ensuring that all of them would perish.
Enki, who is also known as the trickster, loved mankind. It was said that he wanted to warn Atrahasis of the coming flood and tell him how to survive, but he couldn’t do it without breaking the pact he had made with the other Gods. He devised a plan. He knew that Atrahasis would be in a room at a certain time, so he went into that room and hid behind a reed screen. Enki spoke to himself out loud about the coming flood, allowing Atrahasis to overhear him, and gave specific instructions on how to build an ark and to board the ship with supplies, animals, and humans.
After the flood, the Gods were devastated by the destruction they had unleashed on mankind. The womb Goddess Mami wept, unable to console her great grief. When the God Enlil discovered that some humans had survived, he was angry, and knew that it was Enki’s doing. In the end, the surviving humans were allowed to live under the condition that they have decreased fertility.
In these legends arising from the first civilization, the Goddess Mami was the mother of mankind. Whether this story is true or not, to this very day children from almost every language and culture still refer to their mothers as Mommy.
Hopefully one day we will learn more about Mesopotamia, and the stories that arose from what is called the cradle of civilization. As we speak, excavations are taking place in the ancient city of Girsu at a site know as Telloh. This site was discovered in the late 1800’s and throughout the following years the site has been thoroughly excavated, but by poor standards and often illegally. In 2016 Excavations led by the British museum have resumed at the site where a 4,500 year old Sumerian Palace has been unearthed. An inscription was found stating that the palace was built for the God of war Ningirsu who is the son of Enlil, the chief God who is said to have destroyed humanity in the great flood. We can only wonder what secrets will be revealed, so much of our history has been lost to time.
The God Enki was depicted with the water symbol.
The Hopi also have a legend that mirrors the Sumerian stories of the past. It is said that the Hopi were saved by the ant people. In the Hopi language the word for ant is Anu, and the word for friend is Naki. The words Anu Naki literally translate as ant friends. If you study the Hopi petroglyphs of the ant people you will see they are depicted with the water symbol, just like God Enki of Mesopotamia. Strangely, the Sumerian Enki seems to have 4 lines protruding from his hat, and the Hopi carvings show 4 lines above the head. There are also other similarities to the Sumerian tablets. Humans are created from clay, and in the Hopi legends man is also created from clay. In the Sumerian stories humanity is destroyed, just as in the Hopi legends.
It was said that The Great Spirit saved the Hopi from the Great flood. They made a covenant with him to live in accordance with nature and turn away from greed. In return they would be saved and taught the ways to live, worship, and plant.
We can also find what seem to be lost voices of an ancient people who tell of strange beings. In Utah there is a canyon that contains petroglyphs of beings that bear the water symbol that is associated with Enki. With only a few moments of research you will find that strange similar beings are found in ancient rock art all over the world. The striking thing is how so many of them are depicted the same, even though there was supposedly no contact between cultures at that time.
Both the Anasazi and Hopi both believe in Kachinas. In the Hopi tradition Kachinas are said to be beings who came here from another planet called Tóonáotakha, from outside of our solar system, to help build civilization here on earth.
In a 4 part series that I compiled into a youtube playlist by Gary Schoenung, he explores Google Earth to show what appear to be the remnants of a lost civilization. Many of these places that he shows us are now blurred out, and you can no longer look at them.
Graham Hancock believes that many of our ancient monuments were built as a message to humanity. He says we are a people with amnesia who have forgotten their past. He talks about how Ankgor Wat was built less than 1,000 years ago, but it’s placement on the ground seems to mirror the constellation Draco at a specific time in the sky, from around 10,500 BC. The Giza pyramids seem to mirror the constellation Orion as it was in 10,500 BC, even though it is believed they were built in 2,500BC. He also believes that sphinx was built in 10,500 BC in what he calls the first time, when the star layout featured in the constructions are at the lowest point in the precessional cycle, a cycle that takes 26,000 years to complete.
In his latest documentary series "Ancient Apocalypse” Graham shares several stories similar to the ones that I have shared above, they all share a common theme about a cataclysm and civilization being saved by beings or Gods. 12,800 years ago the earth was coming out of the ice age and was suddenly plunged into a mini ice age called the Younger Dryas. Graham believes that there was a great cataclysm caused by a comet impact on the ice sheet, creating the great flood. In Gobekli Tepe a stella was deciphered showing a time with a specific alignment of stars in the sky. It dated from around 10,800 BC, and coincidentally, the stars in our sky match up now with the time on the stella. The people who built it took the time to bury it, Graham believes it is a time capsule meant to impart a message to humanity, as a warning.
Most scientists now believe that a comet impacted the earth around 12,900 years ago. Not just one comet, but several. A black mat was discovered that had melt-glass as well as platinum and iridium, evidence that coincides with a comet impact. This black mat shows an extinction level event. Life is found below it but not above it. Through his research, Graham believes this comet swarm that pelted the earth came from the Taurids. Scientists have also warned that a branch of the Taurids have been discovered that can be a threat to earth, with asteroids up to 1,000 feet wide.
An asteroid named 2004 TG it is believed to be the object responsible for the Taurid meteors. It is thought that 20,000 years ago it broke up, and created what is now called the Encke Complex, which is responsible for 3 different meteor showers. Comet Encke will return in October of 2023. It is predicted that in the year 2032 and 2036, we will pass near the center of the Complex. Coincidentally, the comet’s name bears a striking resemblance to Enki of Mesopotamia.
There are no geologic records showing this particular event to be cyclical, but we should note there was a change when the asteroid broke up 20,000 years ago, and perhaps it could now be something that repeats.
The Hopi legends say that one day another cataclysm will occur, coinciding with what they call the Blue Star Kachina making an appearance in the sky.
There is another legend that comes out of Sumeria, of course, interpretations varying depending on the scholars. Earlier I spoke of the first Anunnaki who had come to earth, working away mining resources. These Gods were called the Igigi, they were the servant class of the Anunnaki. At one point it is said that some of the Igigi lived on Mars, where they were using the planet as a weigh station between earth and their home planet. The Anunaki had colonized earth to mine gold, they were using it to repair their atmosphere on their home planet. They would store the gold on Mars and then ship it from there, where they could hypothetically send larger loads due to less gravity.
A cosmic event is said to have destroyed the atmosphere on Mars and caused a great flood, as well as on Earth. The Igigi had to abandon Mars and return to earth, but waited until after the great flood had receeded.
What’s interesting is that science is now proving that, in fact, there was a catastrophic flood that occurred on Mars in it’s recent geologic history. Scientists even went so far as to speculate that Noah was a Martian, and the flood of the bible happened on Mars instead of Earth. Not only that they say that the water was around 400 feet deep on Mars. This is interesting because during the Younger Dryas sea levels here on earth rose by 400 feet, and science has trouble proving exactly were that water came from.
Interestingly, in the flood stories of the bible, the water is said to have come from the deep. The narrative in the book of Exodus appears to have it’s origins in the earlier Babylonian, Akkadian, and Sumerian epics. In the Sumerian language the word Apsu means the deep, but it also means space. The Enke complex that is thought by many to have caused the great flood consists of ice comets. How can we explain a 400 foot deep flood on Mars, as well as a 400 foot sea level rise on earth?
Many scientists have speculated for decades that eccentricities in planetary orbits could only be accounted for if we are missing something in our solar system. A controversial scholar named Zecharia Sitchin, who translated and studied ancient Sumerian and Akkadian tablets, asserted that there was a tenth planet, this being before Pluto was demoted. He said the Sumerians called this planet Niburu, which means planet of the crossing. Sitchin referred to it as Planet X. It was thought to have a 3600 year orbit where it would come through our solar system and wreak havoc on our planets. He was rejected as a pseudo scientist. Although he was ridiculed and his hypothetical planet idea rejected, scientists of today seem to be coming to a similar conclusion. In fact scientists now believe that a ninth planet does exist in our solar system and coincidentally refer to it as Planet X.
I could loosely hypothesize that, if in fact a planet were to cyclically come through our solar system, it could affect our gravity. Our moon creates tides that are sometimes unbelievable, imagine what would happen if a giant planet larger than Jupiter came through? It certainly could bring water right up out of the aquifers. However that water would have possibly settled back into the aquifers at some point and our sea levels would have returned to normal levels. When you look at it like that the hypothesis seems to fall flat, but it’s worth thinking about. Whatever the real culprit is, the water rose near equally on both planets, and that means they could have both been affected by a same event.
In 2010 Bill Ryan of Project Avalon had an interview with a witness who told him he overheard a conversation by an Elite group of people that said they knew of a coming major “geophysical event” that repeats every 11,500 years. They spoke of how they would release a virus on China, and then bring about a nuclear war and surveillance state in order to make humanity more controllable after the cataclysm. In many ways this story doesn’t make any sense. Why reduce the population if a cataclysm will do that without our help? In the interview he says they want to have emergency planning in place before the cataclysm to help select members of humanity to survive. It should be noted the Hopi also tell of a coming nuclear war in their prophecies.
The Hopi have another legend that says when they were saved by the ant people they lived deep inside of the earth and emerged from an area in the grand canyon.
This isn’t the only legend associated with the Grand Canyon, in 1908 an explorer named G.E. Kincaid was exploring the Grand Canyon for minerals when he discovered an entrance. His find was described as a vast underground city with treasures, granaries that still contained seed. There were Egyptian artifacts, a crypt with mummies, and even oriental Buddha like statues. Kincaid needed help documenting this and contacted the Smithsonian, they sent him a team of 30 to 40 people to help and went back and further explored the underground megaplex. Kincaid published the story of his discovery in the Phoenix Gazette in 1909. He asked the Smithsonian for further resources and more help to excavate and was denied, after that he was never heard from again. The Smithsonian says the story is a hoax and not true.
Interestingly many rock formations in the Canyon have Egyptian names. Also the section of Canyon where it is thought Kincaid made his discovery has been made off limits, with cave entrances barred off. Entrance to these areas of the Canyon are not only restricted on the ground but the air space as well. When people try to explore these areas, US Military Choppers and unmarked planes have been said to appear in the no fly zones.
Something else I found to be interesting were stories with a reference to silence. The Hopi speak of maintaining tranquility and silence in the Grand Canyon where they emerged from the earth, they practice silence for the spirits of those who have passed on. Although it may have no connection it is worth looking again at the Atrahasis, where the God Enlil complained of the people being too noisy, that being one of the reasons he wanted to destroy them. In our current time, parts of the Grand Canyon are off limits. One of the reasons given is so that those areas maintain quiet, the air space is also off limits because of the sound. The park has gone so far as to monitor acoustic data. I mention these stories because in them the past and present seem to align.
You have to wonder is our government hiding something from us? Do they know something they aren’t telling us? If they are hiding something from us, then we have to ask why.
There is no way to know for sure if our government is aware of something, or if they they know of a past that they don’t want us to learn about. What we can do is take a look at their actions, research history and come to our own conclusions. None of the actions I will share below can be directly attributed to the above, however it is worth looking into, or at least thinking about.
While the common citizen is mocked for storing or prepping, our government and the world have been doing just that. They have been working on ark’s for some time now. They mince no words about how they are building them in case of a catastrophe in order to preserve humanity. In 2008 the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was opened up in Norway. This facility was built to protect the genetic diversity of seeds should the worst happen. It can store up to 4.5 million seed samples.
In 2015 the Arch Mission Foundation was created. Their mission is to send arks throughout space, as well as on earth, to preserve the records of our civilization for billions of years. They store knowledge as well as genetic information. They have already sent several libraries out into space, including one inside the glove box of Elon’s Tesla Roadster that will orbit the sun for millions of years, and even crashed a library on the moon.
Scientists want to create an ark on the moon in the form of a human seed bank, that would be stored in old lava tubes. They want to send the sperm and ova of 6.7 million of earth’s species, including humans, to preserve life in the event of a catastrophe. They say we should get started right away.
Scientists have been working to ensure the survival of our knowledge and species for some time. In 2013 Japan sent freeze dried mouse sperm to the ISS International space station, stored it for nearly 6 years, brought it back to earth and were able to produce viable mouse pups. Many had their doubts that it could be done, but the results proved that it was possible. Scientists believe this technology could one day conserve our species.
In the Fort Collins Seed Vault, the US Department of Agriculture runs an ark called the National laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation at Colorado State University. Just like the ark in Norway it houses seeds as well as livestock DNA.
Many scientists consider space travel and colonization as a sort of ark that could preserve mankind. Elon Musk has been referred to as a modern day Noah for his efforts to colonize Mars, in what he calls a modern day ark or Starship. He says this must be done so that we can preserve our species.
Elon Musk has been working closely with the US Space Force, Military, and NASA. He has been awarded contract after contract, the list goes on and on. When the Space Force was created during the Trump administration he tweeted, “Starfleet begins”, almost as though the Space Force already worked with him.
Elon has plans to build 1,000 Starships. His aim is to build one per week then eventually one every 72 hours. “Eric Berger at Ars Technica paid a visit to Boca Chica recently. In his account, he describes an operation that is so fast paced that it makes the Apollo race to the moon seem like a leisurely stroll by comparison”.
On February 4th, Elon announced via Twitter that his Starship will attempt it’s maiden Orbital flight in March if all goes well. On the 9th of February, in a move to ready his Starship for Orbit, he successfully test fired the booster engines, 31 of 33 had ignition.
It should be noted that our government complains publicly about Elon, yet behind the scenes they are contracting with him. They are working so close that you can hardly call them separate entities. In many ways they have privatized parts of space exploration through him. In one article it blames private companies for eroding NASA’s monopoly on space travel, yet this isn’t exactly accurate, the end of the space shuttle program had already been decided by the Bush administration back in 2004. Bush said he wanted to focus on a new vehicle for future exploration of the moon and Mars. In 2011 the program officially ended. In the final ceremony NASA spoke of how this wasn’t an ending but rather a new beginning to usher in our next story of exploration.
Some parts of the NASA space shuttle program became part of Space X. The historic NASA Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A was leased to him for 20 years. One of the former top NASA officials William Gerstenmaier was hired by Space X. Gerstenmaier had worked with NASA for 40 years.
The US Government has teamed up with Space X on the building of the Starships for carrying cargo and people to the moon. Articles online seem to distance the fact that the US government is funding Space X’s starship, instead they refer to it as the moon lander, but in fact they are the same mulitpurpose program. They have been awarded several contracts.
One thing that seems sure is that Elon Musk’s goal to get an ark on Mars seems to be in a rushed state. These reusable ships are being designed to carry a massive amount of people and cargo. They will be built to carry 100 passengers plus 100 tons of cargo, multiply that by the 1,000 Starships that are in the works. The fact that they want to build them at one every 72 hours speaks volumes. It’s not only the rapid speed at which they plan to build these that begs question but their ambitious launch projections as well. Space X currently projects they will perform dozens or even up to hundreds of Starship launches per day.
Considering the zealous state of this program, it does make you wonder if there is something they aren’t telling us. It sounds like something out of the movie 2012, perhaps they are simply ambitious. It seems to me that under normal circumstances a craft of this caliber would be built carefully and meticulously, rushed manufacturing leaves room for error. In the case of the Starship there seems to be a hurry.
The impact on our environment and ozone layer is also a concern, each launch will use up to 1,000 tons of methane as fuel. Some believe that the use of methane will drastically increase the US demand for methane in the form of LNG Liquid Natural Gas.
Not to mention the creation of the Space force that seemed to come out of nowhere in 2019, passing establishment with bi-partisan support. One of their functions is to protect private enterprise space infrastructure. In 2022 The Space Force was awarded a 26.3 billion dollar budget which was 1.7 billion more than what the Pentagon originally requested. The 2023 Space Force awarded budget is an increase of about 51% over the requested 2022 budget of 17.4 billion.
These aren’t the only actions our nation and others have taken to preserve life and the continuity of government in the event of a calamity, they are also restoring cold war era survival bunkers said to be capable of housing tens of thousands of essential personnel. Many of these bunkers even have their own aquifers, or underground water storage caverns, they are cities in their own right. The restorations of these cold war era bunkers began after 9-11 and continue to this day. In most cases these bunkers are only meant to house government officials and a few key citizens. The role of these bunkers is to maintain the continuity and function of our government in a worst case event. The Office of National Continuity Programs (ONCP) guides the planning, implementation and assessment of continuity programs on behalf of the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the FEMA Administrator. The FEMA administrator is a Federal leader and “principal advisor to the President, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of Homeland Security for all matters relating to emergency management in the United States (U.S.)”.
Just hours after the 9-11 attacks on our nation President Bush went so far as to create a shadow government said to consist of 75 or more senior officials. These officials live and work in underground bunkers 24-7 in total secrecy. The Government in waiting is said to operate out of two different underground locations replicating all aspects of government.
There’s no way to know just how many government bunkers there are in existence, that information isn’t available to the public, understandably so for national security reasons. That being said, there are some clues. In one article it tells of underground bunkers referred to as AT&T “relocation sites”, they are government bunkers disguised as AT&T facilities. The description of these bunkers is reminiscent of a government program called the Federal Relocation Arcs. These are facilities located in the surrounding areas of Washinton DC, and throughout the nation, built to ensure the survival of non- military components of the US government in the event of a catastrophe, disaster, war, or nuclear attack. It is thought that there are 90 of these relocation sites anywhere from 30 to 300 miles of Washington, and up to 300 sites around the nation.
The name given to these strategic relocation facilities “Relocation Arcs” is not just a coincidence. They are in fact arks designed for the survival of our form of government.
In the past the plans for US continuity of government survival only included high level members, these plans have since been revised after realizing that our survival depends on our government as a whole. This change of course is reflected in Directive 67 signed in by President Bill Clinton. In 2011 A new presidential policy called Directive 8 was signed to include the involvement of the community for disaster preparedness. Don’t get excited just yet, the doors to the bunkers will still be off limits to we the people, this new directive simply teaches us about disaster preparedness and how the community and government as a whole can come together in such an event.
FEMA has been the recipient of billions of dollars during the Coronavirus pandemic. FEMA was awareded 45 Billion dollars of emergency funding in the CARES ACT in 2020, then an additional 50 billion in 2021 in the Covid-19 stimulus bill. According to one graph FEMA had 352.9 billion in total budgetary resources since 2020.
It should also be mentioned that the United States is not just preparing on it’s own for a catastrophe, we are working in cooperation with other nations as well, including Russia. This seems to be a global effort. We are working together on Natural and technological disaster prevention and response, a joint cooperation of FEMA and EMERCOM of Russia, referred to in the linked document as a critical mission. This relationship still continues despite the proxy war in Ukraine. On the outside we appear to be at odds but behind the scenes we still work together.
In 2013 The Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov made a statement that alluded to preparing for a threat from space saying, “We have decided that the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Russia’s Emergencies Ministry will work together to develop systems to protect people and territory from cosmic impacts”.
In 2010 Russia announced that it would build 5,000 more nuclear bomb shelters by 2012. In 2018 Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that they now had enough space in their underground facilities to house their entire population. Not surprisingly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the Kremlin ordered bomb shelters throughout Russia to be further upgraded.
Speaking of cosmic impacts and international cooperation, it should also be noted that the US, China, Russia, and other major nations are all working on technology to deflect an asteroid. This includes the United Nations, who have set up an International Asteroid Warning Group with global cooperation and coordination, as well as established a set of measures to protect our planet from potential incoming asteroids.
In 2008 The United Nations Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space put together a special team on hazardous asteroids called Action Team 14 (AT-14) they operated until 2015 to coordinate international efforts to mitigate Near Earth Object threats. AT-14 has now been dissolved after completing it’s mission. In 2014 two entities were established, The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG). In the event of a threat to our planet IWAN would be used to predict and warn, whereas SMPAG would offer possible actions to be taken by member states.
One thing that’s clear is protecting our planet from space threats and preparing humanity for survival in a worst case scenario is a global effort taken on by individual nations and collectively through international cooperation. Nations all around the world are feverishly preparing bunkers and arks meant for the survival of humanity. These operational facilities will require a vast amount of up to date supplies and resources, such as food and medical necessities.
Many online prepper supply dealers have claimed over the years that the US Government has been buying up all of their supplies, they keep warning that something major is happening. You have to wonder if it’s a ploy to sell survival gear or something more ominous? This is something that can’t be confirmed, it can only be considered internet chatter, whether it’s true or not there’s simply no way to know.
One thing that can be confirmed is that the US stores food as well as medical equipment and pharmaceutical supplies in warehouses and underground storage units in vast amounts.
The Strategic National Stockpile consists of at least 12 facilities across the United States. As far as we are aware, some are as big as six foot ball fields, where medical equipment, and emergency medications are stored in the event of a Disaster that is either natural or man-made. Some examples include a pandemic or influenza outbreak, biological, radiological/nuclear attack or accident, technological attack, earthquake, flood, or any other disaster.
The contents and locations of these facilities are secret. They are managed by the (ASPR) The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS). They are managed in coordination with the NIH, CDC, USDA, FDA, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Homeland Security.
The objective of the ASPR is to lead the nation in preventing and responding to such disasters and events. In correspondence with an executive order, all levels of government have been tasked with maintaining the continuity of government in such a situation to ensure our national security. The HHS/ASPR Continuity of Operations Program (COOP) is designed to ensure that critical services are provided in such an event.
In 2022 the ASPR was elevated from being a staff division to and Op division (Operating division), making it a standalone agency within the department alongside other HHS agencies such as the CDC, FDA and so on. This elevated status gives ASPR more power to act and coordinate during an emergency. In light of the pandemic the ASPR became a major recipient of big government spending, understandably so given the nature of the agency.
In 2020 the HHS was awarded 140.4 billion in emergency funding with 16 billion allotted for the Strategic National Stockpile, from the $340 billion dollar stimulus bill H.R 748 (The CARES Act).
In 2021 H.R. 3635 was passed. This bill was created to strengthen the Strategic National Stockpile, authorizing the department to receive 4 billion per year through 2024.
Fast forward to the Fiscal Year 2023 where congress has awarded the HHS 124.2 billion which is an increase of 24% over the previous year. This bill includes 3.3 billion for ASPR and 300 million for the Strategic National Stockpile.
As you can see by the data provided, both FEMA and the HHS/ASPR NSS have received billions of dollars in funding. They also have something else in common, they have both failed the public in the event of major emergencies. More often than not it seems that when disaster strikes we are told, “this isn’t the kind of disaster we normally provide service for”. We heard it during the pandemic when the ASPR’s NSS said, “we don’t deal with this kind of disaster”.
Just this month a train derailed in Palestine, Ohio, creating a chemical environmental disaster. FEMA told congress that Ohio wasn’t eligible for assistance. They said the Ohio situation was outside of it’s regulatory domain. The White House defended this position by saying that the agency wasn't the "best equipped" to support the community. In the end they sent in a team to help on the ground, but not without a fight from congress. The truth is that it is FEMA’s role to respond to natural or man made chemical accidents or disasters
It wasn’t just in Ohio and during the Covid pandemic where these agencies failed us, but in nearly every major disaster in our recent history such as 9-11, Katrina, and the deadly winter in Texas when the lights went out. It begs the question, are these agencies really set up for what they say they are?
Our government is hoarding vast quantities of medical supplies and equipment, there is no way to know how much. They are also storing food, not just our own nation, but nations around the world.
The Chinese government is said to be storing more food than has ever been seen in human history. China stored so much food that it caused the food prices to go up globally. Beijing is said to hold half of the worlds wheat supply. By mid 2022 they would hold 69% of the worlds corn reserves and 60% of it’s rice. They have also drastically increased imports on beef, pork, dairy, fruit, soybeans, cotton, chips and minerals. In 2021 China began to build 120 new storage facilities capable of holding 10.85 million tonnes of grain.
China isn’t the only offender other nations have placed restrictions on exports. A total of 19 countries have implemented food export bans.
In the United States the USDA stores billions of pounds of food in caves in Missouri. The USDA began a program in 1949 called the Dairy Product Price Support Program. This was a program where the US would buy up milk in the off season to supplement farmers and control the price of milk. They would convert that milk into cheese, butter and dry milk. They would store it in the caves and release it onto the market as needed.
That program has since ended, they no longer store it to manipulate the market but instead to supplement food programs. The USDA stores food for their own programs as well as for private companies. The USDA stores about 1.5 billion lbs of cheese, 355 million lbs of butter, 211 million lbs of pecans, 1 billion lbs of french fries and other foods as well. Around 300 million lbs of the stored cheese is owned by the USDA.
The USDA has a constant supply of fresh dairy products, in the past when these products were set to expire they would process them for preservation.
In 2016 due to bird flu and low demand the US government started to buy up eggs, they set to buy 12 million dollars worth of eggs and egg products under the authority of a 1935 agricultural support program to help the farmers. It was said that the products would be donated to food banks and food programs. The USDA also stated at that time that they would also buy up other food commodities such as orange juice, cranberries and raisins. In that same year the USDA committed to buy 30 million lbs of wild blueberries for 13 million dollars to help stabilize the market.
In 2020 during the pandemic the Federal government said they would start buying up meat, vegetables and milk and distribute the surplus to food banks.
The USDA created a new program called The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program CFAP to provide and immediate 19 billion in relief for farmers to secure the food chain. The USDA was awarded 16 billion dollars for direct payments to farmers who experienced losses during the pandemic in the CARES Act, and 3 billion plus was awarded for the purchase of food. Funding to the USDA continued in the American Rescue Plan act of 2021, H.R. 1319.
The USDA purchases food through The Emergency Food Assistance Program TEFAP that was set up to help supplement the diets of low income Americans. Under TEFAP states receive administrative funds to support food storage and distribution of USDA foods.
In 2020 while shelves in stores were bare and the public was being rationed through limited purchases, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) had opened up a food reserves warehouse and started purchasing mass quantities of non perishable food. Within just a few months they had purchased more food than the previous four years combined. The WSDA said it was difficult because they had to compete with other states, national food programs, and competition from grocery stores. They had received millions in state and federal emergency funding.
The implications of these actions are drastic. This would imply that states all around the nation and the Federal Government both were hoarding emergency food reserves, leading to the problem of supply chain bottle necks and empty store shelves.
In 2021 the USDA was looking to buy 650,000 cartons of grapefruit and oranges for nutrition programs.
In an article on US strategic stockpiles it mentions that FEMA stockpiles food, water and generators as well as other resources in 8 distribution centers across the US.
Every year the USDA purchases more than 200 types of food totaling nearly 2 billion dollars. These commodities are received by an array of different organizations from food banks to disaster and emergency feeding organizations.
If we wanted to take this further we could speculate about the discrepancies that we all witnessed with food supplies during the pandemic, but for now I think that is a topic unto it’s own. What we know for sure is that nations around the world are hoarding food and commodities. They are building bunkers capable of surviving a nuclear war or other disaster. They are building arks, and have a mission to ensure the survival of mankind. When we look into historical legends there are similarities in stories across the board telling of a cataclysm, and warning us that it could come again.
Perhaps the leaders of the world are just being cautious in the shadow of a volatile world, but we have to wonder if it could be something more. I will leave you to study the information and come to your own conclusions.
In 2012 the UN estimated that in the event of a major disaster such as a massive volcanic eruption the worldwide food reserves would last around 74 days. That is assuming that our world leaders didn’t shut themselves in their bunkers with those food reserves. Then starvation for the masses would come much sooner.
From the sagas of old, and known intervals of climate catastrophe in human history since, preparing for disasters is common sense. Wars, famines, plagues, and unimaginable human suffering and decimation have occurred. But the recent events, like a pandemic, supply chain issues, consolidation of commodities within countries, and insane upticks in bunker building, makes a person wonder. Is something coming? A threat from space? A cyclical climate event? A nuclear war? EMP attacks? Or is all of this stockpiling really just jurisprudence? Hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe trillions worldwide, being spent on self-preservation for “just in case”? It is also possible the constriction of trade and consolidation of materials and supplies in each nation is simply because as these things become less readily available, countries are fighting over them more.
On a final note while compiling the data in this paper I couldn’t help but remember the scene from the movie 2012 where the little boy says, “We will live, and you will die”. I must say I chuckled to myself more than once. The government is using our money to build and stock survival bunkers, and only government officials will be allowed in these arks in the event of a true catastrophe, while the rest of humanity would be left to fend for themselves.