Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (38 page)

In a recent
Business Insider
article, Michael Snyder noted that almost every person who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska had died. He added, “The truth is that what we have out in the Gulf of Mexico is a ‘toxic soup’ of oil, methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide, other toxic gases and very poisonous chemical dispersants such as Corexit 9500. Breathing all of this stuff is not good for your health, but the reality is that the true health toll of this oil spill is not going to be known for decades.”

Any truthful investigation of the oil spill must “follow the money.” The company that owned the Deepwater Horizon was Transocean, a firm saddled with legal problems, one that had been charged with bribery of foreign governmental officials, tax fraud, tax evasion, and falsifying records. In 2007, Transocean’s financial advisers, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, helped the company merge with GlobalSantaFe. This merger brought in a staggering $15 billion to shareholders.

Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, stopped short of calling the BP oil spill a conspiracy. Yet she did state that “the blowout was not the product of a series of aberrational decisions made by rogue industry or government officials that could not have been anticipated or expected to occur again. Rather, the root causes are systemic and, absent significant reform in both industry practices and government policies, might well recur.”

Radio commentator Dave Hodges, who wrote a series of articles titled
The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust
, was not so hesitant in pointing the finger of calculated neglect at BP, Transocean, Goldman Sachs, and Halliburton. According to Hodges, these companies, described as the Four Horsemen, have “repeatedly lied about the ecological damage done to the Gulf, lied about the damage done to the people and their health, lied about the damage done to the economic health of the Gulf, and continue to lie about the failure to properly compensate the victims in the Gulf while the continuing and unfolding holocaust is still growing in scope.”

It does appear that everyone in the Gulf lost money on the oil spill except BP and its corporate partners. According to the BBC, BP and its Gulf Coast partners—Goldman Sachs, Transocean, and Halliburton—all experienced major gains in corporate profits as a result of the spill. Transocean rewarded its top officials with bonuses for achieving the “best year in safety performance in our company’s history.” Transocean CEO Steve Newman received a bonus payout of $374,062, part of his total compensation package of $5.8 million.

Worse yet, internal e-mails revealed that Goldman Sachs profited from the Gulf disaster by making “a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico” by short-selling Transocean stock
one day
before the explosion. Goldman insiders bet that the stock would go down, which it did in the wake of the explosion, so they profited. Federal investigators found an e-mail from Goldman employee Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre in which he bragged to a girlfriend, “One oil rig goes down and we’re going to be rolling in dough. Suck it, fishies and birdies.” Outraged, Sterling Allan wrote on the worldwide blog Examiner.com, “It turns out that Goldman Sachs really did place shorts on Transocean stock days before the explosions rocked the rig in the Gulf of Mexico sending stocks plunging while GS profits soared—benefitting once again from a huge disaster, having done the same with airline stocks prior to 9/11 then again with the housing bubble.”

Goldman Sachs lies at the heart of a money-managing empire that ranges from the Exchange Stabilization Fund to Facebook. Former Goldman executives include Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson, both of whom served as U.S. Treasury secretaries. A former Goldman Sachs lobbyist named Mark Patterson was named chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner even though President Obama pledged during his presidential campaign that he would limit the influence of lobbyists in his administration. Although Timothy Geithner has never worked directly for Goldman Sachs, as a former member of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, his connections in banking are extensive. In a 2009 interview, former assistant secretary of the treasury Paul Craig Roberts was asked if Geithner works for the people or for the banking system on Wall Street. Roberts replied, “He works for Goldman Sachs.”

Aside from its political connections, Goldman Sachs is involved with a number of different projects and organizations. In the 1990s, Goldman partnered with David Rockefeller and his associates in ownership of Rockefeller Center. The multinational investment firm also conducts business with a number of banks, including Citi Investment Research, T. Rowe Price Associates, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and Capital World Investors. In 2009, Goldman was investigated for receiving $12 billion in the bailout of American International Group (AIG) by the Federal Reserve.

Now Goldman Sachs has its hands in one of the largest growing industries—social media. In early 2012, Goldman announced that it was investing $450 million in the privately owned social network Facebook, valued then at $50 billion. The deal came with an additional $50 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a Russian investment firm that also invested in Groupon and Zynga, and it will allow Facebook to challenge Google as the most prominent site on the Internet. Some saw this move as the latest attempt by the banking elite to control the Internet.

FREEMAN OR SERF?

Goldman Sachs is large and powerful, yet, it is only one of the global corporations that control Congress and generally run the government. Years ago, one American president acknowledged as much. In a letter dated November 23, 1933, newly elected president Franklin D. Roosevelt admitted, “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” In light of Roosevelt’s admission, careful notice should be given to what is happening in modern America and always under the excuse of protecting the public. And serious questions should be asked. These include:

• Why, in the name of protecting freedom of speech, are more and more laws being considered to curtail and censor the Internet and hinder free expression in public?
  
• Why do city governments, aided by federal funds, videotape citizens in public places 24/7 for purposes of “public safety,” yet if citizens attempt to videotape police in those same public places, they are subject to threats, beatings, and arrest despite court decisions supporting the First Amendment?
  
• Why does the government claim that every single air traveler must be intimately searched and confirmed harmless in order to protect the safety of a few hundred passengers on the plane, when that very same government conducts no safety testing whatsoever on fluoride chemicals dumped into municipal water supplies, threatening the health of tens of millions?
  
• Why are commercial airline passengers required to submit to X-rays, strip off belts, coats, and shoes, and carry no more than two ounces of liquid, while private aircraft are free to come and go without scrutiny? Can potential terrorists not rent or hire private aircraft? And if there is such a dire threat of terrorists slipping into the United States with chemical or nuclear weapons, why has nothing substantial been done to secure the nation’s borders?
  
• Why do armed government agents raid and arrest farmers for selling fresh milk yet do nothing to protect the public from corporate additives such as MSG, a common food additive linked to obesity. Why does the government continue to allow aspartame in diet soft drinks when it has been shown to cause seizures? Where is the public’s protection from high fructose corn syrup, which increases the risk of diabetes? Why is processed grain used for making bread being cut with bromide, a known tumor-causing agent with “zombifying potential,” instead of using essential iodine, necessary for the normal metabolism of cells, as was done up until the 1980s? Why is sodium nitrite, implicated as a cause of cancer, still found in processed meat? Why is there no prohibition on artificial food colors, many of which are suspected by the FDA as being linked to behavioral and health problems? Millions more Americans consume such problematic additives each day than drink raw milk.
  
• Why is the FDA proposing that traditional nutritional supplements like vitamin C, gingerroot, and echinacea be outlawed pending lengthy new safety reviews and approval processes, while the USDA has approved the widespread experimental planting of genetically modified crops with no safety testing whatsoever under the bizarre reasoning that GMOs are essentially “identical” to non-GMO crops? If they are identical, why are they patented and termed
  modified
  ? And why have dozens of other nations banned GMO seeds?
  
• Why does the Federal Emergency Management Agency advise citizens to store food and water for a mere three-day emergency, such as a hurricane, while this same federal government has spent billions building massive underground bunker networks where it has stockpiled enough food, water, guns, ammunition, medical supplies, communications equipment, nonhybrid seeds, and much more to last decades?
  
• Why, in the wake of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami that wrecked four nuclear power plants and spewed radiation all the way to the United States, did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency actually downplay the disaster, stop reporting air quality on the West Coast, and propose increasing the allowable level of radioactive contamination in water, food, and soil?
  
• Why do government health officials claim the right to forcibly vaccinate all children to protect society when, if such vaccinations were effective, all voluntarily vaccinated children would be protected against unvaccinated children?
  

These and many other actions that diminish freedom and actually harm the public, committed regularly over long periods of time, cannot be ascribed simply to accident, stupidity, individual malfeasance, or bureaucratic incompetence. As Thomas Jefferson once noted, “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.” Another quote, widely attributed to Jefferson, indicates that we face the same problem as the people in his time: “The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”

Two authors who clearly foresaw the events and policies of today were George Orwell in his famous book
1984
and Aldous Huxley in
Brave New World
. In a 1949 letter to Orwell, Huxley wrote,

Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning [dumbed-down education] and narco-hypnosis [drugging] are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of
1984
is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in
Brave New World
. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war—in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.

Orwell, especially, may have been in a position to know whereof he wrote. Orwell was a pen name. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Although his family was not wealthy, they were nevertheless members of the British gentry, and Blair managed to study at Eton, where he met Aldous Huxley. Eton has long been accused of being a central education center for Britain’s elite families. Nineteen prime ministers, including David Cameron, were educated there. It was at Eton that Blair was introduced to the Fabian Society, reputed to be a secret society of those desiring worldwide socialism. Blair eventually left the society, provoking some to speculate that his 1948 book,
1984
, actually is an exposé of the plans of the wealthy elite rulers. Whether this is true or not,
1984
is amazingly prescient in its account of a future global totalitarian socialist state. In the book, the world had been divided into three economic blocs called Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Today, we witness the existing European Union, the much-mentioned North American Union, and a future Asian union. Blair’s neologisms—doublethink, Newspeak, and Thought Police—reflect current trends and now are being used widely by conspiracy writers.

Concerns over what many see as a move toward a totalitarian police state have revived the age-old queries: Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? A growing number of people are questioning the nature of our “reality.” Why are all paths and aids to self-discovery continually denied us by religious and secular authorities? Why are the air, water, and food of our world being filled with toxins that hinder both physical and spiritual development? Why is almost everything humans naturally enjoy discouraged, restricted, controlled, or outlawed?

Will it be only a handful of youthful protesters who stand against the concentrated power of the banks and corporations? “The only word these corporations know is more,” wrote Chris Hedges, former correspondent for the
Christian Science Monitor
, National Public Radio, and the
New York Times
.

They are disemboweling every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to Social Security, because they want that money themselves. Let the sick die. Let the poor go hungry. Let families be tossed in the street. Let the unemployed rot. Let children in the inner city or rural wastelands learn nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students finish school with no jobs and no prospects of jobs. Let the prison system, the largest in the industrial world, expand to swallow up all potential dissenters. Let torture continue. Let teachers, police, firefighters, postal employees and social workers join the ranks of the unemployed. Let the roads, bridges, dams, levees, power grids, rail lines, subways, bus services, schools and libraries crumble or close. Let the rising temperatures of the planet, the freak weather patterns, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the tornadoes, the melting polar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the polluted air increase until the species dies.