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The Dust Bowl, stock market crash and Great Depression resulted in the deaths of an estimated 7.5 million Americans. The natural and unnatural events had one major result, removing millions of Homesteaders, American Indians and freed slaves off the petroleum rich Great Plains during the largest oil boom in US history.

The first section describes why and how, the most catastrophic environmental event in human history goes un-narrated and unknown to most Americans and the world's population, and incorporates the political, social and religious motives. Section two, will cover an investigation of the Dust Bowl, the oil rich lands of the Great Plains, Great Depression, and expose the leaders which forced the incident and pursuing Holocaust.

The third section, will describe how the stock market was crashed in 1929 and its similarity to the 2008 stock market crash. The forth section will explore historical events connecting the American Dust Bowl to a global cooling trend, felt around the world. The conclusion will involve an exploration into earth's environment, ecosystems and climate to extract the natural causes of the Dust Bowl.

Section 1

The true and honest account of the American Dust Bowl, Great Depression and American Holocaust goes un-narrated for political, social and religious reasons. The two combined events removed life, liberty and justice from the poor and working poor of the American population. The Dust Bowl occurred from the natural global effects of a cooling climate termed Glacial Respiration which mechanisms are outlined in the H2onE2 book. The unnatural events of the stock market crash and Great Depression was a tool used by the Robber baron Industrialists to starve homesteaders off the oil rich Great Plains.

The Robber barons included Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and investors like Andrew Mellon. Following their deaths billions were willed into philanthropist institutes which fuel endowments, grants and all large nonprofit organizations. In addition to constructing universities, hospitals, museums and churches to insure history conceals their personal involvement and prevents the narration of the American Holocaust.

Let's also mention the religious organizations which received millions in philanthropist capital, essentially to build churches and keep silent. During 1863 to 1903 the Rockefeller Foundation donated 43.75% of his charitable funds to building some 357 Churches. Rockefeller also made personal gifts to more than 120 leading ministers, from 1863 to 1903.

According to the US census statistics, America lost 10 million of its population from 1931 to 1940. A Russian researcher, Boris Borisov worked on uncovering the death toll during the American Famine and his estimates are that 5 million children died of starvation and 2.5 million adults. This is equal to all the Jews that died during the WWII Holocaust, so an event equal in magnitude. Boris Borisov describes the movement of the American population out of the Dust Bowl affected region as a Hunger March.

President Hoover ordered regular military soldiers to crush all social unrest. A large majority of the population fleeing the Dust Bowl region headed to California. These Americans were met at the boarder by police and state national guard who beat them back into the Mojave and Sonoran Desert. Thirst and starvation was the final outcome.

"Bound for Glory", an autobiography of Woody Guthrie records a striking account of these events. Besides blocking the roads into California, freight trains were stopped by police in the most desolated desert regions and the unwanted refugee passengers were rounded up, beaten and removed of any food, water or personal identification. They were left to die in the desert as the train moved on. The Woody Guthrie song "This Train" turns out to be a eulogy to the victims of these events. "This Train" describes how the refugees did nothing to deserve the treatment experienced on the American Death Trains.

This of course was a different time period, social class and ethnic genocide would never occur in America of the 21st century. Following Hurricane Katrina 2005, Arthur Lawson, chief of the Gretna, La., police ordered his officers to block the only escape route for the 35,000 residence trapped in the Superdome, with no food or palatable water.

Four police cruisers blocked the lanes of the Mississippi River Bridge sealing off the only escape route from the Superdome. Officers fired shotguns over the fleeing population, most retreated immediately. Deaths were attributed to the fact that refugees were unable to breakout. 275,000 homes were lost and a land grab followed allowing the surrounding French quarter to be washed of its poor, ethnic residents.

Arthur Lawson was never investigated or tried for humanitarian crimes or preventing constitutional civil liberties, most likely because he is a member of a secret society or fraternity like the Freemasons. The Freemasons and other associated secret fraternities control an unknown but extremely large portion of the government, military and justice system. It is estimated that 70% of the local police are Freemasons and nearly all State police officers. Affiliated secret society members also graduate from the top Ivy League colleges, and fill all the hierarchy positions in the public and private sector, including the banking system.

The creation of college Greek fraternities occurred during the period when the Freemason secret societies became publically condemned, for the murder of William Morgan in 1826. The University fraternities are a stepping stone into the mainstream secret organizations, and are set up on the same Masonic traditions and financed by Robber baron funds. An organized Masonic presence continues to delete Boris Borisov and the H2onE2 work off Wikipedia, the open source online encyclopedia. These secret societies hide, delete and destroy the human record.

The fact is, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt did not kill the 7.5 million Americans during the Holocaust or continue to remove them from American history, they financed the event. Similar in respect to Nazi Germany, Hitler did not operate each gas chamber or oven and drive each train to infamy. The American Holocaust required a strong arm in the Federal, State and local governments, military and most importantly the fraternal order of police. In addition to, both control of the media, charitable organizations and educational system to distort the truth and continue to control the summery. The Freemasons are the only organization able and willing to perform this injustice and remove it from history.

Section 2

The region of the Great Plains extends through the central continent of the United States, from Canada to Mexico. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 designated the Great Plains as "Permanent Indian Territory". The Kansas-Nebraska Act was created in 1854 to allow European settlers into the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Then came the Homestead Act of 1862, which settled most of the US Great Plains by Europeans and freed slaves.

Settlers could claim up to 160 acres of unoccupied public land for a nominal fee, given they would live on the land for five years. The Homestead Act left only Oklahoma as "Permanent Indian Territory". By 1890, most of the western Indian tribes agreed to an allotment of 160 acres per Indian man, woman and child and that all other lands would be opened up to Homesteaders. The Indian Appropriation Act called the Springer Amendment was then passed by Congress which authorized European settlers into the oil rich lands of Oklahoma. It is estimated that by 1900 about 80 million acres had been distributed. In 1880 the population of the Great Plains was estimated to be at 800,000; and exploded to 5.6 million by 1930.

On the Great Plains, farmers grew more cotton, wheat, and corn, than the market was willing to consume or export, and prices fell. Commodity traders inundated the US east coast industries and markets with European goods until prices hit rock bottom by the early 1930s. Cotton, one of the staple crops of the southern Great Plains, for an example, it sold for 36 cents per pound in 1919, dropped to 18 cents in 1928, then collapsed to a dismal 6 cents per pound in 1931.

The Commodities Exchange Act, of 1936, set forth a regulatory framework to facilitate honest and fair practices for trading agricultural products. It was designed to stop the manipulation of commodity exchanges, facilitated by the Robber barons in the 1920s and 30s. A combination of severe drought and manmade economic depressions created destitution among the Great Plain farmers. Millions of desperate people took to the roads, seeking relief in California.

The Dust Bowl physically involved the removal of the surface soil layer making the land no longer support agriculture or natural vegetation. Once the topsoil is removed the land loses any agricultural value. The Dust Bowl effects on the Great Plains were first documented as early as 1911 which included strong winds and an extremely long, cold winter, accompanied with a drought.

These effects were sporadically seen at first and did not become epidemic to the entire region until 1927. Noted by Woodie Guthrie song called "Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven". Throughout north Europe and Asia, the affects of the Dust Bowl conditions were already being documented. Food relief was sent to both Europe and Russia prior to the onset of the American Dust Bowl. These food shipments were organized by a geologist, Herbert Hoover which would later become the 31st president.

Oil production of Oklahoma began in 1901 and in 1907 Oklahoma became a state. The northern Texas oil boom initiated with the discovery of the Electra oil field in Wichita Falls in 1911. Between 1911 and 1920 large oil fields were discovered in Northern Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Texas oil fields included Ranger, Breckenridge, and Burkburnette. Large fields in Oklahoma included Cushing, Healdton, Garber, Hewitt, and Burbank.

Oil fields discovered in Kansas included the Augusta and El Dorado. By 1920 56% of the US crude oil was being provided by the midcontinent Great Plains region. In 1920 Charles N. Gould an Oklahoma state geologist discovered the largest oil field covering the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. The discovery of oil was in the legendary Permian basin rock formation. An oil rush in the Permian basin began in Mitchell County Texas, with the completion of the Santa Rita number one well. These oil fields could easily be tapped by any local homesteader property. Acquisition of all properties was required in order to secure the financial investment.

The colossal American oil and gas companies including Standard Oil and Phillips Petroleum developed from their stake in the Permian basin rock formation. Standard Oil Company was founded by John D. Rockefeller, and major shareholders, which included most of the Railroad owners. Standard Oil Company was later named Mobil Oil, and then merged to become ExxonMobil.

Standard Oil made John D. Rockefeller a billionaire and eventually the richest man in modern history. In 1927 Phillips Petroleum opened its first Texas refinery and a fueling station in Wichita Kansas. Its stock reached $32 a share prior to the 1929 Stock market crash and $3 a share following the crash. During WWII Phillips Petroleum prospered and later it survived a hostile takeover from T. Boone Pickens.

President Hoover and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon were the primary political figures that orchestrated the holocaust of the 7.5 million Americans. They made the Robber baron industrialists richer with greater control over every aspect of the public, private, social and the religious sector.

The Robber barons included John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Grenville Dodge, Leland Stanford, and Hopkins and banking giants such as J. P. Morgan, Andrew William Mellon and media magnets such as William Randolph Hears. The fact that Andrew Mellon was a Robber barons and controlled the world's largest financial market was like boarding the fox in the henhouse. It would make more sense to assume Mellon ran the presidency of the US and Hoover was a hired executioner.

Andrew William Mellon (1855 to 1937) Secretary of the Treasury from (1921 to 1932), Robber baron industrialist concentrated in the financial industry. Mellon became one of the wealthiest Robber baron's in the United States. In the 1920s, he paid the third highest income tax behind only John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford. President Harding in 1921 appointed Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury. He served for almost eleven years through the Coolidge administration, the stock market crash of 1929 and most of the Hoover administration.

Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 to 1964) was the 31st President of the United States from (1929 to 1933) and ended up being the most hated man in America. 1891 to 1995 Hoover attended the newly built Stanford University. Stanford was founded by railroad magnate and eventually major share holder in Standard Oil, California Governor Leland Stanford. Hoover graduated in 1895 with a degree in geology. Following graduation Hoover worked in the gold mining industry throughout the world, and on his return he lectured at Columbia and Stanford universities. 1909 Hoover published "Principles of Mining", which became the standard textbook for Mining students.

In 1914 Hoover undertook an unprecedented relief effort to Belgium following the German invasion and food shortages. This background and Hoovers success advanced him publicly, later to be appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to head of the U.S. Food Administration. America entered World War I in 1917 and Hoover alleged "food will win the war." Hoover developed a dietary pyramid for the war effort so rationing was never enforced.

It was called "Hooverizing", and rationed a weekly menu of meatless Mondays, wheatless Wednesdays, and "when in doubt, eat potatoes." Hoover continually ordered not to be named in association with the program, or as a food nutritional guru. Following WWI, as the head of the American Relief Administration, Hoover organized food shipments for millions starving in Central Europe including Germany. 1921 Hoover also brought food relief to twenty million famine-stricken Bolsheviks in Russia.

In 1927 the Mississippi River flooded, President Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize a federal, state and local response. Hoover alternatively reacted with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and boasted that most of the assistance was provided by private citizens and organizations. The Mississippi flood brought Herbert Hoover front page news exposure, and he gained accolades as a humanitarian. Hoovers response was "I suppose I could have called in the Army to help," he said, "but why should I, when I only had to call upon Main Street."

The media never covered the fact that food and emergency response never reached the African American population, their treatment was called inhumane and thousands perished. In 1929 Hoover was elected to Presidency of the United States and in the same year 1929 the stock market crashed.

Tent cities began to appear across the country as Tens-of-thousands of Americans found themselves homeless. The inhabitants grew until they appeared as small cities and in numerous locations across the country; later to be called Hoovervilles. The name 'Hooverville was coined by their inhabitants as a sign of their frustration with the lack of any food relief from the federal government. This is completely contrary to Hoover's background and expertise, as a humanitarian and a strategic analyst. Given he organized a food response to millions throughout Europe and Russia, during and following WWI. That fact is the same mathematical equations which could statistically feed millions, theoretically be used to starve a population.

With the complete lack of any emergency response to millions of starving Americans, Hoover became the most hated man in America. Hoovers train and motorcades were pelted with eggs and rotten fruit. He was heckled while speaking, and the Secret Service halted numerous attempts on his life. The secret service captured one man strapped with dynamite, and others removing railroad spikes. He lost the election by a huge margin, winning only 6 out of 48 states. In 1932 thousands of WWI veterans and their families' setup camp in Washington, D.C.. They called for payment of a bonus that was promised. Hoover sent U.S. Army forces led by General Douglas MacArthur and lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton to crush the protesters and burn their camps. During the election of 1933 Franklin Roosevelt charged that Hoover was personally responsible for the depression and a man made of jelly.

Section 3

The 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression, was a force used to grab oil rich lands from the homesteaders, also worked to affect the balance of wealth and make poor people poorer and rich people exceedingly wealthier. Not on paper, but a depression is an effective mechanism to build long term value. Understand a market has to go both up and down for large investors to make money and gain value, (land, business, gold). The larger the market swings up and down, the greater the opportunity is for the exceedingly wealthy, to grab more market value.

In the 1920s, the first step to starve farmers off their lands was, Wall Street needed to depress the price of what the farmers produced, the farm commodities (cotton, wheat and corn). There is no disputing that the commodities were depressed by Main Street and only fixed congressionally with the Commodities Exchange Act of 1936. The last step in creating a Great Depression was to cause the stock market to crash. The 1929 and 2008 crash are very similar and both involved an inflated market manipulated by credit.

Inflating the market and causing a retraction requires adding capital to the market, and this money cannot buy value, or is used to buy false value. This means that a stock with a value of $10 per share would need to be speculated up to $20, the difference seen as inflation. Adding false value into the system is also important to destabilize the market. This means that the $10 stock cannot be at true value.

In 1929 there was more capital, "free cash" than value to be purchased on the market. The capital was offered as credit so stock investors could buy what they could not afford, but could back in loans with a house, property or business. The affects of driving the stock market up on credit would attract the attention of speculators noticing the steady market increases. This would motivate more speculators to drive greater quantities of money, less expendable savings, into the system that is seeing no increases in value.

Within two years the amount of money in the 1929 stock market nearly doubled, meaning two times the amount of cash was force into the system, but the value stayed the same. So the concept is you ride the $10 share up to $20 and then you have to pull out first and faster than everyone else. This is a problem for large investors because they have to remove gigantic quantities of stock and capital in a market that will rapidly deflate. In 1929 the Robber barons did not mind taking a loss, due to their extensive reserve capital, the overall plan was to create a depression and gain the oil rich lands. The philosophy of the 1929 crash is justified because the effects of a stock market crash would be seen on the poorest, at that time, this included most of the Great Plain farmers.

The 1929 stock market crash, Savings and Loans crisis of 1980s and 1990s, dot-com bubble of 2001 and now the 2008 crash were all created so the exceedingly wealthy can gain market value. There is also a residual benefit to causing these events because the federal government has to pick up the tab to stabilize the free market. The S&L crisis cost US tax payers 124 billion and the 2008 crash will cost over 12.8 trillion. The CEOs of these corporations continue to receive bonuses because this is the work they were intended to perform.

The 2008 stock market crash also involved inflating the market with a stream of capital. The capital came from retirement funds, IRAs and 401Ks and later large corporations, banks and insurance giants were sacrificed to purchase and insure the bad credit. Savings in retirement funds, IRAs or 401K's are slow moving and will lose more market value than the faster moving broker accounts and tax free off shore accounts.

False value was created very similar to the 1929 crash, the only difference being, inflated credit was bundled together and sold as value, these were the subprime loans, balloon mortgages and credit default swaps. The credit used in 2008 stock market collapse was sourced through house loans which were overvalued and dispensed to home purchasers speculating that the market would continue to rise.

The real estate industry that represents, values, sells and finances homes, increases profits as the home prices rise. The industry works on the buyer's at the psychological level to move prices up and create a rush. The newly created and extremely popular home make over shows had a drastic and significant influence to stimulate buyers to invest beyond value and ability.

As the market raised chaotically greater quantities of "less" expendable savings would be speculated into the system. Speculators included the group of people purchasing mortgage loans they could not afford, were poorly financed and included a ballooning payments scheme; these are the subprime loans. When house prices climbed over the reasonable limits, houses were then sold credit only, called interest only loans, with the owners never having any vested ownership in the home.

These inflated house prices were backed by the recent changes in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which most importantly eliminated writing off, the liability to inflated home prices. Any devalued house "value" would default the bankrupt owner into Chapter 13 bankruptcy not Chapter 11 and require repayment of the inflated loss; the speculative debt. This directs the liability of the inflated house prices on the buyer, not the market which actually represents, values, finances and sells these investments.

All three organizations Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae actively repackage and sell mortgages as mortgage-backed securities, the US federal government guarantees timely payment of principal and interest on these loans. Private firms and banks, like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and General motors', also packaged and sell mortgage securities but without implicit government guarantees, unlike Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. The packaged bonds can then be sold to investors on the stock market, mutual or hedge funds.

American International Group Inc's (AIG) sold insurance to guaranty these mortgages, the difference between the purchased value and the current market price, a speculative debt. This is called a Credit Default Swap invented in 1997 by a team working for JPMorgan Chase. Countrywide Financial Corp was the largest subprime "junk" mortgage generator, these are risky investments when bundled and were never intended to be backed by the federal government. Most of the 12.8 trillion dollars will be spent to back these risky subprime loans as a government secured investment. The American tax payer will be securing the riskiest investments on Wall Street for the world's population.

The value of the houses and infrastructure built prior to the 2008 crash was also greatly exacerbated. These houses were rapidly built, not to building codes, with the cheapest foreign materials by a migrant work force that was over worked and under paid. Let's also mention that these workers had minimal education and most were not even able to read the directions of the material they were installing.

Also if bad materials showed up at the work site; like formaldehyde permeating drywall, a day laborer will likely install these products. A worker that could never afford a home will also tend to cut corners and the finished product is not the true engineered value. Implementing a day laborer migrant work force removes value. Building false value into a market designed to trade value is the key to crashing or swinging an open market.

The 2008 stock market crash involved the removal of so much cash by the upper class wealthy that large corporations, banks and insurance agencies had to be used to buy these risky subprime loans and credit default swaps, from the CEOs personal accounts. In order for wealthy people to ride the risky investments up and purge the investments requires new investors, to purchase what no one is interested in buying. This is a method wealthy CEOs could remove their personal investments out of the risky junk bonds.

The corporations they managed or investment houses that managed large retirement funds, were used to purchase these bad stocks from their personal accounts. The wealthiest people are the CEOs of the corporations, banks, investment houses and insurance agencies but have little long-term responsibility in keeping their jobs, managing a prosperous corporation or being prosecuted from the world's puppet governments or held liability by the poorly educated population. What comes out of the 2008 stock market crash can only be interpreted from past events, patterns and the prices paid in blood, sweat and tears.

Section 4

Historically, the Dust Bowl can be extracted by an accounting of important events and in recreating the timeline over the last 250 years. 1789 the French Revolution arose over bread prices, for grain crops had reached record levels driving a hungry mob to attack the gates of Paris. 1812 the cold climate stopped Napoleon Bonaparte from liberating Russia's lowest social class called the serfs, considered an enslaved population. 1816, was the Year "Without a Summer" following the April 5, 1815 volcanic eruptions of Mount Tambora.

1840 European Potato Famine caused by potato blight in Northern Europe, is a sign of large scale climate change. When climate change occurs, its effects can be first seen in the most fragile ecosystems and these are agricultural lands with the one plant type, termed the uni-ecosystem. One million Irish died and more than two million northern Europeans.

Similar to the United States, the Asian continent and northern Europe also contain vast Grain Belts, left by retracting glaciers. 1917 communist revolution in Russia was caused by the sudden decrease in agricultural productivity of the Grain Belts and the extreme detachment between the ruling class, the Russian Tzar and the malnourished population.

Exploring the Russian communist flag will reveal a sickle, which is a farm tool used in harvesting grain crops. The sickle was used to reap the grain, and to gather the crops into bushels, so they can be later thrashed and winnowed. 1920s and 1930s China's Communist revolution led by Mao Zedong, was also caused by the same effects of a cooling climate, some 40 million Chinese died of starvation during this time period. Their leaders failed to respond to the changing environment and develop an agricultural plan to feed their population. China is currently the largest producer, consumer and importer of grain crops.

The other associated effect of a large malnourished population is that poor nutrition makes the human body weak and highly susceptible to common diseases, colds and flues. 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, killed anywhere from 20 to 100 million people worldwide. Exploring the last 250 years of science, human history and earth's climate record will show that the Spanish flu was not produced by the strength of the influenza, but by the weakness of the world's malnourished population. This was due to the changes in the world's food production caused by global cooling.

1941 German invasion of Russia was abandoned due to the early, cold winter. The 1950 Korean War broke out when Chinese troops along with Communist North Korea divisions broke through the 38th parallel. In 1975 the Communists won Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after America withdrew. This gave Communist China open trade access to warmer agricultural lands needed to feed their expanding population.

The Cold War, which ended in 1991 was not fought over political ideology but a posturing of arms, for one purpose, to protect the American Grain Belts. America and Canada together are the largest exporter of grain crops. Unlike Russia and China, the American government constructed wind barriers called the "Shelter Belt Project" to slow the surface winds. In addition they installed an industrial irrigation infrastructure, throughout the west which included the Hoover dam to rehabilitate the American Grain Belt. Shipments of grain crops were sent to Russia and China throughout the Cold War to prevent further invasions into Southeast Asia.

The Cold War ended when the Asian continent's grain production could feed their population. China's government is currently building the Three Gorge Dam, not only to produce energy but also to irrigate vast agricultural lands to prevent a second Dust Bowl.

Section 5

Geographically, Earth's landmasses are mostly in northern latitudes and not along the warmer equatorial region. This makes a Global Cooling event more catastrophic on earth's population than a Global Warming event. Considering that warmer earth would open more farm lands for production and extend the length of the growing season.

The northern regions of earth actually have the best crop lands, because glacial growth and retraction, have deposited minerals which make the soil extremely fertile. When most good soil has a 6 to 12 inch topsoil, the Grain Belts in northern regions have up to, 6 feet of mineral rich productive topsoil. The Grain Belts are an agricultural factory and managed correctly can keep earth warm, wet and feed the population nearly indefinitely.

The land masses in the hot equatorial regions include small islands, rainforests and the world's largest desert; the Sahara Desert in Northern Africa. The equatorial islands are over populated and require food shipments to sustain their population. The Rainforests have leached soils, low in both nutrients and minerals. The only way to agriculturally develop Rainforest land is through the Slash-and-Burn method. Slash-and-Burn renders the burned trees into the soil to act as nutrients, forcing the soil to be agriculturally productive.

This method of farming is only fruitful for a few years and then the land becomes completely infertile for generations. Deserts are a lost ecosystem because they reflect the suns energy, assist in cooling earth's climate and cannot support a large and rich biological population. A desert is created when wind or water erosion removes the topsoil; the physical process can be seen in a Dust Bowl event.

Most of earth's 6 billion inhabitants rely either directly or indirectly on the productivity of the Grain Belts from the northern latitudes. During the 1920s and 30s this Grain Belt was nearly lost to the effects of the global cooling event and the natural extraction of moisture, creating the Dust Bowl. The Global warming promoters, including their spokes person Al Gore and the movie Inconvenient Truth, evaluate temperature records over the last 250 years. These promoters fail to assess a mini ice age event which ended 250 years ago and the fact that, 1,000 years ago Greenland was, green, warm, and not an icy tundra.

When comparing the last 250 years of earth's climate to 1,000 years ago when the Vikings populated Greenland, earth continues to experience an altering, and cooling climate. In reality, earth has only recently and marginally recovered from a cooling climate at the end of the Cold War.