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What Really Happened at the London 2012 Olympics? Carl James What Really Happened at the London 2012 Olympics? Carl James Copyright © 2017 by Carl James Cover Art - Copyright © 2017 by Carl James Author Biography Carl James is an alternative knowledge researcher and author of the blog “The Truth Seekers Guide” and the 2016 books “Science Fiction and the Hidden Global Agenda” - Volumes One and Two. Carl has worked for over 25 years in the healthcare profession – as well as 5 years as a therapeutic activities co-ordinator for the elderly. He also worked for many years as a singer-songwriter, musician and musical multi-media producer. He currently resides in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Dedication This book is dedicated to my friends and family, and to those people who have opened their eyes to the reality of the world around us. It is also dedicated to the countless number of researchers who directly or indirectly stirred my own personal awakening and set me on my journey to find truth. i Table of Contents Introduction i PART ONE: “THE ROAD TO LONDON 2012” 1 Foreshadowing an Event 2 Extremism, Terror and the Occult at the Olympics 6 July 2005 9 The 7/7 Connection – Beijing & Beyond 15 The London 2012 Olympic “Threat” Is Born 21 MSM Fearmongering 26 “Threat” Stories 31 Ben Fellows 36 Bring Out the Zombies! 47 Aliens Back Our Bid! 56 ET Visits London 2012! 60 Nick Pope: “Saucers during the Olympics Games” 64 Faking the Aliens 73 The Man Who Put ET and London 2012 Together 79 The Olympic “Event” Psyop 87 PART TWO: “LONDON 2012 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD” 95 Elite Beliefs 96 The Arcane Origins of the Modern Olympics 100 London Olympic Stadium 105 2012 Logo 110 Rik Clay 117 Cultural Olympiad 126 It’s All Numbers 129 London: The Temple of Time 131 The Bell Ritual 139 Danny Boyle 144 Shakespeare and “The Tempest” 150 PART THREE: “LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC GAMES”157 Green and Pleasant Land 158 i Pandemonium 164 Happy and Glorious 168 Second to the Right… 169 Chariots of Fire 176 Frankie and June say… Thanks! 179 Abide With Me, Welcome & Bike 181 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 184 Olympics Closing Ceremony – Rush Hour 187 Street Party 189 Here Comes the Sun (Worship) 189 A Symphony of British Music 190 Spirit of the Flame 197 Paralympics Opening Ceremony - Miranda 199 Brave New World 204 Gravity & Collision 207 Paralympics Closing Ceremony - Windstorm 208 Invasion 213 Festival of the Flame 214 Hulinhjalmur 222 Conclusions 223 ii Introduction From 2005 onwards and the announcement that London would be the host city of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, speculation amongst alternative knowledge researchers began and continued for seven years until the actual Games took place. This speculation centred around one central notion – the possibility that some monumental event would take place during the Games. Looking back from the vantage point of 2017, it is difficult to know precisely who sparked this speculation and why. At the time, the notion was confounded by additional conjecture about the type of “event” that might take place. Theories ranged from the entirely plausible possibility of a false-flag terrorist attack on London during the Games (not unlike 9/11 or 7/7) to the less plausible notion of a staged / faked extra-terrestrial visitation. Theories became more diverse, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous – even the idea of a “zombie invasion” of London was taken quite seriously by a few researchers for a while! For a couple of years before the London 2012 Olympic Games, I immersed myself in the huge amount of information that was available on this subject. I ultimately concluded (as I published on my blog website a few months before the Games began) that there was evidence to suggest that something would indeed take place at the Games, but that it would almost certainly be something very different from most of the theories floating about at that point. Although I did not rule out the possibility that a false-flag terrorist event like 7/7 (or worse) could indeed still happen, I believed that the event most likely to occur would come in the form of a ritualistic “soul capture” spectacle. This phenomenon would utilise arcane and occult knowledge and symbolism to “pull” a proverbial “fast one” on the few billion people who would be watching around the world. Using archetypes combined with the tried and tested knowledge that “energy flows where attention goes”, the elite players of this world would flaunt and embed their beliefs and knowledge right in front of a global audience. This would be done in such a way that the majority watching wouldn’t really have a clue as to what was truly being conveyed or how to analyse and process it objectively. In this manner, it would be a heinous assault upon the minds and consciousness i of the world. No physical bullet would be fired, no bomb would be exploded, and no person would be physically struck down by the assault. It would be, to paraphrase the title of a rather profound document, a “silent weapon” used as part of a “quiet war” – the war upon human consciousness. This kind of warfare has gone on for centuries and has intensified since the invention of radio, film, television, and (to some degree) the internet. The media is sizeably the machinery of the war on our consciousness and their output is the ammunition. Like warfare, there are key battles that supposedly change history. In the war on consciousness, some of these key battles have cost lives (again, 9/11 and 7/7, but also the death of Princess Diana, Hurricane Katrina, Fukashima, etc. – all given huge media coverage as part of an ulterior agenda) whilst others (such as the Live Aid concert in 1985) were very subtle and slight with no “apparent” harm inflicted during the media event… at least none physical anyway. I believed that London 2012 would be like the latter. When the 2012 Games came and went, it appeared that my prediction was spot on. Thankfully, there had been no terrorist attack (false flag or otherwise) in London. We hadn’t received a wide scale impromptu visit from outer space and we hadn’t had our brains gnawed on by zombies! Quietly, many researchers left the London Olympics subject alone – claiming that nothing had happened and moved on. Yet my own scrutinized observations of every frame of footage from the London Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies (four ceremonies in total) indicated otherwise. At that point, why had so many researchers abandoned the matter? I understand that dissecting and interpreting symbols and themes as proof of an elite belief system or agenda is a far less tangible form of evidence gathering than, say, analysing tested scientific measurements or material evidence. Yet it remains true that the symbols and archetypes I analysed were (and still are) indicative of an elite hand at work. Ordinary, everyday folk do not generally feel the need to use or recognise such symbolism and themes in their day-to-day lives; the archetypes remain largely in the domain of elite types and amongst those with an interest in secret societies, occult practices and arcane knowledge. ii Some researchers tirelessly continued to study The Games and document their findings. Others began to talk as if a “victory” had taken place on the part of alternative knowledge researchers. The contention was that a “lack” of a “physical” attack on the people or London itself, during the Games, was an indication that the elite had been rattled by mass awareness and discussion of what “might” happen at the Games and that they had decided to call off a “physical” event – such as a false flag terrorist attack or faked alien invasion. I must stress that it is entirely possible that something more “physical” was indeed planned for orchestration by “the powers that be” during the Games. It is even possible that mass awareness (and there actually was a lot of it in the lead up to the Games) had scuppered the possibility. After events like 9/11, a kind of crucible of truth was created. In 2005, 7/7 (with its synchronistic links to the London 2012 Games) awoke a lot of British people to the fact that “the powers that be” were lying to the people on a daily basis. Governments and media outlets could no longer pull the proverbial wool over everyone’s eyes. In the post-9/11, post-7/7 age, it has become so much harder to pull off fake terrorist attacks, have the media announce that a handful of fundamental extremists committed the crime, and then have everybody believe the media / political narrative (the proverbial “official narrative”) hook, line and sinker. Yes, there are obviously still many, many people out there who buy these fake narratives without question. However, there are many others who aren’t fooled by it anymore. Once over, it appears that the London 2012 Games largely disappeared into the mists of time… as most things do. Because of its seemingly non-tangible nature, the ritual assault on the mass consciousness deployed at the Olympic and Paralympic Games obviously did not linger long in the memory of truth for future alternative knowledge researchers to study and dissect. Understandably, one cannot compare the ritual assault of the Games with events like 9/11… and I wouldn’t even try to do so. No lives were seemingly lost. Nobody was apparently unhappy or obviously made to suffer as a result. Does this therefore mean that we should close the book on the matter? The short answer is no.
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