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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Bombshell: FEMA Camps Confirmed


Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory Proves FEMA Camps Exist for American Citizens in New Episode on TruTV


From InfoWars.com

By Aaron Dykes

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura and his crew at Conspiracy Theory have blown the FEMA camp issue wide open in a truly groundbreaking episode from the program’s second season on TruTV. The “Police State” episode proves once and for all that the feds have trained to take on American citizens, planned for riots and disasters and made preparations to maintain order at any cost. Tune in this Friday, Nov. 12 at 10 PM Eastern/ 9 PM Central and leave the denial at the door.

This powerful episode is the largest and most in-depth investigation into FEMA camps to date– and it is scheduled to air on television. Radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones returns to the series yet again, as the team takes you to confirmed on-the-ground facilities, confronts the legislators who authorized FEMA camps and breaks down the full-scale technologically-integrated police state that includes Fusion Centers, FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security and more.


At one of many real and verified FEMA locations, Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones approach a “Residential Center” run by Homeland Security in central Texas where they find locked doors, double-fences and escape warnings around the entire perimeter. Further inside the facility, they witness a playground complex, swings and slides for children. The crew walks up to the front door and attempts to get some answers. But the officials refuse to either confirm or deny the facility’s purpose, including whether or not American citizens are being held inside. However, our past investigations into this facility reveal that it has confined both children and adults, including immigrants, refugee seekers and American citizens.

Despite hundreds of government documents identifying emergency and contingency plans, including plans to deal with mass fatalities, insurrection, internment and quarantines, Ventura and his team repeatedly encounter outrageous denial and avoidance by officials at every level. The mainstream media have avoided and downplayed these on-the-record plans for FEMA Camps and Homeland Security Emergency Facilities for years. Clearly, it is not meant to be a public relations talking point, and it is no surprise that members of Congress, including those who wrote the bill to create FEMA camps in America, are reluctant to discuss the matter.

So, Jesse Ventura, former Mayor and Governor, descends upon Washington to confront two important figures behind H.R. 645, the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act. Despite going through official channels, Ventura finds that Jim Gerlach (P-Pennsylvania) repeatedly “ducks” TV cameras and refuses to answer questions about H.R. 645.

Another Congressman who co-sponsored the bill starkly admits that FEMA camps exist, but rationalizes that they were put in place to deal with “happy children.” This bizarre admission is another confirmation that Congress and the leadership in Washington are out of touch with the oppressive measures that have been authorized against the American people.

Later, Ventura and Jones visit the Deep South and discover what appears to be an active cover-up to keep them from the truth. Outside the Atlanta, Georgia area is another confirmed location in FEMA’s disaster preparation network. They pay a visit to a facility storing thousands of plastic coffins where video has already confirmed the coffins in large numbers. Ventura and Jones discover upon arrival that a convoy of trucks has just left hauling away the evidence– thousands and thousands of liners the facility wanted to keep out of the way of cameras and public knowledge.

Various plastic coffin locations affiliated with FEMA, as well as plans for mass graves and large-scale fatalities, have been previously exposed and reported upon– including photographs sent by an Infowars listener of an Alabama facility in 2009 with thousands and thousands of plastic coffin liners. Why then would the officials in Georgia engage in such a desperate and hurried cover-up?

Further, the plans are already confirmed. DMORT and other divisions of Homeland Security have a contingency-structure in place to deal with mass fatalities and outbreaks in times of pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, national emergency or other disasters. Elements of these plans are in place on record, and coordinated via the 10 FEMA regions in the United States and via the “Fusion Centers” that are popping up at the Federal, State and Local levels all across the nation to spy on ordinary citizens.



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National Guard to be deployed over 10 FEMA regions within the United States.


Concerned about the fact that these programs admittedly monitor ‘returning veterans,’ ‘Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin supporters’ and beyond, the TV show contacted a Fusion Center spokesman to find out more about why they are targeting ordinary Americans. Spokesman Lance Clem told the show point blank that these domestic intelligence gathering centers have no oversight. Clem shockingly admitted, “We police ourselves.”

The show’s producers have told Alex behind the scenes that this episode turned out to be the most exciting from its entire Second Season line-up. It not only confronts the FEMA camp issue head on, but uncovers significant reason to worry about the actions of Homeland Security and other agencies. At location after location, it is clear that its administrators are nervous to discuss what they are preparing, but it is clear from their records and public documents that they are preparing for something big. From TruTv’s episode guide:

“Police State” – NEW!
Premieres Fri, November 12 at 10P
It’s been said the government has a plan to declare martial law and round up millions of United State citizens into concentration camps. Jesse may have found a conspiracy in plain sight as he investigates the proliferation of law enforcement Fusion Centers around the country. And they may be connected to hundreds of detention centers ready to accept prisoners at the stroke of a Presidential pen.


Aaron Dykes is frequent writer for Infowars.com and webmaster for JonesReport.com. He is also a videographer, researcher and editor who has worked on numerous documentaries and video reports.


Liverpool Catholic Cathedral Choir and Congregation - "Thy Hand Oh God Has Guided"




Saturday, November 13, 2010

Angelo Codevilla - "Does America Have a Ruling Class?"




W
ith faith in experts and hope that the administrative state will expand indefinitely,
America's ruling elite--Republican and Democrat--are at war with America. Standing against this elite is America's "country class," who believe in God and insist upon a return to constitutional principles. What do the 2010 election results tell us about this ongoing battle?

Angelo Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, senior editor of The American Spectator, and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. Educated at Rutgers, Notre Dame, and the Claremont Graduate School, Codevilla served in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Foreign Service, and on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Currently he is the vice chairman of the U.S. Army War College Board of Visitors. His most recent books include The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It and Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft.


Thursday, November 11, 2010

Pope Benedict Issues Major Document on Sacred Scripture (link to full text)



Pope Benedict has issued the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.

The publication of Verbum Domini follows the twelfth ordinary general assembly of the Synod Of Bishops, which took place in 2008 and was devoted to “The Word of God in the Life and the Mission of the Church.”

The document, though released on November 11, is dated September 30, the memorial of St. Jerome. The full text was made public in Latin, Italian, English, French., Spanish, German, Portuguese and Polish.

Verbum Domini is divided into three major sections. The first section, entitled Verbum Dei, explains “the Trinitarian dimension of revelation,” in which “God the Father, source and origin of the Word,” reveals Himself to mankind. This revelation is completed in Christ, and the first chapter explores the relationship between the Eucharist and revelation. The Pope goes on to explore man’s response to God’s revelation, appropriately through prayer. Next the Pontiff writs about the interpretation of Scripture, the role of Church authority in guiding that interpretation, and the need to avoid the twin dangers of fundamentalist or secularist approaches.

The second section, Verbum in Ecclesia, explains how the Word of God remains alive and active in the ministry of the Church. This section points out the heavy reliance on Scripture in the Eucharistic liturgy and the importance of regular Bible reading. The Pope notes that Christians and Jews are bound together in part because of their shared devotion to the use of the Scriptures in worship.

The third section, Verbum Mundo, reminds readers of "the duty of Christians to announce the Word of God in the world in which they live and work." Pope Benedict writes on the universal mission of the Church to spread the Word of God, and the importance of bringing Gospel principles into the secular world.

(A Reuters report on the papal document concentrated almost exclusively on a short passage within the 200-page text, in which the Pope called for respect for religious freedom. As the Reuters story pointed out, when the Pontiff spoke on the need for “reciprocity in all spheres,” he was clearly making a plea for Islamic states to recognize the rights of Christians. That plea, however, is only a minor point in the context of the full apostolic exhortation.)

Speaking to Vatican Radio, Cardinal Marc Ouellet—who was the relator general for the 2008 Synod—observed that Pope Benedict had been actively involved in discussions throughout the Synod session, and “se see that in the document.” The Pope’s apostolic exhortation, he said, reflects “the great unity among the Synod fathers.” He remarked that the Pope, in Verbum Domini, accurately conveys the shared sense of the Synod participants: strongly encouraging Christians to read and reflect on the Bible, emphasizing the value of the Scriptures as the basis for ecumenical discussion, and being keenly aware of the strong connections between the Old and New Testaments.

Verbum Domini joins Dei Verbum and three papal encyclicals-- Pope Leo XIII's Providentissimus Deus (1893), Pope Benedict XV's Spiritus Paraclitus (1920), and Venerable Pius XII's Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943)-- as a milestone in the development of Catholic teaching on Sacred Scripture, which is summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (nos. 101-141).

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Death Sentence for Pakistani Christian Who Refused to Convert to Islam

“I will stand with the Muslims should the
political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
From The Audacity of Hope by Barack Hussein Obama


A Pakistani Christian mother has been sentenced to death for blaspheming the prophet Mohammed after she refused to convert to Islam.

Asia Bibi, a resident of Ittanwali in the eastern province of Punjab, was working at a local farm when the Muslim women with whom she was working called her an infidel and urged her to convert to Islam. Bibi refused, saying that Christianity was the only true religion.

“The Muslim men working in nearby fields also gathered and attacked Asia Bibi on which she fled to village in her home,” the Pakistan Christian Post reported. “The angry Muslims followed her and took her out of home and started beating her. They tortured her children also, but meanwhile someone informed police.”

Police then arrested Bibi on blasphemy charges. Following a lengthy trial, she has been sentenced to death.

In the past two months, five other Pakistani Christians have been falsely accused of blasphemy, according to Peter Jacob, executive secretary of the Pakistani bishops’ national commission for justice and peace.

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Veterans Day, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day


Throughout the English-speaking world, today is a solemn day known in some countries as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day, or here in the United States, as Veterans Day. It originated with the armistice signed "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" ending the First World War. More importantly, it honors countless souls who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom, along with all those who served freedom's cause.

The Canadian blog, Piddingworth, has an especially beautiful tribute and collection of hymns during this month of remembrance. Wherever and however this day is commemorated, may we never forget and always honor the service and sacrifice of history's freedom fighters, and also that of their loved ones.



Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Charleston, S.C. Named Friendliest City in America

Charleston has won another travel honor.

Travel + Leisure Magazine on Monday named Charleston the friendliest city in the nation. The magazine also named the city tops in bed and breakfasts, inns and antique stores.

Last month, Charleston was listed among the nation's top destinations by readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Charleston placed second behind San Francisco.

About 4 million people visit Charleston each year.

Charleston and the rest of the South Carolina coast are the heart of the state's $18 billion tourism industry.