Monday, January 16, 2012

Memphis may finally name city street after King

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By Adrian Sainz
Associated Press / January 12, 2012


MEMPHIS, Tenn.—In the more than four decades since the Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, about 900 U.S. cities have named local streets for him. Memphis is not one of them, though there is a stretch of interstate bearing his name.

Now Memphis officials will consider a naming a key downtown street for the civil rights icon after years of inaction that some say reflects a sense of shame and denial in the city where he was cut down.

The proposal to rename nine blocks of Linden Avenue to Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue is expected to pass Thursday when it comes before the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board. As of Tuesday, the board hadn't received any comments opposing the honor for King, who was killed by assassin James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968.

Berlin Boyd, a former city councilman, came up with the proposal earlier this year while still in office and it easily passed. He predicts it will pass the land use board, with a naming ceremony expected to take place on April 4. The board has final say unless an appeal is filed within 10 days.

The street re-naming is being seen by many Memphians as a symbol that the city is taking steps to heal the wound caused by the assassination.

""It was something that had a place in my heart for some time," Boyd told The Associated Press. "Here is a city where Martin Luther King's blood cries from the streets, and we don't have anything to pay tribute to him."

King came to Memphis to support a sanitation workers strike in 1968 in what became his final act as a civil rights leader. The National Civil Rights Museum is built at the site of the former Lorraine Motel, where King stayed while supporting the sanitation workers. A wreath marks the spot on the balcony where King was shot.

The Rev. James Netters, who marched with King and the sanitation workers as a city councilman, said he proposed naming a street for King in the early 1970s, but the City Council voted to dedicate a stretch of Interstate 240 to him instead.

Supporters say renaming Linden Avenue for King is more significant than the dedication of the interstate because the avenue is in the heart of the city's downtown and residents will have to use the avenue's name to give directions. They also say that new businesses along it -- including two hotels set for construction -- will use the King address, giving the street more importance and visibility.

Netters, 84, said he does not know why another proposal did not appear before now, a sentiment echoed by many others.

"Memphis can't do enough," Netters said. "Any honor that we dedicate to him is very, very critical."

Kenneth Whalum, a school board member and Memphis native who was 12 years old when King was killed, said no street has been named after King because Memphis has been in a state of denial and depression over the assassination.

"Just as when you lose any loved one, you get depressed," Whalum said. "For the last 43 years we've hoped that the incident didn't happen. We wished it would disappear and go away."

Boyd chose Linden Avenue because he saw a sign with the street's name in a photo taken of a rally led by King. The avenue runs in front of the Clayborn Temple -- where King rallied with members of the civil rights movement -- and the FedExForum, the arena where the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies play their home games.

It runs parallel to Beale Street, the famous Memphis tourist drag, and is near the offices of the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union that King came to Memphis to defend.

One of the advantages of choosing Linden Avenue is that no businesses will have to change their address with the name change, according to the land use board's report on the street re-naming.

The report, which recommends approval, notes that Linden Avenue is not named after a real person, so no one will be offended that their family name is being stripped from the downtown avenue. The name honors Under the Linden Trees Boulevard, over which the Brandenburg Gate was built in Berlin, Germany.

Should the proposal pass, Memphis would be added to the long list of cities, both big and small, that honor King with a street name. About 75 percent of the roughly 900 cities are found in 10 Southern states, with Georgia leading the way, said Derek Alderman, an East Carolina University geography professor who penned a 2006 study, "Naming Streets for Martin Luther King Jr.: No Easy Road."

Next in line are Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama.

Alderman says cities have endured heated debates over naming streets after King: A common dispute centers on whether to select a street that is in a predominantly black neighborhood, or one that cuts across racial boundaries and "embodies the message that King was preaching when he was alive."

Alderman also notes that naming a street after King is an appropriate way to honor him because African-Americans looked to movement and transportation as ways of challenging and changing the racial status quo and creating racial equality. The Underground Railroad, the Freedom Riders and King's protest marches and leadership of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott are good examples, he said in his study.

"Street naming can be a pretty powerful way of honoring somebody when you consider the way streets connect people," Alderman said. "A significant amount of the actual mechanics of protest and the mechanics of carrying out the civil rights movement was actually carried out in street level protests and marches."

Renaming Linden Avenue for King may change the way residents give directions, but it also may help Memphis live down any shame and embarrassment that comes with being the city where King was assassinated.

Boyd said acknowledging King with his own street may be a symbol that Memphis is making strides in eliminating racial tensions and is finally dealing with King's death.

"We have to start embracing the heritage of our city," Boyd said. "Until we understand who we are as a city, we will always be left behind."



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Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Inquisition: Alive And Well After 800 Years

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God's Jury
The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
by Cullen Murphy
Hardcover, 310 pages

January 15, 2012

When we talk of inquisition it is usually prefaced with a definite article — as in, The Inquisition. But, as Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy points out in his new book, God's Jury, the Inquisition wasn't a single event but rather a decentralized, centuries-long process.

Murphy says the "inquisitorial impulse" is alive and well today — despite its humble origins with the Cathars in France, where it was initially designed to deal with Christian heretics.

"The temptation, I think, is to think of the Inquisition as a kind of throwback," Murphy tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered. "Nothing quite says 'medieval' the way the word 'inquisition' does. And my view is that you should actually adjust the lens fairly substantially."

When you look at the Inquisition, he says, what you really see is the beginning of the modern world.

"There's always been persecution, there's always been hatred," Murphy says. The Inquisition, however, was such an enormous, sustained effort that it required an infrastructure to collect and retrieve information — over centuries.

It was this institutionalizing of the Inquisition that revolutionized record-keeping and surveillance techniques, Murphy says.

Modern Day Parallels

If you open a modern day interrogation manual for the police force or the military and place an interrogation manual from the Spanish Inquisition by its side, Murphy says, you'd be shocked by the similarities.

"There isn't a trick that is used nowadays that wasn't in use by the Inquisition. The psychology of interrogation, the ruses that people would use when you're questioning, there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to interrogation," he says.

Gasper Tringale/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Cullen Murphy is the editor-at-large for Vanity Fair and previously served as managing editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
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Interrogation at Guantanamo, for example, illustrates that the spirit of the Spanish Inquisition is alive and well today, Murphy says.

"The Inquisition tried to put restraints on torture. The problem was that in the moment, when people are trying to get information, those boundaries keep being pushed," he says. "People think, 'You know, one more turn of the screw will get us one more little piece of information' ... and torture creeps and creeps and creeps."

Are We In Danger?

Murphy says the key ingredients for a modern day inquisition exist today.

In order for an inquisition to succeed, he says, there must be an individual or a group of people who believe they are in the right and want everyone else to toe the line.

"But that moral certainty isn't enough," Murphy says. There must also be a bureaucracy and methods of surveillance to sustain the persecution.

"All of those things are much more advanced right now by an order of magnitude than they were centuries ago," Murphy says. "Nowadays [surveillance] is done almost automatically — every time you hit the keyboard on your computer or every time you walk by a camera on the street."

Murphy fears what could happen if that moral certainty meets the kinds of monitoring tools that exist today.

"In the wrong hands, the tools of repression are just more available and dangerous than they have been in a long time," he says.
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Pierre-Jean De Smet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pierre-Jean De Smet (30 January 1801 – 23 May 1873), also known as Pieter-Jan De Smet, was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), active in missionary work among the Native Americans of the Midwestern United States in the mid-19th century.

His extensive travels as a missionary were said to total 180,000 miles. He was known as the "Friend of Sitting Bull", because he persuaded the Sioux war chief to participate in negotiations with the United States government for the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Pierre-Jean De Smet

photograph by Mathew Brady, circa 1860-1865.
Born 30 January 1801
Dendermonde, Belgium
Died 23 May 1873 (aged 72)
St. Louis, Missouri
Other names Pieter-Jan De Smet
Education White Marsh Novitiate in present-day Bowie, Maryland
Ordained 23 September 1827


Early life

De Smet was born in Dendermonde, in what is now Belgium. He first came to the United States with eleven other Belgian Jesuits in 1821 to begin his novitiate at White Marsh, a Jesuit estate near Baltimore, Maryland. Part of the complex survives today as Sacred Heart Church in Bowie.

De Smet and five other Belgian novices, led by Charles Van Quickenborne, moved to Florissant, Missouri, at the invitation of bishop Dubourg. Several academic institutions were immediately founded, among which the St. Regis Seminary where De Smet had his first contacts with indigenous boys. After further studies, he was ordained priest on 23 September 1827. Until 1830, he learned about Indian customs and languages as a prefect at the seminary. In 1833 he had to return to Belgium due to health problems. It was 1837 before he could return to Missouri.



De Smet's map of the
Council Bluffs, Iowa area
, 1839. De Smet's mission is labeled "St. Joseph's", The area labeled 'Caldwell's Camp' was a Potawatomi village led by Sauganash; this was at or near the later town of Kanesville, the precursor of Council Bluffs.[1]


Mission work in Iowa Territory

In 1838 and 1839, De Smet helped to establish St. Joseph's Mission in what is now Council Bluffs, Iowa. Taking over the abandoned Council Bluffs Blockhouse military fort, De Smet worked primarily with a Potawatomi band led by Billy Caldwell, also known as Sauganash (of Irish and Mohawk descent, he was born in Canada and spoke English as well as some Indian languages.).
De Smet was appalled by the murders and brutality resulting from the whiskey trade, which caused much social disruption among the Indian people. He tried to protect them. With little success in religious conversions, De Smet was said to secretly baptize Indian children. During this time, he also assisted and supported Joseph Nicollet’s efforts at mapping the Upper Midwest. De Smet used newly acquired mapping skills to produce the first detailed map of the Missouri River valley system, from below the Platte River to the Big Sioux River. His map shows the locations of Indian villages and other cultural features, including the wreck of the Steamboat Pirate.[2][3]


Flathead mission

De Smet's travels in the West meant that he spent years exploring and organizing missions. He was involved in extensive missionary work, especially among the Flathead. He was sent by Bishop Joseph Rosati after several pleas from the Nez Perce and Flathead Indians to receive a "Black robe". This was the name by which they referred to the Catholic missionaries, based on their traditional long black cassocks.


1845-1846 expedition


Engraving of a Kaw (Kansas) village by De Smet, showing earthlodges and other traditional house forms.

One of De Smet's longest explorations began in August 1845. He started from Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho and crossed into the Kootenay River valley. From there he followed the valley, eventually crossing over to the source of the Columbia River. He traversed a portion of that valley, followed Sinclair Pass, recrossed the Kootenay and, using White Man’s Pass, reached the Bow River valley, near the site of present-day Canmore, Alberta. From there he headed north to Rocky Mountain House. By this time it was October and he fulfilled one of his goals; to meet with the Cree, Chippewa, and Blackfeet of the area. At the end of the month, De Smet traveled to the east to search for more Natives. He was fortunate to find his way back to Rocky Mountain House and was guided from there to Fort Edmonton, where he spent the winter of 1845-1846.

In the spring, De Smet returned to Jasper House and, with terrible suffering, he reached the Columbia River and Fort Vancouver. He returned to his mission at Sainte-Marie on the Bitterroot River. Finally he returned to St. Louis, Missouri. His time as a missionary in the Rockies was over.

Later years and death


Statue of Pieter-Jan de Smet in Dendermonde

In his remaining years, De Smet was active in work regarding the missions he helped establish and fund. During his career, he sailed back to Europe eight times to raise money for the missions among supporters there.
In 1868 he persuaded Sitting Bull to accept the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

He died in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was originally buried with some fellow early Jesuit explorers at St. Stanislaus Seminary near Florissant. In 2003, after some controversy, his remains and those of the other Jesuits were moved and reinterred at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, the burial site for many Missouri Province Jesuits.

Legacy

His papers, with accounts of his travels and missionary work with Native Americans, are held by the library at St. Louis University, which he helped establish and added to with valuable books from Europe.

Namesake places

Several places are named in honor of De Smet:

DeSmet, Benewah County, Idaho
DeSmet, Missoula County, Montana, an unincorporated site near the Missoula International Airport
DeSmet, South Dakota, the childhood home of Laura Ingalls Wilder
De Smet Lake, outside Sheridan, Wyoming
De Smet Jesuit High School in Creve Coeur, Missouri
DeSmet Hall at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
DeSmet Hall at Regis University, Denver, Colorado


References

^ Whittaker (2008): "Pierre-Jean De Smet’s Remarkable Map of the Missouri River Valley, 1839: What Did He See in Iowa?", Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society 55:1-13
^ Whittaker (2008).
^ Mullen, Frank (1925) "Father De Smet and the Pottawattamie Indian Mission", Iowa Journal of History and Politics 23:192-216.
[edit]Sources
Killoren, John J. "Come, Blackrobe": De Smet and the Indian Tragedy, The Institute of Jesuit Sources (2003), reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press (1994); ISBN 1880810506


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U.N. Chief Says Syria's Assad Must End Violence

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JANUARY 15, 2012, 11:20 A.M. ET



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BEIRUT—The U.N. chief demanded Sunday that Syria's president stop killing his own people and said the "old order" of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivering the keynote address at a conference in Beirut on democracy in the Arab world, said the revolutions of the Arab Spring show people will no longer accept tyranny.

"Today, I say again to President (Bashar) Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people," Mr. Ban said.



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U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon demanded that Syria's leader stop killing his own people, addressing a conference on democracy in Beirut on Sunday.


Thousands of people have been killed in the government's crackdown on a 10-month-old uprising, which has turned increasingly militarized in recent months with a growing risk of civil war.

Syria agreed last month to an Arab League plan that calls for a halt to the crackdown, the withdrawal of heavy weaponry, such as tanks, from cities, the release of all political prisoners, and allowing in foreign journalists and rights workers. About 200 Arab League observers are working in Syria to verify whether the government is abiding by its agreement to end the military crackdown on dissent.

Observers visited the coastal city of Banias and the restive town of Maaret al-Numan in northern Syria on Sunday, where they were met with thousands of anti-Assad protesters chanting for his downfall.

Amateur video posted by activists on the Internet showed the monitors watching and filming from a balcony as a large protest unfolded on the streets below. "Victory for our revolution!" the protesters shouted.

The monitors also visited the Damascus suburb of Zabadani, which activists say has come under an intense crackdown in the past few days.

"The authorities pulled out tanks and stopped firing just before the observers arrived," said one activist in Zabadani, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals. "But they saw with their own eyes the destruction and fear," he said, adding people took to the streets in huge protests while the monitors were there.

But the presence of the observers hasn't put a stop to bloodshed and the U.S. and many in the Syrian opposition say killings have accelerated. The U.N. says about 400 people have been killed in the past three weeks alone, on top of an earlier estimate of more than 5,000 killed since March.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syria's state-run news agency SANA reported Sunday that at least five factory workers were killed when a roadside bomb detonated near the bus they were traveling in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northern Syria.

The Observatory and other activists said seven other people died in the central city of Homs, including three from indiscriminate gunfire and one in the northern province of Idlib.

"The killings still continue and still there are people arrested," said Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby in Bahrain. He said there will be a meeting of Arab foreign ministers at the end of the week in Cairo to decide on the next steps.

Syria's state news agency reported that Mr. Assad granted a general amnesty for "crimes" committed during the uprising, and officials said authorities have begun granting local and foreign media outlets approvals to work in Syria. It wasn't clear how many prisoners would be released.

Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud said the level of "incitement and distortion of facts" has doubled since the media was allowed in along with the Arab League observers who started work late last month.

Mr. Ban acknowledged challenges facing Arab states in the wake of the uprisings sweeping the Arab world, in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria.

"It is sometimes said that authoritarian regimes, whatever else their faults, at least kept a lid on sectarian conflict. This is a cruel canard," Mr. Ban said in Beirut. "Yet it would be equally mistaken to assume that all of the new regimes now emerging will automatically uphold universal human rights," he said.

"Democracy is not easy," he added. "It takes time and effort to build. It does not come into being with one or two elections. Yet there is no going back."

He encouraged Arab countries to usher in real reforms and dialogue, and to respect the role of women and youth.

"The old way, the old order, is crumbling,"
Mr. Ban said.
"One-man rule and the perpetuation of family dynasties, monopolies of wealth and power, the silencing of the media, the deprivation of fundamental freedoms that are the birthright of every man, woman and child on this planet —to all of this, the people say: Enough!"

The U.N. chief also urged an end to Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories.

"Settlements, new and old, are illegal. They work against the emergence of a viable Palestinian state."

The foreign minister of Tunisia, which became the first Arab country to oust a dictator through a peaceful revolution one year ago, said there is no escape from the process of democratization and freedoms in the Arab world.

"My message (to the Syrian regime) is to hear and to listen to the will of the people," Rafik Abdessalem told APTN in an interview in Beirut on Sunday.

On Saturday, the leader of Qatar was quoted as saying that Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop a deadly crackdown on antigovernment protests. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's comments to CBS's "60 Minutes," which will be aired Sunday, are the first statements by an Arab leader calling for the deployment of troops inside Syria.

Asked whether he is in favor of Arab nations intervening in Syria, Sheik Hamad said: "For such a situation to stop, the killing some troops should go to stop the killing."

Excerpts of the interview were sent to The Associated Press by CBS on Saturday.

Qatar, which once had close relations with Damascus, has been a harsh critic of the crackdown by Mr. Assad's regime. The wealthy and influential Gulf state withdrew its ambassador to Syria in the summer to protest the killings.

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The Jesuits Against the United States of Israel

This is an expose of the Militia of Zeus and Minerva!

The Jesuits were founded in 1540 for 1 reason: destroy the blessed Reformation. The United States of Israel was not in existence back then but we are now their FINAL TARGET.

Loyola statue in the Vatican.
Loyola statue in the Vatican.

Ignatius LIEola was co-founder of the Jesuits with Francis Borgia, the great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI.

In this statue in the Vatican, Loyola can be seen holding the Jesuit Constitutions while he tramples underfoot a Christian with a Bible . . . and a serpent!!

No one who visits the Vatican can miss the statue of LIEola.
No one who visits the Vatican can miss the statue of Loyola.

It is beyond belief that this visual aid was not removed at the beginning of the ecumenical movement in 1962!

The White Pope and the Black Pope.
The White Pope and the Black Pope.

Jesuit general Adolfo Nicolás is the successor of Ignatius Loyola.

He is the éminence grise behind White Pope Benedict XVI.

He also commands at the Pentagon.

Jesuit headquarters in Rome.
Jesuit headquarters in Rome.

Jesuit generals appoint Popes and then get rid of the uncooperative ones.... Since the official founding of the Jesuits by Pope Paul III in 1540, there has been a total of 46 White Popes and only 30 Black Popes!!

Peter de Smet was the best known U.S. Jesuit of the 19th century!!

Peter De Smet, S.J., was the best known U.S. Jesuit of the 19th century....He is little known today because his pre-1870 hatred of the U.S. is considered an anachronism due to the fact that the Jesuits desperately need the military might of the U.S. in order to recover the Pope's temporal power.

Peter De Smet (1801-1873) at age 37.
Peter De Smet (1801-1873) at age 37.

Black Robe Pierré Jean De Smet was the Jesuits' agent on the Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest.

He hated the pioneers with a passion and sought to exterminate them using his Indian "converts."

Peter De Smet in 1872.
Peter De Smet in 1872.

He traveled to Europe 19 times to seek finances but he never encouraged Latin Church members to emigrate to the U.S.

Everything changed after 1870. Before that time, in the U.S., the intelligent people knew perfectly well that Rome was just a political system disguised as a religion. Christians were doing their utmost to win the Pope's followers to Christ and the Jesuits feared losing this large source of manpower:

At this period in his life (1860), Father De Smet earnestly discouraged migration to America. As he saw the vast numbers of Catholics coming to these shores, and no possibility of supplying them with teachers, he felt that they could not long withstand the influence of Protestantism and that apostasy would exceed the number of conversions. He also advised some of his more intimate friends not to send their children here on account of the total change from the life to which they were accustomed. In Europe they were to a large degree born to their station in life. They would not work in well where boys commenced at the very foot of the ladder, doing the commonest service for the sake of getting a start. Their language would furthermore be against them until they could gain a command of English; and on the whole they would stand little show in competition with the universal adaptability of the American boy. (De Smet, Life, Letters, & Travels, pp. 116-117).

All that changed after 1870. The Fall of the Papal States and the liberation of Rome was the most earth shattering event since the blessed Reformation of 1517. The immigration floodgates opened up!

Statue of Liberty.
Statue of Liberty.

The Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants was officially unveiled in 1886.

The Ellis Island immigrant processing station was opened in 1892.

Until its closing in 1954, over 12 million immigrants arrived in the country. Most of them were members of the Papal Church.

Ellis Island National Monument.
Ellis Island National Monument.

Most of these immigrants were in violation of the Bull of Pope Alexander VI because none of them obtained a license from the king of Spain.

On the statue is a plaque with a poem by Emma Lazarus containing these words:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

How did these teeming millions become WRETCHED REFUSE? Obviously, they were born to their station in life and there was no possibility of any amelioration!

It is an alarming fact that 1/3 of the U.S. population can trace their ancestry to the immigrants who first arrived in America at Ellis Island before dispersing to points all over the country. Serfs for centuries, the immigrants were used to giving blind obedience to the Papacy and very few of them believed in keeping the Sabbath Day holy.

Despite the millions of immigrants, it was not enough to send Cardinal Al Smith to the White House in 1928. As revenge for that defeat, the Jesuits gave us the Great Depression and World War II.

A. P. Giannini and the Bank of Italy

Amadeo Peter Giannini—son of an Italian immigrant—was born in the fateful year of 1870. In 1885 he began his career as a fruit and vegetable commission merchant on the docks of San Francisco.

In 1904 he opened the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.

A. P. Giannini (1870-1949),
at age 30.

The juggernaut that is known today as the Bank of America got its start in San Francisco in 1904.

Founder A. P. Giannini was the son of a poor Italian immigrant who came to seek his fortune in California.

A. P. Giannini as president of the Bank of America.
A. P. Giannini as president of the Bank of America.

The California gold rush of 1849 was a magnet that attracted people from all over the world. In 1863, Luigi Giannini—father-of A. P.— left his small poverty stricken village in Italy to seek his fortune in the Golden State.

Very few struck it rich and many returned home. Those that remained behind were not given free land as in other states. The vast feudal estates from the Mexican occupation were kept intact and fell into the hands of monopolists:
Through the instrumentality of the Mexican land grants the colonial character of landownership in Spanish-California was carried over, and actually extended, after the American occupation. By the terms of the cession of California to the United States it was provided that previously issued Mexican land grants would be respected. Under Spanish rule only about thirty land grants had been made, but, in 1846, when the United States took possession, over eight million acres of California land were held by some eight hundred Mexican grantees. The connivers, Mexican and American, had rushed through huge grants on the eve of American occupation. Most of these grants were vague, running merely for so many leagues within certain natural boundaries, and, in the confusion of the period, they were imperfectly registered. Many of the grants had never been surveyed, and thus the bars were down for all manner of fraud. Speculators emerged from dusty archives with amazing documents. The grants, purporting to be conveyed by these documents, assumed all sorts of fantastic shapes - for the purpose of roping in the improvements of settlers and the best land. (McWilliams, Factories in the Field, pp. 12-13).

It seems that California was the home of illegal monopolies long before the Bank of Italy.

U.S. citizens did have something in common with the Italian immigrants. They both mistrusted banks. Giannini had a Herculean task in separating his Italians from their money:

Giannini knew from the start that persuading North Beach Italians to deposit their savings in his bank would be an uphill battle. In addition to their preference for dealing strictly in gold, most were deeply suspicious of banks and lacked confidence in the people who either owned or managed them. North Beach Italians had ample reason for their distrust of financial institutions. Back in 1878, for example, a small neighborhood bank, the French Mutual, went into bankruptcy, wiping out the hard-earned savings of scores of Italian depositors. This calamity left a deep impression on the collective memory of the community. Rather than put their trust in a bank, most North Beach residents preferred to keep their savings safely at home, where it was hoarded in cans, jars, and mattresses. (Bonadio, A. P. Giannini, Banker of America, p. 30).

Every state except California outlawed branch banking and interstate banking was strictly prohibited.

Bank of Italy, San Francisco.
Bank of Italy, San Francisco.

The Bank of Italy was determined to expand throughout California.

The first branch bank was opened in San Jose in 1909.

Everywhere it was greeted with suspicion and hostility but nothing could stop the juggernaut.

Bank of Italy, San Jose.
Bank of Italy, San Jose.

Bank employees were called "missionaries".

The same relentless spirit that drove missionary Peter De Smet now possessed Giannini:

The fear and resentment of Giannini's opposition was not difficult to understand. By the early 1920s the Bank of Italy had emerged as an immensely powerful force in the state. A crucial factor was the activity of the bank's Italian Department, which Giannini had established some years earlier and then placed under the direction of Armando Pedrini. Sharing the department's duties and responsibilities with Pedrini was Robert Paganini, a young, energetic, and demanding North Beach businessman who had owned an Italian-language newspaper in Sacramento before joining Bank of Italy. Paganini directed the activities of the department's corps of handpicked solicitors, or "missionaries" as they were called, all of them Italians, whose job was to turn every Italian resident of California into a depositor and stockholder in the Bank of Italy. (Bonadio, A. P. Giannini, Banker of America, p. 76).

By 1928 Giannini had conquered California and his next big move was to conquer Wall Street.

The Bank of Italy became the Bank of America in 1928

The Wall Street bank that Giannini chose for his takeover bid was the successor to the corrupt 1st Bank of the United States which lost its charter in 1811:

Sometime toward the end of 1927 Belden found the kind of large, well-connected bank he felt certain Giannini was looking for: the 116-year-old Bank of America, successor to the Bank of the United States, which had been founded in 1812 and later grew to financial prominence as one of the leading banks of New York. Located at 66 Wall Street, Bank of America occupied the lower five floors of its own thirty-two story, spiral-topped skyscraper that the New York Times had described as "the best known in greater New York and an architecture purely American." Although in recent years Bank of America had experienced serious losses, it was still valuable property, primarily because of its historic reputation and eight city branches with total deposits of $l00 million. (Bonadio, A. P. Giannini, Banker of America, p. 118).

The first bank of the United States was chartered by Congress in 1791. The charter was to last for 20 years.

Alexander Hamilton
(1755-1804).

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton conned Congress and President Washington into chartering a bank modeled after the Bank of England.

The object of the bank was to bankrupt the pioneers and prevent the western expansion of the U.S.

Facade of the First Bank of the U.S. in Philadelphia.
Facade of the First Bank of the U.S. in Philadelphia.

Congress refused to renew the bank charter when it expired in 1811. The bank then changed its name to protect the guilty and became known as the Bank of America with headquarters in New York City:

One of the three other banks incorporated in 1812 was organized by the New York stockholders of the Bank of the United States who, wishing to obtain a charter under which the business of the Bank's New York office might be continued, applied for incorporation as the Bank of America. The capital would be $6,000,000, including $5,000,000 of Bank of the United States stock. It would be the largest bank in the States and a gain for New York over Philadelphia in the financial and commercial rivalry that had arisen between them. Being mainly Federalist and possessed of so much capital, the bank was sure to be opposed both by the Republicans who had a legislative majority, and by the existing banks in New York. (Hammond, Banks and Politics in America, p. 162).

War soon followed with England and President Madison renewed the bank charter in 1816.

President Andrew Jackson
President Jackson (1767 -1845).
President from 1829 to1837.

The 2nd Bank of the United States was more corrupt than its predecessor.

Nicholas Biddle was president.

President Jackson fought a titanic battle with the hyda-headed monster and finally slew it.

Jackson slaying the hydra-headed monster of the Second Bank of the United States.
Jackson slaying the hydra-headed monster of the Second Bank of the United States.

He distributed its funds to the states and thereby laid the foundation for the economic expansion of the country.

President Jackson's unflinching determination and unwavering patriotism prevailed over Biddle and his Bank. President Jackson called the Bank a monster and was determined to pull all its teeth. He said:

I am ready with the screws to draw every tooth and then the stumps.

And President Jackson did exactly as he promised. When he left office, the U.S. had a Constitutional currency consisting of silver and gold coins. Our hero called paper money "RAG MONEY" and this is what he said about it:

The paper-money system and its natural associations—monopoly and exclusive privileges—have already struck their roots too deep in the soil, and it will require all your efforts to check its further growth and to eradicate the evil.

California was the land of monopoly and exclusive privileges long before it became part of the United States so it was rich soil for the Bank of America.

Hollywood and the Bank of America

The movie industry in Hollywood actually became a branch office of the Bank of Italy a.k.a. Bank of America. Hollywood movies led the moral decline of the nation. Western movies distorted the image of the Christian pioneers and gangster movies glorified crime and corruption.

Hollywood became a branch of the Bank of America in 1930.
Hollywood became a branch of the Bank of America in 1930.

In 1930, Hollywood became a branch of the Bank of America when Giannini became a major studio financier.

Hollywood played a major rôle in the collapse of Christian morals in the U.S. and around the world.

Giannini with movie mogul Joseph Schench and director Cecil B. De Mille.
Giannini with movie mogul Joseph Schench and director Cecil B. De Mille.

Taking advantage of the Great Depression, Giannini jumped right in as a major studio financier:

With Hollywood desperately in need of financing, Giannini moved quickly to increase Bank of America's presence in an industry of enormous importance to the economic vitality of Los Angeles. As early as 1930, he authorized a loan of $3 million for two of Hollywood's most aggressive producers, Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph Schenck, to form a new production company, which became 20th Century-Fox two years later. Schenck, who sat on Bank of America's board of directors, persuaded Giannini that Zanuck's drive and talent as a movie producer was justification enough to make loans available to him. With $400,000 in Bank of Italy money, Zanuck worked furiously to rush six films into production, including such financial successes as The Bowery, The House of Rothschild, Cardinal Richelieu, and Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back. By the end of the decade 20th Century-Fox had expanded into a $60 million studio and was turning out some of Hollywood's biggest box-office attractions. (Bonadio, A. P. Giannini, Banker of America, p. 118).

Khazar Joseph Schenck was a major movie mogul and he launched the film career of actress Marilyn Monroe.

Gone with the Wind poster.
Gone with the Wind poster.

The 1939 blockbuster movie Gone with the Wind was based on the book by Margaret Mitchell.

In the movie, the Confederates were the HEROES, while the brave Union soldiers were the VILLIANS!!

At that time, the producer had to get special permission from the censor to use the curse word DAMN in the movie!!

Giannini on the set of Gone with the Wind with Vivien Leigh.
Giannini on the set of Gone with the Wind with Vivien Leigh.

In 1939 the Bank of America panicked when a book entitled Factories in the Field was published. The book was about the exploitation of migrant farm workers, and the ownership of the mega-farms by Bank of America:

When one realizes that approximately 50 per cent of the farm lands in Central and Northern California are controlled by one institution—the Bank of America—the irony of these "embittered" farmers deeding their "homes" against strikers becomes apparent. (McWilliams, Factories in the Field, p. 233).

The 2 books were published within months of each other. Unlike Steinbeck, McWilliams was not an employee of the Bank of America.

Author Carey McWilliams (1905-1980).
Author Carey McWilliams
(1905-1980).

Lawyer Carey McWilliams was very concerned about the growth of FASCISM in California.

In 1939, he wrote a book entitled Factories in the Field about the exploitation of farm labor.

The public relations conscious Bank of America PANICKED.

Author John Steinbeck (1902-1968).
Author John Steinbeck
(1902-1968).

The bank countered by publishing a FICTION book by John Steinbeck entitled Grapes of Wrath.

Grapes of Wrath soon became a bestseller and was made into a movie in 1940. As expected, the book by Carey McWilliams was soon forgotten.

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

The fictional Grapes of Wrath quickly became a bestseller and was made into a movie by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1940.

As expected, Factories in the Field was forgotten.

It was a great victory for the public relations department of the Bank of America.

Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda was made into a movie in 1940.
Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda was made into a movie in 1940.

The list of Jesuit Bank of America produced Hollywood movies denigrating the Christian Faith is legion. We can only cover a few.

Inherit the Wind was a parody of the Biblical story of Creation.
Inherit the Wind was a parody of the Biblical story of Creation.

The 1960 hit movie Inherit the Wind was based on the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial.

It ridiculed the Genesis account of creation.

The 1960 movie Elmer Gantry was about sawdust salvation or a drunken "Christian" traveling salesman who seduces a psychic female tent evangelist.

Elmer Gantry was about sex, sin, and salvation.
Elmer Gantry was about sex, sin, and salvation.

Elmer Gantry was based on a 1927 FICTION novel by Sinclair Lewis. Gantry, and ex-seminary student, becomes a skeptic when he is required to believe that Joshua made the sun stand still. At the end of the book, Gantry finds "salvation" in the Latin Church.

The Hollywood Western movies were no better. According to Hollywood, the center of town in the Old West was the SALOON . . . and not the CHURCH!

The Military-Banking Complex

In his farewell address to the U.S. people, President Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. He wasn't very far off the mark and the real danger is the military-banking complex:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. (President Eisenhower's Farewell Address).

The War of Independence with Great Britain began over the stationing of a standing army in Boston.

The giant Pentagon standing army headquarters in Washington City!!
The giant Pentagon standing army headquarters in Washington City!!

The behemoth Bank of Italy a.k.a. Bank of America has come a long way from the waterfront of San Francisco.

The Pentagon has ONE goal and that is to follow Napoleon and Hitler in the attempted conquest of Russia.

Bank of America headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bank of America headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The restoration of the Pope's temporal power would automatically follow the conquest of Russia!!

A standing army and a banking monopoly go hand in hand. It wasn't until after the founding of the Bank of England in 1694 that Great Britain began to maintain a standing army.

The best way to beat the Pope's fanatics whether Latin or Muslim is to be always ready to die as President Lincoln advised:

But I see no other safeguard against those murderers but to be always ready to die, as Christ advises it. As we must all die sooner or later, it makes very little difference to me whether I die from a dagger plunged through my heart or from an inflammation of the lungs. (Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, pp. 706-707).

This expose is continued on the Jesuit/Indian War Against the United States of Israel.


References

Bonadio, Felice A. A. P. Giannini, Banker of America. University of California Press, 1994.

De Smet, Peter. Life, letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S.J., 1801-1873.

Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton University Press. 1957.

Laveille, E, The Life of Father De Smet, S.J. Loyola University Press. Chicago, Illinois, 1981.

McWilliams, Carey,Factories in the Field. The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1939.

Richardson, Peter. American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005.


Copyright © 2010 by Niall Kilkenny



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Jesuit priest and professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross

Today, I turned on the radio to listen to the news and what I got instead was Jesuit indoctrination. Boy, those guys are being promoted even when you're not looking, or listening as in this case.

As I listened to the local Public Radio station (NPR) there was a program on called Bob Edwards Weekend from PRI; While listening I experienced another 'wonderful' vignette on how selfless the Jesuits are, and how dedicated they are to help the disadvantaged people of society. What propaganda?


This reminds my of Adolph Hitler's Propaganda Chief - Joseph Goebbels' quote:

"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth".


Arsenio.




THE BOB EDWARDS SHOW SCHEDULE

Friday, January 13, 2012

Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times joins Bob to discuss the latest political news. Next, while most of the nation was shocked at the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Jesuit priest and professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross canvassed the East Coast in search of African American students to admit to the university, students who would play their part in America’s racial integration. Diane Brady’s book Fraternity tells this story from the perspective of the students who would later become defense attorneys and activists, a Supreme Court Justice, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Then, in this week’s installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Dave Stewart. After Stewart grew tired of his career in manufacturing, he bought a farm in New Hampshire. He grows vegetables and raises, chickens, sheep, pigs, and cows. Stewart’s grandfather was a dairy farmer, and now he has found the same pleasure in the simple routines of milking and grazing.

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Visit Bob Edwards Weekend on PRI’s website to find local stations that air the program.

The Bob Edwards Show

The Bob Edwards Show is an American radioprogram presented by Sirius XM Satellite Radio every weekday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern, with repeats at 8 a.m. Central, 7 a.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, and the next morning at 7 a.m. Eastern. The program can be heard on the XM Public Radio station at XM channel 121 and Sirius channel 205, and is also available 24/7 on XM Radio Online and Sirius Internet Radio.

The show is hosted by Bob Edwards, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. Edwards was once the co-host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and hosted NPR's Morning Edition from the first episode to April 30, 2004 when he was re-assigned to another position within NPR, despite email objections from more than fifty thousand listeners. Edwards left his new assignment almost immediately, as Hugh Panero, CEO of XM Radio, offered Edwards a daily show.

The Bob Edwards Show continues the tradition of interviewing interesting people in all walks of life that Edwards exemplified on Morning Edition, but now in long form. Edwards told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer's Terrance Smith, "The longest interview I could do on the air for Morning Edition was eight minutes. Now I can interview someone for up to an hour. So it's a freer, more open, more relaxed and enjoyable conversation. The program's really about conversation." The show's first broadcast was on October 4, 2004, staffed by experienced public radio veterans. The first program included weekly political commentatorWashington Post columnist David S. Broder, USA Today Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic, formerCBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, and Eugene Robinson, author of Last Dance in Havana.

In 2006, interviews with musicians earned The Bob Edwards Show the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP. The program also received a Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals for an interview with Father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest who works with Latino gang members in east Los Angeles. The show earned a second Gabriel Award in 2007 for "Exploding Heritage," a documentary about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. "Exploding Heritage" also received the National Press Club's Robert L. Kozic Award for environmental reporting, a New York Festivals Gold World Medal for best program on the environment, and an award from the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2008, The Bob Edwards Show received an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association and a New York Festivals/United Nations Gold Award for a documentary called "The Invisible--Children Without Homes." "The Invisible" also was honored by the Journalism Center on Children and Families and by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals. In 2009, the show received a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for the documentary, "Stories from Third Med: Surviving a Jungle ER." The documentary also earned a Gabriel Award.

XM Radio also produces the compilation program Bob Edwards Weekend, distributed by Public Radio International for use by "terrestrial" public radio stations. It premiered on January 7-8, 2006, consisting of re-edited interviews from the weekday program. Bob Edwards Weekend is also available online via podcastat the program's website.


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