Several of us went to check out rumors about a possible FEMA camp in Palmdale, CA at Pearblossom Hwy and 116 St E. We got to the location and upon further inspection determined that it is NOT a FEMA camp nor is it set up to be converted to a FEMA camp. It is however a water pumping station used for pumping water up hill so that Los Angeles and be provided with water.
The aqueduct is right next to the facility. A power station is also inside the facility, and this provides the power to pump the water. One of the main reasons this is not a future FEMA camp is the landscape inside the facility. It is made up of dips and valleys where water would flow and no place to actually place thousands or even hundreds of people.
The unmarked vehicles in the facility are just that, unmarked vehicles. They are not the type of vehicles to be used to round up people but are just maintenance vehicles. The fence shows signs of rust which means the fence has been there awhile.
If anyone wants to know what a potential FEMA Camp would look like, here are some things to watch for - look for spools of concertina wire, as well as barriers that can be set up in a serpentine formation (these are used often for many purposes so if you see them dont rely on this by itself - look for other evidence) Watch out for re-barb coming out of ground in large rows (this would be a huge indicator). These would be used to tie down tents to be erected later. Watch for large amounts of porta-potties. Watch out for anything that is military especially camo netting. Also look for portable AC units and light all units. The AC units would be used to keep a command tent cool, and the light all units would be placed around the perimeter to light up the area at night. And watch for any known facilities making any transformations such as new fencing with Y riggers, guard towers being erected, you know, the obvious.
Camera - Garko
Description - Ed Brotherton
Photos - Mike Chickey
Photos - Ed Brotherton
Edit - Garko
previous links where claims of this location being a FEMA camp are made:
The United States is in the midst of the most radical privatization agenda in its history. We see this in schools, health care, prisons, and certainly with the US military/national security/intelligence apparatus. There are almost 200,000 “private contractors” in Iraq (more than US soldiers) and Obama is continuing to use mercenaries there and in Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine. At present, 70 percent of the US intelligence budget is going to private companies.
This privatization trend is hardly new, but it is accelerating. While events such as the Nisour Square massacre committed in September 2007 by Blackwater operatives in Baghdad show the lethal danger of unleashing mercenary forces on foreign soil, one area with the potential for extreme abuses resulting from this privatization is in domestic law enforcement in the US. Many people may not be aware of this, but since the 1980s, private security guards have outnumbered police officers. “The more than 1 million contract security officers, and an equal number of guards estimated to work directly for U.S. corporations, dwarf the nearly 700,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States,” according to The Washington Post. Some estimate that private security actually operate inside the US at a 5-to-1 ratio with police.
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Detention camps are not a new concept. I challenge you all to research the American treatment of Foreign-and- American born Japanese, German, Italian people living in the United States during and post WW2. While the names have changed, TheWar Relocation Authority is alive and well. Rendition is being practiced by Obama despite his campaign promises to end it. Guantanamo is not going to close. The following is a list of camps and prisons used for holding both foreigners living in America and citizens who would not fight in the war (draft dodgers).
WRA Relocation Camps
The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was the U.S. civilian agency responsible for the relocation and detention. The WRA was created by President Roosevelt on March 18, 1942 with Executive Order 9102 and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946. Milton S. Eisenhower, then an official of the Department of Agriculture, was chosen to head the WRA. Within nine months, the WRA had opened ten facilities in seven states, and transferred over 100,000 people from the WCCA facilities.
The WRA camp at Tule Lake, though initially like the other camps, eventually became a detention center for people believed to pose a security risk. Tule Lake also served as a “segregation center” for individuals and families who were deemed “disloyal” and for those who were to be deported to Japan.
There were three types of camps:
Civilian Assembly Centers - were temporary camps, most located at horse tracks, where the Nikkei (emigrants of Japanese ancestry or their descendants) were sent as they were removed from their communities. Think of these as
Journalist whores for the establishment Popular Mechanics are trotted out again to deny the existence of manifestly provable internment camps in America
Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, March 27, 2009
Fox News blowhard Glenn Beck is up to his old tricks again - after attempting to convince the public that he was some kind of crusader against the new world order he is now giving a platform to arch-yellow journalist debunker James Meigs of Popular Mechanics in a pathetic attempt to discredit so-called “conspiracy theories” behind FEMA camps.
After announcing yesterday on his show that he called Meigs three weeks ago to have him look at the issue of FEMA camps, Beck then attacks the credibility of the Internet before turning to Meigs, who states that Popular Mechanics has assigned one of their illustrious reporters to the issue, presumably from the same pool of reporters who made such infantile, glaring and agenda-driven botch jobs of “debunking” 9/11 truth.
Despite admitting that they haven’t deeply researched the issue, Meigs makes it clear that they have already decided it “isn’t true” - proving once again that the whole process isn’t about really getting to the bottom of the issue, it’s about debunking a perfectly provable fact by means of strawman tactics and deceitful reasoning.
“It looks from our early reporting like a classic conspiracy theory,” claims Meigs, adding, “Little grains of truth all adding up to something that really isn’t true.”
Beck and Meigs are going to go full court press in attempting to debunk the issue a week on Monday - April 6th.
Watch the video clip.
Little grains of truth that add up to something that isn’t true? This is quite rich coming from a guy whose military-industrial complex rag is put out by by Hearst Publishing - the very progenitors of the term “yellow journalism”.
Several of us went to check out rumors about a possible FEMA camp in Palmdale, CA at Pearblossom Hwy and 116 St E. We got to the location and upon further inspection determined that it is NOT a FEMA camp nor is it set up to be converted to a FEMA camp. It is however a water pumping station used for pumping water up hill so that Los Angeles and be provided with water.
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