Harold Camping, Rapture Prophecy, Libya Earthquake Discrepancy
Harold Camping, an 89-year-old civil engineer and minister, predicted the biblical Rapture would occur on May 21, 2011. His Family Radio network, valued at over $117 million, spent $1 million on a global billboard campaign to promote the prophecy. Following the failed prediction, reports surfaced of an 8.4 magnitude earthquake in Libya on Friday that was allegedly scrubbed from international seismic monitoring websites.
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00:00 They tried to make me go to rehab and I said, chick when's my flight? Adam Curry. John C Devorah. It is Sunday May 22nd 2011 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 306 This is no agenda. I am a survivor of the rapture! Can anyone hear me?! I'm at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West People's Republic of Southern California In the morning! In the morning! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's beautiful, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning... We live we eat one more day! What was that mumbling thing you were doing? Was you covering your mouth or something? I didn't get the joke. You didn't get the joke of uh hello hello i'm a survivor of The Rapture i'm broadcasting on the internet Oh The Rapture yes yeah oh brother
00:55 So I got some clips, let's get this out of the way. Let's get it out of the way and over with please! I got two clips from about The Rapture one is a local story One is kind of surprising because it was CBS they did a whole package Yay!! Now the weird thing about The Rapture which by the way if anyone that's out in the area doesn't know what we're talking about yesterday was supposed to be the end of the world according to it turns out to be an Oakland guy Yeah who was the minister, who's a by the way there are some numbers in both these reports that are kind of distressing considering that we you know we kinda asked for the same kinda donations as he does.
01:33 But let's play the CBS wrap-up first and I think we'll get a clear perspective. Only after we say in the morning to you, John! In the morning to you and in the morning all ships at sea And to our human resources in the chat room Yeah, and the feets in the stirrups Noahjennachat.net, noahjennastream.com Network Wrap Up of The End Of Days There are many Christians who believe the apocalypse will be a time when their faith and devotion are rewarded for eternity. Some of them are the followers of Harold Camping, but he believes he knows exactly when the end times will be tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern Time Here's Bill Whitaker
02:12 It's a good bet you've seen the signs that tomorrow is the end of the world May 21, 2011 is the day for judgment. It's a prophecy aggressively peddled by 89 year old Harold Camping A civil engineer and self-taught biblical sage You and I are living at the time of the end of the world. He claims to have discerned the date from numerological calculations revealed by his reading of the Bible He spread his prophecy around the world on his family radio network in 84 languages. Please go to FamilyRadio.com On RV caravans, on 1200 billboards around the country according to camping starting tomorrow It's going to be a huge earthquake that is going to make The big earthquake in Japan seem like it's honey school picnic
03:07 True believers are ready to meet their maker. We want people to know that there's still time, a few hours left to cry out to him for mercy Trumpeting the apocalypse doesn't come cheap Family Radio spent as much as $1 million on the billboard campaign It can afford two Camping's radio network was worth about 22 million dollars in 2002 By 2008 it was valued at more than 117 million dollars It's a combination of a very new and rather peculiar way of reading the Bible, coupled with brilliant 20th century American marketing. So well known the end has become a cultural touchstone for late night comics And the number one way to make the apocalypse more fun... More fun? What's more than the apocalypse for God's sake I'll be tweeting the whole thing at boiling dot eyeballs dot cataclysm
04:02 The end of the world has been predicted more than a hundred times in the last hundred years. In fact, Harold Camping predicted it once before in 1994 this time he says he is certain Bill Whitaker CBS News Los Angeles Yeah when I hear that kind of money? I'm not laughing about the guy He's a genius Somebody's a genius. It's pretty smart you know they're calling for a do-over now Hey was supposed to be October 21st Now there's a couple of things here though that I do want to mention. First of all, the weather is crap here today The volcano in Iceland erupted 70 mile an hour gale force winds in the United Kingdom Close enough Yeah I'm just saying Close enough Well there's another thing though...I think this will be misused
04:56 by media to deem people who believe in God as nuts, as idiots. As total nut balls. You can just see it coming. Well actually the atheists have come out with their own billboards basically ridiculing all Christians essentially See I'm telling you this is what it's going to happen and there is all this snickering that goes on when the fact of the matter is that guy has one lone crackpot Excuse me? a little calm down on the crackpot yeah and who is it like they did with the guy who was saying he was you know 20th century marketing was up was a Episcopalian minister and he you know smiling about us saying this what this guy does I mean so what he's done and dead serious every time these been interviewed as many has been dead dead serious about it you could take in a different way let let say we had 60 radio stations
05:53 And we were broadcasting a message and people would hear our show and People say these nut balls are like telling people to donate $333. You know, they're crazy Yeah, I mean you can look at any way you want the guy's got a brilliant marketing thing going on Unfortunately he's fooling people with bull crap. Yeah, no he is actually probably a disgusting person yeah and you have all these people there's a bunch of local stories I have some local coverage really don't want to listen to that was I didn't even interrupt it because last week oh that's okay excuse me nothing I'm just gonna say that this excuse me this guy in the last show were pretty dull
06:39 uh... really your lips so that's true for the clips you play to beginning of the last show we were incredibly dull okay well then we're even you've told it down a bit more going on because he didn't like my congratulations i do want to make mention of the fact that every single seismic website that i know of their accredited registered in eight point four magnitude earthquake in libya technically Saturday morning I believe in Libya within two hours every single seismic website had removed this registration. I found that to be highly interesting yes and the internet is full of it of people who took screenshots, videos... That sounds like a hoax! No no I mean the European seismic site as of last night still had that still have 8.4 registered right on their list
07:35 So I guess everyone gets the same bad data or something, but they literally removed this earthquake registration. They have their own seismometers in these places there's one in Berkeley so then they all registered the same thing but they all removed it You know, I... Oh this is like something that you have to do some research on. This is bogus! I don't think it's...I'm surprised Mimi hadn't seen it because she pays attention to this stuff She's a daily earthquake watcher and I think there was some anomalies in one place had some wrong data and they may have been corrected by others Yeah coincidentally in Libya
08:13 Yeah, well how come there's no reports on anything from Libya happening? Well because we're too obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger! No. No-no. Duh-Arnold! If there was an earthquake in Libya with this guy's prediction of the end of the world, I think it would get a little attention. It came before Saturday. It was Friday in the United States and it was scrubbed! It was taken off immediately and that means that if it was scrubbed even... so let's say it's anomalous, lets say its mistake. I think that a website like that should say oh sorry this is anomaly and like put a little asterisk next to it but it just was removed
