Step right up! Get your Obamacare for refugees

Sebelius: I don’t give a damn if they eat cake, just get the refugees signed up now! (No, she didn’t say that—ed)

Today I received an e-mail from See Yang at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, if you don’t know, that is in the Department of Health and Human Services headed by the beleagured Kathleen Sebelius.

They are urging refugees to sign up and sign up now for Obamacare!

Here is what Yang says:

Health Insurance – Beyond the First Eight Months

Right now, many refugees get short-term health insurance called Refugee Medical Assistance (RMA).  It is available for up to eight months.  Some refugees may be eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) which is available for several years.

Thanks to the health care law, the health insurance landscape for refugees and other Americans is changing for the better in 2014.  Many refugees, who could only get eight months of insurance through RMA, will be able to get ongoing health insurance through the Marketplace.

How to Get Health Insurance at the Marketplace

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates the Marketplace to help people shop for health insurance at lower costs.  The Marketplace also helps you find out if you are eligible for programs like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

No matter where you live, you will only need to fill out a single application on the Marketplace.  You can access the Marketplace online at www.healthcare.gov, by phone at 1-800-318-2596, or by sending a paper application in the mail….

ORR wants to make sure that refugees and service providers know how to navigate the health insurance landscape.  ORR developed the following tools to help with outreach and enrollment activities:

The tools are:  a video and a fact sheet.

Click here to watch the video in English ( available also in six other languages: Somali, Karen, Nepali, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, and English).

I don’t want to sound too picky, but is that lady in the opening scene watering artificial flowers?  Or, how about that rather plump lady in a closing scene about to eat some very rich looking cakes? Did they run it by Michelle?  A plate of veggie sticks might have been a more suitable choice don’t you think!   By the way, where is Michelle lately? And, how much did this production cost?

Here is the fact sheet.

ORR created a fact sheet to explain immigration statuses that qualify for Marketplace coverage including Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Plan.

It’s all about those damn Saudis!

Obama in the famous butt shot bowing to King Abdullah (“yes massah”)!

Update:  Here is more—good riddance to bad rubbish!

I saw this story in my small-city newspaper the other day and it frosted me—‘Saudi withdrawal stuns UN Security Council‘ about how the “Kingdom” turned down a seat at the UN Security Council (good!) because they are p*****-off at Washington for not starting more wars in the Middle East with Syria and with Iran.  Who the hell do they think they are?

Are we starting costly wars to protect Saudi Arabia?  And, in the wake of those wars, we get the Muslim refugees (the Saudis take none!) who come to America where Saudi Arabia builds them mosques and schools and we pay for their welfare.  What do we get out of this deal?

From AFP at Yahoo News (emphasis mine):

UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) – Saudi Arabia angrily rejected a UN Security Council seat Friday, accusing the UN body of “double standards” over the Syria war and other trouble spots in an unprecedented diplomatic broadside.

The Saudi snub sparked disarray at the Security Council. The oil-rich Gulf monarchy had only won the seat on Thursday at a UN General Assembly election.

World peace and security—blah! blah! blah!

But senior UN envoys said they did not expect the Saudi government to reverse the decision, which was announced in an outspoken foreign ministry statement.

“Work mechanisms and double-standards on the Security Council prevent it from carrying out its duties and assuming its responsibilities in keeping world peace,” the ministry said.

Saudi Arabia “has no other option but to turn down Security Council membership until it is reformed and given the means to accomplish its duties and assume its responsiblities in preserving the world’s peace and security.”

The government said “allowing the ruling regime in Syria to kill and burn its people” with chemical weapons is “irrefutable evidence and proof of the inability of the Security Council to carry out its duties and responsibilities.”

Diplomats and analysts said the Saudi gesture was mainly directed at the United States, which first threatened a military strike against Syria then backed down and which has started a dialogue with Riyadh’s arch-foe Iran.

By the way, we have been following the Syrian “refugee crisis” closely and have not seen one word about Saudi Arabia offering to take a single Syrian “refugee” in response to the UN’s call for countries “with the means” to step up and offer third-country resettlement.   I have not seen the UN call them out on it either!   Shouldn’t Samantha Power be lecturing them on the ‘responsibility to protect?’

Germany: Lampedusa in Hamburg (disturbing!)

Reader Dave alerted us to a post at the ever-vigilant Limits to Growth blog to update our on-going reporting on the African boat people invasion of Europe.  Be sure to watch the disturbing ‘youtube’ clip that you will never see on American news (maybe not on German news either!).

See our recent posts on Lampedusa here, especially see Cannibalism on the way to a free meal in Italy.  See map of migrant routes to Europe, here.

Here is what Limits to Growth says in its opener:

In Germany, there’s a group of refugee demanders with a website called Lampedusa in Hamburg. The front page photo shows a banner reading, “We did not survive the NATO war in Libya to die on the streets of Hamburg,” which is kind of a double-down statement of Screw the West for ousting the dictator and now give us free stuff in Germany.

Watch the clip!

Here is the text accompanying the clip:

Hundreds of refugees and activists of the “Lampedusa in Hamburg” group took the streets of Hamburg on Wednesday to protests against the alleged unlawful treatment of migrants by the Hamburg Senate.

Protesters marched from the main station to the city hall and back in a 2-hour demonstration to also show their support to the victims of the recent shipwrecks occurred off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Clashes erupted Tuesday night in Hamburg after around 500 protesters demonstrating in front of the squatted theatre “Roten Flora” reportedly threw stones and bottles to police, who used pepper spray and batons on protesters.

So, this is where we are after Obama’s three witches (including ‘responsibility to protect’ Samantha Power) helped bring down Gaddafi.  He might have been a crazy dictator, but the invasion of African boat people out of Libya is now completely out of control and the consequences for Europe will be hard (impossible?) to reverse.   Call it Gaddafi’s revenge!

Republicans and immigration: an incisive and depressing analysis

Editor’s note:  Blog partner Judy posted this today at Potomac Tea Party Report, but it is also important for followers of RRW to read it and consider its implications.

Peter Brimelow publishes an adaptation of a speech he gave in a post called  “Hitler’s Revenge” And Donor Riots: Why Americans Aren’t Allowed To Talk About Immigration.  Brimelow is a longtime critic of our immigration policies and author of the 1995 book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster.

Peter Brimelow

The speech is too complicated to summarize, and it is well worth reading in its entirety, but I’ll give you some excerpts.  This one makes one of his key points:

…the West now faces another existential threat—every bit serious as the Soviet Union. And that is mass Third World immigration.

In the U.S., mass immigration as was kicked off again by the 1965 Immigration Act, after a 40 year pause during which there was essentially no immigration at all. Simultaneously, enforcement against illegal immigration collapsed, so that there are somewhere between 12 and 20 million illegals in the country right now.

The demographic impact of this is dramatic. Because immigration is skewed by public policy toward non-traditional sources, by 2040 a majority of people in the U.S. will be non-white. This is a country that was 90% white in 1965, when the Immigration Act was passed.

Now, of course, what that means is that at that point the US will cease to exist. It will not be the historic America that we know. It may be something else. But it’s not going to be America.

And this is going to happen very soon. Within the lifetimes of at least two people in this room!

Now the amazing thing about this transformation is that it isn’t inevitable at all.  It’s the result of a public policy that isn’t popular at all–in fact, it is extremely unpopular.  

Of course Brimelow has been called a racist and excluded from polite society.  I myself would not emphasize the color of the immigrants but rather their culture, which is the important thing.  In fact, I recall Pat Buchanan writing several decades ago that he would rather have an educated Nigerian neighbor than a British football hooligan, or something along those lines.   Another excerpt:

So now, federally, we have the third major Amnesty drive in the last 10 years, the Gang of Eight’s bill that was put together after the last election—S744. It’s important to recognize that this bill is not simply an Amnesty bill: it also double or triples legal immigration, which was already at record highs. It’s a mind-boggling thing.

Obviously, this tremendous, well-funded campaign for the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill was not put together in 5 minutes after the 2012 election. It was ready to go regardless of who won. I believe that had Mitt Romney won the election, he would have supported Amnesty, just as George W. Bush did. Romney actually said that in the Hofstra debates (“I’ll get it [Comprehensive Immigration Reform] done. I’ll get it done. First year.” But nobody paid any attention to him.

So why the huge gap between what the ruling class wants, including the GOP establishment, and what the vast majority of Americans want?  Why can’t we even have a proper debate?  Two very interesting points.  The first:

Everyone here is interested in the power of ideas and ideas rule the world and we all agree on that. The difficulty in the immigration debate is what I called in Alien Nation back in 1995 “Hitler’s Revenge.” The elites of the West emerged from WWII utterly traumatized by the experience of confronting Nazism. It was so traumatic that they went overboard on the opposite side. They became convinced that any discussion of ethnicity or cultural heritage at all, let alone race, was unthinkable. You couldn’t address these things without being a Nazi.

Second is something I’ve not seen before, at least anything beyond slogans of the rich benefiting from immigration:

But there’s a secondary finding that hasn’t has gotten even as much publicity as the general finding: Although immigration doesn’t benefit in aggregate to the native born, it does cause a redistribution of income from labor to capital. It’s running somewhere at 2-3% of GDP, it’s a very large number.

Republicans who benefit from this redistribution are the big donors.

You hear a lot about how the Republican Party is a captive of an extremist faction—that is, the Tea Party. But I actually think that the real extremist faction is not the voters, but the donors.

In some ways, you can interpret the GOP’s history in the last 20 years as a kind of donor riot. The donors just simply refuse tolerate any kind of restriction on immigration at all. They go straight to the candidates, and above all to the consultant class, and tell them they won’t spend money on elections.

There’s lots more, including an account of how Israel recently solved its illegal immigration problem.  Solved it.  Because they knew it was a matter of national survival.  But Israel has an identity as a Jewish state.  We have lost our identity, as those who asserted there was such a thing as an American culture (not popular culture but one concerning traditions, morals, politics, religion, etc.)  have been stigmatized as racists and have, for the most part, shut up.

Bulgarians protest Syrian ‘refugee’ invasion from Turkey at historic Shipka Pass

Bulgaria’s Shipka Pass where Russians and Bulgarian volunteers held off the Ottoman Empire in 1877-78

This is so interesting, I wish I had time to really get into the history of Bulgaria and how it threw off Ottoman (Muslim) rule in the Russo-Turkish war for the liberation of Bulgaria in 1877-78.

Are the Turks once again moving in on their Christian neighbors and using Syrian refugees as the invading army?

I think so!

Here is the news story (yesterday) from Novinite (Sofia) that prompts my inquiry (emphasis and links added are mine):

About 200 people have blockaded Sunday the Shipka Pass in the Stara Planina Range in central Bulgaria in protest against opening a new refugee shelter in the town of Kazanlak.

The rally comes on the heels of news that the Bulgarian government plans to transform the unused building the police school into a refugee camp.

Last evening, an initiative committee was formed in the town with the participation of heads of large local enterprises, representatives of business, politicians from the municipality, NGOs and youth organizations to support the declaration of the local government, opposing the opening of the shelter.

The committee has decided to start a petition for a local referendum on the preservation of the school building as is and against making it a refugee camp. The second decision was to stage protest rallies and blockades of the Shipka Pass Sunday and Monday until the end of the emergency sitting of the central government.

Locals say they have nothing against the refugees and understand their plight, but stress the shelter will be detrimental to the beautiful nearby town park and will threaten national security as Arsenal Kazanlak, one of the largest military plants and weapons producers in Bulgaria, is located in the town.

[….]

Bulgaria is the gateway to the European Union for refugees fleeing Syria via Turkey, many crossing the border illegally to seek asylum.

Readers, it is up to Turkey to stop Syrians at their border (just like it’s up to Mexico to stop Central Americans from crossing into Mexico!).  Turkey is obviously permitting the Syrians to move across Turkey and into Bulgaria.  President Erdogan (Obama’s pal) is capable of stopping the flow into Bulgaria if he chose to!

For further reading, I see that Andrew Bostom has references to Bulgaria in his history of Jihad:  The Legacy of Jihad, Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims.   Will let you know later what I find.

We have been writing about Bulgaria and Syrians (click here) in recent weeks.  I think the BBC needs to update its migration map—add in the Turkey to Bulgaria leg!