Category: Europe

“White plague” spreading in Europe, London is TB capital

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A warning this week from the World Health Organization states that Drug-resistant Tuberculosis is reaching “alarming” (epidemic?) levels in Europe.

From Reuters:

LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) are spreading at an alarming rate in Europe and will kill thousands unless health authorities halt the pandemic, the World Health Organisation(WHO) said on Wednesday.

Launching a new regional plan to find, diagnose and treat cases of the airborne infectious disease more effectively, the WHO’s European director warned that complacency had allowed a resurgence of TB and failure to tackle it now would mean huge human and economic costs in the future.

“TB is an old disease that never went away, and now it is evolving with a vengeance,” said Zsuzsanna Jakab, the WHO’s Regional Director for Europe.

“The numbers are scary,” Lucica Ditiu, executive secretary of the Stop TB Partnership told a news conference in London. “This is a very dramatic situation.”

Neither the Reuters story or the official release from the WHO mentions the words “immigrant” or “immigration” but this report from Russia Today does.  Calling it the “white plague,” RT says the blame for the spread is immigration from countries with high incidents of TB and poverty (watch the video report too).  Update:  This story from Malta tells us that the UK is at the top of the list in many categories for the number of immigrants it allows to enter the country.

Known as the ‘white plague’ in 19th Century England, tuberculosis is now increasingly a modern-day menace for those living in the UK. Viewed as the TB capital of Western Europe, the illness outbreak in Britain has been connected to both poverty and immigration. But as RT’s Laura Emmet discovered, the infection is now spreading beyond those high risk groups.

Readers should know that refugees are admitted to the US with TB.  Of course the volags and the US State Department are always quick to say it’s “latent” TB and not “active.”   However, we all know that the volags often lose track of refugees three months after resettlement, so who is following refugees around to make sure they finish their course of meds?

Remember a Somali working in a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia, Kansas in 2007 died of TB in the plant, here.  Needless to say, it didn’t make the nightly news!

Author: Catholic Church and International Red Cross aided Nazi escape from Germany following WWII

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Here is an interesting interview published by George Mason University’s History News Network with author Dr. Gerald Steinacher (Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice) who contends there was no formal ODESSA that helped Nazi war criminals escape Europe and justice, but rather an often loose (maybe that’s not the right word) affiliation between the Catholic Church in Italy and the International Red Cross that facilitated the movement of famous, and not so famous, Nazis to freedom intermingled with legitimate refugees.

Author Steinacher warns that this is basically a standard practice (or cover) for undesirables to be among large refugee population flows.  NO!  you’re kidding!

International Organization for Migration: managing the movement of people around the world

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We’ve written about the International Organization for Migration (IOM) before because they get big bucks from us (the taxpayers) to process refugees into the US.  They are also largely responsible for teaching refugees abroad how to live in the West.  In its sixtieth year this year, they do more than that according to the New York Times.

The way I see it, the IOM is funded largely by US taxpayers to help manage the flow of labor for businesses around the world—they are kind of like glorified ‘head hunters.’  The article tells us in glowing terms how they have come to rescue various nationals when the labor situation went sour —like Bangladeshis sent to Libya to work and needing to get back home when Obama’s Libyan war broke out.   We pay for this.

This article shows how frustrating it is for the average US voter to understand who is running the international migration racket and get a handle on it.  It’s  not like you can call your Congressman and say stop the funding because we are dealing here with a body that is operating outside US jurisdiction (even though the NYT says the US calls the shots).  Add IOM and the UN and it’s no wonder immigration is out of the control of our federal government.

From the New York Times:

DHAKA, Bangladesh — As global migration has rapidly expanded, so has the influence of a little-known group whose eclectic work shapes migrants’ lives across six continents.

[….]

Part research group, part handyman crew, the International Organization for Migration has become the who-you-gonna-call outfit for 132 member countries grappling with the surge in migration, both legal and unauthorized. Its rapid growth is a sign that migration has outgrown most countries’ ability to manage on their own. “I haven’t made it to a country yet where migration hasn’t been high on the list of priorities,” said William L. Swing, the director general.

Yet even as its duties grow, the group operates under tight constraints that reflect the special worries migration can arouse. The United States [who in the US calls the shots?] and other rich donors largely dictate its agenda and ensure that it does not erode their power to decide which migrants they admit and how many.

“It helps them bring in the people they want and keep out the people they don’t,” said Joseph Chamie, a researcher at the Center for Migration Studies in New York.  [It looks like they want cheap third world laborers and not well-educated Europeans or other westerners—ed]

[….]

The migration group was formed in 1951 under a different name to resettle Europeans displaced by World War II. It had plans to quickly disband, but migration kept growing. Starting in the 1970s, it helped resettle 1.5 million Indochinese refugees, and brought home 218,000 workers during the first Persian Gulf war. In the past two decades, the group has added 89 member countries and undertaken increasingly varied work.

What!  Who decides immigration policy these days—governments or meatpackers (or both in collusion)?  Canadian readers should find this next paragraph interesting.

Canada tapped it to recruit meatpackers. Britain used it to screen would-be migrants for tuberculosis. The United States used it to run a jobs program in Haiti, deterring Haitians from illegally immigrating.

Gee, I wonder how that jobs program worked out for Haiti because if it was successful in keeping the Haitians home, maybe Obama could import it to the US!

IOM: The movement of people causes more concern than the movement of money or goods!  You got that right!

“If the range of our activities has expanded, it’s because migration has taken on much more importance in our globalized world,” said Gervais Appave, a senior official at the group’s headquarters in Geneva.

But the movement of people causes more concern than the movement of money or goods, and Western powers are unwilling to cede authority to an international group.  [sounds like they already have to a large degree–ceded power!]

I’ll bet you a buck that the average US Senator or Congressman has never heard of the International Organization for Migration.  LOL!  We are always surprised every time we learn another Member of Congress has NEVER heard of the Refugee Resettlement Program even.

Big budget funded with boatloads of your money:

Virtually all its work is financed on a project-by-project basis, giving donors control. Together, the United States and Europe provide half the $1.4 billion budget, and every director has been American.

A few years ago I was able to find at USA Spending our “contribution” to the IOM and it stood at over $301 million (before Obama).  Today I can’t find anywhere what the US gives the IOM.  Readers:  Let me know if you find it.

Then there is the UN

I’ve had this article kicking around for days, so just to save the link, I’ll note here that a Republican bill in the US House of Representatives is seeking to scale back our contribution to the UN and bring its policies more in-line with US policy.  The bill would limit funding to the special UN Palestinian refugee agency:

The legislation also would limit the use of U.S. contributions to only the specific purposes outlined by Congress and would withhold U.S. funding for any UN agency that upgrades the status of the Palestinian observer mission or any agency that helps Palestinian refugees.

An opinion piece to ponder…..

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I was a little surprised to see such a frank piece published in a mainstream publication—the Richmond Times Dispatch.

I don’t have time today to analyze every bit of it, but wanted to post it before it’s too old (something that happens too often when I can’t get to my queue of articles worth posting).

The author, Patricia Strait, is an associate professor at the University of Richmond and dares to address the dreaded “N” word—Nationalism.

Rising Nationalism raises Global Tension:

Now that the budget debate is behind us for the moment, perhaps the public can turn its attention to a far more dangerous global phenomenon, the clash between rising nationalism and immigration.

A recent case in point is the massacre in Norway. Despite initial reports that the massacre in Norway was the senseless actions of a madman, the attack itself was actually meticulously planned and its victims carefully selected.

Many people asked if the gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, wanted to make an anti-immigration statement, particularly against Muslim immigration, why did he attack Norwegian children at a summer camp? In this case, the camp was no ordinary summer camp, but rather one for children whose parents belong to the ruling political entity known as the Labor Party.

When questioned by the police, Breivik indicated that the only way to get politicians to acknowledge the danger of Norway’s immigration policies was to kill their children — a chilling rationalization. However, it would be a grave error to label the recent events in Norway as the isolated actions of a mad man.

Breivik is only a small bubble in an otherwise simmering pot of violent nationalism that is gaining ground among countries that are experiencing high levels of immigration. In this instance, nationalism is defined as an intense desire to protect one’s nation from intrusions from nonnative populations whose culture, religion and language differ from those of the host population.

Such differences often include profound philosophical differences regarding the concepts of freedom and equal rights.

The level of alarm among nationalists has been increasing as Scandinavian countries, Ireland, Spain, Germany, France, and the U.K. experience a wave of unprecedented immigration. It is dangerous to simply dismiss Breivik and others like him (yes, there are others like him) as psychotic xenophobes. 

Strait has three theories of immigration drivers.  Read the article for the first two and then here is the third—MULTICULTURALISM IS GOOD and represents the natural order.

Here it is assumed that immigration represents the natural order of the universe as the world becomes more mobile and interconnected. Multiculturalism is a phenomenon that in itself should be protected and valued. Immigrants should not be forced to adapt but rather countries should encourage a pluralistic society. This mixing then creates a more advanced and sophisticated society.

It is in fact multicultural theory which is currently under attack by Sarkozy, Merkel, and Cameron, who have recently publically declared multiculturalism a failure. Indeed, they contend that multiculturalism creates not only an unsustainable and divided society, but a system that eventually leads to the demise of the host population as the immigrant birth rate overcomes the host population.

Multiculturalism is also the theory that best explains the increasing violence because advocates of multiculturalism did not anticipate the extent to which host populations would go to defend their native cultures.

How does it all end? According to Strait:

Is the means to end the violence to end immigration or to insist upon faster assimilation of immigrants into the host population? It would appear both of these options are currently being explored as host countries are rolling back their immigration quotas and at the same time insisting on rapid assimilation.

When elements such as religious differences, terrorism and clashing concepts of equal rights are thrown into the mix, the simmering pot of nationalism and multiculturalism threatens to boil over.

There is more, read it all and follow links, here.

Norway gets 300 more Muslim “refugees”

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Here is a short piece from the Norway Post (probably short in hopes no one will see it!) about Libyan refugees going to Norway this week:

Norway will receive 300 refugees from the war in Libya. The first eight arrived at the Oslo International Airport Gradermoen Tuesday evening.

The refugees, who originally come from Somalia and Eritrea, have spent the last few months in a refugee camp in Choucha in Tunisia, at the Libyan border.

What’s up with this, I thought Obama had liberated Libya and everyone could go back to a brand new Democratic life there?