As the World Economic Forumgets underway in Davos, Switzerland, the rich and famous will have an opportunity to pretend they are refugees thanks to a charity from Hong Kong—Crossroads Foundation. (I wonder if some of George Soros’ shell organizations are lurking behind this NGO.)
Sheryl Sandberg: Refugee for a day (30 minutes actually)
Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg may be the world’s newest billionaire, but she will mark the occasion fighting for food and scrabbling in dirt with machine guns pointed in her face. She is one of the global leaders in Davos scheduled to attend “Refugee Run”, an immersive and distressing descent into daily life in a camp for displaced persons.
Organised by the Crossroads Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in Hong Kong, Refugee Run is designed to make you look beyond the abstraction of data, such as the two million Syrians displaced from their war-torn homeland.
Crossroads believes that only when world leaders experience the chaotic conditions refugees endure will they experience real empathy and act.
Acting is fine. Rich people sending money is fine. Finding solutions to the never-ending Middle Eastern civil wars is fine (good luck!), but moving mostly Muslims into western countries is not fine.
And, get this, we heard exactly these same words only a few years ago about the Iraqi refugees!
Of particular concern at this year’s World Economic Forum is the growing crisis with Syrian refugees. Seven leading aid agencies and human rights groups issued a joint statement yesterday describing the humanitarian crisis in Syria as “the worst of our time”.
They probably just re-wrote some old press release from their Iraq days!
Uh oh! The fur is flying (or something is hitting the fan!) in Wisconsin where an elected official is bucking the Mayor and other city council members about the plans for US State Department resettlement contractor World Relief*** (subcontractor World Relief of Fox Valley) to bring in more third world refugees from Burma (Myanmar), Iraq and the Congo.
I told you about Appleton here last Novemberand it’s a post worth re-visiting. Check, out the Mayor and his diversity coordinator!
In this story the Mayor says like a petulant child: “These are the diverse people I want in our city.”
Alderman Jirschele called for immediate suspension of refugee resettlement in Appleton.
Readers need to help spread this latest newsabout one (rare!) brave alderman standing up to the ‘diversity is beautiful’ crowd that has launched willy-nilly (as usual) into resettling more refugees before a city is capable of handling large numbers of poor and needy people.
The US State Department HATES news stories like this one where someone dares to say NO!—because consequently as the news gets out, others, elsewhere in America, learn that there is resistance!
APPLETON — An Appleton alderman says he has serious concerns about 75 refugees relocating in Appleton this year, setting off a furious response from City Hall.
Jeff Jirschele, who represents a portion of the city’s south side, said this week that planning has been lax and the region needs to be sure it’s prepared for the challenges with the resettlement — which is expected to bring people here from Congo, Iraq and Myanmar.
“I’m worried about these people and our social safety net when they arrive,” Jirschele said. “These are real people and real lives … we have no room to flounder on housing or medical care despite the best intentions of the groups involved.”
Jirschele authored a resolution with some tough language aimed at World Relief Fox Valley, the Oshkosh-based group shepherding the resettlement, and its selection of Appleton for a resettlement city.
He said the group had “not been vetted” and called for an immediate suspension of all city efforts in the relocation until a group could identify the impact of absorbing the refugees into the community.
“I understand it’s emblematic of our community to help people, but we need to slow down and take a breath,” Jirschele said. “I’m already hearing some folks that think this resolution is cold-hearted, but the reality is good intentions aren’t good enough to produce a successful outcome.”
Alderman hits a nerve!
Jirschele’s sentiment hit a nerve Thursday among fellow aldermen and Mayor Tim Hanna.
Hanna said he spoke for all City Hall departments in criticizing both the tone and content of Jirschele’s resolution.
Read on. A representative from World Relief says that most refugees are not on food stamps. Not so, from the latest available figures, 63% of refugees nationwide are on food stamps and I doubt the numbers are somehow much better in Wisconsin.
***So what is World Relief?
Just a little bit about World Relief whose full legal name is World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals. It is one of nine major refugee contractors the US State Department has chosen to resettle refugees. The State Department pays them by the head for each refugee they resettle. In turn, World Relief contracts two dozen subcontractorsincluding the one in this news story—World Relief Fox Valley.
It is very hard to track the federal dollars that flow from the primary contractor to subcontractors (there is no financial auditing done by the feds). I could not find a Form 990 for the Oshkosh/Appleton subcontractor, but World Relief’s most recent Form 990 is here. Note on page 9 that their income that year was $51.8 MILLION and you (the taxpayer) paid them $34.1 million of that. This is not a charitable effort from the goodness of their Christian hearts and pocketbooks—it is big business funded by you!
One item that caught my eye on that same page 9 was a line in the income ledger that is also YOUR money. They received $1.3 million for “travel loan commission.” What that means is that taxpayers paid the airfare (in a loan program) for the refugees to fly to your city and it’s up to the contractor to collect the loan from the refugees. When they are successful (and we don’t know how many loans go uncollected) they keep a cut. In this particular year, the cut was $1.3 million of taxpayer money that also went to the contractor on top of the $34.1 million! Racket huh!
And, on page 10 note that they pay out approximately $25 million for salaries and benefits/other payroll expenses.
For more about how refugee resettlement works, visit our fact sheet here.
And, one more thing, once your city is deemed “welcoming” these contractors are paid to do the paperwork to bring the family members of those they had previously resettled and there is no end in sight!
Longtime readers may remember “Active Voice” as the Far Left/Open borders promoters of that propaganda film about Shelbyville, TN which portrayed local critics of the growing Somali population there as a bunch of redneck boobs who eventually saw the light and reached out with “welcoming” arms to the Africans drawn there by Tyson Foods (looking for cheap legal laborers with the help of the US State Department).
The US State Department even showed the Shelbyville film throughout Africa and Europe!
We have an extensive archive on “Welcome to Shelbyville” here. Be sure to see this post in which reporter Brian Mosely sets the record straight about how he was misled by the filmmakers and how the filmmakers/promoters demonized him and the city of Shelbyville. Mosely in 2011:
I never imagined three and a half years ago that simply telling a story honestly could lead to being demonized on national television, in a film sponsored by our own government, no less.
Active Voice propagandists working on Shelbyville strategy “prototype” in 2011. http://www.socialbrite.org/2011/03/17/a-story-driven-web-platform-for-communities/
And, you should know about some of the wealthy people who give big bucks to Active Voice, check out this post.
This is how the Left does it! Active Voice makes or uses a ‘diversity is beautiful’ film to be shown on Al Jazeera and in your local schools, and they build a whole public relations campaign around it. Behind it all are one-worlders (Soros!) whose goal it is to eliminate borders throughout the world and to provide slave laborers to their big business buddies as a side benefit.
Here is an idea, let’s make a film about the brutal Utah murder case and build a PR campaign around it! We could call it Beware immigrant rapists, killers and crooks among us! Time for us to tell “stories” too! Our message would be to strengthen our sovereignty and preserve our culture by making it more difficult to get access to America.
Speaking of crooks, I’ve got another juicy immigrant food stamp fraud story to get to this morning.
….we are going to continue to turn boats away from our shores, said Immigration Minister Morrison!
I wasn’t planning on writing a second post on Australia today (see first one here), but when I saw this photo, I wanted you to see it!
What the heck is this—a strategy session with a white ‘community organizer’ where Somali men, at a hotel in Indonesia, plan their next attempt to break into Australia!
If they want asylum, ask for it in Indonesia, a safe Muslim country! International law requires legitimate asylum seekers to ask for asylum in the first safe country they reach!
This is the caption published with the photo: “Somali immigrants gather at a hotel where Indonesian authorities have billeted asylum seekers hoping to reach Australia. (AFP/JEMS)”
Here is the story that accompanies the photo, from Reuters:
SYDNEY — Australia’s government on Friday acknowledged its navy breached Indonesian territorial sovereignty several times as part of its controversial operations to stop boats carrying would-be asylum seekers from entering Australian waters.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said he had been informed earlier this week about the “inadvertent breaches” and immediately informed the Indonesian navy.
Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, the officer in charge of “Operation Sovereign Borders,” said the breaches occurred on multiple days but declined to provide further details.
“We deeply regret these events and have offered an apology,” Morrison told reporters. “However the Australian government remains committed to continuing to implement the policies to stop the boats.”
Most of those they are pushing back are from: Afghanistan, Darfur, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria.
Syria’s growing number of refugees have found some unlikely champions in the form of British actors Emma Thompson and Colin Firth. The British Hollywood stars have demanded David Cameron offers a safe haven for those fleeing from the civil war that has engulfed the country for almost three years.
Other celebrities to sign a letter demanding action from Number 10 include Monty Python star Michael Palin, fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, Firth’s wife Livia, artist Grayson Perry and actress Juliet Stevenson.
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“We’re ashamed that Britain isn’t one of them [countries “welcoming” Syrians].
Actress Emma Thompson “ashamed” of the UK
They clearly don’t understand that there is nothing temporary about refugee resettlement via the UN.
“We’ve done it before, offering temporary resettlement places to Kosovan, Bosnian and Vietnamese people in their hour of greatest need.
As for “vulnerable” Syrians, as far as I can tell they don’t mention the word Christian.
One commenter tells us what the average citizen of the UK (or USA) is thinking—-how about if you rich celebrities take care of them yourselves!
Dibber D:
I doubt they will let them live in their own properties, pay for their clothes, bills and food, until they’re ready to put THEIR own money and properties where their mouths are i would suggest they stop flapping their gums.
