Category: The Opposition

It’s time for the IRS to investigate the money-laundering Tides Foundation

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Of course they won’t, not while Obama is President anyway—the IRS works for him.  This article that Judy just sent from American Thinker reminded me that I needed to tell you that Eric P. Schwartz, Assistant Secretary of State for Populations, Refugees and Migration is part of the Tides network having been director of Connect US Fund a spinoff of the Tides Foundation which receives staff support from the Tides Center.

Here we have the Tides Center announcing Schwartz’s appointment to the Asst. Secretary job.

Quoting liberally from ActivistCash.com, American Thinker author Clarice Feldman reports on the Tides Foundation and how it operates differently then other Far Left foundations (Rockefeller, Pew and so forth).  It pulls together secret sources of funds and distributes them to groups they basically incubate.  Feldman concludes:

It’s way past time that the IRS thoroughly investigates this sham operation and Congress end the practice of allowing such money laundering.

Consider this then Part II of my initial report on one-worlder Eric P. Schwartz. 

Connect US Fund which Schwartz directed before coming to the State Department is a Tides Foundation creation, that itself funds projects using this money first laundered by Tides.  Consider it kind of a second wash.  Before Obama’s election, Connect US Fund was busy influencing Obama’s foreign policy positions and they probably still are!

By the way, I wrote about the Tides Foundation here last June.  I noted that the International Rescue Committee (one of nine federal refugee contractors) has received some of the freshly washed money flowing out of Tides.

Hail, Hail, the gang’s all here.

Now check out Muckety and the connections between Drummond Pike (Tides Foundation head honcho), George Soros, the Center for American Progress (here the CAP wants to airlift 100,000 Iraqis to the US), the International Crisis Group and the rest of the extensive tangled web of advocates of a borderless world and one-world government.

Pushing for more refugees and immigrants to come to America is all about politics for this gang and that is why we see little interest in complaints from us and others around the country that their pawns (the refugees) are living in deplorable conditions.  It is not about the individual human beings—the refugees are expendable afterall.  It is about the war of the “have-nots” against the “haves” (see bring us your poor and angry, here).  They need to keep their pawns poor and angry and that is why we are seeing no reduction in the  numbers of refugees resettled in the US this year when there are no jobs and no hope for them.

Catholic Church, labor unions and Open Borders groups organizing March for America

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Update March 22nd:  SEIU thugs run the show—shame on organizers, here.

Update March 20th:  Far Left who’s who list for march organizers tomorrow, here.

Update March 19th:  Confirmed! It is a twofer—demonstrators are participating in the radical anti-war march Saturday and the open-borders march Sunday, here.

Update March 11th:  What a coincidence, another of the federal contractors, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, will be in DC for the marches too (here)!

And, can you believe it!  The US Conference of Catholic Bishops which got over $40 million in your tax dollars last year is bringing its gang to Washington the whole weekend beginning March 19th as well (here)!  All those folks will be around to march with the Marxists and Muslims on the 20th.  How convenient is that!

Update:  Another of the refugee contractors, Church World Service will be joining the parade, here.   They say they will be lobbying too.  I sure hope they aren’t using any taxpayer money or government supplied office space for their lobbying project.

 

 

Later this month there will be two Far Left rallies in Washington, DC.  The first on March 20th is being organized by the experienced protesters at International ANSWER (Communists, Muslim groups, labor unions and immigrant groups).  The very next day March 21st will be the open borders March for America.   What do you think?  Have we got a twofer here?  Do you think any mainstream media outlet will make a connection when it’s the same cast of characters both days, Nah! 

Some enterprising Tea Partier ought to go to DC both days with a camera and I’ll bet you a buck, the same people in the same goofy costumes and carrying the same signs are marching both days, but the numbers will be counted separately!

From New America Media:

Amidst lofty rhetoric and ambitious logistics, immigration reform activists are planning a mass demonstration next month at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The major forces behind the “March for America” are labor groups, immigrant advocacy organizations, and the Catholic Church.

[The Catholic Church!  I wonder do all the conservative Catholics know the Catholic Church is an organizer?-ed]

The march will be a test of immigrant advocates’ organizing capacity and their increasing use of technology to stoke a popular groundswell on immigration.

In a recent Spanish-language op-ed penned for America’s Voice the organization’s Hispanic media outreach director Rafael Prieto Zartha traced a kind of family tree for the origins of the planned march. These include the farm workers’ movement, the mass immigration demonstrations of 2006, and the world’s most famous civil rights speech, also delivered at the National Mall.

[….]   

The “March for America” sponsors all agree on a path to earned citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, speedier family reunification, humane enforcement and workplace protections.

The March 21 action aims to pressure Capitol Hill and the White House, which have shown an unwillingness to take on immigration legislation.

Obama probably put out the word that he needed some “grassroots” cover to get ready for a new Amnesty push, here.

A final thought:  The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is probably the largest of the federal refugee resettlement contractors responsible for finding work for thousands of legal refugees every year, so how can they justify promoting the legalization of 11 million people who have come here by breaking the law and who are in direct competition (and will be even more so if they become legal overnight) with refugees who are presently not finding work, and are desperate to do so.  I don’t get it.

About Geert Wilders victory in the Netherlands yesterday

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Likely the only politician in the world with the guts to say that Muslim immigration to a western country—this time the Netherlands—should be halted is Geert Wilders.  Yesterday elections in Holland sent a message to the Far Left and their Muslim Supremacist friends that times may soon be changing!

From the UK Guardian:

The Dutch far-right, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders has won major gains in local elections in the Netherlands, with preliminary results today indicating he may dominate the political scene in the run-up to the general election in three months.

Yesterday’s poll, 10 days after the centrist coalition government collapsed, was seen as a gauge of the public mood ahead of the national elections on 9 June.

Wilders last night claimed a massive victory, predicting: “We are going to conquer the entire country … We are going to be the biggest party in the country.

“The leftist elite still believes in multiculturalism, coddling criminals, a European super-state and high taxes,” Wilders told cheering supporters at a rally in Almere. “But the rest of the Netherlands thinks differently. That silent majority now has a voice,” he said.　

[….]

Wilders, who likens the Qur’an to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and wants Muslim immigrants deported, is bidding to win the general election in June, with the latest opinion polls predicting he might take 27 of the 150 seats in the Netherlands’ highly fragmented political scene.

That would make it tough for the Christian Democrats, projected to win one seat less, to forge a strong coalition without Wilders.

I was too tired to post on this story last night, and I see this morning that it is all over the news.  Here are some references to analysis of what it all means at Blue Ridge Forum.

Judy and I have written on several occasions about Wilders’ courageous campaign for free speech and against radical Islamic ideology and were fortunate to hear him speak at CPAC in 2009 (albeit the event was not sanctioned by the Washington DC insider Republicans that Michelle Malkin says are missing a key part of their anatomy, link in that same Blue Ridge Forum post!).

CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center: Yikes the militias are coming!

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This is no surprise, Mark Potok (Southern Poverty Law Center) has been peddling a report that appears to be the same old report he has been peddling for some time entitled, “Rage on the Right.”  Now we see CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) has jumpled on the boogeyman bandwagen.  Much quivering and shaking in the boots is going on it seems—of course they are both just whipping up a rightous frenzy and playing to their base.  But, come to think of it maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if they were a bit scared.  Booo!

From a CAIR press release:

WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, today expressed concern about the reported rise in the number of anti-government and anti-immigrant extremist groups during the past year.

CAIR cited a report released today by the respected Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). That report, titled “Rage on the Right,” states in part:

“Furious anti-immigrant vigilante groups soared by nearly 80%, adding some 136 new groups during 2009. And, most remarkably of all, so-called ‘Patriot’ groups — militias and other organizations that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose ‘one-world government’ on liberty-loving Americans — came roaring back after years out of the limelight…. The ‘tea parties’ and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism.”

We’ve written a lot about CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terror funding trial, and if you want to see more of their handiwork use our search function. Here is our most recent post about how the FBI is now searching through 12,000 pages of documents that helped inform the authors of “Muslim Mafia” about what CAIR is up to in America.

As for Potok, every time he does another round of media visits peddling his hate-filled “new” studies, we get a whole bunch more visitors to this post I wrote about him last year.

Shush:  Don’t tell Potok and Hooper that it  doesn’t work anymore.

Now I know why everyone was searching for “Mark Potok” at RRW

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Yesterday I noted that we had many hits on this year-old post on Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Last night I learned why as I turned on O’Reilly for a few minutes while folding clothes and realized he had Potok on the night before.  Potok was singling out the Oath Keepers and suggesting they were s a virulent group of militia types. 

I know this is getting far afield from refugees, but I was interested to see that O’Reilly looked pretty inept and uneducated in his interview with the Oath Keepers Yale Law School-educated leader, Stewert Rhodes, last night.   O’Reilly suggested that it is just fine and dandy that the government should take away “everyone’s” guns in a weather emergency.  See Gateway Pundit for the full story and clip of the show, here.  If, O’Reilly keeps this up his number one position on cable shows will be in jeopardy.

As the power of grassroots conservatives increases through Tea Parties and groups like Oath Keepers, Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center-types are getting more and more desperate and are resorting to the same old smear campaigns they have always used.  The difference now is that people are so angry at government, they have seen the smear tactics one too many times and are not going to be silenced.