Category: The Opposition

Thorough analysis of Obama’s Cairo speech at VDARE

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I couldn’t bring myself to watch President Obama’s speech to the “Muslim World” last week, but it was interesting to read Brenda Walker’s analysis of it here at VDARE yesterday.    Entitled, “Obama In Egypt: Multiculturalist Meets Muslims. Muslims Win,”  here is a brief segment:

Obama apparently doesn’t realize that there is a strain of Muslim supremacism that believes everything of value springs from Islam.

[…..] 

Under this loopy view, we infidels are lost little sheep who don’t understand we are already Allah’s property and just need to be re-educated. Loose talk by the American President to aggrandize himself in this manner has potentially very dangerous consequences, because it adds fuel to the fable that America is Islamic territory to be reclaimed.

Read it all.  The concept Walker raises here is central to understanding the fact that certain groups of Muslim immigrants have no intention of assimilating and respecting American culture and values.

Refugees International: most refugees are in the Muslim world

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…..and most are Muslims.   Gee, I wonder why?   In an editorial lauding Obama’s Cairo Speech to the “Muslim World” last week, Ken Bacon, CEO of Refugees International tells us this:

There are more refugees and internally displaced people in the Muslim world than anywhere else.

He goes on to say:

The duty to protect people in exile, both Muslim and non-Muslim, is an important theme in the Koran, and many Muslim countries–Syria and Jordan and Iran are important examples–do provide refuge.

But the cost of providing refuge can be high to host countries, and, of course, displacement can destabilize entire regions by creating economic and political tensions, while impeding development and education. Reducing displacement in Muslim countries and elsewhere is an important step toward creating a more peaceful, prosperous and stable world.

This is such B.S.!    Yes, Muslim refugees are in Jordan and Syria.  But, the heartland of the so-called Muslim World and where Obama gave his “home-run” speech as Bacon calls it—Saudi Arabia— takes NONE!    Zip, zero, nada!    In fact, Saudi Arabia is in the process of building the world’s largest and most expensive border fence on its two borders—the Iraqi border and the border with Yemen.   Both are Muslim countries. What!  Are they fearful of being overrun by Christians and Jews?

As for the Palestinians (Arabs!), no Arab country has wanted them for the last 60 years!  Today, Palestinian Iraqis sit in camps on the border of Syria and NO MUSLIM COUNTRY WILL TAKE THEM!   Instead they are going to places like Iceland and Chile.  I have never heard any refugee advocacy group or the UN High Commissioner for Refugees call upon Saudi Arabia, the richest Arab country, to take MUSLIM refugees.

I am so sick of you guys in the lobbying business not being truthful and writing such misleading pap—-makes me wonder if you are being funded by Saudi Arabia.   Go to Refugee International’s latest Form 990,  there is nothing there (they have salaries and travel a lot), where is their funding coming from?   And, note that they are a lobbying outfit but don’t even list their lobbying expenses.   Why not?  They are a 501(c)3 afterall and are limited in how much lobbying they can do.

And, then, what is this:  “Reducing displacement in Muslim countries and elsewhere is an important step toward creating a more peaceful, prosperous and stable world.”    How, Mr. Bacon, do you propose we do that when it is their sectarian violence, radical ideologies, and complete lack of interest in building their countries (except Saudi Arabia with its fence) that are at fault?   On top of that they all want to move to the West!  And, you help them make the move!

Do Refugees International supporters fall for such platitudes?  I bet the readers at the Huffington Post where this is published eat it up!

For new readers:  We have written about Refugees International many times.  These are just two posts to get you started, here and here.

More Iraqis the Tides Foundation could help

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This story in Mother Jones, just sent to me by a reader, looks familiar.  Some parts of the article must be from a previous story from Dallas, Texas.   However, it’s worth mentioning again to further make my point that we are bringing Iraqi refugees to the US under false pretenses and the government contractors (volags) are using this opportunity to promote their version of reforming refugee resettlement—begging for more taxpayer funding for the refugees AND for themselves.   I’m actually beginning to wonder if these tragic stories are planted to drum up public support for higher taxpayer funding for refugees (that would be something the Soros strategists would do).  

America is a bad dream.

Recently arrived refugees interviewed in Dallas wonder how they’re supposed to become self-sufficient on minimal assistance in the worst economy since the Great Depression. Rather than making new lives, they are facing unemployment, eviction and isolation.

“The life here is closed,” said Lara Yakob, whose husband, an architect in Mosul, has been out of work since he arrived five months ago. His best prospect to date: a tryout in a laundry room.

“I think the American government feels that they made bad things for Iraq, so they bring us here. I don’t know why they do that if they don’t find us a job. This life they start for us, is a very bad life, ” said Omar Ibrahim, who arrived in Dallas in 2008 and still is jobless. 

He lives in a housing complex on the edge of the city, on a tree-lined street off the freeway, near Garland. Around 100 refugee families from Iraq, Myanmar and central Africa share this neighborhood of two-story apartments around the corner from a gas station—the site of a recent police killing—a Cash America outlet, aging strip malls and shuttered superstores.

His rent assistance stopped after four months, and to pay the bills he had to do the unthinkable. “I called my family in Iraq to send me money,” he said. And they asked him, “You are in America, and you are asking us for money?”

“They know that America is a dream, but it is a bad dream,” he said.

The story goes into the usual spiel about how little the refugees receive from the government.  Please note that the $900 mentioned here, is split with the resettlement agencies and only represents a tiny fraction of the welfare assistance refugees do get.  The “seed money” is from the US State Department.  All of the additional costs of refugee resettlement are borne by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Dept. of Health and Human Services, and of course, from your state and local welfare assistance programs.

Each refugee receives $900 from the State Department’s Reception and Placement program for initial resettlement to cover housing, clothing, food and necessities for 30 to 90 days. The money is administered by 10 resettlement agencies that typically use half of it to cover administration and logistics.

A State Department spokesman tries valiantly to remind everyone that the Refugee Resettlement Program was NEVER intended to be funded exclusively by the taxpayer but was supposed to be a PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP and the volags (supposedly non-profit charitable groups) were to raise private funds as well.

“The money we give is intended only as seed money. They have to raise money on their own. In no way is the U.S. government contribution supposed to be the entire provision for the refugee,” said Thomas Pierce, a spokesman at the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

Reminder!  Yesterday I told you that one of the Top Ten Government Contractors, USCRI, gets 96% of its funding from you—-the American tax payer.  AND, they spend $1 million on lobbying that is not then available to the poor refugees. 

In this article, another of the Top Ten, Church World Service, says they want to get double what they are now receiving from the State Department.

Refugee advocates want $1,100 per refugee in the near term, but say ideally the grant should be doubled to $1,800, which would be in line with cost-of-living increases. “There has been a huge historic underfunding, ” said Jen Smyers, an associate for immigration and refugee policy at Church World Service in Washington.

By the way, rumor has it that the US State Department is picking up the tab for the Top Ten’s Washington, DC lobbying offices!   Can anyone deny that is so?

My solution:   Ask the big moneybags George Soros and his buddies at the Tides Foundation to make up for all the shortfall, afterall it is they who are pushing for more immigrants to flood the US.   And, sadly, they have more money than the Federal government!

Note to CWS and USCRI:  I saw that you only got peanuts from Tides in the same year that IRC got $3.5 million, what gives?

A tangled web leads back to the Tides Foundation

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I should have written about this earlier today because I am losing steam and it’s pretty convoluted.  Remember I mentioned I did research last evening till my eyes were falling out of my head.    I was trying to unravel the Tides Foundation, SEIU, ACORN, George Soros, Wade Rathke, and how all these players are involved in the latest push for Amnesty for illegal aliens and generally want to swamp America with immigrants and refugees.   Afterall, people like Soros and Rathke (SDS and Bill Ayers) hate America so why are they so interested in bringing the less-fortunate to a “downright mean country?”

Also, I’ve been completely puzzled for two years why the volags aren’t taking very good care of the refugees they resettle in our towns and cities.  Now, I am NOT talking about the hardworking and sincere people who run the local affiliates nor am I talking about volunteers who want to feel good by helping the downtrodden.  But, it’s the corporate officers of the volags that seem so uncaring, almost hostile if a refugee should complain (see our extensive file on Iraqi refugees to see what I mean). Do they even like the people they help bring into the country?

There seems to be no logic involved, or is there?

I don’t believe pushing amnesty or opening the country to a flood of immigrants when we don’t have jobs or resources to give them good lives is a very caring thing to do.  I also don’t believe yanking people out of their cultures and plopping them down in US slums is a very humanitarian thing either, unless of course your goal is a political one and to hell with the individual immigrants.

So, the only conclusion I can draw is:  1) refugee resettlement is just an industry to supply cheap labor for big business (we have lots of evidence for this), and/or 2)  refugees and immigrants are needed as the pawns for the war of the “have nots” against the “haves”—-the Obama/Alinsky strategy to swamp the welfare system, produce  chaos and ultimately bring change (see our community destabilization category, here)—and these agency CEO’s don’t really care about the human beings involved.

I’m drifting away from what I wanted to say.    When I noticed that the new “Reform Immigration for America” umbrella group was funded through the Tides Foundation (Tides Advocacy Fund), I realized that is the same outfit that is entangled with ACORN (that Glenn Beck has been investigating).  Turns out that ACORN’s founder, Wade Rathke, is also on the board of Tides, and now heads the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) that is busy signing up dues-paying immigrants and organizing them—for work in such fields as home health care and meatpacking (should sound familiar to regular readers!).

The Tides Foundation is kind of like a laundramat.  It washes money.  Corporations and other foundations pass money through it to all sorts of progressive causes.   For example a big corporation might like to give to the Amnesty battle for its own selfish wish to have loads of cheap immigrant labor but doesn’t dare donate outright.  That might not sit too well with the public.  Instead they donate to the Tides Foundation (a charitable organization itself) which merrily passes it through to Leftwing causes the corporation wishes to fund.   To add insult to injury, federal government agencies also add taxpayer money to this giant money washing machine.

Tides Foundation Form 990

Now this is as far as I’ve gotten with my research, but check out this 2007 Tides Foundation Form 990.    So far I know that one of the top ten volag government contractors, The International Rescue Committee, received one of the largest gifts that year, $3.5 million.

While the IRC is closing its doors in Boston for instance because of a shortage of funds and the high cost of living in that city, it’s busy telling its supporters to lobby Obama to bring more refugees.   Such illogical action can mean only one thing—–the refugees are not the first priority for the agency, a larger agenda is at work and somehow the Tides Foundation and George Soros play a very large role.

More to come!

Be sure to watch Glenn Beck tonight

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Fox News channel at 9 p.m. ET will re-run a Glenn Beck show from earlier in the week.  It’s a full hour investigation into ACORN, SEIU, Tides Foundation, George Soros groups, Wade Rathke, the Cloward-Piven strategy and it all ties into what we have been saying here about overloading our welfare system with impoverished people—immigrants.

Hopefully I will have a post later today on how the pawns—immigrants and refugees —–fit into all this.   Farm work beckons.