“Mrs Clinton, (then) 62, spoke last year of her unlikely crush on Mr Miliband, 44.” Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260660/Move-Miliband-Hillary-Clinton-special-relationship-new-man.html#ixzz3EiTH4IZZ
They did not study refugees resettled in the US, but I’ll bet they would opt for cold hard cash over stuff too.
The study apparently concluded that giving refugees money didn’t encourage alcohol consumption, drug use, or smoking (duh! most are Muslims who don’t have those infidel vices anyway).
The study also found that giving them cash was not a dis-incentive to work. Really?
Are “humanitarian” bucks going to fund Jihadists?
They don’t drink or smoke it up but I wondered if they might give some of their cold hard cash to fund more terrorist activity. I bet researchers at Yale didn’t ask that question!
Here is the article, read it yourself since I am out of time and energy right now!
I also wondered if the “refugees” might prefer cash to being resettled in your home town, but alas I assume they didn’t ask that question either.
Come to think of it, we might be able to save ourselves some serious money if we paid them to stay right where they are!
They are not talking about the border crashers from Central America (yet!).
The International Rescue Committee, one of the top ten*** federal refugee resettlement contractors has selected Athens as its next target site to be a new refugee resettlement city.
IRC’s Ellen Beattie: small cities are more “navigable,” so we will bring hundreds of third-world refugees to Athens. Or, should it be, small cities are more naive! Photo: http://clatl.com/atlanta/ellen-beattie/Content?oid=1275176
Readers, this article is full of the usual phony baloney gushy language about how Athens has so many amenities to make it desirable, welcoming, and open to receiving impoverished people from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
They need fresh territory!
The bottom line, however, is that they are all (the US State Department, ORR and their contractors) out scouting new locations because they have worn out, or are in the process of wearing out, their welcome in their “preferred resettlement sites.”
You need to know a little about the International Rescue Committee headquartered in New York City and led by former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (with his $400,000 plus a year salary). Click hereand follow links.
Below is the story on Athens, they say they will bring Congolese and Burmese, but the top refugees being resettled in the US right now include also Iraqis, Bhutanese and Somalis. They will get a smattering of all of them.
Georgia readers need to especially note that the IRC implies that they have cleared it with local officials. Does the governor know?
Truth-be-told, the Atlanta area has become a pocket of resistanceto more resettlement which is why they are now spreading out throughout the state and into small cities.
Athens-Clarke County this year will begin welcoming an increasing number of refugees fleeing conflict in their native lands for a new home in the U.S.
The Atlanta office of the International Rescue Committee plans to open a sub-office in Athens by end of the year, and hopes to begin resettling refugee families in Athens as soon as October.
Opening an Athens outpost has been in the works for five years, said IRC Atlantic regional director Ellen Beattie. The organization has opened similar sub-offices in cities like Charlottesville, Va., and Lincoln, Neb.
College towns like Athens have an “international flavor” because of their worldly academic staff, and universities possess strong language resources that new refugee arrivals rely on, Beattie said.
For newly-arrived refugees, whose journey to the U.S. has been long and stressful, a smaller town makes for an easier transition.
“Small towns are more navigable,” Beattie said.
LOL! More “navigable” or more naive? Smaller towns don’t usually ‘get it’ about what it means for them until the seed community is well-established, then the contractor begins bringing in the relatives and it becomes too late to turn off the spigot.
Beattie said IRC staff has already met with county, school and health department officials to prepare Athens for the refugees’ needs.
The Athens office, at first, will have one full-time staff member, soon increasing to two, and will bring in necessary support.
Beattie said between 120 and 150 people, roughly 40 families, will resettle in Athens in the first year. Most of these refugees will come from Myanmar [Burma–ed] and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Once the office is established, Beattie estimates a city of Athens size can handle up to 250 refugees, about 60 families, a year.
Not mentioned here, but I suspect industries in the Athens area are looking for cheap immigrant laborers. This articlesays that Athens is doing well economically.
Georgia has received 1,968 refugees so far this fiscal year (the 8th largest resettlement state) from 40 different locations around the world. Go to Wraps.net hereand click on Arrivals by State and Countryto see from where refugees are arriving. By the way, they previously made public which city refugees were going to but now keep that secret from the general public.
The chart (Arrivals by State and Country) is a little deceptive because, for example, when they say Kenya, that doesn’t mean those are Kenyans, it means they are probably Somalis located in Kenya. Likewise, we don’t take Malaysians, but hundreds arrived in Georgia from Malaysia this year—they were certainly illegal aliens caught in Malaysia, probably Afghans or Somalis trying to reach Australia. They could just as easily have a chart for State and Nationality, but this is just one more way to keep you in the dark about who is coming to your state.
Update (sort of on August 19th): Here is an older article involving Athens and Georgia resettlement generally, that we saw today and don’t want to lose.
The word over the last few days, apparently still unconfirmed, is that Turkey has closed its borders to Syrian refugees.
Miliband, as British foreign secretary, met with Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2009 to discuss Iran. http://www.news.az/articles/turkey/1735
At the same time we have David Miliband, the new CEO of the International Rescue Committee, one of the largest of the taxpayer-funded resettlement contractors, praising Turkey for its generosity to Syrian refugees.
Don’t tell me they are planning to reward Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a prize as they did Hamid Karzai a few years ago!
Our interest here at RRW is why is Turkey allowing Syrian Muslims to cross its other border into Bulgaria thus swamping that tiny poor European country with thousands they can’t possibly take care of and who are now causing social unrest there?
Then to top it off, Turkey’s Prime Minister (pal of Obama) has asked Obama to go after Erdoğan’s chief opponent who lives where? In Pennsylvania!
Yesterday several media organs reported that Turkey had closed its border to Syrians fleeing their country on account of the fact that the number of Syrians in Turkey would jump up to five million in a very short time.This information has not yet been corrected by AFAD or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nor has it been denied.
If this is Turkey’s new policy it will have critical long-term ramifications for host communities, including Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, and for Syrian civilians. Turkey is one of the biggest host countries for Syrians, and while the Turkish government estimates that a total of 700,000 Syrian refugees are in Turkey, local and international non-governmental actors who are managing the crisis on the ground have a more realistic estimate: 1.5 million.
Big smooch from Miliband to Turkey. Does Miliband think he is still Britain’s foreign secretary? He is the well-paid headof a US resettlement contractor, that’s all (right?). Speculation abounds that the IRC is really a covert arm of the US government.
Turkey deserves applause in receiving Syrian refugees fleeing the violence in their country and providing assistance for them, stated David Miliband, Britain’s former Foreign Secretary and president of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) during an interview in Washington.
Miliband attended a panel which was held to draw attention to the plight of the Syrian refugees on Thursday and spoke to Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondent in the aftermath of the panel.
Praising Turkey’s policy on the refugees, Miliband said he was in close cooperation with Turkish officials and attached importance to a very strong partnership with Turkey.
I had to laugh and wondered if the IRC was getting ready to award a prize to Erdoğan like they did Hamid Karzai—to “embrace political Islamism” as David Miliband would say. The IRC and Miliband recently saidthey would like the US to take 12,000 Syrians this year.
They can’t get to Bulgaria without having passed through Turkey!
Bulgaria
Bulgaria is swamped by Syrians flowing in from Turkey. Why isn’t Turkey stopping them on their side of the border? Is Turkey facilitating the invasion of Europe by Muslims?Why do news accounts never mention the fact that in order to get to Bulgaria they had to cross Turkey? Here is yet one more story about poor Bulgaria, this time at The Seattle Times:
Bulgaria, the poorest nation in the EU, has a refugee crisis. In the second half of last year, hundreds of undocumented Syrians arrived every week, putting a strain on a country ill-prepared for the flood of refugees escaping a civil war.
Bulgaria built a border fence with Turkey which has slowed the flow somewhat.
Pennsylvania?
Don’t miss this story at Creeping Sharia! Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants Obama to go after his enemy and close the schools of the Fethullah Gülen movement!
From KPBS (be sure to watch the clip!). Emphasis is mine:
This week, the United Nations officials said Syrians are about to replace Afghans as the world’s largest refugee population.
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The IRC is working to bring Syrian refugees to the United States.
You have to follow the link in the following excerpt to find out that the IRC is lobbying for 12,000. Remember they are paid by the head for each “refugee” they place in your city or town, and conveniently they have a resettlement office in San Diego!
He said, the IRC is calling on the U.S. to increase the number of refugees***allowed to resettle in here, and if that happens, some may wind up in San Diego.
Believe me it won’t be only the women, the orphans or the Christians going to San Diego. And, if the civil war should end in months or a year, they won’t go home to Syria either—this is permanent resettlement!
“If I hope, when the U.S. government decides to increase that number and allow some Syrians, the most needy cases, the kids who’ve have lost their parents, the women who’ve lost their husbands, this would be an ideal place for them to rebuild their lives,” he said.
He said the small Syrian community and larger Middle Eastern community here could give Syrian refugees some sense of of roots and a bit of stability that can allow them to make a contribution to society.
Not a peep in any interview about persecuted Christians in Syria.
***Be sure to read the NPR interviewwhere an IRC representative says 12,000 is their magic number this year, but expresses puzzlement as to why the US might be dragging its feet. NPR interviewer asks:
Would you be at all concerned that letting in thousands of refugees from this particular civil war will also allow in bad actors?
Even NPR gets it (if the refugee importers pretend not to)!
We have an ever-expanding archive on David Miliband, here.
For more ambitious readers, see this 2010 post and follow the links to a National War College Report by State Department employee David Robinson who explained in 2000 how the International Rescue Committee (IRC) (others!) pressured the State Department (through Al Gore!) into taking more than 10,000 Kosovar refugees who didn’t want to come here and who were later flown back to their home country at taxpayer expense. The IRC apparently needed the warm bodies to resettle because those bodies came with a per head resettlement payment to the IRC, and I feel sure they were never asked to return the $$$.
David Miliband (of course you should know) is the former British foreign secretary who now runs one of our largest refugee resettlement agencies—the International Rescue Committee—and makes a cool $400,000 plus salary doing it. See our archives for more on the man who was a “celebrity” in the UK, but is virtually unrecognizable in NYC. The New York Times(in its name-dropping story) makes sure we know throughout the article how much he is enjoying his anonymity when he surely was entitled to be among the recognized.
Hillary reportedly said of Miliband, “if you saw him, it would be a big crush.” Photo: Times of London
The article is long, and long on gush, but gives us one more look at the glitz and glamor that surrounds the human rights industrial complex these days.
The speakers at the fund-raising gala in New York last month had come to praise the guest of honor: the new president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband. Amid all the charity-circuit one-liners delivered by big-ticket names like Bill Clinton, George Soros and Samantha Power, a remark by Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, hit closest to home.
“I would like to dispel the rumor,” Ms. Albright said, “that David himself has sought refuge in America from that most terrible of democratic tyrannies, the British tabloids.”
She may be right, but surely no one would blame Mr. Miliband — a former British foreign secretary, candidate for leader of the Labour Party and newspaper torture victim — if escape had indeed been one of his motives for fleeing England at the end of the summer.
IRC staff not so welcoming to man who says he wanted to deal with “knotty” issues:
Some longtime I.R.C. staff members responded to news of his appointment with a certain wariness, mainly because of Mr. Miliband’s foreignness, his celebrity, his lack of experience running nonprofit agencies and because they did not know what his management style would be.(He started the job in September, installing two longtime advisers from Britain as top executives, and said he was spending the first few months getting his head around the organization and the job.)
We are not informed if he has won them over.
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