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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Immigration Invasion
Through the first 11 weeks of fiscal year 2017, the United States welcomed 23,428 individuals as "refugees," according to the Refugee Processing Center. At this rate, the U.S. will resettle roughly 110,580 this fiscal year, which would exceed President Obama’s target of 110,000.
Contrast that with last year, when the U.S. welcomed only 13,786 "refugees" through the first 11 weeks of FY 2016. The country would end up welcoming 84,995 by fiscal year's end.
Leo Hohmann, a veteran journalist and WND news editor, sees this as part of a "concerted effort" by the Obama administration to admit as many as possible before Donald Trump becomes president.
"Get them here before Trump takes office on Jan. 20, because you don't know exactly what Trump will do with regard to this controversial program," is how Hohmann summarized the current administration's attitude. "The left is in panic mode because this program has run on autopilot for 35 years, and now for the first time we have a president who has expressed an interest in taking a hard, critical look at how it is run and the effects it's had on our cities, states and country."
The program to which Hohmann refers is the U.S. State Department's Refugee Admissions Program, which he writes about extensively in his brand-new book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and the Resettlement Jihad."
This program does not need to be renewed each year; it has run on autopilot since Congress passed and President Jimmy Carter signed the Refugee Act of 1980. However, the president has the authority to set an annual ceiling on the total number of refugees admitted, as well as to determine which nationalities and how many of each to let in.
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While Obama has set his sights on admitting 110,000 refugees this fiscal year, Daniel Horowitz, senior editor at Conservative Review, noted Trump can block the roughly 80,000 who are scheduled to come in after he takes office.
"To begin with, §212(f) of [the] Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president unilateral authority at will to shut down any form of immigration under any circumstance," Horowitz explained in a recent column. "In particular, §207 delegated to the president full authority to set the number of refugees to be admitted in a given year. Thus, Trump can easily shut down refugee resettlement through executive action on day one of his administration."
Hohmann holds a similar hope the president-elect will use his executive power to curtail the refugee resettlement program.
"Trump could decide to put in place a complete moratorium on all refugee resettlement from Muslim-majority nations like Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq, or he could significantly slow up the influx from these countries using what he calls 'extreme vetting,'" Hohmann advised.
He explained those are the "big four" that have been the source of a steady flow of Shariah-compliant Muslims into the U.S. since the 1980s.
Through the first 11 weeks of this fiscal year (Oct. 1 through Dec. 17), the U.S. admitted 3,074 refugees from Syria, according to data from the Refugee Processing Center. This puts the nation on track to welcome more than 14,500 Syrians by the end of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, at this point in FY 2016, the U.S. had only admitted 674 Syrian refugees on its way to admitting 12,587 for the whole year.
And more than 97 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted so far this fiscal year are Muslims, as were more than 99 percent of Syrians admitted last year.
Hohmann said the U.S. has had the opposite of "extreme vetting" of Syrians over the past eight years.
"It's gone from slack to even slacker," he observed. "Back in the spring, Obama cut the screening period on Syrian refugees from 18-24 months down to three months by sending more screeners to the United Nations camps in Jordan and setting up a template that basically takes the refugees' story of who they are and runs a search of social media and government databases to see if they can refute that story.
"Since there is little to no law enforcement data available on people who claim to be Syrians and false passports are easily purchased on the black market, we have no idea who these people are coming to our country as so-called Syrian refugees."
America is headed down a suicidal path – but it's a subtle invasion. Get all the details in Leo Hohmann's brand-new book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad," available now at the WND Superstore.
While many Americans worry about the influx of Syrians, the U.S. has taken in even more refugees from Somalia this year. Through the first 11 weeks of FY 2017, the U.S. resettled 3,269 Somali refugees. At this rate, the country would absorb more than 15,550 by fiscal year's end. At this point in FY 2016, the U.S. had only admitted 1,721 Somali refugees on its way to taking in 9,020 for the year.
More than 99.9 percent of the Somalis admitted this fiscal year are Muslims, as was the case in FY 2016 as well.
Hohmann noted Somali refugees are probably an even bigger risk than Syrians, as Somalis have committed several terrorist attacks on U.S. soil recently. "There's been no debate in Congress or the media asking the obvious questions: Why is America still taking thousands of refugees every year from Somalia more than 25 years after that country's civil war broke out?" Hohmann asked. "How many is too many, and why aren't the Somalis doing a better job of assimilating? Dozens have gone off to fight for overseas terror organizations while even more have been charged, tried and convicted here at home of providing material support to overseas terrorists."
Horowitz, the author of "Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges From Transforming America," pointed out the U.S. is bringing in Somali refugees at a record pace, even though Somalia collapsed more than two decades ago.
"Think about this: We've brought in 3,000 Somalis in just two-and-a-half months," Horowitz wrote. "That is outpacing our typical 8,000-10,000 that we've unprecedentedly brought in almost every year for over two decades. Thousands more have come from other countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Clearly, Obama is trying to front-load refugee resettlement and set it in motion for the remainder of the fiscal year, even after he leaves office."
Horowitz acknowledged Minnesota and Ohio continue to be pumped full of Somali refugees even though Minneapolis and Columbus have had terror recruitment problems within their Somali communities. What's more, Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America has continued as relatively large numbers of Somali and Syrian refugees have been planted in small-to-mid-sized cities such as Bowling Green, Kentucky; Owensboro, Kentucky; and Erie, Pennsylvania.
But Obama has no right to concentrate so many refugees in one place, according to Horowitz.
"This is a clear violation of the refugee law," he admonished. "The statute directs the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to 'insure that a refugee is not initially placed or resettled in an area highly impacted by the presence of refugees or comparable populations.' When making this determination the director of ORR is supposed to take into account, among other things, 'the proportion of refugees and comparable entrants in the population in the area.' [8 U.S.C. 1522]"
Texas leads all states in terms of receiving refugees so far this fiscal year, having welcomed 2,217. Hohmann said Texas has spent the last 10 to 12 years being inundated with refugees.
"Despite Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to pull his state out of the federal resettlement program, the refugees just keep coming," he lamented. "Amarillo, Texas, has been particularly hard hit, and I go into the situation there in some detail in my book.
"It's important to remember that the resettlement program has not been supported solely by Democrats, but also Chamber of Commerce Republicans who see it as yet another avenue for the importation of cheap foreign labor. We've seen many Republican governors, for instance, support the program enthusiastically. Governors like Nikki Haley in South Carolina, John Kasich in Ohio, Rick Snyder in Michigan, they've all been on board with the program."
In fact, seven of the top 10 refugee-receiving states so far this year were ones that voted for Trump on Nov. 8 (Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky). Only three of the top refugee destinations (California, New York and Washington) voted for Hillary Clinton.
Ann Corcoran, a leading refugee watchdog who authors the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog, told WND she believes the Obama administration and the federal resettlement contractors are deliberately trying to turn red states blue by injecting them with refugees who are likely to vote for Democrats.
"Of course it would take a while with refugee numbers, but add in the illegals, et cetera, in those states and, yes, it is about turning the state," Corcoran said. "Consider it the California model – it worked there!"
Hohmann said while he can't prove the State Department and the federal contractors have targeted red states over blue ones, it wouldn't surprise him. But he warned that the availability of housing is the biggest factor in determining the placement of refugees.
"They are bringing the refugees in so fast right now that it's difficult to find places to house them," he revealed. "I've been hearing stories from my sources that some are being secretly housed in Muslim-owned hotels and being held there until openings can be found in local apartment complexes. Housing is always the key for this program. That's why I often tell people to be wary of government-subsidized housing projects being built in your city because this is often a precursor to refugee resettlement, especially if you have a liberal mayor at the helm of your city."
America is headed down a suicidal path – but it's a subtle invasion. Get all the details in Leo Hohmann's brand-new book "Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad," available now at the WND Superstore.
Monday, January 2, 2017
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Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople, Glam Rock Show
GTFM will be broadcasting the above at 10 pm New Years Day, compiled and hosted by my friend Blues Show Bob Williams.
http://www.gtfm.co.uk/
http://www.gtfm.co.uk/
Saturday, December 31, 2016
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
Roman Catholicism Transcends Politics
Congressman,
What do you mean that the Pope's: "remarks transcended Catholicism?" The substance of Catholicism is that it is a universal faith and in public affairs promotes the common good by its very nature. There are narrowly focused religions that promote their aims exclusively and without regard for the common good and Roman Catholicism is no such public ideology. The founders of this country created the environment for the free exercise of religion based on Judeo-Christian principles. Roman Catholicism does not need to transcend itself but it is at the heart of the founding of this nation.
Several of those men who played key roles in the creation of the United States of America were Catholics. Chief among them were three members of the Carroll family of Maryland: Charles Carroll, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence; his cousin Daniel Carroll; and Daniel Carroll's brother John Carroll, who became America's first Catholic bishop.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) was the most illustrious and best-known of the Carrolls. He was the only signer whose property Carrollton was mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
At the time he signed the Declaration, it was against the law for a Catholic to hold public office or to vote. Although Maryland was founded by and for Catholics in 1634, in 1649 and, later, in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution placed severe restrictions on Catholics in England, the laws were changed in Maryland, and Catholicism was repressed.
Catholics could no longer hold office, exercise the franchise, educate their children in their faith, or worship in public. With the Declaration of Independence, all this bias and restriction ended. Charles Carroll first became known in colonial politics through his defense of freedom of conscience and his belief that the power to govern derived from the consent of the governed.
Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek (1730-1796) was a member of the Continental Congress (1781-1783), and a signer of the Articles of Confederation. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and one of only two Catholic signers of the United States Constitution. (The other Catholic signer was Thomas Fitzsimons of Pennsylvania.) At the Constitutional Convention, Daniel Carroll played an essential role in formulating the limitation of the powers of the federal government. He was the author of the presumption enshrined in the Constitution that powers not specifically delegated to the federal government were reserved to the states or to the people.
John Carroll (1735-1815), Daniel Carroll's younger brother, was educated in Europe, joined the Jesuit order, and was ordained a priest. During a period when the Revolutionary War was going badly, Washington asked John Carroll to join a mission to Canada to seek the support of the French for the colonies. Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton were the others on the four-man mission. While it failed, it established a relationship with the French, much influenced by the Catholic faith they held in common with the Carrolls. It bore fruit years later at Yorktown, where the largely Catholic-financed French fleet cut off supplies to British general Charles Cornwallis, and Washington was able to force Cornwallis to surrender and bring the war to an end.
John Carroll was an intimate of Washington. He wrote a prayer at the time of Washington's inauguration asking God's blessing on the president, Congress, and government of the United States a prayer still very much in use today. Out of gratitude for John Carroll's support during the war, Washington gave a modified version of the seal of the United States to the institution that is now Georgetown University, and that seal is still in use.
Roman Catholicism in the founding of the United States contributed to the free exercise of religion enjoyed today by Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and others, including those of no faith; it is not a narrowly focused political ideology needing to transcend itself for political and public approval.
Respectfully,
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Progressive Era
Progressive Era
Judge Andrew Napolitano explains how the progressive era was marked by a huge expansion of the federal government and its power to regulate the states and individual behavior. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal income tax, gave the government increased control over our hard-earned money; and the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for popular election of senators, removed an important obstacle to federal control of the states.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. Judge Napolitano lectures nationally on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime, and human freedom. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. His weekly newspaper column is seen by millions every week. The Judge is the author of seven books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times best sellers. His most recent book is Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed62.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed63.asp
Judge Andrew Napolitano explains how the progressive era was marked by a huge expansion of the federal government and its power to regulate the states and individual behavior. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal income tax, gave the government increased control over our hard-earned money; and the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for popular election of senators, removed an important obstacle to federal control of the states.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. Judge Napolitano lectures nationally on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime, and human freedom. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. His weekly newspaper column is seen by millions every week. The Judge is the author of seven books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times best sellers. His most recent book is Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed62.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed63.asp
Ian Hunter, BBC Radio 2, Russell Davies Interview
BBC Radio 2 - Ian Hunter the Art of Artists
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085fykt
First broadcast 26 December at 23.00 - hour long programme - available for another 29 days on BBC i Player radio
Russell Davies interviews Ian and charts the musical family tree of the legendary Mott the Hoople front man from his time in a prize-winning skiffle band to being given All The Young Dudes by David Bowie - a song that saved the band from splitting up. Ian talks about how early life in a factory prepared him for the rock'n'roll life of hard knocks and how Barry Manilow of all people came to cover one of his songs.
It sounds like this was produced by the same team that produce Johnny Walker's Sounds of the 70s and from listening to the broadcast it was made recently. Ian mentions touring Europe in 2017
Compliments of the season and a Happy New Year to all the MTH/Ian Hunter family
First broadcast 26 December at 23.00 - hour long programme - available for another 29 days on BBC i Player radio
Russell Davies interviews Ian and charts the musical family tree of the legendary Mott the Hoople front man from his time in a prize-winning skiffle band to being given All The Young Dudes by David Bowie - a song that saved the band from splitting up. Ian talks about how early life in a factory prepared him for the rock'n'roll life of hard knocks and how Barry Manilow of all people came to cover one of his songs.
It sounds like this was produced by the same team that produce Johnny Walker's Sounds of the 70s and from listening to the broadcast it was made recently. Ian mentions touring Europe in 2017
Compliments of the season and a Happy New Year to all the MTH/Ian Hunter family
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Robust Network
Creating Robust Networks for Even More Devices
A ubiquitous and powerful Wi–Fi network is now so important for students, that colleges like the University of California, Irvine are prepping for students that haven’t even arrived yet. As students bring more connected devices to campus — EDUCAUSE estimates 61 percent will have at least two — it has gotten even harder for universities to provide the bandwidth needed.
With a combination of network optimization, creative IT policies, and research to prepare for the incoming Internet of Things, universities are being proactive about creating the networks of the future.
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1972 Election
Nationally, the election of 1972 is remembered for Richard Nixon’s decisive victory over the Democratic nominee, George McGovern. Nixon had been elected president in 1968 on a “law and order” campaign, winning the support of moderate voters who were growing wary of the pace of change, the increasing radicalism of activists, and the images of hippies and protesters on their television screens. What Nixon called his “silent majority” propelled him to victory, and continued to support him even as support for the war in Vietnam diminished.
McGovern, a liberal senator from South Dakota, called for an end to the Vietnam War and a guaranteed minimum income for the poor. He won the Democratic nomination despite opposition from the party’s establishment. Many states held primary elections for the first time in 1972, and McGovern did well in the primaries, where party leaders often had little influence. But the grassroots activists who had led his primary campaign couldn’t engineer a victory in the November election. Nixon carried every state but Massachusetts and won the popular vote by a margin of 60.7 percent to 37.5 percent.
Despite Nixon’s landslide, both houses Congress remained firmly in the hands of Democratic majorities. But in the South, there were signs of the change that would eventually give the Republicans a national majority.
1972 for Dummies
McGovern's Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech
Nixon vs. McGovern's Defense Plan
Nixon Now Campaign
McGovern Campaign Ad
McGovern Concession Speech
Nixon and Kissinger on Election Night
McGovern Warns Obama About the LBJ Legacy
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
The Wonder Years, "Politics as Usual"
| 098 | 6.05 | Politics as Usual (original air date: October 21, 1992) |
| A charismatic McGovern campaigner brings Winnie and Kevin into the political arena, where Kevin, believing the man is an opponent in the race for Winnie's affections, gets a taste of power politics. Written by Craig Hoffman Directed by Bryan Gordon 1 = "Happy Days Are Here Again" -- Leo Reisman & His Orchestra (or Yellen & Ager) |
Monday, December 12, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Ian Hunter on Johnnie Walker BBC
Ian Hunter on Jonnie Walker BBC Radio 2 show Sunday 11th Dec
Details here. It will be on the BBC I-player after broadcast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084vxhz
But you might want to hear the whole show to pick up various other bits where JW is talking about Ian, plus you don't hear the songs on the shortcut version.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084vxhz
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084vxhz
But you might want to hear the whole show to pick up various other bits where JW is talking about Ian, plus you don't hear the songs on the shortcut version.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084vxhz
Saturday, December 10, 2016
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Catholic Charities Aided Ohio State University Islamist
Catholic Charities Aided Ohio State University Islamist
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