Thus far, the U.S. has been spared Europe’s “refugee” crisis because of accessibility — the “refugees” and “migrants” would have to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get here.
But Obama won’t let that geographical obstacle stop him. He is planning to bring in tens of thousands of refugees from just Syria, and who knows how many more from other Muslim countries.
The New York Times on Oct. 21, 2015 claimed that, since the Syrian civil war began 4 years ago — a war that Obama and the Western powers have inflamed and fomented by actively aiding the so-called “rebels” among whom are al-Qaeda and ISIS jihadists — “just 1,854 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the United States.” Those Syrians have been placed in 130 towns and cities (see map below).
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The NYT described those resettled Syrians as “among the most vulnerable people in…
World leaders responded to the savage acts of terrorism in Paris Friday with a strong outpouring of support for France, as well as a stinging condemnation of radical Islam and its disregard for human life.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among them, holding a special press conference on Saturday to address the attacks.
Netanyahu stated: “Israel stands shoulder to shoulder with President Francois Hollande and with the French people in the joint war against terrorism. I offer the condolences of the people of Israel to the families of those murdered, and wish those wounded a speedy recovery.”
He said: “I have been arguing for years that Islamic terror is attacking Israel and other countries because it simply wants to destroy us.”
Netanyahu also argued that an “attack on any of us needs to be seen as an attack on all of us.”
The prime minister has ordered Israeli security and intelligence agencies to give France every assistance possible.
One senior Israeli official relayed that Netanyahu said in a meeting that Israel has information relating to those involved in the Paris terror attacks.
Netanyahu said: “We are not exactly a marginal player in this field, and the information that we have we are sharing with France and other relevant countries, not just over the past day. It’s an important part of the cooperation against the terrorism of the Islamic State and of radical Islamic terrorism in general.
The prime minister has told the Israeli Foreign Ministry to tell French authorities to increase security around Israel’s embassy in Paris as well as Jewish institutions in France. He also said that reinforcements from Israel will be sent to help protect the embassy.
Netanyahu spoke out about terrorism in general, saying: “Terror is a systematic and targeted assault on innocent civilians. Nothing justifies the terrorism. We always need to condemn it, always need to fight it.”
In the wake of the devastating attacks in Paris Friday, US intelligence experts have once again issued stark warnings that such terrorism could be imminent on home soil because there is no way to vet refugees coming into the country from the Middle East, and the White House has no strategy to defeat ISIS.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, said that “There are a lot of holes — gaping holes,” in US defenses.
“We have hundreds of Americans that have traveled” to Iraq and Syria, he urged. “Many of them have come back as well. I think that’s a direct threat.”
McCaul once again said he has spoken with FBI and Homeland Security officials who say that “We don’t have the databases to vet them.”
“They tell me this cannot be properly done.” the Congressman added.
McCaul has consistently warned that ISIS has planned to use the refugee crisis to get operatives into the US.
“This causes a great concern on the part of policymakers, because we don’t want to be complicit with a program that could bring potential terrorists into the United States,” McCaul said.
In a separate appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the former head of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, corroborated McCaul’s sentiments.
“I’m not sure why this shocked everybody,” Rogers said. “There is not a vetting process … that can vet every single individual refugee coming in on the refugee program.”
In testimony before the Senate last month, FBI Director James Comey stated that “gaps” remain in the vetting process, owing to a lack of intelligence on the ground in Syria.
Following the attacks in France, Obama announced that the plan to bring in 10,000+ refugees will not be reevaluated in any form, even as it emerged that some of the perpetrators appeared to have entered Europe disguised as migrants.
In appearances on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” both the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees agreed that the US currently has no strategy to defeat ISIS.
We’ve got to have a strategy. We don’t have a strategy in Syria as it relates to ISIL,” Sen. Richard Burr said. “The president talked the other morning about ISIL was contained. America learned within 24 hours that it’s not contained, it’s rampant.” he added.
Rep. Devin Nunes added that “You can’t fight ISIS unless you are willing to put a strategy together that deals with the failure of Libya, the problems in the Sinai, Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan-Pakistan region.”
“Fifty Special Forces [troops], which we’ve just upped in the last two weeks, that’s not enough to make a big impact,” he added.
Nunes also warned about the influx of undocumented refugees.
“There’s no possible way to screen them. It should be stopped immediately,” he said.
“Bottom line, if you don’t want refugees, you have to go into Iraq and Syria and defeat ISIS.”
Also appearing on “Face the Nation,” the former deputy director of the CIA, Michael Morell, urged that it was time for a re-think on a strategy to defeat ISIS.
“I think it’s now crystal clear to us that our strategy, our policy vis-à-vis ISIS is not working, and it’s time to look at something else,” Morell said.
Morell described the Pairs attacks as having “A level of sophistication that we have not seen since the London bombings in 2005.”
He also suggested that rather than going after the Syrian President Bashar al Assad, much as the western coalition did with Gaddafi in Libya, the solution to defeating ISIS may be to work with Assad.
“You know, clearly he’s part of the problem, but he may also be part of the solution, right?” Morell said. “An agreement where he stays around for a while and the Syrian army, supported by the coalition, takes on ISIS may be the best result here.”
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CNN’s Jim Acosta asked President Obama Monday, “Why can’t we take out these bastards?”
During a press conference at the G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, Obama replied, “When we send troops in, those troops get injured, they get killed, they’re away from their families. Our country spends hundreds of billions of dollars. And so given the fact that there are enormous sacrifices involved in any military action, it’s best that we don’t, you know, shoot first and aim later. It’s important for us to get the strategy right and the strategy that we are pursuing is the right one.”
The terrorists who plotted the massive attack in Paris may have used an unlikely tool for their evil plot: Playstation 4.
Days before the shootings and bombings that left at least 129 people dead in the French capital, Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon specifically cited the gaming console as a favorite device for terrorists planning incognito evil.
“PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp,” he said, according to Quartz.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has said the Paris militants, some of whom lived in Belgium, used encryption technology to secretly plan their assaults. Bratton did not name any specific devices, but a Forbes contributing writer noted that Sony’s Playstation 4 fits the profile of a perfect product for terrorist talk.
The newest Playstation, which is now the biggest selling game system in the world, allows players to chat in private gaming parties that are monitored with much less scrutiny than more obvious technology, like cell phones and computers. The terrorists also could have used the game themselves to communicate, writing messages or giving signals that even the most eagle-eyed authorities would have a hard time detecting.
A growing number of states are refusing to take in Syrian refugees amid heightened security concerns following Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
Michigan and Alabama were the first states in the country to refuse relocating Syrian refugees on Sunday, and they have now been joined by Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Indiana.
Govs. Rick Snyder of Michigan, Robert Bentley of Alabama, Greg Abbott of Texas, and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said in separate statements Sunday and today that their states would not be relocating refugees from the war-torn country until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fully reviewed its screening procedures.
“Michigan is a welcoming state and we are proud of our rich history of immigration,” Snyder said. “But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents.”
Nearly 130 people died in the coordinated attacks in Paris, and at least one of the attackers was carrying a Syrian passport, which has led authorities to consider he could have entered Europe as a refugee. The alleged mastermind of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is believed to have slipped into Syria this year.
The United States in September pledged to take 15,000 refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for the fiscal year that began in October; an estimated 85,000 total refugees are expected to be resettled in the U.S. in 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sept. 20.
Just this year, about 200 Syrian refugees have been relocated to Michigan by one agency alone, and the state has one of the biggest Middle Eastern populations in the country. No refugees have been resettled in Alabama, and in his statement Sunday, Gov. Bentley said things would continue that way.
“I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way,” Bentley said. “I will not place Alabamians at even the slightest, possible risk of an attack on our people. Please continue to join me in praying for those who have suffered loss and for those who will never allow freedom to fade at the hands of terrorists.”
In a letter to President Obama today, Abbott said: “Given the tragic attacks in Paris and the threats we have already seen, Texas cannot participate in any program that will result in Syrian refugees — any one of whom could be connected to terrorism — being resettled in Texas.”
“Effective today, I am directing the Texas Health & Human Services Commission’s Refugee Resettlement Program to not participate in the resettlement of any Syrian refugees in the State of Texas. And I urge you, as President, to halt your plans to allow Syrians to be resettled anywhere in the United States,” Abbott wrote in the letter.
On Twitter, Hutchinson joined the other governors in opposition to resettling refugees. Arkansas already lagged behind other states in receiving refugees; in 2013 and 2014, the state welcomed only 14 of them, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana issued an executive order today to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees in that state.
And Indiana Gov. Mike Pence also joined the growing group of states.
“Effective immediately, I am directing all state agencies to suspend the resettlement of additional Syrian refugees in the state of Indiana pending assurances from the federal government that proper security measures have been achieved,” Pence said in a statement. “Unless and until the state of Indiana receives assurances that proper security measures are in place, this policy will remain in full force and effect.”
Governors are not the only ones calling for a halt to refugee relocation in the country. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson urged Congress today to terminate all public funding for federal programs helping Syrian refugees and migrants settle in the U.S.
“The national security of the American people demands tat the Congress swiftly extinguish any programs that might allow an ISIS terrorist to infiltrate the United States disguised as a refugee or migrant,” Carson wrote in the letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan.
In a radio interview, Ryan said he’s looking for the “best legislative option” to prevent an attack on America soil.
“I’ve asked all of the committees of jurisdiction in the House to come up with recommendations for how do we immediately address this particular situation,” he said. “We are looking at all of our options about how do we make sure that something like this doesn’t happen — coming here to us — with refugees.”
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday also came out against taking in more refugees.
“It’s not that we don’t want to,” Rubio told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “It’s that we can’t.”
More than 7 million Syrians have been displaced by war, and by the end of September the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 18,000 cases to the United States for resettlement.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which was blasted by GOP front-runner Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential debate, will have an impact on the city.
Trump described the 5,544-page agreement — weighing in at about 100 pounds — as “a horrible deal, a deal that is going to lead to nothing but trouble.”
And it’s drawn bipartisan disdain. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multinational corporations at the expense of workers, consumers,” Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
The deal would eliminate tariffs between the US, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam — countries that, according to the US Trade Representative, collectively produce about 40 percent of world GDP.
A key NYC industry, clothing and apparel, is more divided in its take on TPP, with groups representing retailers and importers lining up in favor of the pact, which would eliminate tariffs on imports, while the local manufacturing base is in opposition.
According to Julia Hughes, president of the US Fashion Industry Association, 80 percent of her group’s membership expects the pact to affect their business practices. TPP “represents an important opportunity for American fashion brands, retailers, importers and wholesalers, who are already doing significant business in several TPP partner countries.”
Local manufacturers, not surprisingly, see things differently.
“They’re not encouraging the consumer to buy more American-made products,” says Ramdat Harihar, CEO of R&C Apparel, a Garment District producer of clothing for designers including Anna Sui and Nanette Lepore. “Retail companies like Forever 21 already deal strictly with imports,“ he says. “If they’re cutting tariffs, they will manufacture more overseas.”
In terms of his own business, Harihar sees a possible long-term dislocation if TPP results in more design activity migrating overseas. “Right now everything is based in New York City,“ he says. “What are these students from Parsons [School of Design] and other places I hire from going to do? Move to China?”
Please don’t say things like, “I stand with France,” or “Those poor French people, victims of that attack!” unless you’re prepared to say and do the following things:
Stop saying “Islam” is about peace and love. It’s not. It’s about submission; the people who really get this are the ones who launch these attacks in the name of their religion.
Stop supporting politicians like Obama, who insist that Islamic nations like Iran have our same fundamental values and can be trusted with billions of dollars in unfrozen assets (Obama’s treaty), and who don’t mean what they say when they want to wipe Israel off the map.
Stop saying we don’t really need a strong military and we cannot, under any circumstances, use the full might of our military arsenal to do things to stop militant Islam in its tracks, to quite literally scare the Allah out of these people.
Unless or until you start to rethink your stance, you have no business expressing compassion towards the victims of people in attacks whose perpetrators – knowingly or not – you aid and support via your positions.
The president of France calls the attacks in Paris by militant ISIS supporters an “act of war.” Excuse me? Haven’t we been at war since at least 9/11? Even going back as far as 1979, when the first openly organized Islamic government, Iran, took Americans hostage and brutalized them for a year before setting them free?
We’re not supposed to admit we’re at war with Islam. But Islam has been at war with everyone else for decades now. And it’s not going to stop.
I am so sick of people saying, “We can’t fight terrorism with violence. We have to understand them and figure out what makes them act this way.”
Envy, brutality and collectivist/social/racial hatred are what make them act this way. They’re not going to change, and they’re not going to stop. By trying to appease and understand them every chance we get, they interpret this as weakness, because it is, from their point-of-view. They respond with more brutality. They’re not ever going to stop, any more than Hitler and the Nazis would have stopped if, instead of taking them on directly, we had said, “Let’s try to understand them.”
You cannot defeat a morally certain enemy without moral certainty. But we do not live in an age of moral self-assertion. It’s considered mean, unkind and politically incorrect.
You do not have moral certainty if you keep insisting that your enemy really does not mean it.
Stop waiting for the “moderate” or life-loving Muslims to come out of the closet and morally condemn their violent brethren. These moderates are nowhere to be found. Either they do not exist, or they’re too weak or frightened to take on the people who do these things in the name of their faith-based philosophy.
Obama has stated that these attackers do not share certain basic, universal values with the rest of us. But Obama is the one who insists we cannot really fight terrorists because they operate underground, without state-sanctioned armies, and the like. Obama is the same one who gave away America’s credibility and unfroze billions in assets to the government of Iran, the one actual government known to sponsor and morally support Islamic terrorism around the world. What business does he have expressing outrage and horror? He might as well be on their side. Because he makes life easier for them, through things like this insane treaty he rammed by the Congress.
So before you rush to show others how sad and angry you are about what happened in Paris, stop to think of the ideas, attitudes and elected officials you’ve been supporting.
Ideas have consequences, and if you support the wrong ones, this is what you get.
Just two days before the Paris attacks, around 50,000 Poles gathered in the center of Warsaw to show the world and the European Union they will not welcome Islam into their country and they have loudly affirmed, “We are a Catholic Christian country. There is no place for Sharia Law in Poland!”
The European Union has been pressuring the Poles to “absorb” the animalistic waves that have pushed Germany to the brink of anarchy since they started arriving early last summer. The poles have resisted.
Things in Poland are beginning to move at an increasingly rapid pace. Just weeks ago the Law and Justice Party took control of the country with sweeping and convincing victories. Now the people are demanding their new government take firm measures to demonstrate to the European Union that they mean business.
The huge gathering was addressed by firebrands from within Poland and a Hungarian representative from his country’s resistance movement.
During his talk, a Polish Parliament member urged the people to watch what the new government does and press it on the issue of, “… illegal economic migrants from Islamic countries.” “We do not want them here,” he said as the huge throng cheered.
The M P went on to attack the very existence of the European Union saying, “We are here to stop these criminals who have created that system and return our country to rule by Polish patriots.”
As he and other speakers urged the Polish people to keep pushing for their own safety and freedom from Islam, the crowd waved signs saying, “Let us hurry and finish off the communists …” and “Stop Islamisation.” They chanted, “Poland for the Polish” and “Yesterday Moscow, today Brussels, taking our freedom away.”
Let us keep Poland and all of Europe in our prayers and ask God to give them the means and will to keep their freedom.
WASHINGTON — It’s “insane” that Chancellor Angela Merkel is allowing so many male Syrian refugees into Germany, Donald Trump said Sunday.
“I’ve been watching this migration. And I see the people. I mean, they’re men, they’re mostly men, and they’re strong men,” Trump said on “Face the Nation.” “What I won’t do is take in 200,000 Syrians who could be ISIS.”
“These are physically young, strong men. They look like prime-time soldiers. Now, it’s probably not true. But where are the women?” the GOP frontrunner wondered.
Merkel has welcomed the flood of mostly Syrian and Afghan refugees with compassion saying it’s her “damned duty” to help those running for their lives. An estimated 800,000 newcomers will arrive in Germany by the year’s end.
“What she’s done in Germany is insane. It’s insane. They’re having all sorts of attacks.”
The Gulf States “who have nothing but money” and others should find a big swath of land in Syria and create a safe zone to harbor families, Trump suggested. The US could help economically, but should limit taking in Syrian refugees because they could be terrorists.
“I love a safe zone for people,” Trump said. “I do not like the migration. I do not like the people coming.”
“This could be the greatest Trojan horse,” Trump said. “This could make the Trojan horse look like peanuts if these people turned out to be a lot of ISIS.”
Meanwhile, Trump explained why he has a concealed weapon permit and “sometimes” carries a gun.
“I feel much better being armed,” Trump said.
The billionaire developer promised that as president he “would cut all ties” with his business dealings.
And he admitted he only likes polls when he’s winning: “If I wasn’t number one, I would never mention them.”
The new CBS News national poll is one Trump embraced.
It shows the former reality TV star the favorite among Republican primary voters at 27 percent, followed by Ben Carson (21 percent), Ted Cruz (9 percent), Marco Rubio (8 percent) and Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina (tied at 6 percent).
Unlike his other opponents, Trump has refrained from lashing out at Carson because the retired neurosurgeon publicly apologized the one time he went after Trump.
“He was able to withdraw it,” Trump said on Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz.” “Oh I was all set to go wild. Now I can’t go wild. I’m actually saying I wish he’d hit me.”
Carson Sunday stood by his pro-gun statements that Adolf Hilter’s goals would have been greatly diminished if citizens were armed.
He said citizens should always be prepared to fight back against a totalitarian government.
“Whether it’s on our doorstep or whether it’s 50 years away, it’s still a concern and it’s something that we must guard against,’ he said on “Face the Nation.”
Donald Trump addressed the Paris terrorist attack at a rally today by talking about the tough gun control laws there and speculating how things would have been different if more people were carrying weapons.
Trump said that “nobody had guns but the bad guys,” and so the terrorists were able to kill people one by one.
“You can say what you want,” Trump told the audience, “but if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry, it would have been a much, much different situation.”
After the Charlie Hebdo attack in January, Trump tweeted about France’s gun control laws. That tweet got new life last night when people thought it was Trump’s comment on last night’s attack. But based on his comments today, it’s clear he still believes it.
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