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My girlfriend Kathy goes to the Sanrio Hello Kitty store in San Francisco's Westfield Center before it closed forever, Christmas 2014.
Kathy is still furious that some idiot at the corporate headquarters of Sanrio in San Francisco decided to close ALL of the Sanrio Hello Kitty stores in the Bay Area and elsewhere. It was THE place to go get Hello Kitty and now she has to search for items but many items could only be had in the Hello Kitty store and no where else. She loves Hello Kitty, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Inuyasha and anything she thinks is cute.
Me, I love Chococat and am mad I can't get my Chococat stuff too.
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November 29, 2015
Trump, American Muslims, and the Mainstream Media After 9/11
Once again it's Donald Trump versus the mainstream media, with the focus this time being on the aftermath of 9/11. Trump is being portrayed by the media as a xenophobic buffoon for saying thousands of Muslims in New Jersey had cheered on 9/11 when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Is Trump right? As periodically happens, Trump could have phrased his statement more precisely. Media “fact checkers” (including those who ignore their own publication’s facts) rushed to allege no evidence that “thousands” of Muslims -- across the Hudson River in New Jersey -- had publicly cheered (as opposed to privately cheered) the 9/11 attacks. Well, no surprise there. If such an outrage had happened, even the left-leaning media could not have ignored it. Perhaps Trump was thinking about television images from the Palestinian territories showing thousands of Muslims cheering the 9/11 attacks.
Yet Trump may be onto something. Just as significant elements of truth were contained in Trump's badly worded comments about Mexico not sending its “best” (but instead sending many from its criminal class) his comment about cheering Muslims also contains elements of truth.
Yet consider that just days after 9/11, veteran CBS newsman Dan Rather spoke about small gatherings of cheering American Muslims when visiting the David Letterman show. Asked by Letterman if Muslims were celebrating 9/11, a teary-eyed and emotional Rather remarked that it happened overseas and, yes, at home:
“Oh absolutely, they’re celebrating. There’s one report, this has not been confirmed, but there are several reliable reports there was a cell, one of these cells across the Hudson River, and they got on -- this is the report and I emphasize I don’t know this for a fact – but there’s several witnesses who say this happened; they got on the roof of the building to look across. They knew what was going to happen; they were waiting for it to happen, and when it happened they celebrated. They jumped for joy to see this happen; it was a great triumph. It's inconceivable to me and to you, but David this is what we have to understand as a country; we’re not dealing with the kind of thing we dealt with in any war we’ve ever fought before, because we’ve never dealt with these kind of hateful-to-the-core evil people.”In retrospect, Rather's comments were remarkable given that he's a liberal – and yet at the time he and other like-minded media figures (together with most every Democratic lawmaker) had a moral clarity right after 9/11 that was subsequently shoved aside as they fretted about a backlash against Muslims (which was non-existent). And though Rather and others had initially praised Bush's reaction to 9/11, they went onto embrace Bush Derangement Syndrome. Did CBS News ever follow up about reports of cheering Muslims in New Jersey – and set the record straight? It appears CBS didn't.To be sure, in accounts by Rather and the Post regarding cheering American Muslims, the qualifying words “allegedly” and “unconfirmed reports” are used.Yet something bears repeating: It's strange that neither CBS nor the Washington Post apparently never followed-up on specific reports of public cheering among small groups of Muslims. One plausible explanation is that these scattered incidents did in fact occur, but that the mainstream media failed to follow-up at the time due to journalistic laziness or political correctness. On the other hand, the media soon bent over backwards to promote false claims of a Muslim backlash -- and above all with efforts to find “moderate” Muslims to interview.
Regarding that quest to find “moderate Muslims,” the media initially held up some laughable examples. One media favorite was Anwar al-Awlaki, a closet jihadist. Yes, the American-born son of Yemeni immigrants (the man who inspired many deadly jihadists) was according to a report on National Public Radio, a Muslim who could "bridge the gap between the United States and the worldwide community of Muslim.” And the New York Times even said at the time that al-Awlaki was "held up as a new generation of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West." As al-Awlaki basked in the media's glow, a Pentagon official even invited the popular and charismatic preacher to a luncheon. But as al-Awlaki's true colors were eventually revealed, he found himself on America's terror hit list. On September 20, 2011, he was killed in a drone strike in Yemen.
The media all but ignored early warning signs about al-Awlaki. No matter that soon after 9/11, during a sermon in a mosque in the Washington, D.C., area, he had echoed a refrain heard among large swaths of supposedly moderate Muslims, at home and abroad. Specifically, al-Awlaki condemned the 9/11 attacks...but understood the reasons why. The conjunction “but” was then being used by more than a few Muslims in America – an attitude reflective of global surveys revealing the true feelings of large swaths of Muslims around the world. The clueless media never trumpeted this alarming fact.
Scattered public celebrations among handfuls of American Muslims -- watching the 9/11 attacks from New Jersey -- may well have occurred, even though the media is now determined to discredit such reports that Trump has made a campaign issue in his foot-in-the-mouth fashion. It certainly seems that Dan Rather felt there were celebrations, based on his assertion that there were “several reliable reports” of such cheering – though he added that CBS had not “confirmed” them, whatever that means.
Despite Trump's hyperbole, it's hardly farfetched to say that more than a few American Muslims -- thousands and perhaps millions -- had silently cheered the 9/11 attacks (or at least in their minds believed it was understandable or justified). Certainly, the 9/11 attacks where cheered by the American-hating soul mates of more than a few American Muslims: members of the hardline ideological left. Their most prominent spokesmen at the time included disgraced former University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill and his mini-me counterpart Robert Jensen, a University of Texas leftist journalism professor.
A chilling tale. A Brooklyn boy predicted the WTC attacks. What's a jittery New York to do ?
Oct. 12 — This
week, I went to Brooklyn in search of an “urban myth” about the World
Trade Center assault. Was word of the attack on the street before Sept.
11? What I found out was chilling—this story is no myth.
The story I was looking for had circulated less widely and in more general form. It recounted the story of a kid who bragged around school before the attacks that the World Trade Center was going to be destroyed. On Oct. 11, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, an aggressive young reporter for The New York Journal News of Westchester County, N.Y., published an article that tracked the story to New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Shapiro identified a teacher who witnessed a freshman in her class saying the week prior to the World Trade Center attacks: “Do you see those two buildings? They won’t be standing there next week.”
“This is the only case we know of where someone said the World Trade Center was coming down prior to it happening,” a police source told me.
New Utrecht High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, is a wonderful melting pot. On Thursday, when I visited, two girls—one Chinese, one Russian—sat poring over SAT prep material near polling booths set up for the New York City mayoral runoff. I heard at least three languages spoken I couldn’t even begin to identify. With 116 students from Pakistan, the school offers courses in Urdu.
Bensonhurst has changed immeasurably since the days of black versus white racial confrontation in the 1980s. Immigrants, many of whom speak little English, far outnumber native speakers on the streets. The restaurants and shops offer food from dozens of countries.
Since Sept. 11, hundreds of calls have poured into the local police precinct, but real incidents have been few. Someone tried to throw a Molotov cocktail into a mosque, but it hit a canopy pole of the building instead and did little damage. Reports that Arab immigrants had been cheering at a local supermarket after the towers collapsed (a frequent rumor around the country) were investigated and turned out to be false. So were the dozens of rumors of Arabs mysteriously disappearing from their homes just before the attack.
The police say they have been working closely with two of the three mosques in the area. One is run by an Irishman who converted to Islam and became an imam, the other by a baggage handler for American Airlines. This latter fact, not surprisingly, aroused a great interest at first. His friends in the community thought he might lose his job. But the imam is backed by the airline and remains close to the police in the area. “I feel sorry for the dark-skinned people in the neighborhood,” says a police officer. “They’ve done nothing wrong, and most have been cooperative.”
It’s that context that makes the story of the Pakistani freshman so strange. I can’t tell you who filled in the details for me; the heat is on, and the FBI is particularly jumpy. Both teacher and student have, with the help of the school, successfully ducked all efforts to contact them. But here’s what I’ve pieced together:
On Sept. 6—five days before the attack—Antoinette DiLorenzo, who teaches English as a second language to a class of Pakistani immigrants, led a class discussion about world events. She asked a freshman (his name has been withheld): “What are you looking at?” The youth was peering out the third-floor window toward lower Manhattan. After he made the remark about the World Trade Center not being there next week, the teacher didn’t immediately think much of it, though it stuck in her mind.
On Sept. 11, school was canceled after the attack and again the following day. On Thursday, Sept. 13, a clearly agitated DiLorenzo, saying she had been afraid to come forward, reported the incident to the principal’s office. “It scared the hell out of everyone,” according to a source at the school.
The police and FBI were alerted and 12 NYPD officers entered the school and secured DiLorenzo’s classroom for three hours, locking the doors with the students inside. While the students were brought lunch and a movie and told to be calm, the youth in question and his older brother, a sophomore, were taken to be interrogated by the FBI, stationed at the police precinct nearby.
DiLorenzo, the key to the believability of this story, was also questioned. She was described by school officials as having a superb and unblemished record in the New York school system. A police source described her as “100 percent credible.”
Moreover, according to police, the youth confirmed having made the Sept. 6 statement about the towers. At the moment he did so, his older brother elbowed him, said he had been “kidding,” and the youth in question agreed. The younger brother seemed upset and said he was “having a bad day.” When asked why, he said that his father was supposed to come back from Pakistan that day. Further details of the interrogation are unclear, in part because the FBI is not discussing it.
Because of the suspension of air travel, it took the father a few days to return. About a week after Sept. 11, the father visited the school and angrily asked why his sons had been interrogated by the authorities. He said that his family’s constitutional rights had been violated.
Having done nothing wrong beyond spreading a rumor that turned out to be true, the student was returned to his classroom. He remains in the school.
The FBI placed the boy’s family under surveillance but, according to sources, does not see a connection to the plot to blow up the towers. The case remains under investigation, but with thousands of leads, it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.
So what to make of all of this? There is no doubt in my mind that the story is true. But what does it mean?
There are only three possibilities. One, the youth was clairvoyant. Two, the youth, knowing about the 1993 bombing, was just venting anger in a particularly timely way. Three, word of the attack on the World Trade Center was rumored in his neighborhood and he heard about it.
Investigators don’t know what to believe. “It’s creepy,” one told me before I got on the subway to go back to the office. “But what the hell are we going to do about it now?”
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Scientists say MASSIVE crack in the earth is Yellowstone is NO sign of volcanic eruption.
Scientists say MASSIVE crack in the earth in Yellowstone is NO sign of volcanic eruption.
If you believe that, I have this new bridge with rusty metal pins in San Francisco Bay, I can sell you. - TGFP.
Saturday, 31 Oct 2015 01:17 PM
A huge crack that has formed in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains is not a sign that Yellowstone's massive underground volcano is about to erupt, or anything else more sinister: It's just something that opened naturally, scientists are saying.
The crack measures 750 yards long and 50 yards wide, reports Mother Nature Network, and was discovered by backcountry hunters who were out hunting for game, not geological mysteries.
The chasm was first reported by SNS Outfitter & Guides, a hunting company, on its Facebook page earlier this week and after that, the news — and the conspiracy theories — have been growing:
If you believe that, I have this new bridge with rusty metal pins in San Francisco Bay, I can sell you. - TGFP.
Saturday, 31 Oct 2015 01:17 PM
A huge crack that has formed in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains is not a sign that Yellowstone's massive underground volcano is about to erupt, or anything else more sinister: It's just something that opened naturally, scientists are saying.
The crack measures 750 yards long and 50 yards wide, reports Mother Nature Network, and was discovered by backcountry hunters who were out hunting for game, not geological mysteries.
The chasm was first reported by SNS Outfitter & Guides, a hunting company, on its Facebook page earlier this week and after that, the news — and the conspiracy theories — have been growing:
This
giant crack in the earth appeared in the last two weeks on a ranch we
hunt in the Bighorn Mountains. Everyone here is calling it “the gash”.
It’s a really incredible sight.
Huntwyo.com
But as it turns out, the crack isn't related to the Yellowstone supervolcano, or anything worse, despite the claims swirling around online about it.
"Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock," an engineer has told SNS. "Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement."
The region has been, through the years, the site of several such landslides, although not nearly the size of the recently discovered chasm, which lies not far from the Yellowstone Caldera.
Episodic volcanic eruptions have occurred in the Yellowstone area — three of them major.
The Yellowstone Caldera itself was created by a massive volcanic eruption approximately 640,000 years ago, and Yellowstone Park itself sits squarely atop one of the biggest volcanoes on Earth, according to National Geographic.
Scientists believe that some kind of eruption at Yellowstone is possible, but the odds of a "supervolcano" that could "plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter — are anyone's guess; it could happen in our lifetimes, or 100,000 years or more from now, or perhaps never," the publicacation continues.
Huntwyo.com
But as it turns out, the crack isn't related to the Yellowstone supervolcano, or anything worse, despite the claims swirling around online about it.
"Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock," an engineer has told SNS. "Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement."
The region has been, through the years, the site of several such landslides, although not nearly the size of the recently discovered chasm, which lies not far from the Yellowstone Caldera.
Episodic volcanic eruptions have occurred in the Yellowstone area — three of them major.
The Yellowstone Caldera itself was created by a massive volcanic eruption approximately 640,000 years ago, and Yellowstone Park itself sits squarely atop one of the biggest volcanoes on Earth, according to National Geographic.
Scientists believe that some kind of eruption at Yellowstone is possible, but the odds of a "supervolcano" that could "plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter — are anyone's guess; it could happen in our lifetimes, or 100,000 years or more from now, or perhaps never," the publicacation continues.
German village of 102 braces for wave of 750 " asylum " seekers.
German village of 102 to get first wave of Muslim hordes.
SUMTE,
Germany — This bucolic, one-street settlement of handsome redbrick
farmhouses may for the moment have many more cows than people, but next
week it will become one of the fastest growing places in Europe. Not
that anyone in Sumte is very excited about it.
Christian Fabel, the mayor of Sumte, Germany,
stands in front of a facility to house asylum seekers from Africa and
the Middle East.
His
wife, the mayor said, assured him it must be a hoax. “It certainly
can’t be true” that such a small, isolated place would be asked to
accommodate nearly 10 times as many migrants as it had residents, she
told him. “She thought it was a joke,” he said.
But it was not. Sumte has become a showcase of the extreme pressures bearing down on Germany
as it scrambles to find shelter for what, by the end of the year, could
be well over a million people seeking refuge from poverty or wars in
Africa, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
In
a small concession to the villagers, Alexander Götz, a regional
official from Lower Saxony, told them this week that the initial number
of refugees, who start arriving on Monday and will be housed in empty
office buildings, would be kept to 500, and limited to 750 in all.
Nevertheless, the influx is testing the limits of tolerance and hospitality in Sumte, and across Germany. It is also straining German politics broadly, creating deep divisions in the conservative camp of Chancellor Angela Merkel and energizing a constellation of extremist groups that feel their time has come.
One
of the few people, in fact, who seem enthusiastic about the plan for
Sumte is Holger Niemann, 32, an admirer of Hitler and the lone neo-Nazi
on the elected district council. He rejoices at the opportunities the
migrant crisis has offered.
“It
is bad for the people, but politically it is good for me,” Mr. Niemann
said of the plan, which would leave the German villagers outnumbered by
migrants by more than seven to one.
Residents of Sumte attended a meeting on
Wednesday to discuss the plan to move migrants from Africa and the
Middle East to their village.
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Seeking a Fair Distribution of Migrants in Europe
Germans
face “the destruction of our genetic heritage” and risk becoming “a
gray mishmash,” Mr. Niemann added, predicting that public anxiety over
Ms. Merkel’s open-armed welcome to refugees would help demolish a
postwar political consensus in Germany built on moderation and
compromise.
Unlike
those in other European countries, far-right parties in Germany have
had little success in national elections, and remain firmly rejected by
the overwhelming majority of Germans.
Reinhold
Schlemmer, a former Communist who served as the mayor here before and
immediately after the collapse of East Germany, said people like Mr.
Niemann would “have been put in prison right away” during the Communist
era.
“Now
they can stand up and preach,” he said. “People say this is democracy,
but I don’t think it is democracy to let Nazis say what they want.”
Mr.
Schlemmer is among those concerned that extremists are exploiting
widespread concerns, even in the political mainstream, over absorbing
vast numbers of refugees, as the influx tests Germany’s capacity to
cope.
“We have zero infrastructure here for so many people,” Mr. Fabel, the mayor, said.
As
the federal government desperately scrambles to find shelter for the
refugees before winter sets in, it is assigning quotas to each of
Germany’s 16 Länder, or states, based on factors like economic strength
and population.
Initially,
the migrants were housed in renovated homes, then in gymnasiums,
military bases and old schools, but as obvious shelters run out, the
authorities are hunting for any free space they can find, like the 23
empty office buildings in Sumte.
Dirk
Hammer, a Sumte resident, said that he felt sympathy for the refugees,
but that he feared the sheer number of people dumped with little warning
in places like this could offer “an ideal platform for the far right.”
“I get stomachaches from fear of what is going to happen — not just here but in the whole of Germany,” he said.
At
least for the moment, the tolerant values of people like Mr. Hammer
have proved resilient, even as Mr. Niemann and like-minded neo-Nazis
deride such views as alien imports imposed by the United States and
other World War II victors.
How long are they going to be tolerant when these " refugees " start demanding mosques, Islamic schools and Sharia Law ? - TGFP.
When
Mr. Niemann took the floor at a meeting in October between villagers
and regional officials responsible for migrants, Mr. Hammer snatched
away the microphone.
“We
have to take a clear stand against these people,” Mr. Hammer said
later, noting that his family had lived in Sumte for 400 years. He
dismissed Mr. Niemann, who lives in a village a couple of miles down the
road, as a disruptive outsider.
Mr.
Hammer himself initially reacted with horror when he heard of plans to
move refugees into the empty office complex, built by a now-defunct debt
collection company, he wrote an angry open letter on Facebook
expressing his fury as a longtime supporter of Ms. Merkel’s Christian
Democratic Union party who felt betrayed.
“If
we are being used as dumping ground, this shows the situation is out of
hand,” Mr. Hammer said in an interview at his family’s home, a
modernized farmhouse.
But
he has curbed his anger and rallied to efforts by the mayor, Mr. Fabel,
to make sure that extremists do not capitalize on the widespread unease
among residents. He said he knew people who “are not far right, but who
are afraid and their fear is being exploited.”
Unable
to speak at the village meeting last month, Mr. Niemann and a handful
of followers heckled speakers who voiced sympathy for refugees, and
waved banners demanding an end to “asylum terror.”
At a follow-up meeting between officials and villagers on Wednesday, Mr. Niemann stayed silent, taking notes.
An
assertion by a senior regional police official that Sumte did not need a
permanent police presence prompted one villager to jump to his feet and
shout, “Of course we need protection.” But the discussion was civil and
devoid of inflammatory outbursts.
Thousands of Mulsim " migrants " ' disappear ' from refugee camps.
Thousands of Muslim migrants 'disappear' from camps
U.N. Agenda 2030 has a fix: Step right up for your 'universal ID'
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| How many of these are potential terrorists ? - TGFP. |
Middle Eastern migrants arrive in Nickelsdorf, Austria, Oct. 9, 2015 Where oh where have the Muslim migrants gone?
According to German press reports, keeping track of all the Muhammads and Alis pouring across borders is proving ever so tricky for European countries being flooded with people on the move from the Middle East and Africa.
Now, the United Nations is partnering with a private company to offer a solution – a new “universal” identification system that will comply with the United Nations’ sustainability goal of having biometric identification “in the hands of every citizen” in the world by 2030.
As author-blogger Pamela Geller noted this week, citing German press reports, more than one in two refugees from one camp went missing and are now unaccounted for and considered “on the run.”
At least 580 refugees initially were reported to have disappeared from Camp Shelterschlefe.
Now, in a “terrible new twist,” the disappearances are spreading.
“It’s become an epidemic,” Geller said. “7,000 migrants have left the Brandenburg shelters. Where are they going? Who is sheltering these illegals, many with ties to ISIS?”
Such a high number of people hiding is “completely unacceptable,” according to the German authorities.
“Where are they hiding? Could they be connecting with sleeper cells?” Geller writes.
“Is it any wonder that Europeans are scrambling for guns?” Geller added, referencing a report by WND earlier this week that long guns are flying off the shelves in Austria and other countries where it’s still legal for average citizens to buy firearms.
Die Welt is reporting that thousands of refugees have left their assigned accommodations.
“They are simply not there anymore,” the news outlet reports. Refugees disappear daily from the initial welcoming centers in Brandenburg without giving notice.
Authorities said they believed the missing persons to be heading on their own to stay with family or friends already in Germany or in other countries throughout Europe, or at least that’s the hope.
Several hundred migrants have disappeared each week since the beginning of September without signing in, Ingo Decker, the spokesman of the Potsdam Ministry of the Interior, told Die Welt.
“Eventually, these refugees are simply not there anymore,” he said.
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| One of the REAL Axis of Evil types. - TGFP, |
Refugees disappear daily from the initial welcoming centers in Brandenburg without giving notice.
Authorities said they believed the missing persons to be heading on their own to stay with family or friends already in Germany or in other countries throughout Europe, or at least that’s the hope.
Several hundred migrants have disappeared each week since the beginning of September without signing in, Ingo Decker, the spokesman of the Potsdam Ministry of the Interior, told Die Welt.
“Eventually, these refugees are simply not there anymore,” he said.
On Wednesday alone, more than 600 people left the welcoming center, Susan Fischer, the deputy ministry spokeswoman, reported to the newspaper. According to official figures of the state government, more than 17,000 newcomers came into the country since early September. About 7,800 have been housed in cities and villages, about 2,700 people are still in the initial reception centers. That leaves at least 7,000 who have left and are AWOL.
A report from German news outlet Faz.net headlined “Refugees disappearing from lodging,” says around 700 refugees disappeared from emergency accommodations in Lower Saxony. Voices calling for a direct registration by the governmental agencies are getting louder.
National authorities required cities and towns in the region to accommodate 4,000 on short notice and now can’t account for all of them.
Germany’s welcome mat ‘setting the stage’
Paul McGuire, an analyst who has appeared on Fox News and the History Channel and co-author of the new book, “The Babylon Code: Solving the Bible’s Greatest End Times Mystery,” says the heavy influx of Muslim migrants almost assures there will be another terrorist attack at least as big as what happened in Paris earlier this year at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office.
He said sources in Germany tell him the majority of the nearly 1 million migrants who have streamed into the country are between 18 and 25.
“There’s no way they could be this stupid and let this many in. It has the look of something intentional,” he said. “I’m getting emails from people in Germany. They know this is being done on purpose, to destroy their villages and towns.”
McGuire said he was in France just a few days after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
“They were sitting ducks, and the people of France were completely shocked,” he said. “So they’re setting the stage for another attack.”
McGuire said the leaders of the global “hardcore left,” such as billionaire philanthropist George Soros, are using the Muslim migrants as a battering ram against the walls of the Christian West.
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban was quoted by a public radio outlet this week calling out Soros for his backing of the migrant invasion, saying:
“His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle. These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.”
McGuire said the Muslim migrants are particularly useful to socialist globalists like Soros.
“They are like a bludgeoning group, they can bludgeon everything Christian out of our society,” he said. “The hard left uses them because they demand all these laws and special accommodations, and inevitably they enact Shariah and force the culture to go into retreat, and then you have this weak Christianity that can’t withstand anything.”
‘Driving the new world order’
McGuire sees a perfect storm brewing in which global authorities will need to keep better track of people, especially refugees, but the new rules will end up applying to everyone.
“So these migrants are coming to drive the new world order, to bring order out of chaos,” he said. “You destroy nationalism, destroy social cohesion, and then these Muslim groups coming in will create a crisis and force a response that will feature a state crackdown and the need for heightened security, and one of the ways you do that is through universal IDs. It’s just evil.”
A large portion of Germany’s missing refugees had not been registered, nor had they applied for asylum, which is a recipe for chaos. The local authorities point out that they have no authority to hold people.
The same rules apply to refugees sent from the Third World to American cities.
Once they are resettled in a city, whether it’s Denver or Minneapolis, Des Moines or Detroit, they are free to migrate anywhere in the United States. The refugees are placed on a fast track to full citizenship and signed up for various welfare benefits by resettlement agencies affiliated with the Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, Jewish and evangelical-Christian organizations. A congressional research study found that 91 percent of refugees from the Middle East receive food stamps.
Local politician Angelika Jahns criticized the current situation in Germany. “We need to know who is staying in Lower Saxony,” she told the Die Welt. She said the refugees should be registered as soon as they arrive in Lower Saxony, but they are not forced to do so by the German national government.
The problem of refugees gone missing is clearly on the radar of global elites, and in fact they are already using the refugee crisis to promote a sweeping new global ID system, WND has learned.
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees in May 2015 awarded a three-year contract to a firm called Accenture to “identify and track” refugees in a pilot program targeting camps in Africa and Asia with a new biometric ID, reports FindBiometrics.com, a trade journal covering the biometric and information management industries. Accenture is an international technology services provider based in Chicago.
Here is how FindBiometrics describes the project:
“The UNHCR will use Accenture’s Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) for the endeavor. BIMS can be used to collect facial, iris, and fingerprint biometric data, and will also be used to provide many refugees with their only form of official documentation. The system will work in conjunction with Accenture’s Unique Identity Service Platform (UISP) to send this information back to a central database in Geneva, allowing UNHCR offices all over the world to effectively coordinate with the central UNHCR authority in tracking refugees.
“Starting with a pilot project in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, the program has blossomed over the last couple of years to provide services in refugee camps in Thailand and Chad, with over 220,000 people identified in the two countries so far. It’s an ambitious project, but Accenture has experience with large-scale biometric system initiatives, having helped the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Biometric Identity Management with a major border control project, for example. This latest endeavor will see the company’s technology used in important humanitarian efforts – and in fact it seems to have already helped hundreds of thousands.”U.N. Agenda 2030 calls for ‘universal ID’ for all people
This “universal ID,” which grabs the biometric data of refugees, is just a starting point for the United Nations. The goal is to eventually bring all people into the massive data bank. The proof is in the U.N.’s own documents.
The U.N. Agenda 2030 document adopted by 193 of the world’s heads of state, including President Obama, at the Sept. 25 U.N. conference on sustainability in New York, includes 17 goals and dozens of “targets.”
Target 16.9 under the goal of “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions” reads as follows: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”
The World Bank is also throwing its weight behind the United Nations biometric project being conducted by Accenture.
In a new report issued in collaboration with Accenture, the World Bank is calling on governments to “work together to implement standardized, cost-effective identity management solutions,” according to FindBiometrics.
A summary of the report states that about 1.8 billion adults around the world lack any kind of official identification. “That can exclude those individuals from access to essential services, and can also cause serious difficulties when it comes to trans-border identification,” according to FindBiometrics.
“That problem is one that Accenture has been tackling in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been issuing Accenture-developed biometric identity cards to populations of displaced persons in refugee camps in Thailand, South Sudan, and elsewhere. The ID cards are important for helping to ensure that refugees can have access to services, and for keeping track of refugee populations.”Then comes the final admission by the World Bank that the new biometric IDs are not just for refugees.
“Moreover, the nature of the deployments has required an economically feasible solution, and has demonstrated that reliable, biometric ID cards can affordably be used on a large scale. It offers hope for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of getting legal ID into the hands of everyone in the world by the year 2030 with its Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative.”It is a serious problem for the authorities that many thousands of people are on their way on their own in the federal territory, Decker told Die Welt.
He said refugees might be registered multiple times as the registration is based on information given by the registrants, which almost always come without any papers.
“The same guy that is Muhammad Ali here in Eisenhüttenstadt can be Ali Mohammed a little bit later in Hamburg,” Decker exemplified. “The states must live with that for the time being, because a proper registration at the border is currently not in sight.”
One the U.N.’s biometric labeling of all humanity is in place, this will no longer be a problem.
What happened when Seattle raised wages to $ 15 an hour. Job loss - that's what we warned people about !
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The $15 minimum wage increase in the Seattle area “is getting off to a pretty bad start,” according to a new report.
Data shows that the Seattle Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) lost 700 restaurant jobs from January to September of this year, and a report from the American Enterprise Institute suggests that this could be the product of adverse effects of minimum wage hikes on restaurant jobs.
“What is also noteworthy about the loss of Seattle restaurant jobs this year is the fact that restaurant employment in the rest of Washington state is booming this year,” writes Mark Perry, an AEI scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.
A report by Perry, published Wednesday on AEI’s public policy blog Carpe Diem, notes that there has been an increase of 5,800 new restaurant job positions in the rest of the state of Washington.
While the overall job growth rate this year for the Seattle MSA is higher than the national average, the drop in restaurant jobs stands out. The past three years have seen restaurant employment in the Seattle MSA area at an average job gain of almost 4,000 employees during January-September, according to Perry’s work.
“One likely cause of the stagnation and decline of Seattle area restaurant jobs this year is the increase in the city’s minimum wage,” Perry wrote.
The Seattle City Council passed a $15 minimum wage ordinance that is currently being phased in. On April 1, the minimum wage jumped to $11 per hour.
But correlation does not necessarily mean causation.
Salim Furth, a research fellow in macroeconomics at The Heritage Foundation, points out that the data numbers are for a metropolitan statistical area. The data includes 600,000 people who live in Seattle and 3 million people who live in cities and suburbs that aren’t affected by the Seattle minimum wage ordinance.
“It’s too soon to tell for sure, but there is already some preliminary evidence that the recent minimum wage hike to $11 an hour, along with the pending increase of an additional $4 an hour by 2017 for some businesses, has started having a negative effect on restaurant jobs in the greater Seattle area,” Perry wrote.
James Sherk, research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation, notes to The Daily Signal that the AEI data is suggestive evidence but by itself does not prove that the minimum wage caused the drop in jobs.
Sherk says the United States does not have much historical experience with high minimum wages, “but what we have is bad.”
For example, in American Samoa (a Pacific island chain that is a United States territory), a $7.25 minimum wage increase was applied in 2007 by Congress.
“This would be the economic equivalent of raising the minimum wage to $20.00 an hour in the continental U.S.,” Sherk’s research states.
“American Samoans have a largely separate economy and considerably lower incomes than residents of the continental United States.”
According to Sherk, the American Samoa tuna canning industry minimum wage stood at $3.26 per hour in the beginning of 2007.
After wage hikes started to apply, canned tuna industry employers began to lay off and cut hours of employees. One cannery shut down in 2009.
“Samoan employers responded to higher labor costs the way economic theory predicts: by hiring fewer workers,” Sherk wrote. “Congress hurt the very workers it intended to help.”
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| Raising wages then job cuts. Yeah, fight poverty by making poverty. - TGFP. |
The $15 minimum wage increase in the Seattle area “is getting off to a pretty bad start,” according to a new report.
Data shows that the Seattle Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) lost 700 restaurant jobs from January to September of this year, and a report from the American Enterprise Institute suggests that this could be the product of adverse effects of minimum wage hikes on restaurant jobs.
“What is also noteworthy about the loss of Seattle restaurant jobs this year is the fact that restaurant employment in the rest of Washington state is booming this year,” writes Mark Perry, an AEI scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.
A report by Perry, published Wednesday on AEI’s public policy blog Carpe Diem, notes that there has been an increase of 5,800 new restaurant job positions in the rest of the state of Washington.
While the overall job growth rate this year for the Seattle MSA is higher than the national average, the drop in restaurant jobs stands out. The past three years have seen restaurant employment in the Seattle MSA area at an average job gain of almost 4,000 employees during January-September, according to Perry’s work.
“One likely cause of the stagnation and decline of Seattle area restaurant jobs this year is the increase in the city’s minimum wage,” Perry wrote.
The Seattle City Council passed a $15 minimum wage ordinance that is currently being phased in. On April 1, the minimum wage jumped to $11 per hour.
But correlation does not necessarily mean causation.
Salim Furth, a research fellow in macroeconomics at The Heritage Foundation, points out that the data numbers are for a metropolitan statistical area. The data includes 600,000 people who live in Seattle and 3 million people who live in cities and suburbs that aren’t affected by the Seattle minimum wage ordinance.
“It’s too soon to tell for sure, but there is already some preliminary evidence that the recent minimum wage hike to $11 an hour, along with the pending increase of an additional $4 an hour by 2017 for some businesses, has started having a negative effect on restaurant jobs in the greater Seattle area,” Perry wrote.
James Sherk, research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation, notes to The Daily Signal that the AEI data is suggestive evidence but by itself does not prove that the minimum wage caused the drop in jobs.
Sherk says the United States does not have much historical experience with high minimum wages, “but what we have is bad.”
For example, in American Samoa (a Pacific island chain that is a United States territory), a $7.25 minimum wage increase was applied in 2007 by Congress.
“This would be the economic equivalent of raising the minimum wage to $20.00 an hour in the continental U.S.,” Sherk’s research states.
“American Samoans have a largely separate economy and considerably lower incomes than residents of the continental United States.”
According to Sherk, the American Samoa tuna canning industry minimum wage stood at $3.26 per hour in the beginning of 2007.
After wage hikes started to apply, canned tuna industry employers began to lay off and cut hours of employees. One cannery shut down in 2009.
“Samoan employers responded to higher labor costs the way economic theory predicts: by hiring fewer workers,” Sherk wrote. “Congress hurt the very workers it intended to help.”
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