http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-hardball-realities-of-obamacare While Paul Ryan shrugs, the media mocks. That’s the impression that Chris Matthews gave on his recent MSNBC segment from “Hardball,” where he criticizes Representative Ryan for his new budget plan which would get rid of most of the spending outlined in Obamacare. “Call it ‘Ryan Shrugged,’” asserted Matthews. “It kills the President’s health […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2953/who_is_immigration_for
Opinion polls show a majority of Europeans to be against large scale immigration. Unfortunately for the majority, the political class has always displayed contempt for public opinion
The conventional wisdom among the mainstream political class in Europe is that non-European immigration to Western Europe has been an economic benefit.
An example of this conventional wisdom was to be heard recently on the BBC programme Any Questions. The Liberal Democrat Evan Harris stated, as if it were an obvious truth, that the National Health Service would be “non-existent if it wasn’t for immigrant doctors propping it up.”
This claim went unchallenged and to great applause from the audience, the usual British response to all soft-left statements. But is there any truth in the claim? Has immigration economically benefited Britain and the rest of Europe?
Some of the most fascinating statistics on this subject are to be found in Christopher Caldwell’s book: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.
As Caldwell puts it:
“One of the amazing statistics in the history of European immigration is that the number of foreign residents in Germany rose steadily between 1971 and 2000 – from 3 million to about 7∙5 million – but the number of employed foreigners in the work force did not budge. It stayed rock steady at roughly 2 million people. In 1973, 65% of German immigrants were in the workforce; in 1983, a decade later, only 38% were.”
According to those statistics, the vast majority of immigrants to Germany (mainly Turkish Muslims) did not come to the country to work. Almost 4.5 million immigrants arrived, yet there was no change in the immigrant workforce.
Caldwell claims that this immigration pattern has been replicated across Western Europe. In Britain, for example:
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Two reports recently caught our attention.
The first, “Stopping Terror the New York Way” (first piece below), was written by Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr. and deals with the case of Algerian immigrant Ahmed Ferhani, who was convicted for plotting to blow up New York City synagogues, and sentenced this Friday in State Supreme Court.
Mr. Vance cites the case as a successful example of the “powerful new tools” given by NYS to local prosecutors to prevent future terrorist attacks.
And indeed it was, i.e., a success, except for one thing. Apparently, trying to blow up synagogues and murder hundreds if not thousands of people in NY will get you only 10 years in prison, and deportation when released!
The second report, entitled “Palestinian airline bomber to be released from US prison,” is about Jordanian-born Palestinian bomber, Mohammed Rashed, who set off a bomb on Pan Am flight 83 that exploded as the plane crossed the Pacific Ocean, filling the rear passenger cabin with smoke, screams and blood, and killing a Japanese teenager. Investigators linked this 1982 attack to a terrorist organization known for making sophisticated bombs. You can read the piece (second piece below) for gory details of the case and Mr. Rashed’s nefarious dealings with other known terrorists.
Now, after serving a 20-year sentence, Mr. Rashed is scheduled to be released from U.S. federal prison in 3 days. He will then be “deported to a country of his choice.”
In light of these two reports, our question is: Why are convicted mass-murdering terrorists being released from U.S. jails AT ALL, much less given tickets to fly anywhere?!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323415304578366370800326406.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Obama’s Missile-Defense Reversal Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel chose Friday afternoon to announce one of the biggest switcheroos of the Obama Presidency: The Pentagon now plans to fortify America’s homeland defenses against missile attack, reversing a 2009 decision that was part of President Obama’s fantasy of a world without nuclear weapons. Mr. Hagel said the […]
www.geraldahonigman.com According to whose numbers are used, Iran’s non-Persian population makes up between 40-50% of the nation’s 80 million people…Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, and other ethnic groups. Recent reports have shown ever-increasing torture and executions of Iranian Arabs, Kurds, and others–including freedom-loving Iranians themselves–by the regime of the mad mullahs. In light of the current news […]
Gerstenfeld: Dutch press tries to hide anti-Semitic incident
Link: http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/48093
In Gerstenfeld’s Jerusalem Post Op ed he lascerates the Dutch ruling coaltion in the Hague Parliament for not addressing the problem. He notes in conclusion: The Arnhem youths affair is just the tip of the Dutch anti-Semitic iceberg. Any investigator will quickly find that there is widespread anti-Semitism among Dutch Muslims. It is far from limited to what white-washers are wont to say about street youth, because it can also be found among many adults and university students. Anti-Semitism should also be investigated in detail in the native Dutch community. This would include studying how major problems are hidden by the media, deficiencies in appropriate action taken on issues which have been known for many years already and the Dutch authorities’ politically hollow rhetoric. [ . . .] The more Dutch authorities shirk their responsibilities, the worse these problems will become. Time, we believe, for Geert Wilders of the PVV excoriate the myopia of the ruling coalition who have swept Islamic and native Dutch Antisemitism into the dustbin of history prematurely. He and the PVV have brought to the public’s attention Islamic violence towards women. Now it is time for Wilders to expose the rampant disease of Islamic Judenhass festering shamelessly in public. It is a national embarrasment to The Netherlands and the country’s leaders.
Title: Gerstenfeld: Dutch press tries to hide anti-Semitic incident
Link: http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/48093
An Awakening…or Just Terror? Over the years I have urged readers to look behind the news. Now, amid relentless socio-political eruption and upheaval taking place across the Middle East and North Africa, there has still been too little serious effort to look for any underlying meanings and explanations. To some extent, perhaps, the reasons for […]
Choose Your Side: The New York Times or Judaism “How long halt ye between two opinions?” – 1 Kings 18:21 American Jewry is often said to be divided between those who judge Judaism by the principles of the New York Times and those who judge the New York Times by the principles of Judaism. The […]
It is impossible to read this latest UN report, or to listen to its authors and its state sponsors, without knowing that the campaign to rid the world of Israeli settlements is a campaign to rid the world of Israel.
http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/
On Monday, March 17 in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council will hold a first-ever three-hour session devoted to the alleged human rights abomination known as the “Israeli settlement.” In the moral wasteland of the United Nations, a Jew living on Arab-claimed land is a violation of Arab human rights.
There were once an estimated 900,000 Jews across the Arab world, but today there are less than a few thousand. They were given a choice: die, convert or flee.
Now the 22nd Judenrein Arab state is in-the-making: Apartheid Palestine.
Meanwhile, 20 percent of Israel’s population is Arab, and free Arab citizens sit on the highest courts of the land, represent Israel abroad, and hold political office. An Arab living (and thriving) in the Jewish state is fulfilling a human right.
How does this obvious contradiction make it past the human rights geniuses at the UN?
