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Besoeker-did you catch last week when we said that we'd accept 6000 Somali refugees currently in Uganda? The vetting process probably goes like this: Abdul: Have you or anyone else you know blown up a US Embassy in the past 30 days. NO?, good come right in.
Posted by: Jack Salami ||
02/05/2010 9:25 Comments ||
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Vetting has worked so well in the past: When immigrants bring in large numbers of family members, this is referred to as chain migration. The family reunification program has been available to people from a variety of continents and nationalities since the 1980s. In recent years, according to the State Department, more than 95 percent of the applications to the P-3 program have been Africansprimarily Somalis, Ethiopians, and Liberians. (but mostly Somalis)
But, after repeated reports that applicants were faking familial relationships to persons already in the United States, the State Department started testing the DNA of applicants to this program. The tests were able to confirm familial relationships in only 20 percent of cases, so six weeks ago the department suspended the program until officials figure out a better way to run it.
For the life of me I can't understand why the government would to import people who regard 99.3% of us as dogs, drain government resources and couldn't organize themselves into anything more peaceful than complete anarchy.
Posted by: ed ||
02/05/2010 10:04 Comments ||
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"suspended the program until officials figure out a better way to run it"
Leave it permanently suspended. There is no "better way to run it."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/05/2010 10:16 Comments ||
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The tests were able to confirm familial relationships in only 20 percent of cases,
That would tell me that 80% of cases are as phoney as an Obama promise and should at least get a lot more scrutiny - but that's just me I'm not neutered enough to work in state....
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So, how did the Al-Churbaji family make it back into the U.S.? Well, thats interesting. Since Al-Churbaji was already deported once and engaged in a sham marriage, he was not eligible to come back at the time. But his wife, Denise, claims that she was directed to contact a U.S. Embassy employee, Sam Libby, to get her and her husband visas. Magically, Sam Libby, broke the rules andvoila!the visas, golden tickets into America, were issued.
Just how much money did Sam Libby get from Al-Qaeda for issuing visas to operatives, like Mohammed Al-Churbaji, prohibited from entry into the U.S.? And is the U.S. government looking into all of the visas issued by or connected to him? While such an investigation should be a no-brainer, dont bet on it. There is no evidence that Libby was ever investigated or disciplined. Were from the government, and were here to help you, er . . . the terrorists.
Fantastic scoop but does anyone follow up on this?
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More interesting tidbits from links in the article:
Top Al-Qaeda Terrorists Son is Obama Fundraiser...Thats in addition to Agent Mirandas testimony that GRF and the HAMAS-front group, Holy Land Foundation, co-mingled and gave each other funds. (GRF also transferred funds to Al-Qaeda financier Mohammed Zouaydi.) Again, Miranda is the FBI case agent in the HLF matter.
Now that Al-Churbaji is unemployed, his wife, Denise, testified that she is the breadwinner, as a pharmacy technician at the tax-funded University of Michigan, where she earns about $36,000 annually on your dime. After all, its imperative that American taxpayers finance Al-Qaeda operatives families while they fight deportation.
But not to worry. Mrs. Al-Churbaji told the courtroom that she is emotionally and physically unable to care for her 5 or 6 children. And Mr. Al-Churbaji does it for her, while she goes into her room and sleeps after work every day. The First Islamic Terrorist Mr. Mom. Yes, there is diversity in every realm in America.
While attempting to stay here and get U.S. citizenship, Al-Churbaji has had a steady supply of liberal democrat helpers whove written the government on this Al-Qaeda terrorists behalf, including the late Senator Paul Simon, former Senator Carol Moseley Braun, and Congressman-For-Life from Dearbornistan, John Dingell. Whats disturbing is thateven though Al-Churbaji was already deported and should never have been given a second visa and readmittedAmerica must go through the long deportation process to get rid of him. And the U.S. government and FBIunwilling to produce important classified evidence against Al-Churbaji to public scrutinywont prosecute him in the criminal courts. It must rely on the less stringent Immigration Court to get rid of him....All of these terrorist roommatestop operatives in the original Al-Qaedaattended the same mosque in Peshawar. Even Al-Churbaji admitted on the stand that both Sheikh Azzam and Bin Laden attended the mosque and that he saw them there. All of these terrorist roommates also attended the Center Street Mosque in Arlington, Texas. Coincidence? Nope. Its an Al-Qaeda family reunion. They dont call it Al-IkhwanThe Brotherhoodfor nothin.
If changes in the public mood and the party alignment of the U.S. Senate have stalled healthcare legislation, they may have thrown the highly anticipated climate bill under a bus.
Even before Republican Scott Brown's stunning election to the Senate in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts last month, it was proving hard to corral moderate Democrats to support a bill capping greenhouse gas emissions. Now they're afraid to back anything that could be perceived as harmful to the economy. "Realistically, the cap-and-trade bills in the House and the Senate are going nowhere," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told the New York Times. That's a distressing comment coming from one of the three senators supposedly crafting a compromise climate bill that's capable of achieving a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
President Obama has backed down too. On Tuesday, he signaled that cap-and-trade could go the way of healthcare reform's "public option," saying it could be removed from the climate bill. That would eliminate the market mechanism for pricing greenhouse gas pollution -- and without setting such a carbon price, other measures under consideration, such as a national renewable energy standard, won't go far enough to significantly slow global warming.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rise every year, and within decades are expected to hit a worrisome atmospheric concentration threshold of 450 parts per million. At that point, there's a high probability that average global temperatures will be at least 2 degrees Celsius higher than they were in 1850 (they're already 1 C higher). Our children would live in a world of mass migrations, wars and conflicts fueled by scarce water supplies, infrastructure destruction as rising sea levels swallow coastlines, extreme weather events, wildfires and increased poverty and disease. These are not the predictions of wild-eyed liberal pundits but of thousands of climate researchers around the world, along with organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academies of Sciences. What a surprise, 1850 marks the end of the "Little Ice Age".
It gets worse. No one really knows what would happen if average temperatures hit 5 C higher than 1850 -- a level we could easily reach within a century under a business-as-usual scenario -- but changes to the physical geography of the planet become probable: land masses would vanish; ecosystems would collapse. Human civilization would change, and not for the better.
This process can still be slowed at a moderate economic cost, but time is short -- delays make both fighting climate change and adapting to it dramatically more expensive, and eventually could make it impossible. It's foolish to say we can't afford to pass a climate bill during a recession. We can't afford not to.
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No one really knows what would happen if average temperatures hit 5 C higher than 1850 -- a level we could easily reach within a century under a business-as-usual scenario
No one really knows what would happen if average temperatures hit 5 C higher than 1850 -- a level we could easily reach within a century under a business>/del> statistics.-as-usual scenario
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According to Sumerians, Nibiru is 'possed to return in about 60 years. The last time (cca 1540 BCE) it passed through the solar system, it fried Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (electrical firestorms that fused some brick walls into glass) and generally deposited enough debris and dust particles in the atmosphere that the cloud cover formed in much lower altitudes (that is where "the sky is falling" expression comes from). Other side effects: parting of the sea, wiping out all the Central European lake base villages (there was a similar event about 1600 years earlier, but not as devastating and the villages were rebuilt, after 1540BCE, no more of them built until about 300BCE by some Keltic and Slavic tribes), frying a large strip on Sinai peninsula to a crisp (visible from space), finishing off the desertification of Sahara, elevating parts of the west coast of South America from sea level up to 4000 m in altitude, and other events that are not precisely dated all over the world but seem to refer to the same period. According to Hebraic sources, the Exodus population at the end of the journey was reduced in 50 to 1 ratio, and Jews were of the luckier ones, some pops disappeared altogether according to other sources. Egypt was in such a bad shape that it has been invaded without much resistance by Hyksos (Greek term, in reality these were marauding Amalek protoarabic tribes) which then lorded over Egypt for the next 400 years. People lived in interesting times, then.
Temps ranged from + 20 C degrees at the beginning of the upheaval (several days) to -15 C drop later in some parts, which lasted for some 25 years.
2 C/5 C increase? C'mon! That would be marvelous! More produce and extended harvest, better fed people, healthier, longer life span...
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