Posted on 02/09/2009 7:20:13 AM PST by kayti
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims."
(Excerpt) Read more at newmediajournal.us ...
It's the President's authority for spending the funds without legislation. Though it couldn be spent on anything, my guess we simply cut a check to UNWRA. This was announced with some fanfare a week or so ago, note the pic of George Mitchell a few posts up making the anouncement at an UNWRA warehouse in Jerusalem.
One interesting aside, UNWRA has ceased delivering supplies to Gaza due to thefts by Hamas. Though I'm confident they'll get their $ from the US, I wonder if the Gazans will get any aid.
Like I said, I hope you are right. Palestinians get nearly $8 billion a year in aid. $20.3 million for migration assistance is either too small to be useful or it means just that. Migration assistance. I do hope you are right.
Is EVERYTHING “urgent” to the current President? What’s his hurry? Trying to do as much harm as possible before someone asks for his long form birth certificate?
you forgot the mattresses
bttt
You are definitely correct in saying it was a memorandum.
No matter if it is referred to as order or a memorandum, he has approved the funds for the usage of the Palastinians and victims of Gaza. And you can choose to ignore the word “MIGRATE” within the memorandum. Remember, Obama always says - words matter, he put the word in there. Migrate is to leave.
“Pack of lies”? No. Some people refuse to walk around with blinders on as the rest of his followers are want to do.
Do a little research on the owner of the blog cited. Check out the legislation under which the memo was issued and for what it’s been used. In 2005 President Bush signed a similar meemorandum releasing funds for relief in Burundi. We did not take in Burundi refugees as a result of that.
This isn’t from a BLOG (pack of lies? Easy to err, not a problem.) It is a newsite where the effort is made to make the American public aware of what is going on as the MSM has failed to do their part in protection of the people’s interests.
As to the author, taken from the website: “About Dr. Paul L. Williams - Dr. Paul L. Williams, PhD, is an American author, journalist and consultant on radical Islam and counterterrorism. He is also an adjunct professor of humanities. He is the author of six books, including The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World, in which he expands on the American Hiroshima scenario he believes to be imminent, in which simultaneous nuclear attacks on 7 to 10 American cities would create havoc in American society. Prior to this, he served for seven years as a consultant to the FBI about terrorist and mafia criminal organizations.”
Seems pretty qualified to me... think I would trust him a tad more unless you want to put your creditials on the table.
Question is, having watched the way Obama has manipulated his words, his actions and has out and out lied to the American people.... are you confident, since he made this commitment for ‘migration’ too, we are not going to accept these refugees? I am not.
I would have trusted Bush’s commitment to understand all the security issues involved in 2005 and his deep commitment to the protection of the US. Not the immature, little kid in the oval office these days.
I am thankful that there are media people out there who are willing to point out what is going on which may not be in the best interest of the USA.
In the article, Williams states:
Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.I've read the EO several times. It all jumbled up with lawyereese, but I can't find where it, "provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement."
EO is here. Could someone smarter than me explain this to me? Thanks.
It does not say that specifically word for word. BUT, not one word eliminates that great possibility. Why wouldn’t friends of our Quantanamo guests want to live closeby to their dear associates?
It is not what it says, it is what it allows. It is who wrote it and the manipulations that he goes through to make things appear legal. Kind of like, it depends on what the definition of “is” is. Been there, done that.
From Wikipedia (citations to originals there)
Lawsuit
Williams is currently being sued by McMaster University for upwards of $2-Million, as a result of his claims that Islamic terrorists managed to steal 180lbs of unspecified nuclear material from the McMaster Nuclear Reactor. The University has extracted an apology from the publisher of Dunces of Doomsday, WND Books/Cumberland House Publishing, who now say that statements made in Williams’ book about the theft are “without basis in fact.” Williams himself is standing behind his claims.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which regulates all radioactive material in Canada, have released a letter stating that “We can confirm that there has never been a report of any nuclear material that has been lost or stolen from McMaster’s reactor”.[3]
Now, now, now let’s always believe the government - because THEY are trustworthy!!! Sorry, no can do. Williams stands behind his claims - obviously because he knows something we don’t. I don’t know the facts of the case, neither do you... a lawsuit is not always guilt....many times it is an attempt to silence. Yellow cake anyone?
THAT WOULD BE THE 17 AL-QAIDA TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN CANADA WITH THE HELP OF WILLIAMS’ INVESTIGATION OF MCMASTERS AS ACKNOWLEDGED BY CANADIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES? THEY WERE PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS THERE. (Maybe they MIGRATED!)
Besides, now that you have rabbited off the TRUE trail, throwing stones does not invalidate the concerns that are still out there. Obama has written and signed a memorandum for migration and aid to Palastinians and Gaza victims. You said there would be no migration, some disagree. Some can see the real concerns of his actions.
Forgot — Wikipedia always believe them too! (NOT)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/02/lawmakers-worry-gaza-aid-away-hamas/
Seems more ‘in the know’ have questions about this than just a few of us tinhats...
The idea that BHO provided $20 million, which is probably long gone, to ease the way for palestinians to immigrate to the US, what the threads article contends, has no basis in fact. The article you link isn't referring to that discretionary expenditure, rather to Hillary's commitment to provide $900 million to Gaza. Money going there, not palestinians coming here. That requires Congressional approval which I suspect may be difficult.
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