Posted on 09/06/2015 4:43:14 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sept 6th, 2015
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz; Police Chiefs Charles Ramsey of Philadelphia and Edward Flynn of Milwaukee.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidates John Kasich and Mike Huckabee; David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska.
Great catch and so true. Voter manipulation and dead people voting voters voting twice on and on and on is a huge problem.
There is no doubt that in many of these Third World countries, dictatorship is the only form of government that seems to work. But dictators come and go. When there is a leadership vacuum, then instability arises along with refugees fleeing for a variety of reasons. One major one is those people who were aligned with the previous dictator. They must flee or die.
The vast majority of these people were safe in refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan etc. There are almost two million in Turkey alone. So it is not a matter of sending them back to ISIS.
I watch British and German news daily. There are a sizable number of refugees who are coming from Afghanistan and the Balkans. Many of those coming from North Africa are from sub-Sahara Africa. They are not all from Syria.
How helpful will it be to settle more Muslims into Europe and the US? What are the security and cultural implications? How many should we take in? Why are they all headed to the West rather than to neighboring countries who have the same heritage? What impact does this have on the economic welfare of the citizens of Europe and the US? Is it a refugee's right to be admitted?
Unfortunately, many of the European countries and ourselves have made it almost obligatory to take in refugees and then grant them asylum, read permanent residency.
There is a prophetic book by Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints that was written in 1975. I am rereading it now. The plot summary via Wikipedia:
The Camp of the Saints is a novel about population migration and its consequences. In Calcutta, India, the Belgian government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in Belgium. The policy is reversed after the Belgian consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children.
An Indian "wise man" then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run-down freighters approaching the French coast.
The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the goods that are in short supply in their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, the rest of the West shares its fate.
Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of the United Kingdom must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.
The book was and is very controversial. A review from Time magazine at the time summed it up this way:
"[This novel} shrewdly exploits a dilemma that the world my will face: the moment when the burgeoning Third World rises from misery and forces the West to share more of its resources."
How about “anchor fetuses?”
What the politically insane don’t understand about the Donald is that he is:
A-POLITICAL.
He doesn’t give a dam about politics only solutions. He is the consummate business manager who alwsy gets the job done. He is also a master of people.
Let me be clear, I will vote for Trump if he is the Republican candidate but before them I will put my money (literally) on Ted Cruz. If you read his book he shows how he has been conservative since he became aware of politics. He is a terrific persuader. As a champion college debater he was able to win over liberal college judges with conservative positions. He also knows how the system works and I think will be much more effective than Trump in getting it to change.
But every one has to make their choice. I pray that whoever the candidate is wins over Hillary because this country cannot survive one more term of a treasonous RAT as president.
No offense but the book does not sound interesting to me.
You wrote “How helpful will it be to settle more Muslims into Europe and the US? What are the security and cultural implications? How many should we take in? Why are they all headed to the West rather than to neighboring countries who have the same heritage? What impact does this have on the economic welfare of the citizens of Europe and the US? Is it a refugee’s right to be admitted?”
All good questions and these and others are the ones we will have to answer. I used to be more of an isolationist but now I’m just unsure what we need to do and how to do it.
I am stunned...that no one lays this tragedy at the feet of the person that caused all this...POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama and his vermin Democrat ilk of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, etc. When the USA POTUS does not lead, the entire world falls into uncontrolled chaos. Obama & company have the blood of thousands, if not millions of innocents running from their failure “traitor” hands. Be alert, America....Obama is neither your friend or ally!!!
The Camp of the Saints
OMG Kabar- I have just started rereading this book as one of the many books I have identified to “reread” in retirement. It was so controversial at the time it was written.
The fact that Germany is allowing all of these “refugees”into their country is just astonishing. It is like watching a country destroy itself again ( as it did with Hitler).
We are going down the same road here in the USA.
No offense taken. It is just a prescient book that describes exactly what is happening now. We are seeing a massive migration of people from the Third World to the Developed World, and it has had and will continue to have a huge impact our country, which is effectively being colonized. The public policy implications are enormous along with electoral politics. Demography is destiny.
All good questions and these and others are the ones we will have to answer. I used to be more of an isolationist but now I’m just unsure what we need to do and how to do it.
It is not about being an isolationist. We have just had the two highest decades of legal immigration in our history with over 35 million legal permanent immigrants entering since 1990. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign-born; today it is a little less than one in 8, the highest in 105 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history. Something very significant is happening within a very short period of time. We can't continue to bring in huge numbers of foreign workers, 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants annually along with 640,000 guest workers a year and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens while we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. They are related along with stagnant/declining wages.
Trump has this in his immigration position paper:
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Now that the Russians are entering Syria in force, any intervention by us could escalate.
American leadership is needed in the world. Unfortunately, we are eviscerating the military hampering our ability to take needed action.
I am stunned...that no one lays this tragedy at the feet of the person that caused all this...POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama and his vermin Democrat ilk of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, etc. When the USA POTUS does not lead, the entire world falls into uncontrolled chaos. Obama & company have the blood of thousands, if not millions of innocents running from their failure “traitor” hands. Be alert, America....Obama is neither your friend or ally!!!
Yes! We love him with the press. We have seethed so long, sitting silently while our candidates allowed the press to get by with bullying, gotcha questions and smug, superior expressions.
You can’t get by with that with Trump and our hearts are filled with joy as we see him ignore, defeat and reduce to inconsequence these little people who thought they owned the planet.
He’s brought us so much optimism and fun I could definitely vote for him with pleasure. Cruz is my main man and he defuses liberal arguments even more skillfully with quietly and with a smile.
Cruz doesn’t get the press, at least not yet but I am now saying, go, Trump, go.
I have been to Bangladesh, Senegal, India, etc. and seen extreme poverty along with the sheer numbers involved. Anyone who lives in these conditions realizes the hopelessness of their lives and the bleak future for their children. There are literally billions of them who want to escape and come to the West. Technology and international communications allow them to see what life is like in the Developed world. Yes, events like war can cause mass migration, but I see this as a long term problem that will only get worse. We need to set limits and secure our borders.
Regarding Palin, if anyone is on Facebook, her daughter, Bristol posts frequently.
I don’t know if she writes her own posts or not but she is excellent. She wrote the best essay about the Kim issue.
Quite a contrast to the McCain kid. By the way, I’ve sent a plea into the stratosphere that everyone named ‘Megan’ please spell her name the same way, preferably as Megan.
I feel your pain, to quote the estimable Billy Clinton. It is really hard to watch these liberals acting superior and humanitarian when we know it’s for show and they really don’t give a damn.
And all afraid to take another view for fear of offending a group they believe in but which Trump has shown doesn’t really exist.
Yes! Was it Jimmy Carter who supported and succeeding in taking the Shah out of power? What happy days there were under him compared to what followed.
Wonder if there are any citizens old enough to remember that?
Kabar, you are so well informed. I’m gonna have to read your post later as I have to get ready for church, but I will definitely do so.
So is kadaffi’s gold. Find her emails find the gold
Ok bud you have outdone yourself today.
I just watched liz cheney tell wall ass that obama had a policy of chaos in the middle east! Just too good!
You bring up an excellent point about trumps flip-flops.however it’s one thing to have an opinion when you are not a candidate for President of the United States it’s another to form new opinions as you approach that level. I think actually Trump is probably about as pragmatic as you can get when it comes to forming opinions and there’s no question his opinions are subject to change.
Also you have to remember even the donald was nowhere near as politically astute as we are here. we see things in a totally different light.trump will now begin to see things differently as well compared to 5 or 10 years ago.
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