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Across the United States, designated “Welcoming Communities” have begun receiving — or soon will be recipients of — Syrian “refugees” chosen by the United Nations and supposedly vetted by U.S. agencies. But only months ago top officials of these same agencies stated it would be impossible to vet the enormous pool of refugee applicants for terrorist and criminal backgrounds, or even to prove that they are from Syria, considering the chaos in the Middle East and lack of documentation among the migrant. Nevertheless, while in Germany last September, Secretary of State John Kerry promised the United States would take “a...

At a reception held on October 22, 2015, to honor the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for International Migration, Peter Sutherland, claimed that caps on refugees enforced by certain countries in Europe are “directly reminiscent of the type of caps that took place under the Reich [against] the Jewish population.” This outrageous comparison of good faith attempts to control the tide of mass migration from the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan to the plight of Jews during the Holocaust is aimed at browbeating European countries into putting their own citizens in danger...

Kofi Annan's term as Secretary General of UN is coming to an end, and is ending in tatters. He oversaw the biggest corruption scandal in the world - bribery and theft on a scale that makes Enron look positively petty. The question 'what did Kofi know, and when did he know it?' has never been fully answered, but we do know that Saddam stole billions of dollars - $1.8 billion which can be traced and a great deal more which can't. We know that some of this money flowed into Taliban controlled Afghanistan, which puts a new perspective on the...