Posted on 09/20/2016 7:11:29 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
George Soros to invest $500 million in help for refugees
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/20/george-soros-to-invest-500-million-in-help-for-refugees-through-his-open-society-foundations.html
George Soros to invest $500 million in help for refugees Nyshka Chandran | @nyshkac 9 Hours Ago CNBC.com
Soros invests $500m for refugees
Billionaire investor George Soros pledged on Tuesday to invest up to $500 million in programs and companies benefiting migrants and refugees fleeing life-threatening situations.
Announced against the backdrop of an ongoing United Nations (U.N.) summit in New York, Soros explained that he wished to harness the power of the private sector for public good.
"We will invest in startups, established companies, social impact initiatives, and businesses started by migrants and refugees. These investments are intended to be successful. But our primary focus is to create products and services that truly benefit migrants and host communities," the 86-year-old said in an official statement.
"I hope my commitment will inspire other investors to pursue the same mission."
On Monday, the U.N. opened its first summit addressing the current refugee and migrant crisis. The U.N. and Unicef calculate that a record 65 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes in 2015, with more than half from just three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia, Reuters reported. George Soros Getty Images George Soros
The increasing number of asylum seekers from those war-torn nations has sparked political debate in Europe and the U.S. over where the refugees should be resettled. The issue has been clouded by economic migration, with large numbers of people reportedly seeking entrance to developed nations in the hope of better prospects as global growth slows.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a non-profit organization owned by Soros, will be in charge of the funds, the statement said. Any profits from the investments would go to the OSF's migrant and refugee-related programs, which include community centers in Greece and initiatives to provide Syrian refugees with legal advice.
"Refugees need access to financial and legal services, education, and employment opportunities; we believe the private sector is uniquely placed to help build the infrastructure needed to support these services," the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said of the Soros investment.
And in related news, NYC major asks for more cultural enrichment excitement!
NYC Mayor Says Islamic Terror ‘Vanishingly’ Rare | LifeZette
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/nyc-mayor-refugee-terror-vanishingly-rare/
NYC Mayor Says Islamic Terror ‘Vanishingly’ Rare
Just days after jihadist bombing in New York, de Blasio touts ‘diversity,’ calls for more Muslim migrants
by Brendan Kirby | Updated 20 Sep 2016 at 10:41 AM
In the wake of a radical Islamic terrorist attack on New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is telling citizens not to worry about the threat of jihadist violence and pushing for even more questionably vetted migrants to be resettled in the United States.
De Blasio and the mayors of London and Paris co-wrote an op-ed in which they said terrorism committed by refugees is “vanishingly rare.”
“Militant violence is vanishingly rare,” the trio wrote in The New York Times on the heels of three separate attacks in the United States.
“Militant violence is vanishingly rare,” the trio wrote in The New York Times on the heels of three separate attacks in the United States.
The comments are not likely to go over well in a city on edge after the explosion. Police arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami after a shootout in New Jersey Monday. Authorities allege he is responsible for planting bombs in New York and near the site of a charity run in New Jersey.
Rahami is not a refugee — he is a naturalized citizen, having moved with his family to the United States from Afghanistan. Acquaintances say he returned from a trip to Pakistan a changed man, suddenly devout in his faith and wearing traditional Muslim robes, according to The New York Times.
The suspect identified by officials in the weekend’s other terrorist incident, Dahir Adan, who launched a Jihad inspired mass stabbing at a mall in Minnesota, was a Somali refugee. Adan moved to the United States with his parents when he was 3 months old, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
But a new description has been applied to him: terrorist. As he stalked through the Crossroads Center mall, wearing a security guard uniform and wielding a knife, Adan, 22, mentioned Allah and asked at least one victim if he was Muslim, the police said.
Kyle Shideler, director of threat information at the Center for Security Policy, said the tone of the op-ed is consistent with progressive rhetoric that angry Americans will seek retribution on innocent Muslims.
“It sort of plays into this whole backlash narrative they’re constantly pushing, even though we haven’t really seen that,” he said.
Shideler said most Americans — and legal immigrants, for that matter — “would prefer that they worry more about the terrorism.”
So in the most hyper-technical sense, the mayor is correct. Terrorist attacks by refugees are rare. But terrorism involving Muslim immigrants or refugees and their children account for almost every high-profile jihadist attack carried out in the United States in recent years and a majority of the convictions on terror-related charges. A report released in June by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest indicates that 380 peopled convicted of terrorism-related charges from the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 to the end of 2014 were born abroad. That is 65 percent of the total number.
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At least 100 citizens of convicted of terrorism-related charges became naturalized citizens after entering through one of America’s immigration programs. At least 24 of the convicts were refugees and 17 were the U.S.-born children of immigrants. At least 33 came on visas and remained after they expired.
Even before Tuesday’s op-ed, de Blasio came under fire for his reluctance to identify the bombing as terrorism and for his conduct as mayor. Former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly suggested in an interview with The Daily Beast that the mayor’s administration is too politically correct and overly sensitive to media criticism to effectively fight terrorism.
Kelly was particularly critical of de Blasio’s decision to disband the Demographics Unit, which the former commissioner had created in 2003 to study the social habits and locations of the city’s ethnic groups.
“It was dumb, quite frankly,” he told The Daily Beast.
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was characteristically blunt, according to the website Circa.
“He shows up and says it’s an intentional act, but not a terrorist act,” he said. “Before we even knew it was Islamic-inspired, a bombing that wounds 29 of his citizens is by definition a terrorist act … So you are kind of on Mars if you can’t figure that out.”
To lobby us to spend $500B Billion.
Terrorist Importation by Soros.
Very astute and likely!
He likely skims off his “Open Society” foundation similar to the Clinton’s Foundation.
RE: “To lobby us to spend $500B Billion.”
why doesn’t he just buy them a country and give them everything?
I suggest Somalia
If his money is spent to keep them safe in their home countries, then this is fine.
If it’s used to migrate them to the US, then it’s horrible. In that case, he would essentially be funding an Islamic invasion of the US.
Brilliant idea, except the whole point of Soros’s Open Society foundation agenda is to make the entire world, a darker poorer place.
1. Deliberately stir up the Muslim hornet nest
2. Force them to swarm into other countries to bring about culture, economy and political havoc
3. Collapse precarious economy and political order
4. Control what remains in a New World Order -
Soros IS the embodiment of Machiavelli’s Prince:
“the prince disliked old guard republics, so he secretly hired terrorists to create an insurrection to affect change. The end-justifies-the-means, that creating crisis is necessary to concentrate control.
And, then, offer the “solution” to the “problem” that created the “panic”.
RE: “why doesn’t he just buy them a country and give them everything?
I suggest Somalia”
How about goergie investing in the immigrant’s own country to help restore what has been bombed etc. Keeping them home is far more important than bringing them to America
where they are not needed nor wanted.
Once your a billionaire what else is there? How do you become a God and profit on earth? By sowing chaos. Of course, this is chaos that you and yours want be safe from.
Wouldn’t it be nice if some time after January 20 Soros mysteriously turned up in an airport terminal of whatever Eastern European country convicted him in absentia of currency manipulation?
Oh to see that living manifestation of evil being frog-marched into some dank prison hell hole.
I’ve read he has 2 sons who he has trained well and are even worse than he is (if that’s possible); so, his so-called “legacy” can carry on - ugh!
“...wretched toad...”
Perfect summation. I pray daily for the Lord to remove him in whatever manner He sees fit.
I wish Putin would take him out.
Once we have a Trump Presidency, those Soros boys need to be reminded of what America did to Uday and Qusay Hussein.
(Yeah, I'm dreaming!)
He’s trying to do to us what he did to Hungarian Jews.
"I came to the United States as a refugee when I was 11 years old. My father was a diplomat and a strong supporter of democracy in Czechoslovakia, so when the Communists took over, we were forced into exile as refugees. In November 1948, we were welcomed to the United States of America.
Becoming a U.S. citizen is the most important thing that ever happened to me. My father said that when we were in Europe during WWII people would say, “We are sorry for your troubles and hope that you have everything you need; by the way, when will you be leaving to go back home?”
But in America, people said: “We are sorry for your troubles and hope that you have everything you need; by the way, when will you become a citizen?”
America resettles more refugees than any other nation because it reflects one of our noblest traditions as a nation: providing support to those who are most vulnerable.
With the world facing the largest mass displacement on record since World War II, it has never been more important for world leaders to follow America’s example and work together to do more to support refugees.
Today, President Obama is hosting a Refugee Summit meeting to encourage more world leaders to step up and make new commitments to support the critical work of resettling refugees and helping them rebuild their lives. You can watch the President’s speech here at 3:35 PM Eastern.
Under President Obama, we’ve increased the number of refugees resettling this year to 85,000 – including 10,000 Syrian refugees. Starting next week, the United States will commit to resettling 110,000 refugees from around the world over the coming year.
And with refugees undergoing the most rigorous screening of any kind of traveler, he’s shown that we can welcome refugees while ensuring our own safety.
As a former Secretary of State, I can tell you that President Obama’s leadership in this global crisis is critical to our national security.
When countries with insufficient resources take in refugees, it creates more instability, not just at the frontlines of this crisis, but around the world. If we were to slam the door in the faces of refugees with certain religious backgrounds, we would defy our history and our principles of pluralism and diversity. As we talk to other nations about what more needs to be done to tackle this crisis, it’s important that President Obama is setting this example.
When I came here as a child, I will never forget sailing into New York Harbor for the first time and beholding the Statute of Liberty. I did not have to face refugee camps or the kind of danger that many refugees endure. But like all refugees, I shared a hope to live a safe life with dignity and a chance to give back to my new country.
Together, we can help refugees rebuild their lives and live with dignity once again."
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"If becoming an American was the greatest thing that ever happened to you, why in God's name have you worked so hard to destroy it? Alllowing the terrorists to come to this country as "refugees" but denying the true refugees, the Christians and the Yazidi's refugee status, all the while Obama is claiming he will not allow people to come into the country based on religion, never mind the CLEAR facts that Christians and Yazidi's are being slaughtered based on their religion, would be like you and your family being forced to stay in Czechoslovakia to be slaughtered while allowing the Nazi's to come here as refugees. The SUNNI are the ones who are slaughtering people across the globe and that's the very people we are letting in."
"God will have his vengeance. I feel very sorry for you and the rest of you Christian haters."
"Don't you EVER email me again."
"May God have mercy on your soul."
Financing traffickers and enablers...calling it “investing”...die already, you POS.
Where public good = the enrichment of his bank account and the destruction of America and Europe. Win-Win for him.
And in related news:
Obama Praises Globalism While Acknowledging Its Faults | The Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/20/obama-praises-globalism-while-acknowledging-its-faults/
In his last address before the United Nations Tuesday, President Barack Obama acknowledged that globalism has led “to a collision of cultures” but urged countries to embrace liberal democracy and internationalization.
Obama told world leaders to recognize that violence and poverty are at historic lows.
“I believe that we need to acknowledge these achievements in order to carry this progress forward,” Obama said. “In order to move forward, though, we do have to acknowledge that the existing path to global integration requires a course correction.”
The president said those who trumpet the benefit of globalization have ignored inequalities in their countries and “the enduring appeal of ethnic and sectarian identities.” Obama added that many government institutions around the world have been unfit to handle the changes globalization has brought.
Due to this, Obama said “alternative visions of the world have pressed forward in both the wealthiest countries and the poorest.” The president pointed to the rise of religious fundamentalism, nationalism, and what he called a “crude populism.”
Obama posed these alternatives as being “self-defeating” due to a global-supply chain and increased technology and travel. “Today a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself,” Obama said in a thinly veiled shot at Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The president did take time to criticize globalism. He mentioned that Brussels, the European Union’s capitol, became “isolated” from the people it governs. “Globalization combined with rapid progress in technology has also weakened the position of workers in their ability to secure a decent wage,” Obama said.
“I understand that the gaps between rich and poor are not new, but just as the child in the slum today can see the skyscraper nearby, technology now allows any person with a smart phone to see how the most privileged among us live and the contrast between their lives and others,” Obama continued.
His solution to these problems is a continued embrace of globalization with a focus on closing the gap between rich and poor and promoting liberal human rights. The president acknowledged that the address wasn’t the form for a specific blue-print and spoke vaguely of investing in the future of citizens, through education or promoting “open societies.”
Obama said that, “given the difficulty in forging true democracy in the face of these pressures, it is no surprise that some argue the future favors the strong man.” He unsurprisingly rejected this idea and said that “history shows that strong men are then left with two paths” permanent crackdown or scapegoating enemies abroad.
“We must reject any form of fundamentalism, or racism or a belief in ethnic superiority that makes our traditional identities irreconcilable with modernity,” Obama said before the U.N. “It’s a truism that globalism has led to a collision of cultures.”
The president used France as an example of this collision of cultures. He said, “We see liberal societies express opposition when women choose to cover themselves. We see protests responding to western newspaper cartoons that caricature the prophet Mohammed.”
When Obama spoke about the violence and extremism in the Middle East he continued his theme of accepting globalism. “The world is too small for us to simply be able to build a wall and keep it from effecting our own societies,” the president said.
The idea of a border wall seemed to be helpful to Obama’s idea that the globalism we now face is impossible to reject. “We can’t combat a disease like Zika that recognizes no border — mosquitoes don’t respect walls — unless we make permanent the same urgency we brought to bear against Ebola,” the president said.
The president touched lightly on topic of refugees, encouraging countries to “open their hearts” to those fleeing violence. He will speak more on the issue later Tuesday afternoon during the Leaders Summit on Refugees.
To close his address Obama evoked the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “Sitting in a prison cell, a young Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that ‘Human progress never rolls on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God.’”
Obama said, “I have learned that our identities do not have to be defined by putting someone else down, but can be enhanced by lifting somebody else up.”
“And embrace of these principles as universal doesn’t weaken my particular pride, my particular love for America. It strengthens it,” He continued. “This is what I believe, that all of us can be coworkers with God. And our leadership and our governments and this United Nations should reflect this irreducible truth.”
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