Wisconsin Dairy Farm Decline

In 2017, there were 9,520 dairy farms operating in Wisconsin, but milk consumption has been declining for the past several years. 338 Wisconsin dairy farms closed in the first 6 months of 2018. Soy Milk and other crop-based substitutes have taken part of the market.

US milk prices reached $14.25 per hundred weight in September 2018. This is down from over $16.00 per hundred weight earlier in 2018. This is the amount dairy farmers get for 100 pounds of milk. The measure is reported as Cwt. The price of a gallon of milk in the grocery store is $3.50.  The price of a gallon of milk in Canada is $4.80. Canada also subsidizes their dairy farms and has a 270% tariff on milk imports.

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Refugee Program $125 billion

Refugee program costs US taxpayers $125 billion over ten years, by Ann Corcoran, 9/29/18.
“The costs are staggering. The costs are truly staggering,” said Barnett.

(Don Barnett, Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies)

I reported a few days ago on the ‘Report to Congress’ released by the US State Department as part of the consultation with Congress requirement of the Administration when determining how many refugees will be admitted to the US beginning on Monday.

Here LifeZette analyzed a portion of that report about what you pay for the program (actually only a small portion of the costs!).

America’s refugee program cost taxpayers more than $125 billion over a 10-year period, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report to Congress on a proposed cut in the émigré cap.

The report accounts for refugees resettled from abroad, foreigners in the United States granted asylum, and people participating in special programs set up for Iraqis, Cubans, Haitians, and Amerasians from Vietnam.

The cost to federal taxpayers for refugees and individuals granted asylum in fiscal years 2005 through 2014 came to $74.7 billion, plus an additional $21.9 billion for state matching funds for programs available to refugees.

The total cost was $96.65 billion. Including spouses and children, the overall cost to state and federal taxpayers rises to $125.696 billion.

That total includes the cost of relocating refugees, services provided by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), child care subsidies and three main welfare programs — Medicaid, Medicare, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump alluded to the cost in arguing that U.S. generosity is better demonstrated near locations from which refugees come.

The nearly $126 billion estimated cost over 10 years, however, represents but a fraction of the total taxpayer investment. It does not include more than a dozen other programs, such as Social Security, various tax credits, education spending, and other welfare.

[Other welfare supplied by federal and state taxpayers would include food stamps, and other costs include federally required interpreters for courts, medical care and schools, the criminal justice system and most often ignored—remittances—money the refugees send home and out of our economy.—-ed]

Don Barnett, a fellow at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), told LifeZette that it makes sense to take a comprehensive approach to assessing refugee costs that go beyond just the relocation expenses.

Unlike other immigrants, who must wait five years before they are eligible for government-assistance programs, refugees and individuals granted asylum immediately can receive welfare.

The Libertarian CATO Institute has been talking about reform that would include private citizens sponsoring refugees. It does have its appeal. But, he knows that not enough sponsors would be found especially if they were on the hook for all of the care of a refugee or refugee family, so CATO is not proposing abolishing the present contractor system of resettlement. CATO wants both systems at the same time—the same as Canada!

The government report estimates that in a typical year, major HHS programs cost about $3,300 per refugee.

A 2015 study by CIS, which favors lower levels of immigration, attempted to account for a broader range of costs imposed by refugees. The study found that the five-year cost of relocating refugees from the Middle East came to $64,370 per person and $257,481 per household.

Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, did not dispute the government’s cost estimates.

A better approach than a bureaucratic, taxpayer-funded refugee system, Nowrasteh said, is to allow private citizens and organizations to sponsor refugees and take financial responsibility for them. He said Canada has such a system and that the United States has had similar policies in the past. More here.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/29/refugee-program-costs-us-taxpayers-125-billion-over-ten-years/

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Refugee Lobbying

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society launches election year campaign, by Ann Corcoran, 9/29/18.

They call it…. VOTE FOR WELCOME! - As a non-profit federal grantee they need to be especially careful about lobbying and getting in to electoral political activities.  See here.

If the Refugee Admissions Program survives, the most important reform we need is a prohibition (in the law itself) on federal refugee contractors, like HIAS, from political organizing and advocacy/lobbying while being funded by you and me, the taxpayers.

Better still, take all nine contractors out of the resettlement business completely!

HIAS received over $186 million from the federal Treasury since 2008, here. And, they have been organizing rallies like this one (with Keith Ellison) against President Trump.

Now this….

This is a screenshot so link is not hot.  Go here:        

https://www.hias.org/election-campaign?utm_source=hias.org&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=election_campaign&utm_content=09_28_18

Here below are the nine federal refugee resettlement contractors. You might be sick of seeing this list almost every day, but a friend once told me that people need to see something seven times before it completely sinks in, so it seems to me that 70, or even 700 isn’t too much!

And, besides I have new readers every day.

The present US Refugee Admissions Program will never be reformed if the system of paying the contractors by the head stays in place and the contractors are permitted to act as Leftwing political agitation groups, community organizers and lobbyists paid on our dime! And, to add insult to injury they pretend it is all about ‘humanitarianism.’

The number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the refugees into your towns and cities and get them signed up for their services (aka welfare)!  And, get them registered to vote eventually!

From my most recent accounting, here.  However, please see that Nayla Rush at the Center for Immigration Studies has done an update of their income, as has James Simpson at the Capital Research Center!

Church World Service (CWS) (71%)

Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular)(93%)

Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) (99.5%)

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) (57%)

International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) (97%)

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) (97%)

World Relief Corporation (WR) (72.8%)

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/29/hebrew-immigrant-aid-society-launches-election-year-campaign/

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Refugees at 22,469

Refugee arrivals picked up this month, by Ann Corcoran, 9/29/18.

It is what happens every year at this time. The State Department pours refugees in at a much higher rate in the final month of the fiscal year, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that, with only a couple more days to go in this month, we are above the average admission rate for the previous 11 months.

Rohingya refugees protesting in Phoenix.  979 came to the US this year. 109 were welcomed by the Trump State Department since September first! 

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/arizona-rohingya-refugee-story-from-poor-refugee-to-political-agitator/

Checking the data at Wrapsnet, as of this morning we are at 22,469 refugees admitted. That is 2,570 more than we had on September first.

The average for the previous 11 months was 1,809.

Nevertheless, it is nearly official—and it will be official on Sunday evening—that this is the lowest number of admissions since the Refugee Act of 1980 was signed in to law by Jimmy Carter.

Top ethnic groups arriving since September 1 are from these countries: DR Congo (1,058), Burma (381), Ukraine (363).

Of the total 2,570 September arrivals, 418 are Muslims of one sect or another.  Most concerning to me is that 109 of the Burmese are devout Rohingya Muslims.

P.S.  I’m going to be away over the weekend, but will give you year-end numbers on Monday or Tuesday next week.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/refugee-arrivals-picked-up-this-month/

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RINO Problems

Mission Accomplished – Senator Jeff Flake Supports The Democrat DC Scheme – Kavanaugh FBI Investigation To Be Manipulated By Michael Bromwich…by Sundance, 9/28/18.

The events surrounding the use of Jeff Flake by politically corrupt democrats, with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh are beyond transparent. This is a scheme.  All of it.  A strategic approach to eliminate the current threat (Kavanaugh confirmation) and simultaneously gain leverage for use in this years’ mid-term elections. This is a scheme.

Today the democrats in the judiciary committee, fully engaged political operatives, talked Jeff Flake into supporting a call for a week-long delay in the full senate confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh.  Flake, who is not running for re-election, advances the nomination out of committee – and simutaneously states he will not support a full senate vote until the FBI conducts an investigation into the ridiculous claims against Kavanaugh.

Jeff Flake will be financially rewarded *after* the spotlight fades, when no-one is paying attention, through the matrix of big business interests in 2019.  This is all DC corrupt politics at its worst.

Senator Flake (R-AZ) provides political cover for Senator Murkowski (R-AK) and Senator Collins (R-ME) to join with him with similar demands.  Under political pressure from rabid ideologues, and with general alignment toward those corrupt purposes, Murkowski and Collins will now make a similar demand for an extension of time for the FBI to conduct an investigation.

Now the real reason for FBI insider Michael Bromwich to join the efforts on September 22nd surfaces.  Bromwich, a former inspector general within the DOJ/FBI, is part of the corrupt FBI operational system we have seen surface over the past year.  Bromwich represents fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.  The career operatives within the FBI have a risk from the ongoing internal investigations; and as an outcome, have a mutual interest in assisting Mr. Brom with.  A natural alignment.

Democrat political operative and attorney Debra Katz (representing Ms. Ford), and Mr. Bromwich, are now aiding the efforts of their political allies.  The united interests want Kavanaugh’s confirmation pushed to the mid-term election so they can deploy maximum political benefit to get out their base in a quest to defeat the nomination.

The delay allows the corrupt FBI inside group to work on discovering more Christine Ford’s, so the process can be dragged out.  One week, becomes two weeks, becomes… well, you get the picture… an investigation timeline takes over the internal Senate confirmation timeline.  ie. “we can’t hold a vote until the investigation is complete”, blah, blah, blah.

This is all transparent. This is how DC works. How much is Jeff Flake’s position worth?   Likely tens of millions. Flake gives the corrupt DC system a Collins and Murkowski delay.  Flake, Collins and Murkowski, give the democrats and corrupt system an endless and useful delay to the mid-terms.

This will not end in a week. There will be more smears.

Even without more smears, the current smear investigation will continue until the mid-term narrative:  “let the voters decide“, is close enough to be deployed.   The media will advance this stage with great alignment. This is the current state affairs. This is the corrupt DC swamp everyone knows.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/28/mission-accomplished-senator-jeff-flake-supports-the-democrat-dc-scheme-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-to-be-manipulated-by-michael-bromwich/#more-154650

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Socialism in America

Shivering the chains. The increasing popularity of socialism is more about stiffening Democrats’ spines than revolution, 8/30/18, The Economist.

BOZEMAN, MONTANA is the birthplace of Ryan Zinke, the federal secretary of the interior, and the home of Steve Daines, Montana’s Republican junior senator, and Greg Gianforte, the state’s reporter-thumping Republican congressman. But the public-comments part of Bozeman’s city commission meeting on August 20th was dominated entirely by socialists. They did not sing the Internationale, or demand public ownership of the means of production. Instead, the ten members of the Bozeman Democratic

Socialists of America (DSA) thanked the commission for raising city workers’ minimum wage to $13 an hour, and urged them to raise it to $15 over the next two years.

Republicans are using such people to stoke outrage. Newt Gingrich, eternally eager to pitch any disagreement as an eschatological conflict, warns that socialists are “demons” whom the Democrats are “unleashing to win elections”.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a DSA member likely to win election to Congress in November, has joined Nancy Pelosi in the right’s bogeyman pantheon (a Republican mailing called her “mini-Maduro”, referring to Nicolás Maduro, the tyrannical president of Venezuela).

Looking past the label, however, American socialists are more progressive Democrats than Castros in waiting—and their rise poses more of a challenge to the Democratic Party than to capitalism.

Still, socialism is having a moment in America unlike any since, perhaps, 1912, when Eugene Debs, the socialist candidate, won 6% of the popular vote. Between the DSA’s founding in 1982 and the election of 2016, its membership hovered at a relatively constant 6,000—the same people, says Maurice Isserman, a professor at Hamilton College and charter DSA member, “just getting greyer”.

Since President Donald Trump’s election, however, its membership has risen more than eightfold, and may soon exceed 50,000 (see chart). DSA members have lost nearly all of the primaries they have contested, but two will almost certainly be elected to the next Congress: Ms Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, from Detroit. A recent Gallup poll showed that 57% of Democrats have positive views about socialism.

But the poll never defined “socialism”, so precisely what people were expressing support for remains unclear.

For decades, the cold war defined it, at least for most Americans. They were capitalist and free, while socialism was a step removed, at best, from Soviet communism. Americans under 30 have no memory of the cold war. To them, socialism may be little more than a slur they have heard Republicans hurl at Democrats—particularly Barack Obama. They may well have reckoned that if supporting universal health care, more money for public education and policies to combat climate change are all socialist, then they are happy to be socialist too.

During Mr Obama’s presidency, political energy came from the Republican Party’s right flank; under Mr Trump’s it comes from the Democrats’ left. The centre of American politics is having trouble holding. Jessie Kline, the 24-year-old vice-chairman of Bozeman’s socialists, worked for mainstream Democrats, but joined the DSA because “nobody wanted to talk about the underlying cause of why people are poor…The establishment treats politics as a career. Morality and ethics never came into it.”

Still, America is not about to undergo a socialist revolution. It is too ideologically diverse and fractious; individualism is wired too deeply into the country’s political culture. Maria Svart, the DSA’s national director, says that her group “doesn’t see capitalism as compatible with freedom or justice or democracy”, but good luck winning elections with that slogan (indeed, candidates endorsed by Democratic Party organs have won far more primaries than those endorsed by Our Revolution, which grew out of Bernie Sanders’s campaign). In any event, democratic socialism is not revolutionary communism.

Sara Innamorato, a DSA member who won her primary in May and will probably represent a heavily Democratic district of south-western Pennsylvania in the state legislature, says that “capitalism isn’t working…but I don’t think that capitalism and socialism are necessarily opposites. There are good lessons to be gained from both.”

Even the platform of Bernie Sanders, the socialist who gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money in the 2016 Democratic primaries, left capitalism fundamentally intact, calling instead for a broader and more redistributive social safety-net. His supporters seem enamored of Nordic-style social-welfare policies. But those countries are not socialist; they are free-market economies with high rates of taxation that finance generous public services. Indeed, the “socialist” part of those countries that Mr Sanders’s fans like would be unaffordable without the dynamic capitalist part they dislike.

Perhaps the surest sign that American socialists are not revolutionaries is their willingness to work within the two-party system. Ms Innamorato and Summer Lee, another DSA-endorsed candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature, as well as Ms Ocasio-Cortez and Ms Tlaib, are all Democrats, as is Mr Sanders, for practical purposes (he is an independent but caucuses with Senate Democrats). Mr Sanders and Ms Ocasio-Cortez have campaigned for other Democrats. Mr Isserman contends that DSA members “are not utopian, and we certainly don’t believe in Bolshevik-style revolution”. He approvingly cites Michael Harrington, the DSA’s founder, who said that the group should represent “the left wing of the possible”.

Leftward, ho! - In that role, they are succeeding wildly. On August 28th Andrew Gillum, wielding an endorsement from Mr Sanders, pulled off a surprise victory in the Democratic primary race for governor in Florida—a state that has long preferred bland, centrist Democrats. Mr. Gillum wants to see universal health care, a $15 minimum wage, a more compassionate immigration policy, corporate-tax hikes to fund public education, stricter gun-control laws and the legalization of marijuana. Most of these positions were lefty pipe-dreams a decade ago. Today they are de rigueur for Democrats with presidential ambitions.

Some have gone further: Mr Sanders, as well as Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillebrand, senators from New Jersey and New York, respectively, have made favorable noises about a federal jobs guarantee. Mr Gillum thinks Mr Trump should be impeached. Such proposals are dead in the water, for now: Republicans control Congress and the White House. But that is not the point. These are political statements designed to signal support for a bold, activist government and an unwillingness to triangulate, or compromise with the voters who put Mr. Trump in the White House.

Still, the DSA’s apparent influence on the party makes some nervous. One longtime strategist frets that the distinction between democratic and Soviet-style socialism is “fairly fine for most voters, and it comes with a lot of baggage”. Over the next couple of years, through debates that Democrats must hope will prove robust but not fracturing, the party will work out whether and how to carry that baggage.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Shivering the chains"

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/08/30/socialism-in-america

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Volcano Emissions

Katla Building to New Event, by Martin Armstrong, 9/25/18.

They claim that all the world’s nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, according to new international calculations on global emissions published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

That is 32 kilotons per day when one volcano Katla, which is a huge hidden volcano 650 feet beneath the ice cap in Iceland, is emitting 20 kilotons of C02 every day. There are only two volcanoes worldwide that are known to emit more CO2, and now scientists are concerned that Katla may be headed toward a major eruption.

Obviously, the UN should be imposing a tax on Iceland for all this added Co2. Katla has had about 20 eruptions in the last 1100 years. There were eruptions which have been documented in the years 920 and 1612, and from 1821 to 1823.

These latter eruptions in the 19th century helped to cool the planet contributing to the mini ice age at that time. The last eruption that actually broke through the ice cap occurred in 1918.

There have been subglacial flood events in 1955, 1999 and 2010-2011 that melted ice but it did not break the surface. These events do create flooding as the ice melts.

Volcanic activity produced two eruptions in 2010 at Eyjafjallajokull, on March 20 and April 14. The second eruption created the giant ash cloud over Europe which diverted air traffic.

The 1918 ash plume was documented to have reached heights of 14 km. That event looked like a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb. It is hard to draw a conclusive model since the majority of eruptions only melt ice beneath the surface.

The best we can do with an approximation for the events that break through the surface puts it in 2020-2021 for the next ideal event. But the data series is not definitive on this event. It does appear that Katla has become active again since 2010 and is building to a climax. This could also be an event that contributes to global cooling as we saw during the 19th century.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/katla-building-to-a-major-event/

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Dumb Deal Continues

17 more of Australia’s rejected asylum seekers on the way to your US town, by Ann Corcoran, 9/26/18.

When we bring Muslim Pakistanis, Afghans, and Rohingya, it is not a “Muslim ban.”  Just great isn’t it! More single men who have been held in all male detention for 5 years are now free in America! Go here for a lengthy archive on the dumb Obama deal.

Sorry Trumpsters but I gotta call it the way I see it—Trump was foolish to agree to Obama’s “dumb” deal (to move up to 1,250 illegal aliens that Australia had sent to detention camps and refused to admit to their mainland) to America as legitimate refugees.

Refugees receive all sorts of welfare goodies and their hands are held through the process of signing them up for those benefits by a resettlement contractor.  Then they are free to roam anywhere in America.

Seventeen more single young men (likely all Muslims)—Pakistanis and Rohingya—just left for Yourtown, USA.

Meet your new neighbors!

Manus Island detainees!  17 more are coming to a town near you!  But, the State Department will not reveal where they are located, and eventually they will lose track of them!

Why were they in detention on offshore islands in the first place?  About five years ago, the Australian government had a brilliant idea of how to deter illegal boat migration to their country.  They made it a policy that anyone trying to break in illegally by boat would be sent to detention and never allowed access to the mainland.

The deterrent worked (too bad the Europeans were too foolish to follow the Aussie lead!) and they have severely limited the number of illegal border jumpers.

However great for them, it stinks for us since the Trump Administration is now bringing those illegals to America and we (citizens!) are not being told where they are being placed.

Here is news on the latest shipment, bringing the number we have ‘welcomed’ to 361!

Yesterday, from 9 News Australia: Seventeen refugees flown from Manus to US - Seventeen single men being held on Manus Island have flown to the United States under a refugee resettlement deal with Australia. The 11 Pakistanis and six Rohingyans flew out of Port Moresby on Tuesday after almost five years in immigration detention.

Since the US won’t take Somalis, Iraqis and Syrians from the island detention camps, Refugee Action Coalition’s Ian Rintoul, calls the transport to the US a failure.

Their departure takes to 147 the number of refugees who have departed Papua New Guinea to start new lives in America.

Another 214 refugees have been taken from Nauru.

The US has promised to accept up to 1250 people under the refugee deal, but advocates are concerned there are still about 600 detainees being held on Manus Island and another 800 on Nauru.

Advocates are also concerned US officials will not accept Iranians, Somali, Sudanese, Iraqi or Syrian refugees for resettlement because of President Donald Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban” on immigration.

I have a whole category here at RRW called Rohingya Reports.  I have over 200 posts there and have followed the Burma/Bangladesh Rohingya situation for ten years.  Early on when we brought Rohingya to America, the US State Department said we were bringing only women and children.  I wondered when the men would follow—now it seems hubbies are on the way!

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/17-more-of-australias-rejected-asylum-seekers-on-the-way-to-your-us-town/

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Refugee Budgets Ending

Monday a big day for refugee contractors, expect more stories like these….by Ann Corcoran, 9/27/18.

Now to California…..From KPBS San Diego: Budget Cuts, Layoffs And Closures Hit Refugee-Serving Organizations
Reminder!

What is Monday?  It is the beginning of the federal fiscal year. It is the first day of FY19. It is the day when the writing will be on the wall for many refugee resettlement offices around the country.

Dumb way to run an organization! Did no one in the refugee industry ever question a business model where some non-profits are 97% and up federally funded?

Why? Because in 1980 Jimmy Carter signed the Refugee Act of 1980 in to law and set up a house of cards that needs to fall now. Originally (supposedly!) designed as a public-private partnership, the federal government and ‘humanitarian’ non-profit groups were to share equally in the costs of admitting tens of thousands of refugees to the US each year.

But, over the years, because Congress has been so remiss in overseeing the program (the Rs want cheap labor!), those non-profit groups (aka federal contractors) have gotten fat and confident (like Aesop’s grasshopper) on ever larger amounts of federal funding and too lazy to raise sufficient amounts of private money to see them through if for any reason the number of paying clients/refugees declined.

(An aside: The inability to raise enough private money is also indicative of the fact that there isn’t enough interest by average Americans in financially supporting the program in the first place.)

So here we are with one story after another about what Monday will bring to dozens of resettlement contractors around the country.

From Austin, Texas we learn that a Catholic contractor—Caritas—is closing its refugee program. The Statesman: EXCLUSIVE: As refugees dwindle, Caritas will end resettlement program.

Since 1974, the organization has helped thousands of people fleeing war or persecution find a new life in Austin. But after 44 years, Caritas is ending its refugee resettlement program and as of Monday, it will no longer serve new refugees.

“It’s really a tragedy that this program has to go away,” said Jo Kathryn Quinn, executive director for Caritas. For the past two years, Caritas has seen a sharp decline in the number of refugees arriving in Austin, and the development has made the program “financially unsustainable,” Quinn said. Between 2010 and 2016, Caritas resettled an average of 576 refugees each year. Since last October, Caritas has resettled 151 refugees, but the nonprofit has not received any new refugees since April.

“Having zero refugees arrive in two months was unheard of for us,” Quinn said. “It was the final alarm bell that told us that we couldn’t continue this way.” In June, Caritas’ board of directors voted to close the program at the end of the fiscal year at the recommendation of the nonprofit’s executive leadership.

When fewer refugees arrive, less federal money comes in to support them as well. Refugees receive a one-time amount of $1,125 from federal funds for resettlement needs, including housing and food, said Adelita Winchester, Caritas’ director of integrated services. Caritas would supplement federal funds with about $1 million annually in philanthropic donations, Winchester said.  The reporter has missed an important piece of information. The refugee gets $1,125 and Caritas gets another $1,125 for themselves per refugee.—ed]

“We didn’t have any excess philanthropic dollars to shift to aid this program,” Quinn said. More here.

Donna Duvin is executive director at the San Diego office of the national nonprofit International Rescue Committee, or IRC, one of nine federally funded resettlement agencies in the U.S. Duvin said the local office’s VESL funding dropped by 34 percent this year forcing the agency to replace some paid instructors with volunteers and interns.

Red meat for readers! I love running this photo of the IRC’s David Miliband outside their Manhattan office. He is the Brit who is compensated at nearly $700,000 annually as he calls the shots about who will be placed in your towns.

“As the numbers began to fall, the support that we had from the county that passed through dollars from the federal government, those declined as well,” Duvin said.

Duvin said in past years more than three-fourths of the agency’s budget relied on government dollars, causing a loss of millions as the office’s arrivals dipped by 85.5 percent since 2016. She said the budget changes during that time forced the agency to eliminate 15 positions.

Apparently the IRC is trying to raise private money to keep some functions going.  LOL! Maybe CEO David Miliband could give up some of his nearly $700,000 in annual salary to keep some low-level staffers in a job! The IRC is not alone.

A representative for the national resettlement agency Church World Service estimated it lost possibly hundreds of staffers when it closed 10 offices after it was forced to merge operations with other organizations in some U.S. cities. And a spokesman for World Relief said it laid off 140 employees after shutting down five offices across the U.S. More here.

Expect more stories over the coming days.

What you can do….If you are looking for something to do, go to this list from last year of the resettlement agencies working in your towns and cities and call them.  See if they are still in operation, or plan to close soon.

The 1980 structure of the US Refugee Admissions Program is still in place and the Trump Administration must push now for a complete reform of the program or in 2021 or 2025, it will be full steam ahead for these contractors.  They will quickly staff-up and a new President could say—We must make up for the lost Trump years and quadruple the numbers of refugees coming in.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/monday-a-big-day-for-refugee-contractors-expect-more-stories-like-these/

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Misery Loves an Audience

Misery is a state or feeling of great distress or discomfort of mind or body. It is a broad term used to describe all forms of unhappiness. The only healthy cure for misery is to overcome it.  Most pain, grief and heartbreak are temporary. But some forms of misery can become permanent if it is embraced.  Happiness is an inside job.

Those with severe conditions of desolation can heal and reverse these self-defeating behaviors if they work to overcome them. They need to recognize that their behavior is destructive and attempt to figure out how that behavior was adopted.

When the afflicted victim has other problems that support their difficulties, overcoming their misery can be difficult.

Those who blame others for all of their problems have sociopathic behavior and need to own up to being responsible for their own mistakes. 

Those who have been brainwashed by Liberal propaganda in school are inclined to become submissive cult victims who have been trained to place the blame on all those who don’t subscribe to the cult narrative.

Transactional Analysis describes “bad feeling habits” and one of these is called “collecting brown stamps”. It is an emotional disorder that allows us to make bad decisions in order to “feel bad”. The misery we impose on ourselves is actually a “reward”.  This is common in children who misbehave in order to get attention.

Drug Addicts, Drug Abusers and Alcoholics cycle in and out of treatment and never get better until they actually decide to get better.

Those who have mental health problems are gluttons for attention and they demand an audience.

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Lessons from Kavanaugh Soap Opera

The one lesson we learned in the Christine Ford testimony at the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation travesty was that anyone who is raped needs to go directly to the hospital to get a rape kit and an exam.  DNA is the best evidence to confirm that a copulation actually did occur. If the DNA matches a known criminal, the case is made.

If the DNA doesn’t match anybody on the criminal DNA database, police need to go fishing for a suspect. If the victim can direct a drawing of the suspect and identify scars or tattoos, that’s a start. The DNA is kept forever and is often matched years later with the criminal offender.

Sexual assault short of rape intercourse is harder to prove unless there is a video of the assault.  Short of that, witnesses who will testify to the assault may help in determining guilt.

Christine Ford is either the victim of her own delusions or is a partisan saboteur. She could also be both.

The final lesson is “never trust a Democrat”.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Kavanaugh’s Diary

Records Show Kavanaugh Was Out of Town During Alleged Attack. Brett Kavanaugh has a new alibi- not that alibis matter to Democrats- but he has it nonetheless. According to this new evidence, Kavanaugh wasn’t even in town during the summer in which Professor Christine Blasey Ford claims that he held her down on a bed and covered her mouth while he molested her. That means one of them is lying, and you don’t need a polygraph to figure out who.

According to the calendar, Kavanaugh was in and out during the summer in question and the New York Times says that spoils it as proof of Kavanaugh’s innocence. The schedule that the calendar reveals shows the judge returned from the summer beach periodically to attend sporting events, team workouts, and interviews for the school paper.

They write; “The challenge for senators trying to confirm or refute the accusation against Judge Kavanaugh is that Dr. Blasey has said she does not recall the specific date or location of the house where the alleged incident occurred. She has said she believes it was during the summer of 1982, and she remembers wearing a bathing suit with other clothing on top of it, suggesting the party might have taken place after a swim outing at a local country club.”

Let’s get one thing straight here, this is not about justice. This is about politics. It’s about preventing a Supreme Court Justice who is anti-abortion being installed on the nation’s highest court. After 30 years, there is only one thing that can be said about such an accusation- it was never important enough to the so-called victim to report it, not until it became ammunition against the Trump administration.

Ford has named three witnesses to the event, each of whom has said individually that they have no memory of the assault. We think it’s safe to say that even in 1982, people took rape pretty damned seriously. If anyone had attended a party and heard that someone, anyone, had even possibly been raped- who on Earth could forget such a thing?

Everyone in attendance, apparently, if Ford is to be believed.

The NYT quotes Ford’s lawyer, Debra Katz, saying; “It’s not surprising that Ms. Keyser (a witness named by Ford) has no recollection of the evening as they did not discuss it. It’s also unremarkable that Ms. Keyser does not remember attending a specific gathering 30 years ago at which nothing of consequence happened to her. Dr. Ford, of course, will never forget this gathering because of what happened to her there.”

Ford’s entire case hangs on this piece of evidence, that one of these three people were present- and the witnesses say they don’t remember anything. We ask you, what kind of lawyer would take on such a case? What kind of lawyer looks at a 30-year-old accusation with no evidence to back it up and says, “Yeah, I think we can take him.”

It is madness. Kavanaugh’s defense team admits that the calendar alone does not prove anything. He could have come back during that summer and toilet papered houses, or put dresses on neighborhood cats and then gone back to the beach resort with his parents to quietly gloat. But just because he might have smoked cigarettes under the bleachers doesn’t mean he did.

The thing is, this is the United States of America- and in the United States of America there is a little thing known as the burden of proof. The law requires a certain standard of proof to convict a person of rape. So far, Ford and her legal team have presented nothing even resembling minimal proof of rape.

Kavanaugh, on the other hand, has cooperated more than he is required to. He didn’t have to turn in this calendar that shows he was out of town most of the summer, he could have just said, ‘I was away the whole danged time.’

But now, another accuser has emerged, and Kavanaugh’s calender defense won’t do much to dispel the accusation as it is alleged to have taken place at the beach with the other Yale students. But this new accuser’s story is as vague and evidence-free as the first. According to her story, Kavanaugh was apart or aware of a “rape train.”

But don’t ask her to remember any specific details because that’s simply asking too much. This is so tiresome. Even if Kavanaugh were to be convicted, he would not go to jail because the statute of limitations has expired. The only thing that would take place is a political victory for obvious liars grasping for undeserved power.~ American Liberty Report

https://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/records-show-kavanaugh-was-out-of-town-during-alleged-attack/

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Cold Anger

Kavanaugh, Cold Anger and The Reckoning….

by Sundance, 9/27/18.

They’ve gone too far.  “Donald Trump’s supporters are angry“, or “uneducated”, or “unenlightened”, or (fill_In_The Blank). This hate-filled sentiment is clear within the latest vile,… nay,… evil and horrific smears directed toward Judge Brett and Ashley Kavanaugh and their cherished children.  Now the media narrative controllers are fully engaged along with their political brethren.  Do not look away.

The vulgar lies and filth are now extreme as the ideological entities utilize their microphones in a brutal attempt to tear down the Kavanaugh family.

As we bear witness, anyone trying to convince us this entire assembly of our union is headed in the right direction, well, they might want to revisit their proximity to the 2018 election ballpark. Because they’re not just out of the city – they’re also out of the same state the election ballpark is located in….. Then again, the media know that.

David Mamet had a famous saying, essentially: …‘in order for democrats, liberals, progressives et al to continue their illogical belief systems they have to pretend not to know a lot of things’… By pretending ‘not to know’ there is no guilt, no actual connection to conscience.  Denial of truth allows easier trespass.

This hate-filled Democrat ideology relies on your willingness to reconcile their presentations and grant benefit within their seeds of doubt. Do not look away.

There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior, it’s called Cold Anger.

Cold Anger does not need to go to violence. For those who carry it, no conversation is needed when we meet. You cannot poll or measure it; specifically because most who carry it avoid discussion… And that decision has nothing whatsoever to do with any form of correctness.

We watched the passage of Obamacare at 1:38 am on the day before Christmas Eve in 2009. We watched the Senate, then the House attempt passing Amnesty in 2014. We know exactly how it passed, and we know exactly why it passed. We don’t need to stand around talking about it….

We know what lies hidden behind “cloture” and the UniParty schemes.

We watch the 2009 $900+ billion Stimulus Bill being spent each year, every year, for seven consecutive years. Omnibus, Porkulous, QE1, QE2, Bailouts, Crony-Capitalism. We know exactly how this works, and we know exactly why this ruse is maintained. We don’t need to stand around talking about it…. We’re beyond talking.

We accept that the entire Senate voted to block President Trump’s ability to use recess appointments in 2017. Every.Single.Democrat.And.Republican.

Cold Anger absorbs betrayal silently, often prudently.

We’ve waited each year, every year, for ten years, to see a federal budget, only to be given another Omnibus spending bill by “CONservative” Speaker Ryan.

We’ve watched the ridiculing of cops, the riots, and the lack of support for laws, or their enforcement. We’ve been absorbing all that. We’ve been exposed to violence upon us by paid operatives of the organized DNC machine. We know; the media trying to hide it doesn’t change our level of information.

Cold Anger is not hatred, it is far more purposeful.

We watched in 2012 as the Democrat party thrice denied God during their convention.  The doors to evil enterprise opened by official proclamation and request.

Cold Anger takes notice of the liars, even from a great distance – seemingly invisible to the mob. Cold Anger will still hold open the door for the riot goer. Mannerly.

We’ve watched our borders being intentionally unsecured. We’ve watched Islamic Terrorists slaughter Americans as our politicians proclaim their uncertainty of motive. We know exactly who they are, and why they are doing it. We do not need to stand around discussing it…. we’re clear eyed.

Cold Anger evidenced is more severe because it is more strategic, and more purposeful. Eric Cantor’s defeat, Matt Bevin’s victory, Brexit, Donald Trump’s highest vote tally in the history of presidential primaries or Mark Sanford’s 2018 primary dispatch might aide your understanding.

Cold Anger does not gloat; it absorbs consistent vilification and ridicule as fuel. This sensibility does not want to exist, it is forced to exist in otherwise unwilling hosts – we also refuse to be destabilized by it.

Transgender bathrooms are more important than border security.

Illicit trade schemes, employment and the standard of living in Vietnam and Southeast Asia are more important to Wall Street and DC lobbyists, than the financial security of Youngstown Ohio.

We get it. We understand. We didn’t create that reality, we are simply responding to it.

Deliberate intent and prudence ensures we avoid failure. The course, is thoughtful vigilance; it is a strategy devoid of emotion. The media can call us anything they want, it really doesn’t matter…. we’re far beyond the place where labels matter.

Foolishness and betrayal of our nation have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. We know exactly who Donald Trump is, and we also know what he’s not. He is exactly what we need at this moment. He is a necessary glorious bastard. He is our weapon.

Cold Anger is not driven to act in spite of itself; it drives a reckoning.

When the well attired lady leaves the checkout line carrying steaks and shrimp using an EBT card, the door is still held open for her; yet notations necessarily embed.

When the U.S. flags lay gleefully undefended, they do not lay unnoticed. When the stars and stripes are controversial, yet the foreign flag is honored – we are paying attention.

When millionaire football players kneel down rather than honor our fallen soldiers and stand proud of our country, we see that. Check the NFL TV ratings – take note.

When a school community cannot openly pray, it does not mean the prayerful were absent.

When a liar seems to win, it is not without observation. Many – more than the minority would like to admit – know the difference between science, clocks and political agendas.

Cold Anger perceives deception the way a long-term battered spouse absorbs the blow in the hours prior to the pre-planned exit; with purpose.

A shield, or cry of micro-aggression will provide no benefit, nor quarter. Delicate sensibilities are dispatched like a feather in a hurricane.

We are patient, but also purposeful. Pushed far enough, decisions are reached.

On the drive to and from the East Coast, I paid attention to the billboards and bumper-stickers. Folks, the people in “Fly over” country are PISSED, from the guy that guides hunters, to the mayors of towns and cities, to state senators congressmen and Governors who are voting to arrest and imprison federal law enforcement officials for enforcing federal gun laws that don’t agree with state law … The political pendulum has never, in the history of humanity, stayed on one side of a swing. The back lash from over reach has always been proportionate to how far off center it went before coming back … right now we’re staring at a whole hell of a lot of the country (about 80-90% of the land mass, as well as about 50+% of the population) that is FED UP. You really don’t want those guys to decide that the only way to fix it is to burn it down and start over… (more)

It’s too late…

This family is as unfamiliar with their current enemy as any virtuous family who has never encountered the corrupt, conniving and Godless leftist ideology.  It is our job now to stand afore them and fight on their behalf.  They have done enough; they have suffered too much.

To respond we must engage as an insurgency. We must modify our disposition to think like an insurgent.  

Insurgencies have nothing to lose. If insurgents are not victorious the system, which controls the dynamic, wins. However, if insurgents do nothing, the same system, which controls the dynamic, also wins.

Do nothing and we lose. Go to the mattresses, and we might win. The choice is ours.

Right now, through November 6, every day is Saint Crispins day.

If we are mark’d to die, we are enow

To do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour.God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;It yearns me not if men my garments wear;Such outward things dwell not in my desires.

But if it be a sin to covet honour,I am the most offending soul alive.No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honourAs one man more methinks would share from meFor the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!

Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,That he which hath no stomach to this fight,Let him depart; his passport shall be made,And crowns for convoy put into his purse;We would not die in that man’s companyThat fears his fellowship to die with us.

This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,And rouse him at the name of Crispian.He that shall live this day, and see old age,Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian.’

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.’Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,But he’ll remember, with advantages,What feats he did that day. 

Then shall our names,Familiar in his mouth as household words-Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.

This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

The awakened American middle-class insurgency, led by Donald Trump, is an existential threat to the professional political class and every entity who lives in/around the professional political class. Their entire political apparatus is threatened by our insurgency. The entire political industry, all of governance, is threatened by our force, through Donald Trump.

Decision time. - You know why the entire apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why the corrupt Wall Street financial apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why every institutional department, every lobbyist, every K-Street dweller, every career legislative member, staffer, and the various downstream economic benefactors, including the corporate media, all of it – all the above, are united against Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is an existential threat to the existence of a corrupt DC system we have exposed to his disinfecting sunlight. Donald Trump is the existential threat to every entity who benefits from that corrupt and vile system.

Global elites now stand with jaw-agape in horror as they witness our horde.  The value of multi-billion dollar contracts dispatched at our leisure.  Trillion dollar multi-national trade deals full of scheme and graft, left nothing more than tenuous propositions smashed asunder from the mere sound of our approach.

The fundamental construct within decades of their united global efforts to tear at the very fabric of our U.S.A is being eliminated.  They too have nothing to lose; their desperation becomes visible within their apoplexy; and they’re damn sure displaying it. Do not look away.

Throw aside the sense of discomfort and bear witness to the evil we oppose.  Do not turn your eyes from the hatred focused in our direction.  Stand firm amid the solace of our number and resolve to the task at hand.

Those who oppose our efforts are merely vile parasites quivering as they stare into the Cold Anger furnace of righteousness. Who fuels that furnace?…..US !

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-cold-anger-and-the-reckoning/#more-154614

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader