Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel...will Europe rollover again?

In this mailing: Soeren Kern: Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel Shadi Khalloul: Lebanon, Christians, Under Islamist Threat Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel by Soeren Kern  •  April 24, 2016 at 5:00 am The European Union now finds itself in a classic catch-22 situation. Large numbers of Muslim migrants will flow to Europe regardless of whether or not the EU approves the visa waiver for Turkey. "If visa requirements are lifted completely, each of these persons could buy a cheap plane ticket to any German airport, utter the word 'asylum,' and trigger a years-long judicial process with a good chance of ending in a residency permit." — German analyst Andrew Hammel. In their haste to stanch the rush of migrants, European officials effectively allowed Turkey to conflate the two very separate issues of a) uncontrolled migration into Europe and b) an end to visa restrictions for Turkish nationals. "Why should a peaceful, stable, prosperous country like Germany import from some remote corner of some faraway land a violent ethnic conflict which has nothing whatsoever to do with Germany and which 98% Germans do not understand or care about?" — German analyst Andrew Hammel. "Democracy, freedom and the rule of law.... For us, these words have absolutely no value any longer." — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) has boasted that he is proud of blackmailing EU leaders, including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (right), into granting Turkish citizens visa-free access to the EU and paying Turkey billions of euros. Turkey has threatened to renege on a landmark deal to curb illegal migration to the European Union if the bloc fails to grant visa-free travel to Europe for Turkey's 78 million citizens by the end of June. If Ankara follows through on its threat, it would reopen the floodgates and allow potentially millions of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to flow from Turkey into the European Union. Under the terms of the EU-Turkey deal, which entered into effect on March 20, Turkey agreed to take back migrants and refugees who illegally cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. In exchange, the European Union agreed to resettle up to 72,000 Syrian refugees living in Turkey, and pledged up to 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) in aid to Turkey during the next four years. Continue Reading Article Lebanon, Christians, Under Islamist Threat by Shadi Khalloul  •  April 24, 2016 at 4:30 am Islamic jihadist groups are threatening Lebanese Christians and demanding that they submit to Islam. Lebanon's Christians, descendants of Aramaic Syriacs, were the majority in the country a mere 100 years ago. Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim politician supported by Saudi Arabia, has invited every Lebanese party to his office to sign a document confirming that Lebanon is an Arab state. This is clearly intended to turn Lebanon into yet another officially Arab Muslim state. The next step will be to ask that the constitution of Lebanon be changed so that the country be ruled by Sharia law, as with many other Arab and Islamic states, including the Palestinian Authority (PA). The PA constitution declares: "The principles of Islamic Sharia shall be the main source of legislation." Saad Hariri, a Saudi-backed Sunni Muslim politician in Lebanon, recently invited every Lebanese party to his office to sign a document confirming that Lebanon is an Arab state. Pictured above: Saad Hariri (right) with the late Saudi King Abdullah (left) in 2014. Recent upheavals in Lebanon are making local Christians communities worry about their existence as heirs and descendants of the first Christians. Christians in the Middle East now are facing a huge genocide -- similar to the Christian genocide the followed the Islamic conquest of the Middle East in the 7th century A.D. Islamic jihadist groups are threatening Lebanese Christians and demanding that they submit to Islam. Lebanon's Christians, descendants of Aramaic Syriacs, were the majority in the country a mere 100 years ago. The demand for Christians to convert to Islam was one of the declarations issued by ISIS and other Islamic groups hiding in the mountainous border between Syria and Lebanon. Continue Reading Article

Where Muslims Resettled in the US in 2015 - Wheaton got more than any op... !

LIBERAL SAN FRANCISCO only took 5...!

WHERE MUSLIM REFUGEES RESETTLED IN YOUR TOWN IN 2015 and they are all on Welfare! Listing by state, city, and numbers: STATE AND CITY REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT 2015  AK Anchorage 125 AL Mobile 125 AR Springdale 10 AZ Glendale 895 AZ Phoenix 1,459 AZ Tucson 935  CA Anaheim 175 CA Fullerton 10 CA Garden Grove 150 CA Glendale 1,420 CA Los Angeles 490 CA Los Gatos 144 CA Modesto 250 CA Oakland 615 CA Sacramento 1,276 CA San Bernardino 65 CA San Diego 3,103 CA San Francisco 5 CA San Jose 142 CA Turlock 120 CA Walnut Creek 90 CO Colorado Springs 138 CO Denver 1,690 CO Greeley 150 CT Bridgeport 100 CT Hartford 285 CT New Haven 205 DC Washington 15 DE Wilmington 5 FL Clearwater 200 FL Delray Beach 95 FL Doral 160 FL Jacksonville 895 FL Miami 1,056 FL Miami Springs 133 FL Naples 115 FL North Port 30 FL Orlando 360 FL Palm Springs 150 FL Pensacola 20 FL Plantation 75 FL Riviera Beach 50 FL Tallahassee 50 FL Tampa 660 GA Atlanta 2,100 GA Savannah 100 GA Stone Mountain 685 HI Honolulu 15  IA Cedar Rapids 55 IA Des Moines 585  ID Boise 720 ID Twin Falls  300 IL Aurora 190 IL Chicago 1,595 IL Moline 200 IL Rockford 300 IL Wheaton 2,660  IN Fort Wayne 200 IN Indianapolis 1,285 KS Garden City 80 KS Kansas City 200 KS Wichita 510 KY Bowling Green 310 KY Lexington 410 KY Louisville 990 KY Owensboro 135 LA Baton Rouge 125 LA Lafayette 30 LA Metairie 185  MA Boston 300 MA Framingham 8 MA Jamaica Plain 100 MA Lowell 275 MA South Boston 260 MA Springfield 230 MA Waltham 10 MA West Springfield 340 MA Worcester 443 MD Baltimore 775 MD GlenBurnie 150 MD Rockville 39 MD Silver Spring 845  ME Portland 350  MI Ann Arbor 80 MI Battle Creek 140 MI Clinton Township 650 MI Dearborn 640 MI Grand Rapids 740 MI Lansing 617 MI Troy 1,215  MN Minneapolis 730 MN Richfield 340 MN Rochester 130 MN Saint Paul 695 MN St. Cloud  215 MO Columbia 140 MO Kansas City 540 MO Saint Louis 725 MO Springfield 75  MS Biloxi 5 MS Jackson 20  NC Charlotte 655 NC Durham 380 NC Greensboro 385 NC High Point 405 NC New Bern 165 NC Raleigh 475 NC Wilmington 80 ND Bismarck 45 ND Fargo 270 ND Grand Forks 90 NE Lincoln 335 NE Omaha 990 NH Concord 245 NH Manchester 445 NJ Camden 100 NJ East Orange 6 NJ Elizabeth 300 NJ Jersey City 506 NM Albuquerque 220 NV Las Vegas 640 NY Albany 360 NY Amityville 20 NY Binghamton 40 NY Brooklyn 55 NY Buffalo 1,442 NY New York 240 NY Rochester 643 NY Syracuse 1,030 NY Utica 410  OH Akron 575 OH Cincinnati 140 OH Cleveland 510 OH Cleveland Heights 190 OH Columbus 1,300 OH Dayton 210 OH Toledo 40 OK Oklahoma City 170 OK Tulsa 395 OR Portland 995 PA Allentown 95 PA Erie 625 PA Harrisburg 200 PA Lancaster 480 PA Philadelphia 750 PA Pittsburgh 470 PA Roslyn 20 PA Scranton 150 PR San Juan 5  RI Providence 210 SC Columbia 160 SC Spartanburg 220 SD Huron 90 SD Sioux Falls 490 TN Chattanooga 85 TN Knoxville 190 TN Memphis 200 TN Nashville 1,225 TX Abilene 200 TX Amarillo 442 TX Austin 930 TX Corpus Christi 5 TX Dallas 1,765 TX El Paso 35 TX Fort Worth 1,503 TX Houston 2,605 TX San Antonio 750 UT Salt Lake City 1,126 VA Arlington 500 VA Charlottesville 250 VA Falls Church 450 VA Fredericksburg 120 VA Harrisonburg 140 VA Newport News 300 VA Richmond 243 VA Roanoke 177 VT Colchester 325 WA Kent 985 WA Richland 230 WA Seattle 714 WA Spokane 510 WA Tacoma 276 WA Vancouver 127 WI Green Bay 20 WI Madison 90 WI Milwaukee 890 WI Oshkosh 135 WI Sheboygan 35  WV Charleston 50 TOTALS  76,972   http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/20/8-facts-about-the-us-program-to-resettle-syrian-refugees 8 Facts About the U.S. Program to Resettle Syrian Refugees www.usnews.com Among them, refugees have to pay back the money for the plane ticket that brings them to the U.S. http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/u-s-cities-secretly-selected-for-muslim-immigration/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/01/syrian-refugees-resettled-36-states-catx-mi/ https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/

Dialing 800 Numbers!!! I thought this was a great idea and so I'm sending this along...

 

If you think so too, please pass it along to your friends.  If our government can't figure out how to create jobs here, well then it's time to show them how it's done.   Bring jobs back to the USA.

 

USA - DO NOT DELETE BEFORE READING!

 

The gas company serving this area brought their call center back to Phoenix from India last year after numerous customer complaints. What a difference now when you call them...and it created 300 jobs.     

 

I know this works because they were so bad that when India answered I wouldn't even deal with them.

 

I'd simply ask to be transferred to a representative in the U.S. and they would comply.

Now that I know it is the LAW - I will do it for sure

 

Any time you call an 800 number (for a Credit Card, Banking, Verizon, Health and other Insurance, Computer Help Desk, etc.) and you find that you're talking to a foreign customer service representative (perhaps in India, Philippines, etc.), please consider doing the following:

 

After you connect and you realize that the customer service representative is not from the USA (you can always ask if you are not sure about the accent), please, very politely, say, "I'd like to speak to a customer service representative in the United States"

 

The rep might suggest talking to his/her manager, but, again, politely say, "Thank you, but I'd like    to speak to a customer service representative in the USA."

 

YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE USA.  That's the rule and the LAW.     

 

It takes less than one minute to have your call re-directed to the USA.

 

Tonight when I got redirected to a USA representative, I asked again to make sure - and yes, she was from Fort Lauderdale.

 

Imagine what would happen if every US citizen insisted on talking to only US phone representatives from this day on? Imagine how that would ultimately impact the number of US jobs that would need to be created?

 

If I tell 10 people to consider this and you tell 10 people to consider doing this - see what I mean. It becomes an exercise in Viral Marketing 101.

 

Remember: The goal here is to restore jobs back here at home - not to be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone representative.  You may even get correct answers, good advice, and solutions to your problem.

 

If you agree, please tell 10 people you know, and ask them to tell 10 people they know, etc., etc. most of the time you can't understand the Foreign Representative!!

 

 

THE FINAL TOAST! When they bombed Tokyo 73 years ago. ...

 

They once  were among the most universally admired and revered men in the  United States .. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942,  when they carried out one of the most courageous and  heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The  mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring  tears to the eyes of grateful Americans. Now only four survive.

 

 

 

After 

Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the United States reeling 

and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort 

around. 

 

 

Even though 

there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United 

States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen 

B-25s

were modified so that they could take off from the 

deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- 

sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier. 

 

 

 

 

The 16 five-man crews, under the 

command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane 

off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the 

carrier.

They would have to hit Japan and then hope to 

make it to China for a safe landing. 

 

 

But on the day of the raid, the 

Japanese military caught wind of the plan. The Raiders were told that 

they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean 

thanthey had counted on. They were told that because of this they 

would not have enough fuel to make it to safety.

And those 

men went anyway. 

 

 

They bombed Tokyo and then flew 

as far as they could. Four planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed 

out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three 

were executed. 

 

 

Another 

died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to 

Russia. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Doolittle Raiders sent a 

message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the 

world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will 

win. 

 

 

Of the 80 

Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, 

models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based 

on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," starring Spencer Tracy and 

Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the 

phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater 

previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting

the story "with supreme pride." 

 

 

 

 

Beginning in 1946, the surviving 

Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. 

The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of 

Tucson,

Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, 

presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each 

goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider. 

 

 

 

 

Every year, a wooden display case 

bearing all 80 goblets is transported to the reunion city. Each time a 

Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at 

the

next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn 

witness. 

 

 

Also, in the wooden case is a 

bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not 

happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born. 

 

 

There has always been a plan: 

When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle 

at last, drink from it and toast their comrades who preceded them in 

death.

 

 

As 2013 

began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin 

passed away at age 96. 

 

 

What a man he was. After bailing 

out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo 

raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, 

he was

sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He 

was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of 

war camp. 

 

 

The selflessness of these men, 

the sheer guts ... there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer 

obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with 

the war,

but that was emblematic of the depth of his 

sense of duty and devotion:

 

 

"When his 

wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her 

every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife 

and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he 

washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the 

next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 

2005." 

 

 

So now, out of the original 80, 

only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo 

raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 

90s.

They have decided that there are too few of them 

for the public reunions to continue. 

 

 

The events 

in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It has come full circle; 

Florida's nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy 

for the Tokyo mission. The town planned to do all it can to honor the 

men: a six-day celebration of their valor, including luncheons, a 

dinner and a parade. 

 

 

Do the men ever wonder if those 

of us for whom they helped save the country have tended to it in a way 

that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at 

least

not around other people. But if you find yourself 

near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of 

the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell 

you from first hand observation that they appreciate hearing that

they are remembered. 

 

 

The men 

have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until 

a later date -- sometime this year -- to get together once more, 

informally

and in absolute privacy. That is when they 

will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly 

now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of 

them. 

 

 

They will 

fill the four remaining upturned goblets. And raise them in a toast to 

those who are gone.  

  

 

 

Their 70th Anniversary 

Photo 

PLEASE SEND THIS ON TO 

EVERYONE

IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, 

ESPECIALLY

TO THOSE WHO WERE TOO YOUNG 

TO

KNOW ABOUT THESE BRAVE 

HEROES!.