~ Affirming the Obvious ~

Another western media meme goes *POOF* as the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Thursday said some of those linked to the Paris attacks had taken advantage of the chaos caused by Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II “to slip in” unnoticed.

“These individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis.. of the chaos, perhaps, for some of them to slip in” to France, he said.   “Others were in Belgium already. And others, I must remind you, were in France,” he said. (link)

This admission comes as information surfaces that Moroccan intelligence teams helped France find the primary ringleader of the attacks: (more…)

Under the Paul Ryan approved bill -American Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act of 2015– the FBI director would be required to certify the background investigation of each refugee from Iraq and Syria.  And only refugees from Iraq and Syria.  And if you are Syrian and you walk into Turkey to begin applying for refugee status, presto, the bill doesn’t cover you.

The SAFE ACT requires the FBI, along with the secretary of Homeland Security and the director of National Intelligence, to certify to Congress that each refugee is not a security threat. The legislation also requires the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s Office to independently assess the refugee approvals.

However, the bill is largely meaningless and well beyond toothless. Senator Sessions (R-AL) noted refugees and migrants from nine different countries have been implicated in terrorism incidents over the past year.  “Ignoring this reality, the American SAFE Act allows the president to continue to bring in as many refugees as he wants from anywhere in the world,” Sessions said previously. 

Perhaps the SAFE ACT would be better named the Kerry/Taylor You’ve Got A Friend Act.  However, pay close attention to the GOP representatives who are “out front” selling the ruse.  Pay attention to them, and pay attention to who they are endorsing: 
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Op-Hummingbird was only modestly successful in attaining the GOPe objective. However, a set of similar media/political metrics we follow outlines a modified approach. More on that later…

Today two independently gathered polls reveal an almost identical result.  WBUR and Fox News each conducted a poll in New Hampshire (both pdf’s below).  Both polls show Donald Trump extending his lead in the state, and both polls show support for Ben Carson collapsing, or at least retracting significantly.

(Via Fox) Donald Trump leads the race for the Republican nomination in New Hampshire, while Bernie Sanders edges Hillary Clinton among Democrats.

That’s according to the latest Fox News poll, released Wednesday, and conducted since Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. (more…)

Earlier today three Syrian males were stopped in Saint Maarten after a flight from Haiti, they were headed to the U.S. and carried fake Greek passports. 

In a similar but separate event today – Five Syrian males were stopped in Honduras, also carrying fake Greek passports, with intentions on crossing the Southern U.S. Mexico border.   And now this….

(Via Breitbart Texas) Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector. (more…)

The case of a missing Syrian Refugee who arrived in Louisiana reflects the weakness within the White House/State Dept. claim that security threats are not likely.   A recent Syrian refugee who was settled by Catholic Charities in Baton Rouge just disappeared.

WBRZ has reported that Catholic charities helped the refugee who settled in Baton Rouge, but also said the refugee left for another state after a couple of days, and they currently do not know where the refugee went since they do not track them.

“We’re at the receiving end,” Chad Aguillard, executive director of Catholic Charities, says. “We receive them, we welcome them into our community and help them resettle. There has been a lot of commotion and fear with Syrians. The fear is justified, but we have to check that against reality.”  (link)

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There has been a lot of discussion recently over “border walls”, protecting geography and “refugees”. Perhaps it would be interesting to revisit this earlier report from January 2015:

1,000km border wall called the “Northern Border Security Project”

SAUDI ARABIA – Islamic State lists the capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the holy Muslim grounds of Mecca and Medina, as a key goal.

Just over a week ago, IS militants launched an attack on a Saudi border post, killing a senior Saudi general and two border guards, marking the first direct IS assault on Saudi grounds, The Telegraph reported.

In an effort to defend itself from the IS threat and further attacks, the kingdom launched a massive project to construct a “Great Wall” along it’s northern border with Iraq, where IS presence is heavy. (more…)

  UPDATE – List of States EXPANDS: Alabama – Arizona  – Arkansas  – Georgia  – Florida  – Idaho  – Indiana  – Illinois  – Iowa  – Kansas – Louisiana  – Maine  – Massachusetts  – Michigan  – Mississippi  – Nebraska  – New Hampshire  – New Jersey – North Carolina  – Ohio  – Oklahoma – South Carolina  – Tennessee – Texas  – Wisconsin

With admissions by the U.S. State Department and intelligence groups that it is impossible to vet Syrian refugees for terrorist connections, the number of states and state Governors, who have requested a halt to Syrian Refugee import has now expanded to sixteen Twenty Four:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin (more…)

Several new items of information surfacing including an additional suspected terrorist added who was another Syrian refugee.  Ahmed Almuhamed and his brother Mohammed Almuhamed both traveled from Syria to France as “refugees”. The suspects currently named:

• Salah Abdeslam, 26 – urgently sought by police (pictured below)
• Mohammed Abdeslam – reportedly arrested in Belgium
• Brahim Abdeslam, 31 – named as attacker who died near Bataclan concert hall
• Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, from near Paris – died in attack on Bataclan
• Bilal Hadfi, 20 – named as attacker who died at Stade de France
• Ahmed Almuhamed – “refugee” attacker who exploded vest at Stade de France
  
• Mohammed Almuhamed – “refugee” status unknown.
• Samy Aminour, 28, from France – status unknown.
  
• Three other attackers died during the assaults in the city

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated: ♦ Friday’s attacks by Islamist militants in Paris were planned and organized from Syria.  ♦ New terror attacks were being planned in France and other European countries.  ♦ 150 raids on suspected militants had been carried out across France early on Monday.  ♦ France was dealing with a “terrorist army”, rather than a single terrorist group.

(Via BBC) […] “We know that operations were being prepared and are still being prepared, not only against France but other European countries too,” he said, quoted by AFP news agency.

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And by try, we mean generally failing miserably. 

By now almost everyone has awakened to how media manipulates and advocates.  It is very easy to see who corporate media support, both democrat and republican, and also increasingly easier to see why.

As an example the Wall Street Journal support Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.  National Review also support Bush / Rubio – the establishment selections.  However, ideological alignment, and specific intent to create candidate benefit, should be noted and given attention when various levels of nuance are noticed.

There is another aspect that needs to be discussed regarding espoused views of “conservative media”. Everyone should pay attention to the Super-PAC spending, and campaign spending, as it relates to opinions that ultimately come from those media entities.

There is massive campaign spending taking place particularly amid talk radio formats (Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, and Salem Media Networks as examples), it is disingenuous in the extreme not to notice the espoused views from punditry are impacted by the financial benefits afforded them via campaign, and special interest, ad revenues. (more…)