Winter ice path - Illegals easily enter Detroit

From the files of Hank Richards, editor at Truth Serum and PRonlineNews ***

Frozen Detroit River with Canada and U.S. Highlighted at Belle Isle

When the Governor of the State of Michigan, Rick Snyder, said 'bring on those Syrian refugees - we'll take 10,000 of them,' he really meant it because the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program pays dollar sums per head and the funds received have no restrictions on their use. Some might say it sounds like Snyder was putting in an order for slaves?

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Governor Snyder recently changed his mind about the Syrian refugees when his office was inundated with citizen calls and state politicians protested that the refugees could not be vetted to insure the safety of state residents.

The City of Hamtramack, Mayor Karen Majewski, said 'we used to have a population of about 45,000 people but it has dwindled leaving us room for about 20,000 and we don't care where they migrate from.'

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Hamtramack adjoins Detroit, Michigan and is the first known U.S. city to have a majority of Muslims elected to its city council. It is now nicknamed "Shariaville" - a name that gets reinforced every time the 'call to prayer' echoes across the loud speakers from the numerous mosques in the city.

Detroit City Mayor Mike Duggan's office refused to answer any of our questions on immigration even when we provided the questions staged for an interview with the mayor.

Our bottom line was that Truth Serum already knew the answers since Detroit is a sanctuary city and will protect its residents even if they entered the city illegally.

Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, put out the welcome mat for refugees and some estimates reveal that Canada will take in as many as 20,000 by the end of February, 2016.

What happens in February of each year along the north border of Canada and the U.S. - well, the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers plus the St. Lawrence Seaway as well as Lake Ontario tributaries freeze over and provide border crossings as close as 1/2 mile in some places along the waterways.

Ariel View of the Windsor-Detroit-Hamtramack Connection 

Can an illegal border crossing occur in Detroit? Certainly! All a refugee has to do is walk across the ice from Windsor to the sanctuary city of Detroit. By continuing another 3 miles to Hamtramack, the refugee is almost a resident of a U.S. city run by a Muslim government.

Upon registration as a refugee and guaranteed domicile by the participating municipality, that person entering the U.S. illegally is entitled under law to food, health insurance, education and a place to live while you pay the bill through your tax dollars.

So how feasible is this notion to walk across the frozen waterways?

During Prohibition the supply of alcohol from Ohio dried up. Bootleggers turned to Canada which had favorable liquor laws.

Smugglers began trafficking bootlegged liquor across the Canadian border and into Michigan via the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and other waterways between Michigan and Ontario, an area which became known as the “Windsor/Detroit Funnel.”

When the rivers and lakes froze in February, smugglers simply drove across them or skated across the ice, dragging sleds full of whiskey behind. By the time Prohibition took effect nationally, the residents of Michigan and Ontario were well versed in bootlegging, and they perfected their trade during the next 13 years.

Seventy-five percent of all the alcohol smuggled into the United States during Prohibition crossed the border at the Windsor/Detroit Funnel. By 1929 rum running was Detroit’s second largest industry, netting $215 million per year in 1929 dollars.

What will 2016 bring in terms of immigration to the U.S.? No one knows for sure but it seems to have body trafficking written all over it. You need only to do the logical thing - Follow The Money.

What will the responsible state leadership do about intended illegal migration?

Nothing because they will eventually get paid their finders fee, courtesy of the tax payer, per head for each refugee that is registered.

What is the outcome for the refugees . . . they become a burden of the state and federal government and that means you get to support them with your tax dollars and can't even claim them as an exemption when your tax filing date rolls around in April.

*** Editors note - when the basis for this story was presented to each identified government official in December, they all refused comments and quotes.

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Arctic oil and gas: America's new cold war

America is falling behind in the new cold war over Arctic oil and gas from Marita Noon at Energy Makes America Great, Inc.

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President Obama’s newly announced plans to designate one of the largest oil fields in U.S. as “wilderness,” is foolhardy at best—and may be anti-American at worst. When you look at the bigger story, you have to wonder whose side he stands on in the new “cold war.”

In a YouTube video, Obama called on Congress to set aside all of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness—which would prohibit motorized access, road construction, and halt “any chance of oil exploration.”

The January 25 announcement, according to the Washington Post (WP): “is just the first in a series of decisions the Interior Department will make.” It reports: “The Department will also put part of the Arctic Ocean off limits to drilling … and is considering whether to impose additional limits on oil and gas production in parts of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.”

The WP headline about the Obama Administration’s proposal states: “Alaska Republicans declare war.” Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who chairs both the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, has vowed to “Fight back with every resource at our disposal” and to “hit back as hard as we can.”

Other than ratcheting-up the rhetoric, not much will actually change with the new announcement, as ANWR is currently off limits to drilling—though the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act set aside the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain for possible future oil-and-gas development, and Alaska’s lawmakers from both parties have been trying to open it up to oil exploration for decades. Congress would have to approve Obama’s “wilderness” request and that has no chance of happening.

But it does bring the story to the forefront and, as Mother Jones’s Kevin Drum points out: ANWR is now “something that everyone has to take a stand on.” We now know (as if there were any question) where President Obama stands, he aligns with the environmental activists who delight in the “pro-protection stance.” “The administration’s proposal,” according to Politico, “reflects Obama’s shift to the left on environmental issues.”

But not only Alaskans and Republicans prepare for a battle over Arctic oil-and-gas resources.

The Russians are militarizing the Arctic and building bases near Alaska and reopening others that they closed at the conclusion of the cold war. The former-Soviet government introduced new nuclear attack submarines—the first of which joined the Northern Fleet in June—and has 25 icebreakers (compared to our 2) that are necessary to navigate Arctic waters.

The actions form part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to establish a strategic command in Russia’s “Arctic Zone.” The Moscow Times (MT) reports: “Putin sees control of the Arctic as a matter of serious strategic concern for Moscow.

Below the Arctic lies vast stockpiles of largely untapped natural resource reserves.” The MT continues: “Russia is vying for control of the region’s oil, gas and rare metals with the other ‘polar nations’ — Canada, Denmark, Norway and the U.S.—leading many observers to point at the region as one of the world’s most volatile flashpoints.”

As ice has melted and drilling technology has advanced, Arctic reserves become more accessible. Companies from the five countries that border the Arctic rushed to secure rights to drill.

The countries also make their own claims. The Fiscal Times explains: “Putin’s military expansion was in direct response to a claim of additional land by” Canada. Russia, Denmark, and Canada have overlapping territorial claims and, despite international law that declares no country has sovereignty over the North Pole, each is claiming ownership of it—making the Arctic the potential new “cold war.”

In response to Russia’s Soviet-style military build-up, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested: “Russian President Vladimir Putin has ‘determined that, for Russia’s neighbours, there shall be no peace,’ and said ‘because Russia is also Canada’s neighbour, we must not be complacent here at home.’”

While other countries race for the resources, the U.S., under Obama, backs away from ours—let alone any access to any additional claims. Last year, then Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) said: “The Obama Administration should make the Arctic more of a priority.”

In an interview with Fox News, he quipped: “It’s like they’ve never heard of it.” Addressing Russia’s push to “protect oil-and-gas fields,” The Fiscal Times claims: “The Pentagon has fallen behind.”

Regarding Obama’s January 25 ANWR announcement, Erik Milito, director of upstream and industry operation for the American Petroleum Institute, said: “It sends the wrong signal to Alaskans, the industry and the world. … These are strategic assets and the U.S. should be leading the way in the development of these resources.”

Now, you should be asking yourself: “What is Obama thinking? Why has he pulled America back and taken off the table an opportunity to protect us from a global oil market that remains beyond our control?” The answer: because as the MT states: “Arctic oil exploration is vehemently contested by environmentalists.”

Next, you should ask: “How have environmental activists been able to take control of American energy policy?” The answer: as the New York Times reports is apparently the case in Europe, “Lots of money from Russia.”

In a Washington Free Beacon story that reads like a spy thriller, Lachlan Markay reveals how Russian money in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars is laundered through Bermuda and doled out to anti-fossil fuel, anti-fracking groups like the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and John Podesta’s Center for American Progress—which serves as an incubator for ideas that become Obama Administration policy.

Markay cites a report from the DC-based Environmental Policy Alliance that details, with documentation, how it is all done.

The anti-American accusation may be a bit of hyperbole—but, then again, maybe not. When you connect the dots, it seems clear that President Obama is doing Russia’s bidding—through his environmental allies—at the expense of America’s economic and energy security. We find ourselves in a new cold war (pun intended) over Arctic resources, and our president appears to be on the side of the enemy.

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The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the companion educational organization, the Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). She hosts a weekly radio program: America’s Voice for Energy—which expands on the content of her weekly column.

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