Good Fellowship at IHR Annual Christmas Gathering
Written by Paul Fromm
Friday, 28 December 2012 04:56
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Good Fellowship at IHR Annual Christmas Gathering

ORANGE COUNTY. December 15, 2102. The meaning of Christmas and
gratitude for the growing fellowship of like minded freethinkers in
Southern California were the themes of the annual Christmas party held
by the Institute for Historical Review. Guests came from as far away
as Las Vegas and San Diego.

IHR Director Mark Weber was the host of the potluck supper and
reflected on the growth over the past four years of an expanding and
cohesive circle of people in Southern California who gather for
frequent IHR meetings. There is always a lively synergy among younger
and older members.

Special guest Paul Fromm from the Canadian Association for Free
Expression reflected on that amazing story of the spontaneous truces
that broke out along the Western Front at Christmas, 1914, when
British and German soldiers sang Christmas carols, shared food and
even played soccer. "There was a tremendous wisdom and good common
sense," Mr. Fromm noted. "Deep down these men saw one another as
coming from a common culture. there was an inner reluctance about the
coming slaughter. This was a fratricidal war that did much to weaken
and ruin European man" for the benefit of manipulators and outsiders.

Mr. Fromm discussed the attack on Christmas. "I find it dumbfounding
that such a good and gentle feast can come in for such attack and
shunning. Some religions celebrate the massacre of their enemies or,
in the case of Judaism's Passover, the death of every firstborn
Egyptian male. How can such a tragedy, if, indeed, it happened be a
cause for feasting and joy? On the other hand, Christmas celebrates
the birth of a Saviour. It is a gentle feast of joy and giving," he
added.

The attack on Christmas, he pointed out, came in two assault waves.
The first hit in the 1940s and 1950s. Songs, many written by Jewish
writers like Irving Berlin, erased Christ -- songs like "White
Christmas", "City Bells", "Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer." Now, there
was nothing wring with these songs in themselves," he explained. "They
celebrated a secular or folk aspect of Christmas, but they downplayed
or erased the core reason for Christmas -- the birth of Christ."

The second wave of the assault has occurred over the past 20 years.
Businesses and government and the trendy have replaced "Merry
Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons' Greetings." Not many of
us celebrate a season, Mr. Fromm added, "like snow and ice where I
come from. Merchants know very well people are buying their
over-priced imported Chinese junk because they celebrate Christmas,
not a holiday or season. People have been conned in the name of
inclusiveness or exclude the beliefs and celebrations of the Majority.

Mr. Fromm concluded by urging people to use the leverage of their
custom with merchants to insist that the word "Christmas" be used in
their signage and greetings.

Many comments were made about the fine dishes offered to the
attendees. Mr. Fromm especially commented on a spicy Jambalaya-like
Louisiana dish prepared by Miss Cathleen. "It reminds me of the
Jambalaya Louisiana Council of Conservative Citizens chairman Herb
Price used to serve down at baton Rouge," Mr. Fromm praised.

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Wow! We Need More Immigrants like Quxia Lin to Hit the Food Banks!
Written by Paul Fromm
Friday, 28 December 2012 04:28
Wow! We Need More Immigrants like Quxia Lin to Hit the Food Banks! Here's
another typical CBC propaganda story -- poor immigrants, they're not doing
so well and, embedded in all this is the suggestion that somehow it's OUR
fault. Ironically, it IS our government's fault for letting such poorly
screened losers into Canada in the first place.

Let's look a little more closely and find what broadcaster commentator
Paul Harvey used to call "the rest of the story."

Here's the essence of the CBC story: "Every Saturday morning, like
millions of other Canadian families, Quxia Lin and her children, Emily and
Aiden, do their grocery shopping. But it's not like Lin, who was born in
China, gets into a car to drive to the supermarket. Statistically, Lin and
her kids are more likely to rely on food banks than the average Canadian.

Recent studies show that a disproportionate number of recent immigrants use
food banks. Among the million people in Canada who used food banks on a
daily basis this year, almost half of them were children and new
immigrants. Some experts suggest that poverty in Canada is becoming more
“racialized,” especially in urban centres like Toronto, Vancouver and
Montreal. ...



Right now, Lin makes a thousand dollars a month on maternity benefits.
Before two-month-old Aiden was born, Lin made minimum wage in a clothing
factory and Emily, 3, went to subsidized daycare. They share a small
apartment in downtown Toronto with Lin's sister, Lisa, who pays half the
rent. The $600 a month that Lisa gets as a refugee claimant is the only way
they can afford to live in the flat.

Quxia Lin and her siblings grew up on a farm near Quanzhou, China. That's
where she learned to cook meals like chicken parts, Chinese greens and
rice, which are a cheaper option than buying pre-packaged food. The only
way Lin can make ends meet now is by stocking up at the local food bank on
things that she can't afford to buy, such as diapers, fresh milk and
formula. After rent, she has only a couple of hundred dollars a month to
live on. ...

Lin's sister, Lisa, is both a volunteer and someone who relies on the food
bank to take groceries back to the house. Quxia Lin says she had high
hopes when she first came to Canada as the new wife of her Chinese-Canadian
husband in 2001. But she says the marriage broke down in 2006 when she
brought her mother from China to stay with them. When her mother got sick
with cancer, Lin’s brother and sister came over and applied for refugee
status; both were denied. Their mother died in a Toronto palliative care
hospital in 2010. Lin’s brother was sent back to China in November 2011,
and now her sister will go back in January.

Quxia is understandably worried about where she will live when her sister
goes back to China in January. 'Maybe I need to move out soon because my
sister is going back to China and the rent is so expensive,' Quxia says." (
*CBC.CA*, December 21, 2012) Boo, hoo.



Well what doesn't add up here?



Hope the CBC didn't run this story hoping to garner more support for food
banks and a broken immigration system.

If Lin's marriage broke up 6 years ago, who and how many fathered BOTH
children? How did two "refugee" claimants whose cases have not even been
decided, bring over ailing mother?

If her family means so much to Lin, why not follow her failed refugee
siblings home?

When she was in China, did she get as many freebies as she is getting in
Canada -- health care, food banks, $1,000 per month? The fact that she has
to walk to the store seems to be a big deal for the person that wrote this
story

Schools are overcrowded and struggle with ESL needs, large parts of our
cities are ghettos. European Immigrants who came before (up until the
1970s) didn't get any handouts, they contributed to the.land. Now, except
for a few, most of the immigrants here just end up in public housing or on
welfare

Also some immigrants who come from other countries find it strange that
they can go and get food for free rather than buy it, The concept of food
banks is a good one but easily abused.

Lin and her husband flew to Canada from China in 2001. In 2006, her mother
flew to Canada to join them. Her marriage broke down in 2006, Yet, she has
a three year old child and a two month old month old baby. Who and where
are the fathers of these children? It seems that there are three!

After her mother became ill with cancer (and subsequently died in 2010),
she brings over her sister and her brother. Who paid for their plane ticket
from China? Did both her brother and sister get $600.00 a month as refugee
claimants when they arrived before 2010? And, by the way, what did Mommy
Dearest's palliative care cost the Canadian taxpayer who often faces long
waits for medical treatment in the medical system he and his ancestors have
long paid into.

Something just doesn't add up with this story!!

Seems to me this isn't an immigration issue, but a poor life decisions
issue. She comes here from China. Then, her husband leaves her. Fine, that
happens. Then she proceeds to try to bring the rest of her family here
without having the ability to support them, including her ailing mother who
*wink wink nudge nudge* totally didn't have cancer before getting here. In
the meantime, she had two kids with someone other than her ex-husband when
she can barely support herself.

The only immigration issue is the part in the middle, but all of the others
she tried to bring here were rejected by immigration.

Other things don't add up. She has to get more than the asserted $1000 a
month. She gets $1,000 for maternity. Plus she would get Child Tax. She
would get the maximum amount about $300 per child and since her children
are under 7, she would also get another $100 per child at the end of each
month for "healthy kids" benefit. So, that's another $800 a month there.
Then, the maximum amount for GST rebate every three months probably
adds another $200 there. So she technically brings in about $1800 a month
and her sister another $600 and whatever she makes doing odds and ends or
under the table) that's $2400. That we know of.

She makes more than many a born and raised Canadian -- thanks ti the
Canadian taxpayers and our woeful immigration selection system..

We have selfishly mortgaged our grandchildren's future by saddling them
with crushing debt. We are also mortgaging them culturally and socially.
The Canada they grow up in will be foreign and very different from the
traditional Canada most of us once knew. And that...sucks. No people other
than Westerners would ever allow this to happen, who actually claim to look
forward to that day when we are replaced in our own land.
.

So, if I were her, I'd stop bitching. She has it better than most
Canadians.

Oh this article mentions that it takes a while for new immigrants to get
used to their new country, to get 'stabilized' as put. How long does this
stabilization process take? She's been here for 12 years already. If she
doesn't get it by now, maybe we should send her back with her sister. Of
course, she does seem very cannily to understand what's on offer for free.


*Paul Fromm*
*Director*
*CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE*


Immigrant families increasingly likely to rely on food banks

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<http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/immigrant-families-increasingly-likely-to-rely-on-food-banks>

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[image: Immigrant families increasingly likely to rely on food banks]

Every Saturday morning, like millions of other Canadian families, Quxia Lin
and her children, Emily and Aiden, do their grocery shopping.

But it's not like Lin, who was born in China, gets into a car to drive to
the supermarket. She has to bundle her kids up for the 30-minute walk from
her one-bedroom apartment to the local food bank.

Statistically, Lin and her kids are more likely to rely on food banks than
the average Canadian.

Recent studies show that a disproportionate number of recent immigrants use
food banks. Among the million people in Canada who used food banks on a
daily basis this year, almost half of them were children and new
immigrants.


Some experts suggest that poverty in Canada is becoming more “racialized,”
especially in urban centres like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

Leonard Edwards, a professor at the University of Toronto’s
Factor-InwentashFaculty of Social Work, reports that one in three poor
people are
immigrants belonging to a visible minority group.

Making ends meet

Right now, Lin makes a thousand dollars a month on maternity benefits.
Before two-month-old Aiden was born, Lin made minimum wage in a clothing
factory and Emily, 3, went to subsidized daycare.

They share a small apartment in downtown Toronto with Lin's sister, Lisa,
who pays half the rent. The $600 a month that Lisa gets as a refugee
claimant is the only way they can afford to live in the flat.

Quxia Lin and her siblings grew up on a farm near Quanzhou, China. That's
where she learned to cook meals like chicken parts, Chinese greens and
rice, which are a cheaper option than buying pre-packaged food.

The only way Lin can make ends meet now is by stocking up at the local food
bank on things that she can't afford to buy, such as diapers, fresh milk
and formula. After rent, she has only a couple of hundred dollars a month
to live on.

Seeking nourishment

On any given day, almost half the people lining up at the Fort York Food
Bank in west-end Toronto are recent immigrants.

Ravi Sreedharan, the president and founding member of this offshoot of the
Daily Bread Food Bank, says the average income levels of the people who use
this facility are well below Statistics Canada's definition of the poverty
line.

They survive on an average of less than three dollars a day after rent.

Sreedharan, who volunteers at FYFB and works full-time as a manager at
Ernst & Young, says "new and recent immigrants have more challenges when
they first come to Canada finding that first job and struggling to get
started.

“It also can take a while before they get familiar with social programs on
offer. But once they find their feet, they stabilize and are less reliant
on food banks."

Every Saturday, the Fort York Food Bank is buzzing with people — many of
them Chinese seniors — in need of food and camaraderie.

Sreedharan says isolation among older immigrants is almost as problematic
as the concern about going hungry.

"A good number of [the people who come in] are surviving on limited
pensions from China, and this is where they socialize,” he says.

Sreedharan says he is proud of the way the Fort York Food Bank puts 95 per
cent of its resources "directly towards program delivery.”

Many of the volunteers at the FYFB have relied on food banks or still do.

Lin's sister, Lisa, is both a volunteer and someone who relies on the food
bank to take groceries back to the house.

Came with high hopes

Quxia Lin says she had high hopes when she first came to Canada as the new
wife of her Chinese-Canadian husband in 2001. But she says the marriage
broke down in 2006 when she brought her mother from China to stay with
them.

When her mother got sick with cancer, Lin’s brother and sister came over
and applied for refugee status; both were denied. Their mother died in a
Toronto palliative care hospital in 2010. Lin’s brother was sent back to
China in November 2011, and now her sister will go back in January.

Quxia is understandably worried about where she will live when her sister
goes back to China in January.

“Maybe I need to move out soon because my sister is going back to China and
the rent is so expensive,” Quxia says.
 
Ho! Ho! Ho! And a Jolly Merry Christmas from The Radical Press
Written by Paul Fromm
Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:52
Ho! Ho! Ho! And a Jolly Merry Christmas from The Radical Press
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1788
December 25, 2012


Dearest Readers,
Well, it’s Ho! Ho! Ho! time again and the season to be jolly!
To say the least it’s been one very interesting, challenging year for
myself, my dear wife and The Radical Press.
Seeing as how today is Christmas and a time to celebrate the birth of the
Christ Consciousness within the Heart of Humanity I shan’t go into all the
gory details surrounding the events of the past ten months or so. Suffice
it to say that they have been enlightening in numerous ways as most things
are these days.
I just want to take a few minutes to express my sincere thank you to all of
the courageous, wonderful, outstanding, loving, kind, conscientious,
generous people who have put their shoulder to the wheel in one form or
another to help me in this struggle to retain the right to freedom of
expression on the Internet in Canada. They know, as I well know, that we’re
all in this together in one way or another and that what happens to me
personally in terms of Regina’s attempt to jail me and silence my
constitutional rights will affect every other Canadian who values the same
ideals and principles that I do.
Those who are attempting to pull this caper off under the guise of their
“Hate Crime” laws will never succeed. Everywhere we look nowadays we’re
seeing the fabric of their endless lies unraveling before the public eye
and no amount of “laws” designed to shield them from criticism will work.
The Truth will come out one way or another.
While it’s not New Year’s eve yet I think I can safely say that given the
political climate here in Canada at this point in time that 2013 does not
bode well in terms change occurring in a peaceful, harmonious fashion. Just
watching some of the IdleNoMore videos taken over the past few days by the
Indigenous folks across Canada is a strong indication that at least one
segment of Canadian society is now fed up with PM Harper and his
treacherous, deceitful manner of selling off the nation to foreign
interests. My hope is that the rest of the country will stand behind and
join with the indigenous people and back their demands as well as the
demands of the non-native population who are also fed up with all the lies.
For today though I wish the best of the Christmas season to everyone and
pray that our hopes and dreams for a better world will only grow that much
stronger during these quiet days preceding the New Year.
Blessings, Love and Peace to all,

*Arthur Topham*
*Publisher & Editor*
* The Radical Press*
*“Digging to the root of the issues since 1998″*
 
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