these questions because again it's about connection I was in um Israel and Palestine earli this year for a US Consulate event and I actually got to visit Romola palestin in the West Bank I got to speak in a Jerusalem and then Igot to go to Tel Aviv so I got to see both sides and there's a lot of conflict there for for for for a long time and so
uh punished for treason uh tortured and in some cases executed so so the project was to help four teenagers get into the British Consulate in Shanghai and uh you know again long story in in the book I go into much more detail uh I researchedthe route thoroughly um and eventually we decided that this is the this is the best bet we took the journey from
And I went house to house, door to door, for leftover food in the mornings and nights. and consulates in China, in order to try to leave the country that way.
in Chengdu at the time. But the US Consulate General, he had his office there, and he also lived in that building.
to South Korea and I uh again once again deeply moved by their story wanted to help them get there to Soul I I be researched embassies and consulates again and everyone said it's a dangerous route right now uh it's dangerous Chinese police they they know what's going on they've hidden security um it's not a good idea so the other route was to take the full 6,000 miles into
Mm-hmm. I would have been like, tell me all the stories. So I went to the Cuban consulate .
But that's your public resource. And he works at the Panamanian Consulate in New York City.
But that's your public resource. It's at the Panamanian Consulate in New York City.
I started working for the embassy of Yemen in Washington. Then I moved to the consulate section. The story behind Mama Lamees is I end up as a domestic violence victim and a single mom with three wonderful kids.
They were so sweet. I'm the Official Vatican Consulate , or whatever the hell I am, to the pope on humor.
that's that's pretty much the idea here here you see a picture which is a cover of my book and you see North Koreans trying to get into the Japanese Consulate in Shenyang China in Northeast China and you see Chinese guards tackling this mother uh if you can make it in safely then you know you you'll make it to South Korea if not you'll be
she should have to make a choice between life and death and uh risk it all for Freedom well anyway we made the journey and um into the British Consulate uh I you know I had pushed them in we you know we made the walk over together they made it safely in I made made my Escape uh Reuters reported that they safely went in the rest of this article said
How can they engage with their own government to help influence their own sales locally? So reaching out to the consulates -- how do you get involved? How do you know that some of these deal opportunities are happening early on in the game?
Well, not surprisingly, rates go down. Does it mean setting up a meeting at the consulate , or the embassy?
is a topic that everybody in this room wants to hear more about. And I think that the team at the consulate put together probably one of the best panels you could ever find, probably in the world, to talk about it. So I'm going to introduce people, and I'm going to start with Jeff Sachs, who, personally, I've never actually met.
What I love about the court decisions of those days is that it said that even if you're a person who has not yet even set foot on United States soil-- that you had gone to a consulate in Dubai or in Turkey and had gotten a visa, and you're in an airplane coming to the United States-- you're still protected by the Constitution of the United States.
And I went house to house, door to door, for leftover food in the mornings and nights. were able to help him to get into this consulate .
But that's your public resource. We can't do law enforcement operations inside consulates and embassies in the United States, mostly because if we do it to them, they'll do it to us.
I also host a weekly radio show on Sirius XM called "Healthcare Connect." I'm really excited to be here today. I was asked by a good friend of mine from the Danish consulate in New York to host, moderate a panel on happiness, which I think is a topic that everybody in this room wants to hear more about.
And I went house to house, door to door, for leftover food in the mornings and nights. But Joseph was an individual who was able to go in through a consulate , actually, in China.
air battering at her windpipe. Then they've arrived. The alien consulate is midfab, its hairy fractal edges radiating heat as nanites grab matter out of the sky to add to it.
Railroad and there's two methods in the next slide I'll talk about uh one of the methods this one um was to get them into a foreign Embassy or Consulate in China so uh the name of the game is if you can get them safely in to a foreign Embassy or consulate that's sympathetic to the
my cell phone and laughing it felt like a slumber party than you know hanging out all night staying up and when we got into Shanghai I asked them last meal before we go into the British Consulate what do you want to eat they said whatever you want teacher Kim uh in the Korean culture teacher is a respectful way to address somebody and I said have
And as you heard from Ross, it's a novel about people who are in a life-threatening situation. A group of people, all of them strangers to each other, go to an Indian consulate to get visas to go to India. They all want to go to India for different reasons.
And they never came to North Africa. All over Europe, there were consulates from those countries that issued passports because they knew of this exchange policy.
But that's your public resource. And it turned out-- his name was Francisco Iglesias-- he was the actual Consul General for an Panamanian Consulate in New York City.
having to go to Brazil, at which point his passport was confiscated illegally by the American consulate .
I checked with the Jews-- I mean, the Jewish consulate .
in Chengdu at the time. I used US diplomatic cables as one of the sources, because the US had a Consulate General in Chengdu at the time.
He, before the revolution, worked at the British consulate .
I'll close with a very interesting thing that, when Benghazi happened-- our consulate was attacked, and Chris was killed, and three other people were killed, and Cairo embassy was
methods this one um was to get them into a foreign Embassy or Consulate in China so uh the name of the game is if you can get them safely in to a foreign Embassy or consulate that's sympathetic to the North Koreans they can get be flown to South Korea and be granted their freedom uh be given Refugee status in South
uh given their freedom and shortly after that they had gotten in I got a call uh from a Government contact in Beijing saying Mike I've heard some stuff uh the Chinese PSB their FBI they have footage of you from the embassy the consulate building uh they have your picture they're looking for you uh get out of the country don't come back until I tell
did have a policy change uh we said you know we're going to focus on helping refugees live safely in China or return to North Korea I had observed that everybody doing this type of illegal border crossing or embassy consulate work was detained within a year and uh deported or imprisoned in China so I said we want to have a longer term
And I went house to house, door to door, for leftover food in the mornings and nights. But I think one of the strangest, or the funniest thing was that-- you know, when I was waiting in American consulate in China,
change the answer, so it is my pleasure to introduce to you Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Consul General of the Israeli Consulate in New York and a twenty year veteran