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Commentary by Phil Gurski
IF there was any doubt about what a Donald Trump presidency means for the U.S. over the next four years, and by extension for all of us, there is little doubt now. In the first week alone, a flurry of executive orders have been signed on a whole bunch of issues that Mr. Trump promised he would act on.
Of interest to me is, of course, the ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The Trump administration is selling this as a national security issue – a way to keep America and Americans safe.
But is it?
On the one hand, yes. Terrorists from those seven nations will be unable to enter the U.S. and carry out their heinous plots against innocent people.
The question, however, is: how many individuals who have carried out terrorist attacks in the U.S. after 9/11 came from those countries (or from any country for that matter) to execute their plans? To my knowledge, the answer is precisely – zero. Every attack has been perpetrated by either U.S. citizens or landed immigrants who radicalised almost entirely in the U.S. Hence, a ban on citizens from the listed countries would not have stopped a single incident.
Fact is, immigration has zero relationship to terrorism, absolutely zero.
As an aside, it is of interest that several countries are not on the list – i.e. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Given that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi, would it not have made sense to put that country on the list?
Immigration a lifeblood
Some would argue that since a few people who went on to commit terrorism in the U.S. were born elsewhere, a ban on Muslim immigration (Mr. Trump's denials notwithstanding, his act is exactly that) is justified. Perhaps, but immigration is a risk at the best of times.
How do we ensure that an immigrant does not become a murderer? A rapist? An embezzler? A wife abuser? A tax cheat? As there are no guarantees, maybe we should have no immigration at all.
I am kidding – immigration is the lifeblood of a society and the few negatives do not measure up to the many positives.
It is highly unlikely that this move by the new U.S. government will have any real effect on terrorism. Attacks will still be planned by those living in the U.S. A small number of Muslims will continue to be radicalised to violence in the U.S. Terrorism will remain a very rare tragedy.
Propaganda bonus
We must also not discount the propaganda bonus this gives actual terrorist groups like Islamic State. IS has long said that the West hates Islam and that Western governments do not want Muslims to live in their countries. As a result, Muslims must perform hijra (migrate) to a Muslim land. The Trump move underscores and supports what the terrorists are saying.
I am happy that Canada's Trudeau government is not going down that path. Canada is proudly a nation of immigrants, including Muslim ones, and will remain so, I hope.
Terrorism is real and requires real solutions. The Trump administration immigration ban is not one of them.
Phil Gurski worked for more than three decades in Canadian intelligence, including 15 at Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), and is the author of the Threat from Within and Western Foreign Fighters (Rowan and Littlefield). He blogs at http://www.borealisthreatandrisk.com/blog/
Commentary by Phil Gurski in Ottawa
Historically, amnesties have been offered to former combatants in an attempt to stop the violence and allow a country the chance to rebuild itself.
A really good example where an amnesty seemed to work would be in South Africa where it was part of that nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission post-Apartheid. On the other hand, amnesty for fighters was rejected in the recent Colombian referendum on ending the half century war with the FARC.
Amnesties can be hard to sell. Conflicts where hundreds or thousands of people have been killed by insurgencies or guerrilla movements or terrorists can result in acrimony and long memories where populations are unwilling to let those responsible for the violence get off lightly. This is what appears to have happened in the narrow defeat of the Colombian referendum.
A question that is being asked by some is whether we should consider offering an amnesty to returning foreign fighters with Islamic State. One such proposal was published recently by David Wells (full disclosure: Wells is an acquaintance and, like me, a former intelligence analyst). He wrote that by offering a "plea bargain" to those who are coming home disillusioned, security intelligence and law enforcement agencies could focus their limited resources on those who pose a real threat to their homelands upon return.
Brutality and inhumanity
Wells does offer a few cautionary statements about the difficulties of carrying out such an amnesty and I want to build on those (NB: more in my forthcoming book Western Foreign Fighters: the threat to homeland and international security).
To my mind, the single greatest obstacle to social acceptance of any form of amnesty for those who joined IS is the sheer brutality and inhumanity of the group's actions. Whether we are talking about beheadings, immolations, throwing people off roofs, raping girls or selling women into slavery, the depravity so rampant among IS members puts them in a special level of hell.
No one will want to see these animals get any break on the punishment they so richly deserve.
Compounding this problem is determining who did what in theatre. Aside from the really stupid ones who posted videos online boasting of their lust for violence and those even more stupid to return home – assuming they have not been Hellfired into oblivion (the best case scenario really) – we will probably not be able to determine who the worst actors are.
Gathering evidence
States will want to prosecute those guilty of war crimes, but unless we have posted videos as evidence, this will be very difficult. Gathering such evidence in a conflict zone like Syria is unquestionably a challenge and it is not as if we can rely on Syrian authorities for help (besides, given recent cases of Syrian-Canadian "collaboration" in several alleged torture incidents, Syrian assistance would be politically impossible even if it were offered).
Furthermore, what do we do with the confessions/denials of some returnees? While it is probable that there are legitimate instances of those who are disgusted with what they saw and may not have actually contributed to the horror, how do we make that determination? Whom do we believe?
In the end, the fact that these individuals have left Canada (or many other countries) to join IS (or other groups) is a criminal offence and it is in the interest of the state to pursue legal action where the evidence is available. Each case will have to be judged on its merits and there may be ones where an amnesty – or the decision not to take to trial – can be considered.
"Forgiving" populations
We do have one instance of this already in Canada when the Crown chose not to charge three young women from the Toronto area after they unsuccessfully tried to travel to Syria to join IS (they were interdicted in Egypt thanks to excellent police work on this end).
We also have to bear in mind that some of these ex-combatants will still pose a threat to our societies. We have already seen attacks carried out by returnees and we will see more. It is not unreasonable to predict that over the next five years or so our security intelligence and law enforcement agencies will be very busy trying to stop future attacks by returning terrorists.
I suppose that amnesties are feasible where there are at least some people on both sides of the conflict who can see the perspective and justification of violence from the other's point of view. And, yet, it is impossible to imagine a scenario where anyone views the actions of IS this way.
There are also significant differences in the nature of conflict where amnesties appear to have had a positive effect – say South Africa – versus ones where the "forgiving" population has not been beset by direct warfare in their own backyards. If you are not from Syria or Iraq, you have not witnessed the daily carnage caused by IS and are thus less willing to take a chance to end it by offering amnesty.
I fear that anyone who proposes forgiving returning terrorists will have a very tough job ahead of them. And, I am not sure that this is a good idea in the first place.
Phil Gurski worked for more than three decades in Canadian intelligence, including 15 at Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), and is the author of the Threat from Within and the forthcoming Western Foreign Fighters (Rowan and Littlefield). He blogs at http://www.borealisthreatandrisk.com/blog/
Book Review by Rosanna Haroutounian in Gatineau
The histories of Canadians are plentiful, rich, and complex. We can never know all of them, but even sharing just a few can open windows into many unknown pasts.
Coming Here, Being Here: A Canadian Migration Anthology brings together people's stories of arriving in Canada, as told through first-hand accounts and by those who have studied immigration and helped newcomers along the way.
Edited by Donald Mulcahy, this collection of stories about the immigration experience seems a long time coming. It is the first time I have had the chance to read about such a wide scope of experiences from across the country in one book.
On the other hand, this collection could not have come at a better time, as we seem of late to be in need of reminders about how integral these stories are to our national identity.
Struggles and successes
In the story titled "They Left Their Homes with Nothing, and Made a New Life with Hard Work," Dana Borcea shares the stories of some of the 6,000 Vietnamese refugees who came to Edmonton 25 years ago as "boat people." Learning about their struggles and successes, I could not help wondering what stories the newly arriving Syrian refugees will tell in 25 years about coming to Canada.
Like the stories of refugees from Vietnam, they will undoubtedly include working at menial jobs to support their families, struggling to learn a new language, and adapting to a new culture. Will they also realize their dreams for peace and belonging?
Another story I know will stay with me for a long time is "Prejudice," by Anton Capri. It recounts the author's arrival as a DP, or displaced person, in Canada after the Second World War. At his first baseball game, the other children laugh at the boy who can't hit the ball – except Dave, who becomes young Anton's first friend.
Anton feels guilty that the other students now shun both him and Dave, yet to his surprise Dave thanks him for being his friend. The impact of this short narrative is felt in its ending and for that reason cannot be revealed in a simple summary, but it is sure to leave readers pondering about the lengths and limits of that ugly word – prejudice.
Our privileged lives
The stories also present diverse viewpoints on the present state of immigration in Canada. Monica Kidd writes in "The Music of Small Things" about being "purple with rage" at the government after seeing the photo of the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi – a young boy who escaped the current violence in Syria, only to be swept up on a beach in Turkey.
"We lived privileged lives in a wealthy country and would find a way to sponsor a refugee family," Kidd decided with her friends.
Meanwhile, the prominent author Henry Beissel calls Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to settle 50,000 Syrian refugees in Canada in 2016 "hasty," adding that the government did so without regard for demographic and security concerns. His suggestion that this will lead to the creation of ghettos, the "breeding ground of discrimination and racism," contrasts with the image of a welcoming and pluralistic Canada described in an essay he delivered in 1985, also included in his contribution to this anthology, titled "No Country for a Master Race."
Story after story in this anthology illustrates the challenges people must overcome to arrive here, and how hard they must work to stay and ultimately belong here.
Inventing enemies
Even the notion that our values and customs are under threat seems to be challenged when in "Writing in French in Alberta," Laurent Chabin points out: "No one threatens a language that is freely used, and there is no reason to invent enemies when all one really needs to do is practice and write in one's own language."
This can be said of all the traditions Canadians hold dear and fiercely protect. The best way to defend these qualities – which in my mind include equality, respect, and generosity – is to practice them freely.
As Batia Boe Stolar writes in "I Am an Immigrant," though they carry some burdens, the experiences of immigration should be accepted and acknowledged.
"Identifying myself as an immigrant is a self-conscious act that grants me a degree of agency, allowing me to exert some control over my identity," she writes.
"I must here confess that there is a part of me that sometimes relishes the fact I have a story to tell that others crave to hear…. My markings open doors and close others; they generate other stories about other people's experiences too."
Here's to hoping this collection of stories is a spark that ignites others to tell of the victories celebrated and hardships endured in coming to this country and calling it "Home."
Commentary by Steve Dooley in Surrey
A Surrey forum held earlier this year on helping Syrian refugees settle in our area started with an ice-breaker. Participants were asked to stand if they were born outside Canada.
About a third of the room stood.
They were next asked to stand if their parents were born outside the country. More stood.
Grandparents? More took to their feet.
And at great grandparents, nearly the whole room was standing.
In the multicultural dynamic that is Canada, we know that apart from our Aboriginal communities, all of us, at one point in our family lineage, came from somewhere else. And over the nearly 150 years of nation building, there have been many paths to becoming part of the Canadian fabric.
Some have been relatively easy, others, born of great tragedy – those fleeing war, trauma and abuse, not necessarily coming to Canada as a choice.
Eager to contribute
And with the picture of a lifeless child on a beach in Turkey, the world opened its eyes to the latest forced migration from Syria, with many Syrian refugees arriving in Canada over the past six months.
Many refer to the settlement of Syrian refugees as a crisis. There have been fears that federal government targets would overwhelm settlement services and host municipalities.
There have been many challenges in meeting immediate and short-term needs of refugees, who woke up after a long flight, finding themselves in this new place called Canada.
Long wait lists for English training, housing shortages, particularly for larger families, and lack of employment opportunities are very real problems being addressed in communities across Canada.
A recent experience I had with a small group of refugees in Surrey has led me to believe that far from a crisis, the settlement of new refugees in Canada is in fact a huge opportunity.
Being a good neighbour
As the lead researcher on a year-long, recently completed study involving Simon Fraser University and several community partners, I had the pleasure of working with seven recent refugees from Myanmar, Somalia, Iraq and El Salvador. They were recruited as project research assistants (RAs) to help set the study's scope, recruit participants, lead focus groups, interpret findings and participate in community planning.
While each had a personal story of tragedy and survival, they were eager to contribute, brought a broad set of skills and capacity to the work, and become leaders within their own communities.
The study, Our Community Our Voice: The settlement and Integration Needs of Refugees in Surrey, B.C., was a joint effort between SFU, the Surrey Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) and the City of Surrey.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada provided funding through the Surrey LIP. SFU's involvement exemplifies the University's commitment to engaging our communities, being a good neighbour and helping to solve issues that affect our communities.
Our report, which will help the city draft its settlement plan, spoke to the many issues facing refugees, and lays out a series of recommendations, from additional resources for new or existing programs targeting health, language, employment and housing, to improving how we communicate with refugees at all levels of the settlement process, and helping the community to better understand and engage with refugees during their transition.
Talents and dreams
No one understands this better than the refugees themselves, who deeply informed our discussions. And our RAs were the bridge.
In community development we often refer to skills development as "capacity building".
It was clear to me that these refugees brought a lot of capacity to the amazing work they did, and I was thrilled and humbled to have the opportunity to work with this stellar group of individuals.
There is still much work to be done, but these RAs showed us first-hand how the refugees coming to Canada bring far more than the label imposed on them. They have talents and dreams and hopes for their children.
And, while some will find their way back to their homelands, most will become part of the Canadian fabric, stay and make contributions to nation building.
Some will live quiet and simple lives, while others go on to become lawyers, doctors, nurses and teachers, or go into politics, start a new business venture, open a new media outlet.
They will build things, work in construction and on the factory floor. So will their children. But through the actions of daily living, all will contribute to the Canadian dynamic.
Based on Canadian history and my own experience from this study, I know, with time, there is space for opportunity to trump tragedy. It is not a crisis we have on our hands, but another in a long series of humanitarian support efforts that over time will lead to positive impacts on our neighborhoods, our cities and our nation.
Thirty years from now, in another community forum on how to support the latest wave of refugees, people will be asked to stand if they are born outside Canada. The Syrian refugees of today will stand thinking back on their own experiences of settlement.
And, they will lend a hand.
Steve Dooley has been the Executive Director of Simon Fraser University's Surrey campus for the past 3 years. Having developed his community based research interests over 20 years, he continues to address social and civic issues such as refugee settlement, poverty, and crime reduction. Steve co-chairs the City of Surrey's Poverty Reduction Coalition and sits on Surrey's Local Immigration Partnership (LIP).
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by Janice Dickson in Ottawa
Sitting cross-legged on a thin UNHCR mat covering a concrete floor and nursing her 14-month-old, Yasmeen Al-Alow was glad to be out of the jail that is Village 5 — Azraq's notorious camp-within-the-camp.
Surrounded by barbed wire, Village 5 and Village 2 are where new Syrian refugees were taken before Jordan sealed its borders. Those inside the villages haven't been allowed outside the wire for months. The Jordanian government fears the new arrivals pose a security threat to the other refugees in the camp. Containing new refugees in the prison-like camps is one way to decrease the chance of ISIS infiltration, authorities say.
Those living in Village 5 and Village 2 are virtual prisoners; unlike Syrian refugees who live in Azraq's other villages, they are not allowed to walk through the streets, to the supermarket, or anywhere at all.
The Azraq refugee camp, located in a remote, sweltering desert landscape southeast of the capital Amman, is home to nearly 40,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war. Half of Azraq's residents are children.
Most of the Syrians living in Villages 5 and 2 arrived from a desert region surrounded by sandbanks along the Jordanian border. The United Nations estimates that more than 85,000 people are stranded in Ruqban — a camp near the point where Jordan, Syria and Iraq meet — and Hadalat camp, 80 km to the west, where Al-Alow and her family were stranded for months.
iPolitics asked to visit Villages 5 and 2. A government official at the camp said it's forbidden, citing security reasons. Photos were not permitted, either.
Since November, the Canadian government has welcomed nearly 30,000 Syrian refugees. King Abdullah of Jordan told the BBC in February that his country is at the "boiling point" because of an influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. The king said the international community has to offer more help if it wants Jordan to continue taking refugees.
The Jordanian government compromised, however, and set up Village 5 in March. It was a move intended to help international aid agencies trying to expedite the admission of thousands of refugees, like Al-Alow, who were stuck waiting at the border.
Al-Alow, 21, and her husband Muhammed, 26, had been living in their new caravan in Village Six for just over a week. Two jugs of water and a small kettle sat atop the small table at the front of the caravan that serves as a kitchen.
Al-Alow said she and her family are refugees by accident. They left their home in Syria a few months ago with the intention of visiting family in Jordan — but when they arrived at the Syrian border, they had no choice but to live in the berm while they waited to get into Jordan. That wait took four months; by then, the smugglers who drove them to the Syrian border could not take them back home.
"My family came to visit from Kuwait and they were on the other side of the barbed wire," Al-Alow said via a translator. That visit lasted five minutes.
"We didn't talk. We just cried."
Kuwait has also sealed its borders, blocking Syrians from joining family members there.
Najwa Al-Shaikh, 32, and her four children arrived from Syria a few months ago; her family also lived in Village 5. Al-Shaikh's mother arrived beforehand so their caravan is quite homey. Her mother has set up a little convenience store where children come to buy candy.
Despite the 35-degree heat, Al-Shaikh offered me hot tea and sugar on a silver tray, a display of Syrian hospitality found in every caravan I visited.
Al-Shaikh said she and her young children waited in the desert for months with little food or water in harsh conditions before they were granted permission to enter Jordan.
Her husband was arrested by Bashar al-Assad's regime, she said. Sometimes, regime authorities tell her that her husband is still alive — other times they tell her he's been killed.
She gestured toward her 11-year-old daughter Ala, who pulled up her pant cuff to reveal a thin leg covered with scars.
"One of my daughters was killed by the regime, and Ala was injured by the rockets," she said. All Ala remembers is playing in the playground that day.
The situation in Azraq is "very bad," the young woman said. Her mother shook her head and suggested that in a month or two, her daughter will adjust.
Aecha Mohammed Shaban, 29, and her four children are thankful for the safety the camp offers.
"In the beginning it was very difficult to live here, how can we live here?" said Shaban, sitting on a long cushion which doubles as a bed for her and her children at night.
Suddenly, the sound of gunshots coming from a nearby military base shattered the desert silence. The children — who had been smiling by their mother's side — covered their ears and began to cry.
iPolitics' Janice Dickson visited Jordan from July 9 – July 25th. Dickson spent long days in Jordan's refugee camps talking to Syrian refugees about the challenges in the camps and their gruelling journey across the desert to get there.
Republished in partnership with iPolitics.ca
OTTAWA—Anthony Lake was in a Syrian hospital a few months ago watching surgery being performed on a sniper victim, whose age he could not determine because of the severity of the injuries.
Lake, the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund, watched the doctors pluck pieces of the patient's jawbone out of his shattered face using what he called "old instruments" in a setting he described as "sort of an operating room."
Epoch Times
OTTAWA—Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion says Canada has joined an international body seeking to broker an end to the Syrian civil war.
The International Syria Support Group includes 26 countries and organizations, including the United States and Russia, which are co-chairs of the body.
Dion says only a negotiated settlement can end the civil war and eliminate the destabilizing influence of the conflict, including the huge migrant populations surging into Europe.
Epoch Times
Commentary by Howard Ramos and Michael Ungar
In the fall of 2015, in the heat of a federal election, the country was deeply moved by images of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. No image had a greater emotional impact — or did more to influence Canada's decision to open its borders to these refugees — more than the picture of three year-old Alan Kurdi's lifeless body washed up on a Turkish shore.
That image, more than anything else, made Canadians' engagement with the Syrian refugee crisis a question of saving children and youth.
The new Liberal government maintained the previous administration's basic framework for refugees by prioritizing families, those from minority religious groups and those fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation. By March 1, Canada had accepted just over 26,000 refugees, with 58 per cent of the Syrian cohort being under the age of 25 — 48 per cent just 15 years old or younger. Another 10,000 refugees are expected to arrive before the end of 2016 with a similar age distribution.
So when we talk about Syrian refugees coming to Canada, we are talking largely about young people who have been living in refugee camps for a while, and have had limited or interrupted educations. Despite such obstacles, previous social science research tells us that we should expect many of these kids to do well, based on the experience of other refugee cohorts to Canada. In fact, refugee children have higher rates of post-secondary education than their Canadian-born peers; about 30 per cent of them attend university.
But we don't yet know whether we can assume this pattern of educational success will apply to the newly-arrived Syrians. Refugee children and their families face the risk of social and psychological problems as a result of the challenges they experience during resettlement.
Research has shown that refugee kids are likely to experience changes in family dynamics, struggles with mastering a new language and a new education system, racial discrimination, bullying and mental health challenges — both before and after they settle in their new homes.
Fortunately, these problems are all interrelated and preventable — with the right intervention. And Canada's extensive experience with refugee resettlement has made us experts on the subject.
One of our first priorities must be second language training. Empirical evidence shows that it takes refugee children years to develop fluency in either English or French at the level of their monolingual peers. Social integration and family stability also will be challenging for Syrian refugees, as it is for all migrants. Child-rearing techniques common in Syria — such as leaving children with siblings — will pose challenges for refugee families. Child refugees also frequently become "cultural brokers" for their parents, shifting household power dynamics and introducing new understandings of children's rights. Despite the many advantages of settling in a new country, the associated changes to the structure and power balance of the family may negatively affect refugee children.
Beyond these broad problems (which are shared by many different groups of refugees), there's also the particular concern about radicalization of adolescent Syrian refugees — something that becomes a particular source of worry if we fail to meet their educational, mental, physical and social needs immediately after resettlement. The good news is that we have evidence-based options to prevent these problems before they occur, through social interventions in schools and communities and better public policies.
But alongside these interventions, we need to start investing now in research and program evaluation on refugee resettlement. If we can identify the protective factors that ensure the successful integration of children and youth over time, we'll be far better able as a country to reach out to other cohorts of forcibly displaced people. We'll also learn how to ensure that the immense potential of young refugees is tapped in a way that benefits them, their families and their new home.
Howard Ramos is a professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology, Dalhousie University. Michael Ungar is a Canada Research Chair in Child, Family, and Community Resilience, Dalhousie University.
by Susan Korah in Ottawa
Canada's foreign policy is caught in a precarious balancing act between the "sunny ways" of election promises and the realpolitik of weapons sales to countries with dubious human rights records.
In his new book, Two Freedoms: Canada's Global Future, former Senator Hugh Segal suggests a solution that he says is focused, principled, and based on two foundational principles – freedom from fear and freedom from want.
Segal's expertise in foreign policy was acquired through more than 30 years of involvement in foreign and security policy. This included chairing the Senate Foreign Affairs and Special Anti-Terrorism committees and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies, as well as a serving term as President of the Institute for Research and Public Policy (IRPP), a non-partisan think tank and research institution.
Introducing his book at a launch hosted by the IRPP in partnership with the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, he explained that while he has the highest regard for some of Canada's hardworking diplomats and other foreign service personnel, he is concerned that foreign policy is a mess of shifting priorities swinging from right to left, according to the ideology of the government that happens to be in power.
His aim, he said, is to give some clarity and direction to foreign policy, which in his opinion, should not be dependent on party politics.
The launch took the form of a conversation between Segal and Jennifer Ditchburn, Editor-in-Chief of Policy Options, the magazine affiliated with IRPP.
More foreign aid
Elaborating on freedom from want, Segal said it is in Canada's interest to see that families, communities and nations around the world live in reasonable prosperity, buoyed by a sense of hope for the future.
"Living in a state of economic and social despair can produce huge and even cataclysmic consequences, not only for those living in despair, but for their neighbouring communities and countries," he pointed out, adding that the total absence of hope leads to violent behaviour based on a "nothing-to-lose" attitude.
"Putting those two freedoms – freedom from want and from fear – at the centre of our foreign policy would make it more coherent and the world would understand better what we stand for as Canadians," Segal said.
He added that if extreme poverty is the root cause of violence, we have to ask ourselves what we can do to diminish this cause.
"I think that both in terms of foreign aid and international development and in terms of doing our fair share militarily, we are not doing enough," he said. "In the [Prime Minister] Lester Pearson era we contributed 0.7 per cent of our gross domestic product (GDP) to foreign aid, but in recent years our numbers have been much lower."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently pledged to boost funding to the global fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, but said Ottawa will not meet the goal to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid anytime soon.
Increase military capacity
Another key point that Segal makes in his book and highlighted at the event, is that Canada needs to reinforce its values-based foreign policy with an appropriate military capacity.
"We have a great military, but we need more of them," he said. "Canada should probably have Armed Forces of 150,000, of which 100,000 are regular forces and 50,000 are reserves rather than our present number which is in the 50,000 to 60,000 range."
He said Canada also needs a 60-ship fighting navy, rather than one that has 20 or 30 ships, that can be deployed on humanitarian and diplomatic missions "to send a clear message about Canadian values."
Giving some examples of how such military strength could help Canadians and those abroad, Segal said, "We need to make sure the Chinese respect the territorial integrity of Taiwan and other people."
"Our failure to engage with [Bashar al-] Assad three or four years ago is why we have such a horrendous situation now," he added, referring to the ongoing civil war in Syria.
Using a Western Canadian expression, he said: "We have a big hat, but no cattle," a reference to cowboys whose boastful talk is not matched by action or even the capacity for action.
Decline since Chrétien era
"There has to be more cohesion between our foreign policy and defence policy," he emphasized.
Segal's central thesis is strongly reminiscent of a 2003 publication While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World by Ottawa writer Andrew Cohen. Both authors lament the decline of Canada's foreign policy and its military, especially since the glory days of Prime Minister Pearson.
Both consider that it took a turn for the worse under the leadership of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Segal points out that in that era, by sending delegations of Canadian business people and politicians around the world to increase trade, it became necessary to tread carefully so that no potential trading partner would be offended.
Both Segal and Cohen call for a values-based approach.
"The notion that this book might contribute to that debate in some constructive way would be my fondest hope," said Segal.
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by Rana Bose
An interview with Jooneed J. Khan
Jooneed J. Khan is a journalist, writer and human rights activist. Born in Mauritius, he was for 35 years a reporter and analyst on international affairs for the Montréal daily La Presse. He co-founded the MMM* movement in Mauritius, was often fired from his teaching jobs and did some jail time there. He also reported from some 60 countries. He is now retired but more active than ever, and is a grandfather. Serai editor Rana Bose sat down with him in an interview.
RB: The complexities of the situation in and around Syria, the geopolitics, the opportunistic alliances and the brutal effect on the civilian masses are now well known. The overwhelming and catastrophic images of refugees, fleeing civilians and daily mass drownings in the Mediterranean have made this situation an intense mainstream concern today. It has become, as in times before, an exercise in competitive benevolence. We are waiting for another "We are the World" recording session! How can this charitable disposition be politicized into a better understanding of why people are fleeing? Is it because they feel persecuted as a "tribe" or are they simply fleeing violence in their lives?
-- Canada's economic development minister Navdeep Bains at a Public Policy Forum economic summit


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Residual Claims and Incentives in Restaurant Chains
I examine the relationship between ownership and production activities using a new dataset of restaurant chains. Production in restaurant chains provides an opportunity to examine the effects of residual claims on incentives because production is decentralized and fairly uniform across restaurants in the same chain. Yet the allocation of residual claims varies between company-owned and franchised units, affecting the strength of incentives for restaurantlevel activities. The decision to own or franchise each restaurant reflects the value of either withholding or allocating residual claims for performing these activities. I find that more complex production activities are systematically correlated with company ownership. Onsite food production raises the likelihood of company ownership by 28% relative to offsite food production. Table service raises the likelihood of company ownership by 26% relative to counter service. The results are not consistent with straightforward effort-promoting effects of residual claims in simple principal agent models. They are consistent with the view that residual claims can generate unbalanced incentives across diverse tasks.
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Yes, I know this blog is supposed to be about restaurant reviews and product reviews. It's also about happenings around the area. There's been no bigger happening around here lately than the Turncoat Lame Kiffin beating a hasty retreat back to USC in sunny southern California.
Apparently life for former UT Vols coach Lane Kiffin is not always a bed of roses. A friend of mine who lives near USC assured me that they are not happy either. Apparently for at least some USC football fans the record Lane Kiffin has speaks for itself. After you make fans mad on both sides of the country where do you go to coach? I don't know why I'm wondering that. Given this guy's record of holding down a job we'll no doubt find out the answer soon enough. (But that's another blog article.)
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Tobiano with....? 528 Attachment(s) I have a paint mare, that I have always been curious to what other pattern she has in her. Or at least to me it seems like she does. Attachment 109504 Attachment 109505 Attachment 109506 Attachment 109507 |
Sabino, and possibly frame. The body white looks like it is trying to go along her barrel. |
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One Reason Why False Rape Allegation Statistics Are So High
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Men, even good men, believe women lie about rape. There's this myth that runs amok saying that some enormous proportion of rape accusations are just women lying to get attention, or revenge, or to hide their summer fling from mommy and daddy. And they believe it without question.
When male friends toss that grenade at me, I toss it back by asking if they know what the percentage is. "Fifty percent," they'll say, or above, depending on which MRAs their stats are coming from.
"It's two to eight percent," I say, and I need to remember to never do this when they're walking or have something in their mouths, because the good ones are always staggered, and they always gasp. "But even those numbers are on the high side."
Feminism Friday: What can I do, right now today, to help stop sexual violence
It is frustrating to live in a society where sexual violence is commonplace, and feel helpless to stop it. Many people are so disgusted and frightened for themselves and those they care about, that they do not have the patience to wait for our culture to right itself. It is from this frustration, impatience, and usually from a sincere worry for women's safety, that people often will try to pass along rape prevention measures that may or may not be useful. […]
Much of the safety advice that is given out is aimed at potential victims (quite often young women), that seems solid and constructive, but that largely ignores the social and societal context in which the violence happens, and also fails to take into consideration the practical realities of women's lives.
FAQ: Rape Culture 101
But my correspondents—whether they are dewy noobs just coming to feminism, advanced feminists looking for a source, or disbelievers in the existence of the rape culture—always seem to be looking for something more comprehensive and less abstract: What is the rape culture? What are its borders? What does it look like and sound like and feel like?
It is not a definition for which they're looking; not really. It's a description. It's something substantive enough to reach out and touch, in all its ugly, heaving, menacing grotesquery.
Feminism Friday: Popularity of long-debunked rape myths: talk about disheartening
Originally posted at Hoyden About Town The top link offered to me on Stumble-Upon for Women's Issues is this: Through a Rapists Eyes, a page on a rape-prevention site. Unfortunately, they are propagating misinformation, pure and simple. Some of you may recognise the opening paragraphs as one of those emails that gets forwarded around the […]


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Godolphin's Sajjhaa gamely drove between horses in the stretch to deny South African champion The Apache a win in the $300,000 Jebel Hatta (UAE-I), the finale on the Super Saturday card March 9.
Godolphin's Sajjhaa gamely drove between horses in the stretch to deny South African champion The Apache a win in the $300,000 Jebel Hatta (UAE-I), the finale on the Super Saturday card March 9.
Hunter's Light delivered Godolphin's 200th win at the top level when he captured the $400,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) on the Super Saturday card March 9 at Meydan.
U.S. turf standout Little Mike and 2012 Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) winner Monterosso headline the $400,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) on the Super Saturday card March 9 at Medyan.
South African star mare Igugu will be reunited with regular rider Anthony Delpech for the $300,000 Jebel Hatta (UAE-I) March 9 at Meydan as she returns to take on Godolphin's Sajjhaa, who defeated her two weeks ago.
The $200,000 Nad Al Sheba Trophy (UAE-III) attracted an intriguing 13-horse field, including globetrotting Jakkalberry, 2012 Irish St. Leger (Ire-I) victor Royal Diamond, and Saddler's Rock, who has shown impressive stamina.
Musir continues on the comeback trail March 2 at Meydan in search of his first win in more than a year in the $250,000 Zabeel Mile Sponsored by Stud Estreal Energia (UAE-II).
Shuruq won by a convincing four lengths in the $250,000 United Arab Emirates Oaks Sponsored by Al Dana Wealth Management (UAE-III) Feb. 28 at Meydan while leading in a one-two-three finish for Godolphin.
Godolphin's Now Spun gamely charged between horses in the stretch and tallied a 1 1/4-length win in the $150,000 Meydan Classic Sponsored by Shahrazad Ladies Banking Feb. 28 at Meydan in season debut.
Pat Cummings presents an analysis of racing Feb. 28 at the Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates. The card includes the $250,000 UAE Oaks (UAE-III).
Lovely Pass, who led a quartet of Godolphin runners across the finish line in the United Arab Emirates One Thousand Guineas earlier this month at Medyan, returns in the $250,000 United Arab Emirates Oaks UAE-III) Feb. 28.
Godolphin's Sajjhaa spoiled the highly anticipated return of South African Horse of Year Igugu in the Balanchine (UAE-II) Feb. 21, rolling past the overwhelming favorite in the Meydan stretch and drawing off for the win.
While trainer Mike de Kock's lone representative in the Balanchine (UAE-II) on Feb. 21 at Meydan is South African star Igugu, he sends a three-prong attack for the $250,000 Al Fahidi Fort (UAE-II) two races later.
The $200,000 Balanchine (UAE-II) Feb. 21 at Meydan attracted seven entrants, but the field is overshadowed by the presence of South African Horse of the Year Igugu, who returns from a long layoff.
Australian group I winner Mental grabbed the lead late from Kavanagh and drew clear to a one-length victory in the $200,000 Al Shindagha Sprint Sponsored by Jaguar XJ (UAE-III) at Meydan Feb. 14.
Moonwalk in Paris gamely charged through a gap and up the rail for a convincing two-length win in the $200,000 Firebreak Stakes Presented by Range Rover (UAE-III) Feb. 14 at Meydan.
Favorite Soft Falling Rain easily dispatched pacesetter Deauville Prince in the stretch and drew off to a clear win in the $250,000 United Arab Emirates Two Thousands Guineas (UAE-III) Feb. 14 at Meydan.
After a commanding victory last month at Meydan, undefeated champion Soft Falling Rain enters the $250,000 United Arab Emirates Two Thousand Guineas (UAE-III) Feb. 14 as the horse to beat.
Godolphin Racing's Questing, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2012, has been retired and will be bred this year to Darley stallion Bernardini.
Godolphin's Hunter's Light provided trainer Saeed bin Suroor a ninth win in the $250,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round II Sponsored by TABLOID (UAE-II) Feb. 7 with a convincing 3 1/4-length victory at Meydan.
Lovely Pass took over from the pacesetter in the stretch and held back a strong challenge from runner-up Shuruq to win the $250,000 United Arab Emirates One Thousand Guineas Sponsored by Gulf News Feb. 7 at Meydan.
2012 Travers Stakes (gr. I) winner and former U.S. classics hopeful Alpha is set to make his Dubai debut Feb. 7 in the $250,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 2 (UAE-II) Sponsored by Tabloid.
Godolphin's Sharestan was an impressive winner of the trial for the $200,000 Al Rashidiya Sponsored by Dubal (UAE-II) earlier this month and will try for a breakthrough group win in the main event Jan. 31 at Meydan.
Trainer Saeed bin Suroor was expecting a huge effort from Sajjhaa in the $200,000 Cape Verdi Sponsored by Meydan Hotels (UAE-II) Jan. 24 at Meydan, and she delivered with a 3 3/4-length win for the Maktoum family's Godolphin.
Godolphin, the newly minted Eclipse Award-winning owner of 2012 in the U.S., will send out a quartet of fillies in $200,000 Cape Verdi Sponsored by Meydan Hotels (UAE-II), the feature event Jan. 24 at Meydan.
View the festivities and winners of the 2012 Eclipse Awards. view slideshow
Higher-energy Eclipse Award ceremony Jan. 19 honors longtime owner/breeder Morton Fink with three trophies. Godolphin/Darley also picks up three awards.
Questing's amazing brilliance during the summer did not escape the Eclipse voters, despite her seemingly late-season decline and the return to top form by last year's 2-year-old filly champ My Miss Aurelia.
Sheikh Mohammed's Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder was due to an overabundance of quality rather than quantity.
Godolphin, the private Thoroughbred racing stable of the Maktoum family, earned its second Eclipse Award as top owner in the past four years while winning seven grade I races and six other graded races in the United Stakes.
Unbeaten South African champion Soft Falling Rain controlled the pace and scored a dominant 2 1/2-length victory in the $110,000 Duty Free Jumeirah Creekside United Arab Emirates Two Thousand Guineas Trial Jan. 17 at Meydan.
Former U.S. classics hopeful Out of Bounds is set to launch his long-awaited comeback for Godolphin in the $250,000 Longines Al Maktoum Challenge Round I (UAE-II) Jan. 10.
Biondetti, a group I-winning son of Bernardini, has been retired and will enter stud in 2013 at Woodford Thoroughbreds in Reddick, Fla. The fee will be $4,000 live foal.
Favored Dance Card shook off the Puerto Rican challenger My Wandy's Girl leaving the turn for home and cruised to an open-lengths triumph in the $350,000 Gazelle Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack Nov. 24.
The French horse racing federation says jockey Frankie Dettori has been suspended from racing in France based on medical grounds following a positive drug test.
Frankie Dettori, whose nearly two-decade association with Godolphin Racing recently came to an end, is set to face a France Galop inquiry next week after returning a positive drug test in mid-September at Longchamp.
Trainer Saeed Bin Suroor reflects on his horse Calvaryman's draw for the 2012 Melbourne Cup in Australia. Calvaryman will be one of jockey Frankie Dettori's last mounts for Godolphin in Australia. watch video
Godolphin Racing's Hunter's Light and jockey Silvestre De Sousa notched breakthrough wins at the highest level on Nov. 4 when partnering for a victory in the Premio Roma GBI Racing (Ity-I) at Capannelle Racecourse in Rome.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin discusses Alpha, Emcee, Fortify, and Questing at Breeders' Cup on Oct. 29. watch video
Godolphin Racing's unbeaten 2-year-old Dawn Approach warmed up for his Oct. 13 Dubai Dewhurst Stakes (Eng-I) engagement with a solid work under jockey Kevin Manning Oct. 2 at trainer Jim Bolger's Beechy Park in Ireland.
Dead-heat Travers winners are set to clash again in Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby.
Godolphin Racing will send out the favorites in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) and $1 million Cotillion Stakes (gr. I) Sept. 22 at Parx Racing.
After a protracted battle through the final furlong, Moonlight Cloud got the better of Farhh by a determined head to capture the Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Fr-I) Sept. 16.
Dawn Approach made his first start in Godolphin blue a winning one as he took command in the final furlong and drew off to capture the $258,500 Vincent O'Brien Stakes (Ire-I) by 4 3/4 lengths at the Curragh Sept. 15.
The English Triple Crown will have to wait at least yet another year as the brilliant Camelot came up three-quarters of a length short to Encke in his bid to make history in the Ladbrokes St. Leger Sept. 15 at Doncaster.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, following Godolphin's fourth grade I win of the Saratoga meet with Emcee in the Forego Stakes (gr. I) Sept. 1, talked about the upcoming plans for each of those horses.
Royal Delta will make her first start at Saratoga since winning the 2011 Alabama (gr. I) as the 124-pound highweight in the Personal Ensign Invitational (gr. I) Aug. 26.
It's a good time to be Kiaran McLaughlin, but don't confuse that with an easy time. The trainer has his hands full conditioning and placing top runners for Godolphin Racing with year-end goals in mind.
Questing turned in a dazzling performance Aug. 18 in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course, blazing the first half-mile in :46.01 and still pulling away to take the 1 1/4-mile test by nine lengths.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin sent the Godolphin runner through his first post-Jim Dandy move Aug. 9 at Saratoga Race Course, beginning the tune-up process for the Travers Stakes (gr. I).
Godolphin Racing's Alpha emerged from his Jim Dandy (gr. II) victory July 28 in fine fettle and is definitely bound for the Travers Stakes (gr. I), trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said the morni


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New Delhi: Air India expects an interim report from Boeing and US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a day or two on their probe into the technical problems faced by Dreamliner aircraft, all 50 of which have been grounded across the globe.
"We expect at least a preliminary or an interim report from the manufacturer and FAA in a couple of days, which might show us the way ahead," airline sources said here. Air India has grounded six of these planes in its fleet.
Once a report is received, the corrective measures that need to be taken by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the national carrier would become clear and "we can move forward to handle the problem", they said.
The entire 50-strong global fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, including six of Air India, were grounded yesterday after US regulator FAA asked airlines to stop their operations temporarily till a battery fire risk was corrected.
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A very good and nice work with the light. A great photograph. My congratulations, Nuno Ferreira.
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RECEIVING LOVE: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
In an intelligent and insightful volume, Hendrix and Hunt, cocreators of Imago Relationship Therapy and coauthors of Getting the Love You Want , share their solution to a common relationship problem: the difficulty of accepting love, expressed by, for example, criticizing a gift from one's partner or spurning an intimate gesture. The authors, husband and wife, begin by talking painfully about how their own marriage nearly ended because Harville, despite obvious evidence to the contrary, didn't feel loved by his wife. As the authors note, there are many ways "to defend yourself against someone else's desire to encourage, help, or love you," whether because you overvalue your partner and feel unworthy of his or her love, or because you devalue that partner and see him or her as unworthy of giving love. The authors instruct readers to examine their childhood dynamics for unconscious influences on their view of relationships, such as uncomfortable feelings of self-rejection. And taking a page from Martin Buber, they also focus on what is "between" the I and Thou in a relationship, "the sacred space between two individuals" that can unite them or serve as a "dumping ground" for anger. These complicated concepts become clear as illustrated through in-depth looks at three heterosexual and same-sex couples. And through their Imago dialoguing technique, the authors also provide concrete steps to learn how to have a truly empathetic conversation that gets beneath the surface of a couple's problems. With this wise and sophisticated book, readers can learn to receive love and, in doing so, "reclaim [their] own desires, dreams and abilities." Agent, Barney Karpfinger. (Oct.)
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Hi guys, This is the first time I'm going to install knife hinges, and I was wondering about the weight of the door and the size of Brusso hinge. I"m doing an inset curly cherry music cabinet. The paneled doors are 3/4" X 12" w x 27" h. Should I go with the L 23s, 37s or 39s? Would the L23s (5/16" in width) be large enough, or would they wear out quickly. Thanks in advance. PL |


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Activate the switch on your right and the center of the core will be in reach. Place the bomb on the glowing platform and stand back as it takes down the core. This action of course does not go unnoticed, and an alarm goes. For the extent of the alarm, we suggest staying right where you are, taking cover behind the half-opened doorway behind you. Splicers and security bots may come, but they didn't bother us as long as we remained near the core.
When the alarm is over, follow the all-knowing arrow upstairs toward the Core's exit. Watch for a lone leadhead splicer to get up off the ground (he's playing dead, that wily sunnuva) just before the Core's exit. The all-knowing arrow will lead you north, back to Central Control.
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Just north of the big daddy corpse in the water is a leadhead splicer in the hall. Once past the leadhead splicer, look into the main room beyond the hall to spot another leadhead. This one, however, is packing a pair of security bots as body guards. Try to quickly snipe the leadhead splicer in the room before he sees you so you don't have tangle with the bots (a crossbow bolt to the skull will do the trick). With the splicer dead, you can simply walk east, flip the electrified switch, and continue to the stage's exit.
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Prior to the creation of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in late 2004, the organizational structure and procedures of the U.S. Intelligence Community were laid out in Director of Central Intelligence Directives (DCIDs). Some of these authoritative statements can now be accessed at http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/dcid.htm.
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Out There
Pete Townshendt
Pete Townshend Live
(Platinum Entertainment)
Nothing against the aging rocker who turns it down and tones it down as he gets older, especially when that aging rocker is a half-deaf Pete Townshend. Better to stop the rock than keep forcing it; better to go acoustic when the electric only makes you look like an old man clumsily chasing down the young man who got away. But bearing witness to the slow fade is only slightly more tolerable than listening to the man go through the motions on this double-disc live benefit, reinventing himself as a "blues man" while doing little more than wringing the life out of songs better left to classic-rock radio. "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere" rendered as eight-minute harmonica-drenched "jam"? Thanks, but no -- that song, like any other early Who single, survives only when drenched in yesterday's chaos and decibels and, of course, Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon and John Entwistle. Anything less is backward-glancing, dull restraint celebrated only by nostalgia pimps and apologists. Hey, Pete's playing Who songs? How bad can it be? Listen again, then see if you can listen at all.
But this is where the tricky part arises, because you must admire Townshend for embracing his middle age like a long lost friend; that's what separates the wise old men (say, Townshend and Ray Davies) from the lost boys (say, Mick Jagger) -- no more trying to re-create a dead history. A decade ago, he and Daltrey took their New Who Revue out on the road and hid behind horn sections and extra guitarists and backup singers; it was rock show as Vegas spectacle, a last gasp rendered as an enormous wheeze. Now, Townshend's on a House of Blues stage in Chicago with a band of unknowns respectfully resurrecting old faves ("Won't Get Fooled Again," "Magic Bus"), erstwhile hits ("You Better You Bet," "Let My Love Open the Door"), and a few best-forgotten endeavors ("North Country Girl"). Last we saw of Daltrey, he was at the Bronco Bowl backed by a county-fair orchestra, going through the stale, sad motions.
The problem is, the older, wiser, deafer Townshend paints his output in the same muted shades over and over again; catharsis too often has been replaced by too much calm, which works during the forever-dull "North Country Girl" but absolutely murders anything that came before All the Best Cowboys. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is now utterly devoid of its threat, emasculated of its thrills; it's an echo now and nothing more, drawn out over 13 excruciating minutes. Same goes for both versions of "Magic Bus," the second of which features Eddie Vedder confusing homage with parody. Beats the hell out of Psychoderelict; then, so does absolute silence.
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A fishing clinic for area youth ages 5-12 will be 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 6, at Frog Pond at the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Savanna, Ill.
Kids Fishing Day includes lessons and a hot dog cookout. Children 6 and younger must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the day.
Participants are asked to meet at the Frog Pond parking lot, which is 1.5 miles south of Savanna on Illinois 84. There will be banners along the road.
Participants are encouraged to pre-register by contacting the District Office at 815-273-2732. Registration ends at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4. Participants are asked to bring a fishing pole. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will provide poles for those without one.


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Every year hundreds of reporters and filmmakers come to "Sin City" looking to showcase the outdoor activities Las Vegas offers. Members of the press, writers, photographers, and editors may apply for a press pass.
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If you wish to schedule an interview or photograph a tour, please contact us. Should you wish to experience a full trip for journalistic purposes, you may be eligible for a discounted rate. For verification purposes, please download our media application, and submit it for review at least 2 weeks prior to your trip.
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Las Vegas was recently voted the "#1 Best Place to Live + Play" by National Geographic Adventure Magazine. A quote from the article states:
"From a quick peek at my map I could see that a four-hour perimeter around Las Vegas contains six national parks, including Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce Canyon, two national recreation areas, 13 state parks, and millions of acres of national forest. Double that—say, a day's drive—and Utah's powdery slopes, Yosemite, and the Pacific coastline are all within easy striking distance."
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Lot 2098: Set (12) Regimental porcelain dinner plates
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
☞ REVIVE: Lenox Tree Medians Finally Planted
It's planting season and the city seems to be following up on making the new tree medians at Lenox Avenue between 124th and 125th Street a little more green. The crew was on hand this morning and just finished up planting a single tree on each plot of dirt. Our question now is that since they have so much more space in these new wider plots, will additional low level foliage arrive early in spring? There's more than enough room for a few flowering bushes. Any gardeners out there who know the planting season for non-tree planting? Check out our past post in August when the medians were first completed: LINK
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Subject: | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [september17discuss] Article: "The Leaders of the Allegedly Leaderless Movement" |
Go back to my previous list of government actions that were denounced as conspiracy theories but have been proven completely true. I'll find you more if you need them another day. That does not mean that every conspiracy theory is true, it just means that just because someone calls something a conspiracy theory doesn't mean that it is false. Each story must be investigated and proved, or disproved, on its own merits. The war in Iraq as Shaista pointed out was a conspiracy to commit a violent fraud on the world, but those of us that pointed that out in 2002 and 2003 were called unpatriotic conspiracy theorists to discredit us.On 11/13/11, rob hollander<email@example.com> wrote:I don't see that anywhere, jem. Maybe I've missed it.
Especially since 9/11, there has been a cottage industry of fringe conspiracies, mostly pointing to the illuminati, freemasons, etc. Surely you've seen Loose Change, Zeitgeist....
Those folks do not participate in political or social justice movements. They believe that occupiers are stooges of the world ruler-illuminati-new-world-order-whatever. They believe socialists are part of the conspiracy.
They avoid political activism like the plague. They think it's all a foregone conclusion. They tend to believe that every rational explanation is a deception and every crazy theory is rational.
They tend not to understand economics and have little understanding of the political process and how it is actually compromised at every level. They know something is wrong and out of their control, but, having so little understanding, they distrust all sources that sound level-headed, and fly to the whacky.
They support each other with their extreme whack. Their only virtue I can see is that they can't easily be recruited into a cult, since they are so paranoid that they can't trust any leader. But they are, in a sense, a kind of leaderless cult.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, <email@example.com> wrote:
The phrase "conspiracy "theory" is an invention of the 1%. Usually there is no conspiracy. It is just a bunch of people with the same worldview making similar decisions. Then every time evidence begins to come out that a government or corporation is doing something outrageous, the guilty parties yell "conspiracy theory" to discredit the story and those that discovered it.Thanks Jen, for excellent points. The problem with conspiracy theories, is not that there are no conspiracies, its just that the whole of history becomes one long endless unraveling of conspiracy plots controlled by an elite and the future depends upon unraveling the conspiracies of these few individuals, ad hominem. There is never an end to these conspiracies. Whether is it the Illuminati, the British Empire, the Rotschilds/Rockefellars controlling the Federal Reserve, etc etc and so on and so forth. The problem with this kind of understanding of history is that it has no methodology or solutions except to uncover more secret plots. When there is no viable alternative, it is the obsession with plots, hidden forces beyond our control, removing a few bad apples will somehow save humanity. Yet, there is always a new secret plot to unravel. The logic leaves us believing power is in the beyond, we are just pawns in some game of masters and that we can change nothing. The ruling class has its own set of rules and practice and creates crisis of which it is not in control of. The contradictions created by capitalism can be understood by a historical method, through careful study, understanding the objective conditions that give rise to contradiction and these forces can transformed structurally--ie. that we, human beings have agency and are capable of changing. (For exapmle, the difference between the idea that some blue blooded reptilians evil group has made slaves us of all. There is no scientific validity or rational way to disprove such theories.. because the logic is --look the stock market fell, its those reptilians at it again!!" -- obviously, I am exaggerating the idea here to give an example but basically it offers no solution or alternative--we are innocent bystanders witnessing the great epic tragedy of history--helpless observers --we undergo catharsis at then end of the play, clap loudly, cry sob and wail and come back next week to see the same play albeit with the latest hollywood actor...) There is the idea of alienation that marxists speak of--we are living in an epoch where things appear to be so out of reach that we fall upon paranoia and fear, not because there aren't conspiracies happening. The point at which Terror begins is with the introduction of conspiracies... The conspiracy that Iraq had weapons of nuclear destruction, that Qadaffi was about to destroy Benghazi, now Iran is up for grabs--It is mostly the powers that be that are the original conspiracy theorists--for every humanitarian mission has to do with bombing killing maiming, not one school is ever built, not one child is ever fed, nothing is ever built during these humanitarian missions of UN/NATO--all extrajudicial killings in foreign soil is perfectly legal since the bogeyman terrorist was about to destroy the world and US/NATO the superman could only save us from our enemy. Our mainstream press thrives on conspiracies, warmongering and fearmongering the american people into supporting the wars abroad--creating bogeymens--after osama, there is new one, another one, and so and so forth, it never ends, and US will never leave Afghhanistan or Libya or IRaq because as the world's moral and military police there is always a new bogeyman.Peace
When popular mobilizations occur, it becomes evident that this narrative is nothing but justification of war, a logic that assumes people can never administer justice or self rule that barbarians have to be civilized. It takes power away from self determination of people and leads to the conclusion that only US/NATO can successfully liberate or rescue the world, when in fact, it is the US/NATO who conducts state sponsored terrorism.
As political activists we are trying to create strategy for practical application to empower people through democratic means of participation, that is the difference, with those who have no structural and historical understanding of objective material crisis of the forces of global capital, nor any strategy to expose contradictions, and offer no mean by which we can change our own predicament through self determination and agency. Conspiracy theories leave agency out, leave alienation out--are themselves lacking agency and alienated forms of political naivetee. conspiracy theories numb people into further apathy.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:44 PM, rob hollander <email@example.com> wrote:
Excellent points, John (jem). Not all conspiracy hypotheses are "whacky fringe." My point is not that they are conspiracy theorists, but they are whacky fringe conspiracy theorists (as I mentioned in the first post).
There have been conspiracies, but they are usually proved well before gov'ts release their documents and admit. Admission is not the only proof or reliable evidence. That's true of Allende, WMDs in Iraq, not so much of North, but I don't recall any conpsiracy theorists about North -- it was exposed pretty suddenly, as I recall -- although eveyone always knew that the ""Freedom Fighter""[gag] Contras were nothing but a front for US subversive insurgency in Nicaragua.
In the case of Gobal Research, "whacky fringe" applies because even if their theory turns out to be true, they are still fringe and still whacky. A mainstream media source they are not.
Now, the failings of the mainstream media, which often fuel the conspirators, is another story altogether. I'd worry about them. I do hope and expect that they will be marginalized by social media and youtube and blogs so that people can not only see and learn for themselves what actually happens in significant events, but also see just how falsely the media spin them.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:56 PM, <email@example.com> wrote:
Please go to the comment section on the article and paste your arguments, people are going there and assuming that article is the whole truth.
Please do not use "conspiracy theorist" as an insult. That is a trick of the 1%. There are plenty of conspiracy theories have turned out to be provable. In the eighties only conspiracy theorists believed that Ollie North was running guns to Central America to pay for cocaine going back to the states to pay for missiles to go to Iran to pay for the hostage release conveniently timed for Reagan's swearing in. Or that the US was selling Saddam Hussein chemical weapons and then giving him targeting information on Iranian troops from US satellites.
There are recently declassified diplomatic cables in which Nixon gave orders to make the Chilean economy "scream," and Kissinger told those overthrowing the Allende Government do what ever you have to do, we will complain in public but we will support you all the way--carte blanche to commit assassinations.
Also declassified proof that Operation Condor was official collusion between the governments of South American countries to assassinate each other's leftists. These conspiracy theories took over thirty years to prove.
See the evidence for many conspiracy theories on the National Security Archives at George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ , where they do thousands of freedom of information requests every year to find out what is really going on.On 11/12/11, rob hollander<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:I didn't say right wing. They are conspiracy theorist fringe:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:38 PM, shaista husain <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Well, no Rob dismissing everything as right wing fringe is also dangerous. We learn by examination and self reflexivity. That is what is important --so we can better define and discern and have judgement about the structures we are trying to create....the ability to address even right wing fringe groups... is important.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:35 PM, rob hollander <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Why are people taking this article seriously? It's Global Research. It's a whacky fringe conspiracy group. I mean, there are more important things to worry about than every wing-nut article.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:19 PM, shaista husain <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
Jackie is 1000% correct, but i wouldn't call this anarchism. It is conspiracy theory, one can note by the circular arguments that never offer a working solution, except his own particular idea of what the whole OWS should be doing. According to the logic of the author, the the crimes of the six could not be addressed by the GA--which led to it--and can neither be resolved through SpokeCouncil structure where the problems have been addressed and being remedied. What is the solution here, for this author? Shall we all dissolve everything? Just dissolve the Spokes and return to the original GA structure of dealing with finance? Not clear at all. The author would like to see more occupations of foreclosed homes or defense of evictions in NYC. This is something that is one part of OWS tactics of diversity or direct actions on many fronts... and? Ok..but should the whole movement be doing only one action on one front. This is conspiracy theory, the inability to understand that simultaneous fronts are necessary and that implementing democratic structure with checks and balances, revolving participants can resolve issues
of transparency as ongoing self correcting manner.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Jackie DiSalvo <email@example.com> wrote:
This is bullshit propaganda, resembling the worst kind of anarchism. The Spokes council is a big step forward in efficiency and accountability. At a previous GA to which I had invited my women's group, on the other hand, 45 minutes were spent dealing with one person's concern over the cost of renting a truck to do laundry; my friends left somewhat disheartened about the process and have not returned since. It was reported from Madrid that GAs fell apart out of boredom with an unwieldy consensus process.
The Spokes council solves this problem democratically while retaining the democracy of the GA for substantive matters. The proposal passed because it was improved in response to earlier objections raised in the MANY GA and other discussions of it. The "spokes" (working group representatives) are accountable to their groups, members of whom are encouraged to attend and consult with their spoke on decisions. Finance is accountable to the Spokes council and ultimately to the GA to which anyone can bring a concern. Large allocations of funds still go to the GA. Finances are transparent, & public as are all decisions. Groups can rotate their representatives as often as they like to encourage broad participation. If anything, there is an excessive concern for maximizing democratic participation (anyone can show up at the GA & vote as opposed to the form of democracy which involves everyone in the working groups - many hundreds of people (my Labor Group now has 185- who can participate via weekly meetings or online). No one has to go to 3 meetings a week to participate; you can have input through a working group, one GA (a proposal usually takes more than one to pass & all are on line), through consulting with your spoke at a spokes council or through expressing one's views to the general population or working groups online. Anyone can join the Finance or Facilitation group.
I was afraid blocks would lead to rule of the minority, but a very high level of objection is required for a block, and there's usually a way to work through the objection through discussion & friendly or other amendments & blocked proposals that are not overridden by a 90% vote (as the Spokes council proposal) usually go back to the drawing board to accommodate the objections and be presented again. I would prefer a 2/3 vote for overcoming a block but must admit that there people have functioned very responsibly with genuine concern for coming to agreement, and we almost always do.
From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of email@example.com
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:54 PM
To: email@example.com
Subject: Re: Re: [september17discuss] Fwd: POC-OWS Article: "The Leaders of the Allegedly Leaderless Movement"This article is a one sided smear job that doesn't give all of the facts. I blocked the spokes council proposal until i thought they worked out the kinks, so I cannot be accused of being in league with the structure committee.) This is not representative democracy, this is each working group organizing on the ground having a say in how things are run, without having to the GA for everything. The spokesperson for each group must rotate. There is no shadowy cabal running everything like the article implies, as you all know. The structure group even withdrew their application to be considered for the council because they decided that they are not an operational working group. Please go to the comment section of this article and tell the real story because a lot of people are reading it and assuming that it is the whole truth.On 11/12/11, Bruce Wagner<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:Wow.
I don't like the idea of dropping democracy so fast.... in favor of a "representative democracy".
Not Good.
Every voice should be heard.
Every person should be allowed a vote.
I represent myself. I need no representative.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Boyfriends Jeans
It was so hot today i can't believe its November and its snowing just a few hours by car from here.. Insane. For todays outfit i chose boyfriends jeans, new Top Shop shoes and casual shirt. Now we are in some restaurant waiting for our food, WiFi is coming tomorrow i think..
Pretopao dan danas.. Ne mogu da verujem da je Novembar i da sneg pada samo par sati kolima odavde.. Ludilo. Za danasnji outfit izbor je pao na deckove farmerke, nove stikle i casual majicu. Sedimo u restoranu, cekamo hranu, WiFi bi trebao da nam stigne sutra...
My boyfriends jeans Dsquared
H&M shirt
H&M cap
Just Cavalli sunglasses
Top Shop shoes
My boyfriends watch Breitling
Aldo ring
H&M ring
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
☞ LISTEN: Kenneth Whalum at Ginny's
Saturday, March 2nd, 8:00PM and 9:00PM, Kenneth Whalum at Ginny's Supper Club, 310 Lenox Avenue, beneath the Red Rooster. On Saturday March 2nd Ginny's Supper Club is proud to welcome to the stage bandleader and saxophonist Kenneth Whalum. A fresh voice on the jazz scene, Kenneth is adept at music from bebop to hip-hop, having collaborated with rap legend Jay Z and keys master Robert Glasper. More details for this event and $18 ticket information can be found at the Ginny's Supper Club site: LINK
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I have no factual evidence to back up that claim; in fact, it may have officially been awards season, like, 3 fortnights ago (HA! today's goal of using "fortnight" in a sentence=DONE). But yesterday we had the People's Choice Awards, this Sunday we've got the Golden Globes, and the Oscars are just around the corner—which means your heads are about to be FULL-UP with visions of lovely celebs in gorgeous dresses. Last night's turnout wasn't quite as grand as I'd hoped (where was Emma Stone? Where was Ryan Gosling? Where was the high-octane GLAMOUR?), but let's just keep our fingers crossed that that means everyone is simply getting some rest and saving their A-game for the big show on Sunday. And now...FAMOUS PEOPLE IN CLOTHES!
Since 2010, Chelsea Dagger (known in real life as Chelsea Aaron) has been SparkLife's sweatiest editor. She's currently working on a how-to-kiss guide for teens, and when she's not conducting smooch-related research on her life-size Joseph Gordon-Levitt cardboard cutout, she's eating pancakes, stocking up on industrial-strength deodorant, and destroying everyone at Harry Potter trivia. (EXPECTO PATRONUM!)
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