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The Demographic Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
Repealing birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants, discussed in some circles as a means to reduce illegal immigration, would significantly increase the size of the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States, from 11 million today to 16 million by 2050.
Much of the debate surrounding the 2009 Birthright Citizenship Act and ensuing discussions have turned on the meaning and intent of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause and whether U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants are "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. As this brief explains, birthright citizenship repeal would set in motion the creation of a self-perpetuating class of unauthorized immigrants who would be excluded from social membership for generations.
This analysis shows that by 2050, there would be 4.7 million unauthorized immigrants who had been born in the United States, 1 million of whom would have two U.S.-born parents.
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There are a few key things to look out for here, like the new Juggernaut vehicle, that's the hulking semi that you'll see launching missiles. There's also some grisly new footage of Dollface, Sweettooth and more of Twisted Metal's prominent players here.
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Drunken driving tied to fatal wreck on Sam Houston Parkway
An alleged drunken driver is in jail after his truck rammed into a pulled-over disabled car, killing a backseat passenger early Sunday morning, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Sergio Sanchez Jr., faces charges of intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in the wreck in the 1400 block of North Sam Houston Parkway about 3 a.m., according to a statement from the sheriff's office.
A Lexus had pulled over and stopped in the right westbound lane because of mechanical problems. The driver turned on the car's hazard lights and kept on the headlights and parking lights as he and a front passenger attempted to fix the vehicle. Two passengers, Jacqueline Rocha and Soyla Reyes, remained in the backseat.
Sanchez rammed his GMC Sierra into the back of the Lexus. Rocha was pronounced dead at the scene and Reyes was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Sanchez was found to be intoxicated, according to the statement.
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Project Fiona – Razer's Edge now available
Razer has launched its Edge gaming tablet, formerly known as Project Fiona.
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Project Fiona - Razer takes a step closer to "making the concept a reality"
Project Fiona, Razer's gaming tablet, has gotten enough "likes" on Facebook for the firm to start "making the concept a reality."
Video shows Project Fiona running Skyrim at "ultra high"
Destructoid got a look at Project Fiona, Razer's PC tablet, running Skyrim on ultra high settings with 1280×800 resolution at CES. The site noted that the game had a few little framerate issues, but said it ran perfect when switched to high. Check out a video of it in action, posted below.
Razer's Project Fiona revealed as new PC gaming tablet
Razer's newest concept is a gaming tablet equipped with two analog stick paddles and the ability to run PC games natively.
Razer likely to reunveil Switchblade at CES next week
Razer's may be reunveiling Switchblade – known as Project Fiona – at CES next week, teasing the reveal for next Tuesday in a short, small video its posted on promo site PCGamingIsNotDead. The video, below the break, shows quick glimpses of games that likely support the device, including Assassin's Creed: Revelations, HAWX 2 and FireFall. […]
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Explore interactions between people and chimpanzees and other primates in the rainforest of Uganda to improve human–primate relationships.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Fred Babweteera studies human–primate interactions and works on public policy issues in his native Uganda.
The key conservation projects include mitigation of human–wildlife conflict, mitigation of bushmeat hunting, development of community education programs, and establishment of zoonosis monitoring programs with an aim of making the Budongo Conservation Field Station the focal national center for monitoring the risk of disease transmission from humans to great apes.
During my career as director of the Budongo Conservation Field Station, I have been able to transform a small informal research project (Budongo Forest Project) into a credible formal institution. Over the past 10 years, I have been able to broaden the scope of the field station from research to include conservation projects that improve local community livelihoods.
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Fencing coach foils robbery with sword
Tennessee man says the crime unfolded right before him
A fencing instructor foiled a robbery this week, and he was even dressed to do battle as he chased down the suspected thieves.
Franco Scaramuzza said he always tries to be aware of his surroundings, so when the crime unfolded right in front of him last Tuesday in Bellevue, he knew he had one choice.
Scaramuzza was pulling into a local shopping center when he saw two men pepper spray a couple, then steal a purse.
"The first thing that went through my head is somebody should do something, and that's when I got really upset and disappointed with myself, because I realized I had the opportunity to do something. And I didn't want to be a hypocrite who just tweeted about it," Scaramuzza said.
He then jumped out of his car, grabbed his fencing sword, called an épée, and began charging toward the suspects.
The good Samaritan said he's been training his whole life for moments just like this. And, as a fencing coach, he knows how to intimidate.
He had just finished practice Tuesday, so he was already on guard with the full outfit and épée in hand.
"I charged towards them, holding my épée up high, and, you know, yelling at them," he said. "I kept yelling throughout the entire thing. They completely panicked and dropped everything they stole and really took off."
Police showed up and caught the suspects within minutes.
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Costa Rica so far has been nothing short of breathtaking. Those of you who've been here will remember its lush green landscapes, abundant tropical fruit, sunny 25oC days that constitute its 'winter,' magnificent animals and birds that we in Canada only know from pictures, and a sense of environmental protection that seems to be ingrained in the nation's conscience.
You may also remember the challenges of getting around as you traveled from one locale to another—figuring out bus schedules based on five different times that four different people told you, hauling your packs and trying not to tip over from the sheer weight, and trying unsuccessfully to blend in with the locals to avoid getting accosted by the endless offers of 'Taxi! Taxi!'
But as a resident in the capital of San José, getting from point A to point B has taken on a special and crazy new meaning. For the next month or so I'll be working in a neighbourhood called La Uruca. On my first day working for EDESA, my colleagues recommended an accommodation that's less than 2km from the office. Great! I thought. Years of working in different cities had taught me the virtues of being able to walk to work.
Little did I know that walking to work would mean crossing the 6-lane Pan-American Highway with cars flying down it at breakneck speeds. Actually, there is an alternative: Walking along the equally daunting Highway 39 on what is treated as a pedestrian walkway—a five-inch strip of pavement next to the highway (essentially the paved shoulder, but a perilously narrow one).
Simply put, San José is not exactly the most pedestrian-friendly city. This is evidenced by the myriad of auto mechanics and car parts shops that fill one of La Uruca's main thoroughfares. Cars and buses seem to be the main mode of transportation here, while pedestrians are an afterthought at best. Well, maybe with the exception of the Avenida Central, a long street which at one point turns into a great pedestrian mall that spans many blocks in the downtown core.
Walking along this avenue to get to the Teatro Nacional one evening, I noticed a bunch of clothing stores and even more shoe stores. So many, in fact, that I started counting: I got as far as 21 shoe stores in a five block span before I lost track. I've made a huge discovery: Apparently it's shoe shopping, not fútbol, that's the major national pastime here. Maybe Ticos love to walk, after all!
But maybe San José isn't that car friendly, either. Whether you're on foot or in a car, the absence of street names makes navigation difficult even for locals. For example, a typical address goes something like: 200 metros al este y 10 metros al norte del parqueo del Hotel San José Palacio, calle sin salida, La Uruca—in other words, 200m east and 10m north of the parking lot of the Hotel San José Palacio, on the dead-end street in La Uruca. (Huh?!) The gentleman who owns the place where I'm staying tells me that his home address refers to a store that existed 50 years ago, and has long since disappeared!
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All of this being said, there's been no shortage of friendly and helpful Ticos on the street to point me in the right direction. And all the taxi drivers I've had have an impeccable sense of direction. The people here have been extremely warm and very approachable, which has made getting to my destinations ever so much more pleasant. After all, getting there is part of the adventure!


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AIPAC North: "Israel Advocacy" in Canada (Part 1 of 3)
June 26, 2006 (ZNet)
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The establishment of the so-called Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) in late 2005, just in time for the federal election of January 2006, has elicited heated debate within Canada's Israel lobby. B'nai Brith Canada's Jewish Tribune, for instance, first reported the development under the headline "Mystery surrounds Jewish political committee CJPAC," and has since been harshly critical of the initiative. CJPAC claims to success following the election did little to change this. In a March 2006 story titled "CJPAC's wall of silence not in spirit of lobbyist's code of conduct," Tribune correspondent Julie Lesser blasted the organization for "continu[ing] to maintain a wall of silence surrounding the availability of basic information to the public." In early May (p.3), Lesser upheld the point, stressing that "CJPAC remains an organization that conducts business under a veil of secrecy."
Amidst a mix of inattention and controversy, CJPAC is moving forward with its "multi-partisan" lobbying work. Exactly what this involves remains unclear. What is tolerably clear is that CJPAC constitutes yet another Canadian foothold for the US-Israeli alliance. In fact, it appears to have emerged under the direct guidance of this alliance's North American powerhouse, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
The creation of CJPAC is part and parcel of the dramatic restructuring which the Canadian Jewish establishment has undergone in recent years. This restructuring, which began in earnest in 2002, has weakened B'nai Brith's position in the community, hence the criticism from the Tribune. But the changes have been far from progressive. For decades, elements of corporate Canada represented by a fundraising federation structure closely tied with the United States and Israel have been increasing their control over mainstream Canadian Jewish organization. Newly organized as the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA), they have now entrenched their position.
Through the strength of the federation system, and under the direct supervision of CIJA, mainstream Canadian Jewish organization has been further centralized and, in significant part, converted into a streamlined "Israel advocacy" apparatus. This apparatus has been steered into close alignment with the US-Israeli alliance. Its principal focus is an effort to weaken solidarity with the Palestinian people and solidify official Canadian rejection of basic Palestinian rights. However, it is active on a number of related fronts, and has been involved in supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq, helping to lay the political groundwork for possible aggression against Iran, and opposing progressive social movements at the grassroots level (particularly on campuses).
Canada's new Israel advocacy apparatus has too strong a base in the Canadian establishment, and is too thoroughly supported from the United States and Israel, for its work to be stopped entirely. But its own polls reveal that Canadian public opinion is opposed to its agenda. Organized solidarity with the Palestinian people continues to persevere and grow. Predictably, the Israel advocacy apparatus is meeting this challenge with political attacks and institutional bullying. Those who take a principled stand in support of the struggle for democracy in Israel-Palestine – CUPE Ontario has, to its great credit, become notable in this respect – are faced with tremendous pressure to back down.
This article seeks to broaden discussion of why mainstream Canadian Jewish organizations are helping to apply this pressure. More generally, it provides some basic context regarding the politics, strategies and institutions which define Canadian Israel advocacy.
Zionism, corporate power and Canadian Jewish organization: A brief history
The recent restructuring of mainstream Canadian Jewish organization has been dramatic. But it merely marks the culmination of processes that have been apparent for many decades. These include the weakening of working class organization within Canada's Jewish community, the expanding power of the community's corporate establishment, and the deepening institutional influence of both Zionism and US structures over mainstream Canadian Jewish organizations. Before exploring the unfortunate culmination of these processes from 2002 onwards, their history requires some attention.
Canadian Zionism: "an attractive 'package deal'"
Given how central the development of Zionism is to this history, it is worth reviewing some basic features of the movement that resulted in the creation of the Israeli state. This movement emerged in late 19th century Europe, shaped by the twin realities of violent, racist persecution of Jewish communities within Europe, and European conquest of vast territories elsewhere in the world for settlement and profit. Zionism proposed an answer to Europe's "Jewish question." The Zionist movement would spearhead the creation of a European Jewish colony on a suitable piece of territory. Its leadership briefly flirted with pursuing its ambitions in Argentina or Uganda. But the first Zionist Congress set the movement's sights on what it described as "the colonization of Palestine,"[1] and it is around this plan that the movement actually developed.
Zionism was a response to anti-Semitism, but hardly an anti-racist one. It generally accepted the idea that Jews are "alien" to the societies in which they live as a minority religion or ethnicity, a key premise of narrow, anti-Semitic nationalist movements. More clearly still, its answer to Europe's Jewish question relied upon a racist dismissal of the existing society in Palestine and the surrounding region. Theodor Herzl, the founder and lead organizer of the fledgling movement, stressed that the Zionist state in Palestine "should there form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism."[2]
This approach brought Zionist strategists into direct collaboration with the leading racist statesmen of the time. In European officials, including the most vicious anti-Semites, key Zionist leaders saw potential allies. Herzl, for example, met and dealt with the Czarist Interior Minister responsible for the infamous 1903 pogrom in Kishinev; the Zionist zealot Ze'ev (Vladmir) Jabotinsky repeated the pattern a few years after the First World War by dealing with the reactionary Ukrainian exile government that was responsible for massacring thousands of Jews. Jabotinsky's maneuvers gained nothing while associating the movement with a hated and collapsing government, and he was soon after removed from the Zionist Executive. But at the 12th Zionist Congress, he defended himself in words that would echo through much Zionist and Israeli policy: "In working for Palestine I would even ally myself with the devil."[3]
This approach played out most successfully in relations with imperial Britain, putting Canadian supporters of the movement in an extremely comfortable position. In 1917, with the empire of Palestine's Ottoman rulers in collapse, British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour declared his country's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."[4] British troops soon entered Palestine and subjected it to a new regime of military rule. The Zionist movement had secured a key ally, and Canadian Zionists began receiving official support. Thereafter, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King would himself occasionally attend the annual conference of the Zionist Organization of Canada (ZOC), and otherwise generally sent either Cabinet ministers or a supportive telegram. As historian Gerald Tulchinsky explains, "Loyalty to Zionism, to the British Empire, and to Canada was an attractive 'package deal' for Canadian Jews, with no apparent drawbacks."[5]
Canadian Zionism was extremely focused on fundraising. It leadership was dominated by the business community, its priorities set mostly from abroad. From 1921 on, the fundraising that defined the movement was managed through the Canadian component of a United Palestine Appeal (UPA) campaign directed by Keren Hayesod (the "Foundation Fund"), an agency responsible for financing and coordinating Zionist settlement in Palestine.
Identification with Zionism was convenient, but did not encompass all Canadian Jewish organization. The urban Jewish establishment, such as it was, was only loosely associated with Zionism through the early 20th century. In the Jewish community's two main population centres, Montreal and Toronto, the federations representing this sector were established in 1916 as the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the precursor of Montreal's Allied Jewish Community Services (AJCS) and Toronto's United Jewish Welfare Fund (UJWF). Independent organizations also flourished amongst Jewish workers, particularly prominent in the garment industries of Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg. These included mutual aid associations known as Landsmanshaften, unions of workers and the unemployed, and a rich variety of radical political organization. A more comprehensive organization also emerged briefly in 1919 before being stably reconstituted in 1934: the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC). The early CJC, which described itself as a parliament for all Canadian Jews, had a mixed class composition and a significant degree of political diversity.[6]
Many Canadian Jews rejected Zionism as unfeasible, in favor of class solidarity, or out of loyalty to a project of internationalist struggle for progressive social change. Sometimes, these currents ran directly against the Zionist leadership. In 1937 Montreal, for example, a mass meeting of Jewish leftists and trade unionists denounced the "chauvinist propaganda" generated around Palestine's anti-Zionist revolt of 1936-1939, and called for "solidarity of the Jewish and Arab toiling masses."[7] Sentiments of solidarity based in class analysis offered limited, but important, support for anti-colonial struggle in Palestine.
But class-based notions of solidarity between oppressed people remained weak on the question of indigenous struggle. Zionism, after all, reflected a broad European consensus regarding the moral soundness of colonizing inhabited territory. And in Canadian society, itself the product of just such a process, sustained resistance to this was rare. It became weaker still as the base of Canadian Jewish working class radicalism eroded. The shared Yiddish language and culture on which this base relied faded with generational turn-over. Cultural integration into the Canadian mainstream was furthered by the Canadian Jewish upward class mobility that drove a widespread shift from the manufacturing sector into the professions, particularly from the 1940s on. And Zionism continued to gain ground.
Catastrophe and the growth of corporate Zionism
As these processes took their toll, an independently terrible blow came from the tragic developments in Europe. The Nazi push towards genocidal anti-Semitism, culminating in the mass slaughter of 1939-1945, had a crippling effect on international Jewish political life. It annihilated the principal base for Jewish working class radicalism, and also the most relevant context for its largely progressive nationalist varieties. Jewish radicalism's East European centre of gravity was mostly obliterated. In the wake of this slaughter, thousands of survivors languished in displaced persons camps throughout Europe, and the West remained unwelcoming. Jewish immigration to Canada was prohibited during the time of the worst atrocities, and a 1946 Gallup poll put Jews second from the top of the list of immigrant ethnicities unwanted by the Canadian public (after Japanese).[8] Zionism offered an answer to the question of refugees' resettlement, and a perceived opportunity for Jewish national revival in the aftermath of tragedy. By the late 1940s, Canadian Jewish identification with the Zionist project had become extremely widespread.
The thoroughly colonial parameters of this project were by this time well established, and it was within these that the Zionist state developed. The Zionist leadership clung to the idea of creating a Jewish demographic majority on lands where the vast majority of indigenous society was not Jewish. In the midst and under the cover of a war with neighbouring Arab states in 1948-1949, Zionist militias took this idea to its inevitable conclusion. More than 700,000 indigenous Palestinian Arabs were evicted from their homes in a campaign that involved both direct massacres – by the paramilitary Irgun and Stern Gang (as in the village of Deir Yassin) as well as by the Haganah, the precursor of the Israel Defense Forces (as in the village of Duwayma) – and the fostering of a general climate of panic. By 1949, Zionist forces controlled 78% of mandatory Palestine, declaring it the State of Israel. They razed some 400 Palestinian villages to the ground. This process remains infamous to Palestinians as Al Nakba (The Catastrophe).[9]
The Israeli legislature, the Knesset, quickly entrenched Zionist aims for Palestine into the new state system. The Israeli state flatly denied the right of Palestinians displaced in 1948-1949 to return to their homes. It thereby violated the inalienable right of return, enshrined in international law for all refugees, while defying United Nations Resolutions 181 and 194, which specifically guarantee full residency and citizenship rights to the indigenous inhabitants of 1948 Palestine. Those who had been completely displaced from Israeli-controlled territory were barred from returning, their land and possessions expropriated as "absentee property." Those who had been displaced from their homes but remained in the State of Israel generally gained Israeli citizenship, but of a distinctly second-class variety. Many of these were internally displaced people who were prohibited from returning to their homes, and as their property was expropriated, these Palestinian citizens of Israel were classified as "present absentees" – present in the state, absent as far as their pre-1948 homes were concerned. As the Israeli government gained control of increasing territory, the Knesset ensured that this land would be settled in line with Zionist objectives. In its first few years, it passed legislation vesting the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency (JA) and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) with quasi-state powers over immigration, settlement and land development. These agencies openly discriminated against indigenous Palestinians in favor of Jewish settlers. The Knesset further facilitated Zionist settlement by passing a "Law of Return" which granted any Jewish resident of any country in the world the right to settle Palestinian land in accord with a presumed ancestral title.[10]
Canadian Jewish support for this colonization entailed moral and political disaster. It also strengthened the position of corporate interests in the community. The Zionist Organization of Canada, for its part, remained business-dominated, thanks in part to a mid-1940s purge of labor Zionist youth by ZOC president and wealthy Toronto stockbroker Sam Zacks. Longtime Zionists were also now joined by stronger rival organizations. In 1951, a National Conference for Israel and Jewish Rehabilitation was formed, bringing together ZOC, B'nai Brith, the Canadian Jewish Congress (then under the presidency of whisky tycoon Samuel Bronfman), and the Canadian Council of Jewish Welfare Funds (representing local federations). The conference launched a new umbrella fundraising campaign, the United Jewish Appeal (UJA). Despite attention to Jewish refugees' resettlement and local services, fundraising for the Zionist project quickly rose to the top of the list of UJA's priorities. Fundraising for Israel was still coordinated by the Keren Hayesod under its renamed United Israel Appeal (UIA) campaign. Canadian fundraising, principally through UIA, ensured a steady flow of financial support for the discriminatory settlement projects of the Jewish Agency and Jewish National Fund.
In the coming decades, the Israeli state consolidated its base and moved to expand. In 1967, in the course of a war with neighboring Arab states, Israel occupied the remaining 22% of mandatory Palestine, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The war was a major setback for the currents of pan-Arab nationalism anchored by Nasserite Egypt. As against rising international anti-colonial upsurge, the Israeli victory was widely applauded in the West. Post-war trends in Canadian Jewish organization thus intensified, out of identification with Israeli power and a desire to guard against backlash to the occupation of more Arab territory.
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Political lobbying was coordinated through a new Israel advocacy organization, the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC). The CIC was established as a tripartite alliance. One component was the new Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF), a representative of all of Canada's explicitly Zionist groups, formed after 1967 under pressure from Jerusalem. The second component was B'nai Brith Canada, which emerged as a force in coming decades both through CIC and through its League for Human Rights (LHR, the counterpart of the US Anti-Defamation League). The third component was the self-described Canadian Jewish parliament, the CJC, preeminent in CIC lobbying though its partners formally had equal status.[11]
Corporate influence defined the development of this new arrangement. The financial whims of the fundraising federation system determined the allocation of resources to CIC, CJC and other Canadian Jewish groups. Somewhat unreliable, this relationship was stabilized with the establishment in 1974 of a National Budgeting Conference (NBC). The NBC brought together Canada's eleven leading federations and the UIA to coordinate and manage the allocation of funds. This same decade, the Canadian federation structure folded into the US Council of Jewish Federations (CJF). By 1978, the finances of mainstream Canadian Jewish organization were directed by NBC from the new Toronto headquarters of the CJF. In the 1980s, the federations also secured themselves formal representation within the CIC.
Simultaneously, the federations strengthened their control by "merging" with local operations of the CJC. This effectively eliminated the possibility of challenging the fundraiser-dominated leadership from within the Jewish mainstream. When Toronto's UJWF made this move in 1976, Toronto Congress people blasted it as "a Welfare Fund takeover in disguise," sure to worsen the "situation in which the Ministry of Revenue became the dictator of Parliament." Retiring CJC Vice-President Saul Hayes likewise lamented "the narcissism and self-infatuation of the Welfare Funds."[12] Nonetheless, the merger took place, creating what has evolved into the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of Greater Toronto. Similar mergers took place elsewhere, from Winnipeg to Montreal.
In the final decades of the 20th century, the United States and Israel moved into tight alliance. Every year from 1976 on, Israel was the lead recipient of US foreign aid.[13] The US supported Israel as it maintained its artificial Jewish demographic majority, attacked the refugee-led Palestinian resistance, and expanded settlements further into occupied territory. Israel continued the tradition of Zionist collaboration, joining the US in supporting the contra war against Sandinista Nicaragua, the South African Apartheid regime, and brutal dictatorships from Zaire (Congo) to El Salvador.[14] Through the Jerusalem-based parent organization of Canada's United Israel Appeal, and through membership of the fundraising federations which directed it in the US Council of Jewish Federations, the Canadian Jewish establishment was tied to both sides of this alliance. And as the century wound down, mainstream Canadian Jewish organization was pulled into increasing alignment with it.
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[1] "The Basle Declaration," passed at the First Zionist Congree (1897), as printed in Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin's co-edited The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East (Facts on File, Inc., 1985): p. 11.
[2] Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (Henry Pordes, 1993): p. 30.
[3] Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism (Schocken Books, 1976): p. 123; and Joseph B. Schechtman, Rebel and Statesman: The Vladimir Jabotinsky Story (Thomas Yoseloff, Inf., 1956): p. 399.
[4] "The Balfour Declaration," as printed in The Israel-Arab Reader: p. 18.
[5] Gerald Tulchinsky, Branching Out: The Transformation of the Canadian Jewish Community (Stoddart, 1998): p. 148.
[6] On this organizational history, see, e.g., Tulchinsky, Branching Out; Daniel Stone, ed., Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg, 1905-1960 (Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, 2002); and Daniel Elazar & Harold Waller, Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1990).
[7] Tulchinsky, Branching Out: p. 125.
[8] Ibid., p. 264.
[9] For details regarding the Nakba, see Walid Khalidi, All that remains: the Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
[10] See Uri Davis, Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (Zed Books, 2003).
[11] On the development of this lobby, see David Goldberg & David Taras, ed., The Domestic Battleground: Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989); Ronnie Miller, From Lebanon to the Intifada: The Jewish Lobby and Canadian Middle East Policy (University Press of America, 1991); and Elazar & Waller, Maintaining Consensus.
[12] Elazar & Waller, p. 213-214.
[13] Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Black Rose Books, 1999): p. 10.
[14] See, e.g, Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle; and "Special - The Israeli Connection: Guns and Money in Central America," NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April 1987, Volume XXI, #2.


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Bold explorers like Simon Fraser, who travelled the wild rivers in bark canoes with skins as flimsy as pizza box lids and their successors, the bush pilots. Russ Baker's Central British Columbia Airways became Pacific Western Airlines and eventually bought CP Air.
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The story of the North is also a chronicle of women, of bannock and beadwork, of mothers and wives like Mattie Gunterman and Hannah Director sustaining families, of visionaries bringing health and education to traplines, civilizing gold rush camps — and sometimes being debauched by them — and of making rough homesteads function in the face of economic adversity.
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For many inhabitants of the conurbation which has come to cover the Fraser Valley and southern Vancouver Island with pavement, concrete canyons and air-conditioned towers of steel and glass, for the folk who seldom venture out into the hinterlands of their immense province, the North might begin at Hope, where the major highways turn north.
From the vantage point of Lower Post on the border that separates B.C. from Yukon, or from Fort Nelson where the highway spur leads on to Fort Liard in the Northwest Territories, what we call the North is more part of the south — and, indeed, there's some reason for them to think so.
The rest of the North, the mountains, muskegs, rivers and prairies, dense forests and barren ground extend another thousand kilometres. Drive "North" from Fort Nelson to Whitehorse and on to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea and it takes longer than it does to drive from Vancouver to Winnipeg. So being North is relative.
Generally, though, B.C.'s North is taken to be the geographical region lying above a line that follows the Skeena River inland from Prince Rupert, then continues along the Nechako River to Prince George, then angles south to the Rocky Mountains and McBride.
It includes the prairies of the Peace River district, the glittering summit of Mount Fairweather in the St. Elias Mountains, the lava flows of the Spatsizi Plateau and the Nass Valley, the Northern Rockies that have been dubbed the Serengeti of the North for their abundance of wildlife and the craggy shores and fog-draped rainforests of Haida Gwaii, which droops down to roughly the same latitude as Williams Lake.
It's an area that if dropped on a map of Europe, would just about cover France. As a region, it's geographically larger than the entire state of California. You could drop all of Japan into it with a bit of room left over and the entire United Kingdom would take up only half of it. Yet only four main roads and a couple of railways frame this vast Northern wilderness.
The Yellowhead Highway between Jasper, Prince George and Prince Rupert; the John Hart Highway from Prince George to Dawson Creek; the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to Lower Post; the Cassiar Highway from New Hazelton to Upper Liard on Yukon border. Inside that rectangle are a few First Nations settlements, gold rush ghost towns, a few mines and exploration camps.
In total, the population of B.C.'s north is about 170,000 — although that number's disputed by those who would include regions south of Prince George, which inflates the number to about 345,000 — but nevertheless, about 20,000 fewer people than live in Richmond inhabit an area roughly the size of Europe's fourth largest country.
The snowpack and glaciers on seven major mountain ranges provide the meltwater that seethes through vast watersheds to form some of the continent's most powerful and dramatic rivers. They carve through the volcanic, mineral-rich bedrock. It was the floury dust, flakes and nuggets of placer gold these rivers deposited in gravel bars that made the North the transformative engine in B.C.'s economic and social history.
But before gold, another kind of wealth brought adventurers — luxuriant furs sought by markets in Asia and Europe.
So B.C.'s first permanent European settlers and entrepreneurs came to the province's North, following the Peace River and its tributaries through the prairies, mountains and forests of the northeast.
The first permanent and still-occupied settlement on the Pacific Slope north of Spanish California was Fort McLeod, about an hour's drive beyond Prince George. The first store opened there by the fur traders has been in continuous operation since 1805, although it's changed locations a few times.
In its day, the fur trade was the biggest commercial enterprise in North America and B.C's North was its final epicentre, with trading forts springing up on rivers and lakes across the region. They maintained a transportation system that both knit the province together and tied it to Canada in the distant east.
But it was gold that ignited the idea of the North as treasure box of mineral resources. It was kindled by discoveries on the lower Fraser River. A sequence of rushes up the great river's tributaries commenced. Eventually, stampeders flooded through the Cariboo, the Omineca, the Cassiar, the Stickeen Territory, the Stewart, the Atlin, then on into the Klondike, finally ebbing on the black sands of an Alaskan beach.
Most of the roaring boom camps that followed have dwindled to names on maps for most of us — Toy's Bar, Germansen's Landing, Manson Creek, Anyox, Hogem and New Hogem — yet they are the residue of a dawning realization: there's more to mine than gold! The corrugated landscape that proved so formidable is, indeed, a treasure trove of minerals from antimony to zinc — and it yields other commodities like energy and the wilderness esthetic.
A study in 2003 calculated that more than 70 per cent of B.C.'s export wealth is derived beyond the Lower Mainland and south Vancouver Island, a good proportion of it from the North. In the northeast alone, the BC Business Council estimates industry investment in exploration and development of natural gas grew from $1.1 billion in 1999 to $7.9 billion in 2008. The natural gas sector employs 44,000 British Columbians directly and another 67,000 owe their jobs to it indirectly.
The North has 20 per cent of B.C.'s lumber mills, 35 per cent of its pulp mills and 27 per cent of its paper mills. It produces more than 30 per cent of the hydroelectricity, including almost 900 megawatts available from Alcan's Nechako reservoir. Mineral resources including molybdenum, gold, silver, copper and coal yielded more than 30 per cent of provincial mining revenues and in 2006 more than 70 per cent of mineral exploration in B.C., valued at $194 million, took place in the North.
How important is this region to B.C.'s growth and prosperity? Pretty darn important.
If the mining industry sees much of its future in the North, workers in the south should note that the average annual earnings in that sector rose to $98,200 in 2012 and the industry expects to add another 16,770 workers in B.C. by 2023.
As for that seemingly intangible commodity, the nature esthetic: the Wilderness Tourism Association points out that the potential of the region's environmental assets are immense — it says its clients alone spend an average of $1.5 billion a year on nature-based tourism in the province, sustaining 2,200 businesses and providing 40,000 relatively high-value jobs that add more than double the value of the average retail services job.
So the North begins to resemble that mythic treasure box and the box is filled with more than stories, legends, dreams and dramatic characters. In fact, it's looking a lot like both the industrial powerhouse that visionaries imagined during its fabled past and the sustainable economy of the wilderness nature esthetic that the world increasingly demands.
The test will be whether the North can resolve the tension between the two. Can it develop the one future in resource growth without losing the other future — the value of that pristine wilderness accessible only by horseback, float plane or on foot which will increasingly be its other, perhaps longer lasting, source of wealth.


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2011 update – the campaign continues
Members of the Blair War Crimes Foundation have been busy compiling a set of short films related to the forthcoming Chilcot report – they can be viewed on the YouTube channel – ChilcotReports
On the subject of Chilcot, although not a current signatory to our campaign, it is clear that General Sir Michael Rose is of like mind. Read his Daily Mail article on the shortcomings of Chilcot and the need for a criminal trial.
February 2010 update
With new revelations from the Chilcott Inquiry, we are now supporting Professor Bowring's approach to the International Criminal Court – see new page
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This morning we learned that Julianne Moore will play Carrie's mom in the remake of Carrie, or as Luke put it, "the most terrifying mother in cinematic history." But then babzie jumped in with this excellent observation:
Didn't Julianne Moore already play the scariest mom in the world? In "Game Change"?
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Every week -- often with your help -- FOOD52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: A creamy root vegetable puree without the heft.
To make a lush root vegetable puree without loads of cream and butter, just throw in some rice. There, I said it.
It sounds like one of the more joyless weight loss tricks -- and if you're catering to that crowd, this will play well -- but it doesn't come from a place of deprivation. It's a technique created by Michel Guérard, a French chef and author who's held three Michelin stars since 1977.
We know one way French chefs make a supple mash is to keep adding more butter. In Joël Robuchon's famous potato puree, he aspires to a ratio of 1 part butter to 2 parts potato (or, by some accounts, equal parts), which has got to be supernaturally good. I aspire to eat it.
But after the slabs of roast beef and other riches of holiday meals -- not to mention the many days of cookies that preceded -- that much butterfat may send your holiday spirits toppling over the edge.
On the flip side, Guérard is credited with inventing the breezier cuisine minceur, a spinoff of the nouvelle cuisine of the '60s that lightened the dishes while also heightening flavor. (His signature dish is chicken stuffed with fromage blanc -- a far cry from American spa food.)
Indeed, he explains in La Cuisine Gourmande that a small amount of rice amps up the creaminess in a puree, while ensuring that none of the flavor of the vegetable -- in this case, celeriac -- is lost.
Alexandra Stafford of the blog Alexandra Cooks, who tipped me off to the technique, says it also works well with any surly, fibrous root, and is especially delicious with turnips.
The word technique might be implying too much. Really you're just simmering chunks of root in milk with rice, then blending with a finishing swirl of cream. It looks like a savory, sloshy rice pudding, then whips up into sweet, milky clouds.
I recommend this as a bed for winey braised short ribs or lamb shanks, for roasted chickens and more exotic birds too. For the vegetarians: mushroom bourguignon.
None of it will come up lacking in holiday grandeur, nor will it keep you from enjoying a full serving (or two) of the Bûche de Noël.
Michel Guérard's Celeriac Puree
Recipe adapted very slightly from La Cuisine Gourmande (William Morrow & Company, 1979)
Makes 4 servings
3/4 pound celeriac (celery root)1 quart milkSalt and pepper1/2 cup rice2 tablespoons crème fraîche or heavy cream
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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Scots across the country are being asked to participate in the biggest celebration of world famous poet Robert Burns by raising a toast and saying #CheerstoRabbie.
Burns Night 2018 is set to be one of the best yet, and everyone is encouraged to take part in an exciting global virtual toast to our national Bard as part of Scotland's Winter Festivals, supported by the Scottish Government.
Scots are being encouraged to post an image of their Burns celebrations on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #CheerstoRabbie.
However they choose to celebrate Burns Night, all they have to do is post a photo of their celebration along with the hashtag to be part of the global campaign.
Whether they're attending a Burns Supper, dancing at a ceilidh or celebrating from the comfort of their sofa, we want to see all the different ways people are toasting our national Bard.
Dr Alasdair Allan, Minister for International Development and Europe, said: "Burns Night is undoubtedly one of Scotland's most well-known and best-loved national days, celebrated by millions around the world.
"Every year on January 25th, the day of his birth, Scots, and Scots at heart remember the life and cultural legacy of Burns by hosting a Burns Supper.
"Glasses of whisky are raised in toast and haggis is addressed like no other food.
"It is a wonderful opportunity to come together in celebration."
Dr Allan added: "This campaign will provide people across the country with the opportunity to join thousands across the globe who will toast the national Bard whilst enjoying food, poetry and celebrations, raising a glass to Burns from every corner of the world."
For further information on Burns events, where you are, visit www.scotland.org/events/burns-night.


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Genetically modifying Scottish footballers isn't what Scott Booth believes is required to alter the qualifying fortunes of the country. Change should be resisted on all levels in the Scotland set-up is the firm belief of the 22-times capped former SFA youth coach.
Booth, now head coach of Glasgow City women's team, would welcome Gordon Strachan remaining in charge, despite his Scotland team falling short in their bid to make the World Cup play-offs this week. And the 45-year-old also considers it imperative to stick to the strategy for developing young players that came on stream during his period at the SFA between 2011 and 2014 and that has been crucial to Scotland impressing in finals at under-16 and under-17 levels.
The fact that Strachan can't select a team of strapping six-foot-plusers can bring issues, Booth acknowledges. It is not the be all and end all, though, and neither is changing the manager in the event of an unsuccessful qualifying campaign.
"I think he's done really well with the players that have been available to him in this period he has been the national team manager," said Booth of Strachan's four-and-a-half years in charge. "He's been really creative about how to try and bring in players and introduce new players, which is important, and I don't like this chopping and changing of managers. I don't think it is good for football, I don't think it is good for international football, in particular, because I think that needs to be a stable philosophy over a period of time."
The future of Strachan, whose contract expires next month, has been thrown into doubt following the inability to deliver the victory in Slovenia on Sunday that would have taken Scotland into the play-offs. The 2-2 draw did extend the country's unbeaten sequence in qualifiers to six – the longest across a campaign since 2001. However, all that grabbed attention, apart from the consequences of the outcome, were Strachan's post-match comments that "genetically, we are behind" and that the relative small stature of his players meant they had to "jump higher and fight harder" than most opponents, which was set in the context of having conceded two goals from set-pieces.
Booth has certain sympathies with this lament – and certain problems with it, too. "It becomes an issue if you have six or seven tall players who are all going to go and attack the ball at set-pieces. So it is there, but, at the same time, it's not the moment to bring it up when you've just gone out of a tournament."
There is more to players than bone structure and sinew and Booth believes that Scotland are beefing up their approach where it counts.
"The physicality aspect is always there. It is an aspect in football. There is no point in ignoring it, but whether we can do something about genetics, I don't know. I don't know genetics in that way, but what I do know is that we have created some of the best smaller players in international football over the years.
"Yeah, it is helpful to have some big tall players in the areas where aerial battles are important and when defending your box. Tactically, you need a good mix. In Scotland we have created some really good small players and it is important we keep bringing them through and they have a chance to go and play, because there is no doubt that we have created some really good players at the youth levels, but it's getting them from that under-19, under-21 age group where we can develop them not into youth internationals but full internationals.
"We need to look at the teams over the last 25 years that have reversed the position they were in within international football by their decision to follow a route that they previously hadn't in order to be successful.
"They have followed it, and they've followed it, and it has become their philosophy. From youth teams all the way through to the A squad. And because of that continuation over a number of years, they eventually get there.
"We never do that. We start something and then stop it. About four years later.
"In my time with the SFA, there was a structure in place and that never changed. The things that I took from the boys at 16s and 17s, right through to being involved with the under-19s and under-21s, in that two-year period things were really moving in the right direction and I could see young players getting better, getting game time in competition at every international level.
"The amount of competitive games and competitions was so much more than had been previously. They were geting tested and their development was happening so much quicker. They were getting best-versus-best experience at international level and that, for me, is key.
"That needs financial backing; money to be spent on going to all these tournaments, getting coaches to travel. It doesn't just happen.
"A plan and philosophy is needed to make it happen.
"Getting those players to the A squad is the most important thing, which requires dealing with the issue of getting game time at club level.
"What's important is that we have enough good young players coming through and that there is a pathway for them to develop in first teams."


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Following her best two finishes of the season, King University's Elizabeth Swallow was named Conference Carolinas Women's Golf Player of the Month, for the second part of March. Swallow placed second at both the Hilton Head Lakes Invitational and Pinehurst Challenge.
A native of Berkshire, England, Swallow finished second in her second consecutive tournament at the Pinehurst Challenge. She posted a 78 in the first round, and followed it with her best round of the season, 72, for a total of 150. The freshman finished only one stroke out of first place. Swallow also finished second in the Hilton Head Lakes Invitational after shooting 73-72 for a total of 145.
Swallow and the rest of the Tornado women's golf team will be in action on Monday at Tuesday at the Agnes McAmis Memorial Invitational hosted by Tusculum College.


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