All right so here we are again with the Vicki series tonight we're going to be discussing Israel Palestine and what we can expect from the Biden administration, the new administration. President Trump made some changes, some that are would be very controversial, mostly I guess what he did was mainly controversial. So we're expecting that that perhaps President Biden will be different, perhaps not. With us tonight to discuss this issue is Musa Isak who's the president of the Burlington Bethlehem Arad sister city program. Musa was born in Palestine in a village called Abuud. He came to the United States and married the lovely Chris Peterson and was an engineer at IBM for a long time. In 1991 he, Chris and a number of us formed a sister city relationship between Burlington Bethlehem in Palestine and Arad in Israel because we really firmly believe that even though our national government might be adverse to particularly to some of those areas in the world we believe that as a sister city we should be friendly to those countries and we should basically have our own foreign policy in a lot of ways and kind of ignore as much as policy of the United States and instead have a citizen diplomacy with the cities of the world. So Musa is the president of that organization and maybe he can tell us a little bit about what he thinks the Biden administration is going to do also what the sister city has done over the years and so I'm going to turn it over to Musa. But remember that this is a discussion so if you have any questions please feel free to ask them and we hope we can answer them. Okay Musa take it away. All right just a little correction my sweetheart Chris here we met in Egypt we were going to the same we were going to the same college AUC the American University in Cairo she came from Georgetown to study Arabic I was studying engineering we met and the rest is history so that's where it came from. So your history included coming here to the United States right? Right she dragged me over and I loved it you know yes so and we ended up in Burlington Vermont I couldn't have chosen a better place truly you know when I was looking for jobs IBM is the one that brought me over to Vermont and we the rest is history. You know I will start with the larger picture and sort of speak then zoom in on Bethlehem since we are zooming these days and you know Bethlehem Palestine in the West Bank sister city with Burlington we started the project with Sandy, Roz Payne, sister Miriam myself and the others you know joined in as we as we went but that's how it started in 1991 and we were the first American city to be a sister city with a Palestinian city the absolutely number one and there were probably hundreds of cities already sister cities with Israeli cities but not with a Palestinian city and it was not an easy birth but we made it work you know lots of good people worked on it and it came into existence just want to mention a couple things you know before we go to Biden and Trump and 100 percent Bethlehem and the West Bank you know the rest of the occupied territories are under total Israeli occupation since 1967 so that's 53 years that's two generations what is a generation 20 years 25 years two generations have been born and will die under this occupation I hope it doesn't happen that way but it's just going on way too long you know it's not good for the Israelis to be abusers and it's not good for the Palestinians to be abused occupations are major abusers and the grotesque wall which is 28 feet high hams the town cuts Bethlehem of 80 percent of its land it's all about land you know that's I want that totally understood every Palestinian city suffers the same fate stripped of its land it happened in 1948 when Israel first was created all of the Palestinian population centers in the gallery in Nazareth all of them were stripped of all of their land and they were hemmed into these little banter stands in Israel and in the West Bank the same deal now and land is gone it was the land was expropriated appropriated into the national Jewish fund not to ever be given to anybody but of somebody of Jewish background not to be sold you know it doesn't sound good not to be sold or rented or anything to anybody but of Jewish background and you can check all of this you know we have to really address the history where Bethlehem came into the picture so area C in the West Bank what they did very smart in the Oslo deal they came with area A which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority which means they are responsible for collecting their garbage not much more and the area C comprises 60 percent of the occupied areas you know the West Bank Jerusalem Ramallah all of that area 60 percent is under total Israeli control which means Palestinians cannot use it for most importantly for natural including Bethlehem for what you call it natural Palestinian population growth so everybody ends up crowded in these cities and generation after generation there have no place to go and you end up with overcrowding misery and you know I think the ultimate aim is to drive these people make their life miserable until they leave you know they learn and which is not good the so you know I mentioned it's an insidious way to control the Palestinian population natural growth a crowded cities pressure people to leave that's really my my question could I ask a question please okay so this this occupation occurred in 1967 correct correct okay and that was a war was that the six-day war yes okay so and in that war the Israeli armies occupied the west occupied right the West Bank Gaza the Sinai and the Gulen Heights so the West and East Jerusalem and East Jerusalem in the West Bank so the West Bank you know remember you know we are talking about governments we are not talking about the people the West Bank is the crown jewel that the Israeli government is after and you know that includes Bethlehem Jerusalem all of that area it's the land so 60 percent already of the occupied areas in 1967 including Bethlehem's 80 percent of their land is gone it it was confiscated from Bethlehem so when when you see the wall they say oh security and all of that the main purpose of the wall one of the main reasons around Bethlehem it's it's very sad scene if you look in Bethlehem and surrounded by 28 foot wall with wires on concrete wall you know you blocks your view from everything and with wires on top and watch towers and all of that you feel like you are in prison but the main purpose of it when they built the wall around Bethlehem is to cut off Bethlehem from access to their land olive groves these are the natural areas for population expansion no longer available to the people of Bethlehem or to the people of my village you know also area c took 90 percent of the land of my village it's called area c so you cannot do anything in area c if you build anything what you see in the news lately is demolitions house demolition so people you know because they have nowhere to go they built without permit israel doesn't give them permits they built without the permit and then the israelis send the bulldozers to take their houses down and they end up you know homeless economy in Bethlehem do you have enough sad news i'll give you some more and then i'll give you some really good news economy in Bethlehem is 70 percent dependent on tourism tourism in Bethlehem now in the whole west bank is zero nothing and then on top of that you know they have the pandemic it started in Bethlehem by a i think it was a greek we don't want to blame anything on anybody but greek two tourists were in Bethlehem and i give greece incredible credit when the greek tourists came back to greece and they discovered that they have COVID they called Bethlehem municipality and told them you'd better do something because our tourists brought you a gift and so Bethlehem went into lockdown the whole west bank went into lockdown and then israel went into lockdown and they were successful in the beginning the west bank actually did much fear much better for the COVID than israel you know israel was still more open and but now it came back and now you know i saw by alice rath child if you check her on facebook she's awesome you know she's a doctor she's been here she's been here yeah many times and she showed she's a md she showed graphs despite the vaccination in israel the west bank still has lower you know it's bad in both places despite the vaccination that has been hailed as a major example to the civilized world but no no vaccination for the people who are under their control which are the palestinians they are not under the control of jordan or america or anybody they are under total control of israel and that people don't dare say anything about you know and i just so they are not vaccinating the palestinians they should be they are the occupying power and they should be responsible for both people and but anyway what dr rath child showed is the graphs the graphs is still in israel despite the vaccination is going worse than in the palestinian territories because of the what do you call it because of the fundamentalist or the the hasid the orthodox the orthodox are not following the rules so they they still really have issues with the covid spread so that's on the vaccination so i want to give you good news before i continue i have a couple more minutes in christmas batlehem had no choice you know every year you see batlehem literally teaming with tourists for christmas eve and christmas day celebration you know thousands of people from all over the world this year they had a virtual one the mayor of batlehem sent in out to all sister cities and they have tons of them you know in italy in germany in the united states latin america requesting that we send music to share you know cheer up batlehem and they will air it out on christmas eve so we immediately thought of who can we go to fast we knew christmas and i went to our favorite uh women's chorus uh called bella voce if you have not heard them you must because they are the i think they are the crown jewel of berlington and vermont so what we did is we talked to don ellis and a neighbor of ours who was in in the chorus amazing chorus and they obliged immediately they were honored they said to to be part of this they sent us two videos beautiful videos of vermont with with their music you know little town of batlehem but they also were wise they said probably everybody is going to send little town of batlehem they gave us another song which was uh the wexford carol wexford carol was both of them magnificent you really should show them you would be proud of the videos as vermonters and we sent them immediately to batlehem and then i was really nervous are they gonna show them you know how we didn't know how they are gonna show them so i kept going to facebook of batlehem municipality so if you have facebook go to batlehem municipality and still there and at four o'clock you know christmas eve which means it was 12 midnight in in batlehem our videos were absolutely the first to air out to the whole world and thousands of people have been watching these you know and ours and then they had you know music from russia from the united states from all over Paris from vatican and ours from berlington vermont were the first two and they still come out the first two so anybody that goes to that music deal from batlehem will will stumble on our videos from from berlington vermont from bellavocci if you have not seen how many of you have seen bellavocci can you raise your hand no i haven't i have awesome you must it's really they're magnificent they are amazing just beautiful to us to christ and i we have been the usher in the christmas and the holiday season to us you know for us and uh and they have a spring concert maybe they'll have one this year we don't know you know i want to mention before i go to biden and i'm coming to it in two minutes uh my dad once you know i mean we cannot hide the there is a conflict between the palestinians and the israelis and my dad who was a sixth grader but the wisest person i've ever met in my life and uh heard us this is in the united states friends of ours and us discussing you know why are the israelis you know how could they become abusers when they were abused in europe we know the history of pogroms and all of that and how could they become abusers of the palestinians and my dad you know in his simple way really explained it to me for years i've been trying to figure it out and he explained it to all of us we were translating to him and he said this conflict really has nothing to do with religion israelis that came to palestine were europeans and they treated the indigenous population he was there like europeans treated indigenous population populations everywhere the us australia south africa and israel so he says it has nothing to do with religion it has to do they were europeans they looked down at us and they said we can take everything they've got their inheritance their land their and that's exactly what really unfolded and then he said you know to counter all people resisting you know the occupation with the israelis he said we resisted the turkish occupation which occupied them for 500 years by the way you know it was a long occupation palestinians and the rest of the arab world resisted the turkish occupation not because they were muslims because most 90 percent of the palestinians are muslims 10 percent are christians at the time and not not because they were muslim we resisted them because they were occupiers and then palestinians were lucky they got occupied by the british after world war one and he said we resisted the british occupation that was brutal also as brutal as the turkish occupation not because they were christian you know my dad was christian he said we didn't resist them because they were christian we resisted them because they were occupiers and then now we are resisting the israeli occupation has nothing to do with being jewish or not it is a brutal occupation that must end and i hope all of us you know we really have to work on that you know we have to push the biden so that brings us to biden versus trump under trump i think it got to the worst ever i've never seen it trump what trump did he moved you know these are unimportant to me moved the the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem you know symbolic very bad symbolism but what he did is he cut off all of the money that went to anura you know un that takes care of the palestinian schools in the camps millions of people depend on the united palestinian refugees depend on the united nations for schools for food for all of that cut off all of our funds to that and then he cut off all of the funds to the palestinian authority which is a useless authority takes care of the palestinians but they control nothing no borders no skies no resources they under their feet even the water that under the west bank is not controlled by the palestinian authority it's controlled by israel and so they really hurt the palestinians big time so i don't dare now say oh it may get better under the biden administration because every time i have said this in the past or any of us have said oh this situation is gonna get better it gets a lot worse so i'm gonna dears just say it may get a little better under biden but i honestly don't think that biden and his team unless we push him you know like the biden administration better than the trump the disastrous trump administration but we have got to push him i don't think they are gonna invest any effort or any capital in in fixing you know doing anything for the palestinians and what you will hear always when they discuss that with any of the biden administration people they'll say oh what do you think we will do they'll say two state solution that is the safe retreat for for anybody who wants to say oh you know we want peace without really doing anything to help peace come about while so when they say two state solution they're supported while allowing israel to gobble up the rest of the west bank you know and so we really have to i think you under the biden administration we have to absolutely push him to do the right thing they are gonna do the right thing on many issues you know that we care about in this country but when it comes to palestine israel i think they are gonna not do too much they will probably restore the money to anora which is uh onra which is very important the the money to the palestinian authority which pays policemen you know again it goes to palestinian people who are dependent on these salaries and they are absolutely dead in the water now with the economy so the west bank i have no idea in betlehem in ramallah and all of it you know including my village i have zero idea i talked to my relatives they all say thank goodness we are okay we manage but to tell you the truth i have no idea how they survive because they are hemmed in they are totally closed in they cannot leave the west bank they cannot go anywhere without israel's permission and those permits are very far and few in between okay um how about any questions before i have some questions anybody else have any comments questions uh frank does frank frank i'm quite i'm quite sure that i read uh within the last week that the the monies have been restored uh to the palestinians uh the onra and the other i haven't heard about onra you know i hope i hope onra before anything else i think they're in process but they are in in process and the i think i heard the same thing frank that they are in the process of restoring the money to the palestinian authority which is beings compared to what israel gets you know i think they were giving them 400 million israel gets 3.8 billion a year from us so so did the united states cut off funding to palestine also okay so but the united states gives huge aid to israel correct right okay so since trump came in i think second year probably or soon after he closed the palestinian embassy in washington shuttered down uh shuttered it down and cut off all aid to the palestinian authority and then you know to really all palestinian projects and all palestinian projects you know whether by hospitals all of that the the other thing you know to hem the palestinians even more sometimes they had money coming in from the gulf countries so you know for you to understand what's going on behind the scenes then kushner and company did all of these deals with saudi arabia and the gulf those were all absolutely to squeeze the palestinians to death no money coming in from any of those places so now i don't know that's why i say i have no idea at least before you know some money would come from the gulf you know to help them you know pittance but now with these uh deals between israel you know there is when they tell you oh israel is making peace with the gulf who cares that's not the issue the real peace that i'll be proud of is when they palestinian and israelis can live in peace as equals together that's the real peace this year is all working on the edges for evil reasons in my in my uh book they really are to totally strangle the palestinians and that's exactly what happened you know no money coming from the gulf from saudi arabia or these these are reactionary regimes this is being this is being recorded i hope i'm okay you know i'm seeing all of this but i don't care any any questions i have a question musik could you even could you talk about you know i think that when when you talk and when i talk i think it assumes that people understand the whole historical development of israel and palestine and i'm not certain when people talk for instance about the recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital that people understand the importance of that could you because trump did that too i mean that's i mean no other no other superpower has done that correct no no other administration has done that before no other administration although the american administration and they have seemed to want to correct yeah but they never done it they never did it okay so what is this why why is that so important that is real that the united states did that international law you know it's international law they they occupied areas have got to be solved correctly you cannot you cannot have an occupying power two things that are very clear in international law you cannot change anything in the occupied territories and you cannot move your own population in occupied to occupied areas they've done both so it is against international law pure and simple and you know the the thing with with the moving populations into the west bank it's still happening and it is on palestinian land being grabbed from my village from batlehem's land from and it's it's counterproductive you know on the its obstacles to real peace you know and we have to fix that okay well maybe you could talk a little bit about that because the settlements have increased correct yes okay but they they have increased over the years but there was there an increase in the settlement jewish only settlements correct on the west bank they are all jewish only settlements i know so maybe you could so that has increased so they've basically not only had the occupation they moved populations of israelis into the west bank as well right yes and those are those form really tiny cities in a way don't they or what they are not tiny cities they are bigger than burlington most of them you know they are huge 50 000 60 000 70 000 for example uh around batlehem it's run by they took a mountain it's called abugh name and now i forgot what the the israelis changed the name it became a settlement it was really a beautiful mountain full of pine trees you know it was like a reserve and they stripped it of the trees and they built a huge settlement i don't know the number but i would estimate you know minimum 50 000 and uh harahoma harahoma is the harahoma is the the name of the settlement and around my village for example which is about 20 miles northwest of batlehem they took a third of my village the land that is owned by relatives you know private land took it and put a settlement on it there are three settlements ringing my my village and it's jewish only settlements with jewish only roads you know this is really what hurts me the most is how could we agree to how can you justify you cannot justify it by any means you cannot say security reasons or any of that because other regimes did that before justified even with the security you can how can you support how can we support a system that allows roads for only one religious group or one national group you know talking about supremacy we are now you know it's in the air in the united states white supremacy you know if you have been watching all day i have uh watching the tv how the supremacist attacked our uh capital white supremacy palestinians know what supremacy is it is national and religious supremacy when somebody tells you god gave me what you've got it's over you cannot there is no further discussion and i know reasonable people will say that's not acceptable you know you cannot use religion and the bible to justify but unfortunately it has been so i love lincoln president lincoln today i was saying to christian i've heard it who said it and she found it beware of somebody says if somebody says god is on my side beware of a person like that i think cliff has a question be friends with yeah be friends with somebody who says i hope god is i hope i am on god's side what lincoln what lincoln said was i hope god's on my side but i have to have kentucky on my side yeah that's what he said i think anyway no no he didn't say he didn't say that okay we just cliff we just cliff yeah cliff mosa thank you for your sharing and also very much the personal experiences with your family as you mentioned the 3.8 billion dollars um that are used that the united states um gives israel on an annual basis it was during the trump administrations that the parameters of that funding was changed and so previously to president trump um the ceiling was at 3.8 billion dollars but with the legislation during his term in office uh 3.8 billion dollars is now the lowest amount so we'll be up to the up to the government to decide how much israel will get now yesterday i had the privilege of being a part of the american friend service committee announcement about a new website and uh they are calling it uh connecting the shots and in the chat i put the link to that website and it's interactive and i learned for the first time that israel is the largest weapons producer in the world larger than the correct larger than the united states and today today talking with some other quakers who have been at the site and and working there are 110 different countries that are listed are part of that website and it tells the relationship with israel and uh the united states and different dynamics um it's very interacting the country that right now is buying the most weapons from israel is turkey i found that quite interesting uh so one of the other things musa that that they shared were in televiv is a a big convention center for when they have those conventions that where there are selling different styles of weapons surveillance materials etc and so in the midst of the different booths and exhibits they have platforms set up and at different times during the event um those companies will put on a show featuring the israeli military and whoever the other people are usually palestinian sort of a good versus evil and demonstrate their new products fine that's do you have a question yeah right so so to you musa um how israel i know has used the palestinians as laboratory kind of animals for for their different products especially their weapon products what experiences might what experiences do your family face where they they feel like they're still a part of the of any laboratory kind of experiences you know i think i think the weapons uh deal the the people who have really suffered the most right in gaza in the west bank it's in the west bank my village is in the west bank about 20 miles northwest of durus and i'm actually less than that they suffer it's major suffering anyway you know they don't have control in my village supposedly has 20 percent of the water aquifer mayor clavel is here he knows about water and good to see their club l is here i don't see him and so water aquifer my village supposedly sits on top of 20 percent of the water aquifer of the west bank they have zero access to that water that's why the three settlements around my village is to steal that water you know and control it you know the the thing i just want to mention something because if we want to solve the problem which i really hope we are all solvers you know by understanding the issues as americans you know i'm here frank donath jamie lee's a robin loyde musa we are all equal under the law we hope you know we are equal under the law in 12 hours i tell my friends in 12 hours we get on the airplane this is when covid is over we get on the airplane we go to israel we are equal here we live in the same neighborhood as neighbors we get one my friend the jew and myself the palestinian we will get on an airplane land in tel aviv that will be treated they've never been there that will be treated like kings and queens and that will be treated like not very well and so that's you know that's an issue we have to somebody can make alia who's never been ever lived there you know originally from russia or from new york city and musa and his offspring cannot ever go there i cannot to live i can go there for three months and they will watch me very carefully get out you know you are never to be permanently appropriated back to palestine so you know these are issues for example i mentioned to people if somebody tells me and by the way there are many around us you know who are saying that we want to make this country a christian country i would we would all go crazy about that we would all reject that because it's not just a cute name if you say oh this is a christian country then somebody is going to be the christians are going to be in the supremacy seat and everybody else is going to be second or third grade person so you know again when people say oh this is the jewish state why can't it be the state for everybody you know where equality reigns so when they say jewish state it is supremacy it is saying jews have the upper seat the upper hand and everybody else is second citizen is second grade citizen so it's these are structural problems you know in batlehem everywhere we have robin robin where is she robin you are muted i don't see or i'd signal to her does somebody's somebody signal okay uh yeah good to be on this call um my question is of the palestinians who live in israel as i mean i thought there were they were 10 or 15 20 percent of the population of israel is palestinian now but they they must call themselves israelis because they are in the israeli nation right yes so how are they faring now with all of this various crises that have happened in the last few years okay from day one the palestinian israelis who were left in israel they were in 1952 four years after israel was created they were given citizenship and the reason they were giving citizenship because there were palestinians that were ejected coming back into palestine so it really was not being generous to give them citizenship it was to mark them have the papers you are we gave you citizenship anybody who doesn't have these papers will be caught and ejected again so that was the main reason but immediately she wants to zone immediately what they did is they stripped all palestinian villages and towns that remained and by the way the the leader that was directing the operations to eject the palestinians out of palestine was uh he was a canadian jew and when it came to the gallery he refused to give the orders to push those people out and big mistake good mistake but immediately after that citizenship was given to those people and then the land was totally stripped from the these villages and towns so they have no land at all all of their land is gone and now they are ignored the the government funding goes to the jewish towns and cities government so if you go to nazareth or any arab town in israel that are israelis citizens the palestinians in those cities are living in crowded conditions because natural growth is gone it's not there and when you hear about you know that there are coexistence very few places in israel have coexistence haifa you know some arabes and some palestinians and israelis live in the same neighborhoods but very very segregated society so the population the population is increasing then a percentage yes the cause of the greater yeah and the the different laws i want to mention this is really really important i think we did this you recorded it sandy at one of your lectures where the palestinians anybody non-jew has a citizenship but the nationality law is only for jews nationality law i don't want to use the word supersedes i was going to say trumps supersedes the citizens law frank love but yeah so uh citizen law it's like you know you you have permanent citizenship but you are not in national like you have to be jewish to be part of the nation of the jews but you can vote you can vote yeah yeah you can vote but again in the voting you know this is another lecture i think it's important you really should listen to it because it is incredible very insidious how all of these laws you know i call him the gym crow of our area uh how all of these laws they were not allowed to form their own uh parties they have to be party of another party so they are diluted their vote and because that how would you explain they can vote 20 percent but none of them are in the prime ministership or the ministers or in any positions of any importance in the israeli government you know these are israeli citizens that are not or they are none of them are in any of the big companies in israel musa musa could i ask peter hi peter and betsey i'm wondering peter do you have do you have any questions or any thoughts peter and i were together in israel palestine at one point right and i wish i went with you but it didn't work out i know anybody else because i do have a question i think most of us know this but i would like to have musa discuss what's what's going on with the two-state one-state so-called solution what's going on peter peter wanted to say oh peter i'm sorry peter the point that i would want to make is that uh this has been a long lasting uh relationship the sister city program right but you know going back to what 1993 one 1991 we started in 1991 started in 91 but it was consummated in 93 yes so almost 30 years now but what can we do as a community to bring some new energy some new blood some young people into this relationship because this is all about creating awareness and informing people through conversations and dialogue but you know as i look around this room you know i'm one of the younger people here and this is uh i can't say that too often these days that i'm the younger one in the crowd but i think we need to give some have some discussion as to what might be done to re-energize this sister city program like to connect with folks in in bethlehem i was lost there probably five years ago and i was amazed that uh they knew burlington and they brought me into a room and they had every piece of correspondence communication ever between bethlehem and burlington in this room and they must they've done a they've done a much better job of maintaining the history of this relationship than we have but uh my point is not about that but it's about what might be done to create some new energy and bring some new people into this conversation it'd be a very excellent excellent question uh they are clever yeah excellent now you know we did we started unfortunately we were interrupted by covid we started a program with champlain college that was gonna involve what do you call it the the students no but it's the teachers and the students you know on a project that involves uh you know photography and all of that and it wasn't it started and it just happened to be coincide with the covid and we were hoping that we will harness you know some young people and professors but everybody on this year is also invo uh invited to join the sister city we would love to have you i most of the before i really would like you to say something about is there a change in attitude about one state two states what's going on i mean for the for the united states they've always talked that there has to be two states right and that doesn't de facto that's not happening and i don't think it ever was planned or never could happen as a matter of fact and in my mind de facto it is one state so what on earth is going on with this continual rap about two states so so to the powers which are what counts you know to the united states and the politicians the easy safe retreat or position is to say two states oh we believe in two states meanwhile as i mentioned earlier everything is being gobbled up so they say two states but they are not doing anything to stop israel from gobbling up the west bank so you know i will be fine with two states if you allowed everything to be fixed in place until we fix it but the land is being stolen the resources are being carved up and so two states i think for the politicians is safe retreat but in actuality israel is really gobbling up the whole place you know it's uh and so who who basically has jurisdiction anyway really israel has israel has israel controls the boundaries the airs the the skies and the everything under the ground which means water you know very important and the land you know most of the land so if you paul has a question yeah paul i i had a question with regard to aid aid to palestine and that is with the new positions that our senatorial delegation has in particular do you think there's any hope of working through them to increase it i hope so yeah we we have to work on that you know with our government it's a you know i'll tell you this it probably one of the biggest pushers one of the biggest people to push for restoring what has been taken away from the palestinians is probably senator lehi behind the scenes our congressional delegation is wonderful you know on wanting some some goodness for both sides so senator sanders today he refused he was one of three that refused to sign the deal about the israeli embassy right well he was was there a deal today yes today or yesterday there was a vote in 97 to 3 sanders warren warren and and carper from somewhere carper i didn't i didn't know who is but warren and sanders three only wow where we're against keeping the embassy in but again remember sandy the congress has been pushing for all of these good things forever it's the administration that has prevented this from happening the embassy move and all of the above so now it's in the you know would have to be biden and team to restore some of that back but and you and your prediction is what what's your prediction about that about jerusalem it's going to stay the way it is right or what look i mean here is here is the problem about you know there is a good question about your question is about single state or two state a two state would be awesome if everything was fixed and then the Palestinians get you know what they wanted which is the west bank and Gaza with the access you know it's clear what would fix it and allow two state and then maybe in the future i mean that would be the best option if they really have freedom the Palestinians and then the Palestinians and Israelis joined together in a federation or whatever you know they can come up with something the problem is Israel is not allowing that and i don't think we'll ever allow it to have a separate state in under you know which is under its control now and so the problem with one state though is once you become one state you can abuse your minority actually will be the majority you can abuse and nobody nobody will interfere because it's your business that's one disadvantage to one state we know the power the power is in the hands of the Israelis companies military all of that if they become one state Palestinians would be totally totally helpless yeah but my question is somewhat different Musa de facto it is one state yeah so we have we have to uh the struggle should be for equality exactly we we know you know the answer is if it is one state but Israel is not gonna allow it to happen and that by the United States is somebody has a question yeah so i i can't i can't see it john uh you're muted right okay so hi Musa i don't know if you remember me we sure hi john hi john i do work together and um i just have a few ups of it i didn't even know about this group peter clavel invited myself uh i got an email a couple days ago um but one one of my observations for vermont is and i've been involved in this for about 20 years um is the number of organizations who are independent of each other who don't know what the other organizations are doing and don't work together if you could form a group of this group you've got vtjp you've got jews voice for peace you've got the episcopal church you've got cliff pennant down there and water berry with his group you've got all these disjointed organizations and we don't even talk to each other so if you came together you would probably have a better chance of making sure and in a response to peter's uh yeah i that's been the question for me all these years why isn't the university of vermont these students uh i mean i was with uh with a palestinian doctor today a 24-year-old intern that uh who was giving me a physical he's palestinian he doesn't know about we you know what's going on in the in vermont about this his mother is from palestine his father is from india uh there are young people especially we have bernie sanders here we have lehi but you know i you know vtjp we've been holding his feet to the fire for the lehi law which says you cannot give any military assistance to any country that commits human rights abuses and i think that's something we can continue to pound on him especially as he uh is at the end of his career and leave a legacy for him to begin to push the lehi law as the the episcopal church by the way uh passed three resolutions two years ago um for the diocese of the episcopal church on the lehi law on apartheid and bds and the episcopal church i think has a uh a national uh voice in washington with the with the washington cathedral so we could work through them also but my point is that as long as we continue to uh work apart and not try to figure out how we can work together vermont we're just going to be continue to spin our wheels right you know i just want to mention john one important factor about the lehi law is if it is inactive it has to go to the state department and they are the ones who would apply it so they certify it so if they don't certify it lehi law and lehi can go somewhere and yeah we've heard we've heard that we've heard that for 20 years but now we've got the senate and the house of representatives and the presidency now it's time for the lehi law that the secretary the state department to to take action on the lehi law they can no longer use that as an excuse i agree with you that uh that's why you know early on in this uh discussion i mentioned we are happy or some of us are happy that uh biden is in and the other guy is out but we really have to work on all kinds of issues not just the palestinian issue on all kinds of issues to really fix what's broken and we have to push biden and his team on palestine and the rest right i'm palestine i told you my feeling they are not going to invest much capital unless we really make it make their life miserable and we'll see right okay musa but um again what i mean i think john brought up an interesting point about how we can really do anything to change what's going on in washington that's a constant complaint from a lot of different groups right now and i i guess i would say i would ask you if you are at all encouraged musa has there been a change in the years that you've been involved on this issue any changes at all changes you know to mention we have to grab on anything positive right for example sanders has changed big time he before we met with him many of you here were in the room he would not touch this issue with a 10 foot actually 20 foot pole now he's fantastic he really is i we are very proud of him that he's for justice and for doing something and jimmy wants to say something jimmy yeah jimmy leaves so on on friday the um pre-trial chamber of the international criminal court came out with a decision yes that um recognized it's the court's jurisdiction over the situation in palestine back to 2014 when there was a massive israeli assault on gaza and i think it might also cover israeli settlements in the occupied territories and the violence that israel committed against hundreds of people in 2018 at the protest at the wall it might also address israeli apartheid if they so do you think this is one of the positive developments recently this was just on friday what does musa think or anybody else i think so but maybe musa has something to say about them musa musa where is he what happened to him amir amir so on on the international court it's already being rejected or pushed back at by our state department already our state department yes so it's not going to be an easy deal but bet salam you know one positive thing bet salam which is an israeli human rights organization came out and said you know let's stop beating around the bush israel is an apartheid state you know when you treat two populations totally differently and subject them to different laws you cannot keep saying oh we are the only democracy in the area so bet salam this has been in the news i'm sure if you missed it search for it came out and said you know just period end of story this is an apartheid situation we have from the river jordan to the sea is there are approximately five million palestinians and five million jews they are about equal numbers yes we can we can they can live in equality if the powers to be forced the issue if they choose to it's the only hope for me is the only hope for israelis and palestinians is equality under the law where it's not jewish state or christian state or muslim state it's a state multicultural and good for everybody that lives there and one man one woman one vote right that's one person one vote right absolutely that's the only solution and the people who keep saying oh god maybe favors us a little bit you know over the other guys or are just wasting everybody's time and will end up causing more pain and misery and dragging the situation out there is no hope that you know israel has tried everything to drive the palestinians out checkpoints there are 600 checkpoints in the west bank you cannot go from my village which is say sx to berlington which is only like eight miles without going through several checkpoints you know so you don't know if you are going to make it to the hospital or to your work or to so they live palestinians are living a miserable life under this occupation and it's not good you know the israelis they know they are abusers you know the army knows what they are doing and it's not good for abusers or abused you know and in the end they will consume everybody i really believe equality under the law one state for all is the only solution and the sooner we work on it and that's what we should be working on all of us okay i think we're about out of time tonight any final questions or thoughts before we close and i might remind you all that next week we're doing another program on sister cities and i think mayor clavell will be with us and i hope all of you are with us next week we're going to be discussing our sister cities primarily in latin america our sister city in port of cabezas which is nicaragua and which is also under siege right now largely by people who would like to overthrow the government in nicaragua and their allies probably some of them find themselves in washington um and also we're going to contrast that with us foreign policy in other words we're going to talk about sister city diplomacy and us foreign policy next week and we would welcome you all here because a lot of that's going to have to do with sister cities as well and sister cities remember are based on friendship and i think there are two there are two questions sandy one is by john and one is robin okay robin or john whoever first john yeah okay so talking about sister cities i just want to inform you that vtjp we're working with rochester new york they do this famous film festival every october they show five films they have a very good audience on palestine they take the whole year to select these films and we are going in partnership with them to do a similar film festival in vermont and we're underway with that with marcage and kathy shapiro and what yeah yeah so uh peter i'd like to call you tomorrow um i want to get out another sort of press release about the portugal basis um webinar next wednesday so i'll give you a call please please call me we've raised some money we're in contact and almost a daily basis with portugal basis they're really hurting and yeah we can help them wow great okay i just want to say it was so good to see everybody here you know lots of good friends that we haven't seen during this covid disaster it's good to see you all really and thank you for being here and thank you for inviting me sandy thank you a lot moosa thank you for calling over the for many years okay thank you see you next week i hope


So let's do this problem now. So it asks what's the atomic number, the group number, and the period number for each of these elements.  But anyway, so look at the periodic table and the atomic number, it's just the, of course, the number, what order the atom is in. So, for example, calcium, so this is calcium, its atomic number is 20. Silver's atomic number is 47. So arsenic, 33. And then sulfur, of course is 16. Okay, so the group number, that's the number that's on the top of the column. So the column on the periodic table we call groups. Okay, so if we look, the group number for calcium of course is, you can call it either 2a or group 2. Okay, for silver, it's over in the transition metals there. So you see, it's group 1b or 11. Arsenic, it's into the, well, well, we'll talk about this one. I guess you guys don't know about transition metals, main group and stuff yet. But arsenic's over a few more. And you can see its group number is 5a, 15. And then sulfur is 1 over from that, which is 6a or 16. And the period on the periodic table are the roads, are the roads, the roads, the roads. So calcium, you can see, you count them. So there are the number that's on the left of the periodic table, which this is not a periodic table, but. So you just count down, 1, 2, 3, 4. So calcium is in period number 4. Silver, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Silver is in period 5. Arsenic, also period 4. And sulfur is 1 period above arsenic in period 3. So again, you have to have the periodic table available to you. But once you have that, it should be fairly straightforward.


This is my granddaughter, Tracy, Tracy, and I'm Jason. Hi, this is my granddaughter, D-Mom. This is my granddaughter, Christina, the head of the president. Hi, this is my granddaughter, Lance. Hello, the president. Hi, darling, I'm Lance. This is Tony Thomas. Tony Thomas. Hi. Larry Thomas. Hello there. I'm Ron. Hi. Hello. Do you say hello to the president? Yes, I do. These two are my friends. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. You met the vice president. How are you? Nice to see you, sir. How are you? How are you? I'm just fine. Thank you. Wonderful to meet you. Hello. Hello. How are you? I don't know, Jeff. She's duplexed on me. I don't control any call me yesterday, and they said she was an arrowhead. That secretary here was a dog.  That's a good help to you. Yeah, I feel great. I don't feel good. You must have lived there. They agreed on something. That's my kid. That's my kid. That's my kid. Members of the Thomas family, members of the Congress who are here, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Welcome to the White House. You know, when I was told that we'd be hosting you here in the Roosevelt room, first I was a little concerned. This room can get awfully crowded, as you can see, and neither Danny has a good family and a lot of friends, and then I figured out what to do. I just called the staff together and said, just four words, make room for daddy. Danny Thomas, you were born of Lebanese immigrant parents in Deerfield, Michigan, January 6, 1914, and around here that makes you a young whippersnapper. That boy, you became a candy butcher in a vaudeville house and first felt the lure of the stage. And soon you were earning pocket money by clowning at banquets. At 20, you were hosting a Michigan radio show in the 22nd year, Mary Rosemarie. And just a few months later, however, you lost your job. Because the middle of the Depression and the work was hard to come by. You were forced to consider giving up show business, and in desperation, you prayed to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes. I find myself praying for it once and for a while. The very next day, you were offered a radio job in Chicago and a job at Shafer Lee, and your career began a steep climb which has never ended. The Chicago radio serials led to nightclub performances, USO tours, and movies no one will ever forget. The Unfinished Dance, 1947, The Big City, 1948, The Jazz Singer, 1953. If I'd been getting films like that, it'd still be in Hollywood. In 1953, you began the televised phase of your career with a certain show called Make Room for Daddy, which in 1957 became The Danny Thomas Show. At one point, your program was seen by more than 40 million Americans a week. And you ruled the airwaves as the undisputed king of television comedy. When your show finished its run, you remained active on television through your production company. Today, you continue to manage that company and make frequent show business appearances. You've made millions life then, and America will always be grateful. Yet the award you will receive in a moment is not for your show business career, but for your, quote, humanitarian efforts. And it goes back to that prayer to St. Jude those many years ago. St. Jude interceded with the Almighty on your behalf. You've been thanking him ever since by funding and working ceaselessly for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. St. Jude Hospital, which specializes in childhood cancer research, is supported primarily by funds from volunteer contributions and grants. Proceeds from your concerts and commercials go directly to the hospital, and every summer the hospital hosts a week-long golf tournament, the Danny Thomas Golf Classic, using most of the proceeds to help fund St. Jude Hospital's important work. Danny, you once remarked, they say I'm a sentimentalist, and I am. I'm so sentimental I cry a basketball game. Your life, however, bespeaks no mere sentiment, but a deep and abiding love. A love for your God, your country, your family, and your children. The thousands of them who benefited from St. Jude Hospital. Danny Thomas is my high honor to present you with the Congressional Gold Medal and to tell you that on this day, America says, we love you. We love you right back. The highest honor of my life, and I'm grateful to you, sir, for presenting us on behalf of the Congress of the United States, and the presence of the Vice President, the presence of the Vice President of the United States. And to my family, it's a great day. It's a great day for our family. And to my other family, the American Lebanese-Syrian Associated Charity. What a great day. Did you ever dream back in 1957 that this could happen to us? But it has happened. And the great benefactors of St. Jude who are here is Joan Croft, who is the boss lady of the Padre. He makes all those hamburgers. Big contributors. And Franco Bryan, and I always want to say federal expression. American Express, never leave home. I never leave home without him. With the money. With the non-colonies. The great columnar ties. All great contributors. And all the contributors. And I particularly wanted to thank Congressman Nick Rehoff, who was the catalyst to which all of this happened. Then, of course, the fellow members of Congress came along. It took a time. But why not? They tell me they don't do this very often. I am eternally grateful to God and to you, Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, and to my fellow Americans for presenting me with this high honor in my lifetime, particularly in the presence of my grandchildren. Thank you very much. I just invite them to Italian bits.


I wanted to talk about the tax bills that we all got last week. Some of us were pretty surprised our tax rates went up or not our tax rates but our tax bills went up pretty significantly so I imagine you're hearing from people in the neighborhood and in the city. What are you hearing from them? I hear I hear a lot of concern about general affordability about people's ability to stay in the city. Concern for where things are are headed. Yeah there's a lot of pain clearly with this tax reassessment. And why did it take so long for the city to do this reassessment? It seems like it was overdue. You know I have heard that but I'm not aware of other towns in Vermont doing this differently and I may just not be aware of that but the state of Vermont requires us to do a reassessment when we get out of alignment with market value by a certain amount. So they have their benchmarks that they're looking for that will trigger a reassessment and then when that reassessment is triggered then we spend the big bucks and it is a very expensive endeavor so I don't think municipalities take it take it lightly to do a reassessment. This was a two-year process. It cost millions of dollars so it's not something we want to do when we don't need to. And you also have another life in the real estate world. How would you characterize the property values and the sort of the trend line in Burlington for residential and commercial property? Well I've been selling real estate for over 10 years and during that time Burlington has never had much inventory and then there's always this expectation that we're oh well if we just wait a few months more inventory is going to come online it hasn't happened in 12 years. And then during COVID I think personally I kind of expected things to soften a little bit. I didn't think that people would want to be out shopping for houses but it turns out people did want to shop for houses and not a lot of people wanted to sell their houses so demand increased supply did not. People wanted more space because they were in their houses more so people who had been happy in smaller spaces now wanted bigger spaces. As we all know there's also pressure coming from out of state so this year even more than last year the market has been painfully intense I would say with most things you know a realtor will price it above what we think the the comps show us and then the market will push far above that. What about the people who are experiencing 20, 30, 40 percent tax increases on their homes? What can the city do for them? Can they get relief? Now nearly 70 percent of our property taxes are education taxes and for the education portion of your tax bill there is relief that is you know related to your income. I think that dollar amount changes every year but it's in the range of if you're making less than $140,000 a year you are eligible for income sensitivity on your taxes that can give you some tax relief and I have been surprised that many people actually aren't availing themselves of that and that's really important so when you file your homestead claim on your income taxes you also need to apply for this property tax credit. So you're seeing people that haven't that are eligible but have not applied for it? Yes. I think I've misunderstood what revenue-neutral means. Yes. We we often make the quick claim that that the taxes are revenue-neutral and that's mostly accurate it's not completely accurate so if they were completely revenue-neutral and we had a tax base of a million dollars and we needed to generate $10,000 out of that million dollars then when our grand list goes up to two million dollars the tax rate would be cut in half so that we still only generate $10,000 from that grand list. So after reappraisal reappraisal for the municipal side of the budget was generating about 34 million dollars I'm not the best remembering numbers but these so take these as rough numbers but it was about a 34 million dollar municipal revenue that increased to 35.7 million we have we have about 1.7 million dollars in additional revenue but that is because the voters actually voted for a tax increase so a million dollars of that is the voters voted for that million dollars of increased revenue and then about 500,000 dollars of that is something that the the rate will adjust but it's what's driving that rate is what we need for the retirement fund so the retirement fund funding the retirement fund is based on how the fund did it's not really based on what our tax base is or anything else it's how did the fund do and what does the city of Burlington need to put in that fund to make it whole so that is a dollar amount that will then be translated into a rate so we have a $500,000 increase for the retirement fund and about $200,000 is distributed over over some other funds that are not completely revenue neutral something like that we voted and the taxpayers have voted for them when we vote for a penny for parks that is not a revenue neutral tax however we did not increase that tax as much as we could have so we still have room in the approved voter approved tax rate to raise that more so we raised some additional revenue through penny for parks but we didn't raise it to the extent that we could have raised it and also those are much smaller figures within the overall budget and I don't think that that's really what people are feeling what people are feeling is the redistribution of the tax burden that is the primary reason that somebody's taxes are going up 20 30 or 40 percent or more mine went up more so that's that is because certain areas of the city the market has increased their value more than other areas of the city and one of those shifts is from commercial property to residential property but there's also shifts within residential property and from neighborhood to neighborhood so the value of commercial property has gone down in relation to the value of residential property is that what you're saying I would not say that anything has gone down but that it has gone it hasn't gone up as much relative to other properties and 60 percent increase and your property value only increases 20 percent you're going to actually see a tax decrease but your assessment still goes up so just remind taxpayers if they need relief what's the process now so we went through one level of appeal and for two-thirds of residential property owners they saw no change which to me is problematic when the when you bring new information there should be a change it might not be a big change and it might go up rather than down which isn't what you're hoping for but new information will result in some change in the fact that two thirds of the property taxpayers got no change in my view is problematic and something that once we get through this process we need to be looking at that so if you're among those or you didn't like the results of that appeal you could appeal again but the deadline for that appeal was July 22nd some people got their tax bills after that I know for myself we didn't get any mail for some reason our mail wasn't delivered for two days so the tax bill for some people came after that deadline the the tax bill even though that does incentivize people to appeal you're not appealing the tax bill you're appealing your value and if you don't think you can sell your home for that much that is a reason to appeal the value the fact that the taxes are high are unfortunately not a reason to appeal the value you can appeal the taxes themselves but that I will say unless the city did something wrong or unless you can prove that you actually cannot pay those taxes which is a very high bar you're not likely to get relief through that process so the the next step is next if you feel that you are not assessed fairly you can appeal next year but we have nearly 700 I am on the board of tax appeals as you said our volunteer citizen body has almost 700 appeals to go through and we have to get through that by the end of December so it's going to be extraordinarily difficult for us to to accomplish that goal and the timeframe that we have because I did consider like you know could we extend this for people but I don't think we have the ability to open this back up and attract more appeals we're going to be extremely challenged to to do what we have on our plate now but the window opens again next year so people can challenge the value of their home in 2022 for the July 1st tax bill correct yep okay the other thing that will happen is that through the appeals that we're hearing now um that will only like say um if you appeal the value of of your property and you get your property adjusted and your neighbor has an identical house with an identical lot but their value is still high um the tax assessor is going to be looking for those kind of situations so that the adjustment gets made in in other places so for we're in tax year 22 now is the tax bills you just got uh you're going to be stuck for this year but next year you may find that the tax assessor makes an adjustment even without your appeal to make it more fair with your neighbor because you have identical properties I understand well that'll do a process over time so thank you for all your work on this I know you've gotten a lot of feedback and as you said the board of tax appeals is a another task on top of being a city counselor and on top of having a job so thank you for your service to the city and thanks for taking a minute to explain just on a pretty high level what's happening with the tax bills and the tax rate well thank you so much Lauren Glenn for the opportunity to share some information with a lot of people I know are very concerned yeah thanks so much have a great week you too


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. Welcome to Stocks For Show Play of the Day. Play of the Day number two, pick number two. A&F was pick one, this was pick two. I actually did two things today. I'm holding this tight to the chest here now because it's very, very, very late to be in a trade. It's almost one o'clock. I knew this would get down to the low of the day. I knew at least that, which is basically it now. It did break it, but not really. Could this go to the next target? Yes. Why? Because it's weak as all get-out. It's not doing anything wrong, but I know some people checked this with me and then couldn't hold it. If you played this right today, you really could have banged this one out. And I'd like the A&F today, but I'm saying you could have done the first trade in this quick, got all out, did the second trade in this, and then took it on down. You could have got all out or still be in it, but you could have actually got a dollar out of this today or more if you did it twice. Here, this is gonna break the low again. Next target, this is 39.25 or 39-ish. Time of the day here is fine though, too. Let me just see something. I'm getting out of this though, this doesn't break the low soon. All right, let's go over it. Everything was wild this morning. So here's the first entry on this. Drop, break, you could have gotten out. Rally back, boom. Here's where I called it and I did a great job telling everybody where to put the stop. Beautiful. Falled all the way down. This had good entries today, actually, and I put it at the right place. So kept us in the trade. I kept us in the trade because I put the stop at the right place, even though I did this little do-hickey here. And this is a three-hour trade here on the second call. So very, very nice move in this today. Didn't have time to go over their trade reviews in the room because I lost internet connection, so I thought I'd do another video on this, though, too, but if you did both the things with me today, you have a great day. I think a lot of people did do both the things. I think some people, though, did this and then killed it. Here we go. Come on, fast, it's gonna break the low. I knew it, I knew it. And actually, I don't know why people killed it. Everyone's impatient. I get that, I do get that. When this broke down in here and tried to break and then rallied up and then came down again and tried to break again the $70 area and couldn't do it, I think people killed it. You were up in this from here. Call was 99, so you were up 20, 30 cents in here depending where you got filled. And so you could have just chunked it out, but I really felt like there was nothing to do anything wrong at all and it was just taking its time. And it's going. And it's going, it's working, and here it goes, it's gonna try to break the low. If it doesn't, here I'm all out, but I think it does and that's why I'm still in it. Here we go, under 49 is a new loan, fast, here we go. I think this drops over, continues into two o'clock. Here, this is a nice call. Anyways, this is why you don't kill something. For no reason, here it is. Anyways, here this is, you see here, even in the rally here, you were still up. It touched on 84, call was 99. I mean, you were still up, so I know some people are impatient, but this never did anything wrong. If you did the A&F and we're up in that, you could have held this, which is what I did. So here we go with, look at this. This looks really good here now, actually, on the daily. All right, I have to pay attention to my trade. Good job everyone that did the fast. If you held it, we'll go over this in the room tomorrow, but I wanted to do a video quick here since I lost internet, came back and didn't have time. Have a great day everyone. See you tomorrow in the Stock Swish Show Live Trading Room. Email me if you'd like to sign up for the Golden Guide classes this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, March 7th and 8th. I'm Alyssa at thestockswish.com. Thanks everybody, have a great day.


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And then I will show you my screen and you will be able to know that how to navigate to CIC website The federal skill workup program cave team pillars and It's got a pillar of your skilled experience since before inexperience or skilled experience Kaleha kubla rein The second is that your language ability skills You should have the requisite language skills like I'll just help it or if you're good with French then TFS exam and TCS exam for the French thing and if you are for and the third pillar is And the third pillar is your education if you are educated and what is your equivalency? I'll let me discuss the skilled work experience Skilled work experience may have to give the kind that you have been working in the past 10 years You have been working for one continuous year And you have been paid for that work and that work has been full-time. That is roughly around 1560 hours per year or say about 30 hours per week Agar us super kuch hoga. They will not look at it. That's okay. That's good for you But 30 hours is the minimum criteria for you to apply to this and then you have to show that your skilled work experience In isn't a skilled profession like Canada minimum Sorry sorry Joe jobs. Yeah, sorry Joe streams. They are divided divided as in a knock a knock be a knock zero Or So like all the manager work they come under skill oh and all the profiles doctors and all of that come under skill a sorry and All the Technical come technical things come in skill be so you can find out bad I will make a screen recording and show you how you can reach that page and you can find your knock here So I've got the knock code who came and then the job Up the job experience the khaki you have to show that you have been working here for one continuous particular year That you can show by job offer letters and your work experience from that you get from your employer Then there is language ability. So you have to show that you have the requisite language skills aqua X Canadian language benchmark with a clb 7 that you need to get in order for you to become eligible to apply for this and Us Cooper up Joe love that's grace marks only. That's like good thing that you've done for yourself and to increase your score Then you have to show your Education if you are educated in Canada well and good, then you do not need an educational credential assessment That is called easy a but you need an easy if like me. I had to do my easier because I had done my graduation and my Will be from India. So I had to get my easier done stuff like that. So you have there are designated institutions which do that for the purpose of Immigration so I'll be working was it your from world. I got mine done from world education service It is one of the best or It's other will be linear has to be near. It's a simple process So you can go on West's website world education service and you can get your credentials done all this you have to do in before you apply because Immediately after that you have to submit it. So you need your documents ready Then there is a thing to become you have to come under the stream You have to show proof of funds. However, you do not need to show proof of funds Agar apkipas a valid job offer a hape yaha pe hape kaam karteo. Agar apkipas woh hai toh nahi apkupo nahi dikhana But proof of funds ka it otherwise table air jyasi one person clay. It's 12,000 13,000 dollars roughly and for two people it is 16,000 dollars 135 and so on and so forth Yeah table be me apkupi screen met the county after I am done with explaining all of this Then you can see where the table is and you can follow that according to your family members family members na apkupi adhyaan rukh nahi ki whenever you are on Whenever you're talking about Canadian immigration family members is you your spouse and your children your Dependents basically are your children your parents are not your dependents your parents come under a separate category And we can talk about that later But if you're applying in the stream, then you need to put your your name your spouse name and your children name So that apkisat o apki file jub lagi ki apkisat unki bhi bhi rai ghi and Agar apkur apki spouse me zyada education jiske zyada points hai woh primary applicant benefit Now the question is where you can live in Canada You can live anywhere in Canada except under the stream at least except Quebec Quebec ki Immigration or upness killed or skill trade program and which you can look Quebec is basically a friend speaking province and Yeah, I forget Quebec has special status here. So Quebec key immigration process and Then you have to in general be admissible to Canada like apkipa quick criminal international criminal terrorism Criminal record me on a chair. There should be no red flag against you and only then yes You can apply be admissible in Canada under the stream Now I'm going to show you the screen mirroring and then you can see how to navigate to CIC website and From what from where and what you can reach the particular page and find the particular Particulars of what I told you today So I hope you like guys like this video and if you do kindly like subscribe and share and Think about KFQs and please put in the comment section. I I wish and I hope that I can reply to all of them and Yeah, to the best of my knowledge Bye guys. Have a good day and stay home and stay safe I'm going to show you the screen recording for the CIC website and how you can navigate to the information that I've just given So this is what I have written on Google CIC dot JC dot CA and then you click the first link that is This is the website for government of Canada and I think this is one of the most detailed websites of any country And you can find all the information here So my first link would be for you to click to immigrate because immigrate means you want to move as a permanent resident and Out of all the programs. We are right now discussing express entry Express entry. How does it work? You what are the steps and all the options are available on this page as you can see Then you have to click on how express entry works Then you have to step one you have you can check if you're eligible If you if you click on the answer a few questions to see if you meet the minimum requirements You can click and you can check but the right now I'm going to click the second part, which is the detailed requirement and As I said that I'm ne is key express entry get in programs But I'm federal skill worker program I'm talking about so we are going to click on that So these are the options and these are the things that I discussed with you today and If you want to read the full detail, I will be discussed in brief If you want to read the detail, you can read it from your proof of funds I as I told you you will find out how to show it So proof of funds for money for you if you click on this link you will get a detailed table Depending on your family members, how much you need to show family members say, I mean you your spouse and your children they can all apply together in one field one file and Yeah, so this is the thing I was talking about for one person two three and depending so on and so forth and What they accept is proof you be up to detail me up and Meljaga Real for real property may have come to a stake. Oh, that is not proof of funds. It has to they have to they have to see liquidity Right on the back You can check skilled work experience key to my body key non-national occupation classification key to my body key and You can navigate click this link and navigate through your job details So, yeah, that's about it. And this is how easy it is for you to check if you're eligible to apply and if you click back and Observe further back Yeah, so you just need to answer a few questions and you're good to go. Okay guys. Bye. Bye


Hi everyone, Joe for Jazzy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2017-18 Panini Donner's Optic Super Value Rack Pack. That sounds kind of cool, right? One pack break, random team break number one. Big thanks to everyone here. We're going to do the break first and then at the end of the break we'll re-randomize your names and give away four mixer spots, $280 value. That's not too shabby at all. Let's roll it. Let's randomize each list four and a two, six times for the break. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six times right there. Six right there. We've got Jeremy down to Tice and six times for teams. And six and final time. After six, we've got the Dallas Mavericks down to the Orlando Magic. No trade and stuff like this, but since this is 17-18, what are we looking for? Tatum? Jason Tatum in this, right? If this is 17-18, who else is in that 17-18 class? All right, so there's the first half of the list right there. Let's get a little bit bigger for your screen. First half of the list right here and there's the second half of your list right there. There's Kenny with the Celtics. All right, so let's sort that by team and let's print and rip. Let's rip this Super Value Rack Pack. All right, so there's the final printout right there. That's the exclusive, there's Bradley Beal, DJ Wilson, Jordan Bell Rated Rookie. All right, so nothing too crazy in there. What about in here? We've got some Blue Velocity, Brandon Ingram, Dwayne Wade, and the Rated Rookie is going to be bam out of bio. That's not too shabby at all. Nice. Is that a different parallel too? Maybe this is just the Rated Rookie. All right, but Miami Heat, Nick Stover. It's nice. Man, Nick, you still have a shot at one of the Mixer spots too, so let's flip back to this screen. There's Nick and the Hawks down to Stephen and the Wizards. Let's put them into this new list right here. So it's going to be the top four after 10, hard 10, top four after 10 too, and 10th and final time after 10 times. First off from number five down to 30. Thanks for giving this a shot. I'm sure we'll have to do a couple more of these. So if you want to give it another shot, jaspyscasefrakes.com, check it out. And congrats to the top four, Kevin, Nick, Sean, and Jeremy. There you go. Congrats to you. You guys will be in the basketball Mixer. Like I said, we probably have to do a few more of these packs and sell some spots straight up. Don't worry about it. Keep chipping away at it on jaspyscasefrakes.com, and we'll eventually make it happen. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.


to break our very own Dan Graziano and Jordan Ranon reporting that Eli Manning will officially retire on Friday at a press conference and I think that Eli feels that he could still play but he's kind of boxed in. He learned life as a backup quarterback was not something that he enjoyed. He said that when he got the starter's job back when Daniel Jones was out with the injury he didn't like backing up he thought it was miserable and all he's ever done was start his entire career all of a sudden backing up so when you look at the landscape of the NFL where was he like gonna go to start and he didn't want to come back to the Giants and backup Daniel Jones and probably the Giants didn't want him hovering over Jones anyway although he was a great influence on Jones so it comes down to this I think Eli made the choice that he was almost painted in the corner to make because I think if you injected him with truth serum he would tell you I can still play he does not think his skills have diminished he has not been banged around and hurt like most quarterbacks he has been an iron man and now he becomes part of the the great Giants legacy two-time Super Bowl MVP two-time Super Bowl champion four-time pro-ball selection seventh in NFL history passing yard seventh all-time with 366 TD passes as that great streak of 210 straight games starting the guy answered the bell all the time finished with a record of 117 and 117 thanks to that win that he had when he was filling in for Jones and done now the debate will will start obviously nobody will ever wear his number 10 again for the Giants he did that number proud he did the Giants proud he's everything the Giants could have wanted he represented the organization in a great way and on the day when Derek Jeter is making the rounds here in New York as a new Hall of Famer Eli Matting retires and you wonder is his ultimate landing spot going to be in Ken yeah I think it will because the only argument you can make is if you take those two championships away you can't take those two championships away two-time Super Bowl MVP consistently through for 4,000 yards longevity never missed the game due to injury missed just one game in his career because the ill-fated decision to have Gino Smith start in Oakland he is been an amazing player for the most part kept his nose clean I know you got that controversy with the the game used helmets and stuff but for the most part he made the Giants proud he made himself proud good guy and I think he'll land in Canton there's a couple of things to play here for trying to make a decision at the state he's in could he maybe try to hook up with another team kind of wait out the summer see if somebody gets hurt see what plays out in New England right let's say Brady decides to leave well the Patriots be looking for a quarterback would he get a chance to sign on with a team remember he's a free agent and I don't think the Giants have any appetite to bring him back and certainly if they did it would just be a mentor to Jones who probably doesn't need that now that he's had a full season under his belt but I think his oldest daughters in school now does he want to like live in a hotel someplace when his family stays back in New Jersey does he want to uproot his family for a one-stint here one-stint there kind of thing so yeah I think he believes he can still play but there's no guarantee of a starting job no guarantee where that would be so why would you want to uproot your family and basically live out of a suitcase just to be able to keep one more year alive when I think you've accomplished everything you set out to do in your career yeah I I don't think he wants to retire again that's through no knowledge that he gave me or I've heard from anybody just watching from the outside looking in he thinks he could still play he thought that he should have played this year he understands the dynamics of getting a new quarterback in there he can't play forever but at the age of 38 he sees Tom Brady playing at 42 at a very high level and you know he's been banged up less than Tom Brady and he probably still wants to do it but I also believe that being a giant a lifetime giant really means something to him and he knows I could go somewhere else maybe start maybe have to win a job and then I'm not gonna be an all-time giant I'm gonna be a giant plus that one here it's but you're telling me that let's say Philip Rivers out of nowhere decided to retire tomorrow and Brady re-signed with the Patriots and the the the Los Angeles Charger job was open and they offered him the starting job he's taking he's taken that I would think but I think he realizes that that's not gonna happen what I mean wouldn't it be weird he refused to be drafted by the San Diego Chargers all of us and he would end with the L.A. but the different regime everything has changed I'm just giving it a hypothetical Michael but let's just be you know I don't know he said a few weeks ago when the season ended multiple times Eli made clear I'm gonna think about this I'm gonna let you know what I want to do I want to play I don't want to back up if we all knew all those things guys the only thing that changed was that the landscape for quarterbacks became official you know his his agents were able to check things out and go Eli there's nothing there for you dude and Eli being the class act that he is was like I'm not gonna force it and hang out till July I'm done and if you don't want me to be your start and I'll tell you the truth right now with someone who's been critical of Eli he can go I think he could be a team a team that was set up and had pieces in place I think Eli could still be a pretty viable starter would he be a top half in the league starter I don't know about that but he could be around the 18 to 20 mark in the league still I still think he's capable of that you know he's you telling me he couldn't win some games for the Dallas Cowboys with a good offensive line a running game two big targets to throw the football to bears you know so I liked I liked the bears for Eli I don't think as a quarterback during the course of the season even as a backup you're sitting there analyzing all the teams and finding a landing spot he probably was focused on the game focused on himself and then when the season over season was over he probably told his agent make a couple of phone calls see if there's any interest well how long has it been now almost a month since their last game they probably came back to him and said Eli right now there are no nibbles something can happen but you're talking about somebody having to get hurt in order for you to get a job do you want to do that or do you want to just walk away and he thought about it and it just makes sense right and he doesn't need the money it was an amazing stat that I didn't realize he's made more money in his career than any player in NFL history more than his brother now Brady plays this year he will pass him but Eli certainly taken care of and he's done a good job and he's had you know obviously a lot of commercial endorsements and stuff like that so I think money has anything to do with this I think that being a lifetime giant means something to him in a big way and he didn't want to be a I think we do overrate that I think in the moment it's awkward it's awkward to see Michael Jordan as a wizard you know it was awkward to see name it as a ram but as history goes on that just fades into the background right but it is true because we but in a sense it's true but in a sense it's not we always know that your name it ended up a ram Johnny United's ended up a charger that's that you know it's always that caveat I guess not gonna be a caveat with the Eli he was a giant right but it doesn't affect you being an all-time whatever I mean it doesn't affect name it being an all-time jet no


That's a weapon. Yeah, all right. Fight them all up. Come on, fire. This is the time to call upon the bodies of the world and to show them up for their inconsistencies and for turning from bulldogs into lackeys into poodles. This is the time, however, for all of us to change tack. We spent, I think, far too long defending an innocent man for leaking the dirty secrets of power. We protested for too long against the right to destroy Julian's body to silence his voice. We have pleaded for far too long so that they stopped torturing a man who dared reveal to us the crimes against humanity perpetrated by our governments in our name behind our backs.  But first they came for Julian, then they're going to come for others that reveal their dirty secrets.  We have used too much energy trying to impress journalists who fail so spectacularly to support Julian that in so failing they are jeopardizing their own profession. They are mutating themselves. They are allowing themselves to be added to some hit list. They are consenting to their own emasculation. So enough, enough of wasting all this energy. If we are truly in the business of allowing unalloyed truth to be revealed, to have the final word, we must make the transition from defending Julian, from warning against the dire consequences of his extradition for him, for us, the world. From explaining to the apathetic that their apathy equals their powerlessness. Going on from all this defensive posture to turning the tables on the criminals that are behind his persecution, we must turn the current court case into a trial of those who ordered young soldiers to kill civilians to maim and to murder journalists. To shroud whole communities into pain and tears. We must turn Julian's prosecutors into defendants and allow the grandest of juries out there, the demons, to pass fair judgment upon them. This is not hard to do, as such we said before. Thanks to WikiLeaks, the evidence is out of fingertips. It is available to everyone. Is this not why the guilty are demanding Julian's extradition? Is this not why the murders are plotting to entomb Julian in a supermax coffin for 175 years? I hope, Roger, you won't mind it. If I quote from your poem, The Trial, part of the war, something that comes below what you said. So the evidence before the court is incontrovertible. There is no need for the jury, this jury, the Belmers jury, to retire. In all our years of judging, we've never heard before of someone so deserving of the full penalty of the law that someone are those who are persecuting Julian today. So, friends, comrades, we can do it. If Dimitrov in his trial, which let me remind you, took place in Nazi Germany itself, would turn the tables against Gering and Goebbels. Surely we can turn the current court case into a trial of the military industrial national security complex. Noting that even the Nazi courts gave Dimitrov greater opportunity to defend himself, to speak in his own defense than Julian is getting inside the glass box.  For this reason, I salute this Belmers tribunal. I salute today's event. I salute all of you who are part of it, either as speakers or as active observers and watchers. Above all, I salute Julian for having sacrificed so much so that we can accuse those who truly deserve to be accused as is our want, as is our duty.


it's very very smart for you to make sure that you know exactly when you want to take it know where you want to take it and know that you're going to have the time to take it what's up you guys it's Adana I'm back with another video for you guys um again just want to say thank you to everybody for subscribing if you haven't already done so go ahead and hit that subscribe button right now and join me on this journey so today's video is going to be talking about the GRE it's basically everything you need to know about the GRE um Adana's version okay um it came about because I had a difficult time trying to figure out when I should take the GRE how like how I should study all that information and so I'm like okay let me take what I've learned and share it with you guys so that's what this video is um if you don't already know the GRE is the graduate record examination test so it's going to test what your knowledge is um and it's the test that you use to get into grad school and if you're trying to get into PA schools a lot of PA schools require that you have the GRE some schools say it's not required um they may take the MCAT instead if you were planning on doing medical school and you took the MCAT and you scored really well on that you can use your MCAT scores for some PA schools but generally speaking most PA schools require the GRE and some don't require it at all so um it's really up to you uh you can tailor your application to the schools that you're applying to if you're only applying to schools that don't require the GRE because you don't want to take the GRE then do that don't take the GRE but if you want to be a little bit broader um and have a little bit more options go ahead and take the GRE there is a website um this is going to be a nice little video for you guys because I'm going to actually go onto the website and show you where um I found most of the information but there's a website it's ets.org um that's where you go to actually register for the GRE um you'll see your schedule of all the GRE test states and you can choose your test center um and then you can also go there for some other cool things that I will show you in my video on the actual website so with respect to when should I take the GRE take the GRE when you're ready definitely study study study I took a month to study for the GRE because I really wanted to do extremely well on it which I did um so I took a month I studied for a month I told you guys that I went to the library and I was just like hey I'm studying for the GRE can you just point me to all of your GRE books and that's what I did I went and I checked out maybe like four or five books and I kept them for that full month I kept renewing my um my reservation with the library if books were going to actually need to be returned and then I studied I got flashcards so when I did it I don't know if I knew about quizlets or if quizlets was even out I don't know but I had like actual flashcards like like the real thing like the real thing so I had like actual flashcards that I was going through for the verbal reasoning section because with that section it's just a matter of continuous reputation knowing root words um kind of like medical terminology in a sense uh which you will more than likely have to take before entering into PA school so it's good to get that kind of backbone of how to break down words and their meanings so um I just did that constant repetition with those flashcards and uh it worked I like I was using I was there like look gracious yourself look gracious what the hell is that like using words that people are like what are you talking about Adana but I knew because I was studying and so that's what I did and then for the quantitative section um I just literally took tests took tests took tests after tests after tests I know some of you have asked me if there are any like services that can help you with the GRE but um I mean I didn't necessarily take a part in any service I didn't go and pay money to learn how to study for the GRE but I know that some of you have said there's Magoosh in Manhattan um which are different services offered for the GRE test I think Magoosh is um let me just make sure for you guys so it's $129 for I like I don't know a one-time thing that's there you can go there and you can pay the money that you want or um or that you have to pay and study for your GRE and hopefully do extremely well or you can take the route that I did and go to the library and study your behind off and kill the GRE so with respect to the GRE you get your scores back that when you take it like you get to see what you got on the GRE once you you've completed it um so that's really beneficial because it helps you plan out like well what next so for instance if you did not do well on the GRE or you didn't feel like you did as well as you should have all you don't have to report your scores um you don't have to send off your scores you can just say you know what I'm going to take the GRE again and so I'm going to study again for another month and take the GRE you can take the GRE every 21 days so um and I think every 21 days up to five times in a calendar year or 365 days so you have opportunity to boost your score and do better on it um but it's just a matter of time and money you know you may have the opportunity but you may not have the time or you may not have the money so you really have to plan this out very very strategically because you don't want to be wasting time or money because those are things that you can't truly get back I know the the cost of the GRE is 205 dollars uh if you want to like change your schedule or reschedule your test um you'll have to pay an extra 50 dollars if for instance you there are deadlines for registration for a particular GRE test so if you are past the deadline if you're doing a late registration then it's an extra 25 dollars so it does you know build up if you're late or if you're changing or being indecisive so it's very very smart for you to make sure that you know exactly when you want to take it know where you want to take it and know that you're going to have the time to take it so that you're able to make those decisions and not have to kind of renege on them so that you're paying extra money that you really didn't need to be paying in the first place as far as CASPA so you put in your GRE score yourself however um when you go to the ETS web webpage um you can also send your GRE scores to schools and or CASPA with respect to the GRE and the date of the test when you're there and you take the test and you see your grade your score on the test what you can do is have in mind the schools that you're already you already know that you want to apply to if you did really well know the schools that you already want to apply to so that you can look it up and send your scores to those schools along with CASPA know the school number because if you don't know the number right then and there then what you're going to have to do is send the schools because some schools require that you send them your score directly and not go through CASPA so if a school is like that and you know that the school is like that but you just didn't remember the name of the school or the school number the day of the test then when you go home um you're going to have to pay an extra $27 for each school that you want to send your scores to so that can rack up as well especially when you're paying $51 to apply to schools and anywhere from $45 to $55 maybe even $100 for some schools they don't know with respect to supplemental application fees it's very very smart for you to make sure that you can do everything in your power to make your cost as least expensive as possible and make your experience with the test as efficient as possible all right so those are just my quick quick tips right there just generalized information on the GRE let's go right now to the website um I will show you the website and I will show you just kind of how to navigate it how to log in how to um you know choose your test center and date and all of that um right now so let's go right now