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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Animosity between the Mexican government and the American settlers in Texas (who were called Texians) began with the Siete Leyes of 1835, when Mexican President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón abolished the Constitution of 1824 and proclaimed a new anti-federalist constitution in its place.
		Under the rules of the grant, each new settler had to convert to Roman Catholicism, meet high standards of moral character, become a Mexican citizen, and change their names to Spanish equivalents.
		In the DeWitt Colony, a centralista Mexican soldier bludgeoned Texian settler Jesse McCoy with a musket in an altercation.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Texas_Revolution (5006 words)

	Filibuster (military) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A filibuster is a private individual who engages in unauthorized warfare against a foreign country, often with the intent of overthrowing the existing government.
		The filibustering of Texas was accomplished by gradual settlement over more than three decades, during which Texas was a part of the Spanish Empire and later of Mexico.
		The actions of the filibusters is what led to the name being applied figuratively to the political act of filibustering in the U.S. Senate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Filibuster_(settler) (420 words)

	Filibuster (legislative tactic) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Filibuster (legislative tactic) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A filibuster is a process, typically an extremely long speech, that is used primarily to stall the legislative process and thus derail a particular piece of legislation, rather than to make a particular point in the content of the diversion per se.
		Filibusters do not occur in legislative bodies in which time for debate is strictly limited by procedural rules, such as the United States House of Representatives.
		A unique form of filibuster was pioneered by the Ontario New Democratic Party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in April, 1997.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Filibuster-legislative-tactic.html (931 words)

	Filibuster (settler) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Filibuster is the historical name, used predominantly in the (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century, for private individuals who settled in foreign states with the intent of eventually overthrowing the existing government.
		The two most notable examples of the "filibustering" were the successful Anglo-American settlement of (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico) Texas and the failed campaigns by (Click link for more info and facts about William Walker) William Walker.
		The filibustering of Texas was accomplished by gradual settlement over more than three decades, during which Texas was a part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Spanish Empire) Spanish Empire and later of (A Republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810) Mexico.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/filibuster_(settler).htm (413 words)

	Early Settlers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Settlers are people who have travelled of their own choice, from the land of their birth to live in "new" lands or colonies.
		The colony concerned is often, but not always, controlled by the government of a settler's home country, and emigration is usually, but not always, approved by an imperial government.
		The term settler is not usually used in relation to the later histories of well-established and/or independent, postcolonial countries with continuing immigration, like the present-day United States, Canada or Australia, where terms like immigrants are preferred.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/66/early-settlers.html (1605 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		It must be kept in mind that the settlement of the east one-third of the territory, known as the Panhandle, was about all that was appropriated by settlers prior to 1889, and that the change from range to a region with a settler on every quarter section came very abruptly, and without bloodshed.
		The settlers were living off the meager savings they brought with them supplemented by earnings of the family heads in gathering bleached bones, a wagon load bringing about $11 and requiring a like number of days to gather and market.
		The settlers hoped in 1885 that congress would act at its next session—would extend to them the privilege of filing for a homestead, making final proof and then mortgaging to get a stake to start farming operations, but congress got into a wrangle over what was best to do, so nothing was done.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v004/v004p089.html (3437 words)

	Definition of Filibuster (settler)
		Filibuster is the historical name, used predominantly in the 19th century, for private individuals who settled in foreign states with the intent of eventually overthrowing the existing government.
		The filibustering of Texas was accomplished by gradual settlement over more than three decades, during which Texas was a part of the Spanish Empire and later of Mexico.
		The term filibuster and the variant freebooter are also applied more generally to individuals who attack foreign lands or interests for financial gain, without authority from their own government.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Filibuster_(settler) (265 words)

	Jewlicious » Blog Archive » Threaten civil war, get a virgin patch of seaside land
		On this issue too, the government folded: The settlers were promised that they will be granted independent municipal status, subject to a minimum number of residents populating the new communities and the 400 residential units to be added to the Nitzan community.
		The settlers have made the stakes so high (see the first two paragraphs in this post and note that it’s the Reader’s Digest version) with respect to this disengagement that it is very difficult for many to see this as a cry out for pain.
		The settlers facing expulsion are stuck between that group which they are hoping will succeed and the real fear they have for a penniless future and the break-up of their thirty-year-old communities.
	www.jewlicious.com /?p=1055 (5440 words)

	Settlers target Palestinians' property - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The suspected culprits: militant settlers who have been harassing Palestinian farmers for years, especially in the past three years of fighting.
		It also heightens fears that this kind of militancy — albeit of a tiny minority among the 220,000 Jews in the West Bank — is a harbinger of the resistance that the Israeli government could face if it tries to uproot settlements in a land-for-peace deal.
		"Settlers succeed in murdering, uprooting trees and attacking Palestinians without the army and the police controlling them," said legislator Ran Cohen of the dovish Meretz party and a colonel in the Israeli army reserves.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20031111-092612-8772r.htm (528 words)

	LP: Resist the Filibuster Fiat
		The "filibuster" was not an attempt to kill the nominee by a minority.
		The House cannot filibuster as all debate is governed by rigid rules crafted by the Rules Committee setting the parameters for discussion and approved by the entire body for each separate piece of legislation.
		The filibuster has been used by various blocs of senators for different purposes; for example, by conservatives resisting civil-rights legislation in the 1960s, and by liberals resisting cuts in the capital gains tax in 1991.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=96002&Disp=All? (7259 words)

	Settlement movement holding demonstrations to show protest against disengagement plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Moreover, he said, there is no compensation for pain and suffering, such as was given to settlers evacuated from Yamit, and the composition of the committee that will determine each family's compensation level is problematic, because it consists entirely of representatives of the Disengagement Administration and the government.
		These settlers said they oppose the disengagement, but if it is going to happen, they at least want to receive fair compensation - which this bill does not provide.
		As for the plan's diehard opponents, they are currently mulling a new tactic in their fight: a "legal filibuster," under which every settler will demand an individual hearing before the compensation committee, as the bill entitles them to do.
	www.jerusalemites.org /news/english/2004/oct2004/14b.htm (342 words)

	Kids' House :: Glossary
		Colonists: An original settler or founder of a colony.
		Committee: A group of legislators, appointed by the presiding officer of the House or the Senate, to which proposed legislation is referred or a specific task is assigned.
		Filibuster: The use of obstructionist (blocking or interrupting) tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
	kids.house.state.tx.us /glossary.htm (767 words)

	Israel's Political 'Big Bang'
		Sharon, the lifelong embodiment of Israeli security, is being reviled as a traitor and threatened with death.
		They vote his way - 9 to 1 in the cabinet this week to richly compensate the settlers being moved - but some of the Likudniks are keeping mum, lest they upset the hardest-line members of their own party.
		He believes that deviation from his timetable - surrendering to threats of violence from within - would mean six months of paralysis and a loss of the initiative.
	www.obermayer.us /aer/articles/2004/10-2004/NYT0915Safire.htm (698 words)

	filibuster - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Filibuster : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
		FILIBUSTER : Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words [home, info]
		Words similar to filibuster: filibustered, filibusterer, filibustering, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=filibuster&ls=a (290 words)

	Filibuster - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Mercenary, Filibuster (legislative tactic), Disambig, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Filibuster - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Mercenary, Filibuster (legislative tactic), Disambig,...
		a Filibuster Bar is ice cream on a stick covered with chocolate resembling a Hershey's Kiss.
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Filibuster.html (146 words)

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		And, indeed, sometimes the only difference between a filibuster and a government lies in the fact that the government fights the gun-boats of only the enemy while a filibuster must dodge the boats of the enemy and those of his own countrymen.
		And both to discover the treasure and to encourage settlers to dig and so cultivate the soil, a percentage of the treasure was promised to the one who found it.
		From its leader and its filibustering, guerilla-like tactics the men who composed it were nicknamed the "Hughligans." The Hughligans were the most active critics of the Ministry and of all in their own party, and as members of the Free Food League they bitterly attacked the fiscal proposals of Mr.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/resof10.txt (19944 words)

	Israeli art show focuses on Gaza withdrawal
		Below the trailer, settlers and soldiers wrestle, punch and push each other while other settlers try to cling onto the gigantic roots that grow out of it.
		He says he feels compassion for the settlers, who have to leave the lives and homes they have built, but he also feels a need to speak out against the extremism often associated with the settler movement.
		Wandering among the paintings, Carmit Bashrig, a reflexologist who works on pressure points in the feet, says she feels moved, especially by "The Trailer." "I feel like the painting shows the sorrow and deep connection to what is happening here," she says.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/050415/gaza.shtml (696 words)

	Reclaiming space More settler encroachments under the cover of war «
		The settlers’ change of fortune stems from Israel’s conflicts in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, regions the country had occupied and abandoned in the recent past.
		Some Israelis are drawing lessons from the war that have helped vindicate the settlers, whose large financial claim on the national treasury and strident opposition to an independent state for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have angered many here over the years.
		But Shaul Goldstein, a settler leader who is identified with the movement’s pragmatic wing, said he expects Olmert to resurrect the West Bank withdrawal plan as soon as he determines that prospects are slim for successful peace talks with the Palestinians or Syria.
	peoplesgeography.com /2006/09/25/more-settler-encroachments-under-the-cover-of-war (2070 words)

	Isle of Tortuga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In wider sense: one who resembles a 'filibuster' (sense A and B) in his actions; now esp. one who engages in unauthorized and irregular warfare against foreign states.
		The French settlers hired as hunters for the Spanish (buccaneers), were driven out and turned to plundering so that the Bucaner took on the new meaning of pirate; this overlapped with the Freebooter or Filibuster (Flibuster) or common rover.
		Though the meaning of an act or instance of obstructing legislation by prolonging debate, is first recorded in 1890 in the Congressional record, it is implied earlier in the sense of legislator who prolonged debate, first recorded in 1853.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Garden/5213/english.htm (2797 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		In 1854 when William Walker, the filibuster, raided the territory, he inhabited the house of Gastelum naming it "Fort McKibbin," in honor of one of his group who died in a skirmish.
		It was to be at one of these balls, held in the spring of 1890, that a group of American filibusters, reportedly in connivance with Cor.
		As tiny as Ensenada was, it had the elements of an interesting society because of the variety of its settlers.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/84winter/ensenada.htm (4566 words)

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	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/S/SETTLER.htm (73 words)

	Hitler Watch
		But the claim that no right exists to filibuster judges aims an arrow straight at the heart of the Senate's long tradition of unlimited debate.... Unfettered debate, the right to be heard at length, is the means by which we perpetuate the equality of the States.
		In fact, it was 1917, before any curtailing of debate was attempted, which means that from 1789 to 1917, there were 129 years; in other words, it means also that from 1806 to 1917, some 111 years, the Senate rejected any limits to debate.
		The first actual cloture rule in 1917 was enacted in response to a filibuster by those people who opposed the arming of merchant ships.
	hnn.us /roundup/rss_full/60.xml (4572 words)

	Colonial Administration Pages 2: Charles Rey and previous Resident Commissioners of Bechuanaland
		On the one hand there was the Reverend John Mackenzie, one of the most articulate spokesmen among Christian missionaries of the later 19th century and prime exponent of ideas of protection of 'native' interests.
		Based at Vryburg, the capital of former filibusters, Shippard was known for his partiality to settler and mercantile interests.
		Amery's whole position was that the three territories should be developed by a dualistic policy, promoting both British settler enterprise and provision of native welfare facilities, so that the territories would tip the balance towards British interests when they joined the otherwise Afrikaner-dominated Union.
	ubh.tripod.com /bw/colad2.htm (4528 words)

	Correspondents Report
		Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip say they'll resist their government's plan to pull them out of their homes.
		Indeed, some Israeli political leaders are expressing concern that Mr Sharon's own personal safety is now at risk, as he could be targeted by extreme elements in the settler movement.
		The effort to end the judicial filibuster had been described as the "nuclear option." Republicans wanted to change the rules after being frustrated by the Democrats holding up about ten judicial nominees.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/indexes/2005/cr_20050529.htm (438 words)

	LP: Meet the Filibuster Flip-Floppers: Democrats are Hypocrites on the Filibuster Issue
		A filibuster is the act of talking to delay or prevent a vote by the full Senate.
		A filibuster is an attempt to defeat a measure (by keeping a vote from occuring).
		A filibuster is ONLY an attempt to DEFEAT (successful or not) a measure by using parlimentary tactics (specifically with the cloture rules) that you know (or have reason to believe) would otherwise pass (whether you're right or wrong).
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=93748&Disp=Refresh& (7566 words)

	Neve Gordon: Ariel Sharon: Gen. Insecurity
		These settlers have held the Israeli public hostage for the past 20 months by hijacking the national agenda.
		Since a just peace is antithetical to their interests, the settler leaders have been undermining all attempts to negotiate with the Palestinians disregarding the fact that without peace, blood will continue to flow and the economy will fall apart.
		Sharon, in turn, has for years championed the settlers' cause and is consequently now benefiting from his ties with the movement.
	www.counterpunch.org /gordon1206.html (1248 words)

	Franklin Pierce
		An attempt to acquire Cuba ended embarrassingly in the Ostend Manifesto (1854), a notorious declaration by three American diplomats of America's alleged determination to seize the island.
		Great Britain was offended when William Walker, an American filibuster, seized Nicaragua and his government was recognized by the United States (1855).
		An amiable man who tried honestly to be a conciliator, he unfortunately lacked the qualities of leadership needed for the time.
	www.franzosenbuschheritagesociety.org /Histories/FranklinPierce.htm (655 words)

	LaRouche Online Almanac
		The French settlers on this part of the Mississippi had come from France in the time of Louis XIV, and had become American citizens during the Revolutionary War.
		The backwoods area was poor, and so the settlers brought tame geese, a young doe, shells and petrified wood as their gifts to Lafayette.
		The prohibition of the 'filibuster' (the Senate's tradition of extended debate) for judicial nominees, is generally referred to as the 'nuclear option,' although its proponents piously prefer to call it the 'constitutional option.'
	larouchepub.com /eiw/public/2005/2005_10-19/2005-18/index.html (2978 words)

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