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GLORIA DEUTSCH , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 22, 2007
All of a sudden, everyone you know has either been or is going to China, and it has become a popular destination for wandering Jews.
Although climbing the Great Wall and visiting the Forbidden City have become the in thing to do, my recent two-week visit with a group of Jews from England had an extra dimension, and the tour, organized by the quarterly publication Jewish Renaissance, took us to places of particular Jewish interest. The (…)

For nearly two years, Blackwater has been developing an airship to tap a growing government demand for aerial surveillance and security - from patrolling U.S. borders and coastal waters to guarding military bases in hostile lands.
November 23, 2007 Last updated: 10:43 PM By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
Earlier this month, its efforts finally got off the ground.
Officials with Blackwater Airships, a business unit of the Moyock-based tactical training and (…)

Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to the military contractor. Buzzy says different.
Bruce Falconer November 14 , 2007
Howard "Cookie" Krongard hasn’t failed at much in life. Until recently, in fact, you would have thought him an unqualified success, a well-bred man who came from plenty and went on to plenty more. His resume is the definition of East Coast privilege: Princeton, (…)

Just in time for the holidays, there’s a special place in Hell just waiting to be filled by some as-yet-unknown Pentagon bureaucrat. Apparently, thousands of wounded soldiers who served in Iraq are being asked to return part of their enlistment bonuses — because their injuries prevented them from completing their tours. From Pittsburgh’s KDKA:
By Spencer Ackerman - November 20, 2007, 4:42PM
One of them is Jordan Fox, a young soldier from the South Hills.
He finds solace in the hundreds (…)

Aaron Russo (February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) was an American entertainment (.
Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Aaron Russo began promoting rock and roll shows at local theaters while still a high school student. From there, he worked for his family’s business, opened a night club in Chicago where he helped create the careers of such legendary acts as Led Zeppelin, The Who, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
No stranger to success, Aaron was the first (…)

Europe Suspends Mortgage Bond Trading Between Banks
By Esteban Duarte and Steve Rothwell
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — European banks agreed to suspend trading in the $2.8 trillion market for mortgage debt known as covered bonds to halt a slump that has closed the region’s main source of financing for home lenders.
The European Covered Bond Council, an industry group that represents securities firms and borrowers, recommended banks withdraw from trades for the first time in its three-year (…)

11/19/07 "ICH" — — In what has become the nation’s largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison.
By Bill Quigley
Fort Benning is the site of the internationally notorious U.S. Army training school for Latin American military and security personnel. For decades it was called the School of the (…)

By Robert JENSEN
Thanksgiving Day should be turned into a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of America’s indigenous peoples.
After years of being constantly annoyed and often angry about the historical denial built into Thanksgiving Day, I published an essay in November 2005 suggesting we replace the feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States.
I (…)

The openly racist oppression of Muslims by the State and its politicised judiciary in Britain goes on. The latest case is that of the 25-year-old Pakistan-born Abdul Rahman who has been convicted for having a letter encouraging a call-to-arms in Afghanistan!
Not in Britain but in Afghanistan!
According to the BBC, "Rahman admitted having the letter with a view to circulating it to encourage others to join the jihad." And when Police raided Rahman’s house in Manchester,
they found (…)

Yahoo is under federal investigation after turning over email information to China regarding a Journalist who was writing about Chinese suppression . SEE WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and BLOG ARTICLE Below. Is your email secure? Do you YAHOO?
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
– http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118...
– http://rconversation.blogs.com/rcon...