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If you want to know why I'm optimistic that home builders will eventually find sources of capital to replace bank financing for site acquisition and development of future projects, check this out... The Middle East's wealthiest private investors may seek to take advantage of collapsing real estate markets in the West by increasing their investments in the U.S. and U.K., according to research done recently by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch. Such investors now control about $1,700 billion in assets, a figure the researchers say will rise to $3,400 billion by 2012. "Our clients are asking us about U.S. distressed real...

Boycotting the Jews in Britain By P. David HornikFrontPageMagazine.com | June 7, 2007 BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been held since March 26 by a terrorist group in Gaza, where he had been the last international journalist to keep living and working. He appeared last Thursday in a video wearing an orange sweatshirt and reading a prepared statement. Meanwhile British soldiers are under attack by Muslim and Arab terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, and fifteen British sailors were recently kidnapped and held in harsh conditions for two weeks by Iran.Closer to home, a survey found one-quarter of British Muslims...

Wake Up America! Tolerance Is Cultural Suicide When It’s a One-Way Street by Peter M. FeamanDate: June 5, 2007  Editors Note: FSM has discovered a terrific new book,” Wake Up, America!” subtitled, ”What you need to know about the War on Terror but are not being told by your government or the mainstream press.” Its author, FSM Contributing Editor Peter M. Feaman, has graciously allowed us to publish a few excerpts. Here is excerpt one. Wake Up America! Tolerance Is Cultural Suicide When It’s a One-Way Street   By Peter M. Feaman   Pre-Foreward   To all Muslims who are people...

UCI College Republicans say school administrators gave preference to a Muslim Student Union event over theirs. Three members of UC Irvine's College Republicans have filed a complaint with the campus administration, saying that officials unfairly moved their group two weeks ago to make room for a Muslim Student Union event. In a statement filed May 22, students Reut Cohen, Brock Hill and Julian Babbitt said administrators told their club to move its booth on Ring Road during the Muslim Student Union's "Israel: Apartheid Resurrected" event on May 17. The College Republicans, they said, had booked the spot by the administration...

Riyadh - A Saudi Arabian court has convicted and sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison for attending a party where alcoholic drinks were served and men and women danced, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday. The kingdom's religious police arrested 433 foreigners, including more than 240 women, for attending the "impudent" party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz reported. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place. Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to three to four month in prison and ordered them to receive an...