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Why are there so few Jews in the World

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/index.asp

~3 million recent reasons why. This 2012 there might be between ten and twenty million Mischlings by the rules of the last great culling of Jews/Juden  by Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich  and his kapo Helpers.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling.  Read the link carefully because the rules have changed since WWII, ISRAEL and 9/11.    It used to be that  you were Jewish if your mother was Jewish.  I am a Mischling 2nd Class (according to the wiki link there were about  39,000 2nd Class Mischling in the 1939 German Census).  Heydrich was often mocked in his youth; he was nicknamed "Moses Handel" due to rumours that he had Jewish ancestry.

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 2:37 pm.

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Port of Miami

banner-cruisePortMiami is the New Florida Homeport for Disney Cruise Line
(Miami-Dade County, FL) — PortMiami is looking forward to welcoming Disney Cruise Line as the latest addition to its cruise fleet. This is the first time a Disney ship will operate from a South Florida port.

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The Disney Wonder will begin sailing in December 2012 from PortMiami with four- and five-night itineraries to the Bahamas and Western Caribbean.

"We are very excited to have the Disney brand at our Port," said Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. "Disney Cruise Line offers families the opportunity to explore all of the activities and entertainment associated with Disney, while also experiencing the fun of a cruise vacation."

PortMiami Director Bill Johnson said he is looking forward to a banner year for cruise vacationers. In addition to the Disney announcement, Regent Seven Seas Cruises is moving its operations from Port Everglades to PortMiami in 2012. Also, MSC Cruises, the fourth largest cruise operator in the world, announced earlier this month that it is making PortMiami its exclusive homeport for its Caribbean sailing beginning in 2013.

PortMiami is the world’s busiest cruise port handling more than four million passengers last year, the fourth year in a row in which the Port topped the four million mark for cruise traffic.

 

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101118-queenmary-01Moored at the Port of Long Beach in California since 1967, the Queen Mary is the world’s most famous floating hotel. It once was one of the fastest ocean liners afloat and during World War II carried hundreds of thousands of soldiers between the United States and the UK. On its hazardous wartime crossings, the ship (then painted battleship gray) traveled alone because its speed enabled it to outpace the notorious "wolfpacks" of German U-boats. As an ocean liner the Queen Mary often carried royalty, Hollywood stars and many other famous people and dignitaries.

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“Dumber than a bag of hammers!” Every time I read about the rising ocean level I am tempted call a friend who grew up in Miami – where I lived in 1993 – in my case a Hotel in Coral Gabels. I visited him at his mother’s home in North Miami and I can attest to it being at or below sea level – like New Orleans. Look at the  Map.  Much of Miami is a couple feet below sea level. Her home was. The other day he told me the family had sold the property and the new buyer had built a bigger better house to property and water’s edge.  My memory remembers  a beautiful property with lawn, swimming pool and “water front”.  My friend has a half-brother with Carnival SO the ans. to WHY others are building on land so threatened by the rising tide is as simple as $.  Lots of $$$.  Right now $. End of Story.

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 9:13 am.

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