HAVANA (AP) — For the first time in a half-century, Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell real estate openly, bequeath property to relatives without restriction and avoid forfeiting their homes if they abandon the country.
How do you like that? We move more toward socialism and Cuba begins a shift the other way. For the rest of this AP story, go to:
In the wake of the death of Colonel Gadhafi, the United Nations is being asked to apologize for “legitimizing” the Libyan tyrant with key posts. United Nations Watch, a particularly vigilant observer of the world body, is calling on the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and the U.N. human rights commissioner, Navi Pillay, to acknowledge that the U.N. “was wrong to support Gadhafi by granting him key posts on its most influential bodies.” Hillel Neuer, the executive director of United Nations Watch, says that the U.N. “should also apologize for choosing Gadafi’s regime to head the planning of its 2009 world conference on racism, and for designating Colonel Gaddafi’s daughter Ayesha a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador.”
For more on this New York Sun editorial, please go to:
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/will-the-un-apologize/87533/
Events surrounding Israeli/Palestinian differences have developed on a rapid basis.
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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/any-prospect-for-peace-in-the-middle-east-131124813.html
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Federal agencies were working with Southwest Airlines on Thursday to determine who has been vandalizing their aircraft with mysterious markings.
KNX 1070 investigative reporter Charles Feldman has learned that since February, several Southwest jets have been vandalized with mysterious writings that show up on the underbelly of their 737 passenger aircraft.
The writings — which some have interpreted as being either Arabic or Arabic-type symbols — appeared to have been done with a chemical process that reveals the text once an auxiliary power unit is turned on and heats up the outside skin of the aircraft, according to Feldman.
While it remains unclear how many aircraft are involved, the trend has reportedly increased in recent weeks.
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Commenting on the subject of minority rights in the potential Palestinian state, PLO envoy to the U.S. says past experience shows the two people should be ‘totally separated.’
The future independent Palestinian state will not include a Jewish minority, a top Palestinian official told USA Today on Wednesday, adding that it was in the best interest of both peoples to “be separated.”
Maen Areikat, PLO Ambassador to the United States, made the comment just as the Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, was preparing to offer up Palestinian statehood to a vote in the United Nations General Assembly later this month.
Should the United Nations even consider admission to a “state” that in advance says will exercise bigoted discrimination?
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Is it the job of the government to track the body mass index/weight of children or of any citizens? Read this and we’ll talk about this tomorrow morning (Thursday 9/15) beginning at 10am on Newstalk 720, KDWN.
LANSING, Mich. (WLS) – In an attempt to combat Michigan’s childhood obesity epidemic, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that the state would begin tracking kids’ body mass index through the Michigan Care Improvement Registry. Although the policy would be one of the most extensive government anti-childhood obesity efforts, pediatricians were divided over whether it would have the desired impact.
The tracking system would encourage pediatricians to calculate patients’ BMI using height and weight measurements, and report these numbers to the state through the existing immunization tracking system, the Michigan Care Improvement Registry. The numbers would be reported anonymously, meaning that the child’s identity would not be connected to his or her BMI in state records.
The hope is that having doctors track height and weight in this way would encourage more discussion among parents, kids and doctors about the dangers of being overweight, says Geralyn Lasher, director of communications at the Executive Office of the Governor.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A group of Columbia University students are expected to have dinner with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next week in Midtown.
According to the Columbia Spectator, the school’s newspaper, as many as 15 members of the Columbia International Relations Council and Association were invited.
CIRCA vice president of academics, Tim Chan, told the paper the Sept. 21 meeting is still tentative and none of the members expressed any reservations about breaking bread with the controversial Iranian leader.
Should these students break bread with the man who has been compared to Hitler and has expressed a desire for the destruction of Israel and much of the western world? We’ll talk about it on Newstalk 720 KDWN this morning at 10am. – Alan Stock
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It’s great to be back on the air at KDWN, a station that knows how to win and knows how to have fun. They’re even throwing a bash for my return to radio.
Please join all of us on Tuesday, September 13th at the Blue Martini in Town Square for a fun-filled Happy Hour. There will be half-price drink specials and most food is also half-price.
In addition to the entire KDWN family being there, you’ll have the chance to say hello to Lasik of Nevada and all of my great, loyal sponsors.
So mark it on your calendars…Tuesday, September 13th at 5:30 for the biggest end of the summer welcoming me to KDWN Happy Hour at, where else, The Blue Martini in Town Square.
Congresswoman Debbi Wasserman-Schultz things the recovery has worked and done the job it was intended to do. Unemployment is officially at 9.1% which is much higher than it was when Obama took office (unofficially unemployment is anywhere between 18%-24%). The congresswoman may think we’re out of the woods but I think she’s only paying attention to her own pocketbook.
To see her actually make this incredible statement, go to:
The principal of a Ft. Collins school has said a picture of the American flag lowered in the presence of the Saudi Arabian flag, was not done by his staff and that he promptly resolved the issue once he was made aware of it.
The picture, first published on the blog www.greeleyreport.com adn taken by a reader, shows the American flag at Bauder Elementary School in Ft. Collins lowered while the Saudi Arabian flag was elevated.
The display is a violation of Public Law 94-344 of the Federal Flag Law which states “No other flag or pennant should be placed above, or, if on same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America,…No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the United States at any place within the United States or any territory or possession thereof:…”
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