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The most important news for Thursday, March 11th, 2010....

Three very strong earthquakes (6.9, 6.7, 6.0) rocked Chile on Thursday morning, just as the country was swearing in a new president.

Greek public and private sector workers went on strike on Thursday, grounding flights, shutting schools and halting public transportation in the second nationwide walkout in two weeks in protest against proposed austerity plans.

On Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised that the nation of Israel "will be annihilated" before too much longer.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is stepping up the pressure on Israel over construction in East Jerusalem.

It turns out that the Democrats are employing really dirty politics during a final push to get the health care "reform" bill passed.

Under the health care bill, individuals who earn more than $200,000 and couples who earn over $250,000 would pay an additional 2.9% surtax on unearned income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents.

The U.S. government budget deficit for the month of February was over 220 billion dollars - which set a new all-time record for one month.

The Governor of Illinois is calling for a 33 percent increase in the state income tax in order to deal with the growing budget deficit in that state.

According to data released by the Labor Department, government workers have sailed through this recent economic crisis virtually unscathed.

A new government commercial currently running on one of Britain’s most popular radio stations is encouraging Londoners to report their neighbors as terrorists if they use cash, enjoy their privacy, or even close their curtains.

Congressman Ron Paul is speaking out against plans to require all Americans to get a national identification card.  But Republican Senator Lindsey Graham sees no problem with forcing all Americans to carry a biometric ID card.

New York City chefs and restaurant owners are furious over a bill that has been introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

The superintendent of the Kansas City, Missouri, school district is defending a plan to shut down nearly half the district's schools.

New allegations regarding ex-Congressman Eric Massa are starting to come out.

Barack Obama's decision to kill NASA's Constellation program to launch astronauts into orbit and return Americans to the moon is causing quite a bit of anxiety over at NASA.

Considering the fact that Barack Obama is trying to dramatically reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal, you might find this article interesting: 50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons.

Meanwhile, more than 2,000 servicemen from Russia's Strategic Missile Forces are currently taking part in large-scale nuclear warfare drills.

Is Vladimir Putin slowly trying to reconstruct the Soviet Union?

A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze in Norway is estimated to have surpassed 500,000 samples.

Why is the U.S. Department of Education buying shotguns?

A Christian couple in Pakistan has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for touching the Quran without washing their hands first.

The opening prayer at today's opening session of the Virginia General Assembly was delivered by a radical imam.

Utah has become the third state to adopt a law exempting guns and ammunition made, sold and used in that state from federal regulations.

There is a proposal to legalize assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply "had enough of life" in Holland.

The Chinese government is considering a law which would ban the eating of cat and dog meat.

A Mississippi county school board announced on Wednesday that it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.

Lastly, a Catholic priest who claims that he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession says that he is worried about the consequences of satanic infiltration in the Vatican.

The most important news for Wednesday, March 10th, 2010....

The European Parliament has voted for a new tax on financial transactions which will be paid directly to Brussels.

At least 36 state legislatures throughout the United States are considering legislation that would allow their citizens to opt out of a key component of Barack Obama's health care bill – an "individual mandate" requiring that all Americans purchase health insurance.

Frightened Christians streamed out of villages in central Nigeria yesterday after threats of new attacks from radical Muslims responsible for a weekend massacre in which at least 500 people were killed.

The former head of the Mossad said on Tuesday that the world needs to get ready to use military force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.

A Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country.

Chief Justice John Roberts said on Tuesday that the scene at Barack Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech has "degenerated" into a political pep rally.

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a new federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing many of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

According to Rasmussen Reports, Barack Obama's approval rating has hit yet another new record low.

Skepticism about global warming is rising in the Republican Party.

The European Union's climate chief has told the European Parliament that she wants the bloc to forge ahead with cuts in carbon emissions of 30 percent.

Two members of Congress have introduced new legislation that is designed to expand President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.

Nancy Pelosi says that we need to pass the health care reform bill so that we can find out what is in it.

Democrats are pressing ahead with legislation to create a vast new bureaucracy that would have virtually unlimited powers to slap sweeping controls on the United States financial industry.

More Christian persecution by Islamic radicals - a World Vision office in Pakistan was attacked by militant gunmen on Wednesday, leaving at least five staff members dead.

U.S. banks charged off a record $83.3 billion in credit card losses in 2009.

A federally funded ticketing blitz in the state of Virginia resulted in a total of 6996 traffic tickets being handed out this past weekend.

According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute's annual Retirement Confidence Survey, the percentage of Americans who have less than $10,000 saved for retirement has grown to 43%.

More U.S. schools than ever are using GPS devices to track students.

Passengers will be able to travel by train from London to Beijing in just two days on trains that travel almost as fast as airplanes if China is able to build the high-speed rail network to India and Europe that they are planning.

An Amish farmer has won his case against Wisconsin's livestock registration law, which he argued violates his religious beliefs.

Actress Jenny McCarthy is asking this question: "Who's Afraid of the Truth About Autism?"

Eric Massa has told Fox News that "you can literally be bought and sold legally" as a member of the U.S. Congress.

Concerns about an Oregon Department of Transportation employee who purchased several guns after being placed on leave prompted law enforcement officials to take him into "protective" custody.

Archaeologists believe that they have finally found the real location of a city called Neta'im mentioned in the Bible.

A 500 member Baptist church in Dallas Texas recently changed its website to reflect the church's affirmation of gay and lesbian lifestyles.

U.S. health officials announced on Tuesday that approximately 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes.

The DNA of an extinct giant bird was recently extracted from fossilized eggs in Australia.

A new solar cycle of activity begins this year, and so the Earth will once again be bombarded with increased radiation from the sun.

Lastly, Russian scientists have confirmed that a multi-coloured snowfall – ranging from light purple to brown – recently landed in Russia's Stavropol Region.

The most important news for Tuesday, March 9th, 2010....

The most important news for Monday, March 8th, 2010....

The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 on Monday after members of a radical, machete-wielding Islamic terror group attacked a mostly Christian town south of the city of Jos.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake collapsed homes and killed more than 50 people in a mountainous region of southeastern Turkey early on Monday.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Friday night.

If the charts are to be believed, the New Madrid fault zone in the central United States is primed for a massive earthquake event.

It is being reported that Iran is developing a massive new rocket launch site with North Korean assistance. 

Israeli National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau is expected to announce plans for the very first nuclear power plant in Israel.

North Korea has put its army on full combat alert and says it is ready to "blow up" South Korea as joint drills between the South and the United States got underway.

The Russian military on Thursday successfully tested a strategic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads from a submarine in the Arctic.  Could missiles such as that one day be a threat to the United States?

A new bill would allow the U.S. government to arrest U.S. citizens and detain them without trial indefinitely based on "suspect activity".

Recent comments by Chinese central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan seem to indicate that China may soon be ready to sever the yuan's de-facto peg to the U.S. dollar.

A new poll has found that nine percent of U.S. adults have already moved their money out of the big banks to protest the Wall Street bailouts and government favoritism towards the big financial institutions.

With a 21% cut in Medicare payments slated to take effect later this month, will some doctors now be forced to boycott Medicare patients?

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may force lenders to buy back $21 billion of home loans this year as part of a crackdown on faulty mortgages.

Cash-strapped states such as North Carolina, Alabama and Hawaii have been forced to slow down issuing income tax refunds to individuals and businesses because they simply don't have enough money.

From all indications, there is a whole lot of bank balance sheet fraud going on out there right now.

The son of one of the founders of Hamas who spied for Israel for many years is now publicly talking about his conversion to Christianity and about how dangerous radical Islam is.

Barack Obama has tapped a former Army general to lead the Transportation Security Administration.

A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers recently cut short their visit to the U.S. after refusing to subject themselves to a controversial full-body scan at a Washington D.C. airport.

Are corrupt Afghans literally stealing millions of dollars from aid funds?
 
In the U.K., hundreds more town hall staff and private security guards are to be handed police-style powers in a fresh Home Office drive to create an army of "civilian spies".

Urgent warnings are circulating throughout NATO and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.

Social workers in the U.K. have placed the five-year-old daughter of a professional couple on the child protection register for "emotional abuse" after the mother told the girl she was delivered by C-section.

Banks with more than 100 billion in assets will be overseen by the U.S. Federal Reserve under a regulatory reform plan that represents a partial victory for the central bank.

Is Rahm Emanuel in trouble?  Even some Democrats are now calling on him to resign.

Big change - starting next year, any bank or other payment settlement company that processes credit cards, debit cards or electronic payments such as PayPal will have to issue information returns telling the IRS what merchants receive.

One Tea Party voter has put new Massachusetts Senator on notice.

Is Sarah Palin trying to pitch a reality television show?

Looking for something amazing to add to your diet?  It turns out that cucumbers are one of the most versatile vegetables that you can grow in your garden.

According to new research, the virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness.

A Catholic school in Boulder, Colorado is under fire due to the fact that it has refused to readmit a preschooler because the child has two moms.

Approximately 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes across the United States have decided to convert en masse to the Roman Catholic Church.

One man in Tyler, Texas was recently given 35 years in prison for having 4.6 ounces of marijuana.

Lastly, one Democrat Congressman recently described a confrontation with Rahm Emanuel that took place in a very uncomfortable setting: "I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes RahmEmanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me."