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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."

The most important news for Sunday, March 7th, 2010....

Polls have closed in Iraq's parliamentary elections, but the elections were marred by horrific violence that left at least 38 people dead.

The Iranian Defense Ministry started mass production of Nasr 1 (Victory 1) cruise missiles on Sunday.

In the past two months alone, CIA Director Leon Panetta, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, NSC strategist Dennis Ross, Deputy Secretaries of State Jim Steinberg and Jack Lew, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen have all made trips to Israel to discuss the situation brewing in the Middle East.

Republican senators are demanding that the Obama administration cancel the appointment of a new U.S. ambassador to Syria.

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that Barack Obama's proposed budget plan would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, is being urged to consider cutting delivery to as few as three days a week.

Federal regulators on Friday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year.

It is being reported that Russia may scrap the ruble and introduce a common currency with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Will the Obama administration soon help Wall Street get a hold of Social Security?

Barack Obama has released a statement in which he once again affirmed his commitment to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal and his goal of seeking "a world without nuclear weapons".

Meanwhile, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is urging Russia's armed forces to speed up the upgrading of their aging military arsenal.

A reporter says that he counted more than 200 dead bodies after renewed religious violence erupted between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria.

Christian debt-elimination programs, which use the Bible as a framework to encourage financial responsibility, are surging in popularity all across the United States.

An NYPD officer has broken his silence and has admitted that innocent people are set up and falsely arrested and ticketed in order to meet quotas.

Islam is tolerant?  A husband and wife in Pakistan were recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for touching the Quran without washing their hands.

The former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency claims that the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region.

According to research presented to the American Heart Association's annual conference, drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks has been linked to an increase in new cases of diabetes and heart disease.

The CDC has issued a new report showing that one out of every 110 children in America today has some form of autism.

A pet charity in the U.K. is claiming that vaccines being given to dogs are making them ill, while vets are cashing in on all of the vaccines.

Is there a "worldwide war" on baby girls?

Has a lost group of people with Jewish ancestry been found in Zimbabwe?

MSNBC recently ran an article with this surprising headline: "5 ways your TV is slowly killing you".

A 70-year-old Chinese grandmother in the central province of Hubei was recently beaten and buried alive by property developers eager to get their hands on her land.

Lastly, Washington D.C. will become the first city in the United States to make female condoms available for free.