The most important news for Thursday, December 31st, 2009....
The United States is planning to attack al-Qaeda militants in Yemen in retaliation for the attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell, who was an eyewitness to the events surrounding Flight 253, says that the authorities are not telling the truth about what happened.
The Transportation Security Administration is issuing subpoenas to bloggers who wrote about a classified directive to increase security after the Christmas Day terror incident.
Police around the world are ramping up security for New Year's Eve.
Will the new airport body scanners that expose everything actually fry travelers with massive amounts of radiation?
Will Barack Obama expedite the implementation of full body scanners in airports across the United States?
According to one report, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei could flee to Russia should the situation in his country continue to spiral out of control.
The U.S. Treasury Department has agreed to invest another $3.8 billion in Detroit-based GMAC and will now own a majority of the auto finance company.
Some members of Congress are now starting to wonder how in the world they are going to deal with the national debt which now stands at 12.1 trillion dollars.
The Rothschild banking group ended up making huge profits in 2009 despite the world financial crisis.
Credit is continuing to get tighter throughout all of Europe.
It appears likely that Russia will join the World Trade Organization in 2010.
Immigration "reform" appears to be next on the agenda for the Obama administration. Apparently the plan is to give U.S. citizenship to the estimated 12 million undocumented workers now living in the United States.
The number of dead from the mystery flu plague in Ukraine has now jumped up to 698.
A new H5N1 outbreak in India? Media reports indicate that over 2,000 birds, including domestic poultry, were recently found dead in the Durmoth village in West Bengal's Burdwan district.
One U.S. woman has developed health problems that are so severe and so painful that she now wishes that she had never taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
A Defense Department survey of service members for 2008 showed a higher attempted-suicide rate in the U.S. Navy than for any other branch of the armed forces.
AT&T has become the latest sponsor to drop Tiger Woods.
Lastly, Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church is asking members of his church to donate a total of $900,000 before the new year begins to make up for a massive holiday giving deficit.
The most important news for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009....
U.S. officials have announced that eight Americans died on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a military base in eastern Afghanistan.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in the Baja area rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway more than 100 miles to the west in downtown San Diego.
Iran's police chief threatened on Wednesday to show "no mercy" in crushing any new opposition protests and said that more than 500 demonstrators have been arrested in the wake of this week's deadly clashes.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the now infamous "underwear bomber", apparently had jihadist fantasies in which he imagined a great "holy war" that resulted in Muslims ruling the world.
It has now come out that the CIA failed to circulate a warning that they had about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before the bombing.
As hundreds of thousands of people prepare to gather for New Year's Eve, Hong Kong police are on high alert as fears grow that a mysterious "acid attacker" terrorizing the city will strike again.
Investigators are now asking how Goldman Sachs ended up making tens of billions of dollars in profits during the U.S. housing crash.
A small Chinese company is refusing to pay $80 million in derivative losses to Goldman Sachs.
According to one report, the U.S. Treasury Department is planning to give GMAC around 3.5 billion dollars in additional capital.
It turns out that in America, the top 1 percent controls 42 percent of the financial wealth in the United States.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum wants the states to resist implementation of the federal health care bill.
A Chinese rear admiral is urging his nation to set up navy supply bases overseas.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that Russia needs more weapons in order to stop the United States from doing "whatever it wants".
Over 3.6 million people in Ukraine have reported coming down with the flu in that nation and at least 675 are now confirmed to be dead.
The WHO is warning that the swine flu crisis is not over and that the virus could still mutate.
No more needles? Scientists are reportedly now working on edible vaccines.
One team of scientists is searching for an endangered mushroom that they say could cure smallpox, TB and bird flu.
The new French carbon tax that was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2010 has been ruled unconstitutional.
A new "eco-snoop" iPhone application is designed for people to be able to rat out their neighbors.
Israel's population stands at 7.5 million people at the end of 2009.
Africa's population has now passed one billion people.
The head of Russia's space agency said on Wednesday that Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years.
A shopping center in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang has built a car park with extra-wide spaces to accommodate female drivers.
Lastly, a 7 year old boy that is amazing the world with his painting talent is already being compared to the "old masters" and is already selling paintings for over a thousand dollars.
The most important news for Tuesday, December 29th, 2009....
Ron Paul fears that the U.S. government will use the Flight 253 bombing incident to strip even more liberties away from the American people.
Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson is demanding that airport security officials make much greater use of "behavioral monitoring" in order to keep American travelers safe.
Who was the "well-dressed man" that helped the underwear bomber board Flight 253?
The man charged with the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 has told FBI agents that there are more just like him in Yemen who would strike soon.
The mainstream media is now claiming that Yemen is the true home of al-Qaeda.
A "regional wing" of al-Qaeda, known as "al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula", has claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack.
Effective immediately, passengers headed to the United States from Canada will not be allowed to travel with carry-on bags.
Thanks to Barack Obama, Interpol agents are now immune from being prosecuted for violating American laws.
According to a new report, Iran would launch a counterattack on Israel and on all U.S. bases in the Gulf region if Israel strikes Iran's nuclear program.
Millions of Americans experienced a very happy and prosperous Christmas, but millions of other Americans experienced the other side of Christmas.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is urging the Obama administration to provide Moscow with data about U.S. missile defense developments as part of an information exchange under a new arms treaty.
Russia is saying that it will develop more non-nuclear offensive combat systems to keep balance with American plans for an anti-missile shield.
A new poll says that 68 percent of Americans believe that decisions by the Obama administration are bad for America.
Moderate Democrats are saying that it is "unlikely" that any cap and trade bill will get through the Senate next year.
Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said on December 8th that "cooperation" between European socialists and the Democratic Party has "intensified significantly" over the last several years.
As we look forward to 2010, the truth is that the U.S. economy absolutely fell apart in 2009.
Has the mainstream media decided that bloggers are the cause of their financial problems?
The U.K. government is considering having all bus passengers use "electronic tags" to pay for their bus fares.
Is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (better known as Darpa) leading the effort to merge man with machines?
Can memories and preferences be stored in the heart? According to some heart transplant patients, they apparently can.
Health Canada wants to let manufacturers put small amounts of a cancer-fighting drug into potato chips and similar products to fight a cancer-causing chemical in those foods.
A study published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences has demonstrated the extreme toxicity of three genetically modified corn varieties from the American seed company Monsanto.
As many as 20,000 officials in the U.K. have been given power to enter people's homes without a warrant and search for information.
A European Parliament investigator says that big pharma's influence on the WHO must end.
A group of Shiite Muslims attacked an Assyrian Christian town in Northern Iraq on Christmas morning, but because this was an attack against Christians it was went virtually non-reported in the mainstream news.
Lastly, seven former and current Walmart employees are suing the retail giant after one of its Pennsylvania stores installed a surveillance camera in a unisex bathroom used by employees and customers.
The most important news for Monday, December 28th, 2009....
Prominent Democrats are saying that the final version of the health care reform version will look very similar to the version that the Senate just passed.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as new security procedures implemented for flights to the United States caused absolute chaos.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted on Monday that the aviation security system completely failed when an Islamic radical on a terrorist watchlist was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit with an explosive device on his person.
According to one report, authorities fear that there are 25 British-born Muslims who are plotting to bomb Western airliners.
These new developments have many airline passengers saying that they would have no problem with controversial new "whole body scan" machines that give screeners an undressed view of travelers.
Barack Obama has issued an amendment to Executive Order 12425, designating the international law enforcement agency Interpol as a "public international organization", thus extending diplomatic immunity to the international law enforcement group.
Telecom firms are accusing the U.K. government of acting like the East German Stasi over plans to force them to store the details of every phone call for at least a year.
Some analysts are claiming that new protests in Iran are a sign that the government of Iran is at a breaking point.
A maverick Iraqi politician says that Iran could "go nuclear" within weeks.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon said on Saturday that the year 2010 will be a decisive year with regards to Iran and its nuclear plan.
Barack Obama now has the lowest approval rating for any president at this point in his first term.
The Chinese economy has overtaken the Japanese economy and is now the second biggest economy in the world.
1400 truckers who worked for Arrow Trucking suddenly found themselves unemployed and found their paychecks bouncing when their employer suddenly went out of business.
One financial expert believes that there is now no way that the United States can avoid hyperinflaton.
Goldman Sachs is being investigated for betting against the mortgage-backed securities that they created.
Is the United Nations poised to implement a massive gun grab?
Global warming? 877 snowfall records were set or tied in the United States last week.
A dangerous new strain of bacteria is emerging in U.S. hospitals.
Scientists have discovered that Vitamin C boosts the reprogramming of adult cells to give them the properties of embryonic stem cells.
The first U.S. case of a contagious, aggressive and highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis has been discovered.
New research has revealed that Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core.
Scientists are now saying that a restricted calorie diet can help humans live longer.
We are now being warned that a third wave of the swine flu is on the way.
A Rockland County couple is suing the New York Archdiocese for barring their daughter from attending a Catholic preschool because she has not been "fully vaccinated".
It turns out that just before the recent swine flu vaccination campaign, the European Commission issued a directive giving pharmaceutical companies total immunity from liability for any damages caused by the untested swine flu jab and Tamiflu, even when the drugs were used inappropriately.
Is it possible that DNA is the next Internet?
Was Democrat Senator Max Baucus drunk and/or intoxicated on the floor of the U.S. Senate recently?
Lastly, Breckenridge, Colorado is being dubbed the "Amsterdam of the Rockies" now that it has legalized marijuana.
