THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS

The most important news for Sunday, February 28th, 2010....

An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale hit Chile on Saturday, killing hundreds of people and severely damaging approximately half a million homes.  A tsunami caused by the quake was felt as far away as Japan and Russia.  It is being reported that this was one of the ten largest earthquakes in recorded history.   

Even mainstream media outlets are starting to notice that very large earthquakes are happening much more frequently around the world.

On Sunday, Israel began distributing new gas masks for civilians to use in a possible chemical or biological attack.

Russia's new Topol M missile system will for the first time be shown at the Victory Day parade on May 9th in Moscow's Red Square.

Starting on Monday, the unemployed in the U.S. will no longer be able to apply for federal unemployment benefits or the COBRA health insurance subsidy.

Sales of previously owned homes plunged in January to their lowest level since last summer.

Is the United States getting ready to enter into yet another "Great Recession"?

According to Real Capital Analytics, the default rate for commercial property mortgages held by U.S. banks more than doubled in the fourth quarter and may reach a peak of 5.4 percent by the end of next year.

According to a recent report by the Congressional Oversight Panel, approximately 3,000 U.S. banks are currently classified as having a risky concentration of commercial real estate loans.  All of them are small to mid-sized banks which have been already weakened by the financial crisis.

The chairman of JP Morgan Chase is warning that investors should be more worried about the risk of default by the state of California than by Greece's current debt woes.

Is George Soros at the heart of a plot to cash in on the demise of the Euro?

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Friday that a new reserve currency should be explored as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.

Joe Biden apparently likes being Vice President: "It’s easy being Vice President. You don’t have to do anything."

Jeb Bush recently made this very surprising statement about Sarah Palin: "I don't know what her deal is."

Are U.N. officials pushing for a "New Green Order" by 2012?

56 percent of Americans questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say that the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.

A new global treaty may force your Internet service provider to spy on you.

Police in some areas of the U.K. recently started using super-bright halogen lights to temporarily blind misbehaving youngsters.

One man in the U.K. who took a picture of his son while they were out shopping has been accused of being a pedophile and threatened with arrest.

Under new U.K. government proposals designed to curb the spread of "dangerous" dogs, every dog owner in the U.K. will soon have to take a costly "competence test" to prove they can handle their pets.

Many areas of China are experiencing one of the worst droughts in modern Chinese history.

Is the pharmaceutical industry attempting to convince the American public that a variety of normal conditions affecting the majority of women should be classified as "female sexual dysfunction" so that they can sell more drugs?

The persecution of Christians around the globe is becoming so rampant that even some major international newspapers are starting to run stories about it.

Investigators have seized books on demons and atheism from a home linked to one of the men charged with setting an east Texas church on fire and suspected in a string of similar blazes.

One small town in Australia recently had "hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish rain down from the sky.

Lastly, the leader of the Russian Liberal Democrats, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said on Friday that cloning should be permitted in Russia and proposed cloning himself "for the nation's benefit".

The most important news for Thursday, February 25th, 2010....

Are Democrats plotting a post-summit health care coup? 

Uh oh - Syria has turned down a planned visit to a research reactor in Damascus by U.N. nuclear inspectors.

A new logo for the Missile Defense Agency is strikingly similar to the one that Barack Obama used during his 2008 campaign.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that the Russian government expects a new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States to be linked to Washington's plans to deploy missile shield elements in Europe.

North Korea is threatening to "attack" if the U.S. and South Korea go ahead with joint military drills later this month.

There are reports that Syria and Iran are in discussions about how to implement the secret military pact their two governments signed in December 2009.

Israel and the United States are holding a one-day, high-level strategic dialogue on Thursday which was expected to focus on sanctions against Iran.

Do the violent riots in Greece indicate that this will be a "summer of discontent" across Europe?

Is John McCain's Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 an attempt to implement Codex Alimentarius in the United States?

Scott Brown, the new Republican senator for Massachusetts, is being called a traitor for supporting Barack Obama's recent spending bill.

Only 10% of American voters say that Congress is doing a good or excellent job.

General Motors has announced that they will begin shutting down Hummer now that a proposed deal to sell the brand to a Chinese company has collapsed.

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance "unexpectedly" increased last week.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece.

The U.S. Senate has passed a one year extension of the Patriot Act.

More than 300 U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan since May 15, 2009, which was the day when the first major wave of new troops ordered by Barack Obama arrived in the country.

Pakistani Taliban militants have beheaded three men charged with spying for the United States in Pakistan's northwest tribal region.

Vaccine manufacturer Merck Frosst Pharmaceutical has announced that they have approval from Health Canada for the use of the human papilloma virus vaccine Gardasil in boys and young men.

According to newly released research, there is no scientific evidence that flu shots are safe or effective for elderly Americans.

Agricultural scientists say that the hope to boost world food supplies in the future by exploiting advances in biotech, nanotech and synthetic biology.

A group of U.S. farmers is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for improperly allowing Monsanto to sell an herbicide-resistant alfalfa seed while failing to analyze the public health, environmental, and economic consequences of that action.

Restaurants across the country have been running out of tomatoes sporadically over the past week, and that is likely to continue in the aftermath of the freeze that devastated Florida's tomato crop last month.

A strong 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Nicaragua's western coast on Wednesday night.

Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler has released a long-awaited opinion saying that same-sex marriages performed in other states could be recognized by Maryland's legal system.

Pastor Mark Driscoll says that Avatar is "the most demonic, satanic film I've ever seen."

The Japanese government apparently plans to officially admit that it signed two secret defense pacts with the U.S. in 1960 and 1972.

Parasites in Cambodia are reportedly developing resistance to one of the most important anti-malaria drugs.

Lastly, the northeast U.S. is bracing for a massive "snowicane" that could dump another two feet of snow on many areas of the region.

The most important news for Wednesday, February 24th, 2010....

The U.S. government says that sales of new homes in the United States plunged in January to the lowest level on record.

The number of U.S. mortgages more than 90 days overdue has climbed to 5.1 percent.

11.3 million U.S. homeowners - or 24% of all homes with mortgages in the United States - were underwater as of the end of 2009.  That is up from 23% and 10.7 million borrowers three months earlier.

Confidence among U.S. consumers fell dramatically in February to the lowest level in 10 months.

U.S. commercial property values are down 40 percent since 2007 and currently 18 percent of all office space in the United States is sitting vacant.

It is projected that the largest commercial real estate loan losses will be experienced in 2011 and the years following.  In fact, it is estimated that losses at U.S. banks alone could range as high as 200 to 300 billion dollars.

The FDIC now says that the number of banks on its "problem" list climbed to 702 at the end of 2009 from 552 at the end of September and 252 at the end of 2008.

A major U.K. newspaper is warning that evidence is mounting that Chinese sales of U.S. Treasury bonds are intended as a warning to the United States government rather than simply being part of a routine portfolio shift.

The World Trade Organization has announced that world trade fell by 12% last year as the world economic crisis caused the biggest drop since 1945.

Harvard University Professor Kenneth Rogoff is warning that we could soon see a wave of sovereign defaults.

Warren Buffett's long-time business partner, Charlie Munger, has written in a new article for Slate.com that "it’s basically over" for the United States economy.

But Barack Obama says that a second Great Depression "is on longer a possibility".

New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Tuesday that Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.

"Dr. Doom" is advising the world’s most powerful investors to buy farmland and to stock up on gold.

The United States has unveiled plans for a new $1 billion high-security embassy in London - the most expensive embassy the U.S. has ever built.

The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund is warning that belt-tightening in Europe will be "extremely painful" and could take up to 20 years.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is warning that the decision to award Jewish sites in the West Bank national heritage status could ignite a war in the Middle East.

It is being reported that the son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the militant organization's leadership.

The EU is reportedly planning "massive" sanctions against Iran.

Latin American and Caribbean nations have agreed to set up a new regional body without the United States and Canada.

A stunning new report out of the U.K. is predicting that human beings may be forced to be microchipped like pet dogs some time within the next decade.

An extensive investigation has revealed that between 2003 and 2007, Texas quietly gave hundreds of newborn baby blood samples to a U.S. Armed Forces laboratory for use in a forensics database.

The government of China will now require individuals seeking to establish personal websites to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken.

A state House committee in Arizona has approved a measure that would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.

A team of scientists has now successfully developed an incredibly virulent swine flu/bird flu hybrid combination in the lab.

A committee of experts advised the World Health Organization on Tuesday that the pandemic of H1N1 swine flu has not peaked yet.

As if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was not bad enough, researchers have now found a high concentration of plastic debris floating in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean.

Planned Parenthood has announced that they plan to provide women with an option for terminating pregnancies in the comfort and privacy of their own homes.

The Pentagon has decided to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines.

In a drastic move, a school board in Rhode Island has voted to fire every single teacher at one struggling public high school.

Does the new "Percy Jackson" movie have some very sinister undertones?

A family court judge in Vermont has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Virginia mother who disappeared with her daughter after being ordered to turn her over to her former lesbian partner.

One U.S. pediatrician has been charged with 471 counts of sexual crimes against 102 girls and one boy.

One new study has come out that suggests that children with same-sex parents are more prone to suicide.

An Israeli archaeologist announced on Monday that ancient fortifications recently excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of King Solomon and support the biblical account about that time period.

Lastly, some U.S. cities have been actually shortening yellow lights to nab drivers with a ticket.  But in the quest for money are these cities putting the lives of drivers at risk?

The most important news for Monday, February 22nd, 2010.....

Barack Obama has unveiled his new $950 billion health plan that seeks to reconcile existing House and Senate bills.  Democrats are hoping to use Senate rules to avoid a Republican filibuster and ram this legislation down the throats of the American people.

A senior Obama administration official says that the White House will propose new legislation that would allow the U.S. government to block excessive rate hikes by health insurance companies.

According to a new survey conducted by The Barna Group, only 35 percent of born-again Christians are satisfied with the job Barack Obama is doing.

More than 1 million Americans could lose their unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidy in March if Congress doesn't intervene.

It has now come out that many nations across Europe used complex financial transactions to hide the true size of their debts and deficits.

One major U.K. newspaper has published an article with this stunning headline: "Our World Balances On A Sea Of Debt".

The CEO of General Motors is in line to get a $9 million pay package.

California "Republican" Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is publicly defending the effectiveness of Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.

The U.S. government has massively increased spending at a time when U.S. government revenues are dramatically falling.

It turns out that U.S. unemployment is hitting poor and working class families much harder than it is hitting wealthy Americans.

Israel's air force has introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and could fly as far as the Persian Gulf.  In fact, one of these "super drones" is reportedly as wide as a Boeing 737.

Iran announced on Monday that it plans to start constructing two new uranium enrichment facilities next month in the heart of the Iranian mountains.

U.S. intelligence sources are warning that civil war could break out again in Sudan at any time.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently said that terrorists who are U.S. citizens or who live in the United States legally and plot against the U.S. are just as big of a concern as international terrorists.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also recently met covertly with a group of extremist Arab, Muslim and Sikh organizations to discuss national security matters.

According to a report released on Friday by the Office of Professional Responsibility, the chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order civilians to be massacred.

Donald Trump is now saying that global warming is a scam on American business.

The president of Haiti is saying that the official death toll for the Haiti earthquake could end up being around 300,000.

An ancient temple complex in Turkey that supposedly predates even the pyramids is causing many archaeologists to say that we now need to "rewrite" history.

The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a Pennsylvania school official used webcams to remotely monitor students at home.

Lastly, the head of NASA says that Barack Obama has asked him to "find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries" as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.