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The most important news for Friday, April 30th, 2010....

It is being reported that 210,000 gallons of oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico every day since an oil rig exploded and sank there last week.

In fact, the 120-mile oil slick caused by the leak has advanced to within a few miles of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

There is a move in Congress to have Puerto Rico become the 51st state, with voting on the bill, HR 2499, taking place as early as this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Illegal immigrants are already fleeing the state of Arizona because of the tough new anti-illegal immigration law recently passed there.

Barack Obama seems less than pleased about Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law.

Latino activists are planning major May Day rallies in more than 70 U.S. cities.

Russia is preparing for the biggest Red Square military parade in modern history.

China has opened the world's largest underground nuclear weapons plant to the public for the first time.

China pledged to further develop military ties with Cuba during a meeting of senior military officials from the two countries on Monday.

Cuba's communist government has deployed thousands of technical and military advisers to Venezuela to bolster the regime of President Hugo Chavez.

According to a new report, in return for supplying oil to Zimbabwe, Iran has been promised access to potentially huge deposits of uranium ore – which can be converted into the basic fuel for nuclear power or enriched to make a nuclear bomb.

Some commentators believe that war in the Middle East could break out at any time.

The Obama administration recently rejected Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat's request to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Special Mideast Envoy George Mitchell.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit recently said that "complete panic" is reigning in Lebanon because of fears of an Israeli attack and another war.

Now Barack Obama is giving money to Islamic nations in order to stimulate their economies.

A bipartisan U.S. commission on religious freedom says that Barack Obama is softening his stand on protecting the right to one's faith at a time when religious persecution is on the rise.

In a very disturbing move, Charlie Crist, the Republican governor of Florida, has announced that he will run as an independent for the U.S. Senate in the November elections.

The leaders of the 16 countries using Europe's single currency have called an emergency summit to try to avert a Euro meltdown triggered by Greece's financial collapse.

There are reports that a 120 billion Euro bailout deal for Greece is nearly complete.

Fear of contagion gripped Europe’s financial markets when the debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s cut the rating on Spain’s sovereign bonds.

There are fears that Portugal may be the next to fall in the debt crisis.

Nouriel Roubini says that rising sovereign all over the globe will ultimately lead to higher inflation or government defaults.

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, emphasized the need for global coordination of financial regulation in an April 26th address at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In the United States, "strategic" mortgage defaults have jumped to 12% of the total number of mortgage defaults.

Riot police dressed in black were sent out to intimidate Tea Party members at an Obama event in Illinois.

Reuters seems very concerned about the rise of militias in the United States.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says that the U.S. government now owns or controls 51% of the U.S. economy.

A high school in New Hampshire recently awarded credits toward graduation for students who participated in a national school-based observance for homosexual rights.

The World Organization for Animal Health has announced that the huge die off of bees worldwide, a major threat to crops depending on the honey-making insects for pollination, is not due to any one single factor.

Are genetically modified foods designed to feed the hungry or for population control?

The city of San Francisco has launched an aggressive public relations campaign to convince its citizens that toxic sewage that has been treated is actually an organic compost that is rich in nutrients.

A new U.S. government report claims that global warming could lead to an increase in both cancer and mental illness worldwide.

It turns out that the "great environmentalist" Al Gore has bought another mansion that comes with an ocean view, six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

Lastly, scientists at a U.S. government lab are trying to use the world's largest laser to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will make a star bloom on the surface of the Earth.

The most important news for Thursday, April 29th, 2010....

The oil spill from last week's deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to 5,000 barrels a day - 5 times more than the original estimate.

In her new book, Laura Bush is suggesting that she, her husband and several aides may have been poisoned during a 2007 visit to Germany for the G8 summit.

U.S. military officials said on Wednesday that an Iranian navy plane that approached a U.S. aircraft carrier last week was flying as low as 300 feet as it neared the USS Eisenhower.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that Iran and Syria are arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles.

Hezbollah has shot back at U.S. accusations it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons and has vowed to continue to build its artillery.

Is Turkey's anti-Israel alignment becoming increasingly defined?

The North Korean military has recently altered its wartime contingency plans against South Korea to concentrate on attacking the Seoul metropolitan region.

It is being reported that China plans to supply two nuclear reactors to Pakistan.

China's navy is rapidly growing and is becoming more aggressive.

Ukraine's EU affairs minister has said that Ukraine's economy will in the coming years integrate more closely with Russia than with the EU unless the Union becomes more open.

A number of other nations are very concerned about America's new super secret space plane.

It is being reported that a Texas lawmaker will soon introduce immigration legislation comparable to that recently signed into law in Arizona.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 60% of American voters nationwide favor an anti-immigration law like Arizona just passed, while just 31% are opposed.

According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Greek debt crisis is spreading "like Ebola" and Europe must act now to protect the stability the financial markets.

It is being reported that the European Central Bank may soon have to invoke emergency powers to prevent the disintegration of southern European bond markets.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark is warning of the danger that a full-blown sovereign debt crisis could break out.

In fact, many analysts are warning that a "tsunami of red ink" threatens to wash over the entire globe.

New changes slipped into the health care bill will force millions of American businesses to issue hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of additional IRS Form 1099s every year.

A 100-year-old woman who has raised 40 foster kids on her farm is now facing foreclosure.

Many people are getting very upset that the U.S. government is helping some Americans make their mortgage payments.

Are the big banks that were bailed out by the U.S. government now making big money by selling bets that state and local governments will fail financially?

Documents released at a Senate hearing into the role Goldman Sachs played in the financial crisis show the firm strategizing on how to bet against its own clients.

The CEO of Goldman Sachs says that he is "generally supportive" of the Wall Street "reform" bill being pushed by the Democrats.

Hundreds of job seekers in New York recently spent several days sleeping in the street just to be at the front of the line to pick up one of the 750 job applications handed out for a position as an elevator technician apprentice.

Is the U.S. Congress about to pass a bill that will severely restrict dietary supplements?

A new study has found that tiny traces of medical hormones, antidepressants, antibiotics and other drugs are trickling into the drinking water of homes and businesses across Delaware.

What role is the CIA playing in Mexico's bloody drug war?

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, Iraqis held at one secret prison in Baghdad were routinely tortured using whips, electric shocks and rape.

The U.S. military is getting really good at one thing - creating really confusing PowerPoint presentations.

Russian lawmakers are considering extending new powers to the F.S.B., the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B., allowing its officers to summon citizens and issue verbal or written warnings that their activities are "unacceptable" and leading toward a crime, even if no violation has occurred.

The Anti-Defamation League says that alleged racial slurs by Tea Party protesters against Congress members in March are "hate speech" and not protected by the First Amendment.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that is widely accused of having ties to terrorists, has called on congressional sponsors of the National Day of Prayer event on Capitol Hill to rescind Franklin Graham's invitation to speak at the May 6 gathering.

If lobbyists in Albany get their way, everyone with a drivers license in New York State will automatically become organ donors, unless they specifically tell the government that they do not want to be.

One team of "researchers" claim that there are genes from over 20 extraterrestrial civilizations in Human DNA.

It turns out that the U.S. government is collecting the DNA of all of our newborn babies - whether we like it or not.

A prominent European human rights group is saying that parents who spank their children should be prosecuted for assault.

A two year old boy in the U.K. was recently banned from eating cheese sandwiches at a council-run nursery unless his parents added a lettuce leaf.

It turns out that more than 50 new surface earthquake faults have been discovered in California over just the last two decades.

The Boy Scouts are offering a new merit pin - for video gaming.

Lastly, it turns out that the niece of Bill and Hillary Clinton is living on food stamps.

The most important news for Wednesday, April 28th, 2010....

The Mexican government on Tuesday issued a travel alert for Arizona, saying Mexican nationals could face harassment as a result of the state's new immigration law.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that a federal court challenge to a new Arizona law aimed at curbing illegal immigration isn't out of the question.

One lawmaker in Utah is now drafting an immigration bill that is similar to the one that Arizona just passed.

The claim by Turkish and Chinese explorers that they have found Noah's Ark is starting to make news all over the globe.

Ukraine's parliament has turned into a battlefield with politicians setting off smoke grenades and throwing tomatoes over the ratifying of extending the lease to Russia's Black Sea Fleet of Sevastopol's naval base.

A Russian company has started marketing a cruise missile that can be launched from a shipping container.

Barack Obama "dropped by" a meeting between U.S. National Security Adviser Jim Jones and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday.

A joint Turkish-Syrian military drill along the border the two countries share is raising concerns in Israel.

Iraq's political future is in "disarray" as the U.S. prepares to pull some of their troops from that nation.

One of China's top military strategists says that the U.S. is the biggest perceived threat to the People's Liberation Army.

North Korea is warning that it will use nuclear weapons if it is invaded.

Standard & Poor’s has dropped the rating on the debt of the Greek government three levels to BB+, in essence reducing it to junk status.

Documents released Tuesday show that a key Goldman Sachs trading manager indicated in his personnel performance review that he could use the "fear" in the market of a coming collapse in the nation's mortgage market to make profits for the Wall Street firm.

Top Goldman Sachs executives - including CEO Lloyd Blankfein - attempted to deflect criticism on Tuesday as they faced a blistering cross-examination from lawmakers about the firm's role in the financial crisis.

Are the Goldman Sachs fraud revelations being artificially hyped in order to force through Barack Obama’s financial regulatory reform measures?

American International Group may be required to pay to defend lawsuits against top executives from Goldman Sachs, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, under insurance policies held by the company.

As America slowly loses authority around the globe, are institutions such as the G20, the IMF and the World Bank stepping in to fill the void?

Shoppers in France could soon be able to use their finger to pay for their purchases.

Will lawmakers in Washington D.C. use "immigration reform" as an excuse to shove national ID cards down the throats of the American people?

In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as "Consequence Management Response Force" will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by Barack Obama.

New Yorkers are debating whether the city is growing heartless after the revelation of shocking video that shows at least 25 people walked past a homeless man bleeding to death in the street and failed to come to his assistance.

A shocking new survey by LifeWay Christian Resources shows that the vast majority of young adults in America today do not go to church, do not pray and do not read the Bible.

According to a survey conducted by The Barna Group, 52 percent of Americans believe that Jesus speaks to them by influencing or connecting directly with their mind, emotions or feelings.

It is being reported that evangelist Franklin Graham believes that the military’s effort to ban him and other Christian leaders is nothing short of an effort to stamp out Christianity from the military.

The Oklahoma Senate voted Tuesday to override the governor's vetoes and pass two strong anti-abortion measures.

Canada is refusing to fund abortion services as part of a G8 initiative to "improve the health" of mothers in poor countries.

Local officials aim to sterilize nearly 10,000 people by April 26th, many of them against their will, in a drive to meet family planning targets in Guangdong Province in southern China.

Human rights activists said on Monday that China's hidden policy of executing prisoners of the forbidden quasi-Buddhist group Falun Gong and harvesting their organs for worldwide sale has been expanded to include Tibetans, "house church" Christians and Muslim Uighurs.

New technologies are in the works that will allow the U.S. government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed by doctors.

The UN's food agency doubled its aid to Niger on Monday as thousands joined a desperate exodus from parched farmland in western Africa's Sahel region, where 10 million people are facing hunger.

One of Barack Obama’s energy advisers is on course to make millions from shares in green companies which may benefit from green policies that she has helped formulate.

The Australian government has put plans for a flagship emissions trading scheme on hold until 2013 at the earliest.

If you doubt that elevated levels of CO2 are good for plant life, then just check out this video.

Australia's adverse events hotline says its phones are "running hot" with calls from parents who are seeing their children experience unusual side effects from flu vaccines.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops.

A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen is working on a breakthrough that could radically alter the fundamental building blocks of life.  They would do this by developing "triple-helix" DNA.

Antivirus software maker McAfee says that it will reimburse "reasonable expenses" associated with a bad update last Wednesday that crashed computers worldwide.

The Bnei Menashe tribe, from a remote part of India, believe that they are descended from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel and many of them are starting to move back to the land that they believe their ancestors are from.

It is being reported that the Santiaguito volcano has showered sand and ash over a large area of western Guatemala in an "unusual" and "violent" display.

A new study has found that strange undersea domes spotted off the California coast are extinct "asphalt volcanoes" made from a mixture of hardened crude oil and marine fossils.

Screenwriter Andrew Klavan says that in Hollywood conservatives "have to meet in secret. They talk in whispers. It’s a very disturbing kind of culture."

Lastly, if you want a good laugh check this out - the U.S. Treasury is actually accepting online donations for those who want to give money towards paying down the U.S. national debt.

The most important news for Tuesday, April 27th, 2010....

A team of Chinese and Turkish explorers claim that they have found Noah's Ark 4000 meters up on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey - and that they have the wooden specimens to prove it.

Jane's Defense Weekly is reporting that China has opened up a brand new missile plant in Iran.

It is being reported that Israel has pledged to the Obama administration not to conduct a military strike against Iran in 2010.

Meanwhile, an Iranian nuclear scientist has broken ranks with the Islamic regime and has requested political asylum in Israel.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is warning that war could break out if Colombia's ex-defense chief Juan Manuel Santos wins the presidency.

Robotic submersibles are being used to try to stop oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from a damaged well almost a mile below the surface.

Voting 57-41, Senate Democrats could not muster the 60 votes needed to overturn the threat of a Republican filibuster and begin formal debate on the "Wall Street reform bill".

The Democratic co-chairman of Barack Obama’s debt commission, Erskine Bowles, says that tax hikes for Americans are "on the table" despite Obama’s election campaign promise that no individual earning under $200,000 dollars a year would be hit with any tax increases.

Top German politicians are saying that Greece should be forced to quit the Euro.

Illinois recently cut benefits and raised retirement ages for public employees in order to cover a $78 billion shortfall in its public pension fund.

Legislation passed by the Florida Senate would wrest a key concession from state workers, calling for the employees to pay a fraction of their paychecks into the retirement system for the first time in about 30 years.

It turns out that the biggest U.S. banks have "turned the corner" and are now doing just fine.

Some really hard questions are being asked about the mortgage trading strategy at Goldman Sachs during late 2006 and throughout 2007.

Executives at Goldman Sachs were bragging about how much money they were making during the worst moments of the housing crash.

Are the "Big Six" U.S. investment banks "shorting the American Dream"?

In the latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, a majority of respondents felt that the economic stimulus bill had no impact on the American economy.

The top 1% of Americans control roughly 40% of the nation’s wealth.

It turns out that senior U.S. government officials spent large amounts of time viewing pornographic material on government computers when they should have been regulating Wall Street during the worst fiscal crisis since the 1930s.

Proposals to establish a global tax on banks and charge them for the cost of government bailouts divided representatives of the Group of 20 countries during their recently concluded summit meeting.

A small but growing number of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of actually renouncing their citizenship.

According to Brad Therrell, director of the National Newborn Screening & Genetics Resource Center, the U.S. government has mandated that all newborns be evaluated genetically to see whether or not they might be predisposed to developing a genetic disease and most parents are not informed about the tests.

A genetic achilles heel that helps viruses invade the body and trigger cancer has been uncovered by scientists.

Scientists are trying to figure out why sperm levels in men in industrialized nations are falling so rapidly.

A family in Australia is in mourning after their toddler unexpectedly died less than 12 hours after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination.

That water that is used to irrigate much of America's Great Plains comes from the Ogallala Aquifer - a massive underground lake that stretches from southern South Dakota through northern Texas, covering about 174,000 square miles. It turns out that this aquifer is being drained at alarming rates, and some places have already seen what happens when local levels drop below the point where water can no longer be pumped.

The story surrounding the plane crash that killed Poland's president and many of Poland's other top officials keeps getting stranger and stranger.

A new national poll has found that only about one in five American parents would consider spanking their children.

According to the Council of Europe, Britian is now one of only a handful of countries holding out against a complete ban on spanking.

Officials at Eastern Michigan University expelled from a counseling program a Christian student who refused to argue in support of the homosexual lifestyle.

What are we going to do if all of the honeybees in the United States continue to die at a frightening pace?

Somewhere above earth right now is America’s latest spaceship, a 30 foot craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build.

Lastly, researchers say that teenagers on social networking sites such as Facebook are creating a secret language to keep adults from knowing what they are up to.