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".
