The most important news for Monday, May 25th.....
Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is saying that Iran could be just one year away from developing a nuclear weapon. Is the U.S. willing to take action in order to prevent that from happening?
Meanwhile, the U.S. State department is insisting that the status of Jerusalem is open for discussion and that it will be settled through negotiations with the Palestinians.
An explosive device blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffee shop in an Upper East Side neighborhood in New York City very early this morning. At this point authorities do not know who did this or why it was done.
President Barack Obama is promising to close the prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, but the truth is that he has absolutely no intention of closing the much larger terror detention center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. That prison currently holds more than 600 prisoners and is about to double in size as part of a 60 million dollar expansion, and recent reports indicate that prisoner abuse is still going on there.
North Korea has announced that it has successfully conducted its second nuclear test. Apparently the weapon tested was as powerful as the bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in World War II. What will the U.S. response be?
Some more details have come to light regarding the secret "philanthropist summit" convened by Bill Gates in New York City. Among those who attended this summit were David Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. Reportedly the goal of the meeting was to consider how their combined wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population. In other words, it was a major eugenics meeting of some of the world's richest people.
As if the homeless didn't have enough problems, now police in St. Petersburg, Florida are cutting up their tents and taking them away.
Some stunning police brutality video footage from Seattleis sending shockwaves all over the U.S. today.
Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen has uncovered some disturbing information about the "H1N1 virus" and where it came from. Let us hope that things are not as bad as he is making them out to be.
Is the Obama administration going to try to have all Americans take THREE flu shots in the fall?
Uh oh.....one corporation is claiming that it has a "swine flu vaccine" that is almost ready for human clinical trials.
While the world is focused on the H1N1 flu, the H5N1 bird flu situation in Egypt continues to become more frightening.
A proposed law in Russia would make comparing Soviet rule with that of the Nazis a crime. So much for their short-lived freedom of speech, eh?
Is the world getting closer to dumping the dollar in favor of a world currency? Let us hope not.
Not again! Relatives of the suspects in the recent New York City "terror plot" are claiming that a slick FBI agent roped four Muslim converts into a plot to blow up synagogues and military jets by handing them piles of cash and gifts and even bags of marijuana.
Did you know that the U.S. government is borrowing 50 cents of every dollar it spends in 2009? In fact, at the 13:30 mark of this video, President Obama admits that the U.S. is out of money.
Meanwhile, China has warned a top member of the U.S. Federal Reserve that it is becoming increasingly disturbed by the Fed's direct purchase of U.S. Treasury bonds.
