The most important news for Friday, July 23rd, 2010....
An Israeli oil prospecting and production firm has announced the discovery of a "commercially sized" oil field in central Israel.
Debka is reporting that Iran is furious over the Obama administration's decision to retain a large number of U.S. troops in Iraq, possibly as UN peacekeepers, after the pullout pledged by Barack Obama to start on September 1st.
Russia's state oil company Zarubezhneft is in deep negotiations with Iran regarding a potential joint exploration project in the Caspian Sea.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is warning North Korea that more sanctions are on the way if they do not end their nuclear program.
Tropical Storm Bonnie is moving over the southern Bahamas and there are reports that it now has sustained winds of 40 miles an hour as it heads toward the southern tip of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
National Incident Commander Thad Allen is telling the media that BP's damaged well will remain capped if ships evacuate the Gulf of Mexico due to a tropical storm that is moving toward the well site.
BP has ordered staff to stop manipulating photographs of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill response, as the controversy over its public relations campaign intensifies.
As the crisis in the Gulf continues to grow, many are now openly wondering if the massive amounts of methane that are being released is the biggest danger from this oil leak.
A confidential survey of people who worked on the Deepwater Horizon in the weeks before the oil rig exploded reveals that many of them were very concerned about safety practices but feared retaliation if they reported problems.
A federal judge has stopped companies from developing oil and gas wells on billions of dollars in leases off Alaska's northwest coast, saying the federal government failed to follow environmental law before it sold the drilling rights.
Hours after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment benefits until the end of November, Barack Obama signed the measure into law.
New home construction in the U.S. declined last month to the lowest level since October.
Microsoft has announced that its net income rose 48% during the second quarter of this year.
Widespread chaos is being predicted in the bond markets after the world's three largest ratings agencies announced that their ratings could not be used in any marketing material.
It turns out that a "tsunami" of new taxes are scheduled to go into effect in 2011 unless the U.S. Congress takes action.
For now, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is "ruling out" further stimulus injections from the Federal Reserve.
A new report to the U.S. Congress indicates that the Obama administration’s program to help homeowners avoid foreclosure has fallen far short of its goals.
It turns out that the "financial reform" bill that Barack Obama recently signed into law may end the era of free checking accounts.
It is being reported that the governor of New Jersey is planning for a state takeover of the Atlantic City district that encompasses its casinos, beaches, marina, and Boardwalk.
According to one shocking new survey, six of out of 10 non-retirees in the U.S. believe that Social Security will not be able to pay them benefits when they stop working.
Gallup's 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll found Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year.
U.S. Representative Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who stepped down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this year, has been formally charged with violating congressional ethics rules.
Two more massage therapists are now accusing former Vice President Al Gore of sexual assault.
It has now come out that a large group of mainstream media journalists openly discussed by email ways to deflect attention away from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal back in 2008.
Americans are becoming increasingly horrified as they learn the specific details contained in the "health care reform law" that was passed earlier this year.
The Obama administration is backing new legislation that includes regulations that would require U.S. businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to the sex, race and national origin of employees.
Republican lawmakers are accusing the White House of "unconscionable" and "illegal" acts for its role in Kenya's referendum on a new constitution, which would legalize abortion in the country for the first time.
Leaked G20 documents reveal that carbon taxes are still very high on the agenda of the globalists.
Environmental activists are welcoming UN plans to amend the way changes to the Kyoto protocol are made as the UN stages an extensive effort to salvage negotiations on a new international deal on climate change.
The United Nations has created what may become a billion dollar agency for radical feminism.
The Tea Party just got an official voice in Washington, thanks to Michelle Bachmann who recently filed the necessary paperwork to create a Tea Party Caucus.
State sponsored population control programs in Uzbekistan are being made possible by funding from the UN, the U.S. and the World Bank.
The US, UK, China and Russia are among 15 nations that have agreed to work together under the globalist umbrella of the United Nations to determine "norms of accepted behavior in cyberspace".
The NSA has gotten so big that it now has 112 acres of parking spaces around it.
American Cancer Society researchers have found that women who spend over six hours a day sitting during leisure time are 40 percent more likely to die sooner than women who spend less than three hours sitting.
Is H1N1 making a big comeback in American pigs?
Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville say that they have discovered that water on the moon is much more widespread than previously believed.
Flooding in China looks to get even worse as the country is hit by a second typhoon.
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake shook the Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Thursday but there was no immediate tsunami warning.
Is human activity causing a steady, measurable decline in the oxygen content of the world's air?
An ancient wooden version of Stonehenge has been unearthed by a team of researchers in the UK.
Is the Vatican trying to prepare humanity for open contact with extraterrestrials?
Bowls of human fingers, a partly burned baby, and gem-studded teeth were among the artifacts found in a recently discovered Mayan king's tomb.
An environmental group is urging the Israeli government to close down a baptism site at the lower Jordan River until water quality standards for tourists and pilgrims bathing at the holy site are met.
Christians in Bhutan were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of "anti-conversion law" that other nations have used as a pretext for persecuting Christians.
A proposed ordinance in Memphis, Tennessee that would ban discrimination against gays is causing outrage among some local critics who say the ordinance would discriminate against people who oppose homosexuality because of their religious beliefs.
Pastor Ronnie Wallace faces an August 23rd court date after his arrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, for preaching the gospel in front of an abortion clinic.
A Texas bus driver has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, claiming he was fired for his religious beliefs after refusing to transport a client to a Planned Parenthood office.
An Augusta State University student filed suit on Wednesday after she was told to change her Christian beliefs or otherwise be expelled from the school's graduate counseling program.
Lastly, one of the world's largest and most controversial Pentecostal churches has been given permission to build a $200 million replica of Solomon's Temple in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
