The most important news for Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009.....
The Netanyahu administration is warning the European Union that it is "playing with fire" if it goes ahead next week with plans to adopt a resolution calling for east Jerusalem to be the capital of a future independent Palestinian state.
Members of the Knesset are saying that the EU plan could cause an eruption of violence in the region.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel can not do a "damn thing" to stop Iran's nuclear program.
Western governments are considering drawing up new sanctions against Iran in response to its plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants.
H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturers are developing new methods for more quickly producing vaccines including using dog cells, using African green monkey kidney cells, using genetically engineered E.coli bacteria, and inserting genetically engineering flu genes into a worm virus, which then infects cells from caterpillar ovaries.
The H1N1 swine flu virus has now been found in six separate species around the world.
The WHO has announced that a 23-year-old man in Vietnam died last week from the H5N1 bird flu.
According to one report, the French government is about to move France to the highest pandemic alert level allowing the implementation of full-scale martial law.
Climategate implications are starting to hit home. Penn St. University has announced that it is launching an investigation into the academic conduct of Michael Mann, the school's Director of the Earth System Science Center. In addition, Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia, has announced that he will step aside as director while his university is investigating him.
Senior officials at Goldman Sachs have reportedly loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a "populist uprising" against the bank.
In addition, Goldman Sachs employees are now not allowed to gather in groups of 12 or more outside the office.
Military families are divided over Barack Obama's planned Afghan surge.
A Republican senator publicly stated on Tuesday that Barack Obama's health care reform will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting Medicare.
Google has made changes which will make it easier for newspapers to charge Internet users for reading their articles online.
Sprint Nextel provided U.S. law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009.
An amateur photographer in the U.K. was questioned by police under anti-terror laws for taking too many pictures of the Christmas lights.
Federal authorities in Colorado are investigating a Muslim cleric who communicated with the shooting suspect at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.
Barack Obama's "Christian" grandmother has arrived in Mecca for the Hajj.
Wells Fargo has announced that they plan to close 122 bank branches in California.
Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops in Vancouver are expressing concern that human trafficking may cast a shadow over the winter Olympics soon to take place in that city.
A coumnist in the U.K. has done a great job of describing how the sexual revolution has wrecked the lives of women.
The American Humanist Association is expanding its controversial “Godless Holiday” advertising campaign to five major U.S. cities this Christmas.
Hawaii volcano emissions have prompted a federal disaster declaration.
Two penniless brothers who are so poor that they live in a cave could be set to inherit billions of dollars.
Lastly, one amazing dog from Wyoming just delivered a litter of 18 puppies.
