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.
