The most important news for Thursday, December 17th, 2009.....
The Secretary General of the United Nations is being very clear what it will take to implement a climate change treaty: "We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this."
The U.S. Constitution states that the president cannot sign treaties without the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Is Barack Obama about to violate the Constitution by signing a treaty in Copenhagen?
Are the Russians suggesting that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock?
A new report by Vice President Biden projects that the number of U.S. homes with "smart meters" will go from about 8 million now to 40 million by 2015.
Environmental extremists attacked a global warming skeptic while he was being interviewed on live television.
Journalists who ask the wrong questions at the Copenhagen summit are being quickly confronted by security people.
Barack Obama has reportedly warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States will not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much longer.
The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that allows the use of Russian military forces in foreign countries, including in pre-emptive strikes.
The president of Bolivia says that in order for the earth to survive, we must "put an end to capitalism".
The new EU foreign policy chief leveled scathing criticism at the "Israeli occupation" in her first speech as the European Union's first high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.
Hamas remains adamant that the goal of their organization is to "liberate" the entire land of "Palestine".
A highly influential Shi'areligious leader, with whom Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly regularly consults, has apparently told followers that coercion by means of rape, torture and drugs is acceptable against all opponents of Iran.
Barack Obama told Charles Gibson of ABC News that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government "will go bankrupt".
Will Obamacare be "the largest middle-class tax increase in American history" as one member of Congress is saying?
Did Barack Obama threaten to close Offutt Air Force Base if Senator Nelson didn’t vote for the health care reform bill?
4 of the biggest mortgage backers in the United States are swimming in an ocean of debt.
Checks are officially on their way out in the U.K. - bank customers have until October 2018 to use up their remaining checks.
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer reportedly called a flight attendant an obscenity aboard a recent U.S. Airways flight.
Scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have revealed results from a study that shows that aspartame destroys kidney function.
Greg Caton, owner and operator of Alpha Omega Labs, an herbal products company that sells anti-cancer herbal remedies made with Ecuadorian medicinal herbs, was arrested at gunpoint at a road checkpoint in Ecuador, then illegally shipped to the United States on orders from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
New Oxford Review has posted an intriguing look at the legalization of abortion in pre-World War II Germany.
Does a document entitled "Strategic Implications of American Millennialism" reveal what the U.S. Army really thinks of Christians who believe in Bible prophecy?
It turns out that the underground economy in the United States is exploding in size.
What in the world is happening in the skies above Hessdalen, Norway?
The WHO has received more money from unofficial sources, such as as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill Gates Foundation, than from official sources since 2006.
Some natural health experts are suggesting another method for fighting the H1N1 swine flu.
A new documentary portrays fundamentalist Christians as a bunch of loons who wish to bring about the end of the world.
Do the new films "Avatar" and "Invictus" glorify communism?
A new report has found that nearly a third of all countries around the globe have stiff restrictions on the practice of religion.
Three Christians have allegedly been poisoned because of their faith by their employer in Pakistan.
Lastly, a risque church billboard showing the Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed apparently after having disappointing sex is causing outrage among Christians in New Zealand.
