The most important news for Thursday, December 31st, 2009....
The United States is planning to attack al-Qaeda militants in Yemen in retaliation for the attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell, who was an eyewitness to the events surrounding Flight 253, says that the authorities are not telling the truth about what happened.
The Transportation Security Administration is issuing subpoenas to bloggers who wrote about a classified directive to increase security after the Christmas Day terror incident.
Police around the world are ramping up security for New Year's Eve.
Will the new airport body scanners that expose everything actually fry travelers with massive amounts of radiation?
Will Barack Obama expedite the implementation of full body scanners in airports across the United States?
According to one report, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei could flee to Russia should the situation in his country continue to spiral out of control.
The U.S. Treasury Department has agreed to invest another $3.8 billion in Detroit-based GMAC and will now own a majority of the auto finance company.
Some members of Congress are now starting to wonder how in the world they are going to deal with the national debt which now stands at 12.1 trillion dollars.
The Rothschild banking group ended up making huge profits in 2009 despite the world financial crisis.
Credit is continuing to get tighter throughout all of Europe.
It appears likely that Russia will join the World Trade Organization in 2010.
Immigration "reform" appears to be next on the agenda for the Obama administration. Apparently the plan is to give U.S. citizenship to the estimated 12 million undocumented workers now living in the United States.
The number of dead from the mystery flu plague in Ukraine has now jumped up to 698.
A new H5N1 outbreak in India? Media reports indicate that over 2,000 birds, including domestic poultry, were recently found dead in the Durmoth village in West Bengal's Burdwan district.
One U.S. woman has developed health problems that are so severe and so painful that she now wishes that she had never taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
A Defense Department survey of service members for 2008 showed a higher attempted-suicide rate in the U.S. Navy than for any other branch of the armed forces.
AT&T has become the latest sponsor to drop Tiger Woods.
Lastly, Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church is asking members of his church to donate a total of $900,000 before the new year begins to make up for a massive holiday giving deficit.
