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Barack Obama now says that U.S. troops will be staying in Afghanistan until at least 2014.
At least 15 people died and more than 100 were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police facility in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said Thursday.
A senior Palestinian negotiator says that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert lied last week when he said Israel's control of Jerusalem's Temple Mount is not up for negotiation.
Israel should not enter peace negotiations with Syria, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during a visit to the Golan Heights on Thursday.
Iran plans to test its own homemade S-300 ground-to-air missiles, built in defiance of ally Russia which backed out of a deal to supply the device, a top Iranian military commander said on Wednesday.
It is being reported that Russia is building 5000 new bomb shelters in the city of Moscow by the end of 2012.
A contract killer has been dispatched to assassinate the Russian double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman and nine other spies in the United States this spring, according to reports in Moscow.
Former Indian Defense Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday claimed that China could attack India "soon" and the threat needed to be taken seriously against the backdrop of the 1962 invasion.
The age of the nation state is over and the idea that countries can stand alone is an ‘illusion’ and a ‘lie’, according to the president of the EU.
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing will do little to boost the U.S. economy,according to economist Joseph Stiglitz.
China said on Thursday that the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to ease monetary policy risked undermining the global economic recovery, adding that Washington "should not force others to take medicine for its own disease".
One new survey has revealed that the price of food at Wal-Mart is already starting to move up significantly.
The number of Americans participating in the labor force continues to decline.
Are U.S. housing prices about to decline even more?
A new poll has found that only 35 percent of Americans believe that free trade agreements are food for the U.S. economy.
Europe's top trade official has signaled his intention to create a new retaliatory trade tool, amid ongoing complaints from European businesses that they are being excluded from Chinese public contracts.
The U.S. government began fiscal year 2011 in the red, posting a budget deficit of $140 billion in October, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.
A return to the gold standard by major economies is not practical, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday, just two days after an opinion piece he wrote stirred talk of the need to do just that.
Government austerity measures may have to be rethought if the recovery slows, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
As Barack Obama huddles with world leaders for the G-20 summit in South Korea, one idea being pushed is a so-called "Robin Hood tax" aimed at collecting money from rich nations to give to the poor.
It has come out that President George W. Bush told British officials in the heat of the 2008 presidential election, "I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me."
In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say that they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.
The TSA's new security guidelines call for agents to use their "palms and fingers" to "probe" your body for hidden weapons.
Pilots' unions for US Airways and American Airlines are urging their members to avoid full-body scanning at airport security checkpoints, citing health risks and concerns about intrusiveness and security officer behavior.
The Drudge Report has stirred a national debate on TSA abuse of passengers through dangerous naked body scanners and invasive groping measures, culminating in an onslaught of resistance from numerous prominent travel and pilots associations, and leading to the organization of a national opt out day on November 24th.
Although the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) collapsed and shut down this week, Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management LLP pocketed approximately $17.8 million on it’s 2.98% share of the exchange when it was sold to the publicly traded Intercontinental Exchange a mere 6 months ago.
The control of U.S. news is much more highly concentrated than most Americans think.
There have been 63 earthquakes around Yellowstone National Park over the last week.
The number of "stink bugs" along the U.S. east coast is absolutely exploding.
Scientists have found a link between mild painkiller use in pregnancy and raised risk of having a son with cryptorchidism.
The number of American women without children has risen to an all-time high of 1 in 5, a jump since the 1970s when 1 in 10 women ended their childbearing years without having a baby, according to the Pew Research Center.
A woman who survived being aborted in 1978 is speaking out about the value of life.
A rural church in Arizona is facing a bill of $50,000 in back taxes and faces the possibility of foreclosure after a local property assessor sat on tax exemption paperwork for three years.
A middle-aged Christian mother has been sentenced to death for "blasphemy" in Pakistan.
Lastly, birthday celebrations for schoolchildren that involve cupcakes, brownies, and other sweet treats could soon be a thing of the past in Pennsylvania. If the state's board of education has its way, public schools will be limited to holing only one classroom birthday party a month, with each child being allowed to eat only one sweet treat per party.
The latest headlines from The Most Important News....Barack Obama made the following statement about globalization during his overseas trip: "There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalization as a threat and those who accept we live in a open integrated world, which has challenges and opportunities."
Implicitly acknowledging the decline of American dominance, Barack Obama on Sunday said the U.S. was no longer in a position to "meet the rest of the world economically on our terms".
Obama says that the U.S. could be entering "a new normal" where unemployment rates stay high.
Dependence on foreign oil continues to cripple the U.S. economy.
The price of oil and the price of gold continue to move up briskly.
Sarah Palin is publicly criticizing the Federal Reserve for the new quantitative easing program that they have initiated.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he does not have “an opinion at this point” on whether Republicans should try to stop or restrict the Federal Reserve from buying $600 billion in federal government debt.
Will the competitive devaluation of world currencies result in the collapse of the global financial system?
Dallas Fed’s Dick Fisher recently made the following statement: “For the next eight months, the nation’s central bank will be monetizing the federal debt.”
China's leading credit rating agency downgraded U.S. debt to 'A' following last week’s announcement of a second round of quantitative easing.
Citibank officials are warning that central banks around the globe are going to start dumping dollarsin the coming weeks.
Is the head of the World Bank actually suggesting that we should adopt a gold standard?
The government of Ireland is now essentially insolvent.
U.S. banks are failing at the fastest rate in two decades.
U.S. mortgage delinquencies increased once again during the third quarter of 2010.
The vending machine industry is up in arms following a new report by the Food and Drug Administration that estimates the industry will need to spend 14 million hours annually to comply with new calorie disclosure laws.
As of October 8th, America's strategic grain stockpile had shrunk to an unsettling 53 days.
Wall Street is still having problems with "mini flash crashes".
The Palestinian Authority is strengthening its grip on eastern Jerusalem, carrying out a policy of“creeping annexation” right under Israel's nose, a prominent activist for Jerusalem has discovered.
Anger at Israel expressed this week during Jordan's parliamentary election campaign stems from the fear that the Hashemite Kingdom may be forced to accept back the Palestinian Arabs that came under Israel's sovereignty following the 1967 Six Day War.
The Pentagon said Tuesday that a missile launch off the southern coast of California remained“unexplained” and that its mysterious origins meant that it was not possible to rule out any threat to the homeland.
U.S. officials on Monday extended a ban on air cargo from Yemen to include Somalia and slapped new restrictions on passenger goods on U.S.-bound international flights after a foiled parcel bomb plot.
The TSA has reacted to the burgeoning backlash against airport oppression with a glib response that does nothing to address the multitude of complaints put forward by some of the most prominent travel and pilots associations in the world.
A “fun loving” security officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the Philadelphia International Airport recently pretended to find a bag of cocaine in at least two passengers’ bags.
Former President George W. Bush continues to be beyond shame. Those favored with an advance copy of his memoir, Decision Points, say it paints a picture of a totally unapologetic Bush bragging, for example, about authorizing the CIA to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
In the UK, foreigners have been banned from Big Ben over fears of an al-Qaeda "spectacular".
Leftist hero, Kennedy Award Winner and Pulitzer finalist Ted Rall is actually calling for violence against Tea Partiers and for a violent socialist revolution in America.
Anti-Israel sentiment in some parts of the U.S. has grown to alarming proportions.
A three-day federal crackdown on child prostitution rings across the country has resulted in the recovery of 69 children and the arrest of 884 people, including 99 pimps, federal authorities said Monday.
The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence went global this weekend as observatories in 13 nations on five continents trained their telescopes on several promising star systems.
Were UFOs recently caught on film near the launch pad of a NASA space shuttle?
A major solar flare erupted from the sun Saturday — one of the most powerful in years — sending an energetic blast of X-rays from a hotspot of activity that may still belch more solar storms in the days to come.
In Oregon, a 20 foot by 30 foot sinkhole opened in front of Brookings City Hall overnight Sunday.
Scientists say an excavation site in western Colorado is revealing an entire Ice Age ecosystem.
The use of iris recognition technology is expanding around the globe and it is being utilized in a vast array of commercial and government applications ranging from access control to time management.
Human blood has been made from human skin in a groundbreaking experiment at a Canadian university.
According to a new survey by Consumer Reports, 84 percent of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are treated with drugs at some point.
Novartis AG plans to seek regulatory approval within 18 months for a pioneering tablet containing an embedded microchip, bringing the concept of "smart-pill" technology a step closer.
Five bishops have announced that they are converting to Roman Catholicism in protest at liberal Anglican reforms and urged others to follow their path.
A temporary restraining order has been issued to block an Oklahoma state constitutional amendment that prohibits state courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases.
Lastly, a congressional document posted on the Internet confirms that no one – not Congress, not the states and not election officials – bothered to check Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, and that status remains undocumented to this day.
The latest headlines from The Most Important News....Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcanocontinued to rumble and emit bursts of blisteringly hot gas and dust on Sunday, as the death toll from recent eruptions pushed higher.
The United States faces a possible war with Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions and a "period of confrontation" with China over its currency, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham warned Saturday.
Debka is reporting that Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon not just to beef up American and NATO military pressure on Iran but to do so as conspicuously as possible.
The United States warned Syria on Friday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may take actions against it if it does not allow IAEA inspectors to tour Deir al-Zur and other sites, where Damascus is suspected of having operated a nuclear reactor program.
Israeli police officers razed a mosque they said was built illegally in the southern city of Rahat as residents hurled rocks at them.
It is being reported that the Obama administration has given the green light to two neighbors of Nicaragua — Costa Rica and Honduras — to ratchet up tensions on their borders with Nicaragua.
Barack Obama started his second day in India on a lighter note: pulling a few dance moves and celebrating Diwali with local students.
Barack Obama says that a Republican proposal to extend tax cuts to wealthier Americans for two years represents a "basis for conversation" and he sees a potential for compromise heading into negotiations.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's new $600 billion program to aid the economy on Saturday during a conference for top Fed officials held on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Is the "age of the dollar" coming to an end?
Treasury two- and five-year note yields dropped to record lows after the Federal Reserve said it would buy an additional $600 billion of U.S. debt to keep borrowing costs low and sustain the economic recovery.
A recent study by Forrester Research Inc. found that by 2015 as many as 3.4 million white-collar jobs and $136 billion in wages could be shipped overseas, with many of the jobs and wealth going to India.
As thousands of U.S. factories and millions of American jobs continue to be sent to places like India and China, the city of Detroit, Michigan is rotting right in front of our eyes.
"Container cities" have begun to appear at ports across the country - endless rows of shipping containers caused by importing more goods than we export - as the United States continues to engage in so-called "free trade" with other nations.
The poorest 20 percent of Americans spend over 50 percent of their after-tax income on food and energy.
Soaring wheat and other commodity costs on world markets have pushed up UK wholesale food prices at the fastest rate in two years.
According to a new report released Friday by the National Inflation Association, within a decade a loaf of wheat bread may cost $23 in a grocery store in the United States, and a 32-oz package of sugar might run $62.
AARP's endorsement helped secure passage of Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise as a result of the law.
The age of the plain old credit score is being replaced by ever more intrusive efforts by banks and credit agencies to gauge exactly what you're worth, and what you can pay.
Is the World Bank quietly funding a massive corporate water grab?
It is being reported that a mysterious organization called Foundation X has offered the British Government £5 billion and wants nothing in return.
A city right on the U.S. border with Mexico is being called the most dangerous place on earth.
In another grisly turn in Mexico's drug war, police have recovered 18 bodies from a mass grave. Earlier, a video had been posted on YouTube saying the victims were from a tourist group kidnapped in Acapulco a month ago.
Former Clintonite and Democrat operative Mark Penn says Obama needs an event similar to the OKC bombing to regain his popularity.
A group of workers who claimed they suffered health problems as a result of being exposed to debris from ground zero during its removal and transfer to a landfill on Staten Island stand to receive $27.5 million in a settlement announced on Friday.
What U.S. air travelers are now being subjected to in the name of "security" is absolutely horrifying.
A leading Russian journalist has been left with a fractured skull, a shattered jaw and a broken legafter two men beat him close to death on the doorstep of his Moscow home.
It is being reported that a former SCO of NASA's space shuttle fleet has come forward and has announced that he and NASA know that ETs are real.
Major volcanoes all over the globe are suddenly springing to life at a very alarming pace.
Lastly, a top UN panel has called for increased taxes on carbon emissions and air and sea transport to raise 100 billion dollars a year to combat climate change.
The latest headlines from The Most Important News....Islamist insurgents in Iraq have warned of a new wave of attacks on Christians "wherever they can be reached", threatening a new wave of sectarian violence.
A poll released Wednesday by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion shows that the majority of PA Arabs miss former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat and want Hamas and Fatah to reconcile. In addition, more than 46% support rocket attacks.
Thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America" as they staged Thursday a mass protest against the "Great Satan" to mark the 31st anniversary of the capture of the American embassy by Islamist students.
Israel suspended relations with UNESCO Wednesday after the cultural branch of the UN classified the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel as a mosque.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Kuwait on Wednesday, following a visit to Bahrain earlier in the week as part of a tour of the Gulf region to "exchange views with brotherly leaders and the region on the latest developments of the Palestinian question".
The Vatican’s representative at the United Nations reaffirmed support for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict in a November 3 presentation.
Most pundits are predicting strained times in EU-U.S. relations after crushing losses by Barack Obama's Democratic Party in midterm elections.
Barack Obama on Wednesday blamed the anemic economy for the "shellacking" his fellow Democrats experienced in this week's midterm elections, but he acknowledged his policies hadn't done enough to bring down high unemployment.
MSNBC's coverage on election night very clearly revealed their rabid hatred for the Tea Party movement.
It turns out that candidates across American that advocated "fair trade" policies did very well on election night.
The new Republican House of Representatives is promising a full investigation into the man-made global warming fraud.
A key Republican lawmaker indicated Wednesday that Internet privacy could be a legislative priority in the next Congress, as a growing number of data breaches draw increased attention from federal regulators.
Barack Obama says that he is willing to sit down and discuss "tax cuts" with Republicans.
Republicans are likely to urge the Obama administration not to shred documents as they transition to the House majority.
It turns out that Barack Obama's trip to India is not going to cost $200 million a day, but it is still going to cost a ton of money.
It is being reported that 34 warships will be sent from the United States for Obama's visit to India.
U.S. stocks rallied Thursday, with all three major indexes climbing to two-year highs, as investors continued to cheer the Federal Reserve's announcement to pump $600 billion into the economy.
Despite the varied theories espoused by many establishment economists, it was none other than the Federal Reserve that caused the Great Depression and the horrific suffering, deprivation and dislocation America and the world experienced in its wake. At least, that's the clearly stated view of current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
General Motors on Wednesday finalized terms for a stock offering of about $13 billion to repay a controversial taxpayer-funded bailout and reduce the U.S. Treasury to a minority shareholder.
Libya’s National Oil Corporation chairman Shokri Ghanem put fear into the hearts of commodities traders with his recent statement that $100 a barrel is a “comfortable” price.
The price of oil topped 86 dollars a barrel on Thursday.
For the week ending October 30th, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims was 457,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 437,000.
The American Bankruptcy Institute says that there will be about 1.6 million consumer bankruptcies in 2010.
U.S. border police have discovered a sophisticated smuggler’s tunnel the length of six football fieldslinking Southern California with Mexico.
Most Italians thought Silvio Berlusconi could not drag their country's reputation any lower. But on Wednesday the sleaze allegations against the Italian prime minister plumbed new depths when a call girl claimed that his private jet was used to supply marijuana to sex parties at his villa in Sardinia.
In his new book, George W. Bush discloses that Dick Cheney offered to step down in 2003 so the president could pick someone else as his 2004 campaign running mate.
It is being reported that the U.S. government is going to spend 500 million dollars on an "embassy" in Afghanistan.
A new eruption at Indonesia's Mount Merapi Thursday night forced authorities to widen the "danger zone" from nine to 12 miles, and led to the evacuations of thousands more people around the volcano.
Volcanoes all over the globe are suddenly coming to life.
Researchers should determine whether United Nations peacekeepers were the source of a deadly outbreak of cholera in Haiti, two public health experts, including a U.N. official, said Wednesday.
As if a catastrophic earthquake and a cholera outbreak were not bad enough, Haiti’s 1.3 million homeless face a battering from Tropical Storm Tomas, which is gathering strength and heading their way.
A major UK newspaper has published an article which proclaims that the discovery of alien life"would force many of us to think the theologically unthinkable".
The military's new Cyber Command, responsible for shielding 15,000 military computer networks from intruders, has become fully operational, the Defense Department said on Wednesday.
IBM says that the world is ready for "The Internet Of Things". But is it really a good idea to incorporate everything we own into the Internet?
Holography has just gained a fourth dimension, bringing the prospect of Star Wars-style holographic telepresence into the real world.
One NASA worker has a very disturbing hobby: speaking to the dead.
Kokoro recently unveiled its Actroid F robot, a full-sized female humanoid with complex facial movements and an appearance that is so realistic that it is really creeping a lot of people out.
Authorities say that unexpected swarms of "super locusts" sweeping across Australia is nothing to be alarmed about.
Lastly, if you want to see something truly amazing, check out this astonishing image of the sun, showing the fiery jets of fast-moving superheated gas that constantly burst from the solar surface.
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