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Scott Brown, Republican, won a tremendous upset for the Massachusetts Senate election. Analysts are stating that this will throw a big wrench in Obama’s healthcare reform bill. The successful election of Senator Brown creates a one vote discrepancy on the necessary 60 for Harry Reid to overcome the filibuster on the healthcare bill. 

On December 30th , Al Qaeda double-Agent Hammam Khalil Abu Mallal Al-Balawi detonated a suicide bomb killing four CIA officers and three CIA contractors. Another six CIA employees were wounded as well. 
Al-Balawi was an elite writer and recruiter for al-Hisba, al Qaeda's very protected website. In May intelligence officials read that he sought to rally groups to fight against their “opressor” the U.S. He also studied medicine in Turkey before moving to Jordan. 

A draft released by the U.N. at the Copenhagen climate talks states that the Global greenhouse gas emissions should be cut by at least 50% 85% or 95% by 2050 compared with 1990.

Developed countries shall provide "adequate, predictable, and sustainable financial resources, technology and capacity-building" to support the developing world in its fight to climate change, it said.

*Stocks in Asia were generally weak. The Nikkei, Hang Seng and Shanghai all fell between 1.3% and 1.7%, and Australia was off by 0.7%. However European indexes are currently unchanged on the session and US stock futures are fractionally higher as I write.

49 year old, Chicago resident, David Headly is alleged to have videotaped and briefed attackers in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Analysts are saying that Mr. Headly has played the most significant role of any American in an overseas terror attack.

AIDS is a condition that progressively shuts down the human body’s immune system leaving an individual susceptible to infections and tumors that would normally be fought off by a healthy person. It can be spread by any sort of sex, blood transfusion or the sharing of contaminated hypodermic needles.

In Michael Crichton's book A State of Fear the theory of global warming is questioned. The thesis of the novel is that there is not enough measurable science to support climate change, that the elite in the field of science have built theories upon inconclusive and manipulated evidence and that these theories maintain social order giving support to lobbying groups such as environmentalists and firms attempting to sell “green” technology.