FLASHBACK - Israeli ambassador calls Asia "the yellow race""We don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774471.html The Israeli Ambassador in Australia asks for the media to stop filming after letting slip plans concerning Iranhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cznZs-swR9k Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streetshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/31/global-recession-europe-protests France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battle?eld. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment ?gure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New ?gures from the biggest bank in the Baltic show that the three post-Soviet states there face the biggest recessions in Europe\ 46 Of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy In 2009-2010http://freedomarizona.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/46-of-50-states-could-file-bankruptcy-in-2009-2010/ Ha'aretz has busted open a huge story today in their article "Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement."http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/01/what-weve-know-all-along-database-implicates-israeli-government-in-settlement-land-grab.html Israeli officials say State will protect them from Spanish lawsuit Threat of Violence Looms Again Over Fallujah Blackwater Mercs Likely to Stay in Iraq, Despite Govt Ban Israeli Envoy: Attack on Gaza a 'Preintroduction' to Attack on iran http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/30/israeli-envoy-attack-on-gaza-a-preintroduction-to-attack-on-iran/ Leak About Afghan Tactics Throws Spotlight on NATO DEA Leaves Bolivia on Morales' Order Saddam-Qaeda Conspiracy Theorist Now Writing Iraq Reports for the Pentagonhttp://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/saddam-qaeda_conspiracy_theorist_surfaces_writing.php Soldiers in the southern province of Kandahar on Thursday went to a compound to find a Taliban suspect "known" to have planted bombs against troops and police but militants barricaded themselves inside, said the military. "Coalition forces precisely engaged the barricaded militants after they refused to surrender, while safeguarding the women and children," said the US-led coalition in a statement. Eight men who surrendered were arrested, it added. But locals in Arghandab district gave a different account. "One father, two sons and a guest were killed in the foreign forces' raid," resident Abdul Nabi told AFP. Police stopped locals from taking the bodies to Kandahar city to protest against the killings, locals said. But an Afghan intelligence official, who did not want to be identified, rejected the claim\ http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090130/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest Diplomat: Mumbai Attack Not Planned in Pakistan