Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets:
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
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/31/global-recession-europe-protests ===
Lenders abruptly cut lines of credit:
As much as $2 trillion in consumer credit - nearly half of what is available - could be rescinded, according to an estimate by a prominent banking analyst.
tinyurl.com/bvmupd ===
Homelessness surges as funding falters:
Providers to the poor try to stretch meager resources to meet growing need
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28916152/ ===
The US Unemployment Rate:
Jobless rate is a full l0 percent higher than the government is reporting.
www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-14748 ===
California is told to furlough employees:
A judge orders officials to implement Schwarzenegger's plan to force 238,000 employees to take two days off without pay each month. The state is expected to shut down some services on those days.
tinyurl.com/awcy2b ===
46 Of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy In 2009-2010:
There is a high chance a majority of the States within the United States of America could file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. There are currently 46 states with high budget deficits, Arizona being one of them.
tinyurl.com/d4vj3u ===
Three More Banks Failed On Friday:
The FDIC is often appointed as receiver for failed banks. This page contains useful information for the customers and vendors of these banks.
www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html ===
Saudi Patience Is Running Out
By Turki al-Faisal
Not only have the Israeli Defence Forces murdered more than 1,000 Palestinians, but they have come close to killing the prospect of peace itself. Unless the new US administration takes forceful steps to prevent any further suffering and slaughter of Palestinians, the peace process, the US-Saudi relationship and the stability of the region are at risk.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21871.htm ===
Gaza Invasion: Powered By The U.S.
By Robert Bryce
It's well known that the U.S. supplies the Israelis with much of their military hardware. Over the past few decades, the U.S. has provided about $53 billion in military aid to Israel. What's not well known is that since 2004, U.S. taxpayers have paid to supply over 500 million gallons of refined oil products -- worth about $1.1 billion -- to the Israeli military.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21868.htm ===
Turkey's Erdogan Walks Out Of Davos Over Israel's Attacks On Gaza
1 Minute Video
Arriving back in Istanbul, he received a hero's welcome from a huge crowd at the airport.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21876.htm ===
The Final Solution is a No-State Solution
By William Bowles
It was either in 1941 or maybe 1942 that the Nazis implemented the 'Final Solution', the extermination of all 'non-Aryan' peoples that included not only the Jews but also the Roma and the Serbs. So the term Holocaust is not copyright © the Jewish 'race' in spite of their appropriation of the Upper case.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21869.htm ===
From Gaza to Tehran
Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy
By James Petras
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel's drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21878.htm ===
Israeli Ambassador Warns of Attack on Iran
1 Minute Video
The Israeli Ambassador in Australia asks for the media to stop filming after letting slip plans concerning Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21874.htm ===
Dirty Business, Dirty Wars
U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 21st Century
By Cyril Mychalejko
Washington has been quietly using the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, and a neo-cold war ideology to institutionalize a militarism in the region that risks returning us to the not so far off days of "dirty wars."
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21870.htm ===
George Bush's Gift To The World
The End of American Imperialism
By David Michael Green
George Bush left us many gifts, but perhaps the greatest of them is that he has ruined the sport of imperialism in America, maybe forever.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21872.htm ===
Bush Officials Authorized Torture of US Citizen, Lawyers Say
By John Byrne
Attorneys for US citizen Jose Padilla -- who was convicted of material support for terrorist activities in 2007 -- say that high-level Bush Administration officials knew their client was being tortured during the time he was held an enemy combatant in a South Carolina brig.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21873.htm ===
From Prison to Award for Iraq War Whistleblower
By Ray McGovern
On Jan. 26 in Copenhagen, I had the privilege to present to former Danish intelligence officer, Frank Grevil, the annual Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21879.htm ===
California Pension Funds Close To Bankruptcy
By Kevin Martinez
The two largest pension funds in California, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), have lost billions of dollars in value. Hundreds of thousands of retiring state employees and teachers now face the stark choice of accepting much reduced pension checks or working past their retirement age.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21875.htm ===
Obama and the Drug of Hope
By Bryann Alexandros
"This resort to violence from the skies even before Obama had initiated discussions with Islamabad is a bad sign. It is not clear if Obama really believes that the fractious tribes of the Pakistani northwest can be subdued with some airstrikes and if he really believes that U.S. security depends on what happens in Waziristan."
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21880.htm ===
Israel may take Gaza war to Iran:
Israel's ambassador to Australia has suggested that the military campaign in the Gaza Strip was a "pre-introduction" to attacking Iran.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84261§ionid=351020104 ===
Mullen: Using force against Iran still an option:
American military force against Iran remains an option, though it would be a "last resort," US Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in response to a question from The Jerusalem Post Tuesday.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233050189990&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer ====
Change? What change?
US pours cold water over hopes of Iran deal: Officials moved to cool fevered expectations - and assuage lingering European concerns - about plans to thaw a 30 year freeze in US relations.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5614805.ece ===
Netanyahu says Iran will not get nukes:
Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu said if elected prime minister his first mission will be to block the Iranian nuclear threat.
tinyurl.com/am7t2u ===
Ahmadinejad: Erdogan humiliated Israel:
He hailed the Turkish premier and said that Erdogan's act reflected the will of the Turkish nation and that of all nations in the region and he has the support of the public.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=84251§ionid=351020101 ===
'Hamas would recognise Israel within 1967 borders':
Hamas would recognise Israel if it withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a French Jewish writer said this week after meeting the exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Khaled Meshaal.
www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=159644 ===
Hamas Official Blames Rockets On Collaborators:
The rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel is the work of Israeli collaborators, says Ahmed Yusuf, political adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. He says Hamas was willing to agree to a new cease-fire with Israel, but Israel hadn't lived up to its end of the bargain.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98794206&sc=emaf ===
Gaza: Dozens believed killed in reprisal attacks:
Suspected collaborators shot during and after war. Escaped criminals killed by relatives of their victims
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/hamas-reprisal-attacks ===
Spain's probe of Israelis presents legal quandary:
Spanish war crimes case against Israeli officials renews debate on reach of law
tinyurl.com/de8dh3 ===
Israel says Spain says it will amend war crimes law:
Israel said on Friday the Spanish government had said it would work to amend a law under which a Madrid court is to consider trying seven Israelis over the killing of Palestinians.
uk.reuters.com/article/email/idUKLU674010 ===
The Torah Position on the Current Conflict in Gaza:
The Zionist ideology is antithetical to the Torah. Zionism was deviously designed to replace the Torah and its holy, God-given commandments with nationalistic, power-driven ideals that are devoid of holiness, godliness, or spirituality.
www.jewsagainstzionism.com/news/currentarticle.cfm?id=156 
