Dallas Morning News | The city of Dallas’ gun buyback program yielded 147 guns in exchange for $50 grocery store gift cards Saturday, the city announced.

David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Paul concluded by criticizing President Obama for proposing to send another 17,000 troops to Afghanistan.

YouTube | Dr. Paul’s speech delivered at CPAC on February 27, 2009.

YouTube | Alex runs a Kid Rock propaganda video, inserts political commentary and satire.

BBC | The sharp downward spiral of oil prices has prompted economists to predict that Tehran is facing severe financial hardship within the space of a few months.

YouTube | It is a rare event indeed when the corporate media covers 9/11 activism.

Telegraph | The “mobile urban jails” will be used in targeted areas such as those rife with knife crime and anti-social behaviour or where there is no police station nearby.

Michael Lindenberger | The question of what makes a journalist is due for yet another round of debate, now that Congress is weighing two competing versions of a federal shield law for reporters.

Kurt Nimmo | Adding GPS tracking to the emerging surveillance network will be a control freak’s wish come true.

KATU | Owning a pit bull would be illegal in Oregon and the state would punish those who own one by euthanizing the dog, slapping the owner with thousands of dollars in fines and perhaps even throwing them in jail.

YouTube | Surveillance video released in an assault case against a sheriff’s deputy shows him kicking a young girl, slamming her to the jail cell floor and striking her repeatedly.

John Kinsman | As our government enacts a stimulus package and President Obama announces bold initiatives to stem home mortgage foreclosures, disaster threatens family farmers and their communities.

Patrick J. Buchanan | Neither the United States nor the IAEA has conclusive evidence that Iran either has the fissile material for a bomb or an active program to build a bomb.

Steve Watson | Western media completely ignores major report from Japan’s Energy Commission.

USA Today | “I believe it will lead to more weapons and more violence on the streets of the nation’s capital,” said Nancy Pelosi.

AFP | Obama heeded the US military’s advice in deciding to postpone by three months the pullout of most US troops from Iraq beyond a promised 16-month deadline, his defense secretary said Friday.

Washington Post | CIA Director Panetta said that U.S. aerial attacks against al-Qaeda and other extremist strongholds inside Pakistan would continue, despite concerns about a popular Pakistani backlash.

Fox News | NASA’s chief climate scientist calls on citizens to engage in civil disobedience at what is being billed as the largest public protest of global warming ever in the United States.

Raw Story | White House officials did not elaborate on the call, which Obama placed from a holding room at Camp Lejeune just moments before he gave his long-awaited speech.

Associated Press | With the U.S. dealing with an economic slide that has cost millions of jobs, the number of vehicle repossessions is expected to rise 5 percent this year.

Times Online | Laws that allow officials to monitor the behavior of millions of Britons risk “hardwiring surveillance” into the British way of life, the country’s privacy watchdog has warned.

YouTube | Satirical music video tells the truth about global warming.

| The ranking Republicans on the House and Senate budget committees see President Obama’s proposed fiscal 2010 budget as a first step toward health-care rationing in the United States.

BBC | The US economy shrank by 6.2% in the last three months of 2008, official figures have shown, a far sharper fall than had previously been reported.

Mother Jones | Neocon Bolton suggested, as something of a joke, that Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

Bloomberg | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will charge U.S. banks a one-time assessment and increase other fees to replenish its insurance fund, adding $27 billion in costs to an industry already hobbled by the financial crisis.

| The Treasury, which has provided a total of $45 billion to Citigroup, left the door open for the bank to seek additional government funding.

Spiegel Online | Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls.

Russia Today | An academic in France has been sacked by the Ministry of Defense after questioning the official version of events surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

Bloomberg | A group calling itself BMW — the initials stand for Movement for Militant Resistance in German — has claimed responsibility for several attacks.

Rocky Mountain News | Rocky is the victim of a terrible economy and an upheaval in the newspaper industry.

Kurt Nimmo | Obama and his supporters are militantly opposed to gun ownership and the Second Amendment.

Paul Joseph Watson | Globalists exploit financial crisis to pose as saviors and achieve new world economic order.

Bob Chapman | Business will go on as usual in Washington and on Wall Street — as corrupt as ever.

F. William Engdahl | Taking advantage of the cool relations between Washington and longtime NATO ally, Turkey, Moscow has now invited Turkish President Abdullah Gul to a four day state visit to discuss a wide array of economic and political cooperation issues.

Associated Press | For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Army is updating its manual for the electronic battlefield.

BBC | The US defense department has lifted a ban on news organisations showing pictures of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Steve Watson | CNBC anchors were left dumbfounded yesterday after Congressman Ron Paul’s opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee was broadcast live to an audience of millions.

ABC News | Obama’s budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals.

Telegraph | The forint currency has plummeted and unemployment has ballooned, creating a voracious debt trap that is sucking down banks backed by Western taxpayers, particularly those of Switzerland and Austria.

Telegraph | Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, has said it is “impossible to say” how much capital will be required to shore up the British banking system.

Sify News | Extremists “with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons” to sow terror, raising the spectre that the Mumbai attacks could embolden terrorists seeking to attack US cities.

Washington Times | The attempted assassination of a South Carolina deputy sheriff was a gang initiation carried out by three illegal immigrants.

Los Angeles Times | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he “absolutely” loves the idea of holding a constitutional convention to overhaul state government.

Newsday | Some of the U.S. forces likely to remain in Iraq after President Barack Obama fulfills his pledge to withdraw combat troops would still have a combat role.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle | Two resolutions to affirm the U.S. Constitution failed to get traction in the House this week, but they sure kicked up a lot of mud.

AFP | Senior Pentagon officials have had to promise they will keep the details of the US military budget secret as the Defense Department prepares to make tough cuts on weapons programs.

Bloomberg | Benjamin Netanyahu plans to apply the same small-government policies when he becomes Israel’s prime minister as he did six years ago as finance minister.

Paul Joseph Watson | After Iraq “withdrawal,” tens of thousands of U.S. troops will remain.

Kurt Nimmo | It is a scam designed to turn you into a share cropper, a peasant, a modern day version of a serf indebted to international bankers.