YouTube | The United Nations wants to make it illegal to criticize religion, an effort that would trump the First Amendment if adopted.

Associated Press | More than 2,000 soldiers and 425 federal police are already operating in Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located.

ABC News | The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said.

New York Times | WG Trading Company and Westridge Capital misappropriated funds from state and city pension funds, including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Wall Street Journal | The CIA’s new director outlined spy policies Wednesday, including an aggressive campaign in Pakistan, that underscored considerable continuity with the Bush administration.

Bloomberg | Obama will seek $75.5 billion more for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of this fiscal year, according to three people familiar with the request.

CNSNews | A cap-and-trade program essentially creates a tax where none exists.

Reuters | San Francisco may lose its main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, as owner Hearst Corp cuts a “significant” number of jobs and decides whether to shut or sell the money-losing daily.

Telegraph | Private investors who have bought exchange traded funds that track the performance of gold miners have more than doubled their money since October last year.

New World Liberty | With the economy collapsing, it is a very real and immediate danger that the federal government can turn into a completely criminal and fascist government.

AAP | An Opposition MP says humans are not causing climate change, and pointed to Adolf Hitler as an example of how scientists can be wrong.

Mail Online | Mohammed Gul, 20, is accused of two counts of transmitting a terrorist publication in January this year.

Paul Joseph Watson | Congressman: Only way to solve financial crisis is to work, produce and save – not to create credit out of thin air.

Steve Watson | Comprehensive national service plan detailed; Corporation for National Service would be granted Cabinet-level status.

CNN | A bank that received $1.6 billion dollars of the government’s bailout money sponsored what reports are calling a lavish series of events in Los Angeles, California.

Wall Street Journal | The U.S. government’s rescue of the financial system is vulnerable to fraud that could potentially cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, government watchdogs warned lawmakers Tuesday.

Associated Press | Obama’s assurance Tuesday night that only the deserving will get help rang hollow.

YouTube | Intoxicated off-duty Chicago cop beats 5 foot 1 female bartender for refusing to serve him.

YouTube | Ellsberg made the comment during a public forum on new nuclear dangers and U.S. nuclear policy sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Kurt Nimmo | Don’t expect Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Geithner, Evan Bayh, and other minions of the elite to pay their “fair share.” After all, taxes are for the little people.

Tenth Amendment Center | Legislators in Tennessee have submitted House Joint Resolution 108. While it’s non-binding, some of the language is quite well put.

Toronto Star | Ontario residents won’t be able to sell their houses or condos without first getting a home energy audit – which now costs about $300 – under the proposed new Green Energy Act.

Associated Press | The Earth won’t have to warm up as much as had been thought to cause serious consequences of global warming.

Scotsman | The militants behind the Mumbai attacks used mobile phones that were activated in the United States and paid for with funds sent from Italy.

Reuters | Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in” before the camp is closed.

| Personal data of innocent citizens must be made available to the Government to combat terrorism, according to an influential former security chief.

Steve Watson | Stokes fears that troops will be used to quell civil insurrection in wake of economic crisis.

WeAreChange | We Are Change RI and Boston team up again to confront another NWO scumbag.

YouTube | Filmed at the “Lawful Rebellion” Conference, The British Constiution Group, Stoke-on-Trent, 24th January 2009 by BBC5.tv.

Associated Press | Bernanke told Congress Monday that the recession might end this year, and that regulators aren’t planning to nationalize banks.

Karen McMahan | The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unlimited federal power and set up a system of checks and balances to prevent it.

Kevin Barrett | National leaders who are dark-skinned, bright, well-educated, and eloquent are a dime a dozen. The Third World is full of them. They’re called dictators.

Steve Quayle | Is this just training or is it getting the people used to seeing troops patroling the streets?

Orange County Register | The Orange County grand jury has a message for county supervisors, gun rights advocates and everyone else who disagrees with a plan to reduce concealed weapons permits: “Let the sheriff do her job.”

J. D. Longstreet | The Tenth Amendment, a part of the “Bill of Rights”, says flatly: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.“

Donald Pennington | Alex Jones, evangelist of Freedom, is one of the most important public figures in America today.

Michael Hudson | The alternative to true nationalization and socialization of finance is debt peonage, oligarchy and neo-feudalism.

Kurt Nimmo | According to the corporate media, the government plans to grab 40 percent ownership in Citigroup, a move that is widely explained as “nationalization” of the banks.

Wayne Madsen | “Sir” Allen Stanford appears to be yet another multi-billion dollar cog in a network of off-shore banks, corporate contrivances, and folding tent operations.

A.W.R. Hawkins | When the Constitution was being ratified during the 1780s, the 10th Amendment was understood to be the linchpin that held the entire Bill of Rights together.

Yahoo News | More than a third of voters believe the Army will have to be brought in to deal with a “summer of rage” on British streets as the recession bites, a poll showed.

AFP | Iraqi policemen shot dead four U.S. soldiers and their local interpreter in the main northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, an interior ministry official said.

Bloomberg | Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged to a record low in February, signaling spending will slump further as unemployment soars.

Bloomberg | A satellite launched from California failed to reach orbit today, crashing into the sea near Antarctica and dooming a $273 million mission to study global-warming gases.

Telegraph | Police could soon use unmanned spyplanes like those used to track enemy troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for surveillance operations on British homes.

Paul Joseph Watson | New Hampshire state representative Dan Itse leading charge for states’ rights.

Harold Gray | A new amendment has been introduced that would coerce states to transform their drivers licenses into national ID cards or loose highway funding from the government.

American-Statesman | For almost seven years, the state has been indefinitely storing blood from nearly all newborns in Texas without their parents’ consent for possible use in medical research.

Steve Lendman | Enough is enough. Bury the monster, its crimes, its inhumanity.

CP24 | By the time the systems are installed in all slot locations, the program will have cost about $4 million.