(Philly) – DID YOU KNOW that Philadelphia prison inmates collected unemployment benefits while sitting in their cells? They did: 1,162 of them got an average of $344 a week for, on average, 18 weeks. That’s more than $7 million. And many of the 25,500 inmates in other county jails in Pennsylvania did the same. We’re [...]

(Info Wars) – The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its plan to use surveillance drones for “public safety” applications, announcing last week that it had received a deluge of “excellent” responses from potential vendors and was set to carry out more tests of the technology. As we first reported in July last year, DHS [...]

(Los Angeles Times) – While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration’s lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law enforcement and other uses in U.S. airspace, spurring growing concern about violations of privacy. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it had issued 1,428 permits [...]

‘Not the number of bullets we need to worry about, but number of feds with guns’ (Investors) – In a puzzling, unexplained development, the Obama administration has been buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months, with the Department of Homeland Security just placing another order for an additional 21.6 million rounds. Several [...]

(Info Wars) – Every indication clearly suggests that authorities in the United States are preparing for widespread civil unrest. This trend has not emerged by accident – it is part of a tried and tested method used by the banking elite to seize control of nations, strip them of their assets, and absorb them into [...]

(Prison Planet) – No crisis is left unexploited. For the first time in U.S. history the U.S. government is considering the use of an unmanned killer drone to hunt down and kill a U.S. citizen in America. It has been reported killer drones have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan not only killing their targets [...]

(RT) – Worst than gun grab! No suspicion necessary: DHS can still seize belongings without reason. The Fourth Amendment no longer means what you once thought it did: A new report reveals that the government has shrugged off concerns over the alleged constitutional infringements of its own citizens near international crossings. An internal review of the [...]

(Daily Mail) – GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses. The files will be stored in a giant information bank that privacy campaigners say represents the  ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’. They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand [...]

(Breitbart) – According to a new Pew Research poll, Americans are increasingly worried about the federal government violating their rights. The survey, conducted January 9-13, showed that 53 percent of Americans believe that the federal government “threatens their own personal rights and freedoms,” with 43 percent disagreeing. That is a significant uptick from March 2010, [...]

(Charlie Daniels.com) – If you read this column very often you know the frustration and disgust I feel for our government, their profligate spending, their all consuming passion for self-preservation, and the inevitable fall at the end of the ruinous path they seem so determined to force this nation down. You know I’m deeply concerned [...]