Here are just a few major areas where privacy is losing badly to surveillance technology in 2014 and giving law enforcement and government agencies more power than ever.

Violence against police officers continues to escalate…

Thanks in part to the growing trend of private collection agencies, the inability or failure to pay debts is resulting in arrest warrants, mounting costs and, yes, jail time.

How can you defeat such a simple method for stealing your identity?

This will lead to disastrous consequences…

“Do not become another victim of MH370,” warned the individual in a December 15 post, adding that AirAsia was about to be targeted by “powerful” forces which he referred to as the “black hand”.

An entire generation of youth have become inept, largely helpless and dependent upon gadgets and devices that ‘just work’ with no knowledge of how they work. And most have no clue whatsoever about what to do if these high tech things break.

Those who lack practical skills for today’s economy once they get out of school will be left indebted, impoverished and living in mom’s basement for the majority of their working lives.

Our society teaches us to be victims. But as you’ll see in the following story, you don’t have to be one of them.

The annual trend of spoiled ungrateful brats taking to social media to complain about the Christmas gifts they did or didn’t receive from their parents has reared its ugly head once again, reminding us that vacuous materialism has replaced the true meaning of Christmas for many people in the west.

May your Christmas be merry, memorable and full of warmth.

If we’re facing a truly devastating event, something that may kill millions and take decades recover from like a nuclear war or an EMP strike, then things like gold may go on the back burner for a while.

They can’t necessarily put their finger on it. But there’s something about the uncertainty of our times. They know something isn’t quite right.

Make no mistake – there is now a state of open warfare on the streets of America.

Show and tell on your parents.

A lot of the media coverage has gone from overtime to almost nothing since they appointed the Ebola Czar, and I don’t think that’s any accident – I think it’s a strategy.

The main advantage is that you can literally have a large 1500 + square feet home set-up and ready to move into in under two days.

We are sure it’s nothing – since stock markets in China and The US are soaring – but deep, deep down in the heart of the real economies, there is a problem.

In the spirit of Kim Jong Il, Un and the rest of the world’s dictators, the hackers now want all traces of the movie’s existence removed from the annals of history… or else.

Here are some things that just might blow them away this year.

With the ruble free falling value, Putin boldly proclaimed Russia would recover within a few short years, hanging blame on “external factors” (aka the U.S.)

A federal judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania used a deportation case to probe the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive order on amnesty.

You need to answer the question: What is money when the system collapses?

In the wake of the chaos of riots and mass protests, a clearer picture is beginning to emerge: the justified anger over police abuse isn’t brewing more justice, but more power for the feds.

The same NASA experts who sounded the alarm over the drought’s threat to the food supply are now warning that California needs some 11 trillion gallons of water to replenish to normal levels.

War is coming to the world. Russia will not stand idly by as their entire way of life is destroyed through economic means. But they are not ready for a widespread conflagration right now.

You are cold, hungry, in pain or fear… your kid is home sick without medication… heavy weight is pressing down on you from all the pressure… this sort of challenge is what makes survival hard and lets strong people survive.

The nightmarish collapse of the price of oil is creating panic in financial markets all over the planet.

The debate over the use of torture by the CIA against terrorists is important, but sidesteps the real reason the 2009 Armed Services Report admitted it is used.

Experts warn that solar storm or EMP attack “could have catastrophic consequences for civilization.”

Many Wall Street bankers would do anything – literally anything – to make money.

One San Francisco resident in particular highlights just how susceptible America is to disasters and what to expect in the event of a widespread emergency.

There have been Senate hearings, exploratory committees and rumors over the years, but nothing had ever really been legislated so most Americans simply ignored it as another one of those “conspiracy theories.” Unit now.

Our way of life is far more vulnerable than most people would ever dare to imagine. A single major catastrophe could fundamentally alter all of our lives at any moment.

Does the Treasury Department know something we don’t? And why bank examiners? Is it possible someone, somewhere knows something significant is about to go down?

A controversial voluntary program in Wisconsin would have police searching for guns that residents themselves don’t even know about.

Before the microchip becomes mandatory, it will be indispensable to digital consumer life, so that “none shall buy or sell” without its invasive convenience.

Nothing like a little blunt truth on the day the Chinese stock market hits a four year high. Nothing but smoggy skies ahead.

A paradigm shift is coming. Judgment Day… is inevitable.

The U.S. government wanted his source code so badly that they, under the direction of executives at some of the country’s largest financial institutions, left him to rot in a cell until he gave it up. He never did.

Private gains, public losses. This is the ultimate in letting taxpayers hold the bag, while banks speed off in the proverbial get away car, with the Federal Reserve in the driver’s seat!

Amid anti-police sentiments, the NYPD has claimed that members of the “Black Guerilla Family” are threatening to shoot on-duty police officers in New York.

In this case the price is that you get to live under a freeway overpass…

It doesn’t mean we’re going to go in and take them to jail…

So much for “shall not be infringed.” Bloomberg, current mayor of Everytown, is aiming for gun control in some 12 U.S. states, with more in his sights.

Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? Wall Street models did not anticipate a decline in the price of oil by more than 40 dollars in less than six months this time either.

Post-grand jury Ferguson is now amplified by post-grand jury New York, with a larger narrative scripted mostly in Washington still playing out. Consider the pot stirred.

You are about to watch a milestone event in the history of our world…

You don’t have to be a Christian to understand what’s been happening recently.

This isn’t about any single person or President. The problem is with the system itself. History shows that every leading superpower from the past almost invariably fell to the same fate.

Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?

The Cold War 2.0 is going hot, and while it may someday be fought with planes, tanks, guns and bombs, the first front is being fought with oil and shale gas.

It is going to wipe out a large portion of the human race when the debt bubble bursts…