Last September, the city revealed it had started giving out Plan B and other birth control in the nurses’ offices of 13 high schools. At the time, officials said 567 girls had gotten Plan B. About 22,400 students sought reproductive care from January 2009 through last school year, records show. Under state law, minors don’t need parental OKs to get contraceptives.

Besides “emergency contraception,” about 40 school-based clinics have dispensed prescriptions for birth-control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), hormone-delivering injections and Patch and NuvaRing — covering a total 93,569 monthly cycles through June 2012, the report says.

Handouts of birth-control packets rose from 6,027 in 2009-10 to 10,462 last year. Depo-Provera injections rose from 1,213 to 2,117. Staffers also insert plastic IUDs in the uterus, where they can remain for years. The city says about 6,300 NYC girls under age 17 had unplanned pregnancies last year, and more than half had abortions. Of those who give birth, the city says, about 70 percent drop out of school, making their futures bleak.

Many of you will remember a story I broke a long time ago – about presidential candidate Barack Obama’s little-noticed announcement that, if elected in 2008, he wanted to create a “civilian national security force” as big, as strong and as well-funded as the Defense Department.

Here’s what he actually said at a campaign stop in Colorado July 2, 2008: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Could what we see happening now in the Department of Homeland Security be the beginning of Obama’s dream and our constitutional nightmare?

Think about it. Why does the civilian Department of Homeland Security need billions of rounds of ammunition? This is the agency that is responsible for policing the border. But it doesn’t. This is the agency that is responsible for catching terrorists. But it doesn’t. So why does Homeland Security need so many weapons and enough hollow-point rounds to plug every American six times?

Maybe this is the “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the Defense Department. Obama has never explained what he meant. He’s never been called to account for that remark. Doesn’t this sound like police-state talk to you? Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that? Is this part of his second-term agenda? He has also set up, as I have reported, a new homeland security bureaucracy to operate under his own direction.

If any Republican, conservative, independent journalist, pro-life activist, returning veteran, gun-rights activist, constitutionalist, Bible believer or critic of Obama thinks they will be safe in a second term under this would-be despot, they had better think again – real fast. The “civilian national security force” is not here to protect any of them. It’s here to destroy the opposition. It’s here to destroy liberty. It’s here to destroy the Constitution.

It has become crystal clear that the political and financial oligarchs are quite intentionally attempting to disarm the populace while arming themselves to the teeth in anticipation of some horrible economic event they know is inevitable.

From the Blaze: “The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.”

See the meme being pushed here? These guys want the entire population completely domesticated. They want us to depend on the government for food. For healthcare. For self-defense. Two sets of laws. One for the “rulers” and one for the “ruled.” This is the opposite of how things function in a free society.

I am sorry, but unless you think the DHS is preparing for an invasion by Al Qaeda, it is quite clear these weapons are being bought for future use against the citizenry of the United States. The writing on the wall couldn’t be clearer.

The remote-controlled PD-100 PRS aircraft, dubbed the Black Hornet, is produced by Norwegian designer Prox Dynamics. The drone is a traditional single-rotor helicopter, scaled down to the size of a toy. British troops use the drones for reconnaissance missions, sending them ahead to inspect enemy positions.

Each drone is equipped with a tiny tillable camera, a GPS coordinate receiver and an onboard autopilot system complete with gyros, accelerometers and pressure sensors, which keeps it stable in flight against winds as strong as 10 knots, according to reviews. The tiny aircraft is agile enough to fly inside compounds, and is quiet enough not to attract unwanted attention. If detected, the drones are cheap enough to be considered expendable.

The auto-pilot either follows a preprogrammed flight plan or receives commands from a manual control station, which is about the size of a large smartphone. The drone's camera can feed compressed video or still images to an operator up to a kilometer away, and its rechargeable battery provides power for about 30 minutes of flight.

“Markets have been extraordinarily complacent,” said sovereign debt strategist Nicholas Spiro. “The prospects of a stable and reform-minded government in Italy are very slim. We think a nasty surprise is coming.”

In Italy, ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi has upset the political landscape just three weeks before elections, surging back into contention with vows to rip up “German-imposed” austerity policies and cancel a hated property tax. His Right-wing alliance has risen to 28 per cent in the polls, relishing a widening scandal at Banca Monte dei Paschi that has embroiled the Italian left.

“Austerity in countries already in crisis pushes them into a very dangerous recessionary spiral. These policies have left 50 million Europeans unemployed or short of work. We need to get rough with Germany, otherwise reality will force a number of countries to leave the euro,” he said.

A parallel crisis is under way in Spain where the slush fund scandal of Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular has inflicted serious damage on the government’s moral credibility. Mr Rajoy has denied allegations of kick-backs from construction firms, but has yet to clarify leaked documents from a former party treasurer that appear incriminating. “I have never received or shared out illegal payments. These allegations are coming from people who have something to gain,” he said. Polls show that 60 per cent of his own supporters do not believe the official explanation.

The minister said that this was one of the most important issues that the G20 had been dealing with since its first summit. "Decisions have been adopted but only partially fulfilled. Therefore, Russia and its BRICS partners and the G20 co-members, along with other like-minded parties, will seek to implement the decisions on reforming the international monetary and financial system," Lavrov stressed.

He also noted that "the Russian Presidency will pay due attention to the issues of enhancing and broadening investment conditions, introducing measures aimed at new jobs creation and managing sovereign debt without provoking global economic shocks."

Although conflicting voices will attempt to influence the strategy he follows in his first months as Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King’s successor could do worse than listen to the man who infamously almost “broke” the Bank two decades ago.

George Soros – who made £1 billion from betting against sterling in the spring of 1992, pushing the UK out of the European exchange rate mechanism – cautioned that the markets are betting against the pound. Asked at a dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos whether he would once again bet against the pound, he replied: “The markets are.” Mr Soros said the UK was in the perfect position at present as a member of the European Union, but not a member of the eurozone.

He added austerity was the “wrong policy at this time”, but quantitative easing (QE) was the right policy: “You can only grow your way out of excessive debt. You can’t shrink your way out of it.”