WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 19, 2012 - It’s moving fast: The promised benefits of nanotechnology in food applications are astounding, almost unbelievable. For example, applying certain nanomaterials (simply put: materials manipulated at an atomic level) to conveyer belts in food production plants could prevent pathogen growth by keeping the belts clean and lowering the chance of contamination. Nanotech applications like these are finding their way into our food system at breakneck speeds.

LUDOWICI, Georgia (PNN) - August 27, 2012 - Army soldiers are alleged to have formed a militia group in Georgia that plotted to overthrow the U.S. government - and they killed a fellow soldier and his girlfriend to keep the plot secret, prosecutors said on Monday.

TAMPA, Florida (PNN) - August 26, 2012 - A crowd of almost 10,000 Ron Paul supporters gathered Sunday afternoon at the University of South Florida Sun Dome in Tampa.

Despite Tropical Storm Isaac heading towards Florida, the USF stadium held over 7,000 fans of Ron Paul, many thanking him for his contribution to their lives.

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (PNN) - August 23, 2012 - An 82-year-old nun successfully breached a high-tech security complex’s protective fences using garden-variety, low-tech bolt cutters. Even more disturbing to the facility's security director, she remained undetected in a highly secure area on the nuclear complex’s grounds for more than two hours, according to a security report dated August 22, 2012.

This is the full text of the Facebook post that has resulted in the forcible imprisonment of Marine veteran Brandon Raub in a psych ward by the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

November 11, 2011 - America has lost itself. We have lost who we truly are. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave.

SEATTLE, Washington - August 17, 2012 - Tens of thousands of people descended on a waterfront park in Seattle Friday for the opening of what's billed as the nation's largest marijuana rally - an event that has a pressing political edge this year as Washington state's voters consider whether to legalize the fun use of pot for adults.

People have had enough of pig thug cop corruption.

LAPLACE, Louisiana (PNN) - August 16, 2012 - Two sheriff's deputies in Louisiana were shot to death and two others were injured in an early-morning shootout west of New Orleans.

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 16, 2012 - We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a(n illegitimate) president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to be granted asylum in Ecuador by President Rafael Correa.

Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on June 19 after losing his appeal against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted over fabricated allegations of sexual offenses.

After formally applying for political asylum, a decision was due this week. In the meantime, a warrant for his arrest for breaching his bail conditions means he is likely to be rearrested if he steps outside the embassy.

Outlaw regimes intrude on the privacy of innocent citizens.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a Closed Circuit Television surveillance system that recognizes people from their faces or walks and analyzes whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or criminal act. But Trapwire is real and, according to documents released online by WikiLeaks last week, is being used in a number of countries to try to monitor people and threats.