BEIJING, China (PNN) - September 19, 2019 - China has developed the world’s first portable sonic gun for riot control, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said.

The rifle-shaped instrument, which was jointly developed with military and law enforcement, is designed to disperse crowds using focused waves of low frequency sound, the academy's Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry website said on Wednesday.

BERN, Switzerland (PNN) - September 18, 2019 - Switzerland was among the first countries to begin deploying 5G, but health fears over radiation from the antennas that carry the next-generation mobile technology have sparked a nationwide revolt.

Demonstrators against the technology are due to fill the streets of Bern later this month, but already a number of cantons have been pressured to put planned constructions of 5G-compatible antennae on ice.

By Gary D. Barnett

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.” ~ Adolf Hitler

September 16, 2019 - In order for the powerful to control the masses, a compliant populace is required. Those who hold the real power over the political class and media have been successful in their efforts to gain this control. This has always been, and given the human condition, will most likely always be. If only it were not so easy to fool the crowd, all could be different. But then, any crowd is easy to please and easy to fool; that is the nature of the beast that is the mob.

LONDON, England (PNN) - September 14, 2019 - For over 150 days, Julian Assange’s residence has been a single occupancy cell, furnished sparsely with a plastic chair, metal bed, and steel toilet. Furthermore, a judge just ruled that he is to remain there even after his jail sentence is over.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 19, 2019 – Someone asked me why he can’t have a Mahindra Roxor, which is basically a Jeep CJ/Wrangler 4×4 that costs half as much as a new Wrangler. One is legal to drive on public roads, the other is not.

I said you can have it... you just can’t drive it. Not on public roads.

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (PNN) - September 18, 2019 - It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 18, 2019 - Tired of leaking data across the Web? The Firefox browser and its privacy tools can help protect you and your data as you visit websites. Among the threats Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser for Windows and MacOS can protect you from are trackers that gather your browsing history, cryptominers that secretly use your device's resources to mine cryptocurrency, and fingerprinters that uniquely identify you based on your device, settings and apps.

BEIJING, China (PNN) - September 17, 2019 - Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed a new kind of organic solar cell that has been optimized to convert ambient indoor light into electricity.

The power they produce is low, but is probably enough to feed the millions of products that the Internet of things will bring online.

As the Internet of things expands, it is expected that we will need to have millions of products online, both in public spaces and in homes. Many of these will be the multitude of sensors to detect and measure moisture, particle concentrations, temperature and other parameters. For this reason, the demand for small and cheap sources of renewable energy is increasing rapidly, in order to reduce the need for frequent and expensive battery replacements.

Promises no prison time.

MANILA, Philippines (PNN) - September 14, 2019 - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has invited citizens to shoot, but not kill, any public officials they witness taking bribes, promising immunity from prosecution provided the corrupt bureaucrat survives.

By Patriot Andrew P. Napolitano

September 12, 2019 - In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution - which would become known as Bill of Rights - he insisted that the most prominent Amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of speech. After various versions of the First Amendment had been drafted and debated, the committee that he chaired settled on the iconic language: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.”