By Kerry McDonald

September 30, 2018 - A worrying trend is emerging in (public) schools across the country. With increasing regularity, school districts are tracking students’ mental health and raising flags if a screening shows something amiss.

Student mental health tracking is often framed in terms of safety or prevention - that all children should be screened to identify the few who could potentially serve as a danger to themselves or others. Last week in Florida, all students who registered for public school this fall were required to disclose their mental health history. Has the child ever seen a therapist? That information must be revealed as a condition of school registration.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (PNN) - September 29, 2018 - Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the Web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads us into a sparse conference room. At one end of a long table is a battered laptop covered with stickers. Here, on this computer, he is working on a plan to radically alter how all of us live and work on the Web.

NEW DELHI, India (PNN) - September 27, 2018 - As the march toward a cashless (and privacy-less) society accelerates forward, a new high watermark has been reached.

India first introduced its concept for a nationwide biometric ID database more than 7 years ago, which it touted as a necessary “social welfare” program to assist the millions of India’s unbanked, streamline welfare distribution, and reduce corruption.

Yet, although the justification for the billion person database is the increased ability to accurately disperse social welfare benefits, it will not be just the Indian government’s social welfare programs that have access to and utilize the UIDAI. Indeed, even before the program has been completed, major banks, state/local governments, and other institutions are planning to use the UIDAI for identification verification purposes and, of course, payment and accessibility.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 3, 2018 - Many people in the independent media have reported that an estimated 28,000-100.000 pastors were recruited by FEMA/DHS, as part of the Clergy Response Team, and that their initial and primary training was to tell their flock to obey the DHS version of Romans 13. Romans 13, in the King James version of the Bible, begins, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Romans 13:1 What is not being widely reported is that the training is still going on. The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia is calling for the use of FEMA camps to house Muslim immigrants. How long will they be held? When will the Muslims be released? Who will take their place? Some pastors are speaking out; here’s what they are saying.

LONDON, England (PNN) - October 1, 2018 - Martin Rees, a well-respected British cosmologist, has a warning about particle accelerators. There is a small but very real possibility of disaster. Rees claims Earth could be crushed to the size of a soccer field by particle accelerators.

BARCELONA, Catalan (PNN) - September 29, 2018 - Clashes between Catalan separatists and terrorist pig thug cops in Barcelona left 14 people injured and led to six arrests Saturday as tensions boiled over days before the anniversary of the Spanish region's referendum on secession, which ended in violent raids by security forces.

ACAPULCO, Mexico (PNN) - September 27, 2018 - The Mexican city of Acapulco made headlines after federal and state government forces disarmed the entire local terrorist pig thug cop force and claimed the terrorist pig thug cops were working with drug cartels - a situation that some residents claim is one of the many results of a failed “War on Drugs” in the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

GOLDSBORO, North Carolina (PNN) - September 24, 2018 - Tammie Hedges, an animal rights activist, attempted to be proactive and protect animals as Hurricane Florence enveloped the North Carolina coast and her home town. She and her group of friends began rescuing animals they found in danger of dying by the rising flood waters. Each animal’s exact location was documented so the owners could be informed following the floods caused by Florence.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 24, 2018 - Google users are concerned about their browsing privacy after a recent update at Google secretly logs Chrome browser users into their online Google accounts, syncing data without asking, a move one expert says has “enormous implications for user privacy and trust.”

NEW YORK (PNN) - September 23, 2018 - The Wall Street Journal editorial board has penned a scathing op-ed, claiming that "the Democrat standard for sexual assault allegations is that they should be accepted as true merely for having been made."

The Journal says that the last-minute accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is an ugly spectacle by any measure. But if there is a silver lining, it is that the episode is providing an education for Amerikans on the new liberal standard of legal and political due process.