SAN DIEGO, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 24, 2018 - Worried about your child’s smartphone use getting out of hand? You should be. A new study finds that teens who are hooked on their phones and other digital devices are markedly unhappier than their less-plugged-in peers.

By Robert Higgs

March 22, 2018 - One of the typical responses to criticism of a government policy, program, or other undertaking is the demand for an answer to the question, “What is your alternative?” Often this challenge demands a blueprint or other detailed plan for the alternative to the governmental status quo. Absent such a fully articulated plan, one’s criticism is often dismissed as mere carping by someone who has no idea about how to replace the present government undertaking.

What do they know that we don’t?

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 20, 2018 - Washington D.C. government officials are flocking to doomsday camps around the country, which of course begs the question: what do they know that we do not?

A building network of backwoods doomsday camps around the country is pulling in members from affluent areas and even Washington national security officials as the threats grow from nuclear war, an EMP (electromagnetic pulse), or virus attack. Dubbed Fortitude Ranch, the outposts promise protection and a year’s supply of food for those unable to build their own bunker with preparations for a SHTF scenario. What’s more, until a crisis strikes, the doomsday camps are being used for prepper training and vacations.

March 17, 2018 - This is a segment that you can take for ideas and build off of for yourself. Survival is all about improvisation and adaptability: those who adapt to the situation have a better chance at making it through the tough times. This is a different kind of segment, though. The information here is how to make it on what you can scrounge in the winter. Sounds simple, right? It isn’t.

HILLIARD, Ohio (PNN) - March 17, 2018 - A high school student in Hilliard, Ohio, didn’t want to pick sides in the contentious gun debate surrounding Wednesday’s “National Walkout,” so he stayed in class instead of joining the largely anti-gun protest or an alternative “study hall”.

Hilliard Davidson High School senior Jacob Shoemaker was then reportedly slapped with a suspension.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 15, 2018 - Anything Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump does usually provokes a backlash from the status quo. In early March, the focus is on trade, as Trump walked the walk and slapped import tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines, and solar panels not just from China but also from other countries.

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 15, 2018 - The Fascist United Kingdom-based Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index estimates that the ultra-wealthy are hiding up to $32 trillion in tax havens around the world, and while Switzerland gets the top spot on the new list, the Fascist Police States of Amerika is a not-so-distant second.

Not even major global scandals such as the Panama and Paradise papers have been able to slow the rise of the bigger and better tax havens, as global industry growth has billion-dollar asset owners looking for the ultimate haven to stow away gains.

These are the top 10 tax havens in 2018, according to FSI:

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 17, 2018 - Senator Rand Paul (Kent.) emerged as one of President Donald Trump’s top confidants in 2017 as they worked together on health care, tax reform and other key issues. Paul is trying to get the ear of Trump yet again as he tries to stop him from appointing neocons into key posts of his regime.

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 15, 2018 - Today, students across America will join in a national school walkout day to memorialize the 17 people tragically killed in the recent Parkland, Florida, school shooting and to advocate for stricter gun control laws.

But what if they don’t go back?

HANOVER, New Hampshire - March 12, 2018 - Alec Baldwin is to some a perfect stand-in for Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump. But in a digitally altered video online, the president's face has been digitally stamped onto Baldwin's performance.

It's part of a wave of doctored audio and video now spreading online.