ECUADOREAN EMBASSY, England (PNN) - October 15, 2018 - Ecuador has partially restored Julian Assange's communications in their London Embassy after UN officials met with Ecuador's president, Lenin Moreno, on Friday.

Assange, who has lived in the embassy for over six years, had his phone and Internet access taken away in March over political statements he made in violation of "a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states." His visitor access was also limited to members of his legal team.

MADISON, Wisconsin (PNN) - October 1, 2018 - The first steps towards brain-to-brain interfaces for collaborative problem solving are being made in the laboratory.

The Internet has made it easy for groups to collaborate from pretty much anywhere, but this experimental brain-to-brain "social network" could be the beginning of a whole new ballgame. The new system, dubbed BrainNet, was tested by wiring three test subjects up to machines that let them send messages to each other using just their brainwaves.

OWENSBORO, Kentucky (PNN) - October 11, 2018 - Time and again, terrorist pig thug cops will enter the home of an innocent person and kill him or her. As is the case most of the time, the terrorist pig thug cops aren’t charged despite gross negligence leading up to the innocent homeowner’s death. Or, if the homeowner does successfully defend himself, he is often charged. In rare instances, however, homeowners defend themselves against the terrorist pig thug cops who come onto their property with no warrant - or mistakenly - and they are deemed justified in doing so.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PNN) - October 11, 2018 - Now this is what unity looks like. South Africa’s Zulu nation has joined forces with white farmers being subjected to racial land seizures in order to prevent the atrocity.

The largest ethnic group in South Africa, Zulu, has spoken out against the racial expropriation of land without compensation in the country. Zulu is ready to cooperate with the country’s white farmers, known as “Afrikaners” or “Boers” to prevent the seizure of their land. Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has said the group will cooperate with South African minority rights group AfriForum because they desire to eat in the future.

TAFT, Kalifornia (PNN) - October 10, 2018 - In a reaction to the Parkland, Florida shooting, socialist Kalifornia Governor Jerry Brown just signed the strictest gun control laws in the country into action this month. Despite already having the strictest gun laws in the nation, Kalifornia took it one step further, making it that much harder for citizens to defend themselves. Luckily, however, one mom in Taft, Kalifornia was able to acquire a gun that she used to protect her four children from a home invader.

1984’s Ministry of Truth has arrived.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (PNN) - October 8, 2018 - We’re all guilty of the Crop. You know, that group photo where you look so good that - sorry bestie, apologies grandma, see ya, ex - you carefully crop out the other person.

But what if there was a tool that could erase people and things automatically - a magic wand that could do hours of imperfect Photoshop work in an instant? Now, thanks to an MIT Media Lab project led by Matt Groh, that tool is real - if still imperfect.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - October 5, 2018 - On Sunday, Kalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that creates a process to expunge or reduce the sentences of people charged under the state’s marijuana laws before recreational cannabis was legalized this year. Enactment of this law takes another step toward nullifying federal marijuana prohibition in effect in Kalifornia.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 5, 2018 - The global rollout of 5G is well underway, and we soon may see new small cell towers near all schools, on every residential street, dispersed throughout the natural environment, and pretty much everywhere. But the safety of this technology is in serious question, and there is a raging battle to stop the taxpayer-funded implementation of 5G.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (PNN) - October 1, 2018 - The Army adopted its battle rifle in 1963 and has spent 55 years looking for a replacement for the M-16 and its variants.

They might have found it in Martin Grier’s Colorado Springs garage. Grier, a self-described inventor who has worked at a local bed and breakfast, built the new “ribbon gun” with a hobbyist’s tools. It looks like a space-age toy drawn by a fifth-grader.

by Brent Johnson

What is important to you? Is it your job or education? Maybe it’s that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a performing artist or professional musician? How about the current year’s crop yields? Or your investment portfolio? Could it be your family? Your children? What is really important to you? What is the most important person or thing to you, and what would you do to protect and defend that person or thing? What wouldn’t you do?