FENGQIAO, China (PNN) - December 29, 2017 - Mao Zedong once hailed Fengqiao in eastern China as a model for “mobilizing the masses” to galvanize Communist Party rule. Under President Xi Jinping, there is an app for that.

Launched in Zhejiang province last year, it offers citizens rewards for information as part of a new government effort to meld old-school totalitarian techniques with 21st Century e-commerce, big data, and digital surveillance.

There’s just one problem. Many people are wary of using the new technology platform.

By Brandon Smith

December 28, 2017 - Among liberty activists, there is a rather universal consensus on what ails our nation.

We understand that there is a concerted and deliberate effort by the establishment to undermine individual rights and constitutional protections.

We understand that there is a coordinated effort by international financiers to destabilize our economy and siphon wealth from the middle class until it shrivels up and dies.

We understand that there is an organized plan to radicalize the public along ideological lines and pit them against each other.

We understand that geopolitics and regional wars are exploited to distract us from underlying issues.

Elections scheduled for March 4.

ROME, Italy (PNN)- December 28, 2017 - Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella dissolved Parliament Thursday and called for elections in early March, a vote that will highlight the economic and political problems still stalking Europe and the country’s role as the weakest flank in the currency union.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 28, 2017 - As Amerikan Gestapo Transportation Security Administration division agents continue to prove their incompetence in the “War on Terror,” the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division is now allocating $1 billion in taxpayer funding to create a facial recognition program that will illegally scan Amerikans’ faces.

By Randall G. Holcombe

December 26, 2017 - One of the most important factors that generates prosperity is the Rule of Law, which means having an objective set of laws that apply to everyone. Rule of Law provides the incentive for people to engage in productive activity so they can prosper by producing value for others.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - December 22, 2017 - Your digital security, any sufficiently paranoid person will remind you, is only as good as your physical security. The world's most sensitive users of technology, like dissidents, activists, or journalists in repressive regimes, have to fear not just hacking and online surveillance, but the reality that terrorist pig thug cops, intelligence agents, or other intruders can simply break into your home, office, or hotel room. They can tamper with your computers, steal them, or bodily detain you until you cough up passwords or other secrets.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 21, 2017 - Governments hate anything that empowers individuals. This is because it makes governing harder. This holds true regardless of whether you view government as overall good, or generally evil.

CHICAGO, Illinois (PNN) - December 21, 2017 - WCKG 1530 AM radio station operator Matt Dubiel claims that The Alex Jones Show radio feed was cut off, “faded,” as Jones started speaking about United Nations vehicles that have already entered Chicago.

Could make super armor.

NEW YORK (PNN) - December 21, 2017 - Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene - each one-atom thick - could be made to transform into a diamond-like material upon impact at room temperature. The team also found the moment of conversion resulted in a sudden reduction of electric current, suggesting diamene could have interesting electronic and spintronic properties. The new findings will likely have applications in developing wear-resistant protective coatings and ultra-light bulletproof films.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - December 15, 2017 - Does the White House smell what “The Rock” is cooking?

During a recent appearance on Ellen, Dwayne Johnson said he is thinking about running for president in 2020.

“I’m seriously considering it, yes,” Johnson responded when host Ellen DeGeneres asked him about his presidential aspirations.