WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 20, 2017 - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently laid off several employees associated with the “7th-floor group” at the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division, a group which FBI documents revealed is part of a “Shadow Government” that once stepped in to protect Hillary Clinton from prosecution.

ROME, Italy (PNN) - February 20, 2017 - The Financial Times reports on the Rebellion that threatens to split Italy’s Democratic Party.

Eurointelligence goes one further and suggests it’s a done deal, not just a threat.

The immediate impact would be a loss of 6 percentage points or more support for PD, putting Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement solidly in the lead.

LONDON, England (PNN) - February 8, 2017 - A study by a British think tank Reform says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year.

By L. Neil Smith

February 1, 2017 - Okay, the 2016 General Election is well and truly over, and I fully intend this to be my final commentary on it. Many individuals have written to me or about me, denigrating, in various ways, my difficult decision to vote for Donald J. Trump. As I had already explained at some length on several occasions, whatever electoral pacifists may say, I believe in voting defensively; the prospect that Hillary Clinton might be elected - further extending the reign of vile, brutalitarian collectivism that began with the election of spymaster George H.W. Bush - was so bleak and repulsive to me that I would have voted for practically anybody to prevent the end of Western Civilization.

MADRID, Spain (PNN) - February 5, 2017 - Separatists in Catalonia plan to come out in force Monday when the Spanish region's former leader, Artur Mas, stands trial over a non-binding independence referendum he held, further straining ties with Madrid.

CANBERRA, Australia (PNN) - February 1, 2017 - Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene - a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (PNN) - February 1, 2017 - Itron’s Wi-Fi smart meters are being installed in homes across the globe. Iltron's "OpenWay CENTRON”, and its EM420i modular smart meters, are a privacy nightmare.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (PNN) - January 31, 2017 - Ryan Bundy, accused of leading the 2014 standoff near his father’s ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, testified Tuesday that the charges detailed in the 16-count indictment against him describe the actions of federal agents who tried to illegally impound his father’s cattle.

PARIS, France (PNN) - February 1, 2017 - Francois Fillon’s French presidential campaign plunged deeper into trouble on Tuesday after further revelations about his use of public funds to employ members of his family.

The Republican candidate’s daughter and son allegedly earned 84,000 euros ($91,000) from 2005 to 2007 while working for him when he was a Senator, Le Canard Enchaine said. His wife, Penelope Fillon, earned more than 900,000 euros over a decade as a parliamentary assistant and a contributor to a magazine while doing little actual work, according to Le Canard.

SAN DIEGO, Kalifornia (PNN) - February 1, 2017 - A DNA sequence code critical to our understanding of how human genes are turned on and off has just been unlocked by a team of scientists. Molecular biologists refer to this code as the “human initiator”. Ever since it was first observed back in the 1980s, the human initiator was believed to play a significant role in gene activation, given that it commonly occurs at the start sites of genes.