PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - February 21, 2017 - As central economic planners at the Federal Reserve continue their vision of “prosperity” through crushing debt and dollar devaluation, some states are fighting back. The Arizona House took a major step toward sound money by passing a bill to eliminate penalties in the form of taxes on gold and silver specie.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 7, 2017 - Vizio, one of the world's biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them.

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.