BERLIN, Germany (PNN) - September 28, 2015 - Support groups help cult and gang members break free of their former lives. Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous help addicts overcome their dependencies. Now one group of privacy campaigners wants to offer its target audience an escape route for what it sees as a equally insidious trap: their jobs working for intelligence agencies like the NSA.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - September 28, 2015 - Liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars, according to researchers who say the discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life.

BOULDER, Colorado (PNN) - September 23, 2015 - A new record distance has been set for the quantum teleportation of information over optical fibers. Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) claim to have transmitted the quantum information carried in light particles over 100 km (62 miles), four times farther than previously achieved.

BARCELONA, Spain (PNN) - September 19, 2015 - On September 27, the Catalonia region of Spain holds parliamentary elections.

It now seems near certain that Catalan political parties favoring independence will increase their outright majority of seats, putting the region on a collision path with the central government in Madrid.

NEW RICHMOND, Wisconsin (PNN) - September 23, 2015 - The Wright brothers aren’t the only siblings to push the limits of flight: In 1986, pilot Dick Rutan flew nonstop around the world, spending nine days in the air on a single tank of gas. He made the trip in a plane called Voyager, which his brother Burt designed. Today he’s still at the forefront of aviation, busy building a new hyper-efficient engine and reimagining what aircraft might be.

By Dylan Charles

September 22, 2015 - The world is enslaved to an economic system designed to create tremendous power and wealth for those who own the system, while forcing the rest of us into mathematically insurmountable debt and the stagnation, austerity and poverty that comes with it.

Corrupt and patently unsustainable, the world’s currencies and financial markets are rigged, and an economic collapse is inevitable at some point. Sad but true, and the ongoing dramatic narrative of the interplay between engineered boom and engineered bust is a chief psychological tool in sustaining the popular belief that this is the only monetary reality possible. The truth, however, is that as long as this economic reality is the reality then we will be slaves to debt economics, and the pursuit of endless growth is certain to consume everything on the planet.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (PNN) - September 21, 2015 - The first self-driving electric shuttle for use on public roads has been delivered to the Netherlands. The "WEpod" will take passengers between the two towns of Wageningen and Ede in the province of Gelderland from November.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 19, 2015 - Fighter jets may soon take enemies out of the sky using laser weapons.

“That day is a lot closer than I think a lot of people think it is,” said Fascist Police States of Amerika Air Force General Hawk Carlisle at this week’s 2015 Air Force Association Air & Space conference.

Super Tuesday may allow voters to reassert Texas as an independent nation.

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - September 17, 2015 - The question of secession on a ballot is an important one. Secession might make a powerful statement to voice defiance against government tyranny, but it could also set off sparks.

Now it appears that the biggest and most independent-minded state in the Union might test that question. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 17, 2015 - We’ve heard of guerrilla gardening, and we’ve heard of grafting plants - but guerrilla grafting? That’s new to us. For the past two years, a group that calls themselves Guerrilla Grafters has been secretly grafting fruit-bearing scions onto ornamental, non-fruiting trees in San Francisco. City officials contend that Guerrilla Grafters is breaking the law, but its actions have been celebrated by proponents of urban agriculture. It has been included in the US pavilion’s Spontaneous Interventionsexhibit at the Venice Biennale.