BARCELONA, Spain (PNN) - November 10, 2014 - Catalonia's nationalist government prepared Monday to step up its secession drive after more than two million people voted in a symbolic independence referendum that Spain's central government dismissed as "useless".

By Chris Calton

October 23, 2014 - In January 2006, Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada publicly denounced Amerika’s involvement in the Iraq war and refused deployment to Iraq. He did not do this because he was afraid to fight; he actually requested deployment in Afghanistan, a cause he believed in, even though Afghanistan is a more dangerous station. The Army denied his claim and denied his resignation. Watada was then court-martialed and tried in a military court, facing up to a seven-year prison sentence.

DENVER, Colorado (PNN) - October 31, 2014 - When Colorado banned magazines with a capacity of 16 or more rounds back in March 2013, the ostensible justification was that doing so would limit the carnage a mass murderer could wreak when loosed on the soft targets of a "gun-free zone". That such targets can be mowed down in great numbers even without such capacity was apparently of no concern.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - October 29,2 014 - The future of shopping has arrived, and it's not human.

Not only do robots cost less than humans, they don't complain, they speak multiple languages, and most importantly, by scanning aisles they know where every item is in the store and can take you straight to it.

BERKELEY, Kalifornia (PNN) - October 17, 2014 - The magnetic poles of the earth have switched back and forth many, many times during the 4.54 billion years that the Earth has been around. Previous research suggested that the process of reversing the poles took place over a long time period, potentially over a few thousand years. But new research shows that the reversal could actually happen much faster than that, with the magnetic North Pole migrating to the South Pole in a time span as short as a century.

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (PNN) - October 16, 2014 - Protesters occupied three town halls in southern Mexico on Thursday to demand the safe return of 43 students who disappeared after gang-linked terrorist pig thug cops attacked them last month.

MELBOURNE, Australia (PNN) - October 14, 2014 - Thanks to a pair of Melbourne security researchers, the cost of opening safes just hit a new low. Using an arduino platform and 3-D printed parts, the pair has created a contraption that can open many combination locks, like those on ATMs and gun safes. The device costs just $150 in parts, but people shouldn’t throw out their safes just yet: it takes about four days to crack the lock.

MADRID, Spain (PNN) - October 13, 2014 - The leader of Spain's Catalonia region will call off a referendum on independence from Spain planned for Nov. 9 and look for alternative ways to consult Catalans, a key regional political party said on Monday.

PRINCETON, New Jersey (PNN) - October 13, 2014 - No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple as putting a portable hardware condom on your Ethernet cable.

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio (PNN) - October 6, 2014 - Gun enthusiasts openly carried firearms Sunday in to an Ohio Wal-Mart store where terrorist pig thug cops murdered a black man holding a toy rifle.

About 40 open-carry activists protested the Aug. 5 terrorist pig thug cop shooting of 22-year-old John Crawford III at the Beavercreek retailer after a grand jury declined last month to charge the terrorist pig thug cop who murdered him.