HOUSTON, Texas - July 19, 2012 - Thelma Taormina didn’t want a new electric meter, and she went to great lengths to keep her old one.

When a worker showed up at her northwest Harris County home to install a smart meter, she grabbed her gun.

CLEVELAND, Texas (PNN) - July 18, 2012 - More than a thousand residents of Cleveland, Texas are now on record opposing the use of red light cameras in their community. Tri-County Texas Tea Party co-founder Aubrey Vaughan on Monday presented petitions to the city secretary that, if verified, will put the future of automated ticketing on the city's November 6 ballot.

Big Brother most certainly is watching.

ALBURQUERQUE, New Mexico (PNN) - July 17, 2012 - If you’re on the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico, don’t be surprised to see one very peculiar vehicle driving through town.

Pig thug cop agencies in Albuquerque have announced that they’ve procured a mobile surveillance trailer - a $68,000 piece of machinery that is equipped with four remote controlled cameras attached to an extendable 30-foot boom. The entire surveillance hub runs on its own generator, is self-contained and can operate for up to 30 days at a time from a single spot without requiring maintenance.

The Patriot Congressman may very possibly get nominated for president or vice president.

TAMPA, Florida (PNN) - July 17, 2012 - The possible GOP convention of a lifetime could be just around the corner in Tampa, Florida. Mainstream media would have us all believe that Mitt Romney has the nomination wrapped up, but an obscure GOP rule change passed in January, 2008, has opened the way for Ron Paul - The Patriot Congressman - delegates to place his name in nomination for president at the RNC in Tampa.

The Patriot Congressman may very possibly get nominated for president or vice president.

TAMPA, Florida (PNN) - July 17, 2012 - The possible GOP convention of a lifetime could be just around the corner in Tampa, Florida. Mainstream media would have us all believe that Mitt Romney has the nomination wrapped up, but an obscure GOP rule change passed in January, 2008, has opened the way for Ron Paul - The Patriot Congressman - delegates to place his name in nomination for president at the RNC in Tampa.

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 15, 2012 - As government agencies in the Fascist Police States of Amerika, the Fascist United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia push for increased surveillance powers, one pioneering American is pushing back.

BOISE, Idaho (PNN) - July 14, 2012 - An Iowa woman who was running for a state Senate seat has dropped that bid after deciding the U.S. government is a sham, and has instead unilaterally declared herself a U.S. Senator from the Republic of Iowa in an alternative government, the Republic for the United States of America.

CERRO PARANAL, Chile (PNN) - July 12, 2012 - Galaxy-building theory says there are stars and there are stage hands. The bright, shining galaxies filled with stars, the theory goes, took star-building gas from somewhere else, but we couldn't find exactly where the help came from. Now astronomers have likely found that source; starless "dark galaxies" that fed others early in the history of the universe have been seen.

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 12, 2012 - Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.

To find out what really draws their test shoppers' attention, companies like Procter & Gamble Co. and Kimberly Clark Corp. are combining three-dimensional computer simulations of product designs and store layouts with eye-tracking technology; and that, in turn, is helping them roll out new products faster and come up with designs and shelf layouts that boost sales.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (PNN) - July 12, 2012 - If you were involved in Icelandic high finance in the run up to the Depression, you might want to start watching your back.

That's because the Iceland government has appointed a white collar crime bounty hunter who wants to haul in your behind (alive, to be sure).