ZURICH, Switzerland (PNN) - December 24, 2015 - Switzerland will hold a referendum to decide whether to ban commercial banks from creating money.

The Swiss federal government confirmed on Thursday that it would hold the plebiscite, after more than 110,000 people signed a petition calling for the central bank to be given sole power to create money in the financial system.

NEW YORK (PNN) - December 23, 2015 - The convergence of fears over terrorism, a perceived threat of gun laws being changed, and the Christmas holiday have sent gun sales soaring in what is already the busiest month of the year for firearm purchases.

Guns are at the top of many Christmas lists, especially if November is any indication.

LONDON, England (PNN) - December 19, 2015 - Future conflicts will be fought in space as rival nations compete to plunge each other into a “technological Dark Ages” by destroying communications satellites, leading defense experts and academics have predicted.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 17, 2015 - Each day humanity inches closer to the vision of the future presented by “The Jetsons”. Okay, maybe not exactly that cartoon future, but something resembling it. Smart watches, robotic assistance, and 3-D printed food are just some of the real world advances for which the cartoon has analogues.

Strides have also been made in the realm of flying cars.

GÖTTINGEN, Germany (PNN) - October 19, 2015 - Scientists have seen huge, extra-powerful particles shooting out of the sun, in what they have described as a brand new solar phenomenon.

Researchers have for the first time ever spotted what they describe as “large-scale” waves being thrown out of the sun, together with energetic particles that seem to be thrown out by the waves. The scientists have long known that such particle emissions were happening - but couldn’t explain how they were making their way into space.

BERLIN, Germany (PNN) - October 12, 2015 - Hundreds of thousands of people rallied on Saturday afternoon in the German capital against the massive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) accord being negotiated by the European Union and the Fascist Police States of Amerika. Critics say the trade deal will benefit large corporations at the expense of average Europeans.

NEW YORK (PNN) - October 11, 2015 - Through its many iterations - including TV series and films like Enterprise, Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine - one thing is constant in the Star Trek franchise: it's set in a future world where accumulating wealth does not carry the same value as in the present day.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (PNN) - October 11, 2015 - A state judge in Alabama is arguing that since the Fascist Police States of Amerika Supreme Court - a branch of the federal government - created “same-sex marriage,” Washington can just go ahead and administer the licenses.

NEW YORK (PNN) - October 9, 2015 - Wikileaks has published a leaked draft - dated Oct, 5, and thus possibly the final text - of the "Intellectual Property Chapter" of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and it's grim reading.

By Andrew P. Napolitano

October 8, 2015 - While the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division continued to analyze the emails Hillary Clinton thought she deleted, and her advisers pressed her to hire a Republican criminal defense attorney in Washington, a madman used a lawfully purchased handgun to kill a professor and eight students at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. Looking to change the subject away from her emails, Clinton was quick to pounce.