SEATTLE, Washington - August 17, 2012 - Tens of thousands of people descended on a waterfront park in Seattle Friday for the opening of what's billed as the nation's largest marijuana rally - an event that has a pressing political edge this year as Washington state's voters consider whether to legalize the fun use of pot for adults.

People have had enough of pig thug cop corruption.

LAPLACE, Louisiana (PNN) - August 16, 2012 - Two sheriff's deputies in Louisiana were shot to death and two others were injured in an early-morning shootout west of New Orleans.

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 16, 2012 - We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a(n illegitimate) president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to be granted asylum in Ecuador by President Rafael Correa.

Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on June 19 after losing his appeal against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted over fabricated allegations of sexual offenses.

After formally applying for political asylum, a decision was due this week. In the meantime, a warrant for his arrest for breaching his bail conditions means he is likely to be rearrested if he steps outside the embassy.

Outlaw regimes intrude on the privacy of innocent citizens.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a Closed Circuit Television surveillance system that recognizes people from their faces or walks and analyzes whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or criminal act. But Trapwire is real and, according to documents released online by WikiLeaks last week, is being used in a number of countries to try to monitor people and threats.

New intrusive technology to be used to further spy on citizens.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - Shoppers could soon be automatically recognized whenever they walk into a shop by a controversial new camera.

Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognize people as they walk into a store.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - On August 9, 2012, the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Commerce division, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by way of the National Weather Service, put out a solicitation for a small variety of ammunition.

WARSAW, Poland (PNN) - August 8, 2012 - A significant health freedom victory has taken place in the European nation of Poland, where all plantings of Monsanto's MON810, a genetically-modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) that produces its own built-in Bt insecticide in every kernel, have been officially banned.

Terrorist pig thug cops unlawfully arrest man for the clothes he was wearing.

MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (PNN) - August 6, 2012 - The attorney for a New Jersey man dressed in a superhero outfit when he was arrested last Wednesday thinks the fascist pig thug cops overreacted.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 3, 2012 - Rumors regarding the development of a “digital pill” with a microchip inside have been circulating for some time, but today, the Amerikan Getspao Food and Drug Administration division gave the go ahead to the product.