LAS VEGAS, Nevada (PNN) - January 28, 2013 - Riots are a tough nut for pig thug cops in part because of the sheer number of people involved - it’s impossible to stop and arrest every person involved in a skirmish. That’s why pig thug cops have some pretty high-tech methods for catching suspects, from facial recognition software to debilitating sonic cannons.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 25, 2013 - San Francisco is the second-most densely populated urban area in the Fascist Police States of Amerika, but those nearly one million residents of the City by the Bay are about to lose what little amount of privacy they have.

STUTTGART, Germany (PNN) - January 25, 2013 - Audi is building a plant that will use solar and wind power to make methane from water and carbon dioxide. The plant, which will use technology developed by Stuttgart, Germany-based SolarFuel, is scheduled to start operation later this year. It will produce enough methane to power 1,500 of Audi’s new natural gas vehicles, which also go on sale this year.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 24, 2013 - From Florida to Kalifornia, a growing number of the nation's sheriffs are standing up to gun control measures proposed by both the illegitimate Obama regime and fascist Senator Dianne Feinstein (Kalif.).

Many sheriffs have written letters to illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden voicing their concerns over what they believe is an effort to infringe upon the Second Amendment.

TOKYO, Japan (PNN) - January 22, 2013 - Worried about all those security cameras tracking your every move? Try rocking one of these visors and once again enjoy anonymity.

At least that's what Isao Echizen from Japan's National Institute of Informatics is trying to achieve with the Privacy Visor.

Developed with Seiichi Gohshi of Kogakuin University, the visor has a near-infrared light source that messes up cameras but doesn't affect the wearer's vision, according to the institute.

BERLIN, Germany (PNN) - January 8, 2013 - A laser weapons system that can shoot down two drones at a distance of over a mile has been demonstrated by Rheinmetall Defense.

The German defense firm used the high-energy laser equipment to shoot fast-moving drones at a distance.

The system, which uses two laser weapons, was also used to cut through a steel girder a kilometer away.

ALAGOAS, Brazil (PNN) - January 7, 2013 - A cat has been caught in a Brazilian prison for delivering materials that would help the inmates escape incarceration.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - January 5, 2013 - Russia recently launched its near silent nuclear submarine following several years of development.

The Borey Class submarine, dubbed Vladimir Monomakh, has a next generation nuclear reactor, can dive deeper than 1,200 feet, and carries up to 20 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - January 4, 2013 - NASA has released a series of new photos taken by its Curiosity rover that appear to show a “flower” on the surface of Mars.

By Robert Higgs

December 27, 2012 - Libertarians divide into two broad classes: those who espouse a free society because it gives better results than an unfree society, and those who espouse a free society because they believe that it is wrong to deny or suppress a person’s right to be free (unless, of course, that person is suppressing the equal rights of others to be free). “Consequentialists versus deontologists” is the oft-encountered labeling of this difference. It is unfortunate that so much energy has been devoted to infighting between these two groups.