By Brent Johnson

It has become accepted as a necessary function of our government: Homeland Security. The massive Department of Homeland Security, created by an Act of Congress, has already attracted countless lobbyists, all vying for billions of dollars in DHS appropriations. (By the way, did you know that Homeland Security was supposed to cost nothing; it was supposed to simply be a reorganization of already existing budgets? So much for government promises).

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 3, 2013 - Big Brother is hoping to eliminate anonymous digital communication, but a new messaging protocol may provide privacy advocates a way around their snooping government no matter where they live.

June 2, 2013 - From Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)by H. Michael Sweeney. These 25 rules are everywhere in media, from political debates, to television shows, to comments on a blog.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (PNN) - May 23, 2013 - Rice flour, rice wine and rice milk are all common interpretations of the staple grain, but a Vietnamese chemist has developed a novel use for rice plant that won't fill bellies, but just might save lives.

MICHIOCAN, Mexico (PNN) - May 23, 2013 - Farmers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles ride in pick-up trucks emblazoned with the word “self-defense” to protect this rural Mexican town from a drug cartel.

Has 10,000 times the energy density of gas.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - May 21, 2013 - Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists.

The research paper, which hasn’t yet undergone peer review, seems to confirm both the existence of cold fusion and its potency: The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline. Even allowing for a massively conservative margin of error, the scientists say that the cold fusion device they tested is 10 times more powerful than gasoline - which is currently the best fuel readily available to mankind.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 21, 2013 - District and federal terrorist pig thug officials arrested 17 people Monday after protesters opposing foreclosures attempted to storm the entrances of the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 8, 2013 - The Pentagon’s electromagnetic pain weapons are about to make a new friend. It’s an anthropomorphic test dummy that’s going to get blasted by everything the Pentagon’s non-lethal weapons agency can throw at it.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 1, 2013 - Worried about drones spying on you? Soon, a device might be able to send you text and email alerts that let you know when a drone is nearby.

A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield," a small, Wi-Fi-connected device that uses a microphone to detect a drone's "acoustic signatures" (sound frequency and spectrum) when it's within range.