Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.

December 7, 2012 - Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year "Long Count" Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.

PARADISE VALLEY, Montana (PNN) - November 20, 2012 - On Tuesday, a former state legislator and candidate for lieutenant governor declared the misdemeanor case against him dismissed after a justice of the peace adjourned proceedings amid disruption in the courtroom.

NEW YORK (PNN) - October 23, 2012 - For more than 70 years, Superman has fought off a host of enemies, who have tried and failed to get the better of him.

But finally the Man of Steel has been worn down to the point of submission.

However, it is not his arch nemesis, Lex Luthor, who has finally defeated Clark Kent; rather it is the state of modern journalism.

Anonymous is promoting October 20, 2012 as a day to stage a global protest against surveillance and government attacks on personal privacy and individual liberty. It is time to overthrow the totalitarian dictatorships that are undermining the God-given rights of all people to live free! Revolution Now! Independence Forever!