MARSHALL, Illinois (PNN) - November 15, 2014 - Sometimes citizens can be so frustrated with county board members that they wish someone could just place them under arrest. Well, that is exactly what citizens in Clark County, Illinois did.
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Entire county board arrested following citizens arrest by 2 military veterans
European scientists make space history by successfully landing probe on a comet
DARMSTADT, Germany (PNN) - November 12, 2014 - Scientists have landed a probe on a comet's surface for the first time in history. After a daring seven-hour descent, and despite problems with its thrusters, the Rosetta craft's probe, Philae, touched down on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Catalans push on for independence after symbolic vote
BARCELONA, Spain (PNN) - November 10, 2014 - Catalonia's nationalist government prepared Monday to step up its secession drive after more than two million people voted in a symbolic independence referendum that Spain's central government dismissed as "useless".
Commentary: Anarchy: A Moral Imperative
By Chris Calton
October 23, 2014 - In January 2006, Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada publicly denounced Amerika’s involvement in the Iraq war and refused deployment to Iraq. He did not do this because he was afraid to fight; he actually requested deployment in Afghanistan, a cause he believed in, even though Afghanistan is a more dangerous station. The Army denied his claim and denied his resignation. Watada was then court-martialed and tried in a military court, facing up to a seven-year prison sentence.
A little ingenuity renders “high capacity” magazine ban toothless
DENVER, Colorado (PNN) - October 31, 2014 - When Colorado banned magazines with a capacity of 16 or more rounds back in March 2013, the ostensible justification was that doing so would limit the carnage a mass murderer could wreak when loosed on the soft targets of a "gun-free zone". That such targets can be mowed down in great numbers even without such capacity was apparently of no concern.
Lowes and other retail stores now using robots instead of human workers
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - October 29,2 014 - The future of shopping has arrived, and it's not human.
Not only do robots cost less than humans, they don't complain, they speak multiple languages, and most importantly, by scanning aisles they know where every item is in the store and can take you straight to it.
Earth magnetic field could flip faster than we thought
BERKELEY, Kalifornia (PNN) - October 17, 2014 - The magnetic poles of the earth have switched back and forth many, many times during the 4.54 billion years that the Earth has been around. Previous research suggested that the process of reversing the poles took place over a long time period, potentially over a few thousand years. But new research shows that the reversal could actually happen much faster than that, with the magnetic North Pole migrating to the South Pole in a time span as short as a century.
Protesters seize town halls in three Mexican cities demanding return of missing students
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (PNN) - October 16, 2014 - Protesters occupied three town halls in southern Mexico on Thursday to demand the safe return of 43 students who disappeared after gang-linked terrorist pig thug cops attacked them last month.
Security experts build inexpensive safecracker
MELBOURNE, Australia (PNN) - October 14, 2014 - Thanks to a pair of Melbourne security researchers, the cost of opening safes just hit a new low. Using an arduino platform and 3-D printed parts, the pair has created a contraption that can open many combination locks, like those on ATMs and gun safes. The device costs just $150 in parts, but people shouldn’t throw out their safes just yet: it takes about four days to crack the lock.
Catalonia will seek alternatives to independence referendum
MADRID, Spain (PNN) - October 13, 2014 - The leader of Spain's Catalonia region will call off a referendum on independence from Spain planned for Nov. 9 and look for alternative ways to consult Catalans, a key regional political party said on Monday.













