WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 3, 2017 - Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division Director James Comey will be back in the spotlight on Wednesday when he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It’s the first of two hotly anticipated hearings for Comey, who on Thursday will appear behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee.

CARACAS, Venezuela (PNN) - April 28, 2017 - The thick steel door with welded reinforced plates being installed at Yadira Castro’s small shop seems like it might be more appropriate for a prison or a bank.

But after looters recently rampaged through her neighborhood, pried her door open, and emptied her store of snacks, bread and cigarettes, what might be seen as overkill anywhere else is the reality of being a Caracas merchant.

NEW YORK (PNN) - May 1, 2017 - While we all loved President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to bring jobs back to Amerika, there are powerful economic forces at work that suggest the shift to cheap labor is pretty much irreversible. Yes, Trump has spoken with the leaders of some of Amerika’s biggest companies and he’s been successful at getting those chief executives to commit to creating or keeping a few thousands jobs here and there, but when you consider that the competing foreign labor force primarily responsible for manufacturing Amerika’s consumer goods numbers in the hundreds of millions of people, the notion that we’re somehow going to see explosive manufacturing growth over the next four or eight years is nothing more than a pipe dream.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 28, 2017 - Hillary Clinton’s best friend and closest aide, Huma Abedin, wants publishers to pay her $2 million to write a “tell-all” book about her boss.

The news has critics excited, because if anyone would know what Clinton has been up to, it’s Abedin.

But if you think she’s really going to tell all, we’ve got bad news.

Abedin isn’t actually interested in spilling Clinton’s secrets… just making herself look good.

ECUADOREAN EMBASSY, England (PNN) - April 28, 2017 - In his first speech as CIA Director, Mike Pompeo delivered a strong invective against the pro-transparency organization WikiLeaks, accusing the group of acting as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” The aggressive rhetoric came amid WikiLeaks’ latest series of releases, known as “Vault 7,” which detail how the CIA has lost control of its cyber-warfare arsenal, as well as outline the agency’s attempts to infect consumer technology products with spyware.

Rejects hysterical prophecies of doom.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 27, 2017 - The Amerikan Gestapo Federal Communications Commission division has announced that it will vote on overturning net neutrality rules that require Internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. If passed, ISPs would be allowed to give or sell access to “fast lanes” and block traffic to others.

DAMASCUS, Syria (PNN) - April 27, 2017 - Israeli strikes hit an arms depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport on Thursday in a brazen attack on its enemy inside Syria.

The early morning raid was outside the international airport itself on a hub operated by the Shia militia, where weapons from Iran are regularly sent by commercial and military cargo planes.