Patriot News Network

The following collection of articles by various authors are their opinions, inspiration and humor for your reading enjoyment.

Road to Depression

European banks suffer downgrade!

LONDON, England - December 15, 2011 - Fitch Ratings has downgraded the debt ratings for five major European commercial banks and cooperative banking groups, citing the eurozone crisis and stronger headwinds facing the banking sector.

The ratings firm lowered the long-term issuer default and viability ratings by one notch for French banks Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel and Credit

Road to Depression

Latvia's largest bank fights off depositor run after rumors of collapse!

RIGA, Latvia - December 12, 2011 - Latvia's largest bank scrambled Monday to head off a run among depositors who were gripped by rumours of the bank's imminent ruin.

Weekend rumors that Swedbank was facing legal and liquidity problems in Estonia and Sweden sent thousands of Latvians to bank machines on Sunday, with some lines reaching as many as 50 people.

War on Freedom

Big Brother now tracks shoppers at stores!

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - December 15, 2011 - Retailers have a case of web envy.

Brick-and-mortar stores have long wanted to track consumers the way online merchants do and are starting to figure out how. They're using security cameras to monitor shopping behavior and tracking mobile phones to divine which stores people visit.

War on Freedom

French woman faces two years in jail for wearing veil!

PARIS, France - December 14, 2011 - A 32-year-old mother in France could go to jail for two years after she refused to perform 15 days of “citizenship” service for wearing an Islamic veil.

Hind Ahmas was arrested outside Elysee Palace in Paris on April 11 after she disobeyed an order to remove her niqab. Magistrates in the suburb of Meaux handed down the 15-day-sentence Monday, b

War on Freedom

Man in wheelchair murdered by pig thug cops!

VISALIA, Kalifornia (PNN) - December 13, 2011 - A man in a wheelchair has been murdered by cowardly Visalia pig thug cops after allegedly lunging toward a pig thug cop with a knife.

War on Freedom

Amerikans believe government is biggest threat to freedom!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 12, 2011 - Amerikans’ fear of big government - partly fueled by a sharp spike among Democrats since illegitimate President Barack Obama took office - almost reached a record high this year and is far greater than people’s concerns about big business and big labor, a new Gallup poll Monday shows.

An overwhelming 64% of people surveyed said big governmen

War on Freedom

Chinese pig thug cops cut town food supplies in bid to quell riots!

BEIJING, China (PNN) - December 12, 2011 - For months, the 20,000 villagers who live in Wukan, near Shanwei city in Guangdong province, have protested first at having nearly £100 million of their land seized and sold off by the local government, and then at the brutal tactics used by pig thug cops to regain control of the village.

The latest protests began on Sunday, when pig thug c