Steemit – by Carey Wedler

In a show of marketing brilliance, the Country Time lemonade company launched a campaign this week to help children who have had their lemonade stands shut down by local governments and police.

Though lemonade stands have long been a popular way for kids to engage in entrepreneurship, in recent years city governments around the country have started to crack down, sending cops to inform them they require permits or licenses.   Continue reading “Lemonade Company to Help Pay Government Fines, Licenses for Kids’ Lemonade Stands”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Arabian government has been covertly receiving information on the creation of nuclear weapons from the government of Israel according to Ami Dor-on, a senior Israeli official at iHLS (Israel’s Homeland Security).

iHLS bills itself as the “leading hub for the homeland security ecosystem globally and in Israel” — and is partially funded by U.S. weapons manufacturer Raytheon, according to a report by MintPress News.   Continue reading “Media Silent as Israel Exposed for Aiding Saudi Arabia in Developing Nuclear Weapons”

RT

A death row inmate in Texas, who gouged out both of his eyes in jail, eating one of them, has been told that his severe mental illness is not reason enough to commute his sentence. However, alleged racial bias by the jury may be.

Andre Thomas, who was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his estranged wife, their son, and her baby daughter in 2004, was ruled to be sane enough to be executed by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Thomas, 35, who was born to a mentally ill mother and has been battling with mental illness issues accompanied by substance and alcohol abuse since his teens, said he butchered his family, carving out the children’s hearts and putting them in pockets because God told him to.   Continue reading “Murderer Who Ate His Own Eyeball Is Crazy, but That Won’t Stop His Execution – Court”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

A San Francisco woman is accused of stabbing and dismembering her roommate after police discovered decomposing pieces of her roommate’s body oozing from plastic bags in a storage container, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Police arrested and charged Lisa Gonzales, 47, on suspicion of murder Saturday when authorities discovered that her 61-year-old roommate had been reported missing, the Daily Mail reported.  Continue reading “San Francisco Woman Accused of Stabbing, Dismembering Roommate”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While President Trump insults his erstwhile foreign partners in a colorful twitter tirade ahead of a G-7 (or rather, G-6+1) summit in Quebec, exposing the very real fragmentation of longtime western partnerships as the US cracks down on unfair foreign trade practices, a productive meeting between China’s “Emperor for Life” Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been completely overshadowed, as Bloomberg points out.

The two leaders held their first meeting this year on Thursday ahead of the June 9 Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting – an eight-member group led by China and Russia – which will be held in the port city of Qingdao.   Continue reading “As G-7 Fractures In Canada, Putin Meets Xi In China”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Longtime former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James A. Wolfe, was indicted and arrested Thursday night on charges of giving false statements to FBI agents in 2017 about repeated contacts with three reporters, according to the Washington Examiner.  Continue reading “Leaker Crackdown Begins: Top Senate Staffer Arrested In Leak Probe; NYT Journo’s Records Seized”

Fox News

LOS ANGELES –  A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to six months of home detention for her role in a multimillion-dollar “pay-to-stay” scheme that helped hundreds of foreign nationals remain in the United States by falsely claiming they were students.

Eun Young “Jamie” Choi was sentenced Thursday.  Continue reading “Woman gets home detention for ‘pay-to-stay’ immigration scam”

Press Democrat – by Kevin McCallum

Santa Rosa is still unwilling to let Verizon Wireless install antennas and wireless equipment on city light poles, putting the carrier’s plans to boost network coverage in the city on hold indefinitely.

The City Council on Tuesday reaffirmed the “pause” it placed on the project in March, saying the way the company had managed the rollout of “small cell” wireless gear on wooden utility poles in the city was a cause for concern.
Continue reading “Santa Rosa continues ‘pause’ on Verizon small-cell project”

Waco Tribune-Herald – by Tommy Witherspoon

A former Waco police officer who claimed he acted in self-defense when he grabbed a handcuffed suspect by the throat after a 2016 traffic stop was convicted on two misdemeanor counts Thursday.

A six-person jury in 19th State District Court deliberated about 90 minutes before finding George Neville guilty of assault and official oppression, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in the county jail and a $4,000 fine.

Continue reading “Former Waco PD officer convicted in 2016 choking incident”

Electronic Frontier Foundation – by Jennifer Lynch

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what will likely become the largest database of biometric and biographic data on citizens and foreigners in the United States. The agency’s new Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database will include multiple forms of biometrics—from face recognition to DNA, data from questionable sources, and highly personal data on innocent people. It will be shared with federal agencies outside of DHS as well as state and local law enforcement and foreign governments. And yet, we still know very little about it.   Continue reading “HART: Homeland Security’s Massive New Database Will Include Face Recognition, DNA, and Peoples’ “Non-Obvious Relationships””

Fox News

President Trump won on the promise to strengthen U.S. immigration policy, but Rep. Steve King of Iowa, says a group of Republicans are plotting with Democrats to force votes on bills that would offer amnesty for every illegal immigrant who entered America as minors.
Continue reading “King: Group of Republicans plotting with Dems for amnesty”

Left Hook – by Dean Henderson

(Excerpted from Chapter 6: The City of London: Illuminati Agenda 21: The Luciferian Plan To Destroy Creation)

Also known as the Crown, the one square mile City of London is contained within London proper and is a separate entity from both London and the UK. It has its own mayor, committeemen, and aldermen. To be an alderman, one has to be a “Freeman”- code for Freemason. The world’s biggest Freemason lodge is contained within the City. Thus, all the perverted regalia its managers wear.   Continue reading “The City Of London”

Information Clearinghouse – by Marjorie Cohn

In a little noticed but potentially monumental development, the House of Representatives voted unanimously for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 5515) that says no statute authorizes the use of military force against Iran.

The amendment, introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), states, “It is the sense of Congress that the use of the Armed Forces against Iran is not authorized by this Act or any other Act.”   Continue reading “In Unanimous Vote, House Says No Legal Right to Attack Iran”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Making illegal or banning arbitrary substances does nothing to curb their use. In fact, as the increasingly deadly opioid crisis illustrates, it makes matters far worse. What does help to foster improvement, however, is when the state reverses prohibition. The most recent state to figure this out is Pennsylvania, who just added opioid addiction to the list of conditions for which it will allow people to obtain marijuana.

Of course, total legalization would be ideal. However, this move by Pennsylvania lawmakers shows that the science can no longer be denied and bureaucrats have to finally admit it.   Continue reading “State Finally Looks at Science, Approves Use of Marijuana to Treat Opioid Addiction”

Yahoo News

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of the former leader of a corrupt Baltimore police unit (all times local):

12:05 p.m.

A leader of a corrupt Baltimore police unit has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake handed down the punishment Thursday to former Gun Trace Task Force leader Sgt. Wayne Jenkins.  Continue reading “Ex-leader of corrupt police unit gets 25 years”

Reuters

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.

An ICE spokeswoman told Reuters five federal prisons will temporarily take in detainees awaiting civil immigration court hearings, including potential asylum seekers, with one prison in Victorville, California, preparing to house 1,000 people.   Continue reading “U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons”

Yahoo News

A crocodile in Australia has eaten a small dog that had taunted it for a decade and was famous for chasing the eleven-foot reptile into the water.

To the horror of guests at a riverside lodge who had gathered to watch the spectacle, the saltwater crocodile did not scurry towards the water as the dog ran at its head.   Continue reading “Crocodile eats beloved terrier that spent a decade taunting it”

The Great Recession

Europe’s many fault lines are spreading once again, bringing the endless euro crisis saga back in 3-D realism. Italy gained a new anti-establishment government last week, even as Spain elected a new Socialista government that could crack Catalonia off from the rest of Spain. All of Europe fell under Trumpian trade-war sanctions and threatened their own retaliation. And Germany’s most titanic bank got downgraded to the bottom of the junk-bond B-bin.   Continue reading “Return of the Euro Crisis: Italy Quakes, Rest of the World Shakes and Merkel’s Empire Breaks”