CheatSheet – by Eric Schaal

If you thought 2017 was a bad year for corruption in America, you might want to ignore the news in 2018. Before even one month ticked off the calendar, we had seen police officers indicted, elected officials hauled off in handcuffs, and pay-to-play operations with politicians reaching new heights.

In other words, we hope federal prosecutors got plenty of rest over the holidays. The usual signs of budget shortfalls, blatant nepotism, and a corrupt police department may already be plaguing your city. If so, get ready for a stormy year and don’t get too attached to your town’s new mayor.   Continue reading “These Are the 15 Most Corrupt Cities in America”

Daily Mail

Aerial images of Hawaii captured the devastating lava flows from the Kilauea volcano which destroyed hundreds of homes in one night, including the Big Island county mayor’s second home.

Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim’s home was among the at least 159 houses in Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland wiped out by lava flows on Monday night.   Continue reading “Aerial shows devastating lava flows from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano”

Yahoo News

The woman who was captured on video being repeatedly punched by a police officer on a Jersey Shore beach over the Memorial Day weekend is still grappling with the emotional “trauma,” she said Wednesday.

“Now that this happened, it’s a trauma,” Emily Weinman, 20, said in an interview on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” with co-anchor Amy Robach. “It’s going to take me a while to look at a police officer the same way, and it’s sad because you have police officers out here that aren’t doing their job and then you have police officers out here that are doing their job and they get the bad rap.”  Continue reading “Woman punched by police officer at NJ beach shares her side of the story”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

California has become the first state to pass a law severely limiting the amount of water residents can use on a daily basis, and while politicians claim that the restrictions will be enforced in the name of conserving water, Nestlé is illegally stealing millions of gallons of water each year and the state is doing nothing to stop it.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 606 and Assembly Bill 1668 into law, both of which set new standards for “water management planning.” The restrictions will fully take effect by 2022, limiting residents to 55 gallons of water per person, per day. That number will decrease to 50 gallons per person, per day, by 2030.   Continue reading “California to Fine Citizens Using Over 55 Gallons of Water as Nestlé Pumps Billions of Gallons for Free”

The Daily Caller – by Virginia Kruta

An undercover child pornography sting operation in Polk County, Florida, resulted in 11 arrests and 660 felony charges, it was announced Tuesday morning. Among those arrested as part of “Operation Guardians of Innocence II” were a Disney World employee, a Legoland builder, a former teacher and a 16-year-old student.  Continue reading “Child Porn Sting Hits Disney World, Legoland, and Local Boy Scout Parent”

CNN

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump.

Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after she was convicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine and attempted possession of cocaine, according to the nonprofit Can-Do, which advocates for clemency for non-violent drug offenders.

Continue reading “Trump commutes sentence of Alice Marie Johnson”

RT

Officers in the Virginia State Police probably couldn’t believe their ears when they received the call – a tank-like military vehicle had been spotted speeding down an interstate highway.

If some feared the incident was the first sign of a military coup, they were no doubt relieved to learn that it was just a soldier from a nearby military base, out for an evening joyride.   Continue reading “Soldier steals ‘tank’ from military base, leads cops on comical car chase”

RT

India will proceed with the purchase of Russia’s S-400 surface-to-air missile units despite possible US sanctions, the country’s defense minister has confirmed, citing a “time tested” relationship between Delhi and Moscow.

“In all our engagements with the US, we have clearly explained how India and Russia’s defense cooperation has been going on for a long time and that it is a time tested relationship. We have mentioned that CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act) cannot impact the India-Russia defense cooperation,” Nirmala Sitharaman said at a press conference.   Continue reading “India to proceed with purchase of Russian S-400 units despite possible US sanctions”

Mail.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in jail instead of a long prison term.

A statement from the victim captured the national spotlight, recounting the ordeal of the investigation and trial, where she was cross-examined about her drinking habits and sexual experience. “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she said in a statement read in court before the June 2016 sentencing of Brock Turner.  Continue reading “Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is complaining about media reports questioning the first lady’s recent absence from public view. Trump says the press has been “so unfair, and vicious.” Trump tweeted Wednesday that during Melania Trump’s recovery from a medical procedure: “they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse.”  Continue reading “Trump decries ‘fake’ reporting on Melania, says she’s well”

Sun Sentinel – by Skyler Swisher

Tracing a gun used in a crime often requires federal agents to search through boxes of handwritten records.

That’s because federal law prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from creating an electronic, searchable database of gun records.  Continue reading “Sen. Nelson pushes bill to create gun-tracing database”

RT

A select group of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people is getting together this week for the annual Bilderberg Group meeting, attracting controversy and conspiracy theories due to its elite and secretive nature.

This year’s gathering, which will be the 66th annual meeting of the mysterious group, takes place in Turin, Italy, between June 7-10. The meeting will be attended by American and European business leaders, current and former government officials, politicians, university professors, think tank analysts and even some journalists — but don’t expect them to talk about it in public. What happens at the Bilderberg meeting stays at the Bilderberg meeting.   Continue reading “What’s on at Bilderberg? Secretive group of rich people meet on Russia, populism in EU & inequality”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The former CEO of Kissinger Associates, David Rothkopf , wrote Superclass in which he said the world was ruled by Thirty Families and their 6,000 Minions. For several years I have written brief bios of the men and women attending Bilderberg thinking that insights into the Minions of the multi-billionaire families they represent will give us a clue as to what they plan to do to us in the near future.   Continue reading “Bilderberg 2018 Annotated Members List”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Facebook provided at least four Chinese electronics companies, including government-linked telecom giant Huawei, unrestricted access to user data, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record.

The relationships were part of a recently revealed data-sharing partnership program which included at least 60 major device manufacturers, including Apple, Amazon, Blackberry, Microsoft and Samsung – allowing the companies to integrate various Facebook features into their operating systems which gave them access to user data, and the data of users’ friends without consent.    Continue reading “Facebook Gave User Data Access To Chinese Firm Flagged By US Intelligence”