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FBI arrests ex-Volkswagen official on fraud charges in diesel emissions probe
In a new twist in Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating scandal, a high-profile ex-official for the automaker has been reportedly arrested by the FBI on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
On Saturday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation detained Oliver Schmidt, who headed Volkswagen’s regulatory compliance office in the United States from 2014 to March 2015, the New York Times...
NASA Releases Image of Earth, Moon as Seen from Mars Orbit
NASA has released an image of Earth and Moon as seen from an artificial device rotating around Mars. The picture was made available on the agency’s website.
Australia and the surrounding oceans are particularly visible in the image. The Moon as compared with the originally obtained images has been artificially made brighter.
The scale of distances between the celestial bodies and their relative...
Fiat Chrysler To Invest $1 Billion In U.S. Plants, 2000+ New Jobs
Investment To Create American Jobs
In another win for soon to be President Trump Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has said that will invest $1 billion on two U.S. plants by retooling and modernizing them so that they will be able to produce products within the United States.
One plane will make the Ram heavy-duty pickup truck currently produced in Mexico.
The automaker says the investment will create more...
New York Times Urges Boycott of Breitbart
In two op-ed articles for the New York Times‘ Sunday Review, the Gray Lady attacks Breitbart News and its founder, Andrew Breitbart, and encourages an effort to “destroy” the company by appealing directly to advertisers not to support the website.
One article, “How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News,” written by someone actually called “Pagan Kennedy” (was “Antichrist...
Report Claiming Russia Behind Trump Win Based on 2012 Russian TV Intel
According to an article overnight from Sputniknews.com regarding the highly-anticipated declassified US intelligence report information included in the report was published in 2012. The intelligence report was supposed to prove that Russia supported Donald Trump in the recent US election for President,
The annex in the [declassified] report contained so-called evidence from Russia Today (RT) that...
Trump Nominates Dan Coats as CIA Director
President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as U.S. director of national intelligence, giving the retired lawmaker oversight of the spy agencies that have drawn skepticism from Trump.
Coats, 73, probably would face close questioning by both Republicans and Democrats about how he views the intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia hacked Democratic Party computer...
Another Chinese Company Accused of Spying
While Obama slept, China Flooded the US with Millions of Devices to Spy on American Consumers
In July 2016 Beijing-based LeEco snapped up top US electronics maker Vizio for $2 billion.
The company now is accused of spying on US consumers without their consent.
ProPublica reported:
In a statement, Vizio said customers’ “non-personal identifiable information may be shared with select partners …...
Obama/DHS Preparing to Overturn Trump Election
US election systems will henceforth be treated as “critical infrastructure,” the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson decreed Friday in a move some are describing as a major federal overreach.
In a letter to the Associated Press, Johnson revealed the US government would monitor and intervene in future elections, a process previously handled on a state-by-state basis.
“Given...
Airport Shooter Told The FBI In NOVEMBER He Was ISIS
Shooter Told FBI He Was ISIS
Law Enforcement officials are stating that in November 2016 Esteban Santiago walked into an FBI office in Anchorage claiming that he was being forced to fight for ISIS. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
From CBS Miami:
Law enforcement said he was found with an active military ID and is an American citizen, born in New Jersey. Previous known addresses include Penuelas,...
MSM biased in favor of Clinton, now blindly supports ‘Russian hack’ reports
The US intelligence report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election is uncritically supported by the same media which was biased in favor of Hillary Clinton during the campaign, WikiLeaks associate Craig Murray told RT.
The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and a self-proclaimed recipient of Podesta emails, which he said were received from a Democratic Party insider, called the...
Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooter Pictured in Islamic Garb
On Friday a lone shooter killed 4-5 people and injured several more at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport in Florida.
The gunman was later identified…
Shooter Identified: Esteban Santiago
Esteban Santiago was born in 1990 in New Jersey. He grew up in Puerto Rico and currently lived within walking distance of Alaska’s only mosque.
This photo of Esteban Santiago was first posted at GotNews.org.
The...
Obama Says Race Relations Have “Gotten Better” Amid Kidnapping Torture Case
President Barack Obama responded to the video of a mentally disabled white man being tortured and racially abused by four black kidnappers by claiming that race relations in America have “gotten better”.
“I don’t think it’s accurate to say race relations are getting worse,” Obama told ABC News’ Jay Levine. “I promise you, for the most part, race relations have gotten better,” he...
Obama to Release 22 More Top Gitmo Detainees to Kill More Americans
The Obama administration announced this week their plan to release 22 top Gitmo detainees.
The list includes an accused senior al Qaeda bomb-maker, the terror group’s top financial manager, and two intended 9/11 hijackers.
Obama told Yahoo in December 2015 that “only a handful” of Gitmo detainees has returned to a life of terrorism.
The actual number is closer to 196… So he was only off by...
Very Powerful People in the U.S. Government Want War, This is Their Sales Pitch
We must acknowledge that very powerful interests have already decided they want this war.
The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complex’s transitioning from the “war on terror” to a more lucrative “new cold war” – and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the neoconservative/liberal-interventionist...
Trump Fires All Obama Politically Appointed Ambassadors Effective Inauguration Day
President-elect Donald Trump has fired,effective Inauguration Day January 20, every U.S. ambassador politically appointed by President Barack Obama, according to a report published Thursday night by the New York Times.
The Failing New York Times reports the State Department sent out a notice on December 23 informing the ambassadors of Trump’s order. The move sent shock waves through the diplomatic...