Huffington Post – by DAVID INGRAM, NATE RAYMOND AND JOSEPH WHITE, Reuters

General Motors Co has agreed to pay $900 million and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths, two sources told Reuters.

The deal means GM will be charged criminally with hiding the defect from regulators and in the process defrauding consumers, but the case will be put on hold while GM fulfills terms of the deal, one source said.   Continue reading “GM To Pay $900 Million To Settle U.S. Case Over Faulty Ignition Switches”

The Newspaper

A pair of civil rights groups believe the US Supreme Court needs to scale back the interrogation of motorists at “border” roadblocks that are nowhere near the border. In a brief filed last week with the US Supreme Court, the Texas Civil Rights Project and the National Lawyers Guild argued that lower courts are going too far in allowing police to arbitrarily harass drivers who have done nothing wrong. They want the high court justices to overturn a February decision by the Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals that declared a US Air Force major’s reluctance to roll down his window an “unorthodox tactic” requiring further roadside questioning.   Continue reading “Civil Rights Groups Ask Supreme Court To Rethink Border Roadblocks”

RT

A US teenager has been detained with the use of force and hit several times for jaywalking in Stockton, California.

Witnesses say that before the camera started rolling, the cop was telling the teenager to sit down, but the boy continued walking to his bus.   Continue reading “It takes 9 cops to detain teen for jaywalking”

Natural News – by S Johnson

In a strange twist, Rand Paul has recently allied with Monsanto and has joined the ranks of academic shill Kevin Folta after coming out against GMO labeling, stating that the labeling requirements would push up the price of food for consumers — particularly poor ones.   Continue reading “Rand Paul begins shilling for Monsanto”

Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry

In a remarkable admission, the former director of the Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program and chief of staff to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the federal government “forced” full support for adoption of the Common Core standards from each state by requiring its governor, chief state school officer, and head of the state board of education to sign off on the grant application.

Joanne Weiss, who is now an “independent education consultant,” writes at the Stanford Social Innovation Review that the RttT grant program, funded through President Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill in the name of helping low-income, poor-performing schools, “offers lessons in high-impact grantmaking that are applicable not only in education but also in other fields.”   Continue reading “Feds Admit U.S. Education Department ‘Forced’ States To Accept Common Core From Its Start”

Fox News – by Malia Zimmerman

The federal government can tell you how many “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders” stole a car, the precise number of “American Indian or Alaska Natives” who were arrested for vagrancy or how many whites were busted for counterfeiting in any given year. But the government agencies that crunch crime numbers are utterly unable — or unwilling — to pinpoint for the public how many illegal immigrants are arrested within U.S. borders each year.   Continue reading “Elusive crime wave data shows frightening toll of illegal immigrant criminals”

Amy Irene White

The BandIdo Nation has finally spoken out. Attorney Stephen Stubbs released this scathing press statement moments ago..

WACO — Stephen Stubbs, the attorney for the Bandidos Motorcycle club, released the following statement regarding the Twin Peaks Shooting investigation:

The Bandidos Motorcycle Club (hereafter, “Bandidos”) is saddened by the incident that took place at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015. The violence was senseless, completely unnecessary, and wrong.   Continue reading “Official Bandidos MC Press Release”

Natural Society – by Julie Fidler

A recent study of 479 Vietnam veterans who were involved in Agent Orange defoliation efforts in that country found that these individuals are twice as likely to develop a blood condition known as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, or MGUS. The disorder is a precursor for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer.   Continue reading “Study Finds Link Between Agent Orange and Blood Cancer”

Haaretz

The city council of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, has adoped a motion to boycott Israeli-made goods.

Reykjavik City Council voted in favor of the motion, put by Björk Vilhelmsdóttir, councilwoman for the Social Democratic Alliance, on Tuesday.

The boycott will be in place “as long as the occupation of Palestinian territories continues,” the motion said.   Continue reading “Iceland’s Capital Adopts Motion to Boycott Israeli Goods”

Yahoo News – by DUSAN STOJANOVIC and VANESSA GERA

HORGOS, Serbia (AP) — Baton-wielding Hungarian riot police unleashed tear gas and water cannons against hundreds of migrants Wednesday after they broke through a razor-wire fence and tried to surge into the country from Serbia. Crying children fled the acrid smoke and dozens of people were injured in the chaos.

With their path blocked, hundreds of other asylum-seekers turned to a longer, more arduous path to Western Europe through Croatia, where officials said 1,300 had arrived in a single day — a number that was sure to grow.   Continue reading “Hungarian police clash with migrants at Serbian border”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

SIERRA VISTA, Arizona — The sheriffs in Arizona have been forced to spend millions of dollars to prosecute cartel smugglers, jail them and pay for their legal fees since the federal government refuses to press charges.

“It has grown to the point of I have upwards of 130 backpackers (slang for cartel drug smuggler) because the U.S. Attorney would not charge them for smuggling, said Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot during an interview with Breitbart Texas. The sheriff voiced his frustration at the government’s lack of cooperation.   Continue reading “Feds Not Prosecuting Mexican Cartel Drug Smugglers, Says Border Sheriff”

ABC News – by Jesse J Holland

The wallets of America’s middle class and poorest aren’t seeing any extra money, the U.S. Census reported Wednesday, a financial stagnation experts say may be fueling political dissent this campaign season.

The Census Bureau, in its annual look at poverty and income in the United States, said both the country’s median income and poverty rate were statistically unchanged in 2014 from the previous year.   Continue reading “Census: Income, poverty numbers stay just about the same”

Red Right Republic

As Saudi Arabia faces mounting criticism for refusing to take in any of the millions of Syrians fleeing conflict in their homeland, it was revealed this weekend that the country has over 100,000 empty, air-conditioned tents that could house up to 3 million refugees.    Continue reading “Saudi Arabia has 100,000 air-conditioned tents sitting empty, still won’t take Syrian refugees”

ReCode – Reuters

Nine of the world’s biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, have joined forces with New York-based financial tech firm R3 to create a framework for using blockchain technology in the markets, the firm said on Tuesday.

It is the first time banks have come together to work on a shared way in which the technology that underpins bitcoin — a controversial, Web-based “cryptocurrency” — can be used in finance.   Continue reading “Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership”

ABC News

A massive earthquake struck off the coast of Chile Wednesday, prompting officials to issue a tsunami alert.

American officials were also monitoring the 8.3 magnitude quake to see if tsunami waves would affect the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii, where it issued a watch.

Officials said that based on the preliminary parameters of the quake, at 12:54 p.m. local time near Central Chile, “widespread hazardous tsunami waves are possible.”   Continue reading “Chile Issues Tsunami Alert After Massive 8.3 Magnitude Earthquake, Watch Issued for Hawaii”

Mark Nestman

Do you distrust the banking system? Prefer to do business in cash? Complain about the encroachment of Big Brother into every facet of your life?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’d better watch out. You’re a “person of interest” – and a growing number of businesses must report your “suspicious activities” to the feds. If they don’t, they can be fined and the responsible parties even imprisoned.   Continue reading “Spy on Your Customers… or Else”