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GM to form China venture, invest $293 million Partnership with FAW Group will produce light-duty trucks and vans Aug 30, 2009 SHANGHAI - General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of $293 million. The 50-50 joint venture, based in the northeast China city of Changchun in Jilin province, will make light-duty trucks and vans, GM said in a statement. "For us in China, this is an important complement to the rest of our portfolio," Kevin Wale, president and managing director for...

Earlier we discussed favorite episodes. Today, who is your favorite character and why? Tony? Ziva? Gibbs? McGee(k)?? Ducky? Palmer? Kate? Jen? You're not limited to these but can have characters that have appeared only once, twice, whatever..

Under the guise of compassion and concern for others and health care for everyone, the Democrats are proposing a reform of US health care. Obama’s agenda appears in a bill backed by the House and another issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Health committee. However, these two bills undermine our Constitutional liberties, freedoms and rights. The push for reform is not about health, it’s about control – it’s a power grab. ObamaCare is about removing our choice of doctor, insurance plan and privatized healthcare. “Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans – and that the...

On Wednesday, the Chicago Civic Federation came out with a report of the analysis of the bid of Chicago 2016. Here is the conclusion of the findings of the Civic Federation. The Civic Federation found that the operating budget, including venue construction, proposed by the Chicago 2016 is fair and reasonable and provides adequate protections against financial risks to Chicago's tax payers.

Philippians 2:9-11 Wherefore God also hath Highly Exalted Him, And Given Him a Name which is Above Every Name: That at the Name of Jesus every knee should Bow, Of Things in Heaven, and Things in Earth, and Things Under the Earth; And that Every Tongue should Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, To the Glory of God the Father.

Washington, D.C., has too many people who wrongly think the supply of federal dollars -- taxpayer dollars -- is infinite... Buried in Capitol Hill's thousands of pages of health care reform proposals are provisions that would give $10 billion to union-backed retiree health plans. Many of those plans, such as the United Auto Workers', are woefully underfunded. So it's no surprise that unions that helped elect President Obama -- including the UAW and the United Steelworkers -- support this multibillion-dollar giveaway of public money. And the prospect of health care reform cutting costs for their retiree health plans surely is...

A sex offender deemed to be a danger to women and children has absconded from a psychiatric unit in West Yorkshire. Mohammed Rafiq Passwala did not return to Fieldhead Hospital, near Wakefield, after being given unsupervised leave. Police said that 52-year-old Passwala, who is originally from Bradford, has not been seen since leaving the hospital on Thursday morning. The public have been warned not to approach him but to contact the police if they have any information.

Japan's Democratic Party has won a resounding general election victory, surpassing the 241 seats required for a majority less than two-and-a-half hours after polling stations closed. The outgoing Liberal Democratic Party had just 57 of the 480 seats being contested and Taro Aso, the prime minister, said he would resign as party leader to take responsibility for the debacle. Photographers are pictured in front of posters of Democratic Party politicians "The result of the election is very severe," he said in a press conference in Tokyo. "I believe this is the judgement of the public and we have to accept...

The Obama Administration has decided to block travel by the people of Honduras to the United States to punish their country for its Supreme Court's refusal to back the return to power of Honduras’s ex-president and would-be dictator, Manuel Zelaya, who is backed by left-wing Latin American dictators like Castro and Chavez. The Obama Administration is now blocking the issuance of nearly all visas, meaning that a Honduran grandma who wants to visit her grandkids in the United States can’t. Obama’s decision came in response to a recent ruling by the Honduras Supreme Court, ruling that the removal of the...

Police say the defendants lured the woman, then 35, out of her apartment just a few miles from downtown West Palm Beach by claiming her truck had a flat tire. Three masked gunmen then forced her and her son, then 12, back inside. Others soon joined in the attack. Lawson continued testifying Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene inside the woman's home, with attackers coming and going, raping the woman over and over, sodomizing her, beating the boy and forcing the mother to perform oral sex on her son. Police say Lawson and the other defendants were among as many as...

Different Forms of Government When Benjamin Franklin exited the constitutional convention, a woman asked him, Sir, what have you given us? His immediate response was, a Republic mam, if you can keep it. Yet many Americans today have come to believe that America’s governmental system is a Democracy and not a Republic. The difference between these two is essential in understanding Americanism and the American system. Before we discuss political systems however, it is helpful to address the confusion about the political spectrum. Many people believe that the political spectrum places groups such as communist on the far left, fascists,...

“The Fourth Kind” (abduction, of course) looks disturbingly good!Video Link

ALTON, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-Most Democrats' prescription for what ails the nation's health care system would translate into higher taxes and higher national debt, a leading conservative figure said. The health care overhaul endorsed by President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would strip many patients' choices and access to treatments, said Eagle Forum President and Founder Phyllis Schlafly.

NBC's Today Show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent---former First Daugher, Jenna Hager... The daughter of former President George W. Bush will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer...

Edward Kennedy was a rare political combination of talent and privilege. The talent was the ability to connect with people one-on-one in an instant, an indispensable attribute in this business. Like all great politicians, Edward was not only conversant with every issue, he also knew how to open a conversation in a very personal way. Once we ran into each other after I had visited the site of China's historic Terracotta soldiers. He'd seen a photo of me there in the news. "What were you doing with a bunch of dead people?" he asked. He might talk to you about...

Europeans named the southern mountains after the Apalchen or Apalachen tribe of natives. How did the name progress from "Apalchen" to "Appalachia" and "Appalachian Mountains?" By the whims of cartographers and geographers, it seems. The steps from "Apalchen" to "Appalachian" can be traced by referring to vintage maps which provide names for the mountains of the East.

I know he said he thinks the CIA investigation would be a bad thing, then spends the rest of the interview talking about how our image in the world is damaged because of torture, he John, the world would be speaking fluent German if it wasn't for us...Good Grief, please retire... (Video from Face the Nation)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A new reality television show about the life of actor and martial arts expert Steven Seagal became the subject of a federal lawsuit filed on Monday in a dispute over who thought up the idea for the show. A&E Television Networks sued California-based Genuine Entertainment claiming that Genuine has wrongly asserted the idea for the reality show was stolen from Genuine by A&E after a series of meetings between the two parties. Seagal rose to fame in the 1990s as a star of action movies such as "Under Siege," but in recent years has failed to...

The sad state of the President Obama's healthcare reform project is illustrated neatly by two stories about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. First from the Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that he was not bound by a controversial deal negotiated between the White House and pharmaceutical companies, telling thousands of Nevada voters on a conference call that "I have not agreed with anybody to do that." The drug industry told the White House this summer that it would cut future drug costs by $80 billion in exchange for assurances that any health care legislation would prevent the...

God, I’ve got a headache. I just got back from the Townhall Meeting with Rush Holt, and as promised I’ve started drinking. A lot. I need to. And maybe you will too if these things go through. The meeting was scheduled to start at 7pm, so like a good anal-retentive type I got there at 4:30…and I was about the 20th person on line.