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SHENZHEN, China/TOKYO -- The rise of electric vehicles in China is fueling a shakeout in its auto market, uprooting players lacking the wherewithal to keep pace while the government bolsters a select few companies in its bid to make the country an automotive powerhouse. The mounting challenges of the Chinese market, with a cooling economy driving a race to the bottom on prices, have been underscored by Mitsubishi Motors' decision to withdraw from Chinese production. "There were no guarantees that we could turn a profit in a market as competitive as China," a Mitsubishi executive said. "We might have worsened...

Major League Baseball is now looking into the benches-clearing incident between the Astros and Mariners on Wednesday night after Houston reliever Hector Neris allegedly used a homophobic slur toward Mariners star Julio Rodriguez, according to The Athletic. Neris struck out the Seattle All-Star in the sixth inning of the Astros’ win and allegedly shouted the slur in Spanish as he charged toward Rodriguez, Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suarez said, per The Seattle Times. The Houston right-hander denied saying the slur in a written statement Thursday. “There were reports that I used a homophobic slur, which are simply incorrect,” Neris said,...

Longtime and esteemed rock journalist Steve Rosen, who recently released a book about his unique friendship with Edward Van Halen, "Tonechaser - Understanding Edward: My 26-Year Journey With Edward Van Halen", was a guest on Ted Nugent's "Real America Voice" podcast on September 22. During the chat, which can be seen below, Ted stated about his love of VAN HALEN (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "When I first saw VAN HALEN, they opened up for me. I think the first gig was either Omaha or Des Moines, Iowa. But I heard that guitar, and I was aware of the 'You Really...

But they also broke into and ransacked the local branch of Lululemon. Yoga Moms everywhere will be appalled. And while looting can never be condoned, I must admit that I feel like the high end sports-clothing store had it coming to them. SNIP At the store in Manhattan, as I was shopping another “customer” was going along the racks using the old five-finger discount. In fact he was just walking around the store pulling clothes off the racks and throwing them over his arm. He had collected a huge pile of stuff. Probably thousands of dollars worth of clothing. Since...

Illegal migrants fist bumped and thanked Border Patrol agents for cutting through barbed wire that had been erected by Texas authorities to secure the border, the Daily Caller News Foundation observed Thursday in Eagle Pass, Texas. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently instructed Texas authorities to place more wire along the Rio Grande River to address the influx of illegal crossings. Border Patrol agents cut through the wire to take into custody a group of migrants that had crossed the Rio Grande and arrived at the U.S. side of the river. The migrants who crossed illegally Thursday thanked Border Patrol...

Former President Donald Trump has decided not to seek to move his election interference trial from Fulton County to federal court, his lawyer said Thursday. In a surprise, two-page notice filed in Fulton Superior Court, attorneys Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little said Trump based the decision “on his well-founded confidence that this Honorable Court intends to fully and completely protect his constitutional right to a fair trial.” In order to move his case, Trump would have had to show he was operating as a federal official — rather than a political candidate — as he attempted to overturn the results...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine is ready for Major Attack on the South | Ruzzia in Panic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXP8vvJDjAo The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 23rd September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-577-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron and commentator Chris Rufo share a hope that the "extremism of a lot of the woke ideology" is prompting a promising backlash despite dominating conservative fears. … Barron said the U.S. will be "on dangerous ground politically" as culture moves away from the Declaration of Independence's sense of inalienable rights. "Real equality is that we're all children of God together our rights are going to even us because they're dependent upon the Creator's will," Barron said.While many Republican politicians have joined the crusade against "wokeness," others have softened on the term. "I don’t like the term...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that House Republicans should be investigated for their conduct. According to Ocasio-Cortez, there were questions about ethics during the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. Discussing the hearing earlier today, anchor Chris Hayes said, “This was a really striking moment. There was larger text that altered what that conversation about getting a job was really about. How did you catch that? And what does it say that that is the evidence that they are using in this, their first impeachment inquiry?”

If it wasn’t for Donald Trump, this would be the Republican presidential field. No wonder he is crushing his opposition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqQTr0y55_E https://twitter.com/normposter/status/1707274670435692697 https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1707227117476290954 Donald Trump is the absolute and undisputed de facto nominee of the Republican Party for the 2024 election. Even if every opposing candidate combined to form some Voltron-like creature, that creature would not stand a chance at beating Donald Trump.

Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is launching a full-scale attack against state Republican leaders in defense of his closed-door deal with an electric vehicle (EV) battery company with substantial ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a letter to Republican state Senate Minority Leader John Curran and other GOP state lawmakers this week, Pritzker accused critics of his recently-announced deal with Gotion Inc. of "resorting to xenophobia" in an effort to attain a "grotesque short-term political gain." Pritzker's sprawling letter defended the deal, arguing it would boost economic growth and create thousands of jobs. "You and your members express...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine once again finds itself center stage in the drama of American politics.The looming federal shutdown is being felt in Kyiv, some 5,000 miles east of Washington, as a potential disruption of crucial American aid and argument over whether to support Ukraine at all has heightened concerns ahead of next year’s U.S. presidential election.For Ukraine, a U.S. government shutdown “would be an unpleasant development, to say the least,” said Oleksandr Kraiev, a United States foreign policy expert at the Ukrainian think tank Prism who provides consultancy for the government in Kyiv. While the impasse might not present...

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VIDEOJimmy Dore has to be the HAPPIEST person on the planet right now. Why? Because Chunk Yogurt, aka Cenk Uygur, of The Young Turks just announced that he is planning on running for president. Chunk made the announcement on "Breaking Points" thus demonstrating just how clueless he is about the U.S. Constitution. Yes, he seems utterly unaware that you have to be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN to become president so that leaves Chunk out since he was born in Istanbul Turkey and didn't come to America until his family immigrated here when he was eight. However, no matter since the...

This afternoon in 1898, six liberals got the chop for their hopeless attempt to give a tottering empire the reforms it desperately needed. The Hundred Days’ Reform — actually 103 days, from June 11 to September 21 — marked the attempt by China’s Guangxu Emperor to implement a far-reaching modernization programme backed by forward-thinking officials with a mind to correct China’s supine position vis-a-vis the West, and even vis-a-vis its neighbors.....

False location signals near Iran shut down onboard direction systems False electronic signals imitating satellite data from Global Position System satellites recently caused complete navigation failures for 12 aircraft flights near Iran, according to a private aircraft security group. “A troubling new development in enroute airspace is emerging: Aircraft are being targeted with fake GPS signals, quickly leading to complete loss of navigational capability,” the organization OpsGroup stated in a warning notice. The crew of a Boeing 777 flying near southeastern Iraq toward Baghdad lost the use of its GPS in one incident, leaving the pilot in the dark. “What...

After a Jewish family that moved to Ramla was attacked by their Arab neighbors, who wreaked havoc on their home, the court forbade the neighbors to contact the family members, point cameras at their home, and approach the home's grounds. Also, the common yard was temporarily divided by a fence. ... Last August, members of the Jewish family moved into an apartment in the city of Ramla. The ones who decided to receive them in an unpleasant way are the Arab neighbors, when since moving the Jews received statements like "Let's catch this religious woman", "Let Hitler burn you", "And...

Fox News personality Dana Perino, who co-moderated Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, hosted a panel at the Clinton Foundation gala in September, introducing the “amazing” Hillary Clinton. The revelation follows backlash after the Republican National Committee (RNC) included Univision in the debate, leading to leftist talking points throughout the night and irking many conservative voters. snip As Breitbart News reported Wednesday night, “the irritation of the inclusion of Univision only grew throughout the night, as moderators asked about ‘gun violence,’ amnesty, Obamacare, and more,” causing many to deem the debate “unwatchable.”

Whoopi Goldberg was forced to tell Alyssa Farah Griffin to 'listen' during Thursday's edition of The View as the panel erupted into chaos during another fiery political debate. Whoopi, 67, was clearly frustrated as Alyssa, 34, and her other co-hosts Sara Haines, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin shouted over one another as they discussed the Republican presidential debate, which took place on September 27. After letting Sunny and Alyssa battle it out for a minute or so, the Sister Act star decided to speak up and told the panel, 'I've been quiet for everybody,' and was clearly annoyed with her...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pushed back on a “hoax” during the second Republican presidential primary debate that was started by Vice President Kamala Harris several weeks ago and was pushed during the debate by a leftist debate moderator and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). Harris promoted the smear campaign about Florida’s African-American history curriculum back in July, claiming that “in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.” Harris seized on one sentence from the 216-page curriculum that noted that freed slaves at times used skills they learned and developed during...