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EV INDUSTRY ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE It has become clear that the electric vehicle industry is on the brink of collapse. Profits at the German auto giant Mercedes plunged on Friday as sales of its new range of EVs went into freefall Porsche abandoned its sales targets for battery-powered cars amid waning demand from customers. Ford is losing nearly $50,000 on every EV it sells, while Tesla’s profits dropped 45pc. Meanwhile, battery manufacturers such as Germany’s Varta are getting wiped out. As concluded by Matthew Lynn, writing for the telegraph.co.uk, hundreds of billions have been pumped into this industry...

This Video Shows the Location of the Van that Thomas Crooks Drove and Parked before the Former President's Rally In Butler PA.

Explanation: What's happening above Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in central Australia that rises sharply from nearly flat surroundings. Composed of sandstone, Uluru has slowly formed over the past 300 million years as softer rock eroded away. The Uluru region has been a home to humans for over 22,000 years. Recorded last month, the starry sky above Uluru includes the central band of our Milky Way galaxy, complete with complex dark filaments of dust, bright red emission nebulas, and billions of stars.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed his government’s support for the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, expressing during a visit to Caracas on February 20 Moscow's commitment to strategic cooperation in numerous sectors...

CHANT 'HEIL HITLER' AT ISRAEL'S OLYMPICS SOCCER GAME 7/29/2024. Pro-Palestine protesters made their presence known at the Olympics in the worst possible way ... invoking the biggest antisemite known to human history straight from the stands.

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Michael Moore has gone full Kamala — declaring “this country is female” and that white males will be “shown the door” come November. In a blog post published Monday titled “Now, We Crush Trump,” Michael Moore spelled out the steps he believes Kamala Harris needs to take in order to ensure electoral victory — namely, to lean heavily on identity politics and fully embrace the anti-Israel left, especially the enormous Muslim population in his native Michigan. Moore made no mention in his essay about Kamala Harris’ record as vice president or as a U.S. senator — her complete failure to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he will put the finishing touches on an “action plan for peace” by the end of November. He added that he cannot discuss a ceasefire while Russian forces occupy Ukrainian territory. Zelensky touted his “action plan for peace” as an extension of June’s “Global Peace Summit” in Switzerland, which produced a communique calling for restoration of Ukraine’s “territorial integrity.” Representatives from 91 nations signed the communique, but Russia was not one of them. Russian President Vladimir Putin instead demanded Ukraine surrender its occupied eastern provinces to Russian control and abandon its plans to...

Trump’s extremist policy agenda is flying under the radar — and that’s a problem. Donald Trump went on national TV last week and proposed bombing Mexico. Asked by Fox News’s Jesse Watters if he’d consider strikes against drug cartels operating in the country, Trump said yes — and framed his answer as a threat against the Mexican government. “Mexico’s gonna have to straighten it out really fast, or the answer is absolutely,” the former president said. This is not a one-off answer to a stray question. Trump suggested firing missiles at Mexico during his presidency, asked advisers for a “battle...

Maduro is deploying his armed forces against the Venezuelan people. He disregards their will and is prepared to use violence to cling to power (See video in link below) https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1817997886916886794

A single injection of a new, off-the-shelf stem cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis significantly improved pain and function for up to 12 months in 75% of participants involved in a clinical trial. The treatment also has the potential to halt the disease’s progression. In 2020, 7.6% of the global population had the painful degenerative condition osteoarthritis, an increase of 132.2% in total cases since 1990. It’s expected that by 2050, cases will have increased by 74.9% for knee, 48.6% for hand, and 78.6% for hip osteoarthritis. Current treatment includes pain relief, usually with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), exercise as tolerated,...

This new automatic voter registration (AVR) system can enhance voting accuracy, reduce fraud, and give more people access to democracy. Here’s how it works. If the unregistered eligible voter population in California was its own state, it would be the 25th largest state in the country. Compare this to Oregon, where 93.5% of eligible voters are registered, thanks to a new automatic voter registration program called Secure AVR. The process is simple – when attending appointments at places like the DMV, eligible citizens are automatically registered. If uninterested, users can choose to opt out, but otherwise, registration takes no effort....

*searches Donald Trump* *only gets news about Kamala Harris” (see 4 second video in link below) https://x.com/NoemiKhachian/status/1817974361040748782

A panel on “Morning Joe” spent over eight minutes discussing prayers at rallies held by former President Donald Trump during a Monday segment. In an article published Monday morning, McKay Coppins, a staff writer for The Atlantic, reviewed prayers at Trump’s rallies since he announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in November 2022. Coppins told MSNBC contributor Jen Palmieri during the eight-minute segment that the text of the prayers could be planting “seeds of conspiracy theories,” after he said the prayers had not received what he considered to be sufficient “journalistic attention.” “If you imagine a loss for...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will each travel to Houston this week to pay their respects to former U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, according to statements from the White House. Jackson Lee died at age 74 on July 19 amid a battle with pancreatic cancer. The Houston Democrat was one of the longest serving members of Texas’ congressional delegation, known as a staunch advocate for progressive causes. Harris called Jackson Lee a “dear friend” in a statementfollowing the Congresswoman’s passing and lauded her work on disaster relief following Hurricane Harvey, and as...

With an extremely contentious 2024 United States Presidential Election nearly upon us, it's not just the candidates involved who are facing increased security and safety threats. OutKick founder Clay Travis received a handwritten letter in the mail threatening his life. After former president Donald Trump – the current Republican nominee for president – was the victim of an assassination attempt, tensions reached a boiling point. While some left-wing media outlets believe that Kamala Harris – the presumed Democratic nominee – is the one at real risk, it seems like people on the right side of the aisle are more vulnerable...

A team of scientists from the University of Singapore has announced the creation of a prototype energy-harvesting device that draws usable electricity seemingly out of thin air. Designed to leverage nanoscale spin rectifier technology to capture what the device’s inventors term “waste RF” signals that exist in the air due to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5G, and traditional radio signals, the novel energy harvesting system can convert those signals into enough usable direct current (DC) electrical energy. Similar RF energy harvesting technologies have been developed in recent years, including one invented by researchers from the University of South Florida. However, the team...

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed. Just one week has passed since the Democratic Party ousted President Joe Biden from the 2024 ticket and essentially coronated Vice President Kamala Harris to be his successor — and while questions are still mounting about Biden’s true condition and why he ultimately agreed to step away from the campaign, there are bigger questions...

The White House publicly urged Israel on Monday to exercise restraint in response to the rocket attack from Lebanon over the weekend that killed 12 children and teenagers in an Israeli-controlled town, warning against an escalation that could lead to a wider regional war. “Israel has a right to defend itself — no nation should have to live with this kind of threat,” John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, told reporters. At the same time, “we believe that there is still time and space for a diplomatic solution,” he said, adding, “Nobody wants a...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis silent on Olympic opening scandal while scandal-plagued Vatican archbishop defends itPope Francis did not say anything about the Olympics’ blasphemous opening ceremony in his Sunday Angelus, and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the Francis-appointed president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claimed it ‘reveals a profound question.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The often scandalous Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia has issued a contradictory defense of the Olympic opening ceremony featuring a drag queen mockery of the Last Supper, while Pope Francis has remained notably silent about the incident.In a social media post on July 27, Archbishop Paglia attempted to straddle both...