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Federal agents arrested a South Los Angeles couple this week on charges relating to a February incident where the couple allegedly tried to ram an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle. The couple reportedly drove into oncoming traffic to stop the ICE agents from executing an immigration arrest warrant. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced the arrests and charges this week following the arrest of Gustavo Torres, 28, and Kiara Jaime-Flores, 34. The South LA couple are charged with conspiracy to impede or injure an officer. “These defendants are charged with knowingly and recklessly putting...

Illinois had some rare, good news yesterday.Stellantis, the Big 3 auto maker, announced it will be investing $1.2 billion in its Belvidere assembly plant and bringing back about 1,500 jobs there.You’ll never know who really got it done if you listen to Illinois’ leadership.It was a “dramatic turnabout,” as the Detroit Free Press put it.As you may remember, Gov. JB Pritzker announced to much fanfare in October 2023 that the Stellantis facility in Belvidere, idled with layoffs just before the previous Christmas, would be reopened. But no deal was ever signed and, last year, Stellantis indefinitely postponed any Belividere expansion,...

Paul McCartney’s homespun classic album, Ram, is my favourite Symphony. It has all the grandeur, playfulness and adventure of the Beatles at their best but, unlike any Beatles album, is a total embodiment of love, celebrating his life with his wife Linda partially replacing his former partner John Lennon in his music.. Notes on some of the songs: Too Many People: soaring lead guitars back the primary message to his preaching lefty former collaborator John, pull your head in. Ram.On: the right of men to love. Ride away. Right away. Dear Boy: chattering rhythms reflect the imprecisions of love. It...

Jeep maker Stellantis — one of the Big Three automakers — is set to lay off around 2,450 workers later this year at a discontinued Ram 1500 Classic factory outside of Detroit. “With the introduction of the new Ram 1500, production of the Ram 1500 Classic at the Warren (Michigan) Truck Assembly Plant will come to an end later this year,” a Stellantis spokesperson wrote to The Hill. “As a result, Stellantis announced today that the plant will move from a two-shift to a one-shift operating pattern in General Assembly.” The company confirmed that layoffs could begin as early as...

DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – Automaker Stellantis is recalling more than 211,000 SUVs and pickup trucks due to a software issue with the braking systems. The recall affects 2022 models of the Dodge Durango and Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks. The Ram 2500 is the model with by far the most vehicles impacted. Nearly 158,000 of the 2500 pickups will be recalled, while just over 500 Ram 3500s are affected. Around 53,000 Durangos will be recalled. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, many of these vehicles have a problem with the anti-lock braking control module, which could potentially...

It’s November 2023, and, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that killed some 1,400 Israelis and at least 31 Americans, thousands of demonstrators march through New York City, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” echo through the streets, along with “there is only one solution: intifada revolution.” Among the crowd is the infamous Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, who warns through a megaphone that a cabal of wily Jews has conspired to place “their little posters” (of kidnapped Israeli civilians) across the city, seeking...

Stellantis continues trimming its workforce as it focuses on electric vehicle production in the US Stellantis, the parent company of several auto brands, including Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds more U.S. workers as it continues to trim its workforce amid its transition to electric vehicle production. The Wall Street Journal reported that the automaker had instructed several white collar employees working in software, engineering and technology to work from home on Friday morning, and then held meetings where the workers were informed that they were losing their jobs. Around 400 people...

A federal judge on Wednesday found that the “selective prosecution” of far-right groups without charging their far-left counterparts for the same acts is “constitutionally impermissible.” U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney of southern California therefore dismissed charges against two men from the “white nationalist” Rise Above Movement (RAM) who violently clashed with members of the far-left group Antifa at three southern California pro-Trump events in 2017. In his 35-page order, the judge stressed the importance of equal protection under the law. He said that although the two men may have been involved in violent acts, prosecutors were wrong to exclusively...

Sez Uncle Tony: "When we heard that the new for 2025 Ram Ramcharger EV was going to be equipped with a gasoline powered generator to be used as a "range extender", it seemed like a practical and novel answer to the issue of range anxiety. " The reality is they've created an over stuffed, over complicated, oversized Frankenstein that has no accurate classification within the current world of vehicles. It's not an EV, It's not a Hybrid and it's not anything that could ever be considered sustainable."

The United Auto Workers union sent 6,800 Stellantis employees to the picket line Monday morning in a surprise, targeted strike at the company’s Ram truck facility. The Sterling Heights Assembly Plant is Stellantis’ “largest plant and biggest moneymaker,” UAW said in a statement Monday. The plant, about a half-hour north of Detroit, in Sterling Heights, Michigan, produces the Ram 1500 pickup. The union said the company, which makes vehicles under the Dodge, Ram, Jeep and Chrysler brands, has “the worst proposal on the table” in its negotiations on pay, converting temporary workers to full time and cost-of-living adjustments. “Despite having...

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I always loved Wings Wild Life, Mumbo was and is sexier than John Lee Hooker or Elmore James. Tomorrow - a beautiful little bit of pop. Dear Friend - an enigmatic hymn to yearning for reconciliation with John Lennon. It was recorded for Ram but I'd be guessing the intense emotions of the breakup delayed it. The Lovely Linda underpinned both albums. A marriage that lasted. Ram on. Read on ........ for more ...... please .......

Ram has entered the auto industry’s battle for electric truck dominance, unveiling its version of the electric pickup truck. The Ram 1500 Revolution caused a stir of hype as it debuted at CES 2023 Thursday. Auto critics have called it “sleek, futuristic, and unlike trucks today.” The Ram 1500 Revolution electric battery-powered pickup truck is displayed onstage during the Stellantis keynote at the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Despite being late to the game of developing an electric truck, as Ford, Rivian, and GMC are already on the road with their versions,...

Key Points 8GB and 16GB make a big difference in performance. The key difference is the volume of RAM and how much stress you need to put on your PC. 16GB is the clear winner for any PC. 8GB and 16GB of RAM isn’t the usual comparison. Obviously, more RAM would be better, so we’re going to look at the comparison from a few different angles. We’re going to look at what 16GB can do that 8GB can’t. When does 8GB stop being enough? What are the differences in performance and available features? We’ll look at what we can and...

As a follow up to my question regarding my Dell 5490 laptop: If I exceed the present RAM capacity (8 GB), then the SSD page (swap) file comes into play. The present swap file is 1.25 GB, on the 256 GB NVMe "C" drive. Reads and writes to the SSD of course "wear" it gradually. I am guessing my best bet is to increase the RAM. But, how does that compare to putting in a bigger NVMe boot drive (which I plan to do anyway) and increasing the page file size?

A diesel truck owner's battle with the state of New Jersey is leading to the scrapyard. Mike Sebold initially received a letter from the state's Department of Environmental Protection after listing his modified 2008 Ram 2500 on Facebook Marketplace. Officials took issue with the pickup's deleted emissions equipment and, in turn, told Sebold his truck must be returned to stock or taken off the road. But after he decided to turn in his plates and keep it for off-road use, Sebold claims they've forced him to make an appointment with the crusher. Updated at 1:30 p.m. ET on 09/14/2022: Sebold...

VIDEO AT LINK ................ Ram has released a new video teaser of its upcoming all-electric Ram 1500 pickup truck, which is scheduled to enter the market in 2024. The new video is entitled "Ram Revolution | First Look" and shows the front of the vehicle, with a futuristic shape and an interesting LED headlight. It's very similar to the two images that we saw in March. The tweet version includes info that suggests the presentation of the vehicle in Fall 2022: "Time to steal some thunder. Unleashing Fall 2022. https://RamRevolution.com" At this point, we don't know whether it's a concept...

Watch a Canadian Freedom Conyoy particpant pulled over by one police officer. A second police officer pulls in front of him, backs into his truck, then gets out, and puts the citizen on the ground. The Canadian police charges the pulled over guy for hitting a police car and trying to escape. When it was the police that backed into the pulled over truck.This police officer should not only be fired, but arrested, charged with vehicle assult and filing a fake police report. The other officers doing nothing should be at the minimum fired.Glad it's on video, and hopefully all...

A shadowy far-left “public health” organization and TV “pollster” Frank Luntz have teamed up to run a full court press COVID-19 disinformation campaign, with the goal of persuading governments on all levels to further mandate tyranny on the masses, while attempting to convince American citizens of the necessity of these orders. Since the beginning of COVID Mania, Luntz and his benefactors have manipulated language to gather support for totalitarian government edicts and further legitimize these radical anti-American ideas in the general population. For almost two years, Luntz and the Big Pharma-tied de Beaumont Foundation have been advocating for a variety...

In 2017, the US national debt surpassed $20 trillion for the first time. Former President Donald Trump added about $7.8 trillion to the debt with spending and tax cuts. The debt ceiling needs to be raised to cover past fiscal decisions. Not many people outside the Beltway truly understand what the US's debt ceiling is or how and when it needs to be raised. And Senate Republicans are banking on that..... But the debt is also a product of Republicans' 2017 tax cut, which reduced federal revenues - corporate tax rates dropped from 35% to 21% - without a commensurate...