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Chinese officials and automakers are eyeing German factories slated for closure and are particularly interested in Volkswagen’s sites (VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab<\/a>, a person with knowledge of Chinese government thinking told Reuters. Buying a factory<\/a> would allow China to build influence in Germany’s prized auto industry, home to some of the oldest and most prestigious car brands, the person said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American bus stops are often significantly closer together than European ones.<\/a> The mean stop spacing in the United States is around 313m, which is about five stops per mile. However, in older, larger American cities, stops are placed even closer. In Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, the mean spacing drops down to 223m, 214m, and 248m respectively, meaning as many as eight stops per mile. By contrast, in Europe it\u2019s more common to see spacings of 300m to 450m, roughly four stops per mile. An additional 500 feet takes between 1.5 and 2.5 minutes to walk at the average pace of 2.5 to 4 miles per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The national interests of countries<\/a> like the US and Russia won\u2019t always match up. Most of the time, they won\u2019t. But when they do overlap, it would be a mistake, a serious mistake, not to use that moment to agree on practical and mutually beneficial projects: in the economy, trade, investment, and so on.”And then he added: when US and Russian interests don\u2019t align, it would be criminal to let that disagreement slide into confrontation. Especially a direct, \u201chot\u201d confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line<\/strong> is two-fold: 1) the tag team failed<\/a> to overthrow the regime in Iran, although it surely has not given up on that goal; and 2) there is good reason to think that Israel and the US did not win the12-Day war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@SenFeinstein abused her Desert Protection Act to close down America’s most profitable Mountain Pass mine in the Mojave in 2002. Her husband Blum was exclusive importer of rare earth metals from China<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verizon has started enforcing a 365-day lock<\/a> period on phones purchased through its TracFone division, one week after the Federal Communications Commission waived a requirement<\/a> that Verizon unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2007, Marc Andreessen published what became the defining essay on startup strategy. \u201cThe Only Thing That Matters\u201d argued that of the three elements of a startup\u2014team, product, and market\u2014market matters most<\/strong>. A great market<\/a> pulls the product out of the startup. The product doesn\u2019t need to be great; it just has to basically work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Carney cannot simply return to Parliament and expect, as he has for the past year, that re-announcing projects or creating new bureaucracies<\/a> will suffice to fix Canada\u2019s woefully inadequate military, underdeveloped natural resources, and entrenched internal trade barriers. Small ball and tinkering is not going to cut it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state told Marin<\/a> it needed to plan for 14,000+ new homes (a ~12% increase in a county with ~115K homes). The county nodded. Then it upzoned a few dead malls and commercial sites, leaving 99% of its residential land untouched<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, for instance<\/a>, the West Michigan Woman Brilliance Awards named<\/a> her woman of the year. In 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed<\/a> Ezeh to the executive committee of Michigan’s Early Childhood Investment Corporation. In 2021, Aquinas College honored<\/a> the Nigerian fraudster with its Distinguished Service Award. The acclaim and upward mobility evidently weren’t enough for Ezeh, who decided to live a jet-set lifestyle<\/a> at taxpayers’ expense. According to a 2023 whistleblower complaint,<\/a> Ezeh used various interrelated organizations to funnel hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to herself as well as to friends and family members while serving as CEO of the Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think Ken Howery was an effective ambassador to Sweden several years back. I absolutely believe in the private-sector experience<\/a>,\u201d said Rufus Gifford, who served as President Barack Obama\u2019s ambassador to Denmark and was a top fund-raising official on Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RGGI<\/a> forces its member states to buy emissions credits\u2026from RGGI. It\u2019s a non-profit-run carbon tax system. Those credits then get charged directly to you on your electric bill. Youngkin pulled Virginia out of RGGI and saved Virginian\u2019s nearly a billion dollars on their electric bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you go writing off Virginia know this, Abigail Spanberger has been groomed to run for President(the new Hillary)<\/a>. Being governor is just a stepping stone. So while everyone is distracted with Gavin she is the plan. The VA Legislature will push crazy, radical stuff&she will veto some of it to appear moderate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike other megaconstellations<\/a>, including SpaceX\u2019s Starlink, Blue Origin\u2019s new constellation will not serve consumers or try to provide direct-to-cell communications. Rather, TeraWave will seek to serve \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is highlighting<\/a> the worst of worst criminal aliens arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe is pathetic<\/a> at getting anything done. Strategically weak Prevaricating. Disunited. Naive. A confused gaggle of middle managers waiting for distinct leadership, all looking to one another for answers because nobody seems to have any. Clinging onto rules and treaties that are no longer fit for purpose rather than actually using instinct and confidence, as it is the only foothold the lemming-like bureaucrats have to help formulate decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tons of headlines<\/a> from Davos. Here\u2019s a quick run down\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 2024 filing shows the group awarded<\/a> just $158,811 in grants that year while Armstrong brought in a salary of $215,726<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bugs<\/a> Apple Loves: Why else would they keep them around for so long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downtown Denver\u2019s office vacancy<\/a> rate grows to 38.2% as tenants reimagine the workplace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SFPark: interactive map of SF parking regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got on the Red line in Chicago. One car had guy living in his own shit, sprawled out in his filth eating Chinese take out food, and the car smelled like it. The other had two guys openly smoking joints yelling about the Bears. I chose the shit car because I didn’t want to get into an argument about Caleb’s lucky toss since that might have ended with one of us being stabbed. Thanks Chicago for such luxurious<\/a> choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to massive demand<\/a>, I\u2019ve added English subtitles to the German Amelia\/Maria video. Now the message can be understood worldwide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police at my stop tell me<\/a> they can’t\/won’t do anything. Why give him a ticket when the judge will toss out it anyways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawsuit alleges the companies accessed patient medical records<\/a> and then sold them to lawyers who sifted through the files to identify potential clients. These companies are \u201cexploiting health information exchange frameworks to fraudulently access and steal sensitive patient health information for financial gain,\u201d the lawsuit argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veterans generally understand the prevalence, presence and immediacy of danger intuitively<\/a>. This is a trait they share with LE. For example, as a veteran I plan to never again enter the Minneapolis\/St. Paul region, ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s the hard truth we\u2019ve lived, the people shouting loudest about \u201cprotecting immigrants\u201d and hating on ICE don\u2019t actually care about immigrants like us<\/a>. They care about looking morally superior. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that we fought an entire war in Somalia<\/a> with 28,000 troops? No. How could you? For you are on the “inside” and unable to see the whole of the host. The host does not want to see itself. If it could, then it would see itself for the bloated, obese, grotesque monster that it is, a monster that has ravaged nearly every small country in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese officials and automakers are eyeing German factories slated for closure and are particularly interested in Volkswagen’s sites (VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab, a person with knowledge of Chinese government thinking told Reuters. Buying a factory would allow China to build influence in Germany’s prized auto industry, home to some of the oldest and most prestigious car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}