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In the history of data from The Fed, this has never happened before...
Aggregate Auto Loan volume actually fell last week... And less loans means one simple thing... less sales (because prices have never been higher and no one is paying cash)...
Which is a major problem since motor vehicle production continues to rise as management is blindly believing the Hillbama narrative that everything is (and will be) awesome.
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
A man ambushed a police officer, Sgt. Sylvia Young, who was sitting in a police car parked in West Philadelphia on Friday evening, US media report. The policewoman was shot eight times and hit in the arm and her protective vest several times, and is now in the hospital in stable condition, according to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr.
Nearby police officers began chasing the man immediately after the incident. Meanwhile, the gunman approached a bar, which had its door open, and injured a security guard there. He then grabbed a woman from the bar and used her as a human shield, the commissioner said, adding that the suspect then shot her in the leg and fled again.
© MATTMCMULLENBEAUTY: It's all at the control of the users' fingertips on their smartphones or tablet.
But what's really going to get blokes' pulses racing is the bedroom toys will breathe, talk dirty, have a temperature and a personality all thanks to artificial intelligence.
The top CEO's focus with the robots is to create a "believable" experience for the user similar to that a human relationship.
© Benoit Tessier / ReutersCity workers remove tents and mattresses from an evacuated makeshift migrant camp near the metro stations of Jaures and Stalingrad in Paris, France, September 16, 2016.
Authorities moved in at dawn to remove the migrants, who had settled between the Jaurès and Stalingrad metro stations in Paris. Mainly from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan, deprived of welfare and away from home, migrants were forced to sleep in tents with no running water or immediate washing facilities.
L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Deploy Robot to Stealthily Grab Rifle from Attempted Murder Suspect
Officials said the use of the robot to disarm a violent suspect was unprecedented for the Sheriff's Department, and comes as law enforcement agencies increasingly rely on military-grade technology to reduce the risk of injury during confrontations with civilians.
"The robot was a game changer here," said Capt. Jack Ewell, a tactical expert with the Sheriff's Department — the largest sheriff's department in the nation. "We didn't have to risk a deputy's life to disarm a very violent man."
It began late in the evening of Sept. 8, when deputies in Lancaster were pursuing a man suspected of trying to kill one person and robbing two others.
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
The study, conducted by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, revealed that 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women aged 18 to 34 are still virgins in Japan.
The trend in society seems to have deteriorated since the last study came out in 2010. At the start of the decade, only 36.2 percent of men and 38.7 percent of women said they had never had sex.
Furthermore, as the new research revealed, the trend is unlikely to change in the near future as 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women have still yet to find a partner for a steady relationship.
Comment: See the following article for more insight into the dating-life, or lack thereof, of Japanese youth.
Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) gave the GOP presidential nominee its endorsement after he received support from more than two-thirds of the group's national board.
"[Trump] has seriously looked at the issues facing law enforcement today. He understands and supports our priorities and our members believe he will make America safe again," said Chuck Canterbury, the FOP's national president.
© Aaron Bernstein / Reuters
Terrill Thomas, 38, was sent to jail after two shooting episodes in which he allegedly was involved on April 14. In one he shot his best friend in the chest after suspecting him of trying to steal Thomas's car. In another one hours later, Thomas opened fire at Potawatomi Bingo Casino and told everyone to leave. After being arrested, he told investigators there were a lot of snakes in the casino and it looked suspicious.
Thomas suffered from bipolar disorder and, according to his family, had experienced a mental breakdown at the time of his arrest. His mother asked the police to take him into custody, saying her son had become violent and erratic.
On April 27, he was supposed to undergo medical evaluation to determine if he was competent to stand trial for five counts of charges against him. But this didn't happen because on April 24 he was found dead in his solitary cell.
The Syria Campaign (2015) commissioned a poll in Germany which was apparently carried out by German academic Heiko Giebler. In it, 889 Syrian refugees were said to have been interviewed in Berlin, Hanover, Bremen, Leipzig and Eisenhüttenstadt. Candidates 'were approached on entering or leaving registration centers'. However the survey does not specify how sampling choices were made (TSC 2015). This is important because sampling error can easily undermine the representative nature of a poll. Indeed if there is no sampling error, as in this case, there is no way to assert to what extent the survey represents a broader population. The results are then almost useless, except as anecdotes.
The attack happened at about 1:00am on Saturday morning, a diplomatic source told TASS news agency.
"Unidentified individuals threw a smoke stick at the embassy's territory and shot fireworks at the building," the source said, adding that the attackers failed to ignite anything.
Footage of the incident taken from a passing car shows multiple fireworks being fired at the windows of the embassy. The projectiles do not appear to do much damage since the windows were covered by metal shades.
Another video published by Reuters showed a group of people in hoodies shooting fireworks at the embassy and holding cameras. Two of them carried a large banner with a rhyme that read: "Russian swine, you are not welcome here. Today it's fireworks; tomorrow there will be Grads [multiple rocket launchers]."
Comment: In Ukraine and the West in general, Kiev's violation of international law is a "minor incident unworthy of commenting". Western democracy is built upon the stifling of other countries' democracy.
Comment: This is the sad state of society progressively getting more and more out of touch with normal people and communities. They are being encouraged to live isolated lives without the need for human contact.