Melissa Fleming is the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications. A career bureaucrat, she formerly served UNHCR as Head of Global Communications and Spokesperson for the High Commissioner where she led global media outreach campaigns, social media engagement and a multimedia news service to distribute and place stories designed to generate empathy and stir action for refugees. […]
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Oct
Oct
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.4%, the correct number is at least 34.4%. In 2021, it is at least 49.1%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 50%. The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 17 drew broad […]
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Sep
Sep
Sadly, often too hot… I’m not a big fan of electric vehicles. I think they are dangerous, environmentally unfriendly (no matter what the climate change enthusiasts say), are not by any means emissions-free (they just change where the emissions are generated), and represent a massive strain on an already overburdened electric grid. But let’s focus […]
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Sep
Sep
I know I keep dissing Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez… …but she really is the gift that keeps on giving. No matter how dumb the thing she said yesterday is, she works her little butt off trying to top it today. Makes every day fun, doesn’t it? This one is a doozy. Rep. @AOC (D-NY): “The […]
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Sep
Sep
The big reason for driving electric cars is their lower carbon emissions. At least that’s what they tell us. And just to further muddy the waters, the climate hysterics call them “emission-free.” Anybody with any intelligence at all knows that’s nonsense. Eletric cars only move the emissions to local power plants, they don’t eliminate it […]
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Sep
Sep
At the beginning of this year, Wendell Perez got a call that no father ever wants to receive—his elementary-aged daughter had attempted to hang herself in the school bathroom. Perez and his wife rushed to the school, where their daughter was whisked away by a police car to stay in a mental institution for a […]
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Sep
Sep
It will be tough—if not impossible—for the Supreme Court to top the 2021-22 term when it comes to both drama and results that pleased the conservative legal community (not to mention conservatives in general). As I wrote elsewhere in July at the end of the term, “[t]he three words that best describe the Supreme Court’s decisions this […]
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Sep
Sep
Government: “We need to fight inflation.” Also the Government: pic.twitter.com/9xB8CdrJUc — Anthony Laurie (Энтони Лори) (@AnthonyALaurie) September 23, 2022 The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It performs five general functions to promote the effective operation of the U.S. economy and, more generally, the public interest. The Federal Reserve conducts the […]
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Sep
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-K.Y., joined ‘Kennedy’ to discuss former Secretary of State John Kerry saying he’s unsure how much the Inflation Reduction Act ‘has to do with inflation.’ Watch the latest video at <a href=”https://www.foxbusiness.com”>foxbusiness.com</a> Where he had to be reminded on Fox Business Network on Thursday night after he noted John Kerry called him an “asshole.” […]
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Sep
Sep
Sadly, often too hot… I’m not a big fan of electric vehicles. I think they are dangerous, environmentally unfriendly (no matter what the climate change enthusiasts say), are not by any means emissions-free (they just change where the emissions are generated), and represent a massive strain on an already overburdened electric grid. But let’s focus […]