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Obama: “The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever the President wants prosecuted… the norm is that it’s independent… We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system.” The greatest actors can get you to believe anything they say is the truth.Obama deserves a dozen Oscars. …
Watch live as U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivers the Adam Smith Award lecture at the 67th annual meeting of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) in Philadelphia.
To close out her interview of Senator JD Vance (R-OH), NBC’s Kristen Welker trotted out the tired election acceptance question asked of every Republican appearing on an Acela Media Sunday talk show, and especially of Trump vice presidential shortlisters. Watch as Vance flips the question on its head and shuts Welker down (click “expand”): https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2024/07/07/nbc-host-tries-lecture-jd-vance-elections-gets-wrecked
WATCH‼️ President of Guyana slaps down arrogant BBC reporter. “You cannot lecture us on climate change, I will lecture YOU! …we have a forest the size of England and Scotland together that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon. …the world has destroyed 65% of its biodiversity —… pic.twitter.com/tjxvNJs4Tk — Radar 𝘸 Archie🚨 (@RadarHits) March 29, 2024
The United States has lost its ability to lecture any other country about “democracy”. https://t.co/kvtfas9bcC — Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) December 20, 2023 https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1737273300316020772
The top 1% was linked to more than of 17% of emissions, despite many celebrities and pols posing as loud voices against fossil fuels. New research published in PLOS Climate this week found that, of greenhouse gas (GHG) emitted in the United States, 40% of it comes from the 10% of richest households in the …