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a couple of sick story… The first one is a story coming from The Playboy Book of Satire…

The prime minister’s leadership in the wake of the bushfire crisis was widely regarded as reactive, evasive and inept.

THE UNPRECEDENTED AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN TO ELIMINATE JULIAN ASSANGE

Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he’s not receiving one in Britain either.

Does a late conversion somehow void the finance minister’s previous statements and the Coalition’s decade of shame?

Trump has to go…. America has a major toothache. Doctor Biden and nurse Kamala will have to operate.

"Every family has a joke teller, and he is usually bad news. That's right, bad news." This is the beginning of chapter XVIII "Uncle Ben and the Side-Splitting Knee-Slapper OR Some Words Are Loaded" in Jean Shepherd's "IN GOD WE TRUST *** ALL OTHERS PAY CASH ***"

Donald Trump has been compared to a "crazy Uncle" and Biden endeared to a “scrappy kid from Scranton” by Obama, now on the trail for the "No More Trump" campaign... By strange coincidence, one of my bedside books at the moment is the one mentioned above. It's an old-fashioned kind of read : "And so the bartender says to the guy...."

See:  https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biz-partner-confirms-e-mail-details-joe-bidens-push-to-make-millions-from-china/

The Morrison government insists coronavirus is behind delays in establishing an anti-corruption commission, despite receiving a draft bill in December 2019.

USA wants to finally kill Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas project

The US will expand sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. The sanctions will now affect companies that provide services or funding to install equipment on board the vessels that take part in the project. Such a move may permanently halt the construction of the pipeline.

By Dmitry Sudakov

The news to expand the sanctions was reported on the website of the US Department of State. Similar restrictions are to be imposed on the participants of the Turkish Stream and other similar projects.

The Ten Commandments of diplomacy: In war and peace the importance of each may vary.

Joe Biden is the most cosseted presidential candidate in memory.

The most remarkable thing about the revelation of Gladys Berejiklian’s love life was that it was remarkable at all.