Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath released an ad Friday attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for having "left our coal miners behind years ago."

When US Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump ordered his corporate battalions to cease dealing with China, it was far more theatre than the theatre of war.

Such an edict did have an immediate impact, but perhaps not the way the President intended.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made an important statement after the meeting with members of Russia's Security Council. The meeting was dedicated to USA's recent missile tests.

 

"On August 18, the United States conducted the test launch of a ground-based cruise missile, which, according to the US Defense Department, struck a target at a distance of over 500 kilometers.

Scummo is slowly destroying the ABC...

Here we go again – joining an American military adventure created by Donald Trump, an adventure that has no end in sight.

India, Pakistan or anyone but US must mop up Afghanistan quagmire, Trump says...

After Romance With Russian Agent, Overstock C.E.O. Takes Aim at ‘Deep State’

He was the chief executive of Overstock.com, a publicly traded e-commerce retailer. She was an ambitious graduate student from Russia.

The relationship between Patrick Byrne and Maria Butina became widely known on Monday, when his company issued a news release about it.

 

 

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US President Donald Trump appears to be making light of his own idea of buying Greenland from Denmark, tweeting a doctored photo of Trump Tower looming over a small village in the Arctic territory.

Not a real beetle in this picture... The dung beetle pushes the shit with its hind legs, face down, rolling backwards...

Trump Endangers the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act

August 16, 2019

The protection of threatened species will now be weighed against the economic benefit their extinction might mean. Meanwhile, states would no longer be able to review the impact of projects on water quality, in accordance with the decades-old the Clean Water Act

 

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Slowly but surely we come to “understand” politics. 

It has been a long road home for Gundagai's much-loved Dog on the Tuckerbox after the 87-year-old bronze statue was vandalised last month.