Celebrated satirist and comedian John Clarke has died suddenly, aged 68.

Clarke was born in New Zealand but made his name as a comedian and political satirist in Australia after arriving in the 1970s.

 

WASHINGTON — For the first 10 weeks of President Trump’s administration, no adviser loomed larger in the public imagination than Stephen K. Bannon, the raw and rumpled former chairman of Breitbart News who considers himself a “virulently anti-establishment” revolutionary out to destroy the “administrative state.”

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A joint command centre made up of the forces of Russia, Iran and militias supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the US strike on a Syrian air base crosses "red lines" and it will respond to any new aggression and increase its support for its ally.

Peta Credlin admits the climate change policy under Julia Gillard's Labor government was never a carbon tax, but the coalition used that label to stir up brutal retail politics.

 

Senator Rand Paul said that Donald Trump should have asked for authorization from Congress before launching the Thursday missile strike against a military field in Syria.

 

Why Religions are instruments of Fascism

By Gus Leonisky, From the Leonisky Institute of Gentle Humanistic Transformation (LIGHT)

 

“Moral relativism” is the great rallying cry of Christians who fear an erosion of moral certainty in the secular age. If God is taken out of the picture, where do we anchor our sense of right and wrong?

 

“I inherited a mess!” President Trump complained at a news conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday afternoon.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The photo [above] was presented by Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Tuesday, who said it was taken from a declassified intelligence report, as an evidence to support the need for her bill called “Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act.”

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