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Might not be very long before we see a similar headline for Joe Biden :cool:

All hail Komrade Kamala.
 
SirRumpole said:
I'm sure we all wish him a speedy recovery.
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SirRumpole said:
John Howard recovering in hospital after appendicitis operation.

I'm sure we all wish him a speedy recovery.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/j...ics-news/45eeee40-e4fa-4940-b5b2-9f03ca729a76
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I do but i am sure many do not like his patronising patriarchal privileged older white heterosexual male ruling.
Wished he had let Costello in , we would be better off now but had a relatively united Australia time.
He actually did a lot for environment with huge amounts from Telstra sales going into landcare,. And in our case a Nature refuge creation
I wish him well too
 
Once upon a time you couldn't have made this up.
However this true story will be going to production anytime soon..:D

Brazilian evangelical politician accused of masterminding husband's 'barbaric' murder
Singer-turned politician known as Flordelis was alleged ringleader of lurid family plot to kill husband, including poisoning him

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Congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos de Souza in 2019. She was accused of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Anderson do Carmo, last year. Photograph: Michel Jesus/Brazilian Chamber of Deputies/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
Tue 25 Aug 2020 03.24 AEST
Last modified on Tue 25 Aug 2020 13.28 AEST


A gospel-singing Brazilian congresswoman has been accused of masterminding the “barbaric” murder of her preacher husband after at least six failed or aborted attempts to kill him with poison or in staged robberies.

Anderson do Carmo was 42 when he was shot dead in June 2019 as he returned to the home he shared with the church crooner-turned-politician Flordelis dos Santos de Souza.

The celebrity congresswoman, who congregants and fans call simply Flordelis, claimed her husband – with whom she had famously raised more than 50 children – had been slain by thieves.
  • But allegations of a bizarre and lurid family plot to murder the evangelical preacher emerged on Monday as police arrested five of Flordelis’ children and one granddaughter for involvement in the crime.
 
Caged Congolese man: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise
https://zoronews.info/2020/08/27/caged-congolese-man-why-a-zoo-took-114-years-to-apologise/
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Ota Benga at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. Only five promotional photos exist of Benga's time here, none of them in the "Monkey House"; cameras were not allowed.[19]

Ota Benga (c. 1883[1] – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and in a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from African slave traders by the missionary Samuel Phillips Verner,[2] a businessman searching for African people for the exhibition. He accompanied Verner to the United States. Later, at the Bronx Zoo, Benga was allowed to walk the grounds before and after he was exhibited in the zoo's Monkey House. Except for a brief visit with Verner to Africa after the close of the St. Louis Fair, Benga lived in the United States, mostly in Virginia, for the rest of his life.

As a member of the Mbuti people,[4] Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Congo Free State. His people were attacked by the Force Publique, established by King Leopold II of Belgium as a militia to control the natives for labor in order to exploit the large supply of rubber in the Congo.

Benga's wife and two children were murdered; he survived only because he was on a hunting expedition when the Force Publique attacked his village. He was later captured by "Baschelel" (Bashilele) slave traders.[5][6][7]

He tried to return to Africa, but the outbreak of World War I in 1914 stopped all ship passenger travel. Benga fell into a depression. He died by suicide in 1916.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Benga
 
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'Coffin confessor' Bill Edgar paid to gatecrash Queensland funerals and speak up for the dead

Bill Edgar has, in his own words, "no respect for the living". Instead, his loyalty is to the newly departed clients who hire Mr Edgar — known as "the coffin confessor" — to carry out their wishes from beyond the grave.

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    • Coffin confessor reveals juicy secrets of the dead for a flat fee of $10,000
    • Mr Edgar has "crashed" 22 funerals and graveside services on behalf of clients
    • His unusual job is set to be played out on screen in a TV series or movie
Mr Edgar runs a business in which, for $10,000, he is engaged by people "knocking on death's door" to go to their funerals or gravesides and reveal the secrets they want their loved ones to know.

"They've got to have a voice and I lend my voice for them," Mr Edgar said.
Mr Edgar, a Gold Coast private investigator, said the idea for his graveside hustle came when he was working for a terminally ill man.
"We got on to the topic of dying and death and he said he'd like to do something," Mr Edgar said.

"I said, 'Well, I could always crash your funeral for you'," and a few weeks later the man called and took Mr Edgar up on his offer and a business was born.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09...-reveals-secrets-of-dead-at-funerals/12619946
 
Africa leaders: Mali military gov't must name president by Sep 15
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ary-gov-president-sep-15-200907183944798.html
The West African regional bloc ECOWAS called on Mali's new military government that seized power last month to appoint a civilian to head a transition government by September 15.
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The mutinying soldiers who forced Keita out of office and detained several senior officials promised to oversee a transition to the election.

Former Mali President Keita leaves country amid transition talks
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...country-transition-talks-200906071255194.html
Officials say overthrown leader - detained by military rulers who unseated him - is visiting UAE for medical treatment.

For weeks, Malians protested for change. Then a coup happened
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ted-change-coup-happened-200819085012741.html
It was around midnight, hours after his seizure at gunpoint by soldiers in Mali's capital, when Ibrahim Boubacar Keita finally appeared on national television.
 
Bradley Edwards has been found guilty of the Claremont serial killings, not enough evidence to be convicted on the Sarah Spiers case.

www.abc.net.au

Pleas for Claremont killer to reveal what happened to Sarah Spiers, if he knows

Bradley Robert Edwards is found guilty of murdering Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer, but not guilty of murdering 18-year-old Sarah Spiers. The women disappeared from the Perth suburb of Claremont in the mid-1990s. See how one of the biggest trials in WA history unfolded.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
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Bradley Edwards has been found guilty of the Claremont serial killings, not enough evidence to be convicted on the Sarah Spiers case.

www.abc.net.au

Pleas for Claremont killer to reveal what happened to Sarah Spiers, if he knows

Bradley Robert Edwards is found guilty of murdering Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer, but not guilty of murdering 18-year-old Sarah Spiers. The women disappeared from the Perth suburb of Claremont in the mid-1990s. See how one of the biggest trials in WA history unfolded.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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You have to hand it to the police for perservering for so long to catch the killer.

Same with the Daniel Morecambe killer and the Family Court bomber.

I know it's their job, but they deserve more credit in cases like this.
 
SirRumpole said:
You have to hand it to the police for perservering for so long to catch the killer.

Same with the Daniel Morecambe killer and the Family Court bomber.

I know it's their job, but they deserve more credit in cases like this.
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Absolutely it is a crap job that no one appreciates, until they need them, I can't believe how much bad press they get.
I would love to see some of these bleeding heart people, dealing with the life and death situations and then having a self righteous committee adjudicate on it at a later date. It isn't a job I would sign up for.
It's a bit like the banks, they are bagged for lending, they are bagged for charging too much for lending, they are taxed for making too much money, then they are told not to lend, then they don't lend and are told to lend, then they are told their lending criterea is too tight, then they are fined because their I.T system isn't up to speed with Government lending rules.
Meanwhile the resources that underpin our economy are being stripped away at ever increasing speed, with fewer and fewer people employed, priceless "keep dancing Maria" Luigi the magician.?
 
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A helicopter has just landed at The White House to take President Trump to The Walter Read Army Medical Hospital. He has developed a fever and suffering from fatigue it is reported and they say this is as a precaution.
 
This just shows the reckless disregard Trump has shown for his staff at the Whitehouse, his political colleagues and those in the press whose job it is to report on presidential politics.

Kellyanne Conway tests positive

Kellyanne Conway, the former top White House adviser, said on Twitter Friday night that she had tested positive for the coronavirus, making her the latest person close to President Trump to have gotten sick this week.

Ms. Conway attended White House events announcing Mr. Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, last Saturday.

“Tonight I tested positive for COVID-19. My symptoms are mild (light cough) and I’m feeling fine,” she posted on Twitter. “I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians. As always, my heart is with everyone affected by this global pandemic.”

Ms. Conway told associates that previous tests she had taken were negative.

Mr. Trump and the first lady tested positive for the virus early Friday morning.

Three reporters who were with the president that day have also tested positive, as well as two senators and the president of the University of Notre Dame.

Another adviser, Hope Hicks, tested positive for the virus on Thursday, but she did not attend the event.
 

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