Climate change: Extreme weather causes huge losses in 2020

WASHINGTON — Congress on Monday night overwhelmingly approved a $900 billion stimulus package that would send billions of dollars to American households and businesses grappling with the economic and health toll of the pandemic.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said hundreds of dollars in direct payments could begin reaching individual Americans as early as next week.

This cartoon (24-25 October 2020) by Johannes Leak, Bill's son, has been modified by Gus to remove the exclusive intents of the Murdoch media that show Scott Morrison as an exemplary god-fearing Christian who never tells a porkie and acts like the principal of a college for future advertising delinquents. 

The original is quite lame and demand a bit of oldy-worldy sniggering:

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Apple and Pear Australia Limited (APAL) withdrew from the Russian Intellectual Property Court (IPC) a statement challenging the registration of Lady Crimea trademark in the name of the Russian Crimean Fruit Company.

Once, when winter came, a cicada that was starving came to the door of an anthill asking for food. At his request the ants responded, asking the following question:

This is the cartoon of the year as voted by Gus Leonisky. Congratulation to Mark David!...

Among those cheering loudest at the (presumed) end of Donald Trump’s presidency in the past week were the comedians – Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver – on America’s staggering array of late-night shows and the-week-that-was wraps.

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Global warming demands some reality checks. Some “information” channels are often cool on the concept. “RT” and “NotGuardian” (GoofGuardian rather than OffGuardian sometimes) are example of bullshit spreading, with subtle differences...

A self-pardon of federal crimes could be taken as an admission of guilt, as Trump and his family face inquiries from both the state of New York and the District of Columbia. Both New York Attorney General Letitia James and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine have made the media rounds in recent weeks. They’ve made plain that they are licking their chops to get to the bottom of Trump’s business conduct— or criminal misconduct.

The economy is picking up, and hundreds of thousand of workers in those queues are now back in work.

However, there are plenty more that will continue to struggle.

PAR continues to report on national efforts to monitor police, speaking to well-known cop watcher James Freeman about the perils of confronting cops with a camera. Freeman also shares his impression of policing in Arizona and local cops’ penchant for using deadly force in otherwise routine encounters...

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