Over the last 80 years, there has been many medical ways to deal with health, including taking a hunch... As well the western world has been warming up to some of the old remedies from the East — the Chinese. I am lucky, All I need so far is a bit of acetylsalicylic acid twice or so a year to help cure a hangover...

I was going to write a self-inflicted hangover but a hangover is always self-inflicted...

The International Monetary Fund's board this week signed off on a $17 billion bailout for Ukraine, whose economy has been weakened by months of upheaval and a stand-off with Russia.

Ukraine's previous two IMF programs were suspended after the government did not stick to earlier promises, such as raising natural gas prices. This time, the IMF required Kiev to implement 12 reforms before receiving any money.

The following highlights some of the IMF's new requirements:

Energy Sector

The Sunday Telegraph can't come to say that tony "breaks his promise of no new taxes"... So in a slight of hand, the ST displaces the word "break" and places it on voters... As if the voters were the ones about to break something...

It's very cunning, although the Sunday Telegraph had the decency to say TAX, not LEVY...  To some extend, the world Levy would not work in the heading... But then the words "broken promise" in the main copy are placed between quotes as if it was not a broken promise... you bunch of silly voters, out there...

The Abbott government faces another conflict of interest scandal after it was discovered that an adviser to the Indigenous Affairs Minister, Nigel Scullion, held a majority financial stake in a business that operated within the minister's portfolio.

Way past midnight down the road he eloquently staggered

 with eyes half closed, a quarter-smile on a face dementedly haggard.

I asked him where he's going, he answered me "Fuck knows.

Depends on which direction that the cold wind blows."

What a pack of clowns they are. What a bunch of jumped-up nongs they must have been. The Liberal Party back-room apparatchiks now parading before the Independent Commission Against Corruption are revealed, at last, in all their infantile stupidity.

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I could be wrong but I believe that religion and economic bastardry have been mixed together in the Commission of Audit report, as well as in the government's response... It feels like all of them combined want to create a new class of poor in this country. To make sure we'll swallow the pill, there is a pitched format in which "everyone is doing a bit of heavy lifting"... Of course the poorest have to do more of their proportional share. Tough titties.... Joe is lying.

Treasurer Joe Hockey addresses the media in Canberra on the recommendations of the Audit Commission.

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I have no idea on how Joe Hockey is dealing with this Audit Commission, but from what I have heard and read, this whatever Commission of Audits is about the need to dismantle every governmental agencies and feed them to the lions of private enterprise.