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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says a sexual harassment complaint filed against him is "spurious and defamatory".  But it certainly adds to the heat beneath his seat at his fellow Nats grow weary of the scandal surrounding Mr. Joyce, either refusing to support him publicly or flat out calling on him to resign.  In this case, the complainant is a prominent figure in the WA regions but not a Nats staffer, according to the ABC.  Joyce is already on a week's personal leave because of his affair with a former staffer who is pregnant with his child.

The leader America's gun lobbying group the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the orange clown Donald Trump have ended the right-wing's moratorium on saying stupid, divisive, and provocative garbage after the slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.  At the annual gathering of sociopaths, the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), NRA chief ghoul Wayne La Pierre blamed the media (for the gunman it helped to train to kill 17 people), defended the right to own and use weapons of war around children, and warned of creeping "Socialism" in America:  "There are now over 100 chapters of Young Democratic Socialists of America at many universities!", La Pierre ranted.  The Democratic Socialists of America thanked La Pierre for the free publicity and began recruiting off of it while expressing solidarity with the Parkland teens (whom conservatives don't give a crap about).

In the White House, the orange clown defended the NRA as "great American patriots" while floating the utterly moronic idea of arming "highly trained" teachers with guns to deal with school shootings.  The majority of teachers condemned this folly, and said they'd rather be paid well and have proper school funding.  The White House is conducting "listening sessions" in which hand-picked people who have been impacted by gun violence give their carefully screened opinions to Trump, who is so damned bereft of humanity that he actually had to bring crib notes telling him how to show compassion in a room full of gun victims.
Trump's crib notes
The hand-written note included such helpful phrases as "I hear you" and "How can we make you feel safe?"  To which I'd answer, "By answering the door when special prosecutor Robert Mueller comes a' knocking."

Anyway..

Syrian forces renewed the bombing campaign against rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, raising the civilian death toll to well above 400 lives lost.  Reporters on the scene are saying it's now as bad as the siege at Aleppo earlier in this most uncivil war, while others are comparing it to the bloodbath a Srebrenica during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia.  The bombs kept falling even as the UN Security Council met in New York to come up with a 30 day truce to help the 339,000 civilians that UN says are living in "hell on earth".

It seems an incredible way for things to get worse for the Rohingya, but an Elephant went on a ill-fated stroll in one of the refugee camps in Bangladesh.  At least two people, reportedly children, were killed when the rogue beast trampled tents and grew frustrated as people ran and shouted and threw stuff.  Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar routed more than 800,000 Rohingya from their ancestral homes in Rakhine State, over the border into the squalid camps in Bangladesh.

Haiti suspended Oxfam UK operations in the country.  Officials say the charity made a "serious error" by failing to inform Haitian authorities that some of its people were suspected of hiring prostitutes during their aid mission after the 2010 Haitian earthquake.  Oxfam says its workers from countries other than the UK will continue to work on aid projects in Haiti, and reiterated its earlier apology to the people of Haiti for the prostitution scandal.

Angry parents are demanding answers after Nigeria botched the response to yet another Boko Haram raid on a girls' school.  There are 50 to 100 girls unaccounted for after the Islamist terrorist group attacked the Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi town.  Earlier in the week, the government played down the attack and said teachers escorted the students into the bush for their safety.  That's clearly not the case anymore.  It has taken years to get just some of the 276 Chibok school girls back from Boko Haram years after that mass-abduction in 2014.