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Barnaby Joyce, Donald Trump, Jacob Zuma, Benjamin Netanyahu.. who will be first?

The winner is Jacob Zuma, who has FINALLY resigned as President of South Africa in a late night address to his nation, spoken in English and Zulu.  He had been under increasing pressure from South Africa's government African National Congress (ANC) party which has had its fill of nine years of corruption, economic stagnation, and rampant unemployment.  Opposition parties was fed up a long time ago, but it was Zuma's relationship with the wealthy Gupta family - which they used to gain access to millions of dollars of government contracts - that proved to be the bridge too far for the ANC.  By stepping down, Zuma avoids a no-confidence motion that was scheduled for parliament on Thursday.  ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa is Deputy President and will fill in the remainder of Zuma's term until the next election.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce faces a new round of pressure from Labor over his relationship with his pregnant partner Vikki Campion.  The opposition is demanding to see details of taxpayer-funded flights Mr Joyce and Ms Campion took in 2017.  The Nationals put down a small cadre of discontented members who wanted Joyce to consider his future in light of the soap opera swirling around him.  But PM Malcolm Turnbull will go to Washington, DC next week and confirms that Mr. Joyce will be acting prime minister during that time, giving Labor a window of opportunity to inflict some political damage.

The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee has launched a probe of the Rob Porter scandal.  Lawmakers will try and determine which of Porter's superiors knew he was accused of beating two now-former wives and when they knew it.  Also at issue is the amount of classified material that passed through Porter's desk even though he couldn't pass an FBI background check because of the spousal abuse allegations.  "How do you have any job if you have credible allegations of domestic abuse?  Again, I am biased toward the victim," said Rep. Trey Gowdy who leads the committee.

US porn star Stormy Daniels is reportedly shopping her story around, after her lawyers came to the conclusion that Donald Trump's lawyer broke their non-disclosure agreement.  Attorney Michael Cohen for some reason told the world that he personally paid US$130,000 to Ms. Daniels before the 2016 election to make the story go away.  Which is not something lawyers do or say.  With that, Ms. Daniels feels free to spill the beans about the alleged affair she had with 1.5 incher and orange clown Donald Trump just after he married Melania.  Ironically (or is it 'stupidly'?), it's all been out there for years anyway, because Daniels had already described the whole thing in a 2011 interview with In Touch magazine.

Benjamin Netanyahu is no stranger to scandals, and the Israeli Prime Minister is not stepping down after police recommended that he be charged in two corruption probes.  But cracks are starting to appear in the governing coalition, with influential Education Minister Naftali Bennett chastising Netanyahu for "not living up to the standard of his office".  If Bennett withdraws his eight seats from the coalition, it brings down Netanyahu's majority government.

Anyway..

America's brief respite from school shootings ended today, as authorities report "a number of fatalities" at a middle class high school north of Miami, Florida.  Cops responded to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland at about 2:30 PM local time, and had a suspect handcuffed and in the back of an ambulance by 4:00 PM.  This story is still unfolding at the time of publication, and law enforcement sources said at least two people are dead, but other unconfirmed reports suggested a higher death and injury toll.  "It's sad.  It's sad that these tragedies happen in our country," said Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky, "Many of the students have been in touch with their parents.  We have many, many parents out here."  This is America's 18th school shooting of 2018.  On Valentine's Day.