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Blogsno stimulation needed...Share markets in the United States and Europe have dipped after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke all but ruled out more economic stimulus.
the football of politics...Football Federation Australia (FFA) has terminated Gold Coast United's A-League licence held by Clive Palmer.
arbib harakiri...
Labor may just be able to get on with governing before it's too late.
uncle rupe and his nags...Scotland Yard helped the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to go out hacking, it was revealed yesterday – but the arrangement owed nothing to the interception of mobile phone messages.
stonehedge...New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.
protection...picture by Gus Leonisky.... Hopefully this is in the vicinity of Arkaroola... For more than 40 years I've taken pictures in Australia, some pictures got stolen, some have lost their identification... so I go by my memory which is flinching like a candle in the wind of forgetfullness...
Israeli Apartheid Week 2012
The Snowy ManThere were movements at the stations as the emails passed around Rudd's bolt of Old Regret had got away Rumours ran like independants, Murdoch made a thousand Pounds, and Julia Gillard's cracks began to fray
A Hawker of the Faceless Men came down to lend a hand on the media cycle he so loved to ride cracking Whips and Albanese as he Galluped through the pack It was grand, the way that old spin-doctor lied.
But the hardy little Brisbane bloke could hardly raise a vote and it looked like he would fail in his attack, and he strained there, single-handed, till his sides were white with foam as he begged the squatters (please) to bring him back
And those squatters, who had gathered from their homesteads near and far stood and shook their heads at Kev in disbelief When possession still is thought of as nine-tenths of modern law
judgements of convenience .....Proposed laws that would empower the Australian Crime Commission to share information with the private sector could lead to people being unfairly sacked from their jobs, according to civil liberties groups. Under legislation due to be voted on in the Federal Parliament this year, the crime commission would be allowed to pass on information about serious and organised crime to businesses such as banks and superannuation funds. This would include telling them when an employee was suspected of criminal links. Civil libertarians say the proposals toss away the presumption of innocence and may lead to lives being unfairly destroyed.
the bottom line is a fair shake of the sauce bottle...
too close to the sun .....Dramatic new evidence to the Leveson inquiry this week is expected to unleash a "bloodbath" of bitter recriminations between police and prosecution officials arguing over failings in a series of investigations into allegations of phone hacking, computer hacking and bribery by journalists.
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