Checks and Balances

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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 days ago

• November 22, 2009 City Center Closing at 3:30 PM on Fridays

  
  noe4accountability — Authority: 123
  [UPDATED] There was an announcement in todays Sunday paper that the City Center would be closing at 3:30 PM on Fridays beginning December 4. Now, if you had a business that served the public, would you shut your business down completely for 1-1/2 hours on Friday afternoons or would you rotate employee shifts ...
  1 week ago

• MY REPLY CONCERNING: "SELF-CENTERED EGOTISTS APATHETIC OR JUST PLAIN DUMB"

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Before I joined Facebook, I had read that Facebook was the so-called "Hottest" piece of Internet real estate. What wasnt clear was to what end. It appears that the Web 2.0 crowd of self-styled "geeks" or "nerds" (no offense intended) were stating their view that Facebook is "hot" because it has gained so many members ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Cant Sit Back and Allow the Loss of Our Freedoms

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  ...The Founders did not give us a government like the one we have today. The government they gave us was strictly limited in its scope, guaranteed individual liberty, preserved the free market, and on matters that pertain to our private behavior was supposed to leave us alone. In the Constitution, the Founders built ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clayton Bye – Interview With The Author

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Clayton Bye - Interview With The Author -1.0 5 2009-11-02 17:49:43 1stAngel “After adding my name to the cache, I walked to the northern edge of the mountain, leaned into the wind, and stared out over the partially frozen Arctic Ocean. To the east, the mountains of Greenland rose upward out of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  5 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  5 weeks ago

• Plutocracy Reborn: Re-Creating the Gap that Gave Us the Great Depression

  
  c-Blog — Authority: 130
  The title sums it up pretty well; but The Nations got some lovely charts, plus other details.The gaps less extreme in Germany, but extreme enough that, per the BBC, "[a] group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes."
  5 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  5 weeks ago

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