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Tony Abbott’s disastrous press conference in Canberra last night - following the three amigo independents’ request for Coalition Treasury costings - is putting his chances of securing the Prime Ministership in danger.
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply,” declared Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, - once the richest man in Europe.
Government-backed mortgage bonds are underperforming Treasuries by the most this year, after reaching record high prices, amid concern refinancing will accelerate.
Facing a public backlash and possible legal action, the Conservatives have decided to add linguistic questions to the short-form census and drop the threat of jail time for those who refuse to participate.
- Brewers move toward low-cal beer - Associated Press/The Buffalo News MILWAUKEE — How low can beer makers go? Having conquered the beer-belly set, some of the nation’s biggest brewers are trying to win over the six-pack-ab crowd with ultra-low-calorie suds.
Huntington Animal Control is looking to quarantine two pit bulls they say bit postal workers.
It’s hard to describe just how truly wretched Labor’s new climate change policy is. It makes the CPRS, its dog of an emissions trading scheme, look like a model of best practice.
* U.S. stocks slump after Bernanke paints downbeat outlook * Oil slips on inventory build but weather fears stem fall * Bond prices jump on Bernanke’s “uncertain” assessment * Euro falls vs dollar; yen soars after Bernanke comments (Adds close of U.S. markets)
Third of three parts
It seemed as if it would be easy, fun even: Flip through 30 years of Metro Times issues and come up with 30 stories to excerpt that tell the paper’s story. Not necessarily the 30 biggest prize winners. Not necessarily the 30 that had the most impact. Not necessarily the best written.
