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Climate Protestors Blockade a Port, Demand a 75% Coal Tax
Essay by Eric Worrall
“Rising Tide” are a small group of Aussie radicals who are trying to stand out in a crowded marketplace of climate extremist groups.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/26/climate-protestors-blockade-a-port-demand-a-75-coal-tax/
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Standing by the big tent on Friday night I listened for ten minutes as their leader raved on and told the sheeple that the ultimate aim for the weekend was that many of them would cause social disruption and get arrested.
He asked for a show of hands and he estimated that 90% of them had said that they were up for it.
The audience was at least two hundred.
Sad.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/saturday-34/#comment-2715453
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Expect them to become rapidly more radical in the face of what the USA, UK and some EU nations
are saying ie they are going to less ‘renewables’ and increasing nuclear energy with the aim of trebling that power source in the world by 2050. Bowen has already blown his fuse which is going to make him look an even bigger fool than already. ~$60B more borrowed funds when the national debt is almost becoming unpayable. This government’s apparent attempts to bankrupt us is almost looking deliberate, with the attacks on all our export industries that pay our way. There is not even commisseration from ALBo, Chalmers nor Bowen for the hardship they have wrought. Indeed, Chalmers can’t help grinning about every time he is forced to address the COL and inflation.
As with Biden in the USA, the appearance is that the government Big Business cartel is all powerful and Big Business is making profits, much primarily from the subsidies paid by the Middle Classes for energy, and those subsidies and built in costs resulting from ever rising energy costs are killing the Middle Class with inflation along with the RBA interest rate rises coming from that inflation.
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Removing Colour, for a Sick Story
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog
My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs. She was allowed to be creative; the idea was to make people happy. So, for example, she could add more pink to the cheeks of young girls on holidays at the beach.
Nowadays scientist regularly do the opposite. They strip colour from pretty pictures because they want to make people feel sad, specifically about the corals at the Great Barrier Reef. They are not very nice people. That is the unfortunate truth.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/26/removing-colour-for-a-sick-story/
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I wonder how many billions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money have been wasted on climate policies on the basis of that one featured decolourised picture alone?
If such a fraud involved a financial institution, people would be in jail (if they got an impartial judge, not an activist commie judge).
But when it comes to climate fraud, anything goes and so-called “journalists” of the Lamestream media are too clueless and/or dishonest and/or Leftist political activists to call it out.
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The harbour blockade mentioned above needed thirty police stationed in a temporary setup just down from Camp Shortland.
Maybe six vehicles plus three heavy duty riot squad trucks and a large police vessel tied up at the wharf. Two large rubber dinghys also patrolled the water.
The wages bill alone, with weekend overtime, three shifts per day would have been easily $100,000.
Then add the costs for boats and vehicles, the temporary headquarters and insurance: half a million
But hey, we’re a rich country.
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Don’t think a defibrillator is the answer to saving a life.
It is a tool. You need to do CPR as soon as you can. Until someone can deploy the Defib, minutes are ticking away.
You have 10 minutes to save a life. Each minute without effective CPR is 10% lost in chance of outcome. Each minute is damage to major organs.
5 minutes and you will have life long problems.
Understand it takes an ambulance or FR at best 7-14 mins to attend… At worst an hour or so.
I am tired of attending incidents where people have stood around doing nothing… waiting… and then complaining to the media or management post event.
We do the best we can do. If you waste 10 minutes to work out what to do with a Defib without CPR… It means a life is gone.
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Yes, I wonder how effective those compulsory defibrillators are in public places in Australia and many other Western countries?
As you say, useless without proper first aid training in CPR.
No doubt certain people made a lot of money when they lobbied for those extremely expensive compulsory deployments of defib machines. Follow the money trail.
But why no corresponding campaign to teach CPR or knowledge, as you say, of the extremely short time there is to act?
Defib machines are a simplistic and often ineffective answer to the real problem of lack of CPR training or willingness to “get involved”.
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Perhaps they should send out defibrillators with every power bill! 😆😆
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Wouldn’t it be great if first aid could be taught at school.
Maybe safety around the home in primary school and more hands on stuff in later years.
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You mean like it used to be. I still remember the old programme that ran along the lines of: Check and clear airways, check for breathing and pulse, if breathing role into the coma position and wait for help, if not commence resuscitation. Which, in those days had the victim laying face down with the arms folded like you were asleep face down with your head on your hands. Then, while kneeling at the head you pressed down on the back after this down ward pressure the elbows were raised like working a pump.
If the victim was a drowning suspect then it was advised to have the head laying downhill so any inhaled water could be pumped out of the lungs.
The current method of chest compressions and the kiss of life, while more demanding of the first aider physically certainly is simpler and with clearly better results.
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I was introduced to Holger-Neilsen at the age of 10 in the scouts.
Not sure how much we got at school but I did lifesaving qualifications and that was good stuff.
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Please don’t do it this way.
BTW your head on your hands?
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DRABCD is taught late primary and in high school PE in the ACT
and thanks to W x for his comment
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Tip: how to lift someone on the ground so you can carry them.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s4qhnzgTBV1w5pr9j.mp4
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A week or so ago someone told me of just such an incident. Man had a heart attack, luckily CPR-trained near neighbour applied the necessary while the defib was being brought by paramedics from a local shop. Neighbour probably saved his life and he is ok now.
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Australia is used to having appallingly bad Uniparty Government’s, State and Federal, but I think both the current Federal regime, and all state regimes are the worst ever.
In terms of the sheer economic and social damage they are doing (e.g. with essentially unrestricted immigration of people who have no intention of supporting traditional Australian or Western values or indeed conducting themselves in a peaceful manner) they are by far the worst.
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Australian Debt Clock.
https://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Total Australian Government Debt (federal, state and local):
$1.809 trillion and rising dramatically with no restraint.
Last time I checked it was well over $5,000 per second. At the link, watch it increase in pseudo real time.
Australians demanded lots of “free stuff”.
Now let them enjoy!
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But David, that’s only about $120,000 per taxpayer.
No doubt it will soon be corrected again with a little dose of that wonderful U.S. invention; quantitative easing.
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I think it might be higher than that Keith.
A lot of people might be taxpayers but they are still net wealth consumers, not wealth producers. E.g. public servants.
The burden will eventually come out of the pockets of net wealth producers so it will be considerably higher than that, I think.
But, of course, EVERYONE will suffer.
But let the Sheeple enjoy their “free stuff”.
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Assumed 15 million taxpayers but there’s probably only 10?
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Stats from a couple of years ago indicated there were about 15m individual taxpayers. (your assumption was right) But approx 32% of tax comes from very high earners (>$180k) making up less than 4% of taxpayers. A further 37% of tax comes from about 16% of taxpayers who are in the $90k-$180k income bracket. This means nearly 70% of tax comes from 20% of taxpayers. The next 40% of taxpayers ($37k-$90k income) contribute a further 30% tax collected.
98% of tax from individuals comes from about 60% of individual taxpayers. Approx 9mil taxpayers.
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In the US, the top 50% income group paid 97% of all income tax. Bottom 50% paid 3% of taxes.
Top 10% earners paid over 70% of all taxes.
And the marxists claim that “tax the rich” will solve all issues.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2022-update/
You could strip the “rich” naked and take everything from them and it wouldn’t finance government for 1 year.
And what happens after that? The ‘rich’ have been destroyed.
No jobs, no industry, no investment, nothing but eternal poverty.
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Is that debt clock right? $1.8tril?
This says $895b at 28 Oct 2022.
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/BudgetReviewOctober202223/AustralianGovernmentDebt
It can’t have doubled in 12 months. Not even under Labor.
Has it?
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I apologise for being “immoderate”.
[You have no comments in the filter bucket KK , I’ll go dumpster diving in the spam bucket for you.]AD
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Careful!
The “imm’s list” also has “immolated”
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It was released. Maybe I mentioned police
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Snowy Hydro is ready to restart drilling work after several months in limbo!
Bowen throws more cash at renewables, but we foot the bill. To be blunt, Australians have been sold a pup when it comes to the energy transition and the imagined benefits that would flow from it. A pig in a poke and that’s no joke.
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Drilling for our money!
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If they strike a vein of solar panels, we’ll all be rich!
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That’s the trouble with socialism “at some point they will run out of other peoples (our) money”. Thatcherism. But BOB (Blackout Bowen) keeps shoveling it into the unreliable energy future.
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Renewables, the gift that keeps on giving…from the middle class consumers back-pocket: We get taxed to subsidise Big Renewables, and then we get ever increasing power bills to ensure the price is high enough that “cheap/free reliable” electricity derived from these subsidised behemoths can compete with the electricity derived from good old coal and gas.
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Now that they have tried the costly shortcut perhaps they will consider the conventional engineering approaches and get it done. Basically a poorly managed project where an ill-considered cost cutting myth turned into a costly nightmare. Typical of the misguided thinking underlying Australia’s energy industry.
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FWIW
“Magnificent letter to the Sydney Theatre Company.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/magnificent-letter-to-the-sydney-theatre-company.html
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This won’t take long to hit home.
Like Gina with the netballers.
And all for what?
How did they get so ignorant?
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Via SDA’s Morning Headlines call
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/27/monday-on-turtle-island-63/
https://img.patriotpost.us/01HG3TV7JME9VFCGSEWCB0DB0F.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
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“Monday Mirthiness: Mind Blowing Failure of “Science” to Police Itself – Shame on Springer Link”
“The main question: How in the HELL does a “scientific” paper get published by Springer with “bullshit” in the title and used over 100 times in the paper? Is this an example of anything goes “pay for play?” What next? Scientific social musings on the F-Word in the context of people you don’t like?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/27/monday-mirthiness-mind-blowing-failure-of-science-to-police-itself-shame-on-springer-link/
Don’t they publish “Nature” too?
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lol- A bullshit paper about bullshit… Hard to find any ‘science’ at all these days.
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FWIW
“OMGCron! We’re All Gonna DIE!”
“I’m sure you’ve heard the “news” out of China of a “persistent and nasty” lung-based infection, largely in kids, that appears not to be viral.
There’s also something going on with dogs, although the two are most-likely unrelated.
So what’s going on?
Well, we’re not sure. But I can put forward a few theories, none of which I can prove and most of which nobody wants to go chase because if they’re true there’s very serious trouble afoot and we caused it.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=250197
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Also Swine Flu in the UK – a dangerously mild infection or something.
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Here ya go.
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1729164779519185072
Stock up on bacon time in the UK.
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Taking out insurance then?
1. “People who eat bacon are statistically, much less likely to blow themselves up!”
2. “They say “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” but, as these days so many of them are Mohamedin I find a bacon sandwich works just as well”
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Ooh, are we allowed to do muzzy jokes then?
Everyone remember Achmed? 😁
https://youtu.be/GBvfiCdk-jc?si=Idm2R2QE5lXWABbc
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One for the pc downvoters.
John Cleese on political correctness.
https://youtu.be/QAK0KXEpF8U?si=S8yWYeTMBg2nBQD_
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Let’s all panic…one mild case in North Yorkshire. Sigh.
Who knows how it might or might not develop? Perhaps I should have fully capitalised who?
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Fear not. Nothing’s going to happen except for a media beatup.
If anything’s coming, I’ll see it well before anyone else.
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FWIW – the EV scene
“Mega-Jolt: The Costs and Logistics of Plugging in EVs Are About to Become Supercharged”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/mega-jolt-costs-logistics-plugging-evs-are-about/
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Google Drive users angry over losing months of stored data
Google Drive users are reporting that recent files stored in the cloud have suddenly disappeared, with the cloud service reverting to a storage snapshot as it was around April-May 2023.
Google Drive is a cloud-based storage service that allows people to store and access files from any internet-connected device via their Google account. It is a widely used service by individuals and businesses (as part of Google Workspace).
A trending issue reported on Google’s support forums starting last week describes a situation where people say they lost recent data and folder structure changes.
“There is a serious issue here that needs to escalate urgently. We have a support ticket open, this has not been helpful to date,” said a Google Drive user on the support thread.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-drive-users-angry-over-losing-months-of-stored-data/
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Anyone who puts anything important on the Cloud is a fool.
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Tuesday ejukayshun: why airplane food tastes bland
Basically, you can taste six different primary flavours: sweet, sour, bitter, umami (savoury) and fatty (astringent). The taste of a foodstuff is defined by the combination and concentration of substances that elicit a specific taste. However, in addition to their basic tastes, temperature, aroma, appearance and consistency also help define the taste of foods.
How something tastes is a combination of what you see, smell and feel. Our sense of smell plays an important role in all this, as does the effect of saliva. Solid foods are broken down by saliva and chewing. This, in turn, facilitates the transfer of flavour to our taste buds.
Flying at altitude reduces your sense of smell and your ability to taste also changes. On top of this you’re in an environment with relatively low humidity, low air pressure, and the constant noise of the aircraft’s engines in the background. Your taste buds will, in effect, be numbed, just as they are when you have a cold. It’s easier to taste food when it’s broken down by saliva than when it’s not, which is why you can barely taste food if you just put it on your tongue. Chewing food releases the flavours as the saliva breaks it down and these flavours then come into contact with your taste buds. However, the drier the air, the less moisture there is for you to produce the saliva you need to break down the food, and the faster your saliva evaporates. The dry, rarefied air in an aircraft also cools food quicker, which can also alter and reduce the perception of taste.
The distractive influence of the engine noise also reduces our sensation of taste. Subconsciously, the sound distracts you and means you pay less attention to enjoying your food. It’s as if some of your sensory capacity is “otherwise engaged” and this can result in a different or reduced taste sensation.
When flying at altitude, salty and sweet flavours are reduced by between 20 and 30 per cent, while sour and bitter flavours remain the same. Airline food contains more herbs to compensate for this perceived loss of taste.
https://blog.klm.com/what-does-flying-do-to-our-taste-buds/
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Record crops despite climate crisis. Tony Heller
https://youtu.be/3dY2OxXR5us?si=8INH2rz1dlRMfL_Y
And those bountiful crops will produce even more bad CO2.
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British media is already ramping up the now habitual annual Christmas dinner ruined by climate change stories.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/christmas-dinner-fears-shoppers-warned-31539060
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Serotonin Tuesday: Golden Retriever meetup
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s4qhq6t3AU1w5pr9j.mp4
Aaawww…
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Gas pumps vulnerable to cyberattacks prevalent
An alarming number of gas pumps could be vulnerable to cyberattacks, threatening to cut off driver supply to fuel, new research has claimed.
The research team behind Cybernews has uncovered results from the Shodan search engine, which lets users search for severs connected to the Internet, and suggests that nearly 6,000 gas pump controllers globally, including more than 4,000 across the US, are exposed.
Exposed controllers allow remote access for monitoring, however attackers could also gain unauthorized access which could see them tamper with settings including manipulating inventory stats to get away with fuel theft.
Of the 5,860 exposed controllers, 4,323 are in the US, and a further 221 are in Puerto Rico, an island territory of the US. Other countries with exposed gas station pump controllers include Germany (156), Canada (149), Australia (139), Japan (132), and the UK (78).
Cybernews blames the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) – more connected devices simply results in a greater potential for expose and risk.
There could be greater implications, too. A successful attacker could, for example, block fuel supply in order to stop enemy movement during a war.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/even-gas-pumps-arent-safe-from-cyberattacks-at-the-moment
At least lower the pump price if you do hack them…
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Sounds a better way of putting it –
“The Great Resist
They will own nobody and they will be unhappy”
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“Wyoming Governor Backs Out of Climate Debate”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/27/wyoming-governor-backs-out-of-climate-debate/
A lot of fossil fuel comes out of Wyoming
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Did anyone feeling threatened by fires get any rain lately? By the looks, a fair swathe of country got wet.
Me? I’ll have to water the lawn again today in spite of BOM radar saying all night that it’s about to hiss down in a couple of minutes.
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not threatened by fire so just a rain report. Pelted down in CBR about 2pm. Heavier rain forecast for tomorrow and occasional for days after that.
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Sorry H, miss hit. See green.
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Thanks KK, but that leaves two. How could good wishes to those at risk of losing their property be down voted? I almost never do it and I would like this blog be brought into line with virtually every other platform and have them disabled.
Note to red thumbers: I’ve been personally, roundly abused for my opinions so an anonymous down vote is meaningless.
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From our bit of SW Qld
At the first day end of this “blanket rain” the weather forecasters owed us about 85 mm – meaning we got 5 mm of the forecast 90 mm.
The radar pattern of data points below the forecast “rain paint” didn’t give it much support.
Eventually in the last few days the place worked up to 100 – 145 mm. What a difference a week or so can make
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In the Sydney region … it’s been fairly dry the last 9 months and I never water the lawn so it was down to bare yellow roots in places. We had a lot of burning off in September & October, which is great … and some of those might have even been planned for all I know.
Last few weeks and the lawn is back to green again, and the water status is looking good … much drier than last year but not worried about fires in the current situation. The wet/dry and hot/cold has been quite random recently so I really don’t know what to expect for Summer … doubt anyone else knows either.
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French schools bug eating indoctrination.
https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1729103583767892393
Translated:
À l’avenir, nous mangerons du boeuf juteux et succulent. Ce ne sera pas différent. Klaus peut planter ses insectes là où le soleil ne brille pas.
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Meet the first Spanish AI model earning up to €10,000 ($16k AUD) per month
Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real, she was created by her designers using AI.
They created Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona whose physical appearance is close to perfection. The virtual model can earn up to € 10,000 a month, according to her creator, but the average is around € 3,000.
In just a few months, she has managed to gain more than 121,000 followers on Instagram and her photos get thousands of views and reactions. She even receives private messages from celebrities who are unaware that she is not an actual person.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/11/22/meet-the-first-spanish-ai-model-earning-up-to-10000-per-month
Obviously not real. No pursed lips condescending look, the butt’s not big enough, no trashy tatts.
/sarc
Hollywood is living on borrowed time and no loss there.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/were-entering-whole-new-era-ai-video-generation-becoming-shockingly-good
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Fed up with scammers, Australia’s banks form a biometric squad to battle fraud
Aussie banks are banding together to put fraud in a headlock with the Scam Safe Accord, a “new offensive in the war on scams” that will introduce obligatory biometric checks for the opening of new accounts, says a release from the Australian Banking Association (ABA) and the Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA), which strikes a decidedly triumphant tone.
“The initiatives we launch today are a significant step forward and demonstrate the banking industry’s commitment to fight scams,” says Mike Lawrence, CEO of the Customer Owned COBA. “Preventing scammers from taking the hard-earned money of everyday Australians is a shared responsibility. As scammers work hard to devise new ways to steal money, it’s critical that governments, industry and consumers remain vigilant to make Australia a hard target for scammers.”
Now, says Lawrence, with the joint initiative between Australia’s commercial banks and its customer owned banks (mutual banks, building societies and credit unions), “it doesn’t matter if someone banks with a regional mutual bank or the largest bank in the country, customers can be confident their bank is working hard to protect their money,” said COBA CEO Mike Lawrence.
Scammers now face the wrath of a Scam-Safe Accord that promises to roll out a confirmation-of-payee system across all Australian banks. Funded by a $100 million investment, the system aims to strengthen the certainty and security with which people transfer money across the banking industry. Design has kicked off, with a target rollout over 2024 and 2025.
The banks are not messing about. Major banks must use at least one biometric check for new individual customers opening accounts online by the end of 2024. Per the release, “these checks will be either detectable to a person’s behavior or involve a check of a customer’s face or fingerprint, enabling banks to use these characteristics to verify their customer’s identity.”
https://www.customerownedbanking.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/231124-Media-release-Scam-Safe-Accord-CLEAN.pdf
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Scammers don’t commit fraud by opening bank accounts … they steal existing card numbers and spend the money.
Biometrics are useless for Internet sales, and a fingerprint makes a very poor password because you leave copies everywhere you go and you can never change them … the two worst things for a password.
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My first thought too. They aren’t doing it for our benefit. Just another attack on the cash economy.
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Yup. You’re getting it.
But scammers can bleed a victim’s bank account dry, transferring funds to their own account, yet banks never seem to be able to trace or reverse the transactions or identify the recipient.
Interesting eh.
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Slovakia Rejects WHO Pandemic Treaty, Citing Concerns Over National Sovereignty
In a significant move, the Prime Minister of Slovakia has confirmed that the government will not proceed with the ratification of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Pandemic Treaty. The decision comes as the treaty is criticized for potentially transferring health powers from national ministries to the WHO, granting the global organization unprecedented decision-making authority. Slovakia’s stance reflects growing concerns about the implications of such a shift in power.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/slovakia-rejects-who-pandemic-treaty-citing-concerns-over-national-sovereignty/
The WEF plans are all falling apart…
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FWIW
“Former Detective Sergeant ‘Doubtful John”s letter to the Attorney General over Muslim salute”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/former-detective-sergeant-doubtful-johns-letter-to-the-attorney-general-over-muslim-salute.html
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I don’t know if Christmas wishes get this good –
“An Alt Christmas Carol”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/an-alt-christmas-carol/
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An active low from the south brings rainfall to eastern Australia.
https://i.ibb.co/k0jRKWt/mimictpw-ausf-latest-1.gif
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Can’t be right – Mr Hairy Nosed Wombat fella said we would be in perpetual drought…..
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https://www.blitzortung.org/Tmp/archive_3_image.png
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“Eat Bugs and Live in a Pod: United Nations to Tell First-World Countries to Limit Meat Consumption in Food’s First ‘Net Zero Plan’ ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/eat-bugs-live-pod-united-nations-tell-first/
“The Great Resist
They will own nobody and they will be unhappy”
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More message
“Texas’s Green Energy Dream Is Risking Its Electric Grid”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/texass-green-energy-dream-risking-its-electric-grid
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Mis-posted!
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There will be more climate policy refugees than actual climate refugees!
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1729441422963614041
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How interesting is tomorrow going to be?
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Full winter in the US and Europe.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t50_nh_f00.png
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_z50_nh_f00.png
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Although there is some cold surface weather around, generally the NH is well above ‘average’, the Arctic is crazy warm.
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Your jokes will not cause warming in the middle latitudes.
https://i.ibb.co/dbjVCxR/gfs-npole-sat-t2min-d1.png
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https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/maps/gfs_world-wt_t2min_d1.png
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Thunderstorms in Australia.
https://i.ibb.co/jVLfT0V/archive-3-image.png
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