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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[facilitatorn]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9365335/Huge-spike-fake-banknotes-smuggled-Australia-China-spot-money-FAKE.html

Earlier this year.

[josh]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9365335/Huge-spike-fake-banknotes-smuggled-Australia-China-spot-money-FAKE.html

Earlier this year.

But what is a government to do when its citizens accept a fake bill that has Chinese characters prominently on it, unlike the real bills?!

How dense do the store owners have to be?!!!

[facilitatorn]

How dense do the store owners have to be?!!!

Regular Australian dense seems to do just fine.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/08/08/federal-judge-sides-with-norwegian-cruise-line-in-fight-with-florida-over-vaccine-passports-1389732

Conservatism beats back fascism in another loss for DeathSantis and the GOP.

Judge tells death cult, “leave small government and self determination alone.”

[bambu.]

How dense do the store owners have to be?!!!

Regular Australian dense seems to do just fine.

LOL
"Invasion currency"

The Chinese writing was on the back of the notes. The old style notes.
Shopkeepers, mostly in sleepy Tasmania, not expecting forged bank notes from "the lovely people of Tasmania" would likely have taken the notes, and while talking in a friendly manner with their customers just put the notes in the drawer and given change.

McDonalds in NSW has signs in all their stores stating they have forged bank note detectors in operation.

[bambu.]

Oh dear, the Obama big bash and not a mask in sight.

[bambu.]

How dense do the store owners have to be?!!!

Regular Australian dense seems to do just fine.

LOL
"Invasion currency"

The Chinese writing was on the back of the notes. The old style notes.
Shopkeepers, mostly in sleepy Tasmania, not expecting forged bank notes from "the lovely people of Tasmania" would likely have taken the notes, and while talking in a friendly manner with their customers just put the notes in the drawer and given change.

McDonalds in NSW has signs in all its stores stating they have forged bank note detectors in operation.

[facilitatorn]

Oh dear, the Obama big bash and not a mask in sight.

Vaccine passports at work. The party goers are showing a better survival rate than right wing media hosts.

That you Australians are making such a big deal over counterfeit currency seems to indicate both that it’s a big deal and an ongoing problem.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/tucker-carlson-hungary-orban-fellow-travelers/619688/

They are free to go. There is no reason to let them back in other than to bring them close enough to punch, these fascist white nationalist traitors.

[josh]

[bambu.]

Oh dear, the Obama big bash and not a mask in sight.

Vaccine passports at work. The party goers are showing a better survival rate than right wing media hosts.

That you Australians are making such a big deal over counterfeit currency seems to indicate both that it’s a big deal and an ongoing problem.

Not now that we have the nice new notes.

[Hamilton Samuels]

DENVER (AP) — When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic late last summer, he said he hoped he would never have to do it again.

Republican legislatures are granting him that wish.

At least eight GOP-controlled states have passed bans on donations to election offices this year as Republicans try to block outside funding of voting operations. The legislation often comes as part of Republican packages that also put new limits on how voters can cast ballots and impose new requirements on county or city-based election officials.



The response is spurred by anger and suspicion on the right that Zuckerberg's money benefited Democrats in 2020. Conservatives have long accused the tech mogul's social media platform of censoring right-wing voices as part of its campaign against misinformation.

Zuckerberg's money was largely distributed through a nonpartisan foundation that had liberal roots. Conservative groups cite analyses that the money went disproportionately to Democratic-leaning counties in key states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

“People saw that, and looked around, and they were increasingly concerned about why would you have a billionaire funding our elections through the backdoor,” said Jessica Anderson, executive director of the conservative group Heritage Action, which has pushed the bans in several states.

But many election officials say that effort is short-sighted and fueled by paranoia. Election offices, they argue, are chronically underfunded and now cannot benefit from donations that still flow to so many other branches of government, including police, schools and libraries.

Furthermore, they say there is no sign of favoritism in the distribution of the grants from Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Elections are more expensive in populous urban areas, and especially more so last year, when states scrambled to shift to mail voting to deal with the pandemic. Metro areas had to buy expensive equipment to open and sort mail ballots, a task that smaller, more GOP-leaning counties could do by hand or with less gear.


https://news.yahoo.com/zuckerbergs-cash-fuels-gop-suspicion-120351838.html

The right is a paranoid bunch.

[Hamilton Samuels]

PLM: https://news.yahoo.com/tragic-sad-day-chicago-police-144854928.html

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/08/us/florida-church-covid-deaths-vaccination-clinic-trnd/index.html

[josh]

Why am I still concerned about COVID-19?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/covid-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-delta-variant-vaccinations.html