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Your Democracy Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 09:05 Source

Two Harvard students recently revealed that it's possible to combine Meta smart glasses with face image search technology to "reveal anyone's personal details," including their name, address, and phone number, "just from looking at them."

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 09:00 Source

A night without significant economic data or other macro cataylsts has seen risk markets pull back across the complex, with only tech stocks leading the NASDAQ slightly higher while the USD continued its surge against the undollars. Euro and the Australian dollar were hammered yet again, with the former almost breaking below the 1.08 level

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 07:18 Source

It is difficult to reconcile new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s expressions of concern for the security of his country with his advocation of an Asian version of NATO.

The two ideas are contradictory to say the least.

 

We need PM Ishiba’s NATO like we need a hole in the head…    By Teow Loon Ti

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 07:00 Source

Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released a stronger-than-expected employment report, with 64,000 jobs created in September (51,600 full-time), a 0.1% decline in the nation’s unemployment rate, and record participation and employment-to-population rates. The strong result prompted interest rate traders to push back their expected timing of the first Reserve Bank of Australia

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Your Democracy Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 06:57 Source

Whoever owns the narrative owns the world – and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as US influence campaigns – or “perception management”.  

 

US is spending $28 billion on Sinophobic propaganda to colonise your brain    By Eugene Doyle

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 06:34 Source

DXY is an unstoppable rocket: AUD is a scorched stool: CNY keeps being rewarded for cutting rates: Oil stuffed. Is gold noise or signal? If it is the latter, is it discounting American election violence? Commods crushed under DXY: Miners too: And EM: Junk anxiety is creeping in: As yields jackknife: Stocks have discounted nothing

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Your Democracy Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 06:15 Source

CBS News has said that it edited US Vice President Kamala Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ interview to make her seem more “clear, accurate, and on point.”However, the broadcaster denied former President Donald Trump’s claims that doing so was “deceitful.”

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Prosper Australia Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 06:00 Source

Prosper Australia has expressed strong concerns over the Allen Labour Government’s recent announcement of 50 new activity centres across Victoria, citing the absence of any form of Land Value Capture (LVC) mechanism as a missed opportunity to ensure fairness and economic sustainability.

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Prosper Australia Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 06:00 Source

Prosper Australia has expressed strong concerns over the Allen Labour Government’s recent announcement of 50 new activity centres across Victoria, citing the absence of any form of Land Value Capture (LVC) mechanism as a missed opportunity to ensure fairness and economic sustainability.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 06:00 Source

The US Congress task force investigating the July 13 attempt on the life of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has confirmed that the Secret Service and local law enforcement did not coordinate properly.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 00:10 Source

CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index shows that Sydney home values have recorded zero growth over the past 28 days, as illustrated below: Final auction clearance rates have fallen sharply across Sydney, pulling down prices. SQM Research managing director and founder, Louis Christopher, believes that last weekend’s auction results were the weakest since 2022, despite CoreLogic

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Your Democracy Monday, October 21, 2024 - 23:20 Source

A reception of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the Parliament House in Canberra has been interrupted by an obscene rant from an indigenous Australian lawmaker.

After the British monarch finished his address to the gathering on Monday, independent Senator Lidia Thorpe stepped forward and confronted him.

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