How hasnt Blackrock been sued to buggery for this?
On the face of it shouldnt mandating companies stop hiring people of a certain race/background be flat out illegal?
Theres the head of the company, boasting hes forcing companies to take an illegal action.

I wanted to, but a lawyer talked me out of it.

Re temp records.

Can anyone dredge up the historical recordings for Warrnambool? I’ve tried on The BOM but the record only seems to (conveniently) start in 1998.

Ranga

Because I don’t like paying cap gains. I value my net worth at pre cap gains. If I sell it will mean a hair cut against the sale price. You know that.

This was an ETF which is a dvidend payer and have no intention of selling.

Trading account, I pay taxes on gains.

Interesting schematic showing how Jews are the real subject of genocide and how they have been forced out of every ME nation because muzzies ae slobbering creeps.

We drove from Korumburra towards Melbourne on the South Gippsland Hwy this morning.

Some chap was obviously displeased with the state of the road had gone to the trouble of making a couple of signs.

First sign in black on yellow in nice big letters advised motorists-

ROAD F#CKED

The second sign, thoughtfully placed 300M further along for those who weren’t paying attention-

ROAD F#CKED

And further ientertainment was to be had on a large programmable sign used to advise of traffic conditions-

EXTREME HEAT…followed by some bullshit.

Piers Akerman:

The cost of a night on the turps might run to $90 and a bad hangover unless you happen to hit the grog in Canberra or London.

A big Friday night out for millennials Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann on March 23, 2019, has now cost taxpayers millions in payments to Higgins, legal fees, court costs, judges and staff salaries, further inquiries, fees paid by private companies, media time and more, and the cost is still rising.

Lehrmann, who was alleged to have raped Higgins in the office of their boss, then defence minister Linda Reynolds, was subjected to two trials before the case against him was dropped by then ACT DPP Shane Drumgold. He has not been found guilty of anything.

However, that night was weaponised by Labor and played a part in the defeat of Scott Morrison’s Coalition government. Morrison handled the matter clumsily, but not as devastatingly stupidly as Channel 10 and its then star performer Lisa Wilkinson. Reynolds is now in mediation of her defamation suit against Higgins and her boyfriend David Sharaz, which has led to Higgins returning to Perth from her new taxpayer-funded home in France and spend a night in hospital care.

The ACT government, which had employed Drumgold, the nation’s first Indigenous DPP according to the ANU College of Law, has already paid $90,000 to Reynolds in damages.

The saga that began in the heat of the #MeToo movement deserves its own miniseries. It may have a rival in the story of Matildas captain Sam Kerr and her Barry McKenzie-like adventures in a London cab on January 30 last year. According to court documents, Kerr, who can claim some Indian heritage on her father’s side, allegedly racially abused a police officer after she celebrated a big win for Chelsea with a night on the slops ending with a technicolor yawn in the cab and had an altercation with its driver.

The hotly debated question is whether a lesbian with some claim to being racially diverse is a racist for allegedly calling a police officer a “stupid white bastard”, a charge Kerr has denied. Her lawyers say she may have said “stupid white cop” but there is apparently body-cam footage that might settle the argument.

There’s little doubt that if a white player of any gender called a person of colour a stupid “black” bastard or cop, it would have been judged as a racist slur in the wash-up of the Black Lives Matter outrage.

I blame British beer and am willing to be called as a witness for the defence. These are cases of millennials unable to handle their liquor, notwithstanding the seriousness of the alleged rape charge.

More troubling are the remarks of former Labor PM Paul Keating who, unaffected by the demon drink, issued a contradictory statement about the Australian-China relationship.

He named China as the power that ASIO boss Mike Burgess was alluding to when discussing espionage and said the Albanese government was engaged in a “so-called stabilisation process” with China while running an “anti-China strategic policy” rooted in a “mindless pro-American stance”.

Booze and young people have long been high-risk and the unfortunately addled elderly have been the butt of jokes forever. Let’s stop taking drunken millennials, sports stars or not, seriously. Let them grow old disgracefully and, hopefully, harmlessly.

Between me and Hugh Hefner

By Jack Marx
12:00AM March 9, 2024
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At the Golden Globe Awards in 2011, host Ricky Gervais joked that 24-year-old Crystal Harris only agreed to marry 84-year-old Hugh Hefner because he’d lied about his age. “He told me he was ninety-four!” whinged Ricky, channelling Crystal. Encouraging her to “hold out, just don’t look at it when you touch it”, Gervais then performed a brief pantomime of a girl engaged in a manual exercise while gagging as she repeatedly looked at her watch.

Tina Fey laughed, as did Halle Berry. Everyone got it – even Hugh Hefner, who publicly cheered Ricky’s routine as “a blast”. As for Crystal herself, she has never mentioned it. Perhaps it was a little too close to the bone.

Only Say Good Things is Crystal Hefner’s tell-all memoir of her near decade living in the Playboy Mansion. She first darkened the door as a 21-year-old wannabe model, her hair bleached platinum blond, her breasts enhanced by silicone, her single mother encouraging her to “go for it”.

Let’s dispense right now with all those cliched truisms that apply when a 20-something girl marries a rich octogenarian; that she was an adult, entrusted with the vote and the driving of automobiles, and thus knew exactly what she was doing. We all know that, in our 20s, we were all as dumb as cabbage, and that the age of consent is an arbitrary benchmark that shifts depending on imaginary lines on a map, a criminal at 11.55pm becoming marriage material if he waits till after midnight.

The question here is whether Crystal Hefner has a story to tell, whether she tells it well, and whether she does so with intentions that are at least not lousy.

The answer to the first question is undoubtedly yes. Only Say Good Things is quite a ride, fuelled as it is by the wretched glamour of a self-knighted prince lording over a kingdom of balloon-chested blondes in pursuit of fame. Pages have never turned quicker, each sordid recollection outdone by the next. The cynical promise of the book’s title is delivered, the product having done what it said on the tin. Crystal Hefner has not said good things at all – quite the opposite, Hugh’s deathbed prayer to his wife having fallen into the worst hands possible. The second question is vexed. To be blunt, Crystal Hefner did not write this book. The story is hers, for sure, but the prose is too slick, deep, and introspective for the college dropout from Arizona. Kudos must go to Lara Love Hardin, a New York Times best-selling author whose riches-to-rags-and-back-again memoirs have furnished her with a career as a top Californian publisher and literary agent. Crystal Hefner is Lara’s client, the “author” admitting in the back-page acknowledgments that “this book wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you”, and Hardin’s wistful, downtrodden brood is all over Only Say Good Things

Compare any interview with Crystal Hefner, which are legion online, with this: “Power is insidious when it masks itself as generosity. And generosity is insidious when it’s a camouflage for control. And both power and generosity are confusing when they gaslight you into believing they could be love.”

Fair suck of the sav!

Yes, ghostwriters are de rigueur in the realm of celebrity memoir but the best of them write in the voice of the subject, to at least give the reader a sense of the human whose face is on the cover. If the thoughts aren’t Crystal’s, then one doubts the entire enterprise – its story, its message, the sucker with the book in its hand. Even Crystal herself let the cat out of the bag when she told US Weekly in August 2023: “When I read the first manuscript, I just burst out crying” – an odd reaction from one who

is supposedly intimately familiar with the text.

But the most conflicted question of all pertains to Crystal Hefner’s motives for writing Only Say Good Things. It’s been 14 years Hef’s former girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson published Sliding Into Home, and nine years since Holly Maddison published Down the Rabbit Hole, an explosive memoir that catalogued the abuses and trials she suffered as Hefner’s main squeeze.

The sh!t really hit the fan in 2022 with Arlene Nelson’s extraordinary documentary series Secrets of Playboy, which comprehensively poleaxed any doubt the world may have had about Hugh Hefner having been a heritage-listed creep. Only now has Crystal Hefner decided to engage the Zeitgeist, her book revealing nothing that hadn’t already been exposed by others. While she was waiting, Crystal walked away from Hef’s grave with a purported US$7 million ($10.7m). As his widow, she has every right to it.

But there’s something kinda’ slack about her timing. While going to pains to point out that five years of therapy has saved her, she neglects to do any soul searching, not a single decision her own, the whole of this wreckage thanks to Hugh Hefner, her dirty ex boyfriends, her dastardly stepdad, the “patriarchy”. Crystal claims she wrote the book as a warning to other young girls, but of what? Hugh Hefner is dead, the Playboy Mansion no longer a dungeon. Had she published it 20 years ago it would have been very useful indeed. Now, not so.

It is notable that Crystal’s “transformation”, her journey to “find herself” again, to shed the trappings of her “nightmare”, was not so thorough as to extinguish Hefner’s name from her brand.

Texan iconoclast and general stirrer William Cowper Brann once wrote that women were clearly man’s intellectual inferior because of “the simple fact that for thousands of years man has been able to hold her in that ‘state of subjection’ of which her attorneys so bitterly complain”.

This book makes a truth of Brann’s satirical sledge. Pity.

Unlike some we might mention, Maltesers settled into Australian society with barely a ripple.

As did Christian Lebanese.

Been here since the late 19th C.

Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 9, 2024 5:11 PM
There’ll almost certainly be Norks fighting for the Russians in Ukraine.

Well, that’s settled then. Pull your head in, Dover.

Our leaders conspired and deliberately lied to us over ivermectin which was proven to be beneficial and because they lied to us and denied the drug to us, millions of their citizens died in one of the most deliberate mass murders of the 21st century.

It wasn’t just Ivermectin, either. Hydroxychloroquine was also extremely effective in the early days of infection. Both drugs are also being examined by some practitioners for Long Covid & vaccine injuries.

I don’t know that IVM or HCQ would have saved “millions” as some of the very elderly would have been quite vulnerable to an engineered virus like C19. Nevertheless, it is beyond disgraceful that governments were persuaded by Big Pharma to develop risky novel gene therapies that were insufficiently tested when there was good evidence that safe, conventional drugs that “bound” to the pathogen could be repurposed to stop its progression.

John H.
Mar 9, 2024 4:33 PM
Scientists find link between brain imbalance and chronic fatigue syndrome

This study only involved 17 patients.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been recognised for many years as the aftermath – in some people – of a virus. Most implicated is the Epstein Barr virus – though my late mother developed the syndrome directly as a result of an episode of Ross River Fever. We watched as an avid gardener could no longer summon the strength to even walk in her beloved garden. Fatigue was but one of the symptoms – muscle pain (myalgia) and other neurological symptoms arose from time to time. She consulted the most renown neurologist of his generation – but little could be done at that time.

Long Covid is suspected to be just another manifestation of the damage that can be the aftermath of viruses in some individuals. Interestingly, the widespread occurrence of Long Covid (not to speak of the effect of renewed spike pathogen production via the vaccines) may instigate a treatment for this devastating post viral complaint. Emeritus Bob Clancy (Newcastle Uni) seems to have successfully treated a patient with IVM & is also confidant that HCQ may also be applicable. (See his interview on UTUBE with Dr. John Clancy.)

The Russians were fighting the Chechnyan separatists since ’94 under Yelstin. Further, Lincoln didn’t need a ‘pretext’, he wanted to preserve the Union irrespective of what the secessionist wanted.

Your parallels are some of the worst I’ve ever read in defending Putin. The civil war to end slavery equals the Russian skullduggery in killing 300 Russians as a pretext to move on Chechnya and incorporate as it as part of the great Russian empire.

Nevertheless, just admit that your surprise that Chechnya would send troops to Ukraine when it’s a part of the Russian Federation was a mistake.

Yeah, murder 300 Russians to install a former KGB agent, move on a independent country, install a puppet regime which can’t move a hair without Putin’s approval, and this is what you call a part of the Russian Federation. Then have the Muslim thug send troops into Ukraine. Nice folks.

Pro-Palestinian protester attacks portrait of key figure in Israel’s foundation
By Alex Barton
March 9, 2024 — 12.33pm

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A portrait of Lord Balfour, the former British prime minister, at the University of Cambridge has been damaged by a pro-Palestinian protester.

In video posted on social media by Palestine Action, a member of the group is seen spray-painting and slashing the portrait at Trinity College. A woman can be seen defacing the work with red paint before slicing the canvas with a sharp object.

Balfour was one of the chief supporters of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, cemented by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which gave British backing to the movement.

The Instagram video was accompanied by a caption that read: “Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of ‘Lord’ Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

“Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away – which the British never had the right to do.

“The British paved the way for the Nakba and trained the Zionist militia to ethnically cleansed over 750,000 Palestinians, destroy over 500 villages and massacre many families. The Nakba never stopped, and the genocide today is rooted and supported by British complicity.

A Trinity College spokesman said: “Trinity College regrets the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours. The police have been informed. Support is available for any member of the College community affected.”

A spokesman for Cambridge Police said: “This afternoon we received an online report of criminal damage today to a painting at Trinity College, Cambridge.

“Officers are attending the scene to secure evidence and progress the investigation. No arrests have been made at this stage.”

Palestine Action were contacted for comment.

Not to mention the 1.05 million roundabout near me on a not terribly busy intersection but our idiot local Federal member is proud of it.

I’m not ‘equating’ the two in every respect. Even when I put clues about seccession you miss them because you only have eyes for Putin even though he was no were to be seen during the First Chechyan War. Half your problem with analogy is you have no idea how it operates.

I think I do, at least more than you. Analogizing the American civil war with what went on Chechnya is laughable. So what if your buddy wasn’t around in the 90s at the beginning of the Chechnyan troubles. As though that has anything to do with what we’re discussing. However he was most certainly around when Russian intel killed 300 Russians and then blamed it on Chechyan rebels. Putin = Lincoln. Not even fatboy would dare such an errant, nonsensical analogy.

Not at all, and your reply conclusively proves it.

This is your analogy, suggesting the American civil war has relevance to the Russia’s predatory attacks on Chechnya culminating in the murder of 300 Russians by Putin and his intel backers to make it look like it was Chechyan rebels.

Also, this is how Lincoln preserved the Union, right?

Same way the North preserved the Union.

What it conclusively proves is that it’s one of the most idiotic comments I’ve read here by you always batting for the Kelpto.

It beggers belief that while you’re at times agitating against the swamp in the West, you have no shame in batting for one of the most swampie governments in world – which basically resembles a mafia operation.

Thanks Bruce*.
And you can go jump Rabz, I didn’t wish anything on anyone. You on the other hand are an abusive misogynist liar who continues to troll my comments.
I’d appreciate it you refrained from addressing me or referring to me here or at CLs ever again.

*I thought both of you had claimed to have long Covid but didn’t want to state it as a certainty as I was relying on memory as it was a long time ago it was mentioned. Seeing as duk is claiming long covid is caused by the vax I thought it worth mentioning.

The zombie troll imparting the wisdom of hegel, Kantian derivative logic. Fastest lip on a building site he once told us. Only way to survive, he said.

MatrixTransform
Mar 9, 2024 7:39 PM

and 7 transactions a second … the guy’s a moron
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Look, you drunken clown, the blockchain can only achieve that number of transactions without a work around. Stop pretending you some sort of software genius and focus on repairing AC units. Trans, senior google software engineer. LOL.

LOL, but no, the relevant aspect was maintaining Chechnya within the Russian Federation, just as the North sought to maintain the Union.

Oh God. The Soviet Union was no more. The Russian Federation was something that came out of the Soviet Union’s disbandment. Nothing like the US before the civil war. The US hadn’t disbanded and needed to be reconstituted anew. Stupid analogy of every which way.

34 year old Donald Trump answering about becoming a president of the USA.

Do you get the feeling that they may be losing sight of their actual purpose?

‘Transsexualism’ is Rising Wildly in the Military, According to Seven Years of Public Health Data

Global warming

Some fans at frigid Chiefs playoff game underwent amputations, hospital confirms

He’s not wrong.

Donald Trump Torches Joe Biden: ‘Angry as Hell, This Guy Is a PSYCHO’

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What ‘sabre-rattling’ looks like is creating fictitious islands in the sth china sea and then claiming a stretch of water is yours, while threatening safe and unmolested passage.

You support that sabre rattling though.

Oh for lord’s sake.

The US did not reconstitute itself, it did not disband and the constitution remained whole only adding the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment dealing with slavery.

The Soviet Union was no more. The Russian Federation was a new entity that arose from that hell on earth and an entirely new constitution was created for this new nation.

Your analogy sounds like the trans movement suggesting gender is fluid.

I saw mention of a train station at the domus in m’dina (part of the complex was destroyed without any attempt to preserve even though they knew it was there.
Turns out there was a single train line Valletta to M’dina but it was closer in 1931 because cars and trucks.
A pity because the roads here are choked.
The afternoon return trip from m’dina/Rabat to sliema took 2 hours, I think it’s about 12 km.
Bus and ferry today to Gozo (222) hopefully not 2 hours each way.

It is tiny Milton. You can see how the Turks took the entire population of Gozo as slaves back in the day.

The old demented crook is going nowhere according to this piece.

The Left Has to Replace Biden. Here’s Why They Can’t.

miltonf Mar 9, 2024 10:29 PM
Malta looks tiny compared to Sicily Rosie.

It is tiny. Total land area of Malta is 70,000 acres.

Fly a kit with a camera on it & you’ll get the whole country in one photo.