1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, with the Allied Powers aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.
1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring ordered SS General Reinhard Heydrich to handle "the final solution of the Jewish question".
1975 – The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.
1991 – Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts. Avoid seditious libel that will get you pilloried. Also, avoid big battles. Try and solve problems without hurting people. Or you may become a joke. Sometimes, it might be best to turn a blind eye .. and just have fun.
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Immigration in the hands of a right Burke
Piers Akerman – Wednesday, July 31, 2013 (12:13am)
THE big Labor border protection scam will be given an airing today when the first group of illegal boat arrivals is flown to Papua New Guinea since Prime Minister
Rudd back-flipped on the Pacific Solution and announced his copy-cat policy just over a week ago.
Rudd back-flipped on the Pacific Solution and announced his copy-cat policy just over a week ago.
Since the announcement, Rudd’s policy has come under fire from informed PNG citizens and Manus Island locals where the illegal arrivals will be camped.
The ABC and Leftist groups are claiming the Rudd policy is tough and hardline but it is just idiotic.
It’s an election thought bubble designed to take the issue off the table until Rudd and his spin doctors can con their way through the next ballot.
They hope the electorate will not remember that the flood of illegal arrivals is entirely Labor’s fault.
Rudd’s fault to be precise, as he ensured that the former successful Howard policy which stopped the boats was destroyed.
The Opposition has plans to turn back the boats and also restore temporary protection visas and introduce a suite of other measures to try and fix Labor’s stuff-up.
Yesterday Opposition Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said a Coalition government would erect a 2000-person tent city on Nauru to process illegal arrivals who made it through the blockade.
Over five years, the capacity on Nauru would be expanded to house 5000,
Immigration Minister Tony Burke said expanding offshore processing in Nauru had merit and he’d raised a similar idea with the island nation’s leaders last week.
But, he claimed, the Opposition had been “grossly irresponsible” in rushing the policy out and putting a figure on the capacity for the proposed facility.
“People smugglers want to know the figure,” Burke told reporters in Sydney.
What a complete joke. The PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has made it clear that the Labor minority government has told him that Nauru will house somewhat less than 3000 illegal arrivals when the expansion is complete.
Or didn’t Burke know what Rudd was asking for?
Either way, Burke looks a right Burke.
Labor’s Manus Island plan is already creating health problems for the locals and has upset people across our region from Indonesia to the island states of the Pacific.
Despite what the tame media says, Labor doesn’t have a clue.
Spin, yes, practical solutions, no.
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Criminal culture living and dying by the gun
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, July 30, 2013 (7:40pm)
ON a recent visit to NSW Police Forensic Services in Surry Hills, I was shown a dazzling array of weapons police have seized from criminals.
There were AK47 assault rifles, which officers say are “common” in the drive-by shootings currently plaguing southwestern Sydney. They take cartridges as thick as your middle finger.
There were .357 magnums, and Dirty Harry style .44 magnums. There were self loading Korean military firearms seized from bikies, which fire as fast as you can pull the trigger. There was a silenced 9mm assault rifle.
There were cabinets full of guns, pretty blue plastic guns, silver guns, black guns, in all shapes and sizes. They make the police standard issue Glock 22 look puny by comparison.
There was even an eentsy weentsy cufflink gun, whose tiny pellets could kill or maim. And there was a gold James Bond style .50 calibre semi automatic “Desert Eagle” pistol, which must have been some punk drug dealer’s pride and joy.
These firearms are all deadly and all were the prized possessions of people who have taken illegal gun ownership in this city to an artform. They are not just weapons, but extensions of the young criminal male ego in a city where gun violence has become commonplace, with warnings we are facing an explosion of gang violence to rival Los Angeles 30 years ago.
As fast as the police seize the weapons, there are dozens more to take their place.
This is the reality of what police are facing on the streets of Sydney, as lax border control, a dysfunctional Customs service, beset by corruption allegations, and increasing handgun theft feeds a growing appetite for guns.
On Monday night two men, aged 18 and 35, were fatally shot in two separate attacks in southwestern Sydney, in Bexley and Earlwood. The targeted attacks were reportedly linked to an ongoing lethal bikie turf war between the Comanchero and Hells Angels gangs.
But it’s not just turf wars.
One former counter terrorism officer, who asked not to be named, said the gun culture had become so ingrained among Middle Eastern males in southwest Sydney that they have taken to settling so-called “honour” disputes with guns.
“The culture is all guns and drugs. If someone looks at your wife the wrong way, you shoot them. They think they’re bulletproof and they have this wilful disregard for authority.”
For the past two years there has been more than one shooting incident reported to police every three days, centred in an arc from Punchbowl and Bankstown to Auburn and Berala, but with shootings as far afield as Kings Cross, Bellevue Hill and Birchgrove.
In the last month there have been 13 serious shooting incidents reported in southwestern Sydney, bringing this year’s total to at least 71. Houses have been shot up and one man was popped in the leg outside a Smithfield kebab shop.
The shootings are so brazen it’s only a matter of time before more innocents get hurt.
Who could forget the tragedy of truck driver Bob Knight. He was killed by a stray bullet as he drove past a gunfight in the KFC carpark in Bankstown in 2009.
Despite good detective work, three men received just a slap on the wrist for their role in his death, from the two-year good behaviour bond handed to Tarek Elbadar, 34, to the six-year jail sentence for Mahmoud Mariam.
The State Crime Command’s Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad launched Operation Apollo in February to try to get on top of gun violence. They have arrested more than 320 people, laid more than 600 charges, and seized more than 80 firearms.
But the shootings continue.
Police have better resources today, such as an American-built armoured assault vehicle with a battering ram on the front which they use to regularly knock down front doors in southwestern Sydney.
They have the forensic ability to trace bullets to firearms on an electronic database within minutes. Technology has also helped with surveillance.
But at the same time, the counter terrorism source says modern police are increasingly hamstrung by legislation and bureaucratic procedure requiring every conversation with an alleged offender to be documented. This is eroding, “the simple fundamentals being a detective to basically talk to a crook and flip that crook”.
“To say the NSW police can stop the crime alone is fanciful.” He is calling for more federal co-ordination across state borders, and for mandatory sentences for illegal possessions of guns.
Tapping into growing community disquiet, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare told an organised crime conference yesterday that he was “worried that a day will come when an innocent person is caught in the crossfire” in Sydney. He also flagged criminal asset seizures.
You might ask why the federal government is getting involved in Sydney’s gun battles on the eve of an election.
It is because qualitative polling is picking up a feeling in the electorate that law and order is breaking down.
That sentiment is coupled in the public mind with the government’s inability to control our borders.
Which is, of course, Rudd’s biggest problem.
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What is Warnie up to?
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, July 30, 2013 (6:24pm)
YOU can frost his tips, bleach his teeth, dress him in Armani and pump his forehead full of botox, but you can’t take the Warnie out of Shane.
There he was, the pride of Australian sport, behaving in full Bogan style for all the world to see at Royal Ascot at the weekend. Our legendary larrikin former spin bowler, 43, sucking on a fag and chugalugging booze like a vacuum cleaner.
Not to mention the ostentatious public displays of affection with 48-year-old sex bomb fiancé Liz Hurley. Nuzzling, pashing, groping, squeezing her bottom, at the perfect angle for all the snapping paparazzi to capture.
But it all looked a little staged and desperate. He didn’t look as if his heart was in it. What is he trying to prove?
It makes you wonder: is Shane bored? Has the fabled Warnie wandering eye been at it again? Me thinks he doth grope too much.
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Tragedies at sea are the fault of Kevin Rudd and the bleeding hearts
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, July 30, 2013 (5:29pm)
IF there’s one group of people in this country who should hang their heads in shame, it is the bleeding hearts who recklessly sabotaged our border security.
I include Kevin Rudd – he is the chief sucker, whose moral vanity caused him to dismantle hard-won Howard-era policies in order to curry favour with compassionistas, whose votes are meaningless but who throw nice dinner parties.
Human rights barrister Julian Burnside is a ringleader. With his basset hound eyes and matinee idol hair, he was the doctors’ wives’ pinup boy railing against a “xenophobic” electorate.
He was mute as his push for open borders bore fruit under Labor: in unchecked boat arrivals and people drowned at sea.
No protests as Labor’s rotating band of immigration ministers tried one doomed and increasingly draconian solution after another.
He even found good news in Rudd’s latest announcement: “the PNG Arrangement is a shabby deal,” he tweeted, “but at least if might stop Scott ("illegals") Morrison becoming Immi Minister.”
But with the possibility of a Coalition government looming, the compassionistas have been cranking up their creaky consciences again, lest they be accused of hypocrisy in future.
Burnside applied a barrister’s sophistry to the topic in an interview with Chris Kenny on Sky, Sunday night. He labeled Howard’s policies Pacific Solution Mark 1 and Labor’s various attempts to close the door Rudd had opened as Pacific Solution Mark 2. Then he declared both were failures.
The real problem, he claimed, is not that the government has lost control of our borders and lured people to their deaths. No, it’s the fault of the Coalition which “made a point of demonising boat people, calling them illegals, which is a lie, calling them queue jumpers, which is a lie...”
“Of course people’s xenophobia will be scratched if they are told to fear these people… Scott Morrison is the prime offender here.”
Well, Burnside got his wish, and the result so far is 1200 people drowned, and more than 45,000 unauthorised boat arrivals since Labor came to office, with a recent exponential increase from 200 to 1200 a week.
Here’s an idea. Forget Manus Island. Let’s pitch the tents in Burnside’s lush garden in Melbourne’s Hawthorn, at his expense. We can call it the “Bleeding Hearts Solution”.
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MONGOLIAN NEO-NAZIS CARE FOR THE PLANET
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 31, 2013 (4:17pm)
A subtle shift in political direction:
Reuters photographer Carlos Barria spent time documenting Mongolian neo-Nazi group Tsagaan Khass, one of several ultra-nationalist groups that have expanded in the country. The 100-plus members of Tsagaan Khass have recently shifted their focus from activities such as attacks on women it accuses of consorting with foreign men to environmental issues. The group is rebranding itself now as an environmentalist organization fighting pollution …
They’ve already got the appropriate costumes.
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SACRED STEEL
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 31, 2013 (1:20pm)
Hear this and hear it loud: Praise You, by the Slide Brothers.
UPDATE. The studio version is even better, and this is epic.
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KEVNI NEEDS BRAINS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 31, 2013 (11:55am)
Following the success of John McTernan’s appointment, Labor again looks abroad for campaign advice:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the use of foreign political strategists to help him win the federal election.Tom McMahon, the former executive director of the Democratic National Committee, Joon Kim of the consulting firm New Partners and British social media expert, Matthew McGregor, will be part of Mr Rudd’s election campaign team for 2013.All three have played key roles in Barack Obama’s US presidential election campaigns using sophisticated social media and field operations.“We will draw upon the best brains in the world,” Mr Rudd said of his campaign team.
So much for putting Australian workers at the front of the queue. It’ll be interesting to discover how much Kevni’s elite social media squadron is costing. Oh, and speaking of Labor and money …
UPDATE. In further strategic Labor developments:
Former NSW energy minister Ian Macdonald has been found to have engaged in corrupt conduct for accepting the services of a prostitute, Tiffanie, in return for arranging meetings between the businessman Ron Medich and executives from state-run power companies …Mr Macdonald told the inquiry that he had not known Tiffanie was a prostitute and was under the impression Mr Medich and Gattellari had arranged for a “remedial massage” in the hotel room after developing “neck tiredness” during lunch.
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IDIOT CONVICTED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 31, 2013 (11:10am)
Wikileaker Bradley Manning is headed to the big house after being found guilty of espionage. The former intelligence analyst is known to his followers as a “whistleblower”, but Glenn Reynolds argues against that definition:
Manning isn’t really a “whistleblower,” though, since he didn’t even know what was in a lot of the stuff he turned over to Wikileaks, and when he did know, it was often stuff like troops’ personal information.The most damning piece of news he got out was that we entrust secrets to idiots like him.
Manning certainly took an unusual approach to his job:
Writing shortly before he was deployed to Iraq as an intelligence analyst in 2009, [Manning said] that he was “delving deeper into philosophy, art, physics, biology, politics” in the hope of providing “more information to my officers and commanders, and hopefully save lives.”
Julian Assange has defended WikiLeaks’ ability to protect its sources following the conviction of US soldier Bradley Manning on espionage charges …“Our processes (to protect sources) have been successful,” he said.
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Rudd raises taxes for your own good
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (5:34pm)
The sanctimony is
astonishing. Desperate to extract more taxes to pay for his spending,
Kevin Rudd claims he’s just doing it so people live longer:
KEVIN Rudd has given a strong hint Labor will raise the price of cigarettes in this week’s economic statement saying it was “time to get serious” about tackling the devastating health impacts of smoking.
Touring the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital’s under-construction cancer centre in Sydney today, the Prime Minister singled out smoking as a top health priority for his government.
“We need to get serious on this major driver of cancer in Australia and around the world. The legitimate question is ‘well what are you doing about it?’.
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Another boat. UPDATE: And another 104 boat people
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (1:04pm)
Another boat - but this one doesn’t arrive:
Strange, but no announcement from the Home Affairs Minister that HMAS Maryborough today dropped off another 104 boat people on Christmas Island today.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority today confirmed to me the people were picked up after this alert:
Was the Government keeping mum to give the illusion its new threat to send all boat people to PNG was working?
In this one boat are enough people to fill a third of the available spaces at the Manus Island detention centre.
Have any other boat people arrived that the Government isn’t telling us about?
A boat carrying 61 undocumented immigrants en route to Christmas Island in Australia underwent engine failure and stranded off Cilacap waters in Central Java on Tuesday.UPDATE
The boat’s passengers were rescued by a Liberian tanker at Tanjung Intan Port in Cilacap.
Cilacap’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) coordinator Tri Joko Priyono said 13 women and nine children out of the 61 passengers had been rescued from the boat.
Strange, but no announcement from the Home Affairs Minister that HMAS Maryborough today dropped off another 104 boat people on Christmas Island today.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority today confirmed to me the people were picked up after this alert:
PAN PANThanks to Michael Smith for alerting me. More on his blog.
FM RCC AUSTRALIA 292332Z JUL 2013 AUSSAR 2013/5126
INDIAN OCEAN NORTHERN PART CHART AUS 4071
A WHITE IN COLOUR INDONESIAN STYLE VESSEL WITH APPROXIMATELY 85 ASYLUM SEEKERS ONBOARD REPORTED TO BE IN
THE VICINITY OF 06-58.8S 105-01.9E AT 292110UTC JULY 2013. VESSEL HAS REQUESTED ASSISTANCE AND MAY BE ON A SOUTHERLY COURSE. VESSELS TRANSITING THE AREA ARE REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT AND REPORT ANY SIGHTINGS TO THIS STATION OR RCC AUSTRALIA
Was the Government keeping mum to give the illusion its new threat to send all boat people to PNG was working?
In this one boat are enough people to fill a third of the available spaces at the Manus Island detention centre.
Have any other boat people arrived that the Government isn’t telling us about?
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Should we really trust the people who keep getting Budget numbers so wrong?
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (11:39am)
I don’t think Jessica Irvine realises the second bit in bold gives us ample reason to doubt the first bit in bold:
How many times has Treasury and Labor mucked up their Budget estimates now?
Or is this the key to understanding her analysis:
Rest assured that the numbers the Treasurer will unveil this week will have been through a rigorous process.Why should I rest assured about any numbers produced by a Treasury whose forecasts are - again - wildly wrong not three months after the Budget?
In early June, Treasury officials met with Reserve Bank representatives and public servants from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to compare notes. National accounts released since the Budget was handed down in May revealed a sharper fall in our commodity income than expected and this will be reflected in the forecasts. Chinese growth, too, has come off the boil.
How many times has Treasury and Labor mucked up their Budget estimates now?
Treasury admits it underestimated revenue during the mining boom and overestimated revenue in the recovery.Yet Irvine keeps telling us to rest assured about a Treasury which gives us no reason at all to be assured about anything it does:
So rest assured that the numbers you see this week are the best guess we have about the true state of the nation’s finances.Irvine should let us into the secret: what has Treasury got so right that makes her so complacent about its next guess?
Or is this the key to understanding her analysis:
...it is not hard to have sympathy for [Treasurer Chris Bowen]… joblessness would have been higher and growth lower if the Rudd government had not acted quickly ... the greatest legacy of the first Rudd government… This is not entirely a mess of Rudd’s own making. It is a shame the Howard government didn’t save more ... It now falls to Bowen ... Rest assured that the numbers the Treasurer will unveil this week will have been through a rigorous process… So rest assured...As for the Opposition:
... they should not laugh so hard. The joke will be on them should the job fall to them to fix things.Surely they couldn’t do any worse than what Irvine is defending.
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How The Age covers politics
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (11:18am)
Notice a pattern?
(Thanks to reader John.)
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ICAC finds former Ministers Obeid and Macdonald acted corruptly
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (11:07am)
Two former NSW Labor Ministers face possible criminal charges:
FORMER NSW Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid and former mining minister Ian Macdonald have been found by the NSW ICAC to have acted corruptly and referred for possible criminal charges.
The long-running Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry has also made corruption findings against Mr Obeid’s son Moses.
The findings follow six months of sensational hearings and more than 150 witnesses.
ICAC has found the one-time head of the powerful Labor right faction Mr Obeid and his son Moses acted corruptly in the process of obtaining and selling a mining exploration licence on their property.
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Pray the Governor-General ignores Altman and stays silent
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (7:17am)
Professor
Denis Altman pretends he doesn’t actually want the Governor-General to
get political - while urging her to do just that:
Altman tries to wriggle out of his contradiction - tries to hide his trick - by claiming he’s not asking the Governor-General to propose “policy”, and therefore he’s not asking her to play politics.
But here he makes a virtue of a weakness of the Left. Striking a pose is easy. Following through with policy, and taking responsibility for the consequences, is the hard stuff. The work of adults.
It’s the difference between a Phillip Adams damning the immorality of those wanting tougher border laws while ignoring completely that the more “compassionate” stand he cheered lured more than 1000 boat people to their deaths.
I’ve had it with fine speeches. I want fine policy. The Governor-General is not there to urge us to do she knows not what. That is for elected politicians to propose and voters to judge.
It would be quite inappropriate for the Governor-General to enter into the policy debate about our response to asylum seekers. But what she could do is address the misconceptions and demonisation that surrounds people fleeing persecution, who seek to find refuge in Australia.Note the trick. Asking the Governor-General to “persuade politicians” is indeed asking her to get political. Altman claims sweetly that he isn’t asking the Governor-General to do something as “inappropriate” as to “enter into the policy debate”, but he clearly is doing just that. He wants her to persuade us into treating the boat people not as economic migrants needing tough deterrence, but as desperate people fleeing for their lives - which, incidentally, seems at odds with the facts in many cases. He certainly doesn’t want the Governor-General to give a speech noting instead that every nation should attempt to control their own destiny - and therefore their borders. He’d soon scream then about “inappropriate” interventions.
Of course there will be a proportion of asylum seekers who are what the government calls ‘’economic migrants’’. But all the evidence suggests the vast majority of people prepared to risk their lives on shonky boats are desperate; they are unable to stay in their original homes because of fear of death or imprisonment, and equally unable to find a way of rebuilding their lives in the transit points from which they seek to get to Australia…
Where our political leaders cannot provide moral leadership - and both Rudd and Abbott have clearly lost the ability to transcend their desire to appear the toughest boy in the playpen - there is a role for the head of state. Not to suggest policy outcomes, which is a matter for elected governments, but to change the tone of the debate and persuade politicians and media to recognise there are thousands of human tragedies being played out in the joint horror of drownings and detention.
Altman tries to wriggle out of his contradiction - tries to hide his trick - by claiming he’s not asking the Governor-General to propose “policy”, and therefore he’s not asking her to play politics.
But here he makes a virtue of a weakness of the Left. Striking a pose is easy. Following through with policy, and taking responsibility for the consequences, is the hard stuff. The work of adults.
It’s the difference between a Phillip Adams damning the immorality of those wanting tougher border laws while ignoring completely that the more “compassionate” stand he cheered lured more than 1000 boat people to their deaths.
I’ve had it with fine speeches. I want fine policy. The Governor-General is not there to urge us to do she knows not what. That is for elected politicians to propose and voters to judge.
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How the Sydney Morning Herald framed Morrison
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (6:55am)
The Sydney Morning Herald
should explain how it “understood” the Coalition had a terrible
conflict of interest that made its latest announcement on boat people
look silly. Did it fall again for Labor spin?
Here is the paper’s big gotcha story:
Its story - which ran most of yesterday - now includes this late additional detail:
But damage done, and Labor will laugh.
Good job, Sydney Morning Herald. The lack of an apology says plenty.
Here is the paper’s big gotcha story:
A logistics company that stands to profit from the Coalition’s ‘’tent city’’ on Nauru funded the trip of its immigration spokesman Scott Morrison to the remote island to announce the plan to house up to 2000 asylum seekers in tents.Here is how the story initially reported the central “fact”:
It is understood Toll Holdings chartered the flight for the Coalition and News Corporation.“Understood”? That is usually a euphemism for “guessed”. And Fairfax guessed wrong.
Its story - which ran most of yesterday - now includes this late additional detail:
Toll Holdings told Fairfax Media late on Tuesday night that it had been invited by the government and the opposition to work on ‘’potential logistics solutions’’ to the asylum seeker issue.The story’s second paragraph, which originally read “It is understood Toll Holdings chartered the flight for the Coalition and News Corporation”, has since been changed to this:
‘’Part of this involved sending some senior executives to Nauru to assess the situation on the ground. There were spare seats available, which were offered to the shadow minister. There was no significant extra cost to allow non-Toll passengers on the trip,’’ a spokesman said.
The trip to Nauru was facilitated by Toll Holdings...Needless to say, there is a substantial difference between a company chartering a flight for the Opposition and merely offering spare seats.
But damage done, and Labor will laugh.
Good job, Sydney Morning Herald. The lack of an apology says plenty.
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Not changing this country for the better
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (6:49am)
Sydney’s bikie war
keeps reminding us that our immigration and multicultural policies
haven’t operated entirely in the best interests of the country:
Vasko Boskovski and Bassil Hijazi died in a hail of bullets in Sydney’s southwest on Monday night, the 20th and 21st person to be killed by assassins’ bullets since Barry O’Farrell came to power in March 2011.Miranda Devine:
One former counter terrorism officer, who asked not to be named, said the gun culture had become so ingrained among Middle Eastern males in southwest Sydney that they have taken to settling so-called “honour” disputes with guns.
“The culture is all guns and drugs. If someone looks at your wife the wrong way, you shoot them. They think they’re bulletproof and they have this wilful disregard for authority.”
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Trading in air to make no difference to the temperature
Andrew Bolt July 31 2013 (6:44am)
Jo Nova on the carbon trading system Kevin Rudd is linking us to one year earlier:
Unfortunately, fraud has been a big, ongoing problem with emissions trading. This market needs auditors, and the auditors need auditing (the top two auditors in the EU emissions trading scheme were suspended in 2009 for irregularities). The EU has already lost €5 billion to carbon-trading value-added tax fraud. The mafia is laundering money in Italy through renewables schemes, and after one tax loophole was closed, market volume in Belgium dropped by up to 90 per cent.
The carbon market also depends on the honesty of people claiming: “We wouldn’t have built that dam without that carbon credit.” How would we know? The Xiaoxi dam in China was already under construction two years before the owners applied for credits “to build it"…
Most of the key factors in a carbon market are misnamed. The market is not free. An essential plant fertiliser is called pollution. The aim of the market is not to make clean energy but to change global temperatures by an amount that rounded to the nearest degree, equals zero. The US has no market but has reduced emissions (largely thanks to shale gas), while any reductions in EU emissions were largely due to falling gross domestic product. Yet the government wants to join the EU scheme.
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No disrespect meant .. but no. However, how about a weekend of fantasy role play? I got dice. - ed
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Stars can't shine without darkness
Joy has no value without sadness.
There is no many without a few
There is no life without you
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not one, but two .. There needs to be a support network for everyone. I like my church for many reasons, one being that it is very good with raising children. - ed===
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. – 1 John 4:18
#god #holy #digitalbible #bible #holybible #love#jesus #prayer #power #fearless #soul #fear#anxiety
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Joe Hockey
Launching the long overdue biography of Nick Greiner. And proud to do so.
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I thoroughly enjoyed talking to students from Tara Anglican School for Girls.
Listening to their dreams and aspirations was inspiring for me.
Young people like this are our future, and I will do everything I can to help them on their journey.
#TheHonBron #LiberalParty
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Allyson Christy.
Lieberman: You Can't Make Peace with a Holocaust Denier - Israel National News
"PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is a Holocaust denier and did a PhD about it, reminds MK Avigdor Lieberman." - Elad Benari
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Ben is joined by Michael Smith in the studio to talk about asylum seekers and to announce him as a new regular on his show.
You can now catch Michael Smith every Thursday at 4:30PM on 2GB.
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“There’s a battle for the [Republican] party going on…"
Rush Limbaugh sits down for rare, hour-long TV interview. Watch here: http://bit.ly/165eIY5
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Maltese underwater statue of Jesus Christ
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Problem: Warren reads 20 pages in 30 minutes. At this rate how long will it take him to read 66 pages?
That was a question in the Australian Mathematics Competition a couple of years ago. Tomorrow ACT students will join 500,000 kids in a giant multi-country maths test.
A lot of them would probably work that brain teaser out in seconds, maybe minutes.
Do you know the answer?
Adam Shirley will reveal it on air after 4pm today.
Photo by doviende, Creative Commons
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Someone asked a well known novelist, how do you write a novel.
The answer - every day.
If you write every day, not only do the words quickly mount, but the story and characters stay alive in your imagination.
This is one of the great pleasures of fiction.
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Well initially this might look to you like any normal girl being treated by a doctor,the girl in the photo is not any normal living girl but the mummy of a 15 year old child who has been dead for about 500 years.
She was found in 1999 near Llullaillaco's 6739 meter summit. An Argentine-Peruvian expedition found the perfectly preserved body and she was nicknamed "La doncella" which means “The maiden”. According to the Inca she was chosen to go and live with the gods. But in reality she was a sacrifice to the Inca Gods and had been brutally killed in the name of religion.
Scientists say that her organs are intact and its as if she had died just a few weeks ago. From testing the samples of her hair they could determine the type of diet she was on before her death. This lead to the discovery that the Incan fattened their children before killing them. Months or even years before the sacrifice pilgrimage these children were given diets which were those of the elite, consisting of maize and animal proteins.
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Craig Kelly
7 REASONS TO VOTE “NO” AT THE REFERENDUM
The planned constitutional changes will:
1. Undermine our federal system of government
2. Interfere with states’ powers local administration of their own state
3. Erode the legislative power of the states
4. Give the Commonwealth power to interfere in state policy
5. Weaken our current system that ensures that the regulation of the economy is decentralised and in not under the control of any one body.
6. Fail to improve local government (despite contrary claims)
7. Allow the Commonwealth to subvert the Australian Constitution.
The upcoming referendum is a power grab that undermines the Constitution that has served us well over the past 112 years. It won’t improve local governments, but merely bring them under the direct control of Canberra.
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The Coalition will take strong action to ensure trade unions are more transparent and accountable – you can read our policy here:http://lbr.al/4kju
We will ensure that elected officers of trade unions operate to the highest standards.
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Andrew Danger Nguyen
If I started a workout business it would be called Pecasaurus Pty LTD, and all the workout programs would be dinosaur based puns like BICEPatops, TRAPasaurus Rex, and instead of reps you take on REPtors#reasonswhynooneasksmeforhelp #awesomebusinessideas #dinobots
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Australian test batsmen are wearing too much wool .. - ed
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Sarah Palin was criticized for the telling the "biggest lie of the year" about ObamaCare in 2009. Now, the former head of the Democratic Party suggests she was right all along.
How will this affect you? Plus, hear Palin's reaction on tonight's Hannity! Watch: http://tinyurl.com/lxyoury
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Andrea Tantaros unimpressed by Left’s ‘binder full of weiners’ ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/
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War is on the horizon. Victory demands collective sacrifice to prevent catastrophic disaster.http://bit.ly/IFwar
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Wayne Matey Mattner.
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The truth came out and it only took one day of peace negotiations to hear it.
Those advocating for apartheid are from the Arab side. Their goal: A Middle East "judenrein" -- with no Jews in it.
Evidence: This statement from Abbas, and the history of Jewish displacement from Arab lands over the last 70 years:https://www.facebook.com/
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<So wrong on so many levels. Irony meter just exploded.>
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<"Progressive". Quite possibly the most misleading term ever employed in political discourse.>
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Here's a pic from New Years Eve. The overlook was windy, wet, and freezing, plus the Island security was threatening to throw us out, but we made our case and they looked the other way. Trespassing fun on a San Francisco night!
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
One thing that derails Christians from growing in faith is WORRY.
This is very deceiving and in most cases taken lightly. That's why it's powerful and destructive. What am talking about is... worry. You see, lots of people are worried about their bills,their getting married, thinning hair, health, kids, wrinkles in their faces and all other things,taking the limelight from God and focusing it on their problems.
Listen. Matthew 6:25-27 says that we shouldn't be anxious about our life because "worrying" won't add a single hour in our life. In fact, it's a sin since we're seeing our problem as if it's bigger than our God.
So how do we break the habit of worrying? There are several ways to break it but i will show you a better and long-term solution. Worrying is actually an act of meditation. It is focusing your mind on things that may go wrong. Here's a better solution. Instead of meditating on the negative, why not meditate on God's Words and promises to you? If bills and expenses are piling up, why not meditate this truth."But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19
Simply close your eyes and recite this verse meaningfully three times to experience its power. No doubt, scripture memorization and meditation is probably the fastest and easiest way to break the worry habit.Try it,you will be healed from this addiction of WORRY.Amen.
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"That they have been able to live out their lives enjoying the freedoms of this country, after depriving others of freedom and life itself, is an affront to the memory of those who perished," said Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
KNOW THAT NOTHING CHANGES LIVES LIKE THE HOPE FOUND IN GOD.
Every one of us will leave a legacy – a lasting reminder of the difference our lives made.The question is…what kind of a legacy will we leave?
In our daily lives, thoughts like "God's plan" and "our legacy" can feel so far away.
But the truth is that every choice counts. Every thought matters. Even the smallest action makes a difference.
When you think about it, the greatest legacy that’s ever been given is the Word of God. It’s filled with stories of people who changed the world and left a legacy through their loving relationship with God.Hebrews 11 mentioned some of them.
I pray that my legacy will be that I gave my life to deliver the truth of God’s Word to as many people as I possibly could.That’s why my vision for this ministry is to offer the hope that can only be found in Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.What is your legacy?
Father in heaven,Help me to leave an outstanding legacy,bearing fruits of the Spirit. I choose to praise and glorify You in all circumstances. Help me, by Your Spirit, to be a light and example to the world around me. Thank You for working in my heart. I bless You today and always. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
In our daily lives, thoughts like "God's plan" and "our legacy" can feel so far away.
But the truth is that every choice counts. Every thought matters. Even the smallest action makes a difference.
When you think about it, the greatest legacy that’s ever been given is the Word of God. It’s filled with stories of people who changed the world and left a legacy through their loving relationship with God.Hebrews 11 mentioned some of them.
I pray that my legacy will be that I gave my life to deliver the truth of God’s Word to as many people as I possibly could.That’s why my vision for this ministry is to offer the hope that can only be found in Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.What is your legacy?
Father in heaven,Help me to leave an outstanding legacy,bearing fruits of the Spirit. I choose to praise and glorify You in all circumstances. Help me, by Your Spirit, to be a light and example to the world around me. Thank You for working in my heart. I bless You today and always. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Your illness isn't your identity.Your sickness isn't your soul. Many have strong character and weak chemistry.
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What a loving church! Kay and I were encouraged by 33,350 who welcomed us back in services this past weekend!
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““You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14,16 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"And when he thought thereon, he wept."Mark 14:72
It has been thought by some that as long as Peter lived, the fountain of his tears began to flow whenever he remembered his denying his Lord. It is not unlikely that it was so, for his sin was very great, and grace in him had afterwards a perfect work. This same experience is common to all the redeemed family according to the degree in which the Spirit of God has removed the natural heart of stone. We, like Peter, remember our boastful promise: "Though all men shall forsake thee, yet will not I." We eat our own words with the bitter herbs of repentance. When we think of what we vowed we would be, and of what we have been, we may weep whole showers of grief. He thought on his denying his Lord. The place in which he did it, the little cause which led him into such heinous sin, the oaths and blasphemies with which he sought to confirm his falsehood, and the dreadful hardness of heart which drove him to do so again and yet again. Can we, when we are reminded of our sins, and their exceeding sinfulness, remain stolid and stubborn? Will we not make our house a Bochim, and cry unto the Lord for renewed assurances of pardoning love? May we never take a dry-eyed look at sin, lest ere long we have a tongue parched in the flames of hell. Peter also thought upon his Master's look of love. The Lord followed up the cock's warning voice with an admonitory look of sorrow, pity, and love. That glance was never out of Peter's mind so long as he lived. It was far more effectual than ten thousand sermons would have been without the Spirit. The penitent apostle would be sure to weep when he recollected the Saviour's full forgiveness, which restored him to his former place. To think that we have offended so kind and good a Lord is more than sufficient reason for being constant weepers. Lord, smite our rocky hearts, and make the waters flow.
Evening
"Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."John 6:37
No limit is set to the duration of this promise. It does not merely say, "I will not cast out a sinner at his first coming," but, "I will in no wise cast out." The original reads, "I will not, not cast out," or "I will never, never cast out." The text means, that Christ will not at first reject a believer; and that as he will not do it at first, so he will not to the last.
But suppose the believer sins after coming? "If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." But suppose that believers backslide? "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him." But believers may fall under temptation! "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." But the believer may fall into sin as David did! Yes, but he will "Purge them with hyssop, and they shall be clean; he will wash them and they shall be whiter than snow"; "From all their iniquities will I cleanse them."
"Once in Christ, in Christ forever,
Nothing from his love can sever."
"I give unto my sheep," saith he, "eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." What sayest thou to this, O trembling feeble mind? Is not this a precious mercy, that coming to Christ, thou dost not come to One who will treat thee well for a little while, and then send thee about thy business, but he will receive thee and make thee his bride, and thou shalt be his forever? Receive no longer the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the spirit of adoption whereby thou shalt cry, Abba, Father! Oh! the grace of these words: "I will in no wise cast out."
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Today's reading: Psalm 51-53, Romans 2 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 51-53
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place....
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place....
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 2
God's Righteous Judgment
1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2 Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
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- 1703 – English writer Daniel Defoe (pictured)was placed in a pillory for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet politically satirising theHigh Church Tories.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium, with the Allied Powers aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler,Hermann Göring ordered SS General Reinhard Heydrich to handle "the final solution of the Jewish question".
- 1975 – The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.
- 1991 – Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.
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Events[edit]
- 30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
- 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
- 904 – Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
- 1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
- 1201 – Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
- 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the riverYonne.
- 1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
- 1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
- 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
- 1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
- 1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
- 1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
- 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
- 1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
- 1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
- 1763 – Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
- 1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
- 1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
- 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
- 1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
- 1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
- 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
- 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
- 1931 – New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
- 1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
- 1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- 1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
- 1940 – Doodlebug Disaster: A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewishquestion."
- 1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
- 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
- 1948 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
- 1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
- 1956 – Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
- 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
- 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- 1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
- 1972 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
- 1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
- 1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
- 1987 – A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
- 1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
- 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
- 1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
- 1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
- 1992 – China General Aviation Flight 7552 from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport crashes after taking off, killing 108 of the 116 people on board.
- 1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations.
- 1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
- 2002 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9.
- 2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.
- 2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
- 2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics.
Births[edit]
- 1143 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (d. 1165)
- 1396 – Philip the Good, French son of John the Fearless (d. 1467)
- 1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
- 1598 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
- 1702 – Jean Denis Attiret, French missionary and painter (d. 1768)
- 1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
- 1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
- 1724 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
- 1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813)
- 1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
- 1800 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882)
- 1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer, co-designed the Novelty Locomotive (d. 1889)
- 1816 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
- 1825 – William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
- 1835 – Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (d. 1912)
- 1835 – Paul du Chaillu, French-American explorer (d. 1903)
- 1837 – William Quantrill, American chemist, educator, and soldier (d. 1865)
- 1839 – Ignacio Andrade, Venezuelan politician, 25th President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
- 1843 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
- 1847 – Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
- 1854 – José Canalejas, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
- 1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham, English geologist (d. 1936)
- 1860 – Mary Vaux Walcott, American painter and naturalist (d. 1940)
- 1867 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (d. 1966)
- 1877 – Auguste Daumain, French cyclist
- 1880 – Premchand, Indian author (d. 1936)
- 1883 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (d. 1959)
- 1884 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945)
- 1886 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American mobster (d. 1931)
- 1886 – Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (d. 1965)
- 1886 – Harry Tate, American soccer player (d. 1954)
- 1887 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
- 1892 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher, founder of Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986)
- 1892 – Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
- 1894 – Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
- 1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
- 1907 – Roy Milton, American singer, drummer and bandleader (d. 1983)
- 1909 – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian writer and theorist (d. 1999)
- 1911 – George Liberace, American violinist and arranger (d. 1983)
- 1912 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
- 1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Irv Kupcinet, American columnist (d. 2003)
- 1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
- 1914 – Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
- 1916 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist (d. 1986)
- 1916 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
- 1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (d. 1987)
- 1920 – James E. Faust, American religious leader, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Percy Herbert, English actor (d. 1992)
- 1921 – Peter Benenson, British lawyer and activist, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
- 1921 – Donald Malarkey, American soldier
- 1921 – Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
- 1922 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer, founded Atlantic Records (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach
- 1926 – Bernard Nathanson, American doctor and activist (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist
- 1929 – Gilles Carle, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Don Murray, American actor
- 1929 – Lynne Reid Banks, British author
- 1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer and coach
- 1930 – Oleg Popov, Russian clown
- 1931 – Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
- 1931 – Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
- 1931 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1932 – John Searle, American philosopher
- 1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
- 1935 – Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor, and author
- 1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor
- 1936 – Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1939 – France Nuyen, French actress
- 1940 – Carol J. Clover, American academic and author
- 1940 – Roy Walker, Irish comedian, actor, and game show host
- 1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (d. 2004)
- 1943 – Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – William Bennett, American politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
- 1943 – Susan Flannery, American actress
- 1943 – Sab Shimono, American actor
- 1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
- 1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, British current affairs journalist
- 1944 – Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
- 1945 – Gary Lewis, American singer and drummer (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
- 1945 – William Weld, American politician, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1946 – Karen Zerby, American religious leader
- 1947 – Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Hubert Védrine, French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France
- 1950 – Lane Davies, American actor
- 1950 – Richard Berry, French actor, director and screenwriter
- 1951 – Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
- 1951 – Werner Novak, German footballer
- 1951 – Barry Van Dyke, American actor
- 1952 – Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
- 1952 – Alan Autry, American football player and politician
- 1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice hockey player
- 1952 – João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
- 1952 – Faye Kellerman, American author
- 1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian politician, 46th Premier of Victoria
- 1953 – Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer
- 1953 – James Read, American actor
- 1954 – Manivannan, Indian actor and director (d. 2013)
- 1954 – Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955 – Jakie Quartz, French singer
- 1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor
- 1956 – Bill Callahan, American football coach
- 1956 – Ron Kuby, American lawyer and radio host
- 1956 – Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
- 1956 – Lynne Rae Perkins, American children's author and illustrator
- 1957 – Daniel Ash, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail)
- 1957 – Dirk Blocker, American actor
- 1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball player
- 1958 – Bill Berry, American singer-songwriter and drummer (R.E.M. and Hindu Love Gods)
- 1958 – Wally Kurth, American actor and singer
- 1959 – Stanley Jordan, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1959 – Andrew Marr, British journalist
- 1960 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – John Chiang, American politician
- 1962 – Kevin Greene, American football player
- 1962 – Wesley Snipes, American martial artist, actor, and producer
- 1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964 – Jim Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Corrs)
- 1965 – Scott Brooks, American basketball player and coach
- 1965 – Pat Finn, American actor
- 1965 – John Laurinaitis, American wrestler
- 1965 – Julian Richards, British director
- 1965 – J. K. Rowling, British novelist
- 1966 – Dean Cain, American actor
- 1966 – Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director
- 1966 – Kevin Martin, Canadian curler
- 1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and actress (d. 2005)
- 1967 – Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese voice actor
- 1967 – Peter Rono, Kenyan runner
- 1967 – Tony Massenburg, American basketball player
- 1967 – Tim Wright, Welsh composer
- 1968 – Saeed-Al-Saffar, Emirati cricketer
- 1968 – Mark Cuban, American businessman, investor, and author
- 1969 – Loren Dean, American actor
- 1969 – Kid Kash, American wrestler
- 1969 – Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
- 1970 – Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian author
- 1970 – Ben Chaplin, British actor
- 1970 – Andrzej Kobylański, Polish footballer
- 1970 – Giorgos Sigalas, Greek basketball player
- 1970 – Amanda Stepto, Canadian actress
- 1970 – Dave Wedge, American journalist
- 1971 – John 5, American guitarist and songwriter (2wo, Loser, and Red Square Black)
- 1971 – Gus Frerotte, American football player
- 1972 – Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Greek screenwriter and actor
- 1973 – Wail al-Shehri, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
- 1973 – Nathan Brown, Australian rugby player
- 1973 – Fabulous Flournoy American basketball player and coach
- 1974 – Emilia Fox, English actress
- 1974 – Jonathan Ogden, American football player
- 1975 – Randy Flores, American baseball player
- 1975 – Andrew Hall, South African cricketer
- 1975 – Simon Hirst, British radio presenter
- 1975 – Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
- 1975 – Mike Lincoln, American baseball player
- 1975 – Ruben Patterson, American basketball player
- 1975 – Allan von Schenkel, American bassist and composer
- 1976 – Joshua Cain, American guitarist and producer (Motion City Soundtrack)
- 1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
- 1977 – Tim Couch, American football player
- 1978 – Will Champion, English drummer and singer (Coldplay)
- 1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress and model
- 1978 – Nick Sorensen, American football player
- 1978 – Justin Wilson, British racing driver
- 1979 – Jaco Erasmus, South African-Italian rugby player
- 1979 – J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
- 1979 – Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
- 1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
- 1979 – B. J. Novak, American actor
- 1980 – Rina Aiuchi, Japanese singer
- 1980 – Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish race car driver
- 1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Titus Bramble, English footballer
- 1981 – Vernon Carey, American football player
- 1981 – J.Son Dinant, American comedian and actor
- 1981 – D. J. Hackett, American football player
- 1981 – Eric Lively, American actor
- 1981 – Ira Losco, Maltese singer
- 1981 – M. Shadows, American singer-songwriter (Avenged Sevenfold)
- 1982 – Jeff DaRosa, American singer and bass player (Dropkick Murphys and The Exit)
- 1982 – Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spanish tennis player
- 1982 – Jack Korpela, American sportscaster
- 1982 – Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1982 – Raymond Pickard, English actor
- 1982 – DeMarcus Ware, American football player
- 1983 – Rebecca Atkinson, English actress
- 1984 – Joseph Benavidez, American mixed martial artist
- 1984 – Felipe dal Belo, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Daniel Ciofani, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Shannon Curfman, American singer and guitarist
- 1985 – Rémy Di Gregorio, French cyclist
- 1986 – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Brian Orakpo, American football player
- 1987 – Michael Bradley, American soccer player
- 1987 – Brittany Byrnes, Australian actress
- 1988 – Krystal Meyers, American singer-songwriter
- 1988 – A. J. Green, American football player
- 1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
- 1989 – Alexis Knapp, American actress
- 1989 – Joey Richter, American actor and singer
- 1989 – Jessica Williams, American comedian and actress
- 1989 – Zelda Williams, American actress
- 1990 – Mirela, Spanish singer
- 1990 – Besart Abdurahimi, Croatian footballer
- 1991 – Réka-Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player
- 1992 – Kyle Larson, American race car driver
- 1992 – Lizzy, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School and Orange Caramel)
- 1993 – Christian Byers, Australian actor
- 1996 – Blake Michael, American actor
- 1997 – Barbie Forteza, Filipino actress
- 1998 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 54 BC – Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
- 450 – Peter Chrysologus, Italian Bishop of Ravenna (b. 380)
- 855 – Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab scholar and theologian (b. 780)
- 1358 – Etienne Marcel, French peasant revolutionary leader during the Jacquerie
- 1396 – William Courtenay, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
- 1508 – Na'od, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1494)
- 1556 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish priest and theologian, founded the Society of Jesus (b. 1491)
- 1653 – Thomas Dudley, English-American politician, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
- 1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
- 1750 – John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
- 1762 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711)
- 1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1713)
- 1805 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1756)
- 1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
- 1875 – Andrew Johnson, American politician, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
- 1884 – Kien Phuc, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1869)
- 1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
- 1914 – Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
- 1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
- 1917 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
- 1920 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat and writer (b. 1878)
- 1940 – Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
- 1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer (b. 1905)
- 1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
- 1953 – Robert Taft, American politician (b. 1889)
- 1953 – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (b. 1884)
- 1954 – Onofre Marimón, Argentine race car driver (b. 1923)
- 1963 – Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet, British soldier and politician (b. 1880)
- 1964 – Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
- 1966 – Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
- 1970 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American businessman (b. 1912)
- 1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
- 1973 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (b. 1921)
- 1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
- 1980 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer (b. 1924)
- 1981 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian general (b. 1929)
- 1985 – Eugene Carson Blake, American religious leader, President of the National Council of Churches (b. 1906)
- 1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
- 1986 – Teddy Wilson, American pianist (b. 1912)
- 1987 – Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
- 1988 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
- 1990 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- 1992 – Leonard Cheshire, British pilot (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)
- 2000 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American writer (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
- 2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese military officer and politician, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian illustrator and writer (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
- 2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
- 2006 – Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Harry Alan Towers, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Bill Doss, American singer-songwriter (The Olivia Tremor Control and The Sunshine Fix) (b. 1971)
- 2012 – Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, Somali journalist and comedian (b. 1969)
- 2012 – Lucio Quarantotto, Italian songwriter and composer (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Eduardo Quesada, Argentine singer (Los Fronterizos) (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Alfredo Ramos, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Tony Sly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (No Use for a Name) (b. 1970)
- 2012 – Gore Vidal, American author, actor, and activist (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)
- Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day, a Flag Day. (Hawaii)
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