70 – First Jewish–Roman War: The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, conquered the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple.
1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas led a raid into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England.
1783 – A cataclysmic eruption of Mount Asama, the most active volcano in Japan, killed roughly 1,400 people and exacerbated a famine, resulting in another 20,000 deaths.
1983 – A coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré and supported by Libya made Thomas Sankara President of the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Seventeen employees of the French INGO ACF International were massacred in Muttur. Your day has such hope .. for a rebuilt temple, for independence, for salvation from natural disaster, from oppression and from civil war. Live your dream. Realise hope.
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Kevin Rudd’s greatest sin is total disregard for national security
Piers Akerman – Saturday, August 03, 2013 (11:42pm)
OF all the sins of the chaotic and dysfunctional Rudd government (and they are legion), the greatest is its total disregard for national security.
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Eddie’s Way is still obeyed in federal Labor
Miranda Devine – Saturday, August 03, 2013 (11:44pm)
The most striking thing about Eddie Obeid in the ICAC witness box earlier this year was his chutzpah.
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The ALP lolly-scramble betrayed us all
Miranda Devine – Saturday, August 03, 2013 (11:44pm)
One of the best political chronicles of Labor Inc, NSW branch, is former planning minister Frank Sartor’s 2011 book The Fog on the Hill.
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A NEW WAY
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 04, 2013 (6:48pm)
Labor’s first election ad of 2013:
Interestingly, comments are closed. They’re open at the latest Coalition ad:
Interestingly, comments are closed. They’re open at the latest Coalition ad:
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AIR KEVNI
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 04, 2013 (2:10pm)
Observe the Prime Ministerial flightpath as Kevin Rudd heads towards Canberra and an anticipated election announcement.
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The wrong question
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (7:53pm)
Kevin Rudd says the election is about who we can trust.
Tony Abbott should say it’s first about who we can believe.
Tony Abbott should say it’s first about who we can believe.
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First poll: Coalition and Abbott ahead
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (7:34pm)
ReachTEL has the first poll of the election campaign, and it’s good news for both the Coalition and Tony Abbott personally:
UPDATE
The first lie of the election campaign is told by ... Kevin Rudd. It’s that old Abbott-stripped-$1 billion-from-hospitals one.
Yes, Penny Wong earlier today told the lie about the Coalition’s “$70 billion Budget black hole” but the election hadn’t been called then.
UPDATE
Did Rudd not sound rather nervous and rushed in announcing the election? Almost breathless.
Taken this afternoon, with a sample size of nearly 3000.
UPDATE
The first lie of the election campaign is told by ... Kevin Rudd. It’s that old Abbott-stripped-$1 billion-from-hospitals one.
Yes, Penny Wong earlier today told the lie about the Coalition’s “$70 billion Budget black hole” but the election hadn’t been called then.
UPDATE
Did Rudd not sound rather nervous and rushed in announcing the election? Almost breathless.
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September 7 election
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (3:26pm)
Kevin Rudd has called the election for September 7.
Rudd sends an Instagram:
Tony Abbott today shows whatever Rudd can do in a street meet-and-greet he can do better. In Sydney’s Chinatown:
Kevin Rudd emails his followers, saying he will be positive by attacking the AbbottAbbottAbbott:
Kevin Rudd speaks
Rudd starts his press conference with a rush of words. Attacks negativity - which actually means scrutiny of his record by Tony Abbott.
Uses the “who do Australians trust” line once used by John Howard. Who will people trust to protect jobs and the “fair go” while managing the “big transition” of the economy and this “choppy water”.
Another couple of attacks on “negativity”. An attack on “three word slogans”. An appeal to the “new politics”, whatever that is.
Concedes elections are also about a judgment of the record. Says he kept the economy out of recession. Pooh poohs those who say we have a “debt and deficit crisis”. Says “it’s a false claim”.
Praises last Friday’s admission of a Budget shambles as actually “leveling” with voters.
Says he wants to defend manufacturing and advance the NBN. Will “responsibly” return the Budget to surplus by the end of the economic cycle (undefined).
Says Abbott will do a $70 billion “slash and burn”. Says the Campbell Newman Government is a warning.
Yet another attack on Abbott on health spending. Calls Abbott a “climate change denier”. (Unbelievable, how he still claims he’s against “negative politics”. The hide of the man.)
Attacks the Liberals’ NBN scheme.
Says he’s against dividing Australia. (Implies this was what Abbott does, rather than what Labor under Gillard did.)
Says Australians have seen him at the very highs and very lows.
Claims he is the underdog, and his advisers say an election today would have returned Abbott. Claims Abbott has a “massive” war chest funded by business cronies and tobacco companies. Appeals for money. (Oh, so positive is this man. Oh, how wicked are his wicked, wicked enemies.)
The tin rattle is interesting. I’m not sure if it’s a reflection of how empty Labor’s coffers are, or if it’s an attempt to get people to buy in to the campaign, quite literally.
UPDATE
Hooray! The local government referendum is dead! It couldn’t be held before September 14, and now Rudd says it must be business for the next Parliament.
UPDATE
Rudd is asked if the 2016 surplus predicted in the Budget update on Friday is a promise. Rudd waffles and notes it’s only in Labor’s “plan”. No guarantee given.
UPDATE
Hypocrite alert! Rudd is asked if, being against negative politics, he will instruct Labor not to run negative ads against his opponents, Rudd dodges. No guarantee giving. Worse, he attakcs Abbott and tells him not to run negative ads, including ones paid for by tobacco companies. (Do people really buy such astonishing hypocrisy and cant?)
UPDATE
Tony Abbott speaks:
Says he’s about building a better future.
It’s about who is more fair dinkum. Who can build a better future. Is it the side that’s been united, or the one divided. The one that stopped the boats or started them again. The one that balanced the books or blew the Budget.
As soon as its responsible, there will be a company tax cut. (So that old promise of a company tax cut seems to have been delayed.)
On border protection, won’t rely just on other countries to stop the boats.
Will deliver a stronger and more cohesive society.
Hints at giving parents more control over schools.
Wants to build a country were “no one ever feels a stranger”. No more of what Labor has done, turning Australians against each other.
(By the way, the blue behind Abbott is far too light. Wishy washy, not authoritative.)
Want to increase community solidarity. Wants to welcome those who come to join us, not to change us.
Singles out Rudd’s three new taxes and a Budget out of control, with unemployment going up.
Repeats the line: that if Labor gives you three taxes before an election, what will it do after?
“Do you really want three more years like the last six?”
“We won’t let you down.”
“There will not be a minority government led by me.” There will be no deals to create a minority government.
Questions and answers:
Says is agreeing to a series of debates.
Wants to rebuild the “bonds of trust” between the government and the people.
“If you can’t manage the Budget you can’t run the country.” The Budget is deteriorating by $3 billion a week.
Rudd sends an Instagram:
UPDATE
Tony Abbott today shows whatever Rudd can do in a street meet-and-greet he can do better. In Sydney’s Chinatown:
UPDATE
Kevin Rudd emails his followers, saying he will be positive by attacking the AbbottAbbottAbbott:
It’s on.UPDATE
A few moments ago I saw the Governor-General and asked that she dissolve this parliament and call the Federal Election for September 7.
Australians now face a choice. And the choice couldn’t be starker.
I have a positive vision about the country we can be. In this election I’ll be talking with Australians across the county about better schools for our kids, investing so we can create good jobs, and about how the NBN can help keep our economy strong.
Tony Abbott has a different approach. He’ll bang on with the same negativity that we’re all sick of. He’s only got three word slogans because he doesn’t have the ticker to debate his real agenda.
Right now the only thing standing between Australia and an Abbott-led government is you, me, and as many Australians as we can rally to fight for the kind of nation we all want to live in.
We’ve got one hell of a fight on our hands. Abbott and a few millionaires will out-spend us. But if we join together we can even the playing field. Chip in $5 to get us off to a strong start:
http://www.alp.org.au/donate
It’s time to rally the troops.
Kevin
PS – I mean what I say: we can win this if we work together. Now’s the time to step up – please make our campaign stronger by donating now: http://www.alp.org.au/donate
Kevin Rudd speaks
Rudd starts his press conference with a rush of words. Attacks negativity - which actually means scrutiny of his record by Tony Abbott.
Uses the “who do Australians trust” line once used by John Howard. Who will people trust to protect jobs and the “fair go” while managing the “big transition” of the economy and this “choppy water”.
Another couple of attacks on “negativity”. An attack on “three word slogans”. An appeal to the “new politics”, whatever that is.
Concedes elections are also about a judgment of the record. Says he kept the economy out of recession. Pooh poohs those who say we have a “debt and deficit crisis”. Says “it’s a false claim”.
Praises last Friday’s admission of a Budget shambles as actually “leveling” with voters.
Says he wants to defend manufacturing and advance the NBN. Will “responsibly” return the Budget to surplus by the end of the economic cycle (undefined).
Says Abbott will do a $70 billion “slash and burn”. Says the Campbell Newman Government is a warning.
Yet another attack on Abbott on health spending. Calls Abbott a “climate change denier”. (Unbelievable, how he still claims he’s against “negative politics”. The hide of the man.)
Attacks the Liberals’ NBN scheme.
Says he’s against dividing Australia. (Implies this was what Abbott does, rather than what Labor under Gillard did.)
Says Australians have seen him at the very highs and very lows.
Claims he is the underdog, and his advisers say an election today would have returned Abbott. Claims Abbott has a “massive” war chest funded by business cronies and tobacco companies. Appeals for money. (Oh, so positive is this man. Oh, how wicked are his wicked, wicked enemies.)
The tin rattle is interesting. I’m not sure if it’s a reflection of how empty Labor’s coffers are, or if it’s an attempt to get people to buy in to the campaign, quite literally.
UPDATE
Hooray! The local government referendum is dead! It couldn’t be held before September 14, and now Rudd says it must be business for the next Parliament.
UPDATE
Rudd is asked if the 2016 surplus predicted in the Budget update on Friday is a promise. Rudd waffles and notes it’s only in Labor’s “plan”. No guarantee given.
UPDATE
Hypocrite alert! Rudd is asked if, being against negative politics, he will instruct Labor not to run negative ads against his opponents, Rudd dodges. No guarantee giving. Worse, he attakcs Abbott and tells him not to run negative ads, including ones paid for by tobacco companies. (Do people really buy such astonishing hypocrisy and cant?)
UPDATE
Tony Abbott speaks:
Says he’s about building a better future.
It’s about who is more fair dinkum. Who can build a better future. Is it the side that’s been united, or the one divided. The one that stopped the boats or started them again. The one that balanced the books or blew the Budget.
As soon as its responsible, there will be a company tax cut. (So that old promise of a company tax cut seems to have been delayed.)
On border protection, won’t rely just on other countries to stop the boats.
Will deliver a stronger and more cohesive society.
Hints at giving parents more control over schools.
Wants to build a country were “no one ever feels a stranger”. No more of what Labor has done, turning Australians against each other.
(By the way, the blue behind Abbott is far too light. Wishy washy, not authoritative.)
Want to increase community solidarity. Wants to welcome those who come to join us, not to change us.
Singles out Rudd’s three new taxes and a Budget out of control, with unemployment going up.
Repeats the line: that if Labor gives you three taxes before an election, what will it do after?
“Do you really want three more years like the last six?”
“We won’t let you down.”
“There will not be a minority government led by me.” There will be no deals to create a minority government.
Questions and answers:
Says is agreeing to a series of debates.
Wants to rebuild the “bonds of trust” between the government and the people.
“If you can’t manage the Budget you can’t run the country.” The Budget is deteriorating by $3 billion a week.
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Rudd seals deals by giving in
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (3:13pm)
To clear the decks for
the election, Kevin Rudd has agreed to any old thing just to say he’s
got a deal on education and disability - even if it’s in fact a cave-in:
KEVIN Rudd has dumped key demands of Julia Gillard’s policy on education and disability funding to get the agreement of the Victorian and Western Australian State Governments as he frantically closes deals ahead of calling an election...
Mr Rudd has dropped the demands of Ms Gillard and former Education Minister, Peter Garrett, that the Commonwealth have the power to intervene in school education, which the Victorian Government and the non-government sector have opposed since the former Prime Minister announced the Better Schools Plan…
Mr Rudd has also overturned a longstanding insistence from the Gillard Cabinet that Western Australia adopt the Commonwealth disability funding program and drop its own scheme.
The Commonwealth has now agreed to fund two pilot programs in WA for DisabilityCare, one using the Federal proposals and another using the WA scheme to determine which to use.
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The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (9:31am)
On The Bolt Report today at 10am and 4pm:
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
UPDATE
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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THE BOLT REPORT
04 AUGUST 2013
INTERVIEW WITH INNES WILLOX
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: Kevin Rudd promised when he came back as Prime Minister that this time he’d consult more with business.
KEVIN RUDD: We need to have government, businesses, and unions working as much as possible together.
ANDREW BOLT: But since then Rudd has hit business with fringe benefit changes on cars - no consultation. He’s announced the new bank tax - no consultation. And has done all this
because he wants to spend even more, when the Budget’s blown and the economy is slowing.
CHRIS BOWEN: Unemployment, which was projected to reach 5.75%, but is now projected to reach 6.25% in 2013/14.
ANDREW BOLT: Joining me is Innes Willox, head of the Australian Industry Group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses. Innes, where is all this consultation that Kevin Rudd promised you?
INNES WILLOX: Well, there has been some consultation, but really not enough at the detailed level. You know, all decisions of Government have consequences, Andrew, and sometimes there are unintended consequences, and they need to be thought through. That doesn’t mean that we think we need to go back to the 1980s formulation of an accord, or something like that - that’s from the days of boy bands and big hair. We’re in a whole different environment now. We have - businesses are much more global, they’re much more focused at dealing with unions at their own level. Those sort of issues. So businesses change. So we don’t need formal relationships, we need mechanisms to allow for deeper consultation. So you’ve seen issues of-
ANDREW BOLT: But what if you have? I mean, like the FBT things on, you know, company-supplied cars - rammed through. Complete surprise.
INNES WILLOX: Well, as far as we’re concerned, that was a bad decision, an ill-thought-through decision. And from what I understand, too, Treasury are conceding privately that that didn’t actually model the impact on car sales when they put that together. So-
ANDREW BOLT: Excuse me?
INNES WILLOX: Well, that’s of great concern to us.
ANDREW BOLT: An FBT change is going to hit car sales. We’re told lots of car sales are being cancelled - 1,000, I believe, or more. And it’s going to cost jobs. And they didn’t model this?
INNES WILLOX: Well, that’s what we’re hearing and that’s what we’re being told by those who are intimately involved in these discussions. And that causes us enormous concerns. Talking to car manufacturers, they’re talking about falls in sales of up to 20% as a result of this decision. It’s going to impact production. That’s obviously going to impact on confidence and jobs - it flows right through. It’s a decision that - it’s a decision-
ANDREW BOLT: But Innes, this goes to the - Kevin Rudd said he was going to change his relationship with business, and he rams through a tax like this, and you’re telling me they didn’t even figure out that it might actually hurt people’s jobs?
INNES WILLOX: Well, that’s of concern to us when we hear that. You know, when that’s not thought through. And we’re in a situation now where the economy is slowing. All our key indicators are flat lining or going backwards. So we need to be very careful and deliberate about the decisions we make to get our economy moving again. Look, we are in a sort of febrile pre-election environment at the moment, and whenever the election is called, that’s a decision for the Prime Minister.
ANDREW BOLT: But it seems to impact the way - you know, the processes of government, Innes. Look, the Budget now has just blown out by - to $30 billion deficit this year, and bigger
deficits the years after. There will be no surplus now under a Government Kevin Rudd leads, I’m pretty sure of that. But spending is nearly up 6% this year. Does that make any sense to you?
INNES WILLOX: Look, we believe we have to get out of a deficit situation into a surplus over the Budget cycle - that’s over a couple of years - without damaging the basics, the fundamentals of the economy. The fact that we will have almost a decade of Budget deficits is of concern to us. It’s of concern to the business community too, because it’s showing that the economy is slowing, Government is spending more than it needs to, and the big question is - is Government spending in the right area? Now they’re decisions that the voters will make decisions on, come election time. And they do that every three years. But we need to get the economy rebalanced and recalibrated. We’re very firm on that. And - and-
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Funding cuts could give you better artists
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (5:43am)
Sure, he’s silly enough
to think less socialism means a “huge melt-down in capitalism”, but
somewhere in Mark Ravenhill’s rant is an admission that state-sponsored of the arts tends to give you propaganda instead:
One of Britain’s leading playwrights has said funding cuts could be “a good thing” for the arts because artists would be less “safe and well behaved”.
Mark Ravenhill… is currently writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company…
“Didn’t the arts become safe and well behaved during the New Labour years? I think they did.
“I think they weren’t telling the truth - the dirty, dangerous, hilarious, upsetting, disruptive, noisy, beautiful truth - as often as they should have done.
“Why? Because most artists are decent, liberal, if only everyone were nicer to each other and let’s heal it with a hug sort of folk and so voted New Labour.”
When Labour came to power in 1997, there was “for a few years a modest but real terms increase in government funding for the arts”, he said.
“And we artists were so grateful for that relatively modest bit of attention and money that we changed substantially what and who we were as artists."…
He said the arts world “went astray” in the 1990s and become distracted by a focus on urban renewal, corporate sponsorship and social inclusion, rather than reflecting the real world....
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Threatening to send over 10,000, so far managing just 40
Andrew Bolt August 04 2013 (5:14am)
The Immigration
Minister ramps up the rhetoric, despite sending over just 40 of the 1600
boat people who have so far come since the PNG deal was done:
Remember how Labor once damned John Howard as brutal?
KEVIN Rudd will warn people smugglers he stands ready to create an island from hell in Papua New Guinea housing 10,000 asylum seekers…UPDATE
Confirming a dramatic expansion of PNG facilities was possible, Immigration Minister Tony Burke said one site alone [on Manus Island] had the capacity to hold “10,000” asylum seekers in a tent city.
Remember how Labor once damned John Howard as brutal?
Papua New Guinea’s most thuggish paramilitary police unit - allegedly responsible for rapes, murders and other human rights abuses - is being discreetly funded by the Australian Immigration Department to secure the Manus Island asylum seeker detention centre.(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Officers of the “Mobile Squad”, who just last month beat a local man to death on the island, are receiving a special living away allowance of about $100 a day out of funding provided by the department.
The Australian funding is a handsome perk for members of the squad. The average local wage for security staff is about $1.50 an hour.
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A young girl stepped up to a karaoke machine in the food court at a mall and left everyone with their jaws hanging open!
Wait for the 2:40 mark - YOU'LL GET CHILLS!
www.godtube.com/watch/
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DO YOU HAVE CONSCIENCE?
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I like Mr Smith, but he is wrong. - ed
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Davenport Glow — in Davenport Landing, CA.
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Her loss crosses culture and race. No child should endure barbarity, but today adults still inflict it. - ed
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Most people don't care how strong our faith is in good times, they want to know if our faith works in bad times...Let me tell you this!!!! I'm walking through hell, Vultures every where!! and I'm amazed that I'm not falling, each minute of everyday God strengthens me over and over again... His promise is indeed true, follow Me and I God will hold you.... Praise the Lord..
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“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival...
"There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.” Winston Churchill
I like generalisations. That’s because they point out a general truth.
Like the fact that, generally speaking, fair skinned people will sunburn more easily than those with darker skin. That statement neatly sums up a well known truth.
It is also true that a bunch of people – generally left-wing, gender-studies, academic types – will be inclined to write volumes on their belief that such a statement is inherently discriminatory.
And it is generally true that their work is absolute rubbish. Every bit of it.
Here’s another generalisation that should not be easily dismissed: the Islamic community supports the military efforts of Australia’s enemies. And, by doing so, it represents the first time in Australian history that a discrete and identifiable segment of society has provided recruits and aid to organisations that seek to overthrow our democratic government.
Despite this, our government is allowing large-scale Islamic immigration and now the Australian Defence Force is actively seeking Islamic recruits.
That’s right. Our military wants to enlist the enemy.
This situation is completely at odds with all reason. It is akin to opening the doors to Japanese migrants during World War Two, providing them with free health care, education and welfare benefits and turning a blind eye while funds and recruits are sent back to Japan for training, indoctrination and use in the Japanese war efforts against Australia.
Oh yeah, and with all this going on, the government also deciding to actively recruit Japanese patriots into the Australian military.
The reason this did not happen in World War II was because our nation had not lost its senses. It was not in the grip of PC BS. Unfortunately, this ideology defines Australia today.
If you think this is insane, you are right. Pat yourself on the back.
If you think this is great for a multicultural society, then you have strayed far too past stupid to be of any use, and should probably not read further unless you are prepared for a shock.
These are the facts. The stone cold, hard facts:
The 2011 census recorded that out of Australia’s population of 21.5 million, about 476,000 were Muslim.
Australia’s population now stands at just over 23 million. Based on even rates of population growth, there are now about 512,000 Muslims who call Australia home.
This population of 23 million supports a military of 58,000. So there is one person in the military for every 400 Australians.
But there are only 88 Muslims in the Australian Defence Force. It is a reality that the Islamic Community, on the whole, is much less patriotic than the rest of Australia. There is only one Muslim serving in uniform for every 5820 Muslims in this country. Muslims are 14 times less likely to enlist than other Australians.
Furthermore, there are 2530 Australians currently serving overseas on military operations. This means that our participation rate in conflict is rather low: one soldier is deployed for every 9,143 Australians.
However, the same cannot be said for the Islamic community.
ASIO has repeatedly warned that hundreds of Australian Muslims are fighting in Syria, many with al Qaeda-linked groups.
If we assume the best possible case that by ‘hundreds’ ASIO means the lowest possible multiple of hundred, then there are 200 Muslims involved in that conflict. This means that the Islamic community is sending its sons off to war at a much greater rate than the rest of Australia: Islamic militant groups are picking up an Australian recruit for every 2,561 Muslims living in this country.
Just in case maths is not your strong point, let me put it this way. Per capita, the Islamic community is sending three terrorists off to fight with Islamist groups for every soldier the rest of this country sends overseas to wage war against them.
On the whole, it all seems rather crazy that alarm bells aren’t ringing out across the countryside.
But they aren’t and, instead, the Australian Defence Force is now trying to actively recruit Muslims.
In fact, the Royal Australian Navy has just appointed a Strategic Adviser on Islamic Cultural Affairs.
Part of her job will be to bridge the ‘misperceptions’ and ‘misunderstandings’ that are apparently limiting the number of Muslims in uniform.
I respectfully submit that the reason young Muslim men are not joining up like the rest of Australians is not because of misunderstandings about the Australian military. On the contrary, this target group understands it very well. It’s just that the flower of Australia’s Islamic youth are too busy fighting for the enemy to worry about bothering the Defence Force’s recruiting agencies.
They might have an Australian passport but their allegiance is not to our flag.
Yet the military is so intent on recruiting from the Islamic community that it now allows them to wear a different uniform. And these are not my words. They come straight from the Royal Australian Air Force’s webpage devoted to diversity, in the section about religious dress:
“No matter which uniform our Air Force members wear, they wear their uniform with pride, and inherit a proud tradition that was established by the generations before us.”
If the goal of Islamic recruitment is to integrate this community into Australian society, giving them a separate uniform hardly seems like a sensible idea. But hey, maybe integration is not what this is about after all.
Generally speaking, if a soldier in a Western nation has his head hacked off while strolling home from his barracks, there will be a Muslim at the scene of the crime.
And, generally speaking, if a soldier runs around a Western military barracks shouting Allah Akbar while gunning down his comrades, there will be a Muslim pulling the trigger.
And, generally speaking, if a military installation in a Western nation is the target of a terrorist threat, a bunch of Muslims will be planning it.
With all that in mind, generally speaking, if you increase the number of Muslims in Western countries you will probably see more of these atrocities in the future. And if you are dumb enough to put these people into uniform, then there is also a fair chance the military will change as well. Not for the better, either.
Later this year, Australia will withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan. You could say it’s a sign that the ‘War on Terror’, started when western aircraft hijacked by Islamic pilots smashed into the Twin Towers, is over.
I’d say it’s probably just begun. And that efforts to date have been a complete and utter strategic failure.
Because the Islamic population in Australia has doubled during this war. And when Australia’s soldiers return home, it is highly likely that this country’s largest armed commitment overseas will be comprised of Islamic Australians soldiering on with al Qaeda in Syria.
Hardly a sign of victory.
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I despise Oldfield for many reasons. This speech is up there. There are sick people in this world. Confusing that with an immigration scare helps nothing. Anybody travelling to a 3rd world nation could track a disease here .. they don't have to come by boat. But the veiled racial hatred of a cultural supremacist just can't help itself. - ed
Illegal immigrants: The disease threat to Australia
August 3, 2013 · by David Oldfield · in Multiculturalism, Politics
Despite all the politics and promises, the fact remains thousands of people continue to arrive illegally in Australia and many more await the opportunity to make the trip.
They’ve been called asylum seekers, economic refugees, unauthorised arrivals and country shoppers, but whatever one might call this threat to Australia, knowledge of one particular serious danger has been largely denied the Australian people. That is the issue of diseases that also arrive with the un-invited.
It should be noted that arriving with claims for ‘Asylum’ allows access to Australia by people with diseases that prevent such access by anyone wishing to migrate through legitimate means!
Boat arrivals have brought diseases that have overwhelmed medical resources, financially and otherwise, and yet this ever present costly danger is conveniently overlooked.
I have warned of this imported disease time-bomb for years – here is a speech I wrote and delivered in Parliament on June 19 2002.
Given the tens of thousands, in just the last few years, who have arrived by boat from life threatening disease ridden places, the deadly cost of this issue is even more outstanding today!
The Hon. DAVID OLDFIELD [10.38 p.m.]: Last week I put on the record various facts to bring perspective to the pervading nonsense about the emotional hype generated in support of those whom I have termed “asylum-class tourists”. On the same theme it is also appropriate to consider the terrible effect of ill-considered immigration and multicultural policies pursued by governments without consultation. These policies have resulted directly in social and health problems of a magnitude so great that recovery may not be realistically achievable. One cannot fix a problem one refuses to acknowledge. Although the public at large is greatly impacted by horrendous problems such as ethnic crime and imported diseases, no government has moved to resolve the issue. Instead we have seen the cowardly approach of political correctness result in ineffective treatments and no cures.
Without dramatic changes to immigration and the removal of multiculturalism in favour of assimilation and integration, the future is bleak. Successive Australian governments of both political persuasions imported those who were clearly going to have difficulty assimilating. This problem could have been overcome given time and the right approach. However, the introduction of multiculturalism, and hence the removal of any need to assimilate, has destroyed any chance of a cohesive society. Even John Howard noted in 1988 that multiculturalism tended to highlight people’s differences rather than unite them. It is a shame that the Prime Minister no longer makes such concerns public.
As to immigration—albeit supposedly legitimate or otherwise—undoubtedly the issue about which the Australian people are most uninformed is the level of government-sponsored imported disease. One of the best examples is hepatitis B, which until about 25 years ago was virtually unheard of in Australia. Today Australia has over 400,000 carriers of hepatitis B. Each year another 30,000 people are infected and 1,200 die. This disease on its own is estimated to cost the health budget $100 million every year. In 1992 a medical team tested 2,290 inner-city Sydney school children aged between 12 and 14. The result should have been headline news for every newspaper, radio and television station in Australia, but, like so much bad news on immigration, especially 10 years ago, the report never saw the light of day in the mainstream press. Of the 2,290 children, 27 per cent of all those born overseas were carrying tuberculosis. In contrast, only 1 per cent of Australian-born children were carrying the disease. Even so, 1 per cent for Australian-born children was considered very high.
The campaign in Australia in the middle of last century to eradicate tuberculosis was essentially successful, yet in 1992 conclusive research clearly showed that a large proportion of Sydney’s overseas-born children were tuberculosis carriers. These terrible facts, which have been largely hidden from the Australian people, are not my facts; rather, they come from Monash University demography papers, People and Places, and the Australian Medical Journal.
Should we discriminate on the basis of political correctness? Certainly to choose not to discriminate on the basis of political correctness is to discriminate against Australians who are already living in this country and are as yet uninfected. A couple of years ago an illegal immigrant with tuberculosis was tracked down on the Queensland Gold Coast, and the only reason the authorities caught up with him was because he died—funnily enough, of tuberculosis. This particular highly infectious illegal immigrant was working in a shop and his death resulted in the health department having to screen an estimated 300 people who were understood to have come into contact with his coughing and spluttering. That man was an illegal immigrant and should not have been in Australia. That point is clear. But what of the thousands like him roaming free? What diseases are they spreading?
If not for any other reason, mandatory detention of so-called asylum seekers is of paramount importance for health screening to protect the Australian population. We should not allow political correctness or misplaced compassion to cause us to ignore the fact that many of those illegally entering Australia come from places where hepatitis B, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and AIDS are so prevalent that it is very common for them to have at least one of these infectious and deadly diseases.
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“But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”” 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The Lamb is the light thereof."
Revelation 21:23
Revelation 21:23
Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus. Each one of these thoughts shall be to them like a cluster of the grapes of Eshcol. Light is also the cause of beauty. Nought of beauty is left when light is gone. Without light no radiance flashes from the sapphire, no peaceful ray proceedeth from the pearl; and thus all the beauty of the saints above comes from Jesus. As planets, they reflect the light of the Sun of Righteousness; they live as beams proceeding from the central orb. If he withdrew, they must die; if his glory were veiled, their glory must expire. Light is also the emblem of knowledge. In heaven our knowledge will be perfect, but the Lord Jesus himself will be the fountain of it. Dark providences, never understood before, will then be clearly seen, and all that puzzles us now will become plain to us in the light of the Lamb. Oh! what unfoldings there will be and what glorifying of the God of love! Light also means manifestation. Light manifests. In this world it doth not yet appear what we shall be. God's people are a hidden people, but when Christ receives his people into heaven, he will touch them with the wand of his own love, and change them into the image of his manifested glory. They were poor and wretched, but what a transformation! They were stained with sin, but one touch of his finger, and they are bright as the sun, and clear as crystal. Oh! what a manifestation! All this proceeds from the exalted Lamb. Whatever there may be of effulgent splendour, Jesus shall be the centre and soul of it all. Oh! to be present and to see him in his own light, the King of kings, and Lord of lords!
Evening
"But as he went."
Luke 8:42
Luke 8:42
Jesus is passing through the throng to the house of Jairus, to raise the ruler's dead daughter; but he is so profuse in goodness that he works another miracle while upon the road. While yet this rod of Aaron bears the blossom of an unaccomplished wonder, it yields the ripe almonds of a perfect work of mercy. It is enough for us, if we have some one purpose, straightway to go and accomplish it; it were imprudent to expend our energies by the way. Hastening to the rescue of a drowning friend, we cannot afford to exhaust our strength upon another in like danger. It is enough for a tree to yield one sort of fruit, and for a man to fulfil his own peculiar calling. But our Master knows no limit of power or boundary of mission. He is so prolific of grace, that like the sun which shines as it rolls onward in its orbit, his path is radiant with lovingkindness. He is a swift arrow of love, which not only reaches its ordained target, but perfumes the air through which it flies. Virtue is evermore going out of Jesus, as sweet odours exhale from flowers; and it always will be emanating from him, as water from a sparkling fountain. What delightful encouragement this truth affords us! If our Lord is so ready to heal the sick and bless the needy, then, my soul, be not thou slow to put thyself in his way, that he may smile on thee. Be not slack in asking, if he be so abundant in bestowing. Give earnest heed to his word now, and at all times, that Jesus may speak through it to thy heart. Where he is to be found there make thy resort, that thou mayst obtain his blessing. When he is present to heal, may he not heal thee? But surely he is present even now, for he always comes to hearts which need him. And dost not thou need him? Ah, he knows how much! Thou Son of David, turn thine eye and look upon the distress which is now before thee, and make thy suppliant whole.
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Today's reading: Psalm 63-65, Romans 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 63-65
1 You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you....
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you....
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 6
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life....
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Joel
[JÅ'el] - jehovah is god or the lord is god.
[JÅ'el] - jehovah is god or the lord is god.
- The first-born son of Samuelthe prophet (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chron. 6:33; 15:17). Called Vashni in 1 Chronicles 6:28.
- A Simeonite prince (1 Chron. 4:35).
- The father of Shemaiah, a Reubenite ( 1 Chron. 5:4, 8).
- A chief Gadite (1 Chron. 5:12).
- An ancestor of Samuel the prophet (1 Chron. 6:36).
- A chief man of Issachar, descendant of Tola (1 Chron. 7:3).
- One of David's heroes and a brother of Nathan (1 Chron. 11:38).
- A Gershonite in David's time ( 1 Chron. 15:7, 11; 23:8).
- Another Gershonite, keeper of the treasures of the Lord's house (1 Chron. 26:22).
- A prince of Manasseh in David's reign (1 Chron. 27:20).
- A Kohathite who assisted Hezekiah in the cleansing of the Temple (2 Chron. 29:12).
- One of Nebo's family who had taken a foreign wife (Ezra 10:43).
- A son of Zechri, and overseer of the Benjamites in Jerusalem (Neh. 11:9).
- Son of Pethuel, and prophet in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah (Joel 1:1; Acts 2:16).
The Man Who Foresaw Pentecost
Because nothing is known of Joel beyond what the opening verse of his book states, he has been styled "The Anonymous Prophet." Scripture is silent as to his birthplace, parentage and rank. All we know is that he was a son of Pethuel, or Bethuel as the LXX expresses it. But who Pethuel is no one knows. Its meaning, however, is significant, "vision of God," and springs from a word implying "to open the eyes."
Joel was a common name among the Hebrews and is still so among the Orientals. The use of his name as "the son of Pethuel" was necessary to distinguish him from the other Joels we have considered. It would seem as if his home was in Jerusalem or its immediate neighborhood. Thus he speaks repeatedly of Zion (Joel 2:1, 15, 23; 3:16, 17, 21), the children of Zion (Joel 2:23), Judah and Jerusalem (Joel 2:32; 3:1-20), the children of Judah and Jerusalem ( Joel 3:6, 8, 19).
It may be that Joel was a Jew of Jerusalem, and owing to his peculiar mention of priests, a priest-prophet himself (Joel 1:9, 10). His references to the Temple and its worship are frequent (Joel 1:9-16; 2:14, 17; 3:18). It is also likely that he lived and prophesied in the early days of Joash and Jehoida, 870-865b.c., while the victory of Jehoshaphat was fresh in the nation's memory. For this reason he is termed "The Pioneer Prophet."
Dr. A. B. Simpson says,
Amos begins his longer message with a direct quotation from Joel, as a sort of text for his whole book. Isaiah expands the thoughts which Joel uttered into the larger and loftier message of his pen. Peter, on the Day of Pentecost quotes the prophecy of Joel as the very foundation of the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit, which had occurred and which was to continue through the whole New Testament age. And even the great Apocalypse of John is but a larger unfolding of the promise of the Lord's coming which Joel gave in brief outline.
What is God's call to us through the Prophet Joel?
I. There is the call to repentance ( Joel 2:25-27).
II. There is the promise of refreshment (Joel 2:28, 29).
III. There is the message of deliverance (Joel 3:1).
IV. There is the secret of rest (Joel 3:17-21).
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- 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: The Romanarmy, led by the future Emperor Titus,conquered the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple (model pictured).
- 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas led a raid into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England.
- 1783 – A cataclysmic eruption of Mount Asama, the most activevolcano in Japan, killed roughly 1,400 people and exacerbated afamine, resulting in another 20,000 deaths.
- 1983 – A coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré and supported by Libya made Thomas Sankara President of the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
- 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Seventeen employees of the FrenchINGO ACF International were massacred in Muttur.
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Events
- 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
- 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
- 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo (Korea) during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
- 1265 – Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
- 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
- 1532 – the Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France.
- 1578 – Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
- 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do withsparkling wine.
- 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
- 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
- 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
- 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
- 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
- 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
- 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
- 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
- 1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
- 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
- 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
- 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
- 1906 – Central railway station, Sydney opens.
- 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
- 1915 – World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
- 1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diaristAnne Frank, her family, and four others.
- 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
- 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
- 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
- 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
- 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
- 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnameserepresentative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
- 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
- 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
- 1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
- 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
- 1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
- 1991 – The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
- 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motoristRodney King's civil rights.
- 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
- 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
- 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
- 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
- 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
Births
- 1222 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)
- 1290 – Leopold I, Duke of Austria (d. 1326)
- 1521 – Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
- 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
- 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar (d. 1757)
- 1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
- 1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, British politician (d. 1803)
- 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor (d. 1805)
- 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
- 1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
- 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
- 1821 – James Springer White, American theologian (d. 1881)
- 1834 – John Venn, British logician and mathmatician (d. 1923)
- 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (d. 1894)
- 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
- 1848 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
- 1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
- 1865 – Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
- 1867 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
- 1870 – Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970)
- 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet (d. 1949)
- 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
- 1887 – Albert M. Greenfield, American businessman (d. 1967)
- 1888 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
- 1890 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
- 1891 – Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (d. 1989)
- 1893 – Fritz Gause, German historian (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
- 1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (d. 2002)
- 1901 – Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and singer (d. 1971)
- 1901 – Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Helen Kane, American singer and actress (d. 1966)
- 1904 – Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Marie José of Belgium (d. 2001)
- 1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American runner (d. 1988)
- 1909 – Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
- 1910 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1910 – William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1910 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1999)
- 1912 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947)
- 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
- 1915 – Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
- 1917 – John Fitch, American race car driver (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992)
- 1919 – Michel Déon, French writer
- 1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican archbishop (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Reg Grundy, Australian television producer
- 1923 – Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani writer
- 1926 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
- 1928 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (d. 2003)
- 1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
- 1930 – Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shi'a cleric
- 1931 – Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1932 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Dallas Green, American baseball player
- 1935 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer (d. 1997)
- 1937 – David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer (d. 2011)
- 1938 – Ellen Schrecker, American historian
- 1939 – Frank Vincent, American actor
- 1940 – Larry Knechtel, keyboard and bass player (d. 2009)
- 1940 – Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Martin Jarvis, English actor
- 1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician
- 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Cleon Jones, American baseball player
- 1942 – David Lange, New Zealand politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician
- 1943 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1944 – Amjad Islam Amjad, Pakistani poet
- 1944 – Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
- 1944 – Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
- 1945 – Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
- 1946 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English hairdresser, wife of Isaac Tigrett (d. 1994)
- 1946 – Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist
- 1947 – Klaus Schulze, German composer
- 1948 – Johnny Grubb, American baseball player
- 1949 – John Riggins, American football player
- 1952 – Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (Clannad and T with the Maggies)
- 1952 – Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
- 1953 – Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer
- 1954 – Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian politician
- 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer
- 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General
- 1955 – Dariusz Lipiński, Polish politician
- 1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
- 1956 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer
- 1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian
- 1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer
- 1958 – Ian Broudie, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds, Big in Japan, and Care)
- 1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer
- 1958 – Mary Decker, American runner
- 1958 – Kym Karath, American actress
- 1958 – Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician
- 1959 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002)
- 1959 – John Gormley, Irish politician
- 1960 – Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey
- 1960 – Dean Malenko, American wrestler and agent
- 1960 – Bernard Rose, English director
- 1960 – Tim Winton, Australian writer
- 1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
- 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender
- 1961 – Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 – Peter Reichert, German footballer
- 1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress
- 1962 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player
- 1962 – Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
- 1964 – Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
- 1964 – Gary King, British radio host
- 1964 – Anna Sui, American fashion designer
- 1965 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
- 1965 – Crystal Chappell, American actress
- 1965 – Dennis Lehane, American author
- 1965 – Wayne Pacelle, American humanitarian
- 1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1965 – Michael Skibbe, German football manager
- 1965 – James Tupper, Canadian actor
- 1966 – Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese wrestler
- 1967 – Timothy Adams, American actor
- 1967 – Michael Marsh, American sprinter
- 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
- 1968 – Lee Mack, English comedian and actor
- 1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model and actor
- 1969 – Mark Bickley, Australian footballer
- 1969 – Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Cavalera Conspiracy)
- 1969 – Michael DeLuise, American actor
- 1969 – Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
- 1970 – John August, American screenwriter and director
- 1970 – Bret Baier, American journalist
- 1970 – Steve House, American mountaineer
- 1970 – Steven Jack, South African cricketer
- 1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
- 1972 – Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
- 1973 – Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amaral)
- 1973 – Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
- 1973 – Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
- 1973 – Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
- 1974 – Kily González, Argentine footballer
- 1974 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (d. 2001)
- 1975 – Andy Hallett, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1975 – Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1975 – Joe Saenz, American criminal
- 1975 – Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician
- 1975 – Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
- 1976 – Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
- 1977 – Frankie Kazarian, American wrestler
- 1977 – Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
- 1978 – Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Luke Allen, American baseball player
- 1978 – Victor Marius Beliciu, Romanian sitarist
- 1978 – Emmanuelle Boidron, French actor
- 1978 – Kurt Busch, American race car driver
- 1978 – Mick Cain, American actor
- 1978 – Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian track and field sprinter
- 1978 – Ibán Espadas, Spanish football player
- 1978 – Shaunard Harts, American football player
- 1978 – Satoshi Hino, Japanese-American voice actor
- 1978 – Suja Irfan, Bangladeshi cricket player
- 1978 – Benet Kaci, Kosovan media personality, journalist, and singer
- 1978 – Jon Knott, American baseball player
- 1978 – Karine Legault, Canadian swimmer
- 1978 – Duane Ludwig, American martial artist
- 1978 – Sandeep Naik, Indian politician
- 1978 – Danish Nawaz, Pakistani director, actor and comedian
- 1978 – Siri Nordby, Norwegian football player
- 1978 – Talinda Nyathi, Botswanan footballer
- 1978 – JD Samson, American musician
- 1978 – Ricardo Serrano, Spanish racing cyclist
- 1978 – Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Michail Stifunin, Russian ice dancer
- 1979 – Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
- 1980 – Richard Dawson, English cricketer
- 1981 – Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (IMx)
- 1981 – Meghan Markle, American model and actress
- 1981 – Ben Scott, English cricketer
- 1981 – Abigail Spencer, American actress
- 1982 – Rubinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Greta Gerwig, American actress and director
- 1984 – Mardy Collins, American basketball player
- 1985 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1985 – Kina Grannis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1985 – Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
- 1985 – Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player
- 1985 – Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1986 – Nick Augusto, Italian-American drummer (Trivium)
- 1986 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 – Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
- 1987 – Phil Younghusband, English–Filipino footballer
- 1988 – Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
- 1988 – Tom Parker, English singer (The Wanted)
- 1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
- 1989 – Michael Allen Martinez, American drummer (Allstar Weekend)
- 1989 – Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Young Divas)
- 1991 – Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 – Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
- 1991 – River Viiperi, Spanish model
- 1992 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
- 1992 – Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player
- 1992 – Cole Sprouse, American actor
- 1992 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor
- 1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
- 1995 – Jessica Sanchez, American singer
- 2001 – Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor
Deaths
- 1060 – Henry I of France (b. 1008)
- 1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
- 1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
- Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
- Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
- Peter de Montfort (b. 1215)
- Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
- 1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
- 1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
- 1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
- 1578 – Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
- 1578 – Thomas Stukley, English adventurer (b. c. 1520)
- 1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
- 1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
- 1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. 1581)
- 1718 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French founder of Rimouski (b. 1656)
- 1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
- 1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676)
- 1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Canadian-French Governor General of New France (b. 1698)
- 1792 – John Burgoyne, British general and politician (b. 1723)
- 1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American politician (b. 1711)
- 1804 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan British navy admiral (b. 1731)
- 1834 – Dimitrios Panourgias Greek military commander (b. 1754)
- 1844 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
- 1849 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821)
- 1859 – John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786)
- 1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
- 1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
- 1886 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
- 1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
- 1914 – Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
- 1919 – Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1845)
- 1922 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman military officer (b. 1881)
- 1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
- 1940 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Jewish-Zionist political activist, theorist and general (b. 1880)
- 1941 – Mihály Babits, Hungarian writer and poet (b. 1883)
- 1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
- 1957 – Washington Luís, Brazilian politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
- 1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
- 1959 – József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
- 1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- 1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (b. 1923)
- 1976 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
- 1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
- 1985 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (b. 1933)
- 1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader and teacher (b. 1916)
- 1993 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, broadcaster, and author (b. 1936)
- 1997 – Jeanne Calment, at 122, the longest-living human in recorded history (b. 1875)
- 1998 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1999 – Rodney Ansell, Australian hunter, inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953)
- 1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Leslie Glass, American porn actress (b. 1963)
- 2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Iván Szabó, Hungarian politician (b. 1934)
- 2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
- 2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
- 2011 – Mark Duggan, English shooting victim (b. 1982)
- 2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Metin Erksan, Turkish director (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Hanley Funderburk, American academic (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Con Houlihan, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Bud Riley, American football coach (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Coast Guard Day (U.S.)
- Constitution Day (Cook Islands)
- Matica Slovenská Day (Slovakia)
- Revolution Day (Burkina Faso)
- The first day of Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
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