A recent example of how bad a leftist government can be to hang onto power, is the ALP's attempt to control the media. It was a laughable attempt, as the media are largely theirs anyway. But other sinister examples can be found in Italy and Thailand where billionaire conservative leaders have apparently been stitched up by corruption. That isn't to oppose the rule of law, Greek Fascists should be jailed for their crimes. Having an opinion does not endorse corruption or murder.
Fascism has a way of crossing boundaries. The way fascism has corrupted science under the guise of environmentalism is appalling. Similarly, Islam looks really ugly because of the supremacy of its' fascist elements. In Australia, minor parties like the Democrats and the Greens have been vaporised after they surrendered their independence to the ALP. But the far right parties like One Nation never achieve anything worthwhile.
BTW Hawthorn are 2013 AFL champions .. I made this last year ..
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Hatches
Happy birthday and many happy returns Wilson Chu , Diana Ong , Anniemal Nguyen and An Hoai . Born on the same day, across the years, along with
106 BCE – Pompey, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC)
1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
Matches522 BCE – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
480 BCE – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
61 BCE – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
Despatches
855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795)
1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
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Hawke sets example- dumps political correctness
Piers Akerman – Sunday, September 29, 2013 (5:59am)
FORMER Prime Minister Bob Hawke broke up the audience when he cracked a politically incorrect joke at a luncheon commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Australia II’s historic America’s Cup win Thursday.
That, serendipitously, the crowd was gathered just hours after an American boat sailed by Australian skipper James Spithill, from Sydney’s Pittwater, and manned by predominantly by Australians, had defeated a Kiwi yacht in the latest America’s Cup series, doubtless added to the overall success of the Sydney event.
Hawke, wearing a replica of the eye-hammering Australia jacket he had worn at the Royal Perth Yacht Club’s celebrations in 1983 when he famously declared that “any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum” let her rip with a story that would have had the prudes in today’s ALP wincing with feigned offence.
A Frenchman an Englishman and an Australian were slogging their way across the Andes, he said. “It’s about 45 bloody degrees,” he began, after describing how the trio had traversed an scorched alpine desert, “they look down. There’s this most beautiful, pristine lagoon. They go scrambling down ... and dive in ... The natives come and grab ‘em. Take ‘em to the chief. The chief says (and here Hawke slipped into broken English): ‘You have broken the sacred law. This our most sacred site. For this you die. When we kill you we take off skin. Out of skin make canoe. Put canoe on lake. Permanent reminder to all peoples. Never infringe on our most sacred site.’”
Naturally, the chief offers them a last request, and Hawke assumed a Pepe Le Pew accent and an upper class English drawl in which the Frenchman and Englishman asked for knives with which they killed themselves rather than die slowly and painfully.
“Then they go to the Aussie,” Hawke continued. “He says, ‘I want a fork.’ He proceeds to stab himself all over.
“‘There goes your f . . king canoe!’”
Former PM Bob Hawke declares ‘any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum’ after Australia won the America’s Cup thirty years ago. Courtesy: Channel Nine
The former prime minister brought the house down but the various commissions appointed to defend the rights and protect Australians from offence, from the Press Council to the Anti-Discrimination bodies could no doubt list the tedious rules he had broken.
The former prime minister brought the house down but the various commissions appointed to defend the rights and protect Australians from offence, from the Press Council to the Anti-Discrimination bodies could no doubt list the tedious rules he had broken.
He had mocked Africans (though what an African chief was doing near an Andean lake is a mystery), he had ridiculed the French and the British and he had sworn in a public place.
Yet no-one present seemed to think he was a silly old bugger.
Hawke reminded the guests of the enormous boost in national pride the capture of the elusive America’s Cup had triggered, and the shared glow that he had basked in even though Labor had been returned just six months earlier with the greatest number of seats (75) since John Curtin’s 1943 election.
Nothing lifted the nation as much as wresting the Cup after 132 years of US domination, and as Hawke said, most Australians were keener on cricket and various codes of football than sailing.
Hawke’s anecdotes (not the one about the canoe) pointedly reminded the guests what Australia has lost to political correctness over the past thirty years.
The nightmarish web of regulation imposed by the recent Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor governments and the attempts to muzzle the media and silence critics with harsh recourse to the “thought” courts, let alone the threats of recrimination made to business figures stifled debate.
Attacking from the Left, the taxpayer-funded ABC, the largest media organisation in Australia, has largely stifled conservative voices and permitted fringe activist groups to assume grossly overblown profiles totally at odds with their minuscule memberships.
The Labor Party itself, which has been captured by extremist activists and branch-stacking factional bosses, is only now making a half-hearted attempt to undergo some long overdue reform and pay lip-service to its shrunken rank-and-file membership.
The robust figures of Hawke’s day, people like former shearer Mick Young for example, have been replaced by pallid backroom assassins who work the numbers like stilettos.
Had any figure from the other side of politics told the same joke as Hawke it would have made front page news and whoever told it would have been publicly castigated with furious demands for apology being made by various self-declared guardians of public morality as well as those who are now paid to protect Australians from themselves.
And that’s before anyone had mentioned his use of the F-word, or the “F” bomb, as some writers described it.
The larrikin spirit, embodied in Hawke and the inspiration for such Aussie classics as Crocodile Dundee, doesn’t burn as brightly today as it did thirty years ago.
To his credit, Hawke insisted his remarks were non-partisan, and they were.
But the killjoys in the modern Labor Party are very political, and I suspect Hawke knows it and is concerned about the effect their political correctness is having on the spirit of the land he loves.
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Who is this “we”, Mr Marr?
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (9:31am)
David Marr on Insiders:
We lost two Labor leaders.
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How much truth is there really to this “scandal”?
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (9:11am)
This is a bad look - but is also a stitch-up of at least one of the two MPs:
But Joyce is even more in the clear. As Michael Smith points out, he appeared that same day on my show - on my invitation - and that required him to fly to a Channel 10 studio, in this case in Sydney:
Bill Shorten was huffing on Insiders today about this. To jog his memory:
Shouldn’t have been claimed, had to be repaid:
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It was a little less than two years ago and Smith had just left 2UE after a falling out over his attempt to raise allegations about then prime minister Julia Gillard’s relationship with a former union official and the misappropriation of funds.
The shock jock did not have a best man. But two close friends spoke: George Brandis, then one of the Abbott opposition’s lead attack dogs and now Attorney-General, and deputy Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce. Mr Joyce read a poem called Fair Dinkum Love. Senator Brandis made a bridal speech before dominating the dance floor.
According to travel expenses lodged with the Department of Finance, the duo collectively billed taxpayers nearly $3000 for flights, hire cars and incidental expenses incurred on the trip.
Senator Brandis claimed $1700, including more than $1000 on return flights, $143 on a hire car and the overnight ‘’official business’’ allowance designed to cover accommodation and incidentals.
He told Fairfax Media on Saturday that he regarded the wedding as a chance to ‘’foster collaboration’’ over Mr Smith’s work covering the then prime minister and the Craig Thomson scandal and it was therefore ‘’primarily a professional rather than a social engagement’’…
Mr Smith told Fairfax there were nearly 10 people working in the media at his wedding and the senators used it as a chance to network…
Senator Brandis later claimed $349 in ‘’official business’’ entitlements for overnight trips and designed to cover accommodation, meals and incidentals. Mr Joyce did not claim that entitlement.
Mr Joyce claimed a flight to Moree the next day and about $500 worth of charges for the use of a Commonwealth car on the day of the wedding.
But those blokes were at my wedding in a representative role and they did not demur in any way from their paid elected role as prominent Federal Parliamentarians whose every action was being scrutinised and reported by the some of the large number of journalists who were present.To put it crudely, and at the risk of giving offence, I do suspect Brandis went for political reasons more than personal - although it will, of course, not seem that way to taxpayers. For that reason alone Brandis should probably not have claimed the expenses.
But Joyce is even more in the clear. As Michael Smith points out, he appeared that same day on my show - on my invitation - and that required him to fly to a Channel 10 studio, in this case in Sydney:
As Smith says:
On Sunday, 4 December last year Barnaby Joyce appeared to be questioned on The Bolt Report on Channel 10. Channel 10 does not have a studio at St George in Queensland. It’s hundreds of miles from any major centre. What’s a Federal Parliamentarian supposed to do? Refuse to appear? Barnaby Joyce travelled to Sydney to appear on the program, working the weekend as usual and he put in other appointments as well - away from his family. No extra pay for that by the way, but Fairfax would have him pay his travel costs out of his own pocket.Indeed, as Smith says:
My wife and I paid for Senator Brandis and Senator Joyce’s car transfers to and from the wedding...UPDATE
Bill Shorten was huffing on Insiders today about this. To jog his memory:
FRESH from being returned in a farcical leadership spill, Julia Gillard yesterday flew to northern NSW on a taxpayer funded VIP jet for a staffer’s wedding and several low key announcements.UPDATE
Ms Gillard, along with Treasurer Wayne Swan and Finance Minister Penny Wong, will today attend the Byron Bay wedding of her press secretary Laura Anderson and Mr Swan’s chief-of-staff Jim Chalmers.
Her office confirmed the PM flew to northern NSW on a RAAF VIP Challenger aircraft.
MPs are only entitled to use the RAAF special purpose flights for “commitments associated with their official responsibilities and other purposes including parliamentary business”.
Shouldn’t have been claimed, had to be repaid:
Attorney-General George Brandis has paid back almost $1700 claimed in parliamentary expenses to go to the wedding of a radio shock jock.
....in a subsequent letter to the Department of Finance he enclosed a cheque for $1683.06, saying while he considered that they were within parliamentary entitlements, he wanted to “resolve any uncertainty in favour of the taxpayer”.
“I considered that those costs were within parliamentary entitlements, since they were incurred in the course of attendance at a function primarily for work-related purposes. I remain of that view,” he wrote in the letter on Sunday.
Bolt Report today - and it gets a bit heated
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (8:43am)
On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm:
New senator David Leyonhjelm, Michael Kroger and Bruce Hawker, Kevin Rudd’s former campaign advisor.
We’ll be naming and shaming warming extremists and discussing the first boat-load of asylum seekers sent back to Indonesia.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
UPDATE
The transcript of my interview with the most impressive Senator-elect David Leyonhjelm:
THE BOLT REPORT
29 SEPTEMBER 2013
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LEYONHJELM
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: For six years we’ve had the two main parties in the middle, with the Greens pulling us all to the left – partly because they had the balance of power in the Senate. Well, this election has changed that. The latest Senate count suggests the balance of power will now be held by about eight Independents and microparties, most conservatives or libertarians. And I think they’ll change the conversation. One of those eight new Senators will be David Leyonhjelm, of the Liberal Democratic Party. David, thanks for joining me. How do you think the national conversation will change, when this new Senate starts work next July?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: Well, potentially quite a lot. Labor and the Greens won’t have the majority. The Liberal-National Government will require six out of the eight of us crossbenchers – minor parties – to agree with them, and I think, given a bit of goodwill and common sense and reasonable negotiation, there’s a fair chance they might get that.
ANDREW BOLT: Well, one interesting thing has been most climate sceptics in the Labor and Liberal Parties have had to keep schtum, for political reasons. The new Senate will have you, and Family First Senator Bob Day, who most certainly won’t shut up. What’s your position on global warming and the carbon tax? I know Bob Day is against both. What’s yours?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: We’re against the carbon tax. We’re also against the direct action plan. We – as a party, we don’t take a position on the science. It’s a scientific question, not a political question. But we are dead against the –
ANDREW BOLT: But you’ve got a personal position, though? Have you got a personal position on the science?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: Yeah, pretty similar to yours. I’m fairly dubious about it. But we don’t think the Government’s going to – is able to spend money and make a difference. Even if all the assumptions about climate change are accurate, and there really was a compelling case to do something about it, then what the Government is planning is not going to make any difference. And in fact, there’s really nothing Australia can do, until Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the United States all get involved. There’s – you know, Australia is a small country, and we shouldn’t forget that.
ANDREW BOLT: Another issue that’s really worried me – the last three years in particular, there’ve been so many moves to restrict our free speech, and even appoint a media watchdog – I can’t believe that’s state-backed – does this move disturb you?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: Oh, it’s very disturbing. There seems to be, in our political culture, if you like, an assumption that the Government has got a right to intrude into things like free speech. We’re libertarians in the Liberal Democrats. Our view is that
the Government is not our friend, it’s a threat to our freedom. And free speech is about as fundamental as you can get, in the freedom range. So we want the Government to get right out of that area. You have a right to say what you think, and you also have a right, obviously, to think what you want, and to say what you think. It’s a fundamental one. And obviously you were in the centre of one illustration of that, with the case involving the Racial Discrimination Act.
ANDREW BOLT: One of the ways that I think conversation has been stifled, or at least dragged away from, perhaps, its natural courses, is this great growth of the ABC and other organs of state-sponsored media. The ABC has got various TV stations and radio stations, an online newspaper, bookshops and more. As someone who values freedom, what do you think about this massive state-funded media?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: Well, there are several aspects of it. First of all, there’s the cost. It’s about $1 billion a year. Now, that $1 billion is our taxes. Now when you think about how much you could use that $1 billion on other things, or how many other things you could spend it on – or perhaps leave it in the pockets of the people who contributed it – that’s a pretty important question. It’s also, I think, fundamentally wrong for the Government to do things that they don’t need to do. Now, why do they need to run a TV station, radio stations, shops and all those sort of things, when the private sector does them all perfectly well? There’s no good reason for that, especially when it’s costing us $1 billion to do it. The private sector would do it, and it would cost taxpayers not a cent at all. So we think the Government should get out of broadcasting entirely, get out of running shops, and go back to doing the things that only governments should do.
ANDREW BOLT: But this is an aspect, isn’t it, of the – you know, the intrusion of big government generally into our lives? And I think that’s – isn’t that one of the fundamental things that your party is devoted to winding back?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: Yes, it is. It’s sort of ‘Big Brother is your friend’, and ‘Big Brother is here to help you’. And our view is Big Brother is not your friend, and most of the time they make it worse, not better. I mean, a perfect example is intruding into personal choices and personal decisions, like wearing a bicycle helmet. It’s a classic example. You own your own head, you’re perfect entitled to put yourself in danger in all sorts of ways, and yet the Government says “You’re not allowed to put your head in danger when you go and ride a bicycle.” It’s an absurd intrusion into a personal decision. And it’s an example of big government, and it should stop.
ANDREW BOLT: And David, finally, there’s only eight of you acting independently, apart from three Palmer United people, of course – potentially three. How are you going to get together to talk about how you might stymie, for example, the direct action plans of the Government, or the paid parental leave scheme, which is a total, insane amount of money?
DAVID LEYONHJELM: Yes, it is. Well, I’m hoping that we can get a minor party caucus going. So we’ll get together, and discuss legislation as it comes up, and I’m hoping that the Government won’t be able to pick us off, one by one. I mean, Bob Day and I – Family First Senator and myself – we’re on the same page on many, many things. But I think we’ll be able to –
ANDREW BOLT: David, I think you and Bob are really going to change the climate a lot. I thank you so much for joining us.
DAVID LEYONHJELM: My pleasure.
ANDREW BOLT: And coming up – Tony Abbott has just done what Labor said it couldn’t – sent two groups of boat people back to Indonesia.
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Hanson-Young says Greens “marching to a slow death”
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (6:37am)
The Greens aren’t all
peace, love and big hugs, as a third of its staff walk out on leader
Christine Milne and Adam Bandt considers a run:
In her way out of the party-room meeting that returned Christine Milne as Greens leader on Monday morning, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young walked past a table of journalists at Aussies Cafe at Parliament House.How long does it take Hanson-Young to count to one?
To their bewilderment, Senator Hanson-Young matter-of-factly announced that her party had just returned a leader that would see the party ‘’marching to a slow death’’.
Senator Hanson-Young, an outspoken and ambitious party room member, is often mentioned by her colleagues as one of the key destabilising forces. Four separate sources claim that she made a bid for the party’s leadership team at Monday’s party meeting, a charge she denies.
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Greek fascists arrested
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (5:52am)
A particularly nasty and dangerously successful neo-Nazi group may finally gave gone too far for Greek authorities:
GREEK police have arrested the leader and other top officials of the anti-immigrant Golden Dawn party on charges of forming a criminal organisation…
The arrests come 11 days after the killing of anti-fascist activist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by an alleged Golden Dawn member.
Though the party has vehemently denied any role in the killing, the case has appeared to dent its appeal among Greeks and the government has worked to crack down on the party.
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Abbott turns back two boats, just like Labor wouldn’t
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (5:18am)
Remember how Labor swore Tony Abbott would or should never use the navy to send boat people back to Indonesia?
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, January 2012:Remember how Labor would pick up boat people from as close as 43km from the Indonesian coast and ferry them to Christmas Island?
This is a dangerous and reckless approach… Turning a boat around is not worth the risk of losing an Australian life.Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, January 2012:
It’s not only impractical but highly dangerous… I don’t think treating people in a brutal way on the high seas and risking the lives of them and Australian personnel is the way to go.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, June 2013:
I am very concerned about whether if Mr Abbott became prime minister and continues that rhetoric and that posture and actually tries to translate it into reality I really wonder whether he is trying to risk some sort of conflict with Indonesia.... It’s not a good thing, it’s a really bad thing.
August, 2012:In fact, Abbott has done exactly what Labor wouldn’t and said he couldn’t:
PASSENGERS on an asylum seeker boat just 23 nautical miles off Indonesia telephoned in an SOS to Australia to organise a Navy transfer to Christmas Island… HMAS Melville was en route to Christmas Island with 80 suspected asylum seekers after they phoned Australian officials fearing they were lost off Indonesia and needed assistance....July, 2012:
Eighty-one asylum seekers were transferred to HMAS Childers south-west of Java late yesterday and were on their way to Christmas Island… In the latest incident, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority received a call about 10am requesting help about 40 nautical miles from the Java coast.July, 2013:
AMSA coordinated the response to a vessel requesting assistance approximately 42 nautical miles south of Java… HMAS Larrakia was also tasked to respond and arrived on scene at around 5pm. A total of 101 people were safely transferred onto HMAS Larrakia and are now en route to Christmas Island.
A group of 44 asylum seekers have been taken to a port in Java after being rescued by an Australian navy vessel in the Sunda Strait.And a second:
The group, which included four children, were offloaded at Indah Kiat port at Banten in the western part of Java at about 8am local time on Friday.
A spokesman for the Indonesian search and rescue agency, BASARNAS, said the asylum seekers were picked up by HMAS Ballarat before being transferred to a coast guard vessel last night.
Also on Friday, the Australian Customs Vessel Triton saved 34 asylum seekers off the coast of Rote Island and transferred them on Saturday morning to the Indonesian rescue agency Basarnas.
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Obama talks to Iran’s president
Andrew Bolt September 29 2013 (5:00am)
It could be promising, if Rowhani isn’t simply playing Obama like a trout:
BARACK Obama and Iran’s President Hassan Rowhani have spoken by phone in the historic, first direct contact between leaders of their estranged nations since the 1979 Islamic revolution.Rowhani could have put his safety on the line:
The stunning 15-minute call, starting at 2.30pm was the fruit of a diplomatic opening forged by Rowhani’s election in June on a mandate to ease confrontation with the West and lift nuclear sanctions which have pulverised the Iranian economy…
The impetus for the call came from Iranian officials, whom US officials said told them in New York yesterday that Rowhani wanted to speak to Obama before leaving the United Nations General Assembly.
Iranian protesters threw shoes, eggs and stones on Saturday at the car of President Hasan Rouhani, back from a five-day trip to New York to speak at the UN General Assembly.
The president got a mixed reception at the airport, as several dozen hardline Islamists chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” as his motorcade drew away. Others attempted to obstruct the road by praying on the pavement, the New York Times reported.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/the-silent-treatment---tony-abbotts-new-media/4987566
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TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY: September 29, 1941. The Nazis start massacre of Kiev Jews in the Baby Yar ravine during which 33,771 Jews were killed in a single two-day operation. Photo: Women waiting for execution.
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2012 New York (CNN) -- A federal magistrate judge has ruled that al Qaeda, the Taliban, Iran and Hezbollah should pay more than $6 billion in damages to the families of victims killed on September 11, 2001, for supporting the attacks. http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/justice/new-york-judge-9-11
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees....is doing what, and...where?
“All of the international community is working against us. Are we all wild animals?” asked a middle-aged Syrian man.
More than 200 Syrians, most of them families with young children, live in a trash-infested lot across from the refugee camp. Their names cannot be disclosed because of fear of retribution against family members still in Syria.
Converted shipping containers, enough to hold up to 12,000 refugees, provide crammed living quarters.
The real number of refugees in the camp, which is run by the Turkish government and the UN high commissioner for refugees, is thought to be between 15,000 and 17,000." - Benjamin Weinthal
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"For in the past two decades, the hard Left has managed to convert what was up until the early 1990s a completely marginalized – indeed, borderline treasonous – political doctrine into a respectable, arguably majority mainstream position.
What is required is not to establish an “alternative” discourse, but to take control of the existing mainstream one.
To do this it is essential to be able to “reach across the political divide” and acquire the attention of adversarial target audiences
It is imperative not only to realize – but accept – that the message to be conveyed is not intended primarily to find favor in their own constituencies.
Therefore, what is likely to be appealing to themselves – both in style and substance – and to be persuasive with like-minded publics – may well be totally ineffective with important – indeed, crucial – target audiences on the other side of the political divide." - Martin Sherman
As Dr. Sherman also referred to and included in the article, a 2010 published study:
"When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions”
"Affirming people’s self-worth can buffer the threat to their self integrity posed by counter-attitudinal information and thereby make them more open-minded.” - Political Behavior - Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler
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CENTRE-RIGHT ministers have resigned from Italy's fragile coalition government, unleashing a fresh political crisis after what Prime Minister Enrico Letta called a "crazy act" of encouragement by their leader Silvio Berlusconi.
All five ministers of the People of Freedom (PDL) party took the decision on Saturday at Berlusconi's urging, said Angelino Alfano, Italy's deputy premier and PDL party secretary.
The flamboyant former prime minister had dismissed as "unacceptable" a demand by Letta on Friday for parliament to express support for the government next week, in a bid to end a crisis that has driven the bickering ruling coalition to the brink of collapse.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/berlusconi-ministers-say-they-will-resign/story-e6frfkui-1226729285739#ixzz2gH2LS4DR
Italy is divided as a corrupt left inflates allegations against the centre right leader - ed
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Labor leadership candidate Bill Shorten wants to introduce quotas to boost the number of gay and lesbian politicians in Parliament.
Mr Shorten is continuing his pitch to the party membership, sending out a manifesto that calls for the introduction of quotas for politicians representing minority groups.
He says the party should consider quotas for Indigenous Australians and the lesbian, gay, bixsexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.
Neil Fharaoh, the national convenor of Rainbow Labor, which represents the party's LGBTI members, says it is a step forward.
"The LGBTI community has been underrepresented, particularly in political seats, both at a state and federal level in Australia," he said.
"There's probably only 12 gay and lesbian identifying politicians across the country and probably not too much more in the history and its definitely underrepresentative.
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Australian #DoctorWho fans… ABC iview is showing every Doctor from the classic series, each week from now until the 50th anniversary on Saturday 23 November.
Vote on their Facebook page and you can choose the final story – which Doctor do you want to see on iview on the day of the anniversary?
http://abciview.tv/15wLyQK
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"I am coming soon." -Jesus
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- 1774 – The publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther raised the 24-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pictured) to international fame.
- 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, originally headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded.
- 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Palestine as a Jewish homeland under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under Abdullah I.
- 1957 – An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayakreleased 74 to 1850 PBq of radioactive material.
- 1963 – The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing such a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
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- 522 BCE – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 480 BCE – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 61 BCE – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
- 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
- 1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
- 1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
- 1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
- 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
- 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
- 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
- 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
- 1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 – World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
- 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
- 1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
- 1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend.
- 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
- 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
- 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised onNBC.
- 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
- 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
- 1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- 1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- 1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- 1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
- 1982 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
- 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
- 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 1991 – Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
- 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
- 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
- 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
- 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
- 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
- 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
- 2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
Births[edit]
- 106 BCE – Pompey, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC)
- 1240 – Margaret of England (d. 1275)
- 1321 – John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
- 1328 – Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
- 1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1421)
- 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian, physician, and cartographer (d. 1553)
- 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
- 1538 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop (d. 1603)
- 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
- 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
- 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
- 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1610)
- 1636 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (d. 1715)
- 1639 – William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
- 1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
- 1674 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, French flute player and composer (d. 1763)
- 1678 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
- 1691 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (d. 1781)
- 1703 – François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
- 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian politician (d. 1783)
- 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, English general and politician (d. 1774)
- 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805)
- 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal of England (d. 1828)
- 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican politician, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
- 1803 – Mercator Cooper, American captain (d. 1872)
- 1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
- 1808 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
- 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (d. 1865)
- 1816 – Paul Féval, père, French author and playwright (d. 1887)
- 1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
- 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
- 1844 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Argentine politician, 10th President of Argentina (d. 1909)
- 1853 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (d. 1933)
- 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
- 1864 – Alexandra Kitchin, English model (d. 1925)
- 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish author and philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian politician (d. 1934)
- 1876 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
- 1879 – Marius Jacob, French criminal (d. 1954)
- 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist and philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1895 – Clarence Ashley, American banjo player and singer (d. 1967)
- 1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
- 1895 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (d. 1970)
- 1897 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
- 1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
- 1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
- 1899 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins (d. 1980)
- 1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
- 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
- 1902 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (d. 1983)
- 1904 – Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
- 1907 – Gene Autry, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
- 1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman, founded Publix (d. 1996)
- 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter (d. 1967)
- 1910 – Bill Boyd, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
- 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American director (d. 2001)
- 1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (d. 2007)
- 1915 – Oscar Handlin, American historian (d. 2011)
- 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1916 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Václav Neumann, Czech conductor and violinist (Smetana Quartet) (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
- 1921 – Albie Roles, English footballer (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress and singer
- 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American author (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Steve Forrest, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Pete Elliott, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Pete McCloskey, American politician
- 1927 – Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian triple jumper (d. 2001)
- 1927 – Barbara Mertz, American author (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian diplomat (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Colin Dexter, English author
- 1931 – James Cronin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
- 1932 – Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
- 1932 – Paul Giel, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1933 – Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
- 1934 – Skandor Akbar, American wrestler and manager (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and educator
- 1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese cricketer
- 1934 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Mylène Demongeot, French actress
- 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
- 1936 – James Fogle, American author (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Dave Harper, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1939 – Fikret Abdić, Bosnian politician and businessman
- 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
- 1939 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1939 – Dan Crary, American singer and guitarist
- 1939 – Molly Haskell, American author and critic
- 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales
- 1940 – Nicola di Bari, Italian singer
- 1941 – Fred West, English serial killer (d. 1995)
- 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
- 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1942 – Ian McShane, English actor, director, and producer
- 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
- 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer (Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever)
- 1942 – Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, Iranian politician, 5th President of Iran
- 1943 – Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
- 1943 – Lech Wałęsa, Polish politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944 – Mike Post, American composer
- 1945 – Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
- 1946 – Patricia Hodge, English actress
- 1946 – Ian Wallace, English drummer (King Crimson and Crimson Jazz Trio) (d. 2007)
- 1947 – Martin Ferrero, American actor
- 1947 – Gary Wetzel, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
- 1948 – Mark Farner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grand Funk Railroad and Terry Knight and the Pack)
- 1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American journalist
- 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German clarinet player and composer (German Clarinet Duo, Clarinet Contrast, and Klarinettenquartett Cl-4)
- 1948 – Mike Pinera, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Cactus, and Ramatam)
- 1949 – George Dalaras, Greek singer
- 1950 – Ken Macha, American baseball player and manager
- 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician, 34th President of Chile
- 1951 – Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
- 1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1977)
- 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
- 1951 – Mike Enriquez, Filipino journalist
- 1952 – Gábor Csupó, Hungarian-American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Klasky Csupo
- 1952 – Max Sandlin, American politician
- 1952 – Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 59th Yokozuna (d. 2011)
- 1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
- 1953 – Drake Hogestyn, American actor
- 1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director (d. 1997)
- 1953 – Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education
- 1954 – Uwe Jahn, German football coach
- 1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor
- 1955 – Ann Bancroft, American explorer and author
- 1955 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor
- 1956 – Sebastian Coe, English politician
- 1956 – Suzzy Roche, American singer, musician, actress and author
- 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee
- 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
- 1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sportscaster
- 1960 – Julian Armour, Canadian cellist
- 1960 – Alan McGee, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Biff Bang Pow!)
- 1960 – John Paxson, American basketball player
- 1960 – David Sammartino, American wrestler
- 1960 – Carol Welsman, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1961 – Julia Gillard, Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
- 1962 – Roger Bart, American actor
- 1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – Les Claypool, American bass player, songwriter, producer, and author (Primus, Blind Illusion, Oysterhead, and Sausage)
- 1964 – Brad Lohaus, American basketball player
- 1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player
- 1966 – Jill Whelan, American actress
- 1967 – Brett Anderson, English singer-songwriter (Suede and The Tears)
- 1968 – Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator
- 1968 – Luke Goss, English singer and actor (Bros)
- 1968 – Matt Goss, English singer/songwriter (Bros)
- 1968 – Alex Skolnick, American guitarist (Testament, Savatage, and Stratospheerius)
- 1968 – Samir Soni, Indian actor
- 1969 – Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
- 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
- 1969 – DeVante Swing, American singer-songwriter, and producer (Jodeci)
- 1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
- 1970 – AMG, American rapper
- 1970 – Emily Lloyd, English actress
- 1970 – Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
- 1970 – Russell Peters, Canadian comedian and actor
- 1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese wrestler
- 1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
- 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor
- 1971 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer-songwriter
- 1972 – Oliver Gavin, English race car driver
- 1972 – Togi Makabe, Japanese wrestler
- 1972 – Robert Webb, English actor and comedian
- 1973 – Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
- 1973 – Shannon Larratt, Canadian publisher, founded BMEzine (d. 2013)
- 1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
- 1973 – Scout Niblett, English singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
- 1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor
- 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
- 1975 – Ava Vincent, American pornographic actress and model
- 1976 – Darren Byfield, English-Jamaican footballer
- 1976 – Kelvin Davis, English footballer
- 1976 – Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
- 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1977 – Eric Barton, American football player
- 1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Debelah Morgan, American singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
- 1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
- 1978 – Gunner McGrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Much the Same)
- 1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
- 1979 – Artika Sari Devi, Indonesian model
- 1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
- 1979 – Jaime Lozano, Mexican footballer
- 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
- 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alexisonfire and City and Colour)
- 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
- 1981 – Aris Galanopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Shane Smeltz, German-New Zealand footballer
- 1981 – Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian-Spanish handball player
- 1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian rugby player
- 1982 – Ariana Jollee, American porn actress
- 1982 – Amy Williams, English sled racer
- 1982 – Lauren Pope, English actress, model, and producer
- 1983 – Lisette Oropesa, American soprano
- 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
- 1984 – Isha Sharvani, Indian actress and dancer
- 1985 – Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer
- 1985 – Calvin Johnson, American football player
- 1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Matt Lashoff, American ice hockey player
- 1986 – Isaac Makwala, Botswana sprinter
- 1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – David Del Rio, American actor
- 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
- 1988 – Justin Nozuka, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1989 – Theo Adams, English photographer and director
- 1989 – Aaron Martin, English footballer
- 1989 – Andrea Poli, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
- 1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer
- 1991 – Adem Ljajić, Serbian footballer
- 1995 – Alice Matteucci, Italian tennis player
- 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish son of Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma de Mallorca
- 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, Norwegian daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Deaths[edit]
- 855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795)
- 1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier (b. 1231)
- 1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
- 1560 – Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
- 1642 – René Goupil, French missionary (b. 1608)
- 1642 – William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, English son of Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1561)
- 1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
- 1804 – Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- 1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
- 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American navy officer (b. 1824)
- 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
- 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
- 1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
- 1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
- 1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
- 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
- 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
- 1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
- 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
- 1930 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- 1937 – Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
- 1937 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (b. 1878)
- 1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
- 1952 – John Cobb, English race car driver (b. 1899)
- 1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
- 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
- 1976 – Wadi Ayoub, Lebanese wrestler (b. 1927)
- 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
- 1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player (b. 1912)
- 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899)
- 1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (b. 1919)
- 1992 – Jean Aurenche, French screenwriter (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American director (b. 1907)
- 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
- 1996 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian and actor (b. 1933)
- 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Tom Bradley, American politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
- 1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor and scriptwriter (b. 1935)
- 2000 – John Grant, English politician (b. 1932)
- 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, Vietnamese general and politician, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
- 2002 – Edmund Trebus, Polish-English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (b. 1970)
- 2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter and printmaker (b. 1936)
- 2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
- 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
- 2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist, poet, and critic (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian archbishop (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
- 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet astronaut (b. 1930)
- 2009 – Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b. 1965)
- 2012 – Hazloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian singer and actress (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Nan Huai-Chin, Chinese scholar (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Antônio Maria Mucciolo, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English politician (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Michaelmas, feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael. One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland)
- Rhipsime
- September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- International Coffee Day
- Inventors' Day (Argentina)
- Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
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“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men."
Psalm 33:13
Psalm 33:13
Perhaps no figure of speech represents God in a more gracious light than when he is spoken of as stooping from his throne, and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and to behold the woes of mankind. We love him, who, when Sodom and Gomorrah were full of iniquity, would not destroy those cities until he had made a personal visitation of them. We cannot help pouring out our heart in affection for our Lord who inclines his ear from the highest glory, and puts it to the lip of the dying sinner, whose failing heart longs after reconciliation. How can we but love him when we know that he numbers the very hairs of our heads, marks our path, and orders our ways? Specially is this great truth brought near to our heart, when we recollect how attentive he is, not merely to the temporal interests of his creatures, but to their spiritual concerns. Though leagues of distance lie between the finite creature and the infinite Creator, yet there are links uniting both. When a tear is wept by thee, think not that God doth not behold; for, "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." Thy sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah; thy whisper can incline his ear unto thee; thy prayer can stay his hand; thy faith can move his arm. Think not that God sits on high taking no account of thee. Remember that however poor and needy thou art, yet the Lord thinketh upon thee. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him.
Oh! then repeat the truth that never tires;
No God is like the God my soul desires;
He at whose voice heaven trembles, even he,
Great as he is, knows how to stoop to me.
Evening
"Go again seven times."
1 Kings 18:43
1 Kings 18:43
Success is certain when the Lord has promised it. Although you may have pleaded month after month without evidence of answer, it is not possible that the Lord should be deaf when his people are earnest in a matter which concerns his glory. The prophet on the top of Carmel continued to wrestle with God, and never for a moment gave way to a fear that he should be non-suited in Jehovah's courts. Six times the servant returned, but on each occasion no word was spoken but "Go again." We must not dream of unbelief, but hold to our faith even to seventy times seven. Faith sends expectant hope to look from Carmel's brow, and if nothing is beheld, she sends again and again. So far from being crushed by repeated disappointment, faith is animated to plead more fervently with her God. She is humbled, but not abashed: her groans are deeper, and her sighings more vehement, but she never relaxes her hold or stays her hand. It would be more agreeable to flesh and blood to have a speedy answer, but believing souls have learned to be submissive, and to find it good to wait for as well as upon the Lord. Delayed answers often set the heart searching itself, and so lead to contrition and spiritual reformation: deadly blows are thus struck at our corruption, and the chambers of imagery are cleansed. The great danger is lest men should faint, and miss the blessing. Reader, do not fall into that sin, but continue in prayer and watching. At last the little cloud was seen, the sure forerunner of torrents of rain, and even so with you, the token for good shall surely be given, and you shall rise as a prevailing prince to enjoy the mercy you have sought. Elijah was a man of like passions with us: his power with God did not lie in his own merits. If his believing prayer availed so much, why not yours? Plead the precious blood with unceasing importunity, and it shall be with you according to your desire.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 5-6, Ephesians 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 5-6
The Song of the Vineyard
1 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.
a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
6 I will make it a wasteland,
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain on it.”
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
6 I will make it a wasteland,
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain on it.”
Today's New Testament reading: Ephesians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9 he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
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Hilkiah
[Hĭlkī'ah] - portion of jehovah orjehovah is protection.
[Hĭlkī'ah] - portion of jehovah orjehovah is protection.
- The father of Eliakim who was over Hezekiah's household (2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37; Isa. 22:20; 36:3, 22).
- High priest in king Josiah's reign (2 Kings 22:4-14; 23:4, 24).
- A descendant of Merari, son of Levi (1 Chron. 6:45).
- A son of Hosah , descendant of Merari, and a gatekeeper at the Tabernacle (1 Chron. 26:11).
- A priest who stood with Ezra as he read the law to the people (Neh. 8:4; 11:11; 12:7, 21).
- A priest of Anathoth and father of the prophet Jeremiah and contemporary of Gemariah (Jer. 1:1).
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