Meanwhile in Australia, AGW believers are crying censorship because they are not being given public money to spread their hysteria. Flannery is threatening to start a commercial propagandist interest offering 'impartial' hysteric advice. Suzuki has been fact checked. He has been given many rostrum to spread his lies, but they are lies. Paul Barry has attacked independent voices who are critical of AGW hysteria.
The NBN board has been asked to resign. It is anticipated that the NBN will continue, as is, short term, until someone can make it effective. A human rights lawyer verbally assaults those who don't think it is compassionate to drown desperate people. The government decision to not broadcast each boat arrival, but give a weekly report is denounced as censorship .. but it is merely silencing a siren call.
Pru Goward is still effectively defending her reputation from the terrible slime of the ALP. The ALP are using leaks to show their ineffective administration had been killing children. In this case they accuse Pru Goward of using more case workers (they claim less, despite facts) to investigate serious cases. It is a cheap shot, but it hurts too. Nobody likes children dying from neglect.
Really disturbing is the Australian Conservative Libertarian group dropping all pretence to Conservatism and Libertarianism, and embracing racism.
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Hatches
Happy birthday and many happy returns, all born on the same day, across the years Vitellius (15), Alaungpaya (1714), Horace Walpole (1717), Lottie Dod, (1871), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Howard Florey (1898), William Dobell (1899), John Kerr (1914), Mendel Weinbach (1933), Linda McCartney (1941) and Jack Sock (1992).
Matches
768 – Charlemagne is crowned the first King of the Franks.
1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gouldand James Fisk plot to control the market.
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1932 – Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
Despatches
366 – Pope Liberius (b. 352)
1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1889 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (b. 1856)
1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
1991 – Dr. Seuss, American author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
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David Suzuki proves he’s pig ignorant about global warming
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (2:52pm)
The very first question put to David Suzuki on Q&A last night revealed this warming alarmist’s complete ignorance of the most basic facts of global warming.
Fancy Suzuki not even knowing what the world’s main temperature data sets say about global temperatures. Fancy him not even knowing what those data sets are, even when he is given their names.
The only rational response to Suzuki’s astonishing admission of utter ignorance would have been to say to him: “Sir, you are a phony and imposter. Get off the stage and don’t waste our time for a second longer.”
Read the exchange for yourself:
Like I say, a complete know-nothing, citing false claims:
Fancy Suzuki not even knowing what the world’s main temperature data sets say about global temperatures. Fancy him not even knowing what those data sets are, even when he is given their names.
The only rational response to Suzuki’s astonishing admission of utter ignorance would have been to say to him: “Sir, you are a phony and imposter. Get off the stage and don’t waste our time for a second longer.”
Read the exchange for yourself:
BILL KOUTALIANOS: Oh, hi. Since 1998 global temperatures have been relatively flat, yet many man-made global warming advocates refuse to acknowledge this simple fact. Has man-made global warming become a new religion in itself?See those data sets here.
TONY JONES: David, go ahead.
DAVID SUZUKI: Yeah, well, I don’t know why you’re saying that. The ten hottest years on record, as I understand it, have been in this century. In fact, the warming continues. It may have slowed down but the warming continues and everybody is anticipating some kind of revelation in the next IPCC reports that are saying we got it wrong. As far as I understand, we haven’t. So where are you getting your information? I’m not a climatologist. I wait for the climatologists to tell us what they’re thinking.
TONY JONES: Do you want to respond to that, Bill?
BILL KOUTALIANOS: Sure, yeah. UAH, RSS, HadCRUT, GISS data shows a 17-year flat trend which suggests there may be something wrong with the Co2 warming theory?
DAVID SUZUKI: Sorry, yeah, what is the reference? I don’t…
BILL KOUTALIANOS: Well, they’re the main data sets that IPCC use: UAH, University of Alabama, Huntsville; GISS, Goddard Institute of Science; HadCRUT. I don’t know what that stands for, HadCRUT; and RSS, Remote Sensing something. So those data sets suggest a 17-year flat trend, which suggests there may be a problem with the Co2.
DAVID SUZUKI: No, well, there may be a climate sceptic down in Huntsville, Alabama, who has taken the data and come to that conclusion. I say, let’s wait for the IPCC report to come out and see what the vast bulk of scientists who have been involved in gathering this information will tell us.
Like I say, a complete know-nothing, citing false claims:
STEWART FRANKS: In an opinion piece last week you wrote that the Great Barrier Reef was threatened by the increasing frequency of cyclones. Everyone watching and listening can onto the Bureau of Meteorology’s website and see that there is no increase. In fact there has been a decline over the last 40 years and no increase in the severity. Are you not, by exaggerating…Nor does David Suzuki know what the hell he’s on about when he’s fear-mongering about genetically modified crops:
DAVID SUZUKI: That I have to admit…
STEWART FRANKS: ...or even just getting wrong, are you not actually vulnerable of actually undermining your very own aim in that, you know, the Great Barrier Reef does have environmental threat, but cyclones ain’t one of them?
DAVID SUZUKI: All right. That was one, I have to admit, that that was suggested to me by an Australian, and it is true, I mean, it may be a mistake. I don’t know.
DAVID SUZUKI: Well, I mean, that is always the argument that’s made. GMOs are very, very expensive. Now, the people that need this food are not going to be able to afford it. Are we going to just create these new crops and then give them away? I simply don’t believe that’s what’s going to happen. I don’t think it is a generosity for the rest of humanity that is driving this activity.How in God’s name could people take this man seriously?
RICK ROUSH: Actually, we are. I mean, Bt corn technology has been given away to the Kenyan State Government research people for use for subsistence farmers. Monsanto gave away insect resistant potatoes in Mexico over 20 years ago. James is working on lots of similar cases. In cases where there is no economic return, it is, in fact, being given away and they’re not so difficult to develop. When I was at Cornell, we got a gene that was a gift from Monsanto for experimental purposes. We made broccoli plants that were resistant to attacks of Dimebag Moths. A student - one of our students made about 50 transformants in about six months. The great cost of these things are no longer the actual creation of the plant. It’s the regulatory challenges to take sure that you can take them to market, to do all that safety testing.
TONY JONES: Okay, Rick, well we’ll get a response to that and we’ll move on?
DAVID SUZUKI: Well, I don’t have any response. It sounds great. I don’t know.
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No, Tory, we did not say that and Flannery does not deserve this absurd defence
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (12:34pm)
Too many commentators seem far too protective of taxpayer-funded warmists who used dodgy claims to terrify people into believing the planet was headed for apocalyptic man-made warming:
Take Tory Shepherd, mourning the sacking of Chief Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery:
... the harm has already been done, and may not be undone when the IPCC actually releases its report on Friday. A report that may concede a ‘pause’ in warming but is sure to provide even more scientific evidence that climate change is occurring and human activity is a major contributor.Actually, Tory, that concession of a pause is highly significant. Tim Flannery refused to admit there was a pause (although for one moment of weakness in 2009 he did concede it) when his job is actually to give dispassionate, accurate advice. That pause, not predicted by the IPCC (see above) also casts great doubt on the theory of dangerous man-made warming he was peddling with our money.
It is a shame Australians won’t benefit from the insight of the Climate Commission into the report.Why? The Climate Commission has a disgraceful record of peddling cherry-picked and alarmist claims. Now its members will do that same work for free anyway. We are denied nothing.
In the facile logic that many climate change sceptics employ, Prof Flannery’s occasionally overheated remarks about the future impacts of global warming prove that all warnings are simply “alarmist”.I’ve never heard that argument made - that because Flannery is wrong, all warnings of future impacts of global warming are wrong, too. Straw man.
It goes something like this: Prof Flannery is a scientist who is vocal about climate change. Some of his predictions have turned out to be wrong. Therefore climate science is wrong.No, the real argument is this, Prof Flannery is unqualified in climate science. Many of his predictions have turned out to wrong, at great cost to taxpayers. Therefore he is not a credible source of information on climate science and should no longer be paid by taxpayers to make absurdly alarmist claims. Simple.
An oft-cited example is Prof Flannery’s warning that Adelaide could face a water shortage, and that therefore desalination plants were needed.That’s actually putting the matter very, very generously - generous to Flannery. His actual prediction in 2007 was that “even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems” - a prediction so absurdly alarmist and wrong that it’s been disproved almost every year since. Moreover, Flannery warned in 2007 that without desalination plants, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide could be out of drinking water by 2009. Those plants were hurriedly built (plus another in Melbourne) at great expense, and now all are mothballed, or about to be, because of the return of the flooding rains Flannery predicted were gone forever. Flannery’s other dud predictions include a possible ice-free Arctic summer this year, a possible permanent drought, and Perth becoming the 21st Century’s “first ghost metropolis”.
The argument is not that all warnings are simply “alarmist”, but simply that Flannery’s too often are - and recklessly so. So why should we pay him?
It’s so easy to make Prof Flannery the straw man, the very public face of climate change ‘alarmism’, but it makes no sense to dismiss all scientific claims about alarming possibilities just because they don’t all turn out to be true.Again with that straw man.
Scientists simply don’t know exactly how much human activity is to blame, how much the world will warm, and exactly how that warming will affect weather patterns and sea levels.Exactly our point all along. The “science is settled crowd” represented by the likes of Flannery sold us a certainty that was simply false. One more reason why Flannery should have been sacked.
So why on Earth defend him?
(Thanks to reader Wesley61.)
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Abbott is just making free speech free. As in: no cost to you
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (12:26pm)
A note to the hyperventilating and hypocritcal Left. As Nick Cater points out, Tony Abbott is not silencing debate, but privatising it:
Under Tony Abbott, there will be zero tolerance for evangelism on the public purse on anthropogenic global warming or any other matter…(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Labor returned to power in 2007 with a somewhat romantic view of the state, believing that its instruments could be used to teach its citizens how to behave. From teenage binge-drinking to finding the cheapest place for petrol, the all-benevolent hand of the federal government was where wisdom would reside. The Coalition has come to power with the philosophical momentum running its way. The successful application of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to censure columnist Andrew Bolt was chilling at the time, but it now appears the case was not the dawning of a new illiberal era but the point at which the Left’s castigatory tendencies went a step too far…
Last year, when former attorney-general Nicola Roxon attempted to reframe anti-discrimination legislation to enshrine the right not to be offended, she had a fight on her hands… In March, the government backed away from legislation regulating the press not because it had come to its senses but because it had lost the argument..
In government, the Coalition intends to push back the intrusive incursions of the state on multiple fronts.
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Paul Barry demonstrates the ABC’s shocking group think on global warming
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (8:50am)
Maurice Newman warned of the global warming group think in the ABC:
In the past week we’ve had the ABC and Fairfax heap adoration on David Suzuki, allowing the Canadian alarmist - uncontested - to make a series of false claims, including that cyclones were increasing, global warming was responsible for much of the deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef, global warming was behind the destruction of Canadian pine trees, insurance losses were evidence of global warming and scrapping the carbon tax would be “suicidal”.
Barry questioned none of that last night. Nor did he question the disgraceful role of journalists in hyping the great global warming scare that is now crumbling after 15 years of essentially no warming.
Barry criticised instead an error made by The Australian and picked up by some conservative radio presenters who claimed the IPCC had now admitted to a warming of 0.1 of a degree per decade since 1951, after allegedly claiming in 2007 the warming was .2 degrees per decade.
The Australian has acknowledged and publicly corrected that error. But Barry did not merely criticise sceptics for this admitted error while overlooking the unadmitted errors of alarmists.
He then made errors and misleading omissions of his own, so desperate was he to slime sceptics.
Example one:
The ABC is out of control. It has betrayed the best traditions of journalism and is preaching religion.
UPDATE
Can reader Indigo possibly have heard right?
Give credit where it is due. ABC 24 did today run this BBC piece acknowledging the pause in global warming so long denied or ignored by the ABC.
(Thanks to readers Grant and Peter.)
In March 2010 as chairman, I addressed an in-house conference of 250 ABC leaders… I blamed group think and used climate change as an example…Last night Paul Barry, the latest of a string of warmist hosts of Media Watch, last night demonstrated how right Newman was. He tried to shame sceptics, and in doing so shamed himself with his astonishing warmist bias.
Jonathon Holmes, the presenter of Media Watch, was so angry “he could not concentrate"… I was interviewed by PM and teased as to whether I was a “climate change denier or not as obvious as that?” ...
I retain a deep affection for the ABC. But, like the BBC, there are signs that a small but powerful group has captured the corporation, at least on climate change.
In the past week we’ve had the ABC and Fairfax heap adoration on David Suzuki, allowing the Canadian alarmist - uncontested - to make a series of false claims, including that cyclones were increasing, global warming was responsible for much of the deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef, global warming was behind the destruction of Canadian pine trees, insurance losses were evidence of global warming and scrapping the carbon tax would be “suicidal”.
Barry questioned none of that last night. Nor did he question the disgraceful role of journalists in hyping the great global warming scare that is now crumbling after 15 years of essentially no warming.
Barry criticised instead an error made by The Australian and picked up by some conservative radio presenters who claimed the IPCC had now admitted to a warming of 0.1 of a degree per decade since 1951, after allegedly claiming in 2007 the warming was .2 degrees per decade.
The Australian has acknowledged and publicly corrected that error. But Barry did not merely criticise sceptics for this admitted error while overlooking the unadmitted errors of alarmists.
He then made errors and misleading omissions of his own, so desperate was he to slime sceptics.
Example one:
Barry introduced alarmist Professor David Karoly as “one of Australia’s most eminent climate scientists” and quoted his gloating over The Australian’s mistake without noting Karoly had himself last year made a howler that forced him to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper claiming unprecedented warming in Australasia. That paper was enthusiastically reported by the ABC, but its retraction was - typically - not. Again, Media Watch trumpets the mistakes of sceptics, buries those of warmists.Example two:
Barry quotes John Cook attacking The Australian, falsely promoting Cook as a “climate expert” and ignoring Cook’s own record of gross error:Example 3:
In fact, Cook himself concedes ”he is not a climate scientist”. His latest research, claiming a 97 per cent consensus on global warming theory - a finding heavily and uncritically reported by the ABC - has been exposed as both error-riddled and meaningless, as James Taylor has noted:
That same morning, another Australian climate expert added caustically:
“The Australian article ... demonstrates the inherent dangers in sourcing scientific information from a UK tabloid rather than climate scientists ...
— Media Release: Australian Science Media Centre, John Cook, Research Fellow, Global Change Institute University of Queensland, 16th September, 2013”
Global warming alarmist John Cook ... published a paper with several other global warming alarmists claiming they reviewed nearly 12,000 abstracts of studies published in the peer-reviewed climate literature. Cook reported that he and his colleagues found that 97 percent of the papers that expressed a position on human-caused global warming “endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming."…Again, Media Watch has never criticised reporters who misrepesented Cook’s misleading “97 per cent” claim. It only cites Cook as an “expert” to attack critics.
The question is meaningless regarding the global warming debate because most skeptics as well as most alarmists believe humans have caused some global warming. The issue of contention dividing alarmists and skeptics is whether humans are causing global warming of such negative severity as to constitute a crisis demanding concerted action.
Either through idiocy, ignorance, or both, global warming alarmists and the liberal media have been reporting that the Cook study shows a 97 percent consensus that humans are causing a global warming crisis. However, that was clearly not the question surveyed.
Investigative journalists at Popular Technology .... found Cook and his colleagues strikingly classified papers by such prominent, vigorous skeptics as Willie Soon, Craig Idso, Nicola Scafetta, Nir Shaviv, Nils-Axel Morner and Alan Carlin as supporting the 97-percent consensus.
Cook and his colleagues, for example, classified a peer-reviewed paper by scientist Craig Idso as explicitly supporting the ‘consensus’ position on global warming “without minimizing” the asserted severity of global warming. When Popular Technology asked Idso whether this was an accurate characterization of his paper, Idso responded, “...It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.”
When Popular Technology asked physicist Nicola Scafetta whether Cook and his colleagues accurately classified one of his peer-reviewed papers as supporting the ‘consensus’ position, Scafetta similarly criticized the Skeptical Science classification.
“… What my papers say is that the IPCC [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] view is erroneous because about 40-70% of the global warming observed from 1900 to 2000 was induced by the sun.”
Barry slimed prominent sceptic Professor Bob Carter, falsely implying he’d endorsed the mistake made by The Australian and repeated by the Daily Telegraph, which quoted Carter:Example 4:
But Carter did not make the mistake that Barry nastily implies. He said only this to the Telegraph:
And who were the ‘Australian scientists’ the Tele relied on?
Well it seems there was only one of them, Bob Carter, until recently at James Cook University in Townsville, who told the Tele’s readers the public had been ‘relentlessly misinformed’.
Inside Professor Bob also penned an opinion piece proclaiming:
“Report gives truth on climate change at last — Daily Telegraph, 17th September, 2013”
No global warming has now occurred since 1997, despite an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide of 8%, which in turn represents 34% of all the extra human - related carbon dioxide contributed since the industrial revolution...What Carter said was actually true. Even the IPCC in drafts of its report admits to a warming of 0.05 degrees over the past 15 years - statistically insignificant only well under what climate models relied upon by the IPCC predicted. Barry has slimed Carter on a false charge and should apologise.
Barry ignores the real finding of the IPCC report - that there was been just 0.05 degrees of warming in 15 years, well under what the climate models relied upon by the IPCC predicted. Barry attacks sceptics, but says nothing about the journalists who uncritically believed the alarmist predictions of warmist scientists and heckled the few journalists who noted warming had paused.Example 5:
Barry repeats the meaningless, misleading and contested “97 per cent consensus” claim:Paul Barry continues the shameful tradition of the ABC generally and Media Watch particularly of presenting a viciously one-sided view of man-made warming, with alarmists praised and protected and sceptics vilified.
Now as I read this, I couldn’t help remembering that most of the world’s scientists still believe man-made global warming is real, and of concern.
And a 5-second search found the figure I was looking for on the US space agency NASA’s website.
“GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Consensus: 97% of climate scientists agree — climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus
The ABC is out of control. It has betrayed the best traditions of journalism and is preaching religion.
UPDATE
Can reader Indigo possibly have heard right?
Oh my God! I’m in shock! At 11.02 today, ABC 24 admitted there had been no warming for 15 years! They had a couple of climate scientists say a) this was possible due to increased industrial pollution masking the sun or b) the warming is hiding in the ocean.But wait - there was more! A short interview with Andrew Montford (http://bishophill.squarespace.com/), an AGW non-believer, who basically said the science is NOT settled.Is this a first for the ABC? The wheels must be falling off the IPCC wagon. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Stockholm.UPDATE
Give credit where it is due. ABC 24 did today run this BBC piece acknowledging the pause in global warming so long denied or ignored by the ABC.
(Thanks to readers Grant and Peter.)
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Burnside fails the Godwin test
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (7:49am)
There is, in my
opinion, an alarming authoritarian streak to Julian Burnside, the
prominent “human rights” lawyer - and an equally alarming propensity to
demonise those with who he disagrees:
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Al Shabab - a new international jihadist force
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (6:56am)
Kenyan and Israeli
forces have killed three and arrested more than10 of the terrorists who
slaughtered at least 62 people at a shopping mall:
Somalis in Australia admit to a radicalisation here, absurdly supported with taxpayers’ money:
UPDATE
This is what the Islamists in Kenya claim their faith licences them to do. Warning: very graphic pictures.
(Thanks to reader Allan.)
Earlier witness reports had indicated that a woman was among the estimated 10 to 15 attackers. [Interior Minister Joseph Ole] Lenku said that instead some male attackers had dressed up like women…Andrew Zammit of Monash University’s Global Terrorism Research Centre, writing last year:
Fighters from an array of nations participated in the attack claimed by al-Shabab, said [Kenya Chief of Defense forces Gen. Julius] Karangi.
“We have an idea who these people are and they are clearly a multinational collection from all over the world,” he said.
In August 2009, Australian security agencies foiled an al-Shabab associated plot to attack Holsworthy Army Barracks in Sydney. Codenamed Operation Neath, the counterterrorism operation disrupted the mass-shooting plot in its early stages. Five men were charged, and three—Wissam Fattal, Saney Edow Aweys and Nayef el-Sayed—were convicted of planning to attack the barracks. The men had sought weapons, dispatched others for training, conducted reconnaissance of Holsworthy Barracks and asked senior al-Shabab religious figures in Somalia for permission to attack Australian targets…
In 2007, the Australian Federal Police launched Operation Rochester to investigate reports of Somali-Australians traveling to fight for al-Shabab against the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government. That investigation ended because not enough evidence could be gathered to press charges. Operation Neath began in February 2009 as another investigation into al-Shabab support, with around 20 people—including Aweys, Fattal and el-Sayed—suspected of assisting the Somali jihadist movement. By 2009, this small support network had expanded beyond the Somali diaspora to include people of other backgrounds, mainly from Middle Eastern countries who lacked the nationalist element in their motivation. Of the three convicted in the Holsworthy Barracks plot, only Saney Aweys, the key link to al-Shabab, was from the Somali diaspora; Wissam Fattal and Nayef el-Sayed were of Lebanese descent…
Al-Shabab itself also played little direct role in the cell’s transformation: its globally focused discourse and alignment with al-Qa`ida may have helped enable it, but the Somali jihadist movement did not instigate the plot and key figures advised against it to avoid losing support. This supports other findings that al-Shabab is not known to have directed any attacks in the West. Despite its endorsement of al-Qa`ida’s global jihad, they have instead focused on local and regional politics, although this certainly has the potential to change with the recent al-Qa`ida merger.
Somalis in Australia admit to a radicalisation here, absurdly supported with taxpayers’ money:
SOMALI community leaders warned yesterday that education authorities had ignored calls to regulate madrassas, or religious schools, which were free to teach radical religious doctrines to young people and could be a fertile ground for recruiting jihadists in Australia for terrorist groups such as al-Shabab.If local Somalis are worried about al-Shabab fighters in Australia, shouldn’t the rest of us be, too?
Somali Cultural Association president Aden Ibrahim said he and his colleagues had urged state and federal authorities for the past five years to close a loophole that had allowed religious leaders to set up the schools in Australia without any regulation of, or control over, the curriculum.
Mr Ibrahim said al-Shabab, which has claimed responsibility for the Westgate shopping mall massacre in Nairobi, had little support among Somalis in Australia… But, Mr Ibrahim said, in the absence of proper oversight [the weekend madrassas] sometimes promoted hardline religious doctrines.
The madrassas, many of which receive government funding of up to $30,000 a year, were allowed a free hand in what they taught… Mr Ibrahim said there had been concerns in the community about what was being taught in madrassas, including those at Braybrook and Broadmeadows…
Somali Australian Council of Victoria president Hussein Nur Haraco said community leaders had backed the creation of the madrassas as an alternative to parents sending children to Somalia for their education, where they could fall under the spell of radical groups such as al-Shabab.
Many local Somalis were fearful of speaking out about al-Shabab, claiming there were former operatives who had gone to Somalia to fight but had now returned to Australia.
UPDATE
This is what the Islamists in Kenya claim their faith licences them to do. Warning: very graphic pictures.
(Thanks to reader Allan.)
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NBN board effectively sacked because of more blowouts
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (6:49am)
I hope the first item
of business of the new board will be to commission an audit of the NBN’s
true position and explain to taxpayers what a scandalous disaster this
has been:
BALLOONING costs and further serious delays in the National Broadband Network rollout prompted Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to demand the resignation of the entire NBN board and seek the installation of Ziggy Switkowski as executive chairman.
The Communications Minister will ask federal cabinet to endorse the former Telstra and Optus chief as the NBN Co executive chairman after discovering the $37.4 billion project faces a deteriorating financial position and will miss its rollout target for June next year by more than half a million premises.
Contrary to media reports yesterday that the NBN Co directors offered their resignations, Mr Turnbull initiated the dramatic action against the board soon after being sworn in as minister.
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Greg Hunt has to explain free speech to the ABC
Andrew Bolt September 24 2013 (6:24am)
Just in case we run out of alarmists:
ABC Melbourne is furiously promoting a fund-raising drive for this new Climate Council. Flannery boasts that a huge grass roots reaction has produced $1000 overnight.
If my grass had roots like that it would be a dust bowl.
If the ABC is that impressed by such fundraising, I’d love it to switch to private funding itself.
The Climate Commission, axed last week by the Abbott government, is to be rejuvenated by private funding in an effort to keep information about global warming prominent in the public arena, former chief commissioner Tim Flannery has said.Environment Minister Greg Hunt seizes this opportunity to demonstrate the power of free markets and free speech, and the virtues of small government:
The decision to create the Australian Climate Council, as the group will now be known, was spurred by ‘’a groundswell of support’’ across the country, Professor Flannery said…
Most, if not all, of the six commissioners will be directors of the Australian Climate Council - among them ANU climate scientist Will Steffen and former BP Australasia president Gerry Hueston.
That’s the great thing about democracy. It is a free country. It proves our point that the commission did not have to be a taxpayer funded body.And when the ABC’s Emma Alberici frowns that “people with profile” such as the government’s chief business adviser, former ABC chairman Maurice Newman, are “continuing to claim that climate change is a big lie” (a misleadingly crude summary of their views), Hunt again has to make the very obvious point:
I think we should be very careful about trying to clamp down on anybody’s freedom of speech. That’s where we get truth, through the debate… What a country it would be if suddenly we were to squash people on either side. I think you’ve got to welcome the differing voices.UPDATE
ABC Melbourne is furiously promoting a fund-raising drive for this new Climate Council. Flannery boasts that a huge grass roots reaction has produced $1000 overnight.
If my grass had roots like that it would be a dust bowl.
If the ABC is that impressed by such fundraising, I’d love it to switch to private funding itself.
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Suzuki revealed as complete know-nothing by very first question on Q&A
Andrew Bolt September 23 2013 (9:38pm)
Oh. My. God.
David Suzuki on the very first question is revealed as a complete know-nothing. His questioner tells him that the main climate data sets show no real warming for some 15 years.
Suzuki asks for the references, which he should have known if he knew anything of the science.
His questioner then lists them: UAH, RSS, HadCrut and GISS - four of the most basic measurement systems of global temperature.
Suzuki asks what they are.
Anyone interested in global warming should know right there that Suzuki has absolutely no understanding of what he is talking about.
In my opinion he is a phoney.
Here, for Suzuki’s information, is the GISS measurement:
Naturally, one of the questions is from Nell Schofield, the female voiceover of Media Watch. Just as naturally, she is a global warming believer. Media Watch earlier attacked journalists for getting wrong a report on the IPCC, while being silent on the exaggerations of a Suzuki. Former ABC chairman Maurice Newman is right: there is an ABC “groupthink” on climate change.
UPDATE
Challenged from the floor by Professor Stewart Franks, Suzuki admits he might have been mistaken in claiming global warming was causing more cyclones, which he blamed for killing the Great Barrier Reef. He blames some Australian for “suggesting” it to him. The truth, as I’ve noted before, is easily found on the Bureau of Meteorology website:
This man, in my opinion, is a phoney who lacks the most elementary knowledge of global warming data.
UPDATE
Suzuki stands by his claims that politicians who question the global warming faith should be jailed. Then, when host Tony Jones looks surprised, he says he hasn’t thought it through.
UPDATE
Suzuki is then challenged by an academic on his claim we should forget nuclear power and switch to solar power. The scientist points out the technology for massive solar batteries does not exist yet. Suzuki concedes he does not know.
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Another questioner challenges Suzuki on his irrational scaremongering on GM crops and asks for his evidence. Suzuki says “we just don’t know enough” - the great cop out. He has no evidence. He gives some whacky analogy about orchestras.
In my opinion, this man is a phoney.
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A researcher into GM bananas, putting in more eyesight-saving vitamin A for countries where bananas are a staple, asks again about Suzuki’s irrational attacks on GM crops.
Suzuki now denies this is “bad science”. But keeps saying we don’t know enough. “What’s the rush?” he demands. It’s been driven by money, complains multi-millionaire Suzuki, who charged a college more than $30,000 to give a speech.
Something tells me no information whatsover would ever be enough for this alarmist. Let the kids go blind.
The Professor says this “rush” is actually 30 years. He then whacks Suzuki on his DDT alarmism.
Suzuki again trots out his old conspiracy that the GM crops are just about money and are too expensive and are not developed to do good.
The Professor whacks him again, noting several examples of GM technology being given away for free to feed poor countries.
“I don’t know,” says Suzuki.
In my opinion he is a complete phoney.
David Suzuki on the very first question is revealed as a complete know-nothing. His questioner tells him that the main climate data sets show no real warming for some 15 years.
Suzuki asks for the references, which he should have known if he knew anything of the science.
His questioner then lists them: UAH, RSS, HadCrut and GISS - four of the most basic measurement systems of global temperature.
Suzuki asks what they are.
Anyone interested in global warming should know right there that Suzuki has absolutely no understanding of what he is talking about.
In my opinion he is a phoney.
Here, for Suzuki’s information, is the GISS measurement:
Here is the UAH data:
Here is the RSS data:
Here is HadCRUT:
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Naturally, one of the questions is from Nell Schofield, the female voiceover of Media Watch. Just as naturally, she is a global warming believer. Media Watch earlier attacked journalists for getting wrong a report on the IPCC, while being silent on the exaggerations of a Suzuki. Former ABC chairman Maurice Newman is right: there is an ABC “groupthink” on climate change.
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Challenged from the floor by Professor Stewart Franks, Suzuki admits he might have been mistaken in claiming global warming was causing more cyclones, which he blamed for killing the Great Barrier Reef. He blames some Australian for “suggesting” it to him. The truth, as I’ve noted before, is easily found on the Bureau of Meteorology website:
How could Suzuki not have known this, especially since there has also been no increase world-wide in cyclones or hurricanes?
This man, in my opinion, is a phoney who lacks the most elementary knowledge of global warming data.
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Suzuki stands by his claims that politicians who question the global warming faith should be jailed. Then, when host Tony Jones looks surprised, he says he hasn’t thought it through.
UPDATE
Suzuki is then challenged by an academic on his claim we should forget nuclear power and switch to solar power. The scientist points out the technology for massive solar batteries does not exist yet. Suzuki concedes he does not know.
UPDATE
Another questioner challenges Suzuki on his irrational scaremongering on GM crops and asks for his evidence. Suzuki says “we just don’t know enough” - the great cop out. He has no evidence. He gives some whacky analogy about orchestras.
In my opinion, this man is a phoney.
UPDATE
A researcher into GM bananas, putting in more eyesight-saving vitamin A for countries where bananas are a staple, asks again about Suzuki’s irrational attacks on GM crops.
Suzuki now denies this is “bad science”. But keeps saying we don’t know enough. “What’s the rush?” he demands. It’s been driven by money, complains multi-millionaire Suzuki, who charged a college more than $30,000 to give a speech.
Something tells me no information whatsover would ever be enough for this alarmist. Let the kids go blind.
The Professor says this “rush” is actually 30 years. He then whacks Suzuki on his DDT alarmism.
Suzuki again trots out his old conspiracy that the GM crops are just about money and are too expensive and are not developed to do good.
The Professor whacks him again, noting several examples of GM technology being given away for free to feed poor countries.
“I don’t know,” says Suzuki.
In my opinion he is a complete phoney.
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Reports of explosion in Nairobi mall
Andrew Bolt September 23 2013 (8:37pm)
Smoke is now rising
from the mall attacked by al Shabab. Loud explosions and gunfire have
been heard. I fear the worst for the remaining hostages.
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A fourth Briton reported killed.
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Reports that the explosions could have been done by Kenyan forces. Who knows? Israeli forces are said to be helping.
UPDATE
A fourth Briton reported killed.
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Reports that the explosions could have been done by Kenyan forces. Who knows? Israeli forces are said to be helping.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Pray Along,
Father, I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Thank You for ordering my steps and ordaining my future. I trust You as You lead and guide me into victory in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Father, I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Thank You for ordering my steps and ordaining my future. I trust You as You lead and guide me into victory in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Go Out With Boldness As Your Days Are Ordained.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.(Psalm 139:16, NIV)
God has already planned out every detail of your life right down to the very second.Our God is not an approximate God. He is an exact God, a detailed God, a precise God. He has planned out your life not just to the years or the months or the days, but down to the very second. In your future, He has marked moments where time and eternity are going to come together, and you will be at the right place and get the break you need.
Scripture says that before you were born, God knew you. He knew every one of your days before they ever took shape. Trust Him and stay in peace because your days are ordained by the Lord.God bless you.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.(Psalm 139:16, NIV)
God has already planned out every detail of your life right down to the very second.Our God is not an approximate God. He is an exact God, a detailed God, a precise God. He has planned out your life not just to the years or the months or the days, but down to the very second. In your future, He has marked moments where time and eternity are going to come together, and you will be at the right place and get the break you need.
Scripture says that before you were born, God knew you. He knew every one of your days before they ever took shape. Trust Him and stay in peace because your days are ordained by the Lord.God bless you.
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Oftentimes, we have to go through the wilderness before we reach our promised land. Oftentimes, like Joseph, we feel like we are in a pit long before we ever see the palace. Maybe you’re in a season right now where you don’t see anything happening. You think, “I’ve been praying and believing for a year, five years, ten years. It’s never going to work out.”
No, be encouraged today. Stay the course. Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged and tempted to be frustrated, but don’t give up on your future. Stay on the high road. Our God is a faithful God. It may be taking a long time, but what He started He will finish in your life. Scripture says the eyes of the Lord search to and fro to find someone who will be faithful on His behalf. Be the person He finds faithful. Keep believing, keep praying, keep obeying and stay the course because He is leading you in the path of victory.Amen.
No, be encouraged today. Stay the course. Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged and tempted to be frustrated, but don’t give up on your future. Stay on the high road. Our God is a faithful God. It may be taking a long time, but what He started He will finish in your life. Scripture says the eyes of the Lord search to and fro to find someone who will be faithful on His behalf. Be the person He finds faithful. Keep believing, keep praying, keep obeying and stay the course because He is leading you in the path of victory.Amen.
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J.John
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COMPULSIVE users of porn show the same signs of addiction in their brain as those hooked on booze or drugs, according to researchers.
The brains of young men who are obsessed by online pornography 'lit up like Christmas trees' upon being shown erotic images, a pioneering study has found.
The area stimulated - the part of the brain involved in processing reward, motivation and pleasure - is the same part that is highly active among drug and alcohol addicts.
The Cambridge University research, the first of its kind in the world, coincides with a survey which revealed that watching porn online is the norm for boys as young as 13.
Campaigners have also warned that increasing porn use among teenagers warps their view of sex and prompts boys to treat girls as sex objects.
However, until now the actual effects of pornography on the brain have been unclear. Dr Valerie Voon, a Cambridge University neuroscientist specialising in addictions, studied 19 self-confessed compulsive pornography users. The men, aged 19 to 34, had tried and failed to break their habit and had lost relationships and jobs as a result.
All fed their habit using online porn. When they were shown erotic video clips, a part of their brains lit up called the ventral striatum.
It is the same part of the brain that springs to life when a drug addict sees a dealer or an alcoholic sees an advert for drink.
When they were shown non-erotic but exciting sports images, the men's brains reacted far less strongly.
Similarly, the reaction was weak in men who were not obsessed by porn.
Dr Voon plans to look at whether learning more about the brain will lead to new ways of treating or breaking an addiction to pornography. Her research will feature in documentary Porn On The Brain, presented by Martin Daubney, the former editor of lads' mag Loaded.
Mr Daubney spent a year talking to scientists, teenage boys and teachers for the documentary which will be screened next Monday.
"The age of innocence is over," he said. "The internet is now a rolling buffet of online depravity. Given what we now know about porn seemingly being addictive, it's like leaving heroin around the house for kids to take."
Some doctors have argued that heavy users of porn show the same traits of addiction as alcoholics and drug addicts.
In evidence to the United States Congress in 2008, psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover said that "Modern science allows us to understand that the underlying nature of an addiction to pornography is chemically nearly identical to a heroin addiction: only the delivery system is different."
So that is what drugs are like .. ed
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Thurman Winston, born in Oklahoma, seems to have lived a pleasant life, and his obituary lovingly made that clear. At least, in the first 38 lines.
But in the final two sentences, for those keen beans who read right to the end, the note launched a stunning attack on his grandchildren.
The obituary, which has stirred up the natives on Reddit, begins waxing lyrical:
"Thurman moved his family home to Spencer so his kids could experience the love of their remaining grandparents.
"He has a passion for cars, motorcycles and entertaining family and friends, hunting, fishing and remodelling. His motto: 'Accomplish what you can because tomorrow ain't promised'."
"He stayed busy. He leaves to cherish his memories of his wife, children and grandkids, a host of backstabbing mother f*****s that still owe him money."
We are all connected .. ed
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
Dear Heavenly Father as I come before you this afternoon I just bless you for taking us safely all throughout this day. Thank you for food, for keeping us in our right minds and for never leaving us even in the darkest hour. Now Lord I life up all those in need of prayer. I bring before you sick bodies, hurting hearts, tired minds and all those that stand in need of something. I ask you to make your power real to them. Make the rest of this day a beautiful one. Let your peace reign. We give you all glory, honor and praise. Amen...
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Striking the Panhandle
A supercell over Oklahoma discharges it's energy into the fast oncoming night air, trying to dissipate the energy that had previously spawned multiple tornadoes.
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WASHINGTON – The former FBI agent who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges earlier this year will also plead guilty to leaking classified information about an Al Qaeda bomb plot to The Associated Press - in a case of spilled secrets that the Justice Department called one of the most serious in U.S. history.
Donald John Sachtleben of Carmel, Ind., a former FBI technician and government contractor, has signed plea agreements in both cases, the U.S. attorney’s office said Monday.
“I am deeply sorry for my actions,” Sachtleben said in a written statement. “While I never intended harm to the United States or to any individuals, I do not make excuses for myself. I understand and accept that today’s filings start the process of paying the full consequences of my misconduct, and I know that the justice system I once served so proudly will have its say."
Charges in the child pornography case against Sachtleben were filed in May 2012 after law enforcement officials said they found child porn they were able to trace to his home computer. That complaint alleges that an examination of Sachtleben’s laptop revealed the presence of about 30 images of child porn that he is accused of trading with other people using the email address pedodave69@yahoo.com.
Nine days before those charges were filed, prosecutors say Sachtleben gave up national defense information to a news reporter related to a disrupted terrorist plot.
The documents in the AP leaker case were filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Charging documents allege Sachtleben knew that information would compromise national security. They also claim the information related to a foiled plot by Yemen-based terrorist organization Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner.
“We were given the task of uncovering who had threatened a sensitive intelligence operation and endangered lives by illegally disclosing classified information relating to a disrupted Al Qaeda suicide bomb plot,” U.S. Attorney Ron Machen said. “That plot could not have been more serious. … This prosecution demonstrates our deep resolve to hold accountable anyone who would violate their solemn duty to protect our nation’s secrets and to prevent future, potentially devastating leaks by those who would wantonly ignore their obligations to safeguard classified information.”
The investigation into who leaked top secret information to the AP began a national debate over the rights of the press.
AP President Gary Pruitt said at the time that “there can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters.”
Sachtleben had been employed in the Department of Forensic Sciences at Oklahoma State University. He spent over 25 years as a special agent bomb technician in the FBI before retiring in 2008. He specialized in counter terrorism and bombing investigations.
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The Afghan interpreter who finally received a visa for a new life in the U.S.could have it revoked after only two weeks -- and has gone into hiding amid fears he and his family have become targets of the Taliban.
Janis Shinwary already had quit his job as a translator for the U.S. military stationed in Afghanistan and sold all of his family’s possessions in anticipation for moving stateside. But the process to obtain the visa, which already put him and his loved ones in harm’s way, has apparently stalled with no explanation from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
“If you are getting a visa, you are expecting a new life,” Shinwary said to FoxNews.com via phone from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. “I started to sell everything we owned–even my kids’ toys.”
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AN EXPECTANT father was naked, drunk, had drugs in his system and was driving to hospital at twice the speed limit when he crashed his car, killing his fiancee and unborn child, a court has heard.
Lisa Smith, 23, was pregnant with her third child when a car driven by John Ceruto crashed into a Stobie pole at Woodville Park in January this year, during a hospital dash after Ms Smith complained of severe abdominal pain.
The baby, a boy, had been due March 10.
Ms Smith left behind two children, Hannah and Blake, who now live with their grandparents.
Today Ceruto, 31, of Woodville Park, faced the District Court for sentencing submissions.
He had previously pleaded guilty to one aggravated count of causing Ms Smith’s death by dangerous driving, and to driving unlicensed.
In court, a victim-impact statement written by Ms Smith's mother, Kerri-Anne, was read aloud.
“I find it difficult to know the only people who helped Lisa after the crash were the strangers to whom I am so grateful,” Mrs Smith wrote.
Read more: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/national-news/south-australia/john-ceruto-naked-drunk-speeding-and-on-drugs-when-he-killed-pregnant-fiancee-lisa-smith-in-woodville-park-crash-court-told/story-fnii5yv4-1226726225468#ixzz2fneEnjR1
His childhood didn't drink and take drugs. - ed
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SAMANTHA Lewthwaite has emerged as a prime suspect behind the bloodshed in Kenya but who is the 29-year-old woman thought responsible for so much carnage?
Dubbed the 'White Widow' by Britain's media, the mother-of-four has emerged as the prime suspect in the Nairobi massacre.
The widow of suicide bomber Jermaine Lindsay, Lewthwaite is believed to have ordered the Nairobi attack or even led it herself.
Soldiers said a white woman wearing a veil was shouting orders to gunmen in Arabic during the bloody massacre inside the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, the Daily Mail reports.
As soldiers closed in on the terrorists, one said the scene is "all being controlled by this muzungu [Swahili for white] woman. She is ordering them what to do. We are getting closer to them".
Some survivors say a veiled woman was commanding the al-Shabaab militants as they attacked people in the Nairobi mall while other survivors simply say saw a "white woman" among the hostage-takers.
Police have told reporters that they are still investigating the possibility the woman may have been a hostage dressed in one of the terrorists' clothes as a "decoy" during the attack which saw Kenyan authorities regain control of most of the four-storey shopping mall.
However Kenyan anti-terror police revealed yesterday that Lewthwaite may be the brains behind the operation to bring terror to the heart of Kenya, the Daily Mail reports.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/who-is-samantha-lewthwaite-the-prime-suspect-in-the-nairobi-terror-attack/story-fndir2ev-1226726170856#ixzz2fneiwFSC
.. no tradition of greatness .. ed
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KENYAN troops are battling the Islamists making their final stand in a deadly shopping mall siege, on the fourth day of the attack.
Sporadic shooting at the upmarket Westgate mall broke out again at dawn, hours after officials had claimed Kenyan troops were in "control" of the sprawling complex.
Islamist al-Shabab fighters claimed they are still holding hostages inside.
"The hostages who were being held by the mujahedeen inside Westgate are still alive, looking quite disconcerted but, nevertheless, alive," the Shebab said in a message posted on their latest Twitter account.
At least 62 shoppers and staff have been killed and close to 200 wounded in the siege, but concerns are high that the toll may yet rise.
Security sources said "one or two" militants were taking a final stand against special forces in or around a casino on one of the upper floors of the complex.
Government spokesman Manoah Esipisu told AFP early today the siege was close to being declared over, with special forces "sanitising" the complex in case "there are a couple of them hiding in a remote room or corner."
As the interior ministry said early Tuesday that all hostages trapped by the militants are believed to have been freed, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said that several American nationals and a British woman were among the fighters.
"The hostages who were being held by the mujahedeen inside Westgate are still alive, looking quite disconcerted but, nevertheless, alive," the Shebab said in a message posted on their latest Twitter account.
At least 62 shoppers and staff have been killed and close to 200 wounded in the siege, but concerns are high that the toll may yet rise.
Security sources said "one or two" militants were taking a final stand against special forces in or around a casino on one of the upper floors of the complex.
Government spokesman Manoah Esipisu told AFP early today the siege was close to being declared over, with special forces "sanitising" the complex in case "there are a couple of them hiding in a remote room or corner."
As the interior ministry said early Tuesday that all hostages trapped by the militants are believed to have been freed, Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said that several American nationals and a British woman were among the fighters.
The latest developments come after an off-duty member of Britain's special forces reportedly helped save a hundred lives as terrorists launched their attack.
The Daily Mail reports sources as crediting the soldier as a hero of the Nairobi siege after intervening with a handgun as his only weapon.
The soldier was reportedly having coffee at the Westgate mall when it was attacked by a group of 10 to 15 terrorists.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/kenyan-troops-tighten-grip-on-beseiged-shopping-mall/story-fndir2ev-1226725654896#ixzz2fnf6AkF4
Who dares wins .. UK SAS off duty soldier save many .. ed
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Abdullah Amar, father of the terrorist Nadal Amar, condemned the actions of his son and expressed regret that he had killed IDF soldier Tomer Hazan. “I am speaking from the depths of my heart,” he told Israeli reporters Sunday. “If the army would give me a machine gun, I would shoot my son in the head, without a court's permission.”
Hazan was abducted Friday and murdered in Samaria by Amar, with the motive said by IDF officials to be a plan by the terrorist to trade Hazan's body for the freedom of his brother, a Fatah terrorist who has been in jail in Israel for the last ten years. The soldier went missing Friday, and after a Shabak investigation, soldiers descended on the home of Nadal in the village of Bayt Amin, near Kakilya.
Hazan had worked together with Amar at a restaurant in Bat Yam. On Friday, Hazan met Nadal in the Jewish town of Shaare Tikvah in central Samaria, from where both proceeded to Nadal's village, where Israeli officials said that the IDF soldier was killed immediately. Nadal dumped Hazan's body in a pit near the village. He along with six others were arrested Saturday morning, after the Shabak gathered information on the attack.
Nadal Amar had been working in Israel since he was 17, his father said, and the family was extremely upset and distressed at what he had done. “I and all the members of my family, from young to old, strongly condemn what my son did, killing an unarmed man who came here,” said Abdullah Amar. “Nadal never even hurt a cat, I never imagined he could hurt a person. But I wish to tell the Israeli public that if he committed a crime, he must pay for it as a court orders. He killed a man for no reason,” the elder Amar said.
Nadal Amar has been on his own for decades, his father said, coming to visit his family for short periods only once every few months. “He has never been in jail, was never associated with Hamas or Fatah or the Jihad groups.” Nadal Amar has a wife and eight children in the Israeli Arab town of Jaljuliya, the elder Amar said.
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My thanks to
נתניאל פיינגולד
"When evil is perpetrated against a human being - by taking his life - then vengeance becomes not only the erasing of evil but one way of honoring the dead by showing that his life was indeed precious to us, that we are indeed shaken by his death, that his life and blood were not cheap in our eyes. One does not forget or forgive murder. To do so is to spit in the grave of the murdered, no matter what the rationalizations. And to do so is to hold in contempt the lives of others who will be murdered tomorrow for our refusal to burn out the murderers today." - R' Meir Kahane 1983
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A former member of the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion, in which Staff Sergeant Gabriel Kobi – shot in the course of routine security duty in Hebron on Sunday – served, offers a personal tribute to the young man he never knew.
By Ido Antar
“Yesterday evening, the name of the soldier killed in Hebron was released to the public – Staff Sergeant Gabriel Kobi, who served in the Rotem Battalion of the Givati Brigade.
I didn’t know him.
Two years have passed since I was released, and he only then enlisted.
I won’t be at the funeral, and I probably also won’t attend the shiva. I will not be reciting the mourner’s Kaddish.
Today, I will go for a run like every other day, and I will go to the gym like every other day. But instead of wearing a Nike or Adidas shirt like on a normal day, I pulled out from the depths of my closet the shirt of the Rotem battalion.
Every person that I pass by on my run – I will point behind me with my thumb so that they will all know. So that they’ll know that the IDF as a whole, and the Rotem Battalion in particular, are strong, tough, and remember every single fighter. That’s my small tribute for all to see.
But not so that they’ll be proud of me – but rather proud of him.
If this post happens to reach Staff Sergeant Gabriel Kobi’s family, know that your dear one was a courageous hero, there is no other like him, he will always be remembered in a heroic light earned by so few. With all the pain and sorrow, he was killed for a hallowed goal, in defense of the homeland.
To the lowly terrorist who did this – I trust and am certain that your whereabouts are known, and indeed very likely that you’ve already been caught. I hope very much that you get what you deserve.
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Iran Human Rights, September 21: Eight prisoners, including three women, were hanged in Yazd Prison (central Iran) on September 19 andfour more prisoners were hanged in Qazvin Prison (west of Tehran) on September 21, reported Iranian state media.
According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Yazd, the eight prisoners hanged in Yazd Prison were convicted of drug related charges. The eight prisoners have been identified as:
"R. H." and "M. Sh.", for participation in the possession and trafficking of 10 kilograms of heroin.
"T. Y.", for trafficking 920 grams of heroin.
"R. B.", for possession and trafficking 2800 grams of heroin.
"Z. S." (woman), for possession and trafficking 4 kilograms of heroin.
"N. S." (woman), for possession and trafficking 2050 grams of crack and 495 grams of heroin.
"S. H." (woman), for participation in the possession and trafficking of 1970 grams of heroin.
"Z. S.", for drug addiction and the possession and trafficking of 630 grams of heroin and 51 grams of opium and cannabis.
The official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Qazvin had reported the hanging ofthe four prisoners in Qazvin Prison. Three of the prisoners were reportedly convicted of drug related charges and the fourth prisoner was reportedly convicted of murder. The prisoners have been identified as:
"F. N." (28), for possession of "some amounts of Crystal" and involvement in the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages and other drugs.
"B. N." (43), for possession of 2387 grams of crystal
"R. M." (34), for possession of 938 grams of crystal
"B. A." (26), convicted of murder in 2008
Additionally, at least five prisoners were hanged in Zahedan Prison (southeastern Iran) on September 21, according to "Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran" (HRDAI).
Except, because the rule of law is not strong in Iran it is not known if those executed were merely prisoners of conscience ed
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During the House Homeland Security hearing last month on the topic of radicalization in the American Muslim community,one exchange between L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca and Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) concerned the relationship between the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and Hamas terrorist front the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sheriff Baca told the congressman:
We don’t play around with criminals in my world. If CAIR is an organization that is a quote “criminal organization,” prosecute them. Hold them accountable and bring them to trial.
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Remember when candidate Barack Obama promised his acolytes that they were only “five days away fromfundamentally transforming the United States of America”? That was back in October 2008, when the hectic flush of Obamamania was at its peak. To be fair, it’s taken a bit longer than five days, but here we are, five years into the most destructive presidency in the country’s history, and we can see that fundamental transformation at work just about everywhere.
The economy: During Obama’s first term, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded by S&P for the first time in history. That might seem pretty abstract: who cares about a country’s credit rating? But then there’s news like this: According to a report released in 2012 by the Federal Reserve, Americans have seen their wealth plummet by 40 percent over the past few years. Hope & Change!
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Originally published at the Gatestone Institute.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt [FDR], reversing the policy of four presidents and six of their Secretaries of State not to recognize the Soviet government, in 1933 extended “normal diplomatic relations” to the Soviet Union, the totalitarian slaughterhouse of Josef Stalin. As meticulously researched by Diana West in her new book, “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character,” the reasoning behind Roosevelt’s decision was never made clear; what was clear, however, since the 1917-1919 Bolshevik seizure of the Russian government by force, was the Soviet reign of blood and terror. According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, by the late 1930s, Stalin’s regime was shooting tens of thousands of people per month. Yet, for reasons that remain murky, FDR was influenced, inspired, or somehow persuaded to normalize U.S. relations with Stalin, in exchange for a page of Soviet concessions, not worth the paper they were written on, which pledged that the USSR “would not attempt to subvert or overthrow the U.S. system.”
What West documents is the subsequent process of infiltration, influence, and “occupation” by an army of communist agents and fellow travelers; here, however, the focus is on what that original 1933 decision has meant for future generations, most especially our own, when confronted with decisions about whether or not to recognize enemies who make no secret of their enmity and intention to destroy us.
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Hamas-CAIR lost its 501 C3 status because they refused to file tax returns (that's for the apes and pigs, I guess).
CAIR failed to file required annual reports, known as form 990s, detailing their revenues and expenses, for three consecutive years. CAIR had been a non-profit on its own, but in 2007, the IRS approved a separate tax-exempt CAIR Foundation. The foundation never filed any subsequent reports. Both the foundation and CAIR nationalare on the purge list.The CAIR Foundation won exempt status in 2007 and then never filed any annual reports. That year, theWashington Times reported that CAIR's membership plummeted by 90 percent, from a high of 29,000 people in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006. CAIR vehemently denied the report when it was issued. But a year later, when the organization sought to have its name removed from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in a Hamas-financing prosecution, CAIR attorneys tied the diminishing support to the 2007 co-conspirator list.[...]Anecdotal information indicates the group increasingly has turned to foreign donors for operating revenue. In 2006, State Department records obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show, CAIR sent delegations to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seeking millions of dollars in support.The delegation included CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, then-board chairman Parvez Ahmed, and current chairman Larry Shaw.In 2009, Awad solicited Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi to help underwrite a program to distribute 1 million copies of the Quran to government officials and the general public in America and to help start up a new foundation Awad was trying to launch.
But CAIR got its 501c3 status back while patriot groups like the Tea Party were being targeted by the IRS.
Where are CAIR's tax returns? Who is giving them millions to fund their Islamic supremacist machine? Their mother organization, the Muslim Brotherhood? Al Qaeda?
We want to see the jihad millions (billions, perhaps) and where their dirty dough is coming from. Before they stopped obeying US tax law and filing returns, we know that one Saudi wahhabi prince gave Hamas-CAIR 50 million dollars back in 2007.
Today they released another ridiculous report concerning the pathetic islamophobia financial network here. How wrong did they get it? They have me as President of Jihad Watch, need I say more?
The bottom line is that America needs to know who is funding these terror supporters. It's a national security issue. Release the returns. What is it that Hamas-CAIR is hiding and doesn't want us to see?
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Garfield? Where is the lasagne? ed
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A morning of birds! Just back from my morning walk where this Pelican was swimming at Rose Bay to find this cockatoo in my backyard teasing Zoe my Jack Russell and before I left for the walk there was a huge green and red parrot !
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I can sympathise with Cameron, but I insist that the Islamic world are embracing these terrorists too. There is no culture of greatness among Islamics providing an example of how a good person behaves. Among Jews, Rabbi set an excellent example. Christians and Catholics have people famed of their goodness. As do Hindu and Buddhists. - ed
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
I am not Superwomen, I can't do everything... I am not Google, I can't answers all questions, I can't perform miracles, I can't solve your problems, I can't save you!!!
~But I do serve a God, through whom all things are possible; in whom all answers can be found and who is the source of all miracles. His name is Jesus!~
~But I do serve a God, through whom all things are possible; in whom all answers can be found and who is the source of all miracles. His name is Jesus!~
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Brilliant meme. There is no excuse for rape. Courts disproportionately give light sentences for the crime.
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Progress has a price. - ed
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Liberals walk in on a mess
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Zaya Toma'
I am sorry that anyone from the Assyrian community here in Australia is involved with criminal gangs. The police and the media are not at fault for calling them out on being Assyrian. Those captured in the raids today are the ones that identify themselves as being of Assyrian heritage, by the clothes they wear, the tattoos they get, the things they say. They have made their heritage fair gang by forming an ethnically based gang. I am proud the police have been able to take more criminals of the street today, regardless of their ethnicity. 99% of the Assyrian community here is hardworking, decent God-fearing Christians. My message to the other one percent is you are not "sick-$!#$" because you are in a gang. Get out and get a job. Learn a trade and live a honest life. Crime does not pay. The police have made it clear they will go to any length to find you.
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The idea that solving the Israel/Palestinian question is the key to unlocking the problems of the region was what everyone who wanted to sound as if they knew what they were saying was most delighted to say: "What was that about Yemen? Well of course the real problem we need to solve is the Israel/Palestinian issue." Rarely in diplomatic history has so much been got so wrong by so many people for so long.
With the civil war in Syria grinding through its third year, Egypt descended into ethnic and inter-religious barbarism, and the American Secretary of State reduced to promising "unbelievably small" action by the world's only super-power, it is hard to find any chinks of light. But one, perhaps, exists. It is that we may finally have seen the explosion of one of the most embedded and central myths of our time: the idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is the "key" to sorting out the problems of the Middle East.
After seeing what has happened since the "Arab Spring" began, this might be an appropriate moment to ask whether or not every Western foreign minister deserves simply to be sacked and sent back to school. Rarely in diplomatic history has so much been got so wrong by so many people for so long.
For at least the twenty years since the Oslo Accords, the idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict was the "key" to unlocking the problems of the Middle East was the leitmotif of any discussion about the Middle East and North Africa areas. So pervasive was it that people could refer to the "Middle East" problem as though everyone agreed that there was only one problem across that whole set of benighted lands.
While of course it would be nice if all disputes could be solved — Cyprus, Kashmir, Turkey, Morocco, Tibet -- what is worse is that the allegation came from every side of the political spectrum. Politicians of the left said it. Politicians of the right said it. The idea that solving the Israel/Palestinian question was the key to unlocking the problems of the region was what everyone who wanted to sound as if they knew what they were saying was most delighted to say: "What was that about Yemen? Well of course the real problem we need to solve is the Israel/Palestinian issue." "A bomb was planted in which Western city? Well what we really need to do is solve that border dispute issue of the Israelis."
Further, one of the oddest things about all this is that for some reason, when the alleged centrality of the issue should have been swept aside most completely, it became instead even more central.
After 9/11, when Western cities began to be places on the frontline of a global effort to express innumerable Islamist grievances and extort endless Islamist demands, the free world's leaders instead decided to play this long-defunct tune one more time.
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As Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz hosted an event in his sukkah for IDF generals, he gave an exclusive interview to Arutz Sheva, in which he lambasted the current negotiations with thePalestinian Authority (PA). He also spoke about recent terrorist incidents, and the threat posed by Iran.
Commenting on the negotiations between Israel and the PA, which are being led by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Katz said: "I don't know all of the details, but while it is perhaps possible to hold talks in secret, it is not legitimate to hold talks with a secret ideology."
The Minister added: "For the Likud, there is a path forward, our path is different from that of Tzipi Livni. Her way is not our way. The Likud has to fix the guiding principles for negotiations." He added that there was a need to stress to the US that there are red lines, and that Israel is not prepared to cross those red lines.
Katz also expressed his staunch opposition to a Palestinian state, saying: "The existential threat to our existence does not come from Iran, or Syria or other Arab states, but rather from the establishment of a Palestinianstate, which we can not allow to take place."
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Israel should stop talking peace with the Palestinian Authority so long as its chairman continues to incite to terrorism, said Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) on Sunday.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Danon said that Israel should demand that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemn the murders of two soldiers over the past two days before any peace negotiations can resume.
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More AGW alarmism - ed
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Following their rejection by the Australian people on 7th September, the Australian Labor Party are now going through the pantomime of selecting a new leader.
Labor are trying to suggest things have changed, but it is clear the deep problems Labor had in government are now following them into Opposition.
Despite the pretence, the factions are still calling the shots:
“… senior members of the ALP national executive have blasted the leadership contest … as "factionalism as usual".
Over the past week, factional figures loyal to Mr Shorten and Mr Albanese have marshalled their armies of supporters -- MPs, unionists, apparatchiks and staff members -- to wage a battle for the Labor leadership.
Mr Albanese's campaign is being run by left sub-faction boss and former minister Mark Butler. Mr Shorten's campaign is being jointly co-ordinated by right faction bosses David Feeney and Sam Dastyari.
"It's all pretty depressing really, just factionalism as usual," said a National Executive member. "It's no surprise really given Bill is a faction boss from the right and Albo is a faction boss from the Left”… (and) their campaign machines are almost entirely staffed and organised by figures aligned to either the Left or Right."
Read more here from The Australian
It is clear that Labor has learned nothing. However much they try to claim that things are different, the truth is that the faceless men are still in charge.
It is clear that Labor has learned nothing. However much they try to claim that things are different, the truth is that the faceless men are still in charge.
Whoever becomes Labor leader, they will still be beholden to the unions, the factions, the faceless men and the bitter personal divisions that paralysed the previous Parliament.
And most importantly of all Labor will still support a hit on families through a carbon tax.
Regards
Brian Loughnane
And most importantly of all Labor will still support a hit on families through a carbon tax.
Regards
Brian Loughnane
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September 24: Hoshana Rabbah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2013);Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973); Heritage Day in South Africa; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976)
- 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists under the personal command of King Charles I suffered a significant defeat in the Battle of Rowton Heath.
- 1789 – The First United States Congress passed theJudiciary Act of 1789, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court Justices.
- 1903 – Alfred Deakin (pictured) became the second Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Edmund Barton who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou, currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.
- 1992 – Oba Chandler was arrested for the murder of three women inTampa Bay, Florida, US, after a three-year-long manhunt.
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Events[edit]
- 768 – Charlemagne is crowned the first King of the Franks.
- 1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
- 1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
- 1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
- 1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
- 1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrenderWest Point.
- 1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1830 – Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
- 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
- 1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
- 1853 – Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
- 1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gouldand James Fisk plot to control the market.
- 1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- 1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
- 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
- 1932 – Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
- 1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
- 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
- 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
- 1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- 1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
- 1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
- 1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
- 1960 – USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
- 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- 1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
- 1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- 1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
- 1990 – Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
- 1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- 2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
- 2007 – Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
- 2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
Births[edit]
- 15 – Vitellius, Roman emperor (d. 69)
- 1301 – Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
- 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
- 1513 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1535)
- 1534 – Guru Ram Das, India (current Pakistan) 4th Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
- 1564 – William Adams, English sailor and navigator (d. 1620)
- 1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
- 1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- 1667 – Jean-Louis Lully, French musician and composer (d. 1688)
- 1705 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
- 1714 – Alaungpaya, Burmese king (d. 1760)
- 1717 – Horace Walpole, English historian, author, and politician (d. 1797)
- 1755 – John Marshall, American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
- 1796 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
- 1801 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
- 1802 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
- 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
- 1829 – Charles S. West, American jurist and politician (d. 1885)
- 1845 – Nikolai Anderson, Baltic German philologist (d. 1905)
- 1858 – Eugene Foss, American politician, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
- 1859 – Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer (d. 1933)
- 1861 – Bhikaji Cama, Indian Freedom Fighter(d.1936)
- 1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting (d. 1960)
- 1871 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player (d. 1960)
- 1878 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian (d. 1999)
- 1882 – Max Decugis, French tennis player (d. 1978)
- 1883 – Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated (d. 1934)
- 1883 – Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (d. 1951)
- 1884 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
- 1885 – Artur Lemba, Estonian composer (d. 1963)
- 1890 – Mike González, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1977)
- 1890 – A. P. Herbert, English author and playwright (d. 1971)
- 1892 – Adélard Godbout, Canadian politician, 15th Premier of Québec (d. 1956)
- 1893 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1929)
- 1894 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1968)
- 1894 – Billy Bletcher, American actor and comedian (d. 1979)
- 1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author (d. 1940)
- 1898 – Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1899 – William Dobell, Australian painter (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Ham Fisher, American cartoonist and writer (d. 1955)
- 1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American doctor and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1906 – Leonard Marsh, Canadian scientist and educator (d. 1982)
- 1907 – Ben Oakland, American composer, songwriter, and pianist (d. 1979)
- 1908 – Renee Roberts, English television actress (d. 1996)
- 1909 – Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
- 1910 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
- 1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1912 – Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor
- 1914 – John Kerr, Australian politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Andrzej Panufnik, Polish composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Ruth Leach Amonette, American businesswoman (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Arthur W. Lehman, American euphonium player (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Doud Eisenhower, American son of Dwight D. Eisenhower (d. 1921)
- 1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
- 1919 – Jack Costanzo, American drummer
- 1920 – Richard Bong, American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
- 1920 – Jan Carew, Guyanese author (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
- 1922 – Ettore Bastianini, Italian opera singer (d. 1967)
- 1922 – Bert I. Gordon, American director
- 1922 – Cornell MacNeil, American opera singer (d. 2011)
- 1922 – John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player (d. 1950)
- 1924 – Nina Bocharova, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1924 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1924 – Sheila MacRae, English actress, singer, and author
- 1924 – Voula Zouboulaki, Egyptian-Greek actress
- 1925 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian scientist (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
- 1929 – John Carter, American clarinet, saxophone, and flute player (d. 1991)
- 1929 – Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
- 1930 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
- 1930 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
- 1930 – Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
- 1930 – John W. Young, American astronaut, pilot, and engineer
- 1931 – Cardiss Collins, American politician (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Anthony Newley, English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
- 1931 – Mike Parkes, English race car driver (d. 1977)
- 1932 – Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian, actress, and singer
- 1932 – Miguel Montuori, Italy-Argentinian footballer (d. 1998)
- 1933 – Raffaele Farina, Italian cardinal
- 1933 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (d. 1996)
- 1933 – Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
- 1934 – John Brunner, English author (d. 1995)
- 1934 – Chick Willis, American singer
- 1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
- 1935 – Sean McCann, Canadian actor
- 1936 – Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, and producer, founded The Jim Henson Company (d. 1990)
- 1937 – Takis Loukanidis, Greek footballer
- 1938 – Steve Douglas, American saxophonist and producer (The Wrecking Crew) (d. 1993)
- 1939 – Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (The Crusaders)
- 1940 – Yves Navarre, French author (d. 1994)
- 1941 – John Mackey, American football player (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist (Wings) (d. 1998)
- 1942 – Ilkka Lipsanen, Finnish singer
- 1942 – Gerry Marsden, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
- 1944 – Diana Körner, German actress
- 1945 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist
- 1945 – John Rutter, English composer and conductor
- 1946 – Jerry Donahue, American guitarist and producer, (Fotheringay, Fairport Convention, The Electric Revelators, and The Hellecasters)
- 1946 – Joe Greene, American football player
- 1946 – Lars Emil Johansen, Greenlandic politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greenland
- 1946 – Uschi Obermaier, German model and actress
- 1946 – César Pedroso, Cuban pianist (Los Van Van)
- 1947 – Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
- 1948 – Gordon Clapp, American actor
- 1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
- 1948 – Garth Porter, Australian singer-songwriter and producer (Sherbet)
- 1949 – Bill Connors, American guitarist (Return to Forever)
- 1950 – Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer
- 1950 – Alan Colmes, American comedian and talk show host
- 1950 – John Kessel, American science fiction author
- 1950 – Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
- 1951 – Douglas Kmiec, American diplomat, scholar, and author
- 1952 – Dieter Hochheimer, German footballer
- 1952 – Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Morphine and Treat Her Right) (d. 1999)
- 1952 – Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (d. 2008)
- 1954 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran activist (d. 1983)
- 1955 – Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
- 1956 – Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
- 1957 – Tod Howarth, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (707)
- 1957 – Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
- 1958 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
- 1959 – Theo Paphitis, Cypriot-English businessman
- 1959 – Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer and voice actor
- 1960 – Amy Sky, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1961 – Allen Bestwick, American sportscaster
- 1961 – Jack Dee, English comedian and actor
- 1961 – John Logan, American screenwriter
- 1961 – Luc Picard, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1962 – Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
- 1962 – Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
- 1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer
- 1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
- 1964 – Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1965 – Robert Irvine, English chef
- 1965 – Sean McNabb, American singer, bass player, and actor (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords, and Dokken)
- 1965 – Janet Weiss, American drummer (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Go-Betweens, and Wild Flag)
- 1966 – Stacy Galina, American actress
- 1966 – Bernard Gilkey, American baseball player
- 1966 – Stefan Molyneux, Canadian philosopher
- 1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American author
- 1967 – William So, Hong Kong Singer and actor
- 1969 – Shawn Crahan, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Slipknot, To My Surprise, and Dirty Little Rabbits)
- 1969 – Lisa Matthews, American model and actress
- 1969 – Shamim Sarif, English author and director
- 1969 – Paul Ray Smith, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2003)
- 1969 – DeVante Swing, American singer-songwriter and producer (Jodeci)
- 1969 – Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
- 1969 – Megan Ward, American actress
- 1971 – Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
- 1971 – Mike Michalowicz, American businessman and author
- 1971 – Kevin Millar, American baseball player
- 1971 – Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
- 1973 – Eddie George, American football player
- 1973 – Rodrick Rhodes, American basketball player
- 1974 – John McDonald, American baseball player
- 1975 – Mike Gallay, Canadian comedian, director, and producer, co-founded Gallay/Hartt Productions
- 1975 – Kyle Turley, American football player
- 1976 – Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
- 1976 – Georgios Georgiou, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
- 1977 – Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
- 1978 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
- 1979 – Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
- 1979 – Justin Bruening, American actor
- 1979 – Katja Kassin, German porn actress
- 1979 – Kim Jong-min, South Korean singer (Koyote)
- 1979 – Casey Johnson, American model, actress, and author (d. 2010)
- 1979 – Ross Mathews, American comedian
- 1979 – Jenny Platt, English actress
- 1980 – Daniele Bennati, Italian cyclist
- 1980 – Dean Canto, Australian race car driver
- 1980 – Sabrine Maui, Filipino porn actress
- 1980 – Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
- 1980 – Victoria Pendleton, English cyclist
- 1980 – John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
- 1981 – Ryan Briscoe, Australian race car driver
- 1981 – Drew Gooden, American basketball player
- 1981 – Fernanda Urrejola, Chilean actress
- 1982 – Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
- 1982 – Paul Hamm, American gymnast
- 1982 – Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
- 1983 – Liam Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1983 – Randy Foye, American basketball player
- 1984 – Taylor Eigsti, American pianist and composer
- 1984 – Tyrone Maria, Curaçao footballer
- 1984 – Mickaël Poté, Beninese footballer
- 1985 – Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
- 1985 – Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
- 1986 – Leah Dizon, American-Japanese singer and model
- 1987 – Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
- 1987 – Matthew Connolly, English footballer
- 1988 – Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Joseph Allen Halberstadt, American drummer (Foxy Shazam)
- 1988 – Birgit Õigemeel, Estonian singer
- 1988 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
- 1991 – Maximiliano Uggè, Italian footballer
- 1992 - Jack Sock, American tennis player
Deaths[edit]
- 366 – Pope Liberius (b. 352)
- 768 – Pippin the Short, Frankish king (b. 714)
- 911 – Louis the Child of the East Franks (b. 893)
- 1054 – Hermann of Reichenau, German scholar, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1013)
- 1120 – Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
- 1143 – Agnes of Germany (b. 1072)
- 1143 – Pope Innocent II
- 1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
- 1213 – Gertrude of Merania (b. 1185)
- 1218 – Robert of Knaresborough, English hermit (b. 1160)
- 1228 – Stefan the First-Crowned, Serbian king (b. 1165)
- 1275 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, English statesman (b. 1208)
- 1435 – Isabeau of Bavaria (b. 1370)
- 1494 – Poliziano, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1454)
- 1541 – Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (b. 1493)
- 1545 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (b. 1490)
- 1605 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. 1547)
- 1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
- 1646 – Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. 1565)
- 1707 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
- 1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
- 1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1684)
- 1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian author and critic (b. 1749)
- 1834 – Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
- 1889 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (b. 1856)
- 1892 – Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (b. 1829)
- 1896 – Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
- 1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
- 1929 – Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
- 1930 – William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
- 1932 – Stuart Stickney, American golfer (b. 1877)
- 1933 – Ferdinand Bonn, German actor (b. 1861)
- 1933 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
- 1933 – Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (b. 1869)
- 1936 – József Klekl, Slovene priest and journalist (b. 1879)
- 1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
- 1939 – Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (b. 1867)
- 1939 – Charles Tatham, American fencer (b. 1854)
- 1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
- 1947 – Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)
- 1948 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
- 1950 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
- 1954 – Edward Pilgrim, English suicide victim (b. 1904)
- 1962 – Charles Reisner, American actor and director (b. 1887)
- 1973 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (b. 1908)
- 1976 – Philip Gbeho, Ghanaian composer (b. 1904)
- 1975 – Earle Cabell, American politician (b. 1906)
- 1977 – Casey Rabach, American Football Player
- 1978 – James Bassett, American author (b. 1912)
- 1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (b. 1897)
- 1980 – Theodor Luts, Estonian film director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
- 1981 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Sarah Churchill, English actress (b. 1914)
- 1984 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1991 – Peter Bellamy, English singer-songwriter (The Young Tradition) (b. 1944)
- 1991 – Dr. Seuss, American author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
- 1993 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Skrewdriver) (b. 1957)
- 1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
- 1994 – Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (b. 1932)
- 1996 – Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
- 1998 – Jeff Moss, American composer and scriptwriter (b. 1942)
- 2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian politician (b. 1953)
- 2002 – Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Françoise Sagan, French author and scriptwriter (b. 1935)
- 2005 – Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
- 2006 – Phil Latulippe, Canadian soldier and runner (b. 1909)
- 2008 – Oliver Crawford, American screenwriter and author (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (b. 1975)
- 2009 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
- 2010 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician, Vice President of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Thilakan, Indian actor (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Bruno Bobak, Polish-Canadian painter (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Gerard Sagredo
- Our Lady of Mercy and its related observances:
- Our Lady of Walsingham (Church of England)
- Rupert of Salzburg
- September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
- Constitution Day (Cambodia)
- Heritage Day (South Africa).
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal in 1973.
- Mahidol Day (Thailand)
- New Caledonia Day (New Caledonia)
- Peruvian Armed Forces Day (Peru)
- Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Start of the indiction year (Late Roman Empire; at least since the time of Bede)
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“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” Romans 5:3-4NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Accepted in the beloved."
Ephesians 1:6
Ephesians 1:6
What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term "acceptance" in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should be the objects of divine love! But it is only "in the beloved." Some Christians seem to be accepted in their own experience, at least, that is their apprehension. When their spirit is lively, and their hopes bright, they think God accepts them, for they feel so high, so heavenly-minded, so drawn above the earth! But when their souls cleave to the dust, they are the victims of the fear that they are no longer accepted. If they could but see that all their high joys do not exalt them, and all their low despondencies do not really depress them in their Father's sight, but that they stand accepted in One who never alters, in One who is always the beloved of God, always perfect, always without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, how much happier they would be, and how much more they would honour the Saviour! Rejoice then, believer, in this: thou art accepted "in the beloved." Thou lookest within, and thou sayest, "There is nothing acceptable here!" But look at Christ, and see if there is not everything acceptable there. Thy sins trouble thee; but God has cast thy sins behind his back, and thou art accepted in the Righteous One. Thou hast to fight with corruption, and to wrestle with temptation, but thou art already accepted in him who has overcome the powers of evil. The devil tempts thee; be of good cheer, he cannot destroy thee, for thou art accepted in him who has broken Satan's head. Know by full assurance thy glorious standing. Even glorified souls are not more accepted than thou art. They are only accepted in heaven "in the beloved," and thou art even now accepted in Christ after the same manner.
Evening
"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe."
Mark 9:23
Mark 9:23
A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he was bidden to bring his son to him, he said to Jesus, "If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us." Now there was an "if" in the question, but the poor trembling father had put the "if" in the wrong place: Jesus Christ, therefore, without commanding him to retract the "if," kindly puts it in its legitimate position. "Nay, verily," he seemed to say, "there should be no if' about my power, nor concerning my willingness, the if' lies somewhere else." "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." The man's trust was strengthened, he offered a humble prayer for an increase of faith, and instantly Jesus spoke the word, and the devil was cast out, with an injunction never to return. There is a lesson here which we need to learn. We, like this man, often see that there is an "if" somewhere, but we are perpetually blundering by putting it in the wrong place. "If" Jesus can help me--"if" he can give me grace to overcome temptation--"if" he can give me pardon--"if" he can make me successful? Nay, "if" you can believe, he both can and will. You have misplaced your "if." If you can confidently trust, even as all things are possible to Christ, so shall all things be possible to you. Faith standeth in God's power, and is robed in God's majesty; it weareth the royal apparel, and rideth on the King's horse, for it is the grace which the King delighteth to honour. Girding itself with the glorious might of the all-working Spirit, it becomes, in the omnipotence of God, mighty to do, to dare, and to suffer. All things, without limit, are possible to him that believeth. My soul, canst thou believe thy Lord tonight?
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Today's reading: Song of Solomon 1-3, Galatians 2 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Song of Solomon 1-3
1 Solomon’s Song of Songs.
She
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
for your love is more delightful than wine.
3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
your name is like perfume poured out.
No wonder the young women love you!
4 Take me away with you—let us hurry!
Let the king bring me into his chambers.
for your love is more delightful than wine.
3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
your name is like perfume poured out.
No wonder the young women love you!
4 Take me away with you—let us hurry!
Let the king bring me into his chambers.
Friends
We rejoice and delight in you;
we will praise your love more than wine....
we will praise your love more than wine....
Today's New Testament reading: Galatians 2
Paul Accepted by the Apostles
1 Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also. 2 I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. 3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. 4 This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. 5 We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you....
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Hadad
[Hā'dăd] - mighty or fierceness.
[Hā'dăd] - mighty or fierceness.
- A son of Bedad, king of Edom and of the city of Avith (Gen. 36:35, 36; 1 Chron. 1:46, 47).
- An Edomite prince of Solomon's time (1 Kings 11:4-25).
- Eighth son of Ishmael, and grandson of Abraham (Gen. 25:15; 1 Chron. 1:30). Also called Hadar.
- The last of the early kings of Edom ( 1 Chron. 1:50, 51). This is the Hadar of Genesis 36:39 who, as a child, escaped massacre under Joab, David's general.
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