But the dream is far distant. The reality is I am struggling. My place was flooded with raw sewage a few months ago and I live in a concrete shell, having lost everything I valued as a keepsake. I have no job because of government corruption from the ALP involving pedophilia and the death through apparent negligence of a school boy. I am unemployed for six years through no fault of my own, and am being forced to sell my only asset, my home, should insurance ever repair it. And just as I'm righting myself, I was slapped with a tax audit into my superannuation.
I need help. I have done nothing wrong. I beg The PM or NSW Premier to come to my home. I post an event where they might become aware of my need. And eleven have bothered to list themselves as supporting. Many whom I promote, and will continue to promote, were invited. The only comment Andrew Bolt has ever made regarding me, of which I'm aware, is that he doesn't like my kind of poetry. I had shared with him my postings on freeing Korean hostages from Afghanistan, or of Clare Oliver's appeal to end sun beds. His criticism feels harsh, and his condemnation unwarranted, but I am aware that there are people who don't like me. They are embellishing things I post. So local newspapers like the Fairfield Advance or Fairfield Champion censor my letters to them, but post letters written by others using my name. Or when a former friend contacted me recently, someone posted to them so that they broke the contact and spoke of my having a mental illness (I don't).
I don't agree with Bolt on all things, but I support him and will continue to do so. Should I set up another event? I don't know what the future holds, but I will fight so that our future is democratic, free and fair. I tend to conservative (and some libertarian, but not drug use) values as the key to achieving that end.
Daily Mail might open a centrist news service in Australia, being very different to Fairfax, ABC, Guardian or regional papers. I don't think they will find fifty conservative journalists, and they are masting with Channel 9 which is extreme left, along with Sunrise, but not as far left as the ABC. ABC is fighting to be vile. Craig Thomson rejects a gift from prosecutors. ALP are united in opposing Australia .. remember how Gillard claimed she had no choice but to proceed with a Carbon Tax because the Greens were making her? They are continuing with it even though Greens aren't supporting them. Good news is, cold kills, but warming saves. Pyne has not broken a promise, but uses ALP cuts to education to make teachers more efficient. Naturally press call it a back flip. Bob Katter may be insignificant, but also, he doesn't count. Maybe he should do the 'Christian' thing and resign? A point of difference between Bolt and I is that I look forward to Australia's population exceeding 400 million. Before that happens, we will have built infrastructure. When that happens, opposition to a big Australia will be viewed as provincial and backwards, impeding economic growth.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Sherry Ku and David Duong. Born on the same day, across the years. Along with
- 111 – Antinous, Greek youth of Hadrian (d. 130)
- 1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
- 1635 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
- 1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (d. 1744)
- 1809 – Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet (d. 1893)
- 1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American author (d. 2000)
- 1940 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
- 1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Blue Flame) (d. 1970)
- 1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis and Era)
- 1964 – Robin Givens, American actress
- 1995 – Leonard Proxauf, German-Austrian actor
Matches
- 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
- 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
- 511 – King Clovis I dies at Paris (Lutetia) and is buried in the Abbey of St. Genevieve. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.
- 602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople.
- 1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
- 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
- 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
- 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for "Effi Briest", a classic work of German literature.
- 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
- 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number ofAmerican troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
Despatches
- 8 BC – Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
- 1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (b. 1815)
- 1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author and playwright (b. 1824)
- 1901 – Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (b. 1831)
AN INTRIGUING DEVELOPMENT
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 27, 2013 (2:11pm)
This might shake things up a little:
Britain’s Daily Mail Group has announced it will launch an Australian version of its site with the goal of becoming this country’s leading news website.Daily Mail Australia will launch early next year and hire 50 local journalists, with an editor to be appointed in the next few weeks.
They’ve easily got enough cash to cover this, with a recent pre-tax profit in the UK of $500 million. Also, by partnering with Nine’s digital arm, they presumably won’t need to worry about technical and structural matters. They can concentrate solely on content.
MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke said Australia was “an obvious market”.“We are going very nakedly for a scale play,” he said …He dismissed comparisons with British rival Guardian Australia, which launched here six months ago.“I’m not hugely familiar with what they do in Australia,” he said. “We won’t be copying their model.”
So they’re not stupid. This is the first recent entrant into local media that isn’t from the left. Let’s see who they hire.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 27, 2013 (12:20pm)
Former Australian Test opening batsman Bruce Francis sends this remarkable promo shot, taken during the 1972 Ashes tour of England:
Besides Francis himself, standing left of frame next to Joanna Lumley, we have four other Australian Test players here. One may be slightly more difficult to identify than the others.
Besides Francis himself, standing left of frame next to Joanna Lumley, we have four other Australian Test players here. One may be slightly more difficult to identify than the others.
(First published in Cass Francis: A Life Fulfilled, by Bruce’s father.)
Mafeking is relieved. Australia’s conservatives reinforced
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (5:10pm)
Britain’s Daily Mail - a right-of-centre media group with columnists
such as Melanie Phillips, Dominic Lawson, Stephen Glover and Peter
Hitchens - is opening an Australian website. It’s not mucking around
either, announcing it will hire 50 local journalists. Its hugely successful UK site does not have a pay wall, and neither will this one.
This could change the odds in the cultural wars. Could also bid up the pay packets of the country’s few conservative journalists, to the further rage and mortification of some ABC Leftists.
The only doubt: this venture is in partnership with the Nine network. Will the Mail’s Australian partner simply assume that all news sites must of course tack to the Left, squabbling over an audience already supplied by Fairfax, the ABC, the Monthly, the Conversation, the Global Mail and the Guardian Australia?
The Mail is avoiding the Left-Right debate, which is wise. And let’s face it, it’s main business is show-biz and human interest:
UPDATE
More evidence, incidentally, of how last century the Greens and Labor were with their attacks on the concentration of media ownership.
===This could change the odds in the cultural wars. Could also bid up the pay packets of the country’s few conservative journalists, to the further rage and mortification of some ABC Leftists.
The only doubt: this venture is in partnership with the Nine network. Will the Mail’s Australian partner simply assume that all news sites must of course tack to the Left, squabbling over an audience already supplied by Fairfax, the ABC, the Monthly, the Conversation, the Global Mail and the Guardian Australia?
The Mail is avoiding the Left-Right debate, which is wise. And let’s face it, it’s main business is show-biz and human interest:
Mail Online publisher and editor-in-chief Martin Clarke and Mi9 boss Mark Britt, who predicted the new site would quickly become Australia’s top digital news brand…If this works, will Nine really want to buy or merge with Fairfax?
Mr Clarke said Daily Mail Australia would offer local readers the site’s familiar mix of “hard news, soft news, general interest news, human interest news and obviously showbiz, focused on Australians’’.
“Also, we’re not partisan. We don’t have a dog in anyone’s fight. I think people might find us refreshingly straight,” he said.
“We don’t edit with an agenda. It’s not a question of positioning ourselves to the left or the right of anyone.”
UPDATE
More evidence, incidentally, of how last century the Greens and Labor were with their attacks on the concentration of media ownership.
ABC demands licence to be vile
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (10:27am)
I am not a fan of
defamation proceedings, but I’m far less impressed by an ABC now so out
of control that it vilifies conservative critics and spends taxpayers’ money defending its right to call them “dog f...ers”:
===Lawyers for Chris Kenny, a journalist and commentator with The Australian and Sky News, have lodged a statement of claim in the NSW Supreme Court against the ABC, Chaser presenter Andrew Hansen and production company Giant Dwarf for images and words broadcast on September 11 that referred to Kenny as “a dog f . . ker"…I have never known the ABC to be so stridently partisan and so abusive of conservative critics. It has betrayed its charter and abused the trust - and taxes - of taxpayers.
The statement of claim also alleges the imputation the plaintiff’s “attacks on the ABC were so dishonorable . . . that he deserved to be compared to . . . a person who has sexual intercourse with a dog”.
Kenny is claiming aggravated damages, a permanent restraint on any future publication of the same or similar material and interest, plus costs.
Thomson “offered deal” on charges
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (9:38am)
Hmm:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===THE police fraud case against former Labor MP Craig Thomson could be in doubt with the revelation that Victorian prosecutors offered to drop all 173 charges over alleged misuse of union credit cards if he pleaded guilty to a single offence of “obtaining benefits by deception”.Michael Smith seems unworried.
Mr Thomson’s lawyer, Chris McArdle, told The Australian yesterday his client was offered the deal to face a “single charge” on Friday during pre-trial discussions between prosecution and defence legal teams.
After considering the offer - which would result in a fine as the maximum penalty - last weekend, Mr Thomson decided to fight all charges related to alleged misuse of credit cards totalling $28,000 across a five-year period.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
“Team Australia” means Labor attacks the PM
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (9:30am)
Hypocrite alert. Tanya Plibersek isn’t the only Labor frontbencher showing the “Team Australia” approach means stabbing the captain in the back:
===LABOR MPs have continued to criticise Tony Abbott’s handling of the Indonesian spying crisis, despite continued calls for a united Australian front from Bill Shorten.Reader Baden:
Labor frontbencher Brendan O’Connor suggested a delay in responding from Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Mr Abbott’s letter sent last Friday was “a concern” and that the Prime Minister had made relations with Indonesia worse…
The Opposition Leader initially told Mr Abbott to consider doing what President Barack Obama had done with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in similar circumstances, which included a private apology and a public guarantee it would not happen again, but stepped back later and suggested it was time for a “team Australia” effort…
Asked if he was having trouble exercising leadership over his frontbench, Mr Shorten said Mr O’Connor and Ms Plibersek were “outstanding spokespeople in their areas” and they “too want the government to resolve this matter”.
You’d almost think they worked for the ABC.
Cold kills. Warming would save
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (9:28am)
Global warming isn’t the threat. A cooling planet would be far deadlier:
===The Office for National Statistics estimates that there were 31,000 excess winter deaths in England and Wales in 2012/13, a rise of 29 per cent on the previous year.(Thanks to readers OldDigger and John.)
Last March was the coldest since 1962, with an average temperature of 2.2°C, and the second coldest since 1910. The majority of the excess deaths (25,000) occurred among those aged 75 or above.
Pyne hasn’t broken a promise …. yet
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (9:13am)
A much better interview from Education Minister Christopher Pyne on Lateline after his shambolic press conference.
If I understand the mess properly, Pyne should have realised before the election there was $1.2 billion less of funding for the Gonski reforms than he’d assumed, after Labor redirected the money set aside for the hold-out states and territory. Pyne may yet make some of that good in announcements to come.
Pyne claims he won’t break his promise to the states which signed on to keep the “funding envelope” - the overall spending amounts.
But he is not repeating his promise that individual schools won’t lose a dollar under the Coalition compared to what they were promised by Labor over the next four years. Whether that represents a broken promise remains to be seen.
Pyne’s criticism that some states didn’t actually sign the deals they agreed to seems too much a clever-dick lawyering, with Pyne now reluctant to say whether this technicality means he will not recognise or honor those agreements - or at least those part which the Liberals said before the election they would honor.
I don’t think Pyne has thought through his media strategy.
That said, this was good – a strong rebuttal of ABC Leftism:
===If I understand the mess properly, Pyne should have realised before the election there was $1.2 billion less of funding for the Gonski reforms than he’d assumed, after Labor redirected the money set aside for the hold-out states and territory. Pyne may yet make some of that good in announcements to come.
Pyne claims he won’t break his promise to the states which signed on to keep the “funding envelope” - the overall spending amounts.
But he is not repeating his promise that individual schools won’t lose a dollar under the Coalition compared to what they were promised by Labor over the next four years. Whether that represents a broken promise remains to be seen.
Pyne’s criticism that some states didn’t actually sign the deals they agreed to seems too much a clever-dick lawyering, with Pyne now reluctant to say whether this technicality means he will not recognise or honor those agreements - or at least those part which the Liberals said before the election they would honor.
I don’t think Pyne has thought through his media strategy.
That said, this was good – a strong rebuttal of ABC Leftism:
STEVE CANNANE: So if you don’t believe there is an equity problem, given the Gonski review is all about improving equity in Australian schools, is it fair to say you never believed in Gonski?(Thanks to reader Colleen.)
CHRISTOPHER PYNE: I think Gonski should be about improving the quality of our students’ outcomes.
STEVE CANNANE: But Gonski was mostly about equity. Does that mean you never believed in it if you don’t think there’s an equity problem?
CHRISTOPHER PYNE: Steve, you’re the first person who has described the Gonski report as being all about equity. The Gonski report was about a new school funding model. It was supposed to be about high-quality outcomes for our students. If it was all about equity then that is news to most people.
Bob Katter’s Indonesia: a Christian nation missing 17,954 of its islands
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (8:42am)
Bob Katter is a member of Parliament who said the following things about Indonesia on the ABC, unchallenged:
BOB KATTER, KATTER’S AUST. PARTY: ... it may have been heroic and it may have been a morally excellent thing for us to do, to go into East Timor, but there are 240 million people jammed onto six tiny little islands and we took half of one of those islands off them. That is the way Jakarta television played out what happened.Then there was this:
BOB KATTER: We were at war with Indonesia over them cutting off, effectively, the oil supply of Shell. We cut off their food supply. Now, in this case they have continuously returned. They have been the Christian nation here. Love your neighbour: they have exemplified that.Curiously, the ABC transcript substitutes “question” for “Christian”, as if the ABC transcribers simply couldn’t believe Katter would really praise a Muslim nation of 245 million people on 18,000 islands as “Christian”.
But Katter than does it again in a rant that sounds more like substance-inspired free-form poetry than political analysis:
BOB KATTER: By the end of this year myself and the cattle crisis committee through our endeavours and the great Christianity - even though he’s not a Christian - of the Indonesian ambassador, we got the market restored. So the price is going up now. I mean, we’ve restored seven per cent of the demand for beef, for Australian beef. Seven per cent is back.(Thanks to reader Anthony.)
Well, I mean, through the intransigence of the Prime Minister and the most extraordinary behaviour of the Leader of the Opposition in following him with all I can say is truculent stupidity, but remember that Mr Shorten now has agreed with him. His party hasn’t… you quite rightly pointed out no one else in his party agrees with, and I don’t think there are too many in the Liberal Party that agree with the Prime Minister’s position.
A climate of insane spending on nothing
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (8:28am)
Terry McCrann measures the great global warming gravy train:
===[An] attempt was made [at the UN climate talks in Warsaw] to develop a new source for restocking the gravy train.
That we should have up to $US100?billion a year funded by the developed countries to pour money into third world kleptocracies under the guise of paying for “climate harm”.
Australia’s share could run at $2-3?billion a year, EVERY YEAR AND RISING.
It is important to understand this would be completely separate to another fund, also of $US100 billion a year, also funded by developed countries, to pay for so-called green climate action.
Put them together and the Federal Government could be up for a new bill of $4-6 billion a year… Remember too, that $4-6 billion a year would be COMPLETELY ADDITIONAL to the cost we would have to pay to cut our CO2 emissions by the 5 per cent, currently bipartisanly mandated, or the “at least” 15 per cent so casually demanded by the discredited and hopefully soon-to-be disbanded Climate Authority.
If “Electricity Bill” Shorten got his way, we would be writing out further cheques for another $7 billion a year by 2020 - rising to a mind-blowing something like $57 billion a year by 2050 - according to Treasury modelling, to buy “emission permits” from overseas…
Do the math. The climate crazies want the government to hand over maybe $6 billion every year, and rising, to third-world countries, compensating for our past sins not of commission or even omission but of emission… AND in addition to all that budget pain, you will be forced to pay for that $57 billion that will be flowing to who knows whom and where, via yet dramatically higher power prices, either as ordinary consumers or Australian businesses.
And all to achieve absolutely nothing.
Today’s Abbott-hate in The Age
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (8:17am)
The headline:
Never let The Age complain about News Corp bias when its own is so childishly transparent:
The truth, as noted in the report:
UPDATE
Dr Yudhoyono would not release [Tony Abbott’s] letter, but spoke approvingly its contents before saying there were “a number of matters that still require to be clarified by the Government of Australia”.
Never let The Age complain about News Corp bias when its own is so childishly transparent:
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Burnside claim: Abbott stoking Indonesian conflict to hide his, er, success in stopping boats
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (7:43am)
Surprise one: Julian Burnside QC, the “human rights” lawyer, fancies he fights for civilised values when he actually celebrates an attempted bombing of Parliament, wants children to spit on a politician, and publishes obscene abuse.
Surprise two, Julian Burnside QC, is rated as a superior lawyer when he advances the most preposterous conspiracy theories in defiance of the most basic facts:
That Burnside cannot see how hard the Government is working to fix this without betraying our national interest is one thing.
That Burnside cannot see how much the Government needs this fixed to actually keep its boat policies working is even stranger.
But that he seriously thinks Abbott’s boat policies haven’t worked when we’ve had just four boats arrive in the past four weeks is even crazier. Why on earth would Abbott want to distract attention from a fact his government proudly announces?
Just as deluded is Burnside’s theory that the truth of the arrivals is being kept from us:
Actually, Julian, we are indeed allowed to know. Your suggestion that the numbers of arrivals are kept secret is another baseless conspiracy theory. The numbers of arrivals are given each Friday, as are numbers of detainees. Residents on Christmas Island and the Indonesian search and rescue agency generally confirm arrivals or rescues. There is zero evidence of boats being intercepted but not reported, and zero evidence of boat people being hidden, unreported, in detention centres.
The question must surely be whether you actually believe this nonsense or are deliberately peddling a conspiracy theory you know is false. The choice for me seems to be between doubting your intelligence or your integrity. Could you explain what I am missing here?
===Surprise two, Julian Burnside QC, is rated as a superior lawyer when he advances the most preposterous conspiracy theories in defiance of the most basic facts:
JULIAN BURNSIDE: I would say that the relationship between Australia and Indonesia is a bit like your relationship with your mother-in-law. You just have to make it work and we are not doing a very good job at that at the moment but there is a really interesting question. Why have we not handled this fairly obvious problem a bit more intelligently? One cynical explanation might be this: it looks as though, at least in the short-term, Indonesia is not going to be cooperating in Australia’s desire to stop boat people getting to our shores. A bit of a set-to with Indonesia is a perfect excuse for the fact the idea of stopping the boats hasn’t worked and won’t work.I’m not sure whether to laugh or be appalled that something so stupid can be advanced to explain a serious breakdown with our relationship with Indonesia, caused when Left-wing media outlets released intelligence material on a Labor-authorised spying operation that was stolen by a Left-wing traitor.
That Burnside cannot see how hard the Government is working to fix this without betraying our national interest is one thing.
That Burnside cannot see how much the Government needs this fixed to actually keep its boat policies working is even stranger.
But that he seriously thinks Abbott’s boat policies haven’t worked when we’ve had just four boats arrive in the past four weeks is even crazier. Why on earth would Abbott want to distract attention from a fact his government proudly announces?
Just as deluded is Burnside’s theory that the truth of the arrivals is being kept from us:
JOSH FRYDENBERG:… But there has been very good cooperation and Operation Sovereign Borders, Julian may not like to hear this, but it is actually working.
TONY JONES: All right. We will come to that issue.
JULIAN BURNSIDE: We don’t know, do we, because we are not allowed to know
Actually, Julian, we are indeed allowed to know. Your suggestion that the numbers of arrivals are kept secret is another baseless conspiracy theory. The numbers of arrivals are given each Friday, as are numbers of detainees. Residents on Christmas Island and the Indonesian search and rescue agency generally confirm arrivals or rescues. There is zero evidence of boats being intercepted but not reported, and zero evidence of boat people being hidden, unreported, in detention centres.
The question must surely be whether you actually believe this nonsense or are deliberately peddling a conspiracy theory you know is false. The choice for me seems to be between doubting your intelligence or your integrity. Could you explain what I am missing here?
Too full and fractured already, but our door is opened wider
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (7:23am)
The infrastructure of
our cities is already struggling to cope with population increases, and
community solidarity is shredding. So how is this in our national
interest?
===Almost 10 million migrants over the next 50 years will swell Australia’s population to more than 40 million by 2060 and more than 50 million by 2100, under dramatically higher new projections by the Bureau of Statistics.Immigration brings profound and irreversible changes. It astonishes me that it’s assumed by the political class to be a phenomenon whose benefits cannot be questioned, whose risks cannot be acknowledged.
The projections, the first for five years, envisage tens of millions more people crowding into Australia’s capital cities over the next 50 years, overwhelmingly due to migration.
By 2060, the bureau estimates, Melbourne will have 8.5 million people, twice as many as now. By then Sydney would have 8.4 million, an increase of 80 per cent from now. Perth would more than double to 5.5 million people, and Brisbane to 4.8 million. Both cities would be bigger than Sydney is now.
ABC betrayed its trust
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (7:06am)
Angelos Frangopoulos, chief executive of Australian News Channel, says the ABC wrongly won the Australia Network with Labor’s help and then betrayed its trust:
===The ABC’s conflicted and inept handling of the Indonesian spying crisis has highlighted the folly of the extraordinary political intervention that handed the ABC the Australia Network contract against two findings of the tender board…
The network was created as a service to be commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to promote our trade, cultural and related interests… It was only the extraordinary intervention in the tender of the former communications minister Stephen Conroy that enabled the ABC to continue treating the Australia Network as its vanity project on the international stage, just another branch of the ABC, and the source of an extra $223m in funding from taxpayers to subsidise the ABC’s hobbyhorses…
It says much about the ABC’s view of itself for [ABC news director Kate] Torney to write that - after failing to win on merit and having to fall back on the intervention of Conroy - ”the ABC’s reputation as a trusted, independent source of news and information is one of the reasons the ABC was awarded the Australia Network”.
Our company, which produces the Sky News channels..., bid to supply the Australia Network to DFAT in 2011… Even though the tender rules were changed midstream to assist the ABC, the tender board preferred the Sky News proposals…
In her opinion piece, Torney tries to draw Sky News into the ABC’s spying crisis by suggesting we would not run dead on reporting an issue that reflected badly on Australia. Of course Sky News would not run dead. But unlike the ABC’s confused news management, we do understand the critical difference between a Sky News channel and the DFAT-funded Australia Network.
What the ABC does with its dedicated news and current affairs services on TV, radio and online is its call.
But what the ABC and The Guardian have done is join the Australia Network in a diplomatic situation with unintended consequences. DFAT staff in Jakarta have spent hours in lockdown, tear gas has been fired and Australian flags are being burned in the streets… ABC management professed its expertise in delivering soft diplomacy to secure the Australia Network contract in perpetuity. In practice it has failed.
Yudhoyono demands intelligence deal
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (6:56am)
This suggests both
countries are implicitly blaming the Rudd Government for going too far -
but the danger is that we now deny ourselves useful intelligence in an
uncertain future:
===INDONESIA has accepted Tony Abbott’s explanation of the 2009 spying scandal but says the bilateral relationship will not fully resume until a new “protocol and code of ethical conduct” is agreed and implemented between the two countries.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono extended the olive branch to Australia last night…
However, Dr Yudhoyono made clear that the relationship would not be fully resumed - including military and police cooperation on people smuggling - until the code of conduct he and the Prime Minister had signed was “fully implemented"…
“So I think bilateral cooperation that really brings mutual benefit can be resumed including military and police cooperation between the two countries."…
The Indonesian leader said Mr Abbott ... had undertaken that Australia would not in future engage in conduct “that will be harmful to the relationship or disturb Indonesia”.
This appeared to confirm the reported commitment earlier this month by Australian intelligence chiefs to their Indonesian counterpart, Marciano Norman, that Australia was not now and would not engage in electronic surveillance against domestic targets in Indonesia.
Newspoll: Coalition 52 to 48 ahead
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (7:12pm)
Yesterday’s Neilsen
poll in Fairfax - showing Labor way ahead - does indeed seem a wild
outlier, although the Coalition has lost a little of its lead:
Essential Media: Coalition 53, Labor 47
===According to the latest Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian on the weekend, the Coalition’s primary vote went from 45 per cent two weeks ago to 43 per cent as Labor’s rose from 32 per cent to 35 per cent. Greens’ support went from 12 per cent two weeks ago to 10 per cent…UPDATE
Based on preference flows at the 2010 election, the Coalition’s two-party-preferred lead is now 52 per cent to Labor’s 48 per cent - a slight narrowing in the past fortnight.
Essential Media: Coalition 53, Labor 47
Vote Miley. Because heads exploding are fun
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PRINCESS CUT DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING — atDiamond Imports.
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Something the ALP would not have even started on .. it would have interfered with them filling pork barrels. - ed
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEeiDjdUuU#t=19
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Larry Pickering
A DIFFERENT SORT OF DEMOCRACY
As protesters burned Australian flags outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, shouting “death to infidels”, parliamentarians were urging President Yudhoyono to revoke the presidential decree which granted remissions to Schapelle Corby. Taslim Chaniago, of the National Mandate Party (PAN), said, “This should be done to heal the Indonesian people’s feelings at the moment.”
The Indonesian Democratic Party’s Ahmad Basarah said, “The government should take its anger out on Corby. The two countries have no reason to cooperate right now.
“I urge President SBY to revoke the remissions that have been granted to drug convict Corby,” Basarah said. “There is no reason to say that Indonesia has a strategic interest in the Australian government.
"Yudhoyono’s decision to grant Corby clemency is clearly wrong. It brings no benefits to Indonesia.”
Corby has received a total of 31 months in sentence reductions since being convicted in May 2005 of attempting to smuggle 4.2 kilograms of marijuana into Bali.
She was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but is currently expected to be granted parole. Officials at Bali’s Kerobokan Prison have filed for Corby’s parole, but the matter has stalled, awaiting approval.
Indonesians have obviously not heard of “separation of powers”! The government, the judiciary and military are one and the same to an Indonesian politician.
This typifies the gulf between western democracy and Indonesia-style democracy. Now it appears vindictiveness is also a part of their judicial system.
Corby, guilty or not, will be released on parole eventually. But only on condition she does not leave the area or speak of her experience.
She was convicted on tainted evidence that would be inadmissible in any western court. Many pertinent questions remain unanswered surrounding that anomalous 4.2 kilo of hash and Corby, while on parole will be gagged, under threat of re-incarceration, to protect Indonesia’s corrupt police and our AFP for as long as possible.
Many have bought their way out of Kerokoban Prison and US dollars in the right hands would have seen Corby back home nine years ago.
Her high profile has cost her dearly but even now a small wad of cash in the right place would see her home for Christmas.
Unfortunately Muslims aren’t particularly interested in Christmas.
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passione mediterranea
"Ti accorgi di voler bene ad una persona solo in un preciso gesto "eroico"...quando la lasci andar via da te per la sua felicitá..."
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A small act of kindness can go a long way #bible#tvminiseries #PeoplesChoice
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"I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity." - JOHN WAYNE | TIME interview (1969)
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Silence will fall.
We can reveal that this year's Christmas special will be called 'The Time of the Doctor' and the Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from his greatest enemies...
And if that wasn't enough to whet your festive appetites, you can also watch the 10 second teaser trailer from the weekend here:http://youtu.be/
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Sarah Palin
Friends,
Thanksgiving offers us invaluable time to spend with our family and reflect on our many blessings. In 1789, George Washington declared a day of national Thanksgiving for our new country to render unto God our "sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection."
But even before that first proclamation from a new nation, pioneers across America celebrated Thanksgiving as a time to give praise to God for full harvests and Divine Providence.
And indeed, America has been richly blessed. From coast to coast, we enjoy an abundance of natural resources, plentiful harvests, beautiful cities and our most precious gift of all—a people who value liberty and continue to stand as an example to the world of all that can be accomplished by a free and hard-working people.
This Thanksgiving, join me in a moment of prayer to give thanks for the thousands of American men and women in our armed forces who will spend Thanksgiving away from their homes and families, facing danger overseas to protect our way of life.
When we sit down to enjoy a family meal on Thursday, I will give thanks to God for the blessing of a strong and diverse family life that has taught me so much about loyalty, selflessness, and compassion. I will pray for God's continued blessings on my family, and on yours, and on this great nation of ours.
From my family to yours, God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving!
With an Alaskan heart,
Sarah Palin
P.S. Be sure to check out the latest video from my book tour here: http://youtu.be/
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Aprille Love
We got this! Annette Melton #fitgirls #summerbod
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The Shark Fin Cove
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Aprille Love
I was part of a collaboration effort he initiated .. iCompositions.com .. he lived his crazy dream - ed
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Andy Trieu
So this happened.... #Damiim #xfactor @damiim#damiNinja
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After Obama released Sufian bin Qumu in 2010 (he had been a Gitmo detainee), he went on to Benghazi .. ed
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Aprille Love
Morning! How many faces do you see!? xxx
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"Imagine Romney In The White House" - His Defeat Was a Significant Loss For Israel And America's National Security - Romney's Policy Is The Opposite of Obama's
By Ambassador Oded Eran, Jerusalem Post
"When it comes to dealing with the new political leadership in Tehran, does it matter that Obama, rather than Romney, occupies the White House? The President should take a cue from his former opponent and insert some much-needed toughness into negotiations with Iran." The Ambassador made the following comments:
• Romney developed his views on the Iranian file over several years. He publicly declared seven years ago that Iran must and can be stopped, that sanctions should be toughened, and that Iran should be isolated.
• In the October 2012 debate, Romney said he would tighten economic sanctions, increase the diplomatic isolation of Iran, and indict then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He accused the Obama administration of signaling weakness to the Iranian regime.
• Romney said he would insist on a complete halt to Iran’s nuclear effort, “To be clear, the objective is get Iran to stop spinning centrifuges, stop enriching uranium, shut down its facilities. Full stop."
• "Existing fissile material will have to be shipped out of the country.”
• Romney would not have sent his secretary of state to Congress to try and stop new sanctions on Iran.
• It is also fair to say that Romney’s secretary of state would have been more courteous to the Israeli prime minister.
• Although Romney was not elected president, it is not too late for Washington to integrate some of Romney’s ideas.
Oded Eran was Israel’s ambassador to Jordan and the European Union. He is now a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
No conservative will ever lean far enough to the left to get leftwing support. Yet hardcore conservative leaders like Howard got support from some in the left by being true to his own policy. The best GOP candidates didn't run because it isn't the GOP's turn. Reagan won out of cycle and although he was great, the parties became unbalanced. Democrats became even weaker .. All you need do to rattle a left wing leader and make them question the very things they most value in their existence is to say they aren't popular. - ed
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Sarah Palin'
They’re still pulling the wool over some eyes, friends. So let’s call them out yet again. I was recently interviewed on Fox News Sunday. One question I answered was prefaced with the supposed “fact” that “30 million MORE people will be covered by Obamacare.” That statistic is about as credible a promise as “if you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan.”
Obamacare is presently hitting people who buy insurance on the individual market because they may not receive health coverage through their employers. It’s hurting millions! But you ain’t seen nuthin' yet. Just wait until the Obamacare employer mandate kicks in next year. As I told Fox News Sunday, despite what the White House and media report, tens of millions more Americans are set to lose their employer provided insurance plans. The ramifications of this WILL fundamentally transform America.
The article linked today at the top of Drudge confirms my point, which is significant because my point was mocked until this article confirmed it. Headline: “Almost 80 million with employer health care plans could have coverage canceled, experts predict.”
Companies that provide health insurance plans that aren’t compliant with new burdensome Obamacare mandates will obviously decide it’s cheaper to dump employees into the government-run Obamacare exchanges and pay the penalty than try to provide an expensive Obamacare-approved plan.
Obamacare is presently hitting people who buy insurance on the individual market because they may not receive health coverage through their employers. It’s hurting millions! But you ain’t seen nuthin' yet. Just wait until the Obamacare employer mandate kicks in next year. As I told Fox News Sunday, despite what the White House and media report, tens of millions more Americans are set to lose their employer provided insurance plans. The ramifications of this WILL fundamentally transform America.
The article linked today at the top of Drudge confirms my point, which is significant because my point was mocked until this article confirmed it. Headline: “Almost 80 million with employer health care plans could have coverage canceled, experts predict.”
Companies that provide health insurance plans that aren’t compliant with new burdensome Obamacare mandates will obviously decide it’s cheaper to dump employees into the government-run Obamacare exchanges and pay the penalty than try to provide an expensive Obamacare-approved plan.
No one in America will be left unscathed by Obamacare. Please trust me on this. The media can repeat all the bogus White House stats they want about false claims like the individual mandate “only affects 5% of the public,” but they can’t change reality – NUMBERS DON'T LIE – and America is about to get “mugged by reality” very soon, to paraphrase Irving Kristol.
Far from providing more Americans with insurance, Obamacare is ironically hurting the very people it was sold to as some kind of health care savior. More people will choose to pay the IRS penalty and go without insurance because they can’t afford the increased rates slamming them, plus they now have fewer options in this one-size-fits-all expensive bureaucratic exchange which forces people to buy coverage for things they don’t want nor need. We’re talking about one-sixth more of our economy controlled now by big government, remember.
Do not forget that Obamacare contains health care rationing. When I warned America about “death panels,” I was denounced as a liar. But now the reality of “death panels” is openly admitted, even touted by some liberals as their solution. Just yesterday yet another prominent liberal media lapdog joined the chorus in finally admitting that death panel-style rationing is “built into the plan. It's not like a guess or like a judgment. That's going to be part of how costs are controlled." This guy and his ilk need to apologize to all of you, NOW, who knew what I was talking about, repeated my warnings, and were mocked and criticized for it. (Don't hold your breath.)
The truth is the “enlightened ones” knew all along that rationing was in the plan. They were angry with me for saying it out loud. The twin pillars of Obamacare have always been redistribution and rationing. Take away one of those pillars and the whole thing crumbles. That’s why Obamacare is doomed. You were smart enough to know that, while they were arrogant enough to keep up a deceitful ruse until their White House control was guaranteed. They’re busted now, though. And that’s why they’re scrambling to distract you and hope you won’t realize how enormously important upcoming elections are to save our economy.
Far from providing more Americans with insurance, Obamacare is ironically hurting the very people it was sold to as some kind of health care savior. More people will choose to pay the IRS penalty and go without insurance because they can’t afford the increased rates slamming them, plus they now have fewer options in this one-size-fits-all expensive bureaucratic exchange which forces people to buy coverage for things they don’t want nor need. We’re talking about one-sixth more of our economy controlled now by big government, remember.
Do not forget that Obamacare contains health care rationing. When I warned America about “death panels,” I was denounced as a liar. But now the reality of “death panels” is openly admitted, even touted by some liberals as their solution. Just yesterday yet another prominent liberal media lapdog joined the chorus in finally admitting that death panel-style rationing is “built into the plan. It's not like a guess or like a judgment. That's going to be part of how costs are controlled." This guy and his ilk need to apologize to all of you, NOW, who knew what I was talking about, repeated my warnings, and were mocked and criticized for it. (Don't hold your breath.)
The truth is the “enlightened ones” knew all along that rationing was in the plan. They were angry with me for saying it out loud. The twin pillars of Obamacare have always been redistribution and rationing. Take away one of those pillars and the whole thing crumbles. That’s why Obamacare is doomed. You were smart enough to know that, while they were arrogant enough to keep up a deceitful ruse until their White House control was guaranteed. They’re busted now, though. And that’s why they’re scrambling to distract you and hope you won’t realize how enormously important upcoming elections are to save our economy.
The redistribution aspect will be Obamacare’s undoing. Not enough young or healthy people will apply for Obamacare because it’s simply unaffordable. It makes NO economic sense for them to voluntarily sign up. They’ll choose to pay the IRS fine instead. This will bankrupt the whole Ponzi scheme, which is premised on young and healthy people paying for those who are sick or have pre-existing conditions. And when Obamacare fails, the left will push to have us move to full socialized medicine under a so-called “single payer plan.” This is exactly what Barack Obama touted as a candidate, as did many of his bureaucratic appointees, but the media glossed over that all these years.
Friends, the only way to fix Obamacare is to scrap this stuffed turkey and start over with genuine free market, patient-centered reforms that allow people to purchase insurance across state lines, enact tort reform, and give individual insurance buyers the same breaks we give employer provided insurance. And we need to elect leaders who will fight for us to get it done.
Keep all of this in mind this week as we break for Thanksgiving. Be warned the White House is arming leftist supporters with “talking points” to try to convince family and friends around the Thanksgiving table that Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced pumpkin bread. You should politely let them know you’re not swallowing that turkey.
Thank you for doing your own homework, for trusting the truth I've expressed, and for refusing to let the “enlightened ones” keep America in the dark.
- Sarah Palin
Friends, the only way to fix Obamacare is to scrap this stuffed turkey and start over with genuine free market, patient-centered reforms that allow people to purchase insurance across state lines, enact tort reform, and give individual insurance buyers the same breaks we give employer provided insurance. And we need to elect leaders who will fight for us to get it done.
Keep all of this in mind this week as we break for Thanksgiving. Be warned the White House is arming leftist supporters with “talking points” to try to convince family and friends around the Thanksgiving table that Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced pumpkin bread. You should politely let them know you’re not swallowing that turkey.
Thank you for doing your own homework, for trusting the truth I've expressed, and for refusing to let the “enlightened ones” keep America in the dark.
- Sarah Palin
Here’s the article linked at the top of Drudge today:
http://www.foxnews.com/
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Ah, my friends .. and yes .. I know I will die .. and so you will view this as double edged. But know this. I know that I will one day go home. I don't know his plan for me. I only know the promise. I'm not looking for death, but to live. Isn't that what everyone does? No. Some fear death so much .. they don't live. - ed===
It is very hard for a balanced person to understand politics with such memes as this .. Bush appropriately responded to many attacks. Obama corruptly tossed cash and weakened the world. - ed
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The Hypocrisy of death...
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Roma Downey
"Life is short; we haven't much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So be quick to love; make haste to be kind!" -- Henri Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet and critic.
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To my friends on this page, I have been involved in creating the Diverse Australasian Women's Network (DAWN).
And we're finally going to launch, this Friday, November 29th.
So, three (3) Days to go till the launch of DAWN!!!
The night will be filled with amazing company, great women (and men supporting women), food, raffle prizes (signed copy of Manu Feildel's cook books, Lancome gifts packages worth $500 each, Coach handbag, Pandora bracelet, Lean In books by Sheryl Sanberg...and more!!!
We will be entertained by Tropical Soul Dance Studio's Brazilian and Salsa dancers, as well as performances by Trio Compay.
I want to say thank you to the women who have made this possible and have been there for me:
===And we're finally going to launch, this Friday, November 29th.
So, three (3) Days to go till the launch of DAWN!!!
The night will be filled with amazing company, great women (and men supporting women), food, raffle prizes (signed copy of Manu Feildel's cook books, Lancome gifts packages worth $500 each, Coach handbag, Pandora bracelet, Lean In books by Sheryl Sanberg...and more!!!
We will be entertained by Tropical Soul Dance Studio's Brazilian and Salsa dancers, as well as performances by Trio Compay.
I want to say thank you to the women who have made this possible and have been there for me:
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Jerusalem Post's Glick: Iran Deal 'Betrays' US Allies By Bill Hoffmann
http://www.newsmax.com/
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Allyson Christy
Caroline Glick has 'nailed it' and then some, summarising an analysis quite encompassing a sinister, yet menacing scope of the Obama Administration's underlying political goals.
Yet distressingly, clarity comes finally into focus, of those who have craftily hurled accusations of lunacy, insanity, war-mongering and a desire for bloodshed relative to the dynamics of security's integrity.
Ms. Glick has effectively outlined a twisted, yet prevailing mode of grave disproportion of diplomatic magnitude; one of far-reaching and dangerous manipulation facilitated and presently implemented by the current White House.
The situation with America's leadership-helm is far worse than I'd even imagined until just very recently.
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"With Iran building military bases all over Central and South America, Obama never bothered trying to make the case to the American people that they would be more secure with this regime in possession of the capacity to kill millions of Americans with one bomb.
He never explained how allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium decreases the likelihood of war.
So what did Obama need the last year for? If he wasn’t concerned with getting a less dangerous deal, and he didn’t care what the American people though about his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, what prevented him from okaying the agreement last year?
To ascertain the answer, it is worth considering Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s comments Sunday morning. Beyond noting the nuclear deal’s danger to Israel’s security, Lapid said, “I am worried not only over the deal but that we have lost the world’s attention.”
And indeed, Israel has lost the world’s attention.
Its appropriately deep concerns over Iran’s nuclear behavior were belittled, ignored and derided, first and foremost by the Obama administration.
Worse than belittling Israel’s concerns, which are completely shared by the Sunni Arab world, Obama and Kerry have castigated as warmongers those Americans who agree with Israel’s concerns and have attacked them as traitors who seek to push America into an unnecessary war.
At the same time, they have presented the dispute as one of Israel against the rest of the world, ignoring that the Sunni Arab world shares Israel’s concerns.
The US has also weakened Israel’s capacity to take steps short of war to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons possessing state by leaking key components of Israel’s covert operations against Iran’s nuclear program." - excerpts
Read the article…..truth is sometimes disgusting and despicable.
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"When I first ran for president, I said it was time for a new era of American leadership in the world, one that turned the page on a decade of war and began a new era of engagement with the world," added Obama. "As president and as commander in chief, I've done what I've said." And he sure has, in every foolish and treacherous way.
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Godspeed
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November 27: Hanukkah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2013)
- 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, one of the severest storms to strike southernGreat Britain, destroyed the firstEddystone Lighthouse in Plymouth, England.
- 1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Polandwas signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.
- 1940 – The Iron Guard killed over 60 political detaineesat a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga (pictured).
- 1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has been in conflict with Turkey over the formation of an autonomousKurdish state, was founded.
- 2005 – French oral and maxillofacial surgeon Bernard Devauchelle performed the world's first partial face transplant on a living human, replacing Isabelle Dinoire's face, which had been mutilated by her dog.
Events[edit]
- 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
- 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
- 395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
- 511 – King Clovis I dies at Paris (Lutetia) and is buried in the Abbey of St. Genevieve. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.
- 602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople.
- 1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
- 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
- 1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid.
- 1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
- 1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- 1830 – St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
- 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
- 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by ConfederateGeneral Robert E. Lee.
- 1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for "Effi Briest", a classic work of German literature.
- 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
- 1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
- 1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- 1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- 1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
- 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number ofAmerican troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.
- 1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
- 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States(on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
- 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
- 1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- 1978 – The Kurdish party PKK is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
- 1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
- 1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
- 1989 – Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
- 1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeepingoperations in Yugoslavia.
- 1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
- 1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
- 1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
- 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- 2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- 2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
- 2006 – The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
- 2009 – A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
Births[edit]
- 111 – Antinous, Greek youth of Hadrian (d. 130)
- 1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song (d. 1194)
- 1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
- 1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
- 1630 – Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (d. 1665)
- 1635 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
- 1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (d. 1744)
- 1710 – Robert Lowth, English bishop (d. 1787)
- 1746 – Robert R. Livingston, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs (d. 1813)
- 1746 – Increase Sumner, American politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
- 1754 – Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (d. 1794)
- 1759 – Franz Krommer, Czech composer (d. 1831)
- 1779 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician (d. 1865)
- 1804 – Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (d. 1885)
- 1809 – Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet (d. 1893)
- 1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
- 1843 – Elizabeth Stride, Swedish victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1843 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
- 1853 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
- 1865 – Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene journalist and politician (d. 1917)
- 1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
- 1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
- 1874 – Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
- 1874 – František Erben, Bohemian gymnast (d. 1942)
- 1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Israeli politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
- 1875 – Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast (d. 1962)
- 1878 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Bengali poet (d. 1948)
- 1878 – Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter (d. 1969)
- 1885 – Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright (d. 1944)
- 1887 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
- 1888 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar.Firast Indian Loksabha speaker(d.1956)
- 1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (d. 1989)
- 1894 – Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and author (d. 1977)
- 1894 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian saint (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mobster (d. 1969)
- 1898 – Fredric Warburg, English publisher and author (d. 1981)
- 1901 – Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- 1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American author (d. 2000)
- 1907 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (d. 2003)
- 1909 – James Agee, American author and screenwriter (d. 1955)
- 1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
- 1911 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician (d. 2011)
- 1911 – David Merrick, American theater producer (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
- 1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
- 1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Cal Worthington, American car dealer (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
- 1923 – Antonie Hegerlíková, Czech actress (d. 2012)
- 1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1925 – Ernie Wise, English comedian and actor (d. 1999)
- 1927 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
- 1928 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator (d. 2001)
- 1930 – Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist
- 1930 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Alan Simpson, English TV and radio scriptwriter
- 1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (d. 1983)
- 1933 – Jacques Godbout, Canadian author and director
- 1933 – Gordon S. Wood, American historian
- 1934 – Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer (d. 2009)
- 1934 – Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (d. 1975)
- 1934 – Gilbert Strang, American mathematician
- 1935 – Les Blank, American director and producer (d. 2013)
- 1935 – Daniel Charles, French philosopher (d. 2008)
- 1937 – Gail Sheehy, American author and journalist
- 1938 – John Ashworth, English former chairman of British Library board
- 1938 – Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan academic and politician
- 1939 – Dave Giusti, American baseball player
- 1939 – Tony Green, English sportscaster
- 1939 – Laurent Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
- 1940 – John Alderton, English actor
- 1940 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
- 1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and manager
- 1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
- 1941 – Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
- 1942 – Henry Carr, American runner
- 1942 – Marilyn Hacker, American poet
- 1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Blue Flame) (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet
- 1943 – Jil Sander, German fashion designer
- 1944 – Neddy Smith, Australian criminal
- 1945 – Barbara Anderson, American actress
- 1945 – Phil Bloom, Dutch model and actress
- 1945 – Alain de Cadenet, English race car driver
- 1945 – Eiv Eloon, Estonian sci-fi writer
- 1945 – Benigno Fitial, Mariana Islander politician, Governor of Northern Mariana Islands
- 1945 – Ann Mallalieu, English lawyer and politician
- 1947 – Don Adams, American basketball player
- 1947 – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Djiboutian politician, President of Djibouti
- 1947 – Neil Rosenshein, American tenor
- 1948 – James Avery, American actor
- 1949 – Nick Discepola, Italian-Canadian politician (d. 2012)
- 1949 – Masanori Sekiya, Japanese race car driver
- 1950 – Gavyn Davies, English businessman and former chairman of the BBC
- 1950 – Gran Hamada, Japanese wrestler
- 1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American director
- 1951 – Gunnar Graps, Estonian rock musician (d. 2004)
- 1952 – Sheila Copps, Canadian politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- 1952 – Bappi Lahiri, Indian director and singer
- 1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis and Era)
- 1952 – James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
- 1953 – Curtis Armstrong, American actor
- 1953 – Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Aquarium)
- 1953 – Tarmo Kõuts, Estonian politician and military commander
- 1953 – Richard Stone, American composer (d. 2001)
- 1954 – Patricia McPherson, American actress
- 1954 – Kimmy Robertson, American actress
- 1954 – Arthur Smith, English comedian and actor
- 1955 – Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955 – Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host
- 1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
- 1956 – John McCarthy, English journalist
- 1957 – Kenny Acheson, Irish race car driver
- 1957 – Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American author and lawyer
- 1957 – Kevin O'Connell, American sound designer
- 1957 – Michael Stackpole, American author
- 1958 – Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
- 1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Simple Minds)
- 1959 – Victoria Mullova, Russian violinist
- 1960 – Kevin Henkes, American author and illustrator
- 1960 – Ken O'Brien, American football player
- 1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota
- 1960 – Michael Rispoli, American actor
- 1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine
- 1960 – Gianni Vernetti, Italian politician
- 1961 – Samantha Bond, English actress
- 1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax and Stormtroopers of Death)
- 1962 – Mike Bordin, American drummer (Faith No More and EZ-Street)
- 1962 – Davey Boy Smith, English wrestler
- 1963 – Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern
- 1963 – Fisher Stevens, American actor
- 1964 – Giles Fraser, English priest and jounalist
- 1964 – Robin Givens, American actress
- 1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and manager
- 1964 – David Rakoff, Canadian-American author and actor (d. 2012)
- 1964 – Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (d. 2013)
- 1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor and producer
- 1967 – Shane Embury, English bass player (Napalm Death, Unseen Terror, Meathook Seed, Lock Up, and Venomous Concept)
- 1968 – Michael Vartan, French-American actor
- 1969 – Damian Hinds, English politician
- 1969 – Myles Kennedy, American singer-songwriter (Alter Bridge, The Mayfield Four, Citizen Swing, and Cosmic Dust)
- 1970 – Brooke Langton, American actress
- 1970 – Erik Menendez, American murderer
- 1970 – Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
- 1971 – Larry Allen, American football player
- 1971 – Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
- 1972 – Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer
- 1973 – Twista, American rapper and producer
- 1973 – Sharlto Copley, South African actor, director, and producer
- 1973 – Samantha Harris, American model and television host
- 1973 – Evan Karagias, American wrestler and actor
- 1973 – Janne Oinas, Finnish footballer
- 1974 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor
- 1974 – Alec Newman, Scottish actor
- 1975 – Bad Azz, American rapper and actor (LBC Crew)
- 1975 – Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American footballer
- 1975 – Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer
- 1976 – Pgeezy, American rapper (d. 2012)
- 1976 – Jean Grae, South African–American rapper and producer
- 1976 – Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Jaleel White, American actor and screenwriter
- 1977 – Mika Tan, American porn actress
- 1977 – Willie Bloomquist, American baseball player
- 1978 – Shy Love, German-American porn actress
- 1978 – Eszter Molnár, Hungarian tennis player
- 1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
- 1978 – Mike Skinner, English rapper, producer, and actor (The Streets)
- 1978 – Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
- 1978 – Tim Yeung, American drummer (Divine Heresy and World Under Blood)
- 1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
- 1979 – Ricky Carmichael, American motocrosser and NASCAR driver
- 1979 – Shin Hye-sung, South Korean singer (Shinhwa and S)
- 1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
- 1980 – Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian conductor and singer
- 1980 – Michael Yardy, English cricketer
- 1980 – Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1981 – Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer
- 1981 – Gary Lucy, English actor
- 1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
- 1982 – David Bellion, French footballer
- 1982 – Tommy Robinson, English activist
- 1983 – Professor Green, English rapper
- 1984 – Domata Peko, American football player
- 1985 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Thilo Versick, German footballer
- 1986 – Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
- 1986 – Steven Silva, Filipino actor
- 1986 – Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Oritsé Williams, English singer-songwriter (JLS)
- 1987 – Yuria Haga, Japanese actress
- 1987 – Gary Wozniak, American sled racer
- 1988 – Miroslav Šmajda, Slovak singer
- 1990 – Shane Haboucha, American actor
- 1992 – Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter (Blog 27)
- 1992 – Alex Neuberger, American actor
- 1992 – Park Chanyeol, South Korean singer and dancer (EXO)
- 1995 – Leonard Proxauf, German-Austrian actor
Deaths[edit]
- 8 BC – Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
- 395 – Rufinus, Roman statesman
- 450 – Galla Placidia, Roman daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
- 602 – Maurice, Byzantine emperor (b. 539)
- 1198 – Constance, Queen of Sicily (b. 1154)
- 1252 – Blanche of Castile (b. 1188)
- 1474 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (b. 1397)
- 1570 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
- 1592 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai and commander (b. 1568)
- 1632 – John Eliot, English politician (b. 1592)
- 1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (b. 1601)
- 1703 – Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer (b. 1644)
- 1754 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1758 – Senesino, Italian contralto castrato (b. 1686)
- 1811 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the Threshing machine (b. 1719)
- 1830 – André Parmentier, American landscape architect (b. 1780)
- 1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (b. 1815)
- 1875 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English amateur astronomer (b. 1826)
- 1881 – Theobald Boehm, German flute maker (b. 1794)
- 1884 – Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period (b. 1810)
- 1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
- 1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author and playwright (b. 1824)
- 1899 – Constant Fornerod, Swiss politician (b. 1819)
- 1901 – Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (b. 1831)
- 1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
- 1916 – Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (b. 1855)
- 1919 – Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian politician (b. 1857)
- 1920 – Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (b. 1853)
- 1921 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b. 1854)
- 1931 – Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
- 1932 – Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
- 1934 – Baby Face Nelson, American criminal (b. 1908)
- 1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek businessman (b. 1849)
- 1940 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1871)
- 1943 – Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian-Yugoslav politician (b. 1916)
- 1944 – Leonid Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
- 1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer (b. 1892)
- 1958 – Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
- 1958 – Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian communist politician (b. 1892)
- 1960 – Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
- 1967 – Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902)
- 1970 – Helene Madison, American competition swimmer (b. 1913)
- 1970 – Helene Madison, American competition swimmer (b. 1913)
- 1973 – Frank Christian, American trumpet player (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Ross McWhirter, English publisher, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
- 1977 – Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (b. 1936)
- 1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician and activist (b. 1930)
- 1978 – George Moscone, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929)
- 1980 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (b. 1882)
- 1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
- 1983 – Kostas Mentis, Greek actor (b. 1913)
- 1987 – Sian Kingi, Australian murder victim (b. 1974)
- 1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player (b. 1927)
- 1989 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician (b. 1908)
- 1990 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1990 – Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist (b. 1951)
- 1992 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1906)
- 1997 – Buck Leonard, American baseball player (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler (b. 1937)
- 1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and scholar (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Elizabeth Gray Vining, American author and librarian (b. 1902)
- 2000 – Malcolm Bradbury, English author (b. 1932)
- 2000 – Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Shivmangal Singh Suman,Indian Hind Poet(b.1915)
- 2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
- 2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
- 2006 – Alan Freeman, Australian-English radio host (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Bernie Banton, Australian campaigner (b. 1946)
- 2007 – Robert Cade, American physician, co-invented Gatorade (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
- 2007 – Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
- 2008 – V. P. Singh, Indian politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Al Alberts, American singer and composer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director and actor (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1969)
- 2011 – Sultan Khan, Indian sarangi player(b.1940)
- 2012 – Mickey Baker, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia) (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Jim Davis, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Ab Fafié, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Erik Izraelewicz, French journalist and author (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Pascal Kalemba, Congolese footballer (b. 1979)
- 2012 – Ladislas Kijno, French painter (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Marvin Miller, American union leader and businessman (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Herbert Oberhofer, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
- 2012 – Assane Seck, Senegalese politician (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Jack Wishna, American businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (b. 1958)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Barlaam and Josaphat, the Christianized version of Buddha
- Congar of Congresbury
- Facundus and Primitivus
- Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)
- Vergilius of Salzburg
- November 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which Advent Sunday can fall, while December 3 is the latest; celebrated on the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day. (Western Christianity)
- Maaveerar Day (Tamil Eelam)
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,”Hebrews 12:28NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Ecclesiastes 9:10
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do," refers to works that are possible. There are many things which our heart findeth to do which we never shall do. It is well it is in our heart; but if we would be eminently useful, we must not be content with forming schemes in our heart, and talking of them; we must practically carry out "whatsoever our hand findeth to do." One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day. We have no other time in which to live. The past is gone; the future has not arrived; we never shall have any time but time present. Then do not wait until your experience has ripened into maturity before you attempt to serve God. Endeavour now to bring forth fruit. Serve God now, but be careful as to the way in which you perform what you find to do--"do it with thy might." Do it promptly; do not fritter away your life in thinking of what you intend to do to-morrow as if that could recompense for the idleness of today. No man ever served God by doing things to-morrow. If we honour Christ and are blessed, it is by the things which we do today. Whatever you do for Christ throw your whole soul into it. Do not give Christ a little slurred labour, done as a matter of course now and then; but when you do serve him, do it with heart, and soul, and strength.
But where is the might of a Christian? It is not in himself, for he is perfect weakness. His might lieth in the Lord of Hosts. Then let us seek his help; let us proceed with prayer and faith, and when we have done what our "hand findeth to do," let us wait upon the Lord for his blessing. What we do thus will be well done, and will not fail in its effect.
Evening
"They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel."
Zechariah 4:10
Zechariah 4:10
Small things marked the beginning of the work in the hand of Zerubbabel, but none might despise it, for the Lord had raised up one who would persevere until the headstone should be brought forth with shoutings. The plummet was in good hands. Here is the comfort of every believer in the Lord Jesus; let the work of grace be ever so small in its beginnings, the plummet is in good hands, a master builder greater than Solomon has undertaken the raising of the heavenly temple, and he will not fail nor be discouraged till the topmost pinnacle shall be raised. If the plummet were in the hand of any merely human being, we might fear for the building, but the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in Jesus' hand. The works did not proceed irregularly, and without care, for the master's hand carried a good instrument. Had the walls been hurriedly run up without due superintendence, they might have been out of the perpendicular; but the plummet was used by the chosen overseer. Jesus is evermore watching the erection of his spiritual temple, that it may be built securely and well. We are for haste, but Jesus is for judgment. He will use the plummet, and that which is out of line must come down, every stone of it. Hence the failure of many a flattering work, the overthrow of many a glittering profession. It is not for us to judge the Lord's church, since Jesus has a steady hand, and a true eye, and can use the plummet well. Do we not rejoice to see judgment left to him?
The plummet was in active use--it was in the builder's hand; a sure indication that he meant to push on the work to completion. O Lord Jesus, how would we indeed be glad if we could see thee at thy great work. O Zion, the beautiful, thy walls are still in ruins! Rise, thou glorious Builder, and make her desolations to rejoice at thy coming.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 27-29, 1 Peter 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 27-29
A Lament Over Tyre
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. 3 Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“‘You say, Tyre,
“I am perfect in beauty.”
4 Your domain was on the high seas;
your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
5 They made all your timbers
of juniper from Senir;
they took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
6 Of oaks from Bashan
they made your oars;
of cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus
they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail
and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple
from the coasts of Elishah.
8 Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;
your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.
9 Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board
as shipwrights to caulk your seams.
All the ships of the sea and their sailors
came alongside to trade for your wares....
“I am perfect in beauty.”
4 Your domain was on the high seas;
your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
5 They made all your timbers
of juniper from Senir;
they took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
6 Of oaks from Bashan
they made your oars;
of cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus
they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail
and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple
from the coasts of Elishah.
8 Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;
your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.
9 Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board
as shipwrights to caulk your seams.
All the ships of the sea and their sailors
came alongside to trade for your wares....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Peter 3
1 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5 For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6 like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers....
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