Fairfax defends ALP expenses? Poll shows ALP has too much support despite the revelations of corruption. Militant unions savaging Toyota. Bolt is more than a spectator .. but he is in the Spectator. ALP corrupt dealings brought about the NBN folly. I've never met or had a conversation with Green, Mao or Stalin, but I know their opinion on politics. I'm insightful like that.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Vasthi M Quezada, Jana Foley and Theodore Mallos. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 1521 – Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
- 1640 – Robert Plot, English chemist (d. 1696)
- 1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
- 1780 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849)
- 1816 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
- 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
- 1860 – Philo McGiffin,First American Naval Officer to command a modern battleship in wartime(d.1897)
- 1887 – George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 1985)
- 1887 – Alvin York, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
- 1903 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
- 1925 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1948 – Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees, and Damnocracy)
- 1954 – John Anderson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1967 – Jamie Foxx, American actor and singer
- 1989 – Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
- 1989 – Katherine Schwarzenegger, American author and activist, oldest daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 1991 – Senah Mango, Togolese footballer
Matches
- 1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
- 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
- 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against thePequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
- 1642 – Abel Tasman reaches New Zealand.
- 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
- 1867 – A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, England, United Kingdom, killing six.
- 1937 – Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks worth of raping and murdering hundreds of thousands civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
- 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
- 1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
- 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
- 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
- 1988 – Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva,Switzerland after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter the United States.
- 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
Despatches
- 558 – Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496)
- 1048 – Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian scholar and polymath (b. 973)
- 1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
- 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676)
- 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
Tired ABC needs to broaden its horizons
Piers Akerman – Thursday, December 12, 2013 (7:22pm)
IT’S been a bad week for the taxpayer-funded ABC, and its attempts to foist its Left-wing agenda on the nation.
Fairfax oddly incurious about Labor expenses
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (6:45am)
How curious. A recent Fairfax report into alleged abuses of VIP flights - part of its confected “expenses scandal” coverage aimed almost solely at Coalition MPs - failed to point the finger at a single Labor MP.
Yet it turns out there was plenty to report if only Fairfax looked to its Left:
===Yet it turns out there was plenty to report if only Fairfax looked to its Left:
Ministers in the Rudd-Gillard government spent more than $4 million on VIP flights between capital cities over three years to the end of 2012, many of which appear to have been in breach of guidelines. Most of the flights were approved by the office of former defence minister Stephen Smith, who made extensive use of the special military aircraft for his own travel.Strangely, Fairfax’s months-long investigation over claims - almost all by Liberals - of a few hundred dollars here and there showed zero interest in much bigger claims from Labor figures. Take these (News Corp) revelations today:
According to official records, more than 80 VIP flights, costing taxpayers at least $1.5 million, carried ministers and MPs to and from Canberra for parliamentary sittings. A further 170 flights ferried ministers between capital cities for “official business”, costing a notional $2.6 million…
The liberal use of the special RAAF jets occurred despite warnings issued early in Labor’s six-year reign by senior figure Joel Fitzgibbon, who says he twice told cabinet the VIP aircraft should not be used for routine travel between capitals. And air force guidelines stipulate the jets should only be used when commercial alternatives are not readily available. Finance Department rules also make clear the jets should only be used by ministers in “special circumstances”.
LABOR ministers plundered about $2 million on farewell around-the-world tours in the dying months of the Gillard and Rudd governments.(Thanks to readers Gab and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Expenses records released last night reveal swan songs for the former government’s most senior members dominated the almost $3 million overseas travel bill for all senators and MPs reported in the six months to June 30.
While now retired former foreign minister Bob Carr led the way with a $368,000 bill visiting 26 countries, the records also reveal ... the 10-day trip by former climate change minister Greg Combet and ABC newsreader girlfriend Juanita Phillips through France, Belgium and Germany in April has come in at $72,027…
The former NSW MP listed the reason as conducting a “series of high-level meetings” and attending the Towards a Global Carbon Market: Prospects for Emissions Trading Conference.
Labor members held the top 15 positions on the list…
Stay classy, Birmingham
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (6:38am)
A Fairfax columnist calls critics of ABC bias “gang rapists”. Piers Akerman leaps to the defence of ABC chairman Jim Spigelman.
===Essential poll: Coalition leads
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (6:32am)
Essential Media poll: Coalition 51, Labor 49
(Thanks to reader Antony.)
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Check out who is now killing Toyota. Hint: it’s not Abbott
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (5:38am)
Amid the media’s frenzy to
blame Tony Abbott for the death of Holden here comes a reminder of the
kind of thing that actually kills manufacturing - and now endangers our
last remaining car maker:
UPDATE
Beware the spin, astonishing in its audacity.
Labor leader Bill Shorten says Holden’s closure is Abbott’s fault:
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
===Late yesterday, Toyota Australia’s cost-cutting strategy received a serious setback when a Federal Court judge blocked the company from holding a meeting of employees today to consider changes to their workplace agreement, ruling that the carmaker had breached the “no extra claims” provision of the workplace agreement covering employees.Militant unions helped to destroy Holden and are killing Toyota. But let’s blame Abbott.
Toyota Australia president and chief executive Max Yasuda said ... GM Holden’s planned closure in 2017 “will put our manufacturing operations and the local supplier network under unprecedented pressure so it is now more important than ever before that we make urgent changes”.
“A decision will be made next year on the next-generation Camry and export program and we need to take urgent action if we want to stay at the negotiating table for future investments,” he said. “The proposed changes were designed to remove outdated and uncompetitive terms and conditions that make it difficult to compete with other Toyota plants throughout the world.”
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Beware the spin, astonishing in its audacity.
Labor leader Bill Shorten says Holden’s closure is Abbott’s fault:
Thousands of people are losing their jobs because the Coalition Government can’t or won’t stand up for Australian jobs.Media commentators such as Paul Bongiorno agree it’s Abbott’s fault:
I HAVE no doubt politics played a very big part in this decision and the proof of this comes from none other than Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane himself in his news conference yesterday afternoon (who) said when he got the phone call from Mr (Mike) Devereux, the CEO of GMH, he was shocked, that’s the word he used, and surprised ... so what we then come back to is obviously a division within the government.But General Motors says, no, it’s not Abbott’s fault:
GREG MARTIN (GM spokesman): Well, there are competitive forces around the globe that we are seeing come to bear in other parts of the world, whether it be in the US and Europe and other parts of Asia. When you consider the scale and magnitude of that adjustment to automotive manufacturing around the world, it’s finally come to bear in Australia.Why would you believe a word Shorten says about this?
If you look at the sustained strength of the Australian dollar, the cost to produce things in the country and then certainly it’s a very small domestic market, arguably a very competitive and fragmented market, those forces came to play and it really resulted in us making a very difficult but necessary decision to cease production there in 2017.
BEN KNIGHT (ABC): Would a government assistance package have forestalled it?
GREG MARTIN: Unlikely, again these are forces that General Motors and other auto makers around the world are contending with, whether it’s in the US or Europe.
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
In which I’m the acting prime minister
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (5:04am)
Plenty of good reading - as usual - in the bumper Christmas edition of the Spectator. It would have been even better had Tony Abbott not had to dash to Mandela’s funeral service, leaving his diary unfinished.
Still, his loss was my gain. Reflections follow on Jewish leaders, Hobbits, Abbott and a man digging graves on the Isle of the Dead while dreaming of America.
The painting I refer to is this:
Labor has ruined our finances with this one disaster alone
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (12:24am)
Decided in the back of a
plane with no cost-benefit analysis, the NBN now stands revealed as
Labor’s single greatest financial disaster - a product of the most
colossal ineptitude:
These are staggering losses and delays, and have caused the Government’s own costs and time-frames to blow out. Meanwhile, the rest of us must dig very deep to pay for this monstrous folly.
===The 132-page review paints a damning picture of the NBN rollout under Labor, claiming that project would have seen capital expenditure surge from $37bn to $56bn and that it would miss its 2021 deadline by three years. The coalition said capex for its revised NBN rollout would come in at $30bn.
The review also states that the current NBN corporate plan over-estimates revenues up to 2021 by $13 billion.
These are staggering losses and delays, and have caused the Government’s own costs and time-frames to blow out. Meanwhile, the rest of us must dig very deep to pay for this monstrous folly.
The ABC’s Jonathan Green thinks we can’t know his politics. Here some hints he forgot he dropped
Andrew Bolt December 13 2013 (12:03am)
ABC presenter Jonathan Green on being called a Leftist by the Australian’s Greg Sheridan:
How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Lenin’s politics were? They never met. Never had a conversation.
How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Mao’s politics were? They never met. Never had a conversation.
It is comical to think Green really believes no one could have possibly figured out his Leftism from reading his columns, listening to his ABC show, tuning in to his guest spots on ABC 24 or observing his style of editorship at the The Drum and the far-Left Crikey. What astonishing level of denial does it take for Green to think his politics is a secret?
Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist when hemocked published an item mocking the conservative Sarah Palin and her Down Syndrome son?:
Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from his (incredibly prolix) columns claiming that only wicked conservatives thought the ABC biased?:
(PS: I have met Green. Sheridan is right,)
===How does Greg Sheridan have any clue what my politics are? We’ve never met. Never had a conversation. Beyond parody.Let’s try some other versions of that.
How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Lenin’s politics were? They never met. Never had a conversation.
How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Mao’s politics were? They never met. Never had a conversation.
It is comical to think Green really believes no one could have possibly figured out his Leftism from reading his columns, listening to his ABC show, tuning in to his guest spots on ABC 24 or observing his style of editorship at the The Drum and the far-Left Crikey. What astonishing level of denial does it take for Green to think his politics is a secret?
Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist when he
Which of the below should the Obama’s use to name their new puppy?…Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from the party he threw on the night of the 2007 election, when John Howard was defeated?:
A mongrel called Trig
And around town, the witch was slain at parties of hate, like the one thrown by the editor of Crikey, the Internet gossip site, who had friends smash a Howard pinata of the kind being flogged on eBay for $400.Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from this post I wrote on his joining the ABC?:
I’d also urge the ABC to be very careful of Green’s quality control over his writers and blog readers. I was forced recently to write the following to his boss, Eric Beecher, the famous campaigner for “quality journalism"…
Last week I drew your attention to comments and blog postings you had published over the space of just a few days calling me a “proven liar”, “nutty”, “unhinged”, “underhand”, “loopy”, “paranoid”, a “hypocrite”, a “racist”, “dishonest”, “hysterical”, “petty”, “evasive”, “deluded”, “irrational”, lacking in morality, someone guilty of “deliberately misrepresenting” people, “full of poisonous shit”, and a “notorious liar” who practices “lies, misrepresentations, and deceit”, “lies, distortions and smears”, “fakery” and “cowardice and dishonesty”, while giving “tacit approval” to “extremist sickos” and “playing the paranoid schizo’’, resembling in my person an “asylum for the criminally insane”. You conceded that these comments included a number of statements that were “untrue and unnecessarily personal in tone”.Since then one of Green’s writers has urged in a headline that I be “sodomised”, and his site has said of me that “we are dealing with fascism, plain and simple’’ and, referring to me and my readers, “I sometimes think Stalin had the right idea - line a million or so of ‘em up against a wall”. Yesterday I was named in a Crikey article as someone so corrupt as be evidently driven to scepticsm by “a desire for funds from fossil-fuel companies”, and was smeared besides as “undoubtedly more dangerous” than a “Holocaust denier”, and, in time, “morally worse”.
Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from his (incredibly prolix) columns claiming that only wicked conservatives thought the ABC biased?:
The likes of Bolt struggle with the notion that journalism might be practiced with calm objectivity and simple curiosity ... because in the paranoid, fact defying columns of the proselytising right, where climate change is a religious figment, Stephen Conroy is Stalin and any measured objective assessment of reality is dismissed as being ‘of the left’, the facts are mutable servants of argument.Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist when the only media bias Green objected to was that of conservatives:
Fox News - that’s the best example of how this works: an entirely parallel universe that determines its own agenda, facts and logic according to an often bellicose political mission… We see its muted fellow travellers in our own TV and press, most notably in our national broadsheet The Australian, a paper whose political purpose and occasional flights of “truthiness” can routinely obscure its better journalistic angels. And then we have the opinion formers of the tabloid blogosphere. Little s-bends of ill-humour like the Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair, or great vaulted Taj Mahals of polished ego like the Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt.Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from his apocalyptic warnings of global warming catastrophe?:
It could be that we don’t quite have the mechanism to deal with this yet, the whole end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it thing. ... If newsmakers were to take seriously our slow descent into the threatening unknown of a four degrees warmer world then they would probably give the issue the sort of dominating and enduringly obsessive play we haven’t seen the popular press throw around an issue since World War II… How can anything rival climate for significance?Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from his rhapsodic welcome of the new President Obama another clue?
Ich bin ein Obama … or something like that.... This truly does seem to be a moment, one that gives a new and suddenly hopeful context to our own slightly deflated, verbose and meanly thin-lipped stab at regime change. We shall all see won’t we. But it might be that with a will, intelligence and due, uncynical diligence …Did he think we wouldn’t suspect he was a Leftist from his attacks on Tony Abbott’s boat policies?
For three years the Abbott opposition did its best to generate a sense of chaos around the steady trickle of boats testing our borders, compassion and policy resolve. There were never that many, that was the truth, and most had reasonable claims to our protection; that was true too. And coming by sea involved an extraordinary and mortal risk, a calculation that was a fair indication of desperation.Do you still need to actually meet Green to know his brand of politics?
Sad to say, but so much of the heat and fury of the Gillard years grew from prejudice, tainting our politics with bitter spite coloured by chauvinism and something that oscillated between casual sexism and ingrained misogyny.For those still wondering whether Green really is of the Left - something he strangely presumes cannot be detected by anyone other than his closest friends - I could offer even richer evidence. But, alas, Green never gives me permission to publish his extraordinarily abusive emails to me - so abusive that only a true Leftist could have written them.
election. This is the truth about the Gillard prime ministership. The fact that our elected leader was a woman gave Gillard’s detractors the added, and for many instinctive, purchase of gender-based loathing — a deep sense that the simple fact of Gillard’s sex disqualified her from high office.
(PS: I have met Green. Sheridan is right,)
Join Uong and receive a signed copy of "I Am a New Creation" at the book signing this Saturday the 8th of December. The book signing will be held at 10am - 2pm at Koorong Christian bookstore, West Ryde.
I Am a New Creation: The story of Pastor Uong Nguyen
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Aprille Love
Being interviewed by #SBSworldnews#help4haiyan
Dressed by Leonardo Salinas
Hair by Maricel Dionisio
Make up Samantha Von-Dutch
Hi everyone! I just wanted to say thank you much to everyone who was a part of this event, came, donated, sponsored, performed (Kookies N Kream Crew, Mike Champion, Tiana Canterbury, @nachopop, Angel Tairua,Don Angelo Valix, Collene Enriquez-Ryan), helped out backstage (Gabe Amor) and those on the organising committee (Justin Mulder and Anj Ella) to make this all happen! Whilst there are so many people to name! Words cannot express how much it means to me that you all came and contributed. It was a really successful night! In association with all our sponsors, ticket sales, auction and raffle prize money, we managed to raise $30,000 on the night for the victims of the Typhoon! Thank you to all the beautiful models who sold all the raffle tickets (Claire Parker,Annabel Gotfried, Yvonne Amores, Vanessa Anne, Melanie McDowall andChandra Vidar), to my good friend and talented designer Leonardo Salinas! To our stage manager 'Marco Selorio', to our amazing hosts Añia Aquinoand Nick Gulliver, to our wonderful auctioneer, Councillor Steven Issa and guest speaker Kathy Novak SBS! To my parents, brother and bestfriends for being so supportive while i was so stressed! ( William Miñon Lim,Mariver Mil, Mark W Lim, Samantha Demetriou Tegan Anne, Antoinette Leviste, Jenny Liu, Jen Jen) To my celebs friends for making the red carpet a little more glamourous! (Natalie Tran, Andy Trieu, Lachlan Cosgrove), to our photographers Michael Kim, Daniel Ghanbari, Elmer Medalla and Co and really to every single one of you who came and bought a ticket! To my artista friends in manila for their video messages (Andy Smith, Eric Eruption Tai and Smith Casandra)!! With love and light!
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Hi everyone!!! Pls find SBS WORLD NEWS AUSTRALIA video clip! We start at about 4mins in!!! Some of you make an appearance in the background!
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/
Natalie Tran Andy Trieu Yvonne Amores Don Angelo Valix ColleneEnriquez-RyanJames Peniata Jacqueline Murray Jace Alexander Pickard Anj Ella
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Michelle Malkin
‘No wonder the website sucks’: White House’s cringeworthy Obamacare typo does Common Core proud ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Campbell Newman
A quick photo op with Sir Robert Menzies while running with the PM in Canberra this morning.
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Catch me if you can .. an arm waver who could not sign stands beside a hand wringer who does not care - ed
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Internet detective? (Yes, Ma'am, that is me, Internet Detective. Just the facts) - ed
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Crees Must Three(Real Diamond)...... Interested contact us..... Rony.raj@ekny.in
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A Testimony to True Friendship
A man brings his best mate home for dinner unannounced at 5.30 p.m. after work.
His wife screams at him as his friend listens in.
" My hair & makeup are not done, the house is a mess, the dishes are not done, I'm still in my pyjamas, and I can't be bothered with cooking tonight! What the hell did you bring him home for ? "
" Because he's thinking of getting married."
A man brings his best mate home for dinner unannounced at 5.30 p.m. after work.
His wife screams at him as his friend listens in.
" My hair & makeup are not done, the house is a mess, the dishes are not done, I'm still in my pyjamas, and I can't be bothered with cooking tonight! What the hell did you bring him home for ? "
" Because he's thinking of getting married."
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http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/12/no-reverb-added-an-acoustical-experiment-in-drumming/
It’s one thing to record audio of a drummer and then digitally synthesize the reverberation to mimic various environments, but it’s another thing entirely to film a drummer actually playing in all of those environments and then stitch it together into a single track. That’s exactly whatAudio Zero and Wikidrummers did with drummer Julien Audigier who played the same drum pattern in a variety of indoor and outdoor locations to show the effects of natural reverb, sometimes even blending multiple tracks into a single shot. Amazing. (via The Awesomer)
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http://www.smh.com.au/business/cartel-action-against-woolworths-colgate-and-cussons-over-laundry-products-20131212-2z9m9.html
My uncle used to be Asia Pacific MD of Cussons/Palmolive in the 70's. It looks like a left wing cause .. ed===
<Caroline Glick states the facts cogently. Because of assimilation the Jewish community is weaker than ever. Jonathan Pollard's unjust imprisonment brings to light the blatant discrimination against Jews as opposed to a non Jew who committed a similar crime. American Jews must stand united against the injustice that has been perpetrated to one of our own.>
www.jpost.com
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/
I feel anyone who stands for justice would want Pollard free and pardoned .. and compensated. - ed
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Sorry Livni, but in answer to the question, "why do they continue to live despite the repeated attempts at finding peace?" I say you ask the wrong question.- ed===
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It's not the West Bank!
-9 December 2013
For otherwise, defeatism and conceding defeat seem an epitome of facilitating reduction, and thus, decline.
Courage seeks a stance if even it begins on a small scale beginning with a few individuals driving even simple truths into an unapologetic course.
Language dynamics entail ploys of powerful sway. Misconstrued coinage and the establishment's adoption thereof, conjure eventual and permanent errors against factuality; and as thus, lies accepted as truths.
Today even the term, 'settlement' encourages an immediate
connotation and word association of illegality and illegitimacy. And why should we accept any longer that forced, PC-laden and subliminal label?
Nor are they Palestinians, per se. Because a pawn strategy and subsequent coinage was permitted to flourish, abounding an enormous propaganda scale, today's political language context has emboldened and exploded an enormous world opinion, anti campaigns and horrendous security and demographic matters.
Zionism is another, of which I include under the political meanderings of socio-political hijacking; another deliberate misrepresentation agenda.
Collectively, this acquiescence to politically hijacked, motivated and controlled context flourishes the notion of what I coin, the three Ds: demonisation, demoralisation and delegitimisation.
Continue to the link, reading this and more articles at ...….http://paper.li/
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What a great photo!! thanks Joseph!! Anj Ella,Justin Mulder, Añia Aquino, Nick Gulliver
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on the feast days of the LORD?
6 Even if they escape from destruction,
Egypt will gather them,
and Memphis will bury them.
Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,
and thorns will overrun their tents....
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Sorry Livni, but in answer to the question, "why do they continue to live despite the repeated attempts at finding peace?" I say you ask the wrong question.- ed===
http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/looking-back-to-mandela-moment-in.html
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http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/12/11/why-al-qaida-is-attractive-for-u-s-support-of-other-islamists/
Because AlQaida is supported by those not labelled .. just as with Vietnam war .. if you ignore the enemy, they will hurt you. - ed
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It's not the West Bank!
-9 December 2013
For otherwise, defeatism and conceding defeat seem an epitome of facilitating reduction, and thus, decline.
Courage seeks a stance if even it begins on a small scale beginning with a few individuals driving even simple truths into an unapologetic course.
Language dynamics entail ploys of powerful sway. Misconstrued coinage and the establishment's adoption thereof, conjure eventual and permanent errors against factuality; and as thus, lies accepted as truths.
Today even the term, 'settlement' encourages an immediate
connotation and word association of illegality and illegitimacy. And why should we accept any longer that forced, PC-laden and subliminal label?
Nor are they Palestinians, per se. Because a pawn strategy and subsequent coinage was permitted to flourish, abounding an enormous propaganda scale, today's political language context has emboldened and exploded an enormous world opinion, anti campaigns and horrendous security and demographic matters.
Zionism is another, of which I include under the political meanderings of socio-political hijacking; another deliberate misrepresentation agenda.
Collectively, this acquiescence to politically hijacked, motivated and controlled context flourishes the notion of what I coin, the three Ds: demonisation, demoralisation and delegitimisation.
Continue to the link, reading this and more articles at ...….http://paper.li/
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http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4085/do-you-think-the-wrong-thing
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December 13: Tenth of Tevet (Judaism, 2013); Saint Lucy's Day in Italy and Scandinavia; Republic Day in Malta(1974)
- 1545 – The Council of Trent, anecumenical council convoked by Pope Paul III in response to the growth ofProtestantism, opened in Trent, Bishopric of Trent (now in modern Italy).
- 1809 – American physician Ephraim McDowell (pictured) performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
- 1960 – With Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie out of the country, four conspirators staged a coup attempt and installed Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen as the new Emperor.
- 1989 – The Troubles: A Provisional Irish Republican Armyengaged in a fierce firefight with the King's Own Scottish Borderers at a vehicle checkpoint complex in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
- 2011 – A man threw grenades and fired an automatic rifleat crowds in the Place Saint-Lambert, Liège, Belgium,killing 15 people and injuring 125 others, before committing suicide.
Events[edit]
- 1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
- 1545 – The Council of Trent begins.
- 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
- 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against thePequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
- 1642 – Abel Tasman reaches New Zealand.
- 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
- 1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
- 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
- 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats theUnion Major General Ambrose Burnside.
- 1867 – A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, England, United Kingdom, killing six.
- 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
- 1937 – Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks worth of raping and murdering hundreds of thousands civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
- 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
- 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship)Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
- 1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Romania declare war on the United States.
- 1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
- 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
- 1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
- 1960 – While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
- 1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
- 1967 – Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels
- 1968 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military government.
- 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
- 1974 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations
- 1977 – A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis, Indiana-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team.
- 1979 – The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
- 1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
- 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador killing all 256 passengers and crew.
- 1988 – Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva,Switzerland after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter the United States.
- 1989 – Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
- 2000 – The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
- 2001 – The Parliament of India Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
- 2002 – Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
- 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
- 2011 – Murder-suicide in the city of Liège (Belgium), killing 6 and wounding 125 people at a Christmas market.
Births[edit]
- 1521 – Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
- 1533 – Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
- 1553 – Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
- 1585 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
- 1640 – Robert Plot, English chemist (d. 1696)
- 1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
- 1678 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
- 1684 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1754)
- 1720 – Carlo Gozzi, Italian playwright (d. 1804)
- 1724 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher (d. 1802)
- 1780 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849)
- 1784 – Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
- 1797 – Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
- 1804 – Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1873)
- 1814 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (d. 1880)
- 1816 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
- 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
- 1836 – Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
- 1854 – Herman Bavinck, Dutch theologian and churchman (d. 1921)
- 1856 – Svetozar Boroević, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
- 1860 – Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
- 1860 – Philo McGiffin,First American Naval Officer to command a modern battleship in wartime(d.1897)
- 1864 – Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
- 1867 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian scientist (d. 1917)
- 1870 – Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
- 1871 – Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (d. 1945)
- 1874 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944)
- 1883 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and archivist (d. 1950)
- 1884 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (d. 1951)
- 1887 – George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 1985)
- 1887 – Alvin York, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
- 1897 – Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961)
- 1897 – Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969)
- 1900 – Jonel Perlea, Romanian conductor (d. 1970)
- 1901 – Olev Roomet, Estonian musician (d. 1987)
- 1902 – Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986)
- 1902 – Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (d. 1979)
- 1903 – Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986)
- 1903 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
- 1906 – Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
- 1906 – Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1910 – Sol Saks, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011)
- 1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
- 1913 – Arnold Brown, English 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998)
- 1914 – Alan Bullock, English historian and author (d. 2004)
- 1915 – Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor (d. 1982)
- 1915 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (d. 1983)
- 1915 – B. J. Vorster, South African politician,4th State President of South Africa (d. 1983)
- 1916 – Leonard Weisgard, American children's book illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1917 – John Hart, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (d. 1942)
- 1920 – George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State
- 1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 – Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Terence Beckett, English businessman, was chairman of Ford of Britain and later became director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1926 – George Rhoden, Jamaican runner
- 1927 – James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
- 1928 – Eve Meyer, American model and actress (d. 1977)
- 1929 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
- 1930 – Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1934 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Joe Christopher, American baseball player
- 1935 – Kenneth Hall, American football player
- 1935 – Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
- 1936 – Aga Khan IV, Swiss-French 49th Nizari Ismaili Imam
- 1936 – J. C. Martin, American baseball player
- 1937 – Toomas Frey, Estonian ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist
- 1937 – Rob Houwer, Dutch film producer
- 1937 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (d. 2009)
- 1937 – Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player
- 1938 – Heino, German singer
- 1938 – Alvin Curran, American musician and composer (Musica Elettronica Viva)
- 1939 – Eric Flynn, Chinese-Welsh actor and singer (d. 2002)
- 1941 – John Davidson, American actor and game show host
- 1941 – Bessel Kok, Dutch businessman
- 1942 – Anna Eshoo, American politician
- 1943 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
- 1944 – Dick Dees, Dutch politician
- 1944 – Hwang Jang Lee, Japanese-Korean martial artist and actor
- 1944 – Marti Webb, English actress and singer
- 1945 – Herman Cain, American businessman, radio host, and politician
- 1945 – Kathy Garver, American actress
- 1945 – Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (d. 1977)
- 1947 – Darlene Cates, American actress
- 1947 – Rex Hagon, Canadian actor
- 1947 – Dave Hamilton, American baseball player
- 1948 – Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (d. 1982)
- 1948 – Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers)
- 1948 – Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter (d. 1970)
- 1948 – Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees, and Damnocracy)
- 1948 – Brian Wilson, Scottish politician
- 1949 – Robert Lindsay, English actor
- 1949 – R.A. MacAvoy, American fantasy author
- 1949 – Randy Owen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama)
- 1949 – Luc Sala, Dutch businessman
- 1949 – Tom Verlaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television and Neon Boys)
- 1949 – Paula Wilcox, English actress
- 1950 – Wendie Malick, American actress
- 1950 – Heather North, American actress
- 1950 – Tom Vilsack, American politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture
- 1952 – Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1952 – Larry Kenon, American basketball player
- 1952 – Jean Rouaud, French author
- 1953 – Ben Bernanke, American economist, 14th Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- 1953 – Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player
- 1953 – Jim Davidson, English comedian
- 1953 – Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – John Anderson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1954 – Emma Bull, American author
- 1954 – Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1954 – Tamora Pierce, American author
- 1956 – Dale Berra, American baseball player
- 1956 – Majida El Roumi, Lebanese soprano and actress
- 1956 – Phil Hubbard, American basketball player
- 1957 – Steve Buscemi, American actor and director
- 1957 – Morris Day, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Time and Flyte Tyme)
- 1957 – Eric Marienthal, American saxophonist (Chick Corea Elektric Band and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
- 1957 – Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
- 1958 – Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress
- 1959 – Jim Barrell, American wrestler
- 1959 – Heino Enden, Estonian basketball player and coach
- 1959 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor
- 1960 – Rusty Cundieff, American actor
- 1960 – Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
- 1961 – Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer, conductor, and producer
- 1961 – Irene Sáez, Venezuelan model and politician, Miss Universe 1981
- 1961 – Gary Zimmerman, American football player
- 1962 – Roger Ilegems, Belgian cyclist
- 1962 – Jamie Raskin, American academic and politician
- 1962 – Rex Ryan, American football coach
- 1962 – Rob Ryan, American football player and coach
- 1964 – Hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (X Japan and Zilch) (d. 1998)
- 1965 – Jackie Clune, English actress and singer
- 1965 – Marko Mäetamm, Estonian illustrator
- 1966 – Ross Burden, New Zealand chef
- 1966 – Don Roff, American screenwriter and director
- 1966 – Mike Tirico, American sportscaster
- 1966 – Toby Dammit, American percussionist, composer and producer
- 1967 – Jamie Foxx, American actor and singer
- 1967 – NeNe Leakes, American actress
- 1967 – Bo Pelini, American football player and coach
- 1969 – Tony Curran, Scottish actor
- 1969 – Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
- 1970 – Eoin Jess, Scottish footballer
- 1970 – Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer
- 1972 – Niki Evans, English singer
- 1972 – Chris Grant, Australian footballer
- 1973 – Christie Clark, American actress
- 1974 – Sara Cox, English television and radio host
- 1974 – Debbie Matenopoulos, American actress and television host
- 1974 – Nicholas McCarthy, English singer and guitarist (Franz Ferdinand and Box Codax)
- 1975 – Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player
- 1975 – Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (blink-182, Angels & Airwaves, and Box Car Racer)
- 1975 – Kostas Kiassos, Greek footballer
- 1975 – Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player
- 1976 – Josh Fogg, American baseball player
- 1976 – Søren Friis, Danish footballer
- 1976 – Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
- 1977 – Sascha Kindred, German-English swimmer
- 1977 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby player
- 1978 – Olav Bjortomt, English quiz player
- 1978 – Kaspars Kambala, Latvian basketball player
- 1978 – Ryo Kawakita, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
- 1978 – B.J. Penn, American mixed martial artist
- 1979 – Matjaž Smodiš, Slovenian basketball player
- 1980 – Patrik Antonius, Finnish poker player
- 1980 – Ryan France, English footballer
- 1980 – Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor
- 1980 – Bosco Wong, Hong Kong singer and actor
- 1980 – Danil Haustov, Estonian swimmer
- 1980 – Swastika Mukherjee, Indian actress
- 1981 – Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Evanescence)
- 1982 – Anthony Callea, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1982 – Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
- 1982 – Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver
- 1982 – Dominik Werling, German footballer
- 1983 – Matt Deis, American bass player and songwriter (CKY and All That Remains)
- 1983 – Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
- 1984 – Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer
- 1984 – Hanna-Maria Seppälä, Finnish swimmer
- 1985 – Michael Bumpus, American football player
- 1985 – Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player
- 1986 – Dennis Bermudez, American mixed martial artist
- 1986 – Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter
- 1988 – Rickie Fowler, American golfer
- 1989 – Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
- 1989 – Katherine Schwarzenegger, American author and activist, oldest daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 1989 – Dasha Kapustina, Russian model
- 1991 – Senah Mango, Togolese footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 558 – Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496)
- 1048 – Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian scholar and polymath (b. 973)
- 1124 – Pope Callixtus II (b. 1065)
- 1126 – Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1075)
- 1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
- 1250 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
- 1404 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
- 1466 – Donatello, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1386)
- 1516 – Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462)
- 1521 – Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
- 1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499)
- 1565 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist (b. 1516)
- 1603 – Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540)
- 1621 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
- 1716 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
- 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676)
- 1729 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
- 1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696)
- 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
- 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
- 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
- 1814 – Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
- 1835 – John Storm, American soldier (b. 1760)
- 1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1756)
- 1863 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813)
- 1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794)
- 1881 – August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838)
- 1883 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
- 1893 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
- 1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
- 1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
- 1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
- 1922 – Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
- 1924 – Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader (b. 1850)
- 1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- 1931 – Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
- 1932 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
- 1934 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
- 1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
- 1940 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
- 1940 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1857)
- 1940 – George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
- 1942 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
- 1944 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter (b. 1866)
- 1944 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
- 1945 – Irma Grese, German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1923)
- 1945 – Josef Kramer, German nazi commandant (b. 1906)
- 1945 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
- 1947 – Henry James, American writer (b. 1879)
- 1947 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874)
- 1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
- 1954 – John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)
- 1955 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- 1958 – Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1960 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
- 1962 – Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1905)
- 1969 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886)
- 1969 – Spencer Williams, American actor and director (b. 1893)
- 1973 – Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
- 1979 – Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1981 – Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
- 1983 – Alexander Schmemann, Estonian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
- 1983 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933)
- 1986 – Heather Angel, English actress (b. 1909)
- 1986 – Ella Baker, American activist (b, 1903)
- 1986 – Smita Patil, Indian actress (b. 1955)
- 1992 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899)
- 1992 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (b. 1899)
- 1993 – Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
- 1994 – Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (b. 1934)
- 1994 – Michalis Nikolinakos, Greek actor (b. 1923)
- 1995 – Ann Nolan Clark, American author (b. 1896)
- 1996 – Edward Blishen, English author (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death, Control Denied, and Voodoocult) (b. 1967)
- 2002 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1944)
- 2003 – William V. Roth, Jr., American politician (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Bernarda Bryson, American artist and children's book illustrator (b. 1903)
- 2004 – Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter (Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
- 2005 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (b. 1953)
- 2006 – Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Mark Partridge, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor and activist (b. 1936)
- 2008 – John Drake, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1959)
- 2008 – Kathy Staff, English actress (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1941)
- 2010 – Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
- 2010 – James Dibble, Australian journalist (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Barclay James Harvest) (b. 1947)
- 2011 – T.J. Bass, American science fiction author (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Russell Hoban, American author (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Willie Ackerman, American drummer (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Jack Hanlon, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Natalya Kustinskaya, Russian actress (b. 1938)
- 2012 – T. Shanmugham, Indian footballer and coach (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Rob Talbot, New Zealand politician (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Abdesslam Yassine, Moroccan educator, founder and leader of Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Acadian Remembrance Day (Acadians)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Republic Day (Malta)
- Saint Lucy's Day (mainly Scandinavia, some regions of Italy (for example, Sicily, Veneto and Trentino), and Malta), and its related observances:
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.
- Tellus was worshipped in the district Carinae at the Esquiline Hill, and a lectisternium or table was spread for Ceres. (Roman Empire)
“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.” Galatians 4:4-5 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"His ways are everlasting."
Habakkuk 3:6
Habakkuk 3:6
What he hath done at one time, he will do yet again. Man's ways are variable, but God's ways are everlasting. There are many reasons for this most comforting truth: among them are the following--the Lord's ways are the result of wise deliberation; he ordereth all things according to the counsel of his own will. Human action is frequently the hasty result of passion, or fear, and is followed by regret and alteration; but nothing can take the Almighty by surprise, or happen otherwise than he has foreseen. His ways are the outgrowth of an immutable character, and in them the fixed and settled attributes of God are clearly to be seen. Unless the Eternal One himself can undergo change, his ways, which are himself in action, must remain forever the same. Is he eternally just, gracious, faithful, wise, tender?--then his ways must ever be distinguished for the same excellences. Beings act according to their nature: when those natures change, their conduct varies also; but since God cannot know the shadow of a turning, his ways will abide everlastingly the same. Moreover there is no reason from without which could reverse the divine ways, since they are the embodiment of irresistible might. The earth is said, by the prophet, to be cleft with rivers, mountains tremble, the deep lifts up its hands, and sun and moon stand still, when Jehovah marches forth for the salvation of his people. Who can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? But it is not might alone which gives stability; God's ways are the manifestation of the eternal principles of right, and therefore can never pass away. Wrong breeds decay and involves ruin, but the true and the good have about them a vitality which ages cannot diminish.
This morning let us go to our heavenly Father with confidence, remembering that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him the Lord is ever gracious to his people.
Evening
"They have dealt treacherously against the Lord."
Hosea 5:7
Hosea 5:7
Believer, here is a sorrowful truth! Thou art the beloved of the Lord, redeemed by blood, called by grace, preserved in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved, on thy way to heaven, and yet, "thou hast dealt treacherously" with God, thy best friend; treacherously with Jesus, whose thou art; treacherously with the Holy Spirit, by whom thou hast been quickened unto life eternal! How treacherous you have been in the matter of vows and promises. Do you remember the love of your espousals, that happy time--the springtime of your spiritual life? Oh, how closely did you cling to your Master then! saying, "He shall never charge me with indifference; my feet shall never grow slow in the way of his service; I will not suffer my heart to wander after other loves; in him is every store of sweetness ineffable. I give all up for my Lord Jesus' sake." Has it been so? Alas! if conscience speak, it will say, "He who promised so well has performed most ill. Prayer has oftentimes been slurred--it has been short, but not sweet; brief, but not fervent. Communion with Christ has been forgotten. Instead of a heavenly mind, there have been carnal cares, worldly vanities and thoughts of evil. Instead of service, there has been disobedience; instead of fervency, lukewarmness; instead of patience, petulance; instead of faith, confidence in an arm of flesh; and as a soldier of the cross there has been cowardice, disobedience, and desertion, to a very shameful degree." "Thou hast dealt treacherously." Treachery to Jesus! what words shall be used in denouncing it? Words little avail: let our penitent thoughts execrate the sin which is so surely in us. Treacherous to thy wounds, O Jesus! Forgive us, and let us not sin again! How shameful to be treacherous to him who never forgets us, but who this day stands with our names engraven on his breastplate before the eternal throne.
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Today's reading: Hosea 9-11, Revelation 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Hosea 9-11
Punishment for Israel
1 Do not rejoice, Israel;
do not be jubilant like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful to your God;
you love the wages of a prostitute
at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not remain in the LORD’s land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt
and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD,
nor will their sacrifices please him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
all who eat them will be unclean.
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
5 What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals,do not be jubilant like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful to your God;
you love the wages of a prostitute
at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not remain in the LORD’s land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt
and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD,
nor will their sacrifices please him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
all who eat them will be unclean.
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
on the feast days of the LORD?
6 Even if they escape from destruction,
Egypt will gather them,
and Memphis will bury them.
Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,
and thorns will overrun their tents....
Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 3
To the Church in Sardis
1 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. 6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches....
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Saul, Shaul [Sôul]—asked for ordemanded.
1. The son of Kish, and first king of Israel (1 Sam. 9-11).
A Man Who Lost His Kingdom
No man among Bible men had so many chances thrust upon him to make a success of life, and no man ever so missed them. Saul not only missed great opportunities, he deliberately abused them. His sun rose in splendor, but set in a tragic night. The downgrade of his life is the old familiar story of pride, egotism and the abuse of power leading to moral degradation and ruin. Here are the steps down the ladder:
He was a man anointed and filled with the Spirit. (1 Sam. 11:6).
In his early years he was humble and practiced self-control ( 1 Sam. 10:22; 10:27; 11:13).
Self-will restricted his influence (1 Sam. 13:12, 13).
He became disobedient and was guilty of rash vows (1 Sam. 15:11-23).
Jealousy prompted him to hunt and harm David (1 Sam. 18:8;19:1).
He patronized the superstition he had forbidden (1 Sam. 28:7).
Wounded in battle, he ended up a suicide (1 Sam. 31:4).
Having already destroyed his moral life, he ultimately destroyed his physical life. Saul’s sad story is repeated almost daily.
2. The sixth of the ancient kings of Edom, from Rehoboth on the Euphrates ( Gen. 36:37, 38).
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Puah
Scripture Reference—Exodus 1:15
Name Meaning—Child bearing or joy of parents
Alarmed over the rapid increase of the population of Israelites in Egypt, Pharaoh ordered two Egyptian midwives to destroy all male children as soon as they were born (Exodus 1:15-20 ). He would never have employed Hebrew women to destroy the males of their own nation. The answer of the two named midwives, Puah and Shiprah, to Pharaoh’s anger when he discovered that his cruel edict was not being carried out, implies that they were used to wait upon Egyptian women who only employed them in difficulty at childbirth (Exodus 1:19). Hebrew women seldom employed midwives for they were more “lively,” or had far easier births than the Egyptians.
Puah and Shiprah are Egyptian names. Aben Ezra, the ancient Jewish historian, says that these two women “were chiefs over all the midwives, who were more than 500.” As superintendents of such a large staff to which they had been appointed by the Egyptian government, Pharaoh ordered them to carry out his terrible command just as he would give orders to any other of his officials. As it is likely that only the chief Hebrews could afford the service of midwives, probably the order of Pharaoh only applied to them. Although Egyptians by birth, it would seem as if they had embraced the Hebrew faith, for we are told that Puah and Shiprah “feared God” ( Exodus 1:21).
Receiving the royal command to commit murder, these two loyal, vigorous, middleaged women were caught between two fires. Whom should they obey? The God of the Hebrews in whom they had come to believe, or the tyrannical king of Egypt? True to their conscience and honored calling they knew it would conflict with the divine command to kill, and so “saved the men children alive.” Thus, they obeyed God rather than man, and in so doing brought upon their heads the rage of Pharaoh. Confronting his anger, Puah and Shiprah took refuge in a partial truth. They said that because Jewish women had easy deliveries, their children were born before they could reach them and assist the mothers in labor.
Cognizant as He was of the partial truth the two midwives told, God knew all about the crisis behind it, and commended Puah and Shiprah for their courage of faith. They had risked their lives for many Jewish infants. Such an act was meritorious in the eyes of the Lord, and He honorably rewarded them by building them houses. Fausset suggests that the nature of such a reward consisted in the two midwives marrying Hebrews and becoming mothers in Israel (2 Samuel 7:11, 27). Puah and Shiprah are striking witnesses against the scandalous practice of abortion, which several nations have legalized.
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IMMANUEL
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"-which means, "God with us." -Matt. 1:22-23
My wife and I have only seriously lost track of our daughter once. We were walking through a crowded tourist town and the streets were lined with shops. It was evening and the crowds were dense. Suddenly, I noticed that neither my wife nor I had our eight-year-old daughter by the hand. We spun around, unable to spot her. With candy stores beckoning children indoors, and winding side streets all around, she could be anywhere.
A few minutes of running around, and somehow I spotted her, a far way down a side street. The look on her face was unforgettable: "Where were you?" she asked, but her eyes said, Thank God, you are with me now. I am never going to leave your side again.
"With us." There is hardly a more central promise that God has ever made to human beings. The alternative is just too horrifying to imagine. If God has abandoned us, and that is why so many bad things happen in life, then what does that say about God? What does it say about our destiny? If God oscillates in and out of our lives, willing to be with us only as long as we don't get too obnoxious, coming and going like a father who grows lax in his responsibility-where does that leave us? If God cannot be with us, then we would have to conclude that we will never reap the benefits of divine presence, and that words like grace, mercy, love, andtruth have no meaning.
Jesus was born, but he was also sent, and Immanuel was one of his names. Immanu-el: "with us [is] God." "God with us." His body among us, his message from the heavens. He turned life upside down with the divine truths he presented. But he also left people with the sense that they had never been closer to God than when they were with him.
We don't need to stay lost. God is not indifferent to our condition. And he came to us in the most radical way, by taking our flesh, our humanity, on himself.
Prayer for Today:
Dear Lord, I need to know you are with us. Help me, this Christmas, to know, more than I have ever known before, that you have come and that we can always live in the conscious enjoyment of your presence.
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