In 1794, Russian Empress Catherine gave permission for Jews to settle in Kiev. Today, not many are left. During the war of 1812, Britain gave in to US demands for free trade on this day. In 1942, while Nazis were introducing gas chambers, a german pilot mistakenly landed their brand new aircraft, a Focke-Wulf, on a British airbase. Study is good. In 1958, the Dutch reformed church began accepting female ministers. 1959, German spy Klaus Fuchs was released, having served 9 years for his giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. In 1982, idiot auto workers in Michigan lynch a Chinese American student because they thought he had been Japanese. It would not have been right or fair if he had been. The killers were sentenced to three years probation. Killing without a license is wrong, but with a license?
Ceasarion was born on this day, 47 BC. A good boy, he was too reliant on his dad. The great Alan Turing and June Carter Cash were born on this day, as were Bryan Brown, Clarence Thomas and Joss Whedon. A great day for art. Goodbye to Jonas Salk and Maureen O'Sullivan. It is ok to die old, blessed and loved.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Bob Carroll, Joe Hildebrand, Brandon Nguyen, Michael Tuan Le and Lenny Dwoskin. Born on the same day, across the years. On your day, in 1280, Reconquista: Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeated those of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Leon in the Battle of Moclín. In 1780, American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army victory in the Battle of Springfield effectively put an end to British ambitions in New Jersey. In 1926, The College Board administered the first SAT, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser became President of Egypt, a post he would hold until his death in 1970. In 1991, The video game Sonic the Hedgehog was first released, propelling the Sega Genesis 16-bit console into mass popularity. There are lessons from your day, Battles can be won which have no lasting effect, and it is sometimes best not to fight, although I think British ambitions still include New Jersey. One has to admire the ingenuity of a college board that could let students say they sat a test. And there have been no radio stars since Sonic. Embrace the day and try not get drunk on vapours. |
- 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
- 1280 – The Battle of Moclín takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadian victory.
- 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
- 1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
- 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
- 1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
- 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
- 1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
- 1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
- 1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
- 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
- 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- 1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
- 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
- 1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiserHMS Newfoundland.
- 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- 1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
- 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
- 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
- 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
- 1969 – Software Industry IBM announced that effective January 1970 it would price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
- 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
- 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
- 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
- 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japaneseand who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
- 1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
- 2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
Hatches
- 47 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (d. 30 BC)
- 1612 – André Tacquet, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1660)
- 1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet (d. 1966)
- 1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
- 1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
- 1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter and actress (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish-English bass player (The Beatles) (d. 1962)
- 1947 – Bryan Brown, Australian actor and producer
- 1948 – Clarence Thomas, American judge
- 1951 – Angelo Falcón, Puerto Rican-American political scientist, founded the National Institute for Latino Policy
- 1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress
- 1964 – Joss Whedon, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Martin Deschamps, Canadian singer-songwriter (Offenbach)
- 1972 – Selma Blair, American actress
- 1981 – Antony Costa, English singer-songwriter and actor (Blue)
- 1984 – Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
- 1989 – Ayana Taketatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 2003 – Hala Khalaf, Singer
Despatches
- 79 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. 9)
- 679 – Æthelthryth, queen of Northumbria
- 1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese daimyo (b. 1545)
- 1707 – John Mill, English theologian (b. 1645)
- 1836 – James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1773)
- 1980 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1946)
- 1995 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
- 1998 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
COMPO CALIPHATE
Tim Blair – Monday, June 23, 2014 (5:14am)
Next year’s Anzac Day parades should be colourful affairs, what with the first appearance from our brave fighting boys in the 1st Disability Pension Infantry.
These welfare Wahhabis and their holy bludger brigades are currently sweeping through Iraq, laying waste to civilians and soldiers alike in a bid to create some kind of Islamic purity state.
Good luck with that. Let’s assume, for the sake of it, that ISIS (Impaired and Subsidised Islamic Soldiers) achieves its aim of overthrowing governments in Iraq and Syria. What happens next? Well, nothing. Nothing at all. These blokes can’t work, and they’ve got the official medical documents to prove it.
If post-war welfare systems in Iraq and Syria turn out to be anything like Australia’s, they’ll be flooded with compensation claims from every Tom, Dick and Hudhaifah Karim al-Rashid presently murdering their terrified co-religionists.
It says something about just how low the bar is set for disability payments in Australia that people qualify as unable to work even though they are capable of living – indeed, thriving – in war zones.
These must be the only combat veterans in history who arrived at the war on crutches and were able to walk afterwards. Or perhaps we’re witnessing authentic religious miracles; behold Habib, who defied medical science by rising from his sick bed (his fully sick bed) to slaughter other Muslims.
Unfortunately for the future economy of their great Islamic state, however, killing is about all these chaps can do. Thanks to Facebook, we’re already seeing signs of how things might be under the rule of the bludjahideen. Sure, they’re great at putting bullets in the back of captured Iraqi soldiers’ heads. But they clearly can’t find any laborers to bury the bodies.
Life in the compo caliphate won’t be much fun within a generation or two, once everybody is signed up for free government cash. Welfare only works when there are workers. It’ll be a little like Tasmania, except with a slightly less ridiculous electoral system.
POLEY BLAIR
Tim Blair – Monday, June 23, 2014 (4:56am)
As a Daily Telegraph columnist, it is crucial that I keep in touch with reader attitudes.
To that end, I frequently conduct rigorous and highly scientific polls at my Daily Telegraph website. These polls have become an invaluable aid to my awareness of community sentiment.
Continue reading 'POLEY BLAIR'
BIGGER, FASTER AND SLASHIER, PLEASE
Tim Blair – Monday, June 23, 2014 (4:08am)
Progress, but not enough:
The Abbott government is planning to strip an additional $40 million-$50m from the ABC’s budget, following recommendations from an independent efficiency review of the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster.Last month’s federal budget cut $43.5m from the budget of the ABC and SBS over four years through a 1 per cent annual efficiency dividend, representing what Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull described as a “down payment” on further savings to be identified by the Lewis efficiency review.It is understood that having seen the review, which was conducted by former Seven West Media’s chief financial officer Peter Lewis, the government will now seek to implement a “second wave” of cuts that would amount to a 4 per cent hit to the broadcaster’s annual budget of $1.28 billion.
Prepare for the delightful screaming.
DRIVE ON
Tim Blair – Monday, June 23, 2014 (3:53am)
Learner drivers in NSW no longer need be alert to bulbs and blossoms:
A warning in the official NSW government handbook for learner drivers, stating that climate change could cause dangerous road conditions due to heatwaves, storms, flooding and bushfires, is set to be removed.The NSW Road Users’ Handbook, produced by Roads and Maritime Services, tells motorists that changes to climate “due to greenhouse gas emissions” are expected to cause “unpredictable weather events” and driving should be avoided in extreme conditions.But after The Daily Telegraph brought the climate change reference to the attention of the state government, roads minister Duncan Gay signalled that the “political” reference would be cut when the next edition of the handbook was printed. Mr Gay blamed the previous Labor government for the climate change warning being included in a chapter on road safety.“(The handbook) was produced during the term of the previous government when making political statements was more important than actually addressing real issues affecting motorists,” Mr Gay said.
Great line from Sydney dad Scott Ferguson, who happened upon the climate change warning while teaching16-year-old daughter Riley how to drive: “I haven’t been this annoyed since Riley’s old primary school made her sit in scripture class.”
BUSH AHEAD OF OBAMA
Tim Blair – Monday, June 23, 2014 (3:30am)
The Big O is in decline:
Good news for President Bush: a new Gallup poll shows that the former president has a 53 percent favorability rate. In fact, all living former presidents enjoy more than 50 percent popularity, while President Barack Obama has a 47 percent favorability rating.
Obama’s rating is even lower with the Clintons.
(Via Instapundit)
Socialising the losses
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (3:58pm)
The answer, of course, should be no:
===Former political staffer James Ashby is set to pursue the Commonwealth government for more than $1 million in legal costs from his aborted sexual harassment suit against former parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper.When you go for the cash, you can’t pass the bill back to the Government when you get cold feet.
In a Federal Court hearing on Monday, the bitter legal stoush - in which Mr Ashby accused his former boss of “unwelcome sexual advances” - was formally discontinued following Mr Ashby’s decision to withdraw from the case last week.
However, Mr Ashby’s barrister, Tom Blackburn, SC, asked that his client be given the option of making an application for costs from the Commonwealth government.
Out of control: ABC issues a third apology for vilifying conservatives
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (1:03pm)
In the past couple of months the ABC has had to apologise on-air to:
The ABC is dangerously out of control. It is using its vast state-funded power to intimidate and vilify conservatives.
And note: I do not recall the last time the ABC had to apologise for vilifying anyone of the Left.
That latest apology:
===- me, a conservative, for calling me a racistNotice a pattern here?
- Chris Kenny, a conservative, for portraying him having sex with a dog
- Cardinal George Pell, a conservative, for making false claims about his alleged cover up of child abuse.
The ABC is dangerously out of control. It is using its vast state-funded power to intimidate and vilify conservatives.
And note: I do not recall the last time the ABC had to apologise for vilifying anyone of the Left.
That latest apology:
Local Radio, Canberra. On 10 June, 2014 666 ABC Canberra Breakfast presenter Philip Clark made comments in relation to Cardinal George Pell in an interview with Mr Francis Sullivan, CEO of the Truth Justice and Healing Council.
On 18th June, Philip Clark read the following apology on air:
“On 10 June 2014 I made comments during this program which were critical of Cardinal George Pell and his role in the handling of child sexual abuse claims by the Catholic Church and also his subsequent appointment to a role in the Vatican. My comments about these matters were inaccurate and defamatory and I wish to retract them. The ABC and I apologise to Cardinal Pell for the harm caused to him.”
Nielsen: Labor ahead 53 to 47. UPDATE: But Labor restless
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (8:53am)
The last Nielsen poll struck me as a rogue one, so the Liberal recovery is smaller than suggested on the numbers:
UPDATE
The polls flatter Labor, and it seems some in Labor agree:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===On a two-party-preferred basis, Labor maintained a strong lead of 53-47 over the Coalition but has lost some ground since the May survey, when it peaked at 56-44 in Labor’s favour.I think the Government can grind this out, but it will require more discipline and better communications than we’ve seen.
UPDATE
The polls flatter Labor, and it seems some in Labor agree:
DEFEATED Labor leadership candidate Anthony Albanese has been accused by senior Labor figures of undermining Bill Shorten with frequent criticism of his performance.Well, there is actually plenty for Albanese to be critical about. Don’t complain, but change, is my advice.
Several Labor frontbenchers, union and party figures have told The Australian Mr Albanese was bitterly disappointed he failed to be elected leader last October and is often privately critical of the Opposition Leader’s handling of strategy, policy, communications and internal party reform…
Labor figures have implicated Mr Albanese in the leaking of material to undermine Mr Shorten, including the claim that he warned about preselecting union leader Joe Bullock for the rerun West Australian Senate election.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Islamic immigration exposes us to danger
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (8:45am)
WHO let these jihadists into our country? Must we run this danger, just to boast our immigration system isn’t racist?
“We will always have, a non-discriminatory immigration policy,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott declared three years ago.
Admirable in principle. But how wise in this Age of Terror?
Consider. More than 150 Australians, many of Lebanese descent, have joined jihadists fighting in Iraq and Syria, and will pose a danger to us on their return.
One, Khaled Sharrouf, lived on a disability pension in Sydney but was last week pictured apparently in Iraq, waving the flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, whose Sunni jihadists are shooting and beheading countless unarmed Shia Iraqis.
In another Facebook photo, believed posted by fellow Australian jihadist Mohamed Elomar, Sharrouf poses with a gun next to slaughtered Iraqi civilians.
(Read full article here.)
===“We will always have, a non-discriminatory immigration policy,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott declared three years ago.
Admirable in principle. But how wise in this Age of Terror?
Consider. More than 150 Australians, many of Lebanese descent, have joined jihadists fighting in Iraq and Syria, and will pose a danger to us on their return.
One, Khaled Sharrouf, lived on a disability pension in Sydney but was last week pictured apparently in Iraq, waving the flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, whose Sunni jihadists are shooting and beheading countless unarmed Shia Iraqis.
In another Facebook photo, believed posted by fellow Australian jihadist Mohamed Elomar, Sharrouf poses with a gun next to slaughtered Iraqi civilians.
(Read full article here.)
How the IPCC hid the good news
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (8:40am)
Climate scientist Nic Lewis and science writer Marcel Crok, both expert reviewers on the latest IPCC report, have written A SENSITIVE MATTER How the IPCC buried evidence showing good news about global warming, a paper endorsed by Professor Judith Curry.
Some highlights:
Because the coverage would have then noted that the climate models used to predict a hot future couldn’t even correctly model the past?
Maurice Newman says there are many signs the global warming alarmism was built on dodgy evidence, now being exposed:
===Some highlights:
The scientific part (WGI) of the fifth IPCC assessment report (AR5), publishedIs that why the IPCC refused to be frank? Because the media coverage would rightly focus on a near halving of the predictions of a temperature rise?
in final form in January 2014, contains some really encouraging information.
The best observational evidence indicates our climate is considerably less sen-
sitive to greenhouse gases than climate scientists had previously thought. The
clues and the relevant scientific papers are all mentioned in the full IPCC re-
port. However, this important conclusion is not drawn in the full report – it
is only mentioned as a possibility – and is ignored in the Summary for Policy-
makers (SPM).
Until AR5, for 30 years the scientific establishment’s best estimate and their
uncertainty range for climate sensitivity had hardly changed. The best esti-
mate for equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) started and ended at 3C and
the uncertainty range generally had a lower bound of 1.5C and an upper bound of 4.5C.
However, several recent studies give best estimates of be-
tween 1.5C and 2C, substantially lower than most earlier studies indicated…
Since the last IPCC report was prepared greenhouse gas concentrations
have continued to increase, yet global temperatures have not risen; more im-
portantly, estimates of the cooling efficacy of aerosol pollution have been cut.
This combination of factors is indicative of the climate system being less sen-
sitive to greenhouse gases than previously appeared to be the case. But the
new evidence about aerosol cooling is not reflected in the computer climate
models.
In our view, the IPCC WGI scientists were saddled with a dilemma. How
should they deal with the discrepancy between climate sensitivity estimates
based on models and sound observational estimates that are consistent with
the new evidence about aerosol cooling? In conjunction with governments –
who have the last say on the wording of the SPM – they appear to have decided
to resolve this dilemma in the following way. First, they changed the ‘likely’
range for climate sensitivity slightly. It was 2–4.5C in AR4 in 2007. They have
now reduced the lower bound to 1.5C, making the range 1.5–4.5C. ..
They also decided not to give a best estimate for climate sensitivity…
In this report we suggest that the new observationally-based ‘likely’ range
could be1.25–3.0C,with a best estimate of 1.75C.
If the IPCC had made that
change – which would have been in line with the best quality scientific evi-
dence available – it would have been picked up by all the major news outlets
in the world as one of the major, if not the major, outcomes of the report. And
rightly so.
Because the coverage would have then noted that the climate models used to predict a hot future couldn’t even correctly model the past?
So models overestimate the warming of the real climate in the last 35 yearsUPDATE
by 50%.
Maurice Newman says there are many signs the global warming alarmism was built on dodgy evidence, now being exposed:
...the world is wearying of catastrophism and is noticing the mounting contrary evidence. Not least, it has observed there has been no global warming since September 1996…(Thanks to reader James.)
Slowly, but surely, the truth comes out. The Stern review of the economics of climate change, promoted globally in 2006 to boost action on climate change, has been found to have grossly underestimated the cost of reducing greenhouse gases.
We learn from a voluntary independent auditor, Ken Stewart, that after analysing 84 out of 104 Bureau of Meteorology sites, the effect of adjustments made to create the official Australian temperature record is an increase in the warming trend for minima of 66.6 per cent and 13 per cent for maxima. This revelation is consistent with the leaked Climategate programmer’s log, which read: “Getting seriously fed-up with the state of the Australian data, so many false references, so many changes … bewildering."…
The same bias is found in the computer models that are the bedrock of climate change. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, updated comparisons of 90 computer models and found 95 per cent of them had over-forecast the warming trend since 1979.
Polls put Tim Blair ahead
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (8:15am)
Tim Blair receives valuable reader feedback from his polls which make him more in-touch than most:
===For example, a poll at my site recently asked: “Which bulldozer should be used to clear Leard State Forest?” Obviously, I was almost certain that readers would choose the Komatsu D575A. But no. Overwhelmingly, they selected the Caterpillar D11! I know, right? It just goes to show that we in the media aren’t always the experts.There, of course, the results were less surprising - although more forcefully expressed.
In another shock result, NSW Labor actually received nearly 2.7 per cent of the vote when readers were asked to choose between the party and Satanism. So there’s at least something for John Robertson to work with ahead of next year’s election.
Last Tuesday readers were polled on another vital question. Noting a surge in perpetually hysterical female commentators online and in the media, I asked this simple question: “Who is Australia’s craziest left-wing frightbat?”
Did Kernohan change his story? Meanwhile, the commission digs away
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (7:33am)
Leave aside Mark Latham’s abuse, conspiracy theories and selective blindness, and you still have this apparent problem with the evidence of Bob Kernohan,
the former AWU state president who told the royal commission into union
corruption he was told by Bill Shorten not to probe the AWU slush fund
scandal:
But Mark Latham once again cannot help himself. He implies the royal commission was blind to this contradiction, and even hushed it up:
UPDATE
The royal commission will this week examine the TWU’s alleged use of slush funds. Michael Smith has this fascinating preview of TWU money politics.
===A big part of Kernohan’s public persona has been to portray himself as a whistleblower, the only honest man in the Victorian AWU 20 years ago.So far, so reasonable.
At the height of attempts to silence him, he claims to have been bashed by union thugs in July 1999. In his sworn statement to the royal commission, Kernohan said that three men had set upon him in the outer Melbourne town of Melton, telling him to keep his “mouth shut” and to “stop talking to the press, you grub”. Counsel assisting the commission Jeremy Stoljar seemed sympathetic to Kernohan’s plight, complaining of how he had been “marginalised and victimised” as part of “the mistreatment of whistleblowers”.
There’s just one problem with this account. In an addendum to his witness statement, Kernohan attached his sworn statement to the Victorian Police tendered the day after the Melton bashing. In this version, two men attacked him, screaming out “give us your wallet, you prick” and “where is your money?” According to Kernohan, “they yelled this out several times”. There was no mention of union intimidation. The incident was purely a robbery. The statement was signed off as “true and correct”, acknowledging that any falsehood was “liable to the penalties of perjury”.
But Mark Latham once again cannot help himself. He implies the royal commission was blind to this contradiction, and even hushed it up:
[Royal commissioner counsel Jeremy] Stoljar and the royal commissioner, John Dyson Heydon, had an advance copy of his witness statement, from which it was clear he was about to give seriously flawed evidence. Anyone of average IQ would have seen the contradiction between Kernohan’s 1999 police statement and his 2014 affidavit.In fact, here is Kernohan being questioned in the royal commission on that contradiction and giving his reason for it - sheer fear:
I believe an element of exploitation was involved. In their determination to fulfil their charter of uncovering problems in the Labor movement, Heydon and Stoljar appear to be willing to hear from anyone brandishing anti-Labor allegations, no matter how disreputable or unstable they might be.
3 Q. So your statement has been done not 24 hours after theI never trust Mark Latham to fairly report anything to do with the AWU slush fund scandal or Julia Gillard. Nor do I trust what he says about me. Today I’m “the Prime Minister’s lickspittle”. Two years ago Latham had a very different assessment. Whatever it takes, I guess....
4 incident, and you don’t say anywhere in your statement
5 anything about people saying to you something about not
6 talking to the media or anything like that, do you?
7 A. No, I don’t. No.
8
9 Q. And you just said to me that you knew that it was
10 connected with the victimisation that you perceived to be
11 occurring at the union because of things that they said.
12 Surely the statement you gave to the police not 24 hours
13 after the incident represents your best recollection of
14 what happened on that incident?
15 A. Yes. I’m acutely aware of the differences. There’s
16 been quite a number of different versions of that bashing.
17
18 Q. Wouldn’t this represent your best memory of what
19 occurred, the statement given --
20 A. Oh, no. No. I had not seen a doctor at that stage.
21 I was badly bruised. When I finally made my way to the
22 police station, I had not seen a doctor. When I finally
23 saw a doctor, they rushed me - well, I had to go straight
24 to hospital. They thought I had a cracked skull. I was
25 heavily concussed and as I was about to say earlier, to
26 this day I still cannot get clear in my mind precisely what
27 happened. But in terms of the Melton Police Station
28 statement, the one immediately after the bashing, I was
29 also acutely aware, notwithstanding the fact that my mind
30 was not functioning, I knew I had to report it to police
31 but - the bashing at least.
32
33 I was acutely aware that if I attracted more attention
34 to myself at that time - I had no support back then, I was
35 on my own - I was only going to attract more attention;
36 for what? An invitation for more of that kind of
37 treatment, so I was conscious of that. I was not conscious
38 of deliberately making something up because that didn’t
39 happen.
40
41 What I told the Melton Police was exactly what
42 I thought had happened, other than - the only thing that
43 was in the back of my mind was opening myself up for
44 further treatment if this was to make the newspapers or
45 what have you.
46
47 Q. You indicated that you had thought there was
1 a connection between the events of the AWU and the attack
2 on 30 July 1999 in Melton. Were you influenced, in part,
3 by the evidence or the matters that you’ve described in
4 paragraphs 161 and 162?
5 A. Yeah. Yeah. Bullets in the mail, two bullets on one
6 occasion, a cartridge on a second occasion, all designed in
7 my opinion - I’ve got no idea where they came from, I can’t
8 prove it’s related to the AWU, but I know of nobody else
9 that may have had any reason at all to intimidate me like
10 that. I also received hate mail, not handwritten hate mail
11 or typed hate mail, the old glue and paste cuttings out of
12 magazines, I received some of that, and abusive phone
13 calls.
UPDATE
The royal commission will this week examine the TWU’s alleged use of slush funds. Michael Smith has this fascinating preview of TWU money politics.
More cuts to come for the ABC
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (7:10am)
I think Malcolm Turnbull and I could be better friends, after all:
The other two challenges are:
===The Abbott government is planning to strip an additional $40 million-$50m from the ABC’s budget, following recommendations from an independent efficiency review of the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster.That said, efficiency is just one of the three big challenges for the ABC, and the least - although I accept I have not yet seen how the review defines “efficiency”.
Last month’s federal budget cut $43.5m from the budget of the ABC and SBS over four years through a 1 per cent annual efficiency dividend, representing what Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull described as a “down payment” on further savings to be identified by the Lewis efficiency review.
It is understood that having seen the review, which was conducted by former Seven West Media’s chief financial officer Peter Lewis, the government will now seek to implement a “second wave” of cuts that would amount to a 4 per cent hit to the broadcaster’s annual budget of $1.28 billion.
The other two challenges are:
- the dangerous size of the ABC, which must addressed by cutting its functions.But note: Tony Abbott did promise the night before the election there would be “no cuts to the ABC”. These cuts then seem to represent a broken promise, even if Treasurer Joe Hockey before the election also gave a caveat - there would be efficiency savings:
- the overwhelming bias of the ABC, which must be addressed by forcing it to observe its charter duty to be balanced.
Labor and the ABC insist Tony Abbott before the election made this unambiguous promise:
No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS…But wait.... The full quote is this:
I trust everyone actually listened to what Joe Hockey has said last week and again this week. No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.A small difference, you might argue. But Abbott referenced the guarantee Joe Hockey gave, and Hockey three weeks earlier made plain on the ABC’s Q&A that the guarantee did not apply to trimming waste - say, through the usual efficiency dividend:
TONY JONES: Well, while you are on the subject - while you are on the subject, is the ABC immune from cuts? Because the Howard government, when they first came in, cut the ABC 10 and then 2% in two years?…
JOE HOCKEY: I’d just say to you is there any waste in the ABC at all, Tony?
TONY JONES: Say that again?
JOE HOCKEY: Is there any waste? ...
TONY JONES: We’ll just get a quick response from Chris Bowen on this before we move on.
CHRIS BOWEN: Look, I accept that Joe is not going to privatise the ABC. I accept that that’s his position and he will honour that. I do think the ABC, though, has a fair bit to worry about when it comes to funding. As you said, it is what they cut in the Howard Government. We have not cut ABC funding, contrary to your assertion. I think the ABC and the SBS are both very important national institutions and they shouldn’t have their funding cut and you won’t promise not to.
TONY JONES: Well, a quick response to that, Joe Hockey?
JOE HOCKEY: Well, if there is waste, we will cut it.
Labor’s product was the problem, not its sales pitch
Andrew Bolt June 23 2014 (12:01am)
LABOR’S official review of last year’s election campaign proves how right the party was to dump Julia Gillard for Kevin Rudd.
But Labor still won’t admit why Gillard had to go — and what lessons new Labor leader Bill Shorten must learn.
The 25-page report, presented last week to Labor’s national executive, admits Prime Minister Gillard looked like winning just 40 of the 150 House of Representative seats. Switching to Rudd saved 15 more seats.
So Rudd’s return was a success, even if Labor did not win the election — and even if, as the report notes, his micro-managing crippled the campaign.
The report also savages Rudd indirectly by criticising the “debilitating leadership instability” in the Gillard-Rudd years, and concludes “Labor’s defeat in 2013 ... was self-inflicted”.
But claiming instability and poor campaigning wrecked Labor misses the point entirely.
(Read full article here.)
===But Labor still won’t admit why Gillard had to go — and what lessons new Labor leader Bill Shorten must learn.
The 25-page report, presented last week to Labor’s national executive, admits Prime Minister Gillard looked like winning just 40 of the 150 House of Representative seats. Switching to Rudd saved 15 more seats.
So Rudd’s return was a success, even if Labor did not win the election — and even if, as the report notes, his micro-managing crippled the campaign.
The report also savages Rudd indirectly by criticising the “debilitating leadership instability” in the Gillard-Rudd years, and concludes “Labor’s defeat in 2013 ... was self-inflicted”.
But claiming instability and poor campaigning wrecked Labor misses the point entirely.
(Read full article here.)
Obama: “Michelle would make a great presidential candidate, too”
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (9:06pm)
Mr Nobel Peace Prize knows how to hate - and is hated right back by the Clintons:
Scenes from the dinner party from hell:
===IN HIS new book, “Blood Feud,” journalist Edward Klein gets inside the dysfunctional, jealous relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama — and how it could explode in 2016…She would? She has even less experience than did her husband when he became president, and look how that’s showed.
“I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,” Bill Clinton said to friends on one occasion, adding he would never forgive Obama for suggesting he was a racist during the 2008 campaign.
The feeling is mutual…
On most evenings, Michelle Obama and her trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, met in a quiet corner of the White House residence. They’d usually open a bottle of Chardonnay, catch up on news about Sasha and Malia, and gossip about people who gave them heartburn.
Their favourite bête noire was Hillary Clinton, whom they nicknamed “Hildebeest,” after the menacing and shaggy-maned gnu that roams the Serengeti…
“I really can’t stand the way Obama always seems to be hectoring when he talks to me,” Clinton added, according to someone who was present at the gathering and spoke on the condition of anonymity....
During the golf game, Clinton didn’t waste any time reminding Obama that as president he had presided over eight years of prosperity, while Obama had been unable to dig the country out of the longest financial doldrums since the Great Depression.
“Bill got into it right away,” said a Clinton family friend. “He told Obama, ‘Hillary and I are gearing up for a run in 2016.’ He said Hillary would be ‘the most qualified, most experienced candidate, perhaps in history.’ His reference to Hillary’s experience made Obama wince, since it was clearly a shot at his lack of experience when he ran for president.
“And so Bill continued to talk about Hillary’s qualifications ... and the coming campaign in 2016. But Barack didn’t bite. He changed the subject several times. Then suddenly, Barack said something that took Bill by complete surprise. He said, ‘You know, Michelle would make a great presidential candidate, too.’..”
Scenes from the dinner party from hell:
As Bill Clinton went on about his managerial experience, Obama began playing with his BlackBerry under the table, making it plain that he wasn’t paying attention to anything Clinton had to say. He was intentionally snubbing Clinton. Others around the table noticed Obama thumbing his BlackBerry, and the atmosphere turned even colder than before.
Hillary changed the subject again.
“Are you glad you won’t have to campaign again?” she asked Obama. “You don’t seem to enjoy it.”
“For a guy who doesn’t like it,” Obama replied tartly, “I’ve done pretty well."…
After the dinner, and once the Clintons had been ushered out of the family quarters, Obama shook his head and said, “That’s why I never invite that guy over.”
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Anthropomorphism .. actually, the Dinosaurs who saw it had a similar response to it as chickens today view astronomical events. But I think it is poignant for what it implies about today .. A gamma ray burst from a poorly placed local exploding star may have been responsible for extinction events before and could happen again. And we have no defence against it, partly because anti intellectual hucksters like Greenpeace oppose research and promote AGW alarmism. - ed
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Whatever you're chasing, if it isn't Jesus, when you catch it you still won't be satisfied...
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US STARTS BUILDING FIRST NUCLEAR REACTORS IN YEARS.
The USA is building 4 new nuclear reactors to add to the current 104 operating in the USA, which provide about 18% of their electricity. In USA, Coal provides 43%, natural gas 25% and Hydro 7% of their electricity generation.
In addition China is currently building another 28 nuclear reactors.
Of course, these nuclear reactors generate electricity WITHOUT emitting carbon dioxide.
So those that seek to demonise coal, and run around screaming “dangerous global warming” and that the world “must take action” perhaps need a rethink ...........
Is this the outcome they want - a mass role out of nuclear power stations around the world to “moving away from fossil fuels in order to address climate change” ?
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From the archives. This is what ya do when you get sick of looking around ancient cathedrals in Scottish cities. This one is beside the sea in St. Andrews. Wonderful buildering opportunities abound in places like this.
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GILLARD CAN CHOOSE HER OWN POISON
First she needs to accept her salad days of socialism are over, terminally banished to supersede Whitlam in shameful pages of school history books.
Julia could readily choose a number of humane methods for her demise:
First, she could simply stand down and save Australia the pain of another three months of empty unfunded hoaxes and divisive gender invective.
She could choose to sit tight, unaware of when the blade might strike, or from whom. Julia thrives on that sort of excitement.
Maybe she could again slay the potential assassins before their weapons can be unsheathed. The trouble is other potential assassins are now regrouping.
Perhaps she could choose to present herself to the people and suffer ignominious death by ballot. Most of her subjects prefer this option.
Then again she could hand herself into the Victorian Fraud Squad and plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the AWU of millions in members funds, money laundering and deceiving the Commissioner of Corporate Affairs. Hmmm, 20 years is a pretty uncomfortable death.
It’s possible she could choose death by flagellation where 50 ALP members, now bereft of their seats, are locked in a room with her.
Nasty!
She could of course opt to die of shame. Yes, she could stay in bed strenuously denying her evil deeds until a priest eventually arrives and she grudgingly embraces God, confesses her sins, and peruses a last-meal menu.
None of the above if I know Julia.
When death looks her in the eye she will do a deal with the devil. A little bloke with a wandering appendage will offer her a way out... she will accept Bill Shorten’s offer and live happily thereafter.
A grand portrait of her will hang in Parliament House (with a full-time attendant to wipe the marks from it), grateful taxpayers will supplement her CBA bank account with six thousand bucks every week, she’ll have a car, a driver and secretarial staff.
She will be able to look down with pride on all those she said she would help and no longer will she need to turn up at functions with an embarrassing idiot.
My guess is she will hook up with Bruce Wilson and Ralph Blewitt, get smashed on a dry Riesling, and plot another political escapade with John McTernan.
Oh Gawd, the Welsh have much to answer for.
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June 23: Victory Day in Estonia; Jāņi in Latvia; Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg; 100th anniversary of the death of Bhaktivinoda Thakur (pictured)
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clivedefeated troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the British East India Company to annexBengal.
- 1887 – The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park as the country's first national park.
- 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian troops engaged the forces of the Pro-German Government of Latvia near Cēsis, Latvia, recapturing the area four days later.
- 1926 – The College Board administered the first SAT, a majorstandardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.
- 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin died after being beaten into a coma in Highland Park, Michigan, US, by two automotive workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
Events[edit]
- 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
- 1280 – The Battle of Moclín takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadian victory.
- 1305 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
- 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
- 1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
- 1565 – Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
- 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
- 1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
- 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
- 1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
- 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
- 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
- 1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
- 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
- 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- 1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
- 1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
- 1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
- 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
- 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
- 1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
- 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
- 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
- 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
- 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
- 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
- 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
- 1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
- 1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
- 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
- 1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiserHMS Newfoundland.
- 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- 1946 – The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the municipal elections in French India.
- 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- 1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
- 1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
- 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
- 1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
- 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
- 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
- 1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
- 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
- 1969 – Software Industry IBM announced that effective January 1970 it would price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
- 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
- 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
- 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
- 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japaneseand who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
- 1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
- 2012 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
- 2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
- 2013 – Terrorists kill 10 climbers and a local guide during the Nanga Parbat massacre.
Births[edit]
- 47 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (d. 30 BC)
- 1433 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
- 1456 – Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (d. 1486)
- 1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
- 1596 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (d. 1641)
- 1612 – André Tacquet, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1660)
- 1668 – Giambattista Vico, Italian jurist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1744)
- 1683 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
- 1685 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian soprano and composer (d. 1756)
- 1703 – Marie Leszczyńska, Polish wife of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
- 1711 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (d. 1786)
- 1716 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
- 1750 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
- 1763 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I (d. 1814)
- 1799 – John Milton Bernhisel, American physician and politician (d. 1881)
- 1800 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (d. 1846)
- 1824 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1910)
- 1863 – Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1924)
- 1877 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (d. 1929)
- 1884 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1888 – Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician (d. 1935)
- 1888 – Lee Moran, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1961)
- 1889 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet (d. 1966)
- 1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
- 1894 – Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
- 1897 – Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (d. 1986)
- 1902 – Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
- 1903 – Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
- 1906 – Tribhuvan of Nepal (d. 1955)
- 1907 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedian and actress (d. 2008)
- 1907 – James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1909 – David Lewis, Russian-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
- 1909 – Georges Rouquier, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
- 1910 – Jean Anouilh, French playwright (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2008)
- 1910 – Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (d. 2000)
- 1910 – Bill King, English commander and author (d. 2012)
- 1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
- 1913 – William P. Rogers, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Madeleine Parent, Canadian activist (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician (d. 1992)
- 1921 – Armand Russell, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Tedi Thurman, American model and actress (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian activist (d. 1945)
- 1925 – Miriam Karlin, English actress (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Lawson Soulsby, British veterinary pathologist
- 1927 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
- 1927 – John Habgood, British archbishop
- 1928 – Jean Cione, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Michael Shaara, American author (d. 1988)
- 1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter and actress (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1987)
- 1930 – John Elliott, English historian
- 1930 – Francis Newall, British politician and businessman
- 1930 – Anthony Thwaite, British poet
- 1931 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
- 1932 – Peter Millett, British judge
- 1934 – Keith Sutton, British bishop
- 1934 – Bill Torrey, Canadian businessman
- 1935 – Maurice Ferre, American politician, 32nd Mayor of Miami
- 1935 – Keith Burkinshaw, English footballer and manager
- 1936 – Richard Bach, American author
- 1936 – Costas Simitis, Greek politician, 180th Prime Minister of Greece
- 1937 – Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 – Alan Haselhurst, British politician
- 1937 – Niki Sullivan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 2004)
- 1938 – John Hayes, English politician
- 1940 – Adam Faith, English singer, actor, and journalist (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Derry Irvine, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- 1940 – Marcel Massé, Canadian politician and civil servant
- 1940 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
- 1940 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish-English bass player (The Beatles) (d. 1962)
- 1941 – Robert Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Grateful Dead)
- 1941 – Roger McDonald, Australian author
- 1942 – Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist
- 1943 – Vint Cerf, American computer scientist
- 1943 – James Levine, American pianist and conductor
- 1944 – Rosetta Hightower, American singer (The Orlons)
- 1945 – Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and author
- 1945 – John Garang, Sudanese politician, President of Southern Sudan (d. 2005)
- 1946 – Julian Hipwood, British polo player and coach
- 1946 – Ted Shackelford, American actor
- 1947 – Bryan Brown, Australian actor and producer
- 1947 – Anne Owers, British chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales
- 1948 – Myles Goodwyn, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (April Wine)
- 1948 – Luther Kent, American singer
- 1948 – Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
- 1948 – Clarence Thomas, American judge
- 1949 – Gordon Bray, Australian sportscaster
- 1949 – Sheila Noakes, British politician
- 1950 – Nicholas Cleobury, English conductor
- 1951 – David Chillingworth, Irish bishop of Scottish Episcopalian Church
- 1951 – Angelo Falcón, Puerto Rican-American political scientist, founded the National Institute for Latino Policy
- 1951 – Jim Metzler, American actor
- 1951 – Michèle Mouton, French race car driver
- 1952 – Anthony Jackson, American bass player
- 1953 – Andrew Moylan, British judge
- 1955 – Pierre Corbeil, Canadian dentist and politician
- 1955 – Glenn Danzig, American singer-songwriter and producer (Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig)
- 1955 – Maggie Greenwald, American director and screenwriter
- 1955 – Maggie Philbin, English television and radio presenter
- 1955 – Pamela Rooke, English model and actress
- 1955 – Jean Tigana, French footballer and manager
- 1956 – Tony Hill, American football player and sportscaster
- 1956 – Randy Jackson, American bass player and producer
- 1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress
- 1960 – Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
- 1960 – Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese composer and programmer
- 1961 – Richard Arnold, British judge
- 1961 – Zoran Janjetov, Serbian illustrator
- 1961 – LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
- 1962 – Chuck Billy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Testament and Dublin Death Patrol)
- 1962 – Andrew Bingham, English politician
- 1962 – Steve Shelley, American drummer and producer (The Crucifucks, Sonic Youth, Dim Stars, and Disappears)
- 1962 – Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1962 – Kevin Yagher, American make-up artist
- 1963 – Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
- 1963 – Wesley Warren, Jr., American elephantiasis victim (d. 2014)
- 1964 – Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
- 1964 – Nicolas Marceau, Canadian economist and politician
- 1964 – Joss Whedon, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Paul Arthurs, English guitarist (Oasis and The Rain)
- 1965 – Mitch Longley American actor and stuntman
- 1966 – Chico DeBarge, American singer and pianist (DeBarge)
- 1966 – Richie Ren, Taiwanese singer and actor
- 1967 – Helen Geake, English archaeologist
- 1969 – Martin Klebba, American actor
- 1970 – Robert Brooks, American football player
- 1970 – Martin Deschamps, Canadian singer-songwriter (Offenbach)
- 1970 – Yann Tiersen, French composer
- 1971 – Fred Ewanuick, Canadian actor
- 1971 – Félix Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1972 – Selma Blair, American actress
- 1972 – Ron Corning, American journalist
- 1972 – Louis Van Amstel, Dutch-American dancer and choreographer
- 1972 – Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager
- 1973 – Marija Naumova, Latvian singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Mark Hendrickson, American basketball and baseball player
- 1975 – Jeffrey Carlson, American actor and singer
- 1975 – Kevin Dyson, American football player and coach
- 1975 – Mike James, American basketball player
- 1975 – Mik Kersten, Polish-Canadian computer scientist
- 1975 – Janika Sillamaa, Estonian singer
- 1975 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 – Wade Barrett, American soccer player and manager
- 1976 – Joe Becker, American guitarist and composer
- 1976 – Patrick Monahan, Iranian-Irish comedian
- 1976 – Savvas Poursaitidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1976 – Brandon Stokley, American football player
- 1976 – Paola Suárez, Argentinian tennis player
- 1976 – Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress and singer
- 1976 – Patrick Vieira, French footballer and manager
- 1977 – Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
- 1977 – Hayden Foxe, Australian footballer and manager
- 1977 – Jaan Jüris, Estonian ski jumper
- 1977 – Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 – Shaun O'Hara, American football player
- 1978 – Memphis Bleek, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1978 – Frédéric Leclercq, French singer-songwriter and bass player (DragonForce and Heavenly)
- 1978 – Matt Light, American football player and sportscaster
- 1979 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
- 1980 – Becky Cloonan, American author and illustrator
- 1980 – Melissa Rauch, American actress
- 1980 – Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
- 1980 – Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
- 1980 – Stephan Wojcikiewicz, Canadian badminton player
- 1981 – Antony Costa, English singer-songwriter and actor (Blue)
- 1981 – Rolf Wacha, German rugby player
- 1982 – Rafael Bejarano, Peruvian-American jockey
- 1982 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1983 – Jason Berrent, American actor and producer
- 1983 – Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – José Manuel Rojas, Chilean footballer
- 1983 – Miles Fisher, American actor and singer
- 1984 – Duffy, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 – Tatjana Kivimägi, Russian-Estonian high jumper
- 1984 – Takeshi Matsuda, Japanese swimmer
- 1984 – Levern Spencer, Saint Lucian high jumper
- 1984 – J. T. Thomas, American reality show contestant on Survivor: Tocantins
- 1984 – Dave Walsh, American gamer
- 1985 – Kristo Aab, Estonian basketball player
- 1985 – Marcel Reece, American football player
- 1987 – Alessia Filippi, Italian swimmer
- 1988 – Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1988 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
- 1989 – Lauren Bennett, English singer and dancer (Paradiso Girls)
- 1989 – Marielle Jaffe, American model and actress
- 1989 – Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Ayana Taketatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1991 – Katie Armiger, American singer
- 1992 – Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast
- 1993 – Marvin Grumann, German footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 79 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. 9)
- 679 – Æthelthryth, queen of Northumbria
- 1018 – Henry I, Margrave of Austria
- 1222 – Constance of Aragon (b. 1179)
- 1314 – Henry de Bohun, English knight
- 1582 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese commander (b. 1537)
- 1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese daimyo (b. 1545)
- 1677 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
- 1686 – William Coventry, English politician (b. 1628)
- 1707 – John Mill, English theologian (b. 1645)
- 1733 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
- 1770 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
- 1775 – Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer (b. 1692)
- 1779 – Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
- 1806 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1811 – Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet (b. 1740)
- 1832 – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
- 1836 – James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1773)
- 1856 – Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1881 – Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (b. 1804)
- 1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
- 1891 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
- 1893 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
- 1914– Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian Vaishnava philosopher and spiritual reformist (b. 1838)
- 1945 – Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian activist (b. 1923)
- 1949 – Aristeidis Stergiadis, Greek politician (b. 1861)
- 1956 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
- 1959 – Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
- 1969 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (b. 1907)
- 1970 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (b. 1895)
- 1973 – Gerry Birrell, Scottish racing driver (b. 1944)
- 1980 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1946)
- 1980 – V. V. Giri, Indian politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
- 1980 – Odile Versois, French actress (b. 1930)
- 1981 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
- 1982 – Vincent Chin, Chinese-American murder victim (b. 1955)
- 1989 – Werner Best, German jurist and police officer (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Frank Buckland, Canadian businessman (b. 1902)
- 1991 – Lea Padovani, Italian actress (b. 1920)
- 1992 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
- 1995 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Roger Grimsby, American journalist, television news anchor and actor (b. 1928)
- 1996 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 174th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936)
- 1998 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972)
- 2000 – Peter L. Pond, American clergyman, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1933)
- 2001 – Yvonne Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
- 2005 – Shana Alexander, American journalist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet and critic (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
- 2007 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
- 2008 – Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish voice actor (b. 1952)
- 2008 – Arthur Chung, Guyanan politician, 1st President of Guyana (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Marian Glinka, Polish actor and bodybuilder (b. 1943)
- 2008 – Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (b. 1920)
- 2009 – Raymond Berthiaume, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1931)
- 2009 – John Callaway, American journalist (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Hanne Hiob, German actress (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Ed McMahon, American game show host and announcer (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician (b. 1952)
- 2009 – Manuel Saval, Mexican actor (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Pete Quaife, English bass player (The Kinks) (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
- 2011 – Fred Steiner, American composer and arranger (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Franz Crass, German singer (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees, English author and soldier (b. 1925)
- 2012 – James Durbin, English economist (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Brigitte Engerer, French pianist (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Ken Hargreaves, English politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Alan McDonald, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Frank Chee Willeto, American politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Frank Kelso, American admiral (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Little Willie Littlefield, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (Crushed Butler and Tiger) (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Frank Stranahan, American golfer (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Meamea Thomas, I-Kiribati weightlifter (d. 1987)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Father's Day (Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda)
- Grand Duke's Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
- National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
- St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations [although this is not the real summer solstice; see June 20] (Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe):
- First day of Golowan Festival (Cornwall)
- First night of Ivan Kupala Day
- Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
- Last day of Drăgaica fair (Buzău, Romania)
- Līgo (Latvia)
- United Nations Public Service Day (International)
- Victory Day (Estonia)
“The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” Psalm 121:7-8 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"He shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory."
Zechariah 6:13
Zechariah 6:13
Christ himself is the builder of his spiritual temple, and he has built it on the mountains of his unchangeable affection, his omnipotent grace, and his infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon's temple, so in this; the materials need making ready. There are the "Cedars of Lebanon," but they are not framed for the building; they are not cut down, and shaped, and made into those planks of cedar, whose odoriferous beauty shall make glad the courts of the Lord's house in Paradise. There are also the rough stones still in the quarry, they must be hewn thence, and squared. All this is Christ's own work. Each individual believer is being prepared, and polished, and made ready for his place in the temple; but Christ's own hand performs the preparation-work. Afflictions cannot sanctify, excepting as they are used by him to this end. Our prayers and efforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand of Jesus, who fashioneth our hearts aright.
As in the building of Solomon's temple, "there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house," because all was brought perfectly ready for the exact spot it was to occupy--so is it with the temple which Jesus builds; the making ready is all done on earth. When we reach heaven, there will be no sanctifying us there, no squaring us with affliction, no planing us with suffering. No, we must be made meet here--all that Christ will do beforehand; and when he has done it, we shall be ferried by a loving hand across the stream of death, and brought to the heavenly Jerusalem, to abide as eternal pillars in the temple of our Lord.
"Beneath his eye and care,
The edifice shall rise,
Majestic, strong, and fair,
And shine above the skies."
Evening
"That those things which cannot be shaken may remain."
Hebrews 12:27
Hebrews 12:27
We have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written upon all things. Yet, we have certain "things which cannot be shaken," and I invite you this evening to think of them, that if the things which can be shaken should all be taken away, you may derive real comfort from the things that cannot be shaken, which will remain. Whatever your losses have been, or may be, you enjoy present salvation. You are standing at the foot of his cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus' precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that. Then you are a child of God this evening. God is your Father. No change of circumstances can ever rob you of that. Although by losses brought to poverty, and stripped bare, you can say, "He is my Father still. In my Father's house are many mansions; therefore will I not be troubled." You have another permanent blessing, namely, the love of Jesus Christ. He who is God and Man loves you with all the strength of his affectionate nature--nothing can affect that. The fig tree may not blossom, and the flocks may cease from the field, it matters not to the man who can sing, "My Beloved is mine, and I am his." Our best portion and richest heritage we cannot lose. Whatever troubles come, let us play the man; let us show that we are not such little children as to be cast down by what may happen in this poor fleeting state of time. Our country is Immanuel's land, our hope is above the sky, and therefore, calm as the summer's ocean; we will see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation.
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Malachi
[Măl'achī] - messenger of jehovah ormy messenger.
[Măl'achī] - messenger of jehovah ormy messenger.
1. The last of the Old Testament prophets, and author of the last book of The Minor Prophets.
The Man Who Believed in God's Electing Love
Nothing is known of Malachi save what his prophecy tells us. Ancient writers looked upon him as an angel incarnate, while a great number of Jews believed him to be Ezra the Scribe. It would seem as if he was connected with Nehemiah's work. Perhaps he prepared the way for it, helped in it and followed it up. Compare Malachi 1:8 withNehemiah 5:15, 18, where it seems clear that he prophesied either during Nehemiah's absence in Persia (Neh. 13:6) or after Nehemiah assumed governorship. As the last of the prophets, he was the seal of all the goodly fellowship of prophets.
While Malachi's prominent message was the rebuke of the remnant and the announcement of future purging and blessing, the keynote of his book appears to be the unchangeableness of God, and His unceasing love ( Mal. 1:2; 3:6). The tone of his message is expostulation blended with judgment. Yet gracious promises and assurances are interspersed like pearls gleaming against a dark background.
Features to note are the whereins repeated by Malachi's hearers. Against such the prophet amplifies and enforces his original charge (Mal. 1:2, 6, 7; 2:17; 3:7-9). We have:
I. The charge made against God involving an utter disregard of Him (Mal. 1:1, 2).
II. The rejection of the worship of God ( Mal. 1:6-14).
III. The intense oration of His law (Mal. 2:1-9).
IV. Social wrongs and disorder in the home (Mal. 2:10, 16).
V. The blatant perversion of judgment (Mal. 2:17).
VI. Gross immorality and degradation (Mal. 3:5).
VII. Robbery in the service of the Temple ( Mal. 3:7-9).
Other features to develop are:
Priestly qualifications - holiness, communion with God, usefulness and knowledge (Mal. 2:6, 7).
An ideal picture of the true gospel ministry (Mal. 2:5, 6).
The Lord's care for and interest in His people (Mal. 3:16, 18).
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Today's reading: Esther 6-8, Acts 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Esther 6-8
Mordecai Honored
1 That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. 2 It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
3 "What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?" the king asked.
"Nothing has been done for him," his attendants answered.
4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him....
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 6
The Choosing of the Seven
1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. 2 So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, "It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. 3 Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them 4 and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word."
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