In 1934 we saw the difference between Fascism and Nazism. Austria's diminutive Chancellor Dollfuss had stymied Austrian Nazis. Italy, under Mussolini promised to protect Austria from the Nazis. While Mussolini had been hosting Dollfuss' wife, the Nazis assassinated Dollfuss as part of an attempted coup on this day. It failed as Mussolini guaranteed protection of Austria. He denounced Nazis as being little different to Stalinists.
On this day in 306, Constantine I was made Ceaser by his Roman Legions. They had wanted to make his dad Ceaser, but his dad had died. He would rule and build for thirty one years. His mother had a strong impact on his life, and she had become Christian. She predeceased him by some seven years, but she seemed to have had a strong say in the execution of his son and wife for immoral behaviour. Constantine had himself baptised shortly before his death. He seemed to have done so tactically, as he seemed to be of the impression it would absolve him of his pre baptismal sin. So, he was no theologian. In 315, the Arch of Constantine was built in honour of a battle. In 1261, Constantinople was reestablished as capital of the Byzantine empire after a battle. In 864, Charles the Bald ordered defensive measures against Vikings. In 1456, Italians had learned to use firearms. In 1603, the crowns of Scotland and England unified. In 1788, Mozart completed his Symphony number 40 in G Minor. In 1799, Napoleon beat some Egyptians. In 1837, the first commercial use was made of a telegraph. In 1920, the first use of two way radio across the Atlantic. In 1866, US Grant was promoted to General of the Army, the first to achieve it. In 1908, MSG was isolated for mass production. In 1909, the first flight by airplane across the Channel, in 37 minutes. In 1917, income tax is introduced in Canada as a temporary measure. In 1946, Bikini Atoll experienced its first atomic test. On the same day in '46, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin began their partnership as a comedy team in Atlantic City. In 1959, a hovercraft was used to traverse the channel in just over two hours. In 1976, Viking took a picture of a face on Mars. In 1993, a church massacre was carried out in South Africa. The killers largest time served was five and a half years for the hate crime.
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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
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===306 – Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
1893 – The Corinth Canal was formally opened, connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in the Aegean Sea.
1943 – The Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini, who was arrested the same day by King Victor Emmanuel III and replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1978 – Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed by police at Cerro Maravilla in Villalba.
1993 – Israeli forces launched a week-long attack against Lebanon to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel. On your day, something passes and is replaced by someone great. It is good that canal opened. Nobody liked Mussolini anyway. Hold your ground. Everything you have, you deserve.
Matches
- 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
- 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentiusat the Milvian Bridge.
- 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking.
- 1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1456 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
- 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- 1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Unionand not to end slavery.
- 1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate(MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
- 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1920 – Telecommunications: The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
- 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 1959 – SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
- 1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
- 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
- 1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and four on the ground.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Hatches
- 1016 – Casimir I the Restorer, Polish son of Mieszko II Lambert (d. 1058)
- 1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1562 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
- 1654 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
- 1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)
- 1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch playwright and poet (d. 1756)
- 1867 – Max Dauthendey, German author and painter (d. 1918)
- 1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1894 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)
- 1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1918 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
- 1923 – Edgar Gilbert, American mathematician (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
- 1937 – Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archeologist and academic
- 1941 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
- 1942 – Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers)
- 1943 – Jim McCarty, English singer and drummer (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion)
- 1951 – Verdine White, American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- 1955 – Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
- 1964 – Anne Applebaum, American journalist and author
- 1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
- 1978 – Louise Brown, English test tube baby
- 1980 – Soo Ae, South Korean actress
- 1984 – Lauriane Gilliéron, Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2005
- 1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver
- 1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1991 – Toni Duggan, English female footballer
- 2000 – Preston Bailey, American actor
Despatches
- 306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (b. 250)
- 1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
- 1572 – Isaac Luria, Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
- 1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
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The handbag hit squad fails to show respect
Piers Akerman – Thursday, July 24, 2014 (7:24pm)
CURRENT and past world leaders and senior diplomats have paid generous compliments to foreign minister Julie Bishop for the tireless work she put in to win unanimous backing for the UN resolution calling for “full and unrestricted access” to the MH17 crash site.
Continue reading 'The handbag hit squad fails to show respect'HA HA HA HA HA
Tim Blair – Friday, July 25, 2014 (7:32pm)
An adult human being wrote this and the New York Times actually published it:
It will be remembered as one of the most ignoble moments in our history: On July 17, Australia became the first country to repeal a carbon tax.
That’s Julia Baird, by the way, clearly aiming to upgrade her Frightbat status from “junior cave baby” to “full-blown lyssavirus.” Readers are invited to submit their own examples of Australia’s most ignoble historical moments.
(Via Chris Kenny)
LIAR A WINNER
Tim Blair – Friday, July 25, 2014 (3:52pm)
An environmental campaigner who distributed a fake press release that caused a coal company’s share price to crash has been released on a good behaviour bond.
Jonathan Moylan received a 20-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to disseminating false information, but Supreme Court Justice David Davies ordered his immediate release on a $1,000 bond …He acknowledged Moylan’s contrition, apology letter and early guilty plea, saying he was discounting the sentence by 15 per cent.
Lame.
MIKE’S MEMORY
Tim Blair – Friday, July 25, 2014 (10:22am)
Mike Carlton recalls a debate with Andrew Bolt:
I did do a TV debate with Blot once, for al-Jazeera, I think. Don’t wish to boast, but he was reduced to spluttering incoherence.
AWARENESS OCCURS
Tim Blair – Friday, July 25, 2014 (9:41am)
Ground-level Greenpeace dupes are furious about high-flying Greenpeace executives:
We find it shocking that our International Programme Director has been commuting by plane … you should have the moral compass to know this crosses the line.
(Via Brat)
MODARN SENFELD IMAGENED
Tim Blair – Friday, July 25, 2014 (9:38am)
Not for the first time, a question is asked:
If Seinfeld was still on the air today …
THREE-RING CIRCUS
Tim Blair – Friday, July 25, 2014 (8:50am)
Labor’s dying days in government contained a potential twist:
An embattled Julia Gillard secretly offered to stand down as Prime Minister in June 2013 and secure the leadership for then Climate Change and Industry minister Greg Combet in order to fend off Kevin Rudd, Mr Combet has revealed.
Within months, thankfully, all three were removed from federal politics.
David Dale’s curious idea of “fair and balanced” in sledging Abbott
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (8:44pm)
Remember this ludicrous sledge from David Dale, which the Fairfax newspapers were only too delighted to trumpet?
Read on as Henderson demonstrates the selection indignation - and selective indifference - of Waleed Aly, writing what Hamas must surely think useful indeed.
===Prime Minister Tony Abbott may be the most famous of the old alumni who will gather with Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday night to mark the 50th anniversary of The Australian. He will attend in his capacity as Prime Minister but the newspaper has proudly and often claimed him as one of their own. In fact, he only arrived at The Australian after encountering problems as a feature writer with the Packer-owned magazine The Bulletin.Gerard Henderson:
Mr Abbott’s misadventures with a typewriter came to a head in 1988 when his editor, David Dale, asked him to rewrite an article five times. “Tony couldn’t seem to get the idea that a feature for The Bulletin had to be fair and balanced,” Dale said on Monday. “I told him if he kept going like that he had no future on the magazine.” Mr Abbott went on to work briefly in a concrete factory before joining The Australian as an editorial writer.
And what was David Dale’s idea of “fair and balanced” when he edited The Bulletin in 1988? You be the judge.
On 20 December 1988, under your man Dale’s editorship, The Bulletin published a cover featuring a photograph of John Howard ...:
David Dale’s assessment of John Howard in 1988 was neither fair nor balanced – and it proved to be hopelessly wrong. Yet Mr Dale now boasts that he once sacked Tony Abbott for journalistic unfairness? Can you bear it?
Read on as Henderson demonstrates the selection indignation - and selective indifference - of Waleed Aly, writing what Hamas must surely think useful indeed.
Mike Carlton’s fancy: omne ignotum pro magnifico.
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (8:31pm)
Tim Blair:
===Mike Carlton recalls a debate with Andrew Bolt:Carlton wouldn’t provide the links to the debate. I am only too delighted to do so. That difference suggests the truth.
I did do a TV debate with Blot once, for al-Jazeera, I think. Don’t wish to boast, but he was reduced to spluttering incoherence.Really? You be the judge.
How Plibersek hates
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (8:57am)
Piers Akerman says world leaders have noted the obvious:
===Netherlands foreign minister Frans Timmermans made it clear Australia’s leadership and Bishop’s direction were crucial to the success of the UN move.But Tanya Plibersek is a hater:
“I want to start by wholeheartedly thanking Australia for taking the initiative with this resolution, and especially the personal commitment from Julie Bishop that has made this possible,” he said after the vote.
“Without her perseverance we would not be standing here today with this resolution adopted by the Security Council.”
.... former US president Bill Clinton told a Melbourne audience he was proud to be in Australia when Bishop secured the UN resolution and Abbott said the council’s unanimous support for Australia’s resolution was a tribute to Bishop, “who called it for Australia” and “for the world”.
When asked whether she supported Abbott’s response on behalf of Australia to the heartbreaking disaster, she replied: “I think emotions have run very high. We know now at least 37 Australian citizens and permanent residents have lost their lives. It’s a very emotional time for our country. It is important that we establish a proper investigation now so that those who are responsible can face the consequences of their actions.”David Crowe:
Nothing doing there.
She was as truculent when asked on Tuesday if Abbott and Bishop “deserve an enormous amount of credit for this, not only getting a UN resolution through in only a matter of days but also taking a very strong stand very early on this matter?”
“Look,” she said, “I think it shows that organisations like the Security Council can, when they’re operating well, be very effective.
There is now more than a suspicion within the government that Labor is ready to switch from bipartisan to belligerent at any time during the long investigation into the missile attack on the flight.
What ISIS intends for women and Christians
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (7:39am)
Australian jihadists are actually fighting for and supporting these bloody Neanderthals:
===The United Nations, expressing deep concern, said on Thursday that militant group Islamic State had ordered all girls and women in and around Iraq’s northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation.And:
But doubts emerged on social media about the basis for the report. One document posted on Twitter suggested it may be a year old and have been issued by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, the group’s previous name…
A UN spokesman in Geneva said that they were seeking clarity and trying to establish the facts.
Such a “fatwa” issued by the Sunni Muslim fighters would potentially affect 4 million women and girls, U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcock told reporters in Geneva by videolink from Arbil.
Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee the northern city of Mosul under threat of forced conversion or execution by jihadists have spoken of their terror as churches were turned into mosques and their homes and property confiscated.Meanwhile:
The expulsion of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities provoked condemnation and anguish from figures as diverse as the pope and Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who lambasted the Islamic State (Isis) for its “criminality and terrorism"…
“If Isis stays, there is no way the Christians can return,” Father Boutrous Moshi told the Guardian from Qara Qoosh, a Christian area south-east of Mosul. “It is up to God whether we return or not. They have not burned the churches but they did set fire to the pictures and the books and broke the windows.”
Monks at the fourth-century Mar Behnam monastery, a major pilgrimage site run by the Syriac Catholic church, were allowed to take only the clothes they were wearing.
Islamic State (Isis) militants have blown up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah in Mosul, residents of the city said.The kind of enemy you can only destroy.
Gillard’s final offer: anyone but Rudd
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (7:25am)
Hatred too often drove Julia Gillard, ungoverned by any political judgement. Former Minister Greg Combet tells of Gillard’s bizarre offer to make him Prime Minister just a couple of months before the last election:
===Julia surprised me at that discussion by suggesting that she would support and she’d stand down in favour of me if I stood.Combet saw instantly what any fool would know - that trying to hold off Rudd by imposing yet another leader was doomed to fail both with the party and the public:
It would have been extremely difficult, firstly, to gain the support of colleagues, I think, and then the support of the Parliament and then to run an election campaign. So, politically, I thought it was a pretty hard manoeuvre to pull off. And secondly, Kevin Rudd’s momentum for his return was very strongHow could Gillard have proposed anything so mad? Only hatred of Rudd could explain it.
Why is the ABC pushing al Jazeera, voice of a regime which backs the Muslim Brotherhood?
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (7:09am)
I this week asked: why is the ABC broadcasting an hour of Al Jazeera TV, twice a day, when it is the voice of a regime which backs the Muslim Brotherhood?
The ABC and SBS are also regularly using al Jazeera reporters and analysts in their regular news and current affairs shows to give a very decided perspective:
So, why is the ABC handing over its broadcasting facilities for two hours a day to the state broadcaster of a Muslim Brotherhood sponsor?
===The ABC and SBS are also regularly using al Jazeera reporters and analysts in their regular news and current affairs shows to give a very decided perspective:
ABC News Radio yesterday:Why doesn’t the ABC at least show balance by broadcasting Israeli television news as well? I am sure Israel’s i24news would be glad to offer the ABC an hour a day of its feed. And, unlike al Jazeera, it is independent of government.
THERE is a strong possibility that Israel is committing war crimes … Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston filed this report.Guess who funds Al Jazeera and which side they back? Armin Rosen, Business Insider, yesterday:
HAMAS’S apparent hard-line position ... with Israel is a partial function of Qatari support, as the emirate is the financial underwriter for the militant group’s policies and hosts ... Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said in a Doha press conference — carried in its entirety on Qatari-funded Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel — that Egypt would have to open the Rafah border crossing as a condition before his group would agree to a ceasefire. It’s a request Egypt is unlikely to agree to ...No mention that Al Jazeera’s backers fund Hamas? ABC News Radio’s Weekend Breakfast, Sunday:
AL Jazeera commentator Marwan Bashara: The Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire, that was ... an Israeli initiative with Egyptian wrappings. This time around, there’s a genuine, apparently, Hamas initiative ...Al Jazeera interview with Dr Mads Gilbert. SBS World Radio News, Monday:
BRIANNA Roberts: A Norwegian doctor in Gaza, Mads Gilberts, told Al Jazeera people are growing increasingly desperate.That would be Mads Gilbert, the doctor who supported 9/11. Kristian Sarastuen, Dagbladet, September 30, 2001:
Gilberts: The Israeli forces do not allow ambulances to access those people who are trapped in Shejaiya. There may be more than a hundred or hundreds. We don’t know the exact number of injured in the area but the access of ambulances is a major problem. A father just came running with his daughter screaming that “we need ambulances, we need ambulances, we need ambulances.”
DR Mads Gilbert: The attack on New York (on 9/11) did not come as a surprise after the policy that the West has led during the last decades ... The oppressed also have a moral right to attack the USA with any weapon they can come up with ...No prizes for guessing which network Waleed Aly chooses? ABC Radio National, July 21:
Interviewer: Do you support a terror attack against the USA?
Gilbert: ... yes, within the context which I have mentioned.
WALEED Aly: Joining me now … Nicole Johnston Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza ...
Johnston: ... Shejaiya (was) hit … more than 60 people in that one neighbourhood were killed, many of them were women and children … Israel has said that there is a so-called “terror network” — that’s what they’re calling it — of tunnels under that neighbourhood. The bottom line is that it’s still a residential area. It’s a densely packed area; it’s been full of civilians, ...
Aly: Israel is warning people to flee. Are they fleeing? …
Johnston: Yeah, they are, especially after this incident in Shejaiya …
So, why is the ABC handing over its broadcasting facilities for two hours a day to the state broadcaster of a Muslim Brotherhood sponsor?
Follow Italy! Get more boats, more deaths, more criminals
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (6:30am)
Refugee advocate Pamela Curr wants us to learn from Italy:
(Thanks to reader Andrew.)
===In fact, Curr’s numbers are way out. Following Italy’s lead would mean taking in more than 400 boat people every day:
The Italian navy rescued 824 migrants from North Africa who were trying to make it to the European nation during the night... Since the beginning of the year, Italy has received 80,791 immigrants coming mainly from North African countries.In fact, following Italy’s lead would mean facilitating horror. Last week:
A total of 19 people have been found dead on board a crowded boat of African migrants as it was travelling to Italy.In fact, following Italy’s lead would mean encouraging the brutal in cross your borders. This week:
The migrants are thought to have died from poisonous carbon monoxide fumes emitted by the old boat’s engine…
On Friday, Ansa reported that migrants that had been rescued by a merchant ship earlier in the week had spoken of a shipwreck in which between 40 and 60 people are thought to have drowned, but Italian authorities have not confirmed this.
Italian police have arrested five men on suspicion of murdering and throwing overboard dozens of migrants crossing by fishing boat from Libya…Never mind the consequences, admire the compassion!
About 561 surviving migrants on the boat were rescued and brought to the Sicilian city of Messina on Sunday.
Survivors say a life-or-death fight broke out over the weekend when those who were riding in the vessel’s hold, suffocating from heat and a lack of oxygen, desperately tried to find room on the packed deck.
To keep the migrants below the deck, the five men indiscriminately stabbed and assaulted an estimated 60 of their fellow migrants before throwing them overboard, according to police…
Twenty-nine bodies were later recovered from the hold of what had been a badly overcrowded fishing boat…
According to the testimony of “numerous” migrants, the five men - two Moroccans, a Saudi Arabian, a Syrian and a Palestinian - “randomly” assaulted dozens with knives and their fists, throwing overboard their victims as friends and relatives watched, police said.
(Thanks to reader Andrew.)
Meet Australia’s latest export: the suicide bomber
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (6:18am)
What culture did we import that produced this deadly export? And why?
THIS is the Australian teen authorities believe became a suicide bomber in Iraq last week, killing five people. But the family of Adam Dahman, 18, last night denied he was the bomber, saying he is alive in Syria and had contacted them last week. His father said ASIO agents had interviewed his son but let him go, and he believed he was doing humanitarian work in Syria.UPDATE
The teen, from Northcote, Melbourne is suspected of detonating a bomb near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad last week.
Pictures on Adam’s Facebook page date back to December 21 and appear to show him posing in front of Islamic State flags in Iraq which read “There is no God but God; Mohammed is the messenger of God”.
But Sam Dahman, did not believe his son was the suicide bomber: “Where is the proof?”
I don’t believe Australia has been greatly enriched on the whole by immigration from Lebanon, despite many obvious success stories:
POLICE have condemned violent threats made by the family of a Sydney mother who is facing jail in Lebanon over adultery charges.
Mahassen Issa ... is facing a six-month jail term under Islamic law after she separated from her husband and met a man in Lebanon…
Her brother Ahmed ... said it was against Islamic law for a woman to remarry unless she had been divorced for at least a year. He claimed his sister married her new partner while in Lebanon, but she has denied this.
”She’s my sister, I would put a bullet between her eyes, I couldn’t give a shit,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
The Age accuses Labor of stealing its tape
Andrew Bolt July 25 2014 (6:01am)
The Age accuses Labor of being a party of thieves and frauds:
June 24, 2014
The recording is sent to many, but not all, Liberal members, suggesting the mailing list used by the peddler is not up to date. That in turn suggests the peddler might not be someone currently working in Liberal politics. Meanwhile, the story from The Age changes as it develops from 10am. There are lots of hints of Liberal involvement, but not much about Labor’s possible role in the theft of the Dictaphone at a Labor conference. Only after 6:26pm does The Age editor-in-chief say - on the ABC - the theft has been reported to police, six weeks after the event:
The Age editor-in-chief isn’t keen on any suggestion the recording was stolen at a Labor conference:
The Age news editor is happy to blame Liberals instead:
The Age now confuses the issue by claiming a second recorder is missing – something denied by Age reporter Josh Gordon.
Premier Dennis Napthine on 3AW discusses reports that one Dictaphone went “missing” at the state Labor conference. The Age’s Gordon tweets:
===Senior staff from Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews’ office and Labor Party chiefs were involved in the theft of a journalist’s recording device as part of a dirty tricks campaign to destabilise the Napthine Government.Not name them? How kind. So much kinder than The Age was when it tried to deflect blame on the Liberals instead in what is fast becoming a scandal not just for Labor. I am very suspicious about the way The Age has played this story.
The Age can reveal that a dictaphone belonging to Sunday Age political editor Farrah Tomazin was handed in to lost property by security at Labor’s state conference in May, before it was obtained and listened to by one of the top officials in Victorian Labor ranks.
The dictaphone contained a private conversation between Tomazin and former Liberal premier Ted Baillieu in which he was critical of colleagues. More than a month later a link to the conversation, now posted online, was emailed to hundreds of Liberal Party members by a person claiming to be a Liberal Party member - using a false name.
It is understood that copies of the taped conversation were made by a senior Labor official and scrutinised by others in the party’s organisational wing, as well as senior strategists in Mr Andrews’ office.
The group is believed to have debated whether the recording could be released publicly to fuel tensions in the Liberal Party ahead of the November 29 state election,,,
The Age is aware of the identities of the people involved but at this stage has chosen not to name them.
June 24, 2014
The recording is sent to many, but not all, Liberal members, suggesting the mailing list used by the peddler is not up to date. That in turn suggests the peddler might not be someone currently working in Liberal politics. Meanwhile, the story from The Age changes as it develops from 10am. There are lots of hints of Liberal involvement, but not much about Labor’s possible role in the theft of the Dictaphone at a Labor conference. Only after 6:26pm does The Age editor-in-chief say - on the ABC - the theft has been reported to police, six weeks after the event:
7:51pm
ANDREW HOLDEN: We’ll certainly record the fact that the tape recorder has gone missing and record that with police and just let them know that we’re concerned as to how it’s been misused.
The Age editor-in-chief isn’t keen on any suggestion the recording was stolen at a Labor conference:
He said any suggestion the recording was stolen or misplaced was “speculation”, however. “I don’t think it gets us anywhere as to how it went missing the first place,” he said.June 25, 2014:
The Age news editor is happy to blame Liberals instead:
Mark Forbes on who stole the tape: “I think you have to look at people who are opposed to Ted and that’s a wide range of people.”June 26, 2014:
The Age now confuses the issue by claiming a second recorder is missing – something denied by Age reporter Josh Gordon.
But The Age editor in chief Andrew Holden maintained there were “no dirty tricks”. He assured Neil Mitchell it was not a cover up.The Age state political reporter again implicates the Liberals, this time the office of federal minister Kevin Andrews:
“What I do know is the tape recorder went missing, I don’t know exactly where, I don’t know exactly when,” he said…
He added another tape was also missing – that tape belonged to Josh Gordon.
“I have absolutely no idea whether they’re connected in any way whatsoever,” he said, adding they went missing within the same week…
June 27, 2014:
Premier Dennis Napthine on 3AW discusses reports that one Dictaphone went “missing” at the state Labor conference. The Age’s Gordon tweets:
The Victorian Labor Party strongly denies any involvement in the theft and distribution of the tape.
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Meh, there is no such state in modern times as Palestine. The reference is to a Roman name of a Jewish state under secular administration, like Israel is today. The Balfour agreement or British mandate Palestine was supposed to create Israel, but British bigots forgot. Jordan seized some of Israel's promised land and after a civil war in Jordan, the losers claimed the land as their own. Those Jordanians called themselves Palestinians in 1967. The UN has made the situation worse by declaring these called Palestinians as refugees and claiming those born in Israel are not Israeli. This is different to all refugee conventions everywhere else. Palestinians have no right to that land, but no other Arab state wants them. They have employed terror to achieve their goals. They should not be allowed to win. - ed
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4 her, so she can see how I see her - ed
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Auf alle Fälle führt die Hoffnung weiter als die Furcht (Ernst Jünger)
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Beautiful views over the Tuscan valley
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‘Peace Talks? The Mideast is Going Up in Flames’ - Israel National News
Nobel Prize-winning professor baffled by peace talks. “It’s obvious that a signed agreement would be meaningless.” - Maayana Miskin
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Below the Mists, Above the Clouds... — withDarvin Atkeson at Muir Beach Overlook.
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Kevin Rudd's net debt ads are highly deceptive. His net debt does not include the $148 billion we owe to pay for the superannuation of public servants, but it does use the money in the Future Fund that Costello put away for that purpose. Rudd's using Costello's prudence to make him look good!
Graph below corrects for this anomaly. You actually owe more than $20,000 per person in net government liabilities (up from having money in the bank a few years ago).
(My figures use the IMF World Economic Outlook and are slightly different probably because I use current US$ exchange rates.)
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Doctor Who’s Starry Night…
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“Words are what men live by… words they say and mean.” - JOHN WAYNE
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DEAR UNCLE KEV....
I tried to get a photo with you at the shopping mall for show-and-tell, ‘cos I think you are famous. My dad says you’re a narcissistic megalomaniac. I’m not sure what that means but it sure sounds important.
Anyway Uncle Kev, the teacher says we have to do an essay on what a silly man Mr Abbott is and how you will stop all these people drowning.
My friend Chloe says you should teach them all to swim but when I asked my dad he said you couldn’t teach a bloody fish to swim (my dad only swears when we talk about you).
I’m really confused ‘tho Uncle Kev because when you send everyone to PNG (I hear it’s a really awful place) you say they will hate being there and stop coming, is that right?
Uncle Kev, I saw on TV all the horrible places where we keep them now, where they do awful things to each other, and then there’s probably 2,000 of them who have already drowned! So if that hasn’t stopped them coming, how could having to go to PNG stop them?
I know I’m missing something here, Uncle Kev, and I know you are a lot cleverer than me but isn’t PNG closer to Australia? On my atlas it’s very close.
Please Uncle Kev, I want to get top marks for my essay so it can’t sound really silly.
Aren’t all these people coming from Indonesia? I mean, why wouldn’t you stop all the boats leaving from there first so they don’t get drowned?
Let me put it this way Uncle Kev, when my naughty brother Shamus turned the hose on full pelt and it was squiggling everywhere making everything wet, my dad went and turned the tap off and it stopped.
I don’t think my Dad is as smart as you ‘cos he’s just a bricklayer so you must have a secret plan that nobody understands and I want to be the first to tell my class.
I try to listen to you explaining this secret plan but my Dad keeps throwing his beer cans at the TV and yelling bad words. He says everything you touch turns to poo.
When he’s not there I turn on the ABC and I get even more confused. So please reply to my letter Uncle Kev or I’ll just have to copy my essay from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Then I know I’ll get top marks but I really want my essay to make sense.
Loved the pic of you cutting yourself. That was so funny. Dad says a lot of people on Narau do that too.
Love,
Phoebe (8)
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Heartwarming: Bush 41 shaves head in solidarity with 2-year-old leukemia patient ==>http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Sexshop365 has created the Happy Ride, a discreet black bicycle seat that vibrates as you ride. The seat’s vibration level can be adjusted to provide stimulation for both men and women using a set of controls attached to the back of the seat. Claire Bowden of Sexshop365 told Daily Mail, “Thanks to the UK’s cycling boom and the building obsession around next year’s Fifty Shades Of Grey movie, both adult toys and cycling are firmly on the public radar. It was only a matter of time before the two were combined to make your daily cycle even more pleasurable.” The Happy Ride vibrating bicycle seat is currently available to purchase from Sexshop365.
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Matt Granz
Your work powerfully illustrates your position - ed
Rudd has turned over a new leaf.
He now consults prior to any policy decision — atThe Mental Institution Hospital.
Sometimes he argues violently, but he gets his way - ed
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Sunrise at Fort Point. A little long exposure fun at dawn.
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The Ranch. My girls contributed to the colors seen here, though not the first nor last to add their touch to the half buried cars. Many thanks to my wife Laura who spotted these from far off as we were passing them. — at Cadilac Ranch Amarillo TX.
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Cthulhu is warm goes the saying. But that is wrong. Cthulhu is hot and it's heat will sear the crackling off the belly of any unfortunate who comes too close.
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Triglav National Park, Slovenia
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Israel to begin giving intel on Hezbollah to EU enforcement officials - Jpost
BBC tweaks Hizballah statement, promotes its conspiracy theories
Putin to offer advanced antimissiles to soothe Iran’s S-300 grudge – report - BBCWatch
Putin to offer advanced antimissiles to soothe Iran’s S-300 grudge – report - RT
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it think I can't see EU doing anything worthwhile, and it is risible to suggest they don't know the truth. - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Comfort after a tragic loss doesn’t come in looking for good but in looking to God. Explantions don't help. The love of God does.
===Pastor Rick Warren
This weekend will be my 1st sermon preached since my son died. In 43 years of ministry I've never gone 16 weeks not preaching. Also 3 TV news networks are sending trucks to cover this message so I need your prayers. You will be able to watch it online here: http://bit.ly/HnE6ib Thank you so much friends!
===Pastor Rick Warren
6 Commitments for Growing a Church with Unity
http://pastors.com/6-commitments-for-growing-a-church-with-unity/
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- 1261 – Alexios Strategopoulos led the Nicaeanforces of Michael VIII Palaiologos to recaptureConstantinople, re-establish the Byzantine Empire, and end the Latin Empire.
- 1814 – War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil.
- 1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot (pictured) crossed theEnglish Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England.
- 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation, was born in Oldham, England.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Events[edit]
- 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
- 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentiusat the Milvian Bridge.
- 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking.
- 1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.
- 1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
- 1456 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
- 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- 1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
- 1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
- 1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
- 1759 – French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
- 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- 1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Unionand not to end slavery.
- 1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Mileslanding at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
- 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate(MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
- 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1920 – France captures Damascus.
- 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
- 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
- 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1959 – SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
- 1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
- 1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1978 – Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
- 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
- 1979 – Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- 1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and four on the ground.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Births[edit]
- 1016 – Casimir I the Restorer, Polish son of Mieszko II Lambert (d. 1058)
- 1261 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
- 1336 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
- 1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- 1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1562 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
- 1654 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
- 1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)
- 1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish captain (d. 1703)
- 1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch playwright and poet (d. 1756)
- 1750 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
- 1753 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish navy officer and politician, 10th Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
- 1797 – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
- 1839 – Francis Garnier, French navy officer and explorer (d. 1873)
- 1844 – Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1916)
- 1848 – Arthur Balfour, Scottish politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
- 1860 – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (d. 1917)
- 1865 – Jac. P. Thijsse, Dutch conservationist and botanist (d. 1945)
- 1867 – Max Dauthendey, German author and painter (d. 1918)
- 1867 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
- 1869 – Platon, Estonian clergyman (d. 1919)
- 1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1875 – Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (d. 1955)
- 1882 – George S. Rentz, American captain (d. 1942)
- 1883 – Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1947)
- 1886 – Edward Cummins, American golfer (d. 1926)
- 1886 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish hunter and author (d. 1946)
- 1886 – Hans von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish horse rider (b. 1917)
- 1894 – Walter Brennan, American actor and singer (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)
- 1895 – Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (d. 1968)
- 1896 – Jack Perrin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1967)
- 1896 – Josephine Tey, Scottish author (d. 1952)
- 1901 – Ruth Krauss, American author (d. 1993)
- 1901 – Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1902 – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (d. 1990)
- 1906 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970)
- 1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Woody Strode, American football player and actor (d. 1994)
- 1915 – S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Ceylon politician
- 1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
- 1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- 1917 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
- 1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist (d. 1958)
- 1921 – Adolph Herseth, American trumpet player (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
- 1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Edgar Gilbert, American mathematician (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Maria Gripe, Swedish author (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
- 1924 – Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Benny Benjamin, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)
- 1925 – Jerry Paris, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
- 1925 – Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish, writer, journalist and politician
- 1926 – Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
- 1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Midge Decter, American journalist and author
- 1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (d. 1982)
- 1928 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- 1928 – Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Judd Buchanan, Canadian politician
- 1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- 1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
- 1930 – Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
- 1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian opera singer (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist (d. 1990)
- 1930 – Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
- 1931 – James Butler, British sculptor
- 1932 – Paul J. Weitz, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
- 1934 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
- 1934 – Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter
- 1935 – Barbara Harris, American actress and singer
- 1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman
- 1935 – Gilbert Parent, Canadian politician, 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2009)
- 1935 – John Robinson, American football player and coach
- 1935 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Lars Werner, Swedish politician (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver
- 1936 – Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect
- 1936 – August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Colin Renfrew, English archeologist and academic
- 1940 – Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Manny Charlton, Spanish-Scottish guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band)
- 1941 – Billy Hardwick, American bowler (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Peter Suschitzky, Polish-English cinematographer
- 1941 – Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
- 1941 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
- 1942 – Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers)
- 1943 – Jim McCarty, English singer and drummer (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion)
- 1943 – Erika Steinbach, German politician
- 1944 – Peter Duncan, Canadian skier
- 1944 – Sally Beauman, English journalist and author
- 1945 – Donna Theodore, American actress and singer
- 1946 – José Areas, Nicaraguan drummer (Santana)
- 1946 – Nicole Farhi, French fashion designer and sculptor
- 1946 – John Gibson, American radio host
- 1946 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer (I Threes)
- 1946 – P. Selvarasa, Sri Lankan politician
- 1948 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
- 1950 – Mark Clarke, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Colosseum, Mountain, Natural Gas, and Uriah Heep)
- 1951 – Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
- 1951 – Verdine White, American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- 1952 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
- 1952 – Huang Wenyong, Malaysian-Singaporean actor (d. 2013)
- 1953 – Robert Zoellick, American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
- 1954 – Lynne Frederick, English-American actress (d. 1994)
- 1954 – Ken Greer, Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (Red Rider)
- 1954 – Sheena McDonald, Scottish journalist and broadcaster
- 1954 – Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- 1954 – Jochem Ziegert, German footballer an manager
- 1955 – Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
- 1955 – Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter (Pylon and Supercluster) (d. 2009)
- 1955 – Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
- 1955 – Tom McCamus, Canadian actor
- 1956 – Andy Goldsworthy, English sculptor and artist
- 1957 – Mark Hunter, English politician
- 1957 – Steve Podborski, Canadian skier
- 1958 – Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and educator
- 1958 – Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, The Coachmen, and Dim Stars)
- 1959 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian murderer (d. 2013)
- 1959 – Geoffrey Zakarian, American chef
- 1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
- 1960 – Justice Howard, American photographer
- 1961 – Bobbie Eakes, American actress and singer
- 1961 – Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
- 1961 – Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and politician
- 1962 – Carin Bakkum, Dutch tennis player
- 1962 – Doug Drabek, American baseball player and coach
- 1963 – Denis Coderre, Canadian politician
- 1963 – Julian Hodgson, Welsh chess player
- 1964 – Anne Applebaum, American journalist and author
- 1964 – Tony Granato, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1964 – Breuk Iversen, American graphic designer
- 1965 – Marty Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 – Maureen Herman, American bass player (Babes in Toyland)
- 1966 – Diana Johnson, English politician
- 1966 – Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1966 – Christine Quinn, American politician
- 1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
- 1967 – Ruth Peetoom, Dutch politician
- 1967 – Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
- 1967 – Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
- 1968 – Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer
- 1968 – Shi Tao, Chinese journalist
- 1969 – Jon Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Ernesto Alterio, Argentinian-Spanish actor
- 1971 – Chloë Annett, English actress
- 1971 – Roger Creager, American singer-songwriter
- 1971 – Tracy Murray, American basketball player
- 1971 – Billy Wagner, American baseball player and coach
- 1973 – David Denman, American actor
- 1973 – Dani Filth, English singer-songwriter and actor (Cradle of Filth)
- 1973 – Hu Jia, Chinese activist
- 1973 – Mur Lafferty, American author and blogger
- 1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
- 1973 – Michael C. Williams, American actor
- 1974 – Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
- 1974 – Julia Laffranque, Estonian lawyer
- 1974 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese wrestler
- 1974 – Lauren Faust, American animator
- 1975 – Jody Craddock, English footballer
- 1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
- 1975 – El Zorro, Mexican wrestler
- 1976 – Tera Patrick, American porn actress
- 1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet and critic
- 1976 – Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1977 – Ahmad Batebi, Iranian activist
- 1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
- 1978 – Louise Brown, English test tube baby
- 1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
- 1979 – Amy Adams, American singer
- 1979 – Peter Brame, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1979 – Ali Carter, English snooker player
- 1979 – Stefanie Hertel, German yodeler
- 1979 – Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentinian actor
- 1980 – Soo Ae, South Korean actress
- 1980 – Sven Järve, Estonian fencer
- 1980 – Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
- 1980 – Samuel Sheinbein, American-Israeli murderer (d. 2014)
- 1980 – Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver
- 1980 – David Wachs, American actor
- 1980 – Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Conor Casey, American soccer player
- 1981 – Constantinos Charalambidis, Cypriot footballer
- 1981 – Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer
- 1981 – Mac Lethal, American rapper and producer
- 1981 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1982 – Jason Dundas, Australian-American television host and actor
- 1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1982 – Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
- 1983 – Richie Chance, American actor and producer
- 1983 – Kauri Kõiv, Estonian biathlete
- 1983 – Nenad Krstić, Serbian basketball player
- 1984 – Lauriane Gilliéron, Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2005
- 1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
- 1985 – James Lafferty, American actor and director
- 1985 – Jasmine Lennard, English model
- 1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver
- 1985 – Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer
- 1985 – Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
- 1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Abraham Gneki Guié, Ivorian footballer
- 1986 – Jessi Malay, American singer-songwriter and dancer (No Secrets)
- 1986 – Barbara Meier, German model
- 1986 – Ahtyba Rubin, American football player
- 1987 – Mitchell Burgzorg, Dutch footballer and rapper
- 1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
- 1988 – John Goossens, Dutch footballer
- 1988 – Tom Hiariej, Dutch footballer
- 1988 – Paulinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
- 1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
- 1988 – Stacey Kemp, English pair skater
- 1989 – Andrew Caldwell, American actor
- 1989 – Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
- 1989 – Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player
- 1990 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress
- 1991 – Toni Duggan, English female footballer
- 2000 – Preston Bailey, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (b. 250)
- 1409 – Martin I of Sicily (b. 1376)
- 1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
- 1472 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1394)
- 1492 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
- 1572 – Isaac Luria, Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
- 1608 – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (b. 1556)
- 1616 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
- 1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician (b. 1584)
- 1681 – Urian Oakes, English-American minister and educator (b. 1631)
- 1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educator and reformer (b. 1723)
- 1790 – William Livingston, American politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
- 1791 – Isaac Low, American politician (b. 1735)
- 1794 – André Chénier, French poet (b. 1762)
- 1826 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet (b. 1795)
- 1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1772)
- 1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
- 1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist (b. 1766)
- 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, Mexican criminal (b. 1829)
- 1861 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (b. 1805)
- 1865 – James Barry, English surgeon (b. 1799)
- 1866 – Floride Calhoun, American wife of John C. Calhoun, 4th Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
- 1887 – John Taylor, American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
- 1934 – François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874)
- 1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
- 1942 – Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper (b. 1879)
- 1952 – Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (b. 1909)
- 1958 – Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
- 1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-Irish rabbi (b. 1888)
- 1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
- 1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
- 1966 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926)
- 1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
- 1971 – John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
- 1971 – Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)
- 1973 – Louis St. Laurent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
- 1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
- 1982 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American illustrator (b. 1892)
- 1984 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
- 1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
- 1989 – Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
- 1992 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
- 1996 – Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
- 1998 – Tal Farlow, American guitarist (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Erik Brann, American singer and guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
- 2003 – John Schlesinger, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2004 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Carl Brashear, American navy officer (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German footballer (b. 1952)
- 2007 – Jesse Marunde, American strongman (b. 1979)
- 2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
- 2008 – Tracy Hall, American chemist (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
- 2009 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
- 2009 – Alexis Cohen, American singer (b. 1984)
- 2009 – Vernon Forrest, American boxer (b. 1971)
- 2009 – Stanley Middleton, English author (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Harry Patch, English soldier (b. 1898)
- 2010 – Redford White, Filipino actor (b. 1955)
- 2011 – Michael Cacoyannis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2012 – David Barby, English antiques expert (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Shelby Harris, American super-centenarian (b. 1901)
- 2012 – B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Barry Langford, English director and producer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Greg Mohns, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
- 2012 – Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (b. 1955)
- 2013 – Walter De Maria, American sculptor (b. 1935)
- 2013 – William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Barnaby Jack, New Zealand computer hacker (b. 1977)
- 2013 – Bernadette Lafont, French actress (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Duilio Marzio, Argentinian actor (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, Colombian former drug trafficker (b. 1949)
- 2013 – Kongar-ol Ondar, Russian singer (b. 1962)
- 2013 – Philip Russell, South African archbishop (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Hans Tanzler, American judge and politician, Mayor of Jacksonville (b. 1927)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Commonwealth Constitution Day, formerly Occupation Day. (Puerto Rico)
- Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, southern England)
- Furrinalia (Roman Empire)
- Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
- Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a
- National Day of Galicia (Galicia)
- Republic Day (Tunisia)
- Amordadegan festival (Persian Empire)
“Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice.” Psalm 112:5 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord."
Exodus 14:13
Exodus 14:13
These words contain God's command to the believer when he is reduced to great straits and brought into extraordinary difficulties. He cannot retreat; he cannot go forward; he is shut up on the right hand and on the left; what is he now to do? The Master's word to him is, "Stand still." It will be well for him if at such times he listens only to his Master's word, for other and evil advisers come with their suggestions. Despair whispers, "Lie down and die; give it all up." But God would have us put on a cheerful courage, and even in our worst times, rejoice in his love and faithfulness. Cowardice says, "Retreat; go back to the worldling's way of action; you cannot play the Christian's part, it is too difficult. Relinquish your principles." But, however much Satan may urge this course upon you, you cannot follow it if you are a child of God. His divine fiat has bid thee go from strength to strength, and so thou shalt, and neither death nor hell shall turn thee from thy course. What, if for a while thou art called to stand still, yet this is but to renew thy strength for some greater advance in due time. Precipitancy cries, "do something. Stir yourself; to stand still and wait, is sheer idleness." We must be doing something at once--we must do it so we think--instead of looking to the Lord, who will not only do something but will do everything. Presumption boasts, "If the sea be before you, march into it and expect a miracle." But Faith listens neither to Presumption, nor to Despair, nor to Cowardice, nor to Precipitancy, but it hears God say, "Stand still," and immovable as a rock it stands. "Stand still;"--keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."
Evening
"His camp is very great."
Joel 2:11
Joel 2:11
Consider, my soul, the mightiness of the Lord who is thy glory and defence. He is a man of war, Jehovah is his name. All the forces of heaven are at his beck, legions wait at his door, cherubim and seraphim;, watchers and holy ones, principalities and powers, are all attentive to his will. If our eyes were not blinded by the ophthalmia of the flesh, we should see horses of fire and chariots of fire round about the Lord's beloved. The powers of nature are all subject to the absolute control of the Creator: stormy wind and tempest, lightning and rain, and snow, and hail, and the soft dews and cheering sunshine, come and go at his decree. The bands of Orion he looseth, and bindeth the sweet influences of the Pleiades. Earth, sea, and air, and the places under the earth, are the barracks for Jehovah's great armies; space is his camping ground, light is his banner, and flame is his sword. When he goeth forth to war, famine ravages the land, pestilence smites the nations, hurricane sweeps the sea, tornado shakes the mountains, and earthquake makes the solid world to tremble. As for animate creatures, they all own his dominion, and from the great fish which swallowed the prophet, down to "all manner of flies," which plagued the field of Zoan, all are his servants, and like the palmer-worm, the caterpillar, and the cankerworm, are squadrons of his great army, for his camp is very great. My soul, see to it that thou be at peace with this mighty King, yea, more, be sure to enlist under his banner, for to war against him is madness, and to serve him is glory. Jesus, Immanuel, God with us, is ready to receive recruits for the army of the Lord: if I am not already enlisted let me go to him ere I sleep, and beg to be accepted through his merits; and if I be already, as I hope I am, a soldier of the cross, let me be of good courage; for the enemy is powerless compared with my Lord, whose camp is very great.
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Today's reading: Psalm 35-36, Acts 25 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 35-36
Of David.
1 Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me;
fight against those who fight against me.
2 Take up shield and armor;
arise and come to my aid.
3 Brandish spear and javelin
against those who pursue me.
Say to me,
"I am your salvation."
fight against those who fight against me.
2 Take up shield and armor;
arise and come to my aid.
3 Brandish spear and javelin
against those who pursue me.
Say to me,
"I am your salvation."
4 May those who seek my life
be disgraced and put to shame;
may those who plot my ruin
be turned back in dismay.
5 May they be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the LORD driving them away;
6 may their path be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the LORD pursuing them....
be disgraced and put to shame;
may those who plot my ruin
be turned back in dismay.
5 May they be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the LORD driving them away;
6 may their path be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the LORD pursuing them....
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 25
Paul's Trial Before Festus
1 Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem, 2 where the chief priests and the Jewish leaders appeared before him and presented the charges against Paul. 3 They requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way. 4 Festus answered, "Paul is being held at Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon. 5Let some of your leaders come with me, and if the man has done anything wrong, they can press charges against him there...."
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