A few days ago on the Bolt Report Supporters Group, a few admins, Stephanie and Mandy found a post by the hate group known as the Australian Defence League (ADL). Not much is known of the ADL who are also known as the Australian Tea Party. They have editors on wikipedia who restrict information about them. The press wisely has a policy of ignoring extreme right wing hate groups. The ADL have a US counterpart called the American Defense League (aka ADL) and more famous English counterparts English Defence League (EDL). They are related to the British National Party and fascists inspired by the Nazi Party. The Bolt Report Supporters Group have a policy of deleting such memes. Stephanie and Mandy noted that the post had been referred to the police. The admin team are often criticised for deleting items and sometimes not deleting items. We believe in freedom of speech, not of abuse. Often members get confused by the decisions which aren't arbitrary but may seem opaque. In the past, the admin team have attempted to supply reasons for deleted posts, but some trouble makers exploited Face Book rules to get them removed. And so we have procedural unfairness.
The offending post has been reported in the mainstream news. The post identified a Facebook User as a radical Islamic hate monger. But the police have located a 22 year old Australian of Turkish ethnicity who was unaware of the post and had not held those views. It looks as if the ADL have used an Islamic name to spread a hate meme. It may not be the first time they have done that, if that is what they have done. Some years ago, the leader of the ADL contacted me and tried to recruit me. I declined. He told me that the Australian Tea Party was started in the hopes of attracting US based political funding from the Tea Party which is a different organisation unrelated to the ADL. The victim in this instance has been stood aside from work pending an investigation. One hopes the investigation finishes soon, and those who have done wrong are appropriately prosecuted. I do not like 18c, preferring free speech, but this looks like a good case for which the legislation is addressed.
Mostly my historical posts start explaining a battle, but this one is different. It involves a historical factoid that was probably not considered by anyone on the day or for many years or generations after. It is related to the Mayan calendar and the calendar of several of the MesoAmerican cultures. They were based on an 18 digit number system, thumbs being opposable, and if one counts to the start, today is the anniversary of the beginning of time, 3114 BC. According to Armenian tradition, 2492 BC Hayk beat Bel. Bel was written of in the Bible as Ba'al. Today is the day in 355 Claudius Silvanus is said to have declared himself Caeser. Silvanus was a Roman governor of Gaul and he had successfully suppressed raiding parties from across the Rhine which were hurting Roman prestige. Roman Emperor Constantius II might have been pleased, but his courtiers set up an intrigue suggesting Silvanus was planning to seize Rome. It may well be the case Silvanus never knew of the suppose plot. Constantius summonsed him and when Silvanus was praying at a church, he was dragged out and hacked to death (September 7th 355). Odoacer is considered the first King of Italy. Not much is known of the birth of King Odoacer, but he may have been the son of an ambassador for Attila. He was Aryan Christian when most of Rome was orthodox. Theoderic the Great was an Ostrogoth who had been raised as a hostage in Constantinople and given a privileged education. Theoderic was born the year Ostrogoths overthrew the Hun. His father was a tribal leader, and when he died in 473, Theoderic ruled well, and united the Ostrogoths in 484. With the German (Ostrogoth) power base, Theoderic fought Odoacer and defeated him in battle on this day in 490, taking Italy after the death of Odoacer in 493.
The Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332 was between the regent for the Scottish King David II and Edward Balliol, a grandchild of the widow of English King John. Edward III of England used Balliol as a puppet. Balliol defeated the regent on this day while the child David was in France, and Balliol had himself crowned King at Scone, given authority to Edward III for a pension. But the Scots had other ideas. Not much is known about Francis Light, not even who his dad was, but the English soldier daringly founded and managed the British colony of Penang in Malaysia on this day in 1786. A son, Colonel William Light was foundational surveyor general of South Australia, choosing the site for Adelaide. The Peninsular war was glorious for Arthur Wellesley, and is an example of fighting for national liberation and guerrilla warfare the first of its type in Europe. It meant Great Britain started income tax to pay for their troops. The Spanish and Portuguese fought to liberate themselves from France. In 1812, on this day, at the Battle of Majadahonda, the Portuguese cavalry did not acquit themselves well in a drawn encounter. Their commander suggested to Wellesley that they in future would walk behind their horses until they acquitted themselves well. Wellesley felt it was better to never use them again. In 1929 Babe Ruth made history scoring the 500th home run of his career. He would play until '35 and score 714 in total with a batting average of a phenomenal 0.342 and an ERA of 2.28. He wasn't a noted thinker, but a magnificent player. As great as Ruth was as a Bat, Hedy Lamarr was as a person. The Austrian born actress was beautiful and at only 18 years old was married to an Austrian arms industrialist and star of a movie, Ecstasy. A few nude scenes in Ecstasy and an orgasm expression made her famous. As wife to the industrialist in 1933, she went to dinner parties with Adolph Hitler and Mussolini, some lavishly held at her own home. She fled her husband to Paris, then London and went to Hollywood. In 1942, on this day, she got a patent for technology which helped missiles home despite jamming. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology underpins Blue Tooth and Wi Fi. She was a pretty face in the thirties and forties, but her beautiful mind lives on long after she passed. In 1947, the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah gave a speech. He spoke of his hope for a Pakistan with religious freedom, rule of law and equality for all. Maybe Cassius Clay chose his name from that figure. It was a worthy dream for any nation, and sadly not part of modern Pakistan.
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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.
===1492 – The first papal conclave held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Pope Innocent VIII.
1828 – William Corder was hanged at Bury St Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn.
1945 – Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles engaged in a pogrom, which resulted in one dead and five wounded victims.
1962 – Vostok 3 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev became the first person to float in microgravity.
1973 – At a party in the recreation room of a New York City apartment building, DJ Kool Herc began rapping during an extended break, laying the foundation for hip-hop music. I used to wonder what would succeed innocence. Corder got what he deserved too late. Don't listen to rumours. Float .. hop .. do what is hip. It made you the success you are.
Matches
- 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably theMayans, begins.
- 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
- 106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
- 355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
- 490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
- 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
- 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
- 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
- 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
- 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
- 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
- 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
Hatches
- 1467 – Mary of York (d. 1482)
- 1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)
- 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1743)
- 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
- 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
- 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer (d. 1812)
- 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian educator (d. 1852)
- 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
- 1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese author (d. 1962)
- 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
- 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor and singer (d. 1985)
- 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian and author (d. 1992)
- 1926 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-English lawyer
- 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (d. 2007)
- 1937 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (d. 2014)
- 1942 – Mike Hugg, English drummer and keyboard player (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds)
- 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor and director
- 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx
- 1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.
- 1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Devo)
- 1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter
- 1964 – Jim Lee, South Korean-American author and illustrator
- 1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created Resident Evil
- 1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
- 1989 – Gui Gui, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl)
- 1994 – Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
Despatches
- 223 – Jia Xu, Advisor for the state of Cao Wei
- 353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
- 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
- 1259 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1208)
- 1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, English son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
- 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
- 1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
- 1939 – Jean Bugatti, German-Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1909)
- 1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
- 1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
LET’S GET TOGETHER AND HOLD HEADS
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (4:24pm)
Labor’s Andrew Leigh considers today’s junior jihadi head-holding image, and decides to “celebrate the Australian Muslim community”:
“We need to celebrate the Australian Muslim community to recognise that there are many peoples of different faiths in the world and extremism comes in all sorts of guises. The Oklahoma bombing was carried out by a Christian.”
Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in 1995. Get back to us, Andrew, when you’ve added up all the deaths due to Islamic extremism since then. That should keep you busy for the rest of this parliamentary term. Current Labor leader Bill Shorten thinks it’s a parenting issue:
“As a parent, I have no idea how you could ever let your child be in that situation. I think that’s shocking,” the Opposition Leader said.
Mr Mummyblogger continues:
“I would be careful about using that shocking image, that shocking evil image, and trying to use it for purposes which it shouldn’t be used for,” Mr Shorten said.
Hello Kitty handbags? Adventure tourism brochures? A $5 million Clover Moore art installation? Shorten’s proscription is unclear.
NOTE. Image for celebration purposes only
Meanwhile, it’s Defence Minister David Johnston’s turn to hit the peaceful majority button:
NOTE. Image for celebration purposes only
Meanwhile, it’s Defence Minister David Johnston’s turn to hit the peaceful majority button:
“One of the things that I must stress here is this is an extreme minority in Muslims in Australia and around the world. The vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving and peaceful people,” Senator Johnston said.
Agreed, minister. But the peaceful majority is irrelevant.
BOB vs BIRMINGHAM
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (3:48pm)
Bob Ellis isn’t impressed by Mike Carlton’s replacement:
The smh immediately appointed John Birmingham, a foam-flecked Liberal flagellant (his brother a Liberal Senator) and infamous …
Link and some words omitted for legal reasons. Ellis is presumably talking about South Australian senator Simon Birmingham, who I don’t think is related to John at all. So why the animosity? It could be that Ellis simply isn’t a fan of weak beer:
(Label by Mike M.)
(Label by Mike M.)
HANDLES LIKE A PIG
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (3:46pm)
They’re oinking in Oregon at the annual Pig-N-Ford races.
(Via A.R.M Jones)
VLAD ALBERT
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (2:26pm)
Unions were against our troops in WWII, and at least one Labor MP was against us during the Cold War:
A federal Labor MP was among a list of secret KGB informants, according to newly released Russian intelligence archives.The former Labor member for the NSW electorate of Hunter, Albert James, is listed as an informant of the Soviet intelligence service in the papers of former KGB archivist and defector Vasili Mitrokhin, which were released by the Churchill College Archive in the United Kingdom last month.The late Mr James, a former NSW policeman and Labor MP who served in Federal Parliament from 1960 to 1980, is one of a number of Australians recorded in Mitrokhin’s list of KGB agents and informants active in Australia during the 1960s and 1970s.
The KGB gave Albert James the inventive codename of ... “Albert”.
SAVE OUR FLAVOURS
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (3:25am)
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has several problems at present, including rising unemployment, crises in Iraq and Ukraine, and the sudden removal of his spine over plans to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
One of his problems is intensely personal. Abbott’s favourite Indian restaurant, the excellent New India Times in Frenchs Forest, will soon be demolished to make way for road upgrades ahead of new hospital construction.
“The New Times of India is a fantastic restaurant,” an obviously grieving Abbott said. “I hope this critical road upgrade doesn’t mean the end.”
Continue reading 'SAVE OUR FLAVOURS'CONFLICT CONDENSED
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (3:18am)
A fine sign at yesterday’s pro-Israel rally in Melbourne, via Nilk:
UPDATE. Just in case there was any doubt over that whole civilisation vs barbarism thing:
UPDATE. Just in case there was any doubt over that whole civilisation vs barbarism thing:
Khaled Sharrouf’s son, a child raised in the suburbs of Sydney, struggles with both arms to hold up the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier.
In a conflict awash with gruesome images, this single photograph – posted on Twitter by a proud father with the words “Thats my boy!” – may come to symbolise the savagery that has become the hallmark of the Islamic State and the depravity of its army of foreign fighters.
Sharrouf, of course, is a leading member of Australia’s tax-funded bludjahideen. This explains why his child is “struggling” to hold up that severed head. He’s planning a workplace injury claim.
UPDATE II. Melbourne ABC morning presenter Jon Faine has his head in the sand.
THE LAW WON
Tim Blair – Monday, August 11, 2014 (3:07am)
More than a decade ago, after noticing the way stupid people and ideas attracted other stupid people and ideas, I came up with a notion that was quickly dubbed Blair’s Law: “The ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.”
This describes, for example, the way September 11 conspiracy theorists are impressed by climate change alarmism, and far-left types unite in support for David Hicks. The Gillard government was a literal expression of my law, featuring not only the least competent front bench in Australian history but also supportive Greens and independents, all drawn together in ridiculous unity.
That spectacular assembly was always going to be difficult to beat, at least in terms of Blair’s Law illustration. But last week saw a case that might come close to matching Julia’s government.
Continue reading 'THE LAW WON'ABC caves to Rudd pressure
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (3:01pm)
Labor ensures the ABC gets a more sympathetic journalist to tell its story:
===ABC senior journalist Sarah Ferguson is working on a new political documentary series for the national broadcaster. The project, which will follow a style similar to the series Labor in Power and The Howard Years will explore the Rudd/Gillard years of Australian politics..Remember this story, in June?:
The ABC’s Labor in Power Mark 2 ... is back on track after destabilisation (only naturally) by Kevin Rudd… Chris Uhlmann was shelved because Rudd wouldn’t talk to him.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Are there any more like Sharrouf back home? UPDATE: Why won’t Jon Faine discuss the picture?
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (11:06am)
Born in Australia:
KHALED Sharrouf’s son, a child raised in the suburbs of Sydney, struggles with both arms to hold up the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier.Back in Sydney, men sigh in envy:
In a conflict awash with gruesome images, this single photograph — posted on Twitter by a proud father with the words “Thats my boy!” — may come to symbolise the savagery that has become the hallmark of the Islamic State and the depravity of its army of foreign fighters.
Wassim Haddad… spoke to Sharrouf just a few hours ago. Sharrouf, he says, is happy, ecstatic. “He says that he loves what he is doing over there,” explains Haddad, who runs the hardline al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Bankstown, which Sharrouf and Elomar had attended.The West must know this war will return to our streets:
“He says he is doing the work of Allah in establishing an Islamic caliphate… Why wouldn’t he be happy? He is fulfilling his obligations to Islam. He pretty much called us (other Islamic youth in Sydney) cowards for not being there.” Dozens more would follow, Haddad reckons, but they have had their passports seized by ASIO.
Up to 3,000 Westerners, including Europeans, are now thought to have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or other militant groups working to overthrow the Bashar Assad regime, unidentified U.S. officials told the Los Angeles Times in a Saturday article. Between several dozen and 100 of these Western militants are thought to be U.S. citizens.UPDATE
Do not mention the war. Melbourne ABC morning presenter Jon Faine went to ludicrous lengths on his show this morning to avoid discussing the picture of a seven-year-old Australian Muslim boy holding a severed head - a picture that challenges his Leftist pieties about multiculturalism, immigration and the role of Islam in a pluralistic Western country.
Observe, and imagine Faine’s reaction had the boy holding the head been an Israeli....
After 35 minutes: Faine reads out a text from a listener wondering why he has not mentioned the picture. Faine does not provide an answer and moves on immediately to talking about the right pronunciation of “Essendon”.UPDATE
After 60 minutes: Faine does mention race or religious prejudices - but that allegedly of white Australians again Asians, not of a Sharrouf against anyone not sufficiently Muslim.
After 72 minutes: Faine discusses another issue of racial politics - of white Australians needing to do more for Aborigines.
After 75 minutes: Faine asks, “Do you suffer from unconscious bias?” No, he’s not asking about the bias of a Sharrouf against infidels, but of Australians against Asians.
After 85 minutes: Faine announces there has been a “slashing spree”, No, he’s still not talking about Australian jihadists such as Sharrouf slashing throats but about people in Melbourne slashing tyres.
After 87 minutes: Faine does another interview about ethnic troubles. No, he’s still not talking about Australian jihadists but about other Australians allegedly not giving Asians a go.
After 101 minutes: Faine and his guest discuss a clash of nations and “appalling mortality rates”. But they are discussing the Commonwealth Games. Still no discussion of Islamists like Australia’s Sharrouf hacking off heads and giving them to children to hold.
After 107 minutes: Faine and his guest worry about “too much head contact”. They are talking about football.
After 131 minutes: Faine does very briefly mention the photo, saying only that it is “disturbing” but claiming it is “not new”. Faine does not say when he first knew of the picture himself or explain why he never raised it at the time. “What do you make of it?” he asks listeners, but offers no further comment himself. He spends perhaps 30 seconds on the topic and then moves on to promoting his next guests.
After 139 minutes: Faine interviews someone wanting help to “solve a murder”. They are not talking about the murder of the Syrian man whose head is in the hands of Sharrouf’s son, but of a Melbourne man in February.
After 156 minutes: Whew! Faine has got to the safety of the Conversation Hour without having had a single substantive mention of the photograph, and no discussion about it with anyone. He’s now discussing poetry in schools.
After 210 minutes: Faine’s show is over. He’s got through the whole show without any discussion of the photo other than to note it’s there, say it’s old, call it “disturbing” and read out a reader’s text wondering why he won’t disciss it. He’s dealt with the matter in less than one minute of 210.
And we thought that sign at the Sydney protest was just a rhetorical flourish:
UPDATE
Labor leader Bill Shorten’s response is pathetic:
I would be careful about using that shocking image, that shocking evil image, and trying to use it for purposes which it shouldn’t be used for.
Mass immigration from the Third World means Jews are outvoted. As well as muzzled
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (9:24am)
Labor is changing policies on Israel to please Muslim voters in key marginal seats.
Britain is urged to do the same:
I tried to tease out some of these issues in my interview yesterday with Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles:
===Britain is urged to do the same:
David Cameron will fail to win a majority at the next election because he has not done enough to woo minority ethnic voters, former cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi has warned.Other voices want more profound changes to British laws to accommodate the new arrivals:
Lady Warsi – who unexpectedly resigned last week over the government’s “morally indefensible” policy on Gaza – said her party is ignoring “electoral reality” by relying on white voters.
Are Jewish Australians watching - and calculating what further immigration means to their safety and this country’s support for Israel? Do they understand how any concerns they may have are dangerous to express, thanks to section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act?
I tried to tease out some of these issues in my interview yesterday with Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles:
(Thanks to reader Brian.)
Why should Obama worry about Iraq when there’s Martha’s Vineyard?
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (9:16am)
A perfect snap-shot of the disengaged presidency of Vacationer-in-Chief Barack Obama:
Even Hillary Clinton is now attacking Obama for his lethal lack of leadership:
===The U.S. military campaign launched in Iraq Friday could go on for months, President Barack Obama said Saturday from the White House, but noted that he would not provide a specific timeline.Reader cynical1:
“I’m not going to give a particular timetable,” Obama said before leaving for a two-week summer vacation at Martha’s Vineyard.
Rome, meet Nero.UPDATE
Even Hillary Clinton is now attacking Obama for his lethal lack of leadership:
President Obama has long ridiculed the idea that the U.S., early in the Syrian civil war, could have shaped the forces fighting the Assad regime, thereby stopping al Qaeda-inspired groups—like the one rampaging across Syria and Iraq today—from seizing control of the rebellion…But I suspect the right call was actually the one Russia took. Hold your nose and back Assad.
Well, his former secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, isn’t buying it. In an interview with me earlier this week, she used her sharpest language yet to describe the “failure” that resulted from the decision to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising.
“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.
So privileged that we didn’t own our home until I’d left it
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (8:52am)
Once again I have to ask why anyone believes a word Mark Latham says:
===Never let the facts get in the way of a good smear. PT reviews Mark Latham’s book The Political Bubble in The Saturday Paper, Saturday:
LATHAM (writes) “The fact (is) that most conservative … media commentators come from privileged backgrounds …” Andrew Bolt, Nick Cater, Janet Albrechtsen …Privileged? John Van Tiggelen, Sydney Morning Herald, November 19, 2011:
(ANDREW) Bolt snr’s teaching career took the family into Australia’s searing interior … Darwin … Tarcoola … Warramboo … Tailem Bend …Privileged? Hope 103.2, June 5, 2013:
LEIGH Hatcher: I want you to sketch for us the kind of place ... in which you grew up at Southampton …Privileged? The Age, February 26, 2005
Nick Cater: It was very much a lower middle class sort of enclave. People worked at the oil refinery … My parents were teachers …
ALBRECHTSEN … grew up in a strongly left-wing household in Adelaide. “My father was a builder, and my mother, she was a tailor…"…Educated at Seacombe High School, in Adelaide’s southern suburbs …
Labor MP named as Soviet informant
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (8:36am)
How trustworthy has
Labor been with our security? How reliable has it been in opposing the
great totalitarian ideologies now - or then?
Troy Bramston meanwhile recalls:
===The former Labor member for the NSW electorate of Hunter, Albert James, is listed as an informant of the Soviet intelligence service in the papers of former KGB archivist and defector Vasili Mitrokhin, which were released by the Churchill College Archive in the United Kingdom last month.UPDATE
The late Mr James, a former NSW policeman and Labor MP who served in Federal Parliament from 1960 to 1980, is one of a number of Australians recorded in Mitrokhin’s list of KGB agents and informants active in Australia during the 1960s and 1970s…
James was highly critical of the United States, strongly opposed Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War and praised Fidel Castro’s communist regime…
In an oral history recorded in 1984, James declared that ‘‘the greatest threat to world peace is USA imperialism’’ and claimed that the US Central Intelligence Agency had tried to remove Prime Minister John Gorton from office.
Troy Bramston meanwhile recalls:
Arthur Gietzelt [had a] career dedicated to politics, serving as a Labor alderman (1956-71), senator (1971-89) and minister in the Hawke government (1983-87) ...
As extensive ASIO files document, verified by on-the-record interviews and other archival sources here and abroad, Gietzelt was a secret operative for the Communist Party of Australia inside the ALP…
In the 60s, it was reported that Gietzelt was being paid $2000 a year by the Communist Party for intelligence on the Labor Party ...
When Gietzelt was appointed to parliament’s joint defence and foreign policy committee in late 1975, as the Whitlam government teetered through its final months, US diplomats feared he would pass defence secrets to Soviet and Chinese communist representatives.
Do Jews really feel safer now 18c won’t be scrapped?
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (8:04am)
I have long warned
Jewish leaders that 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act chills debate
on a great demographic, religious and ideological threat to their own
community without actually doing much to save Jews from vilification.
They would not listen, but many other Jews have heard. From a pro-Israel rally yesterday:
This is indeed a war of civilisation against barbarism:
Yes, a war to save civilisation, but where is the Left? From Syria last week:
===They would not listen, but many other Jews have heard. From a pro-Israel rally yesterday:
More on this yesterday:
UPDATE
This is indeed a war of civilisation against barbarism:
Militants in north-western Iraq have buried women and children alive during their offensive against the Yazidi ethnic minority, according to Iraq’s minister for human rights.UPDATE
The bodies were reportedly found in a mass grave in the wake of Isis’s push towards the Sinjar mountain range, where tens of thousands of Kurdish-speaking refugees have been trapped to the point of starvation.
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said his government had evidence that 500 Yazidi civilians had been killed so far, and that some of the victims had been buried alive. A further 300 Yazidi women have been kidnapped as slaves, he added.
Yes, a war to save civilisation, but where is the Left? From Syria last week:
A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.(Via Tim Blair. Thanks to readers Gab and John.)
None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away.
How Liberal is this Abbott Government really?
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (7:16am)
TELL me how Liberal the Abbott Government really is. Or, if you’re the Prime Minister, tell the deflated party members.
After all, this Liberal Government last week dropped its plans to restore free speech, frightened off by the Muslim lobby.
True, the Government also had no hope of getting those plans through a rabid Senate, so I’d cut it some slack.
But, sadly, there’s lots more.
(Read full article here.)
===After all, this Liberal Government last week dropped its plans to restore free speech, frightened off by the Muslim lobby.
True, the Government also had no hope of getting those plans through a rabid Senate, so I’d cut it some slack.
But, sadly, there’s lots more.
(Read full article here.)
Blackest day in sports politics
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (7:13am)
WE didn’t need last
week’s astonishing revelations of Gillard government meddling to know
the “blackest day in Australian sport” was a political stunt. Even a
fix.
The affair stank from the start — February 7 last year — when then sports minister Kate Lundy and justice minister Jason Clare called a media conference to claim Australian sport was riddled with match-fixing, crime and illicit performance-enhancing drugs.
They’d even dragged in the chiefs of our five biggest sports codes to act like the guilty, and prime minister Julia Gillard called the allegations “sickening”.
In fact, neither the Government nor the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority knew of a single fixed match nor drugged athlete.
This was all so obvious that just a fortnight later, I demanded AFL boss Andrew Demetriou — a long-time friend of Labor, like many on the AFL board — “get back on that stage”, “fix the damage done to your game and say you were conned”.
But the AFL already knew Gillard wanted a deal.
(Read full column here.)
===The affair stank from the start — February 7 last year — when then sports minister Kate Lundy and justice minister Jason Clare called a media conference to claim Australian sport was riddled with match-fixing, crime and illicit performance-enhancing drugs.
They’d even dragged in the chiefs of our five biggest sports codes to act like the guilty, and prime minister Julia Gillard called the allegations “sickening”.
In fact, neither the Government nor the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority knew of a single fixed match nor drugged athlete.
This was all so obvious that just a fortnight later, I demanded AFL boss Andrew Demetriou — a long-time friend of Labor, like many on the AFL board — “get back on that stage”, “fix the damage done to your game and say you were conned”.
But the AFL already knew Gillard wanted a deal.
(Read full column here.)
Print sales up for Murdoch, down for the rest
Andrew Bolt August 11 2014 (7:00am)
Rupert Murdoch just strengthened his wicked dominance in print media
- by offering Australians newspapers they prefer to buy over the
Fairfax alternative. Should there now be a law forcing readers to buy The Age instead?
===NEWS Corp Australia has bucked the trend of declining newspaper print readership to post a 2 per cent increase across its national, metropolitan and regional titles over the past year, well above the 4 per cent decline across all major newspaper print mastheads…Add on-line and the picture looks better, not least for Fairfax:
The first year-on-year comparisons under the Enhanced Media Metrics Australia audience measurement system show ... the Daily Telegraph’s print readership, boosted by big-selling editions such as its front-page story on the brawl between billionaire James Packer and Nine boss David Gyngell, was up 1.5 per cent on weekdays to 1.191 million, while The Herald Sun and The Courier-Mail both rose by 0.4 per cent to 1.452 and 716,000 respectively…
The [Murdoch] Herald Sun was up 1.0 per cent on Saturdays to 1.205 million, but its direct competitor, The Saturday Age [Fairfax], experienced the biggest drop in absolute numbers over the year, losing 81,000 readers — a decline of 10.7 per cent.
The Sunday Age was down 9.3 per cent to 582,000 and The Sun Herald fell 8.6 per cent to 828,000 but The Sunday Herald Sun [Murdoch] was up 2.3 per cent to 1.156 million.
Fairfax’s Weekend Financial Review experienced the biggest decline in percentage terms, losing almost one in three readers (30.6 per cent) to 118,000 readers. The Sydney Morning Herald was down 7.2 per cent to 755,000 readers Monday to Friday and down 7.4 per cent on Saturdays to 850,000.
Print readership of major titles was 12.7 million, down 4 per cent, and digital audiences rose by 11 per cent to 10.7 million a month.The trouble is making on-line pay. And the question is how you can command long-term reader loyalty if your print product goes.
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Being called the “Missouri Miracle” – a 19-year-old girl survives being hit by a drunk driver and many say it’s thanks to a mystery priest. A community is now searching for a man who appeared to be dressed like a Catholic priest. He prayed with the young girl at the scene of the crash as her vital signs were failing.
Read more: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/08/10/priest-appears-missouri-crash-scene-pray-victim-mysteriously-disappearing#ixzz2besS6HbO
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ObamaCare: Some Democrats are signing on to bills repealing the powers of the Independent Payment Advisory Board to effectively ration health care for seniors. So Sarah Palin was right about those death panels after all?
Palin was mocked by liberals when at a Tea Party rally in Reno, Nev., in late 2010, shortly before the GOP retook the House of Representatives, she told attendees: "Don't be thinking that we've got victory for America in the bag yet. ... We can't party like it's 1773."
Leftist know-it-alls insisted that 1776 was the correct year, when in fact Palin was right: The Boston Tea Party she referred to — a protest of British oppressive taxation — happened on Dec. 16, 1773.
Palin was right as well, and also took a lot of heat, when she referred to ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) as a death panel whose decisions would result in health care rationing.
(Under ObamaCare, IPAB's board of 15 presidentially appointed "experts" will be empowered to make arbitrary Medicare spending-cut decisions with virtually no congressional oversight or control.)
Dr. Donald Berwick, who headed the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, admitted as much when he opined: "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open."
Berwick also said: "We can make a sensible social decision and say, 'Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit (new drug or medical intervention) is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds.'"
In an op-ed last month in the Wall Street Journal that Palin could have written, Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, called IPAB "essentially a health care rationing body" and said he believes it will fail.
"The IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them," wrote Dean, who is also a physician. "Getting rid of the IPAB is something Democrats and Republicans ought to agree on."
Indeed, a growing number of Democrats — many of whom face tough re-election bids next year — agree.
Over the past three months, 22 have signed on to the House IPAB repeal bill. They include lawmakers such as Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., a longtime GOP target.
Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, R-Ark., is co-sponsoring the Senate repeal bill this year after spending the previous three defending IPAB. The Senate and House measures now have 32 and 192 co-sponsors, respectively.
Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/080913-667073-sarah-palin-vindicated-as-democrats-oppose-ipab.htm#ixzz2berEU5wL
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How many likes and prayers for Pastor Nick??? Type in a Prayer now for his Life without Limbs ministry!
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OBAMA DECRIES SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY, Special envoy to meet with diplomatic officials in Jerusalem before going to Jericho for another round of discussions By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AP August 8, 2013,
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I disapprove of Obama's bigotry. Go figure. - ed
The United States said on Thursday that it was against Israeli approval of new Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria.
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A war crime the UN endorses - ed
I have been getting a lot of questions lately about the whole “polio situation” here in Israel, so I thought I would try and shed some light on the situation and try to calm some fears and correct some misinformation. Given that I’m an ER doc with a sprinkle (dollop) of ADHD, my attention span is relatively short and my espresso long. Therefore I thought this topic might be best addressed Q&A style.
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
Ask him to move it, sister. If He wants you to walk over it you will - ed
I was very challenged, reading an article yesterday. It was about a woman who had a baby which was born with a complication to its intestines. The complication needed routine surgery. Doctors discovered the baby had lost its' bowel .. and would starve to death in a day. There was nothing the parents could do. They cried to God, comforted each other, and held their baby as it died. Reading that story, my heart was torn. As I imagine God's was too. He holds that baby now. Too soon. But I give thanks to Him he is there to hold the lost, and guide them home. Later in the day, I was watching Dr Phil. A woman, 20 years ago when she was 17, working in a service station next to her boyfriend was approached by a 14 yo girl with a shotgun. The 14 yo demanded money and while the 17 yo was giving it to her, the shotgun went off and blew the jaw off the 17 yo girl. 20 years passed, and the 17 yo has two children and is married to her boyfriend, but she has no face and people make fun of her and taunt her children. She suffers anxiety every time she passes the scene in her small town, USA. Dr Phil has both the 17 yo and 14 yo talk about their stories and meet. The 14 yo has become a Christian and served jail time for the robbery. Initially, the 14yo sounds defensive, and says the 17 yo should forgive her. They cry, and hold each other. I don't know the future. But my heart is full .. I struggle with the past, but have faith God is here. - ed
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*shudder* the dismal view of teens I dislike intensely. They aren't the same as younger children. They are, when treated right, kind, thoughtful and generous. "What did I forget to tell them?" Probably to ignore every preachy meaningless feel good thought that entered your vacuous head. - ed
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CTV News in Atlantic Canada reports that a Cure For Cancer is found and it has been censored just like Dr Burzynski's Cure for Cancer from Houston, Texas.
Dr. Evangelos Michelakis at the University of Alberta, talks about a drug called DCA that has been found to reduce the size of cancerous tumors. Dr. Dario Alterieri from the University of Massachusetts agrees that it should be tested for side effects and safety issues. However, since there is no patent, no pharmaceutical company can own this drug and drug companies will not bring it out on the market or conduct studies, due to the fact that they can't make profit off a drug that can be inexpensively produced.
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Dichloroacetic acid, often abbreviated DCA, is the chemical compound with formula CHCl
2COOH. It is an acid, an analogue of acetic acid, in which two of the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have been replaced bychlorine atoms. The salts and esters of dichloroacetic acid are called dichloroacetates. Salts of DCA have been studied as potential drugs because they inhibit the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase.[citation needed]
2COOH. It is an acid, an analogue of acetic acid, in which two of the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have been replaced bychlorine atoms. The salts and esters of dichloroacetic acid are called dichloroacetates. Salts of DCA have been studied as potential drugs because they inhibit the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase.[citation needed]
Although preliminary studies have shown DCA can slow the growth of certain tumors in animal studies and in vitrostudies, "Available evidence does not support the use of DCA for cancer treatment at this time."[2]
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Where God leads, He guides and where He guides, He provides.
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Larry Pickering
RUDD’S BAD HAIR DAY IS EVERY DAY
Uncle Kev has always reminded me of everyone’s unfortunate dim uncle. You know, the one you had to take to weddings. Sooner or later you had to take him out the back, slap him around the chops, and tell him to stop playing with his donger in public!
The NSW Catholic Right faction, headed by Carr, Richardson, Dastyari and a bevvy of Gillard hangers on who have disappeared into thin air, has relented and agreed to the return of the hapless and hated Rudd.
Only now is the NSW Right recalling how Rudd had taken public masturbation to new heights, and so too are voters twigging.
Not a thing has changed with good old Uncle Kev!
His (hal al certified and foreign owned) Vegemite trick was pathetic in terms of a GST increase.
Not only has Abbott said the GST will not be touched unless he takes it to an ensuing election, (Tony is no Julia) the GST is a States’ tax and needs States’ approval. Something highly unlikely with State elections looming.
[Anyway why is Vegemite hal al certified? It’s a vegetable extract. Do Islamists also kill their vegetables in a certain way now?]
Poor Uncle Kev last week found it “necessary” to sack another two endorsed candidates. One of whom, Geoff Lake, in the red-ribbon set of Hotham, was found to have verbally abused a female councillor many years ago. Tch tch.
Labor ministers including Mark Dreyfus and Tanya Plibersek defended Mr Lake yesterday, saying, "...it was a long time ago, when he was 22, and he had apologised many times".
The interesting thing about Kevin Rudd is that he has just “endorsed” Peter Beattie at the expense of Des Hardman in the seat of Forde.
Poor ol’ Des has done nothing wrong! It’s just that Uncle Kev’s chances at re-election are improved with Peter Beattie’s endorsement. (Or so he thinks.)
But Peter Beattie’s indiscretions far outweigh those of dumped Mr Lake. And Uncle Kev is very familiar with those indiscretions.
The formerly secret diary of journo, Patricia Gillespie, is a long and interesting X-rated read and details the extra-marital exploits of Peter Beattie in all its sordid glory.
It’s no wonder his wife has his measurements for a pine box.
Pat Gillespie, who it appears was bonking everyone in QLD Labor, except Bill Ludwig, (and even that’s not certain) uses diary pseudonyms:
Uncle Kev’s name is Dr Death and Beattie’s is Danny and Danny had a “during and after hours” wandering appendage that would put Alvin Purple to shame.
A fascinating diary that has somehow escaped the safe-keeping of a Queensland solicitor and itemises, in graphic detail, the decadence of Beattie and QLD Labor.
So, what to make of all this?
Well, our duplicitous Uncle Kev seems quite prepared to overlook far worse political indiscretions when it comes to his own interests.
Hmmm, did someone say we have a new Uncle Kev this time round?
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Clint Eastwood: Obama Is ‘Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated On The American People’
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“I had three points I wanted to make,” Eastwood said. “That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”
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A military field hospital has been erected by Israel near the Syria border next to Quneitra. More than 400 civilians and soldiers from
both sides in the civil war have been treated and difficult cases are sent to the Sieff Hospital in Tzfad or the Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
Syria population as well as all armed groups know that Israel is offering the wounded safe skies that can save their lives. Wounded fighters receive strict orders not to bring with them weapons of any kind to the field hospital.
Civilians and fighters that recovered are returned to Syria.
In the civil war in Syria the conflicting parties do not take prisoners, or they kill them on the spot or kill them by torture. In this sense the Israeli humanitarian action is a light in a dirty war.
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Being positive won't guarantee you will succeed, but being negative will guarantee you won't.
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It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.
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The campaign SBS backed was a trade off of ethnicity to promote change on drug policy. The name (Better Man) was an insult to the twin brother. The grieving mother was not consulted .. probably a good cast did a good job .. probably well produced. I didn't watch it so I will never know.
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- 2492 BC – According to legend, Armenian culture hero Hayk slew the giant king Bel with a shot from a longbow near Lake Van (in modern Turkey).
- 1492 – The first papal conclave held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Pope Innocent VIII.
- 1786 – Captain Francis Light founded the British colony ofPenang, beginning more than a century of British involvement inMalaya.
- 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr (pictured) and composer George Antheil received a patent for their "Secret Communications System", an early technique of frequency-hopping spread spectrum that later became the basis for many forms of today'swireless communication systems.
- 2012 – At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
Events[edit]
- 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably theMayans, begins.
- 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
- 106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
- 355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
- 490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
- 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
- 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
- 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
- 1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
- 1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
- 1813 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
- 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
- 1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
- 1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
- 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing 1 and wounding 5.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
- 1960 – Chad declares independence.
- 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- 1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
- 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- 1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail
- 1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
- 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
- 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
- 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
- 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
- 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2006 – The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
- 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
Births[edit]
- 1467 – Mary of York (d. 1482)
- 1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)
- 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1743)
- 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
- 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (d. 1791)
- 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
- 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer (d. 1812)
- 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian educator (d. 1852)
- 1794 – James B. Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
- 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)
- 1808 – William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1892)
- 1825 – István Türr, Hungarian soldier, architect, and engineer, co-designed the Corinth Canal (d. 1908)
- 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1899)
- 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
- 1836 – Warren Brown, American historian and politician (d. 1919)
- 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (d. 1894)
- 1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
- 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer (d. 1939)
- 1869 – Hale Holden, American railroad executive (d. 1940)
- 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)
- 1875 – Daniel Soubeyran, French rower (d. 1959)
- 1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, American judge (d. 1954)
- 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and author (d. 1955)
- 1881 – Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
- 1884 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian actor (d. 1962)
- 1885 – Stephen Butterworth, British physicist (d. 1958)
- 1891 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962)
- 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
- 1892 – Archie Wiles, Indian cricketer (d. 1957)
- 1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese author (d. 1962)
- 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
- 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1968)
- 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
- 1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
- 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor and singer (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist (d. 2002)
- 1905 – Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (d. 1998)
- 1907 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
- 1908 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999)
- 1909 – Yūji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Uku Masing, Estonian philosopher (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
- 1912 – Raphael Blau, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
- 1913 – Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor (d. 1976)
- 1913 – Bob Scheffing, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
- 1913 – Angus Wilson, English author (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Morris Weiss, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
- 1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
- 1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1920 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian and author (d. 1992)
- 1922 – John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Stan Chambers, American journalist
- 1925 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Arlene Dahl, American actress and singer
- 1925 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1926 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-English lawyer
- 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English harpsichord player and conductor
- 1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Paul Soles, Canadian actor and producer
- 1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright
- 1932 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Geoffrey Cass, British businessman
- 1932 – Peter Eisenman, American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia
- 1932 – John Gorrie, English director and screenwriter
- 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish director (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Tamás Vásáry, Hungarian concert pianist and conductor
- 1934 – Bob Hepple, South African labour law and human rights academic
- 1936 – Andre Dubus, American author (d. 1999)
- 1936 – Jonathan Spence, English historian of China
- 1937 – Anna Massey, English actress (d. 2011)
- 1937 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (d. 2014)
- 1938 – Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
- 1939 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Lennie Pond, American race car driver
- 1941 – Alla Kushnir, Russian–Israeli chess player (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Mike Hugg, English drummer and keyboard player (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds)
- 1943 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and activist (d. 1969)
- 1943 – Jim Kale, Canadian bass player (The Guess Who)
- 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan
- 1943 – Denis Payton, English saxophonist (The Dave Clark Five) (d. 2006)
- 1944 – Hans Knudsen, Danish canoe racer
- 1944 – Martin Linton, British former politician
- 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor and director
- 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx
- 1944 – Martin Linton, Swedish-English politician
- 1946 – John Conlee, American singer
- 1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American journalist and author
- 1947 – Theo de Jong, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
- 1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician
- 1948 – Don Boyd, Scottish film director, producer and screenwriter
- 1948 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (d. 1969)
- 1949 – Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Raspberries)
- 1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American lawyer and politician
- 1950 – Elya Baskin, Latvian-American actor
- 1950 – Erik Brann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)
- 1950 – Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian engineer, designed the AN-94 rifle (d. 2003)
- 1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc.
- 1951 – Vincent Bilodeau, Canadian actor
- 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer (d. 1980)
- 1952 – Manfred Krüger, German footballer
- 1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Devo)
- 1953 – Hulk Hogan, American wrestler and actor
- 1953 – Wijda Mazereeuw, Dutch swimmer
- 1954 – Vance Heafner, American golfer (d. 2012)
- 1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter
- 1954 – M. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1954 – Tarmo Rüütli, Estonian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and umpire
- 1955 – Marc Bureau, Canadian politician, 16th Mayor of Gatineau
- 1955 – Sylvia Hermon, Irish politician
- 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
- 1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Skrewdriver) (d. 1993)
- 1958 – Jah Wobble, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Public Image Ltd and The Damage Manual)
- 1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Soda Stereo)
- 1959 – Simon Clegg, English sports businessman
- 1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese businessman
- 1959 – Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 2005)
- 1959 – Richard Scudamore, English businessman, CE Premier League
- 1959 – László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor
- 1961 – David Brooks, American journalist and author
- 1961 – Craig Ehlo, American basketball player and coach
- 1961 – Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000)
- 1962 – Brian Azzarello, American author
- 1962 – Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software
- 1962 – Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1962 – John Micklethwait, English editor
- 1962 – Rob Minkoff, American filmmaker
- 1962 – Ennis Whatley, American basketball player
- 1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player
- 1964 – Jim Lee, South Korean-American author and illustrator
- 1964 – James Mates, British television journalist
- 1964 – Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Nikki Randall, American porn actress
- 1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
- 1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress
- 1965 – Viola Davis, American actress
- 1965 – Duane Martin, American actor and producer
- 1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created Resident Evil
- 1966 – Nigel Martyn, English footballer and coach
- 1966 – Juan María Solare, Argentine pianist and composer
- 1967 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Héroes del Silencio)
- 1967 – Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor and martial artist
- 1967 – Eric Maleson, Brazilian bobsled racer, founded the Brazilian Ice Sports Federation
- 1967 – Joe Rogan, American comedian, actor, and television host
- 1968 – Anna Gunn, American actress
- 1968 – Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
- 1968 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (d. 2009)
- 1969 – Ashley Jensen, Scottish actress
- 1969 – Toomas Kivisild, Estonian geneticist
- 1969 – Ago Markvardt, Estonian Nordic combined skier
- 1970 – Dirk Hannemann, German footballer and manager
- 1970 – Ali Shaheed Muhammad, American rapper and producer (A Tribe Called Quest, The Ummah, and Lucy Pearl)
- 1970 – Teresa Pavlinek, Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress
- 1971 – Julie Clarke, American model and actress
- 1971 – Tommy Mooney, English footballer
- 1972 – Jonathon Prandi, American model and actor
- 1973 – Nigel Harman, English actor
- 1973 – Carolyn Murphy, American model and actress
- 1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater
- 1974 – Anju Jain, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1974 – Kira Kener, American porn actress
- 1974 – Hadiqa Kiani, Pakistani singer-songwriter and model
- 1974 – Chris Messina, American actor
- 1974 – Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., American singer
- 1974 – Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (d. 2002)
- 1975 – Davey von Bohlen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cap'n Jazz, The Promise Ring, Maritime, and Vermont)
- 1976 – Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer and manager
- 1976 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
- 1976 – Will Friedle, American actor
- 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡All-Time Quarterback!)
- 1976 – Jhong Hilario, Filipino actor and dancer
- 1976 – Tõnis Kalde, Estonian footballer
- 1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player
- 1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Dênio Martins, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
- 1978 – Hannes Kaasik, Estonian footballer and referee
- 1978 – Chris Kelly, American rapper (Kris Kross) (d. 2013)
- 1978 – Charlotte Leslie, English politician
- 1978 – Amber Mariano, American television personality, winner of Survivor: All-Stars
- 1978 – Jermain Taylor, American boxer
- 1979 – Walter Ayoví, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1979 – Aggeliki Daliani, Greek actress
- 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist
- 1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player
- 1981 – Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1981 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1982 – Alan Halsall, English actor
- 1982 – Wilko Risser, Namibian footballer
- 1983 – Pavel 183, Russian painter (d. 2013)
- 1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian race car driver
- 1984 – Kaire Palmaru, Estonian footballer
- 1984 – Katie Rees, American model, Miss Nevada USA 2007
- 1985 – J-Boog, American rapper, producer, and actor (B2K)
- 1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper
- 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Bollywood actress
- 1986 – Mokhtar Benmoussa, Algerian footballer
- 1986 – Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress
- 1986 – Richard Keogh, Irish footballer
- 1986 – Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1987 – Maris Mägi, Estonian sprinter
- 1987 – Dany N'Guessan, French footballer
- 1987 – Drew Storen, American baseball player
- 1988 – Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
- 1989 – Gui Gui, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl)
- 1989 – Sebastian Huke, German footballer
- 1990 – Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
- 1991 – Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
- 1993 – Gita Gutawa, Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1993 – Sean McGinty, English-Irish footballer
- 1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1994 – Rand Saad, Iraqi archer
- 1994 – Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
Deaths[edit]
- 223 – Jia Xu, Advisor for the state of Cao Wei
- 353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
- 449 – Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
- 1204 – Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
- 1259 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1208)
- 1456 – John Hunyadi, Hungarian general (b. 1387)
- 1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal (b. 1401)
- 1494 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. 1430)
- 1519 – Johann Tetzel, German preacher (b. 1465)
- 1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
- 1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and cosmographer(b. 1502)
- 1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, English son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
- 1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
- 1656 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
- 1774 – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French physician and author (b. 1722)
- 1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
- 1851 – Lorenz Oken, German biologist (b. 1779)
- 1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
- 1868 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (b. 1815)
- 1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
- 1890 – John Henry Newman, English cardinal (b. 1801)
- 1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
- 1903 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
- 1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian activist (b. 1889)
- 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
- 1921 – Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
- 1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
- 1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
- 1939 – Jean Bugatti, German-Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1909)
- 1939 – Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
- 1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
- 1954 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster (b. 1886)
- 1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)
- 1961 – Antanas Škėma, Polish-American actor, director, playwright, and author (b. 1910)
- 1963 – Otto Wahle, Austrian swimmer (b. 1879)
- 1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
- 1969 – Miriam Licette, English soprano (b. 1885)
- 1972 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (Orfeón Lamas) (b. 1887)
- 1974 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
- 1975 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian wife of Zalman Shazar (b. 1885)
- 1979 – J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
- 1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Tom Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
- 1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (b. 1892)
- 1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–American chess player (b. 1916)
- 1986 – János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)
- 1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
- 1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
- 1994 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1995 – Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
- 1996 – Tassos Isaac, Cypriot activist (b. 1972)
- 1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
- 1996 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
- 1996 – Baba Vanga, Bulgarian mystic (b. 1911)
- 2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Percy Stallard, English cyclist (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
- 2004 – K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (b. 1925)
- 2005 – James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
- 2010 – Bruno Schleinstein, German actor (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Jani Lane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Warrant and Saints of the Underground) (b. 1964)
- 2012 – Red Bastien, American wrestler (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Carlo Curley, American organist (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Michael Dokes, American boxer (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Von Freeman, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Heidi Holland, Zimbabwean journalist and author (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Indian linguist (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and game show host (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Sid Waddell, English sportscaster (b. 1940)
- 2013 – George Barasch, American union leader (b. 1910)
- 2013 – Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Don Friedman, American politician and radio host (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Zafar Futehally, Indian ornithologist (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Shirley Herz, American publicist (b. 1925)
- 2013 – David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Henry Polic II, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Judit Temes, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.
“For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Christ, who is our life."
Colossians 3:4
Colossians 3:4
Paul's marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source of our life. "You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by his life that we live; he is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions, the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance of our life. What can the Christian feed upon but Jesus' flesh and blood? "This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die." O wayworn pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, you never get a morsel to satisfy the hunger of your spirits, except ye find it in him! Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come from him; and in times of trouble, his presence is our consolation. There is nothing worth living for but him; and his lovingkindness is better than life! Christ is the object of our life. As speeds the ship towards the port, so hastes the believer towards the haven of his Saviour's bosom. As flies the arrow to its goal, so flies the Christian towards the perfecting of his fellowship with Christ Jesus. As the soldier fights for his captain, and is crowned in his captain's victory, so the believer contends for Christ, and gets his triumph out of the triumphs of his Master. "For him to live is Christ." Christ is the exemplar of our life. Where there is the same life within, there will, there must be, to a great extent, the same developments without; and if we live in near fellowship with the Lord Jesus we shall grow like him. We shall set him before us as our Divine copy, and we shall seek to tread in his footsteps, until he shall become the crown of our life in glory. Oh! how safe, how honoured, how happy is the Christian, since Christ is our life!
Evening
"The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins."
Matthew 9:6
Matthew 9:6
Behold one of the great Physician's mightiest arts: he has power to forgive sin! While here he lived below, before the ransom had been paid, before the blood had been literally sprinkled on the mercy-seat, he had power to forgive sin. Hath he not power to do it now that he hath died? What power must dwell in him who to the utmost farthing has faithfully discharged the debts of his people! He has boundless power now that he has finished transgression and made an end of sin. If ye doubt it, see him rising from the dead! behold him in ascending splendour raised to the right hand of God! Hear him pleading before the eternal Father, pointing to his wounds, urging the merit of his sacred passion! What power to forgive is here! "He hath ascended on high, and received gifts for men." "He is exalted on high to give repentance and remission of sins." The most crimson sins are removed by the crimson of his blood. At this moment, dear reader, whatever thy sinfulness, Christ has power to pardon, power to pardon thee, and millions such as thou art. A word will speak it. He has nothing more to do to win thy pardon; all the atoning work is done. He can, in answer to thy tears, forgive thy sins today, and make thee know it. He can breathe into thy soul at this very moment a peace with God which passeth all understanding, which shall spring from perfect remission of thy manifold iniquities. Dost thou believe that? I trust thou believest it. Mayst thou experience now the power of Jesus to forgive sin! Waste no time in applying to the Physician of souls, but hasten to him with words like these:--
"Jesus! Master! hear my cry;
Save me, heal me with a word;
Fainting at thy feet I lie,
Thou my whisper'd plaint hast heard."
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Today's reading: Psalm 79-80, Romans 11:1-18 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 79-80
1 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple,
they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
3 They have poured out blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury the dead.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
of scorn and derision to those around us....
they have defiled your holy temple,
they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
3 They have poured out blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury the dead.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
of scorn and derision to those around us....
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 11:1-18
The Remnant of Israel
1 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah-how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me"? 4 And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace....
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Sosthenes
[Sŏs'thenēs] - of sound strength orsaviour from "i save."
[Sŏs'thenēs] - of sound strength orsaviour from "i save."
- The chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth who suffered at the hands of the Hellenistic Greeks when Gallio dismissed the case against Paul (Acts 18:17 RV).
- The believer or "brother" whom Paul unites with himself in addressing the Corinthian Church (1 Cor. 1:1 ). Perhaps both references are to the same man, Sosthenes of Acts 18:17 becoming a Christian after the Gallio outburst.
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