The Greens have an advert that could easily be a federal government one. The ending of the ridiculous Mineral Rent Tax is important for Australia. It had made it expensive to mine relative to the rest of the world. It also didn't raise money. And it costed a lot. Some of the ridiculous costs were ended, but not all, after a deal with PUP. If the ALP wanted better, they should have negotiated. Another big win to Abbott government. What are the Greens trying to achieve? It is apparent that Gillard watered down IR laws so as to foster union corruption, but what do the Greens get out of it?
Australia is punching above her weight when it comes to exporting terrorists to the Middle East. The Anglican Church seems to be on the wrong side of culture in Gosford. We have unions who break IR laws with apparent impunity and hiring people now known to be terrorists. Greens speak out for genocidal maniacs, but that seems to be a broad failing of the left, who excuse genocide in the name of multiculturalism. Meanwhile the federal government is trying her best, and has to compromise on the issue of banning the dole for six months on new recipients who are young. But a delay is a good thing because it limits needless access to welfare, which is hard to remove. But compromise is essential when the Senate is hostile. The ability of PUP to block progress might be limited. It is testimony that one port manager was not supported by the $12 million Palmer claims he spent on that port.
Greens are desperate and there has been no warming now for 19 years, despite a substantial increase in Carbon Dioxide. Now hysterics are preaching to little children that their pets will be killed by AGW monsters. A lovely Maori woman stands with Israel. There are calls to place science teacher specialists in primary schools, which seems a good idea.
From last year
Obama drew the red line, now he dithers. The master ditherer is thinking about asking Congress for direction. If he decides to Do Something, We will keep You informed. Hundreds of thousands of people have left Syria. About a hundred thousand have been estimated dead from the civil war in the last few years. Obama has done nothing to date about the atrocities. A related observation is the terrorist rocket activity into Israel. Obama has demanded Israel release terrorists and killers back into the community as incentive for other terrorists to sign a peace treaty. So we know Obama doesn't merely dither, he can act too, if not wisely.
In Australia, the polls, which favoured the LNP yesterday 53 to 47, favour the LNP today 54 to 46. At that rate, the actual poll on Saturday will be 59 to 41. This raises the question of why it is that 41% of the nation don't understand how to vote. Rudd is dithering over flying out to the G20 for the last two days and giving the ALP a possible lift in the polls through his absence. It would be Rudd's last junket. Many of his supporters might be feeling he has earned it, and hope he goes soon.
Maybe by repeating the name "Abbott" Rudd will hit upon a magic formula suggesting the Australian voting population should vote for Rudd. It hasn't happened yet. It didn't work for Gillard, but keep trying Kev. Rudd could copy Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's attempt to acquire office. But it hasn't worked for the incompetent penis either. Sending Rudd to the G20, is like sending Rudd to get a mosquito candle, muses Therese. Tim Blair shows Rudd channeling Nixon badly. Rudd has had some good policies lately .. they involve rejecting previous ALP policies he made. There are many hyper critical commentators taking Abbott to task for calling terrorists bad people. Unlike Rudd, who called people, who spoke Chinese Mandarin, Ratfuckers.
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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.
===47 BC – Caesarion, possibly the son of Julius Caesar, became the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra.
1649 – Forces loyal to Pope Innocent X destroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.
1807 – The British Royal Navy began their bombardment of Copenhagen to capture the Dano-Norwegian navy.
1945 – On the deck of the United States Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and several Allied Powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board.Now that the son is co-king, and innocent forces have won. Now the Navy has asserted herself, and the mighty have been brought to heel. Now, when things are up in the air .. now is the time to have fun. Enjoy the day.
Matches
- 47 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
- 31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- 421 – Galla Placidia, wife of the Emperor Constantius III, becomes a widow for the second time when he dies suddenly of an illness.
- 1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa was signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
- 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
- 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
- 1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
- 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
- 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- 1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
- 1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
- 1833 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
- 1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
- 1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
- 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
- 1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
- 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
- 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- 1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
- 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
- 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
- 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
- 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
- 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
- 1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
- 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
- 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
- 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
- 2013 – The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, being the widest bridge in the world.
Hatches
- 1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733)
- 1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
- 1753 – Marie Joséphine of Savoy (d. 1810)
- 1778 – Louis Bonaparte, French-Dutch king (d. 1846)
- 1810 – Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898)
- 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and educator (d. 1897)
- 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company (d. 1915)
- 1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (d. 1910)
- 1879 – An Jung-geun, North Korean activist, assassin of Itō Hirobumi (d. 1910)
- 1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (d. 1970)
- 1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (d. 1995)
- 1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1997)
- 1918 – Allen Drury, American author (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Hal Ashby, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)
- 1937 – Derek Fowlds, English actor
- 1943 – Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1950 – Michael Rother, German guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter (Neu!, Kraftwerk, and Harmonia)
- 1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor, martial artist, and stuntman
- 1951 – Mik Kaminski, English violinist (Electric Light Orchestra, Violinski, and ELO Part II)
- 1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1953 – John Zorn, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (Naked City, Masada, and Painkiller)
- 1964 – Keanu Reeves, Lebanese-Canadian actor
- 1965 – Lennox Lewis, English-Canadian boxer
- 1966 – Yū Hayami, Japanese singer and actress
- 1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress, director, and producer
- 1971 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor, martial artist, director, and screenwriter
- 1975 – MC Chris, American rapper, actor, and screenwriter
- 1976 – Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
- 1979 – Alex Chu, South Korean-Canadian singer and actor (Clazziquai)
- 1979 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
- 1982 – Mandy Cho, American-Hong Kong model and actress
- 1984 – Jack Peñate, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1984 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese model, actor, and singer
- 1988 – Ishmeet Singh, Indian singer (d. 2008)
- 1993 – Montana Cox, Australian model
- 1996 – Sungha Jung, South Korean guitarist
Despatches
- 421 – Constantius III, Roman emperor
- 459 – Simeon Stylites, Byzantine saint (b. 390)
- 595 – Patriarch John IV of Constantinople
- 1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary (b. 1000)
- 1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
- 1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian singer-songwriter, organist, and poet (b. 1335)
- 1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (b. 1700)
- 1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
- 1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)
- 1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1805)
- 1872 – N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (b. 1783)
- 1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
- 1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
- 1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
- 1962 – William Wilkerson, American businessman, founded The Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Sue Williams, American actress and model (b. 1945)
- 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-English philologist and poet (b. 1892)
- 1993 – Russel B. Nye, American author and educator (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Bob Denver, American actor and singer (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Mark Abrahamian, American guitarist (Starship) (b. 1966)
- 2013 – Frederik Pohl, American author (b. 1919)
2014
- Christian feast day:
- Democracy Day (Tibet)
- Independence day (Transnistria, unrecognized)
- Independence day (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, unrecognized)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Vietnam from Japan and France in 1945
- Sedantag (German Empire)
THE GREAT KITTEN AND PUPPY EXTINCTION
Tim Blair – Tuesday, September 02, 2014 (7:38pm)
Harvard warmist Naomi Oreskes predicts the deaths of all Australians due to climate change – and even worse, as Tony Thomas observes:
She prophesises the climate deaths of puppies and kittens. One reader, she says, “started crying when the pets die, so I didn’t mean to upset people too much … I was just trying to come up with something that I thought people wouldn’t forget about, and I thought, well, Americans spend billions of dollars every year taking care of their pets, and I thought if people’s dogs started dying, maybe then they would sit up and take notice.”I looked up that bit in the book, and found the Great Kitten & Puppy Extinction occurs in 2023, along with the incidental deaths of 500,000 people and $US500b financial damage. Oreskes writes,“The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners, but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal. A shadow of ignorance and denial had fallen over people who considered themselves children of the Enlightenment.”To make sure no-one misses the pet die-off, she repeats it in a bold-type breakout.
Naturally, this scored an ABC appearance for Naomi. On the Science Show.
BENT ROD
Tim Blair – Tuesday, September 02, 2014 (4:32pm)
The tilt is permanent.
JUST ONE BOOK
Tim Blair – Tuesday, September 02, 2014 (1:49pm)
Most of Guardian cartoonist Andrew Marlton’s latest work is his usual low-cal leftist giggle-chow, but this frame is slightly more sinister:
Marlton is very deliberately excusing, almost to the point of dismissal, the distribution and sale in Australia of booksthat celebrate Hitler, describe Jews as animals and baby killers, and assert women are worth only half as much as men. It’s no big deal to Marlton. Move along, people. Nothing to see here.
Marlton is very deliberately excusing, almost to the point of dismissal, the distribution and sale in Australia of booksthat celebrate Hitler, describe Jews as animals and baby killers, and assert women are worth only half as much as men. It’s no big deal to Marlton. Move along, people. Nothing to see here.
Just as there was nothing to see in Rotherham.
UPDATE. A British social worker attempted to expose sexual predators in Rotherham more than ten years ago:
Working as a researcher for the British Home Office in 2002, the female social worker told the BBC that she was intimidated after she turned in a report documenting 270 cases of sexual exploitation involving men of Pakistani or Kashmiri heritage in Rotherham, a town of 250,000 in northern England …“I was collecting data on who the perpetrators were, what cars they were using, their grooming methods, their offending methods, and what I was also collecting, was information on professional responses,” she said.
Then she was Marltoned:
“You must never refer to that again. You must never refer to Asian men,” the social worker was told by a superior, she told the BBC. “And her other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity class.”
(Via Firehand)
STAND WITH ISRAEL
Tim Blair – Tuesday, September 02, 2014 (12:24pm)
A beautiful speech, in content and delivery, from New Zealand’s Sheree Trotter:
(Via David & Deanne C)
(Via David & Deanne C)
Mining tax scrapped. Palmer lets through $10 billion of cuts
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (4:03pm)
The Abbott Government
gets another big item off its agenda thanks to a surprise deal with
Clive Palmer. The trouble is not just that the savings now aren’t as big
as needed, but that the 2016 election could be in part a referendum on
whether to confirm or stop the welfare cuts:
So still things to do and this deal still leaves spending not cut as it should be. Yet there are savings (to add to others already gone through), and the Government can now credibly claim to have fulfilled its big four promises - to scrap the carbon tax, scrap the mining tax, stop the boats and get the Budget back under control. This is a big moment for Abbott.
UPDATE
Indeed, Clive Palmer says voters can choose at the next election to keep the welfare payments or go ahead and scrap them. He’s having a bet both ways, saying he still wants the payments kept even though he’s had had his Senators vote to cut them in three years time.
===THE mining tax has been scrapped after the Abbott government announced a surprise deal with crossbench senators to overhaul the bill to repeal the impost…Still the Medicare co-payment to go, and the parental leave scheme after that. I suspect the first will be ditched and the other severely modified. Clive Palmer says he’s against deregulation of universities. too.
Senator Cormann said the changes would add $10 billion to the budget bottom line over the next four years by repealing the tax and scaling back some of the spending measures linked to it.
The government’s ideal plan, reintroduced to parliament on Monday, would have added $16.5bn to the budget bottom…
The mining tax was officially repealed in the Senate shortly after 2pm…
Senator Cormann said the changes would means-test the Schoolkids Bonus, in effect giving ground to Mr Palmer, who had insisted on keeping the cash payment to families even though the Coalition promised at the last election to scrap it.
Other changes will keep the income support bonus through to 2016 and the low income super contribution through to 2017…
But the most contentious change is to delay a scheduled increase in the superannuation guarantee levy, due to take place next July and to keep rising over the next few years to reach 12 per cent of wages by 2019. The government’s changes will halt the increase and not restart it until early next decade, so that the target of 12 per cent is not reached until 2026.
Senator Cormann thanked the Palmer United Party, Ricky Muir from the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, David Leyonjhjelm from the Liberal Democratic Party and Bob Day from Family First as he outlined the new deal to the Senate.
So still things to do and this deal still leaves spending not cut as it should be. Yet there are savings (to add to others already gone through), and the Government can now credibly claim to have fulfilled its big four promises - to scrap the carbon tax, scrap the mining tax, stop the boats and get the Budget back under control. This is a big moment for Abbott.
UPDATE
Indeed, Clive Palmer says voters can choose at the next election to keep the welfare payments or go ahead and scrap them. He’s having a bet both ways, saying he still wants the payments kept even though he’s had had his Senators vote to cut them in three years time.
A leading exporter of jihadism
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (11:25am)
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Crime figure allegedly paid $2500 a week to CFMEU
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (9:37am)
Something very ugly in the CFMEU:
===COMPANIES owned by Sydney crime figure George Alex made regular illicit payments every week running to thousands of dollars to officials of the militant construction union as “the cost of doing business”.We’d probably know more if witnesses were not so scared:
The royal commission into union corruption heard yesterday about the close relationship between Mr Alex and two officials from the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union — NSW branch secretary Brian Parker and NSW organiser Darren Greenfield…
Another name to feature prominently was Khaled Sharrouf, employed as “muscle-for-hire” by Mr Alex before he fled to Syria in December to fight for the Islamic State and gained international notoriety for a photo of one of his young sons holding the severed head of a Syrian fighter. In evidence to the commission yesterday, Karen Nettleton, the mother-in-law of Sharrouf and grandmother of the boy in the photograph, said she just did what she was told when working for Mr Alex as a bookkeeper processing $2500 payments.
Ms Nettleton was hired by Mr Alex after Sharrouf introduced her to him.
Two executives who worked with Mr Alex admitted under pressure in evidence yesterday that regular weekly payments of $2500 were siphoned from his companies to pay CFMEU officials.
The commission heard how Mr Alex ... shut down labour hire and scaffolding companies when they ran short of cash as funds were shifted to Mr Alex, Mr Antoun and other “investors”.
According to evidence, Mr Alex reopened his businesses and continued trading by starting companies with slightly different names.
Workers who were union members lost their jobs and were denied owed entitlements and superannuation, but the regular $2500 secret commissions continued to CFMEU officials in NSW…
Another witness, cage wrestler Jimmy Kendrovski, refused to co-operate after being brought from Parklea jail where he is serving nine months for firearms offences.
Asked if someone spoke to him about his looming evidence when he was bashed in jail on Friday night, Mr Kendrovski said: “I can’t comment on it ... because I have a wife and three kids outside on their own.”
Government folding on six-month dole bans
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (9:29am)
A very big backdown, but one forced on the Abbott Government:
Still, that battle is over. Now the Government seems to be coming to the conclusion it should cut its losses.
===UNEMPLOYED people under 30 would face a shorter wait for the Newstart Allowance payment than the six-month proposal unveiled in the budget, as the Abbott government prepares to compromise in order to get its controversial welfare reforms through the Senate.I’ve said before that this line yesterday from Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews should have been pushed much harder - and from the start:
The Australian understands that senior members of the Coalition have conceded that getting the proposal for a full six months off the dole through the Senate is extremely difficult, or even impossible, and are prepared to accept a shorter waiting period. The government is expected to be able to get the radical measure through if it settles for a waiting period of one month, as operates in New Zealand.
Senate crossbenchers have so far been unwilling to accept any waiting period for the dole but given New Zealand has had success with its one-month waiting period, the Abbott government hopes to convince them that this is a useful policy for deterring people from living on the dole.
This is not an earn-or-starve provision; this is an earn-or-learn provision. If you engage in education and training, there is support for you to do so.But can that be guaranteed? That’s where the compromise should have been.
Still, that battle is over. Now the Government seems to be coming to the conclusion it should cut its losses.
McKitrick paper: no warming for 19 years
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (9:17am)
The Guardian in 2009 predicted five years of rapid warming:
Professsor Ross McKitrick says in a new paper that the warming pause has now lasted an astonishing 19 years at the surface and 16-26 years in the lower troposphere:
(Via the ever-excellent Watts Up With That.)
UPDATE
With the science against the faith it has so frantically promoted, the UN searches for someone who will turn the debate. Note well: it’s looking for someone who isn’t a scientist but who can play on guilt, racial politics, gender politics and victimhood:
(Thanks to readers Luke, Rocky and Old Fellah.)
===The world faces record-breaking temperatures as the sun’s activity increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than scientists had predicted for the next five years, according to a study.Fail. Five more years of no warming followed.
The hottest year on record was 1998, and the relatively cool years since have led to some global warming sceptics claiming that temperatures have levelled off or started to decline. But new research firmly rejects that argument.
The research, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, was carried out by Judith Lean, of the US Naval Research Laboratory, and David Rind, of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Professsor Ross McKitrick says in a new paper that the warming pause has now lasted an astonishing 19 years at the surface and 16-26 years in the lower troposphere:
This is “the science”. Why do warmists keep ignoring it?
The IPCC has drawn attention to an apparent leveling-off of globally-averaged temperatures over the past 15 years or so.... Here, I propose a method for estimating the duration of the hiatus that is robust to unknown forms of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation (HAC) in the temperature series and to cherry-picking of endpoints… Application of the method shows that there is now a trendless interval of 19 years duration at the end of the HadCRUT4 surface temperature series, and of 16 – 26 years in the lower troposphere. Use of a simple AR1 trend model suggests a shorter hiatus of 14 – 20 years but is likely unreliable…
While the HadCRUT4 record clearly shows numerous pauses and dips amid the overall upward trend, the ending hiatus is of particular note because climate models project continuing warming over the period. Since 1990, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose from 354 ppm to just under 400 ppm, a 13% increase…
In the surface data we compute a hiatus length of 19 years, and in the lower tropospheric data we compute a hiatus length of 16 years in the UAH series and 26 years in the RSS series.
(Via the ever-excellent Watts Up With That.)
UPDATE
With the science against the faith it has so frantically promoted, the UN searches for someone who will turn the debate. Note well: it’s looking for someone who isn’t a scientist but who can play on guilt, racial politics, gender politics and victimhood:
The United Nations is looking for a young woman to, as BBC put it, be the ‘Malala’ of the climate change movement, serving as a voice that will energize this September’s climate change conference.The UN has outed itself with this stunt. Its criteria ensure no leading climate scientists need apply. See, this is no longer about science at all.
The organization has put out a call for a woman under 30 to speak at the opening session of the 2014 Climate Summit, which is being held on September 23 in New York City. The woman has to be from a developing country and must have a background that includes advocacy on climate change or work on implementing climate mitigation or adaptation solutions. So far, the call for applicants has drawn 544 women, who emailed short videos of themselves persuading world leaders to act on climate change to the Secretary-General’s office.
(Thanks to readers Luke, Rocky and Old Fellah.)
Cruelty denounced
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (9:16am)
Reader Bobbi:
===I noticed Richmond F.C. got a bit of a mention in the Herald Sun over the weekend. Did anybody at the Herald Sun bother to think about your poor friend, Tim Blair? Collingwood supporters have feelings too, you know.You’re wrong, Bobbi. I have indeed been thinking of poor Tim. Nothing surer these days to bring a smile to my face.
Palmer didn’t run port, says man who did
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (9:10am)
It’s not surprising to see Clive Palmer looking much grimmer these days. Hedley Thomas on the further unravelling of Palmer’s affairs:
===CLIVE Palmer could not have spent more than $12 million in Chinese funds on “port management services” because his people were not at the port nor doing such work, according to a master mariner and a China-owned company.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Ralph Larbey, who ran the remote West Australian port of Cape Preston, makes the claims in a fresh Supreme Court affidavit…
Mr Larbey ... said he worked for the Chinese side as managing director of the Cape Preston Port Company between September 2012 and February this year, and dealt with all operational and regulatory matters for the port.
He oversaw three managers based at the port and four managers in the Perth office as part of his responsibility to operate and maintain the infrastructure and marine assets at the port and meet all regulatory needs.
“At no time during my tenure as managing director for Cape Preston Port Company did any representative of Cosmo Developments Pty Ltd initiate contact, verbally or in writing, directly or through (Mr Palmer’s company) Mineralogy Pty Ltd to seek access to the port,’’ he said in his August 18 affidavit…
Mr Palmer’s top executives, including his own manager, Paul Robinson, have acknowledged they were not running the port.
Get the gas out of the ground before industry is destroyed
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (8:38am)
Craig Emerson and Greg Combet warn that the anti-fracking hype in NSW and Victoria could cost a lot of workers their jobs:
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While a moratorium on coal seam gas extraction continues in Victoria, the NSW government has tentatively resumed issuing permits. Any development in NSW and Victoria needs to meet high hydrological and other environmental standards. But environmental issues should be determined on the basis of science, research and empirical evidence, not on political grounds…
NSW imports 95 per cent of its gas from other states..., but gas supplies are tightening as the LNG industry trebles demand for eastern Australian gas in just three years....
Gas from the Cooper Basin and Gippsland that has been readily available to supply NSW and Victorian households and commercial users can now be diverted to the LNG export plants at Gladstone, where it will fetch up to three times the price that domestic consumers have been accustomed to paying.
Most of the long-term supply contracts for eastern Australian gas users expire over the period 2015 to 2017. With an eye to the lucrative export market, gas suppliers are unwilling to commit to new long-term contracts with users at the historical low prices…
[T]he east coast LNG export industry is raising costs for Australian gas-intensive manufacturing as previously low domestic gas prices move towards export parity. Deloitte Access forecasts serious declines in Australian east-coast manufacturing to the year 2021, with an income loss of up to $118 billion and more than 14,000 jobs lost.
With gas prices rising towards export parity and supply tightening, it is exceptionally difficult to make a business case for new investment in gas-intensive manufacturing in eastern Australia. Increasing the supply of gas is the only answer. And that means addressing any legitimate environmental issues and unlocking gas in NSW in particular…
Gas-intensive manufacturing is already migrating from Australia to the United States to take advantage of cheap American shale gas… Withholding the development of coal seam gas reserves in NSW and Victoria would make the job losses worse.
The case for stopping genocide in Iraq
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (8:10am)
Former foreign minister Gareth Evans is far too damning of the 2003 liberation of Iraq and too kind to Barack Obama now. But he is surely right about this:
===The current Western military intervention in Iraq is not 2003 revisited, and Australia is right to be part of it. The action is being taken at the request of the Iraqi government, to support its own and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, so no question arises of any breach of international law even in the absence of express UN Security Council authorisation. Its objective is explicitly humanitarian, to protect civilian populations immediately at risk of genocide or other mass atrocity crimes from the marauding Islamic State militant forces, who in their march across Iraq have already perpetrated atrocities unrivalled in their savagery. And there is a reasonable prospect that it will be successful in meeting at least this immediate aim.So why are the Greens against it?
What are our multicultural commissars doing to protect us?
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (8:03am)
Nick Cater on a multiculturalism industry that’s fiddling while Australia smoulders:
===[T]he evolution of Australian jihadis — migrants or their offspring who have decided they want to kill us — suggests the multicultural voyage has hit a rocky spot.The worst of such fiddling is that even the tune is wrong:
It’s a pity because in almost every other respect multiculturalism has been brilliant… Yet the intercultural tension between Islam and mainstream Australian values should not be ignored, least of all by institutions such as, say, the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW, which receives about $1 million a year in grants to help maintain the social fabric.
So how are the rainbow nation warriors at the ECC occupying their time? Well, they’ve got the Asian Dry Cleaner Electricity Saving Project to run for a start. They are employing “bilingual environmental educators” to lecture Vietnamese and Chinese business owners on the frugal use of energy… There’s the Saving Water in Asian Restaurants program, which, as the name suggests, offers “multilingual information on actions that can be taken to reduce water use in kitchens”.
It is tempting to think that meddling institutions such as the ECC (and there are many of them) have outlived their purpose, if indeed they ever had one.
The multicultural institutions have decided that integration is not their thing. They have chosen to specialise in diversity, social justice and the assertion of rights… They lead, in fact, to the opposite of integration, which is segregation.
Rudd’s dumb idea, Arbib’s reckless implementation
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (7:55am)
The royal commission does not accuse Kevin Rudd directly, reserving its worst criticisms for Mark Arbib:
===FORMER ministers Mark Arbib and Peter Garrett have been slammed over the deaths of four young workers during Labor’s $1.5 billion home insulation scheme in a scathing report on the “serious failure” of the Rudd government…
Mr Hanger finds serial failures from the moment Kevin Rudd launched the idea without full examination by federal cabinet and with key ministers — including Mr Garrett — left out of the loop on major decisions.
“The reality is that the Australian government conceived of, devised, designed and implemented a program that enabled very large numbers of inexperienced workers — often engaged by unscrupulous and avaricious employers or head contractors, who were themselves inexperienced in insulation installation — to undertake potentially dangerous work,” the commissioner writes. “It should have done more to protect them."…
Mr Hanger is especially critical of Mr Arbib, who was the parliamentary secretary and later the minister overseeing the Office of the Co-ordinator General, the central authority within Mr Rudd’s department for monitoring the stimulus. The report finds that in March 2009, a month after the program was announced but a few months before its start, co-ordinator-general Mike Mrdak told Mr Arbib that the deadlines were “very tight” and suggested a delay. This was rejected.
The report also finds that Mr Arbib received a risk assessment about the program in March 2009 but was more concerned about fraud by installers rather than the danger to workers…
A “turning point” came on March 31, 2009, when Mr Arbib and officers from the prime minister’s department overhauled the plan to quicken the pace of the rollout while easing the restrictions and training requirements.
Mr Garrett was not at this meeting...
Why did Labor not see this coming?
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (7:41am)
Simon Benson on Labor’s past blindness to the threat in Syria and Iraq:
===THE opposition’s shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus claims the last Labor government had been warning of the threats posed by terrorism in Syria and Iraq for years.
But who it is that he claims was being warned still remains a mystery.
It can’t have been the then prime minister Julia Gillard.
In her landmark national security speech last year she failed to mention the emerging crisis at all.
Not a single sentence did she devote to the issue.
This is more than a little surprising. It is alarming. At the time, the estimate of the number of Australians having joined the jihadists in Syria was close to 200…
The funding figures speak for themselves.
Under Labor the level of funding provided to the agencies with key counterterrorism roles was cut by $292 million — from $790 million in 2007-08 to $498.
Now the ABC tells sex joke about Tony Abbott’s mother
Andrew Bolt September 02 2014 (8:42pm)
Has the ABC learned nothing? Are there no bounds to its malice to conservatives?
ABC television late last year broadcast a show calling conservative critic Chris Kenny a “dog f...er” and showing a doctored photograph of him sodomising a dog. It had to apologise. It then called be a racist on air and made a number of false claims about my alleged bullying of a woman. It had to apologise.
Now it shows a cartoon with no wit, no real point, showing the Prime Minister’s mother in bed with an animated solar panel that’s just been having sex with her.
Juvenile doesn’t even cover it. Most juveniles I know would think this stupid and nasty. The only message that comes through in this witless skit is that vile abuse of conservatives - and even their parents - is OK by the ABC, and rather fashionable in ABC circles.
The ABC is out of control. When will the board order Mark Scott to reform it?
ABC television late last year broadcast a show calling conservative critic Chris Kenny a “dog f...er” and showing a doctored photograph of him sodomising a dog. It had to apologise. It then called be a racist on air and made a number of false claims about my alleged bullying of a woman. It had to apologise.
Now it shows a cartoon with no wit, no real point, showing the Prime Minister’s mother in bed with an animated solar panel that’s just been having sex with her.
Juvenile doesn’t even cover it. Most juveniles I know would think this stupid and nasty. The only message that comes through in this witless skit is that vile abuse of conservatives - and even their parents - is OK by the ABC, and rather fashionable in ABC circles.
The ABC is out of control. When will the board order Mark Scott to reform it?
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Thérèse Rein, once again Australia's first lady, is facing questions - both in Australia and in Britain - about her company.
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Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win – rather than topunish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality.
Bashar al-Assad, strongman of Syria.
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It will also entail real dangers. Bashar al-Assad's notorious incompetence means his response cannot be anticipated. Western strikes could, among other possibilities, inadvertently lead to increased regime attacks on civilians, violence against Israel, an activation of sleeper cells in Western countries, or heightened dependence on Tehran. Surviving the strikes also permits Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.
In other words, the imminent attack entails few potential benefits but many potential drawbacks. As such, it neatly encapsulates the Obama administration's failed foreign policy. (August 28, 2013)
August 29, 2013 update: A satiric piece by Andy Borowitz in the New Yorker, "Obama Promises Syria Strike Will Have No Objective," nicely captures the absurdity of what's being proposed against the Assad government.
Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have "no objective whatsoever." "Let me be clear," he said in an interview on CNN. "Our goal will not be to effect régime change, or alter the balance of power in Syria, or bring the civil war there to an end. We will simply do something random there for one or two days and then leave."
When U.S. allies responded with howls of protest, saying that two days was too open-ended, White House spokesman Jay Carney responded with assurances
that the President was willing to scale down the U.S. mission to "twenty-four hours, thirty-six tops." "It may take twenty-four hours, but it could also take twelve," Mr. Carney said. "Maybe we get in there, take a look around, and get out right away. But however long it takes, one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that."
It is difficult to know how to be proportionate when Obama has turned a blind eye previously ed
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SHE tried to run onto the field during a football game, was hauled off to jail and gave an incredibly high blood-alcohol reading. Then she tweeted about her experience.
Samantha Goudie is potentially - "allegedly" - the drunkest girl on the planet. And judging by her Twitter timeline, possibly the funniest.
According to Deadspin , who labelled Goudie an "Idiot on the Field", the 22-year-old student tried to run onto the field during a game between her college, the University of Iowa, and Northern Illinois.
Goudie was "unsteady on her feet" (reads: blind) and taken to jail. Which, as you're about to learn, is an experience she seemed to enjoy.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/world8217s-drunkest-uni-student-blows-341/story-e6frfrnr-1226709012378#ixzz2djXVOPKe
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Zaya Toma
Im surprised the Christian Democrats are giving their second preference to Labor, the same as the Greens. The Christian Democrats want three more years of the Labor-Greens aliance?
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Israeli authorities said Sunday they broke up an alleged Hamas plot to launch terrorist attacks inside Israel, including bombing a popular shopping mall.
Two West Bank residents were indicted by the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office on charges that included recruiting maintenance workers at the Mamilla open-air mall to smuggle in a bomb during the busy Jewish High Holidays shopping season.
"During questioning, members of the terror cell mentioned other initial plans to carry out additional attacks, including harming IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldiers by booby trapping homes in Ramallah, manufacturing and firing rockets at Israeli communities near Ramallah, and attempts to get hold of handguns to fire on IDF soldiers at the Hezma roadblock, northeast of Jerusalem," the Israeli security service Shin Bet said in a written statement.
The two men who were indicted were allegedly led by another Ramallah resident, Hamdi Romana, 22, who was expected to be indicted separately. The timing of the charges was not indicated, the Jerusalem Post said.
Romana was and the other suspects were arrested in August. A search of his home by Israeli agents turned up bomb-making materials and instructions plus evidence Romana had been in communication with a reputed Hamas explosives expert.
The bomb plot was described as being near its final phases. The goal was to detonate the bomb during the period that includes Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Shin Bet said Romana recruited two Arab residents of Jerusalem who worked at the Mamilla mall and carried Israeli identification cards, which Israeli broadcaster Arutz Shiva said would presumably allow them freer movement around town.
The bomb was to be wrapped like a present and stashed in one of the maintenance workers' lockers until the holidays were in full swing. It would then be planted in a restaurant or some other area where large numbers of shoppers would be present.
Shin Bet added that the arrests showed Hamas was still anxious to launch attacks inside Israel and was keen to recruit Arab residents of Israel to help them carry out their plots.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/09/01/Israel-thwarts-Hamas-plot-to-bomb-Jerusalem-mall/UPI-75861378044421/#ixzz2djYWn7VL
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The next five days are critical. We need to redouble our efforts to stop the Greenshttp://ow.ly/nCMYg
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‘Selfless service’: Patriot and actor Gary Sinise named honorary US Marine ==>http://twitchy.com/2013/
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I feel the criticism of Abbott hyper. He called terrorists 'bad.' By way of contrast, Rudd called Chinese Ratfuckers for their language. I know which I feel is more diplomatic. ed
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"You are far too valuable to sell yourself so cheaply." –Kim Keller wrote in a letter to her daughter.
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A lenticular sunset near Mount Diablo tonight. This image doesn't do it the justice of what was seen... all the mini lenticular cloud formations got eaten up by the wide angle lens, but the color came through.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Teaching 6,000 Next Generation young leaders of Rwanda how to be purpose-driven leaders!
Co-sponsored by the government and PEACE Plan churches in Rwanda, this was also broadcast nationally. 4000 churches in Rwanda have adopted the PEACE plan in the past 9 years. — inKigali, Rwanda.
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And obama has Marines hold umbrellas for him...
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) criticized President Obama’s decision to let Congress vote on using military action in Syria. On Fox News Sunday, he stated that under the Constitution, that the president is authorized to use military force without Congress’s approval.
Read more: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/09/01/rep-peter-king-clear-failure-leadership-obama-ask-congress-authorize-military-action#ixzz2djSYwvBy
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We should never forget how the totalitarian Greens want to restrict our time-honoured freedoms. Make your voice heardhttp://ow.ly/nCMYg
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Are you looking forward to the new week?
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"Curtis Sinclair, Co-Chairman of the Ashraf Campaign (ASHCAM) condemned the Iraqi government for caving under Iranian pressure to commit an "obscene abuse of power."
"We’re hearing details of unarmed refugees being bound, gagged and machine-gunned at close quarters; of anti-tank weapons being used on people’s homes; of a massacre supervised by police chiefs and army commanders," claimed Sinclair.
"Not since the days of Saddam [Hussein] have we seen this kind of blatant and obscene abuse of power by an Iraqi leader. Last night’s attack just goes to show the lengths to which [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-]Maliki will go to assist... [Iranian Supreme Leader] Ali Khameini in [his] quest to stamp out the presence of Iranian dissidents in Iraq."
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What make/model car is this? Oldsmobile? Mercedes Benz?
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"Egyptian officials announced their intention to create a buffer zone around Gaza, 500 meters wide and ten kilometers long. The buffer zone is designed to keep Gazan Arabs, many of whom are sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, out of the Sinai Peninsula, as the Egyptian Army continues its military campaign to root-out Islamist terrorist groups who have taken refuge there, mounting sporadic deadly attacks against security forces and civilians.
On Sunday, the army evicted residents of the 13 homes and demolished them. Egyptian officials said that smuggling tunnels were found under the homes."
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VIDEO: Louisiana Senator, Elbert Guillory asks his fellow black Americans to follow him into the GOP and to leave the "government plantation" of the Democratic Party.
Watch The Senator! ---> http://bit.ly/18wkIsw
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Warren Truss
The Katter Party is preferencing Labor ahead of the LNP in Wide Bay and also in other seats.
A vote for Katter is a vote for Labor, a vote for new and increased taxes, a vote for further increases to the cost of living, and a vote for three more years of chaos and dysfunction.
A vote for the Liberal & National Parties is a vote for Real Change for a stronger Australia and a better future for Wide Bay.
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While Israel has said repeatedly it’s not a party to the Syria conflict, Israeli lawmakers and analysts are voicing concern that President Barack Obama’s hesitation in making a decision about a military strike and sticking with it is sending a loud and “dangerous” message to Iran.
Politicians from the right and left in Israel are questioning Obama’s decision-making one day after the president announced that he was deferring to Congress on the question of use of force.
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NFL quarterback Tim Tebow said on Saturday he prays “for nothing but the best” for the Patriots after the team released him early Saturday.
“I would like to thank Mr. Kraft, Coach Belichick, Coach McDaniels and the entire Patriots organization for giving me the opportunity…to be a part of such a classy organization,” Tebow tweeted.
“I pray for nothing but the best for you all. I will remain in relentless pursuit… of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback,” he added.
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Egyptian forces on Saturday arrested the commander of an Al-Qaeda-linked group in the Sinai peninsula, officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.
A senior Egyptian official said that Muhammad Ibrahim, 40, was appointed as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Sinai after escaping from prison following the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Ibrahim, also known as Adel Habbara, was driving a truck from Rafiah to El-Arish when he was ambushed by Egyptian security forces, according toMa’an.
"He tried to reach for two grenades in his pocket, but an officer jumped at him and bowled him over before other officers controlled him and grabbed the grenades," the official said.
Ibrahim was traveling with two other gunmen at the time of his arrest.
Egyptian authorities accuse Ibrahim of masterminding the 2005 attack on the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, which killed some 88 people.
He is also accused of planning the August 2012 attack which killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in Rafiah, and is believed to have personally executed soldiers in an attack earlier this month in which 25 soldiers were killed.
The Sinai has become increasingly lawless since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, and the terror attacks have only increased since the removal of Muslim Brotherhood PresidentMohammed Morsi in July. Egypt's army is currently engaged in an offensive in Sinai to curtail the surge in violence.
Since Morsi was ousted, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Gaza terrorists have been infiltrating the Sinai to attack Egyptian army outposts.
The army has been sealing the smuggling tunnels which are used to transfer goods, weapons and terrorists between the Sinai and Gaza. Hundreds of tunnels, however, remain open and active under the border between Egypt and Gaza.
On Sunday, Egyptian forces destroyed 13 homes next to the border with Gaza, in order to prevent the use of the houses as cover for smugglers into and out of the region.
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An Iranian filmmaker, Bahram Sadeghi, uploaded a video Thursday of himself calling the National Security Agency (NSA) hotline in a sarcastic attempt to retrieve an email he told the operator he accidentally deleted.
“A couple of days ago I received an email and by mistake I deleted it, the email… permanently,” Sadeghi can be seen explaining to an NSA employee over the phone.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Josh For President! My son waves to everyone at the National Stadium in Rwanda where I'm speaking. He has the wave!
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- 1792 – French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, thousands of people were summarily executed.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces entered Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city, bringing the Atlanta Campaign to a close.
- 1946 – The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru(pictured), was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.
- 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam became the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
- 1990 – Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but it remains only apartially recognised state.
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”Proverbs 22:6 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."
Psalm 73:24
Psalm 73:24
The Psalmist felt his need of divine guidance. He had just been discovering the foolishness of his own heart, and lest he should be constantly led astray by it, he resolved that God's counsel should henceforth guide him. A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. The blind man leans on his friend's arm and reaches home in safety, and so would we give ourselves up implicitly to divine guidance, nothing doubting; assured that though we cannot see, it is always safe to trust the all-seeing God. "Thou shalt," is a blessed expression of confidence. He was sure that the Lord would not decline the condescending task. There is a word for thee, O believer; rest thou in it. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend; he shall guide thee; he will direct all thy ways. In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Happy are we to have God's Word always to guide us! What were the mariner without his compass? And what were the Christian without the Bible? This is the unerring chart, the map in which every shoal is described, and all the channels from the quicksands of destruction to the haven of salvation mapped and marked by one who knows all the way. Blessed be thou, O God, that we may trust thee to guide us now, and guide us even to the end! After this guidance through life, the Psalmist anticipates a divine reception at last--"and afterward receive me to glory." What a thought for thee, believer! God himself will receive thee to glory--thee! Wandering, erring, straying, yet he will bring thee safe at last to glory! This is thy portion; live on it this day, and if perplexities should surround thee, go in the strength of this text straight to the throne.
Evening
"Trust in him at all times."
Psalm 62:8
Psalm 62:8
Faith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life; we ought to have faith in God for our earthly affairs as well as for our heavenly business. It is only as we learn to trust in God for the supply of all our daily need that we shall live above the world. We are not to be idle, that would show we did not trust in God, who worketh hitherto, but in the devil, who is the father of idleness. We are not to be imprudent or rash; that were to trust chance, and not the living God, who is a God of economy and order. Acting in all prudence and uprightness, we are to rely simply and entirely upon the Lord at all times.
Let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things. Trusting in God, you will not be compelled to mourn because you have used sinful means to grow rich. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. Trusting God, you will not be guilty of self-contradiction. He who trusts in craft, sails this way today, and that way the next, like a vessel tossed about by the fickle wind; but he that trusteth in the Lord is like a vessel propelled by steam, she cuts through the waves, defies the wind, and makes one bright silvery straightforward track to her destined haven. Be you a man with living principles within; never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom. Walk in your path of integrity with steadfast steps, and show that you are invincibly strong in the strength which confidence in God alone can confer. Thus you will be delivered from anxious care, you will not be troubled with evil tidings, your heart will be fixed, trusting in the Lord. How pleasant to float along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living than a life of dependence upon a covenant-keeping God. We have no care, for he careth for us; we have no troubles, because we cast our burdens upon the Lord.
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Today's reading: Psalm 135-136, 1 Corinthians 12 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 125-136
Praise the name of the LORD;
praise him, you servants of the LORD,
2 you who minister in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
praise him, you servants of the LORD,
2 you who minister in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.
sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.
5 I know that the LORD is great,
that our Lord is greater than all gods.
6 The LORD does whatever pleases him,
in the heavens and on the earth,
in the seas and all their depths.
7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
that our Lord is greater than all gods.
6 The LORD does whatever pleases him,
in the heavens and on the earth,
in the seas and all their depths.
7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 12
Concerning Spiritual Gifts
1 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work....
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[ÅŽg] - long-necked or bread baked in ashes. The giant king of Bashan. This man of huge stature, the last of the Rephaim, was slain at Edrei. The only big things of any note about this massive man, whose conquests lingered long in the imagination of the people (Ps. 135:11; 136:20), were his big body and his big bed (Num. 21:33; 32:33; Deut. 3:1-13).
[ÅŽg] - long-necked or bread baked in ashes. The giant king of Bashan. This man of huge stature, the last of the Rephaim, was slain at Edrei. The only big things of any note about this massive man, whose conquests lingered long in the imagination of the people (Ps. 135:11; 136:20), were his big body and his big bed (Num. 21:33; 32:33; Deut. 3:1-13).
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