The ABC and Fairfax press have self censored over the issue, but it is widespread and substantial. The much maligned Work choices had checks in place to prevent union corruption, but Gillard removed those when she put Fair Work in place of Work Choices. Even so, historical corruption regarding slush funds was clearly prevalent in union culture. Slush funds are not harmless. They involve unionists losing money for union chiefs to spend as they will. They also involve unions standing over businesses and extorting money, which is illegal. Some will say it is wrong to do that, and it should be illegal. But the fact is it is illegal to do that according to the statute books, and only legal if the courts choose to ignore the law, which they have no right to do. The very structure of the ALP is called into question over this. Maybe the ALP needs to reform by adopting a Liberal Party structure?
Ukraine has to answer questions over MH17
Findings of the inquiry into MH17 have suggested the bomb used to take down the aircraft was Ukrainian made, while the device used to fire it was Russian made. It looks like the Russian separatists fired the bomb at the aircraft, but only after Ukraine had presented the aircraft as enemy hostile. Precisely how has not been examined yet and the salient questions have not been asked of Ukraine. It would be good for Mr Abbott or Miss Bishop to discuss this matter with Ukraine. It might excite ABC interest if Mr Abbott says he will shirtfront the Ukrainian leader.
Green alarmism costs money
Australia under ALP shed some six hundred billion dollars with nothing to show for it. Left behind are costly and inefficient green projects, like desalination camps which aren't used because they aren't needed, house insulation poorly installed, wind farms and solar installations which don't reduce base load as well as crumbling coal power stations needing to be modernised. But had the money been spent wisely, flagship infrastructure which allows substantial growth could have been put in place. At about 1% of the cost of the waste, the Bradfield Scheme could have been realised. A wireless NBN could have been implemented. An NDIS could have been implemented and change sufficient to power innovation in industry would have been left over with surplus budgets. Instead, people have drowned for compassion, no animal has been saved and no forest is safe from environmental dangers. In fact forest fires have reputedly been caused by a failure to prudently back burn.
Plibersek plays lethal game re Ebola
Shorten has no policy on any thing. Plibersek is filling the vacuum by being stupid and risking the lives of Australian Health workers tasked to go to Africa to fight Ebola by an Australian government without infrastructure to evacuate if that is needed. Thing is there is sufficient aid from those who have the infrastructure and regional responsibility to deliver it. Plibersek's position is partisan and foolish. She is hostile to the action of the defence force tasked to face ISIL and has said so. If Plibersek were compassionate for the suffering of others, she would not try to drown desperate people wanting to come to Australia.
Poet short changed
Going by headlines this column condemned the poet Barry Spurr and it was wrong. The poet has had comments of his that were personal released out of context. Were they public utterances, they would and should be condemned. However, what has happened is an injustice which seems to have been wilfully perpetrated by a bad journal called New Matilda. New Matilda has form in illegally obtaining data and abusing it for sensational purposes. They appear to have done so here, and one hopes they are sued out of existence if they in fact have. Chillingly Sydney University have acted quickly to stand down the poet without apparent due process. Had the poet been left wing and given his thoughts in a writer's festival, publicly, one feels this entire issue may never have risen. Take as an example the graphic novelist Phillippe Squarzoni who has published an imagined, virtuous, assault with an assault rifle on a shopping mall.
from 2013
ALP divided, will never be united. Blame games keep dreams alive. Latham can say *anything* at *anytime* which may contradict *something* at *sometime* but will be published regardless without fact checking. Plibersek to make play for leadership? ALP win NSW by-election, but still need reform.
Green policy ignites flames.
Illegal immigrants are not clients. Europeans move to stop murderous folly.
Crying children need parents.
Australian child brides.
Wikileaks movie bombs despite top actors.
Education reform needs good educators.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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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
Or the US President at
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or
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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.
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1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1825)
1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1950 – Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter and musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, and Traveling Wilburys)
1970 – Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
1995 – Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist
- 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios waded across the river Scheldt at its mouth, walking overnight in water to chest height, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.
- 1740 – Per the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, Maria Theresa assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria.
- 1944 – World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previous, General Douglas MacArthur landed(pictured) on Leyte to begin the recapture of the entire Philippine Archipelago.
- 1977 – Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
- 2011 – Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured during the Battle of Sirte and killed less than an hour later.
Matches
- 1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
- 1572 – Relief of Goes, Cristóbal de Mondragón with 3000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios, release the siege of the city.
- 1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
- 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
- 1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
- 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
- 1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
- 1827 – Battle of Navarino: a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
- 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
- 1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
- 1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
- 1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1935 – The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
- 1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
- 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
- 1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
- 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
- 1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
- 1944 – American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
- 1946 – Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam decides that the 20th October is Vietnam Women's Day.
- 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
- 1947 – United States of America and Islamic Republic of Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
- 1951 – The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
- 1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
- 1962 – People's Republic of China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
- 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
- 1970 – Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
- 1971 – The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
- 1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
- 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
- 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
- 1977 – Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes.
- 1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, New York, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
- 1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
- 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
- 1991 – A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
- 2011 – Libyan Civil War: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.
Hatches
- 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (d. 1512)
- 1496 – Claude, Duke of Guise (d. 1550)
- 1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
- 1620 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
- 1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
- 1660 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1723)
- 1677 – Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (d. 1766)
- 1700 – Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (d. 1761)
- 1711 – Timothy Ruggles, American American lawyer, jurist, and politician, (d. 1795)
- 1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German historian, economist, and jurist (d. 1772)
- 1740 – Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch author and poet (d. 1805)
- 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician (d. 1815)
- 1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1825)
- 1784 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
- 1785 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (d. 1873)
- 1801 – Melchior Berri, Swiss architect, designed the Natural History Museum of Basel (d. 1854)
- 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (d. 1875)
- 1819 – Báb, Iranian religious leader, founded Bábism (d. 1850)
- 1819 – Karol Mikuli, Ukrainian-Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1897)
- 1822 – Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and author (d. 1896)
- 1832 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
- 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1858 – John Burns, English politician, English President of the Board of Trade (d. 1943)
- 1859 – John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1952)
- 1864 – James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
- 1873 – Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (d. 1951)
- 1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- 1876 – Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (d. 1953)
- 1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
- 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Romanian-American actor (d. 1956)
- 1885 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1941)
- 1887 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (d. 1981)
- 1889 – Johann Gruber, Austrian Roman Catholic priest known as the "Saint of Gusen", murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (d. 1944)
- 1890 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (d. 1968)
- 1891 – Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (d. 1973)
- 1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1893 – Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1940)
- 1894 – Olive Thomas, American model and actress (d. 1920)
- 1895 – Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1897 – Yi Un, South Korean general (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer (d. 1993)
- 1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (d. 2006)
- 1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress, singer, and producer (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Frederic Dannay, American author (d. 1982)
- 1905 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1965)
- 1907 – Arlene Francis, American actress and talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1909 – Carla Laemmle, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1909 – Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (d. 2013)
- 1910 – Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)
- 1913 – J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-American director and producer (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and activist (d. 2013)
- 1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
- 1917 – X. M. Sellathambu, Sri Lankan politician
- 1918 – Martin Drewes, German pilot (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Robert Lochner, American-German journalist (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Tracy Hall, American chemist (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Nick Cardy, American illustrator (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Fanny de Sivers, Estonian-French linguist (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Hans Warren, Dutch poet and author (d. 2001)
- 1922 – John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Robert Craft, American conductor and author
- 1924 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Art Buchwald, American journalist (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Roger Hanin, French actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Richard Caliguiri, American politician, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 1988)
- 1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1995)
- 1932 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (d. 2004)
- 1932 – William Christopher, American actor
- 1934 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player (Chase) (d. 1974)
- 1934 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Empress Michiko of Japan
- 1935 – Barrie Chase, American actress and dancer
- 1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
- 1937 – Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
- 1938 – Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006)
- 1940 – Kathy Kirby, English singer (d. 2011)
- 1940 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and critic
- 1942 – Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (d. 1992)
- 1943 – Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano
- 1944 – Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher
- 1944 – David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft
- 1946 – Diana Gittins, British writer
- 1946 – Lewis Grizzard, American comedian and author (d. 1994)
- 1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 – Richard Loncraine, English director and screenwriter
- 1946 – Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
- 1948 – Sandra Dickinson, American-English actress
- 1948 – Piet Hein Donner, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
- 1948 – Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, 27th Mayor of Ankara
- 1950 – Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, and Traveling Wilburys)
- 1950 – William Russ, American actor and director
- 1951 – Al Greenwood, American keyboard player (Foreigner)
- 1951 – Patrick Hall, English politician
- 1951 – Ken Ham, Australian evangelist
- 1951 – Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
- 1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
- 1952 – Melanie Mayron, American actress and director
- 1953 – Keith Hernandez, American baseball player, sportscaster, and actor
- 1953 – Richard McWilliam, American businessman, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (d. 2013)
- 1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
- 1954 – Steve Orich, American composer and conductor
- 1955 – Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
- 1955 – David Profumo, English author
- 1955 – Aaron Pryor, American boxer
- 1955 – Robert ten Brink, Dutch television host
- 1956 – Danny Boyle, English director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1957 – Chris Cowdrey, English cricketer and sportscaster
- 1957 – Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
- 1957 – Hilda Solis, American politician, 25th United States Secretary of Labor
- 1958 – Valerie Faris, American director and producer
- 1958 – Dave Finlay, Irish wrestler and agent
- 1958 – Lynn Flewelling, American author
- 1958 – Scott Hall, American wrestler
- 1958 – Mark King, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Level 42 and Re-Flex)
- 1958 – Dave Krieg, American football player
- 1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor and producer
- 1958 – Ivo Pogorelić, Croatian pianist
- 1959 – Mark Little, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
- 1960 – Lepa Brena, Bosnian singer and actress
- 1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer and manager
- 1961 – Les Stroud, Canadian musician and filmmaker
- 1961 – Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1962 – David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter
- 1962 – Dave Wong, Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
- 1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian engineer and astronaut
- 1963 – Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
- 1963 – Stan Valckx, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1964 – Kamala Harris, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Attorney General of California
- 1965 – Norman Blake, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, and Jonny)
- 1965 – Jil Caplan, French singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1965 – William Zabka, American actor and producer
- 1966 – Fred Coury, American drummer (Cinderella, London, and Arcade)
- 1966 – Allan Donald, South African cricketer and coach
- 1966 – Stefan Raab, German comedian, singer-songwriter, producer, and television host
- 1966 – Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist, founded Slackware
- 1967 – Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer
- 1967 – Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
- 1967 – Luck Mervil, Haitian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1967 – Marco Ngai, Chinese actor
- 1968 – Susan Tully, English actress, director, and producer
- 1969 – Laurie Daley, Australian rugby player and coach
- 1969 – Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1969 – Labros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
- 1970 – Sander Boschker, Dutch footballer
- 1970 – Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American wrestler
- 1970 – Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (d. 2011)
- 1970 – Aapo Ilves, Estonian poet and illustrator
- 1970 – Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
- 1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor (Tha Eastsidaz and 213)
- 1971 – Eddie Jones, American basketball player
- 1971 – Kamiel Maase, Dutch runner
- 1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1972 – Pie Geelen, Dutch swimmer
- 1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby player and sportscaster
- 1972 – Brian Schatz, American politician, 11th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
- 1974 – Bashar Rahal, Emirati-American actor
- 1976 – Nikolaos Bacharidis, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Dan Fogler, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1976 – Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Matt Jansen, English footballer
- 1977 – Leila Josefowicz, Canadian-American violinist
- 1977 – Erko Saviauk, Estonian footballer
- 1977 – Samuel Witwer, American actor and singer
- 1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
- 1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player and songwriter (Snow Patrol and Terra Diablo)
- 1979 – Vasyl Baranov, Ukrainian footballer
- 1979 – Paul Ifill, English-Barbadian footballer
- 1979 – John Krasinski, American actor, director, and producer
- 1979 – Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
- 1979 – Paul Terek, American decathlete
- 1980 – Gary Jarman, English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Cribs)
- 1980 – Niall Matter, Canadian actor
- 1980 – José Veras, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
- 1982 – Kristian Bak Nielsen, Danish footballer
- 1982 – Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
- 1982 – Katie Featherston, American actress
- 1983 – Flavio Cipolla, Italian tennis player
- 1983 – Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1983 – Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
- 1983 – Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
- 1984 – Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (Suicide Silence) (d. 2012)
- 1984 – Florent Sinama Pongolle, French footballer
- 1984 – Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player
- 1985 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
- 1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
- 1985 – Alphonso Smith, American football player
- 1985 – James Sutton, English race car driver
- 1986 – Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer
- 1987 – Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
- 1988 – Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player
- 1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Tanpopo, Sakuragumi, and Athena & Robikerottsu)
- 1988 – Candice Swanepoel, South African model
- 1989 – Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player
- 1992 – Liis Lemsalu, Estonian singer
- 1992 – Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast
- 1992 – Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Kristian Ipsen, American diver
- 1992 – John Egan, Irish footballer
- 1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
- 1995 – Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist
Despatches
- 460 – Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine wife of Theodosius II (b. 401)
- 1139 – Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
- 1524 – Thomas Linacre, English physician and scholar (b. 1460)
- 1570 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
- 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1640 – John Ball, English clergyman (b. 1585)
- 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
- 1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician and academic (b. 1652)
- 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
- 1842 – Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
- 1865 – Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
- 1870 – Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist, singer, and composer (b. 1808)
- 1871 – Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian (b. 1793)
- 1890 – Richard Francis Burton, English geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
- 1900 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
- 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Ottoman politician (b. 1834)
- 1910 – David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
- 1913 – William Clark, American archer
- 1926 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (b. 1855)
- 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
- 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
- 1940 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
- 1946 – Piero Campelli, Italian footballer (b. 1893)
- 1947 – Gilbert Bougnol, French fencer (b. 1866)
- 1950 – Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
- 1953 – Werner Baumbach, German pilot (b. 1916)
- 1957 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890)
- 1964 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1967 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Bud Flanagan, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1896)
- 1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
- 1977 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (The Honkettes) (b. 1948)
- 1977 – Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Detroit) (b. 1949)
- 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948)
- 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
- 1983 – Peter Dudley, English actor (b. 1935)
- 1983 – Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
- 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1984 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Sheila Scott, English pilot (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 – Joel McCrea, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
- 1992 – Werner Torkanowsky, German-American conductor (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1913)
- 1995 – Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Jack Lynch, Irish footballer, lawyer, and politician, 5th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (b. 1949)
- 2002 – Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Čkalja, Serbian actor and singer (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Anthony Hecht, American poet and educator (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Chuck Hiller, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Endon Mahmood, Malaysian wife of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (b. 1941)
- 2005 – Eva Švankmajerová, Czech painter and poet (b. 1940)
- 2005 – André van der Louw, Dutch politician, 16th Mayor of Rotterdam (b. 1933)
- 2006 – Arnold Viiding, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Jane Wyatt, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
- 2007 – Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Helend Peep, Estonian actor (b. 1910)
- 2007 – Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong, Ministry, Society 1, Godflesh, and Zilch) (b. 1961)
- 2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football player (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher, founded Penthouse magazine (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)
- 2011 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan colonel (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, Libyan politician (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Oli Ahad, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer (b. 1984)
- 2012 – Przemysław Gintrowski, Polish poet and composer (b. 1951)
- 2012 – Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Daniel Enele Kwanairara, Solomon Islands educator and politician (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Dave May, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2012 – John McConnell, American activist, created Earth Day (b. 1915)
- 2012 – E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Leon Ashley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Bruce Beeby, Australian-English actor (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Jovanka Broz, Croatian-Serbian colonel (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Don James, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Joginder Singh, Kenyan race car driver (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Larri Thomas, American actress and dancer (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Sid Yudain, American journalist, founded Roll Call (b. 1923)
2014
- Birth of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
- Christian feast days:
- Kenyatta Day (Kenya, until 2010)
- Revolution Day, one of the two Patriotic Days (Guatemala)
- Vietnamese Women's Day (Vietnam)
- World Osteoporosis Day (international)
- World Statistics Day (international)
SHOOTING SANTA
Tim Blair – Monday, October 20, 2014 (1:28pm)
Tony Thomas reviews the latest example of warmy bloodlust:
If you have ever doubted that warmism endorses a preening, totalitarian disdain for the lives and rights of others, take up a copy of “Climate Change” by graphic novelist Philippe Squarzoni, who imagines how virtuous it would be to go berserk with an assault rifle in a shopping mall. And yes, he’s not joking.
It’s all part of a continuing theme.
Dickhead insult
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (5:46pm)
Brendan O’Connor’s
pretence at being offended by a gendered insult is exposed by his own
gendered insult, and a far more offensive one:
===Labor frontbenchers have attacked Finance Minister Mathias Cormann over his use of the insult “economic girly man” against Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, with one accusing him of ”sounding like a dickhead”.
Opposition employment spokesman Brendan O’Connor said the joke was on Senator Cormann, who had been left looking like a “bit of a dill” in his attempt to get a headline.
Clive Palmer to go to court over missing $10 billion
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (5:14pm)
Clive Palmer’s run of legal reverses continues - and this is one of the most serious:
===CLIVE Palmer has lost his bid to have Chinese-owned Sino Iron’s $10m fraud lawsuit against him tossed out of court.
Queensland Supreme Court judge David Jackson this morning announced he was dismissing the Palmer United Party’s leader’s strike-out application, meaning the high-profile matter will go to trial.
Disgruntled business partner Sino is suing Mr Palmer over the alleged dishonest payment of more than $10m in Chinese funds to Media Circus, an advertising company, and Cosmo Developments, a company associated with Mr Palmer.
The resources businessman has denied all wrongdoing.
Thanks to The Book Searchers
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (9:19am)
I want to give The Book Searchers, an on-line bookseller in Sydney, a big rap.
I ordered two books on artist John Peter Russell through Abebooks, and The Book Searchers popped them in the mail. They never arrived.
I offered to pay half the cost of finding replacements, since I didn’t want to rip off a small business. Instead, The Book Searchers tracked down two other copies and mailed them out without charge or complaint Thanks very much indeed.
And the books? Great reads on a truly remarkable Australian, a friend of Van Gogh and many other great artists.
===I ordered two books on artist John Peter Russell through Abebooks, and The Book Searchers popped them in the mail. They never arrived.
I offered to pay half the cost of finding replacements, since I didn’t want to rip off a small business. Instead, The Book Searchers tracked down two other copies and mailed them out without charge or complaint Thanks very much indeed.
And the books? Great reads on a truly remarkable Australian, a friend of Van Gogh and many other great artists.
Claim: MH17 shot down by pro-Russian militias with Ukrainian missile
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (7:13am)
Russia supplied the military support but did it actually supply the missile?
===Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency has concluded that pro-Russian rebels are to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airline MH17 in Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel weekly reported on Sunday, the first European agency to say so…
Gerhard Schindler, president of the BND, told a secret parliamentary committee on security affairs earlier this month that separatists had used a Russian Buk missile defense system from a Ukrainian base to fire a rocket that exploded directly next to the Malyasia Air plane, Der Spiegel reported.
“It was pro-Russian separatists,” the magazine quoted him as saying.
The BND concluded the rebels were to blame after a detailed analysis based on satellite and other photos, Der Spiegel said.
The high price of green alarmism
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (6:12am)
HEAR that rain on the
roof last week? That’s nature telling us our politicians have been
idiots. I’m talking about the politicians who let themselves be fooled
into thinking it never would rain like this again.
I’m talking about politicians who listened to the likes of Tim Flannery, the 2007 Australian of the Year and then head of the Climate Commission.
From 2005 to 2008, Flannery, the global warming guru, made a string of outlandish claims like these:
“So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems ...
“In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months ...
“There is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis.”
Flannery wasn’t alone, of course.
(Read full article here.)
===I’m talking about politicians who listened to the likes of Tim Flannery, the 2007 Australian of the Year and then head of the Climate Commission.
From 2005 to 2008, Flannery, the global warming guru, made a string of outlandish claims like these:
“So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems ...
“In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months ...
“There is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis.”
Flannery wasn’t alone, of course.
(Read full article here.)
Plibersek plays lethal politics with ebola
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (6:04am)
EBOLA is ghastly enough. But must we also suffer the moral posturing of politicians such as Tanya Plibersek?
Plibersek, Labor’s deputy leader, has fallen sick to the disease of the modern Left, wanting to seem good by demanding fine-sounding things that, oops, won’t actually work.
Or in this case could kill.
Plibersek is berating the Abbott Government for not doing even more to help fight the latest Ebola outbreak and contain it to the three African countries — Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone — where most of the 4500 deaths have occurred.
“Australia must significantly increase its efforts, immediately,” she insisted.
If Plibersek just meant increasing the $18 million offered so far by the Government, she’d probably be right.
But she wants doctors, nurses and paramedics sent, too.
“We’ve got skilled Australians, who’ve trained for many years to provide exactly the kind of assistance that West Africa is crying out for and our government is saying they won’t assist them to go there.”
In fact, 20 to 30 Australian volunteers are already in Africa, courageously fighting Ebola, and non-government organisations would welcome more.
But there’s a risk. Doctors Without Borders, for instance, say nine of its staff are already dead from Ebola. More than 230 health workers, in all, have died.
(Read full article here.)
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Or in this case could kill.
Plibersek is berating the Abbott Government for not doing even more to help fight the latest Ebola outbreak and contain it to the three African countries — Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone — where most of the 4500 deaths have occurred.
“Australia must significantly increase its efforts, immediately,” she insisted.
If Plibersek just meant increasing the $18 million offered so far by the Government, she’d probably be right.
But she wants doctors, nurses and paramedics sent, too.
“We’ve got skilled Australians, who’ve trained for many years to provide exactly the kind of assistance that West Africa is crying out for and our government is saying they won’t assist them to go there.”
In fact, 20 to 30 Australian volunteers are already in Africa, courageously fighting Ebola, and non-government organisations would welcome more.
But there’s a risk. Doctors Without Borders, for instance, say nine of its staff are already dead from Ebola. More than 230 health workers, in all, have died.
(Read full article here.)
The workers, united, will pay for their bosses
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (6:03am)
More from the union whose members just paid and paid for perks:
===WHISTLEBLOWER Kathy Jackson made a secret deal with the now jailed fraudster Michael Williamson to pay $240,000 over two years to one of her union allies — with a requirement that the recipient of the money do no work.
Under the confidential arrangement, Jackson ally and friend Jamie Martorana agreed to resign from his position as assistant divisional secretary of the Health Services Union in October 2010.
For the next two years, however, he remained on the union’s payroll, with pay-as-you-go tax deducted from his gross weekly “wages” of $2307.69 as though he was still a regular full-time employee turning up for work.
Whose private thoughts wouldn’t be a scandal? The real disgrace in the Barry Spurr affair
Andrew Bolt October 20 2014 (6:03am)
Henry Ergas on a gross invasion of privacy that exposes some hypocrites:
===THE Barry Spurr affair is terrifying in the shoddy treatment of Spurr; in what it says about our universities; and in the lack of outrage that either has evoked.
What is certain is that there was a gross invasion of Spurr’s privacy. To that must be added the likelihood that his emails were obtained illegally and used when it was known, or should have been known, that that is how they had been obtained.
Moreover, that use was by a publication, New Matilda, that had only recently committed the same offence; and whose journalists hypocritically denounced the wrongdoing at the News of the World and, since then, have attacked the government’s metadata proposals, with all their checks and balances, as an assault on privacy.
Of course, one expects nothing better from Wendy Bacon, who demands a moral right to invade the private emails of others without providing public access to her own. But it is disappointing that Bill Shorten, who repeatedly invoked the presumption of innocence to shield Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper, failed to show the same concern for Spurr.
And it is a scandal that the University of Sydney has suspended Spurr despite there being no claim, much less evidence, that his teaching, supervision and research have been anything but exemplary.
To make matters worse, the university has set aside Spurr’s explanation that the emails were parodies without according Spurr the prior opportunity to have that explanation tested.
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TO ALL OUR INDIAN FRIENDS EVERYWHERE ...
Wishing you all a very happy DIWALI.
May the light of wisdom and and charity shine upon your families and friends wishing you all a very happy sweet new year filled with good health and prosperity.
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Simple solution without points or fine .. kick them until they are legal.
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Warning labels are often ridiculous because of litigation. I'm reminded of the Iranian revolution when university students took the US embassy hostage. Iran claimed it wasn't behind it but protected the student's right to seize the embassy. After the movie Argo showed how a fake film set was set up to extract some hostages, Iran sued for lost profits ..
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Photo: http://t.co/kWI4wj6GF9
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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Photo: G’day, What ever did happen to the Australian sense of humour? Liberal Senator and Federal Minister... http://t.co/1IGn5QOq5W
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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SYDNEY commuters fed up with the behaviour of fellow passengers on their daily City Rail grind ha... http://t.co/TSQBe1ChSv via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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If you see it, jail it. ..A CONTEST to find the most proud anti-Semitic woman ... http://t.co/ny2Y7YBeHB via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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THE video is too graphic to show you here; even in the blurry opening moments, it’s obvious... http://t.co/mKQLvrwMno via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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She was a great competitor .. still is https://t.co/ZIZ2HIEQ9d
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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boots on ground. Just as promised. Aid to terrorists, troops fight Ebola it gets hectic when organising a community. http://t.co/rHpMXL19S1
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 20, 2014
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Meh, blame the UN .. “Human Rights” Is A Sham http://t.co/xUXC3AGdaE via @thoughtcatalog
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) October 19, 2014
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Cotton Candy SunriseAfter pulling an all nighter along the Marin Headlands, I was rewarded with this fantastic foggy sunrise over San Francisco and it's bridges. I was also rewarded by seeing so many of the awesome local photographers I have grown to know so well and who I delight in seeing and talking to. There was far too little time to socialize however with this pastel scene unfolding before us. It was good seeing you; John Louie, and his brother Andrew, Steve-Maxx Landeros, Toby Harriman, David Yu, Wilson Lam, Amy Heiden, and so many others! I look forward to seeing what you came away with on this beautiful morning.
Cheers!
~M@ — at Hawk Hill.
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Indeed a musical high water mark .. in the same genre of Rebecca Black's Friday .. ed
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The Moment
I was up on Hawk Hill with my friend Miguel, and when he went to go home, I decided to see if the fog had lowered enough at Battery Spencer to get a shot. When I arrived, I was completely alone and the bridge was not visible through the thick mists. This thought came to me that if I stayed a little while there would be a clearing, and indeed five minutes later this presented itself. Then the sky closed up again... Magic. — at Battery Spencer.
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Resettlement and Recompense Little notice has been paid to the fate of the 850,000 Jewish refugees from the Arab states, about 550,000 of whom were resettled in Israel. Similarly, the resettlement of most of the Palestinian refugees in the host Arab countries, creating a de facto population exchange, has been overlooked.
http://www.meforum.org/3643/palestinian-refugee-problem
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Is Antisemitism Back in Europe? The rise of Muslim antisemitism in Europe is well documented—and widely ignored.
John Allen Gay | October 18, 2013
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Charles Krauthammer: Deal with an Iranian moderate? The search has been never-ending for good reason
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The search, now 30 years old, for Iranian “moderates” goes on. Amid the enthusiasm of the latest sighting, it’s worth remembering that the highlight of the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages debacle was thesecret trip to Tehran taken by Robert McFarlane, President Reagan’s former national security adviser. He brought a key-shaped cake symbolizing the new relations he was opening with the “moderates.”
We know how that ended.
Three decades later, the mirage reappears in the form of Hassan Rouhani. Strange résumé for a moderate: 35 years of unswervingly loyal service to the Islamic Republic as a close aide to Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei. Moreover, Rouhani was one of only six presidential candidates, another 678 having been disqualified by the regime as ideologically unsound. That puts him in the 99th centile for fealty.
Rouhani is Khamenei’s agent but, with a smile and style, he’s now hailed as the face of Iranian moderation. Why? Because Rouhani wants better relations with the West.
Well, what leader would not want relief from Western sanctions that have sunk Iran’s economy, devalued its currency and caused widespread hardship? The test of moderation is not what you want but what you’re willing to give. After all, sanctions were not slapped on Iran for amusement. It was to enforce multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding a halt to uranium enrichment.
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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-rabbits-who-caused-all-trouble-and.html#.UmOmThZlpa8
By James Thurber, first published in The New Yorker on August 26, 1939:
Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. (The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, because it was the only way to live.) One night several wolves were killed in an earthquake and this was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that rabbits pound on the ground with their hind legs and cause earthquakes. On another night one of the wolves was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that lettuce-eaters cause lightning. The wolves threatened to civilize the rabbits if they didn't behave, and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert island. But the other animals, who lived at a great distance, shamed them saying, "You must stay where you are and be brave. This is no world for escapists. If the wolves attack you, we will come to your aid in all probability." So the rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many wolves. This was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrot-nibblers with long ears cause floods. The wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own protection.
When nothing was heard about the rabbits for some weeks, the other animals demanded to know what had happened to them. The wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten and since they had been eaten the affair was a purely internal matter. But the other animals warned that they might possibly unite against the wolves unless some reason was given for the destruction of the rabbits. So the wolves gave them one. "They were trying to escape," said the wolves, "and, as you know, this is no world for escapists."
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013, , By Charles Abelsohn, TOI The following article was sent to the spokesman for Baroness Catherine Ashton. It was not acknowledged. BARONESS ASHTON: PLEASE ENLIGHTEN WHY, WHEN ISRAEL IS INVOLVED, THE EU CHANGES THE LEGAL TO ILLEGAL AND THE ILLEGAL TO LEGAL. Sometimes one wonders exactly what the European Union [EU] wants from and expects of …
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http://virtualjerusalem.com/judaism.php?Itemid=11031
<People have double standards.
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When I posted tragic photographs of Syrian children raped and murdered I am told by the do-gooders how offended they are that I am exploiting these shocking pictures for pushing the point how Obama is guilty of assisting the anti- Assad Syrians.
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This father and newborn daughter's set of 'selfies' just went viral! See the rest here:http://tblz.us/pYuD4
(Image Source: Reddit)
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Pastor Rick Warren
The more I focus on me,
the more unhappy I'll be.
See Philippians 2:4
the more unhappy I'll be.
See Philippians 2:4
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EVERY HOUR ONLINE I'm teaching "Happiness Can Be Learned" Phil.2:19-30. JOIN ME NOW. Notes and study app are online too: http://bit.ly/ZvjGI9
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I'll start off with last night's Fog Bow... I would have never known about these if not for Mike Hollingshead... this was the first time I ever saw one in person. Pretty nifty! — at Hawk Hill.
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Whoops! Last month's discovery of a 2,600-year-old Etruscan warrior prince's tomb in Italy held one more surprise for researchers. (Cue the Disney music...)
The prince was, in fact, a princess.
Read more: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/f5p7
See the ancient tomb: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/f5pb
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Happy birthday, Michael Gambon! Thank you for taking a character so dear to our hearts and bringing him to life flawlessly.
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A couple had their wedding rings engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying “I do.”
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This is a wildlife bridge in the Netherlands. They are designed to help animals cross busy highways in safety. They don't just protect wildlife from being hit by cars - they also connect fragmented habitats and help populations intermingle and breed.
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I am stupid .. I used to be really arrogant and critical of others .. but as I got older .. I began to realise, slowly because I'm quite dumb, that others have reason for their actions, but I had none for my contempt.
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When this Melbourne brothel opened on Saturday it was the first time in its long and colourful history that nobody came.
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Morning Breaks over the Gate
Please bear with me for a while... you will be seeing a few more images of the Golden Gate bridge from yours truly.
I arrived at Hawk hill a day ago as the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Then the fog moved in. I wound up staying all night long in the area and even wound up finding a place to car camp with the fog bound bridge in sight and let the fog horns lull me to sleep for a three hour nap.
This was my third location for shooting the morning sunrise. I went straight home after taking this shot.
...more images to come!
— at Battery Spencer.Please bear with me for a while... you will be seeing a few more images of the Golden Gate bridge from yours truly.
I arrived at Hawk hill a day ago as the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Then the fog moved in. I wound up staying all night long in the area and even wound up finding a place to car camp with the fog bound bridge in sight and let the fog horns lull me to sleep for a three hour nap.
This was my third location for shooting the morning sunrise. I went straight home after taking this shot.
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The Pastel Pallet
I warned you... here is yet another pic I took of the Golden Gate bridge this morning... — at Hawk Hill.
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
TRUTH for the day: Life is too short for dead in jobs, people, places and things. If there is no peace, fulfillment, appreciation, love, happiness, uplifting, laughter or passion then it needs to change or go. Have a fabulous day!
Harsh wisdom .. it is wise .. patience can sometimes be taken advantage of. But it is good not to give up on *everything* .. prioritise ;) ed
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“Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”Psalm 37:4NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Babes in Christ."
1 Corinthians 3:1
1 Corinthians 3:1
Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, "put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!" but the smoking flax he will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but he will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though "less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess." Yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation.
Evening
"God, my maker, who giveth songs in the night."
Job 35:10
Job 35:10
Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian harp to whisper music when the winds blow--the difficulty is for music to swell forth when no wind is stirring. It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is skilful who sings when there is not a ray of light to read by--who sings from his heart. No man can make a song in the night of himself; he may attempt it, but he will find that a song in the night must be divinely inspired. Let all things go well, I can weave songs, fashioning them wherever I go out of the flowers that grow upon my path; but put me in a desert, where no green thing grows, and wherewith shall I frame a hymn of praise to God? How shall a mortal man make a crown for the Lord where no jewels are? Let but this voice be clear, and this body full of health, and I can sing God's praise: silence my tongue, lay me upon the bed of languishing, and how shall I then chant God's high praises, unless he himself give me the song? No, it is not in man's power to sing when all is adverse, unless an altar-coal shall touch his lip. It was a divine song, which Habakkuk sang, when in the night he said, "Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Then, since our Maker gives songs in the night, let us wait upon him for the music. O thou chief musician, let us not remain songless because affliction is upon us, but tune thou our lips to the melody of thanksgiving.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 56-58, 2 Thessalonians 2 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 56-58
Salvation for Others
1 This is what the LORD says:
"Maintain justice
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed is the one who does this-
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil."
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed is the one who does this-
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil."
3 Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say,
"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people."
And let no eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people."
And let no eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
4 For this is what the LORD says:
"To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant-
5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Thessalonians 2
The Man of Lawlessness
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us-whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter-asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness....
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Potiphar
[Pŏt'ĭphar] - who is of the sun or a fat bull. The captain of Pharaoh's guardto whom Joseph was sold by the Midianites. It was his wife who tried to seduce Joseph (Gen. 37:36; 39:1).
[Pŏt'ĭphar] - who is of the sun or a fat bull. The captain of Pharaoh's guardto whom Joseph was sold by the Midianites. It was his wife who tried to seduce Joseph (Gen. 37:36; 39:1).
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