Sun Nov 2nd Todays News

ICAC desperate to be dismantled before it has to investigate ALP. The investigation into Margaret Cuneen is arguably an abuse of power. The allegation is that the senior crown prosecutor counselled her son's girlfriend to pretend to have chest pains so as to avoid being breathalysed at the scene of an accident. It is documented the girl had her blood tested and was found to have no alcohol in her. But someone has been able to interest the ICAC to investigate when they have previously accepted a former Attorney General walking out of hospital with his own blood samples. The difference being that the former AG who later died as a drunk and was smashed as he crashed his car was an ALP member and the ICAC only investigates 2% of cases sent its way. Even had Cuneen's son's girlfriend been drunk, and the allegation true, the ICAC's charter isn't for it to investigate public figures on private matters. Cuneen denies even giving the unnecessary advice. Clearly the ICAC has a significant faction wanting to have the organisation busted. The investigation into the Liberal Party resembles a witch hunt in which the Liberals appear to be clean, but with a few new members making naive mistakes. Meanwhile the unreformed ALP is still dripping with corruption.

Art is?

Art and how others see it is dependent on who sees it. ISIL planted their flag on top of a dirt mountain in Syria. It was bombed. The image of the explosion is a work of art that Tim Blairs notes is better than Sydney Council's many attempts at spending big on art. The ABC has suggested using humour to combat terrorism, by looking at acts of terror and carrying on normally. Almost as if they don't have a stake in what is taken and lost. Maybe they will grieve the ISIL flag on top of that dirt mountain.

Islamic Art 

Feminists might note ISIL killing seven women, or women fighting ISIL. Among those murdered were a lawyer who had not gone to school in her first eighteen years, but studied and became senior enough that she could refuse to charge families of Iraqi detainees in US military institutions. Certainly ironic then that she was killed by those she defended. Female warriors among the Kurds have been effective against ISIL monsters.

Multiple marriages by Boko Haram of their captured school girls shows Michelle Obama's awareness raising is working to raise awareness. It certainly hasn't helped the female hostages. Brothers for Life gang finished. Jailed or killed by their own. A gang of Lebanese and Afghan refugees. We can thank the ALP who have deemed it important for their electoral success to import radical Islam. But the most elevated art work is that of a former Gosford Anglican Minister whose bigotry has seen the membership of his church plummet, but Rod Bower is now Arch Deacon. Rod likes drowning new migrants who have been subjected to piracy. He also likes taxes on plant food and would limit plant food around the world if he could. He doesn't seem to know much about God, but that might not have anything to do with his occupation of social activism.

ALP art

Bracket creep is to do with income tax. As inflation drives up prices and wages, a larger portion of wages are claimed. The answer to bracket creep is tax reform. But the ALP has blocked spending cuts. So the government will need to use the extra funds from bracket creep to fuel the budget. Meanwhile ALP in Victoria still protects CFMEU from investigation and criticism where it can. The Royal Commission into Union Corruption has found the union boss should be charged with blackmail. But the Victorian ALP leader has kept the CFMEU embedded in the ALP. 

Left wing art

Preachy Age piece ignores two salient facts that contradict it. The issue is AGW and the Age presents an impressive list of facts and figures, but fails to mention that warming has paused for sixteen years and there is nothing that can responsibly be done about it at the moment. 

Stolen Generation myths are challenged by primary research in Adelaide where letters from the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds are being transcribed and posted online. The evidence shows nothing consistent with the stolen generation myth. 

Sport achievements

Western Sydney Wanderers win marred by sober crowds rioting. The Wanderers did not even exist as a team a few years ago, and now have risen to win the Asia Cup for soccer. A great achievement. However, the fans have marred it with poor behaviour. 

from 2013
"US President Barack Obama views lies as legitimate political tools. He uses lies strategically to accomplish through mendacity what he could never achieve through honest means.

Obama lies in both domestic and foreign policy.

On the domestic front, despite Obama’s repeated promises that Obamacare would not threaten anyone’s existing health insurance policies, over the past two weeks, millions Americans have received notices from their health insurance companies that their policies have been canceled because they don’t abide by Obamacare’s requirements.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board explained that Obama’s repetition of this lie was not an oversight. It was a deliberate means of lulling into complacency these Americans who opted to buy their insurance themselves on the open market, in order to stick them with the burden of underwriting Obamacare.

In the editorialist’s words, “The [healthcare] exchanges need these customers [whose private policies are being canceled] to finance Obamacare’s balance sheet and stabilize its risk pools. On the exchanges, individuals earning more than $46,000 or a family of four above $94,000 don’t qualify for subsidies and must buy overpriced insurance. If these middle-class Obamacare losers can be forced into the exchanges, they become financiers of the new pay-as-yougo entitlement.”

Sure there is an outcry now about Obama’s dishonesty and the way he has used lying to take away from an unwilling public a right it would never have knowingly surrendered, but it is too late. There is no chance of revoking the law until at 2017, when Obama leaves office.

And by then, everyone will have been forced to accept what they consider unacceptable or be fined and lose all health coverage." from Caroline Glick. I suggest you read her full column. 
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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
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR

Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel 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.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Stephen Xie and Quoc Trinh. Born on the same day, across the years, along with

• 971 – Mahmud of Ghazni (d. 1030)
• 1734 – Daniel Boone, American explorer (d. 1820)
• 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
• 1795 – James K. Polk, American politician, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
• 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
• 1865 – Warren G. Harding, American politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
• 1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
• 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
• 1944 – Keith Emerson, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Nice, The V.I.P.'s, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Emerson, Lake & Powell)
• 1990 – Kendall Schmidt, American singer-songwriter and actor (Big Time Rush)

November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); Day of the Dead in Mexico

• 1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and became the states of North and South Dakota.
• 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", a flightless native bird blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
• 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (pictured) was deposed by his half-brother Faisal over concerns of the former's profligacy and his inability to deal with the socialism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
• 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri.

Although we are divided, we are two united. The fight against the deadly emus continues. Bare is the back without a brother to defend it. We are big, and size pays. Don't take criticism too personally. Let us party. 
Matches

• 619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
• 1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
• 1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
• 1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
• 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
• 1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882.
• 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.
• 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
• 1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• 1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
• 1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
• 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• 1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
• 1920 – Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
• 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
• 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis powers.
• 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• 1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
• 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
• 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
• 1951 – Korean War: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.
• 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
• 1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
• 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
• 1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
• 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
• 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
• 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
• 1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
• 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
• 1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
• 1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
• 1977 – South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed.
• 1982 – Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom.
• 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• 1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
• 2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
• 2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.

Hatches

• 682 – Umar II, Arabian caliph (d. 720)
• 971 – Mahmud of Ghazni (d. 1030)
• 1470 – Edward V of England (d. 1483)
• 1475 – Anne of York, Lady Howard (d. 1511)
• 1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (d. 1721)
• 1667 – James Louis Sobieski, French-Polish son of John III Sobieski (d. 1737)
• 1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (d. 1766)
• 1696 – Conrad Weiser, American soldier, monk, and judge (d. 1760)
• 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
• 1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
• 1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)
• 1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1799)
• 1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
• 1754 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1794)
• 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
• 1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
• 1767 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (d. 1820)
• 1777 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
• 1795 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
• 1799 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
• 1799 – Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer (d. 1885)
• 1808 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (d. 1889)
• 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
• 1821 – George Bowen, Irish-English colonial administrator, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1899)
• 1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian physician and academic (d. 1904)
• 1837 – Émile Bayard, French illustrator (d. 1891)
• 1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)
• 1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish historian, author, and academic (d. 1947)
• 1865 – Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
• 1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (d. 1933)
• 1877 – Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (d. 1957)
• 1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
• 1878 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930)
• 1879 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (d. 1947)
• 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Alfred Asikainen, Russian-Finnish wrestler (d. 1942)
• 1890 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933)
• 1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (d. 1964)
• 1891 – David Townsend, American art director and set decorator (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Alice Brady, American actress and singer (d. 1939)
• 1893 – Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company (d. 1966)
• 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976)
• 1899 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1987)
• 1904 – Hugh Lygon, German-English son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (d. 1936)
• 1905 – James Dunn, American actor and singer (d. 1967)
• 1905 – Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (d. 1959)
• 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
• 1908 – Bunny Berigan, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1942)
• 1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, theorist, and philosopher (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor and singer (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Sidney Luft, American film producer (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Ann Rutherford, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Shepard Menken, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
• 1922 – Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler (d. 2013)
• 1924 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer
• 1927 – Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator
• 1927 – John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician
• 1928 – Herb Geller, American-German saxophonist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author
• 1929 – Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan
• 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
• 1932 – Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Bill Gothard, American minister and author
• 1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
• 1936 – Rose Bird, American judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Earl Carroll, American singer (The Cadillacs and The Coasters) (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
• 1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
• 1938 – Queen Sofía of Spain
• 1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English politician
• 1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
• 1940 – Jim Bakken, American football player
• 1940 – Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player
• 1941 – Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician
• 1941 – Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Shadows)
• 1942 – Shere Hite, American-German sexologist, educator, and author
• 1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress and producer
• 1944 – Michael Buffer, American ring announcer
• 1944 – Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Keith Emerson, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Nice, The V.I.P.'s, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Emerson, Lake & Powell)
• 1945 – Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1945 – J. D. Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Longbranch Pennywhistle and Souther–Hillman–Furay Band)
• 1946 – Alan Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1946 – Marieta Severo, Brazilian actress
• 1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
• 1947 – Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer (Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, and Ian Campbell Folk Group)
• 1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
• 1950 – Alex Fagan, American police officer (d. 2010)
• 1950 – Erika Mann, German politician
• 1951 – Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
• 1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian drummer (The Go-Betweens, Xero, and Tuff Monks)
• 1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English singer
• 1954 – Pat Croce, American businessman and author
• 1955 – Chris Burnett, American saxophonist and composer (Chris Burnett Quartet)
• 1955 – Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Ambrose Madtha, Indian archbishop (d. 2012)
• 1956 – Dale Brown, American author and pilot
• 1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
• 1957 – Notis Sfakianakis, Greek singer
• 1957 – Michael Bailey Smith, American actor
• 1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1961 – Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
• 1962 – David Brock, American journalist and author
• 1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French soprano and actress
• 1962 – Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Bobby Dall, American bass player (Poison)
• 1963 – Jonas Gardell, Swedish author and screenwriter
• 1963 – Ron McGovney, American bass player (Metallica, Leather Charm, and Phantasm)
• 1963 – Borut Pahor, Slovenian politician, 4th President of Slovenia
• 1963 – Craig Saavedra, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Park Young-seok, South Korean mountaineer (d. 2011)
• 1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
• 1964 – Olena Pakholchyk, Ukrainian sailor
• 1965 – Nicholas Boles, English politician
• 1965 – Arnold Clavio, Filipino journalist
• 1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1965 – Samuel Le Bihan, French actor
• 1966 – Sean Kanan, American actor and producer
• 1966 – Tim Kirkman, American director and screenwriter
• 1966 – Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor, director, and producer
• 1966 – Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor, director, and producer
• 1967 – Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Simon Hill, English-Australian sportscaster
• 1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch pianist and educator
• 1967 – Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1968 – Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer (Ryan Adams and the Cardinals and Chris Robinson Brotherhood)
• 1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American bass player (Korn, StillWell, and L.A.P.D.)
• 1970 – Ely Buendia, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist (Eraserheads and Pupil)
• 1970 – Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman, American wrestler and model
• 1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
• 1972 – Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 – Samantha Womack, English actress, singer, and director
• 1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
• 1974 – Nelly, American rapper and actor (St. Lunatics)
• 1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
• 1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver
• 1975 – Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Death Cab for Cutie)
• 1976 – Margus Hernits, Estonian figure skater
• 1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
• 1977 – Rodney Buford, American basketball player
• 1977 – Jason Cerbone, American actor
• 1977 – Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
• 1977 – Randy Harrison, American actor
• 1977 – Emma Reynolds, English politician
• 1977 – Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster
• 1978 – Carmen Cali, American baseball player
• 1979 – Erika Flores, American actress
• 1979 – Julie Lund, Danish actress
• 1979 – Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Darren Young, American wrestler
• 1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player
• 1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Miryo, South Korean rapper and singer (Brown Eyed Girls)
• 1981 – Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer
• 1981 – Avy Scott, American porn actress and director
• 1981 – Roddy White, American football player
• 1982 – Yunel Escobar, Cuban baseball player
• 1982 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress and singer
• 1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
• 1982 – Shura Taft, English-Australian radio and television host
• 1984 – Tamara Hope, Canadian actress and singer
• 1984 – Julia Stegner, German model
• 1986 – Diana Penty, Indian model and actress
• 1986 – Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player
• 1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
• 1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
• 1988 – Julia Görges, German tennis player
• 1989 – Stevan Jovetić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1989 – Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player
• 1989 – Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Katelyn Tarver, American actress and singer
• 1990 – Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer
• 1990 – Kendall Schmidt, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Big Time Rush and Heffron Drive)
• 1994 – Shaquile Coulthirst, English footballer

Despatches

• 943 – Emma of France (b. 894)
• 1083 – Matilda of Flanders (b. 1031)
• 1285 – Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
• 1483 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1454)
• 1610 – Richard Bancroft, English archbishop and academic (b. 1544)
• 1618 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (b. 1568)
• 1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German botanist and physician (b. 1651)
• 1807 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1730)
• 1846 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
• 1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 – Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (b. 1820)
• 1898 – George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1930 – Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1941 – Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (b. 1898)
• 1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1945 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (b. 1880)
• 1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish-English author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (b. 1862)
• 1958 – Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 – Michael Considine, Irish-Australian union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 – James Thurber, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
• 1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
• 1981 – Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
• 1982 – Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
• 1984 – Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
• 1986 – Paul Frees, American voice actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 1991 – Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1994 – Martin Taras, American animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (b. 1963)
• 1996 – John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (b. 1902)
• 1998 – Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Eva Morris, English super-centenarian (b. 1885)
• 2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
• 2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Frank McCloskey, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Emirati prince (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
• 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Henry Cele, South African actor (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
• 2007 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
• 2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1906)
• 2007 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Madelyn Dunham, American grandmother of Barack Obama (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Andy Irons, American surfer (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Leonard Stone, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Hans Lindgren, Swedish actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – János Rózsás, Hungarian author (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Robert R. Bowie, American diplomat and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2013 – Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Målfrid Grude Flekkøy, Norwegian psychologist and civil servant (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Hugh Gurling, English geneticist and academic (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Montgomery Kaluhiokalani, American surfer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Clifford Nass, American author and academic (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Russ Sullivan, American baseball player (b. 1923)

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2014

• All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic and Anglican Church), and its related observances:
  • Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Brazil and Portugal)
• Christian feast day:
  • Victorinus of Pettau
  • November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
• Day of the Dead, The second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration. (Mexico)
• Earliest day on which Election Day can fall, while November 8 is the latest; celebrated on Tuesday following the first Monday in November. (United States)
• Indian Arrival Day (Mauritius)
• Karatsu Kunchi (Karatsu, Saga)
• Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)

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Who will the ICAC hunt next?

Miranda Devine – Saturday, November 01, 2014 (11:11pm)

GENERAL moral decline has created a rage for royal commissions and corruption watchdogs and all sorts of integrity units to compensate for the lack of integrity in public and private life.
But the remedy may turn out to be worse than the disease. 

 Continue reading 'Who will the ICAC hunt next?'

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CAN’T BLAME ALCOHOL

Tim Blair – Sunday, November 02, 2014 (4:59pm)

A demonstration of Saudi sportsmanship during (and after) the match between Western Sydney Wanderers and Al-Hilal at King Fahd Stadium: 

Some of the Wanderers had expected a hostile environment, and they got one. Boos and green laser lights targeted them, particularly goalkeeper Ante Covic, named most valuable player of the match …

Al Hilal fans hurled bottles and shoes – a Middle Eastern insult – over the heads of riot police and towards the players from whom they had expected so much. 

There was also spitting and a headbutt.

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NEXT TIME, TRY A GIANT MILK CRATE

Tim Blair – Sunday, November 02, 2014 (2:56am)

In an apparent attempt to construct a Sydney Council-style outdoor art statement, creative Islamic State representatives install an ISIS flag on a Syrian dirt mountain. Critical response is both immediate and overwhelmingly negative:



Of course, it could be argued that the response presented a bolder artistic vision than did the original installation. Arts-minded types are invited to discuss the finer points of both works in comments.

(Via bingbing)

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ANGLED ARCHDEACON

Tim Blair – Sunday, November 02, 2014 (2:14am)

Tilty Gosford preacher Rod Bower has been promoted to archdeacon – and he maintains his compassionate head tilt, as always:



(Via Geoff) 

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A MATTER OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO FEMINISTS

Tim Blair – Sunday, November 02, 2014 (2:10am)

Islamic State’s war against women: 

Last month in the Iraqi city of Mosul, where 2 million people live, ISIS reportedly executed several notable women, including lawyers, physicians, activists and politicians for various reasons. Among them was a famous lawyer who refused to charge the families of the Iraqi detainees in the U.S. military detention facilities between 2003 and 2011.

The Iraqi writer Mushriq Abbas says Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was born in 1963. She was illiterate until the age of 18, when she enrolled in a class and learned how to read and write, after which she earned two bachelor’s degrees, in literature and law. Because of her continued criticism of ISIS on social media and in person, she was arrested and tortured for five days and then killed in public in Mosul. 

Kurds – many of them female – are fighting back: 

At least 300 ISIL militants were killed and scores of ISIL vehicles captured in clashes between the pershmerga and ISIL militants, according to Colonel Z. Sheikh Vasani, a peshmerga commander on the Mahmur front.

“We are fighting with weapons sent by France and Germany. We took control of at least 60 villages around the Al Mahmur district. We can carry out an operation on Mosul if our superiors command it,” Vasani said. 

(Via Instapundit)

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AWARENESS RAISED

Tim Blair – Sunday, November 02, 2014 (2:00am)

Multiple marriages in Nigeria: 

Boko Haram has claimed the 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped in Nigeria earlier this year have converted to Islam and been married off …

The schoolgirls were kidnapped from the remote northeast town of Chibok in Borno state in April, raising global awareness about the group whose five-year insurgency in northern Nigeria has claimed an estimated 13,000 lives. 

Bad luck for the girls, but at least awareness has been raised. Boko Haram is the new global warming.

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MUTUAL ADMIRATION

Tim Blair – Sunday, November 02, 2014 (1:00am)

A fantastic Blair’s Law moment from 2011: panda-faced Islamic crank Zaky Mallah bonds with Labor paperweight Jan Murray.

(Via Colonel Sanders) 

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On the Bolt Report today, November 2

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:59am)

On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
Attorney-General George Brandis, Janet Albrechtsen, Sean Kelly and Piers Akerman.
There will be plenty on boats, Gillard, Peris and useless taxes. Plus why the Foreign Minister is no feminist and why a power station is beautiful. 
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
I apologise for Channel 10 not running the 4pm encore.  There was some confusion about what would follow the basketball, I believe. Very sad.
UPDATE

INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE BRANDIS
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: The Abbott Government last year set up a royal commission to investigate union corruption, including an old scandal involving the Australian Workers Union. That involved Julia Gillard when she was a solicitor, helping her then-boyfriend, AWU official Bruce Wilson, set up a slush fund called the Australian Workers Union Workers Reform Association. He used that to siphon off money from bosses that was meant for his union. Gillard claimed she knew nothing about those rip offs and Wilson did not give her any money or pay for her renovations. JULIA GILLARD, FORMER PRIME MINISTER (SEPTEMBER): I checked my receipts and expenditures and satisfied myself that I had paid for all of the work at my Abbotsford property. ANDREW BOLT: On Friday, the counsel assisting the royal commission, Jeremy Stoljar, recommended a finding that Gillard be cleared of any crime, but Wilson be charged. He also said Wilson had, in fact, paid for Gillard’s renovations.
Joining me is the Attorney-General, George Brandis. Thanks for your time.
GEORGE BRANDIS, ATTORNEY-GENERAL: Good morning, Andrew.
ANDREW BOLT: So, was this investigation worth it?
GEORGE BRANDIS: Well, first of all, it’s important to make the point that this was not an inquiry into Julia Gillard. This was an inquiry into systemic corruption across the trade union movement, in
particular, some unions like the HSU and the CFMEU. Now, the recommendations that the counsel assisting Mr Stoljar made to the royal commissioner last week were very comprehensive, and I wouldn’t want to focus too much of the public discussion on what he had to say about Julia Gillard because, in a sense, that was a very small element of the work of the royal commission. But, that being said, I do think that the conclusions that counsel assisting the royal commission came to about Julia Gillard were very damning indeed.
ANDREW BOLT: Well, I was struck by Jeremy Stoljar saying, “Julia Gillard’s legal work on creating this slush fund was questionable,” his word, “Which helped her then-boyfriend get away with this fraud”, you know, naming it Australian Workers’ Union Workplace Reform Association, when it had nothing to do with the union, for example. “Questionable”, is that how you’d describe it?
GEORGE BRANDIS: Well, to describe the conduct of a lawyer, in dealing with money and setting up a series of arrangements through which money is channelled as “questionable”, I think, is a very serious thing to say indeed.
ANDREW BOLT: How questionable did you find her conduct, from your reading of the evidence?
GEORGE BRANDIS: Well, look, I don’t want… particularly want to be a commentator on what the royal commission might ultimately find, but I think it’s enough to say that the conclusions Mr Stoljar came to, and that he has recommended be adopted as findings by the royal commissioner, certainly justify the concerns that people like Julie Bishop, Tony Abbott and others raised in the last parliament about Julia Gillard’s conduct at the time.
ANDREW BOLT: In February, you said you were preparing a police task force to work with this royal commission. This week, nine months later, the Prime Minister announced this task force to investigate corruption involving, particularly, building unions close to Victorian Labor, like the CFMEU. Now, why that delay? Is it to coincide with this month’s Victorian election?

Continue reading 'On the Bolt Report today, November 2'

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When governments won’t cut, you must pay

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:56am)

Samantha Maiden:

But imagine for a moment that the Abbott government was planning on increasing taxes by $25 billion over the next four years. Imagine that average income earners on $80,000 a year face being pushed into the second highest tax bracket next year. Imagine that average workers face paying $3,800-a-year in extra taxes if nothing changes. Not a $400-a-year for high income earners under the deficit levy but $3,800-a-year.
As it turns out, that’s a fact, not the fantasy scenario you may imagine. It’s exactly what is going to happen in Australia’s tax system as a result of bracket creep without tax reform.

This is very bad. The answer is to cut spending. Bet we’re told we should just broaden the tax base instead. 

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Sense of humour tested

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:49am)

ABC presenter Jonathan Green:

Could be any day now ... the sudden indiscriminate smack of a terrorist attack.
Our best defence is of course our cultured reason. Our tolerance. Our audacious confidence in the fundamental goodness of others. Maybe even our sense of humour.

Just keep smiling in that tolerant way:

Last month in the Iraqi city of Mosul, where 2 million people live, ISIS reportedly executed several notable women, including lawyers, physicians, activists and politicians for various reasons. Among them was a famous lawyer who refused to charge the families of the Iraqi detainees in the U.S. military detention facilities between 2003 and 2011.
The Iraqi writer Mushriq Abbas says Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was born in 1963. She was illiterate until the age of 18, when she enrolled in a class and learned how to read and write, after which she earned two bachelor’s degrees, in literature and law. Because of her continued criticism of ISIS on social media and in person, she was arrested and tortured for five days and then killed in public in Mosul. 

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Who let them in?

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:39am)

Many Muslim Lebanese were let into Australia as refugees during the Lebanese civil war. Then we took in Afghans.
It hasn’t been painless:

After six on-and-off years of waging war on Sydney’s streets, police declared the Brothers for Life gang dead this week with all key members behind bars or allegedly killed by their own.
“I’d like to think this is the final nail in the coffin,” Homicide Squad commander Michael Willing said this week following the charging of leader Farhad Qaumi, 33, with two murders.
The toll has been high. More than 300 charges have been laid against 21 members including extortions, home invasions and cocaine supply. The internal war resulted in two murders, 11 shootings, two knee-cappings and several bashings…
Qaumi “utilised fear and physical violence to recruit and control young members of the Afghan community into committing violent acts, supplying drugs and perpetrating multiple shootings, in a bid to overpower the Bankstown chapter, whose members are primarily of Lebanese background,” according to the police statement of facts on the gang obtained by The Sun-Herald.

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CFMEU still talks through Labor

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:28am)

Why does Victorian Labor let the CFMEU have a say on its policies?

Victorian Labor leader Daniel Andrews has refused to distance himself from the CFMEU in the wake of the royal commission being told that the union’s boss should be charged with blackmail.
With one month until the state election, Mr Andrews’ links to the construction union have been called into question after counsel assisting the royal commission into trade unions formally recommended charges against state secretary John Setka…
The opposition leader’s Socialist Left faction welcomed the CFMEU back into Labor ranks a few years ago, giving it the power to influence state policy and help determine who gets preselected for seats in parliament.

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Warmist piece missing the only two figures that count

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:18am)

Another preachy Age report on global warming absolutely choked with figures and statistics - except for the two most important:

.... greenhouse gas emissions may have to fall to a net zero ... About 500 delegates… due to be signed at a UN summit in Paris in late 2015 ... the result of seven years assessing the latest published science ... net zero ... Australian government has a target of cutting its emissions to 5per cent below 2000 levels by 2020 ... abolished a legislated 80per cent cut by 2050 ... a $2.55 billion budget fund ... 5 per cent target… goal of limiting a rise in average temperatures to 2 degrees ... 30 pages long ... three reports of more than 1000 pages ... halve their emissions by 2030 ... 2 degree target ... European Union agreed to a 40 per cent cut ... Obama wants US power plants to cut emissions by 30 per cent ... 95per cent sure that man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause of warming since 1950.

Missing stat 1: the world’s atmosphere has not in fact warmed for some 16 years.
Missing state 2: anything Australia does would have around zero effect on the world’s temperature.
Why were these two stats missing? 

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What “stolen generations”? What herding onto missions?

Andrew Bolt November 02 2014 (5:02am)

Blog reader Joe Lane’s tireless research gets public acknowledgement in The Australian:

HISTORICAL evidence shows a “black armband” version of Australian history is deeply flawed and that Aborigines were not “herded” on to missions, driven from their lands or had countless children stolen from their families, ­researcher Joe Lane says. 

Mr Lane, 72, an independent ­researcher based in Adelaide, has so far transcribed about 9000 pages of primary source material dating from the 1840s, including letters, journals and royal commission evidence, and posted it all on his firstsources website.
He began his research in the 1980s, when he came across the late-1880s journals of George ­Taplin, a missionary who set up the Point McLeay Mission on Lake ­Alexandrina in South Australia. Mr Lane has transcribed the journals, kept in the State Library of South Australia.
Recently, he has been typing up more than 20,000 pieces of correspondence of the Protector of Aborigines in South Australia from 1840 to 1912.
“They are packed full of information ... most academics simply don’t know about this goldmine of information, which just doesn’t support the current indigenous studies narrative,” Mr Lane told The Australian yesterday.
Mr Lane, who formerly worked in a support role for indigenous students at the University of South Australia, has reached some controversial conclusions: he believes the material does not support narrative of indigenous history being taught in schools and universities; that Aboriginal people were “herded” on to missions; driven from their lands; and had countless children stolen from families.
He said that from 1840 more than 80 per cent of the Aboriginal population lived away from missions, across the state, while the total number of full-time staff of the Aborigines Department was one — the Protector — whose main task was to establish and ­supply up to 40 ration depots.
Mission staff “rarely numbered more than three or four”.
“People came and went as they chose ... there does not seem to be any evidence of ‘herding’ or any obvious intention to ever do so."…
School records from 1880 to 1960, uncovered by Mr Lane, showed only a small number of children had been brought to missions. One mission’s records between 1880 and the 1900s showed only eight children out of a roll of 200 over those years had been brought to the mission, he said…
“From the record, there does not seem to be any concerted effort to take children from their families,” Mr Lane said.

The material on the “stolen generations” particularly conforms with what courts have found and my own researches suggest.
But the dominant narrative of brutally racist colonisation and mass child-theft will be hard to remove from the universities, no matter how many documents are uncovered:

University of Adelaide associate professor Robert Foster, who specialises in South Australian Aboriginal history, yesterday said Mr Lane’s conclusions, “rather oversimplifies three otherwise quite complex phenomena”.
“What Mr Lane is saying is not untrue, but it is how you choose to spin it ...”

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Roger FroikinIsrael Muse Portal (NEWS)
THE CURRENT OBAMA-NETANYAHU CONFLICT IS A BIT MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS MIGHT MAKE IT SEEM.

Friends do not always have identical interests. They can disagree at times. There has been times when the US and Israel disagreed. History shows that more often than not, Israel gave in and went with whatever the Americans wanted. The record shows that doing what the White House wanted more often than not, had short term results at best, long term bad results most often - both for US and Israeli interests.

In Lebanon, israel got involved at the suggestion of some in the US Administration, and when the publicity got "difficult", the US suddenly switched approaches and demanded that israel withdraw. In the first Lebanese war, Israel backed off when the West made certain assurances. The assurances turned out to be hot air. The Second Lebanese War ended with US and European promises that Hezbollah would never be allowed to rearm. How did that work out?

Israel withdrew from Gaza, under US pressure, with the US promising that such a withdrawal would lead to a change on the Arab side that would lead to peace. How did that promise work out?

Now, Netanyahu is being attacked by the Obama White House, being called stubborn, short-sighted, and worse, for refusing to compromise Jewish rights and security when the Arab side refuses to do anything that would lead to peace. Fatah and Hamas have not been partners, and the Americans and Europeans still demand that Israel back off, make concessions, give up Jewish rights, to a dictatorial regime that still calls for Israel's death and the exclusion of Jews, even from Jewish Holy Places.

Given the record, is Netanyahu stubborn --- or is the US Administration arrogant and overbearing while offering nothing new but pressure?

When Obama ran for president, he deplored the idea (or claimed to) of an America that acted imperial, making demands, getting into everyone's business, and pressuring for short term gains that created long term problems.

Yet, here he is, doing that very thing with Israel. Endangering Israel's security and setting Israel and the region up for massive war at some stage.

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The Australian Climate Sceptics Blog: Focus on stopping global warming and extreme weath... http://t.co/dN5g8vmcKc
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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Tributes for NSW teen killed by lightning http://t.co/c5yVRQLc0O via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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danger of connecting it to AGW .. Ebola Crisis getting worse: charity http://t.co/rdDZxbeA3p via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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Brandis declares Mali group terrorists http://t.co/wQQsEeRGFz via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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Ignore violence, spitting .. that is just the fans http://t.co/3M557oEeRu via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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US public react hilariously to ‘nuts’ and ‘intense’ All Blacks rugby Test http://t.co/jS6Pqajpfp via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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Incestuous child group sex ring uncovered after teen goes missing http://t.co/dlKaqXBICl via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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The sex lives, wives of the original Siamese twins http://t.co/O30TDt2IKD via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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idiot is unique Man sits on whale carcass as massive shark lurks nearby http://t.co/d7fJ1E88PC via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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Pfft "explains shades of grey" ? actually SOG is a love story .. Are your sexual fantasies ‘normal’? http://t.co/GtcX2T0eQE via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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Sarah Palin Says She's Hoping To Run For Office Again http://t.co/UTYVeaJBd0 via @HuffPostPol
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 2, 2014

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— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 1, 2014

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Boo Hoo Palestine: http://t.co/MQiFild12h via @YouTube
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 1, 2014

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Photo: Evil, greedy corporations ..  http://t.co/pdaXH1UwKm
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 1, 2014

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kitten vs TWO scary things (котенок против ДВУХ неведомых хреней): http://t.co/UfAWnR9tgW via @YouTube
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 1, 2014

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I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/ZMVs1J3u1U A Brief History of Robin Thicke's 2013 Summer Hit, "Blurred Lines"
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 1, 2014

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4 her, so she can see how I see her

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Frozen Entropy
Rainbow on Halloween night?? World's gone mad!!!
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eggcelent. Smithers! Release the hounds! - ed
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Q: If Obamacare is the law, why aren't the president, congress, supreme court, all the gov't people who've designed it, not included? Isn't a law intended for all Americans, not just some?
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"It's a Firebolt. It's the fastest broom in the world."
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Larry Pickering
ONYA BIKE CAMPBELL!

Why is it that Queensland premiers believe they are a law unto themselves? Our Constitution provides a treasured right of assembly and a right to freedom of association, as surely as it did to those violent uni students in Melbourne and the coming unions’ furor over Abbott’s IR.

Finks, Hell’s Angels, Bandidos, and the outrageous Mongols all engage in criminal activity, as do unions, but all are either clubs or associations and you cannot jail an association or a club. An individual must first be charged, found guilty by a court of law and then punished by the judiciary within legal parameters placed on it.

Campbell Newman proposes to distort our judicial system. Even his Attorney General (whose only qualification is that he was once a conveyancing clerk) should know the law has to be applied equally to all.

If criminal organisations are to be outlawed the first cab off the rank should be the NSW Right of the Labor Party, then the Catholic Church followed by Green councils.

Newman takes “guilt by association” to dizzying heights. Even those who aid and abet in a criminal act are afforded common law (comparable) justice.

To propose those who belong to a certain criminal group must suffer “incomparably severe” justice falls foul of our Constitution and the Discrimination Act. The High Court won’t hesitate to uphold any appeal.

Newman is playing with his donger if he believes the law can be applied unequally.
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Unbelievable facts
The Hotel del Salto in the Tuquendama Falls area of Colombia. Since being abandoned building has since been the site of a number of suicides and the hotel is now rumored to be haunted.
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Timothy Ly
Me back in July 2012 at 85 kg ( biggest I've been) and now in November 2013 at 80kg. I had no idea at the time I let myself go. Long term stress will do that to u.#preparingfortv #broccoli #chicken#sweetpotato #maximumchoppage
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin

PRAY ALONG.
Heavenly Father, I know what you’ve put on the inside of me. By faith I see the dreams you’ve given me coming to pass this month, no matter what my circumstances are. I am full of Your power and I’m ready to become everything you created me to be.As you pray along,May the Lord bless you and keep you.May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.May He favor you this month in Jesus Name,Amen.

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Look out Look out through eyes of faith and see your dreams coming to pass. See yourself walking in abundance in every area of life this month.God bless you.

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Unbelievable facts

People with higher intelligence tend to have a harder time falling asleep at night because of increased brain activity.
I sleep like a baby - ed
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It is time for Netanyahu to reveal what Obama keeps threatening to do to us.
For details, read my column in today's Jerusalem Post.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Obamacare-victims-and-Israel-330307
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Andre the Giant
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"Your people are out there Moses."
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Zaya Toma Andrew Andrew Pham Sam Youkhana and Courtney Nguyen and beautiful Mariam Youkhana. 

Dai Le

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A must-read: Charles Krauthamer on ObamaCare --> http://bit.ly/16tmJIT 

"Obamacare is the largest transfer of wealth in recent American history. But you can’t say that openly lest you lose elections. So you do it by subterfuge: hidden taxes, penalties, mandates, and coverage requirements that yield a surplus of overpayments."
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Frank Severino

I would rather ask a dumb question and receive a good answer, than not ask the question and perpetuate a dumb idea.

I prefer asking good questions, but there you go - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren

"... Wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, and wanting to appear important, has nothing to do with the Father." 
1 John 2:16 (The Message)

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EVERYDAY God asks you to do things that feel impossible so that you have to trust him. It's a test. #FaithOverFeelings

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The Great Monolith

Two bands of fog hang onto the face of El Capitan as evening descends upon Yosemite Valley. The snow which had previously fallen had by this time all but completely evaporated as a new set of clouds were drifting in. A dramatic end to a fantastic day of Fall meeting Winter conditions in one of the most beautiful places on the Earth. — at Yosemite National Park.
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Terri Noscov
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Ingredients
Crust
2 cups finely crushed graham crackers (use nice biscuits in aust)
2 tablespoons sugar (if using nice biscuits in aust disregard this sugar)
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
Filling
4 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, room temperature
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 pinch salt
1 cup sour cream
1 cup heavy cream
4 large eggs
1 each of liquid food colors (blue, yellow, green, red)


Directions
1 Preheat oven 180/350F degrees. Before you get started with the crust, make sure your 9 inch springform pan is water tight. I do this by carefully wrapping a few layers of foil on the outside of the pan, so water cannot get into the pan. Be careful not to rip the foil or water will get into your cake and ruin it!

2 Mix crushed crackers, 2 tablespoons sugar, the cinnamon and salt together in a bowl. Then mix in butter with your clean fingers, until crumbs are pea sized.

3 Press all of the graham cracker mixture into the prepared springform pan. Press it down firmly in the pan. I like to use a measuring cup for this, which makes it easy to get around the edges. You should have an even, flat crust.

4 Bake the crust for 10 minutes on a low oven rack. Remove from the oven, and cool completely before continuing. Turn oven temperature down to 160/325 degrees.

5 To make filling, cut cream cheese into pieces and add to a mixing bowl. Whip until smooth, maybe 4 minutes. Then add 1-1/3 cups sugar, and continue to beat until smooth again, another 4-5 minutes. Next, add vanilla, salt, sour cream and heavy cream; beat until smooth. Add in 1 egg at a time, beating briefly between each egg.

6 Once the mixture is well combined and very smooth, divide evenly into 6 dishes. Add food color to each dish to get the desired colors. (Red = 25 drops of red, Orange = 18 drops yellow + 6 drops red, Yellow = 18 drops yellow, Green = 18 drops green, Blue = 18 drops blue, Violet = 18 drops red Blue Mountain Cocoa Drops

7 Pour colored mixtures into cooled crust. Start with red filling, and slowly pour it right in the center of the crust. Continue to build the rainbow by pouring the fillings directly in the center. This will create layers so that each slice has some of each color.

8 Place cheesecake into a baking dish on oven rack, and fill baking dish with boiling water about 1 inch up the side of the springform pan.

9 Bake at 160/325 degrees in the water bath for 1 hour and 40 minutes to 1 hour 50 minutes or until set but still jiggles slightly 2 inches from the edge. If cheesecake begins to brown on top, cover loosely with foil during last 5 minutes of baking.

10 Turn off the oven, open the oven door a crack, and let the cake cool in the oven for 1 hour. The slow cooling will help it not crack.

11 Then loosely wrap the dish in foil so the foil isn't touching the top of the cake and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.

12 When ready to remove cake, run a clean narrow knife around the edge of the dish, remove the foil, unlock the spring, and carefully lift off the outer ring.

13 Serve either alone or with a cherry/raspberry sauce. It's so rich and creamy that it really doesn't need a topping.

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Daniel Katz
O'Bummer !
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Dai Le

At the opening of Deric Ly's new bakery in Mt Pritchard. A great initiative by Deric!! Awesome and it looks great!!

With Deric Ly at Hamel Road.

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“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,”Ephesians 1:18 NIV

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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning

"The church in thy house."
Philemon 2

Is there a Church in this house? Are parents, children, friends, servants, all members of it? or are some still unconverted? Let us pause here and let the question go round--Am I a member of the Church in this house? How would father's heart leap for joy, and mother's eyes fill with holy tears if from the eldest to the youngest all were saved! Let us pray for this great mercy until the Lord shall grant it to us. Probably it had been the dearest object of Philemon's desires to have all his household saved; but it was not at first granted him in its fulness. He had a wicked servant, Onesimus, who, having wronged him, ran away from his service. His master's prayers followed him, and at last, as God would have it, Onesimus was led to hear Paul preach; his heart was touched, and he returned to Philemon, not only to be a faithful servant, but a brother beloved, adding another member to the Church in Philemon's house. Is there an unconverted servant or child absent this morning? Make special supplication that such may, on their return to their home, gladden all hearts with good news of what grace has done! Is there one present? Let him partake in the same earnest entreaty.

If there be such a Church in our house, let us order it well, and let all act as in the sight of God. Let us move in the common affairs of life with studied holiness, diligence, kindness, and integrity. More is expected of a Church than of an ordinary household; family worship must, in such a case, be more devout and hearty; internal love must be more warm and unbroken, and external conduct must be more sanctified and Christlike. We need not fear that the smallness of our number will put us out of the list of Churches, for the Holy Spirit has here enrolled a family-church in the inspired book of remembrance. As a Church let us now draw nigh to the great head of the one Church universal, and let us beseech him to give us grace to shine before men to the glory of his name.

Evening

"And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Matthew 24:39

Universal was the doom, neither rich nor poor escaped: the learned and the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the profane, the old and the young, all sank in one common ruin. Some had doubtless ridiculed the patriarch--where now their merry jests? Others had threatened him for his zeal which they counted madness--where now their boastings and hard speeches? The critic who judged the old man's work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions. Those who spoke patronizingly of the good man's fidelity to his convictions, but shared not in them, have sunk to rise no more, and the workers who for pay helped to build the wondrous ark, are all lost also. The flood swept them all away, and made no single exception. Even so, out of Christ, final destruction is sure to every man of woman born; no rank, possession, or character, shall suffice to save a single soul who has not believed in the Lord Jesus. My soul, behold this wide-spread judgment and tremble at it.

How marvellous the general apathy! they were all eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the awful morning dawned. There was not one wise man upon earth out of the ark. Folly duped the whole race, folly as to self-preservation--the most foolish of all follies. Folly in doubting the most true God--the most malignant of fooleries. Strange, my soul, is it not? All men are negligent of their souls till grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like rational beings, but not till then.

All, blessed be God, were safe in the ark, no ruin entered there. From the huge elephant down to the tiny mouse all were safe. The timid hare was equally secure with the courageous lion, the helpless cony as safe as the laborious ox. All are safe in Jesus. My soul, art thou in him?

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Today's reading: Jeremiah 24-26, Titus 2 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 24-26

Two Baskets of Figs

¹ After Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD. ²One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

³ Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

“Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.”

⁴ Then the word of the LORD came to me: ⁵ “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians. ⁶ My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. ⁷ I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart....

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Today's New Testament reading: Titus 2

Doing Good for the Sake of the Gospel

¹ You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. ² Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

³ Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. ⁴ Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

⁶ Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. ⁷In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness ⁸ and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

⁹ Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, ¹⁰ and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive....

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Gemariah

[Gĕma rī'ah] - jehovah hath fulfilled oraccomplishment of the lord.

1. A prince, son of Shaphan the scribe and brother of Ahikam (Jer. 36:10-25). This scribe sought in vain to keep King Jehoiakim from burning the roll.
2. A son of Hilkiah, sent by King Zedekiah as ambassador to Nebuchadnezzar. He also carried a letter from Jeremiah to the captive Jews (Jer. 29:3).

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