IPA Review features a David Kemp excerpt from his George Reid lecture on 30th March 2016. George Reid was a laissez faire Liberal who stood on principle. He was a capable politician who, as education minister for NSW set up a model adopted by other colonies of a public high school, technical and further education and night lectures at university. He was ambivalent about the federation of Australia and became famous for a “yes no Speech” which lasted an hour and three quarters in 1898, over a hundred and ten years before Oakeshott. ALP domination of federal politics brought about protectionism through tariffs, limiting Reid’s term as Prime Minister in 1904 and ’05. Reid had been more effective as Premier of NSW in 1894 to 1899 when ALP had not had their protective way. Reid provided the intellectual capital which would later fire Menzies. Reid supported individual freedoms which no party leader endorses today. Reid had a substantial paunch, and when one guy in an audience asked how he would name it, he replied “If it is a boy, after myself. If it is a girl, I shall name her Victoria. But if, as I suspect, it is no more than piss and wind, I will name it after you.” He happily married a 23 year old woman when he was 46 in 1891. They had two sons and a daughter who survived him when he died in 1918, High Commissioner of Australia, in London.
In a triumph for Free Speech, a judge tossed out the prosecution of three university students who had questioned on Facebook why they were denied access to unused computers reserved for Aboriginal only students. They could have lied about their Aboriginally to obtain access, but had not acted so duplicitously. But a public servant took them to court with the support of Australia’s well remunerated chief of the Human Rights Council, Triggs. Triggs had investigated them for fourteen months without their knowledge. When charges were laid at their doorstep, fait accompli, they resisted the charges and have been smeared as racists. The 18c racial vilification legislation is counter to a free society. It needs to go. The students are vindicated, but scarred for life.
Australia is poorly positioned to capitalise on a Trump Presidency with both the foreign affairs Minister Julie Bishop and the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talking out to personalise antipathy to Trump. One understands they prefer Hillary Clinton because they prefer working with corruption. They had insisted Abbott give over $10 million aid to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, and rolled Abbott after he stopped the payments. But neither Bishop nor Turnbull has explained how Australia will be better off with a corrupt Clinton as President, compared to a GOP backed Trump. Trump is not Reagan. Trump is very good at negotiations and knows how to run an executive team. Reagan was more reliant on insiders from GOP. Trump can deliver on promises better than Turnbull can. Turnbull has portrayed himself as being a good business executive. With Trump as President we will see a real one. Trump would never have put himself in the ridiculous position Turnbull has. All Turnbull can do now, constructively, is resign.
Meanwhile Trump’s progressive opponent is loved by the press and demonstrably corrupt. And the Libertarian candidate is trying to find Aleppo. Or a head of state.
Rumour now runs internationally that the apparent Saudi Spy who partners Hillary Clinton kept a life insurance policy of emails left in her ex husband’s computer. And the FBI found it. And so the insurance policy has been cashed in early. And the FBI investigating a witch on Halloween have found incriminating evidence on her familiar’s Weiner.
One person who knows how to profit from central planning is Hillary Clinton. The Chicago Tribune is withdrawing support from her, and suggesting that Democrats replace Hillary. But corrupt news, like the Tribune, knew everything now known about Hillary as they supported her days ago. Maybe they are only backing a tribe, but not a policy? And Maybe they want to find another crook. I note that press, who had accepted Hillary's corruption, are now denouncing her Saudi Spy Handler
Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg is frightening media. They have supported and protected insider corruption for a long time. Trump will clean up the festering wound, and make America great again.
=== from 2015 ===
The press hatred for Republicans in the US was evident when a promising candidate, Carson, who happens to be a Seventh Day Adventist, was denounced in believing that pyramids in Egypt were grain silos. Except Carson does not believe that and did not say that. Carson was misquoted from a sermon he gave in church seventeen years ago based on the biblical story of Joseph. In the biblical story, Joseph is in charge of grain stores for Egypt and may well have used the pyramids at that time for that function. It doesn't change history as to what the pyramids were made for, or who made them. It is very hard for a minority protestant religious group like Seventh Day Adventists to produce acceptable candidates for conservatives. Their faith is Christian, but they worship God on the Sabbath, which is Saturday. Sunday is a day most associated with churches because Jesus rose on that day. But Saturday is in fact the Sabbath Day. Being a minority, Seventh Day Adventists come across as weird. Jeb Bush has issues too, for being Catholic. But both Carson and Bush are good, faithful men. Obama, meanwhile, slept through church where he chose to worship with people who wanted God to destroy America. The press haven't said what they feel Obama thought based on his religious experience.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power
ICAC might now be successful in getting itself dissolved before it chooses to investigate the broad range of ALP corruption. The trigger has been the investigation of Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC over a malicious complaint made against her. While the ICAC has claimed two Liberal Premiers and ten Liberal members on an issue of election funding irregularities, it has turned a blind eye to ALP corruption which involves officers hiring hit men and funding jihadists and corrupt property deals worth many billions of dollars. The watch body that oversees the ICAC has reluctantly moved after Cuneen engaged it to force the ICAC to account for its decisions. The ICAC has declined to list its reasons for its behaviour, and now an investigation is to be opened by the overseer into the watchdog.US Mid term elections have been completed and results show a healthy win by the GOP. Obama will retain a veto for the next two years, but the direction he has taken the US will change.
Former Chief Scientist misspoke when she claimed the world would end in five years. She meant we would all be dead, but Gaia would not have done the deed yet.
Mike Carlton, caught on a left travelling current, has been invited by his former employer SMH to get closer to their left wing journalists. By subscription.
Milne shown to be an incompetent Green leader. She has been incapable of working with tactically capable workers and engaging them with her strategic positioning on policy issues, according to former Green staffer Tim Hollo who still admires her.
Whitlam funeral. He was flawed, and it is difficult to point to anything he achieved as worthwhile. The funeral was touching if one ignored the boos for Liberals and the cold shoulder for Rudd. And the cheers for the questionable former PM Gillard. Gough gave Cate Blanchett a free tertiary education? Taxpayers paid for it.
PUP Senator Jacqui Lambie, who has refused to pass cuts to stabilise the budget, has called on Australians to turn their backs on remembrance day. She argues troops should have larger pay rises than beneath inflation. It seems inappropriate that a day to remember war dead is abused over a pay dispute.
Senator Muir struggling to retain staff. The Motoring Enthusiast is struggling to stand on any principle.
Two Islamic groups brag of raping women they captured through violence. ISIL and Boko Haram. How will mainstream media glorify it for young Islamic men?
Greens gone soft on Islamic state. As Andrew Bolt points out, quoting Bertrand Russell "Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power." It is an international problem for secular idealists embracing hatred ideology.
Thank you Australia
Medical volunteers have an arrangement to fight Ebola thanks to the Australian Government doing a deal with the UK to care for them if they succumb to the illness they help treat. Australia is too far away to have guaranteed that treatment.
From 2013
Horse dribble funding anti social activism? If it is, they are welcome to drown in it, but not use it. Today was the Melbourne Cup. A horse won a race. Some people are happy, some disappointed. What is disappointing is Anglican church billboard from Gosford which seems to suggest that it is wrong to prevent desperate people from being subject to piracy and drowning. Shame on them. Apparently the horse race attracts people because of the money. So it isn't only the dribble.
If irresponsible kids in your area are throwing a party, it could be a global warming panic party. ABC and Fairfax may have written and spoken about it, but it is unlikely you heard or read it from them .. not many people do. Plain packaging seems to be working to expand the black market. We don't know who they are, inheriting the Al Capone riches, but my bet is they are ALP.
New York is better for having cleaned up. Australia is worse off for those wind mills. I didn't watch it, but apparently Q and A was abysmal. One bite from what I have seen .. after the fighting is over. When the dead drape the scenery in their struggle over oppression and adversity. When the cost is clear in the wasteland of what was once homes to many with dreams of a better future. The post modernist will ask "Who gets to define success? Who gets to say what is right or wrong" Something worth pondering as you survey those tyrannies which killed millions of people and were supported by communists and socialists.
Guardian article claiming Bush family funded Hitler. Meh, over stated on the Bush connection .. Bush's grandad stopped when it became apparent what Hitler was doing. Unions seemed to like what the Nazis had done, and what the Japanese had done. There is a western concept socialists don't get. It is the idea that a man is responsible for their own actions. Not their families. So at the end of the civil war, General Lee was allowed to live his life. His family was unmolested. His garden was made a graveyard .. Arlington. But, Lee's grand daughter, Harper Lee, wrote "To Kill a Mocking Bird" .. vindicating those who stopped short of eliminating the family, behind the deaths of millions, and in favour of slavery.
If irresponsible kids in your area are throwing a party, it could be a global warming panic party. ABC and Fairfax may have written and spoken about it, but it is unlikely you heard or read it from them .. not many people do. Plain packaging seems to be working to expand the black market. We don't know who they are, inheriting the Al Capone riches, but my bet is they are ALP.
New York is better for having cleaned up. Australia is worse off for those wind mills. I didn't watch it, but apparently Q and A was abysmal. One bite from what I have seen .. after the fighting is over. When the dead drape the scenery in their struggle over oppression and adversity. When the cost is clear in the wasteland of what was once homes to many with dreams of a better future. The post modernist will ask "Who gets to define success? Who gets to say what is right or wrong" Something worth pondering as you survey those tyrannies which killed millions of people and were supported by communists and socialists.
Guardian article claiming Bush family funded Hitler. Meh, over stated on the Bush connection .. Bush's grandad stopped when it became apparent what Hitler was doing. Unions seemed to like what the Nazis had done, and what the Japanese had done. There is a western concept socialists don't get. It is the idea that a man is responsible for their own actions. Not their families. So at the end of the civil war, General Lee was allowed to live his life. His family was unmolested. His garden was made a graveyard .. Arlington. But, Lee's grand daughter, Harper Lee, wrote "To Kill a Mocking Bird" .. vindicating those who stopped short of eliminating the family, behind the deaths of millions, and in favour of slavery.
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Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc
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HUMAN vs BOGAN
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (1:46pm)
Battle is joined in New Hampshire’s council elections:
Two candidates are competing for the Ward 6A City Council spot in the Nov. 3 election – it’s between incumbent Donna Bogan and Rochester resident named Human …Human, of 402C Portland St., formerly named David Montenego, had changed his legal name to “human,” all lower case, in 2012. His preference was to have the “H” in his name capitalized for this article. He said he changed his name as a way to let people know what he stands for.“I’m a human being looking out for rights of other human beings,” he said.Human describes himself as patient, intelligent, and a good problem solver who is knowledgeable about how the government operates …He is currently unemployed.
The election has now been decided. Did Human beat Bogan for that prize council gig? Or is Human still unemployed?
Continue reading 'HUMAN vs BOGAN'CHINESE ACCOUNTING ERROR
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (12:52pm)
This morning’s Daily Telegraph editorial:
The New York Times yesterday reported China has been burning up to 17 per cent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed. Considering the vast scale of China’s annual coal consumption, this is an absolutely gigantic correction.As analysis by the Times revealed, that 17 per cent correction alone represents around one billion extra tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. To put that figure in a local perspective, China’s coal correction by itself generates nearly twice as much carbon dioxide per year than all Australian industries, factories, motor vehicles, power plants, mines and aircraft combined.Many Australian green groups applauded the short-lived carbon tax introduced by ex-prime minister Julia Gillard because it reduced Australia’s carbon dioxide output by 17.2 million tonnes. The folly of that carbon tax is now fully exposed by China’s carbon correction, which adds nearly 60 times as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every single year than was subtracted by Labor’s pointless tax.In other words, what appears to be an impressively large figure to Australian climate activists is just an accounting error in China.
This is big news to every media organisation that previously thought China was totally honest.
NATIONALISE FAILURE
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (12:44pm)
Just like the ABC, Twitter is infested with sad social justice warriors and loses tons of money. One Guardiancolumnist’s solution: just like the ABC, Twitter should be run by the government.
Naturally, the ABC immediately interviewed the confused fellow. In other Twitter developments, a brutal girly slap fight is underway between fellow leftists Jonathan Green and Clementine Ford:
You’d have to favour Clementine in this bout – mainly because Green is winless in just about every conflict he’s blundered into, except when he’s dressed like a lady and armed with a pack of dogs.
You’d have to favour Clementine in this bout – mainly because Green is winless in just about every conflict he’s blundered into, except when he’s dressed like a lady and armed with a pack of dogs.
RAPE CAPITAL OF EUROPE
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (12:34pm)
Pat Condell hammers Swedish journalists and the vicious rape culture they conceal:
CONSIDER THE NUANCE
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (12:22pm)
A three-word slogan endures through the decades:
From school assemblies to Friday prayers and city billboards, it is a slogan still ubiquitous in Iran: “Death to America!”And Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has made it clear that the refrain will not leave the Islamic republic’s political lexicon any time soon.“The slogan ‘death to America’ is backed by reason and wisdom,” the 76-year-old ayatollah said in remarks published on his website on Tuesday.
But Khamenei would not want you to take that slogan out of context:
“It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance,” he said.
(Via Adam I.)
GENTLE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DESERVE THEIR OWN STATE
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (11:51am)
Outside the neighbourhood Hitler store, Gaza mannequins display the latest must-have fashion accessory for Palestinian youngsters – knives:
ANYONE FEELING SOLASTALGIC?
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (11:34am)
Ten years ago, Australian academic Glenn Albrecht came up with the word “solastalgia” – a fancy synonym for “stupid”:
It describes the feeling of distress associated with environmental change close to your home, explains Albrecht.While at the University of Newcastle, he was contacted by local people concerned about opencast coal mining and power station pollution. “People would ring me at work pleading for help with their cause. Their distress about the threats to their identity and well-being over the phone was palpable.”
Threats to their identity? Did coal try to steal their credit cards?
These calls, and seeing the effects of mining on the landscape, led him to create the word. “Solastalgia is when your endemic sense of place is being violated.”
Don’t you just hate it when that happens.
Justin Lawson from Melbourne’s Deakin University explains solastalgia in less academic terms, saying The Eagles’ song No More Walks in the Wood can help people understand it, which laments the disappearance of a forest associated with powerful memories. “It really is about redefining our emotional responses to a landscape that has changed within a lifetime.”
We now live in a time when Margo Kingston receives a doctorate in herself and Don Henley is cited by university lecturers. All arts faculties should be incinerated.
Despite its meaning, the man who coined solastalgia isn’t despairing. “I am an optimistic person and I do a lot to reverse the push for development that will create more climate change and by implication, more solastalgia,” concludes Albrecht.
Fifty bucks to the first reader who claims “solastalgia” on a sick leave application.
(Via Adam I.)
AN AFTERNOON OF PEACEFUL CONTEMPLATION
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 05, 2015 (11:18am)
To celebrate this month’s climate conference in Paris, on Saturday we’re going to the races at Sydney Dragway. After all, nitromethane is a sustainable alternative fuel source:
Shorten ally leaves town ahead of royal commission
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (5:18pm)
This smells:
===Alleged branch stacker David Asmar, a close political ally of Bill Shorten, hurriedly left Australia a few days after being told he would have to appear before the royal commission into union corruption.
Counsel assisting the royal commission, Jeremy Stoljar, ... said after Mr Asmar’s lawyer had been told on September 15 this year that Mr Asmar would have to appear as a witness Mr Asmar brought forward flight dates to Lebanon to leave just three days later.
Mr Asmar was then confronted at Melbourne Airport by Federal Police and served with a summons. But Mr Asmar now says he is sick - and has a medical certificate - so could not return to Australia for the royal commission hearing on Thursday..
Mr Asmar is the husband of Diana Asmar, secretary of the troubled Health Services Union No.1 branch in Victoria.
Embattled state MP Cesar Melhem has said he gave Mr Asmar tens of thousands of dollars from his union slush fund, Industry 2020… Mr Melhem said the money was used to fund Ms Asmar’s HSU election campaigns. Mr Asmar has denied the claims.
Mr Asmar is also a central figure in a massive branch stacking scandal engulfing the Victorian Labor Party. He is renowned in the party for his Lebanese “stacks”, and for being a close ally to the plumbers union. Together they appear to be behind the purchase of more than 600 Labor memberships using anonymous gift cards
Beware the blasphemy police
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (8:22am)
This is ominous. How long before blasphemy again becomes a crime?
(Thanks to reader Nick.)
===Muslim Australians experience discrimination and abuse on a daily or regular basis, according to a new report by the Australian Human Rights Commission.Criticising someone for their beliefs is a critical freedom - even a critical means of defending our culture and wider freedoms. But the enemies of free speech, I fear, sniff another opportunity to bully and silence and impose their preferred values.
But even though communities say the discrimination has been particularly noticeable since the Lindt Cafe siege last year, the research finds the Racial Discrimination Act has only a “limited” ability to protect Muslim Australians, because “religious identity” is not covered under the act.
(Thanks to reader Nick.)
Aboriginal trust loses $34 million
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (8:01am)
There is no reason - other than culture - for some Aboriginal communities being poor. And no reason why the rest of us should dip in to our own pockets to make good losses:
(Thanks to reader DaveR.)
===It was millions of dollars in mining royalties that was meant to be spent for the benefit of the Groote Eylandt community.Read on. Shocking.
Instead, tens of millions were spent on 156 cars and boats, fridges, a barge, gambling at the casino and charter flights…
A total of $34 million disappeared from the [Groote Eylandt Aboriginal Trust] coffers between 2010 and 2012, leaving just $400,000 remaining in the account.
While [GEAT’S former public officer] has pleaded guilty to a fraction of the missing millions, exactly what happened to the rest remains a mystery.
But those involved in the case said little of it appeared to have been spent on housing, education or the needs of the community.
Jacqueline Lahne was brought in as the interim operations manager at GEAT when the trust was put into administration in 2012.
“My initial impression was that there was a group of people [on Groote Eylandt] who were literally living like rock stars,” she said in an interview with the ABC.
“Chartered planes, vehicles waiting for them at airports, they owned multiple vehicles and boats themselves. They had access endlessly to cash for their lifestyles and then for their families.”
Groote Eylandt, a remote island off Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, regularly appears at the top of the Northern Territory’s richest postcodes.
It earns millions each year in royalties from the nearby South32 manganese mine. Since its inception in the early 1960s, the trust has earned more than $200 million in royalties.
(Thanks to reader DaveR.)
Labor’s carbon tax: the full folly exposed
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (7:47am)
So much pain for zero gain:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===The New York Times yesterday reported China has been burning up to 17 per cent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed....Yet the warming pause continues.
As analysis by the Times revealed, that 17 per cent correction alone represents around one billion extra tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. To put that figure in a local perspective, China’s coal correction by itself generates nearly twice as much carbon dioxide per year than all Australian industries, factories, motor vehicles, power plants, mines and aircraft combined. Many Australian green groups applauded the short-lived carbon tax introduced by ex-prime minister Julia Gillard because it reduced Australia’s carbon dioxide output by 17.2 million tonnes. The folly of that carbon tax is now fully exposed by China’s carbon correction, which adds nearly 60 times as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every single year than was subtracted by Labor’s pointless tax.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Triumph of the sceptics
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (7:14am)
IT’S a miracle. Most Australians are now global warming sceptics, despite years of being misled by the media.
A CSIRO survey of more than 5000 people has confirmed it, even though warmist reporters tried to spin it.
For the first time since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth claimed man was heating the world to disaster, Australians who believe this scare are outnumbered by those who don’t. True, a worrying 45.9 per cent of Australians do still think man is mostly to blame for what warming we’ve seen over the past several decades.
But those believers are now outnumbered by people who think this warming is natural (38.6 per cent) or not occurring at all (7.9 per cent) — which means sceptics total 46.5 per cent. The rest don’t know.
In fact, even 19 per cent of Greens voters are sceptics. Yes, the shift is that huge. What a tribute to the good sense of Australians.
For nearly a decade, reporters claimed the vast majority of you believed man really was heating the world dangerously. And the media campaigned furiously to make sure you did.
(Read full article here.)
Turnbull is a taxer, not a cutter
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (7:12am)
The problem:
Result, our total tax take will rise. Our total spending will rise with it, since Turnbull shows not the slightest appetite for cuts.
And so the drift to big government continues.
UPDATE
The drift to a big and broke government continues, in fact:
Note that Turnbull isn’t even talking about fixing this:
David Uren says the GST debate has become a shambles, with everyone wanting a slice of this magic pudding:
(Thanks to reader brett t r.)
===The Coalition has failed to reverse the former Labor government’s preference for fresh government spending, with new outlays exceeding tax cuts by a margin of four to one in this year’s budget.We have a spending problem, then. Yet this is the answer of the Turnbull Government:
Spending has been rising as a share of total budget policy costs since the last budget statement of the Howard government in 2007…
Deloitte Access partner Chris Richardson says the drift to higher spending is now a long-running trend.
“Australia is de facto sliding towards a bigger government because we keep getting better at voting for extra spending and never voting to pay for it,” he said.
There are some big items in the forward estimates, such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme and defence spending, that will keep this trend going.
Opening the Rebuilding Foundations for Reform conference, sponsored by The Australian and the Melbourne Institute, the Prime Minister ... will call for a grown-up debate to deliver a tax system that sends “the right signals to generate growth”.Two months after becoming Prime Minister, Turnbull still refuses to commit to any specific proposal. But all the hints are that he would like to increase pr broaden the GST, and use some of the savings to cut marginal rates of tax. But the key is the word “some”. He will also need to bribe the states to make them agree.
Result, our total tax take will rise. Our total spending will rise with it, since Turnbull shows not the slightest appetite for cuts.
And so the drift to big government continues.
UPDATE
The drift to a big and broke government continues, in fact:
Note that Turnbull isn’t even talking about fixing this:
The downturn in commodity prices, weak company profits and low wages growth have created a revenue shortfall, exacerbating the problems of cutting the $35 billion deficit and repaying $286bn in net debt. Over time, failure to improve our worsening fiscal position will threaten Australia’s triple-A credit rating, which other nations such as the US and France have already lost.And then there’s this:
The Federal Government is being warned about potential cost blowouts in the $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).UPDATE
The agency overseeing the NDIS said factors including the increasing prevalence of autism, workforce and supply shortages, and states shifting health costs could cause overruns.
David Uren says the GST debate has become a shambles, with everyone wanting a slice of this magic pudding:
The pride of place belongs to the magnificent cut-and-come-again pudding of the GST. There seems to be no limit to the hungry mouths it will feed.So far it looks like a tax that will cost more than it raises, once every one is paid off. Taxes rise, and spending with it.
The state governments are first with their hands out. They want more because exemptions to the current GST mean it has failed keep up with growth in the economy or their spending…
The states also want more GST to compensate for the cuts to grants for health and education imposed in the 2014-15 Abbott budget, reaching $20 billion a year by 2024-25. These cuts were from generous funding arrangements laid down by the former Labor government before it lost office — in just two years to 2016-17, they had provided for a huge 15 per cent increase in commonwealth funding to the states, so not everyone agrees they need a lot more.
The commonwealth will demand the states use at least some of the additional GST funding to get rid of inefficient taxes, with stamp duties on insurance, cars and house sales the worst offenders. The drag those taxes impose on the economy is equivalent to as much as half the money they raise…
Although all the GST goes to the states, the commonwealth will want its own large piece of it.... Scott Morrison says one of his key objectives is to lower the burden of personal income tax…
Business, meanwhile, is clamouring for a cut in the company tax rate which, at 30c in the dollar, is one of the highest in the advanced world. And then there are the poor. If they’re going to have to pay more from their meagre incomes for most of their goods and services, including fresh food, they need compensation. Some of this would have to be delivered through increases in welfare payments, paid by the commonwealth.
(Thanks to reader brett t r.)
Another union leader accused. Here we go again
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (6:47am)
From yesterday’s hearing of the royal commission into union corruption that the ACTU tried to shut down and that Labor tried to shout down:
Here is some of O’Brien’s evidence.
On one of many allegedly private purchases made with union money:
===Lavish “personal” spending on National Union of Workers credit cards — including visits to dating websites and a tattoo — has been alleged at the trade union royal commission amid claims powerful NSW branch boss Derrick Belan used members’ funds “to pay his bills”.Judith Sloan:
Union corporate credit cards in Mr Belan’s name were used to buy holidays, jewellery, bed linen, skateboards, sporting events and an assortment of other items worth at least $50,000 between 2009 and 2015, the inquiry heard yesterday.
It was also alleged Mr Belan transferred money to his niece, union book keeper Danielle O’Brien, by making cash payments to her PayPal account from his union credit card. Ms O’Brien, who tearfully admitted to her own spending of thousands of dollars of union funds on toys, holidays, furniture and other “non-union” items, told the inquiry she used the payments from Mr Belan “mostly to pay his bills”.
Labor politicians have three responses to the proceedings of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption: it is a political exercise that should be ignored; there will be no running commentary on it; and there are just a very few bad apples in the union movement.UPDATE
The last of these assertions — there are just a few bad union officials, with the vast majority being honest and hardworking — is looking a bit thin.
To be sure, a concession is made that the behaviour of Michael Williamson, Craig Thomson and Kathy Jackson, all officials of the Health Services Union, was a bit on the nose. But they are the exception.
The trouble is that many of the activities of the union officials reviewed by the royal commission look dubious, secretive, immoral and possibly illegal. And bear in mind that the terms of reference restricted the commission to considering only a handful of unions.
Here is some of O’Brien’s evidence.
On one of many allegedly private purchases made with union money:
Q… the cost of the bin is $514 inclusive of GST?On the $68,000 of wage payments allegedly for other union employees that she allegedly transferred to her own account:
A. Yes, I see that.
Q. And that was for your personal benefit, not Union business?
A. In regards to my address, yes.
Q. Why did you use Mr O’Donnell’s issued card for that?
A. I don’t know. Because I needed it and couldn’t afford it - I don’t know.
Q. What was your annual wage, Ms O’Brien, can you remember?
A. Oh, $85,000 or something....
Q. Did anyone ever make a comment as to the extent of your apparent shopping? ....
A. Everybody said something because I have a problem.
Q. What problem do you have?
A. I just like to buy things. I can’t help it. That’s why I can’t tell you what I have and what I don’t have because I don’t know.
Q. For example, did you ever record something in MYOB as a salary payment to, for example, Anthony O’Donnell, but in fact caused the payment to be put into your own personal account?
A. I hope not. Did I?
Q. Can you please turn to --
A. Oh my God.
Q.—page 43 of your Examination Bundle 2....
A. Oh my God.
Q. It’s bringing something back, is it, looking at these?
A. I can’t believe I would do this.
Q. Do what?
A. That says my bank. Did I do that?
Q. Well, you tell the Commission?
A. I don’t know.
Q. Right. We will take you through some of them. Can you turn please to page 56…
[A]: Oh, my goodness. Are these all payments that I made? All of these? All of these?…
Q. Do you see that amount going in; that is, $2,516.31?
A. Yes…
Q. Can you recall why you did that?
A. I can’t - I have no words. I really have no words. I don’t know what to say.
Q. You seem quite, to put it mildly, distressed by this evidence. Is that because you are just coming to recollect what you did today?
A. Maybe, yes.
Q. Maybe.
A. I don’t - I don’t remember doing that. I don’t know why I did that. I don’t remember doing it. I’m so sorry.... I just assume - I don’t know. I needed the money or something. I don’t know. I just—
Q. How is it that you don’t know? It’s only a few months ago.
A. I don’t know why I - I don’t know why I did it. Obviously I did it, but I don’t know why. I don’t know why. I have no reason, except that I’m from a poor family and I must have thought that I needed it, you know. I don’t know, I really don’t, even though the balance says that I have money.
Islamic State now suspected of bombing Russian jet
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (6:32am)
The Islamic State may have stepped up the threat:
No doubt a tragic coincidence:
===The British government has suspended all flights to the UK from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after declaring it believes the Russian plane that crashed over Sinai may have been brought down by an explosive device.US intelligence agrees:
The latest U.S. intelligence suggests that the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The official stressed that there has not been a formal conclusion reached by the U.S. intelligence community. “There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane,” the official told CNN’s Barbara Starr.This would be the Islamic State’s first bombing of a civilian plane and first big strike against any superpower, and it could have huge implications for the Putin regime:
The assessment was reached, the official said, by looking back at intelligence reports that had been gathered before Saturday’s plane crash and intelligence gathered since then. The United States did not have credible or verified intelligence of a specific threat prior to the crash, however, the official said, prior to the incident, “there had been additional activity in Sinai that had caught our attention.” Another U.S. official said the intelligence regarding ISIS is in part based on monitoring of internal messages of the terrorist group. Those messages are separate from public ISIS claims of responsibility, that official said.
A massive and inexcusable act of negligence that raises questions about the entire national aviation industry, or a vicious and bloody terrorist attack explicitly designed to punish Russia for the Kremlin’s intervention into the Syrian civil war…UPDATE
Pollsters say Russian public support for the Syrian adventure, though high, is fragile… However, one reason for that ambivalence is that many Russians don’t really see Isil as an imminent threat to national security. If Isil’s claims of responsibility turn out to be genuine, it may actually boost public support for Mr Putin’s war in Syria - at least in the short term.
Either way, he and his government will come under massive pressure to respond, forcefully and visibly, against the perpetrators…
When the Kremlin launched military intervention in Syria just over a month ago, officials were at pains to stress that there would be no mission creep: it would be Russians in the air, but strictly Syrians, Iranians, and Hizbollah on the ground… No one, however, starts a mission intending it to creep, and many of Russia’s most respected political experts warned that just such a dramatic act of terror could drag Russia deeper into the war in Syria than Mr Putin at first intended.
No doubt a tragic coincidence:
A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.
This Cup belongs to us
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (6:29am)
JOCKEY Michelle Payne proved what really counts with the Melbourne Cup — and what we’ve all but given away to foreigners.
It’s the stories. Australian stories. Inspirational and romantic stories about local battlers, showing hope, loyalty, guts and passion.
Payne delivered on Tuesday in a way that last year’s winners — an English jockey riding the German-trained horse of German owners — never could. On Prince Of Penzance, she delivered in way the 2011 winners couldn’t, either — not with a French jockey riding the French-trained horse of an Arab sheik.
Who cared with those wins?
(Read full article here.)
===It’s the stories. Australian stories. Inspirational and romantic stories about local battlers, showing hope, loyalty, guts and passion.
Payne delivered on Tuesday in a way that last year’s winners — an English jockey riding the German-trained horse of German owners — never could. On Prince Of Penzance, she delivered in way the 2011 winners couldn’t, either — not with a French jockey riding the French-trained horse of an Arab sheik.
Who cared with those wins?
(Read full article here.)
Unfair fairness
Andrew Bolt November 05 2015 (5:40am)
All the talk of “fairness” in the tax system delivers what seems an unfair result:
===2 per cent of individuals are collectively paying 22 per cent of all personal income tax.
The ICAC inquiry finally forgot itself
Miranda Devine – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (12:32am)
AT last the sleeping giant has stirred. The ICAC inspector, which oversights the powerful anti-corruption commission, has long been regarded as a useless rubber stamp, so irrelevant the role was left vacant for four months last year, much to the disquiet of current incumbent David Levine QC.
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Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (1:20pm)
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BLANCHETT EXPLAINED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (12:55pm)
Come on, Cate. Let’s not play the blame game:
Cate Blanchett, who was three when Whitlam was swept to power in 1972, paid tribute to his initiatives that shaped her generation.“When I heard that Gough Whitlam had died, I was filled with an inordinate sadness, a great sorrow,” she said.“The loss I felt came down to something very deep and very simple: I am the beneficiary of a free tertiary education.”
FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS, FIFTEEN YEARS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (4:19am)
Angry academic Patricia W. takes exception to Monday’s column:
I’m afraid you have misrepresented the prediction of our former Chief Scientist, hopefully through ignorance, not deliberately. The point (hers and other scientists 5 years ago) was that this would be the “tipping point”, when the world could no longer prevent temperatures from increasing beyond 2 degrees higher. She was not predicting (nor was anyone else) that total disaster itself would be happening in 5 years.
SYDNEY MORNING HATERS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (3:20am)
Poor Mike Carlton is being tormented by his former employer:
I wonder if the opening line was “Air hellair!”
I wonder if the opening line was “Air hellair!”
HOLLO MEN
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (1:56am)
Former Greens staffers turned Australia Institute gabblers Ben Oquist and Richard Denniss are trying to destroy Greens leader Christine Milne, according to Milne loyalist (and former Greens staffer himself) Tim Hollo:
Why has [the Australia Insititute] allowed the personal animosity that Richard Denniss and Ben Oquist hold towards Christine Milne to take the Australia Institute into dangerous territory, attacking the Greens … ?Denniss has been writing op-ed after op-ed, doing interview after interview, attacking Milne’s political strategy …Denniss’s attacks on Milne, painting her as the obstructionist head of a protest party, go beyond policy critique. By casting the Greens’ party room decision as belonging to Milne alone and hurling invective, Denniss turns it into a very deliberate tactic to undermine her leadership.
Hollo is left to wonder what might have been:
The real question here is, with Milne’s strategic mind and Denniss and Oquist’s tactical nous, how much could be achieved if the Australia Institute swallowed its pride, got over its bitterness, and agreed to productively collaborate with the Greens on the many issues on which they agree?
Here’s an example of Milne’s great strategic mind at work. Prospective usurpers Sarah Hanson-Young and Raggedy Ann-faced rapper Scott Ludlam might now be considering their options.
The Whitlam funeral
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (11:13am)
Nice touch at Gough Whitlam’s funeral - the full-throated singing of Advance Australia Fair, which Whitlam announced in 1974 was our new national anthem.
Interesting observation: standing ovations for Paul Keating, Bob Hawke and Julia Gillard. Not for Kevin Rudd.
A concern: the state-funded ABC, Australia’s biggest media outlet, is again giving the funeral lavish and even loving coverage. The family’s representative on the podium, giving the first speech, is ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien, a former Whitlam press secretary.
UPDATE
The music chosen is wonderful: now the final chorus from Bach’s Matthew Passion. You can see why Whitlam inspires love. For many in the cultured Left he could reconcile high art with Australian identity. Think also Blue Poles. This, curiously, is something the Liberals have struggled to do, despite allegedly being the party of the upper classes.
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Cate Blanchett praises Whitlam for giving her a free education and free medical care (huge cheers), but spoils the effect by saying it gave her more money to spare for going out to clubs or something. Then credits Whitlam for changing the culture to make possible her film Little Fish, actually made 30 years after Whitlam fell. The film gets a very long plug. The film, this tribute to Whitlam’s legacy, involves drug addicts from broken families lying to each other and then planning a drug deal that goes badly wrong.
UPDATE
Howard and Abbott were booed by the mob outside the town hall. Ugly.
Gillard, of course, was cheered.
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Pearson then speaks in the biblical tones and cadences he’s now adopted for his oratory.
He savages Joh Bjelke-Peterson, and waves aside Whitlam’s chaotic mismanagement as simply the price to pay for inspiring reform. The crowd loves that.
He then says Whitlam had “not a bone of ethnic or gender prejudice in his body” and Pearson can “scarely point” to any leader since of whom that could be said. In front of him sit Bob Hawke, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, who are all entitled to feel grossly insulted. Indeed, Abbott may well feel betrayed, having devoted so much time to working with and for Pearson and his Cape York initiative, and having adopted Aboriginal advancement as his most passionate social cause.
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Tony Whitlam spoke with great dignity and warmth. One of the truest measures of a man is the love and respect given by his children.
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More booing from the mob as Abbott leaves. There is a tendency among all collectives to not be satisfied with love. They also need to hate. Thus do trash boo at funerals.
Disgraceful.
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The funeral was a great tribute to Whitlam. As a statesman he fell badly short. As a kind of poet, though, he was grand.
UPDATE
A funeral devoted to a Prime Minister praised for being more compassionate and tolerant than any other to come to mind. Yet the admirers boo and heckle conservative leaders who come to show respect.
Seeming, not doing.
The defining flaw of the Left.
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Classiest performances:
Tony Whitlam for reminding those there the funeral was for a loved father as well as a politician.
Tony Whitlam for singling out Tony Abbott for praise for granting a state funeral. After hesitation, a partisan crowd applauded.
Bob Hawke for very publicly standing up in front of the crowd to talk with apparent friendship and intimacy to Abbott.
Many said Pearson’s speech was grand and inspiring. Even sceptics would have had some better appreciation of why Whitlam mattered to Aborogines.
Whitlam himself, for having a hand in selecting such fine music.
===Interesting observation: standing ovations for Paul Keating, Bob Hawke and Julia Gillard. Not for Kevin Rudd.
A concern: the state-funded ABC, Australia’s biggest media outlet, is again giving the funeral lavish and even loving coverage. The family’s representative on the podium, giving the first speech, is ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien, a former Whitlam press secretary.
UPDATE
The music chosen is wonderful: now the final chorus from Bach’s Matthew Passion. You can see why Whitlam inspires love. For many in the cultured Left he could reconcile high art with Australian identity. Think also Blue Poles. This, curiously, is something the Liberals have struggled to do, despite allegedly being the party of the upper classes.
UPDATE
Cate Blanchett praises Whitlam for giving her a free education and free medical care (huge cheers), but spoils the effect by saying it gave her more money to spare for going out to clubs or something. Then credits Whitlam for changing the culture to make possible her film Little Fish, actually made 30 years after Whitlam fell. The film gets a very long plug. The film, this tribute to Whitlam’s legacy, involves drug addicts from broken families lying to each other and then planning a drug deal that goes badly wrong.
UPDATE
Howard and Abbott were booed by the mob outside the town hall. Ugly.
Gillard, of course, was cheered.
UPDATE
Pearson then speaks in the biblical tones and cadences he’s now adopted for his oratory.
He savages Joh Bjelke-Peterson, and waves aside Whitlam’s chaotic mismanagement as simply the price to pay for inspiring reform. The crowd loves that.
He then says Whitlam had “not a bone of ethnic or gender prejudice in his body” and Pearson can “scarely point” to any leader since of whom that could be said. In front of him sit Bob Hawke, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, who are all entitled to feel grossly insulted. Indeed, Abbott may well feel betrayed, having devoted so much time to working with and for Pearson and his Cape York initiative, and having adopted Aboriginal advancement as his most passionate social cause.
UPDATE
Tony Whitlam spoke with great dignity and warmth. One of the truest measures of a man is the love and respect given by his children.
UPDATE
More booing from the mob as Abbott leaves. There is a tendency among all collectives to not be satisfied with love. They also need to hate. Thus do trash boo at funerals.
Disgraceful.
UPDATE
The funeral was a great tribute to Whitlam. As a statesman he fell badly short. As a kind of poet, though, he was grand.
UPDATE
A funeral devoted to a Prime Minister praised for being more compassionate and tolerant than any other to come to mind. Yet the admirers boo and heckle conservative leaders who come to show respect.
Seeming, not doing.
The defining flaw of the Left.
UPDATE
Classiest performances:
Tony Whitlam for reminding those there the funeral was for a loved father as well as a politician.
Tony Whitlam for singling out Tony Abbott for praise for granting a state funeral. After hesitation, a partisan crowd applauded.
Bob Hawke for very publicly standing up in front of the crowd to talk with apparent friendship and intimacy to Abbott.
Many said Pearson’s speech was grand and inspiring. Even sceptics would have had some better appreciation of why Whitlam mattered to Aborogines.
Whitlam himself, for having a hand in selecting such fine music.
Lambie trashes November 11
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (11:10am)
No class:
In the meantime she should reflect on whether a day to remember the fallen should really be hijacked for a pay dispute.
===In a move condemned by the RSL, PUP senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Australians, including veterans, attending November 11 ceremonies to “show their disgust” and turn their backs on any government MP delivering a speech in memory of Australia’s war-dead.If Lambie really wants more pay for soldiers how about she help find the savings to put the budget back in the black?
Senator Lambie invoked the spirit of the Anzacs to back her campaign while acknowledging “I know ANZAC Day should never be politicised”. “I have one message to all Australians that will help our ADF receive a fair pay rise – with the spirit of the ANZACs, turn your backs,” Senator Lambie said in a statement.
In the meantime she should reflect on whether a day to remember the fallen should really be hijacked for a pay dispute.
Warmist predicts “mass-death events” in 10 to 15 years
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (10:07am)
Hold on to this prediction:
Indeed, world temperatures have not actually risen for some 16 years or more. They might rise again, but I’d be checking the computer models in the meantime - models which the very same IPPC report which Hanna worked on admits are so faulty that for “the period from 1998 to 2012, 111 of the 114 available climate-model simulations show a surface warming trend larger than the observations”. That is: they exaggerated,
So who is Hanna to sow such alarm? A climate scientist? Meteorologist? Astrophyisicist?
Er, no. Her expertise:
===Tony Abbott’s declaration that coal is good for humanity has been attacked by Australian National University academic Elizabeth Hanna, who warns thousands of people will be sentenced to death if Australia keeps exporting it.As it happens, we have already had some over-50 days already since records were kept - but the worst of them occured 54 years ago, before man-made warming allegedly took off. It is silly assume we won’t get more such days in future, and it’s just as silly to assume the only reason we will is man-made warming.
Dr Hanna, whose research was included in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, predicted Australia faced days hotter than 50C within 10 or 15 years under continuing global warming and this would dramatically increase the number of heat-related deaths. If that happens, “we are at risk of mass-death events in Australia, similar to the death tolls due to extreme heat overseas”, she said.
Indeed, world temperatures have not actually risen for some 16 years or more. They might rise again, but I’d be checking the computer models in the meantime - models which the very same IPPC report which Hanna worked on admits are so faulty that for “the period from 1998 to 2012, 111 of the 114 available climate-model simulations show a surface warming trend larger than the observations”. That is: they exaggerated,
So who is Hanna to sow such alarm? A climate scientist? Meteorologist? Astrophyisicist?
Er, no. Her expertise:
Environmental And Occupational Health And SafetyYes, Hanna is an alarmist who takes as a given that man is catastrophically heating the planet, and our safety lies in denying the poor cheap and sometimes life-saving power:
Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified
Environmental Impact Assessment
Epidemiology
Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
Public Health And Health Services
Intensive Care Other Medical And Health Sciences
Dr Hanna, the president of the Climate and Health Alliance, ... dismissed the argument that if Australia did not export coal then competitors such as Indonesia would fill the market gap. “So they would prefer the deaths on Australian hands rather than those deaths on Indonesian hands,” she said.
Republicans poised for control over Congress. UPDATE: Win
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (9:23am)
The same is true in Australia. The further voters are from power and the media’s microphones, the more they support the parties of smaller government:
UPDATE
And with Iowa falling to a Republican woman, the Republicans have more than enough. They win big in the Senate.
And how good is this?
Obama’s magic has gone. All the media hype about negative Republicans counted for nothing.
UPDATE
Obama has added lustre to the Bush name:
===Oh, and the map of Senate poll predictions also shows Republicans should finish today with control of both the Senate and the House, which at least gives Barack Obama an excuse for being such a lame duck:
In all, there are 13 states where Senate seats might change from one party to the other. Republicans need to win nine of them to attain a 51-seat majority in the Senate for the first time since 2007. On Monday, Republicans seemed to be leading, by a lot or by a little, in eight of those races.From the Washington Post:
If the GOP wins all eight, they will need just one more win — one of the tossup races in Alaska and Kansas, or perhaps the runoff race that’s expected in Louisiana.
The week after his reelection, President Obama was a man full of promise and promises: His job-approval rating stood at 54 percent, the 2010 tea party wave that had knocked his first term off balance appeared to have receded, and he seemed as sober about the future as he was hopeful....If the Washington Post paid closer attention to Australia - or even just the red states - it might seem less surprised by the failure of global warming policies to impress voters.
Obama acknowledged the dangers of “presidential overreach in second terms,” but he put forward an expansive, legacy-building agenda: a major fiscal deal, immigration reform and action on climate change.
Two bruising years later, he has registered progress only on addressing climate change, and a president who once boasted of a barrier-breaking liberal coalition is under fire from his own party as his Republican rivals are poised to make gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections…
“This is an administration that is very good at articulating some of its plans and responses and has delivered good speeches, but translating that into action has been a problem for the past six years,” said David Rothkopf, the author of “National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.” “Right now, the vast preponderance of evidence is that management is not one of the strong suits of this administration.” Obama’s list of second-term leadership crises is a formidable one: the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov; long waits at Veterans Affairs hospitals; Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the National Security Agency’s secrets; a pileup of foreign children along the southern border; Islamist terrorists marauding across Syria and Iraq and beheading foreigners, including Americans; and the arrival of the Ebola virus in the United States.
UPDATE
And with Iowa falling to a Republican woman, the Republicans have more than enough. They win big in the Senate.
And how good is this?
South Carolina voters have sent Republican Tim Scott back to the U.S. Senate, making him the first black candidate to win a statewide race since just after the Civil War.Senate.
Obama’s magic has gone. All the media hype about negative Republicans counted for nothing.
UPDATE
Obama has added lustre to the Bush name:
Another George Bush is an election winner in Texas. George P. Bush, the son of potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush won the land commissioner’s office in a landslide.
Two Islamist groups boast of enslaving captured women
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (8:54am)
A video, apparently from the Islamic State, that should attract hundreds of rapists to join up:
Same pattern with the Islamists of Nigeria’s Boko Haram:
(Thanks to reader doc molloy.)
===The footage was posted online by AlAanTV and claims to show IS fighters talking about ‘buying and selling Yezidi slaves”.Note particularly how the Koran is quoted to legitimise the enslavement and rape of the Yezidi women.
While it can’t be independently verified, it appears to be shot on a mobile phone and shows dozens of men packed into a small room talking excitedly about the slave girls they will own, saying things like “today is the distribution day, god willing each one takes his share.”
“I swear I am searching for a girl, I hope I find one,” the unnamed men say to the camera.
“Where is my Yezidi girl? Everyone is free to do what he wants with his share,”
“I buy her for a pistol, the price differs if she has blue eyes,” says one.
Same pattern with the Islamists of Nigeria’s Boko Haram:
The leader of Boko Haram, a terrorist group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolkids in April, ..., taunted the girls’ relatives in a video released Friday night.I can imagine only too well the kind of young men attracted by this version of Islam.
“If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you . . . to die from grief,” Shekau said.
Wearing a camouflage tunic and pants, and flanked by masked militants holding anti-aircraft weapons, Shekau continued with a sneer that the girls have all been converted to Islam and married off. “The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off,” he said with a revolting laugh.
(Thanks to reader doc molloy.)
Five staff abandon Ricky Muir’s car
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (8:44am)
Ricky Muir has an astonishing record of having staff quit:
===A fifth political operative [Fiona Marshall] has quit the office of Motoring Enthusiast senator Ricky Muir, marking an almost total exodus of staff in just three months.(Thanks to reader Baden.)
And former staffers have revealed Senator Muir is frequently undermined by Motoring Enthusiast Party founder Keith Littler, who repeatedly calls his party’s sole parliamentary representative “an oxygen thief"… A number of people who have worked in Senator Muir’s office have told Fairfax Media they believe Mr Littler is actively planning for a time when he will take over the Senate seat won by the Motoring Enthusiast Party.
Why the Greens are soft on the Islamic State - and must be resisted, too
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (7:44am)
Communism, fascism, jihadism and even the eco-extremists - all are manifestations of a totalitarian instinct that appeals particularly to the vain, the selfish, the frightened, the romantic, the stupid and the thuggish.
Some might protest that these are actually causes appealing to idealists, but as Bertrand Russell said:
Note how some of the most hostile questioners of Attorney-General George Brandis on Monday’s Q&A were converts with a clearly Leftist world view. Note also how the far-Left makes common cause with the Islamist Hamas terrorists against free Israel.
The Turkish Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has noted this kind of sympatico:
===Some might protest that these are actually causes appealing to idealists, but as Bertrand Russell said:
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.The far Left understands best the appeal of the Islamic State because both search for the great single cause that releases them from the agonies of doubt and choice, and licences their lust for power over others. That is why the far Left’s criticisms of this death cult are muted - muted, that is, by an unacknowledged respect or envy.
Note how some of the most hostile questioners of Attorney-General George Brandis on Monday’s Q&A were converts with a clearly Leftist world view. Note also how the far-Left makes common cause with the Islamist Hamas terrorists against free Israel.
The Turkish Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has noted this kind of sympatico:
Pankaj Mishra:… There is also a character in the book [Snow] who makes the journey from being a leftist to being a fundamentalist.This may explain what puzzles former ACT chief minister Gary Humphries:
OP: That’s someone who would probably be in Erdo?an’s party today.
PM: This is a journey a lot of people in Muslim countries have made.
OP: Especially poets. So many poets who were very harsh Marxists in their youth, who were admirers of Western civilization, switched to Islam.
PM: The pattern seems to show that secular ideologies had been exhausted. And at some point, a lot of these people made the decision to embrace— OP: The nation, the culture, history, the idea of belonging.
The moral hectoring has gone into overdrive over Australian involvement in the international coalition against Islamic State, or ISIS. Despite acknowledging the “medieval barbarity” of ISIS, the Greens oppose Australian intervention in Iraq, saying the issue should be dealt with “diplomatically, cutting off the supply of weapons and money to ISIS”.All preachers of totalitarianism and The One Great Answer pose a danger. And in a famous essay Isaiah Berlin explains why:
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This preference for staying out of the fight certainly fits the Greens’ pattern of reflexively siding with critics of the Coalition. But it is not consistent, I contend, with Greens philosophy. Every fibre of a true Green’s nature ought to be calling for action against the depravity of what ISIS is perpetrating at the moment in the Middle East. The inhumanity, the cruelty of what these madmen are doing makes any other injustice the Greens have condemned in the last decade pale into insignificance. And yet, strangely, their recommended response to this is, in effect, do nothing.
If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise. Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need be violence, will inevitably have to be used—if necessary, terror, slaughter. Lenin believed this…(Thanks to reader MarkS for reminding me of Berlin’s fine essay.)
The root conviction which underlies this is that the central questions of human life, individual or social, have one true answer which can be discovered. It can and must be implemented, and those who have found it are the leaders whose word is law…
This is the idea of which I spoke, and what I wish to tell you is that it is false.... Men have always craved for liberty, security, equality, happiness, justice, knowledge, and so on. But complete liberty is not compatible with complete equality—if men were wholly free, the wolves would be free to eat the sheep. Perfect equality means that human liberties must be restrained so that the ablest and the most gifted are not permitted to advance beyond those who would inevitably lose if there were competition. Security, and indeed freedoms, cannot be preserved if freedom to subvert them is permitted… Justice has always been a human ideal, but it is not fully compatible with mercy…
My point is that some values clash… So we must weigh and measure, bargain, compromise, and prevent the crushing of one form of life by its rivals. I know only too well that this is not a flag under which idealistic and enthusiastic young men and women may wish to march—it seems too tame, too reasonable, too bourgeois, it does not engage the generous emotions. But you must believe me, one cannot have everything one wants—not only in practice, but even in theory.
The denial of this, the search for a single, overarching ideal because it is the one and only true one for humanity, invariably leads to coercion. And then to destruction, blood—eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.
Treatment guaranteed. Medical volunteers to be sent
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (7:12am)
A more responsible way of responding than the send-and-hope rush-rush promoted by Tanya Plibersek:
Tony Abbott ... will back the deployment of Australian doctors and nurses to a new field hospital in Sierra Leone.
The Prime Minister has resisted pressure to send medical personnel when there is no means of direct evacuation to Australia should they contract the Ebola virus. It is understood the government has reached agreement with a private contractor to manage the deployment, reportedly to a treatment centre to be built by the British in Sierra Leone, one of the nations at the centre of the emergency.
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So here's my "small" contribution to the Cakenweenie Project...
Meet General Bonesapart...a dwarf Napoleon-inspired skeleton from Corpse Bride. Having never watched the movie before this project, I chose him simply because I thought he would be a challenge to create...plus I really loved his ornate uniform and feathered hat!
He is a cake topper, all hand modelled from fondant. He has wires inside his legs and neck for support and the grey and black shadows were dusted and painted with edible colours for added depth and dimension. The gold piping around his coat and hat was hand piped with royal icing and later painted with edible gold lustre. He stands about 7 inches tall from his teeny tiny feet to his beautiful gold feathered hat!
He really was a challenge to create (his oversized hat gave me so much grief to dry in position!!) but I enjoyed every minute of it! I am so proud and honoured to be a part of this project with so many wonderful cake artists from across the world!
Please visit www.cakenweenie.com to view all 100 edible pieces!! You will be blown away!!
AND please don't feel left out...if you have an edible creation inspired by Tim Burton to share, please submit your photos through the website atwww.cakenweenie.com and your creation could be featured also!! #TimBurton #Cakenweenie
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Caroline Glick.
One of the as yet unremarked aspects of Obama's second term foreign policy is that all of his goals are antithetical to Israel's interests.I consider this and related issues in my column in tomorrow's Jerusalem Post, which was just posted online.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Its-time-to-reassess-Israels-strategic-assumptions-330602
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The California Endowment, a private foundation, recently provided a $500,000 grant to ensure TV writers and producers have information about the Affordable Care Act that can be stitched into plot lines watched by millions.
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TheBlaze
Woman with cancer reacts to losing her 'world-class' coverage: "Take away people’s ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that’s a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that’s the point."===
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11/04/2013
It’s Time to Reassess Israel’s Strategic Assumptions
By CAROLINE B. GLICK “All of Obama’s second term foreign policy goals are harmful to Israel. Everything that is good for Obama is necessarily bad for Israel”
http://www.jpost.com/
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Hamas cries economic hardship, no gas for electrical power. Gaza cities are without the basis of electrical needs , yet Hamas is in a military buildup phase
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This is a nice way to thank our soldiers. Henri Sebbane and his family have worked tirelessly for these wonderful men and women.
http://www.tsahal-pizza.com/
http://www.tsahal-pizza.com/prestashop/
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- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
- 1688 – William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham.
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
- 1829 – Technical University of Denmark (DTU) opens.
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
- 1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
- 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
- 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
- 1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
- 1917 – Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1940 – World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleshipAdmiral Scheer.
- 1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- 1970 – The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
- 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
- 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
- 2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shootingat a U.S. military installation.
- 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
- 2015 – An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing up to 9 deaths and 19 missing.
- 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
- 1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (d. 1623)
- 1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (d. 1672)
- 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (d. 1691)
- 1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
- 1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
- 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
- 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (d. 1785)
- 1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
- 1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766)
- 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798)
- 1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819)
- 1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
- 1789 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (d. 1868)
- 1816 – Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (d. 1885)
- 1818 – Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (d. 1902)
- 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
- 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
- 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
- 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
- 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (d. 1944)
- 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
- 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935)
- 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963)
- 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
- 1883 – P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (d. 1940)
- 1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1915)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (d. 1981)
- 1886 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (d. 1961)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)
- 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
- 1892 – John Alcock (RAF officer), captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
- 1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
- 1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)
- 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1972)
- 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
- 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
- 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
- 1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
- 1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
- 1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic (d. 1978)
- 1919 – Myron Floren, American accordion player and pianist (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
- 1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Yitzchok Scheiner, rabbi
- 1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
- 1926 – John Berger, English author, poet, painter, and critic
- 1930 – Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1930 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (d. 2016)
- 1931 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
- 1933 – Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Lester Piggott, English jockey and trainer
- 1935 – Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer and actor
- 1936 – Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter, and arranger (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
- 1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
- 1938 – Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1938 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
- 1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Singaporean religious leader
- 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
- 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
- 1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper
- 1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
- 1945 – Peter Pace, American general
- 1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
- 1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
- 1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
- 1946 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
- 1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneon player (d. 2010)
- 1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 – Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
- 1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
- 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
- 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
- 1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
- 1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
- 1952 – Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
- 1952 – Brian Muehl, American puppeteer
- 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
- 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1953 – Florentino Floro, Filipino lawyer and judge
- 1953 – Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author, and academic
- 1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
- 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
- 1955 – Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman
- 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
- 1956 – John Harwood, American journalist
- 1956 – Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
- 1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter
- 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
- 1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
- 1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1962 – Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (d. 2015)
- 1962 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
- 1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
- 1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout
- 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
- 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
- 1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter
- 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
- 1965 – Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
- 1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
- 1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1966 – James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
- 1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
- 1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper
- 1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress and producer
- 1968 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director, and businessman (d. 2013)
- 1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
- 1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1971 – Chris Addison, Welsh-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1971 – Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
- 1971 – Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
- 1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer
- 1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
- 1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
- 1973 – Peter Emmerich, American illustrator and educator
- 1973 – Gráinne Seoige, Irish journalist
- 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
- 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach
- 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
- 1976 – Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
- 1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
- 1978 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
- 1978 – Bubba Watson, American golfer
- 1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
- 1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
- 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
- 1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
- 1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
- 1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
- 1980 – Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
- 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- 1980 – Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
- 1982 – Leah Culver, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Pownce
- 1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
- 1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1982 – Matthew Williams, Welsh footballer
- 1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
- 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
- 1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1983 – David Pipe, Welsh footballer
- 1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
- 1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
- 1984 – Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
- 1984 – Nick Tandy, English race car driver
- 1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
- 1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Alo Dupikov, Estonian footballer
- 1985 – Rimo Hunt, Estonian footballer
- 1985 – Pınar Saka, Turkish sprinter
- 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
- 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
- 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
- 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1989 – Andrew Boyce, English footballer
- 1991 – Flume, Australian DJ and producer
- 1992 – Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1993 – Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model
Births[edit]
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, Polish king (b. 1310)
- 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (b. 1474)
- 1559 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1476)
- 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
- 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
- 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1659)
- 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
- 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (b. 1670)
- 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (b. 1686)
- 1872 – Thomas Sully, English-American painter (b. 1783)
- 1876 – Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
- 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish-English physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
- 1923 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
- 1928 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
- 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- 1931 – Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
- 1933 – Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)
- 1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
- 1938 – Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (b. 1851)
- 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (b. 1905)
- 1942 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1946 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (b. 1877)
- 1951 – Reggie Walker, South African runner (b. 1889)
- 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (b. 1909)
- 1960 – Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1960 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (b. 1895)
- 1960 – August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (b. 1891)
- 1960 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1902)
- 1964 – Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (b. 1916)
- 1964 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
- 1971 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1972 – Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
- 1975 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
- 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
- 1977 – René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)
- 1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)
- 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(b. 1895)
- 1986 – Adolf Brudes, German race car driver (b. 1899)
- 1986 – Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
- 1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1903)
- 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (b. 1923)
- 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 1997 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
- 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1909)
- 1999 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 1999 – Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1899)
- 2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
- 2001 – Roy Boulting, English director and producer (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (b. 1943)
- 2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
- 2005 – John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician and author (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (b. 1908)
- 2012 – Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
- 2014 – Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (b. 1946)
- 2015 – George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
- 2015 – Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (b. 1930)
Deaths[edit]
- Christian feast day:
- All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds
- Domninus
- Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist
- Galation
- Guido Maria Conforti
- Magnus
- November 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador), and its related observances:
- Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka)
Holidays and observances[edit]
“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God's warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, "I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory," defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for "it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." They who go forth to fight, boasting of their prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their armour stained with disgrace. Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love. God will empty out all that thou hast before he will put his own into thee; he will first clean out thy granaries before he will fill them with the finest of the wheat. The river of God is full of water; but not one drop of it flows from earthly springs. God will have no strength used in his battles but the strength which he himself imparts. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
"When I am weak then am I strong,
Grace is my shield and Christ my song."
Evening
No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel reveals himself within, the soul sees him not. If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knoweth that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. It is so with Christ. "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona:" said he to Peter, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee." Purify flesh and blood by any educational process you may select, elevate mental faculties to the highest degree of intellectual power, yet none of these can reveal Christ. The Spirit of God must come with power, and overshadow the man with his wings, and then in that mystic holy of holies the Lord Jesus must display himself to the sanctified eye, as he doth not unto the purblind sons of men. Christ must be his own mirror. The great mass of this blear-eyed world can see nothing of the ineffable glories of Immanuel. He stands before them without form or comeliness, a root out of a dry ground, rejected by the vain and despised by the proud. Only where the Spirit has touched the eye with eye-salve, quickened the heart with divine life, and educated the soul to a heavenly taste, only there is he understood. "To you that believe he is precious;" to you he is the chief corner-stone, the Rock of your salvation, your all in all; but to others he is "a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence." Happy are those to whom our Lord manifests himself, for his promise to such is that he will make his abode with them. O Jesus, our Lord, our heart is open, come in, and go out no more forever. Show thyself to us now! Favour us with a glimpse of thine all-conquering charms.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 32-33, Hebrews 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 32-33
Jeremiah Buys a Field
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. 5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”
6 Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD came to me: 7Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.’
8 “Then, just as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself....’
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 1
God’s Final Word: His Son
1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
The Son Superior to Angels
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father”?
today I have become your Father”?
Or again,
“I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son”?
and he will be my Son”?
6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.”
7 In speaking of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels spirits,
and his servants flames of fire....”
and his servants flames of fire....”
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Sacar
[Sā'cär] - hired or merchandise.
[Sā'cär] - hired or merchandise.
- Father of Ahiham, one of David's heroes (1 Chron. 11:35). Called Sharar in 2 Samuel 23:33.
- A son of Obed-edom, a Tabernacle gatekeeper in David's time (1 Chron. 26:4).
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