IPA Review (Nov 2016) features an Evan Mulholland article “A License to Nanny” on destructive government policy. Only Mulholland shows little understanding of the issues, focusing on Greyhound racing, a banking enquiry, NSW Lockout laws and gambling regulation. Mulholland seems to want to hit conservatives rather than deal with the actual issues, and e begins by setting an example of Baird’s close down of the Greyhound industry. Baird shut it down after the industry said it could not govern itself and was infested with organised crime. The subsequent outcry led to the regulators claiming they could police it, and so Baird is letting the industry proceed. In his judgement, Baird had pointed out there was no social license for a sport that was ungovernable. But Mulholland takes that out of context and claims it is an example of a nanny state. Mulholland is also wide of the mark on lockout laws where drinking culture and fighting was claiming lives and gumming up emergency. Hysterical claims of destroying industry have been made by political opponents who profit from deaths and mismanagement. It hasn’t been made illegal to drink.
By way of contrast, there are ridiculous nanny state laws that need to be addressed. They are related to green red tape and frequently sponsored by the ALP in Australia. They limit who can have life saving operations, or who can smoke and when and how and what. The over reach of Turnbull over banks is a legitimate example, but it is a stretch compared to closing down the beef export industry because government regulation had failed as ALP did. In Dandenong my housing estate does not have access to the internet without satellite because of ALP over regulation re NBN. Australia misses out on mining opportunity from over regulation, losing trillions of dollars in opportunity costs, but Mulholland is worried about quibbles over gun regulation. Bias is not the same as partisan.
=== from 2015 ===
Video has been withheld, but one of five shots of an incident involving a lone, abusive, drunk or drugged man shouting at several orthodox Jews is disturbing. It is known Jihadis want to kill Jews in Australia, as well as others in the community, but Jews are a focus and Islamic leaders feed the prejudice with lies about the Middle East and history. So that the UN approves Palestinians not being told of the Holocaust in schooling. And this abusive man is shouting that the orthodox Jews should ask Allah and go home to Israel. The Jews did not hurt the drunk. They merely detained him for the police. But had they acted proportionately, with a distressed child in the foreground, that drunken abuser might not require a sex change. He might be Aboriginal. It is doubtful racial vilification laws would apply. But Jews do not feel safe in Australia. And often the law is not helpful to them.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
The death of international cricket player Phillip Hughes in a Sheffield Shield match between NSW and South Australia was a tragic accident. The delivery of Abbott was short pitched and slower than full pace, so that Hughes was through his shot too early. The ball hit him flush, beneath his helmet, on the side of the neck. It compressed a major artery and the artery subsequently split, bleeding into the brain. At first Hughes stood stunned, then fell face first onto the pitch. He never regained consciousness. He was surrounded for days by family and loved ones. He was a few days before turning twenty six years old. It is doubtful that legislation or protective equipment could have prevented the injury. It happens very rarely in cricket, even so. In 1974, twenty four year old Ewen Chatfield, a very accurate medium paced bowler was batting at number eleven when English fast bowler Peter Lever tested him with a bouncer which hit Chatfield's temple and he swallowed his tongue. Heart massage saved him. But nothing could have saved Hughes whose internal injuries were too devastating. I made a mistake previously in publicly calling on God to intercede. I had thought Hughes would survive and welcomed the possibility of being challenged. But this is not for him, but for his family. And their faith is private. I wish them well.
How the nation responds to the tragedy of Phil Hughes' death will expose the national character. An ABC presenter, poet and comedian, Ben Pobjie (also writes for New Matilda, SMH and Age) tweeted "Sean Abbott hits Phil Hughes in the head. Continuing the tradition of Abbotts fXXXing up Australia." ABC Grandstand tweeted insensitively about his possible death soon after the delivery. It was very different in 1933 when twenty three year old Archie Jackson died from tuberculosis. At the time, the ABC did not see the need to trumpet his death or link him disparagingly to an MP, the PM. The then Premier of NSW unveiled a headstone paid for by public subscription which read "He played the game." Some will say Hughes was cut short in his sporting career, and it is true his average did not reflect his talent in test cricket. But he leaves behind some exquisite innings only he could have executed. Too young. Too soon. But Phillip Hughes led a life blessed, and at the end he was surrounded by family and loved ones. He died having lived well, and the tragedy is he won't have the opportunity to finish it right.
Eighteen members of the ALP were ejected from federal parliament's lower house for poor behaviour in one day. They were elected to serve their constituents, but fail. Rudd was made ALP leader to save the furniture, and the furniture is failing to show any leadership, or reform for any future hope. But, because of their senate numbers, they can stop important legislation and then claim it is the government's fault. Worth considering as Victoria goes to election and considers voting for a corrupt and inept ALP.
The US went to election and voted for Obama twice. It isn't only Ferguson county suffering for the racist divisions fracturing America. There is injustice in the US, but it is overstated and with the recent shooting of a black man by a white policeman and the reaction of rioters suggest that the issue is more political than real. Even jihadists are asking rioters to join causes. In Ferguson, the policeman shot the man who tried to take his weapon. That will happen to anyone regardless of race. Those calling for riots are little different to jihadis. In another shooting a twelve year old boy playing with a realistic looking toy gun in a public area was shot dead by another policeman. Maybe the boy's parents have an excuse, but if they have it is not as public as outrage from rioters.
How the nation responds to the tragedy of Phil Hughes' death will expose the national character. An ABC presenter, poet and comedian, Ben Pobjie (also writes for New Matilda, SMH and Age) tweeted "Sean Abbott hits Phil Hughes in the head. Continuing the tradition of Abbotts fXXXing up Australia." ABC Grandstand tweeted insensitively about his possible death soon after the delivery. It was very different in 1933 when twenty three year old Archie Jackson died from tuberculosis. At the time, the ABC did not see the need to trumpet his death or link him disparagingly to an MP, the PM. The then Premier of NSW unveiled a headstone paid for by public subscription which read "He played the game." Some will say Hughes was cut short in his sporting career, and it is true his average did not reflect his talent in test cricket. But he leaves behind some exquisite innings only he could have executed. Too young. Too soon. But Phillip Hughes led a life blessed, and at the end he was surrounded by family and loved ones. He died having lived well, and the tragedy is he won't have the opportunity to finish it right.
Eighteen members of the ALP were ejected from federal parliament's lower house for poor behaviour in one day. They were elected to serve their constituents, but fail. Rudd was made ALP leader to save the furniture, and the furniture is failing to show any leadership, or reform for any future hope. But, because of their senate numbers, they can stop important legislation and then claim it is the government's fault. Worth considering as Victoria goes to election and considers voting for a corrupt and inept ALP.
The US went to election and voted for Obama twice. It isn't only Ferguson county suffering for the racist divisions fracturing America. There is injustice in the US, but it is overstated and with the recent shooting of a black man by a white policeman and the reaction of rioters suggest that the issue is more political than real. Even jihadists are asking rioters to join causes. In Ferguson, the policeman shot the man who tried to take his weapon. That will happen to anyone regardless of race. Those calling for riots are little different to jihadis. In another shooting a twelve year old boy playing with a realistic looking toy gun in a public area was shot dead by another policeman. Maybe the boy's parents have an excuse, but if they have it is not as public as outrage from rioters.
From 2013
Since 2008 I have worked to promote people I'm in touch with. I have several reasons for doing so. I hope to found what I call the Cabramatta/Fairfield/Smithfield Digital Cultural museum. I intend it will allow the local community to film, in television broadcast ready standard, material, from martial arts, through to cultural dance. One Ethiopian Christian Pastor I know could use it to produce crossover material for people in Ethiopia, where he has founded hundreds of churches, through to people living in Australia wishing to learn more about there. But these neighbourhoods are not merely one culture or ethnicity, but many. It would be good to have facilities to allow local schools to send drama students to hone all aspects of production skills. My dream will cost $ millions. But it could make money too through licensing and production. I note many skilled actors with martial arts back grounds struggle with employment between Underbelly shooting schedules. Offer work to them, and the material that will be produced would be valuable.
But the dream is far distant. The reality is I am struggling. My place was flooded with raw sewage a few months ago and I live in a concrete shell, having lost everything I valued as a keepsake. I have no job because of government corruption from the ALP involving pedophilia and the death through apparent negligence of a school boy. I am unemployed for six years through no fault of my own, and am being forced to sell my only asset, my home, should insurance ever repair it. And just as I'm righting myself, I was slapped with a tax audit into my superannuation.
I need help. I have done nothing wrong. I beg The PM or NSW Premier to come to my home. I post an event where they might become aware of my need. And eleven have bothered to list themselves as supporting. Many whom I promote, and will continue to promote, were invited. The only comment Andrew Bolt has ever made regarding me, of which I'm aware, is that he doesn't like my kind of poetry. I had shared with him my postings on freeing Korean hostages from Afghanistan, or of Clare Oliver's appeal to end sun beds. His criticism feels harsh, and his condemnation unwarranted, but I am aware that there are people who don't like me. They are embellishing things I post. So local newspapers like the Fairfield Advance or Fairfield Champion censor my letters to them, but post letters written by others using my name. Or when a former friend contacted me recently, someone posted to them so that they broke the contact and spoke of my having a mental illness (I don't).
I don't agree with Bolt on all things, but I support him and will continue to do so. Should I set up another event? I don't know what the future holds, but I will fight so that our future is democratic, free and fair. I tend to conservative (and some libertarian, but not drug use) values as the key to achieving that end.
Daily Mail might open a centrist news service in Australia, being very different to Fairfax, ABC, Guardian or regional papers. I don't think they will find fifty conservative journalists, and they are masting with Channel 9 which is extreme left, along with Sunrise, but not as far left as the ABC. ABC is fighting to be vile. Craig Thomson rejects a gift from prosecutors. ALP are united in opposing Australia .. remember how Gillard claimed she had no choice but to proceed with a Carbon Tax because the Greens were making her? They are continuing with it even though Greens aren't supporting them. Good news is, cold kills, but warming saves. Pyne has not broken a promise, but uses ALP cuts to education to make teachers more efficient. Naturally press call it a back flip. Bob Katter may be insignificant, but also, he doesn't count. Maybe he should do the 'Christian' thing and resign? A point of difference between Bolt and I is that I look forward to Australia's population exceeding 400 million. Before that happens, we will have built infrastructure. When that happens, opposition to a big Australia will be viewed as provincial and backwards, impeding economic growth.
But the dream is far distant. The reality is I am struggling. My place was flooded with raw sewage a few months ago and I live in a concrete shell, having lost everything I valued as a keepsake. I have no job because of government corruption from the ALP involving pedophilia and the death through apparent negligence of a school boy. I am unemployed for six years through no fault of my own, and am being forced to sell my only asset, my home, should insurance ever repair it. And just as I'm righting myself, I was slapped with a tax audit into my superannuation.
I need help. I have done nothing wrong. I beg The PM or NSW Premier to come to my home. I post an event where they might become aware of my need. And eleven have bothered to list themselves as supporting. Many whom I promote, and will continue to promote, were invited. The only comment Andrew Bolt has ever made regarding me, of which I'm aware, is that he doesn't like my kind of poetry. I had shared with him my postings on freeing Korean hostages from Afghanistan, or of Clare Oliver's appeal to end sun beds. His criticism feels harsh, and his condemnation unwarranted, but I am aware that there are people who don't like me. They are embellishing things I post. So local newspapers like the Fairfield Advance or Fairfield Champion censor my letters to them, but post letters written by others using my name. Or when a former friend contacted me recently, someone posted to them so that they broke the contact and spoke of my having a mental illness (I don't).
I don't agree with Bolt on all things, but I support him and will continue to do so. Should I set up another event? I don't know what the future holds, but I will fight so that our future is democratic, free and fair. I tend to conservative (and some libertarian, but not drug use) values as the key to achieving that end.
Daily Mail might open a centrist news service in Australia, being very different to Fairfax, ABC, Guardian or regional papers. I don't think they will find fifty conservative journalists, and they are masting with Channel 9 which is extreme left, along with Sunrise, but not as far left as the ABC. ABC is fighting to be vile. Craig Thomson rejects a gift from prosecutors. ALP are united in opposing Australia .. remember how Gillard claimed she had no choice but to proceed with a Carbon Tax because the Greens were making her? They are continuing with it even though Greens aren't supporting them. Good news is, cold kills, but warming saves. Pyne has not broken a promise, but uses ALP cuts to education to make teachers more efficient. Naturally press call it a back flip. Bob Katter may be insignificant, but also, he doesn't count. Maybe he should do the 'Christian' thing and resign? A point of difference between Bolt and I is that I look forward to Australia's population exceeding 400 million. Before that happens, we will have built infrastructure. When that happens, opposition to a big Australia will be viewed as provincial and backwards, impeding economic growth.
Historical perspective on this day
In 25 Luoyang was declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han. In 176, Emperor Marcus Aurelius granted his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and made him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. In 395, Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, was murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas. In 511, King Clovis Idied at Paris ("Lutetia") and was buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. The Merovingian dynasty was continued by his four sons, Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I, who divide the Frankish Kingdom and ruled from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons. In 602, Emperor Maurice was forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies were thrown into the sea and their heads were exhibited in Constantinople. In 1095, Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. In 1703, the first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. In 1727, the foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin was laid.
In 1807, the Portuguese Royal Family left Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops. In 1810, the Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London. In 1815, adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1830, Saint Catherine Labouré experienced a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands. In 1835, James Pratt and John Smith were hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England. In 1839, in Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association was founded. In 1856, the Coup of 1856 led to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution. In 1863, American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escaped the Ohio Penitentiary and returned safely to the South. Also, American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade took up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In 1868, American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant ColonelGeorge Armstrong Custer led an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. In 1886, German judge Emil Hartwich sustained fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest. In 1895, at the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he died.
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established. In 1912, Spain declared a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. In 1924, in New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held. In 1940, In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinated over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga. Also, World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engaged the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1942, World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazihands. In 1944, World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Forceammunition dump in Staffordshire killed seventy people. In 1954, Alger Hiss was released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. In 1963, the Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention was signed at Strasbourg. In 1965, Vietnam War: The Pentagon told U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam had to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000. In 1968, Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
In 1971, the Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter released a descent module. It malfunctioned and crashed, but it was the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. In 1973, Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House would confirm him 387 to 35). In 1975, the Provisional IRA assassinated Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. In 1978, in San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinatedby former supervisor Dan White. Also, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey. In 1983, Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. In 1984, under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty. In 1989, Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 exploded in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel would claim responsibility for the attack.
In 1991, the United Nations Security Council adopted Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia. In 1992, for the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela. In 1997, twenty-five were killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria. In 1999, the left-wing Labour Party took control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. In 2000, in the Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada won its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members. In 2001, a hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. In 2004, Pope John Paul II returned the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 2005, the first partial human face transplant was completed in Amiens, France. In 2006, the Canadian House of Commons approved a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada. In 2009, Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb exploded on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
In 1807, the Portuguese Royal Family left Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops. In 1810, the Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London. In 1815, adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1830, Saint Catherine Labouré experienced a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands. In 1835, James Pratt and John Smith were hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England. In 1839, in Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association was founded. In 1856, the Coup of 1856 led to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution. In 1863, American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escaped the Ohio Penitentiary and returned safely to the South. Also, American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade took up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In 1868, American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant ColonelGeorge Armstrong Custer led an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. In 1886, German judge Emil Hartwich sustained fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest. In 1895, at the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he died.
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established. In 1912, Spain declared a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. In 1924, in New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held. In 1940, In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinated over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga. Also, World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engaged the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1942, World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazihands. In 1944, World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Forceammunition dump in Staffordshire killed seventy people. In 1954, Alger Hiss was released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. In 1963, the Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention was signed at Strasbourg. In 1965, Vietnam War: The Pentagon told U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam had to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000. In 1968, Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
In 1971, the Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter released a descent module. It malfunctioned and crashed, but it was the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. In 1973, Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House would confirm him 387 to 35). In 1975, the Provisional IRA assassinated Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. In 1978, in San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinatedby former supervisor Dan White. Also, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey. In 1983, Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. In 1984, under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty. In 1989, Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 exploded in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel would claim responsibility for the attack.
In 1991, the United Nations Security Council adopted Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia. In 1992, for the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela. In 1997, twenty-five were killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria. In 1999, the left-wing Labour Party took control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. In 2000, in the Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada won its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members. In 2001, a hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. In 2004, Pope John Paul II returned the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 2005, the first partial human face transplant was completed in Amiens, France. In 2006, the Canadian House of Commons approved a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada. In 2009, Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb exploded on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
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
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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Islamic extremism: We cannot stand for thisPiers Akerman – Friday, November 27, 2015 (12:42am)
IF you want to understand why the liberal, democratic Western world is losing ground to the ideology of Islamic extremists look no further than the weak-kneed responses of the NSW and federal governments to a convicted criminal who refuses to obey the directions of its court officers.
On The Bolt Report on Sunday, November 30Andrew Bolt November 27 2015 (5:18pm)
On Sunday at 10am and 3pm.
===Editorial: Global warmists fiddle while terrorism burns. My guest: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. The panel: former Labor president Warren Mundine and John Roskam, head of the Institute of Public Affairs. Fact-checking Bill Shorten’s big global warming scare. Plus Mal Brough woes, Tony Abbott’s foes and why Malcolm Turnbull and Barack Obama still claim the Islamic State is weak. NewsWatch: Nick Cater, columnist with The Australian and head of the Menzies Research Centre. On some bullies trying to shut us up. And is YouTube the new morals police?: Oh, and a few words about Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs. The videos of the shows appear here. ABC promotes Shorten’s call not to report the sceptics who know he exaggeratesAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (1:18pm)
How interesting - even sinister. Check the quote that the ABC has picked out to promote from Bill Shorten’s speech today on global warming:
===The ABC picks out an excuse not only to keep stifling a debate on global warming. It’s also an excuse not to check the litany of wild exaggerations and falsehoods in Shorten’s speech - about drowning islands, bleached reefs, increasing temperatures, food shortages and the rest. I will be doing a full fact check on Shorten’s hysterical claims - a fact check that the country’s biggest media organisation seems unwilling to do. UPDATE Why does every apology from the ABC involving an ideological battle involve an admission that it came in too hard from the Left? Today: On 13 November 2015 ABC Local News in Queensland, News Breakfast and News 24 News broadcast a story which suggested that the Chief Executive of Adani Australia, Mr Jeyakumar Janakaraj, had a ‘criminal history’. This was incorrect. Mr Janakaraj was director of operations of KCM, a mining company operating in Zambia, when the company was charged and pleaded guilty in 2010 with causing a serious pollution spill. No criminal or other charges were brought against Mr Janakaraj in relation to this or any other matter. ABC News apologises to Mr Janakaraj.(Thanks to reader Andrew.) Tribal warfare in MelbourneAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (12:49pm)
As I have warned many times, Jews will be the losers in the re-tribalism of Australia:
===A man screaming “go back to Israel” and “swear to Allah” had to be forcibly pinned to the ground after a scuffle outside a Melbourne synagogue yesterday.I’d say more about one aspect of this story, but Jewish leaders supported the retention of a law that makes debate too dangerous. Complete sentencesAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (9:04am)
Malcolm Turnbull in announcing his leadership bid two months ago:
===We need a style of leadership that explains those challenges and opportunities… A style of leadership that respects the people’s intelligence, that explains these complex issues… We need advocacy, not slogans.The Australian’s Troy Bramston: It has been a long time since Australia had a prime minister who could consistently speak in fully formed sentences…The Australian: A fluent communicator, Mr Turnbull has what it takes to explain how economic reform will set up Australia for prosperity…Professor Mark Beeson in The Conversation: We now have an unembarrassing leader who can speak in complete sentences...Academic Dennis Gruber in The Conversation: Once more we have a new prime minister who is personally popular and has an obvious gift for communicating… Turnbull is a natural explainer...From last night’s interview on 7.30: MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, that’s - that is true. There is a - this is the - we - as a nation, we’ve had limited experience from terrorism domestically....This must change before the election campaign. Not trueAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (8:56am)
Malcolm Turnbull on 7.30 last night:
===LEIGH SALES: Well how do you intend to manage the detractors within your party? We’ve had a number of people in recent weeks publicly speak out against positions that you’ve taken.The Australian today: Malcolm Turnbull has turned to Tony Abbott, the man he ousted as prime minister 10 weeks ago, as part of an effort to settle simmering resentment over the leadership dumping.Note also that Turnbull puts in a call, and then leaks the news of this private chat to seem to be ticking all the boxes. (Thanks to reader Correllio.) Raging at the Sun and not the news of jihadist supportAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (8:33am)
I agree the poll question is ambiguous, but not as ambiguous as apologists are insisting:
===British tabloid newspaper the Sun has wrongly interpreted an opinion poll of British Muslims’ attitudes to Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL), claiming one in five have sympathy with those who travel abroad to join the terrorist group.Does anyone seriously think that many poll respondents were thinking of the Kurds when they said they sympathised with “young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria”? Or course, I must admit that some of the Britons going to Syria do sign up for more “moderate” terrorist groups, such as al Qaeda. Maybe the respondents were thinking of them? But turning the argument on the Sun’s report rather than on the poll results helps to perpetuate the victim narrative on which jihadism thrives: The Sun caused a social media outcry when it reported the poll with a front-page headline Monday that read “1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for militants”.What is most important: the poll finding, however interpreted, or the Sun’s report? What is more likely to promote “Islamophobia”: jihadists or reporting on them? Yet see how sounding the alarm is becoming ever harder. Turnbull in peace talks with AbbottAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (7:28am)
After his team tried to publicly humiliate Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull tries diplomacy:
===Malcolm Turnbull has turned to Tony Abbott, the man he ousted as prime minister 10 weeks ago, as part of an effort to settle simmering resentment over the leadership dumping.That last bit is bull, and every participant knows it. Turnbull needs to know that the divisions won’t be fixed by his charm but by his policies. UPDATE There is an inconsistency in the argument put today in The Australian by David Crowe, a well-briefed Turnbull supporter. On the one hand, Abbott is a spent force - an irrelevance to the government, a bore to the public and an embarrassment to his friends: With terrorists attacking Paris and Russian jets being shot down, with a tax debate to manage and a mental health policy to release, the government has plenty to do and no great reason to worry about Abbott…Yet at the same time, this irrelevant Abbott is scaring the (pro-Turnbull) press gallery, overshadowing his colleagues and distracting the rattled Prime Minister so much that he must quit politics forthwith Turnbull spoke to Abbott on Wednesday night to try to smooth things over… Abbott, the conservative warrior of the Liberal Party, may end up doing his own team more harm than good...The press gallery is obviously jumpy about Abbott’s every move… There are conservative MPs who might like to speak up on public policy but now find themselves overshadowed by a former prime minister… Abbott is not giving anything away about his plans, but there are untold opportunities for him outside parliament. He should explore them.For heaven’s sake. All Abbott did was to give a speech - before Paris - warning Europe to close its borders and take the Islamic State more seriously. On both points, who now disagrees? Abbott then followed up with the mild and perfectly reasonable observation that the Islamic State will not be quickly defeated unless the allies and their partners in the region sent in some troops on the ground - not as an invasion force, but to assist local forces, harass the Islamic State leadership and better identify bombing targets. That, too, is an eminently sensible suggestion that I suspect will also be adopted in time. Had Turnbull treated this as an idea worth putting on the table rather than as the ”machismo” ravings of a hot-head contemplating a ”unilateral” invasion and occupation of Syria, there would be no embarrassment, no tension, no issue. But paranoia rules, so that Abbott is now deemed to have no place in politics if he keeps making sensible suggestions. Turnbull’s supporters should settle down. For one, they are demanding from Abbott a silence that they never demanded from the far more disloyal Turnbull. UPDATE Ellen Whinnett on the paranoia of the Turnbull camp: The paranoia is manifesting itself in some very amusing ways, including in talk this week about the “Monkey Pod’’ lunches taking place most Tuesdays on sitting weeks…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.) Bill Shorten promises a warming scheme twice more useless and expensive than Turnbull’sAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (7:00am)
There’s been no real warming of the atmosphere for around 18 years. Anything Australia does to its emissions will have close to zero effect on the climate. Labor lost the last election in large part because of its carbon tax.
===Yet here comes Labor again, flogging a plan more likely to lower its vote than the temperature: Bill Shorten will ... commit today to a carbon reduction target of 45 per cent by 2030 — almost twice the level set by the Coalition three months ago…And neither plan will make any effective and positive change to the climate. Not that most journalists care. Labor thinks it can wedge Malcolm Turnbull on this by portraying him as a hypocrite: The Labor leader will argue the science demands it, the Australian economy can afford it and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is worse than a climate change sceptic because he abandoned his green beliefs in a secret deal to attain the Liberal leadership…But this strategy relies on two very risky assumptions. First, that most voters really do believe man is heating the world dangerously and they should pay more to “stop” it. In fact, voters hated Labor’s carbon tax and most are now sceptical about man-made warming, according to a CSIRO study.I really don’t understand why Labor doesn’t go back to the most critical issues and those most important to its base. Why not talk about jobs, rather than the weather? Turnbull’s NBN faces another blowoutAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (6:35am)
I’ve wondered before why Malcolm Turnbull’s version of the NBN is less than promised for twice the price.
===It could get worse: Leaked documents, which show that the company building the government’s national broadband network could be up for $375 million in repairs and upgrades of a key part of its multi-technology-mix (MTM) pose serious questions about the wisdom of the government in tearing up Labor’s fibre to the premise plans.UPDATE The Financial Review story is unfair to Turnbull and misleading. After all, the decision to buy the Optus HFC was actually made by Labor. From May, 2012 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission yesterday released a draft decision allowing NBN Co to buy Optus’ 429,000 cable broadband customers for about $800 million. In declineAndrew Bolt November 27 2015 (6:19am)
Maurice Newman warns that the West has lost its will to resist:
===This stark reality presented most recently in Paris when terrorists killed 130 innocent civilians. Around the Western world, the response was “sensible” and “measured”. There was talk of standing “shoulder to shoulder” with the French people. How we shared their pain. Our own Prime Minister praised French football fans who sang Le Marseillaise as they left the stadium.And to pre-empt the Left’s “gotcha” posse, ever hunting for straw men, no: Newman is not saying Obama is a Muslim. UPDATE Obama needs a nudge. After the Paris attacks on November 13, Abbott began telling confidants that if he were still the prime minister, he would have joined French President Francois Hollande in ramping up military action against Islamic State. Abbott, sources say, believed such a joint effort from France and Australia would “shame’’ US President Barack Obama into action and bring the Americans in to lead a wholesale assault on IS.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.) Triggs makes her Human Rights Committee look a witchhuntAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (8:44pm)
LABOR loves using your taxes to pay activists to push its causes. Take the Human Rights Commission, led by the now-damaged Gillian Triggs.
===Created by the Hawke government in 1986, the HRC has ever since promoted the Left’s causes on the taxpayers’ dime. It is largely responsible for creating the stolen generations myth, for example. Its Bringing them Home inquiry suggested up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were stolen for racist reasons in a cultural “genocide”, even though no one since could identify even 10 such examples. That inquiry accepted without cross-examination the claims of witnesses whose identities it kept secret — including claims that fell apart when tested in the Federal Court “stolen generations” test case. Yet no Coalition government has had the courage or conviction to scrap the HRC as a propaganda arm for the Left — and a $27 million waste. So taxpayers today pay HRC commissioners more than $300,000 each to do the nagging that thousands of other activists already do free. But more Coalition MPs will now wonder exactly why we fund the HRC after Triggs’ astonishing performance last Thursday. The HRC president’s evidence to the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee suggested her commission is every bit as politically biased as its critics feared. Triggs was called to answer questions about the inquiry she announced in February into our detention of boat children. [Watch here.] That timing always seemed bizarre. As Liberal senator Barry O’Sullivan noted, when the Rudd Labor government took office there were just four boat people left in detention, none children. (Read full article here.) Phillip Hughes diesAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (8:21pm)
What a terrible, terrible loss. His poor family. He was just 25.
===UPDATE Bravo, Michael Clarke, for your leadership these past days: UPDATE Callers to our 2GB show are urging Cricket Australia and our team to go ahead with the First Test against India next Thursday. They want day one to be a celebration of Hughes life and have offered some wonderful suggestions. The best I have heard is for Hughes to be named 12th man. Jack the Insider is crossAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (6:18pm)
Jack the Insider discusses the Right:
===May 21, 2014 - Right-wing columnists often moan they are chronically under-represented in the media.... The deeper irony is that most of the scribblers of the Right are actually living in self-exile from the Left.Jack the Insider pins his hopes on the Left: January 6, 2012 - I despair of the Left because the fundamentals of left-wing politics at or around the centre are where I have always believed this country’s future best lies.But Jack the Insider is upset when he is given his own label: A couple of days ago I was amused to read Andrew Bolt’s blog. This particular entry featured a long roll of News Corp columnists described by Bolt as ‘leftist’. Guess what? I made the list.Jack is cross that someone else is playing with his labels: However, his list of ‘leftist’ journalists which has me in the Top Ten reveals Bolt has become the self-appointed key master of the political spectrum. :Jack says the labels he’s been using are meaningless, now one is pinned on him: This is more a discussion about ideology and a plea to recalibrate the current political nomenclature for the primary reason that a single left-right axis is a lazy, unsophisticated and largely anachronistic means of codifying a set of beliefs, views and opinions. It does not allow for distinction, exception, gradation or nuance.Jack nevertheless thinks these labels are not lazy, unsophisticated and largely anachronistic, failing to allow for distinction, exception, gradation or nuance, as long as they are pinned on you-know-who: This is odd given there aren’t many who sit to the right of [Bolt] - maybe Tamurlane and the 3rd Duke of Alba.Jack seems in his pleas for “nuance” not to understand the critical difference between a conservative and someone on the Right, or, indeed, that the relevant axis is not Left to Right, but anarchy to Left/Right, or individual to coercive collectivism: Ultimately, the left-right axis is about as helpful in understanding people’s views as it might be knowing which footy team they barrack for.Jack the Insider should be slower to dismiss those he brands of the “Right” and should not write in anger. Your safety in Jacqui Lambie’s handsAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (11:54am)
Senator Jacqui Lambie, September:
===BARRIE CASSIDY: And do you feel the Government’s got a handle on the terrorism issue at home?Jacqui Lambie yesterday: A THIRD tranche of counter-terrorism laws passed the Senate yesterday, despite independent senator Jacqui Lambie voting against expanding the Australian Defence Force’s capability to combat terrorism… How to cripple Victoria on SaturdayAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (10:23am)
Victoria seems about to vote for the kind of union culture not seen since the Kirner years. The Financial Review warns:
===Victorians must ask themselves if Labor is equipped to return to government so soon. There are grave concerns as to whether Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews and his team have the character or the ability to do the job… New York Times publishes police officer’s address as mobs rageAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (9:39am)
Much of the media persists in portraying the Ferguson riots as the price of white racism rather than evidence of black racism - and a mindless violence.
===Much of the media seems to believe an innocent white police officer, Darren Wilson, should have been punished for shooting the black thief, Michael Brown, who attacked him. Worse, many seem to believe this innocent officer should be punished just to appease the race resentments of a violent and unreasoning mob: We now know that just before Monday night’s riots, Michael Brown’s stepfather screamed “Burn this bitch down!” to a mob as Brown’s mother stood silently by. The end result was utter chaos. More than a dozen businesses were looted and set on fire, a 20 year-old man is dead, and the Brown Family’s own church was burnt to the ground.But for sheer bastardy, the Leftist New York Times now publishes Wilson’s street name - a detail the mob seems already to have noted. It’s as if the Times actually wants Wilson murdered: The International Business Times notes: But printing his street name in the nation’s most influential newspaper on the day the grand jury is expected to hand up a decision on the indictment could reignite interest in — and awareness of — the location, and some critics worry that it could result in protesters descending on his home. Slate even went a step further than the Times, publishing an article featuring a photo of the modest, red-brick house on Monday.Evil. The issue that the media Left prefer not to discuss?. Former New York City police chief and mayor Rudi Giuliani notes it: After noting how he diversified the New York City police force, Giuliani said it was very disappointing that “we are not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks are killed by other blacks.”Check the link for the million ways the Washington Post tries to knock down Giuliani’s argument - with no success. Reader Jono: An academic replies that those remarks reinforce the problematic perspective that prevails in the culture whatever that means.UPDATE Barack Obama has done nothing tangible to bridge the racial divide. Worse, he seems to belegitimising the victimology driving this violence: BARACK OBAMA, US PRESIDENT: Burning buildings, torching cars, destroying property, putting people at risk - that’s destructive and there’s no excuse for it. Those are criminal acts. And people should be prosecuted if they engage in criminal acts.(Thanks to readers Gab, The Realist and Terry.) Eggs broken. Time Abbott talked omelettesAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (9:25am)
Niki Savva despairs at Tony Abbott making the same blunders that killed Julia Gillard:
===It’s as if they have been cursed to repeat each other’s mistakes, wilfully treating voters like idiots. It is plain in the Opposition Leader’s responses to every savings measure announced by the government. One day he will pay, like Abbott has had to pay for those few words to SBS the night before the election ruling out any changes to the GST, cuts to health, pensions, the ABC and SBS that have been slowly killing him.As Savva suggests, what makes this latest reckoning over the ABC cuts painful is that Abbott’s colleagues know they themselves look shifty trying to defend it. What is so frustrating for those who wish Abbott well is that this disaster was utterly predictable - and, indeed, predicted. In April, even though it killed me, I warned through gritted teeth that the Government should honor its promise to the ABC: In May I warned: TONY Abbott wants to break a promise, after all. But his deficit tax would break the wrong one and risk killing his Government… Why is Abbott planning a new [2 per cent wealth tax] tax that will be jeered when he could instead scrap his $5 billion leave scheme — hated even by many Liberals — and be cheered?Well, the damage is now done. The solution? 1. Abbott must now discount the advice of anyone who told him so many promises could be broken. Which battle must the Government fight - to seem honest or seem financially competent?Andrew Bolt November 27 2014 (9:18am)
The Abbott Government has lost the battle to save its reputation for keeping promises. But now there’s a more critical challenge - to save its reputation for fixing Budget disasters:
===The Federal government is rapidly running out of time to fix fundamental budget weaknesses likely to be exposed by collapsing commodity prices, a lack of productivity growth and declining workforce participation, research by the Parliamentary Budget Office suggests.So getting the money may now ultimately prove more critical than seeming this sneaky and mean: THE federal government will put a new price signal on visits to the doctor by using regulations to overcome a Senate veto of its $7 GP co-payment…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.) Hypocrite alertAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (9:08am)
Jennifer Rajca, 26 November:
===Shadow Defence Minister Stephen Conroy said the Prime Minister needed to show leadership and make [the Defence Minister] say sorry to Parliament.AAP, 26 February: DEFENCE force chief David Hurley says it’s not enough that Labor’s Stephen Conroy has withdrawn his accusation that border commander Angus Campbell has been engaged in a political cover-up.UPDATE Anyone would think Labor is the military’s best friend and not a pack of hypocrites. 7.30 yesterday: PENNY WONG, LEADER OF OPPOSITION IN SENATE: He is a disgrace! He is an utter disgrace! ... [The Defence Minister’s] position is untenable.Radio National, 26 February: FRAN KELLY: ... (Y)esterday in Senate Estimates Labor Senator Stephen Conroy launched a pretty extraordinary attack on Lieutenant General Angus Campbell the head of Operation Sovereign Borders ... In your view is that appropriate, to speak to a senior military officer like that accusing him of a political cover up?David Johnston in his own defence: Senator Johnston, speaking to a Senate censure motion, attacked the Labor Party for “playing callously” with national security and doing “big fat nothing” on the future submarine program during their tenure.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.) How low will ABC and Fairfax comedians go?Andrew Bolt November 27 2014 (8:07am)
Ben Pobjie is a comedian and ABC regular, as well as a Fairfax columnist. And with all the sensitivity and genuine humor for which ABC comedians and Fairfax columnists are now famous he tells a ”joke” about Phil Hughes.
===(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.) Murdoch’s debate terrifies ABC defendersAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (7:35am)
THE Abbott Government’s cuts to the bloated ABC are too tiny to explain these hysterics.
===A 5 per cent cut to a $1.2 billion budget still leaves the ABC with four TV stations, five radio stations, 220 websites, an online newspaper, magazines and a publishing house. Yet listen to the screams. I don’t mean Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s bellowing about “our ABC”. He naturally wants this voice of the Left kept strong. I mean instead the people freaking that a skinnier ABC might encourage people to read a newspaper of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp instead. One like this. Take ABC presenter Quentin Dempster, who called the ABC cuts “a piece of Tony Abbott/Rupert Murdoch bastardry”. (Read full article here.) Clive Palmer tries to stop fraud rulingAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (7:21am)
Clive Palmer is trying to block a Supreme Court judge from ruling on whether he acted acted dishonestly or fraudulently when allegedly siphoning $12 million from his Chinese partner to fund his election campaign:
===Mr Palmer’s legal team revealed he would not give evidence personally, or call witnesses or tender documents in the trial [which started yesterday]. Barrister Simon Couper QC made a series of concessions on Mr Palmer’s behalf, in an attempt to stop the public examination of fraud and dishonesty allegations. Mr Couper told Justice Jackson the concessions meant the question of fraud was now irrelevant, an argument rejected by Citic. Labor offers ABC mates cash we can’t affordAndrew Bolt November 27 2014 (7:15am)
Labor knows the ABC has been overfunded, so won’t promise to restore the cuts:
===PRESENTER Nicole Chvastek: Would you reverse the cuts (to the ABC) if you took office?But Labor also know that to win the ABC’s support it must at least offer more money than do the Liberals, even though the country’s deficit keeps growing. That is how over-mighty the country’s biggest media outlet has become. Pig-headed BDS Movement. The incident that got BDS banned from demonstrating at Woolworths stores in South Africa was when members of a political party in support of BDS trespassed into one of the stores and placed pigs heads in what they thought was the kosher foods section. What kosher food has to do with a cynical anti-Israel provocation was clear to everyone. Kosher means Jewish. Jewish means Israel. BDS is anti-Semitic. BDS in South Africa has a number of Muslims among its hierarchy. They recruit support from thousands of Muslims in that country who despise the Jewish state of Israel which they view as an abomination against the Islamic will. It was against this backdrop that the porky protest flopped - badly. The ignorant anti-Israel idiots thought they had placed the pigs heads in the kosher section. They photoed themselves holding the heads in triumph, grinningly exposing themselves to publicity. But they had made a huge mistake. Instead of being in the kosher food section they were in the halal section where they had unkoshered the Muslim food shelves with pigs. The Muslim community had broadly supported this act only to be horrified to learn that their food supply had been defiled. The swine! Ah well. That's what you get when you are pig-headed. .. from B Shaw === Sarah Palin Friends, Thanksgiving offers us invaluable time to spend with our family and reflect on our many blessings. In 1789, George Washington declared a day of national Thanksgiving for our new country to render unto God our "sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection." But even before that first proclamation from a new nation, pioneers across America celebrated Thanksgiving as a time to give praise to God for full harvests and Divine Providence. And indeed, America has been richly blessed. From coast to coast, we enjoy an abundance of natural resources, plentiful harvests, beautiful cities and our most precious gift of all—a people who value liberty and continue to stand as an example to the world of all that can be accomplished by a free and hard-working people. This Thanksgiving, join me in a moment of prayer to give thanks for the thousands of American men and women in our armed forces who will spend Thanksgiving away from their homes and families, facing danger overseas to protect our way of life. When we sit down to enjoy a family meal on Thursday, I will give thanks to God for the blessing of a strong and diverse family life that has taught me so much about loyalty, selflessness, and compassion. I will pray for God's continued blessings on my family, and on yours, and on this great nation of ours. From my family to yours, God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving! With an Alaskan heart, Sarah Palin P.S. Be sure to check out the latest video from my book tour here: http://youtu.be/ ===
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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/26/sony-files-patent-for-bizarre-smartwig/?intcmp=features
If you're already over the smartwatch craze, why not try a 'smartwig'? Sony filed for a patent for a hairpiece
 with vibrating sideburns.
The SmartWig is jammed packed with sensors that vibrate on the user's head to send them messages. The patent also says the wig may include special fibers that look natural and can change shape.
The hair-raising idea will monitor your health, give directions and could "be made from horse hair, human hair, wool, feathers, yak hair or any kind of synthetic material."
The wig has already been tested on Sony employees who switched slides during a presentation by tapping their sideburns.
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rent overdue? .. also .. first tool shed! - ed
=== "Imagine Romney In The White House" - His Defeat Was a Significant Loss For Israel And America's National Security - Romney's Policy Is The Opposite of Obama's By Ambassador Oded Eran, Jerusalem Post "When it comes to dealing with the new political leadership in Tehran, does it matter that Obama, rather than Romney, occupies the White House? The President should take a cue from his former opponent and insert some much-needed toughness into negotiations with Iran." The Ambassador made the following comments: • Romney developed his views on the Iranian file over several years. He publicly declared seven years ago that Iran must and can be stopped, that sanctions should be toughened, and that Iran should be isolated. • In the October 2012 debate, Romney said he would tighten economic sanctions, increase the diplomatic isolation of Iran, and indict then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He accused the Obama administration of signaling weakness to the Iranian regime. • Romney said he would insist on a complete halt to Iran’s nuclear effort, “To be clear, the objective is get Iran to stop spinning centrifuges, stop enriching uranium, shut down its facilities. Full stop." • "Existing fissile material will have to be shipped out of the country.” • Romney would not have sent his secretary of state to Congress to try and stop new sanctions on Iran. • It is also fair to say that Romney’s secretary of state would have been more courteous to the Israeli prime minister. • Although Romney was not elected president, it is not too late for Washington to integrate some of Romney’s ideas. Oded Eran was Israel’s ambassador to Jordan and the European Union. He is now a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. No conservative will ever lean far enough to the left to get leftwing support. Yet hardcore conservative leaders like Howard got support from some in the left by being true to his own policy. The best GOP candidates didn't run because it isn't the GOP's turn. Reagan won out of cycle and although he was great, the parties became unbalanced. Democrats became even weaker .. All you need do to rattle a left wing leader and make them question the very things they most value in their existence is to say they aren't popular. - ed === <$900 headphones. "Wear them at the gym," it says...haha, yep, right.>
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They’re still pulling the wool over some eyes, friends. So let’s call them out yet again. I was recently interviewed on Fox News Sunday. One question I answered was prefaced with the supposed “fact” that “30 million MORE people will be covered by Obamacare.” That statistic is about as credible a promise as “if you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan.”
Obamacare is presently hitting people who buy insurance on the individual market because they may not receive health coverage through their employers. It’s hurting millions! But you ain’t seen nuthin' yet. Just wait until the Obamacare employer mandate kicks in next year. As I told Fox News Sunday, despite what the White House and media report, tens of millions more Americans are set to lose their employer provided insurance plans. The ramifications of this WILL fundamentally transform America. The article linked today at the top of Drudge confirms my point, which is significant because my point was mocked until this article confirmed it. Headline: “Almost 80 million with employer health care plans could have coverage canceled, experts predict.” Companies that provide health insurance plans that aren’t compliant with new burdensome Obamacare mandates will obviously decide it’s cheaper to dump employees into the government-run Obamacare exchanges and pay the penalty than try to provide an expensive Obamacare-approved plan.
No one in America will be left unscathed by Obamacare. Please trust me on this. The media can repeat all the bogus White House stats they want about false claims like the individual mandate “only affects 5% of the public,” but they can’t change reality – NUMBERS DON'T LIE – and America is about to get “mugged by reality” very soon, to paraphrase Irving Kristol.
Far from providing more Americans with insurance, Obamacare is ironically hurting the very people it was sold to as some kind of health care savior. More people will choose to pay the IRS penalty and go without insurance because they can’t afford the increased rates slamming them, plus they now have fewer options in this one-size-fits-all expensive bureaucratic exchange which forces people to buy coverage for things they don’t want nor need. We’re talking about one-sixth more of our economy controlled now by big government, remember. Do not forget that Obamacare contains health care rationing. When I warned America about “death panels,” I was denounced as a liar. But now the reality of “death panels” is openly admitted, even touted by some liberals as their solution. Just yesterday yet another prominent liberal media lapdog joined the chorus in finally admitting that death panel-style rationing is “built into the plan. It's not like a guess or like a judgment. That's going to be part of how costs are controlled." This guy and his ilk need to apologize to all of you, NOW, who knew what I was talking about, repeated my warnings, and were mocked and criticized for it. (Don't hold your breath.) The truth is the “enlightened ones” knew all along that rationing was in the plan. They were angry with me for saying it out loud. The twin pillars of Obamacare have always been redistribution and rationing. Take away one of those pillars and the whole thing crumbles. That’s why Obamacare is doomed. You were smart enough to know that, while they were arrogant enough to keep up a deceitful ruse until their White House control was guaranteed. They’re busted now, though. And that’s why they’re scrambling to distract you and hope you won’t realize how enormously important upcoming elections are to save our economy.
The redistribution aspect will be Obamacare’s undoing. Not enough young or healthy people will apply for Obamacare because it’s simply unaffordable. It makes NO economic sense for them to voluntarily sign up. They’ll choose to pay the IRS fine instead. This will bankrupt the whole Ponzi scheme, which is premised on young and healthy people paying for those who are sick or have pre-existing conditions. And when Obamacare fails, the left will push to have us move to full socialized medicine under a so-called “single payer plan.” This is exactly what Barack Obama touted as a candidate, as did many of his bureaucratic appointees, but the media glossed over that all these years.
Friends, the only way to fix Obamacare is to scrap this stuffed turkey and start over with genuine free market, patient-centered reforms that allow people to purchase insurance across state lines, enact tort reform, and give individual insurance buyers the same breaks we give employer provided insurance. And we need to elect leaders who will fight for us to get it done. Keep all of this in mind this week as we break for Thanksgiving. Be warned the White House is arming leftist supporters with “talking points” to try to convince family and friends around the Thanksgiving table that Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced pumpkin bread. You should politely let them know you’re not swallowing that turkey. Thank you for doing your own homework, for trusting the truth I've expressed, and for refusing to let the “enlightened ones” keep America in the dark. - Sarah Palin
Here’s the article linked at the top of Drudge today:
===http://www.foxnews.com/ Ah, my friends .. and yes .. I know I will die .. and so you will view this as double edged. But know this. I know that I will one day go home. I don't know his plan for me. I only know the promise. I'm not looking for death, but to live. Isn't that what everyone does? No. Some fear death so much .. they don't live. - ed === ===
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4067/diplomacy-is-best-but
===Allyson Christy Caroline Glick has 'nailed it' and then some, summarising an analysis quite encompassing a sinister, yet menacing scope of the Obama Administration's underlying political goals. Yet distressingly, clarity comes finally into focus, of those who have craftily hurled accusations of lunacy, insanity, war-mongering and a desire for bloodshed relative to the dynamics of security's integrity. Ms. Glick has effectively outlined a twisted, yet prevailing mode of grave disproportion of diplomatic magnitude; one of far-reaching and dangerous manipulation facilitated and presently implemented by the current White House. The situation with America's leadership-helm is far worse than I'd even imagined until just very recently. …………………….. "With Iran building military bases all over Central and South America, Obama never bothered trying to make the case to the American people that they would be more secure with this regime in possession of the capacity to kill millions of Americans with one bomb. He never explained how allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium decreases the likelihood of war. So what did Obama need the last year for? If he wasn’t concerned with getting a less dangerous deal, and he didn’t care what the American people though about his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, what prevented him from okaying the agreement last year? To ascertain the answer, it is worth considering Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s comments Sunday morning. Beyond noting the nuclear deal’s danger to Israel’s security, Lapid said, “I am worried not only over the deal but that we have lost the world’s attention.” And indeed, Israel has lost the world’s attention. Its appropriately deep concerns over Iran’s nuclear behavior were belittled, ignored and derided, first and foremost by the Obama administration. Worse than belittling Israel’s concerns, which are completely shared by the Sunni Arab world, Obama and Kerry have castigated as warmongers those Americans who agree with Israel’s concerns and have attacked them as traitors who seek to push America into an unnecessary war. At the same time, they have presented the dispute as one of Israel against the rest of the world, ignoring that the Sunni Arab world shares Israel’s concerns. The US has also weakened Israel’s capacity to take steps short of war to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons possessing state by leaking key components of Israel’s covert operations against Iran’s nuclear program." - excerpts Read the article…..truth is sometimes disgusting and despicable.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/caroline-glick/the-goal-of-obamas-foreign-policy/#.UpSuxMy16v8.facebook
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174485
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174478
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174488
==="When I first ran for president, I said it was time for a new era of American leadership in the world, one that turned the page on a decade of war and began a new era of engagement with the world," added Obama. "As president and as commander in chief, I've done what I've said." And he sure has, in every foolish and treacherous way.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174473
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174493
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“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,”Hebrews 12:28 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do," refers to works that are possible. There are many things which our heart findeth to do which we never shall do. It is well it is in our heart; but if we would be eminently useful, we must not be content with forming schemes in our heart, and talking of them; we must practically carry out "whatsoever our hand findeth to do." One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day. We have no other time in which to live. The past is gone; the future has not arrived; we never shall have any time but time present. Then do not wait until your experience has ripened into maturity before you attempt to serve God. Endeavour now to bring forth fruit. Serve God now, but be careful as to the way in which you perform what you find to do--"do it with thy might." Do it promptly; do not fritter away your life in thinking of what you intend to do to-morrow as if that could recompense for the idleness of today. No man ever served God by doing things to-morrow. If we honour Christ and are blessed, it is by the things which we do today. Whatever you do for Christ throw your whole soul into it. Do not give Christ a little slurred labour, done as a matter of course now and then; but when you do serve him, do it with heart, and soul, and strength.
But where is the might of a Christian? It is not in himself, for he is perfect weakness. His might lieth in the Lord of Hosts. Then let us seek his help; let us proceed with prayer and faith, and when we have done what our "hand findeth to do," let us wait upon the Lord for his blessing. What we do thus will be well done, and will not fail in its effect.
Evening
Small things marked the beginning of the work in the hand of Zerubbabel, but none might despise it, for the Lord had raised up one who would persevere until the headstone should be brought forth with shoutings. The plummet was in good hands. Here is the comfort of every believer in the Lord Jesus; let the work of grace be ever so small in its beginnings, the plummet is in good hands, a master builder greater than Solomon has undertaken the raising of the heavenly temple, and he will not fail nor be discouraged till the topmost pinnacle shall be raised. If the plummet were in the hand of any merely human being, we might fear for the building, but the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in Jesus' hand. The works did not proceed irregularly, and without care, for the master's hand carried a good instrument. Had the walls been hurriedly run up without due superintendence, they might have been out of the perpendicular; but the plummet was used by the chosen overseer. Jesus is evermore watching the erection of his spiritual temple, that it may be built securely and well. We are for haste, but Jesus is for judgment. He will use the plummet, and that which is out of line must come down, every stone of it. Hence the failure of many a flattering work, the overthrow of many a glittering profession. It is not for us to judge the Lord's church, since Jesus has a steady hand, and a true eye, and can use the plummet well. Do we not rejoice to see judgment left to him?
The plummet was in active use--it was in the builder's hand; a sure indication that he meant to push on the work to completion. O Lord Jesus, how would we indeed be glad if we could see thee at thy great work. O Zion, the beautiful, thy walls are still in ruins! Rise, thou glorious Builder, and make her desolations to rejoice at thy coming.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 27-29, 1 Peter 3 (NIV)View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 27-29A Lament Over Tyre
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. 3 Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“‘You say, Tyre,
“I am perfect in beauty.” 4 Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection. 5 They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. 6 Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, adorned with ivory. 7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah. 8 Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors. 9 Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board as shipwrights to caulk your seams. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to trade for your wares.... Today's New Testament reading: 1 Peter 3
1 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5 For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6 like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers....
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