Meanwhile politics is playing out. Andrews will point to this not being a terrorist attack. It was a domestic involving drugs and mental health and Andrews facilitated it. But the anti Islam lobby will relate it to a sign being taken down, or put up, for Australia Day. Or maybe it is the left celebrating Obama. Or gun control. The answer is simple. Premier Dan Andrews is to blame for the deaths of four following his ideological assault on police and corruption of the courts.
However, as one person who identified with murderously bad policy gloated, all that need happen is for them to wait until the next election, and sane voices can be silenced. Tonight in America, Trump is being inaugurated President. If the Baird haters have their way, people like Andrews will be elected everywhere. Welcome home to NSW former police minister Mike Gallacher. He did nothing wrong, but a corrupt judiciary forced him out. We need someone in Australia, in Victoria and in NSW to #DrainTheSwamp
=== from 2016 ===
The liars of the mainstream press have not worked out how they are going to announce the untimely death of scientist Bob Carter. Dr Carter was in Townsville when he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered. He died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by loved ones. His academic career had begun in NZ, Otago in 1963. At James Cook University, Dr Carter was internationally recognised for excellence in his field of Earth Science. However JCU also vilified and dismissed Dr Carter for his views which, while being right, weren't commensurate with what the university wanted regarding global warming. The billion dollar a day scam that is global warming has lost a critic, a voice of reason. But Dr Carter will be vindicated eventually. Meanwhile mainstream media temporise the announcement of his passing. For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility
=== from 2015 ===
The persecution of Christians Decius unleashed in 250 as emperor of Rome was specific in target. Decius was trying to reinforce the old religion of Rome possibly so as to limit corruption. His instrument was an edict that all in the empire must collect a certificate that they have sacrificed to a God. Christians were the only large group at that time that would not do that. For a Christian, they would prefer death to sacrificing to another God. And lots of Romans were willing to accommodate them to get ahead. There were a number of pogroms where Christians were killed, but as Waleed Aly has said of terrorists, it was merely nuisance value. Pope Fabian was martyred as a result, but the persecutions did lessen within the year, and had to be reinforced in 253 by Emperor Valerian. But following Fabian's death, a plague fell on Rome. And then Decius and his son died in battle. His son was the first Emperor to die in battle. Decius was the second, soon after.
In 1356, Edward Balliol gave the throne of Scotland to England's King Edward III in exchange for an English pension. They were worth more in those days. In 1649, King Charles I went on trial for treason and high crimes. Ten days later he was beheaded. In 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signed for peace to end the US Revolutionary war with Spain and France. In 1785, Siam invaded Vietnam and lost badly. In 1788, Arthur Phillip decided to leave Botany Bay and settle at Port Jackson, in what is now Sydney, Australia.
In 1941, in Bucharest, the killing of a German officer led to killing 125 jews by the Iron Guard. Ten days later, Iron Guard were betrayed by Hitler and a worse anti semitic body began work under General Ion Atonescu. 1942, at the Wannsee conferene in Germany, senior Nazis discussed the 'final solution' to the 'Jewish question.' In 1969, East Pakistan police killed an activist student, and initiated the war of Liberation for Bangladesh. In 1972, having lost Bangladesh, Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons. In 1981, twenty minutes after 69 yo Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released 52 US embassy hostages. In 1987, Terry Waite, an Anglican envoy was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad, who released him after 1,763 days in 1991. He had been in solitary confinement. In 1999, China News announced restrictions were being placed on the internet aimed at internet cafes.
In 1356, Edward Balliol gave the throne of Scotland to England's King Edward III in exchange for an English pension. They were worth more in those days. In 1649, King Charles I went on trial for treason and high crimes. Ten days later he was beheaded. In 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signed for peace to end the US Revolutionary war with Spain and France. In 1785, Siam invaded Vietnam and lost badly. In 1788, Arthur Phillip decided to leave Botany Bay and settle at Port Jackson, in what is now Sydney, Australia.
In 1941, in Bucharest, the killing of a German officer led to killing 125 jews by the Iron Guard. Ten days later, Iron Guard were betrayed by Hitler and a worse anti semitic body began work under General Ion Atonescu. 1942, at the Wannsee conferene in Germany, senior Nazis discussed the 'final solution' to the 'Jewish question.' In 1969, East Pakistan police killed an activist student, and initiated the war of Liberation for Bangladesh. In 1972, having lost Bangladesh, Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons. In 1981, twenty minutes after 69 yo Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released 52 US embassy hostages. In 1987, Terry Waite, an Anglican envoy was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad, who released him after 1,763 days in 1991. He had been in solitary confinement. In 1999, China News announced restrictions were being placed on the internet aimed at internet cafes.
From 2014
It is so sad for some that lives are not being lost on boats between Indonesia or Sri Lanka and Australia, that anger is being expressed. Anger at conservative government. Anger at life savers allegedly using tough language. Anger at the world not heating up. But what is illustrative is what hasn't made the well paid agitators angry. Gillard declared she would denounce misogyny wherever she saw it .. went to Dubai and didn't mention it, despite being faced with an audience who placed women in chains. Admire the calmness with which the agitators accept Thomson's latest admission, having kept corrupt administration in government for three years. Or the sanguine nature preserved while Jonathan Pollard is jailed for doing nothing, while killers are freed for peace.
Admire how radio ABC managed to shine a light of reason so bright, that Japanese soldiers listening in failed for decades to know Japan had lost the war. Was Snowden a useful idiot for Putin? Melbourne city council raises the interesting question of how would a terrorist who killed for sport be sentenced today?
Today is the anniversary of the foundation (1920) of the US Civil Liberties Union. Those bastards are the reason killers were freed before Obama used peace as an excuse. Fear of effective government is a big motivator for some. Some fear nuclear power in India, but praise it in Iran. Today is also another anniversary. Twenty minutes after Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released hostages .. why else would Obama be giving them nuclear weapons?
Admire how radio ABC managed to shine a light of reason so bright, that Japanese soldiers listening in failed for decades to know Japan had lost the war. Was Snowden a useful idiot for Putin? Melbourne city council raises the interesting question of how would a terrorist who killed for sport be sentenced today?
Today is the anniversary of the foundation (1920) of the US Civil Liberties Union. Those bastards are the reason killers were freed before Obama used peace as an excuse. Fear of effective government is a big motivator for some. Some fear nuclear power in India, but praise it in Iran. Today is also another anniversary. Twenty minutes after Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released hostages .. why else would Obama be giving them nuclear weapons?
Historical perspective on this day
In 250, Emperor Decius began a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian was martyred. 649, king Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowned his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. 1265, the first English parliament to include not only nobles but also representatives of the major towns meets in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament". 1320, duke Wladyslaw Lokietek became king of Poland. 1356, Edward Balliol abdicated as King of Scotland. 1523, Christian II was forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. 1567, Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sádefinitively drove the French out of Rio de Janeiro. 1576, the Mexican city of León was founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
In 1649, Charles I of England went on trial for treason and other "high crimes". 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signed a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence). 1785, invading Siamese forces attempted to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but were ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút. 1788, the third and main part of First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decided that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson. 1839, in the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeated an alliance between Peru and Bolivia. 1841, Hong Kong Island was occupied by the British. 1877, last day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. 1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
In 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union was founded. 1921, the first Constitution of Turkey was adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty. 1929, in Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, was released. 1936, Edward VIII became King of the United Kingdom. 1941, a German officer was murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers. 1942, World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi Germanofficials discussed the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". 1945, World War II: Hungary agreed to an armistice with the Allies. Also 1945, World War II: Germanybegan the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will took nearly two months. 1949, Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
In 1954, the National Negro Network was established with 40 charter member radio stations. 1959, the first flight of the Vickers Vanguard. 1960, Hendrik Verwoerd announced a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic. 1969, East Pakistani police killed student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage was in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War. 1972, Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program a few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. 1981, twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran released 52 American hostages. 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1987, Church of England envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon.
In 1990, following 7 days of pogroms on local Armenian population of Baku, Azerbaijan the the Red Army entered the city to restore order. 1991, Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christiansouth. 1992, Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashed into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent. 1999, the China News Service announced new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés. 2001, Philippine president Joseph Estrada was ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and was succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. 2006, witnesses reported seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913. 2007, a three-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. 2009, a protest movement in Iceland culminated as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start
In 1649, Charles I of England went on trial for treason and other "high crimes". 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signed a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence). 1785, invading Siamese forces attempted to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but were ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút. 1788, the third and main part of First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decided that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson. 1839, in the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeated an alliance between Peru and Bolivia. 1841, Hong Kong Island was occupied by the British. 1877, last day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. 1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
In 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union was founded. 1921, the first Constitution of Turkey was adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty. 1929, in Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, was released. 1936, Edward VIII became King of the United Kingdom. 1941, a German officer was murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers. 1942, World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi Germanofficials discussed the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". 1945, World War II: Hungary agreed to an armistice with the Allies. Also 1945, World War II: Germanybegan the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will took nearly two months. 1949, Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
In 1954, the National Negro Network was established with 40 charter member radio stations. 1959, the first flight of the Vickers Vanguard. 1960, Hendrik Verwoerd announced a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic. 1969, East Pakistani police killed student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage was in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War. 1972, Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program a few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. 1981, twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran released 52 American hostages. 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1987, Church of England envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon.
In 1990, following 7 days of pogroms on local Armenian population of Baku, Azerbaijan the the Red Army entered the city to restore order. 1991, Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christiansouth. 1992, Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashed into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent. 1999, the China News Service announced new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés. 2001, Philippine president Joseph Estrada was ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and was succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. 2006, witnesses reported seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913. 2007, a three-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. 2009, a protest movement in Iceland culminated as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start
=== Publishing News ===
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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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List of available items at Create Space
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Saulyn Anthony. Born on the same day, across the years, as
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BENT EIGHTS BEAT GAIA SPARK BUGGIES
BOB CARTER
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (3:53pm)
Mark Steyn farewells a principled man in a corrupted field, the late climate sanity crusader Professor Bob Carter.
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STUMPY ANWAR
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (2:58pm)
Just a typical evening at a Pakistan mosque. First, a teenager mistakenly put his hand up when a cleric asked if anyone did not love the Prophet Muhammad. The kid simply misheard the question. Then the imam denounced him as a blasphemer, so the boy ran home and cut off his right hand with a scythe. But all’s well that ends well:
The boy’s family … argues that the cleric did nothing wrong and should not be punished.“We are lucky that we have this son who loves Prophet Muhammad that much,” Muhammad Ghafoor, Anwar’s father, said in a telephone interview. “We will be rewarded by God for this in the eternal world.”Anwar, too, declined to make any charge against the mullah. “What I did was for love of the Prophet Muhammad,” he said …Anwar Ali did not even go to a hospital after his amputation, but had his right arm’s stump bandaged at a village clinic and went home.
Give that boy a hand. A right one, preferably.
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BURGER FRENZY
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (2:49pm)
They were lining up at 6am in Sydney for In-N-Out Burgers. Fair enough; they’re an excellent burger. But they are as nothing compared to the delights at Whataburger or the truly brilliant Torchy’s.
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FRACTION FRICTION
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (2:38am)
“We are not run by factions,” Mr Turnbull said …
Malcolm Turnbull’s authority over the Liberal Party is being undermined by factional powerbrokers, who are defying the Prime Minister’s call for stability and pushing ahead with plans to remove sitting members.
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Ok this is todays article, The AFFF has been around for a bit and the class action is no secret, but this is the first time farmers on SM are asking for financial donations, partially to stick it back to animal rights crowds but also just to clear their names and set a precedent as not to see businesses suffer at the hands of government on this scale again in future, There is a lot of ramifications I could go into, but in a nutshell 3 senators are being targeted for introducing the bill, sadly the current govt will have to pay if any compensation is awarded, but many say that's not what its all about, just a token amount to a few hardest hit and a legal precedent to secure future trade deals as solid, unlike the broken trade agreement with Indonesia.
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TAX-FUNDED AND TOPICAL
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:16pm)
The big issue at Radio National:
How do you tell your mum that you’ve signed up for a one-way trip to …
Syria? Iraq? Nigeria? Click for the correct answer. In other radio news, I’ll be in the studio tonight with 2GB’s Steve Price from 8pm. Tune in for fun and japes.
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HE GOT SHAHADED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (1:27pm)
Another Australian idiot for Islam has received his final welfare payment:
Terrorist Mahmoud Abdullatif is believed to have been killed fighting with Islamic State in Syria.An Abdullatif supporter posted a tribute earlier this morning to the jihadist who once boasted on his Instagram account that he “just wants to go to heaven and live forever”.“Brother Abu Abdullatif @riseyamuslim got Shahada insha’allah the day before yesterday, make du’a for Allah. Azza wa Jall to accept him,” the post said.Abdullatif’s wife Zehra Duman, 21, also posted a message about his death on the weekend, congratulating him for winning the race to heaven. ‘Til we reunite,’ she wrote.
Abdullatif joins around 20 or so incompetent Australian warriors who have been killed in Syria and Iraq. Of course, this has nothing to do with Islam.
UPDATE. The latest wave of Islamic State savagery:
ISIS militants have gone on an execution frenzy in Iraq, murdering at least 20 people in a 48-hour period, including two men “found guilty” of being gay.Photographs of the killings, shocking even by the group’s barbaric standards, have been circulating on social media since last Thursday.
They include images of two blindfolded men being hauled to the top of a seven or eight story tower before being thrown to their deaths, one at a time, as a large crowd watches from below.One picture is captioned: “The Muslims come to watch the application of the law.”
Which is odd, because this again is nothing to do with Islam.
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PROFITS ARE EEEVIL
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:24am)
Labor goes full commie in Queensland:
That key line, one more time:
That key line, one more time:
The only reason someone buys a business is to make money from it.
They really do believe this is a bad thing.
(Via MM)
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NAME THOSE IDIOTS
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:20am)
“What should we call Islamic State?” asks academic Amin Saikal. “DAISH or IS?”
A reasonable question. But why limit ourselves to just those two options? Let the BlairPoll decide:
Thank you for voting!
Total Votes: 3,991
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HIZBIEFEST
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:16am)
Seven’s Bryan Seymour, the only journalist permitted to attend Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Lakemba rally on Saturday night, reports:
“Eventually, we will bounce back and we will reclaim everything that they have taken from us,” Bilal Merhi told the crowd.
Let’s make a deal, babycakes. You reclaim everything we’ve taken from Islam and in return you guys give back everything you’ve taken from civilisation. It’ll be like George Costanza asking for a pre-nup.
Around 200 men and another 50 women and children, behind a curtain at the back, attended the public rally held by extremist Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir.They were told Australia’s democratic government has to go in favour of an Islamic caliphate ruled by Sharia law.
On the other hand … no.
Freedom of speech was top of the agenda as firebrand preacher Bilal Merhi said Australians use freedom of speech to mock Islam.“We will continue to stand up and oppose your freedom to insult our Messenger! Takbir! Allahu Akbar! Takbir! Allahu Akbar!”
Oh, go blow it out your Akbar, pal. Meanwhile, in England:
A trainee lawyer at one of the world’s biggest law firms has posted a 21-minute online rant in which he blames the Paris attacks on non-Muslim “kuffar” who “killed our people and raped and pillaged our resources”.Aysh Chaudhry, from international law firm Clifford Chance, tried to explain the terrorist atrocities that left 17 people dead and how Muslims should respond.Mr Chaudhry, who works in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions department, criticised moderate Muslims for allowing their minds to be “colonised” and claimed Islam was “superior” to Western ideology.
Chaudhry later apologised, claiming he had “no intention other than to encourage intellectual debate.” His softheaded employers did nothing about it:
A spokeswoman for Clifford Chance said Chaudhry, who is still employed by the firm, was not facing any disciplinary action. She said: “The views expressed in this video are personal and not those of Clifford Chance.”
(Via Elaine)
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THERE ARE THREE
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (1:53am)
This is true.
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RIP-OFF REMEDY
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (1:34pm)
Imagine my excitement when the Greens announced their new “climate champion” campaign:
Becoming a climate champion means you’ll be the first to know about campaign actions and opportunities in the coming months. We’ll send you a Climate Champion toolkit with everything you need to build awareness and support in your community.
Naturally, I signed up immediately and then began a letterbox vigil for the arrival of my personal climate champion toolkit. Tension grew as I fantasised over the possible contents. A t-shirt announcing my climate champion status? A secret decoder ring? Actual tools I could use to dismantle coal-fired power plants?
Continue reading 'RIP-OFF REMEDY'
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LIVES SAVED, LEFT SEETHES
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (12:59pm)
The absolute moral perversion of the Australian left is again dramatically apparent. Our leftists are actually more upset that lives are being saved by Tony Abbott’s government than they ever were by the deaths of asylum seekers under the previous Labor government.
Continue reading 'LIVES SAVED, LEFT SEETHES'
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RADIO DARKNESS
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (11:47am)
Several museums in Guam feature fine exhibits telling the stories of Japanese soldiers who remained hidden on the island long after the end of the war.
Some didn’t emerge for decades, preferring to skulk through the jungles in the apparent belief that World War II was ongoing.
Continue reading 'RADIO DARKNESS'
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NEW MAUNDERING
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (11:12am)
Solar colding causes scientific enbafflement:
“I’ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, told the BBC.“If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive… you’ve got to go back about 100 years,” he said …Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading, told the BBC there was a significant chance that the Sun could become increasingly quiet.He compared the current circumstances to the latter half of the 17th Century, when the sun went through an extremely quiet phase referred to as the Maunder Minimum.That era of solar inactivity coincided with bitterly cold winters to Europe, where the Baltic Sea and London’s River Thames froze over. Conditions were so harsh that some described it as a mini-Ice Age.
Via Mike, who emails: “Just wondering how this will be pinned on man-made emissions … from a mere 149.6 million kilometres away. A new measure of Tony Abbott’s intergalactic evil, I’ll wager.”
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WORDS WORSE THAN DEATH
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (1:32am)
Under Labor, around one thousand asylum seekers were killed.
Under the current government, a few asylum seekers are spoken to rudely.
Leftists favour a return to Labor’s policies, presumably because dead people can’t hear anything.
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IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN
Tim Blair – Sunday, January 19, 2014 (6:32pm)
Not that the Greens are an unusual bunch, but here’s their candidate for the Griffith by-election.
Geoff Ebbs is a publisher, broadcaster and performer and also a thinker, actor and writer.
UPDATE. In 2007 and 2010, Ebbs ran as a federal Greens candidate in NSW under the name Giovanni (Joe) Ebono. Or, as our new favourite Green puts it, he ”created Giovanni Ebono and ran him twice for federal politics.” The “visionary and pioneer” is now ”working under birth name - Geoff Ebbs.”
UPDATE II. Ebono/Ebbs has also performed in pantomimes.
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No boats for a month. You’d think there would be applause…
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:58am)
No boat arrivals for a month now. You’d think this was grounds for congratulations. But The Age prefers to retail lurid claims instead:
Two asylum seekers jumped off their boat as the Australian Navy was taking them back to Indonesia around Christmas Day, in what a fellow passenger said was a suicide attempt.Pretty lame “suicide attempt”. But good enough for The Age to go with
Sailors from accompanying navy ships pulled them from the water and put them back on board, asylum seeker Rahman Ali said.
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Were Snowden and his media allies Putin’s useful idiots?
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:41am)
Who knows, but the possibility puts the role of the pro-Snowden media in an unflattering light:
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers said Sunday that Edward Snowden likely received help from the Russians in leaking NSA data.
“There’s some security things that he did get around that were clearly above his capabilities. The way he departed and how he ended up in Moscow—now, we still have some questions there,” Rogers, who appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said.
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Islamists go for gold in terrorism at Sochi
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:26am)
Muslim terrorists seek to win the gold medal - again - for violence at the world’s greatest sports contest:
A new threat to the upcoming Winter Olympics surfaced Sunday as US lawmakers worried about attacks at the Games to be hosted by Russia.What is it about the Muslim faith that makes this threat so utterly predictable?
In a video posted on a well-known jihadi forum, two men believed to have been suicide bombers in last month’s deadly bombings in Volgograd speak of them—and warned of more.
“We’ve prepared a present for you and all tourists who’ll come over,” the video says in part. ”If you hold the Olympics, you’ll get a present from us for the Muslim blood that’s been spilled.”
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Green against growth
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:14am)
At least the Greens candidate for Griffiths is honest - he really is against growth.
And this time, at least, he is standing under his real name.
And this time, at least, he is standing under his real name.
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Another dangerous fib about our past
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (10:32am)
Our racial resentment industry really is out of control:
And there is this consideration. George Orwell, a Leftist, in writing about conservative Rudyard Kipling, conceded this about the Okes of his own generation:
We should imagine Oke as the judge presiding in the case of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, faced with two Tasmanian Aborigines in Victoria who’d murdered two civilians, wounded five others and burned down stations. Could she seriously have declared the two Tasmanians “freedom fighters” and acquitted them? What would have been the consequences, in terms of anarchy and bloodshed?
This is a case of Leftists re-imagining our history without a thought for the real-life choices faced at the time by those who were there. It is lazy and intellectually dishonest. Worse, it feeds the racial resentment industry, leading not to reconciliation but its opposite.
Shame on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle for going along with this destructive and dishonest farce. Power above principle, I guess.
Melbourne City Council will build a memorial to two Aborigines who in 1842 were the first people executed in Melbourne…Resisting while settlement or simply stealing and killing?
On this day, January 20, in 1842, 5000 Melbourne citizens watched as Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were hanged for the murder of two whale hunters while resisting white settlement.
At a time of violence between European settlers and indigenous people, the Protector of Aborigines, George Robinson, brought Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and 14 other native Tasmanian Aborigines to Melbourne in 1839 as intermediaries.So the settlement they were “resisting” was not even of their own lands. And note the Age’s use of the term “guerilla-style”, freighted with political meaning. By this measure Ned Kelly and every other bushranger ran “guerilla-style” campaigns.
In 1841 Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and three indigenous women stole guns, and in a six week, guerilla-style campaign against authorities in the Dandenongs and the Mornington Peninsula, burnt and stole from houses and killed two whalers.
A buoyant Councillor Cathy Oke ... said Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were ‘’freedom fighters’’ whose crimes should be ‘’taken in context at the time that this occurred. It’s a time in Melbourne when the tensions between whites and the traditional owners, or Aboriginal people, was obviously quite heightened,’’ she said.Oke is plain foolish and misleading. Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were in no sense “tradtional owners” of these lands. Indeed, if anyone in these events were “traditional owners” of the land on which they operated they are the eight Aboriginal trackers who helped to catch them. Nor is there evidence that Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were fighting for “freedom”.
And there is this consideration. George Orwell, a Leftist, in writing about conservative Rudyard Kipling, conceded this about the Okes of his own generation:
One reason for Kipling’s power ... [was] his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view… He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly.In this case, too, the quality of the Left’s thought has deteriorated for the same reason - the refusal to take responsibility and answer the question “In such and such circumstances, what would you do?”.
We should imagine Oke as the judge presiding in the case of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, faced with two Tasmanian Aborigines in Victoria who’d murdered two civilians, wounded five others and burned down stations. Could she seriously have declared the two Tasmanians “freedom fighters” and acquitted them? What would have been the consequences, in terms of anarchy and bloodshed?
This is a case of Leftists re-imagining our history without a thought for the real-life choices faced at the time by those who were there. It is lazy and intellectually dishonest. Worse, it feeds the racial resentment industry, leading not to reconciliation but its opposite.
Shame on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle for going along with this destructive and dishonest farce. Power above principle, I guess.
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Drowning is better than swearing
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (8:01am)
Tim Blair puts it perfectly:
Under Labor, around one thousand asylum seekers were killed.Links at the link.
Under the current government, a few asylum seekers are spoken to rudely. Leftists favour a return to Labor’s policies, presumably because dead people can’t hear anything.
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Warmist BBC gets the chills as Sun goes quiet
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (7:51am)
Even the warmist BBC warns of possible cold times ahead:
(Thanks to many readers.)
Something is happening to the solar activity on the surface of the sun: it’s declining, fast… The number of sunspots is a fraction of what scientists expected, solar flares are half. Richard Harrison is the head of space physics at the Rutheford-Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. He says the rate at which solar activity is falling mirrors a period in the 17th century where sunspots virtually disappeared.As I write this, ABC Radio National is pumping out another global warming scare instead, warning of more droughts. No sceptics are interviewed.
Harrison [1:57]: The Maunder Minimum of course was a period of almost no sunspots at all for decades… It was a period where you had a kind of mini ice-age. You had a period where the Thames froze in winters and so on…
BBC science correspondent Rebecca Morelle [2:46]: The Maunder Minimum came at a time when snow cover was longer and more frequent. It wasn’t just the Thames that froze over. The Baltic Sea did too. Crop failures and famines were widespread across Northern Europe. So does a decline in solar activity mean plunging temperatures for decades to come?…
BBC voiceover: Some researchers have gone way further back in time, looked into the ice sheets of particles that were once in the upper atmosphere, particles that show variations in solar activity. Mike Lockwood’s work suggests that this is the fastest rate of solar decline for 10,000 years…
Dr. Lucie Green [5:38]: The world we live in today is very different to the world that was inhabited during the Maunder Minimum. So we have human activity, we have the industrial revolution, all kinds of gases being pumped into the atmosphere, so on the one hand we’ve got perhaps a cooling sun, but on the other hand you’ve got human activity that can counter that and I think it is quite difficult to say actually how these two are going to compete and what the consequences then are for the global climate. BBC: So even if the planet as a whole continues to warm, if we enter a new Maunder Minimum the future for Northern Europe could be cold and frozen winters for decades to come...
(Thanks to many readers.)
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- 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
- 1265 – The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
- 1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
- 1356 – Edward Balliol surrenders his claim to the Scottish throne to Edward III in exchange for an English pension.
- 1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
- 1567 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1576 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
- 1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
- 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
- 1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
- 1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
- 1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
- 1877 – The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
- 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
- 1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
- 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
- 1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
- 1937 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President, the first occasion a Presidential Inauguration to take place on 20 January following the ratification of the 20th Amendment
- 1941 – A German officer is killed in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
- 1945 – World War II: The Miklós provisional government of Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
- 1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
- 1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 39 relating to India and Pakistan is adopted.
- 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
- 1954 – In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
- 1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
- 1969 – East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is partly responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- 1976 – Lebanese Civil War: Damour massacre takes place.
- 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
- 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 1990 – The Red Army crackdown on civil protests in Baku, Azerbaijan during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
- 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
- 2001 – President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- 2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
- 2009 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
- 2016 – An attack had been carried out on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan killing 21 people and injuring 50 people.
- 2017 – Inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of The United States of America.
- 225 – Gordian III, Roman emperor (d. 244)
- 1029 – Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan (d. 1072)
- 1292 – Elizabeth of Bohemia (d. 1330)
- 1436 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
- 1502 – Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish-Mexican rancher and missionary (d. 1600)
- 1554 – Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
- 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1624)
- 1586 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
- 1664 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (d. 1718)
- 1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1741)
- 1716 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1795)
- 1716 – Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
- 1732 – Richard Henry Lee, American lawyer and politician, President of the Continental Congress (d. 1794)
- 1741 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish botanist and author (d. 1783)
- 1755 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1824)
- 1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
- 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1781 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (d. 1848)
- 1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- 1798 – Anson Jones, American physician and politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
- 1804 – Eugène Sue, French author and politician (d. 1857)
- 1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
- 1834 – George D. Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
- 1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
- 1867 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
- 1870 – Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer (d. 1894)
- 1873 – Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
- 1874 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach (d. 1938)
- 1876 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
- 1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor (d. 1968)
- 1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator (d. 1968)
- 1880 – Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
- 1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1957)
- 1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d. 1968)
- 1883 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
- 1888 – Lead Belly, American musician (d. 1949)
- 1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
- 1893 – Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968)
- 1894 – Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic (d. 1976)
- 1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985)
- 1896 – George Burns, American actor, comedian, and producer (d. 1996)
- 1898 – U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Clarice Cliff, English potter (d. 1972)
- 1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990)
- 1900 – Colin Clive, French-English actor (d. 1937)
- 1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1902 – Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 1920)
- 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
- 1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Fleur Cowles, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
- 1909 – Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1989)
- 1910 – Joy Adamson, Austria-born Kenyan painter and author (d. 1980)
- 1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani businessman and politician, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2002)
- 1918 – W. Cleon Skousen, American author and academic (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader, and actor
- 1922 – Don Mankiewicz, American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1923 – Slim Whitman, American country and western singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist and composer (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician
- 1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
- 1927 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani journalist, author, and academic (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Antonio de Almeida, French conductor and musicologist (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Jimmy Cobb, American drummer
- 1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian
- 1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
- 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1931 – David Lee, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
- 1934 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (d. 2014)
- 1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
- 1937 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Derek Dougan, Irish-English footballer and journalist (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (d. 2000)
- 1939 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist
- 1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater and actress
- 1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
- 1940 – Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
- 1942 – Linda Moulton Howe, American journalist and producer
- 1944 – José Luis Garci, Spanish director and producer
- 1944 – Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
- 1945 – Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1946 – David Lynch, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1946 – Vladimír Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
- 1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and sportscaster
- 1948 – Nancy Kress, American author and academic
- 1948 – Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerian politician, President of Niger
- 1948 – Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
- 1948 – Nigel Williams, English author, playwright, and screenwriter
- 1949 – Göran Persson, Swedish lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
- 1950 – Liza Goddard, English actress
- 1950 – William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)
- 1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer
- 1951 – Ian Hill, English bass player (Judas Priest)
- 1952 – Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet
- 1952 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1952 – John Witherow, South African-English journalist and author
- 1953 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and philanthropist
- 1954 – Rudy La Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer
- 1954 – Alison Seabeck, English lawyer and politician
- 1955 – McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands
- 1956 – Maria Larsson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs
- 1956 – Bill Maher, American comedian, actor, and television host
- 1956 – Richard Morecroft, English-Australian journalist and game show host
- 1956 – John Naber, American swimmer
- 1957 – Andy Sheppard, English saxophonist and composer
- 1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, director, and producer
- 1959 – Tami Hoag, American author
- 1959 – R. A. Salvatore, American author
- 1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese-American mountaineer
- 1960 – Scott Thunes, American bass player
- 1960 – Will Wright, American video game designer, co-founded Maxis
- 1963 – James Denton, American actor
- 1963 – Mark Ryden, American painter and illustrator
- 1964 – Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
- 1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach
- 1964 – Jack Lewis, American soldier and author
- 1964 – NoB, Japanese singer
- 1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter
- 1964 – Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino lawyer and politician
- 1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
- 1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- 1965 – Warren Joyce, English footballer and manager
- 1965 – John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965 – Heather Small, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1965 – Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
- 1966 – Tracii Guns, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor, director, and producer
- 1967 – Stacey Dash, American actress and journalist
- 1967 – Jay Hunt, Australian-English businessman
- 1968 – Nick Anderson, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1968 – Junior Murray, Grenadian cricketer
- 1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker and activist, co-founded MindVox
- 1969 – Blair Larsen, New Zealand rugby player
- 1969 – Nicky Wire, Welsh singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1970 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
- 1971 – Questlove, American drummer, DJ, and producer
- 1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1971 – Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
- 1971 – Jung Woong-in, South Korean actor
- 1971 – Ger McDonnell, Irish mountaineer and engineer (d. 2008)
- 1972 – Nikki Haley, American accountant and politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina
- 1973 – Stephen Crabb, Scottish-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales
- 1973 – Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- 1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer and coach
- 1975 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
- 1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentinian race car driver
- 1975 – Zac Goldsmith, English journalist and politician
- 1976 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish journalist and sportscaster
- 1976 – Michael Myers, American football player
- 1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
- 1977 – Paul Adams, South African cricketer and coach
- 1978 – Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Joy Giovanni, American wrestler and actress
- 1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
- 1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
- 1978 – Sid Wilson, American DJ and pianist
- 1978 – Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Kim In-kwon, South Korean actor
- 1979 – Choo Ja-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1980 – Karl Anderson, American wrestler
- 1980 – Philippe Cousteau, Jr., American-French oceanographer and journalist
- 1980 – Philippe Gagnon, Canadian swimmer
- 1980 – Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
- 1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
- 1980 – Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 – Daniel Cudmore, Canadian actor and stuntman
- 1981 – Brendan Fevola, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
- 1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player
- 1982 – Ruchi Sanghvi, Indian computer engineer
- 1982 – Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
- 1983 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
- 1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1985 – Tanel Sokk, Estonian basketball player
- 1986 – Kevin Parker, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
- 1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
- 1988 – Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer
- 1988 – Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Nick Foles, American football player
- 1989 – Washington Santana da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1989 – Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
- 1991 – Jolyon Palmer, English race car driver
- 1992 – Jorge Zárate, Mexican footballer
- 1993 – Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer
- 1994 – Denis Mukhametdinov, Russian footballer
- 1995 – Sergi Samper, Spanish footballer
Births[edit]
- 250 – Pope Fabian (b. 200)
- 820 – Al-Shafi‘i, Palestinian scholar and jurist (b. 767)
- 842 – Theophilos, Byzantine emperor (b. 813)
- 882 – Louis the Younger, king of the East Frankish Kingdom
- 1095 – Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
- 1156 – Henry, English-Finnish bishop and saint
- 1189 – Emperor Shizong of Jin (b. 1123)
- 1191 – Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
- 1191 – Theobald V, Count of Blois (b. 1130)
- 1265 – John Maunsell, Lord Chancellor of England
- 1479 – John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
- 1568 – Myles Coverdale, English bishop and translator (b. 1488)
- 1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
- 1663 – Isaac Ambrose, English minister and author (b. 1604)
- 1666 – Anne of Austria (b. 1601)
- 1707 – Humphrey Hody, English scholar and theologian (b. 1659)
- 1709 – François de la Chaise, French priest (b. 1624)
- 1751 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
- 1770 – Charles Yorke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
- 1779 – David Garrick, English actor, producer, playwright, and manager (b. 1717)
- 1810 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (b. 1721)
- 1819 – Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
- 1837 – John Soane, English architect, designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
- 1841 – Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish explorer (b. 1780)
- 1841 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
- 1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
- 1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779)
- 1852 – Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
- 1873 – Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
- 1875 – Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
- 1891 – Kalākaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
- 1900 – John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
- 1901 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
- 1907 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842)
- 1908 – John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)
- 1913 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
- 1915 – Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
- 1920 – Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)
- 1921 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
- 1924 – Ivor Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
- 1936 – George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
- 1940 – Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
- 1944 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (b. 1860)
- 1947 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1954 – Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
- 1954 – Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1890)
- 1955 – Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)
- 1962 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
- 1971 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1971 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
- 1973 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
- 1973 – Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
- 1977 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)
- 1979 – Gustav Winckler, Danish singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
- 1980 – William Roberts, English soldier and painter (b. 1895)
- 1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
- 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
- 1988 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1988 – Dora Stratou, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1903)
- 1989 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1991 – Stan Szelest American keyboard player (b. 1943)
- 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress and humanitarian activist (b. 1929)
- 1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, first Kenyan Vice-President (b. 1911)
- 1996 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1927)
- 2002 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer (b. 1963)
- 2003 – Al Hirschfeld, American painter and illustrator (b. 1903)
- 2003 – Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
- 2004 – Alan Brown, English race car driver (b. 1919)
- 2004 – T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan lawyer and academic (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Per Borten, Norwegian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Miriam Rothschild, English zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Dave Lepard, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1980)
- 2007 – Dan Christensen, American painter (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian patriarch (b. 1920)
- 2009 – Sheila Walsh, English author (b. 1928)
- 2012 – John F. Baker, Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – John Levy, American bassist and manager (b. 1912)
- 2012 – Ioannis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Alejandro Rodriguez, Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (b. 1911)
- 2014 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Jonas Trinkūnas, Lithuanian ethnologist and academic (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Edgar Froese, Russian-German keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1944)
- 2016 – Mykolas Burokevičius, Lithuanian carpenter and politician (b. 1927)
- 2016 – Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and author (b. 1920)
- 2016 – David G. Hartwell, American anthologist, author, and critic (b. 1941)
Deaths[edit]
- Christian feast day:
- Armed Forces Day (Mali)
- Heroes' Day (Cape Verde)
- Inauguration Day, held every four years in odd-numbered years, except when January 20 falls on a Sunday. (United States of America)
- Martyrs' Day (Azerbaijan)
Holidays and observances[edit]
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 7:12
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 19: Morning
"I sought him, but I found him not." - Song of Solomon 3:1
Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where you lost him, for he has not gone away. But it is hard work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is easier than to go one mile back for the lost evidence.
Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.
Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.
Evening
"Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures." - Luke 24:45
He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work he has many fellow-labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but he instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit. The most unlearned of men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by his Holy Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to them, and grants the divine anointing by which they are enabled to behold the invisible. Happy are we if we have had our understandings cleared and strengthened by the Master! How many men of profound learning are ignorant of eternal things! They know the killing letter of revelation, but its killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case a little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; truth was to us as beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for without his gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars. Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.
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Abner, Abiner
[Ăb'nûr] - father of light.
The son of Ner, cousin of Saul and captain of his army. Because of his relationship to the king and his force of character he exercised great influence during Saul's reign and afterwards (1 Sam. 14:50, 51; 1 Sam. 17:55, 57).
The Man Who Was Destitute of Lofty Ideals
Although Abner was the only capable person on the side of Saul and his family, he had little time for the lofty ideas of morality or religion (2 Sam. 3:8, 16).
As Saul's commander-in-chief, he greatly helped his cousin to maintain his military prowess. After Saul's death, he set Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, on the throne.
As an enemy of Joab, David's general, he fought long and bravely against him, and after a severe defeat, killed Asahel in self-defense (2 Sam. 2).
As a proud man, he resented most bitterly the remonstrance of Ish-bosheth, over the matter of Saul's concubines, and negotiated with David to make him king of Israel (2 Sam. 3:7-22).
As an unprincipled man, he reaped what he sowed. Joab, dreading the loss of his own position, and thirsting for revenge, murdered Abner at Hebron. David gave him a public funeral, and afterwards charged Solomon to avenge Abner's murder (2 Sam. 3:26-37; 1 Kings 2:5, 6).
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Today's reading: Genesis 46-48, Matthew 13:1-30 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 46-48
Jacob Goes to Egypt
1 So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!"
"Here I am," he replied.
3 "I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes."
5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. 6 So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. 7 Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters--all his offspring.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 13:1-30
The Parable of the Sower
1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear."
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