In a bizarre column, Andrew Bolt compares Bill Shorten to Tony Abbott. Abbott lost much standing on principle so as to help the conservative party. Shorten has taken much from the party that supports him. Abbott is to Shorten as Abraham Lincoln is to a Bonobo monkey. Queensland go to the polls soon, and ALP's leader, Palasczcuk is lying about Adani mine. Only LNP will responsibly marshall Queensland's resources. Activists are lying about illegal immigrants from Manus. at some $10k a head, it is an expensive holiday for them. They live in filth after having been given much, because activists lied to them, saying it would impress the world for them to be filthy. Had I gone on holiday to Fiji, smashed their toilets, ruined their kitchens and then said the experience was awful, the press would not reward me as they do these illegal immigrants. The message of thanksgiving is borne in humbleness. Anyone who holds their own life dear must acknowledge their wealth. Those that don't do not see what is there.
I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
Here is a video I made I'll Find My Way Home
Jon & Vangelis is the collaborative effort between the singer Jon Anderson (better known as lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes), and the Greek synthesizer musician Evangelos Papathanassiou (better known as Vangelis). Together they released a number of successful albums in the 1980s.
=== from 2016 ===
IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a Matthew Lesh article on “Australian Tax Mutineers” and it includes the 2010 Rudd ALP Mining Tax. The tax had been a response to ALP’s declining returns from the economy during the GFC. It was anticipated that the tax would pay for any increased spending measures wanted for the approaching election. There had been no consultation, and the implementation was awful. The tax did not raise money but the spending measures were locked in. The mining industry ran adverts giving information about the industry that the government wasn’t admitting with their “Soak the rich” rhetoric. Finally Gillard rolled Rudd but kept the useless tax measure. Abbott killed the useless tax with the new senate in 2014. ALP kept holding onto the bill to the end.
Turnbull's government had been crowing at passing legislation while the incompetent one was taking a selfie with Obama. But one of their plans involving a $5 departure tax was defeated. The reason for the defeat being Pauline Hanson and another of her party were absent when they were expected to support the bill. The bill would not have raised much money at all, but had the potential to exceed the Mining Tax of Kevin Rudd in 2010.
Turnbull's government had been crowing at passing legislation while the incompetent one was taking a selfie with Obama. But one of their plans involving a $5 departure tax was defeated. The reason for the defeat being Pauline Hanson and another of her party were absent when they were expected to support the bill. The bill would not have raised much money at all, but had the potential to exceed the Mining Tax of Kevin Rudd in 2010.
=== from 2015 ===
Ian Plimer launched his book "Heaven and Hell" where he criticised Pope Francis for the papal encyclical which were it to be accepted without question, would condemn billions of people to live poor. Every day a billion dollars is spent on anthropogenic global warming alarmism. It is a faith not based on science. Pope Francis has allowed red greens to write his thoughts, and they promote socialist ideals and attack prosperity goals. Cheap energy from coal which releases carbon dioxide, a plant food, is essential for the world for energy. Pope Francis has welcomed debate. One can criticise the encyclical as a practicing Catholic. And one should. One welcomes debate, but despises how green reds have not engaged in debate but rather abused process, stealing a billion dollars a day from the world's poorest.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
If you don't say what you mean, you can't mean what you say.
Police have been prevented from effective policing on drugs by anti corruption laws. The result is the streets are over run with drugs. A concerned citizen could tell a policeman who a drug dealer is, and the policeman has to inform head office in a four week paper chase before the dealer can be assessed. In the unlikely case that a dealer is caught, they are likely to be excused by the courts without conviction. But people are dying from this pathetic attempt at harm minimisation. ABC is not really biased, it is openly partisan. It has never been balanced. However, it has grown too arrogant, too blatant. It has actually campaigned against Australia's national interest. It has covered up corruption within the ALP and Union movements. The particular issue at the moment is the structure of the organisation at the top. The board is incapable of holding the CFO or News Editor in Chief because there aren't any. The managing director is claiming that he is responsible without ever taking responsibility and the board are afraid of challenging him. The ABC is supposed to be independent of government, but they are also supposed to be competent. So when a march is held for the ABC opposing a five percent cut over five years, one might expect fair minded people of all types marching. Instead, the marchers are Socialist Alliance, or Maritime Union Australia or Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance with a speaker from Deputy ALP Plibersek and Green Ludlam but no conservative anywhere. Not even as a guest speaker. The ABC has to change to become competent.
The Senate is being changed by the changing allegiances of Jacqui Lambie. She has promised to vote with the ALP and oppose all legislation. At the moment, any block of three independent senators can block any legislation the ALP and Greens oppose. There are eight independent senators most of whom vote with the ALP. For good government, one has to vote conservative.
A mosque chief in a nation supporting jihadist terrorism wants to tell Pope Francis that Islam is for peace. IS, Boko Haram and Al Shaabab offer different interpretations.
Baby found in a drain by recreational walkers. Authorities suspect the boy had been there a week. Mother is located. There are important questions to be asked. Mother facing possible charges of attempted murder.
From 2013
Flannery's prediction regarding rain has not been right, or Australian cricketers might have won more test matches this year (by more, I mean some). But it hasn't panned out, because it was a grossly unprofessional lie. The ABC have been broadcasting such grossly unprofessional lies for a long time. There is no balance within the national broadcaster. How that problem will be addressed will define how Australia will heal from the ALP years. One telling note is the ABC discovering they were the source of the leak of their salary. The problem is not the leak. It isn't just global warming that ABC is opinionated and wrong about, it is also politics.
GG Bryce has again demonstrated why she is not fit for that office. She has in the past protected Queensland ALP from facing justice over their executive decision to commit a crime by destroying evidence of a gang rape of an aboriginal child held in detention. She has campaigned for the ALP in a bid for a UN seat. Her opinion on gay marriage is legitimate of a private citizen, not of a head of state. Her republican views are similarly incommensurate with her office. Should there arise a constitutional crisis, many would feel she is partisan. However, she is clearly trying to push Mr Abbott into a rash act, so as to delegitimise her successor.
Barrie Cassidy occasionally says something right. I don't hear him say it, when he does, as I won't watch ABC news or current affairs .. I don't share their opinions. Riots in Indonesia show that ABC opinions are unbalanced and dangerous. Gillard takes sides, opposing her own government and attacking Mr Abbott. Where is that highly lauded policy dynamo that was credited with Medicare Gold a decade before Obamacare?
GG Bryce has again demonstrated why she is not fit for that office. She has in the past protected Queensland ALP from facing justice over their executive decision to commit a crime by destroying evidence of a gang rape of an aboriginal child held in detention. She has campaigned for the ALP in a bid for a UN seat. Her opinion on gay marriage is legitimate of a private citizen, not of a head of state. Her republican views are similarly incommensurate with her office. Should there arise a constitutional crisis, many would feel she is partisan. However, she is clearly trying to push Mr Abbott into a rash act, so as to delegitimise her successor.
Barrie Cassidy occasionally says something right. I don't hear him say it, when he does, as I won't watch ABC news or current affairs .. I don't share their opinions. Riots in Indonesia show that ABC opinions are unbalanced and dangerous. Gillard takes sides, opposing her own government and attacking Mr Abbott. Where is that highly lauded policy dynamo that was credited with Medicare Gold a decade before Obamacare?
Historical perspective on this day
In 534 BC, Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. In 1174, Saladin entered Damascus, and added it to his domain. In 1248, conquest of Sevilleby Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. In 1499, pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck was hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. In 1510, first campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sacked the capital Kutaisi and burned Gelati Monastery. In 1531, the Second War of Kappel resulted in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. In 1644, John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. In 1733, the start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
In 1808, French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela. In 1810, Sarah Boothdebuted at the Royal Opera House. In 1863, American Civil War: Battle of Chattanoogabegan – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforced troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attacked Confederate troops. In 1867, the Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody. In 1876, corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) was delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. In 1889, the first jukebox went into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. In 1890, King William III of the Netherlands died without a male heir and a special law was passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
In 1910, Johan Alfred Ander became the last person to be executed in Sweden. In 1914, Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdrew from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. In 1918, Heber J. Grant succeeded Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1924, Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, was actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way was only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper. In 1934, an Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovered an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This led to the Abyssinia Crisis. In 1936, Life magazine was reborn as a photo magazine and enjoyed instant success. In 1939, World War II: HMS Rawalpindi was sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
In 1940, World War II: Romania became a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. In 1943, World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg was destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Also, World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fell to American forces. In 1946, French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, killed thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War. In 1955, the Cocos Islands were transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia. In 1959, French President Charles de Gaulle declared in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals". In 1963, the BBC broadcast the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell), which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
In 1971, representatives of the People's Republic of China attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. In 1972, the Soviet Union made its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket. In 1974, 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons were executed by the provisional military government. In 1976, Apneist Jacques Mayol was the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. In 1979, in Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. In 1980, a series of earthquakes in southern Italy killed approximately 3,000 people. In 1981, Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In 1985, gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane landed in Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed the aircraft, but 60 people died in the raid.
In 1992, the first smartphone, the IBM Simon, was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1993, Rachel Whiteread won both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year. In 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, then crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. In 2001, the Convention on Cybercrime was signed in Budapest, Hungary. In 2003, Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigned following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. In 2004, the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, was consecrated. In 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. In 2006, a series of bombings killed at least 215 people and injured 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. In 2007, MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There were no fatalities. In 2009, the Maguindanao massacre occurred in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines In 2010, Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack killed 2 civilians and 2 marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. In 2011, Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
In 1808, French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela. In 1810, Sarah Boothdebuted at the Royal Opera House. In 1863, American Civil War: Battle of Chattanoogabegan – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforced troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attacked Confederate troops. In 1867, the Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody. In 1876, corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) was delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. In 1889, the first jukebox went into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. In 1890, King William III of the Netherlands died without a male heir and a special law was passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
In 1910, Johan Alfred Ander became the last person to be executed in Sweden. In 1914, Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdrew from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. In 1918, Heber J. Grant succeeded Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1924, Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, was actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way was only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper. In 1934, an Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovered an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This led to the Abyssinia Crisis. In 1936, Life magazine was reborn as a photo magazine and enjoyed instant success. In 1939, World War II: HMS Rawalpindi was sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
In 1940, World War II: Romania became a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. In 1943, World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg was destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Also, World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fell to American forces. In 1946, French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, killed thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War. In 1955, the Cocos Islands were transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia. In 1959, French President Charles de Gaulle declared in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals". In 1963, the BBC broadcast the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell), which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
In 1971, representatives of the People's Republic of China attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. In 1972, the Soviet Union made its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket. In 1974, 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons were executed by the provisional military government. In 1976, Apneist Jacques Mayol was the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. In 1979, in Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. In 1980, a series of earthquakes in southern Italy killed approximately 3,000 people. In 1981, Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In 1985, gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane landed in Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed the aircraft, but 60 people died in the raid.
In 1992, the first smartphone, the IBM Simon, was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1993, Rachel Whiteread won both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year. In 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, then crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. In 2001, the Convention on Cybercrime was signed in Budapest, Hungary. In 2003, Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigned following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. In 2004, the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, was consecrated. In 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. In 2006, a series of bombings killed at least 215 people and injured 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. In 2007, MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There were no fatalities. In 2009, the Maguindanao massacre occurred in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines In 2010, Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack killed 2 civilians and 2 marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. In 2011, Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
=== Publishing News ===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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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
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
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- 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
- 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
- 1859 – Billy the Kid, American criminal (d. 1881)
- 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
- 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
- 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer)
- 1970 – Zoë Ball, English television and radio host
- 1998 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
- 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII, was hanged after reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.
- 1876 – William "Boss" Tweed, a New York City politician who had been arrested for embezzlement, was handed to US authorities after having escaped from prison to Spain.
- 1924 – Edwin Hubble (pictured) published evidence in a newspaper that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is actually another galaxy, one of many in the universe.
- 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden encountered a garrison of Somalis in Italian service at Walwal, which led to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- 2009 – A crowd of people on their way to register the candidacy of Esmael Mangudadatu in the upcoming election for Governor of Maguindanao, Philippines, were attacked by supporters of his rival, resulting in at least 57 deaths.
Deaths
- 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
- 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
- 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
- 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
- 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish royal imposter (b. 1474)
- 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
- 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
- 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
- 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
- 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (b. 1604)
- 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
- 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
- 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
- 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
- 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
- 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
- 1974 – victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
- Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
- Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
- Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
- Asrate Medhin Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
- Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
- 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-English pilot, author, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (b. 1926)
- 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (b. 1910)
- 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
- 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Delbert Tibbs, American poet and activist (b. 1939)
Tim Blair 2017
SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Within industry association Engineers Australia is an entity called Sustainable Engineering, which appears to be a support group for engineers who wished they’d obtained an arts degree instead.
SHALLOW WATERS, DEEP CAVE
So far as I’m aware, Fairfax didn’t cover Nick Cave’s beautiful screw-you slam on those who would deny singers the right to perform in Israel.
BOWLING FOR ALTONA
Phoned a dear old friend last night. He took my call at the Altona Bowling Club where, being a dutiful and devoted son, he was with his elderly pensioner mother on a fixed-budget midweek pokies binge.
Andrew Bolt 2017
TREATING US LIKE IDIOTS WITH MANUS
A little tip for refugee activists. Don't treat us like idiots. The claims made about the attempt to evict 370 illegal immigrants from the defunct Manus Island detention centre are absurd. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
TIPS FOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Tell us the news here.
HOW CAN YOU TELL PALASCZCUK IS LYING?
H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.T.E.: "The Palaszczuk government is set to offer infrastructure funding and a royalty holiday for the mine that would cost Queensland taxpayers almost $500 million. About $100 million of that would go towards funding roads to the mine. This is despite the Premier saying no taxpayer funding would go to the Carmichael project."
AUSTRALIA
Well done that man who sang the national anthem at the 'Gabba before the First Test. And isn't is just great to hear the voice of Bill Lawry? It takes us to a great space.
THE JULIE BISHOP MIRAGE
James Campbell doubts rumors of a Julie Bishop leadership push, with Scott Morrison as deputy: "Asked how many votes she could rely on, a minister reflected for a couple of seconds before answering: 'Maybe a couple of the women. Maybe.'... Morrison does have a number of votes ... though opinions differ about whether that number is six or seven."
TURNBULL ENERGY PLAN DOESN'T MAKE THE CUTS IT CLAIMS
This suggests Malcolm Turnbull's National Energy Guarantee is a dud: "Wholesale electricity price reductions that the Turnbull government attributes to its preferred National Energy Guarantee policy will really be driven by the existing Renewable Energy Target, government modelling says."
Bill Shorten is the new Tony Abbott
COLUMN Bill Shorten is the Tony Abbott of the Labor Party — and I mean that in a good way. Both men are superb Opposition leaders. All Shorten needs now is to not make Abbott’s big mistake.
Tim Blair
THE ACCURATE TWO
BANDANA MAN ADMIRES BANDANA MAN
MONKEY MAGIC
WEDNESDAY NOTICEBOARD
CATCH ’EM ALL
ADELAIDE ADELOAD ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTY
Andrew Bolt
Petrol on a fire
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (9:21am)
Yes, Islam needs reform.
Yes, a significant minority of Muslims represent a security threat.
But note also: most Australian Muslims are opposed to terrorism, and are as much Australian as anyone. To drive a wedge between them and the rest of us is not just unfair, nasty and stupid, but dangerous.
So the following people are a menace and should just shut the hell up.
Jacqui Lambie:
UPDATE
But a great many Australians are naturally and genuinely worried, and it would be a huge mistake to dismiss them as just more Jacqui Lambies or Farmer Johns:
===Yes, a significant minority of Muslims represent a security threat.
But note also: most Australian Muslims are opposed to terrorism, and are as much Australian as anyone. To drive a wedge between them and the rest of us is not just unfair, nasty and stupid, but dangerous.
So the following people are a menace and should just shut the hell up.
Jacqui Lambie:
Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie ... called for greater security screening of the 12,000 Syrian refugees Australia will soon be accepting.United Patriots Front:
“No one’s talked putting security, electronic bracelets on them, nobody’s gone that far, I think it’s about time we put our foot down here,” she said… “Maybe the first person that should have an electronic device put them is the bloody Grand Mufti,” Senator Lambie said. “We’ll be able monitor what is going on and where they’re going,” Senator Lambie said.
Farmer John, from United Patriots, spoke to the crowd while it chanted “No Muslims in Melton”, and threatened more violent action. “We’re going to burn every mosque down if they build them ... Let’s stick it up them,” he said.Farmer John, if you’ve been quoted correctly you are an idiot and a menace.
UPDATE
But a great many Australians are naturally and genuinely worried, and it would be a huge mistake to dismiss them as just more Jacqui Lambies or Farmer Johns:
Australians overwhelmingly fear a Paris-style terror attack on our shores, with more than half believing a large-scale event is likely and one-quarter convinced it is inevitable.I don’t think we’re seeing the mainstream political leadership needed to address these fears. Just dismissing those fears, relativising them or treating them as evidence of “Islamophobia” - all favorites of the media class - simply won’t do.
A special Newspoll, taken at the weekend exclusively for The Australian, also reveals that two-thirds of people believe the Muslim community is not doing enough to condemn terrorist attacks or to integrate into society.
And it found voters divided on whether Australia should commit ground troops in Iraq and Syria to fight Islamic State.
Malcolm Turnbull weakens on national security
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (9:14am)
MALCOLM Turnbull has stumbled, and now we must ask: is the Prime Minister strong enough to take on terrorists?
So far he’s been lucky. The media is still so in love with him that it has covered up his stumbles, or praised weakness as wisdom.
But the signs are ominous. Incredibly, not one week after Islamic State slaughtered 129 people in Paris, Turnbull even proposed a ceasefire in Syria and a power-sharing deal that could include the terrorist group.
You can’t signal weakness more clearly.
Turnbull has three main tasks in protecting us from Islamic terrorism — other than helping ASIO try to detect and stop the hundreds of jihadist threats.
The first: destroy the terrorists, and especially IS, which has trained nearly 200 Australian jihadists. Its strength is a dangerous inspiration and resource.
The second: encourage the reform of Islam. We need a modern version that doesn’t make enemies of unbelievers or demand submission to Muslim rule.
And the third: close our borders to potential jihadist recruits until the winds of jihad blow out.
But on all three fronts, Turnbull last week went backwards.
(Read full article here.)
===So far he’s been lucky. The media is still so in love with him that it has covered up his stumbles, or praised weakness as wisdom.
But the signs are ominous. Incredibly, not one week after Islamic State slaughtered 129 people in Paris, Turnbull even proposed a ceasefire in Syria and a power-sharing deal that could include the terrorist group.
You can’t signal weakness more clearly.
Turnbull has three main tasks in protecting us from Islamic terrorism — other than helping ASIO try to detect and stop the hundreds of jihadist threats.
The first: destroy the terrorists, and especially IS, which has trained nearly 200 Australian jihadists. Its strength is a dangerous inspiration and resource.
The second: encourage the reform of Islam. We need a modern version that doesn’t make enemies of unbelievers or demand submission to Muslim rule.
And the third: close our borders to potential jihadist recruits until the winds of jihad blow out.
But on all three fronts, Turnbull last week went backwards.
(Read full article here.)
Socialist complains police are stopping them from monstering others
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (9:09am)
Socialism is the natural home of the authoritarian.
Today’s example: Socialist Party activist Mel Gregson goes on ABC radio 774 this morning to complain that police protected anti-Islam protesters from socialist protesters wanting to confront them. She insisted police should get out of the way so that her protesters could decide who could meet and protest in public.
Interesting admission: she said the police standing between the anti-Islam protesters and the socialists had their faces to the socialists, which to me suggests exactly where they expected most of the violence to come from - a fact repeatedly glossed over in media reports.
Imagine such people with real power. Or just cast your mind back to any number of totalitarian regimes which preach that their moral self-righteousness trumps your freedom:
===Today’s example: Socialist Party activist Mel Gregson goes on ABC radio 774 this morning to complain that police protected anti-Islam protesters from socialist protesters wanting to confront them. She insisted police should get out of the way so that her protesters could decide who could meet and protest in public.
Interesting admission: she said the police standing between the anti-Islam protesters and the socialists had their faces to the socialists, which to me suggests exactly where they expected most of the violence to come from - a fact repeatedly glossed over in media reports.
Imagine such people with real power. Or just cast your mind back to any number of totalitarian regimes which preach that their moral self-righteousness trumps your freedom:
Mission creep
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (9:04am)
Why does the Race Discrimination Commissioner, a former Labor staffer, now involve himself in debates not on race but religion?
Sam Newman is sick of the finger waggers and professional offence-takers.
===MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The Race Discrimination Commissioner has described yesterday’s anti-Islam rallies around the country as ugly and disappointing…UPDATE
TIM SOUTPHOMMASANE: These anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that’s seeking to promote hatred and division.
Sam Newman is sick of the finger waggers and professional offence-takers.
The ABC - a soapbox for warming alarmists
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (8:50am)
This is not reporting but propagandising.
ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning aired a report on the upcoming Paris conference on global warming - the background to them and what allegedly needs doing.
All four people interviewed were warming activists, and not one was a climate scientist, let alone a member of a scientific or government body. No sceptic was interviewed, of course. All scare, no balance.
The line up:
===ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning aired a report on the upcoming Paris conference on global warming - the background to them and what allegedly needs doing.
All four people interviewed were warming activists, and not one was a climate scientist, let alone a member of a scientific or government body. No sceptic was interviewed, of course. All scare, no balance.
The line up:
- professional warming alarmist Tim Flannery, notorious for his dud predictions.Why no balance? Isn’t the ABC required by law to give it?
- Tony Wood, from the Grattan Institute.
- a spokesman from the Climate ActionTracker group of activists.
- Erwin Jackson of the Climate Institute.
Kevin Andrews: send special forces to fight IS
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (7:43am)
Former defencs minister Kevin Andrews says we are not winning the war on the Islamic State and troops must be sent in:
===Our efforts in training Iraqi forces is commendable, but insufficient…Andrews rightly worries about the weak leadership of the US president:
There are options to the alternatives of either maintaining current efforts or a full-scale invasion of Syria that we should suggest to the US.
First, no matter how much the West loathes President Putin, it should co-operate with him to defeat IS.
Secondly, the idea of removing Assad should be postponed until and unless there is a credible alternative…
Thirdly, a concerted campaign by coalition special operations forces and related personnel is required to defeat IS…
The West cannot drift along for another year. It needs a clear strategy to defeat IS and a willingness to win.
Obama’s response to the Paris atrocities and his remarks in Turkey are worrying. At a time when the coalition of nations fighting IS is seeking a strong, united response, Mr Obama said, “But what I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning, or whatever other slogans they come up with.”
The statement reflects the drift in the US response to the Daesh threat over the past year.
Forget Abbott. Is even Albo tougher than Turnbull on terrorism?
Andrew Bolt November 23 2015 (4:41am)
Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure and not happy:
Turnbull and those media supporters are seeing the criticism purely through a partisan Turnbull-vs-Abbott lens. Therefore the “Abbott view” must be attacked or mocked and Turnbull defended.
Wait until they realise that this “Abbott view” is actually justified concern about Turnbull’s drift, which exposes him to criticism even from Labor.
Rowan Dean asks today’s big question: Is Anthony Albanese tougher than Malcolm Turnbull on national security?
===MALCOLM Turnbull returns to Canberra under pressure from members of his Government to toughen the Federal Government’s resolve against terror threats.What a pathetic response, and widely shared by too many Turnbull defenders in the media.
The Prime Minister faces a major test in the Coalition party room after his 10-day international trip was dominated by needling at home from some conservative MPs, who remain loyal to former PM Tony Abbott.
Mr Turnbull said he would convene a meeting of the National Security Committee on his return as nations prepared to raise pressure on Islamic State in the wake of terror attacks in Paris and Mali.
Mr Abbott and some of his allies have also called for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to be reinstated to the committee, citing concerns about foreign fighters returning to Australia.
Mr Abbott himself, has given a number of thinly veiled critiques of Mr Turnbull, calling for increased efforts in the fight against IS in Syria and northern Iraq.
Mr Abbott’s complaints, made while Mr Turnbull was overseas, have been viewed dimly by the PM and his closest advisers.
Turnbull and those media supporters are seeing the criticism purely through a partisan Turnbull-vs-Abbott lens. Therefore the “Abbott view” must be attacked or mocked and Turnbull defended.
Wait until they realise that this “Abbott view” is actually justified concern about Turnbull’s drift, which exposes him to criticism even from Labor.
Rowan Dean asks today’s big question: Is Anthony Albanese tougher than Malcolm Turnbull on national security?
LABOR has finally found a potential roadblock to the Turnbull juggernaut, and it’s called Anthony Albanese.
Appearing on Channel 10’s The Bolt Report yesterday, the man who, two years ago, was elected Labor leader by the party members (but given the flick by the union bosses in favour of Bill “Dead Man Walking” Shorten) put in a performance that must have sent shivers down the spines of every Liberal MP.
Why? Because this so-called Labor Left-winger showed he is more conservative by nature than the current Coalition Prime Minister…
Last week, Malcolm Turnbull finally revealed his true, touchy-feely Left wing colours, to the dismay of conservatives across the country. First came his comments which gave the impression that the ISIS terror group could be part of a power sharing deal in Syria…
As a conservative, there is only one possible response to the question of the future of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and it is this: “These people need to be wiped out because what they seek to do is to wipe us and our way of life out. It’s that simple … we need to defeat this scourge.”
Indeed. Fine words echoing basic conservative principles. But they didn’t come from our prime minister, nor did they come from his predecessor Tony Abbott, although they easily could have done. They came from Anthony Albanese.
I almost choked on my latte when this Member for a trendy inner-city Sydney seat went on to say that putting troops on the ground in Syria was “worthy of consideration"…
With the Liberals heading ever leftward under Turnbull, Albo’s chucked a sharp right. Best of all, he’s done it on the single most critical issue of our era – Islamic extremism.
It’s time to lift your ABC game
Piers Akerman – Sunday, November 23, 2014 (12:03am)
In the next few weeks, ABC supremo Mark Scott is going to receive an unwelcome and long overdue letter from Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull which will point out the obvious shortcomings in the public broadcaster’s operations.
Continue reading 'It’s time to lift your ABC game'War on drugs handcuffed by rules
Miranda Devine – Saturday, November 22, 2014 (11:59pm)
THE death of 19-year-old Georgina Bartter after ingesting ecstasy at a Sydney dance festival two weeks ago has launched a thousand family conversations.
Continue reading 'War on drugs handcuffed by rules'On The Bolt Report, November 23
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (5:47pm)
On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
Editorial: Fight!
My guests: Family First Senator Bob Day, former Treasurer Peter Costello, former NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Costa and Nick Cater, Australian columnist and head of the Menzies Research Centre.
So much to discuss, including saving the Abbott Government, kicking Obama, the Palmer circus, the Victorian election, the art of attack and more.
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
From my interview with Family First Senator Bob Day:
Continue reading 'On The Bolt Report, November 23'
===Editorial: Fight!
My guests: Family First Senator Bob Day, former Treasurer Peter Costello, former NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Costa and Nick Cater, Australian columnist and head of the Menzies Research Centre.
So much to discuss, including saving the Abbott Government, kicking Obama, the Palmer circus, the Victorian election, the art of attack and more.
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
From my interview with Family First Senator Bob Day:
ANDREW BOLT: So, is it too early to say that the Clive Palmer experiment, this blazing comet in the sky, it’s over, his power is broken?The full interview:
BOB DAY: I think that is too early to tell. But, like you say, three is the magic number. With three senators banding together, you can block anything, providing Labor and the Greens oppose, which they seem to be doing. But let’s see how it goes. Look, I’ve been encouraging Senator Lambie to try and sort out her differences with her colleagues. Senator Lazarus and Senator Dio Wang are both very, very good people. And as the Chinese President said of him, last week, when he came, if you want to walk fast, you know, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk with a friend, and you need friends in that place. So, I would certainly encourage Jacqui Lambie to see what she can do with her colleagues.
ANDREW BOLT: Don’t like that advice, Bob. I’d rather she look to you and David. But never mind.
BOB DAY: Well, you know, whatever.
ANDREW BOLT: The Government is travelling badly, Bob. Now, you used to be a member of the Liberal Party, and now you’re with Family First, obviously. What’s your take? Why is the Government travelling so badly?
BOB DAY: Well, I think, look, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is doing a good job, I think. But, look, the strength and success of any
organisation is its second line. It doesn’t matter whether it’s business or politics. And in governments, it’s the strength of your second line. Now, it was said that Bob Hawke was a good prime minister because he had a very, very good second line. John Howard had a spectacularly good second line, you know, Costello, Minchin, Anderson, Reith, Vanstone, there was a very, very strong second line there. And I think that is the key. Prime ministers do what they have to do, and Tony Abbott’s done a very good job with the G20 and APEC, and those sorts of things that you expect your prime minister to do. But that’s where the focus is. His Government will stand or fall on how successful and how good his second line is, and that’s his ministry.
ANDREW BOLT: Well, you’re implying that some of those people in that second line aren’t up to scratch. Which ones are you singling out?
Continue reading 'On The Bolt Report, November 23'The ABC is NOT BIASED, shout its socialist mates
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (11:26am)
Of course the ABC isn’t biased. It’s just a coincidence that its defenders at Sydney’s rally yesterday brandished the banners of the Socialist Alliance, the Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance and the Socialist-led Maritime Union of Australia, and cheered Labor’s Tanya Plibersek and the Greens’ Scott Ludlam as they attacked the wicked Right-wing Murdoch media and the sinister Right-wing Institute of Public Affairs:
===Of course the ABC isn’t biased. It’s understandable if an ABC presenter gets upset at cuts and sees a nasty Right-wing conspiracy to end his sinecure:
That sapling is our “heritage”? Seriously?
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (5:49am)
The Age unquestioningly reports a protest that claims that some saplings of the kind available at any good nursery are “too precious to lose” and part of our “heritage” - when more just like them will be planted when the works are done.
Check the trees for yourself:
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Who is vetting the Liberal candidates?
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (5:43am)
Is the Victorian Liberal Party’s head office up to the job?
===A LIBERAL Party candidate who planned to bring a Bollywood porn star to Melbourne on the eve of the state election has been sacked.
Thomastown candidate Nitin Gursahani is the second Liberal candidate in a week to lose his job.
Last Sunday, Sydenham candidate John Varano quit after the Sunday Herald Sun prepared to reveal he had once been charged with assaulting his wife.
Mr Gursahani, a Marketing Manager with his family’s company Kiren Australia, will host a number of events this week featuring adult film star-turned-Bollywood actor Sunny Leone… Ms Leone is a pornographic actor who was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003… In August the Liberal Party lost two candidates — Jack Lyons, who was standing for Bendigo West and Upper House candidate Aaron Lane — following inappropriate comments on social media.
Messages sent
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (5:25am)
The head of Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmed’s mosque has a message:
===“I will tell him ... that Islam is peace, the word means peace and submission,” Kizilaslan said of what he plans to relay to Pope Francis if he gets the chance during the pontiff’s Nov. 29 private stop at the mosque…Al Shaabab has a message:
“(Pope Francis) is an important figure to make (Islam) more understandable ... to non-Muslims,” the majority of whom, Kizilaslan said, did not “understand Islam in the right way.”
The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it had staged an attack in Kenya on Saturday in which gunmen ordered non-Muslims off a bus and shot 28 dead, while sparing Muslim passengers.Boko Haram has a message:
Three of the group led out to be killed saved their lives by reciting verses of the Koran for the militants, a local security official said.
Nigerian militants killed at least 45 people in an attack on a north-eastern village… Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates to “Western education is a sin” in the Hausa language, is fighting to establish Shariah law in Africa’s most populous nation of more than 170 million… “They tied peoples’ hands behind their backs and slit their throats like animals,” Moh’d said.The Islamic State has a message:
THE Islamic State death cult has claimed responsibility for a Melbourne teenager’s frenzied knife attack on two counter-terrorism officers.
The group’s propaganda magazine, Dabiq, ...declares that the stabbing was linked to an order given by Shaykh Abu Mohammad al-Adnani just days before the incident.
“In Australia, Numan Haider stabbed two counter-terrorism police officers,” the article states. “These attacks were the direct result of the Shaykh’s call to action, and they highlight what a deadly tinderbox is fizzing just beneath the surface of every Western country, waiting to explode into violent action at any moment given the right conditions.”
Lambie says she’s leaving
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (5:22am)
Jacqui Lambie hints that the only hitch is trying not to be sued by Clive Palmer:
===CLIVE Palmer’s “berserk’’ recruit Jacqui Lambie has warned her political critics that even a machine gun won’t stop her confirming she will sit as an independent.
In an exclusive interview, the Tasmanian Senator said voters have urged her to “get out there and have a shot at it yourself’’…
A formal announcement on her split with the Palmer United Party is now awaiting legal advice on how to extricate herself from PUP and sit in the Senate as an independent.
“I didn’t have no one tell me not to go independent. That’s the problem. They’re all saying it’s got to be good for Tasmania, whatever I do and that comes down to the jobs, the cheaper fuel, the Renewable Energy Target, the Bass Strait,’’ she said.
Accusing Mr Palmer of using standover tactics, including sending in rugby league legend Glenn Lazarus to tell her how to vote, she warned she would not be intimidated.
“I felt like there was heavy handed tactics being used, I put it that way,’’ she said.
“If you want to intimidate Jacqui Lambie you’ll have to bring in a M60 and we will start with that,’’ she laughed… Witnesses to the incident claim that Senator Lazarus, dubbed “The Brick With Eyes’’ during his rugby league career, stormed into her office and told her how she should vote.
Let’s see if Paul Barry says it again
Andrew Bolt November 23 2014 (5:07am)
ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry last year:
The ABC is being cut by just five per cent over five years. The Age sees a massacre:
I believe in the free market, I believe in freedom of speech, I believe actually in privatisation …Tim Blair is waiting:
Impressively, Barry is able to keep his deeply-held belief in privatisation to himself during any discussion of ABC funding.UPDATE
The ABC is being cut by just five per cent over five years. The Age sees a massacre:
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===Hamas Looking to Buy More Electricity - From Israel - Israel National News
"The Israel Electric Company already provides over 1/3 of Gaza's electricity - despite numerous terror attacks by Hamas to kill Israeli forces and civilians alike, and despite Hamas's continued public statements threatening genocide against the Israeli and Jewish peoples.
Egyptian politician Imad Hamdi, from the Egyptian Popular Front, has criticized the move, calling Hamas hypocritical…. " - Dalit Halevi, Tova Dvorin
Continue to the link, reading this and more articles at ...….http://paper.li/
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===UN Ambassador: Iran Being Offered $6 Billion in Relief
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===Sign Petition to Keep the Pressure on Iran
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==="Of course, journalists are permitted to produce pure poppycock if the media outlet they are associated with has no objection to publishing it, or to leading its readers astray.
So the claptrap that Friedman inflicts on his readers is not really a valid reason for his dismissal by the NYT – which has given ample indication that not only does it have no objection to leading its readers astray, but when it comes to Israel, it has a strong interest in doing so.
With stunning gall, he writes: “Iran has lied and cheated its way to the precipice of building a bomb, and without tough economic sanctions – sanctions that President Obama engineered.... Iran would not be at the negotiating table.”
Sanctions that Obama engineered? Really? One can only wonder whether Friedman is counting on his readers’ total ignorance or total amnesia. Or whether he is suffering from them himself.
In fact the Obama administration was one of the greatest obstacles to the sanctions that brought the Iranians to the table, virtually coerced to do so by pressure from Congress (and even some Europeans)." - Martin Sherman
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I wish I could give her back all that he has taken from her. She deserved a long, fruitful life. - ed===
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/scientologys-worst-nightmare-why-they-made-author-lawrence-wright-look-like-a-demon/story-fnixwvgh-1226765972006
Scientology was recognised ..in '83 .. thank you Bob Hawke .. ed===
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Where is Wally? - ed
30 books you have to read before 30
I love books. Most of these are not inspiring or worthy of spending much time. How about Watership Down? Diana by Delderfield, or To Serve Them All My Days? James Branch Cabell's Jurgen or Figures of Earth? Edding's Belgariad? Stow's Midnite? Job? Anne Rice's Jesus The Lord? Redeeming Love? - ed
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- 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
- 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
- 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
- 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
- 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
- 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
- 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
- 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
- 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
- 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
- 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
- 1946 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians.
- 1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
- 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
- 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
- 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
- 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
- 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
- 1974 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
- 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
- 1978 – Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
- 1978 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwaveand mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
- 1980 – The 6.9 Mw Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.
- 1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contrarebels in Nicaragua.
- 1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
- 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
- 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
- 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
- 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
- 2006 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
- 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
- 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines.
- 2010 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Salehsigns a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
- 2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
- 870 – Alexander, Byzantine emperor (d. 913)
- 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
- 1190 – Pope Clement IV (d. 1268)
- 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
- 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
- 1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
- 1496 – Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)
- 1508 – Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549)
- 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
- 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)
- 1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1720)
- 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French violinist and composer (d. 1730)
- 1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian and author (d. 1766)
- 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799)
- 1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
- 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
- 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)
- 1781 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
- 1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)
- 1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American author and activist (d. 1895)
- 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States(d. 1869)
- 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
- 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prizelaureate (d. 1923)
- 1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
- 1858 – Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (d. 1938)
- 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
- 1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)
- 1868 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (d. 1953)
- 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
- 1871 – William Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)
- 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1933)
- 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
- 1878 – Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)
- 1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
- 1886 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)
- 1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
- 1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman (d. 1964)
- 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)
- 1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
- 1896 – Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic(d. 1953)
- 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)
- 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English historian, author, and critic (d. 1999)
- 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948)
- 1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator (d. 1974)
- 1902 – Aaron Bank, American colonel (d. 2004)
- 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
- 1905 – K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant (d. 1979)
- 1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (d. 1989)
- 1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986)
- 1907 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (d. 2014)
- 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)
- 1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)
- 1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)
- 1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)
- 1914 – Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author (d. 2006)
- 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (d. 2013)
- 1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2011)
- 1916 – P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator (d. 1970)
- 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
- 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986)
- 1923 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author and poet
- 1924 – Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player and educator (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Paula Raymond, American model and actress (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994)
- 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor
- 1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author and educator (d. 1999)
- 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)
- 1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
- 1927 – John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
- 1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
- 1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
- 1928 – John Coleman, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 1973)
- 1928 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer
- 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
- 1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (d. 1972)
- 1930 – Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager
- 1932 – Michel David-Weill, French-American banker
- 1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
- 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor
- 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)
- 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
- 1934 – Robert Towne, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1935 – Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer
- 1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
- 1936 – Robert Barnard, English author, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author
- 1937 – Graham Hearne, English lawyer and businessman
- 1938 – Patrick Kelly, English archbishop
- 1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
- 1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
- 1941 – Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager
- 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer
- 1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
- 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964)
- 1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress
- 1943 – David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach
- 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer
- 1944 – Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director
- 1944 – James Toback, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1945 – Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
- 1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and radio host
- 1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
- 1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
- 1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002)
- 1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer and manager
- 1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
- 1946 – Bobby Rush, American activist and politician
- 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French radio and television host
- 1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter
- 1948 – Frank Worthington, English footballer and manager
- 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man)
- 1950 – Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic
- 1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic
- 1950 – Charles Schumer, American lawyer and politician
- 1951 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager
- 1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player and educator
- 1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef and author
- 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer, and conductor
- 1953 – Martin Kent, Australian cricketer
- 1953 – Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (d. 2014)
- 1954 – Pete Allen, English clarinet player and saxophonist
- 1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
- 1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist
- 1955 – Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author (Cats Laughing)
- 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
- 1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer and coach
- 1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician
- 1956 – Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer
- 1956 – Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach
- 1958 – Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and lawyer
- 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor
- 1960 – Robin Roberts, American sportscaster and journalist
- 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
- 1961 – Nicolas Bacri, French composer
- 1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
- 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza
- 1961 – Peter Stanford, English journalist and author
- 1962 – Lance King, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela
- 1963 – Gwynne Shotwell, American businesswoman, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX
- 1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
- 1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, author, and poet
- 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer
- 1966 – Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
- 1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer
- 1967 – Steve Deacon, Australian rugby league player
- 1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach
- 1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer
- 1968 – Robert Denmark, English runner and coach
- 1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
- 1968 – Mark Soden, Australian rugby league player
- 1968 – Anthony Sullivan, English rugby league and union player
- 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
- 1969 – Olivier Beretta, Monégasque racing driver
- 1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
- 1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
- 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1970 – Zoë Ball, English radio and television host
- 1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
- 1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter
- 1970 – Karsten Müller, German chess player and author
- 1971 – Khaled Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
- 1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player and coach
- 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host
- 1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler and sportscaster
- 1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
- 1976 – Cüneyt Çakır, Turkish footballer and referee
- 1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper
- 1976 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (d. 2003)
- 1976 – Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and manager
- 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler
- 1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
- 1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
- 1977 – David Lucas, English footballer
- 1978 – Ali Güneş, German-Turkish footballer
- 1978 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (d. 2012)
- 1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter
- 1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1979 – Kelly Brook, English model and actress
- 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer and manager
- 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean child soldier and American author
- 1980 – David Britz, American nanotechnologist and engineer
- 1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
- 1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league player
- 1982 – Igor Kuzmin, Estonian rower
- 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
- 1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1983 – Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer
- 1983 – Kevin Clancy, Scottish football referee
- 1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer
- 1985 – Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
- 1985 – Mike Tolbert, American football player
- 1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 – Ossi Kanervo, Finnish figure skater
- 1987 – Fetuli Talanoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player
- 1988 – Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer
- 1990 – Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer
- 1990 – Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
- 1991 – Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer
- 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1992 – Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1994 – Wes Burns, Welsh footballer
- 1995 – Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer
- 1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
Births[edit]
- 386 – Jin Feidi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 342)
- 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
- 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
- 1161 – Adam, Abbot of Ebrach
- 1183 – William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b. 1116)
- 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
- 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
- 1464 – Blessed Margaret of Savoy (b. 1390)
- 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne (b. c. 1474)
- 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
- 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
- 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
- 1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c.1505)
- 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
- 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (b. 1604)
- 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
- 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
- 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
- 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
- 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
- 1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)
- 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
- 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1762)
- 1890 – William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
- 1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
- 1905 – John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
- 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
- 1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
- 1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
- 1937 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
- 1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
- 1937 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
- 1940 – Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867)
- 1943 – Ernie Jones, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1869)
- 1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
- 1958 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
- 1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
- 1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)
- 1974 – notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
- Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
- Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
- Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
- Asrate Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
- Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
- 1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
- 1976 – André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
- 1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
- 1982 – Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b. 1934)
- 1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 1984 – Leonard Baker, American historian and author (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
- 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (b. 1926)
- 1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)
- 1994 – Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (b. 1911)
- 1995 – Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
- 1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)
- 1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)
- 1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman (b. 1939)
- 2000 – Brian Rawlinson, English actor and playwright (b. 1931)
- 2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player and soldier (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (b. 1936)
- 2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
- 2006 – Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
- 2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
- 2007 – Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1936)
- 2009 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)
- 2010 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
- 2012 – José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1963)
- 2013 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Wayne Mills, American singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
- 2013 – Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)
- 2014 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
- 2014 – Clive Palmer, English banjo player (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943)
- 2015 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980)
- 2015 – Dan Fante, American author and playwright (b. 1944)
- 2015 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Jim Sochor, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
- 2016 – Rita Barberá Nolla, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
- 2016 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)
Deaths[edit]
- Christian feast day:
- Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church)
- Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro – one of Saints of the Cristero War (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church)
- Columbanus
- Felicitas of Rome
- Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church)
- November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which Black Friday can fall, while November 29 is the latest; observed on the day after Thanksgiving (United States), and its related observances:
- Buy Nothing Day (North America, Great Britain, Sweden)
- Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan)
- Repudiation Day (Frederick County, Maryland, United States)
- Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
- St George's Day (Georgia) or Giorgoba (Georgia)
Holidays and observances[edit]
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.” Colossians 3:15 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
Jacob, while expostulating with Laban, thus describes his own toil, "This twenty years have I been with thee. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee: I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." Even more toilsome than this was the life of our Saviour here below. He watched over all his sheep till he gave in as his last account, "Of all those whom thou hast given me I have lost none." His hair was wet with dew, and his locks with the drops of the night. Sleep departed from his eyes, for all night he was in prayer wrestling for his people. One night Peter must be pleaded for; anon, another claims his tearful intercession. No shepherd sitting beneath the cold skies, looking up to the stars, could ever utter such complaints because of the hardness of his toil as Jesus Christ might have brought, if he had chosen to do so, because of the sternness of his service in order to procure his spouse--
"Cold mountains and the midnight air,
Witnessed the fervour of his prayer;
The desert his temptations knew,
His conflict and his victory too."
It is sweet to dwell upon the spiritual parallel of Laban having required all the sheep at Jacob's hand. If they were torn of beasts, Jacob must make it good; if any of them died, he must stand as surety for the whole. Was not the toil of Jesus for his Church the toil of one who was under suretiship obligations to bring every believing one safe to the hand of him who had committed them to his charge? Look upon toiling Jacob, and you see a representation of him of whom we read, "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd."
Evening
"The power of his resurrection."
Philippians 3:10
Philippians 3:10
The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The resurrection is the corner-stone of the entire building of Christianity. It is the key-stone of the arch of our salvation. It would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; but to know that he has risen, and to have fellowship with him as such--communing with the risen Saviour by possessing a risen life--seeing him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb of worldliness ourselves, this is even still more precious. The doctrine is the basis of the experience, but as the flower is more lovely than the root, so is the experience of fellowship with the risen Saviour more lovely than the doctrine itself. I would have you believe that Christ rose from the dead so as to sing of it, and derive all the consolation which it is possible for you to extract from this well-ascertained and well-witnessed fact; but I beseech you, rest not contented even there. Though you cannot, like the disciples, see him visibly, yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith; and though, like Mary Magdalene, you may not "touch" him, yet may you be privileged to converse with him, and to know that he is risen, you yourselves being risen in him to newness of life. To know a crucified Saviour as having crucified all my sins, is a high degree of knowledge; but to know a risen Saviour as having justified me, and to realize that he has bestowed upon me new life, having given me to be a new creature through his own newness of life, this is a noble style of experience: short of it, none ought to rest satisfied. May you both "know him, and the power of his resurrection." Why should souls who are quickened with Jesus, wear the grave-clothes of worldliness and unbelief? Rise, for the Lord is risen.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 18-19, James 4 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 18-19
The One Who Sins Will Die
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:
“‘The parents eat sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
3 “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. 4 For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.
5 “Suppose there is a righteous manwho does what is just and right.
6 He does not eat at the mountain shrines
or look to the idols of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
7 He does not oppress anyone,
but returns what he took in pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked....
Today's New Testament reading: James 4
Submit Yourselves to God
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proudbut shows favor to the humble....”
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Boaz, Booz [Bō'ăz,Bō'ŏz]—strengthor fleetness. The wealthy and honorable Bethlehemite, or Judahite, who became the second husband of Ruth the Moabitess, and ancestor of David and of Christ (Ruth 2, 3 , 4;Matt. 1:5). The name of the left pillar of Solomon’s Temple was Boaz, for “in it is strength” (1 Kings 7:21). Boaz was true to his name and comes before us strong in grace, integrity and purpose. As the lord of the harvest, master of servants, redeemer, bridegroom and life-giver, he is a fitting type of Christ.
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