Monday, January 18, 2021

Mon 18th January 2021 Current Affairs

I view it as my job to provide a narrative of events as they unfold. I do not know what tomorrow will bring, but I point to what is right and fair, and denounce the unjust. My disdain for Democrat posturing is rooted in substantial, personal loss. I am an economic conservative, caring little for what inflames the ardour of social conservatives. But I'm sympathetic to social conservatives in their issues. Abortion is something I have little personal interest in. I feel it should be safe, but rare. It is, sometimes a necessary, life saving procedure, but widespread practice as a social alternative to birth control is repugnant. I'm sympathetic to refugees, and feel those who facilitate people smuggling through weak borders deserve a special place in hell. I care for the environment, which is why I feel it is important to liberate carbon dioxide through burning fossil fuels as it is a plant food. I disdain bird killing windmills and exorbitant solar power projects that take money from the world's poorest and gives it to wealthy AGW hucksters. I oppose the ridiculous COVID-19 hysteria which seems to merely facilitate voter fraud to steal the 2020 Presidential election from Trump. I despise racism and racists, including those who would divide America into minorities when her greatness is based on all her peoples. I support police and people who serve the public. I care nothing for the sexual deviancy of others, so long as they don't hurt others or involve children. I support a Jewish Israel and freedoms for all Israeli peoples. I oppose terrorism and note the support given it by Ukraine, North Korea, China and Iran. I stand for free speech and oppose book burners, including those who claim to be conservatives. 

There is less than three days before Biden is inaugurated. With the apparent corruption with which Biden secured the right, I am outraged. Knowing Biden endorses AGW and COVID hysteria, promotes racism, gender dysphoria and terrorism. Biden is unfit for high office. The only PM's position he is fit for is a post mortem. I don't wish terrible things for Biden. I think he deserves justice, or mental health care. Biden is being used by people who want what a Presidency can bestow. The swamp which stole the 2020 Presidential election and senate run offs cannot be allowed to stand if the nation is to be preserved. I call on American peoples to peacefully demand their rights. 

Why is it that there is an impeachment process of Trump that cannot be completed in time before his Presidency ends? Is it because if there is martial law declared, his time would be extended? We will know more in three days. But before we know more, I know Biden is calling for unity, while his lackeys have stolen my life's work on Facebook and threaten other platforms that I, as a writer, have no choice but be involved in. I will not forget that. Fourteen years of daily posting, stolen. I have done no wrong, and am powerless before these hucksters who incite riots and murder people because 'they care'. 

https://rumble.com/vcysrj-editorial-mon-18th-january-2021.html

Nancy Pelosi's backflip on gender use in congress was short lived, with her breaking it to unconstitutionally impeach Trump a second time for something he never did. Google it and it doesn't even register. It would be remiss of me to not try to fix her mistake, and so here is her speech, as I believe she intended it. 

This is not theoretical and this is not motivated by partisanship.
I stand before you today as an officer of the constitution, a speaker of the house of representatives. 
I stand before you as an 'it' that is connected to another 'it', an 'it' after a failed medical procedure, a failed medical procedure that resulted in another failed medical procedure from lack of choice, a result of a failed medical procedure. 
A result of a failed medical procedure whose antecedent failure who failed to choose wisely, proudly served in this congress, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr from Maryland. One of the first Italian Americans to serve in the congress (after Al Capone was unfairly denied?)

And I stand here before you today as a nobleist of things. A citizen of the United States of America. With my voice, and my vote .. (going on to break the constitution to impeach Trump)
(Amen and A-women)

A clear message has been sent by every congressional Democrat and 10 RINO in voting to impeach President Trump over the Capitol Hill riot. It shows corruption runs deep in Washington. It shows an abuse of power that no democracy can tolerate. Trump has been impeached twice. Once over the Russia hoax, and now over a riot the Cabal orchestrated. In neither instance had Trump done anything wrong. However, at each instance, Democrat leadership has lied about the accusation. And those who stood for facts were sidelined. The DOJ and SCOTUS are sidelined by the abuse of power, and apparently endorse it. 

When the Russia hoax impeachment vote proceeded, Senior Dem claimed there was evidence that the public was unaware. We now know that the substance of it was a fabricated dossier created by HRC and passed to the head of the CIA (at the time) who passed it to DOJ without processing it through CIA assets. Not only were the documents faked, but they had been so badly faked they did not withstand scrutiny. And FBI chiefs colluded to investigate Trump and obstruct the administration, falsely charging some people they then had sent to prison. Now, we have endorsed tech giants suppressing evidence of how they (FB, Twitter, Youtube) allowed the first sixteen captured rioters on the Capitol to organise the riot, and blame Parler which had not been involved at all. Worse, Dem and RINO have colluded to give big tech a license to act as law enforcement in pursuing companies and individuals they know were not involved with the riot, and blame them for it. And punish them. And DOJ and SCOTUS apparently endorse it. But, if the non RINO GOP campaign diligently for two years, then  if they exceed the 74 million voter support they received today. Will #VoteFraud prevent them rectifying the abuse of power? 

In the mean time, what will the Dem do with their powers? Gift Iran nuclear power? Destroy Israel? Abuse children with fake history and gender dysphoria? Penalise conservatives? Defund the military and police? Were they to embrace communism or socialism, how would it be different to what they do today? Were they to embrace fascism, would it be different to what they do now? If Jimmy Carter were alive today, and not some addled parody of Joe Biden, would he endorse it? (NB, Jimmy Carter is still alive, sort of, as this article is written, but aged). 

https://rumble.com/vcs0yl-editorial-thu-14th-january-2021.html

The persecution of General James Cartwright (circa 2012) is salient to the issue of Big Tech preemptively attacking conservatives. General Cartwright had been Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when a NYT journalist, wrote a book, Confront and Conceal, to which Cartwright was accused of leaking. The leak damaged US Israeli relations while providing for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. Only, as Caroline Glick was to write in 2017, it was not Cartwright who had leaked, but Obama. Obama pardoned Cartwright in 2017. The pardoning meant a deal would never be done with the Department of Justice allowing critical examination of the abuse of power. It illustrates the utter contempt Democrats have for natural justice and the US military. And the lengths the Cabal will go to to tie up loose ends. Loose ends like conservatives reporting on the 2020 election fraud and the Democrat Coup seizing the US Presidency and both houses of Congress. 

The Cabal have gone after Parler, after President Trump was forced off Twitter. However, lawfare has been engaged and Parler is being denied a contract service to even operate. It is like when lawyers were engaged to represent Americans victim to #ElectionFraud2020 and those lawyers had their credentials attacked before they could fulfil their functions. The Cabal prevented a free and fair hearing in any court or legislature, or even online. The enemies of freedom, called the Swamp, are overwhelming. But, the Swamp is directionless without an enemy. The Swamp has to exercise power or lose it. Who is next? Who will the swamp label as a rioter? Independent journalists? 

https://rumble.com/vco9yl-editorial-tue-12th-january-2021.html

The useful idiot that is RINO Romney is wrong about the mother of our child, USA. She is not virginal. When the patriot Ashli Babbitt was killed during a largely peaceful demonstration at the Capitol, she was not killed because President Trump incited violence or lied about election fraud. She was there because she was standing up for an opportunity the founding fathers promised was her free right. And she was killed because a Cabal has stolen the 2020 election and Georgia senate run offs and that Cabal desperately needs to protect itself. And by killing her, the Cabal has prevented President Trump from presenting his case before the legislature, as he had been allowed by constitution. Biden is now President Elect. But Biden did not get the votes he claims, and will not have the support such a turnout would endow. 

The awful situation of President Elect Biden for USA, with senate in tow, cannot be understated. Just as with 911, terrorists around the world are cheering. It is trite to say there will be no justice, as there has been none. When Biden ok'd Ukraine's sting of Russia, and a Malaysian airline was shot down, the perpetrators remained free while victims died. Innocent victims. USA will endure what she must. But, it will hurt her. President Trump may be around in 2024 to pick up the pieces again. But he may not, too. Somebody will stand up for free USA again, one day. But their task will be more daunting than that faced by Trump, who with over 74 million votes, lost to fraud. The Cabal will govern through dictation. It is true to say, as they claim, they are neither man nor woman. The deep state is not forgiving. The cold hand of bureaucracy is wet with blood and the tech tyrants will have their way until they are not useful. 

I am hurt, having lost Facebook and Twitter and faced with more. My legacy is in the hands of Google, Youtube and Amazon too. My love for America is challenged by her betrayal. And I'm reminded to note some monolog from Bridgerton's Daphne. 

"I know why you made that vow to your father"

"Just because something is not perfect does not make it any less worthy of love"

"Your father made you believe otherwise"

“He made you believe that you needed to be without fault in order to be loved, but he was wrong.” 

"Should you need any proof of the matter then look just here"

"I am tired of pretending. And I cannot continue acting as if I do not love you."

"Because I do. I love all of you."

"Even the parts you believe are too dark and too shameful"

"Every scar. Every flaw. Every imperfection."

"I love you."

"You may think you are too damaged and too broken to ever allow yourself to be happy"

"You can choose differently"

“You can choose to love me as much as I love you”

"That should not be up to anyone else. "

"That cannot be up to anyone else"

"It can only be up to you"

America, what happens now, is up to you. Do not be violent, but purposeful. Do not succumb to the Cabal, die on your feet, not your knees. We are mortal and do not have eternal life. Let God bestow it on you, instead. 

https://rumble.com/vcj82j-editorial-fri-8th-january-2021.html
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https://www.newsmax.com/headline/biden-day-one-maskmandate-paris/2021/01/17/id/1005933/?oRef=mixi
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
America in Crisis
Dershowitz: Senate Cannot Put 'Citizen Trump' On Trial
Woman Arrested Near Inauguration Checkpoint Claimed to be Cabinet Member
Protests Start Small at Newly Fortified US Statehouses
Gov. Hutchinson: Second Trump Impeachment Disservice to Nation
Horowitz: Democrats Will Persecute Christians, Want ‘Fascist’ State |
Karl Rove: 'Giuliani Defense' Would Get Trump Convicted |
Lindsey Graham: Trump Did Not Incite Riot |
McMaster: Analyze 'What the Heck Happened' at Capitol
Loews Hotels Cancels GOP Sen. Hawley's Fundraising Event

Trump Presidency
NBC Poll: Trump Approval Unhurt by Impeachment, Capitol Riot
Ex-GOP Operative Michael Ellis Now NSA's Top Lawyer
Trump Slams China's Huawei, Halting Shipments From Intel
Kudlow: 'I Was Very Disappointed in the President'
US Military Says Its Troop Removal from Somalia Is Complete
Steve Moore: Biden $1.9T Stimulus a 'Bernie Sanders Wish List'
Gen. Milley Key to Military Continuity as Biden Takes Office
Steve Cortes: Trump Expanded the Party |

Swamp Watch
The Media’s Incitement Campaign
Disgraced Lincoln Project Co-Founder Resigns
Pentagon Spent $174 Million on Drones for Afghan Army That Have Since Gone Missing
NY Democrat Looks to Ban Citizens From Owning Bulletproof Vests
John McLaughlin: Polls Show a Backlash Is Coming Against Congress, Big Tech
Georgia Prosecutor Considers Opening Criminal Investigation Into President Trump: Report
Alleged Journalist Katie Couric Would Like to “Deprogram” Trump Supporters
Democrats See Capitol Assault as Perfect Excuse to Crack Down on Civil Liberties

Parler CEO: It’s “Interesting” Big Tech Bans All Happened at Once
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=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Europe betrays Iranian people. But, one day, Iranian people will be free of their oppressors. Writes CG, "The EU's chief diplomat, Federica Mogherini has always been a terrorist sympathiser and rabid Jew hater.Spotify betrays its users over terms and conditions. FB does similarly. They claim they have the right to, but deny due process as they apply partisan support to socialists. Bernardi only wanted to have a list of music which people liked. Spotify deleted it after an ambit claim of terms and conditions breach which lacks substance. Appointment to DOE is a good man. Every Democrat on committee opposed him. Palestinians continue with terror tunnels even as Israel constructs tunnel proof fences. The terrorists have used such tunnels to kidnap for ransom, torture and murder. After the recent destruction of one such tunnel, terrorists still guard the opening from the terrorist occupied area. Pope honors abortion activist. One gets it that Pope Francis wants to heal his divided church. But he has not followed the path of leaders, but fools. 

Unions claim everything they achieve is through corruption. Government regulation has to date allowed them. ALP kills Australian industry. Alan RM Jones details some of the burdens on industry which prevent it from profiting in Australia. Australia has everything needed for a healthy, strong production sector, but it has killed the sector with outrageous construction costs related to union corruption, outrageous high power costs, outrageous, demanding, regulation. 

Cathy Newman kills her own career with interview with Jordan Peterson. One gets it that Cathy believes her own rubbish, but really, she needs to have a hard look at herself. Off air. Peterson answered her questions, but she really did not show understanding. 
=== from 2017 ===
Pictures of a golden age in Afghanistan are telling. Soviets invaded in 1979 and that was a direct result of US foreign policy under President Carter of disengagement in the Middle East. The US lost a lot of expertise in espionage and needed to resort to more cheap and nasty techniques. It wasn't until Iraq when the CIA bought out Saddam's remnants that US acquired a more sophisticated potent reach. The Arab Spring began. But then Obama trashed that through misdirection in building a Cold War to solve his broad foreign policy vacuum. Some tut tut all of the US all the time. But between bouts of insane Democrat expediency which underlies their murderously bad policy, building has happened. But the Middle East is in a terrible state as Obama leaves office. As bad as when Clinton left office or Carter.

Filling the vacuum being left by Obama is Europe with France's Hollande playing the role of terrorist sympathiser. Neville Chamberlain never learned the full cost of his 'peace.' Hollande did not build a bridge for peace. Hollande prevented peace by declaring that terrorists need not stop killing to achieve some of their aims in securing territory that is not theirs.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
― Martin Luther King Jr.

Greg Hunt has been made Health Minister by Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull. He had been the Environment Minister. Hunt had supported AGW alarmism. Expect health fads to be heavily promoted as Hunt faces the problem of Australians living longer head on. Hunt will have Turnbull's full support, until he doesn't. Turnbull, Hunt, Bishop and Shorten have promoted the AGW alarmism which has taken over $1.5 trillion each year from the world's poorest, to feed entitled rich AGW activists. There is no solution for the environment which they try to deny plant food. They simply take food away from starving people and claim they are instead denying oil rich.

Meanwhile I am entitled to subsidies on my medication. I can't afford it otherwise. I could if I had a job, but the corrupt powers have prevented that. I'm very lucky for my friends. But the way Chemist Warehouse arranges things is difficult. Their cashiers follow orders given by their pharmacists. Only their pharmacists are not always on top of orders. I saw a wheelchair customer harangue a cashier saying "I've never had to pay before. I simply get it packaged by you and go." The cashier shrugged and complied. I'm not that aggressive. I queried a Jardiance expense last month. The cashier called a pharmacist and said "That is what it cost." But this month's order was unaffordable for me. The pharmacist came by and told me that Jardiance was subsidised too. Suddenly a $200 order became $30. And I was going to get a $32 refund for last month. 

But, to get the $32 refund, I needed to got to Centrelink/Medicare. At the office I needed to produce ID and documentation. Then I needed to sign a declaration claiming I was at fault for not providing my credentials with the overpayment. I will need to wait weeks for bureaucrats to stamp the documents. It is almost as if Hunt has been Health Minister for years. 
=== from 2016 ===
One of my sisters was born on this day, and died on Valentines Day 13 years later. Pamela is a study in modern healthcare, illustrating why we need government cuts to services to prosper. She was born in 1965. Her umbilical cord entangled her neck and she was slow to breathe. For the first three years, she was thought to be developmentally slow. But that wasn't it. She had kidney disease and bowel issues. Kidney disease meant dialysis, which was performed at Albert Einstein teaching hospital in NYC. She became sicker and sicker, and missed terms of elementary school. At about the age of nine she had to have a colostomy bag. And then at twelve she got the opportunity of a used but functioning kidney. But her body rejected it. And soon after she gave up, and died. Pam could have lived on, but the effort was too much. Her home life was terribly dysfunctional. It isn't the job of government to decide how their population lives. They can't save everyone. And if expensive medical service means that many people live in poverty without decent infrastructure, then priorities are skew. I'm grateful for my sister's life. But not for her intense pain. 
=== from 2015 ===
Christianity is not impotent, but one would not know that to witness believers cut down in the Middle East and their impotent leaders struggling to find a coherent message. According to hand wringers from Gosford Anglican it is punishment for ending the carbon dioxide tax or voting in a conservative government. Why is there pain in the world? Christian leaders seem to say there is pain because people are not having their needs met by hashtags, we need more hashtags. Christian leaders, with few exceptions like Pope Francis, Brian Houston, Rick Warren are not pointing to God. But the role of the church is not secular political. There is a spiritual dimension to evil that needs to be addressed, but there is a secular and political angle the church is not equipped to prosecute. That demarcation is important, and so soldiers have died fighting for their nation, and they have served while being from any of many diverse faiths. And Christians serve and Christians die for their faith. It is ok for a Christian to die. They leave with hope. And blood cries out. A Christian is free to prosecute their service to God to the best of their ability. Or, they can be difficult and impotent hand wringers obstructing others and delving in politics they don't understand 's Tim Costello and Fred Nile have been.

Islam's hierarchy is more fractured than Christianity's. It isn't hard, apparently, for someone to get an Islamic credential. Piers Akerman has made fun of one Saudi Mohammad Saleh Al Minjed who has placed a fatwah on children building snowmen. But to be fair it is no less coherent than many of the utterings of Westboro Baptist. And not as murderous as former cleric, the corrupt Ayatollah Khomeini who profited with political power for his 'fatwah for hire' speeches. But the link between Islam and terror is undeniable. The terrorists claim it and the leaders fail to deny it, or often support it. It should not be the case that those with a small knowledge of Islam know where clerical Islamic leaders are wrong on articles of faith. But many do know more.

Today is the birthday of PFB and Mary McMahon. PFB was born in '65 and died in '78. MM was born in 1919, and died in 2014. At age 95, Mary was a committed Christian who clung to Jesus and lived gracefully as a result. But while one is mortal and will die, their love goes on. 

J Fo Gosh Islam, so many ridiculous views from Left to Right. I'm more to the Right on this but not completely anti-Islam. Every religion has its extremists, but why are so many violent acts committed in the name of Islam compared to any other religion in recent times? It is true that Muslims should not have to apologise for nutters committing terrorism in the name of their religion, but if 4000 protestors can rock up to protest against Israel, and hundreds against the Mohammad cartoons in central Sydney, surely it can be expected that even just a third of that number could turn up to protest against the Lindt and Charlie Hebdo slaughters in the West? A real pity because there are many good and law-abiding Muslims who aren't stepping up or at least, seem to be drowned out by the more articulate denialist voices who know the power of the microphone.
From 2014
Many are reliant on the Royal Commission into institutionalised sexual abuse to show their wounds, and let the healing begin. As crimes go, it is pernicious, with victims losing their voice in the community, as well as quality of life. Which is why it is disappointing that a focus has been placed on the Catholic Church and the claims of a detective who has an agenda. The Catholic Church has terrible stories of abuse, but not more so than other institutions which care for children. It could be argued that the Catholic church is in fact cleaner than other organisations that are similar. One glaring international example is the PLO, which seems to have UN approval in abusing children. Or North Korea. The profile of the detective's activity also calls into question the entire police force's management. It is unprofessional at best. And so those waiting for the Royal Commission to hear them, must wait for the incompetent to stop their obstructions. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Working very hard to deny justice is the Overland, which refuses to publish conservatives. I wouldn't subscribe to Overland, but my taxes pay for it, so I have no choice. I am reminded of when I was asked to start a business, and told I could get off unemployment, get assistance to further my education and not have to have an income test. I applied, but when I told them I would be starting a conservative email subscription I was refused, because, as I was told, it needed to be for the entire community. 


It is summer and very warm. But the projected highs have failed to materialise. The reason for the heatwave has nothing to do with global warming, but is to do with a correctable problem of a bone dry desert in central Australia. The sun heats the land, and the hot air disperses the heat out at sea. If we flooded central Australia with something like a Bradfield scheme we could see an end to the heat waves. 


Persons of Interest on SBS, highlighting how ASIO tracked communists in the past shows an ASIO that worked. It is admitted by the communists observed that they wanted violent overthrow of the government of the day. But you wouldn't know it watching the program. I am reminded of a movie highlighting the paranoid nature of the CIA operative who founded their counter insurgency work. He had believed that the communists in the cold war infiltrated the highest levels of Western Society. Records show they had.
Historical perspective on this day
In 350, General Magnentius deposed Roman Emperor Constans and proclaimed himself Emperor. 474, Seven-year-old Leo II succeeded his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He died ten months later. 532, Nika riots in Constantinople failed. 1126, Emperor Huizong abdicated the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. 1486, King Henry VII of England married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. 1535, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru. 1562, Pope Pius IV reopened the Council of Trent for its third and final session. 1591, King Naresuan of Siam killed Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day. 1670, Henry Morgan captured Panama.

In 1701, Frederick I crowned himself King of Prussia in Königsberg. 1778, James Cook was the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the "Sandwich Islands". 1788, the first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrived at Botany Bay. 1866, Wesley College, Melbourne was established. 1871, Wilhelm I of Germany was proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire was known as the Second Reich to Germans. 1884, Dr. William Price attempted to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom. 1886, modern hockey was born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896, an X-ray generating machine was exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith.

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt sent a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States. 1911, Eugene B. Ely landed on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. 1913, First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeated the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. 1915, Japan issued the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. 1916, a 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. 1919, World War I: The Paris Peace Conferenceopened in VersaillesFrance. Also 1919, Ignacy Jan Paderewski became Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. Also 1919, Bentley Motors Limited was founded.

In 1941, World War II: British troops launched a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. 1943, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1944, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosted a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis ArmstrongBenny GoodmanLionel HamptonArtie ShawRoy Eldridgeand Jack Teagarden. Also 1944, World War II: Soviet forces liberated Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad. 1945, World War II: Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army. Also 1945, World War II: Liberation of KrakowPoland by the Red Army. 1955, Chinese Civil WarBattle of Yijiangshan was fought. 1958, Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, made his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. 1960, Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashed into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years. 1967, Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", were convicted of numerous crimes and were sentenced to life imprisonment. 1969, United Airlines Flight 266 crashed into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

1974, a Disengagement of Forces agreement was signed between the Israeli and Egyptiangovernments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War. 1976, Lebanese Christian militias overran KarantinaBeirutkilling at least 1,000. 1977, scientists identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. Also 1977, Australia's worst rail disaster occurred at GranvilleSydney killing 83. Also 1977, SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others were killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1978, the European Court of Human Rights found the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. Also 1978, the roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapsed after a significant snowfall. 1981, Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachuted off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs). 1983, the International Olympic Committeerestored Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

In 1990, Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBIsting. 1993, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was officially observed for the first time in all 50 states. 1994, the Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claimed to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute. 1997, in northwest RwandaHutumilitia members killed three Spanish aid workers, three soldiers and seriously wounded one other. Also 1997, Børge Ousland of Norway became the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. 2000, the Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth. 2002, Sierra Leone Civil War was declared over. 2003, a bushfire killed four people and destroyed more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. 2005, the Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, was unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France 2007, the strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years killed 14 people and Germany saw the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. 2009, Gaza WarHamas announced they would accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault. 2012, a series of coordinated actions took place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act.
=== Bible Reading ===
https://rumble.com/vcxscz-january-18th-bible-readings.html
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Today's reading: Genesis 41-42, Matthew 12:1-23 (NIV)

Today's Old Testament reading: Genesis 41-42

Pharaoh's Dreams
When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, 2 when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. 3After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. 4 And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5 He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. 6After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and scorched by the east wind. 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream....

Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 12:1-23

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."
3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5Or haven't you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath...."
=== Morning and Evening ===
https://rumble.com/vcxsbl-morning-and-evening-january-17th.html

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January 17: Morning
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion." -Revelation 14:1
The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!" This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation in the heavenly state is "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world." Nothing else attracted the apostle's attention so much as the person of that Divine Being, who hath redeemed us by his blood. He is the theme of the songs of all glorified spirits and holy angels. Christian, here is joy for thee; thou hast looked, and thou hast seen the Lamb. Through thy tears thine eyes have seen the Lamb of God taking away thy sins. Rejoice, then. In a little while, when thine eyes shall have been wiped from tears, thou wilt see the same Lamb exalted on his throne. It is the joy of thy heart to hold daily fellowship with Jesus; thou shalt have the same joy to a higher degree in heaven; thou shalt enjoy the constant vision of his presence; thou shalt dwell with him forever. "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!" Why, that Lamb is heaven itself; for as good Rutherford says, "Heaven and Christ are the same thing;" to be with Christ is to be in heaven, and to be in heaven is to be with Christ. That prisoner of the Lord very sweetly writes in one of his glowing letters--"O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a hell; and if I could be in hell, and have thee still, it would be a heaven to me, for thou art all the heaven I want." It is true, is it not, Christian? Does not thy soul say so?

"Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,
If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face."

All thou needest to make thee blessed, supremely blessed, is "to be with Christ."
Evening
"And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house." - 2 Samuel 11:2
At that hour David saw Bathsheba. We are never out of the reach of temptation. Both at home and abroad we are liable to meet with allurements to evil; the morning opens with peril, and the shades of evening find us still in jeopardy. They are well kept whom God keeps, but woe unto those who go forth into the world, or even dare to walk their own house unarmed. Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armour-bearer of Sin is Self-confidence.

David should have been engaged in fighting the Lord's battles, instead of which he tarried at Jerusalem, and gave himself up to luxurious repose, for he arose from his bed at eventide. Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey. In stagnant waters noxious creatures swarm, and neglected soil soon yields a dense tangle of weeds and briars. Oh for the constraining love of Jesus to keep us active and useful! When I see the King of Israel sluggishly leaving his couch at the close of the day, and falling at once into temptation, let me take warning, and set holy watchfulness to guard the door.

Is it possible that the king had mounted his housetop for retirement and devotion? If so, what a caution is given us to count no place, however secret, a sanctuary from sin! While our hearts are so like a tinder-box, and sparks so plentiful, we had need use all diligence in all places to prevent a blaze. Satan can climb housetops, and enter closets, and even if we could shut out that foul fiend, our own corruptions are enough to work our ruin unless grace prevent. Reader, beware of evening temptations. Be not secure. The sun is down but sin is up. We need a watchman for the night as well as a guardian for the day. O blessed Spirit, keep us from all evil this night. Amen.
=== Bible Quote ===
https://rumble.com/vcm50l-bible-quote-jan-18th-philippians-214-16.html
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https://rumble.com/vai8pp-revelation-of-the-holy-spirit.html
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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.

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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 (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.

The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
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Other Stuff

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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
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https://rumble.com/vci8j3-it-had-to-be-you.html
https://rumble.com/vbtemt-ozymandias-of-shelley.html

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