Thursday, February 25, 2021

Thu 25th February 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Mon 15th Feb

Former Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja had understood Machiavelli and knew a concept encapsulated by the Prince which many were getting wrong in the late 1990’s. So applying all her mental powers, she went on radio and told people how to get it right. Machiavelli, she declared, was pronounced ‘Match-i-ah-velli.’ The senator despaired at people misrepresenting the Prince. After all, Hitler had had the book on his bed side table for inspiration and late-night reading. He had needed to improve his mind. There are many examples, provided by Charles and Andrew to name two, of Princes who fail the bedside table test. 


It was with delight I happened on Delderfield’s story of a horseman, Paul Craddock, who purchased a farm. 


Dr Maureen O’Keefe talking to 14 yo Ikey (Delderfield’s Horseman riding by)

“Ikey,” she said, “There’s a word you wouldn’t have heard yet that just about describes you so remember it and you can recognise yourself later on! You’re Machiavellian! Remember that – Mack-i-ah-vellian”

“What does it mean?” he asked, and she said, gesticulating, “It’s having an instinctive understanding of people and how their minds work and it’s a priceless quality to possess, particularly if you are ever thinking of going into business.”

“I’ll not do that,” he said, scornfully, “I’m going to join the cavalry!”

“Ah,” she said, “Then I’m afraid it won’t be of much use to you. Still, it’s nice to have and I daresay it’ll help you get along with the ladies!”


The former senator never really explained her clarification. She is a left wing loony and the press would never have dared ask it. But, what was it her clarification addressed? Was the senator addressing a mid 90’s man drought after too many eligible bachelors had bought into a hipster form of feminism? Had she approved of Hitler’s late night reading? We could ask her, but we may never know. 



Editorial Sun 21st February Current Affairs

Sixteen days without internet access. Lockdown meant my zoom meetings were conducted, over 8 hours, using phone data which emptied my bandwidth for the month. What had happened was a storm on the 5th of February took out cable access but left the wifi running without carrying a connection We could see the router was active, but there was no internet access. We contacted the estate agent who said they had contacted the landlord after coming over to turn the router on and off to no affect. Not knowing which ISP held the actual account, I searched online (using phone data) and found that NBN was down and slated to be fixed after the weekend. 


During the weekend, I noticed the NBN fault had been fixed, but we still did not have internet, so I pointed out to the estate agent that no fault was reported for this address. They yelled at me, saying it was not their job to stay on the phone of an ISP and wait hours, but they had told the landlord who had promised to fix it. I pointed out the landlord might need to be told to report the issue to the ISP to fix it. They said they got my point, but had already told the landlord. “Have a good day sir!” they yelled before hanging up. 


I contacted radio 3AW to report the issue. Neil Mitchell had me waiting forty minutes before not listening to me, or following up. 


One other member of the household noticed our landlord had not collected their mail from Optus, an ISP, and opened it, discovering that our share house was due to have internet cancelled because NBN did not want to compete with Optus Cable. But the cancellation was for the 15th of February or later, and should not have happened yet. The information was relayed to the estate agent who passed it on to the landlord. I contacted 3AW to provide an update by email. Still no reply from 3AW. 


The estate agent tasked an employee to wait on premises until Optus sent a technician. But, Optus claimed they had sent a technician a day before and they had not got on premises when everyone in the household was here during lockdown. They claimed to have rung the bell and made commotion, but they had not noticed the Menulog and DoorDasher employees delivering food without issue. The estate agent spent all day on the premises and Optus did not show up. Finally, on 19th of February, two weeks after the internet had gone down, Optus showed, and an estate agent was on hand. The fault was fixed, it having been established that Cable provision would be ongoing until a planned changeover to NBN. 


My software upgraded and at 1am on 20th February while Melbourne had had an overnight 26 degree centigrade evening, the wifi router stopped working. I contacted the agent about 7:30 am and sent a picture of my WiFi reception showing our address router was not functioning. They did not even bother sending someone to turn it on and off. Maybe Monday? 



In Defence of Conservative Values via It’s a Wonderful Life (1946 Capra)

The scene has three conservatives talking over dinner. One conservative is the father who wants his son to follow him in business. Another conservative is the son who wants to make a name for himself in the world. Another conservative is the servant whose relationship to those she serves is positive for all of them. 


The three are not agreeing with each other, but there is none of the shaming, blaming and rancour one finds when arguing with a left winger. The father listens to his son, and argues on point, convincingly. The son hears his father’s arguments and lets him know he still loves him. The servant reinforces core conservative values. Note, these are not social conservative values, which judges and shames. These are values embraced by modern economic conservatives.


The conservatism is not from a lost time in America. President Donald Trump is not a conservative, neither is he known for conservatism, but his Vice President, Mike Pence is. The greatness of Trump’s Presidency was enhanced by the demeanour and prosecution of Pence as Vice President. One hopes Trump runs and wins again in 2024. Not only will Trump be the first President acquitted of an impeachment twice, he could be the first President elected three times without resorting to corruption. 

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In this episode, I discuss some disturbing examples of the liberal/media misinformation machine, and the deadly consequences that have resulted. I also discuss the troubling immigration policies being pushed by the Biden administration.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Senate Postpones Vote on Neera Tanden Confirmation

Capitol Hill
Biden Admin Misses Self-Imposed Deadline to Update Carbon Cost Estimates
Romney Says Trump Would Win GOP Nomination “In a Landslide” If He Runs in 2024
Illinois Becomes First State to Sign Law Eliminating Cash Bail
Rep. Budd Warns Financial Services Could Be the Next to Deplatform Conservatives
USPS Awards 10-Year Contract to Replace Vehicle Fleet
White House Concurs With John Kerry That We’re All Doomed in 9 Years
Senate Republicans Say Biden Making No Actual Effort for “Unity”
Ex-Capitol Police and Security Officials Testify January 6 Siege Was “Coordinated Attack”
Biden’s China Chief Said She Was “Fine” With The CCP Spreading Influence In America
Psaki Says “This Is Not the Time” for Migrants to Come to the Border Because We Can’t Process Them
Biden HHS Secretary Pick Voted Against Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Culture War
Obama Says He Didn’t Seek Reparations Because of the “Politics of White Resistance”
As State Abolishes Bail, Illinois Dem Lawmaker Wants to Ban Video Games Like Grand Theft Auto in Attempt to Reduce Carjackings
LifeSiteNews Has Been Financially Blacklisted by Google
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Outraged Florida Is Lowering Flags in Honor of Rush Limbaugh
Cuomo Approval Drops on Nursing Home Fallout
Elon Musk Tells WaPo Journo to Give His Regards “To Your Puppet Master” Bezos When Asked for Comment
Amazon Ends Sale of Books They Label “Hate Speech”
Hillary Clinton to Write a Novel for Some Reason
Indiana House Votes to Eliminate Handgun Licenses
SCOTUS Invites Erosion of Voter Confidence With Denial of 2020 Election Cases
Introducing “Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and De Blasio Ruined New York”

Economy
Dave Portnoy Clashes With Robinhood CEO
GOP Senator: Biden Stimulus Punishes Red States
U.S. Bank Profits Fell 36.5% in 2020
WeWork Founder Eyes Settlement With SoftBank
Biden Has Another Spending Bill Planned After the $1.9 Trillion Relief Package
Texas Electricity Retailer Hit With $1 Billion Price Gouging Lawsuit
Payment Processor “Square” Buys $170 Million in Bitcoin
Sens. Cotton and Romney Unveil $10 Minimum Wage Plan
California Lawmakers Approve Stimulus That Gives Checks to Illegals
AT&T Nears Deal to Sell DirecTV Stake
Jerome Powell Pledges Low Rates Until U.S. Economy Is at Full Employment
Utah to Post $1.5 Billion Surplus Despite Pandemic

Swamp Watch
Oklahoma Man Released From Prison Early Confesses to Immediately Killing Three More People
Schools Still Closed in California and the Unions Are to Blame
Report: Former Obama Staff Colluded With Iran to Undermine Trump
LinkedIn Deletes Lecture That Told People to “Be Less White”
NY Journo Says Gov. Cuomo Terrorized Him
David Perdue Decides Against Challenging Raphael Warnock in 2022
AOC’s Texas Photo Op Flops
Reparations Commissioners to Be Paid Top Pay Grade That Hasn’t Existed Since 1978
Biden Assistant HHS Secretary Pick Advocates Sex Changes for Kids
NBC News Criticizes Gov. DeSantis for Prioritizing the Elderly and Holocaust Survivors for Coronavirus Vaccine
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mccarthy-trump-2022-house/2021/02/24/id/1011350/?oRef=mixi

Biden Presidency
Sen. Paul: 'Big Mistake' to Borrow Money for Democrats' COVID Plan
McConnell Says He'll Back Garland for AG
Over 150 Executives Back $1.9T Stimulus Plan
Rocket Strikes on US in Iraq Seen as Message From Iran
Biden, Trudeau Find Unity on Virus, China, Climate
Biden Administration to Reengage With Palestinians
Biden Team Hunts for Tanden Votes as Opposition Grows
Schumer Pushes Legislation to Counter China
WH Promises Vaccine Help as States Rush to Catch Up

14 House Republicans Want Briefing From FBI on Swalwell Ties to Alleged Chinese Spy
A group of House Republicans are calling on FBI Director Christopher [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made School Musical Parent 

Parent who has ambition for his two kids. His wife is less than supportive. Not getting the service he wishes from Mr Conductor

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. NRA rightly criticise Sheriff who blamed them for his poor performance. The NRA did not hire four deputies, train them, and then pay them to hide while teenagers were being gunned down. The NRA did not ignore over thirty notifications of a mentally ill man who was so violent, he might have been a son of Obama. The statistics regarding gun ownership is not as frightening as that of homicides, which happen with alarming frequency in places with tight gun control. 

CNN thinks socialism is cool. The pop culture embrace of socialism means uncritical thinking. If one were to prize Robin Hood, would not one oppose vested interests in AGW hucksterism, planning to take over $100 trillion from the world's poorest over a century, and give it to Green standover merchants to waste? Wouldn't compassionate people oppose terrorism? Wouldn't compassionate people oppose anti semitism? Today, and yesterday, socialists have killed and starved the world's poorest peoples. And then mocked them, as Justin Trudeau did India. 
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Where does the ALP have a good policy? A policy which benefits an Australian state? They can make water harder to source. They can make power more expensive and less reliable. They can make jobs harder to get. They can make spending hard to cut. They can increase crime by making police work harder and less efficient. They are 'compassionate' on drug users by making their lives worse. They take money away from the poor, the elderly and then they give them less, direct, so they can claim credit. The ALP have strong support in the media, but what policy do they have that is worthwhile? How is endorsing racism making lives better? How is sexualising children in schools making schools safer? How is denying faith of Christians or attacking Jews improving the lives of ordinary muslims or atheists? Would someone please tell this column of one good policy which improves the community. I'll accept a Democrat one in the US, or a UK Labor one in UK, Or a NZ one. Any Green policy which benefits a community anywhere. 

I am reading a research article by Matthew C. MacWilliams , University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PhD student. The article was popular among #FakeNewsMedia. Matthew writes 
"To test the hypotheses that threatened authoritarians, activated by Trump’s rhetoric, form the core of Trump’s support and fearful nonauthoritarians added to his base, I fielded a national online survey in December 2015. The survey sampled 1,800 registered voters and was conducted approximately one month before the opening contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. It included stand- ard demographic questions; feeling thermometers on political figures, groups of people, and organizations; screens to identify likely primary and general voters; candidate preference ques- tions; items assessing respondents’ worries about the sociotropic and personal threats posed by terrorism; and a bevy of values and policy questions.

At the beginning of the poll, immediately following demo- graphic queries, four child-rearing questions were asked. These questions first appeared on the 1992 ANES survey and have since been used by some authoritarian scholars to estimate authoritari- anism (Feldman and Stenner 1997; Hetherington and Suhay 2011; Hetherington and Weiler 2009; Stenner 2005).9 These questions tap deep-seated preconceptions about children and child rearing: whether it is more important for a child to be respectful or inde- pendent, obedient or self-reliant, well-behaved or considerate, and well-mannered or curious. Survey respondents who pick the first option in each of these pairs are strong authoritarians.10

The questions neatly divorce the measurement of authori- tarians from the dependent variables authoritarianism is supposed to explain, while capturing the hypothesized predispositional foundation of authoritarianism. Stenner’s succinct explana- tion of the theoretical basis of the four questions elegantly sums up their unique utility: “Child-rearing values ... can effec- tively and unobtrusively reflect one’s fundamental orientations toward authority/uniformity versus autonomy/difference,” the key dimension on which authoritarianism is arrayed (Stenner 2005, 24). The four-item child-rearing battery “enables us to distinguish authoritarian predisposition from authoritarian ‘products’ (attitudes) ... which are sometimes manifested but sometimes not, and whose specific content may vary across time and space” (2005, 24)."
The basis of calling Trump authoritarian is the response of survey to four questions regarding child rearing. A child should be independent, self reliant, considerate and curious because if they are respectful, obedient, well behaved and well mannered then you are an authoritarian. Of course, it might be that a parent of the latter child has successfully engaged with the wider community, while the former has jigged school to smoke dope. 
=== from 2016 ===
Not written as I was working to secure accommodation. 
=== from 2015 ===
Mr Abbott is on his feet doing a brilliant job but being assaulted by shadows. Mr Abbott's speech on Monday regarding essential security issues Australia faces has been dismissed and sidelined by the media focused on the flags that stood behind him. The press have not been diverted by flags in the past. Not when Obama stood in front of multiple flags, not when Rudd did so. But consider the actual issues raised by Mr Abbott which the press sidelined and which the ALP failed to address in parliament by playing dumb games. Australia faces savage totalitarian jihadism from criminals, mentally ill and ALP supported scum trying to come to Australia without basic vetting. Security forces have advised the PM of what needs to be done for them to work effectively. ASIO is investigating more than 400 potential terror cells which are deemed more dangerous than the Lindt Cafe killer. The number of terrorism related arrests is growing quickly. The number of terrorist threats has doubled in a year. More than 110 Australians have gone to fight with the ISIL death cult and 30 have returned having been trained in jihadism. Most of the jihadists leaving Australian shores have been on welfare. One can tell how effective Mr Abbott's speech was by the way terrorist advocates like Hizb ut-Tahrir have attacked it. They said “continues the disingenuous approach of western states of seeking to alter the ­victim-aggressor paradigm”.

Mr Morrison has stood on his feet today at the National Press Club lunch, talking about Welfare reform which is needed. He spoke of structural reform, not penny pinching, but questions by the media were nasty penny pinching types. It is telling the ALP are engaged in misrepresenting the reforms. Headlines suggest the reforms will leave people on welfare worse off, which is not true. But the need to fix the budget is important. Mr Morrison is not avoiding hard work, or tough choices. But the press and ALP are avoiding reality. 

Irrelevant Hollywood showcased in Oscars with best picture going to the intense navel gazing of Birdman but not the more worthy American Sniper or Boyhood. Opinion is subjective, but a film about Hollywood should never trump the subject matter of either rival, given the execution of both was also superior. The calculated insult to conservatives did not end there. Joan Rivers who passed during the year was not memorialised. She was a conservative, although that never impeded her performances. 

Irrelevant AGW hysteric resigns after being caught failing to worship his religion of AGW hysteria. Pachauri has been accused of sexual harassment. His resignation letter admitted his belief in AGW theory was religious in nature, not scientific. 
From 2014
Before the world had heard of the best known Australian of all time, Community Channel aka Natalie Tyler Tran, there was another celebrity the world knew as Australian. Today, the most known Australian in the world, easily identifiable with her friendly false "Hi!" and ethnic Vietnamese features is a twenty something girl who has the heart and soul of Jane Austen. She rules at youtube. But on this day thirteen years ago, we lost the icon known as Donald George Bradman. Both personages are exceptional, leaving one proud to be Australian. Don was a talented, gifted cricketer, an excellent administrator and a generous philanthropist. The love of his life, Jesse, remained his wife from marriage to death. He lived under a fierce public glare. Everyone seems to have a family connection with a Don story. My grandmother remembers him walking down a street with his boy, and being strict. A former colleague of mine tells a story of his father being in a cafe, and the Don was reading a paper. It is ok to die old, surrounded by loved ones, and he managed it. Our Don Bradman. 

The first African American US President is Obama. The first African American congressman was a GOP man, Hiram Rhodes Revels. Obama is like the person who stood for nothing, falling for anything. Hiram was a man of substance. Born free, Hiram was an early organiser of coloured regiments in the civil war. He was chaplain to a regiment. After politics, he became a college president, lecturing in philosophy. He warned US Grant of the carpet baggers who assumed the black vote, which was GOP until FDR exploited it for the Dems. 

There are such things as cultural assets. They build the community. Making the members of the community resilient in times of strife. I won't give up, because Don Bradman wouldn't. So Don is a cultural asset. There is a modern movement which disparages cultural assets and corrodes community values. It promotes a minority over the community. The thinking is wrong. Minorities are important. But the community is more important. If you build the community, the minority will be well cared for. It is similar with economic thought. If you build wealth, the poor can become affluent. Something to think about on the day that we lost The Don, and in which we elected a good man.
Historical perspective on this day
In 138, the Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 493, Odoacer surrendered Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agreed to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great. 628, Khosrau II was overthrown by his son Kavadh II. 1336, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai committed mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. 1631, François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, was arrested on Richelieu's orders. 1797, Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrendered after the Last invasion of Britain.

In 1821, Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issued a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia). 1831, Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire. 1836, Samuel Colt was granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver. 1843, Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet. 1848, Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guaranteed workers' rights. 1856, a Peace conference opened in Paris after the Crimean War. 1866, miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, was sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. 1875, Guangxu Emperorof Qing dynasty China began his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.

In 1901, J. P. Morgan incorporated the United States Steel Corporation. 1912, Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, became the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. 1916, World War I: the Germans captured Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun. 1919, Oregon placed a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. 1921, Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, was occupied by Bolshevist Russia. 1928, Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. became the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission. 1932, Adolf Hitler obtained German citizenship by naturalization, which allowed him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. 1933, the USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.

In 1941, February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike was declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. 1945, World War II: Turkey declared war on Germany. 1947, the State of Prussia ceased to exist. 1948, the Communist Party took control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ended. 1951, the first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser was made premier of Egypt. 1956, in his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounced the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.

In 1964, North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung called for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones. Also 1964, U.S. Air Force launched a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida. 1968, Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province were killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre. 1971, the first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, went online. 1980, the government of Suriname was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated by the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo 1986, People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos fled the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino became the Philippines' first woman president. 1987, Southern Methodist University's football program was the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.

In 1991, Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hit an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. Also 1991, the Warsaw Pact was declared disbanded. 1992, Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians were killed by Armenianarmed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakhregion of Azerbaijan. 1994, Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. 1997, Yi Han-yong, North Korean defector was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea. 2009, members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.

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Today's reading: Numbers 7-8, Mark 4:21-41 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Numbers 7-8

Offerings at the Dedication of the Tabernacle
1 When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings. He also anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. 2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who were counted, made offerings. 3They brought as their gifts before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen--an ox from each leader and a cart from every two. These they presented before the tabernacle....

Today's New Testament reading: Mark 4:21-41

A Lamp on a Stand
21 He said to them, "Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear...."

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February 24: Morning
"I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing." - Ezekiel 34:26
Here is sovereign mercy--"I will give them the shower in its season." Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?--for who can say, "I will give them showers," except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them beget the rain. Who sendeth down the rain upon the earth? Who scattereth the showers upon the green herb? Do not I, the Lord? So grace is the gift of God, and is not to be created by man. It is also needed grace. What would the ground do without showers? You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing. In vain you labour, until God the plenteous shower bestows, and sends salvation down. Then, it is plenteous grace. "I will send them showers." It does not say, "I will send them drops," but "showers." So it is with grace. If God gives a blessing, he usually gives it in such a measure that there is not room enough to receive it. Plenteous grace! Ah! we want plenteous grace to keep us humble, to make us prayerful, to make us holy; plenteous grace to make us zealous, to preserve us through this life, and at last to land us in heaven. We cannot do without saturating showers of grace. Again, it is seasonable grace. "I will cause the shower to come down in his season." What is thy season this morning? Is it the season of drought? Then that is the season for showers. Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. "As thy days so shall thy strength be." And here is a varied blessing. "I will give thee showers of blessing." The word is in the plural. All kinds of blessings God will send. All God's blessings go together, like links in a golden chain. If he gives converting grace, he will also give comforting grace. He will send "showers of blessing." Look up today, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.
Evening
"O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy upon Jerusalem? ... And the Lord answered the angel ... with good words and comfortable words." - Zechariah 1:12-13

What a sweet answer to an anxious enquiry! This night let us rejoice in it. O Zion, there are good things in store for thee; thy time of travail shall soon be over; thy children shall be brought forth; thy captivity shall end. Bear patiently the rod for a season, and under the darkness still trust in God, for his love burneth towards thee. God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: he loves her with all his infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage; she cannot be far from prosperity to whom God speaketh "good words and comfortable words." What these comfortable words are the prophet goes on to tell us: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy." The Lord loves his church so much that he cannot bear that she should go astray to others; and when she has done so, he cannot endure that she should suffer too much or too heavily. He will not have his enemies afflict her: he is displeased with them because they increase her misery. When God seems most to leave his church, his heart is warm towards her. History shows that whenever God uses a rod to chasten his servants, he always breaks it afterwards, as if he loathed the rod which gave his children pain. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." God hath not forgotten us because he smites--his blows are no evidences of want of love. If this is true of his church collectively, it is of necessity true also of each individual member. You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

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=== Message ===

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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

UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG

French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG

Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG

German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG

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Other Stuff

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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship

https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664

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I'm looking for former students to endorse me

https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html

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