Bairnsdale Conservative: Tue 9th February 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Sun Feb 7^th 2021

On Friday, at work in the adjacent suburb of Hallam, a lightning storm resulted in power going down across Hallam. Children at the tutorial centre at 8pm were forced to work from fading daylight across summer of Melbourne. Lights returned fifteen minutes later. Work was done and children got a new appreciation of Zeus. When I got back home, I found the internet was down from wifi, but I had phone data operative. I searched for internet failure and found nothing. I waited until next morning, and found a report of NBN failure the night before. I went to work in the morning. At work I was called by my estate agent who had tried to reset the modem in the share accommodation, without success. I told them of the NBN outage report, with the news that the anticipated recovery was on Monday at 6pm, the fourth day from the failure.

I went home and checked the internet again. Still down, I checked the outage reports, and there were none. Not even at my address. Clearly, the estate agent had not got the landlord to raise the issue with the ISP. There is no reason to believe the internet will be restored on even the fourth day if no one is looking at the issue.

What has caused this outage? Internet gets slow whenever there is a thunderstorm. I live in Dandenong, a suburb of Melbourne. There is no excuse for such poor service.

Editorial Thursday 11^th February 2021

Having reported the outage to my landlord’s agent, I queried them as to why no fault was reported on the address a day later, two days later, three days later and four days later. The estate agent raised their voice to me “It is not my job to sit by a phone for a telecommunications company hours on end. I’ve alerted the landlord.”

“Yes, but the telecommunications company needs to know there is a fault or they cannot address it.”

“I take your point but I have told you I have alerted the landlord.”

“Have you advised them to report the fault?”

“They said they will fix it. If they haven’t fixed by the end of working day tomorrow I will see to it. Have a good day, sir”

It wasn’t working on day five, but another member of the share household found mail addressed to the landlord from the telecommunications company and opened it. It said that the company was sending a final warning before cancellation. The company was forced to close their cable service and link to NBN instead. The cancellation was to take place on the 15^th February, ten days after they in fact cancelled it. Had the company been called when the ‘fault’ was detected, the problem could have been addressed immediately. The agent has still not apologised to me. Neither is the internet connected after seven days.

My oldest sister sent me a near fifty year old school photo of me. I told her that I had lost all my photos when FB booted me. I have no place for such memories, but I’m thankful she thought of me. I had been booted from FB after Jan 6^th for not being a good citizen, as I endorsed Donald Trump for President. I am not uncivilised and never condone violence or racism, but FB booted me. My sister, a left wing loony, said I should go somewhere else where I’m accepted. She suggested I use the library to access the internet. She was taunting me. That is how they behave.

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Here is a video I made A Hostage's Dream

Blues piece. Written by David Daniel Ball, performed by Barretok and Filmscore
at icompositions
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=69697
Lyrics;
A Hostage's Dream by ddball

Only because I wanted friendship
Only because you seemed to care
Only because I lost my brother
And the ambulance wasn't there

Only because I grieved for summer
Only because of the sports we dare
Only because there seemed no hope
Yet that dream we seemed to share

Only because its worth the journey
Only because we have to fight
Only because the flash of brilliance
Dims before the morning light

Only because I had to see you
Only because of the way you smile
Only because of the pet you rescued
From beneath the stinking pile.

Only because I have no power
Only because I lost my strength
Only because I gave to anger
And said some rather silly things

Only because there is tomorrow
Only because the sun will rise
Only because a mornings promise

Shines beyond that daring glare.

David Ball 7 years ago
Spot on, mate. When I wrote the lyric I knew I wanted B .. and he comes with his music :grin: The images were small .. but the compression got to it too .. ;)

David Warren 7 years ago
Dig the music, and B's vocal, the images are rather blurry probably a result of stretching small imagwes..enjoyed tho Shadow

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=== From 2018 ===

Don't give up on hope. Grassley pushes back over Steele dossier. Charles Grassley is a senior US senator, GOP from Iowa. The Steele Dossier appears to have been created, fictional, to allow Obama to illegally investigate candidate Donal Trump. Grassley is famous for his protecting whistle blowers. Document from UK proves Obama followed FBI illegal surveillance of candidate Trump? Dreamers threaten to leave USA. US government is again shut down. That is ok. US Navy has a laser weapon. China has a rail gun. China using seas to hide their submarines. Australia can't?

Mary Wooldridge lists some of the bad things Dan Andrews has done. Election in Victoria later this year. Before then, press will fall behind Andrews. Regional communities to host parliament under Guy. David Davis has posted a picture of Skyrail over a scout hall. Some commenters have claimed a shadow comes from trees, not the dominating rail structure.When the freight train careens over and onto the scout hall, because the line cannot support the weight at speed, the owners will be comforted that it is the trees casting the actual shadow, not the pejorative. ALP get a back up Pork Barrel in Melbourne council for when they lose election later this year, courtesy of corrupt accusations levelled against the best Mayor Melbourne has had. It is a historical fact that before South Australians used candles for lighting, they used electricity.

As Jordan Peterson has said, women want a man that is competent. Cathy Newman disagreed. But the community benefits when boys are raised to be competent men. Greenpeace activist loses arm after trying to hug a shark

Accountability does not end with contract? Rose McGowan's former manager suicided after the public learned of her depraved indifference to Weinstein's activity. Board meetings dominate senior executive time. Probably for the exact same reason women's shoes are uncomfortable for women.

Malcolm Turnbull fans flames over Barnaby Joyce. I'm very uncomfortable with the media pile on of Barnaby Joyce. As a public figure, Barnaby has been exemplary. Everything he has done in private is legal. An ALP or Greens figure would never be treated this shabbily. I'll start sharing absurd comments

"It's a media tactic to take the heat off Joyce. Who created a job for his squeeze because his extra marital affair was causing his staff to become uncomfortable with their behaviour." via MP on Doyle.
"Sometimes you don't hear a peep from certain MPs and then, all-of-a-sudden they are triggered and they come out with something as stupid as this. Does parliament need a f***ing LAW to socially engineer itself? Maybe they need a Bonking Tax - like Alcopops - as long as MPs pay the tax they can bonk as many staffers as they want. Consensual. Funded. Liberal. A Bonking Bill would pass without any opposition. The ALP loves both bonking and social Engineering." Via AF.
"Too much time in their 12 weeks of work obviously." via RH.
"What a hypocritical low life. From someone who recently got on his high horse about marriage, whilst same time having an affair with one of his staff, knocking her up and ruining his own marriage causing much distress to his own lovely wife. I feel very sorry for his wife....and he says "it's his private life"....no, you are a public figure who speaks on such issues, hence good to expose such people for who they really are." Via JC

To be fair, she is the deputy to the master she always followed. Julie Bishop sends foreign aid money in much the same way pollsters do. But aid money is not supposed to be used to keep her boss safe from criticism.

=== from 2017 ===

An election is happening in WA and the ALP have announced and hidden a 50% renewable energy target in thirteen years. A vote for ALP in WA will give WA SA type power grid failures. And in Victoria Dan Andrews is committed to the same. and the leader of the Liberals in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull is committed to an equally poor outcome. The problem with AGW alarmism is their solutions don't address the issues. Coal is the cheapest, most efficient power source. Coal means a strong, agile, nimble industry.

In 2015, I wrote Turnbull should resign as he had nothing left to offer, except damaging Liberal governments. Today, Turnbull has proved me right. At the moment, Turnbull is being lauded by the partisan media for insulting Bill Shorten, the ALP leader. A real Liberal leader would not insult Shorten, but point to his failed policy record. Turnbull still has the support of Miranda Devine. But non partisan conservative commentators say that Abbott is the best alternative. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.

=== from 2016 ===

On this day last year, Turnbull tanked at a leadership spill. Modelling his super power of indecision, Turnbull was given the opportunity to show his agility and he dithered. A year later it looks like Costello stepped in after Qld lost an election to make sure NSW didn't as well. This farce was a circuit breaker which would culminate in Turnbull getting the crown of Liberal Leadership through duplicity and mendacity, all the time protected by Pyne and Bishop who apparently leaked in Turnbull's favour. Turnbull would never have achieved it on his own. But Costello, Pyne and Bishop can't lead for Turnbull. And Turnbull is not making rational decisions as leader. But this is entirely predictable, given the impotence of Turnbull's first administration. It is likely Costello acted to save the party from Turnbull. Similarly with Pyne and Bishop. Turnbull could not be forced out. But he could be pushed up. Meanwhile, no good decision of Malcolm's time is any different from something Abbott would have done. Imagine if Abbott had not been undermined by Turnbull. Bringing Turnbull into parliament was the worst mistake Howard ever made. But the truth is, Malcolm owns his incompetence. No one else.

For some at the moment, the sex party has more credibility.

=== from 2015 ===

The leadership spill vote this morning for the Liberal party was predictable and sadly inconclusive. Because the conservative Liberal Party doesn't have group think, members have differing agenda, it makes what was probably Malcolm Turnbull's latest attempt so calculated and nasty. It is years in the making, and whispers are calculated for maximum damage sometimes go awry, and so successive state Liberal governments have foundered at election in QLD, Vic and SA, as well as in '07 and '10. A terrible allegation, and cheaply defended, but known for its' part in '07 and '10, where Turnbull had upset Costello's run in '07, and had fought to regain a challenging position since leading the leadership in '09. At the time, in '07, Costello had not seen it as his responsibility to dump on the ambitious Turnbull, as he viewed it as a modern party requiring planned succession and the game Howard put before him he scorned. Turnbull is talented, but it is easily overstated how talented he is. Turnbull can work inside colleagues and whisper and cajole because he has extraordinary resources he has earned. But he is only skilled at doing what he wants. Turnbull can undermine and promote difficulties, like PUP, who can be exploited for their prejudices exposing Liberal policy. But Turnbull has not got the gift of working with opposition to achieve the difficult, as Abbott has many times. Abbott was assaulted as Health Minister for his Catholic Views but he hadn't failed in his policy. When a possible son was discovered, Abbott welcomed the horrified Green Supporter. Abbott has worked in Aboriginal communities and with country fire fighters with equal aplomb. It is difficult imagining Turnbull having that grace. The leadership qualities of Mr Abbott were apparent when he lead world leaders over MH17 in Ukraine. And while one might not agree with him, one must recognise his character.

Malcolm Turnbull has not got that character. When given the leadership and faced with an agenda which would lead forward, Turnbull embraced climate alarmism. He was faced with Hockey and might still have been leader today had Hockey's dithering over the morality of a carbon tax not been belled by Abbott. But what followed is unacceptable from a loyal member. The memes of Mr Abbott being a 'Dr No' or women hating have been spun for the Liberal Party with backbenchers encouraged to liken responsible decision making to the hurtful memes. So that even press secretary Credilin is undermined in ways that are pernicious and plausible to those who don't know. Hockey's budget is not the problem, the measures asked for are essential. But the opposition from PUP and ALP mean that measures can't pass. Nothing that has been blocked is unreasonable or unsupportable. $7 for a doctor's visit is considered nothing elsewhere in the world. Reform is needed for education to keep it affordable. Changes need to be made to welfare to keep it. But Turnbull's whispers have it that a change in treasurer would mean the measures could pass. A change in treasurer, press secretary and leader is the promise. But a change in policy is the reality .. as well as a change in government, for the ALP to seize the reigns of government again while still unreformed, as they have in Qld and Vic. Turnbull is a moderate. He is a meaningless promise. Empty. Give him the honour of PM, and he will treat it as others treat a knighthood.

Turnbull cannot remain in government. He has nothing to offer except overweening pride.

From 2014

Today is the anniversary of the late unlamented Joseph McCarthy starting the second red scare in 1950 by declaring that many in the state department were communists. Akerman parallels McCarthy with the ABC, and I must say that McCarthy is better than that. McCarthy was right that there had been communist influences in the state department and throughout the US. He was wrong in the way he prosecuted the case, bulldozing freedoms we take for granted. By way of contrast, the ABC is wrong on every level to be partisan. Wrong in reporting favourably for the left when responsible journalists would take a balanced middle road. Wrong to ignore corruption festering among those she supports, or to denounce as corrupt on no basis those she opposes. McCarthy, by way of contrast, did what he was elected to do.

Miranda Devine has posted a few brilliant articles on drugs, Schapelle, our diggers and pedophiles .. no story connected. Our diggers deserve honour. Drugs are a scourge on society and druggies should go and die in Portugal where it is legal. Schapelle is over rated, apparently protecting drug dealers. There is a royal commission going on into pedophiles being protected through institutional abuse. I know this because I submitted to it on May 21st 2013 and have never heard back from it regarding my submission. I was so concerned, I approached a local member, and was emailed by a sergeant of the police who wrote that my testimony was of interest to the commission. Not having heard back from them is worrying for me, as I had written how desperate my circumstances were, being denied work in my profession and unable to find work elsewhere. I've never been unemployed since I was eighteen years old, often working three jobs and undertaking further study. But I've been unemployed for almost seven years now, The highly partisan press haven't investigated after senior ALP identities apparently asked them not to. If I don't hear favourably from the royal commission soon I will be forced to sell my home. I have no where to go. I live in the most deprived suburb in NSW.

Four months ago, my place was flooded for two days with raw sewage. My home contents, Allianz, did a good job, although I'm rope-able that they valued 340 of my largest books at $5 each, well below any replacement value. However GIO, my strata insurer, have delayed and obstructed, so that only part of the unit was repainted. They still have not done kitchen tiling .. they might begin tomorrow. When they begin, they will move my refrigerator and oven for two days. When they finish, they will have not gone near the cockroach hotel that the sewage fed in the kitchen. My tip is not to insure anything with GIO. They might be cheap with premiums, but if they aren't competent, you are better off not paying premiums.

Historical perspective on this day

In 474, Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1555, Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper was burned at the stake. 1621, Gregory XV became Pope, the last Pope electedby acclamation. 1654, the Capture of Fort Rocher took place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775, American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declared Massachusetts in rebellion. 1788, the Habsburg Empire joined the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.

In 1825, after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President of the United States. 1849, New Roman Republic established 1861, American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. 1870, US president Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889, US president Grover Cleveland signed a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1895, William G. Morgan created a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

In 1900, the Davis Cup competition was established. 1904, Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concluded. 1913, a group of meteors was visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920, under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognised Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designated it as demilitarised. 1922, Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1934, the Balkan Entente was formed. 1942, World War II: Top United States military leaders held their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war. Also 1942, year-round Daylight saving time was re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943, World War II: Allied authorities declared Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuated its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945, World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sank U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. Also 1945, World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attackeda German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

In 1950, Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. 1951, Korean War: Geochang massacre 1959, the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, became operational at Plesetsk, USSR. 1964, The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. 1965, Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, were sent to South Vietnam. 1969, first test flight of the Boeing 747.

In 1971, the Sylmar earthquake hit the San Fernando Valley area of California. Also 1971, Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. Also 1971, Apollo program: Apollo 14 returned to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. 1973, Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party was elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India. 1975, the Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraftreturned to Earth. 1986, Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. 1991, voters in Lithuania vote for independence. 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army declared the end to its 18-month ceasefire and exploded a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

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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