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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Jewish Voice for Peace Fights to Preserve Anti-Zionist Hatred Online
by Ariel Behar
IPT News
February 23, 2021
The group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) claims to oppose bigotry and to support security and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. But a new campaign JVP has joined aims to block rumored plans by Facebook to add the term "Zionism" to its hate speech policies. Zionism is the belief in Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland: In other words, supporting Israel's right to exist.
"@Facebook is considering whether to treat 'Zionist' as proxy for 'Jew' in its hate speech policy," JVP tweeted last week during a Twitter town hall. "This would make 'Zionist' a de facto protected category, letting FB shut down critical conversations about Zionists under the guise of fighting antisemitism."
"If @Facebook restricts use of the word 'Zionist' on its platforms, already severe censorship will grow," the anti-Semitic BDS Movement also wrote during the Twitter town hall. "Palestinians will be blocked from describing our daily lives under Israeli apartheid, and our family histories of dispossession and military occupation."
An anonymous Facebook employee sent out an email detailing how the social media company should moderate anti-Semitism on its platform, technology news website The Verge reported in November. A Facebook spokesperson told The Verge that the term Zionist is removed from its platform if and when it is used as a proxy for anti-Semitism.
"We are looking at the question of how we should interpret attacks on 'Zionists' to determine whether the term is used as a proxy for attacking Jewish or Israeli people," the Facebook employee wrote. "The term brings with it much history and various meanings, and we are looking to increase our understanding of how it is used by people on our platform."
JVP joined the campaign opposing the policy, "Facebook, We Need to Talk." It has received support from nearly 52,000 people. It claims that the social media giant may decide on a policy this month. JVP will be on board to virtually deliver the petition to Facebook during a webinar this week.
There are plenty of examples in which the term Zionist has been used as a slur against pro-Israel Jews.
In December, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign posted a meme on Facebook-owned Instagram instructing students to "start Zionist shaming." The image showed a young man burying his face in his arms, surrounded by terms including, "racist!", "colonizer!", and "go back to Brooklyn."
(Read more at article)
In this episode: Finally, some good news! Is there a huge shift coming which will destroy the Democrat Party? Also, why is the Supreme Court ducking the big 2020 election questions?
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Leadership in Australia is at a low. PM Turnbull fulsomely mates the US President. An effective Deputy PM resigned after the PM screwed him over. During the recent SSM campaign, Joyce said he had not a great personal track record but believed in the institution of marriage. Meanwhile Turnbull prevented informed debate on SSM, but also Turnbull actively prevented Joyce getting ahead of the news cycle. Turnbull is not dumb. Turnbull is too self absorbed to be competent. Turnbull dithers because he does not know what pathway is best for himself. Shorten epitomises the worst of any politician in Australia.
Leadership has an affect on the population. The selfishness of Melbourne peoples on public transport is illustrative. Truly difficult, selfish notables are bearded hipsters with their precious screen time on mobile devices, and, devout muslims. One does not notice the conventional dressed, but the separatist muslim jamming public transport is noticeable. I get it welfare does not pay for private transport. The reason why Hipsters are obvious is because they stand out too. And it is the leadership of Hipsters and the leadership of Muslims which is notably poor. Just as the worst neighbourhoods in the US are Democrat strongholds.
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
Matthew failed to justify his wild assertions. He bloviates wildly."Whether authoritarians are activated by threat or nonauthoritarians act more authoritarian when threatened, my second hypothesis (H2) submits that a fearful electorate is a ready audience for the finger pointing of a fearmongering, demagogic can- didate like Trump. As such, fear was another factor that favored the emergence of a Donald Trump candidacy in 2016, as Republican voters who were more concerned about terrorist threats were more likely to support a candidate who calls for vigilance and aggression. Moreover, employing Hetherington et al.’s negative interaction theory, I expected that nonauthoritarians who were more worried about terrorism would also be more likely to support Trump, providing him with a likely pool of core voters that extended beyond strong authoritarians. "
The world is dangerous even when evil, anarchistic ideologues are not murdering innocent peoples on little pretext. The panic stricken new Queensland Premier illustrated how shaky control is when a tropical depression which had been a cyclone wandered through the state, upending some trees and denying power to some towns. A few years earlier another incompetent ALP government had killed people through incompetence. But the storm wasn't that bad. But on this day in 1875, a tropical cyclone which flooded the coastline of Queensland also threatened a 500 ton, 60m steamship with some one hundred and thirty people on board. The Gothenburg was capable of sailing through the swell, but she had been pushed too close to the Barrier Reef and lodged there. She had been on a journey from Darwin to Adelaide. There had been insufficient space on the life boats and they weren't strong enough for the elements as the steamer was. Two of the four boats were lost with four crew each as the Captain tried to use them to help lift the Gothenburg off the reef. The storm was too overwhelming. An attempt was made to dislodge Gothenburg by reversing her on full power. This cut her in half and holed her. In trying to get on one of the two remaining life boats, the life boats were overwhelmed and capsized. Survivors hung on to Gothenburg's rigging until the storm ended. Sharks claimed some bodies. An upended life boat was righted. At first survivors rowed to mainland, but realising they would not make it, diverted to a nearby island. A life boat with four survivors that survived the attempt to dislodge Gothenburg was discovered by another steamer, and so some twenty two men survived. Lost were all officers, a former Premier of South Australia, a french vice consul. One magistrate had missed the journey, but lost his wife and six children. Many other important personages died too. Darwin had lost many who were needed to build the community.
The world changes, but it also remains the same. On this day in 1917, a desperate German Empire offered Mexico the three states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if Mexico went to war against the US on the event of the US going to war with Germany. It was anticipated the US would go to war because of German U-boat activity. In April Germany was proven right. Mexico did not answer favourably to Germany's desperate plea after their telegram was intercepted by British intelligence and leaked to the public as the Zimmerman Telegram. On this day in 1945, the Egyptian PM was assassinated after he had called for new elections and opposed the candidacy of Muslim Brotherhood. The assassin was from a third party, Wafd, which was the party from which the PM had split in '38.
Some people died. A Japanese translator was murdered by fanatics who failed to adhere to the letter of the proclamation. Publishers were threatened. Rushdie was put into protective custody. In the late '80's I was attending church at St Thomas' Moorebank, Anglican. One idiot minister noted bad things happened to people who weren't faithful, and Rushdie had not adhered to his faith. I can criticise the minister without people wanting to kill me. Tehran maintains a shrine to one idiot who blew himself up trying to blow up Rushdie. Every 14th of Feb, Iran sends a valentine's card to Rushdie, reminding him they want him dead. Worth considering who the people are Obama wants to supervise Middle East peace.
But, while it may be viewed as reprehensible that so few within Islam spoke against the outrageous ruling, what of those with a pastoral role? It is not an issue for Christian churches. They give aid to Islamic peoples, too, but not targeted, How dare they have such contempt of Islamic peoples. Iran is not a world leader for Islam. She is a terrorist nation, part of an axis of evil. Her people are far better than their government. It is wrong to promote terror. But that is what many governments and churches have done in their dealings with Iran. Iranian people deserve freedom from such oppression.
In 1803, in Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States established the principle of judicial review. 1809, London's Drury Lane Theatre burned to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. 1821, final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala 1822, the first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, was inaugurated. 1826, the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marked the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War. 1831, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi ceded land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West. 1848, King Louis-Philippe of France abdicated the throne. 1863, Arizona was organised as a United States territory. 1868, Andrew Johnson became the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He was later acquitted in the Senate. 1875, the SS Gothenburg hit the Great Barrier Reef and sank off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries. 1881, China and Russia signed the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty. 1895, Revolution broke out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ended with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
In 1916, Governor-General of Korea established clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients. 1917, World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom was given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledged to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declared war on the United States. 1918, Estonian Declaration of Independence. 1920, the Nazi Party was founded.
In 1942, the Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25. Also 1942, an order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gave the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin". 1944, Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders began their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma. 1945, Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha was killed in Parliament after reading a decree. 1968, Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive was halted; South Vietnam recaptured Hué. 1971, the All India Forward Bloc held an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, was killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar was appointed as the new chairman. 1976, Cuba: national Constitution was proclaimed.
In 1980, the United States Olympic Hockey team completed their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal. 1981, an earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scalehit Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city. 1983, a special commission of the U.S. Congress released a report that condemned the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. 1984, Tyrone Mitchell perpetrated the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more. 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offered a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. Also 1989, United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, ripped open during flight, blowing 9 passengers out of the business-class section. 1996, the last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church. 1999, the U.S. state of Arizona executed Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. 2006, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyodeclared Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup. 2007, Japan launched its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. 2008, Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. 2011, final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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Today's reading: Numbers 5-6, Mark 4:1-20 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: Numbers 5-6
Restitution for Wrongs
5 The LORD said to Moses, 6 "Say to the Israelites: 'Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD is guilty 7and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged....
Today's New Testament reading: Mark 4:1-20
The Parable of the Sower
1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 "Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow....
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Beloved, the cross is not made of feathers, or lined with velvet, it is heavy and galling to disobedient shoulders; but it is not an iron cross, though your fears have painted it with iron colours, it is a wooden cross, and a man can carry it, for the Man of sorrows tried the load. Take up your cross, and by the power of the Spirit of God you will soon be so in love with it, that like Moses, you would not exchange the reproach of Christ for all the treasures of Egypt. Remember that Jesus carried it, and it will smell sweetly; remember that it will soon be followed by the crown, and the thought of the coming weight of glory will greatly lighten the present heaviness of trouble. The Lord help you to bow your spirit in submission to the divine will ere you fall asleep this night, that waking with to-morrow's sun, you may go forth to the day's cross with the holy and submissive spirit which becomes a follower of the Crucified.
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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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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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