Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Wed 3rd February 2021 Current Affairs

Biden ran on the sole promise he was not President Trump. Mind you, Biden lied often about what Trump did and so understanding what Biden said he wouldn't do, and reconciling it with what Trump was, makes predicting Biden's path hard. Biden said Trump ruled through executive orders and President Biden would not do that. The facts are, in his first twelve days in office, Biden has issued four proclamations, ten presidential memos and 25 executive orders. Far more than any President since FDR, with other presidents taking nearly two months to match. There is no need for Biden to do such, he has legislative support which few have ever had. Except, Biden does not want questions asked of his activity? The legislative route involves discussion. Trump was wrongly denounced as not willing to justify his decisions. Here we see Biden using the same methods which saw him avoid unpleasant questioning over his role on the shoot down of Malaysian airlines MH17 over Ukraine in 17th July 2014. The war crime has been pinned on Russia, which wasn't even involved. What had happened was Ukraine, whose military flights had been shot down by Russian separatists supplied by Moscow (nb, Hunter has also been receiving from Moscow), decided to use radio identifiers to paint their military aircraft as civilian. That is a war crime. The inevitable happened when the Russian separatists shot down MH17 by mistake. Signals intelligence possessed only by USA among concerned parties traced the Russian separatists call to Moscow to advise Putin of their mistake. And a compliant media held Russia to account for the sting. Imagine had Trump ever been involved in a war crime how the media would have behaved? But, here we see quid pro Joe, fresh from forcing a Ukrainian prosecutor to be fired for investigating his son, then claiming the lives of 298 people, to make a political point.

https://qz.com/1966876/how-joe-bidens-executive-orders-compare-to-other-presidents/

We do not know what Biden is not telling us. But, we can make informed decisions. We can be confident that the corruption behind Comey's tenure as FBI chief will not be brought to book. Biden had said on campaign that executive orders were for dictators, and he would use due process. So, was Biden lying then, in October 2020, or is he lying now? Or, is it the case Biden does not tell the truth? 
https://rumble.com/vdiql7-editorial-3rd-february-2021-current-affairs-dandenong-conservative.html
The Cabal is big. Too big. It must grow to keep discipline. Election 2020 fraud was only possible including too much middle management. Post office clerks willing to back date mail. Machine operators willing to turn a blind eye. Polling station observers allowing corruption. Politicians facilitating the corrupt. Big tech executives usurping political power and acting as enforcers. Journalists lying about facts. Healthcare workers killing innocent people to facilitate terror. The broad purpose being to end the Trump Presidency and facilitate racism, gender dysphoria and social reform. But, what happens when the ends are achieved? How does the Department of Justice reset from endorsing corruption to protective policing? 

One unquestioned aspect of Biden's Presidency is he never launched a campaign saying what he would do. He isn't Trump. And, because Biden had not actually achieved the support he claims, he hasn't got full community support for decisions he makes. Biden, and Harris, will have to make decisions. They don't have the talent of Malcolm Turnbull who had the super power of dithering when most would do the right thing. Biden and Harris have got powerful levers of power with Congress, which they stole. They have big tech support which is fragile. But they can only keep discipline by upping the ante. What happens when the minority supports fractures? When Black activists turn on Native Indians or Mexicans? When Europe and China don't agree? When Venezuela feels she isn't getting value for money? I am a Trump supporter and a GOP supporter. I've already been disenfranchised, had my life's work seized by Facebook and my Parler account removed by big tech. I'm expecting more loss. But, I'm in it for the delayed gratification of watching the Cabal fall apart. I won't employ violence to achieve my ends. But I know the murderous Cabal will employ it, as they have. 

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In this episode, I discuss the tv moment we should use as a tutorial in how to deal with liberals. I also address the continued fallout from the GameStop story and the troubling efforts by the DC and Wall Street elites to ensure that this never happens again.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Two FBI Agents Killed, Three Wounded While Serving Warrant in South Florida

Capitol Hill
New Head of DOJ Criminal Division Is Former Colleague of Hunter Biden Defense Attorney
Biden to Sign Executive Orders Rolling Back Trump’s Immigration Policies
Trump Impeachment Managers File Error-Ridden Pre-Trial Brief
Report: Rahm Emanuel Under Consideration for High Profile Ambassadorship
Republicans Look to Curb Mail-in Voting
House Republicans Prepare to Remove Liz Cheney From Leadership Role
Biden Reduces $2,000 Stimulus Check Promise to $1,400
White House Asks Reporters to Share Questions for Press Sec Psaki in Advance
Biden DOJ Nominee Prosecuted Man Sentenced to 27 Years for Selling $20 Worth of Drugs
Gov. Cuomo Loses Nine Top Health Officials Over Vaccine Rollout Disagreements
Chuck Schumer Quietly Working to Shut Down AOC’s Primary Challenge

Culture War
CNN Prime-Time Ratings Crashed 44% During First Week of Biden Presidency
AOC Links Riot at Capitol to Alleged Sexual Assault
Groundhog Day: Staten Island Chuck Disputes Punxsutawney Phil, Predicts Early Spring
Paris Climate Accord Only Lowers Temperatures 0.05°F by 2100
Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Won’t Face Criminal Charges
PolitiFact vs. Facts on the Left-Wing BLM Activist at Capitol Riot
Biden Donor Funds Study That Laughably Claims There’s No Social Media Bias Against Conservatives
What Did the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson Do With the $65k He Raised for a Never-Released Film?
Top CNN Exec Tells Brian Stelter He Needs to Have More Conservatives On
Texas Plans to End Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood
Hollywood Cheers on the New McCarthyism
Oregon’s Decriminalization of Minor Drug Possession Takes Effect

Economy
GameStop Mania Reverses Course
Robinhood CEO Expected to Testify Before Congress
WHO Team Investigating Origin of Coronavirus Visits Disease Control Centers in Wuhan
Eurozone Contracts 6.8% in 2020
Big Oil Has Barely Begun It’s Recovery From Pandemic
Amazon, Google, and Salesforce Invest in Company That Crunches Big Data
Redditors Declare “Biowar” on Heavily Shorted Biotech Stocks
Market Volatility Sees Biggest Spike Since June
U.S. Manufacturing Activity Slowed Slightly in January
Robinhood Only Allowing Users to Trade 20 Shares of GameStop
Bank of England Likely to Embrace Negative Rates Without Using Term
CBO Forecast Has Employment Returning to Pre-Pandemic Level by 2022

Swamp Watch
CNN Legal Analyst Argues There’s No First Amendment Right to Lie
Many Biden Advisers Have Deep Ties to China
McConnell Backs Liz Cheney
Here’s Why It’s Unconstitutional to Impeach Someone After They Leave Office
Follow the Money To Understand the Reasons Behind Biden’s Green Energy Agenda
Washington State’s Unemployment Fraud Was So Entrenched, Claims Were Filed Using the Identities of Agency Employees
CA Official Admits to Massive Coronavirus Fraud Scandal, Biden Promotes Her
Dems Float Packing Lower Courts
Great News: Former Bush Officials Leave GOP Over Trump
=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Biden Presidency
Pentagon Purges Advisory Boards After Flurry of Trump End-of-Term Appointees
Senate Confirms Mayorkas as 1st Latino and Immigrant to Head Homeland Security
WH Slammed For Seeking Briefing Questions in Advance
Senate Confirms Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary
Cassidy Optimistic That Bipartisan COVID Bill Can Happen
Scalise: Biden's Drilling Lease Pause 'Devastating' to Louisiana
Democrats Push 'Baby Bonds': Every Child Gets $46,000

Newsfront
Watchdog: Hundreds of Doctors Fired By VA May Still Be Treating Vets
More than 200 doctors booted from the Department of Veterans Affairs over poor-quality care may be treating veterans through the VA's networks of private MDs, Military.com reported. The watchdog Government Accountability Office...... [Full Story]
Prosecution of Comey Reportedly 'Unlikely' After Durham Probe
Prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey is "unlikely" as [Full Story]
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=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Obama guaranteed that no political influence had been applied to FBI investigations of candidate Trump in 2016. A memo and dossier show Trump haters within the FBI lied, using Democrat patronage and overseas contacts to illegally surveil Trump. And yet they found nothing. There is evidence of collusion between Democrats and elements of Russian intelligence to discredit Trump. 

Grid girls banned from Melbourne's F1 race. Maybe if they dressed in a more modest, wholesome and family accessible way, like marching vagina? Dutton has deported hundreds of violent criminals. Worker who sent fake emergency tweet in Hawaii actually thought nuclear war was imminent. Safe space in Manchester Art Gallery has nymphs removed. Amnesty International continues her tragic decline. 
=== from 2017 ===
The awful deal Turnbull negotiated with Obama after Trump was elected has successfully got Turnbull to lose the ear of Trump. The special relationship with Australia continues. But Turnbull has burned an important bridge. The deal is bad because it risks re initialising the people smuggling trade. There is no need for it. The people in Nauru are the problem of the UN. And the ALP. A good leader would hold the UN and ALP to account. Trunbull is not a good leader. Or even competent. All Turnbull can do as PM is increase his humiliation. Turnbull wanted the deal to help support Hillary Clinton, whom he owed because her foundation helped him roll Abbott. There are other political favours Turnbull owes the corrupt, and he needs to use the PM's office to facilitate it. Just as HRC needed the Presidency to pay off those who gave her money. Because they are scary people to owe money to. 

Note the support Libertarians are giving Turnbull over Trump. Sky news interviews Peter Reith who was wrong about HRC being elected and who supported Turnbull prior to Turnbull's dumb deal. Reith thinks it reflects badly on Trump. So does McCain, who took money from HRC to oppose Trump. Sky News wanted HRC elected too. At the moment, there are many working very hard to diminish the Trump Presidency which is less than three weeks old, but moving with tremendous speed and energy. Unlike Turnbull. 

lisa bradford1 year ago
beautiful lady. rest in peace officer cotton.

4given4ever11 year ago
As someone who knew Nicola, I just want to thank you for this video. She was an amazing person.

David Ball10 months ago
+4given4ever1 She deserved love and more life.

fatalbert6404 years ago
Sad you would say something like this. SOOO SAD!!!

fatalbert6404 years ago
Except when they need help and what do they do. CALL THE POLICE!!!! 

David Ball5 years ago
@EpioN I created this site to show how thoughtless and foolish people like you are

EpioN5 years ago
@speedskate2010 Just like Batman created Joker, the cops create gang members via their enforcement of the "war on drugs". The cops make sure these black markets thrive so they can get a cut too. The "Good" "honest" cops out there cover for the 90% of corrupt cop machines that are out there.

EpioN5 years ago
There is no way you can humanize the ex-humans who are now thoughtless uneducated "law" "enforcement" machines. Fornicate the constable!

Contressa6 years ago
To protect and to serve my ass. -- To discriminate, to profile and to be shitheads.

doveFL6 years ago
R.I.P Nicola I just watched " If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise" and saw ur story so sad.

David Ball6 years ago
@speedskate2010 The law works and there are gangs. Perhaps the law could work better. Perhaps parents could be more responsible. Perhaps unhappy experiences could be outlawed. The law is better than places without law. The law is better than places with too much law. Can you name a better place, where law is more effective?

David Ball6 years ago
@speedskate2010 Civil liberties exist in tension with the law. Squeeze civil liberties too hard and the population rebels ala prohibition of alcohol. Gangs operate because there are legitimate reasons for some to exist and it isn't desirable to ban all collectives. What is the difference between a church group and a gang in legal terms? What happened to Nicola was a tragedy .. I side with the law in every case.

David Ball7 years ago
Good luck and god bless you.

Paramedic Picker7 years ago
I knew Nicola, I was a security officer at the Bunny Friend trailer site where her trailer was. We had many conversations about my interest in becoming an NOPD Officer. I was on leave from my fire department in Michigan working down there after Katrina. I always will remember her eyes and her smile she was so kind to me. I am in my mid 40's and have just sent in my paperwork to become an NOPD recruit. Miss you Nicoa

Unitedforpeacenola8 years ago
Mr. Daniels, Nicola Cotton is a well-admired policewoman down here in New Orleans. I thank you very much for your beautiful poetic portrayal of her life. I have not yet heard a more loyal and thoughtful picture of her soul.

Unitedforpeacenola8 years ago
On September 20th, New Orleanians everywhere are gathering for a peace pilgrimage at the Martin Luther King Statue. That day, through art, meditation, service and songs, we will honor all 490 New Orleanians lost to the violence of the city since the Storm.

Unitedforpeacenola8 years ago
Our plan is to pause at Simeon Bolivar and Earhart Boulevard, the place of Nicola's death and hold a moment of silence. After the silence, we will honor her through a creative and redemptive act and a gift of love. Down Martin Luther King Boulevard, across St. Charles Avenue, up through the center of the city, back to the Statue, we will venture out to meditate on the lives of our fellow citizens.

mattd3338 years ago
I think I meant feel. I was just reading over my comment. I actually will be doing courses to become a police officer in Australia, as I have very high respect for our law enforcement.

David Ball8 years ago
I agree. I don't know the circumstance. I understand that she probably was making a routine enquiry which ballooned into something else. I don't accept the price demanded of some of our public servants. I think there are entire neighborhoods which do not respect police. It is shameful.

David Ball8 years ago
The love you shared is not gone. You have lost a lot, however, you have lost all that she was to become. But you keep all the love you had. I think she would like it that you grow, and become the decent person you are destined to be .. it honors her memory too.

mattd3338 years ago
There should always be two police officers when on duty. I feal sad for her family to loose such a joy in their lives.

David Ball8 years ago
I will respect her name when I update the video. I am sorry for your loss, and hope that, in some way, something worthwhile might come from the tragedy.

atruhata4real8 years ago
Thanks for the reply and filling in the blank ddball. After reading this story, I couldn't help to think of Betty Smothers (Warrick Dunn's mother) and all others that didn't garner national attention. I also read your post below regarding the witnesses and I find that sickening. This woman was doing her job while pregnant and no one came to her aid. Sad, truly sad.

David Ball8 years ago
I understand she was doing general duties, when her attention was called to the suspect behaving strangely. She identified him. She had no choice but to try to arrest him. He had been amenable until she tried to arrest him. Had she been tasked to arrest him, she would have had back up. Maybe there will be a procedural change, but I doubt it.

atruhata4real8 years ago
This is truly a senseless killing to a beautiful woman who chose to protect lives and be a police officer. I don't know the full story behind the meaning of her being alone trying to arrest a dangerous suspect. So there will be no judgement there. I only pray and hope that more female police officers in N.O. and around the nation are protected. I commend her bravery as well. RIP Nicola.

David Ball8 years ago
There were witnesses. No one went to her aid. The killer waited for more police to arrive, and surrendered. It was totally pointless. It highlights how the community have dehumanised the honest decent people that protect and serve us.

Linda P8 years ago
I'm sorry she lost her life protecting others. I'm sorry that we have such greed and hatred by our fellow man that good people die. her family should be very proud of her! A 7 minute struggle that was videoed and no one tried to help??


=== from 2016 ===
Fifty six years ago, on this day, the music died. Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed. Ritchie was 17, J P Richardson (Big Bopper) was 28 and Buddy was 22. They were on a winter dance tour which had been badly planned. Distance between venues was high and tour busses were cold. Buddy chartered a four seat Bonanza plane, with pilot Roger Peterson, who was 21 years old. Waylon Jennings gave up his seat to Richardson. Peterson had not been rated to fly by instruments. The attitude control was something Peterson would not have been familiar with, showing the exact opposite of what Peterson would have expected of another. The plane hit the ground six miles after take off, hitting the ground at an estimated 170 miles per hour. All died instantly. And the sixties missed out on musical talent, all of whom may be alive today, but for that crash. 

In tribute, there is no sex party. 
=== from 2015 ===
Two Australians, part of the Bali 9, are to be executed soon. The Australian government under Mr Abbott has done all that it can, but the ABC cut Australia's legs out from beneath her last year over ALP era espionage issues, and so Australia's negotiating advantage has been limited, and so these two will die. 

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are guilty as charged, and the charge has the death penalty. They had an opportunity to have their charges mitigated when they were first arrested, but the Australian legal team worked overtime to save Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush. Also, Myuran and Andrew were leaders who had co opted the others. Initially, they threatened the others to silence and stonewalled over those not caught who had supplied them. Because of that, anything they have done since means little, they will be executed. Apparently they have reformed their character, but that is not relevant to the charge and investigation. They were caught because of choices they made, and they will be executed because of choices they made after they were caught. It is a tragedy that they will be executed. But, Andrew Chan has become a Christian and if he holds to his faith he will rest in the Lord's arms. Now is the opportunity for him to declare he is not defeated, but alive and willing to serve until he goes home. Death is not the worst thing. Snivelling, cowering, regretting that one was caught from harming and killing others is much worse. Send flowers to the ABC who have organised this killing. 

Meanwhile, an Al Jazeera Journalist has been deported from Egypt, where he had been convicted and sentenced for seven years for serving the Islamic Brotherhood. Greste had argued it was preposterous for him to have served the Brotherhood. However, the network he supported (Al Jazeera) and their content were undeniably favourable to the Brotherhood, and so, in Egypt's eyes, the case was water tight. The crime is not a minor one. People have died from the propaganda which arguably brings Islam into disrepute, but certainly lies about Israel. 

In 1377, the Pope Gregory XI had different authority to the Pope of today. It included a standing army which he employed to sack Cesena, killing 3000 people on this day. Gregory would move from Avignon back to Italy and die there the next year. In 1534, Thomas Fitzgerald, second cousin to Henry VII, was executed by order of Henry VIII. Silken Thomas had misunderstood what was happening when his father was sentenced to be executed, and revolted against Henry VIII in Ireland. Thomas had captured a priest who acted as intermediary and had him executed, and so lost any allies to his cause. But he was a 'Cause Celebre' in Ireland after he was executed. In 1913, income tax was approved across the US from the 16th Amendment. In 1917, Germany's decision to resume submarine warfare resulted in the US breaking relations with Germany. In 1947, the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America was recorded at Yukon (-63.9 centigrade, -83.0 °F). 1959, music died with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. In 1967, Ronald Ryan was the last person to be executed in Australia, he was worthy of the sentence, having killed a serving officer. In 1969, terrorist Yasser Arafat was appointed head of the PLO. In 1971, NY Police officer Serpico was shot, probably by corrupt police officers, during a drug bust. In 1998, under Clinton's presidency, a low flying US plane accidentally cut a wire cable supporting a wire cable car, killing twenty people in Italy.  
From 2014
Another outstanding decision by the Abbott government is being opposed by many. Seventy Million Dollars has been allocated towards giving public schools more independence in decision making. South Australia has not signed on yet because of an impending election campaign. News limited has reported that the outstanding decision is controversial and will be opposed by unions. It was important that the unionists were told that, or they might not have known. One might have thought that it is in union interests that their members do a good job and inspire children to achieve much. 
The paper writes
 The plan, which aims to get 25 per cent - or about 1500 - of government schools on board nationally over the next three years, will give principals more control over key areas such as staffing and budgets and reduce the power of teacher unions.
Precisely why the union powers are reduced from effective changes is not explained. Is it because unions control who works at the moment? Is it because unions decide how money is spent at the moment? If that is true it is outrageous, and must stop immediately. I want money to be spent on an excellent education for children, not on mindless power plays by unions. Which are the educational services that unions are diverting funding from? Why doesn't the paper tell us? 

I have been illegally prevented from finding work in my profession for several years. Is it the unions behind that? If so, it would be a kindness for them to tell me why, and allow me, if I've offended them, to make amends. Natural justice suggests I should be allowed to exact compensation if they have not acted justly regarding my search for employment. It is nice, for all, that adults are running the shop. As Bolt mentioned today, one who does not show their love for family may be suspected when they claim to love all. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 1112, Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence married, uniting the fortunes of those two states. 1377, more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena were slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). 1451, Sultan Mehmed II inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire. 1488, Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal landed in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. 1509, the Portuguese navy defeated a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India. 1534, Irish rebel Silken Thomas was executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.

In 1637, Tulip mania collapsed in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. 1690, the colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas. 1706, during the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeated a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment. 1781, American Revolutionary War: British forces seized the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius. 1783, American Revolutionary War: Spain recognised United Statesindependence. 1787, militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crushed the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts. 1807, a British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captured the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay. 1809, The Territory of Illinois was created by the 10th United States Congress. 1813, José de San Martín defeated a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence. 1825, Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutlandpeninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus. 1830, the sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol. 1834, Wake Forest University was established. 1852, Justo José de Urquiza defeated Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros. 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race. 1897, the Greco-Turkish War broke out.

In 1900, Governor of Kentucky William Goebel died of a wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky. 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, authorising the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. 1916, Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. 1917, World War I: The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1918, the Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California began service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long. 1930, Communist Party of Vietnam was founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. 1931, the Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, killed 258. 1943, the USAT Dorchester was sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story. 1944, World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seized Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanesegarrison. 1945, World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bombed Berlin, a raid which killed between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehoused another 120,000. Also 1945, World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth began a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. 1947, the lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), was recorded in Snag, Yukon.

In 1957, Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merged into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). 1958, founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. 1959, deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation. 1961, the United States Air Forcesbegan Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. Also 1961, a protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turned into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars. 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1967, Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, was hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. 1969, in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

In 1971, New York Police Officer Frank Serpico was shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survived to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proved that NYPD officers tried to kill him. 1972, the first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. 1984, John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. Also 1984, Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B was launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1989, after a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigned as leader of the National Party, but staid on as president for six more months. Also 1989, a military coup overthrew Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. 1995, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 got underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1998, Karla Faye Tucker was executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. Also 1998, Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot caused the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cut the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. 2007, a Baghdad market bombing killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339.

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Today's reading: Exodus 29-30, Matthew 21:23-46 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Exodus 29-30

Consecration of the Priests

1 "This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect. 2 And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil. 3 Put them in a basket and present them along with the bull and the two rams. 4 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water....

Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 21:23-46

The Authority of Jesus Questioned
23 Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. "By what authority are you doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave you this authority?"
24 Jesus replied, "I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 25 John's baptism--where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?"

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February 2: Morning
"Without the shedding of blood is no remission." - Hebrews 9:22
This is the voice of unalterable truth. In none of the Jewish ceremonies were sins, even typically, removed without blood-shedding. In no case, by no means can sin be pardoned without atonement. It is clear, then, that there is no hope for me out of Christ; for there is no other blood-shedding which is worth a thought as an atonement for sin. Am I, then, believing in him? Is the blood of his atonement truly applied to my soul? All men are on a level as to their need of him. If we be never so moral, generous, amiable, or patriotic, the rule will not be altered to make an exception for us. Sin will yield to nothing less potent than the blood of him whom God hath set forth as a propitiation. What a blessing that there is the one way of pardon! Why should we seek another?

Persons of merely formal religion cannot understand how we can rejoice that all our sins are forgiven us for Christ's sake. Their works, and prayers, and ceremonies, give them very poor comfort; and well may they be uneasy, for they are neglecting the one great salvation, and endeavouring to get remission without blood. My soul, sit down, and behold the justice of God as bound to punish sin; see that punishment all executed upon thy Lord Jesus, and fall down in humble joy, and kiss the dear feet of him whose blood has made atonement for thee. It is in vain when conscience is aroused to fly to feelings and evidences for comfort: this is a habit which we learned in the Egypt of our legal bondage. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross. "The blood is the life thereof," says the Levitical law, and let us rest assured that it is the life of faith and joy and every other holy grace.

"Oh! how sweet to view the flowing
Of my Saviour's precious blood;
With divine assurance knowing
He has made my peace with God."
Evening
"And these are ancient things." - 1 Chronicles 4:22
Yet not so ancient as those precious things which are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, telling them over as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which he elected us unto eternal life, or ever the earth was, is a matter of vast antiquity, since no date can be conceived for it by the mind of man. We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned. The Father loved us in and from the beginning. Here is a theme for daily contemplation. The eternal purpose to redeem us from our foreseen ruin, to cleanse and sanctify us, and at last to glorify us, was of infinite antiquity, and runs side by side with immutable love and absolute sovereignty. The covenant is always described as being everlasting, and Jesus, the second party in it, had his goings forth of old; he struck hands in sacred suretyship long ere the first of the stars began to shine, and it was in him that the elect were ordained unto eternal life. Thus in the divine purpose a most blessed covenant union was established between the Son of God and his elect people, which will remain as the foundation of their safety when time shall be no more. Is it not well to be conversant with these ancient things? Is it not shameful that they should be so much neglected and even rejected by the bulk of professors? If they knew more of their own sin, would they not be more ready to adore distinguishing grace? Let us both admire and adore tonight, as we sing--

"A monument of grace,
A sinner saved by blood;
The streams of love I trace
Up to the Fountain, God;
And in his sacred bosom see
Eternal thoughts of Love to me."

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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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