How does one celebrate Redemption?
Not me, mind you, I’m asking for a friend. My friend has really missed out on life. Very early in their professional career they witnessed a bungled pedophile investigation that went sideways, resulting in the negligence death of a public school boy, covered up by a coroner keen to protect a political party they were beholden to. Coroner blamed the parents and shafted a whistleblower witness. The whistleblower was fat and lost their public service job and had no recourse but move state where they were still unemployable. Nearly thirty years have passed, their life is nearing an end and they have nothing to show for it, except the depraved indifference of bureaucrats which left wing loonies are keen to imbue with more power.
However, my friend is thankful for God in his life. Sure he has no actual family who’d stand by him. His friends are terrified he is too needy and might ask for help. Big tech companies boot him about because they don’t like his politics supporting economic conservatism and MAGA Trump ideals. So he is booted off FB and Messenger for life, and cannot access decade old emails, photographs, videos or memories he made online. He cannot connect with apps which allow him to connect via FB. And FB sends him messages suggesting he join up, but they won’t accept him.
It is a Wonderful life, made by Frank Capra in 1946 and is relevant today. Because it illustrates redemption. But, what is redemption for my friend? When McConnell can diss everything my friend has stood for, and spits on him, as he claims another six more years of a snout in the trough lifestyle while a stand up guy is beaten up. How does one celebrate redemption?
https://rumble.com/vebebz-how-does-one-celebrate-redemption.html
===Sadly, big tech and big business in the US are doing the heavy limiting for tyrants. In this episode, I discuss the sorry comparisons between China and the US on the freedom scale.
News Picks:
- The brilliant words of Solzhenitsyn.
- Senate advances the outrageously expensive 1.9T “stimulus” bill.
- What is China’s social scoring system?
- China’s surveillance state should scare everyone.
- Big tech censorship is targeting non-profits now?
- Amazon goes all in on censorship.
- China makes anal swabs mandatory for foreigners?
- Jimmy Kimmel loses it on cancel culture.
- Graffiti is back in NY.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden’s CDC to Allow Migrant Children to Be Housed in “Cages” at 100% Capacity Despite Coronavirus Concerns
Psaki: Biden Isn’t Holding Press Conferences Because He’s Too Busy
Senate Rejects $15 Minimum Wage Push in 58-42 Vote
Israel Prepares to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Sites If Nuclear Development Doesn’t Stop
NY State Senate Majority Leader Says Cuomo Is Finished…. If One More Accuser Comes Forward
U.S. Economy Added 379k Jobs in February
Capitol Hill
A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Be Imminent
Cuomo Accuser Speaks Out in CBS Interview
Wyoming Legislator to Challenge Liz Cheney in GOP Primary
Biden State Department Nominee Praised “Extraordinary” Xi Jinping
Psaki Attempts to Argue Trump Doesn’t Deserve Any Credit for Coronavirus Vaccines
Democrats Fearmongered Over a March 4 Attack on the Capitol – Nothing Happened
Biden Nominee for Top Defense Post Described Republicans as the “Party of Ethnic Cleansing”
Trump Blasts WSJ, Georgia GOP Leadership, and McConnell
House Dems Continue Fighting for Access to Trump’s Tax Returns
Report: Cuomo Office Ignored Rules Requiring Formal Investigations of Sexual Harassment Complaints
Culture War
Here’s Why Americans Will Want Trump Back in the White House
Feds Throw Out Over a Third of Cases Resulting From Violent Protests in Portland
Grandsons of Idaho Pastor Hit With 13 Criminal Charges For Protesting Coronavirus Lockdowns With Stickers
Chief of The Lancet, World-Renowned Medical Journal, Repeatedly Bashed U.S. and Praised China For Coronavirus Response
De Blasio Says NYC the Safest Big City in America as Shootings Jump 75% in February
Tucker Carlson on Teachers Using Allegations of “White Supremacy” to Keep Schools Closed
Why Do So Many on the Left Have It in for Jordan Peterson?
Nine Problems With the Dems’ Latest Gun Control Bill
Illegals Arrive at Border Wearing “Biden Please Let Us In” Shirts
Economy
John McAfee Indicted for Fraud, Money Laundering
Crypto Industry Wants to Convince Biden Admin They Do More Than “Finance Criminal Enterprises”
U.S. Q4 Productivity Was Weakest Since 1981
China Sets 2021 Growth Target of 6%
Texas Power Grid Operator Made $16 Billion Pricing Error in Week of Winter Storm
Oil Soars to $65
Bonds Sell Off on Fed Chair Powell’s Comments
Economist Refutes Anti-Capitalist Narrative at Dem Senate Hearing on Race
SEC Forms Team to Target Climate Misconduct
CBO Projects National Debt Will Double Over Next 30 Years
Swamp Watch
Rep. Swalwell Sues Trump Over Jan 6 Capitol Siege
Stanford University Opens Chinese Studies Center With Ties to Chinese Communist Party
Rep Scott DesJarlais: HR1 Changed the Rules So Dems Could Win the Game
Former Cuomo Staffer Says They’re “Waking Up to the Fact That We Were in a Cult”
NY State Republican Says Legislative Didn’t Really Strip Gov. Cuomo of Emergency Powers
America’s Adversaries Mimic the “Woke” in Criticisms of U.S.
PolitiFact Founder Was “Journalist in Residence” at CCP Influence Group
Gov. Cuomo Accuser Says He “Groomed” Her for Sex – Derailed Her Career
Coronavirus
Flashback: Cuomo Calls Coronavirus Hype “Hysteria and Fear”
Coronavirus Travel Restrictions Now Lifted at Half of U.S. Military Bases
As White House Shames Texas for Reopening, It Won’t Do the Same for Coronavirus-Positive Illegal Aliens
WHO Won’t Release Its Interim Report on Coronavirus Origins As Legitimacy of Its Investigation Questioned
States Go to Battle With Biden Administration Over Coronavirus Lockdowns, Mask Mandates
Dr. Fauci Shows Zero Self-Awareness As He Lashes Out at Texas, Mississippi
As Vaccines Begin to Open the World Back Up, Brazil’s Biggest Cities Shut Down
Coronavirus-Positive Illegal Migrants Likely Creating Super Spreader Event at the Border
National Security
Here’s Why the Threat of China Invading Taiwan is High
The U.S. Immigration System Is a Mess
Freedom Watch: China is the Reason for the Global Decline in Freedom
U.S. Navy Launches Its Newest Submarine, the USS Montana
Russia’s Armtata T-14 Is a Killer With a Problem
The F-35 Stealth Fighter: The Weapon South Korea Truly Needs
America’s Strategic Materials Problem
Rocket Attack on U.S. in Iraq Leaves Many Questions But Few Answers
B-21 Stealth Bomber: This Photo Might Give Us a Big Clue
Mexican Border City Shootout Results in 10 Cartel Gunmen Dead
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Biden Presidency
Trump Rips Biden Over Border
Report: Biden WH Tells Facilities Housing Migrant Children to Expand Operations
Migrant Wave: 100,000 Detained at Southern Border in February
Ex-CBP Head Mark Morgan: Biden's Fast Moves on Immigration Surprising
Republicans Demand Hearings on Border ‘Crisis’
WH: Report Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home COVID Data 'Troubling'
Supreme Court Dismisses Appeals of Trump's 'Sanctuary Cities' Funding Order
Newsfront
3rd-Degree Murder Count Could Be Reinstated in George Floyd's Death
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a judge to reconsider adding a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death, handing a potential victory to prosecutors, but setting up a possible delay to a trial set...... [Full Story]
Related Stories
More Than $1 Million in Fencing Barriers for Trial of Cop in George Floyd's Death
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The Ballad of Mytzi The Puppy was written as a sequel to 'The Mystery of Webster's Curse.' There was a small opening through which this story might come into being. Master had killed his sister, Mistress, because of the curse. Mytzi was a witness. Mytzi goes seeking justice .. or revenge. It is a tough world for a puppy on its own. This is not about the curse, but about the puppy. It has a beginning, middle and an end.
Text version at
http://oddballsstories.blogspot.com/2007/12/mystery-of-websters-curse-heroism-of.html
David Daniel Ball
Where does one point to move forward? The Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Anglicans and Uniting churches have all endorsed totalitarian regimes practicing terrorism. Peter Slipper, Tim Costello, the Jensen Brothers, all senior clergy have praised amoral divisive socialist politics, as they are entitled, at the expense of cultural assets and even the word of scripture. So that drowning the desperate becomes compassionate in their indulgent airs. Redistributing wealth to benefit crooks is called charitable by them. The weather becomes something they feel need to dictate for. Consider, a young woman approaches a church and asks to speak to a priest, but she is denied because she isn't Catholic. Or a public servant approaches a protestant congregation and speaks to a pastor. The public servant is a Christian in need of fellowship, but they are turned away. The problem is not, as some have said, children's picture story books advocating SSM or AGW. The problem is religious leaders around the world are corrupt and compromised. That is the way of the world, but it is not the path of the righteous.
In Victorian politics, the demarcation between Liberal and Labour is clear. Dan Andrews is leading a corrupt, sleazy and incompetent government. Matthew Guy can provide effective leadership in front of a competent Liberal administration. But the media will portray Andrews as "At least he is doing something" or "Consider Malcolm Turnbull and federal Liberals, they are hopeless." Meanwhile, on the sidelines, religious figures will be saying?
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3rd-Degree Murder Count Could Be Reinstated in George Floyd's Death
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a judge to reconsider adding a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death, handing a potential victory to prosecutors, but setting up a possible delay to a trial set...... [Full Story]
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More Than $1 Million in Fencing Barriers for Trial of Cop in George Floyd's Death
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Here is a video I made Ballad of Mytzi The Puppy
The Ballad of Mytzi The Puppy was written as a sequel to 'The Mystery of Webster's Curse.' There was a small opening through which this story might come into being. Master had killed his sister, Mistress, because of the curse. Mytzi was a witness. Mytzi goes seeking justice .. or revenge. It is a tough world for a puppy on its own. This is not about the curse, but about the puppy. It has a beginning, middle and an end.
Text version at
http://oddballsstories.blogspot.com/2007/12/mystery-of-websters-curse-heroism-of.html
David Daniel Ball
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. We have been privileged to have seen some great conservative leaders in recent decades. Reagan, Thatcher, Howard, Harper, Lee Kuan Yew, W Bush, Netanyahu and Abbott. But, the greatness of those leaders was predicated on muscular strength of religious leaders of whom there are few. The recent passing of Billy Graham highlights this. Martin King provided an intellectual and emotional underpinning to conservatism that it had needed after the drubbing conservatives had taken worldwide while FDR and Truman had been Presidents. Pope John Paul II gave strength to a billion Catholics who had forgotten basic Christian precepts under various left wing advocates. There are great conservative religious leaders, but they are few and impotent in recent years. That is why, in Australia, moral arguments are owned by the left in politics, even as the left have been bereft of moral behaviour. One notable exception to poor quality religious leadership in Australia has been Cardinal Pell. Pell is outstanding. Pell recognised and addressed issues decades before the rest of Australia caught up. But the amoral left have tied up the end of Pell's ministry in lawfare. The same is being done to Netanyahu. The attacks are rooted in corruption of the accusers and enablers. Where does one point to move forward? The Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Anglicans and Uniting churches have all endorsed totalitarian regimes practicing terrorism. Peter Slipper, Tim Costello, the Jensen Brothers, all senior clergy have praised amoral divisive socialist politics, as they are entitled, at the expense of cultural assets and even the word of scripture. So that drowning the desperate becomes compassionate in their indulgent airs. Redistributing wealth to benefit crooks is called charitable by them. The weather becomes something they feel need to dictate for. Consider, a young woman approaches a church and asks to speak to a priest, but she is denied because she isn't Catholic. Or a public servant approaches a protestant congregation and speaks to a pastor. The public servant is a Christian in need of fellowship, but they are turned away. The problem is not, as some have said, children's picture story books advocating SSM or AGW. The problem is religious leaders around the world are corrupt and compromised. That is the way of the world, but it is not the path of the righteous.
In Victorian politics, the demarcation between Liberal and Labour is clear. Dan Andrews is leading a corrupt, sleazy and incompetent government. Matthew Guy can provide effective leadership in front of a competent Liberal administration. But the media will portray Andrews as "At least he is doing something" or "Consider Malcolm Turnbull and federal Liberals, they are hopeless." Meanwhile, on the sidelines, religious figures will be saying?
=== from 2017 ===
President Trump has snookered Obama. Obama's administration made claims about Trump and close connections to Russia. Obama denies illegally wire tapping Trump. Had Obama believed that Trump was in cahoots with Russia, then he would have had a justification for a wire tapping. Instead, Trump has demonstrated that Obama has lied. And while we know Obama has lied about something, it is likely he has lied about everything. And Trump has shown this by making a tweet accusing Obama of the wire tap without providing details. Obama ran his administration through deception. We know Obama wire tapped Merkel. It beggars belief that Obama didn't wire tap Trump, and leak misleading details to impugn Trump administration peoples. We know the leaks have been damaging and misleading. The FBI's stance is interesting. Either the FBI knows Trump is not too close to Russia or the FBI haven't wire tapped Trump. The FBI is not clean here. The CIA is not clean here. The swamp needs to be drained. Never Trump partisans are beginning to look very foolish.
In 1788 the First Fleet arrived at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. 1820 the Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, bringing Maine into the Union as a free state, and making the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchaseterritory slavery-free. 1834 York, Upper Canada, was incorporated as Toronto. 1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo after a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo were killed and the fort was captured. 1857 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Dred Scott v. Sandfordcase. 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic tableto the Russian Chemical Society. 1882 the Serbian kingdom was re-founded. 1899 Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
In 1902 Real Madrid C.F. was founded. 1912 Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet. 1921 Portuguese Communist Party was founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International. 1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern. 1943Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. 1945 World War II: Cologne was captured by American troops. 1945 World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, began. 1946 Ho Chi Minh signed an agreement with France which recognised Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
In 1951 the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began. 1953Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1957 Ghana became the first Sub-Saharancountry to gain independence from the British. 1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gave boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. 1964 Constantine IIbecame King of Greece. 1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia lost power after 27 years in office. 1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected to the United States. 1968 three rebels were executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
In 1970 an explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village killed three. 1975 for the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. 1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraqannounced a settlement of their border dispute. 1981 after 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkitesigned off for the last time. 1983 the first United States Football League games was played. 1984 in the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signalled the start of a strike that lasted almost a yearand involved the majority [but never all] of the country's miners. 1987 the British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprisecapsized in about 90 seconds, killing 193. 1988 three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers were shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. 1992 the Michelangelo computer virus began to affect computers. 2008 a suicide bomber killed 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman killed eight students in Jerusalem.
=== from 2016 ===
Not written as I was working to secure accommodation.
It is wrong to say all Jordanian/Palestinian peoples are terrorists. But their leadership has been and they have been endorsed by the UN, accepting terrorism among its' constituent members. Terrorism is not proportionate or balanced. A terrorist group is seeking international approval to ethnically cleanse a region of the Middle East.
=== from 2015 ===
Victim exonerated for killing abuser. Jessica Silva was handed a two year suspended sentence for manslaughter of her ex, James Polkinghorne. James was high on ice at the time. The abuser had a telephoned her to say he was coming to kill her. She pled not guilty due to self defence, but was found guilty. The sentencing judge considered the circumstances and found she had not intended to kill, but protect herself and her family. Which sounds a lot like self defence.
Ricky Muir forgiven by press. He had been smeared when the Press feared he would vote with conservatives. But his parliamentary record is almost perfect as ALP member, so press now laud him. He is a nice person, with slightly left wing views, and little thought of substance on the issues of the day.
ICAC, pursuing Justice Cuneen is so bad as to be corrupt.
Egypt closes 27000 Mosques to fight terrorism. But no real mosque will be touched. By real, one understands the Mosque to practice the religion of peace. In Australia a 27 yo 'man' has been sentenced 10 years for sexual abuse of a 12 year old he married. He had been told by at least two Imams that it was illegal in Australia. He had started by sending many texts to the girl, which she ignored. But he pressed on until she agreed. The crime was discovered when the girl, aged fourteen, had an ectopic pregnancy and miscarried.
Indonesia executed a man whom records showed died in 2013. Apparently the dead man's passport had been stolen and it is suggested African drug lords gave the passport to a courier. There is no doubt that the man executed was executed for the crime they committed. But the press are keen to suggest that the system is flawed.
Harrison Ford survives plane crash. A WW2 two seater fixed wing crashed into a golf corse. Ford is in serious but improving condition, the only one hurt. Golf course will have improved membership.
Ricky Muir forgiven by press. He had been smeared when the Press feared he would vote with conservatives. But his parliamentary record is almost perfect as ALP member, so press now laud him. He is a nice person, with slightly left wing views, and little thought of substance on the issues of the day.
ICAC, pursuing Justice Cuneen is so bad as to be corrupt.
Egypt closes 27000 Mosques to fight terrorism. But no real mosque will be touched. By real, one understands the Mosque to practice the religion of peace. In Australia a 27 yo 'man' has been sentenced 10 years for sexual abuse of a 12 year old he married. He had been told by at least two Imams that it was illegal in Australia. He had started by sending many texts to the girl, which she ignored. But he pressed on until she agreed. The crime was discovered when the girl, aged fourteen, had an ectopic pregnancy and miscarried.
Indonesia executed a man whom records showed died in 2013. Apparently the dead man's passport had been stolen and it is suggested African drug lords gave the passport to a courier. There is no doubt that the man executed was executed for the crime they committed. But the press are keen to suggest that the system is flawed.
Harrison Ford survives plane crash. A WW2 two seater fixed wing crashed into a golf corse. Ford is in serious but improving condition, the only one hurt. Golf course will have improved membership.
From 2014
On this day in 2008, a Palestinian gunman shot and killed eight students and critically injured eleven in the library of the Mercaz HaRav Kook yeshiva in Jerusalem. A friend of mine remarked they did not know much about the issues, but assumed there was wrong on both sides. So I made a video covering the issues. I hoped to expand on it, as it would be easy to do, but I've not yet found the time to concentrate on the worthy venture.
It is wrong to say all Jordanian/Palestinian peoples are terrorists. But their leadership has been and they have been endorsed by the UN, accepting terrorism among its' constituent members. Terrorism is not proportionate or balanced. A terrorist group is seeking international approval to ethnically cleanse a region of the Middle East.
Historical perspective on this day
In 12 BC the Roman Emperor Augustus was named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor. Future chiefs of the Catholic Church would be called Pope. 632 the Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad was made. 845 execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra. 961 Byzantineconquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, meant the end of the Emirate of Crete. 1204 the Siege of Château Gaillardended in a French victory over King John of England, who lost control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus. 1454 Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agreed to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. 1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrived at Guam. 1665 the first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
In 1788 the First Fleet arrived at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. 1820 the Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, bringing Maine into the Union as a free state, and making the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchaseterritory slavery-free. 1834 York, Upper Canada, was incorporated as Toronto. 1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo after a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo were killed and the fort was captured. 1857 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Dred Scott v. Sandfordcase. 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic tableto the Russian Chemical Society. 1882 the Serbian kingdom was re-founded. 1899 Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
In 1902 Real Madrid C.F. was founded. 1912 Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet. 1921 Portuguese Communist Party was founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International. 1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern. 1943Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. 1945 World War II: Cologne was captured by American troops. 1945 World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, began. 1946 Ho Chi Minh signed an agreement with France which recognised Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
In 1951 the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began. 1953Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1957 Ghana became the first Sub-Saharancountry to gain independence from the British. 1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gave boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. 1964 Constantine IIbecame King of Greece. 1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia lost power after 27 years in office. 1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected to the United States. 1968 three rebels were executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
In 1970 an explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village killed three. 1975 for the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. 1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraqannounced a settlement of their border dispute. 1981 after 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkitesigned off for the last time. 1983 the first United States Football League games was played. 1984 in the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signalled the start of a strike that lasted almost a yearand involved the majority [but never all] of the country's miners. 1987 the British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprisecapsized in about 90 seconds, killing 193. 1988 three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers were shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. 1992 the Michelangelo computer virus began to affect computers. 2008 a suicide bomber killed 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman killed eight students in Jerusalem.
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Today's reading: Numbers 32-34, Mark 9:30-50 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Numbers 32-34
The Transjordan Tribes
1 The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock. 2 So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said, 3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon-- 4the land the LORD subdued before the people of Israel--are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock. 5 If we have found favor in your eyes," they said, "let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan...."
Today's New Testament reading: Mark 9:30-50
Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time
30 They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, 31 because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise." 32 But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.
33 They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" 34But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest....
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"Let us not sleep, as do others." - 1 Thessalonians 5:6
There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the Celestial City, said to themselves, "To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse." Christian enquired, "Brother, where shall we begin?" And Hopeful answered, "Where God began with us." Then Christian sang this song--
"When saints do sleepy grow, let them come hither,
And hear how these two pilgrims talk together;
Yea, let them learn of them, in any wise,
Thus to keep open their drowsy slumb'ring eyes.
Saints' fellowship, if it be managed well,
Keeps them awake, and that in spite of hell."
Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone, are very liable to grow drowsy. Hold Christian company, and you will be kept wakeful by it, and refreshed and encouraged to make quicker progress in the road to heaven. But as you thus take "sweet counsel" with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your converse is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking unto him; let your heart be full of him; let your lips speak of his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep. Labour to impress thyself with a deep sense of the value of the place to which thou art going. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter. Would the manslayer sleep with the avenger of blood behind him, and the city of refuge before him? Christian, wilt thou sleep whilst the pearly gates are open--the songs of angels waiting for thee to join them--a crown of gold ready for thy brow? Ah! no; in holy fellowship continue to watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.
"When saints do sleepy grow, let them come hither,
And hear how these two pilgrims talk together;
Yea, let them learn of them, in any wise,
Thus to keep open their drowsy slumb'ring eyes.
Saints' fellowship, if it be managed well,
Keeps them awake, and that in spite of hell."
Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone, are very liable to grow drowsy. Hold Christian company, and you will be kept wakeful by it, and refreshed and encouraged to make quicker progress in the road to heaven. But as you thus take "sweet counsel" with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your converse is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking unto him; let your heart be full of him; let your lips speak of his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep. Labour to impress thyself with a deep sense of the value of the place to which thou art going. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter. Would the manslayer sleep with the avenger of blood behind him, and the city of refuge before him? Christian, wilt thou sleep whilst the pearly gates are open--the songs of angels waiting for thee to join them--a crown of gold ready for thy brow? Ah! no; in holy fellowship continue to watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.
Evening
"Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation." - Psalm 35:3
What does this sweet prayer teach me? It shall be my evening's petition; but first let it yield me an instructive meditation. The text informs me first of all that David had his doubts; for why should he pray, "Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation," if he were not sometimes exercised with doubts and fears? Let me, then, be of good cheer, for I am not the only saint who has to complain of weakness of faith. If David doubted, I need not conclude that I am no Christian because I have doubts. The text reminds me that David was not content while he had doubts and fears, but he repaired at once to the mercy-seat to pray for assurance; for he valued it as much fine gold. I too must labour after an abiding sense of my acceptance in the Beloved, and must have no joy when his love is not shed abroad in my soul. When my Bridegroom is gone from me, my soul must and will fast. I learn also that David knew where to obtain full assurance. He went to his God in prayer, crying, "Say unto my soul I am thy salvation." I must be much alone with God if I would have a clear sense of Jesus' love. Let my prayers cease, and my eye of faith will grow dim. Much in prayer, much in heaven; slow in prayer, slow in progress. I notice that David would not be satisfied unless his assurance had a divine source. "Say unto my soul." Lord, do thou say it! Nothing short of a divine testimony in the soul will ever content the true Christian. Moreover, David could not rest unless his assurance had a vivid personality about it. "Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation." Lord, if thou shouldst say this to all the saints, it were nothing, unless thou shouldst say it to me. Lord, I have sinned; I deserve not thy smile; I scarcely dare to ask it; but oh! say to my soul, even to my soul, "I am thy salvation." Let me have a present, personal, infallible, indisputable sense that I am thine, and that thou art mine.
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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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