Sunday, March 14, 2021

Sun 14th March 2021 Current Affairs

Wonderful life off cuts “No Deal”

Both Libertarians and leftists offer awful deals to conservatives. In this off cut from It’s a Wonderful Life, we see the Libertarian character of Sam Wainwright chortling of having offered the ground floor of a plastics deal which George Bailey rejected so as to save his buildings and loan. In modern terms it is how conservatives have said ‘no deal’ to laws weakening borders or drug laws, which Libertarians have at times demanded. Libertarians chortle every time an illegal immigrant does well despite the costs to society, or a druggie succeeds temporarily despite their handicaps. 

But consider how the Potter offer to Bailey has a ‘no deal’ in similar terms as the left wing offer their terms. No ID elections. Votes received anonymously by mail after voting day. Preventing scrutiny of voter fraud. However, providing exceptions to when a recall effort is made against the California Governor? The character of Potter is a thief who steals thousands of dollars and never faces justice over it, just like the Democrats of today. And, he offers insulting terms for success. Terms similar as what McConnell has accepted? 

https://rumble.com/vepa97-wonderful-life-off-cuts-no-deal.html


Wonderful life off cuts Democrats Tossing away what they have to embrace corruption (Dem Preselection)

Dems are exercising power using Congress and the Presidency. But they are tossing away their voter base as they try to entrench corruption like voter fraud and double down on social engineering. The Dem ownership of the black vote dates back to FDR exploiting Democrat corruption in stealing aid Hoover had meant for stricken communities in the 1920’s. However, the Democrat controlled and exploited communities of minorities are leaving Democrats and moving to Trump Republicans. Can corruption, alone maintain the Dem powerbase? 

https://rumble.com/veqh67-democrats-tossing-away-what-they-have-to-embrace-corruption.html

=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Cuomo Won't Last Long With Pressure Closing In, Rep. Malliotakis Says

It should just be a matter of time before Gov. Andrew Cuomo's reign of scandal comes to a bitter end, as even his staff sees the writing on the wall and is jumping ship, according to Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., on Newsmax TV. [Full Story]

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12 House Dems Demand Cuomo Resign

Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax: COVID Package a Blue State 'Slush Fund'
Rep. Michael Burgess: Biden Vaccine Narrative 'Disingenuous' |
Children Packed Into Border Patrol Tent for Days on End
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Biden Celebrates Stimulus With Democrat-Only Rose Garden Event
US to Respond to SolarWinds Hackers in Weeks: Senior Official
Yellen: Tax Increases Will Come When Money Is Needed for 'Priorities'


Dr. Fauci: Vaccine Development 'Extraordinary', Way to Herd Immunity

The development of three COVID-19 vaccines in a year's time was "extraordinary," as the safest road to herd immunity is vaccination, Dr. Anthony Fauci.... [Full Story]

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Italy to Impose Nationwide COVID-19 Lockdown Over Easter Weekend
Report: NY Agency Forces Employees to Work in COVID-Infected Group Homes

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Portland Mayor Wants To “Re-Fund” the Police After Homicides Skyrocket

Michigan Prosecutor Investigating Hundreds of Complaints Over Gov. Whitmer’s Nursing Home Policies

Media Companies Want Antitrust Exemption

Gov. Cuomo Lashes Out at Dems Calling for Him To Resign

40% of Small Businesses Are Having Trouble Filling Job Openings

Biden Refuses to Answer Questions After Yet Another Speech

Capitol Hill

Culture War

Economy

Swamp Watch

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Here is a video I made Vox for Cleft 

Done for a friendly collaborator on a music site I used to be part of. 
https://rumble.com/veltzl-vox-for-cleft.html

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=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. A brilliant life has ended with the passing of Stephen Hawking at age 76. He was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) at 21, and not expected to live beyond 23. To compare, Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with ALS age 35 and died aged 37. In his final decades of life, Hawking communicated with the world by moving a single cheek muscle and interfacing with a computer. Hawking's mother was friends with poet Robert Graves and he had a frugal, but intellectually liberating childhood. Both his parents were Oxford graduates. His primary school was so progressive he did not learn to read while he attended. At university, Hawking matured and graduated first class honours in science. He began doctoral studies at Cambridge when he was diagnosed with ALS. He persevered, and eventually chaired Mathematics at Cambridge (The Lucasian Chair was previously held by Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage). Hawking's research has given the world an understanding of the universe and of the lifecycle of black holes. Hawking Radiation has been named in his honour, being the theoretical radiation emanating from black holes. 

But as genius elevates a person, it highlights character flaws. Hawking outed himself as an antisemitic bigot. He endorsed the faux science of AGW theory. He misunderstood and misrepresented religious thought. Not everything can be analysed as an equation. Not everything withstands a scientific method. Hawking could be very lazy with his assumptions. It is reasonable to think mainstream press have represented the world with verisimilitude. But the press are not reasonable. And a great man interacting with the world using a lone muscle in his cheek missed much. 

Hope for many as a bionic kidney promises to do away with dialysis. 

Ridiculously bad policy regarding Energy in South Australia crystallised today. It turns out the most expensive state for energy will have to pay much more to battery back up using a Musk plan. The expensive batteries will power a small town for a few hours when the grid fails as it has multiple times since SA blew up their last coal power station. Note One Nation and Greens in WA oppose CSG too. 

ALP have been elected in WA to do nothing but spend tax dollars. Source https://thewest.com.au/politics/state-politics/promise-tracker






Looking at the policies of the smaller parties, there are obvious areas where people are being irresponsible. Greens want to make green energy more expensive with a battery scheme. They want to implement the dangerous Safe Schools social engineering plan. And they join with One Nation in backing Port Hedland sale on spurious economic grounds. What would $100 million extra in education achieve? More teachers standing around top classrooms because nobody wants bottom classes? The protectionism of One Nation is very Green. Together with the Greens, One Nation is polling over 14% on issues to do with protection measures for the economy that harms it. But journalists felt that Barnett had been Premier for too long. The same journalists who thought he should never have been Premier at all. 

=== from 2016 ===
Discussion has arisen over a person's attack on a bus on Sydney's lower north shore. I was working in the Liverpool area as a teacher in 2008 when a student assaulted a bus that refused to stop for him when he wasn't on the bus route. Earlier, the older student had shown a machete to other school boys at the bus stop. Each incident was reported by the bus driver to the school after the bus driver asked me for direction. Each time, the bus driver was castigated by the school. The second time the school instructed me to never again talk to the bus driver. At no stage was the student made aware that he had been seen or reported. How else can students with violent tendencies be shown they are wrong? Aren't we approving the appalling behaviour. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
 Premier Mike Baird handsomely won the leaders debate against the ALP suit and and ABC compere. Baird has a plan for NSW prosperity. ALP intend to lie about what they will do in office, by increasing spending and and claiming to reduce taxation. 

It is Pi day. Third month, fourteen day gives an approximation of 3.14. However, it is 2015, so 3.1415 is even better. 
From 2014
Injustice is profound and has a lasting effect. The political divide cares nothing for the individual unto death. This is why a pedophile with two convictions and ongoing allegations is free to kill. It has ever been thus. Eight Athenian generals against the odds were successful against a Spartan force on water. But on their return home, they are executed by democracy. They had had to choose between rescuing drowning sailors and chasing fleeing forces. They divided their force to do both, but achieved neither objective when a storm hit. Relatives of the drowned voted to kill the generals, one of whom was the bastard son of Pericles. 

Sometimes, choices are made in the heat of the moment. Good decisions which are costly. Lieutenant Baker Phillips in 1745 was on board an English vessel. His captain failed to prepare the ship for action. A french broadside killed the captain, leaving a defenceless ship. Lieutenant Phillips surrendered. At the subsequent court martial, the negligent behaviour of the captain was noted and the court martial recommended mercy, but the sentence of death was approved by the Lord Justices of Appeal. The resulting anger of the nation for the injustice resulted in the articles of war being written which declared all officers would equally be given death for failing to do their utmost in battle or pursuit. 

Vice Admiral John Byng had a depleted fleet in need of repair and was unable to come to the aid of Minorca in 1756. He was subsequently promoted to Admiral and sentenced to death for his failure. The Prime Minister of the day, Pitt, tried to intercede with King George II, but the King would not listen. The lower house voted for clemency, but the house of Lords rejected it. And so, on this day in 1757, Admiral Bing was shot by firing squad. He gave the order to fire while kneeling, and dropping a handkerchief. 

Byng's execution was satirized by Voltaire in his novel Candide. In Portsmouth, Candide witnesses the execution of an officer by firing squad; and is told that "in this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, in order to encourage the others" (Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres). 

Such policy considerations were no comfort to the family of their victim. Admiral Byng's epitaph at the family vault in All Saints Church, in Southill, Bedfordshire, expresses their view and the view of much of the country:
To the perpetual Disgrace
of PUBLICK JUSTICE
The Honble. JOHN BYNG Esqr
Admiral of the Blue
Fell a MARTYR to
POLITICAL PERSECUTION
March 14th in the year 1757 when
BRAVERY and LOYALTY
were Insufficient Securities
For the
Life and Honour
of a
NAVAL OFFICER
Historical perspective on this day
44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogiragainst Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenotsdefeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1592 – Ultimate Pi Day: the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.

1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1663 – Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.
1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squadaboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces captureFort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.

1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under Germanpressure.
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
1945 – World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.

1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 80concerning Jammu and Kashmir is adopted.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nationstroops recapture Seoul.
1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1978 – The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injuring at least 200.

1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approachnear Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

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Today's reading: Deuteronomy 19-21, Mark 13:21-37 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Deuteronomy 19-21

Cities of Refuge
1 When the LORD your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses, 2 then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 3 Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities....

Today's New Testament reading: Mark 13:21-37

21 At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there he is!' do not believe it. 22 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 23 So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.

24 "But in those days, following that distress,
"'the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
25 the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

=== Morning and Evening ===


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March 13: Morning
"Why sit we here until we die?" - 2 Kings 7:3
Dear reader, this little book was mainly intended for the edification of believers, but if you are yet unsaved, our heart yearns over you: and we would fain say a word which may be blessed to you. Open your Bible, and read the story of the lepers, and mark their position, which was much the same as yours. If you remain where you are you must perish; if you go to Jesus you can but die. "Nothing venture, nothing win," is the old proverb, and in your case the venture is no great one. If you sit still in sullen despair, no one can pity you when your ruin comes; but if you die with mercy sought, if such a thing were possible, you would be the object of universal sympathy. None escape who refuse to look to Jesus; but you know that, at any rate, some are saved who believe in him, for certain of your own acquaintances have received mercy: then why not you? The Ninevites said, "Who can tell?" Act upon the same hope, and try the Lord's mercy. To perish is so awful, that if there were but a straw to catch at, the instinct of self-preservation should lead you to stretch out your hand. We have thus been talking to you on your own unbelieving ground, we would now assure you, as from the Lord, that if you seek him he will be found of you. Jesus casts out none who come unto him. You shall not perish if you trust him; on the contrary, you shall find treasure far richer than the poor lepers gathered in Syria's deserted camp. May the Holy Spirit embolden you to go at once, and you shall not believe in vain. When you are saved yourself, publish the good news to others. Hold not your peace; tell the King's household first, and unite with them in fellowship; let the porter of the city, the minister, be informed of your discovery, and then proclaim the good news in every place. The Lord save thee ere the sun goes down this day.
Evening
"Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark." - Genesis 8:9
Wearied out with her wanderings, the dove returns at length to the ark as her only resting place. How heavily she flies--she will drop--she will never reach the ark! But she struggles on. Noah has been looking out for his dove all day long, and is ready to receive her. She has just strength to reach the edge of the ark, she can hardly alight upon it, and is ready to drop, when Noah puts forth his hand and pulls her in unto him. Mark that: "pulled her in unto him." She did not fly right in herself, but was too fearful, or too weary to do so. She flew as far as she could, and then he put forth his hand and pulled her in unto him. This act of mercy was shown to the wandering dove, and she was not chidden for her wanderings. Just as she was she was pulled into the ark. So you, seeking sinner, with all your sin, will be received. "Only return"--those are God's two gracious words--"only return." What! nothing else? No, "only return." She had no olive branch in her mouth this time, nothing at all but just herself and her wanderings; but it is "only return," and she does return, and Noah pulls her in. Fly, thou wanderer; fly thou fainting one, dove as thou art, though thou thinkest thyself to be black as the raven with the mire of sin, back, back to the Saviour. Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity. Come thou to him just as thou art. "Return, thou backsliding Israel." He does not say, "Return, thou repenting Israel" (there is such an invitation doubtless), but "thou backsliding one," as a backslider with all thy backslidings about thee, Return, return, return! Jesus is waiting for thee! He will stretch forth his hand and "pull thee in"--in to himself, thy heart's true home.

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=== Message ===

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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.

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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.

Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?


January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)

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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.


The Amazon Author Page for David Ball

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

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

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

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

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Other Stuff

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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship

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

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I'm looking for former students to endorse me

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

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