Editorial Fri 9th April 2021 Current Affairs
In 2015, today a policeman, Michael Slager, Police for North Charlestone, stopped Walter Scott for a non functioning brake light. Moments afterwards, Slager shot and killed Scott as Scott was running away. Video allegedly contradicted Slager's statement regarding the incident. The racial overtones blew up into a national inquiry and Slager was subsequently charged with murder, but pled to civil rights violations, and is now in jail following a 20 year federal sentence.
On January 6th, 2021, policeman Brian Sicknick died during a Pro Dem incursion to a GOP rally in the Capitol. Today, no cause of death was given Sicknick while four others who died at the event have had their cause of deaths released. Is it because the media narrative regarding Jan 6th rally does not fit the fact of the officer's death? Has Slager's imprisonment been a result of blind lady justice, or political expediency? Isn't it worth asking about due process while the Floyd George case is operative?
Of the cause of deaths for Jan 6th that were revealed, press expose reported immediately following and in the weeks after had been substantially wrong. The press narrative of events seems very wrong. About as wrong as giving a free pass to a Vice President who organised a sting involving a civilian airliner being shot down in Ukraine so as to blame Russia?
Editorial for Easter Sunday
Miracles happen, unexpected, during times of great evil. And some miracles are underpinned by ordinary things. Jesus' resurrection was no ordinary thing. His killing was unwarranted, but carried out by the complicit world. Yet that very terrible, evil act, was the basis of God's victory over the Devil.
In a more modern context, great evil has been perpetrated on the US peoples with the 2020 election fraud. A complicit technocracy has facilitated worse to come. NYY's manager, Boon, has praised MLB for moving their all star game from Georgia as Georgia moved to protect voting rights for their constituents, so voter fraud like 2020 does not happen again. Thank you Mr Boon, we know where you stand on freedom and racism. Former President, Trump, has called for there to be a ban on MLB from MAGA supporters. I will watch and follow, but contribute nothing to MLB. Just as I despised the NYY team I follow last year when their star player, Judge, proudly announced he would take the knee in support of racism. NYY finished the year on their knees.
In Hollywood attacks on conservatives predate the invention of motion pictures. STAN, the streaming business in Australia, has two series worth comparing, Blue Bloods and City on a Hill. Blue Bloods harks back to the Giuliani years where a police force was effective and committed. The Reagan family and their nightly dinners show decent people fighting the good fight. City on a Hill is a name with religious overtones, suggestive of the light USA shines around the world to maintain freedom. It is narrated around the so called Boston Miracle where authorities limited young kids from killing each other with guns. 0.03% of people usually account for over half of all crime. The New York experience suggests only GOP will reduce crime. City on a Hill begins with race baiting and lying about what police are like, and how responsible adults behave. In their world, it is a free thinker that despises God, and has a hard bitten attitude to sex, drugs and crime. STAN, in Australia has shadow banned the clean cut Blue Bloods and promoted City on a Hill.
But, now for the ordinary miracle. Some will get upset and Ban MLB, or STAN. The majority of States will implement improvements to voting regulation. Disenchantment with Dem politics and antics will see GOP crush them in '22 and reverse the damage done. Hidden by the fraud, is the observation that those who supported Trump in '20, but not '16, some twelve million voters, were traditional Democrat supporters who liked Trump policy. Democrat support base is imploding, held up only by fraud where, were every voter who supported them to hold up two hands, they would not reach 82 million.
===Biden is making a massive push to confiscate your guns and your money. In this episode, I expose the hypocrisy of the left on gun control. I also address the coming tax hikes and the hypocrisy of leftists who refuse to pay taxes themselves.
News Picks:
- Why won’t the liberal media pursue answers regarding the death of Brian Sicknick.
- Murder rates jump back to levels not seen since the 1990s.
- Election fraud prosecutions are at an all-time high.
- Biden is planning to move on gun control.
- “Gun control” in Australia is a myth. There are more guns in Australia now than before the confiscation law.
- Woke hiring managers say endorsing Trump is a reason to be disqualified.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
New York Creates $2 Billion Relief Fund for IllegalsTrump Slams Arkansas Gov. for Vetoing Bill Banning Chemical Castration of Children
Study Estimates Biden Tax Plan Will Cost One Million Jobs in First Two Years
GOP Foreign Policy Leaders Vow to Block Any Biden Admin Plans to Reduce Sanctions on Iran
Border Officials Encounter 172k Illegals in March – 71% Increase From February
Iowa Gov. Says She’ll Take Executive Action to Stop Vaccine Passports
Capitol Hill
Rep. Gaetz’s Female Staff Blast “False Allegations”
NY Rep. Zeldin Launches 2022 Gubernatorial Campaign to Oust Cuomo
Manchin Vows Not to “Eliminate Or Weaken” Filibuster
“I Know She Hasn’t Been to the Border” – Rep. McCarthy Says Harris Should Attend FBI-CIA Terror Briefing
AOC Thinks She Knows How to Solve Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Lol
Texas Gov. Says There’s Evidence of Children Being Sexually Assaulted at Federal Migrant Facility
Trump Endorses Mo Brooks in Alabama Senate Race
U.S. and Iran Call First Day of Indirect Nuclear Talks “Constructive”
Politico: Just 37% of Biden’s “Infrastructure” Plan is Infrastructure
ICE Gave $87M No-Bid Contract to Business With Biden Ties
D.C. Rep. Norton Calls for “Retractable Fencing” Around the Capitol
Psaki Announces That Kamala Announced $112 Million in Aid to Central America
Buttigieg: Racism Is “Physically Built” into Infrastructure
Key Democrat Vendors Still Doing Business with Disgraced Lincoln Project
Culture War
Tucker Carlson: Arkansas Governor Didn’t Tell the Truth
Biden Admin Takes Next Step Toward Undermining Due Process for Sexual Assault Accusations in Schools
“Moral Panic”: Perception of Bigotry in America Has Far Surpassed Reality
NYC Doormen Who Failed to Act During Attack On Asian Woman Have Been Fired
California Forces Christian College Employees to Undergo “Gender Identity” Brainwashing/Training
United Airlines’ Plan to Hire Pilots Based on Race Not Being Received Well
North Carolina Bill Would Ban Medical Gender Transition for Youths Under 21
California Putting Women Inmates at Risk to Satisfy Demands of Transgender Male Felons
Group Pushing “America Is Oppressive to Asians” Narrative Has Ties to Chinese State Media
Media Corruption Is at the Heart Of America’s National Conflict
Arizona Gov. Signs Bill to Preempt Federal Gun Laws
Economy
Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise Again
Peter Thiel Slams Silicon Valley for Outsourcing Vital Technologies to the Chinese Communist Party
Biden Releases Details of $2.5 Trillion in New Taxes
Carnival May Switch Home Ports to Outside U.S. if CDC Doesn’t Ease Restrictions
India Begins Formulating Quantitative Easing Plans
China’s Epic Battle to Manage Capital Flows
Trump’s Net Worth Fell by One-Third During His Presidency
Biden’s Tax Hikes May Spur Increase in Roth-IRA Retirement Accounts
Fed Now Says Accommodative Policies Will Stay Until They Produce Stronger Employment and Inflation
JP Morgan CEO Attacks Dem’s Proposed SALT Repeal as a Benefit to the Rich
Beijing Professor: China Leveraging Pandemic to Replace Dominance of the U.S. Dollar
Swamp Watch
CNN’s Jake Tapper Touts MLB’s Georgia Departure, Defends CNN’s Atlanta HQ
Biden ATF Nominee Pushed Bogus Claims About Waco Siege to Make Case for Assault Weapon Ban
Antifa Organizer Hit With 28-Count Indictment for Attempted Murder of Two Police Officers
Facebook Being Used to Organize Illegal Border Crossings
Revealed Emails Between DeSantis’ Office and “60 Minutes” Make Things Even Worse For the Show
DC Police Chief: Charging Uber Driver’s Teen Killers as Adults “Won’t Bring Him Back”
U.S. Murder Rate Jumps to Levels Not Seen Since the 90s
Samantha Bee Admits She’s Going Easy on Biden
New Emails From Hunter Biden Laptop Provide Evidence of Joe Biden’s Involvement in Ukraine Dealings
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Biden Presidency
Florida Sues Biden Administration Over Cruise Ban
Interior Secretary Looks to Restore Utah Monuments Cut in Trump Admin
Biden Admin Blames Trump For Record Illegal Border Crossings
US 'Increasingly Concerned' by Russian Troop Buildup on Ukraine Border
Fed's Powell: US Nears Full Reopening to 'Different Economy'
Rep. Dingell: Democrats Won't Support Infrastructure Without SALT Limits Repeal
Ilhan Omar: Biden Border Wall Plan 'Shameful and Unacceptable'
Biden Announces Actions on 'Epidemic' of Gun Violence
Newsfront
Permits Won't Be Needed to Carry Handguns in Tennessee
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Here is a video I made English, it is hard
Poem and anecdote illustrating the difficulties of English
cf http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=39402
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham.
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese; so one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? One mouse, 2 mice, one louse, 2 lice; so one house, 2 hice?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"
https://rumble.com/vaxa25-english-it-is-hard.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. A non partisan congressional committee has reported that the US deficit should 'escalate' under Trump from Obama's $20 trillion to $11.7 trillion. It is not known by me who is on this committee, but I'm guessing it is McCain and Hank "Guam may capsize" Johnson. In further international news it is reported that it was not a chemical attack that happened in Syria. Speculation as to what it might be could include failed Vaccination or GMO corn? Did London bridge terrorists coward punch a guy the night before their attacks to test police response times? Did police respond? In Australia, PM wannabe Shorten goes on tv and offers slogans, not policy to adoring ABC partisan supporters. "I have a vision for this country." "he wasn’t at all worried, and in a veiled sledge at the Turnbull government, said he is pleased his “united” team has “put forward three of the biggest economic reforms to our tax system in living memory.”
On changes specifically to superannuation and pensioners, Mr Shorten was asked, “Could you promise no pensioner would be worse off under what you call the ‘pensioner guarantee’ on that plan?”" "But he avoided giving a guarantee and said he could “promise that we will protect pensioners”." "“What we have here is a system, the only place in the world where you can pay no income tax and you can, because of particular circumstances, get an income tax refund. How is that possible that you get a tax refund, an income tax refund when you pay no income tax? It is not sustainable.”" (Companies that meet stringent regulations but make a loss don't pay tax on their loss, but have to comply with regulations. Shares which are paid to shareholders as tax paid should not be taxed twice, as Shorten wants. Ed.) "“Keeping our promises,” he said.
“I want to be a government that looks after middle-class working families.
“I want to make sure our schools are properly funded. Are we reducing the waiting lists in hospitals? Are they getting the support they need?
“I am interested in lifting the number of apprenticeships in this country.
“I want to keep the price of health insurance down.
“What I want to do is not increase the taxes on low-paid people. I want to see wages move.
“I want to stop wages theft in this country and I want to protect our environment. I want to make sure our First Australians are mentioned not only in our Constitution, but we genuinely close the gap.
“I would like to be judged on whether or not women get an equal go in this country.”
And in his final parting shot: “I have a vision for this country, but it doesn’t involve giving $65 billion to the top end of town and looking after the wealthy and not the less powerful.”"Malcolm Turnbull is an awful PM and Barnaby Joyce's swipe at him was proportionate and measured as a response to Turnbull releasing dirt files on him. Shorten is not a credible alternative as PM to Turnbull, but Turnbull seems keen to give him the job.
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. After his two years in Reading Jail, Oscar Wilde wrote the Ballad of Reading Gaol, where he identified with a wife killer. But before Wilde initiated a court case that got him jailed, he had become a born again socialist and written "The Soul of Man under Socialism". Wilde argued that Capitalism often led people to try to cure ills of society symptomatically. Wilde felt that Capitalism was the cause. Published in 1891, the essay post dates "The Happy Prince" (1888) but predates "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895). Wilde was highly educated, but unaware of the fallacy of a zero sum game describing Capitalism. To be rich is glorious and life saving for many. But Wilde despised it. Capitalism means many have hope where once was none. Capitalism means many are free to lead extraordinary lives where once they were slave. But socialists despise hope and rigidly reject change. Today, Andrew Bolt writes on how the late Paul Ramsay's bequest of three billion dollars is to be tossed to socialist elites under the guise of creating a centre for Western Civilisation at UNSW. The IPA are to miss the funding, although they alone seem to champion the cause in Australia as an institution. The sad choice being Libertarian or socialist, not conservative. A wasted opportunity. Wilde was not a complete fool or hypocrite. He alone of literary greats signed the Haymarket petition against the execution of several people not connected to the May 4th 1886 Haymarket bombing.
=== from 2016 ===
A year ago today a policeman shot and killed Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. The policeman, Michael Slager, was white, Scott was black. The #BlackLivesMatter movement was immediately outraged. The police report submitted by Slager was at odds with a video posted after the report was made. It looks as if Slager planted evidence of an attempted Taser grab by Scott. Slager shot 8 times while Scott was running away. Only five shots hit. The case goes on trial in October 2016. A medical report shows that Scott was under the influence of Cocaine and alcohol.
Slager has said that Scott tried to grab his taser. That is not seen on the video. Had Slager not killed Scott, Scott would not have been able to sue Slager because of his condition from drugs. It seems clear that Slager has shot wildly and with intent to kill. Much will depend on his testimony from before the video was taken. But if #BlackLivesMatter, then blacks should stop killing black people, and stealing from them.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
Slager has said that Scott tried to grab his taser. That is not seen on the video. Had Slager not killed Scott, Scott would not have been able to sue Slager because of his condition from drugs. It seems clear that Slager has shot wildly and with intent to kill. Much will depend on his testimony from before the video was taken. But if #BlackLivesMatter, then blacks should stop killing black people, and stealing from them.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
US Cop arrested after shooting dead a man who resisted arrest. The footage showing a man who was tasered and who attempted to take the taser is not presented. But the footage of the man running away and being shot is. It looks bad. But the cop is being charged with murder for the possibility of doing his job on his own and unsupported against a violent man who had resisted arrest and allegedly had attempted to obtain a weapon. It is good the situation wasn't reversed.
Some call it a statement of faith, but in 475, when the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issued a circular to bishops supporting the Monophysite position in Christian theology, he chose to be deposed. He hadn't known that was the choice he was making. He had decided to indulge some monks who felt strongly about the matter. But the religious authorities in positions of power disagreed and moved to have him deposed. Basiliscus was not very smart, but slow. He is described by contemporaries of being slow of understanding and easy to deceive. The previous emperor, Zeno, still lived and was brother in law to Basiliscus. Basiliscus faced insurmountable odds against Zeno after twenty months as Emperor, and surrendered to him on the promise Zeno would not kill him and his family. Zeno had Basiliscus and his family imprisoned in a fortress where they were exposed to the elements until they died. For the record, the Monophysite position is what later theologians adopted.
Some call it a statement of faith, but in 475, when the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issued a circular to bishops supporting the Monophysite position in Christian theology, he chose to be deposed. He hadn't known that was the choice he was making. He had decided to indulge some monks who felt strongly about the matter. But the religious authorities in positions of power disagreed and moved to have him deposed. Basiliscus was not very smart, but slow. He is described by contemporaries of being slow of understanding and easy to deceive. The previous emperor, Zeno, still lived and was brother in law to Basiliscus. Basiliscus faced insurmountable odds against Zeno after twenty months as Emperor, and surrendered to him on the promise Zeno would not kill him and his family. Zeno had Basiliscus and his family imprisoned in a fortress where they were exposed to the elements until they died. For the record, the Monophysite position is what later theologians adopted.
From 2014
Today is the birthday of Paul Robeson (1898) as well as two significant events involving bad faith race relations, Marian Anderson being declined the right to sing at a function because of her skin colour in 1939 and Hendrick Verwoerd, architect of South Africa's Apartheid, and his failed assassination attempt in 1960 by a white farmer David Pratt.
Verwoerd was a Nazi loving jew hating bigot. He garnered populist support in South Africa with a populist mix of protectionism and nationalism. His worker advocacy illustrates the closeness of Communism to National Socialism. A white farmer, David Pratt shot him twice with a 22 caliber gun at point blank range. But Pratt hadn't meant to kill Verwoerd. Pratt was declared mentally unfit, and committed suicide the day before he was to be paroled. It wasn't until 1966 that another mentally ill person successfully killed Verwoerd. So today is the anniversary of a failure.
Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated voices of the twentieth century. Music critic Alan Blyth said "Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty." She had been denied In 1939, by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) permission to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall. Instead, on this day in 1939, she performed in front of an audience of 75000 and a radio audience of millions on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. She was a classical musician of supreme talent who missed opportunities because of bigotry, but who still rose to the pinnacle of achievement.
Paul Robeson was right to speak out about social injustice, but very wrong to embrace communism as a solution. The failure of Communism to deal with human rights is similar to Nazism. But the injustice Robeson protested was real. He was born on this day. A supremely talented actor and singer, his beliefs hurt his career, and while he was also nobbled by the colour of his skin by a bigoted USA, it might have been the case that it would not have hampered his career. We will never know.
Verwoerd was a Nazi loving jew hating bigot. He garnered populist support in South Africa with a populist mix of protectionism and nationalism. His worker advocacy illustrates the closeness of Communism to National Socialism. A white farmer, David Pratt shot him twice with a 22 caliber gun at point blank range. But Pratt hadn't meant to kill Verwoerd. Pratt was declared mentally unfit, and committed suicide the day before he was to be paroled. It wasn't until 1966 that another mentally ill person successfully killed Verwoerd. So today is the anniversary of a failure.
Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated voices of the twentieth century. Music critic Alan Blyth said "Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty." She had been denied In 1939, by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) permission to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall. Instead, on this day in 1939, she performed in front of an audience of 75000 and a radio audience of millions on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. She was a classical musician of supreme talent who missed opportunities because of bigotry, but who still rose to the pinnacle of achievement.
Paul Robeson was right to speak out about social injustice, but very wrong to embrace communism as a solution. The failure of Communism to deal with human rights is similar to Nazism. But the injustice Robeson protested was real. He was born on this day. A supremely talented actor and singer, his beliefs hurt his career, and while he was also nobbled by the colour of his skin by a bigoted USA, it might have been the case that it would not have hampered his career. We will never know.
Historical perspective on this day
In 193, Lucius Septimius Severus was proclaimed Emperor by his troops in Illyricum(Balkans). He marched with his army (16 legions) to Rome. 475, Byzantine EmperorBasiliscus issued a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. 537, Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisariusreceived his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnicor Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raided against the Gothic camps and Vitiges was forced into a stalemate. 1241, Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeated the Polish and German armies. 1288, Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces were defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam. 1388, Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy were victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels. 1413, Henry V was crowned King of England. 1440, Christopher of Bavaria was appointed King of Denmark. 1454, the Treaty of Lodi was signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
In 1511, St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, received its charter. 1585, The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departed England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony. 1609, Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce. 1682, Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River, claimed it for France and named it Louisiana. 1782, American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes began. 1860, on his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinvillemade the oldest known recording of an audible human voice. 1865, American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grantat Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war. 1867, Alaska Purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratified a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
In 1909, the U.S. Congress passed the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. 1914, Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes took place off the coast of western Mexico. 1916, World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launched their third offensive of the battle. 1917, World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle began with Canadian Corpsexecuting a massive assault on Vimy Ridge. 1918, World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps was crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders. Also 1918, the National Council of Bessarabia proclaimed union with the Kingdom of Romania. 1937, the Kamikaze arrived at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. 1939, Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
In 1940, World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. Also 1940, Vidkun Quisling seized power in Norway. 1942, World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March: United States forces surrendered on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launched an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire were sunk off the island's east coast. 1945, World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was sunk by the Royal Air Force Also 1945, World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ended. Also 1945, the United States Atomic Energy Commission was formed. 1947, the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes killed 181 and injured 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Also 1947, the Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ridebegan through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel. 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provoked a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia. Also 1948, Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
In 1952, Hugo Ballivián's government was overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines 1957, the Suez Canal in Egypt was cleared and opened to shipping. 1959, Project Mercury: NASA announced the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven". 1960, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survived an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg. 1961, the Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ended operations. 1965, Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played. 1967, The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) made its maiden flight. 1969, the "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Also 1969, the first British-built Concorde 002 made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford. 1975, the first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world. Also 1975, Eight people in South Korea, who were involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, were hanged.
In 1980, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein killed philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadrand his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture. 1981, the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collided with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it. 1989, the April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike, demanding restoration of Georgian independence was dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. 1991, Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union 1992, a U.S. Federal Court found former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. 1999, Battle of Košare began, part of Kosovo War. 2003, Invasion of Iraq: Baghdad fell to American forces; Iraqis turned on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces. 2005, Charles, Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. 2009, in Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protested against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
In 1511, St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, received its charter. 1585, The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departed England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony. 1609, Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce. 1682, Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River, claimed it for France and named it Louisiana. 1782, American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes began. 1860, on his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinvillemade the oldest known recording of an audible human voice. 1865, American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grantat Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war. 1867, Alaska Purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratified a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
In 1909, the U.S. Congress passed the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. 1914, Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes took place off the coast of western Mexico. 1916, World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launched their third offensive of the battle. 1917, World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle began with Canadian Corpsexecuting a massive assault on Vimy Ridge. 1918, World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps was crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders. Also 1918, the National Council of Bessarabia proclaimed union with the Kingdom of Romania. 1937, the Kamikaze arrived at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. 1939, Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
In 1940, World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. Also 1940, Vidkun Quisling seized power in Norway. 1942, World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March: United States forces surrendered on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launched an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire were sunk off the island's east coast. 1945, World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was sunk by the Royal Air Force Also 1945, World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ended. Also 1945, the United States Atomic Energy Commission was formed. 1947, the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes killed 181 and injured 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Also 1947, the Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ridebegan through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel. 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provoked a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia. Also 1948, Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
In 1952, Hugo Ballivián's government was overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines 1957, the Suez Canal in Egypt was cleared and opened to shipping. 1959, Project Mercury: NASA announced the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven". 1960, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survived an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg. 1961, the Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ended operations. 1965, Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played. 1967, The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) made its maiden flight. 1969, the "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Also 1969, the first British-built Concorde 002 made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford. 1975, the first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world. Also 1975, Eight people in South Korea, who were involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, were hanged.
In 1980, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein killed philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadrand his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture. 1981, the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collided with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it. 1989, the April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike, demanding restoration of Georgian independence was dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. 1991, Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union 1992, a U.S. Federal Court found former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. 1999, Battle of Košare began, part of Kosovo War. 2003, Invasion of Iraq: Baghdad fell to American forces; Iraqis turned on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces. 2005, Charles, Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. 2009, in Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protested against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: 1 Samuel 10-12, Luke 9:37-62 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Samuel 10-12
1 Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over his inheritance? 2 When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel's tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, 'The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried about you. He is asking, "What shall I do about my son?"'
3 "Then you will go on from there until you reach the great tree of Tabor. Three men going up to worship God at Bethel will meet you there. One will be carrying three young goats, another three loaves of bread, and another a skin of wine. 4 They will greet you and offer you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from them....
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 9:37-62
Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy
37 The next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met him. 38 A man in the crowd called out, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.39 A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It scarcely ever leaves him and is destroying him. 40 I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not."
41 "You unbelieving and perverse generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you and put up with you? Bring your son here."
42 Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father. 43 And they were all amazed at the greatness of God....
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Morning
Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: "If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself--the dry tree--shall fall into the hands of an angry God?" When God saw Jesus in the sinner's place, he did not spare him; and when he finds the unregenerate without Christ, he will not spare them. O sinner, Jesus was led away by his enemies: so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" what an awful shriek! But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "O God! O God! why hast thou forsaken me?" and the answer shall come back, "Because ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." If God spared not his own Son, how much less will he spare you! What whips of burning wire will be yours when conscience shall smite you with all its terrors. Ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners--who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake, O sword, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart forever"? Jesus was spit upon: sinner, what shame will be yours! We cannot sum up in one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Jesus who died for us; therefore it is impossible for us to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. You may die so, you may die now. By the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the wrath to come! Trust in the Son of God, and you shall never die.
Evening
Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend the music of a Christian's heart, but rather makes that music become more sweet, more clear, more heavenly, till the last kind act which death can do is to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into the eternal bliss! Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit's power to comfort us. Dear reader, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not; the divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty than the rich have in their abundance. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross--a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your light. Do the ears fail you? Jesus' name will be your soul's best music, and his person your dear delight. Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. In thee, my God, my heart shall triumph, come what may of ills without! By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding glad, though all things should fail me here below.
=== Bible Quote ===
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Bible Quote Apr 9th Romans 5:10“For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!” - Romans 5:10
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Paul was writing to Rome from Corinth. He had Tertius of Iconium write this while he dictated. Paul had established a number of churches around the Greek seas in the decade leading up to the letter. Rome was the then undisputed capital of the 'known world.'
Here, Paul is writing of the gift of Grace, and forgiveness through faith
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Paul was writing to Rome from Corinth. He had Tertius of Iconium write this while he dictated. Paul had established a number of churches around the Greek seas in the decade leading up to the letter. Rome was the then undisputed capital of the 'known world.'
Here, Paul is writing of the gift of Grace, and forgiveness through faith
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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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