From 2014
Love and hatred are primal emotions and are often involved in times of war. In the US, the civil war was divisive, and people made choices on conscience with profound consequence. Robert E Lee was head of the US military at the beginning of the schism, and from the south. He chose to fight for the south and so many millions of Americans died in four years of bloody fighting. Brothers were pitted against brother. What value the ethics that had Lee make his choice? And when it was done, an unhappy victor turned Lee's backyard into a cemetery, now called Arlington. Any soldier of the US who dies may be buried there. Powerful is vengeance, yet the West is different to the East. When, in China, a dynasty fell, all the bureaucracy that supported it was burned. When Mohammed died, his entire family was eliminated to the last child by his followers. But in the US, a mourning, angry US allowed Lee and his family to live. On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born, great grandchild to General Lee. She is 88 years old, and has been given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work To Kill a Mocking Bird, and for her mentoring, including Truman Capote with his work "In Cold Blood." Love has not raised from the dead those who perished in the Civil War, and yet love heals, tends to the wounded and grows to support those who survive. Love is the only answer to hate that addresses the wounds of survivors.
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School children being the pawns of activists is not new. The sixties peace marches featured children vs tear gas as Soviet Russia exploited the peace movement for political gain. Marxists are still doing that. BLM leaders can afford mansions as they advocate activists facing dire consequences for actions. The truth is not on the side of those seeking to defund police. But as the trial of Derek Chauvin shows, the law is on the side of drug dealers and users against the thin blue line.
As a policeman, Chauvin sought to protect and serve. As a congress woman, Waters seeks to exploit and divide. And in Lindfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia, we have a modern school where children post poster lies about police. Activists claim police hunt black people. The truth is black people are safer from rare events of police killing citizens than white people. However, mainstream news promotes lies told by radical left politicians.
===Huge news yesterday out of the Supreme Court. In this episode, I discuss the revelations while showing video dismantling the left’s arguments for “gun control.” Finally, I show a disturbing video demonstrating why tasers are not effective in deadly force scenarios.
News Picks:
- The Supreme Court FINALLY takes up a Second Amendment case.
- Kick the Amazon habit like this author did.
- The latest congressional redistricting will hurt the Democrat’s chances at retaining power.
- A thorough analysis of the redistricting process and how it will affect our congressional and national elections.
- The full video of my heated debate with a gun-grabber from Maryland during my run for Senate.
- Is the BLM movement being run by grifters?
- The “woke” Oscars hit a record low in ratings.
- Is pressure on the big tech companies working? This author thinks so.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
CDC Says Vaccinated People Don’t Need to Wear a Mask OutdoorsCNN Hires Scandal-Plagued Conspiracy Theorist as New Reporter
Former Obama Advisor Arrested, Accused of Stealing $218k From Charter School He Founded
Rift Over SALT Deduction Cap Threatens Biden Tax Plan Ahead of Its Release
Biden’s Education Secretary Previously Pushed for “Woke” Curriculum as Education Commissioner
Navy Releases Video of Iranian Warship Harassing U.S. Coast Guard
Capitol Hill
Pentagon’s “Extremism” Blunder Risks Making Military Even More Political
Gov. Gavin Newsom Recall Officially Qualifies for California Ballot
Lawmakers Push for Investigation Into John Kerry for Leaking Secrets to Iran
New York Loses House Seat Over Difference of Only 89 People
Kamala Calls Demands for Her to Visit Border a “Political Game”
House GOP Promises to Restart Border Construction if They Win Back House
Gov. Cuomo Says He Did Nothing Wrong in Press Conference After Weeks of Shunning Media
Attorney for Family of Ashli Babbitt Announces Family Will File Civil Charges Against Capitol Police
Trump’s Official Smithsonian Portrait Unveiled
Kamala’s Approval Rating Lower Than Mike Pence’s 100 Days in
Culture War
Reddit Blocks Links to YouTube Free-Speech Alternative “Rumble”
Project Veritas Sues CNN Over Defamation
Tucker Reports Police Officer Pulled off Duty After Telling the Truth About Ma’Khia Bryant Shooting
What If The Left Treated Psaki Like They Treated McEnany?
Actress Rose McGowan Calls Democrats a “Deep Cult” in Fox News Interview
SCOTUS Poised to Reverse Then-AG Kamala’s Attack on Free Speech
USA Today Stealth Edits Stacey Abrams Op-Ed to Downplay Her Support for Boycotts
Idaho Joins List of States Trying to Ban Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
5.5 Million Guns Sold in First Three Months of 2021
LA Mayor Requests More Police Funding After Defunding Results in Mass Violence
China Applauds Return of NBA
Tulsi Gabbard Asks Dems to Stop Racializing Everything
Economy
Biden to Mandate $15 Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors
Biden’s Capital Gains Tax Hike Would Reduce New Investment in Small Businesses
IRS Still Holding 29 Million Unprocessed Tax Returns
Dems Move to Make One Huge Coronavirus-Related Welfare Program Permanent
New Report Estimates Cost of War in Afghanistan at $2.26 Trillion
GM President Says Chip Shortage Is Worst Auto Supply Issue
Dems Urge Biden to Expand Medicare in “American Families Plan”
Citigroup Shareholders to Vote on Putting Non Management Worker on Board
Lyft to Sell Self-Driving Unit to Toyota for $550 Million
Russia Ditches U.S. Dollar for More Than Half of Exports
SCOTUS Rejects Bid to Restore Trump’s Public Charge Rule
Swamp Watch
Rachel Maddow Thinks the “End of Democracy” Is Near Due to Maricopa County Election Audit
Only 200 Will be in House Chamber During Biden’s First Joint Address to Congress
Biden’s Immigration-Related Executive Actions Triple Trump’s 100 Days in
77% Support Requiring Photo ID to Vote
White House Repeatedly Refuses to Answer Questions on John Kerry Leaking Secrets to Iran
Biden Admin Directs Additional $310 Million to Central American Countries
Creator of “1619 Project” Propaganda Joins Faculty at University of North Carolina
Politico Disturbed to See Kids Returning to School Because Most of Them Are White
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Biden Presidency
Rep. Babin: Sending Millions to Northern Triangle Won't Stop Border Crisis
Biden Wants to Give IRS $80B, Increased Authority to Collect Unpaid Taxes
Rick Scott: Kerry Must Resign if Iran Allegations Are True
Norquist: Biden Embracing Tax Policy Rejected Decades Ago
Biden Education Chief Pushed 'Woke' Curriculum in Connecticut
4-Star Generals Want China, Russia Intel Declassified
Kerry: Possible to Work With China on Climate Change Despite Other Differences
Rubio: Kerry's 'Love' of Iran Nuclear Deal May Have Clouded Judgment
Pelosi Restricting Members of Congress to Attend Biden Speech
Newsfront
Dr. Fauci: US Should Begin Seeing COVID Turning Point in 'A Few Weeks'
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that Americans should begin seeing a [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made If by R Kipling
"If—" is a poem written in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the "Brother Square Toes" chapter of Rewards and Fairies, Kipling's 1910 collection of short stories and poems. Like William Ernest Henley's "Invictus", it is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism and the "stiff upper lip" that popular culture has made into a traditional British virtue. Its status is confirmed both by the number of parodies it has inspired, and by the widespread popularity it still draws amongst Britons (it was voted the UK's favourite poem in a 1995 BBC opinion poll). The poem's line, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same" is written on the wall of the centre court players' entrance at the British tennis tournament, Wimbledon. The entire poem was read in a promotional video for the Wimbledon 2008 gentleman's final by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
According to Kipling in his autobiography Something of Myself, posthumously published in 1937, the poem was inspired by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, who in 1895 led a raid by British forces against the Boers in South Africa, subsequently called the Jameson Raid. This defeat increased the tensions that ultimately led to the Second Boer War. The British press, however, portrayed Jameson as a hero in the middle of the disaster, and the actual defeat as a British victory.
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Michael Kroger has won the Lib Presidency again, in Victoria. Convincingly. Kroger will do an excellent job prosecuting the Liberal agenda in the face of ALP failure. The Victorian election is scheduled for November. I posted on another page the question, what had Turnbull done that was beneficial to the Libs or Australia? Could there be examples of these beneficial activities. In reply, I was denounced as an ALP patsy. The abuser gave no argument of substance. If there is something, reader, please let this column know in comments. If the first orange President achieves peace in North Korea, will he qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize? Obama got his before he could bomb Libya. Obama then wined and dined jailers of the guy who got awarded the prize the following year. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is claiming Australia will give $15 million to Rohingya, but she has not said if that money will be paid through the Clinton Foundation. The Deep state has conspired against Trump, Andrew Bolt lists how.
=== from 2017 ===
IPA Review April 2017 has an article on the new Brisbane Line by Scott Hargreaves (Exec GM at IPA) and Daniel Wild a research fellow at IPA. The Brisbane line was a reference for military planners in WW2, beneath it lay industrial heartland of Australia's south east which had to be protected at all costs. Now there is another reason for the demarcation. Anti capitalist extremists have governments running scared from responsible energy production. We are driving business away from our workers by opposing fracking and coal power stations. And it won't just be high energy prices that results, but less industry and higher costs for everything, as well as less reliable energy. And none of the pain will be of any material benefit to Gaia.
Some things should not happen, but they do. The press have worked people into a frenzy over Liberal government in NSW. It doesn't matter good decisions are being made and NSW is benefiting in ways the ALP had claimed was impossible. The hatred and venom is corroding the public trust even as government is performing well. It was telling reading comments from Face book over a merchant banker buying a modest house in Curl Curl. It isn't too late, haters, you can become merchant bankers too, and buy homes in great areas. But you'll probably need to show great judgement too. Opposing good government does not show good judgement.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
The executions in Indonesia involve more than the two Australians. Indonesian law is firm on the issue for a reason. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, then Australian PM Bob Hawk speaking with a senior Chinese official pointed out Australia had room, and perhaps she could accommodate some of those pushing for political reform in China. The Chinese official asked "How many millions do you want?" Indonesia is not rich and struggles to pay their public service enough to be impartial. Their solutions are cheap and nasty. Kudos to any who can find a better way.
On this day in 1192, dope fiend assassins killed the recently elected king of Jerusalem. In 1253, a Japanese monk named Nichiren simplified Buddhism. In 1503, the Spanish fought the French with firearms on both sides, a first in history regarding fire arms. Apparently they were effective, but they took out all the sport. In 1789, Captain Bligh faced Mutiny on the Bounty, and lost. In 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad, laid ten miles of track in a single day, a record never again achieved. In 1887, war with France was avoided when Kaiser Wilhelm I ordered the release of Guillaume Schnaebelé by Prussian secret police. In 1932, a vaccine for Yellow Fever was announced. In 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. The execution of Clara seemed harsh. She was 33 years old. Her brother was captured at the same time. He wasn't executed, however. Marcello Petacci was shot trying to escape.
Some things should not happen, but they do. The press have worked people into a frenzy over Liberal government in NSW. It doesn't matter good decisions are being made and NSW is benefiting in ways the ALP had claimed was impossible. The hatred and venom is corroding the public trust even as government is performing well. It was telling reading comments from Face book over a merchant banker buying a modest house in Curl Curl. It isn't too late, haters, you can become merchant bankers too, and buy homes in great areas. But you'll probably need to show great judgement too. Opposing good government does not show good judgement.
=== from 2016 ===
A year ago today the Foreign Minister and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party used the opportunity afforded by a firing squad to prance like a young pony. She failed to represent Australian interests or the interests of those who were about to die. She was auditioning for the job of deputy to Malcolm. And so she highlighted concerns she had with Mr Abbott on immigration policies and had a little tiff with Indonesia over the death penalty. Everything normalised soon after. Julie Bishop had done nothing worthwhile but had raised her image as someone who could say things in a crisis. Had she wanted to help those who were to be executed, she needed to have done so years before. They were condemned by the new Rudd Government when they accepted advice that they needed to shield others and take the fall. Julie Bishop is no Nancy Wake, who on seeing the terrible persecution of many at the hands of Nazis, fought Nazis. Neither is Turnbull an effective leader like Bligh, who led his people over 4000 miles in a dingy boat.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Hours to go before two of the Bali nine are to face the firing squad in Indonesia. The Australian government is attempting a 'hail Mary,' but every reasonable thing that can be done has been. While it is true that there is Indonesian pride which is ensuring the sentence will be carried out, there are other issues too. Myuran and Andrew are both guilty as charged. The penalty is the one assigned for the charge by Indonesian law. A few others who had been assigned the death penalty have had their sentences commuted. There are allegations flying around. One allegation is that the sentencing judges asked for a bribe. Another is that the Australian Federal Police should have waited for the return of the drug dealers before arresting them so as to use Australian law, not Indonesian law. While the behaviour of the judge, were it true, reprehensible, it would be hard to uphold a malpractice case where the judge was not paid any money. But if the judge were paid money, then it would mean that others not assigned a death penalty would have to have their cases examined. The allegation involving the Australian Federal police would lead nowhere too. Police are apolitical and expected to fight crime by direct opposition, not by temporising. The allegation was raised by friends of the ALP who were seeking to make a name for themselves without helping the Bali Nine, and they achieved that end. They have worked to oppose practical steps that might have helped the two who will die tonight. The ALP could have had their lawyers advising the two to help investigators early on. It has been ignored recently, as media try to blame the Liberal Party for the coming executions, but when the Andrew and Myuran could have helped themselves by coming clean to the investigators when they were caught, they stonewalled and threatened others, claiming their colleagues who had not been captured had a long reach. That long reach won't help them. It doesn't help them now, as it is old news. They have no bargaining chip, except a claim they have rehabilitated. But rehabilitation is never a mitigating factor in a death penalty offence. They committed their crimes when they were young, too young to judge the consequences, but old enough to know them. I know people who know them. I don't want them to die. I am angry at the ALP Government for politicising and not helping them when they could have. I hear celebrities outrageously campaigning against those who have worked hardest to save Andrew and Myuran. I note the campaign against Mr Abbott has over reached, and some celebrities have apologised. Too late for two to be executed. Send any flowers to the ABC who have campaigned against the Australian Government against the interests of Andrew and Myuran. Andrew, take courage. You are going home.
The executions in Indonesia involve more than the two Australians. Indonesian law is firm on the issue for a reason. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, then Australian PM Bob Hawk speaking with a senior Chinese official pointed out Australia had room, and perhaps she could accommodate some of those pushing for political reform in China. The Chinese official asked "How many millions do you want?" Indonesia is not rich and struggles to pay their public service enough to be impartial. Their solutions are cheap and nasty. Kudos to any who can find a better way.
On this day in 1192, dope fiend assassins killed the recently elected king of Jerusalem. In 1253, a Japanese monk named Nichiren simplified Buddhism. In 1503, the Spanish fought the French with firearms on both sides, a first in history regarding fire arms. Apparently they were effective, but they took out all the sport. In 1789, Captain Bligh faced Mutiny on the Bounty, and lost. In 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad, laid ten miles of track in a single day, a record never again achieved. In 1887, war with France was avoided when Kaiser Wilhelm I ordered the release of Guillaume Schnaebelé by Prussian secret police. In 1932, a vaccine for Yellow Fever was announced. In 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. The execution of Clara seemed harsh. She was 33 years old. Her brother was captured at the same time. He wasn't executed, however. Marcello Petacci was shot trying to escape.
From 2014
Reading is a joy and it is important to challenge yourself to get the most joy. one such challenge is the Douglas Hofstadter work "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" which I was given as a textbook in Pure Mathematics in 3rd year university. Gödel, was a mathematician whose contribution rivals any of the greats. His two theorems of incompleteness have been used by idiots to claim God does not exist, and by logicians to show that the consistency of axioms can not be proven within an infinite system. He was born on this day in 1906. As for the book, I have bought it four times and never once finished it or completed many of the exercises, but it is awesome.
Love and hatred are primal emotions and are often involved in times of war. In the US, the civil war was divisive, and people made choices on conscience with profound consequence. Robert E Lee was head of the US military at the beginning of the schism, and from the south. He chose to fight for the south and so many millions of Americans died in four years of bloody fighting. Brothers were pitted against brother. What value the ethics that had Lee make his choice? And when it was done, an unhappy victor turned Lee's backyard into a cemetery, now called Arlington. Any soldier of the US who dies may be buried there. Powerful is vengeance, yet the West is different to the East. When, in China, a dynasty fell, all the bureaucracy that supported it was burned. When Mohammed died, his entire family was eliminated to the last child by his followers. But in the US, a mourning, angry US allowed Lee and his family to live. On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born, great grandchild to General Lee. She is 88 years old, and has been given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work To Kill a Mocking Bird, and for her mentoring, including Truman Capote with his work "In Cold Blood." Love has not raised from the dead those who perished in the Civil War, and yet love heals, tends to the wounded and grows to support those who survive. Love is the only answer to hate that addresses the wounds of survivors.
Love and hatred are primal emotions and are often involved in times of war. In the US, the civil war was divisive, and people made choices on conscience with profound consequence. Robert E Lee was head of the US military at the beginning of the schism, and from the south. He chose to fight for the south and so many millions of Americans died in four years of bloody fighting. Brothers were pitted against brother. What value the ethics that had Lee make his choice? And when it was done, an unhappy victor turned Lee's backyard into a cemetery, now called Arlington. Any soldier of the US who dies may be buried there. Powerful is vengeance, yet the West is different to the East. When, in China, a dynasty fell, all the bureaucracy that supported it was burned. When Mohammed died, his entire family was eliminated to the last child by his followers. But in the US, a mourning, angry US allowed Lee and his family to live. On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born, great grandchild to General Lee. She is 88 years old, and has been given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work To Kill a Mocking Bird, and for her mentoring, including Truman Capote with his work "In Cold Blood." Love has not raised from the dead those who perished in the Civil War, and yet love heals, tends to the wounded and grows to support those who survive. Love is the only answer to hate that addresses the wounds of survivors.
Historical perspective on this day
In 357, emperor Constantius II entered Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius. 1192, assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne was confirmed by election. The killing was carried out by Hashshashin. 1253, Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounded Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. 1503, the Battle of Cerignola was fought. It was noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder. 1611, Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1789, Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift and the rebel crew returned to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. 1792, Franceinvaded the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. 1796, the Armistice of Cherasco was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast. 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad laid 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched. 1881, Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. 1887, a week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
In 1910, frenchman Louis Paulhan won the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England. 1920, Azerbaijan was added to the Soviet Union. 1930, the first night game in organised baseball history took place in Independence, Kansas. 1932, a vaccine for yellow fever was announced for use on humans. 1944, World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. 1948, Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Centre. 1949, former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, was assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others were also killed.
In 1950, Bhumibol Adulyadej married Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Also 1952, Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japanended as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, came into force. Also 1952, the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) was signed in Taipei, Taiwanbetween Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1965, United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops landed in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. 1969, Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France. 1970, Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorised American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. 1975, General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departed for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. 1977, the Red Army Faction trial ended, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslinand Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder. Also 1977, the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure was signed. 1978, President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, was overthrown and assassinatedin a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
In 1986, the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea. Also 1986, High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster were detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident. 1987, American engineer Ben Linder was killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. In 1988, near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and fell to her death when part of the plane's fuselage ripped open in mid-flight. 1994, former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pled guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. 1996, Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gave a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defence. Also 1996, Port Arthur Massacre (Australia): Gunman Martin Bryant opened fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Killing 35 people and wounding 23 others. 2001, Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1789, Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift and the rebel crew returned to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. 1792, Franceinvaded the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. 1796, the Armistice of Cherasco was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast. 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad laid 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched. 1881, Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. 1887, a week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
In 1910, frenchman Louis Paulhan won the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England. 1920, Azerbaijan was added to the Soviet Union. 1930, the first night game in organised baseball history took place in Independence, Kansas. 1932, a vaccine for yellow fever was announced for use on humans. 1944, World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. 1948, Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Centre. 1949, former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, was assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others were also killed.
In 1950, Bhumibol Adulyadej married Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Also 1952, Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japanended as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, came into force. Also 1952, the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) was signed in Taipei, Taiwanbetween Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1965, United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops landed in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. 1969, Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France. 1970, Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorised American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. 1975, General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departed for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. 1977, the Red Army Faction trial ended, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslinand Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder. Also 1977, the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure was signed. 1978, President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, was overthrown and assassinatedin a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
In 1986, the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea. Also 1986, High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster were detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident. 1987, American engineer Ben Linder was killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. In 1988, near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and fell to her death when part of the plane's fuselage ripped open in mid-flight. 1994, former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pled guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. 1996, Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gave a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defence. Also 1996, Port Arthur Massacre (Australia): Gunman Martin Bryant opened fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Killing 35 people and wounding 23 others. 2001, Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: 1 Kings 1-2, Luke 19:28-48 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Kings 1-2
Adonijah Sets Himself Up as King
1 When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 2 So his attendants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm."
3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her.
5 Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him. 6 (His father had never rebuked him by asking, "Why do you behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 19:28-48
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 30 "Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say, 'The Lord needs it.'"
32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
34 They replied, "The Lord needs it...."
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Morning
It is strange how little use we make of the spiritual blessings which God gives us, but it is stranger still how little use we make of God himself. Though he is "our own God," we apply ourselves but little to him, and ask but little of him. How seldom do we ask counsel at the hands of the Lord! How often do we go about our business, without seeking his guidance! In our troubles how constantly do we strive to bear our burdens ourselves, instead of casting them upon the Lord, that he may sustain us! This is not because we may not, for the Lord seems to say, "I am thine, soul, come and make use of me as thou wilt; thou mayst freely come to my store, and the oftener the more welcome." It is our own fault if we make not free with the riches of our God. Then, since thou hast such a friend, and he invites thee, draw from him daily. Never want whilst thou hast a God to go to; never fear or faint whilst thou hast God to help thee; go to thy treasure and take whatever thou needest--there is all that thou canst want. Learn the divine skill of making God all things to thee. He can supply thee with all, or, better still, he can be to thee instead of all. Let me urge thee, then, to make use of thy God. Make use of him in prayer. Go to him often, because he is thy God. O, wilt thou fail to use so great a privilege? Fly to him, tell him all thy wants. Use him constantly by faith at all times. If some dark providence has beclouded thee, use thy God as a "sun;" if some strong enemy has beset thee, find in Jehovah a "shield," for he is a sun and shield to his people. If thou hast lost thy way in the mazes of life, use him as a "guide," for he will direct thee. Whatever thou art, and wherever thou art, remember God is just what thou wantest, and just where thou wantest, and that he can do all thou wantest.
Evening
Jesus Christ is no despotic claimant of divine right, but he is really and truly the Lord's anointed! "It hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell." God hath given to him all power and all authority. As the Son of man, he is now head over all things to his church, and he reigns over heaven, and earth, and hell, with the keys of life and death at his girdle. Certain princes have delighted to call themselves kings by the popular will, and certainly our Lord Jesus Christ is such in his church. If it could be put to the vote whether he should be King in the church, every believing heart would crown him. O that we could crown him more gloriously than we do! We would count no expense to be wasted that could glorify Christ. Suffering would be pleasure, and loss would be gain, if thereby we could surround his brow with brighter crowns, and make him more glorious in the eyes of men and angels. Yes, he shall reign. Long live the King! All hail to thee, King Jesus! Go forth, ye virgin souls who love your Lord, bow at his feet, strew his way with the lilies of your love, and the roses of your gratitude: "Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all." Moreover, our Lord Jesus is King in Zion by right of conquest: he has taken and carried by storm the hearts of his people, and has slain their enemies who held them in cruel bondage. In the Red Sea of his own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins: shall he not be King in Jeshurun? He has delivered us from the iron yoke and heavy curse of the law: shall not the Liberator be crowned? We are his portion, whom he has taken out of the hand of the Amorite with his sword and with his bow: who shall snatch his conquest from his hand? All hail, King Jesus! we gladly own thy gentle sway! Rule in our hearts forever, thou lovely Prince of Peace.
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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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