Via Matt Christiansen Media, comes the story of a New Mexico police officer, Darian Jarrott, gunned down (Feb 4th 2021) after making a routine stop of a vehicle which happened to have a wanted fugitive (Omar Felix Cueva) being tailed by the federal police. Immediately following the shooting of the policeman, federal agents were on hand to give aid to the dying officer and to chase down the fugitive, killing the fugitive an hour later in a shoot out.
Video footage of the officer making the stop suggests the officer is unaware of the nature of what he is facing. He even asks the fugitive for their firearm shortly before the officer was gunned down. However, the watching federal government agents had known that the fugitive was an armed threat.
It used to be said only doctors could bury their mistakes. Was this a mistake? Are any federal agents responsible for the tragedy? What about the Biden administration? The fallen officer was a young father, and his family will miss him dearly.
It used to be said only doctors could bury their mistakes. Was this a mistake? Are any federal agents responsible for the tragedy? What about the Biden administration? The fallen officer was a young father, and his family will miss him dearly.
Editorial Parents stumped by NAPLAN test
Media campaigning against cheap, effective tests are not new. NAPLAN is such a test, being straight forward to mark and providing important assessment data which allows government to track student achievement from years 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The results could also be reverse engineered to track teacher performance, but unions won't allow that. The results allow schools to target weaknesses in student learning, and for government to address needs of schools. The results have no bearing on subsequent employment achieved by students in life.
Here, a question that 'stumps' adults is a two card trick. The purist view is that commas are not employed to separate phrases in a sentence, where they might in practice. Or, where they might, in practice. The math question is less of a challenge. One day, the illiberal press will achieve the end of having this eleven year old test removed. The loss of analytical data won't achieve further dysfunction. Just as COVID did not create election fraud.
Editorial Beijing exploits poor US Cold War policy
Now that Trump is not pursuing bilateral relations, Biden's renewed Cold War regionalism policy is failing to address world needs. The Phillipines President is isolated and weak and unable to address China's invasion of the South Sea. That is how regionalism works. The long term goal of China is to dominate the Pacific so as to contain India. In the future, US may have to cede Hawaii.
Illiberal media are authoritarian and Australian PM Scott Morrison has belled that cat in declaring social media 'The work of the Devil.' Mr Morrison was at a Christian Convention on the Gold Coast and his words are being reported by press as if they were a press release. However, Mr Morrison's words do not presage a government decree regarding social media. However there is a need for government to address the abuse of power of technocrats running social media. Social media banning of conservative politicians is unacceptable. Likewise social media banning of conservative content. Election fraud is not isolated to the US.
TESLA executives have claimed that there is evidence that a crash involved human error. Local authorities claim it was a TESLA vehicle under auto control which crashed inexplicably. It seems like someone among local authorities has an axe to grind?
Clear evidence is that woke corporatism is unpopular and results in poor outcomes for shareholders. Trump is right again.
It was woke corporatism that endorsed voter fraud which underpins Biden's Cold War policy. USA is suffering as her democracy crumbles.
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Border Patrol in California Reports 51% Increase in Illegal Immigration in AprilLawmakers Say Rebounding Economy Reduces Justification for Biden’s Big Spending Plans
Manchin Opposes D.C. Statehood
Georgia Lifts Most Remaining Coronavirus Restrictions
100 Million Americans Now Fully Vaccinated, But Rate of New Vaccinations Decreasing
“Lets Kill People” – Secret Recordings of Antifa Leaked by Infiltrator
Capitol Hill
McConnell Demands Department of Education Halt Proposed “1619 Project” Curriculum in Schools
Biden Wants $80 Billion for Failed Amtrak Service, Matching Total Amount Spent by Taxpayers Since 1971
Biden Admits Cutting U.S. Emissions “Won’t Matter”
Manchin Says He Won’t Support H.R. 1
Republican Governors Slam Biden Over Handling of Border Crisis
Biden Baffled After Reporter Says Not a Single Migrant Child Has Been Reunited With Their Parents
Biden Claims No Advance Knowledge of Giuliani Raid: “I Give You My Word!”
Kristi Noem Sues Biden Admin for Canceling Mount Rushmore Fireworks
Poll: Democrats Support Puerto Rico Statehood at a Higher Rate Than Puerto Ricans
Biden Says He Wears a Mask Despite Being Vaccinated Because It’s “Patriotic”
Culture War
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds: The Left is the “Greatest Threat” to Black People
New Poll: Democrats Have an Unfavorable View of Immigrants… If They Vote Republican
DeSantis on Critical Race Theory: “It’s a Bunch of Horse Manure”
Fed-Up Citizens in Austin Take On Leftists Over City’s Homeless Problem
Minnesota High School Students Walk Out to Support “Back The Blue” Protest
1,000 Migrants Living On The Streets Of Tijuana Seek to Enter U.S.
Seattle Teacher Assigns Sexually Explicit Poetry to 7th Graders
SNL Offers Safe Space to Cast Members Triggered by Elon Musk Hosting
Thomas, Gorsuch, and Barrett Sided With Liberal Justices in SCOTUS Immigration Ruling
Biden’s Trojan Horse Presidency
Economy
Warren Buffett Facing Impatient Investors Over Berkshire Performance
One Day After Biden Touts Green Jobs, GM Announces $1 Billion Electric Vehicle Plant… in Mexico
Skyrocketing Lumber Prices Are Adding $36k to the Cost of a Home
Personal Income Soars as Government Handouts Soar
Chicken Prices Rise 50% Thanks to Industry Labor Shortage Caused by Dem’s Unemployment Bonuses
Thanks, Nancy! Trump Makes $617 Million From San Francisco Property Deal
Can the Water Bill Be a Template for a Real Infrastructure Plan?
The Average Tax Refund is Nearly $3,000
Potential Unintended Consequences of Biden’s Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Republican Senator Introduces Bill to Regulate Big Tech Companies as Common Carriers
Swamp Watch
Bill Maher Finally Admits Russia Collusion Narrative Was Wrong
Arizona AG: Biden Policies Are Essentially Abolishing ICE
Trump and Pence Are Making Amends
Understanding the Huge Gun Rights Case Headed to the Supreme Court
90 People Found Trapped in Houston Home in “Disturbing” Human Smuggling Case
Biden Justice Nominee Tried to Conceal Ties to Anti-Semitic Professor
CNN’s Gloria Borger Falsely States Operation Warp Speed “Happened Under Joe Biden”
Slavery is Building China’s “Belt and Road” Project
Biden, Scott Offer Dueling Visions for America
FBI Raids Alaska Spa Looking for Pelosi’s Laptop Stolen on January 6
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
The FBI raid this week of former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani violated the "spirit and the letter of the Constitution," because it permitted prosecutors to read privileged information without permission, according to legal expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax TV. [Full Story]
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Biden Presidency
House Republicans Question WH 'Interference' in Census Numbers
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III Calls for 'New Vision'
Pentagon Cancels Trump’s Border Wall Projects Under Biden Order
Poll: Biden Less Popular Than Police, Law Enforcement Agencies
Homeland Security to Fix Damage Linked to Border Wall
Biden Bans Travel From India as Coronavirus Cases Surge
After Review, WH Sees Limits to NKorea Diplomacy
Biden to Help Amtrak Mark 50 Years on the Rails
Protesters Disrupt Biden Speech, Call for End of Detention Centers
Newsfront
GOP Seeks to Convince Vaccine Skeptics
When a group of Republican doctors in Congress released a video selling the safety of the coronavirus vaccine, their message wasn't explicitly aimed at their conservative constituents, but nonetheless had a clear political bent.... [Full Story]
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Biden Bans Travel From India as Coronavirus Cases Surge
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The Journey of the Magi is a poem by T. S. Eliot. The poem was written after Eliot's conversion to Christianity and confirmation in the Church of England in 1927 and published in Ariel Poems in 1930.
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
https://rumble.com/vbmx7r-journey-of-the-magi.html
Pell is innocent of charges IMHO. I am often contacted by people who disagree. I can point to Pell's career and known activity which does not suggest pedophilia, in stark contrast with those Pell had to deal with under legal constraints, who are now convicted pedophiles. Pell set up victim support, the first senior cleric to do so in Australia for pedophile priest victims. When those who disagree with me argue, they are often incoherent. They talk about how terrible pedophilia is, but they have no substance to their arguments denouncing Pell. Aside from allowing Pell to speak on the issue, the current legal process against Pell seems a travesty of justice.
France negotiates with Turnbull on stuff. Turnbull calls France a pacific power. Turnbull has favourably likened Macron to Napoleon. Turnbull has also stiff armed Dan Andrews to signing a memorandum of understanding regarding a solar power plant which kills birds indiscriminately, including the rarest, but is supposed to be good for the environment.
Swan releases video about accepting ALP big spending. Shorten promises Newstart 'adjustment' raise? ALP spending money Australia does not have.
The first year achievements by Trump Whitehouse, despite Mueller persecution.
GOP Seeks to Convince Vaccine Skeptics
When a group of Republican doctors in Congress released a video selling the safety of the coronavirus vaccine, their message wasn't explicitly aimed at their conservative constituents, but nonetheless had a clear political bent.... [Full Story]
Related Stories
CDC: Adverse J&J Vaccine Reactions Caused by Anxiety
US Keeps in Place Mask Requirement on Planes, Transit
Biden Bans Travel From India as Coronavirus Cases Surge
Vaccine Hesitancy Gaps to Face Tests in Statehouses
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Here is a video I made Journey of the Magi
The Journey of the Magi is a poem by T. S. Eliot. The poem was written after Eliot's conversion to Christianity and confirmation in the Church of England in 1927 and published in Ariel Poems in 1930.
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
https://rumble.com/vbmx7r-journey-of-the-magi.html
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Don't give up on hope. Victorian Budget. The word 'budget' connotes restraint that is not evident with this. This is an enormous spending promise which relies on the disbelief of supporters to carry it through, forgetting that none of the previous spending promises have been on budget. The entire purpose of this budget is to have a big stick to use against Premier Guy should he not make the bad spending choices on ALP behalf. And it doesn't cover needed infrastructure like an airport link or other vital roads. $900 million will not cover country roads, which locals could improve were it not against the law and expose them to legal ramifications. This budget is because the ALP expects to lose and doesn't expect to have to honour her promises. High taxing and high spending, but business is on the decline because of the high regulation and taxes.Pell is innocent of charges IMHO. I am often contacted by people who disagree. I can point to Pell's career and known activity which does not suggest pedophilia, in stark contrast with those Pell had to deal with under legal constraints, who are now convicted pedophiles. Pell set up victim support, the first senior cleric to do so in Australia for pedophile priest victims. When those who disagree with me argue, they are often incoherent. They talk about how terrible pedophilia is, but they have no substance to their arguments denouncing Pell. Aside from allowing Pell to speak on the issue, the current legal process against Pell seems a travesty of justice.
France negotiates with Turnbull on stuff. Turnbull calls France a pacific power. Turnbull has favourably likened Macron to Napoleon. Turnbull has also stiff armed Dan Andrews to signing a memorandum of understanding regarding a solar power plant which kills birds indiscriminately, including the rarest, but is supposed to be good for the environment.
Swan releases video about accepting ALP big spending. Shorten promises Newstart 'adjustment' raise? ALP spending money Australia does not have.
The first year achievements by Trump Whitehouse, despite Mueller persecution.
Jobs and the economy
- Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
- Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
- Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
- Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
- A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
- A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
- A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
- Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
Killing job-stifling regulations
- Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
- Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
- Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
- Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
- Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
Fair trade
- Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
- Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
- Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
- Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
- Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
- Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
Boosting U.S. energy dominance
- The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
- Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
- Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
- Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
- EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
Protecting the U.S. homeland
- Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end "chain migration," which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members.
- Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
- Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
- Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
- Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
- Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
- Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
- Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
- Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
- Added some 100 new immigration judges.
Protecting communities
- Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
- Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
- Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
- Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
Accountability
- Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
- Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
- Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
- Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
- Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
Combatting opioids
- First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids.
- His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent.
- The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
- Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
- Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
- The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
- On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
Protecting life
- In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
- Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
- Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
Helping veterans
- Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
- Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
- Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
- Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
- Created a VA hotline.
- Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
- With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
Promoting peace through strength
- Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
- Worked to increase defense spending.
- Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
- Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
- Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
- Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
- Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
- Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
- Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
- Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
- NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan.
- Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region.
- Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack.
- Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used.
- Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
Restoring confidence in and respect for America
- Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders.
- Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests.
- He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders.
- Traveled to Poland and on to Germany for the G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
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IPA Review April 2017 has a piece on defending Western Civilisation. It is something they do, and do well. It means reinforcing cultural assets which underpin great, functioning democracies. Western Civilisation is worth defending. The Magna Carta involved greedy barons and a failure of a king, but the legacy is inspiring. John Hancock's overly large signature on the Declaration of Independence does not obscure the greatness of the work, neither does Jefferson's failure as a human being. Plato's rhetoric has taught the greatest minds in history. Western Civilisation did not invent free speech, but it bestows it. It did not invent law, but it supports it. It did not invent justice, but it makes a fine balance.
Some things should not happen, but they do. Dan Andrews budget taxes Victorians two billions more, and allows Andrews to claim a billion dollar surplus. To achieve it, Andrews has allowed crime to soar, hospitals to weaken, education to falter and weakened small business. Eighteen more months until Matthew Guy becomes Premier of Victoria. Victoria needs him now.
Some things should not happen, but they do. Dan Andrews budget taxes Victorians two billions more, and allows Andrews to claim a billion dollar surplus. To achieve it, Andrews has allowed crime to soar, hospitals to weaken, education to falter and weakened small business. Eighteen more months until Matthew Guy becomes Premier of Victoria. Victoria needs him now.
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I have moved to a good home. I leave behind the ice house. Dan Andrews would rather I lived with an ice addict, and that you should too.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
A badly led, badly divided ALP is bleeding in public. They have not yet reached peak stupid. Foreign investment is really important for Australia, just to maintain her economic profile. To reject foreign investment is stupid, but ALP identities suggest it. The Abbott government is not promising that, but promising to crack down on foreign investors who break the rules set out by the government on what foreign investment is mutually beneficial. But international criminal networks seek to circumvent the rules. They might like to use Australia to launder money, which is not beneficial to anyone. The ALP get confused by the prudent action, dangerously claiming the government is opposing foreign investment instead. The problem for the ALP is there is no leadership. There is no policy beyond the reflexive one of protecting unions from investigation. And in the vacuum that is the ALP leadership there is fighting. Shorten is the inept leader, Plibersek is his inept deputy. Neither are willing to have a policy that benefits Australia, but they strongly demarcate under irrelevant issues. They can promise $1.8 billion in cuts when $40 billion is needed for parity. They are part of the committees that oversaw the spending problem and debt issues. They claimed there are no fixes for the spending problem as they oppose solutions. Wh will lead the ALP? Not Shorten. Not Plibersek. Not the fawning, partisan media. They are the furniture Rudd saved. But not the furniture Australia needs.
Reconciliation is not racism, but there are many claiming it is exactly the case. Rewriting elements of the Australian Constitution to recognise a race, any race, is racist. Some may label it as benign racism. It isn't benign. Racism does not address any issues Australia needs addressed. If anyone supports it and tells you it is needed ask them how it is that racism will improve things? Australia can address poverty without calling the poor racist names.
Ben E King died. His hit Stand By Me, recorded in 1960, released the next year, was inspired by the hymn "Lord Stand by Me" and Psalms 46:2-3
Baby Cambridge avoided Labour day, attempts Mother's day.
In 1194, King Richard I gave Portsmouth a royal charter. Royal charters don't end. Richard had given Portsmouth royal assent to be what it was, a city. In 1230, William de Braose was hanged by Prince Llywelyn The Great of Wales. William's family was despised by the Welsh. He was caught by the Prince and ransomed. William sought to marry his son to the Prince's daughter. He was caught sleeping with the Prince's wife. The rest is history for a bad dog. Anne Boleyn was an admirable woman with many great qualities, which is sometimes lost for those who see only the intense hatred with which Henry VIII persecuted her. She had encouraged Henry to make what he later saw as an over reach. With Anne, Henry became too close to early protestantism. He had to distance himself from that so as to not antagonise his Catholic friends. Politics is a lousy mistress. While Anne's end was bloody, her life was brilliant. She had brought into being the Anglican Church and lived an exemplary life she insisted her maids follow. She had intimidated the royal court with a quick and clever tongue. At one stage, her haters had rumoured she was a witch who had cursed the previous queen. And After Queen Mary had died, it was found her heart was black at autopsy. No one then knew why, but Anne's supposed curse was blamed. We now know it was cancer that had been untreated.
On this day in 1559, John Knox, who had been exiled to England from Scotland after he had been captured by French forces, returned to Scotland after Bloody Mary ascended the English throne. He founded the Presbyterian Church. In 1670, King Charles II of England granted a royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to trade in fur from North America. It is difficult to find qualities to admire in pro slavery bigots. General Lee and General Jackson were both highly admired by all they fought for and with. In 1863, the highly admired General Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men while reconnoitring Union positions at the Battle of Chancellorsville. He had an arm amputated and died of pneumonia eight days later. In 1885, the magazine Good Housekeeping went on sale for the first time. In 1920, the first game of the Negro National League Baseball league was played in Indianapolis. In 1932, Jack Benny's radio show aired for the first time. In 1945, as Soviets erect a flag in Berlin and German's surrender in Italy, the US 82nd Airborne Division liberated Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. In 1952, the world's first passenger jet, De Havilland Comet I made its first flight from London to Johannesburg. In 1955, Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1982, the submarine HMS Conqueror sank the cruiser ARA General Belgrano. In 1986, Soviets decided to evacuate Chernobyl six days after hey irradiated her. In 1995, Serb forces fired cluster bombs into Zagreb. In 2011, at the same time as President Obama announced it the day before, because of time difference, Osama Bin Ladin was killed.
Reconciliation is not racism, but there are many claiming it is exactly the case. Rewriting elements of the Australian Constitution to recognise a race, any race, is racist. Some may label it as benign racism. It isn't benign. Racism does not address any issues Australia needs addressed. If anyone supports it and tells you it is needed ask them how it is that racism will improve things? Australia can address poverty without calling the poor racist names.
Ben E King died. His hit Stand By Me, recorded in 1960, released the next year, was inspired by the hymn "Lord Stand by Me" and Psalms 46:2-3
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging
He also did Save the Last Dance for Me. Thank you sir, may you rest in peace.
In 1194, King Richard I gave Portsmouth a royal charter. Royal charters don't end. Richard had given Portsmouth royal assent to be what it was, a city. In 1230, William de Braose was hanged by Prince Llywelyn The Great of Wales. William's family was despised by the Welsh. He was caught by the Prince and ransomed. William sought to marry his son to the Prince's daughter. He was caught sleeping with the Prince's wife. The rest is history for a bad dog. Anne Boleyn was an admirable woman with many great qualities, which is sometimes lost for those who see only the intense hatred with which Henry VIII persecuted her. She had encouraged Henry to make what he later saw as an over reach. With Anne, Henry became too close to early protestantism. He had to distance himself from that so as to not antagonise his Catholic friends. Politics is a lousy mistress. While Anne's end was bloody, her life was brilliant. She had brought into being the Anglican Church and lived an exemplary life she insisted her maids follow. She had intimidated the royal court with a quick and clever tongue. At one stage, her haters had rumoured she was a witch who had cursed the previous queen. And After Queen Mary had died, it was found her heart was black at autopsy. No one then knew why, but Anne's supposed curse was blamed. We now know it was cancer that had been untreated.
On this day in 1559, John Knox, who had been exiled to England from Scotland after he had been captured by French forces, returned to Scotland after Bloody Mary ascended the English throne. He founded the Presbyterian Church. In 1670, King Charles II of England granted a royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to trade in fur from North America. It is difficult to find qualities to admire in pro slavery bigots. General Lee and General Jackson were both highly admired by all they fought for and with. In 1863, the highly admired General Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men while reconnoitring Union positions at the Battle of Chancellorsville. He had an arm amputated and died of pneumonia eight days later. In 1885, the magazine Good Housekeeping went on sale for the first time. In 1920, the first game of the Negro National League Baseball league was played in Indianapolis. In 1932, Jack Benny's radio show aired for the first time. In 1945, as Soviets erect a flag in Berlin and German's surrender in Italy, the US 82nd Airborne Division liberated Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. In 1952, the world's first passenger jet, De Havilland Comet I made its first flight from London to Johannesburg. In 1955, Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1982, the submarine HMS Conqueror sank the cruiser ARA General Belgrano. In 1986, Soviets decided to evacuate Chernobyl six days after hey irradiated her. In 1995, Serb forces fired cluster bombs into Zagreb. In 2011, at the same time as President Obama announced it the day before, because of time difference, Osama Bin Ladin was killed.
From 2014
The ICAC are looking increasingly desperate to be closed down before they fully investigate ALP activity. The recent allegation against former NSW Police Minister Mike Gallacher, of which he has not yet been given a right of reply, is perfectly explicable if he were competently going about his business. The problem is the ALP fostered corruption throughout the NSW public service over 16 years it was in government and so it is going to be a tough road to rooting it out. It is the job of a politician to network with people of substance. It is painful for LNP supporters right now, but it will mean the accused may be exonerated well before the election, and the ALP will have to address their corruption issues .. and they have not begun, with Obeid appointee Robertson still being opposition leader.
On this day, 1536, Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. There is no evidence of her prowess as a witch, but I believe she was innocent of that charge and I would employ a champion, Stephen Fry, in a fight to the death using wits any who claim they can prove she was a witch. A nemesis of Anne's daughter, Mary Queen of Scots escaped from Elizabeth 1st's detention on this day in 1568. Mary's son had his bible printed on this day in 1611. Just when you think you know how God works .. remember, Fry is my champion.
On this day, 1536, Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. There is no evidence of her prowess as a witch, but I believe she was innocent of that charge and I would employ a champion, Stephen Fry, in a fight to the death using wits any who claim they can prove she was a witch. A nemesis of Anne's daughter, Mary Queen of Scots escaped from Elizabeth 1st's detention on this day in 1568. Mary's son had his bible printed on this day in 1611. Just when you think you know how God works .. remember, Fry is my champion.
Historical perspective on this day
In 1194, King Richard I of England gave Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1230, William de Braose was hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. 1335, Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, became Duke of Carinthia. 1536, Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. 1559, John Knox returned from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation. 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Loch Leven Castle. 1611, the King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. 1670, King Charles II of England granted a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America. 1672, John Maitland became Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
In 1808, outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rose up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorialized this event in his painting The Second of May 1808. 1812, the Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ended with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandoned the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja. 1816, marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. 1829, after anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declared the Swan River Colony in Australia. 1863, American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbed to pneumonia eight days later. 1866, Peruvian defenders fought off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao. 1876, the April Uprising broke out in Bulgaria. 1879, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party was founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers' leader Pablo Iglesias. 1885, Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time. Also 1885, Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion. Also 1885, the Congo Free State was established by King Léopold II of Belgium. 1889, Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signed a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
In 1906, closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. 1918, General Motors acquired the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. 1920, the first game of the Negro National League baseball was played in Indianapolis. 1932, comedian Jack Benny's radio show aired for the first time. 1933, Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitlerbanned trade unions. 1941, following the coup d'état against IraqCrown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launched the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. 1945, World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announced the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoisted their red flag over the Reichstag building. Also 1945, World War II: Italian Campaign: General Heinrich von Vietinghoffsigned the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy. Also 1945, World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberated Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. 1946, the "Battle of Alcatraz" took place; two guards and three inmates were killed.
In 1952, the world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 made its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg. 1955, Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1963, Berthold Seliger launched a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It was the only sounding rocket developed in Germany. 1964, Vietnam War: An explosion sank the USS Card while it was docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces were suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She was raised and returned to service less than seven months later. Also 1964, First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. 1969, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her maiden voyage to New York City.
In 1972, in the early morning hours a fire broke out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers. 1980, Referendum on system of government held in Nepal. 1982, Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conquerorsank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. 1986, the Chernobyl Disaster: The City of Chernobyl was evacuated six days after the disaster 1989, Hungary began dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allowed a number of East Germans to defect. 1994, a bus crashed in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people. 1995, during the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fired cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians. 1998, the European Central Bank was founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. 1999, Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
In 2000, president Bill Clinton announced that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. 2004, Yelwa massacre ended. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 Christians including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. More than 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christians in Nigeria. 2008, Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. Also 2008, Chaitén Volcano began erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. 2011, Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man was killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 2011, an E. coli outbreak struck Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteriaoutbreak. 2012, a pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. 2014, Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, left up to 2,500 people missing.
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Today's reading: 1 Kings 10-11, Luke 21:20-38 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Kings 10-11
When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the LORD, she came to test Solomon with hard questions. 2 Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan--with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones--she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind. 3 Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her. 4When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built, 5 the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed....
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 21:20-38
21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled....
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Morning
Lo, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on thine holiday attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. Thou knowest whither to betake thyself, for to thee "the beds of spices" are well known, and thou hast so often smelt the perfume of "the sweet flowers," that thou wilt go at once to thy well-beloved and find all loveliness, all joy in him. That cheek once so rudely smitten with a rod, oft bedewed with tears of sympathy and then defiled with spittle--that cheek as it smiles with mercy is as fragrant aromatic to my heart. Thou didst not hide thy face from shame and spitting, O Lord Jesus, and therefore I will find my dearest delight in praising thee. Those cheeks were furrowed by the plough of grief, and crimsoned with red lines of blood from thy thorn-crowned temples; such marks of love unbounded cannot but charm my soul far more than "pillars of perfume." If I may not see the whole of his face I would behold his cheeks, for the least glimpse of him is exceedingly refreshing to my spiritual sense and yields a variety of delights. In Jesus I find not only fragrance, but a bed of spices; not one flower, but all manner of sweet flowers. He is to me my rose and my lily, my heartsease and my cluster of camphire. When he is with me it is May all the year round, and my soul goes forth to wash her happy face in the morning-dew of his grace, and to solace herself with the singing of the birds of his promises. Precious Lord Jesus, let me in very deed know the blessedness which dwells in abiding, unbroken fellowship with thee. I am a poor worthless one, whose cheek thou hast deigned to kiss! O let me kiss thee in return with the kisses of my lips.
Evening
Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold degree. Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place as the fairest among ten thousand. He is the sun, and all others are the stars; the heavens and the day are dark in comparison with him, for the King in his beauty transcends all. "I am the rose of Sharon." This was the best and rarest of roses. Jesus is not "the rose" alone, he is "the rose of Sharon," just as he calls his righteousness "gold," and then adds, "the gold of Ophir"--the best of the best. He is positively lovely, and superlatively the loveliest. There is variety in his charms. The rose is delightful to the eye, and its scent is pleasant and refreshing; so each of the senses of the soul, whether it be the taste or feeling, the hearing, the sight, or the spiritual smell, finds appropriate gratification in Jesus. Even the recollection of his love is sweet. Take the rose of Sharon, and pull it leaf from leaf, and lay by the leaves in the jar of memory, and you shall find each leaf fragrant long afterwards, filling the house with perfume. Christ satisfies the highest taste of the most educated spirit to the very full. The greatest amateur in perfumes is quite satisfied with the rose: and when the soul has arrived at her highest pitch of true taste, she shall still be content with Christ, nay, she shall be the better able to appreciate him. Heaven itself possesses nothing which excels the rose of Sharon. What emblem can fully set forth his beauty? Human speech and earth-born things fail to tell of him. Earth's choicest charms commingled, feebly picture his abounding preciousness. Blessed rose, bloom in my heart forever!
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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
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French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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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
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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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