Editorial Media hatred of Trump shields Biden
A headline names President Trump in a murder. A husband had killed his wife and allegedly used her vote, afterwards, to vote for Trump as an alibi. It is not yet certain the killer broke electoral laws established during the COVID crisis. He might not have forged her signature and it might still have been counted. Why do we know the vote was cast for Trump? Would a vote for Biden have changed the status of the investigation? Maybe Liz Cheney can enlighten us, with her vow to do anything to prevent Trump from being elected an historic third time. Usually it is a power hungry Democrat who goes for more than two elections. Except Trump has been fraudulently denied the 2020 election as an investigation into voting is showing. When Democrat Governor of California faced recall, he insisted on signatures being checked and 20% of signatures were fouled off. But during the 2020 Presidential election, some states did not check voter signatures.
It is now being revealed by former Biden staffers that Biden is a Malcolm Turnbull type talent. He hesitates and pontificates but holds onto the power of saying 'no' well past the time a 'yes' might be practicable. Before Biden implements policy that he thought of, he is implementing policy that others preached, and that failed others. This failed policy is getting people killed in the Middle East, and denying workers jobs at home. Kudos to the forty two million Biden voters who voted twice.
How is the press covering the Biden fiasco? By reporting that AOC had an ugly confrontation with a congress woman she publicly attacked? Marjorie Taylor Greene is correct in saying AOC has endorsed the murderous terrorists of 'Palestine' over the government and peoples of Israel?
Or maybe the press are ignoring Biden's failure and focusing on the antics of Elon Musk?
Editorial Cricket Australia's Ball tampering fail
The treatment of Australia's cricket elite over a professional foul of ball tampering was absurd. A player cheated badly and as a result management was cleaned out and the Captain and Vice Captain were hung out to dry. Instead of a match fee being removed from guilty parties, innocent parties resigned, and senior players were ousted for years from the sport and lost $millions. For trying to wear out one side of a cricket ball during play when the ball was playing dead. In other similar incidents players don't face any sanctions.
Recently, the incumbent Australian captain who has led a weakened side weakly has admitted that the former captain should get his job back. And then the press inflate a 'confession' from the cricketer who committed the foul. What will the press do when they find out about Biden's involvement with the downing of MH 17 in Ukraine? We may never know.
Actor Craig McLachlan was brutally attacked by press over allegations he was innocent. But the press are persevering with trying to destroy his career forever.
Editorial Press harassing Israel as Israel defends herself from WMD
Israelis are facing tens of thousand of rocket attacks as terroristt celebrate Biden's 2020 election fraud.
On May15th, Journalists against Israel 'report' on grim death toll and UN opinion favouring terrorists. We are told that there was a horror moment when Israeli police raided a home with human shields being active for terrorists. Israel collapsed tunnels which had housed high explosives.
On May 16th we read that two press agencies, AP and Al Jazeera were using their home base in the conflict to shelter those launching missiles. "They’re not going to get weapons. They’re going to get their cameras and their work gear,” he said." "Moments later, hundreds of journalists watched their office be reduced to rubble after the Israeli army launched an air strike against it, demolishing the 13-floor building in the Gaza Strip." Apparently the life work of journalists is now to shield terrorists from retribution?
The next day, press again report among fatalities of human shields used by terrorists to protect military targets. Only we don't know that that is what happened at all. In the past, journalists have staged things to look like atrocities.
As Fatah's leader clings to power decades after a fraudulent election win, Press denounce Benjamin Netanyahu of clinging to power.
Editorial how Biden started Jew Killing in Middle East
Two competing foreign policy agenda are regionalism vs bilateralism. Trump favoured bilateral relations policy. Obama favoured regionalism and recreated a cold war to achieve those aims. Under cold war theory, trouble nations like North Korea and Iran are forced to find a big protector like China or Russia to protect them. Under Bilateral theory, nations are free to achieve their agenda and engage with nations for mutual benefit. In the Middle East, a Cold War theory question of the USA to their satellite countries is "What is your biggest security threat?" and, filtered through the noise of competing factors is the answer 'Israel.' Israel is not a threat to anyone, but the compromise takes into account the desire of terrorists to achieve their aim of destroying Israel. However, when bilateral practitioners ask their question 'What do you want?' Then, most Middle East nations do not consider Israel at all.
Under bilateral practice, Trump achieved a balanced peace in the Middle East. Under regionalism, Biden has revived terrorism, with tens of thousands of rockets aimed at Israel as thousands are fired daily. The press are happy for the war, as they hand wring and write of the possibility of peace they despised Trump. Where to next? Cold War involves bureaucratic process. Terrible things happen like the shooting down of a Malaysian airways flight over Ukraine, where the guilty parties, including Biden, have never been brought to book.
Already, Biden meddling in the Israeli election process has clouded the state of Israel's administration. Under Cold War rules, can Israel defend herself?
===Explosive details emerge about the Democrats’ plan for a “commission” to target Trump supporters. In this episode, I discuss the plot to target the MAGA crowd and I also address this key question you should ask the lunatics who support terrorism.
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=== Bongino Headlines ===
PM Netanyahu Rejects Biden’s Call for Ceasefire READ MORETrump Fires Back at “Corrupt” NY Criminal Investigation
Federal Reserve Hints They’ll Reconsider “Easy Money” Policies If Economic Activity Picks Up
Violent Crime Surges in Counties That Stopped Turning Illegal Aliens Over to ICE
Kamala Harris Violates Her Own Ethics Pledge
Chicago Mayor Stops Granting Interviews to White Reporters
Biden Tells Coast Guard Graduates They’re a “Really Dull Class”
Capitol Hill
George Soros and Tom Steyer Are Invading a House GOP Primary
Kamala Reportedly Keeps “Enemies List” of Reporters and Politicians
Biden Proposes Billions to Improve Cybersecurity Following Colonial Pipeline Hack
Marjorie Taylor Greene Asks Why Jan 6 Rioters are Held in Solitary While BLM/Antifa Walk Free
Trump Says GOP Should Reject Jan 6 Commission Unless They Also Examine Radical Left Violence
Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Republicans Approve of Liz Cheney Ouster
Biden Admin to Waive Sanctions on Company in Charge of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline and CEO
Pelosi Calls for Diplomatic Boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics Over Forced Labor in China
Culture War
1619 Project Creator Denied Tenure
Liberals Traumatized by Lifting of Mask Mandates
Navy Announces “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Plans
Group Pushes Back Against Woke Corporations With Ad Campaign
Students Protest Mandatory Coronavirus Vaccinations at Colleges
Survey Finds Conservative Media Viewers More Informed Than Liberals on Important Topics
Few Comedians Are Willing to Mock Dr. Fauci
Black Lives Matter Officially Declares “Solidarity With Palestinians”
UFC Fighter Dedicates Win to Victims of Communism
North Carolina DA Says Police Shooting of Andrew Brown Jr Was Justified
Economy
Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments to Begin July 15
U.K. Inflation Doubles
Oil, Iron, and Copper Prices Smash Milestones
Lumber Futures Prices Crash 27% From Peak
Warren Buffet Cuts Stakes in Financial, Energy, and Pharma Stocks
Burger King to Enter the Chicken Sandwich Wars
Bitcoin Crashes 20% below $37k
Sen. Schumer Wants All Cars to Be Fully Electric by 2040
Bidenflation by the Numbers
Colonial Pipeline’s Shipping Communications System Knocked Offline
Swamp Watch
Jill Biden Reportedly Told Kamala “Go F*** Yourself” After 2019 Biden-Harris Debate Blowup
10-Year-Old Slams His School Board’s Hypocritical Masking Policy
NY Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang Wants to Give Permanent Residents the Right to Vote
Biden’s Environmental Advisers Oppose Nuclear Energy, Carbon Capture Technology
Fauci Underling Serves On Board For Wuhan Lab Journal
Report Reveals How Deep State Undermined Trump’s Attempts To End American’s Wars
Biden’s Ban on Federal Leasing Threatens U.S. Energy Security
NY AG Says Trump Organization Investigation Turned Criminal
Coronavirus
The State of the Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis
Some House Republicans Defy Pelosi’s Mask Rule
Texas Gov Orders All State and Local Govt Entities, Including Schools, to Lift Mask Mandates
Let’s Meet the Maskaholics
Former Surgeon General Says CDC Fumbled New Mask Guidelines
Ohio Sees Increase in Vaccinations After Announcing Vaccine Lottery
Fauci Supports Businesses Keeping Mask Mandates: “We Don’t Have Any Way of Knowing Who is Vaccinated”
Senate Discards Masks While House Maintains Mandate
Several States Report Zero Daily Covid Deaths
National Security
Netanyahu: We May Choose to Conquer Hamas If Rocket Attacks Continue
These Five Planes Are Vying to Be New Armed Overwatch Aircraft
The “Rule of Thirds” Isn’t a Rule and Never Has Been
Taiwan Reorganizes Its Military to Emphasize Joint Operations Between Its Services
U.S. B-52s Operating Simultaneously in Europe, Middle East and Indo-Pacific Theaters
Europe Wants a Sixth-Generation Stealth Fighter (Armed with Drone Swarms)
Pentagon to Spy on Service Members’ Social Media for Evidence of Extremism
Top Dems Demand Biden Stop Weapons Sale to Israel
Around the World
Chinese Communist Party Adds Further Restrictions to Christian Social Media
India’s Coronavirus Tally Passes 25 Million as Cyclone Hampers Relief Efforts in Western States
71 Percent of French Think Country Has Had Enough Immigration, No Desire to See More
EU – Minus Hungary – Call For Israel-Palestinian Cease Fire
Israeli Precision Bombing Demolishes Gaza Terrorist Tunnels
Pelosi Says U.S. Should Carry Out Diplomatic Boycott of 2022 Olympics in China
Russian Parliament Approves Bill to Prevent Navalny Allies From Serving as Lawmakers
Opinion
Rachel Mardsen: It’s Fashionable (Literally) to Be Obsessed With Vaccination Status
Dennis Prager: Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel is the Aggressor.
Derek Hunter: Democrats Really Hate Jews
Patrick Buchanan: Bibi & Hamas — Only Winners in Gaza War
Hirsh Singh: It’s Time to Face the Music on Election Integrity
Chase Martin: Florida: The Latest Victim of Anti-Election Integrity Lawsuits Nationwide
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: Is Biden Another Neville Chamberlain?
Rick Manning: Biden’s Ever-Expanding Gravy Train of “Free Money” Will Create a Downward Spiral of Dependency and Despair
Science/Entertainment/Sports
China Threatens Boycott of Netflix for Putting Taiwanese Flag on Promo Poster
Charles Grodin, “Midnight Run” Actor, Dead at 86
Center Stage at Miss Universe Pageant? Social Justice and Politics
Atlas V Rocket Set to Launch U.S. Space Force Missile-Warning Satellite
Boston’s Fenway Park Will Open at Full Capacity Memorial Day Weekend
Rocket Lab: Engine Issue Caused Electron Rocket Failure
ESPN to Release Documentary on Derek Jeter
Maryland Gov Ready to Sign Bill Legalizing Sports Gambling
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Biden Presidency
Biden to Coast Guard Grads: COVID Readied You for Any Mission
McLaughlin Poll: 64% Say Biden Won't Run in 2024, Trump Beats Harris
Biden on Harris' Busing Attack: 'That Was Some F-ing Bulls**t'
US to Waive Sanctions Related to Russia's Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Israel-Hamas Conflict Further Complicating Longtime Biden-Netanyahu Friendship
GOP, White House Talks on Infrastructure Yield No Breakthrough
Report: US Encouraging Israel to Wind Down Offensive
Poll: Less Than 58% of Dems Would Vote for Biden in '24 Primary
Newsfront
Poll: Dems Blame Israel for Violence
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Here is a video I made Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; the majority of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him
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=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. AP animals attack Trump for using the word 'animals.' Trump had described violent criminals who were being sent back to their nations from USA as animals. So AP reported that Trump had said immigrants were animals. It took twelve hours before AP retracted and gave a fulsome, but misleading, apology for their breach of standards. Meanwhile AP had spread widely a lie.
Killing the sad and lonely is supported by journalists. ABC 'reports' how a death activist wished he had smothered his wife a week before she died. He felt she was in pain and wanted doctors to kill her on the operating table but they would not do it. The death rattle is a natural thing showing the body has lost the ability to clear the throat of obstructions, the dying person does not feel pain from it, but the husband wanted doctors to kill her. The husband was so concerned about her pain he wanted doctors to overdose his dying wife on barbiturates. It is really sad journalists exploit the grief of the husband this way, regardless of his sincerity. The result of the call for euthanasia is not to kill the terminally ill in pain, but to kill the sad and lonely, or those vulnerable to murder.
Erdogan attacks Israel for human rights abuses. But Israel has not done what Erdogan claims. But Erdogan has committed atrocities in Turkey and outside. But the partisan press report Erdogan's claims without properly weighing them. Michael Danby is an ALP member who has noted the ABC and Age's partisan assaults on Israel. But Danby has supported corruption in unions and appallingly bad public practice. ABC fact check Danby's observations of ABC antisemitic 'reporting' and decide they don't have enough information. Almost as if the fact check unit relies on ABC news for information. Meanwhile, Mossad success, on Irans nuclear secrets, is stunning. One looks forward to a movie showing how it was done. Or a miniseries.
Aus gives Indonesia $320 million in aid, Indonesia spends $400 million on attack helicopters. Better trade is preferable to boom/bust aid, but Australia's government can more easily support the corrupt through foreign aid money.
Melbourne Council, after Robert Doyle, puts up a gender ban on child products. Any such ban which discriminates against Barbie sounds harsh. Personally, I want Council to stay away from sex education for children. It is not their business. Doyle was a great Mayor and Melbourne are suffering for his loss. But Dan Andrews had needed to create a fall back for ALP once they are beaten in polls come November. Victoria needs Matthew Guy as Premier right now.
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. I know things I shouldn't. And it concerns me when I don't see government action on them. MacRobertson Girls High School is an outstanding one in Melbourne. Like many well endowed schools, it still has shortfalls. One is asbestos based paint. It is no longer legal to use it, because of mesothelioma, but as paint goes, it is wonderful, long lasting, vibrant and potentially fatal. Death from mesothelioma is painful. There is no cure. And some of the brightest girls in Victoria are faced with the consequences of maladministration directly attributable to the Andrews Government, who would likely knee jerk a response rather than act like responsible adults.
Adding to the issue is the location of a golf course adjacent to the school. Albert Park Golf Course has taken some measures to protect the school. Still, it is alleged a teacher has been hit by a golf ball on campus. Then there is St Margarets in Berwick which is rumoured to be going broke, and could not even afford to have school photographs in 2017. And the government response is .. Safe Schools where bullying is addressed by making all students role play trans gender? Dan Andrews has seriously skew priorities. His winter fix for CFA was to butcher it. A once proud volunteer association is broken. People have invested their lives in it. And Dan Andrews has junked it. For no gain. Victoria needs a Liberal Government with Matthew Guy as Premier.
Adding to the issue is the location of a golf course adjacent to the school. Albert Park Golf Course has taken some measures to protect the school. Still, it is alleged a teacher has been hit by a golf ball on campus. Then there is St Margarets in Berwick which is rumoured to be going broke, and could not even afford to have school photographs in 2017. And the government response is .. Safe Schools where bullying is addressed by making all students role play trans gender? Dan Andrews has seriously skew priorities. His winter fix for CFA was to butcher it. A once proud volunteer association is broken. People have invested their lives in it. And Dan Andrews has junked it. For no gain. Victoria needs a Liberal Government with Matthew Guy as Premier.
=== from 2016 ===
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 ===
It is easy to hate a conservative regardless of policy. A bad policy pushed onto NSW Government by Clover Moore as Sydney Mayor is the solution to traffic problems, tramways. Only the two billion dollar project will implement a tramway, removing 220 buses from the roads, and provide a worse service than those buses. But although it was high on the independent/Green wish list, being an expensive and bureaucratic solution rejected over fifty years ago for the reason it is bad now, the conservative government of NSW is denounced by journalist Miranda Devine for their part in building it. Miranda is correct to denounce the policy. And NSW Government bears some responsibility, but the machinations of the Lord Mayor has been to make a good outcome impossible.
On another issue, Mr Abbott, PM, has announced another effective policy involving unemployed people working. Work is essential for all people, providing an income and purpose as well as dignity. Without work, people lose essential skills. Anxiety related to poverty is crippling even if the person worrying is not poor. But Mr Abbott referred to unemployed and the work provided as "Try before you buy" and naturally his haters and others inflate the words to mask the policy.
ALP are suffering and indecisive. In his economic reply to the budget last week, ALP shadow treasurer Bowen announced he would approve some cuts to spending, but proceed with unfunded spending in health and education that could well prevent Australia having either in the future, because it would be unaffordable. ALP want to block any cuts, but don't know if the budget is an election budget. They know if they don't pass some cuts before an election they will look bad. They also know if they block all cuts then the press will blame the government. What they will never do is act in the public interest. But they are indecisive because they can't even work out their own self interest.
In a slow news day, a mixed martial arts fighter was scolded by a sheriff (in the US) for stopping a robbery and hog tying the thief. The fighter hadn't known the robber wasn't armed, and the robber wasn't armed, and lost his free bout with an MMA fighter. Also a survey showed people, somewhere, average 8.5 hours a week in front of FB, which seems pathetic as I average more each day, sitting down. A victim of pedophilia has denounced Cardinal George Pell and it appears as if the reason for doing so is because the relative who abused him has died. What happened to the victim is appalling. It doesn't give license to make headlines. Released files from the US military shows they were concerned about an organisation like ISIL death cult arising in 2012. But Obama, who was privy to it, played it down later, and, in failing to address it, fanned it.
On this day in 325, the First Council of Nicea: The first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church was held. The council was convened by Constantine I. It was the council which defined Arianism and showed it was not Biblical or Canon. It answered, without specifying, the question of the Trinity. 491, Empress Ariadne married Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta was able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) died of dysentery. 526, an earthquake killed about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia. 685, the Battle of Dun Nechtain was fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who were decisively defeated. 794, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia visited the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth. He was taken captive and beheaded. 1217, the Second Battle of Lincoln was fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. The defeat was so decisive that the sacking of the town loyal to France was later called "Lincoln Fair." 1293, King Sancho IV of Castile created the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
In 1449, the Battle of Alfarrobeira was fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal. 1497, John Cabot set sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India when he arrived at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. The action was a war atrocity and probably instigated by the unarmed celebrants wearing gold. 1521, Ignatius Loyola was seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna. He had had his leg hit by a canon ball, and took up the work of a priest in place of that of a soldier. He founded the Jesuits. 1570, Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issued Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. 1631, the city of Magdeburg in Germany was seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. The book and movie The Last Valley included this detail as a plot point with a killer line from Michael Caie "We all have things we wish to forget. Magdeburg was mine. What is yours?" to Omar Sharif. 1645, the Manchurian Qing army occupied the city Yangzhou and the residents were massacred for ten days. After the fall of Beijing and northern China to the Manchus in 1644, Yangzhou remained under the control of the short-lived Ming loyalist government of the so-called Hongguang Emperor, based in Nanjing. The Qing forces, led by Prince Dodo, reached Yangzhou in the spring of 1645, and despite the heroic efforts of its chief defender, Shi Kefa, the city fell on May 20, 1645, after a brief siege. A ten-day massacre followed, in which, as it was traditionally alleged, 800,000 people died. Shi Kefa himself was killed by the Manchus as well, after he refused to switch his allegiance to the Qing regime. 1775, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
In 1802, by the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution. 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte led his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ended the next day with a French victory. 1840, York Minster was badly damaged by fire. 1861, American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaimed its neutrality, which would last until September 3 when Confederate forces entered the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina seceded from the Union. 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. 1864, American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fought in this Confederate victory.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. 1875, signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units. 1882, the Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy was formed. 1883, Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. 1884, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo became the king of the Zulu Nation. 1891, History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. 1896, the six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier fell on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. 1899, the first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
In 1902, Cuba gained independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma became the country's first President. 1908, Budi Utomo organisation was founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening. 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage). 1920, Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcast the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. 1927, Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Also 1927, at 07:52 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. 1940, The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrived at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. 1941, World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invaded Crete. 1948, Chiang Kai-shek was elected as the first President of the Republic of China. 1949, in the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established. 1956, in Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
In 1964, discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias. The discovery was initially very scary for the US scientists who hypothesised that the Soviet Union had a base on the far side of the moon which was nuclear powered. But then they realised it was more profound, and evidence of a Big Bang hypothesised by Einstein. 1965, PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew. 1967, the Popular Movement of the Revolution political party was established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1969, the Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ended. 1980, in a referendum in Quebec, the population rejected by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. 1983, first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that caused AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier. Also 1983, Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe exploded on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others. 1985, Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, began broadcasting to Cuba. 1989, the Chinese authorities declared martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In 1990, the first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. 1996, Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. 2002, the independence of East Timor was recognised by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former coloniser of East Timor until 1976). 2006, Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes began, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh. 2012, at least 27 people were killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy. 2013, an EF5 tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. 2014, more than 118 people were killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.
On another issue, Mr Abbott, PM, has announced another effective policy involving unemployed people working. Work is essential for all people, providing an income and purpose as well as dignity. Without work, people lose essential skills. Anxiety related to poverty is crippling even if the person worrying is not poor. But Mr Abbott referred to unemployed and the work provided as "Try before you buy" and naturally his haters and others inflate the words to mask the policy.
ALP are suffering and indecisive. In his economic reply to the budget last week, ALP shadow treasurer Bowen announced he would approve some cuts to spending, but proceed with unfunded spending in health and education that could well prevent Australia having either in the future, because it would be unaffordable. ALP want to block any cuts, but don't know if the budget is an election budget. They know if they don't pass some cuts before an election they will look bad. They also know if they block all cuts then the press will blame the government. What they will never do is act in the public interest. But they are indecisive because they can't even work out their own self interest.
In a slow news day, a mixed martial arts fighter was scolded by a sheriff (in the US) for stopping a robbery and hog tying the thief. The fighter hadn't known the robber wasn't armed, and the robber wasn't armed, and lost his free bout with an MMA fighter. Also a survey showed people, somewhere, average 8.5 hours a week in front of FB, which seems pathetic as I average more each day, sitting down. A victim of pedophilia has denounced Cardinal George Pell and it appears as if the reason for doing so is because the relative who abused him has died. What happened to the victim is appalling. It doesn't give license to make headlines. Released files from the US military shows they were concerned about an organisation like ISIL death cult arising in 2012. But Obama, who was privy to it, played it down later, and, in failing to address it, fanned it.
On this day in 325, the First Council of Nicea: The first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church was held. The council was convened by Constantine I. It was the council which defined Arianism and showed it was not Biblical or Canon. It answered, without specifying, the question of the Trinity. 491, Empress Ariadne married Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta was able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) died of dysentery. 526, an earthquake killed about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia. 685, the Battle of Dun Nechtain was fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who were decisively defeated. 794, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia visited the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth. He was taken captive and beheaded. 1217, the Second Battle of Lincoln was fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. The defeat was so decisive that the sacking of the town loyal to France was later called "Lincoln Fair." 1293, King Sancho IV of Castile created the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
In 1449, the Battle of Alfarrobeira was fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal. 1497, John Cabot set sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India when he arrived at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. The action was a war atrocity and probably instigated by the unarmed celebrants wearing gold. 1521, Ignatius Loyola was seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna. He had had his leg hit by a canon ball, and took up the work of a priest in place of that of a soldier. He founded the Jesuits. 1570, Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issued Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. 1631, the city of Magdeburg in Germany was seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. The book and movie The Last Valley included this detail as a plot point with a killer line from Michael Caie "We all have things we wish to forget. Magdeburg was mine. What is yours?" to Omar Sharif. 1645, the Manchurian Qing army occupied the city Yangzhou and the residents were massacred for ten days. After the fall of Beijing and northern China to the Manchus in 1644, Yangzhou remained under the control of the short-lived Ming loyalist government of the so-called Hongguang Emperor, based in Nanjing. The Qing forces, led by Prince Dodo, reached Yangzhou in the spring of 1645, and despite the heroic efforts of its chief defender, Shi Kefa, the city fell on May 20, 1645, after a brief siege. A ten-day massacre followed, in which, as it was traditionally alleged, 800,000 people died. Shi Kefa himself was killed by the Manchus as well, after he refused to switch his allegiance to the Qing regime. 1775, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
In 1802, by the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution. 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte led his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ended the next day with a French victory. 1840, York Minster was badly damaged by fire. 1861, American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaimed its neutrality, which would last until September 3 when Confederate forces entered the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina seceded from the Union. 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. 1864, American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fought in this Confederate victory.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. 1875, signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units. 1882, the Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy was formed. 1883, Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. 1884, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo became the king of the Zulu Nation. 1891, History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. 1896, the six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier fell on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. 1899, the first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
In 1902, Cuba gained independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma became the country's first President. 1908, Budi Utomo organisation was founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening. 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage). 1920, Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcast the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. 1927, Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Also 1927, at 07:52 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. 1940, The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrived at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. 1941, World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invaded Crete. 1948, Chiang Kai-shek was elected as the first President of the Republic of China. 1949, in the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established. 1956, in Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
In 1964, discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias. The discovery was initially very scary for the US scientists who hypothesised that the Soviet Union had a base on the far side of the moon which was nuclear powered. But then they realised it was more profound, and evidence of a Big Bang hypothesised by Einstein. 1965, PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew. 1967, the Popular Movement of the Revolution political party was established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1969, the Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ended. 1980, in a referendum in Quebec, the population rejected by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. 1983, first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that caused AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier. Also 1983, Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe exploded on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others. 1985, Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, began broadcasting to Cuba. 1989, the Chinese authorities declared martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In 1990, the first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. 1996, Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. 2002, the independence of East Timor was recognised by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former coloniser of East Timor until 1976). 2006, Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes began, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh. 2012, at least 27 people were killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy. 2013, an EF5 tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. 2014, more than 118 people were killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.
From 2014
None in 2014 because of Government and public service corruption related to the petitions
Historical perspective on this day
In 325, the First Council of Nicea: The first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church was held. 491, Empress Ariadne married Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta was able to choose her successor for the Byzantinethrone, after Zeno (late emperor) died of dysentery. 526, an earthquake killed about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia. 685, the Battle of Dun Nechtain was fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who were decisively defeated. 794, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia visited the royal Merciancourt at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth. He was taken captive and beheaded. 1217, the Second Battle of Lincoln was fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. 1293, King Sancho IV of Castilecreated the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
In 1449, the Battle of Alfarrobeira was fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal. 1497, John Cabot set sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India when he arrived at Kozhikode(previously known as Calicut), India. 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. 1521, Ignatius Loyola was seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna. 1570, Cartographer Abraham Orteliusissued Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisherThomas Thorpe. 1631, the city of Magdeburg in Germany was seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. 1645, the ManchurianQing army occupied the city Yangzhou and the residents were massacred for ten days, killing 800,000. 1775, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
In 1802, by the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated slaveryin the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution. 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte led his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ended the next day with a French victory. 1840, York Minster was badly damaged by fire. 1861, American Civil War: The state of Kentuckyproclaimed its neutrality, which would last until September 3 when Confederate forces entered the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina seceded from the Union. 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. 1864, American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fought in this Confederate victory.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeanswith copper rivets. 1875, signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units. 1882, the Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy was formed. 1883, Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. 1884, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo became the king of the Zulu Nation. 1891, History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. 1896, the six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier fell on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. 1899, the first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
In 1902, Cuba gained independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma became the country's first President. 1908, Budi Utomo organisation was founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening. 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage). 1920, Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcast the first regularly scheduled radioprogramming in North America. 1927, Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Also 1927, at 07:52 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. 1940, The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrived at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. 1941, World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invaded Crete. 1948, Chiang Kai-shek was elected as the first President of the Republic of China. 1949, in the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established. 1956, in Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
In 1964, discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias. 1965, PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew. 1967, the Popular Movement of the Revolution political party was established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1969, the Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ended. 1980, in a referendum in Quebec, the population rejected by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. 1983, first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that caused AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier. Also 1983, Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizweexploded on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others. 1985, Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, began broadcasting to Cuba. 1989, the Chinese authorities declared martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In 1990, the first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. 1996, Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. 2002, the independence of East Timor was recognised by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former coloniser of East Timor until 1976). 2006, Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes began, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh. 2012, at least 27 people were killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquakestruck northern Italy. 2013, an EF5 tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. 2014, more than 118 people were killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.
In 1449, the Battle of Alfarrobeira was fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal. 1497, John Cabot set sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India when he arrived at Kozhikode(previously known as Calicut), India. 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. 1521, Ignatius Loyola was seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna. 1570, Cartographer Abraham Orteliusissued Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisherThomas Thorpe. 1631, the city of Magdeburg in Germany was seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. 1645, the ManchurianQing army occupied the city Yangzhou and the residents were massacred for ten days, killing 800,000. 1775, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
In 1802, by the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstated slaveryin the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution. 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte led his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ended the next day with a French victory. 1840, York Minster was badly damaged by fire. 1861, American Civil War: The state of Kentuckyproclaimed its neutrality, which would last until September 3 when Confederate forces entered the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina seceded from the Union. 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. 1864, American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fought in this Confederate victory.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeanswith copper rivets. 1875, signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units. 1882, the Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy was formed. 1883, Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. 1884, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo became the king of the Zulu Nation. 1891, History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. 1896, the six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier fell on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. 1899, the first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
In 1902, Cuba gained independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma became the country's first President. 1908, Budi Utomo organisation was founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening. 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage). 1920, Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcast the first regularly scheduled radioprogramming in North America. 1927, Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Also 1927, at 07:52 Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. 1940, The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrived at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. 1941, World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invaded Crete. 1948, Chiang Kai-shek was elected as the first President of the Republic of China. 1949, in the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established. 1956, in Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
In 1964, discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias. 1965, PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew. 1967, the Popular Movement of the Revolution political party was established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1969, the Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ended. 1980, in a referendum in Quebec, the population rejected by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. 1983, first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that caused AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier. Also 1983, Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizweexploded on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others. 1985, Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, began broadcasting to Cuba. 1989, the Chinese authorities declared martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In 1990, the first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. 1996, Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. 2002, the independence of East Timor was recognised by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former coloniser of East Timor until 1976). 2006, Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes began, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh. 2012, at least 27 people were killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquakestruck northern Italy. 2013, an EF5 tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others. 2014, more than 118 people were killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.
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Today's reading: 1 Chronicles 7-9, John 6:22-44 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Chronicles 7-9
Issachar
1 The sons of Issachar:
Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron--four in all.
2 The sons of Tola:
Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel--heads of their families. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered 22,600.
Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel--heads of their families. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered 22,600.
3 The son of Uzzi:
Izrahiah.
Izrahiah.
The sons of Izrahiah:
Michael, Obadiah, Joel and Ishiah. All five of them were chiefs. 4 According to their family genealogy, they had 36,000 men ready for battle, for they had many wives and children.
Michael, Obadiah, Joel and Ishiah. All five of them were chiefs. 4 According to their family genealogy, they had 36,000 men ready for battle, for they had many wives and children.
5 The relatives who were fighting men belonging to all the clans of Issachar, as listed in their genealogy, were 87,000 in all....
Today's New Testament reading: John 6:22-44
22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. 23 Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus....
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 10:7
Ecclesiastes 10:7
Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact, that none of us should murmur if it should fall to our own lot. When our Lord was upon earth, although he is the Prince of the kings of the earth, yet he walked the footpath of weariness and service as the Servant of servants: what wonder is it if his followers, who are princes of the blood, should also be looked down upon as inferior and contemptible persons? The world is upside down, and therefore, the first are last and the last first. See how the servile sons of Satan lord it in the earth! What a high horse they ride! How they lift up their horn on high! Haman is in the court, while Mordecai sits in the gate; David wanders on the mountains, while Saul reigns in state; Elijah is complaining in the cave while Jezebel is boasting in the palace; yet who would wish to take the places of the proud rebels? and who, on the other hand, might not envy the despised saints? When the wheel turns, those who are lowest rise, and the highest sink. Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.
Let us not fall into the error of letting our passions and carnal appetites ride in triumph, while our nobler powers walk in the dust. Grace must reign as a prince, and make the members of the body instruments of righteousness. The Holy Spirit loves order, and he therefore sets our powers and faculties in due rank and place, giving the highest room to those spiritual faculties which link us with the great King; let us not disturb the divine arrangement, but ask for grace that we may keep under our body and bring it into subjection. We were not new created to allow our passions to rule over us, but that we, as kings, may reign in Christ Jesus over the triple kingdom of spirit, soul, and body, to the glory of God the Father.
Evening
It was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot, the man who should be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire, and be translated, that he should not see death--should thus pray, "Let me die, I am no better than my fathers." We have here a memorable proof that God does not always answer prayer in kind, though he always does in effect. He gave Elias something better than that which he asked for, and thus really heard and answered him. Strange was it that the lion-hearted Elijah should be so depressed by Jezebel's threat as to ask to die, and blessedly kind was it on the part of our heavenly Father that he did not take his desponding servant at his word. There is a limit to the doctrine of the prayer of faith. We are not to expect that God will give us everything we choose to ask for. We know that we sometimes ask, and do not receive, because we ask amiss. If we ask for that which is not promised--if we run counter to the spirit which the Lord would have us cultivate--if we ask contrary to his will, or to the decrees of his providence--if we ask merely for the gratification of our own ease, and without an eye to his glory, we must not expect that we shall receive. Yet, when we ask in faith, nothing doubting, if we receive not the precise thing asked for, we shall receive an equivalent, and more than an equivalent, for it. As one remarks, "If the Lord does not pay in silver, he will in gold; and if he does not pay in gold, he will in diamonds." If he does not give you precisely what you ask for, he will give you that which is tantamount to it, and that which you will greatly rejoice to receive in lieu thereof. Be then, dear reader, much in prayer, and make this evening a season of earnest intercession, but take heed what you ask.
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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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