Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Tue 11th May 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on Fascists using COVID to seize control of government
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. galatians 5:22-26

A bible quote worth considering when you remember that a Christian Pastor in Canada was arrested for church services during COVID when he refused to allow authorities to shut his services down. No statistics, as yet, as to the number of congregants who died, but I assume it is none. 

The Pastor is arrested by police. Note the force used. 

What does it take to get people to wake up to the fascism? 

The fraudulent election of Joe Biden has led to substantial change around the world. Here are some recent achievements of President Biden. 

Afghanistan schoolgirl bombing: More than 50 killed outside school

Hamas Fires Rockets Towards Jerusalem

Clueless Psaki Falsely Claims Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Not Boosting Joblessness

U.S. Warships Fire Warning Shots After Being Swarmed by Iranian Gunboats

Huge Chinese Rocket Booster Falls From Space Over Arabian Peninsula

Suspect Identified in Times Square Shooting

And so, the priorities of the DOJ shift to raiding Rudy Giuliani? 
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Explosive new details emerge about the Hunter Biden scandal. In this episode, I discuss the disturbing story and I address the destruction being caused by a series of disastrous government policies.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Colonial Pipeline Brings Parts Back Online After Cyberattack – Aims to Restore Service by End of Week READ MORE

U.S. Warships Fire Warning Shots After Being Swarmed by Iranian Gunboats

Hamas Fires Rockets Towards Jerusalem

Clueless Psaki Falsely Claims Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Not Boosting Joblessness

Trump Calls on GOP to Remove Liz Cheney From House Leadership

Hacker Group “DarkSide” Takes Credit for Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack

UK Announces Voter ID Law

Capitol Hill
Biden AG Chief Hyped Massive CCP Projects
White House Acknowledges “Havana Syndrome” Has Occurred on U.S. Soil
Elizabeth Warren Announces 2024 Run for Reelection in Senate
Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Likely to Be Introduced Later This Month
Biden Admin Requests Ethics Rules Be Ignored for Union Boss Appointees
Arizona Bans Voters From Adding Signatures on Unsigned Mail-in Ballots After Election Day
AOC’s Crazy “Civilian Climate Corps” Idea Could Actually Become a Reality
Republicans Raise Fraud Concerns About Over Expansion of Child Tax Credit
House GOP Targets Fauci and Blinken to Investigate Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory
Caitlyn Jenner Wants Illegal Aliens to Transition Into Citizens

Culture War
Few Voters Believe Matt Gaetz Allegations
Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Are Now Second Amendment Sanctuaries
Report: Bill Gates’ Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein Prompted Melinda to Seek Divorce
California Lawmakers Propose “Anti-Racism Sentencing Reform Act” That Reduces Penalties for Violent Gun Crimes
Facebook Oversight Board Member Criticizes Permanent Trump Ban
Two-Thirds Say Social Media Is Tearing Country Apart
Leading NYC Mayoral Candidate Says He’ll Ditch Security and Carry His Own Gun if He Wins
Maryland Judge Rules Court Employees Can’t Wear “Thin Blue Line” Masks
Support for Gun Control Falls Among Young People, Hispanics
It’s Time for SNL to Go

Economy
Gov. DeSantis to Sue CDC for Closing Businesses During Pandemic
Consumer Spending and Inflation Are Surging
No Timeline Yet for Reopening of Colonial Pipeline
China’s Near Monopoly on Rare-Earth Elements Complicates Biden Energy Plan
SpaceX Announces “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” for Q1 2022
JC Penny Emerges From Bankruptcy With $1.2 Billion Cash Buffer
Jeff Bezos Sold $5 Billion in Amazon Stock Last Week
China’s Trade With U.S. and Rest of World Surges by Double Digits in April
Long Resolution to Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Could Cause Fuel Shortage on East Coast

Swamp Watch
Stacey Abrams Declares Her Presidential Ambitions
Disabled Portland Veteran Says Armed BLM Agitators Beat Him
Biden Reverses Trump Proposal to Limit Work Permits for Immigrants Ordered Deported
Ex-Intel Officials Who Claimed Russian Involvement in Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal Go Silent
Detroit Police Chief Runs Against Michigan Gov. Whitmer
Biden Nixes Ethics Rules for Union Lobbyists
Next White House Press Secretary Likely to Be LGBT, Just Because
Climate Crazies March Through DC Painting Windows Black to Protest Pipelines
Dem Whip James Clyburn Accuses GOP of “Cancel Culture” for Contemplating Removing Her From Leadership
Jail Treatment of Capitol Riot Defendants Draws Outrage
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
States Pushing COVID Recession's Jobless: Time to Get Back to Work
To encourage people to return to work, more states are making it harder for people to stay on unemployment. Many blame the easy benefits that followed the pandemic, including what is now a $300-a-week supplemental federal payment on top of state benefits. [Full Story]
Related Stories

Alabama to End $300 Federal Unemployment Benefit Boost
Rick Scott Demands Answers on Abuse of Enhanced Jobless Benefit
DeSantis: Unemployed Floridians Will Have to Start Looking for Work
Biden: Jobless Offered Jobs Must Take Them or Lose Benefits

Biden Presidency
Sen. Rick Scott: Biden's Agenda to Blame For Low Jobs Report
Biden: Jobless Offered Jobs Must Take Them or Lose Benefits
Biden Pressed to More Urgently Organize Evacuation of Afghan Allies
Mick Mulvaney: Biden's Spending, Tax Plans 'Very Dangerous'
'Russian Collusion' Booster Joins Biden's DOJ
Klain Won't 'Underestimate' Trump 'if' Biden Runs in 2024
McConnell Indicates GOP Willing to Spend $800B on Infrastructure
Biden Meeting With GOP Leaders at Pivotal Point for Dealmaking
Biden Admin Restores Transgender Health Protections, Reversing Trump

Newsfront
US OKs Pfizer/BioNTech COVID Vaccine for Children 12 to 15
U.S. regulators on Monday authorized Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12, widening the country's inoculation program as vaccination rates have slowed significantly.The vaccine has been available under an emergency use authorization...... [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made My Country

"My Country" is an iconic patriotic poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in England. After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years she started writing the poem in London in 1904 and re-wrote it several times before her return to Sydney. The poem was first published in the London Spectator in 1908 under the title "Core of My Heart". It was reprinted in many Australian newspapers, quickly becoming well known and establishing Mackellar as a poet.
https://rumble.com/vbq2oh-my-country-poem.html

=== From 2018 ===

Don't give up on hope. On this day in 2014, Miranda Devine wrote an article attacking the first Abbott/Hockey budget before it was handed down. The detail in the column suggests Devine was 'in' on the Turnbull broadside campaign which derailed Abbott in 2015, some eighteen months later. Nikki Savva was to pen an article saying 'it was impossible for a leader to come back after being smeared, but a great leader could.' At the time, Savva was referring to Turnbull and claiming that Abbott had mistreated Turnbull by being disloyal. Another SMH journalist claimed Abbott had 'absolutely stabbed Turnbull in the back' in 2009  and she remembered how, but the fact is on the day of the spill that Turnbull nominated in '09 , Hockey had been the sole opposition, but Hockey tanked on the issue of AGW, calling it a moral issue. Abbott stood up only after Hockey tanked after Turnbull declared a spill. So Abbott had taken the leadership legitimately in '09. Turnbull backstabbed Abbott continuously in opposition and government and the Devine article "Costello is a hard act to follow - but at least we could try" (posted 1:59 am, May 11 2014) uses the Turnbull chat points which steered away from clear defences supporting Abbott and Hockey. The 2014 budget was not a Costello one. It couldn't be. From within Cabinet, Turnbull and Bishop were counselling the need to be defensive regarding the recalcitrant senate. But at the same time Turnbull was telling the senate he would be more amenable than Abbott if he were leader. So the agreed direction of government was undermined. A competent government, without Bishop or Turnbull, would have prosecuted the case for debt reduction and freedom of speech. But Turnbull downplayed free speech as a lost cause in cabinet, and then made promises he would renege on when Abbott was rolled. As it was, the Hockey budget was responsible, ambitious and curtailed by a recalcitrant senate which fractured under the sustained pressure from being incompetent. In 2015, Abbott softened the senate more and was set to command it when Turnbull's campaign succeeded with bed wetters. 

Thing is, the party machinery still works for the Libs. Turnbull, Bishop and Pyne are awful, but the party can still govern responsibly when they are not hindered. Turnbull is still fighting other Libs, not prosecuting his office. But that is Turnbull's legacy. Turnbull is a terrible friend, but a weak opponent. 

Andrew Bolt is questioning the values of social conservatives who are joining Victorian Libs. An accusation some make is that "Mormons are taking over" and ridiculous stances are put forward on non economic matters. I was outraged when one member decried a children's picture story book about friendships. The book was worse from an adult viewpoint, but that is neither here nor there. It is ok to discuss these issues in public domain. It is ok to have a position one can argue. It is wrong that speech has been restricted in the past. With respect, Mr Bolt, we can discuss it. 

=== from 2017 ===

Peter Gregory from IPA has reminded of a BBC headline and a fact. The BBC had reported that vanishing arctic ice was causing smog in Beijing. However, Christopher Booker for the Sunday Telegraph pointed out that for April, Arctic Ice was as advancedas it had been for over thirteen years. 

Some things should not happen, but they do. 

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An 8 million dollar tree preservation activity for a large mansion in Melbourne highlights how the ALP plan to disrupt peoples lives later this year and leading into the election. During construction of the mansion, an old growth tree was identified on site and preserved. It was moved to a nursery prior to construction, and given a $100k a year arborist for its welfare. A security guard and video camera were maintained during construction to make sure the tree was not harmed. Finally, the place was built, and the tree was to be returned a few metres from the original spot. A minister took three months to decide if the relocation was feasible, or if the engineers could be asked to cut a hole in the mansion for the tree in the original space. It was pointed out the minister and planning bodies had approved moving the tree initially, and the tree was successfully relocated to where it now thrives today. Melbourne values her trees. Activists will fly from far away if Melbourne trees are threatened. Unless the ALP are planning to knock over trees. 

The ALP are planning to spend some $9.5 billion dollars on remodelling Melbourne subways. For an extra $200 million they could build a new station. For an extra $500 million they could bore tunnels and not unduly affect Melbourne. But Dan Andrews doesn't want to waste money, and so the $9.5 billion dollar budget will mean an entire central Melbourne street is dug up so a tunnel can be fashioned. Surrounding trees will be cut down, many old growth, and never replaced. Trams will have to stop at the open sore for over a year, and buses will redirect commuters around the project. What is missing is plans to shut down a puppy farm and kill the puppies. It seems like a suicidal action by the Andrews government if in fact the story is true. I would appreciate feedback from blog readers who know of the truth of this story. I will link items in future issues. 
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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. 
=== from 2015 ===
A so called independent Senator in NSW has forced an inquiry into the rental of poles and wires policy of the NSW Government. Fred Nile is grandstanding on the issue so as to know if the policy is in NSW's interests. It is worth some $300 billion to the NSW economy. The authority tasked with examining the policy to begin with had produced a document which failed to include some benefits of the policy. The Premier's office was alerted to it and reminded the authority to show due diligence. Now Baird has been asked if he has leant on the authority to produce a document unfavourable to the ALP. But that is not what transpired, although it may well appear to be the affect. Naturally news reports are suggesting Mr Baird has been highlighted acting in an underhanded way.

For the second federal budget of Mr Hockey, due tomorrow, the media are spinning wildly to undermine it before it is seen. The opposition to it last year was successful due to a corrupt senate. Responsible decisions have still been made by the government, but irresponsible opposition has been successful too. A meme being put around by the media is that Mr Hockey is tired. No doubt he is. Not only is he delivering a budget, but he is also suing the SMH for bad journalism that was also defamatory. If Hockey is tired, it is because of unfair demands on him while he is saving the nation.

In 868, a copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. The book is about wisdom, and so may not seem exciting to those who have delved in the Sutra oeuvre. In 1310, in France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake as heretics. They were viewed as being wealthy by a poor king Philip IV of France who wanted their money and seized it. But they had lost all their real authority when they lost Jerusalem in 1187 to Saladin. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. Peter literally made the world light up. In 1672, Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands. This provided a setting for the death of D'Artagnan, as he became Marshall of France, as he was hit by a cannon ball, in Alexander Dumas' Man in the Iron Mask. In 1792, Captain Robert Gray became the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River. Not many white people need documents these days. In 1812, Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. Bellingham had felt unfairly represented when he had been arrested in Russia and detained for five years as part of a shakedown involving insurance. Bellingham shot the PM as a proxy for a Russian counterpart. Bellingham was hanged for being a killer. Bellingham's wife became rich from charity as a result, and so she remarried. In 1813, in Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxlandand William Wentworth led an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Their route opened up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. About twenty years earlier some convicts had fled Sydney colony, moving north, hoping to walk to China. One lives in hope.

In 1857, Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seized Delhi from the British. Less than a hundred years later, India was free. In 1880, Seven people were killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California. It pitched railroads versus settlers. In 1891, the Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffered a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He was rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark. The Policeman was not sentenced to death, but a patriotic seamstress cut her own throat as penance. The policeman died from a disease in prison later that year. Nicholas had the 9cm scar for the rest of his life. No motivation for the actions of the policeman are known. In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded. In 1942, William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, was published. In 1949, Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945. 

In 1960, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents captured fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who was living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. 1963, racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama disrupted nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitated a crisis involving federal troops. 1967, Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, was imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. In 1973, citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg had charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. 1985, Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators died and more than 200 were injured in a flash fire at Valley Paradefootball ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. 1987, Klaus Barbie went on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. 1987, in Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart–lung transplant took place. The surgery was performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2010,  David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK's first coalition government since World War II after elections produced a hung parliament.
From 2014
It is Mother's day in Australia and time to reflect on what is older than any profession. Without Mum, we would not have language, as that comes from the need to communicate with the child who might not even be able to move on their own. Mum does not merely cook or clean, she dotes. Before one is able to say, or even know they are hungry, a mum is there in charge. A baby is helpless, demanding, manipulative and a package of love. Mum is there from the beginning for each step. 

I love the day and the dedication, but am ambivalent regarding my own mother who is damaged and beyond my ability to help. I don't hate her, I just can't help her. And it is a very poor return for one who deserves much. God has blessed me and I have much to offer  but she won't take it. She feels better being able to assert control, even if that means denying herself love that she deserves. But such is the world, bizarre, big, beautiful, bountiful and full of pain. I love J Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5 description of change .. G'Kar continues speaking. "G'Quon wrote, 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'" I am caustically critical of those who argue from the basis of hate. Hate is a lousy task master. It might appear that it fits into Western Dialectic philosophy which works in terms of opposites, but hate is impotent as a tool of analysis. 

Today I met a baby, child of a former student. Talking to the dad, I remark how they aren't born with knowledge of rules, but need to discover them, night, day, being hungry or thirsty and not knowing how to ask for what is needed. In the womb, a person is asleep, and unable to assert themselves until they take a breath after being born. An EMT nurse overhears and challenges my assertion that a baby is asleep in the womb. They are active, their eyes open and close. But a person can sleep with their eyes open, can kick too. The umbilical cord does not carry sufficient oxygen to maintain consciousness. But the EMT nurse corrects me again, saying her observations are that it can. To clarify, a person can be semi conscious when oxygen deprived, but the ability to concentrate is not there. It is a small point, not worth getting worked up over. But regardless, worth honouring mum. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 330, Byzantium was renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it was more popularly referred to as Constantinople. 868, a copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. 912, Alexander became Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1310, in France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake as heretics. 1647, Peter Stuyvesantarrived in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. 1672, Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands. 1745, War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy– French forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army. 1792, Captain Robert Gray became the first documented white personto sail into the Columbia River. 

In 1812, Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. 1813, in Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth led an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Their route opened up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. 1820, HMS Beagle, the ship that would take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, was launched. 1846, President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War 1857, Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seized Delhi from the British. 1858, Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. 1862, American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia was scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. 1867, Luxembourg gained its independence. 1880, Seven people were killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California. 1889, an attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escortresulted in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor. 1891, the Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffered a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He was rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark. 1894, Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on a wildcat strike in Illinois. 

In 1907,thirty-two Shriners were killed when their chartered train derailed at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. 1910, an act of the U.S. Congress established Glacier National Park in Montana. 1918, the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established. 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded. 1942, William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, was published. 1943, World War II: American troops invaded Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. 1944, World War II: The Allies began a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line. 1945, World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill was hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship was able to return to the U.S. under its own power. 1946, UMNO was created. 1949, Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945. Also 1949, Israel joined the United Nations. 1953, the 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.

In 1960, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents captured fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who was living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. 1963, racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabamadisrupted nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitated a crisis involving federal troops. 1967, Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, was imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta. 1968, the Toronto Transit Commission opened the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West. 1970, the Lubbock Tornado, an F5tornado, hit Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage. 1973, citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg had charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. 1985, Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators died and more than 200 were injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. 1987, Klaus Barbie went on trial in Lyon for war crimescommitted during World War II. 1987, in Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart–lung transplant took place. The surgery was performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.

In 1995, more than 170 countries extended the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. 1996, after the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 caused the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. Also 1996, the 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people died during summit attempts on Mount Everest. 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format. 1998, India conducted three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device. 2000, Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambushed Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia. 2010, David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK's first coalition government since World War II after elections produced a hung parliament. 2013, at least 46 people were killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey. 2014, 15 people were killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting
to defuse a hostile incident. 

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Today's reading: 2 Kings 10-12, John 1:29-51 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: 2 Kings 10-12

Ahab's Family Killed
1 Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab's children. He said, 2 "You have your master's sons with you and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city and weapons. Now as soon as this letter reaches you, 3 choose the best and most worthy of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne. Then fight for your master's house...."

Today's New Testament reading: John 1:29-51


John Testifies About Jesus
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel...."

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"But now is Christ risen from the dead."
1 Corinthians 15:20
The whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that "Christ is risen from the dead;" for, "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: ye are yet in your sins." The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in his resurrection, since he was "Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." It would not be unreasonable to doubt his deity if he had not risen. Moreover, Christ's sovereignty depends upon his resurrection, "For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living." Again, our justification, that choice blessing of the covenant, is linked with Christ's triumphant victory over death and the grave; for "He was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." Nay, more, our very regeneration is connected with his resurrection, for we are "Begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." And most certainly our ultimate resurrection rests here, for, "If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." If Christ be not risen, then shall we not rise; but if he be risen then they who are asleep in Christ have not perished, but in their flesh shall surely behold their God. Thus, the silver thread of resurrection runs through all the believer's blessings, from his regeneration onwards to his eternal glory, and binds them together. How important then will this glorious fact be in his estimation, and how will he rejoice that beyond a doubt it is established, that "now is Christ risen from the dead"!
"The promise is fulfill'd,
Redemption's work is done,
Justice with mercy's reconciled,
For God has raised his Son."

Evening

"The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
John 1:14

Believer, you can bear your testimony that Christ is the only begotten of the Father, as well as the first begotten from the dead. You can say, "He is divine to me, if he be human to all the world beside. He has done that for me which none but a God could do. He has subdued my stubborn will, melted a heart of adamant, opened gates of brass, and snapped bars of iron. He hath turned for me my mourning into laughter, and my desolation into joy; he hath led my captivity captive, and made my heart rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Let others think as they will of him, to me he must be the only begotten of the Father: blessed be his name. And he is full of grace. Ah! had he not been, I should never have been saved. He drew me when I struggled to escape from his grace; and when at last I came all trembling like a condemned culprit to his mercy-seat, he said, Thy sins which are many are all forgiven thee: be of good cheer.' And he is full of truth. True have his promises been, not one has failed. I bear witness that never servant had such a master as I have; never brother such a kinsman as he has been to me; never spouse such a husband as Christ has been to my soul; never sinner a better Saviour; never mourner a better comforter than Christ hath been to my spirit. I want none beside him. In life he is my life, and in death he shall be the death of death; in poverty Christ is my riches; in sickness he makes my bed; in darkness he is my star, and in brightness he is my sun; he is the manna of the camp in the wilderness, and he shall be the new corn of the host when they come to Canaan. Jesus is to me all grace and no wrath, all truth and no falsehood: and of truth and grace he is full, infinitely full. My soul, this night, bless with all thy might the only Begotten.'"

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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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