Friday, June 25, 2021

Fri 25th June 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Chinese spy defects with evidence China compromised Biden over Wuhan flu

An uncorroborated report of a senior Chinese official defecting to the United States is not a surprise. Even after the Biden coup in which a fraudulent election imposed a socialist administration on the United States, the US lifestyle is still highly desirable for many around the world. This official is alleged to have defected with his daughter, who had gone to university in the US. The official is alleged to have been the senior counter intelligence spy of China. He defected with terabytes of data showing Wuhan flu was part of Chinese bio weapons research partly funded by the US government. He also provided evidence of senior US officials in Chinese pockets. He also provided evidence of US universities compromised by Chinese student spies. Evidence. Students who had been supposed to be studying in USA returning to China in February 2020 prior to lockdown. 

There is circumstantial evidence of the defection. The Biden administration has backflipped over the issue of a Wuhan institute release of Wuhan flu, possibly by accident. China has demanded the return of the spy at a meeting scheduled with no apparent purpose. Redacted freedom of information documents from Fauci emails suggest an investigation at the DOJ over Fauci's Wuhan handling. The redaction was coded as if Fauci's apparent corruption was not what was being investigated. 

Now that Biden's most recent pet dog has died of old age, how does Biden feel? What does it mean for Biden's attempts to deal with racism in America? Why are Biden administration officials spending US dollars on Chinese bio weapons research? 

Editorial AGW campaign claims Japanese institution?

Toshiba has a history dating back to 1875 Japan. She is most famous for tv electronics and nuclear power stations. Since Japan scaled back nuclear power stations following Fukushima, when a nuclear disaster was averted by effective standards, following an earthquake. Toshiba is no longer a consumer electronics producer, following bankruptcy of her subsidiary Westinghouse in 2017. 

Keeping the books balanced during the anti nuclear crusade is hard. But the press won't admit the issue. So instead, corporate malfeasance becomes the story. Green industry is unprofitable and funded by hollowing out valuable industry. AGW hysteria is making the world poorer. 

Editorial, Who speaks for 'all women'?

It is a truth that only racists speak for all black peoples, who is it in the media who speaks for all women? Under what circumstance might their claim be verified? Polling booths? Except that data is not captured in Australian voting booths, where the vote is secret. The 'journalist' Samantha Maiden, has written a piece claiming former deputy PM Barnaby Joyce could not get votes from females, according to unnamed colleagues. Are these the same colleagues who claimed Abbott could not get votes from females? How could the journalist verify the source claims? Or, hasn't the journalist made any effort to verify anything? Under what world view could such a claim be made? 

Barnaby Joyce was an effective leader with Abbott. Joyce was responsible for '100 dams' legislation which will change Australia from a desert dominated wasteland to a world breadbasket. ALP has opposed all such progressive moves, as did Malcolm Turnbull. Where Joyce has run afoul is over his personal life in which he had had the sad fact of a failed marriage and went on to marry a trusted adviser. Joyce has never betrayed his public trust, and might be faultless privately, for all the public knows. Similar could not be said of the ALP, or Turnbull. 
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The coronavirus cover-up is getting uglier. In this episode, I discuss the stunning new revelation that China deleted key information that could’ve uncovered the mystery of the origins of COVID.

News Picks:

https://rumble.com/viznu1-ep.-1549-china-is-desperate-to-erase-the-evidence-the-dan-bongino-show.html
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden Pours Gasoline on Border Crisis Fire: Allows Illegals Ordered Deported Under Trump to Restart Admissions Process READ MORE

Crazy Nancy Announces House Select Committee to Investigate January 6

Russia Bans Soros-Backed Bard College

VP Harris Will Visit Border City 800 Miles Away From Epicenter of Border Crisis

Biden and Senators Say Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Has Been Reached

Rudy Giuliani’s Law License Suspended in New York Over Voter Fraud Comments

Dem Calls to End Filibuster Grow After Failure to Pass Federal Takeover of Elections

Capitol Hill
Biden Calls on Local Governments to Hire More Police as Fellow Dems Push Defunding
Trump Responds To Rumors He Wants To Be House Speaker
Democrats Worried “Defund The Police” Will Cost Them In 2022
Biden Forces Border Patrol Head to Leave Post Immediately
Rasmussen: 55% of Voters Support Election Audits
Biden Nominates Cindy McCain for U.S. Ambassador to UN Food Agency
SCOTUS Delivers Another Big Setback to Unions
Biden’s Bureau of Land Management Nominee Argued for Human Population Control
Senators Say They’ve Reached Breakthrough on Infrastructure Bill
Dem Senator Admits He’s Member At Yacht Club That “Lacks Diversity”
California Gov. Newsom Recall Election Is Officially On
Iowa to Ban Critical Race Theory in Schools

Culture War
Transgender Champion Hurdler Ruled Ineligible for U.S. Olympic Trials
Tucker Speaks With Parent Arrested for Speaking Out Against Critical Race Theory
Derek Chauvin to Be Sentenced Friday
Insufferable Joy Reid Speaks Over Guest During Entire Debate Over Critical Race Theory
House Republicans Will Join Trump’s June 30 Border Visit
Documents Indicate Link Between Stacey Abrams Financial Group and Temp Agency That Staffed Fulton County Elections
Texas Joins Coalition Challenging California Assault Weapons Ban
Trump’s First Post-Presidency Rally Set for July 3
No Jail Time for First Jan 6 Protester to Be Sentenced
Even “Trigger Warning” Needs a Trigger Warning: University Goes Overboard With “Oppressive Language” List
What Are They Smoking? Connecticut Says It Legalized Marijuana to Combat “Racial Disparities”

Economy
Weekly Jobless Claims Total 411k vs. 380k Expected
Progressive Lawmakers Quietly Work on Backdoor Plan for Socialized Medicine
Federal Reserve Offers Mixed Messages on Inflation
Elon Musk Says Starlink Will go Public Once It Has More Predictable Cash Flow
Big Tech Faces Onslaught of Antitrust Bills
Banks Set to Return $142 Billion to Shareholders
Biden to Oust Leader of Fannie and Freddie After SCOTUS Ruling
Founders of South Africa Bitcoin Exchange Disappear – Along With $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin
SEC’s Planned “Woke” Rules Create Cost Concerns for Business Leaders
Trump-Era Restriction on Visas for Foreign Workers Has Created a Summer Job Boom for Young Americans
Hunter Biden Owns Stake in Chinese Firm That Invests in Companies Sanctioned By the U.S.

Swamp Watch
Dems’ NY Civil War Heats Up: Cuomo Says De Blasio Is “Not Competent”
Nations That Used China’s COVID Vaccines Now Seeing Large Spike in Infections
Police “Very Nervous” About Being Proactive Against Rising Crime
Buffalo Elects Socialist Mayor
Progressives Angry That Biden Couldn’t Pass Federal Takeover of Elections
Chinese Scientists Deleted Data That Could Have Helped Identify Origins of the Coronavirus
GOP Slams House Democrat for Threatening Tax-Exempt Status of Catholic Church Over Biden Rebuke
Woman Who Tried to Kill Police Officer at Juneteenth Parade Was BLM and Bernie Sanders Supporter
153 Employees at Houston Hospital Fired or Quit Over Coronavirus Vaccination Mandate

National Security
At Least One Dead and 51 Unaccounted for After Apartment Building Near Miami Partially Collapses
Intel Assessment: Afghan Government Could Collapse Within Six Months of US Withdrawal
The US Military’s New Goal: Kill Hypersonic Missiles
China Is Planning Its First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier
HMS Queen Elizabeth Sends Jets Into Combat
Sixth Transit of Taiwan Strait Made by U.S. Destroyer During Current Administration
What Would Happen if North Korea Collapsed?
White House: China Risks Isolation By Not Allowing Coronavirus Origin Probe
Russia Practices Destroying Enemy Carriers in Pacific Drills
Finally! VP Harris to Visit U.S.-Mexico Border After Months of Ignoring Border Crisis

Around the World
Facebook’s Algorithm Promoted Myanmar Military Propaganda for Weeks After Coup
China, World’s Worst Human Rights Abuser, Calls for U.N. Probe Against Canada
Russia Claims to Chase British Destroyer Out Of Crimea Waters
India Claims China’s Deployments Along the Border Continue
At Least 43 Killed in Air Strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
Austrian Candidate for Chancellor Herbert Kickl Calls on Government to Ban Turks From Austrian Citizenship
BBC: Disease, Unsafe Food, Sexual Abuse Await Unaccompanied Children in Biden’s Migrant Camps
Afghan Hospital Burns After Rocket Attack By Taliban
After More Than a Year of Lockdowns, Young Children Having Panic Attacks After Playdates

Opinion
Tim Graham: Ban Jeff Bezos From Earth?
Larry O’Connor: Kamala Announces Unnecessary ‘Grand Gesture’ That Will Accomplish Nothing
Austin Bay: Obama-Biden Retreads Prepare to Kowtow to Tehran’s Brutal Hangman
Michael Brown: The Fable of the Belly and the Members, and the Defunding of the Police
Veronique de Rugy: Infrastructure Insanity
Michelle Easton: How to Raise a Conservative Daughter? Be a Good Father.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Joe Biden and the Blessed Sacrament
John Stossel: Capitalism Makes Us Better Off

Entertainment
“Mumford & Sons” Banjoist Leaves Band After Criticism for Reading Anti-Antifa Book by Andy Ngo
Britney Spears Begs Court for Freedom From Conservatorship
Prince Charles is Extremely Hurt By Alleged Feud Between Princes Harry and William
Joe Rogen: Hollywood Is Full of Insecure People Spouting Liberal Talking Points to Get Acting Jobs
Former Nickelodeon Star Drake Bell Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges Involving a Minor
Elton John Officially Retiring, Adds Final Dates to His “Farewell” Tour
Harrison Ford Suffers Injury Filming Fight Scene for “Indiana Jones 5”
Jon Voight Delivers Tribute to American Flag Following Singer’s Claim That It’s “Dated” and “Divisive”

Sports
Concerns Raised Over Chinese Companies Making Up 1/3rd of Euro Cup 2020 Sponsors
Steve Kerr Says Kevin Durant Is “More Gifted” Than Michael Jordan
Kobe Bryant’s Widow Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Against Pilot, Owners of Helicopter That Crashed Last Year
Celtics Poach Nets Staff For New Head Coach
Former Phillies Outfielder Dylan Cozens To Leave MLB to Pursue His Dream of Playing in NFL
LeBron James, NBA Stars Look to “Free” Alex Caruso Following Airport Weed Bust
Louisiana Dem Governor Vetoes Ban on Trans Athletes Competing in Girl’s, Women’s Sports
Brett Favre: “Unfair” That Transgender Female Athletes Competing as Women
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
President Joe Biden said he’s reached a tentative deal with a group of Democratic and Republican senators on a bipartisan, $579 billion five-year infrastructure plan that would fulfill one of his top priorities. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Rand Paul to Newsmax: Fire Fauci Now


Newsfront

New York Court Suspends Rudy Giuliani's Law License

Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a lawyer for [Full Story]
1 Dead, 51 People Missing in Miami-Area Condo Collapse
Hundreds of fire and rescue workers scoured through tons of rubble on Thursday after a 12-story oceanfront residential building partially collapsed close to Miami, with at least one person dead and 51 still unaccounted for, officials said.... [Full Story]






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Here is a video I made The Soldier

The Soldier is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is actually the fifth of a series of poems entitled 1914.
It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 anti-war poem Dulce Et Decorum Est
The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge.
https://rumble.com/vc4ys7-the-soldier.html

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Maxine Waters calls for violence? Meh, Waters is dog whistling to supporters precisely to attract core support. But it disenchants the middle. This is because the party is intending to do badly now, but to ramp up support in '22 with a pivot. The US issue is not the problem of the UK or Australian one where inept leaders allow the dog whistlers to get close to achieving office. It isn't May's fault that Johnson was backstabbed and prevented from getting leadership. But, she is no less paralysed than Cameron. Meanwhile Malcolm Turnbull is responsible for his own misfortune which gifts the ALP a shot at government without explaining why they deserve it. MT donates salary to charity, but costs Australia much more than his salary. 

Truth is a victim from low press standards and partisan positions. “The anti-Trump and anti-Brexit cultural elites often talk about our ‘post-truth’ society. They claim Trump and others have instituted lying and misinformation. Yet they play this game too, and often in a worse way. When Time says its story, its lie, is important because it revealed ‘the stakes’, it is in essence saying that truth no longer matters. All that matters is the morality tale. When the media, or politicians, think it is acceptable to spread misinformation in the name of pushing a ‘greater truth’, then it is clear they no longer understand what truth is, and no longer take us the public seriously as citizens. Instead we become children, deserving only fairytales to offer us moral guidance.”

Iran fractures. Protestor chant "death to Palestine". Erdogan 'wins' election. Obama's cold war demonstrably ongoing. Sweden convicts three imported bigots who attacked synagog.  NASA study shows Antarctica getting more ice than she sheds. Type-1 Diabetes 'gut cure' research funding from Australia's federal government. Anti Brexit protestors were paid. 
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. The passing of Gonski 2 has the usual suspects saying the usual. The truth of the matter is that a year ago, during an election campaign, the ALP promised some $130 billion dollars more spending, and a year on Malcolm Turnbull is keen to spend more so as to quiet criticism from the left. But in doing so, the Liberal Party, under Malcolm Turnbull has betrayed all conservatives who support the Liberals. Miranda Devine presents a misleading argument about Catholics not being worse off. But when the pork barrels are rolled out, the waste will mean everyone is worse off and Catholics are getting the shortest end of the stick. Because the money is not there. Because the purpose of the funding is not clear, there are no shovel ready projects. Because the important changes Education requires do not cost money but may be achieved through cost cutting. But deals have been done. Anyone who supported the spending bill is not a conservative, or needs to make a case as to why they should be considered one. 

Archaeologists found a Frankish head dress probably belonging to a chieftain in 1871. It had been preserved in peat marsh. 841, in the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. The forces numbered about 150000 each side, and defined Europe. 1530, at the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor and he had asked Lutheran states to say what they believed so there might be church unity. It didn't happen as he hoped. 1678, Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia was the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduated from the University of Padua. She was a genius, having learned many languages by age 7. She had wanted to study theology, but that was man's work, according to the Bishop of Padua. 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

In 1900, the Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that were of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. The works are being uploaded to the internet. 1906, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shot and killed prominent architect Stanford White. White had seduced Thaw's wife when she was 16, before she had married Thaw. Thaw held a grudge. Thaw approached White in a theatre and shot him at point blank. Initially the audience cheered, apparently thinking it part of the act. But when they realised White was dead, panic ensued. Thaw was wealthy and managed to acquire a not guilty verdict through reason of insanity. 1910, the United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. Also 1910, Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird was premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. 

1960, two cryptographers, William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. They found they did not enjoy life there as it was not like what they had envisioned from propaganda. They were not trusted by the Soviets. The US refused to let them back. 1976, Missouri Governor Kit Bond issued an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologising on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Was the apology enough? 
=== from 2016 ===
The arrogance of the remain campaigners for Brexit is remarkable. Apparently the UK has to speed up her removal at the behest of EU gatekeepers. They want to make an example of UK without making it a desirable example. But that is the very reason why the UK left. The EU was not supposed to impose on sovereignty. UK has a future in Europe, but not as a vassal state. Not as a state which could not police her own borders. At the moment the EU is killing people with weak borders. That is not healthy. It is claimed that young people wanted to be European, and are missing out because they did not have their way. But they miss nothing by being British, and when they grow up, they can make up their own minds. Meanwhile, the verballing of outgoing UK PM Cameron is sad. He achieved much as conservative leader and PM. He has quirks, like a ridiculous adherence to AGW theory. The conservatives can now unite behind a leader who is British. On the other hand, it is difficult to see how UK Labor could be more out of touch. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
Empty, hollow apologies are the order of the day. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said sorry for killing three people and injuring many, but left their fate to the mercy of Allah. Merciful Allah had been doing fine until the two brothers decided to blow up a fun run for him. Many jihadists view the terrorist act as the will of Allah, and a disappointing many who aren't jihadists agree. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are sorry they paid for a terrorist sympathiser to ask a question (make a statement) on a partisan tv show, Q and A. ABC have placed the program on the internet and rebroadcast it. Clearly they aren't very sorry. Australian Labour Party Leader Bill Shorten he is sorry he lied to the public on radio about his involvement with knifing two ALP PMs in the previous government. Shorten is saying the government may call an election soon and so he must remain as leader. Otherwise the Australian people might choose to vote for a trustworthy ALP Leader, and Shorten will never let that happen. On this day in 1947, Ann Frank's Diary was published in edited form. Her life had much promise and her killers never apologised but they were very sorry at the end. Two NSA cryptographers fled to Russia in 1960, felt sorry but were not allowed to return to the US. In Sydney, a Caltex petrol station on a major arterial road is sorry it sold water as petrol to at least a dozen people whose cars broke down in peak hour traffic. They are paying all repair costs and for replacement vehicles. An anaesthesiologist is sorry she has to pay $500k US to a patient she insulted during a colonoscopy. He had inadvertently recorded the operation on an iPhone. She had recorded a symptom he hadn't had too.   
From 2014
 It was long ago, but D'Artagnan died on this day, 1673. His life was dramatised and romanticised by Dumas in the Three Musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte De Braggelonne, Madame Louise De La Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask. Still, he lived a fascinating life, addicted to adrenaline. As governor he was despised, and did not enjoy the life, and so died on campaign age 62. There have been significant deaths on this day. In 2009, Farrah Fawcett spoiled the glorious death of Michael Jackson. Farrah died too young, Michael too old. One man said to be responsible was not given the medal he deserved, but jailed for a time, protesting his love for Michael. Three brothers and a nephew died on this day in 1876, among many others. They were high ranking officers, two generals and a colonel. During the civil war, as an ambitious captain, he overheard a commanding officer wonder how deep a river crossing was. George rode out to the middle of the river on his horse, water lapping the horse's legs, and called out "It is this deep, sir." But on this day in 1876, General George Custer was said to have uttered the last words "Hurrah boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home to our station." But Little Bighorn was where he fell. 

Significant births include Louis Mountbatten (1900) and George Orwell (1903), Carly Simon (1945), Tim Finn (1952), Craig Johnston (1960) and George Michael (1963). Louis was great. Louis was a great grandson of Queen Victoria. He was foundational to the creation of electrical engineers IEE and showed great daring in executing his command in war. Murdered by the IRA in an act of terror when he was an old man. By way of contrast, Orwell was born upper class and lead a charmed life, being taught French by Aldous Huxley at Eton. An upper class twit whose words have been embraced enthusiastically by the left. The tragedy of George's life was that he wasn't born as rich as his dad had been. George's writing can be measured by his brittle inability to appreciate the greatness of Kipling. 

The Mann act was passed in 1910, on this day. It made it illegal to take a woman across state borders in the US for immoral purposes. In 1976, the Missouri Governor rescinded the 150 year old Mormon Extermination order. Someone had not liked door knockers. In 1906, a millionaire shot dead an architect. Not for salacious building reasons, the guy had had an affair with the millionaire's wife. There is no evidence he was Mormon. The crowning puzzle of the day had two wealthy hucksters standing side by side. Clive Palmer and Al Gore. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 524, the Franks were defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. 841, in the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. 1530, at the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. 1658, Spanish forces failed to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1678, Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia was the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduated from the University of Padua. 1741, Maria Theresa of Austria was crowned Queen of Hungary. 1786, Gavriil Pribylov discovered St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. 1788, Virginia became the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

In 1900, the Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that were of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. 1906, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shot and killed prominent architect Stanford White. 1910, the United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. Also 1910, Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird was premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. 1913, American Civil War veterans began arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. 1923, Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane

In 1935, Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia were established. 1938, Dr. Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. 1940, World War II: France officially surrendered to Germany at 01:35. 1943, The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland staged an uprising against the Nazis. 1944, World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, began. Also 1944, World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. Also 1944, the final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. 1947, The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) was published. 1948, the Berlin airlift began. 1949, Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, was released in theatres.

In 1950, the Korean War began with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. 1960, two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. 1967, broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World 1975, Mozambique achieved independence. Also 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of internal Emergency declared in India. 1976, Missouri Governor Kit Bond issued an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologising on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 1978, the rainbow flagrepresenting gay pride was flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

In 1981, Microsoft was restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. 1982, Greece abolished the head shaving of recruits in the military. 1991, Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada. Also 1993, Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action was adopted by World Conference on Human Rights. 1997, an unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian space station Mir. 1998, in Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decided that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 was unconstitutional. 2013, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani became the eighth Emir of Qatar.

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Today's reading: Job 1-2, Acts 7:22-43 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Job 1-2

Prologue
1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom....

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 7:22-43

22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

23 "When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. 26 The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?'

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"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."
Luke 11:27-28
It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into his very heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not much. We do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know she did well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear from anything we read in the Evangelists to have been a better-instructed believer than any other of Christ's disciples. All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that we should say so? Here is a text to prove it: "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant." Remember the Master's words--"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." So blessedly does this Divine Revealer of secrets tell us his heart, that he keepeth back nothing which is profitable to us; his own assurance is, "If it were not so, I would have told you." Doth he not this day manifest himself unto us as he doth not unto the world? It is even so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, "Blessed is the womb that bare thee," but we will intelligently bless God that, having heard the Word and kept it, we have first of all as true a communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had, and in the second place as true an acquaintance with the secrets of his heart as she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!

Evening

"Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said ... Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods."
Daniel 3:16-18

The narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness and steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and in the very jaws of death. Let young Christians especially learn from their example, both in matters of faith in religion, and matters of uprightness in business, never to sacrifice their consciences. Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal. Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority. Follow the right at all hazards. When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honour to trust him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. See whether he will be your debtor! See if he doth not even in this life prove his word that "Godliness, with contentment, is great gain," and that they who "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, shall have all these things added unto them." Should it happen that, in the providence of God, you are a loser by conscience, you shall find that if the Lord pays you not back in the silver of earthly prosperity, he will discharge his promise in the gold of spiritual joy. Remember that a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of that which he possesseth. To wear a guileless spirit, to have a heart void of offence, to have the favour and smile of God, is greater riches than the mines of Ophir could yield, or the traffic of Tyre could win. "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and inward contention therewith." An ounce of heart's-ease is worth a ton of gold.

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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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