Monday, June 28, 2021

Mon 28th June 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Dan Andrews obfuscates on his fall

He felt he was so badly off that he refused an ambulance or anyone who might have screened his blood toxicology. And he has had a press conference to obfuscate details. We know that after time, Andrews lies and claims he forgets. He cannot remember details of his choices giving a security gig to mates who failed during a COVID lockdown, killing over a hundred Victorians. Andrews says he thought he was going to die. So why the cover up? And why does the article finish with a shaming statement for anyone who asks why? 

If Andrews fell because he was blotto, then Victorians need to know. Letting Andrews take the reigns off power when he has flagrantly failed in his duty in the past is wrong. Over a hundred Victorians have died because of Andrews' mismanagement. Billions of dollars have gone missing. 

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THE END OF HISTORY Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep 119
In this episode, Dinesh answers the cover story in Harper's magazine written by the Princeton historian Matthew Karp who calls Dinesh the "leading historian of the Trump era." After taking a moment to pat himself on the back, Dinesh exposes Karp as an intellectual fraud and shows how he is part of the destruction of history in American universities. Dinesh reveals what the FBI learned from Jussie Smollett, the art of the racial hoax. Former Texas supreme court justice Eva Guzman, who’s running for Texas Attorney General, joins Dinesh to talk about how Hispanic values align with Republican values.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Trump Slams Biden, Critical Race Theory, Woke Generals, and More at First Post-Presidency Rally READ MORE

Oregon Lawmakers Pass Bill Making Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Medicaid

Iran Stops Sharing Images of Nuclear Site With Watchdog

Trump Joins YouTube Competitor Rumble

Report Warned of Major Structural Damage at Florida Condo Years Before Collapse

Biden Backtracks on Threat to Hold Infrastructure Bill Hostage

New Book Exposes Details of Wuhan Lab-Linked Grant, Indicates Fauci Lied to Congress

Capitol Hill
National Archives Task Force on Racism Report Claims The Archives’ Own Rotunda Is An Example of Structural Racism
NYC GOP Mayoral Candidate Curtis Sliwa Relying on “Street Cred” to Win Election
Maricopa County 2020 Election Auditors Complete Paper Examination
Key Takeaways From the UFO Report
Dem Rep. Bowman Pushes “Defund the Police” After Requesting Police Protection at His Home
AOC Declares Concerns Over National Crime Wave “Hysteria”
Two Top Travel Aides for VP Harris Resign
Rep. McCarthy: VP Harris Spent More Time at the Airport Than at the Border
Trump-Appointed Judges Stymie Biden Admin Agenda

Culture War
CNN’s Chris Cuomo Wears Socks With Skulls to Site of Florida Condo Collapse
Unarmed Grandma the First to Be Sentenced in Connection to Jan 6 – Given List of Race-Related Books and Documentaries to Consume
NY Times Admits to Pulitzer Committee Writer They Fired for Being Racist Isn’t Actually Racist
Bill Maher Rips Big Tech for Censoring Lab Leak Theory – “You Were Wrong!”
Harvard Polls Finds 80% See Illegal Immigration as Serious Issue, Want Trump Closure Restored
Sean Parnell Rips Gen. Mark Milley
Mailchimp Suspends Satirical Publication Babylon Bee for “Harmful Information”
NY Times Admits Minority Communities Don’t Support Far-Left “Defund the Police” Views

Economy
What Meme Investors Can Learn From the Fannie-Freddie Collapse
Microsoft Confirms Cyberattack by Group Linked to SolarWinds Hack
Fraud Concerns Raised After Child Tax Credit Expansion Allows Filers Without Income to Qualify
Johnson & Johnson to Pay $230 Million Settlement With New York, Ends Opioid Business
Biden’s Capital Gains Tax Plan Would Make It One of the Highest in the World
CDC Extends Eviction Ban Another Month – Claims This Will Be the Last Time
Carnival CEO Says Demand for Cruises Exceeds Supply
FTC Orders 7-Eleven to Sell Over 200 Retail Outlets Following $21 Billion Acquisition of Speedway Fuel Chain
Volkswagen to End Sales of Combustion Engine Vehicles in Europe by 2035
Feds Accelerating Crackdown on Crypto Crimes

Swamp Watch
DOJ Grant Program Aims to Make Prisons More Child-Friendly
Virginia Governor Snubs Invitation from State Police Union for a Candidate Screening Meeting
Survey Finds 23% of Children in Detroit Considered Suicide During Michigan Lockdown
Dr. Fauci Again Moves Up Herd Immunity Threshold Goalpost – This Time to 90%
Dem Rep. McBath: Racism “In Every Fiber” of the U.S.
San Francisco Mulls Keeping “Safe Sleeping Villages” for Homeless People That Cost $60k Per Tent
Peter Daszak Faces Increased Scrutiny Amid COVID-19 Origins Probe
New VA Crisis as Veterans Face Backlog of 20 Million Appointments
WHO Now Says Fully Vaccinated People Should Continue Wearing Masks

National Security
Two U.S. Drones Downed Over Yemen Weren’t U.S. Military’s
Israel Is the “Secret” Nuclear Weapons Superpower No One Talks About
China in the Process of Building a Formidable Fleet of Amphibious Vessels
Foxtrot: The Russian Submarine That Nearly Started World War III
USS Ronald Reagan Moved to Middle East to Cover Afghanistan Withdrawal
Russia Claims It Has a Radar That Can Track 300 Air or Surface Targets
U.S. Military Continues to Downplay the Severity of the Situation in Afghanistan
Russia’s Military Is Out To Prove It Can Use Hypersonic Weapons in a War

Around the World
Protesters Ask Harris During Her Border Visit: “Do You Hear Their Screams?”
Iran Says It Will Not Negotiate Nuclear Deal Forever
High Speed Train Targeted With Gunfire in Marseille, a City Plagued By Gang Violence For Years
Police in Turkey Fire Tear Gas on Pride Marchers in Istanbul
Islamist Motive Not Ruled Out in Knife Attack In Germany
With Coronavirus Cases Jumping, Regions in Russia Run Low on Vaccines
More Than 2,000 People in India “Duped” Into Buying Fraudulent Coronavirus Vaccines
Many in Spain Remain Covered Up, Despite Country Dropping Outdoor Mask-Wearing Rule

Opinion
Jeff Davidson: The Ridiculous, Overly-woke, Greedy NBA
Humberto Fontova: The UN, Which Che Guevara Almost NUKED, Honors Che Guevara on His Birthday
Kathryn Lopez: The Spirit of Freedom
Rob Jenkins: Progressivism’s Chief Victims: Women and Children
Vijay Jayaraj: Brazil’s Use of Natural Resources Is Right Despite Media’s Attacks on Bolsonaro
John McHugh: Postal Service Reform Act Ensures Lower Prices for Businesses and Consumers
Andrew Quinlan: How Subsidies May Create a Space Monopoly
Teri Christoph: Critical Race Theory Is Hurting the Next Generation

Entertainment
Daytime Emmys Honor Late TV Icons Alex Trebek, Larry King
Bill Maher: Liberals Don’t “Want to Say Anything” About China’s Humanitarian Abuses Because They Think It’s Racist
Marilyn Manson Set to Turn Himself in to Authorities On Arrest Warrant Over Assault Charge
Hollywood Celebrities Decry Derek Chauvin Sentencing: “22.5 Years Is Not Enough”
After Prince Phillip’s Funeral, Prince William Called Meghan Markle “That Bloody Woman”
Hollywood Celebrities Open Their Wallets to Donate to Gavin Newsom Ahead of Recall Election
Without Trump Around, Late Night Talk Show Ratings Plummet
A “Peaceful Protest”: Miley Cyrus to Release Pride Concert Special

Sports
Leftists Up in Arms Over News That First Openly Gay NFL Player is a Republican
Horrible Tour de France Crash Caused By Oblivious Fan
Red Sox Has Fourth Straight Win Against Yankees, 5-3
Nike to China: We are “a Brand That is of China and For China”
Key Yankee Player Injured Again
Scottie Pippen Blasts Former Teammate Charles Barkley in Recent Interview
North Carolina State Forced to Drop Out of College World Series Finals Because of Coronavirus Protocols
New Rangers Coach Gerard Gallant Has His Eyes on the Stanley Cup
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Trump Calls on Voters to Deliver 'Massive Majorities' for GOP in Midterms
President Donald Trump kicked off his 2022 campaign rally circuit Saturday night, rebuking the "complete and total catastrophe" of the Biden administration. "Joe Biden is destroying our nation right before our very own eyes," Trump told a Wellington, Ohio, campaign rally. [Full Story]
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Search Teams Persevere as Death Toll in Florida Condo Collapse Rises to 9
Rescue crews found more bodies in the rubble of a collapsed 12-story condominium tower near Miami on Sunday, raising the death toll to nine as they raced to recover any survivors after fighting back fire and smoke deep inside the concrete and metal remains.... [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Twinkle Twinkle

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one of the most popular English nursery rhymes. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann. It is often sung to the tune of the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman" (oldest known publication 1761). The English lyrics have five stanzas, although only the first is widely known. Mozart wrote twelve variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7666.

How I wonder what you are! 
Up above the world so high, 
Like a diamond in the sky. 

When the blazing sun is gone, 
When he nothing shines upon, 
Then you show your little light, 
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. 

Then the traveler in the dark 
Thanks you for your tiny spark, 
How could he see where to go, 
If you did not twinkle so? 

In the dark blue sky you keep, 
Often through my curtains peep 
For you never shut your eye, 
Till the sun is in the sky. 

As your bright and tiny spark 
Lights the traveler in the dark, 
Though I know not what you are, 
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
https://rumble.com/vc3xhf-twinkle-twinkle-updated-jane-taylor.html

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. High courts around the world are finding it difficult to rule appropriately on minority issues. Canada is juggling how to appropriately have minorities rule while institutions run on principle. Australia is struggling with giving citizenship to people born here and who have run for government in Australia. US debates the wisdom of late term abortions as a fail safe for one night stands. The issue should not be picking the strongest minority, but protecting cultural assets. Cultural assets unite nations. In Australia, the Greens are debating removing the formal time that marks at the start of a new senate with prayer time. However, Greens are not thinking of removing so called Aboriginal smoking ceremonies. Are Greens for religion or against it? If they are for it, which ones? Maybe the Greens will say why some religions are ok, but not others? 

Jackie Kennedy reportedly believed LBJ had been responsible for the assassination. Meh, it was an accident, imho, after Lee Harvey Oswald shot his rifle and the Secret Service fired back. An accidental discharge from a Secret Service weapon hit Kennedy necessitating a cover up. The cover up was orchestrated by LBJ. Not my theory. But that of an investigator. It sounds true when you note that a full metal jacket was retrieved from the Lee Harvey Oswald rifle but hollow point shrapnel shredded Kennedy’s brain. The brain was stolen during autopsy. US secret service at the time had specialised weapons using hollow points. The reason for the fatal accident was that Kennedy was in the middle of the car and raised. So he could wave to crowds. Secret service had a car directly behind. When Lee Harvey Oswald fired, secret service retrieved a primed rifle without a safety on. The barrel swung to face perpendicular to the front, facing directly forward where Kennedy was raised. Oswald would not have fired different ammunition types from the same gun. 

Obama's Cold War continues as Caroline Glick highlights the need for the US to respond to Russia's Syrian efforts. "Trump wages war on Solar Power" says a report/meme on FB. Only that is not true. Trump is withdrawing government funding for the poor trade. If it is profitable it can proceed, like anything else. Government funding is not supposed to prop up expensive but useless projects. Solar power will not 'save the world' either, but displaces coal which feeds the world cheap, reliable energy. Poor Ginsberg waited for Hilary to be President, but waited too long? Shooting outside press HQ in Maryland. Information is not known at this time and I refuse to speculate.

ALP promises to increase taxes on twenty thousand small and medium sized businesses, if she wins government. 
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Some things should not happen, but they do. Gay marriage is a mixture of vexatious and a non issue. Australia has civil unions. NZ has gay marriage and their world did not end. Some gays do not care for the issue and some who care for the issue are not gay. It is sad that in Australia Gay leaders are unwilling to debate the issue in a lead up to a plebiscite. Some have argued that it is not possible to discuss the issue publicly, and that Australia must have gay marriage. This is why the Conservative party grass roots are dismayed when their leadership includes a cabinet minister with responsibilities to a $50 billion pork barrel bragging that party wets under Malcolm Turnbull will do a deal without a plebiscite. The party has a mandate from election for a plebiscite. It was one of the few policies Malcolm Turnbull took to election. He had said there was no plan 'B.' But Pyne's bragging shows there was a plan B, and Malcolm lied to the electorate over one of the few policies he took to election. My sole concern regarding Gay Marriage is that churches which act on conscience are protected from litigation. Without that assurance, I cannot support such a policy. And I do not trust Malcolm Turnbull to safeguard religious institutions. Malcolm Turnbull has a hand picked cabinet chosen from the bedwetters who supported him, betraying their party. Malcolm has the cream of the bedwetters, and yet he gives the $50 billion submarine portfolio to Pyne? Did no one else want it? 
=== from 2016 ===
 Kudos to Iceland celebrating Brexit. 

A lot of people are going to vote for the ALP. It doesn't matter that the ALP have promised to spend more than $100 billion dollars than the conservatives and have claimed they will also tax that back. It doesn't matter that the ALP will spend that money and still not be able to appropriately deal with volunteer firefighters. It doesn't matter that independents will ask for your vote, calling themselves conservatives, and then back the ALP. It doesn't matter that the ALP are not campaigning for a conservative vote but are relying on Malcolm Turnbull to shed conservative votes. A lot of people will vote for the ALP, and they could win government. 

But it is very hard to vote conservative because of Malcolm Turnbull. Turnbull won't be as damaging as ALP. But he cannot be trusted to be responsible either. Vote LNP in the house of representatives. Vote for Nationals and selected Libs in the senate. Be warned that if the ALP are elected and the senate favours them, there is no protection from their excess. They no longer believe they need to be responsible money managers. ALP will not cut spending to make it that what Australia has, she keeps. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
The issue of Gay marriage is large at the moment. The US federal court, with nine members, has a simple majority claiming it is constitutional. For legal reasons it is a disturbing decision, suggesting anything is possible based on simple majorities without reference to the constitution. It is also disturbing because Gay Activism, which began on this day with 1969's Stonewall riots, is rooted in pedophilia. There are enemies of marriage threatening to wedge gay marriage to introduce bestiality and polygamy. There are activist plans to threaten churches which act on conscience. But in secular terms same sex marriages are good. It could mean that conservative gay authorities will move to protect the institution from corrosive elements, including those of activists. 

Gay marriage is a unicorn issue for the left. The Scottish national animal is used to distract from real world problems like the economy, corruption issues and welfare. Partly because marriage is a word with religious tones which the state has owned for the last several centuries so as to determine the behaviour of kings and queens. But royalty is anachronistic. Civil unions exist and the rights of gay couples are exactly the same as that of married ones except as regards churches. But gay activism with a nod and wink has raised the issue and created circumstance which was not previously a problem. As with hospital illness and requirements of family only visitors. In times gone by, hospitals accepted lies, but now there is checking and a burning desire to tell authorities the truth in everything except tax matters. No doubt if one were to lie, Snowden would leak it. Child custody in separation and inheritance laws means that activists can point to *differences* between civil union and gay marriage. 

The NYC Stonewall riots are enlightening regarding gay activism. At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union infiltrated the peace movement and mafia so as to manipulate the US domestic audience. They were very successful, tapping into native opposition to government and inflating issues. There is no evidence of Soviet involvement at Stonewall. Stonewall was a gay meeting place run by the Mafia who weren't gay, and who had contempt for gay peoples. The place had controlled entrance with a paid entry including two alcoholic drinks. Local homeless boys could get drinks there. Police raids, which had been routine, were met with riots instead. 

There is no issue regarding religion and gays. That should be understood in the same sense that there is no religion underlying jihadism. Clearly there is a religious element regarding Islam and jihadism. But the cross dressing, Muslim killing, brutal and murderous jihadis movement is not how most Islamic peoples live. Similarly, gay activism is not the same as any individual gay person. Clearly religion is used to excuse homophobia and murder. But it isn't orthodox religious behaviour anywhere. Dictatorships don't form orthodox communities. And yes, many Christian bodies denounce gays, or gay behaviour. But, Christian theology puts it that Christ died for everyone. It is up to the individual to embrace Christ. And it is not their sexuality, but their whole being. Sometimes it is secular communities which are homophobic. The point being, homophobia is real and has religious overtones, but is not entirely a religious issue. Marriage is a religious issue, but there is secular marriage, and has been for as long as there has been marriage. It little matters to religion what the state decides. Except where it is law. Why anyone cares for state sanctioned sexual activity is anyone's guess. 
From 2014
I once believed that there was no far right in Australian Politics. The stupid and despicable right wingers who exist around the world spouting hatred and bile, standing for venal self interest pasted on top of foolish ideology just don't seem to get past the gatekeepers. We still have an insane left wing. The insane left wing have a parliamentary presence and they make promises and commit to spending that is unrealistic and damaging. Australia is governed best by the centre. Menzies created and named the Liberal party so as to be centre right. And the Liberal party has in turn anchored the political scene towards the centre. So where do those turn that cannot stomach the left and don't wish to be centrist? Pauline Hanson and One Nation was populated by bigots who clearly had not thought about their positions. Hanson showed in speeches she was shallow and did not understand fundamentals of democracy or policy drivers of prosperity. 

Australia has a proud military tradition and her soldiers often fulfil important independent functions in bureaucracy. But many who don't, who simply are not capable of being in administration, but want a political identity, the Australian Defence League (ADL) might be appealing. Only the ADL is a far right organisation, desperate to be heard and bereft of ideas. There is no intellectual discipline underpinning ADL theory .. they have knee jerk reactions that neither address issues nor solve problems. They oppose multiculturalism and cultural diversity, they oppose immigration, they have economy destroying big government ideas that are similar to the left because they oppose Liberal Party ideals. They are trying to be different to the centrist conservative parties. 

Australia has a modern economy but the money the ADL craves is not there. So they created the Australian Tea Party so as to link up with the US variety and sponge off the US political cycle which has lots of cash. Also, the ADL has tried to colonise parliaments and in one case had a local counsellor, Hajnal Ban as a member. Hajnal has a wikipedia entry, the ADL do not. The ADL are not notable according to wikipedia, which suits the ADL who encourage that thought. But their English counterparts, the EDL are known. Unlike other parties in Australia, the ADL do not have gifted policy makers. They have memes that would betray their supporters if they were ever made implemented policy. 

Today is the hundredth anniversary of idiot fascists who used force to implement their ideas. They wanted what the Austro Hungarian heir offered, had he lived. But they killed him and his wife and tens of millions died as a result. And still, nothing worked the way they had wanted it. Australia does not have a far right political party presence, and she doesn't need it either. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 1098, fighters of the First Crusade defeated Kerbogha of Mosull. 1360, Muhammed VIbecame the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. 1461, Edward IV was crowned King of England. 1519, Charles V was elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1635, Guadeloupe became a French colony. 1651, the Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine started. 1709, Peter the Great defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava 1745, War of the Austrian Succession: A New Englandcolonial army captured LouisbourgNew France, after a forty-seven-day siege (New Style). 1776, the Battle of Sullivan's Island ended with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day. Also 1776, Thomas HickeyContinental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition. 1778, the American Continentals engaged the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.

In 1807, second British invasion of the Río de la PlataJohn Whitelock landed at Ensenadaon an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and was defeated by the locals. 1838, Coronationof Victoria of the United Kingdom. 1841, the Paris Opera Ballet premiered Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier 1855, Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded in North America. 1859, the first conformation dog show was held in Newcastle-upon-TyneEngland. 1865, the Army of the Potomac was disbanded. 1880, the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was captured at Glenrowan. 1881, secret treaty between Austria and Serbia. 1882, the Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marked the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. 1894, Labor Day became an official US holiday. 1895, El SalvadorHonduras and Nicaraguaformed the Greater Republic of Central America. Also 1895, Court of Private Land Claimsrule James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent." 1896, an explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston CityPennsylvaniaresulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.

In 1902, the U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act, authorising President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. 1904, the SS Norge ran aground and sank 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I. 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end between Germany and the Allies of World War I. 1921, Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution. 1922, the Irish Civil War began with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. 1926, Mercedes-Benz was formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. 1936, the Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang was formed in northern China.

In 1940, Romania ceded Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum. 1942, World War IINazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue 1945, Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity was formed over a month after V-E Day. 1948, the Cominformcirculated the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia was expelled from the Communist bloc. Also 1948, boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era. 1950, Korean WarSeoul was captured by North Korean troops. Also 1950, Korean War: Suspected communist sympathisers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 were executed in the Bodo League massacre. Also 1950, Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blew up the Hangang Bridge in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. Also 1950, Korean War: North Korean Army conducted Seoul National University Hospital Massacre. 1956, in PoznaÅ„, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.

In 1964, Malcolm X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity. 1967, Israel annexed East Jerusalem. 1969, Stonewall Riots began in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement. 1973, Elections were held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which would lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time. 1976, the Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. 1978, the United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke barred quota systems in college admissions. 1981, a powerful bomb exploded in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party. 1987, for the first time in military history, a civilian population was targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht. 1989, on the 600th anniversary of the Battle of KosovoSlobodan MiloÅ¡ević delivered the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.

In 1992, the Constitution of Estonia was signed into law. 1994, members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas in MatsumotoJapan; Seven people were killed, 660 injured. 1996, the Constitution of Ukraine was signed into law. 1997, Holyfield–Tyson IIMike Tyson was disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear. 2001, Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević was deported to ICTY to stand trial. 2004, sovereign power was handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. 2009, Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Job 8-10, Acts 8:26-40 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Job 8-10

Bildad
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 "How long will you say such things?
Your words are a blustering wind.
3 Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4 When your children sinned against him,
he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
5 But if you will seek God earnestly
and plead with the Almighty,
6 if you are pure and upright,
even now he will rouse himself on your behalf
and restore you to your prosperous state.
7 Your beginnings will seem humble,
so prosperous will your future be.

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 8:26-40

Philip and the Ethiopian
26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go south to the road-the desert road-that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means "queen of the Ethiopians"). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it...."

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Morning

"Only ye shall not go very far away."
Exodus 8:28
This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too far for them to escape the terror of his arms, and the observation of his spies. After the same fashion, the world loves not the non-conformity of nonconformity, or the dissidence of dissent; it would have us be more charitable and not carry matters with too severe a hand. Death to the world, and burial with Christ, are experiences which carnal minds treat with ridicule, and hence the ordinance which sets them forth is almost universally neglected, and even condemned. Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise, and talks of "moderation." According to this carnal policy, purity is admitted to be very desirable, but we are warned against being too precise; truth is of course to be followed, but error is not to be severely denounced. "Yes," says the world, "be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny yourself a little gay society, an occasional ball, and a Christmas visit to a theatre. What's the good of crying down a thing when it is so fashionable, and everybody does it?" Multitudes of professors yield to this cunning advice, to their own eternal ruin. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us. We must leave its maxims, its pleasures, and its religion too, and go far away to the place where the Lord calls his sanctified ones. When the town is on fire, our house cannot be too far from the flames. When the plague is abroad, a man cannot be too far from its haunts. The further from a viper the better, and the further from worldly conformity the better. To all true believers let the trumpet-call be sounded, "Come ye out from among them, be ye separate."

Evening

"Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called."
1 Corinthians 7:20

Some persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which they can live for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Alas! how many would be shut out from any opportunity of magnifying the Most High if this were the case. Beloved, it is not office, it is earnestness; it is not position, it is grace which will enable us to glorify God. God is most surely glorified in that cobbler's stall, where the godly worker, as he plies the awl, sings of the Saviour's love, aye, glorified far more than in many a prebendal stall where official religiousness performs its scanty duties. The name of Jesus is glorified by the poor unlearned carter as he drives his horse, and blesses his God, or speaks to his fellow labourer by the roadside, as much as by the popular divine who, throughout the country, like Boanerges, is thundering out the gospel. God is glorified by our serving him in our proper vocations. Take care, dear reader, that you do not forsake the path of duty by leaving your occupation, and take care you do not dishonour your profession while in it. Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your callings. Every lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends. Turn to the Bible, and you will find the most menial forms of labour connected either with most daring deeds of faith, or with persons whose lives have been illustrious for holiness. Therefore be not discontented with your calling. Whatever God has made your position, or your work, abide in that, unless you are quite sure that he calls you to something else. Let your first care be to glorify God to the utmost of your power where you are. Fill your present sphere to his praise, and if he needs you in another he will show it you. This evening lay aside vexatious ambition, and embrace peaceful content.

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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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