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.
===Explosive new details surface about the FBI’s plot to frame Donald Trump. In this episode, I discuss the new evidence.
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- Is a Georgia election audit coming? It looks like it.
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Sen. Cruz Calls Out Biden’s Far-Left Pro-Gun Confiscation ATF Nominee
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Marco Rubio Introduces Bill Targeting Big Tech Censorship
Biden and Pelosi Reject Senate Compromise on Infrastructure Until Senate Votes on Reconciliation
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U.S. Life Expectancy Declines From Pandemic, Lockdowns
“Witch Hunt” – Trump Reacts to Giuliani Law License Suspension
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New York and New Jersey Among the Worst States for Jobs
How the New Infrastructure Plan Could Threaten the Suburbs
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Biden Is Making it Harder to Buy a Home
Treasury Sec Yellen Begs Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling
PayPal Founder Amasses $5 Billion Fortune in Tax-Free Roth IRA
Swamp Watch
Dr. Fauci Refused Trump Request to Pull Funding From Company Linked to Wuhan Lab
Hospitals Not Complying With ObamaCare and Trump-Era Price Transparency Rules
Early China COVID-19 Data Removed by NIH Because Chinese Researchers Requested It
White House Deletes New Fauci Video Discussing Delta Variant
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Dem Mayor Charged With Alleged Campaign Finance Fraud Loses Primary
FBI Director’s Solution to Ransomware Attacks Is Asking Companies Not to Pay Ransoms
National Security
Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Is a Floating Coffin Waiting to Sink
Biden to Leave Residual U.S. Force of 650-1000 Troops in Afghanistan
U.S. Air Force Base Hosts Drag Show to “Promote Inclusion”
No Solution to Afghanistan’s Security Problems Offered at NATO Summit
Marines Choose Loitering Munition to Arm Light Vehicles, Drone Boats
Pentagon Chiefs Contend That a Flat Defense Budget is Sufficient
Iranian Official: U.S. Agrees to Lift Trump-era Oil Sanctions
Joint Chiefs Of Staff General Mark Milley “Wants to Understand White Rage”
Rescuers Search for 150+ Missing Following Florida Apartment Building Collapse – 4 Confirmed Dead
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British Govt Has Undercounted the Number of EU Migrants Living in the UK By More Than Two Million
Tigray Air Strike Leaves Over 50 Dead
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As Truce Holds, Israel Set to Ease More Gaza Restrictions
EU Report Declares Abortion a “Human Right”, Says Transgender Surgery Should Be Funded by the State
Hungary’s PM Orban Confronted by EU Leaders Over Anti-LGBT Law
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Here is a video I made The Trap
Jon (Howie) Stallworthy (born 18 January 1935 in London) FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and (twice) Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic.
“The Trap” by Jon Stallworthy
The first night that the monster lurched
Out of the forest on all fours
He saw its shadow in his dream
Circle the house, as though it searched
For one it loved or hated. Claws
On gravel and a rabbit’s scream
ripped the fabric of his dream.
Out of the forest on all fours
He saw its shadow in his dream
Circle the house, as though it searched
For one it loved or hated. Claws
On gravel and a rabbit’s scream
ripped the fabric of his dream.
Waking between dark and dawn
And sodden sheets. His reason quelled
The shadow and the nightmare sound.
The second night it crossed the lawn
A brute voice in the darkness yelled.
He struggled up, woke raving, found
His wallflowers trampled to the ground.
And sodden sheets. His reason quelled
The shadow and the nightmare sound.
The second night it crossed the lawn
A brute voice in the darkness yelled.
He struggled up, woke raving, found
His wallflowers trampled to the ground.
When rook wings beckoned the shadows back
He took his rifle down, and stood
All night against the leaded glass.
The moon ticked round. He saw the black
Elm-skeletons in the doomsday wood.
The sailing and the failing stars
And red coals dropping between bars.
He took his rifle down, and stood
All night against the leaded glass.
The moon ticked round. He saw the black
Elm-skeletons in the doomsday wood.
The sailing and the failing stars
And red coals dropping between bars.
The third night such a putrid breath
Fouled, flared his nostrils, that he turned,
Turned, but could not lift, his head.
A coverlet as thick as death
Oppressed him: he crawled out: discerned
Across the door his watchdog, dead.
“Build a trap,” the neighbors said.
Fouled, flared his nostrils, that he turned,
Turned, but could not lift, his head.
A coverlet as thick as death
Oppressed him: he crawled out: discerned
Across the door his watchdog, dead.
“Build a trap,” the neighbors said.
All that day he built his trap
With metal jaws and a spring as thick
As the neck of a man. One touch
Triggered the hanging teeth: jump, snap,
And lightning guillotined the stick
Thrust in its throat. With gun and torch
He set his engine in the porch.
With metal jaws and a spring as thick
As the neck of a man. One touch
Triggered the hanging teeth: jump, snap,
And lightning guillotined the stick
Thrust in its throat. With gun and torch
He set his engine in the porch.
The forth night in their beds appalled
His neighbors heard the hunting roar
Mount, mount to an exultant shriek.
At daybreak timidly they called
His name, climbed through the splintered door
And found him sprawling in the wreck,
Naked…with a severed neck.
https://rumble.com/vc3y1p-the-trap.htmlHis neighbors heard the hunting roar
Mount, mount to an exultant shriek.
At daybreak timidly they called
His name, climbed through the splintered door
And found him sprawling in the wreck,
Naked…with a severed neck.
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. A fundraising dinner led by Richard Stockman on behalf of Grow 4 Life, an organisation supporting people in need, was a great success. Placed Via Campanella Cucina and Bar, in Melbourne, the dinner was a four course winter warmer including a glass of Stockman's fine wine for each course. I don't drink wine, but the people I met were lovely and enjoyed it immensely. The food tasted like what you think it does on Masterchef when a contestant gets it right. I do not know what my fellow guests felt about politics, I just know they were good people. That is a problem with political discourse at the moment, and it is a perennial one. Disrespect has never been good in public life, but it helps to get left wingers elected on a cyclical basis. But to dismiss the issue as cyclical is to ignore the cause. In the US, Democrats are suffering because of their negative tactics, because Trump is exploiting it. But, in the UK and in Australia, the leadership of conservative governments is failing because they have embraced aspects of left wing exceptional-ism. American exceptional-ism is wonderful, with a belief in manifest destiny. But, left wing exceptional-ism is them rudely taking exception to anything when they aren't in charge. And bad leaders like Shorten and Corbyn prosper as they dog whistle to their party faithful who were betrayed, and left, thanks to Blair/Brown, Rudd/Gillard and the promotion of a Libertarian/Conservative agenda by Johnson/Abbott. But in the US, the desperate rudeness of Waters and Pelosi turn off decent people.
Adani mine is proposed in Queensland, but a Victorian primary school is opposing it. The manipulation of students as young as five years old is appalling. It could only happen with the support of some parents, the school executive and most teachers. At the fundraising dinner, the topic of rich sportspeople was raised, and the view expressed that elite athletes were paid too much. I don't hold that view. I'm happy for anyone that gets rich. Because conspicuous wealth lifts the poor out of poverty. But restrictions on trade keep the poor in poverty. Note, that does not mean endorsing AGW Hoax which threatens to rip over $100 trillion from the world economy, taking it from the poorest in the world and giving t to rich hucksters. Those hucksters do not engage in trade, but in theft. The proposed mine will great wealth without negative side effects, but that is not what is wanted by those opposing it.
Pope on True Sabbath. Only the Pope miss-speaks. Sunday is not the Catholic Sabbath. Sunday is the day of the risen Lord, according to Christian faith. But Saturday is and always was the sabbath. Catholics have not observed the sabbath, possibly because they feel it was superseded by the resurrection. Hebrews 4 covers the issue without blaming a pope. Of course the biblical quote does not mean what is being attributed to it by observing the sabbath on Saturday or Sunday.
Australia is not USA with her large numbers of guns, and the failure of policing is more proximately explained by restrictions on effective policing, rather than arming individuals. I have no problem with people defending themselves or even their abuser dying by accident. I object to abusers having pepper spray and other weapons because victims wanted it for themselves.
Adani mine is proposed in Queensland, but a Victorian primary school is opposing it. The manipulation of students as young as five years old is appalling. It could only happen with the support of some parents, the school executive and most teachers. At the fundraising dinner, the topic of rich sportspeople was raised, and the view expressed that elite athletes were paid too much. I don't hold that view. I'm happy for anyone that gets rich. Because conspicuous wealth lifts the poor out of poverty. But restrictions on trade keep the poor in poverty. Note, that does not mean endorsing AGW Hoax which threatens to rip over $100 trillion from the world economy, taking it from the poorest in the world and giving t to rich hucksters. Those hucksters do not engage in trade, but in theft. The proposed mine will great wealth without negative side effects, but that is not what is wanted by those opposing it.
Pope on True Sabbath. Only the Pope miss-speaks. Sunday is not the Catholic Sabbath. Sunday is the day of the risen Lord, according to Christian faith. But Saturday is and always was the sabbath. Catholics have not observed the sabbath, possibly because they feel it was superseded by the resurrection. Hebrews 4 covers the issue without blaming a pope. Of course the biblical quote does not mean what is being attributed to it by observing the sabbath on Saturday or Sunday.
"Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,
“So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’"
‘They shall never enter my rest.’"
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Donald Trump is achieving what Obama could not even hope for. Trump has the US on trajectory for eliminating $20 trillion debt in ten years. In todays revelation regarding FBI collusion in Democrat corruption, it came out the FBI paid for a Democrat dirt file accusing Trump of enjoying Russian water sports with hookers in Moscow. So the FBI paid for a fake report so as to investigate Trump? FBI want to make America Keystone again? Meanwhile in Australia there are revelations Prime Minister Turnbull is planning to avoid policy of asking for a plebiscite on Gay Marriage and instead legislating for it from parliament. He could get it through the senate too, and have the lower house with a divided conservative party he leads. Then when he gets rolled, he can say he stood for something. And he'll damn the consequences. There should not be many consequences, as if the legislation is good, the churches will be protected from blowback. But it is doubtful that Turnbull can push through good legislation. Turnbull will deal with ALP, with Greens, with NXT but not with conservatives. Turnbull is like an incompetent teacher who was promoted to protect students, but finds he likes being incompetent.
In 4, Augustus adopted Tiberius. 221, Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopted his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and received the title of Caesar. 363, Roman Emperor Julian was killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian was proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. 699, En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who would later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, was banished to Izu Ōshima.
1541, Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro was later caught and executed. 1718, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously died after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723, after a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrendered to the Russians. 1740, a combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeated a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1794, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
1959, Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson became world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after 2 minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. 1974, the Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio 1975, two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977, the Yorkshire Ripper killed a 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute. In 2000, President Clinton announced the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Also 2000, John Paul II revealed the third secret of Fátima.
In 4, Augustus adopted Tiberius. 221, Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopted his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and received the title of Caesar. 363, Roman Emperor Julian was killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian was proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. 699, En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who would later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, was banished to Izu Ōshima.
1541, Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro was later caught and executed. 1718, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously died after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723, after a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrendered to the Russians. 1740, a combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeated a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1794, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
1959, Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson became world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after 2 minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. 1974, the Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio 1975, two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977, the Yorkshire Ripper killed a 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute. In 2000, President Clinton announced the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Also 2000, John Paul II revealed the third secret of Fátima.
=== from 2016 ===
It happened on this day in 1963 in Berlin. JFK stood before a German audience, and announced in flawless German that he was a donut. The world marvelled. He had meant to say he was empathetic with Berlin peoples who were divided because of Soviet Union communism. Instead he declared he was a Berliner, a cream filled donut. We don't get speeches like that anymore. Although the EU tries. Keen to show they embraced democracy, a rump of Remain campaigners have signed a document asking for another vote on Brexit. Apparently they could have lied better and swayed public opinion. This must be of interest to ALP leader Shorten whom has lied outrageously about Medicare so as to scare the elderly and attract ALP rust which was lost last election. It is apparent Shorten has not been trying to win, but get back those who left the ALP last time, which is good because Turnbull does not know how to tell the truth about union cronyism and corruption which Shorten built his career on.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
After the ABC compounded their partisan error of broadcasting a jihadist they paid to express a view, the ABC rebroadcast it, and the Australian PM, Mr Abbott, said heads should roll. This was taken by the illiterate left to mean that Mr Abbott would behead people, and they claimed it was no different than what the jihadist wanted. The actual difference being that the jihadist had wanted to literally behead innocent people and Mr Abbott had wanted to ensure the law was followed and the jobs of those who were criminally negligent would not protect them from losing those jobs. A big difference. The innumerate on the left were highlighted by an Age article triumphantly crowing that Melbourne Dockyards would exceed the land area of Malta. In fact, Malta is 316 square kilometres in area. Port Melbourne is 9.7 square kilometres or 3.7 square miles.
Meanwhile, a jihadist in France has beheaded someone at a factory. It probably doesn't matter who. Someone said the victim is now at the mercy of Allah. The world may have to wait for QandA to cover all the angles. One might guess it is a refugee who is on jihad, fleeing the great life of his own nation to a land that doesn't share his broader beliefs, but is wealthier. If he had sex with a French prostitute then he might be classed by the UN as a survivor of torture. But even so, she would have understood his need to pretend she was a boy. If only Australia had a national broadcaster who could broadcast facts and issues without taking a partisan position.
From 2014
In 1935, the movie "The 39 Steps" was released by Alfred Hitchcock. It starred Robert Donat as Richard Hannay and featured a thrilling flight scene involving a helicopter. Only, it could not have been a helicopter. The first functioning helicopter was released on this day in 1936. And the reason for the scene is worthy of investigation. Hitchcock was keen to impress the US audience, and hired as leads two British stars who had worked in Hollywood. He made it thrilling and modern with action involving international intrigue. One wonderful scene has Donat finding a lonely housebound wife in a UK outskirt. It is touching to see her loneliness and isolation, while the modern viewer might think she could just hop in a car or train, that was not then the experience of rural UK. Hitchcock included a Scottish industrialist who commuted to work each day in an autogyro. And that scene made the movie as refreshingly modern then, as Enemy of the State was in 1998.
Also today in 1944, the Battle of Osuchy was lost by Polish Partisans fighting German invaders. The German forces numbered some 30,000 while the polish resistance numbered some 1,600. Outgunned and desperate, some managed to break out of their enclosure and continue the fight. Some surrendered and were executed outright, or sent to concentration camps. They risked much who fought tyranny.
In 1963, JFK stood in front of a Berlin audience and announced in German he was a donut. He had fine words. It was the anniversary of the 1948 Berlin airlift. The Soviet's had blockaded Berlin which was deep in East German territory. Without the ability to send in supply trucks, East Germans were threatened with the loss of everything. An expectation might have been that the starving people would push to be governed by the Soviets. Instead, for the first time in history, the entire population of West Berlin was entirely supported by goods flown in by Western governments. The blockade lasted until Easter 1949, when the humiliated Soviets backed down. When JFK stood in Berlin and said "Ich bin ein Berliner" he probably thought he was saying he was one of them. Only, in German, he would have said it differently. A Berliner was a popular cream donut in '63. Later that year, JFK's brain was stolen. Some say he still lives.
Also today in 1944, the Battle of Osuchy was lost by Polish Partisans fighting German invaders. The German forces numbered some 30,000 while the polish resistance numbered some 1,600. Outgunned and desperate, some managed to break out of their enclosure and continue the fight. Some surrendered and were executed outright, or sent to concentration camps. They risked much who fought tyranny.
In 1963, JFK stood in front of a Berlin audience and announced in German he was a donut. He had fine words. It was the anniversary of the 1948 Berlin airlift. The Soviet's had blockaded Berlin which was deep in East German territory. Without the ability to send in supply trucks, East Germans were threatened with the loss of everything. An expectation might have been that the starving people would push to be governed by the Soviets. Instead, for the first time in history, the entire population of West Berlin was entirely supported by goods flown in by Western governments. The blockade lasted until Easter 1949, when the humiliated Soviets backed down. When JFK stood in Berlin and said "Ich bin ein Berliner" he probably thought he was saying he was one of them. Only, in German, he would have said it differently. A Berliner was a popular cream donut in '63. Later that year, JFK's brain was stolen. Some say he still lives.
Historical perspective on this day
In 4, Augustus adopted Tiberius. 221, Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopted his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and received the title of Caesar. 363, Roman Emperor Julian was killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian was proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. 687, Pope Benedict II chosen. 699, En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who would later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, was banished to Izu Ōshima.
In 1243, Mongols defeated the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ. 1295, Przemysł IIcrowned as king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle was added to the Polish coat of arms. 1407, Ulrich von Jungingen became Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. 1409, Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church was led into a double schism as Petros Philargos was crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XIIin Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. 1460, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, landed in England with a rebel army and marched on London. 1483, Richard III became King of England.
In 1522, Ottomans began the second Siege of Rhodes. 1541, Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro was later caught and executed. 1579, Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory began. 1718, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously died after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723, after a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrendered to the Russians. 1740, a combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeated a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1794, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
In 1830, William IV became king of Britain and Hanover. 1843, Treaty of Nanking came into effect, Hong Kong Island was ceded to the British "in perpetuity". 1848, end of the June Days Uprising in Paris. 1857, the first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. 1870, the Christian holiday of Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1886, Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. 1889, Bangui was founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
In 1906, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held. 1907, the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi. 1909, the Science Museum in London came into existence as an independent entity. 1917, the first U.S. troops arrived in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I. 1918, World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeated Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. 1924, American occupying forces left the Dominican Republic. 1927, the Cyclone roller coaster opened on Coney Island. 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which established credit unions. 1936, initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
In 1940, World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presented an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. 1941, World War II: Soviet planes bombed Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. 1942, the first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. 1944, World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ended with the defeat of the latter. 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco. 1948, the Western allies began an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. Also 1948, William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. Also 1948, Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery was published in The New Yorker magazine.
In 1952, the Pan-Malayan Labour Party was founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties. 1953, Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, was arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. 1955, the South African Congress Alliance adopted the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. 1959, Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson became world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after 2 minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. 1960, the former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gained its independence as Somaliland. Also 1960, Madagascar gained its independence from France. 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. Also 1963, Levi Eshkol became the Israeli Prime Minister. 1967, Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
In 1973, at Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people were killed in an explosion of a Kosmos-3Mrocket. 1974, the Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio 1975, two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977, the Yorkshire Ripper killed a 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute. 1977, Elvis Presley performed the final concert of his life in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1991, Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people's army began the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. 1995, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup. Also 1995, attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa. 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In 2000, President Clinton announced the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Also 2000, John Paul II revealed the third secret of Fátima. 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws were unconstitutional. 2004, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was re-elected as President of Iceland. 2006, Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigned after weeks of political unrest. 2007, Benedict XVIreinstated the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes. 2012, the Waldo Canyon Fire descended into the Mountain Shadows neighbourhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people. 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Also 2013, Riots in China's Xinjiang region killed at least 36 people and injured 21 others. Also 2013, Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani became Prime Minister of Qatar.
In 1243, Mongols defeated the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ. 1295, Przemysł IIcrowned as king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle was added to the Polish coat of arms. 1407, Ulrich von Jungingen became Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. 1409, Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church was led into a double schism as Petros Philargos was crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XIIin Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. 1460, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, landed in England with a rebel army and marched on London. 1483, Richard III became King of England.
In 1522, Ottomans began the second Siege of Rhodes. 1541, Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro was later caught and executed. 1579, Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory began. 1718, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously died after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723, after a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrendered to the Russians. 1740, a combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeated a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1794, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
In 1830, William IV became king of Britain and Hanover. 1843, Treaty of Nanking came into effect, Hong Kong Island was ceded to the British "in perpetuity". 1848, end of the June Days Uprising in Paris. 1857, the first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. 1870, the Christian holiday of Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1886, Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. 1889, Bangui was founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
In 1906, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held. 1907, the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi. 1909, the Science Museum in London came into existence as an independent entity. 1917, the first U.S. troops arrived in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I. 1918, World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeated Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. 1924, American occupying forces left the Dominican Republic. 1927, the Cyclone roller coaster opened on Coney Island. 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which established credit unions. 1936, initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
In 1940, World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presented an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. 1941, World War II: Soviet planes bombed Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. 1942, the first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. 1944, World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ended with the defeat of the latter. 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco. 1948, the Western allies began an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. Also 1948, William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. Also 1948, Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery was published in The New Yorker magazine.
In 1952, the Pan-Malayan Labour Party was founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties. 1953, Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, was arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. 1955, the South African Congress Alliance adopted the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. 1959, Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson became world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after 2 minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. 1960, the former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gained its independence as Somaliland. Also 1960, Madagascar gained its independence from France. 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. Also 1963, Levi Eshkol became the Israeli Prime Minister. 1967, Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
In 1973, at Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people were killed in an explosion of a Kosmos-3Mrocket. 1974, the Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio 1975, two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977, the Yorkshire Ripper killed a 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute. 1977, Elvis Presley performed the final concert of his life in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1991, Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people's army began the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. 1995, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup. Also 1995, attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa. 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In 2000, President Clinton announced the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Also 2000, John Paul II revealed the third secret of Fátima. 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws were unconstitutional. 2004, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was re-elected as President of Iceland. 2006, Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigned after weeks of political unrest. 2007, Benedict XVIreinstated the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes. 2012, the Waldo Canyon Fire descended into the Mountain Shadows neighbourhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people. 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Also 2013, Riots in China's Xinjiang region killed at least 36 people and injured 21 others. Also 2013, Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani became Prime Minister of Qatar.
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Today's reading: Job 3-4, Acts 7:44-60 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: Job 3-4
Job Speaks
1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said:
3 "May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, 'A boy is conceived!'
4 That day--may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine on it.
5 May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;
may a cloud settle over it;
may blackness overwhelm it.
6 That night--may thick darkness seize it;
may it not be included among the days of the year
nor be entered in any of the months.
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 7:44-60
Acts 7
44 "Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, 46 who enjoyed God's favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll, and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles round, and you are delighted with the widening prospect. Mount still, and the scene enlarges; till at last, when you are on the summit, and look east, west, north, and south, you see almost all England lying before you. Yonder is a forest in some distant county, perhaps two hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a shining river and the smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the masts of the ships in a busy port. All these things please and delight you, and you say, "I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation." Now, the Christian life is of the same order. When we first believe in Christ we see but little of him. The higher we climb the more we discover of his beauties. But who has ever gained the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ which passes knowledge? Paul, when grown old, sitting grey-haired, shivering in a dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can, "I know whom I have believed," for each experience had been like the climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the whole of the faithfulness and the love of him to whom he had committed his soul. Get thee up, dear friend, into the high mountain.
Evening
Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of his preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it forever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God--your God--is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God. With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort: if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee, for thou hast not quite forgotten him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of him. We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When you feed on him your soul can sing, "He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's," but if you have him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the words of wisdom, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"
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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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