Saturday, July 10, 2021

Sat 10th July 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Clinton Governor, then President when abuse of power occurred
A man guilty of holding up a taco store in 1981 with a water pistol has served 40 years for the crime. He had never pointed the toy at the cashier when stealing $264 and the victim of the crime has tearfully called for the sentence to be ended. The criminal has reformed, later becoming a whistleblower saving thousands of lives over a blood handling scandal. So what are the circumstances for the abuse of power? One person connects all the dots, given the circumstances. 

A decades long sentence for an equivalent hold up is too rare to be recorded. Arkansas was reputed to have abuse of power with sentences from the time of Democrat ascendancy following the Civil War. Prisoners have been used for their labour, possibly until 1994 according to regulations spoken of by Robert Barnes. After Rolf Kaestel was sentenced for his crime, he became a model prisoner, and flagged a blood transfer abuse from exploited prisoners, with tainted blood poisoning people for profit world wide. Following his whistleblowing (in 1999), Kaestal was transferred to Utah for no reason. President Clinton had been governor when the original inappropriate sentence occurred, and was President when Kaestel was transferred. GOP Arkansas governor Ava Hutchinson has commuted the sentence. Previous Dem Governor Mike Beebe had denied parole suggested by his parole board in 2015. 

Editorial Energy Provision in Victoria
AGW hysteria is not a good guide for government. Victoria is currently paying a very high price for electricity, and current plans for increased renewables threaten to make it worse, more expensive and less reliable. Renewables are bad for the environment, killing wildlife and some of the poorest workers in the world. Battery back up is an expensive solution. 

According to the IPA in 2019, 20 years of AGW inspired 'clean energy' policy has shown an increase of price of 220% over 20 years. Inflation Australia wide over that period was 58%. During that time, cheap coal production was replaced with expensive wind farms. Those wind farms have costs of production which exceed power supply over their lifetime, so that there never will be efficiency value until the production type changes. Further, the wind mill blades are bad for the environment, killing wildlife in numbers that would cost an oil company $billions in fines were they to do it. Brown coal is bad for the environment. So are windmills. Solar panels cost the environment too, with miners dying as a result of the methods of extraction of raw materials. Further, recycling of used solar panels and windmills is not yet feasible. With a 20 year lifespan of a windmill, Victoria's modest production rate of 25% renewable in 2020 will largely have to be replaced before more can be installed to meet more ambitious future targets. But that means further brown outs of the type experienced in South Australia in 2016. 

Batteries are ineffective, and big batteries are also expensive. Elon Musk's SA battery put in place following the 2016 disaster would not prevent a similar disaster if it gets too warm, or too cold again. At an estimated cost off $50 million, the battery is more costly than diesel fuel generators used by farmers as back up. Further, batteries will only add to the cost of electricity production. The AGW hysteric promises cheap, reliable alternative energy. That does not yet exist. However, the cost of higher electricity has meant industry has had to move from Victoria to places where it can be more cheaply sourced, probably by coal powered power stations. If a child was to list these arguments in an assignment for school in Victoria, they would be marked down faster than FB fact checking an ANTIFA riot report.  

Editorial Cardinal Pell abuser indicted for financial corruption
An abuse of power had resulted in an innocent man, Cardinal Pell, being jailed in Victoria. While part of the abuse of power was related to a corrupt judiciary and corrupt media, part of the process was compromised by Vatican leaks. Pell had been capably going through Vatican fiscal irregularities dating back before Pope John Paul I who had died after vowing to clear it up. Now it looks like Pell's work is bearing fruit. 

Cardinal Angelo Becciu had been a senior official in Vatican fiscal administration. Along with two other senior members of the Vatican's financial intelligence unit, Becciu will go on trial on July 27th over a multi million Euro scandal involving a London building in a very expensive district. But what of the leaks which had helped jail the innocent Cardinal Pell? 
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In this episode, I discuss the link between George Soros, big tech, face masks, and the 2020 election. It’s all tied together.

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=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden Administration Backs Critical Race Theory Propaganda in Public Schools READ MORE

Explosive New Evidence Indicates Over 10,000 Illegal Votes Cast in Georgia in 2020

Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Cracking Down on Monopolistic Behavior

Iran Hosts Talks Between an Afghan Delegation and Senior Taliban Representatives

Micky Ward, Mike Pompeo, and Jesse Waters to Join “Unfiltered With Dan Bongino”

Biden Admin Opens Up the Border to Pregnant Illegals

Rasmussen: 58% Agree That the Media are Enemies of the People

Capitol Hill
AOC Urges Illegal Aliens to Apply for Biden’s Child Tax Credit
Chicago Mayor Asks Biden For Help Stopping Homicides After Rejecting Trump’s Offer
Capitol Fencing Finally Coming Down
Rand Paul to Introduce Bill to Remove Mask Mandates on Planes
Biden Executive Order Targets Railroads and Ocean Shipping
Lisa Murkowski’s Favorability Among Alaska Republicans Craters to 6%
Psaki Doubles Down on Fight Against Common Sense Election Integrity Laws
U.S. Capitol Police To Open Offices In Florida And California To “Monitor Threats”
Federal Court Halts Biden’s Racially Discriminatory Farm Loan Forgiveness Program
McConnell: Dems Are Looking to Raise Taxes by $3.2 Trillion

Culture War
“I Intend to Restore Free Speech”: Donald Trump Pens WSJ Op-Ed On “Why I’m Suing Big Tech”
For the First Time Ever a Majority of Democrats Now Believe the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
Tucker Carlson Roasts Michael Avenatti One Last Time
CPAC Texas Kicks Off
Rasmussen: Most Voters Want Schools To Teach Traditional Values
CNN Deploys New Strategy of Pretending Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Actually Exist in Schools
Calling Food “Exotic” Now Racist for Some Reason
“White Fragility” Author’s Latest Book a Massive Flop
Black Lives Matter Chapter Says Flying American Flag Is Racist
Biden’s ODNI Photoshops Blind Man and Girl in Wheelchair Into “Multi-Cultural Office Staff” Stock Photo

Economy
U.S. to Blacklist More Chinese Companies
Republicans Resist Politicization of IRS
New Zealand Kids Are Getting Sick in Record Numbers Following Extremely Strict Lockdowns
Melvin Capital Loses 46% in First Half of Year Following Tangle With “Meme” Investors
Used Car Prices Stopped Increasing in June
Amtrak Makes $7.3 Billion Investment in New Trains
Chamber of Commerce Says Worker Shortage the Biggest Issue Facing Economy This Summer
Number of People Unemployed for Over a Year Increases by 248k in June
Wells Fargo Shutters All Personal Lines of Credit
Biden Set to Add $21k in New Federal Debt Per Taxpayer This Year

Swamp Watch
Biden Advisor Applauds CCP-Style Monitoring of the Internet
Stormy Daniels Comments on Michael Avenatti Sentencing: I Too Became His Victim
Soros-Backed Climate Groups Call on Biden to Ignore Abuses in China
IG Report: Islamists Lead Religious Services in a Quarter of Federal Prisons
Navy Vet Capitol Protester: Feds Absolutely Lied About Jan 6
Republican Leaders to Intervene in DOJ’s Lawsuit Against Georgia
Some Investigative Journalists Believe They’ve Identified Ashli Babbitt’s Killer
Emails Raise Questions About Wuhan Lab’s Safety Protocols Before Pandemic
Some Counties Revised Their COVID-19 Death Tolls Down by Over 20%

National Security
Two U.S. Citizens Among Those Detained for Assassinating Haiti’s President
Congress Should Listen to the Navy’s Leaders Regarding Fleet Size
U.S. Navy Surfaced Three Submarines Simultaneously As Warning to China
Is There Any Point to Smaller Aircraft Carriers?
Russia’s Most Powerful Bombers Are Training for War in the Arctic
Beijing Looks to Create New Military Bases Across the Indo-Pacific
GAO Says Projected F-35 Sustainment Costs are “Unaffordable”
Skyborg Shows Greater Capabilities By Piloting General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger UAV
North Korea Should Worry: South Korea Is Working on Ballistic Missile Submarines

Around the World
Boris Johnson Spotted Maskless in a Car
Hungary Vows to Not Give in to EU Pressure on LGBT Rights
Ukraine Accuses Russia of Storing Nuclear Weapons in Occupied Crimea
UK PM Johnson: Britain Has Withdrawn Nearly All Its Troops From Afghanistan
Vaccination Rate in UK Drops Almost 50% As Youth Hesitate to Get Jabbed
U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Creates Security Risk For Russia on Southern Flank: Analysis
In Wild Shootout, Police Kill President Assasination Suspects in Haiti
An Astonishing 83% of Britons Would Voluntarily Choose to Wear a Mask

Opinion
Michael Brown: America, If You Want to Know What’s Coming Next, Look to Canada and Be Forewarned
Matt Salmon: Arizona’s Greatness Isn’t An Accident. We Must Protect It.
Laura Hollis: January 6 is a Stalking Horse for Government Power Grabs
John C. Goodman: Where Have All the Economists Gone? (Socialism)
Ronna McDaniel: Biden and Democrats Are Failing to Keep Americans Safe
Jackie Cushman: Life’s Opportunities Easily Missed
Derek Hunter: Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan Already
Larry Elder: Yes on School Choice — But It Requires Parental Involvement

Entertainment
New Photo of a 6’7” Barron Trump Emerges
Hollywood Celebrities Push Biden to Shut Down More Pipelines as Gas Prices Up 40 Percent Under Biden
Discovery Channel to Kick Off Its 33rd Year of “Shark Week”
Ashton Kutcher: China Could Use TikTok to Push Anti-U.S. Propaganda, Influence Minds of Americans
Official Cause of DMX’s Death Has Been Confirmed
James Woods Blasts Biden, Lightfoot for Continuing to Defund the Police
Angelina Jolie Looks to Get Out of Wine Business She Shares With Brad Pitt
Spotify Staff “Outraged” by Joe Rogan, Fail to Cancel Him

Sports
In Stunning Reversal, Tokyo Olympics to Take Place Without Spectators
Ratings for NBA Finals Game 1 Crater 36% From 2019
Maria Taylor Shares Her Thoughts on the Growing ESPN Turmoil
Lightnings Quickly Crowned “Champa Bay” After Tampa Team’s Second Straight Stanley Cup
Yankees Legend’s Great Nephew Prepping for MLB Draft
According to NFL, Nearly 70% of Players are Vaccinated
Crazy NHL Offseason Finds Vladimir Tarasenko Looking to Be Traded
Lib Tries to to Steal MAGA Hat at Yankees Game, Fails
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
White House press secretary Jen Psaki assured reporters Friday that anyone who purchases art from President Joe Biden's son Hunter will remain anonymous to all parties to avoid the appearance of influence peddling.' 'Of course, he has the right to pursue an artistic career just like any child of a president has the right to pursue a career," she said. But critics fear the peddling of access to the White House will be the result anyway, regardless of promised safeguards. [Full Story]
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Fencing Around Capitol Coming Down Six Months After Jan. 6 Attack
Workers began to remove the last of the high-security fence around the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than six months after a breach at the home of Congress.The eight-foot-high (2.4-m) black mesh fencing at one point surrounded several blocks of Capitol Hill, interfering with...... [Full Story]

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Here is a video I made Mystery of Webster's Curse

The complete HD video comprising all four parts.
The story is produced, written and directed and narrated by David Daniel Ball. Art work has been created by the former Disney animator May Wa Leng. A few clips were from VideoBlocks.com, a film footage firm which sells clips to tv studios and individuals for rebroadcast use. 
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=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Answered Prayer as Thai Soccer team freed from cave, with their coach. France into final of World Cup with 1-0 victory over Belgium. England face Croatia tomorrow. IDF providing aid in Syria. Israeli spacecraft to land on the moon. 1600 year old mosaics uncovered in Galilee in an old Synagog. ALP pork barrel $25 million for Tasmanian AFL team. AFL is a successful, profitable concern, why give it tax payer money? 

Lin Hatfield Dodds is Deputy Secretary of Malcolm Turnbull's Department of PM and Cabinet. She is a former Greens candidate. To be fair, Turnbull failed to get and hold power several times since 2006. So, he enlisted the support of the Clinton Foundation with foreign aid money. They now call the tune and give him the support he needs. Like the "Women hate Abbott" campaign led by Gillard for a time. Turnbull does not believe in anything except himself. Turnbull would not have given $tens of millions to Hamas if he did not have to. A leftist in admin is the least of what he has paid. But he is not alone. After 16 years in opposition, what was NSW Lib's deal with public service? Why are so many organisations run by incompetent or corrupt leftists in NSW?

RW Asks "Can anyone think of anything that the governments of the last 10 years has done that has been good for the people, has been done successfully, and has been done on cost that has benifited Australia for the present & an asset for the future. For the life of me, I can't." I reply "Abbott got rid of the Carbon tax and Mineral Rent tax and a lot of red tape. Turnbull has gummed up works, but the party has brought on efficiencies past him. But under the conservatives, Turnbull and his coterie are major obstacles" and "Meh, there is a substantial difference, even though Turnbull is a lodestone and oxygen thief. The difference is between Dan Andrews Victoria and Ted Bailleau's. Bailleau was embarrassing. Andrews is murderously corrupt."

Liberal Democrats upset Georgina Downer did not preference them above Greens. However, Greens are positioned fourth on her ticket which is irrelevant anyway. Liberal Democrats had not previously benefited from using the Liberal name and being placed first on a Senate grouping paper for election. Clearly the Greens offered more in back room deals. However, no independent should rely on a party for support. Come November, I will preference Liberals first for the senate and first after myself in the lower house. 

A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it. 

Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. ALP in Victoria have started a safe drug injecting room across the street from a primary school. Some of the users are injecting Ice and then being released after observation to make sure they have not overdosed. The placement is in a known drug use area. It is an example of harm minimisation which does not minimise harm. Zero tolerance is the most effective policy, not to be confused with prohibition. Preventing drug use and treating users is more compassionate than letting the mentally ill pursue oblivion. One humorous person suggested alcohol rooms for people to safely imbibe alcohol, to which a friend asserted "We call them pubs." Why does Williams not want to identify and help drug users? And why place drug users above the needs of the sad and depressed? Australia has a suicide epidemic, particularly in rural Australia where farmers are useful to provide income for Australia, but punching bags if they dare profit and squeezed so they don't. Every single drug user is, almost by definition, a mentally ill, depressed person. Facilitating their disease is not helping them. 

As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
=== from 2017 ===
An Agence France Press release has it that President Obama's policies in Iraq have born fruit. As a service to my readers, I'll include pictures of Obama's success. AFP hopes similar success can be achieved in Syria. It probably can.



Some things should not happen, but they do. Kevin Rudd as PM was highly lauded for apologising to Australian Aborigines. It was an empty gesture, but an attempted travesty as he moved to end the intervention in the North of Australia saving lives of Aboriginal peoples. Aboriginal people are suffering from left wing compassion which seems to promote criminal and decadent behaviour. So that Aboriginal children have got high levels of sexually transmitted diseases. Drunken behaviour and dysfunctional families characterise what has become a cargo culture. Rudd effectively apologised for early welfare groups that tried to help foundlings and the dispossessed. Rudd referred to a myth of a stolen generation in which very few have been identified who were stolen from their parents to be raised by the state. It was an empty gesture of Rudd, but he is still highly lauded for it. 

It is apparent that Turnbull can not achieve anything worthwhile as PM, except further humiliation. So he must be looking for a note on which to finish so as to define his term. Turnbull is looking for a Rudd like empty gesture. Same sex marriage could be that. A plebiscite is the policy which the Liberals took to the last election, with no back up plan, and the senate won't allow it because many independents, and the ALP and Greens, feel discussion for such a plebiscite might mean that the plebiscite fails. Pesky democracy. So now a Lib backbencher, possibly with Turnbull's encouragement, is threatening to cross the party floor and move for a parliamentary vote without a plebiscite or discussion. Personally, I don't feel government should be involved with people's sex lives where consent is achieved, but I also want protection for churches which act on conscience, something a members bill might not do. There are lots of legal things I would never do. An empty gesture like Rudd's for which Turnbull can point as a crowning achievement. It is probably too late for Turnbull to bear a child while in office.  

138, Emperor Hadrian died after a heart failure at Baiae; he was buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. 988, the Norse King Glun Iarainn recognised Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agreed to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin

In 1212, the most severe of several early fires of London burned most of the city to the ground. 1499, the Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. 1519, Zhu Chenhao declared the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and led his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing. 1584, William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in DelftHolland, by Balthasar Gérard

In 1806, the Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. 1850, U.S. President Millard Fillmore was sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death. 1882, War of the Pacific: Chile suffered its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men was annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears. 

In 1913, Death ValleyCalifornia, hit 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States. 1921, Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people were killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in BelfastNorthern Ireland. 1925, Meher Baba began his silence of 44 years. His followers observed Silence Day on this date in commemoration. Also 1925, Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" began with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. 1938, Howard Hughes set a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

In 1940, World War II: The Vichy government was established in France. Also 1940, World War II: Battle of Britain: The German Luftwaffe began attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though). 1941, Jedwabne Pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. 1942, Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were established. Also 1942, World War II: An American pilot spotted a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy used to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics. 1946, Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours. 

In 1962, Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., held a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary. 1976, one American and three British mercenaries were executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. 1985, the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

In 1991, the South African cricket team was readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. Also 1991, Boris Yeltsin took office as the first elected President of Russia. 1992, in Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. 1997, in London scientists reported the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. 1998, Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

2002, at a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents was sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. 2008, Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski was acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
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My books "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" are available, recommended for those age ten and up. They have an essay or two on current affairs for each day of each month. They also list events, births, deaths and holidays and observances for each day around the world. But unless you ask a Library to stock it for you, they will not do so. One public Library feels they are too specialised. 

No news yet as to wether the fierce battle of half wits will decide who will be the next ALP leader between Shorten, Albanese, Plibersek or Clare. Clare looks better in a suit. Nobody is challenging random phrase generator Turnbull, yet, either. Turnbull has declared “We have resolved this election! Ringing stuff. Hopefully Scott Morrison will move soon before Turnbull melts completely. Compulsory voting has not prevented the lowest turnout for the major parties in Liberal Party history. ALP recording their second worst result since last time. Liberals going backwards while their coalition colleagues, Nationals, still progressed. Turnbull deposed Mr Abbott under the false pretence of explaining policy better and being better at elections. Now the vote is over, Turnbull can resign. Or face further humiliation. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
Democrat hatred for the United States cultural assets is longstanding. In South Carolina, in 1962, a Democrat Governor put up the confederate flag on their capitol building while taking credit for improving educational standards while opposing integration. The flag is coming down now, a symbol exploited by bigots and haters. It is difficult to know when it was anything else. The current governor is Nikki Haley. She is GOP. 

ALP leader Bill Shorten is the bastard boss portrayed in union attack adverts on Work Choices. He failed to adequately explain his union leader decisions from back in the day. Shorten smeared the High Court Judge instead, claiming Dyson Heydon is Mr Abbott's pawn. Shorten's leadership is exposed and so the eye of voters wanders to look at others. And the alternatives are showing voters what they have got. Tanya Plibersek, ALP Deputy leader, complains she is losing the ability to feed herself. The compelling vision is clearly calculated to inspire sympathy from ALP supporters at the grass roots. They will be needed to change the leadership. Jason Clare says he doesn't know why the government is turning back boats because the policy won't work. In fantasy terms, Clare is a compelling candidate because he has never been leader before and therefore all his mistakes have been someone else's fault. Something ALP members find appealing. But it isn't only ALP members campaigning for Shorten's position. Sarah Hanson-Young is going on sea patrol. She is going to the Mediterranean seas to find lost migrants. It is much nicer there in Summer than Australia in Winter. ALP should be happy with her embarrassment of leadership choices. 
From 2014
Hundreds of millions of tweets over just one soccer match. But it was an unusual match. By way of contrast, Netherlands vs Argentina did not get the same coverage as Germany vs Brazil. But then Germany spanked Brazil 7-1 in front of a home crowd for Brazil. It doesn't get more upsetting in world sport .. anywhere. The result is career changing for all involved. Netherlands beat Spain 5-1 earlier in the tournament, but did not carry on with that form. Germany have done well, but need to maintain it to win the tournament. That is their goal. 

Today is the anniversary of an equivalent match as Argentina vs Netherlands has been, 48 BC had Julius Ceaser pitted against Pompey at Battle of Dyrrhachium. It was precipitous, and Ceaser risked all by accident, but nothing happened as two heavyweights faced off. Technically, Pompey won and so he went to face Ceaser again at Pharsalos with all the advantages .. yet lost everything. What had happened was Ceaser had sailed to Dyrrhachium through an enemy force in winter .. and got trapped with a much smaller force that could not resupply. Mark Antony marched to his aid, and Pompey moved to prevent the reuniting. The upshot was that Pompey had a force behind fortifications and Ceaser chose to starve him out by building more fortifications. Pompey had sea access to supplies, but could not feed his livestock. Ceaser's men were hungry, but when spring came, Ceaser would hold all the advantages. Pompey broke out of his enclosure and marched to Pharsalos. How will Argentina fare against Germany? How will Brazil against Netherlands? So much has happened, but the future is uncertain, and anything might prove all the difference.

Also on this day, but in the year 645, was the Isshi incident in Japan which transformed Japan and involved their honour system in a way that seems incomprehensible if one is not Japanese. 
Two princes, Nakatomi no KamatariPrince Naka no Ōe, conspired to kill a third, Soga no Iruka. The attack took place in front of Empress Kōgyoku during a court ceremony. Iruka was not killed during the first attack, but pleaded his case to the Empress, who retired to consider it. A second attack in front of the Empress finished Iruka and put the Empress in a difficult position, she was unclean because of the murder in her presence. So she stepped aside, but not for the killer, but his older brother. The killer became a monk.  And after a few reigns, Emperor. It was a family affair. Much like that big family of soccer fans watching the events unfold in the world cup. 

Also on this day, Lady Jane Grey took the throne of England in 1553. It was not a blessing for her. Neither was it a blessing when Richard Neville defeated Lancastrian forces of Henry VI in 1460. The Vellore mutiny against the British East India company happened on this day in 1806, but the Sepoys had to wait another hundred and forty two years to see independence for India. US Democrat President Andrew Jackson moved to kill the second US bank in 1832, setting in train a position of inept fiscal rectitude all Democrat Presidents have followed. Death Valley recorded a temperature of 57 degrees centigrade in 1913. It has been cooler ever since. In 1997, scientists reported DNA analysis of a Neanderthal that favoured the 'out of Africa' theory for human development, with an 'Eve' existing 100k to 200k years ago (She was a good woman who liked kids). Born on this day was John Calvin in 1509, Nikola Tesla in 1856, Marcel Proust in 1871, Harvey Ball 1921, Jake LaMotta 1921, Arlo Guthrie 1941 and Sunil Gavaskar in 1949.
Historical perspective on this day
In 48 BC, Battle of DyrrhachiumJulius Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. 138, Emperor Hadrian died after a heart failure at Baiae; he was buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. 645, Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinated Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace. 988, the Norse King Glun Iarainn recognised Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agreed to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin. 1086, King Canute IV of Denmark killed by rebellious peasants.

In 1212, the most severe of several early fires of London burned most of the city to the ground. 1460, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeated the king's Lancastrian forces and took King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton. 1499, the Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. 1519, Zhu Chenhao declared the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and led his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing. 1553, Lady Jane Grey took the throne of England. 1584, William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in DelftHolland, by Balthasar Gérard. 1645, English Civil War: The Battle of Langport took place. 1778, American RevolutionLouis XVI of France declared war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1789, Alexander Mackenzie reached the Mackenzie River delta.

In 1806, the Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. 1821, the United States took possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain. 1832, the U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. 1850, U.S. President Millard Fillmore was sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death. 1877, the then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally received its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. 1882, War of the Pacific: Chile suffered its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men was annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears. 1890, Wyoming was admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

In 1913, Death ValleyCalifornia, hit 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States. 1921, Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people were killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in BelfastNorthern Ireland. 1925, Meher Baba began his silence of 44 years. His followers observed Silence Day on this date in commemoration. Also 1925, Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" began with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. 1938, Howard Hughes set a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

In 1940, World War II: The Vichy government was established in France. Also 1940, World War II: Battle of Britain: The German Luftwaffe began attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though). 1941, Jedwabne Pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. 1942, Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were established. Also 1942, World War II: An American pilot spotted a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy used to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics. 1946, Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours. 1947, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. 1951, Korean War: Armistice negotiations began at Kaesong.

In 1962, Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., held a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary. 1967, Uruguay became a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. Also 1967, New Zealand adopted decimal currency. 1973, the Bahamas gained full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. Also 1973, National Assembly of Pakistan passed a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh. Also 1973, John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy. 1976, the Seveso disaster occurred in Italy. Also 1976, one American and three British mercenaries were executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. 1978, ABC World News Tonight premiered on ABC. Also 1978, President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania was ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. 1980, Alexandra Palace burned down for a second time. 1985, the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

In 1991, the South African cricket team was readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. Also 1991, Boris Yeltsin took office as the first elected President of Russia. 1992, in Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. 1997, in London scientists reported the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. Also 1997, Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), was kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. 1998, Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

In 2000, EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group was formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-MatraDASA, and CASA. 2002, at a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents was sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. 2005, Hurricane Dennis slammed into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage. 2007, Erden Eruç began the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. 2008, Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski was acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

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Today's reading: Job 38-40, Acts 16:1-21 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Job 38-40

The LORD Speaks
Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
2 "Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone--
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 16:1-21

Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
1 Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek. 2 The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. 3 Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.4 As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey. 5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers....

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Morning

"Forget not all His benefits."
Psalm 103:2
It is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints, and to observe his goodness in delivering them, his mercy in pardoning them, and his faithfulness in keeping his covenant with them. But would it not be even more interesting and profitable for us to remark the hand of God in our own lives? Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of his goodness and of his truth, as much a proof of his faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that he wrought all his mighty acts, and showed himself strong for those in the early time, but doth not perform wonders or lay bare his arm for the saints who are now upon the earth. Let us review our own lives. Surely in these we may discover some happy incidents, refreshing to ourselves and glorifying to our God. Have you had no deliverances? Have you passed through no rivers, supported by the divine presence? Have you walked through no fires unharmed? Have you had no manifestations? Have you had no choice favours? The God who gave Solomon the desire of his heart, hath he never listened to you and answered your requests? That God of lavish bounty of whom David sang, "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things," hath he never satiated you with fatness? Have you never been made to lie down in green pastures? Have you never been led by the still waters? Surely the goodness of God has been the same to us as to the saints of old. Let us, then, weave his mercies into a song. Let us take the pure gold of thankfulness, and the jewels of praise and make them into another crown for the head of Jesus. Let our souls give forth music as sweet and as exhilarating as came from David's harp, while we praise the Lord whose mercy endureth forever.

Evening

"And God divided the light from the darkness."
Genesis 1:4

A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul's words in the seventh chapter of Romans: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members." How is this state of things occasioned? "The Lord divided the light from the darkness." Darkness, by itself, is quiet and undisturbed, but when the Lord sends in light, there is a conflict, for the one is in opposition to the other: a conflict which will never cease till the believer is altogether light in the Lord. If there be a division within the individual Christian, there is certain to be a division without. So soon as the Lord gives to any man light, he proceeds to separate himself from the darkness around; he secedes from a merely worldly religion of outward ceremonial, for nothing short of the gospel of Christ will now satisfy him, and he withdraws himself from worldly society and frivolous amusements, and seeks the company of the saints, for "We know we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." The light gathers to itself, and the darkness to itself. What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing his reproach, so let us come out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners; and, as he was, so we are to be nonconformists to the world, dissenting from all sin, and distinguished from the rest of mankind by our likeness to our Master.

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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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