Sunday, July 18, 2021

Sun 18th July 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on Haiti Assassination and Biden Presidency
Because of corruption involving the Clinton Foundation and Haiti reconstruction, the assassination of Haiti's President by a mercenary team involving US citizens takes on a particular piquancy. It does not mean Biden is behind the assassination, But, what must be of concern to non partisan Americans is the circumstance resulting in the death. To draw a parallel, Australia had had a decade of conservative government leading up to the Rudd Government election in 2007. Rudd promised change based on a pragmatic economic conservative approach he never followed. But, before Rudd penned a schoolboy level essay trumpeting the jettison of economic conservatism, he turned to enlightened foreign policy. Rudd would not tolerate insurrection in Timor led by the separatist Alfredo Reinado. Rudd might not have given tacit permission for friendly black ops to hit Reinado, But, the hit almost claimed the lives of Timor's Prime Minister and President. Following, Timor ties with ALP led Australia were poisoned. 

Biden needs a foreign policy win. A strong statement on a nation close to America means a lot for Biden who looks weak and foolish, derided by friends and foes. Who mourns the Haiti strongman? Who mourned Reinado? However, Rudd's bungled foreign policy echoes the Haiti experience. Just like Ukraine's illegal painting of their military aircraft as civilian was never discussed by international media, we may never hear who ordered the hit on the Haiti President, but those involved with the execution will be persecuted. After all, those involved might point the finger, if asked, at .. Biden? 

Editorial Trump policy prosecuting legal cases
Trump legal policy appears to be corruptly deprived of standing and provision. How else can one explain the quandary Trump finds himself? It is as if the Democrats own the judicial process and it is up to the voter to rid the US of Democrats in 2022, so that an independent congress and eventually, judiciary, can reassert themselves. There are powerful truths supporting that view, from Hunter Biden's laptop, through Giuliani's slap down by NY judges, The Russian collusion hoax and two fake impeachment trials. But, sometimes, Trump looks like he is deliberately shooting himself in the foot, as with his lawyer's approach to suing Big Tech. It is as if a Trump lawyer is applying a poison pill to the case to sabotage what Trump could pursue legally in better directions. 

Why else would Trump lawyers use class action to pursue what Trump can claim as a private citizen? Is it because Trump can lose these cases and better pursue public support for 2022? Can Democrats afford to let Trump win these cases so as to avoid losing the publicity war? Or are Democrats geared to lose regardless? 

The corrupt Democrat LBJ stole preselection for Texas from a fellow Democrat in '48. The case went to the Supreme Court which claimed it had no standing as it was a preselection for Democrats, and they were allowed to be corrupt. The federal aspect of any campaign not being decided by Democrats preselecting a thief. It had only been a few years after UK lords had hanged Lord Haw Haw, William Joyce for treason, even though he wasn't English at all, but Irish. The UK Lords had had no standing, but as they say in law, if there aren't double standards, then there are no standards at all. Joyce had had a fake UK passport. I'm sure Barnaby Joyce would understand that such loopholes in citizenship are fraught. 

I no longer care for the opinion of judges. I want Trump to have his presidency restored, and for Democrats to be stripped of their party status. 
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Durham Report Coming - "Some Will Go To Jail"
https://rumble.com/vjxv3g-durham-report-expected-soon-some-will-go-to-jail.html

Trish Regan, host of The Trish Regan Show and Founder of https://TrishIntel.com reacts to news that the Durham reports is on its way.

"Devin Nunes says people will go to prison."

"I mean, I just don’t know how you engage in spying on individual Americans. ...Our intelligence departments knew how faulty all of this was and yet they went forward with this anyway, which really causes you to wonder what really went down."

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=== Bongino Headlines ===
2021 On Pace to Be the Worst Year for Illegal Immigration in U.S. History READ MORE

Federal Prosecutor Delayed Hunter Biden Probe to Boost Joe in 2020 Election

Federal Judge Rules Obama’s DACA Program Was Illegal, Halts All New Applications

Cuban Protesters Flock to White House to Demand Freedom for the Cuban People

Election Group Says Ballot Image Analysis Shows “Provable Fraud” in Fulton County Audit

Judge Rejects Motion to Keep Election Arizona Audit Records Private

Psaki Doubles Down on Defense of Big Tech Censorship

Capitol Hill
Wisconsin Could Be Next State to Have 2020 Election Forensic Audit
Sen. Hawley Confronts Twitter, Facebook CEOs After “Shocking” Admission of Collusion With Biden Admin
Sen. Lee: White House Collusion With Facebook May Violate the First Amendment
Sen. Toomey Comes Out Against Biden’s ATF Nominee
Psaki Punts When Asked Whether Fauci’s Facebook Misinformation Should Be Taken Down
McConnell Says Biden Should Withdraw Eco-Terrorist Nominee for Bureau of Land Management
DeSantis Calls on Biden to Provide Internet Access to Cubans Cut Off By Havana
Georgia Sec. of State Tries to Explain How They’re Just Now Discovering 10k+ Illegal Votes
Bill Clinton Flew With Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell at Least Two More Times Than Previously Known

Culture War
Georgia Senate Grants Hearing to Suburb Seeking “Divorce” from Atlanta
While Mexican Border Crossers Face Few Penalties, U.S. Boaters Who Help Cubans Face Prison Time
L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Says He Will Not Enforce County’s New Mask Mandate: “Not Backed By Science”
Polls: Voters Want Tighter Voting Security
Fauci-Funded Researcher Promoted China’s Vaccines and Said “We Can All Learn From China”
Virginia School Board Rejects State’s Pronoun and Transgender Bathroom Policies
China Propaganda Institute Targets K-12 Classrooms in the U.S.
Court Says University of Iowa’s Targeting of Christian Group “Clearly Unconstitutional”
1619 Project Founder Said Cuba Has “the Least Inequality” and Ended “Codified Racism”
Pete Hegseth and Alex Berenson to Join Unfiltered With Dan Bongino

Economy
Self-Driving Truck Beats Humans on Multistate Trip by Ten Hours
Trump’s Former Chief of Staff Says Infrastructure Deal Will Soon “Fall Apart”
Janet Yellen Says Lockdowns Could Return
Ethics Watchdog Orders Susan Rice to Divest From More Than 3 Dozen Corporate Entities
CNN Explains How Inflation Will Hurt American Families, But Leaves Out That the Government is Causing It
Under Pressure From Regulators, Crypto Exchange Stops Selling Digital Versions of Stocks
Dems Using Budget Tool They Once Called “Fake Math”
Goldman: Iron Ore Bull Market Won’t Run Out of Steam Any Time Soon
China Buying up Semiconductor Firms
Growing Social Media Movement Buying Silver as Hedge Against Inflation

Swamp Watch
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Arrested for Storming Senate Building to Protest Filibuster
Kayleigh McEnany: Why Did It Take 5 Days After Cuban Protests for Biden to Condemn Communism?
Frank Luntz: It’s Time for Biden to Ask Trump for Help With the Vaccination Effort
Hacker Is Stealing Identities of Surfside Condo Collapse Victims
Democrat Mayor Lovely Warren Hit With Firearm and Child Endangerment Charges
Giuliani: Surge in NYC Crime Is de Blasio’s Fault
Virginia Democratic Nominee for Governor Terry McAuliffe Is Fundraising for Democratic Socialist
Lawyer Offering “Re-Education” Program to Capitol Riot Defendants

National Security
Trump Blasts General Mark Milley Over “Coup” Allegations
McConnell: “Afghanistan Is Unraveling” on Biden’s Watch
Older Generation Bombers Need a Fast Retirement When B-21 Begins Flying
China’s Next Target Is the Seabed
Female Sailor Becomes First Woman to Complete Grueling Naval Special Warfare Training
Biden Says There Are No Plans to Send American Troops to Haiti
MQ-9 Reaper’s Automatic Takeoff and Landing Ability Successfully Tested
Pentagon Says Some of the Haiti Assassins Had U.S. Training
Air Force Academy: Brainwashing the Men and Women Who Protect America into Hating It

Around the World
Reuters Journalist Killed Covering Taliban-Afghan Clash
Ukraine Warms Up to China After Biden Gets Cozy with Putin
Hundreds Missing in One District Alone After Flooding in Germany and Belgium
Canada to Establish Refugee Program for “Human Rights Defenders”
Report: Spain Sold More Than $1 Million in Military Equipment to Cuban Regime Last Year
China Says Claim They Are Dumping Human Waste Into the Ocean Is “Big Joke”
Taliban Orders Local Religious Leaders to Produce List of Girls Above Age 15 to Be Married to Their Fighters
Biden Admin to Issue Warning to U.S. Companies About Risk of Doing Business in Hong Kong

Opinion
Charles Lipson: Cuba Libre?
Newt Gingrich: Biden: America Last or America Never
David Limbaugh: American Marxism
Gabriella Hoffman: Viva Cuba Libre: It’s Not Hard to Denounce Communism
Harmeet Dhillon: Biden White House ‘Flags’ Big Tech – Here’s Why Digital Policing Is So Dangerous
Charles Lipson: Getting UN Help on American Civil Rights Is a Great Idea
Jason Chaffetz: Democrats’ Crime Surge Is Real, Scary and Bringing Chaos, Not Safety, To Cities Across U.S.
Hans Von Spakovsky: The Big Lie About Texas and Other States’ Election Reforms

Entertainment
Mark Wahlberg Ate 11,000 Calories a Day for His Upcoming Movie “Stu”
Lifetime Makes Third Movie About Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for Some Reason
Oliver Stone Slams Cancel Culture “Witch Hunt,” Criticizes Trump Social Media Bans
Pilot From “Airplane!” Robert Hays Hosts A&E “Air-Mayhem” Series
TikTok Celeb Under Fire for Introducing Herself to Trump
Disney to Move Thousands of Jobs From California to Florida
“Just a Friend” Rapper Biz Markie Dies at 57
Chrissy Teigen Complains About Being Canceled

Sports
Conor McGregor Seen for First Time Since Surgery on Gruesome Leg Injury
Boston-New York Game Still on Despite Yankees’ COVID Count at Six
LeBron’s “Space Jam: A New Legacy” Is an Abomination
All-Women Umpiring Crew Calls MLB Game for First Time
Tom Brady Had Torn MCL All Season and During Super Bowl Victory
Kevin Love Becomes Second Team U.S. Basketball Player to Withdraw From Olympics
Richard Sherman “Deeply Remorseful” After Arrest, Cites “Personal Challenges”
Terry Jeffrey: The Federal Government Spent $19,762 Per Capita in FY2020
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
President Joe Biden said the U.S. will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the DACA program protecting hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children was implemented unconstitutionally, and he renewed his call for Congress to agree on a permanent solution. [Full Story]
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Newsfront
Cubans 'Disappointed' With Lack of Biden Action
Thousands of Cubans protesting against their government managed to catch the attention of President Joe Biden, but they have been left deflated by his response.Most Cubans -- even those that had never heard of him -- welcomed Biden's presidency after four years of worsening...... [Full Story]
Two California men have been indicted on charges they conspired to [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Good News Week 

Hedgehoppers Anonymous were a 1960s beat group from the United Kingdom. They formed in November 1963 as The Trendsetters, and became The Hedgehoppers the following year. Jonathan King took over their record production in 1965, and added "Anonymous" to their name when they said they were popular in Peterborough, and did not want to change their name completely.
Their major success was the King produced and written "It's Good News Week", issued on Decca. This song has also been used as the theme music for Good News Week, a satirical news-based comedy quiz show on Australian television which ran from 1996 to 2000 and has subsequently been revived in 2008. Four other singles were released by the group before the final line-up dissolved. Lack of further chart activity leaves them labelled as one-hit wonders.
https://rumble.com/vbd4it-good-news-week.html

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. A few recent stories I've seen have a theme. A woman who survived being aborted at 31 weeks has forgiven her Mother and her Grandmother. A teenage boy who doctors had advised his parents that he would never recover from traumatic brain injury has recovered. A dozen boys and their 25 year old coach survive a two week ordeal in a cave. The common thread is resilience. When things go wrong, sometimes people give up. The child surviving abortion may have done so, and self medicated with alcohol and promiscuity. I've known a boy declared dead, and his parents asked how the body should be disposed, who woke up after prayer and now leads a normal life. The parents, on doctors advice may have walked away, but they didn't. And when does the soccer coach begin to panic? The grandmother of the abortion survivor clearly felt guilt, but never bridged it with forgiveness as her granddaughter did. The parents of the injured boy persevered, to their eventual joy. And the soccer coach kept the boys from turning to a Lord of the Flies motif. Buddhism has strengths. 

Christians who hate Trump.They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and that is an awful disease. If you, or someone you know suffers from TDS, get them help immediately. TDS sufferers are known to self harm after failing to exercise reasonable judgement. Men and women have been known to get confused about their own gender, walk dangerously in public thoroughfares, misremember history, and blame others in their confusion. Some hucksters are known to profit from TDS and the Democrat Party seek to exploit the condition. One Christian convert had really strange ideas. 

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. There is a political chain of common stereotypes which link Julia GillardDianne AbbottAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Gabrielle Williams. They are socialists. They are female. They act as if they feel entitled. They are awful at interview. They do not seem to be on top of their brief, ever. Gillard will forever be young and naive. Abbott will never know what she has been told about her portfolio. Ocasio-Cotez does not know what Palestine is, but she supports it. Williams is unavailable to constituents (Or, maybe that is just me?) and does not recommend constituents speaking to the federal counterpart member, Richard Dreyfus, as he is allegedly too busy for your petty problems. 

WorkSafe building in Geelong fails. Thanks Dan Andrews. It cost $93 million. It boasted "The project involved the construction of a 14-storey A-Grade tower above the historic Dalgety & Co building, allowing WorkSafe Victoria to relocate its headquarters, and over 700 staff, to Geelong. Other features include a basement, secure on-site parking, a ground-floor café, on-site concierge, rooftop exercise and BBQ areas, and club-style end-of-trip facilities with 100+ bike racks." and "Upon completion, 14,000m2 of high quality office space was delivered , exceeding PCA A-Grade standards and with Six Star Green Star Rating."Championed and opened by ALP member and enthusiast Christine Couzens, the Green rated building got struck by Melbourne winds and lost cladding. Locals might take days to get into their own homes or shops. In 2016 "Member for Geelong Christine Couzens said it was one of the most important developments for the city, which has had its fair share of employment set-backs in recent years.

"It will be the biggest building we have in Geelong, so it is new to Geelong and some people may have concerns about that, but I think, given the location, it's the ideal spot for a big building like this," Ms Couzens said.

Mr Quinn said the building's design could polarise opinion.

"There's going to be people that love the site and then there's going to be people that would probably like another outcome on the site but I think after working with council and reviewing the opportunities, I think this is about really revitalising this part of town," he said."

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.
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Some things should not happen, but they do. Living in a democracy means one is responsible for their own mistakes. It is outrageous that Canada's PM Trudea has made a terrorist and killer a multi millionaire. However, Canadians knew who they were voting for and what he represents. People in Victoria knew that Dan Andrews was planning to throw away over a billion dollars to not build a needed road. People of South Australia knew there government would not be responsible in managing power infrastructure. People of Queensland knew the ALP was not ready for government. But even so, it is outrageous that Canada's PM remunerates a killer and shields him from a damages claim. Others might not have believed Trudeau and Saddam Hussein were so similar. 

In 390 BC, Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army was defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. 64, the Great Fire of Rome caused widespread devastation and raged on for six days, destroying half of the city. 362, Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrived at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and staid there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire. 645, Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besieged the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.

In 1290, King Edward I of England issued the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities. 1863, American Civil WarSecond Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempted an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner. 1870, the First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility.

1925, Adolf Hitler published his personal manifesto Mein KampfIn 1966, Human spaceflightGemini 10 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that included docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. Also 1966, Australian children's television series Play School aired for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running children's show in the world 1969, after a party on Chappaquiddick IslandSenator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died. 1976, Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. 1982, two hundred sixty-eight campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") were slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala. 1984, McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opened fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. 

In 1992, the ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima. 1994, the bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Centre) in Buenos Aires killed 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injured 300. Also 1994, Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide. 1995, Dreaming of You by Selena, released posthumously, became the best-selling Latin album in the United States. It was noted by Billboard magazine as a "historic event" for Latin music. 2012, at least seven people were killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb exploded on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas AirportBulgaria. 2013, the Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
=== from 2016 ===
Sonia Kruger was asked for her opinion on a column of Andrew Bolt that called for discussing a halt to Muslim migration to Australia. Kruger reasonably responded, saying she knew beautiful Muslim people but she wanted to feel safe going out and celebrating Australia Day or doing other ordinary activities. In response, the hysterical, censorious left have called for Kruger to be sacked or killed. One hopes that Kruger's career does not suffer for reasonably adding to discussion. It is sad that the censorious left cannot join the discussion. The issue of Islamic terror is salient. Who speaks for Muslims? Zakky Mallah has been promoted by the ABC. When he saw FuriousFong comment (Watch and see how the misogynists of the Left, hypocrites that they are, will destroy @SoniaKruger for voicing her opinion), he weighed in with 

The ABC promoted Zakky is merely trolling for attention on this issue. Just like all left wing journalists. David Campbell was wrong to label the Bolt article as hate speech. It isn't. People are afraid for their loved ones. The terrorism has to be stopped. But the left keep feeding it. Profiting from it. Using it. Stopping Muslim migration sounds illegal. But stopping terrorists from crossing weak borders is not. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
Right wing extremists attract attention,and they aren't pretty. Reclaim Australia are the current mob receiving attention, but names don't matter to these people who in another time would call themselves the Australian Defence League, Australian Tea Party (not connected with the US variety), Ku Klux Klan, One Nation (school kids called it 'one Asian'), Neo Nazis, Nazis, BNP, EDL or any of many other names. They often badly quote scripture, refer to end times, pay no thought to the consequences of their ideology, eschew religion and demand to make policy decisions Democracy does not endow them. God does not favour bigots, and so no responsible person accepts their confused arguments. Arguments such as "Communism and fascism hasn't worked. Democracy is failing. What is next?" Arguments bereft of understanding or nuance. The follow up is that protectionism for industry must be immediately implemented and certain races or ethnicity must be barred from migration or else the nation won't have what it had in the past, a democracy they claimed has failed. It doesn't matter that migration (orderly) promotes growth and that protectionism hurts industry. The effect of the demands of these extremists is to run apartheid style regimes through crippled industry where only the favoured keep riches. Zimbabwe, Apartheid South Africa, Spain under dictatorship and WW2 era Germany and Italy are not healthy economic or government models. And the alternative is not Sharia Law but Liberal Democratic values in a civilised, not extremist, culture. 

Note the extreme left have not covered themselves with glory. Nice of Obama to celebrate an Islamic festival, but tasteless of him to have not acknowledged the damage of jihadism in a hit that same day. The world expects the US President to bring weight and understanding to issues. What the US President says has meaning. But this US President has shown little understanding of process and no remorse for grievous mistakes. Meanwhile ISIL commits numerous atrocities against all. It would be nice for the President to show his endorsement for Islam does not extend to jihadis. 

Bronwyn Bishop attacked for allegedly legitimate expense in a campaign similar to that which savaged Credlin. News Limited Editor, Malcolm Farr, who apparently writes exclusively for the ALP, even when sober (to be fair, Glenn Milne threw the punch at Crikey editor Mayne at the '06 Walkley awards), has launched an extraordinary broadside against the Speaker of the lower house, accusing her of not being as good as Anna Burke, an ALP Speaker who presided over arguably the worst government Australia has had. Naturally Burke was a trade union official before she went into government. Bishop is a former actress who became a lawyer. At issue is a helicopter trip Bishop made and claimed as an expense. The trip does not seem to be an expense item and Bishop has paid it back. Channel 9 News has called it a luxury helicopter trip, but Channel 9 are as balanced as Farr. 
From 2014
Where is God with flight MH17? 

"Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it." André Paul Guillaume Gide coined that thought. Oscar Wilde thought he had brought André to discover he was gay, but he had sought him out knowing it already. A writer, who realised the Soviet Union was bad in '36, after he sailed there, but supported the socialist values by leaning. 
During the 1930s, he briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveler (he never formally joined the Communist Party). As a distinguished writer sympathizing with the cause of communism, he was invited to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of Writers. The tour disillusioned him and he subsequently became quite critical of Soviet Communism. This criticism of Communism caused him to lose socialist friends, especially when he made a clean break with it in Retour de L'U.R.S.S. in 1936. He was also a contributor to The God That Failed.My faith in communism is like my faith in religion: it is a promise of salvation for mankind. If I have to lay my life down that it may succeed, I would do so without hesitation
—André Gide, The God That Failed...and after his visit to the Soviet Union:[6]It is impermissible under any circumstances for morals to sink as low as communism has done. No one can begin to imagine the tragedy of humanity, of morality, of religion and of freedoms in the land of communism, where man has been debased beyond belief
—André Gide, quoted in Culture, Civilization, and Humanity Wikipedia
Communism failed, and spawned Russia and the Ukraine. 

In the wake of the tragedy from the terrorist strike on Malaysian flight MH17 it is natural for the grieving to ask "Where is God?" They seek God, and so presumably, they can be trusted. It is easy to point to where God wasn't. God was not on the minds of those who shot the missile which downed the jet. They were too busy following orders, prosecuting an agenda which might have been related to wishing to shoot down a Ukrainian Antonov or Putin, depending on allegiance. God was not on the mind of a panic stricken Biden who belatedly offered prayer after blaming Russia. God was also not with the joking Obama who lightly accepted US casualties Two leaders of the US community who did not turn to God, probably thinking instead that they knew the answers. Those who fired the missiles knew what they were doing, and later kew what they had done. And in a monitored telephone conversation, Russian soldiers apparently knew their mistake. Ukraine government knew who to blame. They had not sought the truth. 

Clearly Mr Abbott knew what he was talking about when he sought answers for questions regarding whomever was responsible. Those on the plane hadn't suffered. It was quick. They sought an end to their journey. And they rest in His arms. Faith is important. God is real. Not real like Gaia, whom Anglicans seem to worship in place of that biblical being. But real in his reach and power. Some get confused by words. They have heard of 'infinite,' 'Omnipotent' and 'Omniscient.'It throws them, because there is no such creature. How can God be everywhere and not with those firing missiles? If he wasn't with those firing missiles, he wasn't everywhere, and then there is no God, goes the reasoning. But the reasoning is faulty. and those three words meaningless. God is the beginning, and the end. He knows the heart of those victims, and he knows the intent of the aggressors. There is a point to our lives, and a beginning, a middle and an end. Grieve for the loss of life. Rage against the loss of those taken too soon. But God is there, and because of it, devotion to him is not lost, but affirmed. Blood cries out. Not for revenge. For justice. Obama apparently did a deal with Russia over Crimea. This tragedy is a result of that. Trust those who seek the truth. 

In history one sees the result every day of Julius Ceaser's campaign in Gaul. But on this day in 390 BC, a tribe of Gaul beat a Roman army and sacked Rome. It would be some nine hundred years before they would do so again. Rome had been weakened from her recent triumph over Etrura. She had sent three diplomats at the request of a besieged North Italian city, but one of the diplomats broke truce, and the Gauls exacted a terrible price in return. On 362 AD, a sixty thousand strong Roman force went to fight Persians, having grown over nine months. The war was fought over 700 years, starting in 92 BC and finishing with Islamic Arabs crushing the war weary and weak Sassanid empire. 1290, King Edward I of England expelled all the Jews. 1389, England and France agreed to a 13 year truce in the hundred year war. It is doubtful England could have mounted any assaults, she was falling into disarray for the wars of the Roses. Blood cries out, and on this day in 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry comprised mainly of African Americans made a failed charge. 1870, The Pope asserted his infallibility. 1925, Hitler published his personal struggle with reality. 1942, Germany flew the first jet aircraft. 1968, Intel was founded. 1969, Ed Kennedy killed his career and a woman at Chappaquiddick. 1976, a perfect 10 was scored by Nadia Comăneci. 1982, 268 communist peasants killed by nationalist government in Guatemala. 1994 and 2012, Jews are targeted at two separate massacres. 2013, Obama made an election promise regarding Detroit, but broke it on this day. Birthdays notable for WG Grace (1848), Nelson Mandela (1918) and Dennis Lillee (1949). We lost Caravaggio (1610), John Paul Jones (1792) and Jane Austen (1817).
Historical perspective on this day
In 390 BC, Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army was defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. 64, the Great Fire of Rome caused widespread devastation and raged on for six days, destroying half of the city. 362, Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrived at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and staid there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire. 645, Chinese forces under general Li Shijibesieged the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.

In 1290, King Edward I of England issued the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities. 1334, the bishop of Florence blessed the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone. 1342, Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeated the Sarbadars in the Battle of Zava. 1389, France and Englandagreed to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War. 1391, Tokhtamysh–Timur warBattle of the Kondurcha RiverTimur defeated Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia. 1555, the College of Arms was reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.

In 1812, the Treaties of Orebro ended both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars. 1841, Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, on 18 July. 1857, Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrived to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French. 1862, first ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps. 1863, American Civil WarSecond Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempted an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner. 1870, the First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility.

In 1914, the U.S. Congress formed the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time. 1925, Adolf Hitlerpublished his personal manifesto Mein Kampf. 1936, an army uprising in Spanish Morocco started the Spanish Civil War. 1942, World War II: The Germans test flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. 1944, World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigned as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.

In 1966, Human spaceflightGemini 10 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that included docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. Also 1966, Australian children's television series Play School aired for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running children's show in the world 1968, Intel was founded in Mountain View, California. 1969, after a party on Chappaquiddick IslandSenator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died. 1976, Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Gameshistory to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. 1982, two hundred sixty-eight campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") were slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala. 1984, McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opened fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. Also 1984, the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa was found in Stockholm, the findings later led to a trial that ended in a mistrial for two accused doctors. 1986, a tornado was broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot made a chance encounter.

In 1992, the ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima. 1994, the bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina(Argentine Jewish Community Centre) in Buenos Aires killed 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injured 300. Also 1994, Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide. 1995, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupted. Over the course of several years, it devastated the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee. Also 1995, Dreaming of You by Selena, released posthumously, became the best-selling Latin album in the United States. It was noted by Billboard magazine as a "historic event" for Latin music. 1996, storms provoked severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever: The Saguenay Flood. Also 1996, Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam captured the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers. 2012, at least seven people were killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb exploded on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas AirportBulgaria. 2013, the Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

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Today's reading: Psalm 18-19, Acts 20:17-38 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 18-19

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said:
1 I love you, LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and I have been saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death entangled me;
the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
The cords of the grave coiled around me;
the snares of death confronted me....

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 20:17-38

17 From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. 18 When they arrived, he said to them: "You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia. 19 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents. 20 You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. 21 I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus....

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Morning

"Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God."
1 Thessalonians 1:4
Many persons want to know their election before they look to Christ, but they cannot learn it thus, it is only to be discovered by "looking unto Jesus." If you desire to ascertain your own election;--after the following manner, shall you assure your heart before God. Do you feel yourself to be a lost, guilty sinner? go straightway to the cross of Christ, and tell Jesus so, and tell him that you have read in the Bible, "Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out." Tell him that he has said, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." Look to Jesus and believe on him, and you shall make proof of your election directly, for so surely as thou believest, thou art elect. If you will give yourself wholly up to Christ and trust him, then you are one of God's chosen ones; but if you stop and say, "I want to know first whether I am elect," you ask you know not what. Go to Jesus, be you never so guilty, just as you are. Leave all curious inquiry about election alone. Go straight to Christ and hide in his wounds, and you shall know your election. The assurance of the Holy Spirit shall be given to you, so that you shall be able to say, "I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him." Christ was at the everlasting council: he can tell you whether you were chosen or not; but you cannot find it out in any other way. Go and put your trust in him, and his answer will be--"I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." There will be no doubt about his having chosen you, when you have chosen him.
"Sons we are through God's election,
Who in Jesus Christ believe."

Evening

"Let not one of them escape."
1 Kings 18:40

When the prophet Elijah had received the answer to his prayer, and the fire from heaven had consumed the sacrifice in the presence of all the people, he called upon the assembled Israelites to take the priests of Baal, and sternly cried, "Let not one of them escape." He took them all down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. So must it be with our sins--they are all doomed, not one must be preserved. Our darling sin must die. Spare it not for its much crying. Strike, though it be as dear as an Isaac. Strike, for God struck at sin when it was laid upon his own Son. With stern unflinching purpose must you condemn to death that sin which was once the idol of your heart. Do you ask how you are to accomplish this? Jesus will be your power. You have grace to overcome sin given you in the covenant of grace; you have strength to win the victory in the crusade against inward lusts, because Christ Jesus has promised to be with you even unto the end. If you would triumph over darkness, set yourself in the presence of the Sun of Righteousness. There is no place so well adapted for the discovery of sin, and recovery from its power and guilt, as the immediate presence of God. Job never knew how to get rid of sin half so well as he did when his eye of faith rested upon God, and then he abhorred himself, and repented in dust and ashes. The fine gold of the Christian is oft becoming dim. We need the sacred fire to consume the dross. Let us fly to our God, he is a consuming fire; he will not consume our spirit, but our sins. Let the goodness of God excite us to a sacred jealousy, and to a holy revenge against those iniquities which are hateful in his sight. Go forth to battle with Amalek, in his strength, and utterly destroy the accursed crew: let not one of them escape.

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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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