Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Wed 28th 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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Vaccine Mandate Protest Letter

No authorship claim or copyright asserted...this letter just came to me in a bottle, and I have no idea who might have penned it, nor can I possibly vouch for it, and what you fine folks do with it is entirely in your own hands, as the Gentlemen of the Bar remind me I can proffer no general legal advice in the matter, and must officially disclaim proffering any such advice here...edit and excise as you see fit, amend and append as you desire, and claim authorship or anonymity as may best befit you...as always, as you wish...

Dear Boss,

Compelling any employee to take any current Covid-19 vaccine violates federal and state law, and subjects the employer to substantial liability risk, including liability for any injury the employee may suffer from the vaccine. Many employers have reconsidered issuing such a mandate after more fruitful review with legal counsel, insurance providers, and public opinion advisors of the desires of employees and the consuming public. Even the Kaiser Foundation warned of the legal risk in this respect. (https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/key-questions-about-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/)

Three key concerns: first, while the vaccine remains unapproved by the FDA and authorized only for emergency use, federal law forbids mandating it, in accordance with the Nuremberg Code of 1947; second, the Americans with Disabilities Act proscribes, punishes and penalizes employers who invasively inquire into their employees' medical status and then treat those employees differently based on their medical status, as the many AIDS related cases of decades ago fully attest; and third, international law, Constitutional law, specific statutes and the common law of torts all forbid conditioning access to employment upon coerced, invasive medical examinations and treatment, unless the employer can fully provide objective, scientifically validated evidence of the threat from the employee and how no practicable alternative could possible suffice to mitigate such supposed public health threat and still perform the necessary essentials of employment.

At the outset, consider the "problem" being "solved" by vaccination mandates. The previously infected are better protected than the vaccinated, so why aren't they exempted? Equally, the symptomatic can be self-isolated. Hence, requiring vaccinations only addresses one risk: dangerous or deadly transmission, by the asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic employee, in the employment setting. Yet even government official Mr. Fauci admits, as scientific studies affirm, asymptomatic transmission is exceedingly and "very rare." Indeed, initial data suggests the vaccinated are just as, or even much more, likely to transmit the virus as the asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. Hence, the vaccine solves nothing. This evidentiary limitation on any employer's decision making, aside from the legal and insurance risks of forcing vaccinations as a term of employment without any accommodation or even exception for the previously infected (and thus better protected), is the reason most employers wisely refuse to mandate the vaccine. This doesn't even address the arbitrary self-limitation of the pool of talent for the employer: why reduce your own talent pool, when many who refuse invasive inquiries or risky treatment may be amongst your most effective, efficient and profitable employees?

First, federal law prohibits any mandate of the Covid-19 vaccines as unlicensed, emergency-use-authorization-only vaccines. Subsection bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III) of section 360 of Title 21 of the United States Code, otherwise known as the Emergency Use Authorization section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, demands that everyone give employees the "option to accept or refuse administration" of the Covid-19 vaccine. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3 ) This right to refuse emergency, experimental vaccines, such as the Covid-19 vaccine, implements the internationally agreed legal requirement of Informed Consent established in the Nuremberg Code of 1947. (http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/ ). As the Nuremberg Code established, every person must "be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision" for any medical experimental drug, as the Covid-19 vaccine currently is. The Nuremberg Code prohibited even the military from requiring such experimental vaccines. (Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F.Supp.2d 119 (D.D.C. 2003).

Second, demanding employees divulge their personal medical information invades their protected right to privacy, and discriminates against them based on their perceived medical status, in contravention of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (42 USC §12112(a).) Indeed, the ADA prohibits employers from invasive inquiries about their medical status, and that includes questions about diseases and treatments for those diseases, such as vaccines. As the EEOC makes clear, an employer can only ask medical information if the employer can prove the medical information is both job-related and necessary for the business. (https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/questions-and-answers-enforcement-guidance-disability-related-inquiries-and-medical). An employer that treats an individual employee differently based on that employer’s belief the employee’s medical condition impairs the employee is discriminating against that employee based on perceived medical status disability, in contravention of the ADA. The employer must have proof that the employer cannot keep the employee, even with reasonable accommodations, before any adverse action can be taken against the employee. If the employer asserts the employee’s medical status (such as being unvaccinated against a particular disease) precludes employment, then the employer must prove that the employee poses a “safety hazard” that cannot be reduced with a reasonable accommodation. The employer must prove, with objective, scientifically validated evidence, that the employee poses a materially enhanced risk of serious harm that no reasonable accommodation could mitigate. This requires the employee's medical status cause a substantial risk of serious harm, a risk that cannot be reduced by any another means. This is a high, and difficult burden, for employers to meet. Just look at the all prior cases concerning HIV and AIDS, when employers discriminated against employees based on their perceived dangerousness, and ended up paying millions in legal fees, damages and fines.

Third, conditioning continued employment upon participating in a medical experiment and demanding disclosure of private, personal medical information, may also create employer liability under other federal and state laws, including HIPAA, FMLA, and applicable state tort law principles, including torts prohibiting and proscribing invasions of privacy and battery. Indeed, any employer mandating a vaccine is liable to their employee for any adverse event suffered by that employee. The CDC records reports of the adverse events already reported to date concerning the current Covid-19 vaccine.(https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vaers.html )

Finally, forced vaccines constitute a form of battery, and the Supreme Court long made clear "no right is more sacred than the right of every individual to the control of their own person, free from all restraint or interference of others." (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/141/250)

With Regards,
Employee of the Year

XXX

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https://rumble.com/vke873-ep.-1571-the-definitive-guide-to-liberal-propaganda-the-dan-bongino-show.html
This may be one of the finest articles about radical leftist propaganda that I’ve ever read. In this episode, I discuss the article and it’s conclusions about far-left propaganda.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
CDC Goes All in on Mask Madness – Tells the Vaccinated to Mask Up READ MORE

Biden Says White House Is Considering Vaccine Mandate for All Federal Employees

Dems Kill Bill That Would’ve Banned Federal Funding of Critical Race Theory and Segregated Learning

Psaki Defends Insane New Mask Guidance

50,000 Illegals Released Into U.S. Without a Court Date

Debunked Claims About Death of Capitol Police Officer Sicknick Reemerge at Pelosi’s Jan 6 Committee Hearing

Latest Poll Shows California Voters Split on Gavin Newsom Recall

Capitol Hill
Reps. Banks and Jordan Slam Pelosi’s Partisan Jan 6 Committee
Pelosi’s Partisan Hand-Picked Jan 6 Committee Holds First Hearing
Anti-Gun Biden ATF Nominee Also No Fan of First Amendment
Trump Endorses Ken Paxton for Texas AG
Former Biden Official Who Scored $87 Million Contract to House Migrants Banned From ICE Contracts
Biden’s America: New Poll Shows Optimism For America’s Future Falls Almost 20 Points
Former Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi Dies at 77
Pennsylvania Senate Leaders Question Decertification of Voting Machines, Say It Sows Deeper Distrust
Biden Tells a Reporter She’s a Pain in the Neck
Psaki Deflects on Biden’s Failures in Fighting National Crime Wave

Culture War
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Suspends Concealed Carry Licenses of 22 Jan 6 Protesters
PolitiFact’s Worst Fact Checker Plays Defense for VP Harris – Fails Miserably
“That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is”: A Quick Guide to Leftist Gaslighting
Al Sharpton’s 2004 Presidential Campaign Still Owes $925k in Debt
Gov. Cuomo Accuser Calls Out Chris Cuomo for Trying to Smear Her
In Rare Move, ACLU Decides to Take Case Defending Civil Liberties
CNN’s Don Lemon Doesn’t Want the Unvaccinated to Be Able to Partake in Public Life
Homeschooling Is On the Rise Across the U.S.
Analysis Finds Trump’s Title IX Changes Worked
“Squad” Rep. Cori Bush Accused of Sending Fake Racist Threats to Herself

Economy
Stephen Moore: How the Left Has Used COVID-19 to Bankrupt the United States
Airports Throughout the West Face Jet Fuel Shortage
Inflation Concerns Threaten Biden Infrastructure Push
Jeff Bezos Offers to Help NASA Cover $2 Billion in Costs in Exchange for Awarding a Human Landing Contract to Blue Origin
U.S.-Listed Chinese Stocks Have Lost Nearly $800 Billion in Value in Two Days
Deadbeats Sue Florida for Ending Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Early Amid Record Labor Shortage
New Home Sales Fall to Pandemic Low
DOJ Investigates “Stablecoin” Crypto Company “Tether” for Possible Bank Fraud
Home Prices Are Up Nearly 25% Year-Over-Year

Swamp Watch
Why Are We Selling Farmland to China?
The Dems’ Dangerous Effort to Suppress Election Concerns
Curtis Sliwa Says Dem Opponent in Mayoral Race Is a Flip-Flopper, Not a Crime Fighter
Big Tech “Counterextremism” Group Shifts Focus From Islam to the Far-Right
Gov. Cuomo Celebrates DOJ Ending Probe Into His Murderous Nursing Home Policy
Dems Reimpose Mask Mandate in Mateo County Despite 89% Vaccination Rate
Chicago Mayor Defends Short-Lived Policy of Only Doing Interviews With Non-White Reporters
China in Panic Mode Amid WHO Probe – Blames COVID-19 on U.S.

National Security
U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq to Conclude by End of Year
U.S. Failed in Wargame Reportedly Against China Attack on Taiwan
Veteran Suicides Are Happening at an Alarming Rate
Border Patrol Apprehends 20,000 Illegals in One Week in One Sector
Defund the Police Mayors Shell Out Millions in Taxpayer Dollars for Private Security
Woke Army General Loses Twitter War
France Says Iran is Endangering Chance for a Nuclear Deal
New York’s Crime Wave Put in the Spotlight By Grisly Viral Videos
Senate Armed Services Committee Wants to Fund Army’s Entire Wish List
Alleged Texas Mass Shooter Stoned to Death by Bystanders

Around the World
Biden Continues International Travel Restrictions
Vaccine Passports, Health Social Score a Slippery Slope to Tyranny
Parts of Queensland, Australia Back Under Lockdown
Border Crossing Between Pakistan and Afghanistan Reopens After Taliban Seizure
China Accuses U.S. of Creating “Imaginary Enemy” in “Frank” Talks
France Passes Law Requiring Vax Passport to Board Train, Eat at Restaurant
Tunisian President Sacks Government in Move Denounced as a Coup
Japan Slammed for Lying About “Mild” Summers as Heat Wrecks Havok on Athletes
Sen. Cruz Blocks Israel Bill That Waters-Down U.S. Support

Opinion
Kurt Schlichter: It’s Fun Watching The Press Humiliate Itself
Wayne Allyn Root: Hey NFL, Why Not Start Games with the Jewish National Anthem?
Miranda Devine: Nancy Pelosi’s on Her Last Legs
Debra J. Saunders: Want to Solve Homelessness? Call a Cop
NY Post Editorial Board: Team Cuomo Continues Its Underhanded Attacks on His Investigators
Thomas Glessner: Woke America Should Heed Chinese, Cuban Protestors Honoring Old Glory
Jane Timken: Let’s Stand Up for Our Kids Against Leftist Overreach, Indoctrination

Entertainment
Danny Trejo Calls Out Hollywood Actors as “Entitled”
Sarah Ferguson Reflects on Dealing With Harsh UK Tabloids: “You Start Believing It”
Jennifer Lopez Spotted With “Ben” Necklace After Weekend With Affleck
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s Daughter Added to Royal Line of Succession
Wokeism Is Killing the Box Office
LeVar Burton Discusses the “Impossibility” of Living Up to Alex Trebek
“LeBron Ain’t Michael” – Original Space Jam Director Not Impressed With Sequel
Tim Allen Says This Is His Top Fear About Returning To Stand Up Comedy

Sports
Simone Biles Out of Tokyo Olympics Gymnastics Team Final
Bronny James Is Worthy of the Hype: NBA Scout
Second Olympian Refuses to Face Israeli Athlete
Will the Tokyo Olympics Be a Success or a Failure?
Rangers Expected to Sign Swedish Free Agent Patrick Nemeth
China Says Western Media Is Purposely Making Its Athletes Look Ugly
Most of the Dodgers Players Don’t Want Trevor Bauer Back
Chiefs Get Even More Woke, Stop Running “Warpaint” Prior to Games
George Foreman Wants Politics to Stay Out of Sports
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
The president alluded to the announcement Tuesday after an address at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. "That's under consideration right now, and if you're not vaccinated, you're not nearly as smart as I thought you were," he said. Mandates have emerged as a hot-button political issue in recent weeks, with some agencies and governing bodies insisting on them, and critics questioning the underlying science and bristling at an infringement on their right to choose. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Newsfront
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new recommendations that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging. Scientists cited new information about the ability of the delta variant to spread among...... [Full Story]
President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned a significant cyber attack [Full Story] | 
Newsmax's live coverage of former President Donald Trump's Phoenix [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Star Wars Lyrically Challenged 
Star wars theme with lyrics written specially for the music.

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. My pre election prayer has been answered, not in the way I'd intended. Malcolm Turnbull is toast as every by election has gone to ALP, with the exception of Mayo, which went to Nick Xenophon's team. The polls were not about Malcolm, but his awful campaigning has meant it became it. Malcolm was pitted against another awful campaigner in Shorten, but Shorten has profited from it by not campaigning against Liberals, but whistling for the ALP Rust that has deserted the ALP in recent years, moving left to Greens. The Liberal decision to not campaign in WA (Perth and Fremantle) was ostensibly to not waste money. Which speaks volumes on the campaign style of Malcolm Turnbull. Because it costs nothing to campaign effectively and it shows the public who you are and what you stand for. Tony Abbott on campaign as leader neglected sleep. I don't recommend that, but it highlights how important it was for him and communicated his commitment to voters. Meanwhile Malcolm concentrated on doing badly in South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania. All three seats were swing. All three seats Libs might expect to hold while they had government. Mayo was not even a strong competition against ALP. The Mayo seat, like Longman and Braddon were vacated by the high court after their incumbents had not admitted they weren't supposed to be there according to the constitution. And thanks to Malcolm they were returned. This highlights that the Liberals cannot win swing seats while Malcolm Turnbull is Liberal Leader.

Mayo had an excellent candidate in Georgina Downer, but she got knifed when she got pinned for bad policy the Liberals released in time for the by election. The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) and medical records policy were almost released to offend the electorate. Minister Hunt has failed to defend the medical records issue which has been hijacked by Civil Libertarian activists. That doctors don't have access to patient records online is bizarre. Apparently they can be stolen, just like they my be now, or before. Cyber security should not prevent life saving measures. The NEG policy defended badly by Freudenberg is a recipe for expensive, unreliable energy. It is exactly what the electorate fears. Worse, it takes the ALP off the hook for awful policy. If the Libs are not going to be responsible, who will? Because if it does not matter, the one promising the most seems the best bet.

Longman had belonged to Libs while a young conservative candidate (Wyatt Roy) offered hope. But when Roy backed Turnbull over Abbott, things fell apart. The electorate which had gone out on a limb in taking on Roy had been betrayed, just as Malcolm betrayed the Liberal Party since before the '07 election. Costello helping Turnbull achieve the PM's position would have been on the proviso that Turnbull move on if he could not gain traction. Turnbull has failed. Costello's fall back position may have been Morrison. Morrison has been cut a thousand times by Turnbull too. It is time for Turnbull to go. My preference is Tony Abbott to return and graciously salvage what he can. It is still possible to beat Shorten if a leader like Abbott stands on policy

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. One issue I've sidelined recently is that of ALP's Emma Husar entitlement in office. Hussar is a mum of three, one is autistic. By contrast Nancy Pelosi is a mum of five, and Sarah Palin is a mum of five children. Neither Pelosi nor Palin are accused of using staff as personal servants. Hussar's upbringing was dysfunctional. So it was incumbent on the ALP to make sure their member knew right from wrong. The issue has a sinister Victorian parallel with the Red Shirts fiasco that is ongoing, and includes a police investigation into ALP practice. Is Williams being watched by the ALP with the same care they have shown Husar?

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 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. The fantasist and former head of the Australian Human Rights Council, Gillian Triggs, has spent a lot of time summing up her achievements at the AHRC. But they aren't real achievements. In the US, Trump has triggered many from the Trans lobby by preventing new Trans recruits. At issue is Obama's failed replacement to "Don't ask, don't tell." So long as "Don't ask, don't tell" was in place, anyone could be a soldier. Once that policy was removed, and serving soldiers were asking for sex reassignment surgery on the government dime and other non military related requests, the recruitment policy became untenable. It is disappointing for some who look to empty symbols and gestures in place of the pressing issues of the day. Triggs did not just kill comedy by killing free speech, she killed a comic with an abuse of power. Triggs led a highly partisan AHRC which targeted university students and smeared them with with a racism tag they had not deserved. She ruined the lives of those students, and took them to court and cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trigs lied about what she saw on Manus Island and called for an inquiry into children in detention after Tony Abbott solved the problem. 

The potential of Australian Parliamentarians being booted for having dual citizenship is ruinous to good government and really hazardous for Turnbull's administration. Turnbull is one seat away from minority government and it looks like one seat may be facing a bye election. If the Liberals had Tony Abbott in charge, they could win that bye election. Turnbull will try to buy Chisholm. But Turnbull doesn't have another $50 billion sub deal shovel ready. If the Turnbull government falls, Shorten can step into the breach and funnel continuous aid to terrorist organisations like Hamas. 
=== from 2016 === 
The US Presidential election is important. And so it is important to get right. Leftwing journalists live in an echo chamber and so wildly divergent views have been expressed from the Democratic National Conference (DNC). One onlooker had predicted Obama would not talk much about Hillary Clinton, but himself. He was right. Obama made devastating use of the teleprompter. But it was the prepared speech of Obama that was awful. He talked long and lyrically of himself, of gun laws he hasn't improved and on effective policy he didn't make. But when he spoke of Hillary he gave the same curse Bill Clinton gave Al Gore, saying that Hillary was the custodian of his legacy. Alternatively, one journalist reported Obama destroyed Donald Trump with a speech heard around the world. Expect the next opinion polls to differ. 

Meanwhile in Australia, panic in Turnbull's office has resulted in a royal commission being established into the treatment of children in custody. In charge is a judge who once sentenced an Aboriginal (55 yo) elder for one month for sexually molesting a 14 yo girl promised in marriage to him by Aboriginal custom. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
Children are special and those who don't like them, or can't be trusted with them, deserve contempt. The youngest cannot talk, or communicate clearly their needs. They may be hungry, thirsty or wet. Or maybe needing of stimulation and entertainment. Something older people can take for granted. Crimes exploiting young people can not be punished harshly enough, but then the state has to make choices when it does, and can always be criticised for doing so. So when an Islamic refugee molests a child in a park and the issue is brought before a court, the sentence of the judge will always be suspect. We don't have a death sentence in Australia as such a crime might attract such a penalty in any of many Islamic nations. And we don't want such a sentence in Australia even for offences which merit such a sentence. Because we have checks and balances which keep our nation running, or staggering into the future.

A young mother of two girls, one nine, the other seven, is a former refugee who runs her own business employing others. During the week, her two girls come to the retail business and do their homework while their mum supervises. Recently, a stranger, looking seedy comes to the business and tells the mum he is a regular, tells her about er daughters and their names. He tells he speaks her family's language, but says gobbledegook instead. It could be a joke. Or it could be a threat. Maybe the stranger knows a trusted love one and is playing a practical joke? Or maybe the creepy stranger is a psychopath. And the law, being balanced, cannot handle the situation. The police are powerless so long as the children weren't harmed, and powerless if they were, too. 


We rely on the rule of law far more than we rely on the rules of law. People don't do the unthinkable because they don't. They choose not to. It is possible to cross that line, and it isn't really impeded by police, but by individuals themselves, answering to cultural artefacts. Australia will never be like ISIL. Not because our constitution wouldn't allow it, but because our people wouldn't. Such depravity has cultural equivalences, as with WW2 Nazism or Japanese imperialism or the French Revolution or any of many other instances. But, at heart of it, it comes down to how children are treated. In particular, the youngest. And it highlights who it is that must be resisted. 

Pedophiles and family planners cannot have their behaviours taken on trust. Not when family planners have been known to have profited from abortion and the sale of body parts.  Not while pedophiles have demonstrated no understanding of the damage they do exploiting the young. The issue of Maddie McCann was raised recently when a body was found in a suitcase in South Australia recently. It could be hers, but it is too hard to positively identify at the moment. Pity her poor parents who have done everything to find her. It would not be what they want. But seven or eight years on, what they want becomes too unlikely. And think then of the creep who may be a prankster, rocking up to the business of a young mother and talking about her heritage and daughters. No hell is hot enough for such people. 
From 2014
It is ok to plan, it is necessary to prosper. But plans shouldn't treat peoples lives as pawns without care for their welfare. When it happens, a good person feels guilty. There are numerous stories of survivors from hard fought battles asking "Why them? Why not me?" But, some people don't have a conscience and they should be despised. None now can speak with certainty regarding the execution of Anne Boleyn. However, it is certain that Thomas Cromwell was involved. Anne's life was the price of Thomas's continuing career. Thomas may have found other options, but possibly he had been instructed and had few alternatives. He made a tactical mistake in getting Henry VIII to marry Anne of Cleves. But jealous courtiers manoeuvred against him and he paid the ultimate price, being executed on this day in 1540. Henry VIII probably regretted the execution as he married Catherine Howard the same day, and was to need an exit strategy. Leadership having been made a very high stakes game. Robespierre was another who cared little for the sanctity of life. He ordered over 17000 people executed for his revolutionary fervour. He was executed on this day in 1794. Robespierre was no different to any common terrorist. 

How do terrorists view people? How do they view rules? In Syria, in Gaza, in Iraq, in Iran .. atrocities are committed by people who treat people as pawns to be moved, whose very lives are vanquished on a whim. Secular administration was advocated by Christ, and if you believe in him you must pay a tax to the terrorist caliphate or be killed. Secular administration is particularly spurned by the terrorists. Girls have been killed for going to school. Families have been killed for watching soccer. But more, they also kill Islamic peoples. Lots of Islamic peoples. The largest killer of Islamic peoples in the Middle East is a terrorist who probably calls themselves Islamic. Anarchists of the nineteenth century were not as brutal. 

The fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution was certified on this day, 1868, guaranteeing due process .. something denied me in my issue with government, but also something which should deny favouritism given race or creed. Democrats opposed it bitterly as they tried to maintain slave states. In 1914, Serbia got precious about the need for Austria to investigate the death of her heir. So war began. In 1932, The Bonus Army was threatened with eviction if they marched in Washington DC. In 1942, Stalin issued order 227, authorising the execution of any Soviet soldier who retreated or left their post without orders. This kept the Soviet army young. In 1996, Kennewick man was uncovered. In 2001, Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a world championship.
Historical perspective on this day
In 1364, Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clashed in the Battle of Cascina. 1540, Thomas Cromwell was executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day. 1571, La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines was founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country. 1794, French RevolutionMaximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine in Paris, France.

In 1808, Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. 1809, Peninsular WarBattle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeated a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte. 1821, José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain. 1854, USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, was commissioned. 1864, American Civil WarBattle of Ezra ChurchConfederate troops made a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia. 1866, at the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln). 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law. 1896, the city of Miami, Florida was incorporated.

In 1914, World War IAustria-Hungary declared war on Serbia after Serbia rejected the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassinationof Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1932, U.S. President Herbert Hoover ordered the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. 1933, Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Unionand Spain were established. 1935, First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. 1938, Hawaii Clipper disappeared between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.

In 1942, World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issued Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreated or otherwise left their positions without orders to do so were to be tried in a military court, with punishments including duty in a penal battalion, imprisonment in a gulag, or execution. 1943, World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombed Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that killed 42,000 German civilians. 1945, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26. 1948, the Metropolitan Police Flying Squadfoiled a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport". 1955, the Union Mundial pro Interlingua was founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. 1957, heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, killed 992. 1965, Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

In 1973, Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attended a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. 1974, Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed. 1976, the Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattened Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851. 1984, the 1984 Summer Olympicsofficially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were opened in Los AngelesUSA. 1993, Andorra joined the United Nations. 1996, the remains of a prehistoricman were discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains were to be known as the Kennewick Man. 2001, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships. 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army called an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland. 2008, the historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burned down for the second time in 80 years.

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Today's reading: Psalm 43-45, Acts 27:27-44 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 43-45

1 Vindicate me, my God,
and plead my cause
against an unfaithful nation.
Rescue me from those who are
deceitful and wicked.
2 You are God my stronghold.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?
3 Send me your light and your faithful care,
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 27:27-44

The Shipwreck
27 On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land. 28 They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feetdeep. 29 Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight. 30 In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow. 31 Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved." 32 So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away....

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Morning

"Exceeding great and precious promises."
2 Peter 1:4
If you would know experimentally the preciousness of the promises, and enjoy them in your own heart, meditate much upon them. There are promises which are like grapes in the wine-press; if you will tread them the juice will flow. Thinking over the hallowed words will often be the prelude to their fulfilment. While you are musing upon them, the boon which you are seeking will insensibly come to you. Many a Christian who has thirsted for the promise has found the favour which it ensured gently distilling into his soul even while he has been considering the divine record; and he has rejoiced that ever he was led to lay the promise near his heart.
But besides meditating upon the promises, seek in thy soul to receive them as being the very words of God. Speak to thy soul thus, "If I were dealing with a man's promise, I should carefully consider the ability and the character of the man who had covenanted with me. So with the promise of God; my eye must not be so much fixed upon the greatness of the mercy--that may stagger me; as upon the greatness of the promiser--that will cheer me. My soul, it is God, even thy God, God that cannot lie, who speaks to thee. This word of his which thou art now considering is as true as his own existence. He is a God unchangeable. He has not altered the thing which has gone out of his mouth, nor called back one single consolatory sentence. Nor doth he lack any power; it is the God that made the heavens and the earth who has spoken thus. Nor can he fail in wisdom as to the time when he will bestow the favours, for he knoweth when it is best to give and when better to withhold. Therefore, seeing that it is the word of a God so true, so immutable, so powerful, so wise, I will and must believe the promise." If we thus meditate upon the promises, and consider the Promiser, we shall experience their sweetness, and obtain their fulfilment.

Evening

"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?"
Romans 8:33
Most blessed challenge! How unanswerable it is! Every sin of the elect was laid upon the great Champion of our salvation, and by the atonement carried away. There is no sin in God's book against his people: he seeth no sin in Jacob, neither iniquity in Israel; they are justified in Christ forever. When the guilt of sin was taken away, the punishment of sin was removed. For the Christian there is no stroke from God's angry hand--nay, not so much as a single frown of punitive justice. The believer may be chastised by his Father, but God the Judge has nothing to say to the Christian, except "I have absolved thee: thou art acquitted." For the Christian there is no penal death in this world, much less any second death. He is completely freed from all the punishment as well as the guilt of sin, and the power of sin is removed too. It may stand in our way, and agitate us with perpetual warfare; but sin is a conquered foe to every soul in union with Jesus. There is no sin which a Christian cannot overcome if he will only rely upon his God to do it. They who wear the white robe in heaven overcame through the blood of the Lamb, and we may do the same. No lust is too mighty, no besetting sin too strongly entrenched; we can overcome through the power of Christ. Do believe it, Christian, that thy sin is a condemned thing. It may kick and struggle, but it is doomed to die. God has written condemnation across its brow. Christ has crucified it, "nailing it to his cross." Go now and mortify it, and the Lord help you to live to his praise, for sin with all its guilt, shame, and fear, is gone.
"Here's pardon for transgressions past,
It matters not how black their cast;
And, O my soul, with wonder view,
For sins to come here's pardon too."

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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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