Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Tue 31st August 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on Covid policy failure
It is apparent COVID policy is political, not health related. However health advice has been political and not health related. Public health has been corrupted. Media has failed. Judiciary is corrupt. Defence is incompetent. The thin blue line has been cut. And, elder abuse is apparent from the Presidential office through to the ordinary NYC retirement home. On the plus side, there is an emerging possibility of an empty gesture securing the white house for womyn.

Dan Andrews' lockdown has cancelled AA meetings. Go the beers. 

Editorial Biden's Afghan failure culminated from Obama's Afghan lies

Editorial on God In answer to Dinesh Dsousa's article 
The God the atheists refute is not real, but is a ridiculous, impossible figure. God is real. God as He is revealed in the Bible is a fact. However, as ridiculous as the atheists arguments are, they are instructive. God made a bridge He could not cross (man's rejection of Him). God bridged that gap with Jesus. Thing is, atheists don't believe that that gap is real. 

In my Sermon on a Miracle I describe how God gave a childless woman who could not bear children, prayed for children, family. He did that. And he did not use supernatural measures. 

God is real. God does the impossible. God is not subject to our demands. God answers prayer. Sometimes bad people prosper for a time. All those statements are true. 

God is worthy of praise. Atheists don't see it, but they have countless examples of it, from their own lives to the works of those they admire. In the Revelations of the Holy Spirit I underscore and outline some of what God does that even atheists call for. 

We need god, but even in a world without God, there is a need for Him. 

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From the Bible, 1 Corinthians 11:1-16

Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

On Covering the Head in Worship

I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you. But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved. For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.

A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.

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https://rumble.com/vlvc0r-ep.-1594-its-time-for-a-national-divorce-the-dan-bongino-show.html
An explosive video emerges of a Marine demanding accountability for the Biden Afghanistan disaster. In this episode, I address the fallout, and the latest disturbing Big Tech purge.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Multiple Rockets Fired in Attack on Kabul Airport READ MORE

Hurricane Ida: At Least One Dead, Over a Million Without Power in Louisiana

White House Declined Taliban Offer to Have U.S. Troops Control Kabul During Evacuation

Civilian Casualties Reported After Drone Strike on ISIS-K Suicide Vehicle

Biden Approves Louisiana Disaster Declaration

Biden Checks Watch During Transfer of Eleven of the Thirteen Service Members Killed in Kabul

State Department Handed Out Blank Visas in Afghanistan, Potentially Enabling Terrorists to Board U.S. Aircraft

Capitol Hill
New NY Gov. Says They Won’t Be Defunding the Police
It Sure Looks Like Joe Biden Want to Destroy America
American University of Kabul Students Trying to Flee Were Sent Home
“I’m Not Going to Answer Now” – Biden Walks Away When Asked About Afghanistan
Sec of State Blinken Says U.S. Never Gave Taliban List of Names – Then Details Names U.S. Gave Taliban
UK’s Boris Johnson Warned That Biden Holds Grudges Against Members of British Government
ABC’s John Karl: Biden Describing Something That Isn’t Reality While Spinning Afghanistan Blunder
Energy Sec Chartered Military Jet to Ukraine as U.S. Scrambled To Evacuate Americans From Afghanistan
Ronny Jackson: Biden’s Lack of Cognitive Fitness Is Getting Americans Killed

Culture War
Feds Expand Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Rep. Tlaib Remembers “Loving” Palestinian Terrorists Justifiably Killed by IDF
Marine Fired for Criticizing Inept Military Leadership Resigns
EU to Recommend Halting Nonessential Travel From U.S.
Antifa Member Accused of Destroying Veterans’ Memorial Gets Plea Deal
The Rise of Rumble, the Free-Speech Competitor to YouTube
Weekend Purge: Big Tech Cracks Down on Mike Flynn, Gateway Pundit, and Alex Berenson
VA School Board to Pay $1.3 Million Over Trans Student’s Bathroom Lawsuit
Ben and Jerry’s Board Chief Allegedly Funneled $100k to Her Own Pro-Palestinian Organization

Economy
The Dems’ $4.5 Trillion Spending Spree in One Chart
Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Fraud Could Top $200 Billion
$3.12 Trillion Budget Deficit Projected This Year
High Pay for COVID-19 Nurses Leads to Shortages at Some Hospitals
China’s Regulatory Crackdown Has Wiped Billions Off of Their Tech Stocks
Kansas City Fed President Says Tapering Should Begin Sooner Rather Than Later
Man Accused of Running $110 Million Ponzi Scheme That Targeted Veterans
STEM Skills Are in Demand All Across the Labor Market
Next Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment Likely to Be Record Breaking Due to Inflation

Swamp Watch
NY Dems Say Disgraced Not-Gov. Cuomo Needs to Refund His Campaign Donations
Sec of State Blinken Was Vacationing in the Hamptons Hours Before the Fall of Kabul
Biden’s HHS to Divert Millions Meant for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Unaccompanied Minors to a Program for Sheltering Them Instead
FBI Admits It Hid Payments to Informant in White Supremacist Case
Fauci: Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines for School Kids a “Good Idea”
Obama’s Former Education Secretary: Hey, Aren’t Anti-Mask People Just Like Suicide Bombers?
Lawyer Argues Security Guard Who Shot Man Acted in Self Defense Because Customer Was Unmasked

National Security
IAEA Sounds Alarm Over Restart of North Korean Nuclear Reactor
Afghanistan: What Now, Marine?
Will America Learn From Its “Good War” In Afghanistan?
A U.S.-China War in the South China Sea in 2034: Who Wins?
China’s Strategic Nuclear Breakout and Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review
Families and Communities Begin Paying Tribute to Troops Killed in Afghanistan
How the CIA Grabbed Two Russia Nuclear Torpedoes from a Dead Submarine
How Will Afghanistan Live on In the Lore of the Marines?

Around the World
Danish Immigration Minister’s Dream Goal Is Zero Asylum Seekers
Officials: U.S. Drone Strike Destroys ISIS Car Bomb in Kabul
Hollywood’s Share of China’s Box Office Collapses to Less Than 10%
Turkey Says Repairs Needed at Kabul Airport Before Civilian Flights Can Resume
Boris Johnson Facing Backlash as Britons Left Behind in Afghanistan
Athens Vaccine Protest Sees Greek Police Using Tear Gas, Water Cannon
Greece Vows Country Will Not Be Gateway for Mass Migration
As German Election Campaign Heats Up, Merkel’s Conservatives Slide

Opinion
Wayne Allyn Root: Treason: Afghanistan Disaster Is More Proof Biden Is Owned Lock, Stock and Barrel by China
Chris Nagavonski: The U.S. Defense Apparatus Needs to Start Over
Debra J. Saunders: CDC Should Stay in Its Own Lane
Derek Hunter: The Blood On Joe Biden’s Hands
Michael Goodwin: In the Midst of a White House Breakdown
Terry Paulson: Does Biden Want to Destroy America?
NY Post Editorial Board: Kamala Harris’ Cackling Is Joe Biden’s Job Security
Michael Brown: When Harvard Hired an Atheist to Be the Chief University Chaplain

Entertainment
Ed Asner, Emmy-Winning Star of “Mary Tyler Moore Show”, Dies at 91
Kanye West Says Universal Released His New Album “Donda” Without His Approval
Iron Butterfly Drummer Ron Bushy Dies At 79
Netflix Releases Trailer For Jake Gyllenhaal’s New Movie “The Guilty”
Afghan Directors Invited To Venice Film Festival To Talk About Taliban Takeover
Sly Stallone Says “Rocky IV” Director’s Cut Is Finally Complete
Ken Jennings Likely Lost Chance At “Jeopardy!” Over Toxic Tweets, Says Report
New Walt Disney World COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Requires All Employees Present Proof Of Vaccination By October

Sports
Ryan Blaney Wins At Daytona While Tyler Reddick Secures Final Playoff Spot
Report: Shaq Lawson Traded: Texans Send Former First-Round Pick To Jets For Late-Round Pick
No One Wants Anthony Davis’ Chips
Yoshi Tsutsugo Continues Power Display And Lifts Pirates To Win
Saints Relocate Practice To Home Of Dallas Cowboys After Hurricane Ida Evacuation
Mets Noah Syndergaard Tests Positive For COVID-19
Ex-MLB Player Juan Encarnacion Accused Of Sexually Assaulting His Daughter
Jerry Jones Says Tony Romo Should Be In The Hall Of Fame
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
U.S. anti-missile defenses intercepted as many as five rockets that were fired at Kabul's airport early on Monday, a U.S. official said, as the United States rushed to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Mark Morgan: Quickly Bringing Afghan Refugees into US a Concern

Newsfront
Critics are blasting President Joe Biden for apparently looking at his watch Sunday during a solemn ceremony for the 13 U.S. soldiers killed during a suicide bomber attack in Afghanistan last week...... [Full Story]

McDonald's, Others Consider Closing Indoor Seating Amid Delta Surge in US

Some U.S. fast-food restaurants are closing indoor seating areas or [Full Story]

Despite Promises, It's the Same Evil Taliban

Soon after taking control of Kabul, and therefore Afghanistan, [Full Story] | 

Renewed Activity at NKorea Nuclear Reactor 'Deeply Troubling', IAEA Says

North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is [Full Story]
Viva Barnes news
CNN is reporting that paediatric wards are being flooded with children, but not from Covid. From other respiratory illnesses and seasonal viruses. The theory being - and who could have seen this coming - that sheltering, excessive sanitizing, and not allowing for normal exposure to viruses has caused children to be more susceptible to ordinary viruses. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/26/health/respiratory-viruses-kids-rsv-rhinovirus-covid/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2021-08-29T20%3A00%3A42&fbclid=IwAR2cIgCZpERWxqEpif4rIJeaOZEp0JKyQdNt4o4Q-zreebZ-RlqvsIpUVTg&__twitter_impression=true
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Here is a video I made I've Never Been To Me
"I've Never Been to Me" is a sleeper hit single performed by American singer Charlene Oliver née D'Angelo. A beautiful song .. yet I still thought I'd cover it. Girls sing it better.

=== From 2018 ===
Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM. Michael Yabsley is a former NSW politician whose resignation from parliament in 1994 was punctuated by Liberals spending 16 years in the wilderness in NSW. Things came easily to him, having a safe seat in Vaucluse, but when things got tough, he tossed in a ministry position, then walked from parliament. In later years, he would be treasurer for NSW Libs. He is a party insider and seems to have got lost in a corridor somewhere, as he has spoken out for Tony Abbott to resign. He claims Abbott has been a wrecker within the party since Turnbull backstabbed him, and if Abbott continued, then people would forget his good work he did up to 2015, then Turnbull backstabbed him with bed wetters. Warren Entsch in Cairns has echoed Yabsley. Entsch was Abbott's chief whip in opposition and his betrayal of Abbott in 2015 is more likely sour grapes. Thing is, Abbott is being supportive of the government and I cannot fault him. So why are Yabsley and Entsch speaking out now? Turnbull supporters are doing dummy spits to prevent Morrison, not Abbott, from being successful as PM. Because Morrison's success will make Malcolm look very bad. And under Morrison, Libs are making the right decisions.

Huffington Post doesn't need much to back someone. Just hate Trump. It worked for McCain whom was terribly offside with the rag until he opposed Trump.

From my article on Quora
Why don’t they teach a budgeting class in school?
Classes are like laws. You don’t need laws to address everything all the time. Classes tend to be broad to corral people into engaged study. It is then up to the individual to achieve as they will. Because there is not enough time in a school day to do everything students achieve.
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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. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. In 2014, ALP promised more police. Until this year, they had not delivered. This year they have hired more police and some crime statistics have gone down. However, figures show that the ALP have been lax in tasking police to address crime. Police are very good when they are allowed to be. Statistics going back a decade show crime rising. Maybe it has plateaued? It is quite high for Dandenong relative to Cabramatta. Why is that? Or Bankstown. Sydney endured a crime wave related to migration ten years ago, but she changed when Liberal government implemented effective policy, allowing police to do their job. It also helped that Abbott and Morrison put a brake on illegal arrivals. But as NSW has functioned effectively, the Dan Andrews government oversaw appalling rises in crime. One Dandenong resident who is a father has said he would defend his home if it was invaded, and maybe an axe would be handy. Do you feel safe in your homes? Do you feel safe on the streets?

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. Seumas Milne (adviser to Jeremy Corbyn) gave an interview regretting that East Germany passed. Milne doesn't regret the end of the Stasi, but the end of East Germany. He expresses this view in interview with George Galloway, who supports many who are terrorists. Milne acknowledges there is now more freedom that people like. But Milne claims that the loss of socialism terrible. How long would East Germany's 'glorious socialism' have lasted without the Stasi? The queues, the pollution, the loss of hope, the curbing of ambition, the promotion of those who hurt others. All that was lost when East Germany collapsed. And now the East German peoples get to live off the fat that West Germany achieved. Even with the Stasi, many successfully escaped East Germany. More died trying. Maybe Milne and Galloway should go live in Syria or Venezuela, so they can live their dream. Remember, the same system that gave Venezuela famine have provided Australia an NBN. 

Same Sex Marriage debate is being conducted in Australia, prior to a postal vote. Only the establishment are not allowing debate. The Age has a photograph of activists removing 'no' campaign posters illegally. And The 'Age' claims that it is a good idea? It is as if there are two questions, but the response to the first must match the response to the second. "Do you support SSM?" "Do you require state funding to promote your case for debate?"

Batteries for renewable energy means more expensive renewable energy. Renewables are the most expensive form of energy production. Feeding their production into batteries will only increase their cost. Snowy River battery 2.0 does not deserve a positive look. 

Historical statues of the virtuous are being attacked by the ignorant. Captain Cookachieved through discovery what Nelson achieved through war. Those attacking Cook's statues for his discovery of Australia aren'y contributing positively to debate. Also, those attacking the statues of Lachlan Macquarie. Macquarie successfully healed a broken, fractured and rebellious Sydney Colony. Lies are being spread claiming that Lachlan ordered the murder of Aborigines. He didn't. He had given an order regarding defence from raiding parties, but the specific accusation never happened. Cook is not irresponsible for having discovered Australia. 

Pay packet issues for Cricket, and critics still don't get the beauty of the achievement of Bangladesh beating Australia in a test. The average Australian player is paid some $1.3 million a year. The average Bangladesh player gets a salary of $26k. Yes, Australian players recently went on strike for more pay. Bangladesh won the match fairly. Kudos to them. 
=== from 2016 === 
Mexico will soon entertain Trump, probably because their government feel he will be the next President of the United States. The terrible, unrealistic, venomous denunciations will do much to give Trump momentum, while the support of Hillary has much inertia. Polls still favour Clinton, but her twelve point lead has been whittled to a razor thin margin which vanishes under uncertainty measures. The Weasel feels Trump will be President by a healthy margin, and deserves to be. I did not support him in the GOP field, but support him in the open field. He is a better candidate for all Americans than the Libertarians, Socialists or Democrats. He is speaking for all, and addressing even minorities with his message. Trump can face Blacks in Detroit or Mexicans in Mexico. He speaks with dignity. Clinton will not face conservatives anywhere and she is undignified in presentation. 

But stars and starlets and the self indulgent and utterly selfish want Clinton. Because minorities matter more than everybody? 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
  Sanity resumed today as TURC (trade union royal commission) head Dyson Heydron decided on facts that he would stay as head of the Royal Commission. His opposers have still called for him to resign without reading the judge's reasoning. The people behind the inflation which brought him to consider resigning should be exposed. Shorten should resign for being compromised. He won't, but he should. 

Another desperate attempt to shield the public from knowledge of trade union corruption has been a demand from unnamed sources for Hockey to resign if the conservatives lose the Canning By Election. It had been Mr Abbott that was called for a resignation by unnamed sources earlier. It doesn't really matter. The conservatives are unlikely to lose it, even though the media are throwing up chaff to confuse the public.         
From 2014
Lots of comments coming out of the woodwork regarding Iraq. Obama proclaimed he was withdrawing troops to win the war. But Obama hadn't done that. The war had been won when a lame duck Bush got a troop surge under Petraeus in Afghanistan, which had been destabilising the region. The next big factor was Iran. Obama gave permission for Iran to run Iraq through the President Proxy. Substantial injustice followed for minorities. Some say that wherever the US goes, war follows. According to that Galloway/Pilger belief, Syria has had a year of peace. It is a reminder of what former NSW Premier Bob Carr said in '03 in the lead up to a state election. He promised NSW would not invade Iraq. In his defence, he kept his word. Australian forces never planted the NSW flag in Iraq. NSW did once go to war in Soudan, but that was before federation, and since then NSW's war lust has been tamed. President Carter had peace plans too, but it took Reagan to hose down the destruction of that peace. Bob Carr as foreign minister said Israel could not be trusted. Since Carr made that comment, Palestinians have broken several cease fire agreements and Israel have broken none. War is peace is a motif of Democrat activity. That anecdote about Nato and Serbia from last year is telling. Clinton had no problem dithering over a million deaths in Rwanda. Then he took his aggression out on a Serbian command tent. He had learned. Or the voters had, or something. Some say to survive terrorist takeover, all one need do is know their Koran. But that isn't the truth. Those 200 Syrian soldiers executed by IS forces all knew their Koran and claimed to be Islamic. Those that survive are usually lucky in that the blood lust had already been sated. It isn't personal or character, and it isn't because terrorists respect the law. 

Tanya Plibersek has said on Insiders that it is the duty of government to make popular budgets. She is wrong, but no journalist in the ABC noted it. It explains why the ABC has struggled to explain why the negligence of the ALP budgets have gone unnoticed by them. And why the LNP budget is disliked by the ABC now. It shouldn't matter what opinion ABC journalists hold, but it does, and they forcefully express their opinion often. In fact, it is the duty of the government to make responsible budgets. There is clear corruption in our law courts, with bias corroding them as they make political statements and aim for rock star status rather than protecting the dignity of legal process. One outrageous example is the Royal Commission into Union corruption which has interviewed Kathy Jackson. The interviewer is party to the corruption of the HSU and has a vested interest in smearing her. He apparently is a former lover and should have declined the role of interviewer, but his vested interest has kept him from recusing himself. One former judge/rockstar was made a living treasure of Australia before they got struck off as a judge for lying. Some judges in the '90s claimed to see words that weren't written in the constitution re Mabo. Bias feeds on bias, the leader of the NSW opposition, Robertson, was hand picked by Obeid and involved with the Currawong Beach theft as well as avoiding privatisation. A true believer in popular budgets. A possible Popular Budget acolyte is PUP leader Palmer. There is no benefit to the voter if PUP gets benefits for Palmer. One person unaffected by pain, suffering or death is Anglican Minister in Gosford, Rod Bower. He was seen at an anti coal protest. Less useful among such heathen than a school religious guidance counsellor, some might say.
From 2013
A dithering Bill Clinton, using NATO for the first time in armed conflict, got the most advanced fighting force the world had then seen to hit a Serbian command tent on top of a hill. Aware of what a mistake in this maneuver might mean, the high command of Serbian forces were informed in advance of what would happen. So the offending tent was empty at the time. It was a response considered proportionate to the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Albanian citizens. A timely reminder of what Obama will be thinking as he considers how to respond to Syria's chemical attack on its' own civilians. Obama will want to do something, and not be criticised. At the moment, he is being mercilessly taunted by his enemies and supporters. This will have to stop. He has ruled out using troops. This will be a display of strength and commitment only a pressed button can display. Truman would be proud at both his party's forebears of Presidential office.

What is a proportionate response to ethnic cleansing? What is a proportionate response to the use of chemical weapons on civilians? US has been criticised as its effective artillery uses depleted uranium core shells and these have residual effects on the landscape. History suggests much can be achieved through denial, as Turkey demonstrates. The surviving victims can die waiting for justice. The chemicals used are being meme-pictured to suggest they may be from Al-Qaeda fighters .. but the evidence suggests otherwise. Were a western leader to commit such an atrocity their own justice system would intervene .. maybe. PM Rudd, in 2007 campaigning, claimed he had a way of bringing order to Timor. A few months after coming to office, The President and PM of Timor narrowly survived an assassination attempt by an Australia army trained officer. It marked a drastic cooling in the political philosophy aligned nations (ALP claimed history with FRETILIN). But no further inquiry. Assad may have used chemical weapons secured from Saddam's Iraq against his own people. Obama is afraid of appearing weak, and will construct a weak reply. Obama should have done something sooner .. before the chemical attack .. but that time is passed. Now some command tent must tremble waiting for a proportionate response. 

On the issue of trembling we have PM Rudd. And sweating. In the worst campaign in recent years, worse than Gillard's 2010 fumblings with a divided party, Rudd is hurting children, clawing pensioners, stealing chips and picturing himself with party loyalists as part of his relentless campaign. He is lying badly, and it is uncertain what his followers find more unforgivable, that he is lying, or lying badly. Rudd has very limited time if he is to sit in the UN's security council presidential seat. A trip to the G20 at week's end may be his last junket. On election eve, it might yet be a master stroke and prevent further hemorrhaging of votes. Or not. He keeps pointing to Liberal policies, all declared, open to scrutiny, and he claims they are un-costed, like his own policies .. which are not yet announced, but which we are reliably informed will contain no responsible cuts. Murdoch does not own or sell 70% of newspapers, but you wouldn't know that if you followed Rudd. Some do. Similar in number and outlook as those who follow Obama. 
Historical perspective on this day
1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringasafter just one year.
1218 – Al-Kamil becomes sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty.
1314 – King Haakon V of Norway moves the capital from Bergen to Oslo.
1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.

1776 – William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destructionof the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.

1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
1886 – The 7.0 Mw Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme); 60 people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1918 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit.
1928 – The Threepenny Opera is first produced in Berlin.

1935 – In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.

1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1963 – Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.

1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1993 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzaniappealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayedand driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
2005 – The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdadkills 1,199 people.
2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
2016 – Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Psalm 129-131, 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 129-131

A song of ascents.

1 "They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,"
let Israel say;
2 "they have greatly oppressed me from my youth,
but they have not gained the victory over me.
3 Plowmen have plowed my back
and made their furrows long.
4 But the LORD is righteous;
he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked."
5 May all who hate Zion
be turned back in shame.
6 May they be like grass on the roof,
which withers before it can grow;
7 a reaper cannot fill his hands with it,
nor one who gathers fill his arms.
8 May those who pass by not say to them,
"The blessing of the LORD be on you;
we bless you in the name of the LORD."

Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 11:1-16

1 Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

On Covering the Head in Worship


2 I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you. 3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head-it is the same as having her head shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head....

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Morning

"Wait on the Lord."
Psalm 27:14
It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before him; tell him your difficulty, and plead his promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if he keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet he will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for thee in the full conviction that thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."

Evening

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed."
Jeremiah 17:14
"I have seen his ways, and will heal him."
Isaiah 57:18

It is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease. Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by men, but even then the honour is to be given to God who giveth virtue unto medicine, and bestoweth power unto the human frame to cast off disease. As for spiritual sicknesses, these remain with the great Physician alone; he claims it as his prerogative, "I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal;" and one of the Lord's choice titles is Jehovah-Rophi, the Lord that healeth thee. "I will heal thee of thy wounds," is a promise which could not come from the lip of man, but only from the mouth of the eternal God. On this account the psalmist cried unto the Lord, "O Lord, heal me, for my bones are sore vexed," and again, "Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee." For this, also, the godly praise the name of the Lord, saying, "He healeth all our diseases." He who made man can restore man; he who was at first the creator of our nature can new create it. What a transcendent comfort it is that in the person of Jesus "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily!" My soul, whatever thy disease may be, this great Physician can heal thee. If he be God, there can be no limit to his power. Come then with the blind eye of darkened understanding, come with the limping foot of wasted energy, come with the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of shivering despondency, come just as thou art, for he who is God can certainly restore thee of thy plague. None shall restrain the healing virtue which proceeds from Jesus our Lord. Legions of devils have been made to own the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has he been baffled. All his patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the future, and thou shalt be one among them, my friend, if thou wilt but rest thyself in him this night.

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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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