Editorial on Biden's stunning 'success' in Afghanistan
Afghanistan under the thumb of the Taliban. Street lynching, political murder and freedoms quashed. That is Afghanistan as those who voted for Biden as President have achieved. A tarred man is lead with a noose down a street for a walk of shame. What was his crime? Or does it not matter if there was a crime, only that the terrorists can show their ability to assert their authority. Just like Biden locking up people who peacefully demonstrated on January 6th. How long will those peaceful demonstrators be detained? Eight months without a trial? They say justice delayed is justice denied. How long will Biden delay justice in Afghanistan?
I asked a colleague who liked Biden, what they thought God thought about Afghanistan. My friend said "God should never have been there"
Editorial on reimposition of Andrews Curfew
Australian news propaganda has Vic extension of lockdown as being necessary. And imposition of curfew, again, which failed last time. Why do left wing governments have to copy NAZI ideas on social organisation? From eugenics, family planning, public shaming, social isolation, removal of freedoms and environmentalism, it is almost as if some ageing NAZI is still funding their ideals world wide. Curfew and lockdown failed last time in Victoria, with over a hundred dying after being denied effective medication while crime tape was placed children's swings and roundabouts. The deaths were a direct result of Premier Andrews placing a bungling private security company over quarantine, a company closely connected with ALP and not subject to competitive bidding for the job. When asked about his decision, the Premier delayed answering for months, and then said he forgot.
Delta variant Covid is more transmissible than COVID 19, and less deadly, Less deadly than the common cold. And what is wrong with treating it with appropriate medication?
Editorial on Pell case and Deep state
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.
Editorial on Friday 13th
There used to be a 13th month. It spawned the idea of a blue moon which happens once a year. Robert Graves interpreted artwork from pre literacy Greece found that woman were the initial leaders of the Greeks, and they had three powerful gods, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. They were a kind of trinity, where Hera, cow eyed, was the older who saw wrongs when others didn't realise she was watching. Aphrodite was a mature, desirable woman. Pallas Athene was the child goddess, whose wisdom was like a sharp pre teen girl. Over time, Queens would adopt a king for a year. At the end of the year, the blue moon, the king would be sacrificed and his blood and bones would be fertiliser. Later still, prisoners might be sacrificed for the king.
The thirteenth month has disappeared from our calendar but still exists as a blue moon, sometimes defined as the month of the year with two moons.
The Code of Hammurabi left off the number 13 for reasons now unknown.
Apollo 13 came too late to be foundational, but my, it was inspiring.
The knights Templar were screwed before French King Philip stole their assets by accusing them of heresies and then torturing them to confess, beginning Friday 13th. They had lost everything when Jerusalem fell after 150 years when the language spoken there had been French. Jerusalem fell after Jerusalem's king's daughter was kidnapped, and so the king the left the safety of a fortress and was slaughtered in battle. The Knights Templar had the timeless duty of guarding Jerusalem and her antiquities. The Holy Grail legend may have been resurrected to impugn the Knights? I feel the knights were victims of a deep state within Christianity. Part of the chaff masquerading as wheat.
https://rumble.com/vl8jem-editorial-on-friday-13th.html
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From the Bible, 1 Corinthians 5
Dealing With a Case of Incest
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
===Ep. 75: Biden losses; Maddow Wins; Canada Election; and MORE FBI Misconduct! Viva & Barnes LIVE!
Another week, another week of FBI misconduct, Biden court losses, and other interesting law stuffs.
https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/984001/livestream-live-chat
Biden Addresses Nation on Afghanistan Again Following Mounting Criticism
Sec of State Blinken Dodges Question On If Biden Even Knows What’s Going On
Defense Contractors Told Not To Personally Assist “Friends And Former Colleagues” Stranded In Afghanistan
Only 25% Approve of Biden’s Handling of Afghanistan
Texas Counties That Requested Disaster Aid for Border Crisis Never Received It
Trump Tears Into Biden at Massive Alabama Rally
Capitol Hill
Pennsylvania GOP Senators’ Internal Battle Over Forensic Election Audit Goes Public
VP Harris to Campaign for California’s Gov. Newsom in Upcoming Recall Election
White House Edits Transcript of Biden’s Call to France’s Emmanuel Macron to Make It Look Better Than It Was
U.K. Parliament: Biden May Have Condemned The World To Chinese Domination In Future
GOP Optimistic They’ll Win Senate Races in Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire
RNC Report Confirms Democrats Exploited COVID to Change 2020 Election Rules to Benefit Biden
Biden’s Approval Is Now Net Negative for the First Time of His Presidency
Culture War
Ex-Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Says Biden Should Be Impeached
“Jim Crow 2.0” Is Imaginary
The Odd Saga of the Associated Press Attempting to “Expose” Gov. DeSantis for Pushing COVID Treatments
DCCC Threatens to Withhold Fundraising to Dems Who Don’t Support Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Budget
Border Patrol Warns of Collapse in Morale
School Board Votes to Ban Critical Race Theory After Must-Watch Speech From Father
Confronting America’s Crime Crisis
National Association for the Education of Young Children Wants Preschoolers To Be Taught “Antiracism”
Economy
The Growing Roadblock to Biden’s Big Spending Plans
Inside the Taliban’s Finances
Former CEO Exposes the Hypocrisy of “Woke Inc”
Tapering Monetary Policy to Be Dominant Theme for Fed Officials in Week Ahead
Commodities Suffer Their Worst Week in Two Months
Saudi Wealth Fund Buys 30% Stake in Italian Supercar Maker Pagani
Industry Experts Say QR Codes Replacing Restaurant Menus Isn’t a Fad
Inside Afghanistan’s Cryptocurrency Underground
Red States Continue Leading Economic Recovery
Swamp Watch
Michigan Gov. Opposes Out-of-State Money Except When It Benefits Her
Healthcare Systems Skeptical of Vaccine Mandates Over Fear of Losing Staff
NY Times: Biden’s Competency, Empathy and Honesty Being Tested by Afghanistan
British Troops Say Scene at Kabul Airport the Worst Thing They’ve Seen in Their Careers
Biden’s ATF Nominee Could Be the Second Amendment’s Biggest Threat
Veterans Affairs Department Loses $14.6 Million on Botched Drug Return Program
NYC Councilman: Vaccine ID Important but Voter ID a Civil Rights Violation
State Department Hit by Cyber Attack
Texas AG Sues San Antonio School System Over Employee Vaccine Mandate
National Security
U.S. General to British Special Forces: Stop Rescuing People in Kabul
The Fall of Kabul Was Not the Same As the Fall of Saigon
Pentagon Preparing to Unveil, Demonstrate Classified Space Weapon
More Than 40 Afghan Air Force Aircraft Flown Out of Afghanistan to Prevent Them From Falling Into Hands of Taliban
What Will China Do In Afghanistan?
Afghanistan Is Something Much Worse Than An Intelligence Failure
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Should Resign
China and Russia Won’t Like the Marine Corps’ New Navy-Killer Missiles
U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Warns U.S. Citizens to Avoid Kabul Airport
Around the World
Desperate to Reverse Demographic Decline, China Passes Three-Child Policy Into Law
Taliban, Wearing U.S. Military Uniforms, Mock Iconic WWII Photo of Marines Raising Flag on Iwo Jima
Security Fears Deepen in Haiti as Anger and Despair Increase a Week After Devastating Earthquake
For Sixth Straight Weekend, Protesters in France Demonstrate Against COVID Pass
Media Reports 7,500 to 40,000 American Still Remain Stranded in Afghanistan
Post-Coup Media Crackdown Continues in Myanmar With Two More Journalists Arrested
Pentagon Confirms American Citizens Harassed and Beaten By Taliban
Tropical Storm Henri Makes Landfall in Rhode Island
Opinion
NY Post Editorial Board: Biden Lies Through His Teeth, Fails to Fess up to Afghanistan Shambles for Third Time
Humberto Fontova: Desperately Fleeing Murderous Regime But Crushed to Death in Landing Gear—Who Could Hail Such a Regime?
Josh Hammer: After Afghan Debacle, Stop the Nation-Building Crusades Once and for All
Rich Lowry: Joe Biden Has Permanently Destroyed His Own Credibility
Matthew Betley: Unfit To Serve, Undeserving To Lead
Michael Walsh: Afghanistan Proves Our Failed Generals No Longer Care About Winning
Jeff Davidson: Vital Words on Freedom and Liberty in a Threatening Era
Kathryn Lopez: Turning Points Abroad and at Home
Entertainment
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle at Risk of Fading “Into Obscurity”: Royal Expert
Wide-Ranging Interview With Manny Pacquiao Covers Politics, Cryptos, and a Possible Challenge to President Duerte
Michael Keaton Reprising Batman Role, Discusses Challenge of Doing Action Movies
After Three Seasons, Carrie Ann Inaba Leaves “The Talk”
Britney Spears’ Dogs Taken Away From Her Prior to “Battery” Incident
We Love NYC Concert Cancelled Mid-Performance Due to Approaching Hurricane Henri
To Bring Broadway Back, NYC Needs Another “I Love NY” Campaign
At Age 77, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Engaged for Fifth Time
Sports
Court Orders Arrest of Ex-NFL RB Clinton Portis For Owing Approximately $150k in Child Support
Ohio State Has Just Named Justin Fields’ Successor
Oregon and Oregon State Becomes First Power 5 Schools to Require Vaccinations for Fans to Attend Games
Sha’Carri Richardson’s Return to the Track Results in a Last-Place Finish
Aaron Rodgers Would Definitely Have Taken the Jeopardy! Job Which Has Since Reopened
Christian Aid Group Asks Corporations to Ditch Beijing Olympics
LeBron James Fires Back At Executives Giving Him Zero Votes For The Best Player In The NBA
Rafael Nadal Out Of US Open With Foot Injury, Will Miss Rest Of Season
The president also touted the U.S.’s evacuation efforts, saying troops have evacuated nearly 33,000 people from Afghanistan since July, including American citizens, citizens of NATO allies and “our partners” and their diplomats and embassy staff, and promised that Americans who wants to get home “will get home.” [Full Story]
Newsmax TV
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Defense Secretary Contradicts Biden on Afghanistan Withdrawal READ MOREBiden Addresses Nation on Afghanistan Again Following Mounting Criticism
Sec of State Blinken Dodges Question On If Biden Even Knows What’s Going On
Defense Contractors Told Not To Personally Assist “Friends And Former Colleagues” Stranded In Afghanistan
Only 25% Approve of Biden’s Handling of Afghanistan
Texas Counties That Requested Disaster Aid for Border Crisis Never Received It
Trump Tears Into Biden at Massive Alabama Rally
Capitol Hill
Pennsylvania GOP Senators’ Internal Battle Over Forensic Election Audit Goes Public
VP Harris to Campaign for California’s Gov. Newsom in Upcoming Recall Election
White House Edits Transcript of Biden’s Call to France’s Emmanuel Macron to Make It Look Better Than It Was
U.K. Parliament: Biden May Have Condemned The World To Chinese Domination In Future
GOP Optimistic They’ll Win Senate Races in Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire
RNC Report Confirms Democrats Exploited COVID to Change 2020 Election Rules to Benefit Biden
Biden’s Approval Is Now Net Negative for the First Time of His Presidency
Culture War
Ex-Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Says Biden Should Be Impeached
“Jim Crow 2.0” Is Imaginary
The Odd Saga of the Associated Press Attempting to “Expose” Gov. DeSantis for Pushing COVID Treatments
DCCC Threatens to Withhold Fundraising to Dems Who Don’t Support Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Budget
Border Patrol Warns of Collapse in Morale
School Board Votes to Ban Critical Race Theory After Must-Watch Speech From Father
Confronting America’s Crime Crisis
National Association for the Education of Young Children Wants Preschoolers To Be Taught “Antiracism”
Economy
The Growing Roadblock to Biden’s Big Spending Plans
Inside the Taliban’s Finances
Former CEO Exposes the Hypocrisy of “Woke Inc”
Tapering Monetary Policy to Be Dominant Theme for Fed Officials in Week Ahead
Commodities Suffer Their Worst Week in Two Months
Saudi Wealth Fund Buys 30% Stake in Italian Supercar Maker Pagani
Industry Experts Say QR Codes Replacing Restaurant Menus Isn’t a Fad
Inside Afghanistan’s Cryptocurrency Underground
Red States Continue Leading Economic Recovery
Swamp Watch
Michigan Gov. Opposes Out-of-State Money Except When It Benefits Her
Healthcare Systems Skeptical of Vaccine Mandates Over Fear of Losing Staff
NY Times: Biden’s Competency, Empathy and Honesty Being Tested by Afghanistan
British Troops Say Scene at Kabul Airport the Worst Thing They’ve Seen in Their Careers
Biden’s ATF Nominee Could Be the Second Amendment’s Biggest Threat
Veterans Affairs Department Loses $14.6 Million on Botched Drug Return Program
NYC Councilman: Vaccine ID Important but Voter ID a Civil Rights Violation
State Department Hit by Cyber Attack
Texas AG Sues San Antonio School System Over Employee Vaccine Mandate
National Security
U.S. General to British Special Forces: Stop Rescuing People in Kabul
The Fall of Kabul Was Not the Same As the Fall of Saigon
Pentagon Preparing to Unveil, Demonstrate Classified Space Weapon
More Than 40 Afghan Air Force Aircraft Flown Out of Afghanistan to Prevent Them From Falling Into Hands of Taliban
What Will China Do In Afghanistan?
Afghanistan Is Something Much Worse Than An Intelligence Failure
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Should Resign
China and Russia Won’t Like the Marine Corps’ New Navy-Killer Missiles
U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Warns U.S. Citizens to Avoid Kabul Airport
Around the World
Desperate to Reverse Demographic Decline, China Passes Three-Child Policy Into Law
Taliban, Wearing U.S. Military Uniforms, Mock Iconic WWII Photo of Marines Raising Flag on Iwo Jima
Security Fears Deepen in Haiti as Anger and Despair Increase a Week After Devastating Earthquake
For Sixth Straight Weekend, Protesters in France Demonstrate Against COVID Pass
Media Reports 7,500 to 40,000 American Still Remain Stranded in Afghanistan
Post-Coup Media Crackdown Continues in Myanmar With Two More Journalists Arrested
Pentagon Confirms American Citizens Harassed and Beaten By Taliban
Tropical Storm Henri Makes Landfall in Rhode Island
Opinion
NY Post Editorial Board: Biden Lies Through His Teeth, Fails to Fess up to Afghanistan Shambles for Third Time
Humberto Fontova: Desperately Fleeing Murderous Regime But Crushed to Death in Landing Gear—Who Could Hail Such a Regime?
Josh Hammer: After Afghan Debacle, Stop the Nation-Building Crusades Once and for All
Rich Lowry: Joe Biden Has Permanently Destroyed His Own Credibility
Matthew Betley: Unfit To Serve, Undeserving To Lead
Michael Walsh: Afghanistan Proves Our Failed Generals No Longer Care About Winning
Jeff Davidson: Vital Words on Freedom and Liberty in a Threatening Era
Kathryn Lopez: Turning Points Abroad and at Home
Entertainment
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle at Risk of Fading “Into Obscurity”: Royal Expert
Wide-Ranging Interview With Manny Pacquiao Covers Politics, Cryptos, and a Possible Challenge to President Duerte
Michael Keaton Reprising Batman Role, Discusses Challenge of Doing Action Movies
After Three Seasons, Carrie Ann Inaba Leaves “The Talk”
Britney Spears’ Dogs Taken Away From Her Prior to “Battery” Incident
We Love NYC Concert Cancelled Mid-Performance Due to Approaching Hurricane Henri
To Bring Broadway Back, NYC Needs Another “I Love NY” Campaign
At Age 77, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Engaged for Fifth Time
Sports
Court Orders Arrest of Ex-NFL RB Clinton Portis For Owing Approximately $150k in Child Support
Ohio State Has Just Named Justin Fields’ Successor
Oregon and Oregon State Becomes First Power 5 Schools to Require Vaccinations for Fans to Attend Games
Sha’Carri Richardson’s Return to the Track Results in a Last-Place Finish
Aaron Rodgers Would Definitely Have Taken the Jeopardy! Job Which Has Since Reopened
Christian Aid Group Asks Corporations to Ditch Beijing Olympics
LeBron James Fires Back At Executives Giving Him Zero Votes For The Best Player In The NBA
Rafael Nadal Out Of US Open With Foot Injury, Will Miss Rest Of Season
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Newsmax TV
- Rep. Wittman: US Will Regret Leaving Afghanistan |
- Sen. Marshall: Blame Politics, Not Intel Failure |
- Rep. Babin: Agree With Pompeo on 'Preventable' Chaos |
- Rep. Mast on the 'New Terrorist, Jihadist Club Med' |
- Dershowitz: Trump Defense Ended Larry David Friendship |
- Rep. Reschenthaler: Pullout May Lead to Black Hawk Down Hostage Situation |
- Putin Won't Allow Afghan Refugees Into Russia
- Pentagon Drafts 18 US Airlines to Help With Evacuees
- Gorbachev: US Effort 'Failed Enterprise From The Start'
- Farage: Biden 'Most Complete Failure ... in My Lifetime'
- Nikki Haley: Afghanistan Withdrawal a 'Total Surrender'
- Gov. Hogan: Maryland Accepting Afghan Refugees
- Pompeo: Conditions 'Had To Be Right' For Afghan Withdrawal
- Joni Ernst: Biden 'Messed Up' Withdrawal He Knew Was Coming
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whose state is engulfed in a fourth COVID surge, said he tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday after having a "brief and mild" bout with the infection this week.... [Full Story]
A third dose of Pfizer 's COVID-19 vaccine has significantly improved [Full Story]
The University of Oregon and Oregon State University are the first [Full Story]
1. Covid. Vaccine effectiveness against illness almost nil for the vulnerable elderly a few months into Delta, according to this analysis of the UK data, and little apparently effective reduction of deaths amongst the young. https://dailysceptic.org/2021/08/22/latest-phe-data-shows-vaccine-effectiveness-down-to-just-15-in-the-over-50s-37-in-the-under-50s-deaths-cut-by-80-in-over-50s-but-just-12-in-under-50s/
2. Legal. Texas AG sues to stop local governments from mandating vaccines. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/executive-management/2021/08.19.2021%20-%20SA%20ISD%20Vaccine%20Mandate%20-%20File%20Stamped%20Complaint%20and%20App.%20for%20TRO-TI.pdf
3. Economic. Good time to buy gold? Thiel's data analytics firm that does lots of intel work seems to think so. https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/palantir-buys-50m-worth-of-gold-bars-to-counter-black-swan-event/
4. Political. Biden sinking like a rock, Whitmer in trouble in Michigan, and Dems looking to take a beating in 2022. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
5. Cultural. Never underestimate the power of a River Runs Through It. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fly-fishing-helped-to-end-the-cold-war-71ffa2e5f505
- Bonus: College football starts this week. https://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/matchups/matchups.cfm/week/1/season/2021
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Here is a video I made For her in my past
An 'N' is an unknown in Math, and I'm a Mathematics teacher ..
My friends ask me not to do things like this. But they haven't spoken to me in a while .. this is old school.
I love TMN but we haven't spoken in years. Except she is very eloquent while not speaking. I have to respect her decision. Yet my heart hears 'hope.' In some ways I welcome the end of hope as I fear it.
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Three times a Lady is a Commodores number written by Lionel Richie. The Gospel is from Romans 8 16-17.
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I was raised as an Atheist. I learned, after reading the Bible, that God loves me, and you. This is his song for you too. He loves you, and wants to be with you.
All the elements are me and mine. ARIA ISRC number AUAWN1301114
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Malcolm Turnbull will no longer be PM after a meeting was called for high noon on Friday. However, back doors, Turnbull's masters are working overtime to prevent losing control of the Liberal Party. The first fall back position for Turnbull is Scott Morrison. However, Scott is a little independent of Turnbull for their liking, and so Julie Bishop is standing up to be a point of difference between Morrison and Dutton. Bishop is the complete Turnbull package. She would have to answer to the same masters Turnbull does. Get Up! style activism attacking Dutton has led to a brick through his campaign office window.
It is worth looking at who Peter Dutton is. He was a police detective who was responsible for a law change involving double jeopardy. Former Queensland Premier Beatty (ALP) had protected an alleged pedophile child killer with legislation, but Dutton had that overturned in 2014, through perseverance and good police work.
I'm contributing to QUORA, a question and answer site that can be a bit addictive.
What are the facts behind global warming?
I was presented with an article to critique. Solar vs Coal: Can green energy replace fossil fuels. The article had many false assumptions and miss-stated facts.
“The world we know is not in great condition” The world is better now as we approach 8 billion people than it was when a billion people lived without modern power stations and infrastructure. We used to have to cook our food by burning wood and our ability to care for ourselves was abysmal, with high mortality rates for all age groups, and over 50% before age 5. Further, we have a future which may extend to deep oceans with large artificial habitats in the open seas, and possibly in space. We are hungry for energy and coal provides effective, cheap base load power. Nuclear is a base load alternative, but more expensive. Coal provides carbon dioxide which is a plant food, and as a result growing seasons have extended recently with benefits for feeding the world’s poor. Carbon dioxide is plant food and a trace element. The current levels of Carbon dioxide mean growing seasons are earlier and extended around the world. Coal helps to produce the plant food source, windmills and solar don't.
“Polar ice caps are melting and thus causing higher sea levels, temperatures are increasing, drought is on the rise, weather conditions have become very unstable and unpredictable, and there are many more changes taking place that we will get into as we go through this article.” Sea levels have been rising since the end of the ice age. They are not rising much right now. Islands are not threatened by rising waters, neither is Holland Nor Venice. In fact, China is building islands to make military bases. Guam will not capsize.
“Most people would argue that this is due to humanity’s major dependence on fossil fuels to produce energy; those being coal, oil, natural gas, and so on.” I don’t speak for most people. Cheap power is liberating for billions of people being lifted from poverty into the middle class, where they can take control of their own welfare.
A claim is made that coal is finite and solar power infinite. In fact neither will disappear in the near future, but only coal provides cheap, safe, base load power. Solar energy is not safe. It kills miners who try to get the toxic materials and many solar projects are a threat to the environment. Some fry birds that try to fly.
Wind Power kills birds too. Wind is not reliable to base-load. Every wind tower built requires expensive battery back up or a coal fired power station for reliability, or nuclear power.
Without subsidies, coal is cheapest and most efficient and abundant for the foreseeable future. Maybe something better will come along. When that happens, we can invest in it if we haven't destroyed our ability to by wasting everything on unreliable, dangerous and expensive sources.
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It is worth looking at who Peter Dutton is. He was a police detective who was responsible for a law change involving double jeopardy. Former Queensland Premier Beatty (ALP) had protected an alleged pedophile child killer with legislation, but Dutton had that overturned in 2014, through perseverance and good police work.
I'm contributing to QUORA, a question and answer site that can be a bit addictive.
What are the facts behind global warming?
I was presented with an article to critique. Solar vs Coal: Can green energy replace fossil fuels. The article had many false assumptions and miss-stated facts.
“The world we know is not in great condition” The world is better now as we approach 8 billion people than it was when a billion people lived without modern power stations and infrastructure. We used to have to cook our food by burning wood and our ability to care for ourselves was abysmal, with high mortality rates for all age groups, and over 50% before age 5. Further, we have a future which may extend to deep oceans with large artificial habitats in the open seas, and possibly in space. We are hungry for energy and coal provides effective, cheap base load power. Nuclear is a base load alternative, but more expensive. Coal provides carbon dioxide which is a plant food, and as a result growing seasons have extended recently with benefits for feeding the world’s poor. Carbon dioxide is plant food and a trace element. The current levels of Carbon dioxide mean growing seasons are earlier and extended around the world. Coal helps to produce the plant food source, windmills and solar don't.
“Polar ice caps are melting and thus causing higher sea levels, temperatures are increasing, drought is on the rise, weather conditions have become very unstable and unpredictable, and there are many more changes taking place that we will get into as we go through this article.” Sea levels have been rising since the end of the ice age. They are not rising much right now. Islands are not threatened by rising waters, neither is Holland Nor Venice. In fact, China is building islands to make military bases. Guam will not capsize.
“Most people would argue that this is due to humanity’s major dependence on fossil fuels to produce energy; those being coal, oil, natural gas, and so on.” I don’t speak for most people. Cheap power is liberating for billions of people being lifted from poverty into the middle class, where they can take control of their own welfare.
A claim is made that coal is finite and solar power infinite. In fact neither will disappear in the near future, but only coal provides cheap, safe, base load power. Solar energy is not safe. It kills miners who try to get the toxic materials and many solar projects are a threat to the environment. Some fry birds that try to fly.
Wind Power kills birds too. Wind is not reliable to base-load. Every wind tower built requires expensive battery back up or a coal fired power station for reliability, or nuclear power.
Without subsidies, coal is cheapest and most efficient and abundant for the foreseeable future. Maybe something better will come along. When that happens, we can invest in it if we haven't destroyed our ability to by wasting everything on unreliable, dangerous and expensive sources.
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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. Willow Glen Boulevard in Cranbourne report their housing estate provides little parking, and so owners have been fined hundreds of dollars merely for trying to park at home. One young female non resident visited her boyfriend, parked on his nature strip and was fined $160. Because there are no appropriate parking alternatives. In reply to the demand, local councils get slack with pinging those responsible for breaching parking standards, making it difficult for pedestrians who have to negotiate inappropriately parked vehicles. This makes it very hard on families, elderly, or disabled. Moving forward, planning needs to provide for suitable parking alternatives.
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.
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. Willow Glen Boulevard in Cranbourne report their housing estate provides little parking, and so owners have been fined hundreds of dollars merely for trying to park at home. One young female non resident visited her boyfriend, parked on his nature strip and was fined $160. Because there are no appropriate parking alternatives. In reply to the demand, local councils get slack with pinging those responsible for breaching parking standards, making it difficult for pedestrians who have to negotiate inappropriately parked vehicles. This makes it very hard on families, elderly, or disabled. Moving forward, planning needs to provide for suitable parking alternatives.
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. A media group took a stand against racism by banning an ethnically Asian guy from a tv job because his name is Robert Lee. Were I to have made that up, people would denounce me. General Lee was a capable General who chose to support slavers. There is no professional connection between journalist Robert Lee and General Robert E Lee. One has not asked him his opinion of slavery, or if the south should secede from the Union for states rights. He probably supports Democrats. Maybe his granddaughter wants to write? If she is old enough to identify as a grand daughter. We may never know, until she goes to the bathroom. As is her right.
Chinese Americans helped build the nation, and have been terribly exploited. They invented fast food, Chicken Chow Mein, while working gold fields and building the railroad for westward expansion to San Francisco. Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat was made by ethnic Italians using the Chinese staple of rice. The Siamese twins Eng and Chang Bunker were Confederates and lost their wealth when the Confederates lost the war. However, Mark Twain wrote a short story in which he imagined they were partisan of the North and the South. Maybe the journalist Robert Lee is related to them? That might explain ESPN's principled decision rooted, as it is, in deep racism. We don't yet know where President Trump fits in. However he has recently tweeted we can expect such speculation from #FakeNews.
Chinese Americans helped build the nation, and have been terribly exploited. They invented fast food, Chicken Chow Mein, while working gold fields and building the railroad for westward expansion to San Francisco. Rice a Roni, the San Francisco treat was made by ethnic Italians using the Chinese staple of rice. The Siamese twins Eng and Chang Bunker were Confederates and lost their wealth when the Confederates lost the war. However, Mark Twain wrote a short story in which he imagined they were partisan of the North and the South. Maybe the journalist Robert Lee is related to them? That might explain ESPN's principled decision rooted, as it is, in deep racism. We don't yet know where President Trump fits in. However he has recently tweeted we can expect such speculation from #FakeNews.
=== from 2016 ===
After undermining the Liberal Party since about 2007, when Turnbull was Environment Minister, Turnbull has worked hard to nobble good policy. Howard was advised by experts that a Bradfield Scheme to water Australia was unworkable, and would result in changing the salinity of water on the north coast of Australia. But behind the scenes, Turnbull was raising the issue of division between Costello and Howard. This achieved the end of clearing the Liberal leadership, but Brendan Nelson won the leadership ballot, so Turnbull had to undermine him. Turnbull became leader, but was like a rabbit in evening headlights of a car, he never could make a decision, until the time was past when a good decision could be made. After Turnbull rolled himself and Abbott took over, Turnbull did what he was good at, undermining Liberals across the nation. A bad government in South Australia was retained, Victoria and Queensland went belly up. The Liberals had to prevent the undermining, and a plan was made which promoted Turnbull out of his 'safety' as communications minister. But since Turnbull has been PM, he has again looked out of his depth. In 1986, Turnbull wrote for a closing submission "The fact of the matter is that nothing is achieved in this world, particularly politically, other than with persistence, and persistence involves repetition and it involves argument and re-argument... The public interest in free speech is not just in truthful speech, in correct speech, in fair speech... The interest is in the debate. You see, every person who has ultimately changed the course of history has started off being unpopular." Turnbull's closing submissions, 18 December 1986.Yet Turnbull, who claimed he would explain and champion good policy cannot now explain or champion free speech or spending cuts.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Captain Hastie smears have been answered, but press keep presenting them, as if there is a balanced view to be found.
Hack of marriage cheat site embarrasses many.
ALP Leader Bill Shorten fails to check falsehoods being spread regarding Royal Commission investigation into trade unions corruption. ABC repeats false claims after they were disproved. CFMEU demands corrupt QLD government retain corrupt minister.
Hack of marriage cheat site embarrasses many.
ALP Leader Bill Shorten fails to check falsehoods being spread regarding Royal Commission investigation into trade unions corruption. ABC repeats false claims after they were disproved. CFMEU demands corrupt QLD government retain corrupt minister.
From 2014
A confident Chinese Military had one plane doing stunts close to a US submarine hunter on August 18th. Obama is too timid, and, like a bully with a coward, China taunts the US. It is an extension of the great game played between Russia and Great Britain in the nineteenth century. And the US don't play the game well under Obama. The world is a dangerous place and Obama is making it worse as he nears the end point of his Presidency. About 800 days to go, and for most of those he will be a lame duck. But even with a friendly Senate he has been impotent in world and domestic affairs. The explosion of division over race and mishandling of justice makes it dangerous in the US for everybody. An inability to 'point up' makes it very dangerous in world affairs. Obama carpeted Israel and made them release hardened killers from jail for a nebulous peace which has resulted in war. He could not have handled it worse had he tried. He tried when he begged to bomb Syria to help ISIS. At the time, Russia said 'no.' The personal danger for Obama and his family follows when he is no longer in office. He lacks wisdom, and having been Muslim, and renouncing it for Christianity as a practising Atheist he will have many dangerous enemies but little good will. When Malcolm Turnbull was leader I assured him that he could do anything with conviction and he would be respected. He embraced a carbon tax which was not based around conviction but a banker's trust of taxation and so he lost his support base, giving the leadership to Mr Abbott. As Obama passes the leadership baton to one with conviction, the US will be divided and besieged. He is apostate, an issue which has been held under wraps while he has the presidency and can bomb wilfully. He identifies with garbage, not the best of people. Many fine African Americans have not prospered under the Obama administration, meanwhile mobs of drug addled youth behave under the aegis of the name 'Sons of Obama.'
The federal government of Australia is nearing a year old. The LNP had a strong election victory, but as with 2010, some independent conservatives are not behaving as they promised voters, and so important legislation is not being passed. In opposition, LNP passed 80% of legislation. In opposition, the ALP oppose all legislation. Media analysis is weak. An inappropriate application of balance produces a substantial distortion, and obscures the public from the transparency they want. The old senate has passed and the new senate has proven seamlessly hostile. But the LNP are not without ways and means. They cannot walk a straight line, but they can finesse results. So that there is no chance if the LNP introduce legislation opposing 18c, but there is every chance an independent can. Last year, as the election neared and it looked certain they would lose, the media raised the issue of gay marriage. Let Shorten show his leadership credentials with that.
The federal government of Australia is nearing a year old. The LNP had a strong election victory, but as with 2010, some independent conservatives are not behaving as they promised voters, and so important legislation is not being passed. In opposition, LNP passed 80% of legislation. In opposition, the ALP oppose all legislation. Media analysis is weak. An inappropriate application of balance produces a substantial distortion, and obscures the public from the transparency they want. The old senate has passed and the new senate has proven seamlessly hostile. But the LNP are not without ways and means. They cannot walk a straight line, but they can finesse results. So that there is no chance if the LNP introduce legislation opposing 18c, but there is every chance an independent can. Last year, as the election neared and it looked certain they would lose, the media raised the issue of gay marriage. Let Shorten show his leadership credentials with that.
Historical perspective on this day
30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egyptand only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standardsthat had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standardsthat had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
AD 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 – Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves.
476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
634 – Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
1268 – Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellinessupporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevindomination in Southern Italy.
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1566 - Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam.
1572 – French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1595 – Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottomanarmy in the Battle of Călugăreniand achieves a tactical victory.
1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1614 – Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1703 – Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James'sstating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 – At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing three-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederatedominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 – World War II: Kharkiv is liberated after the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
1945 – Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1947 - 8th Venice Film Festival opens (first since the start of World War II).
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1962 - First Europe-US live TV program is broadcast via Telstar.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1982 – Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel is elected as president.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 – The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, 120–115.
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western"guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
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Today's reading: Psalm 110-112, 1 Corinthians 5 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 110-112
Of David. A psalm.
1 The LORD says to my lord:
"Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet."
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet."
2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
"Rule in the midst of your enemies!"
3 Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning's womb.
"Rule in the midst of your enemies!"
3 Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning's womb.
4 The LORD has sworn
and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 5
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord....
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
"I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love."
Song of Solomon 5:8
Song of Solomon 5:8
Such is the language of the believer panting after present fellowship with Jesus, he is sick for his Lord. Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease except they are in a state of nearness to Christ; for when they are away from him they lose their peace. The nearer to him, the nearer to the perfect calm of heaven; the nearer to him, the fuller the heart is, not only of peace, but of life, and vigour, and joy, for these all depend on constant intercourse with Jesus. What the sun is to the day, what the moon is to the night, what the dew is to the flower, such is Jesus Christ to us. What bread is to the hungry, clothing to the naked, the shadow of a great rock to the traveller in a weary land, such is Jesus Christ to us; and, therefore, if we are not consciously one with him, little marvel if our spirit cries in the words of the Song, "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, tell him that I am sick of love." This earnest longing after Jesus has a blessing attending it: "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness"; and therefore, supremely blessed are they who thirst after the Righteous One. Blessed is that hunger, since it comes from God: if I may not have the full-blown blessedness of being filled, I would seek the same blessedness in its sweet bud-pining in emptiness and eagerness till I am filled with Christ. If I may not feed on Jesus, it shall be next door to heaven to hunger and thirst after him. There is a hallowedness about that hunger, since it sparkles among the beatitudes of our Lord. But the blessing involves a promise. Such hungry ones "shall be filled" with what they are desiring. If Christ thus causes us to long after himself, he will certainly satisfy those longings; and when he does come to us, as come he will, oh, how sweet it will be!
Evening
My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of reason, the dream of imagination, or the eloquence of words. They are unsearchable! You may look, and study, and weigh, but Jesus is a greater Saviour than you think him to be when your thoughts are at the greatest. My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to forgive than you to transgress. My Master is more willing to supply your wants than you are to confess them. Never tolerate low thoughts of my Lord Jesus. When you put the crown on his head, you will only crown him with silver when he deserves gold. My Master has riches of happiness to bestow upon you now. He can make you to lie down in green pastures, and lead you beside still waters. There is no music like the music of his pipe, when he is the Shepherd and you are the sheep, and you lie down at his feet. There is no love like his, neither earth nor heaven can match it. To know Christ and to be found in him--oh! this is life, this is joy, this is marrow and fatness, wine on the lees well refined. My Master does not treat his servants churlishly; he gives to them as a king giveth to a king; he gives them two heavens--a heaven below in serving him here, and a heaven above in delighting in him forever. His unsearchable riches will be best known in eternity. He will give you on the way to heaven all you need; your place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks, your bread shall be given you, and your waters shall be sure; but it is there, there, where you shall hear the song of them that triumph, the shout of them that feast, and shall have a face-to-face view of the glorious and beloved One. The unsearchable riches of Christ! This is the tune for the minstrels of earth, and the song for the harpers of heaven. Lord, teach us more and more of Jesus, and we will tell out the good news to others.
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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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