Monday, August 09, 2021

Mon 9th August 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on being shadow banned

I was willing to accept bias, and work to show how conservative values I follow lead to prosperity. But, then, I became an accidental whistleblower following a bungled pedophile investigation resulting in the negligence death of school child Hamidur Rahman in Sydney's Campbelltown in 2001. A cover up ensued and my employer, the NSW Dept of Ed made me delete all my public writing (irrelevant to their fears) under new legislation called the teachers code of conduct. I resigned to speak out on the issue and ran for government three times, federally, for state and local. In the meantime, the coroner covered up the administrative mess, effectively blaming the parents for the child's death and the press are allowed to not report my issue because of a nuanced editorial decision not to 'scaremonger' by reporting on something a coroner has decided. I lost my career in 2007 and have been unemployed since, and apparently unemployable. So I've written 28 books on World history, Current affairs, a lay view on Bible quotes, some short stories and some science fiction books are in the works. But my publisher has shadow banned me and I cannot sell a thing. I have had three million hits on my blog, two million on Youtube (getting smaller) and following Jan 6th, FB took away all my FB activity stealing my history, videos, contacts and pictures collected since I logged in in 2007. If the left didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

I want to thank individuals and corporations that have stood for my freedoms. Rumble has been a great service that has done what Youtube never did, but promised to. Rumble has provided a platform that has allowed me to express my ideas they might not have agreed with, but which complies with their charter of behaviour. Also the IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) Australia, which has an international standing in support of free speech and small government advocacy. 


It is unacceptable that a senior public servant has campaigned for a political party as Fauci has. Political winds come and go, and it is awful to hear Fauci bend with the winds for his political masters. It is treason. Many have died as a result of Fauci's proclamations. People have been denied effective medication when they were sick. People have been given terrible administrative lockdowns that have made them sick, and prevented them taking cures. The statistics are clear, those who live under US Democrat policy are four to eight times more likely to die from COVID than those living free. Years after he died, Semmelweis was criticised for the scientific process leading to the discovery of the importance of clean hands for surgeons. Semmelweis had known a ward of pregnant women were at mortal risk, but his science needed to be irrefutable. But, while Semmelweis made an amazing rediscovery after Christian monks took healing knowledge away from Roman doctors, the same cannot be said of Fauci. 

Fauci says he is following the science, but he has not got science backing his proclamations. Only politics backs Fauci. So Fauci can lie to congress with impunity? 

Editorial IPA successful in Free Speech outcome

It is welcome news IPA (Institute of public affairs, Australia) has had a win in Queensland for free speech. Why is the win so weak? IPA had attempted to have a stall at a university fete when organisers had refused on the grounds "IPA don't share our values." Organisers were taken to court and forced to apologise. But, they resisted apologising and have never explained their reasoning. And, the IPA sued for an apology, not money. Why are we abrogating to cancel culture?

Via John Roskam (IPA CEO)
"You'll remember in January last year the Student Guild at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane banned the IPA's Generation Liberty program from participating in student orientation activities on campus, because according to the Guild 'your [the IPA's] brand does not align with our values'.

The ban received nationwide media coverage as yet another demonstration of the freedom of speech crisis in our universities.

The Institute of Public Affairs and the IPA's Generation Liberty Campus Coordinator at QUT, Chris Dekker fought the ban - for the sake not only of QUT students but as a matter of principle for every student in every university and every school in Australia.

Chris lodged a complaint with the Queensland Human Rights Commission on the basis the QUT Student Guild had breached both the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act by discriminating against him because of his political beliefs and the Queensland Human Rights Act by restricting his rights specified in the legislation including his freedom of expression, his right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association, his right to take part in public life, his freedom of thought, and his freedom of conscience.

The IPA and Chris didn't want any financial compensation from the Guild, only a public apology so that what occurred would never happen again and to set a precedent so that other student associations at other universities wouldn't attempt to do what the QUT Student Guild had done."

But it has happened again .. "The IPA's Generation Liberty program now has a presence at more than 20 Australian universities and until the actions of the QUT Student Guild last year had operated without incident as Generation Liberty held events and debates and hosted guest speakers at many different universities. What occurred at QUT is I fear a sign of the times as universities become more hostile to any ideas that challenge the prevailing left-wing orthodoxy of our tertiary institutions. After operating successfully at Monash University in Melbourne for the last few years, Generation Liberty was banned from the campus by the student association from participating in the university’s orientation activities because of the views they assume the IPA holds about climate change. We've lodged a complaint with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission which hasn't been heard as yet, and I'll of course keep you informed of developments."

https://rumble.com/vkmtpi-editorial-ipa-successful-in-free-speech-outcome.html

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Vaccine Mandate Protest Letter

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

Dear Boss,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Regards,
Employee of the Year

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Cuomo is Going DOWN! And It's Going to be for THIS? Viva Frei Vlawg
https://rumble.com/vkuoxe-cuomo-is-going-down-and-its-going-to-be-for-this-viva-frei-vlawg.html
The New York Attorney General came out with a report on Governor Cuomo, and he is going down it would seem. Breakdown vlawg here.

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Floodgates Opened: Enough Illegals Have Entered the Country This Year to Create the Tenth Largest City in the U.S. READ MORE

California GOP Not Making Endorsements in Special Election to Recall Gov. Newsom

Climate Warrior John Kerry Flies Private Plane to Obama’s Birthday Bash

Devin Nunes Fears AG Garland Will Quash Durham Report

Labor Shortage Persists With One Million More Job Openings Than People Looking for Work

Donald Trump on “Unfiltered”: Schools Have to Open and Children Need to Be Educated

Two Officers Shot, One Killed in Chicago

Capitol Hill
Arizona Lawmakers Demand Dem Senator Linked to Sexual Abuse of a Minor Resign
White House Refuses to Endorse Vaccine Mandate for Illegals Released Into U.S.
More Damning Revelations on Biden’s Radical ATF Nominee Keep Surfacing
Gov. Cuomo’s “Enforcer” Heads Panel to Help Women and Girls
Mo Brooks Calls “Squad” Reps “Economic Ignoramuses”
$1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Passes Key Test Vote 67-27
Rep. Biggs to File Impeachment Articles Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas
White House Says They Have No Concerns About Effects of Kids Wearing Masks All Day

Culture War
Tucker Carlson: If You Need Proof the Media Lies, Look at How They Treat Hungary
Antifa Assaults Children and Families at Christian Prayer Event at Portland Park
Defunding the Police Is a Huge Problem – Not Prosecuting Criminals Is Worse
Warden at Jail Holding Ghislaine Maxwell Charged With Murder
Ben Shapiro Says the U.S. May Look a Lot More Like the EU in Years Ahead
Was the Central Park Dog Case Covington 2.0?
Editor for Alleged Fact Checking Org “Lead Stories” Tried to Bankrupt Conservative News Sites
Former Biden COVID Adviser Admits That Cloth Masks Are Basically Useless

Economy
Trump: Infrastructure Bill a Gift to the Dems
U.S. Delisting of Chinese Companies Inevitable Says Analyst
Exxon Mobil Suspended From Climate Advocacy Group They Founded
DarkSide Ransomware Gang Returns as “BlackMatter”
Car Part Prices Head Higher Amid Supply Chain Issues
The Federal Reserve Is Setting Us Up For A Hard Economic Landing
McDonalds Sued for Tempting Woman to Break Lent Fast
Big Tech Companies Suffer From the “Great Resignation”
Wages Aren’t Rising Fast Enough to Keep Pace With Inflation

Swamp Watch
Joe Rogan: Vaccine Passports Will Take U.S. One Step Closer to Dictatorship
6 City Council Members Served With Recall Notices in California’s “Surf City”
Illinois Faces Energy Crisis as Result of Dem Leadership’s Incompetence
CDC Director Accidentally Destroys the Case for Vaccine Passports
DeSantis Derangement Syndrome Spreads to CNN
Gov. Cuomo Will Need to Find a Place to Live If He’s Ousted or Resigns
Obama Holds Maskless 60th Birthday Bash
Fauci’s Federal Agency Spent $424K Cruelly Experimenting on and Euthanizing Beagles

National Security
U.S. Space Force Needs Balanced Strategy to Deliver Short-Term Results
“Defund the Police” Is a Problem. Not Prosecuting Criminals Is Worse.
China and North Korea’s Growing Missile Stockpiles Should Worry Joe Biden
The Quad’s Success Poses a Major Threat to Beijing’s Ambitions
Can the U.S. Military Academies Survive?
The U.S. Air Force Is All In On a Mach 5 Hypersonic Passenger Jet
U.S. Navy to Christen Future USS Nantucket
Does the World Have the Will to Stop Xi Jinping?

Around the World
Hezbollah Claims It Fired Rockets After Israeli Airstrikes
Uganda Plans to Install GPS Trackers on Every Vehicle in the Country
U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Americans to Leave Immediately
Protesters March Against Vaccine Pass in France for Fourth Weekend
Hungarian PM Orban Says Multiculturalist Liberals Hate His Country for Being a Pro-Borders, Traditionalist Values Success
Afghan Air Force Pilot Killed in Bombing in Kabul, Taliban Claims Responsibility
Wildfires Rage in “Nightmarish Summer” in Greece, Thousands Evacuated: Pics

Opinion
Wayne Allyn Root: This Is 1938: First, They Came for the Unvaccinated
Nick Stehle: Biden Voters Are Already Showing Signs of Buyers’ Remorse
Nicole Gelinas: While Allegedly Harassing Women, Cuomo Also Abused State Resources
Humberto Fontova: Is Biden Resetting Obama’s Unconditional Surrender to Castro?
Debra J. Saunders: The Witch Hunt Party in the Looking Glass
Lindsey Stroud: No, the Opioid Lawsuit Is Nothing Like the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
Rep. Jim Jordan: Loving America Shouldn’t Be Controversial. So Why Do Dems Want You to Be Ashamed?

Entertainment
Selena Gomez Says She Signed Her Life Away to Disney at a Very Young Age
Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga Bid Each Other a Tearful Farewell With Last Show Together
Meghan Markle Reportedly Ignores Birthday Flowers Sent From Her Father
Rose McGowan Rips Alyssa Milano, Joe Biden, Time’s Up CEO Amid Cuomo Scandal
Bob Odenkirk Says He Is “Doing Great” After Heart Attack
“Kool and the Gang” Co-founder Dennis Thomas Dead at 70
Prince William, Kate Middleton Share New Photo of Princess Charlotte
After More Than 23 Years of Marriage, Jim Belushi Files for Divorce From Wife Jennifer

Sports
German Coach Punches Horse at Olympics, Is Suspended
Kevin Durant, Draymond Green Chastize Media After Olympic Gold Win: “You Are an American, too. Act Like It”
Yankees Becoming Kings of Comeback Wins
Packers “Verbally Agree” to Trade Aaron Rodgers at End of Season if He Requests It
Bruce Springsteen’s Daughter Wins Silver in the Olympics With U.S. Equestrian Team
Here Are the Americans Who’ve Won Gold Medals at the Tokyo Olympics
Mets No Longer in First Place Following Loss to Phillies
New England Patriots Donate 30,000 Backpacks to Military Families
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
With the United States recording its highest daily Covid case load in six months, a top public health official warned Sunday that the country is "failing." "We should not really have ever got to the place we are," Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said Sunday. "In that regard, yes, we are failing." [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Gordon Chang: Xi's Actions Show 'Deliberate Spread' of COVID-19


Newsfront
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lack of a resignation after New York Attorney General Letitia James' report on the sexual misconduct allegations against the Democrat is just "delaying the inevitable" and will only help the GOP in upcoming races, former Rep. Peter King,...... [Full Story] | 

Stephen Moore Slams Spending Bill, Electric Car Plan

Former Trump economist Stephen Moore on Sunday slammed President Joe [Full Story]

Taliban Seize 3 More Afghan Provincial Capitals

The Taliban tightened the noose around northern Afghanistan Sunday, [Full Story]
Viva Frei Barnes News

1. Covid. How is this possible in a country with 90%+ vaccinated? Unless, the vaccine doesn't really work like they said it would? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-exhausted-hospitals-fear-wave-of-serious-covid-cases-1.10093177

2. Legal. "As a pure legal issue, forcing treatment on an unwilling person is no different from attacking that person with a knife. The legal term for a harmful or offensive touching without permission is battery." Isn't this what a vaccine mandate does? https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/consent/Schoendorff.htm

3. Economic. Interesting take. "The key to the entire Neocolonial-Financialization Model is the central bank, which gives unlimited nearly free money to banks, financiers and corporations, which then lend out this Federal Reserve-supplied nearly free money to debt-serfs at much higher rates of interest." https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/08/stripmining-middle-class-neoliberalism.html

4. Political. Washington stunned by crypto fightback. They tried to sneak a crypto-killing poison pill "tax" (really a mass surveillance program w/ massive selective prosecution risks) and it (at least temporarily) blew up the entire infrastructure plan. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/crypto-amendment-fight-holds-up-usd1t-infrastructure-package.html

5. Cultural. Pretty good audience score for the new Suicide Squad film, which I watched, and mostly enjoyed. Started off slow, but was decent, not great, if you like the genre. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_suicide_squad

Bonus. Sports continues to get crushed whenever it goes woke. https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-olympics-ratings-plunge-woke-protests


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Here is a video I made Streets of London 
"Streets of London" is a song written by Ralph McTell. It was first recorded for McTell's 1969 album Spiral Staircase but was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974. It was his greatest commercial success, reaching number two in the UK singles chart, at one point selling 90,000 copies a day  and winning him the Ivor Novello Award and a Silver disc for record sales.
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It translates well into a protest song against the senseless riots 2011. I love the song. I despise the rioters who hurt and maim the strugglers trying to get by, complaining that they lack educational opportunity or respect.


=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Comedy on 3AW's Ross and John had discussion on why Homo Erectus died out. It is written Homo Erectus is lazy and would not adapt to changing weather patterns. We used to think they died out half a million years ago. But now new research suggests they survived and became the ALP. In related news, ALP were asked about the inability of police to arrest rioters after tactical response police were called into a neighbourhood of Melbourne on lockdown. Then the ALP government decided to ban Sky News on train platforms. The reason given was for an interview not shown on train platforms, but was seen on other channels. ABC, mooted as an approved replacement, also broadcast their own interview with the persona non grata.

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. The 893 to Dandenong on Princes Highway opposite Coles Hallam at 9pm had a few difficult occupants up the back Thursday night. Bus driver lost patience and ordered them off the bus at Dandenong Plaza. They stayed on, and were unruly, so driver let peace officers at the station know. Upon arrival, bus driver would not open doors until peace officers wandered over. They needed to be prompted by horn first. Driver repeated the issues. The unruly mob up the back were smoking dope on the bus, or something. What chance in Victoria is there that druggies get the help they need? Will the bus driver be disciplined for being responsible?

Some years ago I caught a bus to work in Sydney in an ALP neighbourhood with an ALP state government. A year 11/12 boy showed a large kitchen knife to his school friends at the door of the spooked driver. Driver reported it to the school, confidentially and was disciplined for it. Student was never told of the report. A few weeks later, the same student kicked the bus for not picking him up. The bus had not been going the student's way and should not have stopped at the stop where the student waited. But the bus had stopped at a red light and student crossed the street to kick it repeatedly. Bus driver reported it and got disciplined for that too. The ALP do not govern for all, and do not benefit those they serve.

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 gay marriage referendum could pilot electronic voting to make the process cheaper. Combine it with postal for those who cannot use internet. Make the internet vote verifiable, as opposed to secret, and all problems disappear. But even so, cost should not be an oppositional factor to gay marriage. Let people have their say. Let there be open debate. The ALP have tried to walk down both sides of the street on this issue. They have opposed gay marriage all along, but have claimed to support it. Only a conservative government can protect churches from litigation that same sex marriage would entail. At the moment, some churches will have to restrict marriages to only their members marrying other members. Some churches really want to marry gays. Terrorists want to kill gays. There is already civil union. I personally feel it is a terrible over reach that the state decides how religious institutions treat customs. I don't need government to applaud my bed partner. There are many things that are legal I will never do. 

On this day in history, in 48BC at the Battle of Pharsalus Julius Caeser comprehensively defeated Pompey. The battle had Caeser with 22000 weary veterans faced off against 45000 rested men. Pompey had the high ground and local support. Both formed three lines of men. Pompey's lines were ten men deep. A river (Enipius) was on one side and so Pompey and Caeser had their cavalry on the other side. Caeser short ranked his lines so as to place infantry in support of cavalry in a fourth line. Caeser's cavalry was smaller than Pompey, and when Pompey's cavalry ran through them, they met the fourth line and were crushed by close quarter pole arms. This allowed Caeser, leading his cavalry, to fall on the flank of Pompey's forces and routing them. Pompey fled, dressed as a peasant, and collected his gold before fleeing to Egypt. The Pharaoh executed Pompey and sent Caeser his head. That was a mistake, as Caeser had wanted to forgive Pompey and unify Rome. 

In 378 at the battle of Adrianople the Roman emperor Valens was killed fighting Visigoths who won the battle. It was a mighty turning point, and within a hundred years the empire would collapse. In 1173, the construction of what is now called the Leaning Tower of Pisa began. In 1483, mass was given for the opening of the Sistine Chapel. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden, a book reflecting on simple living in a natural environment as few people can. In 1892, Thomas Edison invented a two way telegraph. In 1930 Betty Boop debuted in Dizzy Dishes. In 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. In 1942 at the Battle of Savo Island, US allied forces were defeated by the Japanese, just prior to the US invasion of Guadalcanal. In 1944 Smokey Bear was seen for the first time. In 1944 at The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the Finnish held the Soviet Union to a stalemate. In 1945, Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki, vaporising 39000 people and the Japanese Government later gave an unconditional surrender. In 1965, Singapore became the only nation to be given independence unwillingly, from Malaysia. In 1969, Charles Manson went on a murder spree, killing among others, Sharon Tate, pregnant wife of Roman Polanski. In 1974, Nixon resigned rather than facing the Clinton style disgrace of impeachment. 
=== from 2016 === 
It is Census night in Australia and the government is asking for information and nervous nellies are hand wringing in protest. The process is available online for most. Exceptions being GLB peoples who are required to submit paper versions as the online version doesn't accept their answers. Also, a tenant living in a family home should not be put in first, unless the entire document has to be bodgied. After my details were entered first, the online system believed the Landlord was the tenant and kept asking if his wife was my daughter. So we erased my details, and inputed my details last. I don't think I'm the wife's daughter, but in 99 years you will know if I made a mistake. Or maybe Wikileaks will know first. I am an evangelical Christian, a very fast growing movement who are not included in the census response list. Pentecostal is close, but 'Other' and then 'Christian' is the best response to allow statisticians to know I'm not Anglican, Catholic etc etc who would otherwise get funding. It is why my church is currently searching for a home for her three hundred or so members. I do a lot of volunteer work, and the census needs to know that too. Please don't feed garbage to the census. Particularly if you don't want funding allocated in the mistaken belief that global warming has eliminated people like you. The global warming movement employ hyperbole. Don't make it seem real. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
Correction to yesterday's post. Australian cricketers spent 4 months prior to the Ashes series practice with the Duke ball. However, the comments regarding the Australian team not playing with appropriate, practiced skill still stands. Only it isn't the coaches fault. Or the Captain. It was the players who somehow failed to play with skill, with the batting exceptions of Rogers, Smith and Warner. 

It is important to apologise and rectify mistakes when they are made. Andrew Bolt has apologised to Bronwyn Bishop for demanding she resign when the ALP prosecuting her case refuse to resign for worse errors of judgment. Expenses are a hard area to police. Bishop had behaved within the rules. But the media prosecuted her and excused the ALP, and continue to excuse the ALP. Tony Burke, who had no problem drowning people, so long as he could keep their names in a drawer on a post-it, does not seem aware of the hypocrisy of his position. Burke is willing to pay back $90 for a com car, but not the tens of thousands of dollars he has claimed for taking his children on holidays, business class. Burke can't raise the dead, but he might support a policy that works. 

Insiders interviewed Greens Leader Richard Di Natale but refused to challenge his obfuscations or lies. Di Natale claimed credit for opposing cuts to Education needed to ensure the provision of Education remains ongoing. Similarly he patted himself on the back for opposing a small fee of $7 for visiting a doctor, and a fund of $20 billion for science research. Doctors deserve the pay rise and health needs to be sustainable. It doesn't benefit poor people if Australia can no longer pay for health care or education. 
From 2014
US is dropping bombs on Iraq. This policy will be to oppose the militants whom have been successful because the Obama and Iran backed regime have divided the nation. Money has funded the militants directly from banks they have robbed. Chemical weapons from Saddam's armoury are in their grasp. Civilians are being slaughtered in substantial numbers on any pretext. Some militants are from the west. Ironically, Obama sought to aid these militants last year with his desire to bomb Syria. Obama wanted to bomb Syria but Russia said 'no.' So bombing Syria would have helped these militants, while bombing Iraq will, apparently, oppose the militants. It is pertinent that Obama's plan to bomb civilians coincides with Truman's vaporising 39000 at Nagasaki. Truman's targets weren't military. They were soft. One feels that Obama has similar targets. Meanwhile, Russia is acting proportionately in her diplomacy and it is rattling the media. Russia is applying sanctions against industry, but not all. The UN has demanded that Russia stop supplying Ukrainian separatists with weapons. However, the UN is taking no action to defend those separatists from Ukrainian aggression, which has been evident while Australia and Holland were trying to extract victims of MH17 recently. Obama has sided with Ukraine, which is an illegitimate government that dumped the elected government on a corruption pretext. Ukraine's illegitimate government sparked the crisis by threatening Russia's access to her own naval port. The one unifying element to all of it is Obama. Obama is all over the place policy wise, but never showing wisdom or competence. Today is the anniversary of Nixon resigning. If Obama must copy mistakes of the past, let it be that.
Historical perspective on this day
48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompeyat Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Romanarmy led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1896 – Glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal has fatal crash.

1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
1914 – Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.

1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1971 – The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

1991 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government’s case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.
1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

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Today's reading: Psalm 74-76, Romans 9:16-33 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 74-76

A maskil of Asaph.

1 O God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago,
the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed-
Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,
all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;
they set up their standards as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes
to cut through a thicket of trees.
6 They smashed all the carved paneling
with their axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, "We will crush them completely!"
They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land....

Today's New Testament reading: Romans 9:16-33

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?" 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" 21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

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Morning

"They weave the spider's web."
Isaiah 59:5
See the spider's web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite's religion. It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape. Philip baptized Simon Magus, whose guileful declaration of faith was so soon exploded by the stern rebuke of Peter. Custom, reputation, praise, advancement, and other flies, are the small game which hypocrites take in their nets. A spider's web is a marvel of skill: look at it and admire the cunning hunter's wiles. Is not a deceiver's religion equally wonderful? How does he make so barefaced a lie appear to be a truth? How can he make his tinsel answer so well the purpose of gold? A spider's web comes all from the creature's own bowels. The bee gathers her wax from flowers, the spider sucks no flowers, and yet she spins out her material to any length. Even so hypocrites find their trust and hope within themselves; their anchor was forged on their own anvil, and their cable twisted by their own hands. They lay their own foundation, and hew out the pillars of their own house, disdaining to be debtors to the sovereign grace of God. But a spider's web is very frail. It is curiously wrought, but not enduringly manufactured. It is no match for the servant's broom, or the traveller's staff. The hypocrite needs no battery of Armstrongs to blow his hope to pieces, a mere puff of wind will do it. Hypocritical cobwebs will soon come down when the besom of destruction begins its purifying work. Which reminds us of one more thought, viz., that such cobwebs are not to be endured in the Lord's house: he will see to it that they and those who spin them shall be destroyed forever. O my soul, be thou resting on something better than a spider's web. Be the Lord Jesus thine eternal hiding-place.

Evening

"All things are possible to him that believeth."
Mark 9:23

Many professed Christians are always doubting and fearing, and they forlornly think that this is the necessary state of believers. This is a mistake, for "all things are possible to him that believeth"; and it is possible for us to mount into a state in which a doubt or a fear shall be but as a bird of passage flitting across the soul, but never lingering there. When you read of the high and sweet communions enjoyed by favoured saints, you sigh and murmur in the chamber of your heart, "Alas! these are not for me." O climber, if thou hast but faith, thou shalt yet stand upon the sunny pinnacle of the temple, for "all things are possible to him that believeth." You hear of exploits which holy men have done for Jesus; what they have enjoyed of him; how much they have been like him; how they have been able to endure great persecutions for his sake; and you say, "Ah! as for me, I am but a worm; I can never attain to this." But there is nothing which one saint was, that you may not be. There is no elevation of grace, no attainment of spirituality, no clearness of assurance, no post of duty, which is not open to you if you have but the power to believe. Lay aside your sackcloth and ashes, and rise to the dignity of your true position; you are little in Israel because you will be so, not because there is any necessity for it. It is not meet that thou shouldst grovel in the dust, O child of a King. Ascend! The golden throne of assurance is waiting for you! The crown of communion with Jesus is ready to bedeck your brow. Wrap yourself in scarlet and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day; for if thou believest, thou mayst eat the fat of kidneys of wheat; thy land shall flow with milk and honey, and thy soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. Gather golden sheaves of grace, for they await thee in the fields of faith. "All things are possible to him that believeth."

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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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