Saturday, August 07, 2021

Sat 7th 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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https://rumble.com/vkssiw-ep.-1579-geraldo-has-no-idea-what-hes-talking-about-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Geraldo is a cesspool of misinformation. In this episode, I address our explosive debate last night where Geraldo got caught pumping misinformation. I also address the latest troubling attack on your digital privacy.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
9/11 Families Tell Biden Not to Come to Their Memorial Events READ MORE

Gov. Cuomo Accuser Files Criminal Complaint

GOP Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Prevent Vaccine Passports

Trump Rips Gov. Cuomo: “He’s Got Real Problems”

Former Top Nat Sec Officials Say China Has Stolen Enough Data to Compile a Dossier on Every American

Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Declassify Thousands of 9/11 Documents

Gas Prices Hit New Record

Capitol Hill
Infrastructure Bill Includes $118 Billion Bailout for Highway Trust Fund
Fox News Picks Jacqui Heinrich for White House Correspondent
Pro-Trump Combat Vet and Congressional Candidate Releases Must-Watch Campaign Ad
Liberal Fundraising Platform ActBlue Ends Donations to Gov. Cuomo
Latest Liberal Media Excuse: Biden Is Being “Sabotaged” by GOP Governors!
Chair of House Dem Caucus Attempts to Distance Himself From Progressives
Dems Openly Embrace Lawlessness

Culture War
Second Man Arrested for Murder of 8-Year-Old in Atlanta BLM “Autonomous Zone”
CNN Goes Entire Week Without Breaking a Million Viewers
California Law Allows Students to Change Grades From 2020-21 School Year to Pass/Fail
Washington Post Fact Checker Fails at Checking Facts (Again)
Harvard Scholar Branded Transphobic for Using Terms “Male” and “Female”
Critical Race Theory Shares the Same Ideology as China’s Cultural Revolution
Progressives Try and Fail at Making “Latinx” a Term

Economy
Wages Aren’t Rising Fast Enough to Keep Pace With Inflation
Biden Pitches Pork Packed “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Deal
The Average Renter Is $3,700 Behind on Rent
Nasdaq Diversity Rules for Corporate Boards Approved by SEC
Pause on Federal Student Loans Extended Through January 2022
BLS: U.S. Economy Adds 943k Jobs in July
Ford Offers Buyouts in Attempt to Cut 1,000 Positions
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Now Almost as Fast as Broadband
Latest Report Confirms Spirit Airlines Is the Worst

Swamp Watch
CNN: Biden’s Border Agenda Derailed by Reality
Four School Districts Defy Gov. DeSantis, Impose Mask Mandates
DOJ Inspector General Can’t Identify FBI Leaks Regarding Clinton Server Before 2016 Election
Devin Nunes Files Defamation Suit Against Rachel Maddow
Progressive Rights Groups Implicated in Gov. Cuomo’s Retaliation Against Accusers
CNN’s Female Hosts Silent on Chris Cuomo’s Role in Brother’s Harassment Scandal
Female Prisoner Pregnant Due to Trans Policy Allowing Men to Be Housed With Women

National Security
Man Accused of Beheading Woman in Minnesota Is Illegal Immigrant
Israeli Ready to Attack Iran After Israeli Ship Was Attacked
National Guard Offloads Nearly 60k Pounds of Cocaine in Largest Narcotics Haul in U.S. History
Biden Admin Approves First Arms Sale to Taiwan
New Marine One to Begin Flying Biden Soon
Pentagon Not Ruling Out Response to Gulf Shipping Attack
The U.S. Needs a National Maritime Strategy Now
Iran Reportedly Just Weeks Away From Being Able to Build a Nuclear Weapon

Around the World
People Dying Alone in Japan Go Up to Six Months Before Being Discovered During Pandemic
Leftist London Mayor Sadiq Khan Says Not Wearing a Mask on London Transport Should Be Criminal
After China Crackdown, Biden Offers Safe Haven to Hong Kong Residents in U.S.
Boris Johnson’s Electric Car Revolution Likely to Be a Disaster
Israeli Aircraft Strike Rocket Launch Sites in Lebanon
Melbourne, Australia Locked Down for the SIXTH Time
Ranks of Mexico’s Poor Grow, Reaching Almost Half of the Population

Opinion
Miranda Devine: If the U.N. Is Looking for Human Rights Abuses, Don’t Go Past DC
Jason Killmeyer: The Constitutional Crisis Began November 20th, 2014: CDC and the Era of “Executive Action”
Glenn H. Reynolds: Incentives, Not Bullying, Are the Way to Get Vax-Hesitant to Take the Jabs
Kurt Schlichter: Liberals Hate That You Have Rights
Jason Chaffetz: What Is Biden’s Biggest Flaw?
Phillip Holloway: Violation of the Oath of Office: Joe Biden Willfully Ignores His Oath

Entertainment
Andy Ngo Goes Undercover in New “Fox Nation” Show
Catholic League Calls Disney’s Introduction of Trans-Muppet “Child Abuse”
Jeopardy! Fans Unhappy With Show’s Rumored New Host
Australian Media Mocks Meghan Markle for Being Too “Smiley” in Birthday Video
Left-Wing Pop Star Rihanna Officially a Billionaire
Court Papers Show Britney Spears Wants Dad Off Conservatorship Immediately
Amanda Knox Discusses Why She Called Out Matt Damon Movie “Stillwater”

Sports
Washington Football Team Bans Wearing Native American Headdresses, Face Paint to Games
Knicks Sign Julius Randle to Massive Extension
Donald Trump: “Wokesters” on U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Cost Them Olympic Gold Medal
Here’s the Americans Who Have Won Gold Medals at the Olympic Games
Kevin Durant Leads Team USA Into Gold Medal Game
Dana White Won’t Ever Require UFC Fighters to Get Vaccinated: “Never Gonna Happen”
Robert Griffin III Close to Signing Talent Contract With ESPN
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
The two men are at odds over mask mandates, vaccine requirements and more as COVID figures creep upward anew. And the barbs keep coming. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Larry Elder: Newsom, Cuomo Similar, With Each Close to Ouster


Newsfront

Report: Facebook, Twitter Censor Only Fraction of Antisemitic Posts

While Facebook and Twitter have been proactive in blocking [Full Story]

The American Medical Association (AMA) is receiving condemnation from the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) following a recommendation that sex markers be removed from children's birth certificates.... [Full Story]

Jan. 6 Panel Adds GOP Trump-Critic Ex-Rep. as Adviser

A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol [Full Story]

Students Ask Supreme Court to Block College Vaccine Mandate

The Supreme Court is being asked to block a plan by Indiana [Full Story]
Viva Barnes News

1. Covid: The internal data from a vaccine maker shows the number of adverse events from the vaccine reported to them is triple the number reported to VAERS. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/some-actual-news

2. Legal: Lawyers for Indiana U vaccine mandate case filed a request for emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court. Honestly, remedy is highly unlikely at this stage, but doesn't preclude future remedy. http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/08/06/iu.vax.scotus.writ.of.inj.app.final.pdf

3. Economic: A full one-quarter of the jobs lost from the lockdowns are yet to return. https://www.aier.org/article/july-jobs-report-not-as-impressive-as-headline-suggests/

4. Political: Aside from lockdowns, California's surge in crime also threatens Newsom's recall. The common pattern is the disparate impact of Democratic policies on their own working class constituencies, much like their vaccine mandate support. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/07/crime-surge-guns-newsom-recall/

5. Cultural: Woke Star Trek reaches new lows. https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/08/06/star-trek-lower-decks-star-tawny-newsome-says-deep-space-9s-kira-nerys-is-basically-antifa/

Bonus: Another FOIA request returns a shocker, as the Alex Jones Was Right tipper gets bigger. https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/american-horror-story-docs-show-nih-paid-university-deliver-babies-intact


https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/928871/live-bourbon-w-barnes-friday-august-6-2021

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Here is a video I made A Hostage's Dream 
Blues piece. Written by David Daniel Ball, performed by Barretok and Filmscore
at icompositions
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=69697
Lyrics;
A Hostage's Dream by ddball

Only because I wanted friendship
Only because you seemed to care
Only because I lost my brother
And the ambulance wasn't there

Only because I grieved for summer
Only because of the sports we dare
Only because there seemed no hope
Yet that dream we seemed to share

Only because its worth the journey
Only because we have to fight
Only because the flash of brilliance
Dims before the morning light

Only because I had to see you
Only because of the way you smile
Only because of the pet you rescued
From beneath the stinking pile.

Only because I have no power
Only because I lost my strength
Only because I gave to anger
And said some rather silly things

Only because there is tomorrow
Only because the sun will rise
Only because a mornings promise
Shines beyond that daring glare.

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Australian universities are over run by virtue signalling lefties. Sydney University is standing by a lecturer who might advocate privacy for suicide bombers to avoid detection, but heaven help the poetry professor who writes a personal email to a trusted friend off the record. University of Wollongong have an idiot researcher publishing papers that push political barrows, but fail academically. Philip Zylstra has decided that back burning causes forest fires. The researcher decided this when he noted high correlation. But the reason for back burning is that there is a threat of bushfires. Back burning does not make conditions for bushfires, it is done because of the danger. And it is not done enough, as Victoria and South Australia discovered in 2009. At that time, Greens/ALP councils had prevented back burning on environmental grounds. Now, Dan Andrews has neutered CFA, there is a real danger Victoria will burn again. 

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. Trump has a chance of taking damage, but doing the right thing. Chicago needs a responsible decision maker to fix what is broken. The swamp is killing people there. Similarly, Victoria needs Matthew Guy to be Premier. Dan Andrews policies have meant more heroin overdoses have resulted in more deaths than at any other time in twenty one years. And the reason is entirely policy driven. Harm minimisation does not work. The injecting room is a failure even as it starts. Because drug addiction which does not result in deaths, still takes life. Addicts cannot live a normal life until they are helped. Not helped to take another hit, but helped to get clean.

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. It seems strange that an Australian court would side with Waverley Council refusing permission to build a synagogue on the grounds terrorists would not like it. One would like to think the NSW government would appeal it. It is highly disturbing that the ALP tacitly endorses anti semitism. The NYT seems to editorialise against the right for Israel to exist. Waverley is a good area, but it cannot remain so if their council is not radically changed. One explanation for the bizarre court outcome is that the submission of the bigots on Waverley Council stacked the deck. They are legally allowed to be terrorist endorsing bigots. 

Education funding is ridiculous in Australia, with enormous pork barrels funding corruption, but not an improvement in standards. I don't wish to overstate my own plan which would improve numeracy in most schools without costing a cent. So instead I point out that I could achieve better results for only half the ridiculous expenditure of public service fat cats. 

Liberals have quietened a crisis re gay marriage for now. ALP are set to vote against Gay marriage without press censure. US Coal exports soar thanks to Trump, while Australian mining interests are damaged thanks to AGW hysteria. Australian power prices are now double the US price, when twenty years ago it was lowest in the world. AGW hysteria is the difference. An Elon Musk battery in South Australia will mean that power is more expensive. AGW is crap. 

In Melbourne a gang has robbed three service stations. They have been arrested at times, but the legal system keeps freeing them. It doesn't happen like that in NSW, where the Liberals have government. The Victorian Premier Dan Andrews says he doesn't know what to do. The Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has presented a number of enforceable plans that would bring Victoria in line with NSW, or improve on it. Also in Melbourne sea lice have feasted on the legs of a young man. The man in improving, but the images are disturbing. 
=== from 2016 === 
I want to run for local council of Dandenong in October. I want to run with the Liberal Party team. I feel I have a lot to offer Dandenong in service. I was at Dandenong Markets today, and walked through the Plaza before passing the Library, the station and the Walker street bridge before going home. Earlier in the morning I'd walked in reverse to my church, New Life on Cleeland, opposite the mosque minaret. Dandenong has a history and many cultures. But she is poorly served by her ALP councillors who take her for granted. Public transport is not as good as Melbourne CBD, although Dandenong is an important hub for adjoining electorates. New Life are looking for a home for their congregation. But where is there a support network that is needed to find appropriate accommodation if local council won't do it? There are simple, secular administrative needs which Dandenong needs to address. Why is it that an entire neighbourhood does not have internet access, except through special arrangement with Telstra? It involves a long waiting period and is punctuated with the highest cost provider for a minimum of two years. What about parking? There needs to be upgrades to infrastructure, but the planning has failed. I offered the library signed copies of history fact books. It covers the entire history of the world. 12% of Dandenong peoples came to Australia in the last 2.5 years. World and local history is relevant to them, but apparently not the library. The Liberal party know how to plan for the entire community, united as a community, not divided into minorities as the ALP likes.  
=== from 2015 ===
Tony Burke's use of $225k in travel expenses to wine and dine his new partner has offended some, who aren't natural ALP supporters, and maybe a few of them too, although they'd never vote against him. But another monster from the ALP domain that is gerrymandered South Australia has been sentenced for long term. The child molester worked for Families SA and side lighted as a photographer specialising in sex pictures for people younger than 12. He has had sex with infants. Some were children in his care. He will serve a minimum of 28 years and not life without parole because clearly someone, somewhere, is worse. Seen in that light, Burke's use of travel expenses as a Tinder App seems to meet community standards. Clearly the outrage over Bishop, which Burke led, was to do with the party she represented, and not the activity within the rules. 

Hysterics are attacking Naplan because it works and doesn't only report good news. But, as a diagnostic tool, that is what we need from it. 
From 2014
Mike Carlton is not the sole dispenser of bigotry against Jews. Al Jazeera is not the worst. ABC and Fairfax Press have been promoting bigotry as normal behaviour. Who is to blame when six school kids invade a bus for a Jewish school and threaten the kids as young as five years old with having their throats cut while calling out slogans like 'Heil Hitler' and 'Free Palestine.' When apprehended, the perpetrators claimed they were too drunk to be questioned. Their parents must be proud. Thing is, I have seen people with parenting skills where this would not happen. How will 18c be applied? Will the school kid victims be chastised for being children of Jewish parents? It worked with Bolt. 

A comet is seen and it has a face on it. Nature is grand. God is great. Final arguments are being given in the Pistorius trial. Pistorius was offered the baton of truth in the event, and dropped it. He is without a defence or a leg to stand on. He shot his girlfriend for no reason and should serve a long term. $28k is how much Malaysian airlines was set to save in fuel costs for flying MH17 over Ukraine. I sympathise with them if it turns out Ukraine failed in her duty of care to warn of hostile activity. 

On this day in 322 BC the Athenian Democracy died when they failed to overthrow the Macedonians after Alexander died. In 461 the last great Roman emperor was beheaded by a rival who was supported by a jealous Senate. Which is why it was so hard to do anything worthwhile at the end of the Roman empire. In 626 the siege of Constantinople was abandoned after the besieging armies of Slavs and Avars began to believe the city had had divine help. In 1427 the Milanese attacked the Venetians and lost. In 1461 the Chinese Emperor's chair changed by coup. In 1714 the Russians had their first naval victory. In 1782 George Washington ordered the award of Purple Heart be made for wounded soldiers. In 1794 Washington ordered a crackdown on the Whiskey Rebellion. Fourteen years later in Sydney was to be the Rum Rebellion. Both rebellions involved the trade in liquor as currency. In 1858 the first AFL match was played between Melbourne and Scotch Grammar. In 1890 the last woman to be executed in Sweden was executed. In 1909 four women completed a road trip from NYC to San Francisco in 59 days. In 1930 the last confirmed lynching of blacks occurred .. in Indiana. In 1933, Iraqis slaughter some 3000 Assyrians. In 1944 IBM donated the first programmable calculator, called the Harvard Mark I. In 1955, Sony's parent company began selling transistor radios. In 1965 Hells Angels were permanently made part of organised crime at a Reyes Party. In 1970, in an effort to free a Black Panther, a California judge was taken hostage and killed. In 1998, Al Qaeda blew up two US embassies, one in Kenya and the other Nairobi. In 2008 Georgia fought Russia over territory. 
Historical perspective on this day
322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia.
461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
768 - Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammarand Scotch College.
1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.
1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.

1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marinesinitiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanaland Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterpartswhich refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolutiongiving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canaldue to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.

1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crashin Ethiopia.
1990 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

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Today's reading: Psalm 70-71, Romans 8:22-39 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 70-71

For the director of music. Of David. A petition.

1 Hasten, O God, to save me;
come quickly, LORD, to help me.
2 May those who want to take my life
be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
3 May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
turn back because of their shame.
4 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who long for your saving help always say,
"The LORD is great!"
5 But as for me, I am poor and needy;
come quickly to me, O God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
LORD, do not delay.

Today's New Testament reading: Romans 8:22-39

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently....

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning

"Watchman, what of the night?"
Isaiah 21:11
What enemies are abroad? Errors are a numerous horde, and new ones appear every hour: against what heresy am I to be on my guard? Sins creep from their lurking places when the darkness reigns; I must myself mount the watch-tower, and watch unto prayer. Our heavenly Protector foresees all the attacks which are about to be made upon us, and when as yet the evil designed us is but in the desire of Satan, he prays for us that our faith fail not, when we are sifted as wheat. Continue O gracious Watchman, to forewarn us of our foes, and for Zion's sake hold not thy peace.
"Watchman, what of the night?" What weather is coming for the Church? Are the clouds lowering, or is it all clear and fair overhead? We must care for the Church of God with anxious love; and now that Popery and infidelity are both threatening, let us observe the signs of the times and prepare for conflict.
"Watchman, what of the night?" What stars are visible? What precious promises suit our present case? You sound the alarm, give us the consolation also. Christ, the polestar, is ever fixed in his place, and all the stars are secure in the right hand of their Lord.
But watchman, when comes the morning? The Bridegroom tarries. Are there no signs of his coming forth as the Sun of Righteousness? Has not the morning star arisen as the pledge of day? When will the day dawn, and the shadows flee away? O Jesus, if thou come not in person to thy waiting Church this day, yet come in Spirit to my sighing heart, and make it sing for joy.
"Now all the earth is bright and glad
With the fresh morn;
But all my heart is cold, and dark and sad:
Sun of the soul, let me behold thy dawn!
Come, Jesus, Lord,
O quickly come, according to thy word."

Evening

"Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen."
Psalm 72:19

This is a large petition. To intercede for a whole city needs a stretch of faith, and there are times when a prayer for one man is enough to stagger us. But how far-reaching was the psalmist's dying intercession! How comprehensive! How sublime! "Let the whole earth be filled with his glory." It doth not exempt a single country however crushed by the foot of superstition; it doth not exclude a single nation however barbarous. For the cannibal as well as for the civilized, for all climes and races this prayer is uttered: the whole circle of the earth it encompasses, and omits no son of Adam. We must be up and doing for our Master, or we cannot honestly offer such a prayer. The petition is not asked with a sincere heart unless we endeavour, as God shall help us, to extend the kingdom of our Master. Are there not some who neglect both to plead and to labour? Reader, is it your prayer? Turn your eyes to Calvary. Behold the Lord of Life nailed to a cross, with the thorn-crown about his brow, with bleeding head, and hands, and feet. What! can you look upon this miracle of miracles, the death of the Son of God, without feeling within your bosom a marvellous adoration that language never can express? And when you feel the blood applied to your conscience, and know that he has blotted out your sins, you are not a man unless you start from your knees and cry, "Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen." Can you bow before the Crucified in loving homage, and not wish to see your Monarch master of the world? Out on you if you can pretend to love your Prince, and desire not to see him the universal ruler. Your piety is worthless unless it leads you to wish that the same mercy which has been extended to you may bless the whole world. Lord, it is harvest-time, put in thy sickle and reap.

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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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