Editorial on Biden's stunning 'success' in Afghanistan
Afghanistan under the thumb of the Taliban. Street lynching, political murder and freedoms quashed. That is Afghanistan as those who voted for Biden as President have achieved. A tarred man is lead with a noose down a street for a walk of shame. What was his crime? Or does it not matter if there was a crime, only that the terrorists can show their ability to assert their authority. Just like Biden locking up people who peacefully demonstrated on January 6th. How long will those peaceful demonstrators be detained? Eight months without a trial? They say justice delayed is justice denied. How long will Biden delay justice in Afghanistan?
I asked a colleague who liked Biden, what they thought God thought about Afghanistan. My friend said "God should never have been there"
Editorial on reimposition of Andrews Curfew
Australian news propaganda has Vic extension of lockdown as being necessary. And imposition of curfew, again, which failed last time. Why do left wing governments have to copy NAZI ideas on social organisation? From eugenics, family planning, public shaming, social isolation, removal of freedoms and environmentalism, it is almost as if some ageing NAZI is still funding their ideals world wide. Curfew and lockdown failed last time in Victoria, with over a hundred dying after being denied effective medication while crime tape was placed children's swings and roundabouts. The deaths were a direct result of Premier Andrews placing a bungling private security company over quarantine, a company closely connected with ALP and not subject to competitive bidding for the job. When asked about his decision, the Premier delayed answering for months, and then said he forgot.
Delta variant Covid is more transmissible than COVID 19, and less deadly, Less deadly than the common cold. And what is wrong with treating it with appropriate medication?
Editorial on Pell case and Deep state
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.
Editorial on Friday 13th
There used to be a 13th month. It spawned the idea of a blue moon which happens once a year. Robert Graves interpreted artwork from pre literacy Greece found that woman were the initial leaders of the Greeks, and they had three powerful gods, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. They were a kind of trinity, where Hera, cow eyed, was the older who saw wrongs when others didn't realise she was watching. Aphrodite was a mature, desirable woman. Pallas Athene was the child goddess, whose wisdom was like a sharp pre teen girl. Over time, Queens would adopt a king for a year. At the end of the year, the blue moon, the king would be sacrificed and his blood and bones would be fertiliser. Later still, prisoners might be sacrificed for the king.
The thirteenth month has disappeared from our calendar but still exists as a blue moon, sometimes defined as the month of the year with two moons.
The Code of Hammurabi left off the number 13 for reasons now unknown.
Apollo 13 came too late to be foundational, but my, it was inspiring.
The knights Templar were screwed before French King Philip stole their assets by accusing them of heresies and then torturing them to confess, beginning Friday 13th. They had lost everything when Jerusalem fell after 150 years when the language spoken there had been French. Jerusalem fell after Jerusalem's king's daughter was kidnapped, and so the king the left the safety of a fortress and was slaughtered in battle. The Knights Templar had the timeless duty of guarding Jerusalem and her antiquities. The Holy Grail legend may have been resurrected to impugn the Knights? I feel the knights were victims of a deep state within Christianity. Part of the chaff masquerading as wheat.
https://rumble.com/vl8jem-editorial-on-friday-13th.html
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From the Bible, 1 Corinthians 1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving
I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
A Church Divided Over Leaders
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, so no one can say that you were baptized in my name. (Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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Another troubling video emerges out of Afghanistan. In this episode, I address the video and I discuss Donald Trump’s powerful interview last night where he nails it.
News Picks:
- Is there a civil war brewing in Afghanistan?
- The latest Michael Anton article addressing the disaster in Afghanistan.
- Were we lied to about Afghanistan?
- The lucrative business of “woke” education.
- A big loss for the Democrats in a big blue senate seat.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
World on Fire: Biden’s Disastrous First Seven Months READ MOREBiden Admin Tells Americans Trapped In Afghanistan It “Cannot Guarantee” Their Safety To Airport
Crazy Nancy Attempts to Spin News of U.S. Military Equipment Falling Into Taliban’s Hands
Enhanced Federal Unemployment Benefits May End Slightly Earlier Than Expected
Taliban Murders Women for Not Wearing Burka on Same Day They Vow to Honor Women’s Rights
Rasmussen: One in Ten Dems Regrets Their 2020 Vote
Prince Andrew a Person of Interest in U.S. Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
Capitol Hill
Republican Flips State Senate Seat Where Biden Won by 25%
Gov. Cuomo Uses Final Days to Pardon Felons – Including Three Tied to Killings
“The Greatest Embarrassment in U.S. History” – Trump Rips Biden’s Afghan Disaster
Biden’s NatSec and China Policy Directors Were Fellows at CCP-Funded Center
Welcome to Biden’s American Carnage
Biden Has No Evacuation Plan Outside Kabul, Leaving Thousands of Americans Trapped
Biden to Extend Transportation Mask Mandate Through January 2022
Texas Supreme Court Approves Gov. Abbott’s Ban on Mask Mandates
Former VP Pence: Biden Broke Trump Admin’s Deal With Taliban
Culture War
Tennessee Governor Signs Executive Order Allowing Parents To Avoid Masking Their Children
Poll Reveals Who Believes America Is the Greatest Country on Earth
Thanks to Biden, We Are Perilously Close to a Post-American World
Top Google Engineer Says Company Rewrote Algorithms to Damage Trump
Carrie Underwood Under Fire for “Liking” Matt Walsh Tweet
Ben & Jerry’s Founder Doubles Down on Israel Boycott
Reuters Fact Checks Obvious Joke
Media Matters CEO Mocks Americans Stranded in Afghanistan
Americans’ Allegiance to National Anthem Remains Strong
Economy
Mortgage Sizes at Near-Record High as Loan Demand Falls
Crypto Platform That Was Victim of $600 Million Heist Asks Hacker to Become Their Chief Security Officer
Retail Sales Dip 1.1% in July
Homebuilder Confidence Falls to 13-Month Low
House Dem Dismisses Inflation Concerns as “False Advertisements”
Chinese Stocks Continue Falling as Nation Drafts Competition Rules
Index Funds Have Saved Investors $360 Billion in Fees
Demand for Gas Cars Clouds Biden’s Electric Vehicle Goals
Report: Sharp Rise in Job Openings With Vaccine Requirements
Swamp Watch
FBI Knew of Hunter Biden’s Missing Laptop as Early as December 2019
VP Harris to Visit Vietnam Following Biden’s Saigon Moment in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Fiasco Leads Many in Europe to Realize Biden Is a Total Moron
Gates Foundation Partnered With Group Running China’s COVID-19 Propaganda Operation
FBI Allegedly Told Informant in Gov. Whitmer Kidnapping/Entrapment Plot to Lie and Delete Messages
CCP Regime Takes Financial Stake in TikTok
AP Exam Forces Students to Falsely Say Voter ID Is Racist
NYC to Fine Businesses Serving the Unvaccinated Up to $2k
Twitter Says the Taliban Can Remain on Platform (But Not Trump)
National Security
Kabul Airport in Chaos Despite Assurances From White House
Joe Biden’s “Over-the-Horizon” Afghanistan Strategy Won’t Work
U.S. Withdrawal and Afghanistan Takeover Prompts Criticism Among Some NATO Alliance Members
How the Taliban Crushed the Afghan National Army So Easily
China Prepares for “Friendly Relations” With Taliban, Welcomes Development Projects
Will China Fall Into the Afghanistan Trap?
Should the U.S. Military Strengthen Deterrence By Becoming More Unpredictable?
The U.S. Navy’s Most Expensive Aircraft Carrier Has a Problem
Taliban Now Controls Unknown Amount Of Advanced American Weaponry
Around the World
Obama’s Ambassador to Afghanistan: I Have “Grave Questions” About Biden’s “Ability to Lead Our Nation”
Afghanistan’s First VP Claims to Be President of the Country
Survivors of Earthquake in Haiti Desperate for Food, Medical Attention and Shelter
White House: Biden Has Yet to Speak With Any World Leaders Since Fall of Kabul
NATO Warns Taliban of Military Strikes If They Host Terrorists Again
Sen. Bill Haggerty Claims There are Reports of Between 10,000 and 20,000 Stranded Americans in Afghanistan
Following Alleged “Provocations,” China Holds Assault Drills Near Taiwan
Up to 15k Americans Remain in Afghanistan With Only Hundreds Evacuated So Far
Opinion
Rachel Mardsen: Western Leaders Taking Cues on Oppression From the Taliban
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: Afghanistan: Biden’s Biggest Blunder! Now What?
Tommy Hicks: Afghanistan Disaster Is Another Biden-Created Crisis
Michelle Malkin: Endless Wars = Endless Refugees
Newt Gingrich: Afghanistan: President Biden’s Failure
Star Parker: Debacle in Afghanistan Symptom of Confusion at Home
Dennis Prager: “This Is Manifestly Not Saigon” and Our Society of Lies
Betsy McCaughey: Biden’s Dithering Doomed Afghanis
Entertainment
Stephen Colbert Compares Capitol Hill Rioters to Taliban
Drew Barrymore Assures Us She Bathes Her Daughters Every Weekday
Hollywood Celebs Place All of the Blame on Trump for Biden’s Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal
“American Pie” Singer Don McLean Receives Walk of Fame Star
Did Britney Spears Secretly Marry Jason Trawick in 2012?
“The Crown” Shares First Look Photos of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Upcoming Season
Daniel Craig: Inheritance is “Distasteful”, Will “Get Rid of Money”
Rumor: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees To “Completely Reject Any And All Vaccine Mandates”
Sports
Megan Rapinoe Might Call It Quits
Preseason Trade Has Giants Making Cornerback Swap With Packers
Steelers’ Alan Faneca Journey to Hall of Fame Amid Battle With Epilepsy Has Been “So Surreal”
Jamal Adams Agrees to Record-Setting Deal With Seahawks
Tim Tebow’s NFL Comeback Ends As Jaguars Release Him
Veteran Pitcher Rich Hill Hasn’t Been What the Mets Had Hoped
Yankees Win Another Wild One Over White Sox
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Newsmax TV
- Exiled Ghani Says he Left Kabul to Prevent Bloodshed
- Jalalabad Protests Turn Deadly as Taliban Consolidate Islamist Rule
- UN Starts Moving Some Staff Out of Afghanistan
- US Probing Deaths at Plane Takeoff in Kabul
- Taliban Destroy Statue of Shiite Foe From 1990s Civil War
- Taliban Pledge to Be 'Different' as Afghans Flee
- Lawmakers to Probe Biden WH Over 'Horrifying' Afghanistan Outcome
- Afghan Refugees Welcome in California, Gov. Newsom Says
- Biden in 2010, on Duty to Protect Afghans: '[Expletive] That'
Newsfront
- Rep. Dan Bishop: There Needs to Be an Afghanistan Commission
- Rep. James Comer: Biden Border Policies 'Changing America' |
- Rep. Babin: Taliban Got US Black Hawks Because of Poor Planning |
- Rep. Mast: Biden 'Does Not Deserve' to Stay in Office |
- Rep. Perry: US Enemies Laughing at 'Abject Failure' in Afghanistan |
- Rep. Tenney: Biden's Address 'Disappointing' and Too Late |
- HR McMaster: 'Inconsistent, Flawed Strategies' Lost Afghanistan |
Forty-five percent of voters say that former President Donald Trump [Full Story]
Viva Barnes News
1. Covid. Global concerns raised by doctors and scientists over the rushed Covid19 vaccine.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/57-top-scientists-doctors-release-shocking-study-covid-vaccines-demand-immediate-stop-all-vaccinations/5746848
2. Legal. Childrens Health Defense won a stunning victory against the FCC on 5G towers. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/chd-v-fcc-we-won-judgement.pdf
3. Economic. As @PeoplesPundit national polling reveals, economic confidence is in a rapid decline. https://peoplespundit.locals.com/post/967750/registered-voter-economic-confidence-index-late-summer
4. Political. As @PeoplesPundit national poll also reports, most Americans oppose people losing their jobs over a vaccine mandate. https://twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1427813113336893449?s=20
5. Cultural. The Raiders will face a lawsuit over their decision to strip seat holders of access to the stadium based on vaccination status, when they do not even allow religious or medical exemptions.
- Bonus: Alabama football preview by yours truly!
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I came here hoping you were different to any other awful Democrat policy excuse of my adult life. This is not that. To say that staying in Afghanistan is a mistake does not excuse the fact that the method of draw down chosen by Biden is tragic. What Biden did, with his administration, is inexcusable. Surrendering US assets to terrorists? Those who served freedom, who will be executed by terrorists alongside those too timid was never going to be an excusable outcome. It is not regional politics which the US must engage in. It is transactional policy which should be for US interests. Maybe you feel Cold War is an ideal? In the more than fifty years since LBJ first ensured the US would be defeated in Vietnam, Democrats are still holding the flag of defeatism and elitism.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan. After al-Qaeda terrorists attacked us on 9/11, brave warriors, special forces quickly deployed to defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They accomplished their mission rapidly and effectively. THAT is when they should have returned home. But the elite wanted to nation-build, getting us into a 20-year war with no clear mission or strategy, causing massive suffering and wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars.
Afghanistan. The question is this: Will we hold accountable the elite (political leaders, MSM, military leaders, and defense contractors, etc.) who got us into and kept us in this foolish, short-sighted mission to turn Afghanistan into a “democracy”—costing over a trillion dollars and countless lives? Unlikely. And will we blindly allow the elite to drag us into new, even more costly military adventures in the name of spreading/protecting “democracy”? Probably.
Out of aloha, we weep for the suffering that the elite have already caused; and out of aloha, we must stop them from causing even more.
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"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song, whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith. The melody is that of the British national anthem, God Save the Queen, although Smith encountered it by way of a German adaptation. The song served as a de facto national anthem of the United States before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official anthem
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Turnbull had co-opted Peter Costello and the Clinton Foundation to roll Abbott in 2015. He had needed the Clinton Foundation to link him into Gillard's "Women hate Abbott" campaign. That campaign was not based on truth, but on perception. Turnbull supporters seeking a change so as to advance themselves were working in other states than NSW. Turnbull had supporters in NSW too. In Victoria, an internal Liberal Party poll was commissioned that would walk into the campaign "Women hate Abbott." The poll would find very few women would vote for Abbott and was deemed to show Abbott could not win the next election because "Women would never vote for him." It was an absurd assertion but fed by the campaign.
Julie Bishop as foreign minister had paid the Clinton Foundation with foreign aid money to get the expertise internationally. Swamp press internationally promptly raised the question of Abbott's relationship with women. An Abbott comment on dealing with Putin after Ukraine got a civilian aircraft shot down, de-escalating hysteria aimed at Putin, said he would 'shirt front' Putin on the issue. Press enthusiastically misunderstood the comment. Not wanting to de-escalate the issue, media claimed Abbott's hyper manly-ness with sport confused the international community. Bare chested images of Abbott and Putin were circulated by CNN.
Abbott provided for a campaign to discuss the issue of gay marriage. He had not wanted to fracture the conservatives, or the nation, on the issue. So ALP claimed he should legislate it without asking the public. Penny Wong, who had opposed same sex marriage while in government, demanded Abbott impose it. Turnbull, upon dumping Abbott, silenced debate by funding only one side adequately, and railroaded it through parliament with ALP support, claiming Abbott had initiated it.
But even with the Clinton Foundation providing swamp creature support, Turnbull would not have rolled Abbott without Peter Costello's support, and that came with another cost. Costello would have wanted to end the undermining within the party and allow the party to unify and prosecute conservative policy. Turnbull's undermining of Abbott (and Howard and Nelson) had prevented the party from addressing policy which was needed to get community support on conservative issues. So long as Turnbull harnessed the Liberal Party machine, he would be worthwhile. Costello included redundancy with a succession. If Turnbull failed there could be generational change with Scott Morrison. Turnbull accepted the conditions and as a show of faith, approached the IPA and promised he would back free speech as well as their broader agenda. Turnbull also approached independent senators and promised them a face saving agenda for them if he was given a clear run, and they opposed Abbott's policies.
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.
Julie Bishop as foreign minister had paid the Clinton Foundation with foreign aid money to get the expertise internationally. Swamp press internationally promptly raised the question of Abbott's relationship with women. An Abbott comment on dealing with Putin after Ukraine got a civilian aircraft shot down, de-escalating hysteria aimed at Putin, said he would 'shirt front' Putin on the issue. Press enthusiastically misunderstood the comment. Not wanting to de-escalate the issue, media claimed Abbott's hyper manly-ness with sport confused the international community. Bare chested images of Abbott and Putin were circulated by CNN.
Abbott provided for a campaign to discuss the issue of gay marriage. He had not wanted to fracture the conservatives, or the nation, on the issue. So ALP claimed he should legislate it without asking the public. Penny Wong, who had opposed same sex marriage while in government, demanded Abbott impose it. Turnbull, upon dumping Abbott, silenced debate by funding only one side adequately, and railroaded it through parliament with ALP support, claiming Abbott had initiated it.
But even with the Clinton Foundation providing swamp creature support, Turnbull would not have rolled Abbott without Peter Costello's support, and that came with another cost. Costello would have wanted to end the undermining within the party and allow the party to unify and prosecute conservative policy. Turnbull's undermining of Abbott (and Howard and Nelson) had prevented the party from addressing policy which was needed to get community support on conservative issues. So long as Turnbull harnessed the Liberal Party machine, he would be worthwhile. Costello included redundancy with a succession. If Turnbull failed there could be generational change with Scott Morrison. Turnbull accepted the conditions and as a show of faith, approached the IPA and promised he would back free speech as well as their broader agenda. Turnbull also approached independent senators and promised them a face saving agenda for them if he was given a clear run, and they opposed Abbott's policies.
Turnbull never honoured promises made to achieve leadership to Costello. Nikki Savva and Miranda Devine remained as cheerleaders for Turnbull as he left free speech on the shelf, burned independent senators and kept undermining Liberal team members like Scott Morrison. One issue which is still growing is the need for tax cuts for business. Turnbull has tanked on that, half heartedly putting forward a small cut when substantial ones are needed, long term, to prevent capital flight or increasing drift. When Turnbull did badly at election, he used the one seat majority to threaten he would end government if he lost the leadership. Faced with by-elections Liberals should have won, an awful health policy on medical records was floated to prevent a win increasing the one seat majority. The policy was amended after the lost opportunity.
A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.
Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. On her ALP news feed, Williams has announced the ALP are celebrating the efforts of volunteers. One winner last year worked with transgender people. One local shortlisted for a prize works with new migrants from diverse ethnic communities. Volunteering is essential for a community to grow. One thing ignored by the ALP government is the efforts of diverse communities to provide shelter and community to the homeless and dispossessed. In fact Dandenong cannot even support a growing Christian community with a place of worship. They don't look for hand outs, but to serve. But Andrews' government is politicising the issue to promote itself. It is cheaper to back institutions that support volunteers. Considering the Red Shirt issue, ALP does not support, but exploits volunteers. minimally rewarding one a year.
A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.
Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. On her ALP news feed, Williams has announced the ALP are celebrating the efforts of volunteers. One winner last year worked with transgender people. One local shortlisted for a prize works with new migrants from diverse ethnic communities. Volunteering is essential for a community to grow. One thing ignored by the ALP government is the efforts of diverse communities to provide shelter and community to the homeless and dispossessed. In fact Dandenong cannot even support a growing Christian community with a place of worship. They don't look for hand outs, but to serve. But Andrews' government is politicising the issue to promote itself. It is cheaper to back institutions that support volunteers. Considering the Red Shirt issue, ALP does not support, but exploits volunteers. minimally rewarding one a year.
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. Sarah Hanson-Young made sense when she accidentally said in parliament that Sarah Hanson Young approved cuts to spending on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). But it was a slip of the tongue. She had meant that Pauline Hanson had the sensible policy. World press are pointing to the exit of Steve Bannon from Trump's advisory group as some dramatic reversal of fortune for Trump. Bannon was instrumental in getting Trump elected. But, Bannon is a great campaigner, and what Trump needs now is a different kind of fish who is good at networking. Bannon leaves on good terms.
On this day in 295 BC, the first temple of Venus was dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. The Samnite wars were fights for the Italian peninsular and involved Rome, Samnites, Etruscans and Gauls. At the Battle of Sentinum, Rome faced all three foes. Rome had forty thousand, and the coalition had eighty thousand troops. So, Mus, the Roman leader, sent a raiding party into Etruscan and Gaulish lands causing thirty thousand coalition troops to withdraw. Then Mus agreed to fight. Mus was a cavalry officer and his division did well until it met Gallic chariots. Mus sacrificed himself, which rallied his men and Rome won the day. Rome lost eight thousand men. The coalition lost over twenty five thousand dead. Over the next five years, Rome would secure her legacy unchallenged until Pyrrhus invaded. Meanwhile Gurges, as Consul of Rome, fined noble women living dissolute lives and used the proceeds to build the temple.
A year after the assassination of Julius Caeser, in 43BC, Octavian compelled the Roman senate to elect him consul. In 1153, Baldwin III of Jerusalem took control of Jerusalem from his mother, Melisende. He was some 23 years old and ten years later would be dead and childless, leaving the throne to his brother, Amalric. She was six days old when her father died, five years old when she went to France, but on this day in 1561, the eighteen year old Mary Queen of Scots returned to Scotland from France, a year after the Scottish Reformation Parliament had declared Scotland was protestant. She was widow to the 16 year old King Francis II of France. In 1612, the Samlesbury Witch Trial resulted in three women, accused by a fourteen year old Sowerbutts, being found innocent. Grace Sowerbutts was a granddaughter to one of the accused and had claimed they could transform themselves into dogs. Later it turned out Grace had been coached by a priest. Another accuser, peddler John Law had said one of the women had asked him for a pin. He refused, and then she gave him a stroke. In 1666, English Admiral Robert Holmes attacked 140 trading vessels, burning them down. It was later called Holmes' Bonfire.The Salem Witch Trials mainly had women being executed, but on this day in 1692, four men, including a clergyman, and one woman, were hanged. Some say the Salem case is related to ergot poisoning. In 1812 two ships faced off, USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere. They had a long dogfight in which the Constitution won out, and would later be nicknamed "Old Ironsides." At the end of the conflict, the Constitution sent a raft to the other ship to ask if the captain surrendered. He replied "Well, Sir, I don't know. Our mizzen mast is gone, our fore and main masts are gone - I think on the whole you might say we have struck our flag." In 1839, the French government declared the Daguerre photographic process was a gift "free to the world." In 1848, news of the Gold Rush reached New York. In 1895, John Wesley Hardin, a serial killer gunman, was approached by John Selman Sr while Hardin was drinking at a bar. Selman approached Hardin from behind, and shot him in the head, then fired three more shots into the corpse. Hardin had earlier argued with Selman over the arrest of his prostitute friend who had been handling a gun in public. In 1909, Indianapolis had her first motor car race.
In 1934, 89.9% of Germany voted in favour of the new position of Fuhrer for Hitler. In 1942, Canadians, experimenting with amphibious landings for Normandy, attempted to land a brigade at Dieppe, failing with many killed and captured. In 1944, Paris rose against her Nazi oppressors with the help of allied forces. In 1960, downed US U2 pilot, Gary Powers, was sentenced to ten years prison by the Soviet Union. Also in 1960, the Soviet Union launched Korabl-Sputnik 2 with dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. The capsule returned safely. In 1981 two Libyan Sukhoi-Su-22 fighter jets fired on two US F-14 Tomcats and the Tomcats won. In 1989 the Polish President appointed Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to the position of PM, the first non communist leader of Poland in 42 years. In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was on holiday when he was placed under house arrest during a coup. Meanwhile in NYC Black activist groups targeted Hasidic Jews after a road accident. In 1999, in Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbs rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia PresidentSlobodan Milošević. In 2003, an Iran backed terrorist group car bombed the UN headquarters in Iraq killing 22. Also an Iran backed Hamas executed a suicide attack on a bus in Israel, killing 23. In 2010, US withdrew from Iraq.
On this day in 295 BC, the first temple of Venus was dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. The Samnite wars were fights for the Italian peninsular and involved Rome, Samnites, Etruscans and Gauls. At the Battle of Sentinum, Rome faced all three foes. Rome had forty thousand, and the coalition had eighty thousand troops. So, Mus, the Roman leader, sent a raiding party into Etruscan and Gaulish lands causing thirty thousand coalition troops to withdraw. Then Mus agreed to fight. Mus was a cavalry officer and his division did well until it met Gallic chariots. Mus sacrificed himself, which rallied his men and Rome won the day. Rome lost eight thousand men. The coalition lost over twenty five thousand dead. Over the next five years, Rome would secure her legacy unchallenged until Pyrrhus invaded. Meanwhile Gurges, as Consul of Rome, fined noble women living dissolute lives and used the proceeds to build the temple.
A year after the assassination of Julius Caeser, in 43BC, Octavian compelled the Roman senate to elect him consul. In 1153, Baldwin III of Jerusalem took control of Jerusalem from his mother, Melisende. He was some 23 years old and ten years later would be dead and childless, leaving the throne to his brother, Amalric. She was six days old when her father died, five years old when she went to France, but on this day in 1561, the eighteen year old Mary Queen of Scots returned to Scotland from France, a year after the Scottish Reformation Parliament had declared Scotland was protestant. She was widow to the 16 year old King Francis II of France. In 1612, the Samlesbury Witch Trial resulted in three women, accused by a fourteen year old Sowerbutts, being found innocent. Grace Sowerbutts was a granddaughter to one of the accused and had claimed they could transform themselves into dogs. Later it turned out Grace had been coached by a priest. Another accuser, peddler John Law had said one of the women had asked him for a pin. He refused, and then she gave him a stroke. In 1666, English Admiral Robert Holmes attacked 140 trading vessels, burning them down. It was later called Holmes' Bonfire.The Salem Witch Trials mainly had women being executed, but on this day in 1692, four men, including a clergyman, and one woman, were hanged. Some say the Salem case is related to ergot poisoning. In 1812 two ships faced off, USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere. They had a long dogfight in which the Constitution won out, and would later be nicknamed "Old Ironsides." At the end of the conflict, the Constitution sent a raft to the other ship to ask if the captain surrendered. He replied "Well, Sir, I don't know. Our mizzen mast is gone, our fore and main masts are gone - I think on the whole you might say we have struck our flag." In 1839, the French government declared the Daguerre photographic process was a gift "free to the world." In 1848, news of the Gold Rush reached New York. In 1895, John Wesley Hardin, a serial killer gunman, was approached by John Selman Sr while Hardin was drinking at a bar. Selman approached Hardin from behind, and shot him in the head, then fired three more shots into the corpse. Hardin had earlier argued with Selman over the arrest of his prostitute friend who had been handling a gun in public. In 1909, Indianapolis had her first motor car race.
In 1934, 89.9% of Germany voted in favour of the new position of Fuhrer for Hitler. In 1942, Canadians, experimenting with amphibious landings for Normandy, attempted to land a brigade at Dieppe, failing with many killed and captured. In 1944, Paris rose against her Nazi oppressors with the help of allied forces. In 1960, downed US U2 pilot, Gary Powers, was sentenced to ten years prison by the Soviet Union. Also in 1960, the Soviet Union launched Korabl-Sputnik 2 with dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. The capsule returned safely. In 1981 two Libyan Sukhoi-Su-22 fighter jets fired on two US F-14 Tomcats and the Tomcats won. In 1989 the Polish President appointed Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to the position of PM, the first non communist leader of Poland in 42 years. In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was on holiday when he was placed under house arrest during a coup. Meanwhile in NYC Black activist groups targeted Hasidic Jews after a road accident. In 1999, in Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbs rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia PresidentSlobodan Milošević. In 2003, an Iran backed terrorist group car bombed the UN headquarters in Iraq killing 22. Also an Iran backed Hamas executed a suicide attack on a bus in Israel, killing 23. In 2010, US withdrew from Iraq.
=== from 2016 ===
We as a community are not the cause of violence in our community. We don't deserve the violence. We don't deserve the abuse. We shouldn't live with fear of going out. We should be able to speak to police and engage them when we are threatened. But there is much that is done and said which suggests we as a community are responsible for that which victimises us. By accepting drugs, and sometimes dithering over what illegal drugs are, we invite into our community terrible problems. Last year, an elite AFL coach was murdered by his son. Today we are told the son was mentally ill and will not face murder charges as he was not competent. Apparently, the son was a habitual drug user. If he is dry, how long will it be before he is cured? There is not enough police to do their job if we excuse drug use. But killing all those involved is not the answer either, as the Phillipines is now illustrating. How long before someone gets it wrong? We, as a community have to be responsible. Not controlling and manipulative, as one 22 yo female athlete discovered after she got home after a big night out, without permission.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Kidnapped German teen found killed. Her father was guilty of the crime of being relatively wealthy. But apparently the kidnappers messed up and thought she could identify them, so they killed her. They are all thought to be arrested now. It is a horrible reminder that despite the angst over the means of violence, like guns, it is the perpetrators of violence that count in terms of committing the crimes. Too often such low life scum are given scripts that give reasons for their behaviour. There is no reason. They wanted money without working for it, they maybe wanted to kidnap a pretty girl. They wanted to hurt or kill to see what it is like and experience the thrill. Maybe a German prison can reform them. But will German justice reform them when world wide education raised their expectation?
Thailand explosions might be political or might be jihad. It looks political at the moment, one suspect whom authorities believe had support. But jihadists sometimes hide behind local issues. Also the socialist government can't be trusted to say what actually happened. Of course they would blame their political enemies. The socialist government of Thailand has built up resentment and anger from their bad policy. It doesn't make terrorism right.
The cost of business compliance in Australia is very high. So that it seems impossible for anyone to make a profit from doing business. How does a cake shop in a shopping mall make a profit? The business owner has to pay for their franchise, for their rent, for refitting their shop so that it meets franchise standards. And then it has to compete, sometimes, with badly placed competitors. If some of that red tape and compliance cost was removed, the business would be more profitable and it could hire people, probably young people. The high compliance cost of business is tightly wound with union corruption. Union corruption is not a victimless crime. By gouging business, they make business more expensive. By gouging their own members, they make themselves parasites. Union leaders are parasites on union workers.
Thailand explosions might be political or might be jihad. It looks political at the moment, one suspect whom authorities believe had support. But jihadists sometimes hide behind local issues. Also the socialist government can't be trusted to say what actually happened. Of course they would blame their political enemies. The socialist government of Thailand has built up resentment and anger from their bad policy. It doesn't make terrorism right.
The cost of business compliance in Australia is very high. So that it seems impossible for anyone to make a profit from doing business. How does a cake shop in a shopping mall make a profit? The business owner has to pay for their franchise, for their rent, for refitting their shop so that it meets franchise standards. And then it has to compete, sometimes, with badly placed competitors. If some of that red tape and compliance cost was removed, the business would be more profitable and it could hire people, probably young people. The high compliance cost of business is tightly wound with union corruption. Union corruption is not a victimless crime. By gouging business, they make business more expensive. By gouging their own members, they make themselves parasites. Union leaders are parasites on union workers.
From 2014
He is a wealthy man, atm, not a very smart man or a gifted orator, but Clive Palmers spray against Chinese people will also be a lousy legal defence as to why over ten million dollars seems to have been misappropriated from Chinese business for Palmer to be elected to government. In fact if it is his defence, that he felt entitled to the money, he won't be wealthy for long. Or in parliament. But his followers aren't going to let him say something stupid alone. Enter Jackie Lambie claiming Australia could defend an impending Chinese invasion with twice the number of soldiers in the defence force. She hasn't outlined where she would position these defenders or why only 116000 men would suffice where 58000 would not against China's 2.2 million Red Army. One really interesting thing regarding Palmer's tirade was how ALP's token ethnic figure, Penny Wong, didn't comment on it. Gillard declared she would denounce misogyny wherever she saw it (Gillard didn't see it in the Middle East). Wong might have spoken up for dictatorial communist Chinese peoples. I suppose if they must invade they will. I don't see Lambie doubling the defence force any time soon. Because to do so, the government would have to cut spending somewhere.
Historical perspective on this day
295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
947 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Escalon.
43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
947 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Escalon.
1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-NormanFitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 – Mary, Queen of Scots, who was 18 years old, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic processis a gift "free to the world".
1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakotachief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 – American Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
1909 – The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1927 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against Germanoccupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched.
1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
1978 – In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 – A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigadecombat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Today's reading: Psalm 100-102, 1 Corinthians 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 100-102
A psalm. For giving grateful praise.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations....
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-their Lord and ours:
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving
4 I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. 5 For in him you have been enriched in every way-with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge- 6God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. 7Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8 He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord...
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. If the thousands who will read this portion shall all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, he will interfere and avert the evil which else will come upon his Church. To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation, an unsaved community of unconverted men.
Our zeal must, however, begin at home. Let us examine ourselves as to our right to eat at the Lord's table. Let us see to it that we have on our wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord's sanctuaries. Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God's elect. He who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of his two ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I must not touch them lest I die. Heart searching is the duty of all who are baptized or come to the Lord's table. "Search me, O God, and know my way, try me and know my heart."
Evening
A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine-cup from his lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of God stood of old, and as he looked down upon our globe he measured the long descent to the utmost depths of human misery; he cast up the sum total of all the agonies which expiation would require, and abated not a jot. He solemnly determined that to offer a sufficient atoning sacrifice he must go the whole way, from the highest to the lowest, from the throne of highest glory to the cross of deepest woe. This myrrhed cup, with its soporific influence, would have stayed him within a little of the utmost limit of misery, therefore he refused it. He would not stop short of all he had undertaken to suffer for his people. Ah, how many of us have pined after reliefs to our grief which would have been injurious to us! Reader, did you never pray for a discharge from hard service or suffering with a petulant and wilful eagerness? Providence has taken from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Say, Christian, if it had been said, "If you so desire it, that loved one of yours shall live, but God will be dishonoured," could you have put away the temptation, and said, "Thy will be done"? Oh, it is sweet to be able to say, "My Lord, if for other reasons I need not suffer, yet if I can honour thee more by suffering, and if the loss of my earthly all will bring thee glory, then so let it be. I refuse the comfort, if it comes in the way of thine honour." O that we thus walked more in the footsteps of our Lord, cheerfully enduring trial for his sake, promptly and willingly putting away the thought of self and comfort when it would interfere with our finishing the work which he has given us to do. Great grace is needed, but great grace is provided.
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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
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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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