Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Tue 10th 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/vkwsjh-ep.-1580-about-the-donald-trump-interview-the-dan-bongino-show.html
In this episode, I discuss the controversial edit in the Donald Trump interview on my Fox show. I also address the outrageous weekend interviews by “public health” officials promoting coronavirus hysteria.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Panic: Gov. Cuomo Reportedly Trying to Make Deal in Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Impeachment READ MORE

Mexico’s President Wants the Southern Border More Open Than It Already Is

Defense Sec to Mandate COVID Vaccine for U.S. Military by September 15

Trump Slams Biden’s Border Crisis for Spreading COVID

Dems to Begin Debating $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution That Includes Amnesty, Free Community College, and More

NYC Officials and Small Businesses Protest Against de Blasio’s Vaccine Mandate

Job Openings Top 10 Million for First Time Ever as Epic Labor Shortage Persists

Capitol Hill
GOP Will Remove Reps. Omar and Swalwell From Committees If They Take Back House in 2022
AOC Says She Hasn’t Ruled Out Primarying Schumer in 2022
NY Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Thinks She May Replace Gov. Cuomo Within Weeks
Sen. John Thune: Biden, Dems’ Reckless Tax-and-Spending Spree Would Decimate Family Farms and Businesses
Trump Says Infrastructure Bill Is the “Beginning of the Green New Deal”
Sen. Manchin Asks Fed to Taper Monetary Stimulus, Citing Inflation
Senators Introduce Bill to Expand Federal Judiciary by 77 Judges
Ronna McDaniel: Trump Is Still the Leader of the GOP
Georgia Ballots Rejected by Machines Were Later Altered by Election Workers
Gov. Cuomo’s “Enforcer” Melissa DeRosa Resigns
Woman Accusing Gov. Cuomo of Groping Reveals Identity in New Interview

Culture War
CNN Helps Raise $230k for “Single Mom Facing Eviction” – Turns Out She Wasn’t the Mother
Time’s Up for the Founder of Time’s Up
Fund for Victims of Jeffrey Epstein Pays Out Nearly $125 Million
Antifa Attacks Families at Christian Prayer Event in Portland
PayPal the Latest Company to Succumb to Woke Pressure
Most Americans See Political Correctness as a Threat to Free Speech
Melania Trump Fires Back at NBC News’ Presidential Historian
Oregon Students Can Now Graduate Without Proving They Can Read, Write, or Do Math
Chicago Mayor After Officer Is Shot and Killed: Some Say We Do Too Much for the Police
Guests Forced to Delete Photos and Videos Offering Glimpse Inside Packed Obama Birthday Bash
“Defund the Police” Means Law and Order Only for the Elites

Economy
Aaron Rupar Flubs the Facts Again
White House Excludes Tesla From Clean Vehicle Event
SEC Has Few “Regulatory Bullets” on Cryptocurrency
18 Senate Republicans Vote to End Debate on Infrastructure Bill, Moving $1 Trillion Plan Closer to Approval
Federal Judge Rules Norwegian Cruise Line Can Require Florida Passengers to Show Proof of Vaccination
7.5 Million to Lose Enhanced Federal Unemployment Benefits in September
Warren Buffet Slows Buybacks and Sells Stocks With Markets at Highs
Indicted Ex-Nikola Chairman Sells $77 Million in Stock
No Shortage of Shortages: McDonalds Faces Bag Shortage
Bill Gates’ Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein May Have More Layers Than Originally Thought
Saudi Aramco’s Profit Jumps 300% on Oil Demand Recovery

Swamp Watch
CNN and MSNBC See Drop in “Trust” Ratings as Fox Rises
Newt Gingrich Blasts Pelosi: She’s Becoming a Dictator
“Dr. Lockdown” Neil Ferguson Now Admits His Dire Predictions Were “Off” – Doubts New Lockdowns Will Be Necessary
Sweden’s “No Lockdown” Experiment Is Looking Like a Success
American Federation of Teachers President Flip Flops, Now Favors Mandatory Vaccines for Teachers
Princeton Offers Black Lives Matter Course Including Readings From Avowed Marxist
Infrastructure Bill Rewards Blue States With Federal Money for Driving Up Immigration Levels
20% of “Migrant” Children Test Positive for COVID After Release by CBP

National Security
Delta IV: The Russian Nuclear Missile Submarine That Can Kill Billions
Is the Woke U.S. Military Going the Way of 1940’s France?
Shkval: The Navy Can’t Match Russia’s 200 Mile-Per Hour Super Torpedo
Sail-Powered Drone May Serve As a High-Endurance Submarine Hunter
U.S. Sends B-52 Bombers, Gunships Into Action in Afghanistan to Try to Stop Taliban Advance on Key Cities
U.S. Army Nixes Transfer Plan, Will Keep Six Sites in Europe
Pentagon Reveals Evidence of Iran’s Responsibility in Tanker Attack
Identity of Slain Chicago Officer Revealed as 29-Year-Old Ella French

Around the World
2000-Year-Old Fast Food Joint Discovered in Pompeii to Reopen to the Public This Summer
Gaza Resort Bombed by ISIS-Affiliates for Hosting Mixed-Gender Concert
Taliban Captures Third Afghanistan Capital
Support for Japan’s PM Suga at Record Low as Olympic Games Close
Peru’s New Govt Looking at Natural Gas, Hydroelectric Sectors for Public Companies
Lyubov Sobol, Prominent Ally of Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny, Flees Russia
Biden Envoy Stresses to Brazil’s Bolsonaro the Importance of Not Undermining Elections

Opinion
Michael Goodwin: Gov. Cuomo, at Least Nixon Had the Decency to Quit
Kevin McCullough: Don’t Bash Obama’s Birthday Bash, Demand It!
NY Post Editorial Board: Dems Should Keep Their Grubby Paws off Americans’ Retirement Savings
Derek Hunter: These Democrats Deserve Your Contempt
Victor Davis Hanson: COVID Vaccinations – Team Biden Should Look In the Mirror Before Pointing Fingers
Teri Christoph: Biden’s Presidency Has Been a Disappointment for Women
Cyrus Yaqubi: The Right Policy Towards the New President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi

Entertainment
Meghan Markle Called “Shallow” By Her Half-Brother, Thomas Markle, Jr.
Here’s the City Hollywood Actors Are Flocking to During the Pandemic
Unlike Other Stars, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Says He Bathes
Markie Post, “Night Court” and “The Fall Guy” Actress, Dead at 70
Trevor Moore, Co-founder of Comedy Group “Whitest Kids U Know”, Dead at 41
Hollywood Elites Planning Fundraiser to Help Gov Newsom Fight Recall Effort
Judy Garland’s Three Children Discuss Growing Up With the Iconic Star
“Shark Tank” Star Kevin O’Leary, aka “Mr. Wonderful” Has a New Show

Sports
Baseball Fan Falsely Accused of Using Racial Slur at Rockies/Marlins Game
U.S. Comes Roaring Back to Edge Out China for Most Gold Medals
Legendary Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden Dead at 91
Paris Olympic Games to Be Even Woker: More “Inclusive, Gender-Balanced”
The Yankees’ Winning Streak Has Come to an End
IOC President Thomas Back Declares the Olympics Officially Over
Olympic Viewership Hits Two Record Lows, Two Nights in a Row
Awful Mets Road Trip Ends With Even More Misery
Former Teammate Predicts Aaron Rodgers Will Join Saints in 2022
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
The Democrat state lawmakers fled Texas and landed in the nation's capital in a bid to keep Lone Star State Republicans from achieving as quorum and passing a controversial election law overhaul. They'd been under an arrest threat in the days since. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Rep. Norman: GOP Sens 'Laying There' for 'Locomotive' Bill


Newsfront
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Monday against travel to Israel, France, Thailand, Iceland and several other countries because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in those nations.The CDC has been adding to its highest "Level 4: Very...... [Full Story]

'Not Normal.' Ex-Cuomo Aide Details Groping Allegations

An aide who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her said in [Full Story]
Viva Barnes News

1. Covid. In terms of transmission risk, the results from Iceland continue to raise questions about the vaccine's efficacy in reducing transmission, as Iceland is "experiencing its largest wave of Covid-19 infections despite close to 100% of adults being vaccinated." https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/08/09/iceland-is-experiencing-its-largest-covid-19-wave-to-date-despite-nearly-100-of-all-adults-being-vaccinated/

2. Legal. Showing how bad the federal judiciary is on this issue, a federal judge in Florida prohibited Florida from enforcing its law against vaccine passports. It's the nuttiest interpretation of the First Amendment I've ever seen, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander, so I might try it in reverse against the vaccine mandates. https://www.politico.com/states/f/?id=0000017b-2848-d1e7-a1fb-3acd5a420000

3. Economic. Turns out the debt-printing solution to the lockdowns ain't working, and ain't likely to. https://realinvestmentadvice.com/was-that-the-peak-of-economic-growth-earnings/

4. Political. Now you know why Georgia wouldn't publish the ballots. Folks already spotting examples of ballots improperly counted for Biden when the ballot marked Trump. Also shows the power of using the Open Records Act to get access to these ballots. "Scores of additional ballots that same day had checks manually removed next to Trump's name" and "the votes awarded instead to Biden or other candidates." https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-ballot-adjudication-spoiled

5. Cultural. Big-budget Hollywood continue to face a customer backlash, especially Disney, as it is set to lose $200M on Jungle Cruise. https://ombreviews.com/box-office-tracking/

Bonus. Lawyers threaten waitress for her yelp review, then try to sue her for 10 times more than she even had. Upside: waitress won and the lawyers had to pay her lawyer's legal fees. https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/heres-what-happened-when-a-law-firm-sued-a-20-year-old-waitress-for-posting-a-ba.html

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Here is a video I made Big Heart
Big Heart is two stories, originally titled 'Beating Heart' and 'Broken Heart.'
Sam is 14 years old, and dreams of making it big in the world. Only thing is, he gets no respect at school or at home. He has friends that deal in drugs, and he thinks he might make a success of it, but then people begin to die and Sam needs to work fast to escape the hole he has dug himself.
David Daniel Ball, wrote and narrated this story. It was originally published in the 'Werewolves of Wynyard' collection. 

text version at 

David Daniel Ball

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) stands for basic Libertarian values and aspirations. They have embedded in some universities which still allow critical thought, which sadly is not all of them. Some are against the tide, like at Sydney University where a lecturer worries about privacy for those planning suicide bombings, but a lecturer gets banned if they are labelled conservative. In Birmingham, UK, a university has plans to reverse mentor pale university lecturers who might not be left wing.The betrayal of trust by old guard universities who embrace left wing fads is awful, and I'm thankful the IPA stands for, and reinforces cultural assets like learning institutions.

I'm contributing to QUORA, a question and answer site that can be a bit addictive.

At what point does news evolve into history? Are students in school studying 9/11 in history class? The most recent elections? When does history start to make its judgments?

Colloquially, for the West, there is Ancient History, Medieval History, Renaissance, Modern History and Recent History. The problem with Recent History is it is highly influenced by current politics.

Ancient History in the west extends from pre history to the fall of Rome. Medieval History finishes at the Renaissance. Renaissance finishes with the French Revolution. Modern History probably finishes at the moment with the end of the first cold war circa 1990. When studied Modern History at school, my teachers said that the Vietnam War was too recent to be evaluated properly. But then one of my teachers was a Leninist and another was a socialist. They all decided the peace movement was a grass roots thing entirely reliant on US military ‘aggression.’ How would they evaluate Obama’s new Cold War? How would they evaluate Bill Clinton? How would they evaluate Trump?

We study history to understand the present. If we weigh down our political expectations we skew our analysis. Even so, we still aren’t able to recognise Truman’s nuclear strikes on Japan as war crimes. We still don’t criticise Clinton on Rwanda or former Yugoslavia. History is not a series of cheers for one side and boos for the other. And yet many say JFK was great, and died too soon. The truth is his presidency was awful and he died too soon. I feel that after 2020, it will be recognised President George W Bush will be recognised as truly great. Not before, because Trump needs to stamp on him to get his second term. How long before historians realise that the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan played a really unfortunate role in Rwanda?

One may quibble with my arbitrary demarcations, they are not hard and fast. The renaissance is ongoing. There are more ways of breaking down the time periods.

Students are studying 9/11 right now. But those doing so are studying the politics of their teachers.

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. Following is an answer in QUORA.

What is the most morally corrupt thing that has ever gone unpunished or without justice?

Because the event is recent I must be careful about this. This is not my story, but based on things I know to have happened.

Many unjust things happen and it is impossible to weigh them. The persecution of Jews for millennia is a monstrous wrong committed by my Christian brothers and sisters, as well as others. I cannot right that wrong, but I stand for an independent strong Jewish state in Israel. Disraeli is reputed to have said “Two thousand years of Christian love has left the Jews feeling nervous.” But Disraeli, while from a Jewish family, was Christian. Jews don’t like Christians evangelising to them as it is not part of their culture. They raise their children in their faith, not other people. The Mortara case began in 1857 and Disraeli became PM in 1868, and again from 1874 to 1880. So Disraeli was aware of Mortara.

Edgardo Mortara was a Jewish child born in Bologna, Italy, the sixth of eight children to a Jewish merchant, in 1851. Their community was small (about 200) and there was no synagog or rabbi. It was a custom of Jewish community to hire gentiles who could work on Sabbath. The Mortara family had hired an illiterate Catholic girl, Anna Morisi. Anna was 18 yo when hired, in 1851, and became pregnant. Rather than sacking her, Mortara’s dad paid for her to have her baby and come back to work for him. The baby was, as was law in Papal States, given to an orphanage to raise as Catholic. Anna worked until 1857 for Mortara, when she was hired by another Bologna family, and soon married and moved back to her home town.

A rumour was heard by inquisition that a Jewish baby had been baptised secretly by a Catholic. Inquisition investigated and discovered Anna had baptised Edgardo when she thought he was gravely sick as an infant. He recovered and she had not admitted to it to the parents. Papal state was being threatened by plans for unification of Italy and so there was a separation between the executive and administration. Under Papal State law, a Catholic child would not be raised by Jewish parents. So in 1857, the six year old Edgardo was taken by police. No appeal was allowed.

His father spent the rest of his life trying to reunite, dying in 1871. The mother spent the rest of her life trying to reunite, dying in 1891. Edgardo had been adopted by the Pope, and put the Pope’s name before his own. Edgardo tried to convert his mother before her death, as he had become a Catholic Priest. The Papal States dissolved to become Italy in 1861.

That was not the story I intended to tell, but it is an example of how such things cannot be weighed, cannot be fixed. Instead, my story is different and dates to Cabramatta during the years of the 5T gang. At the time, ALP member Phuong Ngo, who was later jailed for the assassination of MP John Newman, owned restaurants where 5T gang members would eat, and provide protection. In 1991, a local high school had had a new year 11 year adviser who had organised an excursion on weekend for Yum Cha.

Phung Ngo owned the restaurant and 5T gang were there, being watched by police. The local school had students who were part of the 5T gang. One year 11 boy had a connection with the girlfriend of the leader of 5T. When the girlfriend later killed the leader, she would lead the gang until her death. On this day, the year 11 students sat with their year advisers on banquet tables up an escalator to the first floor restaurant. Police, watching those come and go, were filming the exit from across John Street. The restaurant had taken the booking, with management knowing of danger. The police were aware of issues. The year adviser was oblivious to the danger.

The year 11 boy had decided to leave the gang and live clean. But he would have been aware of the gang members there. It is said the gang leader’s girlfriend gave the order and gang members broke bottles and began fighting the boy. The year advisers rose to help, and students saved their lives by holding them down. The boy was stabbed multiple times with broken bottles. His broken body was eventually left at the bottom of the escalator. Students, and staff, were threatened with consequences to their families if they told on what had happened. Police arrived and interviewed staff and students, not finishing before the next morning.

No one was ever brought to book for the killing. Students who had known some of the gang members had known telling their names might result in their deaths, and the deaths of their family. The ALP connection, through Phuong Ngo, meant that even had students informed in secrecy, they might be identified to 5T. The ALP have maintained democratic majority of Cabramatta since the 1950s.

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. Victoria's opposition leader, Matthew Guy had a dinner with a guy banned from a casino and the ALP are demanding he resign and accusing him of consorting with gangsters. The denunciation is almost funny coming from anyone connected with the CFMEU. Almost. There is something behind the attack that hasn't been widely circulated, partly because it is before a court and in all likelihood, many frontline ALP members of parliament will be forced to resign for abuse of power in office. It involves the Red Shirt Brigade who support ALP by handing out how to vote cards, door knocking, phoning constituents and so on. Red shirts are supposed to be volunteers, and by electoral office rules, if they are paid by members, are restricted to that member's area. Only ALP offices have been paying their red shirts sums like $48 an hour and they have been acting outside their jurisdiction. I'll quote Matthew Guy from parliament on 8th March 2017. "Mr GUY (Leader of the Opposition) — Premier, you lead a chaotic, scandal-ridden government and a party that has seen three ministers, a whip and two Presiding Officers all forced to resign: Steve Herbert from the Legislative Council chauffeured his dogs from one end of the state to the other; your two former Presiding Officers perpetrate the biggest expenses rort in Victorian political history; the massive red shirt rorting of electorate office budgets; and millions of dollars spent on legal fees trying to stop the Ombudsman investigating these rorts. On top of all of that, Premier, you have allowed yourself to be blackmailed by the United Firefighters Union and Peter Marshall. Premier, is your government chaotic, incompetent, negligent or all of the above?" There is a court investigating the Red Shirt Brigade issue, and it is due to report soon. And the ALP know the findings will be damning. And all the ALP can do is complain about a lobster dinner engaged in public? 

At the battle of Lechfield in 955 Hungarians claimed to be Europeans, Germans disputed it, and won. In 991 at the Battle of Maldon, in Essex, Vikings faced Aethelred the Unready and won 3,300 Kg of silver. In 1270 Yekuno Amlak took the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum. In 1316, the second battle of Athenry between Irish forces resulted in an Irish loss. No survivors wrote an account. Many lost their heads. In 1512, at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu, England's Henry VIII had a naval victory, but both the flagships blew up. Possibly the first engagement using port cannon. In 1519 Magellan set off on a round the world trip. He died en-route. His birthplace is disputed as to changeovers between Spain and Portugal. He might have been Palestinian. In 1628, Sweden built the magnificent Vasa, which sank twenty minutes into her maiden voyage. In 1675, desperate to know the correct time, the cornerstone to Royal Greenwich Observatory was laid. In 1776, the Declaration of independence reached London. In 1792 in the French Revolution Louis XVI was arrested and his entire bodyguard killed. The next year, the Musée du Louvre was opened. In 1846, the Smithsonian was chartered by the US Congress. In 1904 the Russians and Japanese faced off at the Battle of Yellow Sea and had a draw. In 1932, a meteorite weighing 5.1kg landed in Missouri. In 1948, Candid Camera made a tv debut a year after Candid Microphone began on Radio. In 1969, A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. In 1977, David Berkowitz was arrested, he was called the Son of Sam, and he had killed people at random. In 1981, the head of Adam Walsh was found. Adam was six years old and his death prompted his dad to start America's Most Wanted. In 1988, Reagan began paying compensation to living Japanese Americans detained in WW2 by signing the Civil Liberties act of 1988. In 1990, the Magellan space probe reached Venus, four hundred and seventy one years after Magellan set forth on a circumnavigation. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholls were indicted for the Oklahoma Bombing. In 2003, the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK, 38.5 degrees centigrade was reached. It has been cooler ever since. On the same day, a couple married in space, but there is no evidence they were gay. 
=== from 2016 === 
#AusCensusFail16 is another humiliation for the Turnbull government. A Benghazi type announcement blamed hackers for the planned failure. The agile, nimble, clever Turnbull government spent millions of dollars demonstrating it could not be trusted to implement online elections. What ultimately happened was that people attempted to complete the forms after work, before the evening got underway. So about 7PM Eastern Standard time, just after Turnbull tweeted he had successfully lodged his contribution to the census, the system crashed and twenty six hours later is still down. The data will never now be completed. Important data needed for planning. The Turnbull government had no agenda. This is just one of many humiliations for Turnbull before his inevitable resignation. And it is a salient lesson for those who are thinking of voting for Hillary Clinton. She too has no agenda to better the people she wants to vote for her. Corruption is not a plan for improvement. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
ALP looks to have prospered through her abuse of power over the expenses scandal. To cap it off, the media protectors of the ALP have gloated. Claims are made that the new speaker will be fair, suggesting the previous one wasn't. But it was the ALP abusing power which got some four hundred evictions of her members under the previous speaker, Bronwyn Bishop. The attacks on Bishop, given that no one else is held to the same standard, is misogynistic. Tony Burke, as leader of opposition business locked horns with Bishop a lot and so he had a vested interest in lying to trash her career as Speaker. Burke and Shorten should resign, but instead get a poll bounce in their favour. One hopes that Mr Abbott is keeping this ace for an election. 
From 2014
It looked like a stunt when Jason Clare announced an inquest into sports drugs and gambling. Clare was deflecting attention away from the leadership challenge within the ALP which outsiders called between Rudd and Gillard but which also included Wong, Combet, Shorten, Clare, Carr, and a half dozen other cowards. Apparently, nothing was meant to happen, although two major codes and a few clubs and many players and trainers were smeared, called drug cheats and or forced out of the game. It looks like politicians tried to railroad athletes into admitting guilt. In the US, Obama has done much the same, for similar reasons. No player in any sport has been found guilty of what Clare claimed was endemic to all sports. In related news, the ALP has no policy on anything, but opposes everything the government proposes. When the LNP were in opposition, they supported 80% of the legislation. But the difference is in the monitoring. ABC criticise the 18C backdown even as they denied the need for change. 
Historical perspective on this day
955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperordefeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
991 – Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.

1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551–59.
1585 – The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.

1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deportthe Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.

1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
1813 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
1856 – The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Unionforces in the southwestern part of the state.
1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.

1901 – The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1913 – Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1932 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German–Estonianforce successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.

1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
1966 – The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario
1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
1978 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.

1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: The head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.
1988 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1993 – Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 Mw shock (intensity VI (Strong)) on the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 Mw event (intensity VII (Very strong)) on the North Island.
1993 – Varg Vikernes murders Euronymous in his Oslo apartment.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
1998 – HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.

2001 – The 2001 Angola train attack, causing 252 deaths.
2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
2003 – The Okinawa Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
2012 – The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
2014 – Thirty-nine people are killed in a plane crash at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Psalm 77-78, Romans 10 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 77-78

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.

1 I cried out to God for help;
I cried out to God to hear me.
2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at night I stretched out untiring hands,
and I would not be comforted.
3 I remembered you, God, and I groaned;
I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.
4 You kept my eyes from closing;
I was too troubled to speak.
5 I thought about the former days,
the years of long ago;
6 I remembered my songs in the night.
My heart meditated and my spirit asked:

7 "Will the Lord reject forever?
Will he never show his favor again?

Today's New Testament reading: Romans 10

1 Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: "The person who does these things will live by them." 6But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile-the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning

"The city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it."
Revelation 21:23
Yonder in the better world, the inhabitants are independent of all creature comforts. They have no need of raiment; their white robes never wear out, neither shall they ever be defiled. They need no medicine to heal diseases, "for the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick." They need no sleep to recruit their frames--they rest not day nor night, but unweariedly praise him in his temple. They need no social relationship to minister comfort, and whatever happiness they may derive from association with their fellows is not essential to their bliss, for their Lord's society is enough for their largest desires. They need no teachers there; they doubtless commune with one another concerning the things of God, but they do not require this by way of instruction; they shall all be taught of the Lord. Ours are the alms at the king's gate, but they feast at the table itself. Here we lean upon the friendly arm, but there they lean upon their Beloved and upon him alone. Here we must have the help of our companions, but there they find all they want in Christ Jesus. Here we look to the meat which perisheth, and to the raiment which decays before the moth, but there they find everything in God. We use the bucket to fetch us water from the well, but there they drink from the fountain head, and put their lips down to the living water. Here the angels bring us blessings, but we shall want no messengers from heaven then. They shall need no Gabriels there to bring their love-notes from God, for there they shall see him face to face. Oh! what a blessed time shall that be when we shall have mounted above every second cause and shall rest upon the bare arm of God! What a glorious hour when God, and not his creatures; the Lord, and not his works, shall be our daily joy! Our souls shall then have attained the perfection of bliss.

Evening

"He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils."
Mark 16:9

Mary of Magdala was the victim of a fearful evil. She was possessed by not one devil only, but seven. These dreadful inmates caused much pain and pollution to the poor frame in which they had found a lodging. Hers was a hopeless, horrible case. She could not help herself, neither could any human succour avail. But Jesus passed that way, and unsought, and probably even resisted by the poor demoniac, he uttered the word of power, and Mary of Magdala became a trophy of the healing power of Jesus. All the seven demons left her, left her never to return, forcibly ejected by the Lord of all. What a blessed deliverance! What a happy change! From delirium to delight, from despair to peace, from hell to heaven! Straightway she became a constant follower of Jesus, catching his every word, following his devious steps, sharing his toilsome life; and withal she became his generous helper, first among that band of healed and grateful women who ministered unto him of their substance. When Jesus was lifted up in crucifixion, Mary remained the sharer of his shame: we find her first beholding from afar, and then drawing near to the foot of the cross. She could not die on the cross with Jesus, but she stood as near it as she could, and when his blessed body was taken down, she watched to see how and where it was laid. She was the faithful and watchful believer, last at the sepulchre where Jesus slept, first at the grave whence he arose. Her holy fidelity made her a favoured beholder of her beloved Rabboni, who deigned to call her by her name, and to make her his messenger of good news to the trembling disciples and Peter. Thus grace found her a maniac and made her a minister, cast out devils and gave her to behold angels, delivered her from Satan, and united her forever to the Lord Jesus. May I also be such a miracle of grace!

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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 looking for former students to endorse me

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