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
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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The world is turning upside down as governments around the world descend into lockdown and totalitarian madness. In this episode, I discuss the troubling story. Also, I discuss the latest immigration outrage as Biden wants you to pay for lawyers for illegals.
News Picks:
- Kneeling US Women’s Soccer team loses.
- Is Asa Hutchinson the worst GOP Governor in the country?
- Biden wants you, the taxpayer, to pay for lawyers for illegal immigrants.
- Although covid cases may be rising, hospitalizations and deaths are far lower than during last year’s peaks.
- The YouTube communists strike again, banning Sky News for speaking the truth about the failed covid lockdowns.
- This grassroots organization is training liberty activists to become school board candidates.
- The data is crystal clear, GOP governors made the right call in canceling the unemployment benefits that were encouraging people not to work.
- AOC is anti-cop, anti-ICE, anti-gun, and pro-Blackwater. Strange combo.
- Who is watching the watchmen. A troubling article you need to read.
Dems Look to Abolish Pro-Life Hyde Amendment
All Evidence Points to COVID-19 Lab Leak in Most Detailed Report Yet on Wuhan Lab
Crazy Nancy Calls on White House to Reinstate Eviction Moratorium
In July, D.C. Had Three Times More Murders Than COVID Deaths
Group of Republicans Back Bill Calling for Audit of CDC
Trump Amends Big Tech Lawsuit After 65,000 Americans Submit Stories of Censorship
Capitol Hill
Pennsylvania Lawmaker to Issue Subpoenas After 3 Counties Reject Audit Requests
Study Finds Most Georgia Voters Did Not Sufficiently Check Their Paper Ballots in 2020
Kristi Noem Criticized by Conservatives Over Tweet on Employer Vaccine Mandates
When Trump Tried to Push Infrastructure, Dems and Establishment Republicans Rebuffed Him
Stephen Miller: VP Harris Is Only the Fall Person on the Border Situation
Dems Advance Plan to Allow DACA Illegals to Work on Capitol Hill
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Unanimously Approves Resolution Supporting Anti-Communist Cuban Protesters
AOC Blames Mythical “Conservative Democrats” for Expiration of Eviction Moratorium
Trump Raises Record-Breaking $82 Million in First Half of 2021
Culture War
Bill and Melinda Gates Finalize Their Divorce
Former Head NSA Lawyer Says Tucker Carlson’s Spying Allegations Merit Further Investigation
Woman Claims Her Hospital Is Full of COVID Patients in Viral Post – Turns Out She’s a Veterinarian
Columbia Medical School Launches Workshop on Microaggression Management
Gun Sales Are Surging, and First Time Gun Owners Are a Large Reason Why
Rhode Island Legalizes “Heroin Injection Sites” Based on Failed Canadian Model
Austin, Texas Already Surpasses 2020 Homicide Total on August 1
California “Menstrual Equity” Bill Would Require Public Colleges to Provide Menstrual Products to Men
Doctor Tells CNN “We Are Never Going Back to a Pre-Pandemic Reality”
Chicago Tries to Block Tax Refund Owed on Trump Building
Economy
Gov. Cuomo Tells New York’s Private Businesses to Require COVID Vaccinations for Customers
Treasury Department to Conduct “Extraordinary Measures” After Congress Misses Debt Ceiling Deadline
GOP Fundraising Arm Starts Accepting Bitcoin
China’s Coal-Fired Solar Panel Industry Emits More Net Carbon Than Oil or Gas
High Used Car Prices May Finally Be Falling
New California Law for Farms Would Cut Off Nearly the Entire State’s Pork Supply
7.5 Million to Lose Federal Enhanced Unemployment Benefits in September
The Great Ammo Shortage Continues
Nine of the Ten Worst Cities for First Time Homebuyers Are All in California
Swamp Watch
U.S. Expands Afghan Refugee Program
Obama to Defy CDC Guidance for Birthday Bash With Hundreds of Guests
Database Proving Dr. Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Taken Offline
Rep. McCarthy Faces Hysterical Calls to Resign Over Pelosi Joke
Real Estate Industry Donors Back Gov. Cuomo Reelection
Brett Kavanaugh Greenlights More Government Theft
Facebook Whistleblower Turns Down $64k Severance to Speak Out
YouTube Temporarily Suspends Sky News Australia Over COVID Coverage
Seattle Hires Defender of Palestinian Terrorists as New Head of Police Oversight
Dr. Fauci: Masks Are Not a Choice
National Security
Drone Footage Captures a Thousand Illegals Being Held by Border Patrol in Texas as Crisis Worsens
U.S. and UK Accuse Iran of Drone Strike on Israeli-Managed Oil Tanker
The Border Crisis Is About to Get Even Worse
Feds Renew Claim Iraq Refugee Omar Ameen Has Ties to Terror Groups
F-22 Crash at Eglin AFB Blamed on Unspecified Maintenance Error After Aircraft Was Washed
New U.S. Maritime Strategy With Pacific Focus Being Called for By Lawmaker
Reshaping the U.S. Marine Corp as a Crisis Management Force
Five American Colleges Have Teamed Up With School Sanctioned for Ties to Chinese Military
Methods and Motives: China’s Hypersonic Missiles
Around the World
Millions in China Under Lockdown
Hong Kong Authorities Arrest Pro-Democracy Singer on “Corrupt Conduct” Charges
100-Year-Old Former Guard Linked to 3,500 Deaths at Nazi Death Camp to Face Trial After 76 Years
Kim Jong Un’s Sister Warns South Korea Not to Participate in Military Drill With U.S.
Backers of Bolsonaro Push for Changes in Brazil’s Voting System
Ruler of Myanmar Army Takes Prime Minister Role, Again Pledges Elections Will Take Place
UK Local Government Officials Are Going Door-to-Door to “Encourage” Vaccinations
Veteran Meets Daughter He Was Forced to Leave Behind in Vietnam 50 Years Ago
Opinion
Wayne Allyn Root: I Know Exactly Who Is To Blame for This New Wave of COVID-19, and I Know Who Is Making a Fortune on It
Kevin McCullough: We Should NOT Comply!
Michael Goodwin: Joe Biden’s Failing First Crisis
Derek Hunter: Just Shut Up, New York Times
Debra J. Saunders: A Conversation Where There Used To Be Tweets
Katie Yoder: Meet Deanna — The Hyde Amendment Saved Her Life from Abortion
NY Post Editorial Board: Pelosi’s Sham Jan. 6 Committee Is Wasting a Valuable Opportunity
Michael Brown: The Humiliation of the Church and the Coming National Revival
Entertainment
Kathy Griffin Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
Sharon Stone Claims She’s Been “Threatened” With Losing Work Over Insisting on Coronavirus Vaccine on Set
Comedian Ryan Long Shreds Hollywood Over Its Cozy China Ties
Johnny Depp Wins Important Victory in Court Battle Against Amber Heard
“General Hospital” and “Days of Our Lives” Actor Jay Pickett Dead at 60
Willie Nelson Performs at Protest in Support of Texas Democrat Fleebaggers
Arnold Schwarzenegger Spied Biking Through Los Angeles
Kanye West Ready to Host Another “Donda” Listening Party Ahead of Album’s Release
Disney Decides to Mandate Coronavirus Vaccines for U.S. Employees
Sports
Transgender Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Bombs at Olympics
Bill Maher Roasts the “Woke Olympics”
Yankees Rotation Takes Another Big Blow With Domingo German Injury
LeBron James Shoves Fan Who Ran Towards Him During Concert
Israeli Baseball Team Wins First Game in Its Olympic History
Here’s the Americans Who Have Won Gold Medals at the Olympics
Simone Biles to Return for Balance Beam Finals
Gwen Berry Promises to Protest on Podium If She Wins
Best Friends Convince IOC to Let Them Share Gold Medal
U.S. Women’s Soccer Loses to Canada – Officially Loses Shot at Gold
Newsmax TV
- Rep. Burchett: Biden WH Won't Go After China |
- Rep. Issa: Cover-Up Over Wuhan Lab a Concern of Report |
- NY Troopers Union Head: Mulling Options on Cuomo Shot Order |
- Diamond and Silk Slam Fox News For Mike Lindell TV Ban |
- Texas AG: Law Cannot Force COVID Disclosures |
- Mark Morgan: Biden Policies 'Constitutional Crisis' |
- Dershowitz: 'Declaring War' on Ben & Jerry's Over Boycott |
- Dershowitz: DOJ Won't Have 'Last Word' on Audits |
Newsfront
CDC Can't Stop Evictions, so Biden Calls on States to Act
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I read an article with the first sentence "We desperately need to start actively working against the socialism that is taking hold in Australia."Politics in a modern democracy is rarely pretty. The difference between Donald Trump, Bibi Netanyahu or Modi leading an economy upwards, or Malcolm Turnbull or Therese May squandering opportunity, or Jeremy Corbyn, or Hillary Clinton spreading lies liberally while actively undermining cultural assets, is small.But in each case, voters in that democracy have advanced the position of the titular head. Netanyahu, Trump or Modi are a few corrupt judges away from impeachment. And Hillary seems made of Teflon. For some reason, people who start paragraphs with that sentence seem to oppose people who could contribute well to good democratic government. Would that person, who feels so strongly about socialism embrace free speech? Or would they try to abuse laws curtailing free speech to 'teach a lesson?' What about voting for BoJo, Tony Abbott or Ted Cruze? Instead of crying over Tommy Robinson?
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. Aboriginal leaders across Australia are arguing over apartheid. Disturbingly, left wing activists seem to feel it could work in Australia if apartheid was 'soft' and only gave Aboriginals an extra voice in parliament and a reserved space in the constitution. However there is no record of apartheid ever benefitting a minority. It is racism. Nobody who is sane wants government ever to base considerations on race. The issue is not as with Gay Marriage, There are no benefits to anyone with apartheid. No benefit to the minority denied access to the majority, and no benefit to the majority. The activism is related to activism for "They Day." In Victoria, the ALP like to give money to activists on such issues as it circumvents campaign expenditure laws. It is public money the ALP can spend on praising itself as being forward thinking while it is actually regressive and hurtful to cultural assets. And it denies money to LNP or conservatives. Most funding models put forward by ALP restrict funding to LNP, while allowing the ALP a back door to increase spending. In many ways, the corruption issues surrounding red shirts is an extension of ordinary corruption.
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.
Donald Trump is helping America win again. He is rebuilding the federal judiciary faster than Obama had. Also, the DOW Jones index has exceeded 22000 points for the first time in history. Haters are denouncing Trump or praising Venezuela, or blaming Trump for hurting Venezuela. But it s a socialist fail. North Korea is a socialist failure too. Capitalism lifts the poor. Socialism is a tool of dictators.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
Whomever the next speaker is they have big shoes to fill. Only a saint can get through the ALP performance and not lose patience. In the lower house, ALP numbers are insufficient to change much through numbers. So they have a policy of bad behaviour which gets them evicted. They then accused the speaker of bias. Naturally the press have played dumb. Maybe Philip Ruddock will be the next speaker. He is a saint.
Before Tiberius was Ceaser, ruling with a vicious iron fist, he was a general. On this day, 8BC, the General Tiberius had a victory over Dalmatae over the river Bathinus. The name Dalmatae loosely translates as 'Sheep.' Even then, Tiberius was called bad. Any fool can have a theory. The deposed Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius is thought to have been the originator of Nestorianism. Nestorianism is the heretical belief that Christ was not God. On this day in 435, the Roman Emperor Theodosius II sentenced Nestorius to an Egyptian monastery. In 881, France beat some Vikings, and later a song (Ludwigslied) was made about it by some Germans. Maybe, some day, someone will write a song how the Waratahs beat the Crusaders last night. It doesn't happen often and almost did not happen at all, being very close, 33 to 32 with the last score being made with seconds to the end of the game.
Columbus set sail from Spain on this day in 1492. In 1527, the first English letter was sent in America from John Rut to Henry VIII. Rut was seeking the North West Passage. He didn't find it. In 1678 the first known boat, Le Griffon, was built on one of the great lakes. In 1852, Harvard beat Yale in the first annual race between them. In 1860, the second Maori war began in New Zealand. In 1900, The Firestone Tyre and Rubber company was founded. In 1907, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (remember the name) fined Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal. In 1914, Germany declared war on France. In 1921, Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirmed the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court. Landis was probably unfair on a few of the players, and also was probably responsible for delaying integration in baseball. In 1936, Jesse Owens won the 100 m dash. In 1946, Santa Claus Land, the first amusement park, opened in the US. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a communist and a Soviet spy. He was probably both, but it upset other communist Soviet spies when it was said so. In 1958 the USS Nautilus journeyed beneath the arctic ice cap. In 1977 the US Senate began hearings on MKUltra. On the same day Tandy began selling personal computers.
70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple are extinguished.
435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of ConstantinopleNestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monasteryin Egypt.
881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of Francedefeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
908 – Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankisharmy under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Kelsey.
1342 – The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
1645 – Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1778 – The theatre La Scala is inaugurated.
1795 – Treaty of Greenville is signed.
1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
1859 – The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball Leaguefinalize the merger, that would create the National Basketball Association
1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees(US$200 million) in damage.
2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
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Today's reading: Psalm 60-62, Romans 5 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 60-62
For the director of music. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A miktam of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah, and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us;
you have been angry-now restore us!
2 You have shaken the land and torn it open;
mend its fractures, for it is quaking.
3 You have shown your people desperate times;
you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner
to be unfurled against the bow....
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 5
Peace and Hope
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"Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will."
Ephesians 1:11
Our belief in God's wisdom supposes and necessitates that he has a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation have been without his design? Is there a fish in the sea, or a fowl in the air, which was left to chance for its formation? Nay, in every bone, joint, and muscle, sinew, gland, and blood-vessel, you mark the presence of a God working everything according to the design of infinite wisdom. And shall God be present in creation, ruling over all, and not in grace? Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? Look at Providence! Who knoweth not that not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father? Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills of our tribulation in balances. And shall there be a God in providence and not in grace? Shall the shell be ordained by wisdom and the kernel be left to blind chance? No; he knows the end from the beginning. He sees in its appointed place, not merely the corner-stone which he has laid in fair colours, in the blood of his dear Son, but he beholds in their ordained position each of the chosen stones taken out of the quarry of nature, and polished by his grace; he sees the whole from corner to cornice, from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle. He hath in his mind a clear knowledge of every stone which shall be laid in its prepared space, and how vast the edifice shall be, and when the top-stone shall be brought forth with shoutings of "Grace! Grace! unto it." At the last it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as he willed with his own; and that in every part of the work of grace he accomplished his purpose, and glorified his own name.
Evening
"So she gleaned in the field until even."
Ruth 2:17
Let me learn from Ruth, the gleaner. As she went out to gather the ears of corn, so must I go forth into the fields of prayer, meditation, the ordinances, and hearing the word to gather spiritual food. The gleaner gathers her portion ear by ear; her gains are little by little: so must I be content to search for single truths, if there be no greater plenty of them. Every ear helps to make a bundle, and every gospel lesson assists in making us wise unto salvation. The gleaner keeps her eyes open: if she stumbled among the stubble in a dream, she would have no load to carry home rejoicingly at eventide. I must be watchful in religious exercises lest they become unprofitable to me; I fear I have lost much already--O that I may rightly estimate my opportunities, and glean with greater diligence. The gleaner stoops for all she finds, and so must I. High spirits criticize and object, but lowly minds glean and receive benefit. A humble heart is a great help towards profitably hearing the gospel. The engrafted soul-saving word is not received except with meekness. A stiff back makes a bad gleaner; down, master pride, thou art a vile robber, not to be endured for a moment. What the gleaner gathers she holds: if she dropped one ear to find another, the result of her day's work would be but scant; she is as careful to retain as to obtain, and so at last her gains are great. How often do I forget all that I hear; the second truth pushes the first out of my head, and so my reading and hearing end in much ado about nothing! Do I feel duly the importance of storing up the truth? A hungry belly makes the gleaner wise; if there be no corn in her hand, there will be no bread on her table; she labours under the sense of necessity, and hence her tread is nimble and her grasp is firm; I have even a greater necessity, Lord, help me to feel it, that it may urge me onward to glean in fields which yield so plenteous a reward to diligence.
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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