Bairnsdale Conservative: Wed 11th 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.

https://rumble.com/vkmt2q-editorial-on-being-shadow-banned.html

Editorial Fauci guilty

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?

https://rumble.com/vkmt26-editorial-fauci-guilty.html

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/vkygwe-ep.-1581-its-time-for-civil-disobedience-the-dan-bongino-show.html
This isn’t “science” this is tyranny. In this episode, I discuss the mounting evidence that the government’s covid mandates are all about power. I also address the outrageous attack on Rand Paul by big tech.

News Picks:

The most informative article I’ve read about mask mandates for children.
Our heroes in the military are being forced to take the vaccine.
Ron DeSantis strikes again.
The broken teachers’ unions mask demands have them in dilemma.
Biden’s corporate tax hike is going to slam middle-class Americans.

=== Bongino Headlines ===

GAME OVER: Gov. Cuomo Resigns in Disgrace READ MORE

Biden on Gov. Cuomo’s Resignation: He “Did a Hell of a Job”

Pediatricians Say Masking and Social Distancing Is Impacting Child Development

Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) Won’t Seek Re-Election, Further Threatening Dems’ Chances of Retaining House Majority

DOJ to Review 9/11 Files About Saudi Arabia After Criticism From Victims’ Families

Biden Accuser Tara Reade Calls for “Real Investigation” Into President Following Gov. Cuomo Resignation

“Most Overrated Man in Politics” – Trump Rips McConnell Over Infrastructure Bill Passing

Capitol Hill
California Gov. Newsom Allows Convicted Murderer of Developmentally Disabled Man to Go Free
The White House Wasn’t Given a Heads Up Before Gov. Cuomo’s Resignation
Senate Votes to Approve Pork-Packed $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill – 19 Republicans Vote in Favor
First Gov. Cuomo Accuser Confirms Plan to Sue Him
Biden Asks Taliban to Please Stop Taking Over Afghanistan
Rep. Pressley Wants the Voting Age Lowered to 16 Because “Racism”
House Republicans Demand Answers From DHS Secretary on “Appalling” Border Numbers
Five Controversial Policies Hidden in the 2,700 Page Infrastructure Bill
Arizona AG Investigates Maricopa County’s Refusal to Comply With Subpoena for 2020 Audit

Culture War
Voters Reject Rep. Bush’s “Defund the Police” Rhetoric 2:1
Biden’s Trans Mandate Blocked by Second Federal Court
Vogue Runs Glowing Feature on Jen Psaki After Ignoring White House Under Trump
Chicago Police Turn Backs to Mayor Lightfoot
Homeless Encampment Grows at Seattle Public School Weeks Before Children Are Set to Return
BLM Grifter Shaun King Asks for Donations to Help Move Out of His $842k Home
Eight Rare Things Children Are More Likely to Die From Than COVID
Charles Lipson: Democrats’ Defund-the-Police Debacle
CNN Helps Raise $230k for “Single Mom Facing Eviction” – Turns Out She Wasn’t the Mother

Economy
Study Finds Biden Infrastructure Plan Creates Zero Net Jobs
Fed Study: Consumer Inflation Expectations Hit Eight-Year High
Ted Cruz Tells Senators Trying to Regulate Cryptocurrency They Don’t Even Understand It
Analysts Say “Buy Now, Pay Later” Trend Could Be Next Big Source of Consumer Debt
States That Ended Federal Unemployment Benefits Have Recovered 80% of Lost Jobs Compared to 66% in Rest of Country
Bitcoin Eyes $50,000 Again as It Rebounds to 3-Month High
Boston Fed President Says Stimulus Efforts Should Begin Slowing by Fall
Biden’s Electric Vehicle Targets Are Good News for China
Dems Prepare to Pass SALT Cap Relief for Coastal Elites

Swamp Watch
These Six Governors Were Stripped of Power Due to Pandemic Overreach
Washington Post Editors: It Sure Looks Like Biden/Harris Have No Plan to Fix Border Crisis
Dr. Fauci on Masking Kids: “Hopefully” It Won’t Have a “Lasting Negative Impact”
Flashback: Pelosi Commission Demanded Election Audits, Warned Against Altered Vote Totals
“Squad” Rep. Tlaib Spotted Maskless at Crowded Wedding Party After Slamming Rand Paul
African Americans Stand to Lose the Most From Vaccine Passports
Biden Has Installed More Judges Than Any Other President In 40 Years at This Point In Their Presidencies

National Security
The F-35 Is Going To Be The Free World’s Fighter
Belarus Will Never Be Free Under Alyaksandr Lukashenka
Coast Guard Will Build Digital Twin For Polar Star Icebreaker
Carlos Del Toro Confirmed By Senate as Next Navy Secretary
Russia and China Keep Beating America in Mock Wars. Don’t Be Shocked.
Lightfoot’s Warzone: 45 People Shot in Less Than 12 Hours in Chicago
Militias Backed By Iran Threaten to Attack U.S. Troops in Iraq
Two Brothers Charged in Murder of Chicago Officer Ella French
New Law Effectively Makes Illinois a Sanctuary State for Illegals

Around the World
Taliban Reportedly Captures Five Provincial Capitals in Afghanistan in Two Days
Belarus Leader Remains Defiant Amid Sanctions, Claims Olympic Athlete Was “Manipulated”
Canada Opens Border to Fully Vaccinated American Tourists, Long Delays Result
Slaying of Priest in Nantes, France Latest Attack on French Catholics
Another Belarusan Athlete Describes Life Under Lukashenko: Treated Like a “Toy”
Sham Socialist “Primaries” in Venezuela Marked by Violence
The Economy of Lebanon Is Experiencing a Once-in-a-Lifetime Collapse

Opinion
Newt Gingrich: A Plan to Save America
Maureen Callahan: Private Jets and No Masks — How Obama’s Party Was Height of Elite Hypocrisy
Dan McLaughlin: Kamala Harris Is Utterly Flubbing Her Job as Veep
Kurt Schlichter: Dems Try to Disqualify DeSantis As RINOs Disqualify Themselves
Michael Goodwin: Gov. Cuomo Only Has a Few Weeks Left in Office. Here’s How I Think It Will End
Katie Yoder: Abortion Activist “Eats” Abortion Pills on Camera “Because I Can”
Deroy Murdock: COVID Is an Invisible Enemy at War With Us and Biden Is Giving Aid and Comfort to It

Entertainment
NY Times Columnist Showers Praises Jennifer Aniston for Dropping Unvaxed Friends
As Expected, Aquaman Showers
FX/Hulu Series “Y: The Last Man” Envisions “A World Without Cisgender Men”
Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart Spotted With Son in Croatia
Britney Spears Request to Immediately Remove Father From Conservatorship Denied
Kathy Griffin Speaks for the First Time Since Lung Cancer Surgery
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Considered Moving to New Zealand Before Megxit
“West Side Story” Will Not Return to Broadway

Sports
Here Are the Top Moments From the 2020 Olympics
U.S. Beats China Overall For Most Olympic Gold Medals
Bill Bellichick on Peyton Manning: “The Best Quarterback I’ve Coached Against”
Rangers Settle on Historic Contract With Igor Shesterkin
Israel Has Its Best Olympics Games Ever
While Their Rivals Struggle, Yankees, Braves and Phillies Are on the Rise
Breaking Down the Yankees’ Push for Wild-Card Spot
MLB in Talks With Barstool Sports to Broadcast Games on Their Platform

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of multiple sexual-harassment allegations, may still face impeachment if only to keep him from running for office again. [Full Story]

McCaughey, Van Drew: Cuomo Nursing Home Probe Must Go On

Newsfront

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce she's stepping down "probably after next year's midterm elections," writes Edward-Isaac Dovere for The Atlantic...... [Full Story]

Court Orders Release of Man Allegedly Tied to Spraying of Sicknick

A man charged in assisting the chemical spraying of the Capitol [Full Story]

Dominion Sues Newsmax for Reporting on Election Claim

Dominion Voting Systems sued Newsmax and several others on Tuesday, [Full Story]

Viva Barnes News

1. Covid. Vaccine advocate in UK admits vaccines are not the way to herd immunity. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/covid-cases-uk-herd-immunity-b1900198.html

2. Legal. A firefighter wins his free speech case after being fired for Brexit activities, from our friend Count Dankula.

3. Economic. Infrastructure bill passed. Now the next stage of conference negotiations begin and whether AOC will blow it all up for insufficient Green new Deal provisos. My guess: it largely passes as is. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-set-pass-senate-tuesday-vote-heres-whats-it

4. Political. Cuomo resigned after they told him they had the votes for impeachment. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cuomo-resigns-following-sexual-harassment-allegations

5. Cultural. Suicide Squad bombs at box office and streaming. The Curse of pedi-jokester James Gunn? The woke effect on popular audiences? https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-suicide-squad-hbo-max-weekend-viewership-down-from-mortal-kombat-1234811672/

Bonus* Elon Musk wants to advertise to aliens. https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/566996-elon-musk-to-launch-a-satellite-that-will-beam

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Here is a video I made Everything is Illuminated (Everyone was Eliminated)

Tell me my love, did we hate before the war?
Oh but my love, a war to end all wars
Bright and brighter
Before my childs face
My grandfather fled there

Ukraine was where they built a bomb?
Oh but my love, a bomb ends all wars
Bright and brighter
Before my burning face
My grandfather fled there

And who was this girl?
Who gave in her grace
Who saved my grandfather
Not of her race
Everything is illuminated
Everyone was eliminated

Tell me my love, do dogs fight in wars?
Do they protest an unpopular cause?
Bright and brighter
From my puppy eyes
A photo, A girl's face
My grandfather fled there

Tell me my love, was this the land?
Oh but my love, they lost their cause
Bright and brighter
Before her burning eyes
My grandfather fled there

And who was this girl?
Who gave in her grace
Who saved my grandfather
Not of her race
Everything is illuminated
Everyone was eliminated

Did you see my love, we found in that place
Woah my love, the land gives pause
Bright and brighter
Before the burning graves
Grandfather's saviour lies there

And who was this girl?
Who gave in her grace
Who saved my grandfather
Not of her race
Everything is illuminated
Everyone was eliminated

Everything is illuminated
Everyone was eliminated

Everything is illuminated
Everyone was eliminated

This track came into being because of Didier's love for the movie, the theme.

His playing, his singing. I penned the lyric, following detail, online, about script

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=58698

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Illuminated

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=61417

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I was raised as an Atheist. I learned, after reading the Bible, that God loves me, and you. This is his song for you too. He loves you, and wants to be with you.

All the elements are me and mine. ARIA ISRC number AUAWA0704122

https://rumble.com/vkw3o0-everything-is-illuminated-everyone-was-eliminated.html

=== From 2018 ===

Don't give up on hope.In NSW landlords are able to cancel contracts for tenants who regularly default. In Victoria, tenants can regularly not pay landlords on time and remain on contract. It is almost as if Dan Andrews ALP hates investors. Taxes are rising, costs are going up and the remunerative compensation is unreliable. It means now is a good time to invest in Victoria if you believe that Matthew Guy will become Premier, because one buys low and sells high. But, if Dan Andrews wins in November, as polls show he will, and then if Shorten wins federally, then the floor can get much lower. It isn't just crime in Victoria which is rampant, which Guy can address, but also small business is stagnant and failing and only Matthew Guy is offering a viable way forward. Every dollar Andrews spends on infrastructure has to be spent again to fix it. Trains, buses and trams are not working well at the moment. Public roads are jammed. Road maintenance is not keeping up with demand. Hospitals are not prepared for dust storms. Corruption is protected by the ALP and fostered. Police seem powerless.

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

What is the biggest fraud in the history of mankind?

The Paris agreement of 2016 aims to spend more than $100 trillion in a hundred years to lower world temperature by less than half a degree centigrade.

The money will come from the world’s poorest in foregone opportunity. They will miss out on food, medicine and housing. This virtue signalling will make some green activists feel good, and filthy rich.

Ever wondered what will happen to your slow cooked meal left in a moderate oven for four hours, with the temperature reduced one degree celsius five minutes from the end? If we agree that it will not make a difference, that is what the Paris Agreement will result, except poor people around the world will suffer.

Worse, Carbon Dioxide is plant food and its’ plentiful supply means the growing season for farmers is expanded.

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. Today news reported that a university student is studying education, having achieved an ATAR of 17.9%. Such a low result would not have been possible to achieve ten years ago as the bottom places are assigned to students who decline an ATAR, meaning the lowest score possible was about 27. Time have changed and more people are applying to go to university than before as six years of ALP and three years of Turnbull has meant jobs for youth are not easily available. To have achieved such a low result, the student must have passed the courses they studied, handing in assignments, but achieving very low marks. There would be mitigating circumstances. However, the student has not yet shown mastery of topics. What would they teach? The university might pass them. Will they observe their students as well as they achieved in personal studies? The bio feedback of teaching is strong. Nobody wants to look foolish. Who benefits from this allocation of resourcing?

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. Kristina Keneally has a tv show on Sky Channel in Australia. Kristina is a former Premier of NSW for the ALP, and is Catholic and niece to a highly lauded writer. Kristina is like Canada. She could give amazing insights into political process from an ethical viewpoint not often explored. She is erudite and thoughtful. But just as Canada has many advantages with a possibility of French Cuisine, US know how and UK government, instead, disappointingly, Canada has US Cuisine, British lethargy and French style Government. Kristina offers no insights, but parrots ALP lines, often without thought. So in 2013, a plebiscite on SSM was good, but in 2017, a plebiscite on SSM was a waste of money. The only change being an ALP position based on opposition to conservatives. Sky are wasting their time, and their viewer's time, by letting this mouthpiece for activism have more time than real commentators.

Mostly my historical posts start explaining a battle, but this one is different. It involves a historical factoid that was probably not considered by anyone on the day or for many years or generations after. It is related to the Mayan calendar and the calendar of several of the MesoAmerican cultures. They were based on an 18 digit number system, thumbs being opposable, and if one counts to the start, today is the anniversary of the beginning of time, 3114 BC. According to Armenian tradition, 2492 BC Hayk beat Bel. Bel was written of in the Bible as Ba'al. Today is the day in 355 Claudius Silvanus is said to have declared himself Caeser. Silvanus was a Roman governor of Gaul and he had successfully suppressed raiding parties from across the Rhine which were hurting Roman prestige. Roman Emperor Constantius II might have been pleased, but his courtiers set up an intrigue suggesting Silvanus was planning to seize Rome. It may well be the case Silvanus never knew of the suppose plot. Constantius summonsed him and when Silvanus was praying at a church, he was dragged out and hacked to death (September 7th 355). Odoacer is considered the first King of Italy. Not much is known of the birth of King Odoacer, but he may have been the son of an ambassador for Attila. He was Aryan Christian when most of Rome was orthodox. Theoderic the Great was an Ostrogoth who had been raised as a hostage in Constantinople and given a privileged education. Theoderic was born the year Ostrogoths overthrew the Hun. His father was a tribal leader, and when he died in 473, Theoderic ruled well, and united the Ostrogoths in 484. With the German (Ostrogoth) power base, Theoderic fought Odoacer and defeated him in battle on this day in 490, taking Italy after the death of Odoacer in 493.

The Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332 was between the regent for the Scottish King David II and Edward Balliol, a grandchild of the widow of English King John. Edward III of England used Balliol as a puppet. Balliol defeated the regent on this day while the child David was in France, and Balliol had himself crowned King at Scone, given authority to Edward III for a pension. But the Scots had other ideas. Not much is known about Francis Light, not even who his dad was, but the English soldier daringly founded and managed the British colony of Penang in Malaysia on this day in 1786. A son, Colonel William Light was foundational surveyor general of South Australia, choosing the site for Adelaide. The Peninsular war was glorious for Arthur Wellesley, and is an example of fighting for national liberation and guerrilla warfare the first of its type in Europe. It meant Great Britain started income tax to pay for their troops. The Spanish and Portuguese fought to liberate themselves from France. In 1812, on this day, at the Battle of Majadahonda, the Portuguese cavalry did not acquit themselves well in a drawn encounter. Their commander suggested to Wellesley that they in future would walk behind their horses until they acquitted themselves well. Wellesley felt it was better to never use them again. In 1929 Babe Ruth made history scoring the 500th home run of his career. He would play until '35 and score 714 in total with a batting average of a phenomenal 0.342 and an ERA of 2.28. He wasn't a noted thinker, but a magnificent player. As great as Ruth was as a Bat, Hedy Lamarr was as a person. The Austrian born actress was beautiful and at only 18 years old was married to an Austrian arms industrialist and star of a movie, Ecstasy. A few nude scenes in Ecstasy and an orgasm expression made her famous. As wife to the industrialist in 1933, she went to dinner parties with Adolph Hitler and Mussolini, some lavishly held at her own home. She fled her husband to Paris, then London and went to Hollywood. In 1942, on this day, she got a patent for technology which helped missiles home despite jamming. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology underpins Blue Tooth and Wi Fi. She was a pretty face in the thirties and forties, but her beautiful mind lives on long after she passed. In 1947, the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah gave a speech. He spoke of his hope for a Pakistan with religious freedom, rule of law and equality for all. Maybe Cassius Clay chose his name from that figure. It was a worthy dream for any nation, and sadly not part of modern Pakistan.

=== from 2016 ===

It is Thursday night and the census was due Tuesday. The computer is up, accepting submissions now. The latest update has it that the Tuesday night collapse was a planned fail. What had happened was mass reporting at 7:30 pm had combined with an external threat so that the decision was made to take down the system. Some information had been obtained as it was supposed to, but geo-caching failed, so the administrators saw the information going but did not know who or where. The threat of data security breech, with the promise that information would be safe, meant a panic response. So millions of people who spent at least half an hour inputting data have lost everything and will have to do it again. And the anti internet voting lobby have been energised.

#CensusFail is an opportunity. A nimble, agile government would cancel all future census and devolve responsibility to local council. And the data collection should be continuous. Personal records should be available to individuals online. Voting could certainly be organised online, using a voting app as well as pre election paper options. The app would accept a vote, and modification up to a cut off period. Then, a verification is sent out for online voters. It is the verification handshake that forms the vote. It means that a vote, although private, is no longer secret. But it means that votes are collated in seconds, verifiable and corruption resistant. The ALP and Greens are expected to oppose it.

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.

=== from 2015 ===

The gay marriage vote among the conservative coalition is irrelevant, There are gay couples in Australia right now through civil union with full rights of married couples. The discussion is merely about wether churches can be sued for refusing to marry them. Some churches want to, others don't. The cowardly clerics are hiding behind state law. It will happen eventually, but regardless the press will say that Abbott's leadership is weakened by any decision.

The conservative coalition met as a whole. It included the National Party which is more socially conservative. Some say the outcome is the death of the Liberal party. It is merely rhetoric attacking Mr Abbott. One question not asked is regarding the ALP who, as a party, also oppose same sex marriage. But Mr Shorten's leadership is not similarly challenged by it.

From 2014

The apparent corruption of the Liberal Party regarding campaign donations is particularly disappointing. I note the involvement of Mike Gallacher and Joe Tripodi. Joe Tripodi is instrumental to my issue regarding a bungled pedophile investigation and the death of Hamidur Rahman. I approached Gallacher in 2011 regarding this issue and if he sidestepped me because of Joe Tripodi I'm very upset. I have lost my home over the injustice directly stemming from the failure of Gallacher to address the issue. If the LNP have clean hands over this issue I want them to show it to me.

A few days ago on the Bolt Report Supporters Group, a few admins, Stephanie and Mandy found a post by the hate group known as the Australian Defence League (ADL). Not much is known of the ADL who are also known as the Australian Tea Party. They have editors on wikipedia who restrict information about them. The press wisely has a policy of ignoring extreme right wing hate groups. The ADL have a US counterpart called the American Defense League (aka ADL) and more famous English counterparts English Defence League (EDL). They are related to the British National Party and fascists inspired by the Nazi Party. The Bolt Report Supporters Group have a policy of deleting such memes. Stephanie and Mandy noted that the post had been referred to the police. The admin team are often criticised for deleting items and sometimes not deleting items. We believe in freedom of speech, not of abuse. Often members get confused by the decisions which aren't arbitrary but may seem opaque. In the past, the admin team have attempted to supply reasons for deleted posts, but some trouble makers exploited Face Book rules to get them removed. And so we have procedural unfairness.

The offending post has been reported in the mainstream news. The post identified a Facebook User as a radical Islamic hate monger. But the police have located a 22 year old Australian of Turkish ethnicity who was unaware of the post and had not held those views. It looks as if the ADL have used an Islamic name to spread a hate meme. It may not be the first time they have done that, if that is what they have done. Some years ago, the leader of the ADL contacted me and tried to recruit me. I declined. He told me that the Australian Tea Party was started in the hopes of attracting US based political funding from the Tea Party which is a different organisation unrelated to the ADL. The victim in this instance has been stood aside from work pending an investigation. One hopes the investigation finishes soon, and those who have done wrong are appropriately prosecuted. I do not like 18c, preferring free speech, but this looks like a good case for which the legislation is addressed.

Historical perspective on this day

3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamericancivilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric IIdefeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.

1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empiredecisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1675 – Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1813 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barringtonaccompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1898 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1960 – Chad declares independence.
1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2006 – The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and NegrosIslands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

=== Bible Reading ===

Today's reading: Psalm 79-80, Romans 11:1-18 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 79-80

A psalm of Asaph.

¹ O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple,
they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
² They have left the dead bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
³ They have poured out blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury the dead.
⁴ We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
of scorn and derision to those around us....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: Romans 11:1-18

The Remnant of Israel

¹ I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.² God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah-how he appealed to God against Israel: ³ "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me"? ⁴ And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." ⁵So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. ⁶ And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

=== Morning and Evening ===

Morning

"Christ, who is our life."
Colossians 3:4

Paul's marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source of our life. "You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by his life that we live; he is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions, the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance of our life. What can the Christian feed upon but Jesus' flesh and blood? "This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die." O wayworn pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, you never get a morsel to satisfy the hunger of your spirits, except ye find it in him! Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come from him; and in times of trouble, his presence is our consolation. There is nothing worth living for but him; and his lovingkindness is better than life! Christ is the object of our life. As speeds the ship towards the port, so hastes the believer towards the haven of his Saviour's bosom. As flies the arrow to its goal, so flies the Christian towards the perfecting of his fellowship with Christ Jesus. As the soldier fights for his captain, and is crowned in his captain's victory, so the believer contends for Christ, and gets his triumph out of the triumphs of his Master. "For him to live is Christ." Christ is the exemplar of our life. Where there is the same life within, there will, there must be, to a great extent, the same developments without; and if we live in near fellowship with the Lord Jesus we shall grow like him. We shall set him before us as our Divine copy, and we shall seek to tread in his footsteps, until he shall become the crown of our life in glory. Oh! how safe, how honoured, how happy is the Christian, since Christ is our life!

Evening

"The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins."
Matthew 9:6

Behold one of the great Physician's mightiest arts: he has power to forgive sin! While here he lived below, before the ransom had been paid, before the blood had been literally sprinkled on the mercy-seat, he had power to forgive sin. Hath he not power to do it now that he hath died? What power must dwell in him who to the utmost farthing has faithfully discharged the debts of his people! He has boundless power now that he has finished transgression and made an end of sin. If ye doubt it, see him rising from the dead! behold him in ascending splendour raised to the right hand of God! Hear him pleading before the eternal Father, pointing to his wounds, urging the merit of his sacred passion! What power to forgive is here! "He hath ascended on high, and received gifts for men." "He is exalted on high to give repentance and remission of sins." The most crimson sins are removed by the crimson of his blood. At this moment, dear reader, whatever thy sinfulness, Christ has power to pardon, power to pardon thee, and millions such as thou art. A word will speak it. He has nothing more to do to win thy pardon; all the atoning work is done. He can, in answer to thy tears, forgive thy sins today, and make thee know it. He can breathe into thy soul at this very moment a peace with God which passeth all understanding, which shall spring from perfect remission of thy manifold iniquities. Dost thou believe that? I trust thou believest it. Mayst thou experience now the power of Jesus to forgive sin! Waste no time in applying to the Physician of souls, but hasten to him with words like these:--

"Jesus! Master! hear my cry;

Save me, heal me with a word;

Fainting at thy feet I lie,

Thou my whisper'd plaint hast heard."

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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