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It doesn't matter that NSW has handled the health crisis better than Queensland or Victoria. Victoria recorded over a hundred deaths directly related to mismanagement by their Premier, who went on record as saying they forgot why. Both Victoria and Queensland have raised state borders against Australian citizens moving. Only recently has NSW imposed ridiculous curfew etc etc
NSW has done some dumb things. Banning church singing on Zoom to prevent COVID spread is one example. Imagine if the conservatives had had free reign to behave responsibly?
My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately.
I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.
https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voiceA successful withdrawal was what was engineered at Gallipolli, where, over three days troops pulled out of defended positions and left on ships .. nobody died. That was war. Nobody was left behind. Because of the failure, WW1 was prolonged another two and a half years, Russia collapsed etc etc. The price of failure was big. But the retreat was a success. In contrast, Biden's retreat was utter failure in Afghanistan.
Editorial on Covid policy failure
It is apparent COVID policy is political, not health related. However health advice has been political and not health related. Public health has been corrupted. Media has failed. Judiciary is corrupt. Defence is incompetent. The thin blue line has been cut. And, elder abuse is apparent from the Presidential office through to the ordinary NYC retirement home. On the plus side, there is an emerging possibility of an empty gesture securing the white house for womyn on behalf of one raised in Canada. Dan Andrews' lockdown has cancelled AA meetings. Go the beers. Playgrounds have been shut down state wide and even a curfew has been re-imposed. There is no science showing any such measure addresses COVID, but we know it allows the government to assert authority.
https://rumble.com/vlxs1g-editorial-on-covid-policy-failure.html
1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1618 – The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714 – George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Quebec City.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
1898 – Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911 – Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South-West Africa.
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional footballfor a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922 – Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 – Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting pro-Nazi/anti-Allied propaganda.
1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senatewithout completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 57 relating to Palestinian question is adopted.
1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961 – The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities.
1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997 – Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2011 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2012 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 2067 relating to Somalia is adopted.
2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed following a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2016 – 17 Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants.
Editorial Biden's Afghan failure culminated from Obama's Afghan lies
Afghanistan is in flames as Biden begins bombing runs on terrorists as he seeks to negotiate with them. US soldiers have been killed after a strategic error left an exposed airport the only means of Americans and their allies to flee. Biden says those that remained behind wanted to, after fleeing Afghans clinging to a wing and fuselage of an aircraft plummet to their deaths. After Biden had said the Afghan government would stand following US withdrawal. US left behind billions of dollars of weapons Chicago gangs look on with shock and awe. The Taliban will not use a fleet of Blackhawk helicopters. China will.
So who is responsible for the failure? According to Biden, the buck stops with him, and he views it as a Dunkirk like success, when he is not looking at his watch waiting for mourning to end of soldiers that died in his service. Biden also feels any mistake was made by Donald Trump as NK begins nuclear weapons work. The US military have included critical junior officers in their lists of personal pronouns for enemies. What is a personal pronoun for a failed President?
Editorial on God In answer to Dinesh Dsousa's article
The God the atheists refute is not real, but is a ridiculous, impossible figure. God is real. God as He is revealed in the Bible is a fact. However, as ridiculous as the atheists arguments are, they are instructive. God made a bridge He could not cross (man's rejection of Him). God bridged that gap with Jesus. Thing is, atheists don't believe that that gap is real.
In my Sermon on a Miracle I describe how God gave a childless woman who could not bear children, prayed for children, family. He did that. And he did not use supernatural measures.
God is real. God does the impossible. God is not subject to our demands. God answers prayer. Sometimes bad people prosper for a time. All those statements are true.
God is worthy of praise. Atheists don't see it, but they have countless examples of it, from their own lives to the works of those they admire. In the Revelations of the Holy Spirit I underscore and outline some of what God does that even atheists call for.
We need god, but even in a world without God, there is a need for Him.
=== From 2018 ===
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.
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.
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 ===
Don't give up on hope. Sean Spicer was terribly maligned by the press. He was the press secretary who in response to a lie about Obama having a bigger inauguration crowd, made the counter claim that Trump's was bigger and was called a liar. Later, while reporting on Trump's strike on Syria after chemical weapons were deployed against civilians, Spicer stumbled raising the holocaust. It wasn't necessary to raise the holocaust, but the issue was raised and Spicer couldn't defend it. Democrats have an ugly history regarding the holocaust and slavery. Today, Democrats exploit Jews and blacks. But Democrats would never be beaten up for their actions. As a conservative student, Spicer was called a Sphincter by a University magazine. Wikipedia apparently take sides, unnecessarily reporting the comment and criticising Spicer for taking appropriate action. Today, Spicer appeared at the Emmy's. He was self deprecating. But because it was apparently a hit against Trump, Spicer is rehabilitated.
Victoria now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Dan Andrews has not achieved that effortlessly, he has worked tirelessly to achieve it. Almost every decision Andrews makes seems to be geared to that end. Thank you Dan.
Donald Trump gives a speech on pulling out of the Paris agreement. Press get confused. If Trump is willing to work with Democrats, does that mean he will rejoin Paris? It is not confusing if you read the speech. But apparently press don't need to read things in order to criticise Trump. JF observes "Kim Jong Un has killed and starved his people, developed nuclear weapons, fired them over Japan. But Donald Trump sent a mocking tweet over the Internet.
Fascism has come to America" Just don't mention the holocaust.
Victoria now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Dan Andrews has not achieved that effortlessly, he has worked tirelessly to achieve it. Almost every decision Andrews makes seems to be geared to that end. Thank you Dan.
Donald Trump gives a speech on pulling out of the Paris agreement. Press get confused. If Trump is willing to work with Democrats, does that mean he will rejoin Paris? It is not confusing if you read the speech. But apparently press don't need to read things in order to criticise Trump. JF observes "Kim Jong Un has killed and starved his people, developed nuclear weapons, fired them over Japan. But Donald Trump sent a mocking tweet over the Internet.
That orange monster has surely gone too far.
=== from 2016 ===
I distrust United Conservative Party. I am concerned at some of their catch phrases that strike me as being over bearing, social conservatives or left wing regulation happy. A political party should not be advocating self defence. Australia is not subservient to anyone, but our leaders seem to like giving money to foreign powers for kickbacks, so rather than claiming we won't be subservient, we need transparency and anti corruption measures. Stay out of my family and I'll let you live. Fuck your integration, I'll live free. Respect religion by not promoting terrorism.
Clever blaming Morrison as well as Turnbull. Turnbull has too much control and treasury too little. I doubt Morrison has been free to produce effective policy. It seems, to me, that this 'deal' is entirely about replacing the diesel submarines with nuclear power ones. That is the only thing that makes sense. But the public is not ready for that.
Breaking the cycle of poverty is not done by transplanting the poor. It is done by growing domestic markets and letting capitalism work.
I feel the left wing have censored thought for so long, they are suffering angst over not being original. Take that cultural appropriation and shove it up your bum.
I've not read that book. It is difficult to oversell criticism. It is hard to accurately portray praise. But the reality is the attempt was spin, and that was achieved. Malcolm Turnbull's success is related to his friendship with ALP figures like Neville Wran.
I gave up on the Left a long time ago. I don't care if they live or die. I will point the way up and if their members choose to make good choices I'll help. But I greatly resent their promotion of terrorism and poverty so as to fuel their corruption. The left's arguments tend to be hollow and their attacks on cultural assets effective. The left tend to use Alynski methods to successfully create wastelands. I will have none of it.
I guess Bill shouldn't have blamed NYC police that time they were doing their job. The thin blue line stands between gutless politicians and those looking for cheap thrills.
Clever blaming Morrison as well as Turnbull. Turnbull has too much control and treasury too little. I doubt Morrison has been free to produce effective policy. It seems, to me, that this 'deal' is entirely about replacing the diesel submarines with nuclear power ones. That is the only thing that makes sense. But the public is not ready for that.
Breaking the cycle of poverty is not done by transplanting the poor. It is done by growing domestic markets and letting capitalism work.
I feel the left wing have censored thought for so long, they are suffering angst over not being original. Take that cultural appropriation and shove it up your bum.
I've not read that book. It is difficult to oversell criticism. It is hard to accurately portray praise. But the reality is the attempt was spin, and that was achieved. Malcolm Turnbull's success is related to his friendship with ALP figures like Neville Wran.
I gave up on the Left a long time ago. I don't care if they live or die. I will point the way up and if their members choose to make good choices I'll help. But I greatly resent their promotion of terrorism and poverty so as to fuel their corruption. The left's arguments tend to be hollow and their attacks on cultural assets effective. The left tend to use Alynski methods to successfully create wastelands. I will have none of it.
I guess Bill shouldn't have blamed NYC police that time they were doing their job. The thin blue line stands between gutless politicians and those looking for cheap thrills.
=== from 2015 ===
Scott Morrison's loyalty is being questioned. Some say he should have saved Mr Abbott. Mr Morrison served Mr Abbott loyally and had no reason to throw himself under a bus at the last moment. What happened to Mr Abbott was wrong and cruel, but not Mr Morrison's fault. Even had he done as others think he should have, Mr Morrison could not have saved Mr Abbott. Because Mr Abbott had been an outstanding, good PM. Unlike Rudd, Abbott had many achievements he could point to, from international kudos for leadership over MH17 and MH360, through international security in solving illegal migration for Australia, or cutting some $50 billion of spending despite entrenched opposition among independents. More remarkably, Abbott achieved it despite internal party opposition. Malcolm Turnbull has become PM by promising to fix problems he created. And that is not Mr Morrison's fault.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Terrorism is not about religion. It isn't that the terrorists are, or are not, religious, Islamic leadership is impotent in the face of terror and confused, as they are too close. Literally. The suburbs threatened in the dawn raids by police which rounded up members of possible terror cells had burqa clad women and are close to where the Islamic Leaders live and preach hate. Naturally the ABC raised the issue of police brutality. The plans of those rounded up included one to collect a random person from the streets, film their beheading and the headless corpse being dragged in the ISIS flag. Luckily our hope is not resting on the impotent and confused Islamic leadership. Only last week, that leadership was claiming Abbott was over reaching in lifting the terror threat alert or extending metadata collection. They should collectively applaud Mr Abbott from saving them from the community backlash should the atrocity have taken place. Turkey is Islamic and Turkish women don't usually wear the burqa. There is good reason for it. It dates back to Ataturk passing a law that made it illegal for prostitutes to work from any other clothing. Maybe the leadership will discourage the practice here?
The labour union movement is facing broad charges of corruption. The CFMEU (construction, forestry, mining and energy union) has been alleged to have employed stand over tactics in building sites. This is related to former PM Gillard weakening laws which protected workers from rapacious exploitation by slush fund creating unions. The union has denied the allegations, but sadly, because Gillard weakened the laws, it is hard for them to prove they aren't corrupt. It is the misfortune of the unions that the ALP is too closely aligned with them to be of any help. The ALP leader, Shorten, has to answer questions of misappropriation of union funds and the creation and abuse of slush funds.
Clive Palmer loses another court battle he had claimed he won. He appears increasingly desperate but never competent. ABC continues flogging AGW hysteria, claiming that water rising around Australia will cost billions of dollars. ABC Board member Stanley appears blind to accusations of bias. A female who beat up a pensioner on a bus has failed to apologise but has been given a suspended sentence. An execution in Texas of a despicable woman who tortured a child to death.
LBJ declared a war on poverty in 1964, creating programs such as Head Start, Food Stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicaid. Today, in 2014 terms, the spending has reached $22 trillion, which is three times more than spent on military in all wars since the US Revolution. The goal is worthy, but the means is a failure. It has become a political whipping post. Both 'sides' or politics are wilfully blind that they are shovelling money into programs designed to keep people poor, and favouring one side of politics. Poor people have needs, and the complex bureaucracies which 'oversee the poor' are lousy at addressing those needs. The US is not serving her people by going bankrupt trying. Greater use needs to be made of charity and philanthropy in effective programs, and government is not good at doing that. One tragic example of feel good over reach involves the failure of the hashtag bringbackourgirls to bring back the victims of Boko Haram's kidnapping of two hundred school girls earmarked for sexual slavery and genital mutilation. Thank you Michelle for your good intentions. Maybe Barak will divert the soldiers designated to combat ebola to save those girls?
The labour union movement is facing broad charges of corruption. The CFMEU (construction, forestry, mining and energy union) has been alleged to have employed stand over tactics in building sites. This is related to former PM Gillard weakening laws which protected workers from rapacious exploitation by slush fund creating unions. The union has denied the allegations, but sadly, because Gillard weakened the laws, it is hard for them to prove they aren't corrupt. It is the misfortune of the unions that the ALP is too closely aligned with them to be of any help. The ALP leader, Shorten, has to answer questions of misappropriation of union funds and the creation and abuse of slush funds.
They say responsibility is heavy, and so leaders go grey in office. Obama shows craven cowards do too. Scotland is voting on an issue of independence, but it isn't a vote for freedom. There is nothing that Scotland as independent will get that it does not have now, within a UK democracy. If the Yes case wins, then the conservative leader Cameron is in trouble even though none of this is his fault. Grossly irresponsible people have promised many things if there is a yes vote, but not conservatives. Australia is being promised a similar poll on a non issue, with plans to institutionalise apartheid within the constitution. Having failed to protect the poorest of Australia, some bright sparks think that redefining race within the constitution will address the issue. It didn't work in South Africa either.
Nova Peris belongs to the ALP in many ways. She has no idea about appropriate behaviour. At a children's athletics meet Nova abused officials so as to seek an advantage for her son. Like other ALP plans, it didn't work. It highlights the failings of the leader Shorten to stamp any authority on those he leads. Shorten says he supports Mr Abbott's actions in the Middle East, but then back benchers stand up and say they don't. Shorten fails to implement policy. He addressed workers with a pathetic, protectionist speech which did nothing to provide Australia with the certainty she needed over submarines. A bugbear for Shorten is his support of a murderously bad policy on migration by people smugglers. But in his defence the ABC is confused too. They seem to say it is good to drown poor people if pirates prosper from it.
Clive Palmer loses another court battle he had claimed he won. He appears increasingly desperate but never competent. ABC continues flogging AGW hysteria, claiming that water rising around Australia will cost billions of dollars. ABC Board member Stanley appears blind to accusations of bias. A female who beat up a pensioner on a bus has failed to apologise but has been given a suspended sentence. An execution in Texas of a despicable woman who tortured a child to death.
From 2013
A man with a mental illness, who supported Obama, who had been trained in the military used an assault rifle, CNN called a shotgun, to kill 12 people in 30 minutes in Washington DC at a naval yard. For their safety, none of the sane employees were armed. Clearly this is going to inflame the gun issue. Democrats like Obama like that, as they are the goto people for gun control. But while kudos are often given to the Democrats for gun control, Democrat states seem to have the most difficulties. It is as if the Democrats like the issue to stay alive at the expense of victims.
Meanwhile, in Australia, the new PM, Tony Abbott has been sworn in. He has axed three department heads who were too close to the last government, and a fourth has walked away. Much has been said of the few number of females in the new cabinet (Deputy Liberal Leader Bishop). And while it is true that neither of the last two ALP PM's were women, nor will either of the next two ALP aspirants be women, still it seems as if the ALP have their finger on an issue which will only grow in time. One expects that in fifty or sixty years, the male dominated Abbott Government will collapse. But probably not before then if the ALP can't find another issue.
The pedophile inquiry continues. Clearly inadequate sentences have been given to abusers. There is no death penalty in Australia, but sometimes one wonders if jail is used enough.
The Dutch King calls for people to rely less on welfare and more on provision. The Liberal party state governments have clearly been wounded by hostile ALP federal masters recently, with WA losing a AAA rating the big spending feds had been able to retain. In Victoria, weak conservative government has only recently stiffened, and its numbers are on a knife edge with a corruption issue threatening to cause it to implode. Ironically, the issue of misuse of a government car seems prima facie similar to former PM Gillard's suppressed issue .. but the press hadn't been interested in that ..
Meanwhile, in Australia, the new PM, Tony Abbott has been sworn in. He has axed three department heads who were too close to the last government, and a fourth has walked away. Much has been said of the few number of females in the new cabinet (Deputy Liberal Leader Bishop). And while it is true that neither of the last two ALP PM's were women, nor will either of the next two ALP aspirants be women, still it seems as if the ALP have their finger on an issue which will only grow in time. One expects that in fifty or sixty years, the male dominated Abbott Government will collapse. But probably not before then if the ALP can't find another issue.
The pedophile inquiry continues. Clearly inadequate sentences have been given to abusers. There is no death penalty in Australia, but sometimes one wonders if jail is used enough.
The Dutch King calls for people to rely less on welfare and more on provision. The Liberal party state governments have clearly been wounded by hostile ALP federal masters recently, with WA losing a AAA rating the big spending feds had been able to retain. In Victoria, weak conservative government has only recently stiffened, and its numbers are on a knife edge with a corruption issue threatening to cause it to implode. Ironically, the issue of misuse of a government car seems prima facie similar to former PM Gillard's suppressed issue .. but the press hadn't been interested in that ..
Historical perspective on this day
AD 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1618 – The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714 – George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Quebec City.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
1898 – Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911 – Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South-West Africa.
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional footballfor a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922 – Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 – Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting pro-Nazi/anti-Allied propaganda.
1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senatewithout completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 57 relating to Palestinian question is adopted.
1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961 – The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities.
1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997 – Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2011 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2012 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 2067 relating to Somalia is adopted.
2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed following a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2016 – 17 Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants.
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AD 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
1714 – George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Quebec City.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
1898 – Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1898 – Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1911 – Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senatewithout completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 57 relating to Palestinian question is adopted.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senatewithout completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 57 relating to Palestinian question is adopted.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
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