Friday, September 10, 2021

Fri 10th September 2021 Current Affairs

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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-voice

A 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

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. 

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From the Bible, 2 Corinthians 2

So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

Forgiveness for the Offender

If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

Ministers of the New Covenant

Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

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https://rumble.com/vma57t-ep.-1601-a-racist-attack-is-caught-on-tape-and-the-media-is-silent-the-dan-.html
Shocking video of a racist attack on a candidate emerges, and the media remains silent. Why? In this episode I address the attack and the latest insane policy proposal from the Biden administration about the Afghan refugees.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden Oversteps Presidential Authority: Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine for All Federal Workers and Companies With 100+ Employees READ MORE

Psaki Lies a Lot to Defend Dr. Fauci’s Lies

Rand Paul Calls for Dr. Fauci to Be Fired and Jailed for Lying to Congress

White House to Withdraw Nomination of Radical ATF Nominee David Chipman

White House Fails to Meet Deadline to Provide Info on Biden’s Use of Private Email Account

DOJ to Sue Texas Over Pro-Life Law

Americans FINALLY Board First Commercial Flight Out of Kabul Since Taliban Takeover

Capitol Hill
Alexander Soros Posts Photo With Father and Pelosi: “In Pelosi We Trust!”
Michigan’s “independent” Redistricting Panel Members Face Backlash Over Ties to Dems
News Isn’t Good For Biden as YouGov’s Latest Approval Ratings His Worst Yet
MIA Up Until Now, VP Harris Resurfaces to Campaign for Gov Newsom in California
Biden Administration Looking to Waive Sanctions on Syrian Strongman Bashar al-Assad
In Interview With Dr. Fauci, CNN Ignores Bombshell Report About Wuhan Lab Funding
Poll Shows Biden’s Approval Rating Down Sharply in Six Critical Swing States
House Dems Mask True Cost of $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Bill: Report
House Republicans Request Private Phone Records and Data on Top Dems in Retaliation for Jan 6 Investigation

Culture War
Trump Slams Removal Of Robert E. Lee in Richmond
Portland Mayor Now Admits Police “Hands-off” Approach May Not Be Working
New Video Shows Daunte Wright Posing With Gun in Woman’s Bathroom Before Robbery
New Orleans Residents Rely on Each Other After Hurricane Ida’s Destruction
(Watch) COVID Data, Masks and the Way the Vaccine Works
Candace Owens Slams Media For Not Covering “Racist” Attack On Larry Elder
Google Launches “Antiracism” Initiative That Claims Ben Shapiro Is A Foundation of White Supremacy
Professor Resigns Because His College Transformed “Into A Social Justice Factory”
“Public Health” Propaganda
Pelosi Thinks “Mother Nature” Is Angry With Us And She Knows How To Fix That

Economy
Job Openings Hit 10.9 Million, Fifth Straight Record High
The Unemployed Losing Benefits Aren’t Victims in This Labor Market
CEO Says IRS Push for More Taxpayer Info Will Crush Community Banks
SEC Threatens to Sue Coinbase Service That Pays Interest on Cryptocurrency
Treasury Sec Yellen Warns Treasury Could Exhaust Extraordinary Debt Limit Measures in October
No Storm Has Hit U.S. Energy Markets Like Ida
The Most Expensive Home in America Defaults
House Ethics Panel Reviewing Dem Rep. Malinowski’s Stock Trades
Dallas Fed President Traded Millions in Stocks in 2020

Swamp Watch
Psaki Continues to Deflect Criticism Over Chaos in Afghanistan: “I Don’t Think This Is About Fault Here”
Biden Admin Purges Trump Appointees From Military Academy Advisory Boards
CDC Tightened Mask Guidelines Following Threats From Teachers Union
FBI Releases Video of Jan 5 Pipe Bomber
Far-Left Protestors Plan To Target Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s House Over Texas Abortion Law
Reports Say Trump Set to Endorse Challenger to Liz Cheney
With Protests Continuing Along the Campaign Trail, Canadian PM Trudeau Pelted With Gravel
Biden Misses Deadline to Provide Number of Americans Left Behind in Afghanistan to GOP Senators

National Security
Can the U.S. Even Compete With China in the Rare Earth War?
China Considering Occupying Bagram Air Base
Does Joe Biden Have a Plan to Complete the “Pivot to Asia”?
Israel’s Transfer to U.S. Centcom May Help Deter Iran
Iran Quadrupled Its Stockpile of 60% Enriched Uranium Since May
Why South Korea’s Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Is a Big Deal
Navy Outfitting Surface Ships With Drone-Repellent Systems
Special Operations Command Wants Pint-Sized Cruise Missiles With Long Range
The US-South Korea Alliance Is A Historic Success
China Threatens to Send Warships Into U.S. Waters

Around the World
U.S., European Leaders Do Not Rule Out Working With, Recognizing Terrorist Taliban Government
Former Afghan President Apologizes For Abrupt Fall Of His Govt, Denies Taking Millions Of Dollars With Him
U.S. Govt To Provide Free Health Insurance, Aid To Afghan Evacuees
Canada Opposition Leader Looks To Take Down Trudeau
Scottish Separatists Ramp Up Drive To Break Up UK
World Wary Of New Taliban Government As Afghans Urge Action On Rights, Economy
Christians In Afghanistan At Risk Of Being “Hunted Down and Killed”: Rights Group
Boris Johnson’s Tax Hike Plan Sees Support From UK Parliament

Opinion
Terence P. Jeffrey: The 9/11 Problem That Was Not Fixed
Glenn H. Reynolds: Us Troops’ Rage At Their Leaders Will Grow Unless There’s Deep Reform
Tim Graham: The Media Coaches Democrats, Trashes Republicans
Todd Starnes: Military Removes Crosses After Soldiers Allegedly Complain
Austin Bay: Biden Administration Word Games Cannot Hide Prolonged Hostage Crisis
Betsy McCaughey: Democrats’ Policies Are A Gift To China
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Texas, Abortion And The Constitution
Michael Brown: No, The Pro-Life Movement Is Not About Controlling Women

Entertainment
“Blue’s Clues” Star Steve Burns Returns With Heartfelt Message To Now-Adult Fans Of Show: “I Never Forgot You”
Dean Cain Entertains The Idea Of Running For Office In California If Larry Elder Fails To Win Recall Election Against Governor Gavin Newsom
In Return To Late-Night Show Jimmy Kimmel Says Unvaccinated People Shouldn’t Get ICU Beds
Bob Odenkirk Is Back On The Set Of “Better Call Saul” After Heart Attack
The Mandalorian Actress Emily Swallow Discusses Disney’s Firing Of Gina Carano
Pat Sajak & Vanna White Sign Deal To Host “Wheel of Fortune” Through 2024
Second Trailer For “Many Saints Of Newark” Reveals Christopher In Sopranos Prequel

Sports
Derek Jeter Inducted Into Baseball Hall Of Fame
Washington Football Team To Pick New Name From This List
Rasheed Wallace Says LeBron James’ Success Based On Era He’s Playing In
Missouri Tigers To Pay Tribute To 9/11 First Responders With Special Helmet Decal At Saturday Game
Tennis Champ Johanna Konta Conflicted Over Forced Vaccination, Fears Cancelation
Zach Wilson Ready To Turn Around Jets Like He Did At BYU
“Woke” Students Sue UT-Austin To Force School To Stop Playing “The Eyes Of Texas” Song
Pete Alonso Homers Twice, Including 100th, As Mets Top Marlins
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
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Newsfront

How Newsom Recall Could Help GOP Take Back Senate

If California's Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is recalled Tuesday and [Full Story] | 

Justice Dept. Sues Texas Over State's New Abortion Law

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans [Full Story]

Biden Facing Pressure From Democrats to Replace Fed Chief

President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure within his Democratic [Full Story]

Biden Wants Vaccine Mandate for Companies of 100+ Employees

President Joe Biden will require all federal employees to get [Full Story]

1. Covid. If vaccines reduce Covid deaths, why have Covid deaths risen in both Israel and the UK as vaccination rates rose? https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/a-chart-of-covid-deaths-in-britain?

2. Legal. A second challenge in Maine to vaccine mandates. https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/second-lawsuit-filed-over-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers-in-maine-governor-janet-mills/97-e7c97b48-4d1e-4f3c-887b-a54d17943139

3. Economic. Another debt default impending. https://thehill.com/policy/finance/571237-yellen-us-on-track-to-default-on-national-debt-in-october

4. Political. Some crazy maneuvering in North Carolina's Supreme Court. https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion-article/one-state-supreme-court-case-could-destroy-the-court-for-years-to-come/?fbclid=IwAR3wbfRF8FFv-i3g6IOGUJM2k-H0q_kk1LR-TX7HwMCbw4wr2cIm4TruPFI

5. Cultural. Matrix returns at an appropriate time. https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/09/09/watch-the-first-the-matrix-resurrections-trailer-right-here/


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Here is a video I made Q and A shout out questions

=== From 2018 ===
Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM. Live sheep export issue where those wanting to shut down the industry in Australia have failed, for now. Health insurance reforms clear parliament allowing greater flexibility and discounts for policy owners. ALP promise to pursue Turnbull's NEG policy and spend money. Power prices will be higher, at least in $hundreds per quarter, in order to 'save the world' from AGW. Only the world won't be saved by the measures and bills will be substantially higher. There is now a difference between ALP and Libs. 

Obama started a Cold War to solve his foreign policy problems. Trump has solved those problems despite that Cold War. But, even so, eyebrows are raised as Chinese navy meet with Australian ones off Darwin. 57 Afghan soldiers killed by Taliban. Obama said American Dream was built on Trump. 

Matthew Guy launches policy of PTSD treatment for emergency workers. Police, fire and ambulance workers in Victoria may face stressful situations, lodge a claim and must wait, sometimes longer than thirteen weeks before knowing if they can be reimbursed for treatments or counselling. Matthew Guy will allow for those workers to have treatment without worrying if they will have to pay for it, immediately. Dan Andrews represents unions, but not workers. 

Serena Williams is great. A great prima donna. Her lifetime of achievements are marred by her behaviour as runner up in the US open. Australian comic Mark Knight appropriately captured her racket breaking transgression. In the back ground, the young Naomi Osaka has a blond pony tail as she had in the match. The cartoon has been labelled as racist by racists who mistakenly seem to feel that Williams bad behaviour needs to be defended. It doesn't. Were Williams to be truly great, she would admit she was wrong and apologise. 
From my article on Quora
How do educators apply idealism in teaching?
It is a little known fact that when Patrick Henry gave his “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech he really wanted liberty. Patrick was an idealist.

When Barrack Obama spoke pessimistically of his economy in 2016, saying Trump would need a magic wand to improve it, Obama was speaking in pragmatic terms.

One needs to aim high to achieve the best, even if the best is unachievable. With 20/20 hindsight, Obama now takes credit for what Trump achieved.

Educators address this demarcation between pragmatic and idealism by saying Obama was right, and denouncing GOP style idealism as unrealistic and unhealthy.
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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. Dan Andrews has passed a dangerous anti association laws through the lower house, without much debate. Why do we need such laws for the general population? Is it because Andrews refuses to allow police to identify criminals, and so everyone needs to e considered? Is it because criminals can have their objective behaviour sidelined in cases where they would be designated as criminals? Is there a danger, if criminals are correctly labelled, that ALP and unionists would be labelled? 

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. WA Exit is being seriously entertained because of their low return from GST. The problem is ALP governments anywhere. High tax and spend does not do good things to an economy. Curbs on development through economic vandalism means it is not in a government's interests to prosper. EG the Northern Territory under Giles, when Giles wanted to develop gas and export to SA and QLD but Malcolm Turnbull would not facilitate the development. The point being that growing an economy is much better than getting hand outs. The GST carve up is never going to be popular everywhere. But WA getting 30% return while ALP basket cases getting 110% return on money paid for incompetence is unsustainable. But rather than arguing over the carve up, the state has to develop natural resources. Victoria under ALP's Dan Andrews, Queensland and SA under ALP too, are doing awful things to their economies. Andrews is pushing business away from Melbourne. SA is forcing business to move to other states and nations with their energy policies. 

Some years ago, ABC's QandA had a program on AGW. It was 2012, and the ALP were staggering with minority government. Clive Palmer went on the panel as a 'conservative.' I wore a bandana with an Australian Flag motif, which I draped over my belly. Naturally, although I was front row, the camera never panned across me. Neither was my question chosen. The audience was supposed to be balanced. It didn't seem that way. 

ALP in Victoria have been caught rorting, in a number of different ways. They have spent some $180 million on opposing an investigation into the Red Shirt Brigade, but the investigation is ongoing. Maybe they will collapse before the election next year? Maybe not. The press is not being even handed in not reporting much into what the ALP do wrong, but inflating issues within the Liberal Party. Simon Frost, Liberal campaign director in Victoria has gone to the ACT for the federal campaigns. The new director in Victoria has been supported by the leader, Matthew Guy, the President, Michael Kroger and apparently gave the best pitch. But a senior Lib, or many, are leaking at disquiet with his age (young), experience and a previous failed campaign. It is reminiscent of when Turnbull and Bishop leaked about Credlin. The issues are grumbles which are nothing compared to ALP rorts that the press are silent on. I am not a Liberal, but I support them, and I will name the guilty party, parties and shame them if I can. 
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Chris Mitchell is merely one journalist who was too close to those he didn't professionally present to his readers. He needed to protect his informants, but that is not the issue. The Australian in his time wandered and lacked insight it had had from Frank Devine. There is too much 'balance' among modern journalists. We frequently hear their opinions without being shared analytic reasoning. Partly because they wish to protect informants they are too close to, but also because many are neither fearless nor independent, but very protective of status quo. We don't need to know the details of Rudd's dinner and conversation with President Bush. The truth is Rudd verballed Bush who is not stupid as Rudd wished to portray him. Mitchell participated. I know of decisions Mitchell made about me, and I will never know why. It has cost me much. And I know he was wrong to do so.
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It is sad that Andrew Bolt still seems to lack insight in what the Abbott situation was regarding Turnbull. It takes discipline to run an agenda that is not what you want, but uses what you have been given. Abbott did that effectively. Turnbull does not. But Turnbull in cabinet had tremendous spoiling authority. Abbott was advised to go some ways, and pulled from going others. But, even so, the Turnbull issue of republicanism is a terrible trap for Andrew to fall into. It may well be Bolt's view, but so what? All that matters is analysis. The idea of cultural assets is important in conservative religious communities (Christian) as it opposes the corrosive idea of division that is popular among the left. Knighthoods are cheap cultural assets. They cost next to nothing and provide hope and direction for the very young and old. Abbott made a mistake with that policy in providing the outgoing GG with a Dameship, when she had been disgraceful. Abbott's policy of maternity leave was not wrong. It was an election promise and legitimate as a policy. Turnbull criticised it through his mates, who were entitled to criticise the policy, but the media had, and have, no special right to misrepresent it even though they disagree with it.

I dispute the assertion that there are other journalists who are conservative. Even among the fine ones named. I rely on them because they are balanced, while many like Mitchell are partisan. I disagree with Bolt occasionally. That is ok. I still highly value his work.
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The job is half done. To get rid of Turnbull, the Liberals promoted him. Because there was no other way. But they also need to roll him. Because there is no alternative, it is unthinkable they would keep such a liability.
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Dan Andrews seems to be protecting Apex from prosecution. Calling thugs children and preventing violent offenders from being incarcerated, the risk is that homeowners must take matters into their own hands. One day soon Apex will enter a home and face a very frightened homeowner using an axe to protect their family. And although the Apex 'children' will be victim, it will be Andrews' fault.
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I think Turnbull's mojo disappeared when Wran passed away, years before he actually died. Turnbull's gift seems to have been related to his connections. And they aren't conservative ones.

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
 None for 2015 .. because of Melbourne promotional trip
From 2014
Gillard obfuscates before a royal commission. She says with hindsight she might have behaved differently. It beggars belief that with wisdom or honesty she would not behaved differently. In 1995 she said she could not rule out that some union money might have paid for some renovations on her house. Today she said it was entirely her own money. Which might mean she viewed union money as entirely her own. Her testimony is precise, even when she forgets everything. It is as if she did things wrong, but forgot about it, so isn't responsible for it. Luckily the law is not based on memory. She will never have to face for the over twelve hundred boat people she drowned through bad policy. It was her call. But failure to account for corrupt activity does not excuse it. It doesn't matter if others conveniently forget. The stand over tactics to steal money from business and then divert it from unions is not something that can be ignored or excused. She admits now she organised and founded a socialist union, which she once claimed she was merely a secretary. She later said at the age of thirty she was young and naive. She has also said she has faced questions before on these issues. In fact, she was duplicitous and an accomplished liar. 

Islamic leaders around the world are linking themselves to terrorism. They make claims that are even occasionally at odds with the activity of Islam which excuse the terror. Terrorists are a larger killer of Islamists than they are of others. One terror source is Islamic leadership excusing terror, another is books written to inform so called jihadis. A Queensland bookstore selling jihadi titles has been raided and books seized. The shop was apparently owned by a biological brother of a known suicide bomber. Women read books and women are joining the jihadis. Women join IS not solely for sex with many men .. they are also given duty finding cross dressing men .. and being low paid, veiled and subject to extreme sanction should they become inconvenient. Those books must be impressive beyond fifty shades of grey. One unheralded Islamic leader, or apostate, is Obama. Obama has been refused to play Golf at elite paddocks which is .. petty. His position deserves respect. Let him play golf wherever, whenever he wants to. But, don't trust his political judgement.

Scotland made the UK Great .. now will she leave? A star trek spoof shows how the world could be different under an isolated and irrelevant Scotland. Isolation and division is a hallmark of socialist style politics. At the moment, Clover Moore is hurting Sydney with her bicycle strategy killing main arterial roads and unwary bicyclists. Meanwhile, up to 25 projects worth billions of dollars in Western Australia could be at risk due to a "technical error" in their environmental approval. So, in Queensland there are new state laws designed to prevent most Queenlanders going to the Land Court to object to proposed mining projects. Another proposed law change in Victoria regarding surrogacy and succession. The proposed law change seems sound. There is a risk of wills being hijacked .. Rose Porteus rings a bell .. but the injustice from a bad will exists even if the lawyers get all the money. Let alternative argument make their points. Injustice results in pain and hurt. A family of five suffered greatly after a mum was brain damaged in a car accident in 2012. She worked hard to overcome obstacles and recently returned to nursing while her husband ran their farm. All five have been found dead in what is apparently a murder suicide. 

Federal minister for immigration and border protection Scott Morrison spoke brilliantly at a press club luncheon today so there has been little written about it. He has stopped boat people from drowning, saved thousands from refugee limbo, saved millions of dollars in waste and had to fight the opposition of an ALP bent on retaining her murderous policy favouring piracy. Many of the journalists present wanted Morrison to fail. He was on top of everything. Another brilliant launch was Apple's new iPhone models and an Apple Watch, which wasn't labelled the sniggering iWatch. Beautiful, functional and desirable. Meanwhile, in the shadow of the launch, Snapchat disclosed they were compensating a former employee not previously recognised for creating their timed delete function. Also Tinder let go of a CMO over sex abuse allegations. 

In the business of obfuscation and insight, there are few more capable than Helen Dale who is working as an advisor to Senator David Leyonhjelm. Good luck. A comedian faces an off comment from a Qantas steward regarding inflight chicken. The comedian calls it racist. But if Qantas were worried about the issue of racism they would serve pork. Or advocate for constitutional change, or something. Meanwhile, abstract art has been found in a cave 39000 years old and not made by humans. What distinguishes it from porn or functional, creative art is not described in reports. Had a man done it .. 
From 2013
A throw away line from the US Secretary of State about Syria avoiding being hit by missiles has been seized on by Russia. Syria may now hand over the weapons to the UN. It will be fascinating to find out how Saddam manufactured them, and it would embarrass the international press and Obama. Bring it on. 

Meanwhile, as California burns, arsonists in Australia have seized on a warm spring and many tens of fires burn out of control in NSW. The real burning issue according to Fairfax Press is who will lead the ALP. Rudd won't and no one has put up their hand yet. Fascinatingly, many who lauded Rudd a few days ago say he should never have been called back to lead the party. This may be true, but it is shameful and cynical to admit it only after an election while denying it during. The ABC's Media Watch is still on the offensive, claiming that it is wrong and unbalanced to ever criticise the ALP. The incompetent penis did not win a seat with his Wikileaks party. Apparently the projected 25% of the vote was not enough. On current projections (having achieved an actual 1.25%) Wikileaks will need projected some 225% of the vote. The Age is working overtime to accomplish just that. Sydney is warm. Arctic is cool. It is business as usual in these climate changing times. 
Historical perspective on this day
506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundyis assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erieduring the War of 1812.
1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lichen.

1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Layerecognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascarto re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.

1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Today's reading: Proverbs 6-7, 2 Corinthians 2 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 3-5

Warnings Against Folly
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth.
3 So do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:
Go-to the point of exhaustion-
and give your neighbor no rest!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 2

1 So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. 2 For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? 3 I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. 4 For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

Forgiveness for the Offender
5 If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent-not to put it too severely. 6 The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. 7 Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9 Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven-if there was anything to forgive-I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes....

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Morning

"I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
Jeremiah 33:3
There are different translations of these words. One version renders it, "I will shew thee great and fortified things." Another, "Great and reserved things." Now, there are reserved and special things in Christian experience: all the developments of spiritual life are not alike easy of attainment. There are the common frames and feelings of repentance, and faith, and joy, and hope, which are enjoyed by the entire family; but there is an upper realm of rapture, of communion, and conscious union with Christ, which is far from being the common dwelling-place of believers. We have not all the high privilege of John, to lean upon Jesus' bosom; nor of Paul, to be caught up into the third heaven. There are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God which the eagle's eye of acumen and philosophic thought hath never seen: God alone can bear us there; but the chariot in which he takes us up, and the fiery steeds with which that chariot is dragged, are prevailing prayers. Prevailing prayer is victorious over the God of mercy, "By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us." Prevailing prayer takes the Christian to Carmel, and enables him to cover heaven with clouds of blessing, and earth with floods of mercy. Prevailing prayer bears the Christian aloft to Pisgah, and shows him the inheritance reserved; it elevates us to Tabor and transfigures us, till in the likeness of his Lord, as he is, so are we also in this world. If you would reach to something higher than ordinary grovelling experience, look to the Rock that is higher than you, and gaze with the eye of faith through the window of importunate prayer. When you open the window on your side, it will not be bolted on the other.

Evening

"And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment."
Revelation 4:4
These representatives of the saints in heaven are said to be around the throne. In the passage in Canticles, where Solomon sings of the King sitting at his table, some render it "a round table." From this, some expositors, I think, without straining the text, have said, "There is an equality among the saints." That idea is conveyed by the equal nearness of the four and twenty elders. The condition of glorified spirits in heaven is that of nearness to Christ, clear vision of his glory, constant access to his court, and familiar fellowship with his person: nor is there any difference in this respect between one saint and another, but all the people of God, apostles, martyrs, ministers, or private and obscure Christians, shall all be seated near the throne, where they shall forever gaze upon their exalted Lord, and be satisfied with his love. They shall all be near to Christ, all ravished with his love, all eating and drinking at the same table with him, all equally beloved as his favourites and friends even if not all equally rewarded as servants.
Let believers on earth imitate the saints in heaven in their nearness to Christ. Let us on earth be as the elders are in heaven, sitting around the throne. May Christ be the object of our thoughts, the centre of our lives. How can we endure to live at such a distance from our Beloved? Lord Jesus, draw us nearer to thyself. Say unto us, "Abide in me, and I in you"; and permit us to sing, "His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me."
O lift me higher, nearer thee,
And as I rise more pure and meet,
O let my soul's humility
Make me lie lower at thy feet;
Less trusting self, the more I prove

The blessed comfort of thy love.

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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.

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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.

Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?


January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)

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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.


The Amazon Author Page for David Ball

UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG

French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG

Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG

German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG

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Other Stuff

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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship

https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664

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I'm looking for former students to endorse me

https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html

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