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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-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
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.
Awaiting the New Body
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
The Ministry of Reconciliation
Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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https://rumble.com/vmeo6r-september-12-2021.html
Live Vlog
Rose McGowan to Appear Alongside Larry Elder Amid Harry Weinstein Related Allegation Against Gov. Newsom’s Wife
Dems’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Goal Is Slipping Away
NY Hospital to Pause Baby Deliveries After Vaccine Mandate Causes Staff Shortage
“Don’t Let California Become Texas” Says Gov. Newsom as His Residents Flee for Texas
Biden Booed at 9/11 Memorial Site
Trump Makes Surprise Visit to NYPD and FDNY
Capitol Hill
Former Obama, Biden Adviser Gloats About 9/11 Cyberattack Against GOP
The Great American Walkout Begins Following Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
Poll: Majority of Americans Angry With How Things Are Going Under Biden
AOC and Bernie Sanders Could End Up Sinking Multi-Trillion-Dollar Spending Plans
SCOTUS Urged to Overturn Washington Ruling Against Religious Employers
Department of Education Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Florida Mask Mandate Ban
George W. Bush’s Remarks About Domestic Extremism Draw Criticism
Culture War
LA Times Manipulates Photo to Suggest Larry Elder Slapped a Woman at Campaign Stop Where He Was Attacked
America’s 20-Year Heartbreak
Bill Maher Says the Left Is Embarrassing Him
Washington University Student Senator Captured Removing American Flags on 9/11 Memorial Display
CNN’s Brian Stelter: TV Anchors the Closest Thing America Had to National Leaders on 9/11
Last Week in Education Insanity
Portland Sued by Estate of Person Shot and Killed by Antifa Last Year
Economy
Kroger Warns Grocery Prices Are Heading Higher
Charles Gasparino: The Economy Shook After 9/11 – but Thanks to Heroes, It Did Not Crumble
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Delayed Again Over COVID Scare
Shipping Companies Are Earning the Most Money Since 2008
Dems Propose Major Expansion of Electric Vehicle Tax Credits
Small Businesses Turning to Technology to Compensate for Worker Shortage
Budget Committee Chairman: We Can Create as Much Money as We Need to Spend
Social Security Paid Out $125.2 Million to the Deceased
Swamp Watch
California Advances Prostitution Bill That Empowers Human Traffickers
U.S. Has Given 283k Visas to Immigrants From Hijacker Countries Since 9/11
Maryland Judge Under Investigation for Child Sex Crimes Commits Suicide
Gov. DeSantis Fires Back at Biden: He Promised to End Pandemic And Cases Are Up 300%
California Moves to Cut Time Required for Terminally Ill to Obtain Lethal Drugs
School Board Member Whose Father Led 9/11 Hijackers’ Mosque Opposed a Resolution Honoring Victims of the Attacks
Syracuse Professor: 9/11 An Attack on “Heteropatriarchal Capitalistic Systems”
National Security
Jacksonian America: The Sleeping Giant Awakened by 9/11
Military Equipment Left Behind in Afghanistan Will Expose U.S. Secrets
Picture This: No 9/11 If Iran Had Invaded Afghanistan
Here’s Why Japan’s Next Prime Minister Matters
Will America Ever Learn the Real Lesson of 9/11?
9/11 Terror Attacks Have Lost Their Recruiting Power With Today’s Troops
Lawmakers Want to Know if U.S. Gave Biometric Data on Afghan Allies to Taliban
The Al Hawl Refugee Camp: Creating a New Generation of Terrorists
Around the World
Thousands Protest in Turkey Over New Vaccine and Test Rules
Canadian PM Trudeau Chose to Stress Islamophobia and the Impact on Muslims of 9/11
Protesters in Greece Clash With Police Against Mandatory COVID Vaccinations
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban Says 9/11 Proved “Christian Civilization Is Something We Must Fight for Every Day”
India, Australia Look to Tightening Security Ties as 9/11 Anniversary Marked
Shootings Continue in “No Go” Zone in Stockholm, Sweden, With Local Describing the Place as the “Wild West”
Novelist Hilary Mantel Claims British Monarchy Could Be Gone in Two Generations
Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Time to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for Afghanistan Fiasco
Debra J. Saunders: DC’s Insatiable Urge to Splurge
Ronna McDaniel: We Will Never Forget
Andrea Peyser: Many of America’s Children Will Likely Grow Up Ignorant of 9/11
Paul Driessen: Fostering a More Back-To-Normal School Year
Salena Zito: Why Trump Signs Are Mushrooming Across the U.S. a Year After 2020 Election
Michael Brown: A Sobering (Yet Motivating) Reality on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Derrick Anderson: Where Are You, Mr. President?
Entertainment
Country Star Darryl Worley Discusses His 9/11 Song “Have You Forgotten?” 20 Years After Attacks
Bill Cosby Has New TV Show In The Works Months After Getting Out Of Prison
Ashton Kutcher Endures Chants To “Take A Shower” From Iowa Fans During ESPN College GameDay
First Trailer For Aquaman: King Of Atlantis Is As Atrocious As You Imagined
Mick Brigden, Rolling Stones And Bob Dylan Manager, Dies In Freak Accident
Bill Maher Blasts NFL Over Black National Anthem: It’s “Segregation” “Under A Different Name”
Stephen King Fake News Tweet About Florida’s COVID-19 Deaths Goes Viral
Shang-Chi Unlikely To Get Chinese Release After Simu Liu’s Comments About Communist China Resurface
Sports
Crowd Chants “We Want Trump” During Evander Holyfield, Vitor Belfort Bout
Army Football Players Run Onto Field Carrying American Flags For the Anniversary of 9/11
“Unified New York”: 9/11 Remembered In Emotional Scene At Mets – Yankees Game
Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Cup Car Fails Pre-Race Inspection Two Times At Richmond
Transgender Fighter Alana McLaughlin Wins In MMA Debut
Emma Raducanu Wins U.S. Open Championship
Vikings Mourn Passing Of Legend Mick Tingelhoff
Jordan Mailata Signs Four-Year Extension With Eagles Reportedly Worth $64 Million
Trump also said he doubted that the war is actually over, stating that many unvetted Afghan refugees are being resettled in the United States and other countries. "You have people going all over the world and being dropped all over the world right now, and nobody knows who the hell they are," Trump said, insisting that "these aren't the interpreters that we took. These were people that rushed into the planes." [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Les Miserables Finale
Being Green means being irresponsible.
Turnbull exploited the issue to get Abbott. As Communication Minister, Turnbull made the case in cabinet that forced Abbott to commit to a smaller agenda focusing on the budget. Then Turnbull made promises he would be different. If Turnbull were to consider supporting free speech, he would be subject to his own criticism. Turnbull is not that dumb. Hubris will keep Turnbull from making a wise decision.
A first class sniveller. Still on the plus side, he didn't eat it as Rudd would.
I am used to hearing ALP go to fantasy land in interviews. "No Whyalla wipe-out?"
Turnbull's best work was bringing down successive Liberal leaders
It is like the government pay argument. A government member, like Penny Wong, will never be worthwhile, no matter how much she is paid. She will never return any of that $106 billion. And someone like Costello you could not pay enough. The Vietnamese community is very good. Those grandparents are also very good at shaming the unruly young. But I saw a video of a Syrian grandmother executed for showing her face. Should we really import that?
Turnbull is appallingly bad as Liberal leader. But he is balanced against Bill Shorten who is appallingly bad as ALP leader.
He (David Morrison) is trying to change the nappies, I hear. By making babies choose gender.
I loved Sherman T Potter
Glad we cleared that up. But, what was the result of the debate regarding AGW? Is man too blame?
Hillary spreads a contagious disease to supporters. They were delusional. They still are. But those closest to her could now also have pneumonia. Her career in recent times has shown eery similarities to Gillard. Both have reputations far exceeding their ability. Both had slush funds. Both lead ugly, licentious lives. So maybe Hillary will be elected head of government by mistake too. Or maybe Hillary left her betrayal too late?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumphfor his victoriesover the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
379 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal
533 – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1437 – Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1645 – Battle of Philiphaugh Covenanters win the day over the royalists.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec Cityin the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1843 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York–Ontario).
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Armywith heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1948 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.
1971 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biaoflees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Marioseries of platforming games.
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accordsgranting limited Palestinian autonomy.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
2013 – Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
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=== Bongino Headlines ===
FBI Releases Newly Declassified Document Detailing Saudi Connections to 9/11 READ MORERose McGowan to Appear Alongside Larry Elder Amid Harry Weinstein Related Allegation Against Gov. Newsom’s Wife
Dems’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Goal Is Slipping Away
NY Hospital to Pause Baby Deliveries After Vaccine Mandate Causes Staff Shortage
“Don’t Let California Become Texas” Says Gov. Newsom as His Residents Flee for Texas
Biden Booed at 9/11 Memorial Site
Trump Makes Surprise Visit to NYPD and FDNY
Capitol Hill
Former Obama, Biden Adviser Gloats About 9/11 Cyberattack Against GOP
The Great American Walkout Begins Following Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
Poll: Majority of Americans Angry With How Things Are Going Under Biden
AOC and Bernie Sanders Could End Up Sinking Multi-Trillion-Dollar Spending Plans
SCOTUS Urged to Overturn Washington Ruling Against Religious Employers
Department of Education Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Florida Mask Mandate Ban
George W. Bush’s Remarks About Domestic Extremism Draw Criticism
Culture War
LA Times Manipulates Photo to Suggest Larry Elder Slapped a Woman at Campaign Stop Where He Was Attacked
America’s 20-Year Heartbreak
Bill Maher Says the Left Is Embarrassing Him
Washington University Student Senator Captured Removing American Flags on 9/11 Memorial Display
CNN’s Brian Stelter: TV Anchors the Closest Thing America Had to National Leaders on 9/11
Last Week in Education Insanity
Portland Sued by Estate of Person Shot and Killed by Antifa Last Year
Economy
Kroger Warns Grocery Prices Are Heading Higher
Charles Gasparino: The Economy Shook After 9/11 – but Thanks to Heroes, It Did Not Crumble
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Delayed Again Over COVID Scare
Shipping Companies Are Earning the Most Money Since 2008
Dems Propose Major Expansion of Electric Vehicle Tax Credits
Small Businesses Turning to Technology to Compensate for Worker Shortage
Budget Committee Chairman: We Can Create as Much Money as We Need to Spend
Social Security Paid Out $125.2 Million to the Deceased
Swamp Watch
California Advances Prostitution Bill That Empowers Human Traffickers
U.S. Has Given 283k Visas to Immigrants From Hijacker Countries Since 9/11
Maryland Judge Under Investigation for Child Sex Crimes Commits Suicide
Gov. DeSantis Fires Back at Biden: He Promised to End Pandemic And Cases Are Up 300%
California Moves to Cut Time Required for Terminally Ill to Obtain Lethal Drugs
School Board Member Whose Father Led 9/11 Hijackers’ Mosque Opposed a Resolution Honoring Victims of the Attacks
Syracuse Professor: 9/11 An Attack on “Heteropatriarchal Capitalistic Systems”
National Security
Jacksonian America: The Sleeping Giant Awakened by 9/11
Military Equipment Left Behind in Afghanistan Will Expose U.S. Secrets
Picture This: No 9/11 If Iran Had Invaded Afghanistan
Here’s Why Japan’s Next Prime Minister Matters
Will America Ever Learn the Real Lesson of 9/11?
9/11 Terror Attacks Have Lost Their Recruiting Power With Today’s Troops
Lawmakers Want to Know if U.S. Gave Biometric Data on Afghan Allies to Taliban
The Al Hawl Refugee Camp: Creating a New Generation of Terrorists
Around the World
Thousands Protest in Turkey Over New Vaccine and Test Rules
Canadian PM Trudeau Chose to Stress Islamophobia and the Impact on Muslims of 9/11
Protesters in Greece Clash With Police Against Mandatory COVID Vaccinations
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban Says 9/11 Proved “Christian Civilization Is Something We Must Fight for Every Day”
India, Australia Look to Tightening Security Ties as 9/11 Anniversary Marked
Shootings Continue in “No Go” Zone in Stockholm, Sweden, With Local Describing the Place as the “Wild West”
Novelist Hilary Mantel Claims British Monarchy Could Be Gone in Two Generations
Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Time to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for Afghanistan Fiasco
Debra J. Saunders: DC’s Insatiable Urge to Splurge
Ronna McDaniel: We Will Never Forget
Andrea Peyser: Many of America’s Children Will Likely Grow Up Ignorant of 9/11
Paul Driessen: Fostering a More Back-To-Normal School Year
Salena Zito: Why Trump Signs Are Mushrooming Across the U.S. a Year After 2020 Election
Michael Brown: A Sobering (Yet Motivating) Reality on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Derrick Anderson: Where Are You, Mr. President?
Entertainment
Country Star Darryl Worley Discusses His 9/11 Song “Have You Forgotten?” 20 Years After Attacks
Bill Cosby Has New TV Show In The Works Months After Getting Out Of Prison
Ashton Kutcher Endures Chants To “Take A Shower” From Iowa Fans During ESPN College GameDay
First Trailer For Aquaman: King Of Atlantis Is As Atrocious As You Imagined
Mick Brigden, Rolling Stones And Bob Dylan Manager, Dies In Freak Accident
Bill Maher Blasts NFL Over Black National Anthem: It’s “Segregation” “Under A Different Name”
Stephen King Fake News Tweet About Florida’s COVID-19 Deaths Goes Viral
Shang-Chi Unlikely To Get Chinese Release After Simu Liu’s Comments About Communist China Resurface
Sports
Crowd Chants “We Want Trump” During Evander Holyfield, Vitor Belfort Bout
Army Football Players Run Onto Field Carrying American Flags For the Anniversary of 9/11
“Unified New York”: 9/11 Remembered In Emotional Scene At Mets – Yankees Game
Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Cup Car Fails Pre-Race Inspection Two Times At Richmond
Transgender Fighter Alana McLaughlin Wins In MMA Debut
Emma Raducanu Wins U.S. Open Championship
Vikings Mourn Passing Of Legend Mick Tingelhoff
Jordan Mailata Signs Four-Year Extension With Eagles Reportedly Worth $64 Million
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- Andrew Giuliani: Defunded Police Would Race to Another 9/11 Rescue |
- Gloria Allred: Women Will Resort to Dangerous Abortions Under Bans |
- Dershowitz: Courts Will Rule Against Biden on Mandate Penalties |
- Spicer: 'Frankly Insulting' to Have Board Service Questioned |
- Rep. Murphy: Biden's Mandates Covering Up for Afghanistan |
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer admitted on Sunday that it will be difficult to pass the multi trillion dollar spending bills currently in Congress, but stressed that he is optimistic that the task can be accomplished.... [Full Story]
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Pope Francis On a trip to Hungary over the weekend warned that [Full Story]
North Korea has test-fired what it called a new type of "long-range [Full Story]
A Somali asylum-seeker was arrested by Italian police after he [Full Story]
1. Covid. The court of public opinion matters. UK scraps its vaccine passport plans due to public protest. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/boris-johnson-ditches-uks-covid-19-vaccine-passport-plan-under-pressure-from-his-own-party/ar-AAOmo7u
2. Legal. In a split-the-baby ruling, the big take away is that Apple must allow app developers a way for people to buy their app without having to the pay the hefty 30% commission to Apple. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060696-epic-v-apple-ruling
3. Economic. We approach 1990s tech bubble hysteria in the markets. https://invesbrain.com/why-one-bank-is-warning-its-clients-of-an-imminent-hard-correction/
4. Political. I still favor the PPC to top the 3.7& forecast in the Canadian sportsbooks. https://www.sportsinteraction.com/specials/political-betting-lines/
5. Cultural. NFL commences. My week 1 preview.
- Bonus: Fisherman finds pearl in his lunch. Suddenly rich. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/prasarnphon-phunwan-thailand-fisherman-seafood-lunch/
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Here is a video I made Les Miserables Finale
I still like this number. I can't do multiple voices .. but I try .. sympathetically. It doesn't really work, but it isn't a complete failure either. The backdrops montage is meant to be humorous and poignant.
Les Misérables ( /leɪ ˈmɪzərɑːb/ or /leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: [le mizeˈʁablə]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz /leɪ ˈmɪz/, is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victor Hugo.
http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/les-miserables-finale.html
=== From 2018 ===
Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM.
No article this year because I'm in Sydney without a computer
No article this year because I'm in Sydney without a computer
From my article on Quora
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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.
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 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Rebel Wilson gets a record pay out of some $4.5 million after a magazine attacked her, alleging she had lied about her age. An actress lying about her age? And the public interest was? As a rule of thumb, if a magazine would not say it about a left wing female leader, it probably should not be said. The payout might not seem big by US standards.
Fake news hitting Trump, and losing. Some 91% of press reports denigrate Trump. The criticism is unhinged. Only 80% hit Trump when he launched rockets against Syria following a chemical attack.
Get Up! exec promises to destroy marriage. It was just a tweet. Nobody takes it seriously. Why is it they are an executive of an influential activist organisation? Well remunerated. What more do they need to do to get Gay marriage legislation passed? Sacrifice children to Norse deities?
Child lynched by children in racist assault. Putting aside the racism, nobody should attempt murder, and those children need to understand the gravity of what they have done. Calling them racist doesn't address that.
Comparing Renaissance Venice with Australia. Less is more. Australia under Turnbull is as nimble and agile as a corpse on a beach. Venice during the Renaissance was just a series of small islands which ruled most of Europe. Venice had none of the natural resources Malcolm Turnbull does not exploit.
Fake news hitting Trump, and losing. Some 91% of press reports denigrate Trump. The criticism is unhinged. Only 80% hit Trump when he launched rockets against Syria following a chemical attack.
Get Up! exec promises to destroy marriage. It was just a tweet. Nobody takes it seriously. Why is it they are an executive of an influential activist organisation? Well remunerated. What more do they need to do to get Gay marriage legislation passed? Sacrifice children to Norse deities?
Child lynched by children in racist assault. Putting aside the racism, nobody should attempt murder, and those children need to understand the gravity of what they have done. Calling them racist doesn't address that.
Comparing Renaissance Venice with Australia. Less is more. Australia under Turnbull is as nimble and agile as a corpse on a beach. Venice during the Renaissance was just a series of small islands which ruled most of Europe. Venice had none of the natural resources Malcolm Turnbull does not exploit.
=== from 2016 ===
Nurses union has entered the political arena on same sex marriage. They aren't being helpful. They are opposing a plebiscite and asking for the government to just pass legislation. They claim the plebiscite will be expensive, and in place of a plebiscite, the $158.4 million could support 477 registered nurses for four years. About that, the ALP has created over $500 billion public debt from a surplus base after lifting spending and blocking spending cuts. The money that has been thrown away feeding corruption could have employed some fifty thousand registered nurses for four years. Further, ALP's Penny Wong opposed Gay Marriage when she was in government. But lost over $106 billion as Finance Minister. Even so, let there be a plebiscite, and if the people want it it can proceed.
Being Green means being irresponsible.
Turnbull exploited the issue to get Abbott. As Communication Minister, Turnbull made the case in cabinet that forced Abbott to commit to a smaller agenda focusing on the budget. Then Turnbull made promises he would be different. If Turnbull were to consider supporting free speech, he would be subject to his own criticism. Turnbull is not that dumb. Hubris will keep Turnbull from making a wise decision.
A first class sniveller. Still on the plus side, he didn't eat it as Rudd would.
I am used to hearing ALP go to fantasy land in interviews. "No Whyalla wipe-out?"
Turnbull's best work was bringing down successive Liberal leaders
It is like the government pay argument. A government member, like Penny Wong, will never be worthwhile, no matter how much she is paid. She will never return any of that $106 billion. And someone like Costello you could not pay enough. The Vietnamese community is very good. Those grandparents are also very good at shaming the unruly young. But I saw a video of a Syrian grandmother executed for showing her face. Should we really import that?
Turnbull is appallingly bad as Liberal leader. But he is balanced against Bill Shorten who is appallingly bad as ALP leader.
He (David Morrison) is trying to change the nappies, I hear. By making babies choose gender.
I loved Sherman T Potter
Glad we cleared that up. But, what was the result of the debate regarding AGW? Is man too blame?
Hillary spreads a contagious disease to supporters. They were delusional. They still are. But those closest to her could now also have pneumonia. Her career in recent times has shown eery similarities to Gillard. Both have reputations far exceeding their ability. Both had slush funds. Both lead ugly, licentious lives. So maybe Hillary will be elected head of government by mistake too. Or maybe Hillary left her betrayal too late?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
None for 2015 .. because of Melbourne promotional trip
From 2014
It is a sad tale which was born in much hope. Democracy in South Africa began twenty years ago. People dancing for joy at the self destruction of the corrupt apartheid regime. It was natural for South Africa to turn to the socialists who had campaigned against the fascists, but not rewarding. Social division still exists. Poverty is ever present and injustice rules. It might have been different had Steve Biko not been murdered in custody. Maybe a more centred pragmatic leader would have addressed the killings better, and the corruption. Recently, the world's eyes were on South Africa as the amoral, over entitled killer Oscar Pistorius faced a murder charge, and just as with the US and OJ Simpson, South Africa's justice system failed. It may well be the law, but the law is an ass. One furphy involved the scream of Pistorius or Reeva which was not exculpatory and was not conclusive. The issue existed, so the prosecution had to raise it, but it didn't suit their case. And because it didn't suit the prosecution's case, the defence lampooned it, but truth is that Oscar silent on firing the gun is damning. And Oscar screaming while firing is equally damning. And Reeva screaming while Oscar fired is damning. It is equivalent to the gloves raised by the prosecution against OJ Simpson. The gloves may well have been irrelevant to the case, but had to be raised because they were present. They weren't exculpatory, but because the prosecution raised them they could be defended and so OJ was acquitted by furphy. By the bye, a furphy is Australian slang for a tall story, probably not based on Australian author Joseph Furphy who died on this day in 1912, but for large water carts owned by his brother, John, who produced large numbers of them marked J Furphy and sons. The reason why all the evidence, even irrelevant items, is part of a prosecution case is because the law demands to know what happened at the event. OJ Obfuscated, as did Oscar. The grieving loved ones are entitled to know what happened. But they do not know, because in testimony, Oscar has lied, and in cross Oscar has failed to account for his actions. Failure to convict Pistorius for murder is a sad conviction of South African justice.
As was hoped last year, Syria was investigated regarding the use of WMD. The source of the WMD may well have been Iraq. It was hoped that the weapons would be investigated and their history made known. That will never happen while Obama is President. Obama has long campaigned on the lie that there were no chemical weapons in Iraq and that Syria hid them after the second Iraq war. Syria has since used them on her own people. We don't know if Assad had ordered the use or if he lost control of them. Neither possibility is acceptable in a head of state. The UN has largely been absent when it matters, They opposed President Bush on almost every proactive international matter he addressed, but now, while Obama is dithering and bombing and organising war, UN is silently cheering.
There are culture wars and jihadis are threatening multiculturalism and cultural diversity. Cartoonist Michael Leunig is fundamentally dishonest with his portrayal of issues, he is after all a comic, and also a coward. But then terrorism is frightening. Bag checks are part of basic security now. Islamic leaders go limp when criticising terrorists who some claim are not really Islamic, but Islamic leaders seem grimly determined to defend. Secular administration is the only thing that has prospered in the age of reason, but the leftwing 'alternative' which despises capitalism and promotes anarchy in many guises is pernicious. Bill Maher attacks religion but mistakes secular administration for an atheist one, which is appealing to some. Tasmanian senator Lambie's has called for race statutes now she has embraced part of her own, publicly. The Age is charging a high premium for people who care about them not reporting on issues. Ted Turner, creator of CNN calls for 'culling people' for the environment. Fairfax boss drives a great car while his employees endure cuts. Meanwhile there is a rush to forgive Gillard for corruption which corrodes the entire ALP and Labour movement. But the worst, most damning of everything in the culture wars is the failure of the Liberal Party as a party galvanised throughout their entire membership, to support free speech. Nothing is more certain to erode the support base for the conservatives and allow the terrible things they would otherwise contain to flower.
MMP produces possible minority government in NZ, cruelling Key's excellent leadership. A timely reminder that only a vote for a conservative produces a responsible government. A man has died, allegedly from donating too much sperm. Nicole Kidman is grieving the loss of her father, he was a great man, greatly blessed.
Had everything worked out as he wanted it, Tostee would have had sex with another stranger and waited for the next. Some girls like that. But the death of one of those girls means that his life needs to be examined. And he is not a good person. He is scum. But is he a murderer? The community needs answers.
As was hoped last year, Syria was investigated regarding the use of WMD. The source of the WMD may well have been Iraq. It was hoped that the weapons would be investigated and their history made known. That will never happen while Obama is President. Obama has long campaigned on the lie that there were no chemical weapons in Iraq and that Syria hid them after the second Iraq war. Syria has since used them on her own people. We don't know if Assad had ordered the use or if he lost control of them. Neither possibility is acceptable in a head of state. The UN has largely been absent when it matters, They opposed President Bush on almost every proactive international matter he addressed, but now, while Obama is dithering and bombing and organising war, UN is silently cheering.
There are culture wars and jihadis are threatening multiculturalism and cultural diversity. Cartoonist Michael Leunig is fundamentally dishonest with his portrayal of issues, he is after all a comic, and also a coward. But then terrorism is frightening. Bag checks are part of basic security now. Islamic leaders go limp when criticising terrorists who some claim are not really Islamic, but Islamic leaders seem grimly determined to defend. Secular administration is the only thing that has prospered in the age of reason, but the leftwing 'alternative' which despises capitalism and promotes anarchy in many guises is pernicious. Bill Maher attacks religion but mistakes secular administration for an atheist one, which is appealing to some. Tasmanian senator Lambie's has called for race statutes now she has embraced part of her own, publicly. The Age is charging a high premium for people who care about them not reporting on issues. Ted Turner, creator of CNN calls for 'culling people' for the environment. Fairfax boss drives a great car while his employees endure cuts. Meanwhile there is a rush to forgive Gillard for corruption which corrodes the entire ALP and Labour movement. But the worst, most damning of everything in the culture wars is the failure of the Liberal Party as a party galvanised throughout their entire membership, to support free speech. Nothing is more certain to erode the support base for the conservatives and allow the terrible things they would otherwise contain to flower.
MMP produces possible minority government in NZ, cruelling Key's excellent leadership. A timely reminder that only a vote for a conservative produces a responsible government. A man has died, allegedly from donating too much sperm. Nicole Kidman is grieving the loss of her father, he was a great man, greatly blessed.
Had everything worked out as he wanted it, Tostee would have had sex with another stranger and waited for the next. Some girls like that. But the death of one of those girls means that his life needs to be examined. And he is not a good person. He is scum. But is he a murderer? The community needs answers.
From 2013
As the day ends and Yom Kippur begins for 2013, Australia has found out she is participating in Syria. An Australian with the Aussie name
Meanwhile, the party that invited many of Abu's country folk to come to Australia uninvited, and call themselves Australian while fighting for their land overseas, is fighting over its' leadership. Albanese saw caucus before announcing he will not change previous policy. Meanwhile, Shorten went straight to the press with the message he would not change any policy. It is strange because the ALP lost the election with unpopular policy underpinning their bad administration, and these two had voted for every dud. Without a leader, nobody knows what the ALP stands for, but one things is certain, regardless of who becomes leader, policy won't change.
There is a call in the US to defund Obamacare. A Democrat Senator is upset with the democratic recall process. California still burns. Two thugs who tried to steal a car mistook a victim who was actually armed. Clearly concealed weapons are a threat to thugs. Still, time for the living to atone.
Abu Asma, along with about 80 others, is fighting in Syria, and Abu performed the traditional terrorist assault with a truck bomb. It is unlikely Abu will atone for this sin. The eighty other participants seem to be delaying their atonement. Meanwhile it appears the Christian friendly Assad has gassed his people again. Maybe he hasn't, maybe it was a release of chemicals he didn't authorise. That can happen. It is unlikely Obama will be able to dither more, but he can dither longer. Putin is the strong man of these times, and he will facilitate talks.
Meanwhile, the party that invited many of Abu's country folk to come to Australia uninvited, and call themselves Australian while fighting for their land overseas, is fighting over its' leadership. Albanese saw caucus before announcing he will not change previous policy. Meanwhile, Shorten went straight to the press with the message he would not change any policy. It is strange because the ALP lost the election with unpopular policy underpinning their bad administration, and these two had voted for every dud. Without a leader, nobody knows what the ALP stands for, but one things is certain, regardless of who becomes leader, policy won't change.
There is a call in the US to defund Obamacare. A Democrat Senator is upset with the democratic recall process. California still burns. Two thugs who tried to steal a car mistook a victim who was actually armed. Clearly concealed weapons are a threat to thugs. Still, time for the living to atone.
Historical perspective on this day
509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
379 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal
533 – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1437 – Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1645 – Battle of Philiphaugh Covenanters win the day over the royalists.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec Cityin the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1843 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York–Ontario).
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Armywith heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1948 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.
1971 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biaoflees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Marioseries of platforming games.
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accordsgranting limited Palestinian autonomy.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
2013 – Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: Proverbs 13-15, 2 Corinthians 5 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 13-15
1 A wise son heeds his father’s instruction,
but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.
but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.
2 From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things,
but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.
but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.
3 Those who guard their lips preserve their lives,
but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.
but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.
4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,
but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
5 The righteous hate what is false,
but the wicked make themselves a stench
and bring shame on themselves.
but the wicked make themselves a stench
and bring shame on themselves.
6 Righteousness guards the person of integrity,
but wickedness overthrows the sinner....
but wickedness overthrows the sinner....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 5
Awaiting the New Body
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come....
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a love that he would not stop in heaven without you; he would sooner die than you should perish, and he cannot endure that anything should stand between your heart's love and himself. He is very jealous of your trust. He will not permit you to trust in an arm of flesh. He cannot bear that you should hew out broken cisterns, when the overflowing fountain is always free to you. When we lean upon him, he is glad, but when we transfer our dependence to another, when we rely upon our own wisdom, or the wisdom of a friend--worst of all, when we trust in any works of our own, he is displeased, and will chasten us that he may bring us to himself. He is also very jealous of our company. There should be no one with whom we converse so much as with Jesus. To abide in him only, this is true love; but to commune with the world, to find sufficient solace in our carnal comforts, to prefer even the society of our fellow Christians to secret intercourse with him, this is grievous to our jealous Lord. He would fain have us abide in him, and enjoy constant fellowship with himself; and many of the trials which he sends us are for the purpose of weaning our hearts from the creature, and fixing them more closely upon himself. Let this jealousy which would keep us near to Christ be also a comfort to us, for if he loves us so much as to care thus about our love we may be sure that he will suffer nothing to harm us, and will protect us from all our enemies. Oh that we may have grace this day to keep our hearts in sacred chastity for our Beloved alone, with sacred jealousy shutting our eyes to all the fascinations of the world!
Evening
Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she cries, "I will sing of mercy and of judgment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing." Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. Faith looks up at the cloud, and sees that
"'Tis big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on her head."
There is a subject for song even in the judgments of God towards us. For, first, the trial is not so heavy as it might have been; next, the trouble is not so severe as we deserved to have borne; and our affliction is not so crushing as the burden which others have to carry. Faith sees that in her worst sorrow there is nothing penal; there is not a drop of God's wrath in it; it is all sent in love. Faith discerns love gleaming like a jewel on the breast of an angry God. Faith says of her grief, "This is a badge of honour, for the child must feel the rod;" and then she sings of the sweet result of her sorrows, because they work her spiritual good. Nay, more, says Faith, "These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." So Faith rides forth on the black horse, conquering and to conquer, trampling down carnal reason and fleshly sense, and chanting notes of victory amid the thickest of the fray.
"All I meet I find assists me
In my path to heavenly joy:
Where, though trials now attend me,
Trials never more annoy.
"Blest there with a weight of glory,
Still the path I'll ne'er forget,
But, exulting, cry, it led me
To my blessed Saviour's seat."
=== Bible Quote ===
=== Message ===
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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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