Saturday, September 18, 2021

Sat 18th 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 10

Paul’s Defense of His Ministry

By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away! I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

You are judging by appearances. If anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as they do. So even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it. I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters. For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.” Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you. We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ. Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory. But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

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https://rumble.com/vmmpyn-ep.-1607-is-hillary-in-serious-trouble-or-is-this-another-headfake-the-dan-.html
Is Hillary Clinton is danger of being exposed in the Russian collusion hoax? In this episode I address the troubling details. I also debunk Biden’s latest BS on taxes.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
“Perfectly Acceptable” – Gen. Milley Defends Potentially Treasonous Calls to China READ MORE

Most NYC Restaurants Not Enforcing Vax Mandate

Clinton Campaign Attorney Sussmann Pleads Not Guilty to Allegedly Lying to FBI

WHO Failed to Investigate Deleted Virology Database and Evidence Indicating Pandemic Began Earlier Than Thought

Mark Robinson, Sara Carter, and Pete Hegseth to Appear on Unfiltered With Dan Bongino

Biden Admin Blocks Fox’s Drones Documenting His Border Crisis

White House Threatens Drastic Spending Cuts If Debt Ceiling Isn’t Suspended or Raised Soon

Capitol Hill
AOC Hit With Second Ethics Complaint for Attending Met Gala
White House Says Biden’s Recent Repeated Coughing Fits at Public Appearances Aren’t a Concern
Biden Lies About Florida and Texas While Withholding Lifesaving COVID Treatments
Ilhan Omar “Pretty Upset” That Her “Defund the Police” Measure Got Blocked
White House Doubles Down on Fight for $78 Billion in New IRS Funding
Trump Dominates Hypothetical 2024 GOP Primary
Texas Gov. Abbott Says Biden Has Refused to Allow Closure of Texas Border Crossings
Durham Not Expected to Bring Charges Tied to 2017 Intel Assessment on Russian Election Interference
Georgia Elections Chief Expects to be Subpoenaed by Jan 6 Commission, Says He Won’t Comply
Biden Fails to Convince Sen. Manchin to Vote for $3.5 Trillion Liberal Wishlist

Culture War
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Believes That Jewish Ben Shapiro Is a “White Nationalist”
Norm MacDonald’s Spiritual Journey
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Announces New Plan to Sue Street Gangs
Ex-Planned Parenthood President Demands Public Health Officials “Protect Our Children”
Bill Maher Asks the Liberal Media to Stop “Scaring the S—” Out of People Over COVID
Nearly Half of New Gun Owners Are Women
The Majority of Gen Z Rejects Cancel Culture
Illegal Migrant Apprehensions Already Near 1.8 Million This Year
Politico Publishes “OFF THE RECORD” Email From Jennifer Rubin Where She Loses Her Mind
Trump Calls September 18 “Justice for J6” Rally a “Setup”
CNN Now Advocating for Shunning the Unvaccinated

Economy
EU Introduces Program to Fight China’s “Debt-Trap Diplomacy”
SEC Whistleblower Scores $110 Million Payout
BlackRock Fund Manager Cuts Nearly All Exposure to Gold
Rising Steel Prices Have Manufacturers Scrounging for Supplies
Bernie Madoff’s Victims Get an Additional $568 Million Back
Dems’ Tax Plan Would Increase the Marriage Penalty for the Wealthy
Biden’s Tax Plan Pushes Top Tax Rates About 60% In These Four States
NY Times Says It’s Sexist That Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Is Being Held to Account for Alleged Massive Fraud
John Stossel: Why Is There So Little Outrage at All of the Corporate Welfare?
New York Bans Sales of New Gas-Powered New Vehicles by 2035
Contrary to AOC’s Claims, We Already Do “Tax the Rich”

Swamp Watch
Ohio GOP Rep. Who Voted to Impeach Trump Won’t Seek Reelection
The Bulk of Afghan Refugees Are Headed to Swing States
Inspector General: FBI Scandal Over Sexually Abused Gymnasts Rises to Criminal Level
Leaked Doc Shows Biden Taking Orders From Planned Parenthood
Gen. Milley’s Shocking Admission About “Commonalities” With the Chinese Communist Party
Book: Gen. Milley Downplayed Violent George Floyd Riots, Blamed Police Brutality
Judge Blocks Expulsions of Migrant Families Under Trump-Era Order
$2.5 Million in Taxpayer Money Spent on Studying Why Rats and Monkeys Clench Their Jaws
Defense Sec Austin Shifts Focus to Havana Syndrome as People Demand Answers on Afghanistan

National Security
Retired F-117 Nighthawks Make Surprise Appearance to Train Against F-15s
The F-35 May Well Be the Dominant Fighter for the Rest of the 21st Century
The Navy’s Fourth Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier is Under Construction
Nuclear Submarine Deal With Australia Negotiated in Great Secrecy
6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy, and Sweden?
How the U.S. Navy Should Fight in a Great Power Competition
B-2 Stealth Bomber Rolled Off Runway During Emergency Landing at Whiteman AFB
The Threat to U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers Isn’t Just from China
EU Chief: Europe Must Build the “Political Will” to Create an EU Army

Around the World
Female Afghan Soccer Team Escapes Into Pakistan
China, France Condemn U.S. Nuclear Sub Pact With Britain, Australia
Wikipedia: Pro-China Group Attempted to Infiltrate, Control Website
France Plans to Hunt Other Chiefs After Killing Sahel Islamic State Leader
Hezbollah Terrorists Defy U.S., Bring First Shipment of Iranian Fuel Into Lebanon
Macron and Merkel Promise Close Cooperation Until New German Government Is Formed
Hundreds of Iraqi Women Run for Parliament Despite Intimidation
In Attempt to Calm French Fury, Blinken Refers to France as Vital Partner in Indo-Pacific

Opinion
Larry Behrens: Biden Infrastructure Plan: Green Agenda Wins, Working Families Lose
Laura Hollis: Political Hysteria Has Grave Consequences
Kurt Schlichter: Bush Completes His Scummy Betrayal
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
Derek Hunter: Mark Milley Is A Traitor
Jackie Cushman: The Era of Absurdity
Chris Stigall: Norm Macdonald: Blunt-Force Truth
R. Emmett Tyrrell: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Veronique de Rugy: Spending Gluttony Is Washington’s Deadly Sin

Entertainment
Randy Jackson: Backs Nicki Minaj Over Not Being “Bullied” Into Vaccination, Says “It’s A Sad Day In America”
Bill Maher: People in Blue States “Afraid to Go Out” – “Liberal Media” Must Take “Responsibility” For Scaring People About COVID
Elton John Postpones European Tour Dates Due To Surgery For Hip Injury
Dune Director Denis Villeneuve Thinks Marvel And Superhero Films “Have Turned Us Into Zombies”
No Fluke: “Gutfeld!” Remains Late Night King
After Postponing Release CBS Retooling “The Activist” Competition Series After Immense Criticism
Jane Powell, Hollywood Golden Age star of ‘Royal Wedding,’ Dead at 92
Review: “Cry Macho” Is Clint Eastwood’s Most Charming Movie In Years

Sports
Tom Brady Says He Can Play Until 50 But Wife Might Think Differently
Video: Umpire Ejects Entire Grounds Crew During Yankees-Orioles Game In Bizarre Scene
Usain Bolt Has Some Advice For Sha’Carri Richardson: Talk Less, Train Harder
Kyrie Irving Says “Mask Off” Comment Had Nothing To Do With COVID
Ex-Ryder Cup Captain Gives Heated Response To Brooks Koepka’s Remarks On Tournament
U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Slams Federation’s Equal Pay Offer As “PR Stunt”
Cowboys’ Top Defensive End DeMarcus Lawrence Out “Indefinitely” With Broken Foot
Press Release: Two Washington Nationals Members Threaten Legal Action After Termination For Refusing Covid Vaccine
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Former President Donald Trump said Saturday's "Justice for J6" in Washington, D.C., will be a no-win situation for Republicans. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV
The investigation into the events surrounding the storming of the [Full Story]
Trump ally Roger Stone, who was served legal papers earlier this week [Full Story]
Newsfront
Former President Donald Trump is blasting Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, who announced he will not seek reelection in 2022.... [Full Story]
A host at a popular New York City restaurant was assaulted by three [Full Story]
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made La Mere Beyond the Sea
https://rumble.com/vb8l8h-la-mere-beyond-the-sea.html
"Beyond the Sea" is a 1946 contemporary pop song with music taken from the song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Trenet had composed "La Mer" (which means "The Sea") with French lyrics totally different and unrelated to the English language version that Lawrence composed. Trenet's French version was an homage and ode to the changing moods of the sea, while Lawrence, by just adding one word "Beyond" to the title, gave him the start whereby he made the song into one of a lover pining for a lost love.[1] It has been recorded by many artists, including Benny Goodman, Mantovani, Roger Williams and Gisele MacKenzie, but Bobby Darin's version released in 1959 is the best known by many, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song reached the top 40 twice prior to the Darin version (Goodman-1948, Williams-1955). https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=cK8rXGr5kn-CofkfTzoLuzDZJQZ8MTUwNTgwNjM0MEAxNTA1NzE5OTQw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fconservativeweasel.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F11%2Fla-mere-somewhere-beyond-sea.html&event=desc

=== From 2018 ===
A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.

Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. 

As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
=== from 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. Sean Spicer was terribly maligned by the press. He was the press secretary who in response to a lie about Obama having a bigger inauguration crowd, made the counter claim that Trump's was bigger and was called a liar. Later, while reporting on Trump's strike on Syria after chemical weapons were deployed against civilians, Spicer stumbled raising the holocaust. It wasn't necessary to raise the holocaust, but the issue was raised and Spicer couldn't defend it. Democrats have an ugly history regarding the holocaust and slavery. Today, Democrats exploit Jews and blacks. But Democrats would never be beaten up for their actions. As a conservative student, Spicer was called a Sphincter by a University magazine. Wikipedia apparently take sides, unnecessarily reporting the comment and criticising Spicer for taking appropriate action. Today, Spicer appeared at the Emmy's. He was self deprecating. But because it was apparently a hit against Trump, Spicer is rehabilitated. 

Victoria now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Dan Andrews has not achieved that effortlessly, he has worked tirelessly to achieve it. Almost every decision Andrews makes seems to be geared to that end. Thank you Dan. 

Donald Trump gives a speech on pulling out of the Paris agreement. Press get confused. If Trump is willing to work with Democrats, does that mean he will rejoin Paris? It is not confusing if you read the speech. But apparently press don't need to read things in order to criticise Trump. JF observes "Kim Jong Un has killed and starved his people, developed nuclear weapons, fired them over Japan. But Donald Trump sent a mocking tweet over the Internet.
That orange monster has surely gone too far.
Fascism has come to America" Just don't mention the holocaust. 
=== from 2016 === 
I distrust United Conservative Party. I am concerned at some of their catch phrases that strike me as being over bearing, social conservatives or left wing regulation happy. A political party should not be advocating self defence. Australia is not subservient to anyone, but our leaders seem to like giving money to foreign powers for kickbacks, so rather than claiming we won't be subservient, we need transparency and anti corruption measures. Stay out of my family and I'll let you live. Fuck your integration, I'll live free. Respect religion by not promoting terrorism. 

Clever blaming Morrison as well as Turnbull. Turnbull has too much control and treasury too little. I doubt Morrison has been free to produce effective policy. It seems, to me, that this 'deal' is entirely about replacing the diesel submarines with nuclear power ones. That is the only thing that makes sense. But the public is not ready for that.

Breaking the cycle of poverty is not done by transplanting the poor. It is done by growing domestic markets and letting capitalism work. 

I feel the left wing have censored thought for so long, they are suffering angst over not being original. Take that cultural appropriation and shove it up your bum. 

I've not read that book. It is difficult to oversell criticism. It is hard to accurately portray praise. But the reality is the attempt was spin, and that was achieved. Malcolm Turnbull's success is related to his friendship with ALP figures like Neville Wran. 

I gave up on the Left a long time ago. I don't care if they live or die. I will point the way up and if their members choose to make good choices I'll help. But I greatly resent their promotion of terrorism and poverty so as to fuel their corruption. The left's arguments tend to be hollow and their attacks on cultural assets effective. The left tend to use Alynski methods to successfully create wastelands. I will have none of it. 

I guess Bill shouldn't have blamed NYC police that time they were doing their job. The thin blue line stands between gutless politicians and those looking for cheap thrills.
=== from 2015 ===
Scott Morrison's loyalty is being questioned. Some say he should have saved Mr Abbott. Mr Morrison served Mr Abbott loyally and had no reason to throw himself under a bus at the last moment. What happened to Mr Abbott was wrong and cruel, but not Mr Morrison's fault. Even had he done as others think he should have, Mr Morrison could not have saved Mr Abbott. Because Mr Abbott had been an outstanding, good PM. Unlike Rudd, Abbott had many achievements he could point to, from international kudos for leadership over MH17 and MH360, through international security in solving illegal migration for Australia, or cutting some $50 billion of spending despite entrenched opposition among independents. More remarkably, Abbott achieved it despite internal party opposition. Malcolm Turnbull has become PM by promising to fix problems he created. And that is not Mr Morrison's fault. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
From 2014
Terrorism is not about religion. It isn't that the terrorists are, or are not, religious, Islamic leadership is impotent in the face of terror and confused, as they are too close. Literally. The suburbs threatened in the dawn raids by police which rounded up members of possible terror cells had burqa clad women and are close to where the Islamic Leaders live and preach hate. Naturally the ABC raised the issue of police brutality. The plans of those rounded up included one to collect a random person from the streets, film their beheading and the headless corpse being dragged in the ISIS flag. Luckily our hope is not resting on the impotent and confused Islamic leadership. Only last week, that leadership was claiming Abbott was over reaching in lifting the terror threat alert or extending metadata collection. They should collectively applaud Mr Abbott from saving them from the community backlash should the atrocity have taken place. Turkey is Islamic and Turkish women don't usually wear the burqa. There is good reason for it. It dates back to Ataturk passing a law that made it illegal for prostitutes to work from any other clothing. Maybe the leadership will discourage the practice here? 

LBJ declared a war on poverty in 1964, creating programs such as Head Start, Food Stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicaid. Today, in 2014 terms, the spending has reached $22 trillion, which is three times more than spent on military in all wars since the US Revolution. The goal is worthy, but the means is a failure. It has become a political whipping post. Both 'sides' or politics are wilfully blind that they are shovelling money into programs designed to keep people poor, and favouring one side of politics. Poor people have needs, and the complex bureaucracies which 'oversee the poor' are lousy at addressing those needs. The US is not serving her people by going bankrupt trying. Greater use needs to be made of charity and philanthropy in effective programs, and government is not good at doing that.  One tragic example of feel good over reach involves the failure of the hashtag bringbackourgirls to bring back the victims of Boko Haram's kidnapping of two hundred school girls earmarked for sexual slavery and genital mutilation. Thank you Michelle for your good intentions. Maybe Barak will divert the soldiers designated to combat ebola to save those girls? 

The labour union movement is facing broad charges of corruption. The CFMEU (construction, forestry, mining and energy union) has been alleged to have employed stand over tactics in building sites. This is related to former PM Gillard weakening laws which protected workers from rapacious exploitation by slush fund creating unions. The union has denied the allegations, but sadly, because Gillard weakened the laws, it is hard for them to prove they aren't corrupt. It is the misfortune of the unions that the ALP is too closely aligned with them to be of any help. The ALP leader, Shorten, has to answer questions of misappropriation of union funds and the creation and abuse of slush funds. 

They say responsibility is heavy, and so leaders go grey in office. Obama shows craven cowards do too. Scotland is voting on an issue of independence, but it isn't a vote for freedom. There is nothing that Scotland as independent will get that it does not have now, within a UK democracy. If the Yes case wins, then the conservative leader Cameron is in trouble even though none of this is his fault. Grossly irresponsible people have promised many things if there is a yes vote, but not conservatives. Australia is being promised a similar poll on a non issue, with plans to institutionalise apartheid within the constitution. Having failed to protect the poorest of Australia, some bright sparks think that redefining race within the constitution will address the issue. It didn't work in South Africa either. 

Nova Peris belongs to the ALP in many ways. She has no idea about appropriate behaviour. At a children's athletics meet Nova abused officials so as to seek an advantage for her son. Like other ALP plans, it didn't work. It highlights the failings of the leader Shorten to stamp any authority on those he leads. Shorten says he supports Mr Abbott's actions in the Middle East, but then back benchers stand up and say they don't. Shorten fails to implement policy. He addressed workers with a pathetic, protectionist speech which did nothing to provide Australia with the certainty she needed over submarines. A bugbear for Shorten is his support of a murderously bad policy on migration by people smugglers. But in his defence the ABC is confused too. They seem to say it is good to drown poor people if pirates prosper from it. 

Clive Palmer loses another court battle he had claimed he won. He appears increasingly desperate but never competent. ABC continues flogging AGW hysteria, claiming that water rising around Australia will cost billions of dollars. ABC Board member Stanley appears blind to accusations of bias. A female who beat up a pensioner on a bus has failed to apologise but has been given a suspended sentence. An execution in Texas of a despicable woman who tortured a child to death. 
From 2013
A man with a mental illness, who supported Obama, who had been trained in the military used an assault rifle, CNN called a shotgun, to kill 12 people in 30 minutes in Washington DC at a naval yard. For their safety, none of the  sane employees were armed. Clearly this is going to inflame the gun issue. Democrats like Obama like that, as they are the goto people for gun control. But while kudos are often given to the Democrats for gun control, Democrat states seem to have the most difficulties. It is as if the Democrats like the issue to stay alive at the expense of victims. 

Meanwhile, in Australia, the new PM, Tony Abbott has been sworn in. He has axed three department heads who were too close to the last government, and a fourth has walked away. Much has been said of the few number of females in the new cabinet (Deputy Liberal Leader Bishop). And while it is true that neither of the last two ALP PM's were women, nor will either of the next two ALP aspirants be women, still it seems as if the ALP have their finger on an issue which will only grow in time. One expects that in fifty or sixty years, the male dominated Abbott Government will collapse. But probably not before then if the ALP can't find another issue. 

The pedophile inquiry continues. Clearly inadequate sentences have been given to abusers. There is no death penalty in Australia, but sometimes one wonders if jail is used enough. 

The Dutch King calls for people to rely less on welfare and more on provision. The Liberal party state governments have clearly been wounded by hostile ALP federal masters recently, with WA losing a AAA rating the big spending feds had been able to retain. In Victoria, weak conservative government has only recently stiffened, and its numbers are on a knife edge with a corruption issue threatening to cause it to implode. Ironically, the issue of misuse of a government car seems prima facie similar to former PM Gillard's suppressed issue .. but the press hadn't been interested in that .. 
Historical perspective on this day
AD 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.

1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1618 – The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1714 – George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Quebec City.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.

1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
1898 – Fashoda IncidentLord Kitchener's ships reach FashodaSudan.

1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911 – Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South-West Africa.
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional footballfor a major team, the Akron Pros.

1922 – Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 – World War IIPolish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 – Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting pro-Nazi/anti-Allied propaganda.

1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VIINizam of Hyderabad.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senatewithout completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 57 relating to Palestinian question is adopted.

1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961 – The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
1962 – BurundiJamaicaRwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 – The BahamasEast Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities.
1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997 – Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2011 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2012 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 2067 relating to Somalia is adopted.
2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed following a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2016 – 17 Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants.

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Today's reading: Proverbs 27-29, 2 Corinthians 10 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 27-29

1 Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.
2 Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;
an outsider, and not your own lips.
3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden,
but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,
but who can stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.
6 Wounds from a friend can be trusted,
but an enemy multiplies kisses....

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 10

Paul’s Defense of His Ministry
1 By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away! 2 I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. 3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete....

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Morning

"Bring him unto me."
Mark 9:19
Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed the Lord Jesus' word, "Bring him unto me." Children are a precious gift from God, but much anxiety comes with them. They may be a great joy or a great bitterness to their parents; they may be filled with the Spirit of God, or possessed with the spirit of evil. In all cases, the Word of God gives us one receipt for the curing of all their ills, "Bring him unto me." O for more agonizing prayer on their behalf while they are yet babes! Sin is there, let our prayers begin to attack it. Our cries for our offspring should precede those cries which betoken their actual advent into a world of sin. In the days of their youth we shall see sad tokens of that dumb and deaf spirit which will neither pray aright, nor hear the voice of God in the soul, but Jesus still commands, "Bring them unto me." When they are grown up they may wallow in sin and foam with enmity against God; then when our hearts are breaking we should remember the great Physician's words, "Bring them unto me." Never must we cease to pray until they cease to breathe. No case is hopeless while Jesus lives.
The Lord sometimes suffers his people to be driven into a corner that they may experimentally know how necessary he is to them. Ungodly children, when they show us our own powerlessness against the depravity of their hearts, drive us to flee to the strong for strength, and this is a great blessing to us. Whatever our morning's need may be, let it like a strong current bear us to the ocean of divine love. Jesus can soon remove our sorrow, he delights to comfort us. Let us hasten to him while he waits to meet us.

Evening

"Encourage him."
Deuteronomy 1:38

God employs his people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, "Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my people into Canaan--go, encourage him." God never works needless miracles; if his purposes can be accomplished by ordinary means, he will not use miraculous agency. Gabriel would not have been half so well fitted for the work as Moses. A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy. The angel, swift of wing, had better known the Master's bidding than the people's temper. An angel had never experienced the hardness of the road, nor seen the fiery serpents, nor had he led the stiff-necked multitude in the wilderness as Moses had done. We should be glad that God usually works for man by man. It forms a bond of brotherhood, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family. Brethren, take the text as God's message to you. Labour to help others, and especially strive to encourage them. Talk cheerily to the young and anxious enquirer, lovingly try to remove stumblingblocks out of his way. When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel down and blow it into a flame. Leave the young believer to discover the roughness of the road by degrees, but tell him of the strength which dwells in God, of the sureness of the promise, and of the charms of communion with Christ. Aim to comfort the sorrowful, and to animate the desponding. Speak a word in season to him that is weary, and encourage those who are fearful to go on their way with gladness. God encourages you by his promises; Christ encourages you as he points to the heaven he has won for you, and the spirit encourages you as he works in you to will and to do of his own will and pleasure. Imitate divine wisdom, and encourage others, according to the word of this evening.

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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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