Thursday, September 30, 2021

Thu 30th September 2021 Current Affairs

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Australia moves towards an election federally. And the director of the Liberal Party infuriates me, asking me for money to support his AGW hucksterism that isn't as bad as the ALP one. It still is not good policy. 

Today, 25th Sept 2021 I carry fake news
The fake news comes from a left wing site called "The Hill" 
In the article on the Arizona draft Audit into 2020 election fraudulently given Biden, we are told there were no accidents and that a simple vote count shows Biden won. However, the simple vote count does not show that at all. It shows that the voter fraud was wilful and deliberate. It shows that the parties behind the fraud covered their tracks. Now for the parts of the audit that have been opposed. A check of signatures. The system data showing when and how votes were cast. That will take longer because the investigation has been impeded. 

Canada loses another election
Trudeau rewarded for COVID failure. Who will be the next conservative leader? Will the next conservative leader have different policies to Trudeau? Why was PPC denied a place in leader's debate when they qualified on all criteria? 

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, Ephesians 2

Made Alive in Christ

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

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https://rumble.com/vn3zlv-ep.-1615-shock-video-of-massive-red-pills-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Watch this video! It shows massive red-pills being dropped on vaccine mandates and the collusion hoax. In this episode I address the video along with a story about the dangers of the digital economy.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden’s Cabinet Clashes: Pentagon Leaders Blame State Department for Botched Afghanistan Evacuation READ MORE

House Dems Pass Bill to Suspend Debt Limit Through December 2022 – Bill Expected to Fail in Senate

Irony Overload as CNN Hosts Say Right-Wing Media Has No Journalistic Ethics

VP Harris Hires Crisis Experts Due to Her Wild Unpopularity

Pelosi May Postpone Thursday Infrastructure Bill Vote

CDC to Commission Politically Charged Study on Gun Violence as a “Public Health Threat”

BLM NY Chapter Calls for “George Floyd-Style” Protests Against Vax Mandates

Capitol Hill
Biden’s Security Agencies Oppose Backlisting Chinese Govt Tech Firm
Report: Biden Admin Blocking Charter Flight Carrying Over 100 Americans From Returning to U.S.
Fauci Says Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” Now Includes Booster Shots
Kash Patel Aims New Fire at the Deep State
Biden Threatens to Terminate Major Portion of Border Patrol Agents Via Vax Mandate
Biden Banking Nominee Received a Collegiate “Lenin Award,” Praised Soviet Union
Obama Voices Support for Biden’s Insane Fiscal Agenda
GOP Vows to Defeat Sen. Schumer’s Effort to Raise Debt Limit With Simple Majority Vote
Gov. DeSantis Sues Biden Admin Over Border Policy

Culture War
Race Baiting MSNBC Host Complains Media Doesn’t Cover Missing Women of Color, Proceeds to Cover No Such Stories
Virginia Resident Matt Walsh Joined by Hundreds to Demand Parental Rights Before Loudoun School Board
Florida Park Docs Confirm Laundrie Family Went Camping After Gabby Petito Disappearance
Terry McAuliffe Says He Doesn’t Believe Parents Should Have a Say in What Schools Teach
According to Pelosi’s Tweets From 2018, the Looming Government Shutdown Is Dems’ Fault
Will The Latest Faux-Outrage Story Finally Tip the Scales Against Cancel Culture?
American Booksellers Association Roasted for Racist “Anti-Racist” Message

Economy
Inflation Forces Dollar Tree to Break the $1 Barrier
Psaki Says It’s “Unfair and Absurd” Companies Would Increase Prices in Response to Higher Taxes
Psaki Says 80% Support Biden’s Spending Agenda – It’s Actually Just 36%
Former Merrill Lynch CEO Dave Komansky Dies at 82
Elon Musk Reclaims Spot as World’s Richest Person
Biden Cancels Chicago Trip to Try to Salvage $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill
Sen. Warren Calls Fed Chair Powell “Dangerous,” Voices Opposition to Renomination
Freezing Winter Could Exacerbate China’s Energy Crisis
Oil Price Rises Above $80 for First Time in Three Years

Swamp Watch
Gen. Milley and Defense Sec. Austin Face New Round of Grilling Before House After Contradicting Biden
The Lancet Scrubs Entire COVID Origins Investigation Team
Biden Intervenes in Congressional Showdown Over His Agenda
Report: WHO Employees Were Involved in Sexual Abuse in Congo During Ebola Crisis
Report: Facebook Researched How to Market to “Tweens,” Studied Kids’ Playdates
Biden’s Mandates Cause Hospital Staff Shortages
South Dakota AG Launches Probe Into Gov. Kristi Noem
Illinois Tax Burden Nearly Doubles in 12 Years
Republicans Say John Kerry Is Lobbying Against Anti-Slavery Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

National Security
U.S. Threatened Taliban With Airstrikes If They Marched on Kabul – They Did the Next Day Without Consequence
DARPA Announces Successful Hypersonic Cruise Missile Flight
AUKUS Submarine Deal: A France Spurned Is A Opportunity Lost
U.S. Navy Has Created New Atlantic Destroyer Task Group To Hunt Russian Subs
F-35 Production to Peak at 156 Per Year, Remain at That Level “For the Foreseeable Future”
Will the Air Force Really Dump the A-10 Warthog and F-16?
U.S. Marine Officer Who Demanded Accountability From Military Leaders for Afghanistan Failures Now in the Brig
Dynetics Wins $237M Army Defense Missile Contract, Beating Out Iron Dome

Around the World
Australian Deputy Premier: Citizens Will Lose Freedoms Even After Lockdown Ends
UK Announces New Military Alliance Talks With Japan
U.S. Defense Secretary: Afghan Army Collapse “Took Us All By Surprise”
Senior UK Tory Blames “Fuel Crisis” on the Lockdown, Bad Planning by the Govt
Germany’s SPD Looks to Start Coalition Talks This Week
North Korea Conducts Provocative Launch of Short-Range Ballistic Missile Into Sea of Japan
Russia Threatens Additional Jail Time For Kremlin Critic Navalny, Begins New Criminal Case
UK Labor Party Can’t Decide Whether Women Have Cervixes

Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Gen. Lee — The Importance of Preserving American History
Stephen Moore: Government of the Unions, by the Unions, for the Unions
Nicole Nelly: Activists Are Eyeing Your Tax Dollars to Shove Critical Race Theory into Young Minds
Derek Hunter: James Bond Is A Man, Get Over It
Patrick Buchanan: The Eclipse of Europe
Salena Zito: Life Along the Border Collapses
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: Wake Up, Mr. President. We Are in a Cold War
Katie Yoder: Abortion Harms Women, Including Athletes

Entertainment
Britney Spears’ Father Suspended From Her Conservatorship
Will Smith Isn’t Getting Jiggy With “Defund The Police”
Country Singer Alan Jackson Opens Up About “No Cure” Neurological Disease
After Being FIred Over College Admissions Scandal, Lori Loughlin Returning To “When Calls the Heart” Role
Actor John Leguizamo Takes Issue With Super Mario Bros. Voice Cast: “Too Bad They Went All White”
Former ABC And Fox Business Host John Stossel Hits Facebook With $2 Million Defamation Lawsuit
Original “Law & Order” Is Coming Back for Season 21 After More Than A Decade

Sports
NBA Stars Push Back Against Vax Mandates
Report: Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid Back At Work After Being Hospitalized
Eli Manning Gives National Audience the Middle Finger During “Monday Night Football”
Cards Clinch Playoff Spot, Extend Record Win Streak
Tom Brady Says He May Play Beyond 2022 Season
Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs Ties Franchise Record In Blowout Win Over Eagles
On-Air Personality Sage Steele Airs Frustration With ESPN’s “Sick” Vax Mandate
Mets Stop Five-Game Losing Streak With Victory Over Marlins
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Former President Trump has pledged that we will fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege," and he has suggested that the panel summon witnesses to testify about the “Rigged Presidential Election of 2020.”  [Full Story]

Newsmax TV
Rep. Liz Cheney offered a resounding defense on Wednesday of Gen. [Full Story]

Newsfront
The State Department ''waited too long'' to order the civilian airlift operation out of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers on Tuesday in a classified briefing, according to two ...... [Full Story]
A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol [Full Story]
A judge has suspended Britney Spears' father from the conservatorship [Full Story]

1. Not so friendly skies United plans to fire those workers who neither received the vaccine nor sought any religious or medical accommodation to the vaccine. Those workers still have grounds to sue in my view, and I am quite confident more than a few will. https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-airlines-prepares-to-fire-employees-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccinations-11632868364

2. Oops! Federal judges caught ruling on cases that line their pockets. https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421?mod=trending_now_news_1

3. A yellow star, maybe? https://summit.news/2021/09/29/unvaccinated-students-told-to-wear-different-coloured-wristbands-so-they-can-be-identified/

4. Russia looks to punish YouTube for its censorship. https://summit.news/2021/09/29/russia-threatens-total-ban-on-youtube-after-major-channels-deleted/

5. As @PeoplesPundit forecast with his data, consumer confidence hits new recent low. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/us-goods-trade-deficit-increases-august-2021-09-28/

*Bonus: More and more critical: police who disobey illegal orders. https://summit.news/2021/09/28/australian-police-commissioner-refuses-to-enforce-vaccine-passport-mandate/


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Here is a video I made When you say nothing
"When You Say Nothing at All" is a country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. It is among the best-known hit songs for three different performers: Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on December 24, 1988; Alison Krauss, whose version became her first solo top-10 country hit in 1995; and Irish pop singer Ronan Keating, whose version was his first solo single and a chart-topper in the UK in 1999.

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. I joke about young people not knowing what it would be like to be true Richmond Tigers supporters, after Tigers won their first grand final in some thirty five years. So that eight year olds might think it is too easy to be a Tiger supporter and expect things will happen, as they magically did today against a great South Australian team. Adelaide Crows had led on the first quarter, but were shut down in the second quarter where they went without a goal, conceding seven consecutive goals before scoring another. Melbourne peoples are proud of their AFL teams. Over a hundred thousand went to watch the match at the MCG. Meanwhile, ARL are giving away tickets for the ARL grand final. I don't know who is playing tomorrow, but I know the headline half time song is for SSM. Melbourne should win that too, unless the league has booted them or something. 

James Bolt has highlighted corporate tax rates. Trump is cutting US to 20%. Meanwhile Australia has one of the highest rates in the OECD. Australia has performed terribly, fiscally since the union campaign against Work Choices gifted the senate to ALP and cross benches in 2007. The public have not trusted sensible government since. 

=== from 2016 ===
Greens are agonising about exploiting a storm that makes their abysmal policies look bad. South Australia has blacked out, but South Australians are a resilient mob. I have seen joke pictures of a guy in a tinny checking soil samples and produce in over five feet of water. A reminder that dams are floor mitigating and people suffer when insane environmental policies opposing plant food reign. 

Bad Government in Victoria is evident too. Dan Andrews public holiday has killed many traditions around what once was a half day. Dandenong Markets remained open in defiance of Andrews. But they will close for Melbourne Cup. Priorities. Anyway, Sydney is likely to win AFL, and Melbourne the ARL. Sydney has the better of the deal. AFL is a great sport. 

Queensland's premier is being lauded because the press can't support a conservative. But she has done nothing worthwhile to deserve it. 

Meanwhile in the US, Hillary's lies go to her credit for her supporters. A guy has been arrested for creating voting tickets for some seventeen people, including the dead. One dead guy fought in WW2 and apparently really is what some would call stand up. The Democrat supporter who wanted to vote for Hillary seventeen times may not have done anything illegal, as he hadn't yet voted. An electronic system of voting could defeat such fraud, but it would have to sacrifice a secret vote principle so as to be verifiable. And why not sacrifice the secret vote? We have already given up freedom of speech. 
=== from 2015 ===
Among the Australian Liberal Party, there is a call for unity following the utter betrayal by Malcolm Turnbull. It is very important that the things the Libs do well are not lost with the self promotion of Turnbull. Policy has not changed a lot with the leadership. Turnbull is a great communicator and is clearly showing the confusion in head office. But there is an opportunity that should not go begging. We need Work Choices. We need to remove corruption from Union leadership. We need to secure free trade agreements. With a leadership more similar to the ALP, we probably expect they will say one thing and do another. That should secure support from the independents, except Xenophon who will stand by the Greens. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Hong Kong's umbrella is raised for freedom. Brave democracy activists are standing for what they believe in. Islamic radicals note, they are doing it right and have respect around the world. The Chinese administration, that is hardline communist, fear them. Just like last time, they may kill them. Back during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, after tanks of the Peoples Liberation Army rolled over protestors, and many were jailed and reeducated, Australian PM Bob Hawk spoke with Deng Xiaoping in private and pointed out that many of those radicals the Chinese government didn't want could come to Australia. Deng asked "How many millions do you want?" Even now, an estimated sixty million Chinese nationals are prepared to immigrate to Australia. Because of bad governance by the ALP, Australian land is not developed to support that many people. A Bradfield scheme would need to water central Australia. It can be done. Possibly China would fund it, if a deal could be struck with a future democratic Chinese government. God speed the Democracy Umbrella protests. 

Dear Aunt Tracy gave advice to Isis regarding names being overtaken by public disasters. Aunt Tracy was eight when the cyclone devastated Darwin. Beforehand, people would say what a lovely name she had. Afterwards, she was introduced to Gough Whitlam. He pretended she didn't exist. She could have been called Darwin for all he cared. And that is a tip for Isis. Choose a name which no one will notice in your neighbourhood. Your locals who run in fear of Isis will openly weep in thanks at Kabul, Mecca or Baghdad. In recent research it has been discovered Aliens have been swimming in our water. Or could have in the past. Half the world's water is older than the formation of the Sun. Maybe in time to come we will be able to work out what the parent star was like, if there was only one. NRL officials deny their organisation is run by women. When asked who was the best and fairest player over the entire season, they said they couldn't decide. Gosford Anglican's chief minister/priest/acolyte of Gaia has denounced the Abbott administration as fascist because they don't drown visitors or subject them to piracy. Did a switch in temperature gauge result in heat reading upgrade? The great heating scare beginning circa '96 corresponded with a new temperature measuring system. Margo Kingston being awarded a Doctorate in Creative Practice is a better deal than Roberta Flack being given a Doctorate in Musicology. Roberta has real talent. Margo is confused by facts and angry at myths. Sorry, Dr Kingston is confused by facts and angry at myths. 

Media Watch missed a dangerous issue of ABC siding with terrorists. Media watch is just like Dr Kingston. Confused by facts and angry at myths. US has named the ten most wanted terrorists. Buddhists from Myanmar command respect against terrorists by fighting them in traditional ways not followed by the Umbrella democracy protestors. Terror raids in Melbourne by federal and Victorian police are not related to last week's stabbing of two police officers by a young ISIS devotee. 

Ministers are using the budget blow out to address the debt emergency. Something needs to cut through the ALP and PUP obstructionism. Palmer might not be aware, but to run a business effectively profits need to exceed expenses. The Maritime Union has used stand over tactics to steal three million dollars? What else? Union corruption has been fostered by the ALP and must be stopped. Newman's government is on track to be re-elected, according to polls. The Whitlam government history has been written by losers. The sad truth is an inept but corrupt administration cost Australia significantly and still does so. Julie Bishop stymies a super ministry for Scott Morrison. There is no pressing need for one. But ALP supporters are keen to claim division in government ranks.
From 2013
It is hard for some people to know what is right. Very bad for an elected leader to not know. Mr Abbott shows good judgement with a firm grasp of conservative values, but the ALP seem bereft of talent when comparing Shorten and Albanese. It has taken time, but finally a point of difference is emerging between the two ALP wannabees. Shorten had a thought bubble about quotas, expanding the female quota and creating a quota for gay and lesbian politicians, race, capacity. Albanese doesn't feel quotas should be expanded beyond the one applied to females in seats of office. There are many outstanding people available to the ALP, but it is doubtful they will be promoted by quota. But equity in office doesn't seem to be a high priority to focus reform right now. People drown off the Indonesian coast line and Abbott is castigated .. he has only turned around two boats since coming to office. 

Media Watch have finally found bad science. Not AGW alarmism, Media Watch is fine with the hysteria. Media Watch disparages the scientist who claims that he has found alien life forms in the atmosphere of Earth. Chief indicator to Media Watch that that science is bad was that it was reported in News.com papers. In fact, the science was flawed, but falsifiable, like science should be .. unlike AGW which is more faith driven. 

But the quandary of the moment good people are wrestling with is Islamo Fascism. In Kenya, Islamic leaders have denounced the murderous cross dressing terrorists. In Pakistan, they appear to have senior government roles. Over 80 people who sat down for lunch in Pakistan were murdered by bombs designed to maim. They are Christians who were having lunch after a worship service. They aren't wealthy, but they support an orphanage, give aid to the poor and elderly and do what people in communities do .. like eat lunch. But in the aftermath of the explosions they are denied healthcare. Islamo Fascism has spread since Nazis modernised the Egyptian armed services following WW2. The UN has entrenched terrorism against Israel. Israel is the only safe place for Islamic peoples. Meanwhile the UN endorses the lynching of Jewish peoples everywhere in the world. In such times, what is a leader to do? 
Historical perspective on this day
489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
737 – Battle of the BaggageTurgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1551 – Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi by the military establishment of the ÅŒuchi clan forces their lord ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned.

1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".

1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in BirkenheadMerseyside.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in AppletonWisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddies.

1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – The Royal Galician AcademyGalician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1915 – Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1922 – University of Alabama opened the football season with a 110–0 victory over the Marion Military Institute which still stands as the school record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – General WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34–7.

1941 – World War IIHolocaust in KievUkraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1943 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1947 – Pakistan joins the United Nations
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.

1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 – The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesiangovernment, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of BotswanaSeretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 – BBC Light ProgrammeThird Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 23 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburnpresenting its first show.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now BoeingAH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).

1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1988 – Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1993 – The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Undergroundcloses after eighty-eight years in service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake shakes central Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This dip-slip (reverse) earthquake left 1,115 people dead, and was followed several days later by a 6.6 Mw strike-slip event.
2016 – Hurricane Matthew became a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea, since Hurricane Felix in 2007.
2017 – Titus Zeman SDB. - priest, beatification ceremony in Bratislava, Slovakia.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Isaiah 7-8, Ephesians 2 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 7-8

The Sign of Immanuel


1 When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
2 Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field. 4 Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s son have plotted your ruin, saying, 6 “Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it....”

Today's New Testament reading: Ephesians 2


Made Alive in Christ
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do....

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Morning

"Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague."
Leviticus 13:13
Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers, and may read the law of the leper as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined, covered all over with the defilement of sin, and no part free from pollution; when he disclaims all righteousness of his own, and pleads guilty before the Lord, then is he clean through the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy, but when sin is seen and felt it has received its death blow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness, or more hopeful than contrition. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth, and if the Holy Spirit be at work with us, convincing us of sin, there will be no difficulty about making such an acknowledgment--it will spring spontaneously from our lips. What comfort does the text afford to those under a deep sense of sin! Sin mourned and confessed, however black and foul, shall never shut a man out from the Lord Jesus. Whosoever cometh unto him, he will in no wise cast out. Though dishonest as the thief, though unchaste as the woman who was a sinner, though fierce as Saul of Tarsus, though cruel as Manasseh, though rebellious as the prodigal, the great heart of love will look upon the man who feels himself to have no soundness in him, and will pronounce him clean, when he trusts in Jesus crucified. Come to him, then, poor heavy-laden sinner,
Come needy, come guilty, come loathsome and bare;
You can't come too filthy--come just as you are.

Evening


"I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go."
Song of Solomon 3:4
Does Christ receive us when we come to him, notwithstanding all our past sinfulness? Does he never chide us for having tried all other refuges first? And is there none on earth like him? Is he the best of all the good, the fairest of all the fair? Oh, then let us praise him! Daughters of Jerusalem, extol him with timbrel and harp! Down with your idols, up with the Lord Jesus. Now let the standards of pomp and pride be trampled under foot, but let the cross of Jesus, which the world frowns and scoffs at, be lifted on high. O for a throne of ivory for our King Solomon! Let him be set on high forever, and let my soul sit at his footstool, and kiss his feet, and wash them with my tears. Oh, how precious is Christ! How can it be that I have thought so little of him? How is it I can go abroad for joy or comfort when he is so full, so rich, so satisfying. Fellow believer, make a covenant with thine heart that thou wilt never depart from him, and ask thy Lord to ratify it. Bid him set thee as a signet upon his finger, and as a bracelet upon his arm. Ask him to bind thee about him, as the bride decketh herself with ornaments, and as the bridegroom putteth on his jewels. I would live in Christ's heart; in the clefts of that rock my soul would eternally abide. The sparrow hath made a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God; and so too would I make my nest, my home, in thee, and never from thee may the soul of thy turtle dove go forth again, but may I nestle close to thee, O Jesus, my true and only rest.
"When my precious Lord I find,
All my ardent passions glow;
Him with cords of love I bind,

Hold and will not let him go."

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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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