Tuesday, September 21, 2021

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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, 2 Corinthians 12

Paul’s Vision and His Thorn

I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing. I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles. How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less? Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.

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https://rumble.com/vmqrfn-ep.-1608-an-online-investigator-exposes-a-troubling-connection-the-dan-bong.html
An explosive connection found by an investigator I trust. In this episode I address the disturbing details. I also address latest poll showing Democrats are obsessed with living in fear.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Senate Parliamentarian Delivers Blow to Biden Agenda: Rules Dems Can’t Give Illegals Citizenship in New Spending Bill READ MORE

Pfizer Seeks U.S. Authorization for COVID-19 Vaccine for Children Age 5-11

FBI Executes Search Warrant on Home of Brian Laundrie’s Parents

Judge in Michael Sussman Case Is Married to Attorney for ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page

Biden Admin Warns States Federal Debt Crisis Could Trigger Recession

Sen. Manchin Wants Congress to Delay Voting on Biden’s Spending Package Until 2022

Biden Admin to Release Family Units From Del Rio Border Crisis Into U.S.

Capitol Hill
NIH Director Believes Pfizer Booster Shots Will Be Expanded Despite FDA Panel’s Recommendation Against It
Indian Media Claims Kabul Suicide Bomber Was Freed From Bagram Prison After Biden’s Botched Withdrawal
Sen. Cruz Praises Sens. Manchin and Sinema for “Standing Up to the Crazies” in Their Party
Ex-Trump Official says Milley Routinely Exceeded His Authority, Undermined President
Biden’s Entire Legislature Agenda Sits on the Knife’s Edge of Total Failure
Lol: Beto O’Rourke to Challenge Greg Abbott for Texas Gov.
Redistricting Battles Rage Across the Nation
Former Obama Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Demands Accountability on Biden’s Botched Drone Strike
Trump: Border Situation a “Crisis Crisis”

Culture War
Elon Musk Dunks on Joe Biden Following Successful Inspiration 4 Mission
Minnesota Supreme Court Clears Way for Full Reversal of Derek Chauvin Murder Conviction
Chuck Todd: Biden Facing a “Pretty Big Credibility Crisis”
“Joe Biden Taliban” Billboards Put Up Near I-83 in Pennsylvania
Media Mocked for Overhyping Saturday “Justice for J6” Rally
Poll: More White Voters Support Replacing Police in Minneapolis Than Black Voters
BLM to Protest at NYC Restaurant Where Black Women Were Denied Service Over Vax Mandate
Iowa Teacher Proudly Explains How She Circumvents State’s CRT Ban
Ford’s Theater Twitter Account Questions Abe Lincoln’s Legacy
Lib Journos Flummoxed by Biden’s Incompetence

Economy
Charles Gasparino: Still-Young Crypto Industry Could Grow Stronger — If SEC Allows It to Thrive
Bitcoin Falls Below $45k as Global Market Rout Hits Cryptos
Dems’ New Tax Hike Plan Contains Subsidies for Journos
European Stocks Fall to Two-Month Low
GOP Lawmakers Blast IMF Chief Over China Data Manipulation Report
Apple Is Tracking Political Fights Over Texas Abortion Law and Immigration Policy
Amazon Piles Ad Into Search Results
The Economic Week Ahead
Europe Faces Winter Energy Crisis
“Progressives” Now Want a $26 Minimum Wage

Swamp Watch
San Francisco Mayor Says She Violated Her Own Mask Mandate Because She Was “Feeling the Spirit”
NY Times Publishes Puff Piece on Psaki After Bad Week for Biden Admin
Border Patrol Resorts to Hiring Civilians as “Processing Coordinators”
Watch: New Footage Shows an Unmasked AOC Being Waited on By Masked Attendants and Staff Before Met Gala
Terry McAuiliffe Flips on Qualified Immunity, Suddenly Says He Would Not Repeal It
Eric Trump: Durham Indictment Revealed Clinton Bankroll of Alfa Bank Dirt
The Indictment of Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer Is Another Indictment of the Media’s Russiagate Wing
Obama’s Homeland Security Chief: This Border Crisis Sure Seems Out of Control
Families of Jailed Jan 6 Protesters Share Disturbing Stories of Mistreatment by Authorities

National Security
China Adds Powerful New Ship to Its Fleet
Ohio Officials Pushing Back on Air Force Family Support “Report Card” That Placed State in Middle of the Pack
Some in Missouri GOP Are Floating State Gun Law As Template to Fight Biden Vaccine Rule
GM Defense Wins Contract to Build Heavy-Duty Chevrolet Suburban for Use By Diplomats
U.S. Cyber Chief: Government Should Be Prepared to Fire “Cyber Bullets” as Part of War on Hackers
DoD Wants to Know Why Small Businesses Can’t Get Contracts
U.S. Marines Looking For a Few Older People
A Look at America’s New Anti-China Alliance

Around the World
Putin’s Party on Course to Retain Majority in Parliament
It’s Official: Boxer Manny Pacquiao Running for Philippine President
Australian Police Arrest 267 Protesters During Anti Lockdown Rallies This Weekend
Report: Putin Accepts Invitation From China to 2022 Winter Olympics
Britain May Revert to Imperial System as Part of Its Exit From the European Union
Japan’s Population Aged 65 and Older Hits Record High
Macron and Biden to Talk, As Australia Defends Leaving French Submarine Deal
New Photo of Canadian PM Trudeau in Blackface Emerges

Opinion
Rob Jenkins: More Stupid Leftist Arguments
Paula Froelich: After AOC’s Met Gala Stunt, I’m Officially Done With Democrats
Debra J. Saunders: Can’t Recall — What’s Next for California?
Derek Hunter: Democrats Hate You, It’s Time To Hate Them Back
Charles Gasparino: Still-Young Crypto Industry Could Grow Stronger — If SEC Allows It to Thrive
Kevin McCullough: Democrats’ Sick Prescriptions for Killing off Life-Saving New Medicines
David Badiel: The Progressive Left Now Sees Antisemitism as an “Acceptable” Racism
David McGrath: I Knew It Would Be a Disaster, But This?

Entertainment
Chris Rock Reveals He Has Breakthrough Coronavirus Case After Being Vaccinated, Urges Followers To Get Vaccinated
Emmys Promise A “Good Time” After Bleak Year
Twitter Blasts Maskless Celebrities At 2021 Emmys
Seth Rogen Complains About COVID Protocols at the Emmys: “This Is Insane!”
Gillian Anderson Wins Second Emmy For “The Crown”
A Trip To The Real “Mayberry” From The Andy Griffith Show
“Waterboy” Actor And Longtime Adam Sandler Co-Star Peter Dante Accused Of Threatening To Kill Neighbor
Media Wake Up, Realize Comedy Crumbling In Our Woke Age

Sports
Kyle Larson Wins NASCAR Bristol Cup Playoff
Cole Beasley Offers To Buy Tickets For Unvaccinated Fans Who Miss Games Due To Vaccine Mandate
Report: Peyton Manning Has “Spoken With Multiple Broncos Ownership Suitors” About Role As Investor & Manager
Devin Clark Has Teeth Destroyed In UFC Fight By Ion Cutelaba
Before Game Browns’ Baker Mayfield Honors Fallen US Service Member
Gerrit Cole Booed Off Mound As Yankees Fall To Indians
Video: Browns Fans Brawl Before Home Opener
NBA Hall Of Famer Isiah Thomas Blasts NFL “Black National Anthem”: It “Emphasizes Our Separateness”
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Former President Donald Trump said in a new interview with Sky News Australia that COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and claimed it was released due to "gross incompetence." [Full Story]

Newsmax TV
Newsfront
The FBI on Monday executed a search warrant at the Florida home of Brian Laundrie, who police say is a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, Gabriel "Gabby" Petito. A body "consistent with...... [Full Story]
Stocks slumped in morning trading on Wall Street Monday in a broad [Full Story]
The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to [Full Story]
Twitter Inc said on Monday it would pay $809.5 million to settle a [Full Story]
President Joe Biden on Monday ordered his administration to seek ways [Full Story]
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1. Covid. The insanity of mandating the vaccine for little kids. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pfizer-says-their-covid-vaccine-works

2. Legal. Secret court decisions go to SCOTUS. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1499/180284/20210527092519180_210147a%20Amicus%20Brief%20for%20efiling.pdf

3. Economic. Inflation ate away all the wage gains. https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/inflation-has-turned-15-an-hour-wages-into-a-setback

4. Political. UK gamblers think the Conservatives and People's Party will over perform expectations tonight. https://www.oddschecker.com/us/insight/specials/politics/20210917-canadian-election-odds-over-54pp-of-bets-on-conservatives

5. Cultural. Less overt politics brought some of the fans back. https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nfl-week-one-tv-ratings-viewers-ravens-raiders-bucs-cowboys-nbc-cbs-fox-espn/

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Here is a video I made I've forgotten you
https://rumble.com/vbblbl-ive-forgotten-you.html
I saw this in an Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot tv episode. It struck me. I could dedicate it to TMN who isn't a Facebook friend. I do not know the provenance of the number, having tracked it to another youtube video. I will copy the tags. I've forgotten you, I never think of you, The way you walked, the way you talked, the things you used to say. I've forgotten you, I never think of you, I couldn't say for sure today Whether your eyes were blue or grey. I've forgotten you, I never think of you, Your smile, your touch, Which meant so much, Somewhere along the way. I've forgotten you, I never think of you, I changed my mind , my love was blind , Now I've forgotten you. I'm through. I'll never think of you Oh, what a lie! I shall think of you, Think of you, Think of you, Till I die. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgu8nBQmRcM

=== 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. As Victoria's ALP gears to campaign on experience, another of their members has declared they won't run next year in election. A token female in a safe ALP seat with a 14% swing needed to take it, she has taken her constituents for granted and leaves before having to face their anger on government failures. She will have contributed to euthanasia without practicing it. She can expect a generous pension. But Victorians face rising crime, falling employment, higher power prices, a gender war in schools, a crumbling public transport system with unworkable skysail plans and a collapsing business base. But also she leaves Victorians with hope that ALP won't be reelected.

Tony Abbott assaulted in Tasmania by a SSM activist. The man was wearing a Yes badge and walked up to the former PM saying "Can I shake your hand?" The coward then head butted Tony Abbott and said he deserved it before walking away. Abbott did not fight back, as Andrew Bolt did previously. When Bolt did that, the abusers tried to have Bolt charged with violence. AFL backflips over SSM. AFL had changed their initials with a public poster to say "Yes." Only, some 40% of AFL supporters don't feel that way. And although one might support SSM as a concept, the campaign is a turn off for decent people. SSM suicides? According to one strident supporter of the "Yes" campaign, only a "yes" vote will stop 300 suicides a year from youth. But I'm sure, if the statistics are examined, there would not be 10 suicides ever of a school child over SSM. It is just like the Stolen Generation campaign. 

Billions lost from AGW waste. And the loss is ongoing. World wide it was some $2.5 trillion a year under Obama. Trump is reeling back the waste. The money is gone forever. It does not contribute to anything worthwhile. It is a lost business opportunity that hits the world's poorest the hardest. Still, the waste is expected to reach over $100 trillion before 2100, and it will not have an effect on world temperature. One day, there will be a reckoning for the hoax. 
=== from 2016 === 
Turnbull promised his government would communicate better than the Abbott one had. Does he really want us to feel that Turnbull does not understand the issues? That is what he is communicating. SBS' abusive comedy program is appalling.

We need free speech. Those opposing it for political opportunism risk losing their voice entirely. 

Turnbull only stays on for further humiliation, before he resigns. 

And the Senate kept Flannery in his over paid job? Thanks Shorten. Shorten stands by the corrupt and the inept. 

Now that the ALP have brought about the end of the Baby Bonus, their activity will bring about an end to more welfare. We cannot keep what we cannot afford. Eventually, we will lose everything we now take for granted. Who is being cold and unfeeling now? 

The left laud the incompetent that are from their tribe. 

There are no winners when cultural assets are dissolved

The devil is laughing 

The favour Turnbull is offering Obama and Hillary Clinton masks the nature of the migrants. They are unlikely to be Catholic refugees from Costa Rica
=== from 2015 ===
Turnbull reveals aspirations for good government. Like 20 minutes travel time maximum to daily services, such as shopping, education and work. He has even placed a lowly minister on the task. Malcolm Farr likes it and has the Daily Telegraph wrote a glowing article about it whereas Farr would have spurned it from Abbott. Hockey is blasted for possibly accepting an ambassadorial role. Hockey had been an effective treasurer but he was burned for being in Turnbull's way. The criticism of Hockey was meaningless, denouncing him as being cigar smoking, heartless and thoughtless. "He doesn't think poor people drive cars." It will be interesting to see if a change in rhetoric improves Liberal fortunes. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Congratulation John Key on your comprehensive win in the NZ Election yesterday. Your previous two terms have demonstrated excellent stewardship and for the first time since the early '90s NZ has now a majority government. You do not need to be reminded, but in opposition, the left wing will lie about everything and paint anything you do as abuse of power. Don't let that stop you from governing well. In Australia, Abbott does not have a majority in the Senate, and so Clive Palmer has the balance of power. Clive opposes responsible budget cuts. Meanwhile, Gillard had had minority government. Gillard admits to dishonesty with the public and so she has rewarded Rudd, but he hadn't deserved the reward, but if she hadn't rewarded him, she would have needed to openly and honestly spoken to the Australian peoples, and she would never do that. Mr Key, Congratulations and use your sacred trust well.

Leftwing and the path of evil are entwined. The '60s anti authoritarian youth rebellion culture and peace movement. Well intended in the case of individuals, but exploited by evil. The Soviet KGB in the Cold War manipulated the peace movement to oppose US missions for freedom and democracy. In that time, and earlier, during the Great Game, the lie was spread permitting Jihad in Islam to pursue politics through terror. There is a history of fighting within Islam between Islamic peoples that allows atrocity. The connection with the left is from the sixties peace movement. It was LBJ that showed many young girls that war was cool. But now the West faces terror and she needs to know how to defeat this millennia old machine. The truth is, to defeat terror, ultimately we must be true to ourselves. But for Islam to separate themselves from terror, they need their gutless, impotent leaders to become competent. The mainstream media have not helped anyone, even themselves, in their excusing terror in the name of Islam. Australian Soldiers risk being targeted by terrorists for wearing their uniform at home. Obama promises to fight IS ineffectively by not using good people on the ground. One Liberal Party member Laundy opposes a free vote on gay marriage when previously he supported it. His rationale for his backflip involves an Islamic presence in his electorate. Meanwhile, terrorists in prison have privileges other prisoners don't get. 

AGW hysterics are global, and fewer than might be otherwise, owing to their extensive use of flight carbon. Climate Change, the musical, is over. It was the worst AGW hype fest failure since the ill omened '07 Cool Aid inspired by Jim Jones. 
From 2013
Germany is nearing election where the conservative leader is likely to win. Greens made a tactical mistake early pushing to legalise pedophilia. The only way the press can even the score is to make out another conservative government will have a policy of pepper spraying fare evaders. News come of the possibility of an accident nuking North Carolina early in JFK's reign. Too late to expect Jacky or Bobby to answer for their incompetence, but I'm uncomfortable with the justice they received. Apparently the safety measures put in place by Eisenhower worked, but that Republican President is dead so there is no need to thank him. 

In modern times, a dithering Obama has peacefully created a world where moderate Iranians make Iraqis execute former Saddam supporters. No news of Obama asking to hit Iran as he wanted to hit Syria. 

In sad election news, it looks like crank Palmer has managed to buy himself a seat in parliament, denying a serious candidate. The result is close, so there will be a recount. Already Palmer has discredited his win claiming the armed services are conspiring .. to let him win. Suggesting he won't improve parliament, but he may make it more watchable. 
The Pope has spoken sense, but his angry critics claim it is proof he endorses them. How would Islamics behave if their senior member said the same as Francis? I note one Islamist recently plotted to kill Prince Harry. What would Climate warming believers do if their scientists revealed the truth? We may never know. 
Historical perspective on this day
455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1170 – Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin into exile.
1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthew's Day.

1435 – The Congress of Arras causes Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Copeis defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780 – American Revolutionary WarBenedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.

1843 – John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
1860 – Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896 – Mahdist War: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha libre.
1934 – A large typhoon hits western HonshÅ«, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard.

1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom KippurNazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the ghetto in BiaÅ‚a Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów PodlaskiRossosz and Terespol.
1942 – In DunaivtsiUkraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

1953 – Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom but remains in the Commonwealth.
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1965 – The GambiaMaldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.

1971 – BahrainBhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.

1991 – Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1996 – The Defense of Marriage Act passes the United States Congress (a vote of 342-67 in the House of Representatives and a vote of 85-14 in the Senate). The law prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriage, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.
1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.

2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
2001 – Increased racial tensions in PeterboroughEngland following the September 11 attacks result in the murder of Ross Parker by a gang of ten Muslims in a racially motivated attack.
2003 – The Galileo Probe is terminated by sending it into Jupiter.
2013 – Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in NairobiKenya, killing at least 67 people.

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Today's reading: Ecclesiastes 4-6, 2 Corinthians 12 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Ecclesiastes 4-6

Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness
1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
and they have no comforter.
2 And I declared that the dead,
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.
4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind....

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 12

Paul’s Vision and His Thorn
1 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong....

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Morning

"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon."
Judges 7:20
Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying, "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon! the sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!" This is precisely what all Christians must do. First, you must shine; break the pitcher which conceals your light; throw aside the bushel which has been hiding your candle, and shine. Let your light shine before men; let your good works be such, that when men look upon you, they shall know that you have been with Jesus. Then there must be the sound, the blowing of the trumpet. There must be active exertions for the ingathering of sinners by proclaiming Christ crucified. Take the gospel to them; carry it to their door; put it in their way; do not suffer them to escape it; blow the trumpet right against their ears. Remember that the true war-cry of the Church is Gideon's watchword, "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!" God must do it, it is his own work. But we are not to be idle; instrumentality is to be used--"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!" If we only cry, "The sword of the Lord!" we shall be guilty of an idle presumption; and if we shout, "The sword of Gideon!" alone, we shall manifest idolatrous reliance on an arm of flesh: we must blend the two in practical harmony, "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!" We can do nothing of ourselves, but we can do everything by the help of our God; let us, therefore, in his name determine to go out personally and serve with our flaming torch of holy example, and with our trumpet tones of earnest declaration and testimony, and God shall be with us, and Midian shall be put to confusion, and the Lord of hosts shall reign forever and ever.

Evening

"In the evening withhold not thy hand."
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the love of Jesus. Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let me no longer withhold my hand from a service which requires abundant labour. Sinners are perishing for lack of knowledge; he who loiters may find his skirts crimson with the blood of souls. Jesus gave both his hands to the nails, how can I keep back one of mine from his blessed work? Night and day he toiled and prayed for me, how can I give a single hour to the pampering of my flesh with luxurious ease? Up, idle heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray; heaven and hell are in earnest, let me be so, and this evening sow good seed for the Lord my God.

The evening of life has also its calls. Life is so short that a morning of manhood's vigour, and an evening of decay, make the whole of it. To some it seems long, but a four-pence is a great sum of money to a poor man. Life is so brief that no man can afford to lose a day. It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; we should begin early in the morning, and in the evening we should not withhold our hand; but to win souls is far nobler work, how is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Some are spared to a long evening of green old age; if such be my case, let me use such talents as I still retain, and to the last hour serve my blessed and faithful Lord. By his grace I will die in harness, and lay down my charge only when I lay down my body. Age may instruct the young, cheer the faint, and encourage the desponding; if eventide has less of vigorous heat, it should have more of calm wisdom, therefore in the evening I will not withhold my hand.

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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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