Sunday, October 31, 2021

30th Oct Review of Historical and Current Affairs

My name is David Daniel Ball and I am Voice DDB dot locals dot com a voice of freedom supporting freedom around the world for all peoples. I write on historical and current affairs. I look for the conservative voice where mainstream media eschews it. Around the world media espouses liberalism orthodoxy and proclaims a history of liberalism that never happened. Liberalism of today is based on repeated lies that have been accepted from the past. 

Consider these recent truths

A year ago today, FB dumped their God Emperor Trump account, claiming the 5 yo account had been merely created to overcome FB censorship. The obvious reality being that the partisan outfit of FB was (illegally?) campaigning for Democrats. FB protects pedophiles and terrorists, but attacks conservatives? Did Zuckerberg learn from what happened to Epstein? It is dangerous to have a posture when the wind changes. 

The incompetence of Joe Biden mirrors the past. Gough Whitlam

I dispute that Gough was the worst ever Australian PM at the time of his death. His abysmal foreign policy is still felt around the world, his debt crisis is still unbalancing the Australian economy and his bad 'reform' of ALP has kept it in the nineteenth century and prevented good people from achieving anything, but Rudd, then Gillard were worse. It is worth listing Gough's achievements. Gough distrusted the US who were allies, and embraced Communist China before Nixon went to negotiate freedoms. He ended conscription and pulled Australia out of Vietnam sooner than high command had planned. That meant when US pulled out in '75 that lots of weapons were left behind that were dangerous for the communist world to have. The threat that Communist Vietnam would sell those weapons to Timor's communist rebels meant Gough gave the nod to Indonesia to invade to prevent those communist Timor rebels from buying and using those weapons. The Timor invasion by Indonesia resulted in the apparently planned deaths of Australian journalists at Balibo by Indonesian special forces, some of whom vie for Indonesian politics today. Gough distrusted Southern Vietnamese who had been supported by the US and spurned their pleas for help. Because of his disastrous spending, Gough needed lots of money and sought to embroil Australia with Iraq. Gough had become leader of a disunited infighting ALP and he took steps to reform it by aligning it more closely with unions and producing the model that cannot be reformed now without disentangling from corrupt union leadership. In Australia, Gough spent unsustainably, and made reckless promises. He promised free education and made it harder for better students to study at university, ultimately making it more expensive for everyone. He promised fair access to health care but delivered a faulty product that needed to be reformed. He politicised the High Court and Governor General's position and created the family court which even today is highly criticised for poor decision making. Gough cared little for those he was responsible for and complained when his holidays were interrupted for disasters, like Cyclone Tracy and the Melbourne floods. Gough was the champion of empty symbolism and claimed to do things he hadn't done, like ending the White Australia Policy. He divided Australia on racial lines by creating a body which has failed to address needs of Aboriginals adequately. Gough felt betrayed by the governor general he appointed and he ruined the man who served faithfully, John Kerr. Gough was patron to notable ALP failures in Keating, Gillard and Clare. He was a charming man who could joke about his megalomania in a pasta advert. On the plus side, he got rid of McMahon as Liberal chief. But he ruined that with Fraser. 

We are not lost, despite what we are told by elite. Consider Margaret Thatcher 

It was the radical Socialist writer and patriot, the late George Orwell, who described the left-wing intellectuals as men motivated primarily by hatred of their own country.

Socialists who spoke most about brotherhood of man [sic] could not bear their fellow-Englishmen, he complained. Their well-orchestrated sneers from their strong point in the educational system and media have weakened the nat
ional will to transmit to future generations those values, standards and aspirations which made England admired the world over.
It is just because their message is that self-discipline is out of date and that the poor cannot be expected to help themselves, that they want the state to do more. That is why they believe in state ownership and control of economic life, education, health.

Their wish to end parental choice in where and how their children shall be educated, in spending their money on better education and health for their children instead of on a new car, leisure, pleasure, is all part of the attempt to diminish self and self-discipline and real freedoms in favour of the state, ruled by socialists, the new class, as one disillusioned communist leader called them.


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1974 Oct 18 Fr, Joseph (Sir Keith).
Speech at Edgbaston (“our human stock is threatened”).

via The Grocer's Daughter

We are not lost, despite what we are told by elite. Consider Trafalgar

To set the scene in 1805, England's greatest sailor was facing near certain death and humiliation off the Spanish coast on the morning. He had a desperate plan that had never worked successfully before. He was faced with a larger force of a combined fleet of Spanish and French fleet, under the command of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve for France and Federico Gravina for Spain. Nelson had 27 ships of the line to 33. Classically, the ships would form in two lines and shoot at each other with broadsides until the fleet with less guns and ships was annihilated or surrendered. But Napoleon had had plans to march his grand army into Britain and if Napoleon's fleet was free, her massive army would easily take London. So Nelson was faced with a battle he couldn't surrender or lose, but couldn't win through conventional means. So Nelson's plan addressed it by promoting the superiority of British ships on one to one combat. Britain had had better ships thanks to her guns having triggers instead of lit wicks for firing, better trained men and copper lined bottoms to her ships. Nelson's desperate plan was to sail his ships directly towards the enemy line in two lines at a right angle. He knew the front two British ships would have to weather about thirty minutes of direct fire from the enemy line, but when the closed, he would be able to fight ship to ship with the centre and vanguard of enemy ships, while the enemy ships in the top of the line would have to turn around and re engage. Nelson had two lines because when the tactic had been applied in the past, the concentrated fire on one ship had sunk it and every subsequent one. Two lines, he calculated, would diminish the damage taken to either. Nelson led one line, Cuthbert Collingwood another. Nelson wanted to tell his men he was confiding in them, and he knew they would do their best. But the flag signal man told him he could transmit the message more easily if he substituted a few words. The message, approved by Nelson, is recorded in history and stirring. Instead of Admiral Nelson, the word used was England. Instead of confides, the word used was expects. The message had become "England expects every man will do their duty."

In battle, the forecastle of Victory (Nelson's ship) had lines of marines. Some six were picked off before he gave instructions that they could break ranks and seek cover. Nelson's secretary was adjacent to him when a cannonball knocked his head in, splashing his brains onto Nelson, who remarked he didn't like the taste and regretted that the secretary would not experience victory. Nelson stood with full assignations on his uniform, including a stunning diamond. Smoke obscured the scene as Victory closed with Redoubtable and a sniper shot from Redoubtable's Mast Nest mortally wounded Nelson. Captain Hardy was on hand, and carried Nelson below deck to see the surgeon. Hardy could have been charged with negligence for deserting his post later. Nelson took some five hours to die. Near death, Hardy returned to report success. Nelson thanked God he had done his duty. Britain had not lost a ship, but captured 21 ships and destroyed another. Napoleon would march his Grand Armee on Moscow later. As a result, England would rule the waves around the world until WW2.

We are being lied to. But not by everyone. Our nations and their justice machinery are not broken, but damaged. Things are bad, but they are supposed to be bad, rather than merely breaking. We can't give up. We must reject the liars, and remove them from public office, and prosecute them lawfully. Things can get better, but we must persevere or risk losing hope. We must not fight the Devil by playing the Devil's game. Rather we must resist the Devil by being free. There is no law against doing what is right. Their utter depravity kills us. They target us and they seek to restrain us. But while the greatest among us a hundred years ago has died, their legacy has not. That which we are, we are. Lockdowns were ineffective in dealing with COVID. Effective medication has been denied whole populations. Herd immunity will prevail. Fraud deleteriously affected recent elections around the world. But, Democracy will prevail. Our oppressors will pass. For us to win, we must assert our freedoms. For us to lose, we must willingly surrender our freedoms forever. Our children will have to pay back our debt. We must sacrifice now so that they can. That means telling truth to power. That means pointing up when when some get confused and lose their way. Stand by the one who sacrificed their pension and freedoms to speak out. Prosecute the ones forgiven by a debauched and self interested administration. Vote for those who help you exercise your freedom. Don't wait for free speech. Exercise free speech. 

https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1206335/live-cast-10-am-24th-oct-melbourne

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Intro to Locals.com

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 

=== From 2020 ===


Sliding Door choice

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Victoria under Dan Andrews
https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1237365/on-this-day-30th-oct-2020

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Ep. 1381 Another Bombshell in the Biden Crime Family Case - The Dan Bongino Show

https://rumble.com/vavpbn-ep.-1381-another-bombshell-in-the-biden-crime-family-case-the-dan-bongino-s.html

In this episode, I discuss the disturbing revelation on the Tucker Carlson show that damning documentary evidence against the Biden family has strangely “disappeared.” I also address the abysmal performance by the tech tyrants on Capitol Hill.

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https://parler.com/post/94bf4c560b8643208c6c0e1942e910a8

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https://parler.com/post/c85c7fcaa15047d48790b0f9e8fe373f

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https://www.patriotproject.com/obamas-stump-speech-biden-sounded-desperate-irrelevant/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=randydesoto&utm_campaign=manualpost

Barack Obama dragged out his greatest hits Tuesday in a stump speech for his former vice president, Joe Biden, in Orlando, Florida, but his platitudes about prosperity and good governance rang hollow, given the Obama-Biden record.

One odd and recurring phrase in his approximately 40-minute remarks was “Joe and Kamala,” seemingly an admission that the soon-to-be-78-year-old Biden will not be the driving force in a Biden-Harris administration.

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https://parler.com/post/33ff943f9d9b4050b7f021b9577798be

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https://parler.com/post/2861884962274805b34eb98ad20fec18

Via Glenn Greenwald's substack,

I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden - the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets. I will also, in a separate post, publish all communications I had with Intercept editors surrounding this article so you can see the censorship in action and, given the Intercept’s denials, decide for yourselves (this is the kind of transparency responsible journalists provide, and which the Intercept refuses to this day to provide regarding their conduct in the Reality Winner story). This draft obviously would have gone through one more round of proof-reading and editing by me - to shorten it, fix typos, etc - but it’s important for the integrity of the claims to publish the draft in unchanged form that Intercept editors last saw, and announced that they would not “edit” but completely gut as a condition to publication:

An attempt to assess the importance of the known evidence, and a critique of media lies to protect their favored candidate, could not be published at The Intercept

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/heres-censored-biden-story-forced-glenn-greenwald-quit-firm-he-founded?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

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https://parler.com/post/ed5fdd0c8a964d078c399ecaa0ce86f7

Would President Biden pardon Weinstein?

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Gary Ablett turned on the TV one night and his life changed forever

Gary Ablett cried himself to sleep one night before waking at 1am with a sudden urge to switch on the television.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/gary-ablett-turned-on-the-tv-one-night-and-his-life-changed-forever/news-story/86a09402687a80020bbed6a62c2dc8c8

Headline obscures Ablett's witness statement as a Christian

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Nice terror attack: What we know about 21-year-old killer Brahim Aouissaoui

A full picture of the sick 21-year-old attacker who beheaded a woman and killed two others in Nice, France, is starting to emerge.
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/nice-terror-attack-what-we-know-about-21yearold-killer-brahim-aouissaoui/news-story/1bfaa4473d71f9a8a6257c7330e1096d

A 21-year-old man who recently arrived in Europe from Tunisia is behind the sickening terror attack at a church in the French Riviera city of Nice.

Brahim Aouissaoui has been identified as the man who beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a bloody rampage at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in the centre of the popular coastal tourist city at 9am local time on Thursday.

He entered the church with a large knife and reportedly decapitated a 60-year-old woman whose dying words were, “Tell my children that I love them”.

He stabbed to death the church’s 55-year-old sacristan — who is charge of taking care of the church — and left a third victim, a 44-year-old woman — so badly injured that she died from her wounds at a nearby restaurant having fled the gruesome scene.

More than 12 hours after his deadly attack, as night falls in Nice, details are emerging about the knifeman.

relative of victim


https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/nice-suspected-mass-stabber-kept-shouting-allahu-akbar-after-arrested-in-france/news-story/3640cb6f1a6d98047190a8656061ca94

A member of the Senate of France has publicly stated that the final words of one victim of Nice’s suspected terror attack before succumbing to her stabbing injuries were to tell her children she loved them.

“’Tell my children that I love them,’ The last words of the lady slaughtered this morning in #Nice, just before passing away. Immense emotion in front of this abominable attack. Support for the families of the victims and all the inhabitants of Nice, a martyred city,” Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam tweeted.

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Coronavirus Australia live: Daniel Andrews social media post sparks backlash

A Twitter post made by Daniel Andrews announcing school graduations can recommence has resulted in unexpected backlash from furious Victorians.

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/coronavirus-australia-live-victoria-qld-nsw-covid19-updates/live-coverage/f9515fb2a47b7bf68aac80ab719a0ac2#

A Twitter post made by Daniel Andrews on Thursday afternoon announcing school graduations can recommence has resulted in unexpected backlash from furious Victorians.  

To announce the change, the Victorian premier posted a photo of his younger self having his bowtie fixed by his mum.

“Pleased to announce Year 6 and 12 graduations can go ahead,” he wrote. “Bowties optional.”

But the short post didn’t get the response he was hoping for, with hundreds of commenters blasting Mr Andrews for his handling of the pandemic.

“There’s 800 Victorians that won’t hear this news, but no doubt you have forgotten about them already,” one person wrote, referencing the people who had died during the state’s second COVID-19 wave.

“Bit late Dan Most schools have either graduated online or have made booking for an online graduation. Another half ass attempt to win over the state,” another person wrote.

“You could’ve announced this earlier in the week. Instead leaving it to a half ass post instead. Means nothing. Thanks for nothing.”

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US election campaign live: Record GDP growth number boosts Donald Trump in closing days

President Trump went to town on one of his administration's former officials today, as he and First Lady Melania Trump made a joint appearance.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/us-election-campaign-live-record-gdp-growth-number-boosts-donald-trump-in-closing-days/live-coverage/9838434d9460719a5b174bf9e4a59063

President Donald Trump has received a late boost in the form of some record economic numbers.

According to the Commerce Department, America’s gross domestic product grew by 7.4 per cent in the third quarter, by the far the biggest number since reliable records started to be taken in the aftermath of World War II.

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Teen mum was pregnant at 12 and gave birth by 13

https://www.kidspot.com.au/birth/pregnancy/real-life/teen-mum-was-pregnant-at-12-and-gave-birth-by-13/news-story/5ab873dba3fbd9b150f7f1b33fa8e935

This might never have happened if Biden had been made President of Russia as Obama promised? 

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NSW-Victoria border won’t open before Christmas, Berejiklian says

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has hit out at comments made by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian amid the ongoing border lifting discussion.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/nswvictoria-border-wont-open-before-christmas-berejiklian-says/news-story/99bc8bb33f27b9ef7d7cd7c1a9638ca0

While the Prime Minister has pledged a reopening of Australian borders – bar Western Australia – by Christmas, NSW could keep its border closed until after December 25.

Back on July 7, Premier Gladys Berejiklian made the decision to close off NSW as cases began to escalate across Victoria, and it has remained closed ever since.

But now that lockdown measures have eased across the Melbourne and the rest of the Garden State, all eyes are on when Ms Berejiklian will reopen her state’s border with Victoria.

On Wednesday, 9News reported that NSW authorities were nervous about the prospect of a third wave in Melbourne, and would be waiting to make a decision on the border until after all systems in Victoria were properly tested.

According to the report, the “tests” would include getting a QR code in place at pubs and restaurants, seeing a reopening at Melbourne’s international airport, and introducing a functioning hotel quarantine system.

Dan Andrews COVID management keeps failing

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https://parler.com/post/9d8d3d91e0f347f1b0dfb63231aa9c8c

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. disloyal party members are ruining it for everyone in the Liberal Party. They support awful Turnbull corruptions of policy, rather than sensible conservative policy. And it detracts from good government. ALP government is worse, as QLD shows. QLD is going to elections soon. But Malcolm Turnbull has to leave Australia to give the local Liberals a boost in Queensland. I had thought that the voters had threaded the needle when they killed the Liberal majority without electing ALP. But it looks like disloyal Liberal members will support Turnbull to oblivion. 

Bad ALP administration causes problems. Tonight at Springvale Railway, waiting to catch a train to Dandenong, a loudspeaker message said that all trains between Dandenong and Oakley were cancelled and patrons would have to catch buses. Before I got to the stairs, the train pulled in and I caught it. 

Waiting for the bus at Dandenong. Police were talking to a Sudanese guy who sounded loud and belligerent. He was apparently tossed off a bus which he reckoned was unfair. He accused the police of taking sides after they asked if he knew the guy who pushed him. He named the bus route. They asked if he was drunk, and he got more outraged, saying he was a student wanting to go home. He said he came from Zimbabwe and he liked Mugabe. And the police should go to Africa where Mugabe would talk with them. He kept mouthing off as he caught the same bus I caught.

I was told, in response to yesterday's posting on a faux wikipedia article alleging a massacre the press never heard of that Winston Churchill had given 78% of Palestine Mandate to the Saudis. I can't find details of that. Churchill lost the election after WW2 and so British Labor handled partition in 1948, causing bloodshed still seen today. More detail regarding Churchill and Jews can be found at this site. Jews don't want Jordan. They want Israel, including Jerusalem. 

Only one pitcher did not give up a home run in Game 5 of MLB World Series between LAD and winning Astros. President George W Bush. It was a magnificent, see sawing game. It finished 13 to 12 in the tenth innings. 
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IPA Review features “Soviet Cybernetics” A Daniel Wild review of “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” by Benjamin Peters. The former Soviet Union attempted to install a computer network to overcome her planning problems. The network was of the type that Turnbull might have headed, without effecting change. It wasn’t technically feasible back in the day, but became so towards the end. But the network couldn’t be implemented from above in the effective way the West has implemented one through free commerce. When the West has diverged from the classic model, it has failed, like with NBN today, where a housing estate in central Melbourne’s Dandenong requires satellite to access the internet, or a special deal with Telstra for copper wire. The housing estate is about ten years old, and so will be the last place wired up.

The Soviets had planning tsars who felt threatened by a communications device which might supplant their expertise, and they opposed the monolith. Australia has much to learn from that as they build a monolith through central government. Commercial carriers can do it better in urban landscapes. But the outback needs the infrastructure and Government should provide it there.

One person who knows how to profit from central planning is Hillary Clinton. The Chicago Tribune is withdrawing support from her, and suggesting that Democrats replace Hillary. But corrupt news, like the Tribune, knew everything now known about Hillary as they supported her a day ago. Maybe they are only backing a tribe, but not a policy? And Maybe they want to find another crook.


Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg is frightening media. They have supported and protected insider corruption for a long time. Trump will clean up the festering wound, and make America great again. 
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"For things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
A media journalist in the US, speaking discourteously to a GOP Presidential contender, denounces the contender for calling Hillary Clinton a liar. The contender points out he did not say that. He said she had lied and he described how. The disbelieving journalist disbelieved the public record and said it was a terrible accusation to make that Clinton had lied to help Obama at election. Quite so. 

The media narrative does not explain why it is bad to drown people who want to migrate to Australia, or Europe. It does not explain why it is wrong to deny refugees places when desperate people can choose to be exploited by pirates. It does not explain why it was wrong for Clinton to blame a film maker for a jihadist attack when she had known Al Qaeda had assaulted a diplomatic mission and she had denied them help. Instead, media excuse such atrocities. They claim it is compassionate to siren call the drownings. They claim it is the law that allows pirates to exploit the desperate. They claim the CIA made Clinton dither and lie. Things don't have to change much to be totally different. 

Will the new PM, Turnbull stand for what is right, as Mr Abbott habitually did?  
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
"For things to stay as they are, things will have to change." 
The magnificent former athlete, now senator Nova Perris has disturbingly done as Gillard and Thomson have done before her and addressed parliament about a tawdry affair. She has not said that the leaked emails which allege corruption are fabrications. She says she has not seen them. But she says they are not consistent with her views then and now, which suggests she has taken a very nuanced legal view. Unlike Thomson and Gillard she suggests a motive for the alleged fabrication and provides a believable account as to what has happened. Any person capable of fabricating emails with that detail must be disturbingly close to her, personally. It is telling that those supporting her have not given similar support to Sydney University poet Barry Spurr, but from the viewpoint of the NT News, their source must have presented them with sufficient verifiable facts to let them proceed over Nova, while Matilda have clearly failed to obtain sufficient facts to impugn Spurr. 


Raising Jihadis in Lakemba as a channel 7 recording shows four children aged from six to thirteen parading as soldiers of the caliphate. The children promise to die fighting to end democracy in Australia. The event was organised by the Muslim Youth Project in Lakemba and suggests that that organisation and those involved should answer questions as to why they should be allowed to exist as a corporation, or be free. Senator Leyenjohn on 7:30 report says that the new anti terrorism laws will mean that people can be charged and arrested who might not under current legislation. Which sounds like the point. 

An inquiry into a partisan weather bureau account has been called for by a National Party MP. One interesting study would be reporting of forecasts and record of actual temperatures, which rarely is other than cooler than those forecast. A hundred years ago and more, higher temperatures were being recorded. Yet the weather bureau claims that 2013 was the hottest on record without being able to substantiate it. Locally, it wasn't. 

A danger Victoria could vote ALP with polls showing ALP will win. It is undeserved, without them ever addressing their apparent corruption or presenting a coherent set of policies. The danger is they could be elected with no agenda other than to be corrupt. Even today, they cost Victorians a lot of money from a desalination plant that was never needed. 

Aid worker arrogantly demands to be treated different to public safety needs over Ebola. Many thanks to the aid worker sacrificing their time and money to make a difference in Africa, but they have been quarantined for a reason and should respect that. 

"For things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who in The Leopard had Count Tancredi say that .. and Malcolm Turnbull brilliantly quotes it in parliament today. 

MLB World Series update
Scoring 3 to 2, Giants take the series after San Francisco did what it does best by going against trend. Bumgarner became player of the series by keeping Kansas City Royals shut down on a one run deficit, after winning two other games. It is the third time Giants have won in five years. 
From 2013
Professional activists, calling themselves students, menace conservative politicians to get your money. They throw shoes, eggs, rotten food stuffs, and are abusive in language as well. Naturally, media don't show the organiser's face book exhortations .. and FB doesn't have a problem maintaining it on site. Thing is, left don't argue, they abuse (yes, I'm aware it is a generalisation and there are some of the left who argue without resorting to abuse .. or going into fantasy land). The reason for that is that is what has been modelled. It is what works. Politicians and media elite have been doing that for a long time. There is an account of Horatio Nelson's experience in UK politics where he was a natural conservative but joined the Whigs because he wanted to be heard .. that is in 1800. There is a conservative press, but it is very weak in Australia and tends to suffer from 'balance' in the US where some ideas are accepted without question. Don't believe me? Ask yourself what you feel about historical left wing folly. If it is wrong to bomb civilians, what about the firebombing of German citizens in cities during WW2? What terrible things would the women and children have done to the war effort? Or the twice nuking of Japanese cities .. why not military targets? Why was Idi Amin, Pol Pot or any of many murderous tyrants not incarcerated for their crimes? Why is Al Gore free and lauded for his lies which cost the world $trillions .. how would media characterise a conservative who took $trillions from the world's poorest peoples? How about the prosecution of the Korean War? Vietnam? Historical events won't be changed, but crimes should be condemned. There is little point in overthrowing China or Vietnam by force now. But we can't accept piracy from them either. 

Sometimes it seems the only thing a lefty will willingly bury is decency. Known unto God. Al Jazeera provides details about boat people meant to condemn Liberal policy .. but it backfires. If car manufacturers can't profitably manufacture cars in Australia they shouldn't be here. Same sex marriage can work if the policy doesn't infringe on churches .. they probably should not be state regulated anyway. But gay activists don't seem to care about the issue, so much as pushing an envelope. ALP are still struggling to work out why they lost .. some saying they could have won. Here is a hint, ALP are wrong about conservative policy .. and ALP corruption is disheartening for their supporters. Two wonderful articles follow, one on how the US stimulus failed and the other shows Clive Palmer is a fool. 
Historical perspective on this day
637 – Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.

1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts: A banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.

1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
1817 – The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George IKing of the Hellenes.
1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to SchleswigHolstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandora industrially.

1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. This was October 17 in the Julian calendar.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.

1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – One thousand and five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
1944 – Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color line.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.

1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton causes a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidressto Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.
1965 – Vietnam WarUnited States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces and killing 56 guerrillas near Da Nang.

1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes severe floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in KinshasaZaire.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
1993 – The TroublesLoyalists carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in GreysteelNorthern Ireland, killing eight civilians, six Catholics and two Protestants.
1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
2015 – 64 people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.

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