My names 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 historical truths
Who opposed slavery in Biblical times? Who opposed slavery in Great Britain? Who opposed Slavery in USA? Who gave votes to women in NZ? Who gave votes to women in Great Britain? Who gave votes to women in USA? Who brought in civil rights in England? Who brought in civil rights in USA? Who brought in civil rights in Australia?
If your answer to these truths is conservatives over liberals, you miss the point. Conservatism and Leftism are modern concepts. The ancient dialog of Plato was not between conservatism and leftism. However the dialog has morphed and flipped over time, coming to be that today. And the so called centre point is the cutting edge. Whomever owns the centre point has an advantage. It is rhetoric today that attributes that to leftism. But, leftists oppose progress and embrace reflexive activism.
Conservatism versus leftism evolved from the English civil wars between puritans like Cromwell and royalists. Tories and Whigs each supported the crown. Over time, however, Tories would broadly support the Crown, while Whigs became more enamoured with so called progressive ideas. The French Revolution would formalise the concept of leftism and rightism. The revolutionary council of France had had conservatives on the right, and radicals on the left.
In the last two hundred years, we have had progressives embracing slavery and killing conservatives who opposed it. Progressives opposed votes for women as they did votes for blacks. Progressive parties would exploit minorities as they claimed to serve them. Black support for Democrats today dates back to FDR promising them more than he delivered with his 'new deal.' Who thinks now that fatherless unemployed families leads to prosperity? My father, coming to NYC in 1963 would catch taxi cabs often driven by Jewish dads who proudly displayed images of their children studying to be in University, often becoming doctors or lawyers. Meeting a black beggar, he might ask why they don't drive a taxi. "Taxis don't pay enough. We want real jobs." "But if you work in a taxi, your children could go to university and get those jobs." "If they want to drive taxis, they can."
So think on these historical truths, who bungled WW2 and firebombed Berlin and nuked cities twice? Who left us an unending war in a divided Korea? Who bombed Yugoslavia rather than sending in troops? Who arrested Noriega the drug dealer? Who overthrows dictators to let the people run their own government? Who gives arms to terrorists? Who endorsed Ho Chi Minh or Pol Pot? Not every GOP is worthy of respect, many are RINO. But whom among Dems has not supported terrorism? Which Dem has not supported crippling corruption which steals $trillions from the world economy? Which Dem has not called baby killing a virtue?
Whenever GOP do well, press claim that everyone is corrupt. When GOP stumble, press claim that Dem are strong. We need a free voice to discover nuance. Welcome to Voice DDB.
Today is the anniversary of an unfair fight which changed the world forever. The Battle of Karbala in 680 AD pitted a caravan of 110 being slaughtered by some thirty thousand. The thirty thousand were following the established but illegitimate rule of Yazidi. Husayn ibn Ali was a descendent of Mohammed and a son of Fatimah, Mohammed's daughter who was the only one to survive to adulthood. Yazidi was the son of a usurper whom had promised to not promote his son. But the guy with all the men won. Husayn had had a six month old son who was also beheaded following the battle. It is said by some that an angel intervened and replaced Husayn with another. The result of the battle is the schism between Sunni and Shia.
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My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately.
I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.
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From the Bible, 1 Thessalonians 3
So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them. In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.
Timothy’s Encouraging Report
But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
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In this episode I address the role of George Soros in the continued attacks on Donald Trump. I also address the growing Zuckerberg/Facebook election interference scandal.
Dan Bongino Cancels Sponsor Who Fell for Antifa Disinfo Hoax and Cancelled Conservatives
Biden Hasn’t Held a Press Conference in Three Months
Biden Admin Blocks Bipartisan Delegation of House Lawmakers From Accessing Afghan Evacuee Holding Site
Obama-Appointed Judge Sentences Non-Violent Jan 6 Defendants To More Prison Time Than Asked
Marine Who Criticized Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Sentenced to Reprimand, Forfeiture of $5k in Pay
Judge Rules in Favor of United Airlines Employees Claiming “Discrimination” Over Vax Mandate Exemption Denials
Capitol Hill
Biden Doubles Down on Vaccine Mandates – Leaves Without Taking Questions (Again)
Biden’s Pick for Top Banking Regular Refuses to Hand Over Thesis on Marxism
GOP Megadonor Backs Retired NFL Player Jake Bequette With $1 Million for Arkansas Senate Campaign
SCOTUS Expansion Commission Warns Against Increasing Number of Judges
Bill Clinton Recovering After Being Hospitalized With Non-COVID Infection
Majority Say U.S. on Wrong Track, Disapprove of Biden
Sen. Sinema Heads to Europe Amid Public Harassment
White House to Dems: Time for Talk on Infrastructure Is Almost Over
Biden Struggles to Remember Name of His “Special Envoy for Ports”
Culture War
Media Rips NC Lt. Gov. Robinson for Calling Explicit LGBTQ Books “Filth” While Blurring Offending Images
Nick Cruz to Plead Guilty to 17 Murder Charges From Parkland School Shooting
U.S. Officially Rejoins UN Human Rights Council 3 Years After Trump Pullout
Poll: Independent Voters Want Durham to Probe Biden Aide
California Teachers Plan Walkout Over Gov. Newsom’s Vax Mandate
New CDC Data: Lockdowns Coincided With Record-Breaking Drug Overdose Fatalities
ABC, CBS, and NBC Spent Only 18 Minutes Covering Hunter Biden’s Scandals Over the Past Year
Loudoun County School Board Meeting Erupts After Sex Assault Coverup Bombshell
Economy
Labor Shortage Causes Domino’s Pizza Sales to Decline After 41 Straight Quarters of Growth
China Says Evergrande Risk Is “Controllable”
Americans Post Photos of Empty Shelves as Supply Chain Issues Persist
Biden Signs $480 Billion Hike in Debt Ceiling, Setting Stage for December Standoff
Colorado Sued Over Racial Preferences in COVID Relief Grants
Bitcoin ETFs May Finally Debut Next Week
Coinbase Calls for Creation of a Cryptocurrency Regulator
Larry Summers: Woke Fed Risks Losing Control of Inflation
The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The “Crusade” Against Climate Change
Swamp Watch
DHS Rules: COVID Vax Required to Enter U.S. But Not to Remain Illegally
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Has Been on Paid Leave Amid Supply Chain Crisis
Youngkin Edges Ahead of McAuliffe in Virginia Governors Race
Teen Killer of Tessa Majors Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
Latest COVID Data Shows the Left Got it Wrong on Florida
Report: Michigan Gov. Whitmer Knew About City’s Lead Crisis for Years, Did Nothing
John Kerry and Wife Own $1 Million Stake in Chinese Investment Group Involved in Human Rights Abuses
Republican Flips Iowa House Seat Dems Held for 46 Years
National Security
Pentagon Takes on Texas Over Vax Mandate Ban
Why Americans Are Getting Concealed Carry Permits in Record Numbers
China’s Military Seeks to Dominate the World From Space
The Development of China’s Smart Cities
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The Risk of Inadvertent Escalation to Nuclear War in a Digital Age
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They’re Putting Guns on Robot Dogs Now
Around the World
U.K. Conservative MP David Amess Stabbed to Death in Church
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U.S. Eyes With Concern Possible Chinese Military Construction at Cambodian Naval Base
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Prince William Pushes Entrepreneurs to Focus On Saving the Earth Rather Than Space Travel
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Opinion
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Derek Hunter: Go Away Already
R. Emmett Tyrrell: Terry McAuliffe Lies
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Tim Chapman: Democrats Show Their Bias Against Stay-at-Home Parents
Entertainment
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Joe Rogan Confronts CNN’s Dr. Gupta Over The Network Lying About His Use Of Ivermectin
Former “Cosby Show” Actress Sues Bill Cosby For Sexual Assault
Jason Aldean’s Tour Bus Crashes In West Virginia Ahead Of Show, No Injuries Reported
Cher Sues Sonny Bono’s Widow For Withholding Royalties
William Shatner To Prince William Over Criticism Of Space Trip: “He’s Got The Wrong Idea”
Jon Stewart Believes Cancel Culture Does Not Exist
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Derek Carr Says NFL Should Expose Everyone’s Private Emails Just Like Jon Gruden’s
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Yankees Let Go Of Marcus Thames & Phil Nevin In Major Staff Shakeup
NFL Star, 24, Killed While Protecting His Family From Burglary Will Have Jersey Number Retired By Washington Football Team
Cardinals Make Stunning Move, Fire Manager Due To “Philosophical Difference”
John Hunter Memechek Returning To Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2022
MLB Legend Pete Rose Torches Yankees, Joey Gallo: “Ray Charles Wouldn’t Strike Out That Much”
Police unions and officers are pushing back by filing lawsuits to block the mandates. In Chicago, the head of the police union called on members to defy the city’s Friday deadline for reporting their COVID-19 vaccination status. [Full Story]
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As Spurr pointed out recently at the Sydney Institute (Oct 6th), with an introduction by Miranda Devine, the issue of the denunciations of him based on the criminal publishing of personal emails, and their misrepresentation by the extreme left wing publisher, are not a new phenomena. One example Spurr gave was T S Eliot's denunciation as being an anti semitic bigot based on a few words in the 1920's. But Eliot's life and work doesn't suggest that. Others who were better candidates for the slur escape the label apparently because they were of the left wing tribe. It is not the fierce contest of ideas that is being debated at the moment, but tribal warfare. Only conservatives are still trying to fight with ideas. Because that battle is the only place where the war can be 'won.' The great debate, or Western Dialectic is some 2500 years old, and not going away soon. But we are being side tracked by a corruption of leftist idealism which seems successful, but leaves a wasteland in its' wake.
Australia does not have free speech, or a justice system, equal rights or much else because those are illusory ideals. Laws don't create them, but can impede them. One major impediment to free speech is the racial vilification code, section 18c. It is a badly written piece of legislation that undermines free speech. Rachel Ball, VP of Human Rights Law Commission asked who was more free: Andrew Bolt after his trial over 18c; or children in detention? Rachel clearly feels that any injustice Bolt feels is vastly outweighed by detainees. But Rachel's argument was misplaced. In fact, the trial of Bolt was an injustice. And the truth is, the elimination of 18c won't restore free speech. The appalling treatment of Spurr was not an 18c issue. But the appalling, cowardly, reaction of Sydney University administration was a symptom of how 18c has eroded the cultural asset of free speech imbued by Australia's majestic progress. Spurr has retired from being Australia's only professor of poetry. But we are blessed he isn't finished.
I suggest Red Gum ward vote for David Daniel Ball. And, after asking your local councillor about their views on Trump, Same Sex Marriage and Greyhounds, try and find out what it is they will do to make garbage collection cheaper and more efficient. Ask how they will make business more profitable. Ask what they will do to help address crime. Ask what they will do to improve public transport issues locally.456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
955 – Battle on the Raxa: King Otto I defeats the Obotrite federation led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew near Mecklenburg.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1836 – Battle of Vegkop between Afrikaner voortrekkers and Matabele warriors in South Africa.
1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1847 – The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1940 – The Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
1946 – Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1947 – Republic of the Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1949 – Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narniaseries.
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1991 – Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1993 – Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C.
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2013 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
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Obama-Appointed Judge Sentences Non-Violent Jan 6 Defendants To More Prison Time Than Asked
Marine Who Criticized Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Sentenced to Reprimand, Forfeiture of $5k in Pay
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Capitol Hill
Biden Doubles Down on Vaccine Mandates – Leaves Without Taking Questions (Again)
Biden’s Pick for Top Banking Regular Refuses to Hand Over Thesis on Marxism
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SCOTUS Expansion Commission Warns Against Increasing Number of Judges
Bill Clinton Recovering After Being Hospitalized With Non-COVID Infection
Majority Say U.S. on Wrong Track, Disapprove of Biden
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Culture War
Media Rips NC Lt. Gov. Robinson for Calling Explicit LGBTQ Books “Filth” While Blurring Offending Images
Nick Cruz to Plead Guilty to 17 Murder Charges From Parkland School Shooting
U.S. Officially Rejoins UN Human Rights Council 3 Years After Trump Pullout
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California Teachers Plan Walkout Over Gov. Newsom’s Vax Mandate
New CDC Data: Lockdowns Coincided With Record-Breaking Drug Overdose Fatalities
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Loudoun County School Board Meeting Erupts After Sex Assault Coverup Bombshell
Economy
Labor Shortage Causes Domino’s Pizza Sales to Decline After 41 Straight Quarters of Growth
China Says Evergrande Risk Is “Controllable”
Americans Post Photos of Empty Shelves as Supply Chain Issues Persist
Biden Signs $480 Billion Hike in Debt Ceiling, Setting Stage for December Standoff
Colorado Sued Over Racial Preferences in COVID Relief Grants
Bitcoin ETFs May Finally Debut Next Week
Coinbase Calls for Creation of a Cryptocurrency Regulator
Larry Summers: Woke Fed Risks Losing Control of Inflation
The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The “Crusade” Against Climate Change
Swamp Watch
DHS Rules: COVID Vax Required to Enter U.S. But Not to Remain Illegally
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Has Been on Paid Leave Amid Supply Chain Crisis
Youngkin Edges Ahead of McAuliffe in Virginia Governors Race
Teen Killer of Tessa Majors Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
Latest COVID Data Shows the Left Got it Wrong on Florida
Report: Michigan Gov. Whitmer Knew About City’s Lead Crisis for Years, Did Nothing
John Kerry and Wife Own $1 Million Stake in Chinese Investment Group Involved in Human Rights Abuses
Republican Flips Iowa House Seat Dems Held for 46 Years
National Security
Pentagon Takes on Texas Over Vax Mandate Ban
Why Americans Are Getting Concealed Carry Permits in Record Numbers
China’s Military Seeks to Dominate the World From Space
The Development of China’s Smart Cities
What Should a $100 Billion Japanese Military Look Like?
The Risk of Inadvertent Escalation to Nuclear War in a Digital Age
Is China Building Its Own Armed Drone Warship?
Chicago Police Union Leader Urges Members To “Hold the Line” And Defy Mayor’s Vaccine Mandate
They’re Putting Guns on Robot Dogs Now
Around the World
U.K. Conservative MP David Amess Stabbed to Death in Church
France’s Le Pen Says If Elected She Will Take Down Wind Turbines
Taliban Says China Prepared to Invest Billions in Afghanistan
Bow and Arrow Attack in Norway Appears to Be an “Act of Terror”: Police
U.S. Eyes With Concern Possible Chinese Military Construction at Cambodian Naval Base
Poland Passes Legislation to Allow Pushback of Migrants at Border
Prince William Pushes Entrepreneurs to Focus On Saving the Earth Rather Than Space Travel
White House Calls U.S. Commitment to Taiwan “Rock Solid”
Opinion
Chris Barron: MIA: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
Gavin Wax: Defund the FBI, Re-Fund the State and Local Police
Newt Gingrich: How to Be Prepared for the Next Pandemic
Kurt Schlichter: Be Glad About Pompeo’s Doomed Primary Challenge To Trump
Derek Hunter: Go Away Already
R. Emmett Tyrrell: Terry McAuliffe Lies
Jane Timken: Joe Biden’s Policies Target and Harm Women
Patrick Buchanan: Are the Good Times Over for Joe?
Tim Chapman: Democrats Show Their Bias Against Stay-at-Home Parents
Entertainment
Unfunny Comedian Hannah Gadsby Tries to Gain Relevance by Bashing Dave Chappelle
Joe Rogan Confronts CNN’s Dr. Gupta Over The Network Lying About His Use Of Ivermectin
Former “Cosby Show” Actress Sues Bill Cosby For Sexual Assault
Jason Aldean’s Tour Bus Crashes In West Virginia Ahead Of Show, No Injuries Reported
Cher Sues Sonny Bono’s Widow For Withholding Royalties
William Shatner To Prince William Over Criticism Of Space Trip: “He’s Got The Wrong Idea”
Jon Stewart Believes Cancel Culture Does Not Exist
Star Trek Star George Takei Slams William Shatner As “Unfit” And A “Guinea Pig” Following Shatner’s Trip To Space
Sports
Derek Carr Says NFL Should Expose Everyone’s Private Emails Just Like Jon Gruden’s
Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban: “If You Work For Me, I Require My Employees To Be Vaccinated”
Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns On NBA Vaccine Mandates: “I Believe In Choice”
Yankees Let Go Of Marcus Thames & Phil Nevin In Major Staff Shakeup
NFL Star, 24, Killed While Protecting His Family From Burglary Will Have Jersey Number Retired By Washington Football Team
Cardinals Make Stunning Move, Fire Manager Due To “Philosophical Difference”
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1. Excess deaths keep surging in proportion to vaccinations. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/its-not-just-the-uk-all-cause-deaths/comments
2. Great little video on the moving lies about the vaccine's safety and efficacy. https://twitter.com/ke11ybender/status/1448936949012578304
3. Biden may be DOA politically. https://buchanan.org/blog/are-the-good-times-over-for-joe-158642
4. Economic belief continues to collapse. https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/15/consumer-sentiment-crashes-as-confidence-in-biden-economic-policies-collapses/
5. Even Biden's task force doesn't agree to court packing. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/scotus-commission-divided-on-whether-court-expansion-would-be-wise
*Bonus: #MeToo movie maker that killed Bond caught as a "you must get naked" movie director. https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/14/no-time-to-die-director-cary-fukunaga-hit-with-metoo-accusation-after-allegedly-firing-actress-raeden-greer-for-refusing-to-do-nude-scene/
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Here is a video I made "Different Drum"
"Different Drum" is a 1966 song written by Mike Nesmith and recorded by the Greenbriar Boys and included on their 1966 album, Better Late than Never!. In 1967, the song was performed by the Stone Poneys featuring a young and upcoming singer named Linda Ronstadt. The song was Ronstadt's first hit single, reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as #12 on the Cash Box magazine singles chart
=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. I'm disappointed when my students who achieve well and go to university have their experience diminished by extreme leftist academics who are unhinged in their hatred for conservatives and embrace of Stalinist Marxism. I'm disappointed when so much resources go to them, but gets funnelled into a left wing unionist agenda controlled by political elites and useful patsies. I believe critical thinking wins the day. I believe the best will realise how wrong the current regime is. And then I see the $trillions lost to AGW hysteria and the resultant suffering of the world's poorest. AGW is a scientific hoax. It is not hard to penetrate, and yet leftists seem to feel they benefit from it. When Hillary and her secretary sat either side of Weinstein at a fundraiser, they were two advocates for women who sat either side of a sex abuser, and both women were married to a sex abuser. When will the penny drop? When will state authorities funding academic abuse correct their collective mistakes?
The press are missing the reason why Julie Bishop is spouting Gillard like misandrism. The press feel that Julie is ambitious to replace Turnbull as PM. There is truth to that. Bishop could be as awful as Turnbull, she has that talent. But Bishop's campaign is actually what the Clinton Foundation identified for her as an issue to hit Tony Abbott. The campaign that says "Women hate Abbott and therefore he can never be elected because half the electorate are women" is a bad campaign. It is not true, although it is designed to feed into polling. It is the same kind of polling that did not predict Howard coming back, Brexit or Trump. Julie Bishop's campaign is why Abbott has to return to save the Liberal party from imploding and exploding.
The press are missing the reason why Julie Bishop is spouting Gillard like misandrism. The press feel that Julie is ambitious to replace Turnbull as PM. There is truth to that. Bishop could be as awful as Turnbull, she has that talent. But Bishop's campaign is actually what the Clinton Foundation identified for her as an issue to hit Tony Abbott. The campaign that says "Women hate Abbott and therefore he can never be elected because half the electorate are women" is a bad campaign. It is not true, although it is designed to feed into polling. It is the same kind of polling that did not predict Howard coming back, Brexit or Trump. Julie Bishop's campaign is why Abbott has to return to save the Liberal party from imploding and exploding.
=== from 2016 ===
Athletes are usually finished by their forties. Blue collar workers look to management positions as they slow down in their fifties. White collar workers go to 67 or, in the case of judges, 75 or so. Writers don't tend to peak until they are in their thirties and they tend to keep their gift until the end. Barry Spurr still has much to offer. But Spurr's career, stellar, has been curtailed by an ancient curse. Not that he is conservative, but that he is seen as being one. And it highlights something that needs to be addressed. Australia is blessed with a tradition of free speech, but her institutions are being nobbled because the reality is Australia does not have free speech.
As Spurr pointed out recently at the Sydney Institute (Oct 6th), with an introduction by Miranda Devine, the issue of the denunciations of him based on the criminal publishing of personal emails, and their misrepresentation by the extreme left wing publisher, are not a new phenomena. One example Spurr gave was T S Eliot's denunciation as being an anti semitic bigot based on a few words in the 1920's. But Eliot's life and work doesn't suggest that. Others who were better candidates for the slur escape the label apparently because they were of the left wing tribe. It is not the fierce contest of ideas that is being debated at the moment, but tribal warfare. Only conservatives are still trying to fight with ideas. Because that battle is the only place where the war can be 'won.' The great debate, or Western Dialectic is some 2500 years old, and not going away soon. But we are being side tracked by a corruption of leftist idealism which seems successful, but leaves a wasteland in its' wake.
Australia does not have free speech, or a justice system, equal rights or much else because those are illusory ideals. Laws don't create them, but can impede them. One major impediment to free speech is the racial vilification code, section 18c. It is a badly written piece of legislation that undermines free speech. Rachel Ball, VP of Human Rights Law Commission asked who was more free: Andrew Bolt after his trial over 18c; or children in detention? Rachel clearly feels that any injustice Bolt feels is vastly outweighed by detainees. But Rachel's argument was misplaced. In fact, the trial of Bolt was an injustice. And the truth is, the elimination of 18c won't restore free speech. The appalling treatment of Spurr was not an 18c issue. But the appalling, cowardly, reaction of Sydney University administration was a symptom of how 18c has eroded the cultural asset of free speech imbued by Australia's majestic progress. Spurr has retired from being Australia's only professor of poetry. But we are blessed he isn't finished.
I suggest Red Gum ward vote for David Daniel Ball. And, after asking your local councillor about their views on Trump, Same Sex Marriage and Greyhounds, try and find out what it is they will do to make garbage collection cheaper and more efficient. Ask how they will make business more profitable. Ask what they will do to help address crime. Ask what they will do to improve public transport issues locally.
=== from 2015 ===
The recent supremacy of the left has left a poisoned chalice of free speech bound with rules. Where once the Left adored the violence of Che, Pol Pot, Mao or Stalin, now they quiver in fear of being offended or face to face with their victims in debate. The quivering, cowardly left have hidden strength. They tore down a good man as PM and installed a suit.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
No Bolt Report on Sunday because of racing. Disappointing, but the great man deserves the occasional day off.
The Ebola message does not match precautions in the US. Aid workers clocking off shifts in Africa and returning to the US along with tourists was always going to be a spread vector. The US was aware of the issue before a victim left Africa, and fell sick in Texas. He has died, and now two of his nurses have been infected. One hopes that both nurses survive unharmed. But, who else has been infected? How? There have been several protocol failures. Luckily, the disease relies on intimate contact through body fluid to be contracted, it is not airborne. Otherwise more would be infected. Imagine if jihadi could weaponise it?
Jihadi dreams
Jihadi dreams
It is wonderful Obama has decided to fight ISIL and not merely aid them. But it isn't enough to drop bombs on civilians to win a war. There will need to be people on the ground. There needs to be commitment to win. Terrorists claim to be Islamic but do things that are not Koranic .. like cross dressing, killing Muslims, desecrating holy sites and bringing Islam into disrepute. Also, reprehensibly, assigning to Allah works of the devil. They aren't the only terrorists .. look at Ukraine .. North Korea .. China .. Cuba .. Venezuela .. Argentina .. Zimbabwe .. But they have an international fan club and patronage from the UN and press. It turns out Bush was right on WMD and the press have suppressed the fact to support Democrats. And now ISIL have access to the warheads that were made, in some cases, by US contractors. A pranked hospital patient, male, woke up to find he was wearing panties .. one thought that only happened to jihadi. Jihadi are known to wear women's clothes shortly before engaging in terrorist hits.
ABC discovers a new left wing
ABC bias encompasses abusing the uniform of Australia's Defence force. Patriotism is racism? ABC defames pre election Victorian government over porn ring allegation. A disgruntled former adviser to Baillieu, who was dismissed when Napthine became Premier, has made his claims now, for the first time, shortly before an election. His claims seem unlikely, but that will still excite the ABC. 7:30 Report acknowledges criminal infiltration of CFMEU after Gillard weakened protections with Fair Work. The program details how bikie gangs have gotten involved. Slush funds would be excellent at laundering drug money. An ALP senator uses Pravda to abuse PM Mr Abbott, no reason why they would, but they have.
Mixed issues
Australia's National Gallery changes direction by becoming competent, hiring a good person after their stolen Indian artefact debacle. The embarrassing Richard Flanagan has won a literary prize and made a statement that he was embarrassed to be Australian because the PM said coal was an efficient power source. If Richard Flanagan doesn't love it here, he can leave. Palmer drops defamation claim. New Deputy Premier for NSW is a member with only six months cabinet experience. He is a former policeman with some twenty two years of experience. He has a good team and should do a great job. Hostage siege in brothel in NSW had three men holding two other men and two women. Channel Nine obscured the face of one of the brothel workers, but the ABC did not. Pistorius might have got more time if he had shot an intruder, the amount of time he serves is not yet known, but someone got eight years for shooting an intruder in Melbourne, recently.
Australia's National Gallery changes direction by becoming competent, hiring a good person after their stolen Indian artefact debacle. The embarrassing Richard Flanagan has won a literary prize and made a statement that he was embarrassed to be Australian because the PM said coal was an efficient power source. If Richard Flanagan doesn't love it here, he can leave. Palmer drops defamation claim. New Deputy Premier for NSW is a member with only six months cabinet experience. He is a former policeman with some twenty two years of experience. He has a good team and should do a great job. Hostage siege in brothel in NSW had three men holding two other men and two women. Channel Nine obscured the face of one of the brothel workers, but the ABC did not. Pistorius might have got more time if he had shot an intruder, the amount of time he serves is not yet known, but someone got eight years for shooting an intruder in Melbourne, recently.
From 2013
Intense ALP infighting continues. Roxon hits Rudd. She confesses that an imaginary unfair dismissal case could be made for him because he wasn't informed how he was incompetent. Says loads about ALP dismissal laws foisted on everyone else. ALP needs affirmative action, embracing non union officials. McKew hits Rudd. McKew criticises Rudd after an election she was silent on his faults.
One former union official, Michael Williamson admits he stole millions from poor workers and will not pay it back. He was the ideal ALP President. A foil, while fellow stablemate Craig Thomson held back good government from being achieved. Some say Williamson has paid a high price already. But the betrayal of HSU members alone demands a custodial sentence. Who will hold union officials to account? Abbott has justifiable expenses, but ABC challenges Abbott when it had given a free pass to Williamson and gives free passes to Slipper.
Sydney Morning Herald fails to fact check its articles. ABC caught in a fact check fail. Bolt criticises Abbott for not being quick enough .. a bit like saying a prize student could achieve more. Julian Burnside shows the same balance lacking in the SMH. Geoff Shaw is assaulted by leftwing extremists. Arctic Ice recovers .. rapidly. Miranda Devine on 2GB radio 4pm daily. Obama and his fans are blaming the GOP for wanting to save money.
All the details and links are in this article. However, my chief concern at the moment is to do with the issue of raw sewage which came through my unit starting the evening of Monday Oct 7th, a public holiday. I contacted strata straight away and they gave me a number for a plumber, who delayed until Tuesday morning from attending because Monday was a public holiday. I contacted strata at 8:43 in the evening. I explained the blockage, minor at the time, seemed connected to my upstair neighbours. I was assured that was not possible. I bucketed about 50 litres of sewage from my bathroom floor that evening. I went to bed at 12 pm and got up at 6am. By then, the sewage had filled the toilet, vanity, shower and bath tub, and was through the main hall and into the main living area and kitchen. I mopped and bucketed the increasing mess until 7am, called the plumber, and was told plumber would arrive soon. Plumber came at 7:30am. Plumber lifted toilet from mains and tried to use snake to get blockage. I showed plumber where strata pipes were, and he left for strata secretary to get keys. Plumber decides pipes are too rusty to access and tries to access block with snake through bathroom drain. He tells me the snake isn't sufficient at 9:30 and promises to return in 2 hours with the right equipment. I call him at 12:30 in the afternoon and he tells me a "boy drove of with his truck" so he was doing other work elsewhere until he could attend the block with the right equipment. He returns with a truck by 15:30 By this time, I have contacted home contents insurance and an assessor is on hand. The assessor declares my place uninhabitable. I explain I am staying. That is my right. Cleaners arrive and suction off sewage and spray anti biotic anti fungal protection. Then plumbers decide at 17:30 they can't get the blockage that night and will look again in the morning. Fecal matter had come through my unit with recognisable food stuffs processed from the guts of my celebrating neighbours while the plumber was gone in the morning .. cleaners took pity on me and sandbagged the bathroom and left a water vacuum behind overnight when they left at 9:30 pm. I filled the water vacuum by 10:30 pm. Sandbags were breached by 11:30 pm. I hid in my room. Plumber arrived morning two at 8:30 am without truck. They spent an hour outside with old pipes. By 10 am they claimed they had fixed the block without once entering my unit. The sandbags had prevented more fecal matter getting through the unit in its raw form, but the yellow water had flooded entire unit except laundry. Cleaning crew came again, cut up carpet sprayed anti biotic/fungal protection and organised a time to extract all affected furniture. This afternoon they completed their task, leaving my place a concrete, empty shell. But strata had not yet called Strata insurance. Strata insurance claim they won't be able to look at the empty shell until Thursday 24th October, seventeen days after my first call. sixteen days after my place was declared uninhabitable.
People are willing to help me, but some aren't. If my place had burned down or if I had tripped in a supermarket, this might be national news .. but local news won't go near it. I am desperate. Days from being forced to sell my home .. and I have lost everything but internet access and tv. My tax papers are gone. Everything I've collected over 46 years .. gone.
One former union official, Michael Williamson admits he stole millions from poor workers and will not pay it back. He was the ideal ALP President. A foil, while fellow stablemate Craig Thomson held back good government from being achieved. Some say Williamson has paid a high price already. But the betrayal of HSU members alone demands a custodial sentence. Who will hold union officials to account? Abbott has justifiable expenses, but ABC challenges Abbott when it had given a free pass to Williamson and gives free passes to Slipper.
Sydney Morning Herald fails to fact check its articles. ABC caught in a fact check fail. Bolt criticises Abbott for not being quick enough .. a bit like saying a prize student could achieve more. Julian Burnside shows the same balance lacking in the SMH. Geoff Shaw is assaulted by leftwing extremists. Arctic Ice recovers .. rapidly. Miranda Devine on 2GB radio 4pm daily. Obama and his fans are blaming the GOP for wanting to save money.
All the details and links are in this article. However, my chief concern at the moment is to do with the issue of raw sewage which came through my unit starting the evening of Monday Oct 7th, a public holiday. I contacted strata straight away and they gave me a number for a plumber, who delayed until Tuesday morning from attending because Monday was a public holiday. I contacted strata at 8:43 in the evening. I explained the blockage, minor at the time, seemed connected to my upstair neighbours. I was assured that was not possible. I bucketed about 50 litres of sewage from my bathroom floor that evening. I went to bed at 12 pm and got up at 6am. By then, the sewage had filled the toilet, vanity, shower and bath tub, and was through the main hall and into the main living area and kitchen. I mopped and bucketed the increasing mess until 7am, called the plumber, and was told plumber would arrive soon. Plumber came at 7:30am. Plumber lifted toilet from mains and tried to use snake to get blockage. I showed plumber where strata pipes were, and he left for strata secretary to get keys. Plumber decides pipes are too rusty to access and tries to access block with snake through bathroom drain. He tells me the snake isn't sufficient at 9:30 and promises to return in 2 hours with the right equipment. I call him at 12:30 in the afternoon and he tells me a "boy drove of with his truck" so he was doing other work elsewhere until he could attend the block with the right equipment. He returns with a truck by 15:30 By this time, I have contacted home contents insurance and an assessor is on hand. The assessor declares my place uninhabitable. I explain I am staying. That is my right. Cleaners arrive and suction off sewage and spray anti biotic anti fungal protection. Then plumbers decide at 17:30 they can't get the blockage that night and will look again in the morning. Fecal matter had come through my unit with recognisable food stuffs processed from the guts of my celebrating neighbours while the plumber was gone in the morning .. cleaners took pity on me and sandbagged the bathroom and left a water vacuum behind overnight when they left at 9:30 pm. I filled the water vacuum by 10:30 pm. Sandbags were breached by 11:30 pm. I hid in my room. Plumber arrived morning two at 8:30 am without truck. They spent an hour outside with old pipes. By 10 am they claimed they had fixed the block without once entering my unit. The sandbags had prevented more fecal matter getting through the unit in its raw form, but the yellow water had flooded entire unit except laundry. Cleaning crew came again, cut up carpet sprayed anti biotic/fungal protection and organised a time to extract all affected furniture. This afternoon they completed their task, leaving my place a concrete, empty shell. But strata had not yet called Strata insurance. Strata insurance claim they won't be able to look at the empty shell until Thursday 24th October, seventeen days after my first call. sixteen days after my place was declared uninhabitable.
People are willing to help me, but some aren't. If my place had burned down or if I had tripped in a supermarket, this might be national news .. but local news won't go near it. I am desperate. Days from being forced to sell my home .. and I have lost everything but internet access and tv. My tax papers are gone. Everything I've collected over 46 years .. gone.
Historical perspective on this day
690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
955 – Battle on the Raxa: King Otto I defeats the Obotrite federation led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew near Mecklenburg.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1836 – Battle of Vegkop between Afrikaner voortrekkers and Matabele warriors in South Africa.
1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1847 – The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1940 – The Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
1946 – Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1947 – Republic of the Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1949 – Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narniaseries.
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1991 – Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1993 – Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C.
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2013 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: Isaiah 45-46, 1 Thessalonians 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 45-46
1 “This is what the LORD says to his anointed,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of
to subdue nations before him
and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
so that gates will not be shut:
2 I will go before you
and will level the mountains;
I will break down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.
3 I will give you hidden treasures,
riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the LORD,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
4 For the sake of Jacob my servant,
of Israel my chosen,
I summon you by name
and bestow on you a title of honor,
though you do not acknowledge me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
though you have not acknowledged me,
6 so that from the rising of the sun
to the place of its setting
people may know there is none besides me.
I am the LORD, and there is no other.
7 I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Thessalonians 3
1 So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. 2 We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, 3so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them. 4 In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. 5 For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.
Timothy’s Encouraging Report
6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. 7 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. 8 For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. 9 How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? 10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith....
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
His first coming was without external pomp or show of power, and yet in truth there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and all Jerusalem with him were stirred at the news of the wondrous birth. Those who supposed themselves to be waiting for him, showed the fallacy of their professions by rejecting him when he came. His life on earth was a winnowing fan, which tried the great heap of religious profession, and few enough could abide the process. But what will his second advent be? What sinner can endure to think of it? "He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." When in his humiliation he did but say to the soldiers, "I am he," they fell backward; what will be the terror of his enemies when he shall more fully reveal himself as the "I am?" His death shook earth and darkened heaven, what shall be the dreadful splendour of that day in which as the living Saviour, he shall summon the quick and dead before him? O that the terrors of the Lord would persuade men to forsake their sins and kiss the Son lest he be angry! Though a lamb, he is yet the lion of the tribe of Judah, rending the prey in pieces; and though he breaks not the bruised reed, yet will he break his enemies with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. None of his foes shall bear up before the tempest of his wrath, or hide themselves from the sweeping hail of his indignation; but his beloved blood washed people look for his appearing with joy, and hope to abide it without fear: to them he sits as a refiner even now, and when he has tried them they shall come forth as gold. Let us search ourselves this morning and make our calling and election sure, so that the coming of the Lord may cause no dark forebodings in our mind. O for grace to cast away all hypocrisy, and to be found of him sincere and without rebuke in the day of his appearing.
Evening
"But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck."
Exodus 34:20
Exodus 34:20
Every firstborn creature must be the Lord's, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then? Should it be allowed to go free from the universal law? By no means. God admits of no exceptions. The ass is his due, but he will not accept it; he will not abate the claim, but yet he cannot be pleased with the victim. No way of escape remained but redemption--the creature must be saved by the substitution of a lamb in its place; or if not redeemed, it must die. My soul, here is a lesson for thee. That unclean animal is thyself; thou art justly the property of the Lord who made thee and preserves thee, but thou art so sinful that God will not, cannot, accept thee; and it has come to this, the Lamb of God must stand in thy stead, or thou must die eternally. Let all the world know of thy gratitude to that spotless Lamb who has already bled for thee, and so redeemed thee from the fatal curse of the law. Must it not sometimes have been a question with the Israelite which should die, the ass or the lamb? Would not the good man pause to estimate and compare? Assuredly there was no comparison between the value of the soul of man and the life of the Lord Jesus, and yet the Lamb dies, and man the ass is spared. My soul, admire the boundless love of God to thee and others of the human race. Worms are bought with the blood of the Son of the Highest! Dust and ashes redeemed with a price far above silver and gold! What a doom had been mine had not plenteous redemption been found! The breaking of the neck of the ass was but a momentary penalty, but who shall measure the wrath to come to which no limit can be imagined? Inestimably dear is the glorious Lamb who has redeemed us from such a doom.
=== Bible Quote ===
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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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