Saturday, October 23, 2021

Sat 23rd October 2021 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

Disgraced former FBI chief has been gifted money. Former acting Director off the FBI, Andrew McCabe has been given special benefits despite corruption at the FBI. He had been fired in 2018 after tanking an investigation into Hillary Clinton after his wife had been paid by Clinton. McCabe's reward for failure of duty may be a million dollars

Exemplary marine officer convicted of trumped up charges following whistle blowing. He has pled guilty on a plea deal to charges. Lt Colonel Stuart Scheller has been fined and given a letter of reprimand after correctly calling out senior administration over the Afghan withdrawal debacle. Scheller loses his career over the injustice. 

A fourteen year old boy who was declared to be dead from COVID was killed by brain cancer? The precise truth of this is unknown, because although we know a newspaper headline promoted a lie told by authorities that the boy died from COVID when he did not, they now assert there is privacy when there was not. Consider that Facebook, the media and Twitter keep the fake news while persecuting those telling the truth as it becomes known. 

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/1181546/ddb-live-stream-17th-oct

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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

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From the Bible, 1 Timothy 2

Instructions on Worship

I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time. And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing. I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

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https://rumble.com/vo2zvt-ep.-1632-im-not-backing-down-the-dan-bongino-show.html

I’m not backing down, and the fight is getting heated. Also, I discuss a must-read article about the latest disturbing revelation in the plot against Trump.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden Doubles Down on Vax Mandates at Town Hall – Calls for Firings of First Responders and Cops Who Refuse READ MORE

Biden “Doesn’t See” Any Reason to Think Gas Prices Will Go Down Any Time Soon

Rep. Massie Grills AG Garland on Role of Federal Agents on Jan 6

Sen. Paul Slams Fauci After NIH Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research

Texas Gov. Abbott Using The National Guard To Arrest Illegals On Southern Border

Alec Baldwin Shoots Two in Prop Gun Mishap, One Dead

FBI: Brian Laundrie’s Remains Found in Florida Park

Capitol Hill
AG Garland REFUSES to Answer When Grilled on Potential Role of Federal Agents on Jan 6
Biden Admin: We Don’t Need Congress to Enact Climate Agenda
Activists Who Confronted Sen. Sinema in Bathroom Could Face Charges
AG Garland: No Jan 6 Defendants Charged With Insurrection
New Hampshire Dems Want Biden Primaried in 2024
Texas and Missouri Sue Biden Administration Over Border Crisis
AG Garland: Durham Remains Empowered
“How About Zero?” – Sens. Manchin and Sanders Get Heated Over Spending Plan
House Votes to Recommend Contempt Charges Against Steve Bannon With Help From 9 RINOs

Culture War
Amazon’s Surveillance Is Creepier Than You Thought
Facebook Whistleblower’s Plan Would Silence Conservatives
Report: Schools With Diversity Officers Actually Have Widening Achievement Gaps Between White and Minority Students
Media Suddenly Goes Silent as COVID Hospitalizations Decline in South and Rise in North
Glenn Greenwald: Media Coverage Of Jan 6 And Protesting Parents “Political Persecution”
The NY Times Leads the Media’s Credibility Collapse
CNN Refuses to Apologize to Joe Rogan for Lying About Him
Republican Maryland Legislators Ask for Their Counties to Join West Virginia
State Department Celebrates “International Pronoun Day”

Economy
Labor Department Proposes Rule to Add Political Directives to Retirement Savings
Top SBA Official Slammed for Dodging Questions on Tax Hikes
Poll: Majority Of Voters Blame Democrat Policies For Rising Inflation
In-N-Out Burger Refuses to Be the Vax Police
Biden Admin Dumps Alaska Oil Drilling Project That Was Slated To Create Thousands Of Jobs
U.S. Slows Down Oil and Gas Mergers
Buttigieg: Supply Chain Issues Will Exist as Long as There’s a Pandemic
Gas Nears $8/Gallon in California Town
Shares of Trump-Linked SPAC Skyrocket

Swamp Watch
Secretary of State Blinken’s Family Ties to George Soros Exposed
Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Paid Tony Podesta $500k to Lobby Biden
Chicago Ranks #1 on “Top Rattiest Cities” List for Seventh Consecutive Year
AG Garland Claims to Be Unaware of Loudoun Sexual Assault Case
Biden State Department Hire Downplayed Threat From China, Deflected Blame for COVID
Republican AGs Argue Biden’s Vax Mandate Isn’t Enforceable
Federal Reserve Policymakers to Be Banned From Owning Individual Stocks
Leftist Shadow Governments in Control of a Lot More Than Our Elections

National Security
Why Should American Soldiers Die for Taiwan?
Suspected Drone Attack Hits U.S. Base in Syria
Could China’s Big Economic Bubble Go Pop?
Sikorsky Looking Into Ways to Connect Next-Gen Helicopters to F-35s
Top House Lawmakers Considering Boosting Enlisted Pay, Benefits
China’s Test of An Orbital Hypersonic Missile Is A Big Deal
New Heritage Foundation Report Rates Air Force, Space Force as Weakest Branches
Biden Says He’ll Defend Taiwan If China Attacks – Then White House Walks Back Claim

Around the World
Russia’s Putin Signs Order Giving Workers the Week Off to Stem the Spread of Coronavirus
Ethiopia Carries Out Third Day of Air Strikes Against Tigray Rebels
Afghan Jihadists Attack Anti-Taliban Women’s Protest
Man Charged With UK Lawmaker’s Murder Supported Islamic State
Britons Continue to be Frightened of Being With Maskless People in Enclosed Spaces
Sources: Rocket Delay Delays U.S. Hypersonic Weapon Test
Putin Will Not Be Attending Boris Johnson’s Big Climate Summit
Citizens Engage in Mass Protests in Sudan Against Prospect of Military Rule

Opinion
Laura Hollis: Don’t Let Idiots Ru(i)n the Economy, Part 2
Libby Emmons: Biden Plays the Fool in CNN’s Townhall Clown Show
Newt Gingrich: The Afghanistan Debacle–What Trump Would’ve Done Differently
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Who Writes the Laws?
Kurt Schlichter: Alternatively, We Could Take the China Threat Seriously
Jackie Cushman: Back to the Basics
Derek Hunter: The Lucky Sperm Syndrome
R. Emmett Tyrell: Newt’s Prophecy
Ken Blackwell: The Existential Threat of CRT: State-Sponsored Racism

Entertainment
Dave Chappelle Plans U.S. Tour If Netflix Cancels “The Closer”
Pop Star Chris Brown Says NBA Star Kyrie Irving A “Real Hero” For Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine
Variety, AP Brazenly Lie About Chappelle-Netflix Protest
Candace Cameron Bure Shares TikTok About Being Conservative In Hollywood
Tommy DeBarge of R&B Group Switch Has Died at 64
Wonder Woman Actress Lynda Carter Throws Support Behind Modern Gender Ideology, Claims That “Trans Women Are Wonder Women”
WarnerMedia In Talks With David Chase For HBO Max “Sopranos” Prequel Series
Joe Rogan Defends Dave Chappelle Over Netflix Special Outrage

Sports
Enes Kanter Blasts China’s Xi As “Brutal Dictator,” Streaming Giant Pulls Celtics Games
EXCLUSIVE: NBA Player Jonathan Isaac Reveals Why He Chose To Not Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Congress Seeks Findings From NFL’s Investigation Into Workplace Culture Of Washington Football Team
Video: ‘F**k Joe Biden’ Interrupts Fox ALCS Postgame Show Hosts
Case Keenum Steps Up As Browns Hold On For Victory Over Broncos
Islanders Fall To Blue Jackets In OT
NBA Broadcaster Fired Over “All Lives Matter” Tweet Sues For Wrongful Termination With Radio Station
Knicks Julius Randle Fined $15k For Celebration After Win Opening Night
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
U.S. officials are issuing new warnings about China's ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could eventually give Beijing a decisive military edge and possible dominance over healthcare and other essential sectors in America. [Full Story]
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Newsfront
President Joe Biden, while acknowledging tuition-free community college was likely out of his sweeping spending bill, is vowing to make certain the free education plan becomes a reality "in the next several years...... [Full Story]
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made "For You"
Higher Ground is the 20th album by American singer-songwriter John Denver released in September 1989. It was recorded at Denver's private studio in Snowmass, Colorado, with the exception of "For You" and the didjeridu part in "Sing Australia." These were recorded in Sydney, Australia.

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. According to a medieval scholar, Ussher, the universe was created on this day, which is the Autumnal equinox in 4004 BC. His calculations were as precise as the guy who predicted the end of the world on September 23rd and October 16th. It takes very little faith to call the world flat or young. It takes very little faith to say science is right. Faith is not about science, which, when it is built on science, and not AGW theology, describes physical truths about the world we see. The Bible is not a physics text book. The Bible does not construct rockets which can take people to Mars. The Bible does accurately position the relationship Mankind has with God. And that truth is obvious to people of faith. 

In 44 BC, the wars of the Second Triumvirate of Octavian and Antony defeated finally Brutus and Cassius. Brutus suicided on this day before losing everything. His stand was at Philippi, where he and Cassius had fled after assassinating Julius Caesar. 

Moral majesty is expressed as Victoria embraces euthanasia. Elsewhere in the world, an alcoholic is euthanised so they didn't suicide. Mission successful. In another case, relatives held down a woman who was struggling against a surgeon who injected toxins to kill her. It is not just euthanasia, lots of government policy is bad. Australia has a weaker military than NK, but is spending significantly to give soldiers gender options. One house in Tasmania costs $91k to hook the NBN up to it. Malcolm Turnbull admits the awful system might never make money. NBN might be a $50 billion black hole in the budget. Welfare in Australia cost $300k a minute. It takes a million low paid workers everything to cover it. 
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 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. 
=== from 2015 ===
Forty years ago, Australia had two PMs. Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam. A 45 yo woman is alleging she was raped by three former PMs 40 years ago. They might not have been PM at that time. The Royal Commission into institutional response to pedophilia apparently does not feel it fits into the scope of their investigation. Reasonable people might disagree, but the problem with the ALP having a partisan public service and judiciary in their favour, is that reasonable responses can't be assumed. ALP insurance covers the abusers, not the abused. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Actor Josh Thomas vs MP Wyatt Roy
Actors are not noted for their great thoughts in the political world. Many supported Nazism in the thirties, Many supported communism and still do. Actor Josh Thomas is not an idiot, but he is very foolish and his rhetoric is placed in Gay Activism which has a legitimate voice, but is wrong when it embraces Green activism which has nothing to do with the environment. Wyatt had posted that it was wonderful that the new immigration policy meant people did not drown, as over 1300 had under the previous ALP policy. Josh picked up on a lie that claimed that children were being raped in detention. That has happened in the past, infamously Rudd tore up evidence of such, involving the gang rape of a teenage Aboriginal girl in the late '80s, now called the Heiner Affair. There is no evidence or even claim that such is happening now. However, Josh may have evidence? Josh also referred to a red herring of secrecy involving illegal migrants. However, that is not strictly speaking what is happening. The government is not trumpeting results so as to steal from people smugglers a sales pitch. It is very effective. Detained people are not abused, but are processed according to UN rules and Australian standards, which are higher than the UN's. Josh should apologise to Wyatt, but one suspects he enjoys notoriety from parroting his green, communist heroes.

In defence of Barry Spurr
A former chinese student of the Professor has written movingly of her experience of his lectures. He has been censured by Sydney University following the theft of his private emails and their publication without his explanation. He has never publicly uttered them and the magazine that published them has some hard questions it should answer. But then, so does the Ukraine over MH17, and that will never happen.

Student who broke the privacy of Abbott's daughter sentenced
The student used the same magazine as denounced Spurr to denounce Mr Abbott's daughter in obtaining a scholarship on merit. The student was supposed to be sentenced today, but that has been delayed a month. The student has apologised for their crime. The magazine has not. Newman's defence claimed she was too immature to know that her crime was wrong. New Matilda might use that same excuse?

Canada's Parliament.
Gun battle inside Canada's parliament as ISIL further attempts to bring terror to the west and force a change of lifestyle. It is reminiscent of other opportunist attacks. The suicidal aspect is probably supposed to raise it in the public consciousness, but it looks badly planned instead. Good people are dying and each attack lessens the value of ISIL terrorists everywhere. Mr Abbott declared Mr Harper was like a brother and the Australian parliament would stand shoulder to shoulder with Canada's parliament.

Many fair people feel Whitlam lost government through gross incompetence. Rudd blames a "Massive Conservative Fuselage."An 18yo school girl says she has studied the issue and appreciated Whitlam giving women the vote. It is probably fair to say that Whitlam went too far in the public mind when he tried to make a horse senator and then ate the foetus of his love child he ripped from his sister's dead body. Others say that the hagiography of Whitlam unfairly neglect criticism and inflate achievements.

Michael Mann illustrates what he has been accused of. He is think skinned when he is faced with criticism of his work. He is sloppy and inaccurate and occasionally wildly parochial. He is not responsible and his work as a scientist discredits not only him but others who call themselves scientists.
Sport
WSB SFG vs KCR
The Royals have levelled the series after a sixth innings blow out on starter pitcher Peavey for the Giants. Maybe the Royals will keep momentum? Or will the Giants stand up?

As a social justice kitten has attributed to them "I drink your tears, oppressor"
From 2013
A corrupt anti semitic bigot steps away from opposition senate duty. Bob Carr was highly lauded as an opposition leader when he trawled for turds off Bondi Beach. But the one trick pony just wants his former Premier pension and assets. And with all his time in office, it is impossible to point to anything worthwhile he did. The press will be kind, referring to his status as a dart board figurine. He will be missed. 

ALP were upset the military did not toe the party line while they were in government. Bad decisions meant many soldiers were killed on duty. To punish the military, ALP leaked and inflated scandals. It is terrible to hear of young people having sex. Where crimes have taken place, the army is equipped to handle them. Sadly that doesn't help the ALP ..
A former journalist, but current ALP member in South Australia wants censorship. Mia Freedman is prone to saying dumb things, but not everything she posts is bad. Censorship also works when people stop listening. Mr Howard is Australia's greatest PM to date. Something journalists try to obscure as they barack for ALP. 

AGW extremism burns a billion dollars a day. Reminding me of an old Jud Strunk number "I'll burn you a billion a day dear .." 

The only cure for debt is saving. ALP must embrace abolition of carbon tax if it is to thrive again. 

Russia has migration issues related to terrorism. Something Australia has to think about as a culture of feral peoples .. not solely one religion .. behave appallingly badly. A parent copies their bush fire starting child's delivery of the bird. 

Barrie Cassidy booted Bolt from Insiders but enjoys perks he denies others.
Historical perspective on this day
42 BC – Liberators' civil warSecond Battle of Philippi – Mark Antonyand Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.
501 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – At the Battle of Sagrajas, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster tried to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, to force concessions to Catholics.
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1864 – American Civil WarBattle of WestportUnion forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, Missouri, near Kansas City.
1867 – Seventy-two Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
1911 – First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1915 – Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000–33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1929 – Wall Street Crash of 1929. After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to crash.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1939 – The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine "Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight.
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California.
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1958 – The Springhill Mine bump: An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1973 – The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult known as the "Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church" in Miracle Valley, Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
1983 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries until then.
1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ended the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Commemorated as a public holiday in Cambodia.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. Three days later, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025
1998 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisisChechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2007 – A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 – The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
2012 – After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.
2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Isaiah 65-66, 1 Timothy 2 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 65-66

Judgment and Salvation


1 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,
offering sacrifices in gardens
and burning incense on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred for you!’
Such people are smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.
“See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent but will pay back in full;
I will pay it back into their laps—
7 both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,”
says the LORD.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
the full payment for their former deeds.”

Today's New Testament reading: 1 Timothy 2


Instructions on Worship


1 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time. 7 And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.
8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing. 9 I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

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Morning


"I will love them freely."
Hosea 14:4
This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It is a condensation of the glorious message of salvation which was delivered to us in Christ Jesus our Redeemer. The sense hinges upon the word "freely." This is the glorious, the suitable, the divine way by which love streams from heaven to earth, a spontaneous love flowing forth to those who neither deserved it, purchased it, nor sought after it. It is, indeed, the only way in which God can love such as we are. The text is a death-blow to all sorts of fitness: "I will love them freely." Now, if there were any fitness necessary in us, then he would not love us freely; at least, this would be a mitigation and a drawback to the freeness of it. But it stands, "I will love you freely." We complain, "Lord, my heart is so hard." "I will love you freely." "But I do not feel my need of Christ as I could wish." "I will not love you because you feel your need; I will love you freely." "But I do not feel that softening of spirit which I could desire." Remember, the softening of spirit is not a condition, for there are no conditions; the covenant of grace has no conditionality whatever; so that we without any fitness may venture upon the promise of God which was made to us in Christ Jesus, when he said, "He that believeth on him is not condemned." It is blessed to know that the grace of God is free to us at all times, without preparation, without fitness, without money, and without price! "I will love them freely." These words invite backsliders to return: indeed, the text was specially written for such--"I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely." Backslider! surely the generosity of the promise will at once break your heart, and you will return, and seek your injured Father's face.

Evening


"He shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you."
John 16:15

There are times when all the promises and doctrines of the Bible are of no avail, unless a gracious hand shall apply them to us. We are thirsty, but too faint to crawl to the water-brook. When a soldier is wounded in battle it is of little use for him to know that there are those at the hospital who can bind up his wounds, and medicines there to ease all the pains which he now suffers: what he needs is to be carried thither, and to have the remedies applied. It is thus with our souls, and to meet this need there is one, even the Spirit of truth, who takes of the things of Jesus, and applies them to us. Think not that Christ hath placed his joys on heavenly shelves that we may climb up to them for ourselves, but he draws near, and sheds his peace abroad in our hearts. O Christian, if thou art tonight labouring under deep distresses, thy Father does not give thee promises and then leave thee to draw them up from the Word like buckets from a well, but the promises he has written in the Word he will write anew on your heart. He will manifest his love to you, and by his blessed Spirit, dispel your cares and troubles. Be it known unto thee, O mourner, that it is God's prerogative to wipe every tear from the eye of his people. The good Samaritan did not say, "Here is the wine, and here is the oil for you;" he actually poured in the oil and the wine. So Jesus not only gives you the sweet wine of the promise, but holds the golden chalice to your lips, and pours the life-blood into your mouth. The poor, sick, way-worn pilgrim is not merely strengthened to walk, but he is borne on eagles' wings. Glorious gospel! which provides everything for the helpless, which draws nigh to us when we cannot reach after it--brings us grace before we seek for grace! Here is as much glory in the giving as in the gift. Happy people who have the Holy Ghost to bring Jesus to them.

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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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