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.
https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voice
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From the Bible, 1 Thessalonians 1
Paul, Silas and Timothy,
To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace and peace to you.
Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians’ Faith
We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.
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Shockingly, the Joe Biden corruption story is getting worse. In this episode I address the growing scandal. I also discuss the disturbing story out of Virginia about a parent of a sexual abuse victim who was targeted by the Biden administration.
News Picks:
- Explosive new details emerge about Biden family activities.
- Nancy Pelosi doubled down on IRS tracking your bank account.
- Can America survive global elites?
- Which is more accurate, Say’s Law or Keynes?
- Liberals only want “free” stuff from government if it doesn’t involve new taxes.
- The Nets ban Kyrie Irving from the team until he’s vaccinated.
- This Soros operative keeps surfacing.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Leaked Border Patrol Docs Expose Mass Release of Illegals Into U.S. by Biden Admin READ MOREBiden Admin Desperately Asks Oil and Gas Companies to Help Lower Prices
House Judiciary Republicans Demand AG Garland Explain FBI Memo Cracking Down on Parents
Report: Joe Biden Could Become Embroiled in FBI’s Investigation of Hunter
Nearly Half of New Taliban Government Leadership Are Designated Terrorists
Marine Jailed for Criticizing Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Expected to Plead Guilty
Captain Kirk Completes Spaceflight on Blue Origin Rocket
Capitol Hill
SCOTUS Debates Reinstating Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber
Liz Cheney Says Jan 6 Panel Could Advance Criminal Contempt Charges If Subpoenas Ignored
Progressives Press Biden to Release Student Loan Forgiveness Memo
White House to Host Global Anti-Ransomware Meeting, Without Russia
Pelosi Gets Mad at Reporters for Not Doing Enough Propaganda to Promote the Dems’ Reconciliation Bill
Wisconsin Election Probe Zeroes in on Machine Tactics and Rule Changes
Biden Voters Are Taking Note of His Unfulfilled Promises and Underdelivered Results
Trump: Our Leaders Have Gone Crazy
Pelosi Doubles Down on IRS Tracking Bank Accounts
Culture War
Seattle School Cancels Halloween Citing “Equity,” Because “Black Kids Don’t Celebrate”
Virginia Mother Who Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution Sees Parallels in America
Dog the Bounty Hunter Now Asking Brian Laundrie to Please Surrender
Loudoun County Dad Accusing District of Covering Up Sexual Assault in Schools Speaks Out
Federal Judge Rules New York Must Allow Religious Exemptions to Vax Mandate for Healthcare Workers
Ohio Hospital Delays Kidney Surgery Over Unvaccinated Donor
No One Wants to Be a Cop in Chicago as Force Suffers Major Officer Shortage
Florida Fines County $3.5 Million for Violating Vaccine Passport Law
YouTube Removes Pro-Family Group’s Page for Sharing Steve Bannon Clips
Economy
Consumer Prices Rise 5.4% Year-Over-Year in September, the Highest in 13 Years
House Votes to Lift Debt Ceiling $480 Billion
Crime Forces Walgreens to Close Five Stores in San Francisco
Risk of Housing Bubbles Accelerates Across Europe
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Reappears in Hong Kong
International Monetary Fund Warns on Inflation, Says Fed Should Prepare to Tighten Monetary Policy
Energy Price Surge Threatens Economic Recovery
Venezuela Chops Six Zeroes Off Its Currency
Workers Trickle Back Into Offices at Highest Rate Since Start of Pandemic
Dems’ Plan to Tax the Rich Could Have the IRS Cutting Checks to Billionaires
Swamp Watch
Navy Engineer and Wife Accused of Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets Appear in Court
Terry McAuliffe Says Biden Will Campaign for Him in Virginia
Biden Backs Colorado Plan to Force Insurers to Cover Trans Surgeries
U.S. to Lift Travel Restrictions on Canada and Mexico for the Vaccinated
Schiff “Can’t Answer” If Cognitive Decline Disqualified Mueller From Leading Russia Investigation
Mollie Hemmingway’s New Book Analyzes How Dems Have Outmaneuvered the GOP in Elections
Ex-DNI Ratcliffe: 1,000 Intel Docs Given to Durham Support More Charges
National Security
Beating China Without a War
France and America: A Vital Alliance To Ensure An Open And Free Indo-Pacific
U.S. Army May Gain Unprecedented Battleground Speed With Air Wolf Program
Sea Power is American Power, and We Are Throwing It Away
Battleship Comeback: Could The Navy Unretire The Iowa-class Battleships?
U.S. Navy’s Future Attack Sub to Be the “Ultimate Apex Predator”
Ex DoD Software Chief: U.S. Has Already Lost the AI Battle to China
Can Joe Biden Legally Defend Taiwan From a Chinese Attack?
Around the World
China Begins Crackdown on Banks to Purge Capitalist Influence
Billionaire Founder of Alibaba Jack Ma Resurfaces in Hong Kong: Sources
W.H.O.: Climate Crisis the “Single Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity”
U.S., Russia Agree to Another Round of Discussions Over Embassies Dispute
Report: Israeli Officials Fear Joe Biden’s Iran Approach
Here’s Why the EU and UK Are Arguing Over Northern Ireland
UK Threatening to Bar Unvaccinated Children From Face-to-Face Learning
Cuba Denies Government Opponents Permission to Hold Marches
Opinion
Stephen Moore: The War Is on With China
Rachel Mardsen: Long Live James Bond and His License to Trigger
Patrick Buchanan: Sink the New World Order Tax!
Matthew Tragesser: More Haitian Migrants Are Headed to the Border. How Can the Biden Admin Avoid Another Del Rio Debacle?
Star Parker: The New Victim of Cancel Culture: Science
Lawrence Peck: South Korea Democratic Party’s Next Presidential Nominee Is an Even Greater Risk to US Than Current President
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: China Wins Another Round
Will Alexander: Biden, Like Nero, Tears Down to “Build Back Better”
Entertainment
Netflix Reinstates Trans Activist Employees Who Tried to Force Their Way Into Meeting Over Dave Chappelle Special
Adam Carolla Announces New Comedy Show With The Daily Wire
Dean Cain Blasts DC Comics Making Superman Attracted To Dudes, Calls It Bandwagoning
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Admits He Doesn’t “Know The First Thing About Politics’ While Teasing Possible 2024 White House Run
Netflix’s “Squid Game” Creator Says Trump’s Election Inspired Him To Make The Hit Show
Mark Harmon Bids Farewell To “NCIS” After 18+ Seasons
David Bowie Estate Plans Posthumous Album For 75th Birthday In 2022
Jamie Lee Curtis Says Latest “Halloween” Film Is About January 6 Mob Violence
Sports
Ahead of Beijing Winter Games Olympics VP Gives China Free Pass: No Human Rights Challenge
Nets Ban Kyrie Irving From Team Over Covid Vaccination Status
Buccaneers To Remove Jon Gruden From Ring Of Honor
Video: Freddie Freeman Sends Braves To NLCS With Win Over Brewers
Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval Report: Kyle Bush’s Crew Chief Suspended For One Race
Astros Advance To ALCS With Win Over White Sox
J.R. Smith Attacked By Bees During College Golf Tournament In Phoenix
Tom Brady Plans To Play Despite Injured Right Hand
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Newsmax TV
- Rep. Comer: Infighting 'a Defining Moment' for Democratic Party |
- Stanford Doctor: Public's Mistrust of Fauci Causing Public Health Crisis |
- Ric Grenell: WH Unprepared for China, Other Scenarios
- Rep. Fallon: US Should Not Fund Taliban |
- Rep. Crenshaw: States Sent Troops to Texas to Score Political Points |
- Boston Marathon Bomb Survivor: Tsarnaev Must Get Death Penalty |
- Rep. Chris Stewart: Biden WH Heading to 'Critical Mass of Failure' |
Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake off the drag of the coronavirus pandemic.... [Full Story]
Federal Reserve officials agreed at the their last meeting that if [Full Story]
The union representing film and television crews says its 60,000 [Full Story]
After brokering a last-minute debt limit deal with Democrats, Senate [Full Story] | 
1. Wokeness corrupts. School hid assaults because it exposed a danger of their transgender bathroom policies. Remember when the media said that risk was a myth? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/school-officials-hushed-up-and-lied-about-his-daughters-rape-now-nsba-wants-to-make-him-a-domestic-terrorist
2. Cancel culture comes for the NFL: Coach Chucky Fired. https://spectatorworld.com/life/jon-gruden-nfl-raiders-roger-goodell/
3. How Zuck Zucked the election. https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/12/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg/
4. Starting to admit inflation is a continuing problem, not a transitory phenom. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/high-u-s-inflation-is-going-to-last-awhile-fed-bostic-says-11634060894
5. Another defendant capitulates, and grants religious accommodation rather than face ongoing suit. https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-seeks-dismissal-of-federal-lawsuit-challenging-covid-19-vaccination-mandate/
*Bonus: Tonight's Sidebar guest: https://www.chrissiemayr.com
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Here is a video I made Queensland Flood Tribute with True Blue
John Williamson's song is evocative of the Australian Spirit for me. There are others I may yet choose to address this issue. The Queensland floods of 2011 are devastating, and affect all of Australia. Many places, such as banks and sporting teams and the usual people are collecting donations on behalf of those affected. Please give generously.
=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. The 'Final' battle for Raqqa is being waged, according to US backed Kurdish forces. Turkey is still supplying IS as she can, but it is too late for Islamic State. Their last hope ended on November 8th 2016 when HRC was not elected President. Comedians against Trump are tirelessly ignoring Weinstein. Miramax is restructuring. Irish President visits Tasmania which has a conservative government which is effective. Soon, anyone who knew the predations of Weinstein will be shielded by a network of abusers who support Democrats and hate Trump. But Trump is draining their swamp.
=== from 2016 ===
I support Donald Trump. I want Trump to be President of the United States of America. I understand he once said something unsavoury to someone else. Probably to many people over time. He is rich, and probably feels entitled. But I trust Trump to try to make America great again. I trust Trump to make deals which will benefit the US, and also the world. I expect Trump to reinvigorate business and renew the culture of American exceptionalism. I don't care about his tax returns. Not even if it turns out Trump has somehow over claimed on tax. Trump has not crossed the lines Hillary Rodham Clinton has crossed. I have heard people dismiss and seek to discredit Trump. I have listened to them and they have not given me substance. For me, the worst thing Trump has done is join with Obama in criticising President George W Bush for invading Iraq. That is something that the critics seem to view as a good thing.
I will not support Hillary Clinton. Hillary has supported policy which kills migrants, by subjecting them to people smuggling. Hillary has supported policy which kills people through starving them by redirecting money from the poorest in the planet to wealthy Green organisations over Global Warming Theory. Currently, lost investment worldwide is about $1 to $2 trillion a year. This during a time when wealth and prosperity has been at odds with that policy. I will not support a doormat to be President of the US. Hillary holds good people in contempt. Her supporters make baseless claims about Trump. I want Hillary to face charges for her corruption. I want Hillary to go to jail.
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.
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Turnbull has stopped his opposition to industrial relations reform and so Abbott era legislation has passed. However, Turnbull is still opposed to free speech and so the proposed reform to 18c of the racial vilification act may not be tabled this year.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Shirt front explained.
AFL (Victorian) it is a kind of tackle. Rugby Union (Abbott's chosen sport) it means to face a person and get them to talk about tough issues. Guess which one Mr Abbott meant in reference to Putin? Guess which one the press chose to run with over Abbott speaking to Putin? Channel 9 news via Today Show were making a joke of it this morning, claiming Mr Abbott was stupid. ABC is hoping they can inflate it too. They are very keen to upset the G20.
Gillard invents another misogynist insult. Apparently she feels she is no longer PM because mining executives would not serve her rum and coke.
The need to divide Australia by race? Socialism hurts Aboriginals too. Aboriginal peoples do not need to be segregated. But that is how the left intend to address the imbalance of poverty involving Aboriginal peoples. People need the dignity of work, and to be able to prosper. But that would be denied them by people who would rather help people who are high and on drugs to feel better.
Pope is wrong to wish more dead from people smuggling. But he has when he wrings his hands in anger at life saving attempts to prevent people smuggling. Over 1200 people died recently from the ALP's poor policies regarding people smuggling. Blood is not something politicians should profit from. The Italian left are showing the same bad ALP policy can be as murderous in the Mediterranean.
Abbott praises coal. Burning coal produces carbon dioxide which is an excellent plant food. The world is not heating from Carbon Dioxide at the moment. But the left are so hysterically concerned by it they are lying about it. Some claim China is cutting back on coal power, but in fact China is merely bringing on more power stations, as well as using old ones.
The fall of the Anglican Church continues with their clammy embrace of left wing idealism which eschews Christ. Melbourne Anglican (a magazine) asks for a re-imposition of a tax on air, freeing women by not following the bible but encouraging the wearing of a Burqa, drowning people desperate to come to Australia, opposing Israel, asking the question of how to respond to effective asylum policy and using Christian Climate Science (what is that?).
Gillard invents another misogynist insult. Apparently she feels she is no longer PM because mining executives would not serve her rum and coke.
The need to divide Australia by race? Socialism hurts Aboriginals too. Aboriginal peoples do not need to be segregated. But that is how the left intend to address the imbalance of poverty involving Aboriginal peoples. People need the dignity of work, and to be able to prosper. But that would be denied them by people who would rather help people who are high and on drugs to feel better.
Pope is wrong to wish more dead from people smuggling. But he has when he wrings his hands in anger at life saving attempts to prevent people smuggling. Over 1200 people died recently from the ALP's poor policies regarding people smuggling. Blood is not something politicians should profit from. The Italian left are showing the same bad ALP policy can be as murderous in the Mediterranean.
Abbott praises coal. Burning coal produces carbon dioxide which is an excellent plant food. The world is not heating from Carbon Dioxide at the moment. But the left are so hysterically concerned by it they are lying about it. Some claim China is cutting back on coal power, but in fact China is merely bringing on more power stations, as well as using old ones.
The fall of the Anglican Church continues with their clammy embrace of left wing idealism which eschews Christ. Melbourne Anglican (a magazine) asks for a re-imposition of a tax on air, freeing women by not following the bible but encouraging the wearing of a Burqa, drowning people desperate to come to Australia, opposing Israel, asking the question of how to respond to effective asylum policy and using Christian Climate Science (what is that?).
He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?
“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”
Time to drag them to the judge. From 2013
ALP leadership is sorted .. nobody is happy? Continued failed policy and negativity. Money is gone. Victorian ALP claim they would never have a surplus.
Costco is in Australia and welcomed .. what about Shoneys?
AGW means open spaces in Sydney. Luckily, the warming pause may not be permanent.
Left wing press fight to censor press. Apparently it is Fairfax media which is polluted. Somehow, the left became thugs.
Are Coral Reefs the cockroaches of an AGW era?
Barrycades tumble, but Obama's need, to spurn the US public, never rests.
Gambling is a problem, but does Tim Costello have an answer? Costello's facts are misleading in order to inflate the issue. I get it that it affects families for generations. I can point to my own family as an example. Costello is highlighting a problem without highlighting a workable solution. In fact, the high rollers account for much of gambling, and they aren't many and aren't the problem. Also, those betting on Melbourne Cup or once a year skew the issue. There is an issue with obsessive compulsive gambling by poor people. It is related to mental illness and should, imho, be covered in that category. But Costello seems to want to whip Abbott over it, after having failed to get Gillard to implement a bad system. Maybe proof of age is no longer a good measure for such activity? A license? Proof of sanity?
I'm begging the press to help me .. maybe I'm not sane ..
Costco is in Australia and welcomed .. what about Shoneys?
AGW means open spaces in Sydney. Luckily, the warming pause may not be permanent.
Left wing press fight to censor press. Apparently it is Fairfax media which is polluted. Somehow, the left became thugs.
Are Coral Reefs the cockroaches of an AGW era?
Barrycades tumble, but Obama's need, to spurn the US public, never rests.
Gambling is a problem, but does Tim Costello have an answer? Costello's facts are misleading in order to inflate the issue. I get it that it affects families for generations. I can point to my own family as an example. Costello is highlighting a problem without highlighting a workable solution. In fact, the high rollers account for much of gambling, and they aren't many and aren't the problem. Also, those betting on Melbourne Cup or once a year skew the issue. There is an issue with obsessive compulsive gambling by poor people. It is related to mental illness and should, imho, be covered in that category. But Costello seems to want to whip Abbott over it, after having failed to get Gillard to implement a bad system. Maybe proof of age is no longer a good measure for such activity? A license? Proof of sanity?
I'm begging the press to help me .. maybe I'm not sane ..
Historical perspective on this day
1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings: In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conquerordefeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1582 – Because of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends(Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirch.
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
1806 – Battle of Jena–Auerstedt France defeats Prussia.
1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1843 – Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell arrested by British on charges of criminal conspiracy.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station: Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1884 – American inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series; this would be their last until clinching the 2016 World Series.
1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident claims the lives of 439 miners.
1915 – World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 – World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
1943 – World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans.
1943 – World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
1943 – World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet of the Empire of Japan, was inaugurated with Jose P. Laurel as its president.
1944 – World War II: Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmachtpulls out. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with Georgios Papandreou, as the head of government.
1944 – World War II: Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy Guangzhou.
1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the throne in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies, such as Alexei Kosygin, the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
1967 – Vietnam War: American folk singer and activist Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 – Vietnam War: Twenty-seven soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 – The 6.5 Mw Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people dead.
1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanommilitary government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws approximately 100,000 people.
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere in the Red Bull Stratos project.
2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
2014 – Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
2015 – A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 41-42, 1 Thessalonians 1 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 41-42
The Helper of Israel
1 “Be silent before me, you islands!
Let the nations renew their strength!
Let them come forward and speak;
let us meet together at the place of judgment.
Let the nations renew their strength!
Let them come forward and speak;
let us meet together at the place of judgment.
2 “Who has stirred up one from the east,
calling him in righteousness to his service?
He hands nations over to him
and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust with his sword,
to windblown chaff with his bow.
3 He pursues them and moves on unscathed,
by a path his feet have not traveled before.
4 Who has done this and carried it through,
calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD—with the first of them
and with the last—I am he.”
calling him in righteousness to his service?
He hands nations over to him
and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust with his sword,
to windblown chaff with his bow.
3 He pursues them and moves on unscathed,
by a path his feet have not traveled before.
4 Who has done this and carried it through,
calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD—with the first of them
and with the last—I am he.”
5 The islands have seen it and fear;
the ends of the earth tremble.
They approach and come forward;
6 they help each other
and say to their companions, “Be strong!”
7 The metalworker encourages the goldsmith,
and the one who smooths with the hammer
spurs on the one who strikes the anvil.
One says of the welding, “It is good.”
The other nails down the idol so it will not topple....
the ends of the earth tremble.
They approach and come forward;
6 they help each other
and say to their companions, “Be strong!”
7 The metalworker encourages the goldsmith,
and the one who smooths with the hammer
spurs on the one who strikes the anvil.
One says of the welding, “It is good.”
The other nails down the idol so it will not topple....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Thessalonians 1
1 Paul, Silas and Timothy,
To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace and peace to you.
Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians’ Faith
2 We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
4 For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. 6You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, 9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.
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Morning
Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature's garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it thee, for human nature's thorns never produced a single fig. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh."
True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in the light of his love.
True sorrow for sin is eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally--as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it--shun it in everything--not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it is so sweet a bitter, that we thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter our eternal rest.
Evening
Whose love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to Jesus my Lord? I do love him, and perhaps by his grace, I could even die for him, but as for my love in itself, it can scarcely endure a scoffing jest, much less a cruel death. Surely it is my Beloved's love which is here spoken of--the love of Jesus, the matchless lover of souls. His love was indeed stronger than the most terrible death, for it endured the trial of the cross triumphantly. It was a lingering death, but love survived the torment; a shameful death, but love despised the shame; a penal death, but love bore our iniquities; a forsaken, lonely death, from which the eternal Father hid his face, but love endured the curse, and gloried over all. Never such love, never such death. It was a desperate duel, but love bore the palm. What then, my heart? Hast thou no emotions excited within thee at the contemplation of such heavenly affection? Yes, my Lord, I long, I pant to feel thy love flaming like a furnace within me. Come thou thyself and excite the ardour of my spirit.
"For every drop of crimson blood
Thus shed to make me live,
O wherefore, wherefore have not I
A thousand lives to give?"
Why should I despair of loving Jesus with a love as strong as death? He deserves it: I desire it. The martyrs felt such love, and they were but flesh and blood, then why not I? They mourned their weakness, and yet out of weakness were made strong. Grace gave them all their unflinching constancy--there is the same grace for me. Jesus, lover of my soul, shed abroad such love, even thy love in my heart, this evening.
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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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