Bairnsdale Conservative: Tue 19th October 2021 Curren 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, 2 Thessalonians 1

Paul, Silas and Timothy,

To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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https://rumble.com/vnwh13-ep.-1628-explosive-connection-between-hillary-and-chinas-deadly-new-weapon-.html
What does Hillary Clinton have to do with the explosive story out of China this weekend? In this episode, I address the eye-opening connections between the Clintons and China’s deadliest new weapon.

News Picks:

Hillary Clinton, Skolkovo, and hypersonic missiles.
The John Solomon story about Skolkovo, discussed in the show today.
Discredited Christopher Steele still stands behind the ridiculous pee-pee tape.
This Chinese military test should concern all of us.
Lol. Amazon tries to prop up the reviews of the dreadful Fauci documentary.

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Dies at 84 READ MORE

Former NYT Writer Tells CNN The World Has Gone Mad Largely Thanks to Outlets Like Theirs

Media Loses Interest in Americans Still Left Stranded in Afghanistan by Biden

Maxine Waters Pays Daughter $74k in Campaign Cash Just This Year Alone

SCOTUS Sides With Cops in Two Qualified Immunity Cases

Christopher Steele Stands by Discredited Dossier in First Interview

Grab Your Popcorn: Jussie Smollett Trial to Begin November 29

Capitol Hill
Sen. Cruz the Latest to Join “Let’s Go Brandon” Chants
Shifty Schiff Wants to Hold Bannon in Contempt to “Get People’s Attention,” Basically Admitting It’s a Political Stunt
Sen. Manchin Demands Work Requirement for Biden’s Child Tax Credit Expansion
Obama’s Defense Sec Says Biden Has “Gotten a Lot Wrong” – Says Trump Got it Right on China
Immigration Activists Stormed Out of a Meeting With Biden This Past Weekend
Texas GOP Outlines New District Map
Buttigieg Says Supply Chain Troubles Will Continue Into Next Year
Merrick Garland Didn’t Attend Saturday Ceremony for Fallen Police Officers
Interior Secretary Haaland Tells Wind Industry Wind Turbines May Soon Line U.S. Coasts
Adam Schiff Reveals He Got Private Assurance From FBI Director Wray Under Trump

Culture War
Chicago Art Institute Fires Volunteer Museum Guides Because They’re Mostly White
Jon Stewart Scolds Media for Blaming Trump for Nation’s Divisiveness
Lib Journos Celebrate Column Calling for End to Objectivity
NYC Judge Blocks Unvaccinated Father From Visiting Daughter
Acclaimed Female Crime Author Turns Out to Be Pseudonym of Three Dudes
ACLU Backs Compelled Speech Policy in Loudoun County, Virginia
Gabby Petito’s Parents Say Brian Laundrie Duped Them
Introducing “The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros”
Marxist BLM Co-Founder Who Owns Multiple Homes Appointed as a Los Angeles County Commissioner

Economy
Crisis Strikes as Dunkin Donuts Runs Out of Donuts in Some Locations Due to Supply Chain Disruptions
Leader of California’s Largest Labor Union Quits After Tax, Embezzlement Charges
Reconciliation Bill Includes $6 Billion in New Taxes, Fines, and Fees on Oil and Gas Industry
The Great Resignation Creates More Havoc for Restaurant Industry
U.S. Afghan Resettlements Slowed by Housing Shortage
Prices of World’s Most Crucial Metals Continues Surging on Supply Shortages
Goldman Forecasts Home Prices Growing Another 16% by the End of Next Year
Levi’s Opens 100 New Physical Stores Amid Online Sales Boom
Charles Gasparino: Clayton, Gensler Behind Looming Over-Regulated Crypto Disaster
The Historic Social Security Cost of Living Increase Still Isn’t Enough

Swamp Watch
Venezuela Jails American Hostages
Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s Campaign May Have to Return or Donate Millions of Excess Contributions
How Illinois Dems’ Gerrymandering Could Backfire and Help Republicans
Lol: Fauci Says People Only Don’t Like Him Because He Stands for Science and Evidence
VP Harris Violates IRS Rules With Endorsement of Terry McAuliffe to Over 300 Virginia Churches
Judge Orders Chicago Police Union to Stop Encouraging Resistance to Vax Mandate
New Book: Fauci Misled Trump Admin on Gain-of-Function Research
Loudoun County Prosecutor Who Wanted to Jail Father of Girl Allegedly Raped at School Is Tied to Soros

National Security
B-2: The Stealth Bomber Built for a War with Russia or China
America’s Drone Campaign and Its Future
U.S. Air Force General the Second Woman to Lead a Top U.S. Command
The Marines Are Using SMASH-Mouth Tactics to Kill Drones
Airman Told to Begin Separating From the Military Due to Vaccine Refusal
What Can the United Nations Do About Its Counterterrorism Efforts?
Feds to Release Nontoxic Gasses Into NYC Subway for Study on Airborne Terrorism
Texas Gov. Abbott Says Cartels Are Shooting At the National Guard
Biden Admin Loses Track of 45k Unaccompanied Minors Who Entered U.S. Illegally

Around the World
British Fertility Rate Lowest in History, Number of Foreign Mothers at Record High
China Angered at U.S., Canada for Sending Warships Through Taiwan Strait
Man Known As the Last Jew Of Kabul Headed to Israel
Sixteen American Christian Ministers Among Group Kidnapped in Haiti
Grand Mosque in Mecca Suspends COVID-19 Social Distancing Measures
No End in Sight to Volcanic Eruption on La Palma, Canary Islands
French Govt Made Nearly 10,000 Reports of Terrorist Content Online to Social Media This Year
Greek Police Arrest Activists at Acropolis Protesting China Olympics

Opinion
Wayne Allyn Root: The Shameful Public Lynching of Jon Gruden
Derek Hunter: Democrats Make It Impossible To Have Empathy
Debra J. Saunders: Biden’s Epic Fail at Unity
Jonathan Feldstein: Hidden Heroes
NY Post Editorial Board: Anti-carbon Dems Won’t Be Happy Until Americans Suffer Like Europeans
Rob Jenkins: America’s Descent into Medical Fascism
Humberto Fontova: Gruden a Scoundrel and Villain, Kaepernick an Oracle and Hero—Says the NFL
Michael Brown: The Joylessness of Cancel Culture

Entertainment
Jon Stewart Says Media Casting Trump As “Incredible Supervillain” A “Mistake”
Actress Selena Gomez Says Ditching Divisive Social Media “Really Saved My Life”
SNL Ratings Slip To New Lows With Host Rami Malek
Tony Bennett Earns His Fifth Guinness World Record For Latest Album With Lady Gaga
“Y: The Last Man” Canceled By FX Weeks Before Season Debut
Show “Business” Doesn’t Apply To Woke Hollywood
Ronnie Tutt, Drummer For Elvis Presley, Jerry Garcia, Billy Joel And Others, Dead At 83
“Airplane!” Creator Blasts Joy-Killing Threat: Cancel Culture And “Twitter 9 Percent”

Sports
Inevitable: Psaki Defends Biden Breaking D.C.’s Mask Mandate
Raiders Owner Believes NFL Is Out To Get Raiders; Lawsuits Over Gruden Email Leaks Possible
Allison Williams Leaving ESPN Over Vaccine Mandate
Aaron Rodgers Screams At Bears Fans During Packers Win: “I Still Own You!”
Dodgers Fall To Braves In Game 1 Of NL Championship Series
Broncos Embarrassed At Home By Raiders On “Mike Shanahan Day”
Giants Blown Out In Disgraceful Loss To Rams
Conor McGregor Accused Of Breaking Italian DJ’s Nose In Rome
Ben Simmons Practices With 76ers, Opening Night Status Undecided

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 due to complications from COVID-19. He was fully vaccinated, his family said in a statement on Facebook. Powell was one of America's most prominent Black figures for decades. He served three Republican presidents in senior posts and reached the top of the U.S. military as it was regaining its vigor after the trauma of the Vietnam War. [Full Story]

Gordon Chang: Hypersonic Missile Attack Would Have No Warning |

Newsfront

US, Israel Combining Technologies to Ensure Better Safety for First Responders

The United States and Israel are reportedly combining their [Full Story]

Gruden Email Leak 'Reflects the Slow Death March of Privacy'

Former Las Vegas Raiders Coach Jon Gruden learned the hard way that [Full Story] |

Dick Morris: Colin Powell Could Have Beaten Clinton in 1996

Had Powell run and won, he would have personified what we all had [Full Story]

Haitian Gang Expected to Demand $1 Million Each for Missionaries

A Haitian gang that reportedly kidnapped 17 missionaries from the [Full Story]

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Here is a video I made "Swanee"

"Swanee" is an American popular song written in 1919 by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is most often associated with singer Al Jolson. The song was written for a New York City revue called Demi-Tasse, which opened in October 1919 in the Capitol Theater. Caesar and Gershwin, who was then aged 20, claimed to have written the song in about ten minutes riding on a bus in Manhattan, and then at Gershwin's apartment. It was written partly as a parody of Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home". It was originally used as a big production number, with 60 chorus girls dancing with electric lights in their slippers on an otherwise darkened stage

I've been away from you a long time
I never thought I'd miss you so
Somehow I feel
Your love is real
Near you I want to be
The birds are singing it is song time
The banjo's strumming soft and low
I know that you
Yearn for me too
Swannee, you're calling me

Swanee, how I love you, how I love you
My dear old Swanee
I give the world to be
Among the folks in D-I-X-I-
Even though my mammy's
Waiting for me
Praying for me
Down by the Swanee
The folks up north will see me no more
When I get to that Swanee shore

(whistling)
I miss the old folks at home

Swanee, how I love you, how I love you
My dear old Swanee
I give the world to be
Among the folks in D-I-X-I-
Even though my mammy's
Waiting for me
Praying for me
Down by the Swanee
The folks up north will see me no more
When I get to that Swanee shore

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Winston Peter's NZ First party has opted to go into partnership with Labor. It is a canny political decision which will give Peters more power than if he sided with conservatives. NZ First will have a few cabinet ministerial positions and Peters will have the Deputy PM position. Already Labor are planning to raise taxes and spend big. Peters has forced Labor to put their green ally out of cabinet. But for any NZ supporter, it is a lost election. The Labor party will dismantle the great work of previous conservative administrations. The lesson for Australia is that the Liberals need to ditch Turnbull and provide a conservative leader if they are to collect conservative support. So the replacement cannot be Bishop, who undiplomatically dumped on NZ Labor, Pyne, Hunt or Freudenberg. Nikki Savva says that Abbott could be given much were he to support Turnbull. Abbott already does.

California law protects child abusers is the apparent lesson as one former child star reveals he cannot name powerful pedophile Hollywood figures because of a statute of limitations. Were the figures to bee named, they could sue the accuser who could not defend themselves for having spoken the truth. But another way can be found. In all likelihood, any pedophile who is powerful has probably been given a Presidential award by a Democrat President.

The Victorian Euthanasia bill looks to have passed after a late attempt to amend it failed. The church lobby is very weak. Probably half expecting the end of the world, and seeing it come as they refuse to stand on important issues.

=== from 2016 ===

Kormilda College in the NT deserves to be saved. The money spent on it is money saved which won't have to go to kids on welfare, but instead will have young professionals earning money and paying tax. But the ALP prefers Aboriginals to be on welfare and poor, so that they can claim their benefits come from the ALP. More than 600 students attend the k-12 school which offers International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma study for its year 12. The only NT school to offer the international accreditation which would allow the students graduating to study almost anywhere in the world. The school is private with a background from Uniting and Anglican churches. The IB means that fads like safe schools don't over dominate the learning. Thing is, private schools are very good for Australia and need to be subsidised. If private schools were not subsidised, then Australia could not afford to educate her young to a high standard. Subsidising private schools means more money for public schools. But, Kormilda's boarding section has been denied funds recently a boarding school would expect. A politician has to stand up and support this school. I will embarrass any one who allows the school to fail for ideological reasons.

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 ===

Clive James has belled the cat on the issue of the rude and illiterate commenting on FB posts. There are lots of excuses for it. Time is short, so spelling is optional and common courtesy isn't necessary. But people that hold those views are wrong, and they sell themselves short. If you agree with something, a profanity doesn't convey extra meaning. Gangsters talk a certain way because they don't want to associate with police or people who respect the police. But good people treat police with respect and gangster types need to do more to convince others they aren't amoral rejects. If someone responds to my column with the four letters "tldr" I will ban them. I won't accept bullying. As my step mother practices, if you don't have anything good to say, say nothing. That has worked with us for decades.

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.

From 2014

Highly lauded for allowing women to have it all, the free offer to freeze eggs for female employees is not good policy. The trade off for the free policy is to give up hard won rights like flexible working hours, working from home and maternity leave. The cost to women is substantial with prime years for child bearing sacrificed for poor ones and no hope for raising a family without substantial medical intervention. Women who become used to work routines have to work very hard to family ones. Even so, it is unthinkable a union would oppose this bad policy, and sadly Christian Churches will also likely be too impressed with the progressive badge.

Sad to report the Bolt Report Supporters Group is besieged by a cadre of ADL followers. The ADL and Australian Tea Party are brothers with the EDL in UK and ADL (American Defence League) in the US. They have fostered right wing terrorism around the world and are known for brawling, marching and threatening minorities. Often ADL members are former soldiers and police security types who join a club in transitioning to public life. A person is not bad for being a member, but the bigotry and bad behaviour should raise flags for reasonable people. The Bolt Report Supporters page was founded by the ADL with a view to attracting conservatives who supported journalist Andrew Bolt. Part of the activity that admins of this page will not accept was to produce numerous pointers and links to ADL and EDL pages which typically spread anti Muslim hate. In the past, they spread anti Jew hate too. They are directly linked to the British Nationalist Party and neo Nazis. They might argue they have grown, and no longer seek a final solution to Zionists but just want to preserve a nationalist identity, but a good person would not accept that. Many ADL types are tasked to cause trouble for any page that does not toe their line. So it will be the case that there will be many such people on and off this site will claim they feel hard done by by the administration carrying out their duties. They will claim they have been unfairly booted and they will claim they have been denied freedom of speech. They also claim not to know about ADL. One way to spot them is to note they hate a lot. They hate Muslims and cannot distinguish between a Muslim and a terrorist that is Islamo Fascist. They worry about women's clothing a lot. They oppose male circumcision because they link it to female genital mutilation. You might befriend such a person, but they will never be your friend. They might want to use your account on FB.

Bolt Report was not on today or last year owing to sport. So Insiders was on. Insiders is an ABC program that is terribly biased to the left. Today, Nikki Savva provided a balanced viewpoint while Laura Tingle, David Marr and Barrie Cassidy openly promoted left wing propaganda. Tingle, on the issue of Australia sending health workers to Africa to combat Ebola, said she didn't understand the government policy and felt it was wrong. But she can't have it both ways. Either Tingle understands it and it is wrong, or Tingle does not understand it and so the policy might be very good. To be fair to Tingle, she understands the policy well, but doesn't want the ALP to look bad for opposing it. The government policy in Australia is clear, that Africa is not a near neighbour but gets sufficient aid from others better catered to it than Australia. Were Australia to send aid workers, she would not be able to guarantee that they could be returned in an emergency. That would be irresponsible. ALP are claiming that Australia should be irresponsible. The ALP also thought that drowning desperate people was compassionate. David Marr says it is bad that Australia has stopped drowning desperate people for compassion and that there are now people left stranded in Indonesia as a result, people that will not be drowned. Marr views that as illegal and immoral. Meanwhile Cassidy is still confused about shirt fronting between Mr Abbott and Mr Putin. Mr Abbott has promised to address the issue of MH17 with Mr Putin. Cassidy thinks that means Mr Abbott will tackle Mr Putin in an unscheduled game of AFL.

Political Promises

Rob Oakeshott is wrong in his criticism of Australia's response to Ebola. He needs to apologise for being stupid. He claims that the world only cared after a man died in Texas. In fact, world leaders, including Mr Abbott, had spoken out weeks earlier. But such facts mean little to one who is stupid. Obama has promised much regarding Ebola and health care in the US. His promises are far less valuable than his borrowings from US children. The US is suffering from bad policy. Meanwhile in Australia a compassionate immigration policy seems to be exposing Australians to brutal violence far beyond the norm.

From 2013

Australian comedienne and ALP supporter Harmer does not know where to go. Some Australians engage in Australian sport. A canine Banksy is found. Latham contradicts himself over an unimportant matter. Abbott illustrates direct action. Jonathan Green takes the law into his own hands. ABC promotes warmists in its campaign to promote AGW alarmism it hasn't a mandate for. Obama goes back to borrowing money on the behalf of US peoples. And Obama seems to have given chemical weapons to jihadists.
No Bolt Report tomorrow :( Sport instead.

Historical perspective on this day

202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1386 – The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1466 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1649 – New Ross town, County Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis hand over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrender to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
1789 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Ulm; 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow.
1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek: Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
1864 – St. Albans Raid: Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1866 – Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.

1900 – Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
1922 – British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.

1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk; 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
1944 – A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution

1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Chamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu River to fight United Nations forces.
1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
1960 – Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.

1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1984 – Roman Catholic priest from Poland, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is murdered by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1988 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

2001 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2012 – A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 people in Beirut, Lebanon.
2013 – At least 105 people are injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos

=== Bible Reading ===

Today's reading: Isaiah 53-55, 2 Thessalonians 1 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 53-55

¹ Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Thessalonians 1

¹ Paul, Silas and Timothy,

To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

² Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

⁵ All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ⁶ God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you ⁷ and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. ⁸ He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might ¹⁰ on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

=== Morning and Evening ===

Morning

"Thy paths drop fatness."
Psalm 65:11

Many are "the paths of the Lord" which "drop fatness," but an especial one is the path of prayer. No believer, who is much in the closet, will have need to cry, "My leanness, my leanness; woe unto me." Starving souls live at a distance from the mercy- seat, and become like the parched fields in times of drought. Prevalence with God in wrestling prayer is sure to make the believer strong--if not happy. The nearest place to the gate of heaven is the throne of the heavenly grace. Much alone, and you will have much assurance; little alone with Jesus, your religion will be shallow, polluted with many doubts and fears, and not sparkling with the joy of the Lord. Since the soul-enriching path of prayer is open to the very weakest saint; since no high attainments are required; since you are not bidden to come because you are an advanced saint, but freely invited if you be a saint at all; see to it, dear reader, that you are often in the way of private devotion. Be much on your knees, for so Elijah drew the rain upon famished Israel's fields.

There is another especial path dropping with fatness to those who walk therein, it is the secret walk of communion. Oh! the delights of fellowship with Jesus! Earth hath no words which can set forth the holy calm of a soul leaning on Jesus' bosom. Few Christians understand it, they live in the lowlands and seldom climb to the top of Nebo: they live in the outer court, they enter not the holy place, they take not up the privilege of priesthood. At a distance they see the sacrifice, but they sit not down with the priest to eat thereof, and to enjoy the fat of the burnt offering. But, reader, sit thou ever under the shadow of Jesus; come up to that palm tree, and take hold of the branches thereof; let thy beloved be unto thee as the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, and thou shalt be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. O Jesus, visit us with thy salvation!

Evening

"Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice."
1 Samuel 15:22

Saul had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for this, he declared that he did it with a view of offering sacrifice to God; but Samuel met him at once with the assurance that sacrifices were no excuse for an act of direct rebellion. The sentence before us is worthy to be printed in letters of gold, and to be hung up before the eyes of the present idolatrous generation, who are very fond of the fineries of will-worship, but utterly neglect the laws of God. Be it ever in your remembrance, that to keep strictly in the path of your Saviour's command is better than any outward form of religion; and to hearken to his precept with an attentive ear is better than to bring the fat of rams, or any other precious thing to lay upon his altar. If you are failing to keep the least of Christ's commands to his disciples, I pray you be disobedient no longer. All the pretensions you make of attachment to your Master, and all the devout actions which you may perform, are no recompense for disobedience. "To obey," even in the slightest and smallest thing, "is better than sacrifice," however pompous. Talk not of Gregorian chants, sumptuous robes, incense, and banners; the first thing which God requires of his child is obedience; and though you should give your body to be burned, and all your goods to feed the poor, yet if you do not hearken to the Lord's precepts, all your formalities shall profit you nothing. It is a blessed thing to be teachable as a little child, but it is a much more blessed thing when one has been taught the lesson, to carry it out to the letter. How many adorn their temples and decorate their priests, but refuse to obey the word of the Lord! My soul, come not thou into their secret.

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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

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French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG

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