Thursday, December 02, 2021

2nd Dec Review of Historical and Current Affairs

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

Consider these recent truths
Rittenhouse exonerated, not guilty of murder by reason of self defence.
Arbery is still dead, killed by armed felons claiming self defence, but now convicted of murder.
Derek Chauvin jailed by politicians. Derek did his job in arresting Floyd, but was convicted by a court based on hysteria regarding riots and social policy which directly led to the Rittenhouse and Arbery cases. 

It is apparent that ANTIFA and BLM riots, defund the police and COVID crises were confected to dog whistle Democrat support and antagonise conservatives. At the same time, Tech oligarchs exploited social media and the internet more broadly. This time last year, a browser of mine refused to allow me to access my MAGAbook account as it identified the site as being 'unsafe.' Think about what that intrusion means. MAGABook is a FB competitor. I would later be booted off FB, after I'd not posted for awhile but had been using it to access my internet history. The excuse for taking all my FB data since 2007 despite my postings being sparse and not politically related, following Jan 6th 2021, was because `I had already been marked a long time earlier. My online shop had been sabotaged so that I could not sell any of my books. My youtube account had been shadow banned and only videos thought to embarrass me were visible to the public. 


Today is a big day for  

In 1582, in Stratford-upon-AvonWilliam Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid a £40 bond for their marriage licence. In 1627, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy had its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa. In 1660, at Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher WrenRobert BoyleJohn Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decided to found what is later known as the Royal Society. In 1666, at least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeated about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green. In 1785, The Treaty of Hopewell was signed. In 1811, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. In 1814, The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in which women vote in a national election. In 1895, the first American automobile race took place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, IllinoisFrank Duryea won in approximately 10 hours. In 1905, Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland. In 1907, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theatre. In 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff made the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.  In 1919, Lady Astor was elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She was the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.) In 1920, Irish War of IndependenceKilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambushed a convoy of British Auxiliaries and killed seventeen. In 1925, the Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.In 1964, Mariner programNASA launched the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. Also, Vietnam WarNational Security Council members agreed to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam. In 1965, Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announced he would send troops to help fight in South Vietnam


From 2013

The left are crowing at being able to drown people who are desperate and poor. They call it compassion. In order to achieve their aim, they needed to attack Australia's foreign relations with Indonesia and China. A highly partisan ABC have taken the lead as an opposition since the ALP collapsed in its popularity. Fairfax polls were produced showing it to be ALP Christmas time. But, it is still early days. The ALP are not popular. ABC journalists are not competent and the improvement benefits of a conservative government have not been hammered home .. or away. NSW State government has been unfairly criticised. Bolt has pointed his finger of balance. But despite Bolt wanting to see the ALP make one good decision, anywhere, they stubbornly resist.

The threat to label a child for not attending a museum is obscene. Education committees agonise over how to give a child a broad liberal education. But it is parents that make the best decisions. A system might be very bad, but few would notice as the parents do what they do. ALP failed Australia with its attempt at Gonski reform. Liberals are setting it right. Maybe some programs will have to be cut. But that will be a good thing. No essential program will be cut. The worst thing that will happen is that teachers will be forced to do what they are paid to do. Something that has never fussed the ABC.

There is a rumour that Tanya Plibersek will roll Shorten over an allegation of sexual assault. I had predicted it would be Jason Clare. Shorten's bad decision making seems to be geared to making it easier to roll him. The allegation is premature if that were the intention, because for drama reasons Clare would need to assert himself with less than a year to go to an election. But Tanya Plibersek may want to be the incompetent that gets toppled, if Shorten is incapable of being merely incompetent. Remember, none of the ALP have shown ability on any issue.

From 2014  
The abuses of the left with respect to truth are long-standing. Medical grade radioactive isotopes are routinely injected into patients to diagnose cancer. Much lower, safer doses are used by mining the same way to track underground liquids and gasses too. And the anti-mining lobby learns of it and hysterically reports it to left wing journalists who report it without balance. The radioactive isotopes used in mining, and fracking, are the same, but weaker, than those used in medicine. They are no threat to the environment. But then the issue of radiation has been overstated since Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. The hysterics are now claiming milk bottle lids are contaminated waste. Not because of radiation, but even so, the label is misleading and hysterical without being funny. 

There is a need to cut and control spending. It is untenable that our children be forced to live worse than we do, to pay for our comforts. Or worse, to be indebted to people who do not celebrate freedom, liberty or equality. Yet the ALP in Australia, and Democrats in the US threaten exactly that. The Australian federal budget cuts were modest, but they must get bigger the longer they are delayed. Meanwhile, extremist leftwing organisations like the ABC, challenged to cut their fingernails with 5%, are cutting off their own limbs and refusing to do core services. Tonight, the second last 7:30 report in NSW was dedicated to opposing Liberal government policy on selling assets to pay for infrastructure. But that is what good government does. It is not the role of good government to maintain pricey services and not build infrastructure. 

Frightbats, proud of their efforts to hurt and abuse decent people in triumph of the left, have a party in which they claim to drink the tears of some of their victims. Poet Ben Pobjie defends his abuse of Sean Abbott and Tony Abbott, but fails to account for it. Such rudeness is inexcusable, but mean and small. Meanwhile in the US the meme of white racism is resulting in riots and death. The abuses of the left are not responsible behaviour. 

A new report is out describing how Clive Palmer initiated his own political demise by attacking China, apparently illegally. Two jihadist males being tried in an Australian Court refuse to stand for the judge. This threatens many and suggests intimidation. Before it goes much further, contempt of court rulings should settle it. It works with non jihadists too. 

The tragic death of Phil Hughes has not been publicly resolved yet. The public will not move on until they are allowed. But a tragic death like this, lamentable and sad, is also a cultural asset. Twelve cricketers have died as a result of their play on the field. Including the Prince of Wales in 1751. 

The Prince of Wales' epigram (quoted by William Makepeace Thackeray"Four Georges"):
"Here lies poor Fred who was alive and is dead,
Had it been his father I had much rather,
Had it been his sister nobody would have missed her,
Had it been his brother, still better than another,
Had it been the whole generation, so much better for the nation,
But since it is Fred who was alive and is dead,
There is no more to be said!"
=== from 2015 ===
The person who shot up an abortion clinic in the US may call themselves a Christian, but they have not served Christ. It isn't up to the servant to make their master's will plain. They might try to. Good intentions aren't the same as service. Some abortions are necessary for survival of the mother. They shouldn't be done lightly. The mother must exercise her conscience, not the state. And not some third party vigilante. By killing a policeman and two others the gunman has broken an old testament commandment that Jesus surpassed. Jesus allows righteousness, which means the old Law can be broken for the right reasons. But this is not right. Even an idiot can be saved by becoming a Christian. But this is not that. It is as wrong as a jihadi engaged in immoral behaviour to be a terrorist. Christians, that are soldiers, can kill and still be faithful to God. But this is not that. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2016 ===
The journalist Cam Lucadou-Wells has at least three times reported the words of Kuranda Seyit, executive director of Forum on Australia's Islamic Relations (FAIR). But those words don't seem responsible. In the article, Seyit is reported as having said that an anti-radical kit distributed to Victorian schools could not work, and had failed in the UK and US, where one Texan schoolboy had defended his science project of a non functioning clock attached to a bag of not being a bomb.

Today Cam's article "Misguided, not terrorists" quotes Seyit "It is time that we take a responsible approach to the issue and reduce the risk of feeding into the right-wing and racist elements in society, which has seen a sudden increase in supporters in the past two years in Australia"

The issue of todays's article is related to a refugee who burned a bank in Springvale, critically injuring people as he set himself on fire after not getting welfare benefits he felt entitled to. Terrorism or not, is it acceptable behaviour for the faith? It harms Islamic Australian relations when entitlement trumps reason and the safety of innocent others. It brings Islam into disrepute.

IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a Georgina Downer article “The High Cost of Populism” on Populist governments threatening trade and prosperity. Downer naively compares President elect Trump’s rhetoric with Pauline Hanson’s policies and makes wrong conclusions. Populism does threaten prosperity, as ALP leader Shorten has demonstrated with over three years of preventing necessary cuts to spending. There is no benefit to Australia for Shorten to do so. The benefit to Shorten is that an ABCC does not examine his past union dealings. Australia is paying a high price to get an ABCC because of Shorten’s opposition and Nick Xenophon Party’s control of the senate. Trump is promising something different to Hanson. Trump is promising to tear up bad deals and replace them with good deals. With good deals everyone wins. With bad deals nobody does. NAFTA is a dog’s breakfast thanks to the ‘leadership’ of Obama. By way of contrast, Hanson is hostile to foreign trade. Hanson and Trump do not compare. Australia wants to export sugar. US farmers want to export sugar too. There is room for both with the right deal. 

From 2017

Don't give up on hope. A Harvard professor believes many ADHD cases are fraudulent. Donald Trump is draining the swamp. A radical justice group is calling for human rights for worst case offenders. Possibly the death sentence is preferable? Corporal punishment? A 20 yo Australian, born to Somalian refugees, has been arrested for wanting to carry out a terrorist hit. Many are wondering how the Australian was radicalised. It was probably because of unhinged schooling and media. Not everyone responds that way. 

The lawyer that told Dan Andrews the East West Link contract was not worth the paper it was written on, but it was in fact $1.2 billion, has been made a judge in Victoria's highest court. In Honduras, conservative government has raised the standard of living, but the government is being beaten at election by a left wing tv compere who claims the government had been corruptly raising the standard of living. Senator James Paterson had released a discussion paper before the end of SSM vote on protections needed moving forward. That should have been part of bilateral discussion during the election. It is needed. 


We have hope. It is incumbent on us to win back the freedom denied us. And to protect that freedom. We will do that democratically. We will take back our legislature. We will get our courts to return to protecting our constitution.

I have lost everything several times. And yet here I am. Behind me is an Australian flag and a MAGA cap. On my MAGA cap is an American flag. I will die, one day. But, I pledge allegiance to the flag (of Australia and) the United States of America. And to the republics for which they stand. One nation. Indivisible. Under God. With liberty, and justice, for all.

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.

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Intro to Locals.com

My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence. 

I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections. 

I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately. 

I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.

https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voice 

=== From 2020 ===
Is COVID hysteria entirely so China can influence the US election outcome? Were the lockdowns in Europe and Australia so that US states could claim a state of emergency and allow for dysfunctional voting procedure? Is it the case that people have died as a result of COVID hysteria, while the worst affected by COVID are not dying in the same numbers as they were pre-COVID?

There are reports on a Lt General McInerney claiming the Dominion server which was used to change votes and 'elect' Biden has been seized from a CIA site in Germany. Some US soldiers died. Details will be privy to SCOTUS. If true, several significant peoples on Democrat side face treason accusations. Several Deep State operatives face treason accusations. Could the first 'black President' of the United States face justice for his crimes? NB AFP fact check denies claim.

How did #FakeNews predict a blue wave from 16.7% of counties favouring Biden? How did they measure voter fraud? How come #FakeNews is now unaware of voter fraud? Is it now the case that Democrat tactics are to force SCOTUS to make a decision so they can then claim SCOTUS is compromised?

The evidence of Fraud in the 2020 election, so widespread is harmful for democracy. It must be addressed. It was not solely the 2020 election, apparently, but had failed in 2016 after Trump over performed then, as he has now. Trump was so good in 2020, that the fraud became evident. It also highlights the possibility that voter fraud extended to 2006 and underpinned Obama's rise. As did big tech collusion. Recently, every one of my browsers would not let me access MAGAbook, citing privacy concerns.

We know who voted for Trump. We saw them. Queues of people with hats and signs and cheering Trump in their thousands all over USA. We have not seen people in great numbers who supported Biden. There is no evidence they have ever existed outside of a riot or a hissy fit by a Democrat partisan election official.

I watch Dan Bongino on Rumble and heard him on his Rumble cast say Trump should have addressed disloyal swamp creatures sooner. I disagree with it, and might have egg all over my face soon for saying so, but following is my reasoning. Trump has temporised on facing some of the swamp, not hesitated. Late last year, Trump said he was pulling troops out of Syria and was criticised for it severely. But then an ISIS leader stood up and special forces ran him to committing suicide rather than be taken. The operation, a sting masterminded by Trump had not included significant figures within his administration, and sparked a resignation of National Security Adviser Bolton, who had not been in the loop. Imagine the resistance if Trump had opposed more? But now, if Trump politically survives this, the swamp is exposed and has no support from conservatives. I'm reminded of former Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett who had led a successful conservative government and had a crash or crash through election which he lost. Had Kennett won, he had clear air for a long time, but having lost Victoria is where the US will be if Biden is allowed to cheat a win.

Trump cycle has it Trump is on his knees, before ... Media is cheering expected partisan court decisions to not support inquiry into voting fraud. However, they overstate the meaning of the shortfalls. The Trump campaign to have their electoral win restored was never going to be straightforward. They have the evidence. It points to multiple elections and undermines the credibility of US Democracy. Ultimately, aspects of it will be decided by SCOTUS. We do not yet know how SCOTUS will decide, or even what exact evidence they will face. But we know the evidence is substantial, and in an effort to suppress the will of conservative resistance, media are claiming that the evidence is not substantive and so the evidence is yet to be addressed. Maybe there is a good reason for a CIA asset being deployed to fraudulently control the US election. Let us hear what it is.

It is apparent that Dems committed fraud to steal the 2020 election. They may well have done similar in 2016. In 2016, Fox declared Pennsylvania early to HRC. The demand was made for Trump to concede. Trump won in 2016, but it surprised the establishment that did similar in their voter suppression as they have done in 2020. HRC had organised a victory party, but blessed marching vagina instead. Even her book did not say what happened. Trump has been very good at mobilising ordinary, decent Americans to support him in numbers greater than any GOP ever. Trump does not court race, or gender, like his racist, bigoted opposition have. Yet Trump has extraordinary minority support for a GOP, possibly the highest since Eleanor Roosevelt courted the Black vote as her husband exploited them. The Dem voting pattern and issues echo the Obama wins too. How long have Dems been using these fraudulent methods to obtain votes? Did they use them to bodgy the 2006 mid terms? It is not that the mysterious support of vapour for Dems is so clearly fraudulent, but, other than violent rioters, and #FakeNews, where is their support, really? How come there is no policy platform for Democrats? Why does Big Tech have to censor the truth? How many millions of Trump supporting votes have been given to Biden? The corruption is so apparent, and so pervasive, that if Trump concedes 2020, he will be conceding all elections that follow, and the flame of liberty will be extinguished in America.

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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-campaign-lawsuit-absentee-wisconsin/2020/12/01/id/999415/?oRef=mixi

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Here is a link to #FakeNews report from News.com.au 

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/donald-trumps-lawyer-joe-digenova-says-fired-cybersecurity-official-should-be-taken-out-and-shot-for-contradicting-the-president/news-story/1ce37af415f03c0190b34cce2be59be0

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n.b. accusations against the soldiers have never been proven in a court of law. 
Ep. 1404 The Media Refused to Cover This, So We Will
by Team BonginoPosted: December 1, 2020
In this episode, I discuss the dramatic hearing in Arizona yesterday and the intentional media black out. I also discuss another chilling episode where a public figure was caught violating her own edicts.

News Picks:

Swamp watch
Molly McCann Says SCOTUS Has a Duty to Take Trump Team’s Election Fraud Cases
Biden’s Beijing Duo
Biden OMB Pick Allegedly Assaulted Reporter for Asking Question About Hillary Clinton
Biden OMB Pick Deletes 1,000 Tweets in Anticipation of Tough Confirmation Vote
Black Lives Matter Global Network Accused of Providing “No Acceptable Financial Transparency”
Media Blasts Trump for Using Clemency Powers 44 Times – Obama Used Them Nearly 2,000 Times
John Kerry Promises the “Great Reset” Will Happen
Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci Owes Every Parent and School-Aged Child an Apology
Culture War
Antifa Crazies Plan “Week of Action” to Avenge Murderer Killed by Police in Self Defense
James O’Keefe Joins CNN Conference Call
Is America a House Dividing?
Wikipedia Blacklists Newsmax As Popularity Post-Election Skyrockets
Michael Flynn Pardon Just the Start of the Justice This Country Is Entitled To
Of Course: Environmentalists Pushing for Economy-Wide Lockdowns to Fight “Climate Change”
University of British Columbia Students Warned About “Yellow Privilege”
MSNBC Viewers Call for Andrea Mitchell to Resign
First Lady Melania Unveils “America the Beautiful” Christmas Theme

Capitol Hill

The Wealthy Would Benefit Six Times More Than the Bottom 20% Under Dems’ Student Debt Cancellation Scheme

GOP Officially Flips Fourteenth Congressional Seat
Trump Has Raised at Least $150 Million Since Election Day for Legal Efforts
Trump Campaign Requests Georgia Audit Absentee Ballot Signatures for Fifth Time
Georgia Opens Investigation Into Groups Trying to Register Out-of-State Voters for Runoffs
Biden’s Impossible Margins in PA’s Mail-In Ballots
Schumer Demands Biden Confirmation Hearings Immediately
Arizona Secretary of State Certifies Election Results for Biden
Ajit Pai to Step Down from FCC on January 20
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 1: Trump Approval at 49%
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Australia Teams Up With U.S. To Get Hypersonic Missiles For Its Super Hornets In Five Years
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37875/australia-teams-up-with-u-s-to-get-hypersonic-missiles-for-its-super-hornets-in-five-years

=== FB Memes and memories ===




=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. My mate Jay is a South Australian Farmer. He lives relatively close to the new Musk battery. After the battery was turned on, Jay got his third blackout longer than 12 hours this year. Barnaby Joyce won his by-election and is now deputy PM again with an increased margin of 10% because he isn't Turnbull? Donald Trump got the senate to pass his tax cuts. Every Democrat opposed it. Remember that. Floods in Melbourne have been overstated so far. If we had had more dam capacity, it would be better.

A puzzling historical example, I point to Horatio Nelson at Copenhagen. Nelson had a diplomatic mission to get Protestant Danes to ally with Protestant England away from Catholic France. But Danish leaders rejected the mission. Nelson attacked the Danish fleet and shelled Copenhagen and fought to a standstill. The puzzling thing is he was greeted by the Danes he had shelled as a conquering hero. The diplomatic mission had been a success. It would not have been were the Danes Catholic. There is great antipathy between Sunni and Shi’a and most deaths from either side are related to the other side. Both leaderships are aware their power rests with their people.

I think the US role has been peace broker for decades and both sides suspect any US initiative as merely for peace. When Libya accused Saudis of being a US puppet, Saudi ambassador yelled out “Shut up you monkeys! What do you know about bending America to your will?” I’m greatly encouraged by Trump working bilaterally across the region. I feel there are bilateral solutions which are possible where regional fails. For example Israel is a regional problem because hatred of Israel is all that unites the region. But by bilateral relations being explored, Israel moves down the issue totem and so the US embassy can be moved to Jerusalem. Because by decertifying the process and starting anew it is possible that the US can stop Israel having to bomb Iran. Israel will defend herself. She won’t accept nuclear warheads aimed at her. Obama left a delay that guaranteed Iran would finish bombs without sanction. Now, by bilaterally working with players, Israel is not the primary focus, but bilateral needs are. This means US can shift their embassy to Jerusalem, but also other regional powers will act against Iran developing a bomb .. including Saudi Arabia. Saudi hate Israel and are sanguine with Iran getting bomb becomes, under Trump, Saudi want regional security and would prefer Iran don’t get bomb. The big difference being engagement in relations where each side wins

=== from 2016 ===
IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a Richard Allsop article “War’s End” covering the Australian contribution to end WW1 in review of “The Last Fifty Miles” by Adam Wakeling. Australia’s PM of the day, Billy Hughes, did more than any other ally to ensure Japan would fight for empire in WW2. Even segregation fanboy President Wilson could only sit back and admire the bigotry. General Monash was at his height of authority, and was effective in getting ground without needlessly throwing away lives. Wakeling poignantly illustrates his story by introducing voices of people killed on the last morning. Those last fifty miles, from the high point of the German spring offensive to final point of surrender, cost Australia 5500 lives and 18500 injured. Children of the survivors, and younger siblings, would go on to become part of the greatest generation. 
=== from 2015 ===
Corruption cannot be abided if we are to prosper. We can't accept Malcolm Turnbull's lies in place of decision making or policy. We can't accept Julie Bishop's obfuscations over her roll in back stabbing Mr Abbott. We can't accept Turnbull white anting Morrison as a future leader. We can't accept big government stealing future prosperity. We can't accept a corrupt opposition leader or incompetent shadow ministers. But we have and we do. Journalist Miranda Devine helped campaign against Mr Abbott and now demands his silence. It is said we must back Mr Turnbull for now. But, the truth is Turnbull knew what he was doing and knew he needed to be graceful after he won. He needed to show he could keep promises. He made promises, and has failed to keep them. He failed to be gracious. We can't accept that. It doesn't mean not voting conservative. Nationals are good. And unless you live in Wentworth, the Liberals are better than the alternatives. But tell your local Liberal that Turnbull must go. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014  
The Brick with Eyes is what Queensland PUP Senator Lazarus was called on the rugby league field. He was renowned for his toughness. PUP is using him as a hard man in the senate. When Palmer's fishing expedition into Campbell Newman threatened to branch off and investigate Palmer himself, Lazarus redirected it away from Palmer. Lazarus is loyal, but not very smart. His politics sees him matching the ALP voting record which is unlikely to be what the voters who voted for him wanted when they didn't vote for the ALP. But it is politics and Lazarus knows he has to be tough if the game plan of PUP is to succeed. It seems as if Palmer is disenchanted with Newman because Palmer felt he owned Newman through party donations. But that isn't how donations work in a democracy. But Palmer was desperate. The result has been that after the ALP and Greens blocked all legislation in the senate for the Abbott Government until July, Palmer has had PUP play a similar role after. And Palmer is playing hard ball, not giving anything to the government without exacting much more. Even when the government has negotiated things that suit Palmer, PUP has fractured and Lambie has rolled into blocking mode too. So that PUP cannot be trusted to follow through on their own negotiations. The government has modified its higher education reforms, but Lazarus is feeling too down to negotiate with the government, and wants their messaging him to stop. Lazarus could achieve that by replying and agreeing. Poor brick. 

The Abbot administration have done a brilliant job with limited opportunity. They have endeavoured to keep their promises, and have one so with few exceptions. They are not in a position to fix the budget, because of the senate, but they have made responsible decisions and they are persevering. Some things are frustrating for their friends and supporters. The failure to eliminate the bad legislation of 18c from racial discrimination is one thing. While on the other hand there is need to allow ASIO and the police access to metadata. Limiting the pay rise of soldiers and cutting ABC 5% are measured responses by the government hysterically opposed. Had Lambie and PUP granted the necessary cuts, there might have been room to negotiate over soldier pay. Another useful budget measure is a modest charge of $7 to see a doctor. The benefit includes the establishment of a $20 billion research fund. But the ALP who decry the loss of the name 'science' from the ministry, refuse to back the establishment of the fund. $7 does not pay for a doctor, it is a price indicator, like public transport, education or prescriptions. The ALP has cost every man woman and child in Australia some $6000 every year in interest payments managing ALP's production of public debt. 

Karl Stefanovic was outrageously rude and unfair when interviewing Mr Abbott on Today. Following the Victorian Election LNP loss, which wasn't Mr Abbott's fault, but from an early lack of leadership and direction in Victoria. The good news for Victorians is that the LNP will change their leadership. They had been a good government, and they are being replaced by crooks. But Mr Abbott has re engaged with the senate and offered compromises. Enter Karl, who, protecting the media narrative, laughed at the effort to re engage with the senate and hung the election loss around Mr Abbott's neck. Karl was rude, and interrupted Mr Abbott so as to not let him correct the lies Karl was speaking. Karl 'playfully' referred to a tree back drop Mr Abbott had, because Ch9 camera people positioned it. But even so, Mr Abbott, unflustered, addressed everything, including explaining the tree. It hasn't changed the media narrative, or the lies underpinning it, but one imagines they will be put to bed in a few months time with a dynamic government persevering. 
From 2013
There is something uncomfortable with watching the press pick at a conservative government to engineer an accusation of compromise. Prior to the last election the Liberal party promised to match the ALP on funding for education. The abysmal Gonski plan was tabled. It took funding from universities and TAFEs as well as general revenue and funnelled it into ALP friendly institutions without benefit to education. NSW took the funding but had its own programs it would use the money for. Some of the programs are worthwhile, but all of them are beyond standard practice. The ALP missed out on three of the ten states and territories and withdrew $1.2 billion from the package and put it in general revenue before declaring they were over $30 billion off budget. 

Now the ALP are claiming the Liberal Party need to put the $1.2 billion back. Education minister Pyne noted it was missing. Now it has been restored. Laurie Oakes, acting as an ALP shadow minister, called it a multiple back flip. At no stage has the LNP gone back on its' election promises. Close questioning by Bolt as well as ABC almost exacted what looked like it might have been a broken promise. A recording of Pyne talking about schools funding seemed to show .. nothing. Despite the affirmation, it is clear Pyne has improved on the ALP model as well as raising spending. In time to come, that will be clear. In the short term, there is the gloating of the press. Still, one can't help but feel the ALP will direct the money to vaginal knitting in South Australia and Tasmania. 


Cate Blanchet weeps for the lost opportunities of planet killing travel. Wealthy urban lefties are leaving private education, at the expense of cheaper private education for all Australians. Michael Clarke suffers from ACB's hysteria over a friendly warning. Note to Obama on health care "You did not build this" .. very well. Flannery earns pay in obtaining consensus on Global Warming in the community, as people disbelieve it. Wagga Anglican church questions the role of Jesus in the church. Where is the bias incident response team? More on Snowden's intelligence leak. Keating knew what he was doing, but he was wrong.
Historical perspective on this day
In 1409, the University of Leipzig opened. In 1697, St Paul's Cathedral was consecrated in London. In 1755, the second Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed by fire. In 1763, dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States. In 1775, the USS Alfred became the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag was hoisted by John Paul Jones. In 1804, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himselfEmperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years. In 1805, Napoleonic WarsBattle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a joint Russo-Austrian force. In 1823, Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaimed American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warned European powers not to interfere in the Americas. In 1845, Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposed that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. In 1848, Franz Josef I became Emperor of Austria. In 1851, French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic. In 1852, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor of the French as Napoleon III. In 1859, militant abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. In 1867, at Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gave his first public reading in the United States. In 1899, Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", was fought.

In 1908, Puyi became Emperor of China at the age of two. In 1917, World War I: Russia and the Central Powers signed an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.In 1920, following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded. In 1927, following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveiled the Ford Model A as its new automobile. In 1930, Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposed a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. In 1939, New York City's LaGuardia Airport opened. In 1942, World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. In 1943, World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sank numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which was carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas. In 1947, Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. In 1954, Cold War: The United States Senate voted 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute". Also, the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, was signed in Washington, D.C. In 1956, the Granma reached the shores of Cuba's Oriente ProvinceFidel CastroChe Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembarked to initiate the Cuban Revolution. In 1961, in a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism. In 1962, Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. KennedyU.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield became the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.


In 1970, the United States Environmental Protection Agency began operations. In 1971, Abu DhabiAjmanFujairahSharjahDubai, and Umm al-Quwain formed the United Arab Emirates. In 1975, Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seized the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forcing the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaimed the Lao People's Democratic Republic. In 1976, Fidel Castro became President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. In 1980, Salvadoran Civil War: Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita FordMaura ClarkeJean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, were murdered by a military death squad. In 1982, at the University of UtahBarney Clark became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. In 1988, Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state. In 1991, Canada and Poland become the first nations on earth to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union. In 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín. Also,  Space Shuttle programSTS-61 – NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1999, Glenbrook rail accident: Seven passengers were killed when two trains collided near Sydney, New South Wales. Also, the United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. In 2001, Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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