Friday, December 03, 2021

3rd 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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In this episode, I discuss the bold step President Trump took yesterday to bring the fight to the liberal tech tyrants. I also address the Project Veritas takedown of CNN.
News Picks:
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Swamp Watch
Obama’s Former Solicitor General Argues U.S. Corporations Shouldn’t be Punished for Aiding and Abetting Child Slavery
Lindsey Graham Slams Biden’s “Nutjob” Pick for OMB Director
John Cornyn Lays Out the Criteria for Approval of Biden’s Nominees
Trust the Science – Unless….
DOJ Says Media Incorrectly Reported That Their Voter Fraud Investigation Was Over
Meghan Markle’s Husband Says Coronavirus Was a Punishment From Nature
Obama Thinks His Party Should Listen to People Like AOC More
Six Republicans to Discuss Immigration Reform With Dem Amnesty Advocates
Chicago Mayor’s Security Team Gets Traffic Fines Dismissed
CNN Says They Referred James O’Keefe to Law Enforcement for Listening in on Their Conference Calls

Culture Wars
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Joins Parler
Video Shows Dem Senate Candidate Warnock Laughing At Churchgoers Who Defend Themselves With Guns
USA Today Mocked Over Fact Check of Obviously True Claim
Rashida Tlaib Scrubs Anti-Semitic Tweet From Her Profile
Schumer Agrees With Biden Mandating Transgender Students Access to Preferred Bathrooms
Team Unity Now Calling for Humiliation and Incarceration of Trump Supporters
CNN Attempts to Fact Check Tucker Carlson, Fails
Media Heaps Praise on Biden for Injuring Himself
James O’Keefe Begins Releasing Audio Exposing CNN

Capitol Hill
Lamar Alexander Bids Farewell to the U.S. Senate
Top Biden EPA Candidate Faces Liberal Backlash Over Track Record
Watch: Whistleblowers Dispute Over One Million Ballots
Biden Cabinet Picks Support $2 Trillion Carbon Tax
Obama Admits Democrats Use of Defund the Police Slogan Cost Them in the Election
Sen. Cruz Demands SCOTUS Hear PA Emergency Appeal
Schumer Privately Said Dems’ Chances of Regaining the Senate Have Been “Squashed”
Giuliani to Appear Before Michigan House Committee
USPS Whistleblower Alleges 300k Ballots “Disappeared” Overnight
Dominion Whistleblower Says She Witnessed Fraud
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 2: Trump Approval at 50%
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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-fbi-christopher-wray-fire/2020/12/02/id/999696/?oRef=mixi

=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Election 2020
Trump Attorney Jenna Ellis: Barr Denial of Voter Fraud 'Bizarre'
Wisconsin Governor Calls Trump Lawsuit an 'assault'
Dick Morris to Newsmax TV: Georgia Runoffs at Risk Without Legislation | 
Trump Steps Up Pressure on Kemp: 'Do Something'
Andy Biggs: Enough Evidence for Lawsuit in Arizona | 
GOP Rep. Garcia Wins by 333 Votes in California-25
Bipartisan Lawmaker Group Offers $908 Billion COVID-19 Relief
Arizona Gov. Ducey Defends Himself Against Attacks by Trump
Trump Lawsuit: Wisconsin Absentee Ballot Abuses Affected 220K Votes

Trump Presidency
Trump Backs GOP COVID-19 Package After McConnell Rejects Bipartisan Proposal
Kudlow: Congress Probably Won't Pass 'Gigantic' Stimulus Bill
Trump Demands Repeal of Section 230 Tech Liability Shield
Trump Teases 2024 Run at White House Christmas Party
Barr Appoints Durham Special Counsel in Russia Probe Investigation
Giuliani Denies NY Times Report He Discussed Pardon With Trump
Trump to Meet COVID-19 Vaccine Makers, Distributors Next Week

Newsfront
UK Authorizes Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine for Emergency Use
British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, greenlighting the world's first shot against the virus that's backed by rigorous science and taking a major...... [Full Story]
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WHO Reviewing Pfizer Vaccine for Possible Emergency Listing
Study: Asthmatics 30% Less Likely to Contract COVID-19
WHO Recommends Masks Indoors if Ventilation Poor
CDC to Cut COVID-Negative Quarantine Period to 7 Days
=== FB Memes and memories ===








Kim Beazley was another awful ALP leader. Jaundiced and biased and partisan. AS US Ambassador from Australia, Beazley would try to belittle Abbott. read what happened ..
“It’s one of former ambassador Kim Beazley’s favourite White House stories,” reports Will Glasgow. “The time Tony Abbott met Barack Obama in the Oval Office.”
Will’s piece continues:
“I was deeply worried,” Beazley told an audience gathered for a superannuation conference in Sydney yesterday. “It didn’t matter if it was social policy, or environmental policy, whatever it was, Tony Abbott had a totally different view to Barack Obama.”
Beazley diligently prepared briefing notes for the visiting PM, but Abbott wasn’t interested.
“It’s all bullshit. Don’t worry about it. I’m not going to use any of this stuff,” Beazley recalled Abbott saying.
So in they went to the Oval Office to find Obama, vice-president Joe Biden, secretary of defence Chuck Hagel, secretary of state John Kerry and national security adviser Susan Rice.
“I thought, ‘My god we are in for a belting’.”
Obama opened: “Courteous, erudite, pointed,” Beazley recalled, dreamily.
Then the president handed over to Abbott. Perhaps you might like to say something?
“Well, Mr President, I don’t actually have a list of complaints,” Beazley recalled Abbott opening. “I know most people who come to this office have a list of complaints. I’ve got nothing to complain about to you. Others come with a list of things that they want from you. We don’t want anything from you.”
Beazley recalled Abbott continuing: “But I want to say one thing. I think you’re about to get into a lot of trouble in the Middle East. And when you do, I want you to understand this. We are going to be with you and we are going to be with you in numbers.”
Our former ambassador still remembers a sharp intake of breath along the line of Americans.
Australia’s 28th prime minister certainly made an impact.
Beazley said for months after that encounter, it was reported back to him that whenever Obama was frustrated by his various opponents, domestic or international, he would say: “We need more Tony Abbotts.”
That’s a line you’ll never hear about Malcolm Turnbull. Or Bill Shorten, for that matter.

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Christopher Porter reveals great news regarding Liberal Government. Welfare has been brought under control, becoming sustainable under Liberals. Had ALP continued with their waste, Australia would be short a further $83 billion by 2021. Netanyahu shows the world needs Israel. Fitzsimons demands the NSW Government does not spend money when it is in surplus, having said it needed to spend money when the ALP were deficit spending. Cory Bernardi is suggesting Australia builds nuclear power stations.

Moments ago on Twitter, President Donald J. Trump paid homage to Rosa Parks, who, 62 years ago this week, refused to give up her bus seat because of the color of her skin. America's ABC suspends Brian Ross for fake news it used to laud. Ross had claimed Presidential Candidate Trump had contacted Russia when he meant President elect Trump. The difference being a suggestion of corruption versus prudence. I honestly feel Islamic clerics are failing Islam in not denying the excess of terrorists and their followers.

Gillard's Fair Work has failed as over a million Australians are paid less than industry minimums. Turnbull promises tax cuts, but he dithered too long over the concept, now Trump has passed US ones, Australia needs bigger ones to keep pace. Mesothelioma from Asbestos exposure. Like the type Dan Andrews promised to fix in schools but did not budget for. The disease claimed the life of a GP who contracted it by working in a hospital.

I'm really impressed with White Queen and White Princess miniseries. I feel a lot has been taken from Shakespeare in the preparation. I am irritated that the perception is given that spells worked. It detracts from otherwise compelling viewing. It explores the latter part of the War of the Roses between York and Lancaster. Of interest to me, and focal point, was the Princes in the Tower fate.

Kim Beazley was another awful ALP leader. Jaundiced and biased and partisan. AS US Ambassador from Australia, Beazley would try to belittle Abbott. read what happened ..

"“It’s one of former ambassador Kim Beazley’s favourite White House stories,” reports Will Glasgow. “The time Tony Abbott met Barack Obama in the Oval Office.”

Will’s piece continues:

“I was deeply worried,” Beazley told an audience gathered for a superannuation conference in Sydney yesterday. “It didn’t matter if it was social policy, or environmental policy, whatever it was, Tony Abbott had a totally different view to Barack Obama.”

Beazley diligently prepared briefing notes for the visiting PM, but Abbott wasn’t interested.

“It’s all bullshit. Don’t worry about it. I’m not going to use any of this stuff,” Beazley recalled Abbott saying.

So in they went to the Oval Office to find Obama, vice-president Joe Biden, secretary of defence Chuck Hagel, secretary of state John Kerry and national security adviser Susan Rice.

“I thought, ‘My god we are in for a belting’.”

Obama opened: “Courteous, erudite, pointed,” Beazley recalled, dreamily.

Then the president handed over to Abbott. Perhaps you might like to say something?

“Well, Mr President, I don’t actually have a list of complaints,” Beazley recalled Abbott opening. “I know most people who come to this office have a list of complaints. I’ve got nothing to complain about to you. Others come with a list of things that they want from you. We don’t want anything from you.”

Beazley recalled Abbott continuing: “But I want to say one thing. I think you’re about to get into a lot of trouble in the Middle East. And when you do, I want you to understand this. We are going to be with you and we are going to be with you in numbers.”

Our former ambassador still remembers a sharp intake of breath along the line of Americans.

Australia’s 28th prime minister certainly made an impact.

Beazley said for months after that encounter, it was reported back to him that whenever Obama was frustrated by his various opponents, domestic or international, he would say: “We need more Tony Abbotts.”

That’s a line you’ll never hear about Malcolm Turnbull. Or Bill Shorten, for that matter."

=== from 2016 ===
IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a John Hasek article “Myth Busting” on Dr Thomas Sowell’s book “Wealth Poverty and politics” uncovering flawed assumptions on causes of poverty and inequality. US had a President for eight years who had been elected on symbolic meaning. Many better people could have been elected on the same platform. It symbolically addressed division, and widened division in the United States. The ‘Sons of Obama’ is any minority person who actively harms the community through crime and a racist agenda. It is related to when a Neighbourhood Watch man was assaulted by such a youth, and accidentally killed him while the youth had assaulted him. Obama had charges placed against the neighbourhood watch guy saying the perpetrator could have been his son. In Australia, another token accused then Liberal Leader Abbott of misogyny on no grounds. Neither the US nor the Australian tokens were successful in their equity agenda. The poor got poorer and the wealthy got wealthier even after significant wealth redistribution and abuses of power. Only wealth is not created from abuse of power. Donald Trump knows about wealth creation, and loyalty and keeping jobs for Americans is a great start. There is dignity in work. Failed PM Turnbull has alleged suggested to Senator Derry Hinch that it would be a good idea to draw the teeth of the ABCC before it was created. The ABCC will have to give two years grace to the unions for current corrupt activity. Significant union corruption has been unaddressed and rampant since the ABCC was wound up by the ALP. Now it will not be able to address these issues before another election. Turnbull as leader would lose that election, and the ALP will again prevent the ABCC from addressing union corruption.
=== from 2015 ===
In the US, in San Bernadino, two or three crazed gunmen go on a killing spree at a facility for the disabled. This confuses the LA Times, which is so certain that the perpetrators will turn out to be white conservatives they print a US flag made of guns. The meme will last for years, but the perpetrators were a Middle Eastern couple that had a baby but may not have married. The male had flown to Saudi Arabia recently but had not seemed radicalised on his return by family members. He was allegedly a devout Muslim. He got upset at a staff Christmas party and returned with his cuddle buddy fully armed and armoured. No reason is apparent at the moment, but according to Australia's Mufti, Christmas parties can do that to peaceful Islamic peoples. Some say that the Mufti is wrong and jihadis are different to Islamic peoples, seeing as they are mainly gay, murderous, cross dressing, porn, alcohol and drug abusing, contemptuous of law, rapist, pedophilic and animal abusing people. But the Mufti apparently says that all Muslims are like that and jihadis don't bring Islam into disrepute.

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014  
Enemy of the ADF
ALP is the enemy of the ADF. Badged as a friend of the ADF, Kim Beazley, former ALP leader foisted the Collins Class submarines which were so bad that no other nation wanted to buy from the class. The loss of funds from the blowout cost Australia defence capability. After the Howard administration raised funds available to the ADF, the following Rudd/Gillard administrations cut the ADF's funds to beneath pre WW2 levels. But also, the ALP set up a special unit designed to weaken and discredit the ADF. ADF special forces were subject to scrutiny inappropriate to their function. Lots of soldiers died from mismanagement. Issues of a sexual nature were placed in the public arena in an attack on defence culture so as to save bad ALP ministers from criticism. Jason Clare placed weakened body armour on active forces and soldiers died. Naval forces who wanted to go to the aid of sinking vessels in international waters were warned off by the ALP so that asylum seekers drowned. Now, the ALP want the government to waste money on substandard ship building so as to protect union labour. The Collins Class submarines had an edge from expertise that Australia had gained from former South Vietnamese forces who were left without a government in '75, but those good people have retired now. Meaning production talent has gone while the price remains high. 

Jacquie Lambie interrupted Phil Hughes' funeral to be herself. She has shrilly demanded the government pay ADF forces above inflation when all government services will be subject to the same cost. The previous ALP administration have damaged the economy with substantial debt that must be repaid now, or it will be a stone weighing down the prospects of our children. Lambie could pass cuts which would make her demand possible, but she refuses to do that. Her voting pattern in the senate closely matches the ALP, and that is a betrayal to every one of her constituents who did not vote for the ALP, and voted for her. She also betrayed those mourning for Hughes. The nation will need to move on from the death of Hughes, and celebrate his life. The funeral was not the right time to grandstand. 

Unreported issue discovered of death of migrants from ALP government. The ABC and SMH/Age have only just become aware that navy were 'suggested' not to save migrants on the high seas. Meanwhile ALP and Greens vote to keep some thirty thousand locked up by denying the legislation of temporary protection visas for those who survived the ALP's compassion. The ABC, in reporting the issue, substitute the policy which resulted in death from the ALP's to the current LNP's policy which is preventing it. Such a 'mistake' is a very nasty shot in the culture wars the ABC are engaged in. 
Culture wars
A ridiculous senate is being lauded for preventing good legislation. Mr Abbott is being blamed for the blockage. But the blockers are feeling pain too. The ALP has decided that it can behave badly in the lower house and get themselves booted temporarily, but they don't do that in the upper house where they maintain numbers to block legislation. The ALP are also blocking all legislation without having an alternative policy. They refer to money trees, as if it is ok that every man woman and child is happy to pay interest of over $6k a year just to stand still. And not every man, woman or child works .. so the burden of paying ALP debt falls on fewer people. Meanwhile PUP, which began as a block of four, are a block of two, voting the same as the ALP. Lambie has become a true independent, and is voting as the ALP all on her own. 

Climate alarmists sidestep the truth. They claim that plant food is bad. They claim that it is important to reduce national reliance on carbon dioxide production. But they refuse to accept in Australia that which works over seas, like nuclear power or coal seam gas. Instead, climate alarmists are demanding bird killing windmills and solar power stations that don't reduce base load. 


Jihadists report they are suffering in ISIL and want to go home. Their iPod is broken, or they are tired of toilet duty, or they don't like carrying dead mates out of the fighting. The left has made up numerous reasons for why jihadists do what they do. but apparently those excuses simply aren't motivating. And maybe they never were. Maybe Islamic peoples are not oppressed in the West. 

Pyne pronounced it right, but ABC's Sales horselaughs and gets it wrong on Wang. But, even when corrected, there is no apology. Palmer conspiracies continue, listed by Bolt. Attempt to sue Bolt over nothing fails, and abuser is fined half a million dollars. Sometimes the law works. 
From 2013
Getting angry and pressing for a favoured agenda isn't effective. It is the curse of populist government. It boils down to a number game, where people spoil a situation until what they want happens, and they hope no one else spoils that. So that the ALP remove the Pacific Solution in order to put forward there own. It was an attempt at rebranding. Only the ALP failed, because the Pacific Solution was the best policy. It wasn't put in place to break the ALP, but to be effective in stopping the people trade where poor desperate people were exploited by pirates and often drowned. ALP opposition to effective policy means that the ALP does not stand for effective policy on illegal immigrants. Such branding policy has failed in many places, like education, fair work, health care, unions and marriage, to name a few. Thing is, effective policy is not always obvious. The Pacific Solution came about only after much tragedy. Education and health policy are hundreds of years old, fine tuned through ages of debate and compromise. Allowing an angry person to thoughtlessly pursue their own agenda without regard to history or effective need is dangerous. 

But the ALP have made Education their play thing and pursued a highly ineffective agenda. Modern education around the world began almost simultaneously in two separate places. The Madras System started in Madras circa 1792 when a headmaster (Dr Andrew Bell) of a school for orphans of British soldiers got a 12 year old boy, John Frisken, to teach the alphabet to much younger boys. Meanwhile Joseph Lancaster in England, began using older children to teach younger children. Both systems were adopted as models. One founded the British Foreign Service the other was adopted by the Catholic Church. In the 1870's, Britain began teacher training at university and dropped the Monitorial system. Teachers were supposed to model moral behaviour, as well as teach the basics. By early nineteenth century, kids were educated in Britain to year 8. After WW1, education in NSW was expected to be year 9, with university students being at school to year 11. Now there is discussion about a year 13. 


Now, teachers are highly specialised. Science teachers don't even understand Global Warming theory. English teachers don't know how to teach reading. History teachers don't know when the White Australia Policy ended, and have fantasy stories about a stolen generation. But they need more money to teach less. So as to raise the standard. When did the ALP begin bending education away from the core purpose of teaching? Whitlam did a lot of damage, but a lot of bad things pre existed him. But if a good idea is put forward, so many people will denounce it so as to roll the dice of change. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 915, Pope John X was crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor. In 1799, War of the Second CoalitionBattle of Wiesloch – Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeated the French at Wiesloch. In 1800, War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – French General Moreau decisively defeated the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this would force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war. In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. In 1834, the Zollverein (German Customs Union) began the first regular census in Germany. In 1854, Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. In 1898, the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players 16-0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.

In 1901, in a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Rooseveltasked Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". In 1904, the Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. In 1910, modern neon lighting was first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. In 1912, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) signed an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities would resume.) In 1919, after nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridgeopened to traffic. In 1925, World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty was signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements. In 1927, Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, was released. 1944, Greek Civil WarFighting broke out in Athensbetween the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army. In 1959, the current flag of Singapore was adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

In 1960, the musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It would become associated with the Kennedy administration. In 1964,  Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. In 1967, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carried out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky). In 1971,  Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launched a pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war began claiming hundreds of lives. In 1973, Pioneer programPioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. In 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley. He was shot twice, but would play a concert only two days later. In 1979, in Cincinnati, 11 fans were suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert. Also, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the first Supreme Leader of Iran. In 1982, a soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that would be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. In 1984,  Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 3,800 people outright and injured 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. In 1989,  Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev released statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union would be coming to an end.

In 1990, the 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision killed seven passengers and one crew member. In 1992, UN Security Council Resolution 794 was unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid was distributed in Somalia. In 1992, the Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, ran aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spilled much of its cargo. Also, a test engineer for Sema Group used a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague. In 1997, in Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries signed the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however. In 1999, NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft entered the Martianatmosphere. Also, six firefighters were killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2005, XCOR Aerospace made the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California. In 2007, winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages were blamed on the floods. In 2009, a suicide bombing in MogadishuSomalia, claimed the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government. In 2012, at least 475 people were killed after Typhoon Bopha, made landfall in the Philippines. 

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