Friday, December 17, 2021

Fri 17th December 2021 Current Affairs

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

Consider these recent truths
Jussie Smollet trial
Tornados
Biden persecutes


Today is a big day for  

In 627, Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. In 1098, First CrusadeSiege of Ma'arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breached the town's walls and massacred about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they reportedly resorted to cannibalism. In 1388, Mary of Enghien sold the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice. In 1408, the Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order was created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary. In 1781, American Revolutionary WarSecond Battle of Ushant – A British fleet led by HMS Victory defeated a French fleet. In 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, five days after Delaware became the first.

In 1862, American Civil WarUSS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. In 1870,  Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the second black U.S. congressman, the first being Hiram Revels. In 1897, Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, was founded. In 1901,  Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. In 1911, Delhi replaced Calcutta as the capital of India. Also, King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck were enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India. In 1915, President of the Republic of ChinaYuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China. In 1917, in Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founded Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys. In 1925, the Majlis of Iran voted to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Iran, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.

In 1935, Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, was founded by Heinrich Himmler. In 1936, Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of ChinaChiang Kai-shek, was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang. In 1937, Second Sino-Japanese WarUSS Panay incident – Japanese aircraft bombed and sank U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China. In 1939, Winter WarBattle of Tolvajärvi – Finnish forces defeated those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict. Also, HMS Duchess sank after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men. In 1940, World War II: Approximately 70 people were killed in the Marples HotelFitzalan SquareSheffield, as a result of a German air raid. In 1941, World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raided Batangas Field, PhilippinesJesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa was killed. Also, World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sank the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. Also, World War II: The United Kingdom declared war on BulgariaHungary and Romania declared war on the United States. India declared war on Japan. Also, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery In 1942, World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. Also, a fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, killed 100 people. In 1946, a fire at a New York City ice plant spread to a nearby tenement, killing 37 people. 

1950, Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, led the congregation in her first service. In 1979, Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan ordered the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung-hee.

In 1983, the Australian Labor government led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer Paul Keating floated the Australian dollar. In 1991, the Russian Federation gained independence from the USSR. In 2000, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore. In 2012, North Korea successfully launched its first satelliteKwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.

=== From 2020 ===

In breaking news, SCOTUS has ruled 7-2 not to hear Texas case, based on standing. Giuliani is keen to take the cases to a district court, but the road is longer and means deadlines may be missed. It is still possible Biden is not elected through voter fraud, but it is more likely he will be. Notably, all three Trump appointments voted against hearing the case. The issue will have to be addressed eventually. 

How will Swing states argue Texas lawsuit? Will they ask for a safe space from questions? Will they stand their ground and say that they embody the constitution and what they have done, they have done? To date, despite the clear evidence of voter fraud in millions of ballots, left wing media have refused to address the issue. The Texas lawsuit does not rest on voter fraud. Texans who voted have had their votes devalued by unlawful and unjust voting practice ostensibly established as COVID protection. Statistics up to June regarding the politics of COVID was stark. COVID kills left wing peoples in numbers an order of magnitude greater than conservatives. Some have said that is because lockdowns, face masks etc etc aren't effective against that kind of 'flu, but simple hygiene measures left wingers resist are effective. But left wingers know it is because COVID is very political. We don't yet know how SCOTUS might act. Will they direct the states to remedy via their own mechanism in legislature? Had the shoe been on the other foot, what would Ginsburg have done? 

PJ Media, balanced reporting group, have published an article claiming that the 2020 election was likely not fraudulently drawn, but a result of big tech creating a new lobby effort which institutionalises bias. It is true that big tech have done just that. However, Trump over-performed in the election forcing a Dem cabal to resort to voter fraud and it wasn't finessed as it had been in the past. In fact, it is obvious. Circumstantial evidence points to Biden not being popular at all, and not outperforming Obama by tens of millions. Circumstantial evidence points to it being unlikely 16.7% of counties favouring Biden elected him President, even with up to 350% of votes in a voting area favouring Biden. We have testimony of late postal votes being delivered over state lines in their hundreds of thousands. We know the vote system was vulnerable to outside influence and that checks and balances ensuring a fair election were removed. We know the fraud was prepared in advance, multi pronged, with the COVID health scare employed to overturn voting regulations ensuring fairness. We know voters favoured GOP in down votes on Senate and the house. Trump won fairly. Biden is attempting to steal the election, as Hillary attempted in 2016 with the Russia hoax, for which she has not served jail time, yet. 

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.   

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Penny Wong lost $106 billion as finance Minister before the last ALP budget. She lost another $40 billion afterwards, before losing government. Wong claimed she had made conservative choices but things were difficult, indicating the GFC which Rudd used to throw away more money not included in the $106 billion. The importance of the issue is in the Dan Andrews ALP Government losing $29 billion on infrastructure costs alone since their last budget. The ALP had refused to spend $500 million on the Yarra tunnel project, which was to build the tunnel deeper and not interrupt city life. But Andrews had said he wanted to be on budget, and create chaos in Melbourne. Only Andrews created chaos in Melbourne, ongoing, and spent $2 billion more because of waste.

Infrastructure has to be built, but it doesn't have to be built badly. Australia, and Victoria, could do much with $175 billion. She could have reliable cheap coal energy, better roads, better public transport, cheaper CBD costs, less crime, higher real wages, less unemployment .. if only the ALP were not in government, or obstructing the federal senate.
LNP in Queensland chose Deb Frecklington to lead LNP against the awful Palaszczuk government. But idiot journalist does not write about policy differences, but claims the previous leader of the LNP had been tainted by successful government. Paid rioters in Melbourne oppose Trump's Jerusalem move. Europe funding anti semitism. Don’t worry about terrorists .. they are more scared of you than you are of them.
People agree our politicians are overpaid in Australia. They say that politicians need to be paid less. But if our politicians are so well off, why are they so awful? How would taking money away from the few good politicians benefit Australia? How could ruining industry and ratcheting up power prices get bilateral support, but something family friendly like maternity leave get so little? Allegedly, paying teachers, police, firies, healthcare workers more produces better employees.

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During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, "We the People of the U.S.A. " produced the following:
22 aircraft carriers
8 battleships
48 cruisers
349 destroyers
420 destroyer escorts
203 submarines
34 million tons of merchant ships
100,000 fighter aircraft
98,000 bombers
24,000 transport aircraft
58,000 training aircraft
93,000 tanks
257,000 artillery pieces
105,000 mortars
3,000,000 machine guns and
2,500,000 military trucks
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and, ultimately, conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama Administration couldn't even build a website that worked!> Via J Murphy

=== from 2016 ===
There is a particular form of cowardice I wish to call out. It is bullying. It isn't illegal. How it works is an anonymous person, or relative stranger, enters into a conversation and says they don't understand something. Or they insist on evidence of it that they know would not be easy to obtain, but isn't really germane to the discussion. So John Durant's meme "I am hearing disturbing rumours that Russia supported the candidate that didn't want to go to war with Russia" can be attacked by the bully who wants to know when Hillary said she wanted to go to war with Russia. It doesn't matter that those words might never have been uttered by Hillary, her hawk like stance on Russia was apparent over Ukraine and Wikileaks trolling her during her campaign. Hillary was said to be a 'safe pair of hands.' However, supporters of Hillary (and opposers of Trump) merely were enamoured with her evident corruption. Hillary could say *anything* and believed nothing. As evidence, after Benghazi, her department fingered a coptic film maker even though she knew it wasn't true. 

Such bullying is widespread and pernicious. My column yesterday was clear, but might have people disagreeing vehemently. That happens when a Christian, conservative writes their thoughts. It is ok to disagree. It can be enlightening to argue. However, as has happened in the past, to merely say one doesn't understand the points made is merely argumentative. Were I to expand on a point, I might overstate things and not mean what I wrote. I can defend myself, I can't explain some stranger's abnormality. I will provide a reminder of an old column. 

38 Ways To Win An Argument when you are wrong
by Arthur Schopenhauer

1 Carry your opponent’s proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. 
The more general your opponent’s statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. 
The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend.

2 Use different meanings of your opponent’s words to refute his argument. 
Example: Person A says, “You do not understand the mysteries of Kant’s philosophy.” 
Person B replies, “Oh, if it’s mysteries you’re talking about, I’ll have nothing to do with them.”

3 Ignore your opponent’s proposition, which was intended to refer to some particular thing. 
Rather, understand it in some quite different sense, and then refute it. 
Attack something different than what was asserted.

4 Hide your conclusion from your opponent until the end. 
Mingle your premises here and there in your talk. 
Get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order.
By this circuitous route you conceal your goal until you have reached all the admissions necessary to reach your goal.

5 Use your opponent’s beliefs against him. 
If your opponent refuses to accept your premises, use his own premises to your advantage. 
Example, if the opponent is a member of an organization or a religious sect to which you do not belong, you may employ the declared opinions of this group against the opponent.

6 Confuse the issue by changing your opponent’s words or what he or she seeks to prove. 
Example: Call something by a different name: “good repute” instead of “honor,” “virtue” instead of “virginity,” “red-blooded” instead of “vertebrates”.

7 State your proposition and show the truth of it by asking the opponent many questions. 
By asking many wide-reaching questions at once, you may hide what you want to get admitted. 
Then you quickly propound the argument resulting from the proponent’s admissions.

8 Make your opponent angry. 
An angry person is less capable of using judgment or perceiving where his or her advantage lies.

9 Use your opponent’s answers to your question to reach different or even opposite conclusions.

10 If your opponent answers all your questions negatively and refuses to grant you any points, ask him or her to concede the opposite of your premises. 
This may confuse the opponent as to which point you actually seek him to concede.

11 If the opponent grants you the truth of some of your premises, refrain from asking him or her to agree to your conclusion.
Later, introduce your conclusions as a settled and admitted fact. 

Your opponent and others in attendance may come to believe that your conclusion was admitted.

12 If the argument turns upon general ideas with no particular names, you must use language or a metaphor that is favorable to your proposition. 
Example: What an impartial person would call “public worship” or a “system of religion” is described by an adherent as “piety” or “godliness” and by an opponent as “bigotry” or “superstition.” 
In other words, insert what you intend to prove into the definition of the idea.

13 To make your opponent accept a proposition, you must give him an opposite, counter-proposition as well.
If the contrast is glaring, the opponent will accept your proposition to avoid being paradoxical. 

Example: If you want him to admit that a boy must to everything that his father tells him to do, ask him, “whether in all things we must obey or disobey our parents.” 
Or , if a thing is said to occur “often” you are to understand few or many times, the opponent will say “many.” 
It is as though you were to put gray next to black and call it white; or gray next to white and call it black.

14 Try to bluff your opponent. 
If he or she has answered several of your question without the answers turning out in favor of your conclusion, advance your conclusion triumphantly, even if it does not follow. 
If your opponent is shy or stupid, and you yourself possess a great deal of impudence and a good voice, the technique may succeed.

15 If you wish to advance a proposition that is difficult to prove, put it aside for the moment.
Instead, submit for your opponent’s acceptance or rejection some true proposition, as though you wished to draw your proof from it.
Should the opponent reject it because he suspects a trick, you can obtain your triumph by showing how absurd the opponent is to reject an obviously true proposition.
Should the opponent accept it, you now have reason on your side for the moment. 

You can either try to prove your original proposition, as in #14, maintain that your original proposition is proved by what your opponent accepted. 
For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.

16 When your opponent puts forth a proposition, find it inconsistent with his or her other statements, beliefs, actions or lack of action. 
Example: Should your opponent defend suicide, you may at once exclaim, “Why don’t you hang yourself?” 
Should the opponent maintain that his city is an unpleasant place to live, you may say, “Why don’t you leave on the first plane?”

17 If your opponent presses you with a counter-proof, you will often be able to save yourself by advancing some subtle distinction. 
Try to find a second meaning or an ambiguous sense for your opponent’s idea.

18 If your opponent has taken up a line of argument that will end in your defeat, you must not allow him to carry it to its conclusion. 
Interrupt the dispute, break it off altogether, or lead the opponent to a different subject.

19 Should your opponent expressly challenge you to produce any objection to some definite point in his argument, and you have nothing to say, try to make the argument less specific. 
Example: If you are asked why a particular hypothesis cannot be accepted, you may speak of the fallibility of human knowledge, and give various illustrations of it.

20 If your opponent has admitted to all or most of your premises, do not ask him or her directly to accept your conclusion.
Rather, draw the conclusion yourself as if it too had been admitted.


21 When your opponent uses an argument that is superficial and you see the falsehood, you can refute it by setting forth its superficial character. 
But it is better to meet the opponent with a counter-argument that is just as superficial, and so dispose of him. 
For it is with victory that you are concerned, not with truth. 
Example: If the opponent appeals to prejudice, emotion or attacks you personally, return the attack in the same manner.

22 If your opponent asks you to admit something from which the point in dispute will immediately follow, you must refuse to do so, declaring that it begs the question.

23 Contradiction and contention irritate a person into exaggerating their statements. 
By contradicting your opponent you may drive him into extending the statement beyond its natural limit. 
When you then contradict the exaggerated form of it, you look as though you had refuted the original statement. 
Contrarily, if your opponent tries to extend your own statement further than your intended, redefine your statement’s limits and say, “That is what I said, no more.”

24 State a false syllogism. 
Your opponent makes a proposition, and by false inference and distortion of his ideas you force from the proposition other propositions that are not intended and that appear absurd. 
It then appears that opponent’s proposition gave rise to these inconsistencies, and so appears to be indirectly refuted.

25 If your opponent is making a generalization, find an instance to the contrary. 
Only one valid contradiction is needed to overthrow the opponent’s proposition. 
Example: “All ruminants are horned,” is a generalization that may be upset by the single instance of the camel.

26 A brilliant move is to turn the tables and use your opponent’s arguments against himself. 
Example: Your opponent declares: “so and so is a child, you must make an allowance for him.” 
You retort, “Just because he is a child, I must correct him; otherwise he will persist in his bad habits.”

27 Should your opponent surprise you by becoming particularly angry at an argument, you must urge it with all the more zeal
Not only will this make your opponent angry, but it will appear that you have put your finger on the weak side of his case, and your opponent is more open to attack on this point than you expected.

28 When the audience consists of individuals (or a person) who is not an expert on a subject, you make an invalid objection to your opponent who seems to be defeated in the eyes of the audience. 
This strategy is particularly effective if your objection makes your opponent look ridiculous or if the audience laughs. 
If your opponent must make a long, winded and complicated explanation to correct you, the audience will not be disposed to listen to him.

29 If you find that you are being beaten, you can create a diversion--that is, you can suddenly begin to talk of something else, as though it had a bearing on the matter in dispute. 
This may be done without presumption if the diversion has some general bearing on the matter.

30 Make an appeal to authority rather than reason. 
If your opponent respects an authority or an expert, quote that authority to further your case. 
If needed, quote what the authority said in some other sense or circumstance. 
Authorities that your opponent fails to understand are those which he generally admires the most. 
You may also, should it be necessary, not only twist your authorities, but actually falsify them, or quote something that you have entirely invented yourself.

31 If you know that you have no reply to the arguments that your opponent advances, you by a fine stroke of irony declare yourself to be an incompetent judge. 
Example: “What you say passes my poor powers of comprehension; it may well be all very true, but I can’t understand it, and I refrain from any expression of opinion on it.” 
In this way you insinuate to the audience, with whom you are in good repute, that what your opponent says is nonsense. 
This technique may be used only when you are quite sure that the audience thinks much better of you than your opponent.

32 A quick way of getting rid of an opponent’s assertion, or of throwing suspicion on it, is by putting it into some odious category. 
Example: You can say, “That is fascism” or “Atheism” or “Superstition.” 
In making an objection of this kind you take for granted 
1)That the assertion or question is identical with, or at least contained in, the category cited; 
and 
2)The system referred to has been entirely refuted by the current audience.

33 You admit your opponent’s premises but deny the conclusion. 
Example: “That’s all very well in theory, but it won’t work in practice.”

34 When you state a question or an argument, and your opponent gives you no direct answer, or evades it with a counter question, or tries to change the subject, it is sure sign you have touched a weak spot, sometimes without intending to do so. 
You have, as it were, reduced your opponent to silence. 
You must, therefore, urge the point all the more, and not let your opponent evade it, even when you do not know where the weakness that you have hit upon really lies.

35 Instead of working on an opponent’s intellect or the rigor of his arguments, work on his motive. 
If you succeed in making your opponent’s opinion, should it prove true, seem distinctly prejudicial to his own interest, he will drop it immediately. 
Example: A clergyman is defending some philosophical dogma. 
You show him that his proposition contradicts a fundamental doctrine of his church. 
He will abandon the argument.

36 You may also puzzle and bewilder your opponent by mere bombast. 
If your opponent is weak or does not wish to appear as if he has no idea what your are talking about, you can easily impose upon him some argument that sounds very deep or learned, or that sounds indisputable.

37 Should your opponent be in the right but, luckily for you, choose a faulty proof, you can easily refute it and then claim that you have refuted the whole position. 
This is the way in which bad advocates lose good cases. 
If no accurate proof occurs to your opponent, you have won the day.

38 Become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. 
In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. 
This is a very popular technique, because it takes so little skill to put it into effect.
=== from 2015 ===
Julie Bishop's announcement that Australia signed up to a New Zealand-led declaration at the Paris climate summit backing the use of international carbon markets in tackling climate change is disturbing.  The islands are not sinking. Plant food is not harming them. Yet Turnbull is willing to overturn government policy to embrace this alarmism. It is the closest he has come to making a decision, and he got his deputy to announce it. Limiting plant food will not raise islands that are not sinking. It will restrict plant growth globally. Turnbull has not discussed this with his colleagues. It is a captain's pick. Even those who supported him in the leadership change are startled by this bad call. It is apparent that every bad inflation made against Tony Abbott was in fact accurate self criticism of Malcolm Turnbull. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014  
Mr Abbott has pointed out that criticism of Peta, almost none of which provides any substantive detail, is sexist. Peta has been denounced, not accused, of running a tight office which was disciplined while facing election and is now called by some deficient in government. But the government has been effective and the criticism is overstated. It is almost as if the government cannot tell the truth without hysterics of the left going into a tizzy. The senate has gummed up the works, and is costing $billions as a result of irresponsible decision making. It is a perfectly reasonable conclusion of Mr Abbott that Peta's critics are drawing long bows because of her gender. The Channel 9 reporter in crossover quoted Mr Abbott's response to Julia Gillard when she denounced him baselessly as a misogynist. After quoting Mr Abbott ('Gillards' speech was the speech of a desperate, inept and irrelevant government') The reporter inappropriately spun it, saying the same would be said of Mr Abbott's government, and this makes it very hard to watch or accept any of the content that followed on Channel 9. If one wanted that unprofessional rubbish, they'd watch ABC news. Note, the reporter's comments were not repeated on the evening news, but Gillard's comment was and the announcer made it clear that they felt the government was bad. 

Meanwhile monocultural Greens demonise white men for being of the same culture, but higher class, from which the Greens underclass are spawned. 


Many thanks to Tim Blair for inventing the word 'Frightbat' without which the screeching fishwives of the left could not be accurately described in a single word. Tim is to be lauded by Frightbats discussing 'Frightbat' at the Sydney Opera House. It is expected no conservative will actually be invited to the event but one should be able to hear the shrieks from an adjacent suburb on 8th March 2015, 11am. From $35 at the Joan Sutherland theatre for those wishing to see the fluttering ones, sponsored by the ABC.


Why is Waleed Aly smiling? Is it because the SMH is being sued for its campaign against the Australian treasurer? The paper never blinked while Swan, the former treasurer turned the economy from a modest $80 billion surplus to $650 billion deficit. Hockey is trying to get things balanced. The criticisms levelled against Hockey of incompetence are overstated. He does not control the senate, but has masterfully, with the government, got a substantial amount passed, and achieved an upper hand in future negotiations by not being foolish. Meanwhile the ridiculous independents have delayed important savings which will cost the economy an estimated $8 billion. Also, the independents have not supported important legislation with humanitarian side effects. Had the senate acted properly, children would have been out of detention before Christmas last year. And had the Pacific Solution not been rescinded then over a thousand need not have drowned. A senate can be very useful as a house of review, or very bad. 

With all the finger pointing, the partisan press have sidelined the news that former ALP President and AHU President Michael Williamson, who stole millions of dollars from the poorest professionals in the land, had a mistress who worked in the union. She has been ordered to pay back $4 million. That is how the ALP 'serves' the workers it represents. The partisan media were looking away, and they were looking towards a historian who wrote a book about unions in WW2 fighting against the national interest. Leading lights of the partisan press corp lied about the book. Mike Carlton is un-penitant at failing fact checks he levelled against Colebatch. 

Mr Abbott is even handed and generous too. Sometimes too generous. He welcomed the Chinese President recently by kindly referring to Whitlam and Wran for their normalising state relations with China in the '70s. But, Bill Shorten in return sledged Australia over the ineffective AGW tax she'd dumped. No conservative can ever lean far enough left to please left wing voters. Was there a hidden reason behind Mr Abbott giving away $200 million for a global climate fund designed to prevent poor nations from modernising? One hopes so, but if so, we may never know. 

Banks support AGW because the corruption is that big. First, banks are entangled through the ponzie type schemes set up to promote the hysteria. Then, in order to make good their exposure they must promote it. So they have products they must support. But with that much money, people lose their vision. And so the environmental group Greenpeace which pollutes water with dumped boat fuel and threatens trade where it is profitable has vandalised ancient Nazca drawings so as to promote itself. World heritage items have been vandalised on an enormously large scale visible from space. Money does that. 

David Hicks is an Australian jihadist who was captured by the CIA and interrogated at GITMO. They never did to him what he wanted to do to others. He had claimed to have forgotten things. But now he remembers, sort of. He remembers what happened to him, but not what he did. Do enemas do that? Anyway, he is only one jihadist. Other Australian jihadists are being killed as quickly as they fly off to clean toilets and carry bodies in the Levant. Maybe we aren't doing enough for them. 
From 2013
For left wing advocates, 'Rape' is just a word to toss around. But to describe an organisation responsible, recently for causing the death by drowning of three people and jeopardising bilateral relations between Indonesia and Australia, the description "harmless and largely inoffensive" ABC is terribly misleading, and not merely a lie. Meanwhile Wilkinson seems to rape the truth regarding the lighting of the Eiffel Tower for Mandela. ABC are now willing, on a different day,  to label a terrorist killer as Islamic. Adams read something, somewhere, but we aren't certain if he understood the complexity of it. Sarah H-Y has now got a clear path to sue her own party for a misogynistic application of her image. Doug Walters is remembered as the oldest debutant in first class or test cricket.  It is ok if others joke about Mandela, but not to smile at the joke. 

Andrew Bolt writes about the injustice surrounding his silencing. His case is compelling. Those endorsing the law abused to silence him, are wrong. A scandal is evident over media silence regarding the AWU affair. Australia is losing its' car industry, and that is because of that kind of corruption. Unions have finally killed their host, and the parasites will fall about, dying slowly. Official silence over a hand waver pretending to sign for a hand wringer pretending to care. Evidence gathers for the young of today being a stolen generation denied access to the truth. As the UN encourages suicide bombers by children, child abuse by so called Palestinians raising children to attack police, the UN wants to stop good parents from raising their children with respect and love. 
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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

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From the Bible, Revelation 7

144,000 Sealed

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,

from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,

from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

from the tribe of Asher 12,000,

from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,

from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,

from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,

from the tribe of Levi 12,000,

from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,

from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,

from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

The Great Multitude in White Robes

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”

All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying:

“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”

Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”

I answered, “Sir, you know.”

And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore,

“they are before the throne of God
    and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne
    will shelter them with his presence.
‘Never again will they hunger;
    never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
    nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne
    will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
    ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

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https://rumble.com/vqw8wy-ep.-1669-another-scandal-erupts-involving-this-sleazeball-democrat.html
In this episode, I address the latest scandal to envelope this sleazy Democrat.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Corporate Retailers Who Backed “Defund the Police” Groups Beg for Help Amid Crime Wave READ MORE

Ghislaine Maxwell Defense Begins Making Their Case (Live Updates)

Trump Beats Out Biden on List of the “World’s Most Admired” Men

U.S. Imposes Sanctions Against China Over Abuse of Uyghurs

A Stunning Number of People Continue Leaving California

Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Increase, Averting Default

American, Southwest Airlines CEOs Say Masks Not Needed on Flights

Capitol Hill
Democrats Laugh off Hillary Clinton 2024 Talk
Democrats and White House Attack CBO for Pointing Out Their Massive Spending Bill Costs Money
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Mitch McConnell “Biden’s Bitch” Over Debt Ceiling Vote
Biden Casts Doubt on Spending Bill Being Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Christmas
Senate Postpones Build Back Better Bill Into 2022
In Midst of Nationwide Crime Wave Biden Renews Promise for Police Reform
Mike Pompeo: Biden’s Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Olympics Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Lol – Biden Tells DNC Donors “We’re Going to Win”
House Dems Force Through “Islamophobia” Bill Without a Single Republican Vote
Analysis: Biden Could Quickly Stop Inflation With These Steps If He Really Wanted to
Joe Manchin to Huffington Post Reporter: “This Is Bullshit. You’re Bullshit”

Culture War
Facebook Censors Article on Dangers Of COVID Censorship
Nevada Mother Was Arrested Last Year for Pimping Out Her 9-Year-Old Daughter to Recently Charged CNN Producer
Project Veritas Exposes Another Pedophilia Scandal Involving a CNN Producer
Florida Bound Plane Carrying Six Americans Crashes in Dominican Republic, Killing All
Georgia Company Makes So Much “Let’s Go Brandon” Christmas Wrap It Could “Cover Six NFL Football Fields”
CNN’s Morning Show “Shaken” Over Senior Producer Fired After Being Charged With Child Sex Crimes
Pelosi Comments on Rampant Crime in San Francisco: “Attitude Of Lawlessness”’ In U.S. “Springs From I Don’t Know Where”
LA School Hosts LGBTQ Clubs for Children as Young as 4 Years Old
Poll Shows Majority in U.S. Unfazed by Omicron Variant, Oppose Mandates
Schools in Philadelphia Allow Students to “Change Gender” Without Notifying Parents
Poll: Liberals Three Times More Likely Than Conservatives to Report People on Social Media

Economy
Portland City Commissioner Sued by Bank of America Over Credit Card Debt
Cryptos Rise After Powell Comments That They Are Not a Risk to Financial Stability
Bidenflation Stole Christmas: Retail Sales Much Lower Than Expected in November
An Additional 260,000 Filed Jobless Claims, Up From 52-Year Low
Toyota Set to Build Record 800,000 Vehicles in January
What to Expect From Elizabeth Holmes Closing Arguments This Week
As Institutional Involvement Increases, Hedge Funds Warm Up to Crypto
Families Struggle as Evictions Increase Ahead of Christmas Season
Federal Reserve Doubles Pace of Tapering to Fight Inflation
Trump’s Media Company to Partner With Rumble

Swamp Watch
Special Prosecutor in Jussie Smollett Case Requests Release of Full Investigative Report
Biden Admin Purge Term “Alien” in Favor of “Noncitizen”
Thanks To Biden Spending Plan, Americans Will Be “Twice As Likely” To Get Audited By IRS
Democrat Push for Ballot Drop Boxes Gets Pushback as Georgia Senator Moves to Outlaw Them
Mitch McConnell Is The Least Popular Politician In America
Trump Accuses New York AG Letitia James of “Prosecutorial Misconduct”
Poll Finds Hispanic Voters Are Fleeing The Democrat Party
During Historic Crisis Border Patrol Documents Reveal Few Agents Patrolling Yuma Sector
CIA Claims Briefing Trump Was A Challenge, Relationship Worsened After They Presented Steele Dossier

National Security
U.S. Navy Offers Olive Branch to Vaccine Refusers
How the US Air Force Is Preparing for the Unthinkable: War with Russia or China
Guardsman in Jan 6 Gets Probation, Still Serving in National Guard
The US Navy Needs to Bring Back the First Fleet for the South China Sea
XI Backs Putin Against US, NATO on Ukraine; Despots Plan Olympic Meeting
As Military Justice Debate Continues to Rage, Defense Bill Heading to Biden’s Desk
A Declaration to End the Korean War: Why Now?
China Conducts Live-Fire Drills in South China Sea As Blinken Condemns “Beijing’s Aggressive Actions”

Around the World
Boosterless French Over-65 See COVID Passes Disabled
Boris Johnson Employs WWII Imagery to Convince Public to Get COVID Booster
PM Trudeau to Advises Fellow Canadians Against Overseas Travel Due to Omicron Threat
Putin and Xi Agree to Stand Firm Together in Face of Western Pressure
France Closes Radical Hate Mosque for Holding Anti-Christian, Anti-Jewish Sermons
As Standoff Continues, U.S. Agrees to Share Moscow’s Security Proposals With Allies
Biden Administration Deems Israeli Settlements in West Bank as Severe an Issue as Nuclear Threat From Iran
As Relations Sour Over Taiwan, Lithuanian Diplomats Leave China

Opinion
Douglas MacKinnon: A Christmas Plea to the Doctors, Scientists, and Voices Honestly Reporting on COVID and the Lockdowns
Tim Graham: Democrats Get Softballs for the Holidays
John Stossel: Deadly Delays
Austin Bay: The Swarm War Future?
Star Parker: Nikki Haley’s Christmas Present to America
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Taking Christmas Seriously
Terry Jeffrey: Federal Debt Equals About $287,859 Per Income-Tax-Paying Household
R. Emmett Tyrrell: Trump Has Earned a Friend
Betsy McCaughey: Workers and Savers Screwed by Inflation While Government Spending Caters to the Takers

Entertainment
Joe Rogan Explains the Reason Why the Left Hates Chris Pratt
Problems Continue for Jussie Smollett
Actress Rachel Zegler Hints At Radical-Left Feminism In Disney’s Upcoming Snow White Live-Action Film
COVID-19 Cancels Big Broadway Shows: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, “Tina” and More
Hollywood Ignores Woke Bombs, Keeps Pushing Activist Agenda
Matthew McConaughey Won’t Rule Out Running for Office
Ben Affleck’s Comments On Drinking During Marriage to Jennifer Garner Generate Backlash
Goonies-Inspired TV Show Coming to Disney+

Sports
NFL Funded Antifa-Affiliated “Defund the Police” Group
NBA Vets Snub LeBron for “Best Player,” Choose Kevin Durant
Huge 3rd Period Lifts Blues to 4-1 Win Over Stars
Browns’ Baker Mayfield Tests Positive for COVID-19 as Team Crisis Becomes Dire
Urban Meyer Accused of Kicking Former Jaguars Kicker Josh Lambo: “I’ll Kick You Whenever The F**k I Want”
While NBA’s Issues Grow Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo Placed in COVID-19 Protocols
In All-Time Stunner Deion Sanders Steals No. 1 Prospect from Florida State
Canada Forcing Sporting Venues To Reduce Fan Capacity to 50%
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-abortion-ban-supreme-court/2021/12/16/id/1048954/?oRef=mixi

Newsmax TV
Newsfront
Former first lady Melania Trump will launch a non-fungible token blockchain platform, it was announced Thursday. The new platform, powered by Parler, will release non-fungible token (NFTs) in regular intervals...... [Full Story]
The spread of the omicron variant and a surge in COVID-19 cases have [Full Story]
New York University on Wednesday canceled non-essential events [Full Story]
=== Viva Barnes News ===

1. City life sucks under Democratic rule in Pandemia. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/americans-are-less-likely-than-before-covid-19-to-want-to-live-in-cities-more-likely-to-prefer-suburbs/

2. Even airline CEOs start to doubt the Narrative. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ceos-southwest-american-airlines-question-need-masks-planes

3. Corrupt Spygate lawyer quickly reinstated by the Bar. https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/12/16/dc_bar_lets_convicted_fbi_russiagate_lawyer_back_in_good_standing_as_court_cuts_him_more_slack_807964.html

4. As forecast, Biden agenda a dead man walking. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/democrats-agenda-social-spending-bill-525103

5. YouTube & Twitter quickly censor Rogan interview with Dr. McCollough. https://www.infowars.com/posts/youtube-censors-bombshell-joe-rogan-interview-with-cardiologist-peter-mccullough/

*Bonus: In the spirit of the season: https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19786732.anonymous-donor-double-donations-help-people-across-dorset-facing-fuel-poverty/

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Here is a video I made Les Miserables finale
Les Misérables (literally "The Miserable Ones"; usually pronounced /leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]), translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims , is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty-year period in the early 19th century, starting in 1815.

=== From 2020 ===

Don't count Trump out. The states sending their electors is moot. The resignation of Bill Barr at DOJ is not yet fully understood. Romney and McConnell's miss-speaking in congratulating Biden as President Elect is overstated. The entire swamp must be surveyed so the draining can precede building. Good real estate agents know this. Trump is not an insider to Washington, and the swamp is trying to protect itself by stealing the US election using fraud. How will the swamp behave once they discover they have failed? How will the swamp behave if they succeed? There is still a pathway to a Trump 2020 election victory. It is the path Trump is walking. How will the swamp prevent it? Already, Trump has done a number of things that many have said were impossible. Israel normalising relations in the Middle East. NK negotiations. Tax cuts and employment in USA. A COVID scare threatened the union and Trump got several vaccine made in record time. Ending ISIS. We need more. We need Trump to end Iran's nuclear hopes. To make China a good citizen of the world. 

'Balanced' newsmax includes the false claim there is no evidence for electoral fraud. It is not balanced to lie and misrepresent known facts. 

The SCOTUS decision regarding the Texas lawsuit is disappointing, but a way forward remains for the Trump campaign. It is worth analysing the abrogation of responsibility by SCOTUS and ponder the costs. The Cabal Trump is fighting has been fought before. In Australia in 2010, among the conservative party (called the Liberal Party of Australia), Cabal agent Turnbull was faced against up rising conservative Joe Hockey. Turnbull had betrayed several former leaders to be made leader, and that had resulted in Australia's best ever government led by John Howard to go down to China backed ALP. Again, the press held the banner for ALP and extended courtesy to Turnbull. But, Turnbull had not got much headway against ALP, despite copying their policy stances, and badging himself as a responsible AGW alarmist. Hockey had a young family and was not very interested in taking the leadership, but he had had support. Turnbull had a leadership spill to settle the issue, but Hockey, who had had support for opposing AGW hysteria, now called it a moral issue and so both Hockey and Turnbull went to the spill motion supporting bad economic policy. Enter Tony Abbott who called AGW hysteria 'crap' and Abbott won against the split AGW supporting duo. Abbott had not broken tradition to run, only standing after the spill and after Hockey flipped. However, moving forward, the media lied about the situation to favour Turnbull and attack Abbott's legitimacy. as analogs go, 2010 in Australia was like 2016 in USA. 

Tony Abbott was a good conservative leader, but under siege from the Cabal. Abbott almost took government in 2010, but some independents awarded the election to the ALP. Abbott won outright in 2013. However, the conservative party, through fake polling commissioned by the Cabal, tossed out Abbott and gave the PM position to Turnbull. Turnbull was an awful leader and got tossed before losing an election, having squandered a majority in '16 and looking to lose in '19. However, in Australia, the culture war was never fought as Trump has fought it in USA. The Cabal was never faced down. Even within the conservative government, Turnbull loyalists, called 'wets' seek to support the Cabal. This is why the SCOTUS abrogation of responsibility is so important. It is like when Hockey miss-cast AGW hysteria as a moral issue, when in fact it is an economic one unworthy of support. There will be a cost for SCOTUS to have abrogated their responsibility to the constitution of the USA. Trump still has cards in play. At issue is clear evidence of malfeasance on the part of the Cabal which must be up rooted if the swamp is to be drained. But, what will be left? 

In breaking news, SCOTUS has ruled 7-2 not to hear Texas case, based on standing. Giuliani is keen to take the cases to a district court, but the road is longer and means deadlines may be missed. It is still possible Biden is not elected through voter fraud, but it is more likely he will be. Notably, all three Trump appointments voted against hearing the case. The issue will have to be addressed eventually. 

How will Swing states argue Texas lawsuit? Will they ask for a safe space from questions? Will they stand their ground and say that they embody the constitution and what they have done, they have done? To date, despite the clear evidence of voter fraud in millions of ballots, left wing media have refused to address the issue. The Texas lawsuit does not rest on voter fraud. Texans who voted have had their votes devalued by unlawful and unjust voting practice ostensibly established as COVID protection. Statistics up to June regarding the politics of COVID was stark. COVID kills left wing peoples in numbers an order of magnitude greater than conservatives. Some have said that is because lockdowns, face masks etc etc aren't effective against that kind of 'flu, but simple hygiene measures left wingers resist are effective. But left wingers know it is because COVID is very political. We don't yet know how SCOTUS might act. Will they direct the states to remedy via their own mechanism in legislature? Had the shoe been on the other foot, what would Ginsburg have done? 

PJ Media, balanced reporting group, have published an article claiming that the 2020 election was likely not fraudulently drawn, but a result of big tech creating a new lobby effort which institutionalises bias. It is true that big tech have done just that. However, Trump over-performed in the election forcing a Dem cabal to resort to voter fraud and it wasn't finessed as it had been in the past. In fact, it is obvious. Circumstantial evidence points to Biden not being popular at all, and not outperforming Obama by tens of millions. Circumstantial evidence points to it being unlikely 16.7% of counties favouring Biden elected him President, even with up to 350% of votes in a voting area favouring Biden. We have testimony of late postal votes being delivered over state lines in their hundreds of thousands. We know the vote system was vulnerable to outside influence and that checks and balances ensuring a fair election were removed. We know the fraud was prepared in advance, multi pronged, with the COVID health scare employed to overturn voting regulations ensuring fairness. We know voters favoured GOP in down votes on Senate and the house. Trump won fairly. Biden is attempting to steal the election, as Hillary attempted in 2016 with the Russia hoax, for which she has not served jail time, yet. 

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/hunter-biden-taxes-probe/2020/12/16/id/1001852/?oRef=mixi

Joe Biden on Wednesday told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy he’s “confident” his son Hunter Biden did nothing wrong.

Hunter Biden on Dec. 9 announced that federal prosecutors were investigating his tax affairs. The probe was launched in 2018 before Joe Biden announced his presidential run, but investigators didn’t reach out to the younger Biden prior to the election because a Justice Department policy surrounding elections prohibits overt investigative acts.

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In this episode, I discuss the troubling new revelations about George Soros’ role in the transformation of American. I also discuss the latest court cases, which the media is ignoring, in the election 2020 malfeasance.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Capitol Hill
Biden’s Pick for Energy Secretary Spent Years Spreading Russia Conspiracies
AOC Says Pelosi and Schumer Need to Go
Donald Trump Jr. Will Campaign With Senator Perdue Ahead of Runoff
Raphael Warnock Said Republicans Want to “Kill Children” Because They Like Low Taxes
Sen. Hawley: Big Tech Will Run the Biden Administration
Wisconsin Election Commission Director Warns “Gray Areas” in Laws Governing Election Observers Must Be Addressed
Michigan Legislature Subpoenas Election Evidence From Detroit
Nevada GOP Subpoenas DMV, Claiming Data Reveals Thousands of Non-Citizen Voters
Iowa’s Largest Newspaper Blasts Democrats for Attempting to Steal Congressional Election
Illegal Migrants Rush to Border in Hopes of Weak Border Policy Under Biden
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 16: Trump Approval at 48%

Swamp Watch
Gov. Cuomo Isn’t Having a Great Month
Tucker Carlson Blasts Soros Backed DA Who Wants Cop Killers to Go Free
Oh No: Lincoln Project Hack Joins Democrat Party
Mitt Romney Upset to Realize “Trumpism Isn’t Going Away”
Lindsey Graham Warns Mail-In Voting and Social Media Companies Will Destroy Conservativism If We Don’t Push Back
GOP Rep Chris Stewart: Other Members of Congress Definitely Targeted by China
Seattle Councilwoman Calls Police to Report a Crime She Wants Legalized
McEnany Schools the Press for Suppressing Hunter Biden and Eric Swalwell Stories

Culture Wars
Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill Protecting Unborn Children Capable of Feeling Pain From Abortion
Unity! Top Biden Staffer Says Republicans “Are a Bunch of F***ers”
The Corporate Media Contemplates a Post-Trump Era, and They are Scared
Writer: Parents Are an “Oppressive Class That Perpetuate Patriarchy”
Student Government at Cornell Removes Representatives Who Voted Against Disarming Police
Gov. Cuomo Bans Sale of “Symbols of Hate”
Rush Limbaugh: Every Day Remains a Gift
San Francisco Leftists Say There’s No Evidence Abe Lincoln Did Anything to Better Black People’s Lives
WSJ Editor Reacts to Faux Outrage Over Column Critical of Jill Biden
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=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Malcolm Turnbull, fresh from turning Mr Abbott's idea of a referendum on SSM into a near turkey by denying a 'no' vote campaign and making the vote un-necessarily difficult has decided he wants a new landmark to demonstrate his time as PM. Turnbull is aiming for a Republic debate. Turnbull campaigned badly in '98. Now, with Beazley on side again, Turnbull can campaign badly again. One can never stand still, even incompetent ditherers like Turnbull. In '98, Beazley promised those who voted against a republic would get another turn under ALP. This almost fulfils that promise. 

It is Hanukkah and a picture has been circulated of a light pole in Jerusalem with a repurposed stone base showing a marking of the 10th Roman Legion. The 10th sacked Jerusalem and sent the Jews to all corners of the globe. So that most Japanese people have Jewish DNA (dating back to Babylonians sacking the first temple). The miracle of the lights. How fitting for Hanukkah. Israel overcomes all. 

Trump has shredded a ton of red tape. Business is booming in the US. Tay Tay endorses Trump. Lots of women Trump worked with over the years have spoken out about his professionalism, suggesting some accusers are liars. Robert Doyle, Mayor of Melbourne, is standing aside after one of his own councillors (albeit unaligned) accuses him of something. ABC claims one in ten people in Adelaide use Ice daily. Suggesting why the ALP are so popular. Net Neutrality hysterics claim returning to 2015 legislation for the internet will end the world. Air pollution linked to bad teen behaviour does not explain Melbourne's APEX. But Dan Andrews government does. A child bride with the intellect of a six or seven year old apparently completed Australian school study without issue. Ros Ward claims half of Australian kids are gay. Those statistics are about 49 percent off.

Libs threw everything they had at Bennelong, and had a 5% swing against in an unnecessary by election. Libs cannot afford to offer similar support generally in election. a 5% swing will gift ALP government and senate in a history making landslide. And that is with everything going for Turnbull who made awful gaffs over China, and then stood next to JA as he joked about disability. There is a historical precedent with the utter bastardy of overthrowing Abbott, and that was McMahon rolling Gorton. And the result was Whitlam. Only Abbott can heal Turnbull's wounds. I love the Libs and Australia. Waiting for Turnbull to come undone, as he might have over Bennelong, is too late for the party. I think that it is possible the bed wetters who remain will give it back to Abbott. I feel they will expect Abbott will then lose election and Libs will get a clean slate to follow. I know the numbers guy has been booted from Turnbull’s cabinet and now is a senate leader where he is positioned to effect the change. I believe Abbott could win the next election, if the situation is not more compromised. December is the killing season and this result does not deserve kudos, imho.

They can and they might lose even so, if Abbott does not heal the rift but maintains it. Julie Bishop and Pyne have had much invested in them over the years. They were once effective. A united team under Abbott prosecuting a positive agenda Abbott was denied while he was being knifed. That agenda would be economic conservative, not spending expansive, and will be broadly secular not religious partisan. People want to be told why responsible cuts will secure their future. They don’t want more big spending promises like Gonski which failed to address basic educational needs. .. btw .. I can offer, for free an education plan which substantially cuts costs but broadly improves performance across the board.

It is worth comparing agendas and promises. Abbott was very disciplined and restricted himself while he was being knifed. Turnbull promised things he was restricting Abbott from. Turnbull promised IPA free speech, and he could do that because he had the ear of independent senators while he was knifing Abbott. But Turnbull could not deliver on *Any* of the promises he made, including conversation supporting responsible spending. Turnbull set out his agenda on day one and failed to deliver. Turnbull's sole achievement to date is SSM through a plebiscite. However the idea had been Abbotts and the Turnbull delivery was awful. Debate was restricted for 'no' campaign and funding was inappropriately large for the 'yes' campaign. The voting process could have been innovative with email and verification available for a private vote which would have been cheap and foolproof. Instead we got a secret vote which, while decisive was also suspect. However, those empty words of Malcolm day one mask an effective agenda.

=== from 2016 ===
Because Australia has NBN but lousy internet infrastructure, this column was not written yesterday and today. It resumes tomorrow
=== from 2015 ===
The Australian Labour Party who failed in sixteen years to secure NSW's prosperity, despite one off opportunity of the Olympics in 2000, told the press it was impossible to secure a surplus budget. They said the NSW Coalition government did not have the right policies to secure a budget surplus. They said selling poles and wires would not help with a budget surplus. Now there is a surplus and a plan to erase debt left by the ALP, the media are saying the NSW government is too wasteful. They say that NSW has recklessly saved its way into prudent management. The ICAC looked to find fault and yet haven't. The ICAC haven't looked at the ALP, who in government lost billions of dollars. But they don't look for that kind of corruption. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Accounting and reckoning
Now is the time to address the issues. People are grieving, but to move forward we must not leave behind the lessons that may be gleaned from the tragedy of the siege in Sydney's Martin Place. First thing to note is that while it is part of the terrorist mould, it wasn't terrorism. It came from an Islamic person, but it wasn't an Islamic hit. It is acknowledged by ISIL death cult, but they did not organise or plan it. It came as a result of ALP foreign policy, but they won't acknowledge it. It came as a result of ALP legislation that is friendly to criminals, but they don't admit it. It happened after the gunman copied Christian outreach groups like Westboro Baptist Church, but they are unrepentant. It was excused by a host of leftwing groups which promote minorities over cultural assets, like Tim Costello, ABC, Fairfax Press, HRC lying about news and current affairs to promote a victim fantasy. Monis lived in a fantasy land where he was oppressed no matter how depraved or violent was his activity 

We know things now that were in the 'fog of war' during the siege. Monis was a refugee who came to Australia in 1996, well before the Pacific Solution introduced fairness to the migration system. He managed to obtain asylum, permanent residency and then citizenship. Iran complained to Australia that Monis had stolen $200k from clients as he had worked as a travel agent in Iran before coming to Australia. A meme being distributed by extremist right wing groups has it that Monis had changed his name and was cousin of the Chief Justice of Iran and connected to many Iranian influential people. Also he was said to be grandson to an Ayatollah who had been expelled from Iran by the former Shah, but had returned after the revolution in '79. We know that around 2002 Monis was working as an astrologer and sexual healer. That line of work is forbidden in Islam, but Jihadists seem excused from such restrictions. Following the murder of Monis' ex wife, investigations brought forth complaints of rape relating to that time. Apparently it was also how Monis met his wife. 

In 2008, Monis was writing letters to widows of servicemen who had died on duty. That appalling behaviour was not denounced by Islamic leaders of the time. Monis felt it came under freedom of speech. HRC seem to have approved of the behaviour. It was not deemed relevant to section 18C of the racial discrimination act 1975. In 2009, ASIO dropped Monis from their watch list. In 2011, Monis' ex wife applied for an AVO against Monis, claiming he had threatened to shoot her and had a gun license. Monis claimed he had had a gun license because he worked as a security guard, but it had lapsed. Late today, The NSW police chief, who under ALP had acted as a Police Minister, denied Mr Abbott's assertion that Monis had a gun license. But the obvious reality was Monis had had a gun. 

After Monis' wife allegedly murdered his ex at his urgings, making Monis an accessory after the fact, Monis was investigated. And the rape allegations surfaced. And Monis was bailed. Until an adverse finding a week ago, there was nothing to suggest the self styled sheikh was a terrorist. He was clearly manipulative and a fantasist when it suited him, he was as reliable as Craig Thomson. But for the land of his birth, he might have been President of the US, as a Democrat. But the serious nature of the murder charge and the rapes, and the clear character flaw related to the letters to widows, Monis should not have been afforded the privilege of bail. It beggars belief that he had retained a weapon from his days as a security guard with the amount of scrutiny he is expected to have been under. 

Did the ALP government in '09 have a policy change which got ASIO to drop Monis from their watch list? Did the former refugee status of Monis prevent NSW police from finding the weapon Monis used in Martin Place? Or was Monis given the gun by a sympathetic fantasist? The ALP, HRC and Islamic leaders have been very sympathetic to the lie that Australia was fighting for oil in Afghanistan and Iraq and killing (and torturing) Islamic peoples as a sideline. That lie fed Monis' fantasy. Monis, in preparation for his assault, had not been aware of the mistake he was making in using the Shahada as the Jolly Roger. Monis' every action on the day seems opportunistic. Wanting the PM as an audience to killing hostages, or the right flag as a justification. The response by the NSW Premier and police to the situation was superb. Something happened to let an opportunist fantasist get away with murder and hostage taking. And the role of ALP government in that atrocity must be examined. If only to 'exonerate' them as Craig Thomson has been, guilty, but unworthy of serving time. 
From 2013
Cronulla Rugby League Football club has been fined a million dollars without a player, official or club having done anything wrong. The fine is apparently to cover up Jason Clare's jaw which claimed that Australian sport was addicted to performance enhancing drugs. Cronulla had administrative problems at the time and so it is apparent ASADA has exploited this to smear them. Had a competent MD been in charge of the club, the claims would probably not have been inflated to this competition changing fine. Will Cronulla, which is not a rich club, move to another site? Queensland needs Sharks .. 

CIA involved with AGW alarmism? Or Walter Mitty? ACT game claims seem inflated. Brazil takes heavy burden of feeding plants around the world. McTernan, if you are reading this, you are not invited to lunch with me. Also, if you are not reading this. Daily Telegraph excels at cricket reporting without bias. 

Bolt is going on holidays, but this column will continue daily. Human rights commissioner will speak out for freedom. At last. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 497 BC,  the first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. 546, Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plundered the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. 920, Romanos I Lekapenos was crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII. 942, assassination of William I of Normandy. 1398, Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi were defeated by Timur. 1538, Pope Paul III excommunicated Henry VIII of England. 1583, Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg. 1586, Go-Yōzei became Emperor of Japan. 1600, marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. 1718, War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declared war on Spain. 1777, American Revolution: France formally recognised the United States. 1790, discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.

In 1807, Napoleonic Wars: France issued the Milan Decree, which confirmed the Continental System. 1812, War of 1812: U.S. forces attacked a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa. 1819, Simón Bolívar declared the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela). 1835, Great Fire of New York: Fire levelled lower Manhattan. 1837, a fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg killed 30 guards. 1862, American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of TennesseeMississippi, and Kentucky. 1865, first performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert. 1892, first issue of Vogue was published 1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, was destroyed in a fire.

In 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1907, Ugyen Wangchuck was crowned first King of Bhutan 1918, Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators marched on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. 1919, Uruguay became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1926, Antanas Smetona assumed power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état was successful. 1927,  Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri was hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date. 1928, Indian revolutionaries Bhagat SinghSukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinated British police officer James Saunders in LahorePunjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931. 1935, first flight of the Douglas DC-3. 1938, Otto Hahn discovered the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. 1939, World War IIBattle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.

In 1941, World War II: Japanese forces landed in Northern Borneo. 1943, all Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States with the repealing of the Act of 1882and the introduction of the Magnuson Act. 1944, World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs were shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper. 1947, first flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. 1950, the F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea. 1951, the American Civil Rights Congressdelivered "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. 1957, the United States successfully launched the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape CanaveralFlorida. 1960, troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crushed the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolved his son of any guilt. Also 1960, 1960 Munich C-131 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground were killed. 1961, Niterói circus fire: Fire broke out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500. 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned. 1969, the SALT I talks began. 1969, Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closed its study of UFOs. 1970, Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fired at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens. 1973, thirty passengers were killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.

In 1981, American Brigadier General James L. Dozier was abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. 1983, Provisional IRA members detonated a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London, England, United Kingdom. Three police officers and three civilians were killed. 1987, Final Fantasy was released in Japan on the Famicon, marking the start of the Final Fantasy series and saving Square from bankruptcy. 1989, the first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", aired in the United States. Also 1989, Romanian Revolution: Protests continued in TimișoaraRomania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. Also 1989, Fernando Collor de Mello defeated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years. 1997, the British Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 came into force, banning all handguns with the exception of antique and show weapons. 2002, Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue signed a peace accord which made provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years. 2003, the Soham murder trial ended at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr was found guilty of perverting the course of justice. 2003, SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, made its first powered and first supersonic flight. 2005, anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Also 2005, Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne as King of Bhutan. 2009, MV Danny F II sank off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Amos 4-6, Revelation 7 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Amos 4-6

Israel Has Not Returned to God
1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,
you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy
and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”
2 The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness:
“The time will surely come
when you will be taken away with hooks,
the last of you with fishhooks.
3 You will each go straight out
through breaches in the wall,
and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
4 “Go to Bethel and sin;
go to Gilgal and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three years.
5 Burn leavened bread as a thank offering
and brag about your freewill offerings—
boast about them, you Israelites,
for this is what you love to do,” declares the Sovereign LORD....

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 7

144,000 Sealed
1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
5 From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
6 from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,

from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000....

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning


"Come unto me."
Matthew 11:28
The cry of the Christian religion is the gentle word, "Come." The Jewish law harshly said, "Go, take heed unto thy steps as to the path in which thou shalt walk. Break the commandments, and thou shalt perish; keep them, and thou shalt live." The law was a dispensation of terror, which drove men before it as with a scourge; the gospel draws with bands of love. Jesus is the good Shepherd going before his sheep, bidding them follow him, and ever leading them onwards with the sweet word, "Come." The law repels, the gospel attracts. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and brings the sinner across it.
From the first moment of your spiritual life until you are ushered into glory, the language of Christ to you will be, "Come, come unto me." As a mother puts out her finger to her little child and woos it to walk by saying, "Come," even so does Jesus. He will always be ahead of you, bidding you follow him as the soldier follows his captain. He will always go before you to pave your way, and clear your path, and you shall hear his animating voice calling you after him all through life; while in the solemn hour of death, his sweet words with which he shall usher you into the heavenly world shall be--"Come, ye blessed of my Father."
Nay, further, this is not only Christ's cry to you, but, if you be a believer, this is your cry to Christ--"Come! come!" You will be longing for his second advent; you will be saying, "Come quickly, even so come Lord Jesus." You will be panting for nearer and closer communion with him. As his voice to you is "Come," your response to him will be, "Come, Lord, and abide with me. Come, and occupy alone the throne of my heart; reign there without a rival, and consecrate me entirely to thy service."

Evening

"Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened."
Isaiah 48:8

It is painful to remember that, in a certain degree, this accusation may be laid at the door of believers, who too often are in a measure spiritually insensible. We may well bewail ourselves that we do not hear the voice of God as we ought, "Yea, thou heardest not." There are gentle motions of the Holy Spirit in the soul which are unheeded by us: there are whisperings of divine command and of heavenly love which are alike unobserved by our leaden intellects. Alas! we have been carelessly ignorant--"Yea, thou knewest not." There are matters within which we ought to have seen, corruptions which have made headway unnoticed; sweet affections which are being blighted like flowers in the frost, untended by us; glimpses of the divine face which might be perceived if we did not wall up the windows of our soul. But we "have not known." As we think of it we are humbled in the deepest self-abasement. How must we adore the grace of God as we learn from the context that all this folly and ignorance, on our part, was foreknown by God, and, notwithstanding that foreknowledge, he yet has been pleased to deal with us in a way of mercy! Admire the marvellous sovereign grace which could have chosen us in the sight of all this! Wonder at the price that was paid for us when Christ knew what we should be! He who hung upon the cross foresaw us as unbelieving, backsliding, cold of heart, indifferent, careless, lax in prayer, and yet he said, "I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour ... Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life!" O redemption, how wondrously resplendent dost thou shine when we think how black we are! O Holy Spirit, give us henceforth the hearing ear, the understanding heart!

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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.

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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.

Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?


January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)

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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.


The Amazon Author Page for David Ball

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

Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG

German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG

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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship

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I'm looking for former students to endorse me

https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html

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