Friday, December 24, 2021

Fri 24th 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.

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In 211, Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, was lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrived, the Praetorian Guard murdered him and he died in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna. 1154, Henry II of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey. 1606, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery departed England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. 1776, Thomas Paine published one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis". 1777, American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. 1796, French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engaged in battle off the coast of Murcia.

1900, Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he was unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and was forced to resign.1916, World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the Western Front, the French Army successfully held off the German Army and drove it back to its starting position.

1924, the last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was sold in London, England. 1941, World War II: Adolf Hitler became Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army. Also 1941, World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damaged the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour. 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, was officially presumed dead.

In 1972, Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returned to Earth. 1998, president Bill Clinton was impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached. 
=== From 2020 ===

Who will be left for Democrats after Obama, Biden, HRC, Schiff, Warren and Pelosi are prosecuted for their Russia Collusion Hoax? What will be left of the FBI and DOJ after Mueller, Comey et al are prosecuted for their collusion? Dan Bongino discusses the explosive exposure of how Russia has had HRC emails from her illegal server in which HRC tried to deflect from her exposure by blaming President Trump. What of the powerful tech business allies of HRC who colluded to get Biden elected President? How will FB, Google, youtube and Twitter be affected? Will their CEO's escape jail time? What of CNN? NBCNews?, CBSNews? FoxNews? 

https://rumble.com/vbzwhf-editorial-december-19th-2020-dandenong-conservative.htmlI'm waiting for delayed gratification. T45 may well be the greatest President USA has had, based on analysis of achievements to date. He fixed a broken economy. He achieved peace by not going to war. He commandeered initiative in science and tech. He worked for all constituents, not the corrupt few which his opponents focused on. 

Opposition to T45 has been substantially larger than for any previous President. The Russia Hoax dominated (swamped) his Presidency. Treasonous activity by tech giants and social elite have persecuted T45. Partly, that was at T45's behest because he was an outsider to Washington. Trump has walked a path others have not because opposition to outsiders is fierce. Including from within his own party, with RINO members part of the swamp. 

Trump won re-election in terms of votes cast in record numbers. The swamp is trying to steal it from him. The swamp are abusing legal avenues to prevent analysis of their illegal activity. What will happen when it is decided that has not worked? How many people will the swamp kill to protect their 'interests'? In order to protect the union, SCOTUS has not acted prematurely. It is up to state legislatures to do the right thing. How will RINO affect the outcome of those state legislature? Will RINO break the union to support the swamp? 

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. IS has been defeated thanks in part to Donald Trump. Obama only fed IS. Obama never won a war. Without Obama, IS was toppled. Also thanks to Egypt opposing Muslim Brotherhood and Putin opposing IS even while Obama was feeding them. To be fair, IS could have been sons of Obama. Meanwhile in Pakistan a mosque has a US and an Israeli flag positioned on the floor for people to walk over. Westboro Baptist used to pull such stunts and was despised by Christians for it. Where are Muslims complaining about Muslims that bring Islam into disrepute? Now, a head of a state that NATO relies on, Turkey's Erdogan, has called on Israel's destruction. Were NATO responsive, they should sideline Turkey for such outrageous behaviour.

It is twenty years since Titanic was first released as a motion picture. To celebrate, Turnbull rearranges the deck chairs of ministerial positions. Instead of bringing an effective politician like Abbott in, Turnbull promotes known gaff ridden members and blames Barnaby Joyce for dropping a Victorian. The Victorian, Darren Chester, had held infrastructure and Victoria gets some 9.5% of infrastructure despite having 25% of the population. To be fair, Victoria would get more infrastructure if they were more responsible. But Victoria in the last year, since budget, has tossed away $29 billion on infrastructure costs that were not budgeted. Even as they failed to spend to build things properly. They dug up Yarra using shallow tunnels when deeper ones would not have inconvenienced everyone. And the extra cost would have been $500 million of an $11 billion budget, now grown to $13 billion. Is ALP worse than Turnbull? Will we ever know for sure? Turnbull survived Bennelong. Liberals would be smoking ruins if Turnbull lost it, and he might have with his dithering and gaffs. Only a smoking ruin will shift Turnbull?

=== from 2016 ===
The December IPA Review is out and opens with a Chris Berg editorial on the US Presidential election. I respect Berg, but disagree with his emphasis on things, but I represent myself, and he fronts the IPA and so his choices are more proscribed. For example, Berg was previously unflattering of Trump as a candidate, describing Trump as being the worst of GOP candidates and the least likely to beat Clinton. Only that is not what was evidenced by the election. Clinton’s support network could well have gotten her the election had she faced anyone else. What Trump had was broad popular support from a silent (silenced by media) majority. But he only got it at the end of the campaign. People lied outrageously during the campaign to promote Hillary and diminish Trump. One such liar is Shorten. Shorten made outrageous claims about people who supported Trump and what Trump will do as President. So does Berg. Berg backhandedly lauds Shorten for claiming to have learned from Trump’s win by demanding changes be made to 457 VISA. Another liar Berg backhands is Turnbull who openly supported Hillary and denounced candidate Trump. Now Turnbull claims Trump’s victory’s lesson is that Australia is better off focusing on jobs and growth. But if Turnbull was serious about that he would bring back Work Choices and promote free speech.

Berg then misrepresents Trump’s success by claiming it will be ameliorated by GOP ascendancy. Berg mischaracterises Trump’s trade diplomacy of tariffs on China, and tearing up NAFTA and TPP. There are bad deals for the US. Trump wants to institute good deals. A good deal for a TPP is much better than the thing Obama has strangled. Not to diminish the Abbott government’s work on free trade, free trade is important. Too important to leave a bad deal when a better one is achievable. Tariffs are counter productive, but then so is Chinese intransigence and poor ethics as a global citizen. A strong President can get China to behave, and then all will profit. And Tariffs are a starting negotiating point. If China wants to hurt herself, she can.

Berg is also wrong to say Australia is at a stalemate since the Coalition narrowly won the last federal election. Turnbull squandered a strong lead. Abbott had lined up a strong possibility of a conservative senate, the first since 2007. But Abbott had strong policy goals, while Turnbull offers inertia. Turnbull can only humiliate himself until he resigns in disgrace. Or, Turnbull can damage conservative government with his bed wetting accomplices. 
=== from 2015 ===
Foolish independent Senator Lambie says Greens are like ISIS. But the facts don't stack up. Greens don't throw gays off rooftops or crucify Christians. And the behaviours of the Greens, what is similar to ISIS? Greens have their own diet. Greens collect in enclaves and don't assimilate well. Greens demand others be like them. Greens dismiss secular authority and claim to serve a higher purpose than any court. Greens want to raise their children their way. Greens want other children raised their way. Greens are extremely violent, particularly youthful ones and prone to damaging property while openly despising Western values. Green politicians don't follow a Green agenda but seem to follow the secret agenda that violent youthful Greens follow. Green leaders are impotent in the face of their followers violent expression. They say Greens are peaceful but don't reject Green violence. Impotent Green leaders blame the West for Green violence. Greens want to lower the age of consent.  Greens are lenient on sexual deviants. Where more than 5% of the population turns Green then they try to institute their own laws. Green refugees are said to include violent Green radicals trying to sponge off welfare states. Greens support no border policies which are responsible for the deaths of many and have many poor people exploited by piracy. Greens have invaded Europe and ruined it. Greens take over a billion dollars a day from the world's poorest and spend it on supporting their own billionaires. Greens are mainly atheist but claim they are profoundly religious. I have Green friends that are just like you or me and nothing like the above, most Greens aren't violent. Greens seem inspired by Communism and Socialism. Nothing like ISIS or jihadis. Meanwhile Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull is sad that Japan is legally allowed to hunt whales and wants to stop it, even if it means breaking the law? It is said Prince Charles favours Greens over Christians. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Security in a modern nation is partly built on the illusion that things are impossible and unthinkable. As with killing 148 school children or holding a cafe with staff and customers hostage. There is no way such a thing should happen because it doesn't achieve anything worthwhile. The response to such activity would be firm and final by any decent person aware of it. But since Palestinian terrorists in the late '60s began committing such atrocities the illusion of security has evaporated in places. US has prided itself that domestic terrorism was too hard to commit because somebody would speak up. And yet the World Trade Centre was hit twice, and Oklahoma and the Boston marathon bombing occurred catching authorities by surprise when people had not spoken loudly enough to be heard. The US has been exposed to terrorism domestically.

There is a myth in medical research that more money will solve any problem. There is an element of truth to that, but sometimes it isn't the case. Aids research in the mid '80s had many laboratories around the world duplicating research. In that instance research was slowed because duplication does not promote diversity in research. The successful Western world has had a technological advantage for several hundred years because brilliant scholars weren't chained to old ideas, as duplication does. In the United States duplication and not diversification has promoted terrorism. It isn't that people have not spoken out as they were supposed to. It is that authorities could not hear them because of the chaff that claimed other similar or worse threats elsewhere. Consider the pilot trainer who warned authorities of a suspicious character who did not need to learn how to land a plane? Or of those who led authorities to the jihadist who couldn't suicide on 9/11 because he had been arrested? Israel has successfully combated terrorism since before she was a state, but she has had failures to. But successful methods preventing terror are actually opposed by some very influential people who lie to get people killed. Should Israel build a defensive wall? Should Israel security forces racially profile? Should Israel defend herself with disproportionate force? The same questions get asked in the US with the same effect, making it easier for terrorists to strike.

At the moment, the champion of politics of division is President Obama. Obama has funded terrorists directly through aid programs (e.g. Hamas), indirectly through negligent failure to appropriately use security forces (e.g. Benghazi), through rhetoric which divides the nation (e.g. black deaths from resisting arrest) and through abuse of power which employs people to abuse tax office investigative powers or legal privilege. The result is terrorism is easier now than it was before. Australia has a similar brigade of people who undermine the nation to make terrorism easier. Weakening border protection to make people smuggling profitable meant deaths from drowning and exploitation of some desperate people. Meanwhile, refugees in camps around the world are left in a limbo, having years of their lives placed on hold. Police and media restrict themselves from appropriately describing offenders. It makes policing more difficult which makes it more dangerous for others. 

The competing theory, much as there are competing parties in democracy, places promotion of minorities at odds with promotion of cultural assets. If one promotes a cultural asset everyone benefits. If one promotes a minority, most people lose. Minorities do better too, when cultural assets are supported and the whole of society grows. And so, while there is no reason to kill 148 schoolchildren, one was given, and it scans for those who promote division. But for those who promote cultural assets, it makes no sense. It is worth looking at recent cases to see if there is a promotion of minorities which harms society, or a promotion of cultural assets which promotes cultural growth and benefits everyone:
  • Bludjahideen .. refugee program rorted and exposing Australia to danger
  • Child killers in Afghanistan
  • 8 children dead .. siblings in Cairns, 34 yo mother, eldest child is 20. 
  • Fairfax blames Abbott for not saving Australia from Monis.
In other news;
  • Sinodinos quits allowing a reshuffle of cabinet in Australia. Sinodinos has not been shown to do anything wrong, but the ICAC have tried to get themselves dismantled before they completely tear apart the ALP for corruption. They will report in March in a cynical attempt to influence the electoral cycle, as it is near the state election. 
  • Royal commission .. Gillard lied .. now demands apology. Gillard is upset she was called a liar when she had lied. 
  • Clive Palmer's senior media advisor arrested in Indonesia. Palmer calls it a political stunt. The charges are serious and not connected to government but police investigating a crime. 
  • Lambie wants to be talked to. She has declared she will oppose everything, but is now expressing hurt that people aren't discussing things with her. 
Sport India V Aus in Cricket
India tribute to Phil Hughes in second test with 408 eclipsed by lusty hitting from the Australian tail. Then Vijay's defence penetrated by Starc, leaving Indian honour bruised.
From 2013
Left wing argue using abuse. Often, they will lay down a few false statements and then build on them. So, a lefty arguing about politics in Australia, with the recent change of government, might say they hate Tony Abbott and are disgusted by him. They will say he isn't popular and he hates poor people. They will say he wants to make workers get paid less and rich people to get paid more. But the reality is very different to what they claim initially, and so an attempt to dispute any of their false assertions results in them back tracking to "You can't trust any of them." In fact Mr Abbott is a compassionate, friendly man. He is trying to improve the economy so that all prosper through honest work. It is pragmatic to encourage savings and investment because that drives growth. On the other hand, ALP politics is driven by hate and envy with a touch of cynicism. The ALP agenda is to tax poor working people and reward rich union leaders. So it is worth reading Blair's column on Van Badham's tweets. I ask my self the question "So how do others feel about a left wing party like the ALP moving to make anti semitism legal? Does that ever turn out well?" 
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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 14

The Lamb and the 144,000

Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

The Three Angels

Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’ which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”

A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress

I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

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https://rumble.com/vrao9m-ep.-1673-biden-humiliates-himself-in-new-interview-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Finally! A random act of journalism occurs,
as Joe Biden is asked tough questions by a left wing media outlet. In this episode I address the embarrassing results.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
SCOTUS to Hear Arguments Against Biden’s COVID Vax Mandates READ MORE

GOP States to Limit Telehealth Distribution of Abortion Pills Ok’d By FDA

Ted Cruz Floats 2024 Run

COVID Goalposts Moved for Billionth Time as Fauci Says Large Christmas Gatherings Not Safe Even for the Triple Vaxxed

Contradicting Psaki, Biden Admits He May Not Run for Re-Election in 2024

Rand Paul’s Annual Festivus Report Exposes $52 Billion in Government Waste

Anti-Cop Pennsylvania Congresswoman Carjacked at Gunpoint in Philadelphia as Social Workers Fail to Intervene

Capitol Hill
Emails Reveal Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech
10 House Seats Set to Flip in 2022
Unprecedently Low Polling Numbers for Democrat Party Indicate Its Collapse
Swing District Dem Says Opposition to Racist Critical Race Theory Propaganda Is a “Racist Dog Whistle”
To the Media, John McCain Was a Maverick While Joe Manchin Is an Obstacle
Psaki Says Biden “Saved Christmas”
Biden’s Approval Underwater in 45 States
White House Insists Build Back Better Isn’t Actually Dead
Biden Admin Pressed for Overdue Report on Vetting Afghan Refugees

Culture War
11-Year-Old Saves Woman From House Fire Hours After Saving Classmate’s Life
Biden and CDC Tell Two Different Stories About Preparedness for Omicron
Mom Uses Christmas Card to Announce Her Kindergartener Is “Non-Binary”
The Corporate Media Freakout Over The Omicron Variant Is Psychotic
Newsweek Issues Embarrassing Correction After Falsely Reporting Charlie Kirk “Compared Kyle Rittenhouse to Jesus”
Trump Urges “Right to Sue the Press” for Defamation and Libel in Candace Owens Interview
Michigan School District Promotes BLM and Bail Donations in “Equity Challenge”
Washington State Could End Single-Family Zoning
Lib Journo Claims Guns Responsible for Crime Wave – Decades of Data Proves That Wrong

Economy
Intel Apologizes After Asking Suppliers to Avoid China’s Xinjiang Region
Skyrocketing Price of Lithium Could Doom Electric Car Market
Lawrence Summers Sees Risk of Recession Soon
New Jersey Governor Signs Bill Giving Tax Relief to Casinos
Biden Touts Supply Chain Progress and Stalled Spending Bill Days Before Christmas
SCOTUS Could Decide Monsanto/Bayer RoundUp Cancer Suits
Global Investors Are Pushing Out First Time Buyers
Rite Aid Set to Close At Least 63 Stores in Coming Months
The Biden Admin Has Fueled the Shortage of at-Home COVID Tests
Why College Degrees Are Losing Their Value
Biden Extends Student Loan Payment Pause Again Due to Omicron Hysteria

Swamp Watch
CNN Lies, Falsely Reports Jessie Watters Called for Violence Against Dr. Fauci
World Health Org: Cancel Christmas
Antifa Supporter Argued for Lighter Punishments for Convicted Sex Offenders
Zuckerberg’s Election Rigging Group Hires Democratic Socialists of America Member
DOJ Releases Second Financial Activity Report on Durham Special Counsel Investigation as It Zeroes in on Clinton Campaign
California to Expand Vax Mandate for Healthcare Workers to Include Boosters
Witness: Jan 6 Panel Spent More Time Asking About Afghan Withdrawal Than Capitol Breach
Army’s Claim of Developing “Super” COVID Vax Is Based on Trials With Only 29 Participants

National Security
Russia Won’t Like This: Lithuania Triples Purchase of U.S. Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles
Putin’s Calculation Regarding the Ukraine
Allies Must Build Fighter Capability for Deterrence
China Is Becoming the Soviet Union
A Look at France’s Defense Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Will More Nations Obtain Nuclear Weapons?
Russia Sees War As More Than Military Conflict
Capitol Police Chief Can Now “Unilaterally” Request National Guard Assistance in Emergencies
New Reforms Being Adopted to Address U.S. Military’s Missing Weapons Problem

Around the World
Over Half of Afghanistan Doesn’t Have Enough to Eat After Taliban Takeover
First Local Transmissions of Omicron Confirmed in Japan
China Issues Lockdown of 13 Million People
China Unleashes “Tsunami of Anger” Against Olympics Sponsor Intel for Leaving Uyghur Slave Region
Israel Set to Administer Fourth Dose of COVID Vaccine
Archbishop of Canterbury Claims Refusing Vaccination Goes Against Christianity
UK Shortens Its COVID Isolation Period to 7 Days
With “Circuit Breaker” Lockdown Looming, New Year’s Eve in Jeopardy in UK
Russia Announces Talks With U.S. and NATO for Next Year

Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Joe Manchin and the White House Staff
Tim Graham: Pretending Biden Is Blameless on COVID
NY Post Editorial Board: Joe Biden’s Omicron Speech Shows He’s Still Not on Top of COVID
Austin Bay: Aunt Lillian’s Timely Grace
Michael Goodwin: Biden Delivers a Double Dose of Ineptitude as COVID, BBB Bedevil His Presidency
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Christmas in America
John Podhoretz: Joe Biden’s Omicron Speech Was a Pack of Total Bull
R. Emmett Tyrrell: The Lessons of History
Libby Emmons: Turns Out, Women Are Easy to Push Around. Just Ask a Transgender Athlete

Entertainment
Spider-Man Actor James Franco Admits He Had Sex With His Students
Marvel Studios Releases Teaser Trailer For “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness”
Parents of “Walking Dead” Actress Alicia Witt Found Dead in Massachusetts Family Home
Denise Richards Speaks Out After Being Attacked for Posting Maskless Selfie on Plane
“Wheel of Fortune” Sparks Controversy After Contestant Loses Brand New Audi Q3 Over Technicality
William Shatner Involved in Car Crash in California
Elon Musk: Wokeness “Wants To Make Comedy Illegal”
Britney Spears Trashes Family – Teases “New Song In The Works”

Sports
Bills’ Cole Beasley Blasts NFL “Rules” After Testing Positive for COVID-19
Due to Lack of Eligible Players Brooklyn Nets Game at Portland Postponed
Survey: NBA Fans Reveal Why They Don’t Like LeBron James
Texas A&M Pulls Out Of Gator Bowl Due to Coronavirus Issues
Video: Aaron Rodgers Says Talk About Virus Should Focus on “How to be Healthier”
Six Kansas City Chiefs Players Named to 2022 Pro Bowl Roster
Australian Open Might Allow Vaccine Exemption for Novak Djokovic
Champion Snowboarder Backs Olympics Boycott: “I Don’t Even Want to Be Called an Olympian Anymore”
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
"If the only thing standing between getting voting rights legislation passed and not getting passed is the filibuster, I support making the exception of voting rights for the filibuster," President Joe Biden said in a new interview. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Rep. Murphy: Supreme Court Will Remove Mandate Uncertainty | video

Newsfront
U.S. consumer prices rose 5.7% over the past year, the fastest pace in 39 years, as a surge in inflation confronts Americans with the holiday shopping season under way.... [Full Story]

Former NFL Star Vincent Jackson's Cause of Death Revealed

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Vincent Jackson, whose body [Full Story]

Award-Winning American Writer Joan Didion Dies at 87

Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social [Full Story]

Republican-Led States Restrict Telehealth Abortion Pill Distribution

Most red states will limit access to abortion pills despite federal [Full Story]
=== Viva Barnes News ===

1. Vaccine mandates go to SCOTUS. "In an unusual move, the justices announced on Wednesday night that they will hear oral arguments on Jan. 7 on two federal policies: a vaccine-or-test mandate for workers at large employers, and a vaccine mandate for health care workers at facilities that receive federal funding." https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/12/justices-will-hear-arguments-on-jan-7-in-challenges-to-biden-vaccine-policies/

2. "North Carolina congressman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against every judge on the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, asking a federal court to force them to give up basic information about recent decisions delaying North Carolina’s 2022 primary elections." https://www.wral.com/nc-congressman-sues-state-supreme-court/20047436/

3. South Africans skeptical of the White Lab Coats promising a sequel to Constant Gardner, and almost all refuse the vaccine. https://unherd.com/thepost/why-south-africans-are-refusing-the-vaccine/

4. David Hancock's Kyle tour has some critics. https://unherd.com/thepost/kyle-rittenhouse-the-latest-right-wing-celebrity/

5. Even more on the Democratic side see the mandates as more curse, than cure, for their electoral woes. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-pandemic-won-biden-the-white-house-now-it-s-costing-him-opinion/ar-AAS1fX4

*Bonus: Christmas decoration award winners. https://kpic.com/news/local/north-bend-honors-2021-christmas-decorating-spirit-winners

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Here is a video I made "You've Made Me So Very Happy
"You've Made Me So Very Happy" is a song that was written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy, and was released first as a single in 1967 by Brenda Holloway on the Tamla label. The song was later a huge hit for jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1969.

=== From 2020 ===

We have a good idea as to the path Trump is walking to retain the white house. It is not martial law. It does not involve SCOTUS. Trump is keen not to hurt the union or the constitution. Trump is on his knees, losing unnecessary fights which continue to show that Deep State have had control of the union for a long time and many of the levers of power are not functioning. It is necessary Trump fight these battles, but not necessary he win them. It is not certain Trump will win. But, the cabal have been losing badly with each 'win' they get. The SCOTUS decision of the Texas lawsuit is a case in point. The election was stolen. The evidence is clear. SCOTUS does not need the evidence, the people have it. Even as Big tech and media deny it, the people have seen it and made a decision regarding it. Trump wanted a stimulus for COVID and Democrats delayed it and forced it into a pork barrel. It does not matter if Trump refuses to sign it. The people have seen the Democrats delaying the bill for political advantage as people suffered. The people have also seen that the pork barrels are not meant for them. 

American people are not impressed that Democrats are trying to steal the Georgia senate run offs. They are not impressed with the Democrat candidates. They are not impressed with polling that shows a narrative mainstream media peddle, but which does not reflect reality. People are not impressed with the intimidation of Kemp. People are expecting Kraken will expose attempted fraud in the run off. The mail in fraud is not going to impress the people. The fraudulent votes for Biden will not transfer to support for him if he wins. 

We know Trump is the most popularly re elected President ever. We know Trump is gaining support among minorities as well as regular aspirational voters. What we don't yet know is when Biden and the cabal will face justice for what they have done. But we know Trump is temporising so as to not embarrass SCOTUS. So, the steps are, Trump will secure a win via state legislatures. Then SCOTUS will be brought in to deal with the fraudsters. In all likelihood, Trump does not want another special council in the wings of his 2021 inauguration. 

https://rumble.com/vc596d-editorial-thu-24th-december-2020-current-affairs.htmlCOVID 19 has been inflated by hysterics for the primary purpose of controlling the US elections in 2020. It allowed states to declare states of emergency and suspend normal rules while a cabal engaged in voter fraud. Trump has produced a few vaccines but the cabal need COVID to remain so they can prevent a free and fair election in Georgia for the senate positions. However, in order to achieve what the cabal has, things have had to be sacrificed, including reputations and people's lives. Not all of which are in USA. 

COVID is not worse than a bad flu. The IPA (Institute of Public Affairs in Australia) have researched the death rate at 800 per million, or 0.08%. A bad flu might be 0.1%. However, hysterics have reported death rates as 20% or more. COVID is particularly deadly to the sick and elderly, unlike SARS which afflicted the young and sick. However, elderly people under COVID-19 have longer life expectancies than before. And, older, sick people have always died in large numbers. It is easy to inflate numbers of natural attrition for elderly. A healthy person wearing a mask has no real defence from COVID, and cannot transmit it. Children are not particularly susceptible to COVID. Yet children have been prevented from going to school, and businesses have been closed and treatments have been denied the sick so COVID hysteria can allow rules to be suspended during elections. 

Some people have been very sick from COVID and died. That happens with the flu too, every year. However, there have been treatments for COVID denied the sick by bureaucrats. At first, the treatments were declared as counter to research. But such research was debunked when it was observed it had not been rigorous but set to fail. It is hard to know the exact number who have died from such neglect, but as of June 2020, statistics showed deaths from COVID were some 8 times more likely in Democrat run states. While it is possible that COVID is more virulent against those with left wing values, whose personal hygiene is suspect, the more likely explanation is that bad management is the cause. Herd immunity is still the only long term solution, possibly achieved through vaccine, but in the mean times, treatment is available and cheap. 

In Victoria, in Australia, following the first wave, elimination had temporarily been achieved. However it had been bungled by Victorian Premier Dan Andrews and extraordinary measures were brought to bear, ruling out treatment. Some one hundred people died as a direct result, but the Victorian Premier was able to declare a state of emergency and a state of disaster and introduce a Chinese style curfew on movement. Such virtue signalling was necessary for the pre election pre text in the United states. Australians dying so US peoples could be bound in chains. Similar tragedy ensued in Europe and elsewhere. Notably, poor nations with access to cheap treatments were largely unaffected by the crisis. 

Will there ever be justice for those who paid high prices for COVID hysteria so a cabal could rig an election? 

https://rumble.com/vc43o7-editorial-wed-23rd-december-2020.html

A former and a current CIA chief used their offices to create a fake news attack on then candidate Donald Trump. They did not use, apparently, CIA resources, but private ones which they then had given to FBI and state department as bona fide CIA intelligence. Two former FBI chiefs then colluded to create fake investigations to persecute the candidate, and later, President Trump. The actual application of the CIA to USA operations is illegal. Those chiefs and a few underlings, sponsored by a cabal of Democrats and big tech, have orchestrated crisis after crisis in the United States, and world. And DOJ chief Barr sees nothing wrong? 

It is apparent the spying on Trump prior to 2016 election, and the subsequent attempt to remove him from office was baseless and corrupt. Yet is has become very hard to say so, with FB, Twitter and Google acting to restrict substantive evidence. Mainstream media print lies, but don't retract when corrected. Why did Fox news give North Carolina early, in error, to HRC in 2016? Why in 2020 did Fox news also give North Carolina early? How did pollsters measure fraudulent votes before they were cast? Why were pollsters so wrong about Trump popularity? 

We know that FBI began investigating Trump before the 2016 election. We know it was based on a lie that had not been started by bona fide security channels but was initiated from HRC campaign and shepherded by senior CIA and FBI executives. What does Barr know that allows him to claim what he does? 

https://rumble.com/vc3fg9-tue-22nd-december-2020-current-affairs.html

Trump is fighting to get re elected after he was voted back in. Nothing is certain. I am confident he will walk down one of the roads which sees him inaugurated again on 20th January 2021. I am also certain there are very bad people fighting for their lives as criminals to deny him. The rumour surrounding Governor Kemp does not have to be true. The possibility that Kemp's daughter's significant other was murdered to threaten Kemp illustrates the stakes. If voter fraud is real, and has been detailed, imagine the breadth of the corruption involved in independently and multiply, conning voter authorities. It was not merely using COVID hysteria to change laws to allow voter fraud. It was not merely using trucks to carry fake ballots across state lines. It was not merely opening voting machines to hostile governments. It was not merely foreign governments compromising legislature in significant committees. It is not merely covering up for the corrupt activities. It is not merely tasking tech giants to sideline debate. It is all of that, and more. In order to maintain the lie, what keeps the corrupt pollsters in Georgia in line, and waiting for more? What keeps corrupt judges from respecting the law and the constitution? If the Media editors are corrupt, are the journalists corrupt too? All of them? When was it that not one capable, honest journalist worked at CNN? When was it that entire support structures of Facebook and Google would countenance the deception they perpetrate? 

I can tell you I have no evidence that suggests there is an honest journalist at CNN. NYT, WaPo, LA Times etc etc. I have no evidence that suggests FB or Google are not part of a cabal. My interactions suggest gross incompetence among judges, police and authorities. I see a depraved indifference to the welfare of ordinary citizens as educational authorities persecute children who don't toe their lines, or repeat lies of convenience. 

Allow me to throw some truth bombs illustrating the issues. COVID-19 is not as bad as a bad 'flu in terms of mortality, and the worst affected, elderly people, are living longer now than they were a year ago. Masks do not help healthy people fight COVID. AGW is a lie, and the world's temperatures have been rising since the end of the ice age, but seem more stable at the moment. Carbon Dioxide is plant food, a trace particle in our atmosphere and necessary for life on Earth. Fracking provides cheap, effective gas. Solar power is inefficient. Wind power is poorly implemented, killing birds. Nuclear power is safe, and something Iran should never have. It is ok to pray in school, or in church, or in public. It is ok to swear on a bible, or talk to God. It is not racist to ignore race. It is racist to promote race. Publicly funded wildlife protection is a failure, but farming is incredibly successful. No farm animal is an endangered species. Kneeling in support of racism is not healthy. Standing for God and country can be motivating. Donald Trump got over 74 million votes from people we knew existed, and saw at rallies. Biden's votes did not seem to come from any known source, and he is not as popular as Obama was. Obama belongs in jail for the Russia Hoax and his work to undermine the 2020 election too. Obama started a new cld war because he was deficient in foreign policy. Trump has miraculously achieved what Obama could not, in Israel, NK, Iran, Syria and the United States. 

https://rumble.com/vc2bbj-editorial-mon-21st-december-2020-current-affairs.html

There are two side stories to election fraud that I'm surprised no one is talking about. Biden in 2020 and Kevin Rudd in 2007. Both situations had had tremendous voter suppression played by mainstream media. Biden was too weak relative to Trump, and so the fraud was obvious because too much ground had to be made up. Kevin Rudd was aided by Malcolm Turnbull's betrayal of the Liberal Party of Australia, resulting from the failure of Peter Costello to campaign for the leadership from Mr Howard. But the media are ignoring corruption efforts by Biden and Rudd which they ought to question. 

With Joe Biden, he was VP and had special interests in Ukraine on 17th July 2014 when MH17 was shot down by Russian separatist forces. As the separatists reported the accident to Moscow, US signals intelligence picked up the chatter. The question has never been asked publicly, why was a civilian aircraft targeted? And, why was US signals intelligence so quick in intercepting that particular signal? The answer lies with Ukraine's problem with Russian separatists shooting down their military aircraft, killing many troops. Someone decided that Ukraine could paint their military aircraft with radio civilian identifiers. This trained the separatists to ignore civilian identifiers, and so tragedy resulted. Only the tragedy was not unexpected by Ukraine, who failed to warn Malaysia that Ukraine was a war zone. US signals intelligence were prepared to capitalise on the tragedy. Is the media protecting Biden and Ukraine from war crimes inquiry? 

In '07, Kevin Rudd bragged he had special contacts within Australian defence forces which would address problems he claimed Mr Howard had failed. One issue Rudd identified was Timor's rebel leader, Alfredo Reinado. Reinado had had some training in Australia and Rudd was convinced he could stop him where Howard had not. Soon, after Rudd became PM, on 11th February 2008, Reinado attempted to detain the Timorise leadership of Ramos-Horta and Gusmao, and was killed. It was soon called an assassination attempt. It looked like a bungled black ops which resulted in poisoning what had once been a good relationship between Australia and Timor. Had Kevin Rudd bungled the issue with a rushed black ops mission? My name is David Daniel Ball, and I'm here to help. 

https://rumble.com/vc1a61-editorial-sunday-20th-december-2020.html?mref=23gga&mrefc=11===

Who will be left for Democrats after Obama, Biden, HRC, Schiff, Warren and Pelosi are prosecuted for their Russia Collusion Hoax? What will be left of the FBI and DOJ after Mueller, Comey et al are prosecuted for their collusion? Dan Bongino discusses the explosive exposure of how Russia has had HRC emails from her illegal server in which HRC tried to deflect from her exposure by blaming President Trump. What of the powerful tech business allies of HRC who colluded to get Biden elected President? How will FB, Google, youtube and Twitter be affected? Will their CEO's escape jail time? What of CNN? NBCNews?, CBSNews? FoxNews? 

I'm waiting for delayed gratification. T45 may well be the greatest President USA has had, based on analysis of achievements to date. He fixed a broken economy. He achieved peace by not going to war. He commandeered initiative in science and tech. He worked for all constituents, not the corrupt few which his opponents focused on. 

Opposition to T45 has been substantially larger than for any previous President. The Russia Hoax dominated (swamped) his Presidency. Treasonous activity by tech giants and social elite have persecuted T45. Partly, that was at T45's behest because he was an outsider to Washington. Trump has walked a path others have not because opposition to outsiders is fierce. Including from within his own party, with RINO members part of the swamp. 

Trump won re-election in terms of votes cast in record numbers. The swamp is trying to steal it from him. The swamp are abusing legal avenues to prevent analysis of their illegal activity. What will happen when it is decided that has not worked? How many people will the swamp kill to protect their 'interests'? In order to protect the union, SCOTUS has not acted prematurely. It is up to state legislatures to do the right thing. How will RINO affect the outcome of those state legislature? Will RINO break the union to support the swamp? 

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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-defense/2020/12/23/id/1002939/?oRef=mixi

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In this episode, I discuss the behind the scenes strategy the Trump team likely used to box in Pelosi on the Stimulus Bill.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Capitol Hill
One of 2020’s Most Accurate Pollsters Said Last Minute Rule Changes Massively Boosted Biden
President Trump Slams “Disgrace” Relief Bill – Demands $2,000 Checks – Threatens Veto
Rand Paul Releases “Festivus Report” Documenting Government Excess
Amy Klobuchar: We Have Votes to Override Trump Coronavirus Relief Veto
Former “Throuple” Congresswoman Files Lawsuit Over Nude Photos
How Hunter Biden’s Family Name Helped Him Score Deals With Foreign Tycoons
Gov. Cuomo Pushes Automatic Voter Registration Bill
Raphael Warnock’s Ex-Wife: “I’ve Tried to Keep the Way That He Acts Under Wraps for a Long Time”
President Trump Appoints More Loyalists to Federal Board Seats
Lindsey Graham Calls Biden a “Personal Disappointment”
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 23: Trump Approval at 45%


Trump Presidency
Pelosi Urges Trump to Press Republicans to Back $2,000 Checks
Govt. Shutdown Risk Heightened Over COVID-19 Relief Deal Battle
Warren Challenges McConnell: Does GOP Have Heart for $2K Checks?
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Drug Pricing Rule
UN Criticizes Trump Pardons of Ex-Contractors
Trump Pardons 15, Including GOP Allies, Papadopoulos; 5 Sentences Commuted
Progressives Back Trump on Bigger Stimulus Checks
Pfizer to Supply US with 100M More COVID-19 Shots
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=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. NSW Police claim to have stopped several Columbine style shooting massacres in schools this year thanks to increased police powers. That sounds like hyperbole, but NSW is streets better than lawless Victoria under Dan Andrews. ALP need reform everywhere, NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley admitted as much by saying he would oppose a reintroduction of Safe Schools under a government he leads. With luck we may never hold him to that promise. It sounds too close to the "No carbon tax under a government I lead" promise by Gillard. Because ALP are unreformed everywhere, their leaders don't make policy decisions. 

Malcolm Turnbull is on the wrong side of history regarding Trump. Today Trump stopped aid to the terrorist Palestinian group headed by Abbas. Abbas had been warned by numerous Islamic nations of what his anti Trump and Anti Israel activity in the UN would result. The year will get harder for Abbas. Also Turnbull and the party Turnbull leads. Powerbroker in the Liberals are holding onto Turnbull until the party loses government and is broken. They chose not to try to fix things by removing Turnbull. 

Media are the proximate cause for terrorist activity with terrorists driving on Melbourne footpaths to kill pedestrians. The two headline incidents in Flinders St Melbourne recently were not initiated by overseas terror activists. Media were also behind the self harm of refugees claims on Manus island. To be fair, it isn't just Media, but ALP, Greens and education authorities spreading terrorist memes. Today MSNBC has not rehired Joan Walters, and there is no word on who she might have groped, if anyone. 

=== from 2016 ===
The December IPA Review is out and Brett Hogan has an article on Workplace Relations. The 2007 election saw media and unions pile on with ALP to get rid of good governance at the workplace. Work Choices gave way to Fair Work. The Industrial relations system went back to the nineteenth century and now three stakeholders, government, unions and employer organisations, but no longer the employees, make decisions regarding the workplace. The system is restrictive where it needs to be agile. It is stupid where it needs to be smart. A good employee can't distinguish themselves among chaff. Or get rewarded. Business costs are high. Red tape strangles innovation. And the ALP will block any attempt to fix it. And Malcolm Turnbull does not seem to want to fix it. 

Obama has left a bomb in the last days of his Presidency. It is consistent with his whole term in office, allowing an attack on Israel to pass through the UN without veto. It does not seem to be a legacy statement, so much as a job application for Obama to be hired by a filthy rich racist bigot. Naturally Democrats allowed it. If Trump wants, he now has a bipartisan issue with which to defund the UN. 
=== from 2015 ===
Christmas Eve is about love. Not the sexual kind, but family. Hope. Fulfilment of God's command to go forth and multiply in the sense of life, rather than procreation. The Christ child was the fulfilment of prophecy, but was thirty years away from enacting that. Just a baby. One that needed to be protected from one of the creepiest rulers ever. We don't know too much about this child that is contemporary. We know most that was collected after Jesus' resurrection. And that seems overstated. But what promise or hope isn't? People don't work hard so that tomorrow sucks less. Except left wing governments in Democracy, and they seem to not achieve that. One hopes for the best. And that child fulfilled that. So that while all struggle none need be condemned for eternity. Such magic is that hope, that everything that the faithful aspire will remain. That love is never lost, even though the loved one passes. 

Merry Christmas. 
From 2014
The racist and divisive President of the United States, Barack Obama, has used the exalted position of President to divide the nation on race issues. Because of his leadership and position, other Democrats have taken his lead. In New York City, having campaigned on the issue of distrusting police, the first Democrat Mayor of NYC since it was cleaned up after '93, Bill de Blasio, has undermined the police after officers were exonerated over the death of a man who resisted arrest. The arrest had been warranted and clearly the police struggled and as a result, the man died. The police would have arrested a living man had he not resisted. Even so, they had not tried to harm him, but subdue him. But that is not what de Blasio said following the policemen being exonerated. And the result is a vigilante has been egged on that killed two police officers who were good people. It was not their fault Obama and de Blasio were elected. But they (police officers) paid for their service with their lives. Following their murder, racist bigots ambushed mourning police officers and screamed in their faces anti cop rhetoric. 

The issue of race is serious in the US. Bigotry in present and unwarranted. But those opposed to such bigotry do their cause no good when they lay the finger of blame on issues that clearly do not match the criterion. And shame on de Blasio and BO for inciting the crowds. 

A former SBS guest is behind bars. He allegedly planned guerrilla warfare in Sydney's Blue Mountains. That is the kind of behaviour that makes someone a celebrity on SBS. They view him as someone with an opinion that needs to be heard. Opinions do need to be heard, but threatening terrorism is not the same as arguing an opinion. The news follows the resignation of the NSW ALP leader who helped a jihadist in their campaign to take the children from a woman they eventually murdered. The left are insane. 
From 2013
The HRC, which I feel is a biased and fatally compromised institution, is saying it cannot afford to be balanced. It seems as if laws are weighed against fair pay for a fair days work. Instead, judges will close industry rather than let the parasitical unions work with business for profit. It is Christmas, a time to celebrate. Many have profited from the religion who don't believe. Also, many have profited who are oppositional. ABC claim skepticism is a disorder. Legal recognition is granted for a historical act of helping children in need.

One thing about Christianity, as opposed to atheism, is the great diversity of thought. Christians are not all the same. Some are smart, many aren't. Some are clearly blessed. Many aren't. They aren't perfect, but they are forgiven. There is debate in evangelical circles on the theological issue of miracles. It is said that the miracles of healing and the exercising of gifts of Christ's disciples in Acts died off with the disciples .. a difficult assertion to debate, because the idea that the times mould the man means that assertion is certainly true as far as it goes. Making Charismatics look more foolish than usual. However, my take on the issue involves three thoughts. One, miracles happen today, and are no less profound for being explained. And those miracles are not isolated to Christians. I cite one example of a Jewish woman who wanted children in the 1940's, couldn't conceive, adopted two and found they were her own flesh and blood .. truly miraculous. Secondly, God is so great that he works with broken vessels. He doesn't really have an alternative. And he is very good at it. If you feel that plastic, smiley preacher on tv is too good to be true, they certainly are. And yet God works through them as effectively as he did with Saul two thousand years ago. Thirdly, that failed preacher has probably strayed from God. God humbles those who get close to him. So those who claim the Charismatic movement as being led by failed preachers, point to those who aren't, please. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 640, Pope John IV was elected. 759, Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he was hosted by fellow poet Pei Di. 1144, the capital of the crusader County of Edessa fellto Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo. 1294, Pope Boniface VIII was elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned. 1500, a joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captured the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia. 1777, Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook. 1814, the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the War of 1812. 1818, the first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. 1826, the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy began that night, wrapping up the following morning. 1851, Library of Congress burned. 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was formed. 1871, Aida opened in Cairo, Egypt.

In 1906, Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. 1911, Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opened in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 1913, the Italian Hall disaster ("1913 Massacre") in Calumet, Michigan, resulted in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children. 1914, World War I: The "Christmas truce" began. 1924, Albaniabecame a republic. 1929, Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. 1939, World War II: Pope Pius XII made a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. 1941, World War II: Kuching was conquered by Japanese forces. 1942,  World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinated Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria. 1943, World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.

In 1951, Libya became independent from Italy. Idris I was proclaimed King of Libya. 1953, Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people. 1955, NORAD Tracked Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Evetradition. 1964, Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bombed the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital. 1966, a Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashed into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129. 1968, Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 entered into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history. 1969, Charles Manson was allowed to defend himself at the Tate–LaBianca murder trial. 1973, District of Columbia Home Rule Act was passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government. 1974, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia. 1979, the first European Ariane rocket was launched.

In 1980, witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell". 1994, Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of 3 days 3 passengers were killed, as are all 4 terrorists. 1997, the Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria killed 50-100 people. 1999, Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India; aircraft eventually landed at Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ordeal ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (1 passenger killed). 2000, the Texas Sevenheld up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins was murdered during the robbery. 2003, the Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station. 2005, Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declared a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead. 2008, Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Nahum 1-3, Revelation 14 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Nahum 1-3

1 A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
The LORD’s Anger Against Nineveh


2 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God;
the LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath.
The LORD takes vengeance on his foes
and vents his wrath against his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger but great in power;
the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished.
His way is in the whirlwind and the storm,
and clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea and dries it up;
he makes all the rivers run dry.
Bashan and Carmel wither
and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
5 The mountains quake before him
and the hills melt away.
The earth trembles at his presence,
the world and all who live in it.
6 Who can withstand his indignation?
Who can endure his fierce anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire;
the rocks are shattered before him....

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 14

The Lamb and the 144,000
1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless....

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning

"Friend, go up higher."
Luke 14:10
When first the life of grace begins in the soul, we do indeed draw near to God, but it is with great fear and trembling. The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it is cast to the earth by a sense of the grandeur of Jehovah, in whose presence it stands. With unfeigned bashfulness it takes the lowest room.
But, in after life, as the Christian grows in grace, although he will never forget the solemnity of his position, and will never lose that holy awe which must encompass a gracious man when he is in the presence of the God who can create or can destroy; yet his fear has all its terror taken out of it; it becomes a holy reverence, and no more an overshadowing dread. He is called up higher, to greater access to God in Christ Jesus. Then the man of God, walking amid the splendours of Deity, and veiling his face like the glorious cherubim, with those twin wings, the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, will, reverent and bowed in spirit, approach the throne; and seeing there a God of love, of goodness, and of mercy, he will realize rather the covenant character of God than his absolute Deity. He will see in God rather his goodness than his greatness, and more of his love than of his majesty. Then will the soul, bowing still as humbly as aforetime, enjoy a more sacred liberty of intercession; for while prostrate before the glory of the Infinite God, it will be sustained by the refreshing consciousness of being in the presence of boundless mercy and infinite love, and by the realization of acceptance "in the Beloved." Thus the believer is bidden to come up higher, and is enabled to exercise the privilege of rejoicing in God, and drawing near to him in holy confidence, saying, "Abba, Father."
"So may we go from strength to strength,
And daily grow in grace,
Till in thine image raised at length,
We see thee face to face."

Evening

"The night also is thine."
Psalm 74:16
Yes, Lord, thou dost not abdicate thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; thine eyes watch us as the stars, and thine arms surround us as the zodiac belts the sky. The dews of kindly sleep and all the influences of the moon are in thy hand, and the alarms and solemnities of night are equally with thee. This is very sweet to me when watching through the midnight hours, or tossing to and fro in anguish. There are precious fruits put forth by the moon as well as by the sun: may my Lord make me to be a favoured partaker in them.
The night of affliction is as much under the arrangement and control of the Lord of Love as the bright summer days when all is bliss. Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. From the first watch of the night even unto the break of day the eternal Watcher observes his saints, and overrules the shades and dews of midnight for his people's highest good. We believe in no rival deities of good and evil contending for the mastery, but we hear the voice of Jehovah saying, "I create light and I create darkness; I, the Lord, do all these things."
Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled, and the ways of God forsaken, the Lord's servants weep with bitter sorrow, but they may not despair, for the darkest eras are governed by the Lord, and shall come to their end at his bidding. What may seem defeat to us may be victory to him.
"Though enwrapt in gloomy night,
We perceive no ray of light;
Since the Lord himself is here,

'Tis not meet that we should fear."

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

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

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


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

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


The Amazon Author Page for David Ball

UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG

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

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

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

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Other Stuff

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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship

https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664

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I'm looking for former students to endorse me

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

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