Saturday, December 18, 2021

Sat 18th 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 8

The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

The Trumpets

Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”

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https://rumble.com/vqyapc-ep.-1670-a-troubling-admission-about-covid-the-dan-bongino-show.html

In this episode, I address the latest scandal to envelope this sleazy Democrat.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Senate Parliamentarian Deals Democrats a Blow On Illegal Immigration READ MORE

NY AG: More Info Needed From Ethics Board Before $5.1 Million From Cuomo Book Deal Can Be Seized

Fentanyl Overdoses Surpass COVID, Suicide, and Car Accidents as Leading Cause of Death for Adults Aged 18-45

76% Say Media’s Primary Goal Is Advancing Their Own Political Agenda

House Republicans Introduce Bill To Make Federal COVID Data Publicly Available

Texas to Build Permanent Border Wall “In a Matter of Days”

DHS Secretary Mayorkas: Silicon Valley “Committed” to Curbing Free Speech

Capitol Hill
VP Harris Barely Beating “Let’s Go Brandon” in Google Searches
Biden Admin Offers Bonuses to Doctors Who Implement “Anti-Racism Plans”
California’s Five-Term Rep. Alan Lowenthal the Latest Dem to Announce Retirement at End of Term
Kyrsten Sinema Wrecks Biden’s Hopes of Destroying Federal Election Integrity Laws
Psaki Explains What She Thinks Are Some Of Biden’s Foreign Policy Accomplishments
Bill to Ban Goods Made by Chinese Slave Labor Passes Senate
Biden Admin Announces Posthumous Medal Of Honor for Living Recipient Standing in Room
Biden Admin Keeps Losing to Texas in the Courts on Immigration
DOJ Drops Insane Plan to Pay Illegals $450k
Jill Biden Visits Children’s Hospital in Wisconsin, Doesn’t Acknowledge Waukesha Children Being Treated There

Culture War
Former Sheriff: Milwaukee DA and Court Officials Have Blood on Their Hands for Christmas Parade Massacre
Instacart Driver Ran Over Groceries of Elderly Couple Because of Blue Lives Matter Flag
This Year in Celebrity Freakouts
San Franciscans Leaving Car Trunks Open To Prevent Smash-And-Grab Robberies
Donations to Salvation Army Crash After “Let’s Talk About Racism” Controversy
Ohio Senate Approves Permitless Concealed Carry
FDA Makes Abortion Pill Access by Mail Permanent
NYPD Arrests Group at Applebee’s for Attempting to Eat Without Vax Pass
Elon Musk Laughs Off MSNBC’s Attempt to Smear Him
Biden Messaging Changes From “Shutting Down COVID” to Warning of “Winter of Death”
Search Warrant Issued for Alec Baldwin’s Cell Phone

Economy
Feds Launch Probe Into “Buy Now, Pay Later” Industry
Biden: Build Back Better “May” Be Delayed Until Next Year
Lockdowns Fueled Massive Rise in Gaming and Addiction
Fed Speeds Up Tapering, Projecting 3 Rate Hikes in 2022
Wine Bar Owner Who Defied Lockdowns Receives 90-Day Jail Sentence
Biden and Dems Now Blaming “Business Greed” for Inflation
Consumer Group Warns 10 Governors About State Pension Funds Invested in BlackRock Over Ties to China
Obama’s Ethics Chief Slams Pelosi’s Defense of Congresspeople Trading Stocks
Elizabeth Warren Demands Federal Probe Into Oil Executives’ Salaries
Bidenflation Will Cost Families $3,500 This Year

Swamp Watch
One of Ron Klain’s Favorite Pro-Biden Pundits Sells His Soul to the UAE
NYC Democrat City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. Blames Fellow Dems for Death of His Son
The Faux Facebook Whistleblower Already Has a Book Deal
Fauci: A Redefinition of “Fully Vaccinated” Is “On the Table”
DOD Has “Workplace and Gender Relations” Survey for Troops to Gauge Misogyny
United Nations Grantee “International Organization for Migration” Uses U.S. Tax Dollars To Fund Illegal Immigration
FBI Lawyer Convicted of Forging Trump-Russia Materials Already Restored to “Good” Standing with DC Bar
Arizona Governor Quietly Bans All Vax Mandates for Public Sector Workers

National Security
“This is a Third World War”: Russian Official Says Cyberwar Already in Full Gear
U.S. Navy Conducts Successful Test of High-Energy Laser Weapon in Gulf of Aden
The US Military’s Future: Waves of Killer Drone Swarms
Military Aid for Ukraine and Deterring Russia
Space Force Will Prioritize Accelerating Acquisitions in 2022
Afghanistan is Close to Collapse – Here’s What America Must Do
Bring Back the First Fleet for the South China Sea
U.S. Space Force’s Critical Lesson for the Rest of the Military

Around the World
Longtime Editor Of Chinese Propaganda Newspaper Suddenly “Retires”
North Korea Executed 7 People for Watching, Distributing K-Pop Videos
Dutch PM Tells Grandparents Not to Cuddle Their Grandkids This Christmas
As Omicron Cases Continue to Rise, EU Nations Tighten Borders
While France Closes Border to UK, Channel Migrant Crisis Rages On
COVID Emergency in Italy Extended Until End of March
Why Is Putin So Focused on Ukraine?
Birthrate of Italian Citizens Fell to Record Low in 2020

Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Omicron – What We Need to Know and How it Will Impact the Holiday Season
David Harsanyi: Dems Pivot From Build Back Better to Useless Extremism
Kurt Schlichter: Inflation Devastation for the Democrats
Michael Barone: Against the Religion of “Woke Anti-Racism”
Spencer Brown: Enemies Among Us
NY Post Editorial Board: Biden’s Bull About GOP Being “Against Everything” Explains Why He’s Such a Failure
Larry Elder: Why Hasn’t Jussie Smollett Been Charged with Perjury?
Miranda Devine: Liz Cheney at Forefront of Hollow Jan. 6 War
Laura Hollis: Socialism Doesn’t Work (And You Shouldn’t Support It)

Entertainment
Betty White’s 100th Birthday Coming to Theaters For One Night Only
“Sex and the City” Star Chris Noth Accused of Sexual Assault
Report: Jeff Garlin Leaving “The Goldbergs” Amid Misconduct Accusations
Kim Kardashian Didn’t Care About Criticism From the Left Over Her Work with President Trump
“SNL” Alum Chris Kattan Talks Cancel Culture — “You Can’t Be Outrageous Anymore”
Harvey Weinstein Could Go Free As Appeals Court Casts Doubt on Conviction
Denzel Washington Gets Emotional Paying Tribute to “First True Love”, His Late Mother

Sports
NFL Caves to CCP, Publishes Map Falsely Marking Taiwan as China
Gov Noem to Propose Ban on Transgender Women in Female Sports
In Response to Coronavirus Surge NFL Masks Up, Pushes Boosters
Baker Mayfield Blasts NFL’s COVID Testing Policy: “Make Up Your Mind”
Chargers’ Donald Parham in Stable Condition After Slamming Head
Urban Meyer’s Decline: From Dancing Videos to Kicking Accusation
Mets’ Manager Search in Homestretch With Buck Showalter
Study Shows Ex-NFL Wide Receiver Vincent Jackson Had Stage 2 CTE
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., admitted Friday that President Joe Biden's massive social spending and climate legislation will not pass this year. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV
Numerous school districts throughout the nation have beefed up security after TikTok posts threatened shootings on Friday, though authorities believe them to be fake, the New York Post reports.... [Full Story]
A Donald Trump supporter who pleaded guilty to joining the Jan. 6 [Full Story]
The suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Daunte [Full Story]
In just days, Texas will begin building a permanent border wall, the [Full Story]
=== Viva Barnes News ===

1. As predicted 18 months ago, there's a reason there's never been an effective coronavirus vaccine -- the variants inherent to the disease evade any vaccine. "The scientists express concern in the study published Wednesday that the variant’s “extensive” mutations can “greatly compromise” the vaccine, even neutralizing it." https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/columbia-university-finds-omicron-vaccine-resistance/

2. CDC caught lying again about the data. "But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/

3. Covid politics shifted as predicted: "beyond elites in big cities, no one cares about the virus anymore." https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/biden-needs-to-learn-to-live-with-the-virus/

4. Lind rightly ties the current professional class statism as the ancestor to the progressives of the early 20th century, and how their war on political machines for civil service reform was actually a thinly disguised power grab: "executive branch reorganization that would have created an American mandarinate of Ivy League graduates comparable to the powerful enarques of France (graduates of prestigious schools of public administration)." https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-american-progressives-became-french-jacobins

5. Inflation issues infect more economies. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkey-halts-all-stock-trading-currency-disintegrates-central-bank-powerless-halt-collapse

*Bonus: 75th anniversary of It's A Wonderful Life in the town that birthed the story. https://www.voanews.com/a/6357950.html

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Here is a video I made Against the Wind
Against the Wind was broadcast soon after I arrived in Australia. It starred Jon English, who also wrote the music, including this song. I remember the storylines weren't interesting, but the pictures were beautiful and the music transcendant and at age 11/12 I needed something beautiful and moving in my life. Updated from an earlier effort

=== From 2020 ===

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? 

https://rumble.com/vbz89h-editorial-18th-december-current-affairs-dandenong-conservative.html

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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tuberville-brooks-electoral-college/2020/12/17/id/1002026/?oRef=mixi

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In this episode, I discuss the must-see video of the fireworks that erupted on Capitol Hill during the election interference hearing. I also discuss the troubling ways big tech interfered in the 2020 election.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Capitol Hill
McCarthy Says FBI Stonewalling on Swalwell Briefings
Joe Biden “Confident” Hunter Did No Wrong
Biden Traveled With Journalist Who Has the Coronavirus
Trump Admin Eases Rules on Showerhead Water Flow
SCOTUS Blocks Kansas’ Right to Require ID to Vote
Republican-Controlled State Legislatures May Challenge Elector Votes on January 6th
Ivanka vs. Rubio for Florida Senate Seat? Speculation Swirls
Republicans Will Have the Edge in the Next Races for Governor
Rand Paul: The Election Was Stolen “in Many Ways”
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 17: Trump Approval at 51%


Culture Wars
Tucker Carlson Reads Through *Doctor* Jill Biden’s Dissertation
HHS Secures Wins in Three Religious Liberty and Right To Life Cases
Palm Beach Neighbors of Mar-a-Lago Are Trying to Keep Trump From Moving There
President Trump to Withhold $200 Million From California for Illegally Requiring Churches to Fund Abortions
Media Falsely Portray Buttigieg as First Openly Gay Cabinet Member, Ignoring Trump DNI Grenell
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
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Election 2020
Trump: 'Thousands of Noncitizens Voted in Nevada'
Sen. Rick Scott to Newsmax TV: We’ll See What Happens With Electors Jan. 6 | 
Emerson Poll: Loeffler Has 3-Point Lead Over Warnock
Poll: Perdue Holds Slight Lead in Georgia Senate Runoff
Report: Zuckerberg Money Used in Violation of Federal Election Law
Rep. Jim Jordan to Newsmax TV: Election Debate Would Be 'Healthy' | 
Ex-Trump Lawyer Powell Asks High Court to Nullify 2 Biden Wins

Trump Presidency
Trump's Legacy Surpasses That of Any Modern President
Pence Set to Oversee Joiint Session - and Then Leave US
Interior Secretary Tests Positive for COVID-19
Trump Admin. Withholding $200M in Medicaid Funds From California
Sen. Kaine: COVID Relief Bill 'Good Deal for a Short Period of Time' | 
US Confirms Recent Hacking Campaign Hit Government Networks
Russia's Putin: US Should Extend New START Arms Control Treaty
DNI Ratcliffe's Election Meddling Report Not Ready for Friday
=== FB Memes and memories ===



=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Barry Cohen has died after several years with dementia. He supported decriminalising homosexuality, but opposed SSM. For over seventy five years of life, Barry was cogent and capable. He ran an upmarket mens store in affluent North Shore of Sydney before entering parliament. He was not insane, as many ALP ministers are today, Barry knew about balancing books. But it is the curse of ALP, the greatest thing that can be said about this lovely, witty, erudite fellow, is that in government he wasn't that awful. 

Because ALP lied about their membership, there will be as many as four by elections they will soon face. Because Turnbull leads the Liberals, there won't be a strong conservative challenge, but there may be expensive ones. Trump is talking of China and Russia's threat to world peace by building terrorist nations and using cyber security countermeasures. He may well be including Wikileaks. 

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Media are spinning stories for ISIS as Aleppo is hit yet again. Focusing on civilians who are victims of tragedy, Press show distressed and grieving people in a hospital who have survived a bombing. We are assured the bomb was Russian or Syrian. What we don't know is the role of these civilians, often exploited as human shields, in the ISIS run 'administration.' The babies and children are victims, but were victims before the bombs too. Bombing is what Obama begged to do. The current situation in Syria is a textbook example of how Obama's new cold war policy works. Trump will change that. One suspects that almost anything Trump might do will improve things. Even backing Russia and Assad in Syria. 

News.com.au have run a story on racism in Australia. Only the story is about a mixed marriage in which the family were at a hospital reception where the receptionist registered surprise when they declared they were the parents of their child. Luckily Australia has a law entrenching racist division. Otherwise it might disappear completely. Spare a thought for those who are killed, imprisoned or maimed for being the wrong race elsewhere in the world. In Israel's so called Palestine one can be shot for talking to an Israeli. With UN approval. 
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NSW conservative government has halved the number of local councils, saving billions for the years to come. Some, who forget that local councils are to do with basic services like urban planning and waste management claim that the amalgamations are bad because their expensive council puts on great parties. News limited had an article that was headlined to show a deputy mayor was unhappy his abysmal council was being replaced. But they hadn't actually served their constituents, just used it for wedding planning and self promotion. Bigger councils, in terms of constituents, will be harder to rort. The Greens will still have a few enclaves. It is a responsible decision by an adult government. And it will be opposed by many the press admire. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Obama's decision to normalise relations with Cuba is consistent with his international approach. Obama funnelled large amounts of money and resources to sustain Hamas too. Cuba's tottering communist regime can be bolstered by this deal just as Hamas' leaders got a windfall. Obama has not been successful with his middle east policy. European Turkey has radicalised. The Arab Spring has quagmired into warring tribes supporting Al-Qaeda or Iran. The most promising being Egypt which has a leadership Obama opposed. Israel has done as well as could be expected with Obama's betrayals. If Obama wishes to make a meaningless gesture which won't harm anything, he'd free or pardon Jonathan Pollard. 

The definition of terrorism demarcates how security forces behave. NSW handled the Martin Place siege as well as could be expected, but federal and international support was available in the event of a terrorist attack. It was a terrorist attack, with jihadist Monis threatening to kill for Islam. But it wasn't planned by international terrorist groups, like Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, AlQaeda, Taliban et al. A cartoon by Leunig circulated by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre ASRC is worth considering here. Titled "Todays recipe- cult pie" was produced on 3rd October 2014. "Take one death cult" pictured two darkened holding knife and rifles "blend with one insecurity cult" pictured two watching tv showing death cult image "Add one xenophobia cult" pictured two people gesture angrily at burka wearing mother and child "Stir in one compliant media cult" pictured two scheming in front of computer. "beat mixture with Prime Minister until it becomes frothy" pictured Tony Abbott figure bigger than ruined buildings mesmerising death cult figures and forlorn victims "Serve with smoke and mirrors then garnish with new laws and penalties" ASRC have titled it "Brilliant. Leunig on the fiction of the war on terror." The cartoon is clearly being used in a highly political way that reinforces myths. 

Monis exploited myths favoured by terrorists even as he came to Australia as an asylum seeker. There is the myth that Israel is partly responsible for terrorism. But the obvious reality is that Israel has no part in it, and is merely wanting to survive and prosper as any free people should. Israel is culturally diverse and democratic and is the safest place in the world for an Islamic person, many of whom are killed by their Islamic brethren. Historically, Palestine is a Roman word for a Jewish state. Palestinians have no ancient connection with the land but are ethnically Jordanian. UN has manufactured the middle east crisis for over sixty years, uniquely labelling children of so called Palestinians as Palestinian and not Israeli, it being the custom elsewhere in the world to label children of refugees as being citizens in the state they were born. No one wants the Palestinians in the middle east. They fought a civil war in Jordan, and in Lebanon, leaving a wasteland wherever they went. Fatah pioneered terrorism in airplanes, on boats and even with Munich Olympics. Hamas is worse. Obama has given hundreds of millions of dollars to the richest people exploiting Palestinians in their fight against Israel. Monis' denouncements of Jews follow the myth that is rarely contradicted by a compliant media. But that is not a media favouring Israel, but a media watching terrorists using human shields and child soldiers and suicide bombers comprised of the profoundly dumb and lying about it, cf Greste. 

Another myth is the one about the US exploiting terrorism through the CIA for oil. Obama met the Cuban Commissar at the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Mandela despised the US who got him free but was close friends with Yassir Arafat and Fidel Castro. Mandela as head of South Africa claimed the US invasion of Iraq was for oil, and not WMD. The WMD were known to be in Iraq, and were eventually found to have migrated to Syria. When they were decommissioned, they were found to have come from US and European arms manufacturers. The press have been aware of the existence of WMD in Syria since 2005 but were quiet about it as Democrats campaigned on missing WMD. The invasion was for the reason President Bush gave. But there is a need for oil and it is important that supply be secured. But the left overstate that argument and diminish the arguments given for. 

Another myth is the one of cowering Islamic peoples being set upon by Australian bigots. There are plenty of Australian bigots, but the examples of Australians picking on Islamic peoples are few. There were the hysterical responses to Cronulla where Muslims stabbed a surf lifesaver and then the Islamic community defended their youth and made claim it was justified. The ADL are suspected of outing an innocent Muslim SRA employee as a terrorist when actually they were just a hard working student. A jihadist's wife claimed she had had her clothing removed for ID purposes, prompting a law change. The accused policeman was innocent. There have been numerous attacks by jihadists on Jewish schools and peoples, totally unprovoked. Monis exploited the myth when he wrote to widows of soldiers who died after the ALP won federal government. Islamic boys had a rape campaign and their mothers justified their activity after they were jailed. But Australians have not mistreated Islamic peoples. We have welcomed them despite their activity. We have given them generous benefits, even Monis, who is said to have stolen $200k in Iran before coming to Australia was on welfare. 

Leunig's Cult Pie is misleading and offensive and the ASRC in promoting it are making it worse. And if it is accepted that Monis' siege was a terrorist attack, then it should be noted that Leunig and the ASRC are worse, and more closely approximate the definition of terrorist. Many have died for the policy of migration they advocate. Many suffer. Families are split. Pirates profit. It isn't compassionate to drown desperate people. Neither is it compassionate to be a bigoted anti semite. And to champion the cause of jihadists over their victims? 
From 2013
Miranda Devine writes of self inflicted wounds. I agree with her criticism of the Abbott Government, but also point out that Miranda noted the popularity of Rudd in '07. She was right about that too. However, there is a difference between advocacy and propaganda. Rudd's popularity was unsupported by virtue, and it was wrong not to point that out in '07. Abbott's appointment of a left wing creature has limited merit, and it is wrong to ignore that. Stott Despoja has an Arafat choice of either being a statesman or staying a terrorist. Arafat chose poorly. Unlike the position of Bryce as GG, Stott Despoja can't mess up this appointment without embarrassing herself. Meanwhile, a conservative in that position would not have bipartisan support. It is an adult choice made by Abbott, not an easy one. 

Meanwhile, the appointment of Tim Wilson to the Human Rights Commission is really good. Personally I despise the Human Rights Commission, which does not stand for human rights, but privileges of left wing orthodoxy. Tim can change that. I'd rather dismantle it. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 218 BC Second Punic WarBattle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forced defeat those of the Roman Republic. 1271, Kublai Khan renamed his empire "Yuan" (yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. 1622, Portuguese forces scored a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola. 1655, the Whitehall Conference ended with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290. 1777, the United States celebrated its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over British General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October. 1787, New Jerseybecame the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1793, surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. 1867, the Angola Horror train wreck occurred. 1878, John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires was executed in Pennsylvania. Also 1878, the Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar 1888, Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discovered the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde. 1892, premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 1898, Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car

In 1900, the Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia was opened for traffic. 1912, the Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson. 1916, World War I: The Battle of Verdun ended when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn were defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties. 1917, the resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition was passed by the United States Congress. 1932, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans 9–0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long. 1935, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon. 1939, World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place. 1944, World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

In 1956 Japan joins the United Nations. 1958 Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, was launched. 1966, Saturn's moon Epimetheus was discovered by Richard L. Walker. 1969, Capital punishment in the United KingdomHome SecretaryJames Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years. 1971, Capitol Reef National Park was established in Utah. 1972, Vietnam WarPresident Richard Nixon announced that the United States would engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th. 1973, Soviet Soyuz ProgrammeSoyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, was launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union. Also 1973, the Islamic Development Bank was founded. 1978, Dominica joined the United Nations.

In 1987,  Larry Wall released the first version of the Perl programming language. 1989, the European Economic Community and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation. 1997, HTML 4.0 was published by the World Wide Web Consortium. 1999, NASA launched into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTERCERESMISRMODISand MOPITT. 2002, 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announced that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. 2005, the Chadian Civil War began when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launched an attack in Adré. 2006, the first of a series of floods struck Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced. 2006, United Arab Emirates held its first-ever elections. 2010, Anti-government protests began in Tunisia, heralding the Arab Spring.

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Today's reading: Amos 7-9, Revelation 8 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Amos 7-9

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line


1 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. 2 When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
3 So the LORD relented.


“This will not happen,” the LORD said.
4 This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. 5 Then I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
6 So the LORD relented.
“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign LORD said.
7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”
“A plumb line,” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer...."

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 8

The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer
1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. 5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake....

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Morning

"I remember thee."
Jeremiah 2:2
Let us note that Christ delights to think upon his Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too often upon that face which we love; we desire always to have our precious things in our sight. It is even so with our Lord Jesus. From all eternity "His delights were with the sons of men;" his thoughts rolled onward to the time when his elect should be born into the world; he viewed them in the mirror of his foreknowledge. "In thy book," he says, "all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them" (Ps. 139:16). When the world was set upon its pillars, he was there, and he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. Many a time before his incarnation, he descended to this lower earth in the similitude of a man; on the plains of Mamre (Gen. 18), by the brook of Jabbok (Gen. 32:24-30), beneath the walls of Jericho (Jos. 5:13), and in the fiery furnace of Babylon (Dan. 3:19, 25), the Son of Man visited his people. Because his soul delighted in them, he could not rest away from them, for his heart longed after them. Never were they absent from his heart, for he had written their names upon his hands, and graven them upon his side. As the breastplate containing the names of the tribes of Israel was the most brilliant ornament worn by the high priest, so the names of Christ's elect were his most precious jewels, and glittered on his heart. We may often forget to meditate upon the perfections of our Lord, but he never ceases to remember us. Let us chide ourselves for past forgetfulness, and pray for grace ever to bear him in fondest remembrance. Lord, paint upon the eyeballs of my soul the image of thy Son.

Evening

"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."
John 10:9
Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God himself. He gives to the man who comes to God by him four choice privileges.
1. He shall be saved. The fugitive manslayer passed the gate of the city of refuge, and was safe. Noah entered the door of the ark, and was secure. None can be lost who take Jesus as the door of faith to their souls. Entrance through Jesus into peace is the guarantee of entrance by the same door into heaven. Jesus is the only door, an open door, a wide door, a safe door; and blessed is he who rests all his hope of admission to glory upon the crucified Redeemer.
2. He shall go in. He shall be privileged to go in among the divine family, sharing the children's bread, and participating in all their honours and enjoyments. He shall go in to the chambers of communion, to the banquets of love, to the treasures of the covenant, to the storehouses of the promises. He shall go in unto the King of kings in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the secret of the Lord shall be with him.
3. He shall go out. This blessing is much forgotten. We go out into the world to labour and suffer, but what a mercy to go in the name and power of Jesus! We are called to bear witness to the truth, to cheer the disconsolate, to warn the careless, to win souls, and to glorify God; and as the angel said to Gideon, "Go in this thy might," even thus the Lord would have us proceed as his messengers in his name and strength.

4. He shall find pasture. He who knows Jesus shall never want. Going in and out shall be alike helpful to him: in fellowship with God he shall grow, and in watering others he shall be watered. Having made Jesus his all, he shall find all in Jesus. His soul shall be as a watered garden, and as a well of water whose waters fail not.

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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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