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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 15

Seven Angels With Seven Plagues

I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:

“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
    Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
    King of the nations.
Who will not fear you, Lord,
    and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
    and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple—that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law—and it was opened. Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

=== Bongino Headlines ===
White House Actually Claims They “Saved Christmas” READ MORE

Dad Says “Let’s Go Brandon” During Christmas Call With Joe and Jill Biden – Joe Responds “I Agree”

Oh No: Randi Weingarten Says Anti-CRT Advocates Could Spell “Demise of Public Schools”

State Legislators and Voters Sue Maryland Over Congressional Map That Boosts Democrats

These Five Senate Seats Could Change Parties in 2022

Major Airlines Cancel Christmas Flights Over Staffing Problems

Researchers: Up to 90% of People Who Contract Omicron May Never Show Symptoms

Capitol Hill
Biden Confirmed 40 Federal Judges in 2021 and Nominated 2 More
Biden Says He’d Axe Filibuster to Pass Dems’ Voting Overhaul
Biden: Free COVID Test Kits Won’t Arrive Until Omicron Is Over
White House Pressed on If COVID Testing Website Will Be Better Than Trainwreck Obamacare Site
Biden Only Granted 16 Interviews in 2021 While Trump Gave 72 and Obama Gave 155 Their First Year
Biden’s Lie of the Year: I Will Shut Down the Virus
Senior Administration Official Says Biden Prepared to Add Troops Near Ukraine
Texas and Missouri Attorneys General Ask Court to Require Biden Admin to Complete Border Wall
Dems Resist Anti-Voter Fraud Probes and Reforms Nationwide

Culture War
Teenagers Charged With Carjacking Pennsylvania “Defund the Police” Congresswoman
Greg Gutfeld: Jesse Waters Could Sue CNN If He Were a Private Citizen
Buzzfeed Calls for “Deplatforming White Parents”
Duante Wright Allegedly Crippled His Childhood Friend, Committed Armed Robberies
Abolish Teachers Unions
Trump Says He’ll Expose “Real Facts” About “Wacko Bette Midler” in His Book
Ohio Governor Signs “Born Alive” Pro-Life Bill
Chicago Public Schools Purchase 100k Laptops as They Prepare to Shut Down More Classrooms
How Christmas Eve 1776 Changed the World Forever

Economy
Inflation Trader Who Nailed 2021 Call Predicts 7% Inflation in Q1 2022
China’s Second Largest Property Developer Evergrande Nears Collapse
Sales of Newly Built Homes Fell 14% YOY in November
2021 Was a Wild Year in the Market
Elon Musk’s Tesla Share Sales Top $15 Billion
Progressives Say Biden’s Student Loan Pause Extension Not Enough
Energy Supplier Collapses Go Global
Why Not: There’s Now a Let’s Go Brandon Cryptocurrency
U.S. Bans Imports From China’s Xinjiang Region

Swamp Watch
Lawyer Calls for Special Prosecutor in “Evil” Beating of Jan 6 Protester Caught on Video
New York Makes It a Crime to Fake COVID Vax Cards
Texas Governor Declines Posthumous George Floyd Pardon
Prominent Dem Lawyer Predicts 2022 Litigation Aimed at Removing GOP House Members From Their Seats
VP Harris Thinks People Wouldn’t Notice She’s Incompetent If She Were a White Man
A History of Biden’s Broken Promises on COVID Tests
California Education “Equity” Official Resigns Due to Fact She Lives in Texas
Lancet Editor Admits Peter Daszak Has “Significant, Regrettable” Undeclared Conflicts Of Interest.

National Security
These Four Other Proposed Fighters Were Based on the Legendary F-22
U.S. Air Force’s Space-Based Solar Power Breakthrough
Boeing’s New F-15EX Eagle II Fighter Might Be Headed to Asia
Chinese Carrier Group Performs Drills in Pacific Ocean
South Korea Not Likely to Sign a Peace Treaty
A Look at North Korea’s Military Capabilities
Tu-160 Blackjack Supersonic Bomber: Russia’s Most Dangerous Weapon?
UK Outlines Plans to Build Future Jet Fighter Engine With Japan

Around the World
Chinese Officials Tear Down Tiananmen Square Memorial in Hong Kong
With COVID Infections Surging, Italy Bans New Year Celebrations
A Look at Elon Musk’s Extensive History of Cozying Up to Communist China
Putin: Russia Doesn’t Want Conflict, Needs “Immediate” Guarantees
China Locks Down 13 Million in City of Xi’an, an Important Ancient Christian Site
Protests Break Out in Poland as Country Moves to Restrict Foreign Ownership of Local Media
Hong Kong Study: China’s Sinovac COVID-19 Booster Weaker Against Omicron

Opinion
Charles Lipson: Kamala’s Bad Press Isn’t “Racist” or “Sexist”
Veronique de Rugy: Three Books for Liberty-Loving Readers in 2022
Jackie Cushman: This Advent, Let Your Presence Be Your Present
Tommy Hicks: Biden Hiding from Press Because He Can’t Defend His Failed Record
R. Emmett Tyrrell: The Lessons of History
Kurt Schlichter: America’s Christmas Present Is All the Democrats’ Dreams Dying
Betsy McCaughey: How Public Schools Brainwash Young Kids With Harmful Transgender Ideology
Larry Elder: No Wonder Why People and Businesses Are Dumping California

Entertainment
A Disheveled Alec Baldwin Delivers Not-so-Merry Christmas Message to His Fans
Lol: Peter Dinklage Says Backlash To Game Of Thrones Was Because People “Wanted The Pretty White People To Ride Off Into The Sunset Together”
“Ghostbusters 2016” Director Can’t Understand Why His Film Wasn’t Included in Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection
Nicole Kidman on Ageism in Hollywood: “After 40 You’re Done”
Audi Says “Wheel of Fortune” Contestant Deserves Her Prize After Losing on a Technicality
Fourth Woman Accuses “Sex and the City” Star Chris Noth of Sexual Assault
Legendary American Writer Joan Didion Dead at 87
“Home Alone” Actor Devin Ratray Arrested for an Alleged Assault

Sports
USA Swimming Official On UPenn Trans Swimmer’s Wins: ”Grossly Unfair”
James Harden Set to Return for Nets-Lakers Christmas Day Clash
Cody Bellinger, Los Angeles Dodgers Agreed to One-Year, $17M Deal Before Lockout: Sources
Kansas City Chiefs Activating Chris Jones Off Team’s COVID-19 List
Packers and Chiefs Might Combine to Pull Off a Rare Feat the NFL Hasn’t Seen in Nearly 40 Years
Former Teammate Discusses LeBron James: “He Ruined Basketball”
With Taysom Hill, Trevor Siemian Sidelined With COVID-19, Saints Forced to Start Rookie QB Ian Book
It’s Time for Jake Paul to Fight Real Boxers
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
President Joe Biden's White House refused an October plan by COVID-19 testing experts to put some 732 million at-home tests in the hands of the public, a Vanity Fair report said Friday. A group of several COVID testing expert organizations said the country needed a "bold" plan to send out some 732 million tests per month for the disease before the holiday season to reduce family gathering outbreaks. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Sen. Ron Johnson: US Won't 'Hire' Biden Again After 'Miserable' '21 | video

Newsfront
Jurors on Thursday convicted a suburban Minneapolis police officer of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser.... [Full Story]
LA Mayoral Candidate Wants to Hire 1,300 More Police Officers
With crime rising amid calls to defund police and California [Full Story]
Police Arrest Suspects in Murder of Oakland Security Guard
The Oakland, California, Police Department said it has identified and [Full Story]

Merry Grinchmas! White House Aides Snubbed on Holiday Party Invites

As if the administration's struggles through the first year under [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Feliz Navidad
Andreas whipped up a gorgeous tune to my posting. Camomilla had posted three lovely pics of early churches and Woodguy posted his penguin in a bear tree. Christmas was Dean Martin and James Brown's day of passing. Washington crossed the Deleware in 1776 and while Saul wasn't converted that day, it remained special for him. It is boxing day for me, but I'm sure it is still Christmas somewhere .. maybe Christmas Island (included) === I was raised as an Atheist. I learned, after reading the Bible, that God loves me, and you. This is his song for you too. He loves you, and wants to be with you. All the elements are me and mine. ARIA ISRC number AUAWN1212124

=== 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.html

COVID 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/newsfront/democrats-stimulus-trump-2000/2020/12/24/id/1003012/?oRef=mixi

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Election 2020
Trump's Stimulus Demand Puts Georgia Senators Under PressureTrump: 'Monstrous Fraud' Gave Biden Election
Black Pastors Call Loeffler's Warnock Criticism 'Attack Against Black Church'
Poll: Georgia Women Voters Split Among Senate Runoff Candidates
Loeffler Open to $2,000 Checks If 'Wasteful Spending' Repurposed
Police Body Cam Footage Shows Warnock Dispute With Ex-Wife
Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene to Newsmax TV: GOP Sens on Board | 
More GOP Lawmakers Join Electoral College Challenge

Trump Presidency
Trump Issues Pardons for Manafort, Stone, Jared Kushner's Dad
Canine Officer Stephanie Mohr 'Grateful' for Trump Pardon | 
US Cyber Agency: Hackers 'Impacting' State, Local Govts
Fully Pardoned Stone Rebukes 'Soviet-Style Show Trial'
Trump Warns Iran Over Rocket Strike on Embassy in Iraq
Central Command Head: 'Heightened Risk ' of Iranian Threat
Louie Gohmert: Stimulus Boost Has a Caveat | 
Classified Material Can Now Be Used in Durham Probe
Trump Vetoes Defense Bill, Setting Up Possible Override Vote
=== Bongino Headlines ===


=== FB Memes and Memories ===

How Do You Explain Jesus Christ?

“A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father’s shop. He has no formal education. He owns no property of any kind. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father’s shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside. Walking from place to place preaching all the while even though he is in no way an ordained minister he never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most.

He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing—the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.

End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000 years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers, kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived—all put together. How do we explain that?

Unless He really was what He said he was.”—Ronald Reagan

13 reasons Santa Claus is definitely a conservative
www.foxnews.com

I’ve been making a list and checking it twice, and although I can’t tell you who’s been naughty or nice, I can say that Santa Claus has all the hallmarks of being a conservative.





Walt Whitman
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. It is Christmas and I'm blessed, but I wish to share my blessings. It puzzles me when Christian leaders don't. I get it ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) carries its post on Christmas messages from Australian church leaders with a meteorologist report. They are true believers in AGW without any substance to their faith but a desire to take a lot of money from poor people. But then Anglican Archbishop of Sydney offers a tweet which is orthodox in apologia. The leading Catholic, from Sydney, refers to an "annus horribilis". He probably thought he was riffing on the Queens message from a few years ago. He was actually countering a mid eighteenth century expression of Great Britain "Annus Mirablis" When Quebec, Hong Kong and India became part of the kingdom on which the sun did not set. It was also the same year Horatio Nelson was born. Tell the Cardinal of Sydney that there is hope from the birth of our Lord, humbling Himself to be flesh. It offers hope for all. The Anglican Primate of Australia said there was more suffering in Australia than there should be. Somebody has been working too hard? Less overtime, maybe? The Moderator of the Uniting Church in NSW feels his baby daughter is like Jesus. Pope Francis, for News.com.au via AP, has used Christmas to declare migrants are like Mary and Joseph. His job is to heal his church riven by division, not divide it along Obama's sectarian lines. The meaning of Christmas in Christian terms, is the miracle of God humbling Himself in flesh. He then led a virtuous life and was crucified, and overcame death. God fought the devil so you don't have to, just embrace God, through Jesus. Alternatively, you can believe that the meaning of Christmas was an empty symbolic gesture meant to shame parishioners into hating conservatives.

Scott Adams has posted a list of predictions that were wrong about Trump in a single year. Press are still pursuing the myths just as they do George Bush's Christmas Turkey. Australia's PM, Malcolm Turnbull, has used Christmas to take selfies with poor people. 

  === from 2016 ===

The December IPA Review is out and Andrew Bushnell has an article on “Crime and Punishment.” Australia is spending money inappropriately on punishment when policing is what is needed in some matters. Bushnell argues for non violent criminals to have alternatives to incarceration. The idea is that incarceration for extended periods is not a strong deterrence as shorter periods with alternative measures. The left wing view that society is at fault is given short shrift. For me the issue is live because of my 2016 experience with Stiffler in Hallam. Stiffer was a pedophile under observation by police who drifted into ice use when a prostitute dealer noticed he had a regular income. Stiffler became violent at home, but when it was reported to police they had to act to protect his pedophile status from being widely known. The result was the police had to protect the pedophile and keep his status under wraps even as his violence escalated. Riot squad was used to remove him from the premises after he did over $10k damage, but because the place was not insured it could have been much more. After being removed by riot squad Stiffler was released again. It took three weeks to obtain a protective order which the courts insisted be watered down at mediation to be a voluntary protective order. Bushnell is right in his analysis, but as well as more police, police need to be given appropriate authority. Further, certain assumptions of duty of care need to be re aligned, as violent youths and pedophiles are not the same as people who have never offended. Touchingly, Bushnell steers clear of the Libertarian view legalising marijuana, but he still puts forward the crazy argument that laws are criminalising behaviours.

Last Christmas Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, asked Victorians not to say “Merry Christmas” but instead “Happy Holidays.” Andrews argued that people could be offended by Christmas references. Not in Sri Lanka where the world’s largest Christmas Tree was built, to the disgust of the Catholic Church who viewed the exercise as waste. No offence in Lebanon, Malaysia or Singapore where Christmas is also celebrated. So who are the Christmas cheer fearing people Andrews is shielding? ISIS supporters? This year, Andrews warns against excessive consumption. Andrews seems to be a terrorist promoting atheist wowser of the worst order. Andrews illustrates why Trump is so popular. Turnbull is the reason why Trump popularity is not strongly expressed in Australia. Andrews (and Shorten) are bad leaders, but Turnbull is not a credible alternative. Malcolm Turnbull is PM, but has bad judgement and no authority without his bedwetters. 
=== from 2015 ===
It is good to look a the Christmas postings. Some celebrating the birth of jesus, while some are celebrating family and love. I wasn't raised to know God, and I get how most anyone feels in their posts. Except the hate posts. The dark hopes that people will suffer. There is plenty to go around without wanting more. But note, if I thank service men and women who are working on Christmas to keep people safe, they aren't the haters. And I thank them because their service suggests devotion and love. I read an article blaming Israel, and so called Palestinians, for violence in Bethlehem. Apparently the 'reprehensible' Israelis are being stabbed and run over by cars and trying to live. The press want those Israelis to give peace a chance. Another article declares refugees are being burned out of their premises by the hundreds in Germany. Or near mosques in the US. The suggestion being that Islamic peoples aren't safe in the west. But such memes are dangerous. The truth is terrorists rule in so called Palestine. They call themselves Islamic and the reform Islam movement suggests they aren't. Calling all Muslims terrorists is stupid, and feeds the conflagration of memes that terrorists use to justify their insane acts. And the people who post the utter rubbish get to see the fruit of their work as those that serve work extra hard to protect them. Support those who are victims. Love those who are family and friends. And resist those who promote terror. And send so called Palestinians back to Jordan. 

Merry Christmas. 
From 2014
The passing of Jeremy Lloyd a groundbreaking comedian. Born in 1930, he was the son of a show dancer and a petroleum engineer. He had begun manual labour, his parents viewing him as a failure, and at age 28 became a writer after making a concept script and forcing a Rank studio executive to hear about it. He became a regular writer when a previous one had moved on and he was asked to replace them. He called them to ask how they had done it, and offered them half the pay. Jeremy was old school. He wrote what became groundbreaking series like "Are You Being Served" and "Allo, Allo" but they have since been surpassed with modern writing teams applying dramatic theory. It is no longer actors delivering lines from a single author. And yet Jeremy delivered that when it was fresh and charming. Situation comedy reached a peak with him, and he had not been raised to it, but applied himself to it because of the turgid nature of post WW2 movie comedy. He died 22nd December at age 84 of pneumonia. One can still learn much watching the master's work. 

An eight hour siege in Gold coast finished with the gunman walked out of a unit in handcuffs. It isn't analogous to Sydney, where there were hostages. The gunman threatened to harm the property he was holed up in. He had fired two 'warning shots' and police got a siege squad with negotiators involved. The man is said to be suffering from diverse personal issues, but did not appear to be drunk or drug affected. 

US police shooting. Man pulled gun on police and was killed as they fired in self defence. It is important that police always do that, and not hesitate. To hesitate is to risk the police being the victim. Pulling a gun on police is supposed to be dangerous. Meanwhile the mother has tried to create a riot suggesting her son had been chased and shot by police. Video evidence shows that is not true. It is apparent her son had been with a friend involved with theft at a petrol station. The friend is not yet apprehended. 

Nanobots .. the next best thing since GM food. Expect scare stories meant to prevent research into something useful. 

Students need to participate in activities. All of them. The idea that protesting an activity is enlightened, is harmful for kids, as was the idea of exploiting kids for the Chinese cultural revolution or for the Nazi fascist ideal. There is consistent anecdotal evidence that despite the protest movement instilling the unproductive practice of students protesting worthwhile activity such as math drill work or non routine exercises such as BMI discovery, still the AGW hysteric movement has successfully exploited children to support their movement. Critical thinking is important, but obstruction is disempowering.
From 2013
As it is Christmas Day, regular columnists haven't posted. Yesterday's editorial focused on criticism of the church. Todays is about Jesus of Nazareth. This blog is secular and welcomes people of all religious persuasions, or none. This writer is a Christian and believes that Jesus was Christ, the son of God. I have embraced two decisions before coming to that conclusion. The first was to accept that God was possible, which at age eighteen, being raised by devout atheists, was a big leap. I had known the straw dogs which are often drawn to demolish the plausibility of a concept such as God. God, as I'd thought before I accepted the possibility, was not only not possible, but absurd. If God could do anything, could he build a bridge so vast he couldn't leap across it? If he couldn't leap across it, he wasn't God, if he couldn't build it he wasn't God, ergo, God could not exist as it is not possible to satisfy both conjectures. Clearly, if God were to exist, he would not be capable of all things. But the mistake of my thinking, I later came to believe, was that my construction of God was what was not possible. If God exists, he is clearly not what I was portraying Him as being. What is the world like without God? Is it any different? Why would God make the world the way he did if he had existed? I accepted that God was possible only after I admitted he was different to what I had constructed him as being.

The second decision took twenty five years for me. It was to accept that the resurrection was real. I had thought it inspired by an army of devout believers and hucksters. But, for some reason, it is natural for a person to be religious, and those that don't tend to suffer. The accounts of the gospels and contemporaneous sources are compelling for me that the resurrection happened .. a group of late teen, early twenties men and women who were not well educated did not deceive the best learners of the age. The authorities could have challenged assertions but chose not to. If one accepts the resurrection happened, and that God is possible .. there is debate in Christian circles as to how to worship God, but there is unanimity of thought too .. Jesus was God, and he died for a purpose, and he resurrected. What that means for you, is only something you and the Lord know. Maybe he wasn't born on this precise Day. Maybe he wasn't thirty three years old when he was crucified. But, what does it mean? Merry Christmas. 

Special thanks to birthday girl Chih Yun, who founded, with her husband, David, the Jesus Family Centre in Cabramatta over twenty years ago. Thanks to her choice to open a church for Chinese peoples living in Sydney, the church has grown to embrace peoples of all nationalities and ethnicities. They accepted me on Christmas Day in 2007. I had become a recluse, besieged by some very bad people. But her family gave me a home. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 333, Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevated his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. 336, First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in ancient Rome 350, Vetranio met Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and was forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allowed him to live as a private citizen on a state pension. 496, Clovis I, king of the Franks, was baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. 597,  Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptised in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons. 800, Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. 1000, the foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary was established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. 1025, Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as King of Poland 1066, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy was crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. 1076 coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.

In 1100, Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity. 1130, Count Roger II of Sicily was crowned the first King of Sicily. 1261, John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire was deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos. 1492,  Carrack Santa María captained by Christopher Columbus ran onto reefs off Haiti due to a proper watch not being kept. Local natives helped to save food, armory and ammunition but not the ship. 1553,  Battle of Tucapel: Mapucherebels under Lautaro defeated the Spanish conquistadors and executed the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. 1643, Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean found and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary. 1776, George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor. 1814, Rev. Samuel Marsden held the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continuously performing arts organisation in the United States, gave its first performance. 1826, the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concluded after beginning the previous evening. 1837, Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor led 1100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. 1868, United States President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.

In 1914, a series of unofficial truces occurred across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas. 1926, Emperor Taishō of Japan died. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeded him as Emperor Shōwa. 1927, the Vietnamese Nationalist Party was founded. 1932, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China killed 275 people. 1941, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrived at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Also 1941, World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ended, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Also 1941, Admiral Émile Muselier seized the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which became the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. 1946, the first in Europe artificial, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was initiated within Soviet F-1 nuclear reactor. 1947, the Constitution of the Republic of China went into effect. 1950, the Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, was taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turned up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. 1963, Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio began transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. 1965, the Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz 1968, Apollo program: Apollo 8 performed the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) manoeuvre, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. Also 1968, Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits(untouchables) burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.

In 1974, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. Also 1974, Marshall Fields drove a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. 1977, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. 1989, deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu were condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary of the Soviet Union (the union itself was dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum was finalized and Ukraine officially left the Soviet Union. 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that officially established a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. 2003, the ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, disappeared shortly before its scheduled landing. 2004, Cassini orbiter released Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempted a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 2012, an Antonov An-72 plane crashed close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: Habakkuk 1-3, Revelation 15 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Habakkuk 1-3

1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
2 How long, LORD, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted....

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 15

Seven Angels With Seven Plagues
1 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God 3and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:

“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.
4 Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed....”

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Morning

"For your sakes he became poor."
2 Corinthians 8:9
The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but "though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor." As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding with the head as between the members), it is impossible that our Divine Lord could have had fellowship with us unless he had imparted to us of his own abounding wealth, and had become poor to make us rich. Had he remained upon his throne of glory, and had we continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving his salvation, communion would have been impossible on both sides. Our position by the fall, apart from the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with God as it is for Belial to be in concord with Christ. In order, therefore, that communion might be compassed, it was necessary that the rich kinsman should bestow his estate upon his poor relatives, that the righteous Saviour should give to his sinning brethren of his own perfection, and that we, the poor and guilty, should receive of his fulness grace for grace; that thus in giving and receiving, the One might descend from the heights, and the other ascend from the depths, and so be able to embrace each other in true and hearty fellowship. Poverty must be enriched by him in whom are infinite treasures before it can venture to commune; and guilt must lose itself in imputed and imparted righteousness ere the soul can walk in fellowship with purity. Jesus must clothe his people in his own garments, or he cannot admit them into his palace of glory; and he must wash them in his own blood, or else they will be too defiled for the embrace of his fellowship.
O believer, herein is love! For your sake the Lord Jesus "became poor" that he might lift you up into communion with himself.

Evening


"The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
Isaiah 40:5
We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when kings shall bow down before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is therein is one day to be burnt up, and afterwards we look for new heavens and for a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that--
"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run."

We are not discouraged by the length of his delays; we are not disheartened by the long period which he allots to the church in which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God will never suffer this world, which has once seen Christ's blood shed upon it, to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came hither to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness. What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall unite to cry "Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!" What a satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by side with him, doing their little in his name and by his strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost forever. On whose side are you?

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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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