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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.
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.
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:
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.
- 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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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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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.
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From the Bible, Revelation 9
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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Emails Reveal Teachers Union Labor Disputes Weighed in Biden’s School Reopening Guidance
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“Squad” Rep. Pressley: Student Debt Is “Violence”
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Culture War
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Media Coverage of Biden Border Crisis Drops to Zero
The Right Is Building a Parallel Economy – and the Left Is Going Nuts
Establishment Media Is Down Nearly 50% Without Trump in Office
Kristi Noem Touts New Bill She Says Will Protect Girls’ Sports
Project Veritas Releases Name of CNN Producer Involved in Second Pedophilia Scandal
Economy
Truck Driver Association Says Biden Plan to Solve Trucker Shortage Doesn’t Address Root of Problem
AAA: 109M Americans to Travel This Christmas Season
AMC and Other “Meme Stocks” Surge on Friday
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Judge Rejects Purdue Pharma’s $4.5 Billion Opioid Settlement
Boeing Suspends COVID Vax Mandate
Wisconsin Governor Rejects Abolishing State Income Tax
Elon Musk to Pay Largest Tax Bill in Federal History
Swamp Watch
Biden to Push Biweekly Coronavirus Tests for Children Amid School Closures and Omicron Hysteria
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NYC COVID Inspector Booted From Bar for Failing to Show Proof of Vaccination
CDC Promoted an Unreliable Study to Justify School Masking
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Soros-Backed Candidate Smears San Diego’s DA She Lost to as “Alt-Right”
Jan 6 Committee Caught Misportraying More Texts to Mark Meadows
National Security
Why Didn’t Russia Join the West After the Soviet Union Died? Blame Bill Clinton
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Lightfoot’s Chicago: City Has Seen Over 800 Homicides Since Start of 2021
Navy to Select New Torpedo in March
Countering Chinese Influence Operations: A Strategy
Iran Sees String of Setbacks in Effort to Modernize Its Navy
Joe Biden Isn’t Ready for the Era of Great Power Competition
A Look at China and Russia’s Hypersonic Arsenals
Around the World
China Following Up 2021 Box Office King With Another Anti-American Film
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Britain Signs First Post-Brexit Trade Agreement With Australia
Special Report: Amazon Partnered With China Propaganda Arm
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German Health Minister: “Massive” Fifth Coronavirus Wave Expected
Just Days After Dutch Govt Cancelled Christmas, News Emerged That the Dutch Royal Family Held Lockdown-Breaking Birthday Bash Last Week
UK Tourist Travel Ban Proving to be a “Disaster” for French Ski Resorts
Opinion
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Newt Gingrich: Drifting Toward a Catastrophic American Defeat
Chris Barron: A Hillary vs Trump Re-Match in 2024? Sign Me Up!
Tim Graham: The Year in Liberal Celebrity Freakouts
Steve Cuozzo: If NY Gov Hochul Pushes the Lockdown Panic Button, NYC Is Dead
Josh Hammer: The Death of “Criminal Justice Reform”
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Why Netflix’s Defense of Dave Chappelle Is a Game Changer
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NFL Postpones Raiders-Browns, Washington-Eagles, Seahawks-Rams Games Due to COVID-19 Issues
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Kyrie Irving Returning to Nets
Report: Majority Of NFL Players Want To Eliminate All COVID Protocols
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday reinstated a nationwide vaccine-or-testing COVID-19 mandate for large businesses, a federal government rule that covers 80 million American workers.The ruling by the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati lifted a November injunction that had...... [Full Story]
California DemocratGov. Gavin Newsom plans to spend $300 million [Full Story]
Tiger Woods' relentless rehabilitation work paid off in a major [Full Story]
=== Viva Barnes News ===
1. "Rapidly waning vaccine efficacy and COVID-19 surges in countries and regions with high vaccination rates – including Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and now Europe, as well as high-vaccination U.S. states like Vermont – are evidence that vaccinated individuals can spread COVID-19 at rates comparable to the unvaccinated. Multiple studies have shown that viral load in vaccinated individuals with COVID-19 is the same as in the unvaccinated. Most damning, reports regularly published by the British government show that for every age group from 30 years and up, vaccinated individuals are now actually more likely to test positive for COVID-19." https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/14/forcing-people-into-covid-vaccines-ignores-important-scientific-information/
2. Calexit continues. https://www.foxnews.com/us/massive-drop-people-moving-california-increase-people-leaving
3. "Journalists are increasingly drawn from elite backgrounds" https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/16/how-the-media-lost-touch-with-reality/
4. More secret government units using access to travel records to spy on Americans. https://news.yahoo.com/operation-whistle-pig-inside-the-secret-cbp-unit-with-no-rules-that-investigates-americans-100000147.html
5. More voices ask questions. https://summit.news/2021/12/17/ex-pro-calls-for-investigation-into-footballers-collapsing-with-heart-problems/
*Bonus: Rudolph rescued. https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/12/conservation-officers-rescue-rare-piebald-deer-that-fell-50-feet-into-cave.html
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That is me singing. I love the piece, yet I had to try. Updated from an earlier effort. The fact I cannot sing does not mean I will not sing
=== 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?
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https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-election-flynn-martiallaw/2020/12/17/id/1002139/?oRef=mixi
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In this episode, I discuss yesterday’s bombshell release of new texts about the plot to take down Trump.
News Picks:
- Joe Biden thinks his son Hunter is really smart.
- Newly revealed texts show that the FBI was investigating Trump before the opening of Crossfire Hurricane.
- Stunning newly revealed FBI texts show the FBI knew key components of the collusion hoax were false.
- The collusion hoax was always about protecting Hillary from her email scandal.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Capitol HillStacey Abrams Celebrates “Record 7.7 Million Georgians” Registered to Vote Ahead of Runoffs
Rand Paul: Trump Should Pardon Edward Snowden
Joe Biden Laughs Off Son’s Scandals, Says He Has “Great Confidence” in Hunter
Georgia Finally Conducts Signature Match Review of Absentee Ballots
Watch: The Now-Deleted Attack Ad Biden Ran Against His Transportation Secretary Pick
The Massive Tax Hikes to Expect If Republicans Lose the Senate
18 House Republicans Demand Emergency Hearings on Election Fraud
Flashback: Joe Biden Mocked Wife for Wanting to Be Called Doctor
Loeffler and Perdue Lead by Three Points in Runoff Race Polls
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 18: Trump Approval at 48%
Swamp Watch
Ilhan Omar Wants Trump Criminally Prosecuted for Her Father’s Coronavirus Death
Texts Reveal Hunter Biden Associate Asking to “Get Joe Involved”
Petition to Recall California Gov. Newsom Passes 820,000 Signatures
Dominion Voting Systems Demands Retractions From GOP Lawmakers, Trump Campaign
Emails Reveal Hunter Biden Was Told to Expect “Significant” Payments From Chinese Equity Firm
Warnock’s Voter Registration Group Failed to Pay Unemployment Taxes
Tucker: Journalists Ignored Biden-China Story Because Their Media Outlets Rely on Chinese Money
Zuckerberg Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Measures to Increase Dem Turnout, Group Says
Ilhan Omar Wants Trump Criminally Prosecuted for Her Father’s Coronavirus Death
Texts Reveal Hunter Biden Associate Asking to “Get Joe Involved”
Petition to Recall California Gov. Newsom Passes 820,000 Signatures
Dominion Voting Systems Demands Retractions From GOP Lawmakers, Trump Campaign
Emails Reveal Hunter Biden Was Told to Expect “Significant” Payments From Chinese Equity Firm
Warnock’s Voter Registration Group Failed to Pay Unemployment Taxes
Tucker: Journalists Ignored Biden-China Story Because Their Media Outlets Rely on Chinese Money
Zuckerberg Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Measures to Increase Dem Turnout, Group Says
Culture War
Why Is the Left Waging a War on “Manly Men”?
Holocaust Denier Remains on Website of Northwestern University While Author of Controversial “Dr. Jill” Op-Ed Scrubbed
University of Oregon Student Government Trying to Toss Republicans Off Campus
AOC Promotes Prostitution: “Sex Work is Work”
Planned Parenthood Providing Policy Roadmap, Staffing Referrals to Biden Transition Team
Activists Scrub Ilhan Omar’s Wikipedia Page
An Even Smaller CHAZ Returns
DOJ Declassifies More Peter Strzok Communications
Tucker Carlson Reads Through *Doctor* Jill Biden’s Dissertation
Facebook Shares New 2020 Election Report
Andy Biggs to Newsmax TV: I'm With Mo Brooks
Michael Flynn to Newsmax TV: Trump Has Options to Secure Integrity of 2020 Election |
Georgia Secretary of State Announces Statewide Ballot Audit
MyPillow's Mike Lindell: President Trump Will Prevail |
Trump Adviser Navarro: 6 Frauds 'More Than Sufficient' to Swing Election Outcome
Trump: 'Thousands of Noncitizens Voted in Nevada'
Why Is the Left Waging a War on “Manly Men”?
Holocaust Denier Remains on Website of Northwestern University While Author of Controversial “Dr. Jill” Op-Ed Scrubbed
University of Oregon Student Government Trying to Toss Republicans Off Campus
AOC Promotes Prostitution: “Sex Work is Work”
Planned Parenthood Providing Policy Roadmap, Staffing Referrals to Biden Transition Team
Activists Scrub Ilhan Omar’s Wikipedia Page
An Even Smaller CHAZ Returns
DOJ Declassifies More Peter Strzok Communications
Tucker Carlson Reads Through *Doctor* Jill Biden’s Dissertation
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Election 2020Facebook Shares New 2020 Election Report
Andy Biggs to Newsmax TV: I'm With Mo Brooks
Michael Flynn to Newsmax TV: Trump Has Options to Secure Integrity of 2020 Election |
Georgia Secretary of State Announces Statewide Ballot Audit
MyPillow's Mike Lindell: President Trump Will Prevail |
Trump Adviser Navarro: 6 Frauds 'More Than Sufficient' to Swing Election Outcome
Trump: 'Thousands of Noncitizens Voted in Nevada'
Trump Presidency
Sen. Ron Johnson Blocks Bill Proposing $1,200 Relief Checks
Supreme Court Throws out Challenge to Trump Census Immigrant Plan
Axios: Trump Plans to Issue Pardons on Friday
Wilbur Ross: Chinese Chipmaker Giant SMIC, Others on Blacklist
Trump's Legacy Surpasses That of Any Modern President
Sen. Rand Paul Urges Trump to Pardon Snowden
Congress Members Urge VA to Continue Billing Deferments
Hackers Tied to Russia Hit US Nuclear Agency, 3 States
Homeland Security Watchdog Blasts ICE for Solitary Confinement Abuses
Sen. Ron Johnson Blocks Bill Proposing $1,200 Relief Checks
Supreme Court Throws out Challenge to Trump Census Immigrant Plan
Axios: Trump Plans to Issue Pardons on Friday
Wilbur Ross: Chinese Chipmaker Giant SMIC, Others on Blacklist
Trump's Legacy Surpasses That of Any Modern President
Sen. Rand Paul Urges Trump to Pardon Snowden
Congress Members Urge VA to Continue Billing Deferments
Hackers Tied to Russia Hit US Nuclear Agency, 3 States
Homeland Security Watchdog Blasts ICE for Solitary Confinement Abuses
Newsfront
Poll: 56% Believe Biden Consulted About Hunter's Deals
Fifty-six percent of Americans believe it is likely Joe Biden was consulted and perhaps profited from his son Hunter's overseas business deals, including at least one involving a company in mainland China...... [Full Story]
Related Stories
Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Briefings
Rep. Devin Nunes to Newsmax TV: Biden Scandals 'Swept Under Rug'
Border Chief Morgan to Newsmax TV: Border Crossers Gearing Up for Biden WH
Biden: Not Concerned About Accusations Against Hunter
=== FB Memes and Memories ===
Poll: 56% Believe Biden Consulted About Hunter's Deals
Fifty-six percent of Americans believe it is likely Joe Biden was consulted and perhaps profited from his son Hunter's overseas business deals, including at least one involving a company in mainland China...... [Full Story]
Related Stories
Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Briefings
Rep. Devin Nunes to Newsmax TV: Biden Scandals 'Swept Under Rug'
Border Chief Morgan to Newsmax TV: Border Crossers Gearing Up for Biden WH
Biden: Not Concerned About Accusations Against Hunter
=== FB Memes and Memories ===
=== 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.
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.
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:
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.
- 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?"
Historical perspective on this day
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. 1490, Anne, Duchess of Brittany, was married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. 1562, the Battle of Dreux took place during the French Wars of Religion. 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. 1675, the Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gave the English settlers a bitterly won victory. 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.
In 1828, Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun penned the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. 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. 1907, 239 coal miners died in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. 1912, William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, was pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Singprison. 1916, World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the Western Front, the French Armysuccessfully held off the German Army and drove it back to its starting position.
In 1920, King Constantine I was restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite. 1924, the last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was sold in London, England. 1927, three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire. 1932, BBC World Service began broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service. 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. 1946, start of the First Indochina War. 1956, Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he was convicted only of minor charges. 1961, India annexed Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. 1964, the South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyễn Khánh dissolved the High National Council and arrested some of the members. 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. 1974, Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1975, John Paul Stevens was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1979, Geoffrey Boycottbecame the first cricketer to be stranded at 99 not out against Australia at Perth. 1981, sixteen lives were lost when the Penlee lifeboat went to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas. 1983, the original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, was stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1984, the Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 was signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, released Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
In 1995, the United States Government restored federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe. 1997, SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104. 1998, president Bill Clinton was impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached. 2000, the Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attacked a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three. 2001, a record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa(32.06 inHg) was recorded at Tosontsengel, Kh̦vsg̦l, Mongolia. Also in 2001, Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots РRiots erupted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2010, Sachin Tendulkar scored a record-breaking 50th Century in Test cricket against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, Gauteng. Also 2010, Rahul Dravid crossed the 12000 runs milestone in Test cricket against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, Gauteng. 2012, Park Geun-hye was elected the first female president of South Korea.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: Obadiah 1, Revelation 9 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Obadiah 1
Obadiah’s Vision
1 The vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom—
We have heard a message from the LORD:
An envoy was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”—
An envoy was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”—
2 “See, I will make you small among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
5 “If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?
Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 9
1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them....
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Morning
Garment-rending and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations--for such things are pleasing to the flesh--but true religion is too humbling, too heart-searching, too thorough for the tastes of the carnal men; they prefer something more ostentatious, flimsy, and worldly. Outward observances are temporarily comfortable; eye and ear are pleased; self-conceit is fed, and self-righteousness is puffed up: but they are ultimately delusive, for in the article of death, and at the day of judgment, the soul needs something more substantial than ceremonies and rituals to lean upon. Apart from vital godliness all religion is utterly vain; offered without a sincere heart, every form of worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven.
Heart-rending is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt in every living child of the living God. It is powerfully humiliating, and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud unhumbled spirits are unable to receive; and it is distinctly discriminating, for it belongs to the elect of God, and to them alone.
The text commands us to rend our hearts, but they are naturally hard as marble: how, then, can this be done? We must take them to Calvary: a dying Saviour's voice rent the rocks once, and it is as powerful now. O blessed Spirit, let us hear the death-cries of Jesus, and our hearts shall be rent even as men rend their vestures in the day of lamentation.
Evening
Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven, will cry, "Search me, O God, and try me"; and he will frequently set apart special seasons for self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his soul. The God whom we worship is a great heart-searcher; and of old his servants knew him as "the Lord which searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men." Let me stir you up in his name to make diligent search and solemn trial of your state, lest you come short of the promised rest. That which every wise man does, that which God himself does with us all, I exhort you to do with yourself this evening. Let the oldest saint look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for grey heads may cover black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy. Every now and then a cedar falls into our midst. The enemy still continues to sow tares among the wheat. It is not my aim to introduce doubts and fears into your mind; nay, verily, but I shall hope the rather that the rough wind of self-examination may help to drive them away. It is not security, but carnal security, which we would kill; not confidence, but fleshly confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy. By the precious blood of Christ, which was not shed to make you a hypocrite, but that sincere souls might show forth his praise, I beseech you, search and look, lest at the last it be said of you, "Mene, Mene, Tekel: thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
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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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