Bairnsdale Conservative: Thu 23rd December 2021 Current Affairs

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

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

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

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

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

=== From 2020 ===

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

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

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

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

=== From 2017 ===

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

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

=== from 2016 ===

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

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

Berg is also wrong to say Australia is at a stalemate since the Coalition narrowly won the last federal election. Turnbull squandered a strong lead. Abbott had lined up a strong possibility of a conservative senate, the first since 2007. But Abbott had strong policy goals, while Turnbull offers inertia. Turnbull can only humiliate himself until he resigns in disgrace. Or, Turnbull can damage conservative government with his bed wetting accomplices.

=== from 2015 ===

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

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.

From 2014

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

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

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

The competing theory, much as there are competing parties in democracy, places promotion of minorities at odds with promotion of cultural assets. If one promotes a cultural asset everyone benefits. If one promotes a minority, most people lose. Minorities do better too, when cultural assets are supported and the whole of society grows. And so, while there is no reason to kill 148 schoolchildren, one was given, and it scans for those who promote division. But for those who promote cultural assets, it makes no sense. It is worth looking at recent cases to see if there is a promotion of minorities which harms society, or a promotion of cultural assets which promotes cultural growth and benefits everyone:

Bludjahideen .. refugee program rorted and exposing Australia to danger
Child killers in Afghanistan
8 children dead .. siblings in Cairns, 34 yo mother, eldest child is 20.
Fairfax blames Abbott for not saving Australia from Monis.

In other news;

Sinodinos quits allowing a reshuffle of cabinet in Australia. Sinodinos has not been shown to do anything wrong, but the ICAC have tried to get themselves dismantled before they completely tear apart the ALP for corruption. They will report in March in a cynical attempt to influence the electoral cycle, as it is near the state election.
Royal commission .. Gillard lied .. now demands apology. Gillard is upset she was called a liar when she had lied.
Clive Palmer's senior media advisor arrested in Indonesia. Palmer calls it a political stunt. The charges are serious and not connected to government but police investigating a crime.
Lambie wants to be talked to. She has declared she will oppose everything, but is now expressing hurt that people aren't discussing things with her.

Sport India V Aus in Cricket

India tribute to Phil Hughes in second test with 408 eclipsed by lusty hitting from the Australian tail. Then Vijay's defence penetrated by Starc, leaving Indian honour bruised.

From 2013

Left wing argue using abuse. Often, they will lay down a few false statements and then build on them. So, a lefty arguing about politics in Australia, with the recent change of government, might say they hate Tony Abbott and are disgusted by him. They will say he isn't popular and he hates poor people. They will say he wants to make workers get paid less and rich people to get paid more. But the reality is very different to what they claim initially, and so an attempt to dispute any of their false assertions results in them back tracking to "You can't trust any of them." In fact Mr Abbott is a compassionate, friendly man. He is trying to improve the economy so that all prosper through honest work. It is pragmatic to encourage savings and investment because that drives growth. On the other hand, ALP politics is driven by hate and envy with a touch of cynicism. The ALP agenda is to tax poor working people and reward rich union leaders. So it is worth reading Blair's column on Van Badham's tweets. I ask my self the question "So how do others feel about a left wing party like the ALP moving to make anti semitism legal? Does that ever turn out well?"

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 13

The Beast out of the Sea

The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

Whoever has ears, let them hear.

“If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword they will be killed.”

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

The Beast out of the Earth

Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.

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https://rumble.com/vr8q3h-ep.-1673-messaging-madness-catches-up-with-sleepy-joe-the-dan-bongino-show.html
In this episode I address the latest revelation that Hillary Clinton’s team may be in serious legal jeopardy. I also address a disturbing new email from the coronavirus panic-porn insiders.

News Picks:

The fear porn campaign over Omicron is not working.
The flawed Arizona mask study is an embarrassment to science.
Is the Clinton cabal in legal jeopardy?
Lol! Joe Biden says you’re better off now than you were under Trump.
Amazon is caving to China, again.

=== Bongino Headlines ===

New Study Shows Omicron Poses 80% Lower Risk of Hospitalization READ MORE

Biden Extends Student Loan Payment Pause Again Due to Omicron Hysteria

Biden’s Net Approval on the Economy Officially Lower Than Jimmy Carter’s Was

Michael Flynn Sues House Jan 6 Select Committee

White House Floats Proof of Vaccination for Domestic Travel

VP Harris Absolves China of Responsibility for COVID

Biden Admin Sued By 24 States Over COVID Vaccine Mandates for Children, Early Education Staff

Capitol Hill
Secret Service: Nearly $100 Billion in Pandemic Relief Funds Were Stolen
McConnell: Manchin “Would Be More Comfortable” in GOP
Press Records Prove Biden Is The Least Accessible President In Modern History
Who Speaks for You? Trump 44%, Biden 31%
Elizabeth Warren Blames Grocer Greed for Skyrocketing Food Prices
As Omicron Sweeps U.S., Top White House Official Predicts If Masks Will Be Required “All the Time”
Florida Dems Voice Concern Over Spanish Language Attacks on VP Harris
Senate Dem Calls Manchin’s Opposition to Build Back Better “Downright Unpatriotic”
Biden Scapegoats the Unvaccinated as His Presidency Founders
$1 Billion in Federal Tax Dollars to Pay Delinquent Mortgages in California

Culture War
U.S. Army Says They’ve Developed COVID Vaccine That Fights All Variants
CDC Director Refuses to Admit Omicron Is Mild Despite It Only Killing Same Number of Americans as Alec Baldwin
Elon Musk Says He’s “Not Perverted Enough” To Be on CNN
In Face of Omicron, Biden Praises Trump to Sell Vaccines: “Join Us”
Trump Blasts Biden’s Handling of Pandemic
Most Voters Say Dems, Biden Have Accomplished Less Than Expected: Poll
Roughly 60 Felons Charged With Violent Crimes While Out on Bond in Chicago in 2021
Poll Shows Far More Americans Love Capitalism Than Socialism
CNN Medical Analyst: “Don’t Wear a Cloth Mask” – Non-Surgical Masks are “Facial Decorations”

Economy
Biden Reverses Trump Auto Fuel Standards
Here’s Why Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey Are Talking About “Web3” – and Why it Matters
Fueled By Younger Collectors, Auction Sales Hit Record $15 Billion This Year
Most Americans Can Save $2,000 a Year From This Little-Known Tax Credit
Electric Vehicle Manufacturer Nikola Ordered to Pay $125 Million to Settle SEC Fraud Charges
Analyst: Very Little Evidence Omicron Will Impact Restaurant Demand
Report Finds U.S. Property Tax Collections Edged Down in Q3
U.S. Current Account Deficit Widens Sharply in Third Quarter

Swamp Watch
New York Bill to Create Internment Camps for the Unvaxxed Pulled by Sponsor
Soros-Funded Los Angeles DA Gascon Blames Recall Bid on Fox News and Trump Voters
New Videos Show Pennsylvania Officials Hiding Evidence of Alleged Voter Fraud
China Told Amazon to Delete Negative Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book, and Company Complied: Report
Mexican Drug Cartels, Chinese Organized Crime Teaming Up to Ramp Up Meth and Fentanyl Production
D.C. Librarian Who Made Children Reenact Holocaust a Failed Dem Candidate, Convicted Fraudster, and Animal Abuser
The White House’s Vaccine Threats Are There to Keep You in Line, Not Keep You Safe
D.C. Radio Station Took $4.4 Million From Chinese Communist Party Over Past Two Years to Broadcast Propaganda

National Security
Joe Biden’s “Not Trump” Strategy Is Dead
F-35: The Story of How the Joint Strike Fighter Will Dominate the Future
China’s PLA Is no Longer a Peasant Army
A Look at Designs for Next-Generation Missile Defense Interceptors
The Great Ammo Shortage of 2022? Yes, That Seems Certain
Pentagon Performs Assessment of Ukraine’s Air Defenses
U.S. Air Force’s Hypersonic Weapon Runs Into Trouble
Would China Really Invade Taiwan? The US Military Isn’t Taking Any Chances
Two Things the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act Got Wrong

Around the World
London Mayor Khan Cancels New Year’s Eve Celebrations AGAIN Due to COVID
Putin: Russia Has “Nowhere to Retreat” Over Ukraine
Biden Admin Considering Releasing Money to Taliban: Report
As Omicron Concerns Grow, Thailand Reinstates Mandatory COVID-19 Quarantine
Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti Describe Harrowing Escape From Captors
Ukraine Could Extract High Price For Attack by Russia: Analysis
Boris Johnson Rules Out Christmas Lockdown, Leaves Door Open for Future Restrictions
Putin Places Blame on West for Tensions Since Cold War

Opinion
Patrick Buchanan: What To Do About That Russian Ultimatum
NY Post Editorial Board: The Only “Undemocratic” Thing About Manchin Killing BBB Is the Squad’s Crying
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: Our 2021 Christmas Message: “Fear Not!”
John Podhoretz: Biden Vowed a Return to Normalcy — Instead, We Got a Year of Chaos
Star Parker: Thank You, Sen. Manchin
James Bovard: Liberals and the Media Couldn’t Care Less About the True Will of the American People
Betsy McCaughey: The Left’s Gender Tyranny
Stephen Kruiser: Democrats Want Jan. 6 To Be a Holy Day for Their Dark Church

Entertainment
Lorne Michaels Signals “SNL” Retirement: “It’s Been my Life’s Work”
“Matrix Resurrections” Writer Says Movie Will Reclaim the Term “Red Pill” From Political Right
James Cameron: Marvel Films “Don’t Feel Epic” But Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Does
Mariah Carey Says Virgin Mary, Mother Of God Is The Only One Deserving Of “Queen Of Christmas” Title
Legendary Musician Brian Eno on NFTs: “Right Now, I Mainly See Hustlers Looking for Suckers”
ZZ Top Sells Music Catalog for $50M to BMG & Investment Firm KKR
Once Again Hollywood Awards Season in Danger of Cancellation Due to Omicron Variant
Denzel Washington Opens Up About His Acting Craft: “I Steal from the Best”

Sports
“Trans” Athletes Competing Against Women Destroys Fair Competition Says College Swimmer
Jim Gaffigan Attacks Iconic Former Notre Dame Coach for Calling Biden a “Catholic In Name Only”
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Announces Positive Coronavirus Test, Slams Nets for Allowing Unvaxxed Kyrie Irving Back
After COVID Surge NHL Pulling Out of Beijing Olympics
Report: Dennis Rodman Confronted by Police Over Mask Issue on Flight at Florida Airport
Aaron Rodgers Reveals Anti-Cancel Culture Hoodie on “The Pat McAfee Show”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Finally Admits We Must “Learn To Live With COVID”
In Heartbreaking Post Colts’ Ryan Kelly Announces Death of Infant Daughter

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up disputes over the Biden administration's nationwide vaccine-or-testing COVID-19 mandate for large businesses and a separate vaccine requirement for healthcare workers. The brief court order said the court will hear oral arguments on Jan. 7 in the two cases. [Full Story]

Rep. Nancy Mace: Biden Waited Too Long to Address Supply Chain |

Mitch McConnell Again Offers Manchin Place in GOP

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell again said Republicans would welcome Sen. Joe Manchin into the GOP if the West Virginian decided to leave the Democratic Party. McConnell discussed Manchin...... [Full Story]

Biden Authorizes Some Transactions With Taliban to Keep Aid Flowing to Afghanistan

The United States formally exempted on Wednesday U.S. and U.N. [Full Story]

New Hampshire Teacher Pleads Guilty To Threatening Lawmaker Over Anti-CRT Bill

Former Allenstown School District teacher Daniel Rattigan pleaded [Full Story]

Dem Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon 'Unharmed' in Armed Philly Carjacking

A House Democrat was the victim of a violent crime Wednesday [Full Story]

=== Viva Barnes News ===

1. Biden's BBB about as dead as his political prospects. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/586867-joe-manchin-just-killed-build-back-better-and-saved-the-us-economy-in-the

2. You heard it here first, almost a year ago, in the first-ever Hush Hush, and even before as suggested the first time the Whitmer story broke. https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/21/was-the-fbis-whitmer-chicanery-a-warm-up-for-january-6/

3. What's the excuse for EUA vaccines, again? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/fda-authorizes-first-pill-to-treat-covid-19/ar-AAS3Wlo

4. China bribery Professor convicted. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charles-lieber-harvard-professor-guilty-hiding-ties-china/

5. Fun interview on foreign and American politics with the Duran. https://theduran.locals.com/post/1452399/not-only-energy-crisis-but-also-fertiliser-crisis-inflation-set-to-soar-full-video

*Bonus: SportsPicks subscribers had a very merry football betting season, as they doubled their money over the season. https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/1453625/profits-report-week-17

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Here is a video I made "Fields of Gold

https://rumble.com/vci8q1-fields-of-gold.html

Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release, the introspective The Soul Cages. This album contained two U.S. hits; "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Fields of Gold" reached #23.

=== From 2020 ===

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.htmlA 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===

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.

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https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/giuliani-voting-machines/2020/12/21/id/1002646/?oRef=mixi

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In this episode, I discuss the disastrous “stimulus” bill and the infuriating pork loaded into it.

News Picks:

The massive spending bill is loaded with Pork!
More on the “stimulus” bill.
This is a really bad call by Attorney General Barr.
A solid piece which explains the paths forward for the Trump team.
President Trump met with members of congress planning on fighting election fraud.
California is going full socialist.
Communist NY City Mayor doubles down on stupid.
Teacher’s unions are sabotaging your children’s futures.

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Capitol Hill
Why Six GOP Senators Voted Against the Coronavirus Relief Bill
Ted Cruz Says Anyone Involved in Voter Fraud Should Be Put in Jail
Biden Names Six New White House Hires
Newt Gingrich Talks About Why He’s Not Recognizing a Biden Win
Giuliani: Sydney Powell Does Not Speak for the President
McConnell and Schumer Make Deal to Block Trump Veto of Defense Bill
Georgia Runoffs Are a Dead Heat
Peter Navarro Claims 379k Possible Illegal Votes for Biden in Michigan
Biden Picks Liberal Billionaire as Top Economic Adviser
Congress Had Six Hours to Read the 5,593 Page Spending Bill
Kamala Harris: What We Did in November We Can Do Again in Georgia
Weekday Poll (Rasmussen) – December 22: Trump Approval at 45%

Swamp Watch
Cybersecurity Agency Where Trump Fired Boss Repeatedly Charged With Poor Performance
Group Formally Run by Raphael Warnock Was Hit With Unemployment Tax Liens
Ilhan Omar Slams Lawmakers For Getting Coronavirus Vaccine Before Elderly, Healthcare Workers
House Minority Leader McCarthy Again Calls on Pelosi To Remove Swalwell From House Intelligence Committee
New Poll Shows Voters Evenly Split on Whether Fraud, Corruption Affected Presidential Race
Crazy Nancy Keeps Avoiding Reporter’s Pointed Questions About Coronavirus Relief, He Calls Her Out on It
Report: Progressives Look for “Reset” After Election Losses, Will Target Incumbent Dems
The Deepest of the Deep State: The Senior Executive Service

Culture War
Teen Delivers Notes of Christmas Cheer to Veterans and Seniors
Social Justice Lunacy Is Infecting the Military
New Study Finds That School Choice Reduces Teen Suicide
Turnabout: Anti-Shutdown Protesters Declare “Patriot Autonomy Zone” Outside Oregon Capitol
Rand Paul Blasts Congress for Enabling State Govt Lockdowns
Leftist Actor George Takei Hopes Marco Rubio Gets Allergic Reaction From Coronavirus Vaccine, the Backlash is Swift and Fierce
Publisher Cancels Book Decrying Cancel Culture
Federal Judge Rules Inmate Convicted of Sexual Assault Against a Child Should Get Taxpayer-Funded Gender Reassignment Surgery
BLM’s Annual “Black Christmas Protest Against White Capitalism” Goes After Amazon This Year
City of Detroit Countersues Black Lives Matter Protesters

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Trump tax cuts are winning thousands of dollars for the lower paid workers. CBS News reports Dems may be sorry they did not support the tex cuts. A driver who ploughed his car into pedestrians has said he did it after people in his own nation were persecuted. Who gave him that idea? It wasn't terrorist agencies, but mainstream media with fake news. If police truly feel he was mentally ill, why charge him with murder? Media give Obama a free pass with their silence on the Hezbollah scandal.

Australian HRC schooled by UN pork barrel-ers on how to really hurt Australia by curbing free speech.

=== from 2016 ===

The December IPA Review is out and Simon Breheny and Morgan Begg have an article “Treaty” about the appallingly bad Shorten as leader of the ALP idea to declare a sovereign Aboriginal state and sign a treaty with it. Such exercises have no example in the world of working. It would be a very expensive exercise which would not benefit an Aboriginal person. One practical way Shorten can improve life expectancy, incarceration rates and educational achievement of Aboriginal people is to call white people Aboriginal. Shorten seems to already have such a policy. The issue was put to bed long ago by John Howard when he said that a nation could not sign a treaty with itself. But the stunning success of image conscious politicians like Rudd, Gillard and Turnbull has resurrected the Turkey after thanksgiving. But there aren’t even bones for soup. The article parades all the issues of substance. It would be nice if they also belled the cat and laid the dithering over bad ideas at Turnbull’s feet for being weak. It is true Abbott suggested some irrelevant measures to go with effective ones, for example a constitutional recognition of race, as well as practical intervention. But that was Abbott hampered by Turnbull and Bishop in cabinet. And still they betrayed him and us.

Listening to radio 3AW. They are discussing trending issues. The radio DJ is interviewing the news announcer, which neatly sidesteps talk back. They can discuss meatier issues this way. Like the one about saying "Merry Christmas" which is not a problem in Lebanon but a trigger in Melbourne's Footscray. The announcer says she has no problems saying "Merry Christmas" to all of her friends. Even Jewish ones. She asks if Jews celebrate Christmas. 'Probably not', replies the news announcer, without further humiliating the DJ. Glad the people who silence me and won't let me speak on air are on top of the issues.

=== from 2015 ===

Marie Ficarra, senator and former Liberal makes a telling point today, regarding the ICAC. She and several of her colleagues had been placed in limbo as the ICAC investigated allegations that never had substance. The ICAC, toothless while the ALP shed billions of dollars of tax money into black holes of corruption, had learned how to bite even when there was no loss to the public purse. The ICAC is supposed to be an independent body, but it is partisan. It refused to expedite the investigation in a timely fashion prior to the NSW election. At times, ICAC has bragged of claiming two conservative Premiers, O'Farrell and Greiner over nothing. Miranda Devine has called for the partisan ICAC to be wound up. Only, the corruption of the ICAC shows there is a need for such a body. But a corrupt judiciary means that NSW has to contend with what is equivalent to third world corruption. I want Ficarra and her colleagues restored to their substantive positions before the ICAC corruptly intervened, but that may not even be possible.

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.

From 2014

NSW ALP leader Robertson has resigned following the observation of his having signed a letter for a terrorist who had been in trouble for sending letters to war widows in 2010. Robertson should have been tagged then never to be ALP leader. But, the ALP were short of incompetents they could fit in a suit. Robertson was vouched for by Eddie Obeid. He leaves the ALP's leadership unreformed and incapable of forming a government with effective policy. They still look corrupt. They rely on support from media and public servants. The lesson for the voter is not that the ALP will always back a constituent. The lesson is that the ALP will do anything to appease a minority, even if it is corrupt.

Two female jihadis have left Sydney hoping to die in Syria. They'll probably have to kill Muslims too. One hopes they don't hurt any others.

ADL in trouble for fighting. A guy calling himself the leader of the ADL has been arrested after going to Lakemba to race bait and start a riot. Apparently the leader can't be trusted to accurately talk about his own service in the Australian Defence Force.

FitzSimons gets a lot wrong about current history, how can he be trusted to report on Australian history regarding riots? His highly celebrated presenter wife slimes conservative leaders and lauds ALP failure with equal gusto. Both are partisan. SBS are broadcasting a series compered and researched by FitzSimons on riots in history in Australia.

Joe Cocker has died, having led an extraordinarily blessed life. Given his lifestyle, it is remarkable he lived as long as he did. Probably had a little help from his friends.

From 2013

Two very different things struck me today. One was sparked by a reply from Canada's largest church to a comment I emailed them regarding their support for terrorism in the middle east. They hadn't understood what I had asked them, so they sent me a link to their page detailing support for middle eastern terrorism. I will post it in the body of this report. Along with my thoughts on the issue.

The other thing emerged after an end of term meeting over yum cha with colleagues from schools I've taught Mathematics at. We have been meeting since 1995, and some have retired, and some have children. We don't always talk shop, but I was struck with the comment of one who remarked their school did well at Math education, but wasn't placing better as parents tended to over do the work of their children with tutors. Asian dominant community, and the kids excel at the material, but are not au fait with the enrichment material which is the aim of the education department to show students at the top end of achievement. The kids are flooded with moderate level material and understand the basic mechanics, but high level maths is about comprehension with modelling and tool use required of students to answer the questions. So it isn't enough to be able to apply a trigonometric rule, a good student would be able to construct a diagram from given detail, pick the right tool and apply it correctly. It isn't the school's fault students don't do that. Neither is it the student's fault. It is a cultural problem involving the parents and their expectation of schools .. they feel a school is merely an accreditation service which will grade their child. Instead, a school in Australia tries to give students opportunities to excel. Students don't have to all be good at the same things. This isn't the whole issue, however. Because in many ways there are problems directly related to that school. Anti intellectualism dominates left wing thinking, and this limits the students drive to excel. AGW believing Science faculty, an English faculty that prizes mediocrity. The students do well at Math, but are limited by bad teaching in other faculties.

Historical perspective on this day

In 484, Huneric died and was succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who became king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics were free from persecutions. 558, Chlothar I was crowned King of the Franks. 562, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople reopened with a rebuilt dome after a series of earthquakes caused the original to collapse. 583, Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal was crowned ruler of Palenque. 679, King Dagobert II was murdered while hunting. 962, Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troopsstormed the city of Aleppo. 1572, theologian Johann Sylvan was executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs. 1688, as part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England fled from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary. 1783, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. 1793, the Battle of Savenay: a decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution. 1823, A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, was published anonymously. 1876, first day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. 1893, the opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck was first performed.

In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System. 1914, World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrived in Cairo, Egypt. 1916, World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. 1919, Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 became law in the United Kingdom. 1921, Visva-Bharati University was inaugurated. 1936, Colombia became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1938, Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. 1940, World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sank the Italian motor ship Antonietta. 1941, World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Wake Island. 1947, the transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. 1948, seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.

In 1954, first successful kidney transplant was performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray. 1958, dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower. 1968, the 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo were released after eleven months of internment in North Korea. 1970, the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York was topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world. Also 1970, the Democratic Republic of the Congo officially became a single-party state. 1972, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000. Also 1972, the 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster were rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism. 1979, Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupied Kabul, the Afghan capital.

1982, the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced it had identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri. 1986, Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refuelling. 1990, History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate voted for independence from Yugoslavia. 2002, an MQ-1 Predator was shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25. 2003, PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killed at least 234. 2007, an agreement was made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Ministerbecoming head of state. 2010, a monsoonal trough crossed the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing mass flooding across Queensland.

=== Bible Reading ===

Today's reading: Micah 6-7, Revelation 13 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Micah 6-7

The LORD’s Case Against Israel

¹ Listen to what the LORD says:

“Stand up, plead my case before the mountains;
let the hills hear what you have to say.

² “Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s accusation;
listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth.
For the LORD has a case against his people;
he is lodging a charge against Israel.

³ “My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you? Answer me.
⁴ I brought you up out of Egypt
and redeemed you from the land of slavery.
I sent Moses to lead you,
also Aaron and Miriam.
⁵ My people, remember
what Balak king of Moab plotted
and what Balaam son of Beor answered.
Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD....”

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 13

The Beast out of the Sea

¹ The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. ² The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. ³ One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. ⁴ People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

=== Morning and Evening ===

Morning

"I will strengthen thee."
Isaiah 41:10

God has a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for he is able to do all things. Believer, till thou canst drain dry the ocean of omnipotence, till thou canst break into pieces the towering mountains of almighty strength, thou never needest to fear. Think not that the strength of man shall ever be able to overcome the power of God. Whilst the earth's huge pillars stand, thou hast enough reason to abide firm in thy faith. The same God who directs the earth in its orbit, who feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has promised to supply thee with daily strength. While he is able to uphold the universe, dream not that he will prove unable to fulfil his own promises. Remember what he did in the days of old, in the former generations. Remember how he spake and it was done; how he commanded, and it stood fast. Shall he that created the world grow weary? He hangeth the world upon nothing; shall he who doth this be unable to support his children? Shall he be unfaithful to his word for want of power? Who is it that restrains the tempest? Doth not he ride upon the wings of the wind, and make the clouds his chariots, and hold the ocean in the hollow of his hand? How can he fail thee? When he has put such a faithful promise as this on record, wilt thou for a moment indulge the thought that he has outpromised himself, and gone beyond his power to fulfil? Ah, no! Thou canst doubt no longer.

O thou who art my God and my strength, I can believe that this promise shall be fulfilled, for the boundless reservoir of thy grace can never be exhausted, and the overflowing storehouse of thy strength can never be emptied by thy friends or rifled by thine enemies.

"Now let the feeble all be strong,

And make Jehovah's arm their song."

Evening

"The spot of his children."
Deuteronomy 32:5

What is the secret spot which infallibly betokens the child of God? It were vain presumption to decide this upon our own judgment; but God's word reveals it to us, and we may tread surely where we have revelation to be our guide. Now, we are told concerning our Lord, "to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believed on his name." Then, if I have received Christ Jesus into my heart, I am a child of God. That reception is described in the same verse as believing on the name of Jesus Christ. If, then, I believe on Jesus Christ's name--that is, simply from my heart trust myself with the crucified, but now exalted, Redeemer, I am a member of the family of the Most High. Whatever else I may not have, if I have this, I have the privilege to become a child of God. Our Lord Jesus puts it in another shape. "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." Here is the matter in a nutshell. Christ appears as a shepherd to his own sheep, not to others. As soon as he appears, his own sheep perceive him--they trust him, they are prepared to follow him; he knows them, and they know him--there is a mutual knowledge--there is a constant connection between them. Thus the one mark, the sure mark, the infallible mark of regeneration and adoption is a hearty faith in the appointed Redeemer. Reader, are you in doubt, are you uncertain whether you bear the secret mark of God's children? Then let not an hour pass over your head till you have said, "Search me, O God, and know my heart." Trifle not here, I adjure you! If you must trifle anywhere, let it be about some secondary matter: your health, if you will, or the title deeds of your estate; but about your soul, your never-dying soul and its eternal destinies, I beseech you to be in earnest. Make sure work for eternity.

=== Bible Quote ===

=== Message ===

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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