Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Tue 14th December 2021 Current Affairs

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

Consider these recent truths
Jussie Smollet trial
Tornados
Biden persecutes


Today is a big day for  

In 627, Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. In 1098, First CrusadeSiege of Ma'arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breached the town's walls and massacred about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they reportedly resorted to cannibalism. In 1388, Mary of Enghien sold the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice. In 1408, the Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order was created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary. In 1781, American Revolutionary WarSecond Battle of Ushant – A British fleet led by HMS Victory defeated a French fleet. In 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, five days after Delaware became the first.

In 1862, American Civil WarUSS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. In 1870,  Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the second black U.S. congressman, the first being Hiram Revels. In 1897, Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, was founded. In 1901,  Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. In 1911, Delhi replaced Calcutta as the capital of India. Also, King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck were enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India. In 1915, President of the Republic of ChinaYuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China. In 1917, in Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founded Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys. In 1925, the Majlis of Iran voted to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Iran, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.

In 1935, Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, was founded by Heinrich Himmler. In 1936, Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of ChinaChiang Kai-shek, was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang. In 1937, Second Sino-Japanese WarUSS Panay incident – Japanese aircraft bombed and sank U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China. In 1939, Winter WarBattle of Tolvajärvi – Finnish forces defeated those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict. Also, HMS Duchess sank after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men. In 1940, World War II: Approximately 70 people were killed in the Marples HotelFitzalan SquareSheffield, as a result of a German air raid. In 1941, World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raided Batangas Field, PhilippinesJesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa was killed. Also, World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sank the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. Also, World War II: The United Kingdom declared war on BulgariaHungary and Romania declared war on the United States. India declared war on Japan. Also, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery In 1942, World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. Also, a fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, killed 100 people. In 1946, a fire at a New York City ice plant spread to a nearby tenement, killing 37 people. 

1950, Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, led the congregation in her first service. In 1979, Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan ordered the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung-hee.

In 1983, the Australian Labor government led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer Paul Keating floated the Australian dollar. In 1991, the Russian Federation gained independence from the USSR. In 2000, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore. In 2012, North Korea successfully launched its first satelliteKwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.

=== From 2020 ===

In breaking news, SCOTUS has ruled 7-2 not to hear Texas case, based on standing. Giuliani is keen to take the cases to a district court, but the road is longer and means deadlines may be missed. It is still possible Biden is not elected through voter fraud, but it is more likely he will be. Notably, all three Trump appointments voted against hearing the case. The issue will have to be addressed eventually. 

How will Swing states argue Texas lawsuit? Will they ask for a safe space from questions? Will they stand their ground and say that they embody the constitution and what they have done, they have done? To date, despite the clear evidence of voter fraud in millions of ballots, left wing media have refused to address the issue. The Texas lawsuit does not rest on voter fraud. Texans who voted have had their votes devalued by unlawful and unjust voting practice ostensibly established as COVID protection. Statistics up to June regarding the politics of COVID was stark. COVID kills left wing peoples in numbers an order of magnitude greater than conservatives. Some have said that is because lockdowns, face masks etc etc aren't effective against that kind of 'flu, but simple hygiene measures left wingers resist are effective. But left wingers know it is because COVID is very political. We don't yet know how SCOTUS might act. Will they direct the states to remedy via their own mechanism in legislature? Had the shoe been on the other foot, what would Ginsburg have done? 

PJ Media, balanced reporting group, have published an article claiming that the 2020 election was likely not fraudulently drawn, but a result of big tech creating a new lobby effort which institutionalises bias. It is true that big tech have done just that. However, Trump over-performed in the election forcing a Dem cabal to resort to voter fraud and it wasn't finessed as it had been in the past. In fact, it is obvious. Circumstantial evidence points to Biden not being popular at all, and not outperforming Obama by tens of millions. Circumstantial evidence points to it being unlikely 16.7% of counties favouring Biden elected him President, even with up to 350% of votes in a voting area favouring Biden. We have testimony of late postal votes being delivered over state lines in their hundreds of thousands. We know the vote system was vulnerable to outside influence and that checks and balances ensuring a fair election were removed. We know the fraud was prepared in advance, multi pronged, with the COVID health scare employed to overturn voting regulations ensuring fairness. We know voters favoured GOP in down votes on Senate and the house. Trump won fairly. Biden is attempting to steal the election, as Hillary attempted in 2016 with the Russia hoax, for which she has not served jail time, yet. 

Is COVID hysteria entirely so China can influence the US election outcome? Were the lockdowns in Europe and Australia so that US states could claim a state of emergency and allow for dysfunctional voting procedure? Is it the case that people have died as a result of COVID hysteria, while the worst affected by COVID are not dying in the same numbers as they were pre-COVID?

There are reports on a Lt General McInerney claiming the Dominion server which was used to change votes and 'elect' Biden has been seized from a CIA site in Germany. Some US soldiers died. Details will be privy to SCOTUS. If true, several significant peoples on Democrat side face treason accusations. Several Deep State operatives face treason accusations. Could the first 'black President' of the United States face justice for his crimes? NB AFP fact check denies claim.

How did #FakeNews predict a blue wave from 16.7% of counties favouring Biden? How did they measure voter fraud? How come #FakeNews is now unaware of voter fraud? Is it now the case that Democrat tactics are to force SCOTUS to make a decision so they can then claim SCOTUS is compromised?

The evidence of Fraud in the 2020 election, so widespread is harmful for democracy. It must be addressed. It was not solely the 2020 election, apparently, but had failed in 2016 after Trump over performed then, as he has now. Trump was so good in 2020, that the fraud became evident. It also highlights the possibility that voter fraud extended to 2006 and underpinned Obama's rise. As did big tech collusion. Recently, every one of my browsers would not let me access MAGAbook, citing privacy concerns.

We know who voted for Trump. We saw them. Queues of people with hats and signs and cheering Trump in their thousands all over USA. We have not seen people in great numbers who supported Biden. There is no evidence they have ever existed outside of a riot or a hissy fit by a Democrat partisan election official.

I watch Dan Bongino on Rumble and heard him on his Rumble cast say Trump should have addressed disloyal swamp creatures sooner. I disagree with it, and might have egg all over my face soon for saying so, but following is my reasoning. Trump has temporised on facing some of the swamp, not hesitated. Late last year, Trump said he was pulling troops out of Syria and was criticised for it severely. But then an ISIS leader stood up and special forces ran him to committing suicide rather than be taken. The operation, a sting masterminded by Trump had not included significant figures within his administration, and sparked a resignation of National Security Adviser Bolton, who had not been in the loop. Imagine the resistance if Trump had opposed more? But now, if Trump politically survives this, the swamp is exposed and has no support from conservatives. I'm reminded of former Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett who had led a successful conservative government and had a crash or crash through election which he lost. Had Kennett won, he had clear air for a long time, but having lost Victoria is where the US will be if Biden is allowed to cheat a win.

Trump cycle has it Trump is on his knees, before ... Media is cheering expected partisan court decisions to not support inquiry into voting fraud. However, they overstate the meaning of the shortfalls. The Trump campaign to have their electoral win restored was never going to be straightforward. They have the evidence. It points to multiple elections and undermines the credibility of US Democracy. Ultimately, aspects of it will be decided by SCOTUS. We do not yet know how SCOTUS will decide, or even what exact evidence they will face. But we know the evidence is substantial, and in an effort to suppress the will of conservative resistance, media are claiming that the evidence is not substantive and so the evidence is yet to be addressed. Maybe there is a good reason for a CIA asset being deployed to fraudulently control the US election. Let us hear what it is.

It is apparent that Dems committed fraud to steal the 2020 election. They may well have done similar in 2016. In 2016, Fox declared Pennsylvania early to HRC. The demand was made for Trump to concede. Trump won in 2016, but it surprised the establishment that did similar in their voter suppression as they have done in 2020. HRC had organised a victory party, but blessed marching vagina instead. Even her book did not say what happened. Trump has been very good at mobilising ordinary, decent Americans to support him in numbers greater than any GOP ever. Trump does not court race, or gender, like his racist, bigoted opposition have. Yet Trump has extraordinary minority support for a GOP, possibly the highest since Eleanor Roosevelt courted the Black vote as her husband exploited them. The Dem voting pattern and issues echo the Obama wins too. How long have Dems been using these fraudulent methods to obtain votes? Did they use them to bodgy the 2006 mid terms? It is not that the mysterious support of vapour for Dems is so clearly fraudulent, but, other than violent rioters, and #FakeNews, where is their support, really? How come there is no policy platform for Democrats? Why does Big Tech have to censor the truth? How many millions of Trump supporting votes have been given to Biden? The corruption is so apparent, and so pervasive, that if Trump concedes 2020, he will be conceding all elections that follow, and the flame of liberty will be extinguished in America.   

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Penny Wong lost $106 billion as finance Minister before the last ALP budget. She lost another $40 billion afterwards, before losing government. Wong claimed she had made conservative choices but things were difficult, indicating the GFC which Rudd used to throw away more money not included in the $106 billion. The importance of the issue is in the Dan Andrews ALP Government losing $29 billion on infrastructure costs alone since their last budget. The ALP had refused to spend $500 million on the Yarra tunnel project, which was to build the tunnel deeper and not interrupt city life. But Andrews had said he wanted to be on budget, and create chaos in Melbourne. Only Andrews created chaos in Melbourne, ongoing, and spent $2 billion more because of waste.

Infrastructure has to be built, but it doesn't have to be built badly. Australia, and Victoria, could do much with $175 billion. She could have reliable cheap coal energy, better roads, better public transport, cheaper CBD costs, less crime, higher real wages, less unemployment .. if only the ALP were not in government, or obstructing the federal senate.
LNP in Queensland chose Deb Frecklington to lead LNP against the awful Palaszczuk government. But idiot journalist does not write about policy differences, but claims the previous leader of the LNP had been tainted by successful government. Paid rioters in Melbourne oppose Trump's Jerusalem move. Europe funding anti semitism. Don’t worry about terrorists .. they are more scared of you than you are of them.
People agree our politicians are overpaid in Australia. They say that politicians need to be paid less. But if our politicians are so well off, why are they so awful? How would taking money away from the few good politicians benefit Australia? How could ruining industry and ratcheting up power prices get bilateral support, but something family friendly like maternity leave get so little? Allegedly, paying teachers, police, firies, healthcare workers more produces better employees.

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During the 3-1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, "We the People of the U.S.A. " produced the following:
22 aircraft carriers
8 battleships
48 cruisers
349 destroyers
420 destroyer escorts
203 submarines
34 million tons of merchant ships
100,000 fighter aircraft
98,000 bombers
24,000 transport aircraft
58,000 training aircraft
93,000 tanks
257,000 artillery pieces
105,000 mortars
3,000,000 machine guns and
2,500,000 military trucks
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and, ultimately, conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama Administration couldn't even build a website that worked!> Via J Murphy

=== from 2016 ===
There is a particular form of cowardice I wish to call out. It is bullying. It isn't illegal. How it works is an anonymous person, or relative stranger, enters into a conversation and says they don't understand something. Or they insist on evidence of it that they know would not be easy to obtain, but isn't really germane to the discussion. So John Durant's meme "I am hearing disturbing rumours that Russia supported the candidate that didn't want to go to war with Russia" can be attacked by the bully who wants to know when Hillary said she wanted to go to war with Russia. It doesn't matter that those words might never have been uttered by Hillary, her hawk like stance on Russia was apparent over Ukraine and Wikileaks trolling her during her campaign. Hillary was said to be a 'safe pair of hands.' However, supporters of Hillary (and opposers of Trump) merely were enamoured with her evident corruption. Hillary could say *anything* and believed nothing. As evidence, after Benghazi, her department fingered a coptic film maker even though she knew it wasn't true. 

Such bullying is widespread and pernicious. My column yesterday was clear, but might have people disagreeing vehemently. That happens when a Christian, conservative writes their thoughts. It is ok to disagree. It can be enlightening to argue. However, as has happened in the past, to merely say one doesn't understand the points made is merely argumentative. Were I to expand on a point, I might overstate things and not mean what I wrote. I can defend myself, I can't explain some stranger's abnormality. I will provide a reminder of an old column. 

38 Ways To Win An Argument when you are wrong
by Arthur Schopenhauer

1 Carry your opponent’s proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. 
The more general your opponent’s statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. 
The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend.

2 Use different meanings of your opponent’s words to refute his argument. 
Example: Person A says, “You do not understand the mysteries of Kant’s philosophy.” 
Person B replies, “Oh, if it’s mysteries you’re talking about, I’ll have nothing to do with them.”

3 Ignore your opponent’s proposition, which was intended to refer to some particular thing. 
Rather, understand it in some quite different sense, and then refute it. 
Attack something different than what was asserted.

4 Hide your conclusion from your opponent until the end. 
Mingle your premises here and there in your talk. 
Get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order.
By this circuitous route you conceal your goal until you have reached all the admissions necessary to reach your goal.

5 Use your opponent’s beliefs against him. 
If your opponent refuses to accept your premises, use his own premises to your advantage. 
Example, if the opponent is a member of an organization or a religious sect to which you do not belong, you may employ the declared opinions of this group against the opponent.

6 Confuse the issue by changing your opponent’s words or what he or she seeks to prove. 
Example: Call something by a different name: “good repute” instead of “honor,” “virtue” instead of “virginity,” “red-blooded” instead of “vertebrates”.

7 State your proposition and show the truth of it by asking the opponent many questions. 
By asking many wide-reaching questions at once, you may hide what you want to get admitted. 
Then you quickly propound the argument resulting from the proponent’s admissions.

8 Make your opponent angry. 
An angry person is less capable of using judgment or perceiving where his or her advantage lies.

9 Use your opponent’s answers to your question to reach different or even opposite conclusions.

10 If your opponent answers all your questions negatively and refuses to grant you any points, ask him or her to concede the opposite of your premises. 
This may confuse the opponent as to which point you actually seek him to concede.

11 If the opponent grants you the truth of some of your premises, refrain from asking him or her to agree to your conclusion.
Later, introduce your conclusions as a settled and admitted fact. 

Your opponent and others in attendance may come to believe that your conclusion was admitted.

12 If the argument turns upon general ideas with no particular names, you must use language or a metaphor that is favorable to your proposition. 
Example: What an impartial person would call “public worship” or a “system of religion” is described by an adherent as “piety” or “godliness” and by an opponent as “bigotry” or “superstition.” 
In other words, insert what you intend to prove into the definition of the idea.

13 To make your opponent accept a proposition, you must give him an opposite, counter-proposition as well.
If the contrast is glaring, the opponent will accept your proposition to avoid being paradoxical. 

Example: If you want him to admit that a boy must to everything that his father tells him to do, ask him, “whether in all things we must obey or disobey our parents.” 
Or , if a thing is said to occur “often” you are to understand few or many times, the opponent will say “many.” 
It is as though you were to put gray next to black and call it white; or gray next to white and call it black.

14 Try to bluff your opponent. 
If he or she has answered several of your question without the answers turning out in favor of your conclusion, advance your conclusion triumphantly, even if it does not follow. 
If your opponent is shy or stupid, and you yourself possess a great deal of impudence and a good voice, the technique may succeed.

15 If you wish to advance a proposition that is difficult to prove, put it aside for the moment.
Instead, submit for your opponent’s acceptance or rejection some true proposition, as though you wished to draw your proof from it.
Should the opponent reject it because he suspects a trick, you can obtain your triumph by showing how absurd the opponent is to reject an obviously true proposition.
Should the opponent accept it, you now have reason on your side for the moment. 

You can either try to prove your original proposition, as in #14, maintain that your original proposition is proved by what your opponent accepted. 
For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.

16 When your opponent puts forth a proposition, find it inconsistent with his or her other statements, beliefs, actions or lack of action. 
Example: Should your opponent defend suicide, you may at once exclaim, “Why don’t you hang yourself?” 
Should the opponent maintain that his city is an unpleasant place to live, you may say, “Why don’t you leave on the first plane?”

17 If your opponent presses you with a counter-proof, you will often be able to save yourself by advancing some subtle distinction. 
Try to find a second meaning or an ambiguous sense for your opponent’s idea.

18 If your opponent has taken up a line of argument that will end in your defeat, you must not allow him to carry it to its conclusion. 
Interrupt the dispute, break it off altogether, or lead the opponent to a different subject.

19 Should your opponent expressly challenge you to produce any objection to some definite point in his argument, and you have nothing to say, try to make the argument less specific. 
Example: If you are asked why a particular hypothesis cannot be accepted, you may speak of the fallibility of human knowledge, and give various illustrations of it.

20 If your opponent has admitted to all or most of your premises, do not ask him or her directly to accept your conclusion.
Rather, draw the conclusion yourself as if it too had been admitted.


21 When your opponent uses an argument that is superficial and you see the falsehood, you can refute it by setting forth its superficial character. 
But it is better to meet the opponent with a counter-argument that is just as superficial, and so dispose of him. 
For it is with victory that you are concerned, not with truth. 
Example: If the opponent appeals to prejudice, emotion or attacks you personally, return the attack in the same manner.

22 If your opponent asks you to admit something from which the point in dispute will immediately follow, you must refuse to do so, declaring that it begs the question.

23 Contradiction and contention irritate a person into exaggerating their statements. 
By contradicting your opponent you may drive him into extending the statement beyond its natural limit. 
When you then contradict the exaggerated form of it, you look as though you had refuted the original statement. 
Contrarily, if your opponent tries to extend your own statement further than your intended, redefine your statement’s limits and say, “That is what I said, no more.”

24 State a false syllogism. 
Your opponent makes a proposition, and by false inference and distortion of his ideas you force from the proposition other propositions that are not intended and that appear absurd. 
It then appears that opponent’s proposition gave rise to these inconsistencies, and so appears to be indirectly refuted.

25 If your opponent is making a generalization, find an instance to the contrary. 
Only one valid contradiction is needed to overthrow the opponent’s proposition. 
Example: “All ruminants are horned,” is a generalization that may be upset by the single instance of the camel.

26 A brilliant move is to turn the tables and use your opponent’s arguments against himself. 
Example: Your opponent declares: “so and so is a child, you must make an allowance for him.” 
You retort, “Just because he is a child, I must correct him; otherwise he will persist in his bad habits.”

27 Should your opponent surprise you by becoming particularly angry at an argument, you must urge it with all the more zeal
Not only will this make your opponent angry, but it will appear that you have put your finger on the weak side of his case, and your opponent is more open to attack on this point than you expected.

28 When the audience consists of individuals (or a person) who is not an expert on a subject, you make an invalid objection to your opponent who seems to be defeated in the eyes of the audience. 
This strategy is particularly effective if your objection makes your opponent look ridiculous or if the audience laughs. 
If your opponent must make a long, winded and complicated explanation to correct you, the audience will not be disposed to listen to him.

29 If you find that you are being beaten, you can create a diversion--that is, you can suddenly begin to talk of something else, as though it had a bearing on the matter in dispute. 
This may be done without presumption if the diversion has some general bearing on the matter.

30 Make an appeal to authority rather than reason. 
If your opponent respects an authority or an expert, quote that authority to further your case. 
If needed, quote what the authority said in some other sense or circumstance. 
Authorities that your opponent fails to understand are those which he generally admires the most. 
You may also, should it be necessary, not only twist your authorities, but actually falsify them, or quote something that you have entirely invented yourself.

31 If you know that you have no reply to the arguments that your opponent advances, you by a fine stroke of irony declare yourself to be an incompetent judge. 
Example: “What you say passes my poor powers of comprehension; it may well be all very true, but I can’t understand it, and I refrain from any expression of opinion on it.” 
In this way you insinuate to the audience, with whom you are in good repute, that what your opponent says is nonsense. 
This technique may be used only when you are quite sure that the audience thinks much better of you than your opponent.

32 A quick way of getting rid of an opponent’s assertion, or of throwing suspicion on it, is by putting it into some odious category. 
Example: You can say, “That is fascism” or “Atheism” or “Superstition.” 
In making an objection of this kind you take for granted 
1)That the assertion or question is identical with, or at least contained in, the category cited; 
and 
2)The system referred to has been entirely refuted by the current audience.

33 You admit your opponent’s premises but deny the conclusion. 
Example: “That’s all very well in theory, but it won’t work in practice.”

34 When you state a question or an argument, and your opponent gives you no direct answer, or evades it with a counter question, or tries to change the subject, it is sure sign you have touched a weak spot, sometimes without intending to do so. 
You have, as it were, reduced your opponent to silence. 
You must, therefore, urge the point all the more, and not let your opponent evade it, even when you do not know where the weakness that you have hit upon really lies.

35 Instead of working on an opponent’s intellect or the rigor of his arguments, work on his motive. 
If you succeed in making your opponent’s opinion, should it prove true, seem distinctly prejudicial to his own interest, he will drop it immediately. 
Example: A clergyman is defending some philosophical dogma. 
You show him that his proposition contradicts a fundamental doctrine of his church. 
He will abandon the argument.

36 You may also puzzle and bewilder your opponent by mere bombast. 
If your opponent is weak or does not wish to appear as if he has no idea what your are talking about, you can easily impose upon him some argument that sounds very deep or learned, or that sounds indisputable.

37 Should your opponent be in the right but, luckily for you, choose a faulty proof, you can easily refute it and then claim that you have refuted the whole position. 
This is the way in which bad advocates lose good cases. 
If no accurate proof occurs to your opponent, you have won the day.

38 Become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. 
In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. 
This is a very popular technique, because it takes so little skill to put it into effect.
=== from 2015 ===
Julie Bishop's announcement that Australia signed up to a New Zealand-led declaration at the Paris climate summit backing the use of international carbon markets in tackling climate change is disturbing.  The islands are not sinking. Plant food is not harming them. Yet Turnbull is willing to overturn government policy to embrace this alarmism. It is the closest he has come to making a decision, and he got his deputy to announce it. Limiting plant food will not raise islands that are not sinking. It will restrict plant growth globally. Turnbull has not discussed this with his colleagues. It is a captain's pick. Even those who supported him in the leadership change are startled by this bad call. It is apparent that every bad inflation made against Tony Abbott was in fact accurate self criticism of Malcolm Turnbull. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014  
Mr Abbott has pointed out that criticism of Peta, almost none of which provides any substantive detail, is sexist. Peta has been denounced, not accused, of running a tight office which was disciplined while facing election and is now called by some deficient in government. But the government has been effective and the criticism is overstated. It is almost as if the government cannot tell the truth without hysterics of the left going into a tizzy. The senate has gummed up the works, and is costing $billions as a result of irresponsible decision making. It is a perfectly reasonable conclusion of Mr Abbott that Peta's critics are drawing long bows because of her gender. The Channel 9 reporter in crossover quoted Mr Abbott's response to Julia Gillard when she denounced him baselessly as a misogynist. After quoting Mr Abbott ('Gillards' speech was the speech of a desperate, inept and irrelevant government') The reporter inappropriately spun it, saying the same would be said of Mr Abbott's government, and this makes it very hard to watch or accept any of the content that followed on Channel 9. If one wanted that unprofessional rubbish, they'd watch ABC news. Note, the reporter's comments were not repeated on the evening news, but Gillard's comment was and the announcer made it clear that they felt the government was bad. 

Meanwhile monocultural Greens demonise white men for being of the same culture, but higher class, from which the Greens underclass are spawned. 


Many thanks to Tim Blair for inventing the word 'Frightbat' without which the screeching fishwives of the left could not be accurately described in a single word. Tim is to be lauded by Frightbats discussing 'Frightbat' at the Sydney Opera House. It is expected no conservative will actually be invited to the event but one should be able to hear the shrieks from an adjacent suburb on 8th March 2015, 11am. From $35 at the Joan Sutherland theatre for those wishing to see the fluttering ones, sponsored by the ABC.


Why is Waleed Aly smiling? Is it because the SMH is being sued for its campaign against the Australian treasurer? The paper never blinked while Swan, the former treasurer turned the economy from a modest $80 billion surplus to $650 billion deficit. Hockey is trying to get things balanced. The criticisms levelled against Hockey of incompetence are overstated. He does not control the senate, but has masterfully, with the government, got a substantial amount passed, and achieved an upper hand in future negotiations by not being foolish. Meanwhile the ridiculous independents have delayed important savings which will cost the economy an estimated $8 billion. Also, the independents have not supported important legislation with humanitarian side effects. Had the senate acted properly, children would have been out of detention before Christmas last year. And had the Pacific Solution not been rescinded then over a thousand need not have drowned. A senate can be very useful as a house of review, or very bad. 

With all the finger pointing, the partisan press have sidelined the news that former ALP President and AHU President Michael Williamson, who stole millions of dollars from the poorest professionals in the land, had a mistress who worked in the union. She has been ordered to pay back $4 million. That is how the ALP 'serves' the workers it represents. The partisan media were looking away, and they were looking towards a historian who wrote a book about unions in WW2 fighting against the national interest. Leading lights of the partisan press corp lied about the book. Mike Carlton is un-penitant at failing fact checks he levelled against Colebatch. 

Mr Abbott is even handed and generous too. Sometimes too generous. He welcomed the Chinese President recently by kindly referring to Whitlam and Wran for their normalising state relations with China in the '70s. But, Bill Shorten in return sledged Australia over the ineffective AGW tax she'd dumped. No conservative can ever lean far enough left to please left wing voters. Was there a hidden reason behind Mr Abbott giving away $200 million for a global climate fund designed to prevent poor nations from modernising? One hopes so, but if so, we may never know. 

Banks support AGW because the corruption is that big. First, banks are entangled through the ponzie type schemes set up to promote the hysteria. Then, in order to make good their exposure they must promote it. So they have products they must support. But with that much money, people lose their vision. And so the environmental group Greenpeace which pollutes water with dumped boat fuel and threatens trade where it is profitable has vandalised ancient Nazca drawings so as to promote itself. World heritage items have been vandalised on an enormously large scale visible from space. Money does that. 

David Hicks is an Australian jihadist who was captured by the CIA and interrogated at GITMO. They never did to him what he wanted to do to others. He had claimed to have forgotten things. But now he remembers, sort of. He remembers what happened to him, but not what he did. Do enemas do that? Anyway, he is only one jihadist. Other Australian jihadists are being killed as quickly as they fly off to clean toilets and carry bodies in the Levant. Maybe we aren't doing enough for them. 
From 2013
For left wing advocates, 'Rape' is just a word to toss around. But to describe an organisation responsible, recently for causing the death by drowning of three people and jeopardising bilateral relations between Indonesia and Australia, the description "harmless and largely inoffensive" ABC is terribly misleading, and not merely a lie. Meanwhile Wilkinson seems to rape the truth regarding the lighting of the Eiffel Tower for Mandela. ABC are now willing, on a different day,  to label a terrorist killer as Islamic. Adams read something, somewhere, but we aren't certain if he understood the complexity of it. Sarah H-Y has now got a clear path to sue her own party for a misogynistic application of her image. Doug Walters is remembered as the oldest debutant in first class or test cricket.  It is ok if others joke about Mandela, but not to smile at the joke. 

Andrew Bolt writes about the injustice surrounding his silencing. His case is compelling. Those endorsing the law abused to silence him, are wrong. A scandal is evident over media silence regarding the AWU affair. Australia is losing its' car industry, and that is because of that kind of corruption. Unions have finally killed their host, and the parasites will fall about, dying slowly. Official silence over a hand waver pretending to sign for a hand wringer pretending to care. Evidence gathers for the young of today being a stolen generation denied access to the truth. As the UN encourages suicide bombers by children, child abuse by so called Palestinians raising children to attack police, the UN wants to stop good parents from raising their children with respect and love. 
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We have hope. It is incumbent on us to win back the freedom denied us. And to protect that freedom. We will do that democratically. We will take back our legislature. We will get our courts to return to protecting our constitution.

I have lost everything several times. And yet here I am. Behind me is an Australian flag and a MAGA cap. On my MAGA cap is an American flag. I will die, one day. But, I pledge allegiance to the flag (of Australia and) the United States of America. And to the republics for which they stand. One nation. Indivisible. Under God. With liberty, and justice, for all.

We are being lied to. But not by everyone. Our nations and their justice machinery are not broken, but damaged. Things are bad, but they are supposed to be bad, rather than merely breaking. We can't give up. We must reject the liars, and remove them from public office, and prosecute them lawfully. Things can get better, but we must persevere or risk losing hope. We must not fight the Devil by playing the Devil's game. Rather we must resist the Devil by being free. There is no law against doing what is right. Their utter depravity kills us. They target us and they seek to restrain us. But while the greatest among us a hundred years ago has died, their legacy has not. That which we are, we are. Lockdowns were ineffective in dealing with COVID. Effective medication has been denied whole populations. Herd immunity will prevail. Fraud deleteriously affected recent elections around the world. But, Democracy will prevail. Our oppressors will pass. For us to win, we must assert our freedoms. For us to lose, we must willingly surrender our freedoms forever. Our children will have to pay back our debt. We must sacrifice now so that they can. That means telling truth to power. That means pointing up when when some get confused and lose their way. Stand by the one who sacrificed their pension and freedoms to speak out. Prosecute the ones forgiven by a debauched and self interested administration. Vote for those who help you exercise your freedom. Don't wait for free speech. Exercise free speech.

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Intro to Locals.com

My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence. 

I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections. 

I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately. 

I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.

https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voice

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From the Bible, Revelation 4

The Throne in Heaven

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying:

“‘Holy, holy, holy

is the Lord God Almighty,’

who was, and is, and is to come.”

Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
    and by your will they were created
    and have their being.”

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https://rumble.com/vqpej9-ep.-1666-a-stunning-admission-in-court-which-changes-everything-the-dan-bon.html
Absolutely disgusting! Despite the unfathomable tragedy in the Midwest, the Biden team is using it to advance their bogus global warming narrative. I also address a stunning court admission by Facebook which proves they’re NOT neutral.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden to Wait Until Wednesday to Travel to Kentucky to Survey Tornado Damage READ MORE

Psaki Refuses to Admit Soft on Crime Prosecutors Are Causing Crime Surge

Charges Against CNN Producer Accused of Child Sexual Abuse Reveal More Disturbing Details

Dr. Scott Atlas: Fauci Undermined Trump, Greatly Misled American Public on COVID

Janice Dean Fires Back at Cuomo Brothers’ Plan to Discredit Her

Candidates Endorsed by Trump Have Won 137 of 140 Races

Federal Reserve Expected to Announce Rate Hikes This Week to Fight Inflation

Capitol Hill
Rand Paul: COVID Restrictions Are “About Conditioning the American Individual to Submit to Government”
Rep. Lee Zeldin: “Good Chance” Biden Didn’t Attend Army-Navy Game Because He Was Afraid of “Let’s Go Brandon” Chants
Jill Biden: “Ridiculous” to Have Concerns About Joe’s Mental Fitness
Biden: Afghanistan Withdrawal Was Impossible “Without Anybody Getting Hurt”
Sen. Graham Calls for House Revote on Biden’s Build Back Better
Ilhan Omar’s Bill to Require State Department Monitor “Islamophobia” Moves Forward
NY Gov Parties Maskless While Implementing Mask Mandate
Biden’s Approval Sinks on Inflation, Crime, and COVID
Biden Makes First Late Night Appearance as President for Softball Interview
Manchin Likely to Sink Biden’s Build Back Better Over Inflation Concerns

Culture War
Facebook in Court Filing: Yes, Our Fact Checks Are Just Our Opinions
Snowflake Complains Term “Snowflake” Is Offensive
Study: “NewsGuard” Ratings Skew Heavily in Favor of Left Wing Outlets
First Omicron COVID Death Recorded Three Weeks After Variant Identified
Company Makes Enough “Let’s Go Brandon” Christmas Wrapping Paper to Cover Six NFL Football Fields
Jussie Smollett Juror Says He Wasn’t a Good Actor When He Took Witness Stand
Support for Democrats Among Latinos and Hispanic Voters Has Tanked From 60% Last Year to 37%
CNN: Surge in Traffic Deaths Due to Right Wingers, or Something
SCOTUS Signals Left’s Monopoly on Propagandizing Kids Is at an End
Black Lives Matter Activists Tell Students to Blame Misogyny, White Supremacy, and Capitalism for Their Problems
Dan Bongino: Why the COVID Goalpost Keeps Moving

Economy
Arkansas iHop Blasts Biden’s “Free Money” for Causing Staff Shortages
Elon Musk Is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year
IRS Reports Record Tax Collections in First Two Months of Fiscal Year 2022
Obama’s Economists Warn Biden’s Build Back Better Will Make Inflation Worse
20 Retail Executives Demand Action Against Smash-and-Grab Crime Rings
Fed to Begin Rate Hikes With Flattest Yield Curve in a Generation
3M Hit With $22.5 Million Verdict in U.S. Military Earplug Trial
One Drug Is Responsible for 50% of the Hike in Medicare’s Part B Premiums
Maryland Spends Millions on Kids Who Aren’t in School
Biden “Deeply Troubled” by Kellogg’s Plan to Permanently Replace Striking Workers
Charles Gasparino: SEC Case Against Ripple Labs for Ripple Crypto Sale a “Bit” of a Double Standard

Swamp Watch
SCOTUS Refuses to Block NY’s COVID Mandate for Health Care Workers
Proud Boy Gets 10 Years in Prison for Shooting Antifa Lunatic With Paintball Gun
Biden’s FEMA Director Joins Him in Blaming Climate Change for Tornado Tragedy
Seattle City Council Introduces Bill to Take Decision of Which Cases to Prosecute Away From Leftist City Attorney
Democrat-Run Cities With Soros-Backed DAs Are Watching Crime Spiral Out Control
Fauci: Americans May “Just Have to Deal With” More Booster Shots
Biden Blames His Problems on Trump and QAnon
Hillary Clinton: It Will Mean the End of Our Democracy (for Real This Time) If Trump Wins in 2024
Pete Buttigieg’s Husband Complains That He’s Going to Have to Make Student Loan Payments Again

National Security
Pentagon Gets New Reporting Tasks For China
How the US Marine Corps Is Preparing for a War with China
U.S. Very Concerned About China’s Military Ambitions in Africa
New U.S. National Defense Strategy Must Focus on Competing Where It Makes Sense: Pentagon Official
DARPA Project Explores Use of Microbes for Bio-Manufacturing in Space
It’s Official: A US Marine Corps F-35C Squadron is Aircraft Carrier Ready
Satellite Images and Expert Suggest Iran Preparing for Space Launch During Nuclear Deal Talks
Bill Wenger: Our Woke Military Will Be Deadly For Us.
How to Counter the Chinese Missile Threat: More Missile Defense?
Biden Withholds $200 Million in Military Assistance From Ukraine as Russia Prepares Possible Invasion

Around the World
In What Feels Like a Veiled Threat, Boris Johnson Tells Public To Get Booster Jab to Save “Freedoms and Way of Life”
Hungary’s Orban Says Western Europe Experimenting on People by “Mixing Huge Masses of Muslims With Christians”
G7 to Russia: Be Prepared for “Massive Consequences” if Ukraine is Attacked
France Has Opened 400 Investigations Into Networks Providing Fake COVID-19 Passes
As Christmas Holidays Approach, More Border Rules Ease in Australia
Berlin Expanding Vaccine Drive to Children Aged 5 to 11
Experts Say Volcanic Eruption on Spain’s La Palma is Longest Running on Island
JK Rowling Mocks U.K. Police Logging Transgender Rapists as “Women”
Julian Assange Suffers Stroke During Court Appeal

Opinion
Debra J. Saunders: The So-Called Plot To Fix the 2024 Election
Kevin McCullough: Desperate Leftists Watching Power Slip Through Their Hands
Kyle Smith: 7 Jobs Andrew and Chris Cuomo Can Do Now That They’re Unemployed
Canon J. John: Many Have Heard of “Handel’s Messiah.” But Do You Know About Handel?
Rich Lowry: Vladimir Putin Shouldn’t Be a Hero to the American Right
Michael Brown: Do Not Gloat When Your Enemy Falls
NY Post Editorial Board: Congress Must Do More to Stop China’s Military-Industrial Spying on U.S. Campuses

Entertainment
Anne Rice, Author Of “The Vampire Chronicles” Passes Away at 80
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Vincente Fernandez, Legendary Mexican Singer, Dies at 81
Following Astroworld Tragedy, Anheuser-Busch Cancels Rapper Travis Scott’s Hard Seltzer
Sarah Silverman Accused of Being a Racist for Daring to Correct Joy Reid
Judge Rules Plagiarism Complaint for Taylor Swift Lyrics Will go to Trial
Kim Cattrall Reacts to Tweets About Her Absence From “And Just Like That”

Sports
NBA Hall of Famer Joins Enes Kanter Freedom In Stand Against Oppressive China
Tom Brady Makes 700th Touchdown Pass To Propel Bucs Over Bills 33-27 in OT
Here Are the Finalists in Mets’ Managerial Search
Chiefs Make 6th Straight Win With Record-Setting 48-9 Victory Over Raiders
Giants Get Completely Destroyed in Another Numbing Loss
Ravens’ Star Quarterback Jackson Sprains Ankle in Loss to Browns
Peyton Manning, Broncos Honor Demaryius Thomas in Pregame Tribute
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
The Jan. 6 Select Committee voted Monday to push for contempt charges against Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. Meadows says the panel "leaked" texts to spin a false narrative and attack his former boss. [Full Story]
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=== Viva Barnes News ===

1. Prominent feminists continue to counter the trans activists. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/12/13/j-k-rowling-scolds-police-for-documenting-male-rapists-as-women/

2. Elon Musk is the man of the year, according to Time. https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/

3. Short answer: dimwit Gowdy screwed over his Congressman client with a dumb "let's chat with the Feds" strategy typical of ex-Feds. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/12/fortenberry-indictment-524107

4. Looking like the 70's all over again, with both high inflation and higher interest rates. Can the Fed really raise rates much, given the current economic predicament that needs low rates for their favorite pals? https://news.yahoo.com/fed-pivot-inflation-fears-face-110747035.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

5. Another study; same conclusion: natural immunity is better than the "vaccine." https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/10/another-study-finds-that-natural-immunity-protects-better-against-infection-than-the-pfizer-vaccine/

*Bonus: Inmates rescue citizens. https://people.com/human-interest/jail-inmates-help-rescue-tornado-victims-kentucky-candle-factory/

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Here is a video I made "ON THE INSIDE"
"ON THE INSIDE" written by ALLAN CASWELL The song is important to me because, at age 11, I had an epiphany. I'll write about that elsewhere ..

=== From 2020 ===

'Balanced' newsmax includes the false claim there is no evidence for electoral fraud. It is not balanced to lie and misrepresent known facts. 

The SCOTUS decision regarding the Texas lawsuit is disappointing, but a way forward remains for the Trump campaign. It is worth analysing the abrogation of responsibility by SCOTUS and ponder the costs. The Cabal Trump is fighting has been fought before. In Australia in 2010, among the conservative party (called the Liberal Party of Australia), Cabal agent Turnbull was faced against up rising conservative Joe Hockey. Turnbull had betrayed several former leaders to be made leader, and that had resulted in Australia's best ever government led by John Howard to go down to China backed ALP. Again, the press held the banner for ALP and extended courtesy to Turnbull. But, Turnbull had not got much headway against ALP, despite copying their policy stances, and badging himself as a responsible AGW alarmist. Hockey had a young family and was not very interested in taking the leadership, but he had had support. Turnbull had a leadership spill to settle the issue, but Hockey, who had had support for opposing AGW hysteria, now called it a moral issue and so both Hockey and Turnbull went to the spill motion supporting bad economic policy. Enter Tony Abbott who called AGW hysteria 'crap' and Abbott won against the split AGW supporting duo. Abbott had not broken tradition to run, only standing after the spill and after Hockey flipped. However, moving forward, the media lied about the situation to favour Turnbull and attack Abbott's legitimacy. as analogs go, 2010 in Australia was like 2016 in USA. 

Tony Abbott was a good conservative leader, but under siege from the Cabal. Abbott almost took government in 2010, but some independents awarded the election to the ALP. Abbott won outright in 2013. However, the conservative party, through fake polling commissioned by the Cabal, tossed out Abbott and gave the PM position to Turnbull. Turnbull was an awful leader and got tossed before losing an election, having squandered a majority in '16 and looking to lose in '19. However, in Australia, the culture war was never fought as Trump has fought it in USA. The Cabal was never faced down. Even within the conservative government, Turnbull loyalists, called 'wets' seek to support the Cabal. This is why the SCOTUS abrogation of responsibility is so important. It is like when Hockey miss-cast AGW hysteria as a moral issue, when in fact it is an economic one unworthy of support. There will be a cost for SCOTUS to have abrogated their responsibility to the constitution of the USA. Trump still has cards in play. At issue is clear evidence of malfeasance on the part of the Cabal which must be up rooted if the swamp is to be drained. But, what will be left? 

In breaking news, SCOTUS has ruled 7-2 not to hear Texas case, based on standing. Giuliani is keen to take the cases to a district court, but the road is longer and means deadlines may be missed. It is still possible Biden is not elected through voter fraud, but it is more likely he will be. Notably, all three Trump appointments voted against hearing the case. The issue will have to be addressed eventually. 

How will Swing states argue Texas lawsuit? Will they ask for a safe space from questions? Will they stand their ground and say that they embody the constitution and what they have done, they have done? To date, despite the clear evidence of voter fraud in millions of ballots, left wing media have refused to address the issue. The Texas lawsuit does not rest on voter fraud. Texans who voted have had their votes devalued by unlawful and unjust voting practice ostensibly established as COVID protection. Statistics up to June regarding the politics of COVID was stark. COVID kills left wing peoples in numbers an order of magnitude greater than conservatives. Some have said that is because lockdowns, face masks etc etc aren't effective against that kind of 'flu, but simple hygiene measures left wingers resist are effective. But left wingers know it is because COVID is very political. We don't yet know how SCOTUS might act. Will they direct the states to remedy via their own mechanism in legislature? Had the shoe been on the other foot, what would Ginsburg have done? 

PJ Media, balanced reporting group, have published an article claiming that the 2020 election was likely not fraudulently drawn, but a result of big tech creating a new lobby effort which institutionalises bias. It is true that big tech have done just that. However, Trump over-performed in the election forcing a Dem cabal to resort to voter fraud and it wasn't finessed as it had been in the past. In fact, it is obvious. Circumstantial evidence points to Biden not being popular at all, and not outperforming Obama by tens of millions. Circumstantial evidence points to it being unlikely 16.7% of counties favouring Biden elected him President, even with up to 350% of votes in a voting area favouring Biden. We have testimony of late postal votes being delivered over state lines in their hundreds of thousands. We know the vote system was vulnerable to outside influence and that checks and balances ensuring a fair election were removed. We know the fraud was prepared in advance, multi pronged, with the COVID health scare employed to overturn voting regulations ensuring fairness. We know voters favoured GOP in down votes on Senate and the house. Trump won fairly. Biden is attempting to steal the election, as Hillary attempted in 2016 with the Russia hoax, for which she has not served jail time, yet. 

Is COVID hysteria entirely so China can influence the US election outcome? Were the lockdowns in Europe and Australia so that US states could claim a state of emergency and allow for dysfunctional voting procedure? Is it the case that people have died as a result of COVID hysteria, while the worst affected by COVID are not dying in the same numbers as they were pre-COVID?

There are reports on a Lt General McInerney claiming the Dominion server which was used to change votes and 'elect' Biden has been seized from a CIA site in Germany. Some US soldiers died. Details will be privy to SCOTUS. If true, several significant peoples on Democrat side face treason accusations. Several Deep State operatives face treason accusations. Could the first 'black President' of the United States face justice for his crimes? NB AFP fact check denies claim.

How did #FakeNews predict a blue wave from 16.7% of counties favouring Biden? How did they measure voter fraud? How come #FakeNews is now unaware of voter fraud? Is it now the case that Democrat tactics are to force SCOTUS to make a decision so they can then claim SCOTUS is compromised?

The evidence of Fraud in the 2020 election, so widespread is harmful for democracy. It must be addressed. It was not solely the 2020 election, apparently, but had failed in 2016 after Trump over performed then, as he has now. Trump was so good in 2020, that the fraud became evident. It also highlights the possibility that voter fraud extended to 2006 and underpinned Obama's rise. As did big tech collusion. Recently, every one of my browsers would not let me access MAGAbook, citing privacy concerns.

We know who voted for Trump. We saw them. Queues of people with hats and signs and cheering Trump in their thousands all over USA. We have not seen people in great numbers who supported Biden. There is no evidence they have ever existed outside of a riot or a hissy fit by a Democrat partisan election official.

I watch Dan Bongino on Rumble and heard him on his Rumble cast say Trump should have addressed disloyal swamp creatures sooner. I disagree with it, and might have egg all over my face soon for saying so, but following is my reasoning. Trump has temporised on facing some of the swamp, not hesitated. Late last year, Trump said he was pulling troops out of Syria and was criticised for it severely. But then an ISIS leader stood up and special forces ran him to committing suicide rather than be taken. The operation, a sting masterminded by Trump had not included significant figures within his administration, and sparked a resignation of National Security Adviser Bolton, who had not been in the loop. Imagine the resistance if Trump had opposed more? But now, if Trump politically survives this, the swamp is exposed and has no support from conservatives. I'm reminded of former Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett who had led a successful conservative government and had a crash or crash through election which he lost. Had Kennett won, he had clear air for a long time, but having lost Victoria is where the US will be if Biden is allowed to cheat a win.

Trump cycle has it Trump is on his knees, before ... Media is cheering expected partisan court decisions to not support inquiry into voting fraud. However, they overstate the meaning of the shortfalls. The Trump campaign to have their electoral win restored was never going to be straightforward. They have the evidence. It points to multiple elections and undermines the credibility of US Democracy. Ultimately, aspects of it will be decided by SCOTUS. We do not yet know how SCOTUS will decide, or even what exact evidence they will face. But we know the evidence is substantial, and in an effort to suppress the will of conservative resistance, media are claiming that the evidence is not substantive and so the evidence is yet to be addressed. Maybe there is a good reason for a CIA asset being deployed to fraudulently control the US election. Let us hear what it is.

It is apparent that Dems committed fraud to steal the 2020 election. They may well have done similar in 2016. In 2016, Fox declared Pennsylvania early to HRC. The demand was made for Trump to concede. Trump won in 2016, but it surprised the establishment that did similar in their voter suppression as they have done in 2020. HRC had organised a victory party, but blessed marching vagina instead. Even her book did not say what happened. Trump has been very good at mobilising ordinary, decent Americans to support him in numbers greater than any GOP ever. Trump does not court race, or gender, like his racist, bigoted opposition have. Yet Trump has extraordinary minority support for a GOP, possibly the highest since Eleanor Roosevelt courted the Black vote as her husband exploited them. The Dem voting pattern and issues echo the Obama wins too. How long have Dems been using these fraudulent methods to obtain votes? Did they use them to bodgy the 2006 mid terms? It is not that the mysterious support of vapour for Dems is so clearly fraudulent, but, other than violent rioters, and #FakeNews, where is their support, really? How come there is no policy platform for Democrats? Why does Big Tech have to censor the truth? How many millions of Trump supporting votes have been given to Biden? The corruption is so apparent, and so pervasive, that if Trump concedes 2020, he will be conceding all elections that follow, and the flame of liberty will be extinguished in America.   

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https://www.newsmax.com/headline/senate-georgia-trump-vote/2020/12/13/id/1001264/?oRef=mixi

'Balanced' newsmax includes the false claim there is no evidence for electoral fraud. It is not balanced to lie and misrepresent known facts. 

=== Newsmax headlines ===
Election 2020
Trump Vows to 'Keep Going' in Election Challenge
Dershowitz: SCOTUS Told Trump Don't Count On Courts
Lin Wood: Trump Should Declare Martial Law | 
Mike Lindell at Rally: Fox News 'Had to Be in on It' | 
Dick Morris: Dems Preemptively 'Intimidated' SCOTUS on Packing | 
Thousands of Trump Supporters again Rally in Washington
Trump Loses Wisconsin Case While Arguing Another One
Giuliani to Newsmax TV: Legal Fight Will Go On

Trump Presidency
Trump Greeted With 'USA' Cheers at Army-Navy Game at West Point
Grenell: Gang of Eight Should Probe Swalwell's Ties to China
Rand Paul: Best Economic Stimulus Is To 'Reopen' Economy
Trump Slams Barr, SCOTUS Decision in Twitter Attacks
Lara Trump: President Is 'Made for This Time' | 
Trump Signs One-Week Funding Stopgap, Averting Shutdown
DOJ Joins Mich. Faith-Based Schools' Challenge to Pandemic Remote Learning
President Trump Gives Federal Workers Off Christmas Eve
Trump Moves Forward With $1B Moroccan Arms Deal

Newsfront
Historic US COVID Vaccine Campaign Launches With Convoy of Trucks
Three semi trucks carrying the first shipments of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine left a factory in Michigan early Sunday, kicking off a historic project to stop a surging pandemic that is claiming more than 2,400 lives a day in the United States.... [Full Story]
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5 Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines
US Buys Additional 100M Doses of Moderna Vaccine
Merkel Orders Germany Into Hard Lockdown as Infections Swell
FT Credits Trump's 'Warp Speed' for COVID Vaccines

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Mike Lindell at Rally: Fox News 'Had to Be in on It'
Not all of FOX, but significant figures. They called Georgia mistakenly early in 2016 too. 
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Dick Morris to Newsmax TV: Dems Preemptively 'Intimidated' SCOTUS on Packing
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/court-packing-scotus-democrats-intimidation/2020/12/12/id/1001231/?oRef=mixi
There is no need to point fingers. We don't yet know what happened
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Researchers Identify New Personality Construct: The Tendency To See Oneself As A Victim
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/10/tendency-for-interpersonal-victimhood-research-rahav-gabay-boaz-hameiri/
This is where Democrat support comes from? 

=== FB Memes and memories ===

Via ZEG
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she enquired: "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz. She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn't change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything."











ALP delayed past the last sitting day, killing the issue

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. A GOP politician from Kentucky, 'Pope' Dan Johnson has suicided after an old sex allegation was raised again. He said he could not disprove it, but his connection of post traumatic disorder related to 911 could be a confession. It is outrageous that the senior pastor of an evangelical church with much influence was so isolated. He clearly had not prayed about his direction and his action is horrible for the young woman who named him as an abuser when she was 17 and he was Pastor of her church. What Johnson has done discredits his church and the movement he was part of. There are a lot of shonks in politics. In order to get airtime, they say the foolish. Posting Obama and his family as Apes is not politically astute. Claiming God had saved him as the media spent $millions ridiculing him does nothing worthwhile in pastoral or political terms. Obama divided USA and USA needs healers, not heels, to represent them in politics. I find it extraordinary that he was the best GOP could field. A power base could have been the 'luck' of being present on 911 in NYC, or in being attacked by the KKK and surviving hurt and underinsured. God had plans for Johnson. Not suicide, but one of leadership and healing and he might have done that by meeting with his alleged victim and offering her a way forward. What we now see is a man who had been given much, squandering it all. 

Not everyone can be a hero, or need be. If one is not a hero, that is not the end of the world. Possibly Johnson thought he was a hero, and he could not face what it meant when that was not how the story would pan out. So what? What if the 17 yo lied? Johnson still had an obligation to her. Another unmet obligation is that of media to their audience. Hyper partisan media who won't accept their heroes going down for their crimes, but tribally denounce and inflate accusations against those they don't support. The hounding of Nixon by a criminal network involving the FBI at the most senior levels is an example. But Nixon did not suicide. And Mark Felt should not have died free. If Mueller does not arrest Democrats for their corruption in illegitimate attacks on Trump then he is no better than when he gave Mark Felt a free pass. #DrainTheSwamp, but fill it with .. ? is there anyone competent in the Democrats? In the FBI? In justice? In establishment GOP? 

I have issues, but I thank God for the blessings in my life. It is hard for me not being connected to a church, I needed the one I had grown in and I have lost much I felt through devotion to God, in service I had fostered. I had thought they would provide me with a reference if I applied for a religious school position. I had thought they would be character witnesses as I stood up in public life. But just because they aren't that to me does not mean they aren't faithful servants of God. I know them to be led by the spirit and blessed. Our future is entwined. But it is not what I had hoped, either. We serve the same master, my old church and I. But I do not know this 'pope' Dan Johnson

=== from 2016 ===
Who would be the worst state Premier in Australia. There are three candidates. Queensland's Annastacia Palaszczuk, Victoria’s Dan Andrews, and South Australia’s Jay Weatherill. Each has tried their hardest to be number one. Palaszczuk has reversed the good work of Newman, promoting crime and corruption and hollowing out institutions that might resist corruption. She had started by saying she wasn’t ready for government. She still isn’t. Dan Andrews has undermined the fire protection services, preventing volunteers from volunteering to even save themselves from forest fires. Andrews has also ambitiously tried to make his state more expensive for power costs than South Australia. And Andrews has undermined schools with a reprehensible safe schools policy promoting inappropriate sexual activity for children. But Jay Weatherill has so many advantages, having been part of a continuous ALP government despite voter dissatisfaction. Ruinous power policy has plunged the state into darkness twice for days at a time. Industry is fleeing South Australia. How will $50 billion worth of submarines be built without electricity? The federal government is giving some four times more GST money to South Australians than West Australians. But the competition is a bad joke. None of them are competent. All of them have press support.
=== from 2015 ===
The leader of the National Party, Warren Truss, had an idea to get a Liberal Party member, Ian Macfarlane, to switch to them, and so get a ministerial seat. Made more awkward in Queensland where the Liberal Party and National Party are unified in the LNP. But the National party repudiated their leader. Macfarlane had been a minister who chose Malcolm Turnbull over Tony Abbott. Turnbull felt Macfarlane was the wrong gender and dumped him for a female. Macfarlane had hoped to be a minister again for the Nationals. Macfarlane is the longest serving Liberal minister and has no plans to resign. So having burned both leadership contenders, Macfarlane may have profoundly resigned unplanned. What have the Liberals paid the Nationals so that the division did not widen? The Nationals work for their constituents. Farmers are dying as Turnbull robs them of a billion dollars a year to give to Green scammers. The only certainty is the arrangements will be secret so as to not further damage Turnbull. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Supporting prisoners of conscience is easy. It would be depraved indifference to the realities of brutal dictatorships to not do so. Which is why the decision of Amnesty International to divert resources meant for prisoners of conscience to support terrorists is so disturbing. David Hicks is not just a dead beat dad that gave up minor crime to embrace terrorism He was the elect of Osama Bin Laden's international recruits. Hicks has hidden behind much corruption. He was captured in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban. He is known to have been to a number of jihadist hot spots prior to that where he has been as faithful to Islam as he's been to his own family. For Hicks, faith means he hates Jews and Westerners. He wants them dead. When he was incarcerated, he was not a prisoner of conscience, but a trained terrorist. Democrats gave approval for his torture, which they now blame entirely on others. Amnesty spent money meant to support those who were imprisoned because they want freedom, on those who killed for bigotry. And they did so egged on by Democrats who gave them permission. Obama was given a Nobel Peace prize for no reason other than the colour of his skin. He repaid that gift by hosting a dinner for those who jailed the winner of the following year's Nobel Peace prize. Obama has a depraved indifference to those suffering for their desire for freedom. 

There is division in the Liberal Party as there should be, because the party has a collection of people with divergent views on similar topics. Mr Abbott is an economic conservative, but he also has social conservative views which are well known. As health minister he acted in the national interest, as he does now on on issues he believes in. Abbott is aware and keen to address the issue of Aboriginal disparity and suffering. He is also keen to lessen the burden on young families. One can disagree with his method of addressing these issues, but one cannot deny that they are important. 

But such division as there is is exploited by hateful people or professional pundits. Lying, as the Fairfax press has to inflate issues and inspire opposition is not professional punditry. Hockey suing the SMH is important, but there is a defense the SMH can employ, and there is not certainty the judiciary is unbiased. Peta Credilin, the chief of staff of Mr Abbott is under attack after five extraordinary years of successfully serving the party. She might go, but that will not change who Mr Abbott is. He might go but that won't change the issues he addresses. One can oppose the idea of a racist constitution without removing Mr Abbott as PM. Because Mr Abbott is an economic conservative too, and his policies are far broader than one item. There is such a thing as a cultural asset. A cultural asset unites a community where a minority cause divides it. People can be on both sides of a constitutional debate and it will unite the community even if the issue divides it. I will oppose Mr Abbott's constitutional change, but I will support Mr Abbott's decision to put it forward. 

Meanwhile a corrupt senate is opposing needed budget measures. They are egged on by a corrupt press. So business criticism of opposition to budget measures is twisted by the media to read as criticism of the government. The press are not biased. They are partisan. 

Latham critical of Frightbats. Sunday Age employs activist to report for Greens on climate. Russell Brand is a moron and his lines have been fed by those with a depraved indifference to suffering. 
From 2013
Blair Poll shows 0.73% want the ABC to have increased funding, the rest asking for it to be privatised, have funding cut, or punitive measures taken against her staff. Or in gender neutral terms favoured by the ABC, against his/her staff. Obama told the truth, once, just on a different day. Holden has become like many Australian icons, a victim of ALP policy. Al Gore was wrong five years ago with his prediction of an ice free north Polar cap. The hand waver who could not sign, but stood next to the hand wringer who didn't care, has been accused of murder. The hand wringer, meanwhile .. doesn't care. My handwriting is too poor for some plumb jobs. AMWU reps must take their skills elsewhere .. parasite host beware. 

Bolt challenges Turnbull on gay marriage statement. Rhiannon admits she was trained by neo-Stalinists.  Why our intelligence service targeted the activity of a significant political player. Why is the media hiding the demonstrated effectiveness of boat people policy?
Historical perspective on this day
In 557, Constantinople was severely damaged by an earthquake. In 835, Sweet Dew IncidentEmperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspired to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot was foiled. In 1287, St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. In 1542, Princess Mary Stuart became Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1751, the Theresian Military Academy was founded as the first military academy in the world. In 1782, the Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.

In 1812, the French invasion of Russia came to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée were expelled from Russia. In 1814, War of 1812: The Royal Navy seized control of Lake BorgneLouisiana. In 1819, Alabama became the 22nd U.S. state. In 1836, the Toledo War unofficially ended. In 1896, the Glasgow Underground Railway was opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. In 1900, Quantum mechanicsMax Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. In 1902, the Commercial Pacific Cable Company laid the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. In 1903, the Wright brothers made their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1907, the schooner Thomas W. Lawson ran aground and foundered near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen died. In 1909, New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

In 1911, Roald Amundsen '​s team, comprising himself, Olav BjaalandHelmer HanssenSverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, became the first to reach the South Pole. In 1913, Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launched, eventually becoming one of the Japaneseworkhorses during World War I and World War II. In 1914, Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos AiresArgentina. In 1918,  Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounced the Finnish throne. Also, Portuguese President Sidónio Pais was assassinated. In 1939, Winter War: The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. In 1941, World War II: Japan signed a treaty of alliance with Thailand. In 1946, the United Nations General Assemblyvoted to establish its headquarters in New York, New York. In 1947,  Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F., staged its first football match.

In 1955, Albania, Austria, BulgariaCambodiaCeylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, JordanLaosLibyaNepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations. In 1958, the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition became the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility. In 1961, Tanganyika joined the United Nations. In 1962,  NASA's Mariner 2became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. In 1963, the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir burst, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California. In 1964, American Civil Rights MovementHeart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Congress can use the Constitution'sCommerce Clause to fight discrimination. In 1971, Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan '​s intellectuals were executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.) In 1972, Apollo programEugene Cernan was the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt completed the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

In 1981, Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratified the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights. In 1983, the third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece started. In 1988, the ET3 television network was launched in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1992, War in AbkhaziaSiege of Tkvarcheli – A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli was shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia. In 1994, construction began on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river. In 1995, Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of YugoslaviaCroatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1999, Torrential rains caused flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure. In 2003, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. In 2004, the Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, was formally inaugurated near Millau, France. In 2008, Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bushduring a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq. In 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, were killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. In 2013 a reported coup attempt in South Sudan led to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

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Today's reading: Hosea 12-14, Revelation 4 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Hosea 12-14

1 Ephraim feeds on the wind;
he pursues the east wind all day
and multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a treaty with Assyria
and sends olive oil to Egypt.
2 The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah;
he will punish Jacob according to his ways
and repay him according to his deeds.
3 In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel;
as a man he struggled with God.
He struggled with the angel and overcame him;
he wept and begged for his favor.
He found him at Bethel
and talked with him there—
5 the LORD God Almighty,
the LORD is his name!
6 But you must return to your God;
maintain love and justice,
and wait for your God always.
7 The merchant uses dishonest scales
and loves to defraud.
8 Ephraim boasts,
“I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin....”

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 4


The Throne in Heaven
1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. 4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal....

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning

"Salt without prescribing how much."
Ezra 7:22
Salt was used in every offering made by fire unto the Lord, and from its preserving and purifying properties it was the grateful emblem of divine grace in the soul. It is worthy of our attentive regard that, when Artaxerxes gave salt to Ezra the priest, he set no limit to the quantity, and we may be quite certain that when the King of kings distributes grace among his royal priesthood, the supply is not cut short by him. Often are we straitened in ourselves, but never in the Lord. He who chooses to gather much manna will find that he may have as much as he desires. There is no such famine in Jerusalem that the citizens should eat their bread by weight and drink their water by measure. Some things in the economy of grace are measured; for instance our vinegar and gall are given us with such exactness that we never have a single drop too much, but of the salt of grace no stint is made, "Ask what thou wilt and it shall be given unto thee." Parents need to lock up the fruit cupboard, and the sweet jars, but there is no need to keep the salt-box under lock and key, for few children will eat too greedily from that. A man may have too much money, or too much honour, but he cannot have too much grace. When Jeshurun waxed fat in the flesh, he kicked against God, but there is no fear of a man's becoming too full of grace: a plethora of grace is impossible. More wealth brings more care, but more grace brings more joy. Increased wisdom is increased sorrow, but abundance of the Spirit is fulness of joy. Believer, go to the throne for a large supply of heavenly salt. It will season thine afflictions, which are unsavoury without salt; it will preserve thy heart which corrupts if salt be absent, and it will kill thy sins even as salt kills reptiles. Thou needest much; seek much, and have much.

Evening

"I will make thy windows of agates."
Isaiah 54:12
The church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by heavenly power, and designed by divine skill. Such a spiritual house must not be dark, for the Israelites had light in their dwellings; there must therefore be windows to let the light in and to allow the inhabitants to gaze abroad. These windows are precious as agates: the ways in which the church beholds her Lord and heaven, and spiritual truth in general, are to be had in the highest esteem. Agates are not the most transparent of gems, they are but semi-pellucid at the best:
"Our knowledge of that life is small,
Our eye of faith is dim."

Faith is one of these precious agate windows, but alas! it is often so misty and beclouded, that we see but darkly, and mistake much that we do see. Yet if we cannot gaze through windows of diamonds and know even as we are known, it is a glorious thing to behold the altogether lovely One, even though the glass be hazy as the agate. Experience is another of these dim but precious windows, yielding to us a subdued religious light, in which we see the sufferings of the Man of Sorrows, through our own afflictions. Our weak eyes could not endure windows of transparent glass to let in the Master's glory, but when they are dimmed with weeping, the beams of the Sun of Righteousness are tempered, and shine through the windows of agate with a soft radiance inexpressibly soothing to tempted souls. Sanctification, as it conforms us to our Lord, is another agate window. Only as we become heavenly can we comprehend heavenly things. The pure in heart see a pure God. Those who are like Jesus see him as he is. Because we are so little like him, the window is but agate; because we are somewhat like him, it is agate. We thank God for what we have, and long for more. When shall we see God and Jesus, and heaven and truth, face to face?

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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

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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

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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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