Bairnsdale Conservative: Tue 21st 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 11

The Two Witnesses

I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

The Seventh Trumpet

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:

“The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”

And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:

“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
    the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
    and have begun to reign.
The nations were angry,
    and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
    and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
    both great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

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https://rumble.com/vr4hl7-ep.-1671-an-epic-must-see-takedown-the-dan-bongino-show.html
An epic takedown of the disastrous Joe Biden presidency that you must see. Also, these coronavirus panic porn propagandists get busted on tv.

News Picks:

Fully vaccinated US Senators come down with COVID.
Big news. Joe Manchin is a “no” on Biden’s Build Back Worse plan.
Elon Musk is about to pay a record-breaking tax bill.
The GOP readies a number of probes if they take back Congress. They’d better follow through.
Soros operative gets busted supporting child predators.
This teacher’s union representative is clearly lying about her role in closing schools.
Deaths from hurricanes and storms are lower than ever.

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Republican-Led States Continue Leading Nation’s Economic Recovery READ MORE

Confidential Report on Handling of Jussie Smollett Investigation Released

John Durham Officially Investigating the Clinton Campaign

Following Record Homicides, D.C. Declares State of Emergency… Over COVID

Experts Say Manchin Killing Biden’s Build Back Better Likely Saved U.S. From Economic Disaster

Trump Sues New York AG Over Her Politically Motivated Investigation Into His Business Practices

CBP: Potential Saudi Terrorist Caught at U.S.-Mexico Border

Capitol Hill
Rep. Stephanie Murphy the Latest Dem to Announce They Won’t Seek Reelection
Manchin: White House Staff Responsible for Breakdown of Build Back Better Negotiations
Fewer Than 3 in 10 Voters Under Age 30 Approve of Biden’s Job Performance
Pelosi After Manchin Sinks Build Back Better: We’ll Be Back
Trump Blasts Biden’s Handling of COVID in Latest Interview
White House Backtracks on VP Harris’ Claim They Didn’t See COVID Variants Coming
Dem Pollsters: Prepare for Our Coming Doom
OSHA Delays Compliance Date for Employer Vax Mandate
Video Contradicts Sen. Blumenthal’s Claim He Didn’t Know He Spoke at Event Linked to Communist Party

Culture War
Salvation Army to Host Racial Justice Forum
Closing Arguments Underway in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
Hillary Clinton Writes Book Because She’s Still Not Over Losing to Trump
States Turn to National Guard as Vax Mandates and Burnout Thin Healthcare Workforce
Trump: China Must Pay Reparations for COVID
Why Democrats Are Losing Support From Hispanics
Another Day, Another Hate Crime Hoax
Two Arrested After Suspects Drive Car Into Crowd at Florida Christmas Parade
Michigan Mother Jailed for Encouraging 3-Year-Old Son’s “Gender Exploration”
CNN’s Acosta Promotes Collage of Fox News Hosts With Now-Burned Down Christmas Tree
Soros-Backed Activist Nandini Jammi Argued for Lesser Punishments for Young Sex Offenders

Economy
World Economic Forum Cancels Davos Meeting for Second Year in a Row
Pfizer Is Buying a Cardiovascular Biopharma Company for $6.7 Billion
Elon Musk: Is Elizabeth Warren Really Someone Anyone Wants to Be a Senator?
Virginia Tests In-Car Drunk Driving Prevention Tech
China Says Its State Owned Firms Netted $275 Billion in Profits From Jan-Nov
What Is the Government Doing With Its Secret Bitcoin Stockpile?
California’s Legal Marijuana Industry Is Going Up in Smoke
Fed Makes Case for Rate Hikes After End of Bond-Buying Taper
Cryptocurrencies Attracted More Venture Capital in 2021 Than All Prior Years Combined
Fauci Wants Masks on Planes Forever

Swamp Watch
“Winter of Death” – White House Under Fire for Doomsday COVID Messaging
OSHA COVID Vax Mandate Heads to SCOTUS
Lol: ABC Panelist Sighs When Host Announces Manchin Killed Build Back Better
Emails: Fauci Orchestrated Takedown of Anti-Lockdown Experts
Trump Blasts McConnell, Says GOP Needs New Leadership
Project Veritas-Affiliated Twitter Account Suspended After Exposing CNN Producer Involved in Pedophilia Scandal
Antifa Lunatics File Frivolous Lawsuit Against Andy Ngo
Exiting NIH Director Calls Wuhan Lab Leak Theory a “Distraction”
California Eyes Killing Residential Solar Industry
Ex-FDA Officials and Medical Experts Blast Feds for Politicizing COVID

National Security
Prison Rates Plummet to Lowest Levels Since 1992
Iran Threatens to “Light Israel on Fire”
Russia, China and America: Converging Ways of War
The “Ulcer” Strategy: How the US Military Could Wage War on China
Defense Bill Gives Congress More Oversight of U.S. Syria Policy
U.S. Troops Finding Zero Success Obtaining Religious Exemptions for COVID Vaccinations
An End of War Declaration in Korea Won’t End the Korean War
VA Looks to Move Resources to Help Growing Veteran Numbers in the South
Border Patrol Encountered 173,620 People Illegally Crossing Border in November

Around the World
U.S. Added to Israel’s “No-Fly” List Over Omicron Concerns
Leftist Scottish Govt Increases COVID Restrictions, Then Demands UK Bail Out Businesses
Coronavirus Infection Rate in Spain Rises to “Very High Risk” Level
Austrian Govt to Give Freedom From Lockdown to Unvaccinated on Christmas and New Year – With Limitations
Amid Omicron Worries, Italy Looks to New COVID-19 Measures
Last Remaining High-Ranking African in Vatican Curia Tenders Resignation to Pope Francis
Germany: NATO Will Not Allow Russia to Dictate Its Military Posture
UK Health Secretary Says Unvaccinated Must Think About “Damage They are Doing to Society”

Opinion
Robert Walker & Newt Gingrich: The Biden-Harris Space Failures
Debra J. Saunders: Kamala Harris Is a Liability
David Marcus: Manchin Kills Build Back Better and Gives Nation – And Republicans – A Big Win
Michael Goodwin: It’s Hard to Believe Biden Never Talked With Harris About 2024
Eli Steele: Working American Fights Pandemic, Supply Chain and Inflation to Keep Business Alive
NY Post Editorial Board: State Department Boasts Fewer Than 12 Americans Left in Afghanistan, but Countless Allies Remain
Rob Jenkins: Next Up: Trans-Humanism
Charles Gasparino: Mandates, COVID Spike Bringing Wall Street Back to Square One

Entertainment
John Cleese To Make Formal Complaint Regarding The “Dishonesty, Deception, And Tone” Of Recent Interview With BBC World News
Rapper Drakeo the Ruler Fatally Stabbed Backstage at LA Music Festival
Jeff Garlin Mocked “The Goldbergs” for Being Too Politically Correct During Stand-Up Set before Leaving the Sitcom
“South Park: Post COVID: The Return Of COVID” Takes Hilarious Shot At LeBron James
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Has the 3rd-Best Opening of All Time with $253M
Hollywood, Democrats & Media Flip Out After Joe Manchin Says “No” to “Build Back Better”
SNL: Tom Hanks, Tina Fey & Steve Martin Make Surprise Appearances to Welcome Paul Rudd

Sports
Bengals Leap Back Into First Place After Beating Broncos
Chiefs Wrap Up Week 15 As #1 Seed in the AFC
Trump on Beijing Olympic Games Boycott: “It Almost Makes Us Look Like, I Don’t Know, Sore Losers”
Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai Denies Making Sexual Assault Charges Against Chinese Vice Premier
Jets Safety Elijah Riley Carried Off On Stretcher In Scary Scene
Aaron Rodgers Ties Brett Favre’s Team Record with 442 Touchdowns
Urban Meyer Apologizes to Jacksonville: “It’s Heartbreaking.”
NBA Postpones Five Games Due to COVID-19 Leading Up to Christmas Schedule

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/omicron-covid/2021/12/20/id/1049416/

Newsmax TV

Ric Grenell: California Built Culture Leading to Crime Wave |

CDC Grappling With Data Gaps in COVID-19 Tracking

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have encountered [Full Story]

Newsfront

Poll: Biden Approval at New Low

President Joe Biden's approval rating sank to a record low in the latest Marist Poll amid a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases.... [Full Story]

Report: Chinese Spies Have Penetrated Taiwan's Military, Case Documents Reveal

For more than 20 years, Xie Xizhang presented himself as a Hong Kong [Full Story]

Ted Cruz Renews Call to Secure Border After 'Potential Terrorist' Apprehended

Sen. Ted Cruz again called on President Joe Biden to "secure our [Full Story]

Trump: I Received COVID Booster Shot

Former President Donald Trump said Sunday he had received a COVID-19 [Full Story]

=== Viva Barnes News ===

1. Anton is right: Taiwan isn't worth war. https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/20/why-its-clearly-not-in-americas-interest-to-go-to-war-over-taiwan/

2. The Trump achilles heel. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/20/trump_got_covid_booster_shot_youre_playing_into_their_hands_when_you_doubt_the_vaccine.html

3. More unmanageable censorship laws arise in Europe banning "what might cause psychological impact or harm to an adult of ordinary sensibility” which "is remarkably unclear, raising concerns that platforms might be inclined to over-censor content under the threat of heavy fines." https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-race-to-the-bottom-on-internet-ded

4. Pressure tactics backfire on Biden's wokesters. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/our-entire-democracy-line-squad-fires-manchin-killing-build-back-better

5. Too funny. Macron married a trans? https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/frances-first-lady-fights-back-against-rumors-she-was-born-male

*Bonus: The Cat that made Christmas. https://coleandmarmalade.com/2021/12/20/orlando-feral-cat-rescuer-gives-winter-garden-family-a-christmas-miracle/

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Here is a video I made "Cracklin' Rosie"

https://rumble.com/vci8kh-cracklin-rosie.html

"Cracklin' Rosie" is a 1970 song written and performed by Neil Diamond in 1970, from his album Tap Root Manuscript. This was Neil Diamond's first American #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1970,[1] and his third to sell a million copies. It become Diamond's breakthrough single on the UK Singles Chart in 1970, reaching #3 in December 1970. It also reached #2 on the Australian Singles Chart

=== From 2020 ===

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.htmlThere 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/headline/congress-vote-covid-aid/2020/12/20/id/1002368/?oRef=mixi

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Election 2020
Gaetz: I Will Challenge Electoral College Votes on Jan. 6
Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know
Dick Morris: Trump Winning the 'Argument' on Voter Fraud
Amid Ridicule, Georgia Gov. Kemp Attends WH Christmas Party
Pollster John Thomas to Newsmax TV: Loeffler, Perdue Climbing Ahead in Georgia
Franklin Graham: 'I Tend To Believe' Election Stolen, Rigged
Dick Morris on Newsmax TV: Biden an 'Impostor' President |

Trump Presidency
Trump: Martial Law Rumors 'Fake News, Bad Reporting'
Nunes: Need Probe Into Why FBI, DOJ Didn't Turn Over Certain Strzok Texts
Navarro: 'I've Seen the Deep State'
Gaetz Touts Himself as Future Trump AG
Trump: Martial Law Rumors 'Fake News, Bad Reporting'
Romney: Russia 'Acted With Impunity' in Huge Hack
Navarro Warns China 'Out To Get' America With Spy Operations
Officials Push Proposal to Separate NSA, Cyber Command

Newsfront
People Over 75, Essential Workers Next in Line for Vaccine
An expert committee put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out Sunday to hospitals.... [Full Story]
Related Stories
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Begins Rollout
COVID Vax Development Chief: UK Virus Variant Doesn't Appear To Be In US
Brett Giroir: Third COVID-19 Vaccine Could Come Next Month
UK Flights Banned as Britain Warns New Virus Strain 'Out of Control'
Biden's Surgeon Gen. Pick: 'No Reason' to Doubt Vax Works Against Virus Variant
Vaccines Don’t Mean We’ll See the Last of Covid, Experts Warn
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Nunes: Need Probe Into Why FBI, DOJ Didn't Turn Over Certain Strzok Texts
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/nunes-strzok-fbi-doj/2020/12/20/id/1002412/?oRef=mixi
Clearly FBI withheld the info because they knew it looked bad and thought they could get away with it
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Gaetz Says He Will Challenge Electoral College Votes on Jan. 6
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mattgaetz-bigtech-legalize-attorneygeneral/2020/12/20/id/1002398/?oRef=mixi
“So on January 6, I’m joining with the fighters in the Congress and we are going to object to electors from states that didn’t run clean elections.”
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Facts About Dominion, Smartmatic You Should Know
https://www.newsmax.com/us/smartmatic-dominion-voting-systems-software-election/2020/12/19/id/1002355/?oRef=mixi
Since election day, various guests, attorneys and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax TV and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the U.S.

Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies.
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Franklin Graham: 'I Tend To Believe' Election Stolen, Rigged
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/franklingraham-trump-biden-election/2020/12/19/id/1002331/?oRef=mixi
The Rev. Franklin Graham said Saturday that President Donald Trump has been right on many issues about how he has been treated during his presidency, and when he says the election was rigged or stolen, "I tend to believe him."

"The President has been maligned, falsely accused, and attacked on every front since before the election in 2016," Graham posted on his Facebook page. "When President Trump says that this election has been rigged or stolen, I tend to believe him. He has a track record of being right."

Graham commented that in 2016, when Trump told Americans the government was spying on him, "the media said that he was paranoid."

"The Obama administration and the Democrats said that this was an absolute lie and that Donald Trump was not fit to be president, only for us to find out later that the U.S. government did spy on Donald Trump, and what he had said was in fact true," said Graham.
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Trump: Martial Law Rumors 'Fake News, Bad Reporting'
https://www.newsmax.com/us/fake-news-martial-law-election-fraud-voter-fraud/2020/12/20/id/1002389/?oRef=mixi
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zerohedge parleyed.
-- Zero Hedge zerohedge Monday, December 21, 2020

=== FB Memes and memories ===

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. Bollards in Melbourne CBD did not prevent a 32 yo driver 'with a history of mental illness' sporting an IS style beard, from ploughing a car into pedestrians. No fatalities known at the moment, but a pre school child is in hospital with serious head injuries.

NSW Police are accused of a culture of corruption. They had been under ALP for a long time and the Libs have gone softly softly for cultural change since achieving government in 2010. If the Libs don't change the culture of police in NSW, ALP will benefit from the corruption. And innocent people will be hurt. And are being hurt. Meanwhile, Police are too meek in Victoria and criminals are doing as they please. Once Dan Andrews goes, and Matthew Guy replaces him, those very same police will be potent against the same criminals. Because it is Victorian ALP law which hamstrings the police.

Fake news had it that Trump had bombed a mosque and killed a large number of IS leaders. It is not true. Trump defeated IS without bombing a mosque. UK Deputy PM has resigned after claiming he had not downloaded porn on his office computers. It sounds harsh, but he had mislead parliament by suggesting he had not known of the issue at all, when he had discussed it with police at the time. In NSW, Tripodi once claimed he had spoken to a Canley Vale Principal about gun crime when he had not. Press protected Tripodi for lying in parliament over nothing.

=== from 2016 ===

The December IPA Review is out and Simon Breheny and Morgan Begg have an article “Bleak Future” on reasons to repeal article 18c of the anti racism act of 1975. The article is focused on the events surrounding the Bill Leak cartoon which was quickly denounced as being racist, but the charge later withdrawn. The actions of Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane on the issue should draw attention to his unsuitability for the role. Australia does not have free speech while the law is enacted, and such people as Tim act in partisan against free speech.

I finally have the confidence and security to speak on this issue. It is one issue of many I have needed to wait for God to answer me. My question is how do I treat Creationism as part of the Evolution in Science argument. My answer is that Creationism is junk science and not a fit biblical response to atheism in science. I am a fundamentalist evangelical Christian. I believe the Bible is the word of God. I have a strong understanding of how it came into being as a modern document. I get the first five books are later writings of oral accounts which don’t relate to rocket science. Which don’t relate to the physical universe’s creation. But it accurately depicts how God came to reveal himself to His chosen people. People in the Bible are real, but we no longer know what is allegorical. The arguments don’t require we know. If the resurrection of Jesus is real, then the entire Bible is valid. That does not mean there is Noah’s Ark or that the world was created in six non figurative days. Or that people once lived for hundreds of years or had children before other families were created. Evolution is merely observation of creation. Atheists make stronger claims than observation provides. Intelligent Design is similarly meaningless. Faith is not tested by evolution theory, but neither is it enhanced by Creationist theology. Believing in creationism is not the same as believing in God.

In the last hundred years, left wing atheist ideology has had powerful proponents seize arguments. They cast doubt on mainstays of creation and civilisation. Cultural assets such as nations, identity, marriage, justice, service, giving, faith, faithfulness, freedom, thoughtfulness, and gratitude have been diminished or supplanted by slavery to ideals, puritanical zeal, thoughtless adherence to populist ideology, supremacy of ego and identity over responsibility. It does not take a biblical scholar to demonstrate that the Bible has illustrated this struggle time and again.

=== from 2015 ===

One of my extreme left wing sisters went to walk from South Africa to the Middle East as a young woman on a gap year. Blond haired, blue eyed. Alone. To show she could. That was before 911. In 2010, two young women went for a walk in the Middle East. One was Jewish, the other was Christian who looked Jewish. They were set upon by Palestinian jihadis that the world recognises as Muslim. The Christian girl was hacked to pieces by machete. After the police arrested the killers, their defence was they thought the dead Christian girl was Jewish. And if she had been, would that make the attack right? Obama got John Kerry to demand Israel surrender such killers from jail for peace. Fatah and Hamas greeted the killers as conquering heroes. But they weren't. Only decent people would say they weren't really even Muslim, as they brought Islam into disrepute. Today a senior Palestinian commander, who had among other atrocities, killed a 4 yo girl by dashing her head against a rock, that 'hero' was killed by an Israeli rocket. It would be good to thank the Israeli woman who killed the perpetrator of crimes against humanity. God speed her to her next target. That target is probably a well off friend of Obama.

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

From 2014

Cabinet reshuffle

Scott Morrison will be promoted to Minister for Social Services and be made part of the expenditure review committee

Peter Dutton will be appointed as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. He will join the National Security Committee of Cabinet.

Sussan Ley will be promoted into Cabinet and become the Minister for Health and the Minister for Sport.

Josh Frydenberg will be appointed as Assistant Treasurer. After $2 billion in red tape reduction in just one year, he will be an important part of 2015 Budget preparations and will join the Expenditure Review Committee of Cabinet.

Christopher Pyne will become Minister for Education and Training and Senator Simon Birmingham will be promoted into the position of Assistant Minister for Education and Training.

Ian Macfarlane will assume the title of Minister for Industry and Science.

Kevin Andrews will become the Minister for Defence.

Steven Ciobo will be promoted to the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Bob Baldwin will become Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and provide a strong focus on the Green Army programme.

Christian Porter will be appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.

Kelly O’Dwyer will be appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer in recognition of her work as Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics.

Karen Andrews, a former engineer, will take on the role of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Science.

Mr Abbot says

I record my gratitude to Senator the Hon David Johnston who will stand down as Minister for Defence. Senator Johnston has done a fine job in restoring investment in the Australian Defence Force after six years of neglect and has effectively managed the deployment of Australian Defence Force personnel to Europe and Iraq.

Laurie Oakes dismissed the shuffle as being necessary but unlikely to change much the perception that the government can't pass legislation.

Other news

Mother charged with killing 8 children highlights issues, it is dangerous to be a child of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island peoples. It is dangerous to be around drug users. The ALP's removal of the baby bonus is impacting on the lives of struggling families.

The testimony of the baby sitter suggests the mother had a relationship difficulty, possibly with one of the five fathers, and began to isolate herself months ago. She apparently had been a good loving mother, starting at a young sixteen or seventeen. But possibly became addicted to ice. In public policy terms it highlights how hard it is with the ALP cutting the baby bonus for struggling families and cutting back on specialist services from Aboriginal Intervention, isolating women carers and promoting drugs through feel good policy like harm minimisation. But the mother will have her own reasons for killing her own children and a niece.

Medical Marijuana is to go on trial in NSW who haven't worked out yet where they will source it. NSW are keen to implement a safe zero tolerance policy which protects the sick. Victoria's enthusiastic ALP aren't bothering with a trial. They want drugs in the community now.

Interim union report discredits former PM Gillard's testimony. ABC viewers not advised as the partisan ABC won't admit it.

Report to authorities warned about Monis two days before his atrocity. The report was only about his Facebook page. Authorities treated the report seriously and it would not have changed the outcomes. It is worth noting that Islamic authorities are refusing to bury the body, but suggest putting it in sewage or at sea. The same Islamic authorities had accepted Monis when he wrote to soldier's widows.

Two NYC police are executed by an opportunist terrorist. The killer, Abdullah, had been wanted for murdering his own girlfriend. Media are reporting he has given 'reasons' for his act of terrorism, but they don't bear scrutiny. It is apparent he knew he was going to serve serious time and so he took police with him. No doubt ISIL will accept credit.

Extremist knifes police in France and is shot dead by police. No details are yet available as to the 'reason' for the attack, but probably ISIL will claim credit.

Reports of ISIL killing foreign supporters who don't fight well. The victims had tried to flee Raqqa, in Syria during fierce fighting. It has been verified at least one hundred were executed. Meanwhile Kurds report success in breaking a siege on a mountain where Yazidi civilians had been trapped.

From 2013

A senior warmest is jailed, but the wheels of justice are slow, and they haven't been jailed for long enough, or for all the correct reasons. Warmism has cost the world economies $trillions and that money has come from the investment pool supporting the poorest people in the world .. rich people have increased their ownership of resources. There is nothing wrong with rich people getting money, but it is criminal to take from the poorest. Because of the poor business practice supporting AGW alarmism, poor people have gone without medication, food, electricity, water and opportunity. But the defence of the alarmist is that they are a fantasist who just liked having personal time. So what if billions of poor people suffer in the mean time?

Evidence is that 2013 was the coolest in history .. in cultural terms .. being the 17th consecutive year of no warming. Obama admits he screwed up, but if you want him to fix what he did, then you are screwed. If you want to see what Obama could do to the best parts of the US, visit Tasmania. If you want to see what Obama is doing to the rest of the US, visit Detroit.

Historical perspective on this day

In 69, the Roman Senate declared Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors. 1124, Pope Honorius II was elected. 1140, Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg. 1237, the city of Ryazan was sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan. 1361, the Battle of Linuesa was fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of Jaénresulting in a Castilian victory. 1598, Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflicted a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile. 1620, Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims landed on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

In 1826, American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declared their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion. 1832, Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya. 1844, the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commenced business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. 1861, Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. 1872, Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth, England. 1879, world première of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1883, The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, were formed: .

In 1907, the Chilean Army committed a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile. 1910, An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, killed 344 miners. 1913, Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, was published in the New York World. 1919, American anarchist Emma Goldman was deported to Russia. 1923, United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816. 1936, first flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft. 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animatedfeature, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

In 1941, World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan was signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. 1946, an 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, killed over 1,300 people and destroyed over 38,000 homes. 1951, Libya became an independent country. 1962, Rondane National Park was established as Norway's first national park. 1967, Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, died in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. 1968, Apollo program: Apollo 8 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. 1969, the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 1973, the Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opened. 1979, Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia was signed in London by Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.

In 1988, a bomb exploded on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. 1992, a Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashed at Faro Airport, killing 56. 1994, Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupted gases and ash. 1995, the city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control. 1999, the Spanish Civil Guard intercepted a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain. 2004, Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers. 2012, the world was predicted to end on December 21, 2012 according to some calendars. 2012, The Walt Disney Companycompleted its acquisition of Lucasfilm and of the Star Wars franchise.

=== Bible Reading ===

Today's reading: Micah 1-3, Revelation 11 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Micah 1-3

¹ The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

² Hear, you peoples, all of you,
listen, earth and all who live in it,
that the Sovereign LORD may bear witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.

Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem

³ Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place;
he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.
⁴ The mountains melt beneath him
and the valleys split apart,
like wax before the fire,
like water rushing down a slope.
⁵ All this is because of Jacob’s transgression,
because of the sins of the people of Israel.
What is Jacob’s transgression?
Is it not Samaria?
What is Judah’s high place?
Is it not Jerusalem?

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 11

The Two Witnesses

¹ I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. ² But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. ³ And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” ⁴ They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” ⁵ If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. ⁶ They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

=== Morning and Evening ===

Morning

"Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love."
Jeremiah 31:3

Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells his Church his love thoughts. "He does not think it enough behind her back to tell it, but in her very presence he says, Thou art all fair, my love.' It is true, this is not his ordinary method; he is a wise lover, and knows when to keep back the intimation of love and when to let it out; but there are times when he will make no secret of it; times when he will put it beyond all dispute in the souls of his people" (R. Erskine's Sermons). The Holy Spirit is often pleased, in a most gracious manner, to witness with our spirits of the love of Jesus. He takes of the things of Christ and reveals them unto us. No voice is heard from the clouds, and no vision is seen in the night, but we have a testimony more sure than either of these. If an angel should fly from heaven and inform the saint personally of the Saviour's love to him, the evidence would not be one whit more satisfactory than that which is borne in the heart by the Holy Ghost. Ask those of the Lord's people who have lived the nearest to the gates of heaven, and they will tell you that they have had seasons when the love of Christ towards them has been a fact so clear and sure, that they could no more doubt it than they could question their own existence. Yes, beloved believer, you and I have had times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and then our faith has mounted to the topmost heights of assurance. We have had confidence to lean our heads upon the bosom of our Lord, and we have no more questioned our Master's affection to us than John did when in that blessed posture; nay, nor so much: for the dark question, "Lord, is it I that shall betray thee?" has been put far from us. He has kissed us with the kisses of his mouth, and killed our doubts by the closeness of his embrace. His love has been sweeter than wine to our souls.

Evening

"Call the labourers, and give them their hire."
Matthew 20:8

God is a good paymaster; he pays his servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of his payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you go to bed at night you feel happy in thinking, "I have this day discharged my conscience of that man's blood." There is a great comfort in doing something for Jesus. Oh, what a happiness to place jewels in his crown, and give him to see of the travail of his soul! There is also very great reward in watching the first buddings of conviction in a soul! To say of that girl in the class, "She is tender of heart, I do hope that there is the Lord's work within." To go home and pray over that boy, who said something in the afternoon which made you think he must know more of divine truth than you had feared! Oh, the joy of hope! But as for the joy of success! it is unspeakable. This joy, overwhelming as it is, is a hungry thing--you pine for more of it. To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. With every soul you bring to Christ, you get a new heaven upon earth. But who can conceive the bliss which awaits us above! Oh, how sweet is that sentence, "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" Do you know what the joy of Christ is over a saved sinner? This is the very joy which we are to possess in heaven. Yes, when he mounts the throne, you shall mount with him. When the heavens ring with "Well done, well done," you shall partake in the reward; you have toiled with him, you have suffered with him, you shall now reign with him; you have sown with him, you shall reap with him; your face was covered with sweat like his, and your soul was grieved for the sins of men as his soul was, now shall your face be bright with heaven's splendour as is his countenance, and now shall your soul be filled with beatific joys even as his soul is.

=== 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