Today is a big day for
In 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1660, with the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government began to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency ruled Sweden until 1672. 1668, Spain recognised Portugal as an independent nation. 1689, William and Mary were proclaimed co-rulers of England. 1692, Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland were killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange. 1739, Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeated the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. 1849, the delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna handed out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demanded that the Romanian nation be recognised. 1861, in Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was signed. 1867, work began on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. 1880, Thomas Edison observed the Edison effect. 1881, the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne was first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
In 1914, Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. 1920, the Negro National League was formed. 1931, New Delhi became the capital of India. 1934, the Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sank in the Arctic Ocean. 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. 1945, World War II: The siege of Budapest concluded with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. Also 1945, World War II: Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. 1951, Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commenced. 1954, Frank Selvybecame the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. 1955, Israel obtained four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls.
In 1960, with the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France became the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. Also 1960, black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. 1961, an allegedly 500,000-year-old rock was discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1967, American researchers discovered the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. 1971, Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. 1978, Hilton bombing: a bombexploded in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979, an intense windstorm struck western Washington and sank a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981, a series of sewer explosions destroyed more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. 1982, the Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala. 1983, a cinema fire in Turin, Italy, killed 64 people. 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1990, German reunification: An agreement was reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991, Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroyed the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
In 2000, the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. 2001, an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hit El Salvador, killing at least 400. 2004, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007, Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the mythic Stolen Generations. 2010, a bomb exploded in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011, for the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. 2012, the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. 2013, a plane crash killed five people and injured nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the[a] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written:
“‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’[b]
But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”
But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the other disciples said the same.
Gethsemane
Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”
When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.
Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”
Jesus Arrested
While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The one I kiss is the man; arrest him.” Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
Jesus replied, “Do what you came for, friend.”[c]
Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.
White House Says They’ve Seen New Signs Russia Could Invade Ukraine “At Any Time”
Senators: CIA Has Secret Program Collecting Data on Americans in Bulk
9 Phoenix Police Officers Wounded in Standoff, Suspect Dead
California Debates Vax Mandate for ALL Workers
Shoplifting Reaches Crisis Levels
GiveSendGo to Give Donations To Freedom Convoy In Spite Of Court Order
Capitol Hill
House Oversight Republicans Plan November Surprise For DC Mayor Bowser
Rasmussen: Biden’s Approval 14 Points Underwater
$7B in Frozen Afghan Funds Being Split Between 9/11 Victims and Relief
Biden Admin Vetting “About Four” SCOTUS Candidates
Biden Attacks Credibility of Army Report Blasting His Administration’s Pullout From Afghanistan
Biden Calls Lester Holt a “Wise Guy” for Bringing Up Past Claims Inflation Would Be Temporary
Blue States Follow the Political Science on Mask Mandates
Biden Warns Americans in Ukraine to “Leave Now”
California Legislature Denies Republican Effort to End State of Emergency
Matt Gaetz Predicts Jan 6 Committee Will Try to Disqualify Trump From Running Again
Culture War
Waukesha Massacre Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
Joe Rogan Fires Back at CNN: Nobody Listens To You
CNN Analyst Tries to Backtrack After Saying Freedom Convoy Truckers Should Have Tires Slashed
Texas Abortions Fell 60% First Month After Heartbeat Act Took Effect
California Republicans Wear Masks With Pictures of Maskless Gov. Newsom and Magic Johnson During Emergency Powers Hearing
Biden’s Struggles Draw Obama Back into the Spotlight
Hillary Clinton to Deliver Remarks Next Week at New York State Democrat Party Convention
Schoolchildren Erupt in Celebration After Being Told They Don’t Need to Wear Masks Anymore
West Virginia AG: Biden Admin “Trying to Destroy the Fabric” of America
Economy
Pfizer Postpones FDA Application for COVID Vax for Babies, Toddlers
Commerce Sec’s Husband Cashed in on Chinese Gov-Linked Tech Company
Economic Confidence Down Again in February
Traders Pricing Seven Fed Hikes This Year
Kellogg May Raise Prices Again in 2022 – Faces “Double-Digit Cost Inflation”
Shares in Affirm Crash 21% After Company Accidentally Tweets Out Financial Results Early
Mortgage Rates Surge to Highest Level in Over Two Years
Biden Rolls Out $5 Billion Funding Plan to States for Electric Vehicle Chargers
10-Year Treasury Yields Exceed 2% for First Time Since 2019
Billionaire Founder of Binance Crypto Exchange to Invest $200 Million in Forbes
Swamp Watch
Don Lemon Could Face Financial Ruin as Sexual Assault Case Goes to Trial
Possible Biden SCOTUS Pick Gave Lesser Sentence to George Floyd Rioter for Deadly Arson Attack
Biden Says He’s Not Making an “Ideological” Choice In Specifically Picking a Black Female Supreme Court Nominee
Gov. Whitmer Offers Heavy Equipment to Help Canada Move Trucks Off Bridge Blocked by Freedom Convoy
Ex-Gov. Cuomo to File Complaint Against AG James Alleging Misconduct in Harassment Investigation
ICE Deportations Fall 70% Under Biden
DC Police Investigation Finds Beating Unconscious Trump Supporter on Jan 6 “Reasonable”
Emails: Hunter Biden Sought “Forever” Deal With China Military-Tied Firm
National Security
Rand Paul Introduces Resolution to Block U.S. Weapons Sale to Egypt
Top Commander Slams White House, Jill Biden for Being a Distraction During Chaotic Kabul Withdrawal
Biden: I Would Not Send Troops to Rescue Americans Fleeing Ukraine
Pentagon: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Should Be Part of All Military Decisions
China Threatens U.S. Over $100 Million Taiwan Arms Sale
Privately Contracted Fighter Jet Crashes Near Arizona Air Force Base
Democrat Rep. Luria Says U.S. Should Declare It Will Protect Taiwan From China
UN: Size of ISIS-K Doubled Following Taliban Prisoner Releases
Around the World
More European Countries Roll Back COVID Restrictions
Ontario Premier Doug Ford Declares State of Emergency, Announces End to “Nearly All” Pandemic Restrictions
Biden Admin Urges Canada to Use Federal Powers to Shut Down Freedom Convoy
Trudeau Huddles With Opposition Party Leaders as Trucker Reinforcements Arrive in Ottawa
Former British Prime Minister Says Boris Johnson Broke the Law Over Parties
China Threatens Sanctions on Biden, U.S. Congress Over Breitbart Report on GOP Plan to Weaken Communists
The Number of Destitute Households in UK Will Increase by 1M Thanks to Tory Tax Hikes
Sources: Putin Kept Macron at Distance for Snubbing COVID Demands
Opinion
Jack Bucbky: How The Democrats Plan To Stop Donald Trump From Running In 2024
Laura Hollis: It’s Not Science That Has Changed: It’s the Political Calculus
John Hawkins: The Key to Fixing Race Relations
Kurt Schlichter: The GOP Must Adopt a “No Prisoners” Agenda for 2023
R. Emmett Tyrrell: Homage to Ukraine
Spencer Brown: Liberal Fact-Checkers Desperately Try to Snuff Out Crack Pipe Outrage
Michael Barone: Lamentations About Redistricting Ending Democracy Prove Hypocritical — and Wrong
Veronique de Rugy: To Lift All Boats, Help Americans Resume Fulfilling Work
Armstrong Williams: A Twisted Love Affair with China
Charles Lipson: Yesterday’s Sister Souljah Moment, Today’s Costly Silence
Entertainment
Seth MacFarlane Describes Oscars Decision to Not Mandate Vaccines “A Colossal Abdication of Responsible Management”
“Jurassic World: Dominion” Trailer Features Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern & Sam Neill
Dolly Parton Gives Free College Tuition to Dollywood Workers
Mark Wahlberg Torches Cancel Culture – “It’s Not My Place to Judge”
Hollywood Celebs Including Steven Spielberg & Mark Ruffalo Pouring Cash Into Senate Midterm Races
Mike Myers’ “Austin Powers” Villains Return to Sell Climate Fear & Electric Cars in GM Super Bowl Ad
Morgan Wallen’s Crowd Chants “Let’s Go, Brandon” at Madison Square Garden Show
Former Snoop Dogg Backup Dancer Sues Him for Alleged Sexual Assault & Sex Trafficking
Sports
USA Hockey Unleashes Fury on Sellouts, Crushes Chinese Team
Dolphins Coach Calls Discussions About His Race “Odd,” Says He Identifies as “A Human Being”
Russia Caught Doping at Olympics, Again
Report: DHS Warns of Potential U.S. Trucker Convoy During Super Bowl in Los Angeles
James Harden Traded for Ben Simmons in Nets-76ers Blockbuster Megadeal
Sources Say NFL Is Begging the Richest Black Man in the U.S. to Buy the Broncos
Next Season The NFL Will Start Playing Games in Germany
Richard Petty’s Grandson Will Make Truck Debut at Daytona With STP
Newsmax TV
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- Ukraine Escalation: US Deploys Nuclear-Ready Bombers to UK
- Russia Calls in US Military Attache over Submarine Incident
- All British Troops to be Pulled from Ukraine Amid 'Imminent' Russian Invasion
- Russia to Invade Ukraine Wednesday: German News Report
- Gold Spikes to Almost $1,900 on War Fears
- White House: Russian Invasion of Ukraine 'Imminent'
- Rep. Higgins: Ukraine Armed and Ready to Fight Russia |
- Rep. Stewart: VP Harris 'Destined to Fail' Leading US on Ukraine |
- Rep. Hern: Mayorkas 'Completely Denying Anything Is a Problem' |
- Rep. Cammack: Biden WH 'Most Out of Touch in My Lifetime' |
- Giuliani: NYC Mayor's Crime Fighting Measures Are 'Idiotic' |
- Nebraska Gov. Ricketts: Biden Administration 'Too Slow to Respond to' Inflation |
News of the day captioned like the Drudge Report of old, curating top-5 stories of note.
1. Even the establishment now confesses: mask mandates never worked. https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/did-mask-mandates-work-the-data-is-in-and-the-answer-is-no
2. War talk with Russia is nuts. We will explore that topic further, as Biden predicts war by week's end, with the Duran on this week's Sidebar. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-washington-has-lost-its-mind-over-ukraine-200513
3. Twitter responds to Alex Berenson's suit. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.389677/gov.uscourts.cand.389677.27.0.pdf
4. More whistleblowers come out and more dissidents speak out: vaccine safety was never properly tested. https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/former-senior-fda-official-manufacturers-fda-negligent-in-not-investigating-covid-19-vaccine-risks-to-heart-health/
5. "Is Washington ready for Peter Thiel’s radical brand of anti-establishment thinking?" Cause it's comin'. https://www.ft.com/content/d2259cd1-704d-4cd4-814d-994c4e754695?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9
*Bonus: All my Super Bowl picks. https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/1666846/super-bowl-picks
https://rumble.com/valirz-life-is-beautiful-my-child.html
A free poem, read by a Frenchman, with images from Capra's "A Wonderful Life" http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=48174
Some iCompositions links no longer work. iCompositions leaders took a view on Global Warming and called me a BNP supporter and began deleting my material. I keep the links because I can sometimes reconstruct material using 'Wayback machine' et al. For the record, I despise AGW hysteria and fascists
On Friday, at work in the adjacent suburb of Hallam, a lightning storm resulted in power going down across Hallam. Children at the tutorial centre at 8pm were forced to work from fading daylight across summer of Melbourne. Lights returned fifteen minutes later. Work was done and children got a new appreciation of Zeus. When I got back home, I found the internet was down from wifi, but I had phone data operative. I searched for internet failure and found nothing. I waited until next morning, and found a report of NBN failure the night before. I went to work in the morning. At work I was called by my estate agent who had tried to reset the modem in the share accommodation, without success. I told them of the NBN outage report, with the news that the anticipated recovery was on Monday at 6pm, the fourth day from the failure.
I went home and checked the internet again. Still down, I checked the outage reports, and there were none. Not even at my address. Clearly, the estate agent had not got the landlord to raise the issue with the ISP. There is no reason to believe the internet will be restored on even the fourth day if no one is looking at the issue.
What has caused this outage? Internet gets slow whenever there is a thunderstorm. I live in Dandenong, a suburb of Melbourne. There is no excuse for such poor service.
Editorial Thursday 11th February 2021
Having reported the outage to my landlord’s agent, I queried them as to why no fault was reported on the address a day later, two days later, three days later and four days later. The estate agent raised their voice to me “It is not my job to sit by a phone for a telecommunications company hours on end. I’ve alerted the landlord.”
“Yes, but the telecommunications company needs to know there is a fault or they cannot address it.”
“I take your point but I have told you I have alerted the landlord.”
“Have you advised them to report the fault?”
“They said they will fix it. If they haven’t fixed by the end of working day tomorrow I will see to it. Have a good day, sir”
It wasn’t working on day five, but another member of the share household found mail addressed to the landlord from the telecommunications company and opened it. It said that the company was sending a final warning before cancellation. The company was forced to close their cable service and link to NBN instead. The cancellation was to take place on the 15th February, ten days after they in fact cancelled it. Had the company been called when the ‘fault’ was detected, the problem could have been addressed immediately. The agent has still not apologised to me. Neither is the internet connected after seven days.
My oldest sister sent me a near fifty year old school photo of me. I told her that I had lost all my photos when FB booted me. I have no place for such memories, but I’m thankful she thought of me. I had been booted from FB after Jan 6th for not being a good citizen, as I endorsed Donald Trump for President. I am not uncivilised and never condone violence or racism, but FB booted me. My sister, a left wing loony, said I should go somewhere else where I’m accepted. She suggested I use the library to access the internet. She was taunting me. That is how they behave.
Don't give up on hope. I posted an item today and some Trolls bit. I include as it is illustrative of how trolls operate. But also I wanted it to highlight an issue of concern. The Victorian media are being unfair to Matthew Guy. Guy has raised many points which address all of Victoria's issues. But the press ignore it and say he is nowhere to be seen, that people don't know him. Last year Guy referred to investigation the case of ALP red shirts being paid in ways strictly forbidden by the electoral office. The imbalance that throws democracy is a threat to democracy. My point in raising it is that the trolls wasting time of keyboard warriors on FB are probably paid to do so. And it takes away my time I need to concentrate on valuable things. So one troll here struggles to argue the case of a spheroid Earth. But that had nothing to do with the post or substantive arguments. On substantive issues, the troll claimed to be insulted, to have read something, or posts irrelevant detail.
The money paying for the trolls includes slush funds of trades unions illegally obtained by stand over tactics against builders. Malcolm Turnbull has worked to prevent those trades unions from being stopped. That is why LNP support is dropping, or remaining on the floor. Meanwhile Turnbull fights to remain PM, by releasing state secrets? By hitting the Deputy PM? By hurting the Liberal party?
Via DS <Over the past months a spate of scientific papers published show sea level rise has not accelerated like many climate warming scientists warned earlier. The reality is that the rise is far slower than expected.
The latest findings glaringly contradict alarmist claims of accelerating sea level rise. For example the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote sea levels would “likely rise for many centuries at rates higher than that of the current century”, due to global warming.
In 2013 The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) sea-level rise in this century would likely be 70-120 centimeters by 2100″ (i.e. 7 – 12 mm annually) and that 90 experts in a survey “anticipated a median sea-level rise of 200-300 centimeters by the year 2300” (i.e. on average circa 7 to 10 mm every year).
Using these modelled estimates, the globe should now be seeing a rapid acceleration in sea level rise. Yet no evidence of this can be found so far. In fact the real measured data show the opposite is happening: a deceleration in sea level rise is taking place.>
In 2015, I wrote Turnbull should resign as he had nothing left to offer, except damaging Liberal governments. Today, Turnbull has proved me right. At the moment, Turnbull is being lauded by the partisan media for insulting Bill Shorten, the ALP leader. A real Liberal leader would not insult Shorten, but point to his failed policy record. Turnbull still has the support of Miranda Devine. But non partisan conservative commentators say that Abbott is the best alternative. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
I am reading a research article by Matthew C. MacWilliams , University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PhD student. His second sentence in abstract is "Who decides when the party elites don’t?"It may come as a surprise to the doctoral student, but in a democracy like the United States, the oldest in the modern world, the people decide. However, it is not a first past the post system, or even a simple majority win. In the United States, there are electoral colleges which are supposed to vote according to their constituency. Trump won handsomely. Had the campaign been different, Trump would have campaigned differently. But according to rules laid out well before the election began, Trump won bigly. Sadly, despite the hours of research, one doesn't know how many, as pub times vary, Matthew doesn't seem to have penetrated this mystery. And the many media supporters spruiking Matthew's research seem to have missed it too. Maybe pubs need to be open longer? Do the people really want that?
In Victoria, Melbourne ground to a halt for a few hours this morning thanks to Dan Andrews dealing with Uber and taxis. Andrews had prevaricated over Uber, before legislating for it. But Taxis have been short changed by the deal. It was a difficult situation Andrews handled badly. Taxis are also small businesses, and at least one person's second hand license traded for $800k before Andrews reduced the value to nothing. Uber is better than taxis, but taxis had been regulated heavily and so the industry deserves much better than nothing. Small business is a risk, but a government mandated wipe out is wrong. But the ALP have history with such. It wasn't long ago when small business relied on foreign students doing heavy lifting of service. Students got exploited, but got experience too, and if they persevered, got degrees. Some business still work that way, but illegally. Others went out backwards, after Rudd, Fair Work and small business hating regulation trashed them. Andrews has given away hundreds of millions of dollars for nothing before. But then ALP don't represent small business. Maybe the small business owners can migrate to Detroit through Canada? Trump can deal with them, I hear on good authority.
Standing for a brighter future is Israel. A modern democracy under siege by those who would complete the Nazi work of a final solution. Soon, her PM, Netanyahu, should speak to US Congress. One hopes he bells the cat of evil Israel faces. Because if Israel should fall, it is the rest of the world which will have to face the evil. Or succumb.
Consider the words of Iran (“The only solution to the Palestine problem is the destruction of the Zionist regime….We view the wondrous resistance as the only way towards a victorious and inspiring battle against the false, illegitimate Zionist regime.”) or Turkey (Erdogan called Israel a terrorist state) regarding Israel and then consider the mis statement of Mr Abbott in parliament. Mr Abbott immediately apologised and doubled back. He had referred to a holocaust on jobs. It was a simile. But the press have been strident in denouncing it. Yet the Greens have a history of employing the word, as did Keating, and nothing was heard from the press on them. And on top of the outrage, press carry on other campaigns meant to undermine the Australian PM which are similarly without weight.
Meanwhile activist students protest improvements to federal education policy. The activists make a great show of clashes with police they instigate. They use overblown rhetoric to a partisan press. The truth is the federal government want to impose small cuts now to education so as to not impose larger cuts later. So the students are marching for poor educational outcomes.
Gillian Triggs' partisan paper on people smuggling is an example of a product of a poor education. Clearly partisan, about all that can be said for the paper is the tacit acknowledgement that it was wrong to drown poor desperate people wanting to come to Australia.
In 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1660, with the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government began to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency ruled Sweden until 1672. 1668, Spain recognised Portugal as an independent nation. 1689, William and Mary were proclaimed co-rulers of England. 1692, Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland were killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange. 1739, Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeated the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. 1849, the delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna handed out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demanded that the Romanian nation be recognised. 1861, in Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was signed. 1867, work began on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. 1880, Thomas Edison observed the Edison effect. 1881, the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne was first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
In 1914, Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. 1920, the Negro National League was formed. 1931, New Delhi became the capital of India. 1934, the Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sank in the Arctic Ocean. 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. 1945, World War II: The siege of Budapest concluded with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. Also 1945, World War II: Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. 1951, Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commenced. 1954, Frank Selvybecame the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. 1955, Israel obtained four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls.
In 1960, with the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France became the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. Also 1960, black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. 1961, an allegedly 500,000-year-old rock was discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1967, American researchers discovered the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. 1971, Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. 1978, Hilton bombing: a bombexploded in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979, an intense windstorm struck western Washington and sank a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981, a series of sewer explosions destroyed more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. 1982, the Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala. 1983, a cinema fire in Turin, Italy, killed 64 people. 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1990, German reunification: An agreement was reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991, Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroyed the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
In 2000, the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. 2001, an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hit El Salvador, killing at least 400. 2004, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007, Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the mythic Stolen Generations. 2010, a bomb exploded in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011, for the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. 2012, the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. 2013, a plane crash killed five people and injured nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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Today's reading: Leviticus 13, Matthew 26:26-50 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: Leviticus 13
Regulations About Defiling Skin Diseases
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 2 "When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their skin that may be a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 26:26-50
27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you...."
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Sin has been hammering my heart
Unto a hardness, void of love,
Let supplying grace to cross his art
Drop from above.
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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