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Tim Blair – Saturday, June 08, 2013 (6:25pm)
The Great Cricket War of 2013/14 begins:
England and Australia will meet 26 times across all formats between tonight and February 2.
Australia currently averages 4.3 across the three formats in global rankings; England is slightly better at 3.3. A running total here of runs scored will determine the Great War’s outcome.
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NIGHT STALKER DEAD
Tim Blair – Saturday, June 08, 2013 (6:21pm)
Richard Ramirez, captured by East LA civilians in 1985 after killing more than a dozen people, has died at 53. The murderer’s first words to police after they rescued him from angry residents: “Thank God you came.” Patt Morrisonrecalls:
Other serial killers, their neighbors and friends often say, looked “so normal.” Not this one.
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STEVIE HAPPY
Tim Blair – Saturday, June 08, 2013 (2:01pm)
Joe Hildebrand reveals Labor’s inner strength.
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HIGH STEPPES
Tim Blair – Saturday, June 08, 2013 (1:38pm)
Ukrainian dancing:
(Via Bob G.)
(Via Bob G.)
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ADULT STOLEN
Tim Blair – Saturday, June 08, 2013 (1:09pm)
According to the ABC’s biography of NSW deputy Labor leader Linda Burney:
Linda grew up in Whitton, a small farming community near Leeton. One of the ‘Stolen Generation’ of Aboriginal children, she first met her father when she was 28 years old.
But according to Burney herself:
I’m not one of the stolen generation …
And again:
Burney is careful to make clear she was never a member of the stolen generation removed from her parents ...
Looks like a job, as the Professor argues, for the ABC’s new fact-checker.
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Observe again the price of the Left’s “compassion”. More boat people drown
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (7:22pm)
It hasn’t been confirmed, but I’m told up to 150 boat people are feared missing:
Shameful, shameful, shameful. This is the price of “compassionate” policies enacted without a thought to the consequences.
As for the Greens, which refuse even now to back tougher laws, they are beyond contempt.
Australian authorities were Saturday scrambling to locate an asylum-seeker boat feared to have sunk off the remote Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, officials said.This government has been warned for four years its decision to weaken our border laws was luring people to their deaths. More than 1000 people have died already. Now this.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search, said a navy vessel and two merchant ships along with three aircraft were searching the area about 65 nautical miles northwest of Christmas Island following a tip-off from customs and border protection officials on Friday morning.
Shameful, shameful, shameful. This is the price of “compassionate” policies enacted without a thought to the consequences.
As for the Greens, which refuse even now to back tougher laws, they are beyond contempt.
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Free speech is not for conservatives
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (12:47pm)
Former deputy Liberal leader Neil Brown writing in the latest Spectator on the Eddie “King Kong” McGuire controversy:
Andrew Bolt, it will be remembered, had alleged that some white Australians had identified as black to leverage their career and social advancement, an opinion you could argue about from either side of the issue. But to label a black man as suitable to be paraded around town as a gorilla is blatant, crude and well within the ambit of what, today, is regarded as racism. Bolt was pilloried, hauled into court, found guilty of violating the Racial Discrimination Act and branded for evermore as a racist; the Left will never forgive him. But in Maguire’s case, his claim that the remark was a ‘slip of the tongue’ has been widely accepted; the football supremo Andrew Demetriou said the league would not punish Maguire; the board of his own club gave Maguire a unanimous vote of confidence; others claimed poor Eddie did not have a racist bone in his body and it emerged that he would end up with no greater punishment than counselling.
But then, Bolt writes for the wicked Murdoch press, supports freedom and self-reliance, does not pander to the darlings of the Left and was therefore fair game for stepping outside the politically correct safety zone of approved public discourse. Maguire, in contrast, is part of the republican, progressive, social push for whom there are, yet again, special rules and exemptions, and he is in no danger of being either sued or charged. So that is the result of Melbourne’s brush with two claims of racism: Bolt is taken to court; Maguire goes to counselling. I just wish we could have the same standards for all — and expect people to live up to them, no matter who they are.
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Britons would pray for global warming
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (12:09pm)
It’s supposed to be global warming, but how often do warming alarmist seize on local weather to spread their fear? Two can play that game:
How could delegates to a UN global warming conference not even know of the pause in global warming?
More evidence that the global warming movement is a faith, not science.
(Via Catallaxy Files.)
Britain has endured the coldest spring for more than 50 years with the mean temperature at a measly 6C, the Met Office has confirmed.Oh, and remember this alarmist?
So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems.Yes, that was our Chief Climate Commissioner, Tim Flannery, in 2007. In fact, it’s rained plenty since. Take this month:
Melbourne has had the wettest start to winter in 150 years, with the first seven days of June seeing a record level of rainfall.UPDATE
How could delegates to a UN global warming conference not even know of the pause in global warming?
More evidence that the global warming movement is a faith, not science.
(Via Catallaxy Files.)
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Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (12:04pm)
On Channel 10 at 10am:
Why have Labor MPs let Julia Gillard ruin Labor? And Kevin Rudd’s game.
My guest: Labor’s Richard Marles, who lost his frontbench job after backing Kevin Rudd.
The panel: Nick Minchin and Gary Johns.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
Why have Labor MPs let Julia Gillard ruin Labor? And Kevin Rudd’s game.
My guest: Labor’s Richard Marles, who lost his frontbench job after backing Kevin Rudd.
The panel: Nick Minchin and Gary Johns.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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How unions profit from the asbestos scare
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (11:36am)
Another reason to be very suspicious about the NBN asbestos beatup:
Up until now, Telstra has avoided any of the blame for the NBN malaise. The work it has been contracted to do, including repairs to its older, asbestos-containing pits is running ahead of schedule. So far, some 30,000 pits have been remediated.
But then it emerged that contractors employed by Telstra working on the NBN had on more than one occasion mishandled deadly fibres – potentially putting workers and families at risk.
One intriguing subplot to the unfolding events this week concerns a power struggle between two factions of the CEPU – a turf war that also indirectly sheds light on the massive structural challenges facing the NBN.
While the communications division of the CEPU is responsible for all employees of Telstra and NBN Co, officials from the electrical division have played the most prominent role in attacking the telecoms giant and NBN Co in public over asbestos issues.
There have been suggestions both inside the union and externally that, while concerns about asbestos are very real, the electrical wing has seized on the issue as part of a membership drive and to assert control over the union.
The NBN has been a huge disappointment for unions, which saw the massive project as an opportunity to increase membership. That never transpired, mainly because much of the on the groundwork is subcontracted out to non-unionised ‘mum and dad’ operations, sometimes two and even three steps removed from NBN Co and Telstra.
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China and the rise of the mafia state
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (11:30am)
A farewell to China - and a warning to us - from the very fine Beijing correspondent John Garnaut:
In July I was in Xinjiang, covering an even bloodier round of race riots, when a contact rang to ask what had happened to a friend of mine, the Rio Tinto iron ore executive Stern Hu. I learnt he had been arrested and the iron ore wars had been elevated to a matter of Chinese national security. Australia was, again, the canary in China’s coalmine.When was the last time the words “Stern Hu” dropped from the lips of our obsequious Foreign Minister?
Each night my head reeled with the implications of information absorbed but not fully digested. Where was China going? Was I doing justice to the story and getting the balance right? Grey hairs appeared, the skin under my eyes grew darker and I found myself jolted wide awake, bathed in sweat, in the pre-dawn hours each morning. With every road trip and each deep interview, I discovered afresh how little I’d known before.
I had seriously underestimated the extent to which the Communist Party had inoculated itself against the values and institutions of the European Enlightenment that underpinned capitalism in the West. The webs of patronage, bribery and thuggery that had so shocked me in Beijing’s western hills extended deep into the political machine. The tools of coercion, co-option and censorship – so effective in revolution and keeping the party in power – were being deployed for the benefit of individuals within the elite.
Following the money in just one sector, coal, led to the mistress of a provincial governor, associates of a Politburo member, children of a premier and the son of a vice-president. I was drawn to the Yangtze River metropolis of Chongqing, where a maverick “princeling” politician, Bo Xilai, was waging a brutal war against the city’s mafia by making it his own. “China is on a path towards becoming a mafia state,” I wrote in a column of 2010 which, looking back, I’m a bit surprised I put in print.
When Chinese Australians with young families had their assets stripped and were put in jail, I did my best to make it harder for Canberra to pretend that these were mere “consular matters”. Yang Hengjun (Henry Yang), a former diplomat whose charisma and flair for words had earned him millions of fans on the Chinese-language internet, told me that if foreign governments could not fight to protect their own citizens, by pressuring Chinese officials to uphold their own laws, then what hope could Chinese citizens have?
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Bob Ellis: the authentic voice of Labor’s moral decline
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (10:19am)
Remember as you read this that Bob Ellis is a Labor speechwriter and friend of Foreign Minister Bob Carr. Such people pride themselves on their superior morality.
I don’t like people being sued for what they say (even though my wife wistfully contemplates what I could have earned by being touchy). That said, a writ from Tony Abbott would be no more than this slob deserves.
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Reader doc:
Are they all this mad and bad, even evil and tolerant of criminal behaviour? Unbelievable! Is this the famed ‘labor values’ we keep having preached at us? This insane rant you point out is the stuff of a prison culture, the antithesis of Julia’s inferred moral superiority. Are they all entirely so sick and demented? Unbelievable!(Thanks to reader Baden.)
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NBN: spending billions on waiting for Godot
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (10:06am)
The NBN was always too expensive and now it’s too late:
THE rollout of the $37.4 billion National Broadband Network in South Australia has been hit by “significant delays”, forcing the state’s Labor government to dramatically recast connection projections in its budget.(Thanks to reader Peter.)
South Australian budget papers released on Thursday by Premier—and Treasurer—Jay Weatherill revealed the government had forecast that 10 per cent of all premises “would be connected to fibre broadband access by the NBN” in 2012-13.
However, the budget papers state the estimated result for the current financial year is just 0.21 per cent. The forecast for 2013-14 has been drastically revised to 2.5 per cent. “The 2012-13 estimated result is due to significant delays in the deployment of the NBN in SA,” the papers say.
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What is Mark Scott’s excuse for the ABC’s bias now?
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (9:59am)
ABC managing director
Mark Scott used to argue the ABC was balanced because its main current
affairs shows - all hosted by Leftists - invited on token conservatives:
Mr Scott acknowledged that “there is now the expectation...that there is demonstrated plurality of opinion and perspective” within the ABC. Mark Scott praised the Insiders and Lateline programs for “ensuring a range of political perspectives on the issue of the day” (Insiders)...Reader Peter of Bellevue Hill:
AB, the Insiders’ couch this Sunday has gone all left again, with Coorey, Taylor and Kenny.
The three-week absence of conservatives that began after Hendo’s 28 April appearance was broken briefly over the last fortnight (Savva followed by Hendo), but now we’re back to three love medialistas joining Love Media Chairman of the Board, Barrie Cassidy.
As an aside, I’ve found myself wondering when the long established Cassidy + two other leftists versus a single conservative became acceptable. Of course, there’s not a lot you can do about the host week-to-week, but surely if you have two guest leftists versus one conservative one week, shouldn’t it be two conservatives versus one leftist the next? Or, if we have three leftists as is the case this week, shouldn’t I be able to tune into the public broadcaster next week to see Hendo, Savva and Piers on the couch? Yes, I know: that’ll be the day.
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Labor MPs throw themselves over a cliff because faction bosses said so
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (9:54am)
Peter van Onselen
discovers a remarkable tribute to the power of the faction heavies who
have propped up the Prime Minister leading Labor to destruction:
The union bosses propping up Gillard would rather have an unelectable leader they control than a popular one they don’t. They’d rather Labor be destroyed than recover without them.
Peter Hartcher:
Nevertheless, of the 50 or so lower house MPs for Labor who are strapped in and at serious risk of losing their jobs, remarkably about 35 of them would have voted for Gillard had there been a showdown earlier this year (according to a mash of numbers presented to me by both camps).UPDATE
That is how much hold powerbrokers have over grateful Labor MPs.
The union bosses propping up Gillard would rather have an unelectable leader they control than a popular one they don’t. They’d rather Labor be destroyed than recover without them.
Peter Hartcher:
One of the reasons Gillard is safe is that the big right-affiliated unions have fought staunchly to keep her in place. When Crean pressed Gillard to call a leadership spill and it seemed Rudd might challenge, two of the key union bosses lobbied their affiliated MPs to stick with Gillard.The good of the party comes second. The good of the bosses comes first.
She has delivered for us, and we have to be loyal to her, was the message from the Australian Workers’ Union’s Paul Howes and the Transport Workers Union’s Tony Sheldon. She continues to deliver for the unions, even if they’re giving up on her, and that’s why Rudd’s case is close to being terminal.
Would Gillard consider stepping aside for the good of the party?… Some bosses are immovable. Gillard is one of them.
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How Labor’s boat people stupidity opened the door to trouble
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (9:05am)
Greg Sheridan on how Labor’s boat people disaster is leaving with us with a dangerously unassimilated minority:
Because it succumbed to the Left’s besetting weakness - to prefer seeming to achieving. To judge by intentions rather than consequences. To seize on public policy as opportunities to advertise their feelings, rather than consider the objective facts.
It fell for the rhetoric of the permanently irresponsible, as demonstrated on this week by ABC presenter - of course! - Jonathan Green:
The rate of boat people arrivals in the past two months is astonishing - 100 a day - with no slowing this month. Reader Gab:
This boatpeople phenomenon is essentially a determined Muslim immigration....Paul Kelly on the danger:
The case of convicted Egyptian terrorist Maksoud Abdel Latif illustrates how the security system is overwhelmed by the present numbers, but it is not the key policy question.
Assume that 40,000 of those who have arrived so far are Muslims, mostly low skilled and with limited English. Assume that eventually they will all stay in Australia, which is the only rational assumption if policy doesn’t change radically. Then assume that, on a very conservative basis, each is responsible, eventually, for one family reunion immigrant, whether a spouse, fiance, parent or sibling. That is a cohort, so far, of 80,000 low-skilled Muslims with poor English predominantly from countries that have the most radical and extreme jihadist traditions in the world…
The Immigration Department’s figures, released last year, revealed that five years after arrival the rate of employment - not unemployment but employment - of Afghans was 9 per cent, while 94 per cent of Afghan households received Centrelink payments. From Iraq, 12 per cent were employed while 93 per cent of families received Centrelink payments. Overall, households that came under the humanitarian program had 85 per cent receiving Centrelink payments after five years…
We are allowing, indeed attracting, a huge cohort of unskilled Muslim immigrants who have not been chosen by Australian policy or process. But there are almost no unskilled jobs, which is why we stopped unskilled migration in the 1970s. If it follows even remotely the European pattern, this cohort will be characterised by high unemployment, intergenerational welfare dependency, high crime rates, social problems across a broad spectrum and a minority tendency to extremism.
ASIO chief David Irvine told the joint committee on intelligence and security that vetting boatpeople involved a “very, very considerable allocation” of ASIO resources but this was “not a misallocation” since in the past two years it found 58 people who should not be allowed into Australia because of the potential security risk.How did Labor unleash all this - while luring 1000 boat people to their deaths?
ASIO said plane arrivals were time-consuming but they have “a passport and at least they do not have four different dates of birth or three different names.”
Because it succumbed to the Left’s besetting weakness - to prefer seeming to achieving. To judge by intentions rather than consequences. To seize on public policy as opportunities to advertise their feelings, rather than consider the objective facts.
It fell for the rhetoric of the permanently irresponsible, as demonstrated on this week by ABC presenter - of course! - Jonathan Green:
We honour the now timeworn maxim: “we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. But surely we also sense the darker truth at the heart of this discussion: that there are votes in pandering to xenophobia and outright racist loathing and fear…UPDATE
And all of this dark heat around an issue that is essentially a fabrication created for purely political purpose. The trickle of boat-borne arrivals does not by any objective international measure constitute a crisis. What it does constitute is an opportunity to rake fear in a sometimes xenophobic and insular public.
The rate of boat people arrivals in the past two months is astonishing - 100 a day - with no slowing this month. Reader Gab:
The first seven days of June and there’s no let-up. 10 boats with 817 “asylum” seekers have arrived.
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Fairfax ideologues try to punch Tony Abbott
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (8:56am)
Another attempt from Fairfax to smear Tony Abbott for what he might have done as a student 35 years ago:
Next from Fairfax: What Tony Abbott once said to a kid in grade three.
Three things. First, Abbott strikes me from this anecdote to have been a determined young man, standing tall against Leftist thuggery and abuse. Good on him.
Second: is this trash really all the Left has got left?
Third: why this interest in what innocuous thing a 20-year-old Abbott did 35 years ago, when Fairfax ran dead on what highly suspect things Gillard, then a law partner in her thirties, did not 20 years ago?
Final Fairfax touch? The headline:
Mr Abbott, then a firebrand conservative student leader, had wrested the presidency from a left-dominated student council.Note: a conservative is a “firebrand”, but the radical Left is simply “Left”.
Now he was intent on ejecting his recalcitrant opponents and claiming his new domain.That’s one way of putting it. How about this: “Now radical Left students were refusing to accept the majority will and hand over the offices peacefully to the newly elected president”?
The locks had been changed three times by the rival groups during the weekend, and Mr Abbott had camped at the offices to protect his beachhead.Why the militaristic terms? Why not: “Abbott was forced to camp at the offices to stop militant radicals from seizing them by force”?
Entering the council’s complex from the rear, the then 25-year old (Peter) Woof stumbled into a melee.“Stumbled”? Really? The much older Woof, a Leftist, just happened to wander in innocently?
Speaking publicly for the first time about the encounter, he recalls taking up a ‘’protective’’ position across an inner doorway.What the hell does this even mean? He just “stumbles” in innocently, and immediately takes a “protective” position “across” a doorway? I suspect readers are being misled here.
Almost immediately, he says, an agitated Mr Abbott came up without warning and took a swing at him. ‘’I don’t think he meant to connect,’’ says Mr Woof. ... ‘’I had to duck’’.So Abbott didn’t mean to connect and didn’t connect, yet this is still described as taking “a swing at” Woof? This account is a joke.
Mr Woof remained sufficiently aggrieved days later to go to the nearby Glebe courthouse and lay a previously unreported civil claim for assault against Mr Abbott.“Aggrieved”? Or “politically motivated”?
‘’I didn’t think the bastard should get away with it,’’ says Mr Woof. ‘’He wasn’t a liked person … it wasn’t his politics, it was the way he implemented his politics.’’Yeah, right… A Leftist complaining to Leftist journalists about a conservative student politician - almost an oxymoron in their world, and certainly sinister.
After giving evidence to the magistrate and being asked to call witnesses, Mr Woof decided his cause was doomed in the face of this firepower, and withdrew. ‘’One way or another, I could see I would be outmanoeuvred.’’What is it about this punishment-by-process that reeks of the Left? And how can you be “outmanoeuvred” if truth is on your side?
He left Sydney the next year to join the anti-whaling organisation Sea Shepherd ...Gosh, what a surprise. And such a gentle organisation, knowing nothing of acts of violence itself.
Memories of his encounter with Mr Abbott have been stirred by the resurfacing of 35-year-old contemporaneous accounts of the fracas and events leading to it, which Fairfax Media has obtained.Good old Fairfax. Such dogged determination to uncover the facts about this, but not about something far more disturbing and recent involving Gillard.
One leaflet is headed ‘’President’s report: Left clings to power’’, apparently written and signed off by Mr Abbott.One story sounds to be to ring far more true than the other.
‘’Unfortunately one Peter Woof, claiming to have business with Honi [Honi Soit, the student paper] in fact proved interested only in opening the door to his confreres outside.
‘’I had to restrain him from doing so,’’ wrote Mr Abbott. ‘’I also had to restrain [then SRC electoral officer] David Patch from closing the front office in my face.’’…
Mr Woof says he had come to the SRC offices alone and was neither trying nor able to let others in when Mr Abbott took a swing at him.
Next from Fairfax: What Tony Abbott once said to a kid in grade three.
Three things. First, Abbott strikes me from this anecdote to have been a determined young man, standing tall against Leftist thuggery and abuse. Good on him.
Second: is this trash really all the Left has got left?
Third: why this interest in what innocuous thing a 20-year-old Abbott did 35 years ago, when Fairfax ran dead on what highly suspect things Gillard, then a law partner in her thirties, did not 20 years ago?
Final Fairfax touch? The headline:
Swings and arrows of Abbott’s outrageous uni life“Outrageous”? This is not reporting but smearing.
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No teleprompter, no president
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (8:42am)
Nothing really to say:
President Obama strolled out to the podium today in San Jose, CA and was immediately at a loss for words. Not only did the President not have teleprompter, his aides forgot his speech.
“My remarks are not sitting here,” the President declared awkwardly. “I’m uhhh….people….oh goodness….uhhhh...folks are sweating back there right now.”
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Kevin Rudd on tour to show he’s PM material
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (8:27am)
It is Kevin Rudd’s last push to be leader again:
More than 32 sitting Labor MPs and candidates who fear losing their seats have asked for Mr Rudd to campaign in their electorates.How many Labor MPs would want Gillard to campaign in their electorates?
However, Rudd-backers yesterday revealed the tour was about testing the waters for a final push to retake the leadership by proving that he alone had the popularity to win in September.
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Will Labor accept Tony Abbott’s mandate to axe the tax?
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (12:09am)
With Labor certain to be thrashed at the election, time to ask the kind of question normally reserved for after a defeat.
Would Labor accept Tony Abbott’s mandate and let him repeal the carbon tax?
Here’s why voters should be told before the election: if Labor insists on voting for their tax, the Liberals must win very big to get enough seats in the Senate to repeal it. Otherwise, the Liberals will call another double dissolution election within a few months to get rid of it.
Who wants a second election? The cost, the uncertainty, the months more of politicking.
So Labor must let voters know: does it have to be really smashed in September or can waverers still trust them with their vote?
How badly does Labor need to be beaten for the carbon tax to be scrapped?
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And, of course, a double dissolution could well hand the Coalition control of the Senate, robbing Labor the chance of teaming with the Greens to help union mates, union thugs and union extremists:
Would Labor accept Tony Abbott’s mandate and let him repeal the carbon tax?
Here’s why voters should be told before the election: if Labor insists on voting for their tax, the Liberals must win very big to get enough seats in the Senate to repeal it. Otherwise, the Liberals will call another double dissolution election within a few months to get rid of it.
Who wants a second election? The cost, the uncertainty, the months more of politicking.
So Labor must let voters know: does it have to be really smashed in September or can waverers still trust them with their vote?
How badly does Labor need to be beaten for the carbon tax to be scrapped?
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And, of course, a double dissolution could well hand the Coalition control of the Senate, robbing Labor the chance of teaming with the Greens to help union mates, union thugs and union extremists:
THE cornerstones of Tony Abbott’s workplace policy, including an assault on unions and increased criminal penalties for unlawful conduct, will be blocked after the Greens declared they would use their balance of power to oppose the changes.
Deputy leader Adam Bandt said the Greens, who will hold the balance of power in the Senate until at least July next year, would not support four key elements of the Coalition’s workplace policy, including changes that would allow workers to trade off conditions, such as penalty rates, more easily…
Newspoll chief executive Martin O’Shannessy said yesterday that based on current opinion poll results, it was not likely the Coalition would “get control of the Senate very easily” after July 1.
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Do the Janoskians really represent the Sony brand?
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (12:03am)
Would Sony really keep supporting ferals seemingly bred in some swamp?
Does this video really represent the Sony brand?
And where are the parents? What excuse do they have?
MUSIC giant Sony looks set to dump Melbourne boy band The Janoskians.Wonder if Sony puts money before reputation? And what would its decision say about its general approach to business?
Crisis talks erupted at the label after an online video, in which The Janoskians simulate sex acts before horrified onlookers, including a mother and baby, sparked outrage…
The Melbourne band was unrepentant about filming and posting the clip, gloating on their Twitter account: ‘’Don’t give a f--- if you hate it or like it.’’
Does this video really represent the Sony brand?
And where are the parents? What excuse do they have?
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Not quite the terrorist behind the pool fence
Andrew Bolt June 08 2013 (12:01am)
Labor won’t want to publicly argue the toss over “terrorist” - given the company this boat person kept - but nor should the Coalition call him a convicted murderer:
Reader DenO:
Sayed Abdellatif, an Egyptian asylum seeker who arrived in Australia in May 2012, has been labelled a “convicted jihadist terrorist” by the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, and in numerous media reports. Last Thursday Australian federal police deputy commissioner Peter Drennan told a Senate estimates committee that Abdellatif had been convicted of premeditated murder and possession of explosives…UPDATE
The furore over the case has plagued the prime minister over the past week in Canberra, with opposition politicians scathing about the fact that the immigration minister, Brendan O’Connor, was not told that Abdellatif had been housed in low-security detention up until August…
But ... Abdellatif’s Cairo lawyer, Muntassir al-Zayyat, said that his client was not accused or convicted of murder or bomb charges at the 1999 trial. ..
“Not at all. The accusations were only joining a secret organisation and being party to a criminal agreement to topple the regime [of Mubarak, who was later overthrown in the 2011 Egyptian uprising]. There was no killing mentioned at all."…
The court documents ... show that Abdellatif was charged in May 1999 for “joining a group that was established against the rules of law [and] held leadership in it”, and “participating in a criminal agreement”. Further documents appear to show that Abdellatif successfully overturned the charges of “criminal agreement” years later. Abdellatif is understood to be challenging his conviction for being a member of an extremist group…
Abdellatif was convicted as a member of “Jihad Tanzim” or Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian terror group. On Friday Fairfax media revealed Abdellatif had worked as an accountant for the Kuwait-based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage, an organisation that was blacklisted in 2002 by the US for its links to al-Qaida. Ian Rintoul, an advocate working for Abdellatif in Sydney told Fairfax that Abdellatif had been working for the group years before it was deemed a threat.
Reader DenO:
Well, if you can’t trust an Egyptian lawyer and a journalist (from the Guardian mind you) who can you trust?
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Big birthday wishes also go to Carole Ann Ford, who played the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan.
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Dreaming of a holiday away from the cold? One bite of our exotic Chocolate Cinamon Babka will transport your senses.
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After the election Julia Gillard walks into the unemployment office.
She bypasses the queue and marches straight up to the counter and says, "Hi! I want to apply for the dole, I hate being on this welfare government pension and I'd much rather have a job but I have looked everywhere and just can't find anything."
The clerk behind the Centrelink desk says, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who needs a chauffeur/bodyguard for his two twin 35 year old Lesbian daughters. You'll have to drive them around in his Mercedes to their Fabian Society meetings, but he'll supply all of your clothes. You'll have a three-bedroom apartment above the garage. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort his daughters on their frequent overseas holidays to Tahiti and the Bahamas. The starting salary is $250,000 a year".
Julia Gillard says, "No way misogynist, you've got be lying to me???"
The Centrelink officer says, "Yeah, well ranga, you started it"...
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin'
When Fear Knocks on the Door,Fight Back.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.(Ephesians 6:12, NIV)
Fear will come knocking at the door, telling you the worst case scenario. Fear tells you, “You’re going to lose your job. Your marriage is over.Your relationship is over. Your business is falling apart. Your child is done. It’s all downhill from here.” When those thoughts come, you don’t have to accept . Here’s the key: when fear knocks, let faith answer the door. Don’t give those thoughts of fear the time of day. Don’t let them intimidate you.Fight back. Answer back with faith. “Lord, You said the number of my days You would fulfill. God, You said Your plans for me are for good and not evil. God, You said what’s meant for my harm You would turn around and use to my advantage.”
If you’ll keep an attitude of faith and expectancy, it’s like keeping the door locked on an intruder. Fear has no right in the life of a believer. Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. Remember, the battle is in your mind. The enemy is after your thoughts. Don’t give him the time of day; and when fear knocks, let faith answer the door.God bless you.
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A sunset worth capturing! Taken a few months ago while teaching an Aperture Academy workshop.
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Israelis satirical humour takes a while to tune into.
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DOJ & FBI Raid News Media Offices After Releasing an Alarming Story on President Obama!
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SUPPORT ISRAEL Buy and use these products and companies. Stop Hatred and Terrorism.
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Kerry quietly approves $1.3 billion in arms to Egypt
US secretary of state waives congressional restrictions on aid meant to promote democratic reforms -The Times of Israel
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Stalagmites in a tropical island cave provide a 100,000-year climate record rivaling that of Greenland's pristine ice cores, scientists say, and by studying these stalagmites in Borneo, researchers at Georgia Tech now know how the tropics responded to the sudden climate shifts.http://oak.ctx.ly/r/60kg
Below, the Secret Chamber inside of Clearwater Connection cave in Gunung Mulu National Park in Borneo, where scientists study climate records in stalagmites.
- Jay Kanta Sad little denier. It has been explained to you many times. It is YOU that embraces your willful ignorance.
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Tonight, like every Friday night, people are gathering at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to welcome in Shabbat. They are here thanks to our brave soldiers, who liberated this ancient site 46 years ago today. Shabbat Shalom.
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Lawrence O’Donnell: How many firefighters were killed on 9/11 by Rudy Giuliani? ==>http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Pastor Rick Warren
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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C. H. Spurgeon's status.
If your persecution were to cease, it might be the worst thing that could happen to you.
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The evidence keeps mounting against global warming extremism.
Award-winning NASA climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer posted this graph which shows 73 climate computer models projecting a warmer Earth than real world observations from satellite and weather balloons show.
Share this important information with everyone who needs the facts on global warming (including delegates to the UN climate conference in Bonn):http://www.cfact.org/2013/
Details from Dr. Spencer at: http://
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We've just seen this picture on Twitter of students in a lock down following reports on US news outlets of a shooting at a Santa Monica college - 3 people alleged to have died and President Obama believed to be in the area. We're chasing details now.
"3 people alleged to have died" I don't see anyone prosecuting them .. ed
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Mo Gelber
When I see lovers' names carved into a tree I don't think it's cute, I just think it's strange how many people take knives on a date.
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Mare Island, CA. Shot along with my friend Miguel.— at Mare Island.
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Hezbollah-backed Syrian troops seize central villages: Assad’s forces face little resistance as they press on with an offensive on the country’s opposition heartland.
Read more at http://toi.sr/16PEJz9
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Tel Aviv celebrates gay pride festivalhttp://toi.sr/ZwMHI0
Photo by Debra Kamin/ The Times of Israel
Were you at Tel-Aviv 2013 Gay pride parade? Send your pictures to social@timesofisrael.com.
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Today you choose! Choose joy over sorrow; choose peace over chaos & stress; choose victory over defeat; choose to walk in the authority that your Heavenly Father has given to you. You are more than a conqueror; fearfully and wonderfully made; the head and not the tail. You are whole in every area of your life. Refuse to accept any negative report. Believe the report of The Lord and let his promises shine over your problems! Have a blessed Saturday Holly
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God desires for us to be at peace. Dismiss, destroy and cancel anything that disturbs your peace of mind. You were not supposed to live life in a miserable state of mind. I pray that God releases his joy, strength, divine favor, abundant blessings and sweet peace upon you even at his very hour. Amen.
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- 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
- 1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMSBounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony.
- 1959 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile (example pictured), equipped with US Post Office Department containers, in an attempt to deliver mail via rocket.
- 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships as they were unloading their supplies off Bluff Covein the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
- 2007 – A major storm in New South Wales, Australia, beached thebulk carrier ship MV Pasha Bulker.
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Events[edit]
- 68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
- 218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
- 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
- 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
- 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
- 1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
- 1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
- 1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the27th Amendment.
- 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
- 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- 1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- 1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report asCommunist Party members.
- 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
- 1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
- 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
- 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- 1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
- 1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
- 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFASir Tristram.
- 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
- 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
- 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
Births[edit]
- 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
- 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
- 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer (d. 1712)
- 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1717 – John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
- 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer (d. 1794)
- 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
- 1757 – Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
- 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
- 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
- 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
- 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
- 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
- 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
- 1854 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
- 1855 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (d.1924)
- 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, British evangelist (d. 1947)
- 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect and educator, designed the Fallingwater (d. 1959)
- 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- 1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, French-Greek athlete (d. 1958)
- 1885 – Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
- 1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
- 1897 – John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Lena Baker, American maid and murderer (d. 1945)
- 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician(d. 1996)
- 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
- 1910 – C.C. Beck, American comics artist (d. 1989)
- 1910 – John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971)
- 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer and composer (d. 1986)
- 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American artist (d. 1987)
- 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Byron White, American football player and politician (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist
- 1918 – George Edward Hughes, British philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
- 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
- 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
- 1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American priest and author
- 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author, (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
- 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1925 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
- 1929 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor
- 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
- 1930 – Ferenc Polikárp Zakar, Hungarian monk (d. 2012)
- 1931 – James Goldstone, American director (d. 1999)
- 1931 – Dana Wynter, German-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
- 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and author
- 1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
- 1936 – James Darren, American actor, singer, and director
- 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
- 1939 – Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
- 1940 – Arthur Elgort, American photographer
- 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
- 1940 – Jim Wickwire, American attorney and mountaineer
- 1941 – Robert Bradford, Irish politician (d. 1981)
- 1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American singer, musician, and producer (The Parliaments and P-Funk)
- 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
- 1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
- 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
- 1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Dog Night)
- 1942 – Andrew Weil, American health writer and teacher
- 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
- 1943 – William Calley, American war criminal
- 1943 – Willie Davenport, American athlete (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer
- 1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter (Renaissance and Nevada)
- 1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
- 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
- 1946 – Alan Scarfe, English-Canadian actor
- 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
- 1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
- 1949 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
- 1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
- 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
- 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter (David Grisman Quintet and Bluegrass Album Band)
- 1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
- 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1953 – Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
- 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
- 1954 – Marios Tokas, Greek-Cypriot composer (d. 2008)
- 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James)
- 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web
- 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor
- 1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
- 1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- 1957 – Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
- 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player
- 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director
- 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter and musician (Simply Red and Faces)
- 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- 1962 – John Gibbons, American baseball player
- 1962 – Andreas Keim, German footballer
- 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboardist and producer (Duran Duran, Arcadia, and The Devils)
- 1962 – Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1963 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer, actress, and producer
- 1963 – Frank Grillo, American actor
- 1963 – Karen Kingsbury, American Christian novelist
- 1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner
- 1965 – Tatanka, American wrestler
- 1965 – Kevin Farley, American actor
- 1965 – Rob Pilatus, German-American singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli, Rob & Fab, and Empire Bizarre) (d. 1998)
- 1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
- 1966 – Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer (Five Star)
- 1968 – Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – J.P. Manoux, American actor
- 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director
- 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
- 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
- 1970 – Seu Jorge, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit and convicted felon
- 1970 – Teresa Strasser, American writer and television host
- 1970 – Troy Vincent, American football player
- 1970 – Kelli Williams, American actress
- 1971 – Troy Duffy, American director, screenwriter, and musician
- 1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor
- 1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
- 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- 1973 – Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian comedian
- 1973 – Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
- 1973 – Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
- 1974 – Maxim Gaudette, Canadian actor from Quebec
- 1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
- 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
- 1976 – Trish Goff, American model
- 1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
- 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, producer, director, and fashion designer
- 1978 – Eun Ji Won, South Korean rapper, producer, and dancer (Sechs Kies)
- 1978 – Maria Menounos, American journalist and actress
- 1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
- 1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, The Derek Trucks Band, and Tedeschi Trucks Band)
- 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
- 1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Calling)
- 1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver
- 1981 – Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
- 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (Nickel Creek, The Decemberists, and Works Progress Administration)
- 1981 – Jess Weixler, American actress
- 1982 – Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 – Irina Lăzăreanu, Romanian-Canadian model
- 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- 1983 – Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)
- 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
- 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian singer
- 1983 – Coby Karl, American basketball player
- 1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1983 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor
- 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, French son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
- 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
- 1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
- 1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
- 1987 – Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
- 1987 – Danielle Foote, Australian singer
- 1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
- 1989 – Christina Broccolini, Canadian actress and producer
- 1989 – Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1989 – Mitchell Schwartz, American football player
- 1990 – Mickey Bushell, British paralympic athlete
- 1990 – Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
- 1994 – Nick Benson, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet (b. 570)
- 1042 – Harthacanute, Danish-English king (b. 1018)
- 1154 – William of York, English saint and archbishop
- 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
- 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
- 1384 – Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
- 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
- 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
- 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
- 1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
- 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
- 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
- 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
- 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German minister (b. 1663)
- 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
- 1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (b. 1716)
- 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
- 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American author and pamphleteer (b. 1737)
- 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
- 1845 – Andrew Jackson, American politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
- 1874 – Cochise, Native American chief (b. 1805)
- 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1885 – Ignace Bourget, French-Canadian priest and bishop (b. 1799)
- 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet (b. 1844)
- 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902)
- 1924 – George Leigh Mallory, English mountaineer (b. 1886)
- 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
- 1945 – Karl Hanke, German Nazi official (b. 1903)
- 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
- 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
- 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Elizabeth Enright, American children's author (b. 1909)
- 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
- 1972 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (b. 1901)
- 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
- 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
- 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Atef Bseiso, PLO head of intelligence (b. 1948)
- 1993 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
- 1997 – George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator (b. 1948)
- 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian military dictator and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
- 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
- 2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Charles Hyder, American Astrophysicist (b. 1930)
- 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Jaxon, American cartoonist (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Kenny Olsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1977)
- 2007 – Richard Rorty, American American philosopher (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian-Romani singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Crispian St. Peters, English singer and songwriter (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Andreas Voutsinas, Greek actor and director (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comoran terrorist (b. 1974)
- 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Frank Cady, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2012 – K. S. R. Das, Indian director (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Nikolai Petrovich Ivanov, Russian rower (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Ivan Lessa, Brazilian journalist (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, politician, and academic (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia)
- Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
- World Brain Tumor Day
- World Oceans Day (International)
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