One wonders at the artistic use Assange applies to the word 'Consent.' Only the incompetent penis knows. A real artist knows the value of words .. and threats. One wonders how many Fairfax journalists earn generous four figure salaries? Not many. In fact I don't think anyone outside the ALP typing pool does.
Clive Palmer shows himself to be a buffoon. Relating a Kennedy speech on Marxism. Only death prevented Kennedy from being recognised as a worse President than Carter. A death related to an accident from his secret service firing a dum-dum into Kennedy's fragile brain. But what can be said of Pliberseck being paid to visit her constituents with her family at a pleasure resort? In a word, 'rort.'
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Happy birthday and many happy returns to those born on this day, across the years, along with
- 1528 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
- 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
- 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
- 1889 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1981)
- 1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Squires,The Mynah Birds, Northern Lights, and The Ducks)
- 1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
- 1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor and singer (Dead Man's Bones)
- 1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
- 1994 – Anna Khnychenkova, Ukrainian figure skater
Matches
- 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanus Argyrus.
- 1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
- 1941 – World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
- 1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including GeneralHideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
- 1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
Despatches
- 607 – Pope Boniface III
- 1035 – Cnut the Great, Danish king (b. 985)
- 1094 – Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
- 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1612)
WITCH UNDITCHED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (1:55pm)
Fire up the cauldron, sisters! Labor MP and Leader of Opposition Business in the House Tony Burke has described new Speaker Bronwyn Bishop as a witch:
Why, this is exactly the sort of terrible misogyny that Julia warned us about. Yet the ABC’s Lucy Carter isn’t bothered. In fact, the ABC seems to endorse Burke’s shameful witch slur. Destroy them! Destroy them all!
Why, this is exactly the sort of terrible misogyny that Julia warned us about. Yet the ABC’s Lucy Carter isn’t bothered. In fact, the ABC seems to endorse Burke’s shameful witch slur. Destroy them! Destroy them all!
(Via CL)
ALENE COMPOSTA: SCIENCE INTIMIDATOR
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (3:58am)
There’s a war on science, people! Warmists Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael Mann, Linda Bauld, Gerard Hastings, and Elizabeth F. Loftus inform the Association for Psychological Science of the latest anti-science violations, including AIDS misinformation in Africa, the staggering tobacco toll, and a claimed 150,000 annual worldwide deaths due to climate change.
On some issues, they have a point. On others, not so much. But then the piece veers towards paranoia over one moment of scientist mockery:
Attempts of intimidation have involved the solicitation of potentially compromising information from the first author by a non-existent internet “sock puppet” whose unknown creators pretended to be victimized by climate deniers — and who then splattered the private correspondence on the internet (Lewandowsky, 2011).
Oh, my. Lewandowsky is still seething over his hilarious humiliation more than two years ago by the much-loved but long-vanished Alene Composta. The piece continues:
What are the consequences of such insertions by external parties into the scientific process?
Laughter, mostly. Further responses to Lewandowsky’s eternal outrage are found here. Incidentally, thin-skinned warmy Lewandowsky is a psychology professor. He may also be out of his mind.
(Via reader Tyrone, who writes that Alene “has scored one from the grave.")
CASH FOR COMMENT
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (3:42am)
Seeking some quick $$$, Sydney’s Charles Firth devises a celeb-assisted arts program:
So we thought, OK, how can we scam an arts grant by creating a ‘program’? A museum of words was the cheapest thing in the world.
Firth’s “museum of words” features single words nominated by various semi-prominent types. It’s just words on walls. For this, Sydney council donated $30,000. Creepily, Julian Assange’s chosen word is “consent”.
HE’LL SHOW ’EM HOW TO DO IT
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (3:08am)
Enraged by the timidity of his colleagues, Mike Carlton himself threatens to attend Scott Morrison’s next press conference.
Mike’s participation should be encouraged, and not just because it would be another sign of his descent into a Margo-like sump of sad sideshow shrieking. After all, it isn’t every day that an immigration minister is bailed up by someone who sounds like he’s wearing Lady Penelope’s underpants.
TWO, PERHAPS THREE, MINUTES OF DIVERSION
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (2:53am)
If you missed the great BlairWord challenge, here’s your chance again.
RADICAL POSERS
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (2:36am)
Nick Cohen examines the selectively brave:
If you listen to artists, writers, academics and journalists, you would think that thousands of them operate in a radical underground. They say the right things. They ‘speak truth to power’, ‘transgress boundaries’, and all the rest of it. But you will have noticed that they are careful only to challenge religions that won’t hurt them (Christianity) and governments that won’t arrest them (democracies).
Very true. Look at what happened when London art gallery Unit 24 planned an exhibition featuring works critical of Islam:
Unit 24, which boasts on its website that it is ‘fiercely independent’, pulled out with only days to go. In emails to the organisers, Unit 24 offered various justifications for wrecking a show that had taken months to arrange. ‘Enemies of the exhibition’ had made threats, and it was worried about a ‘potential terrorist attack’ ...There was no secret about its decision. But not one of the arts correspondents for the broadsheets or BBC covered the threat to an international exhibition featuring the work of dozens of artists.
Do read on. Via Mark Steyn, who writes: “So all these brave, transgressive truth-to-power types cannot even find the courage to admit they cannot find the courage.”
INNUMERATE. ALWAYS.
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (1:54am)
At the Sydney Morning Herald, $1,000,000 is a six-figure sum:
You know, this just might explain Fairfax’s financial problems.
You know, this just might explain Fairfax’s financial problems.
(Via Gavin A.)
DIFFERENCE DISCOUNT
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (1:48am)
One day a perfectly average Australian will face court on a violence charge. This person will be from a middle-class family in a plain suburb. He’ll be a middle-ranking employee at an ordinary business, earning the national average wage. Nothing from his background will be exceptional.
This bloke, whoever he is, can expect the longest sentence in Australian judicial history.
Stop Clive Palmer if you’ve heard this one before
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (4:41pm)
Clive Palmer makes a fool of himself:
CLIVE PALMER ON KARL MARX - November 11, 2013:
===HAS Clive Palmer stolen the words of famed US president John F. Kennedy in a bid to pad out his National Press Club address and woo the country’s journalists?Sure. And wrote his entire speech today from memory?
The billionaire - who has previously been caught out pinching Liberal Party policy platform and accused of closely copying an old Nationals logo - amused attendees in Canberra today with his anecdote about communist revolutionary Karl Marx… But his colourful yarn had much in common with a story told by Kennedy in 1961 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, where he addressed the American Newspaper Publishers Association…
A spokesman for Mr Palmer said the billionaire had told him he had read about Marx’s failed attempt to secure a pay rise “in a book”.
CLIVE PALMER ON KARL MARX - November 11, 2013:
“In 1851 - a long time ago - the New York Herald Tribune had retained its London correspondent, a little known journalist, named by his mother as Karl Marx.JFK ON KARL MARX - APRIL 27, 1961:
“Apparently he was without means, his family was sick and hungry, he didn’t have any money.
“He repeatedly appealed to his publisher Horace Greeley ... to boost his salary of $5 a story, a stipend his close friend Engels said was the lousiest petty bourgeoise heating that he’d ever seen.”
Mr Palmer said the Marx claims for a pay rise fell on deaf ears and he built his case to chuckles from the audience.
“He sought another means to support his family, to find the recognition that all journalists deserve. So he was forced to give up his job at the New York Herald Tribune so he could spend all his time working on an idea.
“An idea he thought he would leave to the world. An idea which became the foundation if Stalinism, Leninism, revolution, and the Cold War.”
You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune, under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.
We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and Managing Editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the “lousiest petty bourgeois cheating.”
But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath to the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the Cold War.
If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper.
Make up a museum. Apply to Clover Moore’s council for a grant. Nothing simpler
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (1:50pm)
Satirist Charles Firth wanted cash for the Sydney Writers’ Room, housed - no real surprise - in Sydney’s Trades Hall:
The Left, however, betrayed in their choice of words for the musem a serious lack of humor and an even more serious excess of special pleading and Big Government:
Add “sacked” to the Museum of words:
===‘‘So we thought, OK, how can we scam an arts grant by creating a program? A museum of words was the cheapest thing in the world.’’Only the Queen, says Firth, saw through the scam.
To his surprise, the City of Sydney granted the museum $20,000 and $10,000 for marketing.
The Left, however, betrayed in their choice of words for the musem a serious lack of humor and an even more serious excess of special pleading and Big Government:
Clover Moore, Lord Mayor – SustainabilityUPDATE
Dr Mehreen Faruqi, Greens MLC – Government
Ghassan Hage, academic – White
Judith Butler, feminist philosopher – Gender
Add “sacked” to the Museum of words:
Charles Firth has been “sacked” by the team working with him on the Sydney Museum of Words, after he described the satirical project as a scam.
Firth tweeted on Tuesday morning: “So the Sydney Museum of Words is currently holding an emergency meeting - without me - deciding whether to sack me. I don’t understand.” He wrote later: “Yep. They’ve sacked me. Ironically, I’m at a loss for words.”
Open for business
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (1:10pm)
First test passed:
Here the politics just got trickier. Clive Palmer has declared he’s against - which is rich from a guy whose fortune depends on selling stuff to China. But Palmer is pitching for Nationals voters, knowing the Nationals may well be rolled by the Liberals.
===FEDERAL Treasurer Joe Hockey has approved Canadian food giant Saputo’s $450 million takeover offer for Australian dairy processor Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.Next test? Sale of Grain Corp.
The treasurer has not placed any conditions on his approval and his green light for the deal comes after the Foreign Investment Review Board signed off on it, again with no conditions…
“Australia is open for business and we welcome foreign investment when it is not contrary to the national interest.”
Here the politics just got trickier. Clive Palmer has declared he’s against - which is rich from a guy whose fortune depends on selling stuff to China. But Palmer is pitching for Nationals voters, knowing the Nationals may well be rolled by the Liberals.
Henderson to Fairfax: cool it on the Abbott hate
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (12:50pm)
Gerard Henderson tells Fairfax readers - or, rather, Fairfax writers - a home truth:
===Much of the political and media comment over the weekend suggested that quite a few Australians want Tony Abbott’s ‘’stop the boats’’ policy to fail. Not because they support people smugglers or because they are sympathetic to the Indonesian government. But because they have yet to accept the reality that Tony Abbott is prime minister and that his election-winning policies might work in government.
This was evident on Q&A last week. The panel was politically unbalanced, as usual… It so happened that the only unanimity on the panel occurred when presenter Tony Jones took an approved question about the British Conservative Party and Tony Abbott. Hitchens opposed Abbott from the right, describing him as part of ‘’modern fake conservatism’’. Then it was over to Greer who ... went on to describe the Prime Minister as ‘’extremely stupid’’.
Savage then declared that Australia is having a ‘’George W. Bush moment’’ and looked forward to Abbott’s defeat. Then Rosin ran the Abbott-is-a-sexist-misogynist line. And that was that…
Yet the Q&A program has its uses. If only in demonstrating how out of touch ABC producers and audiences are with the majority of Australians who have just elected the Coalition to one of the biggest victories in Australian political history…
Currently Labor, with the support of quite a few journalists, maintains that Abbott’s ‘’stop the boats’’ policy has failed. Yet, according to available statistics, there has been a reduction in unauthorised boat arrivals of 75 per cent since the Coalition was elected and Indonesia has accepted two out of four boats turned back by Australia.
Which suggests that the Abbott-has-failed line is premature at best and probably based on wish-fulfilment.
Clive Palmer is a man of excuses. UPDATE: Palmer “a bully”
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (11:12am)
Clive Palmer is a man of excuses. Sarrah Le Marquand:
Clive Palmer’s former security manager and bodyguard warns against the man whose party now shares the balance of power:
Palmer in his National Press Club speech today repeatedly attacks Australian reporter Hedley Thomas.
In questions, he is surprisingly mild towards Tony Abbott, dismissing any hard feelings.
Asked by a reporter from The Australian about his workforce in his nickel business going from 650 workers to 150, he at first says he can’t comment, then denies it, then suggests he’s not really in charge, and then says again he can’t comment.
UPDATE
Questioned by a reporter how he as a legislator can justify refusing to pay his tax liabilities - in this case a $6 million carbon tax bill - Palmer says he doesn’t have to justify it. He claims he can’t comment because it is “sub judice”.
Palmer then attacks Senator Nick Xenophon twice as “Nick Xenophobia”. The Palmer supporters in the audience embarrass themselves by snickering both times. Palmer improbably claims Ricky Muir of the Motoring Enthusiasts Party forced himself on the Palmer United Party to get a joint-ticket deal, which Palmer still won’t release.
UPDATE
Worryingly, Wayne Dropulich, the putative Australian Sports Party Senator from Western Australia, is in the audience. Palmer claims he has no plans (yet?) to form an alliance with him, too.
===On Sunday he committed to appear on Channel 10’s Meet the Press, an interview that failed to happen, leaving host Kathryn Robinson, Ten’s national affairs editor Paul Bongiorno and myself in a TV studio staring at a monitor to his home state of Queensland with only a patient cameraman looking back…Journalists confirm this with Palmer:
It was only when we went to a commercial break that we learned the member for Fairfax was still MIA, with an extended interview with [Christine] Milne running instead.
Only after that - 30 minutes into the program -did the producers receive word that Palmer had slept in, explaining later he had come down with a cold.
When contacted about the reason behind his no-show, an ill-sounding Mr Palmer advised he had a cold.Yet the very next day he turned up in Canberra, sounding and looking fine:
He said he couldn’t guarantee he would be in Canberra for his first day of Federal Parliament on Tuesday, saying he would see a doctor in the meantime.
HE may be a self- proclaimed billionaire with access to his own corporate jet but Clive Palmer took a regular commercial flight from Brisbane to Canberra as he prepares for his first session in parliament.UPDATE
Clive Palmer’s former security manager and bodyguard warns against the man whose party now shares the balance of power:
Mike Hennessy, 58, said he was speaking out to expose “the real Mr Palmer”, describing him as a tyrannical bully who has exploded with foul abuse at staff, falsely accused loyal managers at his resort on the Sunshine Coast of being “lazy, thieving c . . ts”, dispatched others by saying “you’re sacked - now get off my resort”, and privately mocked voters.But this must be said:
Mr Palmer, who won the Queensland Sunshine Coast seat of Fairfax and whose Palmer United Party will have at least two senators in parliament after July 1, has rejected the claims as untrue.
But Mr Hennessy, who worked closely with Mr Palmer on security..., said he believed that people were scared to talk because they were intimidated by his reputation for litigation, including costly defamation actions…
Mr Palmer has in recent months launched Supreme Court defamation proceedings against The Australian newspaper and the federal Liberal Party’s newly elected member for Fisher, Mal Brough. He previously has sued the then Queensland premier Anna Bligh and then state treasurer Andrew Fraser…
Mr Hennessy, who lost his job at the Palmer Coolum Resort and dinosaur park a fortnight ago, told The Australian in an exclusive interview: “… He is an egotistical bully. The people of Australia are going to see it. It’s going to come out when he gets into parliament. Because when he gets told he can’t have something, he doesn’t understand the word ‘no’, it’s as simple as that...”
Mr Hennessy said Mr Palmer had privately boasted that his newly found political power meant he would never pay more than $6m that he has owed the commonwealth since it formally billed him for the carbon tax and a fine, arising from his loss-making nickel refinery in Townsville…
The Australian yesterday asked Mr Palmer about the claims, including that he was a “tyrannical bully” who yelled foul abuse at staff, making them fearful and severely stressed. Mr Palmer replied: “Who of you is without sin cast the first stone.”
Mr Hennessy signed a statutory declaration yesterday at The Australian’s offices in Brisbane to swear to the truthfulness of his claims. He said he needed another job and did not expect to receive prompt payment of financial entitlements of several thousand dollars he claims he is owed by Mr Palmer, but he planned to take action to recover the money.UPDATE
Mr Palmer added that Mr Hennessy had resigned. Mr Hennessy, however, insisted he was unfairly dismissed by Mr Palmer’s son, Michael. Mr Palmer said: “These allegations are just not true. (I have) never said anything like that. He resigned.”
Palmer in his National Press Club speech today repeatedly attacks Australian reporter Hedley Thomas.
In questions, he is surprisingly mild towards Tony Abbott, dismissing any hard feelings.
Asked by a reporter from The Australian about his workforce in his nickel business going from 650 workers to 150, he at first says he can’t comment, then denies it, then suggests he’s not really in charge, and then says again he can’t comment.
UPDATE
Questioned by a reporter how he as a legislator can justify refusing to pay his tax liabilities - in this case a $6 million carbon tax bill - Palmer says he doesn’t have to justify it. He claims he can’t comment because it is “sub judice”.
Palmer then attacks Senator Nick Xenophon twice as “Nick Xenophobia”. The Palmer supporters in the audience embarrass themselves by snickering both times. Palmer improbably claims Ricky Muir of the Motoring Enthusiasts Party forced himself on the Palmer United Party to get a joint-ticket deal, which Palmer still won’t release.
UPDATE
Worryingly, Wayne Dropulich, the putative Australian Sports Party Senator from Western Australia, is in the audience. Palmer claims he has no plans (yet?) to form an alliance with him, too.
Gosh. How did Fairfax miss this one?
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (9:15am)
One of the dodgy expense claims that Fairfax somehow overlooked in trying to nail Coalition MPs as serial rorters:
===DEPUTY Labor leader Tanya Plibersek charged taxpayers to take her family to holiday destination Lord Howe Island, where she met constituents.Of course, there’s an excuse for the Plibersek family going en famille:
The Sydney MP’s electorate covers the territory 700km off the coast of NSW and she spent four days on the island, population 350, in April 2011.
Entitlements documents show three members of Ms Plibersek’s family travelled with her, at a cost of almost $3500 in flights.
The family flew to the island on April 24 and returned to Sydney on April 28.
“Tanya visited because she represents the residents of Lord Howe Island in the parliament, as it is part of the federal electorate of Sydney,’’ her spokesman said.
Abbott to the rescue
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (9:12am)
I thought Tony Abbott was supposed to be bad at diplomacy:
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
===A SECRET meeting in the Middle East between Tony Abbott and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, preceded this week’s stunning legal reversal of the bribery case against Australian businessmen Matthew Joyce and Marcus Lee.Fairfax missed the Abbott angle in its own report on this “surprise” verdict.
The Australian can reveal that the Prime Minister met Sheik Mohammed, the Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, in Abu Dhabi on October 30 on the way back from Mr Abbott’s visit to Australian troops in Afghanistan. The meeting was not announced.
During their discussions Mr Abbott urged the UAE government to reconsider the high-profile case against the two Australians. Sheik Mohammed is understood to have told the Prime Minister he was aware that the case was of significant concern to Australia and that the UAE justice system was aware of the circumstances surrounding it.
Mr Abbott’s personal intervention follows comments he made as opposition leader in May when he said the sentence against Mr Joyce was harsh and that the then Labor government should be doing everything it could to help the two men…
A spokesman for the Prime Minister declined to comment.
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Tony Abbott’s real challenge: surviving Labor’s waste
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (8:41am)
In the end, the next
election will come down to one thing above all. Will the Abbott
Government have saved us from a fall in our living standards, caused in
part by six years of Labor waste?
The head of Tony Abbott’s Business Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, gives a heartfelt speech putting the cards on the table:
===The head of Tony Abbott’s Business Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, gives a heartfelt speech putting the cards on the table:
... he spoke of losing his ‘’political virginity’’ by throwing his lot in with the Coalition after years having ‘’voted for and worked for both sides’’…
‘’However having watched five long years of reckless spending, economic waste, class warfare particularly aimed at business and the mindless destruction of Australia’s international competitiveness, I thought I had a civic duty to stand up.’’
‘’I have seen and heard nothing since the election to question that judgment,’’ he said. ‘’Indeed I am shocked that so much economic damage can be inflicted in just six years.’’
‘’Labor’s commitments to its ‘better schools’ plan and the national disability insurance scheme were made in the clear knowledge of a budget already under serious and continuing pressure.’’
Mr Newman said growth in real gross national income was about to collapse. ‘’Having become accustomed to better than 2 per cent annual growth for 22 consecutive years, we are now facing the prospect of growth with a zero in front of it. That will feel like hitting a brick wall,’’ he said.
Australia could no longer afford corporate welfare in the form of support to the car industry and ailing food processors. ‘’Giving taxpayer subsidies to ailing companies has proved to be like giving aspirin to the terminally ill...”
Industrial relations should be reformed, even if the idea brings forth ‘’screams of outrage and the spectre of WorkChoices’’.
‘’We cannot hide from the fact that Australian wage rates are very high by international standards, and our system is dogged by rigidities,’’ he said.
Now the price of Indonesia’s refusal to take responsibility
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (8:31am)
Indonesia’s refusal to
take back boat people rescued from an Indonesian boat in Indonesian
search and rescue territory inevitably encourages more:
Indonesia now starts to discuss its price:
===Prime Minister Tony Abbott has fired a verbal warning to Jakarta that Australia is not happy over a standoff in which a boatload of asylum seekers landed on Australian territory, despite being rescued in the Indonesian search-and-rescue zone.Indonesia’s refusal to accept its responsibility is a hostile and damaging act.
It came as two more boats were reported to have been intercepted by Australian border protection authorities, although the government has not confirmed that…
“These people were in a search-and-rescue situation in the Indonesian search-and-rescue zone,’’ Mr Abbott told radio station 2GB.
‘’Now, the normal international law is that if you are rescued in a country’s search-and-rescue zone that country has an obligation to take you...”
Indonesia now starts to discuss its price:
Dewi Fortuna Anwar, an advisor to the Indonesian vice-president ... says there are discussions between the two countries for a new agreement, in which asylum seekers intercepted by Australian authorities could be sent to Indonesia in exchange for refugees.The Abbott Government, however, takes a less damning attitude, making it known that Indonesia is in fact cooperating well:
“The cost of the burdens would be borne by Australia and then at the same time Australia would take the same number of people that are already sitting in detention centres in Indonesia,” she said.
MORE than 1100 asylum-seekers have been stopped from coming to Australia by boat as the Australian Federal Police and its Indonesian counterpart greatly boost their offshore disruption activities.
As the government continued to fend off criticism it had botched the relationship with Jakarta following a high-seas stand-off over the weekend, The Australian has been told tensions with Jakarta have not had any impact on co-operative law-enforcement measures between the countries.
Sun warns of cooling
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (8:25am)
The Sun is behaving strangely:
===Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync.(Thanks to reader handjive.)
Researchers are puzzled. They can’t tell if the lull is temporary or the onset of a decades-long decline, which might ease global warming a bit by altering the sun’s brightness or the wavelengths of its light.
“There is no scientist alive who has seen a solar cycle as weak as this one,” said Andrés Munoz-Jaramillo, who studies the solar-magnetic cycle at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
And a message from Australia’s first suicide bomber
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (8:09am)
Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from a culture that produces such Australians - or immigrants?
New video has emerged of the man claimed to be Australia’s first suicide bomber.More is right:
The video appears to be published by the Al Qaeda-linked group, Jabhat al Nusrah, which has previously said the Australian blew himself up in an attack on an army checkpoint in north-eastern Syria in September…
The video shows the jihadist, identified in a previous internet posting as Abu Asma al Australi, standing on the tray of the truck used in the suicide bombing.
However, because the face in the video is obscured it is impossible to be sure who it shows, but the bomber is suspected of being a Brisbane man named Ahmed....
He bids farewell to fellow jihadists then urges more foreigners to come and join the fight.
“This is a message to all my brothers in the world: Today Jihad is a duty of every Muslim, to carry a weapon and come to the land of Jihad… today Jihad is duty imposed on every Muslim, so rise up Muslims...”
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says over the past 12 months there has been a substantial increase in the number of Australians going to join hardline groups, including Jabhat al Nusra… In just a year the number has risen from a few to 20 or 30, possibly more.
In its annual report tabled to Parliament, ASIO said there had been an increase in the number of Australians travelling overseas to take part in terrorism training or to get involved in foreign disputes such as Syria.
It has been a matter of public record for some time now that the security agencies have been monitoring as many as 200 Australians in that category.
The money was on Rudd to save Labor from financial ruin
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (7:42am)
At least Labor this time wasted its own money, and not just ours:
===On the frigid morning of June 21 this year, more than two dozen members of the ALP national executive… received unexpected legal advice that stunned many…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
(T)he advice warned the party about its financial situation and highlighted the personal responsibility of each individual member of the national executive should the party at any point trade while insolvent… In other words – as quickly became clear in the discussion that followed – if the election campaign blew out the debt, their own homes were on the line.
The ALP, after a six-year uphill battle to recover from the big multimillion-dollar debts run up in the no-holds-barred 2007 election that brought Kevin Rudd to power, had arrived at a moment of truth. Six years of clawing back from that profligacy had seen the party lose most of its assets. There was little to borrow against.
Now, with a federal election brewing ... Rudd backers implied that a low primary vote could mean financial catastrophe because of the lower public funding compensation. Anything to boost the primary vote – even a short-term boost such as a Rudd honeymoon – could save the party from being financially decimated. For every 1 per cent of the primary vote received, the party would receive compensation of roughly $600,000. Thus the difference between a primary vote of 32 per cent and a primary vote of 34 per cent was more than a million dollars…
Just five days later, on June 26, Gillard would be rolled by Rudd.
Greens feed on another disaster
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (7:00am)
Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt last month claimed the NSW fires were linked to global warming,
despite not being earlier, fiercer, deadlier or bigger than many fires
before. Indeed, the fires burned well under 100,000 hectares.
Australia’s worst=known fires, in 1851, burned 3,500,000 hectares.
Now Greens leader Christine Milne exploits the Philippines typhoon, making the same link on ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning and demanding that we do more to stop global warming.
This is despicable. The IPCC’s latest report last month concluded such a link between warming and cyclones (and typhoons) was hard to find:
That caused the terrible tragedy.
UPDATE
And sure enough, in flaps the Sydney Morning Herald for a feed:
Another Green flaps over the dead:
===Now Greens leader Christine Milne exploits the Philippines typhoon, making the same link on ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning and demanding that we do more to stop global warming.
This is despicable. The IPCC’s latest report last month concluded such a link between warming and cyclones (and typhoons) was hard to find:
...evidence suggests slight decreases in the frequency of tropical cyclones making landfall in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific…The same is true for the Philippines:
In summary, this assessment does not revise the SREX conclusion of low confidence that any reported long-term (centennial) increases in tropical cyclone activity are robust, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities…
In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low.
This was not the strongest cyclone in world history, as many media outlets, claimed. What was unusual is that it hit a poor city with lots of flimsy houses when near its peak.
That caused the terrible tragedy.
UPDATE
And sure enough, in flaps the Sydney Morning Herald for a feed:
Extreme storm events such as super typhoon Haiyan, which wreaked havoc in the Philippines on Friday, are more likely in the future as the build-up of greenhouse gases warms the planet, scientists say.UPDATE
Another Green flaps over the dead:
GREENS senator Richard Di Natale says there is a link ¬between climate change and storms such as Typhoon Haiyan as he accused Prime Minister Tony Abbott of “record stupidity” in axing the carbon tax…(Thanks to readers Chistery and handjive.)
“You’ve got record storms in the Philippines and now you’ve got record stupidity from Tony Abbott, who’s basically going to unwind some of the world’s most ambitious and important climate change legislation.”
Newspoll: Coalition 53, Labor 47
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (6:41am)
A healthy lead, but I still think Tony Abbott should realise that deeds do not, in fact, speak for themselves:
But I am not yet convinced by Abbott’s media strategy. Deeds don’t speak; politicians do. A politician who does not at times say what he’s done and why runs the risk of their achievements being overlooked or treated as coincidences.
===The Coalition holds a two-party-preferred lead of 53 to 47 per cent, essentially the same result as the September election, but has seen its lead halved from 12 points to six over the past two weeks.True, the election is three years away and it’s mad to trim your sails this far out to every passing poll wind.
But I am not yet convinced by Abbott’s media strategy. Deeds don’t speak; politicians do. A politician who does not at times say what he’s done and why runs the risk of their achievements being overlooked or treated as coincidences.
The victim game
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (6:33am)
Tim Blair on judging in this Age of Seeming, when what you are seems to count as much as what you actually did:
Blair now wonders:
You must be judged not on what you did, but what you sorrily are.
===Last week, for example, NSW Supreme Court Judge Stephen Campbell found several mitigating factors for 19-year-old Kieran Loveridge, the killer of Thomas Kelly.Loveridge was given a minimum of just four years.
Explaining his obscenely light sentence for Loveridge, Campbell cited the killer’s Aboriginal background ("it may be a circumstance relevant to a degree of social disadvantage"), his father’s imprisonment when Loveridge was an infant, his mother’s pregnancy, his father’s drug use, his fractured education ("partly due to an expulsion for his involvement in his juvenile criminal activities") and even the cancer death of Loveridge’s rugby league coach ("which the offender’s mother states was very confronting for the offender").
Blair now wonders:
But what if Loveridge had come from a privileged background, complete with private school education?…Moral: tell the judge that you’re a victim, too. Too rich, too poor, too white, too black. Just think of something. On no account be normal, whatever that now is.
In April, Melbourne man Liam Danial Sweeney glassed and bashed a fellow drinker at that city’s Crown Casino. His target remains facially scarred by the unprovoked attack. Just as Loveridge fled the scene of his assault on Thomas Kelly, so too did Sweeney run away from his bleeding victim.
Like Loveridge, Sweeney was drunk at the time of the attack. Like Loveridge, Sweeney entered a guilty plea, in his case to intentionally causing injury. He faced a potential ten-year jail term. Instead, however, Sweeney received an 18-month sentence – completely suspended.
Magistrate Jack Vandersteen found that Sweeney would be traumatised by prison. “Not many people are in jail who went to Haileybury,” the magistrate said, referring to Sweeney’s private school.
Moreover, the magistrate believed that a jail term for corporate lawyer Sweeney would be “extremely devastating” for Sweeney’s father, himself a lawyer. So the 27-year-old walked out of court with only a $5,000 fine as punishment.
You must be judged not on what you did, but what you sorrily are.
Lewandowsky, fearless smearer of climate “deniers”, is furious one ridiculed him
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (6:20am)
Beloved hoaxster Arlene Composta two years ago sent this plaintive note
to Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, a psychologist whose absurd papers on
the wickedness of denialists sometimes make me suspect he’s a spoof
creation, too:
Lewandowsky responded at length, to the amusement of many, even passing on recommendations and bracing quotations of Gandhi from John “97 per cent” Cook, with whom Lewandowsky had shared this heart-rending tale of the vileness of the three-precenters.
Lewandowsky seems not to have recovered from this prank, and now informs the Association for Psychological Science of this “intimidation”.
===Dear Prof Lewandowsky,And more of the delicious same, with admiration of Lewandowsky applied with a trowel.
We have never met, although we do share a background in the field of psychology, so I feel emboldened to ask for your professional advice. You see we have something in common: a passionate concern for averting the looming catastrophe of runaway climate change.
I recently began blogging, especially about climate change, and after a month my site was noticed. Noticed by the wrong people, sadly. Readers of Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt have swamped my site with genuinely abusive comments, many relating to my disability, which I find very hurtful.
So my question to you is this: How do you deal with monsters like this?
I have read and savoured every column you have published at Unleashed, and I have read the hateful comments that, even with an ABC moderator to vet them, still make it up on the site. The worst charge is that they simply do not take me seriously, which diminishes me in my humanity. I must confess that, after the latest round of abuse, I hugged my little cat and cried for an hour.
Lewandowsky responded at length, to the amusement of many, even passing on recommendations and bracing quotations of Gandhi from John “97 per cent” Cook, with whom Lewandowsky had shared this heart-rending tale of the vileness of the three-precenters.
Lewandowsky seems not to have recovered from this prank, and now informs the Association for Psychological Science of this “intimidation”.
If you see Burnside carrying a shovel …
Andrew Bolt November 12 2013 (12:07am)
Celebrity human rights lawyer presents himself as a civilised man, a lover of the arts. A man of peace.
But last week he urged children to spit on a government minister.
And then this:
===But last week he urged children to spit on a government minister.
And then this:
Burnside’s very thin veneer of civilisation is cracking, and what it reveals is not pretty.
Abbott’s hello to the new Parliament: piling on the pressure
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (9:05pm)
Tony Abbott on the bill he’ll put to Parliament this week to scrap the carbon tax:
===This is my bill to reduce your bill.Is Bill watching, or will he be reduced, too?
North Korea publicly executes 80, some for videos or Bibles, report says
As many as 80 people were publicly executed in North Korea earlier this month, some for offenses as small as watching South Korean movies or possessing a Bible.
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The face of a white supremacist when he finds out he is part African on live TV. |http://bit.ly/HQTzuK
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Jesus and Peter are the only two men in the Bible to walk on water, both at the Sea of Galilee.#SonOfGod
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A lesson of faith from space. - ed
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10 Scientific Ways Reading Can Actually Improve Your Life:http://bit.ly/17ZL0re
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“What the world neglects,the Lord accepts.”- Deborah Brodie
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ALP to legalise killing people for money - ed
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Stay classy, Liberals: http://bit.ly/1akY1en
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“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” -Luke 19:10#SonOfGodMovie #hope
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"Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable." - Joel Osteen
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A piece from the pickeringpost.com by correspondent Bernard Gaynor that was well worth the read:
RUGBY LEAGUE AND AUSTRALIA'S FIRST SUICIDE BOMBER
It’s only a matter of time. There will be an Islamic All Stars Rugby League round. For those, like me, who have a sense of humour, it will probably be squashed in between the Gay Appreciation week and Sorry For Anything That Christianity Has Ever Done decade.
It’s the NRL’s new direction. Give up the alcohol-fuelled binges (not such a bad thing) and bend over to Mecca (not such a good thing).
Anthony Mundine started it. Sonny Bill Williams joined in. Then followed Blake Ferguson and before we knew it, the entire Sydney Roosters were raising funds for new mosques in Logan.
Logan, south of Brisbane, has the dubious distinction of being home to Australia’s first suicide bomber.
You can watch his fiery demise to chants of “Allahu Akbar!” here http://www.abc.net.au/
For those who struggle with Arabic, “Allahu Akbar!” means “God is the Greatest”.
Hence the reason Abu Asmar left his family behind in Australia to drive an explosive-laden truck to his death in Syria. And just before it all ended, he urged others to do the same.
With guys like Abu doing the marketing and the NRL boys providing the financial support, before you know it suicide bombing will be as dinky-di Aussie as throwing down a VB at a backyard barbeque.
Oops. I better take that last part out. There’s no such thing as halal beer, as Mr Ferguson is about to find out. Because Islam is a religion of extremes. No beer and way over the top punishment for those who partake.
And that’s without even delving into the suicide bombing or call for global jihad.
Considering that Logan is home to Australia’s first suicide bomber and that an imam has admitted on 4BC radio that South East Queensland mosques are raising funds to send Aussie Muslims to Syria, I’d suggest that the last thing the area needs is a new jihad ops centre.
And that’s exactly what mosques are. You didn’t really think it was all tambourines and hand-clapping did you?
Mosques preach violence. In fact, there is a direct correlation between the size of the audience and the violence being preached.
More violent preaching equals more peaceful worshippers on a Friday afternoon.
Given that Australia has by far the largest per capita Western involvement in the war in Syria, it would appear likely that peace is not that high on the agenda here either.
Mosques are the command and control centres for the spread of Islam. In fact the late King of Saudi Arabia stated that their purpose was to prevent Muslims from assimilating into the Western world.
From there, they could become a fifth column to bring total victory against the infidels.
And he probably believed what he said because since 1970, Saudi officials have spent somewhere between $70 billion and $90 billion exporting their strict Wahabbi view of Islam. That’s a lot of mosques and religious advertising – including about $120 million worth in Australia.
And all of this from a country that bans the construction of churches. That’s pretty intolerant. But it is smart.
Unlike us, who are tolerant and stupid.
Islam is not compatible with Christian traditions. And it has even more contempt for the atheistic sludge that’s replaced it.
And when the championship Rugby League team is working to build a new mosque in Logan, a month after this city gave Australia its first Islamic suicide ‘martyr’, you know that Australia is asleep in the face of this virulent and violent threat.
Do you get the feeling we are sleepwalking to destruction.
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Larry Pickering
TWO BISHOPS, AN ABBOTT AND THE DEVIL
Bronwyn Bishop, today elected as Speaker of the House, is one of the more respected MPs with a history of dedicated service and an angelic grandma persona.
When nominations were called for Speaker a certain Member for Porn, Graham Perrett (God only knows how they re-elected him) decided to second a Labor nomination for the coveted position.
A fatuous exercise designed to allow Perrett to let go with a tirade of abuse of Bronwyn Bishop.
Perrett, best known for his schoolboy porn books that describe in detail how best to make him ejaculate, blasted the about-to-be-elected Speaker for standing in front of a sign that screamed, “DITCH THE WITCH”. Tony Abbott, at the time, was also caught up in the fracas.
Abbott and Bishop had begun speaking at a Parliament House rally when some of the more offensive signs had been placed behind them. It was obvious they were unaware of the signs.
Perrett would have been aware they were both oblivious to the signs but it gave “super grub” the opportunity to lambast the integrity of Bishop in an unprecedented display of confected anger.
Abbott squirmed and the other Bishop shifted in her seat at the vituperative outburst.
I hope Bronwyn Bishop has the Member for Porn’s name indelibly written in her little black book.
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Pete Seeger finds causes aplenty in Buffalo visit for WNY Peace Center.
http://ow.ly/qHY8w
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But the struggle for control of this economic boom is turning darker and darker, and evil beings wielding fearsome black magic have been recruited by unscrupulous captains of industry.
Against them stand a handful of broken but valiant souls, led by a woman whose name will soon be etched into the very gears of the globe:
Clockwork Curandera
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With the bulk of military -rocket supply tunnel network destroyed, Hamas leaders claim they are keeping the peace ... of course when their rocket resupply lines reopen guess what will begin …
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Political aspirations and geo-economic bedfellows blanketed with greed, corruption and menacing wherewithal; one, ideologically-driven intent on sociopathy's defiance; the other, intent on certain demise of Westernised propelled sustenance, and quite the historic legacy creation, thereof.
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If even only half of what is written here is true it poses concern as to what WOW's agenda really is.
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And in the next three months or perhaps even three weeks the Iranians will have their nuclear bomb all ready. How stupid can we possibly be? No answer necessary.
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Looking for #australian or #sydney businesses to#donate #money to victims of #typhoon#yolandaph I will be holding a #charity event in sydney during the last week of #november please show your support. Looking at getting @timomatictheone and fellow #filipino@kateceberano to help out and perform and raise funds and awareness. #kateceberano
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Tomorrow morning, shortly after 9am, Prime Minister Tony Abbott will introduce the Carbon Tax Repeal Bill into the Parliament.
Repealing the Carbon Tax is an important part of the Government's Plan to build a stronger economy and help reduce cost of living pressures on families.
But Labor, under Bill Shorten, will oppose removing the Carbon Tax.
We urgently need your support for the Coalition's campaign to remove the Carbon Tax.
Please donate to directly support our campaign.
Regards,
Brian Loughnane
Federal Director
Liberal Party of Australia
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Fear him - ed
===She says nothing like what the headline says, unless you believe terrorism is a bit like Islam - ed
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I thank the Israeli courts for their due diligence. To call it vandalism is ridiculous. A silicon mould is hardly invasive. As to the legitimacy of the article, it matters little. My faith is unchallenged. - ed
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The face of a white supremacist when he finds out he is part African on live TV. |http://bit.ly/HQTzuK
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Jesus and Peter are the only two men in the Bible to walk on water, both at the Sea of Galilee.#SonOfGod
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A lesson of faith from space. - ed
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10 Scientific Ways Reading Can Actually Improve Your Life:http://bit.ly/17ZL0re
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“What the world neglects,the Lord accepts.”- Deborah Brodie
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ALP to legalise killing people for money - ed
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Stay classy, Liberals: http://bit.ly/1akY1en
I'll thank veterans for what they have given, and I'll thank Moore to stop taking. - ed
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“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” -Luke 19:10#SonOfGodMovie #hope
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"Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable." - Joel Osteen
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Larry Pickering
A piece from the pickeringpost.com by correspondent Bernard Gaynor that was well worth the read:
RUGBY LEAGUE AND AUSTRALIA'S FIRST SUICIDE BOMBER
It’s only a matter of time. There will be an Islamic All Stars Rugby League round. For those, like me, who have a sense of humour, it will probably be squashed in between the Gay Appreciation week and Sorry For Anything That Christianity Has Ever Done decade.
It’s the NRL’s new direction. Give up the alcohol-fuelled binges (not such a bad thing) and bend over to Mecca (not such a good thing).
Anthony Mundine started it. Sonny Bill Williams joined in. Then followed Blake Ferguson and before we knew it, the entire Sydney Roosters were raising funds for new mosques in Logan.
Logan, south of Brisbane, has the dubious distinction of being home to Australia’s first suicide bomber.
You can watch his fiery demise to chants of “Allahu Akbar!” here http://www.abc.net.au/
For those who struggle with Arabic, “Allahu Akbar!” means “God is the Greatest”.
Hence the reason Abu Asmar left his family behind in Australia to drive an explosive-laden truck to his death in Syria. And just before it all ended, he urged others to do the same.
With guys like Abu doing the marketing and the NRL boys providing the financial support, before you know it suicide bombing will be as dinky-di Aussie as throwing down a VB at a backyard barbeque.
Oops. I better take that last part out. There’s no such thing as halal beer, as Mr Ferguson is about to find out. Because Islam is a religion of extremes. No beer and way over the top punishment for those who partake.
And that’s without even delving into the suicide bombing or call for global jihad.
Considering that Logan is home to Australia’s first suicide bomber and that an imam has admitted on 4BC radio that South East Queensland mosques are raising funds to send Aussie Muslims to Syria, I’d suggest that the last thing the area needs is a new jihad ops centre.
And that’s exactly what mosques are. You didn’t really think it was all tambourines and hand-clapping did you?
Mosques preach violence. In fact, there is a direct correlation between the size of the audience and the violence being preached.
More violent preaching equals more peaceful worshippers on a Friday afternoon.
Given that Australia has by far the largest per capita Western involvement in the war in Syria, it would appear likely that peace is not that high on the agenda here either.
Mosques are the command and control centres for the spread of Islam. In fact the late King of Saudi Arabia stated that their purpose was to prevent Muslims from assimilating into the Western world.
From there, they could become a fifth column to bring total victory against the infidels.
And he probably believed what he said because since 1970, Saudi officials have spent somewhere between $70 billion and $90 billion exporting their strict Wahabbi view of Islam. That’s a lot of mosques and religious advertising – including about $120 million worth in Australia.
And all of this from a country that bans the construction of churches. That’s pretty intolerant. But it is smart.
Unlike us, who are tolerant and stupid.
Islam is not compatible with Christian traditions. And it has even more contempt for the atheistic sludge that’s replaced it.
And when the championship Rugby League team is working to build a new mosque in Logan, a month after this city gave Australia its first Islamic suicide ‘martyr’, you know that Australia is asleep in the face of this virulent and violent threat.
Do you get the feeling we are sleepwalking to destruction.
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Larry Pickering
TWO BISHOPS, AN ABBOTT AND THE DEVIL
Bronwyn Bishop, today elected as Speaker of the House, is one of the more respected MPs with a history of dedicated service and an angelic grandma persona.
When nominations were called for Speaker a certain Member for Porn, Graham Perrett (God only knows how they re-elected him) decided to second a Labor nomination for the coveted position.
A fatuous exercise designed to allow Perrett to let go with a tirade of abuse of Bronwyn Bishop.
Perrett, best known for his schoolboy porn books that describe in detail how best to make him ejaculate, blasted the about-to-be-elected Speaker for standing in front of a sign that screamed, “DITCH THE WITCH”. Tony Abbott, at the time, was also caught up in the fracas.
Abbott and Bishop had begun speaking at a Parliament House rally when some of the more offensive signs had been placed behind them. It was obvious they were unaware of the signs.
Perrett would have been aware they were both oblivious to the signs but it gave “super grub” the opportunity to lambast the integrity of Bishop in an unprecedented display of confected anger.
Abbott squirmed and the other Bishop shifted in her seat at the vituperative outburst.
I hope Bronwyn Bishop has the Member for Porn’s name indelibly written in her little black book.
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Pete Seeger finds causes aplenty in Buffalo visit for WNY Peace Center.
http://ow.ly/qHY8w
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I sometimes wonder what would happen if Vice were to examine all the links .. ed
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cause and effect is not proven here .. ed
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David Bowles
In the year 1861 in the small republic of Santander, the Industrial Revolution is outpacing advances in larger neighbors like Mexico, Texas and the USA. Dirigibles, trains, steam coaches and punch-card automatons are shipped daily to nations all over the globe.But the struggle for control of this economic boom is turning darker and darker, and evil beings wielding fearsome black magic have been recruited by unscrupulous captains of industry.
Against them stand a handful of broken but valiant souls, led by a woman whose name will soon be etched into the very gears of the globe:
Clockwork Curandera
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They look really good .. but I'm not very sure .. a few dozen of each would help me make up my mind - ed
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With the bulk of military -rocket supply tunnel network destroyed, Hamas leaders claim they are keeping the peace ... of course when their rocket resupply lines reopen guess what will begin …
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Political aspirations and geo-economic bedfellows blanketed with greed, corruption and menacing wherewithal; one, ideologically-driven intent on sociopathy's defiance; the other, intent on certain demise of Westernised propelled sustenance, and quite the historic legacy creation, thereof.
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If even only half of what is written here is true it poses concern as to what WOW's agenda really is.
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And in the next three months or perhaps even three weeks the Iranians will have their nuclear bomb all ready. How stupid can we possibly be? No answer necessary.
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Looking for #australian or #sydney businesses to#donate #money to victims of #typhoon#yolandaph I will be holding a #charity event in sydney during the last week of #november please show your support. Looking at getting @timomatictheone and fellow #filipino@kateceberano to help out and perform and raise funds and awareness. #kateceberano
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- 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe(pictured) first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
- 1330 – Led by voivode Basarab I,Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
- 1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- 1936 – The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, Californiaacross San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
- 1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (Bangladesh), becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history, with over 300,000 people killed.
Events[edit]
- 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanus Argyrus.
- 1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
- 1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
- 1602 – Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California.
- 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- 1892 – William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
- 1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
- 1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
- 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
- 1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
- 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
- 1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
- 1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
- 1936 – In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa fromVichy France forces.
- 1940 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
- 1941 – World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
- 1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
- 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
- 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lbTallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
- 1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including GeneralHideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
- 1956 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
- 1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in the village of Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
- 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
- 1968 – Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous"exploding whale" incident.
- 1970 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
- 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- 1978 – Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
- 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleumimports into the United States from Iran.
- 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
- 1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
- 1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
- 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
- 1993 – The first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 1, is held in Denver, Colorado.
- 1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
- 1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- 1999 – The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
- 2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- 2001 – Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
- 2003 – Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
- 2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
- 2011 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.
Births[edit]
- 1528 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
- 1547 – Claude of Valois (d. 1575)
- 1606 – Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (d. 1673)
- 1615 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman, theologian, and poet (d. 1691)
- 1651 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun, scholar, and poet (d. 1695)
- 1684 – Edward Vernon, English admiral (d. 1757)
- 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (d. 1811)
- 1755 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
- 1790 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 10th First Lady of the United States (d. 1842)
- 1793 – Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist (d. 1831)
- 1795 – Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (d. 1856)
- 1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (d. 1902)
- 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
- 1833 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887)
- 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
- 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1848 – Eduard Müller, Swiss politician, 51st President of Switzerland (d. 1919)
- 1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
- 1866 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
- 1872 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer (d. 1947)
- 1881 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
- 1881 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
- 1886 – Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer (d. 1975)
- 1886 – Ben Travers, English playwright (d. 1980)
- 1889 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1981)
- 1890 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
- 1892 – Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor (d. 1958)
- 1896 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
- 1896 – Nima Yooshij, Iranian poet (d. 1960)
- 1897 – Karl Marx, German composer and conductor (d. 1985)
- 1898 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
- 1901 – James Luther Adams, American theologian (d. 1994)
- 1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1906 – George Dillon, American poet (d. 1968)
- 1908 – Harry Blackmun, American judge (d. 1999)
- 1910 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1981)
- 1911 – Buck Clayton, American trumpet player (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Roland Barthes, French critic, theorist, and philosopher (d. 1980)
- 1916 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
- 1916 – Paul Emery, English race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1916 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer and actress (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1922 – Peggy Fenner, English politician
- 1922 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
- 1923 – Ian Graham, English explorer and archaeologist
- 1923 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Vicco von Bülow, German director (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Sam Jones, American bassist and composer (d. 1981)
- 1927 – František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
- 1928 – Bob Holness, English radio and television host (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Marjorie W. Sharmat, American author
- 1929 – Anthony di Bonaventura, American pianist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Michael Ende, German author (d. 1995)
- 1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1931 – Bob Crewe, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1933 – Jalal Talabani, Iraqi politician, 6th President of Iraq
- 1934 – Ann Flood, American actress
- 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and murderer
- 1934 – John McGahern, Irish writer (d. 2006)
- 1936 – Mills Lane, American boxer, referee, and judge
- 1936 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1991)
- 1937 – Ina Balin, American actress
- 1937 – Jack Betts, American actor
- 1937 – Richard H. Truly, American pilot, admiral, and astronaut
- 1938 – Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian politician, 3rd President of Tanzania
- 1939 – Ruby Nash Garnett, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
- 1939 – Terry McDonald, English footballer
- 1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
- 1940 – Michel Audet, Canadian economist and politician
- 1940 – Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician and author
- 1941 – Carol Gluck, American academic
- 1943 – Julie Ege, Norwegian actress (d. 2008)
- 1943 – Brian Hyland, American singer
- 1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
- 1943 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish World Rally Champion (1979)
- 1943 – John Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Walker Brothers) (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Booker T. Jones, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Booker T and the MG's and The Mar-Keys)
- 1944 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster
- 1944 – Jennifer Page, English former Chief Executive of the Millenium Dome project
- 1945 – Michael Bishop, American science fiction and fantasy author
- 1945 – Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
- 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Squires,The Mynah Birds, Northern Lights, and The Ducks)
- 1946 – Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor
- 1947 – Ron Bryant, American baseball player
- 1947 – Buck Dharma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult)
- 1947 – Patrice Leconte, French director and screenwriter
- 1948 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (Hot Chocolate)
- 1948 – Cliff Harris, American football player
- 1948 – Hassan Rouhani, Iranian politician, 7th President of Iran
- 1949 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992)
- 1949 – Jack Reed, American politician
- 1950 – Barbara Fairchild, American singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Urmas Lõoke, Estonian architect
- 1952 – Ronald Burkle, American businessman, co-founded the Yucaipa Companies
- 1952 – Max Grodénchik, American stage, film and television actor
- 1953 – Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
- 1953 – Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1954 – Rob Lytle, American football player (d. 2010)
- 1954 – Rhonda Shear, American model and actress, Miss Louisiana USA 1975
- 1955 – Katharine Weber, American author
- 1955 – Les McKeown, Scottish singer (Bay City Rollers)
- 1957 – Amanda Platell, Australian journalist
- 1957 – Tim Samaras, American engineer and storm chaser (d. 2013)
- 1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer
- 1958 – Nick Stellino, Italian-American chef and author
- 1959 – Vincent Irizarry, American actor
- 1959 – Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer
- 1960 – Maurane, Belgian singer
- 1960 – Ismo Alanko, Finnish singer-songwriter (Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet, and Ismo Alanko Säätiö)
- 1961 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
- 1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
- 1961 – Jonathan Nossiter, American director
- 1961 – Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
- 1962 – Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian journalist
- 1962 – Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Neal Shusterman, American author
- 1962 – Brix Smith, American singer and guitarist (The Fall and The Adult Net)
- 1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and activist
- 1963 – Sam Lloyd, American actor and singer (The Blanks)
- 1963 – Michael Rogers, American publisher, blogger, journalist and activist
- 1963 – Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
- 1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (brute. and The Undertow Orchestra) (d. 2009)
- 1964 – David Ellefson, American bass player and songwriter (Megadeth, Avian, F5, Killing Machine)
- 1964 – Wang Kuang-hui, Taiwanese baseball player and coach
- 1965 – Tacita Dean, English visual artist
- 1965 – Lex Lang, American voice actor and producer
- 1965 – Eddie Mair, Scottish broadcaster
- 1967 – Iryna Khalip, Belarusian journalist
- 1967 – Michael Moorer, American boxer
- 1967 – Grant Nicholas, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Feeder and Raindancer)
- 1967 – Mihhail Rõtšagov, Estonian chess player
- 1968 – Glenn Gilbertti, American wrestler
- 1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer-songwriter (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and The Julie Ruin)
- 1968 – Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1968 – Sharon Shannon, Irish accordion player
- 1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player
- 1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, English-German singer-songwriter (My Dying Bride)
- 1968 – Nick D'Virgilio, American drummer and multi-instrumentalist musician
- 1969 – Ian Bremmer, American political scientist and author
- 1969 – Jason Cundy, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1969 – Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
- 1970 – Elektra, American wrestler
- 1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
- 1970 – Sarah Harmer, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Weeping Tile and The Saddletramps)
- 1970 – Craig Parker, Fijian-New Zealand actor
- 1970 – Harvey Spencer Stephens, English actor
- 1971 – Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil rights activist
- 1972 – Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
- 1973 – Mayte Garcia, American dancer, singer, and actress (The New Power Generation)
- 1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
- 1973 – Ethan Zohn, American soccer player
- 1974 – Tamala Jones, American actress
- 1975 – Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
- 1975 – Katherine Grainger, Scottish rower
- 1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer
- 1975 – Angela Watson, American actress
- 1976 – Tevin Campbell, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1976 – Judith Holofernes, German singer-songwriter (Wir sind Helden)
- 1976 – Richelle Mead, American author
- 1976 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
- 1977 – Dalene Kurtis, American model
- 1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
- 1977 – Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist
- 1978 – Aaron Heilman, American baseball player
- 1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-German actress
- 1978 – Ashley Williams, American actress
- 1978 – Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer and wrestler
- 1979 – Matt Cappotelli, American wrestler
- 1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
- 1979 – Lucas Glover, American golfer
- 1979 – Corey Maggette, American basketball player
- 1979 – Matt Stevic, Australian umpire
- 1980 – Trent Acid, American wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1980 – Shaun Cooper, American bass player (Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run, and Destry)
- 1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor and singer (Dead Man's Bones)
- 1980 – Charlie Hodgson, English rugby union football player
- 1980 – Ricky Sinz, American porn actor
- 1981 – Annika Becker, German pole vaulter
- 1981 – D. J. Campbell, English footballer
- 1981 – Sergio Floccari, Italian footballer
- 1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
- 1982 – Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
- 1983 – Carlton Cole, English footballer
- 1983 – Charlie Morton, American baseball player
- 1984 – Omarion, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (B2K)
- 1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
- 1984 – Sandara Park, South Korean singer and actress (2NE1)
- 1984 – Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean race car driver
- 1984 – Kuldeep Joshi, Rajasthani musician
- 1984 – Zi Yan, Chinese tennis player
- 1985 – Arianny Celeste, American model
- 1986 – Robert Müller, German footballer
- 1986 – Evan Yo, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Nedum Onuoha, English footballer
- 1987 – Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
- 1988 – Alistair Brammer, English stage actor
- 1990 – Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
- 1990 – Farahnaz Amirsoleymani, Author and Illustrator
- 1990 – Harmeet Singh, Norwegian footballer
- 1990 – Siim-Sander Vene, Estonian basketball player
- 1992 – Giulietta, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1992 – Trey Burke, American basketball player
- 1992 – Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1994 – Anna Khnychenkova, Ukrainian figure skater
Deaths[edit]
- 607 – Pope Boniface III
- 1035 – Cnut the Great, Danish king (b. 985)
- 1094 – Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
- 1434 – Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
- 1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop (b. 1497)
- 1567 – Anne de Montmorency, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1493)
- 1595 – John Hawkins, English navy officer and shipbuilder (b. 1532)
- 1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
- 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1612)
- 1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
- 1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
- 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
- 1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
- 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
- 1902 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
- 1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
- 1933 – John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
- 1933 – F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
- 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (b. 1890)
- 1941 – Abe Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
- 1944 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
- 1945 – Jaro Fürth, Austrian actor (b. 1871)
- 1946 – Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer (b. 1875)
- 1946 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian activist and politician, founded Banaras Hindu University (b. 1861)
- 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
- 1950 – Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (b. 1883)
- 1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
- 1958 – Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor (b. 1865)
- 1965 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1888)
- 1969 – Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
- 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
- 1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (b. 1879)
- 1976 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer, co-founded Mikoyan (b. 1893)
- 1976 – Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
- 1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1984 – Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
- 1987 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, poet, and actor (b. 1937)
- 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1993 – H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
- 1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
- 1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Franck Pourcel, French orchestra leader (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Leah Rabin, German-Israeli wife of Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
- 2001 – Albert Hague, German-American actor and composer (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
- 2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
- 2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
- 2003 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic and Power Station) (b. 1954)
- 2005 – William G. Adams, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Jacob E. Smart, American general (b. 1909)
- 2007 – Khanmohammad Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Ira Levin, American author (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Catherine Baker Knoll, American politician, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1930)
- 2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Riot Squad, The Dirty Mac, and Ramatam) (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist (b. 1904)
- 2012 – Anthony di Bonaventura, American pianist and academic (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Angela Cropper, Trinidadian diplomat and politician (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Bob French, American drummer and radio host (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Hans Hammarskiöld, Swedish photographer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Michel Hrynchyshyn, Canadian-French bishop (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Fred Ridgeway, Irish actor (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Daniel Stern, American psychologist (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Ronald Stretton, English cyclist (b. 1930)
- 2012 – John Winter, English architect (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, celebration started at sunset the day before. (Bahá'í Faith)
- Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic of China)
- Christian Feast Day:
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.” 1 John 2:15-16 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Underneath are the everlasting arms."
Deuteronomy 33:27
Deuteronomy 33:27
God--the eternal God--is himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless. Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet "underneath" thee "are everlasting arms." Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all. You may have descended into the deeps, but you cannot have fallen so low as "the uttermost;" and to the uttermost he saves. Again, the Christian sometimes sinks very deeply in sore trial from without. Every earthly prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath him are "the everlasting arms." He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but what the covenant grace of an ever-faithful God will still encircle him. The Christian may be sinking under trouble from within through fierce conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be beyond the reach of the "everlasting arms"--they are underneath him; and, while thus sustained, all Satan's efforts to harm him avail nothing.
This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker in the service of God. It implies a promise of strength for each day, grace for each need, and power for each duty. And, further, when death comes, the promise shall still hold good. When we stand in the midst of Jordan, we shall be able to say with David, "I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." We shall descend into the grave, but we shall go no lower, for the eternal arms prevent our further fall. All through life, and at its close, we shall be upheld by the "everlasting arms"--arms that neither flag nor lose their strength, for "the everlasting God fainteth not, neither is weary."
Evening
"He shall choose our inheritance for us."
Psalm 47:4
Psalm 47:4
Believer, if your inheritance be a lowly one you should be satisfied with your earthly portion; for you may rest assured that it is the fittest for you. Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. A ship of large tonnage is to be brought up the river; now, in one part of the stream there is a sandbank; should some one ask, "Why does the captain steer through the deep part of the channel and deviate so much from a straight line?" His answer would be, "Because I should not get my vessel into harbour at all if I did not keep to the deep channel." So, it may be, you would run aground and suffer shipwreck, if your divine Captain did not steer you into the depths of affliction where waves of trouble follow each other in quick succession. Some plants die if they have too much sunshine. It may be that you are planted where you get but little, you are put there by the loving Husbandman, because only in that situation will you bring forth fruit unto perfection. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances, and if you had the choosing of your lot, you would soon cry, "Lord, choose my inheritance for me, for by my self-will I am pierced through with many sorrows." Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God. Down busy self, and proud impatience, it is not for you to choose, but for the Lord of Love!
"Trials must and will befall--
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all;
This is happiness to me."
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 50, Hebrews 8 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 50
A Message About Babylon
1 This is the word the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians:
2 “Announce and proclaim among the nations,
lift up a banner and proclaim it;
keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;
Bel will be put to shame,
Marduk filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
and her idols filled with terror.’
3 A nation from the north will attack her
and lay waste her land.
No one will live in it;
both people and animals will flee away.
lift up a banner and proclaim it;
keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;
Bel will be put to shame,
Marduk filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
and her idols filled with terror.’
3 A nation from the north will attack her
and lay waste her land.
No one will live in it;
both people and animals will flee away.
4 “In those days, at that time,”
declares the LORD,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
will go in tears to seek the LORD their God.
5 They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the LORD
in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten....
declares the LORD,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
will go in tears to seek the LORD their God.
5 They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the LORD
in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten....
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 8
The High Priest of a New Covenant
1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.
3 Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. 4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. 5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” 6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises....
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Haggai
[Hăg'gaī] - festal or born of a festival day. The tenth of the Minor Prophets, and the first of those to prophesy after the captivity (Ezra 5:1; 6:14).
[Hăg'gaī] - festal or born of a festival day. The tenth of the Minor Prophets, and the first of those to prophesy after the captivity (Ezra 5:1; 6:14).
The Man Who Was a Messenger
All we know of Haggai is told us in the first verse of his book, where we have a description of himself and his message, which gives us a key to the whole of his ministry. Haggai was "The Lord's messenger in the Lord's message." We reject the legend that he was an angel incarnate.
His name is suggestive and may imply that he was born on a Feast Day. Another meaning is "Jehovah hath quieted." As a prophet, he was contemporary with Zechariah (Hag. 1:1; 2:1, 20; Zech. 1:1 ). He prophesied in the second year of the reign of Darius Hystaspes, King of Persia, sixteen years after Cyrus'decree permitting the rebuilding of the Temple. Compare Zechariah 1:1-11 with Ezra 4:24 and 5:1.
As a prophet, he preached righteousness and predicted the future. As a man, he was simple, strong in faith and bold in hope. He urged the people to work and be strong (Hag. 2:4), assuring them that when they began to build the Temple, God would begin to bless them.
The first message was one of stern rebuke (Hag. 1:1-11).
The second message was one of comfort and commendation (Hag. 1:12-15).
The third message was a cheering one of encouragement (Hag. 2:1-9).
The fourth message was an assuring one concerning cleansing and blessing (Hag. 2:10-19).
The fifth message was a steadying one associated with safety ( Hag. 2:20-23 ).
Dr. Stuart Holden suggests that these five lessons can be gathered from Haggai:
I. Danger of lapsing into self-content, even after honest and sincere beginnings in the work of Christ.
II. That the time for blessing is always at hand. The people said: "The time has not come." God said: "My time is an eternal now."; The only hindrance to blessing lies in His people.
III. In the will of God for His people - particularly in respect to the great work of building His Temple - there is always a conjunction of precept and power, of duty and dynamic . The promises of God are "Yea and Amen" to those who are in Christ Jesus, walking in Him, and living in Him.
IV. The greatest of all mistakes is to leave God out in His own work. To live in the light of His presence is to build for eternity.
V. In the work to which we pledge ourselves as God's children,the greatest need of all is for patience. We shall be opposed if our work is worth opposing; but the opposition of the Evil One is the opportunity to express our faith and loyalty toward God. "Our God is marching on. The best is yet to be; and we may reckon upon God."
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