Bairnsdale Conservative: Thu Sep 11th Todays News

It is Patriot Day in USA and time to remember why we are at war with terror. It is also an election year for US Congress. Two years ago, in another election year, Obama was dancing with Beyonce and unable to be contacted when his personal pick for Libyan ambassador was calling for help over a terrorist hit. Sadly Hilary Clinton was on hand to deny aid and give weapons to ISIS forces without interference from special forces. Clinton and Rice blamed an Egyptian Coptic filmmaker, even pointing him out to terrorists, as reason for the attack. The White house had been in election mode and had claimed Al Qaeda was no more as an international force. When Romney referred to it in debate, media mugged him for Obama. A year later, Obama had wanted to bomb Syria in favour of ISIS. Russia said 'no' and so the White house favoured an illegitimate government in Ukraine which forced Moscow to claim their own naval dock yard and brought ethnic tensions to the surface in Ukraine which resulted in MH17. Obama needs to project strength if he is to get a congress that will work to his agenda, but who feels that such a congress would be worthwhile? As Bill Clinton showed, a hostile congress can get good bills past an incompetent President.

It is Patriot day and worth remembering victims of 9/11. An Australian wife of a victim at the World Trade Centre has opened a door to his room for the first time since that day. Their child is teaching at a high school. It is worse than a life interrupted, there are all the blessings of a life together and the growth together, the nesting, the aims for a future .. and it was all denied forever. It was terror, but many Islamic leaders have claimed it was Islam which which committed the atrocity. In the Middle East people are recorded cheering the atrocity. Saddam Hussein in Iraq paid money to suicide bombers after the event. There was, as then President Bush noted, an Axis of Evil. People claiming that there was a purpose to the evil, twisting a knife into families of victims. And the cause, at the root, is no different from that which Israel has defended herself from her beginning as a modern state. Terror has changed us in the west. But the legacy of what has made the west great is still there. Left wing discourse on the issue is very wide of the mark and looking flaky because of it. 'War for oil' ? We need to be humble. We need to own our mistakes. We need to want to be free. We need to fight for our treasure. The soldiers that fought for America in WW2 are correctly referred to as 'The Greatest Generation.' But what will they call those who in the face of terrorism got confused? For thirteen years since 9/11, activists have failed to explain what happened in their discourse of why things happen. ABC continues to oppose Australia in war. Australia has a proud history in war, but not perfect. The ABC view seems oppositional, one sided, corrosive, misguided and contrary to their charter. Meanwhile opposition leader Shorten has tried to torpedo a $20 billion submarine deal with Japan which might force a bad $40 billion deal with people who cannot produce excellent vehicles with equivalent speed. No doubt Shorten will be excused for any digger that dies as a result of his bad speech.

The Lin family murders were horrible and so far not fully explained. A relative is facing court in relation to the killings. They had custody of a survivor who had been absent at the time of the killings. The survivor, a young female, is alleging sexual abuse by her subsequent guardian which others feel could be a motive. The child survivor has not done anything wrong and deserves much better than what she has so far been given in life. But many things are unfair. presaging Pistorius verdict, Leigh Sales on ABC 7:30 report calls Pistorius a "Fallen hero." The judge at trial has presaged the verdict by taking on board serious issues raised by the defence. He has been found not guilty of murder. One can still hope for a custodial sentence and disgrace related to his behaviour. ICAC has heard how a $20k check from a banned donor developer did not go directly to the Liberal Party but instead went to what they called a slush fund. So the ICAC does not think slush funds are appropriate? Under what circumstances might they be? Still the ICAC has no evidence of corruption. Injustice has no end.

Aboriginal children are suffering from racist myths just as 1400 children of Rotherham have. Racism needs to be opposed, but it isn't being opposed rationally by laws that claim to, like 18c. Nobody has proposed a better defence than a free press to safeguard western nations from corruption, but the press have a strong left wing agenda and are weak, not free. And the suppression of free speech has resulted in the abuse detailed in the top end of Australia, and Rotherham, in numbers that would not be tolerated were the news known, and not censored by race. An Australian detective is working to protect children from pedophiles in South East Asia. He has sacrificed everything to do so after being on holiday and approached by a pimp with an offer. In Australia Federal Border Protection and Immigration Minister Morrison has done a brilliant job to date, but deserve to be given access to Temporary Protection Visas to do even better. A child of a newly arrived Afghan couple has died after falling into a creek at a barbecue. Three years old, surviving a harsh journey, only to fall in a tragic accident.

Frightbats of the media are lying and feeding a false narrative of the world. They trip up on facts, but their fans don't notice, or defend them. One statistic that fails the anti government rhetoric is the unemployment statistic that has over 120k employed recently, but no reason for it. There was a chilling statistic recently suggesting unemployment rose for no reason too. One unexplained fact gets accepted by the anti government rabble, another is rejected from the same source, suggesting it is the narrative that is wrong. There are difficult jobs, like that of cabinet minister for the stool of a King, but what about jobs done for free, unpaid, out of love? Google has such a wonderful permanent frat party aspect for her workers so that some don't bother having homes. A solar storm approaches Australia, but we will survive. Ebola has been reported as not being in Australia after a sick person complained it might be. Self diagnosis is fraught.

From 2013
We begin tonight and the editorial will finish with Saddam Hussein. Today is 9/11. On the eleventh of September 2001 some terrorists claiming to be Islamic took down four flights of commercial aircraft and killed thousands of people, changing the way democracy works in America. The day was chosen because of the emergency call number in the US. But any excuse could be made. Terrorism has no meaning, and should never be allowed to win, or be seen to win. Pointed look at Obama.

The left wing dominate the free press, but don't have moral rectitude. Abbott's daughters have been pictured with Mr Abbott on the FB page "Furiously Masturbating to Abbott's Daughters" The page has been reported to FB, which replies it is within the bounds of community standards. In the same vein as having a biased press is useful for conservatives to get votes in a conservative cycle, this kind of page will disgust reasonable people. But it is a sad indictment on the community standard, and as an equivalent involving the left wing would not be tolerated, it is a double standard. Mr Abbott is still a few days from announcing a ministry. Sadly Sophie Mirabella seems to have missed out in her electorate. The media attacks on her have been very dirty. The expected winner of the seat of Indi is a conservative who has the support of Tony Windsor, another so called conservative who supported the ALP as an independent on many occasions over his entire career. So Mr Abbott's government has not begun yet, but the opposition will begin masturbating.

Fires have claimed a few houses in NSW, and rage in California. The NSW fires have added poignancy, with some having been deliberately lit and with a thief having stolen a laptop from an open window of a damaged house. Another fire burns inside the heart of Obama who really wants to hit Syria with more than pins. One can only imagine what the pricks have done to Whitehouse maps of Syria, Obama wants to use real weapons. Only the world won't let him. Assad is in discussions to surrender chemical weapons. One hopes this happens and the history of those weapons is analysed to see how Saddam did it .. and with which Democrat's support.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball

Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball

Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed

Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.

I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.

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Happy birthday and many happy returns Dilamma Ann, James Dao and Kathy Yaekel. Born on the same day, across the years, as Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Carl Zeiss (1816), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Princess Akishino (1966), Harry Connick, Jr. (1967) and Jonathan Adams (1992). On your day, Patriot Day in the United States
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the invasion of Quebec.
1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang, Sarawak, in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.
2001 – Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners for a series of suicide attacks against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area. Benedict Arnold invaded Quebec. Ethiopian forces overcame TimTams. Sarawak plans of execution were shelved. Pakistan discovered India got pride. Some terrorists claiming Islamic faith hijacked some planes. Today is a good day to be you, and no one else, except maybe Batman.
Matches

1185 – Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of theByzantine Empire.
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Massspreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco.
1565 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
1609 – Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
1697 – Battle of Zenta.
1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish Empire ceases to be a major power.
1709 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1758 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
1775 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 – British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine – The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
1786 – The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1803 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
1813 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..
1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
1826 – Capt. William Morgan arrested in Batavia, New York for debt. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico. This was the final consummation of Mexican independence.
1830 – Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.
1847 – Stephen Foster's song "Oh! Susanna" is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh.
1851 – Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement.
1852 – The State of Buenos Aires secedes from the Argentine Federal government, rejoining on 17 September 1861. Several places are named Once de Septiembre after this event.
1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1893 – Parliament of the World's Religions opened in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda delivers his speech on fanaticism, tolerance and the truth inherent in all religions.
1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1914 – Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1922 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Lucky Luciano's hitmen.
1932 – Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war
1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
1943 – World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1968 – The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) was found.
1970 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1976 – A group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they revealed the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation was not executed properly, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.
1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
1980 – Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Pinochet.
1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanonleave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
1988 – The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai andOahu.
1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
1997 – 14 Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea
1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 – Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members ofal-Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed.
2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
2012 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
2013 – 400 km long Human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia

Hatches

1182 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1522 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist (d. 1605)
1524 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1611 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (d. 1675)
1681 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
1700 – James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1748)
1711 – William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
1816 – Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (d. 1888)
1860 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1934)
1862 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician (d. 1910)
1862 – O. Henry, American author (d. 1910)
1865 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946)
1885 – D. H. Lawrence, English author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1930)
1885 – Herbert Stothart, American songwriter, composer, and conductor (d. 1949)
1891 – William Thomas Walsh, American historian, author, and educator (d. 1949)
1917 – Jessica Mitford, English journalist and author (d. 1996)
1923 – Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer
1925 – Yiye Ávila, Puerto Rican evangelist and author (d. 2013)
1925 – Alan Bergman, American songwriter
1927 – Christine King Farris, American educator and author
1935 – Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
1935 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2000)
1937 – Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1939 – Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems
1940 – Brian De Palma, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1940 – Thomas K. McCraw, American historian and author (d. 2012)
1943 – Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, The Dead, and Rhythm Devils)
1945 – Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager

1946 – John "Juke" Logan, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 2013)
1953 – Renée Geyer, Australian singer
1953 – Tommy Shaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Styx, Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades)
1957 – Jon Moss, English drummer (Culture Club, London, and The Nips)
1962 – Kristy McNichol, American actress and singer
1966 – Princess Akishino of Japan
1967 – Harry Connick, Jr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
1967 – Sung Jae-ki, South Korean activist (d. 2013)
1968 – Kay Hanley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Letters to Cleo)
1969 – Stefano Cagol, Italian photographer
1971 – Richard Ashcroft, English singer-songwriter (The Verve and RPA & The United Nations of Sound)
1971 – Markos Moulitsas, American soldier, blogger, and author, founded Daily Kos
1978 – Ben Lee, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Noise Addict, The Bens, and Gerling)
1982 – Shriya Saran, Indian model and actress
1986 – Ryann Donnelly, American singer-songwriter (Schoolyard Heroes)
1987 – Mai Oshima, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
1987 – Meamea Thomas, I-Kiribati weightlifter (d. 2013)
1989 – Asuka Kuramochi, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
1992 – Jonathan Adams, English discus thrower

Despatches

1063 – Béla I of Hungary (b. 1016)
1161 – Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 – Stephen Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1677 – James Harrington, English philosopher and theorist (b. 1611)
1680 – Roger Crab, English soldier and doctor (b. 1621)
1680 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1721 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
1733 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (b. 1668)
1760 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1822 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823 – David Ricardo, English economist (b. 1772)
1843 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
1851 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1896 – Francis James Child, American scholar and educator (b. 1825)
1911 – Louis Henri Boussenard, French author (b. 1847)
1947 – Alice Keppel, Scottish mistress of Edward VII (b. 1868)
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
1949 – Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (b. 1873)
1971 – Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician (b. 1894)
1973 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (b. 1908)
1987 – Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1915)
1987 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley & The Wailers) (b. 1944)
1994 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1999 – Bobby Limb, Australian actor (b. 1924)
2001 – Casualties of the September 11 attacks:
- David Angell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)
- Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1968)
- Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1948)
- Todd Beamer, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
- Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress, and model (b. 1948)
- Carolyn Beug, American director and producer (b. 1952)
- Bill Biggart, American photographer and journalist (b. 1947)
- Mark Bingham, American businessman (b. 1970)
- Ronald Paul Bucca, American fire marshal (b. 1954)
- Charles Burlingame, American pilot (b. 1949)
- Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
- William M. Feehan, American firefighter (b. 1929)
- Wilson Flagg, American admiral (b. 1938)
- Peter J. Ganci, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1946)
- Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1979)
- Hamza al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1980)
- Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker–pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1972)
- Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1976)
- Salem al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1981)
- Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1975)
- Mychal Judge, American priest (b. 1933)
- Daniel M. Lewin, American mathematician and businessman, co-founded Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)
- Timothy Maude, American general (b. 1947)
- Eamon McEneaney, American lacrosse player (b. 1954)
- Khalid al-Mihdhar, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1975)
- Majed Moqed, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1977)
- John P. O'Neill, American FBI agent (b. 1952)
- John Ogonowski, American pilot (b. 1951)
- Barbara Olson, American lawyer and journalist (b. 1955)
- Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1979)
- Betty Ong, American flight attendant (b. 1956)
- Rick Rescorla, American colonel (b. 1939)
- Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati terrorist, hijacker–pilot of United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1978)
- Wail al-Shehri, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1973)
- Madeline Amy Sweeney, American flight attendant (b. 1966)
2002 – Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
2003 – John Ritter, American actor and producer (b. 1948)
2007 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian keyboard player and songwriter (Weather Report) (b. 1932)
2011 – Andy Whitfield, Welsh-Australian actor (b. 1972)
2012 – Sean Smith, American diplomat (b. 1978)
2012 – J. Christopher Stevens, American lawyer and diplomat, 10th United States Ambassador to Libya (b. 1960)
2013 – Andrzej Trybulec, Polish mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1941)

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2014

Christian Feast days:
Death Anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a former holiday. (Pakistan)
Earliest date on which Enkutatash can fall, while September 12 is the latest, celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia)
Emergency Number Day, proclaimed by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987. (United States communities, particularly the localemergency services)
National Day of Catalonia (Catalonia)
Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church)
Patriot Day (United States)
Teachers' Day (Argentina)
1st day of Thoth in the Egyptian calendar

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Gillard forgetting who her friends used to be

Piers Akerman – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (8:02pm)

TICKLISH questions remain swirling around Julia Gillard following her appearance at the royal commission into trade union corruption. Not the least of which is the haste with which she sought to distance herself from the two witnesses who preceded her into the witness box on Wednesday and their remarks about her role in suggesting the establishment of a slush fund similar to the one she assisted former boyfriend Bruce Wilson set up in Western Australia — the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association.

Continue reading 'Gillard forgetting who her friends used to be'

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THIRTEEN YEARS OF INACTIVISM

Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (4:24am)

On September 11, 2001, 19 middle-class Islamists financed by a multi-millionaire murdered nearly 3000 men, women and children in the United States. Leftists have spent the subsequent 13 years complaining about climate change, Israel, sexism, racism, homophobia and the gap between rich and poor.

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ABC MISSION CONTINUES

Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (3:59am)

The ABC commemorated Anzac Day this year with an attempted demolition of “five common Anzac Day myths”, including the devastating non-revelation that Gallipoli stretcher bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick may have used “more than one donkey” to rescue injured soldiers.

Now the ABC marks the 100th anniversary of Australia’s first battle of World War I by claiming that Australian troops conducted a mass execution of German and New Guinea prisoners in 1914.

This claim is based on a solitary tape recording made in the 1960s by an alleged witness named Bob.

UPDATE. Even Mike Carlton, who basically has to be waterboarded before agreeing with me or the Telegraph, rejectsthe ABC’s claims:

Hate to say it, but this RN story is as dodgy as all get out. It “confirms” nothing.

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FACTS BATTERED

Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (2:51am)

It hasn’t been a great week for frightbat fact-checking. First, Anne Summers declared Mungo MacCallum deaddespite him being very much alive. And now Cankles McBabystopper is exposed as a research retard:

Fairfax Media recently carried a column by Clementine Ford in which she describes her horror that the death in custody last month of young Aboriginal woman Julieka Dhu did not “cause even the vaguest ripple across mainstream Australian media”.

Admitting she and her editor had not heard about the death until almost a month after it occurred, Ms Ford asserted that the “most comprehensive reporting” of the circumstances of Ms Dhu on August 4 in Western Australia was on two independent websites.

Ms Ford, who found out about the death from a person on Twitter, said “this silence” showed a “shameful indictment” on Australia’s attitudes to Aborigines.

While there is no question that Ms Dhu’s death is tragic and raises serious questions about her treatment by authorities, Ms Ford is wrong to say that the mainstream media ignored the case.

In fact, The Australian and The Weekend Australian has led the investigation into Ms Dhu’s death, an investigation that uncovered her alleged mistreatment and provided the material for the two websites Ms Ford cites.

The Australian ran pieces about Dhu’s death in Port Hedland on August 23, August 25, August 26, August 30 andSeptember 9. Ford’s reaction is, as usual, lame.

UPDATE. Ford misses a lot of news, which she assumes is because it hasn’t been reported. Here she is in 2013, complaining about the lack of coverage in the case of Johanna “Jazzy-O” Martin’s murder, which Ford mistakenly claimed took place within weeks of the kidnapping and killing of Jill Meagher:

I did not mention Martin, that other woman whose body was desecrated and discarded without thought. Because I didn’t know. Because the media, which includes me, perhaps doesn’t care enough about the murders, rapes and violations of women not like us to pay it the same kind of attention.

This is the first response to Ford’s piece:

Pretty poor research here, Jazzy O was killed in 2011, about a year before Jill Meagher. I remember it clearly because the story was well covered on the news and in the newspapers.

UPDATE II. Irony: Ford complains about being called a “research retard” but in the same post claims I wrote that she “ignored The Australian‘s reporting on Miss Dhu” – which is not true. The question is, how much does Clementinewant cake?

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A man called Bob

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:25pm)

The ABC notes an important anniversary:

One hundred years ago today, Australians took part in one of the first engagements of World War One, the Battle of Bitapaka in Papua New Guinea.

And, being the ABC, it marks the occasion with its usual respect for the military and for credible, verifiable sources:

New claims have emerged about the execution of German and Papua New Guinean prisoners by Australian servicemen during Australia’s first WWI battle, which occurred on this day 100 years ago…
For years, there have been rumours of executions by the Australians after the battle of Bitapaka, and now an old tape recording of a witness appears to confirm them.
The eye witness, an elder in the village of Kabakaul, said he saw the Australians come ashore, and he described the execution of two white men and a number of native police.
‘Then a big man of war said “fire” and they all died,’ said the man identified on the tape as Bob, speaking in the Tok Pisin language. ‘They shot all the men who were lined up on one side. Only one boy was alright, a young boy such as this, he ran away. So they all died and the trench they dug was full with dead bodies.’
The recording was made in the 1960s by a plantation owner Ian Purvis, who was living near Rabaul…

In all, six Australians are listed as being killed in the battle of Bitapaka on the 11th of September 1914… Officially, one German soldier and 30 native police are listed as being killed in the battle of Bitapaka.

Great sources.

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On hearing Glenn Beck

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:20pm)

Tony Thomas goes to two Glenn Beck speech nights and is seriously impressed.

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Has Dan Andrews thrown away the election?

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:14pm)

Does Dan Andrews really want to make Labor seem the party that rips up contracts? That creates sovereign risk? That leaves key arterials clogged?
Go back. Wrong way:

DUMPING the East West Link would force motorists to endure decades of congestion, Premier Denis Napthine says.

Dr Napthine today fired back at Labor’s plan to reject the $6-8 billion road project if it wins the election…
The Premier said he was “very confident” the government would win a looming Supreme Court case, in which inner Melbourne councils are arguing the planning process surrounding East West Link was unlawful.

Labor is understood to be using that court case as a reason to declare any road contract signed before the election as invalid…
Until today, Mr Andrews had said Labor would build the East West Link if it won the election and contracts were already signed.
This morning, he told 3AW that he had changed his mind…
He said it was “not legally safe” for the government to sign a contract while there is a Supreme Court case looming against the project.

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Bush was right, Obama was lethally wrong. Troops go back to Iraq

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (5:20pm)

George W Bush warned in 2007 that pulling out of Iraq would be deadly, and the US would be forced to go back in:

It would mean that we would be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.It would mean we allow terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean the increasing probability that US troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.

But Obama did pull out all US forces, against the warnings of his generals. He even boasted about it in the presidential debates:

No, but what I — what I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.

The slaughter that followed has been ghastly:

And sure enough, as Bush predicted:

US President Barack Obama has authorised air strikes against Islamic State group targets inside Syria for the first time, pledging to destroy its fighters “wherever they exist”.
In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Obama also announced an expansion of strikes in Iraq, saying he would be dispatching nearly 500 more US troops to the country to assist its besieged security forces.
Obama called on Congress to authorise a programme to train and arm rebels in Syria who are fighting both the Islamic State group and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Too little and far too late.
Just a month ago, Obama ridiculed the idea he’s now embraced, a year or two too late, of arming moderate Syrian rebels:

It’s always been a fantasy, this idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth.

John McCain attacks:

McCAIN: No, facts are stubborn things, Mr. Carney, and that is [the President’s] entire national security team, including the Secretary of State said he want to arm and train and equip these people and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down. The fact he didn’t a residual force in Iraq, overruled all of his military advisers, is the reason why we’re facing ISIS today.
So the facts are stubborn things in history and people ought to know them. And now the president is saying basically that we are going to take certain actions, which I would favor, but to say that America is safer, and that the situation is very much like Yemen and Somalia shows me that the president really doesn’t have a grasp for how serious the threat of ISIS is.
CARNEY: Well, again, Senator, we’re going to have to agree to disagree. And I think on the question of the residual force, there was another player in that which was the Iraqi government. A, and B, it was the fulfillment of the previous administration’s withdrawal plan. And it was also the fulfillment of the president’s promise to withdraw from Iraq and not maintain a true presence, in perpetuity, which is pretty consistent with what the American people wanted and believed it was the right approach.
McCAIN: Mr. Carney, you are again saying facts that are patently false. The fact is because [Senator] Lindsey Graham, [former Senator] Joe Lieberman and I, we were in Baghdad, they wanted a residual force. The president has never made a statement during that or after that he wanted a residual force left behind. The Iraqis were ready to go. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the number cascaded down to 3,500. That was not sufficient to do anything but to defend themselves. And you in your role as a spokesperson bragged about the fact that the last American combat troop had left Iraq. If we had left a residual force the situation would not be what it is today.

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Aboriginal children pay for this silence

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:53am)

COULD fear of seeming racist make us shut up about child abuse? Yes, and I have a lawyer’s warning to prove it.
Do not think a Rotherham could not happen here. Something like it has happened already to Aboriginal children.
In Rotherham, in England’s north, 1400 children as young as 11 were raped and trafficked by mainly Pakistani gangs. Just as shocking, as a formal report last month revealed, is that many in authority were too scared to speak out.
“Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to,” the report notes. But here, too, we have a culture of “political correctness” that stops our ears and mouths. We even have laws that stifle the debate we need if children are to be saved.
When I first wrote here about the Rotherham case I wanted to include a single sentence about linking problems in Aboriginal communities to Aboriginal culture. The paper’s lawyers had that sentence taken out, because such “a bare assertion can get us into trouble” under the Racial Discrimination Act, which frowns on such “offensive” statements.
True, we can still discuss these issues if we include lots of detail, without mistakes. Just last weekend The Australian revealed extensive evidence of horrific child sexual abuse in remote South Australian settlements. But the legal danger just helps to stifle one of the most important social questions facing us: is Aboriginal culture hurting too many children and women?
(Read full article here.)

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Shorten torpedoes our best defence

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:53am)

Greg Sheridan is spot on:

I fear Bill Shorten may just about have demagogued us out of one of the best options we have for providing for the security of this nation.
Up until this week, Shorten had been a very responsible opposition leader on national security. But to so irresponsibly demonise the possibility that the Abbott government could consider buying submarines from Japan has done real damage to our national interests.

This is the reality that Shorten is ranting against:

Probably we could buy a fleet of subs from Japan for $20 billion whereas we would spend $40bn, or probably quite a bit more, to build the subs ourselves and we would certainly be building subs inferior to those of Japan.
It is not absolutely clear that there would be that many fewer jobs for Australia with a Japanese sub. We would probably have twice as many subs, or have them in half the time, if we went with the Japanese option.

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Letting some come, after all

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:10am)

The fact is that we’re one of the few muggins prepared to settle boat people, so the choice is between letting those at Manus Island rot in detention or forcing them home.
Or there’s Scott Morrison’s inevitable compromise - which risks sending a signal to the people smugglers:

HUNDREDS of asylum-seekers who arrived in the first six months of the Papua New Guinea resettlement deal, announced in the final days of the Rudd government, could return to Australia to live on temporary protection visas.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison ... [said he] remained “confident” of concluding resettlement talks with PNG, despite “difficult and frustrating problems” that have led the country’s cabinet to delay the proposal for months…
In what Labor called a “monumental backflip”, Mr Morrison said asylum-seekers who arrived between July 19 and December 31 last year might be allowed to live in Australia once Howard-era TPVs were reintroduced.
“For us, it is about outlining the space where we can have a discussion with the crossbenchers ... but the bottom line for the government is that TPVs must be restored,” Mr Morrison said.
Unlike permanent visas, TPVs expired every three years, allowing the government to reconsider whether the refugees still needed protection.

A further compromise should be possible to secure the votes for the TPVs. It should be possible to agree that after, say, six years here with no possibility of return that a TPV becomes a permanent one.

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Would you rather the jihadists were here or Syria?

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:02am)

Many of us might be tempted to agree, were it not for the obligation we have to take them back:

Wissam Haddad, head of the al-Risalah Islamic Centre considered a hub of extremist preaching in Sydney, dismissed the prospect of an imminent terror attack.
He said if the government was truly concerned about angry, young men attacking Australian targets, it would let Muslims who wanted to fight in Syria go there.
“The guys that are there don’t ever want to come back,” Mr Haddad told The Australian. He said many young men in his circle yearned to leave Australia permanently.

And again the implied threat, illustrating how multi-cultural societies risk having foreign conflicts spread to their own streets:

“Look at Australia’s foreign policy in regards to Iraq. You’re going to be angering a lot of people. It’s the government itself that are creating the problem.’’

And indeed:

The Australian has been told that, while authorities are unaware of extremists a bomb, ASIO and the AFP have identified a number of radicals with “settled intentions” to perpetrate terrorist acts in Australia. The plans are considered serious enough to justify raising the terror alert level from medium to high, meaning an attack is likely.
Among those of concern are alleged Muslim extremists whose hopes of joining Islamic State, the terrorist army that has captured swathes of Syria and northern Iraq, slaughtering thousands, have been thwarted by ASIO, which recommended their passports be cancelled as part of a campaign to ground would-be foreign fighters.

The fact is, as counterterrorism academic Nick O’Brien points out, there are now too-many wanna-be jihadists for ASIO to properly monitor them all:

The reality is that to do a proper monitoring job of a person, you would have to follow them, see what they do and that would require at least two surveillance teams cause you’d have to work round the clock. Now this is absolutely impossible when you’re talking about these amount of numbers. So the only monitoring that they can do will be, I guess, things like social media and phones.

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Thu Sep 11th Todays News

Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball

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Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (2:51am)

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Pastor Rick Warren.

Morning

Evening

Today's reading: Proverbs 8-9, 2 Corinthians 3 (NIV)

Today's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 8-9

Wisdom's Call

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 3

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