Fri Oct 24th Todays News

It hasn't been covered by mainstream media well, but Lachlan Murdoch spoke cogently at the Keith Murdoch lecture and has raised worthy issues of free speech while reminding us of history. Only, his message is bigger than he seems aware and it informs us in ways he doesn't seem to mean. Lachlan was addressing the issue of censorship over security which is growing as a result of the war on terror. The war on terror has fifth columnists who feel it is legitimate to attack cultural assets regardless of consequence. Some really stupid people are falling for terrorist propaganda partly because of censorship which prevents the average person from saying what they think on cultural and religious issues. Lachlan seems to accept those restrictions, while objecting to increased security which might arbitrarily have a field security officer deeming a news article to not be in the public interest. 

A brilliant example by Lachlan is to remind of the activity of Keith Murdoch to end the Gallipoli campaign. Keith had been tasked by the Australian PM, Fisher, to find the truth about what was happening. Many younger journalists had been heavily censored by the war office regarding casualties and losses. Keith was alarmed at what he heard from Charles Beane, bad officers and needless death through incompetence. Keith tried to get a colleague to write to the Great Britain's PM, Asquith, but the letter was censored, so Keith wrote to Fisher directly and sent a copy to Asquith. Within weeks the campaign was ended and the commanding officer relieved of command. Lachlan asks if the new legislation would prevent another Keith today from their action then. 

Keith was young then, and would not know what he had done, and few today seem aware of it, even though there is no active censorship regarding it. Keith had messed up big time and many tens of millions of deaths from civilians around the world have resulted from his activity. Keith did not improve the officer corp prosecuting the war. He ended a campaign shortly before it might have been successful. Certainly the retreat was hailed as bloodless after the Turks failed to press home an advantage. Had the campaign been successful Europe would have been open through the back door and the war ended, possibly by Christmas. Russia might not have fallen to Communism and China might not now be communist. There might never have been a Soviet Union, a Vietnam War or Korean war. The reparations on Germany might have been less and Nazism might have been crushed within Germany. Not to blame Keith Murdoch, but position what a civilian knows about military activity and the damage they do through ignorance. 

Currently the press show no awareness of the role of radical Islam in an open society, where we question what is right and fail to say what is wrong. 

Who is willing to say that a prize fighter's embrace of Islam is not manly, but a personal choice? Who is willing to say that terrorists don't speak for a majority? Impotent Islamic leaders haven't. But one must also, to be fair, point out that many impotent Christian leaders have failed to point to their cultural assets too. Lachlan is wrong not to push for an end of 18c first. He is wrong to flag press sensitivity to security when they are so actively working with the left wing to threaten world peace for Jews and conservatives and poor people who aren't on a left wing bandwagon. Currently the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is promoting an idea of a memorial to Whitlam. Maybe such a memorial is a nuclear crater in the middle of Tehran. 

from 2013
If Obama has to lie about helping a pregnant woman, what can he be relied on? A clue comes from a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore, who claimed PM Abbott was wrong to say that Global Warming wasn't behind Sydney Bush-fires. Actually, Gore claimed Abbott was like one of those who denied the link between smoking and cancer. Gore would know about that, he grew up on a tobacco farm. Gore accepted donations from tobacco companies for years after his sister died from lung cancer. Gore lives denial. 

Global Warming has paused for fifteen years, so if it were the cause of bush fires in Sydney, why not last year? Or the year before? The truth is the major cause of uncontrollable bush fires is fuel in the bush from lack of controlled burning related to ALP/Green policy. Bob Carr is responsible for the lost houses and people killed, which is worth considering as he resigns from his senate position to resume his extraordinarily large pension. 

Meanwhile, Obama has authorised Iran's pursuit of nuclear power despite UN advice. 
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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

Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR

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 J.w Show. Born on the same day, across the years, as
51 – Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96)
1561 – Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586)
1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
1896 – Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster
1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor
1953 – David Wright, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician
1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
1981 – Tila Tequila, American model, actress, and singer
1997 – Raúl Chávez Sarmiento, Peruvian scientist

October 24: United Nations Day (1945)

• 1648 – The second treaty of the Peace of Westphalia, the Treaty of Münster, was signed, ending both the Thirty Years' Warand the Dutch Revolt, and officially recognizing the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and Swiss Confederation as independent states.
• 1851 – William Lassell (pictured) discovered the Uranian moons Umbriel and Ariel.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: Serbian forces defeated the Ottoman army at the Battle of Kumanovo in Vardar Macedonia.
• 1944 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese battleship Musashi, one of the heaviest and most powerfully armed ever constructed, was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
• 1964 – The military court of South Vietnamese junta chief Nguyen Khanh acquitted Generals Dương Văn Đức and Lâm Văn Phát of leading a coup attempt against Khanh, despite the pair's proclamation of his overthrow during their military action.

We have peace again. The moon is clear. We have victory. Musashi is with the fish. It is all good. Lets party. 
Matches

• 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
• 1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
• 1260 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
• 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
• 1590 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
• 1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
• 1851 – William Lassell, discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
• 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
• 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
• 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel.
• 1911 – Orville Wright, remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
• 1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
• 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theater in Detroit
• 1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargasis then installed as "provisional president."
• 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America.
• 1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Japanese battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
• 1945 – Founding of the United Nations.
• 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
• 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
• 1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
• 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
• 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesiaremained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)
• 1973 – Yom Kippur War ends.
• 1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
• 1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
• 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
• 1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
• 1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
• 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
• 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
• 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
• 2004 – Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
• 2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
• 2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
• 2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

Hatches

• 51 – Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96)
• 1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1402)
• 1503 – Isabella of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1539)
• 1561 – Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586)
• 1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723)
• 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1749)
• 1713 – Marie Fel, French opera singer (d. 1794)
• 1739 – Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1807)
• 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German author (d. 1839)
• 1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American author and poet (d. 1879)
• 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
• 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1885)
• 1830 – Marianne North, English painter (d. 1890)
• 1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American adventurer (d. 1921)
• 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919)
• 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
• 1855 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
• 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
• 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969)
• 1872 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957)
• 1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
• 1879 – B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress and singer (d. 1976)
• 1884 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian-Israeli wife of Zalman Shazar (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
• 1891 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
• 1891 – Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985)
• 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
• 1895 – Jack Warner, English actor and singer (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Marjorie Joyner, American businesswoman (d. 1994)
• 1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1959)
• 1901 – Hjalmar Mäe, Estonian politician (d. 1978)
• 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
• 1904 – Moss Hart, American director and playwright (d. 1961)
• 1904 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932)
• 1905 – Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Yoel Zussman, Israeli judges (d. 1982)
• 1910 – James K. Woolnough, United States Army generals (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Stella Brooks, American female jazz singers (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Joe L. Evins Tennessee Democrats (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Nancy Meek Pocock, Members of the Order of Ontario (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Gunter d'Alquen, SS officers (d. 1998)
• 1911 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 2008)
• 1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian opera singer (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Claude B. Duval, People from Houma, Louisiana (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Charles Craig Cannon, United States Army officers (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Samuel Karnarvon Asbell, Saskatchewan politician stubs (d. 1965)
• 1914 – Ernesto Segura, 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops (d. 1972)
• 1914 – František Čapek, Czechoslovak canoer (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Bob Kane, American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1916 – Anne Sharp, Scottish soprano (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Marie Foster, American activist (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Doreen Tovey, English writers (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
• 1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator
• 1921 – Ted Ditchburn, English footballer (d. 2005)
• 1922 – George Miller, American educator and politician
• 1923 – Robin Day, English lieutenant and journalist (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Mary Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
• 1924 – John Brereton Barlow, South African cardiologist (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Bob Azzam, Egyptian-Lebanese singer (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Willie Mabon, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician co-founded the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Kidar Nath Sahani, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player
• 1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1927 – Barbara Robinson, American author (d. 2013)
• 1928 – George Bullard, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977)
• 1929 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (d. 2014)
• 1929 – George Crumb, American composer
• 1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Gustav Ranis, American development economist (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Jack Angel, American voice actor
• 1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
• 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician
• 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang
• 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
• 1931 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Norman Rush, American author
• 1934 – Peter Behn, American voice actor
• 1934 – John G. Cramer, American physicist and author
• 1934 – Ray Drake, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Glen Glenn, American singer
• 1934 – Jean-Baptiste Gourion, Algerian-French bishop (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Sammy Petrillo, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Sanger D. Shafer, American singer-songwriter
• 1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist, musicologist, and educator
• 1935 – Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1936 – David Nelson, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
• 1937 – Ladislau Biernaski, Brazilian bishop (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer
• 1937 – John Goetz, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Heribert Offermanns, German chemist
• 1937 – Rosaria Piomelli, Italian-American architect and educator
• 1937 – Petar Stipetić, Croatian general
• 1938 – Odean Pope, American saxophonist (Catalyst)
• 1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist (d. 2013)
• 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
• 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand director and producer
• 1940 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012)
• 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Ruthann Aron, American politician
• 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actress
• 1942 – Ian Collins, Australian footballer and coach
• 1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish journalist and author
• 1942 – Don Francis, American epidemiologist
• 1942 – Don Gant, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1987)
• 1942 – Judy Manning, American politician
• 1942 – Rafael Cordero Santiago, Puerto Rician politician, 132nd Mayor of Ponce (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Fernando Vallejo, Colombian biologist and author
• 1943 – Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler
• 1943 – Corky Siegel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Siegel–Schwall Band)
• 1944 – Ray Downs, American singer and author
• 1944 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Bettye Swann, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Ted Templeman, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Harpers Bizarre)
• 1945 – Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader
• 1945 – Alan Titus, American opera singer
• 1946 – Keti Chomata, Greek singer (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor and singer
• 1948 – Barry Ryan, English singer-songwriter
• 1948 – Paul Ryan, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1992)
• 1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American politician
• 1949 – Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix, Mexican drug lord (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Chester Marcol, American football player
• 1949 – John Markoff, American journalist
• 1949 – Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer
• 1949 – Keith Rowley, Trinidadian politician
• 1949 – Stan White, American football player and sportscaster
• 1950 – Iggy Arroyo, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
• 1950 – Karen Austin, American actress
• 1950 – Pablove Black, Jamaican singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
• 1950 – Steven Greenberg, American singer-songwriter and producer (Lipps Inc.)
• 1950 – Tom Myers, American football player
• 1950 – Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Argentinian lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician
• 1950 – Gabriella Sica, Italian poet
• 1950 – Maria Teschler-Nicola, Austrian biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist
• 1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor
• 1952 – Keith Bain, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Francesco Camaldo, Italian priest
• 1952 – Jane Fancher, American author and illustrator
• 1952 – Mark Gray, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Exile)
• 1952 – Omar Moreno, American baseball player
• 1952 – Ángel Torres, American baseball player
• 1952 – Ney Rosauro, Brazilian drummer and composer
• 1952 – Peter Smagorinsky, American theorist and educator
• 1952 – Reggie Walton, American baseball player
• 1952 – David Weber, American author
• 1953 – John Barton, English footballer and manager
• 1953 – Charles Colbourn, Canadian computer scientist and mathematician
• 1953 – Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager
• 1953 – Steven Hatfill, American physician and virologist
• 1953 – Mindy Newell, American author
• 1953 – Mike Papantonio, American lawyer and radio host
• 1953 – Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 – Shih Szu, Taiwanese actress
• 1953 – David Wright, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1954 – Doug Davidson, American actor
• 1954 – Thomas Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Jožo Ráž, Slovak singer-songwriter and bass player (Elán)
• 1954 – Mike Rounds, American politician, 31st Governor of South Dakota
• 1954 – Brad Sherman, American accountant, lawyer, and politician
• 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician
• 1955 – Katherine Knight, Australian murderer
• 1955 – Cheryl Studer, American soprano
• 1956 – Dale Maharidge, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Jeff Merkley, American politician
• 1956 – David Stergakos, American-Greek basketball player
• 1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager
• 1957 – John Kassir, American actor
• 1958 – Vincent K. Brooks, American general
• 1958 – Chip Hooper, American tennis player and coach
• 1959 – Dominique Baert, French politician
• 1959 – Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician, 65th Mayor of Bergen
• 1959 – Mike Brewer, American baseball player
• 1959 – Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese director and composer
• 1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist and songwriter (The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls) (d. 2009)
• 1959 – Brad Johnson, American actor
• 1959 – Dave Meltzer, American journalist and historian
• 1959 – Shawn Moody, American businessman and politician
• 1959 – Ruth Perednik, English-Israeli psychologist
• 1959 – Denis Troch, French footballer and manager
• 1959 – Annette Vilhelmsen, Danish politician
• 1959 – Anthony Waller, Lebanese-English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver
• 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
• 1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (d. 1999)
• 1960 – Wolfgang Güllich, German rock climber (d. 1992)
• 1960 – Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver
• 1960 – BD Wong, American actor
• 1961 – Mary Bono, American politician
• 1961 – Bruce Castor, American lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Yves Bertucci, French footballer and manager
• 1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver
• 1962 – Rik Daniëls, Belgian director
• 1962 – Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player
• 1962 – Ian Dalziel, English footballer and manager
• 1962 – Ted Dekker, American author
• 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass player and songwriter (My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, and Snowpony)
• 1962 – Kristen Hall, American singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician
• 1962 – Roland Königshofer, Austrian cyclist
• 1962 – Gene Larkin, American baseball player and coach
• 1962 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballer (d. 2000)
• 1962 – Mark Miller, American motorcycle racer
• 1962 – Mark Morettini, American actor
• 1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player and coach
• 1963 – Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Giselle Laronde, Trinidadian model, Miss World 1986
• 1963 – Arvind Raghunathan, Indian businessman
• 1964 – Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Paul Bonwick, Canadian politician
• 1964 – Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey player
• 1964 – Doug Lee, American basketball player
• 1964 – Dmitri Gorkov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Janele Hyer-Spencer, American lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Paul Vigay, English computer programmer (d. 2009)
• 1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek journalist and politician
• 1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician
• 1967 – Ian Bishop, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
• 1968 – Mark Walton, American voice actor and illustrator
• 1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
• 1969 – Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
• 1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, English engineer
• 1970 – Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Synthetic Flying Machine, and Major Organ and the Adding Machine)
• 1970 – Natassa Theodoridou, Greek singer
• 1970 – Zensa Raggi, Moroccan-German porn actor
• 1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
• 1971 – Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
• 1972 – Raelee Hill, Australian actress
• 1972 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
• 1972 – Scott Peterson, American murderer
• 1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
• 1973 – Meelis Friedenthal, Estonian writer
• 1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
• 1973 – Madlib, American rapper and producer (Madvillain, Quasimoto, and Lootpack)
• 1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and radio host
• 1974 – Gábor Babos, Hungarian footballer
• 1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player
• 1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
• 1975 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor
• 1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
• 1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
• 1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
• 1978 – James Hopes, Australian cricketer
• 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter (Silverchair and Tambalane)
• 1979 – Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1980 – Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 – Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer (The Blizzards)
• 1980 – John D. Kobs, American businessman
• 1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer
• 1980 – Christian Vander, German footballer
• 1980 – Casey Wilson, American actress and screenwriter
• 1981 – Sebastián Bueno, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Jemima Rooper, English actress
• 1981 – Tila Tequila, American model, actress, and singer
• 1982 – Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian race car driver
• 1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player
• 1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (3LW and The Cheetah Girls)
• 1983 – V V Brown, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 – Hernán Garin, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver
• 1984 – Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
• 1984 – Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (Sadistic Mika Band)
• 1985 – Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (d. 2014)
• 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
• 1985 – Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Drake, Canadian rapper and actor
• 1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer
• 1987 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
• 1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Charlie White, American figure skater
• 1988 – Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Christopher Linke, German racewalker
• 1988 – Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer
• 1989 – PewDiePie, Swedish YouTube personality.
• 1989 – Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
• 1989 – Eric Hosmer, American baseball player
• 1989 – Richard Kolitsch, German footballer (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
• 1990 – LaMarcus Tinker, American actor, director, and producer
• 1991 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer
• 1991 – Marek Bednar, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1991 – Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player
• 1993 – Nabil Jeffri, Malaysian race car driver
• 1994 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer and actress (f(x))
• 1994 – Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player
• 1996 – Kyla Ross, American gymnast
• 1997 – Raúl Chávez Sarmiento, Peruvian mathematician

Despatches

• 996 – Hugh Capet, French king (b. 938)
• 1260 – Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
• 1375 – Valdemar IV of Denmark, (b. 1320)
• 1537 – Jane Seymour, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
• 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508)
• 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546)
• 1633 – Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3)
• 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592)
• 1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
• 1672 – John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
• 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739)
• 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian author (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
• 1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
• 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 – Louis Renault, French businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Franz Lehár, Slovak composer (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)
• 1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher and educator (b. 1873)))
• 1960 – Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot (b. 1924)
• 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1965 – Samuel Karnarvon Asbell, Saskatchewan politician stubs (b. 1914)
• 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)
• 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1972 – Ernesto Segura, 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops (b. 1914)
• 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian, author, and educator (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Ingri d'Aulaire, Norwegian-American author and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Yoel Zussman, Israeli judges (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Joe L. Evins Tennessee Democrats (b. 1910)
• 1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Claude B. Duval, People from Houma, Louisiana (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Ismat Chughtai, Indian author (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Charles Craig Cannon, United States Army officers (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
• 1996 – James K. Woolnough, United States Army generals (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Nancy Meek Pocock, Members of the Order of Ontario (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Gunter d'Alquen, SS officers (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)
• 2002 – Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Stella Brooks, American female jazz singers (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904)
• 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943)
• 2008 – John Goetz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Doreen Tovey, English writers (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Keti Chomata, Greek singer (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Mike Esposito, American illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Peter Wright, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Manna Dey, Indian singer (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare disease (b. 1993)
• 2013 – Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Frank Perconte American soldier b. 1917)
• 2013 – Reggie Rogers, American football player (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Henry Taylor, English-French race car driver (b. 1932)

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2014

• Christian feast day:
  • Anthony Mary Claret
  • October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964.
• Suez Day (Egypt)
• United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)
• World Development Information Day (International)
• World Polio Day (International)

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WORLD’S WHITEST RAPPER WINS

Tim Blair – Friday, October 24, 2014 (5:39pm)

Greens councillor Matthew Robertson bravely turns his back on the rising oceans:



This guy might be the finest Greens representative since pantomime performer Geoff Ebbs. But wait – here’s epsilon male Scott Ludlam rapping about data retention laws. You win, Scott. You are the Prime Green. The entire obscene debacle may be seen here.

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TAGS AWAY

Tim Blair – Friday, October 24, 2014 (1:42pm)

Scores more women have been  abducted by Boko Haram Islamists in Nigeria. You know what this means, Twitter activists: deploy the hashtags!



(By A.R.M. Jones) 

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LOSING EVERYTHING

Tim Blair – Friday, October 24, 2014 (12:57am)

Send this far and wide. Mark Steyn on the latest Canadian Islamist atrocity: 

The sub-title of my new book is “Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned”. I have been writing for over a decade now about the west’s wannabe jihadists, often born and raised in Canada and America and Britain and Australia and Europe, some of them converts – or “reverts”, as they call them.

Throughout that period, the multiculti delusionists have insisted that Islam’s contribution to the diversity mosaic is no less positive than that of Poles or Italians. Now we have pure laine Quebeckers and Nigerian South Londoners converting to Islam because it’s the coolest gang on the planet. And one consequence of that is that a relaxed, open capital city will descend into the same panopticon security state as Washington.

I love Ottawa – I know every yard of that stretch of Wellington Street connecting Parliament and the Cenotaph: Chateau Laurier is where I always stay when in town; not so long ago I walked past the war memorial with a senior Minister of the Crown and we talked about how simple and dignified and profoundly moving it was; and during my battles with the “human rights” commissions I had the honour of testifying to the House of Commons and strolling that same Centre Block corridor that that Allahu Akbar loon rampaged down today.

That security-lite Ottawa is gone, and that is a loss. But there will be others in the years ahead. Because the price of welcoming and incubating and growing Islam in the west is, ultimately, the loss of everything else. 

Do read on. And click on the video.

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Ricky Muir’s staff aren’t enthusiasts

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:07pm)

Ricky Muir is one of the Senators deciding how to run the country.
Pity he can’t even run his own office:

Motoring Enthusiast Senator Ricky Muir has lost his second chief of staff in three months after Sarah Mennie quit on Friday.
Ms Mennie had previously worked for independent senator Nick Xenophon and the head of the Fair Work Building and Construction commission, Nigel Hadgkiss.
Her exit comes after the so-called “preference whisperer”, Glenn Druery, was sacked by Senator Muir in August.
At the time, Mr Druery blamed his exit on Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party founder Keith Littler, who he accused of plotting to take Senator Muir’s seat in Parliament.
Another staffer, Susan Bloodworth, quit in protest at Mr Druery’s sacking. And just days later another staffer, Peter Breen joined the exodus as Senator Muir’s office imploded. 

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The Greens’ Les Patterson - without the jokes

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:00pm)

Even by the Greens’ standards, Senator Scott Ludlam is embarrassing - and foul-mouthed.
(Via Tim Blair.) 

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Another attack

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (8:47pm)

Possibly a copycat, possibly just a madman ... but:

New York police fear that a crazed hatchet attack on four police officers in Jamaica, Queens, today could be linked to terrorism.
Suspect Zale Thompson, 32, pictured in surveillance footage, was shot dead on the scene after slashing one cop in the arm and the other in the head at around without warning about 2pm.
The officer struck in the head was critically injured.
A 29-year-old female bystander a half-a-block away from the attack was critically injured after being shot by an errant police round. She is currently recovering from surgery at Jamaica Hospital and is listed in ‘grave’ condition. 

Police say they were investigating whether Thompson’s attack on the cops was linked to Islamic terrorism. ISIS has urged fighters to launch lone wolf attacks in the United States.
Thompson’s Facebook page features a photograph of a man dressed in Middle Eastern garb and a cover photo displaying Arabic writing.

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The Bolt Report on Sunday, October 26

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (4:45pm)

On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 tomorrow at 10am and 4pm.
Editorial:  More jihadist attacks. How to fight back.
My guest:  former Greenpeace boss Dr Patrick Moore on global warming and oiher green frauds.
The panel: Michael Costa and Peter Costello - on jihadism, Whitlam’s real legacy and the economy.
NewsWatch:  Rowan Dean on the ABC in mourning.
And lots more, including: is Jacquie Lambie unAustralian?


The videos of the shows appear here.

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No, not a parody. ABC presenter wants Whitlam memorial

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:58am)

Melbourne ABC presenter Join Faine is now running a campaign to erect a memorial to Gough Whitlam, who ruled for less than three years, left the economy a ruin and lost his last two elections in landslides.
Suggestions, please. 

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More women enslaved by Boko Haram

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:42am)

In the name of Islam:

SCORES of women and children in northern Nigeria have been abducted by militants, only a day after the military declared a ceasefire with the Boko Haram Islamist group.
As reports of the kidnappings emerged,fresh violence rocked the town of Azare in Bauchi state.
A police spokesman for the state, Mohammed Haruna, said a bomb blast at a bus station in Azare killed five people, with their bodies “burnt beyond recognition,” and injured 12 others.
No-one claimed responsibility, but Bauchi has been attacked repeatedly throughout Boko Haram’s brutal five-year uprising, which has left more than 10,000 people dead.

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Palmer scrambles for members, dead or alive

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:37am)

Clive Palmer seems to lurch from one problem to another:

THE Palmer United Party, under pressure to come up with a list of 500 Queensland members by Monday or face deregistration, is trying to claim people who have resigned from the party as active members. 
The party has four more days to prove to the Electoral Commission Queensland that it should remain eligible for inclusion on the state’s Register of Political Parties.
But former members have told The Australian the PUP advised them their memberships were automatically being reinstated, and that they would be listed as members of the political party in the PUP’s submission to the ECQ.  

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Jihadists just agree with the Left: the West is rotten

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:31am)

Tanveer Ahmed is right - Leftist hatred of our traditions and history has created a gap now being filled for some by the fierce pride of the jihadist:

Recent stormy debate over a T-shirt bearing an Australian flag and the slogan ‘Love it — or leave’ illustrates how difficult it is for Australian progressives to embrace outward displays of patriotism…
Patriotism is a dirty word. Indeed, hip-hop artist Matt Colwell not only labelled the Australian flag “racist” on the ABC’s Q&A, he said later: “The way those people have used the flag has so tarnished the flag for me personally that it stands for a sort of swastika symbol in my mind."…
Two world wars left a deep scar on the European psyche, especially on the notion of nationalism, which was seen as causing the rise of fascist Italy and Germany.
This ambivalence spawned a belief that countries such as Britain should be a culturally blank canvas; that patriotism is an old fashioned trapping of empire and countries such as Britain could be shaped afresh with new cultures living side by side in unity.
While we may lack the imperial guilt, there can be little doubt this view is apparent in Australia…
While Islamic terrorism is attractive to a very small proportion of the population, it highlights a weakness of liberal democracies in their lukewarm, sometimes conflicted promotion of a collective identity.
The gap for Islamists is filled by the fierce transnational identity that the Islamic notion of the ummah can build, a piety so strong they are prepared to sacrifice their lives. Macabre, evil and disgusting the actions may be, but the intensity of belief is in stark contrast to the relative apathy of mild-mannered secular atheists…
The strong patriotism of the US that integrates its extremely diverse population so successfully may explain why so few American-Muslims, as a proportion of the population, have gone to fight in Syria, compared with many thousands from Europe. The several hundred estimated to have travelled from Australia, as a percentage of our Muslim population, are many multiples greater than in America.

Jihadists, some educated in our universities, are taking the Left at its word - that this is an illegitimate nation built on theft, genocide, racism, rape and destruction. The jihadists just intend to do something vigorous about it. In many ways the Left has contributed to the rise of Islamism, through its cultural self-hated, its promotion of mass immigration, its gags on free speech and its constant rationalisation of jihadist attacks, notably those on Israel.
Ahron Shapiro:

Recent polls show that Islamic State is more popular overall — not just among Muslims — in some Western states than in most Middle Eastern ones. A poll by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy found just 3 per cent of Egyptians expressed a positive opinion about it, as did 5 per cent of Saudis. In Lebanon, it was less than 1 per cent. Yet in a poll in Aug­ust by ICM Research, 7 per cent of British respondents had a favourable view of the group, as did 16 per cent of French polled — rising to 27 per cent in the 18-24 demographic…
The message is chilling — Islamic State appears to have a tremendous ability to appeal to disaffected Muslims living in free societies in the West, more so than to populations within the Middle East, who perhaps have homes and families at stake, are more grounded in reality and less likely to be swept away by the hyped-up promise of a revolution.
This almost certainly also ­applies to some degree in Australia, as evidenced by the numerous Australians who have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join up, and the positive view of this behaviour ­expressed by some of their peers.
The allure of groups such as Islamic State should be understood as similar to that which drew people to past murderous totalitarian movements and their atrocities — Nazism, fascism, communism, Maoism. All claimed their violence and genocide were a justified self-defence against race, class or external enemies.
It begins with rationalisations that extreme violence is justifiable under the right circumstances, that terrorists are humans and their behaviour is understandable and motivated by injustice.
Once that red line has been crossed, the distance from justification to embracing the violence, and then glorifying it, is short.

No wonder conservatives, more likely to value this society, are also the most likely to lead in its defence. Tony Abbott, for instance.
UPDATE
The Left abandoned Israel first, and even now there’s little outrage if a jihadist murders a baby in Israel rather than a soldier in Canada.
Reader Ash:

Horrible events in Canada over the last few days with terrorists running over two soldiers, and the murder at the war memorial. Global congratulations for the sergeant of arms at Canadian Parliament who is lauded as a hero for killing the terrorist.
Contrast to events yesterday in Jerusalem, where a Hamas terrorist drove across a divided road, over the median strip and ploughed into a crowd of people at a light rail station. The terrorist killed a 3 month old baby and injured 7 others. He then fled on foot, but was shot by the police.
Hamas and other Palestinian organisations have praised the act as “a heroic blow against Israel”. There has barely been any (if any at all) coverage of this in Australia. No outcry about a 3 month baby being killed. No “scorecards” of number of deaths. No pictures of dead babies (although they are available). Certainly no marches in the streets protesting the tragic deaths of innocent children.
And remarkably - the global coverage by Associated Press was headlined “Israeli Police shoot man in East Jerusalem”.

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Praise the hero, scorn the jihadist

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:24am)

Kevin Vickers, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Canadian Parliament, grabbed his gun and shot dead jihadist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who’d just murdered an unarmed soldiers before taking his shotgun into Parliament.
The next day Vickers once again carried the ceremonial mace into the House of Commons:

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Public servants skip three weeks of work a year

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (9:15am)

Absolutely astonishing:

Public servants at the government’s largest department took more than three weeks off work on average in the past year in “unscheduled absence,” mostly sickies…
The 35,000-strong Human Services has reported another increase in its rate of unscheduled absences with the average full-time public servant at DHS failing to front for work on 16.25 days in the 2013-2014 financial year.

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Meet Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (8:55am)

Dr. Patrick Moore helped to create Greenpeace and was director of Greenpeace International for seven years, when it became the world’s largest environmental activist organisation.
But as Greenpeace became more radical and religious, Moore became more disillusioned and left Greenpeace in 1986;
Moore is in Australia for a speaking tour, discussing the global warming scare and other pathologies.
Catch him in Melbourne for the following functions:

Today

At 5:30pm
CQ Functions,
113 Queen Street
$20 at the door i

27 October

Noon
The Australian Club
110 William Street
$110, lunch included.

Full itinerary here.
Moore will also be my guest on The Bolt Report on Sunday. 

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The ABC using its funding to shout down rivals

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (8:15am)

The ABC is the country’s biggest media outfit by far, and unlike its rivals does not have to make money to survive.
Instead, it uses taxpayers’ cash to push its overwhelming Leftist agenda, shout down dissenting views and put other media out of business:

THE ABC is spending tens of thousands of dollars to damage its commercial media rivals by buying Google rankings that lure internet users to stories on its own news website.
Spending on “search engine marketing” ensures the ABC’s stories rank ahead of those written by other news organisations when users type in search terms such as “politics news”.
On Tuesday this week, the ABC outbid its commercial rivals to buy the term “Gough Whitlam” to ensure stories on its website ranked ahead of those by outlets such as News Corp (publisher of The Australian), Fairfax Media and the television networks. It spent an estimated $10,000. ­Higher-ranked stories typically attract significantly more readers.

I cannot understand why the Liberals continue to accept this gross abuse of power and taxes - and this gross distortion of public debate. Self-interest alone would demand action.
And the public interest is also not served by allowing a vast government media empire crush rival voices:

Former ABC chairman Maurice Newman described the practice as “unfair competition” that could diminish media diversity. 

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First we lost free speech. Then we lost free movement

Andrew Bolt October 24 2014 (7:40am)

Mark Steyn on the Islamist attacks in Canada:

I have been writing for over a decade now about the west’s wannabe jihadists, often born and raised in Canada and America and Britain and Australia and Europe, some of them converts – or “reverts”, as they call them.
Throughout that period, the multiculti delusionists have insisted that Islam’s contribution to the diversity mosaic is no less positive than that of Poles or Italians. Now we have pure laine Quebeckers and Nigerian South Londoners converting to Islam because it’s the coolest gang on the planet. And one consequence of that is that a relaxed, open capital city will descend into the same panopticon security state as Washington…
That security-lite Ottawa is gone, and that is a loss. But there will be others in the years ahead. Because the price of welcoming and incubating and growing Islam in the west is, ultimately, the loss of everything else.

Steyn’s warning risks action under anti-vilification laws, both a symbol of this loss of freedom and a gag to prevent us from resisting.
Yes, first we lost some of our freedom to frankly criticise Islam and then we lost some of freedom to move around without fear.
Remember the very first case brought under Victoria’s racial and religious vilification laws a decade ago?

Pastor Daniel Scot and Pastor Danny Nalliah were last week found to have committed religious vilification after the first trial under this new law.
Judge Michael Higgins found Scot offended by quoting the Koran in a way that got “a response from the audience at various times in the form of laughter"…
Meet May Helou, an official of the Islamic Council of Victoria, who’d also been hired by the Equal Opportunity Commission to ensure “Arabic and Muslim communities are aware of their rights under anti-discrimination laws”.
In 2002, Helou alerted several Muslim converts at the ICV to a seminar on jihad to be run by a Pentecostal church, Catch the Fire…
So they went, and were horrified to hear Scot, from Muslim Pakistan, discuss the Koran. Once they’d reported their horror to Helou, the case against Scot and Nalliah, the Catch the Fire leader, was on…
So what did Judge Higgins finally find in his summary judgment...? Most of his summary criticises Scot, who had “made fun of Muslim beliefs and conduct”. The judge gave 13 examples, starting like this: 

“Pastor Scot, during the course of the seminar, made statements --
“(1) that the (Koran) promotes violence, killing and looting
“(2) that it treats women badly ...
“(5) that Allah is not merciful and a thief’s hand is cut off for stealing ...
“(12) Muslim people have to fight Christians and Jews, humiliate them and fight them until they accept true religion (sic)...”

Indeed, at least eight of the accusations arose from Scot quoting the Koran at the seminar, and—it seems to me—for the most part accurately. The Koran indeed tells Muslims to “kill disbelievers where you find them” in defending Islam, to “fight those who believe not in God ... until they pay the jizya (a penalty tax for non-Muslims)”, and to share loot after a war.
It also instructs men how to punish “ill-conduct” in their wives—“admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds (and last) beat them (lightly)”.
Thieves must indeed have hands lopped off, and so on.
So what did Scot, in those 13 examples the judge gave, say that was actually false?

Yes, this verdict was overturned on appeal, but trial by process is enough to warn people off opening their mouths.
Then just this year the Prime Minister explained he would not reform the Racial Discrimination Act - which also stifles debate on racial or ethnic politics - because he, too, had to placate the Muslim community and prevent even more violence:

Mr Abbott said he was dumping Senator Brandis’s draft laws, which would have removed key sections of the Racial Discrimination Act which the Attorney-General said made it illegal to “hurt the feelings of others”.
The PM said he had made a “leadership call” to abandon the changes, because they had become a “complication” in the Government’s relationship with the Australian Muslim community.
“When it comes to counter-terrorism, everyone needs to be part of Team Australia,” Mr Abbott said.
“The Government’s proposals to change 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act have become a complication in that respect....”

(Via Tim Blair.) 

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THE BENEFACTORS OF MANKIND by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
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No nation has been a greater benefactor of mankind than Israel and America—the one endowed humanity with spiritual freedom, the other with political freedom. Alfred North Whitehead, perhaps the world’s greatest philosopher of science and civilization, related these two blessings by saying: “The Jews are the first people that refused to worship the State.” This he could rightly say because the Jews taught mankind that there exists an Authority higher than the State—a revolutionary idea!
This revolutionary idea was dramatically manifested in 1776, when the American people issued their theologically-inspired Declaration of Independence. This primary foundational document of the United States acknowledges God in four ways: as the Creator, as the Author of the Laws of Nature, as the Supreme Judge, and as the Providential Benefactor of mankind, hence, as the ultimate Source of Plenitude and Justice.
Mankind is also indebted to America for its brilliant method of achieving wealth and justice by means of a Constitution whose system of institutional checks and balances secures the Declaration’s sacred ends of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Constitutionsl system secures the dignity of the individual by fostering private enterprise on the one hand, and by limiting the powers of government on the other.
This grand idea was first conceived not by John Locke or Adam Smith or Montesquieu but by the Hebrew Republic of antiquity. Enough to cite Harvard President Samuel Langdon, a Christian Hebraist who, at outbreak of the American Revolution, recommended the ancient Hebrew Republic—shorn of its ceremonial laws—as an excellent model for the emerging government of the United States. (Sadly, during the past 100 years, this portrait of American history has been eradicated from “higher learning”—a mark of profound ingratitude, the first sin of mankind, according to the Sages of Israel).
Now the question arises: if Israel and America have been the greatest benefactors of mankind, why is it that neither nation enjoys a “good press” in the world at large? The obvious answer is envy. This envy, however, is a manifestation of ingratitude—precisely the sin of which both nations are guilty insofar as both have more or less abandoned their Biblical heritage. “Measure for measure” is one of the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” or of Divine Providence.
The lesson is clear: The benefactors of mankind must not forget their ultimate Benefactor.◙
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Beyond Words – Rabbi Meir Kahane at His Very Best

http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/felafel-on-rye/beyond-words-rabbi-meir-kahane-at-his-very-best/2012/06/03/

Why be a Jew!!! It is an agonizing cry from the souls of tens of thousands of young Jews who assimilate, integrate and disappear into the outer space beyond Judaism. It is THE cry, THE question. It is asked by young men and women who have seen the emptiness and the vapidness of the Judaism they grew...

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Obama to jump start talks with Iran , AGAINST UN mandates recognized Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program . Rather than enable diplomacy, this concession poisoned it. With a single statement, Obama unilaterally stripped of authority three hard-fought Security Council Resolutions forbidding enrichment. Iranian authorities responded by ramping up enrichment and flatly rejecting to negotiate suspension.
Regressing on Iran Michael Rubin | Townhall Magazine 
July 31, 2012 
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“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2NIV

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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning

"Will ye also go away?"
John 6:67

Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have you to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning--"Have I been a wilderness unto you?" When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not up till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend to you, and has not simple faith in him given you all the peace your spirit could desire? Can you so much as dream of a better friend than he has been to you? Then change not the old and tried for new and false. As for the present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When we are hard beset with this world, or with the severer trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our Saviour. This is the joy we have today that we are saved in him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore should we think of changing? Who barters gold for dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover shall appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold him with a grasp immortal, and bind his name as a seal upon our arm. As for the future, can you suggest anything which can arise that shall render it necessary for you to mutiny, or desert the old flag to serve under another captain? We think not. If life be long--he changes not. If we are poor, what better than to have Christ who can make us rich? When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written that "neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!" We say with Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go?"

Evening

"Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."
Luke 22:46

When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travellers. Another dangerous time is when all goes pleasantly in spiritual matters. Christian went not to sleep when lions were in the way, or when he was wading through the river, or when fighting with Apollyon, but when he had climbed half way up the Hill Difficulty, and came to a delightful arbour, he sat down, and forthwith fell asleep, to his great sorrow and loss. The enchanted ground is a place of balmy breezes, laden with fragrant odours and soft influences, all tending to lull pilgrims to sleep. Remember Bunyan's description: "Then they came to an arbour, warm, and promising much refreshing to the weary pilgrims; for it was finely wrought above head, beautified with greens, and furnished with benches and settles. It had also in it a soft couch, where the weary might lean." "The arbour was called the Slothful's Friend, and was made on purpose to allure, if it might be, some of the pilgrims to take up their rest there when weary." Depend upon it, it is in easy places that men shut their eyes and wander into the dreamy land of forgetfulness. Old Erskine wisely remarked, "I like a roaring devil better than a sleeping devil." There is no temptation half so dangerous as not being tempted. The distressed soul does not sleep; it is after we enter into peaceful confidence and full assurance that we are in danger of slumbering. The disciples fell asleep after they had seen Jesus transfigured on the mountain top. Take heed, joyous Christian, good frames are near neighbours to temptations: be as happy as you will, only be watchful.

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Today's reading: Jeremiah 1-2, 1 Timothy 3 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 1-2

¹ The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. ² The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, ³ and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

The Call of Jeremiah

⁴ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

⁶ “Alas, Sovereign LORD,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am too young.”

⁷ But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. ⁸ Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.

⁹ Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. ¹⁰See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant....”

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Today's New Testament reading: 1 Timothy 3

Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

¹ Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. ² Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, ³ not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. ⁴ He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. ⁵ (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) ⁶ He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. ⁷ He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.

⁸ In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. ⁹ They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience. ¹⁰ They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons....

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