Bairnsdale Conservative: Mon Jan 19th Todays News

On Bolt Report a new policy is that any Islam post can only be on the pinned leader. Normal rules apply in that if it is merely foul and abusive it will be deleted. Otherwise comments are welcome. Daniel Katz has previously posted some beauties ..
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Elizabeth Farrelly nails the issue of poodle walking in Sydney. Tim Blair has experimented. One suspects Tim is exaggerating, and does not feel Farrelly's pain. Sometimes a big city is hard. Still it isn't the same pain as that felt by an Iraqi Muslm whose 21 yo son has been hauled before a Sharia court. The crime has been to breed pigeons. It is not a well known crime, but still enough to haul away a young man and probably execute him. Luckily it wasn't a poodle, because then, well, it isn't worth thinking about it. The birds have been incinerated as is custom. Some would say the ISIL death cult does not speak for Islam and is not a real government. But the advocates struggle to find how they are not Islamic.

On this day in 1520 Sten Sture the younger was mortally wounded. He had been on a horse at the Battle of Bogesund, and a cannon ball bounced off the ice and took his leg and the horse beneath him. He survived to retreat, but died on the ice lake Mälaren on February 5. He had been regent of Sweden from the age of 18 and was ambitious. His enemies won and desecrated his corpse under religious code. But he is the direct ancestor of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden. In 1661, Thomas Venner was hanged drawn and quartered. He hadn't wanted Charles II to be king, so he killed people. His punishment then, seems harsh but fair. In 1788, the second part of the first fleet arrived at Botany Bay. In 1829, Faust was first performed, but notes do not say where, probably Weimar. In a prelude to WW1, in 1871, Prussia defeated France at the Battle of St Quentin.

In 1883, Thomas Edison's built electric lighting system began service in Roselle New Jersey. In 1915, Georges Claude patented the neon tube for advertising. Meanwhile German Zeppelins bombed the UK killing 20 civilians. In 1945, Soviet forces liberated Lodz ghetto. In 1940, the ghetto housed 200,000, in 1945 there were fewer than 900 survivors. In 1953, an estimated 72% of all tv sets in the US tuned in to watch Lucille Ball giving birth on I Love Lucy. In 1969, Jan Palach died having burned himself for freedom of Czechoslovakia. In 1977, for the only time in recorded history, snow fell in Miami. In 1981, Iran signed a deal to release embassy hostages, highlighting the inability of President Carter to do it before his election attempt. In 1983, Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia. Barbie might have helped kill Che Guevarra, but that was not a good enough reason to protect him.

2014

A posting on the Bolt Report Supporters Group has led me to post on the Middle East and Israel. I am a Christian conservative with Jewish ancestry. I don't feel guilty over historical abuses, but acknowledge that the Holocaust of WW2 was not the sole time Jews have been unjustly assaulted. I could point to numerous examples of Jews being abused in Europe, the New World, the old world. My family fled Russia (Minsk) they had probably gone there when it was called Poland as the name in Hebrew sounds like the promised land. Russian anti Semitism under the Tsars convinced my family to go to Holland and London. They were teachers and musicians. My great grandfather played in orchestra he established in London to play for silent movies. A few living in Holland survived extermination. Nazis had taken an elderly woman who was sick, threw her into concentration camp and made her write letters asking for medicine. They apparently kept sending the letters to her relatives years after killing her. One male relative went a little crazy as he stayed in a room like Anne Frank's family did in Amsterdam. Another male joined the Dutch Resistance, and unlike his family, was not a teacher or a musician, but a soldier. My family largely have not gone to Israel.

Following World War one, London had responsibility for the land that is now Israel's. The Balfour Declaration promised to Jewry that that land would be theirs, with a caveat ..

"His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country"

Which Israel honours by being a modern democracy. Following WW1, London did not honour the agreement, and the League of Nations did not facilitate it. In the years leading into WW2, when it was known Jews were being exterminated by Hitler in Germany, London, her king, the US President and many other notable figures turned their backs on Jews begging for a land of their own.

Israel was reborn in 1948, on the 15th May. They were invaded by neighbouring states the next day. They have fought several wars since. Part of the extra land claimed since '48 has been necessary to secure her borders. Jordan came into being in '48 too, being a successor state to the Ottoman Empire. During the '48 war with Israel, Jordan illegally annexed the west bank. In later years, a civil war in Jordan resulted in some Jordanians calling themselves Palestinians. The name 'Palestinian' was chosen for political purposes, but gives the Roman name for the Jewish kingdom in ancient times. Israel secured the land in '68 and '73 and have required it ever since.

The Land would have been indisputably Israel's by law, but the UN during the cold war had two imperatives preventing it. The Soviet Union had politically exploited the area isolating the US as Israel supporters, and the US embraced Saudi Arabia to prove they were independent. The fractured Islamic world was then exploited by the Soviet Union and wealthy Islamists. When the Soviet's dissolved, the UN had had set pieces isolating Israel. One set piece was to label Jordanians calling themselves Palestinians as refugees and instructing Israel to give up her own land to the refugees. Even though that land was being used by terrorists who weren't refugees. Another set piece had the UN declaring that any child to a so called Palestinian refugee would not be called Israeli. this is different to every other refugee camp in the world. Any child born in Australia is Australian (unless the ALP wish to call them something else).

Today, Israel allows all peoples of any faith to live in Israel. But the UN run Palestinian area is ethnically cleansed. Israel has been forced to allow terrorists to live in Jerusalem and damage their holiest monument. They have been forced to release killers from prison 'for peace.' Israel has been forced to not build settlements in their own land. Absurdly, the safest place for a Muslim in the world is Israel, because they are not targeted by other Muslims in Israel. And yet Obama has approved building a nuclear power plant in Iran capable of harvesting plutonium for an atom bomb.

I am not Jewish, but I stand with Israel against terrorism. Israel has a right to exist as a modern democracy and thrive as a whole nation. Israel has a right to defend her peoples from terror. Israel has a right to Jerusalem as her capital. Should Israel decide to rebuild her temple, she should. I don't mind people disagreeing with me, but I insist they give argument addressing these points, not mere abuse.

Historical perspectives on this day

In 379, Emperor Gratian elevated Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gave him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. 639, Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, was crowned. 649, Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrendered after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. 1419, Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrendered to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1511, Mirandola surrendered to the French. 1520, Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. 1607, San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1661, Thomas Venner was hanged, drawn and quartered in London. 1764, John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1788, the second group of ships of the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay. 1795, the Batavian Republic was proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

In 1806, the United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope. 1812, Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, ordered British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo. 1817, an army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1829, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy received its premiere performance. 1839, the British East India Company captured Aden. 1840, Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigated Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853, Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore received its premiere performance in Rome. 1861, American Civil War: Georgia joined South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. 1862, American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffered its first significant defeat in the conflict. 1871, Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia won the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempted to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval would end unsuccessfully the following day. 1883, the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began service at Roselle, New Jersey. 1893, Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder received its premiere performance in Berlin. 1899, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was formed.

In 1915, Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. Also 1915, World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917, Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three were killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. 1920, the United States Senate voted against joining the League of Nations. 1935, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs. 1937, Howard Hughes set a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. 1941, World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sank the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. 1942, World War II: Japanese forces invaded Burma. 1945, World War II: Soviet forces liberated the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. 1946, General Douglas MacArthur established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1949, Cuba recognised Israel. 1953, almost 72% of all television sets in the United States were tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

In 1960, Japan and the United States signed the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty 1969, student Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest. 1974, China gained control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). 1975, an earthquake struck Himachal Pradesh, India 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). Also 1977, snow fell in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas. 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continued until 2003. 1981, Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials signed an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia. Also 1983, the Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced. 1986, the first IBM PC computer virus was released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.

In 1991, Gulf War: Iraq fired a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993, Czech Republic and Slovakia joined the United Nations. 1995, after being struck by lightning the crew were forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard were later rescued. 1996, the barge North Cape oil spill occurred as an engine fire forced the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997, Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron after more than 30 years and joined celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999, British Aerospace agreed to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2006, the New Horizons probe was launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. 2007, Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. 2012, the Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI. 2013, a failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television was foiled by security guards. 2014, a bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu killed at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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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 Aaron Haider and Bobby Lam. Born on the same day, across the years, along with

398 or 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
1676 – John Weldon, English composer (d. 1736)
1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian castrato, composer, and educator (d. 1802)
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general (d. 1870)
1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 1970)
1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer

January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States (2015)

1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest church in the Philippines, was completed.
1795 – A day after William V, Prince of Orange (pictured), fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution, the Batavian Republic was established.
1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others.
1975 – A magnitude 6.8 M_s earthquake struck northern Himachal Pradesh, India, causing extensive damage to the region.
2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.

We have built the temple. The republic is established. We have learned to store munitions safely. The Earth has moved. Be the survivor. Let's party.
Matches

379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynastygeneral Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1917 – Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1977 – Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas.
1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
2013 – A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards.
2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.

Hatches

398 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
1544 – Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1676 – John Weldon, English organist and composer (d. 1736)
1721 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator (d. 1802)
1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (d. 1808)
1752 – James Morris III, American soldier (d. 1820)
1757 – Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831)
1788 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general (d. 1870)
1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (d. 1898)
1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1875)
1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1848 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1904)
1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1906)
1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
1876 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author (d. 1925)
1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (d. 1943)
1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (d. 1986)
1905 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)
1909 – Hans Hotter, German opera singer (d. 2003)
1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1914 – Bob Gerard, English race car driver (d. 1990)
1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)
1920 – Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator
1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat, 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
1925 – Nina Bawden, English author (d. 2012)
1926 – George Ives, American actor (d. 2013)
1926 – Jim Line, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1926 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author
1932 – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1932 – Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
1932 – Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (d. 2014)
1933 – George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian
1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
1936 – Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (d. 2011)
1937 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
1937 – Fred J. Lincoln, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
1937 – Appadurai Muttulingam, Sri Lankan accountant and author
1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (d. 1992)
1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (d. 2007)
1941 – Tony Anholt, Singaporean-English actor (d. 2002)
1941 – Colin Gunton, English theologian (d. 2003)
1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
1942 – Thom Mayne, American architect, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
1942 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet and politician
1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai actress
1943 – Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 1970)
1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
1944 – Laurie London, English singer
1944 – Peter Lynch, American businessman
1944 – Dan Reeves, American football player and coach
1945 – Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Audience and The Nashville Teens)
1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
1947 – Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist and academic
1947 – Christine Allsopp, English priest
1947 – Ann Compton, American journalist
1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author
1947 – Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter (Deep Purple and Captain Beyond)
1947 – Patricia Hodgson, English broadcaster
1947 – Elena Nathanael, Greek actress (d. 2008)
1948 – Amanda Holden, English playwright and composer
1948 – Nancy Lynch, American computer scientist
1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
1948 – Mal Reilly, English rugby player and coach
1948 – Michael J. Jackson, English actor
1949 – Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (d. 2012)
1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Power Station) (d. 2003)
1949 – Lindsay Roy, Scottish educator and politician
1949 – Andrew Samuels, English psychologist and academic
1949 – Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
1950 – Jon Matlack, American baseball player
1950 – Grant Nordman, American-Canadian politician
1950 – David Tredinnick, English politician
1951 – Graham James English bishop
1951 – Arthur Taxier, American actor
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
1954 – Clifford Tabin, Geneticist
1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and director
1955 – Tony Mansfield, English singer-songwriter and producer (New Musik)
1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor
1956 – Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host
1957 – Ottis Anderson, American football player
1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician, 13th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
1958 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
1959 – Danese Cooper, American computer scientist
1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Dokken, Dio, and Foreigner)
1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
1961 – Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead
1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player
1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
1963 – John Bercow, English politician and Speaker of the House of Commons
1963 – Caron Wheeler, English singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul)
1963 – Luís Martins, Portuguese footballer, coach, and manager
1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer
1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
1968 – Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter (Ugly Kid Joe, Medication, Another Animal, and Life of Agony)
1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager
1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
1969 – Casey Sherman, American author
1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
1970 – Tim Foster, English rower
1970 – Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager
1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer (UltraCats)
1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
1971 – John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Marcy Playground)
1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
1972 – Jon Fisher, American businessman and author
1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak canoe racer
1972 – R-Truth, American wrestler
1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver
1971 – Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player
1973 – Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005)
1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
1973 – Aaron Yonda, American comedian, actor, and director
1974 – Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player
1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1975 – Noah Georgeson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian race car driver
1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer-songwriter
1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
1977 – Margus Maiste, Estonian architect
1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
1979 – Wiley, English rapper and producer (Roll Deep)
1980 – Jenson Button, English race car driver
1980 – Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer
1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and singer
1980 – Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
1981 – Lucho González, Argentinian footballer
1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
1981 – Andrus Mitt, Estonian football and beach soccer player
1981 – Jaanus Nõmmsalu, Estonian volleyball player
1981 – Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player
1981 – Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
1983 – Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian race car driver
1984 – Jimmy Kébé, Malian footballer
1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1985 – Jake Allen, American football player
1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian race car driver
1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Ongaku Gatas, v-u-den, and Hangry & Angry)
1985 – Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer
1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
1986 – Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer
1986 – Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian footballer
1988 – JaVale McGee, American basketball player
1988 – Yusuke Yamamoto, Japanese actor
1990 – Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player
1991 – Corinna Harrer, German runner
1991 – Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player
1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor
1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper, producer, and actor
1993 – Gus Lewis, American-English actor
1993 – Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
2006 – JB Agustin, Filipino actor

Despatches

520 – John of Cappadocia
639 – Dagobert I, Frankish king (b. 603)
1526 – Isabella of Austria (b. 1501)
1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
1576 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (b. 1494)
1597 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (b. 1540)
1661 – Thomas Venner, English rebel leader (b. 1599)
1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist (b. 1683)
1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar (b. 1674)
1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (b. 1695)
1785 – Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (b. 1713)
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
1833 – Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (b. 1791)
1847 – Charles Bent, American politician, 1st Governor of New Mexico (b. 1799)
1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772)
1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (b. 1805)
1853 – Karl Faber, German historian and academic (b. 1773)
1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)
1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
1915 – Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
1925 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (b. 1841)
1927 – Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
1938 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1945 – Gustave Mesny, French Army general (b. 1886)
1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
1957 – József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912)
1963 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
1969 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948)
1971 – Harry Shields, American clarinet player (b. 1899)
1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1973 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (b. 1903)
1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1886)
1980 – William O. Douglas, American jurist (b. 1898)
1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1983 – Ham the Chimp, Cameroonian-American chimpanzee (b. 1956)
1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
1990 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic and guru (b. 1931)
1990 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist (b. 1908)
1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician, 6th Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1906)
1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (b. 1918)
1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
1996 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
1997 – James Dickey, American poet and author (b. 1923)
1998 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (b. 1967)
2000 – Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and mathematician (b. 1913)
2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
2003 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1916)
2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (b. 1917)
2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand union leader (b. 1924)
2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African author (b. 1974)
2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (The Falcons) (b. 1941)
2006 – Awn Alsharif Qasim, Sudanese author and scholar (b. 1933)
2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
2007 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (b. 1940)
2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1936)
2010 – Christos Hatziskoulidis, Greek footballer (b. 1952)
2010 – Jennifer Lyon, American contestant on Survivor: Palau (b. 1972)
2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
2011 – Ernest McCulloch, Canadian biologist (b. 1926)
2012 – Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1962)
2012 – Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (b. 1982)
2012 – Peter de Francia, French-English painter and illustrator (b. 1921)
2012 – Gene Methvin, American pilot and journalist (b. 1934)
2012 – Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (The Techniques) (b. 1943)
2012 – On Sarig, Israeli author (b. 1926)
2012 – Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1933)
2013 – Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1921)
2013 – Mehnaz Begum, Pakistani singer (b. 1958)
2013 – Milt Bolling, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2013 – John Braheny, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2013 – Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (b. 1976)
2013 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (b. 1940)
2013 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (b. 1926)
2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2013 – Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (b. 1926)
2013 – A. Rafiq, Indonesian singer and actor (b. 1948)
2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930)
2013 – Ian Wells, English footballer (b. 1964)
2014 – Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (b. 1918)
2014 – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (b. 1931)
2014 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (b. 1945)
2014 – Al Lerner, American pianist and composer (b. 1919)
2014 – Michael Sporn, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1946)
2014 – Ben Starr, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1921)
2014 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1929)
2014 – Bert Williams, English footballer (b. 1920)

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2015

Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (commemorated by the Poe Toaster at his grave in Baltimore)
Christian feast day:

Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance:
- Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi)

Earliest day on which Husband's Day or Bóndadagur can fall, while January 25 is the latest; celebrated on Friday between 19 and 25 January (Iceland)
Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty), first day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances:
- Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox)
- Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (Republic of Macedonia)

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BIRDMEN OF AL KHALIS

Tim Blair – Monday, January 19, 2015 (5:19am)

Eastern Iraq farmer Abu Abdullah received some unwanted visitors last week. The 52-year-old was at his Diyala property when six Islamic State gunmen burst in and grabbed Abdullah’s oldest son, who is 21.

“I asked them why,” Abdullah later told the US NBC network by telephone, “and they said, ‘He is not following the real Islam. He must be punished for being a pigeon breeder.’ “

Continue reading 'BIRDMEN OF AL KHALIS'

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SYDNEY POODLE EXPERIMENT

Tim Blair – Monday, January 19, 2015 (4:24am)

Three times in recent years Sydney Morning Herald columnist Elizabeth Farrelly has become involved in unpleasant encounters as she rode or walked through inner Sydney.

“Anzac Day, mid-morning. A quiet street on quieter day. I’m poodle-walking,” began one such tale, which ended with Farrelly being abused by a hostile cyclist ("Don’t be so rude, lady!"). Last week Farrelly reported another enraged two-wheeler. “It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m walking the dog on Cleveland Street,” Farrelly wrote. “The traffic is relatively light and the footpath outside the Greek Orthodox church relatively cluttered – three poles, two palm trees, one oncoming pedestrian with full set of golf clubs, and a standard poodle (mine).”

That perfect pedestrian/poles/poodle storm resulted in yet more abuse ("You could’ve got outta the way! You’re just a great big f-----g c---!"). These stories fascinate me, because for the best part of a decade I’ve walked many of the same streets and never experienced nor witnessed similar attacks.

Continue reading 'SYDNEY POODLE EXPERIMENT'

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SUNNI LISTON

Tim Blair – Monday, January 19, 2015 (3:17am)

Sydney heavyweight Irfan Yusuf – briefly a contender for the lucrative title of Australia’s primary mainstream Islamic voice, before he was knocked out by Waleed “Muhammad” Aly – considers recent events:

The general response in the West to the appalling January 7 Paris attacks show that the Western view of terrorism has barely changed since 9/11. The same themes persist – “they” are terrorising “us”. “Their” moderates need to do more to stop “their” extremists from attacking “us”. Why aren’t more of “their” moderates speaking out? Why don’t “they” respect “our” values? Why don’t “they” take responsibility?

The reason the West’s response hasn’t changed is because terrorism hasn’t changed. It is still them versus us. What else could it be? Coke versus Pepsi? Cats versus dogs? Irfan versus a salad?

Surely holding all Muslims (one-quarter of the world’s population) collectively responsible for the actions of fringe groups should be universally hounded as imbecilic.

With those numbers, it ought to be a simple matter to police so-called “fringe” groups. Unless, you know, there is broader general support for these groups than Irfan might admit.

There’s a new generation of Muslims born and brought up in Australia who better understand and are less afraid to engage with media, politics and mainstream culture ...

Here’s young Australian Muslim Mohamed Elomar engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Khaled Sharrouf engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Wissam Haddad engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Bilaal Abdullah engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Abu Yahya ash Shami engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s a very young Australian Muslim engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Uthman Badar engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Numan Haider engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Hamdi al Qudsi engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Mohammad Ali Baryalei engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Junaid Thorne engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Amira Karroum engaging with mainstream culture. Here are young Australian Muslims Omar, Taha, Hamza and Bilal Elbaf engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Amirah Droudis engaging with mainstream culture. Here are young Australian Muslims Hafsa Mohamed and Hodan Abby engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Sulayman Khalid engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Zehra Duman engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Suhan Rahman engaging with mainstream culture. Here’s young Australian Muslim Musa Cerantonio engaging with mainstream culture. Irfan continues:

Nor was there much said about Boko Haram’s assaults in Nigeria. In one such assault, which took place around the same time as the Paris attack, more than 1000 people were murdered. The Nigerian schoolgirls have still not been captured, though they have been immortalised in a Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicting them as pregnant welfare queens demanding no one touch their payments.

Irfan misrepresents Charlie Hebdo‘s welfare cartoon. Vox sets him straight: “Charlie Hebdo is actually lampooning the idea that Boko Haram sex slaves are welfare queens, not endorsing it.” Next, Irfan offers his own version of “What about the British in Malaya in the 1950s?”:

Who are the most feared group in India? “Communist terrorist groups are by far the most frequent perpetrators and the main cause of deaths in India,” the [2013 Global Terrorism Index] noted. “Three Maoist communist groups claimed responsibility for 192 deaths in 2013, which was nearly half of all deaths from terrorism in India.”

The Maoist uprising, which started in 1967, has been operating in 20 of India’s 29 states.

In other words, “What about the Maoist uprisings in India 1967-2013?”. This bloke is hopeless. Waleed Aly’s arguments are sometimes slippery enough to present a challenge. By contrast, Irfan exhibits all the debating finesse of a punctured Skywhale.

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Post by Earthjustice.

Djev Gvoritzc Well you better watch out for the specie with most deaths on it's name.... ...

Djev Gvoritzc oh and that specie is not listed here...

David Daniel Ball Mosquito?

Hernan Lascano Bears?

David Daniel Ball drop bears? They clean up after their kill ..

Djev Gvoritzc Humans, dear people...

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Post by Theory of Thought :: Symbolism.

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premiers HBO on Jan 27, 2015 Alfred Hitchcock’s Lost Holocaust Documentary http://t.co/Iz8DxtSSVn via @marlownyc
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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It offers no details as to how to identify said apples .. Granny Smith, Gala apples recalled due to Listeria http://t.co/e2OvDeO2f2
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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Uproar after Miss Israel's selfie with Miss Lebanon http://t.co/PQerMwG5FV via @nypost
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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Worship Gaia? Human activity pushing Earth to its limits http://t.co/HSyqA7SdpN via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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How Australians consume porn http://t.co/0TgoAu1BaK via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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Corrupt? Or just a Democrat? .. From Alabama governor to Oklahoma prison http://t.co/JE7YxwIkDA via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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His family is threatened .. The lie Kim Jong-un wants you to know is true http://t.co/fqGr2V1eNs via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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Synthetic cannabis ‘more addictive than heroin’ http://t.co/g9pI902sTF via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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Photo: We stand alone http://t.co/NW2g1GGnit
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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EU has socialist problems .. European democracy is coming to a boil http://t.co/mhwK78cZXN via @smh
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 19, 2015

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Mark Scott puts lid on scathing report into quality of ABC journalism http://t.co/QftAfezmf9
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar System http://t.co/7An6gw7xK8 via @SPACEdotcom
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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Breakthrough in child murder cold case http://t.co/NihIGa3ctt
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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Today in NSW a former ALP member has died, gay with HIV. .. Ireland reacts first openly gay Min http://t.co/GpuP8xZ2Ry via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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Computing is new favourite UK subject http://t.co/q803R2Bcqf via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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It is worse when no one cares .. Pope Francis: Six million attend final Mass in Manila http://t.co/yNYWMLA3xQ via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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Ex-husband of hairdresser Leila Alavi charged over her stabbing death http://t.co/t943DOl5BP via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

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Anonymous burial for Charlie Hebdo terrorists Said Kouachi, Cherif Kouachi http://t.co/iPv8gAwFbk via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 18, 2015

=== Posts from last year ===

Greens don’t have a prayer of replacing God

Piers Akerman – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (11:27pm)

BEREFT of significant nation-building policies, acting Greens leader Richard di Natale, has launched a crusade to axe the Lord’s Prayer from the formal opening of parliamentary sittings.

Continue reading 'Greens don’t have a prayer of replacing God'

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STABILIDY AND SECURIDY IN THE REGION

Tim Blair – Sunday, January 19, 2014 (1:14am)

A packed house for Julia Gillard’s big Dubai speech:

Three mentions of V8 Supercars (from 9:15). Maybe Tim wrote the speech. To Gillard’s credit, she did stand up for Israel while endorsing Palestinian independence. All the chicks in the crowd loved it:

Gillard barely touched on women’s issues during her speech, but there was this answer to a question (at 1:07:40) from a New Zealand student who asked about female representation in Middle Eastern politics:

Ah, well, ah, it, you know, it’s, ah, not, not for me, ah, to, ah, you know, determine how, ah, countries and individuals determine these issues …

So much for her vow to “call out misogyny and sexism wherever I see it”.

(Via That Old Stone in the Shoe)

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HOOROO HIROO

Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (5:44pm)

A Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle for 29 years after World War II has died at 91:

Hiroo Onoda was one of about 60 soldiers who fought on from their jungle strongholds after the war, refusing to believe that the Japanese empire had been defeated.

The former army intelligence officer spent three decades waging his own guerrilla war on Lubang Island in the north-western Philippines.

In 1974 he laid down his arms, but only after his former commanding officer returned and personally ordered him to do so.

How did Hiroo remain so completely oblivious to the war’s end and subsequent global developments during his decades in hiding?

For information, he would listen to a stolen shortwave radio. His favourite broadcast was ABC Radio Australia.

(Via CL)

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SIDE CHOSEN

Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (5:41pm)

The Courier-Mail‘s gullible Paul Syvret seems upset by a lack of boats:

If I was Indonesia I’d now be tempted to provide naval escorts for refugee boats to the edge of Aust waters

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ANNITA WHO?

Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (5:38pm)

To celebrate Paul Keating’s 70th birthday, Fairfax’s Jacqueline Maley files 1730 words of love about the “incredibly warm, intensely loyal, incredibly funny’’ former Labor Prime Minister, who “has read everything, listened to everything and sometimes, it seems, knows everything.”

Maley doesn’t mention Keating’s former wife Annita, to whom he was married for 23 years before dumping her at a dinner party.

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HARVEY AND MERYL VERSUS THE NRA

Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (3:59pm)

US firearms manufacturers may as well shut down right away:

Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein has revealed plans to expose the National Rifle Association in a new movie starring Meryl Streep, saying “they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them” …

Weinstein said the movie would do so much damage to gun manufacturers that their stocks would “crash and burn” upon its release.

Interestingly, Weinstein is “one of the strongest supporters of President Barack Obama”, who happens to behistory’s greatest gun salesman. Readers may be familiar with Weinstein’s production of films such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Rambo, none of which feature any firearms or glorify violence in any way.

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CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE

Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (2:05pm)

Andrew Bolt smugly dismisses claims that Sydney is suffering a frightening global-warming induced heatwave. Well,what do you say to this, Mr Gaia-Hating Denier Man?

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A happy and confident man should speak faster

Andrew Bolt January 19 2014 (7:56am)

Tony Abbott’s speech patterns as Prime Minister are to some extent a metaphor for his first months in office - much caution, but too little identity:

Mr Abbott speaks 100 words a minute slower in media interviews than he did in opposition, and also speaks in a more monotone voice, according to Cate Madill, the director of the voice research laboratory at the University of Sydney’s faculty of health sciences…
Her analysis found his interview responses dropped from 216 words a minute to 108 words a minute… ‘’There is always a balance between authority and spontaneity, but the hard part is you risk losing the sense of who you are, and that was what Julia Gillard suffered from. I think he’s now on a par with her wooden presentation style...”

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The gobal warming faith sees warming even in ice

Andrew Bolt January 19 2014 (7:31am)

Global warming is actually a faith. Let Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Professor of Theology at the snow-bound Chicago Theological Seminary, demonstrate:

Hell is normally depicted as a “lake of fire,” as in Revelation 20:10. This week in the Midwest, however, Hell is likely to look more like lakes of ice, as dangerous cold from a polar vortex, brings “wind chills [that] could hit 50, 60 or even 70 below zero.” The Great Lakes will likely freeze over and prolong an already very cold winter.
This is the chilling effect of global warming…
Simply put, the Christian theological argument must start with our sinful failure to take care of the creation, as God intends (Gen. 2:15). Instead, we are trashing the planet and changing its climate primarily through the fossil fuel emissions.
Sin against the creation abounds…
The climate is where the weird things are. You may not know the cause, but everybody knows the weather sure has gotten weird. Weird is threatening. Weird is scary.
And you should be scared.
In history, artists have portrayed scenes of the fiery Hell as very scary. Today, there is a Hell coming toward us, but it is a frigid apocalypse, brought on by our own sinful disregard of the planet. The future prospects are chilling.

When freezing is warming, emissions a “sin against the creation”, and “the climate is where the weird things are” you know you have left the world of reason and facts no longer count. You will not change such a believer’s faith until hell freezes over, and, as we see, probably not even then.
UPDATE
Professor David Deming, a geophysicist, responds to the babbling of a Brooks:

Global warming is nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and has been slowly falling for approximately the past 10 years…
At the end of the first week in January, a brutal spell of cold weather settled over most of the country. Multiple cold-temperature records were shattered across the country… . Chicago and New York City broke temperature records set in 1894 and 1896, respectively… Weather extremes also seem to bring out the lunatic fringe… We were subjected to the oxymoronic explanation that frigid weather was, in fact, caused by global warming. According to Time magazine, cold temperatures in the United States were a result of global warming forcing the polar vortex southward. But in 1974, the same Time informed us that descent of the polar vortex into temperate zones was a harbinger of a new Ice Age.

(Via Watts Up With That.)

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Gillard can’t shout “misogynist” in Arabic

Andrew Bolt January 19 2014 (7:04am)

Julia Gillard in 2012 in Canberra, smearing Tony Abbott as a woman-hater:

Enough is enough… When I see sexism and misogyny, I’m gonna call ‘em for what they are.

Gillard in 2014 in Abu Dhabi, where raped women are jailed for adultery:

Gillard barely touched on women’s issues during her speech, but there was this answer to a question (at 1:07:40) from a New Zealand student who asked about female representation in Middle Eastern politics:

Ah, well, ah, it, you know, it’s, ah, not, not for me, ah, to, ah, you know, determine how, ah, countries and individuals determine these issues …

It’s remarkable what people are prepared to overlook when they sense a future on the UN circuit.
(Via Tim Blair.)

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Why do we fund men who censor poets for their political connections?

Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (6:23pm)

The taxpayer-funded Overland magazine decides to ban poets who are published in the politically conservative Quadrant. Poetry editor Peter Minter declares he does not “wish to have any association with the authors of a journal edited by Keith Windschuttle”.
How McCarthyist. It is bizarre how intolerant the Left can be while claiming to represent the politics of tolerance. Imagine what such people would if granted real power. Or just think the Union of Soviet Writers.
Question is, why does the state fund a literary magazine which punishes poets for their political associations? And how feeble is Overland to challenge conservatives not with argument but with bans on the poets they support? The very antithesis of intellectual engagement. The very seeds of totalitarianism.
UPDATE
Turns out Minter also has a very fashionable academic position - one that is almost a parody of modern Leftism, involving issues it is now legally dangerous to publicly satirise:

Dr Peter Minter is Coordinator of the Indigenous Australian Studies Major and Coordinator of Honours in Indigenous Australian Studies. He is an ARC Chief Investigator on the “AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource” consortium, contributing to the national “BlackWords” Aboriginal literature digital humanities infrastructure project.
Dr Minter’s teaching and research interests are in Australian Aboriginal Literature and Australian Literature…
A leading Australian poet, editor and scholar, Dr Minter’s expertise is concentrated in Indigenous literatures and their interpolations of Australian and transnational modernisms and countermodernisms. His work proposes critical and theoretical affiliations between Indigenous literatures and western cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law. He is particularly interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies of interactions between Indigenous poetics and cultures of avant-garde experimentalism, the visual arts, cinema, music, resistance politics and ecopoetics.

Whoever wrote his CV does not have a way with words.
UPDATE
Minter’s crude shutting down of debate is in breach of the Australia Council’s objectives for funding this magazine with our taxes:

The Literature Panel aims are to encourage the writing and reading of Australian literature, to open up opportunities for our writers to earn from their creative work, and to keep the avenues of debate, discussion, analysis and criticism open.

But don’t expect the politically loaded panel responsible for the grants to bother too much about this punishment of poets with conservative ties.
UPDATE
Reader Andrew V:

Andrew, you don’t seem to mention the point that Joe Dolce, who wrote the original Quadrant piece, is an unabashed leftist, and makes the point that Quadrant have never banned him from posting pieces in other publications, even encouraging him to post pieces too edgy for then in other publications such as the Monthly. Even an old leftie like Joe is now starting to see who the real totalitarians are!

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Possums at my feet at last

Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (6:13pm)

One of the most attractive innovations I saw in New Zealand. As an Australian gardener I would wear these socks with a special pleasure, despite the price.

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Green power was useless in this heatwave. Praise coal - and the “gold-plating” Gillard attacked

Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (1:28pm)

Carbon tax, The green movement

The worst heat often occurs when there is not a breath of wind, which is a problem if you rely on wind power for your airconditioning to survive a heat wave:

WHEN electricity demand peaked at the height of this week’s heatwave in southern Australia, the total power output from the fleet of wind farms across Victoria and South Australia was almost zero...
Figures supplied by the Australian Energy Market Operator show that between 11.30am and 4pm on Wednesday, as demand hit a daily peak of 33029 megawatts nationally, wind’s share of supply fell as low as 0.3 per cent. When the electricity price peaked at $6213 in South Australian on Wednesday in the half-hour to 4pm, wind was contributing 0.7 per cent to total demand.

And solar power remains more a green gesture than a major source of energy:

More than $2 billion of subsidised investment in over 2 million rooftop solar systems contributed less than 5 per cent of peak power demand in Victoria and South Australia during the worst of this week’s heatwave.

This goes straight to the madness of Labor’s crusade against cheap coal-fired power and of the Renewable Energy Target that is still backed by the Abbott Government. Why are we taxing cheap, reliable power and giving handouts to expensive, unreliable power that can’t even power airconditioning in a heatwave?
But this week exposed another fraud of the Left. Julia Gillard as Prime Minister tried to deflect anger at her carbon tax by attacking utilities for their high spending on making our power system able to cope with days of highest demand - typically days like the ones we have just had:

Ms. Gillard pointed her finger at the “gold-plating” of electricity infrastructure being a major driver of price hikes, rather than the carbon price and green initiatives such as supporting the uptake of solar panel systems:

“These energy price rises are well above the cost of the introduction of the carbon price and taking action on climate change. 9c of every dollar in an electricity bill is for the carbon price - and that’s fully compensated - while 51c is for the poles and wires.”

The Prime Minister also pointed out a quarter of all retail electricity costs is spent to meet the costs of peak events that last for a few days a year.

“One sixth of our national electricity networks - $11 billion in infrastructure - caters for peak events that last for barely four days per year.

I thought it astonishing that so many journalists fell for this red herring. Ask yourself: do you begrudge that investment now? Or would you have been happy for the power in Melbourne and Adelaide to have failed this week, at the cost of who knows how many lives of the elderly and frail?

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The 15 Worst Corporate Logo Fails

www.businessinsider.com

Sometimes logo changes are ill-conceived, and sometimes they're just plain awful. These are the 15 worst corporate logo fails ever.

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Canadian PM Stephen Harper Is Coming To Israel Tomorrow

www.israellycool.com

And we just have one simple thing to ask from him.

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Cinnamon and Honey
Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey.. However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call "crystallizing" . When this happens I loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water,turn off the heat and let it liquefy. It is then as good as it ever was. Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey.

Cinnamon and Honey
Bet the drug companies won't like this one getting around. Facts on Honey and Cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a 'Ram Ban' (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada , in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada , various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:
Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:
According to the studies done in India and Japan , it is revealed that if Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ' Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu..

LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increase and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

BAD BREATH:
People of South America , first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing. Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!

Cinnamon and honey's healing properties

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Cinnamon and honey's healing properties

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feeling blessedwith Edwin Vogt at Earth.
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Is the Obama marriage on the rocks?

www.dailymail.co.uk

Mrs Obama, reports claim, will stand by her husband until his presidency ends, when he will move back to Hawaii and she will stay in Washington with the children.

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