Editorial Sun Feb 7th 2021
On Friday, at work in the adjacent suburb of Hallam, a lightning storm resulted in power going down across Hallam. Children at the tutorial centre at 8pm were forced to work from fading daylight across summer of Melbourne. Lights returned fifteen minutes later. Work was done and children got a new appreciation of Zeus. When I got back home, I found the internet was down from wifi, but I had phone data operative. I searched for internet failure and found nothing. I waited until next morning, and found a report of NBN failure the night before. I went to work in the morning. At work I was called by my estate agent who had tried to reset the modem in the share accommodation, without success. I told them of the NBN outage report, with the news that the anticipated recovery was on Monday at 6pm, the fourth day from the failure.
I went home and checked the internet again. Still down, I checked the outage reports, and there were none. Not even at my address. Clearly, the estate agent had not got the landlord to raise the issue with the ISP. There is no reason to believe the internet will be restored on even the fourth day if no one is looking at the issue.
What has caused this outage? Internet gets slow whenever there is a thunderstorm. I live in Dandenong, a suburb of Melbourne. There is no excuse for such poor service.
Editorial Thursday 11th February 2021
Having reported the outage to my landlord’s agent, I queried them as to why no fault was reported on the address a day later, two days later, three days later and four days later. The estate agent raised their voice to me “It is not my job to sit by a phone for a telecommunications company hours on end. I’ve alerted the landlord.”
“Yes, but the telecommunications company needs to know there is a fault or they cannot address it.”
“I take your point but I have told you I have alerted the landlord.”
“Have you advised them to report the fault?”
“They said they will fix it. If they haven’t fixed by the end of working day tomorrow I will see to it. Have a good day, sir”
It wasn’t working on day five, but another member of the share household found mail addressed to the landlord from the telecommunications company and opened it. It said that the company was sending a final warning before cancellation. The company was forced to close their cable service and link to NBN instead. The cancellation was to take place on the 15th February, ten days after they in fact cancelled it. Had the company been called when the ‘fault’ was detected, the problem could have been addressed immediately. The agent has still not apologised to me. Neither is the internet connected after seven days.
My oldest sister sent me a near fifty year old school photo of me. I told her that I had lost all my photos when FB booted me. I have no place for such memories, but I’m thankful she thought of me. I had been booted from FB after Jan 6th for not being a good citizen, as I endorsed Donald Trump for President. I am not uncivilised and never condone violence or racism, but FB booted me. My sister, a left wing loony, said I should go somewhere else where I’m accepted. She suggested I use the library to access the internet. She was taunting me. That is how they behave.
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THE AVENGER 10 months ago (edited)
Under orders of Che Guevara 1285 prisoners were executed the first six months of the Cuban revolution.The total of Cuban murdered by firing squads 18 000. The total of Cubans murdered 70 000.We have to understand that the Cuban population is only 12 million people.
Here are comments Youtube approves
GamingBrains 6 months ago
Che...the filthy savage that deserved a painful death
I will leave you abusive comment as an example of the baseless accusations you make.
yes u r right , all american troops accidently killed kids in ıraq. History writes the kids killed by america . U r an idiot facist , simply.
You are a mentally ill subhuman beast. Guevara was sadist and murderer, he enjoyed executing people in front of their families, and he was a rapist. He was a white supremacist, he hated indians and blacks. He hated homosexuals. If you admire this man then i can't find a way to relate to you as a person, I don't recognize your humanity
fucking murderer u mean, same as hitler, bush, obama, putin, mao, another asshole thinking that the world will be a better place by killing and use of weapons, fuck him and the mentioned above!
I'm tired of an idea being blamed instead of the people responsible. That is such a silly logic.
He certainly labelled his victims without taking the ordinary steps of demonstrating they were guilty. If you assume he never made a mistake despite never investigating .. but that doesn't matter to a true believer ..
The people you call victims of Che, were: war criminals, rapists, desertors, spies. Do you have any proof that he killed an innocent person? All his independent biographers, state that they dont have ny knowledge of an innocent person killed by Che.
Where are the proof that Che targeted civilians? Talking without any knowledge of the real facts is very easy....
Neither Abu Ghraib nor Gitmo are death camps under the US. Abu Ghraib was under Saddam. Meanwhile, your hero Ghandi sided with people who killed for his cause and on the grounds of nationalism tried to ensnare over a hundred million Islamic peoples in a Hindu nation. Mandela's people killed people as a warning to others .. he was fighting a dirty war.
I agree. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention camp are just "accidents". The closest we come true heroes in this world are people like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
US trains lots of good soldiers. Most are not trained to kill. Those that are, are trained to kill a particular way. They follow orders that match known expectations. Despite the lies that underlay Billy Jack, a highly lauded movie, US troops tend not to kill civilians. Republicans tend to use troops to maintain precision. Democrats like to bomb to avoid criticism. Accidents happen. Che targeted civilians to threaten others.
And how do you win a war? By kissing people? Good soldiers are trained to kill without being killed themselves...
This is not pederloh, this is just me really, and a CIA front would know that critisizing peoples videos are´nt punishable at all. Again you show your lack of knowledge about the CIA, we never said anything about Che´s victims, we just critisized that you did´nt involve CIA, which we think is very central in this case. Unbutthurt yourself and answer like a real man for once...
Why didn't you use Absolutely no one ever's account to reply? Aren't you afraid that the CIA will track you to your tin hats? brevity can introduce ambiguity .. a polemic doesn't need to be addressed. You really do hammer home that unicorn of the CIA .. do you really feel that I issued a death threat? How do you know that I'm not a CIA front? Why don't you admit that the balance argument is an enormity? Have you no compassion for Che's victims? Chavez lives in your lies ..
A polemic is also a comment, as far as I know. You haven't really answered my comment, so I guess you don't have a good answer (which is fair enough, since you not are a historian or a professional debater). The only time you mention CIA at all, is when you wish me dead (which talks for itself, really).
pederloh posted a polemic, not a comment. I addressed it. He also posted on Blogger. I addressed it there too. And I'll say it again. This is about Che and his behaviour was unjust. His victims had families and they will never have justice or balance. The facts are substantiated and verifiable as to Che's atrocities. As for the CIA, they disappoint me. After all .. they let you two live ..
Nice job blocking pederloh so he cant answer the question. Now everybody will think you really owned that guy. Unfortunately for you, pederloh has friends... pederloh`s comment: I´m just trying to tell you that if you want to act like a serious debater, you have to look at several sides of the case. When you say that Che is a monster, whitout mentioning CIA, you make CIA look like "good guys", which not was the reality during the cold war. Reality is not a novel with a good and an evil side.
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Don't give up on hope. US sells oil in Middle East, but Australia does not exploit her reserves. But Melbourne is moving towards solar powered rubbish bins. Brandis' valedictory speech is sad. He fails to acknowledge the awful position of the paralysed Liberal Party is directly due to awful decisions made by Turnbull, Bishop and Pyne.
The miracle of what Putin has done with the Russian economy is key to understanding his popularity. In the final days of the Soviet Union, Reagan increased US expenditure on weapons to 5% GDP. The Soviets lifted their expenditure to over 100% GDP, but the US out spent the soviets on arms. US was that wealthy. Russia is much smaller than the old Soviet Union. but her economy is modernised. No one who loves Russia prefers the old ways.
EX NK spy who killed 115 before '88 olympics has regrets. NK still wants to kill her to silence her. She just wants to move on and lead a good life.
Dan Andrews state machinery gives a violent offender who attacked police a walk after one month in prison. Dan Andrews has also trashed Australia Day and has looked for alternative dates to Australia Day.
Malcolm Turnbull was highly lauded today for calling ALP leader Bill Shorten a parasite. A parasite is an insult unionists tend to call good workers. The workers that don't toe the union line on industrial relations. But Shorten has been calling Mr Turnbull "Mr Harbourside Mansion" and Turnbull is brittle in the face of insults. One does not need to name call Mr Shorten. To correctly attack Mr Shorten's political record, all a good leader need do is point to Mr Shorten's political record. Shorten has never done anything worthwhile in political office. Shorten has taken members of unions he managed for granted, and exploited them. He has used their money to achieve high office. Often without their permission. Mr Turnbull has not done precisely the same, but he has been no better.
What would have diverted Media Watch from their Abbott Phobia? Not Mr Murdoch who went to the same lunch as Mr Abbott. And yet there may have been a private meeting with Mr Murdoch and President Obama. What about a bogus report of a 5 yo being raped in detention? An actual story of a teenage Aboriginal girl being gang raped in detention was covered up over fifteen years ago too. But back then it might have embarrassed an ALP government.
For some at the moment, the sex party has more credibility.
There is a possibility that two Bali 9 inmates scheduled for execution won't be executed. Andrew Chan's and Myuran Sukumaran's former lawyer, who had been the one present when they were sentenced to be executed, has given testimony that the sentences were politically influenced. If this is true then the sentence has to be overturned because a judge is supposed to be unbiased. But then the news is supposed to be unbiased too. The Indonesian ambassador has downplayed the possibility, saying that the various appeals had been heard at the highest levels of Indonesian government. But then that is the allegation too.
Kayla Jean Mueller, an aid worker, 26, from Arizona working in Syria, had been kidnapped by ISIL death cult. She had been working for Spanish Doctors Without Borders. Held in captivity for eighteen months, the terrorists are claiming she was killed by a Jordanian air strike. Presumably that means her jailers were killed too.
It won't be hard to change the ABC, but it is inconceivable that current management won't change. Highly paid senior journalists who offer their opinion aren't necessary, and actually devalue the ABC. Better would be less experienced journalists held to a standard that is higher than it has been. Dame Leonie Kramer did some magnificent work in the early '80s. That could be a template for moving forward. First there needs to be acknowledgement of fault. The ABC has a long history, but not a proud one. The ABC was founded in hope that a fierce independent broadcaster could improve Australian politics. It never has (I recognise the bald statement, and welcome counter examples). It will take time. Let the work begin.
In 1807, Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeated Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq 1817, Las Heras crossed the Andes with an army to join San Martínand liberate Chile from Spain. 1837, Richard Johnson became the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate. 1855, the Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. 1856, Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolished slavery in Wallachia. 1865, in the United States, Delaware voters rejected the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and voted to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901.) 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. Also 1879, the England cricket team led by Lord Harris was attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney. 1885, the first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. 1887, the Dawes Actauthorised the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
In 1904, Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, Chinastarted the Russo-Japanese War. 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1915, D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles. 1922, President Warren G. Harding introduced the first radio in the White House. 1924, Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber took place in Nevada. 1942, World War II: Japan invaded Singapore. 1945, World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commenced Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. 1946, the first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, was published. 1948, the formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea was announced. 1949, Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary was sentenced for treason. 1950, the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, was established. 1952, Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. 1955, the Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolished the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired was to be distributed among the landless peasants.
In 1960, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants would take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". Also 1960, the first eight brass star plaques were installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1962, Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists were killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. 1963, travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba were made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. 1963, the First full Colour Television program in the World, publicly advertised, was broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. Also 1963, the regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem was overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and exploded, killing everyone aboard. 1968, American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, left three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. 1969, Allende meteorite fell near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. 1971, the NASDAQ stock market index opened for the first time. Also 1971, South Vietnamese ground troops launched an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. 1974, after 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space stationSkylab, returned to Earth. Also 1974, Military coup in Upper Volta. 1978, proceedings of the United States Senate were broadcast on radio for the first time.
In 1981, twenty-one association football spectators were trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC. 1983, the Melbourne dust storm hit Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud enveloped the city, turning day to night. 1986, Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people were killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collided with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people. 1993, General Motors sued NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups could easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day. 1996, the U.S. Congress passed the Communications Decency Act. Also 1996, the massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" took place. 2010, a freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistantriggered a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers. 2013, A blizzard disrupted transportation and left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. 2014, a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia killed 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
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Today's reading: Leviticus 1-3, Matthew 24:1-28 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Leviticus 1-3
The Burnt Offering
3 "'If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 24:1-28
The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times
=== Morning and Evening ===
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"Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine,
For thy bright courts on high;
Then bid our spirits rise, and join
The chorus of the sky."
"My heart is with him on his throne,
And ill can brook delay;
Each moment listening for the voice,
Rise up and come away.'"
We are not called down to the grave, but up to the skies. Our heaven-born spirits should long for their native air. Yet should the celestial summons be the object of patient waiting. Our God knows best when to bid us "Come up hither." We must not wish to antedate the period of our departure. I know that strong love will make us cry,
"O Lord of Hosts, the waves divide,
And land us all in heaven;"
but patience must have her perfect work. God ordains with accurate wisdom the most fitting time for the redeemed to abide below. Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good. Oh, for more sheaves for my Lord's garner! m
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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