Sun 28th February 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Mon 15^th Feb

Former Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja had understood Machiavelli and knew a concept encapsulated by the Prince which many were getting wrong in the late 1990’s. So applying all her mental powers, she went on radio and told people how to get it right. Machiavelli, she declared, was pronounced ‘Match-i-ah-velli.’ The senator despaired at people misrepresenting the Prince. After all, Hitler had had the book on his bed side table for inspiration and late-night reading. He had needed to improve his mind. There are many examples, provided by Charles and Andrew to name two, of Princes who fail the bedside table test. 

It was with delight I happened on Delderfield’s story of a horseman, Paul Craddock, who purchased a farm. 

Dr Maureen O’Keefe talking to 14 yo Ikey (Delderfield’s Horseman riding by)

“Ikey,” she said, “There’s a word you wouldn’t have heard yet that just about describes you so remember it and you can recognise yourself later on! You’re Machiavellian! Remember that – Mack-i-ah-vellian”

“What does it mean?” he asked, and she said, gesticulating, “It’s having an instinctive understanding of people and how their minds work and it’s a priceless quality to possess, particularly if you are ever thinking of going into business.”

“I’ll not do that,” he said, scornfully, “I’m going to join the cavalry!”

“Ah,” she said, “Then I’m afraid it won’t be of much use to you. Still, it’s nice to have and I daresay it’ll help you get along with the ladies!”

The former senator never really explained her clarification. She is a left wing loony and the press would never have dared ask it. But, what was it her clarification addressed? Was the senator addressing a mid 90’s man drought after too many eligible bachelors had bought into a hipster form of feminism? Had she approved of Hitler’s late night reading? We could ask her, but we may never know. 

Editorial Sun 21^st February Current Affairs

Sixteen days without internet access. Lockdown meant my zoom meetings were conducted, over 8 hours, using phone data which emptied my bandwidth for the month. What had happened was a storm on the 5^th of February took out cable access but left the wifi running without carrying a connection We could see the router was active, but there was no internet access. We contacted the estate agent who said they had contacted the landlord after coming over to turn the router on and off to no affect. Not knowing which ISP held the actual account, I searched online (using phone data) and found that NBN was down and slated to be fixed after the weekend. 

During the weekend, I noticed the NBN fault had been fixed, but we still did not have internet, so I pointed out to the estate agent that no fault was reported for this address. They yelled at me, saying it was not their job to stay on the phone of an ISP and wait hours, but they had told the landlord who had promised to fix it. I pointed out the landlord might need to be told to report the issue to the ISP to fix it. They said they got my point, but had already told the landlord. “Have a good day sir!” they yelled before hanging up. 

I contacted radio 3AW to report the issue. Neil Mitchell had me waiting forty minutes before not listening to me, or following up. 

One other member of the household noticed our landlord had not collected their mail from Optus, an ISP, and opened it, discovering that our share house was due to have internet cancelled because NBN did not want to compete with Optus Cable. But the cancellation was for the 15^th of February or later, and should not have happened yet. The information was relayed to the estate agent who passed it on to the landlord. I contacted 3AW to provide an update by email. Still no reply from 3AW. 

The estate agent tasked an employee to wait on premises until Optus sent a technician. But, Optus claimed they had sent a technician a day before and they had not got on premises when everyone in the household was here during lockdown. They claimed to have rung the bell and made commotion, but they had not noticed the Menulog and DoorDasher employees delivering food without issue. The estate agent spent all day on the premises and Optus did not show up. Finally, on 19^th of February, two weeks after the internet had gone down, Optus showed, and an estate agent was on hand. The fault was fixed, it having been established that Cable provision would be ongoing until a planned changeover to NBN. 

My software upgraded and at 1am on 20^th February while Melbourne had had an overnight 26 degree centigrade evening, the wifi router stopped working. I contacted the agent about 7:30 am and sent a picture of my WiFi reception showing our address router was not functioning. They did not even bother sending someone to turn it on and off. Maybe Monday? 

In Defence of Conservative Values via It’s a Wonderful Life (1946 Capra)

The scene has three conservatives talking over dinner. One conservative is the father who wants his son to follow him in business. Another conservative is the son who wants to make a name for himself in the world. Another conservative is the servant whose relationship to those she serves is positive for all of them. 

The three are not agreeing with each other, but there is none of the shaming, blaming and rancour one finds when arguing with a left winger. The father listens to his son, and argues on point, convincingly. The son hears his father’s arguments and lets him know he still loves him. The servant reinforces core conservative values. Note, these are not social conservative values, which judges and shames. These are values embraced by modern economic conservatives.

The conservatism is not from a lost time in America. President Donald Trump is not a conservative, neither is he known for conservatism, but his Vice President, Mike Pence is. The greatness of Trump’s Presidency was enhanced by the demeanour and prosecution of Pence as Vice President. One hopes Trump runs and wins again in 2024. Not only will Trump be the first President acquitted of an impeachment twice, he could be the first President elected three times without resorting to corruption. 

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Democrat’s Huge Coronavirus Bill Could Force Cuts to Medicare
Sources: Before Riot, Pelosi Wanted National Guard Kept off Capitol Grounds Due To the “Optics” of It
Biden Admin Sets Cost of Carbon Emissions Fifty Times Higher than Trump Admin Did
Customs and Border Protection Expects Huge Surge of Unaccompanied Children at Border
Biden Hopes Detention Facilities For Migrant Children Won’t Have to Stay Open Very Long
Dan Bongino Tells CPAC “You’re the Counter-Culture Revolution Right Here”

Capitol Hill
Ted Cruz Pushes Constitutional Amendment to Prohibit Supreme Court Packing
Schlapp: Trump Knows CPAC Speech Is “Important Reset”
Biden Travels to Texas to View Winter Storm Damage
Republicans Push Biden to Get Tough on Cuba
FBI Effort to Spy on Trump Campaign Was Far More Extensive Than Previously Disclosed
Tucker: Capitol Rioters Were Not Motivated by Racism
Democratic Leadership Refuses to Overrule Parliamentarian After $15 Wage Hike Gets Cut From Senate Bill
Ted Cruz Tells CPAC “Donald J. Trump Ain’t Going Anywhere”
Sanity Prevails: Poll Finds Most Voters Have Negative View of AOC
Sen. Hawley Calls for Breakup of Big Tech in Fiery CPAC Speech
CPAC Crowd Applauds as Rep. Gaetz Rips Liz Cheney

Culture War
Eleven Transgender “Equality Act” Myths
Dr. Seuss Canceled for “Racial Undertones”
Wikipedia Cofounder Starts Competitor After Becoming Upset Over the Website’s Drift Toward Socialism
Students Bullied After Teacher Revealed They Were Republican
Nebraska Bill Would Fine Social Media Companies $100k Every Time They Censor Users
Amazon Removes Clarence Thomas Documentary… During Black History Month
“Lifelong Liberal” Resigns From Woman’s College Over “Racially Hostile Environment” Against Whites
CPAC Considering Permanent Move to Florida
Chaffetz Blames GOP Leaders for Judging Trump on Personality Instead of Policy
Sen. Cotton Slams NY Times’ “Little Social Justice Warriors” at CPAC

Economy
Judge Approves $650 Million Privacy Lawsuit Settlement Against Facebook
“Just Make Cookies, Please”: Oreo Ridiculed for Pandering Tweet About Trans People
Stock Market Spooked by Rising Interest Rates
Retailers Sign Shorter Leases As Uncertainty Over Industry’s Future Continues
United Airlines to Pay $49 Million to Settle Mail Fraud Case
SEC Suspends Trading In Several Over-The-Counter Stocks Targeted by Social Media Traders
Bitcoin Fund Sinks as Market Cools Off
London Overtakes New York as Home to Most Millionaires Per Capita
Elon Musk Says Showdown With SEC Would Be “Awesome”
Bernie Sanders: Let’s Remove Tax Deductions For “Large” Companies That Don’t Pay $15 an Hour

Swamp Watch
Boston Schools Cancel Advanced Classes Because Too Many White Students Qualified
Left-Wing Organization “Time’s Up” Calls for Sexual Misconduct Investigation of Gov. Cuomo
Poll: McConnell and Schumer Are the Two Least-Liked Congressional Leaders
Gretchen Whitmer Packs “Council on Climate Solutions” With Donors and Lobbyists
Psaki Slammed for Past Tweets Condemning Trump’s Syria Airstrikes
The “Cuomo Bubble” Has Burst
CBS Hides Images of Biden Admin’s Facility for Migrant Children
Biden White House Faces Bipartisan Criticism For Syria Attack Hypocrisy
Biden’s Proposed Amnesty Motivates Tidal Wave of Illegals to Flood the Border
Do Democrats Ever Make Correct Climate Doomsday Predictions?

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Republicans said the bill was 'bloated," too expensive and that too few education dollars would be spent quickly to immediately reopen schools. They said it was laden with gifts to Democratic constituencies like labor unions and funneled money to Democratic-run states they suggested didn't need it because their budgets had bounced back. [Full Story]

Newsmax at CPAC
Ex-DNI Ric Grenell Signals Calif. Governor Run in CPAC Speech
Fla. Gov. DeSantis: Florida Got COVID Reaction Right |
Matt Gaetz Heralds 'Pro-Trump America First Wing'
AP: Trump the Unchallenged, Dominant Force at CPAC
Don Jr.: Dad's Speech Will Cement MAGA as GOP's Future​
Trump Endorses Rival to Ohio Republican Who Voted to Impeach
Sen. Rick Scott to CPAC: Democrats 'Want to Silence You'
Ted Cruz to CPAC: ‘Donald J. Trump Ain’t Going Anywhere’
Sen. Mike Lee to CPAC: Nation's Freedoms Coming Under Attack
Sen. Tom Cotton: Conservatives Will Always Defend US |

Biden Presidency
Ex-DHS Head Chad Wolf: Biden Policies Fueling Mayhem at Border
Biden: Illegals Need Not Fear ICE When Getting Shots |
Biden Hails House Passage of $1.9T Virus Bill, Now to Senate
Processing of Asylum Seekers Expands at US-Mexico Border
Intel Agencies Vow to Discover 'Havana Syndrome' Cause
Biden Says US Strike in Syria Was 'Be Careful' Warning to Iran
Washington Post Rips Biden on Saudi Prince Decision
Dick Morris: Feminists Should Be 'Repulsed' by Equality Act |
Oliver North: Iran Nuclear Deal Prompted Syrian Air Strike |

Newsfront
Angry California Parents Rising Up to Demand Schools Reopen
Activist groups like Open Schools California are rising up in the country's largest blue state, sharing a message that former President Donald Trump had stressed for the past year... [Full Story]

Fla. Gov. DeSantis: Dems Relied on 'Flawed Assumptions' - Not Data - During Pandemic
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis says Democrats, particularly Gov. [Full Story] |

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Here is a video I made You Must Remember This 

Heartfelt rendition of As Time Goes By .. for the lyrically challenged
"As Time Goes By" is a song written by Herman Hupfeld for the 1931 Broadway musical, Everybody's Welcome. In the original show it was sung by Frances Williams. It was recorded that year by several artists, including Rudy Vallee.
The song was re-introduced in 1942 in the film Casablanca, sung by Dooley Wilson. Wilson never released a single of the song because of a musicians' strike at the time of the film's release — but a re-issue of Rudy Vallee's 1931 recording became a major seller in 1942.

audio at
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=31664#
video at
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=109319
Info at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Time_Goes_By_(song)
https://rumble.com/val04b-you-must-remember-this.html

=== From 2018 ===

Don't give up on hope. Last year Breitbart listed 18 major scandals of the Obama Presidency. The great “stimulus” heist. Operation Fast and Furious. Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress. ObamaCare. Spying on journalists. The IRS scandal. Benghazi. Hillary Clinton’s secret server. The Pigford scandal. NSA spying scandal. Bowe Bergdahl. Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment. Polluting the Colorado river. The GSA scandal. The VA death-list scandal. Solyndra. Secret Service gone wild. Shutdown theater. The same people declaring Obama's presidency scandal free also say Dan Andrews ALP administration in Victoria is scandal free. And Barbara Streisand says?

Political activists for Obama are unhinged. 
Businesses across Australia are closing because their power costs are too high. That is the cost of Turnbull and Shorten's AGW belief. TYGRRRR Express posted ""Mommy, there's a monster under my bed!""Oh honey, it's just a Broward Sheriff. He's more scared than you are. Go to sleep."" Conservatives in Australia are committed to drug testing welfare recipients. ALP are blocking the measure on the baseless claim it is a spending cut. Meanwhile the ALP leader Bill Shorten says he is for Coal, because of miners, but against Coal, because of mines. South Africa votes for Apartheid. Over 4 million Australian cars are being recalled for airbag safety. Winnie the Pooh frightens Chinese government. 

=== from 2017 ===

Dan Andrews is in position to be forgiven by voters. He is wasteful, and at best incompetent. Yet many shrug their shoulders and ask "What can anyone do?" Meanwhile Victorian Liberal Leader Matthew Guy is industrious and competent, and he gets no recognition for it. Andrew Bolt scathingly deplores Guy for 'caving in' on some issues, without putting forward the reasons for the actions. They are known. The press play a game. If the ALP are incompetent and make road and rail patrons wait for important but badly planned work to be done, then the ALP get credit for doing something. If the Libs quietly and effectively do similar jobs without inconveniencing road users and public transport, then the press remain silent. The result is a public willing to forgive murderous, ruinous incompetence and corruption. 

=== from 2016 ===

Not written as I was working to secure accommodation. 

=== from 2015 ===

Leonard Nimoy died from a smoking related illness. He knew it was coming and said he regretted smoking. His legacy is magnificent. His life has been blessed.

NSW Premier Mike Baird is popular so the press don't report on him. Mr Abbott is being leaked against and so the press report on him. A interesting analysis today ignored by most of the political pundits, who support the ALP always, revealed that Turnbull was panicking that the NSW government would not collapse, and so there would be no impetus for change. That suggested he wanted to run for PM soon. Probably Tuesday. However, It also means Turnbull has wanted the conservatives to stumble in Vic and Qld. Such a disloyal member should not be rewarded. It is also worth noting that Turnbull is not competent as leader and has little time for working with rank and file. It would be worth rooting out the leakers and having Turnbull kicked out of the party.

NZ defeat Australia in One Day World Cup match by one wicket. But anyone who watched the whole match would feel it was much less close than that. Australia's innings collapsed from a quick time 1 for 80 to 9 for 106. Haddin put some respectability to the score with a quick fire 43. NZ's TA Boult took 5- 27 from 10 overs. In reply, NZ's Captain McCullum made 50 off 24 deliveries and Williamson made 45 off 42 deliveries. Starc took 6 for 28, but many of the wickets were taken when there were less than ten runs to get. Australia can improve by bringing in a specialist number three batsman. But NZ cannot. It was touching to see former NZ Captain Martin Crowe receive a lifetime achievement award from the ICC. He is dying, and deserved to be lauded in his lifetime.

On this day in history, Bill Clinton's Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms began a 51 day siege in Waco Texas. Bill was illustrating big government. In 1874, one of the longest cases in UK legal history came to an end with a man impersonating a dead man charged with perjury. Some say Baron Tichborne was wrongly treated. But then some say aliens are guiding our development on Earth. In 1935, a DuPont scientist, Wallace Carothers invented Nylon.

From 2014

Sixty one years ago, on this day, two scientists told their friends they had discovered the building code of life, DNA. Sixty one years later, scientists claim to have found a way of keeping mice from biological ageing, rejuvenating to an equivalent state in a person being about thirty forever. We don't yet have a cure for all cancers, but we have a way to attack them. Watson and Crick will probably not live to see the full flowering of their discovery, but my, they have seen some wonderful things. Even before they made their discovery known, man and nature meddled with DNA. For nature, it is part of evolution, and natural. For people too. We exercise choice in selecting our mates. Primate genitals on males are disproportionately large, probably down to natural selection from a time before clothes. Gene shear technology is found in nature, with viruses doing it among other life forms adapted to exploiting it. Some people fear what might happen with scientists thinking about how to make effective change. I feel a bigger threat is an unintended change. It took some sixty five years between the Wright brothers inventing powered flight, and man landing on the moon.

By way of contrast, a doom merchant, Malthus, predicted the end of the world through overpopulation in 1798. Sixty one years passed. Then another sixty one. Then another sixty one. By 1981. hysterics were still proclaiming the end of the world from overpopulation. Global Warming hysteria is based on the belief there are too many people. Popular former Greens Leader Brown published books on how to deal with too many people. The hysterics that fear small government, beg for big ones. They fear GMO food. And power boxes. They call themselves Progressives.

Historical perspective on this day

In 202 BC, coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han took place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China. 628, Khosrau II was executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II. 870, the Fourth Council of Constantinople closed. 1246, the Siege of Jaén ended in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen. 1525, the Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed by Hernán Cortés's forces. 1638, the Scottish National Covenant was signed in Edinburgh. 1700, today was followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. 1710, in the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau were decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This was the last time Swedish and Danish troops met on Swedish soil. 1784, John Wesleychartered the Methodist Church.

In 1811, Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. 1838, Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) 1844, a gun on USS Princeton exploded while the boat was on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. 1847, the Battle of the Sacramento Riverduring the Mexican–American War was a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua. 1849, regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States began with the arrival of the SS Californiain San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. 1867, seventy years of Holy See-United States relations were ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and were not restored until January 10, 1984. 1870, the Bulgarian Exarchate was established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. 1874, one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ended when the defendant was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. 1883, the first vaudeville theatre opened in Boston 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) 1893, the USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched. 1897, Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.

In 1900, the Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" was lifted. 1914, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. 1922, the United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. 1925, the Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake struck northeastern North America. 1928, C.V. Raman discovered the Raman effect. 1933, Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. 1935, DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invented nylon. 1939, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. 1940, Basketball was televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). 1942, the heavy cruiser USS Houston was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men. 1947, 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder was put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians. 1948, Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opened fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.

In 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick announced to friends that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement took place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). 1954, the first color television sets using the NTSCstandard were offered for sale to the general public. 1958, a school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hit a wrecker truck and plunged down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children died in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. 1959, Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that was the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, was launched. It failed to achieve orbit. 1972, Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué. 1975, in London an underground train failed to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashed into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. 1980, Andalusia approved its statute of autonomy through a referendum. 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale. 1985, the Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. 1986, Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, was assassinated in Stockholm.

In 1991, the first Gulf War ended. 1993, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raided the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians died in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. 1995, former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigned from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993. 1997, an earthquake in northern Iran was responsible for about 3,000 deaths. 1997, the North Hollywood shootout took place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators. Also 1997, GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, struck the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occurred well beyond the Milky Way. Also 1997, Military Coup in Turkey 1998, first flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. Also 1998, Kosovo War: Serbian police began the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. 2001, the Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington. Also 2001, six passengers and four railway staff were killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. 2002, during the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre. 2004, over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 2005, a suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq killed 127. 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.

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Today's reading: Numbers 15-16, Mark 6:1-29 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Numbers 15-16

Supplementary Offerings

¹ The LORD said to Moses, ² "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'After you enter the land I am giving you as a home ³ and you present to the LORD food offerings from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD--whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: Mark 6:1-29

A Prophet Without Honor

¹ Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. ² When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

"Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? ³ Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

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February 27: Morning

"Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation." - Psalm 91:9

The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the mountain, up the hill side, or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the sound of "Away! this is not your rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!" They were never long in one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home in their God, his cloudy pillar was their roof-tree, and its flame by night their household fire. They must go onward from place to place, continually changing, never having time to settle, and to say, "Now we are secure; in this place we shall dwell." "Yet," says Moses, "though we are always changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place throughout all generations." The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich today and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly today and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness today, to-morrow he may be distressed--but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If he loved me yesterday, he loves me today. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Evening

"Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting" -Micah 5:2

The Lord Jesus had goings forth for his people as their representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was "from everlasting" that he signed the compact with his Father, that he would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for agony, and death for death, in the behalf of his people; it was "from everlasting" that he gave himself up without a murmuring word. That from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he might sweat great drops of blood, that he might be spit upon, pierced, mocked, rent asunder, and crushed beneath the pains of death. His goings forth as our Surety were from everlasting. Pause, my soul, and wonder! Thou hast goings forth in the person of Jesus "from everlasting." Not only when thou wast born into the world did Christ love thee, but his delights were with the sons of men before there were any sons of men. Often did he think of them; from everlasting to everlasting he had set his affection upon them. What! my soul, has he been so long about thy salvation, and will not he accomplish it? Has he from everlasting been going forth to save me, and will he lose me now? What! Has he carried me in his hand, as his precious jewel, and will he now let me slip from between his fingers? Did he choose me before the mountains were brought forth, or the channels of the deep were digged, and will he reject me now? Impossible! I am sure he would not have loved me so long if he had not been a changeless Lover. If he could grow weary of me, he would have been tired of me long before now. If he had not loved me with a love as deep as hell, and as strong as death, he would have turned from me long ago. Oh, joy above all joys, to know that I am his everlasting and inalienable inheritance, given to him by his Father or ever the earth was! Everlasting love shall be the pillow for my head this night.

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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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