How does one celebrate Redemption?
Not me, mind you, I’m asking for a friend. My friend has really missed out on life. Very early in their professional career they witnessed a bungled pedophile investigation that went sideways, resulting in the negligence death of a public school boy, covered up by a coroner keen to protect a political party they were beholden to. Coroner blamed the parents and shafted a whistleblower witness. The whistleblower was fat and lost their public service job and had no recourse but move state where they were still unemployable. Nearly thirty years have passed, their life is nearing an end and they have nothing to show for it, except the depraved indifference of bureaucrats which left wing loonies are keen to imbue with more power.
However, my friend is thankful for God in his life. Sure he has no actual family who’d stand by him. His friends are terrified he is too needy and might ask for help. Big tech companies boot him about because they don’t like his politics supporting economic conservatism and MAGA Trump ideals. So he is booted off FB and Messenger for life, and cannot access decade old emails, photographs, videos or memories he made online. He cannot connect with apps which allow him to connect via FB. And FB sends him messages suggesting he join up, but they won’t accept him.
It is a Wonderful life, made by Frank Capra in 1946 and is relevant today. Because it illustrates redemption. But, what is redemption for my friend? When McConnell can diss everything my friend has stood for, and spits on him, as he claims another six more years of a snout in the trough lifestyle while a stand up guy is beaten up. How does one celebrate redemption?
https://rumble.com/vebebz-how-does-one-celebrate-redemption.html
===In this episode, I discuss the new liberal bill which will devastate your church and destroy your Right to practice your faith. I also address the medical mystery of our time - what happened to the flu?
News Picks:
- A must-read Abigail Shrier article about the growing book-banning/cancel culture movement on the left.
- The crisis at the border is exploding as 108 illegal immigrants released by the Border Patrol in TX test positive for coronavirus.
- A disturbing spike in apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border.
- Scientists are struggling to explain the plunge in coronavirus cases.
- Now three masks? When will the madness stop?
- China demands foreigners take the anal swab test.
- A fascinating New York Mag article about who voted for Trump, and why. This is good news for Trump supporters.
- Biden wants to reverse everything Trump did, even to the detriment of his own agenda.
- The White House cuts the video feed after Biden tries to take questions.
Pentagon Confirms Capitol Police Requested Extension of National Guard Presence
Trump Says GOP Lost Georgia Senate Races Because Republicans Were “Angry and Disappointed” So They Didn’t Turn Out
Gov. Cuomo Accuser Says He “Groomed” Her for Sex – Derailed Her Career
Bipartisan Senators Introduce Bill to Strip Biden of War Powers
Gov. Cuomo and De Blasio Trade Blows Following “Apology” Over Sexual Harassment Claims
White House Cuts Live Feed After Biden Says He’ll Take Questions
Capitol Hill
House Democrats Pass “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” That Defunds the Police
Jim Jordan: Americans Are Tired of Double Standards on Coronavirus. Immigration, and the Economy
House Cancels Thursday Session Due to “Threats” Identified by Capitol Police
Dems Won’t Take Up Biden’s Immigration Plans This Month
Pompeo Doesn’t Rule Out Run for President in 2024
Slipping Approval Rating Suggests Biden’s Inauguration Honeymoon Appears To Be Over
The Number of Unaccompanied Minors Crossing the Border Is on Pace To Shatter Records
FBI Says No Shots Were Fired By Capitol Rioters and No Firearms Were Found
Xavier Becerra’s HHS Confirmation Could Be in Trouble
Biden Nears 45 Days Without a Single Press Conference
Pulling the Rug Out: Biden Narrows Eligibility for Stimulus Checks
Culture War
Leaked Documents Reveal Extent of Child Migrant Crisis at U.S.-Mexico Border
Mike Brown’s Father Demands $20 Million From Black Lives Matter
Gov. DeSantis Says Florida is a “Beacon of Light to Those Who Learn to Live in Freedom”
Minnesota Teacher Separates Sixth Graders Into “Privileged” and “Targeted” Groups for Lesson on “Oppression”
Gov. Noem Defends Gov. Abbott’s Decision to Open Texas, Says Media “Can’t Allow Freedom To Succeed”
CBS “This Morning” Openly Gushes Over “Guaranteed Basic Income”
Study Finds Professors Do Not Oppose Discriminating Against Their Conservative Peers
America Is Entering Its Very Own Mao-Like Cultural Revolution
Liberal Crazies Claimed CPAC Stage Was “Nazi Symbol” – a Liberal Company Designed It
Economy
Dow Tumbles as Treasury Yields Rise
California City Outlaws New Gas Stations
SPACs — “Blank Check” Acquisition Companies — Have Become a $700 Billion Industry
Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Relief Bill Contains Billions for States That Don’t Need It
Underwhelming IPO for Kaepernick-Backed Social Justice SPAC
Inflation Expectations Hit Ten-Year High
Utah Leads States With the Hottest Housing Markets; Hawaii Comes in Last
Dems Push for Financial Transaction Tax Following Reddit Stock Mania
Asian-Owned Small Businesses Were Among the Hardest Hit by the Pandemic
Disney To Close at Least 20% of Disney Stores
Swamp Watch
Lincoln Project Founder Quiet After Raising $65k Three Years Ago for Still Unreleased Anti-Trump Film
Judge Orders Election Do-Over in Local Democratic Primary After 78% Of Mail-In Ballots Proved Fraudulent
Inspector General Cites Elaine Chao for Misuse of Office
Twitter Posthumously Strips Andrew Breitbart’s Account of “Verified” Status
House Delays Votes on Capitol Attack Warnings by FBI and DHS Until Next Wednesday
AOC Once Again Displays Her Ignorance of the World
Fauci’s Daughter Works for Twitter, Which Suspends People For Disagreeing With Her Father
Poll Numbers Show a Lack of Strong Support for Biden and His Policies
Psaki Says She’d Be “Happy” To Face Kayleigh McEnany On Fox News
Cuomo’s Not the Only Democratic Governor Who Should Face Consequences Over Deadly Nursing Home Policy
Coronavirus
Slovakia Suffers World’s Highest Coronavirus Death Rate
90% of Coronavirus Deaths Have Been in Countries With High Obesity Rates
U.S. Has Administered 80.5 Million Doses of Coronavirus Vaccines
Psaki Says Texas is “Ignoring Science” by Allowing Businesses to Reopen and Lifting Mask Mandate
Crenshaw Introduces Bill That Would Ban Future National Lockdowns
CNN Analyst Says the U.S. Should Consider Requiring Masks And Social Distancing Every Winter
Poll: Voters Credit Scientists, Not Politicians, for Coronavirus Vaccine Development
Governor Cuomo Announces “Vaccine Passports” for New Yorkers
Coronavirus-Positive Migrants Are Being Released Into the U.S.
Biden Calls Reopening “Neanderthal Thinking”
National Security
General Says Space Force Is “Not a Political Issue”
Pentagon Releases Video of Iran’s 2020 Ballistic Missile Attack on U.S. Forces in Iraq
F-35 Lands Aboard Italian Aircraft Carrier for the First Time
Modernization of the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Is a Necessity
Rockets Target U.S. Troops in Iraq After Biden’s Syria Airstrike
Air Force Reconfigures F-15E To Ferry Extra Munitions, Reducing Need for Cargo Aircraft
The Marines’ F/A-18 Hornets Have Completed Their Final Carrier Deployment
Navy Urged to Consider Unmanned Aircraft for Next Carrier-Based Fighter
The U.S. Must Promote Fair, Open Commerce and Freedom of the Seas to “Out-Compete” China
KF-X: South Korea Wants to Built Its Very Own ‘F-35’
Biden Presidency
Arizona Sheriff Claims Biden Creating ‘Roads for the Cartels’
Israel's Netanyahu Vows to 'Stand Against the World' Fighting Iran Nuclear Pact
Illegal Immigrant Kids Could Soon Overwhelm US Shelters: Report
Biden Pick for Top Pentagon Post Called GOP 'Party of Ethnic Cleansing'
Texas Gov. Abbott: Biden 'Neanderthal' for Letting in COVID-Positive Migrants
Kissinger to Biden: Uphold Trump's Progress With Israel, Gulf States
Senate Energy Panel Backs Haaland for Interior Secretary
Biden Blasts Red States for 'Neanderthal Thinking' on Masks |
Realizing their election law changes under the guise of COVID-19 were unconstitutional, Democrats are now seeking to "codify" their violations with H.R. 1, according to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Newsmax TV. "This is about codifying and federalizing the changes...... [Full Story] |
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Biden's Statement on HR 1
House Passes 'George Floyd' Police Reform Bill, Senate Prospects Unclear
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ICC Gives Itself Authority to Adjudicate Israeli ‘War Crimes’
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Wednesday, March 3 announced that she was opening an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel and the Gaza-Strip based Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
The move came weeks after the court ruled it had jurisdiction to open a probe, which prompted a furious response from Israel and condemnation from the United States
HonestReporting CEO Daniel Pomerantz outlines the shaky ground on which the ICC stands.
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As Antisemitism Mutates, Is Media Coverage Failing to Evolve?
Numerous major news organizations acted swiftly and rightfully to expose US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene’s support for bizarre antisemitic conspiracies and related comments she made before being elected to the House of Representatives.
However, the silence surrounding Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s participation at a recent event that featured several known supporters of Jihad – understood as a holy war to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims – is troubling.
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Via JR from IPA (Institute of Public Affairs, Australia)
Last night on The Bolt Report on Sky News, Andrew and I talked about the claims against Attorney-General Christian Porter and I started by quoting what Brendan O'Neill says about freedom of speech. I said 'anyone who says I believe in freedom of speech...but...' doesn't really believe in freedom of speech. The same principle applies to Anthony Albanese and the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.
This is what Albanese said a few days ago:
The presumption of innocence is a critical part of our legal system. But now that the existing legal processes have been unable to proceed, certainly in terms of NSW police, I think people will be looking for further responses beyond any statement that might be made today by the minister.
I said 'there's no but about it.' Behind Albanese a host of lawyers and legal academics have lined up to say things like the presumption of innocence doesn't really apply in this case, or that an exception should be made, or that it never even existed in the first place. At every level of the Christian Porter story there's sadness and tragedy and feelings of anger and frustration are understandable. But it's at such times that our first response and our natural response may not be the right one. As difficult as it might be, it's in such circumstances that we need to reflect on the principles that can guide our actions.
Chris Uhlmann wrote about this a few days ago in The Sydney Morning Herald:
In a perfect world truth and justice would always prevail when a crime was committed. In our imperfect one we have to make do with evidence and law. They are very different things. Sometimes our legal system delivers both. Too often it does not. But in the absence of a better way, criminal law provides protections, like the presumption of innocence that should not be abandoned in the heat of outrage no matter how just the cause.
Uhlmann quotes some lines from A Man for All Seasons (a play I studied at school). One of More's foils is his son-in-law, William Roper, a Lutheran zealot. In a seminal scene in the play More's family is appalled by an encounter with Richard Rich, a man they rightly see as evil and whose perjury will lead to More's execution:
Margaret More - 'Father, that man's bad'.
Thomas More - 'There is no law against that.'
William Roper - 'There is! God's law!'
More - 'Then God can arrest him.'
(More says Rich should go free even if 'he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law'.)
Roper - 'So now you give the Devil the benefit of the law.'
More - 'Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?'
Roper - 'Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!'
More - 'Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?'
As I've mentioned to you before, in terms of professional occupations - doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists are over-represented among IPA members. At the same time lawyers are relatively under-represented. We can debate the reasons for this but I'd venture to suggest that at least part of the explanation is because the law is no longer an instrument used to protect the human rights of individuals against the state. Increasingly the law is the instrument by which the government exercises control over citizens - and lawyers have been acculturated into thinking this.
So I was saddened, but sadly not surprised, when I read Joe Aston's 'Rear Window’ column in this morning's Australian Financial Review. What he wrote has since become front page of the website - as it should. Not only is it another example of Australia's 'woke' corporate culture, it's a story about something much deeper and how our understanding of institutions and practices has somehow changed. This is some of the story.
MinterEllison CEO 'triggered' by Christian Porter
Society has taken leave of its senses when the mob bays for a political inquiry into criminal allegations that cannot ever be proven. The Prime Minister has to plead for the rule of law! And it's from the top floor of a prestigious law firm, of all places, where that sacred precept is thrown.
Various media outlets reported on Wednesday that Commonwealth Attorney-General Christian Porter has engaged MinterEllison partner Peter Bartlett - a distinguished defamation practitioner who has long represented The Age and The Australian Financial Review in Victoria - over the rape allegation Porter denies.
MinterEllison manager partner Annette Kimmitt wrote to the firm's employees on Wednesday morning to confirm 'one of our partners is acting on a high-profile matter'.
'The acceptance of this matter,' Kimmitt continued, 'did not go through the firms' due consultation or approval processes. Had it done so, we would have consider the matter through the lens of our Purposes and Values.'
And done what differently?! Decline to act for a person accused of committing a crime - 33 years ago - of which there is no evidence and no witnesses? That appears to be Kimmitt's submission to the Minters flock, given she went on to 'apologise for the pain you may be experiencing'. 'The nature of this matter is clearly causing hurt to some of you, and it has clearly triggered hurt for me.'
Sweet Jesus [Aston's words - not mine] was she sick the day they taught law at law school? Kimmitt appears more concerned with how woke graduates might vote in employer of choice awards than with the indefeasible and founding principle of international human rights law, being the presumption of innocence.
As it happens Minter Ellison as it was then known is where I once worked. A chief executive at another law firm said of MinterEllison - 'I think it's extraordinary; we are lawyers, not political activists'. But of course, that's no longer true. Corporate Australia is the now the torchbearer for the divisiveness of identity politics and Critical Race Theory.
On The Bolt Report I also talked about what Scott Morrison has said about the rule of law as it applies in this case. According to the PM –
There is not the tribe-has-spoken process. That's not how we run the rule of law in Australia. We run the rule of law based on police. On courts. On judicial systems. On rules of evidence. On presumption of innocence. That's how liberal democracies function. And we have to be very careful, very careful even in traumatic and sensitive issues like this, that we don't fundamentally undermine that principle. Because upon that, our entire system is built.
All true enough. But as I said last night the rule of law doesn't create one job. Just like freedom of speech doesn't create one job.
One of the points that's been made this week by critics of the Coalition is that for the government to now rely on 'the rule of law' is hypocritical given how often the government's own legislation has disregarded the principle. For some years now it's been as though only the IPA has been willing to uphold the rule of law as a fundamental precept of a free society.
In February last year the IPA released our annual Legal Rights Audit, research led by IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg. Our research concluded that federal legislation introduced by Coalition governments more often abolished fundamental legal protections such as the presumption of innocence, the right to silence, natural justice and procedural fairness than did legislation introduced by the Labor Party. This is what Morgan said about the rule of law as was reported in The Australian.
For too long, the rule of law has been sacrificed in the name of bureaucratic efficiency. Making it easier to enforce the law is never a good reason to overturn our fundamental legal protections.
Mr Begg said the legal system could not achieve just outcomes if important legal protections were stripped away. 'Fundamental legal rights are necessary to achieve justice within the legal system and act as a vital constraint on the coercive power of the state,' the report says.
Back in March 2017, in the middle of the debate over the future of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, Morrison, the then treasurer, dismissed concerns about the future of freedom of speech in Australia. He said in words that I can almost recite verbatim - 'I know there are a lot of people who are interested in this issue. As a senior figure in this government...I know this issue doesn't create one job, doesn't open one business, doesn't give anyone one extra hour. It doesn't make housing more affordable or energy more affordable. I don't see any intersection between that issue and those priorities.'
It's true. Neither freedom of speech nor the rule of law make housing more affordable. Once upon a time East Germany had affordable housing.
Lafayette gave me this invite to a gorgeous piece. I invited Bryn to do some magic.
Robin Hood.
Lafayette: Music
Bibanova: Audio Programming
DDBall: Lyrics and vox
https://rumble.com/var581-robin-hood.html
Book banning is an absurd anti democratic response of the ignorant and bigoted. One reason I despise social conservatives at times is because of their penchants for such. Harry Potter has been opposed for witchcraft by those who believe in witches more than God. I heard a social conservative thunder against "And Tango Makes Three" a children's picture story book about two SSM penguin who adopt an egg. Clearly the writer and artist were making an SSM point, but the only kids who will read it that way are themselves SSM inclined. The others will view it as a friendship story. As they should. Some adults aren't mature enough for such books.
One policy of the NSW ALP is to not privatise government bodies that are commercially viable. It is terrible to brag about using such bodies to tax the poorest the most, and preserve them from efficiency gained through commercial competition. By way of contrast, Mike Baird is competent and measured in his approach to government.
I have no reason to personally endorse the Liberals. They have sold me down the river and offer me no hope or friendship. However, it isn't for government to be a friend. I support the Liberals and Nationals because their government is what is needed for NSW to prosper.
The second thing relates to the 2002 death of school child Hamidur Rahman. I warned his school a year before he died of the seriousness of the allergy. I had been unfairly dismissed from that school a year before he died. Had I been listened to, Hamidur might be alive today. There was a cover up preventing my testimony reaching the coroner's court. Subsequently, I have been persecuted by those involved in the boy's death. The ALP are involved in the cover up.
I have been denied natural justice, I have no avenue of appeal. I was declared partially disabled but not supported by my equal opportunity employer. I have been silenced by entrenched corruption involving the media. I have clean hands and may speak on the issue.
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Today's reading: Numbers 29-31, Mark 9:1-29 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Numbers 29-31
The Festival of Trumpets
1 "'On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets. 2 As an aroma pleasing to the LORD, offer a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect....
Today's New Testament reading: Mark 9:1-29
The Transfiguration
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"Calm mid the bewildering cry,
Confident of victory."
He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord unless his conflicts be many. If then, yours be a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for his failing you, never dream of it--hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.
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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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