Friday, April 30, 2021

Fri 30th April 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Did US DOJ kill a cop?

Via Matt Christiansen Media, comes the story of a New Mexico police officer, Darian Jarrott, gunned down (Feb 4th 2021) after making a routine stop of a vehicle which happened to have a wanted fugitive (Omar Felix Cueva) being tailed by the federal police. Immediately following the shooting of the policeman, federal agents were on hand to give aid to the dying officer and to chase down the fugitive, killing the fugitive an hour later in a shoot out. 

Video footage of the officer making the stop suggests the officer is unaware of the nature of what he is facing. He even asks the fugitive for their firearm shortly before the officer was gunned down. However, the watching federal government agents had known that the fugitive was an armed threat. 

It used to be said only doctors could bury their mistakes. Was this a mistake? Are any federal agents responsible for the tragedy? What about the Biden administration? The fallen officer was a young father, and his family will miss him dearly. 


Editorial Parents stumped by NAPLAN test

Media campaigning against cheap, effective tests are not new. NAPLAN is such a test, being straight forward to mark and providing important assessment data which allows government to track student achievement from years 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The results could also be reverse engineered to track teacher performance, but unions won't allow that. The results allow schools to target weaknesses in student learning, and for government to address needs of schools. The results have no bearing on subsequent employment achieved by students in life. 

Here, a question that 'stumps' adults is a two card trick. The purist view is that commas are not employed to separate phrases in a sentence, where they might in practice. Or, where they might, in practice. The math question is less of a challenge. One day, the illiberal press will achieve the end of having this eleven year old test removed. The loss of analytical data won't achieve further dysfunction. Just as COVID did not create election fraud. 


Editorial Beijing exploits poor US Cold War policy

Now that Trump is not pursuing bilateral relations, Biden's renewed Cold War regionalism policy is failing to address world needs. The Phillipines President is isolated and weak and unable to address China's invasion of the South Sea. That is how regionalism works. The long term goal of China is to dominate the Pacific so as to contain India. In the future, US may have to cede Hawaii. 

Illiberal media are authoritarian and Australian PM Scott Morrison has belled that cat in declaring social media 'The work of the Devil.' Mr Morrison was at a Christian Convention on the Gold Coast and his words are being reported by press as if they were a press release. However, Mr Morrison's words do not presage a government decree regarding social media. However there is a need for government to address the abuse of power of technocrats running social media. Social media banning of conservative politicians is unacceptable. Likewise social media banning of conservative content. Election fraud is not isolated to the US. 

TESLA executives have claimed that there is evidence that a crash involved human error. Local authorities claim it was a TESLA vehicle under auto control which crashed inexplicably. It seems like someone among local authorities has an axe to grind? 

Clear evidence is that woke corporatism is unpopular and results in poor outcomes for shareholders. Trump is right again. 

It was woke corporatism that endorsed voter fraud which underpins Biden's Cold War policy. USA is suffering as her democracy crumbles. 

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In this episode, I interview President Donald Trump about the Maricopa County election audit, the stunning new FISA Court revelations, the CNN tapes, his life post-presidency, and his plans for 2024.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Federal Agents Investigating Possible Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Near White House in 2020

NYC’s de Blasio Calls for Ouster of Gov. Cuomo

Antifa Threatens Portland Mayor in Chilling Video

Liberals Try to Disprove Tim Scott’s Claim That America Isn’t Racist by Being Extremely Racist to Him

CBS Says 85% Approved Biden’s Speech – Only 18% Polled Were Republicans

GDP Grows 6.4% in First Quarter (Annualized) vs. 6.5% Expected

Capitol Hill
Kamala Suddenly Claims She Doesn’t Think America Is Racist
Feds Refused to Take Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive When Offered by Rudy Giuliani
Sen. Hawley Mocks Liz Cheney’s Possible Presidential Aspirations
Gov. Cuomo Explores Legal Options To Overturn Census Count After Losing Congressional Seat
Biden Says January 6th, Not 9/11, the Day of the Worst Attack on “Our Democracy”
Biden Falsely Claims Assault Weapons Ban “Worked Before”
Voters Say Border is Less Secure Under Biden by 46-15 Margin
Biden Sends 500 USDA Employees to Help With Border Crisis
Rahm Emmanuel to Be Named Ambassador to Japan
Seattle’s Socialist City Council Members Are Worth Millions
Dem Sen. Kelly Criticizes Biden for Ignoring Border Crisis
Sen. Tim Scott Rebuts Biden’s Speech
Biden Delivers First Joint Address to Congress

Culture War
“Dumb and Dumber”: Cuomo and de Blasio
YouTube Censors Dan Bongino’s Interview With President Trump
Vogue Says Having a Baby Is “Pure Environmental Vandalism”
Support for Gun Control Continues to Fall
U.S. Catholic Bishops May Demand Biden and Other Pro-Choice Politicians Stop Taking Communion
Seattle 7th Graders Subject to Sexually Explicit White Privilege Slam Poetry
NY Times Admits They Didn’t Contact Crucial Sources for Comment in Legal Battle With Project Veritas
Men Who Shot and Killed Ahmaud Arbery After Being Attacked Charged With Federal Hate Crimes
GOP Governors Nationwide Are Passing Pro-Life Laws
Biden From the Beginning
MSNBC Very Pleased That None of Biden’s Judicial Nominees Are White Men

Economy
Mayor de Blasio says NYC to “Fully Reopen” on July 1st
Here’s What’s in Biden’s American Families Plan
Americans Are Buying Less Coca-Cola Following Stance Against Georgia Election Law
Stock Split May be Coming for Amazon Under New CEO
Lumber Prices Are Up Nearly 250%
Oregon’s Biggest Cities Forced to Shut Down Restaurants Again
Dogecoin Mania Continues, Fueled by Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
RV Sales Hit Records During Pandemic
Demand for Mortgages Falls Despite Record Low Rates
Could Biden’s Capital Gains Tax Actually Reduce Revenue?
NFL’s Top Draft Prospect to Take Entire Signing Bonus in Cryptocurrencies
More Money Has Flowed Into Stock ETFs in 2021 Than in All of 2020

Swamp Watch
Anaheim Commissioner Stripped of Title For Saying “China Virus”
Andrew Giuliani: Americans Should Be “Extremely Disturbed” by Feds Raiding Rudy’s Home
Secrecy Surrounds Solitary Confinement of People Arrested in January 6 Capitol Breach
10 Racist Attacks on Tim Scott From the Left
Official Who Approved Surveillance Warrants on Carter Page Chosen to Advise Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Ninth Circuit Court Lifts Ban on Exporting Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns
The Border Crisis Is Worse Than You Think
Wife of Biden’s Chief of Staff Has Repeatedly Made Appearances on Communist Chinese Media Outlets
Report: Head of Border Patrol Rebukes Biden Order to Stop Saying “Illegal Alien”
=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Sen. Tim Scott: Left Met My Biden Rebuttal With an 'Uncle Tim' Slur
Sen. Tim Scott said Thursday his rebuttal to President Joe Biden's address to Congress was met with racial slurs from the left, including the phrase "Uncle Tim" used so much that it was trending on Twitter. [Full Story]
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Twitter Yanks 'Uncle Tim' Trending Topic Following Sen. Scott Remarks
GOP Sen. Tim Scott: 'America Is Not a Racist Country'
VP Harris Agrees With Sen. Tim Scott: US Is Not a 'Racist Country'
In Biden Rebuttal, SC Sen. Scott Credits GOP for 'Joyful Springtime'

Biden Presidency
US Vows Again to Ban Menthol Flavor in Cigarettes, Cigars
VP Agrees With Tim Scott: US Is Not a 'Racist Country'
US Catholic Bishops May Press Biden to Stop Taking Communion
Rep. Boebert Draws Attention to Surge at Border During Speech
Sen. Tom Cotton: Biden's 'Radical Agenda Is Dead on Arrival'
GOP Sen. Tim Scott: 'America Is Not a Racist Country' |
Biden Reveals 2nd Round of Federal Judiciary Picks
White House Called On to Address Surge in Ransomware Attacks
In Biden Rebuttal, SC Sen. Scott Credits GOP for 'Joyful Springtime'

Newsfront
Florida Legislature Passes Trans Athlete Ban in Women's Sports
GOP leaders in the Florida state legislature reportedly helped revive and approve a controversial ban on transgender athletes participating in women's sports at the high school and college levels. Language was added...... [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Jabberwocky

"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). It is considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 
      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 
All mimsy were the borogoves, 
      And the mome raths outgrabe. 

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 
      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 
      The frumious Bandersnatch!” 

He took his vorpal sword in hand; 
      Long time the manxome foe he sought— 
So rested he by the Tumtum tree 
      And stood awhile in thought. 

And, as in uffish thought he stood, 
      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, 
      And burbled as it came! 

One, two! One, two! And through and through 
      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 
He left it dead, and with its head 
      He went galumphing back. 

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 
      Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” 
      He chortled in his joy. 

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 
      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 
All mimsy were the borogoves, 
      And the mome raths outgrabe.
https://rumble.com/vbl3v9-jabberwocky-read-by-oddball.html

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Gonski has released his second report into education. Like the first report, it calls for increased spending without a plan for improvement. The good news is a way of improving outcomes is known. The bad news is modern researchers in Education won't back it for self interest. Targeted remediation of the middle third of students, specifically the students open to the initiative, provides the greatest return for investment of time and effort. When such students are successfully placed on high achieving tracks, they tend to help low achieving students and challenge high achieving ones too. I said as much to 3aw's Neil Mitchell today at about 9:40 am and Mitchell finished the assertion by saying it is already supposed to be done. Quite so. Thing is, it requires no new funding, but prioritising. That is not something teachers unions want to hear, or education experts who are keen for more as their snouts meet the trough. Queensland's ALP government has made calls for more federal funding. 

Middle ability students are missing out as schools are increasingly distracted from teaching them effectively. Schools are trying to be safe, bully free zones. Only bullying is related to school dysfunction which is related to focus on teaching and learning. The less teaching and learning, the more dysfunctional a school. Schools are teaching about gender at inappropriate ages and with inappropriate materials. Let adults deal with gender issues, don't confuse school kids who should not be sexually active. Let parents talk to their children about those issues. Let churches discuss moral issues for their communities. The function of schools is academy, and technical subjects like art, music, woodwork, textiles and cooking. 

Donald Trump is looking at dumping or fixing the Iran Nuclear deal. The deal was the brainchild of Obama and Kerry and seems to make certain Iran will have nuclear functionality. Iran is using missiles against Israel, and arming Hezbollah with modern weapons. 

Whistleblowing is an important issue. Without whistleblowers, corruption can go unaddressed. But some whistleblowers are engaged with corruption too. Snowden was placed in an impossible position when Obama was President and people like Hillary Clinton tried to have him killed. Snowden could not have faced a court and expected justice in Obama's America, and Trump has not yet drained the swamp. Australia has her own issues too. A four part article on whistleblowing can be found here
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IPA Review April 2017 has an article on 'Personal reflections on Bill Leak' by John Roskam, CEO of IPA. Before the savage assault of left wing interests on Bill Leak, they loved him and he loved them. But Leak was betrayed by them. The left are supposed to fight for the little man. They are supposed to give a chance to strugglers who get none. But that has always been propaganda. And the open embrace between terrorism of Islamo Fascism and new wave left chic leaves decent left wing peoples cold. It is betrayal. HR Clinton and Bernie Sanders both betrayed those who had trusted them to work against the machine And the death of Leak after he stood for what was right, the right way, without compromising his own ideals, is a tragedy. Not something for conservatives to exploit, but to mourn and address. Those hypocrites who hated Leak at the end, had earlier praised him when he published material they agreed with. The haters are tribal and know nothing of reason. Leak did not become right wing, left wingers became more extreme. 

Some things should not happen, but they do. Roskam wrote recently of a Clinton campaign theme "It's the economy, stupid." It sounded like a clanger to me, because Clinton's first two years in office were awful for him. The economy stumbled and Clinton was mired in foreign policy disasters that had federal agents storming a house to return a young boy to Cuba, Rwanda, Somalia and terrible errors of judgement on former Yugoslavia. But Clinton was saved by a new GOP congress which would put America back on track. And Clinton took credit for it in time for re-election. It turns out that Clinton did campaign on the slogan.  And like many Democrats, the slogan was nothing to do with his policy. 
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I have moved to a good home. I leave behind the ice house. Dan Andrews would rather I lived with an ice addict, and you should too. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
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Blame game re executions of Myuran and Andrew have begun. Waleed Aly has blamed Mr Abbott over irrelevant issues. Meanwhile, a culpable ALP fractures over Same Sex Marriage and Palestine. Both of those issues are irrelevant too, to the execution. Except while Myuran and Andrew could have used then ALP government assistance which would have been effective in preventing their execution, the ALP were navel gazing at these two issues. Same sex marriage is meaningless so long as civil unions are sanctioned. It is an intrusion on religion which no government should touch. Palestine is a UN endorsed terrorist state that is populated by Jordanians. If anyone felt compassion for them, they would send them back. 

New cases in China and Malaysia regarding alleged Australian drug smugglers caught with death penalty amounts of drugs have arisen. It is unlikely the ALP or ABC will be able to condemn these people fast enough. So they have begun preparing a blame game for the government. 

The salient statistics on race and police arrests for 2012 posted yesterday have been 'answered' by Marcus Anderson on Australian Political Debate Open Forum  "far far more black people are alienated from American society, on a percentage basis, than white people. Touting sentiments that ignore the historical and important facts reflect your indifference to the problem of racial villification this meme represents." In other words, Marcus feels that the statistics on their own contravenes section 18c of the racial vilification act of Australia. Were that true, then the device would indeed be a meaningless instrument of censorship. It is possible, were one to face the same sentencing judge that Andrew Bolt faced, that Marcus's view would be upheld. Although many have told me that that judge is an effective independent member of the judiciary and not some partisan tool, as evidenced by that judgement on Bolt. 

Nepal has more than 6100 deaths from the earthquakes. She needs fresh food and water and shelter for her survivors. Please give generously. And Pray for her people. Prayer works. 

In 313, Licinius defeated Maximinus and united the Eastern empire of Rome at the Battle of Tzirallum. He became co Emperor of Rome with Constantine I. Both were involved with making the Edict of Milan which was to make Christian worship acceptable in Rome. Both emperors were capable and eyed the other as a rival. Licinius married the half sister of Constantine I. Fighting continued between the two. Licinius promoted a rival to Constantine I, Valerius Valens as co emperor. But when Constantine objected Licinius had Valerius killed. After Constantine won a final battle between the two in 324, Licinius' wife begged for the old man's life to be spared. Constantine I spared Licinius' life for a year, and then hanged him on a pretext of conspiring to raise troops.

In 1492, Spain gave permission for Columbus to become very rich by trading in the East by ship. In 1789, Washington took the Oath of Office to become President of the United States of America. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase took place for a mere $15 million, doubling the land size of the US. In 1871, terrorists afraid of losing federal funding by the US Government attacked American Indians, killing the adults and selling the children into slavery in Mexico, from Arizona. President US Grant ordered Arizona to improve her justice issues or risk being subject to federal martial law, so Arizona proceeded to try Indians on any pretext. It was called the Camp Grant Massacre. In 1894, Coxey's Army reached Washington DC to protest unemployment following the Panic of 1893. It is only coincidence that President Grover Cleveland was a Democrat doing what Democrat administrations do, which is to blame Jews, fail to budget appropriately and mishandle industrial and labour issues. There had been a bubble caused by railroad building and a bust caused by Argentina focused investments going sour after a coup in Buenos Aires.
From Wikipedia:
"Historian Hasia Diner notes that "Some Populists believed that Jews made up a class of international financiers whose policies had ruined small family farms. Jews, they asserted, owned the banks and promoted the gold standard, the chief sources of their impoverishment. Agrarian radicalism posited the city as antithetical to American values, asserting that Jews were the essence of urban corruption."
In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the US. On the same day, at 3:52 AM a great, good, heroic 37 yo family man was killed doing his job for the railroads. He was Casey Jones. He had been tasked with taking a 95 minute late train, Cannonball express, from Memphis Tennessee to Canton Mississippi. He had a reputation of being very reliable and he made up time on the foggy night. But the railroad let him down when he had made up the missing time coming to his destination, freight trains laid across the path of his engine. He saved the colleague next to him, and everyone else, by remaining in the carriage and slowing his train. He died, and the railroads blamed him on a false OHS report claiming he had been warned of the impasse. His widow wore black for the rest of her long life, dying in 1958 at the age of 92, never having considered remarrying after losing the father of her three children. In 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first celebrities to leave their footprint in concrete in Hollywood. In 1938, the animated cartoon short of Porky's Hare Hunt featured Happy Rabbit, a proto-Bugs Bunny. Also in 1938, the first televised FA Cup final occurred. In 1939, NBC began regular scheduled TV broadcasts with FDR's NY World Fair opening address. 

In 1943, Operation Mincemeat had a British Submarine release a dead body dressed up as a British officer with faked invasion plans. It was a plot thought up by James Bond's creator Ian Fleming. In 1945, Hitler found out, after a day, marriage was not for him. In 1956, a corrupt former Democrat VP,  Alben Barkley, died during a speech in Virginia. He collapsed after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." In 1966, the Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco. In 2008, skeletal remains were found of the last Tsar and one of his sisters in Yekaterinburg. 
From 2014
It is Consumer Protection day in Thailand, and so time to think of injustice. On this day in 311, the persecution of Christians by Romans ended. Now it was their turn. Lions would go hungry, academics like Hypatia were harshly treated for maintaining different lifestyles. It is said Disraeili remarked that two thousand years of Christian love has left Jews feeling nervous. But then many Christians would dispute what was done in their name, nowadays we have a policy separating church and state in the West. Note, Israel as a Jewish state, having embraced that within a democratic, pluralistic model is legitimate as a modern government, while many Islamic states fail the test of pluralism or separation of church and state. 

On this day in 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny was hung on the public gallows at Montfaucon. He had been an effective first minister for his king, but when his king died, jealous courtiers conspired to have him hung on charges of witchcraft. I1513 Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, was executed on the orders of Henry VIII. Henry VII had accepted Edmund as prisoner on terms of not executing him, but left instructions in his will that his son should. Edmund's crime was to be born to the wrong family. On this day in 1863, three thousand Mexican soldiers laid siege to sixty five French Legionaries. Mexico won. Just. On this day in 1945, Hitler took his life many years too late for millions of innocent victims. 1975, Saigon fell days after the US stopped supporting her. China kept funding the North. The peace community had won and many millions would flee tyranny. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 311, the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ended. 313, Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeated Maximinus II and unified the Eastern Roman Empire. 642, Chindasuinth was proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops. 1315, Enguerrand de Marigny was hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. 1492, Spain gave Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1513, Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, was executed on the orders of Henry VIII. 1557, Mapuche leader Lautaro was killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile. 1598, Juan de Oñate made a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico. 1636, Eighty Years' WarDutch Republic forces recaptured a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege. 1671, Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

In 1789, On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washingtontook the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. 1803, Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. 1812, the Territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. 1838, Nicaragua declared independence from the Central American Federation. 1863, a 65-man French Foreign Legioninfantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place in Arizona Territory. 1885, Governor of New York David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls would not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use. 1894, Coxey's Army reached Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. Also 1900, Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fairopened in St. Louis, Missouri. 1907, Honolulu, Hawaii became an independent city. 1920, Peru became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1925, automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc was sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity. 1927, the Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

In 1937, the Philippines held a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. 1938, the animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny). Also 1938, the first televised FA Cup Final took place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. 1939, the 1939-40 New York World's Fairopened. Also 1939, NBC inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. 1943, World War IIOperation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraphsurfaced in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. 1945, World War II: FührerbunkerAdolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. 1947, in Nevada, the Boulder Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam a second time. 1948, in BogotáColombia, the Organization of American States was established.

In 1953, in Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado killed 18 people. 1956, former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley died during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." 1961, K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, was commissioned. 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott was held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. 1966, the Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco. 1967, the Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.

In 1973, Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that top White Houseaides H. R. HaldemanJohn Ehrlichman and others had resigned. 1975, Fall of SaigonCommunist forces gained control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ended with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh. 1980, Beatrixbecame Queen of the Netherlands. Also 1980, the Iranian Embassy siege began in London. 1982, the Bijon Setu massacre occurred in Calcutta. 1993, CERN announced World Wide Web protocols would be free. Also 1993, Monica Seles was stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany 1994, Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger was killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrarioutside Imola, Italy. 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

In 2004, U.S. media released graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. 2008, two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters. 2009, Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Also 2009, seven people were killedand another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix. Also 2009, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker. 2012, an overloaded ferry capsized on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people. 2013, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated and Willem-Alexander became King of the Netherlands. 2014, a bomb blast in Ürümqi killed three people and injured 79 others.

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Today's reading: 1 Kings 6-7, Luke 20:27-47 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Kings 6-7

Solomon Builds the Temple
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.
2 The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. 3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple. 4 He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls. 5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms. 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits and the third floor seven. He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

Today's New Testament reading: Luke 20:27-47

The Resurrection and Marriage
27 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. 28 "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. 30 The second 31 and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. 32 Finally, the woman died too. 33 Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"

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Morning

"Thou art my hope in the day of evil."
Jeremiah 17:17
The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God's Word, "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;" and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be "As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day," yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At certain periods clouds cover the believer's sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the "green pastures" by the side of the "still waters," but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter to their taste, and they say, "Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen." Oh! say not so, thou who art walking in darkness. The best of God's saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his harp from the willows. Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the shorn lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter upon the riper and rougher experience of God's full-grown children. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Evening

"The Lord taketh pleasure in his people."
Psalm 149:4

How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of his people's interests which he does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns their welfare which is not important to him. Not merely does he think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way." It were a sad thing for us if this mantle of love did not cover all our concerns, for what mischief might be wrought to us in that part of our business which did not come under our gracious Lord's inspection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your meaner affairs. The breadth of his tender love is such that you may resort to him in all matters; for in all your afflictions he is afflicted, and like as a father pitieth his children, so doth he pity you. The meanest interests of all his saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. Oh, what a heart is his, that doth not merely comprehend the persons of his people, but comprehends also the diverse and innumerable concerns of all those persons! Dost thou think, O Christian, that thou canst measure the love of Christ? Think of what his love has brought thee--justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of his goodness are unsearchable; thou shalt never be able to tell them out or even conceive them. Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord.

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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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