Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Wed 19th May 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Media hatred of Trump shields Biden

headline names President Trump in a murder. A husband had killed his wife and allegedly used her vote, afterwards, to vote for Trump as an alibi. It is not yet certain the killer broke electoral laws established during the COVID crisis. He might not have forged her signature and it might still have been counted. Why do we know the vote was cast for Trump? Would a vote for Biden have changed the status of the investigation? Maybe Liz Cheney can enlighten us, with her vow to do anything to prevent Trump from being elected an historic third time. Usually it is a power hungry Democrat who goes for more than two elections. Except Trump has been fraudulently denied the 2020 election as an investigation into voting is showing. When Democrat Governor of California faced recall, he insisted on signatures being checked and 20% of signatures were fouled off. But during the 2020 Presidential election, some states did not check voter signatures. 

It is now being revealed by former Biden staffers that Biden is a Malcolm Turnbull type talent. He hesitates and pontificates but holds onto the power of saying 'no' well past the time a 'yes' might be practicable. Before Biden implements policy that he thought of, he is implementing policy that others preached, and that failed others. This failed policy is getting people killed in the Middle East, and denying workers jobs at home. Kudos to the forty two million Biden voters who voted twice. 

How is the press covering the Biden fiasco? By reporting that AOC had an ugly confrontation with a congress woman she publicly attacked? Marjorie Taylor Greene is correct in saying AOC has endorsed the murderous terrorists of 'Palestine' over the government and peoples of Israel? 

Or maybe the press are ignoring Biden's failure and focusing on the antics of Elon Musk?  


Editorial Cricket Australia's Ball tampering fail

The treatment of Australia's cricket elite over a professional foul of ball tampering was absurd. A player cheated badly and as a result management was cleaned out and the Captain and Vice Captain were hung out to dry. Instead of a match fee being removed from guilty parties, innocent parties resigned, and senior players were ousted for years from the sport and lost $millions. For trying to wear out one side of a cricket ball during play when the ball was playing dead. In other similar incidents players don't face any sanctions. 

Recently, the incumbent Australian captain who has led a weakened side weakly has admitted that the former captain should get his job back. And then the press inflate a 'confession' from the cricketer who committed the foul. What will the press do when they find out about Biden's involvement with the downing of MH 17 in Ukraine? We may never know. 

Actor Craig McLachlan was brutally attacked by press over allegations he was innocent. But the press are persevering with trying to destroy his career forever. 


Editorial Press harassing Israel as Israel defends herself from WMD

Israelis are facing tens of thousand of rocket attacks as terroristt celebrate Biden's 2020 election fraud. 

On May15th, Journalists against Israel 'report' on grim death toll and UN opinion favouring terrorists. We are told that there was a horror moment when Israeli police raided a home with human shields being active for terrorists. Israel collapsed tunnels which had housed high explosives. 

On May 16th we read that two press agencies, AP and Al Jazeera were using their home base in the conflict to shelter those launching missiles. "They’re not going to get weapons. They’re going to get their cameras and their work gear,” he said." "Moments later, hundreds of journalists watched their office be reduced to rubble after the Israeli army launched an air strike against it, demolishing the 13-floor building in the Gaza Strip." Apparently the life work of journalists is now to shield terrorists from retribution? 

The next day, press again report among fatalities of human shields used by terrorists to protect military targets. Only we don't know that that is what happened at all. In the past, journalists have staged things to look like atrocities. 

As Fatah's leader clings to power decades after a fraudulent election win, Press denounce Benjamin Netanyahu of clinging to power. 


Editorial how Biden started Jew Killing in Middle East

Two competing foreign policy agenda are regionalism vs bilateralism. Trump favoured bilateral relations policy. Obama favoured regionalism and recreated a cold war to achieve those aims. Under cold war theory, trouble nations like North Korea and Iran are forced to find a big protector like China or Russia to protect them. Under Bilateral theory, nations are free to achieve their agenda and engage with nations for mutual benefit. In the Middle East, a Cold War theory question of the USA to their satellite countries is "What is your biggest security threat?" and, filtered through the noise of competing factors is the answer 'Israel.' Israel is not a threat to anyone, but the compromise takes into account the desire of terrorists to achieve their aim of destroying Israel. However, when bilateral practitioners ask their question 'What do you want?' Then, most Middle East nations do not consider Israel at all. 

Under bilateral practice, Trump achieved a balanced peace in the Middle East. Under regionalism, Biden has revived terrorism, with tens of thousands of rockets aimed at Israel as thousands are fired daily. The press are happy for the war, as they hand wring and write of the possibility of peace they despised Trump. Where to next? Cold War involves bureaucratic process. Terrible things happen like the shooting down of a Malaysian airways flight over Ukraine, where the guilty parties, including Biden, have never been brought to book. 

Already, Biden meddling in the Israeli election process has clouded the state of Israel's administration. Under Cold War rules, can Israel defend herself? 
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Is this the biggest national security threat of our time? Troubling new video about UFOs surface. In this episode, I discuss the controversy, along with the brewing controversy surrounding the Secret Service. I also address the new Spygate emails.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
House Democrats Object to Targeting Gang Members for Deportation, Alleging Racism READ MORE

Soros Donated $2 Million to Elect Sheriff Stonewalling Maricopa County Audit

Colonial Pipeline’s Shipping Communications System Knocked Offline

North Carolina DA Says Police Shooting of Andrew Brown Jr Was Justified

Report: Bill Gates Hoped Jeffrey Epstein Would Help Him Win a Nobel Peace Prize

Several States Report Zero Daily Covid Deaths

Top Dems Demand Biden Stop Weapons Sale to Israel

Capitol Hill
Obama Confirms UFO Sightings Are Real Ahead of Pentagon Report Release
Attorney Says “Explosive” Evidence Found in Michigan Election Fraud Cause
Biden’s Cancellation of Keystone XL Pipeline Under Scrutiny Again After Colonial Hack, Rising Gas Prices
Andrew Giuliani Announces 2022 Bid for NY Governor
Senate Republicans Prepare New Infrastructure Proposal
Psaki Says White House Engaging in “Quiet Intensive Diplomacy” in Israel-Gaza Conflict
Psaki: Biden “Committed to Codifying” Roe v. Wade
Members of New Hampshire Audit Team Find More Discrepancies in 2020 Results
Trump Tells Supporters to Not Give Money to Karl Rove
Dems to Hold Hearing on “White Identity Terrorism” as Middle East Burns

Culture War
UFC Fighter Dedicates Win to Victims of Communism
Citizen Armed With Rifle Prevents Attempted Mass Shooting
Trump to Speak at North Carolina GOP Convention in June
Fact Check Reveals Social Justice Advocate Who Claimed to Be Descendent of Robert E. Lee Lied
SCOTUS Sides With Man Who Had Guns Seized During Mental Health Episode
Tucker Slams Space Force for Firing Commander Who Criticized Critical Race Theory, Marxism
AOC Injects BLM Rhetoric Into Immigration Demands
There’s No Fixing the “Equality Act”
Piers Morgan Blasts Prince Harry’s Attack on U.S. Free Speech
Former Space Force Commander Says DOD Videos Claimed White People Are “Inherently Evil”

Economy
Pressure Rises on Biden and Federal Reserve to Address Rising Inflation
Group Behind Colonial Pipeline Hack Extorted Other Companies Before Their Servers Were Seized
Dr. Gottlieb Says “Nobody” Will be Wearing Masks by June
California Governor Pitches $11 Billion Infrastructure Plan
Companies Suddenly Face an “Everything” Shortage
Nearly 90% of D.C. Gas Pumps Without Fuel
Michael Burry of “The Big Short” Bets $530 Million Against Tesla
Florida Records Record Defections From New York
Biden Releases Tax Return Revealing $607k in 2020 Household Income
Study: Red States Have the Best Taxpayer ROI

Swamp Watch
Maricopa County Demands End of 2020 Election Audit
Biden Hiring Relatives of Senior Staffers Raises Ethics Concerns
Venezuelans Showing Up in Record Numbers at Mexican Border
FAA Says Company That Flew Michigan Gov for Her Florida Trip Wasn’t Authorized to Charter Flights
Emails Reveal Hunter Biden Wanted to Launch a New Business Involving His Father
White House Visitor Logs Reveal Fauci/Klain Situation Room Meeting After Gain Of Function Moratorium
Rand Paul Says Fauci Could Be Responsible for Pandemic: “He Can’t Escape This, He Did the Funding”
BLM Co-Founder Accused of Self-Dealing
Gov. Cuomo’s Book on Pandemic Leadership Nets Him $5+ Million

Coronavirus
Fauci Admits to Masking After Vaccination Solely for Optics
White House Denies There Is Any Mask Confusion Because of New CDC Guidance
Masks Still Required Indoors in New Jersey, Even for Vaccinated People, Despite Revised CDC Guidance
Report: DOJ Goes Maskless, Will Not Ask Vaccination Status
White House Announces 20 Million Vaccine Doses Will Be Sent Abroad
NY, Massachusetts to Lift Mask Mandates for Vaccinated People Soon
Fed Up Parents Demand School District Drop Mask Mandate Amid New CDC Guidance
The Most Vaccinated County in New York Is One of the Reddest
Despite New CDC Guidance, Some People Vow to Keep Wearing Masks Forever

National Security
Former Defense Official Says U.S. Has “Massive Intelligence Failure” on UFOs
America Must Defend Israel — Or Face a Wider War
Is the SR-72 the Mach 6 Bomber That Could Shake the World?
Amphibious Exercise ARC 21 Underway With U.S., Australia, France and Japan Participating
Was Donald Trump Planning To Massively Cut Back the F-35 Program?
This is the Hour of Space Diplomacy
F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter: Obsolete Thanks to Russia and China?
How Much Do Navy Seals, Other Special Ops Forces Earn?
46 Shot Over the Weekend in Lightfoot’s Chicago
IDF Fires Artillery at Lebanon After Rocket Fire

Around the World
China Admits Continued U.S. Presence in Afghanistan Benefits Beijing
Despite U.S., Regional Diplomacy, Israel-Gaza Conflict Continues
No Mention of Palestinian Hamas Rockets in UN Draft Statement on Ceasefire
Italy Shortens Coronavirus Curfew, Eases Other Restrictions
British Police Deem Flying Confederate Flag a “Hate-Related” Offense
Although India’s Coronavirus Cases Are Declining, WHO Expert Says Positivity Rate Alarmingly High
Sale of $735 Million in Weapons to Israel Has Been Approved by the U.S.
Spain, France and Germany Reach Deal Over Joint Fighter Jet

Opinion
Stephen Moore: Democrats Follow the “Science” and Reject Common Sense
Chris Talgo: New CDC Guidance for Fully Vaccinated Americans Is Incongruent, As Usual
NY Post Editorial Board: Insisting on Masks Despite the Science Is Just Partisan Posturing Gone Mad
Kurt Schlichter: The Media Hates You And Is Shocked That You Hate It Back
Nicole Gelinas: People Need to Trust Vaccines — Not Be Bribed to Get Them
Rachel Alexander: Our Side Needs to Stop Falling for Fake News
David Marcus: Cuomo’s Refusal to Take CDC’s Advice on Masks Shows His Addiction to Power
Ryan Bomberger: Biden’s HHS Is Lying About Title X to Push Abortion

Science/Entertainment/Sports
NYC’s Irving Plaza to Reopen This Summer, Over 40 Concerts Planned
Melinda Gates May Be Looking to Change Kids’ $10M Inheritance Split
Matthew McConaughey Continues to Weigh Texas Gubernatorial Bid
Harry, Meghan Feeling the Heat Over Deal With Company Selling Skin-Whitening Cream
Deep Space Probe Voyager 1 Detects Faint “Hum” in Interstellar Space
“SNL” Ratings Crash to New Low
With So Much Riding on Aaron Rodgers Drama, NFL Is “Nervous”
Mets Will Soon Learn Much About Jacob DeGrom’s Injury Status
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/arizona-audit-republicans-feud/2021/05/18/id/1021871/?oRef=mixi

Biden Presidency
GOP, White House Talks on Infrastructure Yield No Breakthrough
AP Source: US Encouraging Israel to Wind Down Gaza Offensive
Poll: Less Than 58 Percent of Dems Would Vote for Biden in 2024 Primary
House Passes Hate Crimes Bill After Asian-American Attacks; Next Stop, Biden
Pentagon Plans to Monitor Troops' Social Media For Extremism
Israel, Gaza Violence Overshadows Biden's Domestic Plans
WH Defending Trump’s Journalist Phone Records Grab
Blinken Brings Biden's Anti-Trump Climate Policy to Iceland
Biden Proposes Billions to Improve Cybersecurity
Biden Expands Legal Services for Poor, Minorities
Biden, Under Pressure to Act, Raises Cease-fire and Civilian Toll in Call to Netanyahu

Newsfront
Texas Gov. Bars Mask Mandates for Schools, Other Government Entities
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered all government entities in the state, including school districts, to lift mask mandates by week's end, though existing guidelines for face-coverings in schools may remain in effect through June 4. Abbott's executive order puts Texas...... [Full Story]

FBI Probes Campaign Donations to U.S. Senator Susan Collins
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been reviewing a possible [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Ozymandias

"Ozymandias" (pronounced /ˌɒziˈmændi.əs/) is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1818. It is frequently anthologized and is probably Shelley's most famous short poem. It was written in competition with his friend Horace Smith, who wrote another sonnet entitled "Ozymandias"

In addition to the power of its themes and imagery, the poem is notable for its virtuosic diction. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is unusual and creates a sinuous and interwoven effect.

met a traveller from an antique land, 
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone 
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, 
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, 
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read 
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, 
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; 
And on the pedestal, these words appear: 
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; 
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay 
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare 
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Horace Smith (1779-1849)
                          Ozymandias.
    IN Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
      Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
      The only shadow that the Desart knows:—
    "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
      "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
    "The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
      Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
    The site of this forgotten Babylon.
    We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
    Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
      Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
    He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
      What powerful but unrecorded race
      Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
https://rumble.com/vbtemt-ozymandias-of-shelley.html

=== From 2018 ===

Don't give up on hope. Major James Hewitt deserves kudos if, for no other reason, he brought hair back to the male royal line. He also served the UK with distinction in war. Harry's best qualities are reflected favourably in him. Charles is Harry's father. Charles raised Harry. And like Charles, a beautiful ceremony has brought a lovely young woman into the royal household. But this time Harry is not twice the age of Meghan. I know, now, why older people tend gardens. One can eliminate weeds, prune hedges and provide nutrients without censure. 

The unfair ASADA probe into illegal performance enhancing drugs was couched by Jason Clare, then Home Minister, as rooting out corruption at the heart of organised Australian team sport. The ARL team of Cronulla an the AFL team of Essendon were particularly vulnerable to the faux investigation because of management issues within the clubs being in transition. Clare only needed a political time waster to give Gillard more time as PM. It worked and delayed Rudd's return before Rudd crashed and burned at election later that year, having run into a committed Tony Abbott who had a positive message for the public for conservatives. But, just as the citizenship debacle in parliament suited the ALP initially, it unravelled. ASADA mirrored a drug investigation into MLB in the US. Obama's overreach saw teams like the NYY persecuted as a lead player who admitted taking legal substances was persecuted for a result. Essendon's coach bore the weight of the persecution which promised player leniency for admitting something which might exonerate ASADA for their persecution. No manager could speak on Essendon's behalf and the board dived for cover. So the club lost a season and the players were smeared. Thank you Jason Clare. Recently, Mark Thompson has been charged with being extensively involved with recreational drugs. An email Thompson made was leaked, highlighting the empty but punitive purpose of ASADA's investigation. 

A modern city like Melbourne should not have level crossings where railway meets cars in traffic. They are death traps. The conservatives had a program for responsibly removing them, but a hysterical ALP campaign resulted in a ridiculous amping up of the program. Even so, the ALP cannot follow a plan, and the budget related to level crossings has blown out by 38%. The budget was $8.3 billion as of 23rd January 2018. However it had been slated to be $6 billion at start, and after the latest budget is $9 billion. The ALP are promising to spend over $80 billion this election year on infrastructure. But every dollar spent may have to be spent again fixing their failures. 


Matthew Guy attends a Buddhist Festival in Melbourne. Via SM "Look at who I found at the Buddha festival in Federation Square this afternoon. None other than the next premier of Victoria Matthew Guy with David Southwick, Tim Smith, Bruce Atkinson plus federal member Alan Tudge.
Good to see the liberal team out and about.

Supporting the very large Buddhist community of Victoria."

=== from 2017 ===

Some things should not happen, but they do. The Australian broadcaster ABC has taken partisan positions on many issues. One issue is Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). A freedom of information request given to them asked for their articles on AGW showing the skeptical position. In two decades of discussion, they have not produced any. They have similar so called 'balanced' positions on many issues. News.com.au journalist Matt Young has a fake news article on the Mueller investigation of Trump's administration. He manages to get it wrong on every partisan point. Russia did not interfere in the US election. There is no revelation Trump asked Comey to drop the investigation. Trump has not shared classified information with Russia. The issue is that Trump is fighting the culture wars and draining the swamp. Trump is winning. The swamp is attempting to raise hysteria to weaken Trump's resolve. One day, an FOI request may go to a mainstream media asking why the Trump Presidency has produced an effective administration which has made America Great again and where were the early articles acknowledging the brilliant moves. But they won't exist, because partisan news, fake news, have not produced them. 

Last week I wrote about my disbelief that the awful Andrews Government was to dig a hole in the middle of Melbourne and disrupt pedestrians for a year leading into the 2018 election. I said I would link an article, if it existed, about the $9.5 billion dollar project. For $500 million more, work could be done by boring underground deep enough to not have to close streets. For $200 million more, another station could be made too. But Andrews is keen to 'do something' and spend $9.5 billion without 'wasting' $700 million more. The project is St Kilda Road and Toorak Rd. Aspects of the project I link here. It is as bad as I say. Parks and nature strips will have old growth trees killed for the work. And protesters who come from interstate, even Western Australia, to protest over development which 'harms trees' will not complain about this project because Andrews runs an ALP government. 
=== from 2016 ===
I have moved to a good home. I leave behind the ice house. Dan Andrews would rather I lived with an ice addict, and that you should too. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
Todays report stands on its own because this time in 2014, the Conservative Voice was looking for rental accommodation after being forced to sell their unit/home.

People wish to come to Australia to stay. At least one bikie hopes to return and three who had left to join ISIL death cult are asking to come back. Australia has passed laws to protect herself from such terrorists. Why should Australia harbour such beasts? Citizenship is not a revolving door. Redemption is important, but it isn't the job of a nation to redeem terrorist who have eschewed national virtues. Apparently, their lawyers are saying they want to be an example for those others wanting to join the death cult. But if we never let them back in, they are. 

In 639, Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Tai zong at Jiucheng Palace. Ashina had tried to get his brother in trouble with the emperor, and so the emperor ignored him because he had felt that behaviour despicable. So Ashina launched an attack at the palace, but did so in a way badly timed. Bad weather meant that the palace did not make a mistake of attacking outside the walls. So Ashina tried to steal some horses and flee. He was caught and killed. 715, Pope Gregory II was elected. 1051, Henry I of France was married to Anne of Kiev. 1445, John II of Castile defeated the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. 1499, Catherine of Aragon was married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine was 13 and Arthur was 12. Catherine would later argue she had not consummated the marriage. Henry VIII would find it convenient to claim she had. 

In 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. The charges against Anne were monstrous, probably so as to prevent division in the court from sympathy to her. In Anne's defence, she maintained her dignity for her daughter. 1542, the Prome Kingdom fell to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma. 1568, Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots. Elizabeth had not wanted to kill Mary. But, Mary was persistent. 1643, Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeated Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power. 1649, an Act of Parliament declared England a Commonwealth was passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. 1655, the Invasion of Jamaica began during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1743, Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale. 1749, King George II of Great Britain granted the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River. 1776, American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrendered in the Battle of The Cedars. 1780, New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.

In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte founded the Legion of Honour. 1828, U.S. President John Quincy Adams signed the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States. 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition departed from Greenhithe, England. 1848, Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding CaliforniaNevadaUtah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million. 1897, Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol. Oscar's incarceration was a tragedy, but it was also his own fault. He had sought an advantage not within Queensbury rules. 

In 1911, Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. 1917, the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK was founded. 1919, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk landed at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. 1921, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. Following WW1, immigration had been high. This was a bad attempt at dealing with it. 1922, the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union was established. 1934, Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineered a coup d'état and installed Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. 1941, the Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng ProvinceVietnam. 1942, World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral SeaTask Force 16 headed to Pearl Harbor. 1943, World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 11944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.

In 1950, a barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan exploded in the harbour at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. Also 1950, Egypt announces that the Suez Canal was closed to Israeli ships and commerce. 1959, the North Vietnamese Army established Group 559, whose responsibility was to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route was the Ho Chi Minh trail. 1961, Venera programVenera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). Also 1961, at Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis died when police opened fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement. 1962, a birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight was Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". 1963, the New York Post Sunday Magazine published Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, drafted shortly after his arrest on April 12 during the Birmingham campaign advocating for civil rights and an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter was in response to "A Call for Unity": A statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods, following his arrest, and became one of the most-anthologised statements of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

In 1971, Mars probe programMars 2 was launched by the Soviet Union. 1984, Michael Larson, a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck exploited a bug in the prize board, and won over US$110,000. 1986, the Firearm Owners Protection Act was signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1991, Croatians voted for independence in a referendum. 1997, the Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a result of grassroots efforts. 2007, President of Romania Traian Băsescu survived an impeachment referendum and returned to office from suspension. 2010, the Royal Thai Armed Forces concluded its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
From 2014
None in 2014 because of Government and public service corruption related to the petitions
Historical perspective on this day
In 639, Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Tai zong at Jiucheng Palace. 715, Pope Gregory II was elected. 1051, Henry I of France was married to Anne of Kiev. 1445, John II of Castile defeated the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. 1499, Catherine of Aragon was married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine was 13 and Arthur was 12.

In 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. 1542, the Prome Kingdom fell to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma. 1568, Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots. 1643, Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeated Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power. 1649, an Act of Parliament declared England a Commonwealth was passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. 1655, the Invasion of Jamaica began during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1743, Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale. 1749, King George II of Great Britain granted the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River. 1776, American Revolutionary War: A Continental Armygarrison surrendered in the Battle of The Cedars. 1780, New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.

In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte founded the Legion of Honour. 1828, U.S. President John Quincy Adams signed the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States. 1845, Captain Sir John Franklinand his ill-fated Arctic expedition departed from Greenhithe, England. 1848, Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding CaliforniaNevadaUtah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million. 1897, Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol.

In 1911, Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. 1917, the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK was founded. 1919, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk landed at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Seacoast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. 1921, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Quota Actestablishing national quotas on immigration. 1922, the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union was established. 1934, Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineered a coup d'état and installed Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. 1941, the Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng ProvinceVietnam. 1942, World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral SeaTask Force 16 headed to Pearl Harbor. 1943, World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 11944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.

In 1950, a barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan exploded in the harbour at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. Also 1950, Egyptannounces that the Suez Canal was closed to Israeli ships and commerce. 1959, the North Vietnamese Army established Group 559, whose responsibility was to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route was the Ho Chi Minh trail. 1961, Venera programVenera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). Also 1961, at Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis died when police opened fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement. 1962, a birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight was Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". 1963, the New York Post Sunday Magazine published Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, drafted shortly after his arrest on April 12 during the Birmingham campaignadvocating for civil rights and an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter was in response to "A Call for Unity": A statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods, following his arrest, and became one of the most-anthologised statements of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

In 1971, Mars probe programMars 2 was launched by the Soviet Union. 1984, Michael Larson, a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck exploited a bug in the prize board, and won over US$110,000. 1986, the Firearm Owners Protection Act was signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1991, Croatians voted for independence in a referendum. 1997, the Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a result of grassroots efforts. 2007, President of Romania Traian Băsescu survived an impeachment referendum and returned to office from suspension. 2010, the Royal Thai Armed Forces concluded its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

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Today's reading: 1 Chronicles 4-6, John 6:1-21 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Chronicles 4-6

Other Clans of Judah
The descendants of Judah:
Perez, Hezron, Karmi, Hur and Shobal.
2 Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.
3 These were the sons of Etam:
Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi. 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah....

Today's New Testament reading: John 6:1-21

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do....

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Morning

"In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him."
Colossians 2:9-10
All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fulness of the Godhead, whatever that marvellous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the attributes of Deity; but he has done all that can be done, for he has made even his divine power and Godhead subservient to our salvation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and infallibility, are all combined for our defence. Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless his knowledge! All these are by the Lord Jesus made the pillars of the temple of salvation; and all, without diminution of their infinity, are covenanted to us as our perpetual inheritance. The fathomless love of the Saviour's heart is every drop of it ours; every sinew in the arm of might, every jewel in the crown of majesty, the immensity of divine knowledge, and the sternness of divine justice, all are ours, and shall be employed for us. The whole of Christ, in his adorable character as the Son of God, is by himself made over to us most richly to enjoy. His wisdom is our direction, his knowledge our instruction, his power our protection, his justice our surety, his love our comfort, his mercy our solace, and his immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for the hidden treasures. "All, all, all are yours," saith he, "be ye satisfied with favour and full of the goodness of the Lord." Oh! how sweet thus to behold Jesus, and to call upon him with the certain confidence that in seeking the interposition of his love or power, we are but asking for that which he has already faithfully promised.

Evening

"Afterward."
Hebrews 12:11

How happy are tried Christians, afterwards. No calm more deep than that which succeeds a storm. Who has not rejoiced in clear shinings after rain? Victorious banquets are for well-exercised soldiers. After killing the lion we eat the honey; after climbing the Hill Difficulty, we sit down in the arbour to rest; after traversing the Valley of Humiliation, after fighting with Apollyon, the shining one appears, with the healing branch from the tree of life. Our sorrows, like the passing keels of the vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind them "afterwards." It is peace, sweet, deep peace, which follows the horrible turmoil which once reigned in our tormented, guilty souls. See, then, the happy estate of a Christian! He has his best things last, and he therefore in this world receives his worst things first. But even his worst things are "afterward" good things, harsh ploughings yielding joyful harvests. Even now he grows rich by his losses, he rises by his falls, he lives by dying, and becomes full by being emptied; if, then, his grievous afflictions yield him so much peaceable fruit in this life, what shall be the full vintage of joy "afterwards" in heaven? If his dark nights are as bright as the world's days, what shall his days be? If even his starlight is more splendid than the sun, what must his sunlight be? If he can sing in a dungeon, how sweetly will he sing in heaven! If he can praise the Lord in the fires, how will he extol him before the eternal throne! If evil be good to him now, what will the overflowing goodness of God be to him then? Oh, blessed "afterward!" Who would not be a Christian? Who would not bear the present cross for the crown which cometh afterwards? But herein is work for patience, for the rest is not for today, nor the triumph for the present, but "afterward." Wait, O soul, and let patience have her perfect work.

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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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