Thursday, July 29, 2021

Thu 29th July 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on Haiti Assassination and Biden Presidency
Because of corruption involving the Clinton Foundation and Haiti reconstruction, the assassination of Haiti's President by a mercenary team involving US citizens takes on a particular piquancy. It does not mean Biden is behind the assassination, But, what must be of concern to non partisan Americans is the circumstance resulting in the death. To draw a parallel, Australia had had a decade of conservative government leading up to the Rudd Government election in 2007. Rudd promised change based on a pragmatic economic conservative approach he never followed. But, before Rudd penned a schoolboy level essay trumpeting the jettison of economic conservatism, he turned to enlightened foreign policy. Rudd would not tolerate insurrection in Timor led by the separatist Alfredo Reinado. Rudd might not have given tacit permission for friendly black ops to hit Reinado, But, the hit almost claimed the lives of Timor's Prime Minister and President. Following, Timor ties with ALP led Australia were poisoned. 

Biden needs a foreign policy win. A strong statement on a nation close to America means a lot for Biden who looks weak and foolish, derided by friends and foes. Who mourns the Haiti strongman? Who mourned Reinado? However, Rudd's bungled foreign policy echoes the Haiti experience. Just like Ukraine's illegal painting of their military aircraft as civilian was never discussed by international media, we may never hear who ordered the hit on the Haiti President, but those involved with the execution will be persecuted. After all, those involved might point the finger, if asked, at .. Biden? 

Editorial Trump policy prosecuting legal cases
Trump legal policy appears to be corruptly deprived of standing and provision. How else can one explain the quandary Trump finds himself? It is as if the Democrats own the judicial process and it is up to the voter to rid the US of Democrats in 2022, so that an independent congress and eventually, judiciary, can reassert themselves. There are powerful truths supporting that view, from Hunter Biden's laptop, through Giuliani's slap down by NY judges, The Russian collusion hoax and two fake impeachment trials. But, sometimes, Trump looks like he is deliberately shooting himself in the foot, as with his lawyer's approach to suing Big Tech. It is as if a Trump lawyer is applying a poison pill to the case to sabotage what Trump could pursue legally in better directions. 

Why else would Trump lawyers use class action to pursue what Trump can claim as a private citizen? Is it because Trump can lose these cases and better pursue public support for 2022? Can Democrats afford to let Trump win these cases so as to avoid losing the publicity war? Or are Democrats geared to lose regardless? 

The corrupt Democrat LBJ stole preselection for Texas from a fellow Democrat in '48. The case went to the Supreme Court which claimed it had no standing as it was a preselection for Democrats, and they were allowed to be corrupt. The federal aspect of any campaign not being decided by Democrats preselecting a thief. It had only been a few years after UK lords had hanged Lord Haw Haw, William Joyce for treason, even though he wasn't English at all, but Irish. The UK Lords had had no standing, but as they say in law, if there aren't double standards, then there are no standards at all. Joyce had had a fake UK passport. I'm sure Barnaby Joyce would understand that such loopholes in citizenship are fraught. 

I no longer care for the opinion of judges. I want Trump to have his presidency restored, and for Democrats to be stripped of their party status. 
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Vaccine Mandate Protest Letter

No authorship claim or copyright asserted...this letter just came to me in a bottle, and I have no idea who might have penned it, nor can I possibly vouch for it, and what you fine folks do with it is entirely in your own hands, as the Gentlemen of the Bar remind me I can proffer no general legal advice in the matter, and must officially disclaim proffering any such advice here...edit and excise as you see fit, amend and append as you desire, and claim authorship or anonymity as may best befit you...as always, as you wish...

Dear Boss,

Compelling any employee to take any current Covid-19 vaccine violates federal and state law, and subjects the employer to substantial liability risk, including liability for any injury the employee may suffer from the vaccine. Many employers have reconsidered issuing such a mandate after more fruitful review with legal counsel, insurance providers, and public opinion advisors of the desires of employees and the consuming public. Even the Kaiser Foundation warned of the legal risk in this respect. (https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/key-questions-about-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/)

Three key concerns: first, while the vaccine remains unapproved by the FDA and authorized only for emergency use, federal law forbids mandating it, in accordance with the Nuremberg Code of 1947; second, the Americans with Disabilities Act proscribes, punishes and penalizes employers who invasively inquire into their employees' medical status and then treat those employees differently based on their medical status, as the many AIDS related cases of decades ago fully attest; and third, international law, Constitutional law, specific statutes and the common law of torts all forbid conditioning access to employment upon coerced, invasive medical examinations and treatment, unless the employer can fully provide objective, scientifically validated evidence of the threat from the employee and how no practicable alternative could possible suffice to mitigate such supposed public health threat and still perform the necessary essentials of employment.

At the outset, consider the "problem" being "solved" by vaccination mandates. The previously infected are better protected than the vaccinated, so why aren't they exempted? Equally, the symptomatic can be self-isolated. Hence, requiring vaccinations only addresses one risk: dangerous or deadly transmission, by the asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic employee, in the employment setting. Yet even government official Mr. Fauci admits, as scientific studies affirm, asymptomatic transmission is exceedingly and "very rare." Indeed, initial data suggests the vaccinated are just as, or even much more, likely to transmit the virus as the asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. Hence, the vaccine solves nothing. This evidentiary limitation on any employer's decision making, aside from the legal and insurance risks of forcing vaccinations as a term of employment without any accommodation or even exception for the previously infected (and thus better protected), is the reason most employers wisely refuse to mandate the vaccine. This doesn't even address the arbitrary self-limitation of the pool of talent for the employer: why reduce your own talent pool, when many who refuse invasive inquiries or risky treatment may be amongst your most effective, efficient and profitable employees?

First, federal law prohibits any mandate of the Covid-19 vaccines as unlicensed, emergency-use-authorization-only vaccines. Subsection bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III) of section 360 of Title 21 of the United States Code, otherwise known as the Emergency Use Authorization section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, demands that everyone give employees the "option to accept or refuse administration" of the Covid-19 vaccine. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3 ) This right to refuse emergency, experimental vaccines, such as the Covid-19 vaccine, implements the internationally agreed legal requirement of Informed Consent established in the Nuremberg Code of 1947. (http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/ ). As the Nuremberg Code established, every person must "be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision" for any medical experimental drug, as the Covid-19 vaccine currently is. The Nuremberg Code prohibited even the military from requiring such experimental vaccines. (Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F.Supp.2d 119 (D.D.C. 2003).

Second, demanding employees divulge their personal medical information invades their protected right to privacy, and discriminates against them based on their perceived medical status, in contravention of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (42 USC §12112(a).) Indeed, the ADA prohibits employers from invasive inquiries about their medical status, and that includes questions about diseases and treatments for those diseases, such as vaccines. As the EEOC makes clear, an employer can only ask medical information if the employer can prove the medical information is both job-related and necessary for the business. (https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/questions-and-answers-enforcement-guidance-disability-related-inquiries-and-medical). An employer that treats an individual employee differently based on that employer’s belief the employee’s medical condition impairs the employee is discriminating against that employee based on perceived medical status disability, in contravention of the ADA. The employer must have proof that the employer cannot keep the employee, even with reasonable accommodations, before any adverse action can be taken against the employee. If the employer asserts the employee’s medical status (such as being unvaccinated against a particular disease) precludes employment, then the employer must prove that the employee poses a “safety hazard” that cannot be reduced with a reasonable accommodation. The employer must prove, with objective, scientifically validated evidence, that the employee poses a materially enhanced risk of serious harm that no reasonable accommodation could mitigate. This requires the employee's medical status cause a substantial risk of serious harm, a risk that cannot be reduced by any another means. This is a high, and difficult burden, for employers to meet. Just look at the all prior cases concerning HIV and AIDS, when employers discriminated against employees based on their perceived dangerousness, and ended up paying millions in legal fees, damages and fines.

Third, conditioning continued employment upon participating in a medical experiment and demanding disclosure of private, personal medical information, may also create employer liability under other federal and state laws, including HIPAA, FMLA, and applicable state tort law principles, including torts prohibiting and proscribing invasions of privacy and battery. Indeed, any employer mandating a vaccine is liable to their employee for any adverse event suffered by that employee. The CDC records reports of the adverse events already reported to date concerning the current Covid-19 vaccine.(https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vaers.html )

Finally, forced vaccines constitute a form of battery, and the Supreme Court long made clear "no right is more sacred than the right of every individual to the control of their own person, free from all restraint or interference of others." (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/141/250)

With Regards,
Employee of the Year

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I had another blow-up with Geraldo last night on Fox. In this episode, I discuss the fireworks about January 6th, and the latest coronavirus misinformation campaign from the Biden administration.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Biden DOJ Threatens to Sue States Returning to Pre-Pandemic Voting Regulations READ MORE

Biden’s Approval Sinks to New Low

National Police Association Slams Partisan January 6th Probe

Former FDA Commissioner: New CDC Mask Guidance Doesn’t Make Sense

Sen. Cruz Grills Cybersecurity Officials on Lack of Sanctions on China After Cyberattacks

Federal Reserve Holds Rates Near Zero Despite Rising Inflation

Senate Negotiators Say They Reached a Final Deal on $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Package

Capitol Hill
Arizona Senate Liaison for Maricopa County Audit to Step Down
Three GOP Reps Sue Pelosi Over Mask Fines
Former Trump OMB Chief Investigates Biden Admin’s Ties to Critical Race Theory Group
Texas National Guard Ordered to Help With Arrests at U.S.-Mexico Border
Seattle Mayor Reverses “Defund the Police” Position Amid Crime Wave
Day One of the Jan 6 Hearings Featured Endless Liberal Lies
Gov. Cuomo Is Getting Away With the Scandal of the Century
Capitol Police Officer Who Claimed Jan 6 Protesters Called Him N-Word Is Far-Left Activist Who Supports Violent Race Riots
Biden Nominee for U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Opposes Prosecution of Drug Dealers and Thieves
Enforcement of Arizona’s Maricopa Election Subpoena “Unlikely” Due to GOP Holdout
First Arrest Warrant Signed for Fleeing Texas Democrats

Culture War
Twitter Suspends Accounts for 2020 Election Audits
Father Considers Lawsuit for Clinic for “Affirming 9-Year-Old Autistic Son As Transgender Lesbian”
NY Times Reporter Calls for Trump Supporters to Be Branded “Enemies of the State”
Lol: Chuck Todd Says There Is No Liberal Media Bias
More Americans Want Black Lives Matter Riots Investigated Than Jan 6
Fauci: New Mask Recommendation for the Vaccinated Will Encourage More People to Get Vaccinated… Somehow
Teens Who Allegedly Assaulted FDNY Firefighter in NYC Turned In by Their Parents
CNN Fact Checker Attempts to Get to the Bottom of If Biden Really Said “My Butt’s Been Wiped” in Recent Video
Trump on New CDC Guidance: “Why Do Democrats Distrust the Science”
Some Medical Schools Are Teaching That Biological Sex Is a “Social Construct”

Economy
Legal Loophole Enables Boom in Texas Poker Rooms
Biden’s Vehicle Mileage Standards to Be More Aggressive Than Obama’s
Fed May Be Less Likely to Tighten Monetary Policy Amid Delta Variant Hysteria
Dems Push Biden to Extend Federal Loan Payment Pause
Sen. Warren Presses Janet Yellen and Regulators to Address Threats in Crypto Market
Over $1 Trillion in COVID-19 Relief Funds Remain Unspent
Some States Forced to Restore Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Due to Lawsuits
China Considers Putting More Tariffs on Steel Exports
Wages Are Rising – But Workers Are Losing Due to Inflation
Stephen Moore: How the Left Has Used COVID-19 to Bankrupt the United States

Swamp Watch
Burgess Owens Schools Dems Comparing Election Integrity to Jim Crow
NIH Director Advises Chinese Military Proxy-Linked Group Working Alongside COVID-19 Gene Storage Firm
Dem Rep. Defends Using Campaign Cash for Strip Club Meeting
Crazy Capitol Police Officer: We Should All Go to Trump’s House and Do The Same Thing to Him
Federal Judge Rules Christian Web Designer Must Make LGBT Sites Because He Has a “Monopoly” Over His Own Creativity
Feds Seize Ancient Tablet From Hobby Lobby
Biden Bans Federal Judges From Using the Term “Alien” in Legal Opinions
Dem Megadonor Ed Buck Convicted in Overdose Deaths of Two Men

National Security
Joe Biden Says He’s Ending Forever Wars. He Isn’t.
Russia’s New Checkmate Stealth Fighter: A Mini F-35?
Researchers Find 110 Secret Chinese Nuclear Missile Silos Under Construction
Lockheed Lowers F-35 Production Forecast After Losing $225 Million on Secret Project
Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How U.S. Military Will Fight
Lloyd Austin Issues Warning to China Over Taiwan
Chicago’s Top Cop Blames Progressives for Crime Wave
Biden Is Still Talking About Banning 9mm Handguns
50,000 Illegals Released Into U.S. Without a Court Date

Around the World
At Least 2 Killed, 31 Injured in German Chemical Blast
First Person Charged in Hong Kong National Security Law Found Guilty
Kingdom of Bhutan Fully Vaccinates 90% of Eligible Adults in a Week
Iranian Defector Dedicates Medal to Israel After Winning Judo Silver in Tokyo
Protests Spread in Tehran as Demonstrators Chant “Death to the Dictator”
North and South Korea Restore Hotline Between Their Countries
Study: White People Have the Lowest Life Expectancy of Any Ethnic Group in England and Wales
Fifth Cuban General Dead Since Protests Began in the Island Nation

Opinion
(Cartoon) A.F. Branco: Go Ahead, Make My Day
Patrick Buchanan: Why the Left Can’t Let Go of Jan. 6
Larry O’Connor: Youngkin – Virginia Kids Need To Be In Classrooms With No Masks
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: “Progressive” Hubris and Hypocrisy
Kurt Schlichter: The General’s New Clothes: Transgender Policy and the Willful Demoralization of the American Military
Star Parker: Ben & Jerry’s Takes Liberal Distortions Global
Derek Hunter: People Aren’t Watching The Woke Olympics
Betsy McCaughey: Public Health Officials Conceal Hospital Infection Outbreaks

Entertainment
Camila Cabello Explains Cuban Protests to Her Tik Tok Followers
NYC Mayor De Blasio Compares Upcoming Central Park Concert to Woodstock
Obama Set to Throw Star-Studded 60th Birthday Bash as His $11 Million Martha’s Vineyard Mansion
Chuck Norris Awards an 83-Year-Old Grandmother Black Belt in Karate
California Restaurant Asks Patrons For Proof of Being Un-Vaccinated
Britney Spears Names Conservator She Want to Replace Her Father With
“Canceled” N.C. Singer Cecil Charles Won’t Back Down
Liberals Upset Disney’s First Official Gay Character Isn’t Gay Enough

Sports
Simone BIles Reveals What Knocked Her Out of Olympics, But She May Return
UFC Star Colby Covington: “I’m Going to Win for All Trump Supporters”
Icy Relationship Between Aaron Rodgers and Packers Seems to Be Thawing
Anti-Vaxxer Coach Rick Dennisson and the Vikings Aren’t Breaking Up After All
Russians Take Olympic Gold Over U.S. in Gymnastics Team Final
Team USA Men’s Basketball Players Not Happy With Head Coach Gregg Popovich
Giants’ Top Rookie Kadarius Toney Coming Off Coronavirus List
Tokyo Olympics Viewership Continues to Tank, Down Significantly Compared to Recent Summer Games
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Senate Republicans negotiating a $1 trillion infrastructure bill with Democrats have reached agreement on the major outstanding issues and are ready to move forward on the bill, lead negotiator Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, announced at midday. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Newsfront
Rep. Chip Roy lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday over a mask requirement being reinstated in the House, calling Congress "a sham" and forcing a vote to adjourn for the day...... [Full Story]
The Justice Department on Wednesday issued guidance advising that [Full Story]
It is "outrageous" to blame the violence at the Capitol on a [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Don't Wanna Be Luvvd By You 
Vaporman and Lili did this thing that I loved. Like many things that we love, I broke it. 
The images I have placed with this are razor sharp. No offence is meant for the good hearted, talented V and L ..
Earlier effort 

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. ALP chutzpah in Victoria as the Deputy Premier has a press conference so he can call for the Liberals to be investigated for voter fraud. He releases no evidence sustaining any argument. This is in response to Liberals Leader in Victoria, Matthew Guy demanding that ALP involved with the Red Shirts affair step down. The Red Shirt affair began when an ALP employee blew the whistle on their 2014 campaign. The ALP were accused of signing time sheets weeks in advance and tasking Red Shirts to work outside of their employed area. There is nothing wrong with having employees, paying them appropriately and supervising their work. For example, in 2017 I worked as a volunteer for Liberals for eight months from a polling unit that no longer exists. I called homes to talk to residents within prescribed electorates. This means that if people were upset, they could track me down. My behaviour was proscribed to protocol the party pre approved. I was supervised. The ALP, on the other hand, paid people to anonymously approach people without protocol to get them to vote ALP. They paid them with public money (some $330k) and turned a blind eye to resultant illegal activity. For example, I found an ALP sign placed on a free way in Casey and I identified the ALP guy who did it and the sign was removed by VicRoads but no penalty was ever given. The Libs have behaved appropriately and it was an ALP member who reported it.

Matthew Guy raised the issue in parliament and the press refused to report on it as they would have were they not partisan. 3AW raised the issue in talk back but were careful to not prejudice an ongoing investigation. The ALP resisted an investigation and spent over a million dollars opposing an inquiry. The inquiry was held and investigated and now, with less than 120 days to election, the police are investigating specifics. The ALP have paid back to treasury $330k, but not the $Million spent resisting the inquiry. The ALP claim they did no wrong and that none of their members who are involved need step aside. Now the ALP are claiming the Liberals have done something inappropriate that is similar but which the ALP demand the Libs step aside. And when the Libs defend themselves, ALP supporters say "Nobody trusts any politician these days." And "One side claims something, the other claims the same." Trust has been eroded, but the claims are not the same. We have evidence in public domain ALP committed voter fraud. We have an allegation from desperate ALP that the Libs did the same, but no evidence, and a denial that it was wrong when the ALP did it. Naturally the partisan media will not comment on a confused issue so as to preserve balance.

A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.

Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. I speak on Israel, which is not a local issue, neither will I make it one. However, there are elements to it that need to be addressed by me to show I can work locally. My support of Israel is because I support all peoples, including Muslims. The issue came home to me with a video of Irish Free State's support for BDS on bogus claims Israel is an apartheid state that hurts Muslim peoples. Israel has recently had legislation passed to the effect declaring that Israel is a Jewish state. It is, in effect, no different to French legislation claiming France is a French state. In France, official forms are in French and people are expected to conform to French values and ways. It informs education and public policy. It is lauded world wide as rich people around the world have children study the International Baccalaureate (IB) for access to French Educational Institutions. Israel is a modern functioning democracy which has significant minorities. Israel needs to be labelled Jewish to prevent having erroneous court outcomes in relation to public policy. Like claiming the celebration of passover as unconstitutional.

The Irish Free State video of their government passing support for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, (BDS) includes members of the legislature claiming things that are not true. Israel is not an apartheid state, and specifically is unlike South Africa circa 1970. Israel allows any peoples to live free in their land. They have elected Muslim legislators. In contrast, so called Palestine (There is no historical nation of Palestinians) kill people they suspect are Jewish. Israeli employers will hire Palestinians and pay them fairly. Palestinian leaders incite their peoples to kill Israelis indiscriminately, and reward them for it, or their families. Israeli education raises children of all faiths. Palestinian education demands children be Muslim and encourages suicide bombing.

I believe that all peoples should be able to prosper anywhere in the world. That includes Muslims, but not terrorists. Irish Free State in their support for so called Palestine with BDS are supporting terrorists who are responsible for killing many Muslims around the world. So, where does Williams stand on BDS? That is a local issue.

As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
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Some things should not happen, but they do. Trump has fired his Chief of Staff, GOP insider Reince Priebus. Priebus can bounce back if he was not in fact the source of leaks from the Whitehouse. But Victoria has an MP on tour of the US with Sex Party leader Fiona Patten. It is summer there, and the duo were part of the tour looking at US responses to drug use. Victoria has failed badly with drug use as Dan Andrews murderously adheres to harm minimisation in preference over Zero Tolerance. The ALP member, Khalil Eideh, wrote a glowing letter to Syria's Assad and endorses terrorists. The reason why the US rejected him is clear, but the reason why the ALP have him in parliament at all is not clear. Who does he represent? What does he do? As McCain has shown, the Swamp (the Sewer) is real and needs to be drained. McCain campaigned to repeal Obamacare, but voted to keep it. McCain is at odds with his own constituents, and it will be defining of his career. Never Trumpers will lovingly call him maverick. But honest dealers will note how poverty and poor health care hurt millions in USA, and McCain voted to hurt them. Another puzzling postscript to the day, Kathy Griffin, whose unfunny display of Trump's severed head got her fired from her regular slots claims she has been completely exonerated by the Secret Service? Did they laugh at her jokes? 

Earlier this year Victoria got rid of her Brown Coal fired power station Hazlewood. Hazlewood produced some 25% of Victoria's base load power, and did so cheaply. Today in Hallam, business power intermittently failed as strong winds meant expensive renewable energy sources like Wind generators had to stop. It will get worse going into summer. 
=== from 2016 === 
 The IPA are very good at raising important issues. One issue spotted recently is the moral case for free trade. The case for wealth redistribution is often brought in for rebuttal of free trade. With Australia having the worst performing government in terms of debt control of the G20, it would seem to be easy to make a case for appropriate spending cuts. Not radical cuts, but necessary ones, like cutting expenditure on university degrees from three quarters to one half. This would save billions of dollars and mean that students in the future can still enjoy affordable education. But then amoral individuals like Shorten will say "$100k university degrees" and the government gets scared. Abbott could not pass through necessary changes but made the case for them. Turnbull doesn't even try. The $7 price signal was a good idea for doctors visits. But opposition to it meant it couldn't get through. And Turnbull seems deaf to the danger that Australia will not be able to afford doctors visits in the future. Turnbull will one day have a reputation the equal of Rudd, Gillard or Whitlam. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Institute of Public Affairs IPA held a talk on Free Speech related to the 800 yo Magna Carta.  John Roskam and Chris Berg co wrote a book on it called "Magna Carta, a tax revolt that gave us liberty". Also, an IPA researcher gave a stunning piece of research regarding universities and the teaching of history. Only, universities are not teaching history in Australia and speech is not as free as it should be. One important part of history is British history and only ten out of thirty four Australian universities teach it. Possibly because of the invasion myth. But regardless of why, understanding the importance of the Magna Carta is related to what created it and why. People might know about King John from the Robin Hood stories. He was a much worse King than those stories suggest. He lost the French part of England and wanted to raise money to pay for more battles. The Barons revolted and created the Magna Carta which the inept King sealed. The king wanted to be king and didn't care what he gave away. But he died fighting the Barons anyway after he failed to adhere to it. Once the document was created, it took on a life of its own. Thing is governments need tax to work, and no one ever wants to pay more. So the only way forward is to spread the base or cut expenditure. The ALP are tax and spend style governments. Conservatives would like to cut expenses if they could. There is room. NSW could cut a quarter of her public service and still maintain, and possibly improve service delivery. Unions would not like that. 

Conspiracy theory re guns, Martin Bryant and John Howard. Because the left hate Mr Howard they are willing to say anything. This latest is the conspiracy theory that Bryant could not have killed all those people as he is an idiot and should have missed and people should have run away. And so Mr Howard, according to the theory, exploited the tragedy to remove guns unnecessarily. The truth, however, is Bryant had military grade weapons which were very loud. Scared people could not focus on the source of the weapons and ran everywhere. And those unlucky enough got close to Bryant where he shot them point blank. It wasn't genius and there wasn't a conspiracy. And Mr Howard showed restraint and some people still have weapons and licenses. But no one needs an assault rifle in civilian life. 

ICAC owes Cuneen an apology. ICAC are desperate to be wrapped up before they investigate ALP corruption. In this instance, they over stepped their bounds and targeted a prosecutor and had no grounds to do so. They need to say they are sorry. They should also pay her a lot of money for their corrupt activity.

Adam Goodes and Boos. He isn't being booed for his play. He is a gifted athlete, but a lousy representative as Australian of the Year. He is divisive and too likely to view things in terms of race. He needs a media adviser, not a rest from sport. Sport is what he is good at. But don't pity the thirteen year old whose casual bigotry was disgraceful. Goodes deserves respect for his athleticism. Even for those who don't support his team. 


Anger over the death of a lion in Zimbabwe. Thing is, Zimbabwe is corrupt. We know about the death of one lion because Zimbabwe want to embarrass the hunter that paid them. Personally, there is nothing sporting with hunting, even with a bow and arrow. Even a lion has not got a fair chance. An air of expectation that a 10 yo girl suicided to kill 16 in Nigeria, and wound 50 others. No lions were injured by the girl. But even so, her religion may not have minded. 
From 2014
Some people are so annoying, so self absorbed, so entitled in their outlook in life that nothing can be done for them. And there have been many such pairs of people and even nations. Examples include Rudd and Gillard, but consider the two post Soviet Union nations of Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine exploiting the deaths of nearly three hundred civilians on MH17 are shelling the evidence and making incursions on Russian separatists. Ukraine have got Washington DC to coordinate sanctions against Russia at the same time, preventing military aid to get to the separatists. Maybe there is evidence incriminating Russia, but maybe it incriminates Ukraine. And the prevention of Australian and Dutch police from getting to the crash site should be treated as a war crime. But nothing is new in history. On this day, in 238, two inept bickering Ceasers were being derelict in their duty. Rome was threatened by Maximinus Thrax who had killed the two previous Ceasers and was marching on Rome. Come the time, comes the man, and Rome called on the newly crowned Ceasers of Pupienus and Balbinus to defend Rome. Pupienus had had military success. But the two argued like an unhappy married couple. Finally, on this day, the Praetorian Guard, bodyguards of the Ceasers who had a duty to Rome, stormed the imperial palace, killed the two idiots and gave the throne to a the grandson of the Ceaser killed by Maximinus. It was too late. Maximinus would be Ceaser for three years and it was the beginning of very bad, unhappy leadership of Rome in the third century. 

Such stupidity is rife in history. In the late '80s, an unsuccessful ALP Premier, Unsworth, suggested an enormous and expensive birthday cake sculpture for Paddington. Today, an equally inept Mayor Clover Moore has proposed $9 million in sculptures, including a big piece outside the Town Hall. But a particularly dumb thing in Ireland during the potato famine parallels this foolishness. It is called the Tipperary Revolt and it highlights how weak  leadership inspires idiots. It happened in 1848, a year in which revolutions were rocking Europe and some Irish got the idea that a revolution like the French one would be grand. The idiot Young Irish revolutionaries gathered, and police were despatched to arrest them. Only the townsfolk thought it clever to make it difficult, and gathered on the road with weapons. The police sidestepped the townsfolk but were seen and pursued by them to a townhouse. The desperate police took the family of the house hostage and pointed their weapons in defence of the house against the chasing townspeople. The parents were with the crowd and begged for their children to be given back to them. One of the townsfolk thought they would walk up to the house and negotiate. But, when a weapon was discharged the police fired out of the house and the outraged townsfolk fired in. People were hurt and killed. There was a stand off, and it would later be written that the townsfolk were outraged that their peaceful gathering had come to this. Police reinforcements arrived and the townsfolk dispersed. Who knew that a French Style revolution could turn bloody? Who knows that it is wrong for a city to go into debt for non infrastructure art work? Some of the revolutionaries were transported to Australia. Ned Kelly was the son of a convict. But the West has a tradition of grace and kindness when dealing with fools. One such idiot was a Confederate Spy in 1864, a young woman named Belle Boyd. Her father was a confederate soldier. Some Union sympathisers marked her house as being confederate in sympathy, and so she killed one of them. The law let her have that, but she was watched and she cultivated as a lover a Union Captain and obtained secrets from him she tried to get to her Confederate friends. The secrets were intercepted on this day in 1864, and he was detained for a time, but lived and died free. 

Also on this day the great Palenque King Pakal arose to the throne age 12 in 615. His mummy has been found. In 1565, Mary Queen of Scots married Henry Stuart. In 1567, James Stuart, her son, was made King of Scotland. In 1588, Spanish Armada was spanked at the Battle of Gravelines. In 1793, John Graves Simcoe decided Toronto was a nice place for a fort and settlement near the bay. In 1836 the Arc de Triomphe was built to commemorate those who died in service to France during the revolution and Napoleonic wars. In 1899, the first Hague convention was signed. In 1900, an Anarchist killed the Italian King. In 1907, Sir Robert Baden Powell set up the first scout camp. In 1921, Hitler became NAZI leader. In 1948, the Olympic Games resume after a twelve year hiatus. In 1959 the first congressional elections were held in Hawaii, sometimes mistaken for Kenya. In 1976, Son of Sam killed an innocent victim. In 1981, hundreds of millions watched a young woman marry a jaded older Prince of Wales who never really loved her.
Historical perspective on this day
In 238, the Praetorian Guard stormed the palace and captured Pupienus and Balbinus. They were dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, was proclaimed emperor. 615, Pakal ascended the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. 904, Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sacked Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plundered it for a week. 1014, Byzantine–Bulgarian warsBattle of KleidionByzantine emperor Basil II inflicted a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly caused Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6. 1018, Count Dirk III defeated an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen. 1030, Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of StiklestadKing Olaf II fought and died trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes. 1148, the Siege of Damascus ended in a decisive crusader defeat and led to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.

1565, the widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, married Henry Stuart, Lord DarnleyDuke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1567, James VI was crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. 1588, Anglo-Spanish WarBattle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drakedefeated the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1693, War of the Grand AllianceBattle of Landen: France won a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands. 1793, John Graves Simcoe decided to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.


In 1836, inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. 1848, Irish Potato FamineTipperary Revolt: In Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule was put down by police. 1851, Annibale de Gasparis discovered asteroid 15 Eunomia. 1858, United States and Japan signed the Harris Treaty. 1864, American Civil WarConfederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. 1899, the First Hague Convention was signed.


In 1900, in Italy, King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. 1907, Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement. 1913, the Norwegian football club Vålerenga Fotball was founded. 1914, the Cape Cod Canal opened. 1920, construction of the Link River Dam began as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project. 1921, Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. 1932, Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops dispersed the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. 1937, Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacked Japanese troops and civilians.


In 1945, the BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. 1948, Olympic GamesThe Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London. 1950, Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ended when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment was withdrawn. 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established. 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 1959, first United States Congress election in Hawaii as a state of the Union. 1965, Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Divisionparatroopers arrived in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. 1967, Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal caught on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. Also 1967, during the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.


In 1973,  Greeks voted to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. Also 1973, during the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tire failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. 1976, in New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") killed one person and seriously wounded another in the first of a series of attacks. 1980, Iran adopted a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution. 1981, a worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London. 1987, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand signed the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel(Eurotunnel). Also 1987, Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues. 1993, the Supreme Court of Israel acquitted alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he was set free. 1996, the child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act was struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad. 2005, astronomers announced their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

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Today's reading: Psalm 46-48, Acts 28 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 46-48

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song.
1 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts...

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 28

Paul Ashore on Malta
Once safely on shore, we found out that the island was called Malta. 2 The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. 3 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. 4 When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live." 5 But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. 6 The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god....

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Morning

"So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee."
Psalm 73:22
Remember this is the confession of the man after God's own heart; and in telling us his inner life, he writes, "So foolish was I, and ignorant." The word "foolish," here, means more than it signifies in ordinary language. David, in a former verse of the Psalm, writes, "I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked," which shows that the folly he intended had sin in it. He puts himself down as being thus "foolish," and adds a word which is to give intensity to it; "so foolish was I." How foolish he could not tell. It was a sinful folly, a folly which was not to be excused by frailty, but to be condemned because of its perverseness and wilful ignorance, for he had been envious of the present prosperity of the ungodly, forgetful of the dreadful end awaiting all such. And are we better than David that we should call ourselves wise! Do we profess that we have attained perfection, or to have been so chastened that the rod has taken all our wilfulness out of us? Ah, this were pride indeed! If David was foolish, how foolish should we be in our own esteem if we could but see ourselves! Look back, believer: think of your doubting God when he has been so faithful to you--think of your foolish outcry of "Not so, my Father," when he crossed his hands in affliction to give you the larger blessing; think of the many times when you have read his providences in the dark, misinterpreted his dispensations, and groaned out, "All these things are against me," when they are all working together for your good! Think how often you have chosen sin because of its pleasure, when indeed, that pleasure was a root of bitterness to you! Surely if we know our own heart we must plead guilty to the indictment of a sinful folly; and conscious of this "foolishness," we must make David's consequent resolve our own--"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel."

Evening

"Who went about doing good."
Acts 10:38

Few words, but yet an exquisite miniature of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are not many touches, but they are the strokes of a master's pencil. Of the Saviour and only of the Saviour is it true in the fullest, broadest, and most unqualified sense. "He went about doing good." From this description it is evident that he did good personally. The evangelists constantly tell us that he touched the leper with his own finger, that he anointed the eyes of the blind, and that in cases where he was asked to speak the word only at a distance, he did not usually comply, but went himself to the sick bed, and there personally wrought the cure. A lesson to us, if we would do good, to do it ourselves. Give alms with your own hand; a kind look, or word, will enhance the value of the gift. Speak to a friend about his soul; your loving appeal will have more influence than a whole library of tracts. Our Lord's mode of doing good sets forth his incessant activity! He did not only the good which came close to hand, but he "went about" on his errands of mercy. Throughout the whole land of Judea there was scarcely a village or a hamlet which was not gladdened by the sight of him. How this reproves the creeping, loitering manner, in which many professors serve the Lord. Let us gird up the loins of our mind, and be not weary in well doing. Does not the text imply that Jesus Christ went out of his way to do good? "He went about doing good." He was never deterred by danger or difficulty. He sought out the objects of his gracious intentions. So must we. If old plans will not answer, we must try new ones, for fresh experiments sometimes achieve more than regular methods. Christ's perseverance, and the unity of his purpose, are also hinted at, and the practical application of the subject may be summed up in the words, "He hath left us an example that we should follow in his steps."

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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

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