Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Wed 7th July 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Clinton Governor, then President when abuse of power occurred
A man guilty of holding up a taco store in 1981 with a water pistol has served 40 years for the crime. He had never pointed the toy at the cashier when stealing $264 and the victim of the crime has tearfully called for the sentence to be ended. The criminal has reformed, later becoming a whistleblower saving thousands of lives over a blood handling scandal. So what are the circumstances for the abuse of power? One person connects all the dots, given the circumstances. 

A decades long sentence for an equivalent hold up is too rare to be recorded. Arkansas was reputed to have abuse of power with sentences from the time of Democrat ascendancy following the Civil War. Prisoners have been used for their labour, possibly until 1994 according to regulations spoken of by Robert Barnes. After Rolf Kaestel was sentenced for his crime, he became a model prisoner, and flagged a blood transfer abuse from exploited prisoners, with tainted blood poisoning people for profit world wide. Following his whistleblowing (in 1999), Kaestal was transferred to Utah for no reason. President Clinton had been governor when the original inappropriate sentence occurred, and was President when Kaestel was transferred. GOP Arkansas governor Ava Hutchinson has commuted the sentence. Previous Dem Governor Mike Beebe had denied parole suggested by his parole board in 2015. 

Editorial Energy Provision in Victoria
AGW hysteria is not a good guide for government. Victoria is currently paying a very high price for electricity, and current plans for increased renewables threaten to make it worse, more expensive and less reliable. Renewables are bad for the environment, killing wildlife and some of the poorest workers in the world. Battery back up is an expensive solution. 

According to the IPA in 2019, 20 years of AGW inspired 'clean energy' policy has shown an increase of price of 220% over 20 years. Inflation Australia wide over that period was 58%. During that time, cheap coal production was replaced with expensive wind farms. Those wind farms have costs of production which exceed power supply over their lifetime, so that there never will be efficiency value until the production type changes. Further, the wind mill blades are bad for the environment, killing wildlife in numbers that would cost an oil company $billions in fines were they to do it. Brown coal is bad for the environment. So are windmills. Solar panels cost the environment too, with miners dying as a result of the methods of extraction of raw materials. Further, recycling of used solar panels and windmills is not yet feasible. With a 20 year lifespan of a windmill, Victoria's modest production rate of 25% renewable in 2020 will largely have to be replaced before more can be installed to meet more ambitious future targets. But that means further brown outs off the type experienced in South Australia in 2016. 

Batteries are ineffective, and big batteries are also expensive. Elon Musk's SA battery put in place following the 2016 disaster would not prevent a similar disaster if it gets too warm, or too cold again. At an estimated cost off $50 million, the battery is more costly than diesel fuel generators used by farmers as back up. Further, batteries will only add to the cost of electricity production. The AGW hysteric promises cheap, reliable alternative energy. That does not yet exist. However, the cost of higher electricity has meant industry has had to move from Victoria to places where it can be more cheaply sourced, probably by coal powered power stations. If a child was to list these arguments in an assignment for school in Victoria, they would be marked down faster than FB fact checking an ANTIFA riot report.  

Editorial Cardinal Pell abuser indicted for financial corruption
An abuse of power had resulted in an innocent man, Cardinal Pell, being jailed in Victoria. While part of the abuse of power was related to a corrupt judiciary and corrupt media, part of the process was compromised by Vatican leaks. Pell had been capably going through Vatican fiscal irregularities dating back before Pope John Paul I who had died after vowing to clear it up. Now it looks like Pell's work is bearing fruit. 

Cardinal Angelo Becciu had been a senior official in Vatican fiscal administration. Along with two other senior members of the Vatican's financial intelligence unit, Becciu will go on trial on July 27th over a multi million Euro scandal involving a London building in a very expensive district. But what of the leaks which had helped jail the innocent Cardinal Pell? 
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Why are athletes so obsessed with disrespecting the country? In this episode, I discuss the latest troubling video. I also address the latest coronavirus hysteria about the Delta variant.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
George Secretary of State Fires Back at DOJ Lawsuit: “I’m Looking Forward to Meeting Them and Beating Them” READ MORE

Psaki: Admin Will Do “Door-to-Door Outreach” to Get People Vaccinated

John McAfee’s Widow Releases Statement Saying She Doesn’t Believe His Death Was a Suicide

Afghanistan Withdrawal More Than 90% Complete

House Dems Deny Extra Money for Border Patrol Amid Historic Border Surge

Inside the Consulting Firm Staffing the Biden Administration

Most People Think the Government Spies on Journalists

Capitol Hill
Majority of Americans Don’t Believe Joe Biden Is Calling the Shots in the White House
Dem Infighting Threatens Infrastructure Package
Biden’s Strategy of Asking Russia to Please Not Cyberattack Us Appears to Be Failing
3/4th of Capitol Hill Aides Believe GOP Will Flip House
Rep. Toth Says Soldiers Returning From Afghanistan Should Be Used to Help Protect the Border
Rep. Mace Begins Carrying Gun Following Threats and Vandalism
California Moves to Pay Meth Addicts to Not do Drugs
GOP Rep. Seeks Probe of Biden Admin’s Push for a “Patronage System” at CFPB
Some Dems Oppose Bipartisan Big Tech Antitrust Legislation
Voters Blame Biden and Democrats for Gridlock, Not the Filibuster

Culture War
Public Preschool and Kindergarten Enrollment Drops 13 Percent Nationally
Another Viral Video Shows Consequences of Weak-on-Crime Policies in San Francisco
1619 Project Creator Turns Down Tenured Position After Complaining About Not Being Offered Tenured Position
Army’s “Genderless Fitness Test” Has Proven Itself a Failure
Democratic Socialists of America Leaders Travel to Venezuela to Meet Dictator Maduro
Chicago Mayor Lies, Says There Were No Race Riots Last Year in Her City
Only a Third of Young Adults Are Proud to Be American
Wikipedia Cofounder Warns the Site Has Become One-Sided and Overloaded With Liberal Sources
JD Vance Says He Deleted His Old Anti-Trust Tweets Because He “Regrets Being Wrong”
Dems Start Pretending to Have Always Supported Voter ID After Realizing How Overwhelmingly Popular It Is

Economy
Oil Prices Touch Six Year High
Labor Markets the Best in States With Republican Governors
Nine Countries Hold Out From “Global Minimum Tax” Proposal
New Rules Aimed at Protecting Animal Farmers to Be Unveiled This Week
The June Jobs Report in Three Charts
Ride-Hailing Giant “Didi” Loses $22 Billion in Value After China Crackdown
Inflation in Advanced Nations Rises at Fastest Pace Since 2008
Many Unemployed People Sue States for Ending Federal Benefits Early
Oil Prices Head Higher After OPEC Crisis Talks Abandoned
California Asks Grid Operator for More Electricity Amid Shift to Green Energy
Keystone XL Pipeline Developer Wants $15 Billion in Damages From the U.S.

Swamp Watch
Biden to Remove GPA Requirements for Grant Recipients to “Provide Access to Students of Color”
“GETTR” Social Media Site Immediately Hacked
CNN Enthused by San Jose Punishing Gun Owners
Ukraine Inks Infrastructure Deal With China After Being Snubbed by Biden
U.S. Drops Sanctions on Three Iranians
California Taxpayers to Pony Up $1.3 Billion for Medicaid for Illegal Aliens
San Francisco DA Official Says Residents Concerned About Rising Crime Are Racist
Jan. 6 Detainees Are Being Confined 23 Hours a Day
Texts: Hunter Biden Proposed Unionizing Prostitutes
Trump-Hating Columnist Admits Charges Against Trump Organization Are Weak

National Security
State Department “Horrified” by Houthi Attacks in Yemen
Worst Air Disaster in Phillipine Military’s History Kills 50, Wounds 49
Chicago Alderman Slams Mayor After More Than 100 Shot Over July 4th Weekend: “This is a War Zone”
The Stealth F-22 Raptor Only Fears One Thing and It’s Not Russia or China
The “Most Complicated Machine Humans Have Built” Gives U.S. a 10-Year Technological Advantage Over China
China Is Preparing for Nuclear War
Violent 4th of July Weekend Sees Almost 100 People Shot Across America
Tropical Storm Elsa Could Strengthen Into Hurricane
“Defund the Police” Crazies Politicize Memorial for Fallen Seattle Police Officer
China State Media Publishes Plan for Invading Taiwan

Around the World
UK Gets Ready to End Mask Mandates, Lockdowns and Business Closures
U.S. Hints at Sanctions Against Belarus As U.N. Tells Country to Release Political Prisoners
As Army Flees, Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against Taliban
Afghans Begin to Move In to Bagram Air Force Base Amid Withdrawal by Americans
China Calls America “Selfish”, “Racist” in 4th of July Message
“Burn it All Down”, Canadian Civil Liberties Boss Declares As Churches Torched
Coronavirus Cases Surge Among Youth in Spain
Australian Authorities Ban Church Members From Singing Over Zoom

Opinion
Libby Emmons: Banning Critical Race Theory Is the Only Option Left for Parents Who Are Ignored and Scorned
Josh Hammer: Why America Needs to Ban Critical Race Theory in Schools
Kurt Schlichter: Unworthy Americans
Derek Hunter: Liberals Try To Ruin The Declaration Of Independence
Terry Paulson: A Leftist War on Common Sense
Miranda Devine: Hunter Biden Engaged in Some Daddy Pay Care
Rachel Alexander: Sorry Leftists, You Haven’t Destroyed Trump’s Popularity
NY Post Editorial Board: Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Commission Is a Partisan Ploy
Thomas Glessner: Battle Over Critical Race Theory Will Determine the Future of the American Republic

Entertainment
More Evidence Film Critics Are Overwhelmingly Liberal
Harvey Keitel: Joining the Marines Taught Me “What Sacrifice Was Really Like”
Robert Downey, Jr. Unfollows His Marvel Co-stars, Online Meltdown of Fans Ensues
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner’s “Very Intense Relationship” Was “Bound to Burn Out”, Says Pal
Bizarre 4th of July Message Delivered by Matthew McConaughey
Elon Musk Latest to Tweet “Free Britney”
Bill Cosby Comes to Phylicia Rashad’s Defense
The Ladies of “The View” Thrilled by Meghan McCain’s Exit From the Show
Rosanna Arquette Says We Should Give Up Fireworks for the “Wellbeing of Mother Earth”

Sports
Tragic Accident Involving Fireworks Kills Blue Jackets’ Matiss Kivlenieks
Two Bodies Found in Truck of Gunman Who Killed Pro Golfer Gene Siller
U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Members Appear to Turn Away From Flag as 98-Year-Old WWII Yet Plays National Anthem
Mets Blame Yankee Stadium for Pitcher’s Struggles
UCLA Football Coaching Legend Terry Donahue Dead at 77
Petition Started to Ban Laurel Hubbard From Becoming First Trans Athlete in Olympics
Trevor Lawrence Signs $36.8 Million Contract With Jaguars
LeBron James Has Angry Incident at Son’s Basketball Game
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
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Here is a video I made Wolsey's Farewell 

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright
  • Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!
  • This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
  • The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,
  • And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
  • The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
  • And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
  • His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
  • And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
  • Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
  • This many summers in a sea of glory,
  • But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
  • At length broke under me and now has left me,
  • Weary and old with service, to the mercy
  • Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me.
  • Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:
  • I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched
  • Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours!
  • There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
  • That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
  • More pangs and fears than wars or women have:
  • And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
  • Never to hope again.
https://rumble.com/vc27y5-wolseys-farewell.html

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. 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 to Carers and Volunteers. Consider what that means as Dan Andrews ALP Government has neutered the CFA (Country Fire Association) volunteer organisation. CFA are rural firefighters who have a much larger job than city ones, but for manpower availability, have to be volunteer. Because of that, CFA had not been unionised. There are 60,000 CFA volunteers and 932 paid members in their workforce. The UFU (United Firefighters Union) are major backers of Dan Andrews. In Victoria, money can be paid tax free to the UFU and can flow directly to ALP. There is no similar analog for Liberals because it is deemed corrupt. Numerous volunteers have left CFA as a result of Dan Andrews 'reforms' which mean CFA can't attend fires without having a paid UFU member present. It is a recipe for disaster which threaten a life loss event similar to Black Saturday 2009

Meanwhile, at Centrelink, I was advised to sign up as a volunteer. I did. I was told, then, I was too young to volunteer and meet Centrelink requirements. I had volunteered for schools and was ignored, but I was accepted by the Liberal Party before Centrelink told me of the age exception. I volunteered for eight months for the Liberal Party before I had to stop because of work commitments. My service will never be recognised by Williams, why should she?  The CFA dispute directly impinges on Dandenong as the weakening of Rural Victoria and the loss of money through waste denies all of Victoria basic needs. 

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.
=== from 2017 ===
I can't seem to comment on this post, in answer to Delia Dollah Why on earth has gender been brought into this? I found this article interesting and the complaint would have had some substance until the gender card was pulled out. You then you lost all credibility!

Gender discrimination is well documented against boys. I'm not quoting the Red Pill here, but point to over forty years of research showing increase of marks by females in school finishing tests and university results. In the late '90's, it was shown that the difference was relative to the new text based question types favoured by examiners to get better results for girls. However, on the same style of questions as were asked in the '70s and earlier (numerical response, true false etc) boys did no worse, girls no better than before. But then even that began to change. Beating up boys so consistently over time changes results for them.

But, on the other hand, I've seen a picture and looked at the work of the lecturer, who is a Stalinist. And I'm not revealing them or my friend, for obvious reasons. 

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Some things should not happen, but they do. A friend of mine doing tertiary study asked for me to look over their philosophy assignment. I did and thought it was good, original challenging and engaging. Problem is he is male and the lecturer is not. The lecturer marked the assignment and noted it was original and challenging and engaging, but only gave the student a low pass. The criticism that the lecturer gave was that the language was affected and one item appeared to contradict the thesis. My friend's essay was worthy of an HD. He did not contradict his thesis, but noted an inconsistency with it. Something he was supposed to do in discussion. The university is a prestigious one in Australia. And it highlights an appalling lack of standards. One guesses had my friend been female then the lecturer would have made an effort to understand what was written. It is theoretically possible for my friend to appeal, but they are too busy. They aren't going to make an academic career. They have learned valuable lessons. They just want to pass. How awful are Australian Universities at this time? There is a culture war that conservatives have not engaged in. Libertarians are doing a much better job. 

In 1124, Tyre fell to the Crusaders. 1456, A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1520, Spanish conquistadores defeated a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. About 1000 faced as many as 40,000, conceding 73 deaths to as many as 20,000. 1575, Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland. It wasn't a raid. It wasn't fought in or over Redeswire, and it wasn't between England and Scotland but over a disagreement between an Englishman and a Scot, both of whom could afford armies. The Scot defeated a dishonourable man. 1585, the Treaty of Nemours abolished tolerance to Protestants in France. 1798, as a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinded the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War". The US had been upset by the behaviour of revolutionary France. They sent a delegation go three, but French diplomats insisted on bribes. Two delegates returned to the US and the correspondence, including the bribe demands, were made public. Francophile Jefferson didn't see a problem. 

1834, in New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began. 1846, Mexican–American War: American troops occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California. 1863, United States began its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. 1865, American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged. 

In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. 1911, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. 1915, Militia officer Henry Pedris was executed by firing squad at ColomboCeylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities partly because it was. He was falsely accused and then executed before the injustice could be discovered by those who would intervene. He faced the firing squad without a mask. His body was buried in an unmarked grave against his family's wishes. 1928, Sliced bread was sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

In 1930, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser began construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). 1937, Second Sino-Japanese WarBattle of Lugou Bridge: Japanese forces invaded Beijing, China. 1944, World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. 1946, Howard Hughes nearly died when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashed in a Beverly Hills neighbourhood. 1947, the Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

1953, Ernesto "Che" Guevara set out on a trip through BoliviaPeruEcuadorPanamaCosta RicaNicaraguaHonduras, and El Salvador. 1954, Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." 1959, Venus occulted the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. 1963, Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệmattacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest. 

In 1980, institution of sharia in Iran. Also 1980, during the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants were killed during what would be known as the Safra massacre. 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1983, Cold WarSamantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flew to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. 1985, Boris Becker became the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. 2005, a series of four explosions occurred on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
=== from 2016 ===
 It is good to be innocent, but bad to be executed even though you were innocent. On this day, twenty five years after her execution, Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial. Glad they cleared that up. Some seem to feel that laws can achieve anything. Others feel that it is better to do right irregardless. The truth is that laws promote lawbreaking, while only freedom allows important discovery. The discovery that some 70,000 dogs were killed over the last dozen years, and the greyhound racing industry irredeemably compromised has led NSW Premier Blair to close the industry. They shouldn't be allowed to profit. But, selfish and vain politicians refuse to amend or remove 18c of the racial vilification act. Apparently, we shouldn't be allowed to speak? Remember, there were laws against animal cruelty. There are also laws against racial vilification. But apparently it is ok for a radical Islamist to call for the murder of all gays, but wrong for a Jew to defend themselves. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
Greece is a warning to Australia of what will happen if cuts to spending are not made. The extremist left wing government of Greece has made many promises they cannot keep. The spending is so big, the debt is so substantial they cannot meet loan repayments even with international help. Expenses include welfare. Greeks have to work to make up for the things that their elders took without paying. There are two paths Greece can take. The left wing path which involves trashing everything Greece has and prospering through poverty and misery until the debt is forgotten. The conservative path is to take ownership of the debt and pay it off through prudent cuts and hard work. 

Same Sex Marriage is shown to be a Trojan Horse by various groups keen to hurt Christian Churches, suing them to perform marriages they are unwilling through conscience to commit. Also, extremist advocates are pursuing marriage for very young. Or, marriage for very many. Already, Australia recognises polygamy through overseas jurisdictions, and some migrants or refugees who have obtained welfare have had such unions recognised in payments. However arrangements can be made where churches are not threatened and those avenues can be pursued. 

Global warmists failed to predict cold weather. A thirty year record for cool weather has struck Sydney this winter. It continues unabated. 

Australia does not need an apartheid constitution, but many are advocating it, including those who would be victim to it. Changing the constitution is not meaningless and recognising race is not benign by the state. The state is not an apologist of history, although it is a historical document. Australia is not owned by Aborigines, Irish or Greeks. Australia belongs to those not yet born, or very young. We adults have her in trust for them. 

Mr Shorten has to explain to the Royal Commission matters which have been obscured by missing material. Documents regarding the arrangements of payments for and by union members have been lost after a transfer to electronic systems. Shorten needs to explain why his union behaved as a bastard employer, cutting member benefits for apparently, corruptly obtained money. 

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is out of control. She is not answerable to anyone for over a $billion each year. She has four tv channels and numerous radio and internet ports, making her the largest media body in Australia. Publicly paid for and with advantages smaller private media do not have. She is partisan. Her component journalists are overwhelmingly left wing, more than a third extremist Green. The only identifiable conservative was in fact Green. ABC has set up an audit following her hiring a jihadist to attack the government by ambush. Ray Martin has prejudiced the audit he was appointed to independently run, claiming his audit will be about proving balance. Proving balance is not the function of an audit. One example of a press double standard is reporting re Gillian Triggs. Triggs is head of the Human Rights Commission and is paid $400k a year. Of all the other HRC members, all are extreme left, except one recently appointed (not conservative) Libertarian, Wilson. Wilson's expenses were tabled recently. They are commensurate with Triggs, whose expenses had not been tabled by the media. 
From 2014
Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser has invoked the name of Hitler in describing the new government's successful immigration program and border protection. New parliamentarian and former rich man Clive Palmer has called Queensland Premier Campbell Newman a Nazi. The denunciations are hyperbolic. It is a good thing that people are not drowning trying to start a new life in Australia. Australia is a good place for a new life, but one doesn't want to die coming here, or be exploited by pirates. Fraser had few problems drowning Vietnamese peoples or leaving Zimbabwe peoples at the mercy of a murderous dictator. Palmer is the former campaign manager of Joh Bjelke Peterson .. it is not the case he means what he says all the time, or any time. So what is behind their criticism? Those who are hard core ALP or Green supporters like the sound of the waffle. 

A lot of violence is related to bikies, drugs and organised crime. So it is sadly depressing when a casual murder takes place in a popular shopping mall during the school holidays and it has nothing to do with anything, but a likely dispute over a woman between rivals. Herodotus was dismissive of the Greeks sailing ten thousand ships to regain Helen of Troy. Instead of fighting their rivals, they should be trying to impress the girl. I doubt she is impressed at what happened, the two argued over a cosmetics counter and one stabbed the other multiple times in the chest, and left the knife in the chest of his dying rival, lit a cigarette and waited for police. A chilling and casual murder which can not be tolerated, but must accrue a life term in jail, there being no excuse or alternative. The imaginary Sherlock finding Moriarty excuse not meeting a modern legal standard. 

Issues of justice arise on this day. In 1456, Joan of Arc was acquitted of heresy twenty five years after she was murdered for it. In 1585, the treaty of Nemours meant a policy of tolerance ended. In 1798, US Congress voted to end peace with France. In 1834, four nights of rioting against abolitionists in NYC began on this day. In 1846, US troops began to acquire California from Mexico. The US attempted the draft in 1863, offering exemptions for $300. Two years later, four conspirators were hung for the killing of Lincoln. But today is not entirely without mercy or grace. In 1928, sliced bread was sold for the first time, on the inventor's 48th birthday. In 1954, Elvis made his radio debut. In 1983, a thirteen year old girl became an ambassador for the US in the Soviet Union. It is the birthday of Mahler (1860), Heinlein (1907), Eddings (1931), Ringo Starr (1940) and Bill Oddie (1941)
Historical perspective on this day
In 1124, Tyre fell to the Crusaders. 1456, A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1520, Spanish conquistadores defeated a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. 1534, European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick. 1543, French troops invaded Luxembourg. 1575, Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland. 1585, the Treaty of Nemours abolished tolerance to Protestants in France. 1770, the Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire took place. 1777, American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga were defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton. 1798, as a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinded the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".

In 1807, Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ended the War of the Fourth Coalition. 1834, in New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionistsbegan. 1846, Mexican–American War: American troops occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California. 1863, United States began its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. 1865, American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged. 1892, Katipunan: The Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood was established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia. 1898, U.S. President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. 1911, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. 1915, World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo. Also 1915, an International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. Also 1915, Militia officer Henry Pedris was executed by firing squad at ColomboCeylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities. 1928, Sliced bread was sold for the first time (on the inventor's48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

In 1930, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser began construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). 1937, Second Sino-Japanese WarBattle of Lugou Bridge: Japanese forces invaded Beijing, China. 1941, World War II: U.S. forces landed in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. 1941, World War II: Beirut was occupied by Free France and British troops. 1944, World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. 1946, Mother Francesca S. Cabrini became the first American to be canonised. Also 1946, Howard Hughes nearly died when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashed in a Beverly Hills neighbourhood. 1947, the Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alienspaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

In 1952, the ocean liner SS United States passed Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world. 1953, Ernesto "Che" Guevara set out on a trip through BoliviaPeruEcuadorPanamaCosta RicaNicaraguaHonduras, and El Salvador. 1954, Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." 1956, Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers made the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m). 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into law. 1959, Venus occulted the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. 1963, Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệmattacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest. 1978, the Solomon Islands became independent from the United Kingdom

In 1980, institution of sharia in Iran. Also 1980, during the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tigermilitants were killed during what would be known as the Safra massacre. 1981, U.S. PresidentRonald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1983, Cold WarSamantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flew to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. 1985, Boris Beckerbecame the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. 1991, Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ended the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1997, the Turkish Armed Forces withdrew from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. 2003, NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. 2005, a series of four explosions occurred on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

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Today's reading: Job 32-33, Acts 14 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Job 32-33

Elihu
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. 3 He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him. 4 Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he. 5 But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused....

Today's New Testament reading: Acts 14

In Iconium
1 At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders. 4 The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles. 5There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them. 6 But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country, 7 where they continued to preach the gospel....

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"Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."
Proverbs 1:33
Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. When the Israelites provoked the Most High by their continued idolatry, he punished them by withholding both dew and rain, so that their land was visited by a sore famine; but while he did this, he took care that his own chosen ones should be secure. If all other brooks are dry, yet shall there be one reserved for Elijah; and when that fails, God shall still preserve for him a place of sustenance; nay, not only so, the Lord had not simply one "Elijah," but he had a remnant according to the election of grace, who were hidden by fifties in a cave, and though the whole land was subject to famine, yet these fifties in the cave were fed, and fed from Ahab's table too by His faithful, God-fearing steward, Obadiah. Let us from this draw the inference, that come what may, God's people are safe. Let convulsions shake the solid earth, let the skies themselves be rent in twain, yet amid the wreck of worlds the believer shall be as secure as in the calmest hour of rest. If God cannot save his people under heaven, he will save them in heaven. If the world becomes too hot to hold them, then heaven shall be the place of their reception and their safety. Be ye then confident, when ye hear of wars, and rumours of wars. Let no agitation distress you, but be quiet from fear of evil. Whatsoever cometh upon the earth, you, beneath the broad wings of Jehovah, shall be secure. Stay yourself upon his promise; rest in his faithfulness, and bid defiance to the blackest future, for there is nothing in it direful for you. Your sole concern should be to show forth to the world the blessedness of hearkening to the voice of wisdom.

Evening

"How many are mine iniquities and sins?"
Job 13:23

Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other, as in the old fable of the giants who piled Pelion upon Ossa, mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God's children! Attempt to multiply this, the sin of one only, by the multitude of the redeemed, "a number which no man can number," and you will have some conception of the great mass of the guilt of the people for whom Jesus shed his blood. But we arrive at a more adequate idea of the magnitude of sin by the greatness of the remedy provided. It is the blood of Jesus Christ, God's only and well-beloved Son. God's Son! Angels cast their crowns before him! All the choral symphonies of heaven surround his glorious throne. "God over all, blessed forever. Amen." And yet he takes upon himself the form of a servant, and is scourged and pierced, bruised and torn, and at last slain; since nothing but the blood of the incarnate Son of God could make atonement for our offences. No human mind can adequately estimate the infinite value of the divine sacrifice, for great as is the sin of God's people, the atonement which takes it away is immeasurably greater. Therefore, the believer, even when sin rolls like a black flood, and the remembrance of the past is bitter, can yet stand before the blazing throne of the great and holy God, and cry, "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died; yea rather, that hath risen again." While the recollection of his sin fills him with shame and sorrow, he at the same time makes it a foil to show the brightness of mercy--guilt is the dark night in which the fair star of divine love shines with serene splendour.

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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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