Thursday, August 12, 2021

Thu 12th August 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on being shadow banned

I was willing to accept bias, and work to show how conservative values I follow lead to prosperity. But, then, I became an accidental whistleblower following a bungled pedophile investigation resulting in the negligence death of school child Hamidur Rahman in Sydney's Campbelltown in 2001. A cover up ensued and my employer, the NSW Dept of Ed made me delete all my public writing (irrelevant to their fears) under new legislation called the teachers code of conduct. I resigned to speak out on the issue and ran for government three times, federally, for state and local. In the meantime, the coroner covered up the administrative mess, effectively blaming the parents for the child's death and the press are allowed to not report my issue because of a nuanced editorial decision not to 'scaremonger' by reporting on something a coroner has decided. I lost my career in 2007 and have been unemployed since, and apparently unemployable. So I've written 28 books on World history, Current affairs, a lay view on Bible quotes, some short stories and some science fiction books are in the works. But my publisher has shadow banned me and I cannot sell a thing. I have had three million hits on my blog, two million on Youtube (getting smaller) and following Jan 6th, FB took away all my FB activity stealing my history, videos, contacts and pictures collected since I logged in in 2007. If the left didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

I want to thank individuals and corporations that have stood for my freedoms. Rumble has been a great service that has done what Youtube never did, but promised to. Rumble has provided a platform that has allowed me to express my ideas they might not have agreed with, but which complies with their charter of behaviour. Also the IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) Australia, which has an international standing in support of free speech and small government advocacy. 


It is unacceptable that a senior public servant has campaigned for a political party as Fauci has. Political winds come and go, and it is awful to hear Fauci bend with the winds for his political masters. It is treason. Many have died as a result of Fauci's proclamations. People have been denied effective medication when they were sick. People have been given terrible administrative lockdowns that have made them sick, and prevented them taking cures. The statistics are clear, those who live under US Democrat policy are four to eight times more likely to die from COVID than those living free. Years after he died, Semmelweis was criticised for the scientific process leading to the discovery of the importance of clean hands for surgeons. Semmelweis had known a ward of pregnant women were at mortal risk, but his science needed to be irrefutable. But, while Semmelweis made an amazing rediscovery after Christian monks took healing knowledge away from Roman doctors, the same cannot be said of Fauci. 

Fauci says he is following the science, but he has not got science backing his proclamations. Only politics backs Fauci. So Fauci can lie to congress with impunity? 

Editorial IPA successful in Free Speech outcome

It is welcome news IPA (Institute of public affairs, Australia) has had a win in Queensland for free speech. Why is the win so weak? IPA had attempted to have a stall at a university fete when organisers had refused on the grounds "IPA don't share our values." Organisers were taken to court and forced to apologise. But, they resisted apologising and have never explained their reasoning. And, the IPA sued for an apology, not money. Why are we abrogating to cancel culture?

Via John Roskam (IPA CEO)
"You'll remember in January last year the Student Guild at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane banned the IPA's Generation Liberty program from participating in student orientation activities on campus, because according to the Guild 'your [the IPA's] brand does not align with our values'.

The ban received nationwide media coverage as yet another demonstration of the freedom of speech crisis in our universities.

The Institute of Public Affairs and the IPA's Generation Liberty Campus Coordinator at QUT, Chris Dekker fought the ban - for the sake not only of QUT students but as a matter of principle for every student in every university and every school in Australia.

Chris lodged a complaint with the Queensland Human Rights Commission on the basis the QUT Student Guild had breached both the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act by discriminating against him because of his political beliefs and the Queensland Human Rights Act by restricting his rights specified in the legislation including his freedom of expression, his right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association, his right to take part in public life, his freedom of thought, and his freedom of conscience.

The IPA and Chris didn't want any financial compensation from the Guild, only a public apology so that what occurred would never happen again and to set a precedent so that other student associations at other universities wouldn't attempt to do what the QUT Student Guild had done."

But it has happened again .. "The IPA's Generation Liberty program now has a presence at more than 20 Australian universities and until the actions of the QUT Student Guild last year had operated without incident as Generation Liberty held events and debates and hosted guest speakers at many different universities. What occurred at QUT is I fear a sign of the times as universities become more hostile to any ideas that challenge the prevailing left-wing orthodoxy of our tertiary institutions. After operating successfully at Monash University in Melbourne for the last few years, Generation Liberty was banned from the campus by the student association from participating in the university’s orientation activities because of the views they assume the IPA holds about climate change. We've lodged a complaint with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission which hasn't been heard as yet, and I'll of course keep you informed of developments."

https://rumble.com/vkmtpi-editorial-ipa-successful-in-free-speech-outcome.html

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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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https://rumble.com/vl08a2-ep.-1582-impeach-biden-now-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Joe Biden crossed the red line. He must be impeached. In this episode, I discuss his latest violation of the Constitution.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Hunter Biden Allegedly Says He Lost Another Laptop to Russian Drug Dealers in Graphic Leaked Video READ MORE

California the First State to Mandate Teachers Get COVID Vaccine or Be Tested Weekly

Psaki Dodges Questions on Transparency

Senate Dems Reject Measure That Would Protect Americans’ Private Banking Info From IRS

Sen. Hawley Introduces Bill to Hire 100,000 More Police Officers

Census Data Release to Start House Redistricting Scramble That Could Boost GOP

Biden to Push Private Businesses to Require COVID Vaccinations for Employees

Capitol Hill
Trump Calls for Justice for Ashli Babbitt in Statement
Pelosi and AOC Vow to Block Infrastructure Bill in Favor of $3.5 Trillion Liberal Wish List
Senate Passes Amendment Banning Federal Funds From Promoting Critical Race Theory in Schools
Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Common Sense Election Integrity Reforms
Audit Cites Fulton County, Georgia Elections Department for Financial Errors and Missing Equipment
“This Is Not America Anymore” – Ben Carson Slams Rep. Tlaib’s Bill That Cancels Utility Debt
Texas House Speaker Signs Arrest Warrants for 52 Absent Dems
Voters Believe Biden Will Violate Pledge to Not Raise Middle Class Taxes
Nancy Pelosi Likely to Announce She’s Stepping Down After 2022 Midterms

Culture War
The “Woke Olympics” Were a Ratings Disaster
AOC-Backed Group Honors Multiple Cop Killers
Chris Cuomo Suggests He Could Have Fox Reporter Arrested When Questioned
Lol: Brian Stelter Claims CNN Covered Gov. Cuomo “Just the Same as Any Other Story”
YouTube Suspends Rand Paul for Questioning Cloth Mask Effectiveness
Loudoun County Teacher Resigns During School Board Meeting Over “Highly-Politicized Agendas”
Washington Post Blames Trump for Rep. Tlaib’s Antisemitism in Impressive Feat of Mental Gymnastics
Chris Cuomo’s Show Sees Lowest Ratings of the Year
Voters Reject Rep. Bush’s “Defund the Police” Rhetoric 2:1

Economy
Inflation Nation: Consumer Prices Jump 5.4% Year-Over-Year in July
Elon Musk Earned $6.7 Billion in 2020 – 11X the Next-Highest-Paid U.S. CEO
Senate Passes Framework of $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Package With Zero GOP Votes
White House Calls on OPEC to Boost Oil Production
AMC CEO Says Company Will Start Accepting Bitcoin as Payment by End of Year
Treasury Sec Yellen Urges Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling Through “Regular Order”
Media Pushes Deeply Flawed Study Claiming U.S. Has Worst Healthcare System
Many Companies Announce Price Increases As Biden Claims Inflation Is “Temporary”
Why Not: Alcoholic Mountain Dew to Hit the Market in 2022

Swamp Watch
Arizona Dem State Senator Resigns After Alleged Sexual Abuse of Teens
School Board Member Deeply Concerned About Kids “Committing Murder” by Not Wearing Masks
The Gov. Cuomo Nursing Home Probe Must Go On
Dem Rep. Leading Election Reforms Has Investments In CCP Espionage-Linked Firms
Head of Minneapolis Democrat Party: Burning a Police Building Last Summer an “Act of Pure Righteousness”
Oregon Resumes Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate
The Real Michael Fanone
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Confused by Gov. Cuomo Giving Two Weeks Notice for His Resignation

National Security
Low Earth Orbit Satellites May Be the Key to Hypersonic Missile Defense
U.S. Navy Allocates More Resources to Secretive “Project Overmatch”
Russia’s New Su-75 ‘Checkmate’ Fighter: Just A Stealth Paper Tiger?
French Pullout From NATO Naval Mission Is A Sign Of Fraying Ties With Turkey
Rioter From George Floyd Protests Sentenced to Nine Years for Handing Out Explosives, and for Arson
Apprehensions of Illegals in July Breaks Records for Sixth Consecutive Month
Mother of Brothers Charged in Shooting of Chicago Officer Ella French Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Police
White House Says Biden Doesn’t Believe Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan Is Inevitable as Taliban Takes Over Afghanistan
Pentagon Announces Religious Exemption Guidelines for Vaccine Mandate

Around the World
COVID Cases Fell 40% in the U.K. After Restrictions Were Lifted
China Set to Execute Canadian Amid Huawei CFO Scandal
With Series of Sudden Gains, Taliban Now Controls 65% of Afghanistan
Enormous Refugee Crisis Exists in Afghanistan Due to Taliban’s Swift Advance Across the Country
As Conflict Spreads, Ethiopia Urges Its Citizens to Join Armed Forces
Report: Syria Has Lost Over 60 Percent of Its Christians in the Past Decade
Belarus Olympic Committee Says U.S. Sanctions “Absurd”
In Drills Aimed at Afghanistan, China and Russia Flex Their Military Muscle
Myanmar Junta Leader Moves to Cement His Grip on Power

Opinion
Charles Lipson: Why Andrew Cuomo Had to Go
Michael Brown: The Supreme Court Case that Could Upend Roe v. Wade
Patrick Buchanan: Is America Becoming a Failed State?
Rachel Mardsen: If You Think the Jab Is Your Pass to Freedom, You May Be Mistaken
Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch: Fixing the Biden Bug Out in Afghanistan
Salena Zito: The American Labor Crisis Has Hit All the Small Businesses on This One Street
Star Parker: Cancel Culture and Wokeness Will Destroy Our Country
Derek Hunter: Liberals Show You What They Really Think of the Country (And You)

Entertainment
DC Comics Retcons Robin as Bisexual for Some Reason
Rob Montz Paves Trail for Right-Leaning Video Channels
Alec Baldwin Blames Cancel Culture for Andrew Cuomo’s Resignation
Christina Applegate Confirms Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis
Sunni Wells, Actress Who Accused Bill Cosby of Assault, Dead at 72
Have We Reached Superhero Fatigue?
Female Filmmakers Angry About Festival Prize to Be Given to Johnny Depp
John Legend Called Out For Hypocrisy of Lecturing Americans on Wearing Masks While Attending Obama’s Maskless Birthday Bash

Sports
Bronx Native Makes Yankees Debut in Wild WIn Over Royals
Desperate to Increase Its Gold Medal Tally, China Looks to Claim Hong Kong and Taiwan’s Olympic Medals
VP Harris’ Husband to Represent U.S. at Paralympics Games in Tokyo
Here’s the Dodgers Ball Girl Who Went Viral With Epic Fan Tackle
Watch: Mexican Soccer Match Halted by Cartel Shootout
Tokyo Olympics End With Smallest Summer Games Audience in NBC Network’s History
Giants Legend Phil Simms Tells Joe Judge Haters to “Shut Up”
Cricket Wants to Be Included at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Forty-six Republican senators issued a stern warning to Democrats that they will not vote for an increase in the debt ceiling, a move that could raise the risk of the U.S. Treasury defaulting on its obligations as soon as next month. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Megyn Kelly: Chris Cuomo Has 'Lost All Credibility,' CNN Next?


Newsfront
Gender affirmation surgeries completed on minors could be considered child abuse under Texas state laws because it may cause a genuine threat of substantial harm...... [Full Story]

US Inflation Increases Again, Continues at Record High

U.S. consumer prices increases slowed in July even as they remained [Full Story]

Cuomo's Ex Feels Betrayed He Took Credit for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ex-girlfriend feels betrayed he took [Full Story]

1. Covid. Parent pens excellent letter to school board in protest of crazy Covid policies for schoolchildren. https://rationalground.com/letter-to-the-school-board/

2. Legal. A nice bail win for the 1/6 defendants. https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/judgments.nsf/E216BF3BAA3450E58525872D000508D3/$file/21-3034-1909636.pdf

3. Economic. Even the government's own data, which understates inflation, acknowledges the inflation rise continues unabated, despite promises it would be "transitional" and "temporary" six months ago. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

4. Political. The better than 5 to 1 odds on Elder is worth a little $. https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7214/Who-will-be-the-governor-of-California-on-Dec-31

5. Cultural. Why must kids' comics discuss the sexual preferences of its characters? https://nypost.com/2021/08/10/robin-is-bisexual-new-batman-comic-confirms/

*Bonus: Google intends to discriminate against remote workers based on their suburban status. https://nypost.com/2021/08/10/google-slashing-pay-for-work-from-home-employees-by-up-to-25/


Great Response Letter to DOJ on Informed Consent

Excellent snapshot of persuasive law and policy.


Vaccine Fact Sheet

Do the vaccine Fact Sheets promise a very safe, highly effective, low-risk government approved vaccine?


Innocent man bailed after 8 months

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Here is a video I made Taken
From Invisible Dyad 9, competition

A tribute for Pamela Frances Ball, who passed away Valentines Day 1978 of renal failure at age 13. A brave girl who had fought kidney disease all of her short life. This piece was dedicated to the Stop Aids Now group, with musicians dedicating work to a cause. The talent behind the music is the artist called Frozen Entropy.

Many many thanks to Frozen Entropy for his production, guitar and all round brilliance.

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. A stolen car has hit a young dutch woman, on a tour of her lifetime. She was on a working Visa. The thief ran into her, left the car, gathered their own things, and fled. The Mercedes Benz SUV had been missing for a week. This is why Victoria needs Matthew Guy. While Dan Andrews has corruptly employed Red Shirts (still visible as ALP campaigns again) to sing his praises, Matthew Guy has been working to right the ship of state, should he win the November 24th election. It is not a question of trust. It is a question of competence. Dan Andrews has spent many billions of dollars on infrastructure that will need to be spent again to repair what has been done. Just visit Dandenong Plaza and see the road works which have been running some four months. All because council chose an inappropriate sidewalk design for the purpose they give it. An ALP/Green led council. The same people behind the ALP in council, are behind the state ALP and the federal mob.

I'm contributing to QUORA, a question and answer site that can be a bit addictive.

What are some ways of teachers to find out how smart their students are?

In neither public nor private schools is it the responsibility of a teacher to ‘find out how smart’ their students are. Teachers are mandated by the state and authorities to teach the curriculum. They should facilitate and extend, not judge. They should show discerning judgement.

A teacher may want to see if a student has achieved an objective. They might test their student, either through written, verbal or observational means.

I tell my students things, and sometimes, often, they don’t want to know. But stretching a student to achieve more does not mean they are comfortable. Riddles, puzzles, jokes, historical facts. Things that challenge accepted wisdom and promote critical thinking. One can agree or disagree. That shows a student’s mental agility.

JFK was killed by secret service by accident. Truman should not have dropped an atom bomb on civilians once. Equity arguments never promote equality. Herodotus exaggerated in his History. AGW is not real and the treatment of it is corrupt.

When I was in year 8 my teachers were very concerned for my welfare. I was very fat and disinterested in the material they gave me. So my year adviser, who was my English teacher organised that I sit an IQ test given by the school counsellor. No pressure, they reassured me having taken me out of class and assured me of privacy I’d not known I’d needed. I’d been in Australia under two years, having left USA soon after a sister died from a long illness. My parents had divorced and my dad had blamed me in court for his assaulting me a number of times. The court had then given him part custody of me. I read books and kept to myself.

The Australian based test I treated as a joke. I was certain where Sydney was, but mixed up with Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. Kosciusko sounds similar to Kangaroo and might be a marsupial. I was scored with an IQ of 85 and my privacy was respected so that my mother was telephoned and told I would never achieve much but I could be happy as a street sweeper. My mother was a teacher, my father a college professor, I had read over a hundred books including the entire Three Musketeer series, Illiad and Odyssey, Robert Graves Greek Myths and Legends and Watership Down and so my parents questioned the result and then me.

I was given another test, assured I could relax and everything would be dealt with privately. This one was US standard and I happened to know things in it. President Carter had a daughter named Amy. American Indians were called Indian by mistake. Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite. They assured me my IQ was 145 and asked me to list the books I’d read .. it numbered over a hundred.

But regardless of the result, it meant nothing. What would the school do with that knowledge? I was a mess in ways the school would never address. Meanwhile, I got interested in Math and History ..

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. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. Williams is offering more help for rough sleepers in Dandenong. Why are people sleeping rough in Dandenong? There is insufficient capacity for a Christian Congregation of size. However, Christian congregations take on work supporting a community. It doesn't require government handouts. Williams is not supporting Dandenong with this measure, but herself.

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 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. I started working for a distributor of children's books recently, and had my eyes opened. The distributor sources titles from the UK, and sells library quality books at about a third of retail price to schools and libraries. They mainly work in children's picture books, but also offer reader series (including modified Shakespeare titles) and non fiction books. All new titles meeting rigorous standards. One comment I hear from some in charge of book purchases is "What about Australian titles?" The Australian market is too small. The quality of their books is not the same for the price. Many Australian titles get printed in the UK anyway and sold here in Australia cheaper than Australian printed editions. 

One hopes that Amazon selling from Dandenong will revolutionise the market. Maybe I'll be able to sell my titles without the expensive shipping and handling tax. Just as with artists who would rather cut their own throats before letting conservatives claim a good idea, Australian publishers have been partisan and incompetent in marketing. I love Australia and would love to sell books here. Ridgy Didge quality Aussie books at a reasonable price. 

On this day in 30 BC, Cleopatra is said to have committed suicide by getting an asp snake to bite her breast. Or maybe she was killed by order of Octavian who had killed her son and pushed her lover, Antony, to suicide. A surprising fact is that although she was ethnically Macedonian, she was also ethnically Egyptian, as has been seen by examining her sister's tomb. So while some may feel that over generations, petty court jealousy would have prevented the mixing of race, it hadn't. She was the last Pharaoh. With her death, the nation of Egypt was extinguished and absorbed into Roman Empire. Over the years, her people would be converted to Christianity, and then Islam, they are essentially the same people, descended from those in that mighty empire. And yet today, they are nothing like their ancestors in wisdom and nobility. But they could be .. 

In 1121, Georgian King David IV tricked an improbable victory over the Seljuk overlords. David asked to have a discussion. At the meeting, he slaughtered the delegates while his army in a pincer movement took on the flanks. He left a bolt hole. An estimated 55000 Georgian troops took out ten times their number, allowing David to seize what would later be the Georgian Capital. In 1480 at the Battle of Otranto, Ottoman troops beheaded 800 Christians who refused to convert to Islam. It has been suggested in modern times that it was not as what was written at the time, but the result of a fight. However, forensic analysis has shown some of the victims were women and children and it was likely the result of what was described by writers of the day in Italy, an atrocity. In 1624 the council advising Louis XIII were arrested leaving Cardinal Richelieu the principal minister. In 1676 King Phillip's War was finished when Wampanoag Chief Metacomet (aka Phillip) was shot dead by Praying Indian (vis a converted Christian) John Alderman. Alderman was allowed to keep and display the head and a hand, which he did, for cash. In 1687, in what is now Hungary, at the Second Battle of Mohács, Charles V of Lorraine had the Ottoman forces, about equal in number, on quiche. In 1851, Isaac Singer patented his sewing machine. In 1877, Asaph Hall discovered the Martian moon Deimos. In 1883 the last Quagga died in captivity in Holland. It was a bit like a Zebra and a horse, striped in front, but not in back. Hunted by Boers to extinction. In 1944 in Italy, Waffen SS troops killed 560 people in a village. The village was never rebuilt, but a museum stands for the atrocity. In 1950, North Koreans killed 75 US POWs. In 1952, the Soviet Union killed thirteen Jewish intellectuals in Moscow. In 1958, Art Kane commemorated a Great Day in Harlem by photographing in black and white 57 notable jazz musicians. In 1976, between 1000 and 3500 so called Palestinians were killed in Lebanon during the civil war. In 1981, Microsoft released their first personal computer. In 1982, Mexico sparked a debt crisis by announcing she couldn't pay her debt. In 1990, Sue, the most complete skeleton of a T-Rex was discovered. In 1992, Canada, US and Mexico complete the NAFTA free trade agreement. In 2000, The Kursk sank during a military exercise.
=== from 2016 === 
People don't want Trump as President because he is "Crazy. All over the place. He says things he cannot do. He can't be trusted in a responsible position." By way of contrast, "Hillary is a known quantity. A safe pair of hands. She had the Secretary of State position and we know what she is like." We forget that Obama said of George Bush's Presidency that the outrageous spending was irresponsible. At the time, US debt was some $8 trillion. and now the next President will inherit a debt burden for children of $20 trillion. The Obama legacy with Nancy Pelosi leading the congress into ruin. But Pelosi is no longer in charge. Obamas spending has been curbed, partly by him hollowing out the military. He told Romney that the modern military "Don't use sabres anymore" but that might be because they can't afford them. Words matter. Trump has said some things that are difficult to accept. But he, and a GOP administration, can be trusted not to kill military officials through neglect and incompetence. Trump will not abuse email servers for corrupt reasons. Trump will not surround himself with people who will die after whistleblowing. Trump will not allow foreign states influence if they pay him lots. Trump will not lie about his dealing with the FBI. Hillary Clinton is a doormat and a known failure. She will tell you that it is impossible to cut spending. Meanwhile, Trump will make America great again. 
=== from 2015 ===
Jacqui Lambie has thrown her own son in front of the bus of public opinion. She has denounced him as an ice addict and listed ways she doesn't trust him. If she were in the ALP, she might make him a senior public servant. Or cry to a camera. Instead she pats herself on the back and calls it tough love. But none of that matters as the media report on #abbottphobia so as to focus on their agenda. Media don't want to hear about cutting spending as it embarrasses them as they supported throwing away $600 billion during ALP government years. They refuse to notice that Gillard and Wong walk both sides of the SSM street. Lambie is not independent. She is ALP in all but name. Or acumen.
From 2014
A tragedy today as Robin Williams has killed himself at age 63 (yesterday according to local time). It is famous that he was bipolar depressive and had taken drugs as a young man. He had much to live for. The world grieves. But the loss is personal. Friends and family have been denied an opportunity to watch him age disgracefully. His legacy of being a great man, a fine comedian an observant and caring person is secure. No one could do what he did, or give what he gave. One beautiful piece is related to a performance he gave on Good Will Hunting to Matt Damon's character. "It's not your fault." 

ADL are accused of taking the identity of a private citizen and posting terrorist and racist comments and attributed them to that private citizen. They have circulated the meme that resulted in spreading it widely through social media. The result is their victim has lost their job (temporarily, maybe) has received death threats and has had their private life exposed. It turns out that the victim is a non practising Muslim, and that incurs a death penalty in some Islamic nations, depending on the interpretation of what 'non practicing' means. And a few people claiming to be new to the unfolding issue ask questions like 'Who are the ADL?' and 'What have they done wrong?' Some have posted inflammatory and divisive posts. One recent poster made the erroneous claim that Islamic peoples were asked to contact call back radio and speak against terrorism. Many did, but the poster claimed none did and challenged others to express outrage. The thing is, the issue of terrorism is much bigger than Muslim baiting. I do not know if the private citizen did or did not make a post which the ADL claims. I do know it was wrong of the ADL to spread the meme and I hope that they are properly penalised for their transgression. I do not know what a virtuous Islamic state looks like in the modern world. I know Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, visualised such a state when he spoke of Pakistan championing freedom of religion, the rule of law, freedom of speech and so on. It takes a lot of money and good will to create a modern state with such fine principles. Iraq has been betrayed by an incompetent President Obama who has allowed Iran to corrupt her processes. Maybe Obama has hoped to profit from the failure, regardless of why, it is a tragedy. But for Islamofascism to fail, such a state must come into being. It cannot be Palestine, which has no right to exist as a state, but should be made part of Israel and dissenters placed in Jordan or dispersed as refugees. 
Historical perspective on this day
1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1121 – Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1164 – Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
1323 – Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic, that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottomanf leets.

1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoagwar chief, ending King Philip's War.
1687 – Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1765 – Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
1793 – The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former départementof Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.

1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attemptto suppress the Belgian Revolution.
1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1883 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Ê»Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

1914 – World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
1944 – Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

1950 – Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
1953 – The first testing of real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
1953 – The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people were killed.
1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
1977 – The Sri Lanka Riots:, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
2000 – The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Seaduring a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
2015 – At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.

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Today's reading: Psalm 81-83, Romans 11:19-36 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 81-82

For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph.

1 Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel,
play the melodious harp and lyre.
3 Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon,
and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
4 this is a decree for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 When God went out against Egypt,
he established it as a statute for Joseph....

Today's New Testament reading: Romans 11:19-36

19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning

"Oh that I were as in months past."
Job 29:2
Numbers of Christians can view the past with pleasure, but regard the present with dissatisfaction; they look back upon the days which they have passed in communing with the Lord as being the sweetest and the best they have ever known, but as to the present, it is clad in a sable garb of gloom and dreariness. Once they lived near to Jesus, but now they feel that they have wandered from him, and they say, "O that I were as in months past!" They complain that they have lost their evidences, or that they have not present peace of mind, or that they have no enjoyment in the means of grace, or that conscience is not so tender, or that they have not so much zeal for God's glory. The causes of this mournful state of things are manifold. It may arise through a comparative neglect of prayer, for a neglected closet is the beginning of all spiritual decline. Or it may be the result of idolatry. The heart has been occupied with something else, more than with God; the affections have been set on the things of earth, instead of the things of heaven. A jealous God will not be content with a divided heart; he must be loved first and best. He will withdraw the sunshine of his presence from a cold, wandering heart. Or the cause may be found in self-confidence and self-righteousness. Pride is busy in the heart, and self is exalted instead of lying low at the foot of the cross. Christian, if you are not now as you "were in months past," do not rest satisfied with wishing for a return of former happiness, but go at once to seek your Master, and tell him your sad state. Ask his grace and strength to help you to walk more closely with him; humble yourself before him, and he will lift you up, and give you yet again to enjoy the light of his countenance. Do not sit down to sigh and lament; while the beloved Physician lives there is hope, nay there is a certainty of recovery for the worst cases.

Evening

"Everlasting consolation."
2 Thessalonians 2:16

"Consolation." There is music in the word: like David's harp, it charms away the evil spirit of melancholy. It was a distinguished honour to Barnabas to be called "the son of consolation"; nay, it is one of the illustrious names of a greater than Barnabas, for the Lord Jesus is "the consolation of Israel." "Everlasting consolation"--here is the cream of all, for the eternity of comfort is the crown and glory of it. What is this "everlasting consolation"? It includes a sense of pardoned sin. A Christian man has received in his heart the witness of the Spirit that his iniquities are put away like a cloud, and his transgressions like a thick cloud. If sin be pardoned, is not that an everlasting consolation? Next, the Lord gives his people an abiding sense of acceptance in Christ. The Christian knows that God looks upon him as standing in union with Jesus. Union to the risen Lord is a consolation of the most abiding order; it is, in fact, everlasting. Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have been in the strength of hale and blooming health? Let death's arrows pierce us to the heart, our comfort dies not, for have not our ears full often heard the songs of saints as they have rejoiced because the living love of God was shed abroad in their hearts in dying moments? Yes, a sense of acceptance in the Beloved is an everlasting consolation. Moreover, the Christian has a conviction of his security. God has promised to save those who trust in Christ: the Christian does trust in Christ, and he believes that God will be as good as his word, and will save him. He feels that he is safe by virtue of his being bound up with the person and work of Jesus.

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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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