Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Wed 18th August 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial on Biden's stunning 'success' in Afghanistan
Afghanistan under the thumb of the Taliban. Street lynching, political murder and freedoms quashed. That is Afghanistan as those who voted for Biden as President have achieved. A tarred man is lead with a noose down a street for a walk of shame. What was his crime? Or does it not matter if there was a crime, only that the terrorists can show their ability to assert their authority. Just like Biden locking up people who peacefully demonstrated on January 6th. How long will those peaceful demonstrators be detained? Eight months without a trial? They say justice delayed is justice denied. How long will Biden delay justice in Afghanistan? 

I asked a colleague who liked Biden, what they thought God thought about Afghanistan. My friend said "God should never have been there"


Editorial on reimposition of Andrews Curfew
Australian news propaganda has Vic extension of lockdown as being necessary. And imposition of curfew, again, which failed last time. Why do left wing governments have to copy NAZI ideas on social organisation? From eugenics, family planning, public shaming, social isolation, removal of freedoms and environmentalism, it is almost as if some ageing NAZI is still funding their ideals world wide. 

Curfew and lockdown failed last time in Victoria, with over a hundred dying after being denied effective medication while crime tape was placed children's swings and roundabouts. The deaths were a direct result of Premier Andrews placing a bungling private security company over quarantine, a company closely connected with ALP and not subject to competitive bidding for the job. When asked about his decision, the Premier delayed answering for months, and then said he forgot. 

Delta variant Covid is more transmissible than COVID 19, and less deadly, Less deadly than the common cold. And what is wrong with treating it with appropriate medication? 


Editorial on Pell case and Deep state
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.


Editorial on Friday 13th

There used to be a 13th month. It spawned the idea of a blue moon which happens once a year. Robert Graves interpreted artwork from pre literacy Greece found that woman were the initial leaders of the Greeks, and they had three powerful gods, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. They were a kind of trinity, where Hera, cow eyed, was the older who saw wrongs when others didn't realise she was watching. Aphrodite was a mature, desirable woman. Pallas Athene was the child goddess, whose wisdom was like a sharp pre teen girl. Over time, Queens would adopt a king for a year. At the end of the year, the blue moon, the king would be sacrificed and his blood and bones would be fertiliser. Later still, prisoners might be sacrificed for the king.

The thirteenth month has disappeared from our calendar but still exists as a blue moon, sometimes defined as the month of the year with two moons.

The Code of Hammurabi left off the number 13 for reasons now unknown.

Apollo 13 came too late to be foundational, but my, it was inspiring.

The knights Templar were screwed before French King Philip stole their assets by accusing them of heresies and then torturing them to confess, beginning Friday 13th. They had lost everything when Jerusalem fell after 150 years when the language spoken there had been French. Jerusalem fell after Jerusalem's king's daughter was kidnapped, and so the king the left the safety of a fortress and was slaughtered in battle. The Knights Templar had the timeless duty of guarding Jerusalem and her antiquities. The Holy Grail legend may have been resurrected to impugn the Knights? I feel the knights were victims of a deep state within Christianity. Part of the chaff masquerading as wheat.


https://rumble.com/vl8jem-editorial-on-friday-13th.html

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From the Bible Romans 16

Personal Greetings

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.

Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Greet also the church that meets at their house.

Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.

Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test.

Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew.

Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.

Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them.

Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord’s people who are with them.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

All the churches of Christ send greetings.

I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Timothy, my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.

I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.

Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings.

Erastus, who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.

Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from faith— to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.

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https://rumble.com/vlb2dj-ep.-1586-deeply-troubling-information-from-a-source-in-afghanistan-the-dan-.html
I heard some troubling information from a source yesterday about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. In this episode, I address the unfolding disaster.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden’s Approval Craters to Lowest Point Yet Following Afghanistan Blunder READ MORE

Taliban Leader Obama Freed in 2014 for Prisoner Swap Helped Organize Afghanistan Takeover

Taliban Fighters Attack Afghans Trying to Flee

Lawsuit Filed to Try to Stop California Governor Recall

Photo ID Suddenly No Longer Racist to Dems as NYC Mayor Begins Requiring Them and Vaccinations to Move Freely

Suspected Terrorists Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border at Unprecedented Pace

Ex-Obama Doctor Says Biden “Mentally Incapable”

Capitol Hill
Arizona Governor Faces off Against Tucson Mayor Over Vaccine Mandates
Gov. Cuomo Continues Making Huge Decisions Despite Resignation
Hawaii Lt. Gov. Threatens Lockdown in 2-4 Weeks
NY Assembly Says They’ll Issue Report on Gov. Cuomo After All
Former Nevada AG Adam Laxalt Declares 2022 GOP Candidacy for Senate
Biden Approves Florida Emergency Declaration Over Tropical Storm Fred
Biden. Vs. Biden on Afghanistan
Arizona Senate President Says Maricopa Audit Report Is Being Prepared
Americans Not Being Given Priority by Biden Admin in Afghanistan Evacuation
Rick Scott: Has Time Come to Exercise Provisions of the 25th Amendment?

Culture War
There Are Now COVID-Themed Hate Hoaxes
Pentagon Says 22k Afghans Could Be Transported to U.S.
Squad Rep. Who Wants to Cancel Rent Reveals Thousands in Rental Income
Chris Cuomo Addresses the Allegations Against His Brother on His CNN Show
Taliban Leaders Used Twitter and WhatsApp to Aid in Siege of Kabul
The Lucrative Woke Industry
Majority in NY Want to See Gov. Cuomo Charged With a Crime
Hillsdale College Releases 1776 Curriculum to Fight Critical Race Theory
Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor Raid Speaks Out
Taliban Tweets Out Updates While Trump Remains Banned From Platform

Economy
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Sues NASA for Awarding Contract to SpaceX
OPEC Refuses Biden’s Plea to Produce More Oil
Nationwide Frozen Shrimp Recall Expands
George Soros Blasts China – But Here’s the Real Reason
“Big Short” Investor Michael Burry Bets Against Cathy Wood
Crypto Funds See Sixth Straight Week of Outflows Despite Bitcoin Rally
Jobs Are Down 22% for Low-Wage Workers
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Opens Investigation Into Tesla Autopilot
The 2022 Ford Maverick Is Less Expensive Than the Model T in Inflation Adjusted Dollars

Swamp Watch
Rep. Cori Bush Scores Book Deal Worth Up to $100k
International Allies Ridicule Biden Over Afghanistan Defeat
Report: Biden DHS May Tap Private Companies to Spy on Americans
Two Decades of Lies on Afghanistan
China State Newspaper Suggests U.S. Will Abandon Taiwan
Senior Biden Staffer Wrote Afghanistan Policy Paper Sponsored By Top CCP Influence Group
Rep. Lieu Donated $50k+ to Stanford University in Years Before His Son Was Accepted
Eviction Moratoriums Face State and Federal Lawsuits

National Security
“How a President Should Sound” – Newsmax Host Calls Out Biden’s Failure in Afghanistan
Proposed Lockheed-Aerojet Merger Viewed With Skepticism by FTC Chair
Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Speech Was a Disaster
New Details Revealed Regarding Navy’s Next-Generation Attack Sub
Three Reasons China Won’t Invade Taiwan—And One Reason Why It Will
Biden Backlash Grows as Kabul Falls
Does A Rising China Really Mean a Horrific U.S.-China War? It Doesn’t Have To.
Joe Biden Must Counter the Growing Military Drone Threat
U.S. Resumes Flights Out of Afghanistan

Around the World
Desperate Haitians Seek Medical Attention at Swamped Hospitals in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
China Celebrates the “Complete Humiliation” of America in Afghanistan
Source: Prince Andrew a “Person of Interest” in Epstein Probe
In Midst of Evacuation, U.S. Embassy Flag Flown Out of Afghanistan
New Zealand to Enter Nationwide Lockdown Over Single COVID Case
Taliban Begins Implementing Gun Control on Civilians
UN Calls for International Community to “Work and Act Together” on Afghanistan

Opinion
James Jay Carafano: Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Speech Proves He Will Be President Chaos
Kyle Smith: This Is Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter Moment
Jeff Crouere: Lesson of Afghanistan Debacle: No More Nation Building
Miranda Devine: Joe Biden’s Defeat Will Echo for Eternity
Gary Black: Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock’s Saigon
Wayne Allyn Root: If Trump Were President, Not One Democrat in America Would Be Vaccinated
Kurt Schlichter: Our Military Is A Woke Joke
Patrick Bobko: Weakness

Entertainment
James Woods Calls Biden a “Catastrophe’, Harris a “Cackling Imbecile on Deck if He Resigns”
Did Spike Lee Cut Gov. Cuomo From His New 9/11 Documentary?
Actress Rosanne Arquette Equates Republicans With Taliban Terrorists
Barbara Streisand Not Happy With Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga’s Remake of “A Star Is Born”
Prominent Afghan Filmmaker Warns of Massacres, Child Brides in Wake of Taliban Takeover
Lil Wayne Discusses Struggles That Led to His Suicide Attempt at Age 12
Gen Z Has Discovered That Smartphones Can Be Used for Making Calls

Sports
Yankees Win Another Wild One Over White Sox
The New NFL Taunting Penalty is Just Ridiculous
Giants Trading for One of Joe Judge’s Former Players
Did Bill Belichick Get Married? Photo Seems to Say So.
Jay Cutler Dropped From Uber Eats Ad Campaign for His Anti-Mask Views
Jimmy Johnson Was Ready to Sacrifice His Entire Draft for Peyton Manning
“Holy Grail” Baseball Card of Pirates Legend Honus Wagner Sells for Record $6.6 Million
Hope Solo Says Teammate Megan Rapinoe Would “Almost Bully” Players to Take a Knee During National Anthem
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
"If the goal was to rebuild and leave behind a country that can sustain itself and pose little threat to U.S. national security interests, the overall picture is bleak," a scathing Inspector General's report said Tuesday. [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Newsfront

Rep. Perry: US Enemies Laughing at 'Abject Failure' in Afghanistan

More than 7 million Americans are in jeopardy of losing their unemployment aid immediately after Labor Day. Gig workers and other unemployed Americans who qualified for pandemic relief programs...... [Full Story]

Stocks Decline, Dollar Climbs as Powell Speaks

Stocks dropped, while the dollar rose amid concern that the global [Full Story]

1. Covid. Context. Just a few years ago, WHO rushed approval of a Dengue vaccine they said was safe, despite warnings from dissident doctors. Then hundreds of children ended up dead. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/719037789/botched-vaccine-launch-has-deadly-repercussions

2. Legal. Judges protect their own. A woman convicted of a felony for...spitting on the hand of a judge. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harassmentofapublicservant.pdf

3. Economic. Inaccessibility of housing amidst price surges and Wall Street buyers causes homebuyer confidence to collapse. https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/surveys/national-housing-survey

4. Political. The debacle of Afghanistan makes the fall of Saigon look like a walk in the park. https://summit.news/2021/08/17/unbelievable-photo-shows-hundreds-of-afghans-escaped-taliban-aboard-u-s-c-17s/

5. Cultural. Major Hollywood crew union plans a massive strike to oppose to vaccine mandate. https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/08/17/rumor-international-alliance-of-theatrical-stage-employees-to-completely-reject-any-and-all-vaccine-mandates-hollywood-facing-massive-loss-of-crew-members/

*bonus: The grifter in chief got rich quick, as the former World Bank globalist fled fast once the joke of an Afghan "President" saw the Taliban coming. https://nypost.com/2021/08/16/afghan-president-fled-with-cars-helicopter-full-of-money-russia/


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Here is a video I made Star Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. News media swamp promoted Turnbull's NEG plan as a success. Turnbull has backed down on it, now he has been so successful. Miranda Devine has blamed Tony Abbott for Turnbull's 'success,' claiming he is pushing Dutton. Dutton is party loyal and is giving Turnbull time to stand down. Oliver Cromwell, in 1653, heard of Turnbull, Bishop et al, and gave them a message. 

"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"

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

Who are good examples of historical villains who later redeemed themselves?

In the 1990’s, in Cabramatta, Sydney’s Melting Pot, the Vietnamese ethnic gang called the 5T gang ran amok. They had links to senior Labor Party members and were watched by the police.

Local state member John Newman spoke against the 5T, but ALP member Phoung Ngo fostered relationships with gang members. Ngo owned interests like restaurants which would serve gang members who in turn offered protection. The name ‘5T’ is a pun in Vietnamese, from wikipedia “The term 5T, stands for five Vietnamese words starting with T; 'Tình', 'Tiền', 'Tù', 'Tội' and 'Tự, translating to 'Love, Money, Prison, Punishment, Suicide'. However, 5T also means 'tuổi trẻ thiếu tình thương' which roughly translates to 'childhood without love.'”

There were levels within the gang. Low level members committed theft. Higher level members committed murder. The age of gang members was young. Prepubescent boys were groomed after being identified. In Cabramatta, a games centre with electronic games with a sign that looked like “Timegone”

Boys might enter Time gone and they would be robbed by gang members. They would go back if they wanted to join. Eventually, they would be accepted. The boys (and girls) were frequently from dysfunctional families, often from war zones. A gang member could be the angry son of a special forces soldier, or an abandoned child of drug addicts. Some may have been torturers for Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Because Asian features may not look old, the reputed age of some members may not be what has been published. It is said that when the gang leader was 14 years old, and in year 9, they chased their metal work teacher around a classroom with an axe. The teacher had allegedly asked about their homework. Because of the age of the child, such behaviour might not warrant incarceration, or even school suspension.

Shopkeepers were threatened. One female shopkeeper, a single mother, with daughters at school, was robbed when several walked into their shop, asking for lots of different things, while others entered the shop in the back and threatened her from behind. She would say to me, later, that her greatest fear was for her daughters. They had ‘lucked out’ and taken her weekly takings. Others suggested that it was an inside job and family acquaintances had informed the gang. Gang members would wait outside of school after school, and in secluded areas would rob students on their way home.

It was rumoured that an attractive female older teen would befriend younger teen girls, invite them back to ‘her place’ ruffie them and they would lose days and later discover venereal disease. Their parents might be working multiple jobs and might not miss their child for days at a time. Some girls did become prostitutes and hooked on drugs. One girl went to Gold Coast to work as a prostitute for months at a time, then return to Cabramatta for the drugs. Disowned by parents, the girl lived in a clothing bin. After the high school principal booted her from school for non attendance, she overdosed in the bin. Her body was not noticed for months.

Once, while surveilling a restaurant belonging to Phuong Ngo, police saw a few classes of year 11 students from a local high school enter while gang members were present eating. One of the students had decided to leave 5T and the leader’s girlfriend decided to teach him a lesson. Gang members broke bottles, and killed the student in front of everyone. Then threatened anyone, and their families, who might identify them. No one ever was convicted of the crime, but those responsible are now dead.

ALP got police to practice “Harm Minimisation” and police turned a blind eye to drug crime in Cabramatta, but not elsewhere. Beneath one end of Canley Vale station was a bridge, and under the bridge, a few vagrant members of the drug community lived. After several months, police moved them on, and space was fenced off.

Gang members began to serve time. While in prison, the only ones who would visit them were members of local evangelical churches. Some converted. When the 5T gang leader and his girlfriend were killed, the remaining gang leaders turned to the police. They said the head had been cut off, but would grow back unless the police acted. It is the only time I know in the history of gangs, that a successful gang wound itself up.

Questions may be asked of the ALP members who protected the gang from surveillance, incarceration and impeded investigation. Former Fairfield Mayor and state member and minister Joe Tripodi claimed in parliament he had phoned and spoken to a Cabramatta High School Principal about guns at school when he had not. But Partisan school leadership would not expose an ALP minister.

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. On her ALP news feed, Williams has announced the ALP are creating a recreational court in Dandenong as part of a $120 million dollar spend. The council will be responsible for the Futsal court maintenance. The same council that gave Dandenong a step pyramid centrepiece. All we ask here is you give us your heart. Those 'kids' who get on the 893 Thursday night to Dandenong station and don't pay for the ride but run riot on the bus after playing basketball may be enthused by this development. But the poor Greens who feel that Dandenong is over developed (well, it does have a step pyramid) might not like it when more might be spent on recycling.

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. Vic ALP have failed in almost everything they have involved themselves with. Roads are congested and badly maintained. Public transport is failing and planning is making it worse. Crime is rising in Victoria as it is falling in NSW, suggesting it is not an Australia wide phenomena, but a result of Victorian ALP policy. Energy prices are going up as the government has forced reliable energy providers to close. Multi generational businesses are having to close as business costs soar. Soon, the ALP will face the fallout of the Red Shirt brigade and it is likely senior ministers will be booted from Parliament, despite spending some $150 million of tax payer money opposing the inquiry. And the ALP are desperately playing a smear opposition leader Matthew Guy game over a lobster dinner. In Australia, mate, we call it crayfish, which doesn't rhyme with mobster. And Guy has done nothing wrong, even if his surprise dinner guest isn't welcome at Crown Casino. No reports yet of Dan Andrews' gay nightclub jaunts with CFMEU mates. Allegedly, discussions surrounded around Andrews' Cray brothers. There are still loyal CFA firies willing to burn down the ALP edifice. 

On this day, in 684 the Battle of Marj Rahit decided control of Syria. In 1384, at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle the French drew with the Flemish. In 1572, the French King Henry III married Margaret of Valois because she was Catholic and he hoped it would unify Catholic and Protestant France. Possibly the only time in history that line worked. In 1587, Virginia Dare was born. She was the grandchild of John White, the colony Governor of Roanoke and Virginia was the first English child born in the Americas. We don't know what happened to her in life as also on this day in 1590, John White returned to Roanoke from a supply trip to England, but the colony was deserted and to this day, no one is certain as to what happened to them. One prominent theory is that the colony sought shelter with a local indian tribe which adopted them. Stones with messages seem to have been left regarding Eleanor Dare, Virginia's mother. The situation was not entirely unexpected. White knew the territory was hostile when he left the colony to get help in England. It was a dangerous journey and when he got back, the captain of the ship refused to sail again in winter. But then the Spanish Armada sailed around the English coast and all sea worthy vessels were used in defence. 

In 1612 the trial of Pendle witches began. One theory regarding Salem Witch Trials is that the Salem Witches were suffering the effects of Ergot poisoning and believed some of what they experienced was supernatural. But the Pendle case is different, where two families profited in trade as witches and competed with each other. Henry VIII had closed a local abbey eighty years before and so the locals had less sophisticated spiritual tastes. The new King James I had strong opinions on the issue. Puritans sailed to America looking for religious freedom. One was found not guilty. Nine were hanged. In 1634 Urbain Grandier was accused and convicted of sorcery and burned alive in France. Some say he was not really a sorcerer but a victim of political machinations of Cardinal Richelieu. In 1783, a huge fireball was seen passing over the east coast of Great Britain. No one was convicted for that sorcery. 

In 1848, the Argentinian dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas ordered the execution of Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez. Camila was in late pregnancy and her unborn child was baptised prior to the firing squad execution. Camila (23) was the lover of the priest, Ladislao (24) and refused to claim she had been raped. There is a letter of her father to Rosas begging him to be just .. and strict .. "exemplary punishment for the most atrocious and unheard of event in this country." We live in different times. In 1868, Helium was discovered. In 1920, women were given the vote by US constitution's nineteenth amendment. In 1948, Don Bradman's invincible cricket side completed a 4-0 test victory on a tour where the tourists never lost a match. In 1958, Nabokov published Lolita in the US. In 1966, 108 Australian Diggers faced down 2500 Vietcong, capturing three. In 1971, Australia and NZ agreed to withdraw their troops from Vietnam. All Whitlam did in '72 was to make a bad decision worse by withdrawing without a plan for those that were defended by Australian troops. In 1977, Steve Biko was arrested at a road block under a terrorism act. He was innocent, but later beaten to death in jail by police. 
=== from 2016 === 
Hillary Clinton can win the US Presidency. In fact, that is likely. She has the support of partisan media, despite an impressive list of corruption issues. But the Alinsky method is successful in short term goals, but destructive in the long term. So Clinton looks and sounds awful as a political candidate, but has a good chance of success. And to demonstrate with an example, Australia has the ALP leader Bill Shorten. This time last year, Shorten was defending his actions as a union leader by smearing a sitting judge. Shorten failed to smear Dyson in the union inquiry, but Shorten achieved the success from Alinsky Method of retaining the ALP leadership even though he had dudded his own members as union leader. Corruption works for the left. Trump has every reason to win, being the better, more capable candidate with a better administrative track record and an agenda of improvement the US needs. But that is not enough. Trump could lose thanks to GOP infighting and Democrat determination that corruption is ok. The US could have a doormat as POTUS. Hillary could leave the US a smoking ruin with $30 trillion debt, a nuclear armed Iran and the destruction of Israel. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
Man Monis, according to testimony from those involved with a failed attempt to have his bail denied before his murder suicide attack on Lindt Cafe, was given freedom because of inexperienced officers of the District Attorney's office and poor practice. Public safety was not a concern. He'd been facing charges of sexual assault which were historical, but also alleged to have been implicated in the murder of his wife. The police were not legally in a position to arrest him, as the public prosecutor wanted if the public prosecutor's office were to oppose bail. It is clear there is resentment by the police towards the public prosecutor's office for leniency towards people apprehended. 

The ALP's attack on the Royal Commission into Union Corruption has reached a new low, with a call to the Governor General to exercise a power not used since the 1920s when corrupt ALP used to rule. And if the GG responsibly decides to proceed with the royal commission, then the ALP can be expected to smear him too. There is a process the ALP can employ if they felt that the sitting judge was biased. 

One particularly hateful meme circulating has it that Hitler said "We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike" reputedly said on may 2nd 1933. Hitler didn't say that on that date or any other. Hitler approved of trade unions which supported Nazis. Hitler did say it was easier to sell a big lie than a small one. Regardless of what the murderous dictator said, it doesn't apply to what is happening with a royal commission having a fact finding mission into union corruption. One might expect that union members wold prefer it that their leaders don't steal their money and give them second rate working conditions. But a staggeringly large number of people want corruption to continue, including Lambie, Lazarus and Muir, who voted down legislation that would prevent union corruption. And they are no different to a public prosecutor who allows a killer to be free. 
From 2014
It has taken over thirty four years and the wheels of justice, painfully slow, denying justice for many, unto death, have turned for the Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan who were found guilty by a UN backed tribunal. Nuon Chea (88), or Brother number 2 was the ideological leader of the Khmer Rouge. Khieu Samphan was President of the communist state and is eighty three years old. They have been given life sentences. Their lawyers are appealing the sentence. But if they served a day for each person that died from their depraved civic activity they would not live long enough, and it would do their victims an injustice for not being long enough. There is no chance of rehabilitation. Even now, Samphan argues he didn't understand that he was killing people. Chea has apologised, but won't specify what it was he did wrong, saying to some victims "I feel remorseful for the crimes that were committed intentionally or unintentionally, whether or not I had known about it or not known about it." Victims live around the world, and still feel threatened by those communists. The UN seems to have played a role of harbouring these terrorists. And meanwhile, Australian Media have paid precious little attention to the depravity of the Khmer Rouge. 

However, there is plenty of attention given the accidental shooting of a black man. Not just any black man, an apparent gang affiliated thief who allegedly was fighting the policeman prior to being shot. Obama is a divider along racial lines, when he could have been a healer. No wonder the young Black peoples are feeling disaffected. Obama has promised much which he hasn't delivered. Those dividing are not helping, those rioting can be badly hurt. I hope the policeman is safe. He has never received a reprimand since he began policing four years ago. Remember Nicola Cotton, who died after being ordered to arrest a guy who fought her, grabbed her gun and killed her, before waiting to be arrested. 

Talia Joy Castellano was born on this day in 1999. She died in 2013 at the age of thirteen. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when she was seven years old and spent the remaining years of her life being treated for it. She went into remission three times, but it was found she had had myelodysplastic syndrome as well as neuroblastoma and there is no known treatment for that. She was given a short time to live, but an experimental drug lengthened that. But she was indomitable in spirit. She began to blog about make up. And she became a cover girl. Her youtube channels had more than seven hundred and fifty thousand subscribers and over forty five million views. Her siblings continue to maintain her instagram @taliajoy18
Historical perspective on this day
684 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayrand cement Umayyad control of Syria.
1304 – The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemishmilitias.
1487 – The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragoneseforces.

1572 – Marriage in Paris, France, of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1612 – The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1634 – Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940 – World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain. At that point, the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
1945 – Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 – Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.

1963 – Civil Rights Movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incidentresults in the death of two US soldiers.
1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.

1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotáin Colombia.
2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
2008 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.
2008 – War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.

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Today's reading: Psalm 97-99, Romans 16 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 97-99

1 The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad;
let the distant shores rejoice.
2 Clouds and thick darkness surround him;
righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
3 Fire goes before him
and consumes his foes on every side.
4 His lightning lights up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
and all peoples see his glory.

7 All who worship images are put to shame,
those who boast in idols-
worship him, all you gods!

Today's New Testament reading: Romans 16

Personal Greetings
1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. 2 I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. 4They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
5 Greet also the church that meets at their house.
Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.
6 Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.
7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was....

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Morning

"The mercy of God."
Psalm 52:8
Meditate a little on this mercy of the Lord. It is tender mercy. With gentle, loving touch, he healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He is as gracious in the manner of his mercy as in the matter of it. It is great mercy. There is nothing little in God; his mercy is like himself--it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God. It is undeserved mercy, as indeed all true mercy must be, for deserved mercy is only a misnomer for justice. There was no right on the sinner's part to the kind consideration of the Most High; had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire he would have richly merited the doom, and if delivered from wrath, sovereign love alone has found a cause, for there was none in the sinner himself. It is rich mercy. Some things are great, but have little efficacy in them, but this mercy is a cordial to your drooping spirits; a golden ointment to your bleeding wounds; a heavenly bandage to your broken bones; a royal chariot for your weary feet; a bosom of love for your trembling heart. It is manifold mercy. As Bunyan says, "All the flowers in God's garden are double." There is no single mercy. You may think you have but one mercy, but you shall find it to be a whole cluster of mercies. It is abounding mercy. Millions have received it, yet far from its being exhausted; it is as fresh, as full, and as free as ever. It is unfailing mercy. It will never leave thee. If mercy be thy friend, mercy will be with thee in temptation to keep thee from yielding; with thee in trouble to prevent thee from sinking; with thee living to be the light and life of thy countenance; and with thee dying to be the joy of thy soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast.

Evening

"This sickness is not unto death."
John 11:4
From our Lord's words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an "unto" within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it cannot go. Lazarus might pass through death, but death was not to be the ultimatum of his sickness. In all sickness, the Lord saith to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall ye go, but no further." His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of his people. Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the heat.
1. The limit is encouragingly comprehensive. The God of providence has limited the time, manner, intensity, repetition, and effects of all our sicknesses; each throb is decreed, each sleepless hour predestinated, each relapse ordained, each depression of spirit foreknown, and each sanctifying result eternally purposed. Nothing great or small escapes the ordaining hand of him who numbers the hairs of our head.
2. This limit is wisely adjusted to our strength, to the end designed, and to the grace apportioned. Affliction comes not at haphazard--the weight of every stroke of the rod is accurately measured. He who made no mistakes in balancing the clouds and meting out the heavens, commits no errors in measuring out the ingredients which compose the medicine of souls. We cannot suffer too much nor be relieved too late.

3. The limit is tenderly appointed. The knife of the heavenly Surgeon never cuts deeper than is absolutely necessary. "He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." A mother's heart cries, "Spare my child;" but no mother is more compassionate than our gracious God. When we consider how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder that we are not driven with a sharper bit. The thought is full of consolation, that he who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation.

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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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