Monday, October 18, 2021

Mon 18th October 2021 Current Affairs

My name is David Daniel Ball and I am Voice DDB dot locals dot com a voice of freedom supporting freedom around the world for all peoples. I write on historical and current affairs. I look for the conservative voice where mainstream media eschews it. Around the world media espouses liberalism orthodoxy and proclaims a history of liberalism that never happened. Liberalism of today is based on repeated lies that have been accepted from the past. 

Consider these recent truths

Disgraced former FBI chief has been gifted money. Former acting Director off the FBI, Andrew McCabe has been given special benefits despite corruption at the FBI. He had been fired in 2018 after tanking an investigation into Hillary Clinton after his wife had been paid by Clinton. McCabe's reward for failure of duty may be a million dollars

Exemplary marine officer convicted of trumped up charges following whistle blowing. He has pled guilty on a plea deal to charges. Lt Colonel Stuart Scheller has been fined and given a letter of reprimand after correctly calling out senior administration over the Afghan withdrawal debacle. Scheller loses his career over the injustice. 

A fourteen year old boy who was declared to be dead from COVID was killed by brain cancer? The precise truth of this is unknown, because although we know a newspaper headline promoted a lie told by authorities that the boy died from COVID when he did not, they now assert there is privacy when there was not. Consider that Facebook, the media and Twitter keep the fake news while persecuting those telling the truth as it becomes known. 

We are being lied to. But not by everyone. Our nations and their justice machinery are not broken, but damaged. Things are bad, but they are supposed to be bad, rather than merely breaking. We can't give up. We must reject the liars, and remove them from public office, and prosecute them lawfully. Things can get better, but we must persevere or risk losing hope. We must not fight the Devil by playing the Devil's game. Rather we must resist the Devil by being free. There is no law against doing what is right. Their utter depravity kills us. They target us and they seek to restrain us. But while the greatest among us a hundred years ago has died, their legacy has not. That which we are, we are. Lockdowns were ineffective in dealing with COVID. Effective medication has been denied whole populations. Herd immunity will prevail. Fraud deleteriously affected recent elections around the world. But, Democracy will prevail. Our oppressors will pass. For us to win, we must assert our freedoms. For us to lose, we must willingly surrender our freedoms forever. Our children will have to pay back our debt. We must sacrifice now so that they can. That means telling truth to power. That means pointing up when when some get confused and lose their way. Stand by the one who sacrificed their pension and freedoms to speak out. Prosecute the ones forgiven by a debauched and self interested administration. Vote for those who help you exercise your freedom. Don't wait for free speech. Exercise free speech. 

https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1181546/ddb-live-stream-17th-oct

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Intro to Locals.com

My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence. 

I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections. 

I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately. 

I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.

https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voice

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From the Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5

The Day of the Lord

Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Final Instructions

Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

Brothers and sisters, pray for us. Greet all God’s people with a holy kiss. I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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The Left Is Very Nervous About the Upcoming Durham Report...
They are scared. Hopefully, it's for good reason
=== Bongino Headlines ===
An Increasingly Desperate Biden Turns to Obama READ MORE

Rep. Cori Bush Continues “Defund Police” Push While Spending $130k on Private Security, Including Cops

The FCC Head Is On the Way Out Because She’s Not Liberal Enough for Biden

U.S. Officials Stunned by China’s Hypersonic Missile Test

Marxist BLM Co-Founder Who Owns Multiple Homes Appointed as a Los Angeles County Commissioner

Biden’s Latest Net Approval Rating: Negative 8.2%

Biden’s USAID Launches $125 Million Project To Find 12,000 New Viruses

Capitol Hill
Psaki Says Biden Will Undergo Physical Examination “Soon” but Provides No Specific Date
Tim Scott’s Massive 2022 War Chest Fuels 2024 Speculation
Why Is Buttigieg Still Transportation Sec?
Two Conservatives Quit Biden’s Court-Packing Commission
Biden Closes Out Week of Gaffes With Strange Yelling
Biden’s Pick to Head Customs and Border Protection Opposes Police Cooperation With Federal Immigration Enforcement
Illinois Dems Are Trying to Eliminate Two GOP Seats With Redistricting
Biden Lists Dem Who Was Allegedly Party to Sexual Assault of a Waitress as Someone Who’d Treat Waitstaff Well
Devin Nunes: Future of Country Hinges on Durham Indictments

Culture War
Introducing “The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros”
Philadelphia Bystanders Don’t Intervene or Call Police as Woman Is Raped on Train
17 U.S. Missionaries, Including Children, Abducted by Gang in Haiti
Last Week in Journalism Fails
Tech Entrepreneur Launches Site to Create Community of Non-Woke Businesses and Job Seekers
Delta Air Lines Nixes “Divisive” Mandate for Employees
Watchdog Group Files Complaint Alleging Psaki Violated the Hatch Act
Dan Bongino Cancels Sponsor Who Fell for Antifa Disinfo Hoax and Cancelled Conservatives

Economy
The Looming Fiscal Disaster in Four Charts
Labor Department Watchdog: Obama Apprenticeship Program Misspent $155 Million of $175 Million
China’s Economy Is Reeling
Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary Seeks Bankruptcy Protection to Handle Talc Product Injury Claims Despite $25 Billion Cash Pile
The Fourth Child Tax Credit Payment Goes Out This Week
Carol Roth: Our Government’s Plan to Make America Socialist Is Working
Crypto Firms Tether and Bitfinex to Pay $42.5 Million to Settle CFTC Charges
Tesla Removes Cheap Cybertruck From Its Website
Trucker Warns Vax Mandates Will Deepen Supply Chain Problems

Swamp Watch
Lori Lightfoot’s Game of “COVID Chicken” With Cops Won’t End Well for Her
“Parents Are Not Domestic Terrorists” Rally to Be Held in Front of DOJ Building
Biden Wants the DOJ to Prosecute Witnesses Who Defy Jan 6 Committee Subpoenas
John Kerry Has Over $1 Million Invested in Chinese Company Participating in Oppression of Uyghurs
DHS Wants to Track Biometric Data of Workers, Claiming It’s to Improve “Health and Wellness”
138 Legislators From 38 States Call for Countrywide Audit of 2020 Election
Assistant to the House Sergeant at Arms Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

National Security
Is the British Challenger 3 the Best Tank in All of Europe?
The Navy’s Zumwalt Stealth Destroyers: Armed with Hypersonic Missiles?
Will China Surpass the U.S. in Military Air Superiority?
Our Nation Must Come Together to Tackle Havana Syndrome
An F-15E Scored Its Only Air-to-Air Kill…With a Bomb
A New U.S. Stealth Fighter: Do We Really Need A “Manhattan Project”?
U.S. to Pay Family of 10 Afghans Killed in Drone Strike, Relocate Them to America
U.S., Allies Ramp up Pressure on Iran to Return to Nuclear Talks

Around the World
UN World Food Program: 95% of Afghans Lack Enough Food for Winter
Czechs are Asking What’s Wrong With Their Ill President
Irregularities Found in Berlin Voting May Result in Election Being Rerun
Lebanon Christian Leader Bassil Says Investigation Into Port Blast Must Continue
Transportation Workers in Milan Threaten Strike Over Mandatory COVID Pass
Syria Accuses Israeli Forces of Killing Former Member of Syrian Parliament
Poland Passes Law to Turn Away Migrants at Border, Build a Wall
Taliban Pledge to Increase Security in Aftermath of Mosque Suicide Bombing Attack

Opinion
NY Post Editorial Board: “High Class Problems”: Team Biden Is Out of Touch With the Misery Its Policies Inflict
Hayden Dublois: States Hold the Key to Unlocking Federal Medicaid Handcuffs
Kyle Smith: Communism Is Trendier Than Louis Vuitton Among Clueless Gen Z Americans
Martha Boneta: Things Are Not Adding Up The Way McAuliffe Wants Them To
Kevin D. Williamson: Biden’s Trillion-Dollar Spending Spree Will Lead to Financial Collapse
Michael Flanagan: Environmental Activist Project Threatens Military Readiness via NDAA
Ron Daniels: Hidden College Admission Factors That Hurt Students’ Chances of Acceptance
Michael Reagan: Joe Biden’s “Angry America”

Entertainment
“Let’s Go Brandon” Song Skyrockets to #1 on iTunes Hip Hop Chart
According to Leaked Data Netflix Projects “Squid Game” To Generate $891 Million in Value
Hollywood Strike Averted As IATSE & AMPTP Reach New Deal For Film & TV Contracts
William Shatner Puts George Takei In His Place: “Don’t Hate”
Report: Mötley Crüe Singer Vince Neil Transported To Hospital After Fall Off Stage During Live Show
Woke DC Comics: Superman Abandons Fight For “The American Way,” Now Stands For “A Better Tomorrow”
Ryan Reynolds Says He’s Taking A “Little Sabbatical” From Moviemaking
Jussie Smollett Forced To Face Trial In Hate Crime Hoax

Sports
Amid Leaked Email Scandal Andre Rison Says Jon Gruden Is “Not A Racist”
Alabama High School Football Game Shooting Leaves Several Wounded Say Police
New Data Show Packed Stadiums Have Not Been Superspreader Events In COVID-19 Cases
Braves Push Past Dodgers Thanks To Austin Riley’s Walkoff Hit In Game 1 of NLCS
Adam Fox’s Strong Start May Lead To Massive Rangers Contract Extension
Two Red Sox Grand Slams Make For Grand Game 2 In Boston Win
Cam Newton Gets Covid Vaccine And Now In Talks For NFL Return
Spurs Close Out With Dominant Performance Over Rockets With 126-98 Victory
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
DC Comics is dumping the patriotic portion of Superman's long-used motto to fight for "truth, justice and the American way" for a "mission statement" to champion "truth, justice and a better tomorrow." [Full Story]

Newsmax TV

Newsfront
China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August, showing a capability that caught U.S. intelligence by surprise, the Financial Times reported, citing five unnamed sources.The report late on Saturday said the Chinese military launched a rocket carrying a...... [Full Story]
A Texas farmer on the southern border with Mexico on Sunday urged [Full Story]
A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children were kidnapped by [Full Story]

1. The professional class left loves the Deep State by pretending they don't exist. "These credulous kids with piercings and chin-beards who think the secret services are on their side are the fruits of one of the great P.R. campaigns of our time." https://taibbi.substack.com/p/yes-virginia-there-is-a-deep-state

2. DC Comics continues its woeness as wokeness, displacing the American way from Superman's slogan. https://www.foxbusiness.com/entertainment/dc-comics-american-way-superman-comics

3. Haiti back to its kidnapping tradition. "Build back better" was the Democrats' theme there too. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/17/americas/haiti-american-missionary-kidnap-intl-hnk/index.html

4. Jury selection to begin this week in the Artery trial. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/ahmaud-arbery/jury-selection-process-travis-gregory-mcmichael-trial-ahmaud-arbery-death/77-d2213732-1231-4eee-980d-baca6033acad

5. Why is the Virginia Governor's race close in a state Biden easily won? Because Trump voters are much more likely to vote than Biden voters. A factor: the vaccine mandates are considered a "major issue" by two-thirds of Virginians, and those opposed are more likely to vote than those in favor. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vNcgoFHpoVOXZxNY6WIF37Mu84IjlLl_/view

*Bonus: Teen tries to rescue cat. Teen gets trapped. Firemen rescue both. https://www.wvtm13.com/article/firefighters-rescue-alabama-teen-and-her-cat/37980735

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Here is a video I made "Sweet Georgia Brown"
"Sweet Georgia Brown" is a jazz standard and pop tune written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard (music) and Kenneth Casey (lyrics). The tune was first recorded on March 19, 1925 by bandleader Ben Bernie, resulting in a five-week No. 1 for Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra. As Bernie's then nationally famous orchestra featuring the number did much to popularize the number, Pinkard cut Bernie in for a share of the tune's royalties by giving him a co-writer credit to the song

No gal made has got a shade on Sweet Georgia Brown
Two left feet, oh so neat, has Sweet Georgia Brown
They all sigh and want to die for Sweet Georgia Brown
I'll tell you just why, you know I don't lie not much

It's been said she knocks 'em dead when she lands in town
Since she came why it's a shame how she cools them down
Fellas she can't get must be fellas she ain't met
Georgia claimed her, Georgia named her Sweet Georgia Brown

No gal made has got a shade on Sweet Georgia brown
Two left feet, oh so neat, has Sweet Georgia Brown
They all sigh and want to die for Sweet Georgia Brown
I'll tell you just why, you know I don't lie not much

All those gifts, those courters give to Sweet Georgia Brown
They buy clothes at fashion shows with one dollar down
Oh boy, tip your hat, oh joy, she's the cat
Who's that, mister? It ain't a sister, Sweet Georgia Brown

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. Fight to live. Life is sweet. Life is worth it. There is enough tragedy which will end it, but every day you can live and suck the marrow out of life. Unless you are a left winger and celebrate death. In Victoria, Premier Dan Andrews is trying to provide certainty to death by passing a bill for euthanasia. Advocates claim it is safe from abuse. Overseas studies show that wherever implemented it has been abused. It is not the terminally ill who are using it, but the sad and lonely. Killing sad and lonely people is not the appropriate response to their problems. Euthanasia is only good for the democratic process which will end Dan Andrews ALP government in Victoria. The bill is on a knife edge in the Victorian parliament with the ALP deputy leader suggesting an amendment which might stymie it. Or might not. 

Another 'death worshipper' is the unlikely Bow Bergdahl, former Taliban detainee. Bergdahl was a private who walked out of the US army base, disgusted at how the army was being run. He was captured by Taliban and used as a pawn and Obama traded some Gitmo detainees for Bergdahl's freedom. It is said US soldiers died looking for Bergdahl. It is also suggested that Taliban targeted US troops in the months following Bergdahl's capture. Young people get confused by politics, the press don't help and Obama sent the wrong signals whenever he could. Service in Iraq was a good thing. Atrocities are not. But Bow did not detail atrocities, but referenced them in an email to his dad before deserting. Bow left after he did not like new platoon sergeants. Bow claimed he knew of atrocities leaving him sick, like running over Afghan youths in armoured vehicles. But, maybe there s no difference between accidents, and deaths of combatants? Bow's solution was not a good one. 

The left celebrate death and abandon people in need. As with giving $100 trillion to corrupt AGW hysterics, and taking it from the world's poorest. Turnbull has a plan to contribute to the $100 trillion through a carbon tax. It will make power more expensive, but Turnbull says it will be cheaper. Power is set to falter in Vitoria this summer because of bad government policy. But outrageous has been the banning of a halloween costume because it was named to be Anne Frank. The outrageous exploitation of Anne must stop. She was abandoned by the left when by acting, she might have been saved. The outfit is ok, but the association is wrong. 

The ALP are failing in Victoria, as a third member resigns under corruption allegations regarding expenses. Dan Andrews government is running out of puff, but the election is still some 400 days away. So Andrews is launching his energy into renewal, by supporting banning plastic shopping bags. Banning plastic bags won't help anyone or anything, but can make Dan feel better even though he can't kill anyone yet. Note the irony, Andrews supports euthanasia but opposes capital punishment. 

Harm minimisation fails as drugs take a toll. Trump is expected to act soon on the issue, declaring that every month the US is experiencing a 911 from drug deaths. But it isn't only death which scars drug users. 

The #MeToo hashtag is getting a workout post Weinstein. I am a sex abuse victim, my childhood, such as it was, was ended by a family friend, and exploited by my mother. I've been abandoned by family. I have sympathy for the actresses and hopefuls exploited by Weinstein. I may not agree with them on their politics, but I do not feel they deserved the abuse. 

Trade Union corruption in Australia is extensive. Unions have tax free income, control superannuation funds and have un-policed corrupt control of building development, making Australia the most expensive place in the word to build infrastructure. Note the corruption of the UN who elected to HRC Qatar, Congo and Pakistan. Three excellent places to oversee women's rights? 

Diwali, the Indian festival of Lights, New Year, has begun. May your year be prosperous and blessed. 
=== from 2016 ===
It was a quiet moment the evening of the last presidential election when a mainstream journalist told me they were frightened of Romney winning, as they thought he must. One would never have known it from the impenetrable wall that was the front mainstream journalists had put forward. Romney was an unknown quantity to the media, as they had campaigned against him without looking at who he was. They had made much of his religion, but they hadn't considered how healthy it would be to have a GOP President who wasn't from the mainstream Christian lobby. But they portrayed Romney as being weird. Romney is a GOP insider who could have been trusted to run a GOP administration which would aim to cut spending. But the mainstream media only put forward a scare campaign. Obama was reelected in 2012 without his policy agenda being vetted. And the same is happening now for Hillary. 

A player in the media campaign is Julian Assange with Wikileaks. Another in Russia is Snowden. Exactly what Snowden is doing right now is not known. He may be leaking to Wikileaks. Thing is neither of these figures are reliable to the public. All they can do is expose details that need to be weighed and understood. In the past, mainstream media have not used material from Wikileaks responsibly. People have died, innocent people, people unrelated to the material leaked, when rumour and innuendo from low level political cables was leaked. And around the world, Islamo fascists felt entitled to run amok. Not much need be said for Islamo fascists to run amok. In fact, mainstream media seems to support Islamo fascists with a steady diet of hand wringing over lots of things that aren't true, related to same sex marriage, US culture, US army activity, AGW, Monsanto, nuclear power, Palestinian terrorism, and many things beside that are often made up. The former Soviet Union used to run the peace movement which US Democrats tapped into with mainstream media to weaken GOP Presidential government. Compare the outrage of Nixon deleting less than twenty minutes of audio tape and the silence of Hillary deleting her emails. Only, Nixon had had authority, whereas Hillary had not. But in each case a Democrat led congress provided spin. 

Assange admitted that his leaks were why the US Government wanted to kill him. Only the US Government did not want any such thing. But Hillary might have. The leaks now harm the Clinton campaign. But Assange is not doing the people a favour. He is acting as a gatekeeper just as the mainstream media have. The character of Hillary is known by those who follow politics. One does not even have to have watched Fox to follow that balanced service's work. How long has Assange sat on what he now leaks? Maybe if US media functioned without bias hen the Obama administration would not be so unbalanced and Hillary would not now be the threat she is, because Democrats would have thrown up a better candidate. But for the media, this is tribal. They want, because they want. Principle does not matter. I don't expect to hear from that journalist again, this time around. But I bet you he is sad, and fearful. He does not know who Trump is, but he expects Trump to win. But he would never report that. 

I suggest Red Gum ward vote for David Daniel Ball. And, after asking your local councillor about their views on Trump, Same Sex Marriage and Greyhounds, try and find out what it is they will do to make garbage collection cheaper and more efficient. Ask how they will make business more profitable. Ask what they will do to help address crime. Ask what they will do to improve public transport issues locally. 
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The poor pay for Green Activism. Every dollar spent on supporting Green projects which would have, in other ways, been invested, denies a poor person in the world an opportunity to not be poor. Some have said it is terrible how poor people are exploited by business. That is nothing compared to the soul destroying poverty for those who cannot work from loss of opportunity. Because businesses had to be destroyed feed Green monsters that are inefficient and wasteful. A solar powered car park is promoted as an answer to normal bitumen, concrete and steel. Only the price tag means that over ten thousand such car parks won't be built. But the monster might pay for itself in a few hundred years. Or people are asked to spend thousands on solar power which does not even take them away from the power grid. So their money is gone but the savings are minimal .. which means others don't get value from the money .. it shrinks the economy. And poor people suffer. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Greatness cannot be measured, but is clearly seen. The divide caused by politics between opposing parties means friendships rarely cross the divide and the many slights leave a bitter taste. It is unimaginable that Gillard or Rudd would contact a Liberal identity when they had long retired and were facing their final days in a nursing home. "Sorry about calling you a mincing poodle or claiming that you were an ugly misogynist" doesn't sound right. Yet Mr Howard did not have the style of personal abuse. He wasn't a great friend of Mr Cohen, but respected him, and gave the former ALP Minister a call. And they joked about times past. 

Leftwing without a matching right
Victoria's desalination plant, which has produced no water, will have cost $2 billion to Victorians by the end of next financial year. The plant isn't needed because AGW alarmists lied about the science. Meanwhile, ABC claims world is heating substantially, but that it just can't be measured because our instruments aren't up to it. According to measurement theory, they should be accurate to within half of one degree with mercury thermometers alone. According to those measures in Sydney homes, there is no global warming at the moment and has not been for some sixteen years. Gillard blames ALP for her failure to support Israel when she was PM. She has previously blamed Jews for not having a strong enough lobby. Maybe if she had shared her slush with them? Plibersek is opposing Shorten over ALP policy. But neither want anything worthwhile for the public. Gerard Henderson collects a long list of ABC bias. Professional activists are costing the public billions of dollars in challenges to public policy. The money could have gone to schools, hospitals ..

Foreign affairs
Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong shows that Taiwan cannot reconcile while the government is communist. India agrees with Abbott that cheap coal is lifesaving for industry. Bishop wins pledge from Putin over MH17. Legal observers at G20 will be looking at police, but not activists.

International fights
WHO blames itself for failing over Ebola outbreak. Terrorists claim that Burqa issues are causing them to kill. Them cross dressers become fierce when denied their cover.  
From 2013
NSW forest fires are a direct result of ALP policy to not back burn. Fires are natural to rural NSW, some indigenous life is reliant on it. Having parks is nice, but being able to coexist and prosper is essential. ALP Green policy denies coexistence. People are dying from out of control fires. hundreds of houses lost yesterday, and it isn't yet summer. Another reason for the rich outback is the substantial rain from the last two years. The outback is very green, at the moment. And it hasn't been safely maintained. 

Global warming is guilty of: fewer winter deaths; lower energy costs; better agricultural yields; probably fewer droughts; maybe richer biodiversity. It is a little-known fact that winter deaths exceed summer deaths — not just in countries like Britain but also those with very warm summers, including Greece.... Thankfully, although billions of dollars has been spent fighting it, the fight has been ineffective. The planet wont be saved by throwing away money, but it will make Adam Bandt smile. 

Another fight is that against censorship of the press. This fight is being lead by the left wing mainstream press who favour censorship. 

The working ALP motto seems to be paraphrasing that of the Australian Democrats "Calling each other bastards." There is a press award available for calling Mr Abbott a bastard, but nothing for excellence in reporting news. 

In the US mainstream press are applauding Obama for failing to act to end the government stand down. Obama failed to negotiate. GOP made their point effectively. Now the press have to massage the truth in the lead up to the mid term elections.
Historical perspective on this day
320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
629 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.

1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 – The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.

1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1561 – In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima was fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshinand Takeda Shingen; resulting in a draw.
1565 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
1599 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.

1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria

1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

1912 – First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.

1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm Germany.
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.

1951 – The Studio for Electronic Music was established at the West German Broadcasting facility in Cologne, Germany, making the first modern music studio.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.

1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyerand the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.

1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 – Bolivian gas conflictBolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 – Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime MinisterBenazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.

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Today's reading: Isaiah 50-52, 1 Thessalonians 5 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 50-52

Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience


1 This is what the LORD says:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce
with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
did I sell you?
Because of your sins you were sold;
because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 When I came, why was there no one?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Was my arm too short to deliver you?
Do I lack the strength to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,
I turn rivers into a desert;
their fish rot for lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with darkness
and make sackcloth its covering.”

4 The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears;
I have not been rebellious,
I have not turned away.
6 I offered my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.
7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame....

Today's New Testament reading: 1 Thessalonians 5


The Day of the Lord
1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing....

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Morning


"And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul."
1 Samuel 27:1
The thought of David's heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God's anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act. On no one occasion had the Lord deserted his servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred in which divine interposition had not delivered him. The trials to which he had been exposed had been varied; they had not assumed one form only, but many--yet in every case he who sent the trial had also graciously ordained a way of escape. David could not put his finger upon any entry in his diary, and say of it, "Here is evidence that the Lord will forsake me," for the entire tenor of his past life proved the very reverse. He should have argued from what God had done for him, that God would be his defender still. But is it not just in the same way that we doubt God's help? Is it not mistrust without a cause? Have we ever had the shadow of a reason to doubt our Father's goodness? Have not his lovingkindnesses been marvellous? Has he once failed to justify our trust? Ah, no! our God has not left us at any time. We have had dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness; we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head he has held aloft the shield of our defence. We have gone through many trials, but never to our detriment, always to our advantage; and the conclusion from our past experience is, that he who has been with us in six troubles, will not forsake us in the seventh. What we have known of our faithful God, proves that he will keep us to the end. Let us not, then, reason contrary to evidence. How can we ever be so ungenerous as to doubt our God? Lord, throw down the Jezebel of our unbelief, and let the dogs devour it.

Evening


"He shall gather the lambs with his arm."
Isaiah 40:11

Our good Shepherd has in his flock a variety of experiences, some are strong in the Lord, and others are weak in faith, but he is impartial in his care for all his sheep, and the weakest lamb is as dear to him as the most advanced of the flock. Lambs are wont to lag behind, prone to wander, and apt to grow weary, but from all the danger of these infirmities the Shepherd protects them with his arm of power. He finds new-born souls, like young lambs, ready to perish--he nourishes them till life becomes vigorous; he finds weak minds ready to faint and die--he consoles them and renews their strength. All the little ones he gathers, for it is not the will of our heavenly Father that one of them should perish. What a quick eye he must have to see them all! What a tender heart to care for them all! What a far- reaching and potent arm, to gather them all! In his lifetime on earth he was a great gatherer of the weaker sort, and now that he dwells in heaven, his loving heart yearns towards the meek and contrite, the timid and feeble, the fearful and fainting here below. How gently did he gather me to himself, to his truth, to his blood, to his love, to his church! With what effectual grace did he compel me to come to himself! Since my first conversion, how frequently has he restored me from my wanderings, and once again folded me within the circle of his everlasting arm! The best of all is, that he does it all himself personally, not delegating the task of love, but condescending himself to rescue and preserve his most unworthy servant. How shall I love him enough or serve him worthily? I would fain make his name great unto the ends of the earth, but what can my feebleness do for him? Great Shepherd, add to thy mercies this one other, a heart to love thee more truly as I ought.

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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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