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
A year ago today, FB dumped their God Emperor Trump account, claiming the 5 yo account had been merely created to overcome FB censorship. The obvious reality being that the partisan outfit of FB was (illegally?) campaigning for Democrats. FB protects pedophiles and terrorists, but attacks conservatives? Did Zuckerberg learn from what happened to Epstein? It is dangerous to have a posture when the wind changes.
The incompetence of Joe Biden mirrors the past. Gough Whitlam
I dispute that Gough was the worst ever Australian PM at the time of his death. His abysmal foreign policy is still felt around the world, his debt crisis is still unbalancing the Australian economy and his bad 'reform' of ALP has kept it in the nineteenth century and prevented good people from achieving anything, but Rudd, then Gillard were worse. It is worth listing Gough's achievements. Gough distrusted the US who were allies, and embraced Communist China before Nixon went to negotiate freedoms. He ended conscription and pulled Australia out of Vietnam sooner than high command had planned. That meant when US pulled out in '75 that lots of weapons were left behind that were dangerous for the communist world to have. The threat that Communist Vietnam would sell those weapons to Timor's communist rebels meant Gough gave the nod to Indonesia to invade to prevent those communist Timor rebels from buying and using those weapons. The Timor invasion by Indonesia resulted in the apparently planned deaths of Australian journalists at Balibo by Indonesian special forces, some of whom vie for Indonesian politics today. Gough distrusted Southern Vietnamese who had been supported by the US and spurned their pleas for help. Because of his disastrous spending, Gough needed lots of money and sought to embroil Australia with Iraq. Gough had become leader of a disunited infighting ALP and he took steps to reform it by aligning it more closely with unions and producing the model that cannot be reformed now without disentangling from corrupt union leadership. In Australia, Gough spent unsustainably, and made reckless promises. He promised free education and made it harder for better students to study at university, ultimately making it more expensive for everyone. He promised fair access to health care but delivered a faulty product that needed to be reformed. He politicised the High Court and Governor General's position and created the family court which even today is highly criticised for poor decision making. Gough cared little for those he was responsible for and complained when his holidays were interrupted for disasters, like Cyclone Tracy and the Melbourne floods. Gough was the champion of empty symbolism and claimed to do things he hadn't done, like ending the White Australia Policy. He divided Australia on racial lines by creating a body which has failed to address needs of Aboriginals adequately. Gough felt betrayed by the governor general he appointed and he ruined the man who served faithfully, John Kerr. Gough was patron to notable ALP failures in Keating, Gillard and Clare. He was a charming man who could joke about his megalomania in a pasta advert. On the plus side, he got rid of McMahon as Liberal chief. But he ruined that with Fraser.
We are not lost, despite what we are told by elite. Consider Margaret Thatcher
It was the radical Socialist writer and patriot, the late George Orwell, who described the left-wing intellectuals as men motivated primarily by hatred of their own country.
Socialists who spoke most about brotherhood of man [sic] could not bear their fellow-Englishmen, he complained. Their well-orchestrated sneers from their strong point in the educational system and media have weakened the national will to transmit to future generations those values, standards and aspirations which made England admired the world over.
It is just because their message is that self-discipline is out of date and that the poor cannot be expected to help themselves, that they want the state to do more. That is why they believe in state ownership and control of economic life, education, health.
Their wish to end parental choice in where and how their children shall be educated, in spending their money on better education and health for their children instead of on a new car, leisure, pleasure, is all part of the attempt to diminish self and self-discipline and real freedoms in favour of the state, ruled by socialists, the new class, as one disillusioned communist leader called them.
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1974 Oct 18 Fr, Joseph (Sir Keith).
Speech at Edgbaston (“our human stock is threatened”).
We are not lost, despite what we are told by elite. Consider Trafalgar
To set the scene in 1805, England's greatest sailor was facing near certain death and humiliation off the Spanish coast on the morning. He had a desperate plan that had never worked successfully before. He was faced with a larger force of a combined fleet of Spanish and French fleet, under the command of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve for France and Federico Gravina for Spain. Nelson had 27 ships of the line to 33. Classically, the ships would form in two lines and shoot at each other with broadsides until the fleet with less guns and ships was annihilated or surrendered. But Napoleon had had plans to march his grand army into Britain and if Napoleon's fleet was free, her massive army would easily take London. So Nelson was faced with a battle he couldn't surrender or lose, but couldn't win through conventional means. So Nelson's plan addressed it by promoting the superiority of British ships on one to one combat. Britain had had better ships thanks to her guns having triggers instead of lit wicks for firing, better trained men and copper lined bottoms to her ships. Nelson's desperate plan was to sail his ships directly towards the enemy line in two lines at a right angle. He knew the front two British ships would have to weather about thirty minutes of direct fire from the enemy line, but when the closed, he would be able to fight ship to ship with the centre and vanguard of enemy ships, while the enemy ships in the top of the line would have to turn around and re engage. Nelson had two lines because when the tactic had been applied in the past, the concentrated fire on one ship had sunk it and every subsequent one. Two lines, he calculated, would diminish the damage taken to either. Nelson led one line, Cuthbert Collingwood another. Nelson wanted to tell his men he was confiding in them, and he knew they would do their best. But the flag signal man told him he could transmit the message more easily if he substituted a few words. The message, approved by Nelson, is recorded in history and stirring. Instead of Admiral Nelson, the word used was England. Instead of confides, the word used was expects. The message had become "England expects every man will do their duty."
In battle, the forecastle of Victory (Nelson's ship) had lines of marines. Some six were picked off before he gave instructions that they could break ranks and seek cover. Nelson's secretary was adjacent to him when a cannonball knocked his head in, splashing his brains onto Nelson, who remarked he didn't like the taste and regretted that the secretary would not experience victory. Nelson stood with full assignations on his uniform, including a stunning diamond. Smoke obscured the scene as Victory closed with Redoubtable and a sniper shot from Redoubtable's Mast Nest mortally wounded Nelson. Captain Hardy was on hand, and carried Nelson below deck to see the surgeon. Hardy could have been charged with negligence for deserting his post later. Nelson took some five hours to die. Near death, Hardy returned to report success. Nelson thanked God he had done his duty. Britain had not lost a ship, but captured 21 ships and destroyed another. Napoleon would march his Grand Armee on Moscow later. As a result, England would rule the waves around the world until WW2.
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.
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From the Bible, 1 Timothy 4
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance. That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.
Command and teach these things. Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Alec Baldwin Shooting - Who’s to Blame? Viva Frei Vlawg
We now know the sad facts. A live round from a gun handed to Baldwin as 'cold' as he acted a scene. The victims had been handling the camera (deceased) and behind the camera person (survived). The bullet went through the chest (??!!) of the woman and lodged in the guy's shoulder. The non sequitur in yur headline I feel should be answered with "Nobody should be blamed for shooting Alec Baldwin" I, of course, mean on film
Biden Silent as Haitian Gang Threatens to Kill 17 U.S. Missionaries If Ransom Doesn’t Arrive
Another Debt Ceiling Fight Looms
Brian Laundrie Autopsy Inconclusive About Cause of Death
SCOTUS Fast Tracks Oral Arguments for Texas Abortion Law
NIH Letter on Coronavirus Research Exposes Fauci’s Big Lie
Organized Migrant Caravan Moves Toward U.S.
Capitol Hill
Polls Indicate Tight 2022 Senate Race in New Hampshire
It Sure Looks Like the DOJ Is Covering Up FBI Instigation of Jan 6th
Obama Tells Virginia Voters Not to Pay Attention to “Trumped Up Culture Wars”
Psaki Partially Blames American Public for Biden’s Declining Approval
Illegal Immigration Under Biden at Its Third-Highest Level in 97 Years
Biden Goes 100 Days Without a Formal Press Conference
Twitter Censors Reps. Greene and Banks for Calling Rachel Levine a Man
Biden Heads to Delaware for Another Weekend
Majority Support Sinema and Manchin’s Opposition to Biden’s Congressional Agenda
Culture War
Texas National Guard Blocks Border Crossing, Construction of Wall Continues
Media Suddenly Decides “OK” Hand Gesture Isn’t Racist After Biden Makes It
Antifa Tries to Drown Out Pro-Life Prayer Vigil
University Presentation Complains About “Right-Handed Privilege”
YouTube Censors “Let’s Go Brandon” Song, Claiming It’s Medical Misinformation
Indiana Officials Invite Illinois Police to Move There
Ohio Senate Votes to Ban Gun Seizures During Emergencies
Emails: Loudoun Superintendent Knew of Bathroom Sexual Assault on Same Day
Economy
Charles Gasparino: Gensler All Wet With Overregulation Would Sink “Meme” Markets
Biden Thanks Unions for Promising to Solve a Supply Chain Crisis They Created
Top Oil Exporter Saudi Arabia Claims They’re Targeting Net Zero Emissions by 2060
Biden Treasury Nominee Was Member of Marxist Facebook Group in 2019
Taxpayers in 22 States Could See Tax Hikes Due to Bracket Creep
Federal Reserve: Businesses Say Vax Mandates Are Hurting Employment
California Accounts for One Third of the Nation’s Unemployment Claims
Peter Schweizer: Lawmakers Still Insider Trading Despite “STOCK Act”
Federal Spending Watchdog: Hard to Know Where Pandemic Relief Money Went
Swamp Watch
Biden Admin to Protect Immigration Fraudsters
Chris Wallace Thinks Psaki Is “One of the Best Press Secretaries Ever”
NIH Quietly Rewrites Definition of “Gain-of-Function”
Hunter Biden’s Soho Art Show Opens
The Biden Border Crisis by the Numbers
AG Garland Pressured to Appoint Hunter Biden Special Counsel
Sen. Schumer Endorses Socialist Candidate in Buffalo Mayoral Race
Introducing “The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros”
National Security
Could Australia Buy or Lease Used U.S. Navy Attack Submarines?
Russian and Chinese Warships Conduct First-Ever Joint Patrols in the Pacific
Russian Defense Chief: NATO Not Ready for Equal Dialogue With Russia
A Merely Ready Navy is Not Enough For a War With China
China Calls Biden’s Bluff on Taiwan
U.S. Marine Corps Infantry Squads: More Marines, Deadlier Guns?
U.S. Lawmakers Finally Poised to Overhaul the Military Justice System
ARCAS: Could The Army Soon Merge An M4 Rifle And A Computer?
Around the World
Chinese Version of “Dune” Poster Removes Black Actress Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Turkey Set to Expel U.S. Envoy, Nine Others, Says Erdogan
Austria Considering Lockdowns for Just the Unvaccinated If ICU Numbers Increase
Sweden and Pakistan Say Afghanistan Headed for Collapse
France May Require Third Jab Booster Shots for Vaccine Passport
As 2022 Election Heats Up, Hungary’s Orban Accuses EU, U.S. of Meddling
Reports: Taliban Beheads Member of Kabul Women’s Volleyball Team
Russia-led Bloc Concludes Drills Near Afghan Border Designed to Increase Tajik Security
Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Education is Becoming a Republican Strength
Dr. Thomas Sowell: High Stakes in Virginia
Tom Tradup: Our Pathetic White House “Press Corps”
NY Post Editorial Board: It’s the White House Siccing the FBI on Parents Who Question CRT Nonsense
Humberto Fontova: When Kennedy Caved—Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Surrender
David Harsanyi: Americans Are More Generous Than Europeans — By a Large Margin
David Krayden: Reagan’s Warning About The Fragility of Freedom Has Always Been Relevant — But Never More Urgent
Paula Froelich: The 1 Percent Lecture About Climate Change While Making It Worse
Nicholas Waddy: “Insurrection” Theater on Capitol Hill
Mary Vought: Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe Puts Special Interests Between Parents and Their Children
Entertainment
Activist Behind Chappelle Protest Revealed to Have History of Racist Tweets
Bill Maher Defends Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special
Armorer on Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Set Admitted to Being Nervous About Her Abilities and Almost Didn’t Take Job Because of That
Warrant Says Alec Baldwin Didn’t Know Weapon Contained Live Round
Vin Diesel Walks Paul Walker’s Daughter Meadow Down Aisle at Her Wedding
Dune Opens to $33+ Million Weekend
Jon Stewart Offers Support For Dave Chappelle: “Intention Is Never Hurtful”
Source: Non-Union Replacement Worker Was In Charge Of Alec Bladwin’s Prop Gun
Sports
Astros Reach World Series After Demolishing Sox in ALCS Game 6
Lakers Stars Involved in Altercations With Each Other, Fans During Loss to Suns
Suns Deny Allegations that the Organization or Its Owner Have History of Racism or Sexism
Following Chaotic Melee on WWE Smackdown, Brock Lesnar Suspended Indefinitely
Knicks, Julius Randle Totally Dominate Magic in Win
Chiefs’ Defensive End Frank Clark Faces a Second Gun Charge Related to June Arrest
Vikings Announce They Have Traded Stephen Weatherly to Denver Broncos
Lions Surprise Chris Spielman With Ring of Honor Induction
Newsmax TV
- Dershowitz: Justices 'Good and Decent' But Still 'Political' |
- Texas AG 'Hopeful' Supreme Court Will Recognize His State's Authority to Protect Life |
- Rep. Fitzgerald: AG Garland Ducked GOP Questions
- Yair Netanyahu: 'Outrageous' to Reopen Jerusalem Consulate |
- Trump Jr.: Fauci, Collins Will Blame Others for Gain-of-Function 'Lies' |
- Sen. Blackburn: Legislation Protects Workers From Biden Mandate |
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Victoria erupts as lockdown continues despite virus average dropping below 5Frustrations have boiled over and Melburnians have lashed out at the Premier after he backtracked on a promise from last week to reopen today.
Andrews breaks more promises by hyping the danger from infections he won't let doctors treat. In some ways, Andrews is echoing school girl advice "Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen"
SSM advocate made an interesting claim that Marriages and Civil Unions were not treated equally by the law, because Marriages and De Facto relationships were treated differently. A De Facto relationship does not have a contract. A civil union does have a contract. The law is blind as regards religion, which is why SSM is a vexing issue. As a conservative, I'd be happy if the state were to stop regulating marriage and protect churches which act on conscience. But many churches are extreme left wing and don't care about issues, but sides. The Australian government is not promising to protect churches, but asking the public to trust the government. It is an awful sales pitch. I have voted 'no' because the proposal is awful, although I'm sympathetic to the cause.
LA Dodgers go one up against Astros after a quick World Series game one. Astros pitcher Keuchel pitched well, but got tagged for two homers providing all three runs to LAD. Still anyone's series, but rumour has it Hillary Clinton congratulated LAD on their series win.
I thank the Liberal party and IPA (Institute for Public Affairs) for their tremendous support and work that allowed me to campaign in the local council elections recently. I’m not connected to the dysfunctional council and I found the mainstream media useless in understanding local issues. Neither the Libs nor the IPA supported me in any substantial way, but their very existence meant I was clued into things. The crime stats from the police showing the relative increase in crime during the life of the last council was significant. Council is not responsible for crime, but they can do things that make it easier to fight crime. Youth unemployment is one issue which feeds into crime statistics, yet Greater Dandenong frequently opposes development which would see young people employed, and restricts business trading with ridiculous red tape. The information I needed was from Liberal press releases and IPA publications like IPA Review. I don’t have to agree with everything either organisation says, but I find their writing provocative for my thought processes. I am sorry local news services are so poor. There is no excuse, but there are many reasons for it, with journalists stretched to cover items and editors biased and unapproachable. Many candidates for each position, and limited print space, means that a journalist cannot cover a campaign, but only focuses on pre identified candidates.
Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg is frightening media. They have supported and protected insider corruption for a long time. Trump will clean up the festering wound, and make America great again.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
Frightbats don't want to be laughed at. But they make it so hard. Has anyone ever successfully not thought about what they thought about? Fright bats reported Tim Blair to the censors over the term "Frightbat" and the censors considered the issues. It was posted as satire and involved female columnists who had behaved badly. Censors listened to the arguments against, but decided they couldn't see it. It is true Frightbats say what they think, but maybe they haven't really thought about it. Not *really.* And none of them have successfully predicted the end of the world, or even a small town.
Plibersek plans to spread plague but is opposed by responsible people .. and supported by irresponsible ones. Australian volunteers are serving in Africa fighting Ebola. Plibersek wants Mr Abbott to order people there without an evacuation plan. Plibersek wants infected people brought to Australia without quarantine and forcing them into the general community. Such an irresponsible plan might be modelled on Obama's community organisation response. Naturally the AMA is critical of the government and in support of Plibersek.
Terrorist attack by Islamic wannabe in NYC. The crazed Islamic convert approached police and started swinging at them with an axe, seriously wounding two. Luckily they shot him dead before he killed others. Did he fail his Islam entry test? Someone in the Islamic community has sponsored him. Recently, in several 'lone wolf' engagements, family and friends of the convert have claimed the terrorist was quiet and a lovely person. Many of the converts are drug users and criminals who turn to terrorism. So where is the issue of redemption in Islam?
ALP embraces Whitlam's failure, and the friends of the ALP deny that Whitlam had any. His foolish, cold lack of compassion for those who suffered and died from his idealist positions should be red flags even for his supporters. Leadership positions within the ALP are protected. Vietnamese couldn't even kill to obtain one. But worse, the realisation that a solid budget is needed to underpin reform has been lost. Neither Hawke nor Keating had that, but they were also not as totally destructive as Gillard and Rudd had been. Seeming but not doing, no policy, corrupt opportunism the ALP is no different now than the worst of Whitlam's years. Unreformed. Nakedly obstructive and opportunistic.
Peter Carey conspiracy theorist and writer claims the CIA overthrew Gough Whitlam in 1975. In fact the Australian voters did that. The CIA never even polled.
Shorten declares he is Catholic in a fierce declaration against Catholic Policy on Gay Marriage. Shorten then declares that because he is Catholic he feels that the Liberal Party should support Gay Marriage. Personally, gay marriage should be 'legal' because it isn't up to government to decide conscience issues. Only secular administration should be government. An argument Shorten seems to not understand. There are many fine Catholic peoples in all walks of life. Shorten is not one of them.
Witch hunt for those who aren't left wing, where the new Salem witch hunt extends from totalitarians wishing to control thoughts. Brendan O'Neill asks "WHY is it bad to hack and expose photographs of a woman’s naked body but apparently OK to steal and make public the contents of a man’s soul?" A poet, Barry Spurr, has had his private emails hacked and published. He has had no opportunity to defend himself. His public views seem to be normal.
ABC stands for anything but conservative as a new show set to replace the 7:30 report is described as having a panel of left wing hosts. Meanwhile the ABC has spent big on the tax payer's dime to take a soccer tournament away from commercial tv. Meanwhile ABC is spending big on Google to promote their left wing programs.
Jim Molan wants to run as Liberal for the senate. He co authored the successful Sovereign Borders policy. And he has served as a Major General.
Debt needs to be paid back, as Tony Abbott says "I said constantly before the election, and I have said frequently since the election, that our plan was to build a strong and prosperous economy for a safe and secure Australia…" ALP policy is for children and those yet to be born to pay for ALP whims. Currently the ALP is blocking about $30 billion in cuts.
Europe taxes prudence as the UK refuses to pay a bill to the EU for having higher growth than expected. It would be better for Europe to tax nations that under performed.
Royals take 2-1 lead over Giants in a close game where a single in the first innings proved the difference.
Bob Carr defends his backflip on his promise to stay in office for many terms. It was an election promise. Much like that carbon tax thingy ALP are defending to their end. As issues go, it is certainly heating up in much the same way the world isn't. Gore sees a link between a cooler world and bush fires. It is just a piece of trivia, but fire fighters sometimes douse flames with carbon dioxide. So now AGW believers are trying to cure the world by taxing plant food and fire retardant. I would never call a disabled child retarded, but certainly those who claim to be scientists who spruik AGW hysteria are.
Mr Abbott is being criticised for being too slow. But every movement he has made is methodical, purposeful and effective. He hasn't been hysterical. For the ALP love media, this doesn't *look* like leadership. They yearn for the empty gestures and broken promises. The days when corruption could be excused as *doing something.* Will Soros sponsor Clinton for a presidential bid? It would be similar in nature to the backing of Rudd over Gillard, for much the same reasons, with much the same result.
Germany is upset the US was spying on them. Something allies don't do. Quite so.
473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourton Saint Crispin's Day.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
1828 – St Katharine Docks open in London.
1854 – The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1920 РAfter 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn F̩in Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win.
1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1971 – The United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China(see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations).
1973 – Yom Kippur War officially ends with a ceasefire.
1977 – Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abductionconclude at The Hague.
1983 РOperation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'̩tat.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 3-5, 1 Timothy 4 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 3-5
and she leaves him and marries another man,
should he return to her again?
Would not the land be completely defiled?
But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—
would you now return to me?” declares the LORD.
2 “Look up to the barren heights and see.
Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,
sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and no spring rains have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;
you refuse to blush with shame.
4 Have you not just called to me:
‘My Father, my friend from my youth,
5 will you always be angry?
Will your wrath continue forever?’
This is how you talk,
but you do all the evil you can.”
Unfaithful Israel
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Timothy 4
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
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