Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Wed 20th 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, 2 Thessalonians 2

The Man of Lawlessness

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Stand Firm

But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

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https://rumble.com/vny0yp-ep.-1629-why-i-did-what-i-did-the-dan-bongino-show.html
It’s time for people to stand together against these outrageous vaccine mandates. In this episode I address my decision to fight back.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Catch and Resettle: Biden Admin Secretly Flies Underage Illegals Into New York in the Dead of Night READ MORE

Portland Sets New Homicide Record After Defunding Police

Fauci’s Prediction That Packed Stadiums Would Be Super-Spreader Events Failed to Materialize

State Department’s Inspector General to Investigate Biden Admin’s Afghanistan Withdrawal

House GOP Leader McCarthy Predicts Wave of Dem Retirements Ahead of 2022 Midterms

17 State AGs Rebuke Biden and DOJ for Their Actions Targeting Parents

“You Can Have Me Or You Can Have The Mandate” – Dan Bongino Stands Up to Cumulus Radio’s Vax Mandate

Capitol Hill
Social Platform Offers $2,900 in Free Ads to Any Users Who Run for Office
Sen. Graham Seeks Senate Briefing on China’s Launch of Hypersonic Missile
Biden Top Banking Nominee Is “Lenin Scholar” at Pro-China Think Tank
Constitutional Scholar Says VP Harris Blatantly Violated Federal Law With McAuliffe Endorsement
Biden to Meet With Warring Democrats in Attempt to Salvage Failing Economic Agenda
Dems Increasingly Realize They’re Screwed in 2022
Biden Admin Signals Weakness to China After Missile Tests: “We Welcome Stiff Competition”
Rumors Swirl That Pelosi Will Step Down After “Build Back Better” Agenda Passes
Psaki Doubles Down on IRS Bank Account Snooping Proposal
Maxine Waters Pays Daughter $74k in Campaign Cash Just This Year Alone

Culture War
Oberlin College Students Frightened by Sight of White Men Installing Radiators in Campus Safe Space
Trump Sues Jan 6 Committee and National Archives
Witnesses Who Did Nothing During Alleged Rape on Philadelphia Train May Have Filmed Incident
Biden Admin Asks SCOTUS to Halt Texas Abortion Law
CHAZ/CHOP Militant Sentenced for Attempted Attack on Trump Supporters
SCOTUS to Consider Lawsuit Challenging Teacher Union Dues
New York City Hall to Remove Thomas Jefferson Statue After Panel Vote
MSNBC Panel: AOC Is “Suicide for the Democrats”
Trust in Media Nears All Time Low
Former NYT Writer Tells CNN The World Has Gone Mad Largely Thanks to Outlets Like Theirs

Economy
Nearly Two-Thirds Hold Negative Opinion of the Biden Economy
Fed Data: Industrial Production Unexpectedly Fell in September
Fed’s Powell Sold $5 Million in Stock Before Markets Tanked in 2020
Some Dems Urge Pelosi to Pause Plan to Raise Minimum Corporate Global Tax Rate
10% of Households Now Own 89% of All Stocks
Here’s All the Green New Deal Pork Dems Snuck Into Their Budget
Bah-Humbug Biden
Treasury: Victims Paid $590 Million to Ransomware Hackers in First Half of 2020
Crisis Strikes as Dunkin Donuts Runs Out of Donuts in Some Locations Due to Supply Chain Disruptions

Swamp Watch
San Francisco Police Union Warns Emergency Calls Will Go Unanswered Due to Vax Mandate
Latest Jan 6 Footage Shows Officers Allowing Protesters Into Capitol
Facebook Tells Arizona AG It Allows Messages on Human Smuggling
Taxpayers Will Spend Nearly $25 Million Per Month on Tent Courts in Texas
Dem-Leaning Counties Selectively Invited to Apply for Election Grants
China’s WeChat Admits To Secretly Scanning Users’ Photos
Christopher Steele Stands by Discredited Dossier in First Interview

National Security
Russia’s Rising Military Might
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Back in the News After Being Showcased at National Press Club Event
A Look Into China’s Military Spending
War Over Taiwan Can Be Avoided Through Stronger Deterrence
The U.S. Army’s Night Stalkers and Their Incredible Firepower
B-2: The Stealth Bomber Built for a War with Russia or China
America’s Drone Campaign and Its Future
U.S. Air Force General the Second Woman to Lead a Top U.S. Command

Around the World
Venezuelan Envoy Alex Saab Extradited To U.S. To Appear In Court On Money Laundering Charges
Houthis Seize More Territory In Oil-Rich Provinces In Yemen
Prince William: “Humankind” Must “Unite In Repairing Our Planet”
Russia Shuts Mission To NATO In Retaliation For Spy Row
Nigel Farage Calls Murder Of Sir David Arness MP A “Fundamentalist Islamist Terror Attack”
Three-Way Coalition Talks Given The Go-Ahead By German Parties
U.S. Concerned With Possible Use Of Hypersonic Weapons By Russia, China
Four Weeks Of Lockdown In Latvia Announced Over COVID-19 Spike

Opinion
Miranda Devine: Marxists Try To Take Federal Reserve As Biden Weighs Whether To Reappoint Powell
Kurt Schlichter: Defund he Feds
Karol Markowicz: The Incredible, Disappearing — Incompetent — Team Biden
Lindsey Stroud: FDA’s Negligence Led To Youth E-Cigarette Use, Worse For Adult Smokers
NY Post Editorial Board: Biden’s Plans Mean Stagflation And Other Commentary
Scott Morefield: Never Trump Grifters Want You To Align With Democrats To Defeat Republicans in 2022
David Marcus: Biden And Lightfoot Know Mask Rules Are Idiotic — So Why Haven’t They Changed?
Todd Bensman: Why Biden’s State Department Has Offered A Cash Bounty For A Fugitive Smuggler Of Afghans

Entertainment
James Woods Unfazed By “Trolls And Liars” Thanks To His “Alligator Blood”
Amazon Drops Trailer For Pete Buttigieg Doc As His Paternity Leave, Supply Chain Crisis Explodes
Mel Brooks To Write And Executive Produce “History Of The World Part II” Variety Series For Hulu
Disney Delays Indiana Jones 5, Doctor Strange 2, Thor 4 and Black Panther Sequel
Channing Tatum On Dave Chappelle Controversy: “He Has Hurt So Many People”
Report: Kanye West Name Change To “Ye” Official As Judge Signs Off On Petition
Mel Gibson Joins The Cast Of John Wick Prequel, “The Continental”

Sports
Phil Hellmuth Wins 16th World Series Of Poker Bracelet
UFC Fight Night Results: Norma Dumont Derails Aspen Ladd
Legendary Broadcaster Dick Vitale Reveals Second Cancer Diagnosis
Former Cardinals Manager Offers No Reason Why He Was Terminated, But He Is “At Peace”
Evander Kane Suspended By NHL For 21 Games Over Submitting Fake COVID Vox Card
Dak Prescott Gives Update On Injury, Says Cowboys Are Super Bowl Contenders
Steelers Survive The Seahawks 23-20 In Overtime
Chants For “F**K Joe Biden, Let’s Go Brandon” Ring Out At MLB, College Football Stadiums
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Former President Donald Trump is touting a new book by former White House National Security Adviser Keith Kellogg as a "powerful account of the Trump presidency." [Full Story]

Newsmax TV
The FBI is conducting "law enforcement activity" at Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's home in Washington. ... [Full Story]

Newsfront
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the House Jan. [Full Story]
A U.S. Capitol Police officer has pleaded not guilty to two counts of [Full Story]
Katie Couric tried Tuesday to restore her image ahead of the release [Full Story]

1. Deep State profits from media myths about 1/6 much as it did from the fears of 9/11: "there is no doubt that a second War on Terror, this one domestic, has begun and is growing, all in the name of the 1/6 "Insurrection" and with little dissent or even public debate." https://greenwald.substack.com/p/civil-liberties-are-being-trampled

2. Those skeptical of the vaccine are those who know how little risk they face from Covid: "about HALF of the unvaccinated are in age category where there is little to no risk of serious harm or mortality from COVID-19." https://covidreason.substack.com/p/about-those-vaccine-hesitant-folks

3. Italian protests against vaccine mandates and vaccine passports continue unabated. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/protest-in-trieste-we-the-people

4. The FDA's secret war on Ivermectin exposed. https://rescue.substack.com/p/horse-bleep-how-4-calls-on-animal

5. Hospitals hiding adverse event reports from vaccine injuries. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/proof-of-vaers-underreporting-and

*Bonus: Another week of profits for the subscribers of SportsPicks.
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Here is a video I made "Tea for Two"
"Tea for Two" is a song from the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is a duet sung by Nanette and Tom in Act II as they imagine their future.

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. Stopping a bully does not involve gender inclusiveness. To stop bullying in schools, children need to be taught not to feed the trolls. Children can be taught this, and when they are successful at it, they will feel liberated. So a Democrat Congresswoman provides an example of bullying. She politicises the death of a US soldier and chortles it is making her popular. Australia's Liberal government has successfully amended media laws for the first time in three decades. Now media can cover internet use too. ALP opposed it to the bitter end. Never give in to criminals wanting to bully.

Victorian government passes 40% renewable energy target. They claim this will mean cheaper power bills. The truth is it will mean more expensive power, and less reliable power. And less plant food. When told another state is attempting the same thing, the ALP leader of government admitted it won't work. It is just an exercise in pork barrelling. 

Amazon coming to Australia before Christmas. Some hope that Amazon will fail as with Canada, because Australians only spend similarly as Canadians online each year, half as much as the US. But the doomsayers ignore the fact that Australia Post does not deliver in urban or suburban areas, and Amazon will be very successful because they will deliver. And Australians will buy online if they get an opportunity.
=== from 2016 ===
A debate was held today and people who hate Trump say he lost it. And People who like Clinton say she won it. Except there are a lot of people who feel Trump won it. Trump won the debate. He addressed the issues that matter. Clinton did not. Clinton desperately claimed she stood on her record. She says she will not change anything. She also says she will spend much more on health care and education, making university study free. But she promised she would not increase debt and she promised not to raise taxes. And nobody has taken her to task for that. That suggests a fix by media insiders. It got worse. Trump declared he would unleash US business interests by lowering tax and raising GDP. A 4% growth would be possible, and 6% is achievable. The moderator scoffed at that. Hillary raised Trump's criticism of Reagan. Trump correctly pointed out that he supported some of Reagan's policies, and disagreed with others. But no one at the debate, or analysing it, twigged to Trump's policies being Reagan like, with increased defence spending and supporting industry, while Clinton's is like Carter's policy of wealth redistribution. 

A fact check held by CNN post debate took Trump to task for claiming that illegal immigrants are not vetted before coming to USA. CNN said that there were rigorous checks, some taking more than a year. What CNN misunderstood was the difference between a refugee and and someone who employs a pirate to get them smuggled into USA. Illegal immigrants are not vetted, even though CNN's fact check unit believes they are. Maybe it is worthwhile asking the CNN unit to tell us which state department vets illegal immigrants before they arrive in USA and why it is that that department is not communicating their discoveries with other departments of government. 

Meanwhile, before the debate, Fox news had an article on people paid over a thousand dollars benefits from ObamaCare for procedures, but these people were dead and the procedures have never been done. We have been told that some $350k has been lost this way, but assured it isn't much. But it highlights something really disturbing for Hillary Clinton. Dead people are a sizeable minority, and she is denying them regular access to medical care. They vote for her, and she denies them, taking them for granted. It doesn't pass the sniff test. Just like the Clinton Foundation's use of Haiti as a source of profit. Exploiting the poorest for personal gain is a very bad low. ALP do it in Australia through their union arm for slush funds, but no one is accusing Clinton of that. Why would they? Only, if they were dead, they could still vote for her, and access health care too. And as the money leaves USA, it wouldn't increase the debt. So she says. 

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. 
=== from 2015 ===
Australia’s education system is of a high standard. She has deserved her reputation for academic excellence. And she is flawed and needs reform. Both statements are true. But the case for effective reform is stymied by misrepresentations of issues. Cheating by students is a problem everywhere in the world. And new technology is making it very challenging for universities to preserve free and open inquiry while maintaining rigorous standards. Yet, without strong evidence to the contrary, that is being done. Also, it is historical and legendary that students are not competent but prone to alcoholic indulgence and partying. It is hardly likely that Chinese Students are alone in this. Also, the issue of assignments and group work is misunderstood by participants and sometimes the educators themselves. No student graduates based on group work. 

Australia has a growth industry with international students which is independent of the mining boom or internal economic cycle. Their fees help subsidise Australians in higher education. Not all international students are wealthy. Some third world nations send their students to Australia to be educated, but leave it to the students to work and find accommodation, while the government denies those students basic amenities and tax relief. Many turn a blind eye as students are exploited. Maybe some turn to prostitution to fund their studies. Many also work above hours for cash in hand. Many international students can’t party and fraternise with local students, and that could fuel envy on both sides. 

Australia’s higher education system needs reform. She is not biased, but partisan with the left, with senior academic boards over run with ALP favouring appointments that vote in blocks against independent academics. Which is partly why there are so few conservative think tanks in Australia, or conservative media journalists. Students are overly subsidised. No one seriously suggests not subsidising students, but the current levels are unsustainable. So that our children will not be able to enjoy a fair education our students do. Upper tier universities like UNSW, Sydney, Melbourne and a few others would like to do postgraduate duties which they do very well. While universities like UWS and Newcastle could do much better focusing on undergraduates. But the government won’t let them for equity reasons irrelevant to excellence in education. 

Stories of students cheating dates back to the formation of schools in ancient Greece and Ancient China. But universities are resilient to cheating practice and there is no evidence of widespread rooting as is claimed by some. But there is evidence that universities aren’t producing students satisfactory to business. But the international students, anecdotally, are superior to local students in all areas except language. And sometimes they exceed there too. But group work is hell even where there is none of the celebrated diversity. When Joan Kirner was lauded for her second rate secondary education reforms, group work was all the rage. It took reforms introduced by my father, the late Professor Samuel Ball to address those issues, and I’m confident universities employ those techniques today. So that group work assignments get followed by related tests. And students who did not do the assignments would not know how to excel at those tests. The students are not aware of all the things universities do to spot cheating, nor should they know. It is their job to learn their courses, not how to cheat. 

There is no history of most students satisfying with their skills gained through studies. The highest achieving students, however, are a good group to focus on student achievement over time. International students bring Australia credit. 

Turnbull won't push for reform in this election cycle. 

Canada has lost an extremely good PM for the son of an inept one. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
Workers pay for union bosses
The ABC and Fairfax press have self censored over the issue, but it is widespread and substantial. The much maligned Work choices had checks in place to prevent union corruption, but Gillard removed those when she put Fair Work in place of Work Choices. Even so, historical corruption regarding slush funds was clearly prevalent in union culture. Slush funds are not harmless. They involve unionists losing money for union chiefs to spend as they will. They also involve unions standing over businesses and extorting money, which is illegal. Some will say it is wrong to do that, and it should be illegal. But the fact is it is illegal to do that according to the statute books, and only legal if the courts choose to ignore the law, which they have no right to do. The very structure of the ALP is called into question over this. Maybe the ALP needs to reform by adopting a Liberal Party structure? 

Ukraine has to answer questions over MH17
Findings of the inquiry into MH17 have suggested the bomb used to take down the aircraft was Ukrainian made, while the device used to fire it was Russian made. It looks like the Russian separatists fired the bomb at the aircraft, but only after Ukraine had presented the aircraft as enemy hostile. Precisely how has not been examined yet and the salient questions have not been asked of Ukraine. It would be good for Mr Abbott or Miss Bishop to discuss this matter with Ukraine. It might excite ABC interest if Mr Abbott says he will shirtfront the Ukrainian leader. 

Green alarmism costs money
Australia under ALP shed some six hundred billion dollars with nothing to show for it. Left behind are costly and inefficient green projects, like desalination camps which aren't used because they aren't needed, house insulation poorly installed, wind farms and solar installations which don't reduce base load as well as crumbling coal power stations needing to be modernised. But had the money been spent wisely, flagship infrastructure which allows substantial growth could have been put in place. At about 1% of the cost of the waste, the Bradfield Scheme could have been realised. A wireless NBN could have been implemented. An NDIS could have been implemented and change sufficient to power innovation in industry would have been left over with surplus budgets. Instead, people have drowned for compassion, no animal has been saved and no forest is safe from environmental dangers. In fact forest fires have reputedly been caused by a failure to prudently back burn. 

Plibersek plays lethal game re Ebola
Shorten has no policy on any thing. Plibersek is filling the vacuum by being stupid and risking the lives of Australian Health workers tasked to go to Africa to fight Ebola by an Australian government without infrastructure to evacuate if that is needed. Thing is there is sufficient aid from those who have the infrastructure and regional responsibility to deliver it. Plibersek's position is partisan and foolish. She is hostile to the action of the defence force tasked to face ISIL and has said so. If Plibersek were compassionate for the suffering of others, she would not try to drown desperate people wanting to come to Australia. 

Poet short changed
Going by headlines this column condemned the poet Barry Spurr and it was wrong. The poet has had comments of his that were personal released out of context. Were they public utterances, they would and should be condemned. However, what has happened is an injustice which seems to have been wilfully perpetrated by a bad journal called New Matilda. New Matilda has form in illegally obtaining data and abusing it for sensational purposes. They appear to have done so here, and one hopes they are sued out of existence if they in fact have. Chillingly Sydney University have acted quickly to stand down the poet without apparent due process. Had the poet been left wing and given his thoughts in a writer's festival, publicly, one feels this entire issue may never have risen. Take as an example the graphic novelist Phillippe Squarzoni who has published an imagined, virtuous, assault with an assault rifle on a shopping mall. 
From 2013
ALP divided, will never be united. Blame games keep dreams alive. Latham can say *anything* at *anytime* which may contradict *something* at *sometime* but will be published regardless without fact checking. Plibersek to make play for leadership? ALP win NSW by-election, but still need reform.
Green policy ignites flames.
Illegal immigrants are not clients. Europeans move to stop murderous folly. 
Crying children need parents.
Australian child brides.
Wikileaks movie bombs despite top actors. 
Education reform needs good educators. 
Historical perspective on this day
1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman EmperorCharles V.
1568 – Battle of Jodoigne: the Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
1572 – Relief of GoesCristóbal de Mondragón, with 3000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios, relieves the siege of the city.
1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of AustriaFrancePrussiaBavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1781 – The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.

1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
1827 – In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships.
1873 – YalePrincetonColumbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American footballrules.
1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.

1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in BelfastNorthern Ireland.
1935 – The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical, entitled Summi Pontificates.

1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
1944 – Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
1944 – American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
1946 – Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam decides that October 20 is Vietnam Women's Day.
1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communistinfiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1947 – The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.

1951 – The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
1962 – People's Republic of China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney GeneralElliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
1973 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
1977 – Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashes.

1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, New York, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1991 – A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
2011 – Libyan Civil WarNational Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.

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Today's reading: Isaiah 56-58, 2 Thessalonians 2 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 56-58

Salvation for Others


1 This is what the LORD says:
"Maintain justice
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed is the one who does this-
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil."


3 Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say,
"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people."
And let no eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
4 For this is what the LORD says:

"To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant-
5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever....

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Thessalonians 2

The Man of Lawlessness
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us-whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter-asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness....

=== Morning and Evening ===


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Morning


"Babes in Christ."
1 Corinthians 3:1
Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, "put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!" but the smoking flax he will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but he will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though "less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess." Yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation.

Evening


"God, my maker, who giveth songs in the night."
Job 35:10

Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian harp to whisper music when the winds blow--the difficulty is for music to swell forth when no wind is stirring. It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is skilful who sings when there is not a ray of light to read by--who sings from his heart. No man can make a song in the night of himself; he may attempt it, but he will find that a song in the night must be divinely inspired. Let all things go well, I can weave songs, fashioning them wherever I go out of the flowers that grow upon my path; but put me in a desert, where no green thing grows, and wherewith shall I frame a hymn of praise to God? How shall a mortal man make a crown for the Lord where no jewels are? Let but this voice be clear, and this body full of health, and I can sing God's praise: silence my tongue, lay me upon the bed of languishing, and how shall I then chant God's high praises, unless he himself give me the song? No, it is not in man's power to sing when all is adverse, unless an altar-coal shall touch his lip. It was a divine song, which Habakkuk sang, when in the night he said, "Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Then, since our Maker gives songs in the night, let us wait upon him for the music. O thou chief musician, let us not remain songless because affliction is upon us, but tune thou our lips to the melody of thanksgiving.

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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

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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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