Bairnsdale Conservative: Wed 27th 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

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”).

via The Grocer's Daughter

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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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 Timothy 6

All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves.

False Teachers and the Love of Money

These are the things you are to teach and insist on. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Final Charge to Timothy

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith.

Grace be with you all.

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https://rumble.com/vo9g4f-ep.-1634-disturbing-hidden-camera-footage-emerges-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Project Veritas strikes again! In this episode, I address the stunning hidden video in this prominent Governor’s race. I also address the growing rebellion against vaccine mandates and cancel culture.

News Picks:

Biden tells the Amtrak lie for the fifth time.
Here’s what the rich really pay in taxes.
The CNN coffee boy strikes again.
Are the vaccines making the problem worse?
Biden releases a ridiculous “national gender strategy.”
Remain in Mexico may be in trouble.
Reuters runs another hilariously dumb “fact-check.”

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Pentagon Confirms 450 Americans Still Stranded in Afghanistan – Far More Than Previously Estimated READ MORE

Judge Rules Rioters in Rittenhouse Case Can’t Be Referred to as “Victims” in Court

Largest NYC Police Union Sues Over Vax Mandate

Rumble Acquires Social Media Site Locals to Take on Big Tech

Florida Leads the Nation in Job Growth – And It’s Not Even Close

Biden’s Budget Violates ”No New Taxes” For Those Earning Under 400k Pledge

Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race Is In Dead Heat

Capitol Hill
VP Harris Unveils “National Gender Strategy” Despite Not Being Able to Define What a Woman Is
Sen. Manchin: IRS Snooping Proposal Likely Dead
Confirmation of Biden’s Marxist Banking Regulator Nominee in Jeopardy
Democrats Retreat on Spending After Failing to Get Votes for Huge Tax Hikes
Relatives of American Hostages and Detainees Abroad Beg Biden to Bring Them Home
Biden Admin to Appoint GOP Secretary of State Kim Wyman as Election Security Lead
Ilhan Omar Blames Cops for Minneapolis’ Spike in Violent Crime
House Republicans Respond to “Pathetic Piece of Trash” Article Alleging They Helped Coordinate Jan 6
Dem Rep. Anthony Brown to Leave House to Run for Maryland AG in 2022
Pelosi Won’t Commit to Honoring 2018 Pledge About Retirement

Culture War
Biden Won Virginia by 10 Points – Now His Approval There Is Underwater by 10 Points
Texas Gov. Signs Bill Banning Biological Men From Girls’ Sports
Loudoun Rapist Convicted in Bathroom Assault
Why Public Schools Are Tearing America Apart
Project Veritas Video: NJ Gov. Waiting Until After Election to Push Vax Mandates
Man in Custody After Driving Car Into Group of People Protesting Vax Mandate
If Twitter Were Its Own Country, It Would Be as Liberal as Vermont
Greta Thunberg Agrees She’s Just Saying “Blah Blah Blah” on Climate Change
“#FauciLiedDogsDied” Trends on Twitter After News of Cruel Experiments on Puppies

Economy
This Year’s Thanksgiving Dinner to Be the Most Expensive on Record
Dems’ Latest Terrible Idea: Taxing Profits That Don’t Exist
Tesla Surges to $1 Trillion Market Capitalization
Fed Prepares to Begin Tapering Asset Purchases
Duke Energy CEO: Energy Crunch Will Continue Well Into 2022
Businesses Beg Biden to Delay Vax Mandate, Citing Mass Exodus During Christmas Season
Alabama Gov. Issues Order Calling for State Agencies to Oppose Biden’s Vax Mandate for Private Business
LA Company Workers Force Out Teamsters Union
Sen. Hawley Introduces Bill That Would Require at Least 50% of Goods Made in U.S. to Be Sold in U.S.
OECD Warns Developed Economies to “Remain Vigilant” for Signs of “Persistent Inflation”

Swamp Watch
COVID Vax Advisor To FDA, CDC, and NIH Attend Wuhan Conference Featuring Chinese Military Researchers And “Bat Lady”
Hunter Biden Secretly Holds Second Art Show in Soho
Sen. Cotton: Facebook Acts Like a Wing of the Democrat Party
State Department Tested Diplomats for “Directed Energy Exposure” Years Before Telling Congress
AG Garland’s Approval Tanks in Latest Polling
San Francisco Residents Turn to Private Security Amid Crime Wave
NYC’s De Blasio Is Prepared to Spend $30 Million to Remove Trump’s Name From NYC
Biden Admin Ordered to Turn Over Docs About Release of 500k+ Illegals Into U.S.
Meet The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Shatters the Jan 6 Capitol Breach Narrative

National Security
House Unanimously Passes Bill to Award Congressional Gold Medal to 13 U.S. Troops Killed in Kabul
Is a Taiwan-China War Really Close to Breaking Out or Not?
A Coup in North Korea? Kim Jong-un Dead? Don’t Believe the Rumors
Now Is Not the Time for Unilateral U.S. Reductions in Nuclear Weapons
Marine Corps to Its Service Members: Get the Vaccine or Get Out
China’s Hypersonic Weapon Very Reminiscent of U.S. X-20 Dyna-Soar
Two of the Most Important Ways to Deter China
France Marks 100 Years of Honoring the Tomb of the Unknown American Soldier
Senators Join Effort to Prevent Military Suicide
Border Patrol Reports 192,000 Border Encounters in September

Around the World
Biden Admin Rolls Out Vax Requirements for International Travelers Entering U.S.
Beijing Marathon Postponed Due to Coronavirus Outbreak
State of Emergency in Egypt Ended for the First Time in Years
Coup in Sudan, as Military Dissolves Civilian Government, Arrests Prime Minister
IAEA Says Iran’s Enrichment of Uranium to High Levels at Natanz Plant is Expanding
Russia Ready to Launch “Humanitarian Operation” in Afghanistan, Remove Taliban From Terror List
Turkey and West Pull Back From Brink of Biggest Diplomatic Crisis
Israeli Air Force Will Begin Training to Attack Iran’s Nuke Program
With Daily COVID-19 Cases Hitting New Peak, Some Russian Regions Shutter Workplaces

Opinion
Nigel Farage: Two-Tiered Societies Are No Answer to Vaccine Hesitancy
Michael Barone: Two Special-Election Results Suggest Republicans Have Stanched the Bloodletting
Scott Morefield: Should the Immunocompromised Be Allowed to Force Everyone to Mask and Be Vaccinated?
Milton Ezrati: Don’t Expect Supply-Chain or Price Relief Any Time Soon
Kurt Schlichter: The Alec Baldwin Conundrum
Miranda Devine: Attorney General Merrick Garland Must Call off War on Parents
Katie Yoder: “Pro-Choice Ethics” Prove Abortion Isn’t Murder: A Response
Victor Davis Hanson: To the Left, America’s Mounting Disasters Are Just Bumps in the Road
Ken Blackwell: Freedom Waters Will Break Through Biden’s Authoritarian Mandate Wall

Entertainment
Alec Baldwin Drops All Future Projects After Killing Cinematographer On Set
Candace Owens Torches Alec Baldwin – Says His Shooting Is “Poetic Justice”
Brendan Fraser To Play Villain In New Warner Bros & DC Film, “Batgirl”
Petition Calls For Removal of Y: The Last Man Episode From Hulu Over Complaints Of Sacrilege
“Dynasty” Star John James To Play Joe Biden In New Robert Davi Film “My Son Hunter”
Dave Chappelle Won’t Bend “To Anybody’s Demands” But Willing To Meet With Trans Community Amid Netflix Scandal
NBC Teen Drama Portrays School Teacher Helping A Teen Student Get A Secret Abortion Without Parental Consent
Fans Demand Disney Ban Raunchy Shirts From Theme Parks After Viral Post

Sports
White House “Unfamiliar” With “F**k Joe Biden” And “Let’s Go Brandon” Chants
Video: Powerful Moment Tom Brady Gives 9-Year Old Cancer Survivor His Hat
Report: Australian Open To Allow Unvaccinated Players
Raiders Beat Philly, 33-22, In Second Game Under Interim Coach Bisaccia
Cardinals Expected To Announce Oliver Marmol New Manager Monday
Michael Jordan’s 1984 Game-Worn Nikes Sell For Nearly $1.5 Million
Will The MLB Move The World Series Out Of Atlanta?
Jets Reunite With Joe Flacco In Trade With Eagles To Replace Injured Zach Wilson

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday unveiled details of a plan to enact a 15 percent minimum corporate tax that is expected to apply to about 200 corporations. [Full Story]

RNC's McDaniel: Biden Will Hinder, Not Help McAuliffe |

Newsmax's Bolling: Fox News Abandoned Conservatives

Newsmax host Eric Bolling blasted former employer Fox News on [Full Story] |

Newsfront

FDA Advisers Back Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Children

An expert panel on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to recommend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorize the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, saying the benefits of inoculation outweigh the risks.... [Full Story]

Trump Endorses Charles W. Herbster for Nebraska Governor

Former President Donald Trump endorsed, on Tuesday, Charles W. [Full Story]

RNC to Show Mobile Billboard at McAuliffe Campaign Event With Biden

At a Tuesday event where President Joe Biden will campaign with [Full Story]

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Here is a video I made Follow me

https://rumble.com/vbn3gh-follow-me-by-oddball.html

Take Me to Tomorrow is the second album recorded by American singer-songwriter John Denver released in May 1970. Follow me is the third track

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Remember when flu was treated with medicine?

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Ep. 1378 The Media and the Left is Missing This, Again - The Dan Bongino Show

https://rumble.com/vauebf-ep.-1378-the-media-and-the-left-is-missing-this-again-the-dan-bongino-show.html

In this episode, I discuss this disastrous Joe Biden television interview and the fallout afterward. I also address the massive political realignment happening as a result of the Trump presidency.

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Amy Coney Barrett sworn in as Supreme Court justice at White House
Barrett's confirmation solidified a conservative majority on the high court

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amy-coney-barrett-sworn-in-as-supreme-court-associated-justice-at-white-house-ceremony

The Supreme Court said in a press release that Barrett will be able to start her new role after Chief Justice John Roberts administers her judicial oath on Tuesday. Justice Clarence Thomas administered the constitutional oath at Monday's ceremony.

‘Darkest US Day’: Amy Coney Barrett appointed in big win for Trump

Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, in “one of the darkest days in the 231-year history” of the US Senate.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-to-supreme-court-by-us-senate/news-story/d32c32454328f9e991b0fb6f264d6657

Following her death, the family of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg revealed that her dying wish was that she not be replaced before the election.

“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” the 87-year-old told her granddaughter, according to NPR, days before she lost her battle with cancer in September.

It’s a wish that, just a week out from election day, US President Donald Trump has steamrolled: his nominee, conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett, was confirmed to the Supreme Court by the Senate today, voted through by a 52-48 Republican majority. Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican senator to side with the Democrats in opposing Judge Barrett’s confirmation.

“It is highly fitting that Judge Amy Coney Barrett fills the seat of a true pioneer for women, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg,” Mr Trump said following the vote, adding it was “very important” because she’s “the very first mother of school-aged children to become a Supreme Court justice”.

Judge Barrett’s confirmation will not only go down in history as one of the quickest – taking place 30 days after her nomination and seven days before the presidential election – but also, Democratic senator of New York and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “one of the darkest days in the 231-year history of the United States Senate”.

“Let the records show that tonight the Republican Senate Majority decided to thwart the will of the people and confirm a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election after more than 60 million Americans have voted,” he said.

“Let the record show that tonight the Republican Majority will break 231 years of precedent and become the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court justice this close to Election Day.

“And let the record show that tonight the Republican Majority will make a mockery of its own stated principle, that the American people deserve a voice in the selection of Supreme Court justices, completing the partisan theft of two seats on the Supreme Court using completely contradictory rationales.

Via Spit Take Brigade

Let the DOJ throw Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, HRC, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, O44 and the rest of the Deep State behind bars for corruption. And if they complain, let them make their case to SCOTUS

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Rumble — Congressman Devin Nunes discusses the Deep State disinformation operation intended to prevent the declassification relating to the Obama administration's 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment and more on 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' October 26, 2020.

https://rumble.com/vaum49-rep.-nunes-deep-state-launches-disinformation-operation-to-block-key-declas.html

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Biden pushes back on Trump's attacks in Pennsylvania: ‘I’m not eliminating fracking’
Biden pushes back against repeated charges from Trump that he’ll shut down the oil industry

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-pennsylvania-not-eliminating-fracking

OK, but he failed to explain his policy in any debate or forum.

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Rove breaks down Trump's 'path to victory' through Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Trump won all three states by fewer than one percentage point in 2016

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rove-trump-path-victory-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin

"I know from polls that I'm looking at in Arizona, private polls in Arizona [and] North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, that the numbers are tightening," Rove told "The Story."

"Think about it this way, if the president wins every state -- let's take the three Great Lakes states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin [and] put them to the side for a second. If the president wins any one of the rest of the states he won in 2016 and carries Pennsylvania, he's got 280 electoral votes, ten more than needed," Rove said.

"If he carries Wisconsin out of those three states, only Wisconsin, he's got 270," he explained. "If he carries Michigan out of those three states and loses Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he's got 276, so the path to victory lies in these states."

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Poor Joe can't remember happier times?

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https://share.par.pw/post/744f3b18b6d64aaa8ecec26cb5e4e473

He thinks I'm British royalty?

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https://share.par.pw/post/868a052dffca4df9b80e254cc93b6d57

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https://rumble.com/vau2x5-joe-biden-caught-red-handed-without-a-mask-when-he-thinks-cameras-are-off.html

The man who would be king?

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Defend, not defund

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https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/joe-biden-appears-to-confuse-donald-trump-with-george-w-bush-during-virtual-campaign-event/news-story/3f7025b18a96ea11f8aefb6ff6f743ee

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of his opponent during a virtual campaign event on Sunday.

Mr Biden, 77, appeared alongside wife Jill Biden for the I Will Vote Concert live-stream, which featured artists including Pink, Cher and John Legend as well as actresses Amy Schumer and Helen Mirren, among others.

“This is the most consequential – not because I’m running but because of who I’m running against – this is the most consequential election in a long, long, long time,” Mr Biden said.

“And the character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot. What kind of country are we gonna be? Four more years of George, uh … George, uh … he, uh … gonna find ourselves in a position where, if uh, Trump gets elected, uh, we’re gonna be, uh, we’re gonna be in a different world.”

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Why a winner of the US election may have already been decided

Who is going to win the US election remains the key question. But this is why there may already be a winner between Trump and Biden.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/why-a-winner-of-the-us-election-may-have-already-been-decided/news-story/8be0db1db86deeddc48dcc58b124cf53

Journalist Sam Clench has it mapped out in his head. Biden wins the popular vote and Trump wins the electoral college. Just like 2016. The possibility of corruption procedings impacting the vote has not occurred to him. The Deep State has to be be deep sixed, or everything is lost.

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What happens if Donald Trump loses the US election, but refuses to concede?

Donald Trump has refused to guarantee he will leave office if he is declared the loser of the election. If he tries to stay, this is what happens next.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/what-happens-if-donald-trump-loses-the-us-election-but-refuses-to-concede/news-story/85b3c122b8c70ec2c7e7d77abe6f5301

Like HRC conceded last election?

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Donald Trump convinced he’s going to win election

British TV host Piers Morgan hadn’t heard from Donald Trump in months, but the President surprised him with a call and made a big prediction.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/donald-trump-convinced-hes-going-to-win-election/news-story/e7d813557fd924677f95b3b357b7b938

Press are walking both sides of the street with this one. Another article worries what would happen if Trump did not concede.

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Reserve Bank indicates recession is over

The Reserve Bank of Australia says its “best guess” is Australia’s economy grew in the September quarter, spelling an end to the recession.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/reserve-bank-indicates-recession-is-over/news-story/ba17f62cd7a23450f7b2e1c23512a790

Despite the awful performance of every state ALP government, Australia is doing ok with COVID. Something our grandchildren can be proud of, as they pay off our debt.

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Coronavirus Victoria live: World reacts to Melbourne's lockdown lift

The easing of Victoria's tough coronavirus restrictions have made global headlines overnight, but not everyone is on Dan's side.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-live-nervous-wait-as-1135-tests-negative-in-northern-melbourne/live-coverage/76c29d4d96c1ed9132a7553e9d89dbc9

“Any population can beat the spread by locking citizens in their houses, putting in a curfew, shutting business and preventing families from seeing each other for months on end. That’s the price you pay. It’s up to each community to decide if they are willing to pay it,” one person responded.

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Via AK

Coronavirus Victoria live: No changes to face mask rules in Victoria

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced “now is the time to open up”, but there’s still one restriction he won’t budge on.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-victoria-live-no-changes-to-face-mask-rules-in-victoria/news-story/5025bb1b932034b3de41ce718ae87259

“We are not indicating any easing of masks today,” Mr Andrews told reporters.

“Masks are incredibly important. Difficult, you know, not particularly pleasant, but for a very low cost we get potentially a very, very high benefit.

“That’s why we’re going to persist with those for a while. We’re not quite sure how long.

“It may be that the settings change, potentially, but masks are going to be, particularly when you’re going to be proximate with other people, a feature. It is a very low cost for a very big gain.”

If neither wearer suffers from COVID, what is the point? Isn't it the case COVID sufferers are quarantined? Aren't there contact tracing experts? What about treating sick people?

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More than one incompetent is behind the death of some 800 Victorians over COVID. Claiming to be helping Victoria, Sutton authorised curfew, denied effective medication, exposed the weakest to the disease and prevented the strongest from working. He has demanded Victorians wear face masks despite quarantining sick people and healthy people not needing the mask as a benefit. He had crime tape placed on children's slides and swings. But the media claim he is handsome

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/reality-tv/brett-sutton-once-starred-on-channel-7-reality-show-medical-emergency/news-story/c5d31d3b8727ca6fc962c0920ed4d105

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Victorians lost lives, jobs and a part of themselves during lockdown

The darkest time in Victoria’s history is behind us, but we’re still stuck. We sacrificed a part of ourselves in lockdown and it’s showing.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/victorians-lost-lives-jobs-and-a-part-of-themselves-during-lockdown/news-story/545827ade5ae36243b38c0ba74e4dd2e

When people talk about the “sacrifice” Victorians made, I wonder if we’re on the same page.

The definition changed for me recently — just after Daniel Andrews uttered those now immortal words: “Now is the time to open up.”

For months, throughout the entirety of a jarring, agonising, monotonous lockdown, I had thought about the sacrifice that others were making.

The healthcare workers who sacrificed their own safety to stand in front of a deadly virus and put the public first.

The business owners who sacrificed a life’s work when they walked away from what they built, sometimes never to return.

The families who sacrificed a final goodbye with loved ones in aged care homes or at funerals with a 10-person limit, not including the deceased.

But there’s something else that struck me about sacrifice when the Premier delivered the news on Monday that Melburnians had waited so long to hear.

Journalist totally misses the point. Lockdown has not addressed COVID, but delayed the inevitable. Victoria still needs to work while people get infected and treated. Healthy people have had no benefit from not working for over six months. Elderly have had no benefit of effective treatment while they were sedated under lockdown. Children have missed some six months of schooling. The infections that caused lockdown were from government failure. Even the latest mishap was from government telling a sick kid they could go to school, then government panicked.

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South China Sea: China’s aggression backfiring as Quad alliance mobilises

Even neutral nations are hitting back at Beijing’s “wolf warrior” tactics but China’s doubling down and has threatened Australia’s “peace and stability”.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/south-china-sea-chinas-aggression-backfiring-as-quad-alliance-mobilises/news-story/a6eb7c9a563c88254b57e1583d17996e

A recent Pew survey, which encompassed 14 different countries, found China’s reputation has collapsed to a historic low. And a cacophony of crises is behind it.

At the UN, 39 nations issued a joint statement declaring their fears over cultural genocide of the ethnic Uighur Muslim minority in occupied Xinjiang. Some 70 years after the invasion of Tibet, concerns at the forced assimilation of this ancient culture are once again being expressed.

Sparking it all has been Beijing’s blatant disregard for the handover agreement it signed with Great Britain over the handover of Hong Kong. Now democracy advocates there – be they students or parliamentarians – are being detained.

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Doctor gives ‘horrifying’ account of Qatar Airways flight strip search on The Project

A Qatar Airways passenger has given shocking details of the “unfathomable” incident that saw 13 Australian women strip searched.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/doctor-gives-horrifying-account-of-qatar-airways-flight-strip-search-on-the-project/news-story/85d1823a0d3fd0640a9c9d7c95fb5003

Searching for a baby momma, the wrong way?

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NASA Scientists "Detect Water On Sunlit Surface Of Moon" As Lunar Drilling Begins In 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nasa-scientists-detect-water-sunlit-surface-moon-lunar-drilling-begins-2022?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

NASA discusses the find on youtube

https://youtu.be/8nHzEiOXxNc

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Tricky maths question NSW HSC students struggled to solve

Scores of NSW students sat their HSC standard mathematics exam on Monday – but one curly question left many of them stumped.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/tricky-maths-question-nsw-hsc-students-struggled-to-solve/news-story/4510caaf76bb0018cab0ae4bd330c8cd

Hard Question?

extra detail

The student has been given a least square regression line and values to solve for 'b' and then apply the formula. Any senior math student should be able to do that. Some cannot.

Hard stimulus to respond to?

It is so easy to describe this, and show one has studied the art of critiquing. Multiple colours of the rainbow suggesting hetero normative discussion with objects retaining traditional colours. But the words subvert the meaning. The words are related to the objects or colour. A honey yellow sun. Words that begin with 's' for the star, or 'w' for water. Tsar being an 's' word that is funky. One bird flew, another flee, but both words are a tense of fly. The boat is brown and named 'The Pencil' and is towed with a pencil. Etc etc

=== From 2017 ===

Don't give up on hope. The absurd high court ruling which has booted Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce from parliament is explicable. Nothing will really change. Joyce will face a bye election. Joyce was born in Australia and has never asked for citizenship of anywhere else. His dad had been born in NZ before it attained full nationhood status. A NZ regulation claiming that Joyce's father's birth was sufficient to make Joyce a NZ citizen has had Joyce booted from parliament by the ruling. Memo China and Russia, Di Natale and Shorten warrant being your citizens because of their market views on communism. I get it Putin does not want either, but comrade, the Soviet Union was bigger and needs them. The ruling has not affected ALP members yet as they have closed ranks, but it can strike any of them. The ruling upholds the Australian constitution that does not allow leeway on citizenship. So, the ruling is absurd, but it upholds the constitution and won't change much.

Some are jeering, claiming Joyce was not very good. Joyce is an outstanding parliamentarian who has done much for the nation and the National Party. While Turnbull chases fads and casts aspersions at his most effective ministers (Dutton, Morrison and Joyce), Joyce has been supporting the Australian farming community. With 100 dams, Joyce is providing water security for times of drought and flood. Joyce is not the idiot behind Turnbull's energy policy. We need more like Joyce in parliament.

=== from 2016 ===

In less than two weeks the world will know if the polls are wrong about Donald Trump’s support among voters, as they were in 1980, or if corrupt and incompetent press can get the worst candidate elected. The press have not been professional, or even inept. They have been corrupt. It is a truth of journalism that open sourced databases are unreliable. Hence Wikipedia is never a quoted source. But even Snopes has been commandeered by left wing tribal supporters, and so called fact checking misrepresents the truth. For example, a terrorist is released in May from Guantanamo and Breitbart news claim “Obama released a terrorist related to ..” and Snopes fact checks the claim. The terrorist was released from GITMO on that date, but they say there is no evidence Obama did it. Such appalling rhetoric on a fact site diminishes the resource and the body that protects it. But the Hillary Tribe will sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve her aims.

But even if Trump has support and can get elected, there are serious doubts about the processes and so Trump might not be able to get the electoral college votes. The corruption of the press undermines democracy around the world. It is not a new thing. In UK, it was apparent in Horatio Nelson’s day (circa 1800) and there is no easy way of addressing it. It is cultural to the profession. Journalism professors will take sides and lie for their tribe. And if Trump gets elected, then the press will immediately begin work to limit the Presidency to one term or less. But if Trump loses it is worse. Hillary’s job is to be so awful that the Democrats can say, following her loss, that they have listened to the people and will change as a party. But the press? Who can save it? Fox is balanced, not a supporter of Trump. And when they hosted the third debate they scoffed at a Reagan type economic plan that promotes GDP and cuts business taxes. They supported Hillary’s impossible plan of increasing Education and health spending, while not increasing taxation and debt, like what Jimmy Carter promised in 1980. Trump is not Reagan, but that is not the issue. Blind hatred of anyone not left wing all the time motivates the world’s mainstream media and skews political support.

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.

=== from 2015 ===

Meeting at Gallipoli Club with Cambell Newman and his biographer Gavin King for the Sydney Institute. An elderly man fell off his chair, but was otherwise all right, and Newman continued. Then Newman faced questions. One shrill questioner asked about coal seam gas which Alan Jones had campaigned so vociferously. Newman pointed out each seat affected by the issue voted for his party. But Alan Jones was successful in trashing an excellent government. But at the time Turnbull had been undermining the Liberals.

Gerard Henderson tried to intercept my unfairly broad question of Heiner and public service corruption, but Campbell answered it well .. he tried and looked to do something regarding the destruction of evidence. If he could have done something, he would have. For mine, it shows the benefits of ALP insurance. Had a conservative destroyed evidence of a gang rape of an indigenous girl in detention they would be persecuted more than they are now.

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.

From 2014

Today is the anniversary of Democrat Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri, in 1838, signing the executive order 44 allowing the extermination of Mormons. The order was rescinded in 1976 by the 47th Governor of Missouri Christopher Bond, a GOP man. Boggs lived the rest of his years in fear of assassination. He had declared Mormons as fighting a war against Missouri. But Boggs order should be seen in modern terms as being disproportionate. In Boggs' defence, there was still slavery in the US and he would have felt urged to treat Mormons harshly. It isn't really a defence.

The end is nigh!

Only 37 days to go before the end of the world according to CSIRO chief scientist Professor Penny Sackett. Yet the chief difference between a skeptic and a warmest seems to be years of research. A skeptic is more knowledgeable. And warmest scientists seem to be well remunerated for their crackpot theories.

ABC and ALP Balance?

Well remunerated ABC former host complains about others doing what he does. Jonathon Holmes was a Media Watch host who would post questions late on a friday for a Monday broadcast. Quadrant had done similarly when it compiled its list of ABC stars remuneration packages. But Holmes was never appropriately balanced in his reporting, often being side tracked with having to hit and hurt Rupert Murdoch.

A new ABC chief would be better than the present one. All they need be is balanced.

Victoria's conservative government are in trouble according to polls. They have an effective leader and their policy is positive with a vision for the future, while the ALP have shown nothing worthwhile. But with media siding with ALP in almost all media, the choice for voters will be hard.

ALP know their policy was wrong and caused deaths, but they refuse to change, and obstruct legislation that saves lives and is more compassionate and fairer. ALP like to kill. For those living elsewhere, the issue is to do with migration by boat to Australia. Conservatives had ended the mass drownings and piratic exploitation of desperate economic migrants in 2002 with the Pacific Solution, allowing routine refugee checks on the migrants off shore of Australia. But the ALP claimed that was not compassionate. So the ALP took down the Pacific Solution in '08 and the result was many died and many tens of thousands were exploited by pirates, paying some $10k or $20k each to come to Australia. The abysmal policy of the ALP meant $billions were spent housing and caring for survivors whom were placed in camps for years at a time. The new conservative government has ended the expensive misery, but the ALP are desperately holding onto their murderous policy.

Fighting savages

Rehana died fighting for her people against terrorists. She was Muslim. She was a Kurd and part of a female unit of fighters. ISIL are disturbed by the female fighters, because their 72 virgins in heaven myth is nullified by being killed by a woman. Rehana had a righteous spirit, and she has many friends.

Some really disgusting, obstructive and insane people are bigoted non Muslims. But they aren't the terrorists killing, raping and torturing people.

MLB World Series Update

SF Giants have blown away KC Royals 5-0, with the Giants Pitcher Bumgarner, pitching a nine innings shut out. Giants are a win away from taking the series, while Royals are two wins away.

From 2013

ALP having a crisis of honesty. The election is over, so ALP can say what they think and feel. Apparently Gillard, who didn't want Abbott to win, didn't want Rudd to win either. Rudd wanted to win, but didn't expect to, and wouldn't change policies to make the ALP more effective. Shorten can change leaders as easily as his mind, just can't see the point in changing *anything* because the voters expect the ALP to be incompetent and dangerous and that is what the voters voted for if they voted ALP. Some of the ALP's most effective ministers were in fact journalists paid to be independent. While they could always be relied on to spread the meme most favourable to the ALP, they are now confused by conservative policy and don't know how to evaluate the performance of the first fifty days, but believe the ALP were right to jump over a cliff for the NBN, AGW belief, mining tax and general murderous incompetence. The new ALP deputy believes she is a woman, when she once believed she was as good as any man. Penny Wong now believes that debt is bad for government. Conroy now believes that the NBN was badly conceived but the press should be restricted from reporting it. Nick Champion voted with Greens on every issue before the election, and would be still, but the ALP lost and he now says it was not such a good idea to be linked with Greens. Roxon agreed that Rudd was a bastard and should never have been leader, although he had had her full support as PM.

Bad ALP administration has resulted in corruption of academic progress in schooling. Not merely the calls to lie about global warming and bush fires from senior administration, but the very act of teaching and learning reading has been corrupted by a fad. Average and exceptional children with excellent home support may progress normally with whole word reading, but there is a substantial number of children who don't, and they need a technique for attacking words which current educational standards don't cater for, as evidenced by the substantial number of children graduating from high school illiterate .. unable to write a sentence, or a letter, or read an administrative form requiring their birthdate and signature. Of course, abysmal left wing preaching permeates the courses in all key learning areas.

Historical perspective on this day

312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 – Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1682 – Philadelphia is established in the Colonial American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.

1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
1907 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration, which leads to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary.
1914 – The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic sister ship of RMS Titanic.
1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.

1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.
1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
1988 – Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1997 – Stock Market mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six others.
2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick which started on June 20, 2002 after 12 years four months and seven days.

=== Bible Reading ===

Today's reading: Jeremiah 9-11, 1 Timothy 6 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 9-11

¹ Oh, that my head were a spring of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears!
I would weep day and night
for the slain of my people.
² Oh, that I had in the desert
a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,
a crowd of unfaithful people.

³ “They make ready their tongue
like a bow, to shoot lies;
it is not by truth
that they triumph in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
they do not acknowledge me,” declares the LORD.
⁴ “Beware of your friends;
do not trust anyone in your clan.
For every one of them is a deceiver,
and every friend a slanderer.
⁵ Friend deceives friend,
and no one speaks the truth.
They have taught their tongues to lie;
they weary themselves with sinning.
⁶You live in the midst of deception;
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the LORD....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: 1 Timothy 6

¹ All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. ² Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves.

False Teachers and the Love of Money

These are the things you are to teach and insist on. ³ If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, ⁴they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions ⁵and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. ⁸ But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. ⁹ Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

=== Morning and Evening ===

Morning

"Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house."
Haggai 1:9

Churlish souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary operations, and call such saving good economy; little do they dream that they are thus impoverishing themselves. Their excuse is that they must care for their own families, and they forget that to neglect the house of God is the sure way to bring ruin upon their own houses. Our God has a method in providence by which he can succeed our endeavours beyond our expectation, or can defeat our plans to our confusion and dismay; by a turn of his hand he can steer our vessel in a profitable channel, or run it aground in poverty and bankruptcy. It is the teaching of Scripture that the Lord enriches the liberal and leaves the miserly to find out that withholding tendeth to poverty. In a very wide sphere of observation, I have noticed that the most generous Christians of my acquaintance have been always the most happy, and almost invariably the most prosperous. I have seen the liberal giver rise to wealth of which he never dreamed; and I have as often seen the mean, ungenerous churl descend to poverty by the very parsimony by which he thought to rise. Men trust good stewards with larger and larger sums, and so it frequently is with the Lord; he gives by cartloads to those who give by bushels. Where wealth is not bestowed the Lord makes the little much by the contentment which the sanctified heart feels in a portion of which the tithe has been dedicated to the Lord. Selfishness looks first at home, but godliness seeks first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, yet in the long run selfishness is loss, and godliness is great gain. It needs faith to act towards our God with an open hand, but surely he deserves it of us; and all that we can do is a very poor acknowledgment of our amazing indebtedness to his goodness.

Evening

"All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again."
Ecclesiastes 1:7

Everything sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rolling ball, and the great sun himself a star obediently fulfilling its course around some greater luminary. Tides move the sea, winds stir the airy ocean, friction wears the rock: change and death rule everywhere. The sea is not a miser's storehouse for a wealth of waters, for as by one force the waters flow into it, by another they are lifted from it. Men are born but to die: everything is hurry, worry, and vexation of spirit. Friend of the unchanging Jesus, what a joy it is to reflect upon thy changeless heritage; thy sea of bliss which will be forever full, since God himself shall pour eternal rivers of pleasure into it. We seek an abiding city beyond the skies, and we shall not be disappointed. The passage before us may well teach us gratitude. Father Ocean is a great receiver, but he is a generous distributor. What the rivers bring him he returns to the earth in the form of clouds and rain. That man is out of joint with the universe who takes all but makes no return. To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves. He who is so good a steward as to be willing to use his substance for his Lord, shall be entrusted with more. Friend of Jesus, art thou rendering to him according to the benefit received? Much has been given thee, what is thy fruit? Hast thou done all? Canst thou not do more? To be selfish is to be wicked. Suppose the ocean gave up none of its watery treasure, it would bring ruin upon our race. God forbid that any of us should follow the ungenerous and destructive policy of living unto ourselves. Jesus pleased not himself. All fulness dwells in him, but of his fulness have all we received. O for Jesus' spirit, that henceforth we may live not unto ourselves!

=== Bible Quote ===

=== Message ===

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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