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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 Rittenhouse exonerated, not guilty of murder by reason of self defence. Arbery is still dead, killed by armed felons claiming self defence, but now convicted of murder. Derek Chauvin jailed by politicians. Derek did his job in arresting Floyd, but was convicted by a court based on hysteria regarding riots and social policy which directly led to the Rittenhouse and Arbery cases.
It is apparent that ANTIFA and BLM riots, defund the police and COVID crises were confected to dog whistle Democrat support and antagonise conservatives. At the same time, Tech oligarchs exploited social media and the internet more broadly. This time last year, a browser of mine refused to allow me to access my MAGAbook account as it identified the site as being unsafe.
Think about what that intrusion means. MAGABook is a FB competitor. I would later be booted off FB, after Id not posted for awhile but had been using it to access my internet history. The excuse for taking all my FB data since 2007 despite my postings being sparse and not politically related, following Jan 6th 2021, was because `I had already been marked a long time earlier. My online shop had been sabotaged so that I could not sell any of my books. My youtube account had been shadow banned and only videos thought to embarrass me were visible to the public.
Today is a big day for
In 1582, in Stratford-upon-Avon , William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid a £40 bond for their marriage licence . In 1627, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy had its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa . In 1660, at Gresham College , twelve men, including Christopher Wren , Robert Boyle , John Wilkins , and Sir Robert Moray decided to found what is later known as the Royal Society . In 1666, at least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeated about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green . In 1785, The Treaty of Hopewell was signed. In 1811, Beethoven s Piano Concerto No.
5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 , premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig . In 1814, The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer , signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in which women vote in a national election. In 1895, the first American automobile race took place over the 54 miles from Chicagos Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois . Frank Duryea won in approximately 10 hours. In 1905, Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland. In 1907, in Haverhill, Massachusetts , scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theatre . In 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff made the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3 , considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire. In 1919, Lady Astor was elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . She was the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . ( Countess Markievicz , the first to be elected, refused to sit.
) In 1920, Irish War of Independence : Kilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambushed a convoy of British Auxiliaries and killed seventeen. In 1925, the Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee , as the WSM Barn Dance. In 1964, Mariner program : NASA launched the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars . Also, Vietnam War : National Security Council members agreed to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam . In 1965, Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnsons call for more flags in Vietnam , Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announced he would send troops to help fight in South Vietnam .
From 2013
The left are crowing at being able to drown people who are desperate and poor. They call it compassion. In order to achieve their aim, they needed to attack Australias foreign relations with Indonesia and China. A highly partisan ABC have taken the lead as an opposition since the ALP collapsed in its popularity. Fairfax polls were produced showing it to be ALP Christmas time. But, it is still early days. The ALP are not popular. ABC journalists are not competent and the improvement benefits of a conservative government have not been hammered home .
. or away. NSW State government has been unfairly criticised. Bolt has pointed his finger of balance. But despite Bolt wanting to see the ALP make one good decision, anywhere, they stubbornly resist.
The threat to label a child for not attending a museum is obscene. Education committees agonise over how to give a child a broad liberal education. But it is parents that make the best decisions. A system might be very bad, but few would notice as the parents do what they do. ALP failed Australia with its attempt at Gonski reform. Liberals are setting it right. Maybe some programs will have to be cut. But that will be a good thing. No essential program will be cut. The worst thing that will happen is that teachers will be forced to do what they are paid to do. Something that has never fussed the ABC.
There is a rumour that Tanya Plibersek will roll Shorten over an allegation of sexual assault. I had predicted it would be Jason Clare. Shortens bad decision making seems to be geared to making it easier to roll him. The allegation is premature if that were the intention, because for drama reasons Clare would need to assert himself with less than a year to go to an election. But Tanya Plibersek may want to be the incompetent that gets toppled, if Shorten is incapable of being merely incompetent.
Remember, none of the ALP have shown ability on any issue.
From 2014 The abuses of the left with respect to truth are long-standing. Medical grade radioactive isotopes are routinely injected into patients to diagnose cancer. Much lower, safer doses are used by mining the same way to track underground liquids and gasses too. And the anti-mining lobby learns of it and hysterically reports it to left wing journalists who report it without balance. The radioactive isotopes used in mining, and fracking, are the same, but weaker, than those used in medicine. They are no threat to the environment. But then the issue of radiation has been overstated since Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. The hysterics are now claiming milk bottle lids are contaminated waste. Not because of radiation, but even so, the label is misleading and hysterical without being funny.
There is a need to cut and control spending. It is untenable that our children be forced to live worse than we do, to pay for our comforts. Or worse, to be indebted to people who do not celebrate freedom, liberty or equality. Yet the ALP in Australia, and Democrats in the US threaten exactly that. The Australian federal budget cuts were modest, but they must get bigger the longer they are delayed.
Meanwhile, extremist leftwing organisations like the ABC, challenged to cut their fingernails with 5%, are cutting off their own limbs and refusing to do core services. Tonight, the second last 7:30 report in NSW was dedicated to opposing Liberal government policy on selling assets to pay for infrastructure. But that is what good government does. It is not the role of good government to maintain pricey services and not build infrastructure.
Frightbats, proud of their efforts to hurt and abuse decent people in triumph of the left, have a party in which they claim to drink the tears of some of their victims. Poet Ben Pobjie defends his abuse of Sean Abbott and Tony Abbott, but fails to account for it. Such rudeness is inexcusable, but mean and small. Meanwhile in the US the meme of white racism is resulting in riots and death. The abuses of the left are not responsible behaviour.
A new report is out describing how Clive Palmer initiated his own political demise by attacking China, apparently illegally. Two jihadist males being tried in an Australian Court refuse to stand for the judge. This threatens many and suggests intimidation. Before it goes much further, contempt of court rulings should settle it.
It works with non jihadists too.
The tragic death of Phil Hughes has not been publicly resolved yet. The public will not move on until they are allowed. But a tragic death like this, lamentable and sad, is also a cultural asset. Twelve cricketers have died as a result of their play on the field. Including the Prince of Wales in 1751.
The Prince of Wales epigram (quoted by William Makepeace Thackeray , Four Georges ): Here lies poor Fred who was alive and is dead, Had it been his father I had much rather, Had it been his sister nobody would have missed her, Had it been his brother, still better than another, Had it been the whole generation, so much better for the nation, But since it is Fred who was alive and is dead, There is no more to be said! === from 2015 === The person who shot up an abortion clinic in the US may call themselves a Christian, but they have not served Christ. It isnt up to the servant to make their masters will plain. They might try to. Good intentions arent the same as service. Some abortions are necessary for survival of the mother. They shouldnt be done lightly. The mother must exercise her conscience, not the state. And not some third party vigilante. By killing a policeman and two others the gunman has broken an old testament commandment that Jesus surpassed.
Jesus allows righteousness, which means the old Law can be broken for the right reasons. But this is not right. Even an idiot can be saved by becoming a Christian. But this is not that. It is as wrong as a jihadi engaged in immoral behaviour to be a terrorist. Christians, that are soldiers, can kill and still be faithful to God. But this is not that.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. === from 2016 === The journalist Cam Lucadou-Wells has at least three times reported the words of Kuranda Seyit, executive director of Forum on Australias Islamic Relations (FAIR). But those words dont seem responsible. In the article, Seyit is reported as having said that an anti-radical kit distributed to Victorian schools could not work, and had failed in the UK and US, where one Texan schoolboy had defended his science project of a non functioning clock attached to a bag of not being a bomb.
Today Cams article Misguided, not terrorists quotes Seyit It is time that we take a responsible approach to the issue and reduce the risk of feeding into the right-wing and racist elements in society, which has seen a sudden increase in supporters in the past two years in Australia
The issue of todayss article is related to a refugee who burned a bank in Springvale, critically injuring people as he set himself on fire after not getting welfare benefits he felt entitled to.
Terrorism or not, is it acceptable behaviour for the faith? It harms Islamic Australian relations when entitlement trumps reason and the safety of innocent others. It brings Islam into disrepute.
IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a Georgina Downer article “The High Cost of Populism” on Populist governments threatening trade and prosperity. Downer naively compares President elect Trump’s rhetoric with Pauline Hanson’s policies and makes wrong conclusions. Populism does threaten prosperity, as ALP leader Shorten has demonstrated with over three years of preventing necessary cuts to spending. There is no benefit to Australia for Shorten to do so. The benefit to Shorten is that an ABCC does not examine his past union dealings. Australia is paying a high price to get an ABCC because of Shorten’s opposition and Nick Xenophon Party’s control of the senate. Trump is promising something different to Hanson. Trump is promising to tear up bad deals and replace them with good deals. With good deals everyone wins. With bad deals nobody does. NAFTA is a dog’s breakfast thanks to the ‘leadership’ of Obama. By way of contrast, Hanson is hostile to foreign trade. Hanson and Trump do not compare.
Australia wants to export sugar. US farmers want to export sugar too. There is room for both with the right deal. From 2017
Dont give up on hope. A Harvard professor believes many ADHD cases are fraudulent. Donald Trump is draining the swamp. A radical justice group is calling for human rights for worst case offenders. Possibly the death sentence is preferable? Corporal punishment? A 20 yo Australian, born to Somalian refugees, has been arrested for wanting to carry out a terrorist hit. Many are wondering how the Australian was radicalised. It was probably because of unhinged schooling and media. Not everyone responds that way.
The lawyer that told Dan Andrews the East West Link contract was not worth the paper it was written on, but it was in fact $1.2 billion, has been made a judge in Victorias highest court. In Honduras, conservative government has raised the standard of living, but the government is being beaten at election by a left wing tv compere who claims the government had been corruptly raising the standard of living. Senator James Paterson had released a discussion paper before the end of SSM vote on protections needed moving forward. That should have been part of bilateral discussion during the election.
It is needed.
We have hope. It is incumbent on us to win back the freedom denied us. And to protect that freedom. We will do that democratically. We will take back our legislature. We will get our courts to return to protecting our constitution.
I have lost everything several times. And yet here I am. Behind me is an Australian flag and a MAGA cap. On my MAGA cap is an American flag. I will die, one day. But, I pledge allegiance to the flag (of Australia and) the United States of America. And to the republics for which they stand. One nation. Indivisible. Under God. With liberty, and justice, for all.
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 cant 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 Devils 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. Dont wait for free speech. Exercise free speech.
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Intro to Locals.com
My name is David Daniel Ball Im 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 Hypatias dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved Gods existence.
Im 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 Im planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
Im 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 Id 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.
Ive 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
=== From 2020 === The evidence of Fraud in the 2020 election, so widespread is harmful for democracy.
It must be addressed. It was not solely the 2020 election, apparently, but had failed in 2016 after Trump over performed then, as he has now. Trump was so good in 2020, that the fraud became evident. It also highlights the possibility that voter fraud extended to 2006 and underpinned Obamas rise. As did big tech collusion. Recently, every one of my browsers would not let me access MAGAbook, citing privacy concerns.
We know who voted for Trump. We saw them. Queues of people with hats and signs and cheering Trump in their thousands all over USA. We have not seen people in great numbers who supported Biden. There is no evidence they have ever existed outside of a riot or a hissy fit by a Democrat partisan election official.
I watch Dan Bongino on Rumble and heard him on his Rumble cast say Trump should have addressed disloyal swamp creatures sooner. I disagree with it, and might have egg all over my face soon for saying so, but following is my reasoning. Trump has temporised on facing some of the swamp, not hesitated. Late last year, Trump said he was pulling troops out of Syria and was criticised for it severely. But then an ISIS leader stood up and special forces ran him to committing suicide rather than be taken.
The operation, a sting masterminded by Trump had not included significant figures within his administration, and sparked a resignation of National Security Adviser Bolton, who had not been in the loop. Imagine the resistance if Trump had opposed more? But now, if Trump politically survives this, the swamp is exposed and has no support from conservatives. Im reminded of former Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett who had led a successful conservative government and had a crash or crash through election which he lost. Had Kennett won, he had clear air for a long time, but having lost Victoria is where the US will be if Biden is allowed to cheat a win.
Trump cycle has it Trump is on his knees, before ... Media is cheering expected partisan court decisions to not support inquiry into voting fraud. However, they overstate the meaning of the shortfalls. The Trump campaign to have their electoral win restored was never going to be straightforward. They have the evidence. It points to multiple elections and undermines the credibility of US Democracy. Ultimately, aspects of it will be decided by SCOTUS. We do not yet know how SCOTUS will decide, or even what exact evidence they will face. But we know the evidence is substantial, and in an effort to suppress the will of conservative resistance, media are claiming that the evidence is not substantive and so the evidence is yet to be addressed.
Maybe there is a good reason for a CIA asset being deployed to fraudulently control the US election. Let us hear what it is.
It is apparent that Dems committed fraud to steal the 2020 election. They may well have done similar in 2016. In 2016, Fox declared Pennsylvania early to HRC. The demand was made for Trump to concede. Trump won in 2016, but it surprised the establishment that did similar in their voter suppression as they have done in 2020. HRC had organised a victory party, but blessed marching vagina instead. Even her book did not say what happened. Trump has been very good at mobilising ordinary, decent Americans to support him in numbers greater than any GOP ever. Trump does not court race, or gender, like his racist, bigoted opposition have. Yet Trump has extraordinary minority support for a GOP, possibly the highest since Eleanor Roosevelt courted the Black vote as her husband exploited them. The Dem voting pattern and issues echo the Obama wins too. How long have Dems been using these fraudulent methods to obtain votes? Did they use them to bodgy the 2006 mid terms? It is not that the mysterious support of vapour for Dems is so clearly fraudulent, but, other than violent rioters, and #FakeNews, where is their support, really? How come there is no policy platform for Democrats? Why does Big Tech have to censor the truth? How many millions of Trump supporting votes have been given to Biden? The corruption is so apparent, and so pervasive, that if Trump concedes 2020, he will be conceding all elections that follow, and the flame of liberty will be extinguished in America.
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In this episode, I discuss the bombshells dropped at the Pennsylvania hearing about the 2020 election. Some of the allegations leveled were stunning in their breadth.
News Picks:
Five ways Joe Biden “magically” outperformed election norms. The Twitter tech tyrants are at it again. Sidney Powell’s lawsuit makes some stunning accusations . Excellent! Trump rally coming up on Dec 5th in Georgia. Was Trump right about this coronavirus treatment the whole time? === Dan Bongino headlines ===
Swamp Watch
GoFundMe Is More Efficient Than Big Government
Here Are the Dozen Belated Disclosures Than Turned the Tide for Michael Flynn
Mitt Romney Sitting for An Interview With David Axelrod Shows Us How We Got Trump
Tom Cotton: Biden’s Pick for Homeland Security is Disqualified for Selling Citizenship to Chinese Nationals
LOL: Peter Shiff Says Flynn Pardon Shows Our System Can Be Exploited by Hostile Foreign Powers
Twitter Censors “Potentially Harmful” Sidney Powell Election Lawsuit
Teachers Unions Have Been Instrumental in Keeping Schools Closed
SCOTUS Church Ruling a Major Step Forward for Challenges to Coronavirus Bans
Culture War
Stephen Colbert Reminds Us That He’s No Longer a Comedian
Mexico’s President Still Refuses to Recognize Biden as Election Winner
Google Uses YouTube to Scold Americans on Thanksgiving
“Illegitimate”: Ex Obama Staffer Describes Supreme Court Ruling on Religious Exceptions for Coronavirus
Senator Loeffler Destroys Obama’s Defense of Jeremiah Wright
Impending Scottish Hate Crime Bill Will Criminalize “Misgendering” Trans People
Michael Flynn Thanks “Every Single Patriot Who Circled Me With Their Prayers, Wisdom, and Kindness”
President Grover Cleveland Understood How Thanksgiving Could Elevate a Hurting Nation
National Security
U.
S. Affirms Taiwan’s Independence From China
Air Force Employing New Tech to Solve Its Pilot Shortage
Why “The Quad” Should Focus Its Strategy on China Containment
“Defund the Police” Crazies Say They’re Not Going Away
This Secretive Next-Gen Helicopter Could Be the Replacement for the Army’s Fleet of Black Hawks
Army Study Developing Technology That Could Allow for “Telepathic” Soldiers
Raised to Hate: British ISIS Kids in “Guantanamo Style” Syrian Camps Creating New Generation of Jihadis
California Church Stabbing Suspect in U.S. Despite Being Deported Three Times
U.S. Envoy to Iran: More Sanctions Coming ===
https://www.theepochtimes.com/data-scientist-weird-spike-in-incomplete-nevada-voter-registrations-some-using-casinos-as-home-address_3595924.html === FB Memes Memories === +++ +++ +++ Thanksgiving tonight, and Hanukkah has begun for 2013 .. or 5774
When the Second Temple in Jerusalem was looted and services stopped, Judaism was outlawed. In 167 BCE Antiochus ordered an altar to Zeus erected in the Temple. He banned brit milah (circumcision) and ordered pigs to be sacrificed at the altar of the temple (the sacrifice of pigs to the Greek gods was standard ritual practice in the Ancient Greek religion).
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Antiochuss actions provoked a large-scale revolt. Mattityahu, a Jewish priest, and his five sons Jochanan, Simeon, Eleazar, Jonathan, and Judah led a rebellion against Antiochus. Judah became known as Yehuda HaMakabi (Judah the Hammer). By 166 BCE Mattathias had died, and Judah took his place as leader. By 165 BCE the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid monarchy was successful. The Temple was liberated and rededicated. The festival of Hanukkah was instituted to celebrate this event. Judah ordered the Temple to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one and new holy vessels to be made. According to the Talmud, unadulterated and undefiled pure olive oil with the seal of the kohen gadol (high priest) was needed for the menorah in the Temple, which was required to burn throughout the night every night. The story goes that one flask was found with only enough oil to burn for one day, yet it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of kosher oil for the menorah. An eight-day festival was declared by the Jewish sages to commemorate this miracle.
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Political Systems Explained
For those struggling to understand political systems, fear no more …
FEUDALISM: You have two cows.
Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbours help you take care of them and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbours decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your beighbours pick someone to decide who gets your milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first, the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbours take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you take harmonica lessons.
Bovine Lessons
Explained in terms easily understood
TRADITIONAL CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using the letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you dont know where they are. You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows. Both are mad.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows. ....and the one on the left is kinda cute....
=== from 2017 === Dont give up on hope. A Harvard professor believes many ADHD cases are fraudulent. Donald Trump is draining the swamp. A radical justice group is calling for human rights for worst case offenders. Possibly the death sentence is preferable? Corporal punishment? A 20 yo Australian, born to Somalian refugees, has been arrested for wanting to carry out a terrorist hit. Many are wondering how the Australian was radicalised. It was probably because of unhinged schooling and media. Not everyone responds that way.
The lawyer that told Dan Andrews the East West Link contract was not worth the paper it was written on, but it was in fact $1.2 billion, has been made a judge in Victorias highest court. In Honduras, conservative government has raised the standard of living, but the government is being beaten at election by a left wing tv compere who claims the government had been corruptly raising the standard of living.
Senator James Paterson had released a discussion paper before the end of SSM vote on protections needed moving forward. That should have been part of bilateral discussion during the election. It is needed.
=== from 2016 === The journalist Cam Lucadou-Wells has at least three times reported the words of Kuranda Seyit, executive director of Forum on Australias Islamic Relations (FAIR). But those words dont seem responsible. In the article, Seyit is reported as having said that an anti-radical kit distributed to Victorian schools could not work, and had failed in the UK ad US, where one Texan schoolboy had defended his science project of a non functioning clock attached to a bag of not being a bomb.
Today Cams article Misguided, not terrorists quotes Seyit It is time that we take a responsible approach to the issue and reduce the risk of feeding into the right-wing and racist elements in society, which has seen a sudden increase in supporters in the past two years in Australia
The issue of todayss article is related to a refugee who burned a bank in Springvale, critically injuring people as he set himself on fire after not getting welfare benefits he felt entitled to. Terrorism or not, is it acceptable behaviour for the faith? It harms Islamic Australian relations when entitlement trumps reason and the safety of innocent others.
It brings Islam into disrepute.
IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a Georgina Downer article “The High Cost of Populism” on Populist governments threatening trade and prosperity. Downer naively compares President elect Trump’s rhetoric with Pauline Hanson’s policies and makes wrong conclusions. Populism does threaten prosperity, as ALP leader Shorten has demonstrated with over three years of preventing necessary cuts to spending. There is no benefit to Australia for Shorten to do so. The benefit to Shorten is that an ABCC does not examine his past union dealings. Australia is paying a high price to get an ABCC because of Shorten’s opposition and Nick Xenophon Party’s control of the senate. Trump is promising something different to Hanson. Trump is promising to tear up bad deals and replace them with good deals. With good deals everyone wins. With bad deals nobody does. NAFTA is a dog’s breakfast thanks to the ‘leadership’ of Obama. By way of contrast, Hanson is hostile to foreign trade. Hanson and Trump do not compare. Australia wants to export sugar. US farmers want to export sugar too. There is room for both with the right deal. === from 2015 === The person who shot up an abortion clinic in the US may call themselves a Christian, but they have not served Christ.
It isnt up to the servant to make their masters will plain. They might try to. Good intentions arent the same as service. Some abortions are necessary for survival of the mother. They shouldnt be done lightly. The mother must exercise her conscience, not the state. And not some third party vigilante. By killing a policeman and two others the gunman has broken an old testament commandment that Jesus surpassed. Jesus allows righteousness, which means the old Law can be broken for the right reasons. But this is not right. Even an idiot can be saved by becoming a Christian. But this is not that. It is as wrong as a jihadi engaged in immoral behaviour to be a terrorist. Christians, that are soldiers, can kill and still be faithful to God. But this is not that.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. From 2014 The abuses of the left with respect to truth are long-standing. Medical grade radioactive isotopes are routinely injected into patients to diagnose cancer. Much lower, safer doses are used by mining the same way to track underground liquids and gasses too. And the anti-mining lobby learns of it and hysterically reports it to left wing journalists who report it without balance.
The radioactive isotopes used in mining, and fracking, are the same, but weaker, than those used in medicine. They are no threat to the environment. But then the issue of radiation has been overstated since Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. The hysterics are now claiming milk bottle lids are contaminated waste. Not because of radiation, but even so, the label is misleading and hysterical without being funny.
There is a need to cut and control spending. It is untenable that our children be forced to live worse than we do, to pay for our comforts. Or worse, to be indebted to people who do not celebrate freedom, liberty or equality. Yet the ALP in Australia, and Democrats in the US threaten exactly that. The Australian federal budget cuts were modest, but they must get bigger the longer they are delayed. Meanwhile, extremist leftwing organisations like the ABC, challenged to cut their fingernails with 5%, are cutting off their own limbs and refusing to do core services. Tonight, the second last 7:30 report in NSW was dedicated to opposing Liberal government policy on selling assets to pay for infrastructure. But that is what good government does. It is not the role of good government to maintain pricey services and not build infrastructure.
Frightbats, proud of their efforts to hurt and abuse decent people in triumph of the left, have a party in which they claim to drink the tears of some of their victims. Poet Ben Pobjie defends his abuse of Sean Abbott and Tony Abbott, but fails to account for it. Such rudeness is inexcusable, but mean and small. Meanwhile in the US the meme of white racism is resulting in riots and death. The abuses of the left are not responsible behaviour.
A new report is out describing how Clive Palmer initiated his own political demise by attacking China, apparently illegally. Two jihadist males being tried in an Australian Court refuse to stand for the judge. This threatens many and suggests intimidation. Before it goes much further, contempt of court rulings should settle it. It works with non jihadists too.
The tragic death of Phil Hughes has not been publicly resolved yet. The public will not move on until they are allowed. But a tragic death like this, lamentable and sad, is also a cultural asset. Twelve cricketers have died as a result of their play on the field. Including the Prince of Wales in 1751.
The Prince of Wales epigram (quoted by William Makepeace Thackeray , Four Georges ): Here lies poor Fred who was alive and is dead, Had it been his father I had much rather, Had it been his sister nobody would have missed her, Had it been his brother, still better than another, Had it been the whole generation, so much better for the nation, But since it is Fred who was alive and is dead, There is no more to be said! From 2013 The left are crowing at being able to drown people who are desperate and poor.
They call it compassion. In order to achieve their aim, they needed to attack Australias foreign relations with Indonesia and China. A highly partisan ABC have taken the lead as an opposition since the ALP collapsed in its popularity. Fairfax polls were produced showing it to be ALP Christmas time. But, it is still early days. The ALP are not popular. ABC journalists are not competent and the improvement benefits of a conservative government have not been hammered home .. or away. NSW State government has been unfairly criticised. Bolt has pointed his finger of balance. But despite Bolt wanting to see the ALP make one good decision, anywhere, they stubbornly resist.
The threat to label a child for not attending a museum is obscene. Education committees agonise over how to give a child a broad liberal education. But it is parents that make the best decisions. A system might be very bad, but few would notice as the parents do what they do. ALP failed Australia with its attempt at Gonski reform. Pyne, with the Liberals, is setting it right. Maybe some programs will have to be cut. But that will be a good thing. No essential program will be cut. The worst thing that will happen is that teachers will be forced to do what they are paid to do.
Something that has never fussed the ABC.
There is a rumour that Tanya Plibersek will roll Shorten over an allegation of sexual assault. I had predicted it would be Jason Clare. Shortens bad decision making seems to be geared to making it easier to roll him. The allegation is premature if that were the intention, because for drama reasons Clare would need to assert himself with less than a year to go to an election. But Tanya Plibersek may want to be the incompetent that gets toppled, if Shorten is incapable of being merely incompetent. Remember, none of the ALP have shown ability on any issue. Historical perspective on this day In 587, Treaty of Andelot : King Guntram of Burgundy recognised Childebert II as his heir. In 936, Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao , following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang . In 1443, Skanderbeg and his forces liberated Kruja in central Albania and raised the Albanian flag . In 1520, after navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America , three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European ships to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
In 1582, in Stratford-upon-Avon , William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid a £40 bond for their marriage licence . In 1627, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy had its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa . In 1660, at Gresham College , twelve men, including Christopher Wren , Robert Boyle , John Wilkins , and Sir Robert Moray decided to found what is later known as the Royal Society . In 1666, at least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeated about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green . In 1785, The Treaty of Hopewell was signed.
In 1811, Beethoven s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 , premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig . In 1814, The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer , signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. In 1821, Panama Independence Day : Panama separated from Spain and joined Gran Colombia . In 1828, Greek War of Independence : The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese ) ended when the last Ottoman forces departed the peninsula.
In 1843, Ka L? Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day) : The Kingdom of Hawaii was officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. In 1862, American Civil War : In the Battle of Cane Hill , Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeated General John Marmaduke s Confederates. In 1885, Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserved the Unification of Bulgaria . In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in which women vote in a national election. In 1895, the first American automobile race took place over the 54 miles from Chicagos Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois . Frank Duryea won in approximately 10 hours. In 1899, the Second Boer War : a British column was engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River ; although the Boers withdrew, the British suffered heavy casualties.
In 1905, Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland. In 1907, in Haverhill, Massachusetts , scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theatre . In 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff made the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3 , considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
In 1910, the Liberal Party, led by Eleftherios Venizelos , won the second Greek general election of the year . In 1912, Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire . In 1914, World War I : Following a war-induced closure in July , the New York Stock Exchange re-opened for bond trading. In 1917, the Estonian Provincial Assembly declared itself the sovereign power of Estonia . In 1918, Bukovina voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania . In 1919, Lady Astor was elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . She was the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . ( Countess Markievicz , the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
In 1920, Irish War of Independence : Kilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambushed a convoy of British Auxiliaries and killed seventeen. In 1925, the Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee , as the WSM Barn Dance. In 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts , a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed 492 people. In 1943, World War II : Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met in Tehran, Iran , to discuss war strategy.
In 1958, Chad , the Republic of the Congo , and Gabon became autonomous republics within the French Community . In 1960, Mauritania became independent of France. In 1964, Mariner program : NASA launched the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars . Also, Vietnam War : National Security Council members agreed to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam . In 1965, Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnsons call for more flags in Vietnam , Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announced he would send troops to help fight in South Vietnam . In 1966, Michel Micombero overthrew the monarchy of Burundi and made himself the first president .
In 1971, Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqotin First Nation suffered severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he died two days later. Also, Wasfi al-Tal , Prime Minister of Jordan , was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization . In 1972, last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems were guillotined at La Santé Prison . The chief executioner was André Obrecht . (Bontems had been found innocent of murder, but as Buffets accomplice was condemned to death anyway).
In 1975, East Timor declared its independence from Portugal. In 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 , a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashed into Mount Erebus , killing all 257 people on board. In 1980, Iran–Iraq War : Operation Morvarid – The bulk of the Iraqi Navy was destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf . (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day .) In 1981, Our Lady of Kibeho : Schoolchildren in Kibeho , Rwanda , experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions . In 1987, South African Airways Flight 295 crashed into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board. In 1989, Cold War : Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced it would give up its monopoly on political power. In 1991, South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia . In 2002, suicide bombers blew up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa , Kenya ; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles. In 2013 a 5.6 earthquake in Iran killed seven people and injured 45.
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