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A parliamentary Senate Committee looks at business in Australia paying a low rate of tax. The businesses are international and what they have done complies fully with Australian law. However ALP and Greens express a view that regardless, the businesses should pay more. If Parliament wants business to pay more, they should restructure so that business can comply with the conditions. However, Australia already taxes highly, and so business restructuring would take funds off shore. If Australia wants the business revenue of Ireland, she needs to structure like Ireland. Or be more attractive. It is hypocritical and obscene to criticise good citizens for not doing enough.
About a hundred years before Thomas Becket was killed by order of an English King, on this day in 1079, Bishop Stanislaus was killed by King Boleslaw II of Poland. According to legend, when his men refused to comply with the order, Boleslaw slew Stanislaus while the Bishop was praying. Stanislaus was reputed to have powers Becket lacked. Once, when trying to prove he had title to good land that was disputed, Stanislaus prayed for a man dead three years to be resurrected for a time to prove his claim. And it was said to have worked. On the event of his death and dismemberment, Stanislaus is said to have re-integrated for a time in a pool guarded by four eagles. Such stories bring historical research into disrepute. But Boleslaw lost his throne soon after as the people despised him for killing the Bishop.
In 1512, French forces won the Battle of Ravenna during the confusing war of the League of Cambrai. The Cambria campaign began as Europe taking on Venice. But at this time, it was France versus everyone else, except the duchy of Ferrara. In this particular battle, it was France and Ferrara vs Spain and the Papal states. Gaston de Foix was a capable French General who died during the win, and so, although France won, they were evicted from Italy within a year. In 1544, France took on Spain again at the Battle of Ceresole, south east of Turin in modern Italy. Guns played a big role in killing many on both sides. France won again, but the victory changed little strategically.
In 1689, King William III and Mary II were crowned joint King and Queen of Britain. In 1727, premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In 1876, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was formed in NYC. At the start it was to be a private club allowing the members to circumvent the city's closing laws for bars. But when a member died leaving a wife and children without means, it became a friendly society which now has a million members.
2014
We live in a secular society and that means the way we recognise and address evil is different to what we would do if we were not secular but religiously defined. We are secular, but individuals may not be. But our administrators still act for everyone, not tribal sects. It is ok to pray in Parliament, it is also ok to think before one acts. But not everyone does. On this day in 1554, Thomas Wyatt was beheaded before being quartered and his body parts distributed and staked as an example of what happens to those who commit treason. He was Catholic but disliked Spain, and Queen Mary was marrying a Spanish man. Thomas did not feel the alliance was in the public interest, and with four thousand men marched around England saying so, before he was captured and executed.
Consider how hard it is to know, in secular terms, if Oscar Pistorious had acted right in killing his girlfriend by shooting through a closed door bullets that were hollow points. His alarm hadn't gone off. He was sharing a house with his girlfriend. He claims he heard a noise in the bath room and so shot his girlfriend. He isn't noted for his humbleness or thoughtfulness. He is an elite athlete used to earning a lot of money for doing tricks. So shaky was the prosecution's case, he was granted bail while organising his defence. Maybe he does scream like a girl. Maybe he is sorry for what he has done. Anyone that fires hollow points at an unseen person (or cat) does not deserve freedom imho.
In 1981, there were riots in Brixton UK and salient points can be drawn to other incidents, like the Cronulla Riot, or Redfern riot in Australia years later. The major excuse given was that a fire in Lambeth which tragically took the lives of African ethnic youths had allegedly not been investigated appropriately by police. But, it was the early days of the long term Thatcher administration and a radicalised mainstream media had incited unrest and inflamed disaffection. There was no reason for the widespread rioting, merely high unemployment related to the previous Labour government policy. It doesn't matter if a government is overtly religious on Christian lines, or secular with Christian values, people can be incited to riot and do absurd actions, and it is hard for the public to know right from wrong.
It doesn't require government to tell people what is right or wrong. Adults should act responsibly. It is the role of administration to act when people don't act responsibly. Maybe Wyatt was treated harshly, but it was certainly just. So far, the same cannot be said of Oscar Pistorious.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 491, Flavius Anastasius became Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1079, Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków was executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1241, Batu Khan defeated Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi. 1512, War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix won the Battle of Ravenna. 1544, French forces defeated a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole. 1689, William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain. 1713, War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727, premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
In 1809, Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom 1814, the Treaty of Fontainebleau ended the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forced him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856, Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burned down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters were holed up. 1868, former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrendered Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organised. 1881, Spelman College was founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1888, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was inaugurated.
In 1908, SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launched. 1909, the city of Tel Aviv was founded. 1913, the Nevill Ground's pavilion was destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes. 1919, the International Labour Organization was founded. 1921, Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1945, World War II: American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951, Korean War: President Harry Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. Also 1951, the Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, was found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1952, the Battle of Nanri Island took place. 1955, the Air India Kashmir Princess was bombed and crashed in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957, United Kingdom agreed to Singaporean self-rule.
In 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. 1963, Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone. 1965, the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1970, Apollo 13 was launched. 1972, first edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history. 1976, the Apple I was created. 1977, London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses were launched. 1979, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deposed. 1981, a massive riot in Brixton, South London, resulted in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1987, the London Agreement was secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1989, Ron Hextall became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
In 1990, customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, said they had seized what they believed to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993, four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001, the detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, was released. 2002, the Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda killed 21 in Tunisia. Also 2002, over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters were killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV. 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium. 2007, 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers killed 33 people and wounded a further 222 others. 2011, an explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus killed 15 people and injured 204 others. 2012, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hit the island of Nias at Indonesia.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
A parliamentary Senate Committee looks at business in Australia paying a low rate of tax. The businesses are international and what they have done complies fully with Australian law. However ALP and Greens express a view that regardless, the businesses should pay more. If Parliament wants business to pay more, they should restructure so that business can comply with the conditions. However, Australia already taxes highly, and so business restructuring would take funds off shore. If Australia wants the business revenue of Ireland, she needs to structure like Ireland. Or be more attractive. It is hypocritical and obscene to criticise good citizens for not doing enough.
About a hundred years before Thomas Becket was killed by order of an English King, on this day in 1079, Bishop Stanislaus was killed by King Boleslaw II of Poland. According to legend, when his men refused to comply with the order, Boleslaw slew Stanislaus while the Bishop was praying. Stanislaus was reputed to have powers Becket lacked. Once, when trying to prove he had title to good land that was disputed, Stanislaus prayed for a man dead three years to be resurrected for a time to prove his claim. And it was said to have worked. On the event of his death and dismemberment, Stanislaus is said to have re-integrated for a time in a pool guarded by four eagles. Such stories bring historical research into disrepute. But Boleslaw lost his throne soon after as the people despised him for killing the Bishop.
In 1512, French forces won the Battle of Ravenna during the confusing war of the League of Cambrai. The Cambria campaign began as Europe taking on Venice. But at this time, it was France versus everyone else, except the duchy of Ferrara. In this particular battle, it was France and Ferrara vs Spain and the Papal states. Gaston de Foix was a capable French General who died during the win, and so, although France won, they were evicted from Italy within a year. In 1544, France took on Spain again at the Battle of Ceresole, south east of Turin in modern Italy. Guns played a big role in killing many on both sides. France won again, but the victory changed little strategically.
In 1689, King William III and Mary II were crowned joint King and Queen of Britain. In 1727, premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In 1876, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was formed in NYC. At the start it was to be a private club allowing the members to circumvent the city's closing laws for bars. But when a member died leaving a wife and children without means, it became a friendly society which now has a million members.
2014
We live in a secular society and that means the way we recognise and address evil is different to what we would do if we were not secular but religiously defined. We are secular, but individuals may not be. But our administrators still act for everyone, not tribal sects. It is ok to pray in Parliament, it is also ok to think before one acts. But not everyone does. On this day in 1554, Thomas Wyatt was beheaded before being quartered and his body parts distributed and staked as an example of what happens to those who commit treason. He was Catholic but disliked Spain, and Queen Mary was marrying a Spanish man. Thomas did not feel the alliance was in the public interest, and with four thousand men marched around England saying so, before he was captured and executed.
Consider how hard it is to know, in secular terms, if Oscar Pistorious had acted right in killing his girlfriend by shooting through a closed door bullets that were hollow points. His alarm hadn't gone off. He was sharing a house with his girlfriend. He claims he heard a noise in the bath room and so shot his girlfriend. He isn't noted for his humbleness or thoughtfulness. He is an elite athlete used to earning a lot of money for doing tricks. So shaky was the prosecution's case, he was granted bail while organising his defence. Maybe he does scream like a girl. Maybe he is sorry for what he has done. Anyone that fires hollow points at an unseen person (or cat) does not deserve freedom imho.
In 1981, there were riots in Brixton UK and salient points can be drawn to other incidents, like the Cronulla Riot, or Redfern riot in Australia years later. The major excuse given was that a fire in Lambeth which tragically took the lives of African ethnic youths had allegedly not been investigated appropriately by police. But, it was the early days of the long term Thatcher administration and a radicalised mainstream media had incited unrest and inflamed disaffection. There was no reason for the widespread rioting, merely high unemployment related to the previous Labour government policy. It doesn't matter if a government is overtly religious on Christian lines, or secular with Christian values, people can be incited to riot and do absurd actions, and it is hard for the public to know right from wrong.
It doesn't require government to tell people what is right or wrong. Adults should act responsibly. It is the role of administration to act when people don't act responsibly. Maybe Wyatt was treated harshly, but it was certainly just. So far, the same cannot be said of Oscar Pistorious.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 491, Flavius Anastasius became Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. 1079, Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków was executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1241, Batu Khan defeated Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi. 1512, War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix won the Battle of Ravenna. 1544, French forces defeated a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole. 1689, William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain. 1713, War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1727, premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
In 1809, Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom 1814, the Treaty of Fontainebleau ended the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forced him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time. 1856, Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burned down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters were holed up. 1868, former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrendered Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organised. 1881, Spelman College was founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1888, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was inaugurated.
In 1908, SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launched. 1909, the city of Tel Aviv was founded. 1913, the Nevill Ground's pavilion was destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes. 1919, the International Labour Organization was founded. 1921, Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan. 1945, World War II: American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951, Korean War: President Harry Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. Also 1951, the Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, was found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1952, the Battle of Nanri Island took place. 1955, the Air India Kashmir Princess was bombed and crashed in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang. 1957, United Kingdom agreed to Singaporean self-rule.
In 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. 1963, Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone. 1965, the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1970, Apollo 13 was launched. 1972, first edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history. 1976, the Apple I was created. 1977, London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses were launched. 1979, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deposed. 1981, a massive riot in Brixton, South London, resulted in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1987, the London Agreement was secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1989, Ron Hextall became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
In 1990, customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, said they had seized what they believed to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993, four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001, the detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, was released. 2002, the Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda killed 21 in Tunisia. Also 2002, over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 of the protesters were killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chávez resignation on national TV. 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium. 2007, 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers killed 33 people and wounded a further 222 others. 2011, an explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus killed 15 people and injured 204 others. 2012, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hit the island of Nias at Indonesia.
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.