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Free Speech is a serious issue according to ever serious commentator. However, there was silence when Andrew Bolt was silenced for responsibly exploring issues that were topical of the day. They are still relevant now. But there is censorship of free speech preventing those issues being explored in public by the people participating in media feed back. People that might have had an interest in the issues raised by Andrew Bolt have not filled the void, but clouded the issue. So Pauline Hanson level intelligence peoples have stood up and declared some outrageous and bigoted things involving race. Because the laws regarding racial vilification do not protect individuals from hatred or bigotry, but do silence debate on current affairs.
But then there are issues where free speech works well. SBS sports journalist tweeted on Anzac Day:
SBS is able to accept those ridiculous statements. They chose instead to drop the journalist who had made them while being associated with SBS. The statements are ridiculous. It is true that the dropping of an atom bomb twice on a civilian population was wrong. As was the fire bombing of Tokyo, Dresden and Berlin. But they weren't terrorist acts, but acts of war, and possible war crimes. OTOH, had Gallipoli been successful then lives would have been saved and the Armenia Genocide ended before completion. As it was the genocide inspired Hitler. ANZAC Day is a celebration of Australia's loss which forged a national identity. Australians behaved honourably. Maybe Scott would like to substantiate his allegations, because they aren't evident on the public record. That could challenge free speech. Scott has defenders. Notably many who neither understand free speech, nor who were stirred to defend Andrew Bolt.
Execution Of Sukumaran and Chan is proceeding for tomorrow night. Indonesia is keen for the sentence to be carried out. Those defending the drug smugglers have been stymied by the problem they are guilty as charged. It is true that the judges may have asked for a bribe. But as the sentence matches the charge it is difficult to defend them. Others have had their sentences reduced. Grace has been shown. Mercy has been shown. When they were arrested, Sukumaran and Chan ordered others not to talk to help investigators. They had reasoned their loved ones could be harmed. Now the information is valueless as the backers have moved on. They have nothing to offer in mitigation. Yet the Liberal Party has tried hard to negotiate with Indonesia in the defence of Chan and Sukamaran. Sadly the ALP had not, and the ABC has made Indonesian negotiations more difficult by trumping up allegations of ALP espionage failures and pointing at the Liberals. When the two are executed, send flowers to the ABC.
Nepal earthquake update has over three thousand victims dead and many working without food, shelter or fresh water. Please give generously to them, and pray for them. One never knows prayer works if one doesn't pray.
In 395, Emperor Arcadius of Rome married Aelia Eudoxia, possibly because he loved her and didn't want her to be a doxy. It was against the machinations of a powerful civil servant, Rufinus. Both bride and groom were eighteen years old. She had five children and was dead by age twenty eight, but in the mean time, Aelia managed to have coins made in her image and be titled Augusta, allowing her to wear purple robes. She took her politics seriously and seemed to have been involved in all sorts of issues. In 711, Islam invaded Spain. In 1521, explorer Magellan Ferdinand was killed at the battle of Mactan, led by Philippine Chief Lapu-Lapu. It was a magnificent example of colonialism gone awry. In 1578, at a party in the court of Henry III of France, although he probably did not watch, some friends decided to re enact the Horatii as a duel of Les Mignons. Horatii had had two sets of triplets fighting to death to settle a war. Three Horatii brothers and three Curiatii brothers. In the battle, three Curiatii were wounded, but two Horatii were killed. The third Horatii moved to retreat, and managed to string the Curiatii so that he killed them one by one. When his sister began to mourn a Curiatii, he killed her too for betrayal. At the murder trial, his father asked for leniency as he'd lost three of four children. However, the Duel of Les Mignons was not as valiant. Wikipedia writes
"Jacques de Caylus, Louis de Maugiron and Jean d'Arcès (representing the party of the King) engaged in a mock battle with Charles de Balzac, Ribérac, and Georges de Schomberg (representing the party of the Guises). Maugiron and Schomberg were killed in the fighting, Ribérac died of wounds the following noon, d'Arcès was wounded in the head and convalesced in a hospital for six weeks, while Caylus sustained as many as 19 wounds and died after 33 days of agony. Only Balzac got off with a mere scratch on his arm.
This meaningless loss of life impressed itself on the public imagination. Jean Passerat wrote an elegy, Plaintes de Cléophon, on the occasion. In the political treatise Le Theatre de France (1580) the duel was invoked as "the day of the pigs" who "killed each other in the precinct of Saint Paul, serving him in the Muscovite manner".[6] Michel Montaigne decried the event as "an image de cowardice", and Pierre Brantôme connected it with the deplorable spread of the Italian and Gascon manners at Henry's court. The incident accelerated the estrangement between the two Henrys."
In 1667, a blind and impoverished John Milton sold his manuscript of "Paradise Lost" for 10 pounds. In 1749, the first performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London. In 1805, at the first Barbary War, parts of the marine's hymn was born when US marines attacked Berbers at the Tripolitan city of Derna. In 1810, Beethoven composed Fur Elise. In 1865, the steam boat Sultana, carrying 2400 Union POWs home, blew up, killing 1800. In 1945, Italian partisans arrested Mussolini fleeing in a German uniform. In 1981, Xerox Parc introduced the computer mouse. In 1994, South Africa had the first general election in which blacks could vote. It was on the 1950 anniversary of the introduction of Apartheid. Sadly ANC won.
2014
I am bent. I have a purpose in my life and my path has not been straight or level. Even so, I serve as well as I can, and I have faith that by relying on the strong, true, indomitable truth, I will be straightened in my purpose and achievement. But no individual is perfect, and today we are reminded that we are not disposable, even though we are bent. But the memory of Holocaust is more than the bent being disposed of. The innocent were chosen too. Chosen because of their race, and religion. The holocaust was a political decision, bullying those who could not defend themselves. The tragedy for the Jews was that many had contributed to those states that persecuted them. They are a proud people, proud of their achievements, their history. In their pride, they became a target for those who sought to control a majority through division, aligning the purpose of the average person with survival by stepping on those who were despised.
It is wrong to bully the weak. Good leadership that builds involves building the whole community, creating a cohesiveness. There is an order. Young people respect older ones. Police, teachers, doctors are respected for their service, not their pay. Critical thinking is important, but so is recognition of cultural assets. The death of an elder statesman is not as sad as the death of a child, but their legacy is broader, and it becomes an opportunity to celebrate their life. Alternatively, we embrace bullying. We divide into the weak and strong, and dispose of those that are not straight. And we chop .. but there is no end to division .. and we continue to chop. And each time we lop off the weak, we also become .. weaker. While some point to Germany and ask what they might have achieved had they not persecuted the Jews, the truth is the path of division follows that direction. And note, both the US and Britain were divided too, the US imprisoning Japanese Americans and Britain locking down whole communities. Churchill famously remarked that if we weren't fighting for art funding, what were we fighting for?
Remember the holocaust. When division rules, we are diminished.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 33 BC, Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrated a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania. 395, Emperor Arcadius married Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She became one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity. 629, Shahrbaraz was crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire. 711, Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad landed at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
In 1296, First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army was defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar. 1509, Pope Julius II placed the Italian state of Venice under interdict. 1521, Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. 1522, combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca. 1539, re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar. 1565, Cebu was established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. 1578, Duel of the Mignons claimed the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favourites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. 1595, the relics of Saint Sava were incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands 1650, the Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invaded mainland Scotland but was defeated by a Covenanter army. 1667, the blind and impoverished John Milton sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
In 1749, first performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London. 1777, American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engaged and defeated Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut. 1805, First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attacked the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn). 1810, Beethoven composed Für Elise. 1813, War of 1812: American troops captured the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada). 1840, foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, was laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. 1861, American President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. 1865, the New York State Senate created Cornell University as the state's land grant institution. Also 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, exploded and sank in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
In 1904, the Australian Labor Party became the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson. 1909, Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II was overthrown, and was succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. 1911, following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise was reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. 1914, Honduras became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1927, Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) were created. 1936, the United Auto Workers (UAW) gained autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
In 1941, World War II: German troops entered Athens. Also 1941, World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals established the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. 1945, World War II: German troops were finally expelled from Finnish Lapland. Also 1945, World War II: Benito Mussolini was arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
In 1950, Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act was passed formally segregating races. 1953, Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000. 1960, Togo gained independence from French-administered UN trusteeship. 1961, Sierra Leone was granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister. 1967, Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opened to the public the next day. 1974, ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., called for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon 1977, twenty-eight people were killed in the Guatemala City air disaster. 1978, former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman was released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
In 1981, Xerox PARC introduced the computer mouse. 1986, the City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas were evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster 1987, the U.S. Department of Justice barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. 1989, the April 27 Demonstration, a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 1992, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, was proclaimed. Also 1992, Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. Also 1992, the Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics became members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 1993, all members of the Zambia national football team lost their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. 1994, South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution came into force. 1996, the 1996 Lebanon war ended.
In 2002, the last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10. 2005, the superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 made its first flight from Toulouse, France. 2006, Construction began on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City. 2007, Estonian authorities removed the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. 2011, the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastated parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more. 2012, at least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured. 2014, popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954. Also 2014, a tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States killed more than 45 people.
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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.
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Free Speech is a serious issue according to ever serious commentator. However, there was silence when Andrew Bolt was silenced for responsibly exploring issues that were topical of the day. They are still relevant now. But there is censorship of free speech preventing those issues being explored in public by the people participating in media feed back. People that might have had an interest in the issues raised by Andrew Bolt have not filled the void, but clouded the issue. So Pauline Hanson level intelligence peoples have stood up and declared some outrageous and bigoted things involving race. Because the laws regarding racial vilification do not protect individuals from hatred or bigotry, but do silence debate on current affairs.
But then there are issues where free speech works well. SBS sports journalist tweeted on Anzac Day:
SBS is able to accept those ridiculous statements. They chose instead to drop the journalist who had made them while being associated with SBS. The statements are ridiculous. It is true that the dropping of an atom bomb twice on a civilian population was wrong. As was the fire bombing of Tokyo, Dresden and Berlin. But they weren't terrorist acts, but acts of war, and possible war crimes. OTOH, had Gallipoli been successful then lives would have been saved and the Armenia Genocide ended before completion. As it was the genocide inspired Hitler. ANZAC Day is a celebration of Australia's loss which forged a national identity. Australians behaved honourably. Maybe Scott would like to substantiate his allegations, because they aren't evident on the public record. That could challenge free speech. Scott has defenders. Notably many who neither understand free speech, nor who were stirred to defend Andrew Bolt.
Execution Of Sukumaran and Chan is proceeding for tomorrow night. Indonesia is keen for the sentence to be carried out. Those defending the drug smugglers have been stymied by the problem they are guilty as charged. It is true that the judges may have asked for a bribe. But as the sentence matches the charge it is difficult to defend them. Others have had their sentences reduced. Grace has been shown. Mercy has been shown. When they were arrested, Sukumaran and Chan ordered others not to talk to help investigators. They had reasoned their loved ones could be harmed. Now the information is valueless as the backers have moved on. They have nothing to offer in mitigation. Yet the Liberal Party has tried hard to negotiate with Indonesia in the defence of Chan and Sukamaran. Sadly the ALP had not, and the ABC has made Indonesian negotiations more difficult by trumping up allegations of ALP espionage failures and pointing at the Liberals. When the two are executed, send flowers to the ABC.
Nepal earthquake update has over three thousand victims dead and many working without food, shelter or fresh water. Please give generously to them, and pray for them. One never knows prayer works if one doesn't pray.
In 395, Emperor Arcadius of Rome married Aelia Eudoxia, possibly because he loved her and didn't want her to be a doxy. It was against the machinations of a powerful civil servant, Rufinus. Both bride and groom were eighteen years old. She had five children and was dead by age twenty eight, but in the mean time, Aelia managed to have coins made in her image and be titled Augusta, allowing her to wear purple robes. She took her politics seriously and seemed to have been involved in all sorts of issues. In 711, Islam invaded Spain. In 1521, explorer Magellan Ferdinand was killed at the battle of Mactan, led by Philippine Chief Lapu-Lapu. It was a magnificent example of colonialism gone awry. In 1578, at a party in the court of Henry III of France, although he probably did not watch, some friends decided to re enact the Horatii as a duel of Les Mignons. Horatii had had two sets of triplets fighting to death to settle a war. Three Horatii brothers and three Curiatii brothers. In the battle, three Curiatii were wounded, but two Horatii were killed. The third Horatii moved to retreat, and managed to string the Curiatii so that he killed them one by one. When his sister began to mourn a Curiatii, he killed her too for betrayal. At the murder trial, his father asked for leniency as he'd lost three of four children. However, the Duel of Les Mignons was not as valiant. Wikipedia writes
"Jacques de Caylus, Louis de Maugiron and Jean d'Arcès (representing the party of the King) engaged in a mock battle with Charles de Balzac, Ribérac, and Georges de Schomberg (representing the party of the Guises). Maugiron and Schomberg were killed in the fighting, Ribérac died of wounds the following noon, d'Arcès was wounded in the head and convalesced in a hospital for six weeks, while Caylus sustained as many as 19 wounds and died after 33 days of agony. Only Balzac got off with a mere scratch on his arm.
This meaningless loss of life impressed itself on the public imagination. Jean Passerat wrote an elegy, Plaintes de Cléophon, on the occasion. In the political treatise Le Theatre de France (1580) the duel was invoked as "the day of the pigs" who "killed each other in the precinct of Saint Paul, serving him in the Muscovite manner".[6] Michel Montaigne decried the event as "an image de cowardice", and Pierre Brantôme connected it with the deplorable spread of the Italian and Gascon manners at Henry's court. The incident accelerated the estrangement between the two Henrys."
In 1667, a blind and impoverished John Milton sold his manuscript of "Paradise Lost" for 10 pounds. In 1749, the first performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London. In 1805, at the first Barbary War, parts of the marine's hymn was born when US marines attacked Berbers at the Tripolitan city of Derna. In 1810, Beethoven composed Fur Elise. In 1865, the steam boat Sultana, carrying 2400 Union POWs home, blew up, killing 1800. In 1945, Italian partisans arrested Mussolini fleeing in a German uniform. In 1981, Xerox Parc introduced the computer mouse. In 1994, South Africa had the first general election in which blacks could vote. It was on the 1950 anniversary of the introduction of Apartheid. Sadly ANC won.
2014
I am bent. I have a purpose in my life and my path has not been straight or level. Even so, I serve as well as I can, and I have faith that by relying on the strong, true, indomitable truth, I will be straightened in my purpose and achievement. But no individual is perfect, and today we are reminded that we are not disposable, even though we are bent. But the memory of Holocaust is more than the bent being disposed of. The innocent were chosen too. Chosen because of their race, and religion. The holocaust was a political decision, bullying those who could not defend themselves. The tragedy for the Jews was that many had contributed to those states that persecuted them. They are a proud people, proud of their achievements, their history. In their pride, they became a target for those who sought to control a majority through division, aligning the purpose of the average person with survival by stepping on those who were despised.
It is wrong to bully the weak. Good leadership that builds involves building the whole community, creating a cohesiveness. There is an order. Young people respect older ones. Police, teachers, doctors are respected for their service, not their pay. Critical thinking is important, but so is recognition of cultural assets. The death of an elder statesman is not as sad as the death of a child, but their legacy is broader, and it becomes an opportunity to celebrate their life. Alternatively, we embrace bullying. We divide into the weak and strong, and dispose of those that are not straight. And we chop .. but there is no end to division .. and we continue to chop. And each time we lop off the weak, we also become .. weaker. While some point to Germany and ask what they might have achieved had they not persecuted the Jews, the truth is the path of division follows that direction. And note, both the US and Britain were divided too, the US imprisoning Japanese Americans and Britain locking down whole communities. Churchill famously remarked that if we weren't fighting for art funding, what were we fighting for?
Remember the holocaust. When division rules, we are diminished.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 33 BC, Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrated a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania. 395, Emperor Arcadius married Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She became one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity. 629, Shahrbaraz was crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire. 711, Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad landed at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
In 1296, First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army was defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar. 1509, Pope Julius II placed the Italian state of Venice under interdict. 1521, Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. 1522, combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca. 1539, re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar. 1565, Cebu was established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. 1578, Duel of the Mignons claimed the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favourites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. 1595, the relics of Saint Sava were incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands 1650, the Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invaded mainland Scotland but was defeated by a Covenanter army. 1667, the blind and impoverished John Milton sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
In 1749, first performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London. 1777, American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engaged and defeated Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut. 1805, First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attacked the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn). 1810, Beethoven composed Für Elise. 1813, War of 1812: American troops captured the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada). 1840, foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, was laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. 1861, American President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. 1865, the New York State Senate created Cornell University as the state's land grant institution. Also 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, exploded and sank in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
In 1904, the Australian Labor Party became the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson. 1909, Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II was overthrown, and was succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. 1911, following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise was reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. 1914, Honduras became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1927, Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) were created. 1936, the United Auto Workers (UAW) gained autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
In 1941, World War II: German troops entered Athens. Also 1941, World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals established the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. 1945, World War II: German troops were finally expelled from Finnish Lapland. Also 1945, World War II: Benito Mussolini was arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
In 1950, Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act was passed formally segregating races. 1953, Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000. 1960, Togo gained independence from French-administered UN trusteeship. 1961, Sierra Leone was granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister. 1967, Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opened to the public the next day. 1974, ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., called for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon 1977, twenty-eight people were killed in the Guatemala City air disaster. 1978, former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman was released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
In 1981, Xerox PARC introduced the computer mouse. 1986, the City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas were evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster 1987, the U.S. Department of Justice barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. 1989, the April 27 Demonstration, a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 1992, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, was proclaimed. Also 1992, Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. Also 1992, the Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics became members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 1993, all members of the Zambia national football team lost their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. 1994, South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution came into force. 1996, the 1996 Lebanon war ended.
In 2002, the last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10. 2005, the superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 made its first flight from Toulouse, France. 2006, Construction began on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City. 2007, Estonian authorities removed the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. 2011, the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastated parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more. 2012, at least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured. 2014, popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954. Also 2014, a tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States killed more than 45 people.
===
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.
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