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Many congratulations to Timothy Ly on the upcoming ABC comedy drama series Maximum Choppage. He was eighteen years old when, over a decade ago, he made a short film locally, and then a motion picture length film on no budget engaging the local community. Australia has culturally diverse talent, but a monocultural ABC focused entirely on some minorities have prevented such drama reaching our screens. So that the absurd situation has arisen whereby girls from any of many diverse ethnicities don't see role models in potential mates of their own ethnicity, only white. That goes against the ABC charter. There were many hurdles that Tim needed to complete before he could get the ABC to back this. And he has done so. It is now paid, but a team effort where creative control has been surrendered .. but hopefully the lead has been followed. An interesting backstory to Tim, who has devoted his adult life to movies and production, his family are Chinese Cambodian who fled the killing fields. Before then, his dad had used to spend his spare time going to the local movie theatres. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
On this day in 1931, the first Australian Governor General who was Australian born was sworn in. Sir Isaac Isaacs was also Jewish. Much is made of Isaac's anti Zionist position. He did not favour Israel. However, it is telling as to why he didn't favour Israel. Because he didn't consider Israel would become the great modern state she now is. He didn't see her democracy. He didn't know how great and trustworthy his people are, although he clearly loved them. Isaacs was under the misapprehension the Balfour agreement meant that Jews would be as Palestinians are now .. monocultural, xenophobic, driven to survive through lowest common denominator politics like terrorism. Isaacs trusted Great Britain to be an umbrella she had failed to be. It wasn't his fault, or a character flaw, The King had treated Jews badly in a way that could not be anticipated. But as Governor General, and as a Jewish man, Isaacs was a leader. A good leader. Australians should be proud.
Sometimes people ask for more government. NYC aldermen gave more government to the city of New York by banning women from smoking in public places on this day in 1908. The Mayor, who clearly wanted to be reelected, blocked the measure.
2014
It is close to Martin Luther King Day in the US, celebrated Jan 20th in 2014. He was born Jan 15th, 1929. He lived by his words and died because of them. So to celebrate, I will highlight my opposition to racist bigots collecting under the banner of the Australian Defence League and the Australian Tea Party. I have been schooled by some to note not every member of ADL is a racist bigot. I do not know who individual members are, and so do not know who the exceptions are. But I will outline what I know.
The ADL is not unique. It is right wing reactionary and not conservative, but tends to social conservatism on some issues. It is named after counterpart organisations in UK (EDL) and US (ADL) and North Ireland (UDL) and maintains loose friendships with them, including hosting senior members. The ADL in Australia is often connected with sympathetic members of the armed forces and people who would like to be. There is nothing wrong with military types being involved in civil organisations, that is a healthy thing. However, it is preferable if those organisations are cultural assets, like RSL, Lions, Apex, Masons, electoral commission .. but a survey of EDL publications shows that there is more invested in race relations, equivalent to KKK.
EDL is well known for drunken gatherings that turn violent. It was founded by members of the British far right nationalists calling themselves neo Nazis. Far more benign is the US Tea Party, which is not affiliated with the Australian Tea Party. ADL leader (Australian) began the Australian Tea Party in the hopes of tapping into the US political donation cycle.
There is something politically naive and stupid in the stance taken by the ADL on public issues. They are for protectionism economically. They connect themselves with loopy left wingers who suspect government administration. They try to unite Islamo Fascist terrorists with Islamic peoples who are preyed on by the terrorists. They support failed political movements at the expense of conservatives like the LNP. They hate the ALP and Greens when they would be wiser to oppose their policy.
ADL may take exception to what I have written about them, but it is criticism they might learn from and benefit from. Feel free to find exceptions to what I have written and treasure them.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 763, the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ended in a decisive Abbasid victory. 1525, the Swiss Anabaptist Movement was founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptised each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. 1535, following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants were burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
In 1720, Sweden and Prussia signed the Treaty of Stockholm. 1749, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754. 1774, Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. 1789, the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, was printed in Boston, Massachusetts. 1793, after being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine. 1840, Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered Adélie Land, Antarctica. 1861, American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigned from the United States Senate. 1864, the Tauranga Campaign began during the Maori Wars. 1887, 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain fell in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city. 1893, the Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. 1899, Opel manufactures its first automobile.
In 1908, New York City passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. 1911, the first Monte Carlo Rally took place. 1915, Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan. 1919, Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopted Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. 1925, Albania declared itself a republic. 1931, Sir Isaac Isaacs was sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1941, Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews. 1948, the Flag of Quebec was adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
In 1950, American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. 1958, the last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator. 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. Also 1960, Avianca Flight 671 crashed and burned upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It was the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca. 1961, 435 workers were buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapsed. 1968, Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicised and controversial battles of the war began. Also 1968, a B-52 bomber crashed near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptured. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation was complete. 1971, the current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, began transmitting UHF broadcasts. 1976, Commercial service of Concorde began with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 1977, President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
In 1981, production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car began in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined. 1999, War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepted a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board. 2000, Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress was seized by indigenous organisations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas deposed President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez was later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigned and allowed Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad. 2003, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. 2004, NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control. The problem lay in the management of its flash memory and was fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. 2005, in Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupted into riots.
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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 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.
===
Many congratulations to Timothy Ly on the upcoming ABC comedy drama series Maximum Choppage. He was eighteen years old when, over a decade ago, he made a short film locally, and then a motion picture length film on no budget engaging the local community. Australia has culturally diverse talent, but a monocultural ABC focused entirely on some minorities have prevented such drama reaching our screens. So that the absurd situation has arisen whereby girls from any of many diverse ethnicities don't see role models in potential mates of their own ethnicity, only white. That goes against the ABC charter. There were many hurdles that Tim needed to complete before he could get the ABC to back this. And he has done so. It is now paid, but a team effort where creative control has been surrendered .. but hopefully the lead has been followed. An interesting backstory to Tim, who has devoted his adult life to movies and production, his family are Chinese Cambodian who fled the killing fields. Before then, his dad had used to spend his spare time going to the local movie theatres. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
On this day in 1931, the first Australian Governor General who was Australian born was sworn in. Sir Isaac Isaacs was also Jewish. Much is made of Isaac's anti Zionist position. He did not favour Israel. However, it is telling as to why he didn't favour Israel. Because he didn't consider Israel would become the great modern state she now is. He didn't see her democracy. He didn't know how great and trustworthy his people are, although he clearly loved them. Isaacs was under the misapprehension the Balfour agreement meant that Jews would be as Palestinians are now .. monocultural, xenophobic, driven to survive through lowest common denominator politics like terrorism. Isaacs trusted Great Britain to be an umbrella she had failed to be. It wasn't his fault, or a character flaw, The King had treated Jews badly in a way that could not be anticipated. But as Governor General, and as a Jewish man, Isaacs was a leader. A good leader. Australians should be proud.
Sometimes people ask for more government. NYC aldermen gave more government to the city of New York by banning women from smoking in public places on this day in 1908. The Mayor, who clearly wanted to be reelected, blocked the measure.
2014
It is close to Martin Luther King Day in the US, celebrated Jan 20th in 2014. He was born Jan 15th, 1929. He lived by his words and died because of them. So to celebrate, I will highlight my opposition to racist bigots collecting under the banner of the Australian Defence League and the Australian Tea Party. I have been schooled by some to note not every member of ADL is a racist bigot. I do not know who individual members are, and so do not know who the exceptions are. But I will outline what I know.
The ADL is not unique. It is right wing reactionary and not conservative, but tends to social conservatism on some issues. It is named after counterpart organisations in UK (EDL) and US (ADL) and North Ireland (UDL) and maintains loose friendships with them, including hosting senior members. The ADL in Australia is often connected with sympathetic members of the armed forces and people who would like to be. There is nothing wrong with military types being involved in civil organisations, that is a healthy thing. However, it is preferable if those organisations are cultural assets, like RSL, Lions, Apex, Masons, electoral commission .. but a survey of EDL publications shows that there is more invested in race relations, equivalent to KKK.
EDL is well known for drunken gatherings that turn violent. It was founded by members of the British far right nationalists calling themselves neo Nazis. Far more benign is the US Tea Party, which is not affiliated with the Australian Tea Party. ADL leader (Australian) began the Australian Tea Party in the hopes of tapping into the US political donation cycle.
There is something politically naive and stupid in the stance taken by the ADL on public issues. They are for protectionism economically. They connect themselves with loopy left wingers who suspect government administration. They try to unite Islamo Fascist terrorists with Islamic peoples who are preyed on by the terrorists. They support failed political movements at the expense of conservatives like the LNP. They hate the ALP and Greens when they would be wiser to oppose their policy.
ADL may take exception to what I have written about them, but it is criticism they might learn from and benefit from. Feel free to find exceptions to what I have written and treasure them.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 763, the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ended in a decisive Abbasid victory. 1525, the Swiss Anabaptist Movement was founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptised each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. 1535, following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants were burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
In 1720, Sweden and Prussia signed the Treaty of Stockholm. 1749, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754. 1774, Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. 1789, the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, was printed in Boston, Massachusetts. 1793, after being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine. 1840, Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered Adélie Land, Antarctica. 1861, American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigned from the United States Senate. 1864, the Tauranga Campaign began during the Maori Wars. 1887, 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain fell in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city. 1893, the Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. 1899, Opel manufactures its first automobile.
In 1908, New York City passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. 1911, the first Monte Carlo Rally took place. 1915, Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan. 1919, Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopted Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. 1925, Albania declared itself a republic. 1931, Sir Isaac Isaacs was sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1941, Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews. 1948, the Flag of Quebec was adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
In 1950, American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. 1958, the last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator. 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. Also 1960, Avianca Flight 671 crashed and burned upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It was the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca. 1961, 435 workers were buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapsed. 1968, Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicised and controversial battles of the war began. Also 1968, a B-52 bomber crashed near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptured. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation was complete. 1971, the current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, began transmitting UHF broadcasts. 1976, Commercial service of Concorde began with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 1977, President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
In 1981, production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car began in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined. 1999, War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepted a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board. 2000, Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress was seized by indigenous organisations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas deposed President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez was later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigned and allowed Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad. 2003, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. 2004, NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control. The problem lay in the management of its flash memory and was fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. 2005, in Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupted into riots.
===
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 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.