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On this day in 1879, two battles of the Anglo Zulu war took place in which a small British force faced off against a much larger Zulu one. At Isandlwana, a British force of 1800 well equipped but badly led troops were attacked by some 15000 Zulus with spears and shields. Lord Chelmsford had failed to provide a defensive position for his camp, but halved his force while searching for the Zulu. Even so, the Martini-henry rifles should have been sufficient defence. But come the day, the Zulu surprise attacked successfully. A small British scout unit had spotted them just before the engagement. Chelmsford's deployment in defence seems to have been too dispersed to be effective. Also, the supply of ammunition was intermittent. The regulars carried 70 bullets each, but clearly in the heavy fighting needed more. Some were reduced to using their bayonets. A few officers died taking the colours to safety. Chelmsford survived. Over 1500 British troops died. An estimated 2000 Zulu died. It was the first British loss to a technologically inferior force.
At Rorke's Drift, the trading post was defended by 150 British against some 3000 Zulu. The British force created a defensive perimeter involving mealie bags, stone, wood fencing with holes for firing rifles. The fighting extended through the night, but come the dawn, the Zulu had moved on. Two battles fought on the same day with two different outcomes.
Born in 1903, George Metesky would serve in the US Defence forces following WW1. He was trained as a specialist electrician and, after leaving the armed services worked for Consolidated Edison at Hell Gate generating plant. A boiler backfire in 1931, knocked Metesky down and fumes filled his lungs. The accident disabled him and he was given 26 weeks pay, then dismissed. After he became very sick with Pneumonia and then TB, he applied for worker's compensation and was turned down as timed out. He became bitter towards his former employers, and so began building bombs like the antagonist in Speed. After planting 33 bombs over two decades, killing 15, Metesky was traced and arrested on this day in 1957. He was declared insane, and did not go to trial. Committed to an institution, he was released in '73. Still bitter and angry, he died aged 90, free, in '94.
2014
Today is the anniversary of US GOP politician R. Budd Dwyer committing suicide in front of media cameras. Many still exploit the footage, including Moore in his Bowling for Columbine. The likelihood Dwyer was set up on trumped up charges that left him facing 55 years jail has caused some public soul searching by the media. One media person present even claimed to suffer depression following. Imagine how the press would have pursued Dwyer had he been a Democrat. Some might have the hide to say it would have made no difference. But to those people, I point to reporting on Global Warming and Al Gore. Then look back at Dwyer and at the accusation made against Dwyer. The number of people dying worldwide from deprivation caused by Gore's campaign against reason is not known, but is undoubtedly large. A $trillion could make a large difference to the world's poorest. Maybe Gore isn't responsible for their deaths? Maybe Dwyer was innocent .. the difference is the reporting.
The difference in reporting for "Charles Terror" Turney is apparent. ABC lauded him as a professor of climate change off to measure the effect prior to his failed voyage. But after, with his apparent failure, his journey has become a tourism issue. Should watchers of the ABC have been paying close attention, as Japanese soldiers isolated from their command did at the end of WW2, they would not know what the failure of Turney means to the belief in Global Warming.
Shorten has been caught lying, and he has been convicted by the court of public opinion. He still has supporters in the press, but there is nothing he can do. There is no hope. I point to the example of Dwyer.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 613, eight-month-old Constantine was crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. 1506, the first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican. 1517, the Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeated the Mamluk Sultanate and captured present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya. 1521, emperor Charles V opened the Diet of Worms 1555, the Ava Kingdom fell to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma. 1689, the Convention Parliament convened to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
In 1824, the Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast. 1849, Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ended after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrendered. 1863, the January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia. 1877, Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman was taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices. 1879, Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops decisively defeated British troops. Also 1879, Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors. 1889, Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C. 1890, he United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio. 1899, leaders of six Australian colonies met in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
In 1901, Edward VII was proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. 1905, Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. 1906, SS Valencia ran aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. 1915, over 600 people were killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunged off the tracks into a deep canyon. 1917, World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States called for "peace without victory" in Europe. 1919, Act Zluky was signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. 1924, Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1927, Teddy Wakelam gave the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
In 1941, World War II: British and Commonwealth troops captured Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass. 1944, World War II: The Allies commenced Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy. 1946, in Iran, Qazi Muhammad declared the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He was the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich was the prime minister. Also 1946, creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. 1947, KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, began operation in Hollywood, California.
In 1957, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula. Also 1957, the New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, was arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and was charged with planting more than 30 bombs. 1959, Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners were killed. 1962, the Organization of American States suspended Cuba's membership. 1963, the Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. 1968, Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space. Also 1968, Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam began installation. 1969, a gunman attempted to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
In 1970, the Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", entered commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. 1971, the Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, was issued. 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalising elective abortion in all fifty states. Also 1973, the crew of Apollo 17 addressed a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission. Also 1973, a chartered Boeing 707 exploded in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176. 1984, the Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularise the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial. 1987, Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism. 1987, Philippine security forces opened fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
In 1990, Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm. 1991, Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people died of heart attacks. 1992, rebel forces occupied Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. Also 1992, Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space 1995, Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blew themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis. 1999, Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India. 2002, Kmart became the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 2006, Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. 2007, at least 88 people were killed when two car bombs exploded in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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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.
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On this day in 1879, two battles of the Anglo Zulu war took place in which a small British force faced off against a much larger Zulu one. At Isandlwana, a British force of 1800 well equipped but badly led troops were attacked by some 15000 Zulus with spears and shields. Lord Chelmsford had failed to provide a defensive position for his camp, but halved his force while searching for the Zulu. Even so, the Martini-henry rifles should have been sufficient defence. But come the day, the Zulu surprise attacked successfully. A small British scout unit had spotted them just before the engagement. Chelmsford's deployment in defence seems to have been too dispersed to be effective. Also, the supply of ammunition was intermittent. The regulars carried 70 bullets each, but clearly in the heavy fighting needed more. Some were reduced to using their bayonets. A few officers died taking the colours to safety. Chelmsford survived. Over 1500 British troops died. An estimated 2000 Zulu died. It was the first British loss to a technologically inferior force.
At Rorke's Drift, the trading post was defended by 150 British against some 3000 Zulu. The British force created a defensive perimeter involving mealie bags, stone, wood fencing with holes for firing rifles. The fighting extended through the night, but come the dawn, the Zulu had moved on. Two battles fought on the same day with two different outcomes.
Born in 1903, George Metesky would serve in the US Defence forces following WW1. He was trained as a specialist electrician and, after leaving the armed services worked for Consolidated Edison at Hell Gate generating plant. A boiler backfire in 1931, knocked Metesky down and fumes filled his lungs. The accident disabled him and he was given 26 weeks pay, then dismissed. After he became very sick with Pneumonia and then TB, he applied for worker's compensation and was turned down as timed out. He became bitter towards his former employers, and so began building bombs like the antagonist in Speed. After planting 33 bombs over two decades, killing 15, Metesky was traced and arrested on this day in 1957. He was declared insane, and did not go to trial. Committed to an institution, he was released in '73. Still bitter and angry, he died aged 90, free, in '94.
2014
Today is the anniversary of US GOP politician R. Budd Dwyer committing suicide in front of media cameras. Many still exploit the footage, including Moore in his Bowling for Columbine. The likelihood Dwyer was set up on trumped up charges that left him facing 55 years jail has caused some public soul searching by the media. One media person present even claimed to suffer depression following. Imagine how the press would have pursued Dwyer had he been a Democrat. Some might have the hide to say it would have made no difference. But to those people, I point to reporting on Global Warming and Al Gore. Then look back at Dwyer and at the accusation made against Dwyer. The number of people dying worldwide from deprivation caused by Gore's campaign against reason is not known, but is undoubtedly large. A $trillion could make a large difference to the world's poorest. Maybe Gore isn't responsible for their deaths? Maybe Dwyer was innocent .. the difference is the reporting.
The difference in reporting for "Charles Terror" Turney is apparent. ABC lauded him as a professor of climate change off to measure the effect prior to his failed voyage. But after, with his apparent failure, his journey has become a tourism issue. Should watchers of the ABC have been paying close attention, as Japanese soldiers isolated from their command did at the end of WW2, they would not know what the failure of Turney means to the belief in Global Warming.
Shorten has been caught lying, and he has been convicted by the court of public opinion. He still has supporters in the press, but there is nothing he can do. There is no hope. I point to the example of Dwyer.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 613, eight-month-old Constantine was crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. 1506, the first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican. 1517, the Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeated the Mamluk Sultanate and captured present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya. 1521, emperor Charles V opened the Diet of Worms 1555, the Ava Kingdom fell to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma. 1689, the Convention Parliament convened to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
In 1824, the Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast. 1849, Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ended after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrendered. 1863, the January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia. 1877, Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman was taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices. 1879, Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops decisively defeated British troops. Also 1879, Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors. 1889, Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C. 1890, he United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio. 1899, leaders of six Australian colonies met in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
In 1901, Edward VII was proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. 1905, Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. 1906, SS Valencia ran aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. 1915, over 600 people were killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunged off the tracks into a deep canyon. 1917, World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States called for "peace without victory" in Europe. 1919, Act Zluky was signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. 1924, Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1927, Teddy Wakelam gave the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
In 1941, World War II: British and Commonwealth troops captured Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass. 1944, World War II: The Allies commenced Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy. 1946, in Iran, Qazi Muhammad declared the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He was the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich was the prime minister. Also 1946, creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. 1947, KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, began operation in Hollywood, California.
In 1957, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula. Also 1957, the New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, was arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and was charged with planting more than 30 bombs. 1959, Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners were killed. 1962, the Organization of American States suspended Cuba's membership. 1963, the Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. 1968, Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space. Also 1968, Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam began installation. 1969, a gunman attempted to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
In 1970, the Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", entered commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. 1971, the Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, was issued. 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalising elective abortion in all fifty states. Also 1973, the crew of Apollo 17 addressed a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission. Also 1973, a chartered Boeing 707 exploded in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176. 1984, the Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularise the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial. 1987, Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism. 1987, Philippine security forces opened fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
In 1990, Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm. 1991, Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people died of heart attacks. 1992, rebel forces occupied Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. Also 1992, Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space 1995, Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blew themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis. 1999, Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India. 2002, Kmart became the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 2006, Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. 2007, at least 88 people were killed when two car bombs exploded in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
===
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.