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All indications are Queensland has lost the election to the ALP and Cameron Newman has lost his seat. It is a sad end to a responsible government and it will be difficult to bear the gloating of the press for a few weeks, until their attention wanders to NSW. The ALP will form government and thanks to media patronage, will not be encumbered by policy beyond employing more public servants and not selling assets. The wider political view in Australia shows media outlasts claiming to have successors for Mr Abbott, naming Mal Brough or Malcolm Turnbull. Hysteria over the Prince Philip knighthood is dying down too, with quoted critics admitting it was a good call and it was Mr Abbott's position to make the call. One salient lesson is that in election conditions the partisan media will lie and inflate issues for the ALP against conservatives. If they hadn't, the average Queensland voter would have known the state was being well run under Campbell Newman. Victoria are losing $100's millions from a single bizarre ALP decision to not build a road which had been paid for.
At half time in the Asian Cup final Australia leads 1-0 over South Korea. The goal went against the run of play with South Korea unfortunate not to have scored three, while Tim Cahill for Australia narrowly missed one. Whomever wins, soccer will be the winner, and history will be made. Soccer in Korea has ancient history, with a similar game, chuk-guk, being played before Europeans showed their ball skills. Still, South Korea has not won it since 1956. After 90 minutes, South Korea evened the scores, and an exhausted Australia faced extra time. Australia went 2-1 about twenty minutes into extra time.
A 20 yo woman has breast enlargement surgery. She has a cardiac arrest early in the surgery, but the surgeon proceeded after to do both breasts, not solely one. Patient is satisfied with outcome. Question needs to be asked who someone so young was having the augmentation surgery for cosmetic reasons? She would not have finished developing yet.
Not many are Charlie Hebdo now, with a German carnival dropping plans for a float featuring a cartoonist pushing pen into the barrel of a gun. Apparently the image was deemed too provocative to jihadists who continue to bring Islam into disrepute.
Amanda Knox is still free despite a 28 year conviction for murdering a flatmate in Italy. Obama's wars in Libya and Syria are going badly.
On this day in 1606, Guy Fawkes was executed for the gunpowder plot. In 1747, the world's first venereal disease clinic at London Lock Hospital opened. Treatment could involve injecting mercury through the urethra. In 1848, John C Fremont was courtmartialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. He was the original GOP leader to oppose slavery and, in losing the 1856 election, the Democrats supported by Know Nothings, with President James Buchanan, careered towards civil war. In 1865, US congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. In 1915, Germany became the first to use poison gas. They used it against Russia at the Battle of Bolimów. In 1930, 3M began manufacturing scotch tape. In 1950, the only President to have dropped an atom bomb on a civilian population twice, Democrat Harry S Truman, commissioned research for a hydrogen bomb. In 1958, the first successful launch of a satellite by the US coincided with James Van Allen discovering the Van Allen Belt of radiation which Earth has. In 2001, a Scottish court in the Netherlands convicted a Libyan bomber of the Lockerbie terror hit. In 2003, the Waterfall rail disaster continued an ALP NSW government tradition of deaths on trains (CF Granville and Berala rail tragedies).
2014
Several threads are discussing justice at the moment. Convicted US killer Amanda Knox is claiming to be confused because a court had mistakenly freed her. US prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in their prosecution of terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. ABC is defending it's well remunerated status attacking Australia while claiming to hate conservatives. ALP is defending it's many choices of facilitating corruption in the workplace, recently threatening the existence of Shepparton. It is illustrative to look at an abuse of power from WW2.
The US army in WW2 was different to what it is today. Today it is a volunteer force. In WW2, there was conscription. Eddie Slovik. Eddie (born 1920) was from a Polish American family in Detroit. From age 12, he had been involved with petty theft, break and enter and disturbing the peace. He was paroled in '38 after crashing a car with two friends while drunk. He was jailed in '39. Paroled in '42, he became a book keeper for a plumber and married. Because of his convictions, he was unfit for duty, but soon after the first anniversary of his wedding, he was ruled fit. He was drafted. Trained until January '44 and sent to France in August '44.
Wikipedia reports
Canadian military police unit and remained with them for the next six weeks. Tankey wrote to their regiment to explain their absence before he and Slovik reported to their unit for duty on October 7, 1944. The US Army's rapid advance through France had caused many replacement soldiers to have trouble finding their assigned units, and so no charges were filed against Slovik or Tankey.The following day on October 8, Slovik informed his company commander, Captain Ralph Grotte, that he was "too scared" to serve in a front-line rifle company and asked to be reassigned to a rear area unit. He told Grotte that he would run away if he were assigned to a rifle unit, and asked his captain if that would constitute desertion. Grotte confirmed that it would. He refused Slovik's request for reassignment and sent him to a rifle platoon.[8]The next day, October 9, Slovik deserted from his infantry unit. His friend, John Tankey, caught up with him and attempted to persuade him to stay, but Slovik's only comment was that his "mind was made up". Slovik walked several miles to the rear and approached an enlisted cook at a headquarters detachment, presenting him with a note which stated:I, Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik, 36896415, confess to the desertion of the United States Army. At the time of my desertion we were in Albuff [Elbeuf] in France. I came to Albuff as a replacement. They were shelling the town and we were told to dig in for the night. The following morning they were shelling us again. I was so scared, nerves and trembling, that at the time the other replacements moved out, I couldn’t move. I stayed there in my fox hole till it was quiet and I was able to move. I then walked into town. Not seeing any of our troops, so I stayed over night at a French hospital. The next morning I turned myself over to the Canadian Provost Corp. After being with them six weeks I was turned over to American M.R. They turned me loose. I told my commanding officer my story. I said that if I had to go out there again I'd run away. He said there was nothing he could do for me so I ran away again AND I'LL RUN AWAY AGAIN IF I HAVE TO GO OUT THERE.—Signed Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik A.S.N. 36896415[4]The cook summoned his company commander and an MP, who read the note and urged Slovik to destroy it before he was taken into custody, which Slovik refused. He was brought beforeLieutenant Colonel Ross Henbest, who again offered him the opportunity to tear up the note, return to his unit, and face no further charges. After Slovik again refused, Henbest ordered Slovik to write another note on the back of the first one stating that he fully understood the legal consequences of deliberately incriminating himself with the note and that it would be used as evidence against him in a court martial.Slovik was taken into custody and confined to the division stockade. The divisional judge advocate, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Sommer, again offered Slovik an opportunity to rejoin his unit and have the charges against him suspended. He offered to transfer Slovik to a different infantry regiment where no one would know of his past and he could start with a "clean slate". Slovik, convinced that he would face only jail time, which he had experienced and found preferable to combat, declined these offers, saying, "I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.">
The court martial found Eddie guilty of desertion and he was given the death penalty. He appealed, and his appeal was heard by Eisenhower, who declined to commute the sentence. On this day, in 1945, Eddie was executed by firing squad. Nobody could be excused from fighting, but the death penalty is normally reserved for crimes like rape, murder or desertion under fire. Eddie had not done any of those things. It is unlikely President Truman cared. Within months of the sentence being carried out, fighting stopped.
Eddie merely wanted to live, but was still willing to serve. In contrast, Knox merely wants to get away with murder. Knox does not face a death penalty. There is no doubt about Tsarnaev's terrorist activity, only his justification of which there is no excuse. People have died from the activity of the ABC and ALP, that should not be excused.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 314, Silvester I began his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. 1504, France ceded Naples to Aragon. 1606, Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes was executed for plotting against Parliament and King James. 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opened at London Lock Hospital. 1801, John Marshall was appointed the Chief Justice of the United States. 1814, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas became Supreme Director of Argentina. 1846, after the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1848, John C. Frémont was Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. 1849, Corn Laws were abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846. 1862, Alvan Graham Clark discovered the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. 1865, American Civil War: The United States Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submitted it to the states for ratification. Also 1865, American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee became general-in-chief. 1867, Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam left Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria. 1891, History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
In 1900, Datu Muhammad Salleh was assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion. 1915, World War I: Germany was the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. 1917, World War I: Germany announced that its U-boats would resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. 1918, a series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night led to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1919, the Battle of George Square took place in Glasgow, Scotland. 1929, the Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky. 1930, 3M began marketing Scotch Tape.
In 1942, World War II: Allied forces were defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreated to the island of Singapore. 1943, World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles. 1944, World War II: American forces landed on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. Also 1944, World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. 1945, US Army private Eddie Slovik was executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. Also 1945, World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp were forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. Also 1945, World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula. 1946, Yugoslavia's new constitution, modelling that of the Soviet Union, established six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). 1949, These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1953, a North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom 1957, Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California were killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. 1958, Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. Also 1958, James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen radiation belt. 1961, Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travelled into outer space. 1966, the Soviet Union launched the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. 1968, Viet Cong attacked the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. Also 1968, Nauru gained independence from Australia. 1971, Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lifted off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. Also 1971, the Winter Soldier Investigation, organised by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicise war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, began in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1990, the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opened in Moscow. 1995, President Bill Clinton authorised a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilise its economy. 1996, an explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. Also 1996, Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabiliser problems, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001, in the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicted Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquitted another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2003, the Waterfall rail accident occurred near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. 2007, Suspects were arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. 2009, in Kenya, at least 113 people were killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people. 2010, Avatar became the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide. 2011, a winter storm hit North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people. 2013, An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100.
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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.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, 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.
At half time in the Asian Cup final Australia leads 1-0 over South Korea. The goal went against the run of play with South Korea unfortunate not to have scored three, while Tim Cahill for Australia narrowly missed one. Whomever wins, soccer will be the winner, and history will be made. Soccer in Korea has ancient history, with a similar game, chuk-guk, being played before Europeans showed their ball skills. Still, South Korea has not won it since 1956. After 90 minutes, South Korea evened the scores, and an exhausted Australia faced extra time. Australia went 2-1 about twenty minutes into extra time.
A 20 yo woman has breast enlargement surgery. She has a cardiac arrest early in the surgery, but the surgeon proceeded after to do both breasts, not solely one. Patient is satisfied with outcome. Question needs to be asked who someone so young was having the augmentation surgery for cosmetic reasons? She would not have finished developing yet.
Not many are Charlie Hebdo now, with a German carnival dropping plans for a float featuring a cartoonist pushing pen into the barrel of a gun. Apparently the image was deemed too provocative to jihadists who continue to bring Islam into disrepute.
Amanda Knox is still free despite a 28 year conviction for murdering a flatmate in Italy. Obama's wars in Libya and Syria are going badly.
On this day in 1606, Guy Fawkes was executed for the gunpowder plot. In 1747, the world's first venereal disease clinic at London Lock Hospital opened. Treatment could involve injecting mercury through the urethra. In 1848, John C Fremont was courtmartialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. He was the original GOP leader to oppose slavery and, in losing the 1856 election, the Democrats supported by Know Nothings, with President James Buchanan, careered towards civil war. In 1865, US congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. In 1915, Germany became the first to use poison gas. They used it against Russia at the Battle of Bolimów. In 1930, 3M began manufacturing scotch tape. In 1950, the only President to have dropped an atom bomb on a civilian population twice, Democrat Harry S Truman, commissioned research for a hydrogen bomb. In 1958, the first successful launch of a satellite by the US coincided with James Van Allen discovering the Van Allen Belt of radiation which Earth has. In 2001, a Scottish court in the Netherlands convicted a Libyan bomber of the Lockerbie terror hit. In 2003, the Waterfall rail disaster continued an ALP NSW government tradition of deaths on trains (CF Granville and Berala rail tragedies).
2014
Several threads are discussing justice at the moment. Convicted US killer Amanda Knox is claiming to be confused because a court had mistakenly freed her. US prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in their prosecution of terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. ABC is defending it's well remunerated status attacking Australia while claiming to hate conservatives. ALP is defending it's many choices of facilitating corruption in the workplace, recently threatening the existence of Shepparton. It is illustrative to look at an abuse of power from WW2.
The US army in WW2 was different to what it is today. Today it is a volunteer force. In WW2, there was conscription. Eddie Slovik. Eddie (born 1920) was from a Polish American family in Detroit. From age 12, he had been involved with petty theft, break and enter and disturbing the peace. He was paroled in '38 after crashing a car with two friends while drunk. He was jailed in '39. Paroled in '42, he became a book keeper for a plumber and married. Because of his convictions, he was unfit for duty, but soon after the first anniversary of his wedding, he was ruled fit. He was drafted. Trained until January '44 and sent to France in August '44.
Wikipedia reports
Canadian military police unit and remained with them for the next six weeks. Tankey wrote to their regiment to explain their absence before he and Slovik reported to their unit for duty on October 7, 1944. The US Army's rapid advance through France had caused many replacement soldiers to have trouble finding their assigned units, and so no charges were filed against Slovik or Tankey.The following day on October 8, Slovik informed his company commander, Captain Ralph Grotte, that he was "too scared" to serve in a front-line rifle company and asked to be reassigned to a rear area unit. He told Grotte that he would run away if he were assigned to a rifle unit, and asked his captain if that would constitute desertion. Grotte confirmed that it would. He refused Slovik's request for reassignment and sent him to a rifle platoon.[8]The next day, October 9, Slovik deserted from his infantry unit. His friend, John Tankey, caught up with him and attempted to persuade him to stay, but Slovik's only comment was that his "mind was made up". Slovik walked several miles to the rear and approached an enlisted cook at a headquarters detachment, presenting him with a note which stated:I, Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik, 36896415, confess to the desertion of the United States Army. At the time of my desertion we were in Albuff [Elbeuf] in France. I came to Albuff as a replacement. They were shelling the town and we were told to dig in for the night. The following morning they were shelling us again. I was so scared, nerves and trembling, that at the time the other replacements moved out, I couldn’t move. I stayed there in my fox hole till it was quiet and I was able to move. I then walked into town. Not seeing any of our troops, so I stayed over night at a French hospital. The next morning I turned myself over to the Canadian Provost Corp. After being with them six weeks I was turned over to American M.R. They turned me loose. I told my commanding officer my story. I said that if I had to go out there again I'd run away. He said there was nothing he could do for me so I ran away again AND I'LL RUN AWAY AGAIN IF I HAVE TO GO OUT THERE.—Signed Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik A.S.N. 36896415[4]The cook summoned his company commander and an MP, who read the note and urged Slovik to destroy it before he was taken into custody, which Slovik refused. He was brought beforeLieutenant Colonel Ross Henbest, who again offered him the opportunity to tear up the note, return to his unit, and face no further charges. After Slovik again refused, Henbest ordered Slovik to write another note on the back of the first one stating that he fully understood the legal consequences of deliberately incriminating himself with the note and that it would be used as evidence against him in a court martial.Slovik was taken into custody and confined to the division stockade. The divisional judge advocate, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Sommer, again offered Slovik an opportunity to rejoin his unit and have the charges against him suspended. He offered to transfer Slovik to a different infantry regiment where no one would know of his past and he could start with a "clean slate". Slovik, convinced that he would face only jail time, which he had experienced and found preferable to combat, declined these offers, saying, "I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.">
The court martial found Eddie guilty of desertion and he was given the death penalty. He appealed, and his appeal was heard by Eisenhower, who declined to commute the sentence. On this day, in 1945, Eddie was executed by firing squad. Nobody could be excused from fighting, but the death penalty is normally reserved for crimes like rape, murder or desertion under fire. Eddie had not done any of those things. It is unlikely President Truman cared. Within months of the sentence being carried out, fighting stopped.
Eddie merely wanted to live, but was still willing to serve. In contrast, Knox merely wants to get away with murder. Knox does not face a death penalty. There is no doubt about Tsarnaev's terrorist activity, only his justification of which there is no excuse. People have died from the activity of the ABC and ALP, that should not be excused.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 314, Silvester I began his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. 1504, France ceded Naples to Aragon. 1606, Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes was executed for plotting against Parliament and King James. 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opened at London Lock Hospital. 1801, John Marshall was appointed the Chief Justice of the United States. 1814, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas became Supreme Director of Argentina. 1846, after the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1848, John C. Frémont was Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. 1849, Corn Laws were abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846. 1862, Alvan Graham Clark discovered the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. 1865, American Civil War: The United States Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submitted it to the states for ratification. Also 1865, American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee became general-in-chief. 1867, Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam left Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria. 1891, History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
In 1900, Datu Muhammad Salleh was assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion. 1915, World War I: Germany was the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. 1917, World War I: Germany announced that its U-boats would resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. 1918, a series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night led to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1919, the Battle of George Square took place in Glasgow, Scotland. 1929, the Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky. 1930, 3M began marketing Scotch Tape.
In 1942, World War II: Allied forces were defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreated to the island of Singapore. 1943, World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles. 1944, World War II: American forces landed on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. Also 1944, World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. 1945, US Army private Eddie Slovik was executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. Also 1945, World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp were forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. Also 1945, World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula. 1946, Yugoslavia's new constitution, modelling that of the Soviet Union, established six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). 1949, These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1953, a North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom 1957, Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California were killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. 1958, Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. Also 1958, James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen radiation belt. 1961, Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travelled into outer space. 1966, the Soviet Union launched the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. 1968, Viet Cong attacked the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. Also 1968, Nauru gained independence from Australia. 1971, Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lifted off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. Also 1971, the Winter Soldier Investigation, organised by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicise war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, began in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1990, the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opened in Moscow. 1995, President Bill Clinton authorised a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilise its economy. 1996, an explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. Also 1996, Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabiliser problems, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001, in the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicted Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquitted another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2003, the Waterfall rail accident occurred near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. 2007, Suspects were arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. 2009, in Kenya, at least 113 people were killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people. 2010, Avatar became the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide. 2011, a winter storm hit North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people. 2013, An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100.
===
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, 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.