Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2015 11:09:30 GMT
Two Australians, part of the Bali 9, are to be executed soon. The Australian government under Mr Abbott has done all that it can, but the ABC cut Australia's legs out from beneath her last year over ALP era espionage issues, and so Australia's negotiating advantage has been limited, and so these two will die.
Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are guilty as charged, and the charge has the death penalty. They had an opportunity to have their charges mitigated when they were first arrested, but the Australian legal team worked overtime to save Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush. Also, Myuran and Andrew were leaders who had co opted the others. Initially, they threatened the others to silence and stonewalled over those not caught who had supplied them. Because of that, anything they have done since means little, they will be executed. Apparently they have reformed their character, but that is not relevant to the charge and investigation. They were caught because of choices they made, and they will be executed because of choices they made after they were caught. It is a tragedy that they will be executed. But, Andrew Chan has become a Christian and if he holds to his faith he will rest in the Lord's arms. Now is the opportunity for him to declare he is not defeated, but alive and willing to serve until he goes home. Death is not the worst thing. Snivelling, cowering, regretting that one was caught from harming and killing others is much worse. Send flowers to the ABC who have organised this killing.
Meanwhile, an Al Jazeera Journalist has been deported from Egypt, where he had been convicted and sentenced for seven years for serving the Islamic Brotherhood. Greste had argued it was preposterous for him to have served the Brotherhood. However, the network he supported (Al Jazeera) and their content were undeniably favourable to the Brotherhood, and so, in Egypt's eyes, the case was water tight. The crime is not a minor one. People have died from the propaganda which arguably brings Islam into disrepute, but certainly lies about Israel.
In 1377, the Pope Gregory XI had different authority to the Pope of today. It included a standing army which he employed to sack Cesena, killing 3000 people on this day. Gregory would move from Avignon back to Italy and die there the next year. In 1534, Thomas Fitzgerald, second cousin to Henry VII, was executed by order of Henry VIII. Silken Thomas had misunderstood what was happening when his father was sentenced to be executed, and revolted against Henry VIII in Ireland. Thomas had captured a priest who acted as intermediary and had him executed, and so lost any allies to his cause. But he was a 'Cause Celebre' in Ireland after he was executed. In 1913, income tax was approved across the US from the 16th Amendment. In 1917, Germany's decision to resume submarine warfare resulted in the US breaking relations with Germany. In 1947, the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America was recorded at Yukon (-63.9 centigrade, -83.0 °F). 1959, music died with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. In 1967, Ronald Ryan was the last person to be executed in Australia, he was worthy of the sentence, having killed a serving officer. In 1969, terrorist Yasser Arafat was appointed head of the PLO. In 1971, NY Police officer Serpico was shot, probably by corrupt police officers, during a drug bust. In 1998, under Clinton's presidency, a low flying US plane accidentally cut a wire cable supporting a wire cable car, killing twenty people in Italy.
2014
Another outstanding decision by the Abbott government is being opposed by many. Seventy Million Dollars has been allocated towards giving public schools more independence in decision making. South Australia has not signed on yet because of an impending election campaign. News limited has reported that the outstanding decision is controversial and will be opposed by unions. It was important that the unionists were told that, or they might not have known. One might have thought that it is in union interests that their members do a good job and inspire children to achieve much.
The paper writes
The plan, which aims to get 25 per cent - or about 1500 - of government schools on board nationally over the next three years, will give principals more control over key areas such as staffing and budgets and reduce the power of teacher unions.
Precisely why the union powers are reduced from effective changes is not explained. Is it because unions control who works at the moment? Is it because unions decide how money is spent at the moment? If that is true it is outrageous, and must stop immediately. I want money to be spent on an excellent education for children, not on mindless power plays by unions. Which are the educational services that unions are diverting funding from? Why doesn't the paper tell us?
I have been illegally prevented from finding work in my profession for several years. Is it the unions behind that? If so, it would be a kindness for them to tell me why, and allow me, if I've offended them, to make amends. Natural justice suggests I should be allowed to exact compensation if they have not acted justly regarding my search for employment. It is nice, for all, that adults are running the shop. As Bolt mentioned today, one who does not show their love for family may be suspected when they claim to love all.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1112, Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence married, uniting the fortunes of those two states. 1377, more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena were slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). 1451, Sultan Mehmed II inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire. 1488, Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal landed in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. 1509, the Portuguese navy defeated a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India. 1534, Irish rebel Silken Thomas was executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
In 1637, Tulip mania collapsed in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. 1690, the colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas. 1706, during the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeated a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment. 1781, American Revolutionary War: British forces seized the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius. 1783, American Revolutionary War: Spain recognised United States independence. 1787, militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crushed the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts. 1807, a British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captured the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay. 1809, The Territory of Illinois was created by the 10th United States Congress. 1813, José de San Martín defeated a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence. 1825, Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus. 1830, the sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol. 1834, Wake Forest University was established. 1852, Justo José de Urquiza defeated Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros. 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race. 1897, the Greco-Turkish War broke out.
In 1900, Governor of Kentucky William Goebel died of a wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky. 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, authorising the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. 1916, Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. 1917, World War I: The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1918, the Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California began service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long. 1930, Communist Party of Vietnam was founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. 1931, the Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, killed 258. 1943, the USAT Dorchester was sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story. 1944, World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seized Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison. 1945, World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bombed Berlin, a raid which killed between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehoused another 120,000. Also 1945, World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth began a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. 1947, the lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), was recorded in Snag, Yukon.
In 1957, Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merged into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). 1958, founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. 1959, deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation. 1961, the United States Air Forces began Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. Also 1961, a protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turned into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars. 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1967, Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, was hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. 1969, in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
In 1971, New York Police Officer Frank Serpico was shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survived to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proved that NYPD officers tried to kill him. 1972, the first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. 1984, John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. Also 1984, Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B was launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1989, after a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigned as leader of the National Party, but staid on as president for six more months. Also 1989, a military coup overthrew Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. 1995, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 got underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1998, Karla Faye Tucker was executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. Also 1998, Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot caused the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cut the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. 2007, a Baghdad market bombing killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339.
===
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.
Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are guilty as charged, and the charge has the death penalty. They had an opportunity to have their charges mitigated when they were first arrested, but the Australian legal team worked overtime to save Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush. Also, Myuran and Andrew were leaders who had co opted the others. Initially, they threatened the others to silence and stonewalled over those not caught who had supplied them. Because of that, anything they have done since means little, they will be executed. Apparently they have reformed their character, but that is not relevant to the charge and investigation. They were caught because of choices they made, and they will be executed because of choices they made after they were caught. It is a tragedy that they will be executed. But, Andrew Chan has become a Christian and if he holds to his faith he will rest in the Lord's arms. Now is the opportunity for him to declare he is not defeated, but alive and willing to serve until he goes home. Death is not the worst thing. Snivelling, cowering, regretting that one was caught from harming and killing others is much worse. Send flowers to the ABC who have organised this killing.
Meanwhile, an Al Jazeera Journalist has been deported from Egypt, where he had been convicted and sentenced for seven years for serving the Islamic Brotherhood. Greste had argued it was preposterous for him to have served the Brotherhood. However, the network he supported (Al Jazeera) and their content were undeniably favourable to the Brotherhood, and so, in Egypt's eyes, the case was water tight. The crime is not a minor one. People have died from the propaganda which arguably brings Islam into disrepute, but certainly lies about Israel.
In 1377, the Pope Gregory XI had different authority to the Pope of today. It included a standing army which he employed to sack Cesena, killing 3000 people on this day. Gregory would move from Avignon back to Italy and die there the next year. In 1534, Thomas Fitzgerald, second cousin to Henry VII, was executed by order of Henry VIII. Silken Thomas had misunderstood what was happening when his father was sentenced to be executed, and revolted against Henry VIII in Ireland. Thomas had captured a priest who acted as intermediary and had him executed, and so lost any allies to his cause. But he was a 'Cause Celebre' in Ireland after he was executed. In 1913, income tax was approved across the US from the 16th Amendment. In 1917, Germany's decision to resume submarine warfare resulted in the US breaking relations with Germany. In 1947, the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America was recorded at Yukon (-63.9 centigrade, -83.0 °F). 1959, music died with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. In 1967, Ronald Ryan was the last person to be executed in Australia, he was worthy of the sentence, having killed a serving officer. In 1969, terrorist Yasser Arafat was appointed head of the PLO. In 1971, NY Police officer Serpico was shot, probably by corrupt police officers, during a drug bust. In 1998, under Clinton's presidency, a low flying US plane accidentally cut a wire cable supporting a wire cable car, killing twenty people in Italy.
2014
Another outstanding decision by the Abbott government is being opposed by many. Seventy Million Dollars has been allocated towards giving public schools more independence in decision making. South Australia has not signed on yet because of an impending election campaign. News limited has reported that the outstanding decision is controversial and will be opposed by unions. It was important that the unionists were told that, or they might not have known. One might have thought that it is in union interests that their members do a good job and inspire children to achieve much.
The paper writes
The plan, which aims to get 25 per cent - or about 1500 - of government schools on board nationally over the next three years, will give principals more control over key areas such as staffing and budgets and reduce the power of teacher unions.
Precisely why the union powers are reduced from effective changes is not explained. Is it because unions control who works at the moment? Is it because unions decide how money is spent at the moment? If that is true it is outrageous, and must stop immediately. I want money to be spent on an excellent education for children, not on mindless power plays by unions. Which are the educational services that unions are diverting funding from? Why doesn't the paper tell us?
I have been illegally prevented from finding work in my profession for several years. Is it the unions behind that? If so, it would be a kindness for them to tell me why, and allow me, if I've offended them, to make amends. Natural justice suggests I should be allowed to exact compensation if they have not acted justly regarding my search for employment. It is nice, for all, that adults are running the shop. As Bolt mentioned today, one who does not show their love for family may be suspected when they claim to love all.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1112, Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence married, uniting the fortunes of those two states. 1377, more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena were slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). 1451, Sultan Mehmed II inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire. 1488, Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal landed in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. 1509, the Portuguese navy defeated a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India. 1534, Irish rebel Silken Thomas was executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
In 1637, Tulip mania collapsed in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. 1690, the colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas. 1706, during the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeated a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment. 1781, American Revolutionary War: British forces seized the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius. 1783, American Revolutionary War: Spain recognised United States independence. 1787, militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crushed the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts. 1807, a British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captured the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay. 1809, The Territory of Illinois was created by the 10th United States Congress. 1813, José de San Martín defeated a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence. 1825, Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus. 1830, the sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol. 1834, Wake Forest University was established. 1852, Justo José de Urquiza defeated Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros. 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race. 1897, the Greco-Turkish War broke out.
In 1900, Governor of Kentucky William Goebel died of a wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky. 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, authorising the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. 1916, Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. 1917, World War I: The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1918, the Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California began service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long. 1930, Communist Party of Vietnam was founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. 1931, the Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, killed 258. 1943, the USAT Dorchester was sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story. 1944, World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seized Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison. 1945, World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bombed Berlin, a raid which killed between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehoused another 120,000. Also 1945, World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth began a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. 1947, the lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), was recorded in Snag, Yukon.
In 1957, Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merged into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). 1958, founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. 1959, deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation. 1961, the United States Air Forces began Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. Also 1961, a protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turned into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars. 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1967, Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, was hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. 1969, in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
In 1971, New York Police Officer Frank Serpico was shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survived to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proved that NYPD officers tried to kill him. 1972, the first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. 1984, John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. Also 1984, Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B was launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1989, after a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigned as leader of the National Party, but staid on as president for six more months. Also 1989, a military coup overthrew Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. 1995, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 got underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1998, Karla Faye Tucker was executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. Also 1998, Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot caused the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cut the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. 2007, a Baghdad market bombing killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339.
===
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.