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NBC trusted journalist Brian Williams, confesses to lying for years and often about being on a helicopter which survived an RPG attack. There is still no evidence he is a conservative and so he might not get fired.
Two WA back benchers, Luke Simpkins and Don Randall, have declared they will nominate a spill motion for the leadership of the Liberal Party on Tuesday 10/2/15. In all likelihood the spill will elect Mr Abbott unopposed. It is possible another might choose to run against Mr Abbott. The leaks and undermining is not tenable for long term party survival in government. In 2007, such leaks as came from Costello and allegedly Turnbull, brought down the Howard government. It was, as Mr Howard later acknowledged, a mistake which Mr Howard made. But the Howard and Costello leadership tangle is very far from the Liberal Party's issues at the moment. There is a lot of front bench talent and back bench, but the problem the party has is getting legislation past the economic vandals of the Senate. In fact the government has done well, but for that issue, and have even successfully got key measures through the Senate. Although Mr Abbott has been put into a position of claiming Knighting the Duke of Edinburgh as a mistake, it wasn't, it was a healthy choice. The confected outrage shields the incompetent and corrupt Shorten from criticism.
There will always be some division in the conservative party, it is how it is constructed. Not all conservatives agree on everything all the time. However, the current levels of division are deliberate and the aim is to destabilise the leadership. Mr Turnbull was not a good leader of the party in the past. He had the loyalty of the party in being dedicated to conservative issues, but he didn't do that, embracing the carbon tax and faux excuse of anthropogenic global warming. The timing of it is abysmal for the Liberal Party, and it is likely to cruel election hopes in NSW as it did in Queensland and Victoria. Victoria's issues were partly self inflicted. The timing of it suggests it might not be Mr Turnbull behind it, but rather the partisan media inflating routine issues. It is never hard for a Liberal to be heard on any issue, all they need do is criticise the Liberal Party.
On this day in 1649, following the beheading of his dad, Charles I, Charles II was declared king by the parliament of Scotland, but not England or Ireland. England was to become a 'protectorate' for ten years. In 1685, Charles died and his brother James II became king on this day. In 1815, NJ gave the first railroad charter to inventor John Stevens. Stevens had fought under Washington before becoming an inventor who made the first steam locomotive and helped influence US Patent law. In 1819, Raffles founded Singapore. In 1820, former slaves, African Americans, 86 in number, were sent from NY to Liberia. In 1840, the signing of the treaty of Waitangi began NZ. In 1843, the first minstrel show began in the US. In 1851, Australia hosted the largest bush fires in history in a populous region (Victoria). In 1862, US Grant gave Union forces their first victory of the Civil War at Fort Henry Tennessee. In 1899, The treaty of Paris made peace between the US and Spain and called for the Hague to host an international arbitration court the next year. In 1918, British women over thirty years old, got the vote, thus denying it to all who had lied about their age. In 1952, following the death of her father, Elizabeth II became Queen Regnant at a tree house in Kenya (nine years later, Obama was born). In 1978, the Blizzard of 78 dumped snow on New England. In 1988, Michael Jordan inspired Air Jordan with a slam dunk.
2014
The massacre of My Lai was raised by Ray Martin recently on Q&A in the context of reporting stories. According to Ray, if the ABC were not biased, then such incidents would not be reported. So it is worth looking at what happened then, and how it was reported by the biased press of the day. It is worth remembering that the then President of the US was Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson. Johnson was more incompetent than Kennedy had been. As President, he disliked and distrusted the military. He once ordered a secret service agent to stand in the shower, and then urinated on him. It was apparently an accident by the secret service which had killed Kennedy. Press were keen to support Democrats and amplified the peace movement to let the President know 'what was really going on' in Vietnam. Johnson was keen to hold off Bobby Kennedy as President, but when Bobby was assassinated, LBJ retired after one term and one year. But as of Feb '68, LBJ was President and determined to keep the job and that meant resolving the fighting in Vietnam.
In Vietnam, the failed Tet Offensive had ruined the North's capacity to wage standing battles. But covert operations were still damaging. The guerrilla tactics included women and children and US troops were poorly equipped to handle the vagaries of civil war. A few villages were identified as being targets and orders were given which were ambiguous, but interpreted by some officers on the ground as 'kill everyone.' Some soldiers refused to follow orders, and attempted to hide some of the women and children, but failed.
Following the massacre, Democrat Congressmen Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, denounced the soldiers who had tried to save women and children as traitors. However, soldiers continued to protest the action and an investigation was held. The action was held on March 16th. On March 28th a report labelled it a success. Six months later, a soldier wrote to a general of their concern at the casual killing of civilians. Colin Powell was then appointed to investigate. It is claimed he attempted to whitewash it.
In March of '69, after LBJ had retired and Nixon was President, GOP Barry Goldwater urged the house armed services committee to investigate a letter he'd received from one of the soldiers who had been present at the massacre. Only after a report was tabled in November '69 was the incident reported. So why does Ray Martin believe that the bias of the ABC was essential for reporting on the massacre? Was it for covering up the massacre until a Republican was President?
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1649, the claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland was declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland. 1685, James II of England and VII of Scotland became King upon the death of his brother Charles II. 1778, American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce were signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic. 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
In 1806, Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean. 1815, New Jersey granted the first American railroad charter to John Stevens. 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore. 1820, the first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society departed New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia. 1833, Otto became the first modern King of Greece. 1840, signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, established New Zealand as a British colony. 1843, the first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opened (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). 1851, the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history took place in the state of Victoria. 1862, American Civil War: forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote gave the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry. 1899, Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, was ratified by the United States Senate.
In 1900, the international arbitration court at The Hague was created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratified an 1899 peace conference decree. 1914, the Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, took place in Sweden 1918, British women over the age of 30 got the right to vote. 1919, the five-day Seattle General Strike began. 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. 1934, Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, created a political crisis in France. 1942, World War II: The United Kingdom declared war on Thailand.
In 1951, the Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derailed near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident killed 85 people and injured over 500 more. The wreck was one of the worst rail disasters in American history. 1952, Elizabeth II became queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. 1958, eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers were killed in the Munich air disaster. 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. Also 1959, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile was accomplished. 1975, a crucial by-election was held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka. 1976, in testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. 1978, the Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
In 1981, the National Resistance Army of Uganda launched an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. 1987, justice Mary Gaudron was appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed. 1988, Michael Jordan made his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. 1989, the Round Table Talks started in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. 1996, Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, caused over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. Also 1996, Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane were killed. This was the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757. 1998, Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. 2000, Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. 2012, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
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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, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
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NBC trusted journalist Brian Williams, confesses to lying for years and often about being on a helicopter which survived an RPG attack. There is still no evidence he is a conservative and so he might not get fired.
Two WA back benchers, Luke Simpkins and Don Randall, have declared they will nominate a spill motion for the leadership of the Liberal Party on Tuesday 10/2/15. In all likelihood the spill will elect Mr Abbott unopposed. It is possible another might choose to run against Mr Abbott. The leaks and undermining is not tenable for long term party survival in government. In 2007, such leaks as came from Costello and allegedly Turnbull, brought down the Howard government. It was, as Mr Howard later acknowledged, a mistake which Mr Howard made. But the Howard and Costello leadership tangle is very far from the Liberal Party's issues at the moment. There is a lot of front bench talent and back bench, but the problem the party has is getting legislation past the economic vandals of the Senate. In fact the government has done well, but for that issue, and have even successfully got key measures through the Senate. Although Mr Abbott has been put into a position of claiming Knighting the Duke of Edinburgh as a mistake, it wasn't, it was a healthy choice. The confected outrage shields the incompetent and corrupt Shorten from criticism.
There will always be some division in the conservative party, it is how it is constructed. Not all conservatives agree on everything all the time. However, the current levels of division are deliberate and the aim is to destabilise the leadership. Mr Turnbull was not a good leader of the party in the past. He had the loyalty of the party in being dedicated to conservative issues, but he didn't do that, embracing the carbon tax and faux excuse of anthropogenic global warming. The timing of it is abysmal for the Liberal Party, and it is likely to cruel election hopes in NSW as it did in Queensland and Victoria. Victoria's issues were partly self inflicted. The timing of it suggests it might not be Mr Turnbull behind it, but rather the partisan media inflating routine issues. It is never hard for a Liberal to be heard on any issue, all they need do is criticise the Liberal Party.
On this day in 1649, following the beheading of his dad, Charles I, Charles II was declared king by the parliament of Scotland, but not England or Ireland. England was to become a 'protectorate' for ten years. In 1685, Charles died and his brother James II became king on this day. In 1815, NJ gave the first railroad charter to inventor John Stevens. Stevens had fought under Washington before becoming an inventor who made the first steam locomotive and helped influence US Patent law. In 1819, Raffles founded Singapore. In 1820, former slaves, African Americans, 86 in number, were sent from NY to Liberia. In 1840, the signing of the treaty of Waitangi began NZ. In 1843, the first minstrel show began in the US. In 1851, Australia hosted the largest bush fires in history in a populous region (Victoria). In 1862, US Grant gave Union forces their first victory of the Civil War at Fort Henry Tennessee. In 1899, The treaty of Paris made peace between the US and Spain and called for the Hague to host an international arbitration court the next year. In 1918, British women over thirty years old, got the vote, thus denying it to all who had lied about their age. In 1952, following the death of her father, Elizabeth II became Queen Regnant at a tree house in Kenya (nine years later, Obama was born). In 1978, the Blizzard of 78 dumped snow on New England. In 1988, Michael Jordan inspired Air Jordan with a slam dunk.
2014
The massacre of My Lai was raised by Ray Martin recently on Q&A in the context of reporting stories. According to Ray, if the ABC were not biased, then such incidents would not be reported. So it is worth looking at what happened then, and how it was reported by the biased press of the day. It is worth remembering that the then President of the US was Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson. Johnson was more incompetent than Kennedy had been. As President, he disliked and distrusted the military. He once ordered a secret service agent to stand in the shower, and then urinated on him. It was apparently an accident by the secret service which had killed Kennedy. Press were keen to support Democrats and amplified the peace movement to let the President know 'what was really going on' in Vietnam. Johnson was keen to hold off Bobby Kennedy as President, but when Bobby was assassinated, LBJ retired after one term and one year. But as of Feb '68, LBJ was President and determined to keep the job and that meant resolving the fighting in Vietnam.
In Vietnam, the failed Tet Offensive had ruined the North's capacity to wage standing battles. But covert operations were still damaging. The guerrilla tactics included women and children and US troops were poorly equipped to handle the vagaries of civil war. A few villages were identified as being targets and orders were given which were ambiguous, but interpreted by some officers on the ground as 'kill everyone.' Some soldiers refused to follow orders, and attempted to hide some of the women and children, but failed.
Following the massacre, Democrat Congressmen Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, denounced the soldiers who had tried to save women and children as traitors. However, soldiers continued to protest the action and an investigation was held. The action was held on March 16th. On March 28th a report labelled it a success. Six months later, a soldier wrote to a general of their concern at the casual killing of civilians. Colin Powell was then appointed to investigate. It is claimed he attempted to whitewash it.
In March of '69, after LBJ had retired and Nixon was President, GOP Barry Goldwater urged the house armed services committee to investigate a letter he'd received from one of the soldiers who had been present at the massacre. Only after a report was tabled in November '69 was the incident reported. So why does Ray Martin believe that the bias of the ABC was essential for reporting on the massacre? Was it for covering up the massacre until a Republican was President?
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1649, the claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland was declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland. 1685, James II of England and VII of Scotland became King upon the death of his brother Charles II. 1778, American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce were signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic. 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
In 1806, Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean. 1815, New Jersey granted the first American railroad charter to John Stevens. 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore. 1820, the first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society departed New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia. 1833, Otto became the first modern King of Greece. 1840, signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, established New Zealand as a British colony. 1843, the first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opened (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). 1851, the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history took place in the state of Victoria. 1862, American Civil War: forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote gave the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry. 1899, Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, was ratified by the United States Senate.
In 1900, the international arbitration court at The Hague was created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratified an 1899 peace conference decree. 1914, the Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, took place in Sweden 1918, British women over the age of 30 got the right to vote. 1919, the five-day Seattle General Strike began. 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. 1934, Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, created a political crisis in France. 1942, World War II: The United Kingdom declared war on Thailand.
In 1951, the Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derailed near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident killed 85 people and injured over 500 more. The wreck was one of the worst rail disasters in American history. 1952, Elizabeth II became queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. 1958, eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers were killed in the Munich air disaster. 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. Also 1959, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile was accomplished. 1975, a crucial by-election was held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka. 1976, in testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. 1978, the Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
In 1981, the National Resistance Army of Uganda launched an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. 1987, justice Mary Gaudron was appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed. 1988, Michael Jordan made his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. 1989, the Round Table Talks started in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. 1996, Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, caused over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. Also 1996, Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane were killed. This was the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757. 1998, Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. 2000, Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. 2012, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
===
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.