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A rumour doing the rounds has it that Malcolm Turnbull is close to Clive Palmer and as treasurer or leader could deliver the PUP support needed to pass legislation. Were that true it would be a staggering indictment against the Communications Minister for failing to do so previously. It highlights the worthless nature of Turnbull's assertion he has been loyal to the Liberal Party. Turnbull's apparent subversive behaviour has cost Liberals government in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and in '07 and '10 federally. If the rumour is not true, Turnbull would be useless as leader or treasurer too. The Liberal Party does not need a spill motion on Monday morning, they need a resignation from the Member of Wentworth. Maybe Turnbull feels that if he were leader then no one would leak against him? If so, then he does not understand the press.
There is a possibility that two Bali 9 inmates scheduled for execution won't be executed. Andrew Chan's and Myuran Sukumaran's former lawyer, who had been the one present when they were sentenced to be executed, has given testimony that the sentences were politically influenced. If this is true then the sentence has to be overturned because a judge is supposed to be unbiased. But then the news is supposed to be unbiased too. The Indonesian ambassador has downplayed the possibility, saying that the various appeals had been heard at the highest levels of Indonesian government. But then that is the allegation too.
Kayla Jean Mueller, an aid worker, 26, from Arizona working in Syria, had been kidnapped by ISIL death cult. She had been working for Spanish Doctors Without Borders. Held in captivity for eighteen months, the terrorists are claiming she was killed by a Jordanian air strike. Presumably that means her jailers were killed too.
2014
For a journalist, words are tools of trade. It goes to credibility if they don't write what they mean, as failure suggests they don't mean what they write. Andrew Bolt makes a good point about the ABC being savaged over a single issue by conservatives. The issue is either far wider, or it isn't an issue. I believe bias is a serious issue that needs to be addressed by the ABC. It colours their reporting in all aspects they have reach, which were it a privately owned corporation would be illegal. The reach of the ABC extends from foreigners hearing bias from international broadcasts through to children being inducted to hate conservatives. Political reporting is mere barracking on the ABC and it isn't out of place to hear, during an election where the ALP lose a seat to a conservative "We've lost another one." The issue extends to criminal justice where corruption is excused by those they support. People die from bad policy, but the ABC hold firm to those they favour. There are lots of ways it can improve, but those that apologise for ABC incompetence have only recently gotten past denial to acknowledge it is a serious issue.
It won't be hard to change the ABC, but it is inconceivable that current management won't change. Highly paid senior journalists who offer their opinion aren't necessary, and actually devalue the ABC. Better would be less experienced journalists held to a standard that is higher than it has been. Dame Leonie Kramer did some magnificent work in the early '80s. That could be a template for moving forward. First there needs to be acknowledgement of fault. The ABC has a long history, but not a proud one. The ABC was founded in hope that a fierce independent broadcaster could improve Australian politics. It never has (I recognise the bald statement, and welcome counter examples). It will take time. Let the work begin.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 421, Constantius III became co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 1238, the Mongols burned the Russian city of Vladimir. 1250, Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engaged Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. 1347, the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 ended with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos. 1575, Universiteit Leiden was founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis. 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. 1601, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebelled against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt was quickly crushed. 1693, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia was granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. 1726, the Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
In 1807, Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeated Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq 1817, Las Heras crossed the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain. 1837, Richard Johnson became the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate. 1855, the Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. 1856, Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolished slavery in Wallachia. 1865, in the United States, Delaware voters rejected the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and voted to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901.) 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. Also 1879, the England cricket team led by Lord Harris was attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney. 1885, the first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. 1887, the Dawes Act authorised the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
In 1904, Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China started the Russo-Japanese War. 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1915, D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles. 1922, President Warren G. Harding introduced the first radio in the White House. 1924, Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber took place in Nevada. 1942, World War II: Japan invaded Singapore. 1945, World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commenced Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. 1946, the first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, was published. 1948, the formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea was announced. 1949, Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary was sentenced for treason. 1950, the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, was established. 1952, Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. 1955, the Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolished the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired was to be distributed among the landless peasants.
In 1960, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants would take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". Also 1960, the first eight brass star plaques were installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1962, Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists were killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. 1963, travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba were made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. 1963, the First full Colour Television program in the World, publicly advertised, was broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. Also 1963, the regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem was overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and exploded, killing everyone aboard. 1968, American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, left three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. 1969, Allende meteorite fell near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. 1971, the NASDAQ stock market index opened for the first time. Also 1971, South Vietnamese ground troops launched an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. 1974, after 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returned to Earth. Also 1974, Military coup in Upper Volta. 1978, proceedings of the United States Senate were broadcast on radio for the first time.
In 1981, twenty-one association football spectators were trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC. 1983, the Melbourne dust storm hit Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud enveloped the city, turning day to night. 1986, Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people were killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collided with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people. 1993, General Motors sued NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups could easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day. 1996, the U.S. Congress passed the Communications Decency Act. Also 1996, the massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" took place. 2010, a freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggered a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers. 2013, A blizzard disrupted transportation and left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. 2014, a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia killed 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
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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.
===
A rumour doing the rounds has it that Malcolm Turnbull is close to Clive Palmer and as treasurer or leader could deliver the PUP support needed to pass legislation. Were that true it would be a staggering indictment against the Communications Minister for failing to do so previously. It highlights the worthless nature of Turnbull's assertion he has been loyal to the Liberal Party. Turnbull's apparent subversive behaviour has cost Liberals government in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and in '07 and '10 federally. If the rumour is not true, Turnbull would be useless as leader or treasurer too. The Liberal Party does not need a spill motion on Monday morning, they need a resignation from the Member of Wentworth. Maybe Turnbull feels that if he were leader then no one would leak against him? If so, then he does not understand the press.
There is a possibility that two Bali 9 inmates scheduled for execution won't be executed. Andrew Chan's and Myuran Sukumaran's former lawyer, who had been the one present when they were sentenced to be executed, has given testimony that the sentences were politically influenced. If this is true then the sentence has to be overturned because a judge is supposed to be unbiased. But then the news is supposed to be unbiased too. The Indonesian ambassador has downplayed the possibility, saying that the various appeals had been heard at the highest levels of Indonesian government. But then that is the allegation too.
Kayla Jean Mueller, an aid worker, 26, from Arizona working in Syria, had been kidnapped by ISIL death cult. She had been working for Spanish Doctors Without Borders. Held in captivity for eighteen months, the terrorists are claiming she was killed by a Jordanian air strike. Presumably that means her jailers were killed too.
2014
For a journalist, words are tools of trade. It goes to credibility if they don't write what they mean, as failure suggests they don't mean what they write. Andrew Bolt makes a good point about the ABC being savaged over a single issue by conservatives. The issue is either far wider, or it isn't an issue. I believe bias is a serious issue that needs to be addressed by the ABC. It colours their reporting in all aspects they have reach, which were it a privately owned corporation would be illegal. The reach of the ABC extends from foreigners hearing bias from international broadcasts through to children being inducted to hate conservatives. Political reporting is mere barracking on the ABC and it isn't out of place to hear, during an election where the ALP lose a seat to a conservative "We've lost another one." The issue extends to criminal justice where corruption is excused by those they support. People die from bad policy, but the ABC hold firm to those they favour. There are lots of ways it can improve, but those that apologise for ABC incompetence have only recently gotten past denial to acknowledge it is a serious issue.
It won't be hard to change the ABC, but it is inconceivable that current management won't change. Highly paid senior journalists who offer their opinion aren't necessary, and actually devalue the ABC. Better would be less experienced journalists held to a standard that is higher than it has been. Dame Leonie Kramer did some magnificent work in the early '80s. That could be a template for moving forward. First there needs to be acknowledgement of fault. The ABC has a long history, but not a proud one. The ABC was founded in hope that a fierce independent broadcaster could improve Australian politics. It never has (I recognise the bald statement, and welcome counter examples). It will take time. Let the work begin.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 421, Constantius III became co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 1238, the Mongols burned the Russian city of Vladimir. 1250, Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engaged Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. 1347, the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 ended with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos. 1575, Universiteit Leiden was founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis. 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. 1601, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebelled against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt was quickly crushed. 1693, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia was granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. 1726, the Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
In 1807, Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeated Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq 1817, Las Heras crossed the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain. 1837, Richard Johnson became the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate. 1855, the Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. 1856, Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolished slavery in Wallachia. 1865, in the United States, Delaware voters rejected the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and voted to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901.) 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. Also 1879, the England cricket team led by Lord Harris was attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney. 1885, the first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. 1887, the Dawes Act authorised the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
In 1904, Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China started the Russo-Japanese War. 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1915, D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles. 1922, President Warren G. Harding introduced the first radio in the White House. 1924, Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber took place in Nevada. 1942, World War II: Japan invaded Singapore. 1945, World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commenced Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. 1946, the first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, was published. 1948, the formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea was announced. 1949, Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary was sentenced for treason. 1950, the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, was established. 1952, Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. 1955, the Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolished the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired was to be distributed among the landless peasants.
In 1960, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants would take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". Also 1960, the first eight brass star plaques were installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1962, Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists were killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. 1963, travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba were made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. 1963, the First full Colour Television program in the World, publicly advertised, was broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. Also 1963, the regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem was overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and exploded, killing everyone aboard. 1968, American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, left three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. 1969, Allende meteorite fell near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. 1971, the NASDAQ stock market index opened for the first time. Also 1971, South Vietnamese ground troops launched an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. 1974, after 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returned to Earth. Also 1974, Military coup in Upper Volta. 1978, proceedings of the United States Senate were broadcast on radio for the first time.
In 1981, twenty-one association football spectators were trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC. 1983, the Melbourne dust storm hit Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud enveloped the city, turning day to night. 1986, Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people were killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collided with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people. 1993, General Motors sued NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups could easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day. 1996, the U.S. Congress passed the Communications Decency Act. Also 1996, the massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" took place. 2010, a freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggered a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers. 2013, A blizzard disrupted transportation and left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. 2014, a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia killed 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
===
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.