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The leadership spill vote this morning for the Liberal party was predictable and sadly inconclusive. Because the conservative Liberal Party doesn't have group think, members have differing agenda, it makes what was probably Malcolm Turnbull's latest attempt so calculated and nasty. It is years in the making, and whispers are calculated for maximum damage sometimes go awry, and so successive state Liberal governments have foundered at election in QLD, Vic and SA, as well as in '07 and '10. A terrible allegation, and cheaply defended, but known for its' part in '07 and '10, where Turnbull had upset Costello's run in '07, and had fought to regain a challenging position since leading the leadership in '09. At the time, in '07, Costello had not seen it as his responsibility to dump on the ambitious Turnbull, as he viewed it as a modern party requiring planned succession and the game Howard put before him he scorned. Turnbull is talented, but it is easily overstated how talented he is. Turnbull can work inside colleagues and whisper and cajole because he has extraordinary resources he has earned. But he is only skilled at doing what he wants. Turnbull can undermine and promote difficulties, like PUP, who can be exploited for their prejudices exposing Liberal policy. But Turnbull has not got the gift of working with opposition to achieve the difficult, as Abbott has many times. Abbott was assaulted as Health Minister for his Catholic Views but he hadn't failed in his policy. When a possible son was discovered, Abbott welcomed the horrified Green Supporter. Abbott has worked in Aboriginal communities and with country fire fighters with equal aplomb. It is difficult imagining Turnbull having that grace. The leadership qualities of Mr Abbott were apparent when he lead world leaders over MH17 in Ukraine. And while one might not agree with him, one must recognise his character.
Malcolm Turnbull has not got that character. When given the leadership and faced with an agenda which would lead forward, Turnbull embraced climate alarmism. He was faced with Hockey and might still have been leader today had Hockey's dithering over the morality of a carbon tax not been belled by Abbott. But what followed is unacceptable from a loyal member. The memes of Mr Abbott being a 'Dr No' or women hating have been spun for the Liberal Party with backbenchers encouraged to liken responsible decision making to the hurtful memes. So that even press secretary Credilin is undermined in ways that are pernicious and plausible to those who don't know. Hockey's budget is not the problem, the measures asked for are essential. But the opposition from PUP and ALP mean that measures can't pass. Nothing that has been blocked is unreasonable or unsupportable. $7 for a doctor's visit is considered nothing elsewhere in the world. Reform is needed for education to keep it affordable. Changes need to be made to welfare to keep it. But Turnbull's whispers have it that a change in treasurer would mean the measures could pass. A change in treasurer, press secretary and leader is the promise. But a change in policy is the reality .. as well as a change in government, for the ALP to seize the reigns of government again while still unreformed, as they have in Qld and Vic. Turnbull is a moderate. He is a meaningless promise. Empty. Give him the honour of PM, and he will treat it as others treat a knighthood.
Turnbull cannot remain in government. He has nothing to offer except overweening pride.
2014
Today is the anniversary of the late unlamented Joseph McCarthy starting the second red scare in 1950 by declaring that many in the state department were communists. Akerman parallels McCarthy with the ABC, and I must say that McCarthy is better than that. McCarthy was right that there had been communist influences in the state department and throughout the US. He was wrong in the way he prosecuted the case, bulldozing freedoms we take for granted. By way of contrast, the ABC is wrong on every level to be partisan. Wrong in reporting favourably for the left when responsible journalists would take a balanced middle road. Wrong to ignore corruption festering among those she supports, or to denounce as corrupt on no basis those she opposes. McCarthy, by way of contrast, did what he was elected to do.
Miranda Devine has posted a few brilliant articles on drugs, Schapelle, our diggers and pedophiles .. no story connected. Our diggers deserve honour. Drugs are a scourge on society and druggies should go and die in Portugal where it is legal. Schapelle is over rated, apparently protecting drug dealers. There is a royal commission going on into pedophiles being protected through institutional abuse. I know this because I submitted to it on May 21st 2013 and have never heard back from it regarding my submission. I was so concerned, I approached a local member, and was emailed by a sergeant of the police who wrote that my testimony was of interest to the commission. Not having heard back from them is worrying for me, as I had written how desperate my circumstances were, being denied work in my profession and unable to find work elsewhere. I've never been unemployed since I was eighteen years old, often working three jobs and undertaking further study. But I've been unemployed for almost seven years now, The highly partisan press haven't investigated after senior ALP identities apparently asked them not to. If I don't hear favourably from the royal commission soon I will be forced to sell my home. I have no where to go. I live in the most deprived suburb in NSW.
Four months ago, my place was flooded for two days with raw sewage. My home contents, Allianz, did a good job, although I'm rope-able that they valued 340 of my largest books at $5 each, well below any replacement value. However GIO, my strata insurer, have delayed and obstructed, so that only part of the unit was repainted. They still have not done kitchen tiling .. they might begin tomorrow. When they begin, they will move my refrigerator and oven for two days. When they finish, they will have not gone near the cockroach hotel that the sewage fed in the kitchen. My tip is not to insure anything with GIO. They might be cheap with premiums, but if they aren't competent, you are better off not paying premiums.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 474, Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1555, Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper was burned at the stake. 1621, Gregory XV became Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1654, the Capture of Fort Rocher took place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775, American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declared Massachusetts in rebellion. 1788, the Habsburg Empire joined the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
In 1825, after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President of the United States. 1849, New Roman Republic established 1861, American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. 1870, US president Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889, US president Grover Cleveland signed a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1895, William G. Morgan created a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
In 1900, the Davis Cup competition was established. 1904, Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concluded. 1913, a group of meteors was visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920, under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognised Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designated it as demilitarised. 1922, Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1934, the Balkan Entente was formed. 1942, World War II: Top United States military leaders held their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war. Also 1942, year-round Daylight saving time was re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943, World War II: Allied authorities declared Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuated its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945, World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sank U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. Also 1945, World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
In 1950, Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. 1951, Korean War: Geochang massacre 1959, the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, became operational at Plesetsk, USSR. 1964, The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. 1965, Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, were sent to South Vietnam. 1969, first test flight of the Boeing 747.
In 1971, the Sylmar earthquake hit the San Fernando Valley area of California. Also 1971, Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. Also 1971, Apollo program: Apollo 14 returned to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. 1973, Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party was elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India. 1975, the Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returned to Earth. 1986, Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. 1991, voters in Lithuania vote for independence. 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army declared the end to its 18-month ceasefire and exploded a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
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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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The leadership spill vote this morning for the Liberal party was predictable and sadly inconclusive. Because the conservative Liberal Party doesn't have group think, members have differing agenda, it makes what was probably Malcolm Turnbull's latest attempt so calculated and nasty. It is years in the making, and whispers are calculated for maximum damage sometimes go awry, and so successive state Liberal governments have foundered at election in QLD, Vic and SA, as well as in '07 and '10. A terrible allegation, and cheaply defended, but known for its' part in '07 and '10, where Turnbull had upset Costello's run in '07, and had fought to regain a challenging position since leading the leadership in '09. At the time, in '07, Costello had not seen it as his responsibility to dump on the ambitious Turnbull, as he viewed it as a modern party requiring planned succession and the game Howard put before him he scorned. Turnbull is talented, but it is easily overstated how talented he is. Turnbull can work inside colleagues and whisper and cajole because he has extraordinary resources he has earned. But he is only skilled at doing what he wants. Turnbull can undermine and promote difficulties, like PUP, who can be exploited for their prejudices exposing Liberal policy. But Turnbull has not got the gift of working with opposition to achieve the difficult, as Abbott has many times. Abbott was assaulted as Health Minister for his Catholic Views but he hadn't failed in his policy. When a possible son was discovered, Abbott welcomed the horrified Green Supporter. Abbott has worked in Aboriginal communities and with country fire fighters with equal aplomb. It is difficult imagining Turnbull having that grace. The leadership qualities of Mr Abbott were apparent when he lead world leaders over MH17 in Ukraine. And while one might not agree with him, one must recognise his character.
Malcolm Turnbull has not got that character. When given the leadership and faced with an agenda which would lead forward, Turnbull embraced climate alarmism. He was faced with Hockey and might still have been leader today had Hockey's dithering over the morality of a carbon tax not been belled by Abbott. But what followed is unacceptable from a loyal member. The memes of Mr Abbott being a 'Dr No' or women hating have been spun for the Liberal Party with backbenchers encouraged to liken responsible decision making to the hurtful memes. So that even press secretary Credilin is undermined in ways that are pernicious and plausible to those who don't know. Hockey's budget is not the problem, the measures asked for are essential. But the opposition from PUP and ALP mean that measures can't pass. Nothing that has been blocked is unreasonable or unsupportable. $7 for a doctor's visit is considered nothing elsewhere in the world. Reform is needed for education to keep it affordable. Changes need to be made to welfare to keep it. But Turnbull's whispers have it that a change in treasurer would mean the measures could pass. A change in treasurer, press secretary and leader is the promise. But a change in policy is the reality .. as well as a change in government, for the ALP to seize the reigns of government again while still unreformed, as they have in Qld and Vic. Turnbull is a moderate. He is a meaningless promise. Empty. Give him the honour of PM, and he will treat it as others treat a knighthood.
Turnbull cannot remain in government. He has nothing to offer except overweening pride.
2014
Today is the anniversary of the late unlamented Joseph McCarthy starting the second red scare in 1950 by declaring that many in the state department were communists. Akerman parallels McCarthy with the ABC, and I must say that McCarthy is better than that. McCarthy was right that there had been communist influences in the state department and throughout the US. He was wrong in the way he prosecuted the case, bulldozing freedoms we take for granted. By way of contrast, the ABC is wrong on every level to be partisan. Wrong in reporting favourably for the left when responsible journalists would take a balanced middle road. Wrong to ignore corruption festering among those she supports, or to denounce as corrupt on no basis those she opposes. McCarthy, by way of contrast, did what he was elected to do.
Miranda Devine has posted a few brilliant articles on drugs, Schapelle, our diggers and pedophiles .. no story connected. Our diggers deserve honour. Drugs are a scourge on society and druggies should go and die in Portugal where it is legal. Schapelle is over rated, apparently protecting drug dealers. There is a royal commission going on into pedophiles being protected through institutional abuse. I know this because I submitted to it on May 21st 2013 and have never heard back from it regarding my submission. I was so concerned, I approached a local member, and was emailed by a sergeant of the police who wrote that my testimony was of interest to the commission. Not having heard back from them is worrying for me, as I had written how desperate my circumstances were, being denied work in my profession and unable to find work elsewhere. I've never been unemployed since I was eighteen years old, often working three jobs and undertaking further study. But I've been unemployed for almost seven years now, The highly partisan press haven't investigated after senior ALP identities apparently asked them not to. If I don't hear favourably from the royal commission soon I will be forced to sell my home. I have no where to go. I live in the most deprived suburb in NSW.
Four months ago, my place was flooded for two days with raw sewage. My home contents, Allianz, did a good job, although I'm rope-able that they valued 340 of my largest books at $5 each, well below any replacement value. However GIO, my strata insurer, have delayed and obstructed, so that only part of the unit was repainted. They still have not done kitchen tiling .. they might begin tomorrow. When they begin, they will move my refrigerator and oven for two days. When they finish, they will have not gone near the cockroach hotel that the sewage fed in the kitchen. My tip is not to insure anything with GIO. They might be cheap with premiums, but if they aren't competent, you are better off not paying premiums.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 474, Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1555, Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper was burned at the stake. 1621, Gregory XV became Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1654, the Capture of Fort Rocher took place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775, American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declared Massachusetts in rebellion. 1788, the Habsburg Empire joined the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
In 1825, after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President of the United States. 1849, New Roman Republic established 1861, American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. 1870, US president Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889, US president Grover Cleveland signed a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1895, William G. Morgan created a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
In 1900, the Davis Cup competition was established. 1904, Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concluded. 1913, a group of meteors was visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920, under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognised Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designated it as demilitarised. 1922, Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1934, the Balkan Entente was formed. 1942, World War II: Top United States military leaders held their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war. Also 1942, year-round Daylight saving time was re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943, World War II: Allied authorities declared Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuated its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945, World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sank U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. Also 1945, World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
In 1950, Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. 1951, Korean War: Geochang massacre 1959, the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, became operational at Plesetsk, USSR. 1964, The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. 1965, Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, were sent to South Vietnam. 1969, first test flight of the Boeing 747.
In 1971, the Sylmar earthquake hit the San Fernando Valley area of California. Also 1971, Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. Also 1971, Apollo program: Apollo 14 returned to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. 1973, Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party was elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India. 1975, the Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returned to Earth. 1986, Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. 1991, voters in Lithuania vote for independence. 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army declared the end to its 18-month ceasefire and exploded a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
===
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.