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Coexistence is natural. Only the demented or damaged can't. So reports of an artist who made a sign with coexistence being the word used, next to their image, being beaten up by people who didn't like the sign is illustrative. We don't know the ethnicity of those who beat up the artists, as the artist won't say. Tim Blair suggests it is those pesky Presbyterians. It was in Paris.
It is always easy for a Liberal to be heard by the media, just criticise the Liberal party, as Queenslander Andrew Laming has found. One challenge to Laming is to outline the governments policy successes to date to those reporting his words.
Execution nears for nine in Kerobakan jail in Bali. Two Australians are among them and Australia's consulate staff have been summonsed to hear the process. Mr Abbott has done everything he can to have their lives spared, but the ABC cut his legs out from beneath him in Indonesia last year. If Mr Abbott is not successful, and he can be relied on to do what he can, then any flowers for the dead men should be sent to ABC studios, which can be found in Sydney's alternative district, but nowhere near the country.
Obama normalises anti Semitism. Caroline Glick writes
Today, the most outstanding example of Obama’s exploitation of anti-Semitic tropes to diminish US support for Israel is his campaign to delegitimize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the joint houses of Congress on March 3.
As we belatedly learned from a small correction at the bottom of a New York Times article on January 30, contrary to the White House’s claim, Netanyahu did not blindside Obama when he accepted Speaker of the House John Boehner’s invitation to address the Congress. He informed the White House of his intention to accept Boehner’s offer before he accepted it.
Netanyahu did not breach White House protocol.
He did not behave rudely or disrespectfully toward Obama.
The only one that behaved disrespectfully and rudely was Obama in his shabby and slanderous treatment of Netanyahu. It was Obama who peddled the lie that Netanyahu was using the speech not to legitimately present Israel’s concerns regarding the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran, but to selfishly advance his political fortunes on the back of America’s national security interests and the independence of its foreign policy.
It was Obama and Vice President Joe Biden who spearheaded efforts to coerce Democratic lawmakers to boycott Netanyahu’s speech by announcing that they would refuse to meet with the leader of the US’s closest ally in the Middle East during his stay in Washington.
So far only 15 members of the House and three Senators have announced their intention to boycott Netanyahu’s speech. But even if all the other Democratic lawmakers do attend his speech, the impact of Obama’s campaign to defame Netanyahu will long be felt.
First of all, if all goes as he hopes, the media and his party members will use his demonization of Netanyahu’s character as a means to dismiss the warnings that Netanyahu will clearly sound in his address.
Second, by boycotting Netanyahu and encouraging Democrats to do the same, Obama is mainstreaming the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement to isolate Israel.
Sad moments in Valentines day celebrations .. 1349, Several hundred Jews were burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population was forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg. 1400, Richard II died, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke. 1556, Thomas Cranmer was declared a heretic. 1779, James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. 1797, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar. 1929, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois. 1945, World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces began fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Also 1945, World War II: Navigational error led to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive. 1979, in Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnapped the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who was later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. 1981, Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub killed 48 people. 1989, Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. 1998, an oil tanker train collided with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120. 2005, Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. Also 2005, seven people were killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2014
Stateline NSW with Quentin Dempster ran opposition to amendments to crime legislation making mandatory sentences for judges on certain crimes occasioning death. They made the accusation that mandatory sentencing would mean fewer people would plead guilty for some crimes, and so criminal justice would cost more. As arguments go, it is similar to the one that says were the ABC not biased, it would not report responsibly on matters. A retrospective view shows considerable injustice without mandatory sentencing. Four years jail for killing an innocent bystander is light, although, at the time, that was the law. Similarly, a biased ABC has not been able to report responsibly on matters. The arguments they present are emotive. But, the community are demanding sensible government of the type the ALP could not provide.
It is Valentines Day and a time for reflection on matters of love. Everyone is a child of someone. It is a blessing and a privilege to have children, not undertaken as lightly or easily as they are produced. Children are resilient and can be raised right under extraordinary circumstances, but also falter and stumble over what seems like nothing. So the issue of child protection is important. It is all about choices, but those choices aren't always clear when present. A mother from a well to do family had a child with a wild guy. He was apparently a good father, but a lousy partner. He got involved with drugs. Her family got her a good house close to the dad so he could be present in raising the boy. But he became violent. He was violent to the mother, but she made the choice to keep his access to the boy so the boy would have a father in his life. This rings home for me as my father abandoned me several times in my life, partly because of my mother's choices. It is a cruel injustice the woman's faith and love were answered so badly by the father killing his son in a murder suicide. Not her fault, but his. It is Valentines Day, time to hold your loved ones tight.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 748, Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani took Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. 842, Charles the Bald and Louis the German swore the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages. 1014, Pope Benedict VIII crowned Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor. 1076, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. 1349, Several hundred Jews were burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population was forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg. 1400, Richard II died, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke. 1556, Thomas Cranmer was declared a heretic. 1778, the United States Flag was formally recognised by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. 1779, American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek was fought in Georgia. Also 1779, James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. 1797, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
In 1804, Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. 1831, Ras Marye of Yejju marched into Tigray and defeated and killed Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay. 1835, the original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, was formed in Kirtland, Ohio. 1849, in New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken. 1852, Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children (The National Children's Hospital in Dublin was founded over 30 years previously in 1821), was founded in London. 1855, Texas was linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas. 1859, Oregon was admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. 1876, Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, as did Elisha Gray. 1879, the War of the Pacific broke out when Chilean armed forces occupied the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta. 1899, Voting machines were approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
In 1900, Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invaded the Orange Free State. 1903, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor). 1912, Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state. Also 1912, in Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine was commissioned. 1918, the Soviet Union adopted the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar). 1919, the Polish–Soviet War began. 1920, the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. 1924, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). 1929, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1942, Battle of Pasir Panjang contributed to the fall of Singapore. 1943, World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia was liberated. Also 1943, World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launched a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia. 1944, World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. 1945, World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces began fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Also 1945, World War II: Navigational error led to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive. Also 1945, World War II: Mostar was liberated by Yugoslav partisans. Also 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations. 1946, the Bank of England was nationalised. 1949, the Knesset (Israeli parliament) convened for the first time. Also 1949, the Asbestos Strike began in Canada. The strike marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. 1950, Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigated the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army. 1956, the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union began in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemned Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
In 1961, Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, was first synthesized at the University of California. 1962, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy took television viewers on a tour of the White House. 1966, Australian currency was decimalised. 1970, the iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who was recorded. 1979, in Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnapped the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who was later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. 1981, Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub killed 48 people 1983, United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapsed. Its president, Jake Butcher, was later convicted of fraud. 1989, Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. 1989, Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. 1990, Ninety-two people were killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India. Also 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft took the photograph of planet Earth later it became famous as Pale Blue Dot. 1998, an oil tanker train collided with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
In 2000, the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. 2004, in a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapsed, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others. 2005, Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. Also 2005, seven people were killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City. Also 2005, YouTube was launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. 2008, Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries. 2011, as a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain began with a 'Day of Rage'.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
Coexistence is natural. Only the demented or damaged can't. So reports of an artist who made a sign with coexistence being the word used, next to their image, being beaten up by people who didn't like the sign is illustrative. We don't know the ethnicity of those who beat up the artists, as the artist won't say. Tim Blair suggests it is those pesky Presbyterians. It was in Paris.
It is always easy for a Liberal to be heard by the media, just criticise the Liberal party, as Queenslander Andrew Laming has found. One challenge to Laming is to outline the governments policy successes to date to those reporting his words.
Execution nears for nine in Kerobakan jail in Bali. Two Australians are among them and Australia's consulate staff have been summonsed to hear the process. Mr Abbott has done everything he can to have their lives spared, but the ABC cut his legs out from beneath him in Indonesia last year. If Mr Abbott is not successful, and he can be relied on to do what he can, then any flowers for the dead men should be sent to ABC studios, which can be found in Sydney's alternative district, but nowhere near the country.
Obama normalises anti Semitism. Caroline Glick writes
Today, the most outstanding example of Obama’s exploitation of anti-Semitic tropes to diminish US support for Israel is his campaign to delegitimize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the joint houses of Congress on March 3.
As we belatedly learned from a small correction at the bottom of a New York Times article on January 30, contrary to the White House’s claim, Netanyahu did not blindside Obama when he accepted Speaker of the House John Boehner’s invitation to address the Congress. He informed the White House of his intention to accept Boehner’s offer before he accepted it.
Netanyahu did not breach White House protocol.
He did not behave rudely or disrespectfully toward Obama.
The only one that behaved disrespectfully and rudely was Obama in his shabby and slanderous treatment of Netanyahu. It was Obama who peddled the lie that Netanyahu was using the speech not to legitimately present Israel’s concerns regarding the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran, but to selfishly advance his political fortunes on the back of America’s national security interests and the independence of its foreign policy.
It was Obama and Vice President Joe Biden who spearheaded efforts to coerce Democratic lawmakers to boycott Netanyahu’s speech by announcing that they would refuse to meet with the leader of the US’s closest ally in the Middle East during his stay in Washington.
So far only 15 members of the House and three Senators have announced their intention to boycott Netanyahu’s speech. But even if all the other Democratic lawmakers do attend his speech, the impact of Obama’s campaign to defame Netanyahu will long be felt.
First of all, if all goes as he hopes, the media and his party members will use his demonization of Netanyahu’s character as a means to dismiss the warnings that Netanyahu will clearly sound in his address.
Second, by boycotting Netanyahu and encouraging Democrats to do the same, Obama is mainstreaming the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement to isolate Israel.
Sad moments in Valentines day celebrations .. 1349, Several hundred Jews were burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population was forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg. 1400, Richard II died, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke. 1556, Thomas Cranmer was declared a heretic. 1779, James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. 1797, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar. 1929, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois. 1945, World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces began fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Also 1945, World War II: Navigational error led to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive. 1979, in Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnapped the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who was later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. 1981, Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub killed 48 people. 1989, Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. 1998, an oil tanker train collided with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120. 2005, Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. Also 2005, seven people were killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2014
Stateline NSW with Quentin Dempster ran opposition to amendments to crime legislation making mandatory sentences for judges on certain crimes occasioning death. They made the accusation that mandatory sentencing would mean fewer people would plead guilty for some crimes, and so criminal justice would cost more. As arguments go, it is similar to the one that says were the ABC not biased, it would not report responsibly on matters. A retrospective view shows considerable injustice without mandatory sentencing. Four years jail for killing an innocent bystander is light, although, at the time, that was the law. Similarly, a biased ABC has not been able to report responsibly on matters. The arguments they present are emotive. But, the community are demanding sensible government of the type the ALP could not provide.
It is Valentines Day and a time for reflection on matters of love. Everyone is a child of someone. It is a blessing and a privilege to have children, not undertaken as lightly or easily as they are produced. Children are resilient and can be raised right under extraordinary circumstances, but also falter and stumble over what seems like nothing. So the issue of child protection is important. It is all about choices, but those choices aren't always clear when present. A mother from a well to do family had a child with a wild guy. He was apparently a good father, but a lousy partner. He got involved with drugs. Her family got her a good house close to the dad so he could be present in raising the boy. But he became violent. He was violent to the mother, but she made the choice to keep his access to the boy so the boy would have a father in his life. This rings home for me as my father abandoned me several times in my life, partly because of my mother's choices. It is a cruel injustice the woman's faith and love were answered so badly by the father killing his son in a murder suicide. Not her fault, but his. It is Valentines Day, time to hold your loved ones tight.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 748, Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani took Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. 842, Charles the Bald and Louis the German swore the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages. 1014, Pope Benedict VIII crowned Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor. 1076, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. 1349, Several hundred Jews were burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population was forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg. 1400, Richard II died, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke. 1556, Thomas Cranmer was declared a heretic. 1778, the United States Flag was formally recognised by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. 1779, American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek was fought in Georgia. Also 1779, James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. 1797, French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
In 1804, Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. 1831, Ras Marye of Yejju marched into Tigray and defeated and killed Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay. 1835, the original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, was formed in Kirtland, Ohio. 1849, in New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken. 1852, Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children (The National Children's Hospital in Dublin was founded over 30 years previously in 1821), was founded in London. 1855, Texas was linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas. 1859, Oregon was admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. 1876, Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, as did Elisha Gray. 1879, the War of the Pacific broke out when Chilean armed forces occupied the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta. 1899, Voting machines were approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
In 1900, Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invaded the Orange Free State. 1903, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor). 1912, Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state. Also 1912, in Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine was commissioned. 1918, the Soviet Union adopted the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar). 1919, the Polish–Soviet War began. 1920, the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. 1924, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). 1929, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, were murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1942, Battle of Pasir Panjang contributed to the fall of Singapore. 1943, World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia was liberated. Also 1943, World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launched a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia. 1944, World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. 1945, World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces began fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Also 1945, World War II: Navigational error led to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive. Also 1945, World War II: Mostar was liberated by Yugoslav partisans. Also 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations. 1946, the Bank of England was nationalised. 1949, the Knesset (Israeli parliament) convened for the first time. Also 1949, the Asbestos Strike began in Canada. The strike marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. 1950, Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigated the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army. 1956, the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union began in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemned Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
In 1961, Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, was first synthesized at the University of California. 1962, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy took television viewers on a tour of the White House. 1966, Australian currency was decimalised. 1970, the iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who was recorded. 1979, in Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnapped the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who was later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. 1981, Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub killed 48 people 1983, United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapsed. Its president, Jake Butcher, was later convicted of fraud. 1989, Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. 1989, Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. 1990, Ninety-two people were killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India. Also 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft took the photograph of planet Earth later it became famous as Pale Blue Dot. 1998, an oil tanker train collided with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
In 2000, the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. 2004, in a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapsed, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others. 2005, Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. Also 2005, seven people were killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City. Also 2005, YouTube was launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. 2008, Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries. 2011, as a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain began with a 'Day of Rage'.
===
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.