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It began with a whisper campaign against Credilin. She is part of Mr Abbott's office and that is nobody's business except Mr Abbott. She had brilliantly worked with Mr Abbott to keep the Libs disciplined in opposition. But the whispers overstated and undermined. The consistent message being reported to press over leaks about Credilin was that Mr Abbott was 'not listening, but only receiving a kind of line of policy ideas that Credilin wanted.' But Mr Abbott is not the weak or simple minded. Another non issue was the knighthood. The knighthood of Prince Philip was a reasonable call. But the opposition to it began with a tale to republican Turnbull's Monarchy views. And the press ran with it, again on an issue which is nobody's business considering what has been approved in the past. Words were thrown around claiming the appointment was un-Australian and an insult.
It is interesting to see conservative commentators on the wrong side of the heckling. Akerman, Devine, Blair and Bolt have consistently played a line at odds with a stable Liberal administration, saying they had had leaks. The leaks were clearly orchestrated. Mr Abbott was sidelined by the campaign and he had no choice but to reset it by admitting to a fault that wasn't present but allowed the oppositional allies to remain in fold. The spill motion was not Ruddock's fault, but the size of back bench hostility was untenable and so, despite excellent service, Ruddock lost the whip's position. And it wasn't Ruddock's fault, but the fault of the monkey grinder influencing some dumb back benchers. We have heard what some of those back benchers have had to say on issues and they are not on top of them. They quote some of the concerns of some vested interests and the press loved to inflate the stories and quotes to trash the government.
Following the spill, the government has moved to address the criticism, even though the criticism was misplaced. And some policies will be dumped so as to strengthen the campaign on others. But even so, Bolt got it wrong when he assumed his bigoted position that the knighthood was wrong was behind Mr Abbott's acceptance of criticism. Mr Bolt has never established that the appointment was wrong. It is just the campaign is strong against it. A campaign that was silent when Tendulkar was given an award by Gillard just a few years earlier. Tendulkar was worthy too.
The thing with destabilising campaigns is they don't easily or suddenly stop. Channel 9 news, as well as the others, is still inflating the criticism and lampooning the attempts to right the ship of state. Which is why Mr Turnbull has to resign. Mr Akerman is claiming Mr Abbott has to work much harder to not let the excellent NSW Government founder in March. Akerman's aim is wrong.
2014
There are many reasons to love and learn from history. But one doesn't learn from closing their mind to parts of it. To get the most, one needs to be open. On this day in 1925, Nome Alaska got a serum they needed for an epidemic of diphtheria. Diptheria is largely eradicated through vaccination in most developed nations. It is a highly contagious respiratory illness and is fatal between 5% and 10% of cases for fit people, but in children or those aged over 40, may be 20%. In 1925, Alaska had telephone contact with the world but were isolated and the best route was by dog sled. The lead dog in this instance was Balto, causing Balto to become more famous in 1925, through radio broadcasts of his progress, than Rin Tin Tin. Worth considering when some selfish anti vaccination advocate spreads their poison, or when some unvaccinated third world people choose to break laws and migrate at the expense of refugees.
On this day in 1493, Christopher Columbus, on board Niña wrote a letter about his discoveries in the New World. He had not sailed to India, where cargo of spice may have made him rich, but thanks to his letter, we have things like a potato, chocolate and corn. And the Americas got horses. And herpes. The resulting trade has not been fair, but an extraordinary blessing which has seen the world grow smaller and much, much richer. Anyone born on that day might have witnessed some terrible things. But all of them would be dead today. And anyone born today anywhere in the world will experience comfort and joys unimaginable to Christopher as he wrote his letter. Worth thinking about as some neo-Nazi socialist protectionist opposes free trade, freedom of the press (with the commensurate opposition to removing bias) and conservative, libertarian economic values.
Also born on this day, 1820, was Susan B Anthony. She opposed Slavery, supported Temperance of alcohol and votes for women. She was a criminal for voting for U.S. Grant for President. Nowadays, Democrats show more respect and use dead people to vote for whom they want elected, but back then, Susan was more honest .. and GOP. These days, we may wonder when it was that things changed, and progressive policy left conservative politics. In the US, the black vote is overwhelmingly Democrat. It comes back to a highly lauded huckster FDR who exploited white Democrat supporters who had used guns to remove aid from black peoples following a hurricane in Louisiana that Hoover had helped. FDR denounced Hoover for giving aid to black peoples and the southern white press lapped it up. The result was black institutions began backing Democrats for their political clout. During the Civil Rights years, JFK ordered a Democrat to let Black kids go to school. FDR was the Democrat exception and did nothing to change Democrat culture.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 590, Khosrau II was crowned king of Persia. 706, Byzantine emperor Justinian II had his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. 1113, Pope Paschal II issued a bill sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers. 1493, while on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus wrote an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. 1637, Ferdinand III became Holy Roman Emperor. 1690, Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire signed a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
In 1764, the city of St. Louis, Missouri was established. 1798, the Roman Republic was proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier 1804, the Serbian revolution began. 1835, the first constitutional law in modern Serbia was adopted. 1862, American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacked Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology was founded and offered the first Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. 1879, Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. 1891, Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) was founded. 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbour in Cuba, killing 274. This event led the United States to declare war on Spain.
In 1901, the association football club Alianza Lima was founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza. 1909, the Flores Theatre fire in Acapulco, Mexico killed 250. 1921, Kingdom of Romania established its legation in Helsinki. 1923, Greece became the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. 1925, 1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrived in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team. 1933, in Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shot Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who died of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
In 1942, World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. 1944, World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, began. Also 1944, World War II: The Narva Offensive began. 1945, World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden. 1946, ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 1949, Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they would eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1952, King George VI was buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. 1953, Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein. 1954, Canada and the United States agreed to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
In 1961, Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members. 1965, a new red-and-white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. 1971, the decimalisation of British coinage was completed on Decimal Day. 1972, Sound recordings were granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. Also 1972, José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, was overthrown by the military for the fourth time. 1976, the 1976 Constitution of Cuba was adopted by national referendum. 1979, Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation. 1982, the drilling rig Ocean Ranger sank during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers. 1989, Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had left Afghanistan.
In 1991, the Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, was signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. 1996, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashed into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people. 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), was arrested in Kenya. 2000, Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vented a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator failed. 2001, First draft of the complete human genome was published in Nature. 2003, Protests against the Iraq war took place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participated, making this the largest peace demonstration in history. 2013, a meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blew out windows and rocks buildings. This happened unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. 2014, Renaud Lavillenie of France broke Sergey Bubka's world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m.
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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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It began with a whisper campaign against Credilin. She is part of Mr Abbott's office and that is nobody's business except Mr Abbott. She had brilliantly worked with Mr Abbott to keep the Libs disciplined in opposition. But the whispers overstated and undermined. The consistent message being reported to press over leaks about Credilin was that Mr Abbott was 'not listening, but only receiving a kind of line of policy ideas that Credilin wanted.' But Mr Abbott is not the weak or simple minded. Another non issue was the knighthood. The knighthood of Prince Philip was a reasonable call. But the opposition to it began with a tale to republican Turnbull's Monarchy views. And the press ran with it, again on an issue which is nobody's business considering what has been approved in the past. Words were thrown around claiming the appointment was un-Australian and an insult.
It is interesting to see conservative commentators on the wrong side of the heckling. Akerman, Devine, Blair and Bolt have consistently played a line at odds with a stable Liberal administration, saying they had had leaks. The leaks were clearly orchestrated. Mr Abbott was sidelined by the campaign and he had no choice but to reset it by admitting to a fault that wasn't present but allowed the oppositional allies to remain in fold. The spill motion was not Ruddock's fault, but the size of back bench hostility was untenable and so, despite excellent service, Ruddock lost the whip's position. And it wasn't Ruddock's fault, but the fault of the monkey grinder influencing some dumb back benchers. We have heard what some of those back benchers have had to say on issues and they are not on top of them. They quote some of the concerns of some vested interests and the press loved to inflate the stories and quotes to trash the government.
Following the spill, the government has moved to address the criticism, even though the criticism was misplaced. And some policies will be dumped so as to strengthen the campaign on others. But even so, Bolt got it wrong when he assumed his bigoted position that the knighthood was wrong was behind Mr Abbott's acceptance of criticism. Mr Bolt has never established that the appointment was wrong. It is just the campaign is strong against it. A campaign that was silent when Tendulkar was given an award by Gillard just a few years earlier. Tendulkar was worthy too.
The thing with destabilising campaigns is they don't easily or suddenly stop. Channel 9 news, as well as the others, is still inflating the criticism and lampooning the attempts to right the ship of state. Which is why Mr Turnbull has to resign. Mr Akerman is claiming Mr Abbott has to work much harder to not let the excellent NSW Government founder in March. Akerman's aim is wrong.
2014
There are many reasons to love and learn from history. But one doesn't learn from closing their mind to parts of it. To get the most, one needs to be open. On this day in 1925, Nome Alaska got a serum they needed for an epidemic of diphtheria. Diptheria is largely eradicated through vaccination in most developed nations. It is a highly contagious respiratory illness and is fatal between 5% and 10% of cases for fit people, but in children or those aged over 40, may be 20%. In 1925, Alaska had telephone contact with the world but were isolated and the best route was by dog sled. The lead dog in this instance was Balto, causing Balto to become more famous in 1925, through radio broadcasts of his progress, than Rin Tin Tin. Worth considering when some selfish anti vaccination advocate spreads their poison, or when some unvaccinated third world people choose to break laws and migrate at the expense of refugees.
On this day in 1493, Christopher Columbus, on board Niña wrote a letter about his discoveries in the New World. He had not sailed to India, where cargo of spice may have made him rich, but thanks to his letter, we have things like a potato, chocolate and corn. And the Americas got horses. And herpes. The resulting trade has not been fair, but an extraordinary blessing which has seen the world grow smaller and much, much richer. Anyone born on that day might have witnessed some terrible things. But all of them would be dead today. And anyone born today anywhere in the world will experience comfort and joys unimaginable to Christopher as he wrote his letter. Worth thinking about as some neo-Nazi socialist protectionist opposes free trade, freedom of the press (with the commensurate opposition to removing bias) and conservative, libertarian economic values.
Also born on this day, 1820, was Susan B Anthony. She opposed Slavery, supported Temperance of alcohol and votes for women. She was a criminal for voting for U.S. Grant for President. Nowadays, Democrats show more respect and use dead people to vote for whom they want elected, but back then, Susan was more honest .. and GOP. These days, we may wonder when it was that things changed, and progressive policy left conservative politics. In the US, the black vote is overwhelmingly Democrat. It comes back to a highly lauded huckster FDR who exploited white Democrat supporters who had used guns to remove aid from black peoples following a hurricane in Louisiana that Hoover had helped. FDR denounced Hoover for giving aid to black peoples and the southern white press lapped it up. The result was black institutions began backing Democrats for their political clout. During the Civil Rights years, JFK ordered a Democrat to let Black kids go to school. FDR was the Democrat exception and did nothing to change Democrat culture.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 590, Khosrau II was crowned king of Persia. 706, Byzantine emperor Justinian II had his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. 1113, Pope Paschal II issued a bill sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers. 1493, while on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus wrote an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. 1637, Ferdinand III became Holy Roman Emperor. 1690, Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire signed a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
In 1764, the city of St. Louis, Missouri was established. 1798, the Roman Republic was proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier 1804, the Serbian revolution began. 1835, the first constitutional law in modern Serbia was adopted. 1862, American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacked Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology was founded and offered the first Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. 1879, Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. 1891, Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) was founded. 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbour in Cuba, killing 274. This event led the United States to declare war on Spain.
In 1901, the association football club Alianza Lima was founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza. 1909, the Flores Theatre fire in Acapulco, Mexico killed 250. 1921, Kingdom of Romania established its legation in Helsinki. 1923, Greece became the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. 1925, 1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrived in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team. 1933, in Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shot Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who died of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
In 1942, World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. 1944, World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, began. Also 1944, World War II: The Narva Offensive began. 1945, World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden. 1946, ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 1949, Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they would eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1952, King George VI was buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. 1953, Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein. 1954, Canada and the United States agreed to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
In 1961, Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members. 1965, a new red-and-white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. 1971, the decimalisation of British coinage was completed on Decimal Day. 1972, Sound recordings were granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. Also 1972, José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, was overthrown by the military for the fourth time. 1976, the 1976 Constitution of Cuba was adopted by national referendum. 1979, Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation. 1982, the drilling rig Ocean Ranger sank during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers. 1989, Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had left Afghanistan.
In 1991, the Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, was signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. 1996, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashed into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people. 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), was arrested in Kenya. 2000, Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vented a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator failed. 2001, First draft of the complete human genome was published in Nature. 2003, Protests against the Iraq war took place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participated, making this the largest peace demonstration in history. 2013, a meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blew out windows and rocks buildings. This happened unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. 2014, Renaud Lavillenie of France broke Sergey Bubka's world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m.
===
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.