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NSW ALP are in total disarray. They have no policy on any issue which addresses a positive direction for NSW. The leadership does not know who to trust. They are willing to be disciplined in campaign, but they don't know what to say or do, beyond bad mouthing successful conservative policy. Prior to the 2011 election, ALP claimed it was not possible to improve public transport in NSW. They had no infrastructure plan. They had substantial debt. Schools were dysfunctional or elitist and it became harder to be a functional community school. Hospitals were struggling, needing to grow but starved of resources and few plans beyond occasional belt tightening and splurging which had blown out waiting lists. Police and judiciary were compromised with unwritten rules which made for embarrassing positions in public. Now, conservative government has shown it is possible to balance the budget, fund growth. improve public transport, education and hospitals while allowing the police and judiciary to be separate from the government and independent. The media have not known how to attack the government. They have tried to portray Mr Baird as being unreasonable for his faith. They have inflated issues and obfuscated. But the partisan press have not been able to point a policy direction for the unreformed NSW ALP.
Federal ALP are in disarray too, but because Rudd 'saved furniture' they are able to look powerful in blocking good administration. The anti Abbott campaign, led by the media has bitten, and public perception is that the federal Liberal Government is not very good despite its success in every sphere it controls. The partisan media very loudly direct campaigns against the federal government while they are largely quiet about the state NSW government. Both governments rely on independents to pass important legislation. for NSW it is Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats who are needed to get things past an incompetent ALP and Green alliance. Federally, PUP has been siding with the ALP and Greens. It is unlikely PUP voters thought that was how PUP would behave. Many are saying how Mr Abbott has to change. But Mr Abbott is not the problem, but a functioning cog in a good administration which is being blocked by the inept and corrupt.
NSW has problems with a corrupt judiciary too. The behaviour of the ICAC is no less outrageous than the HRC, no less partisan. And a partisan media with few that even pretend to be balanced make the problems worse. With an election six weeks away in NSW, it would be good to know what the ALP believes it has to offer. Sadly, he health or teachers unions are running campaigns when both are compromised by slush fund issues with the ALP. Is that what a vote for ALP is going to be? More corruption? More theft from union members? Are the ALP planning to not fund growth but use state assets to extend tax?
2014
Published in 1969, French Connection was about drug trafficking. Made into a popular movie for adults (rated R) in 1971, Calvin Klein began a business for fashion in 1972, and called it French Connection. The drug scheme involved transport of heroin through France to USA from Turkey. The money came from Nazi France. Violence. Nudity. The brand was hip and cool and international. A fax from French Connection Hong Kong to French Connection United Kingdom was sent in anagram form in '97, FCHK to FCUK. A brand was born. T-shirts soon sported "fcuk fashion", "hot as fcuk", "too busy to fcuk", "fcuk safely", in Australia, "no fcukin worries".
In 1987, I was busy and desperate, working several jobs to get through university, living in the Liverpool Motel and failing much. I visited a friend in Chatswood. We were hanging at the top of the station steps waiting for my train home. It was getting close to 11pm. A few police come by and order everyone onto the platform. I say my friend lived in Chatswood. They said "Go home." I say my friend lived in Chatswood, but I was catching a train home." One police officer smirked and said "Why, just so you can hold hands?" and I told the two police men to fuck off. I was about twenty years old and did not know what to expect. I was arrogant. My friend was scared, and bolted, as the senior constable unbuttoned his sidearm and rested his hand on the undrawn weapon, and approached me, eyeballing me. He ordered me to produce ID. I had my university library card and a train ticket. They escorted me onto the platform and wanted to know where I was living. I lived in the Liverpool Motel, but felt a friend's place in Lindfield was closer. The two policemen explained they could take me to the station and charge me with obstruction, or take me to a back alley and beat me up if I continued to act smart. It was a humbling introduction to ALP Premier Unsworth's Sydney. I'd never interacted with police before. It illustrates how quickly standards get corroded by pop culture, where a mere twelve years later an arrest able offence became hip and cool and edgy.
Another brand began on this day in 1937. Nylon. Made up of two cities NY and LONdon, according to pop culture. Although it wasn't named that way. It was named after cotton and Rayon, so it ended with ON. NYL was accidental, it was going to be called NURON as in 'no run' but sounded too much like a nerve tonic. But I was born in NYC and my Nanna was born in London. I don't think I will be able to patent that name for any children I might have. But I'm really good on the right pair of legs.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 116, Emperor Trajan sent laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. 1249, Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. 1270, Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. 1630, Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck captured Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. 1646, Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War. 1699, first Leopoldine Diploma was issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognising the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
In 1742, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, became British Prime Minister. 1804, First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur led a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. 1852, Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, was established. 1862, American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1866, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington became British Secretary of State for War. 1874, Silver Dollar became legal US tender. 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway was incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). 1899, Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, was founded.
In 1918, the Council of Lithuania unanimously adopted the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1930, the Romanian Football Federation joined FIFA. 1934, the Austrian Civil War ended with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund. 1936, elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. 1937, Wallace H. Carothers received a United States patent for nylon.
In 1940, World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark was boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners were freed. 1943, World War II: Red Army troops re-entered Kharkov. Also 1943, World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. 1945, World War II: American forces landed on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. 1957, the "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm was abolished in the United Kingdom. 1959, Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
In 1960, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton began Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, began the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961, Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) was launched. Also 1961, the DuSable Museum of African American History was chartered. 1962, Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany killed 315 and destroyed the homes of about 60,000 people. 1968, in Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system went into service. 1978, the first computer bulletin board system was created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). 1983, the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia killed 75. 1985, Hezbollah was founded. 1986, the Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 1987, the trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, started in Jerusalem.
In 1991, Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez was assassinated in Managua. 1998, China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. 1999, in Uzbekistan, a bomb exploded and gunfire was heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov. Also 1999, across Europe, Kurdish rebels took over embassies and held hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan. 2005, the Kyoto Protocol came into force, following its ratification by Russia. Also 2005, the National Hockey League canceled the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs. 2006, the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the United States Army. 2013, a bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan killed more than 80 people and injured 190 others.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
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NSW ALP are in total disarray. They have no policy on any issue which addresses a positive direction for NSW. The leadership does not know who to trust. They are willing to be disciplined in campaign, but they don't know what to say or do, beyond bad mouthing successful conservative policy. Prior to the 2011 election, ALP claimed it was not possible to improve public transport in NSW. They had no infrastructure plan. They had substantial debt. Schools were dysfunctional or elitist and it became harder to be a functional community school. Hospitals were struggling, needing to grow but starved of resources and few plans beyond occasional belt tightening and splurging which had blown out waiting lists. Police and judiciary were compromised with unwritten rules which made for embarrassing positions in public. Now, conservative government has shown it is possible to balance the budget, fund growth. improve public transport, education and hospitals while allowing the police and judiciary to be separate from the government and independent. The media have not known how to attack the government. They have tried to portray Mr Baird as being unreasonable for his faith. They have inflated issues and obfuscated. But the partisan press have not been able to point a policy direction for the unreformed NSW ALP.
Federal ALP are in disarray too, but because Rudd 'saved furniture' they are able to look powerful in blocking good administration. The anti Abbott campaign, led by the media has bitten, and public perception is that the federal Liberal Government is not very good despite its success in every sphere it controls. The partisan media very loudly direct campaigns against the federal government while they are largely quiet about the state NSW government. Both governments rely on independents to pass important legislation. for NSW it is Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats who are needed to get things past an incompetent ALP and Green alliance. Federally, PUP has been siding with the ALP and Greens. It is unlikely PUP voters thought that was how PUP would behave. Many are saying how Mr Abbott has to change. But Mr Abbott is not the problem, but a functioning cog in a good administration which is being blocked by the inept and corrupt.
NSW has problems with a corrupt judiciary too. The behaviour of the ICAC is no less outrageous than the HRC, no less partisan. And a partisan media with few that even pretend to be balanced make the problems worse. With an election six weeks away in NSW, it would be good to know what the ALP believes it has to offer. Sadly, he health or teachers unions are running campaigns when both are compromised by slush fund issues with the ALP. Is that what a vote for ALP is going to be? More corruption? More theft from union members? Are the ALP planning to not fund growth but use state assets to extend tax?
2014
Published in 1969, French Connection was about drug trafficking. Made into a popular movie for adults (rated R) in 1971, Calvin Klein began a business for fashion in 1972, and called it French Connection. The drug scheme involved transport of heroin through France to USA from Turkey. The money came from Nazi France. Violence. Nudity. The brand was hip and cool and international. A fax from French Connection Hong Kong to French Connection United Kingdom was sent in anagram form in '97, FCHK to FCUK. A brand was born. T-shirts soon sported "fcuk fashion", "hot as fcuk", "too busy to fcuk", "fcuk safely", in Australia, "no fcukin worries".
In 1987, I was busy and desperate, working several jobs to get through university, living in the Liverpool Motel and failing much. I visited a friend in Chatswood. We were hanging at the top of the station steps waiting for my train home. It was getting close to 11pm. A few police come by and order everyone onto the platform. I say my friend lived in Chatswood. They said "Go home." I say my friend lived in Chatswood, but I was catching a train home." One police officer smirked and said "Why, just so you can hold hands?" and I told the two police men to fuck off. I was about twenty years old and did not know what to expect. I was arrogant. My friend was scared, and bolted, as the senior constable unbuttoned his sidearm and rested his hand on the undrawn weapon, and approached me, eyeballing me. He ordered me to produce ID. I had my university library card and a train ticket. They escorted me onto the platform and wanted to know where I was living. I lived in the Liverpool Motel, but felt a friend's place in Lindfield was closer. The two policemen explained they could take me to the station and charge me with obstruction, or take me to a back alley and beat me up if I continued to act smart. It was a humbling introduction to ALP Premier Unsworth's Sydney. I'd never interacted with police before. It illustrates how quickly standards get corroded by pop culture, where a mere twelve years later an arrest able offence became hip and cool and edgy.
Another brand began on this day in 1937. Nylon. Made up of two cities NY and LONdon, according to pop culture. Although it wasn't named that way. It was named after cotton and Rayon, so it ended with ON. NYL was accidental, it was going to be called NURON as in 'no run' but sounded too much like a nerve tonic. But I was born in NYC and my Nanna was born in London. I don't think I will be able to patent that name for any children I might have. But I'm really good on the right pair of legs.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 116, Emperor Trajan sent laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. 1249, Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. 1270, Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. 1630, Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck captured Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. 1646, Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War. 1699, first Leopoldine Diploma was issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognising the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
In 1742, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, became British Prime Minister. 1804, First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur led a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. 1852, Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, was established. 1862, American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1866, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington became British Secretary of State for War. 1874, Silver Dollar became legal US tender. 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway was incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). 1899, Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, was founded.
In 1918, the Council of Lithuania unanimously adopted the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1930, the Romanian Football Federation joined FIFA. 1934, the Austrian Civil War ended with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund. 1936, elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. 1937, Wallace H. Carothers received a United States patent for nylon.
In 1940, World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark was boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners were freed. 1943, World War II: Red Army troops re-entered Kharkov. Also 1943, World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. 1945, World War II: American forces landed on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. 1957, the "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm was abolished in the United Kingdom. 1959, Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
In 1960, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton began Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, began the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961, Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) was launched. Also 1961, the DuSable Museum of African American History was chartered. 1962, Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany killed 315 and destroyed the homes of about 60,000 people. 1968, in Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system went into service. 1978, the first computer bulletin board system was created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). 1983, the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia killed 75. 1985, Hezbollah was founded. 1986, the Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 1987, the trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, started in Jerusalem.
In 1991, Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez was assassinated in Managua. 1998, China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. 1999, in Uzbekistan, a bomb exploded and gunfire was heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov. Also 1999, across Europe, Kurdish rebels took over embassies and held hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan. 2005, the Kyoto Protocol came into force, following its ratification by Russia. Also 2005, the National Hockey League canceled the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs. 2006, the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the United States Army. 2013, a bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan killed more than 80 people and injured 190 others.
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.