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Premier Mike Baird debated an ALP leader in NSW. The ALP leader endorsed union adverts which took money from union members to spread the lie that it would be better to use government services to tax the poorest in NSW rather than privatise them and make the efficient. ABC rated the debate as a draw, meaning Baird won the substance and form of it handsomely. The ALP guy joked that a supporter of his had not known his name. Probably still doesn't.
Mark Riley spreads rumour. Riley is highly partisan and has often lied in the past about serious matters. He is a senior face of Channel 7 News and one reason why that channel is not taken seriously by people wanting to know the news. But while the rumour cannot be addressed, Mark's release of the rumour is damaging. The Federal Government had worked hard following a spill motion less than three weeks ago, to right the ship of state and had been successful. This opens the wound. It illustrates why it is important that Malcolm Turnbull resign. Turnbull offers nothing to federal politics or ministry. He is competent without being brilliant. He is not a natural conservative.
A Turkish model has posted a picture on Instagram which the Turkish President feels offended by. So Merve Buyuksarac could be sent to Jail in Turkey, or Australia under section 18C. Under the Australian Legislation, it doesn't matter that Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasn't insulted. Only that he took offence. Two lawyers, once, saw a NZ man carrying a sheep down a street. Said one lawyer to the other "Whatever you do, don't smile."
On this day in 380, three Roman Emperors asked their subjects to convert to Nicene (Trinity) Christianity, as opposed to the Arian variety. In 425, Theodosius II was convinced by his wife, Aelia Eudocia to begin the University of Constantinople with 31 chairs, 15 of which were Latin and 16 of which were Greek. Aelia had been raised pantheist Greek by her academic father in Athens. When he died, she went to Constantinople. At just that time, Theodosius, who had acquired the throne age one, was twenty years old and wanted a wife. Aelia had the virtues. She became a Christian for him. The institution was one like where her father had taught. In 1812, Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords in defence of Luddites. Thirteen years later he was dead at age thirty six. He had been killed by his doctors bleeding him when he was sick, with dirty instruments. The same doctors asserted that had he lived, he could have been King of Greece. In 1900, The British Labour Party was founded.
2014
There are holes in the arguments of those that defend the execution of Lieutenants Harry Morant and Peter Joseph Handcock in 1902. It is not disputed that Morant had had nine Boer prisoners of war shot dead. It is disputed that he had orders to do so. It is also clear that the trial and execution were rushed and probably influenced by high command. It is a sad thing silencing a poet. Showing impeccable comic timing, Spike Milligan died a hundred years later.
Harry wrote of a silent girl in the Bulletin
When the sklll'd fashioner of female faces
Designed your mask, he wrought with cunning fist,
And made a mouth expressly to be kiss'd -
Not for shrill utterance nor pert grimaces.
The curved, ripe lips-above the rounded chin -
He dyed the hue of summer's reddest rose,
Then placed a smile upon them to disclose
A glimpse of white and even pearls within.
Those lips are silent, sweetheart! - but your eyes
Are eloquent, and they love's lesson teach
Better than other woman's aptest speech -
In their soft light the tend'rest language lies.
In womankind - the world has long confess'd -
A silent mouth and speaking eyes are best.
First published in The Bulletin, 30 September 1893.
Today is also the anniversary of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address which is credited with earning him the Presidency. It is a celebration of libertarian values, by the day's standards, and Lincoln's debate with Douglas over the issue of slavery is an echo of Abbott's debates with Shorten over the direction of Australia. It is that embarrassing for Shorten, who has shown he is incapable of modelling an agenda which supports workers, as ALP has as a reason for existence. Powerless and inept, Shorten can only support the slave trader like people smugglers and their murderous activity on the grounds that it was the policy that few voters supported.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 380, Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declared their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity. 425, the University of Constantinople was founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia. 907, Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China. 1560, the Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, was signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland. 1594, Henry IV was crowned King of France. 1617, Sweden and Russia signed the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea. 1626, Yuan Chonghuan was appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci. 1700, the island of New Britain was discovered. 1776, American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina broke up a Loyalist militia. 1782, American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain voted against further war in America.
In 1801, pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. 1812, Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raised the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time. Also 1812, poet Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defence of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire. 1829, Battle of Tarqui was fought. 1844, the Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti. 1860, Abraham Lincoln made a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. 1861, Russian troops fired on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters. 1864, American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrived at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. 1870, the current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. 1881, First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill took place. 1898, King George I of Greece survived an assassination attempt.
In 1900, Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders received an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg. Also 1900, the British Labour Party was founded. Also 1900, Fußball-Club Bayern München was founded. 1902, Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock were executed in Pretoria for war crimes. 1921, the International Working Union of Socialist Parties was founded in Vienna. 1922, a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, was rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. 1933, Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, was set on fire, apparently by the Communists. 1939, United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sit-down strikes violated property owners' rights and were therefore illegal. 1940, Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. 1942, World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force was defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies. 1943, the Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, exploded, killing 74 men. Also 1943, the Rosenstrasse protest started in Berlin. 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified. 1955, Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
In 1961, the first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation was inaugurated. 1962, two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem. 1963, the Dominican Republic received its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. 1964, the Government of Italy asked for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. 1971, Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) started to perform aborti provocati. 1973, the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1976, the formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declared independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. 1986, the United States Senate allowed its debates to be televised on a trial basis. 1988, Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was targeted in a violent massacre. 1989, Venezuela was rocked by the Caracazo riots. 1991, Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announced that "Kuwait was liberated". 1995, Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho left about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
In 2002, Ryanair Flight 296 caught fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticise Ryanair's handling of the evacuation. Also 2002, Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torched a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims. 2004, a bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack killed 116. Also 2004, the initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released. 2007, the Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange fell 9%, the largest drop in ten years. 2010, an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale struck central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after. 2012, a section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapsed in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others. 2013, at least 19 people were killed when a fire broke out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India. Also 2013, five people (including the perpetrator) were killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
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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, September www.createspace.com/5106914, 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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Premier Mike Baird debated an ALP leader in NSW. The ALP leader endorsed union adverts which took money from union members to spread the lie that it would be better to use government services to tax the poorest in NSW rather than privatise them and make the efficient. ABC rated the debate as a draw, meaning Baird won the substance and form of it handsomely. The ALP guy joked that a supporter of his had not known his name. Probably still doesn't.
Mark Riley spreads rumour. Riley is highly partisan and has often lied in the past about serious matters. He is a senior face of Channel 7 News and one reason why that channel is not taken seriously by people wanting to know the news. But while the rumour cannot be addressed, Mark's release of the rumour is damaging. The Federal Government had worked hard following a spill motion less than three weeks ago, to right the ship of state and had been successful. This opens the wound. It illustrates why it is important that Malcolm Turnbull resign. Turnbull offers nothing to federal politics or ministry. He is competent without being brilliant. He is not a natural conservative.
A Turkish model has posted a picture on Instagram which the Turkish President feels offended by. So Merve Buyuksarac could be sent to Jail in Turkey, or Australia under section 18C. Under the Australian Legislation, it doesn't matter that Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasn't insulted. Only that he took offence. Two lawyers, once, saw a NZ man carrying a sheep down a street. Said one lawyer to the other "Whatever you do, don't smile."
On this day in 380, three Roman Emperors asked their subjects to convert to Nicene (Trinity) Christianity, as opposed to the Arian variety. In 425, Theodosius II was convinced by his wife, Aelia Eudocia to begin the University of Constantinople with 31 chairs, 15 of which were Latin and 16 of which were Greek. Aelia had been raised pantheist Greek by her academic father in Athens. When he died, she went to Constantinople. At just that time, Theodosius, who had acquired the throne age one, was twenty years old and wanted a wife. Aelia had the virtues. She became a Christian for him. The institution was one like where her father had taught. In 1812, Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords in defence of Luddites. Thirteen years later he was dead at age thirty six. He had been killed by his doctors bleeding him when he was sick, with dirty instruments. The same doctors asserted that had he lived, he could have been King of Greece. In 1900, The British Labour Party was founded.
2014
There are holes in the arguments of those that defend the execution of Lieutenants Harry Morant and Peter Joseph Handcock in 1902. It is not disputed that Morant had had nine Boer prisoners of war shot dead. It is disputed that he had orders to do so. It is also clear that the trial and execution were rushed and probably influenced by high command. It is a sad thing silencing a poet. Showing impeccable comic timing, Spike Milligan died a hundred years later.
Harry wrote of a silent girl in the Bulletin
When the sklll'd fashioner of female faces
Designed your mask, he wrought with cunning fist,
And made a mouth expressly to be kiss'd -
Not for shrill utterance nor pert grimaces.
The curved, ripe lips-above the rounded chin -
He dyed the hue of summer's reddest rose,
Then placed a smile upon them to disclose
A glimpse of white and even pearls within.
Those lips are silent, sweetheart! - but your eyes
Are eloquent, and they love's lesson teach
Better than other woman's aptest speech -
In their soft light the tend'rest language lies.
In womankind - the world has long confess'd -
A silent mouth and speaking eyes are best.
First published in The Bulletin, 30 September 1893.
Today is also the anniversary of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address which is credited with earning him the Presidency. It is a celebration of libertarian values, by the day's standards, and Lincoln's debate with Douglas over the issue of slavery is an echo of Abbott's debates with Shorten over the direction of Australia. It is that embarrassing for Shorten, who has shown he is incapable of modelling an agenda which supports workers, as ALP has as a reason for existence. Powerless and inept, Shorten can only support the slave trader like people smugglers and their murderous activity on the grounds that it was the policy that few voters supported.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 380, Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declared their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity. 425, the University of Constantinople was founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia. 907, Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China. 1560, the Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, was signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland. 1594, Henry IV was crowned King of France. 1617, Sweden and Russia signed the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea. 1626, Yuan Chonghuan was appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci. 1700, the island of New Britain was discovered. 1776, American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina broke up a Loyalist militia. 1782, American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain voted against further war in America.
In 1801, pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. 1812, Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raised the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time. Also 1812, poet Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defence of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire. 1829, Battle of Tarqui was fought. 1844, the Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti. 1860, Abraham Lincoln made a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. 1861, Russian troops fired on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters. 1864, American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrived at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. 1870, the current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. 1881, First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill took place. 1898, King George I of Greece survived an assassination attempt.
In 1900, Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders received an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg. Also 1900, the British Labour Party was founded. Also 1900, Fußball-Club Bayern München was founded. 1902, Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock were executed in Pretoria for war crimes. 1921, the International Working Union of Socialist Parties was founded in Vienna. 1922, a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, was rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. 1933, Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, was set on fire, apparently by the Communists. 1939, United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sit-down strikes violated property owners' rights and were therefore illegal. 1940, Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. 1942, World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force was defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies. 1943, the Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, exploded, killing 74 men. Also 1943, the Rosenstrasse protest started in Berlin. 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified. 1955, Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
In 1961, the first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation was inaugurated. 1962, two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem. 1963, the Dominican Republic received its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. 1964, the Government of Italy asked for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. 1971, Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) started to perform aborti provocati. 1973, the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1976, the formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declared independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. 1986, the United States Senate allowed its debates to be televised on a trial basis. 1988, Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was targeted in a violent massacre. 1989, Venezuela was rocked by the Caracazo riots. 1991, Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announced that "Kuwait was liberated". 1995, Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho left about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
In 2002, Ryanair Flight 296 caught fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticise Ryanair's handling of the evacuation. Also 2002, Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torched a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims. 2004, a bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack killed 116. Also 2004, the initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released. 2007, the Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange fell 9%, the largest drop in ten years. 2010, an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale struck central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after. 2012, a section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapsed in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others. 2013, at least 19 people were killed when a fire broke out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India. Also 2013, five people (including the perpetrator) were killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
===
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, September www.createspace.com/5106914, 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.