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Leonard Nimoy died from a smoking related illness. He knew it was coming and said he regretted smoking. His legacy is magnificent. His life has been blessed.
NSW Premier Mike Baird is popular so the press don't report on him. Mr Abbott is being leaked against and so the press report on him. A interesting analysis today ignored by most of the political pundits, who support the ALP always, revealed that Turnbull was panicking that the NSW government would not collapse, and so there would be no impetus for change. That suggested he wanted to run for PM soon. Probably Tuesday. However, It also means Turnbull has wanted the conservatives to stumble in Vic and Qld. Such a disloyal member should not be rewarded. It is also worth noting that Turnbull is not competent as leader and has little time for working with rank and file. It would be worth rooting out the leakers and having Turnbull kicked out of the party.
NZ defeat Australia in One Day World Cup match by one wicket. But anyone who watched the whole match would feel it was much less close than that. Australia's innings collapsed from a quick time 1 for 80 to 9 for 106. Haddin put some respectability to the score with a quick fire 43. NZ's TA Boult took 5- 27 from 10 overs. In reply, NZ's Captain McCullum made 50 off 24 deliveries and Williamson made 45 off 42 deliveries. Starc took 6 for 28, but many of the wickets were taken when there were less than ten runs to get. Australia can improve by bringing in a specialist number three batsman. But NZ cannot. It was touching to see former NZ Captain Martin Crowe receive a lifetime achievement award from the ICC. He is dying, and deserved to be lauded in his lifetime.
On this day in history, Bill Clinton's Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms began a 51 day siege in Waco Texas. Bill was illustrating big government. In 1874, one of the longest cases in UK legal history came to an end with a man impersonating a dead man charged with perjury. Some say Baron Tichborne was wrongly treated. But then some say aliens are guiding our development on Earth. In 1935, a DuPont scientist, Wallace Carothers invented Nylon.
2014
Sixty one years ago, on this day, two scientists told their friends they had discovered the building code of life, DNA. Sixty one years later, scientists claim to have found a way of keeping mice from biological ageing, rejuvenating to an equivalent state in a person being about thirty forever. We don't yet have a cure for all cancers, but we have a way to attack them. Watson and Crick will probably not live to see the full flowering of their discovery, but my, they have seen some wonderful things. Even before they made their discovery known, man and nature meddled with DNA. For nature, it is part of evolution, and natural. For people too. We exercise choice in selecting our mates. Primate genitals on males are disproportionately large, probably down to natural selection from a time before clothes. Gene shear technology is found in nature, with viruses doing it among other life forms adapted to exploiting it. Some people fear what might happen with scientists thinking about how to make effective change. I feel a bigger threat is an unintended change. It took some sixty five years between the Wright brothers inventing powered flight, and man landing on the moon.
By way of contrast, a doom merchant, Malthus, predicted the end of the world through overpopulation in 1798. Sixty one years passed. Then another sixty one. Then another sixty one. By 1981. hysterics were still proclaiming the end of the world from overpopulation. Global Warming hysteria is based on the belief there are too many people. Popular former Greens Leader Brown published books on how to deal with too many people. The hysterics that fear small government, beg for big ones. They fear GMO food. And power boxes. They call themselves Progressives.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 202 BC, coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han took place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China. 628, Khosrau II was executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II. 870, the Fourth Council of Constantinople closed. 1246, the Siege of Jaén ended in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen. 1525, the Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed by Hernán Cortés's forces. 1638, the Scottish National Covenant was signed in Edinburgh. 1700, today was followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. 1710, in the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau were decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This was the last time Swedish and Danish troops met on Swedish soil. 1784, John Wesley chartered the Methodist Church.
In 1811, Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. 1838, Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) 1844, a gun on USS Princeton exploded while the boat was on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. 1847, the Battle of the Sacramento River during the Mexican–American War was a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua. 1849, regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States began with the arrival of the SS Californiain San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. 1867, seventy years of Holy See-United States relations were ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and were not restored until January 10, 1984. 1870, the Bulgarian Exarchate was established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. 1874, one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ended when the defendant was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. 1883, the first vaudeville theatre opened in Boston 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) 1893, the USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched. 1897, Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
In 1900, the Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" was lifted. 1914, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. 1922, the United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. 1925, the Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake struck northeastern North America. 1928, C.V. Raman discovered the Raman effect. 1933, Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. 1935, DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invented nylon. 1939, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. 1940, Basketball was televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). 1942, the heavy cruiser USS Houston was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men. 1947, 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder was put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians. 1948, Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opened fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.
In 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick announced to friends that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement took place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). 1954, the first color television sets using the NTSC standard were offered for sale to the general public. 1958, a school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hit a wrecker truck and plunged down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children died in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. 1959, Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that was the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, was launched. It failed to achieve orbit. 1972, Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué. 1975, in London an underground train failed to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashed into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. 1980, Andalusia approved its statute of autonomy through a referendum. 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale. 1985, the Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. 1986, Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, was assassinated in Stockholm.
In 1991, the first Gulf War ended. 1993, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raided the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians died in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. 1995, former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigned from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993. 1997, an earthquake in northern Iran was responsible for about 3,000 deaths. 1997, the North Hollywood shootout took place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators. Also 1997, GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, struck the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occurred well beyond the Milky Way. Also 1997, Military Coup in Turkey 1998, first flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. Also 1998, Kosovo War: Serbian police began the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. 2001, the Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington. Also 2001, six passengers and four railway staff were killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. 2002, during the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre. 2004, over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 2005, a suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq killed 127. 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.
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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, 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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Leonard Nimoy died from a smoking related illness. He knew it was coming and said he regretted smoking. His legacy is magnificent. His life has been blessed.
NSW Premier Mike Baird is popular so the press don't report on him. Mr Abbott is being leaked against and so the press report on him. A interesting analysis today ignored by most of the political pundits, who support the ALP always, revealed that Turnbull was panicking that the NSW government would not collapse, and so there would be no impetus for change. That suggested he wanted to run for PM soon. Probably Tuesday. However, It also means Turnbull has wanted the conservatives to stumble in Vic and Qld. Such a disloyal member should not be rewarded. It is also worth noting that Turnbull is not competent as leader and has little time for working with rank and file. It would be worth rooting out the leakers and having Turnbull kicked out of the party.
NZ defeat Australia in One Day World Cup match by one wicket. But anyone who watched the whole match would feel it was much less close than that. Australia's innings collapsed from a quick time 1 for 80 to 9 for 106. Haddin put some respectability to the score with a quick fire 43. NZ's TA Boult took 5- 27 from 10 overs. In reply, NZ's Captain McCullum made 50 off 24 deliveries and Williamson made 45 off 42 deliveries. Starc took 6 for 28, but many of the wickets were taken when there were less than ten runs to get. Australia can improve by bringing in a specialist number three batsman. But NZ cannot. It was touching to see former NZ Captain Martin Crowe receive a lifetime achievement award from the ICC. He is dying, and deserved to be lauded in his lifetime.
On this day in history, Bill Clinton's Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms began a 51 day siege in Waco Texas. Bill was illustrating big government. In 1874, one of the longest cases in UK legal history came to an end with a man impersonating a dead man charged with perjury. Some say Baron Tichborne was wrongly treated. But then some say aliens are guiding our development on Earth. In 1935, a DuPont scientist, Wallace Carothers invented Nylon.
2014
Sixty one years ago, on this day, two scientists told their friends they had discovered the building code of life, DNA. Sixty one years later, scientists claim to have found a way of keeping mice from biological ageing, rejuvenating to an equivalent state in a person being about thirty forever. We don't yet have a cure for all cancers, but we have a way to attack them. Watson and Crick will probably not live to see the full flowering of their discovery, but my, they have seen some wonderful things. Even before they made their discovery known, man and nature meddled with DNA. For nature, it is part of evolution, and natural. For people too. We exercise choice in selecting our mates. Primate genitals on males are disproportionately large, probably down to natural selection from a time before clothes. Gene shear technology is found in nature, with viruses doing it among other life forms adapted to exploiting it. Some people fear what might happen with scientists thinking about how to make effective change. I feel a bigger threat is an unintended change. It took some sixty five years between the Wright brothers inventing powered flight, and man landing on the moon.
By way of contrast, a doom merchant, Malthus, predicted the end of the world through overpopulation in 1798. Sixty one years passed. Then another sixty one. Then another sixty one. By 1981. hysterics were still proclaiming the end of the world from overpopulation. Global Warming hysteria is based on the belief there are too many people. Popular former Greens Leader Brown published books on how to deal with too many people. The hysterics that fear small government, beg for big ones. They fear GMO food. And power boxes. They call themselves Progressives.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 202 BC, coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han took place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China. 628, Khosrau II was executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II. 870, the Fourth Council of Constantinople closed. 1246, the Siege of Jaén ended in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen. 1525, the Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed by Hernán Cortés's forces. 1638, the Scottish National Covenant was signed in Edinburgh. 1700, today was followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. 1710, in the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau were decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This was the last time Swedish and Danish troops met on Swedish soil. 1784, John Wesley chartered the Methodist Church.
In 1811, Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. 1838, Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) 1844, a gun on USS Princeton exploded while the boat was on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. 1847, the Battle of the Sacramento River during the Mexican–American War was a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua. 1849, regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States began with the arrival of the SS Californiain San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. 1867, seventy years of Holy See-United States relations were ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and were not restored until January 10, 1984. 1870, the Bulgarian Exarchate was established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. 1874, one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ended when the defendant was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. 1883, the first vaudeville theatre opened in Boston 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) 1893, the USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched. 1897, Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
In 1900, the Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" was lifted. 1914, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. 1922, the United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. 1925, the Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake struck northeastern North America. 1928, C.V. Raman discovered the Raman effect. 1933, Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. 1935, DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invented nylon. 1939, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. 1940, Basketball was televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). 1942, the heavy cruiser USS Houston was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men. 1947, 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder was put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians. 1948, Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opened fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.
In 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick announced to friends that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement took place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). 1954, the first color television sets using the NTSC standard were offered for sale to the general public. 1958, a school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hit a wrecker truck and plunged down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children died in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. 1959, Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that was the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, was launched. It failed to achieve orbit. 1972, Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué. 1975, in London an underground train failed to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashed into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. 1980, Andalusia approved its statute of autonomy through a referendum. 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale. 1985, the Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. 1986, Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, was assassinated in Stockholm.
In 1991, the first Gulf War ended. 1993, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raided the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians died in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. 1995, former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigned from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993. 1997, an earthquake in northern Iran was responsible for about 3,000 deaths. 1997, the North Hollywood shootout took place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators. Also 1997, GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, struck the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occurred well beyond the Milky Way. Also 1997, Military Coup in Turkey 1998, first flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. Also 1998, Kosovo War: Serbian police began the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. 2001, the Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington. Also 2001, six passengers and four railway staff were killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. 2002, during the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre. 2004, over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 2005, a suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq killed 127. 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.
===
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.