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One of the great international statesmen has died, old and blessed. Lee Kuan Yew was the founding PM of Singapore, and governed for three decades. He was the architect of modern Singapore. In '59, when Lee became PM, Singapore was a third world nation. Lee was strict with the media, and so didn't have to continually tack left under media criticism. He was a conservative, not a right winger. He wanted Singapore to be part of Malaysia, but Malaysia forced independence and Lee navigated a course with security and economic independence. The result was a trade block the envy of the world. To improve military security, Lee used Israeli expertise. Singaporeans are part of the reserve from age 18 to 35. Lee maintained corporal punishment in schools and society and even has it as an article of discipline in the military. Without buying into LGBT hysteria, Lee accepted homosexuals, saying if a member of his family were gay he would accept them. However there are legal restrictions on gays in Singapore. Water security is a big issue for Singapore, and they have recycling as well as other options. It is difficult to describe how valued Lee Kuan Yew was as an international citizen. His opinion was prized by Nixon, Margaret Thatcher and John Howard. Had he been born in another place or time, he might have been regarded as Clive Churchill.
In December 2014, a man who had lost his penis in a botched circumcision when he was eighteen years old, was given a transplant after three years. As of 13th March it has been reported the transplant is fully functional. It is hard to keep a good man down. The article did not report if the transplant had been circumcised. Under Jewish tradition it is done after six days, which is why News Years Day in the Western Calendar is six days after Christmas. But in some Christian traditions it is done older. The South African man had his own reasons for choosing eighteen. And now he is twenty one. We don't know when, but wish him a happy birthday and many happy returns. We also note researchers have not prohibited the possibility that multiple peni be transplanted to an individual.
2014
It is a little discussed fact that when Patrick Henry gave his famous speech on this day in 1775, now known as "Give me liberty or give me death" he was employing rhetoric. He wanted liberty. He was willing to fight, and possibly die for it, but he had one goal. So too do the ALP. In South Australia, liberty is to be denied for another term of office. The election a week ago delivered no majority, although the ALP, with 35.3% of the vote, has the most seats of any party. More than the Liberal Party which got 45.1% of the vote, with over 90% of votes counted. This is a clear gerrymander and the electoral office has failed in its' duty. On the plus side, there will be a working example of failure that can be pointed to whenever some journalist chooses to say that the ALP would run the federal government better. It might be good for the second independent who is now in line to be speaker of an ALP administration again. His conservative seat will be impressed. The truth is if you want an ALP government then don't vote conservative.
On this day in 1801, The Tsar, who loved marching a lot, and flogged anyone who made a mistake in a marching ceremony, was put to death excessively. His killers, including a nephew of his tutor, hit him with a sword in his bedroom, demanded he sign an abdication, then strangled and trampled him to death. Tsar Paul seems to resemble the Catch 22 character of Scheiskopf. Or maybe it is the other way around. Also excessive, happening on this day in 1908, Durham White Stevens, US ambassador to Korea, was holidaying with his sisters in San Francisco. Stevens had previously expressed the view that Japan's protectorate of Korea was working well. A few students disagreed. They challenged him over this, first making sure that he had said what they had heard. He corrected them, but they had heard enough. One night, they hit him with a chair. The next day they rushed at him and shot him a few times, before being stopped by a crowd. Stevens survived his wounds until the the 25th. However, the most bizarre excess happened on this day in 1909, one year after Stevens was assassinated. Former US President Theodore Roosevelt went on safari and was sponsored by National Geographic and the Smithsonian. That is right, the Smithsonian and National Geographic sponsored a holiday of shooting animals for sport. I don't think such enlightenment is possible today.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1400, the Trần Dynasty of Vietnam was deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. 1540, Waltham Abbey was surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 1568, the Peace of Longjumeau was signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion. 1708, James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. 1757, Capture of Chandannagar fort by British forces. 1775, American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivered his speech – "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
In 1801, Tsar Paul I of Russia was struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. 1806, after traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" began their arduous journey home. 1821, Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata. 1848, the ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province was founded. 1857, Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway New York City. 1862, the First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marked the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracted Federal efforts to capture Richmond. 1868, the University of California was founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act was signed into law. 1879, War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war was fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. 1885, Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hung Hoa, northern Vietnam. 1888, in England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, met for the first time. 1889, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
In 1901, Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston. 1905, Eleftherios Venizelos called for Crete's union with Greece, and began what was to be known as the Theriso revolt. 1908, American diplomat Durham Stevens was attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. 1909, Theodore Roosevelt left New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. 1918, First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment was annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners of war 1919, in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement. 1931, Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar were hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence. 1933, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. 1935, signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. 1939, the Hungarian air force attacked the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, killing 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War. 1940, the Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) was put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. 1942, World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces captured the Andaman Islands.
In 1956, Pakistan became the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) 1965, NASA launched Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). Also 1965, the first issue of The Vigilant was published from Khartoum. 1977, all 12 of the Nixon Interviews were recorded with British journalist David Frost interviewing former President of the United States Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. 1978, the first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gave his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. 1982, Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García was overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. 1983, Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
In 1991, the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invaded Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. 1994, at an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. Also 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengaged the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board. Also 1994, a United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collided with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashed, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. 1996, Taiwan held its first direct elections and chose Lee Teng-hui as President. 1999, gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. 2001, the Russian Mir space station was disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. 2003, Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq. 2005, Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste built up and flowed out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignited and exploded killing 15 workers. 2009, FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashed at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
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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.
===
One of the great international statesmen has died, old and blessed. Lee Kuan Yew was the founding PM of Singapore, and governed for three decades. He was the architect of modern Singapore. In '59, when Lee became PM, Singapore was a third world nation. Lee was strict with the media, and so didn't have to continually tack left under media criticism. He was a conservative, not a right winger. He wanted Singapore to be part of Malaysia, but Malaysia forced independence and Lee navigated a course with security and economic independence. The result was a trade block the envy of the world. To improve military security, Lee used Israeli expertise. Singaporeans are part of the reserve from age 18 to 35. Lee maintained corporal punishment in schools and society and even has it as an article of discipline in the military. Without buying into LGBT hysteria, Lee accepted homosexuals, saying if a member of his family were gay he would accept them. However there are legal restrictions on gays in Singapore. Water security is a big issue for Singapore, and they have recycling as well as other options. It is difficult to describe how valued Lee Kuan Yew was as an international citizen. His opinion was prized by Nixon, Margaret Thatcher and John Howard. Had he been born in another place or time, he might have been regarded as Clive Churchill.
In December 2014, a man who had lost his penis in a botched circumcision when he was eighteen years old, was given a transplant after three years. As of 13th March it has been reported the transplant is fully functional. It is hard to keep a good man down. The article did not report if the transplant had been circumcised. Under Jewish tradition it is done after six days, which is why News Years Day in the Western Calendar is six days after Christmas. But in some Christian traditions it is done older. The South African man had his own reasons for choosing eighteen. And now he is twenty one. We don't know when, but wish him a happy birthday and many happy returns. We also note researchers have not prohibited the possibility that multiple peni be transplanted to an individual.
2014
It is a little discussed fact that when Patrick Henry gave his famous speech on this day in 1775, now known as "Give me liberty or give me death" he was employing rhetoric. He wanted liberty. He was willing to fight, and possibly die for it, but he had one goal. So too do the ALP. In South Australia, liberty is to be denied for another term of office. The election a week ago delivered no majority, although the ALP, with 35.3% of the vote, has the most seats of any party. More than the Liberal Party which got 45.1% of the vote, with over 90% of votes counted. This is a clear gerrymander and the electoral office has failed in its' duty. On the plus side, there will be a working example of failure that can be pointed to whenever some journalist chooses to say that the ALP would run the federal government better. It might be good for the second independent who is now in line to be speaker of an ALP administration again. His conservative seat will be impressed. The truth is if you want an ALP government then don't vote conservative.
On this day in 1801, The Tsar, who loved marching a lot, and flogged anyone who made a mistake in a marching ceremony, was put to death excessively. His killers, including a nephew of his tutor, hit him with a sword in his bedroom, demanded he sign an abdication, then strangled and trampled him to death. Tsar Paul seems to resemble the Catch 22 character of Scheiskopf. Or maybe it is the other way around. Also excessive, happening on this day in 1908, Durham White Stevens, US ambassador to Korea, was holidaying with his sisters in San Francisco. Stevens had previously expressed the view that Japan's protectorate of Korea was working well. A few students disagreed. They challenged him over this, first making sure that he had said what they had heard. He corrected them, but they had heard enough. One night, they hit him with a chair. The next day they rushed at him and shot him a few times, before being stopped by a crowd. Stevens survived his wounds until the the 25th. However, the most bizarre excess happened on this day in 1909, one year after Stevens was assassinated. Former US President Theodore Roosevelt went on safari and was sponsored by National Geographic and the Smithsonian. That is right, the Smithsonian and National Geographic sponsored a holiday of shooting animals for sport. I don't think such enlightenment is possible today.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1400, the Trần Dynasty of Vietnam was deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. 1540, Waltham Abbey was surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 1568, the Peace of Longjumeau was signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion. 1708, James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. 1757, Capture of Chandannagar fort by British forces. 1775, American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivered his speech – "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
In 1801, Tsar Paul I of Russia was struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. 1806, after traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" began their arduous journey home. 1821, Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata. 1848, the ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province was founded. 1857, Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway New York City. 1862, the First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marked the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracted Federal efforts to capture Richmond. 1868, the University of California was founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act was signed into law. 1879, War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war was fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. 1885, Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hung Hoa, northern Vietnam. 1888, in England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, met for the first time. 1889, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
In 1901, Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston. 1905, Eleftherios Venizelos called for Crete's union with Greece, and began what was to be known as the Theriso revolt. 1908, American diplomat Durham Stevens was attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. 1909, Theodore Roosevelt left New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. 1918, First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment was annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners of war 1919, in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement. 1931, Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar were hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence. 1933, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. 1935, signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. 1939, the Hungarian air force attacked the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, killing 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War. 1940, the Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) was put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. 1942, World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces captured the Andaman Islands.
In 1956, Pakistan became the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) 1965, NASA launched Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). Also 1965, the first issue of The Vigilant was published from Khartoum. 1977, all 12 of the Nixon Interviews were recorded with British journalist David Frost interviewing former President of the United States Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. 1978, the first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gave his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. 1982, Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García was overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. 1983, Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
In 1991, the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invaded Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. 1994, at an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. Also 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengaged the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board. Also 1994, a United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collided with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashed, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. 1996, Taiwan held its first direct elections and chose Lee Teng-hui as President. 1999, gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. 2001, the Russian Mir space station was disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. 2003, Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq. 2005, Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste built up and flowed out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignited and exploded killing 15 workers. 2009, FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashed at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
===
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.