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The executions of eight in Indonesia by Indonesia included two Australian drug runners who had reformed, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukomaran. They were guilty as charged. They had reformed but that is not recognised for capital offences. They died singing Amazing Grace. Had they been captured following a terrorist hit they are likely to have been freed. But even though it is sad they were executed, they got to live useful lives following their capture. Many have blamed many regarding the outcome. Australia is rebuilding her contacts with Indonesia, following the clumsy handling by the Indonesian government. Australia's ambassador has been recalled. One person protested outside the Indonesian embassy in Canberra. One Phillipina was exonerated by evidence at the eleventh hour. One mentally ill man that was executed was 'cured' shortly before the execution "Are they going to shoot me? But I only made one mistake."
Some facts from USA (thanks YL) ..
2012 over 14,172,384. arrest were made, of those arrests,
* In 2012, 123 blacks were killed by police with a gun
* In 2012, 326 whites were killed by police with a gun
* In 2013, blacks committed 5,375 murders
* In 2013, whites committed 4,396 murders
* Whites are 63% of the population blacks are 13%
Police killings of blacks down 70% in last 50 years
Out of 14,172,364 arrest and Police confrontations in 2012, only 449 criminals were killed in the line of action. Perhaps none of which were racially motivated.
Prince William failed to have his daughter on his wedding anniversary. But Kate is doing her best, and well enough to drive.
In 1429, a mid teen girl arrived to support the French at the siege of Orleans. She had had a vision in her father's garden in a small village, a few years previously. The visions included three saints she would describe as so beautiful she cried. They told her to support the French King. France had been involved in the Hundred Year War with England. It was on what is now French land, and the English had used scorched earth tactics. Poverty was rife, farms burned, the population had not recovered from the Black Death plagues of the fourteenth century. Her father was a minor landholder. She went to an authority, a garrison commander, to give her permission to go to the royal court. He refused. A year later she returned and with the support of two of the commander's underlings, was allowed to proceed. A desperate and weak king wanted to believe her. He had her morality tested by an ecclesiastical court, who suggested that she was fine, but needed to be tested. So she went to the aid of the besieged at Orleans in the King's company, and roused the troops religious fervour. She held a banner in battle, and inspired all around her. Two years later the weak king betrayed her to her death. But Joan of Arc had achieved what the visions had asked her.
In 1770, Captain Cook came to Botany Bay, which he named. In 1945, Operation Manna began as an attempt to feed peoples in occupied Belgium by the allies. The German forces had agreed to it. Also in 1945, Dachau concentration camp was liberated by US troops. In 1946, PM of Japan, Hideki Tojo and 28 others, was indicted for war crimes. In 1946, Father Divine, leader of the International Peace Mission Movement since 1907, married Edna Rose Ritchings, who at 21 was 49 years younger. Divine called himself God. After Divine passed in '65, there was a fight for leadership of the movement. One leader was Reverend Jim Jones. In 1953, the first episode of Space Patrol was broadcast on TV. In 1967, one day after refusing to be drafted, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title. In 1986, European and US spy satellites saw what was happening at Chernobyl. In 1992, Following the acquittal of police who apprehended Rodney King, there were riots in Los Angeles. Over the following three days, 53 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. In 2005, Syria completed her withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. 2011, Kate married William, Duke of Cambridge.
2014
He died young but Évariste Galois contributed much to Mathematics in his twenty years. He was a genius, growing up in France during a time of rebellion and revolution. Born in 1811, Galois had developed ideas regarding groups in Mathematics that had never been considered before. He discovered a way of showing that a polynomial was solvable with real numbers. He developed a way of looking at connections of discrete objects organised in groups, and now called Group Theory. But he also had ideas about justice and fairness, and he embraced republicanism under a monarchy that zealously protected itself. Galois was jailed after failing to toast the king. But his passion, his life's work, was Mathematics. He begged to share his ideas with others. He tried to go to university. The entrance tests had written and spoken components. Galois twice aced the written tests, but he was a nervous speaker, and some in the panel of examiners ridiculed him before failing him. Twice. Galois was set up by royalists over a prostitute. The girl befriended him, and was denounced by the royalists. Galois in defence of her honour, challenged them to a duel. Another Math genius, Fourier, recognised Galois's work, and promised to send it for an academy prize, but before he did, the elderly Fourier died. On the eve of the duel, Galois gave his precious papers to a friend with instructions of who to show them to. Galois was shot in the stomach and died the next day. His letters were misplaced for a decade and when read, his genius was declared. Speaking to his younger brother before dying, he said Ne pleure pas, Alfred ! J'ai besoin de tout mon courage pour mourir à vingt ans ! (Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.) And the truth then, as now, is that liars like those who promote AGW alarmism will kill their opponents without mercy.
Also in France on this day in 1944, Nancy Wake parachuted to liaise between British high command and the Maquis. Nancy was NZ born (1912), and came to Australia young. Her father left the family for her mother to raise Nancy and her siblings. She went to North Sydney Technical college. She ran away from home at age 16, with £200 that she had inherited from an aunt, she journeyed to New York, then London where she trained herself as a journalist. In the 1930s, she worked in Paris and later for Hearst newspapers as a European correspondent. She witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement and "saw roving Nazi gangs randomly beating Jewish men and women in the streets" of Vienna. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war. After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow. By 1943, Wake was the Gestapo's most wanted person, with a 5 million-franc price on her head. After reaching Britain, Wake joined the Special Operations Executive. On the night of 29/30 April 1944, Wake was parachuted into the Auvergne, becoming a liaison between London and the local maquis group headed by Captain Henri Tardivat in the Forest of Tronçais. From April 1944 until the liberation of France, her 7,000+ maquisards fought 22,000 SS soldiers, causing 1,400 casualties, while suffering only 100 themselves.
She was a Liberal party candidate several times, almost taking HV Evatt's seat twice. She had worked for Hearst, who was also born on this day, in 1863.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1091, Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs were defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. 1386, Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk was defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and became its vassal. 1429, Joan of Arc arrived to relieve the Siege of Orleans. 1483, Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands was conquered by the Kingdom of Castile. 1521, Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeated a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon captured the city of Västerås. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege. 1770, James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia. 1781, American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clashed in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
In 1832, Évariste Galois was released from prison. 1861, American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates voted not to secede from the Union. 1862, American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana fell to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. 1864, Theta Xi fraternity was founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War. 1882, the "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, was tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
In 1903, a 30 million cubic-metre landslide killed 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada. 1910, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. 1916, World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrendered to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point. Also 1916, Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland was lifted and the rebellion was officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
In 1944, World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachuted back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group. 1945, World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrendered to the Allies. Also 1945, World War II: Start of Operation Manna. Also 1945, World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 was torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. Also 1945, World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler married his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designated Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day. Also 1945, the Dachau concentration camp was liberated by United States troops. Also 1945, the Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro was liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened and indicted former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. Also 1946, Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claimed to be God, married the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. 1951, Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrived in Beijing and drafted a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy. 1953, the first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
In 1965, Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launched its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. 1967, after refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali was stripped of his boxing title. 1968, the controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. 1970, Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. 1974, Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announced the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. 1975, Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. began to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war came to an end. Also 1975, Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completed its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands. 1986, a fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damaged or destroyed 400,000 books and other items. Also 1986, The Chernobyl Disaster: American and European Spy Satellites captured the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
In 1991, a cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless. 1992, Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. 1999, the Avala TV Tower near Belgrade was destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. 2004, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testified before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. Also 2004, Oldsmobile built its final car ending 107 years of production. 2005, Syria completed withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. 2011, the Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton. 2013, a powerful explosion occurred in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injured 43 people.
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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.
===
The executions of eight in Indonesia by Indonesia included two Australian drug runners who had reformed, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukomaran. They were guilty as charged. They had reformed but that is not recognised for capital offences. They died singing Amazing Grace. Had they been captured following a terrorist hit they are likely to have been freed. But even though it is sad they were executed, they got to live useful lives following their capture. Many have blamed many regarding the outcome. Australia is rebuilding her contacts with Indonesia, following the clumsy handling by the Indonesian government. Australia's ambassador has been recalled. One person protested outside the Indonesian embassy in Canberra. One Phillipina was exonerated by evidence at the eleventh hour. One mentally ill man that was executed was 'cured' shortly before the execution "Are they going to shoot me? But I only made one mistake."
Some facts from USA (thanks YL) ..
2012 over 14,172,384. arrest were made, of those arrests,
* In 2012, 123 blacks were killed by police with a gun
* In 2012, 326 whites were killed by police with a gun
* In 2013, blacks committed 5,375 murders
* In 2013, whites committed 4,396 murders
* Whites are 63% of the population blacks are 13%
Police killings of blacks down 70% in last 50 years
Out of 14,172,364 arrest and Police confrontations in 2012, only 449 criminals were killed in the line of action. Perhaps none of which were racially motivated.
Prince William failed to have his daughter on his wedding anniversary. But Kate is doing her best, and well enough to drive.
In 1429, a mid teen girl arrived to support the French at the siege of Orleans. She had had a vision in her father's garden in a small village, a few years previously. The visions included three saints she would describe as so beautiful she cried. They told her to support the French King. France had been involved in the Hundred Year War with England. It was on what is now French land, and the English had used scorched earth tactics. Poverty was rife, farms burned, the population had not recovered from the Black Death plagues of the fourteenth century. Her father was a minor landholder. She went to an authority, a garrison commander, to give her permission to go to the royal court. He refused. A year later she returned and with the support of two of the commander's underlings, was allowed to proceed. A desperate and weak king wanted to believe her. He had her morality tested by an ecclesiastical court, who suggested that she was fine, but needed to be tested. So she went to the aid of the besieged at Orleans in the King's company, and roused the troops religious fervour. She held a banner in battle, and inspired all around her. Two years later the weak king betrayed her to her death. But Joan of Arc had achieved what the visions had asked her.
In 1770, Captain Cook came to Botany Bay, which he named. In 1945, Operation Manna began as an attempt to feed peoples in occupied Belgium by the allies. The German forces had agreed to it. Also in 1945, Dachau concentration camp was liberated by US troops. In 1946, PM of Japan, Hideki Tojo and 28 others, was indicted for war crimes. In 1946, Father Divine, leader of the International Peace Mission Movement since 1907, married Edna Rose Ritchings, who at 21 was 49 years younger. Divine called himself God. After Divine passed in '65, there was a fight for leadership of the movement. One leader was Reverend Jim Jones. In 1953, the first episode of Space Patrol was broadcast on TV. In 1967, one day after refusing to be drafted, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title. In 1986, European and US spy satellites saw what was happening at Chernobyl. In 1992, Following the acquittal of police who apprehended Rodney King, there were riots in Los Angeles. Over the following three days, 53 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. In 2005, Syria completed her withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. 2011, Kate married William, Duke of Cambridge.
2014
He died young but Évariste Galois contributed much to Mathematics in his twenty years. He was a genius, growing up in France during a time of rebellion and revolution. Born in 1811, Galois had developed ideas regarding groups in Mathematics that had never been considered before. He discovered a way of showing that a polynomial was solvable with real numbers. He developed a way of looking at connections of discrete objects organised in groups, and now called Group Theory. But he also had ideas about justice and fairness, and he embraced republicanism under a monarchy that zealously protected itself. Galois was jailed after failing to toast the king. But his passion, his life's work, was Mathematics. He begged to share his ideas with others. He tried to go to university. The entrance tests had written and spoken components. Galois twice aced the written tests, but he was a nervous speaker, and some in the panel of examiners ridiculed him before failing him. Twice. Galois was set up by royalists over a prostitute. The girl befriended him, and was denounced by the royalists. Galois in defence of her honour, challenged them to a duel. Another Math genius, Fourier, recognised Galois's work, and promised to send it for an academy prize, but before he did, the elderly Fourier died. On the eve of the duel, Galois gave his precious papers to a friend with instructions of who to show them to. Galois was shot in the stomach and died the next day. His letters were misplaced for a decade and when read, his genius was declared. Speaking to his younger brother before dying, he said Ne pleure pas, Alfred ! J'ai besoin de tout mon courage pour mourir à vingt ans ! (Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty.) And the truth then, as now, is that liars like those who promote AGW alarmism will kill their opponents without mercy.
Also in France on this day in 1944, Nancy Wake parachuted to liaise between British high command and the Maquis. Nancy was NZ born (1912), and came to Australia young. Her father left the family for her mother to raise Nancy and her siblings. She went to North Sydney Technical college. She ran away from home at age 16, with £200 that she had inherited from an aunt, she journeyed to New York, then London where she trained herself as a journalist. In the 1930s, she worked in Paris and later for Hearst newspapers as a European correspondent. She witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement and "saw roving Nazi gangs randomly beating Jewish men and women in the streets" of Vienna. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war. After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow. By 1943, Wake was the Gestapo's most wanted person, with a 5 million-franc price on her head. After reaching Britain, Wake joined the Special Operations Executive. On the night of 29/30 April 1944, Wake was parachuted into the Auvergne, becoming a liaison between London and the local maquis group headed by Captain Henri Tardivat in the Forest of Tronçais. From April 1944 until the liberation of France, her 7,000+ maquisards fought 22,000 SS soldiers, causing 1,400 casualties, while suffering only 100 themselves.
She was a Liberal party candidate several times, almost taking HV Evatt's seat twice. She had worked for Hearst, who was also born on this day, in 1863.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1091, Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs were defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. 1386, Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk was defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and became its vassal. 1429, Joan of Arc arrived to relieve the Siege of Orleans. 1483, Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands was conquered by the Kingdom of Castile. 1521, Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeated a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon captured the city of Västerås. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege. 1770, James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia. 1781, American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clashed in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
In 1832, Évariste Galois was released from prison. 1861, American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates voted not to secede from the Union. 1862, American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana fell to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. 1864, Theta Xi fraternity was founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War. 1882, the "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, was tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
In 1903, a 30 million cubic-metre landslide killed 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada. 1910, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. 1916, World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrendered to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point. Also 1916, Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland was lifted and the rebellion was officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
In 1944, World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachuted back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group. 1945, World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrendered to the Allies. Also 1945, World War II: Start of Operation Manna. Also 1945, World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 was torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. Also 1945, World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler married his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designated Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day. Also 1945, the Dachau concentration camp was liberated by United States troops. Also 1945, the Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro was liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened and indicted former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. Also 1946, Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claimed to be God, married the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. 1951, Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrived in Beijing and drafted a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy. 1953, the first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
In 1965, Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launched its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. 1967, after refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali was stripped of his boxing title. 1968, the controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. 1970, Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. 1974, Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announced the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. 1975, Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. began to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war came to an end. Also 1975, Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completed its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands. 1986, a fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damaged or destroyed 400,000 books and other items. Also 1986, The Chernobyl Disaster: American and European Spy Satellites captured the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
In 1991, a cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless. 1992, Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. 1999, the Avala TV Tower near Belgrade was destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. 2004, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testified before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. Also 2004, Oldsmobile built its final car ending 107 years of production. 2005, Syria completed withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. 2011, the Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton. 2013, a powerful explosion occurred in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injured 43 people.
===
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.