On Bolt Report a new policy is that any Islam post can only be on the pinned leader. Normal rules apply in that if it is merely foul and abusive it will be deleted. Otherwise comments are welcome. Daniel Katz has previously posted some beauties .. === Elizabeth Farrelly nails the issue of poodle walking in Sydney. Tim Blair has experimented. One suspects Tim is exaggerating, and does not feel Farrellys pain. Sometimes a big city is hard. Still it isnt the same pain as that felt by an Iraqi Muslm whose 21 yo son has been hauled before a Sharia court. The crime has been to breed pigeons. It is not a well known crime, but still enough to haul away a young man and probably execute him. Luckily it wasnt a poodle, because then, well, it isnt worth thinking about it. The birds have been incinerated as is custom. Some would say the ISIL death cult does not speak for Islam and is not a real government. But the advocates struggle to find how they are not Islamic. On this day in 1520 Sten Sture the younger was mortally wounded. He had been on a horse at the Battle of Bogesund, and a cannon ball bounced off the ice and took his leg and the horse beneath him. He survived to retreat, but died on the ice lake Mälaren on February 5. He had been regent of Sweden from the age of 18 and was ambitious. His enemies won and desecrated his corpse under religious code. But he is the direct ancestor of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden. In 1661, Thomas Venner was hanged drawn and quartered. He hadnt wanted Charles II to be king, so he killed people. His punishment then, seems harsh but fair. In 1788, the second part of the first fleet arrived at Botany Bay. In 1829, Faust was first performed, but notes do not say where, probably Weimar. In a prelude to WW1, in 1871, Prussia defeated France at the Battle of St Quentin. In 1883, Thomas Edisons built electric lighting system began service in Roselle New Jersey. In 1915, Georges Claude patented the neon tube for advertising. Meanwhile German Zeppelins bombed the UK killing 20 civilians. In 1945, Soviet forces liberated Lodz ghetto. In 1940, the ghetto housed 200,000, in 1945 there were fewer than 900 survivors. In 1953, an estimated 72% of all tv sets in the US tuned in to watch Lucille Ball giving birth on I Love Lucy. In 1969, Jan Palach died having burned himself for freedom of Czechoslovakia. In 1977, for the only time in recorded history, snow fell in Miami. In 1981, Iran signed a deal to release embassy hostages, highlighting the inability of President Carter to do it before his election attempt. In 1983, Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia. Barbie might have helped kill Che Guevarra, but that was not a good enough reason to protect him. 2014 A posting on the Bolt Report Supporters Group has led me to post on the Middle East and Israel. I am a Christian conservative with Jewish ancestry. I dont feel guilty over historical abuses, but acknowledge that the Holocaust of WW2 was not the sole time Jews have been unjustly assaulted. I could point to numerous examples of Jews being abused in Europe, the New World, the old world. My family fled Russia (Minsk) they had probably gone there when it was called Poland as the name in Hebrew sounds like the promised land. Russian anti Semitism under the Tsars convinced my family to go to Holland and London. They were teachers and musicians. My great grandfather played in orchestra he established in London to play for silent movies. A few living in Holland survived extermination. Nazis had taken an elderly woman who was sick, threw her into concentration camp and made her write letters asking for medicine. They apparently kept sending the letters to her relatives years after killing her. One male relative went a little crazy as he stayed in a room like Anne Franks family did in Amsterdam. Another male joined the Dutch Resistance, and unlike his family, was not a teacher or a musician, but a soldier. My family largely have not gone to Israel. Following World War one, London had responsibility for the land that is now Israels. The Balfour Declaration promised to Jewry that that land would be theirs, with a caveat .. His Majestys government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country Which Israel honours by being a modern democracy. Following WW1, London did not honour the agreement, and the League of Nations did not facilitate it. In the years leading into WW2, when it was known Jews were being exterminated by Hitler in Germany, London, her king, the US President and many other notable figures turned their backs on Jews begging for a land of their own. Israel was reborn in 1948, on the 15th May. They were invaded by neighbouring states the next day. They have fought several wars since. Part of the extra land claimed since 48 has been necessary to secure her borders. Jordan came into being in 48 too, being a successor state to the Ottoman Empire. During the 48 war with Israel, Jordan illegally annexed the west bank. In later years, a civil war in Jordan resulted in some Jordanians calling themselves Palestinians. The name Palestinian was chosen for political purposes, but gives the Roman name for the Jewish kingdom in ancient times. Israel secured the land in 68 and 73 and have required it ever since. The Land would have been indisputably Israels by law, but the UN during the cold war had two imperatives preventing it. The Soviet Union had politically exploited the area isolating the US as Israel supporters, and the US embraced Saudi Arabia to prove they were independent. The fractured Islamic world was then exploited by the Soviet Union and wealthy Islamists. When the Soviets dissolved, the UN had had set pieces isolating Israel. One set piece was to label Jordanians calling themselves Palestinians as refugees and instructing Israel to give up her own land to the refugees. Even though that land was being used by terrorists who werent refugees. Another set piece had the UN declaring that any child to a so called Palestinian refugee would not be called Israeli. this is different to every other refugee camp in the world. Any child born in Australia is Australian (unless the ALP wish to call them something else). Today, Israel allows all peoples of any faith to live in Israel. But the UN run Palestinian area is ethnically cleansed. Israel has been forced to allow terrorists to live in Jerusalem and damage their holiest monument. They have been forced to release killers from prison for peace. Israel has been forced to not build settlements in their own land. Absurdly, the safest place for a Muslim in the world is Israel, because they are not targeted by other Muslims in Israel. And yet Obama has approved building a nuclear power plant in Iran capable of harvesting plutonium for an atom bomb. I am not Jewish, but I stand with Israel against terrorism. Israel has a right to exist as a modern democracy and thrive as a whole nation. Israel has a right to defend her peoples from terror. Israel has a right to Jerusalem as her capital. Should Israel decide to rebuild her temple, she should. I dont mind people disagreeing with me, but I insist they give argument addressing these points, not mere abuse. Historical perspectives on this day In 379, Emperor Gratian elevated Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gave him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. 639, Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, was crowned. 649, Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrendered after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina Sheer, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. 1419, Hundred Years War: Rouen surrendered to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1511, Mirandola surrendered to the French. 1520, Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. 1607, San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1661, Thomas Venner was hanged, drawn and quartered in London. 1764, John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1788, the second group of ships of the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay. 1795, the Batavian Republic was proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. In 1806, the United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope. 1812, Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, ordered British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo. 1817, an army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1829, Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy received its premiere performance. 1839, the British East India Company captured Aden. 1840, Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigated Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853, Giuseppe Verdis opera Il trovatore received its premiere performance in Rome. 1861, American Civil War: Georgia joined South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. 1862, American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffered its first significant defeat in the conflict. 1871, Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia won the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempted to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval would end unsuccessfully the following day. 1883, the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began service at Roselle, New Jersey. 1893, Henrik Ibsens play The Master Builder received its premiere performance in Berlin. 1899, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was formed. In 1915, Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. Also 1915, World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917, Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three were killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. 1920, the United States Senate voted against joining the League of Nations. 1935, Coopers Inc. sold the worlds first briefs. 1937, Howard Hughes set a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. 1941, World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sank the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. 1942, World War II: Japanese forces invaded Burma. 1945, World War II: Soviet forces liberated the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. 1946, General Douglas MacArthur established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1949, Cuba recognised Israel. 1953, almost 72% of all television sets in the United States were tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. In 1960, Japan and the United States signed the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty 1969, student Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Pragues Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest. 1974, China gained control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the Peoples Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). 1975, an earthquake struck Himachal Pradesh, India 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri DAquino (a.k.a. Tokyo Rose). Also 1977, snow fell in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas. 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left VWs plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continued until 2003. 1981, Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials signed an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia. Also 1983, the Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced. 1986, the first IBM PC computer virus was released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written. In 1991, Gulf War: Iraq fired a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993, Czech Republic and Slovakia joined the United Nations. 1995, after being struck by lightning the crew were forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard were later rescued. 1996, the barge North Cape oil spill occurred as an engine fire forced the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997, Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron after more than 30 years and joined celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999, British Aerospace agreed to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2006, the New Horizons probe was launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. 2007, Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of his newspapers office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. 2012, the Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI. 2013, a failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television was foiled by security guards. 2014, a bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu killed at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others. === This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up. === Editorials will appear in the History in a Year by the Conservative Voice series, starting with August https://createspace/4124406 or at Amazon amazon/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 https://change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball Or the US President at https://change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice# or https://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 its like until theyve been there. Keep heart David take care. I have begun a bulletin board (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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