Speaking of miracles, the IPCC have through sheer denial been able to limit global warming. They have exceeded all their models in the restriction of 16 years without warming. Even though the world has been warming ever since the ice age ended. They are even admitting that the world had a warm period about a thousand years ago.
Tragedy in USA as a 17 yo boy shoots an old man in the head, dead. The boy could have been one of Obama's sons. The US is a great nation, but she sinks sadly under her abysmal President. I was reminded today not to compare the US to pre Nazi Germany. I wouldn't compare her to Nazi Germany either. But she is being humbled in areas she should lead, and people are dying inside and outside because of it.
The only thing I'm certain of, is the response of any leftist to the issues of the day .. virulent abuse against any conservative.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Chi Lam and Vida Joy Ball (nee Shying 1932). Born on the same day, across the years along with Julia Drusilla (16), Henry V of England (1386), Heinrich Bach (1615), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), James Cash Penney (1875), Allen Funt (1914), Frank Leslie Walcott (1916), Lee Kuan Yew, (1923), Lauren Bacall (1924), B.B. King (1925), Peter Falk (1927), Mickey Rourke (1952), David Copperfield (1956), Gregory R. Ball (1977) and Jake Roche (1992). On your day, Malaysia Day
1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, delivered the Grito de Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain.
1941 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1959 – Haloid Xerox introduced the Xerox 914, the first modern photocopier, invented by American physicist Chester Carlson.
1963 – Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (present-day Sabah), and Sarawak merged to form Malaysia.
1987 – The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion, opened for signature. Mexico is independent. Iran has been fully abdicated. Xerox has been copied. Malaysia has been delivered. Montreal protects the Ozone. Enjoy your day .. responsibly.
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SECOND OPTION
Tim Blair – Monday, September 16, 2013 (3:41am)
After a year of intense local politics, I need a place of seclusion and rest. A place where Australia is unknown, where outsiders are shunned, where only primitive English is spoken, where the local customs are alien and barbaric … yet where food and wine is celebrated.
But Adelaide was booked out, so I’ve gone to France. Back in a few weeks.
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THE LEFT’S ENEMIES
Tim Blair – Monday, September 16, 2013 (3:24am)
Our friends on the left aren’t coping well with the election result. Perhaps they didn’t see it coming. In any case, they’ve been getting their hate on during the past week.
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ELECT A CANDLE
Tim Blair – Monday, September 16, 2013 (3:20am)
As former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have both demonstrated, grabbing the Labor leadership used to be a relatively quick and simple matter. Get your factions lined up, sharpen a few knives, and before you know it Quentin Bryce is swearing you in at Yarralumla.
That was before Rudd’s reforms. Everything is now much more complicated and time-consuming, which is what you’d expect from a process designed by our ex-PM. Remember, this is the bloke whose wife sent him out for a mozzie candle only to see Kev return with Roman flares, Blu Tack, an extension cord, potting mix, a stepladder and secateurs – and no mozzie candle.
Under the new Bunnings system, it is likely to be more than a month until Labor chooses between Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese. Here’s a brief list of things that take less time than Labor’s leadership lottery:
• The Olympics
• The Tour de France
• More than one hundred consecutive Bathurst 1000s
• Half a day on the planet Mercury
• All scheduled playing days of an Ashes cricket series
• The NRL finals
• Ben Elton’s Live From Planet Earth TV show, cancelled after just three weeks
• Ben Elton’s The Wright Way TV show, cancelled after just five weeks
• John McEwan’s entire term as Prime Minister
• Earle Page’s entire term as Prime Minister
• Frank Forde’s entire term as Prime Minister
• The 2013 federal election campaign
• The Tour de France
• More than one hundred consecutive Bathurst 1000s
• Half a day on the planet Mercury
• All scheduled playing days of an Ashes cricket series
• The NRL finals
• Ben Elton’s Live From Planet Earth TV show, cancelled after just three weeks
• Ben Elton’s The Wright Way TV show, cancelled after just five weeks
• John McEwan’s entire term as Prime Minister
• Earle Page’s entire term as Prime Minister
• Frank Forde’s entire term as Prime Minister
• The 2013 federal election campaign
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LABOR WILL NEVER WIN AGAIN
Tim Blair – Monday, September 16, 2013 (3:11am)
Such was the delight amongst Labor supporters following Kevin Rudd’s 2007 election victory that many rushed into print with claims that Labor would thereafter hold power eternally. Those claims are now being re-examined online, to great conservative amusement.
Right-wingers, naturally more inclined to caution, haven’t greeted Tony Abbott’s election with the same extravagant predictions. This means that three, six or nine years from now, Labor types won’t be permitted the same enjoyment when their party eventually returns to office.
It all seems a little unfair.
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13 of 26
Tim Blair – Monday, September 16, 2013 (3:05am)
Just one more game and the English leg of the never-ending double-nation multi-horror Ashes super series isfinally over. Technically, England holds a slight advantage:
England: Six wins, 4046 runs
Three draws
Australia: Two wins, 3914 runs
One match abandoned
Three draws
Australia: Two wins, 3914 runs
One match abandoned
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IPCC COOLS
Tim Blair – Monday, September 16, 2013 (2:51am)
An allegedly leaked IPCC report turns down the heat:
The leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that the world has been warming at only just over half the rate claimed by the IPCC in its last assessment, published in 2007.Back then, it said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2C every decade – a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models.But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12C per decade – a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction.
You win again, reality! Much else has also changed:
A forecast in the 2007 report that hurricanes would become more intense has simply been dropped, without mention.
Via the GWPF. This would be a nail in global warming’s coffin, if that particular structure weren’t already more metal than wood.
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Abbott Ministry
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (2:38pm)
Abbott announces his Ministry:
Fiona Nash and Michaelia Cash are elevated to assistant Ministers to answer Abbott’s embarrassing shortage of women in top jobs. New talent is rewarded: Josh Frydenberg and Paul Fletcher get promoted. The biggest winner is the impressive Mathias Cormann, made Finance Minister.
The softly-spoken Phillip Ruddoch is the Chief Whip - more as mentor than tormenter.
Grandiose ministerial titles have been pared back to simpler titles.
Abbott says the swearing in won’t be until Wednesday, making his one of the slower assumptions of power. Abbott says he expects Operation Sovereign Borders to start on that day.
Declares Arthur Sinodinos to be a man of “integrity”. He dismisses rumors that Sinodinos was denied promotion to Finance Minister because he might get dragged in the corruption investigation that focussed on Eddie Obeid. Abbott says he just wanted “orderly promotion”.
One major weakness - or embarrassment. The lack of women in high position must be addressed.
UPDATE
Abbott’s press conference was a remarkable and welcome break from the past six years. Purposeful, steady, no flash, no spin, no look-at-me lectures. The tone is exactly right. Very adult, very to-the-point. If ministers haven’t got the message as to what is expected of them I would be very, very surprised.
Just perform. Don’t big-note. Show with deeds, not words.
UPDATE
Acting Labor leader Chris Bowen goes straight to the identity politics attack. Just one woman in Cabinet, he notes.
True, and I agree that’s not a good look. But is this really the first and biggest complaint he should make?
Fiona Nash and Michaelia Cash are elevated to assistant Ministers to answer Abbott’s embarrassing shortage of women in top jobs. New talent is rewarded: Josh Frydenberg and Paul Fletcher get promoted. The biggest winner is the impressive Mathias Cormann, made Finance Minister.
The softly-spoken Phillip Ruddoch is the Chief Whip - more as mentor than tormenter.
Grandiose ministerial titles have been pared back to simpler titles.
Abbott says the swearing in won’t be until Wednesday, making his one of the slower assumptions of power. Abbott says he expects Operation Sovereign Borders to start on that day.
Declares Arthur Sinodinos to be a man of “integrity”. He dismisses rumors that Sinodinos was denied promotion to Finance Minister because he might get dragged in the corruption investigation that focussed on Eddie Obeid. Abbott says he just wanted “orderly promotion”.
CabinetA strong, stable lineup with new talent rewarded - and showboaters not. Steady performance will be highly valued in this government.
Prime Minister - Tony Abbott Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development - Warren TrussOuter Ministry
Foreign Minister - Julie Bishop
Employment, Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the Public Service - Eric Abtez
Attorney-General, Arts - George Brandis
Treasurer - Joe Hockey
Agriculture - Barnaby Joyce
Education - Christopher Pyne
Indigenous Affairs - Nigel Scullion
Industry - Ian Macfarlane
Social Services - Kevin Andrews
Communications - Malcolm Turnbull
Health, Sport - Peter Dutton
Small Business - Bruce Billson
Trade and Investment - Andrew Robb
Defence - David Johnston
Environment - Greg Hunt
Immigration and Border Protection - Scott Morrison
Finance - Mathias Cormann
Disabilities and Aged Care - Mitch FifieldParliamentary secretaries
Human Services - Marise Payne
Assistant Minister for Social Services, (Manager of Government Business in the Senate) - Mitch Fifield
Assistant Minister for Employment, (Deputy Leader of the House) - Luke Hartsuyker
Assistant Minister for Health (Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) - Fiona Nash
Veterans’ Affairs, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, Special Minister of State - Michael Ronaldson
Assistant Minister for Education - Sussan Ley
Human Services - Marise Payne
Justice - Michael Keenan
Assistant Minister for Defence - Stuart Robert
Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women - Michaelia Cash
Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development - Jamie Briggs
Assistant Treasurer - Arthur Sinodinos
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture - Richard Colbeck
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry - Bob Baldwin
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs - Brett Mason
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer - Steven Ciobo
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Services - Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment - Simon Birmingham
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education - Scott Ryan
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence - Darren Chester
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications - Paul Fletcher
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister - Josh Frydenberg
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister - Alan Tudge
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance - Michael McCormack
One major weakness - or embarrassment. The lack of women in high position must be addressed.
UPDATE
Abbott’s press conference was a remarkable and welcome break from the past six years. Purposeful, steady, no flash, no spin, no look-at-me lectures. The tone is exactly right. Very adult, very to-the-point. If ministers haven’t got the message as to what is expected of them I would be very, very surprised.
Just perform. Don’t big-note. Show with deeds, not words.
UPDATE
Acting Labor leader Chris Bowen goes straight to the identity politics attack. Just one woman in Cabinet, he notes.
True, and I agree that’s not a good look. But is this really the first and biggest complaint he should make?
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Claim: IPCC concedes warming only half what it once claimed
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (2:14pm)
Labor insists it will go to the next election promising to bring back a carbon tax to stop global warming.
That may no longer be necessary, given the admissions in the final draft of a report to be published this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
Other good news:
UPDATE
But don’t bother Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery. The man with a history of dud predictions sticks with his claims that the world is heating dangerously, using as evidence this time warm weather in Australia. Don’t expect Andrew O’Keefe to hold the old scaremonger to account. Watch them trot out their stale scares here.
That may no longer be necessary, given the admissions in the final draft of a report to be published this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
... the leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that the world has been warming at only just over half the rate claimed by the IPCC in its last assessment, published in 2007.The problem?
Back then, it said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2C every decade – a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models.
But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12C per decade – a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction.
It also surprisingly reveals: IPCC scientists accept their forecast computers may have exaggerated the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures – and not taken enough notice of natural variability.This suggests many lies have been told for a very long time by some warmists.
They recognise the global warming ‘pause’ first reported by The Mail on Sunday last year is real – and concede that their computer models did not predict it. But they cannot explain why world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase since 1997.
They admit large parts of the world were as warm as they are now for decades at a time between 950 and 1250 AD – centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and when the population and CO2 levels were both much lower.
Other good news:
The IPCC admits that while computer models forecast a decline in Antarctic sea ice, it has actually grown to a new record high. Again, the IPCC cannot say why.The great scare is collapsing. Scientific reputations will be destroyed. The more honorable warmist will jump off this bandwagon before it smashes up completely.
A forecast in the 2007 report that hurricanes would become more intense has simply been dropped, without mention.
UPDATE
But don’t bother Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery. The man with a history of dud predictions sticks with his claims that the world is heating dangerously, using as evidence this time warm weather in Australia. Don’t expect Andrew O’Keefe to hold the old scaremonger to account. Watch them trot out their stale scares here.
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No comment
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (12:31pm)
While our absurd laws against free speech remain on the books, my lawyers advise me against commenting on the teaching of the New Racism - a trend which deeply disturbs me.
So without comment, these extracts from today’s Leader newspapers:
So without comment, these extracts from today’s Leader newspapers:
And:
(Thanks to reader David,)
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Why is the compassionate Left so vicious to Abbott?
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (8:19am)
Paul Sheehan says Tony Abbott has not even been sworn in yet, but the “social” media is already apoplectic with the most vicious abuse from the “compassionate” Left.
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Bolt Report yesterday
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (8:11am)
Readers have asked where videos of my last couple of shows have gone. Answer: I don’t know and will find out.
I’ve managed to track one, though - my editorial yesterday. Watch it here.
UPDATE
Thanks to SkepticGronk for posting this video of the show:
I’ve managed to track one, though - my editorial yesterday. Watch it here.
UPDATE
Thanks to SkepticGronk for posting this video of the show:
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Some hope for Mirabella
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (7:57am)
It would be wonderful to see the mortification of those crowing at the fall of Mirabella and vilifying her so freely:
POLITICAL eulogies for Sophie Mirabella may have been written too soon, with the Liberal firebrand narrowing the electoral lead held by independent Cathy McGowan for the Victorian seat of Indi.
Ms McGowan went into the weekend with a firm edge of 896 votes over Ms Mirabella, but the latest counting puts her just 515 votes ahead, with nearly 92 per cent of the vote counted.
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Report: half Syrian rebels with Islamist militias
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (7:46am)
Vladimir Putin may have
done the world a favor by stopping Barack Obama’s vague plans for a
military strike on the admittedly brutal Syrian regime, given those
fighting it:
Opposition forces battling Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria now number around 100,000 fighters, but after more than two years of fighting they are fragmented into as many as 1,000 bands.
The new study by IHS Jane’s, a defence consultancy, estimates there are around 10,000 jihadists - who would include foreign fighters - fighting for powerful factions linked to al-Qaeda..
Another 30,000 to 35,000 are hardline Islamists who share much of the outlook of the jihadists, but are focused purely on the Syrian war rather than a wider international struggle.
There are also at least a further 30,000 moderates belonging to groups that have an Islamic character, meaning only a small minority of the rebels are linked to secular or purely nationalist groups.
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Time for a “cleansing” of the ABC
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (7:35am)
I AM nervous. I saw what the ABC did last week to a friend who also called for balance.
ABC TV’s The Hamster Decides showed a Photoshopped picture of him with his trousers down, having sex with a dog, with the label “Chris Kenny, Dog F-----” all spelled out.
The writer of this “joke” would insist he’s not a political partisan, but what chance of this “joke” being perpetrated on, say, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young? Or Leftist huffster David Marr?
Some might say the real issue is the ABC’s dive into the sewer under managing director Mark Scott, given he’s also paid two comedians for a music video promoting ABC2 with the chorus “ABC2 can suck my d ...”
But I still ask why the ABC is so biased, with all its main current affairs shows hosted by the Left, despite the ABC’s charter requiring balance.
I raise this now because after the 2007 election ABC radio host Jon Faine asked my then editor-in-chief whether the result showed it was time to “cleanse” this paper of conservative columnists. Meaning me.
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Labor can’t see which way the wind is blowing
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (7:31am)
LABOR is in la-la land. Both its last two leaders now claim they won the election.
Worse, the two men campaigning to be Labor’s next leader insist on keeping the last leader’s most devastating mistake.
Is Labor led by the mad or the deaf?
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Tony Abbott wields small axe on his own
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (7:05am)
Tony Abbott wields the axe on his own side first - well, a hatchet, anyway:
But this is a bigger move:
LIBERAL Senator Ian Macdonald says he has been dropped from the Tony Abbott frontbench…UPDATE
“What should have been one of the proudest days of my life has turned into one of the worst."…
Senator Macdonald will be joined by at least Theresa Gambaro, Andrew Southcott and Don Randall, who had all been shadow parliamentary secretaries. They will not retain their roles in government.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells’ spokesman said the NSW Senator had not heard from Mr Abbott yesterday amid speculation she could be dropped from the front bench…
Veteran MP and parliamentary encyclopedia Bronwyn Bishop will get the backing of Mr Abbott to be Parliament’s Speaker.
But this is a bigger move:
NSW senator Arthur Sinodinos, who ran John Howard’s office when he was prime minister, will not be appointed to cabinet but will be given a portfolio in the outer ministry.That said, Cormann is a real talent. I don’t think having him instead of Sinodinos in Finance leaves the Liberals a jot weaker at all.
Instead, shadow assistant treasurer Mathias Cormann is expected to enter cabinet and become finance minister…
Senior Coalition sources said there had been “question marks” raised internally over the last week about whether Senator Sinodinos may have to appear before a corruption inquiry related to a directorship he once held. Senator Sinodinos, a renowned figure inside the Coalition and former National Australia Bank executive, maintains he has done nothing wrong and his colleagues support him.
While senior sources suggested this was the reason for his shock omission from cabinet, one official dismissed this, saying it had never been planned to promote Senator Sinodinos to cabinet straight away, even though it was widely expected.
Instead, he will move from the ranks of parliamentary secretaries to the outer ministry.
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Reforming the Senate: give more power to the voter
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (6:54am)
We should not have Senators who were accidentally voted in by people who had not idea where their preferences would flow:
Confronted with the massive ballot papers at this election, most voters chose to put a “1” in a box above the line. In doing so, though, they surrendered their control over their preferences and the ultimate destination of their votes to backroom operatives.But this is not an answer - not least because quotas lack a strong democratic principle when we’ve already (rightly) accepted preferential voting:
Constitutional lawyer George Williams has suggested parties should be required to receive a minimum percentage of the primary vote to be eligible to win election.This is much better, emphasing the principle that the people governing us should be those we’ve deliberately chosen to represent us:
ABC election analyst Antony Green ... supports compulsory voting but says, as a corollary, electors should not be obliged to do more than place a “1” by the candidate of their choice.
He points to the NSW system, where a conservative voter might back Family First. This voter could leave it at that—or take out some insurance and give a second preference to the Liberals…
He opposes the thresholds suggested by Williams and Costar, saying above-the-line ticket voting is the real cause of parties being elected from low votes.
“A better solution is to deal with the cause of the problem, not impose an arbitrary threshold,” Green believes. “If ticket preferencing under the control of parties were retained while imposing a threshold quota, the system would still be rorted. The current system advantages micro-parties set up as fronts for each other. Ticket voting with threshold quotas would advantage micro-parties set up as fronts for the major parties.
“The best way to reform the Senate’s electoral system is to deliver the power over preferences back into the hands of voters,” he continues…
“...The Senate should be elected to reflect the will of the electorate, not the arranged deals of a few backroom operators.”
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On Clementine Ford and Michael Leunig
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (6:37am)
Tim Blair:
Fairfax types are more inclined to express hatred towards an Australian conservative than they are to a murderous Saudi psychopath.Evidence is provided. Here’s more evidence Blair could have included.
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Time to demand apologies from these enemies of reason
Andrew Bolt September 16 2013 (6:08am)
We should never forget
nor forgive how global warming evangelists and carpetbaggers slimed
those who correctly warned against the hysteria. Remember those enemies
of reason - enemies who destroyed those who told the unfashionable
truth:
Asa Wahlquist, The Australian, September 3, 2008:More of them:
THE Opposition Leader (Brendan Nelson) told the ABC on Monday night: “What’s happening at the moment in the Murray-Darling Basin is a consequence of two things: mismanagement of the entire system for almost 100 years and also the worst drought in 100 years. And it is quite wrong for people to suggest that what we’re seeing at the moment is a consequence of climate change.”
In parliament yesterday, Kevin Rudd attacked Dr Nelson, accusing him of ignoring scientific facts.
“You need to get with the science on this,” the Prime Minister said. Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Dr Nelson had presented a new argument, “which was to say, ‘well, OK, the climate is changing but the weather remains unaffected’ “.
Greens leader Bob Brown ... in 2008:In fact:
Already, (Rudd government adviser Ross Garnaut’s) daunting data of a 10 per cent chance of no flow at all in the Murray-Darling river system in future years is being overtaken by data indicating that drought is the new norm across Australia’s greatest food bowl.The Sydney Morning Herald in 2008:
This drought may never breakJones to the University of East Anglia in 2007:
IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday.
“Perhaps we should call it our new climate,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s head of climate analysis, David Jones....
“There is a debate in the climate community, after … close to 12 years of drought, whether this is something permanent. Certainly, in terms of temperature, that seems to be our reality, and that there is no turning back....”
Truth be know, climate change here is now running so rampant that we don’t need meteorological data to see it. Almost everyone of our cities is on the verge of running out of water and our largest irrigation system (the Murray Darling Basin is on the verge of collapse…The Age in 2009:
A three-year collaboration between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO has confirmed what many scientists long suspected: that the 13-year drought is not just a natural dry stretch but a shift related to climate change…
‘’It’s reasonable to say that a lot of the current drought of the last 12 to 13 years is due to ongoing global warming,’’ said the bureau’s Bertrand Timbal.
‘’In the minds of a lot of people, the rainfall we had in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was a benchmark. A lot of our [water and agriculture] planning was done during that time. But we are just not going to have that sort of good rain again as long as the system is warming up.’’…
Warmist scientist David Karoly, 2003:
The Murray-Darling Basin… covers towns north to Toowoomba, west to Broken Hill and south to Victoria and South Australia… Drought severity in the Murray Darling is increasing with global warming… This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed…Flannery again:
Over the past 50 years southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming....Desalination plants can provide insurance against drought. In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, 2008:
We know the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said by 2050 that Australia should expect around about a 25 per cent reduction in rainfall in the southern part of the Australia… So there is a very, very sound body of evidence that indicates that climate change is and will have an impact on rainfall in the Murray-Darling Basin and in southern Australia…Remember how 60 Minutes whipped up the “permanent drought” scare in 2005?
CHARLES WOOLEY: While many farmers believe that drought is just part of a natural cycle, scientist Dr Tim Flannery sees much broader and more sinister forces at work. We live in a new world where global warming and climate change now have Australia on the edge of permanent drought.
PROFESSOR TIM FLANNERY: We are in by far the worst position of any country that I’ve had a look at in terms of climate change.
CHARLES WOOLEY: The worst of any country?
PROFESSOR TIM FLANNERY: Yes. When you look right across the continent, what has happened is that the winter rainfall zone that has been the heart and soul of the bread basket of Australia is declining. The amount of rainfall through winter is declining. On the east coast of Australia we have a parallel effect where we are getting these El Ninos back to back. We’re getting one drought after the other and eastern Australia is suffering from that. So put together, you have the continent from Perth through to Brisbane suffering severe water deficits.
CHARLES WOOLEY: If Tim Flannery is right, the new weather regime has southern Australia drying out permanently.
And:
Andrew Bolt: “We have also been told by this Government that the recent drought in the Murray-Darling Basin was caused by global warming, again your own report says there is nothing unusual about that drought either is that true?”
Professor Will Steffen: “We’ve had very severe droughts before so again we cannot attribute this drought statistically to climate change….”
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Father,I thank You for the good plan You have for me. Thank You for Your Word which transforms me into Your image. I choose to trust, I choose to believe, and I choose to follow Your Word which is life to my soul in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.(Romans 12:2, NIV)
In today’s scripture, that word “transformed” in the original language is “metamorpho.” It’s where we get our word “metamorphose.” We know how a caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly. This is saying that if you meditate on God’s Word, then a transformation will take place.
Think about the little caterpillar. It’s very plain, nothing really special about it. At a certain point, it forms a cocoon. The metamorphose starts to take place. It’s a process. Little by little it changes. One day, it begins to push out of the cocoon. Before long, it goes from being one of the plainest insects to being one of the most beautiful. Instead of having to crawl on the ground and squirm around, it can now fly wherever it wants to go. Today, why don’t you break out of your cocoon? Believe that God is at work in you. Believe that He has good plans for you. Believe that He will complete every good work that He’s started in your life.Amen.
In today’s scripture, that word “transformed” in the original language is “metamorpho.” It’s where we get our word “metamorphose.” We know how a caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly. This is saying that if you meditate on God’s Word, then a transformation will take place.
Think about the little caterpillar. It’s very plain, nothing really special about it. At a certain point, it forms a cocoon. The metamorphose starts to take place. It’s a process. Little by little it changes. One day, it begins to push out of the cocoon. Before long, it goes from being one of the plainest insects to being one of the most beautiful. Instead of having to crawl on the ground and squirm around, it can now fly wherever it wants to go. Today, why don’t you break out of your cocoon? Believe that God is at work in you. Believe that He has good plans for you. Believe that He will complete every good work that He’s started in your life.Amen.
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7.06 carats oval-shaped fancy yellow diamond with yellow melee mounted on 18k yellow gold.
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On Justice, Judge Jeanine Pirro criticized President Obama’s lack of leadership when it comes to handling Syria. “We are now going to rely on Russia to dissolve the chemical weapons dilemma in Syria?!”
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Matt Granz Photography
It's a three and a half mile hike up a little over a thousand foot ascent, and once here, found myself completely alone in absolute solitude. Had there not been so much bear scat and paw prints everywhere I looked, I might have stayed, but opted to not follow through on my plans to catch sunset on this particular day. Hiking through high Serra woods alone at night does not appeal to me all that well. I will be back (with friends).
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Undeniable proof that MSNBC is completely and totally delusional.
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"Al-Nusra Front, the jihadist Syrian rebel group that has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda....."
Al-Nusra Front, the jihadist Syrian rebel group that has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, said on Sunday that its fighters attacked three villages in Syria's Homs province and killed dozens of Alawites five days earlier.
“The people's wall of fear has been broken, as this was the first time these villages were entered and such a high number was killed,” the group said in a statement published on a jihadist forum and quoted by the AFP news agency.
Al-Nusra said its fighters entered the villages of Massudiyeh, Maksar al-Hissan and Jab al-Jerah on Tuesday and killed 30 members of the Alawite community, to which President Bashar Al-Assad's clan belongs.
The statement said Al-Nusra members were urged by an Islamic jurist “to kill the Nusairis, enemies of God”, using a pejorative term for Alawites.
The attack was “in revenge for the killing in cold blood of Muslims and their women in Eastern Ghouta” near Damascus, where the opposition claims 1,400 people were killed in a chemical weapons attack on August 21.
The statement comes just several weeks after Al-Nusra vowed revenge strikes against villages from the Alawite community over the chemicalweapons attack.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported this week on the attack, saying that 12 civilians were killed, before updating its toll on Sunday to 22 civilians killed in Maksar al-Hissan.
It said among them were 16 Alawites, including four above the age of 80 and four children aged between nine and 12, reported AFP.
The watchdog said five soldiers loyal to Assad were also killed.
The region, mostly home to Alawites and Bedouins, has been largely free of fighting over the past year.
Other areas of Homs province have seen some of the fiercest fighting in Syria's 30-month war.
Members of Al-Nusra and other rebel groups have committed atrocities during the Syrian civil war, including publicly beheading a Catholic priest who was accused of collaborating with Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.
Al-Nusra was once was the largest faction in the Islamist Front for the Liberation of Syria (ISIS), the 13-member rebel coalition that broke awayfrom the main opposition force and has declared its own Islamic state in Aleppo.
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Police say nothing was taken from him even though they say Jackson had cased the parking lot looking for a victim.Police say the gunman rode up to Pilotos’s car on a bicycle and pulled out his weapon and shot him. It happened in the parking lot of the supermarket at Northwest 137th Street and Northwest 27th Avenue.
Truly disgusting case – he didn’t take anything, and just looked for someone to murder. Like a coward, he didn’t even have the guts to look the victim in the eye, and chose an elderly man.
Here’s a quick takeaway – there’s a lot of laws like California’s “three strikes you’re out” criminal policy that enforces minimum sentencing standards. These are controversial because some criminals are incarcerated after some minor infractions. This case provides the counterbalancing argument:
Authorities say he was arrested for burglary in Miami Gardens and for burglary, display of a firearm and aggravated battery in Opa-Locka in May. They say he was arrested for possessing cocaine in September of 2011 and in April of 2011, he was arrested by School Board police for battery on a law enforcement officer.
With that history at age seventeen, this thug is still walking around? What’s more, his age will gain him some lenience:
“He’s a juvenile and he cannot under Florida law receive the death penalty if convicted,” said Vereen. “The state must go to the Grand Jury to get an indictment for first-degree murder. It can direct file second-degree murder charges.”
This egregious crime is one that could have been prevented by stricter minimum sentencing laws. The victim was a Cuban refugee. Imagine that – he escaped a Communist dictatorship only to be murdered by a cowardly thug in a parking lot.
UPDATE: The suspected murderer Jamal Jackson was arrested by police due to a tip to Miami-Dade Crimestoppers and is awaiting trial without bond.
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"The military spokesman said the armed forces seized a stock of weapons in Sinai and arrested 309 people involved in recent violence. Two explosive devices under a control tower on the border with Gaza were also found, he said, according to Al Arabiya.
“We also seized military uniforms which were used by Hamas,” Ali said, adding that the army recently destroyed more than 154 tunnels on the border with Gaza.
He added that the military confiscated a number of munitions, including hand grenades bearing the stamp of the Ezzeddin Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military arm." - Elad Benari
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A SYRIAN SOLUTION... and the KGB ‘action man’ outwits Obama
UK PM Cameron took the “bomb Syria” solution to Parliament and was handed a flat “no”. Obama tried to convince Congress and was failing dismally... he was left out on a limb, so with KGB guile, Putin positioned himself for a bloodless slam dunk.
No sane US Administration would seriously consider bombing Damascus... or would it? Of course it’s a crazy concept that could cause more ‘collateral damage’ than deaths by gas.
Would Cruise missiles be aimed at suspected stockpiles of sarin gas? Crumbs, I hope not. That would be really stupid and they have no idea where they are anyway.
Would Syria’s allies simply sit back and watch the fireworks? Don’t think so. Would Israel be showered with more rockets? That’s likely. Would US enemies in the Middle-East be galvanised into action? Certainly would.
And when the dust settles after this proposed US attack? Well, the chemicals would still be there, Assad would still be there, the civil war would still be raging, more people would have died, Russia would be even more off-side and the whole of the Middle East would be even more of a powder keg than it is now!
History shows whoever has the biggest gun doesn’t necessarily win the battle. Battles are won with brains, not guns... as the US learnt in the Vietnam war and the UK learnt in the Zulu war.
Secretary of State Kerry was clearly caught on the hop when the diminutive Putin suggested that Assad might agree to surrender all his chemical weapons (he had obviously cleared that with Assad first).
Kerry was publicly put on the spot and naturally had to agree, he had no choice!
Had he equivocated, action man was ready with this question: “So, what exactly are you trying to do in Syria? Test your new weaponry or eradicate Assad’s chemicals? Because you can’t bomb sarin gas.”
Then comes Putin’s masterstroke! He appeals to US citizens through an article in the New York Times, setting out his case and slamming the US Administration.
Obama folds and, Voila, Vladamir Putin becomes the dictator of US foreign policy while Obama sulks in humiliation.
Sometimes an active mind is mightier than the guided missile.
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The nearly 100-page report concludes that the State Department’s internal review board – called the Accountability Review Board, or ARB – was flawed.
The State Department review of the Benghazi terror attack let senior officials off the hook for the policy decisions that led to sub-standard security at the U.S. compound in eastern Libya, according to a draft House committee report obtained by Fox News.
The nearly 100-page report concludes that the State Department’s internal review board -- called the Accountability Review Board, or ARB -- was flawed. The report by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee alleges the board’s probe was not comprehensive, its interviews were not thorough, and the investigation itself may have been damaged by conflicts of interest.
A central finding is that the department, as a result of the board’s findings, meted out discipline to four mid-level officials (who were later re-instated anyway), but the board glossed over the actions and decisions of senior-level officials. The report claims the internal review identified many of the security problems with the Benghazi compound, while ignoring who was behind the policy decisions that led to them.
Specifically, the report points to the authorization by Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to continue operating the ad hoc compound in Benghazi. The interim report found that a December 2011 action memo, prepared by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and signed off on by Kennedy, green-lighted the operation. Witnesses told Republican investigators that this decision to run the operation on an ad hoc basis was largely responsible for the inadequate security presence on the ground in Benghazi, not money.
The report also noted that it’s unclear which other senior leaders were involved in this decision but said it is likely, based on email evidence, that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s views played a role in the decision-making.
None of the four State Department employees who were disciplined after the ARB was released in December, and later re-instated by Secretary of State John Kerry in August, were responsible for making policy. The draft states that the use of administrative leave was meant to leave the impression of accountability.
A review of congressional testimony and internal State Department memos by Fox News in June found that the policy decision to maintain a presence in Benghazi with substandard security was made at the most senior levels of the State Department by officials who have so far escaped blame -- including Feltman, Kennedy and Clinton.
The draft interim report, which was produced by the Republican majority, states clearly that Clinton wanted to extend the Benghazi operation. I reported that several officials within the Near Eastern Affairs office recalled Clinton's desire to leave the operation in place once the primary diplomatic facility in Tripoli was re-opened.
In the summer of 2012, as security conditions unraveled, with documented attacks on western facilities, a State Department officer who served on the Libya desk said Kennedy was asked about the mission's future, and Kennedy said he would first have to check with Clinton. Based on a conversation between Ambassador Chris Stevens – who was later killed in the attack -- and Clinton, Stevens’ deputy Greg Hicks testified it was the former secretary of State's personal goal to have a permanent operation in Benghazi.
State Department Assistant Secretary of State Douglas Frantz said Sunday that the ARB's and State Department's response to Benghazi has been "thorough and transparent."
"In fact, it set a new standard for transparency measured by tens of thousands of pages of documents turned over to Congress, testimony in public and closed hearings and a declassified report for the public," he said. "To suggest anything has been hidden or that accountability has been averted requires willful ignorance of these facts."
“Twisting the facts to advance a political agenda does a disservice to those who lost their lives and those who have devoted the past year to understanding what happened and implementing security procedures to make certain it does not happen again," Frantz added. "The ARB report did not find that any individual willfully ignored his or her responsibilities or engaged in misconduct; it did not find that anyone breached his or her duty so as to be subject to termination or other discipline. It did, however, identify leadership deficiencies on the part of four employees"
Jenn Hoffman, the communications director for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats, called the report's claims "unsubstantiated accusations."
“This Republican report is not an official Committee report, but rather a completely partisan staff report that the Chairman apparently did not want Committee Members to see before he leaked it to the press. Rather than focusing on the reforms recommended by the ARB, Republicans have politicized the investigation by engaging in a systematic effort to launch unsubstantiated accusations against the Pentagon, the State Department, the President, and now the ARB itself," she said.
But the draft report said that there were problems with the internal review.
As one example, the co-chairman of the ARB Ambassador Thomas Pickering told investigators that his team had the authority to conduct depositions, and the authority to issue subpoenas. But the Board never used these authorities, instead relying heavily on group and individual interviews.
While the ARB placed blamed on the State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs for "systemic leadership and management deficiencies," the NEA's second in command was only interviewed once, in a group setting. Adm. Mike Mullen, the other co-chairman of the ARB, was asked by congressional investigators why the second in command was not more thoroughly questioned, and according to the draft, Mullen said the official did not seem to bear significant responsibility.
The draft interim report also concluded that the State Department's unwillingness to provide the working documents from the ARB made an independent assessment by the congressional committee difficult. Rather than record or transcribe interviews, the ARB relied on summaries. Mullen said he found the summaries to be accurate.
As for an alleged conflict of interest, the interim draft states that Kennedy, whom the interim report found to bear significant responsibility for the Benghazi policy, oversaw the selection of the ARB staff. Mullen told investigators he considered the staff's familiarity with the State Department to be useful. But in at least one instance, Cheryl Mills, who was Clinton's chief of staff, was given advance warning that her questioning before the ARB would be rough.
The interim report states that members of the House oversight committee, led by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will sharpen its focus on the senior State Department officials who drove the policy decisions in Benghazi.
The failure to affix blame above the assistant secretary level could impact future decisions on "expeditionary diplomacy" where diplomats are now operating in areas they would have pulled out of a decade ago. Critics have accused the Obama administration of favoring a light footprint which does not reflect the security conditions on the ground.
The draft interim findings will be released early next week. The House oversight committee has hearings scheduled for Sept. 19.
Fox News' James Rosen contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/16/state-departments-benghazi-review-let-senior-officials-off-hook-report-finds/#ixzz2f3KKh6rV
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WE GOT IT WRONG ON WARMING, SAY IPCC
Oops, only a trillion dollar mistake.
No-one will ever know what new products, what new processes or what medical breakthroughs will have failed to come into existence, killed before they were born, because of the diversion of our nation’s precious and limited resources, because some held the IPCC’s now failed predictions as gospel.
No-one will ever be able to compute the price that we all will pay for following these mistaken predictions, and how this has kept our standard of living lower than it would otherwise have been.
I wonder if they will now issue an apology. Saying 'Sorry' would be nice start.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/we-got-it-wrong-on-warming-says-ipcc/story-e6frg8y6-1226719672318
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.. I would add that Jewish peoples have every right to prosper as free peoples in Germany and anywhere else in the world. And, any attempt to limit that freedom should be opposed by the free world. ed
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The planets have aligned a couple of times this week. It's kind of spooky when that happens, reminding you that everything in life is interconnected in some way. I was killing time on Facebook, I mean researching, when I came across a post that someone had shared in which a woman had written about her distress at how parenting had become too competitive.
She had read a post from a woman who was wondering whether her child should be able to do certain things by age four. Many women answered, saying their children could count to 100, write their first and last name, name the planets, ride a bike; many other women said their three-year-olds could do the same. There were links to websites outlining what each age group should be able to do; only a few said each child develops at his own pace and not to worry.
What bothered the poster was how these women did nothing but add to the mother's concern. ''We are such a competitive culture that even our preschoolers have become trophies and bragging rights. Childhood shouldn't be a race,'' she said.
She came up with her own list of what a child should know by four:
- Children should know they are loved wholly and unconditionally, all of the time.
- They should know they are safe and they should know how to keep themselves safe in public, with others, and in varied situations. They should know they can trust their instincts about people and that they never have to do something that doesn't feel right, no matter who is asking. They should know their personal rights and that their family will back them up.
- They should know how to laugh, act silly, be goofy and use their imagination. They should know that it is OK to paint the sky orange and give cats six legs.
- They should know their own interests and be encouraged to follow them. If they couldn't care less about learning their numbers, their parents should realise they'll learn them accidentally soon enough and let them immerse themselves instead in rocket ships, drawing, dinosaurs or playing in the mud.
- They should know the world is magical and so are they. They should know they are wonderful, brilliant, creative, compassionate and marvellous. They should know it's just as worthy to spend the day outside making daisy chains, mud pies and fairy houses as it is to practise phonics.
I get the atheist position that denies God and points to cold hard reality .. but they forget that there is love and life and there is no need, to my mind, to further evidence magic. ed
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JNS.org - As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent Nazi roundup.
“Finally, after what seemed like an excruciatingly long wait, we saw our signal offshore,” Goldberger later recalled. His family “strode straight into the ocean and waded through three or four feet of icy water until we were hauled aboard a fishing boat” and covered themselves “with smelly canvases.” Shivering and frightened, but grateful, the Goldberger family soon found itself in the safety and freedom of neighboring Sweden.
For years, the Allied leaders had insisted that nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. But in one extraordinary night, 70 years ago next month, the Danish people exploded that myth and changed history.
When the Nazis occupied Denmark during the Holocaust in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the Danish government continue functioning with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Denmark’s 8,000 Jewish citizens.
In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. Duckwitz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. As word of the Germans’ plans spread, the Danish public responded with a spontaneous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews.
The Danes’ remarkable response gave rise to the legend that King Christian X himself rode through the streets of Copenhagen on horseback, wearing a yellow Star of David, and that the citizens of the city likewise donned the star in solidarity with the Jews.
The story may have had its origins in a political cartoon that appeared in a Swedish newspaper in 1942. It showed King Christian pointing to a Star of David and declaring that if the Nazis imposed it upon the Jews of Demark, “then we must all wear the star.” Leon Uris’s novel Exodus, and the movie based on that book, helped spread the legend. But subsequent investigations by historians have concluded that the story is a myth.
A midnight escape
On Rosh Hashanah—which fell on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in 1943—and the days that followed, numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews from Holocaust persecution in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so that students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war.
Esther Finkler, a young newlywed, was hidden, together with her husband and their mothers, in a greenhouse. “At night, we saw the [German] searchlights sweeping back and forth throughout the neighborhood,” as the Nazis hunted for Jews, Esther later recalled. One evening, a member of the Danish Underground arrived and drove the four “through streets saturated with Nazi stormtroopers,” to a point near the shore.
There they hid in an underground shelter, and then in the attic of a bakery, until finally they were brought to a beach, where they boarded a small fishing vessel together with other Jewish refugees. “There were nine of us, lying down on the deck or the floor,” Esther said. “The captain covered us with fishing nets. When everyone had been properly concealed, the fishermen started the boat, and as the motor started to run, so did my pent-up tears.”
Then, suddenly, trouble. “The captain began to sing and whistle nonchalantly, which puzzled us. Soon we heard him shouting in German toward a passing Nazi patrol boat: ‘Wollen sie einen beer haben?’ (Would you like a beer?)—a clever gimmick designed to avoid the Germans’ suspicions. After three tense hours at sea, we heard shouting: ‘Get up! Get up! And welcome to Sweden!’ It was hard to believe, but we were now safe. We cried and the Swedes cried with us as they escorted as ashore. The nightmare was over,” Esther recalled.
‘It can be done’
The implications of the Danish rescue operation resonated strongly in the United States. The Roosevelt administration had long insisted that rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not possible. The refugee advocates known as the Bergson Group began citing the escape of Denmark’s Jews as evidence that if the Allies were sufficiently interested, ways could be found to save many European Jews.
The Bergson Group sponsored a series of full-page newspaper advertisements about the Danish-Swedish effort, headlined “It Can Be Done!” On Oct. 31, thousands of New Yorkers jammed Carnegie Hall for the Bergson Group’s “Salute to Sweden and Denmark” rally.
Keynote speakers included members of Congress, Danish and Swedish diplomats, and one of the biggest names in Hollywood—Orson Welles, director of “Citizen Kane” and “The War of the Worlds.” In another coup for the Bergson Group, one of the speakers was Leon Henderson, one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s own former economic advisers (Henderson had headed the White House’s Office of Price Administration).
In blunt language that summed up the tragedy—and the hope—Henderson declared: “The Allied Governments have been guilty of moral cowardice. The issue of saving the Jewish people of Europe has been avoided, submerged, played down, hushed up, resisted with all the forms of political force that are available… Sweden and Denmark have proved the tragedy of Allied indecision… The Danes and Swedes have shown us the way… If this be a war for civilization, then most surely this is the time to be civilized!”
Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, D.C. His latest book is “FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith.”
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The Prime Minister of Israel
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the conclusion of his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry today (Sunday, 15 September 2013):
"We have been closely following – and support – your ongoing efforts to rid Syria of its chemical weapons. The Syrian regime must be stripped of all its chemical weapons, and that would make our entire region a lot safer.
The world needs to ensure that radical regimes don't have weapons of mass destruction because as we've learned once again in Syria, if rogue regimes have weapons of mass destruction, they will use them. The determination the international community shows regarding Syria will have a direct impact on the Syrian regime's patron, Iran. Iran must understand the consequences of its continual defiance of the international community, by its pursuit towards nuclear weapons.
What the past few days have shown is something that I have been saying for quite some time, that if diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat. What is true of Syria is true of Iran, and, by the way, vice versa.
John, I appreciate the opportunity we've had to discuss at some length our quest for peace with the Palestinians and the ongoing talks. We both know that this road is not an easy one, but we have embarked on this effort with you in order to succeed, to bring about a historic reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians that ends the conflict once and for all."
Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO
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Said Obama:
'My suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn’t draw a lesson that we haven’t struck [Syria] to think we won’t strike Iran … My view is that if you have both a credible threat of force, combined with a rigorous diplomatic effort, that, in fact you can you can strike a deal.’
‘A credible threat of force’? What’s he been smoking?
This incredible self-delusion is at a commensurate level with the incalculable damage this man has done to the interests of America and the west and the increased danger in which he has placed the world. The dithering over Syria, and dilution of that threat of force to ‘unbelievably small, limited’ (John Kerry), not to mention the trumpeted advance warning of these ‘unbelievably small, limited’ strikes so that Assad has had time to move his chemical weapons to at least 50 sites (including Iraq, where the Syrian Islamists claim that, guess what, some of this stuff was exported to Syria by Saddam pre the 2003 war, the suspicion some of us have so often aired in response to the imbecilic ‘no WMD were found so that proves there never were any WMD’ mantra) have now made any threat of force ever by Obama’s America into a global joke.
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"THE LAST KISS"
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Had an absolutely awesome time this weekend in KC with my nephew, CPT (P) Bernard West, his beautiful wife, Serena, and their two handfuls, Ethan and Jordan. So glad we could spend some time together.
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A contrarian posts .. Which one do YOU care least about?
1. What is the difference between rugby "union" and rugby "league"?
2. Should women also be allowed to tell others about the imaginary guy in the sky?
3. Are the lesbians in porno REALY lesbians?
4. Who will lead the ALP?
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- 1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores,Guanajuato, delivered the Grito de Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain.
- 1941 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran (pictured) was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1959 – Haloid Xerox introduced the Xerox 914, the first modernphotocopier, invented by American physicist Chester Carlson.
- 1963 – Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (present-day Sabah), andSarawak merged to form Malaysia.
- 1987 – The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion, opened for signature.
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Events
- 307 – Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Galeriusunsuccessfully invades Italy.
- 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
- 1620 – The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
- 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at theBattle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
- 1812 – The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
- 1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
- 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- 1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
- 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
- 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind theGalveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- 1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
- 1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw fromSalerno.
- 1945 – World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
- 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- 1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight on this date.
- 1955 – A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile.
- 1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
- 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
- 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.
- 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
- 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
- 1971 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
- 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
- 1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
- 1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- 1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
- 1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
- 1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
- 1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- 1990 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan becomes complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- 1991 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- 1992 – Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against theGerman mark.
- 1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
- 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
- 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
- 2007 – Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide allegedly shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, sparking outrage in the Arab world.
Births
- 16 – Julia Drusilla, Roman daughter of Germanicus (d. 38)
- 1386 – Henry V of England, (d. 1422)
- 1507 – Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
- 1557 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
- 1615 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1692)
- 1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician (d. 1716)
- 1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician (d. 1751)
- 1716 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian tenor (d. 1798)
- 1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-English general (d. 1799)
- 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
- 1745 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
- 1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English banker and financier (d. 1836)
- 1782 – Daoguang Emperor of China (d. 1850)
- 1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893)
- 1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
- 1830 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
- 1837 – Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
- 1844 – Paul Taffanel, French flute player and conductor (d. 1908)
- 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English doctor (d. 1888)
- 1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
- 1858 – Edward Marshall Hall, English barrister (d. 1927)
- 1858 – Bonar Law, Canadian-Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
- 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1916)
- 1866 – Georg Voigt, German politician (d. 1927)
- 1870 – John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (d. 1958)
- 1875 – James Cash Penney, American businessman, founded J. C. Penney (d. 1971)
- 1876 – Eduardo Camet, Argentine fencer (d. 1931)
- 1877 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (d. 1937)
- 1880 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
- 1881 – Clive Bell, English critic (d. 1964)
- 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (d. 1917)
- 1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (d. 1979)
- 1888 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1891 – Karl Dönitz, German navy officer (d. 1980)
- 1891 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (d. 1972)
- 1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian director (d. 1956)
- 1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1896 – Margaret Fitzgerald, Canadian super-centenarian (d. 2009)
- 1897 – Milt Franklyn, American composer (d. 1962)
- 1898 – H.A. Rey, American author (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Joe Venuti, Italian-American violinist (The Dorsey Brothers) (d. 1978)
- 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
- 1906 – Jack Churchill, English soldier (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Erich Kempka, German chauffeur (d. 1975)
- 1910 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (d. 1983)
- 1911 – Paul Henning, American scriptwriter and producer (d. 2005)
- 1914 – Allen Funt, American director, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Cy Walter, American pianist (d. 1968)
- 1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)
- 1916 – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian politician (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (d. 1968)
- 1919 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American educator (d. 1990)
- 1919 – Andy Russell, American singer (d. 1992)
- 1920 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (d. 1991)
- 1921 – Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter
- 1921 – Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Guy Hamilton, English director
- 1922 – Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
- 1922 – Janis Paige, American actress and singer
- 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Chinese-Singaporean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore
- 1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress
- 1925 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
- 1925 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1926 – Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1926 – Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (d. 2011)
- 1926 – John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
- 1926 – Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter
- 1927 – Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1927 – Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1927 – Sadako Ogata, Japanese diplomat, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 1928 – Rex Trailer, American television host, actor, and singer (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Lady Gwen Thompson, English author and educator (d. 1986)
- 1930 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1931 – K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan Tamil zoologist and academic (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Little Willie Littlefield, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player
- 1934 – George Chakiris, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1934 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dubliners) (d. 2008)
- 1934 – Dick Heckstall-Smith, English saxophonist (Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and Colosseum) (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Carl Andre, American sculptor
- 1935 – Billy Boy Arnold, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1935 – Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author
- 1935 – Bob Kiley, American businessman
- 1935 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian author
- 1937 – Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler
- 1937 – Vince Naimoli, American businessman
- 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter
- 1940 – Hamiet Bluiett, American musician and composer (World Saxophone Quartet)
- 1941 – Richard Perle, American politician
- 1941 – Joe Butler, American vocalist and drummer (The Lovin' Spoonful)
- 1942 – Bernie Calvert, English musician (The Hollies)
- 1942 – Dennis Conner, American sailor
- 1942 – Tadamasa Goto, Japanese mobster
- 1943 – Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1943 – James Alan McPherson, American author
- 1944 – Winston Grennan, Jamaican drummer (Kid Creole and the Coconuts and Toots and the Maytals) (d. 2000)
- 1945 – Pat Stevens, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1946 – Cathee Dahmen, American model (d. 1997)
- 1946 – Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
- 1946 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
- 1947 – Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and publisher
- 1948 – Ron Blair, American bass player (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
- 1948 – Rosemary Casals, American tennis player
- 1948 – Kenney Jones, English drummer (The Small Faces, Faces, The Who, The Law, and The Jones Gang)
- 1948 – Susan Ruttan, American actress
- 1949 – Chrisye, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
- 1949 – Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
- 1950 – David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bellamy Brothers)
- 1950 – Henry Louis Gates, American educator, scholar, and author
- 1950 – Loyd Grossman, American-English television host and guitarist
- 1951 – Vince Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 – Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (d. 2013)
- 1952 – Mickey Rourke, American boxer, actor, and screenwriter
- 1953 – Alan Barton, English singer and guitarist (Black Lace and Smokie) (d. 1995)
- 1953 – Kurt Fuller, American actor
- 1953 – Nancy Huston, Canadian novelist
- 1953 – Jerry Pate, American golfer
- 1953 – Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Bengali sitar player and composer
- 1954 – Earl Klugh, American guitarist
- 1954 – William McKeen, American author
- 1954 – Colin Newman, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Wire, Githead, and Immersion)
- 1954 – Frank Reed, American singer-songwriter (The Chi-Lites)
- 1955 – Ron Brewer, American basketball player
- 1955 – Janet Ellis, English actress
- 1955 – Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and actress
- 1955 – Robin Yount, American baseball player
- 1956 – David Copperfield, American magician
- 1956 – Dave Schulthise, American bass player (Dead Milkmen) (d. 2004)
- 1957 – David McCreery, Irish footballer
- 1957 – Anca Parghel, Romanian singer and pianist (d. 2008)
- 1958 – Orel Hershiser, American baseball player
- 1958 – Maura O'Connell, Irish singer and actress (De Dannan)
- 1958 – Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
- 1958 – Jennifer Tilly, American actress
- 1959 – Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor
- 1959 – Tim Raines, American baseball player
- 1959 – Dave Richardson, South African cricketer
- 1959 – Victory Tischler-Blue, American bass player, director, and producer (The Runaways)
- 1960 – Jayne Brook, American actress
- 1960 – Kurt Busiek, American author
- 1960 – Ean Evans, American bass player (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Outlaws) (d. 2009)
- 1960 – Graham Haynes, American musician and composer
- 1960 – Danny John-Jules, English actor, singer, and dancer
- 1960 – Yianna Katsoulos, American-French singer
- 1961 – Bilinda Butcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (My Bloody Valentine)
- 1961 – T La Rock, American rapper
- 1961 – Annamária Szalai, Hungarian journalist and politician (d. 2013)
- 1962 – Seth, Canadian cartoonist and writer
- 1963 – Richard Marx, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1964 – Mary Coustas, Australian actress
- 1964 – Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
- 1964 – Dave Sabo, American guitarist and songwriter (Skid Row)
- 1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress
- 1965 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress
- 1965 – Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer
- 1966 – Wil McCarthy, American science fiction novelist
- 1966 – Kevin Young, American hurdler
- 1967 – Hiroya Oku, Japanese illustrator and writer
- 1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
- 1968 – Walt Becker, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1968 – Tommy Keane, Irish footballer (d. 2012)
- 1969 – Justine Frischmann, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Elastica and Suede)
- 1969 – Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
- 1969 – Emanuele Guidi, Sammarinese archer
- 1970 – Mark Schultz, American singer-songwriter
- 1971 – Amy Poehler, American actress and producer
- 1972 – Mark Bruener, American football player
- 1972 – Shalane McCall, American actress
- 1972 – James Westman, Canadian opera singer
- 1972 – Erik Mana, Filipino-Canadian magician
- 1973 – George Corrie, English footballer
- 1973 – Justin Haythe, American author and screenwriter
- 1973 – Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
- 1974 – Monique Brumby, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1974 – Joaquín Castro, American lawyer and politician
- 1974 – Julian Castro, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Antonio
- 1975 – Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer
- 1975 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (d. 2013)
- 1975 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Tina Barrett, English singer-songwriter and actress (S Club)
- 1976 – Greg Buckner, American basketball player
- 1977 – Gregory R. Ball, American air force officer and politician
- 1978 – Dan Dickau, American basketball player
- 1978 – Claudia Marx, German runner
- 1978 – Matthew Rogers, American singer and television host
- 1979 – Fanny, French singer
- 1979 – Aileen Celeste, Venezuelan actress
- 1979 – Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
- 1980 – Patrik Štefan, Czech ice hockey player
- 1981 – Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
- 1981 – Alexis Bledel, American actress
- 1981 – LaVerne Jones-Ferrette, Virgin Islander sprinter
- 1981 – Ava Addams, Gibraltarian-born American pornographic actress
- 1982 – Leon Knight, English footballer
- 1982 – Michele Rizzo, Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Fiete Sykora, German footballer
- 1982 – Ryan Thomson, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – John Afoa, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
- 1983 – Brandon Moss, American baseball player
- 1983 – Legedu Naanee, American football player
- 1984 – Sabrina Bryan, American actress, singer and dancer (The Cheetah Girls)
- 1984 – Serginho Catarinense, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1985 – Madeline Zima, American actress
- 1986 – Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
- 1986 – Ian Harding, German-American actor
- 1986 – Kyla Pratt, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Daren Kagasoff, American actor
- 1987 – Kyle Lafferty, Irish footballer
- 1987 – Louis Clément Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (d. 2013)
- 1987 – Travis Wall, American dancer
- 1987 – Anthony Padilla, YouTube comedian
- 1988 – Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1988 – Sarah Steele, American actress
- 1989 – Braden Holtby, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – José Salomón Rondón, Venezuelan footballer
- 1989 – Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 – Alexandra Paul, Canadian figure skater
- 1991 – Kyle Smith, English motorcycle racer.
- 1992 – Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Jonas Brothers)
- 1992 – Jake Roche, English actor and singer
Deaths
- 307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, Roman emperor
- 655 – Pope Martin I
- 1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
- 1100 – Bernold of Constance, German chronicler and writer (b. 1054)
- 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
- 1380 – Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- 1394 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)
- 1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
- 1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish-Dominican ruler (b. 1420)
- 1589 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, American poet (b. 1612)
- 1701 – James II of England (b. 1633)
- 1736 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
- 1775 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English politician (b. 1684)
- 1782 – Farinelli, Italian singer (b. 1705)
- 1792 – Nguyen Hue, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1753)
- 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, cartographer, and naturalist (b. 1754)
- 1819 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (b. 1744)
- 1824 – Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
- 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770)
- 1865 – Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
- 1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
- 1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
- 1896 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1814)
- 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, doctor, and diplomat (b. 1827)
- 1911 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (b. 1840)
- 1925 – Leo Fall, Austrian composer (b. 1873)
- 1925 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
- 1932 – Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
- 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player (b. 1857)
- 1936 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist and doctor (b. 1867)
- 1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
- 1944 – Gustav Bauer, German politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
- 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
- 1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
- 1955 – Leo Amery, Indian-English politician (b. 1873)
- 1957 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
- 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
- 1965 – Fred Quimby, American animation producer (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (b. 1932)
- 1975 – Irene Hayes, American businesswoman (b. 1896)
- 1977 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (T. Rex and John's Children) (b. 1947)
- 1977 – Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
- 1978 – Lavrentis Dianellos, Greek actor (b. 1911)
- 1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
- 1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
- 1987 – Simon Gipps-Kent, English actor (b. 1958)
- 1987 – Howard Moss, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1922)
- 1987 – Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, English politician (b. 1920)
- 1989 – Steven Stayner, American kidnap victim (b. 1965)
- 1991 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
- 1991 – Carol White, English actress (b. 1943)
- 1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
- 1993 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)
- 1993 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
- 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, American diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor
- 1996 – Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
- 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
- 2002 – James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Michael Donaghy American poet (b. 1954)
- 2005 – Harry Freedman, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist, invented the laser (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
- 2006 Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Robert Jordan, American author (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Myles Brand, American academic (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
- 2010 – George N. Parks, American educator and bandleader (b. 1953)
- 2010 – Jim Towers, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Suthivelu, Indian actor (b. 1947)
- 2012 – John Coates, English animation producer (b. 1927)
- 2012 – John Ingle, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Roman Kroitor, Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Loose Mohan, Indian actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Shinichi Nishimiya, Japanese diplomat (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day:
- Brazil:
- Alagoas Statehood day (1902).
- Days of the Cities in the State of Minas Gerais:
- Heroes' Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
- Independence Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of Mexico from Spain in 1810. See Fiestas Patrias
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Papua New Guinea from Australia in 1975.
- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
- Malaysia Day (Malaysia, Singapore)
- Ukraine: Liberation of Lozova in Kharkiv Oblast (1943, World War II)
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“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” 1 John 4:16 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings."
Psalm 112:7
Psalm 112:7
Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved his faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: but you profess to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now, if you are seen to be distracted as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess to have received? Where is the dignity of that new nature which you claim to possess?
Again, if you should be filled with alarm, as others are, you would, doubtless, be led into the sins so common to others under trying circumstances. The ungodly, when they are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke the Lord as they do?
Moreover, unconverted men often run to wrong means in order to escape from difficulties, and you will be sure to do the same if your mind yields to the present pressure. Trust in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Your wisest course is to do as Moses did at the Red Sea, "Stand still and see the salvation of God." For if you give way to fear when you hear of evil tidings, you will be unable to meet the trouble with that calm composure which nerves for duty, and sustains under adversity. How can you glorify God if you play the coward? Saints have often sung God's high praises in the fires, but will your doubting and desponding, as if you had none to help you, magnify the Most High? Then take courage, and relying in sure confidence upon the faithfulness of your covenant God, "let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Evening
"A people near unto him."
Psalm 148:14
Psalm 148:14
The dispensation of the old covenant was that of distance. When God appeared even to his servant Moses, he said, "Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet"; and when he manifested himself upon Mount Sinai, to his own chosen and separated people, one of the first commands was, "Thou shalt set bounds about the mount." Both in the sacred worship of the tabernacle and the temple, the thought of distance was always prominent. The mass of the people did not even enter the outer court. Into the inner court none but the priests might dare to intrude; while into the innermost place, or the holy of holies, the high priest entered but once in the year. It was as if the Lord in those early ages would teach man that sin was so utterly loathsome to him, that he must treat men as lepers put without the camp; and when he came nearest to them, he yet made them feel the width of the separation between a holy God and an impure sinner. When the gospel came, we were placed on quite another footing. The word "Go" was exchanged for "Come"; distance was made to give place to nearness, and we who aforetime were afar off, were made nigh by the blood of Jesus Christ. Incarnate Deity has no wall of fire about it. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," is the joyful proclamation of God as he appears in human flesh. Not now does he teach the leper his leprosy by setting him at a distance, but by himself suffering the penalty of his defilement. What a state of safety and privilege is this nearness to God through Jesus! Do you know it by experience? If you know it, are you living in the power of it? Marvellous is this nearness, yet it is to be followed by a dispensation of greater nearness still, when it shall be said, "The tabernacle of God is with men, and he doth dwell among them." Hasten it, O Lord.
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Today's reading: Proverbs 22-24, 2 Corinthians 8 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 22-24
1 A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
2 Rich and poor have this in common:
The LORD is the Maker of them all.
The LORD is the Maker of them all.
3 The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
4 Humility is the fear of the LORD;
its wages are riches and honor and life.
its wages are riches and honor and life.
5 In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,
but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
6 Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it....
and even when they are old they will not turn from it....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 8
The Collection for the Lord's People
1 And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. 2 In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. 3 For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, 4 they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people. 5And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. 6So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. 7 But since you excel in everything-in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you-see that you also excel in this grace of giving....
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Obed
[Ō'bed] - worshiper or a servant who worships.
[Ō'bed] - worshiper or a servant who worships.
- Son of Boaz, by Ruth, and better than ten sons to her, since through Obed she became an ancestress of Jesus Christ (Ruth 4:17-22; 1 Chron. 2:12; Matt. 1:5; Luke 3:32).
- Son of Ephlal, descendant of Judah (1 Chron. 2:37, 38).
- One of David's valiant men (1 Chron. 11:47).
- A son of Shemaiah, a gatekeeper at the Tabernacle in David's time (1 Chron. 26:7).
- Father of Azariah, in the time of Athaliah (2 Chron. 23:1).
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