What can be said in such a sacred day of former PM Paul Keating branding ALP with a speech writer's words to associate with Remembrance Day? He did not write those words "He is one of them. He is all of us" for the unknown soldier. ALP don't have a proud history of governance with serving troops. Sacrificing many in Singapore, abandoning POWs, Union strikes organised to hinder troops, shaming soldiers who chose to fight. In recent years, Australia has been involved in her longest armed conflict in Afghanistan. Six years under the conservatives, and six years under the ALP. Forty deaths under the ALP, none under the conservatives. It is a compelling soccer score for people like Keating who view lives as a game through which ALP must triumph in memory. Probably it best to view Keating in paraphrased terms "He is one of them, against all of us"
Australian troops achieved much in WW1, but were quite humble. They didn't treasure awards, possibly disgusted at the reality and the cost which such things entailed. And what award compensates for the loss? I thank those who were awarded. They definitely earned it. As did many who never were given one. Some complain of the atrocities committed. Such things happen in war, but overwhelmingly, Australians fought with honour. I write 'Australians' and many might point out so many weren't, being from NZ, England, South Africa, PNG, India .. I know not the full allegiance, but I give them this gift. For the war ended at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month on 1918. Today, Australia has wounds from her local petty battles. We don't really know who is ridgy didge. Our future is clouded. And yet in freedom and liberty, we rule. People come to our land from places thousands of years rich in history. Risking all. Because of the sacrifice of those soldiers. They might not have had Australia in mind, and yet they gave her this rich gift. A bowl, drenched in their blood, giving us a drink of hope for tomorrow.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Kathy-Kim Pham. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
- 1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician (d. 1541)
- 1792 – Mary Anne Disraeli, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
- 1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author (d. 1881)
- 1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
- 1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American author (d. 2007)
- 1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
- 1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer
- 1994 – Connor Price, Canadian actor
Matches
- 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, andMaximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to theRoman Empire.
- 1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland
- 1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passesAn Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
- 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- 1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
- 1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
- 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
Despatches
- 405 – Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (b. 324)
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader (b. 1800)
- 1887 – Haymarket affair defendants:
- George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (b. 1836)
- Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (b. 1858)
- Albert Parsons, American editor and activist (b. 1848)
- August Spies, American editor and activist (b. 1855)
FORGETTERY DAY
Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (12:05pm)
On Remembrance Day, Paul Keating doesn’t remember that Australia’s World War I soldiers were volunteers:
Mr Keating said he was heartened that many young Australians find a sense of purpose in the Anzac legend.“They are fortunately too wise to the world to be cannon fodder of the kind their young forebears became, young innocents who had little or no choice,” he said.
Not so. By the way, “cannon fodder” could perhaps have been better expressed.
(Via CL)
GOOD, GOOD, GOOD
Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (3:44am)
Australia takes a stand:
Federal cabinet has ruled that Australia will not sign up to any new contributions, taxes or charges at this week’s global summit on climate change …The government’s document also says that Australia “will not support any measures which are socialism masquerading as environmentalism”.
Yesterday’s people still cling to their dreams.
THEY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (3:07am)
Climate crybabies usually tell us that they’re concerned about the world we’ll leave to our children or our children’s children. They’re currently upset about a new National Geographic online map that depicts Australia’s collapsing coasts 5000 years from now.
This means that the climate panic community is worried about our children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s …
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Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (2:54am)
Obamacare would never work in Adelaide, as the Boston Herald reports:
The state website residents must use to sign up for Obamacare health plans is riddled with infuriating computer flaws that cut off people with hyphenated names and force others to falsely say they areprison inmates or mental patients before they can finish their applications, a Herald review found.
Actually, the whole thing looks like it was designed by an Adelaidean.
COMPLETE COVERAGE
Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (2:02am)
A British terror suspect recently escaped surveillance by disguising himself in a burka. This tactic is catching on everywhere.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, FAILURE
Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (1:35am)
Julia Gillard was such a disaster as Prime Minister that her own party replaced her with someone despised by at least half the former government.
Naturally, that view isn’t shared by Australia’s creative community, who adored Gillard’s deceptive misogyny speech and thought her carbon tax lie was all in a good cause. According to film producer Richard Keddie, Gillard “wasextraordinarily successful in her performance as a Prime Minister.”
The polls somehow never reflected that extraordinary success, which is evidently measured by different methods within film circles. Labor lost 11 seats under Gillard in the 2010 election and Labor lost another 17 seats in September following three further years of Gillard’s extraordinarily successful leadership.
When next you hear anyone in the Australian film industry describing something as “successful”, keep in mind that to them this word clearly has an alternative meaning. Using the luvvie definition, Verema’s Melbourne Cup performance was an absolute triumph.
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Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (1:01am)
Bless! Peter FitzSimons, a 52-year-old man who enjoys playing dress-ups, has now incorporated that head-sock of his into a site logo:
Adorable! Pete also claims to be a “former radio presenter (very successfully)”.
Adorable! Pete also claims to be a “former radio presenter (very successfully)”.
Hmmm. Perhaps he’s using the luvvies’ definition.
STRAW MAN
Tim Blair – Monday, November 11, 2013 (12:56am)
Bovine bashing from Guardian greenoid John Abraham:
The most vocal climate contrarians came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and perceive anything (particularly computer modeling) that developed after their hay day as inaccurate and unreliable.
Kind of like the Guardian‘s subeditors.
Should union members’ super funds really be invested in yet another Left-wing news outfit?
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (11:23am)
It’s one thing for rich benefactors to subsidise loss-making on-line news services that push the Leftist line. Greens donor Graeme Wood is perfectly entitled to splash his cash on the struggling Global Mail. Britain’s Scott Trust can squander the last of its cash on a Guardian Australia site. And Fairfax is entitled to preach all day about the sins of Tony Abbott.
I’m less happy, of course, that taxpayers must also spend $1.1 billion a year for the ABC to run a virulently Left-wing news organisation, plus another $200 million for the Left-wing SBS. It is surely too much of a good thing that Labor made taxpayers also subsidise the Left-wing Conversation, now busily promoting an agenda very close to Labor’s own.
But has a line just been crossed? Surely this is a highly inappropriate use of the superannuation funds of union members, especially when the market for on-line Leftist journalism is now so very, very crowded:
By the way, note one critical difference. Conservative journalism tends to survive on the support of its audience. Leftist journalism tends to survive on the support of taxpayers and rich benefactors.
===I’m less happy, of course, that taxpayers must also spend $1.1 billion a year for the ABC to run a virulently Left-wing news organisation, plus another $200 million for the Left-wing SBS. It is surely too much of a good thing that Labor made taxpayers also subsidise the Left-wing Conversation, now busily promoting an agenda very close to Labor’s own.
But has a line just been crossed? Surely this is a highly inappropriate use of the superannuation funds of union members, especially when the market for on-line Leftist journalism is now so very, very crowded:
Some of Australia’s biggest industry superannuation outfits are using member funds to quietly bankroll a new online news venture guided by Crikey backer Eric Beecher, with plans to promote the venture to their millions of members.The directors include former ACTU official Garry Weaven and former Labor Premier Steve Bracks. Guthrie is, of course, of the Left, as is Beecher.
The site, to be named The New Daily, is set to launch this week – the latest entrant to an increasingly crowded online news field in Australia.
The industry super funds ploughing $3 million into the venture include AustralianSuper, the country’s biggest superannuation fund, United Super, the trustee of construction industry fund Cbus, and Industry Super Holdings, a company that owns various industry fund entities.
Former Age editor Bruce Guthrie is understood to be the site’s editor-in-chief. Several Labor, union, media and industry fund identities – including industry funds stalwart Garry Weaven, former Victorian premier Steve Bracks – are believed to be, or have recently been, connected to the venture.
By the way, note one critical difference. Conservative journalism tends to survive on the support of its audience. Leftist journalism tends to survive on the support of taxpayers and rich benefactors.
Tony Windsor and a lucky grant
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (11:17am)
That’s your money, folks, and that’s Tony Windsor, treated by so many anti-Abbott journalists as the conscience of the Gillard Parliament:
(Thanks to readers Foehn and Baden.)
===The former member for New England helped tee up a $23 million government grant for an abattoir in Inverell run by his constituent, the meat industry patriarch John “JR” McDonald.Small world.
Windsor’s former political advisor, John Clements, is now lobbying the Clean Energy Finance Corporation for another $23 million to match the abattoir grant. The grant was made by the Department of Industry in July - before the change of government - to the McDonald family’s Bindaree Beef meatworks to finance a project to turn bio-waste into clean energy.
Company searches show that, after the election, Clements and Windsor registered the company National Grain Marketing Pty Ltd. Clements now works with Bindaree.
Clements said on Friday he “had no idea Tony wasn’t running” (for Parliament again) until two weeks before he announced the grant in July.
“There was no job offer from Bindaree or ever any discussions until well after Tony announced he would not stand. The project was funded before Tony announced he would not stand,” Clements said.
Windsor said on Friday he had no commercial arrangement with Bindaree and was not a beneficiary of the grant, and BusinessDay is not suggesting he was.
(Thanks to readers Foehn and Baden.)
Tweet of the week
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (11:15am)
Memo to Fairfax: foreign aid isn’t there for our arts graduates
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (11:11am)
I thought AusAID was
for helping the poor, not giving work to graduates. I also thought
helping the poor was so noble that graduates wanting to do it shouldn’t
expect to a very generous wage for their first-ever full-time job.
But to Fairfax reporters in a jihad against the Abbott Government, everything is grist to their mill:
===But to Fairfax reporters in a jihad against the Abbott Government, everything is grist to their mill:
AusAID graduate program axing hits students.(Thanks to reader Baden.)
Melissa Smith was keen to work in the public service and was one of the select few who had been awarded a prestigious graduate placement with AusAID, the Australian government agency responsible for managing the country’s overseas aid program.
She was looking forward to starting her first job, paying $57,762, in February. That was until Thursday, when she learnt the program had been scrapped as part of the government’s $4.5 billion cut to the foreign aid budget.
Didn’t this academic hear Abbott say “no”?
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (9:39am)
For heaven’s sake. It’s one thing for academics on the taxpayer-funded Conversation
to keep flogging the global warming scare. It’s another to not even
know the most basic policy promises of the government they attack.
Michael Howes, a senior lecturer in Sustainability and Environmental Policy at Griffith University, brightly claims there’s a way for Tony Abbott to scrap the carbon tax and still impose a kind of, well, carbon tax without actually breaking an election promise:
Brilliant!
Apart from this - Abbott has already promised not to have an emissions trading scheme, either:
===Michael Howes, a senior lecturer in Sustainability and Environmental Policy at Griffith University, brightly claims there’s a way for Tony Abbott to scrap the carbon tax and still impose a kind of, well, carbon tax without actually breaking an election promise:
Perhaps the Abbott government can solve its climate change problem by revisiting an old Coalition policy…Hmm. So Abbott should just give us an emissions trading scheme and pretend it’s not a tax - and keep all his promises.
Direct action is not going to be efficient in terms of the cost per tonne of carbon dioxide reduced… The second problem for the government is that both the Labor party and the Greens are willing to block these policies in the senate…
The solution comes from the Coalition itself through one of the former Howard government’s policies… In 2007 the Howard government’s Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading recommended an ETS....
If this barrier could be breached, adopting the Howard version of an ETS would allow the government to keep its election promises.
Brilliant!
Apart from this - Abbott has already promised not to have an emissions trading scheme, either:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is scrapping the controversial carbon tax.... Labor would move to an emissions trading scheme by next July.
Tony Abbott accused Mr Rudd of trying to deceive Australians into believing he was backing away from a carbon tax…
‘’Mr Rudd can change the name but whether it is fixed or floating, it is still a carbon tax… Only the Coalition will do the right thing by families to reduce their cost of living by scrapping the carbon tax, lock, stock and barrel.’’
Why can’t MPs keep it in the family?
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (8:56am)
GOOD news! The Abbott
Government will change workplace laws, after all - laws that make it too
hard for bosses to hire and fire.
Bad news! It will make it even harder for some bosses - for MPs, actually.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has finally decided to respond to a huge media beat-up about MPs expenses by cracking down.
I say beat-up because in weeks of campaigning by Fairfax newspapers, just $20,000 of expenses were identified that have since been repaid by embarrassed politicians.
(Read full article here.)
===Bad news! It will make it even harder for some bosses - for MPs, actually.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has finally decided to respond to a huge media beat-up about MPs expenses by cracking down.
I say beat-up because in weeks of campaigning by Fairfax newspapers, just $20,000 of expenses were identified that have since been repaid by embarrassed politicians.
(Read full article here.)
No boats in three weeks, Fairfax screams “shambles”
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (8:50am)
WOW, the beat-ups. The media’s many Abbott haters seem to really, really want the Abbott Government to fail. And to fail so badly that Labor’s last six years won’t seem such a disaster.
Just read the Sydney Morning Herald after Indonesia refused to take back more than 60 boat people rescued by an Australian warship from an Indonesian boat in Indonesian search-and-rescue territory.
“Once again the Abbott government has needlessly antagonised Indonesia,” declared the Fairfax paper’s national affairs editor.
“Attempting to return a vessel laden with asylum seekers to Indonesia at a time when the country is furious about Fairfax Media’s revelations of Australian spying activity across the archipelago was dumb.”
Pardon?
(Read full article here.)
Typhoon plus poverty equals destruction
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (8:09am)
The terrible tragedy in the Philippines shows poverty kills:
(UPDATE: The figure for wind speeds for Haiyan have been badly overestimated. See second update below.)
Note: the wind strengths in the graph referred to sustained wind speed, not gusts:
It is shocking but not surprising that Bjorn Lomborg needs to point this out:
Reader Baa Humbug notes that some journalists and activists were too keen to announce the worst cyclone ever. From the New York Times:
It seems initial reports confused kilometres with miles, leading to wildly exaggerated claims of wind speeds of this “super typhoon”.
What the Philippine Met Agency actually reported:
UPDATE
Reader Lisle detects more politicking over this tragedy:
I don’t think think I’ve ever heard the ABC more partisan as it’s been this past month.
Bottom line: the tragedy is overwhelming:
===The death toll from the typhoon that ravaged the central Philippine city of Tacloban could reach 10000 people, officials said on Sunday.The Philippines lie in a firing line for typhoons:
But Tacloban has many poor people without much protection, and flimsy houses had no chance:
Haiyan is the fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines this year and the third Category 5 typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines since 2010, says meteorologist Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground…
There have been at least ten typhoons that have resulted in at least 1,000 deaths over the course of the past few centuries in the Philippines, said Weather Underground weather historian Christopher Burt.
“The Philippines lie in the most tropical cyclone-prone waters on Earth, and rarely escape a year without experiencing a devastating typhoon,” Masters said.
From the information trickling out of Tacloban over the weekend, with communication still down and all modes of transportation grounded, it looks like the city was pounded by a storm surge of about the same height. But no one died in Manila’s storm surge. In Tacloban, where many seafront houses were made of flimsy materials and there were few high-rises like those in Manila to absorb the impact of giant sea waves, Yolanda exacted a grievous toll.Then there was sheer bad luck. There have been stronger cyclones before, but few if any in modern history that have hit a city at their peak:
(UPDATE: The figure for wind speeds for Haiyan have been badly overestimated. See second update below.)
Note: the wind strengths in the graph referred to sustained wind speed, not gusts:
The highest recorded wind gust recorded in the Australian region is 408 km/h at Barrow Island (data courtesy of Chevron) during cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996. This is a world record for the highest wind gust ever recorded eclipsing the previous record - 372 km/h at Mt Washington Observatory NH, USA on 12 April 1934.UPDATE
It is shocking but not surprising that Bjorn Lomborg needs to point this out:
It is phenomenal. Climate campaigners like [John] Vidal in Guardian keeps arguing that the terrible typhoon Haiyan shows we need to do more about global warming.UPDATE
Yet, even *after* Haiyan, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy of all cyclones in the Western North Pacific is below normal (99%, http://models.weatherbell.com/tropical.php). The global ACE is at 74%.
Reader Baa Humbug notes that some journalists and activists were too keen to announce the worst cyclone ever. From the New York Times:
Before the typhoon made landfall, some international forecasters were estimating wind speeds at 195 m.p.h, which would have meant the storm would hit with winds among the strongest recorded.UPDATE
But local forecasters later disputed those estimates. “Some of the reports of wind speeds were exaggerated,” Mr. Paciente said.
The Philippine weather agency measured winds on the eastern edge of the country at about 150 m.p.h., he said, with some tracking stations recording speeds as low as 100 m.p.h.
It seems initial reports confused kilometres with miles, leading to wildly exaggerated claims of wind speeds of this “super typhoon”.
What the Philippine Met Agency actually reported:
What the Daily Mail and other outlets like CNN reported:
Readers at Watts Up With That check with the Philippine Met Agency:
So at landfall the sustained wind was 235 kmh or 147 mph, with gusts up to 275 kmh or 171 mph. This is 60 mph less than the BBC have quoted.Compare this to Cyclone Yasi, which hit rich Australia with stronger winds yet caused just one death - a man who suffocated in a shelter where a generator was running:
The maximum strength reached by the typhoon appears to have been around landfall, as the reported windspeeds three hours earlier were 225 kmh (140mph).
Terrible though this storm was, it only ranks as a Category 4 storm, and it is clear nonsense to suggest that it is “one of the most powerful storms on record to make landfall ”
Tropical Cyclone Yasi was making landfall as a powerful Category Four cyclone with maximum sustained winds near 135 knots (155 mph/ 250 kmh) on Feb. 2, at 1500 UTC (10 a.m. EST/ 1 a.m. Australia local time on Feb. 3).
UPDATE
Reader Lisle detects more politicking over this tragedy:
Virginia Trioli was at her very worst this morning on ABC News24 Breakfast when she interviewed Robert Tickner, the head of Red Cross in Australia - and former Labor Federal MP. She set out to have him agree that because the new Australian Government had cut back on overseas aid, that this would prejudice any effort that Australians could make to assist to the Philippine disaster.Same story, sadly, on ABC Radio National Breakfast.
Each time she tried, the reply was that over the years all Australian governments had been very generous in such situations.
She persevered in her attempt, but finally had to say “what I am leading up to, is that by cutting out overseas aid, Australia would only be able to offer very little assistance.” Tickner indicated that this was not correct, because crisis money in a situation like the present one, was quite different to the concept of general overseas aid.
I don’t think think I’ve ever heard the ABC more partisan as it’s been this past month.
Bottom line: the tragedy is overwhelming:
To help:
Donations to World Vision’s appeal can be made on 13 32 40 or through the website.I expect and hope we’ll do more:
To donate to UNICEF go online or call 1300 884 233.
Donations to Care Australia on 1800 020 046.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has offered the Philippines’ leader more disaster support after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan.
The government pledged almost $400,000 in immediate humanitarian aid after Haiyan slammed into the Philippines on Friday, killing more than 10,000 people.
But Mr Abbott says the government is prepared to do more.
Sorting wheat from chaff in angst over Grain Corp
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (6:54am)
Henry Ergas says farmers aren’t stupid to worry about the proposed acquisition of GrainCorp by Archer Daniels Midland:
===This company was at the centre of the lysine price-fixing conspiracy, which inflicted enormous harm on farmers worldwide and resulted in record fines and criminal convictions against three of ADM’s most senior executives. More recently, it has been tangled in corruption allegations, with its latest quarterly report doubling the provision it has made for penalties arising from probes by US government agencies.That said, Ergas says Treasurer Joe Hockey should not knock back ADM’s bid:
And Washington’s free-market Cato Institute has characterised ADM as a rent-seeker “drunk on tax dollars” that, thanks to massive investments in ethanol, has derived 30 per cent to 40 per cent of its profits from taxpayers…
ADM ... will be juggling a wide range of competing priorities, including maintaining the flow of payoffs to farmers in the US congressional districts on which its lobbying prowess relies. And it is far from obvious Australian growers will emerge from that competition as winners.
There is, to begin with, little reason to believe GrainCorp can remain as it is… On the contrary, the Grain Growers Association, which should have the most to gain from GrainCorp’s independence, dumped its 8.5 per cent stake ...
The reality is that GrainCorp operates in an increasingly competitive environment… [Y]esterday’s soaring towers are being replaced by tarpaulin-covered bunkers, each reserved for a particular quality grade.
That dramatically reduces the investment required to bypass GrainCorp’s services, be it through on-farm storage, domestic demand from flour mills or feedlots or new storage providers. Growers are therefore less exposed to GrainCorp than they once were; and, should ADM hike its charges or reduce its service standards, it can expect to face a sharp market reaction, devaluing the $2.7 billion acquiring GrainCorp will have cost it.
Victorian Liberals slide
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (6:45am)
Voting for Tony Abbott might have made Victorians feel safer voting against the Liberals in the next state election:
===Labor recorded a 53 per cent to 47 per cent two-party-preferred lead, aided by soft polling for the Nationals.
Still, a good start in dismantling the warming scare
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (6:41am)
I wanted Christopher Pyne yesterday to be more frank about the global warming beat up, but this is not bad:
===FEDERAL cabinet has ruled that Australia will not sign up to any new contributions, taxes or charges at this week’s global summit on climate change, in a significant toughening of its stance as it plans to move within days to repeal the carbon tax…
The government’s document also says that Australia “will not support any measures which are socialism masquerading as environmentalism”.
Gillard regrets not lying about her carbon tax lie. Trust women?
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (12:52am)
Talk about denial. One of her biggest regrets now is that she didn’t lie about the tax she imposed with a lie:
For a start, Gillard was absolutely right in March 2011 to work out that playing semantic games with what the public knew full well was in fact a carbon tax would just damn her more completely as a liar:
UPDATE
Gillard gives this chat about wishing she lied about her lie to a meeting of the Victorian Women’s Trust, which is an oxymoron in the circumstances.
The Trust repays her with a serenade, honoring a lie she told about Tony Abbott hating women.
Hmm. Is the Victorian Women’s Trust actually determined to destroy trust in Victorian women?
===JULIA Gillard says the greatest regret of her government was not explaining to Australians why she toppled Kevin Rudd in 2010.Neither would have saved her.
And “another bad error” had been effectively conceding the use of the term “carbon tax”, the former prime minister said today.
For a start, Gillard was absolutely right in March 2011 to work out that playing semantic games with what the public knew full well was in fact a carbon tax would just damn her more completely as a liar:
Julia Gillard during a press conference on Thursday:Gillard is just fantasising to claim she could have got away with denying the tax was a tax.
Gillard’s presser yesterday:
People have heard a lot of debate about a carbon tax, and today can I say to Australians the debate that they are hearing about a carbon tax is a debate about what Tony Abbott calls a carbon tax . . .
Journalist: Does the climate change policy you’re about to announce include a carbon tax, you seemed a bit reluctant to talk about the tax side of things yesterday?Wayne Swan on ABC 612 yesterday:
Gillard: Certainly not at all reluctant and very happy to explain the way carbon pricing will work. . . . whatever you want to call it, this isn’t about the terminology, whatever you want to call it, a carbon tax is temporary, an emissions trading scheme is permanent.
Journalist: You say it’s like a tax, but it is a tax, isn’t it?
Gillard: It works through a permit system, it’s the start up of getting ready for the emissions trading scheme, but I’m happy to say yes it works effectively like a tax. But the point here is with the design of the scheme, I’ve been working hard to ensure that the period of the carbon tax is as short as possible and we get to the emissions trading scheme.
Yes, some people call that a carbon tax and it can be called a carbon tax . . .
UPDATE
Gillard gives this chat about wishing she lied about her lie to a meeting of the Victorian Women’s Trust, which is an oxymoron in the circumstances.
The Trust repays her with a serenade, honoring a lie she told about Tony Abbott hating women.
Hmm. Is the Victorian Women’s Trust actually determined to destroy trust in Victorian women?
Sniffles Palmer contemplates giving Parliament a miss
Andrew Bolt November 11 2013 (12:10am)
I never thought the people of Fairfax would get much service from their new member:
===MINING magnate and federal MP Clive Palmer could call in sick for his first week of parliament after coming down with a cold.
The Queensland businessman failed to front for a scheduled interview with Network Ten’s Meet the Press today.
When contacted for the reason behind his no-show, an ill-sounding Mr Palmer advised he had a cold.
Mr Palmer said he couldn’t guarantee he would be in Canberra for his first day of federal parliament on Tuesday, saying he would see a doctor in the meantime.
The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt November 10 2013 (12:37pm)
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A strong confrontation of the "blame Israel" industry.
“The basic assumption is apparently that only Israeli policies must have caused anti-Semitism in the region. Whatever contradicts this axiom of being ‘politically correct’ – i.e., Israel is guilty – is not taken into consideration. This is not only a result of being uninformed. It is an expression of active and conscious targeted ignorance – the corruption of scholarship and truth.”
The Continuing Nazi Influence on Arab Attitudes - Op-Eds - Israel National News
Interview with political scientist, Dr. Matthias Kuentzel: "Nazi influence upon the Middle East is nevertheless almost systematically overlooked by Middle East and Islam scholars." Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
===Very strong statement about the settlements and about the biased and hurtful basis of Secretary Kerry's threats to and blackmail of Israel.
Hurray! for Ambassador Baker.
Please call your congress/lawmakers. Now is the time. Vitally important letter from Former Israeli Ambassador and law expert, Alan Baker, to US Secretary of State, John Kerry. This letter takes Kerry to task for misuse of language to falsely position Israel and the d...
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"I hope all you Obama supporters enjoy having a traitor in office! You voted for the bastard, and now you have what you richly deserve! Understand well! When push comes to shove, WE'LL NUKE THE PERSIAN BASTARDS WITHOUT BATTING AN EYE.
Our survival here in Israel means more to us than your piece of shit "president". When your dollar goes down the drain, so do you. There will be NO SYMPATHY from me!
I understand why the Republican establishment is going after the "Tea Party", by the way. The Tea Party is exposing them for the ball-less cowards they are..."
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November 11: Armistice Day in Belgium, France, New Zealand and Serbia; Remembrance Day in theCommonwealth; Independence Day in Angola (1975) andPoland (1918); Veterans Day in the United States
- 1675 – German polymath Gottfried Leibniz (pictured) employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function
. - 1813 – War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American attack in the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the latter to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.
- 1918 – Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country.
- 1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiserAtlantis captured top secret documents fromSS Automedon that would later influence Japan's decision to enter the war.
- 1975 – During a constitutional crisis in Australia,Governor-General John Kerr dismissed the government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and dissolvedParliament for a double dissolution election.
Events[edit]
- 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, andMaximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to theRoman Empire.
- 1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland
- 1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
- 1500 – Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
- 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
- 1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passesAn Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
- 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
- 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- 1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
- 1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
- 1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
- 1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian andAustrian force.
- 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
- 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
- 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgiato the ground in preparation for his march south.
- 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- 1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
- 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- 1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
- 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
- 1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.
- 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
- 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- 1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
- 1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
- 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
- 1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
- 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
- 1944 – Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
- 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
- 1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
- 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
- 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, throughLaos into South Vietnam.
- 1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
- 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
- 1975 – Independence of Angola.
- 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
- 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
- 2000 – Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
- 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
- 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
- 2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
- 2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
Births[edit]
- 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
- 1154 – Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
- 1155 – Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
- 1220 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
- 1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician (d. 1541)
- 1493 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
- 1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (d. 1611)
- 1579 – Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
- 1599 – Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (d. 1655)
- 1599 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)
- 1633 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician (d. 1695)
- 1668 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and author (d. 1736)
- 1696 – Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
- 1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
- 1748 – Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
- 1791 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss politician (d. 1855)
- 1792 – Mary Anne Disraeli, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
- 1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author (d. 1881)
- 1836 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and author (d. 1907)
- 1852 – Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
- 1855 – Stevan Sremac, Serbian author (d. 1906)
- 1857 – Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and educator (d. 1914)
- 1858 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
- 1863 – Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
- 1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921)
- 1869 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
- 1872 – David I. Walsh, American politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- 1882 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- 1883 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
- 1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
- 1887 – Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
- 1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician (d. 1958)
- 1888 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian Politician (d.1982)
- 1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
- 1894 – Beverly Bayne, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1898 – René Clair, French director (d. 1981)
- 1899 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1901 – Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Sam Spiegel, Austrian-American film producer (d. 1985)
- 1901 – F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (d. 1978)
- 1904 – Alger Hiss, American spy (d. 1996)
- 1904 – J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American mathematician (d. 1960)
- 1907 – Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (d. 1992)
- 1909 – Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1911 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
- 1912 – Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
- 1914 – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer (d. 2005)
- 1914 – Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian jurist (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
- 1915 – William Proxmire, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (d. 2012)
- 1916 – Robert Carr, English politician (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Stubby Kaye, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Terrel Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American author (d. 2007)
- 1925 – June Whitfield, English actress
- 1925 – Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Mose Allison, American singer and pianist
- 1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
- 1929 – LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet
- 1930 – Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
- 1930 – Hank Garland, American guitarist (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
- 1931 – Veronica Hurst, English actress
- 1932 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Jim Boyd, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Jack Keller, American songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Susan Kohner, American actress
- 1936 – Mala Sinha, Indian actress
- 1937 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
- 1937 – Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar of Jewish feminist poetry
- 1938 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
- 1938 – Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
- 1939 – Denise Alexander, American actress
- 1939 – Harihar Swain, Indian politician (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Barbara Boxer, American politician
- 1942 – Diane Wolkstein, American author (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Roy Fredricks, West Indian cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1943 – Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
- 1943 – Jorien van den Herik, Dutch businessman
- 1944 – Chris Smither, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1944 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
- 1945 – Chris Dreja, English guitarist (The Yardbirds and Box of Frogs)
- 1945 – Vince Martell, American singer and guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
- 1945 – Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
- 1946 – Al Holbert, American race car driver (d. 1988)
- 1948 – Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (d. 1986)
- 1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1950 – Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
- 1950 – Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Survivor, Pride of Lions, and The Ides of March)
- 1951 – Bill Moseley, American actor
- 1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
- 1951 – Marc Summers, American game show host and producer
- 1953 – Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1953 – Andy Partridge, Maltese-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear)
- 1954 – Mary Gaitskill, American author
- 1955 – Dave Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Blasters, The Knitters, The Flesh Eaters, and X)
- 1956 – Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist (The Human League, Heaven 17, and B.E.F.)
- 1958 – Luz Casal, Spanish singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-American actor
- 1959 – Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
- 1959 – Carl Williams, American boxer (d. 2013)
- 1960 – Lawrence Bayne, Canadian actor
- 1960 – Colin Harvey, English author (d. 2011)
- 1960 – Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach
- 1960 – Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Filipino politician
- 1960 – Peter Parros, American actor
- 1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
- 1962 – Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboard player (Europe, Brazen Abbot, and Last Autumn's Dream)
- 1962 – Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (d. 1997)
- 1962 – Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer
- 1962 – James Morrison, Australian trumpet player and composer
- 1962 – Kendra Slawinski, English netball player
- 1963 – Monty Sopp, American wrestler
- 1964 – Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
- 1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
- 1965 – Max Mutchnick, American scriptwriter and producer
- 1965 – Kim Stockwood, Canadian singer-songwriter (Shaye)
- 1966 – Alison Doody, Irish actress
- 1967 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
- 1967 – Frank John Hughes, American actor
- 1968 – David L. Cook, American singer-songwriter and comedian
- 1968 – Lavell Crawford, American comedian and actor
- 1969 – Carson Kressley, American television host, fashion designer, and author
- 1970 – Lee Battersby, Australian author
- 1971 – Jennifer Celotta, American director, producer, and scriptwriter
- 1971 – Paul Chaloner, English sportscaster
- 1971 – David DeLuise, American actor
- 1971 – Tarmo Linnumäe, Estonian footballer
- 1971 – Tomas Pačėsas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
- 1972 – Adam Beach, Canadian actor
- 1972 – Tyler Christopher, American actor
- 1972 – Danny Rios, Spanish-American baseball player
- 1973 – Melissa Stark, American sportscaster
- 1973 – Jason White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Green Day, Pinhead Gunpowder, The Big Cats, The Influents, The Network, and Foxboro Hot Tubs)
- 1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer
- 1974 – Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (d. 2003)
- 1974 – Static Major, American singer-songwriter and producer (Playa) (d. 2008)
- 1974 – Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
- 1975 – Angelica Vale Mexican actress
- 1976 – Lisa Gleave, Australian-American actress and model
- 1976 – Jason Grilli, American baseball player
- 1976 – Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian bass player (Death from Above 1979 and MSTRKRFT)
- 1977 – Maniche, Portuguese footballer
- 1977 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1978 – Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
- 1980 – Jaeson Ma, American rapper, actor, and minister
- 1980 – Willie Parker, American football player
- 1980 – Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-German rugby player
- 1981 – Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian model, Miss Universe 2005
- 1981 – Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1982 – Gonzalo Canale, Argentine-Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Jeremy Williams, English actor
- 1983 – Brittny Gastineau, American model
- 1983 – Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer
- 1983 – Philipp Lahm, German footballer
- 1984 – Stephen Hunt, English footballer
- 1984 – Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1985 – Austin Collie, American football player
- 1985 – Tiidrek Nurme, Estonian runner
- 1985 – Kalan Porter, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Jessica Sierra, American singer
- 1985 – Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
- 1986 – Victor Cruz, American football player
- 1986 – Mark Sanchez, American football player
- 1986 – François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
- 1987 – Vinny Guadagnino, American actor
- 1987 – Chanelle Hayes, English model and singer
- 1987 – Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer and actor (NEWS and Tegomass)
- 1988 – Kyle Naughton, English footballer
- 1989 – Adam Rippon, American figure skater
- 1989 – Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Elegies, High-King, and Morning Musume Otomegumi)
- 1989 – Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver
- 1990 – Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer
- 1991 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
- 1991 – Jana Kask, Estonian singer
- 1994 – Connor Price, Canadian actor
Deaths[edit]
- 405 – Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (b. 324)
- 865 – Petronas, Byzantine general
- 1028 – Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (b. 960)
- 1623 – Philippe de Mornay, French theorist (b. 1549)
- 1638 – Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
- 1724 – Joseph Blake, English criminal (b. 1700)
- 1812 – Platon Levshin, Russian bishop (b. 1737)
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader (b. 1800)
- 1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1861 – Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
- 1862 – James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
- 1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian murderer (b. 1855)
- 1880 – Lucretia Mott, American actvist (b. 1793)
- 1884 – Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
- 1887 – Haymarket affair defendants:
- George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (b. 1836)
- Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (b. 1858)
- Albert Parsons, American editor and activist (b. 1848)
- August Spies, American editor and activist (b. 1855)
- 1917 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii (b. 1838)
- 1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier (b. 1892)
- 1919 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
- 1920 – Dirk Boest Gips, Dutch target shooter (b. 1864)
- 1921 – Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (b. 1852)
- 1931 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1840)
- 1938 – Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of typhoid fever (b. 1869)
- 1939 – Bob Marshall, American activist (b. 1901)
- 1939 – Jan Opletal, Czech student and activist (b. 1915)
- 1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Fred Niblo, American actor, director, producer (b. 1874)
- 1949 – Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek politician (b. 1878)
- 1950 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
- 1953 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
- 1962 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
- 1972 – Berry Oakley, American bass player (Allman Brothers Band) (b. 1948)
- 1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- 1974 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
- 1976 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Greta Keller, Austrian-American actress and singer (b. 1903)
- 1977 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1950)
- 1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer (b. 1894)
- 1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
- 1988 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
- 1990 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
- 1990 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1914)
- 1993 – John Stanley, American comics writer and artist (b. 1914)
- 1993 – Lisa De Leeuw, American pornographic actress (b. 1958)
- 1994 – John A. Volpe, American politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American reality television personality, cast member on The Real World: San Francisco (b. 1972)
- 1994 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, historian,and publicist (b. 1922)
- 1997 – Rod Milburn, American hurdler (b. 1950)
- 1998 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
- 1999 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentine journalist and author (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (b. 1981)
- 2003 – Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
- 2005 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Keith Andes, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b. 1939)
- 2005 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American educator, author, and theorist (b. 1909)
- 2006 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
- 2006 – Harry Lehotsky, American-Canadian pastor and activist (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Delbert Mann, American director (b. 1920)
- 2008 – Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian politician (b. 1919)
- 2010 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2011 – Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician (b. 1966)
- 2012 – Lam Adesina, Nigerian politician, Governor of Oyo State (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Joe Egan, English rugby player (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Tomaž Ertl, Slovenian politician (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Jack Gilbert, American poet (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Iqbal Haider, Pakistani politician (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Rex Hunt, English diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Ilya Oleynikov, Russian actor (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Tarachand Sahu, Indian politician (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Hal Ziegler, American politician (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- End of World War I related observances:
- Armistice Day (New Zealand, France, Belgium and Serbia)
- Independence Day, commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 (Poland)
- Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada)
- Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was rededicated to be in honor all American military, naval, and Air Force, veterans. (United States)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.
- Lāčplēsis Day (Latvia)
- Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching"), on 11-11, at 11:11. (Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries)
- Pocky Day and Pretz Day (Japan)
- Pepero Day (South Korea)
- Republic Day (Maldives)
- Singles Day (China)
- Women's Day (Belgium)
“God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’”Job 37:5-6 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The eternal God is thy refuge."
Deuteronomy 33:27
Deuteronomy 33:27
The word refuge may be translated "mansion," or "abiding- place," which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for dear to our hearts is our home, although it be the humblest cottage, or the scantiest garret; and dearer far is our blessed God, in whom we live, and move, and have our being. It is at home that we feel safe: we shut the world out and dwell in quiet security. So when we are with our God we "fear no evil." He is our shelter and retreat, our abiding refuge. At home, we take our rest; it is there we find repose after the fatigue and toil of the day. And so our hearts find rest in God, when, wearied with life's conflict, we turn to him, and our soul dwells at ease. At home, also, we let our hearts loose; we are not afraid of being misunderstood, nor of our words being misconstrued. So when we are with God we can commune freely with him, laying open all our hidden desires; for if the "secret of the Lord is with them that fear him," the secrets of them that fear him ought to be, and must be, with their Lord. Home, too, is the place of our truest and purest happiness: and it is in God that our hearts find their deepest delight. We have joy in him which far surpasses all other joy. It is also for home that we work and labour. The thought of it gives strength to bear the daily burden, and quickens the fingers to perform the task; and in this sense we may also say that God is our home. Love to him strengthens us. We think of him in the person of his dear Son; and a glimpse of the suffering face of the Redeemer constrains us to labour in his cause. We feel that we must work, for we have brethren yet to be saved, and we have our Father's heart to make glad by bringing home his wandering sons; we would fill with holy mirth the sacred family among whom we dwell. Happy are those who have thus the God of Jacob for their refuge!
Evening
"It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master."
Matthew 10:25
Matthew 10:25
No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth, what was the treatment he received? Were his claims acknowledged, his instructions followed, his perfections worshipped, by those whom he came to bless? No; "He was despised and rejected of men." Outside the camp was his place: cross-bearing was his occupation. Did the world yield him solace and rest? "Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." This inhospitable country afforded him no shelter: it cast him out and crucified him. Such--if you are a follower of Jesus, and maintain a consistent, Christ-like walk and conversation--you must expect to be the lot of that part of your spiritual life which, in its outward development, comes under the observation of men. They will treat it as they treated the Saviour--they will despise it. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough? "If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?" If we were more like Christ, we should be more hated by his enemies. It were a sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world's favourite. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout "Well done" to the Christian man. He may begin to look to his character, and wonder whether he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous give him their approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no friendship with a blind and base world which scorns and rejects him. Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorns.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 48-49, Hebrews 7 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 48-49
A Message About Moab
1 Concerning Moab:
This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
“Woe to Nebo, for it will be ruined.
Kiriathaim will be disgraced and captured;
the stronghold will be disgraced and shattered.
2 Moab will be praised no more;
in Heshbon people will plot her downfall:
‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’
You, the people of Madmen, will also be silenced;
the sword will pursue you.
3 Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,
cries of great havoc and destruction.
4 Moab will be broken;
her little ones will cry out.
5 They go up the hill to Luhith,
weeping bitterly as they go;
on the road down to Horonaim
anguished cries over the destruction are heard.
6 Flee! Run for your lives;
become like a bush in the desert.
7 Since you trust in your deeds and riches,
you too will be taken captive,
and Chemosh will go into exile,
together with his priests and officials.
8 The destroyer will come against every town,
and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
and the plateau destroyed,
because the LORD has spoken.
9 Put salt on Moab,
for she will be laid waste;
her towns will become desolate,
with no one to live in them....
Kiriathaim will be disgraced and captured;
the stronghold will be disgraced and shattered.
2 Moab will be praised no more;
in Heshbon people will plot her downfall:
‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’
You, the people of Madmen, will also be silenced;
the sword will pursue you.
3 Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,
cries of great havoc and destruction.
4 Moab will be broken;
her little ones will cry out.
5 They go up the hill to Luhith,
weeping bitterly as they go;
on the road down to Horonaim
anguished cries over the destruction are heard.
6 Flee! Run for your lives;
become like a bush in the desert.
7 Since you trust in your deeds and riches,
you too will be taken captive,
and Chemosh will go into exile,
together with his priests and officials.
8 The destroyer will come against every town,
and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
and the plateau destroyed,
because the LORD has spoken.
9 Put salt on Moab,
for she will be laid waste;
her towns will become desolate,
with no one to live in them....
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 7
Melchizedek the Priest
1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
4 Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder! 5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham. 6 This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8 In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. 9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, 10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor....
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Abiathar
[Ăbī'athär] - father of superfluity orexcellent father. Son of Ahimelechand the eleventh high priest in succession from Aaron (1 Sam. 22:20-22; 23:6, 9).
[Ăbī'athär] - father of superfluity orexcellent father. Son of Ahimelechand the eleventh high priest in succession from Aaron (1 Sam. 22:20-22; 23:6, 9).
Abiathar escaped and fled to David in the cave of Adullam when Doeg the Edomite slew his father and eighty-five priests. He went back to Jerusalem with the Ark when David fled from Absalom. He was joint high-priest with Zadok and conspired to make Adonijah king. He rebelled against David in his old age, was spared by Solomon for the sake of his first love, but dismissed from office for his treachery at the last.
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