The threat to label a child for not attending a museum is obscene. Education committees agonise over how to give a child a broad liberal education. But it is parents that make the best decisions. A system might be very bad, but few would notice as the parents do what they do. ALP failed Australia with its attempt at Gonski reform. Pyne, with the Liberals, is setting it right. Maybe some programs will have to be cut. But that will be a good thing. No essential program will be cut. The worst thing that will happen is that teachers will be forced to do what they are paid to do. Something that has never fussed the ABC.
There is a rumour that Tanya Plibersek will roll Shorten over an allegation of sexual assault. I had predicted it would be Jason Clare. Shorten's bad decision making seems to be geared to making it easier to roll him. The allegation is premature if that were the intention, because for drama reasons Clare would need to assert himself with less than a year to go to an election. But Tanya Plibersek may want to be the incompetent that gets toppled, if Shorten is incapable of being merely incompetent. Remember, none of the ALP have shown ability on any issue.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Vivian Truong. Born on the same day, across the years, as
- 1118 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1180)
- 1628 – John Bunyan, English preacher and author (d. 1688)
- 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer (d. 1687)
- 1757 – William Blake, English poet and painter (d. 1827)
- 1904 – Nancy Mitford, English author (d. 1973)
- 1935 – Randolph Stow, Australian author
- 1943 – Randy Newman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer
- 1948 – Beeb Birtles, Dutch-Australian guitarist (Little River Band, Mississippi, Zoot, Birtles Shorrock Goble, and Birtles & Goble)
- 1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer
Matches
- 587 – Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
- 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
- 1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
- 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
- 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryeawins in approximately 10 hours.
- 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
- 1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theatre.
- 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
- 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
- 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
- 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leaderJoseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
- 1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
- 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
Despatches
- 741 – Pope Gregory III
- 1859 – Washington Irving, American author and historian (b. 1783)
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The Left are living an asylum lie
Miranda Devine – Wednesday, November 27, 2013 (7:49am)
MAKE no mistake, the Left is in a fight to the death with Immigration Minister Scott Morrison over the government’s efforts to end people smuggling.
At stake is the Left’s credibility, in particular their claim to be motivated by compassion for those less fortunate. This has been the big lie of human history, unmasked over and over again in the 20th century, from the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Cambodia to Mao’s China and Stalin’s Russia.
At stake for Australia is national sovereignty, the integrity of our immigration program, our relationship with Indonesia, the prevention of more asylum seeker deaths at sea, and billions of taxpayer dollars.
This is Morrison’s heavy responsibility, for which he has been bludgeoned in the same way Phillip Ruddock was when he implemented the successful Howard era measures to prevent the illegal entry of asylum seeker boats.
Operation Sovereign Borders is the government’s attempt to fulfil its mandate to “stop the boats” which restarted after Kevin Rudd dismantled Howard’s policies in 2008, under pressure from the bleeding heart Left.
It’s worth repeating that when Rudd came to office there were just four boat people in detention centres. By the time he left office, more than 50,000 people had arrived, more than 1100 had perished in the attempt, at a cost of $11.5 billion and counting.
When the Abbott government took charge, it was faced with 20,000 asylum seekers on bridging visas and another 13,000 in detention.
It is, as Morrison says, “one enormous backlog”.
He is dealing with the problem methodically, with a military-led operation already showing signs of success
In the first 63 days of Operation Sovereign Borders, boat arrivals dropped 80 per cent. Last week there was just one boat, compared to more than one per day earlier this year.
He has been vilified by a re-energised refugee lobby wailing again about “concentration camps”, with human rights lawyer Julian Burnside urging young children to spit on him.
For all their talk of compassion, the bleeding hearts are determined he must fail, so they are not exposed as frauds with tragically flawed advice.
Since 2009, Morrison and Tony Abbott have exposed the inconvenient truth that the policies Howard put in place saved lives and were effective.
Over time the facts became impossible to ignore, as the bodies piled up and detention centres overflowed. But Labor’s greatest failure was a huge embarrassment to those who had opposed Howard.
They tried to deny the boats were coming, and bullied anyone who dared mention the taboo topic. Then they pretended the exponential increase in arrivals had nothing to do with Rudd’s open border policies but was, absurdly, due to “push” factors.
On Monday night Burnside was still at it, claiming on the ABC that boat numbers grew because “global refugee movements … increased”.
Burnside even concocted a new delusion, suggesting the government might deliberately have sabotaged relations with Indonesia as “a perfect excuse for the fact the idea of stopping the boats hasn’t worked and won’t work”.
It’s obvious stopping the boats worked, and open borders were a humanitarian disaster. But people like Burnside remain in denial. They never admit they were wrong and continue with the same fervour to demand soft borders.
Morrison has not hoisted the white flag in the face of the diplomatic stoush with Indonesia but is pursuing all the other strategies in his armoury.
Progress is being made with other critical transit countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. Negotiations are ongoing with PNG about permanent resettlement.
In the first 100 days since taking office, the government will double the capacity on Nauru and Manus Island.
While Labor keeps claiming it had a more generous humanitarian program, accepting 20,000 people per year, in fact 7000 of those permanent places were given to illegal boat arrivals, depriving refugees waiting offshore the opportunity to come here legitimately.
So the real number of people given refugee status was 13,000 under Labor, slightly less than the Coalition’s 13,750, says Morrison.
Morrison has been stung by criticism of his defensive attitude towards the media and attempted this week to mollify critics with one-on-one interviews. But those who want the boats to stop should back off. They need to understand how crucial information management is in the war against people smugglers.
After all, the most watched program in detention centres these days is the Operation Sovereign Borders weekly briefing.
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BIAS DENIALIST
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (3:13pm)
Media zombie Jonathan Holmes claims, at 32.30:
At least the ABC is not allowed to openly proselytise and it does make serious efforts to remain impartial.
Dr Crane has a question for the former ABC presenter.
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Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (6:04am)
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TAKE A LOAN, WIN A SWINE
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (5:58am)
Reader Dave in Papua New Guinea sends this poster, promoting a competition run by one of that country’s more creative and pork-minded superannuation funds:
“Gotta know your market!” emails Dave. “Much more useful than a toaster.” This might be the best contest since Private Eye‘s 1982 parody offer of an Austin Metro.
“Gotta know your market!” emails Dave. “Much more useful than a toaster.” This might be the best contest since Private Eye‘s 1982 parody offer of an Austin Metro.
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CLASS OF ‘72
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (5:18am)
Yesterday’s Lumley-tastic 1972 Ashes image left readers puzzled and fascinated. And possibly other things. Here are the identities depicted, from left to right:
• Current Australian chairman of selectors John Inverarity.
• 16-wicket Lord’s swing legend Bob Massie.
• Her Royal Hotness Joanna Lumley.
• The concealed individual is Melbourne Cricket Club president (and Werribee boy) Paul Sheahan.
• Mistaken by many for cricket-obsessed Yorkshire talk show host Michael Parkinson, the fellow at right is in fact Melbourne AFL player and Test allrounder Graeme Watson.
Cricket savants Arthur, Anto and Mark correctly identified all of the Australians. Exactly how they did this is a mystery for the ages.
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GLOBAL PLANT LIFE THREATENED
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (4:54am)
International harvester Al Gore is now a vegan.
(Via Instapundit)
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DECADES OF TAX-FUNDED BIAS
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (4:12am)
A generation-late admission from 80s-era ABC personality Phil Scott, at the 14-minute point:
Of course, we were a bunch of old Whitlam lefties at the ABC. That’s changed now, naturally …
Scott smiles during that last line.
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LOE VIEWERS
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (4:06am)
Enough of Paul Barry’s remarkably childish ratings boasts. Can we all of us, left and right, just agree that Antony Loewenstein is one hell of an unpopular SBS interviewee?
That’s 66 views over seven days. At this rate he’ll eventually match Iowahawk’s YouTube numbers some time within the next 118 years.
That’s 66 views over seven days. At this rate he’ll eventually match Iowahawk’s YouTube numbers some time within the next 118 years.
(Via J.F. Beck)
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KNOW THYSELF
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (3:16am)
The neuroscientist who discovered he was a psychopath.
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PUBLIC BROADCASTER GONE WILD
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 28, 2013 (2:16am)
The ABC is outta control! Illustration by the Daily Telegraph‘s John Tiedemann, for today’s Andrew Bolt column:
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The tolerance of the tyrannical
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (5:55pm)
You’d hardly credit it as real. But, yes, one English school is every bit the caricature of a fashionably tolerant bigot.
(Via the IPA.)
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“Errors” were not my real sin
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (2:16pm)
The chairman of the Human Rights Commission still wants to restrict our most precious right – that of free speech.
But Gillian Triggs at least is frank about the “errors” used to justify banning two of my columns and prohibiting me from repeating their substance.
I’ve argued those “errors” were essentially trivial or irrelevant and in some cases highly debatable – and Triggs now seems to suggest the “errors” weren’t in fact my real offence.
It’s just a great, great pity that Triggs doesn’t then conclude these laws are obscene:
But Gillian Triggs at least is frank about the “errors” used to justify banning two of my columns and prohibiting me from repeating their substance.
I’ve argued those “errors” were essentially trivial or irrelevant and in some cases highly debatable – and Triggs now seems to suggest the “errors” weren’t in fact my real offence.
It’s just a great, great pity that Triggs doesn’t then conclude these laws are obscene:
STEVE CANNANE: In the Bolt case, the judge said, “Even if I had been satisfied that Section 18C conduct was capable of being fair comment, I would not have been satisfied that it was said or done by Mr Bolt reasonably and in good faith.” Does that mean Section 18D would not have protected Andrew Bolt even if he got his facts right? Does that mean the right to fair comment would have been overruled by a judge’s interpretation of what was said or done reasonably and in good faith?And which judge becomes relevant, doesn’t it? Or are we not allowed to suggest that, either?
GILLIAN TRIGGS: Well had what he had written been done in good faith and reasonably, he could have made a mistake on the facts.
STEVE CANNANE: But that’s up to the judge then to interpret that, isn’t it?
GILLIAN TRIGGS: That’s right.
STEVE CANNANE: And does that then restrict the freedom of speech of someone like Andrew Bolt?
GILLIAN TRIGGS: Well, it is ultimately an interpretation by the judge...
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How Fairfax hates Abbott. I mean, REALLY hates
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (9:33am)
The daily Abbott hate of The Age:
Reader Konrad on Tony Abbott’s latest “bungling”:
Next?
Hutchens is deceptive. The full Coalition promise was to turn back boats were it was safe to do so. This boat had been disabled. It was not safe to turn around. No promise broken.
Abbott’s “no surprises” promise - to rational people - clearly referred to taking no action inconsistent with past promises and no major action for which he should have sought a mandate, such as a carbon tax.
Reader Konrad on Tony Abbott’s latest “bungling”:
Well, it seems the new “narrative” of the Professional Left is confirmed. Tony Abbot is a “disaster” and a “bungler”.Fairfax writer Gareth Hutchens attempt to paint Tony Abbott as a serial promise breaker is beyond parody. All motive, no facts:
The Chinese government make a quite reasonable move to annex international airspace.
The US responded quite calmly. They just thundered into the airspace with two B52s projecting radar signatures the size of super tankers and circled around cycling the bomb bay doors, flicking out electronic shadows that could be stealth drone launches while every diode of ELINT equipment scanned Chinese radar and ladar signals.
The Japanese response was similarly measured. They simply instructed passenger planes full of innocent civilians to fly straight through the the new Chinese airspace without any attempt to identify themselves to the legitimate Chinese military authority.
But what did Julie Bishop do? Called the Chinese ambassador in for a chat over tea and bickies! Insane sabre rattling!! The crazed actions of Julie Bishop totally confirm the “narrative” of Fauxfax and their ALPBC. Mr. Jordan, Reco and Big Ted are right. Tony Abbott is a disastrous bungler!
But since winning power the Abbott government has lengthened its list of broken promises and policy surprises by more than one a week.It has? A serious charge. So what’s the proof?
Two days ago, the Federal Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, performed a brazen policy back-flip on school funding, saying he would no longer accept Labor’s funding and overall model despite Tony Abbott making this pre-election promise: “We will honour the agreements that Labor has entered into. We will match the offers that Labor has made. We will make sure that no school is worse off.”I agree this suggests a broken promise, although the the agreements were allegedly not formally signed, and Labor’s offers will be matched for at least one more year and who knows after that.
Next?
A few weeks ago, the Coalition’s pre-election commitment to “turn back the boats” was broken after Immigration Minister Scott Morrison ended a tense standoff with Jakarta - which was refusing to accept a boatload of asylum seekers - by ordering the boat to be taken to Christmas Island.
Hutchens is deceptive. The full Coalition promise was to turn back boats were it was safe to do so. This boat had been disabled. It was not safe to turn around. No promise broken.
Last month, Treasurer Joe Hockey said he wanted to increase the debt ceiling from $300 billion to $500 billion. That was after the Coalition attacked the then Labor government’s decision in May last year to raise Australia’s debt ceiling from $250 billion to $300 billion, which Tony Abbott described at the time as “really extraordinary”.How is this a broken promise or surprise? The debt Labor left was in PEFO tipped to rise and rise. Labor has conceded a buffer was necessary and that conditions were worsening. The ceiling plainly needed to be lifted and the argument is whether it must eventually go up to, say, $450 billion or $500 billion. What promise was broken? What was so surprising?
Mr Abbott also promised before the election to have a government “which is transparent and open,” saying “the last thing we want to do is to hide anything from the Australian people.”What is hidden from the Australian people beyond information that could help people smugglers? The number of boat people arrivals and people in detention are still announced, every Friday. What has been kept hidden that is inconsistent with normal government handling of, say, information about current police, customs or military operations?
Since then, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has implemented a highly restrictive regime regarding information on border protection.
The Coalition has also surprised voters by abolishing the portfolio of minister for science, sending no minister to climate talks in Poland, and deciding to only have one female cabinet minister.None of these represents broken promises, and to start listing what a government does that a reporter did not predict is a measure of what? The reporter’s inexperience? His failure to consider matters beforehand? What a ludicrous standard this government is being held to.
Abbott’s “no surprises” promise - to rational people - clearly referred to taking no action inconsistent with past promises and no major action for which he should have sought a mandate, such as a carbon tax.
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How is Mark Scott’s “public interest” argument looking?
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (9:22am)
If people drown, will the ABC consider the deaths a small price to pay for its scoop? Or will it just blame Abbott?
ASYLUM-SEEKERS heading to Christmas Island are at greater risk of drowning if their boats sink, as Jakarta’s ban on co-operation with Australia in the Indonesian search and rescue region has not been lifted.
Indonesia has withdrawn search and rescue co-operation as a consequence of the spying controversy and a vast area of Indonesia’s southern search and rescue zone is now virtually without naval monitoring or assistance for asylum-seeker boats in trouble.
Fearful of exacerbating tensions with Indonesia, the Australian navy has effectively withdrawn all vessels from the area.
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The ABC’s sacred cows turn out to be poor fish in barrels
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (9:22am)
Reader Pieman:
Caught a segment of Shock Horror Aunty last night. The presenter, one of the self-satisfied “Chasers” introduced a topic described as sacred cows, and how the ABC basically had so courageously challenged their privileged status.
What useless (or counter-productive), privileged “sacred cow” did they select? The aboriginal industry? Feminism? Gay rights movement? No, those old fascist beer-drinking white men of the RSL.
Oh, that’s right, we are talking about the general public’s “sacred cows”, not the ABC’s!
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Warmists preach hunger, but crops grow and grow
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (8:59am)
How often have warmists peddled the starvation scare?
Some examples:
Some examples:
Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute , February 2013:I think the warmists were wrong again:
Professor Ian Lowe, president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, December 2012:
FRAN Kelly: Dramatic falls in staple crop production, and a jump in malnutrition are predicted across the Asia Pacific in coming decades due to climate change. . . (Dr Mark Rosegrant) . . . according to your research which crops would be most affected?
Rosegrant: We’re finding that the key staples of rice, wheat and maize are going to have very large declines through most of Asia—anywhere from 15 to 25 per cent compared to a no-climate-change scenario.
For example, the United Nations food agency has warned that it will be less and less likely that we can feed the human population if climate change continues on its present trajectory.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001:
Acute water shortage conditions combined with thermal stress should adversely affect wheat and, more severely, rice productivity in India even under the positive effects of elevated CO2 in the future.German Advisory Council on Global Change, 2007:
The Climate Change as a Security Risk report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change called on governments meeting this week at the climate change conference in Bali to adopt deep emissions cuts to avert disaster.... According to the report… India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could see falls in wheat and rice yields as the monsoon changes.David Lobell, Stanford University, 2008:
Impoverished farmers in South Asia and southern Africa could face growing food shortages due to climate change within just 20 years, a new study says…Elizabeth Ainsworth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008:
“The majority of the world’s one billion poor depend on agriculture for their livelihoods,” said the lead author of the new study, David Lobell of Stanford University.
“Unfortunately, agriculture is also the human enterprise most vulnerable to changes in climate.”
Rice is arguably the world’s most important food source and helps feed about half the globe’s people. But yields in many areas will drop as the globe warms in future years, a review of studies on rice and climate change suggests.Green activist Cameron Scott :
...when the evidence from some 80 different studies is combined, the outlook is bleak, says Elizabeth Ainsworth of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Most major political shifts are caused at least in part by economic pressures. Food prices are now at an all-time high. Those prices have, according to a wide range of analysts, contributed to the political revolts first in Tunisia and now in Egypt… But here’s the kicker: Food prices aren’t just some arbitrary economic statistic. They measure (inversely) the planet’s success at sustaining its human population. And right now, it’s not doing so well. The reason? Erratic weather spurred by climate change.The Age, 2013:
Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, it’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve.
The seeds of conflict take root.
This is one of the scenarios Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, presented today to members of the United Nations Security Council in New York to show the connection between climate change and global security challenges.
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Abbott steady in Indonesian standoff
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (8:52am)
Yes, much could still go wrong. Snowden could have more leaks. But Greg Sheridan is surely right about Tony Abbott:
TONY Abbott’s letter to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been successful. That judgment is inescapable and incontestable.In contrast:
The President, in his formal statement responding to the Prime Minister’s letter, has spoken warmly of the relationship with Australia. He has also spoken warmly of Abbott, whom he describes as “my good friend”. The President has committed to a process of consultation and negotiation with Australia to come up with a set of agreed protocols to cover intelligence sharing, among other things.
There are complications and troubles aplenty ahead. But so far, Abbott has handled one of the most complex international relations crises you could imagine extremely well. He has been calm throughout. He has stressed the key national interest that Australia has in its relationship with Indonesia. He has been warm and gracious towards the President.
He has also safeguarded Australia’s key interests in maintaining its intelligence capabilities. He has stayed away from the obvious political points he could have made against Labor. He has responded to the President quickly, but with serious, indeed intense, deliberation at every stage.
Labor’s performance throughout this controversy has been ragged and inconsistent… Bill Shorten has displayed either cynicism or lack of control of his own team throughout. From the second day of the controversy all of Shorten’s statements have been to say that Labor completely supports the Abbott government in this matter…
Yet while Shorten was saying that, his deputy and foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek was making partisan attacks on the government over the issue, numerous Labor figures were promoting the false US/Germany parallel, and frontbenchers such as Brendan O’Connor were damning the Abbott government for not taking the issue seriously enough and not responding quickly enough. Either Shorten cannot control his senior colleagues, which would be very bad, or he was intentionally playing a cynical and duplicitous game, of personally pledging total bipartisan support for the government, while instructing senior frontbenchers to go on the attack.
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More talk from Abbott - and ministers - could do good
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (8:45am)
Niki Savva has a warning for the Abbott Government:
Almost three months later, it is clear the time has arrived to begin a grown-up conversation with Australians about what the government is doing and why. Previously there was too much talk; now there is not enough.Part of that, says Savva, might be a confidence problem:
Too often Abbott appears anxious. Inside the womb of parliament, he looks as if he belongs; outside, he struggles to look comfortable or even confident.And part of it may be a fear of losing control:
Unhappiness simmers inside the government, particularly over what ministers regard as the exercise of extreme micro-management. Backbenchers have had electorate staff vetoed and senior ministers have been denied the right to make their most critical appointment, that of their chief of staff.An example of too much control?
Eric Abetz, the Employment Minister and leader of the government in the Senate, alluded to the problem in Senate estimates hearings last week. Abetz’s friends, meanwhile, sense a wider strategy afoot to replace him as leader with the Attorney-General, George Brandis.
Then on Monday, while Labor made hay, Education Minister Christopher Pyne, a seasoned media performer, did not appear anywhere on television to defend or explain the government’s contentious Gonski changes. The reason, apparently, was a “mix-up” with the Prime Minister’s Office, which enforces an approval process for all media appearances. It was a cock-up that took more than 24 hours to rectify.
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A promise not broken. Not yet
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (8:38am)
I BELIEVE Christopher Pyne when he says Labor left its education reforms in an “incomprehensible mess”.
Trouble is, I also believed the Education Minister before the election. I believed Pyne when he said: ‘’You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school.”
Now, after several days of Pyne spin, I don’t know if the Government will break its first reckless promise or not. But it had better not.
Here is the issue. Before the election, Labor signed up some states for a complicated new scheme to fund schools and promised another $2.8 billion over four years. But with WA, Queensland and the Northern Territory refusing to sign, Labor quietly withdrew its $1.2 billion share - something new Treasurer Joe Hockey seemed to notice but Pyne says he didn’t, or not quite.
(Read full article here.)
Trouble is, I also believed the Education Minister before the election. I believed Pyne when he said: ‘’You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school.”
Now, after several days of Pyne spin, I don’t know if the Government will break its first reckless promise or not. But it had better not.
Here is the issue. Before the election, Labor signed up some states for a complicated new scheme to fund schools and promised another $2.8 billion over four years. But with WA, Queensland and the Northern Territory refusing to sign, Labor quietly withdrew its $1.2 billion share - something new Treasurer Joe Hockey seemed to notice but Pyne says he didn’t, or not quite.
(Read full article here.)
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How long has this been going on?
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (8:27am)
Yes, there’s been Keating, Bob Brown and Gillard since...:
Of course, we were a bunch of old Whitlam lefties at the ABC. That’s changed now, naturally …
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An ABC out of control
Andrew Bolt November 28 2013 (8:23am)
NO WONDER our spies tried to get intelligence from Indonesia. Finding signs of intelligence here would be much harder.
The ABC’s decision to publish intelligence secrets stolen by the traitor Edward Snowden has whipped the Left into an extraordinary orgy of cant, conspiracy theories and stupidity.
As usual, the ABC provided the theatre of the most absurd after it revealed our spies had monitored the phones of the president, his wife and his ministers.
Take Julian Burnside QC, the celebrity “human rights” lawyer who told the ABC he had a theory why Abbott hadn’t apologised to Indonesia.
(Read full article here.)
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First Indonesia, now China. Are we being gamed?
Andrew Bolt November 27 2013 (7:34pm)
The timing of the
complaint is coincidence, isn’t it? But China will benefit from
Australia’s other diplomatic trouble, created by the leak of
intelligence information stolen by a traitor now given asylum in Russia -
and its language is strangely aggressive:
UPDATE
Also exploiting the damage, East Timor now wants an explanation for the spying it claims we did during negotiations on the gas rights in the Timor Gap. 7.30 reports the claims that we bugged the East Timor cabinet room without saying what basis there is for them - other than that former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith once claimed their conversations were monitored.
Even that twig was omitted by the ABC PM’s report. Who cares about evidence now?
And so the damage continues and our power weakens.
Beijing has delivered an angry rebuke over what it says are “irresponsible remarks” made by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop regarding Chinese territorial claims in the East China Sea.I fear the West is being rolled back. The Snowden leaks are helping.
In what is shaping up to be the latest diplomatic headache for the Abbott government in Asia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a sternly worded statement on its website on Wednesday saying it had “lodged serious representations” requesting Ms Bishop to correct her statements or risk damaging bilateral relations.
“It is completely a mistake for Australia to make irresponsible remarks on China’s establishment of an air defence identification zone in the East China Sea, and the Chinese side will not accept it,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
“China urges Australia to correct its mistake immediately to prevent damaging Sino-Australia relations.”,,,
Under the new zone, China requires any aircraft entering the zone to notify authorities in advance and maintain radio contact – or risk military intervention. The move has been met with strong protests by Japan and the United States.
UPDATE
Also exploiting the damage, East Timor now wants an explanation for the spying it claims we did during negotiations on the gas rights in the Timor Gap. 7.30 reports the claims that we bugged the East Timor cabinet room without saying what basis there is for them - other than that former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith once claimed their conversations were monitored.
Even that twig was omitted by the ABC PM’s report. Who cares about evidence now?
And so the damage continues and our power weakens.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GONSKI SCAM
Bill Shorten’s hysteria over Gonski should fall on deaf ears because I’m certain my ears weren’t deaf when I heard Tony Abbott warn Gillard that her proposed Gonski scheme would not be valid unless it was a truly national scheme.
Gillard then tried everything to get all States and territories on board but she failed.
The extra millions in bribes may have worked for Napthine and O’Farrell but it disadvantaged Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory who had understandably refused to sign.
Then, in a fit of pique, the $1.2 billion that was originally allotted to those that didn’t sign was brought back into consolidated revenue by Labor to improve its budget position, leaving two States and the NT without any funding at all via Gonski.
Now Christopher Pyne has to renegotiate schools funding for the next 4 years with all States and Territories due to Labor’s initial funding mish-mash.
Of course those States who fell for Gillard’s web of bribery are now crying foul.
Pyne has had to find hundreds of millions to fill the gap in overall national funding.
Gillard was warned that her scheme needed to be national. It wasn’t!
Even David Gonski saw the idiocy of Gillard’s scheme and asked that his name be removed from the program.
It’s a shame the Press gallery didn’t understand what had happened.
Instead they were salivating at yet another opportunity to go Abbott bashing.
Bill Shorten’s hysteria over Gonski should fall on deaf ears because I’m certain my ears weren’t deaf when I heard Tony Abbott warn Gillard that her proposed Gonski scheme would not be valid unless it was a truly national scheme.
Gillard then tried everything to get all States and territories on board but she failed.
The extra millions in bribes may have worked for Napthine and O’Farrell but it disadvantaged Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory who had understandably refused to sign.
Then, in a fit of pique, the $1.2 billion that was originally allotted to those that didn’t sign was brought back into consolidated revenue by Labor to improve its budget position, leaving two States and the NT without any funding at all via Gonski.
Now Christopher Pyne has to renegotiate schools funding for the next 4 years with all States and Territories due to Labor’s initial funding mish-mash.
Of course those States who fell for Gillard’s web of bribery are now crying foul.
Pyne has had to find hundreds of millions to fill the gap in overall national funding.
Gillard was warned that her scheme needed to be national. It wasn’t!
Even David Gonski saw the idiocy of Gillard’s scheme and asked that his name be removed from the program.
It’s a shame the Press gallery didn’t understand what had happened.
Instead they were salivating at yet another opportunity to go Abbott bashing.
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NSW Liberal Government = awesome.
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Here’s your WTF!? moment for today: Obama says he can identify immigrants just by looking at their faces ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/
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#Yup #ExcessiveUseofHashtags=SocialMediaFail #DontDoWhatIamdoing#Irony
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/making-a-hash-of-social-media-use-20131127-2ya8o.html
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Hi Everyone!! Please see the official release of our artists for the night! Not everyone could fit! So the best is yet to be revealed!!!!!
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"The ABC's decision to publish intelligence secrets stolen by the traitor Edward Snowden has whipped the Left into an extraordinary orgy of cant, conspiracy theories and stupidity."
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Gittany is a Lebanese last name, from Zgharta .. ed
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By the grace of God Community Care Pakistan CCP Ministries are running very small Rented building school in Lahore Pakistan for those students who they are orphans,needy and poor and cant afford their fesses,bags,book and uniform etc,please keep us in prayers and share your love contribution to expand this school for the betterment of the Children.God bless you all for more details email us on parvaiz82@ccpak.org/
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Is it the wisest move for our central planners in the ACT to be spending millions of taxpayer funds on a glorified second rate nightclub logo after the debacle that was Skywhale?
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/brand-canberra-epic-fail-20131128-2yc0a.html
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"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -- John F. Kennedy
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"Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love..." -- T. Merton
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His family has left. What really compels him to stay?
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28 years after his testimony put Jonathan Pollard in jail for life, Rafi Eitan is finally sorry, claiming that the Americans had promised that Pollard would 'only' serve ten years.
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http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/the-un-is-one-of-most-underrated-and.html
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-much-hatred-of-israel-is-too-much/
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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/59477
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Email usUnited with Israel is proud of the young men and women of the IDF who risk their lives each day to provide security for the citizens of Israel. As we have done the past 2 years, we host a fabulous Chanukah Party for hundreds of Israeli soldiers right on their army base. We present them with 'warm winter' care packages and personal notes from supporters like you around the world. The soldiers are filled with immense joy when they see how many people really care. It is truly heartwarming and inspiring when our group of American families celebrates together with the soldiers on their base. TOMORROW IS THE DAY! Yes, on Thanksgiving Day (Nov 28) at 10:00am EST, we are representing YOU and saying 'THANK YOU' to our beloved Israeli soldiers. This year we'll be on an IDF base near the city of Shechem, a holy biblical site containing the tomb of our ancestor Joseph. Even if you cannot attend, here's how you can be a part of it: 1. Watch the event LIVE on Thursday November 28 from 10:00am - 12:30pm EST (video will remain on the site after the event is over) Click here to watch --> http://unitedwithisrael.org/uwi-idf-chanukah-party-2013/ 2. Send 'Warm Winter' Holiday Gifts to the Soldiers Click here to send your gift --> https://unitedwithisrael.net/soldiers/?c=e3 These soldiers are from the Givati Brigade, a superior fighting and counter-terrorism intelligence unit. They are outside most of the day and get very cold in the winter. The soldiers are THRILLED to get their care packages and are truly touched by your thinking of them. It means so much to them! Please tune in to our live streaming broadcast on Thursday starting at 10am EST. If you have already participated by sending a gift, the soldiers say THANK YOU! If not, there is still time to do so... With Blessings from Israel, THE 'UNITED WITH ISRAEL' FAMILY Click below for more info about the party and to watch the video http://unitedwithisrael.org/uwi-idf-chanukah-party-2013/ Click below to send your gift and personal note to the soldiers https://unitedwithisrael.net/soldiers/?c=e3 Checks can be mailed to a US address: United with Israel PO Box 151 Lawrence, NY 11559 United States Checks can be mailed directly to Israel: United with Israel 8/19 Nachal Maor St. Box 71530 Bet Shemesh 99623 ISRAEL===
 
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November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912); Navy Day in Iran (1980); Thanksgiving and Thanksgivukkah in the United States (2013)
- 936 – Shi Jingtang (pictured) was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin Dynastyby Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
- 1443 – Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces liberatedKruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.
- 1925 – The country music radio program Grand Ole Oprywas first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1971 – Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of thePalestine Liberation Organization in Cairo.
- 1990 – After being elected as leader of the BritishConservative Party one day earlier, John Major officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Events[edit]
- 587 – Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
- 936 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
- 1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy andCount Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- 1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
- 1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the firstEuropeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
- 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
- 1627 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
- 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and SirRobert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
- 1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
- 1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
- 1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
- 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
- 1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
- 1843 – Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
- 1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
- 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryeawins in approximately 10 hours.
- 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
- 1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
- 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
- 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- 1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- 1917 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
- 1918 – Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
- 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
- 1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
- 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leaderJoseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
- 1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- 1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.
- 1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
- 1964 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President ElectFerdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
- 1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
- 1971 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
- 1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
- 1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
- 1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day.
- 1981 – Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
- 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
- 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopolyon political power.
- 1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
- 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
Births[edit]
- 1118 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1180)
- 1489 – Margaret Tudor, English wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
- 1570 – James Whitelocke, English judge and politician (d. 1632)
- 1598 – Hans Nansen, Danish politician (d. 1667)
- 1628 – John Bunyan, English preacher and author (d. 1688)
- 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer (d. 1687)
- 1640 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish captain (d. 1698)
- 1661 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English-American politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (d. 1723)
- 1681 – Jean Cavalier, French rebel leader (d. 1740)
- 1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (d. 1764)
- 1700 – Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1770)
- 1757 – William Blake, English poet and painter (d. 1827)
- 1772 – Luke Howard, English meteorologist (d. 1864)
- 1785 – Victor de Broglie, French politician, 9th Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
- 1792 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
- 1793 – Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish poet (d. 1866)
- 1805 – John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)
- 1810 – William Froude, English engineer and architect (d. 1879)
- 1820 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
- 1829 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (d. 1894)
- 1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (d. 1920)
- 1853 – Helen Magill White, American first woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
- 1857 – Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
- 1864 – James Allen English author and poet (d. 1912)
- 1864 – Lindley Miller Garrison, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Secretary of War (d. 1932)
- 1866 – Henry Bacon, American architect, designed the Lincoln Memorial (d. 1924)
- 1876 – Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (d. 1946)
- 1878 – Hubert Lefèbvre, French rugby player
- 1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
- 1881 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian author, playwright, and journalist (d. 1942)
- 1887 – Ernst Röhm, German Nazi official (d. 1934)
- 1891 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (d. 1949)
- 1894 – Henry Hazlitt, American philosopher and economist (d. 1993)
- 1895 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (d. 1980)
- 1896 – Dawn Powell, American author (d. 1965)
- 1896 – Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)
- 1904 – James Eastland, American politician (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Nancy Mitford, English author (d. 1973)
- 1907 – Rose Bampton, American soprano (d. 2007)
- 1907 – Alberto Moravia, Italian author and journalist (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician, Governor of Ondo State (d. 1997)
- 1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (d. 2009)
- 1911 – Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
- 1912 – Morris Louis, American painter (d. 1962)
- 1915 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)
- 1915 – Yves Thériault, Canadian author (d. 1983)
- 1916 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy (d. 2002)
- 1923 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1923 – James Karen, American actor
- 1924 – Dennis Brutus, South African poet (d. 2009)
- 1925 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
- 1926 – Bernard Kops, English dramatist and poet
- 1927 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1928 – John Coleman, Australian footballer (d. 1973)
- 1928 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
- 1928 – Piet Steenbergen, Dutch footballer (d. 2010)
- 1929 – Berry Gordy, American record producer, founded Motown Records
- 1931 – Dervla Murphy, Irish cyclist and author
- 1931 – Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator and author
- 1931 – Ed Young, Chinese author and illustrator
- 1932 – Gato Barbieri, Argentinian saxophonist and composer
- 1932 – Terence Frisby, English author
- 1933 – Joe Knollenberg, American politician
- 1933 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1935 – Prince Hitachi of Japan
- 1935 – Randolph Stow, Australian author
- 1936 – Gary Hart, American politician
- 1936 – Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist (The Romeros)
- 1940 – Bruce Channel, American singer-songwriter
- 1941 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress
- 1942 – Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
- 1942 – Paul Warfield, American football player
- 1943 – Randy Newman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer
- 1944 – Rita Mae Brown, American author, poet, and screenwriter
- 1944 – R. B. Greaves, Guyanan singer (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
- 1946 – Joe Dante, American director and producer
- 1947 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
- 1947 – Maria Farantouri, Greek singer and politician
- 1947 – Panayotis Varotsos, Greek physicist
- 1948 – Beeb Birtles, Dutch-Australian guitarist (Little River Band, Mississippi, Zoot, Birtles Shorrock Goble, and Birtles & Goble)
- 1948 – Alan Lightman, American physicist and author
- 1948 – Dick Morris, American author
- 1949 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer (d. 1995)
- 1949 – Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American actor and orchestra leader
- 1950 – Ed Harris, American actor
- 1950 – Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1951 – Barbara Morgan, American educator and astronaut
- 1952 – S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress
- 1953 – Alistair Darling, English politician
- 1953 – Sixto Lezcano, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1953 – Gordon Marsden, English politician
- 1955 – Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
- 1955 – Jeffrey Byron, American actor
- 1955 – Adem Jashari, Albanian commander
- 1956 – Fiona Armstrong , English journalist and author
- 1956 – Richard Bean, English playwright
- 1957 – David Van Day, English singer (Dollar Guys 'n' Dolls, and Bucks Fizz)
- 1958 – Kriss Akabusi, English sprinter and hurdler
- 1958 – Dave Righetti, American baseball player
- 1959 – Judd Nelson, American actor
- 1959 – Stephen Roche, Irish cyclist
- 1959 – Sian Williams, English born journalist
- 1960 – John Galliano, Gibraltarian-English fashion designer
- 1960 – Andy Ritchie, English footballer
- 1960 – Kenny Wharton, English footballer and coach
- 1961 – Martin Clunes, English actor
- 1961 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1961 – John Fenty, English politician
- 1961 – Jane Sibbett, American actress
- 1962 – Matt Cameron, American drummer (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Skin Yard, Temple of the Dog, Hater, and Wellwater Conspiracy)
- 1962 – Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor
- 1962 – Juan Carlos Rosero, Ecuadorian cyclist (d. 2013)
- 1962 – Jon Stewart, American comedian, actor, and television host
- 1963 – Walt Weiss, American baseball player
- 1963 – Armando Iannucci, Scottish comedian, director, and producer
- 1963 – Andrew Jones, English politician
- 1963 – Johnny Newman, American basketball player
- 1963 – Jesus Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican murderer (d. 2006)
- 1964 – Michael Bennet, American politician
- 1964 – John Burkett, American baseball player
- 1964 – Roy Tarpley, American basketball player
- 1965 – Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
- 1965 – Matt Williams, American baseball player
- 1966 – Dominic Chappell, English race car driver
- 1966 – Helen Fospero, English journalist
- 1966 – Sam Seder, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
- 1967 – Chris Heaton-Harris, English politician
- 1967 – José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
- 1967 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007)
- 1967 – Stephnie Weir, American comedian and actress
- 1968 – Dawn Robinson, American singer (En Vogue)
- 1969 – Robb Nen, American baseball player
- 1969 – Valeri Nikitin, Estonian wrestler
- 1969 – Lexington Steele, American porn actor
- 1970 – Álex López Morón, Spanish tennis player
- 1970 – Richard Osman, English television host, director, and producer
- 1971 – Rob Conway, American wrestler
- 1971 – Fenriz, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Darkthrone, Storm, Dødheimsgard, Neptune Towers, and Isengard)
- 1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
- 1972 – Anastasia Kelesidou, Greek discus thrower
- 1972 – Jesper Strömblad, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (In Flames, Dimension Zero, Sinergy, Ceremonial Oath, and All Ends)
- 1973 – Jade Puget, American guitarist and producer (AFI, Blaqk Audio, and Redemption 87)
- 1974 – apl.de.ap, Filipino-American rapper and producer (The Black Eyed Peas)
- 1974 – Styles P, American rapper (The LOX)
- 1974 – Kristian Schmid, Australian actor
- 1974 – András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
- 1975 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian author
- 1975 – Sunny Mabrey, American actress
- 1975 – Takashi Shimoda, Japanese footballer
- 1975 – Park Sung-Bae, South Korean football player
- 1975 – Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Satyricon)
- 1975 – Seffy Efrati, Israeli bassist (Aviv Geffen, Blackfield and Porcupine Tree)
- 1976 – Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor
- 1977 – Marlon Broomes, English footballer
- 1977 – Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Acer Nethercott, English rower (d. 2013)
- 1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
- 1977 – Greg Somerville, New Zealand rugby player
- 1977 – DeMya Walker, American basketball player
- 1978 – Brent Albright, American wrestler
- 1978 – Aimee Garcia, American actress
- 1978 – Freddie Mitchell, American football player
- 1978 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
- 1978 – Michael Simpkins, English football player
- 1978 – Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
- 1979 – Chamillionaire, American rapper, producer, and actor (The Color Changin' Click)
- 1979 – Olcay Çetinkaya, Turkish footballer
- 1979 – Daniel Henney, American actor
- 1979 – Joel Maximo, American wrestler
- 1979 – Katarzyna Strączy, Polish tennis player
- 1980 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
- 1980 – Stuart Taylor, English footballer
- 1981 – Jacqui Ainsley, English model
- 1981 – Sharon Needles, American drag queen performer
- 1981 – Brian Tevreden, Dutch footballer
- 1982 – Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
- 1982 – Chris Harris, English motorcycle racer
- 1982 – Raido Villers, Estonian basketball player
- 1983 – Summer Rae, American model, football player and wrestler
- 1983 – Nelson Haedo Valdez, Paraguayan footballer
- 1983 – Edouard Roger-Vasselin, French tennis player
- 1984 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
- 1984 – Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Joross Gamboa, Filipino actor
- 1984 – Trey Songz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1984 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
- 1985 – Esha Gupta, Indian actress
- 1985 – Mike Kostka, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Álvaro Pereira, Uruguayan footballer
- 1985 – Caitlin McClatchey, English born Scottish swimmer
- 1985 – Álvaro Pereira, Uruguayan footballer
- 1986 – Mouhamadou Dabo, French footballer
- 1987 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress
- 1987 – Craig Kieswetter, English cricketer
- 1988 – Scarlett Pomers, American actress and singer
- 1988 – Christopher Stringini, American singer (US5)
- 1989 – Laura Alleway, Australian footballer
- 1990 – Dedryck Boyata, Belgian footballer
- 1990 – Bradley Smith English motorcycle racer
- 1991 – Jessica Robinson, English singer and actress
- 1992 – Adam Hicks, American actor and singer
- 1992 – Jake Miller, American rapper
- 1994 – Lola Sanchez, Australian-American actress
- 1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer
Deaths[edit]
- 741 – Pope Gregory III
- 1170 – Owain Gwynedd, Welsh king (b. 1100)
- 1262 – Shinran, Japanese monk (b. 1173)
- 1290 – Eleanor of Castile (b. 1241)
- 1574 – Georg Major, German theologian (b. 1502)
- 1585 – Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
- 1667 – Jean de Thévenot, French botanist (b. 1633)
- 1675 – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English soldier (b. 1608)
- 1675 – Leonard Hoar, English-American minister and academic, President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
- 1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
- 1694 – Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
- 1695 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer (b. 1637)
- 1695 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
- 1698 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, 3rd Governor General of New France (b. 1622)
- 1763 – Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (b. 1734)
- 1785 – William Whipple, American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1730)
- 1794 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
- 1801 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
- 1815 – Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, conductor, and composer (b. 1745)
- 1843 – József Ficzkó, Slovene-Croatian priest and author (b. 1772)
- 1845 – Meletius III, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1772)
- 1852 – Ludger Duvernay, French journalist and politician (b. 1799)
- 1852 – Emmanuil Xanthos, Greek activist, co-founder of Filiki Eteria (b. 1772)
- 1859 – Washington Irving, American author and historian (b. 1783)
- 1870 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
- 1872 – Mary Somerville, Scottish author (b. 1780)
- 1878 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (b. 1805)
- 1880 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese archbishop (b. 1837)
- 1890 – Jyotirao Phule, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1827)
- 1904 – Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1847)
- 1907 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, poet, and painter (b. 1869)
- 1912 – Walter Benona Sharp, American businessman (b. 1870)
- 1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1896)
- 1917 – Mikelis Avlichos, Greek poet (b. 1844)
- 1921 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
- 1930 – Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople (b. 1859)
- 1935 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian ethnomusicologist and scholar (b. 1877)
- 1939 – James Naismith, Canadian-American creator of basketball (b. 1861)
- 1943 – Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician (b. 1881)
- 1945 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War (b. 1879)
- 1947 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902)
- 1953 – Frank Olson, American biologist (b. 1910)
- 1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1960 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (b. 1896)
- 1960 – Max Pruss, Prussian commander (b. 1891)
- 1960 – Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)
- 1960 – Dirk Jan de Geer, prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
- 1962 – K. C. Dey, Indian singer, composer, actor and teacher (b. 1893)
- 1962 – Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
- 1968 – Enid Blyton, English author (b. 1897)
- 1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1920)
- 1972 – Havergal Brian, English composer (b. 1875)
- 1973 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1977 – Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1977 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1896)
- 1978 – Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine businessman (b. 1902)
- 1982 – Helen of Greece and Denmark (b. 1896)
- 1983 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1986 – Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1987 – Choh Hao Li, Chinese chemist (b. 1913)
- 1992 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (b. 1946)
- 1993 – Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (b. 1915)
- 1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
- 1994 – Buster Edwards, English criminal (b. 1932)
- 1994 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)
- 1997 – Georges Marchal, French actor (b. 1920)
- 1998 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American author, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
- 2000 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
- 2001 – Kal Mann, American songwriter (b. 1917)
- 2001 – William Reid, Scottish pilot, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
- 2002 – Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Koerner, Ray & Glover) (b. 1943)
- 2003 – Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Antonia Forest, English author (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian politician (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
- 2006 – Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Robert Volpe, American police officer and painter (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Gudrun Wagner, Prussian director (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Havaldar Gajender Singh, Indian army officer (b. 1972)
- 2008 – Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Indian army officer (b. 1977)
- 2009 – Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and director (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Giorgos Fountas, Greek actor (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Knut Ahnlund, Swedish historian (b. 1923)
- 2012 – José Maria Fidélis dos Santos, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Jakes Gerwel, South African academic (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Don Rhymer, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Spain Rodriguez, American cartoonist (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Zig Ziglar, American author (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá (Bahá'í Faith)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Catherine Labouré
- Feast of the Holy Sovereigns (Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii)
- Herman of Alaska, the anniversary of his actual death. Eastern Orthodox
- Pope Gregory III
- Independence Day / National Day / Flag Day, celebrate the independence of Albania from Turkey in 1912, the first Albanian flag raise bySkanderbeg in 1443, and for the new parliamentary constitution in 1998.
- Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Mauritania from France in 1960.
- Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Panama from Spain in 1821.
- Navy Day (Iran)
- Republic Day (Burundi)
- Republic Day (Chad)
“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” Colossians 3:16 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord."
Zechariah 3:1
Zechariah 3:1
In Joshua the high priest we see a picture of each and every child of God, who has been made nigh by the blood of Christ, and has been taught to minister in holy things, and enter into that which is within the veil. Jesus has made us priests and kings unto God, and even here upon earth we exercise the priesthood of consecrated living and hallowed service. But this high priest is said to be "standing before the angel of the Lord," that is, standing to minister. This should be the perpetual position of every true believer. Every place is now God's temple, and his people can as truly serve him in their daily employments as in his house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice." But notice where it is that Joshua stands to minister, it is before the angel of Jehovah. It is only through a mediator that we poor defiled ones can ever become priests unto God. I present what I have before the messenger, the angel of the covenant, the Lord Jesus; and through him my prayers find acceptance wrapped up in his prayers; my praises become sweet as they are bound up with bundles of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia from Christ's own garden. If I can bring him nothing but my tears, he will put them with his own tears in his own bottle for he once wept; if I can bring him nothing but my groans and sighs, he will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for he once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit. I myself, standing in him, am accepted in the Beloved; and all my polluted works, though in themselves only objects of divine abhorrence, are so received, that God smelleth a sweet savour. He is content and I am blessed. See, then, the position of the Christian--"a priest--standing--before the angel of the Lord."
Evening
"The forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace."
Ephesians 1:7
Ephesians 1:7
Could there be a sweeter word in any language than that word "forgiveness," when it sounds in a guilty sinner's ear, like the silver notes of jubilee to the captive Israelite? Blessed, forever blessed be that dear star of pardon which shines into the condemned cell, and gives the perishing a gleam of hope amid the midnight of despair! Can it be possible that sin, such sin as mine, can be forgiven, forgiven altogether, and forever? Hell is my portion as a sinner--there is no possibility of my escaping from it while sin remains upon me--can the load of guilt be uplifted, the crimson stain removed? Can the adamantine stones of my prison-house ever be loosed from their mortices, or the doors be lifted from their hinges? Jesus tells me that I may yet be clear. Forever blessed be the revelation of atoning love which not only tells me that pardon is possible, but that it is secured to all who rest in Jesus. I have believed in the appointed propitiation, even Jesus crucified, and therefore my sins are at this moment, and forever, forgiven by virtue of his substitutionary pains and death. What joy is this! What bliss to be a perfectly pardoned soul! My soul dedicates all her powers to him who of his own unpurchased love became my surety, and wrought out for me redemption through his blood. What riches of grace does free forgiveness exhibit! To forgive at all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive forever! Here is a constellation of wonders; and when I think of how great my sins were, how dear were the precious drops which cleansed me from them, and how gracious was the method by which pardon was sealed home to me, I am in a maze of wondering worshipping affection. I bow before the throne which absolves me, I clasp the cross which delivers me, I serve henceforth all my days the Incarnate God, through whom I am this night a pardoned soul.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 30-32, 1 Peter 4 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 30-32
A Lament Over Egypt
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“‘Wail and say,
“Alas for that day!”
3 For the day is near,
the day of the LORD is near—
a day of clouds,
a time of doom for the nations.
4 A sword will come against Egypt,
and anguish will come upon Cush.
When the slain fall in Egypt,
her wealth will be carried away
and her foundations torn down.
“Alas for that day!”
3 For the day is near,
the day of the LORD is near—
a day of clouds,
a time of doom for the nations.
4 A sword will come against Egypt,
and anguish will come upon Cush.
When the slain fall in Egypt,
her wealth will be carried away
and her foundations torn down.
5 Cush and Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
6 “‘This is what the LORD says:
“‘The allies of Egypt will falland her proud strength will fail....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Peter 4
Living for God
1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. 2 As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. 3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.5 But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit....
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