In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) ‘A JOBS OR SEXUALITY-LED RECOVERY? Worried about COVID in NSW or skyrocketing unemployment? Maybe you’ve lost your job or your business has had to close? Worry no more, as Gladys is on the job with a ready made answer. You might think Ms Berejiklian has ordered the NSW public service to be working around-the-clock on health protection and job creation, leading the nation in economic recovery. She has got them working alright, but with a dazzling new insight, a policy innovation no one else has thought of. We can solve all our problems through Sexuality. Tomorrow at 2pm the NSW Public Service will down tools to launch a new LGBTIQ Network, with a new name and logo. Here are the details of the event, sent out by the Department of Premier and Cabinet: https://lnkd.in/gVTuvCv Forget about job creation and small business support, Gladys has had our NSW public servants engrossed in the what really matters: a Naming Competition for the new network. I sent in an entry: WOTA-MOST-BS, a new acronym for Wasting Our Time And Money On Sexuality Trivia BS. But I fear it won’t be the winner. There will be something much more creative, perhaps rhyming with virus. A New Universal Sexuality has a certain ring to it. On the serious side, it’s hard to believe this is the Premier’s priority. What an arrogant indulgence, to have our public servants using their work-time on pointless identity politics. It’s a slap in the face for every person in NSW who has lost their job or lost their business. When Gladys says its “all about jobs” what she really means is that, under her government, public servants with guaranteed jobs couldn’t care less about private sector jobs. Tuesday’s indulgence is made worse by the preponderance of these identity units already. In the NSW Planning Department, for instance, they have an existing LGBTIQ Network, a Harmony Council, Diversity and Inclusion Council, Aboriginal Cultural Team and Australian Diversity Council membership (the wacky outfit trying to enforce David Morrison’s ban on the word ‘guys’ in the workplace). The Planning Department is headed by Jim Betts, one of the speakers on Tuesday, who is obsessed by this stuff. His real job should be to fast-track and approve development and employment-creating projects in NSW, but seemingly, he spends more time on Diversity than Economic Growth. The NSW Government says it’s going deep into deficit, but in June, as part of Betts’ empire building, he advertised for a Manager, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy in the Planning Department on $164,000 pa. The Government’s policy is ‘No pay rise for NSW police officers or paramedics’ but they have money for this position, designated to work with the Harmony and Diversity Councils. There is no peer-reviewed academic study anywhere in the world showing that ‘Diversity’ improves staff productivity and output. It’s mostly a McKinseys invention to make money from their consultancies. You will see in the picture for Tuesday’s event, people holding up the slogan ‘Reflecting our Communities’. This is the argument NSW Ministers put for this rubbish agenda: our public service must look like the community it serves. At Budget Estimates, I asked Treasury officials (who have also drunk the Diversity Koolaid) how many homeless, unemployed people or public housing tenants they have recruited to be ‘Reflecting Our Communities’ and they said none; they contact the poor in NSW by talking to NCOSS (the social welfare peak body). How pathetic. I asked Betts’ Minister Rob Stokes the same question on the Notice Paper, and he said they don’t collect that kind of employment data. So it’s a Selective Diversity and Inclusion policy: only benefiting the sexuality groups that matter to Betts, not the poor and disadvantaged in NSW. Gay or transgender? You’re in the loop. Unemployed or a public housing tenant? Forget about it. The Left complain about ‘colonisation’ but under the likes of Betts, the NSW Public Service has been colonised on the basis of sexuality. The LGBTIQWTF community is 2-3 percent of the NSW population, yet receives red carpet treatment in the ‘Inclusion’ agenda. Poor people are 10 percent of NSW and they don’t get a look in. Premier Berejiklian has not only personally endorsed this agenda, but taken it further. After last year’s election, she issued ‘Premier’s Priorities’ for female and Indigenous employment quotas in the public service (even though women already make up two-thirds of that workforce).NSW has special employment programs for women, Aborigines and refugees but not early school leavers, the homeless or public housing tenants. The Left-wing Public Service Commission runs special taxpayer-funded ‘diversity’ training sessions for staff, including the zany notion of ‘unconscious bias’ – that we have voices in our heads telling us to discriminate against people. By this system, a white male public housing tenant in NSW, who wants nothing more than to be treated equally and have a fair chance of getting a public service job, is not only discriminated against in NSW Government employment processes. But if he did fluke a job with them, he then has to go to training sessions telling him he’s the one who is racist, sexist and homophobic. We need to understand the sickness of what’s going on here. Ruling elites like Berejiklian and Don Harwin (the NSW Minister for the Public Service) have constructed a system that not only discriminates against people not like them (male and straight) but then justifies it by blaming the victims of the identity discrimination they created. The madness and bias goes further. Jim Betts is also a member of the NSW Construction Industry Culture Standard Committee, which is drawing up new guidelines for construction companies wanting to win contracts from the NSW Government (new schools, hospitals, roads etc). He’s insisting on companies displaying ‘gender equity’ in their employment policies, even though not many women see a career on (dangerous) construction sites; plus an end to workplace ’sexism’ such as ‘girlie pictures’ in the men’s change rooms. Otherwise the companies won’t be eligible to tender for NSW Government projects. It’s another personal self-indulgence. The NSW Budget is going into heavy deficit and all that matters is value for money – the cost effectiveness of tenders, not Betts’ identity political obsessions, costing companies and taxpayers money for no gain in the efficiency of the construction projects. The best job creator in NSW, one single decision that would help massively? Sack Jim Betts. This is what the NSW Coalition Government has come to: obsessed with LGBTIQ units and ‘girlie pictures’ on the walls of building sites, rather than professional, efficient public service outcomes for the people of NSW. Menzies must be rolling in his grave, wondering what he created.’ https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/?ref=page_internal
Australia
This is a follow up to Mark Latham’s Sky News mention of this money wasting sodomite government sponsored gathering. And we wonder where our taxes go?
‘Join us as we launch NSW Governments first whole of sector LGBTIQ+ Network and announce the winner of the network naming competition!
About this Event
We are excited to be joined by senior executives from across the sector who continue to show their support for LGBTIQ + staff and allies.
On the day, we will hear from:
- Kathrina Lo – NSW Public Service Commissioner
- Em Hogan – Secretary, Department of Customer Service
- Jim Betts – Secretary Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Zoé Kennedy (LGBTIQ+ Network Lead) will introduce the network and its role within the sector, share information on upcoming cross sector events and how you can get involved.
The network’s new name will be announced and its logo revealed.
All NSW Public Sector staff are welcome to attend and can join the network here.’ https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nsw-public-sector-lgbtiq-network-launch-tickets-112567528508
It seems neither of the major political parties in the Australia state of NSW have any moral compass!
The average citizen would think government was there to protect the citizen and provide certain services. Not in the Australian state of New South Wales. ‘NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says he doesn’t see how a “sexuality led recovery” will work for the people of NSW in one of the worst recessions in history. The NSW Planning Department led by Jim Betts will on Tuesday add a new LGBTQI unit, which will join the already established harmony council, Aboriginal cultural team, and the diversity council. Mr Latham said the planning department’s diversity program was “selective diversity and inclusion policy” as it does not include or represent those battling homelessness and joblessness. “It’s inefficient, it’s unnecessary, and it shouldn’t be happening. “In (Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s) public service, it’s all about sexuality and it doesn’t serve the people of New South Wales one iota.”’ https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6175484545001
Then there is the unbelievable list of groups for the LGBTQI folk at the Lane Cove Council web site. If this doesn’t stir the ire in a normal thinking person then nothing will. For space only a few will be listed here. ‘Lane Cove Council is committed to supporting an inclusive and welcoming community which values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. This page provides information and links to relevant services for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer LGBTIQA+ community.
Below is a list of organisations who provide services for the LGBTIQA+ communities
The Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL) advocates on behalf of lesbians and gay men. They provide referral and educative resources on gay and lesbian rights to the media, policy makers and the community.
Australian Lesbian Medical Association
The Australian Lesbian Medical Association (ALMA) was founded in 1999 for lesbian doctors, lesbian medical students and their partners. It provides a supportive network to its members through advocacy, mentoring and social activities.
The Gender Centre is committed to developing and providing services and activities, which enhance the ability of people with gender issues to make informed choices. They offer a wide range of services to people with gender issues, their partners, family members and friends in New South Wales. They are an accommodation service and also act as an education, support, training and referral resource centre to other organisations and service providers. The Gender Centre is committed to educating the public and service providers about the needs of people with gender issues.
Chatswood police have support person for the gay and lesbian community – call the Chatswood Police station on 9414 8499 and ask to be put through.
UnitingCare Ageing celebrate diversity and welcome all people regardless of lifestyle choices, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation or gender identity. They are proud to be accredited with the Rainbow Tick for standing with people from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) communities, at every stage of life.
This website is for LGBTIQ people in relationships who are or may be experiencing domestic and family violence. It contains information on what domestic and family violence is, what to do if you are experiencing abuse, suggestions on making a safety plan, and details for some referral options in NSW. It also has information for supporting a friend or family member who is experiencing abuse.
Support group for gay men who plan to, or already have children.
A social network for GLBTQI parents.
GAMMA provides safe and confidential opportunities for men to discuss and consider issues relating to their sexuality and the relationships in their lives
A social club for gay and bi sexual men and their supporters.
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir is a non-auditioning choir which welcomes members regardless of their sexual identity or musical experience. The choir is open to all – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, queer and our straight friends and families, all united by a love of singing together and striving for performance excellence.’ http://www.lanecove.nsw.gov.au/Community/CommunityServices/Pages/GLBTIQ.aspx
More time and funds should be spent for roads, coal fire powered plants, police, hospitals etc. and NOTHING on sexual identity!
Australian Drag Queens seemingly have rights that those who do not believe children should be exposed to drag queens do not have. Lyle Shelton says that he is ‘…being dragged before a government commission for writing a blog about why drag queens are not for kids.
I hoped this day would not come. But it has.
Last month I received a letter from the government. The Queensland Human Rights Commission is demanding I appear before it for conciliation with a couple of aggrieved drag queens.
A blog post I wrote last January about the dangers of putting LGBTIQA+ drag queens in front of children has triggered action against me under the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act of 1991.
Under the law, it is compulsory that I turn up. If I don’t, I could be forced to by court order. If I still refuse, I could go to jail.
If I do turn up and refuse to apologise for my article or retract it or redact some of it, I could end up in front of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
If I lose there, I could be fined. If I refuse to pay a fine in protest against a judgement which impinges on the precious human right of freedom of speech, I could be sent to jail and have a criminal record.
But before I had even been served papers from the Commission, one of the drag queens, Johnny Valkerie, took to Twitter to announce that the QHRC had already decreed me guilty and that I must turn myself in.
I kid you not. (Sounds like a good title for a book, the first chapter of the sequel of which is being written now).
Valkerie was frustrated because my address is supressed and the QHRC was not able to find me easily.
I have a supressed address for safety reasons after my office was bombed by a same-sex marriage activist in 2016. Following that incident, a prominent rainbow political activist, Michael Barnett, placed my home address on the internet to intimidate me and my family.
Johnny Valkerie is a woman who presents as a man. She tweeted that the QHRC had already “deemed” my “article to be vilification under the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Law 1991”.’ https://www.lyleshelton.com.au/drag_queens_take_legal_action_against_me_in_the_human_rights_commission
In other words in Australia if you believe something contrary to a protected class you had better just keep it to yourself!
The BLM, Antifa and others like them are simply pawns in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These pawns are NOT really seeking to right any supposed wrongs but to take over and destroy all free societies. The CCP is the enemy of all those who love Freedom of speech and life itself. Therefore, these social justice warriors are not interested in Auntie May who ‘…arrived at Sydney International Airport in 2012, her life was packed neatly into a single suitcase. With clothes borrowed from a cousin and a poor grasp of English, she crossed the threshold and began a new life in Australia.
Deep down, May knew her journey “Down Under” was not for a quiet retirement. Instead, she was preparing for a new lease on life, and a chance to help Chinese people understand the true nature of the Communist Party she suffered under for 60 years.
Born Yuelan Tao in 1956, May’s life began just seven years after China fell under the tyrannical rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Her father was a small business owner and the family lived in Beijing.
In 1966, her family was swept up in the regime’s Cultural Revolution—a destructive ten-year-long political movement aimed at purging China of its 5,000-year cultural roots.
May tells The Epoch Times: “The purpose of the cultural revolution was to establish communism as the only religion controlling not just the state, but the individual’s mind.”’ The entire article may be read at https://www.theepochtimes.com/surprised-im-still-alive-60-years-under-communist-china-2_3438340.html
Craig Kelly is a member of the Australian Federal Parliament and ‘…has raised concerns about Beijing’s influence at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) after it aired a video and radio program evocative of the commonly-used Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda talking points used to persecute Falun Gong for the last two decades.
In response to the video program aired on July 21, Liberal MP Craig Kelly took to Facebook to ask the question: “Have the ABC been infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party?”
“How else [do] you explain the ABC’s hit job on the peaceful Falun Gong?” he continued.
The ABC’s attacks fell on the 21st anniversary of the CCP’s persecution of the practice, which began on July 20, 1999.
Kelly posted a photo from a Falun Gong rally he had spoken at, where he had stood in front of a wall of banners that read “Falun Gong: Meditation Guided by Truth Compassion Forbearance,” and “Independent Tribunal Found China Guilty of Forced Organ Harvesting.”
One of the banners in the photo has been digitally edited to read: “Help Stop Persecution of Falun Gong in China;” to which he added the words: “and by ‘their’ ABC in Australia.”
Kelly also called out the CCP for its espionage activities, including monitoring comments even outside of China, writing: “with this picture I’ll be marked in some little black book of the Chinese Communist Party (and probably at the ABC as well).”’ https://www.theepochtimes.com/aussie-mp-asks-whether-australian-abc-is-infiltrated-by-the-chinese-communist-party_3433460.html
‘Australia’s wind industry has been suffering from the Big Calm – with dozens of occasions over the last month or so when the entire wind fleet’s battled to deliver more than a tiny fraction of its combined capacity.
Depicted above – courtesy of Aneroid Energy – is the output delivered by Australian wind power outfits to the Eastern Grid last month.
Spread from Far North Queensland, across the ranges of NSW, all over Victoria, Northern Tasmania and across South Australia its entire capacity routinely delivers just a trickle of its combined notional capacity of 7,728MW.
Collapses of over 3,000 MW or more that occur over the space of a couple of hours are routine, as are rapid surges of equal magnitude, which make the grid manager’s life a living hell, and provide the perfect set up for power market price gouging by the owners of conventional generators, who cash in on the chaos.
During June there were lengthy periods when the combined output of every wind turbine connected to the Eastern Grid struggled to top 400 MW (5.1% of total capacity). Such as: 11 June when output collapsed to a trifling 86 MW (1.1% of total notional capacity); 17 June when total output fell to 134 MW (1.7% of total notional capacity); 26 June when, after a 1,200 MW slide, output was between 300-400 MW (3.8% to 5.1% of total notional capacity); and 27 June when output dropped over 900 MW to bottom out at 96 MW (1.2% of total notional capacity) .
Rafe Champion delves into the consequences of Australia’s most recent Big Calm.
No Gusts, No Glory
Quadrant Online
Rafe Champion
16 July 2020
Imagine a massive irrigation project to make the deserts bloom with a gigantic network of headworks, dams, irrigation channels and pumping stations to encourage farmers to move in and reap a bountiful harvest of food and fibre from a vast expanse of well-watered countryside. The food will be cheaper too! After all, the water and the land are free.
But there’s is a problem. With the burgeoning infrastructure well advanced, very visible and much bally-hooed by an eagerly unquestioning media it turns out that there isn’t enough water much of the time and the freshly planted seedlings die. The people will not starve because food is still being produced from the farmland that was there before the irrigation scheme started. But now that food is costing twice as much.
Tragically this is not a hypothetical scenario because it applies to the Wind Power Project that was launched to achieve the (upwardly mobile) Renewable Energy Target.
Wind Droughts
There are frequent and prolonged “wind droughts” that we can measure using the output from some 70 wind farms and over 2000 turbines across South Eastern Australia, all connected to the grid of the National Energy Market and monitored by the Australian Energy Market Operator.
The chart above shows the percentage of the installed capacity of the system that was delivered hour by hour over the month. The line drawn at 10 per cent indicates the periods when the supply was a tenth or less of the 7.8 Gigawatts of installed capacity.
The low points lasted for 33 hours on the 5th-6th, 18 hours on the 11th, 16 hours on the 17th, 14 hours on the 26th, 11 hours on the 27th and nine hours on the 28th. There were several other lows of shorter duration, giving total of 13 episodes and much of the time during the low spells the supply was well below 10 per cent, with lows of 3.4 per cent, 1.1 per cent and 2.3 per cent during the most prolonged “wind droughts.” All the monthly records are available at https://anero.id/energy/wind-energy
Choke Points
Wind droughts cause “choke points” in the supply of electricity to the grid. Consider the supply of air to our lungs. We need a continuous supply of air and when this is interrupted by choking or drowning we are soon dead. The electricity grid also needs a continuous input of power or it will die, at least in parts.
The reason for talking about choke points is to drive home the fact that the critical indicator of the wind supply that we need to monitor is the low points, not the high points, not the total installed capacity and not the average delivery.
What has happened here?
The “failed irrigation scheme” scenario suggests that ‘someone has blundered‘, as Tennyson famously wrote in The Charge of the Light Brigade. Was information on the frequency and duration of wind droughts available before the government decided to back wind power and RE at large with subsidies and mandates to use power from intermittent sources?
Still, regardless of this discovery, all the Australian states are pressing on with ambitious plans to put more resources into the windpower equivalents of irrigation headworks, dams, channels and pumping stations.
Why in Australia, of all places?
Australia is leading the world in the rush to “clean energy” but this is a serious mistake for two other reasons in addition to the problem of wind droughts. First, Australia is an island. Practically every other industrialized country in the world has neighbours to provide power when wind and solar power are in short supply. European countries can turn to France for nuclear energy, the Scandinavian states for hydro, Poland for coal and Russia for gas. Every kind of power feeds into the North American grid, but in Australia we are on our own.
Second, we have no nuclear power. Isolation would not be such a problem if we had nuclear power.
Please don’t mention batteries and pumped hydro
Elon Musk created a media sensation when he installed a big Tesla battery in South Australia in record time. The big battery has been hailed as a great contribution to the green transition but it is important to realise how small it is compared with the demand of the grid.
It is a remarkable piece of technology, occupying a hectare of space and carrying a price tag of $60 million. It is attached to the Hornsdale No 3 windfarm (100MW rated capacity) and it stores 109 megawat Hours (MWh) of power. That means it can maintain a flow of 100MW from the farm for a little over an hour after the wind stops.
By comparison, the SA grid requires a flow ranging from 1000Mw to 2000MW depending on the time of day. So if the wind stops for an hour the grid needs at least 1000MWh. How far does 109MWh support the grid in that situation?
Pumped Hydro is the other great hope for storage and the showpiece is Snowy 2.0 that is planned to deliver 2000MW of power continuously, matching a large coal-fired power station such as Bayswater in NSW. In the real world this offers no more hope than big batteries. For a start, Snowy 2.0 is not a primary generator because the power that flows from it will come originally from a fleet of solar and wind farms. It is designed to regulate the lumpy RE input and deliver a steady supply. Unfortunately, between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the original power is lost in the pumping and pipe resistance. The projected cost is enormous, far beyond the original estimate and it may never be built due to the expensive, unforeseen problems in the construction and the damage to the national park.
And if Snowy 2.0 is completed, along with the extra wind turbines to go with it, just 2,000MW of our existing 20,000MW of coal-fired capacity will be replaced. All we need is a few more mountain ranges with reliable rainfall — nine of them, to be precise — to replace the other 18GW of coal power.
In perhaps more urgent need of replacement is a political class as useless as the renewable energy it champions.’ https://stopthesethings.com/2020/07/26/dead-calm-australias-wind-industry-suffering-from-prolonged-wind-drought/
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. That’s where BLM is today, found wanting with God, but sadly the Marxist, Muslim, Loony, Leftist, Lovies in and out of the Democrat party are cheering them on.
‘The radical revolutionaries in the BLM movement are a greater threat to freedom than the Communist threat of the Cold War. That is true because they may not have missiles, but they do have committed youth with a perceived cause (racial injustice) and the financial support of old, Marxist, almost dead white men.
Thinking people know that revolutionaries are fanatics that only have a revolution in mind. To enlist compatriots, revolutionaries will use any cause that will be accepted by people too lazy to work and too bombed to think.
Plus, they have the advantage of the U.S. having been softened up over the previous 50 years by socialist termites in the mainline churches, the public school system, higher education, and the media.
Jesse Jackson and his gang chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture’s got to go!” Yes, I know Jesse is a known opportunist using civil rights for self-aggrandizement and to fund his dubious civil rights organization. Yes, his immorality is documented, but remember he was a candidate for President of the USA in 1984 and 1988, and a few people think he is a legitimate religious and political leader. But he has shrinking credibility with sincere, thinking people.
People like Jackson have attacked America for decades, and even academics have bought their package of deception. And students and most Americans have paid the price by diminishing respect for what has taken thousands of years to develop—the greatest civilization in the world even with its flaws, fallibilities, and failures.
Removal and destruction of paintings and statues and flags are the symbols of perceived “racism” that are the objects of black hatred. The haters have no concern about the symbols; it is only an excuse to destroy America.
Black Lives Matter is not a group of kids with more time on their hands than brains in their skulls; it is a cluster of American-haters with a commitment to destroy America and replace it with a Marxist-style government. Antifa and BLM are only two of more than twenty communist groups who are using the unreasonable treatment of a black man as an excuse to loot, burn, and destroy our cities and nullify our Constitution.
No honest, informed person supports or defends BLM.
The leading cause of death of young black Americans is young black Americans. But it seems that does not concern the thuggish protesters. Moreover, maybe they should modify their signs to read, “Black Lives Matter So Defund Planned Parenthood.” After all, 247 black babies are butchered in the womb each day in America. But Black Babies Don’t Matter to the rabble.
However, more than our government is in the balance; our European-based Western Civilization is being threatened. The lowlifes throwing bricks and lighting fires are useful idiots doing the work of the check-writers safely standing in the shadows. These left-leaning leaders have a deep hatred for western culture.
The major universities in the U.S. in 1964 required all students to take a Western Civilization class, but by 2010, not one did. It seems Western Civilization had to be eliminated because Jackson, scores of professors, and other mental midgets demanded it.
There are two groups in America: those of us who know what we are losing and those who will have no concept of the loss until it is gone.
Western Civilization is all about who we are, the basis of what we believe. Solzhenitsyn remarked, “to destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” America’s roots are being severed, so it is no surprise that the tree is dying.
Western Civilization is important because it is our roots and reflects the values developed over millennia. To understand the present, we must go back to the very beginning, which would be the Jerusalem model in ancient Israel. Ancient Jews provided a stable family, based more on commitment rather than romance. Instead of marrying the one they loved, they loved the one they married.
Marriages were always arranged by the father, often at a very young age, and this was true until modern times. Moderns don’t like that concept; however, how has the present system been working? Divorce was difficult, and adultery was punished by the death of the two culprits. Slavery was allowed, but not approved or authorized by Jehovah. The Jerusalem way was not a perfect system, and it has been cursed, challenged, and changed.
The trajectory of Western Civilization after fifteen hundred years jumped from Jerusalem to Greece for a few hundred years with much emphasis on democracy, then to Rome for a while. The course led back to Jerusalem (Christ and His challenge, command, and commission to His disciples to preach and change the world), then the shift was to Europe.
We can trace our ideas and ideals about democracy, civic responsibility, personal deportment, and freedom to Greece where the stain of slavery was still endemic to the world. Athens and Sparta had vast differences in training children and the treatment of the elderly.
So, the road to Western Civilization was slow and crude, taking centuries for desirable values to be ensconced into society. The upward path was somewhat improved when society shifted away from Athens and Sparta to Rome; even though slavery still thrived, perversion was still acceptable, and everyone looked to the government for protection and provision. The shift then went back to Jerusalem that impacted the culture, as the influence of Christ was so powerful, it forced the culture at least to frown on slavery.
They heard the Apostle Paul say to a slave owner about a runaway slave Paul was sending back: He has been a help to me so, based on our friendship, don’t receive him back as a slave or servant but as my son. Furthermore, if he owes you anything, “Put that on mine account.” The culture significantly improved with the command of Christ to treat others the way we want to be treated. And, forgive your enemies even if they mistreat you. Yes, something new was stirring in the world.
In Jerusalem, a light was flickering in the world’s darkness.
As missionaries took that light into Europe, discipline, order, love, respect in the home caught on followed by charitable living as hospitals were established, followed by universities, grammar schools, and homes for the elderly. A few hundred years followed with chaos in civic and church affairs going through the Dark Ages entering into the early Middle Ages, as the light began to shine with the Bible becoming available in the local languages.
The flickering light had become a beacon for the world.
During the Middle Ages, the culture had been vastly improved. People still lived ungodly lives with days of endless toil and nights of horror. As jobs and craftsmanship raised their status, they desired a higher quality of life. The Catholic Crusades (obviously a detour en route to civilization) introduced Europeans to different kinds of food, clothing, tools, furniture, etc. But the availability of the Bible and the accompanying Renaissance, when ordinary people thought more about the Bible, religion, and education, was a harbinger of a better day for Europe.
In Italy, there was a Renaissance but little Reformation.
Some courageous preachers in Germany, France, Switzerland, and elsewhere demanded a rejection of the Roman Church and a return to a simple and informal church based only on the Bible. The Reformation spread into northern Europe like a prairie fire and changed every facet of society while Italy had to settle for a significant advance in religious art, sculpture, and music.
The nations of Europe were totally changed in that it impacted education, family life, treatment of each other, their politics, work, and the way they did church. The light that flickered for hundreds of years was now so bright, it chased out much of the darkness and produced the Reformation, one of the most impacting events since the Flood.
Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other leftists groups want to dismiss, denigrate, and disassemble Western Civilization, the effects of thousands of years of man’s slow climb from barbarism.
Western culture has produced success, safety, and security, while BLM is producing suspicion, spite, and separation.’ http://donboys.cstnews.com/black-lives-matter-ridicule-renounce-and-reject-western-civilization-and-plan-to-rescind-it
The Australian Federal Government along with the states have devastated the Australian economy to fight this China Virus. Now, that the economy is crushed or worse, they the politicians, have a plan to fix it. Here’s Alan Jones’ view of the mess.
If those who believe ALL LIVES MATTER wished to protest on the streets of Sydney, Australia do you think the New South Wales (NSW) Health Minister would plead for them not to do it due to the China virus? NO, I’m pretty sure there wouldn’t be any pleading but simply telling them they would be arrested! But, this is a protest in the name of Black Lives Matter! Now to the article with some highlights from this blogger. ‘More than 1000 reckless Black Lives Matter protesters planning to demonstrate in Sydney next week are being urged to pause their “democratic right” to assemble until Australia solves the COVID-19 crisis. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard pleaded with protesters not to attend the demonstration. “If we didn’t need to remember just how dangerous this could be from messages from overseas, we only need to look to our southern border,” he said. “Please don’t do that, please.’
The Health Minister will plead and beg for these people not to protest but just a month or so ago a man was arrested for ‘exercising’ his rights’. You may follow his experience with this double minded government at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4yS7miQRsavBQaHLk6WgA/videos.
Now back to the groveling NSW Health Minister. “Let’s just get this COVID-19 under control, right across our country, and then it’s the time for us to express our democratic rights.” NSW on Thursday announced 19 new cases of the virus and in Victoria’s update there were 403 new cases and five deaths. Protest organisers have asked people who choose to attend the rally to come prepared with a mask, hand sanitiser, practice social distancing and avoid public transport. But when protest organiser Padraic Gibson was asked about who would take responsibility if a breach occurred at the protest, he said: “When you come to a protest demonstration there is an element of risk involved in that, but for many, many people this is a very important issue and we’re going to be doing everything we can to provide the safest environment possible”. NSW Police is trying desperately to block the protest through the Supreme Court. This week NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller told Sky News the protest planned for 28 July could set the state’s economic recovery back by a decade if it sparked fresh outbreaks.’ https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6174226171001?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter&utm_content=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter+CID_ebdf2af235700247c9ce2c8afe723dee&utm_source=Daily%20newsletter&utm_term=NSW%20pleads%20with%20BLM%20protesters%20Pause%20your%20democratic%20rights%20until%20COVID%20ends
I personally hope the protest goes forth as it will show how weak and double standard the NSW government truly is. This supposedly conservative government is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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