Ozwitness

After his first year it’s easy to dislike President Trump. His bad language, offensive talk about women, immigrants and foreign lands are crass and totally undiplomatic. His tweeting is unorthodox and immature, his bragging about being   “”A very stable genius””  and  “”Like, really smart””, naive, almost juvenile, but while the Republicans may cringe over his style, they love his confrontational hurt of the left /political/ media/ elites,  who have, for far too long, seemed immune to more civilised criticism and debate.

At the end of his first year we have to look past his obvious character flaws and the chaos that so often surrounds him, in order to see achievements which the left leaning media of course ignores – lower corporate and personal taxes, scrapping of fake climate and ‘man-made’ warming accords, tighter border control and falling numbers of illegal immigrants, fewer left wing judges in the Supreme Court, tougher on all forms of terror, action against rogue states and a growing economy.

Yes, he is withdrawing from being the worlds policeman, to concentrate on America, forcing Europe to take over more of that role and expand its military muscle, and compelling NATO to face up to burden sharing. His example, encouraged by Australia, has strengthened Europe’s anti-immigration attitudes and tightened their border control to some extent, while his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is pushing Europe closer to take on the leading role in the Middle East.

He has called out Iran for what it is, as a belligerent terrorist state and by his unstable and forceful rhetoric actually stirred the UN and China into stronger action against North Korea, bringing about its first talks with South Korea in years. He has been instrumental in defeating IS and has been willing to accept the advice of his Generals rather than insisting on his own extreme pre-election agenda.

All in all, the conservative Republicans must be quietly satisfied with the results, if not the style of Trump’s Presidency, recognising that as an American friend of mine said – “”He is the man for the hour.”” He also added,  “”He is singlehandedly shaping world events to where they need to be to bring on the environment prophesied for the end of the age.””

I think those of us who are aware of Bible prophecy about the End Time would have to agree – e.g. Daniel 11:40-42, ‘And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab,  and the chief of the children of Ammon. [Jordan] . He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.’  

The king of the north is the coming dictator in Europe, called in the Bible the Beast. The king of the south is the ruler of an Islamic combine led by Iran. 

On January 26th, 1788, the first British fleet arrived at what is now Circular Quay, the first Western Immigrants to a continent which must have experienced wave after wave of immigrants of different tribal if not ethnic groups over the previous  ‘60,000 years’.

Each wave would have pushed the previous arrivals further into the continent, dispossessing the earlier inhabitants, just as has occurred all over the earth.

Eventually the different races interbred, creating the whole range of Australians we see today, some of whom claim to be aboriginal though they are obviously more than 90% white European.

One might ask why it is that it is those 90% white ‘aboriginals’ are the ones who are so determined to prove their aboriginality by protesting about January 26, when the pure bloods still living deep in the bush do not care about the dates of Australia Day, nor hold grudges against white Australians, according to indigenous politician Jacinta Price?

Alice Springs councillor Jacinta has been subject to a torrent of vile social media abuse from anti-Australia Day activists over her fight to keep the national day on January 26, including being wished a “”painful death”” and insulting her disabled nephew. She feels disgusted by these online messages and blames “”middle class”” Australians with [only] indigenous backgrounds,  for fuelling the cyber hate.

Indigenous leader and government adviser Warren Mundine described this abuse as “”disgraceful”” and described Greens leader Richard Di Natalie’s  claim that January 26 represents an “”ongoing genocide”” needing a renewed push to change the date of Australia day, as a joke.  “”I’m with Australian communities every month and changing the date isn’t no. 1, 2,3,4,5th on their agenda,”” Mr Mundine said. “

“It is education, jobs, it is to get business activity happening, and to get better health care.””

Sadly, the only business activity many aboriginal activists seem to be concerned with is the millions of dollars the government pours into aborigines, and the financial royalties pouring in from the miners now that aborigines have been given one third of Australia, though they are less than 3% of its population. Where all this money goes few people know, but little seems to trickle down to the pure bloods in the remote outback.

Strange how these activists seem so keen on aboriginal culture but live middle class Australian lives, with all its advantages – good education, modern facilities, cars, health and social services. If what the aboriginals had before  26/01/1788 was so very good and the arrival of Western ways so bad and unworthy of celebration, why don’t they live in the bush in a humpy, as a hunter gatherer?

Come to think of it, having travelled right around Australia, I never saw any pure bloods do that either, so by their behaviour it has to be assumed that they much prefer the modern world with all of its benefits, if only the funds rolling in were used to create the jobs they so badly need.

If it hadn’t been the British who colonised Australia, would the activists prefer it to have been the Japanese, or maybe the Germans? Somehow I don’t think so, so perhaps we all have something to celebrate on January 26th after all?

Deuteronomy 8:10, ‘ When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.’ NIV.