R.P. BenDedek Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration
I received this email from an Australian. It is about an American, but the lesson it seeks to teach is one that needs to be learned by both Australians and Americans.
Jun 30, 2009 - 9:25:47 PM
R.P. BenDedek President T. Roosevelt speaking on Immigration
I received this email from an Australian. It is about an American, but the lesson it seeks to teach is one that needs to be learned by both Australians and Americans.
Jun 30, 2009 - 9:25:47 PM
R.P. BenDedek Farewell YanCheng - Hello Baotou!
When I was approached by EET (Easy English Training) to help them set up new 'Private School' English Teaching branches in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, I found it impossible to refuse.
Jun 18, 2009 - 12:50:47 AM
International What I love About China.
What I love about this country is that you have a story to tell everytime you set foot out of your room.
Jun 7, 2009 - 10:40:36 AM
R.P. BenDedek Bullying at School.
The Law of unintended consequences dictates that when you try to change or fix something that already works, something unforseen will happen. Our whole society is suffering in so many ways from the law of unintended consequences. It will take guts to fix society up, but it can be done.
Jun 1, 2009 - 2:19:07 AM
R.P. BenDedek Inside Tiger Hill Suzhou
I bought quite a few movies, including Hugh Jackman's 'Wolverine' Origins movie. That turned out to be a blast actually. The pirates had knocked it off before all the computer graphics were finished. There were these great fight scenes in front of white screens with drawings all over them, and of course the special effects tricks had not yet been edited out.
May 23, 2009 - 2:45:49 AM
Kenneth Tellis Letter to President Obama Re: Thomas Paine
I am going to take the opportunity to request you Mr. President, that since this year is the 200th Anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine that a special commemorative SILVER DOLLAR be issued to honour the memory this great American patriot
May 21, 2009 - 4:47:35 PM
International "The Spring is Peaceful and the Scenery is Bright". The Summer Palace, Beijing.
Following the same path, I reached the top of the Longevity Hill. On the left side, a tibetan style temple and another temple housing three Buddhas (and a souvenir shop just in front of one of the deities. That did not seem to bother the faithful worshippers)
May 11, 2009 - 5:38:56 AM
R.P. BenDedek Inside HanShan Temple Complex Suzhou
This particular photograph may not be that stunning, but I like it because I just love cultural relics. The one in the foreground dates back to within just a few years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, whilst the white stele behind it dates back (from memory) to the Song or Tang Dynasty.
May 3, 2009 - 9:51:52 AM
R.P. BenDedek May Day 2009 YanDu Park Yancheng China
I found myself running backwards whilst videoing the horde of students pursuing me. I guess in all, it took about 30 minutes to get free of the little tykes.
May 2, 2009 - 1:52:58 AM
Steven Shamrak Anti-Semitism: Religion of Power and Greed!
Contrary to common belief, the foundation of anti-Semitism was laid not by Christianity but during the Roman empire. Prevailing discrimination against Jews started during the Roman empire because Judea and Samaria were its most rebellious provinces and considered Jews atheists as they believed in one god only.
Apr 29, 2009 - 12:36:31 AM
R.P. BenDedek Obama Should Listen to Caroline Glick
It is refreshing to read a new perspective on Israel's political allegiances in the Middle East. Perhaps President Obama should start paying attention to reality rather than follow ideological dreams.
Apr 29, 2009 - 12:25:14 AM
R.P. BenDedek Ma Yingjiu Emperor of Taiwan?
Well there you have it. Just a few selected comments about Taiwan. Oh if I only had the essays at hand in which students wrote about Movies, Bathhouses and Parks! They were hilarious!
Apr 26, 2009 - 12:05:00 AM
R.P. BenDedek Why I Love Living in China
If you happen to be a Chinese or Foreign Boss on the East Coast of China looking to hire someone who really can communicate with foreigners in normative English, then Jerry is your man.
Apr 23, 2009 - 2:19:10 AM
R.P. BenDedek Global Warming effect on Antarctica
ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap
Apr 18, 2009 - 10:59:03 PM
R.P. BenDedek United Nations Farce: Durban II
I think it is time for us to realise that there is something going on in the United Nations that is working within an agenda far removed from Democratic Principles and Personal Freedoms that we expect.
Apr 17, 2009 - 4:51:05 AM
R.P. BenDedek Free Speech is a Myth!
I doubt that there are many westerners who would consider that China is a truly free and open country, where people can think and act as they please. Generally speaking however, it actually is a place where one is free to think and say what one pleases, except that is, when what you say runs contrary to the 'official and sanctioned opinion'.
Apr 16, 2009 - 10:00:54 AM
International Songzhuang Art Village - Beijing
On our way there, she explained us that the 798 Area has now become too expensive and chaotic for artists, so they decided to move somewhere else and picked this less inhabited area.
Apr 14, 2009 - 1:29:41 AM
Steven Shamrak Legally non-Binding Resolutions!
This information is for people who are interested in forming their opinion based on facts or for those who are still open-minded and capable of changing their political view about the right of state of Israel and Jewish people to live in peace on the land of our ancestors in its entirety.
Apr 13, 2009 - 11:15:10 PM
R.P. BenDedek Everyone is hurting!
I won't bore you with the details, because it would only result in a backlash of accusations that I am racist and politically incorrect, but suffice it to say, I have not been a happy chappy.
Apr 12, 2009 - 4:36:52 AM
Kenneth Tellis "Canada Isn't a Hotel"
It seems that COMMON SENSE has not been a Canadian attitude since the Trudeau era, and that is the time warp that we are stuck in today
Apr 4, 2009 - 9:38:30 PM
R.P. BenDedek Fact! Research Proves Global Warming!
Science, my friends is our friend. It simply seeks out the truth. Scientific Researchers are constantly discovering new and marvellous things about our universe, and about our own selves.
Apr 4, 2009 - 2:37:56 AM
R.P. BenDedek Stop Knocking President Obama!
So far I have had two sets of relatives in the various Americas contact me. One lot turn out to be residing in Hawaii, and another lot live in Mexico.
Apr 3, 2009 - 4:57:35 AM
R.P. BenDedek Battling Feminist Stereotypes.
Notice the line: The amount of these cases will continue to grow each year until societal norms maintain that this is not rare behavior.
Apr 2, 2009 - 1:45:23 AM
R.P. BenDedek Brilliant Media Reporting?
Received in an email from Willem of South Africa. No original source quoted. Some fine examples of brilliant minds at work in the Media.
Apr 1, 2009 - 12:56:43 AM
Steven Shamrak CNN is Still in the Game.
Briefly, and without comments, the article mentioned that Jewish citizens of Israel "were exercising their right to march under Israeli law as Arabs and Muslims have done in Israeli towns like Tel Aviv". So why would it be "setting people (Arabs) off"?
Mar 29, 2009 - 11:05:24 PM
R.P. BenDedek Homos, Homosexuals, Homo Sapiens, Homo Erectus
How many different types of Homos are there? These are some of the important questions that one finds oneself thinking about. But 'why is it' you ask, 'that one is thinking about 'Homos' at all? Well I will tell you!
Mar 29, 2009 - 1:25:36 AM
R.P. BenDedek Political Correctness: 21st Century Religion
But when PC becomes Lord of your life; when friendships are determined by a person's acknowledgement of and conversion to the faith, then you really are a sick puppy!
Mar 21, 2009 - 12:10:55 AM
Steven Shamrak America: People vs Government!
Nearly three-quarters of the respondents believe that the Arab-Israeli struggle is based on ideology and religion and not on claims for land.
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:58:32 PM
International China's Economy 2009 The key to financial reform is to make the yuan an international currency.
Mar 8, 2009 - 7:05:14 AM
International Tibet in the News in China
Potala Palace preservation complete - Only 76 of the 953 people detained for their involvement in last year's Lhasa riot received prison sentences
Mar 7, 2009 - 9:01:13 PM
International China: American Double Standards The U.S. practice of throwing stones at others while living in a glass house is a testimony to the double standards
Feb 28, 2009 - 12:47:23 AM
R.P. BenDedek Blood, Guts, Glory and Virgins
To surrender their power and ideology would destroy them. It would make of them 'ordinary citizens' in 9-5 jobs. B-O-R-I-N-G!
Feb 23, 2009 - 5:15:48 AM
Kenneth Tellis The Delusional Metisse Louis Beaudoin
The delusional Metisse Louis Beaudoin, Parti Quebecois opposition critic for international affairs raves on about something that never was, and continues on with her pipe dream, albeit in colour.
Feb 22, 2009 - 4:19:14 AM
Kenneth Tellis Why Education for the Quebecois Was So Far Behind
In the 19th century when the life of the average person in Quebec was not very good, there came out of the English-speaking men like James McGill a canny Scots businessman and trader who because he was a bachelor bequeathed all his money for the building of an institution of knowledge and learning in Montreal, Lower Canada (which became Quebec in July 1867).
Feb 2, 2009 - 10:34:47 AM
