R.P. BenDedek
R.P. BenDedek
Lake Baroon Fishing in the Kayak
My father simply couldn't get it through his skull that I simply did not W-A-N-T to be sticking worms on hooks and nor could I master the simple art of tying hook and sinker on a fishing line.
Feb 5, 2010 - 12:10:47 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Technologically Challenged: Telstra Australia
The lady smiled one of those 'oh isn't it fun to be dealing with old people' smiles. Then she asked me where I was staying. So I told her. She asks if I know the address and telephone number. I assured her that I did. She types in the address and then I opened my mobile phone to show her the hotel telephone number.
Feb 4, 2010 - 12:15:31 AM
R.P. BenDedek
QF98 Hong Kong to Brisbane Jan 15, 2010
After that, one crew member told the others that I was an Australian journalist doing a story on Qantas Flight Attendants and that they had better look after me and do a proper job. I never did quite work out if anyone bought the story, but at any rate, this is the story.
Feb 3, 2010 - 12:30:41 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Staying at Beijing Aulympic Airportel
Everyone was embarrassed to have allowed the foreigner see the event - but hey! - I have seen worse in China. Fist fights usually occur between members of the 'Gentle' sex. This was the 2nd time in 7 years I have seen males fighting. I have lost track of the number of 'fairer sex' fights. Gotta watch those Chinese women!
Feb 2, 2010 - 12:10:58 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Hot Air from Brisbane: Snow and Ice in Baotou
The park constructed alongside the water catchment is quite interesting, but it had no WC's! (Yes that was me furtively lurking about under the bridge - won't tell you what I was doing!)
Feb 1, 2010 - 12:15:03 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Flexible Lies: 21st Century Truth
The 21st century will go down in history (unless that history is totally rewritten) as the most racist of all time, and all in the name of 'non-discrimination' and despite all the well intentioned rhetoric spruiked in the name of secular humanity.
Jan 23, 2010 - 4:15:11 AM
R.P. BenDedek
My Dear Teacher - Letters from Chinese Students
Are you on MSN now, if you are free at this moment, how about say" Hello" to me there, as I actually have lots of word to talk to you! Hehe, please be assured that I am off duty today and working in the apartment, as the power in our company will be off within the whole day! So if when you are free sometime, please kindly contact me!
Jan 7, 2010 - 12:10:29 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Not before the Fat Lady Sings Please!
The show itself was predominantly orchestral, but with a couple of singers thrown in, and a Mongolian performance of the Ma Tou Qin or Horse Head String.
Jan 2, 2010 - 12:30:29 AM
R.P. BenDedek
'Buyer Beware': ETS One World Tax
Is Global Warming just a money making venture for scientists, the United Nations and Totalitarian regimes who hitertofore kept their countries poor and are now racing to catch up?
Jan 1, 2010 - 12:24:25 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Letter from My Sister: In for the Money
So now I have deposited $31.55 on your credit card and stolen $11 from your credit card. So who are you going to sue? Me for stealing from your credit card or the bank for paying it when you didn't authorise it? or maybe both!
Dec 31, 2009 - 12:10:34 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Men and Inexcusible Behaviour
Today, research is casting doubt on the myth of the innocent female. That is not a pleasant prospect for the Feminist movement. Destroy the myth and you destroy the political power base of the movement.
Dec 29, 2009 - 12:07:34 AM
R.P. BenDedek
"Merry Christmas" is making a come back
All we do is offend the great majority of our residents by this politically correct nonsense and watering down of the historically accurate view of Christmas.
Dec 22, 2009 - 12:15:08 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Nocturnal Visitors and other strange things.
While we foreigners might think life in China is often exotic and strange, just stop for a moment and imagine what the Chinese must think of us.
Dec 12, 2009 - 9:19:00 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Da Xiong Mao Ji Di : Sichuan Province Panda Reserve
Giant pandas are more endangered than ever since the 2008 Sichuan earthquake... 23 percent of the pandas' habitat in the study area was destroyed, and fragmentation of the remaining habitat could hinder panda reproduction.
Dec 5, 2009 - 1:32:01 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Shifting Historical Perspectives?
The worst of the bunch however, are those who prefer to rewrite history to suit their own political ideologies. In that endeavour, it makes no 'nevermind' whether it is Islamic rewriting of history, or the secularist anti-God, anti-Judeo/Christian who does the writing. The end result is the same: We are deceived about our own history, and our faith is undermined.
Dec 2, 2009 - 12:19:58 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Faroe Island Denmark Whale Slaughter Culture
I include only the first photo so that you can get some idea of what it might have been like. (The rest can be found on the website mentioned.) Under the photograph is the spiel that is requested to be sent around the world to stop this slaughter of whales.
Nov 24, 2009 - 1:22:33 AM
R.P. BenDedek
America's Never Ending Story
It's time to stop the 'Deja-Vu' of past mistakes. It's time to take a good hard look at where we have been and where we are headed. If we don't, we may find ourselves somewhere that we don't want to be.
Nov 16, 2009 - 12:07:25 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Media Psychoses and a Mental Press
With live in a very technological age, and information flows fast and free, but often we do not take the time to put that information into perspective. For this reason I have written many articles on the issue of Truth and Media.
Nov 10, 2009 - 12:14:56 AM
R.P. BenDedek
China, Google or Webhosting affects KingsCalendar
Well what sort of nonsense is that? The interesting thing though, is, that the last person to access Kingscalendar before it stopped working, was a Hong Kong Internet provider!
Nov 9, 2009 - 5:00:03 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Google Political Control
As China's 'Democratic' posturing increases, it will surely come to be seen as more and more incongruent to the common man, in view of such stringent Media censorship. If it ever comes to a 'show down', one wonders who and what will be left standing when the dust settles.
Nov 7, 2009 - 9:19:03 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Egyptian Coins 'Prove' Joseph in Egypt.
Joseph's name appears twice on this coin, written in hieroglyphs: once the original name, Joseph, and once his Egyptian name, Saba Sabani, which was given to him by Pharaoh when he became treasurer.
Nov 1, 2009 - 2:19:50 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Politics and Realities.
I wonder what would happen if the USA was coming under daily rocket fire from, oh - I don't know - say - Cuba? Would the United Nations be heaping scorn on President Obama for defending himself?
Oct 29, 2009 - 10:00:32 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Human Rights and Social Engineering
This type of argument about being 'behind the times' is often used, but as my own home state has discovered to it's detriment, 'keeping up with the times' often results in social catastrophe. (One week to Gay vote in Maine)
Oct 28, 2009 - 9:33:43 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Thankfully Starting Over
Sometimes, we just have to 'blast the granite' into which we are set, and get ourselves free so as not to waste, (as Nan Russell put it), 'enormous effort producing something inherently flawed'.
Oct 21, 2009 - 12:10:36 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Bible Confusion 734 - 722 BCE
One thing is certain however, that the only chronological error is 2 Kings 15:27 which gives Pekah a 20 year reign, and that the redactors were a little confused about which events applied to which kings.
Oct 20, 2009 - 1:30:19 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Domestic Violence against Men
Reproduced with permission of it's Author, is an email concerning a student's research into the issue of 'Domestic Violence Against Men'.
Oct 17, 2009 - 10:08:18 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Blindspots in the Workplace
I have this week viewed the documentary, 'Blindspot: Hitler's Secretary', and found it riveting. What a powerful story. Our opinions of people are based on 'snapshots' of them in certain situations. Through Frau Junge's story, we can see that sometimes, those who appear to be the nicest of people, are in fact monsters, and that those who claim to be acting 'for our benefit', are doing us the greatest harm and putting us in the greatest danger.
Oct 15, 2009 - 12:51:25 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Toxic Bosses and Chinese Friendship in Baotou
I don't do it for the money. I don't do it to be altruistic. I am very selfish in why I remain teaching in China. I do it because it makes me feel alive, and no nasty toxic boss like Cui Lirong can change that.
Oct 12, 2009 - 8:45:06 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Management Lies in EET Baotou
The Australian former employee of EET was apparently in the process of talking to some of the parents of his former students the other day, when they received a telephone call from EET management saying that the staff member had had to return to Australia, but that he would be back on October 17th.
Oct 11, 2009 - 1:06:16 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Racism in Canadian - Taiwan Venture in Inner Mongolia.
"Their decision not to employ 'non white' staff in EET Baotou was based in the expressed attitudes and sentiments of the people of Baotou."
Oct 8, 2009 - 12:42:46 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Thanks and Apologies to Magic City Contributing writers.
I want to thank those writers who had sent me copies of their work, and I wish to apologise to Wm Fankboner for not yet having had time to amend one of his previous articles. My first priority has been to get new articles published.
Oct 7, 2009 - 1:01:36 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Canadian Hospital Deal associated with Slave-like working conditions in China.
Low pay, excessive extra working hours without pay, canceled days off without pay, and other emotional and psychological mistreatment of staff has resulted in high turnover of staff.
Oct 7, 2009 - 12:43:54 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Canadian Nursing School in Inner Mongolia caught up in International dispute.
Young people will pay huge sums of money to be taught basic nursing and English language skills, so as to qualify for special Canadian Government schemes to bring foreigners to Canada to work in Canadian Hospitals.
Oct 6, 2009 - 11:53:14 PM
R.P. BenDedek
Canadian Doctor in workplace dispute in China
The two principals of a Nurses Training venture in Baotou Inner Mongolia China are currently in a dispute with a former Australian Staff Member in the EET Students English Training Center... low pay, excessive extra working hours without pay, canceled days off without pay, and other emotional and psychological mistreatment of staff by (Dr.) Cui Lirong, has resulted in high turnover of staff.
Oct 5, 2009 - 12:06:36 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Taiwan - Canadian Venture in China in trouble.
It is also reported that not even the Chinese staff like working for the company, as to date, the longest serving Chinese member of staff has only been with the company for two months. The rest of the staff have been employed for less than one month. Whilst their language school venture ostensibly provides English tutoring for Chinese Students, their business interests also involve the opening of a 'nurses training school', to provide basic nursing training to young women so that they may qualify for positions in Canadian hospitals or Nursing Schools.
Oct 4, 2009 - 11:45:02 PM
R.P. BenDedek
Update on BenDedek in Baotou
On the downside, Baotou is currently suffering from Swine Flu - H1N1 is it? Schools have closed down earlier than intended for National Day festivities, with some schools in lockdown. Gossip is rampant but I have no hard facts about the number of deaths.
Sep 30, 2009 - 6:47:21 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Interruption to publishing at Magic
This much at least I have been prepared for since I contacted the Australian Embassy a month ago, and informed them of not just the insane and 'slave like' conditions I was working under, but the actual verbal threats of what could happen to a foreigner who causes too much trouble for Chinese people.
Sep 27, 2009 - 7:40:33 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Multiculturalism: The Loss of Culture
We in our western democracies share an abhorrence for communism and other totalitarian regimes, but it seems that as long as we sugar coat our 'loss of freedoms', we really don't mind living in totalitarian societies. We like to believe that we are a free and democratic society that is very egalitarian and accepting of others, but it is my belief that our thinking and many of our cultural beliefs are no less a result of 'political and media propaganda', than are those of people raised in totalitarian states.
Sep 27, 2009 - 7:16:28 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Competing Agendas vs. Multiculturalism
One group of activists who will do anything to devalue 'men' (fathers, and grandfathers), are the feminazis, and although many do not realise it, activism itself has a heirachy of power, with the feminists at the top. No where was this better demonstrated in Australia than in relation to some comments made about women by a Muslim Sheik. In that instance, we saw the power of feminism trump political correctness and multiculturalism.
Sep 26, 2009 - 2:22:28 AM
R.P. BenDedek
Hypocrisy in Multiculturalism
As demonstration of a how 'non accepting' society is of 'ethnic culture', I bring to your attention a recent article which will disturb many people I am sure, but if you can take your focus off the actual 'fact of the matter', and look at the principle of the matter, which is to say of 'multiculturalism, racism and political correctness', you must at the very least, recognise that so much of the spiel about 'racism and multiculturalism' is hypocritical.
Sep 25, 2009 - 12:19:17 AM
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