Interesting.
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Month: August 2023
Bettina Arndt: Is BHP discrimining against men?
Interesting. An extract:
Over the years, I have received a steady stream of emails from people in the mining industry, alarmed at what is going on. See this story from a man who was doing plumbing training with another apprentice who happened to be female and indigenous:
“Someone from BHP HR phoned her directly and begged her to come on board as the first female plumbing indigenous apprentice. She said she didn’t really want to but BHP kept phoning and eventually she took it. When I asked, ‘What do you actually do?’ she said that they gave her a house in the town not in the mine site, a brand-new Mercedes van, all rent and living expenses all paid for. She only had to work weekdays 7am to 3pm, just driving around changing tap washers all day at worker bathrooms. Her salary was $90,000 which for an apprentice is huge. As you finish your training we want to promote you immediately to supervisor, they said. She was telling me all this with a smile on her face. This boils my piss. Juxtapose that to the young guys in the class working long hours in filthy conditions in Perth earning next to no money.”
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Craziness only attractive in hot women
True.
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Pearl Davis: Modern Women Need HOROSCOPE SIGNS To Make IMPORTANT DECISIONS
Enjoy (video, 15:50).
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Helen Skelton has revealed on air that her BBC Radio 5 Live show on Sunday was her last, saying she wants to spend more time with her children.
A tip of the hat to Helen Skelton for this.
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Uganda: Evil Men Threaten Human Rights by Getting Paternity Tests for Their Kids
Our thanks to Gerry for this. It links to and critiques a recent BBC piece, which ends with this:
Microbiologist Freddie Bwanga said the state laboratory where he works has not seen a major increase in requests for testing, but greater awareness now exists around the issue.
His experience over the years shows that 60-70% of tests prove a biological link between the father and child.
As for the 30% to 40% who found they were not, the outcome was often beneficial in “helping children to be settled where they are born”.
And, some would argue, testing is better than relying on age-old cultural practices – like smearing cow fat on the umbilical cord, and putting it in a woven basket filled with water.
If it then floats – a cultural researcher pointed out to Uganda’s Monitor newspaper – it means the child belonged to the family.
But Uganda’s state minister for primary health care said there was no need for men to seek paternity tests.
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Australia mushroom deaths accidental, says (female) cook
A piece on the BBC website. Extracts:
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The Australian woman who cooked a beef Wellington using mushrooms which killed three relatives and left one critical has told police it was an accident. Erin Patterson, who is not facing charges, has provided a statement of events to police, local media report. The police believe the victims had eaten death cap mushrooms, which are lethal if ingested. In her statement, Ms Patterson said she had used some dried mushrooms but did not know they were poisonous. “I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,” [J4MB translation: … these mushrooms killed my relatives] said the 48-year old. “I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people, whom I loved.”… Speaking to reporters outside her home in the immediate aftermath of the incident, Ms Patterson had stated her innocence – but declined to answer questions about what meals were served to which guests, or where the mushrooms had come from. “I now very much regret not answering some questions following [my lawyer’s] advice, given the nightmare that this process has become,” she said, in her statement to police. In her statement she also admitted lying to authorities about a food dehydrator seized by police from a local tip during investigations last week. She said she had been questioned by her estranged husband as to whether she had poisoned his parents, and so panicked and disposed of the dehydrator as she was worried she might lose custody of their children.A reminder, she’s not facing charges!!!
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Paul Elam responds to the Southern Poverty Law Center
Interesting.
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Censorship by The Times: “Your comment has been rejected as it does not align with our Community Guidelines”
About five hours ago I posted some comments in relation to a piece in today’s Times (I’ve long been a subscriber) about the poor performance of the GP service, and published a blog piece on the matter. After a time it was deleted. Ever the optimist, I posted the same comments again, and maybe six or seven minutes later it was deleted, and I got this message from a moderator.
The paper’s Community Guidelines, with which my comments allegedly don’t “align”, are here. I shall write to the moderator to ask for an explanation of exactly which guidelines are allegedly flouted.
The guidelines were drawn up in 2017. This one in particular could have been written to ensure feminist censorship of the paper’s comments streams:
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2. Choose your words carefully and do not use language that is threatening or offensive to any individual or groups. Understand that words which you deem acceptable may be offensive to others.I find many things published by the paper offensive – articles written by feminists including Caitlin Moran, for a start – but I wouldn’t dream of seeking censorship of the related comments streams.
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Staring Blankly Into Space: Netflix, NASA, and the Bigger Picture
An excellent piece by David Solway, Janice Fiamengo’s husband. His Wiki page is here.
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Justice for Men & Boys 