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Month: September 2016

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Happiness / Life / Politics

Paris needs love

September 13, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Between where I stepped off a train from Rotterdam at Gare du Nord and the end of the platform I counted some forty French police officers. Cool, I thought, I …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

September 11 in Holland’s largest Muslim city

September 12, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s fifteen years today since four terrorist teams composed of mainly Saudi citizens under orders from Al Qaeda attacked America with her own planes. I decided to spend this day …

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Politics

Vote 1 Pirate!

September 12, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

After getting humiliated in the Macklenburg-Vorprommen state elections on Sunday, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats face another challenge in the local poll in Berlin in a week’s time. Though at least …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

FU Marx and Engels: the capitalist vs the communist Berlin

September 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Berlin is a mutilated city. So much of it has been destroyed, so much of it has been rebuilt, so much of it has not been rebuilt, so much of …

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Politics

Happy 40 years of rotting in hell, Mao

September 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Time flies when you’re not causing deaths of tens of millions of your compatriots. China’s “Global Times” reports from Shaoshan where thousands of people have gathered to remember the village’s …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

From the Berlin Wall to the Checkpoint Charlie

September 9, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I have on my desk a little piece of the Berlin Wall that a friend brought back for me from a visit some years ago. It’s a flat chunk, about …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

Berlin at night

September 8, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

When you jump on a plane in Brisbane and fly for over an hour, you get to Canberra. When you jump on a plane in Rotterdam and fly for over …

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Politics

Atlantis of climate change alarmism

September 8, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s this time of the year; another Pacific Island Forum annual conference opens, this time in Pohnpei. The Forum is a regional talking shop of Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian island …

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How we stopped worrying about the financial apocalypse and started to enjoy life (beyond our means)

September 7, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Malcolm Farr asks the question this afternoon, “How does the Coalition sell its budget cuts when our economy continues to grow?” The short answer is: not very well. As Farr …

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Happiness / Life

Who discovered Australia?

September 7, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Who discovered Australia? Depends what you mean by “discover”. The Indigenous people got there first, of course, though without having a sense of inhabiting a continent or the knowledge of …

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Politics

Can you run the Dutch oven on renewables?

September 6, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

News from Holland to warm one’s heart and the atmosphere: Dutch greenhouse gas emissions rose by 5 per cent in 2015 from a year earlier, Statistics Netherlands says, again highlighting …

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Polygamy – the next big thing

September 6, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The titillating chatter about the new internet “dating” site Polygamy.com hides some bigger truths. The site is a brainchild of Azad Chaiwala, 33-year-old entrepreneur of Pakistani ancestry, living in Manchester. …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

Sisters of Mercy and the sisterhood of no mercy

September 5, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

For a tiny Albanian woman who devoted her life to ministering to the poor, Mother Teresa of Calcutta has proven to be a controversial new saint, though not so much …

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Happiness / Life

The 7 most important discoveries I made about Holland in the first 24 hours

September 5, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

1.There is an abundance of very attractive blonde women. No offence to any Dutch readers but Holland does not have any particular international reputation for hot women the way some …

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Politics

Russia criminalises history – again

September 3, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

People often ask me why I pick on Russia. OK, no one actually asks me that, and in any case in the ranking of all the things I pick on …

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There is terrorism in Europe – should I turn around and come back home?

September 2, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s just after 11pm and I’m sitting at the Cathay Pacific Lounge at the Hong Kong airport, waiting for my quarter-past-midnight flight to Amsterdam, and reflecting whether I should turn …

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Politics

1 September 1939

September 1, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The peace was shattered with no warning, in the darkness before the dawn. In a space of minutes, just after 4:40 AM, bombs destroyed three quarters of a little town …

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