When Greta goes to Guangzhou, part 2
The shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
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Disunited Kingdom
With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results, let me sound a characteristic Daily Chrenk note of caution: …
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Feeling like we are doing something
An interesting exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the working class) and a writer and journalist Jane Caro (the wokeing class) about the forest fires and climate change: Put …
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18 chihuahuas or 14 cavoodles
So we have the long expected reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but they are bigger. They will most likely still employ …
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ABC’s Secret Life of Us
ABC has recently released its new editorial guidance note on “Hate Speech, Terrorism and Mass Killing”. While the document is rich in comedic possibilities, one part of it in particular …
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China DGAF, the left oblivious
The wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
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The Man in the High Kolkhoz
If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
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From Effect to Extinction: The great Climate Rhetoric Crisis
How old are you? I’m greenhouse old: I remember when it was all called the “greenhouse effect”, seemingly a lifetime ago. The first book I’ve read on the topic, still …
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Terrorist, criminal and a Pole with a whale
The story of the terrorist attack on the London Bridge, in which two people were stabbed to death and ten injured before the perpetrator was shot dead by the police …
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Avocado cartels
Because it’s 2019 and the world has gone crazy: The cartel members showed up in this verdant stretch of western Mexico armed with automatic weapons and chainsaws. Soon they were …
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Extinction Rebels with all the wrong causes
No one has been gluing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men and women haven’t been in the news lately. Take Roger: …
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China: Care about Uighurs? You must be a white supremacist
Somehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
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Poland to go nuclear
There was a real risk of that happening between 1945 and 1989 and not in a good way, but in the 21st century it’s all “atoms for peace”: After at …
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The Great Malaise continues
At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …
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The Deep State and the Shallow State
As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night (and woman’s, one might add). The same can be said about politics – …
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Revolution 2.0
Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up and overthrew the bourgeoisie. Because Marx has also foreseen that …
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From socialism and terrorism to feces and urine
If you thought that the streets of San Francisco drowning in human excrement were bad enough and a disincentive to visit, you’ve seen – and smelled – nothing yet, as …
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Polish Jesus starts transmitting internet
Happy 101st birthday to modern Poland, which regained its independence (briefly) as a result of World War One, after over a century of being partitioned and colonised by Russia, Prussia …
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The left – always getting the walls wrong
Yesterday we remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everyone, including The Daily Chrenk, has been excited about it, and now Italy’s Democratic Party is joining …
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Where were you when the walls came crashing down
It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …
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