Tag: asia
Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining
Everything old is new again. Thanks to Kim (Jong Un, not Kardashian for a change), the millennials can now experience what it is like to live in the shadow of …
Read More Holidays in hell
The death of Otto Warmbier six days after the North Korean authorities have released his near-comatose body to his parents demonstrates once again the salutary truth that in the year …
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Let God kill them all AND sort them out
Some very concerning news from our neighbour up north, where the outgoing governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, commonly known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years in jail for …
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North Korea versus Northern Territory
As the northernmost capital city of Australia, Darwin has had its share of bad luck, from the Japanese bombing in 1942, through Cyclone Tracy in 1972, to, well, being Darwin …
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How China censors your movies
Remember the outrage late last year about Matt Damon playing the lead role in “The Great Wall”? The movie’s trailer sparked criticism in the US that a white man had …
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Who’s your mummy? Who’s your daddy? World leaders and their missile envy
Feminists are right; there is something phallic about bombs and missiles, and something very guy-esque about the fascination with their, ahem, size, penetration ability, and explosive power. If you enter the …
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Happy Easter War everyone!
That disturbing sound you’re hearing is alt-right, populists and isolationists crying themselves to sleep. How’s that whole Trump thing going? So far he seems to be out-neocon-ing George W Bush, …
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House of War, House of Peace
The Islamic theology divides the world into two parts: Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb, or the House of Islam and the House of War. Sometimes, the House of …
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Penny’s fant-Asia, or even one Wong doesn’t make it right
God only knows what Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong actually meant by her recent remarks regarding Australia realigning itself with Asia over the (Trump-led) United States. And I’m …
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Leftist thugs and the academics who love them
You can call it Chrenkoff’s First Law of Politics: for every tinpot dick in the developing world there are always more than enough Western experts to excuse him as long …
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