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February 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NUCLEAR WINTER OLYMPICS – CNN hearts She-Kim: Kim Jong Un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics https://t.co/ian9ZiurVm pic.twitter.com/fBXuFEyXAj — CNN International (@cnni) February 10, 2018 If “diplomatic …

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January 15, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT’S ALL OUR FAULT – It always is: We've got to understand that North Korea is holding onto these nuclear weapons because they think it is their only protection from …

Politics

Talking straight about shithole countries

January 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Trump is in trouble for using unpresidential and undiplomatic but very Trumpian language: President Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti …

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January 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DISPLEASING TSAR VALDIMIR – In the post-Soviet Russia, it’s not the leaders whose sanity is questioned, but those who question the leaders: A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader …

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Anti-FaComIS

January 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Yesterday, on my morning walk through my quiet and semi-leafy neighbourhood of Wooloowin, in the outer inner north of Brisbane, Australia, I was confronted by an unexpected sight. Overnight, someone …

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January 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FIFTY SHADES OF KIM – Good news from North Korea: The light-grey suit and matching tie that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un donned for his New Year’s address was likely …

Culture / Politics

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

December 31, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A lifetime ago, a charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band Aid made the UK recording history. Released on 3 December 1984, by the last day of the …

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December 29, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GUARDIAN’S “UTOPIAN THINKING” – Abi wants your money: Step 1: Work your whole life, with the government taking a large proportion of your earnings and spending most of it to fund welfare and other …

Culture / Politics

Star Wars has always been a leftie fantasy

December 19, 2017December 20, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The latest of the Disney “Star Wars” franchise is out, and it’s already dividing the audiences – and not just on its artistic and storytelling merits. Scanning the media commentary, …

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December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ALWAYS OUR FAULT – Sometimes, according to “The New York Times”, hunger just mysteriously happens, like an act of God, in Venezuela, for example. Other times, hunger happens and it’s …

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December 18, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SOCIALISM. NOT EVEN ONCE – A harrowing photo essay and news story from Venezuela, once the richest country in South America: “Sometimes they die in your arms just from dehydration.” …

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December 7, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FIFTY YEARS MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE – Pew Research Centre asked 43,000 people in 38 countries: The biggest “better” – the country which is slowly extricating itself from communism. The …

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December 4, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

KOW-TOWING TO CHINA’S MASTERS OF THE INTERNET – Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook made his first appearance at China’s World Internet Conference, using the surprise keynote to call …

Politics

December 4, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SOCIALISTS, BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS – One simple graph that explains everything for “all the idiots out there with no idea what socialism is”, like myself, I guess: Left-wing capitalism …

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December 2, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SOROS HYPERVENTILATES – The philanthropist (aka political campaigner) makes it so very hard not to consider him to be a knob: Oppression of the opposition by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s …

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Young people are f***ing morons

November 3, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Forty-four per cent of Millennials would to prefer to live in a socialist country, 7 per cent in a communist country and 7 per cent in a fascist one. Only …

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“No farmer, no food”

November 1, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

We have all probably seen this or a similar slogan at some point in our lives, sported on a t-shirt by a cowboy (or in Australia, an akubra) hat-wearing, weather-beaten, …

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One hundred years of double standards: why communism still gets better press than Nazism

October 30, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This month, we remember the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’etat, popularly misnamed the Russian Revolution (the real Russian revolution, abolishing the monarchy and introducing democracy, took place in …

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Dear Jong

October 20, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

North Korean parliamentarians (I’ll give you a moment to chuckle at that concept), or more precisely, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, have officially written to …

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Happy Che Execution Day!

October 10, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

How could I have forgotten this grand and round – the 50th – anniversary? At “The Nation”, the former terrorist (“activist”) and Barack Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers, and a leftie …