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Ukraine (updated)

February 24, 2022February 25, 2022 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Disjointed thoughts at a tragic time, progressively updated: Putin is invading Ukraine – not just sending “peacekeepers” into the breakaway pro-Russia regions in the east of the country – in …

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Politics

Want to save the planet, go nuclear

September 28, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Amidst general gloom and doom, a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation does not work. This from polling published today by Essential about Australian …

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Politics

Heroes of Zero

September 6, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly extreme nature of the circumstances they relate to. To paraphrase Barry Goldwater, …

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Politics

Good News from the Atmosphere

February 12, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism (or, rather, according to the new guidelines, climate crisis or …

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Politics

A very good question indeed

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The former Labor Environment Minister, and a wistful reminder of the time when Labor had serious politicians, Graham Richardson, asks a very good question: Just how did Australia fall from a …

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Politics

Feeling like we are doing something

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Politics

China DGAF, the left oblivious

December 4, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Politics

Poland to go nuclear

November 20, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Politics

How dare he!

October 11, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It seems like Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali stole even more of Greta Thunberg’s childhood by winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, beating the 16-year old Swedish Apocalyptic who seemed …

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Politics

Implementing Greta

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I have written before about the actual policy proposals supported by Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strike initiative, which they see as necessary in order to “save the planet”. …

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Politics

When Greta goes to Guangzhou

September 22, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The climate change activism, and in particular, its more hysterical Extinction Rebellion/School Strike “we’re all going to die” variety, are very much a Western phenomenon, despite the issue of climate …

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Politics

Pity they can’t both lose, part II

September 17, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In case you’re not a Middle Eastern politics nerd, I borrowed the title of this post from Henry Kissinger’s famous (at least in the Middle Eastern politics nerd circles) comment …

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Politics

If I could have everyone read just one thing about climate change policy…

July 21, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

…this could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average-op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg distills all the elements of the argument he has been making for …

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Politics

Dire Straits of Hormuz

June 22, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

What if Iran wanted to provoke a war and nobody came? A growing consensus among smart people* seems to be that Donald Trump should not let himself be drawn into …

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Culture / Politics

Chernobyl versus nuclear power

June 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I don’t know whether it was the intention of the creators of HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series to scare the viewers’ pants off about the nuclear technology (I do know it was …

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Politics

Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?

March 14, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …

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Politics

Farewell to Carbs

February 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …

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Politics

Green Deal, Gone Girl

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …

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WTF

Radioactive mutant wolves of Chernobyl

December 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Where would we be without tabloids to inform us about important scientific news? Scientists fear wolves living in Chernobyl’s radioactive forbidden zone may be spreading mutant genes across Europe. The …

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Politics

“We require deep transformations of our economies and societies”, Part 3

December 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Once you see it once, you start seeing it everywhere: New York City’s incoming socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says there will only be benefits, and no costs, to passing a …

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The friend of my enemy is not my enemy

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