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Kiribati – still not drowning, waving

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Islands, particularly Pacific islands, are the poster children of environmental catastrophe or alarmism, depending on your attitude towards the issue of man-made climate change. Like the […]

Politics

Mr Trump Goes to Warsaw

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

The eagle has landed, late in the evening and without much fanfare. Greeted on the tarmac of Frederick Chopin International Airport in Warsaw by only […]

Politics

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE UN VERSUS SEXIST ADS – People of the world rejoice! Having achieved world piece, ended hunger, eliminated poverty, resettled refugees, vanquished disease and stopped […]

Politics

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION – SHOW ME THE MONEY! – A few weeks ago I’ve written about the absurdity of “cultural appropriation” and undesirability of cultural ghettofication. […]

Culture, Politics

Culturally appropriating Wonder Woman

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Some time ago I blogged about how the communist China censors the Hollywood blockbusters we see, or rather how Hollywood preemptively censors itself in order […]

Culture, Politics

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

THOSE POOR ENCIRCLED RUSSIANS – An “independent Lebanese geopolitical commentator” Sarah Abdallah asks an important question: https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/858707189359366145 Maybe because Poland and the Baltic states have […]

Politics

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

BECAUSE THE MOST FEMINIST RELIGION – And because the United States operates according to moral, cultural, political and sovereign equivalence; we’re all equal – except […]

Politics

Make them spend

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

For a supposedly great communicator and negotiator, Trump has great problems with English language, distracting and detracting from the political points he is trying to […]

Politics

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRIVATISING CRUSADES – Throughout the Middle East in particular, the last remaining Christian communities, which managed to survive there for almost two thousand years, are […]

Politics

For God and Empire 2.0

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Why argue about a policy on its merits when instead you can call it emotive names and thus shut down the discussion? The latest example […]

Politics

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

IS THE POPE CATHOLIC? – I don’t know, but he’s definitely a socialist. The whole world is topsy turvy; the bear probably doesn’t shit in […]

Politics

#OccupyVatican

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

You can take a cleric out the Marxist South American Liberation Theology – and make him a Pope in Rome, for example – but you […]

Politics

Immigration – a right or a privilege?

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Halts, bans and restrictions on immigration from Muslim countries might – or might not – be a right, good and effective policy, but they’re proving […]

Politics

I’ve got 21 beaches but the Gold Coast ain’t one

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another international ranking, another slap in the face of Queensland (“beautiful one day, perfect the next”). My local pride does not allow me to take […]

Happiness, Life

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

SWANNING AROUND THE UN – In an Australian fairy-tale of the past few decades, he was an ugly duckling from Queensland who turned into a […]

Politics

San Escobar offers Assange political asylum

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

America has “fake news”; Poland has got “fake countries”. And The Daily Chrenk has fake news about fake countries. This is the biggest and funniest […]

Life, Politics