A fascinating update, courtesy of Pew Research Center, on attitudes towards the United States around the world, best summarised in this table: It’s personally interesting to note that Poland is the …
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Nothing good ever comes of when these two take interest in something: The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, …
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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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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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Tell us something we don’t know The Daily Chrenk, I can hear my readers saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no matter how used I am now …
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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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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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A few weeks ago I wrote a longish blog post arguing that for many people in the developed world environmentalism has become a religion, filling up the gap in spirituality left …
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Yawn. Reliable, like clockwork: The UN has called for a global “green new deal” and overhaul of the world’s financial order to tackle climate change and deliver on its Agenda …
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…and made them cry. Apparently: A Prime Minister has been brought to tears over Australia’s stalled efforts around climate change. Wrapping up the Pacific Island Forum held this week in …
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A team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex have produced a new way of measuring the relative well-being of both sexes (yes, only two, according …
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Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …
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Donald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …
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…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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Last year, major Australian supermarkets have stopped using thin plastic bags to save the environment from more pollution. I don’t know about others, but I’m still using plastic bags as …
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Zero Hedge reprints a blog post by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream titled “Why Does The Mainstream Media Purposely Ignore Mass Killings Of Christians Across The …
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Hillary Brit is The Daily Chrenk’s European correspondent. Brexit. What a word. Half noun, half verb. The word inflicts grammatical torture on my ears every time I hear it. But …
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I’m a globalist, you are a globalist, everyone’s a globalist (the term I don’t particularly rate, since like “neo-conservative” in the last decade, it has become a little more than …
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Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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Note: Apologies for the continuing sporadic blogging as the internet issues at The Daily Chrenk HQ sadly continue. After I came to Australia and started high school, I joined my …
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