The Great Malaise
A Great Malaise is haunting the world. It is partly an economic illness, and partly a state of mind. The two are related, and bound to each other in a …
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The Daily Chrenk helpful travel hint: don’t rub your genitals and ass on a foreign flag
Why oh why did I have to come back to Australia only to find out that the number one item on every news bulletin today is the story of the …
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In defence of Wyatt “Earp” Roy
Yeah, I know; who would have thought I would ever write a blog post with this title. We truly live in strange times, and 2016 never ceases to surprise. As …
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Concerned about climate change? Don’t have children
Travis Rieder is a moral philosophy and bioethics professor at Johns Hopkins University. In his new short book, “Towards a Small Family Ethicâ€, he posits that if we want to …
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Fat is an Anglo-Saxon issue
It’s been two and a half weeks in Europe now, three countries, about dozen cities and towns ranging from 3.5 million to 1000 inhabitants in size, in the course of …
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Atlantis of climate change alarmism
It’s this time of the year; another Pacific Island Forum annual conference opens, this time in Pohnpei. The Forum is a regional talking shop of Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian island …
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1 September 1939
The peace was shattered with no warning, in the darkness before the dawn. In a space of minutes, just after 4:40 AM, bombs destroyed three quarters of a little town …
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On the road again…
…just can’t wait to get on the road again, as the old song goes. Well, kind of, tampered as my travel desires are by the chronic fatigue deciding to play …
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The Outrage Olympics
Whenever a news story contains words “sparked outrage on social media†I know with about 98% certainty that it will turn out to be absolute bullshit. Over the past decade …
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It’s time for a Kurdish state
It is perhaps the greatest travesty of the Middle Eastern geo-politics, if not the international geo-politics, that the Kurds don’t have their own state. It is a travesty because apart …
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A modest proposal to solve the European refugee crisis
Anyone can become a refugee. According to a United Nations Refugee Convention definition, refugee is anyone who cannot remain in their own country because of a well-founded fear of persecution …
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Time to stop funding the Clinton Foundation?
Revelations about the Clintons’ donations-for-favours scandal continue with a new batch of leaked emails: Hillary Clinton put the State Department up for sale, with top aides pulling strings and doing …
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Welcome to the 2024 Paris Olympics
Malia Obama: Good morning and welcome to CNN’s live coverage of the opening ceremony of the Games of the 23rd Olympiad. Lena Dunham: It’s good to be here with you, …
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Trump vs Hillary – your short foreign policy guide
Foreign policy can be confusing. Political candidates’ foreign policy positions can be even more confusing. Confused? Fret not; here is your Daily Chrenk’s short guide to Donald Trump’s and Hillary …
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The zombie candidacy of Kevin Rudd
Just like the man himself, Kevin Rudd’s candidacy for the United Nations’ Secretary General position refuses to die and stay buried, as it deserves to, with a stake through the …
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Make Russia Great Again
I simply love waking up to headlines like “Russia Could Invade Poland ‘Overnight’”: The Atlantic think tank warns: “Even if Moscow currently has no immediate intent to challenge NATO directly, …
Read More In 2016 Make Rudd History
The feel-good story of the day in an otherwise dark dark world: Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has taken the critical step of requesting Australian government support for his bid …
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One World Government – it begins in Brisbane
Dresden has recently hosted the Bilderberg group meeting, causing the conspiracy theorists’ and anti-globalists’ heads to spin again (how many global conspiracies publish their guest lists online? Yep, they are …
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The Great Malaise: First the US and the UK, France next
We are living in the midst of the Great Malaise, the time of cynicism, disenchantment and distrust. The elites are revolting against the masses and the masses are revolting against …
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Democracy and its discontents
In Winston Churchill’s famous formulation, democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others. Not that we haven’t tried throughout history: monarchy, oligarchy, autocracy, theocracy, even the …
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