Dr Scherenkoss, I presume?
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian journalist at ABC, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and I cut and pasted it because I’m very likely to …
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Ultraviolet Wrong Because Orange Man Bad
This is an incredible story of science versus the political-media complex: I ran an obscure pharmaceutical company until a few days ago. Then we got famous. Early in the Covid-19 …
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COVID killed the radio star: the winners and the losers of the viralmageddon
Joel Kotkin, a sensible urbanist (rare, I know), has been sounding an alarm about the hollowing out of our economy and our society for a while now. His news book, The …
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We’re fine but the world is going to hell
According to Gallup, Donald Trump has been Making America Happy – or Happier – Again. Well, of course they don’t frame the issue like that, but the results of their …
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Is Australia still there?
Myself, as well as other people with families and friends overseas, are getting concerned and panicky messages to check if we’re safe in light of the catastrophic megafires that have …
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ABC’s Secret Life of Us
ABC has recently released its new editorial guidance note on “Hate Speech, Terrorism and Mass Killing”. While the document is rich in comedic possibilities, one part of it in particular …
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Who’s your Baghdaddy? A tale in five obituaries
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, having blown himself and his three children up while being chased …
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Fake news – not just an American problem
Earlier this week, Conservative Polish President, Andrzej Duda, took time during his visit to the United Nations to meet with a group of Jewish leaders – resulting in a story titled …
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1619 and all that
A very good piece from Andrew Sullivan about “The New York Times Magazine” and it’s “1619 Project”, which dismissed the entire history of European settlement in North America as a …
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No Good News From Anywhere
Is it the media or is it us? It’s been a long running question at The Daily Chrenk and previous to that at the Chrenkoff blog. Bad news rules. Some …
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Epstein and Clinton, or the tale of two searches
I have written about the scumbag Jeffrey Epstein before; in any case, he’s all over the news again so you can get an update elsewhere. While everyone’s favourite ex-President, Bill …
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“Sharia Illustrated: The Swimsuit Edition”
In perhaps the most pointless piece of pandering to the gods of diversity and inclusivity, the venerable “Sports Illustrated” decides to cover up: Halima Aden makes history as the first …
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Christians pounce
We are truly back to business as usual, where the reaction to an event becomes more of a concern for the media than the event itself. First, of course, we’ve …
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Business as usual
It has not been a good Easter season this year. It started with a massive fire, which has almost destroyed one of the most famous churches in Christendom and it …
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The Collusion Delusion
I’ve always remained sceptical of the claims of conspiracies between Trump and Putin. It’s not because I’m a fan of Trump’s (and definitely not Putin’s). And it’s certainly not because …
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Are immigrants animals?
Of course not, but this has not stopped some in the social media and the mainstream media from twice in a space of a single year disingenuously misquoting the same …
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Ignoring the war on Christians – media bias or merely news as usual?
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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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
(The title with apologies to Milan Kundera who is probably spinning in his grave, seeing how the Western left has been culturally appropriating the (former) Eastern left’s strategies and tactics.) …
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ABC Barbie
Congratulations to Australian living legend Ita Buttrose (I only just realised what an otherwise unfortunate surname that is – I can only hope that it’s not, and will never be, …
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Journalist commits career suicide by stating the obvious
CBS News foreign correspondent and a 60 Minutes regular gets interviewed by a retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland for his podcast (a monster at 3 hours and 40 minutes) and in the …
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