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In Raqqa, gays now throw jihadis off buildings

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Well, that’s probably an exaggeration. Shoot them, more likely Is the story true, or fake news? Funny and poignant if it is, still funny if […]

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Posted on July 20, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHEN THE DEVIL GIVES YOU AID – The Arab people throughout the Middle East are indoctrinated from the cradle to view Israel as the greatest […]

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Posted on July 18, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

WALKING WHILE UNCOVERED – Hey Western feminists, stop for a second fantasising about how “Handmaid’s Tale” is just like Trump’s America (and it was written […]

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Posted on July 10, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ – The Iraqi forces have declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, as AFP declares victory for Obama: The Iraqi military’s hard-fought […]

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Posted on July 5, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

JIHAD FOR FUN AND PROFIT – Nice for some: Canada’s Liberal government will apologise to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr and pay him around […]

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Posted on July 3, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

INTERSECTIONALITY OF PALESTINIAN IDIOCY – The “rally” looks pretty unimpressive, despite its prime location, but I strongly suspect these sorts of views are worryingly representative […]

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Posted on June 13, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT’S ALL OUR FAULT, PART 567 – Case 1: Iranian Parliament gets hit by ISIS terrorists. Who does the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blame? […]

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Posted on June 11, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

DID THEY BAG DADDY? – Another round of unconfirmed reports that the ISIS head had been cut off so to speak: Syrian state television has […]

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Posted on June 8, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

DO WE ALSO #PRAYFORTEHERAN? – Some “green-on-green” terrorist violence in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Iran has blamed Saudi Arabia for an […]

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Saudi Arabia versus Iran – if only both sides could lose

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

Henry Kissinger famously said about the Iraq-Iran War of 1980-88 that it was one of those wars he wished both sides could lose. The conflict […]

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Posted on June 1, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

JUST A REMINDER… – It’s not just Manchester. If you follow the news, you would of course be familiar with these outrages, but just to […]

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Posted on May 29, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

ONE IN FOUR JIHADIS ARE STEMM STUDENTS – Technical professions and terrorism seem to historically go hand in hand, and now we have another confirmation: […]

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Posted on May 27, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE COPTS KEEP GETTING SLAUGHTERED – More tragic news from Egypt: Masked gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians south of the Egyptian […]

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While you were sleeping…

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

…American armour – in Syria – is interposing itself as a shield between Turkey and the American backed Syrian Kurdish rebels: U.S. armored vehicles are […]

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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 […]

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No longer Turkish Delight

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

President Erdogan sometime ago (in)famously (and approvingly) compared the constitutional “reforms” he desired to those of Hitler’s circa 1933-4. Thanks to a small majority of […]

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Happy Easter War everyone!

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Arthur Chrenkoff

That disturbing sound you’re hearing is alt-right, populists and isolationists crying themselves to sleep. How’s that whole Trump thing going? So far he seems to […]

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