September 11 in Holland’s largest Muslim city
It’s fifteen years today since four terrorist teams composed of mainly Saudi citizens under orders from Al Qaeda attacked America with her own planes. I decided to spend this day …
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Vote 1 Pirate!
After getting humiliated in the Macklenburg-Vorprommen state elections on Sunday, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats face another challenge in the local poll in Berlin in a week’s time. Though at least …
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FU Marx and Engels: the capitalist vs the communist Berlin
Berlin is a mutilated city. So much of it has been destroyed, so much of it has been rebuilt, so much of it has not been rebuilt, so much of …
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From the Berlin Wall to the Checkpoint Charlie
I have on my desk a little piece of the Berlin Wall that a friend brought back for me from a visit some years ago. It’s a flat chunk, about …
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Berlin at night
When you jump on a plane in Brisbane and fly for over an hour, you get to Canberra. When you jump on a plane in Rotterdam and fly for over …
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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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Who discovered Australia?
Who discovered Australia? Depends what you mean by “discoverâ€. The Indigenous people got there first, of course, though without having a sense of inhabiting a continent or the knowledge of …
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The 7 most important discoveries I made about Holland in the first 24 hours
1.There is an abundance of very attractive blonde women. No offence to any Dutch readers but Holland does not have any particular international reputation for hot women the way some …
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There is terrorism in Europe – should I turn around and come back home?
It’s just after 11pm and I’m sitting at the Cathay Pacific Lounge at the Hong Kong airport, waiting for my quarter-past-midnight flight to Amsterdam, and reflecting whether I should turn …
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(Non-censored) postcard from Hong Kong
As you drive on the highway from the airport to Hong Kong, about half way you pass by massive concrete pylons of what, when finished, will be the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau …
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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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Walking the Bloody Nose Ridge
They were hoping to take the island in four days. After all, there was not much to take, just an expanse of bleached coral, some 10 km long and 1.5 …
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Picture perfect
Travel is great. Everyone should do it. Thanks to the historically stunning rise of cheap transport more people than ever do it more often than ever before. For young people …
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Every news and commentary outlet needs a good slogan. All the news that’s fit to print. We report, you decide. Speaking for the Workers’ Party of Korea. For a while …
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