The Brown Note

Incoming populist hard right Liberal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, does one thing no one on the left of politics can do - unite voters from the left and right, we both want him to be leader. After scraping through with pretend moderates for the last two elections, the Liberal party is responding to the rout of the populist hard right, both in media and politics, by going even further populist h...

On the very day Australia's toxic political news media were allegedly booted out of a Albanese press event BY THE JAPANESE, a look at how it was not only the right wing populism of the Scott Morrison government that was rejected but the press too. WA Premier Mark McGowan's comment on Peter Dutton went national but most of what he said was a brutal take down of one of the developed world's most ins...

Ten years of agony over, the lying onerous gaslighting calamity balloon defeated. But Anthony Albanese's small target strategy did not win this and dont let the right wing media claim his tactics did. The rejection by the Aussie public of both the Murdoch media's right wing populism and the anti-vax, anti-lockdown UAP and One Nation. Women won this and how sweet it is to have a nice and decent hum...

Embittered Brit takes aim at the farcical voting hypocrisy of the Eurovision Song "Contest", where the judges vote is simply ignored to give it to whoever you fancy. On a more serious note, the utter hypocrisy of Eurovision claiming to be all about standing up for oppressed peoples.

Although I said this war would be over in a few months, it seems the nefarious forces are determined it will drag on as long as possible as any voice for peace is ignored entirely (Turkey). This is getting incredibly dangerous. With the primary reason for the conflict being more NATO bases closer to Russia, Sweden and Finland pledging to join NATO is about as incendiary as you could get - and no o...

The worst thing to happen to Australia in the last ten years is the same sex marriage vote. Why? The under 25's came out to vote in record numbers and then thinking their job was done, stayed home for the federal election, giving us a Liberal government. If young people voted in the same numbers as they did for the same sex marriage vote, we would never have another Liberal government again. So do...

With America's most dangerous extremist organization - the Republican Party - managing to likely destroy or change the Supreme Court in their efforts to overturn their bell-weather issue of abortion - an overview of the whole damn thing.

Nuance king and U2 lead singer Bono says Ukraine are fighting for all of us - no they aren't! Neither mine nor Bono's house are being blown up, why are no Western voices across the media, politics or the public screaming SUE FOR PEACE. I am, when the only possible victory would result in your entire country being reduced to rubble, when you are fighting mainly for two things you don't even have, m...

After weeks of being spammed by adverts from Clive Palmer's United Australia Party, screaming don't trust the Liberals or Labor, claiming they are putting them BOTH last - they have announced they are preferencing the Liberal party. WHAT A SURPRISE! Who saw that coming? The lying liar from lyington shire yet again proves his only job is to hoover up votes for the Liberal party and defeat Labor. A...

The West seems intent on supporting Ukraine in one way only, encouraging them to fight as long and hard as possible - despite only a devastating Pyrrhic victory possible, that sees Ukraine reduced to rubble. We are not good friends. Why are we not encouraging them to sue for peace? If a Russian victory that leaves sovereignty intact is inevitable - realistically - or a "victory" that destroys the...

That's it, I'm calling it for Labor and in a near landslide too I think. There's a perfect storm for the Liberals, those early attacks on Albo were neutered by both Anthony Albanese getting COVID and Scomo being a far more reliable calamity balloon. Plus every one knows exactly who Morrison is this time, not the invented Scott Cam Daggy Dad he took as a clean skin to the last election. Our house o...

Partygate continues to dominate - but who cares? It's one of the least awful, corrupt or incompetent things the Tories have done in the past decade.

Make no bones about it, ever since blundering Scott Morrison called for weapons inspectors to be sent into China, to find the origins of COVID, to please Team Trump, China have been waiting for this election and payback. The Solomon Islands security deal was pitch perfect and 100% aimed at this election - what else have they got up their sleeves and could they act as a balance to our one eyed news...

Why COVID was the best thing to happen to Albo's campaign and keeping Scomo front and centre is essential for a Labor victory. The smokescreen of the Katherine Deves dog whistle and other stories. And once again - if you haven't made up your mind after the last three years, please sit this one out for the good of the country.

No political lie is repeated more often than the right of politics are good at the economy and the left are good at spending - for forty years the exact opposite has been true. The Reserve Bank of Australia should be above this, but it seems their only job is to ensure the ponzi scheme that is the Australian housing market stays artificially afloat whilst the Liberals are in power. They've now loc...

A look at Australia's dismal news media, why we should thank prime minister Scott Morrison for being who he is, how Anthony Albanese's small target strategy has offered nothing to help Labor win and how he is reliant on the Liberals continuing to screw up - and they will. And if you have sat through the last three years of incompetence, responsibilty shirking, gaslighting and bullying and the vile...

The strangest decision of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to my mind, is timing - why didn't Putin delay until he could massively impact the US midterm elections in favor of the Republicans instead of now when he will probably be helping Biden. Also, for years, supporters of the state Israel have claimed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is wrong and doesn't work - yet with Ukraine t...

Poor Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has been trying to call an election since January 2021, when he was last ahead in the polls and the Brittany Higgins scandal engulfed him, he has never had enough clear water to call it since. His latest attempt was to get his lackey's in the media to hammer Labor and Anthony Albanese over bullying and going AWOL and didn't that turn out well! Now his...

Friends don't set you on course for a war they knew would one day come, just so they can sell more arms. The West have used Ukraine as a patsy - and believe me, they are very happy with the outcome.

There's no more important time for the media to tell the full truth than during war time. And for no conflict this century has that been less the case than for the western media's reporting of the conflict in Ukraine.

Scientist using the Hubble telescope have discovered the universe's new epicenter of hypocrisy - Australia's relentlessly male right wing political and media sphere suddenly caring about the bullying of women. Just so long as its done by women. Their own systemic epidemic bullying of women? Not so much. Not content with the disgrace of using the tragic death of Kimberley to score political points...

Not an article but a genuine question. A few weeks ago I posted a video on Jeffrey Epstein, about how the real story here was not Ghislaine Maxwell but Epstein's self stated, decades long relationship with the American and Israeli intelligence and weapons communities. It was frankly a dry and analytical piece, made of well established biographical information from Wikipedia, the courts and news re...

Another of my trade mark popular opinions. Yes I - a card carrying lefty socialist - really did say that. The levels of hypocrisy and precedent setting in this conflict is insane.

The biggest villain in this whole unholy mess is not Russia but the military industrial complex, one of the great cancers on our world and who benefit more the worse their behavior gets, to all of our detriment, deliberately stymieing peace and stability for war and chaos as a permanent business model.   - As I post this it looks like Ukraine are pledging not to join NATO, so its possible the war...

If there is one silver lining to the conflict in Ukraine - it has shown us World War 3 is next to impossible. Our global economies are now so intertwined, the west can't even meaningfully sanction China or Russia without hurting itself, let alone send troops in. Whether this is a good thing for Taiwan is another matter...