The Brown Note

I've got a pretty good strike rate for getting things right on this channel, whether its election or the political climate, but boy did I get the Taliban wrong - and who knew! When the Americans pulled out of Afghanistan, I said there was no way the Taliban would go back to their old ways and treatment of women, as they sought international legitimacy and personal enrichment. Well, I totally f****...

The week after Spain's women won the FIFA World Cup has been dominated by an unwanted kiss, placed without asking, on winning player Jenni Hermoso, by the president of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales. Despite the entire planet asking him to go, he's refusing, putting himself ahead of everyone involved, including the World Cup winning side. But he's just the latest in a long line of...

Although it's unthinkable to send a former president to jail, given the crimes Trump is accused of, it will be very difficult NOT to give him jail time, and no one wants that more than the cowardly cuckold Republican party. For the Democrats, Trump in jail is a potential nightmare. Also - 6'3'' and 96Kg - HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

In lieu of the recent TikTok meltdown over a user asking a prospective employer, during a job interview, what the employer would do for their time blindness, as though being perpetually late was an illness others need to accommodate, not everything wrong with you is a condition others need to manage. To quote Christian Slater from the iconic movie Heathers - Everyone's life's got static. But inste...

And not just Saudi money, with mega-rich folk - particularly from the Middle East - buying up Premiership clubs, they will want pay back. Now the wildly over-promoted garbage Saudi league is not only on TV in Australia for some reason (>cough< money) and spammed every other post online, but actually trying to get into the European Champions League (I guess Saudi clubs will be abiding by Euro...

I've been vocal about why I oppose the referendum on an Aboriginal voice to the Australian parliament in several posts - mainly how badly the campaign was being run and how dangerous it was.   Here then are ten ways that could improve the currently perilous chance of winning the vote.

The idea, that in a wealthy, advanced democracy, the child of a nurse deserves worse healthcare than the rich person's child that nurse is treating, because they earn more money, in a job that is probably half as valuable to society as a nurse is, should be called out for being the morally disgusting abomination it is. That any child deserves worse healthcare or education at all, because they're p...

With the FIFA Women's World Cup entering its final stages, lets acknowledge the impact new male and female fans are having on the game. We aren't talking about how toxicaly awful this new male football fan is, the one that breaks the holy sacrament of soccer - support a team, for better or worse, forever - and who chases a players like Ronaldo, Neymar or Messi from club to club. They are the worst...

The global laughter at the USA Women's Football team's failure at the FIFA World Cup, rings a little hollow when they are reigning double world champions, and literally the most successful female team in the history of the sport. But the glee at star player Megan Rapinoe is something else entirely and shows how characteristics we lionize in men are still crucified in women.

What it says on the tin. Stop infecting the beautiful game with garbage stat obsessed American sporting terminology #FIFA #WomensWorldCup  

A look at a narcissists relationship with the truth.

Just when Australia is in dire need of a Labor Government, we get one and it half pretends to be the Liberal party and half focuses on terribly damaging side projects. We voted for Labor, give us Labor.

Or more specifically, is the entirety of this conflict related to the coming impact of climate change? Where our future will be dominated by two super-powers, the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and the West, not for conflict between the two per se, but so the strongest survive better in the coming climate change/food production apocalypse, and everyone else has a very bleak future ind...

With the FIFA Women's World Cup underway, the issue of fair pay in women's sport has come up again - but it's a fallacy. This is entertainment money, it has no correlation with the genuine, real battle for fair or equal pay in other occupations and is a distraction or at the very least muddies the waters.

The only reason Elon isn't the epicenter of cringe in this universe, is his fanboys - the Musk Maidens - are even sadder. Now attention vampire Elon, who was FORCED to buy Twitter, and forced to pay double - after a flex went badly wrong - has forgotten he only paid $44 Billion for a brand, one he is now ditching entirely. Like paying billions for Coca Cola and renaming it "W" and selling it in an...

The third episode of my intermittent series on how we've left it far too late to do anything about global warming finally reaches a positive note. NO IT DOESN'T WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Australian political leadership has been a farce since Labor stupidly decided to ditch prime minister Kevin Rudd after a couple of years, since then two years became the norm until you were sacked. Rudd was ditched for Gillard, Gillard for Rudd a couple of years later, then Abbott for Turnbull a couple of years later, Turnbull for Morrison a couple of years later - stop this madness. With the vote...

The Australian Medicare Levy is an obscenity, a straight up tax-payer gift to the private health care industry and it needs to go. There's no reason or benefit to it, other than propping up the private health care industry - to all of our detriment. Good old Aussie ex-prime minister, Neo-liberal titan, John Howard (a perfect mix of Reagan, Nixon and Thatcher) came up with this con job bribe, to fo...

Ever sat at home and wondered - am I a massive racist? Well now it's the fun game for all the family - Are You A Racist? As we walk through three major signifiers that you might indeed be a racist - two other major signifiers, do signifiers 1-3 make you angry? And do you constantly try to redefine what racism is? Are not included in this game.

While I think the referendum into adding a constitutional "Voice" to the Australian constitution, recognizing and empowering indigenous Australians, is undoubtedly a great thing, these are the reasons I think the current path should be cancelled - primarily the a patchwork of lies from the right will turn the vote toxic, incompetent planning and campaigning from the left has singularly failed to d...

There's no doubt the Australian Liberal Party's cruelest ideological attack on the poor - Scott Morrison's vicious Robodebt scheme - was wildly illegal, incompetent and corrupt, costing billions of tax pay dollars and resulting in arguably two-thousand suicides, but it was also gleefully supported and enabled by Australia's awful right wing media.

Did Putin not learn anything from America's famed Second Amendment - as much as it has been usurped in recent times - originally intended to protect governments from standing armies in their midst. So what was a savvy operator like Putin doing with a fifty-thousand strong private army called Wagner Group, who would inevitably one day turn. Also Ukrainian leader Zelensky cerebrates sending the wide...

Though the figurehead of an attempted insurrection, and de-facto leader of America's full blown fascist republicans being in possession of state secrets is terrifying - I suspect it maybe ultimately down to arrogance and stupidity - hallmarks of Trump's entire life. The crimes committed by his predecessors Bush Jr, Clinton and Obama are, on impact, far worse but completely unpunished, and never wi...

The Australian mainstream news media is run by a right wing old boys club, and never has that been more apparent than the disgraceful recent run of attack stories towards alleged rape victim survivor, Brittany Higgins. It may well be the foulest stench to have ever emerged from this motley crew of enablers. It seems they hold grudges and want payback for Ms Higgins and instead of doing their job,...

The Western world has, particularly in places like Sydney and London, destroyed a large part of our way of life, through the worship of property developers and owners above all others, to such an extent it has removed a large reason to even work. The larger part of the population no longer has any disposable income either, killing many other businesses, as we handover ever larger portions of our p...