The Brown Note

The election of a person of the character, capabilities and honesty of Scott Morrison, to the highest office in Australia, lays bear the great shame Australia's news media and his pliant colleagues bear in ever letting this happen. As his previous employer at Tourism Australia has now publicly stated, he was always like this and everyone knew. Yet from his hugely controversial appointment to polit...

The media circus around around the apparent misogynist king, Andrew Tate, is getting an awful lot wrong and this does us no service at all. Like the fact that Andrew Tate creates 13 year old misogynists - no he doesn't, they already ARE 13 year old misogynists, that's why they love him. We need to much better in understanding a systemic problem, than simply playing whack-a-mole with anyone we don'...

America has mishandled Trump from day one but it's getting worse. The endless stream of accusations and inquiries and trials, that take years to complete, foster in his fan base the idea that he is relentlessly persecuted and guilty of nothing. Lock him up. It's the only way. If Julian Assange can be de-facto locked up for ten years (in a foreign country no less) for releasing an entirely truthful...

Good old Scott Morrison, no longer being in power is no impediment to his calamities still dominating the county. Perhaps the ex-Aussie PM grew jealous at John Barilaro stealing his thunder! Now the utterly bizarre spectacle of him appointing himself to multiple roles in secret. If only someone had warned us about his character or competence before he was elected...   *Note - at the start I misrea...

A few days before a radicalized extremist charged the stage and stabbed fatwa'd author, Salman Rushdie - another radicalized extremist, present at the Jan 6 riots, attacked an FBI office and was killed, in defence of Donald Trump. They both had something in common, both the Islamic extremist and the right wing Trump supporter were born and bred Americans, both radicalized on home turf. A look at h...

No, absolutely not. I have a lot of problems with modern activism and its focus on small things but the rally only have an actor play a role to which they are assigned is simply upside down, wrong head and self destructive. Equality is not only a trans, gay, disabled or ethnic minority being able to play those roles, its trans, gay, disabled or ethnic minority actors having equal opportunity to pl...

After decades of America "politely" ignoring Taiwan, because they were doing massive business with China, Prominent Democrat Nancy Pelosi chose now to visit Taiwan. Now, in middle of the Russian war in Ukraine and all the global impacts that's having, she chooses to stick her finger in China's eye. It's a moment so pointless and reckless, it recalls Aussie PM Scott Morrison's equally clunk headed...

Five weeks ago I posted about how ex-NSW political leader, John Barilaro, had just taken down the Dominic Perrottet led NSW state government, in the time since we've witnessed the unfurling of a seemingly endless web of corruption and self reward from the most bare-faced grifters ever to grace Australian politics. This saga has already accounted for the deputy leader of the state but the focus mus...

It's time we admitted the ball we keep punting down the road, long since went off a cliff. We have left it too late, acted too little and it's already happening worse than we predicted. Decades of a cabal of the fossil fuel industry, shonky scientists for hire and the right wing media combining to attack action on climate change - which may go down as the worst crime by impact in human history, th...

I've always ignored the ridiculous attempts by the Western media to paint Putin as some comic book villain, it serves no purpose and is in fact dangerous to misrepresent one of the cleverest and savviest political animals of the modern era. You don't stay in charge of Russia this long by being an idiot. So I've been perplexed, why then did he get the invasion of Ukraine so wrong? Why did he not ti...

We all knew the billionaire CBD property owners were never going to give up that easy and now everyone is trying to pretend working from home was only ever a temporary symptom of COVID, not the complete and irreversable paradigm shift it is. Almost every argument against remote work can be countered by a far better one for it, so lets fight. We also have an unexpected enemy in the midst - the war...

Now that UK PM Boris Johnson has been vanquished, the last of Rupert Murdoch's trifecta of terror, the worst leaders in the Anglo-sphere's history, a look back at how they were never messianic profits of doom, but a reflection of a populist right wing voter base that has got ever more aggressive, unified, insane and destructive and isn't going anywhere. And why any false equivalence that the Left...

Even in the face of actual fascism, the USA's Democrats are doing nothing. Even with the highest number of progressives in government ever, the Democrats are doing do nothing. Even with the greatest threat to democracy of the modern era, the Democrats are content to whittle around the edges and offer the same politics as usual that got Trump elected in the first place. Whilst the Trump era extremi...

And where are progressives? As this disaster rolls on, with the West only intent on fanning the flames and doubling down on the reasons that led to the conflict in the first place, where are all those progressive voices that normally oppose wars? Especially with a record number in the US government - still everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet. And now is the time for China to step up and c...

Once only pandering to the rich and paying lip service to ideological battles to generate votes, since the early 2000's the Republican party of the USA has morphed into a Tea Party/Fox News fueled ideological war machine, which Trump is only a symptom of. With a declining proportion of conservative white males to actually make them win elections, they've sought ever more dramatic and disgusting wa...

Even for the unrelenting gravy train of corruption that is Australian conservative politics, John Barilaro has set a new gold standard. Creating a $500k a year job whilst a politician, then promptly quitting and having his ex-staff member appoint him to the role. COOL AND NORMAL. His ex boss had even appointed someone else to the role already, who has since been paid compensation. In a country tho...

Even two months back when I posted on Roe V. Wade, I never thought the crazy SOB's would actually do it, but they have, likely losing the midterm elections with it. We should be impeaching at least three supreme court judges for lying to congress and the American people, when they specifically stated they would not do this and the supreme court itself has been destroyed as just another political t...

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...