The Brown Note

The UK has decided to out do even Australia and go for a fourth division right wing stupid leader - and Liz Truss must be stopped, she's already in the space of weeks proving to be a hugely dangerous and brainless ideologue (even up against her predecessors) capable of anything. Her economic plan was pure comic book evil, where a Tory says the quiet part very loudly. Actually preaching trickle dow...

With the Russian call up of hundreds of thousands of troops and the likely annexation of the Russia leaning enclaves in Ukraine, it's likely Putin's objectives have shifted. An overview of the entire sh$t show framed around the latest developments and a brilliant piece by Scott Ritter (below) that you wont hear anything of in most Western media coverage. Plus the stifling of dissent and how Wester...

Having deprived me being able to vote to remove franking credits, negative gearing and tax cuts for the rich (all essential Labor policies the new Australian prime minister abandoned for zero votes...) I had one solid, rolled gold policy to vote on - a federal ICAC, with teeth and retrospective powers, to tear down arguably the western world's most corrupt governance. This promise has now been pun...

Is Meghan Markle the most hated woman alive? No, she's the most bullied woman alive. Ironically mega-stans like Piers Morgan, himself trapped inside a desire to ride on her coat tails and having the world's biggest chip on his shoulder, are doing more to make the public like her than anyone else. And people like Piers are doing more to prove her point about racism, sexism and bullying by an entitl...

An overview of the passing of the most famous person on earth, Queen Elizabeth II - as the media haven't been covering it enough. But also a look at the reaction of the public, the distortion of this reaction by the press, the British empire and the behavior of empires throughout history. Plus the future of the world's most well spoke Kardashian clan and its new lead character, King Charles III, i...

Two months ago the Democrats were in a world of pain. With supporting endless war in Ukraine killing their economy and nothing to stand for or unite them without Trump, they were heading for defeat in the midterm elections, handing massive power to an increasingly fascist wing of the American right. Now everything is different, the Supreme Court's massive overreach on abortion and the specter of w...

After starting a you tube channel out of disgust at the mainstream Australian news media, I posted "Australia Has The Worst News Media In The Western World", the bias, their lack of interest in holding one side of politics to account over absolutely anything, no matter how egregious, whilst hammering the left over a spilled tea cup, the cronyism of the white male conservative boys club, the lack o...

Like a mob boss who, not realising his living room was bugged, just gave up the whole gang, John Barilaro's recklessness has shone a light on the whole Liberal party gravy train. We need a royal commision into every aspect of it. Every ex-politician who wound up on half a million dollars a year as an ambassador to somewhere, the ex-staff that fell on their swords for people like Scott Morrision, w...

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...