The Brown Note

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...

I've never seen a conflict portrayed so lock step by the Western media as the war in Ukraine - even the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drew a wider range of opinions and more critical views. The unbearable hypocrisy of our media in the way it's treating Russia here ignores two massive elephants in the room - recent illegal American invasions and Israel. The latter also pointing to an enormous amount...

Every time there is conflict, the overwhelming push from the media and politicians is that we live inside it and now is not the right time to ask questions on how we got here. Wrong, it is always the right time to question why a war happened, that's if you want to frame it correctly or stop it happening again. A look at how we got here through the lens of journalist Chris Hedges.

To those who support the recent protests from Canberra to Canada - be wary of who is standing next to you, just because everyone else is giving you stick, it doesn't mean those claiming to be with you are on your side and don't believe everyone who you think is against you isn't on your side either. Protesting the government and mainstream media has always been there, done by many you now call she...

With and Australian election looming and with nothing else to campaign on, the incumbent Liberal party have decided to double down on Prime Minister Scott Morrison's disastrous battle with China. No one fights an election on jingoism and patriotism unless they've nothing else left. Now the Liberal's want you to be terrified on of the big bad scary Chinese man at the door, even though they put him...

The trial and conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell is a side show, a distraction and slight of hand to avoid scrutiny of a far bigger story. Given Epstein's self professed connection with the US intelligence community and military since the early 80's, his ties with the Israeli intelligence community and military, the mystery of where he obtained his wealth, the fact the DA of South Florida claims he w...

Another of my world beating popular opinions, why some of our most sophisticated methods of communication - irony and satire - are under great threat from a relentlessly literal cancel culture, that cannot process either. And why comedy - at the vanguard of exploring permissible human expression, in valid ways utilizing shock humor, irony and satire - needs to be defended most of all.   Next up wh...

After the bush fire crisis, the misogyny scandals and now text-gate, the seemingly indestructible Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is entering his third annus horribilis in a row. But hilarious as his senior colleagues calling him a liar, hypocrite and complete psycho are, the one question on the entire country's lips - yet not being asked by any of our fine journalists - is, what about Br...

Renters are the new share-croppers - working their whole lives with nothing to show and giving any wealth they generate to a richer person to pass on to their children. The baseline birthright of any average wage owner was to own your own home, now in Sydney you can't even afford to rent a one bedroom flat. By every metric the economy tanks but house prices and rent keep going up. None of this mak...