The Brown Note

Part of my infrequent series, "How to make friends":, including such vote winners as, "It's Time to Forgive Kevin Spacey" and, "Why I stand With JK Rowling".

The recent Venezuelan elections - as always a fight between socialists who want to keep their oil and Western back right wing candidates that want to sell it - was the closest in years. With the electoral council claiming victory for the incumbent leftist Nicolás Maduro, but that they cant release a breakdown of the votes, due to a cyber attack, the West has predictably - and with no credible evid...

In olden times the filthy rich were content with opening museums and remaining politely quiet. This last decade has seen the rise of the new sociopath-narcissist billionaire class, obsessed with attention and fame. Whilst they were simply trying to out do each other, that was one thing, now they are coming for political influence. No one embodies this more than desperado of cringe, Elon Me-Too Mus...

Opposition leader and devout right-wing populist, Peter Dutton, had his own Gazan children overboard moment, harking back to those honorable days of his lord and savior - no not Gina Rinhart - John Howard, when conservatives realised they could weaponise the race for political gain. Heroic independent Teal, Zali Steggall, magnificently shirt-fronted him in parliament, with accusation of being a li...

Elon Me-Too Musk maybe the most desperate-for-attention man on planet Earth, next to Piers Morgan and Donald Trump ironically. An attention seeking ambulance chaser who tries to wed himself to any trending topic. When Donald Trump destroyed Biden in the debate, Elon's leg started twitching. When Trump got shot Elon went all in, on both a personal and a professional level, wedding his future inextr...

As at 13-Aug-24 I'm calling the US election for Kamala Harris, and by virtue of that, the end of the Trump era. The greatest reversal of political fortune in modern history. I have an 8 year track record of calling elections correctly, including in 2 months out for Joe Biden last time (see below). Here are a hundred reasons why Trump has already lost and can't do anything about it.   https://youtu...

A look at one of the dominant sports stories of the year and in particular the often pathetic and hypocritical response to it, from a wildly polarised public. my piece from a few years back on trans women in sports https://youtu.be/ADjMB9pYoi4

Taking our country back from immigrants is nothing new to the UK. There was the National Front protests in the 1970s, the Nazi sympathizers in the 1930's. The difference this time, is the internet. After the tragic murder of two children in Southport, was incorrectly linked to a Muslim immigrant, 30% of the internet traffic promoting the initial protests was from the UK, 40% was from the USA. We n...

Oh well, I was, as I predicted at the start, a few hours late in getting this online but my thoughts anyway. THANK GOD Kamala dodged the biggest bullet she will face, choosing Josh Shapiro - who was favorite - as VP. She really hasn't put a foot wrong and I was terrified picking a pro-Netanyahu VP would fracture a newly healed Democrat party. Now, with such a well balanced ticket of Kamala/Walz re...

A belated hero's welcome to the most important and iconic journalist of the century, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Finally free, after more than a decade of being de-facto tortured at the hands of the State, in order to destroy the threat of a good example.

It's either the luckiest or most genius move in political history, but replacing Joe Biden is a masterstroke on every level. It kills the relentless momentum Trump built up from the debate debacle and being shot, it focuses the biggest weapon the Republicans has against the Democrats, Biden's age, right back on their own candidate, and it re-energizes the Democrat vote. Trust me, Trump wishes he'd...

The Achilles heel of both the UK and Australian Labor parties is their slavish obsequence at the top, to the Israel lobby. No one should ever be excluded from Labor for upholding Labor values, let alone opposing genocide. Anthony Albanese has failed spectacularly to read the room here - telling the Muslim voters of Western Sydney to ignore whats happening in Gaza because he's giving them free TAFE...

I think I'd better post this one before it's too late! He could be gone in hours.

For the next twenty years, the media will tell us about the glorious victory of Keir Starmer. They will say only a Tony Blair, pro-Tory Labour party will ever get elected in the UK and we must forget all about those horrible (actually Labour) Jeremy Corbyn socialists. This is the truth, even after the most calamitous four years in UK political history, from Boris "Party-gate" Johnson getting the b...

The only thing I am surprised is it took this long for things to explode, with Trump and his supporters playing with fire for eight years. But honestly (in the first shooting of its kind the right aren't calling a false flag!) they've been exploding for years. The likes of the mainstream media and the Democrats will wring their hands at how such a terrible thing could happen, blind to the fact it...

I previously stated that Australian opposition leader Peter "potato" Dutton had already lost the next election, over a year out. This was for a number of reasons - a major one being his re-igniting of the climate change wars with his take it or leave it mandate for nuclear power, but why did he commit such a brazen act of political suicide? And this in an era where opposition leaders try to stand...

I've posted at length about my love for the Jeremy Corbyn side of the UK Labour party and my hatred of the Tony Blair side, most egregiously embodied by current Labour leader and Thatcherite Tory Keir Starmer. With Labour pretty much guaranteed an election victory, I posted I hoped they'd lose, just so the media wouldn't spend the next 20 Years claiming only a Blairite could win for Labour. What i...

In the most terrifying US election year perhaps ever, Bidens per-occupation with warmongering was dangerously splitting the Democrat vote. Now with an improving economic picture, Biden is ahead of Trump in recent polling, by Fox News no less, for the first time in eight months. Ironically, the best thing to have happened to his chances in a year, is the conviction of his own son.

Congratulations on Anthony Albanese and Labor on winning a second term. I don't normally call elections a year and a half out but this one is done. Only people with either A) an agenda or B) no understanding of politics, are trying to sell you Potato Dutton as electable because of midterm polls. Let me walk you through why these mean nothing and why the clueless Dutton has already lost.   *post ma...

There are two all time hall of fame hypocrisies being told by the Republican Party over Hunter Biden. One is they're crying and screaming that any trial their God Donald Trump faces is a politically motivated travesty of justice, whilst relentlessly pursuing Joe Biden's son (and failing to land any corruption charge on him). The second is the party of gun ownership under any circumstances, seeking...

There are two massive lies being told by Western governments and Israeli prime minister, and war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu. One is that he is destroying Hamas, when every observer says they are growing in strength with every Israeli bomb and are stronger now than when the most recent round of this conflict started. The other is that Netanyahu wants to destroy Hamas at all - he desperately needs...

As hysterically funny as it is laughing at the fury of Australia's biggest ever trust fund nepo baby, over a portrait of her that brilliantly captures her inner ugliness, why am I the only one who thinks the artist, Vincent Namatjira, is deliberately referencing Goya's horror masterpiece, Saturn Devouring his Son, a painting about a powerful entity who defeated his own father and then his own chil...

Whilst Western leaders enable genocide, the United Nations and the ICC are standing up for justice, with the latter now issuing an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. This has led to two of the most insane comments in American history: President Biden, "It's clear Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection," and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, "[The] ICC has...

It wasn't supposed to be like this, but in this unbearably dangerous year for Western democracy, President Biden has spent huge focus and political capital on two hugely damaging wars, everyone sees as hypocritical and in the middle of a cost of living crisis, deeply unpopular. The right are focused like a laser behind Trump whilst Biden squanders votes with pre Iraq war global policeman antics no...

Apparently the Australian news media has decided we are in a middle of a housing, rental unaffordability and cost of living crisis, as they do whenever a Labor government is in power. It's now 18 times the average wage in Sydney to buy the average home. Except it was 15 times the average wage in back in 2015, NINE years ago and we were in a recession in 2019 BEFORE COVID. I was posting about this...