The Brown Note

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...

As funny as Fox News being fined $780 million for lying and gurning man-baby Tucker Carlson being sacked out of the blue, it just continues a truism Rupert Murdoch has shown his entire life - there isn't anyone, no matter how important or seemingly close to him, he won't screw over, abandon or throw under a bus, in a heartbeat and never look back - even if he is married to them. For Tucker, no mat...

After another school shooting puts America on course to outstrip it's average of 600 mass shootings per year, a teen knocks at the wrong house, by accident, to pick up his brothers from a play date and is shot and killed by a scared old white man, whilst a young woman pulls into the wrong drive, by accident, and is shot and killed by a scared old white man. A look at how easy access to guns is onl...

On the back of the recent, historic, diplomatic meetings between Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia - brokered by China - the influence of the BRIC nations continues to grow bolder, with Lula - the president of Brazil - weighing in on American militarism in Ukraine.

After the extremist Republican party made it common to reject one of the cornerstones of US democracy - the result of democratic elections, they've upped their game again. Now they seek to overturn another sacrosanct right - to a trail by a jury of your peers - a cornerstone of US justice, at the behest of Fox News no less. America is sleepwalking into fascism and the Republican party is already t...

I always said, the up-coming Australian referendum on indigenous Australian rights, called "The Voice" was a very dangerous game, but maybe Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese really is a political operator of super-natural abilities and foresight. Opposition leader Peter Dutton hasn't just walked into a trap by opposing the voice, he's built a 10 meter diving board above the trap and swan...

The populist right in Australia keep losing elections because they are too right wing and keep screaming at themselves they lost because they are too left wing. The whole country is scratching their heads to this phenomenal anomaly, but there is a very good reason the populist right wont change and wont acknowledge they need to - they literally can't.

Given the Western world's media and politicians are asleep at the wheel here, as our empire falls, an episode as each shoe drops. After China upended decades of sacrosanct Middle Eastern affairs by brokering peace between the mortal enemies of Iran and Saudi Arabia, now the next shoe. Brazil and China agreeing to ditch the US dollar in trade between the two countries. This is huge, as the hegemony...

Despite the Ex-Labour leader doing precisely nothing but being excluded from his own party, what's next for Jeremy Corbyn is a wild maelstrom of press about him attacking Labour by being forced to stand as an independent, as the establishment wind up to once again take him down at all costs, be prepared for one of the most hypocritical accusations in UK political history.