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The Brown Note
Thoughts from the abyss on politics, current affairs, culture, news and other ephemera from The Brown Note radio show presented by Julian Brown, recorded unscripted, unedited and live. Full show with music at https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/ YouTube version - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSju31TDdZd7KZWwbwOwg4A
Episodes
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The Shooting of Donald J. Trump
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…
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Why did Peter Dutton Press the Nuclear Button
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…
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UK Election: Lets Take Down Keir Starmer
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…
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Biden Vs Biden: The Rebirth of Sleepy Joe
In the most terrifying US election year perhaps ever, Bidens per-occupation with warmongering was dangerously splitting the Democrat vote. Now with an…
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Peter Dutton Just Lost The Next Election
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…
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Hunter Biden and the Hypocrisy of the Republican Party
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…
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Israel: Netanyahu's Biggest Lie - He Needs Hamas
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…
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Gina Rinehart Devouring Herself
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…
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Israel Vs The International Criminal Court
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…
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Ukraine and Gaza: The Two Wars Killing Joe Biden's Re-election Chances
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…
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The All New 10 Year Old Australian Housing And Cost Of Living Crisis
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…
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Man Vs Bear - Why Are Men So Easily Triggered
The recent statement, a woman would rather encounter a bear than a man, alone in the woods, sure has fired off an almighty sh$tstorm. But why are so many men…
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Autistic Kids And The Elephant In The Room
The Guardian newspaper is running a wholly honorable series on how we treat the the now, one quarter of Australian children who enroll in school, with some…
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American Students Vs America
The biggest student protests since the occupy wall street movement or even the Vietnam war, have been greeted with a predictable, time honored response from…
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Linda Reynolds - Have You No Shame?
Linda Reynolds, the former Liberal government defense minister, just got told by a judge, a young female staffer under her care, Brittany Higgins, was raped by…
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From Brittany Higgins To Bondi
In reflection on my piece last week, celebrating Brittany Higgins victory in court, raped in her bosses office by another member of staff, and put through hell…
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Hero Brittany Higgins Defeats The Villain Bruce Lehrmann
It gives me so much pleasure to finally be able to call Bruce Lehrmann a rapist, just as a judge did in court. And how wonderful would it have been, for…
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Viva Mazatlán!
A few years back, on a trip through Mexico, I found one of my favorite places on earth - Mazatlán. Though well known in Mexico, I've never met a single other…
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The Irony Of Hunter Schafer - Trans Actor
Trans actor Hunter Schafer - most famous for the TV show Euphoria - has come out and stated she no longer wants to play trans roles and that's all she gets…
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Ukraine: Why Is Putin Blaming Ukraine For The Terror Attack
Even though it was remarkably obvious to the entire world, who carried out the recent Moscow concert hall terror attack, Russian state media has continued to…
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Why John Howard Is The Worst Prime Minister In Australian History
John Howard did what Margaret Thatcher did in the UK - reshaped the country for worse forever, the awful impact of his terrible economic and cultural legacy…
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A Campaign To Stop Dan Andrews Going To Israel
Ex Australian state leader, Dan Andrews, is a hero of mine, no-one has stuck their middle finger up to the Murdoch press and the populist right quite like Dan…
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Ukraine: The Pope's White Flag
Having posted many times about seeking peace and not just piling arms into this conflict, I again find myself on the same side as the Pope (?!) but this time…
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Eurovision Or Bust
Even FIFA don't seem quite as hypocritical as The Eurovision Song Contest - the most preachy of all major events when it comes to exclusivity for all…
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Can You Be Racist To White People?
The Australian women's soccer captain, Sam Kerr, has been arrested and charged, in London, for allegedly racially abusing a white police officer…
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Dutton's Disaster In Dunkley
Last week I posted that the Australian opposition leader, Peter "Potato" Dutton, was the most unelectable in twenty years, this week he lost an election. A…
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Peter Dutton - The Worst Opposition Leader In 20 Years
Sorry populist right, but the leader of the Australian opposition Liberal party, is the least electable since Mark Latham, twenty years ago. But keep doing…
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In Defence Of The British Museum
In one of my irregular, "how to make friends", pieces - a new hill to die on, a defence of of the poster-boy for colonialism, The British Museum.
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Alexei Navalny And Julian Assange: Western Hypocrisy At Its Finest
The recent death in custody of Russian political dissident, Alexei Navalny (which I don't actually think benefits Putin) has been met with a wave of Western…
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Why Is Trump Allowed To Stand For President?
Ignoring the dozens of personal and financial crimes Trump stands accused of, why is someone with charges hanging over their head, relating to trying overthrow…
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Barnaby Joyce Vs Brittany Higgins: A Tale Of Drunkeness
If you are a protected male in politics like Barnaby Joyce, being filmed, lying sh$t faced in the gutter, babbling profanities, is either funny blokeish…
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Australia: The Liberal Economic Disaster Being Blamed On Labor
For most of us, the cost of living crisis has been raging for years, for the right wing media, it began the day Anthony Albanese was elected leader. Despite…
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Pakistan: The Curcifixion Of Imran Khan
The latest US regime change, in a country of 240 million people, that's the world's only nuclear armed Muslim nation, has happened in full view with barely a…
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Scott Morrison Leaves Politics: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish
The worst human being to have ever led Australia has finally quit politics. A man synonymous with lying, bullying, incompetence, smugness, and a total lack of…
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Israel Vs Palestine: The Truth About The One State Solution
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said what we all knew, he never supported the two-state solution anyway. What Western media isn't even engaging…
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Anthony Albanese Genius Stage 3 Tax Cuts Show Down
After a grim year of rising interest rates, a cost of living crisis and The Voice referendum debacle, Albo has come out of the gates of 2024 firing, with a…
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Why, Like The Pope, I Oppose Commercial Surrogacy
Sure to be a popular piece... Something just doesn't sit right with me about poor women being paid to use their bodies as baby incubators of the rich.
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The Decline And Fall Of Pitchfork Magazine: Or How Going Woke Really Did Go Broke
Pitchfork music magazine has apparently been executed, the century's most important music bible being folded into GQ magazine by its evil corporate overlord…
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Israel Vs Palestine: Netanyahu's Bet On World War Three
With only 15% of Israelis wanting Prime Minister Netanyahu in charge after the current war, him having so few friends, either internationally or at home, and…
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The Best And Worst Films Of 2023
In a banner year for big, great and terrible movies, my best and worst films of 2023. Emperor's New Clothes award going to, Killers of the Flower Moon, sadly…
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Top 25 Albums Of 2023
My yearly list of the best albums, in a pretty decent but not great year in music, in a particularly poor era for music journalism. Movies to follow. Emperors…
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Everton V Manchester City V Football
I can't read English Premier League side, Everton, being docked ten points for one count of financial irregularities as anything other than a shot across the…
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Javier Milei, Geert Wilders And The Fallacy Of Right Wing Populists
Why is it that every now and then a right wing populist scores a stunning election victory and their opposites on the left - like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy…
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Israel V Palestine: Merry Christmas Mr Putin
With nearly everyone a loser in this Western-backed horror show, one person has come out an undoubted winner - Vladimir Putin. After a year of unrelenting…
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The Disgrace Of Biden And The Democrats
Despite the USA having gone through the most tumultuous period of their modern existence, with an actual attempted overthrow of government and half the country…
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Israel Vs Palestine, Antisemitism And Islamophobia
Western governments, by their relentless, one-eyed and punitive take on the latest conflict in Gaza, are doing more to fuel a new outburst of global…
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Bruce Lehrmann Charged With Rape Again
The ex-Liberal Party staffer, Bruce Lehrmann, recently involved in one of Australia's highest ever profile rape cases - the infamous Brittany Higgins rape…
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Israel Vs Palestine - Groundhog Armageddon
An overview of the latest, crushingly repetitive episode in genocidal apartheid - now, post Ukraine, with even more helpings of Western hypocrisy.
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The Voice Referendum: The Aftermath
Now that Australia's attempt to be nice to indigenous people was roundly defeated, a look at the reasons it failed and the behavior and culpability of all…
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Labor Needs To Get Away From The Voice Referendum
The Australian Labor party - in the midst of a cost of living crisis - should let others take control of the Voice referendum, lest it be a referendum on them.
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Why Do We Put Up With Cyclists?
Okay a deliberately inflammatory title. A truer statement would be, why do we always lump cyclists into one group, when there are two main groups. The first…
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The Cost Of Living Crisis - The Inheritocracy And The New Lords And Serfs
The cost of living crisis is hammering every nation that bought into the neoliberal economic nightmare - but it's mainly a cost of housing crisis, with the…
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The Taliban - The Thing I Got Most Wrong
I've got a pretty good strike rate for getting things right on this channel, whether its election or the political climate, but boy did I get the Taliban wrong…
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Luis Rubiales And The Arrogance Of Unsackable Men
The week after Spain's women won the FIFA World Cup has been dominated by an unwanted kiss, placed without asking, on winning player Jenni Hermoso, by the…
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Trump Is Going To Jail And The Republicans Want Him There Most
Although it's unthinkable to send a former president to jail, given the crimes Trump is accused of, it will be very difficult NOT to give him jail time, and no…
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Not Everything Wrong With You Is A Condition
In lieu of the recent TikTok meltdown over a user asking a prospective employer, during a job interview, what the employer would do for their time blindness…
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Saudi Money Is Football’s Enemy
And not just Saudi money, with mega-rich folk - particularly from the Middle East - buying up Premiership clubs, they will want pay back. Now the wildly…
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Anthony Albanese: Ten Ways You Can Win The Voice Referendum
I've been vocal about why I oppose the referendum on an Aboriginal voice to the Australian parliament in several posts - mainly how badly the campaign was…
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Private Healthcare And Private Education Are A Moral Obscenity
The idea, that in a wealthy, advanced democracy, the child of a nurse deserves worse healthcare than the rich person's child that nurse is treating, because…