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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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#FIFA: New Male Fans Are Killing Football, Women Are Saving It
With the FIFA Women's World Cup entering its final stages, lets acknowledge the impact new male and female fans are having on the game. We aren't talking about…
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Megan Rapinoe - Woman Know Your Place!
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…
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FIFA STOP AMERICANISING FOOTBALL!!!
What it says on the tin. Stop infecting the beautiful game with garbage stat obsessed American sporting terminology #FIFA #WomensWorldCup
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Why Trump Isn’t Lying About Losing The Election
A look at a narcissists relationship with the truth.
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Australian Labor And Anthony Albanese - What The Hell Are You Doing?
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…
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Ukraine War: Was It About Grain All Along?
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…
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The Fallacy Of Fair Pay In Women’s Sport
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…
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Elon Musk And The Musk Maidens Of Cringe Destroy Twitter
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…
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Climate Change: We’re All Gonna Die#3
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…
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To The Australian Labor Party - DON’T Sack Anthony Albanese If The Voice Loses
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…
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Australian Tax: Ban The Medicare Levy
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…
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Are You A Racist?
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…
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Why The Voice Should Be Cancelled
While I think the referendum into adding a constitutional "Voice" to the Australian constitution, recognizing and empowering indigenous Australians, is…
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Robodebt And The Culpability Of The Australian News Media
There's no doubt the Australian Liberal Party's cruelest ideological attack on the poor - Scott Morrison's vicious Robodebt scheme - was wildly illegal…
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Ukraine: Vladimir Putin And The Second Amendment
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…
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Trump’s Treason Pales Into Insignificance
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…
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The Australian News Media And The Disgrace Of Brittany Higgins
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…
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The Australian Rental Crisis
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…
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Fox News: Rupert Murdoch Vs Tucker Carlson
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…
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America: Gun Control? What About Media Control And Personal Control?
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…
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BRIC Nations Rising - Brazil And Ukraine
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…
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America Is Sleepwalking Into Fascism
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…
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Why Peter Dutton Just Saved The Voice
I always said, the up-coming Australian referendum on indigenous Australian rights, called "The Voice" was a very dangerous game, but maybe Australian prime…
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Why The Populist Right Can’t Change
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…
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The Decline And Fall Of Western Civilization Part 2: Ukraine And The US Dollar
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…
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Jeremy Corbyn: What’s Next?
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…
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Israel: Is Netanyahu The Palestians Best Friend?
As ludicrously offensive as that sounds, is Netanyahu and his historically right wing government, so far gone, it will be impossible for Israels backers in the…
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Syria: American Bombs And Hypocrisy
Whilst America screams to whole world about the sanctity of Ukranian sovereignty and freedom from foreign military war - they wage military war from American…
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Feminism, Trans Rights and Posey Parker
One voice was noticeably absent from the anti-trans activist and grifter, Posey Parker's whirlwind trip to Australia, feminists. Actual cis woman feminists…
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Jeremy Corbyn, The Time Is Now: Start A New Party
The UK Labour party have proved that they're poisoned beyond cure, a Neo-liberal version of Labour ethics and economics that prevents them ever offering real…
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Ukraine: China’s Peace Deal
I posted "Where is China" on Ukraine a while back, it seems they may have been there all along. After brokering a situation the USA seemed far more comfortable…
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Iraq At 20: The Most Corrupt And Destructive Act This Century
The war in Iraq - now twenty-years old - was not a mistake or an error - it was a deliberate lie, a corrupt act of biblical proportions that dominated the…
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Ukraine:4D Chess And The Reverse Iron Curtain
I was about to post that the USA, the EU, NATO and the military industrial complex had won, that they'd got everything they could possibly have dreamed of out…
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US Banking Crisis, REGULATE THE BANKS!
In the midst of yet another financial meltdown and banking crisis in the US, why is the talk only of who will bail them out and never of re-introducing the…
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AUKUS: Australia Vs China Round Two
Just as the dust was settling on ex prime minister, Scott Morrison's idiotic attack on China, current PM Anthony Albanese has agreed to that fools submarine…
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China: The Decline And Fall Of Western Civilization
The West has dominated the world politically, militarily and economically for a very long time - the Anglo-sphere for centuries, from Great Britain to the USA…
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Saudi Arabia And Iran: China Rises, America Falls
The biggest news story in the world is barely being mentioned. For decades, American support of Saudi Arabia and opposition to Iran, has been a defining…
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Australian News Media The Worst In The Developed World Part 2: From Robodebt To War With China
The reason I started this channel was how appalled I was at the Australian news media, who gave one side of politics a near universal free ride, no matter how…
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Gary Lineker & Jeremy Corbyn - Why I Hope UK Labour Lose The Next Election
The weirdest (and potentially most dangerous) upshot of football presenter Gary Lineker, being suspended by the BBC, for daring to offend the UK's Tory…
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Gary Lineker Vs The BBC
The perception of public broadcasters like the BBC being anything but mouthpieces for right wing governments, was laid bare by football commentator and…
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The Problem With Activism Today
As the self-appointed spokesthem for activism, a look at how modern activism is crushingly focusing on trivial and not big ticket items, wildly trashing anyone…
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Why do Peter Hartcher And The Sydney Morning Herald Have Blood Lust For China?
Ever since our venerable >cough "Our independent defence panel asks if we should consider national service or even hosting nuclear weapons." To fight China…
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Let’s Have A Royal Commision Into Privatization
Defined as: the transfer of a business, industry, or service from public to private ownership and control, how would that ever be a good thing?! The main…
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Superannuation: Is Anthony Albanese A Super Genius?
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese just sent an unexpected flare up on superannuation. After bagging him for abandoning the Labor party must-do list of…
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Superannuation: The Australian News Media And The Top 1%
Mere seconds after Aussie prime minister, Anthony Albanese even mentioned removing some tax breaks millionaires gained in recent times, the Australian…
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The Israel-Ukraine Paradox
Whilst the West arms Ukraine with billions in weapons and universally sanctions a much larger and more powerful attacker stealing their lands, the West also…
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From Roald Dahl To Ian Fleming - Never Change An Artists Work
No doubt sniffing future profits, and fearful of the online mob spoiling that party, the estates and publishers of Dahl's and Fleming's works are releasing new…
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The 15-Minute City Is Coming For YOU!
Move over COVID, conspiracy town has a new sheriff - and it's an a doozy. If you've spent your life (like I have) in horrendously developed major cities, the…
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El Salvador’s New Mega Prison - A Crime Against Humanity
Never trust any phrases less in politics than "Tough on Crime" or a "A war on crime", it's just right-wing populist short hand for "We aren't going to address…
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Fox News Should Be Jailed
The 1.6 BILLION dollar Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox News has revealed something we all knew was happening - Fox News doesn't even…
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COVID: Well Done World
Well done to the world for their response to COVID - it needs saying - where for once right wing populism was ignored for a global belief in science (if only…
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Lidia Thorpe, You Are Wrong About The Voice
I'm no fan of either Anthony Albanese's wildly dangerous The Voice referendum on Indigenous recognition or voting on my fellow citizens rights, but it's…
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Ukraine: USA Vs Russia
With US President, Joe Biden, on the ground in Ukraine, any pretense this anything other than a war between the USA, the EU and Russia is laughable - not when…
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Ukraine: German Tanks Cost Ukrainian Lives
Despite initially holding out, either honorably or because of fuel price terror, Germany has got back with the program and is sending tanks to the Russian war…
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Anthony Albanese: You’re The Voice, Try And Understand It
With Australians again being asked to again vote on OTHER Australians rights, if prime minister Anthony Albanese can't explain The Voice to the public in one…
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From Ronaldo To Beyoncé: Absolute Wealth Corrupts Absolutely
Even a homeless person isn't as desperate for the next dollar as the super rich. With one of the greatest players of all time, Christiano Ronaldo, prepared to…
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The Right Worship Awful People, Why?
From Andrew Tait to Donald Trump, from Kanye West to Elon Musk, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Katie Hopkins, Cardinal George Pell, Kari Lake, Pauline Hanson…
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The Death Of Cardinal George Pell
A titan of Australian Catholicism, who was the third highest ranking Catholic on earth, leaves a legacy forever associated with the child sex abuse scandals…
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Brittany Higgins: When The Levee Breaks
Is Australia's most infamous workplace incident over, or is it about to go supernova and finally ensure Brittany's employer at the time, the actual government…
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Ukraine: Is Zelensky Good For Ukraine?
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is the Time magazine person of the year - rightly so as they base it on the person who overall has had the most impact…