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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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Chinese Protests, Western Hypocrisy
A double whammy of hypocrisy actually. As the biggest protests in decades greet the latest round of lock-downs in China, the Western world, (particularly my…
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Why I Stand With Brittany Higgins
After a two year wait to get to trial, followed by a mistrial due to the actions of a Juror, the most controversial case and political story in modern…
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Qatar And The Corruption Of The FIFA World Cup
FIFA should be custodians of the world's biggest sport's most popular showcase, instead they've descended into such corrupt disrepute they need to be replaced…
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Dan Andrews And The Destruction Of The Murdoch Press
The Australian state of Victoria just held a long heralded election, which, if you listened to ANY Australian news - from TV to radio to print media - was a…
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Liz Truss, Jeremy Corbyn And The Guardian Newspaper
The UK's latest Tory meltdown is again both hysterically funny and maddeningly awful, especially when you think it was a personal choice to choose Brexit and…
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The Death Of Sydney
Three major factors have contributed to the downfall of Australia's global city. One - John Howard's economic policies destroyed the standard of living and the…
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The Crucifixion Of Lidia Thorpe
God I would love and Australia where the news media held right wing politicians even ten percent as accountable as the left, who are hounded out of office for…
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Climate Change: We’re All Gonna Die#2
A delightfully happy follow up to the previous piece a couple of months back, about how we are way past being able to stop the severe impacts of climate change…
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Liz Truss - Crumbmaiden Of The Apocalypse
The UK has decided to out do even Australia and go for a fourth division right wing stupid leader - and Liz Truss must be stopped, she's already in the space…
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Ukraine: Infinity War Or Endgame?
With the Russian call up of hundreds of thousands of troops and the likely annexation of the Russia leaning enclaves in Ukraine, it's likely Putin's objectives…
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Anthony Albanese And The Curse Of The Fedral ICAC
Having deprived me being able to vote to remove franking credits, negative gearing and tax cuts for the rich (all essential Labor policies the new Australian…
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Meghan Markle Vs Piers Morgan Vs The World
Is Meghan Markle the most hated woman alive? No, she's the most bullied woman alive. Ironically mega-stans like Piers Morgan, himself trapped inside a desire…
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The Queen, Empire And King Charles
An overview of the passing of the most famous person on earth, Queen Elizabeth II - as the media haven't been covering it enough. But also a look at the…
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Joe Biden’s Genius Power Play
Two months ago the Democrats were in a world of pain. With supporting endless war in Ukraine killing their economy and nothing to stand for or unite them…
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Australia STILL Has The Worst News Media In The Western World
After starting a you tube channel out of disgust at the mainstream Australian news media, I posted "Australia Has The Worst News Media In The Western World"…
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John Barilaro - The Royal Commission We Need To Have
Like a mob boss who, not realising his living room was bugged, just gave up the whole gang, John Barilaro's recklessness has shone a light on the whole Liberal…
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Scott Morrison - The Shame Of Australia
The election of a person of the character, capabilities and honesty of Scott Morrison, to the highest office in Australia, lays bear the great shame…
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The Truth About Andrew Tate
The media circus around around the apparent misogynist king, Andrew Tate, is getting an awful lot wrong and this does us no service at all. Like the fact that…
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The Mishandling Of Donald Trump
America has mishandled Trump from day one but it's getting worse. The endless stream of accusations and inquiries and trials, that take years to complete…
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Scott Morrison: Everyone Everywhere All at Once
Good old Scott Morrison, no longer being in power is no impediment to his calamities still dominating the county. Perhaps the ex-Aussie PM grew jealous at John…
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From Salman Rushdie to Donald Trump: America’s Role In Fomenting Extremism
A few days before a radicalized extremist charged the stage and stabbed fatwa'd author, Salman Rushdie - another radicalized extremist, present at the Jan 6…
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James Franco: Should An Actor Only Play Who They Are
No, absolutely not. I have a lot of problems with modern activism and its focus on small things but the rally only have an actor play a role to which they are…
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Taiwan Vs China Vs USA: China Don’t Fall For It And Why You Are Wrong
After decades of America "politely" ignoring Taiwan, because they were doing massive business with China, Prominent Democrat Nancy Pelosi chose now to visit…
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John Barilaro: Caligula Would Have Blushed
Five weeks ago I posted about how ex-NSW political leader, John Barilaro, had just taken down the Dominic Perrottet led NSW state government, in the time since…
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Climate Change: It’s Too Late - We’re All Gonna Die
It's time we admitted the ball we keep punting down the road, long since went off a cliff. We have left it too late, acted too little and it's already…
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Ukraine: Was This Putin’s Plan All Along
I've always ignored the ridiculous attempts by the Western media to paint Putin as some comic book villain, it serves no purpose and is in fact dangerous to…
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Working From Home: The Battle Begins
We all knew the billionaire CBD property owners were never going to give up that easy and now everyone is trying to pretend working from home was only ever a…
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Boris, Trump And Scomo: The Three Amigos Of Apocalypse
Now that UK PM Boris Johnson has been vanquished, the last of Rupert Murdoch's trifecta of terror, the worst leaders in the Anglo-sphere's history, a look back…
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The Democrats Are Doing Nothing
Even in the face of actual fascism, the USA's Democrats are doing nothing. Even with the highest number of progressives in government ever, the Democrats are…
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Ukraine: Where Is China?
And where are progressives? As this disaster rolls on, with the West only intent on fanning the flames and doubling down on the reasons that led to the…
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Roe V. Wade: The Republican Take Over Of Democracy
Once only pandering to the rich and paying lip service to ideological battles to generate votes, since the early 2000's the Republican party of the USA has…
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John Barilaro - The Man Who Took Down The Government
Even for the unrelenting gravy train of corruption that is Australian conservative politics, John Barilaro has set a new gold standard. Creating a $500k a year…
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Roe V. Wade - Woman Know Your Place
Even two months back when I posted on Roe V. Wade, I never thought the crazy SOB's would actually do it, but they have, likely losing the midterm elections…
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Australian Election 2022: Peter Dutton Unites Australia
Incoming populist hard right Liberal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, does one thing no one on the left of politics can do - unite voters from the left and…
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Australian Election 2022: Australia’s Awful New Media Rejected By The Public
On the very day Australia's toxic political news media were allegedly booted out of a Albanese press event BY THE JAPANESE, a look at how it was not only the…
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Australian Election 2022: Labor Victory Wrap Up
Ten years of agony over, the lying onerous gaslighting calamity balloon defeated. But Anthony Albanese's small target strategy did not win this and dont let…
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The Eurovision Con Songtest
Embittered Brit takes aim at the farcical voting hypocrisy of the Eurovision Song "Contest", where the judges vote is simply ignored to give it to whoever you…
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Ukraine: Sweden And Finland Pour Fuel On The Fire
Although I said this war would be over in a few months, it seems the nefarious forces are determined it will drag on as long as possible as any voice for peace…
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Australian Election2022 Final: YOUNG PEOPLE GET OUT AND VOTE
The worst thing to happen to Australia in the last ten years is the same sex marriage vote. Why? The under 25's came out to vote in record numbers and then…
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Roe V. Wade - Abortiaggeddon
With America's most dangerous extremist organization - the Republican Party - managing to likely destroy or change the Supreme Court in their efforts to…
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Ukraine: Shut Up Bono
Nuance king and U2 lead singer Bono says Ukraine are fighting for all of us - no they aren't! Neither mine nor Bono's house are being blown up, why are no…
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Australian Election 2022: Wk 4 Clive Palmer And The Great UAP Con
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…
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Ukraine: Beware The West Bearing Gifts
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…
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Australian Election 2022 Round Up: Labor Have Won
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…
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Boris Johnson - Bread And Circuses
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.
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Australian Election 2022: China Attacks!
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…
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Australian Election 2022: Week Two Round Up
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…
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Australian Election 2022: The Politicization Of The Reserve Bank Of Australia
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…
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Australian Election 2022: Week One Round Up
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…
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Ukraine: Putin’s Biggest Tactical Error and Sanctions Work Now?
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…
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Scott Morrison - The Gift That Keeps On Not Giving
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…
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Ukraine: The West Is Not Your Friend
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…
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Ukraine: Westerrn Media Lies
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…
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Kimberley Kitching - The Epicentre Of Hypocrisy
Scientist using the Hubble telescope have discovered the universe's new epicenter of hypocrisy - Australia's relentlessly male right wing political and media…
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Why Was My Video On Jeffrey Epstein Removed From YouTube?
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…
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Ukraine: In Defense Of Russian Oligrachs
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…
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Ukraine: The Biggest Villain
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…
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Ukraine: World War 3
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…
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Ukraine: Hypocrisy And Racism
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…
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Ukraine: Why Did Russia Invade?
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…