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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
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Monday Sep 11, 2023
The Taliban - The Thing I Got Most Wrong
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
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 - and who knew! When the Americans pulled out of Afghanistan, I said there was no way the Taliban would go back to their old ways and treatment of women, as they sought international legitimacy and personal enrichment. Well, I totally f*****ed that up.

Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Luis Rubiales And The Arrogance Of Unsackable Men
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
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 president of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales. Despite the entire planet asking him to go, he's refusing, putting himself ahead of everyone involved, including the World Cup winning side. But he's just the latest in a long line of men, who seem to cling to positions of power no matter what the scandal or how bad their performance, whilst women in the same position are usually sacked in a day. From Scott Morrison to Boris Johnson to former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, a look at some other men who feel entitled to stay on, no matter what.

Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Trump Is Going To Jail And The Republicans Want Him There Most
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
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 one wants that more than the cowardly cuckold Republican party. For the Democrats, Trump in jail is a potential nightmare. Also - 6'3'' and 96Kg - HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Not Everything Wrong With You Is A Condition
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
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, as though being perpetually late was an illness others need to accommodate, not everything wrong with you is a condition others need to manage. To quote Christian Slater from the iconic movie Heathers - Everyone's life's got static. But instead of that being an opportunity to improve yourself - we live in an era where others must accommodate your faults,

Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Saudi Money Is Football’s Enemy
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
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 over-promoted garbage Saudi league is not only on TV in Australia for some reason (>cough< money) and spammed every other post online, but actually trying to get into the European Champions League (I guess Saudi clubs will be abiding by Europe's financial fair play rules then, eh guys? lol) and Inter Miami are trying the same stunt with Latin America. With Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar the new Kardashians for the worst fans in the game, the celebrity chasers who support no club, only the player. Make no bones about it, the end game here is the destruction of all real football fans hold dear and the creation of a super league where the mega money clubs of Saudi and America and Russia all play against Manchester United and Real Madrid every week, and even worse is in store for the World Cup. Vomit.

Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Anthony Albanese: Ten Ways You Can Win The Voice Referendum
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
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 being run and how dangerous it was.
Here then are ten ways that could improve the currently perilous chance of winning the vote.

Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Private Healthcare And Private Education Are A Moral Obscenity
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
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 they earn more money, in a job that is probably half as valuable to society as a nurse is, should be called out for being the morally disgusting abomination it is. That any child deserves worse healthcare or education at all, because they're parents are teachers and nurses and not investment bankers, should be called out as one of the worst moral repugnancies we allow without question.

Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
#FIFA: New Male Fans Are Killing Football, Women Are Saving It
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
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 how toxicaly awful this new male football fan is, the one that breaks the holy sacrament of soccer - support a team, for better or worse, forever - and who chases a players like Ronaldo, Neymar or Messi from club to club. They are the worst thing to have ever happened to football since big money got involved. Countering that is the new female fan, who will play at grass-roots level and follow their local club with a 100 supporters their whole lives. Truly the purest football fans to have emerged, the antidote to these vapid celebrity chasers and the savior of the beautiful game.

Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Megan Rapinoe - Woman Know Your Place!
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
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.

Saturday Aug 12, 2023
FIFA STOP AMERICANISING FOOTBALL!!!
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
What it says on the tin. Stop infecting the beautiful game with garbage stat obsessed American sporting terminology
#FIFA #WomensWorldCup