The Brown Note

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 worse their behavior gets, to all of our detriment, deliberately stymieing peace and stability for war and chaos as a permanent business model.

 

- As I post this it looks like Ukraine are pledging not to join NATO, so its possible the war is very nearly over. The military industrial complex will be very happy with this outcome, as they now have their global bad guy back in place and will use this conflict to sell tons more weapons to all the ex-Soviet countries that are already in NATO

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 west can't even meaningfully sanction China or Russia without hurting itself, let alone send troops in. Whether this is a good thing for Taiwan is another matter...

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 opinions and more critical views. The unbearable hypocrisy of our media in the way it's treating Russia here ignores two massive elephants in the room - recent illegal American invasions and Israel. The latter also pointing to an enormous amount racism involved as we bend over backwards to help oppressed war torn folks, just not brown ones.

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 how we got here. Wrong, it is always the right time to question why a war happened, that's if you want to frame it correctly or stop it happening again. A look at how we got here through the lens of journalist Chris Hedges.

An Open Letter To Cookers, Anti-Vaxxers And Truckers

To those who support the recent protests from Canberra to Canada - be wary of who is standing next to you, just because everyone else is giving you stick, it doesn't mean those claiming to be with you are on your side and don't believe everyone who you think is against you isn't on your side either. Protesting the government and mainstream media has always been there, done by many you now call sheep and alternative news media may not be what you think it is.

 

Some of those excellent real alternative news sources:

 

https://zcomm.org/znet/

https://www.alternet.org/

https://www.commondreams.org/

https://www.truthdig.com/

https://truthout.org/

https://www.democracynow.org/

 

 

The Liberal’s Vs China Vs Russia Vs America

With and Australian election looming and with nothing else to campaign on, the incumbent Liberal party have decided to double down on Prime Minister Scott Morrison's disastrous battle with China. No one fights an election on jingoism and patriotism unless they've nothing else left. Now the Liberal's want you to be terrified on of the big bad scary Chinese man at the door, even though they put him there and are trying to paint the Labor party as a Chinese patsy. All of this is wildly hypocritical but also incredibly short sighted and dangerous and it's Australia being made the patsy.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein And The Elephant In The Room

The trial and conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell is a side show, a distraction and slight of hand to avoid scrutiny of a far bigger story. Given Epstein's self professed connection with the US intelligence community and military since the early 80's, his ties with the Israeli intelligence community and military, the mystery of where he obtained his wealth, the fact the DA of South Florida claims he was warned off prosecuting Epstein in 2008 because Epstein belonged to the intelligence community and was above his pay grade and the fact that his close friend and Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell (who also died a mysterious death as the net closed in) was regarded as a high ranking Israeli intelligence operative, there's questions to answer. What governments employed or sanctioned Epstein and Maxwell trafficking children to blackmail powerful people, where is that evidence, who were those people and what did they do as a result of this blackmail?

Why I Stand With Jimmy Carr - A Defense Of Comic Irony

Another of my world beating popular opinions, why some of our most sophisticated methods of communication - irony and satire - are under great threat from a relentlessly literal cancel culture, that cannot process either. And why comedy - at the vanguard of exploring permissible human expression, in valid ways utilizing shock humor, irony and satire - needs to be defended most of all.

 

Next up why I stand with Kurt Zouma (and if you believed that, that would be ironic)

Scott Morrison And The Question On The Whole Country’s Lips

After the bush fire crisis, the misogyny scandals and now text-gate, the seemingly indestructible Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is entering his third annus horribilis in a row. But hilarious as his senior colleagues calling him a liar, hypocrite and complete psycho are, the one question on the entire country's lips - yet not being asked by any of our fine journalists - is, what about Brittany Higgins was Scott Morrison lying about?

The Housing Market Is Economic Climate Change

Renters are the new share-croppers - working their whole lives with nothing to show and giving any wealth they generate to a richer person to pass on to their children. The baseline birthright of any average wage owner was to own your own home, now in Sydney you can't even afford to rent a one bedroom flat. By every metric the economy tanks but house prices and rent keep going up. None of this makes sense. The impact is devastating. It's ruined our lives.