The Brown Note

Brexitaggedon

With the streets of the UK now resembling an episode of The Waking Dead, as the zombiefied masses literally fight over petrol, shelves are bare, fast food joints have no food and a million workers are missing, if only there was some kind of warning that this would happen...

China Vs Evergrande

What should China do with a problem like Evergrande, their very own personal Global Financial Crisis collapsing property giant? They should do the opposite of what the West did and send a message to the World.

Clive Palmer And The United Australia Party

Now surpassing One Nation as Australia's most awful band of political charlatans, the UAP, despite ironically sending me an unsolicited text message in 2019, to tell me they would ban the practice, are in 2021 - sending the country unsolicited text messages. And from one of the country's most esteemed purveyors of self promotion and conspiracy theories - Craig Kelly. A look at how stupid someone would have to be, to believe this billionaire mining magnet friend of Scott Morrison is their anti-government Che Guevara.

9/11 at 20: The End Of America‘s Forever War

It's been near 20 years since the most watched event in global history kick-started the century but could America's forever war finally be over? Since World War 2 the USA has either been in a cold war with Russia or troops on the ground in South East Asia or the Middle East, now all of that's gone and the stars are aligned. Biden seems strong enough to wear the abuse of pulling out of the last two decades devastating conflicts, there's no one left to fight and all the battles left are economic. With the most progressive side to an American government in history, no wars and a reshaped global order, Biden has a chance to be the best president since FDR.

Gaslightin‘ Gladys Berejiklian

The New South Wales state premier has taken several leaves out of the king of empty PR and spin - Prime Minister Scott Morrison's book and is dealing with her COVID failures by relentless gaslighting of the public. Daily announcements about new freedoms that have already been announced, constantly telling us things we've know for months as though they are brand new, making out it's public hesitancy and not the Liberal party supply chain failures that are stopping people getting vaccinated. Refusing to give us the accurate facts, figures and projections she has access to and continually tossing us crumbs to put a positive spin on our COVID woes. And having some of the world's worst and most pro-government news media, they are all to happy to help.

Abortion Texas Style

My position on the issue of abortion in the wake of the real world Handmaids Tale unfolding in Texas.

The Decline And Fall Of The Sydney Morning Herald

When I arrived in Sydney in 2004, the Sydney Morning Herald was everything a newspaper should be - especially in a country with the third highest concentration of print media in the world - next to China and Egypt, which are STATE OWNED. Well not anymore - the 2021 version, owned by Channel 9, with ex-Liberal party treasurer Peter Costello as its Chairman, is a bigger Liberal party propaganda machine than the Murdoch press itself. This morning alone I ran into three blue sky puff pieces, about the joys of swimming in Balmain, outdoor weddings and kayaking, designed to put a positive happy spin of the appalling mismanagement of COVID in NSW by Liberal state premier Gladys Berejiklian. For shame.

 

Rising House Prices Have Destroyed Our Way Of Life

In the UK and Australia they have. I've earned more money than my low paid dad my whole life, he has always owned his own house - once the birth right of any working class person - I'm not even close to affording a small flat. He turned his $40,000 investment into property years ago into a million dollars today, in the last 15 years alone I've turned half a million dollars in rent into nothing.

Is COVID A First World Problem? We Are Killing Ourselves With Chemicals

COVID has overwhelmingly affected the first world worst, developing nations least, by almost every metric. Total cases, cases per capita and deaths per capita, why? Why is the same true for food allergies, sperm counts and obesity? I have my theory - we are killing ourselves with chemicals.

 

*I meant to make a distinction with South-East Asian countries that are still first world but fit the same paradigm of the developing nations.

Afghanistan 2.0: A Kinder Gentler Machine Gun Taliban?

America's new Saigon. A round up of current events, how we got here, who's to blame and what will happen. Why the Taliban will probably be a different proposition this time around, how the global politics are very different now and how the major background players - China and Russia - will likely great the Taliban.