The Brown Note

Whilst Western leaders enable genocide, the United Nations and the ICC are standing up for justice, with the latter now issuing an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. This has led to two of the most insane comments in American history:

President Biden, "It's clear Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection," and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, "[The] ICC has no jurisdiction over this matter." - pretty sure it does mate:

The ICC is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. 

It wasn't supposed to be like this, but in this unbearably dangerous year for Western democracy, President Biden has spent huge focus and political capital on two hugely damaging wars, everyone sees as hypocritical and in the middle of a cost of living crisis, deeply unpopular. The right are focused like a laser behind Trump whilst Biden squanders votes with pre Iraq war global policeman antics no-one buys anymore. The last time there were student protest this big against an American backed war, Nixon got elected. This version of Nixon will be much worse.

Apparently the Australian news media has decided we are in a middle of a housing, rental unaffordability and cost of living crisis, as they do whenever a Labor government is in power. It's now 18 times the average wage in Sydney to buy the average home. Except it was 15 times the average wage in back in 2015, NINE years ago and we were in a recession in 2019 BEFORE COVID. I was posting about this then, and haven't stopped, nice of the Aussie media to finally join the party...

The recent statement, a woman would rather encounter a bear than a man, alone in the woods, sure has fired off an almighty sh$tstorm. But why are so many men so fragile and so easily triggered? I can't ever remember a woman feeling the need to say, not all women.

The Guardian newspaper is running a wholly honorable series on how we treat the the now, one quarter of Australian children who enroll in school, with some form of disability, commonly Autism or ADHD, not to mention a colossal amount of food allergies. The one question they and are no one is asking, what the hell caused one quarter of Australian school children, enrolling in schools to have some form of disability? If a quarter of kids showed up one year with cancer, we sure as hell would ask why, not solely focus on how to treat it.

The biggest student protests since the occupy wall street movement or even the Vietnam war, have been greeted with a predictable, time honored response from the American government, faculty and police. Infantilizing the protesters, claiming they're misguided, going about it the wrong way, beholden to malignant outside forces and even racist. Once again American student protests are on the right side of history and this is not going away. Biden beware.

Linda Reynolds, the former Liberal government defense minister, just got told by a judge, a young female staffer under her care, Brittany Higgins, was raped by her senior advisor, Bruce Lehrmann, in her own office. Most of us in her position would feel intense guilt and responsibility for such an event occurring under their watch - any CEO would resign in tears. Not Linda. Linda is forcing Brittany to court for a third time, despite the previous two times result in serious mental health concerns for already deeply traumatized Brittany. Linda Reynolds have you no shame?

In reflection on my piece last week, celebrating Brittany Higgins victory in court, raped in her bosses office by another member of staff, and put through hell for years. Even though that piece got a paltry number of views, it got nearly the same number of comments, not one in support of a woman a judge just agreed was raped, none in criticism of Bruce Lehrmann, the man a judge just said raped her. Given this coincided with the mass murder aimed at women in Bondi Junction and another young woman's death at the hands of ex-partner, does Australia have a massive problem with women?

It gives me so much pleasure to finally be able to call Bruce Lehrmann a rapist, just as a judge did in court. And how wonderful would it have been, for Brittany Higgins to finally hear those words, in the only judgement handed down on the matter, after so many years of trauma an abuse. A look at the defamation trial and its aftermath, the biggest own goal in the history of own goals for rapist Bruce Lehrmann. I'm so happy to have been on the right side of history (after dozens of posts on the matter and likely political coverup, over the last few years) but were you? So many in Australian politics, media and the public, naturally sided against a raped young woman and with her rapist, and still do today. What does that say about us? Brittany Higgins - you are a legend.

A few years back, on a trip through Mexico, I found one of my favorite places on earth - Mazatlán. Though well known in Mexico, I've never met a single other person who has even heard of it. The recent eclipse saw Mazatlán in the news as the first place in the America's to see it. So a shout out celebration to one of the greatest and most unsung beach side cities in the world, forget Cabos, its garbage compared to the epic majesty of Mazatlán.