The Brown Note

An overview of the latest, crushingly repetitive episode in genocidal apartheid - now, post Ukraine, with even more helpings of Western hypocrisy.

Now that Australia's attempt to be nice to indigenous people was roundly defeated, a look at the reasons it failed and the behavior and culpability of all involved. Particularly the media - who were happy to complain daily about how the public never understood what the voice was, yet never offered to help explain it to them, despite widely supporting it and being the main conduit for that very public understanding it. Also how the architect of this failure - Labor leader Anthony Albanese - got away with it. The redundant populist right press screamed for his resignation and the whole country went, yeah, nah. Also the damage Liberal leader Peter Dutton has done to himself by owning the NO vote.

The Australian Labor party - in the midst of a cost of living crisis - should let others take control of the Voice referendum, lest it be a referendum on them.

Okay a deliberately inflammatory title. A truer statement would be, why do we always lump cyclists into one group, when there are two main groups. The first are the people getting from A-to-B, minding their own business, casually riding, wearing normal clothes - doing great things for their health and the environment, god bless them. The other group are the Lycra commandos, that go out in packs of twenty, dominated public roads in a way no other user is permitted to do and are some of the most aggressive road users. Why do we put up with Lycra commandos?

The cost of living crisis is hammering every nation that bought into the neoliberal economic nightmare - but it's mainly a cost of housing crisis, with the impact of house prices and rent killing our ability to weather any economic storm, as we eviscerated the idea of a meritocracy in favor of an inheritocracy. From the viewpoint of Sydney, rent and mortgages - on the one home you actually live in - are the number one driver of economic hardship, as we struggle valiantly to pay off other peoples investment properties. It's a sin we should not stand for and one that negatively impacts almost every aspect of both life and the economy.

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.

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.

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

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,

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.