The Brown Note

As funny as Fox News being fined $780 million for lying and gurning man-baby Tucker Carlson being sacked out of the blue, it just continues a truism Rupert Murdoch has shown his entire life - there isn't anyone, no matter how important or seemingly close to him, he won't screw over, abandon or throw under a bus, in a heartbeat and never look back - even if he is married to them. For Tucker, no matter the bluster of his fan base, this is the beginning of the end - he will never have the prominence or reach Fox News gave him again. For Fox News, other than being more careful, it's impossible this will all lead to any change in direction, as they are completely trapped by a paradigm and audience they created.

After another school shooting puts America on course to outstrip it's average of 600 mass shootings per year, a teen knocks at the wrong house, by accident, to pick up his brothers from a play date and is shot and killed by a scared old white man, whilst a young woman pulls into the wrong drive, by accident, and is shot and killed by a scared old white man. A look at how easy access to guns is only one part of a problem, that includes a media that has instilled fear into the populace and a populace too ready to pull the trigger.

On the back of the recent, historic, diplomatic meetings between Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia - brokered by China - the influence of the BRIC nations continues to grow bolder, with Lula - the president of Brazil - weighing in on American militarism in Ukraine.

After the extremist Republican party made it common to reject one of the cornerstones of US democracy - the result of democratic elections, they've upped their game again. Now they seek to overturn another sacrosanct right - to a trail by a jury of your peers - a cornerstone of US justice, at the behest of Fox News no less. America is sleepwalking into fascism and the Republican party is already there.

I always said, the up-coming Australian referendum on indigenous Australian rights, called "The Voice" was a very dangerous game, but maybe Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese really is a political operator of super-natural abilities and foresight. Opposition leader Peter Dutton hasn't just walked into a trap by opposing the voice, he's built a 10 meter diving board above the trap and swan-dived into it.

The populist right in Australia keep losing elections because they are too right wing and keep screaming at themselves they lost because they are too left wing. The whole country is scratching their heads to this phenomenal anomaly, but there is a very good reason the populist right wont change and wont acknowledge they need to - they literally can't.

Given the Western world's media and politicians are asleep at the wheel here, as our empire falls, an episode as each shoe drops. After China upended decades of sacrosanct Middle Eastern affairs by brokering peace between the mortal enemies of Iran and Saudi Arabia, now the next shoe. Brazil and China agreeing to ditch the US dollar in trade between the two countries. This is huge, as the hegemony of the US dollar being the world's base currency, likely led to the wars in Iraq and Libya and is a huge driver of American foreign policy. The war in Ukraine has ironically, by the insanely punitive nature of Western sanctions and asset taking, shown the rest of the world (most of it) that your money isn't safe in $USD and if you step out of line, the West will take it. It could end up the most expensive war the US has ever fought.

Despite the Ex-Labour leader doing precisely nothing but being excluded from his own party, what's next for Jeremy Corbyn is a wild maelstrom of press about him attacking Labour by being forced to stand as an independent, as the establishment wind up to once again take him down at all costs, be prepared for one of the most hypocritical accusations in UK political history.

As ludicrously offensive as that sounds, is Netanyahu and his historically right wing government, so far gone, it will be impossible for Israels backers in the West to maintain their position and with hundreds of thousands of left leaning Israelis protesting in the streets, the potential for cross-over between the concerns of Israelis over Netanyahu's Neo-fascit government and those of the Palestinian cause could well become more aligned.

Whilst America screams to whole world about the sanctity of Ukranian sovereignty and freedom from foreign military war - they wage military war from American military bases in Syria. This hypocrisy is clear to the whole non-Western world and confirms to type. Why is the American military in Syria? Were they invited? No, are they at war? No, did they go their to overthrow the Syrian government? Yes. None of this is ANY different to what Russia is accused of in Ukraine.