The Brown Note

A look at Australia's dismal news media, why we should thank prime minister Scott Morrison for being who he is, how Anthony Albanese's small target strategy has offered nothing to help Labor win and how he is reliant on the Liberals continuing to screw up - and they will. And if you have sat through the last three years of incompetence, responsibilty shirking, gaslighting and bullying and the vilest, most shallow leader country has ever had and can be swayed in the next six weeks, what is the point of you? Do as I am - turn the media off til election day, most work for the Liberal party anyway.

The strangest decision of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to my mind, is timing - why didn't Putin delay until he could massively impact the US midterm elections in favor of the Republicans instead of now when he will probably be helping Biden. Also, for years, supporters of the state Israel have claimed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is wrong and doesn't work - yet with Ukraine those same people very much think it does and why it wont work in Ukraine now.

Poor Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has been trying to call an election since January 2021, when he was last ahead in the polls and the Brittany Higgins scandal engulfed him, he has never had enough clear water to call it since. His latest attempt was to get his lackey's in the media to hammer Labor and Anthony Albanese over bullying and going AWOL and didn't that turn out well! Now his original pre-selection battle of 2007 and his disgusting treatment of his opponent, Michael Towke, has come roaring back into focus - but what isn't being mentioned by the media is that the Murdoch press played a pivotal role in destroying Towke and paid him out for defamation.

Friends don't set you on course for a war they knew would one day come, just so they can sell more arms. The West have used Ukraine as a patsy - and believe me, they are very happy with the outcome.

There's no more important time for the media to tell the full truth than during war time. And for no conflict this century has that been less the case than for the western media's reporting of the conflict in Ukraine.

Scientist using the Hubble telescope have discovered the universe's new epicenter of hypocrisy - Australia's relentlessly male right wing political and media sphere suddenly caring about the bullying of women. Just so long as its done by women. Their own systemic epidemic bullying of women? Not so much. Not content with the disgrace of using the tragic death of Kimberley to score political points these same folk out themselves as the rampant life-long misogynists they are by de-legitimizing three of the most experienced and capable women in politics and reducing them to mean teenage girls from a movie. At the heart of this super-massive black hole of hypocrisy is Scott Morrison himself, despite being literally named by Kitching for bullying, never touching misogynists in his own party no matter what they're accused of and being world famous for going awol when the going gets tough, he has the gall to call out Labor leader Anthony Albanese for the same.

Not an article but a genuine question. A few weeks ago I posted a video on Jeffrey Epstein, about how the real story here was not Ghislaine Maxwell but Epstein's self stated, decades long relationship with the American and Israeli intelligence and weapons communities. It was frankly a dry and analytical piece, made of well established biographical information from Wikipedia, the courts and news reports, nothing was inflammatory or abusive. It was removed by YouTube weeks later and a review of the removal that took less time than to watch the video upheld this decision.

My question(s) with particular emphasis on 2.

1. How did any part of my video meet the criteria of "we think it violates our harassment, threats and cyberbullying policy" and what part did?

2. How is it possible to "harass, threaten or cyberbully" a dead person? This is literally impossible to do.

3. YouTube doesn't watch hardly any of the millions of uploaded videos, so WHO is out there complaining on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein?!

YouTube I would genuinely like to know how I broke this criteria but got no further response, or any if anyone who saw said video could point me in the direction of what happened here. I'm at a total loss.

Another of my trade mark popular opinions. Yes I - a card carrying lefty socialist - really did say that. The levels of hypocrisy and precedent setting in this conflict is insane.

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

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...