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Thoughts from the abyss on politics, current affairs, culture, news and other ephemera from The Brown Note radio show presented by Julian Brown, recorded unscripted, unedited and live. Full show with music at https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/
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Few believe that Jeffrey Epstein's best friend of two decades, Donald Trump, broke up with him over Epstein's behavior towards young girls. Most Know it was over a Palm Beach property deal. Fewer know the juiciest part of this whole story - the accusations of Trump laundering money for Putin connected Russian Oligarchs.
Six months back I posted how Sussan Ley was only ever an interim manager for Australia's Liberal party, and would be rolled (likely over climate change) for yet another even more populist right wing goon squad. The only thing that's changed is the dim-witted Angus Taylor has been replaced by Andrew Hastie, a genuine christian MAGA. They STILL have no desire to win back the center. They will never ever learn.
I can't think of more successful activism in the last thirty-years than gay rights, which came from the notion understanding a group of people opposed to you today, could be allies tomorrow. Trans rights has been dominated by modern punitive activism, that has put many offside. Is the constant linking of the two dragging gay rights down?
Aussie Labor PM, Anthony Albanese, recently visited the UK and was greeted as a hero by UK Labour. The reason is, everything Albo gets right, the UK PM Keir Starmer gets hopelessly wrong. Their different approaches to protecting youth online being case in point.
Hundreds of thousands march in the biggest UK far right protest in years, led by an increasingly mainstreamed once outsider, Tommy Robinson. The UK's media bend over backwards to give unlimited press to the biggest con artist in UK political history, Nigel Farage and his Reform UK movement. Keir Starmer's unending failures are letting them both in.
The murder of Charlie Kirk - by an apparent (at this stage) lefty - has become a lightning rod media and cultural event. I'm not going through who Charlie was or what he said or represented, instead I'm looking at how did political and media discussion get so toxic, the hypocrisy and gaslighting surrounding Kirk's death and what Trump is likely to do with it.
I've said recently how NSW state premier, Chris Minns, reminds me a lot of the UK's Keir Starmer, as both seem more concerned with appealing to the right than their own voters, but weakening Australian guns laws at a time when there are more guns in the country than before the Port Arthur massacre is insanity. Especially when faced with sovereign citizens shooting up police.
Well that was al a bit of a damp squib. The turn out for Australia's very own Reform UK anti-immigrant march (brown immigrant I should add) didn't exactly set the country on fire, despite what that embarrasing fool Elon Musk thinks. If you look at my last video, I even called the fifteen-thousand in Sydney accurately, but that was massive compared to elsewhere and a fraction of the recent pro-Palestinian march. It's unlikely to generate much of anything and the event has been self owned by actual Neo-nazis, in fact as I type this Nazi leader Thomas Sewell, has just been arrested. with the image of the day being men in black shirts, attacking indigenous Australians, at an anti-immigrant march... oh irony.
It would be the most dangerous game of 4d chess ever played, but given where we are now with the conflict between Israel and Palestine, was the Oct 7th massacre and its aftermath a deliberate plan? Granted nothing has been more quickly destructive for Palestinians, but the impact on the international standing of Palestinian rights and nationhood has never been stronger, or Israel's standing weaker. Did they look at their position, losing piece after piece, in slow attrition, and just go all in?
On the 31st of August is a march for all Australians, not the lefties though, or the feminists, or the woke, or the "brown ones", or the vaccinated or climate change activists or opponents to genocide. In fact it doesn't really seem to be for many Australians at all. Masking it's number one concern, race, with housing and cost of living concerns, it feels very much a reaction to the enormous success of the recent March for Palestine in Sydney, but mainly an AstroTurfing attempt at establishing a Reform UK like movement here. Sorry guys, we already rejected you.
Even for Scott Morrison - the worst human being to have ever led Australia - with a litany of terrible acts, the AUKUS defence pact is likely his most awful legacy. Wedding us as handmaidens to the USA for decades to come, at exactly the worst possible time, with only the UK for company, for $368 Billion and no one has any idea what that actually entails. With Trump likely to move the goal posts every month, Anthony Albanese, you have the political capital and strength to cancel the worst deal in Australian history.
UK prime minister and Labour leader, Keir Starmer's recent pledge to recognise the Palestinian state, shows everything that's wrong with his terrible leadership. He's the kind of insufferable centrist-at-all-costs that both sides hate equally. His kicking the ball down the road approach means he gets none of the kudos and all of the blame, plus his confused loading of criteria that must be met, gives Netanyahu endless get out clauses. Totally on brand for Starmer.
NSW state leader and Labor party leader, Chris Minns, suffered another self inflicted blow over the weekend. He managed to make himself enemy number one, over the hugely successful Sydney Harbor Bridge march for Palestinian human rights. He's embodying that nadir of the UK's Labour party, Keir Starmer. Always trying to appease people on the right, who will never vote for him, against the wishes of his own constituents and showing terrible judgement. Did anyone tell him the populist right wing media are irrelevant now? Why is he kissing their backside? He is on borrowed time.
Over the next few years, it's likely the Australian commercial free-to-air television networks will fall, leaving us at the mercy of the global streaming giants. It's why public broadcasting - which Australia does brilliantly - has never been more essential.
Two years ago on this page (see below), I begged true UK Labour leader in exile, Jeremy Corbyn, to start a new political party, as the Keir Starmer/Tony Blair soft Tory version of Labour was poisoned beyond hope. He's only gone and done it.
https://youtu.be/uISEdbubQq8
Whilst the whole world is focusing on >he who must not be named< and >the list< there's actually far more going on with MAGA's all-time record displeasure with Donald. Including Trump breaking a number of OTHER cardinal MAGA sins.
Trump and MAGA rode into town proclaiming to be free speech absolutists. What they really meant was they wanted to be mean about blacks, gays and trans people with impunity. Of course right-wing totalitarians are never pro free speech, but the universal attack on free speech is unprecedented.
I think today we are actually up to real life concentration camps being proposed. A round up of the recent wholesome activity from Israel and why the Trump focusing on removing Netanyahu's corruption charges, could herald that America wont help with Iran and to give him a way out.
Part of my infrequent series, "How to make lots of friends". A few years ago, when the whole J.K. Vs Trans thing kicked off, I posted a couple of "Why I stand With J.K....." pieces, based on my perception of feminism, as well as an analogous piece, "Are Biological Women Being Erased?". Since then the whole thing has descended into a tit-for-tat sh$t show. How I feel about the situation now.
UNBELIEVABLE! I start this overview of Israel's illegal war with Iran (and the truths behind it) by saying, the people involved are so unstable, it will be out of date before I even get it online. They couldn't even wait 40 minutes. I was still on air and the president of peace, Donald Idiot Warmonger Trump bombed Iran. Welcome to World War 3/Iraq 2.0 plus. With new improved WMD's! Source, Netanyahu "Trust me bro".
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