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The Brown Note
by Julian Brown
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/YouTube version - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSju31TDdZd7KZWwbwOwg4A
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Reform UK! Stunning Election Victory!
Brexit architect Nigel Farage's merry band of posh Tory working class hero grifters have won a stunning victory in the UK's local council elections. What actually happened and what it all means.
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Pauline Hanson and One Nation - Victory in Farrer
Queen Pauline wins and its a real threat to Labor how they keep taking votes from the Liberal party. For some reason. A big weekend for the populist right, what with Reform UK's massive success in the local elections there, but the two scenarios are very different.
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The Eurovision Song Contest: Israel, Genocide Washing and Cheating
It never ceases to amaze me how entire events will destroy themselves willingly for the Israel lobby. Even with five member nations boycotting the competition, they still wont budge on Israel's participation, and it's all anyone will talk about - alongside the industrial scale cheating that could likely see them win it this time.
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Why I Won't Vote For Chris Minns Again
Well there are many reasons, but one deal breaker, which for many left or progressive voters is a Rubicon they will no longer cross.
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Trump is The Anxiety of the World
Every. Single. Day.
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Are All America's Wars, Israel's Wars?
The current catastrophic Iran war is certainly for Israel, and for the last thirty years America's wars massively focused on the Middle East but were they all fought for Israel? Well, no, but there is an astonishing uptick in turning that into a yes.
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When Did Andrew Hastie Get So Based?!
Everyone's favorite onward Christian MAGA, West Australian MP Andrew Hastie, was all set to be the most blindly Trumpy - and religious - Liberal party leader yet, but since Angus Taylor took that role, he has behaved bizarrely against type. Standing up for a hate speech bill that cost him the populist right, strongly opposing the war in Iran and even telling conservatives to leave Neo-liberalism behind. Is he now based?!
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The Decline and Fall of the Israel Lobby
After decades of peddling influence from the shadows, the events post the October 7th massacre have thrust the Israel lobby into the spotlight. And while they still wield enormous - and illegal - power over Western governments and news media, they have lost the third and most important component forever - the public.
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How Iran Won the War
And other stories.
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Poor Pauline Hanson! The Disaster of One Nation and South Australia
Despite the best efforts of our media and the world's bot farms, Pauline Hanson and One Nation have so far failed to win a single seat in South Australia, whilst Labor posted an all time record victory. However they try to spin it, they touted this as One Nation becoming the opposition party and they couldn't even beat four seats. In the famous word of Colonel Kilgore - BOTS DON'T VOTE
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Iran War: The Disgrace of Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong
Though Australia hasn't joined the illegal Israeli/American war with Iran, they are getting perilously close, whilst paying lip service to the aggressors talking points. Joining this maniacal yet-another Middle-Eastern war is a red line for most Labor voters - do so and I will never vote for you again.
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Iran War: Israel May go Nuclear
A round up of everything at this stage in this wildly misreported and misrepresented, 100% illegal war of aggression from Israel and their client state, the USA. How things are going much worse than reported and how that will open the door for the use of nuclear weapons from Israel.
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4th Division Angus Taylor
Now that the Australian Liberal Party has got rid of its woman problem, by ousting Sussan Ley (see this channel a year ago for that prediction...) they are free to keep churning through their mighty talent-puddle of leaders. Now we are down to 4th tier Angus Taylor, who for some reason resembles a naive baby foal. Albo will be in hysterics. #WellDoneAngus
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Reform UK Are Finished
How do you brand yourselves as maverick outsiders to the two party system, when all your MP's are ex-Conservative party members?
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War With Iran
The world destabilizing push for war with Iran - which looks very likely - is at the behest of the worst faith Israeli and American actors, and has sucked a lot of well meaning people in.
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Ten Reasons Why Pauline Hanson and One Nation Will Never Get Elected
Much like its ompletely authentic counterpart, Reform UK, Pauline Hanson's current polling success is an overseas bot driven, foreign funded sham. That doesn't mean the publicity wont get her minions votes, but her bigger problem is #BotsDontVote
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Jeffrey Epstein and the Elephant in the Room
About four years ago on my YouTube channel, I got my one and only take-down (out of about 500 videos). I posted that the then convicted Ghislaine Maxwell was not the story. I wondered how I could get a 90 day strike for cyber-bullying and harassment. 1. How do you cyber-bully and harass a dead person and, 2. Who was complaining on his behalf?! So lets see how we go this time. The most important questions in the Epstein story are; who was Epstein working for? What did he do for them? Who was blackmailed? What were they blackmailed with and what did they do as a result of that blackmail?
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Isaac Herzog: The Israeli President Visits Australia
What is going on with Australia hosting the president of a country committing genocide? Is Albanese playing 4d chess again? It will certainly be the lightning rod to re-igniting pro-Palestinian protests.
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All Hail King Albo!
Australia's Labor prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has broken with the tumultuous turnover of the Aussie politics. Finally we have an intelligent, calm, measured and thoughtful leader, always playing the long game and never prone to knee jerk response. He spent a month copping flak from all sides over the Bondi Massacre yet came out of it stronger than ever, with his opponents in flames. We are lucky to have probably the most competent leader in the Western world.
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The Fake Rise of Queen Pauline Hanson and One Nation
Australia's eternal grifter, Pauline Hanson, is enjoying another press pushed stint in the sun. Despite the UK/USA style attempt to promote this political parasite, MAGA is the most toxic political brand in the country.
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American Civil War: The ICE Shooting of Alex Pretti
MAGA don't have a single sacrosanct belief they haven't flipped on, not even the hallowed second amendment. They are the embodiment of Orwell's words, The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. The Gas-lighters of the world.
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When Did MAGA Become Bootlickers for the Establishment?
You know MAGA are a cult because they have reversed position on almost everything they once held sacrosanct. It's been a wild story arc to get to child trafficking, foreign wars for oil, federal rights over state, free speech attacks - all apparently okay now. But when did these free thinkers become such bootlickers?
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Venezuela or Trump: A few Truths
We all thought Trump would stop short of global conflict to distract from the Epstein files, we were wrong. A few truths about the twenty-five year push from the USA to overthrow the DEMOCRATICALLY elected government of the world's largest proven oil reserves - Venezuela.
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Is the Anthony Albanese a Genius Playing 4d Chess With the Israel Lobby?
For once in my life I'm genuinely proud of the person who runs the country, he's measured, thoughtful and seemingly possesses good judgement. But is he actually even more intelligent than I gave him credit for? The common media consensus is the push for a post Bond-massacre royal commission has been a disaster for him. But has it?
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Lets Have a Royal Commision Into the Israel Lobby
After weeks of a foreign nation completely owning our commercial news media and half our nation's politicians, screaming for a hugely pro Israel push for a royal commission into the Bondi Massacre,. it's time to ask who runs Australia.
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Heroes and Villains of 2025
My list of the best and worst people of 2025 - including Sydney Sweeney, Anthony Albanese, Eurovision, Virginia Giuffre and more! I cannot believe I was dumb enough to miss off my number one hero of 2025 - Ahmed Al Ahmed - happily this legend needs no introduction.
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The Brown Note Top 20 Albums of 2025
Exactly what it says it is, in a terrific year for album length releases.
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The Bondi Shooting and the Disgrace of the Australian News Media
In one of the most egregious acts in a history of them, the Australian news media has united to use the national tragedy of the massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach last week, solely to attack the Palestinian rights movement. Antisemitism here is only defined as opposition to Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip and the elephant in the room - the world's biggest driver OF antisemitism and international war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, never gets mentioned.
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Why Trump and Epstein Broke Up
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.
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Sussan Ley Vs Jacinta Price AND Andrew Hastie
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.
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Are Trans Rights Dragging Gay Rights Down?
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?
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Starmer Vs Albo: A Tale of Two Labor Leaders
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.
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Tommy Robinson & Nigel Farage: The UK's Gateway Drug to Fascism
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.
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Charlie Kirk and the Reichstag Fire
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.
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Chris Minns - Don't Weaken Gun Control
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.
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March for Australia: The Aftermath
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.
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Are Hamas Playing 4d Chess With Israel?
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?
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March for Australia
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.
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Albo Cancel AUKUS
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.
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Palestinian Recognition is Everything Wrong With Keir Starmer
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.
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Chris Minns is the Keir Starmer of Australia
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.
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The Death of Australian TV
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.
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Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana Vs Keir Starmer: Unfinished Business
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
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Trump and the Great MAGA Schism
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.
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Trump and the Biggest Attack on Freedom of Speech in American History
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.
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Israel Vs Palestine: Netanyahu Corruption and Trump's Cowardice
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.
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Do I Still Stand With J.K. Rowling?
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.
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Israel's War With Iran: Ten Inconvenient Truths
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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USA: The Disgrace of the Establishment Democrats
Even with their country in a slow motion civil war, free-falling into fascism, the establishment dems care more about fighting the progressives in their own party than Donald Trump. They are so blindly obsessed with a status quo that doesn't even exist anymore, they will politely be crumb-maidens for the apocalypse.
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Israel Vs Palestine: Why the War in Gaza Has Already Failed
Despite era-defining levels of bloodshed and horror, and no end in sight, the war in Gaza is already a failure. By either its stated aims or the real aims, none of what Israel wants is realistically even possible or going to happen.
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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/YouTube version - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSju31TDdZd7KZWwbwOwg4A
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