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Issue 97: And So We Wait

"I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics." -Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, British Fascist and right wing activist, Letter to The Times, 26 April, 1968, p. 11.

Issue 96: Social Cohesion™

"the average is the only thing that matters" - Jeffrey Epstein in email discussion with Joscha Bach about society, fascism and ant colonies, 24 July 2016 at 12:20am.

Raising Hell: Issue 95: That Burning Feeling

"Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents." - Idi Amin, African summit talks, January 1976.

Raising Hell: Issue 94: New year, New Newsletter

"If there is a neck, there is a collar" - Russian Proverb

Raising Hell: Can I Count On Your Vote?

"Vote early and often," - John Van Buren, New York lawyer and politician, 1848.

Raising Hell: The Future Is Now

“We don't want any of that sort of thing up here," - Joh Bjelke-Peterson, longest serving Queensland Premier, on condoms, as per Sydney Morning Herald.

Raising Hell: Issue 93: The 24 Hour News Cycle Never Sleeps. Neither Do I, Apparently

"Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell," - Clint Murchison Jr, son of Texan oil baron, a'la Francis Bacon

Raising Hell: Issue 92: A World To Win

"When an absolute decision is obtained the system of the victors — whoever they are — will probably be adopted to a very great extent by the vanquished." - Winston Churchill, 9 July 1916.

Raising Hell: Issue 91: A Can of Tuna In The Mud

"I haven't found anybody in seven and a half years shake their fist at me and say 'Howard I'm angry with you for letting the value of my house increase,'" - John Howard, former PM, 19 Sept 2003

Raising Hell: Issue 90: It's called 'f*ck you money'

"Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time," - Mike Tyson, 19 August 1987

Raising Hell: Issue 89: On Climate Change As A Class Issue

"I'm a warrior for the middle class!" - former US president Barack Obama, on the campaign trail in Ohio, 22 September 2011.

Raising Hell: Issue 88: 'Expressing Concern About How Those Customers Would Feel'

"I will simply not do penance." - Text handwritten by Adolf Eichmann in 1956, as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).

Raising Hell: Issue 87: 'Within Scope'

'Pinching $50,000 from a son of a bitch is not theft, it's a good deed.' - Fidel Castro, responding to criticism after having taken money from Francisco Prío, lawyer and CIA asset

Raising Hell: Issue 86: Here's a little gas-fired fantasy

'[...]More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.' - Primo Levi, 17 February 1986

Raising Hell: Issue 85: "Incentives for Exploration"

"Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear" - Edward Bernays, "Propaganda" 1928

Raising Hell: The Book Issue: "We're Not Going to Apologise"

"For readers interested in how the system hinders change, [Slick] is a timely book." - Books+Publishing, 11 June 2024

Raising Hell: Issue 84: Encouraging the Careful Use of Petroleum Products

"My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators" - Dick Cheney, former Vice President and head of Haliburton, Meet The Press with Tim Russert, March 16, 2003

Raising Hell: Issue: 83: Trapped in the perpetual present

'God gave me my money,' John D Rockefeller, Women's Home Companion (1915), quoted in God's Gold (1932).

Raising Hell: Issue 82: We Encourage You To Seek Support

"That’s the trouble with accountability sinks. They store negative feedback, but don’t deal with it." - Dan Davies, author of The Unaccountability Machine, in The Financial Times, 14 June 2024

Raising Hell: Issue: 81: "A Carefully Planned, Intensive and Continuing Campaign"

"As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases." - BJ Vorster, President Apartheid South Africa, The Observer, 1969