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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

Raising Hell: Issue 80: A Loss Of Trust In Management

"The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part." - Hillary Clinton, 29 July 2016.

Raising Hell: Issue 79: The New Insincerity

"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death," - Albert Camus, French journalist and author in "The Fall", 1957

Raising Hell: Issue 78: Receipts

"My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy." - Major General Smedley Butler, 1932, former US Marine in reply after being asked to organise a fascist coup.

Raising Hell presents: SLICK (Cover reveal!)

"Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try." - Rupert Murdoch, as quoted in News Corp: Making of a Global Media Business (2003)