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Issue 104: Violet CoCo On Gaza And Climate Change

'We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."' - Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963

Issue 103: The Right's Big 'Mission Accomplished' Moment On RCP8.5

"It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." - Deng Xiaoping, speech at the Communist Youth League conference in July 1962.

Issue 102: All Quiet On The Climate Front

"Nothing would please me more [than to expel the Americans], but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America." - Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan military officer, revolutionary and dictator, 2 April 1973.

Issue 101: You Always Remember Your First Time

“I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." - JD Vance, author and Vice President of the USA, 14 April 2026.

Issue 100: Australia won't talk about the ICJAO

"I think we agree, the past is over." - former US President George Bush, March 2000.

Issue 99: Bombing Out On Iran

"You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong but are useless for right." - Character in dialogue from The Confidence-Man (1857) by Herman Melville.

Issue 98: Climate Change Is Killing The Liberal Party

"As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man." - Senator Ferrari, black market operator and people smuggler, Casablanca, 1944

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