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Issue 108: Woodside's Secret Meeting

"He was never wrong," attributed to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, speaking of Lee Kuan Yew, first prime minister and dictator of Singapore - 1998.

Issue 107: 15,000 words later

"They tried to kill me, as you see I am alive, but tell me, were my obituaries good?" - Makarios III, President of Cyprus following a coup and attempt on his life, speech to the UN, 19 July 1974.

Issue 106: Ya Win Some, Ya Might Lose Some

"To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another." - Josep Tito, guerrilla and politician, Message found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin.

Issue 105: Burning On All Fronts

"Sometimes I feel like I’m being paid to curse in front of people who haven’t heard it in a while." - Anthony Bourdain, cook, writer, father, The New York Times, 8 June 2018

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