Archive - Raising Hell

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…

Jul 15 •

Royce Kurmelovs

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).

Jul 1 •

Royce Kurmelovs

June 2024

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…

Jun 17 •

Royce Kurmelovs

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…

Jun 3 •

Royce Kurmelovs

May 2024

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

Back in November 2023, right as I was preparing to jet off to Dubai for COP28, I had a commission come through from Science magazine in the US. The…

May 20 •

Royce Kurmelovs

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…

May 6 •

Royce Kurmelovs

April 2024

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…

Apr 22 •

Royce Kurmelovs

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)

Apr 8 •

Royce Kurmelovs

March 2024

Raising Hell: Issue 77: Long Time, No Trouble

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." - Henry Kissinger, as quoted in The New York Times Magazine (June 1, 1969)

Mar 25 •

Royce Kurmelovs

November 2023

Raising Hell: On The Road: In Dubai

"We, in the UAE, have no such word as 'impossible', it does not exist in our lexicon." - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and UAE…

Nov 28, 2023 •

Royce Kurmelovs

July 2023

Raising Hell: Issue 76: Revisiting That Time I Busted DHS In A Cover Up

"One day he'd take, the next day he'd give. At the end of the month, I was always ahead of the game, getting more than my salary," - Abu Ali, Saddam…

Jul 3, 2023 •

Royce Kurmelovs

June 2023

Raising Hell: Photoessay: On The Road To Narrabri

"We're always appreciative of the side-hustle," - Amy Segal speaking on the interview process at Edelman, a public relations firm that built its…

Jun 19, 2023 •

Royce Kurmelovs

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