Ross Stanbrook

Lemme out!

The Achilles’ heel of the GCC during any war with Iran was never oil. It was, and will always be water. The Gulf runs on desalination. Millions of people, critical industries, military bases, hospitals, and entire cities depend on a fragile network of desalination plants concentrated along the coastline. The IRGC knows this. And because they know it, they see it, and use it, as leverage. So if Trump genuinely wants to reassure Saudi Arabia and the GCC during any future military confrontation with Iran, then the United States must establish a very clear strategic deterrence doctrine specifically around water infrastructure. Two principles should be established publicly and unequivocally: 1) Any Iranian military or IRGC attack against desalination facilities in the GCC - even if limited and without major physical damage - must trigger immediate retaliation against Iranian critical infrastructure, specifically water, electricity, and telecommunications infrastructure inside the Islamic Republic. Immediate, painful, proportional retaliation that creates real deterrence. 2) If Iran succeeds in causing major damage to desalination capacity, disrupting the production of water for civilian populations in any GCC country, then this should be treated as the equivalent of a strategic WMD attack. Why? Because in the Gulf, water is life. Disabling desalination at scale is not merely an infrastructure strike; it is an attack on the survival of entire urban populations. And once you frame it that way, deterrence changes entirely. The objective here is not escalation. The objective is prevention. Right now, the IRGC believes the water vulnerability of the Gulf countries gives it strategic leverage. Trump’s job should be to remove that belief completely.

@AVL_Social @ChavuraStephen That's it. Reduce it to colour.

@ChavuraStephen Really good performance Stephen. Just one critique would be where you said “reconciliation has two sides, the aboriginals and the non-indigenous” This is incorrect. The two sides are White Australians and the other side is nonwhite Australians.

My thoughts on the myth of national reconciliation skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew…

@Kate3015 But it sounds so easy...

@FredPawle The viagra will be on the PBS.

Child brides for creepy old men. Coming soon to Australia!

@AnthonyCli76261 @DurhamWASP I think Microsoft was a good example.

@dalroyboy @DurhamWASP The Americans have tended to be obsessed with being anti-Trust and continually devising new laws in pursuit of them. I've never really understood why.

“My view is that conservatism has nothing intrinsically to do with big business but with moral and political values. And if business is antipathetic to those values, you have to fight it, with all the methods that are available.” Sir Roger Scruton

@AnthonyCli76261 @DurhamWASP Yes, although it depends on what "progress" means. Plenty of small businesses, farms etc have gone under in its name. The quote made me think of "trust busting", and how little of it we have in Oz.

@dalroyboy @DurhamWASP I just can't think of any examples where peoples lives have been destroyed by 'big business' through no fault of their own. At least not where innovation and progress are concerned and about which conservatives always want to have cake and eat it too.

@AnthonyCli76261 @DurhamWASP I actually loath supermarkets, esp Australian, but they're necessary I guess. I do agree with Scruton on this though, as with most of what I've read of him so far (except when he's waay over my head!).

@dalroyboy @DurhamWASP I hate poking shit at those I've come to most admire.

@AnthonyCli76261 @DurhamWASP Yes. The muzak is a warning: do not enter!

@DurhamWASP Because a supermarket is a terrible terrible thing

@bjkruft74 @reignitedem Yes. It's recommended.

@reignitedem I think it's ok if you're morally bankrupt.

People say...“Just claim bankruptcy” I say...”NO. I can’t run for parliament if I claim bankruptcy!”

@SALAustNZ @OtherSideAus @ReubzRichardson Lol!

@OtherSideAus @dalroyboy @ReubzRichardson 1. The ✡️ are liars & shapeshifters/identity thieves who have completely subverted the Christian church & inserted themselves in at various points in various translations. Jesus was not a jew. christogenea.org/podcasts/socie…

@OzPollies @OzraeliAvi @shallowchal And you're anonymous...

@OzraeliAvi @shallowchal We see you Avi.

People like Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando helped wake Australians up when the mainstream media refused to tell the truth about covid and national decline. We thank them. But the fight is changing and now you’re either on our side or in our way. The next phase requires something uncompromising in its National Identity and Aussie cultural lore. That means more - Rallies.✅ Lobbying.✅ Political pressure.✅ Community building.✅ Cultural revival ❤️🇦🇺 Young and old Australians already know everything has been stolen. The establishment does not fear influencers - it fears the awakened “noticed” crowd. It fears organised Australians standing together in public. Commentary creates audiences. Action creates outcomes. #AustraliaFirst 🇦🇺🫡

@GKCdaily Equal but different.

The equality of the sexes does not consist, as some have supposed, in the fact that women can, if necessary, be soldiers, or that men can, if necessary, be housemaids. If anything it consists in the fact that men are bad housemaids and women bad soldiers.

“Free Palestine.” I grew up on those words. In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them. In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all. Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge. What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that. Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine. In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence? Palestine is still first. So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with. So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews. And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state? You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media. Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position. 📍#Israel

Can Iran be trusted after today? Amid peace talks, Iran was caught red-handed laying additional mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The USA responded by striking the two ships. US aircraft involved were then targeted by IRGC surface to air missiles (SAMs) out of Bandar Abas. The USA aircraft returned fire, destroying the SAM launch sites. Additional explosions were reported in several Iranian cities, even though portions of the internet were allegedly turned back on today, the additional strikes have not been confirmed. No footage has surfaced other than some air defense assets shooting near Isfahan. While Iranian officials may be negotiating in good faith (which I seriously doubt), the IRGC has proven time and time again that the negotiators are not in control of them.

The Ten Commandments are the foundation of capitalism, a system that creates prosperity. Marx, on the other hand, was a Satanist who opposed these values and brought misery. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT!

@JaxTheo1016 @Eyalo365 Although "fair" should also account for Shia eschatology.

Also, while I appreciate and largely agree with your nuclear thesis for Iran, I think it would be fair to insert any country that had nuclear aspirations, unlimited access to capital through natural resources, and connectivity to China/Russia/North Korea, perhaps even Pakistan. A viable example was Venezuela, where "dust" was just removed. The pathway will always be there; all you can do is hope you resolve the situation as it festers.

Americans are so clueless about the Middle East. Here is a story: As part of the negotiations IRGC demanded release of 25 Billion $$$. The American said: only after you give the Uranium. So the Qatari "mediators" proposed a "compromise": We will "lend" Iran 12 Billions. But only for "humanitarian" reasons. Yep. The regime that kills 40,000 of it's own people and blocks Qatar LNG export will get a "Humanitarian" fat check. And they even promised to return the money after the Uranium is out of Iran and America release the funds🤦

@markhoro When psychiatrists burn the DSM.

When will people stop the anti-psychiatry ravings on this platform?

Get back to BASICS to remain HUMAN The Noble Savage brownstone.org/articles/the-n… via @brownstoneinst

Trust is the one thing a public-health system cannot manufacture in the middle of a crisis. It can only spend the trust it has already earned. And the fastest way to burn through that trust is to project absolute confidence, silence critics, get caught being wrong, and then issue the correction in a whisper months later or never at al. Do that often enough, and eventually they will create exactly what we have now: a country that instinctively distrusts official certainty, even in moments when the authorities may finally be telling the truth. That may prove to be the most damaging legacy of the entire pandemic era.

@mdtlion 🤣

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Plibersek Bravely Defends Fair and Transparent Tax Reforms SYDNEY — In a calm and measured interview, Comrade Plibersek patiently explained that Labor’s CGT changes are perfectly straightforward, except when they’re too complicated to explain on live television. With the Politics of Envy™ shining through, she assured Australians that most small business owners won’t be affected they just need to be over 55, own their business for 15 years, and be retiring at exactly the right moment. Reassuring stuff. @7NewsAustralia @tanya_plibersek @Barnaby_Joyce @AustralianLabor @OneNationAus @AlboMP