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@DrNeilStone There are important differences to remember #AlexeiSayle

We tethered to a dystopian war machine through AUKUS. Staying with it is an act of national suicide.

Ok I’ll play. The polls were conducted by Resolve Political Monitor. Conducted for the Nine newspapers — The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Nine, which is owned by Peter Costello’s former board. Not exactly a left-wing outfit. As for the jet — you’re right, it is free. That’s actually the problem. When a billionaire mining magnate provides free private jets to a politician, that’s not generosity. That’s influence-and that’s why it’s declarable. And if you can’t see the difference I can’t help you.

Pauline Hanson has called for Australia to help Trump by entering the war in Iran. 61% of Australians want to stay out of this conflict entirely. Only 13% want us involved. And yet here’s Hanson — flying around the country on Gina Rinehart’s private jet — calling for us to send our people into a war in the Middle East. We’ve been here before. Iraq was going to be quick. Afghanistan was going to be decisive. Between them, Australia lost more than 50 Australian lives and spent over two decades in conflicts that achieved nothing lasting. Meanwhile in Washington, the Trump administration has refused to rule out a military draft. When asked directly whether American mothers should be worried about conscription, the White House press secretary said the president “wisely keeps his options on the table.” Even Marjorie Taylor Greene called them liars for not ruling it out — and that’s saying something. This is the war Hanson wants us to join. A war where 165 schoolgirls were killed by a missile strike on day one. A war where Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz. A war where every stated objective has produced the opposite outcome. It’s easy to call for other people’s children to go to war when you’re travelling by private jet. Promises are easy when you’ve never had to balance a federal budget — or face the consequences of sending young Australians into a conflict that the vast majority of the country wants no part of.

Israel’s Ambassador to Australia says Palestinians deserve the death penalty because they’re “deranged” and “the usual punishments don’t work”. This is what apartheid and genocide look like when they come together. Disgusting.

The National Press Club needs to explain why they think it's appropriate to invite the Israeli ambassador to speak - a man representing a country that has murdered 300 journalists since it started is genocide in Gaza. Hillel Newman should be expelled, not honoured by the media.

💀 The Trapped Animal Let me tell you what happens when a narcissist with nuclear codes realizes he has lost. He does not reflect. He does not adjust. He bites everyone within reach. Before February 28th, Iran was sanctioned, isolated, and weak. The Strait was open. Oil flowed. The economy was functioning. The world was not perfect, but it was not on fire. Then Donald Trump, on impulse, without consulting allies, without a plan, without congressional authorization, assassinated a head of state and launched a war he was certain would be over in a week. It was not over in a week. It is not over in a month. And now every number in his life is collapsing: 33% approval, the lowest of his presidency, only 29% support for the war, his own base abandoning him, 36 House Republicans already heading for the exits. He is the least popular wartime president in modern American history and the war is not even over. And what is coming is the bill for everything he broke. $5.2 trillion gone from the markets. Brent at $116. Consumer confidence below 2008. Bond market posting its worst outflows since the pandemic. Treasury auctions at their weakest demand since 2024. $52 billion fleeing Asia. Fertilizer chains broken. Famine approaching. Fourteen Americans dead. The Strait still closed. Iran still standing. And now he is willing to walk away with the Strait still shut, meaning the one stated reason for the war was a lie or a failure, and either way the dead are still dead and the money is still gone. So what does a trapped animal do? He lashes out. Not at the enemy. At the friends. This morning, from his phone, he told Britain to buy American oil and go fight for the Strait themselves. The Strait he closed. The crisis he created. He told them “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore.” He threatened France because they would not let weapons fly over their territory for a war they were never consulted about. “The U.S.A. will REMEMBER,” he wrote, threatening the nation that gave America the Statue of Liberty. He cannot beat Iran. So he beats up on NATO. He cannot reopen Hormuz. So he tells allies to “just TAKE IT,” something he could not do with three carrier strike groups in 28 days. He cannot lower gas prices. So he tries to sell American oil to the countries whose supply he cut off. The arsonist selling fire insurance. And through all of it, while the world burns and the numbers collapse, his circle trades. Every fake peace announcement a buy signal. Every escalation a sell signal. The Financial Times documented it. Bloomberg confirmed it. A US Senator called it mind-blowing corruption. The war failed for America. It succeeded for the people close enough to the Situation Room to know what comes next. That is what this is. A man who broke the world because he wanted to feel powerful, lost control of everything he touched, watched his numbers collapse, and is now thrashing at every ally within reach because he cannot admit what everyone else already knows: he got this catastrophically, irreversibly, historically wrong. And the people who will pay for it, as always, are everyone except him.

A letter to the National Press Club. Send them your thoughts too, please. What sort of a press club welcomes regimes who murder journalists?

The Press Club cancelled Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges after he submitted a speech on the killing of Palestinian journalists, then booked Israel's ambassador instead. If you wonder why media reporting on Gaza genocide has been so disappointing this is what they think is normal.

This man goes all over New York City and other places holding up a sign that says “The Epstein files aren’t in Iran”! He has a large following and is loved by many for making sure nobody forgets the Epstein files. 👇👇

@PeterWMurphy1 @AlboMP How has it come to this, that to oppose the maiming and murder of children and innocents, to mourn families perished in military attack or genocide, is now labeled extremism? Was it because of their religion and ethnicity?

@PeterWMurphy1 @awambmrgw @AlboMP Let’s not use the word heckled. What we saw was men who were rightly vocal about their hurt, anger & devastation at @AlboMP complicity in the genocide of 🇵🇸 and his active part in a war on Iran. As a non Muslim I feel the same and I wld be vocal if he dared enter my house.

@PeterWMurphy1 @VoteMurdochOut @AlboMP We definitely Don't like - that after Voting Labor - that Jillian Segal now decides (with Netanyahu) Our Policies.

Dear PM @AlboMP Your criticism of people who heckled you at Lakemba Mosque is ignorant. Many Australians (Muslim and non-Muslim) don't like genocide, an illegal war and blatant #Islamophobia from their politicians. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #Lebanon #Syria #Iran

@AdamJSchwarz Her face tells it all... With this president we've lost the respect of the rest of the world!!!

According to Pauline Hanson, asking for policy costings is a “stupid question” - because One Nation has never been serious enough about policy to survive real scrutiny. One Nation doesn’t build policy - it sells slogans.

And how many innocent people were murdered to do the bidding of Israel? “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets”

@tparsi Trump appointed those "Israeli assets" as his negotiators. I wish people would stop pretending that Trump is being dragged along, as opposed to being responsible for, this venal aggression against Iran.

This is fucking treason, and these people must go to prison. American soldiers died because of lies from these two traitors working as Israeli agents. This is so fucking wrong and enraging. We should all be absolutely mad as hell. 😡😡😡 Please share this tweet from Trita. @TuckerCarlson @RealCandaceO @ggreenwald @JohnKiriakou @joekent16jan19 @DougAMacgregor @JudgingFreedom @AnaKasparian @DanielLDavis1 @RandPaul @RepThomasMassie @FmrRepMTG @goddek @robinmonotti @EmeraldRobinson @GCCSG @FMofOman @NickJFuentes @TheoVon @joerogan @jacksonhinklle @hodgetwins @jimmy_dore @GiuseppeConteIT

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war. And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy. But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…