Casey Thomas Larsen

Strategic Advisory. Geopolitics & Digital Assets. Co-author, ‘Smart Money’.

[Casey Thomas Larsen @Casey_Larsen]

@elonmusk @elonmusk Based.

[Casey Thomas Larsen @Casey_Larsen]

Much enjoyed speaking about the future of digital money at the iTOO Special Risks Unconference in Johannesburg: https://t.co/QOrQ2BWumm

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success.

He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them.

It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil.

If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that?

Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No?

But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS.

The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do.

Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting.

I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil.

I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

Peerage by inheritance is finally gone, replaced with peerage by purchase and influence. And the ghastly meritocratic class calls this progress.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

War is everybody’s fault except the regime that guaranteed war.

It is the fault of those who shared the Iranian people’s cries to “please send help” as they were being massacred.

It is never the fault of the regime that massacred them, terrorized the Middle East through its proxies, forged regional instability, and relentlessly threatened the U.S.

47 years of tyranny is not to blame for war. Retweeting dying Iranians begging for help is.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Strong support in the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia for a CANZUK deal to allow free flow of goods, services, professionals, and capital.

Now is the time.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I don’t care where you’ve been, but I urge you to stand with Iranians now.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

@KamalaHarris Go to hell with this regime and read your full statement to us from there.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian regime has:
🔴Violated the immunity of our legation in Tehran
🔴Abducted and assaulted British diplomats
🔴Pronounced a fatwa against a British citizen
🔴Kidnapped British naval personnel
🔴Seized a British tanker
🔴Backed Houthi, Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism
🔴Supplied drones and missiles to Putin
🔴Sponsored at least 15 terror plots on UK soil
Don’t tell me that this is none of our business.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

The United States of America is drawing a line between good and evil around the world.

Tolerance of evil only comes from those who do not believe in right and wrong.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

It's actually so bizarre watching oppressed Iranians celebrate with relief while all over the world, people and countries are raging and complaining about "legality".

Stand with the people of Iran for once in your fucking lives.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

We are living through the right side of history right now.

Freedom is storming in to eliminate terror.

Take a good look around you. Remember where everybody stood.

[Casey Thomas Larsen @Casey_Larsen]

@PeterSchiff @saylor Ok.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Before the U.N. Security Council, journalist and women's rights activist @AlinejadMasih calls out the Islamic Regime in Iran's ambassador — and the U.N.'s Antonio Guterres:

“The United Nations has failed to respond with the urgency this moment demands. The Secretary-General himself has not spoken publicly against the massacre unfolding in Iran — only a written statement through his spokesperson.

Silence at this moment sends a signal. Sends a message to the killers of young protesters alongside their family members. I strongly believe that the regime in Iran heard the clear message from the Secretary-General.

I think the members of this body have forgotten the privilege and responsibility of sitting in this room. Secretary-General, I know you hear me. I want to directly talk to you. Why are you afraid of the Islamic Republic?

Millions of innocent and unarmed protesters have been silenced with bullets, mass arrest, prison and a total communications blackout.

I now address the representative of the Islamic Republic directly: You have tried to kill me three times. I have seen my would-be assassin with my own eyes in front of my garden in my home in Brooklyn.

In the United States of America, in the courthouse, I have seen my would-be assassin confessing that they have been hired by the Revolutionary Guards to end my life.

My crime? Simply echoing the voice of innocent people that you killed. Let me be very clear: The Islamic Republic behaves like ISIS and the Islamic Republic must be treated like ISIS.

This is how you can save lives. Thank you so much.”

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Dear UN Secretary General @AntonioGuterres:
Dear UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @Volker_Turk:

On behalf of UN Watch, we write to express our outrage at the horrific mass killings of protesters by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We call on you without delay to ensure emergency action by the United Nations to address the Islamic regime’s assault against the people of Iran, which amounts to grave, widespread and systematic violations of fundamental human rights.

Since December 28th, large-scale protests have erupted across Iran, reflecting longstanding demands of the Iranian people for fundamental rights, dignity, and accountability.

The response of the regime has been marked by extreme and unlawful violence. Latest reports estimate that over 3,000 protesters have been killed by the regime since the demonstrations began, and more than 10,000 injured, and many more arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared. Bodies are piling up in makeshift morgues.

Regime security forces have used live ammunition against unarmed civilians, carried out mass arrests, and subjected detainees to torture and other ill-treatment.

Detainees have been denied access to lawyers, family members, and medical care. Journalists, students, women, human rights defenders, and members of ethnic and religious minorities have been deliberately targeted.

Internet shutdowns and severe restrictions on information have further obscured the full scale of violations and impeded independent scrutiny.

These acts constitute serious violations of international human rights law and amount to crimes under international law. They stand in direct contravention of the Islamic Republic's obligations under the United Nations Charter and core international human rights treaties, including protections for the right to life, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and due process.

The continuing failure of the international community to respond decisively risks enabling further bloodshed and repression. At this critical juncture, decisive leadership from the United Nations system and its Member States is indispensable.

We therefore urgently call on you to:

• Call for the convening of an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, the General Assembly, and the Human Rights Council, to address the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Iran;

• Publicly and unequivocally condemn the horrific killing of protesters and other grave violations of international law committed by Iranian authorities;

• Demand the establishment of independent, international investigative mechanisms to ensure documentation, accountability, and justice;

• Demand the immediate release of all individuals arbitrarily detained for exercising their fundamental rights; and

• Ensure sustained UN monitoring and reporting on Iran until the violence and repression cease.

The people of Iran are risking—and losing—their lives for the peaceful exercise of rights guaranteed under international law. You must ensure that the voices of Iranian protesters are heard, protected, and upheld.

The credibility of the United Nations depends on a response that matches the scale and urgency of this crisis.

Sincerely,
Hillel C. Neuer
Executive Director
United Nations Watch

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Khomeini, cunning and inscrutable, was able to build a broad coalition of liberals, leftists and Islamists that gave him astonishing power and allowed him to seize control in 1979.
That red-green alliance tricked much of the Western media including the BBC and NY Times that saw Khomeini as a peaceful papal symbol against the American and Western ‘imperialism’ of the liberal democracies; some in the State Department regarded him as like Gandhi; and the US diplomats allegedly advised the shah’s army not to resist.
That legacy is perhaps part of the reason some Western media including the BBC - nicknamed ‘Ayatollah BBC’ by Iranian dissidents for its long record of sympathy for the regime - strangely neglected to cover the Iranian uprising for eleven days – and why the many celebrity campaigners and ‘humanitarian’ activists, even the UN secretary-general, have bizarrely failed to support young revolutionaries risking their lives against a vicious dictator.

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

For all the college students: this is what real anti-fascism looks like.

One of the most consequential protests in a generation:
Unarmed Iranian people are risking everything to fight the secret police and rid themselves of 45 years of Islamo-fascist ayatollahs and their sick reign of terror.

[Culpability Jones @ShineboxHukster]

@CHSommers Where is Mark Ruffalo?

[Niyak Ghorbani (نیاک) @GhorbaniiNiyak]

London right now

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I’m very sure that if Israel shut down the internet after protests occurred, where 34 protestors were killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 arrested, the BBC would keep it a top story all week.

When it happens in Iran, they don’t. Thank goodness for X/Twitter.