Dan

15 countries produce 80% of global oil supply. A treaty of 15 or 20 is much easier to coordinate and enforce than a treaty of 200 countries using fossil fuels.

[Dan @DanFmTo]

The major Western countries' order of preference for outcomes for Iran:

1. Libya model - Total state collapse
2. Syria model - Partial collapse, weak central government
3. Western pliant strongman
4. Current gov survives
5. Actual democracy

[Dan @DanFmTo]

@MouinRabbani Funny that his round table doesn't include a Palestinian.

[Dan @DanFmTo]

It would be a war crime, but fuck if I would be one to complain about it or prioritize for a second the notion they should face justice for it. The US bully has created the schoolyard rules, other countries are permitted to use their rules if they can in fighting them.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

For the record, Iran would be 100% within its rights to assassinate US officials if it chose to. This would be a perfectly legitimate thing for Iran to do.

[Dan @DanFmTo]

Even typing out that hypothetical is ludicrous, no publication in Canada would publish such a column.

[Dan @DanFmTo]

What evidence would Brown like to see? Avi Lewis in a coffin? Assassins don't have to issue warnings in advance of murdering their target; it's very much in their interest not to do so. Probably no one will try to kill Lewis, but the RCMP can't ignore even a 5% chance.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

This plotline, in which @avilewis is in grave danger due to imaginary Zionist extremists radicalized by a National Post op-ed (!) is an utter fabrication & an inversion of the real threats facing Jews every day. I haven't seen a shred of evidence supporting it. WTF @TorontoStar?

[Dan @DanFmTo]

Zionists are ever so disingenuous. If someone wrote a column on how Islamic law says the community must "deal with" Melissa Lantsman and that they must "stop her" from doing harm, Brown would want everyone involved jailed as terrorists.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Some personal news:

Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft.

Today, I started a brand new job at the FAA and things are going pretty well!

[CosmoTrade | تجارة الكون @Cosmos_politic]

الحدث الذي يجري الآن في الولايات المتحدة هائل بكل المقاييس.

تعطلت خدمات الرادار ومراقبة الحركة الجوية في مختلف أنحاء الولايات المتحدة، وتوقفت نحو 10,000 طائرة عن الإقلاع، بينما توجد قرابة 3,100 طائرة في الجو متجهة نحو المطارات الأمريكية.

لفهم خطورة هذا الحدث، فإن الطائرات الموجودة في الجو تحتاج إلى توجيه مستمر من أبراج المراقبة حتى تتمكن من الهبوط بأمان، وفي حال تعطلت أنظمة الرادار والاتصالات بالكامل، فإن هبوط هذه الطائرات يصبح أكثر تعقيداً وخطورة، خاصة في المطارات المزدحمة.

نحن نتحدث عن واحدة من أكبر منظومات الطيران في العالم، وأي تعطل بهذا الحجم يستطيع شل حركة النقل الجوي في الولايات المتحدة بالكامل، والتسبب بفوضى هائلة في حركة الطيران.

حتى الآن لم تتضح الأسباب الحقيقية وراء هذا العطل.

[Dan @DanFmTo]

@policytensor

[Chuck @Semprini20]

A Jewish political leader needs protection from assassination and it won’t get 1/100th the airtime that a broken bakery window does from our Zionist occupied government and media

[Dan @DanFmTo]

This is one of those extremely rare peeks at how Power really works behind the curtain. Almost no one freshly elected in a longshot dream election to Congress would publicly explain how they're being coerced by their party's leaders.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.

His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”

He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”

[Hadas Gold @Hadas_Gold]

Wow - FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all flights due to ‘extrodinary circumstances’ and safety https://t.co/8xLXGUNNG5

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

How Biden discusses Palestinians in his new memoir:

[Dan @DanFmTo]

Assume this is true. Then imagine Iran did accept some kind of US offer on Nov 1st. Who would believe the US would keep to any parts of that deal that are to Iran's favour now? He would just break those parts anyway.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Sec. Bessent on Iran: "They were offered a deal, and they probably would have gotten a better deal before the election. Now, President Trump doesn't think we need a deal, and we're just going to keep squeezing them."

[Dan @DanFmTo]

@sarobertson_ Even if this was somehow true, Iran has lost out on nothing, Trump would just change the deal after the election anyway. He doesn't keep his word at all. Only force & pain deter him.

[Dan @DanFmTo]

@adamjohnsonCHI @SenSchumer So by his own definition of his "job" he has objectively horribly failed, in which case, what is his case for keeping that job?

[Φίλιππος @phileeppos]

Something has materially shifted in the strait of hormuz recently, my own numbers are showing the same thing. There are a few possible explanations for this but Occam's razor is the flow of oil out of the Middle East is genuinely dropping

[Kadott @Kadotttt]

The idea that socialists want free stuff is the greatest lie of capitalism. Socialists want the fruits of our labor to be equitably distributed rather than allowing 10 old men to hoard the planet’s resources

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

These were all built post 1982, amid US public backlash to Israel’s Lebanon invasion. Part of the Hasbara campaign was to put a Holocaust museum or memorial in most big US cities, usually sponsored by a bank

[Dan @DanFmTo]

@wideofthepost Yep. Dems won legislatures in states without US senate races. Schumer can't have influenced WI, PA and AZ

[Dan @DanFmTo]

@SeanPMaloney @SenSchumer How did schumer manage to win state legislatures in states without a US senate race like WI, PA and AZ? Or was there just a general wave he rode?