The Quiet Voter

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[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

Netanyahu needs to go.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@CanadaGoose911 We are all equal, period

[Lorne Doerkson @LDoerkson]

British Columbia is Canada's gateway to the Asia-Pacific.

Today's Roberts Bank Terminal 2 announcement is a major step forward for jobs, investment, and trade in our province.

Our incoming government is ready to work with Ottawa to get it built.

Full statement below.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@elonmusk FEAR MONGERING

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@CraigKeatingNV NDP has no future.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@matt_kercher If we look at your past tweets, its pretty clear, you have no idea what you are talking about.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@dockevinmcleod Got one too, 3 months in and loving it. Went electric since the big Finnish studies used 80-100°C and infrared only gets to ~50-60°C. Did you add red light after?

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

Great idea. Hard work and efficiency should be rewarded.

[Kevin Mcleod @dockevinmcleod]

If the next health minister in BC wants to try something different…

Fully publicly funded.
Reward efficiency and hard work.
Fixed cost.
Shorten waiting times.
Benefits of capitalism without privatization.

Take an operating room in a public hospital and create a partnership agreement with everyone who works in that room. The surgeon, the anesthesiologist, the nurses, the porter, the cleaning staff. Everyone is an equal partner. No one is more or less important to the team.

All staff are paid their current contract bargained rates. Decide on the cost to get a procedure done, say a hip replacement in a hospital over and above the staff cost. Let’s say $500. For each procedure done that partnership gets $500. If they can be more efficient, stay later, help each other with tasks that don’t necessarily fall in their previous scope, be flexible with breaks, have some hussle… there is a “profit” at the end of the day based on their productivity. That gets split equally between the group.

Introduce some of the benefits of pay for performance or capitalism while maintaining full public funding, no jumping the queue, no privatization, and giving people the opportunity to create efficiencies and heck be rewarded for that harder work instead of the current everyone gets the same no matter what.

Reward efficiency instead of accepting mediocracy. I can see unions not happy with this but why not give some of your members the opportunity to choose to work in that room and maybe take home a bit more for the extra work they put in to the day.

Pay for performance might just increase performance.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@mattjdh Independent review. If your recall Eby’s 1 billion dollar accounting error ? He said he’s committed to reducing deficit as the interest payments on this are huge.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@gwplant @lazy_yoda @RobShaw_BC @LDoerkson Last time I checked, we live in democracy. So gotta accept it for next 4 years.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

I love the smell of victory on a Sunday morning!
Let’s super charge BC

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@EP40isgay Take the turban off. It was Surrey that voted him out!

[Mortimer @mortimer_1]

Zussman ends up with no job, no integrity and no reputation.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@jessysahota_ @RRSSandhu @Conservative_BC @LDoerkson Congratulations ! Don’t forget the reasons British Columbians voted for you. Let’s get to business and bring prosperity back to BC. More jobs, more growth and business friendly policies.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@lazy_yoda @RobShaw_BC @LDoerkson Jealous much ? British Columbians voted for this. I’m happy with this decision.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

Man! Lorne soounds like a perfect Premier!

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

What a great night for British Columbia. No more Eby! Lets unleash the great potential of our province. So excited for Lorne.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@katy_merrifield What a great campaign you ran! Congratulations!

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

Need to be ruthless in the first year.

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

No, the NDP will still have near-total institutional control in BC, and will spend 4 years fighting the Conservatives to keep it.

The Conservatives will have to be ruthless in routing them out if they want to implement their ideas.

And if they don't, their policies will fail.

[The Quiet Voter @_navD]

@sr78 Nothing wrong with Danielle Smith. Alberta is prosperous right now under her.