Daniel Morasse (VE2DM)

Love Cross-country skiing, road cycling , Electric vehicles, Aircraft Mtce Engineer, B787 Technical Specialist, Amateur Radio Ops VE2DM, ADS-B, Acars.

[M1ECC Antennas Limited @M1eccAntennas]

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[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Dear fellow Americans—please learn geography of why the world is in trouble if Iran crisis spirals out of control. Also, Iran is 3.5x the size of Iraq. If the US couldn’t hold Iraq after 10 years, Trump is insane if he wants to ground invade Iran.

[Bruno Guglielminetti | Mon Carnet @Guglielminetti]

Radio-Météo Canada : la fin d’un réseau d’alerte qui a marqué cinq décennies. https://t.co/xxQv7ufms0

[France Diplomacy 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @francediplo_EN]

🔹Fake news receives 70% more retweets than the facts. When algorithms prioritize user engagement over reliability, disinformation becomes systemic. Regulating platforms means protecting information.

(source: MIT Media Lab)

[French Response @FrenchResponse]

Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial.
Turning it into political theater is manipulation.
Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Since this US administration’s agenda of insulting Europe has now reached the topic of food, with the US Secretary of the Treasury claiming he would “rather eat bugs” than Swiss food, I decided to revisit and expand my list of US food so unsafe most of Europe had to ban it.🧵

[Ham Radio World @Ham_Radio_World]

Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty

https://t.co/rZWHR168M6

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

If America thinks it’s going to win the war with China by trying to slow them down as opposed to innovating, it is destined to fail.

The words here are not mine, they are of Ford CEO Jim Farley and if you think this is just about EVs you need to seek medical help.

The U.S. has a history of using military power to subjugate competition. This is no longer an option with China. Xi is just sitting back with his feet up while America destroys itself from the inside out.

Chinese scientists have now built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips. Once this has been tested and made available, they will do the same with advanced AI chips that they have with EV’s

The U.S. can live in denial all they want but the writing is on the wall and what does Trump do? He drives Canada and Europe closer to China. And that my friends is why Trump is widely regarded by the world as the global village idiot.

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[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.

When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.

The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.

That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.

This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?

Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.

US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?

If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.

If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?

If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?

It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.

Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.

Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.

If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I cannot tell you just how significant this speech is by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.

Europe is in my view about to call Trump’s bluff and I really don’t think Americans understand just how catastrophically damaging this could be in terms of long term economic impact.

Europe has had enough, as have NATO allies. Trump is about to burn 75 years of close partnerships to satisfy his pathetic ego.

Buckle up folks, because I wouldn’t like to be carrying $38.5 trillion of debt right now. Do you know who supplies 75% of all America’s insulin right now? That would be Denmark 🇩🇰

In addition Novo Nordisk is the Danish manufacturer of Ozempic. The Danish Prime Minister says everything is on the table.

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The ignorance and gaslighting of these people is genuinely astounding.

You DON'T need batteries to store renewable energies. BY FAR the most mature and widely deployed form of grid-scale energy storage is to lift water to a high spot with the renewable energy, and when you want to get the energy back, you let it fall with gravity to move a turbine (similar to the way a dam works).

It's called pumped hydro storage (PHS), it accounts for over 94% of all long-duration grid storage capacity globally (https://t.co/BXaeL0SpO8), and it's extremely efficient (80% round-trip efficiency: https://t.co/QN1hOTeFZ3).

The notion that because you don't make a battery you are somehow subservient to China to store renewable energy is simply complete and utter hogwash.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Who could have expected Mark Carney, a liberal establishment figure if there ever was one, to be the flag-bearer for the end of the US-led order? And from a podium at Davos, of all places?

The more you think about it, though, the more it makes sense.

Carney is, at heart, a central banker. As such he understands the power of words and beliefs better than anyone: when you strip things down to their core, a world order - like trust in a currency or a financial system - fundamentally relies on the maintenance of belief. Systems of power exist because participants act as if they exist. That's pretty much it: perception is reality.

Once participants acknowledge the fiction as Carney just did (he literally started his speech announcing he'd "end the pleasant fiction" of the US-led order), the system itself unravels. This is incidentally a formal concept in game theory: the shift from private knowledge to common knowledge is what triggers cascades.

Carney, with his background, ought to have known this was his most potent weapon facing Trump's America: "Trump has the economic and military might. But I have something his power rests upon: I can shatter the collective belief that sustains it."

He's even explicit about this being his thinking: his entire speech revolves around Vaclav Havel’s famous shopkeeper analogy and the fact that the power of the Soviet Union rested on "everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true," on "living within a lie."

As Carney puts it, "when even one person stops performing, the illusion begins to crack" and the entire "system’s power" starts to crumble.

Today, that "one person" was him.

Make no mistake, Carney’s speech at Davos may prove to be one of THE most important speeches made by any global leader over the past 30 years. This is genuinely epochal stuff.

More than anything, what it means is that, to the extent it even existed at all, the West irremediably lost the Second Cold War: a Cold War requires two competing systems. Carney just announced that one of them simply no longer exists.

This is the topic of my latest article: an in-depth analysis of Carney's speech and its immensely consequential implications for what comes next.

Enjoy the read here: https://t.co/Vf5heHU1OV

[Nora #ViveLeCanada 🇨🇦 @noraheuer]

“As part of its bid, Saab says it is ready to share its intellectual property with Canadian companies and allow them to join its international production chain.” https://t.co/lv1FEc0pLu

[ARRL @arrl]

[ARRL News] The ARRL Solar Report https://t.co/vBQMYF5SC0 #ARRL #amateurradio #hamradio

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck...

OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles'

'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources'

https://t.co/pUuHmURtlq

[N6NA @RiverCityARCS]

Learning Morse Code (through Long Island CW Club method) can help preserve mental capacity during aging. Read the article or listen to the Soundcloud Podcast. Members of the Long Island CW Club will speak at our May 6 River City ARCS Membership Meeting. https://t.co/ss27wzacZ0

[Daniel Morasse (VE2DM) @velodaniel]

The bands will be busy since its also the Support your parks Spring edition.For equipment I will be using my IC705 + RM Italy amplifier (100w), one 50Ah LiFePO4 battery, one 1/4 vertical for 20-10m with 16 radials and one vertical with a base loaded coil for 40m. #POTA #hamradio

[Daniel Morasse (VE2DM) @velodaniel]

This coming Easter Sunday I will be doing the Quebec QSO Party from #POTA CA-5864 on SSB and on the 40 & 20m band.
The QCQP is from 12:00utc to 22:00utc. Spotting is allowed: https://t.co/2M9MpNcAvp
For more info and rules: https://t.co/QxRvGvHeG6

[Daniel Morasse (VE2DM) @velodaniel]

Possibly Rubio ? Coming back from meeting the Russian. #99-0003