@peter102746

Retired Federal Government senior energy policy advisor. AI is an idiot savant based on glorified pattern matching.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Joined October 2015
Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
To my friends in the Ontario PC government: what’s the point of being in power when you allow this insane leftism to continue to dominate the school system? What’s the point?
Total shambles. It’s absolutely insane that this province continues to allow this garbage to happen.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Canada is now the proposed first unique EU “associate member“ and joins the unique family of EU „association agreement“ members such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Türkiye, Israel, several Western Balkan & Mediterranean countries, and EEA states Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
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Jin, Jîyan, Azadî ❤️💛💚
Four years since Jîna Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died from violence in Iranian morality police custody. Her name means “life.” From Israel, I stand with the Kurdish people and women fighting for freedom. Woman, Life, Freedom. #JinaAmini #WomenLifeFreedom
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Obviously tariffs aren’t good for the economy. But wishing Canadians would just simmer down in response to threats to our sovereignty isn’t just wearing economics-only blinders, it’s hoping that which makes us a resilient liberal democracy would just be quiet. No. A 🧵
A very positive development. Those suggesting tariff retaliation might be unwise have been on the receiving end of a lot of &*$% recently. In addition to likely being our best response, this move can also help take the temperature down within Canada.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Pleased to share my favorite photo from yesterday morning. Shot using 3 cameras from a parking lot: this is the Falcon Heavy carrying Roman Space Telescope transiting the sun. More about how it was captured and a video of the transit 👇
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Calling Israel’s war “genocide” because a column of NGOs typed the same two words is not analysis. It is the same trick eugenics used: get enough letterheads in a room and treat the pile as proof. Harvard taught eugenics. Carnegie and Rockefeller funded it. The Supreme Court blessed it. 30 states wrote it into law. Doctors called it public health. They sterilized the poor, the disabled, and anyone who failed their test. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Carrie Buck was not an imbecile. She was poor. They defined “unfit,” measured the people they had already condemned, then cited the measurement. Garbage in. Policy out. A chorus is not a fact. French generals were sure Dreyfus was guilty. He was framed. Vienna’s obstetricians were sure unwashed hands did not kill mothers. The mothers kept dying. Soviet academies were sure Lysenko had beaten Mendel. The harvests failed. The UN voted that Zionism was racism. The vote was real. The sentence was a lie. Textbooks were sure ulcers were stress. It was a bacterium. The State Department called Nazis’ industrialized murder of the Jews of Europe a “rumor” while the pits were already full. Genocide is a legal word. It means intent to destroy a people as such. It does not mean civilian dead in a war against an enemy that hides in hospitals. It does not mean a list of logos used the same headline. Seoul, Mosul, Raqqa: same urban ruin, same civilian toll. The word showed up when the army was Jewish. Eugenics had the deans, the foundations, and the Court. It was still a fraud. Read the Convention. Count the intent. Ignore the pile.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
So it appears Lake Ontario is named as such in the Treaty of Canandaigua, signed by President George Washington and ratified by Congress in 1795.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Canada spent five years renaming its own streets, squares, parkways and universities because the old names made somebody uncomfortable. Trutch Street in Vancouver is now šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street. The Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway in Ottawa is now Kichi Zībī Mīkan. Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto is now Sankofa Square. Ryerson University is now Toronto Metropolitan. Then Trump signed a piece of paper calling it Lake America, and the entire country discovered overnight that names are sacred, history matters, and you cannot simply decide to call a place something else. Where was the outrage then⁉️
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For kicks and giggles @grok create a picture of @peter102747 based on his X posts from the last year.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Imagine if we'd taken the shock of Trump 1 as the wakeup call it extremely obviously was. How much further ahead we'd be.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
AI: “I found a molecule that should cure the disease.” Scientist: “Does it actually work?” AI: “The model says yes.” Scientist: “Is it safe?” AI: “The model predicts it is.” Scientist: “Does it work safely in humans?” AI: “We’ll need a clinical trial to find out.” Scientist: “So we still need experiments.” AI: “Yes.” Scientist: “I’ll get my lab coat.”
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
This is the thing: measles is the canary in the coal mine. It’s the most contagious disease we know, so it’s the first to come back when vaccination slips, and behind it are diphtheria, polio, whooping cough, all the diseases we no longer fear because we stopped seeing them.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Liberal-leaning Bill Maher talks about “woke” Canada.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
This is an entire paper in philosophy - and a great one.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Gillian Tett, journalist: Remember what happened in Chechnya? Russians went in once, flattened the place, everyone said “peace.” Russians withdrew, got beaten back as well. Everyone said, “Peace works.” Chechnya, meanwhile, was completely defenseless. Russians waited few years, went back in again, and operated in even more brutal fashion. They flattened it even worse. Then Russians went back in third time, and there was horrific killing. That’s a brutal and ghastly story from Russia’s past. I would love to believe that Russia is about to sign some peace deal. But the reality is that Russia only respects strength. And if Europe and UK don’t project strength, and help Ukraine project strength, then it will be Chechnya all over again.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
The real GOAT. Ludwig von Mises rebuilt economics from the foundation up, and a comparison to Einstein is not flattery: it is a structural observation about what each man did to his field. Einstein rewrote physics by showing that measurements of space and time depended on the observer's frame of reference. Mises did something comparably radical in 1912 with The Theory of Money and Credit, then again in 1920 with the socialist calculation paper, and definitively in 1949 with Human Action: he showed that economic calculation is impossible without private property in capital goods, because prices emerge only from voluntary exchange. The Soviet planners in Moscow were not making policy errors you could fix with better data. They were attempting something logically incoherent, the way you cannot find a square root of a color. Stalin murdered millions chasing a mathematical phantom that Mises proved impossible before the Soviet state was even ten years old. What separates Mises from most geniuses is the range. Einstein worked physics. Mises worked epistemology, monetary theory, capital theory, business cycle theory, and political philosophy simultaneously, weaving them into a single coherent system. His 1922 book Socialism predicted the collapse of every centrally planned economy with the precision of a structural engineer predicting which wall bears load. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. The math was settled in 1922. The state, being an institution that lives by compulsion rather than consent, cannot tolerate this kind of clarity. Governments fund universities. Universities employ economists. Those economists publish papers justifying central banking, redistribution, and regulation, because tenure flows toward conclusions that flatter power. Mises spent years teaching in Vienna without a paid university position, funding himself through the Chamber of Commerce. He was excluded not because he was wrong, but because clarity about power's limits threatens the institutions that distribute tenure. You want to rank intellectual giants; let's rank them by what they overturned and what they built in its place. Mises overturned classical economics, demolished the theoretical case for socialism, and constructed a complete science of human choice on aprioristic foundations. Einstein, asked about Mises by journalist Henry Hazlitt in the 1940s, expressed genuine admiration. The greatest physicist of the 20th century respected the greatest economist. The tenured mediocrities who ignored Mises respected neither.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
2026 and people are still calling Covid vaccines "untested" Well..8 BILLION doses later means that they are now pretty much THE most tested medical intervention in history And guess what? They are one of the safest medical interventions ever
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Something very strange is happening across Europe. In the span of a single week, NATO countries have seen a remarkable series of incidents involving ammunition production, energy infrastructure, military facilities, and russian intelligence operations. Let me start with what we know. 🇵🇱 POLAND On 7 August, Polish security services detained a russian citizen, recruited by russian intelligence, whose task was to execute a man holding both American and Ukrainian citizenship – in Warsaw. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced it yesterday. According to him, this is the first time someone acting on russian orders has tried to kill an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country. 🇩🇪 GERMANY On 6 August, a drone carrying explosives was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle airport – next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft. Two days later, two drones were spotted over the Bundeswehr base at Mechernich. Also not a rumor. 🇮🇹 ITALY A fire in the powder compression department at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant in Colleferro, southeast of Rome, was followed by a massive explosion. No one was killed. The plant produces 155 mm artillery ammunition supplied to Ukraine through European partners. 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS Within a few hours at Europe’s largest port: a transformer fire, a major power failure, an emergency shutdown at the ExxonMobil refinery in Botlek, and then an explosion at the Gunvor Energy refinery and terminal that killed one worker and injured six. I wouldn’t be surprised if russia is responsible for all these “accidents”. I wrote about this problem two years ago. Back then, Europe was already experiencing an extraordinary wave of suspicious incidents: 🇱🇹 IKEA set on fire in Vilnius. 🇬🇧 An arson attack on a Ukraine-linked warehouse in London. 🇩🇪 Sabotage plots against military and industrial targets in Germany. 🇨🇿 Attempts to attack infrastructure in the Czech Republic. 🇪🇪 An attack on the car of Estonia’s interior minister. 🚆 Attempts to disrupt European railway systems. 📦 And later, incendiary devices sent through European logistics networks – including devices that detonated or ignited in Germany, Poland and Britain. At the time, people could argue these were isolated incidents. Today, we know much more. European investigators and courts have connected multiple sabotage operations directly to networks organized or coordinated by russian intelligence. The pattern was real. It was simply diagnosed late. That is the design. Hybrid war works by staying below the threshold at which any single incident forces a response. Every event, taken alone, is deniable. Only the sequence gives it away. So when another extraordinary cluster of explosions, fires, drones, power failures, and intelligence operations appears across Europe in one week, perhaps we should stop treating every incident as if it exists in a vacuum. Europe no longer has the luxury of automatically assuming accidents and coincidence. Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe. Sabotage. Arson. Cyberattacks. Assassination plots. GPS interference. Attacks on logistics and critical infrastructure. These are not theoretical threats. They have already happened.
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Peter Easton 🇺🇦 🍁 retweeted
Yeah we should be in a reeeaaaal hurry to sign a comprehensive political deal with these guys.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced that he has instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to substantially reduce any future joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, calling them “totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, who he claims has been “unthreatening and respectful.”
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