Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake).
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Sep 27 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I want to briefly explain how I make my political predictions, which are much more accurate than other commentators, who are nearly always wrong. Although the intuitive insight bit is less easy to explain. Firstly, I totally ignore received wisdom, and collective belief.
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Secondly, I deliberate ignore, rhetoric, with is always deceiving. Not just the person themselves, but what those involved say about them.
Primarily, I look at trends and trajectory, along with past precedent.
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Sep 27 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
"‘There are ripples of hope’: allies of Keir Starmer say he can prove doubters wrong"
This is dangerous Orwellian nonsense. Keir Starmer has breached the boundaries of what is acceptable, for a Labour politician. He has to go.
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Firstly, and most seriously, because it puts him in breach of international law. He has repeatedly and persistently denied that what is happening in Gaza, is genocide, and has gone to enormous lengths to facilitate it.
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Sep 27 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
What I was alluding to in this thread, is the way the media fails to hold Trump and others to account. It is as fixed as professional wrestling, where the outcome is decided in advance. The aim is to be seen to be fighting back, when aiming to lose.
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Journalists, editors know how to expose liars, frauds and incompetents, it's journalism 101. But oddly with Trump, Farage and other powerful bad actors, they suddenly forget how to expose these cheap conmen, liars and frauds. Why?
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Sep 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Recent studies show that between 80 and 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action."
The populist right, the representatives of billionaires, want people to believe that no one takes climate change seriously, any longer.
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This is classic manipulative gaslighting, and attempted mind control. The idea of the very rich, is to stop people finding out, how many other people care about climate change, so they will conform, and not take it seriously. It's the tail trying to wag the dog.
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Sep 24 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
WTF is going on? The Guardian writes an editorial.
"Trump’s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership"
I write an evidence based thread, showing how to hold Trump to account, and it's totally ignored.
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The whole problem, is that the media and commentators are not holding Donald Trump to account over his lies. I used a simple example of how Trump's present position over Ukraine is totally inconsistent with what he has said over the last 9 years.
'Trump added: “Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years, a war that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.”'
"'Your countries are going to hell': Trump scolds migration throughout Europe"
Let's get some facts clear.
Trump is a European immigrant, to America, which is overrun by migrants from Europe. The US is an immigrant country, being run by immigrants.
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It seems like the MAGA cult has a problem processing this factual information. Because until 500 years or so ago, there were no white Europeans living in North America, were Native Americans. The immigrants came in, and took over.
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Sep 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
People are familiar how cliques work, from office and work place cliques, school, college and university cliques etc, but they are not familiar how they work at high level, simply as very few have access to these social strata, and they are so secretive.
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Does this mean, that cliques don't exist in senior political, executive level management, and the social world of the very rich? Of course, they exist, probably far more so, as such social circles are very exclusive.
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Sep 22 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
Our whole society is being controlled by a tiny clique of disingenuous, manipulative, powerful and wealthy people, pretending to believe in and be pursuing agendas they don't really believe in. They are destroying our society, with their manipulation.
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When I say, clique, I mean a morass of overlapping and interlinked cliques, because these people are often not in the same social networks, and they often differ on some topics. However, broadly they have similar common and vested interests, like avoiding paying tax.
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Sep 22 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
We need to have a talk about disingenuous politicians, commentators etc. As our societies are being ripped apart by these manipulative people. Before I go on, I am not saying only right wing politicians are disingenuous, only consistently more so.
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Disingenuous means basically means insincere, sly, knowingly deceptive. In terms of leadership, that they're effectively, a confidence trickster, drawing people in, getting their confidence, and manipulating and exploiting them for their own ends.
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Sep 20 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
My reason for strong opposition to the modern political right is not ideological, as I oppose all ideology, but because it is a dangerous, delusional cult that denies science and physical reality, best illustrated by climate change denial.
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Whilst there were individual, right wing politicians who denied climate change before the last 20 years, because of fossil fuel industry sponsorship, it only became mainstream in right wing politics, within the last 20 years, and only became prominent in the last 12 years.
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Sep 19 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
The evolution of modern power cliques, that control and corrupt our societies, part 2. The first part, was giving the background, to how we got here. How we reached a stage where these industrial oligarchs, started learning how to control our societies for their own ends.
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The narrative I am creating is very different to the contrived narrative we are told via our education system, and media, about how our system came into being, and how it runs. But my narrative is consistent with the evidence, unlike the false narratives, we're fed.
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Sep 19 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
This sacking of Jimmy Kimmel via the Trump regime threatening the licence of ABC unless it complies with its demands, is just part of a much bigger picture, of the insidious, creeping corruption of our societies by power cliques. - Pt1
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By power cliques, I mean cliques of powerful individuals and organizations, who cooperate out of common interest, to play the system for their own ends. How this works is very different to how conspiracies are portrayed in fiction.
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Sep 16 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
I'll briefly explain why I have had to stick my head into the murky sewer of politics. I actually despise politics, and I would not spend one second thinking about it, if it wasn't putting us in such mortal danger.
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Both the populist right, and the neoliberal centre are trying to undo what small advances had been made in advancing the cause of climate action, and action on the nature crisis.
It's no use campaigning for climate and biodiversity action, without addressing what's happening.
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Sep 16 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
I am sickened by the lying Trumpian right, trying to use the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, to justify whipping up political violence against what they call the "radical left".
Such hate speech has serious consequences, which I want to illustrate with the Utøya Massacre.
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On 22 July 2011, right wing terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik, shot dead 69 young people on the island of Utøya in Norway, attending a socialist summer camp. 33 of them under the age of 18. It remains the deadliest mass shooting ever perpetrated.
This is vital as the main demographic reform seems to be aimed at, are the less well off, the old working class. Generally this demographic, is the least well-informed and educated. They don't seem to understand they're backing a party, which represents the richest people.
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Sep 15 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I'm extremely worried about the quite bizarre analysis of the Charlie Kirk shooting, by intelligent people who should know better, about the motivation of his killer. As I've said before, this is typical of a lone gun nut, random shooting.
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I strongly agree with this point. That the main motivating factors were the access to firearms and the proximity of the target.
This was what separates this random shooting, from a targeted assassination.
I want to make some observations about the Keir Starmer calamity, because Labour's problems, giving Reform an open goal they shouldn't have, cannot be fixed with Starmer changing direction or strategy. He has to go. He is fundamentally incompetent, and arrogant.
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People keep telling me, the problem is Morgan McSweeney, not Starmer. No, if Starmer is being given bad advice by McSweeney, again and again, and is not learning from the experience, this is a Starmer problem, and not a McSweeney problem.
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Sep 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Trump officials reportedly ask Congress for $58m in security after Kirk shooting"
I suppose this extra security will only be for Trump, his allies and at best Republicans.
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Remember, it is only just over 2 weeks ago, that Trump vindictively withdrew Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris. Trump has recklessly endangered Democratic, and other progressive figures, for falsely blaming them for Charlie Kirk's death.
In this febrile political situation, caused by the populist right, blaming the "left" for the killing of their hero, who was ironically killed by a lone gun nut, not a left conspiracy, is the use of the term "left" as if it is a collective entity, collectively responsible.
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Notice how I used the term populist right, not just right wing or Conservative. Because this modern faction, is only loosely connected to conservatism. In other words, I defined what I was talking about. But their use of "left" is not defined at all.
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Sep 14 • 42 tweets • 8 min read
The modern right are not believers in democracy, unless it puts them in power. The modern populist right are totally intolerant of any other perspective but their own. They even attack, moderate Conservatives. By the left, they mean everyone but them.
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I must make it very clear that I am not ideological and that I am not conventionally left wing, even if I have similar principles of social justice and equality. My guiding principle is ecological sustainability i.e. avoiding the ecological collapse of our societies.
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