A big thanks to Rupert Read for sharing this. This is the latest in a long line of reports, highlighting the the unsustainability of our present system, and that serious problems lie ahead. Last week, we had the Nature Security Assessment on biodiversity.
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https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead/status/1230118164366790656

There is nothing particularly new about this, there is a long line of similar such assessments, by all manner of institutions, from military, government, corporate, financial institutions going back decades.

All are essentially ignored by governments, our politicians.
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Let's get this clear. Alex Pretti and another observer, were violently attacked my ICE agents, and then Alex Pretti shot dead, because ICE agents were angered, that they were filming them with their phones. This was assault and then murder.
1/🧵 Footage from the scene shows this in an unambiguous way. Without any just cause, ICE agents violently shoved the female observer to the ground, and when Alex Pretti tried to shield her from further violent attack, he was similarly attacked, without any just cause.
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"Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos this week was hosted and paid for by the $10bn family trust of an Iranian-born billionaire, the Guardian has learned."

Essentially, Farage, like other right wing populists, including Trump, are funded by oligarchs.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/2026/… Which makes a mockery of their claims to be fighting against the elite, on behalf of ordinary people, when they are funded, and backed by the same elite, that they falsely claim to be fighting against.
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"It gave cold comfort to a watching world that fears the future of the transatlantic alliance now lies in the hands of a modern Caligula."

Trump, the first truly mad emperor, since the Roman era.

1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j… Yes, we've had plenty of deranged despots, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Napoleon etc (there's too many of them to count). But whilst all were mad in their own way, you'd to go back to Roman times, to find one as obviously florid as Trump. Trump is an old-fashioned lunatic.
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There are scores of armchair, right wing experts who think the US could easily, militarily take over Greenland. See this video by a military strategist and former Finnish Army officer, who explains why it would be very foolish for the US to invade Greenland.

1/🧵 In short, Europe has vastly more troops and forces trained in Arctic warfare, than the US, and far more equipment adapted to the conditions in Greenland. The US has hardly any.

These right wing nutters, have no understanding of the conditions in Greenland.
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'Trump sent a letter to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre telling him that “considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”'

1/🧵theguardian.com/world/live/202… Trump was never interested in peace, and the liar never stopped 8 wars, he just falsely claimed he did. All because of his demented racist hatred of Barack Obama, and he got something Trump will never have, a Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee made a major error in awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Machado, and failed to properly vet her. Just after the awards, several journalists dug into her past, finding she consorted with fascists, and violence.

1/nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-re… This is the latest in a long line of inappropriate awards to political figure who then went on to promote violent military action and repression. They include Henry Kissinger, Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi. That is not an exhaustive list of inappropriate awards.
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Almost certainly, Donald Trump's attempt to take over Greenland, has got nothing whatsoever to do with security, and this is complete misdirection.

It is about an aim to create an American empire, to get control of all mineral and oil reserves in the area.
1/🧵 We can be quite certain of this, as opening up mineral and oil reserves is almost certainly what the oligarchs and big corporations that back Trump want. It is a clear strategy, and is almost certainly what lies behind his attempt to annexe Canada.
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I want to demonstrate Donald Trump's highly abnormal pathology, with one issue, that is being treated as a bit of a joke. However, as he is deadly serious about it, we should take it seriously. His obsession with getting a Nobel Peace Prize.
1/🧵 The first, and most important aspect of this obsession, is that Trump can't claim he is doing this for America. This is purely about Trump's vanity and ego. There would be no material net gain for America, if it happened.
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The murder of this woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, throws into sharp relief what a liar Donald Trump and his acolytes are. Trump claims to have watched the footage and seen her run over an ICE agent, deliberately, using her car as a weapon. We can all see from the footage, that's untrue.
1/🧵 Either Trump and his administration, all have seriously defective eyesight, or they are knowing liars. The footage clearly show no ICE agent was struck by the car, and the woman had turned the wheels away from them. She also set off at low speed. Meaning the shooting was not self-defence.
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Not since Hitler and the Nazis, has the leader of a major power said openly that they intend to annex and expropriate territory and countries, it has no historical territorial claim to. Donald Trump is openly acting like Hitler and the Nazis.
1/🧵 I am not saying Russia and China are right, but they do have historical territorial claims to Ukraine and Taiwan, because they used to be part of their countries. Whereas the US has no historical territorial claims to Canada or Greenland, as they've never been part of the US.
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Let's deconstruct Trump's kidnapping of Maduro, which is not quite the show of American strength it might first appear. It has been widely reported, that the US had inside help i.e. someone in Maduro's circle, reporting his location. This is what allowed the US to do this.
1/🧵 Without this, it'd have been difficult for the US to mount this raid, as reliable real time intelligence, is crucial to this type of operation. Even if it's known a target is often at a location, this isn't enough, because they may have been elsewhere at the time of the raid.
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"Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society"

I'm fed up with these mindless attacks on @ZackPolanski, on the grounds he's unrealistic. It's those from the mainstream economic background who are peddling fantasy.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/2025/… We're in the midst of a climate and ecological emergency. It is an emergency, because mainstream politicians have taken no realistic decisions, which will avert catastrophe, and now only the most radical change to our system, will save us.
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This is a massive hidden scandal, because this same clique of super billionaire/oligarchs, now control most of the media, legacy and social. They plan to replace a vast amount of human workers with AI and robots. Hence the concocted immigrant panic, as a distraction.
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https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/2005730698188255575

These oligarch/billionaires are fundamentally incompetent, and are corrupted by their wealth, with fundamentally false vision of the future.
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"‘You’re barred!’: Labour’s battle with pubs promises a new year headache"

Either Keir Starmer is the most politically inept person to become PM, or he's a mole, placed in the Labour Party, to destroy it, and is pursuing some sort of hidden agenda.

1/🧵theguardian.com/news/ng-intera… It is mind-boggling how much policy, and decisions Keir Starmer has made, which play right into the hands of Reform and the Tories, and make Labour unpopular. This is plain political stupidity. There's no rhyme or reason to his decisions.
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I made this post, in response to a mindless post by Elon Musk, claiming that 80% of under 18 year olds in Belgium, were foreigners, to aid his far right, racist agenda. I was attacked by his sycophants, all misrepresenting what I said and why.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/2002331906717749491

My point was very simple. The right wing populists, white supremacists, centred in the US, are spreading their white replacement conspiracy theories and whipping up hatred of "foreigners", with no irony, that they are all descended from immigrants.
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This is a very good summary, of the threat to our food security, posed by the climate crisis, with a few ecological caveats I need to explain. However, it supports all my threads about this.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/ng… The big caveat from an ecological perspective is this. Most of these projections, are based on average yields, which is a standard academic approach. However, we need to acquaint ourselves with the law of the ecological minimum, or the limiting factor.
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I'm somewhat baffled about the strategy of not only Donald Trump, but the populist right in general, and billionaires. They have taken in people, by making false promises and claims, which will soon be revealed for the lies they are. Climate change denial is a good example.
1/🧵 Climate change is real and happening, the scientific evidence proves it. Yes, if you got a big platform, and a lot of money, you can get away with dishonestly, denying that climate change is happening, because of 2 factors.
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'There is a growing risk that Russia could attack the UK, and the nation's "sons and daughters" need to be ready to fight, the head of Britain's armed forces has said.'

Our leadership, has a clear case of brain rot, I mean they are totally unhinged. The idea of fighting a war with Russia, is totally insane.

1/🧵news.sky.com/story/uks-sons… The insanity of this rhetoric, is that Russia has a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons, so if Europe were to fight some sort of war with Russia, there would be a very high probability of it going nuclear, and mutually assured destruction of both Europe and Russia.
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It's now clear what lay behind the Liverpool FC parade tragedy. It was nothing but a case of road rage, and over-entitlement, by a narcissistic driver, who thinks everything is about them.

I write this as a lifelong cyclist, who has long experienced this aggressive and threatening behaviour.

1/🧵theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/d… A minority of drivers, turn into an over-entitled monster, when they get behind the wheel of a car, acting aggressively to other road users. God forbid if you get in their way, or slow their journey by even a second. They use their car as a weapon, with which to intimidate others.

I repeat, this is a small, but significant minority.
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Our modern culture, has totally lost the plot. We have lost all perspective in the hierarchy, of serious risks to our societies and civilization. The defining issue, should be the climate and ecological crisis. as this will determine everything in the near future.

I had been meaning to write this thread for some time, but this very confused article about UBI, Universal Basic Income, and AI, prompted me to write it now.

"Maybe we can keep humanity alive via redistribution. Machines that don’t require workers could produce enormous amounts of output, so it might be easy to raise the money for the UBIs of the future."

In this vision of the future, AI will put most people out of work, and we will need some way of providing income to those who no longer have jobs.

It's what I call, a mainstream economist view, where economists imagine the future as being a continuation of the American, and Western economy, as if the climate and ecological crisis, does not exist.

This is because all but a handful of enlightened economists, have got absolutely no grasp of what the climate and ecological crisis means for us, as they are totally lacking in any relevant knowledge about this.
theguardian.com/business/2025/…
1/🧵 “There are now no non-radical futures. The choice is between immediate and profound social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly closing.” Professor Kevin Anderson, leading climate scientist @KevinClimate

I keep using this quote from Prof Kevin Anderson, because it perfectly sums up this situation, and he is a leading climate scientist.

I have my own framing of this situation, which is much older, and wider, but I am not a highly published leading climate scientist, so I am saying, don't take my word for it, listen to this.

The whole problem, and this is the real crisis, not say anthropogenic climate change ACC itself, is that there is profound denial about what this, and several degrees Centigrade of warming, actually means for us.

Even many climate scientists, cannot get their head around what this means. They cannot grasp that the economic model, industrial capitalism, or whatever you want to call it, and the societies and economies it gave rise to, are over. What we have done, makes the future, radically different, no matter what route we chose.
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/04/18/no-…
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