"Keir Starmer has probably made his standing in the Labour party worse with the response to the byelection defeat he gave in a short broadcast interview this morning."

Let's talk about Keir Starmer, and what he is and who he really represents.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/live/… It is very clear that Keir Starmer is utterly disingenuous, and what he falsely claims he stands for, is not what he is really about, at all. Whilst Starmer is acting very stupidly, he cannot be as stupid, as he makes out.

Nothing you see about Starmer is genuine or real.
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I should make it clear that I wasn't justifying family or coercive voting.

1) I was questioning the degree of certainty, that this is what had taken place.

2) How and why Democracy Volunteers and Lord Hayward, had gone to the press, immediately after polls had closed.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/2027184167293792259

You'd have thought if this illegal behaviour, had been certainly observed, the volunteers would have alerted election officials at the time to what was happening.

Second, more care and time would have been taken to collate these observations, before contacting the media.
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"Pollster Lord Hayward was reacting to a report issued by Democracy Volunteers, which claimed to observe high levels of ‘family voting’ the Gorton and Denton by-election"

I smell a rat. Lord Hayward is a Conservative politician.

1/🧵independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… "However, Manchester City Council, which is overseeing the by-election, was critical of the organisation for not raising concerns earlier during the day."

These "Democracy Volunteers", never said a thing, during polling. But a ssoon as polls closed they ran to the press.

2/independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

I am very much hoping that Hannah Spencer and the @TheGreenParty triumph in Gorton and Denton, because @ZackPolanski has been a breath of fresh air in British politics. Even if they don't win, I believe this will change things.
1/🧵 It is the first time in my life, that the leader of a party, which could change things, has been saying all the right things, and challenging the stale and disingenuous rhetoric, the media deigned necessary to win power. This is real leadership.
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I want to commend this post, because it is what I have been trying unsuccessfully to get across for decades. Up until the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, climate change had been treated, as only part of a much bigger ecological crisis. The big picture.
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https://twitter.com/ECOWARRIORSS/status/2020307065256960202

The reason climate change was separated from the test of the ecological crisis, was it was wrongly thought that there would be a quick agreement, on phasing out fossil fuels, as had happened, with CFCs causing the hole in the ozone layer, at the Montreal Protocol in 1987.
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The reason I am getting very frustrated about this, is that this is the single biggest danger facing humanity. That there is a complete failure to understand how no one has ever investigated how biodiversity and natural ecosystems, sustain our society.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/2019851912754184597

Everyone, including most senior scientists, just seem to assume:

1) That science, and experts understand how natural systems sustain our societies/civilization.

2) How stable and resilient our societies/civilization, will be to the collapse of these natural systems.

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Hi Caroline, I agree, if the report has been redacted, the full version should be made available. However, as I have been trying to explain to @GreenRupertRead the thinness of the report, is not really due to redaction, and anyone with insight, should know that this is as serious as it gets.

However, the real problem, is that there is absolutely no field of expertise here, no field of science, no institute studying this, no experts, that could tell you what this actually means for our societies/civilization.

I'm a graduate in scientific ecology, I have spent over 30 years investigating this, and trying to alert people to the fact, that there is no field of science, no institute, and no experts, who know what this actually means for our societies, because absolutely no one is studying.

Everyone, including scientists, wrongly assumes there are experts and research on this, but there are none. I have challenged leading scientists, to point to who is doing the research, and where, and none can tell me.

I am being so totally ignored on this, that I feel like giving up, and I have vastly more education and insight into this, than those ignoring me, and stonewalling me.

I will put a peer reviewed paper, in the tweet below, that absolutely proves, that absolutely no one is studying the threat to our civilization, which the climate and ecological crisis poses. Talk about denial. Well, just wait until you start starving to death, and remember I did warn you about it.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/2018757…
1/2 This should be the biggest story in the world today. If anyone states billions could starve to death, in the not so distant future, a lot of techno-optimist climate scientists will come along, and falsely accuse you of being alarmist, because there is no scientific evidence, that says climate change, poses this sort of risk to our societies.

Actually, they are right that there is no scientific evidence, the climate change could collapse our civilization. But that's because:

1) There's no research at all into the resilience of our societies/civilization, to climate/ecological shocks. So of course there's no science to support these concerns.

2) Secondly, the threat to us is from a combination of biodiversity and ecological collapse (which climate scientists are not qualified to comment on) and climate change. No one is researching the combined impact of both. There is no field of science that studies this.

Scientific ecology, only studies the interaction of populations of non-human organisms, with the natural environment, including climate change. It deliberately excludes humans, and human society. I know, because I'm a graduate in it.

The main reason this is not studied, is the complexity, which is many more magnitudes greater than anything else humanity studied. But just because it is complex, doesn't mean we should be ignoring it, as our lives depend on it, and there could be mass starvation in the near future, if we do not get real.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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"Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn"

@ProfSteveKeen has been pointing out the flaws in William Nordhaus fatally flawed DICE model for a very long time. They should now give that prize to Steve Keen.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20… I have been pointing out that the climate crisis will crash the global economy, for over 3 decades. However, I lacked @ProfSteveKeen economics expertise, to explain why, in economic terms. My analysis was derived from ecology and systems theory.
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I'm making a very serious point here. The way natural ecosystems and biodiversity, support our societies and economies, has never been systematically studied, despite us destroying the natural systems our lives depend on, and no one is the slightest bit interested in that?
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/2018718457840181407

Very few people, almost no one, is aware of what I'm saying here. Most people, including most scientists, wrongly assume somewhere it's known, how natural ecosystems and biodiversity sustain us. That there is expertise in this. But where is it? The cat got your tongue?
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I wrote a thread on the ecological impacts to our societies, explaining climate change was just one small, but very significant part of those ecological impacts. Remember, in 2024, UK farming suffered big losses in yield, because of rain.

1/🧵theguardian.com/news/ng-intera… This was the thread I wrote, and without a huge amount of words, I can only partially explain what I was getting at. That we need to urgently develop a holistic, joined up way of thinking, who understand all these serious challenges we face as a whole.

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https://x.com/SteB777/status/2017324537923117401

This is reality, within the near future, I mean the next few years/decades, we are going to get hit, by cascading ecological impacts, and climate change is just one part of this.

Whether we act on this, is up to us, but if we ignore it, we face catastrophic consequences.
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https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead/status/2017160435582029895

I have been warning about the ecological impacts, this report, essentially by the UK intelligence services, warns of, for decades. I suppose I better dig out some links to prove it. But what I said doesn't matter.

2/gov.uk/government/pub…

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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