Today, I want to repeat a history lesson, for the War Criminal heads of Western governments, arresting peaceful anti-genocide activists, and for the right, pouring out their hatred of @GretaThunberg.

This is about The White Rose.
1/🧵 "The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪsə ˈʁoːzə] ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor"

2/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

"Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary"

I entirely agree with @BernieSanders. Although the problem is much bigger than just RFK Jr. It's a general problem of science denial promoted by Trump, and the right in general.

1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a… Of course, I was particularly thinking about Trump's promotion of climate change denial, and his other attacks conservation, and pollution control, appointing science denying cranks, to key positions.
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The decline of the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla), is the most shocking species decline, I have personally observed in my life time. Earlier in my life, I was an angler and became fascinated about Eels. They have a fascinating lifecycle.

1/🧵theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a… With my big picture view of things, especially my ecological big picture view, I soon realized that they were one of the most important keystone species in not only the British Isles, but in Europe. They were the most widespread freshwater fish, with the greatest biomass.
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Someone just shared this video short, by @ClareTotty about how to burst the Reform Party bubble, and I agree entirely with her.

In fact, I am astounded at why it hasn't happened already. @XRebellionUK

1/7🧵youtube.com/shorts/nqED5l3… I see Reform as a fake grass roots party, a fake political movement. The so-called populist right, is a billionaire, oligarch agenda, wrapped up in some concocted populist stuff to draw people in.
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"Half of UK adults worry that AI will take or alter their job, poll finds"

The other half are in denial, or are ignorant. Also, bizarrely, Keir Starmer is going all out, pursuing AI.

1/theguardian.com/technology/202… I have been scathing about the ability of AI to replace human intelligence, because the proponents, making outlandish claims about the potential of AI, don't seem to understand what human intelligence and consciousness is. But it will take your jobs.
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"The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them"

Whilst it's true, there's no mention of a single word, that explains why, neoliberalism.

The Democratic Party, and Labour, except under Corbyn were neoliberal.

1/🧵theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Tony Blair was clearly a neoliberal, and so was Gordon Brown. I'm not sure about Jimmy Carter, but every major Democratic politician since, has been neoliberal. Bernie Sanders isn't but he was an independent for much of the time.
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There is a widespread false belief, that creating more renewable energy, and having more electric vehicles is taking climate action.

Unless it is part of a coordinated strategy, to phase out fossil fuels, it is not addressing the climate crisis at all.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1958835448698069229

In the last 10-20 years, there's been a huge increase in renewable energy, and a huge rise in EVs. Yet emissions are rising, because more fossil fuels than ever are being burned. Energy demand for things like AI and global economy growth, is increasing.
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I'm sure there are a lot of people, who think they are committed to climate action, who think I am being totally unrealistic, saying we need to stop burning fossil fuels.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1958835448698069229

Firstly, we've had 33 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, to be systematically phasing out fossil fuel burning and not developing any more reliance on them. Not suddenly stopping, we've had 33 years to do it gradually.
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All my life, I have been accused of seeing things too simplistically. No, I'm actually an expert problem solver.

To solve a problem, you have to refine a problem, to its very basics, and if you fail to do address that, then ultimately, you won't solve the problem.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1958836084604825661

Our modern culture, is nearly all derived from that of several European colonial powers, who developed a certain rapacious mindset and went onto to colonize the world. I'm looking at you Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and Holland.
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"The UK is using Brexit to weaken crucial environmental protections"

This raises serious questions about Keir Starmer's opposition to rejoining EU, and whether he is being controlled or constrained by powerful vested interests.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20… From since well before the Brexit vote, I made it very clear on the Guardian comments sections, that what motivated those funding the Brexit campaign, was primarily removing EU environmental regulations i.e. to weaken them, to profit from it.
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"How can England possibly be running out of water?"

This crisis, this emergency, connected to the climate and ecological crisis, is primarily a crisis of leadership. Our modern politicians/governments, are totally unfit to lead/govern.

1/🧵theguardian.com/news/ng-intera… Our fake leaders, because they are not real leaders, but corporate and oligarch shills, are fixated on only one thing, economic growth, which primarily benefits the very rich, at the cost of the longer term viability of our societies/civilization. They don't care about that.
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Can I make something clear about this thread. I was primarily talking about people in positions of great power, who are never held to account, or examined closely.

I gave an example of 2 mundane fraudsters, simply to illustrate that such people exist. It wasn't about them.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1955441482984517826

The problem we have, is that it has almost never happened, where a senior political fraudster, has been totally unmasked, in the manner of these 2 common fraudsters I used to illustrate, how totally disingenuous people, do exist.
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We need to have a discussion about disingenuous people, in positions of power, and disingenuity, in general.

Understanding this, is central to understanding why the world is in such a mess, and why we have such bad leadership.
1/🧵 If you look up the term disingenuous in a dictionary, you find things like insincere, not frank or honest. This is far too mild for what I'm talking about, but there isn't really any other widely understood English term, that covers it.

2/vocabulary.com/dictionary/dis…

This is the direct, suppression of free speech, with the police acting as an oppressive state arm, to silence what people are saying, to stop government embarrassment.

The only legitimate reason to arrest a protestor, is if they are threatening harm or violence, to others.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1954316232460804301

This has always been the role of the police, to prevent, protest turning into violent disorder, where the safety of others is threatened.

So if someone is threatening to, or encouraging others to set fire to an asylum seeker's hostel, and this is a credible threat, intervene.
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Recently, I created a thread about how and why the world is in a complete and utter mess.

Essentially, modern politics, has just become the puppets of powerful and wealthy oligarchs, and corporations, dancing around on string, to their tune.

1/🧵threadreaderapp.com/thread/1951559… Even if you totally forget about the climate and ecological emergency, social justice, the interests of ordinary people, fairness and corruption. Modern politicians are making a complete pig's ear of running our societies.
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"The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’."

This is dangerously delusional. How did someone so stupid, get such a position?

1/🧵theguardian.com/technology/202… Let's get this clear, being stupid i.e. extremely unwise, is nothing to do with IQ and cleverness. Lots of very clever people, were also monumentally stupid.

You can be stupid, and clever.

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https://x.com/SteB777/status/1929852253604557262

I want to briefly explain this phenomenon, I've seen develop in the last 15 years, certainly within the last 20 years, because I never saw it before then, and I have been walking in the countryside for over 55 years.
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https://twitter.com/michlichen/status/1952063352181514274

Those doing this, seem to have got the idea from commercial music festivals, which I am sure most have been to. Where supermarkets sell cheap tents etc, in the festival season, and where the tradition has developed, where you just leave the tent.
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I use harsh words for billionaire/oligarchs, politicians, corporations, and the media, which the oligarchs own and control, not out of hatred, but because they stubbornly refuse to moderate their behaviour, or see it as a problem.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1951559704729079998

In fact, I have suggested outreach to billionaire/oligarchs, to get them to see that it is in their personal interest, to address the many problems they are inducing, which will ultimately impact them i.e. appealing to their self-interest. And I have been criticised for it.
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I would like to thank everyone, who has responded positively to this thread.

It was written hurriedly this morning to someone who sent me an email, on some of these subjects. I turned my response into this thread.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1951559704729079998

It was rough and ready, but distilled what I had been thinking for some time. I had meant to write it out a few times, but it seemed so massive, so many aspects, so how would I cover it all?

Just how did we sleepwalk, into this mess?
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The world is in a complete and utter mess, on every level, due to insane, incompetent, and just evil leadership, and the manipulation by billionaires/oligarchs, pulling the strings of politicians.

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to say anything constructive.
1/🧵 As most will know, I mainly commentate from the perspective of the climate and ecological crisis. Actually, ecological is every interaction. So when you see a genocide happening in plain sight, ruthless and uncaring politics, that is ecological.
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This is merely a placeholder, because I don't want to forget this, and I have to go out. However, I need to put this down, so I don't forget it.

I can explain why people are not taking the climate and ecological crisis, with a simple observable phenomenon.
1/🧵 People take their cues from those around them, especially their leaders. If they don't see other people, and especially their leaders, acting as if we are in a dire crisis, then they are going to find it very difficult to take the crisis seriously.
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