Twitter ..? 19 04 13 (7) 25 2 3

Twitter as a force for good in the world..? 19 04 12

Just recently I have taken to reading Twitter more and more and probably a big reason is that it deals with all the injustice going down in the world. The way it works is that after reading someone’s "tweet" one gets to "retweet" to signal one shares the same view, and thus join an ever-increasing throng of people who dislike injustice as much as I do.

Not just injustice, but also for example telling the way it is with Politicians who are so used to telling lies, that just roll off their tongues, it is as if these people never ever get to look in the mirror..?

Then there are the misdemeanours of “Big Business”..?

One of the nice things about it is Twitter's use of video showing people off for denying their behaviour of just a short while ago, as if the public's memory is as short and as selective as their own..?

The hot items at the moment are the Brexit negotiations between the EU and British governments, and the UK's worst mess in Parliament in recent times, when newspapermen like Rupert Murdoch's disreputable Times International, increasingly are being held to account for misrepresenting the facts concerning business practices in the UK and the USA, whilst remaining silent about how much better the EU has been in terms of side-stepping the so-called "Free trade deals" which support only the interests of big business corporations like the corrupt Pharmaceutical industries, especially in the USA..?

...when it is beginning to look like the BBC is also complicit in slanting the news in favour of "big business" too, an institution that once upon a time was proud of its record in remaining impartial but showing both sides of an argument without bias...

More later after a wee while if you like this introduction..? 

 2019 04 23

 So this morning before rising I went into Twitter and got to re-tweet about a few things dear to my heart, like:

 1) being in support of US Congressman Adam Schiff who i have started following for his taking the US Attorney General to task and telling us that instead of representing the interests of the whole of the USA he only represents one man, his boss Donald Trump.

 2) the same guy for his stance on the Paris Climate Change accord for his willingness to rein in big business to secure the planet Earth's future for future generations...

3) Likewise Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi for their support for our planet and concern to take steps to reduce the US and other countries' over-use of fossil fuels, etc

 4) then actor Mark Ruffalo for showing a video of Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr's entitled Unresolved Crime where she tells about all the dark money that was used to bankroll the British Brexit Referendum Campaign, and how these criminal elements are still walking free as the Conservative Government refuse to bring them to account...

 More tweets perhaps later!!!?    ... 

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