Profile picture
GeorgeMonbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
, 3 tweets, 1 min read Read on Twitter
This hospital saved my life last year. Now it is being carved up and privatised to allow private companies to suck money out of the public sector. We are governed by dangerous extremists.
theguardian.com/society/2019/m…
Like so many institutions, the staff are wonderful, extremely hard-working and entirely committed to their patients.
But their jobs are in the hands of those who don't seem to give a cuss about human wellbeing.
We are a society of altruists, governed by psychopaths.
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to GeorgeMonbiot
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @GeorgeMonbiot see all

Profile picture
GeorgeMonbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
#Oxford's city centre is dying at astonishing speed. So many boarded-up shops, you could mistake this very rich city for one of the most depressed places in Britain. Thread/
Its famous Covered Market, founded in 1774, once fully occupied by small independent businesses, is in serious trouble. 5 of its 9 fresh food sellers have closed in the past 2 years.
Why is this happening? Because, with massive council support, the focus of the city has been shifted half a mile westwards with the massive enlargement of the Westgate Centre, a shopping mall known to some residents as the Death Star.
Read 5 tweets
Profile picture
GeorgeMonbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
Youth climate strikers: This is an existential crisis.
About 10,000 older people: Hypocrites! We won't listen to anyone who isn't living in a barrel, with no clothes or possessions, and living on nothing but murky water.
I'm told there's already a name for this: the Tu Quoque Fallacy. Thanks to those who pointed that out.
And if you do live in a barrel, with no clothes or possessions, subsisting only on murky water, we'll dismiss you as a weirdo, and won't listen to you either.
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
GeorgeMonbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
Fun, fun, fun: let's get the kids excited about the planes we manufacture to blow people up. At (checks notes) the Big Bang Fair
It could be a plotline from the Simpsons. Except that this cynical exercise in sanitising mass death is not remotely funny.
To those who say "but we need to sell warplanes to Saudi Arabia for the sake of jobs":

If Something Is Morally Wrong, Creating Employment Does Not Make It Morally Right.
Read 3 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
WaterBluSky
@MsMariaT
(5/15) Alexander Nix (Cambridge Analytica) meeting with Rodrigo Duterte campaign assocs, at national press club in Manila, Phillippines:
"Guardian has seen an email from Nix (1/26/15), ref'g to the “Israeli team”.

It says: “Although it is outside of our remit, I have asked for an update on what the Israeli team has been working on & what they will be delivering between now/the election.”

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
"They were planning on stealing the election’: Explosive new tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression, manipulation and bribery

Prev unknown recording reveals extraordinary ‘black ops’ on three continents"

(h/t @karolcummins )

opendemocracy.net/en/they-were-p…
Read 116 tweets
Profile picture
AndyHS
@AndyHS
Down at the Fresno City Council meeting February 28,2019! Among the items today are $66 million for Transformative Climate Community Agreement (TCC), Sustainable Groundwater Act (SGMA) and its effect on Local Asian farmers and a Legal Workshop.
Consent Calendar: 
Approve the appointment of Bob Wilson to the Housing and Community Development Commission 
Approve the appointments of Tony Canales to the Capital Projects 
Approve Oversight Board and Melanie Ruvalcaba to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC)
Reject all bids for the purchase of Streetlight LED Luminaires 
Approve a Policy on Conditions for Roadway Closures and Lane Closures. Invocation this morning by Tom Sims from 4141 Ministries @tomsims
Read 97 tweets
Profile picture
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
@Iyervval
Note on possible #IAF #airstrike today. There is NO SUCH THING as "terror camps". These aren't concentrated like schools or colleges. These are disaggregated and dispersed AT ALL TIMES. If targets were struck they would be military targets
.2n this IAF Embraer 145 AWACS was patrolling since the early hours. Watchers know this is an unusual pattern, although it did come close to the area of the alleged strike, it patrolled South as well. The plane has since returned to base. Source: @zone5aviation #IAF #airstrike
.3n for context..here is where balakot is
Read 106 tweets
Profile picture
Dax Raven06
@daxravens06
Passed forward by Malcolm Nance is how I read this. Thread to follow w/o be the article itself ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…
1)
 Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions,
2)
 argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped America’s burst of radical right-wing attacks on working conditions, consumer rights and public services,
Read 118 tweets
Profile picture
Sursdik
@SURSDIK
Is President Obama Reading A Muslim Book Called The Post-American World? wafflesatnoon.com/is-president-o…
Why was this immediately disregarded as false?
What is ‘Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria’?
Why is this relevant?
Why would the President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA be reading this book?
What church did BO attend as pre-POTUS?
Who was BO’s mentor?
How is Alwaleed and HRC connected?
Who was HRC’s mentor?
How is Alwaleed and Bush Sr./Jr. connected?
What occurred post 9-11?
What war did we enter into?
What was the purpose and disclosures given re: justification?
Who financed 9-11?
Read 1560 tweets
Profile picture
Karol 🌿 (Authentic Acct)
@karolcummins
💣Buckle Up!💣

It’s about to get real folks!

Mueller asks witnesses turn in phones for inspection.

Hannity freaks! Witnesses: destroy your phones!-too late #Traitor, Mueller has it all.

Comey: FBI leadership was “convinced” that Sessions would recuse from RU related inv’ns
💣Buckle Up!2💣

Rosenstein wd step aside from the RU inv’n if necessary,

An RU offered Ivanka a Trump-Putin mtg

Mulvaney nuked advisory board of the CFB.

“Sergei Prikhodko, Putin’s COS demoted.” Caught chatting w/ Deripraska on tape & vid re interference with US 2016 Elex.
💣Buckle Up!3💣

Stormy files suit & alleges old lawyer was a 'puppet' for Trump.

Manafort’s attorney hires an ethics atty!

Oh look! 45 might fire Pruit to distract! Fox news on attack.

Corker: “the admin is abusing the Section 232 authority delegated to the Pres by Congress”
Read 60 tweets

Trending hashtags

#EnemyCombatants #TheGame #MaddowBlog #MOAB #Najib #FinCENFuqqed #MuellerISComing #Health #DebunkingYourVerdicts #changed #BuhariPolitics #AI #Democrat #my #FEMA #SEBI #PulwamaAttack #never #Memo #StayCoolOldSchool #dnd #principles #economy #BringBackAbhinandan #SeaPlane
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!