170213

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170212 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/02/170212.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

How China’s Insatiable Demand for Timber Threatens Congo’s Rainforests - http://www.chinafile.com/china-africa-project/how-chinas-insatiable-demand-timber-threatens-congos-rainforests come on, #china, sort this please

Labour’s Failure and Institutional Analysis - https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/02/labours-failure-and-institutional-analysis/ good piece #brexit #scotland

Trumps bisherige Bilanz - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-und-seine-bisherige-bilanz-big-loser-so-sad-kommentar-a-1134016.html “es mehren sich die Anzeichen, dass ihm bereits die Munition ausgeht.”

Why Does #China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2900195 interesting

Please Write to Your MEPs About This Week’s Critical - and Final - #CETA Vote - http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.nl/2017/02/please-write-to-your-meps-about-next.html here’s what I’ve sent #ISDS #canada

A battle rages for the future of the Web - https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/02/future-of-the-www-timbl-drm/ good piece on how @w3c is betraying billions of web users… #DRM

Stars & journalists lose appetite 4 correspondents’ dinner under Trump - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/12/white-house-correspondents-dinner-donald-trump self-respecting journalists should boycott

CULT Opinion on the #Copyright on the Digital Single Market Directive - http://copyright4creativity.eu/2017/02/13/cult-opinion-on-the-copyright-on-the-digital-single-market-directive-bad-on-filtering-press-publishers-rights-and-tdm-but-putting-users-back-in-the-picture/ some good points, lots of bad ideas… #EU

Lake Oroville dam: mass evacuation ordered over collapse threat - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/13/lake-oroville-thousands-evacuated-part-tallest-dam-us-fail people listening to experts, whatever next?

Britons living in the EU face Brexit backlash, leaked paper warns - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/13/uk-treatment-of-eu-nationals-could-lead-to-backlash-against-britons-living-in-the-eu not that #brexit bigots give a damn…

UK labour shortages reported as EU worker numbers fall - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/13/uk-labour-shortages-brexit-as-eu-worker-numbers-fall after #brexit these industries will be on their knees

UK unprepared for exiting Europe’s green legislation, says Lucas - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/uk-unprepared-for-exiting-europes-green-legislation-says-mp get ready for #brexit to trash UK’s environment

Pant by numbers: the cities with the most dangerous air – listed - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/datablog/2017/feb/13/most-polluted-cities-world-listed-region bad news all over the place…

#Australia’s extreme heatwave is a preview of things to come - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2121089-australias-extreme-heatwave-is-a-preview-of-things-to-come/ “In 30, 40, 50 years, they will be relatively normal”

Sonos hikes UK prices by 25% due to Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/13/sonos-hikes-uk-prices-by-25-due-to-brexit plenty more of this coming soon… #WellDoneBrexiters

Brexit migration cuts could push state pension age up - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/12/brexit-migration-cuts-could-push-state-pension-age/ oh, bad luck selfish old #brexiters - you work until mid-70s

North Korea’s missile test is a high five from one narcissist with bad hair to another - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/13/north-korea-missile-test-kim-jong-un-donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-toys-halt-stand-off love that headline…