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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170501 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/05/170501.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Old tune - https://vimeo.com/215326297 well, they seem to be having fun… #china

“family planning is something that occurs between a husband and a wife and God” - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/trump-teresa-manning-family-planning-role where do these nutters come from?

UK “will then have to spend next 20 years painstakingly rebuilding the influence that it so casually threw away.” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/britain-complacency-brexit-humiliation--france-germany-eu-uk

Chinese Government and Hollywood Launch Snoop-and-Censor Copyright Filter - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/chinese-snooping-foreshadows-future-copyright-enforcement EU copyright directive will do same

“Future Farming is a new global brand focussing on smart farming” - https://www.futurefarming.com/ I wonder how sustainable that farming will be…

Local reporters ‘shut in a room’ during Theresa May visit to Cornish industrial estate - http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/editor-says-ban-on-print-media-filming-theresa-mays-visit-is-archaic-as-local-reporters-told-not-to-take-video/ #GE17

ALERTĂ METEO. #România, lovită de fenomene EXTREME, în următoarele zile: furtuni violente şi tornade - https://www.realitatea.net/anunt-crunt-de-la-meteo-romania-lovita-de-fenomene-extreme-in-urmatoarele-zile_2059027.html yikes #ro

New @verizon Video Blatantly Lies About What’s Happening To Net Neutrality - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170501/08442637282/new-verizon-video-blatantly-lies-about-whats-happening-to-net-neutrality.shtml appalling behaviour

post-#brexit price increases: “headline figure of an average 18.5% tariff” for food sector" - http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/05/02/brexit-about-to-trigger-sky-high-costs-for-british-food + sterling devaluation

Trump: US needs ‘good’ government shutdown to fix trouble in Senate - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/government-shutdown-donald-trump-senate-budget-vote this man is completely bonkers

Fifteen countries ask for EU legislation on data flows - http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/fifteen-countries-ask-for-eu-legislation-on-data-flows/ actually this is basically the UK, & it’ll be gone soon…

Green MEP: EFSA should release full #glyphosate studies - http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/interview/green-mep-efsa-should-release-full-pesticide-studies/ nothing to hide, nothing to fear, #amirite?

Merkel presses Putin over anti-gay purge in Chechnya - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/angela-merkel-vladimir-putin-russia-investigate-lgbt-torture-claims-chechnya this is why she is leader of the West, not May or Trump

Theresa May says she intends to be ‘bloody difficult’ for EU negotiating #Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/may/02/general-election-2017-hard-brexit-nick-clegg-politics-live?page=with:block-5908b0e8e4b0f5c69fe5d97d#block-5908b0e8e4b0f5c69fe5d97d yeah, that’ll work </facepalm>

‘He Just Seemed to Go Crazy’: Senior GOP Aides Stunned by Trump’s Demented Behavior in Last 24 Hours - http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/he-just-seemed-go-crazy-senior-gop-aides-stunned-trumps-demented-behavior-last-24 he’s mad

Seals are deafened in noisy shipping lanes, say scientists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/02/seals-deafened-noisy-shipping-lanes-say-scientists we need to make ships quieter and less polluting

Stephen Colbert “interviews” Trump - http://boingboing.net/2017/05/02/stephen-colbert-interviews.html nicely done

Why now is the time to talk to Hamas - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/hamas-charter-antisemitism talking always better than the alternatives… #palestine

FBI translator married Isis recruiter she was meant to be investigating - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/fbi-translator-syria-rapper-isis-islamic-state the ultimate “Reader, I married him”…