170810

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170809 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/08/170809.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Alone in the desert - http://supchina.com/photos/alone-in-the-desert/ “Taklaman desert covers an area of 130,000 square miles, slightly smaller than Germany”

UK named as world’s largest legal ivory exporter - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/10/uk-named-as-worlds-largest-legal-ivory-exporter this is just shameful; ban all ivory sales now

End bear farming in #Vietnam - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/takeaction/163/290/035/ bear bile extraction is unbelievably cruel; it must be abolished everywhere

Alaskan towns at risk from rising seas sound alarm as Trump pulls federal help - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/10/alaska-coastal-towns-sea-level-rise-climate-change just the start, alas #climatechange

Internet Archive Blocked in 2,650 Site Anti-Piracy Sweep - https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-blocked-in-2650-site-anti-piracy-sweep-170810/ this is where #copyright always leads…

Putting the “face” in #Facebook: how Mark Zuckerberg is building a world without public #anonymity - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/08/putting-face-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-building-world-without-public-anonymity/ #privacy

‘Tens of thousands’ of modern slavery victims in UK, NCA says -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/10/modern-slavery-uk-nca-human-trafficking-prostitution unacceptable; more must be done by UK gov.

#Australia faces potentially disastrous consequences of climate change, inquiry told - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/11/australia-potentially-disastrous-consequences-of-climate-change-inquiry-told when will #AU gov wake up?