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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 171214 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.at/2017/12/171214.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Catholic church dismisses key recommendations from landmark inquiry into child abuse - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/15/royal-commission-final-report-australia-child... confirming its utter irrelevance today

It Looks Like The FBI Thought About Prosecuting FOIA Requesters After Influx Of Automated Requests - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171213/13201138801/it-looks-like-fbi-thought-about-prosecuting-f... wut?

RU alt-right, hun? Spare a thought this Christmas for Britain’s political unholy trinity - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2017/dec/14/spare-thought-christmas-unholy-tr... just brilliant

DOJ Wants Protesters & Reporter Convicted For 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171214/16280538813/doj-wants-protesters-reporter-convicted-hidin... er, riiiight

Mike Pence's Holy Land visit in disarray after Jerusalem recognition - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/15/mike-pence-holy-land-visit-disarray-jerusalem-recogn... what was that old saying again? "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

New US embassy building unveiled at special architectural event - http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/article/14283/new_us_embassy_building_unveiled_at_special_architec... looks nice; but what happens when it's under siege by anti-trump demonstrators next year...?

Why does the EPA need a Republican opposition research firm? - http://mashable.com/2017/12/15/epa-press-war-definers-opposition-firm/ obviously they want to undermine that pesky environment thing even further

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is quietly funding an "anti-smoking"  foundation offering $1 billion in "grants" to public health leaders - https://boingboing.net/2017/12/15/derek-yach.html

Anna Soubry receives messages calling for her to be hanged as a traitor - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/15/anna-soubry-receives-messages-calling-for-her-to-be... #WellDoneBrexiters, you must be so proud of the UK you have made

2017 showed the global clean energy revolution is unstoppable no matter what Trump does - https://thinkprogress.org/2017-clean-energy-revolution-ac715480966d/ shafts of light amidst the global gloom