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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 180221 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2018/02/180221.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Stronger storms mean new ‘category six’ scale may be needed - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/22/category-six-storms-cyclones massive #climatechange powered by #GlobalWarming

‘We lose 1,400 girls a year. Who will our boys marry?’: #Armenia's quandary - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/22/sex-selection-armenia-quandary I’m surprised to learn this is a problem; very disappointing

MEPs call for power to tackle ‘vexatious lawsuits’ targeting journalists - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/22/meps-call-for-power-to-tackle-vexatious-lawsuits-targeting-journalists great idea, although I may be biased… #SLAPP

Cambodian PM claims he will ‘beat up’ demonstrators, ahead of Asean summit in Sydney - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/22/hun-sen-vows-to-shame-australia-if-pressured-over-political-crackdown what a civilised chap

Boston Dynamics Audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HJT8SA-Lf0 a good joke…at the moment

Debt for dolphins: #Seychelles creates huge marine parks in world-first finance scheme - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/22/debt-for-dolphins-seychelles-create-huge-new-marine-parks-in-world-first-finance-scheme brilliant move - and a great precedent for the future

EU27 rule out UK’s preferred approach to future trade deal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/22/eu-rules-out-uks-preferred-approach-to-future-trade-deal that having cake and eating it still not really working out, is it? #brexit

Paris: legal challenge to car-free promenade by Seine - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/22/paris-car-free-right-bank-court-ruling-seine “Several rightwing politicians and motorists’ groups went to court against it.” - for the few, not the many, to coin a phrase…

Half of world’s oceans now fished industrially, maps reveal - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/22/half-of-worlds-oceans-now-fished-industrially-maps-reveal #china killing more than anyone else, as usual…

Niederländisches Parlament stuft Massaker an Armeniern als “Völkermord” ein - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/niederlande-parlament-stuft-massaker-an-armeniern-als-voelkermord-ein-a-1194962.html quite right too #am #tr