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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181105.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#China doubles spending on security-related building in #Xinjiang – report - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/06/china-human-rights-xinjiang-un-council appalling oppression of #uyghurs

Ivanka Trump to get 16 new China trademarks, including one for ‘voting machines’ - https://boingboing.net/2018/11/05/trump-brand-voting-machines.html er, wut?

Of Hypocrisy and Democracy - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/of-hypocrisy-and-democracy/ copyright companies are shocked that Internet users dare to write to their MEPs about #eucopyright directive and its harms, instead of meekly accepting yet more loss of freedoms

Arron Banks’s firm and Leave.EU face £135k fines over data misuse - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/06/arron-banks-firm-and-leave-eu-face-135k-fine-over-data-misuse more abuse and cheating by #brexiters…

European 'clearing house' to bypass US sanctions against Iran - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/06/european-clearing-house-to-bypass-us-sanctions-against... should have been done years ago

BHP Billiton facing £5bn lawsuit from Brazilian victims of dam disaster - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/06/bhp-billiton-facing-5bn-lawsuit-from-brazilian-victims-of-dam-disaster quite right: sue them into the (polluted) ground

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181104.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

UK’s top lawyers urge Theresa May to back second Brexit vote - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/05/uks-top-lawyers-urge-theresa-may-to-back-second-brexit-vote wow, the momentum for #peoplesvote is incredible now

Tower of London lights up in stunning Armistice memorial - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/05/tower-of-london-lights-up-in-stunning-armistice-memorial lovely pic

Czech activists collect signatures for laying off animal cages across Europe - https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/czech-activists-collect-signatures-for-laying-off-the-use-of-cages-in-the-eu/ this massive animal abuse must stop

Metropolitan police rush to set up no-deal Brexit ‘safety net unit’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/05/brexit-metropolitan-police-rush-set-up-no-deal-safety-net-unit “British police officers checked SIS II about 539m times in 2017 alone.” #brexitshambles will make the UK less safe from criminals

Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/05/tim-berners-lee-launches-campaign-to-save-the-web-from-abuse uphill battle, alas…

The Case #ForTheWeb - https://g8fip1kplyr33r3krz5b97d1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Case-ForTheWeb.pdf @timberners_lee’s new contract for the Internet…

yikes - air quality in UK bad at the moment- https://aqicn.org/here/ what’s driving that?

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181103.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

The Secret of Eternal Growth - http://ifreetrade.org/article/the_secret_of_eternal_growth_the_physics_behind_pro_growth_environmentalism interesting and thought-provoking: “We will use unlimited knowledge and clean exergy from solar or nuclear power to drive endless improvements in human wellbeing and flourishing.”

Marr founders on the Rocks of Arron Banks’s muddy waters - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/04/marr-founders-on-the-rocks-of-arron-banks-muddy-waters #marr totally out of his depth; they should have sent in a real journalist…

Post-#Brexit US trade deal risk to food safety, says ex-environment minister - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/04/post-brexit-us-trade-deal-risk-to-food-safety-says-ex-environment-minister yup: even US gov admits it has dirty, dangerous meat: https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181102.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

“the UK could become the first satellite of the Trumpian, American space. This is the aim of British supporters of ‘No deal’” - https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/anthony-barnett/trump-or-brussels-brexit-and-art-of-no-deal

Trafficked Europeans may have to pay to stay in UK post-Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/03/protest-fees-trafficked-europeans-brexit this kind of #brexiter compassion makes one really proud, #amirite?

Arron Banks faces new claims of misleading MPs over Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/03/arron-banks-faces-new-claims-of-misleading-mps-over-brexit the new #brexit lies and cheating now emerging get worse by the day…

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181101.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Handshake’s $200K Pledge Extends Reach of Open Source Initiative - https://opensource.org/node/951 “has pledged the entirety of their venture capital investment (approximately US $10.2M) to the free and #opensource software community”

‘It became a form of therapy’: the Londoner who writes #NotestoStrangers - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/02/it-became-a-form-of-therapy-the-londoner-who-writes-notestostrangers-andy-leek #london

Small And Medium Publishers Protest EU Link Tax, Which Will Harm Them, While Helping Only Large Publishers - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181030/17274340942/small-medium-publishers-protest-eu-link-tax-which-will-harm-them-while-helping-only-large-publishers.shtml bad for the public, bad for publishers #article11

one of the most effective groups working for a #PeoplesVote, @OFOCBrexit, needs dosh for its vital work: https://www.gofundme.com/ofoc-the-time-is-now FWIW I’ve given… #brexitshambles

May urged to clarify whether she blocked Arron Banks investigation - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/02/theresa-may-arron-banks-leave-eu-campaign-investigation staggering failure of duty to the country… #brexitshambles

The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a #Linux Desktop? - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/asus-eee-how-close-did-world-come-linux-desktop good piece about an important machine, crushed by bully-boy #microsoft

“#Brexit, to me, is like slitting your own throat and going to bed saying: ‘I’ll see how I am in the morning.’ " - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/02/mark-gatiss-the-league-of-gentlemen-was-a-premonition-of-brexit

Antarctic’s future in doubt after plan for world’s biggest marine reserve is blocked - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/plan-create-worlds-biggest-nature-reserve-antarctic-rejected shame on #china, #russia and #norway - history will remember (if we have any…)

US rebuffs Europeans over ensuring #Iran sanctions exempt food and medicine - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/iran-sanctions-us-european-humanitarian-supplies trump is a callous & disgusting human being

#Brexit: The Movie producer charged with £500,000 fraud - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/02/david-shipley-brexit-the-movie-producer-charged-fraud every single aspect of #brexit was a lie and a fraud

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181031.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

China’s ‘legal trade’ announcement could sound the death knell for tigers and rhinos - https://eia-international.org/chinas-legal-trade-announcement-sound-death-knell-tigers-rhinos/ #shame on an arrogant and egotistical #china

Supply and demand: understanding Chinese involvement in coal projects overseas - https://pandapawdragonclaw.blog/2018/10/31/supply-and-demand-understanding-chinese-involvement-in-coal-projects-overseas/ #chian behaving badly again… #dirtycoal

Arron Banks faces criminal inquiry over Brexit campaign - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/01/arron-banks-referred-to-agency-over-suspected-offences-in-brexit-campaign clearly time to halt the illegal #brexit

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/10/181030.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#article11 of #eucopyright directive: Room For Interpretations Could Lead To Spanish Conditions - https://ancillarycopyright.eu/news/2018-10-30/room-interpretations-could-lead-spanish-conditions and publishers went bankrupt in spain…

#Leistungsschutzrecht: Postfaktische Politik - https://archiv.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/jahr/2018/10/leistungsschutzrecht-postfaktische-politik/ “Dass die großen Presseverlage ausgerechnet für das LSR mit Methoden streiten, mit denen sie ihre Glaubwürdigkeit aufs Spiel setzen, ist erstaunlich.” #article11 #eucopyright directive