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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181211.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

McDonald’s to curb use of antibiotics in its beef supply - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/12/mcdonalds-to-curb-use-of-antibiotics-in-its-beef-supply this must be effective, not token, and everyonen else must follow suit - this is a huge emergency

Four million Europeans’ signatures opposing #Article13 have been delivered to the European Parliament - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/four-million-europeans-signatures-opposing-article-13-have-been-delivered-european EU politicians must listen if they want people to take the European project seriously #copyright

How Bike-Sharing Services And Electric Vehicles Are Sending Personal Data To The Chinese Government - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181211/02563441198/how-bike-sharing-services-electric-vehicles-are-sending-personal-data-to-chinese-government.shtml anything online can be subverted for surveillance #privacy

Shadow rapporteurs take stand against Parliament’s handling of #copyright directive - https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/shadow-rapporteurs-take-stand-against-parliaments-handling-of-copyright-directive/ too important to rush through…

How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/how-native-american-tribes-are-bringing-back-the-bison-from-brink-of-extinction rare good news

Urge Ecuador’s New Oil-Friendly Environmental Minister to Reject Yasuní Oil Drilling - https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/urge-ecuadors-new-oil-friendly-environmental-minister-to-reject-yasuni-oil-drilling

EU public says enough is enough on tobacco control - https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/opinion/eu-public-says-enough-is-enough-on-tobacco-control/ no: a small sample with skewed majority (66%) of smokers and ex-smokers say that to misleading questions. in real-life, we want lots more control, please…

Tech Giants Warn US Govt. Against EU’s ‘#Article13’ Plans - https://torrentfreak.com/tech-giants-warn-us-govt-against-eus-article-13-plans-181212/ #uploadfilters #copyright

Canal+ commits copyfraud, gets Banksy’s painting-shredding video removed from Youtube - https://boingboing.net/2018/12/12/notice-and-staydown.html this will be much easier with #article13 #uploadfilters - no penalties for false claims

TV, Sports & Movie Companies Still Freaking Out That EU Copyright Directive Might Include A Safe Harbor For Internet Platforms - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181212/07323441206/tv-sports-movie-companies-still-freaking-out-that-eu-copyright-directive-might-include-safe-harbor-internet-platforms.shtml #article13

Legacy Copyright Industries Lobbying Hard For EU #Copyright Directive… While Pretending That Only Google Is Lobbying - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181212/07074641205/legacy-copyright-industries-lobbying-hard-eu-copyright-directive-while-pretending-that-only-google-is-lobbying.shtml

181211

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181210.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

What is behind the spread of a mysterious allergy to meat? - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/11/mysterious-allergy-to-meat-alpha-gal-lone-star-tick ticks. are. Evil.

#Brexit is a failed project. Labour must oppose it - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/11/brexit-labour-second-referendum-vote-remain-paul-mason it must indeed if it wants to retain any political credibility for the future… #brexitchaos

Copyright Directive: how competing big business lobbies drowned out critical voices - https://corporateeurope.org/power-lobbies/2018/12/copyright-directive-how-competing-big-business-lobbies-drowned-out-critical very thorough exploration of how the playing field is completely tilted in favour of big business and big money in the world of #copyright legislation

Facts not fakes. Do not kill neighboring rights - https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/facts-not-fakes-do-not-kill-neighboring-rights shameful piece by a journalist who ought to know better; wants to make facts subject to #copyright - something that has never been the case for 300 years… #article11

“Occasionally he may risk his life” - https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/facts-not-fakes-do-not-kill-neighboring-rights this constant appeal to emotion underlines the fact that the author knows the facts are not on his side: #article11 will not bring in more money for journalists, or even publishers - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/eu-reform/article-11-driven-by-rhetoric-not-by-arithmetic/

The EU says it wants Europeans to engage with it: now that 4 MILLION of them have opposed mass censorship through #Article13, will they listen? - https://boingboing.net/2018/12/11/kill-article-13-now.html nope #article13

Dover checks ‘would take eight hours per lorry’ in no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/11/dover-checks-would-take-eight-hours-per-lorry-in-no-deal-brexit Road Haulage Association warned: “plans for no-deal Brexit were “dire” and the sector faced a catastrophe on 30 March.”

US accused of obstructing talks at UN #climatechange summit - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/11/us-accused-of-obstructing-talks-at-un-climate-change-summit disgraceful that it should come to this…

181210

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181209.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Tackle climate or face financial crash, say world’s biggest investors - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/10/tackle-climate-or-face-financial-crash-say-worlds-biggest-investors they may not be the world’s most caring people, but they are certainly rational: they know failing to address #climatechange will be a disaster for us - and them

Brexit: UK can unilaterally revoke article 50, says EU court - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/uk-can-unilaterally-stop-brexit-process-eu-court-rules so now we know what to do to end this #brexitchaos

“prominent Brexit supporters have made significant bets against companies exposed to the British consumer including big high street names.” - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/10/hedge-funds-make-big-bets-against-post-brexit-uk-economy feel like mugs, #brexiters…?

The ‘innovation principle’ trap - https://corporateeurope.org/environment/2018/12/innovation-principle-trap this is a not-so-subtle attack on EU precautionary principle and on regulations in general; bin it

Armenian parliament election: Pashinyan wins, Sargsyan destroyed - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/118535 “Pashinyan’s bloc ‘My Step’ has received 70.43% of the vote during the Armenian parliamentary elections”

New leftwing coalition urges Labour to reject Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/new-leftwing-coalition-urges-labour-to-reject-brexi... come on, @UKLabour, you know it's the right thing to do

Indifference to sexual violence eats away at us all, say Nobel pair - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/10/indifference-sexual-violence-eats-away-nobel-peace-prize-mukwege-murad

ToxicDocs Levels the Playing Field for Efforts to Prevent Toxic Exposures - https://news.columbia.edu/toxicdocs “database of some 20 million once-secret industry and trade association documents concerning the health hazards of toxic chemicals” #fab

Who Owns the World’s Fossil Fuels? - https://influencemap.org/site/data/000/381/Who_Owns_the_Fossil_Fuels_Report.pdf

EU figures rule out concessions as May postpones Brexit vote - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/eu-figures-rule-out-concessions-as-theresa-may-postpones-brexit-vote how many times does this have to be said? #brexitchaos

181209

No hope of success and no plan B – but the PM won’t blink - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/08/theresa-may-brexit-meaningful-vote-defeat this should be her epitaph

Open Science Means Open Source–Or, at Least, It Should - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-science-means-open-source-or-least-it-should Why #opensource was actually invented in 1665.

Brexit: Majority of country now think Britain should remain in the EU, new poll finds - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-theresa-may-uk-vote-economy-mps-remain-a8673926.html but small sample size

IFPI Slams Pirate MEP For ‘Lobbying’ Kids, Forgets a Decade of Rightsholders Doing Just That - https://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-slams-pirate-mep-for-lobbying-kids-forgets-a-decade-of-rightsholders-doing-just-that-181209/ the hypocrisy of the #copyright maximalists is nauseating…

US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/09/us-russia-ally-saudi-arabia-water-down-climate-pledges-un another reason to bring down the #saudi torturers’ tyranny

Trump ‘at center of massive fraud against Americans’, top Democrat says - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/09/donald-trump-michael-cohen-payments-impeachment-jerrold-nadler time to get rid of the #cimatedenialist…

Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/09/eu-brexit-piketty-tax-google-facebook-apple-manifesto “huge levies on multinationals, millionaires and carbon emissions”

Eleven researchers publish sharp critique of EPA fuel economy logic - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/science-trump-admin-report-justifying-fuel-economy-rollback-is-flawed/

181207

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181206.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Africa cocoa industry failing on deforestation pledge – campaigners - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/07/africa-cocoa-industry-failing-deforestation-pledge-campaigners time to start boycotting chocolate makers that drive this

Trump to name former Fox anchor Heather Nauert as next UN ambassador - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/heather-nauert-un-ambassador-pick-trump “does not have prior political or policy-making experience.” - oh dear, poor #murica…

Spying On The #Uyghurs: A First-Person Account From A Han Chinese Student - https://www.taiwangazette.org/news/2018/12/4/spying-on-the-uyghurs-a-first-person-account-from-a-han-chinese-student illuminating stuff #xinjiang #china

nice: wind energy providing 30% of UK’s energy at the moment - http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ #renewables

Kent council leader warns no-deal Brexit would spread chaos across country - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/kent-council-leader-says-no-deal-brexit-would-cause-chaos-dover “at a cost of almost £1.75bn a week to the economy” #brexitchaos

Hancock warns no deal Brexit could hold up trade through Dover for up to six months - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/dec/07/brexit-debate-latest-hancock-confirms-government-could-charter-plans-to-fly-medicines-into-uk-in-event-of-no-deal-politics-live?page=with:block-5c0a79b2e4b01d1e859e6c0e#block-5c0a79b2e4b01d1e859e6c0e I’m sure this is perfectly normal… #brexitchaos

revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march “broad array of non-British groups and individuals, including US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls”

Labour MPs in leave areas want government ‘globalisation fund’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/labour-mps-leave-areas-fund-globalisation-fund-day-of-action sounds like a good idea to me… #peoplesvote

note the intriguing references to operating systems - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A8-2018-0444&format=XML&language=EN

181206

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181205.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

China demands release of Huawei executive arrested in Canada - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/05/meng-wanzhou-huawei-cfo-arrested-vancouver the morons in trump’s cabinet have obviously never heard of “face”…

NRA removes image of Anish Kapoor sculpture from advert - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/06/nra-removes-image-of-anish-kapoor-sculpture-from-advert

Some EU Nations Still Haven’t Implemented The 2013 #Marrakesh Treaty For The Blind - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181130/02021641137/some-eu-nations-still-havent-implemented-2013-marrakesh-treaty-blind.shtml #copyright maximalists despise the blind

On Overcoming Pain - https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5429 typically insightful piece on an unusual subject

PLOS Authors Say “Yes” to #Preprints - https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2018/12/plos-authors-say-yes-to-preprints/ well done them - it’s the future of academic publishing

181205

Latest On EU Copyright Directive: No One’s Happy With #Article13, So Maybe Let’s Drop It? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181204/06513241153/latest-eu-copyright-directive-no-ones-happy-with-article-13-so-maybe-lets-drop-it.shtml

West Papua: conflicting reports surround attack that killed up to 31 - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/05/west-papua-fears-of-spiralling-violence-after-attack-leaves-up-to-31-dead tkime for #indonesia to end its occupation of #WestPapua

“Virtually every poll in the sequence since the summer of 2017 has found a majority believing that the wrong decision was made in the EU referendum of 2016.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/dec/05/brexit-debate-pmqs-legal-advice-may-corbyn-government-to-publish-full-legal-advice-at-around-1130am-politics-live?page=with:block-5c07aa0de4b0de80e8972d40#block-5c07aa0de4b0de80e8972d40

Barclays customers ‘to leave en masse’ over #tarsands investment - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/05/barclays-customers-threaten-leave-en-masse-tar-sands-investment-greenpeace damn right; shame on @Barclays

“Parliament did not give the British public consultation." - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/05/liam-fox-accuses-mps-trying-to-steal-brexit-from-voters that’s explicitly what it did - it was an adivsory vote. had it been binding, a 60% threshold would have been reasonable, as elsewhere… #brexitchaos

Who is behind the push for a post-Brexit free trade deal with the US? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/04/post-brexit-free-trade-deal-us-rightwing-thinktanks “The things the US complains about and wants conceded include limits on pesticide residues and hormone-disrupting chemicals in food, nutritional labelling” #brexitchaos

EU’s dependence on dollar to be reduced under new proposals - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/05/european-union-dependence-on-dollar-to-be-reduced-under-new-proposals should have been done 10 years ago

Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/split-key-cryptography-is-back-again-why-government-back-doors-dont-work/ good background to #australia's foolish attempts to break encryption

McCluskey "urged MPs to hold their nerve as Labour’s alternative approach would deliver for the country.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/05/unite-leader-warns-labour-against-backing-second-eu-referendum IOW, he’s a clueless idiot too… #brexitchaos