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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170503 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/05/170503.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Globalwarming scientists learn lessons from the pause that never was - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/may/04/global-warming-scientists-learn-lessons-from-the-pause-that-never-was #climatechange

Mounting #Privacy Problems In Europe For #Facebook's Acquisition Of #WhatsApp - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170502/06563937285/mounting-privacy-problems-europe-facebooks-acquisition-whatsapp.shtml just the start

Thousands tackling huge forest fire in northern #China - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2092663/thousands-tackling-huge-forest-fire-northern-china “over 5,000 hectares”

“Let’s make copyright RIGHT” - thunderclap for better copyright laws for education - https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/56275-let-s-make-copyright-right?locale=en

Ruperta the African Elephant is sick and neglected in Venezuelan zoo - https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/760/009/487/ petition for relocation #Vzla

“key to success was to persuade young progressive voters to register and take part in the ballot on 8 June” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/04/trudeau-backer-endorses-gina-millers-tactical-voting-campaign #GE17

U.S. wind industry has biggest first-quarter installs in eight years - 2GW - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-windpower-idUSKBN17Y1PC trump who? #renewables

Voter registration soars among students with 55% backing Labour - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/04/voter-registration-soars-students-backing-labour-corbyn-general-election interesting development #GE17

"how trade & investment agreements threaten environmental laws & regs to protect #water" - https://canadians.org/wfs

Macron came to Greece’s aid during our crisis. The French left should back him - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/04/macron-greece-french-left-marine-le-pen-yanis-varoufakis saith @yanisvaroufakis

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170502 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/05/170502.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

New Tools Allow Voice Patterns To Be Cloned To Produce Realistic But Fake Sounds Of Anyone Saying Anything - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170425/07092537229/new-tools-allow-voice-patterns-to-be-cloned-to-produce-realistic-fake-sounds-anyone-saying-anything.shtml

Three-quarters of Brits would reject US ‘frankenfoods’ - http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/buying-and-supplying/food-safety/three-quarters-of-brits-would-reject-us-frankenfoods/551703.article this will make UK-US trade deal negotiations fun #TTIP2

Happy Press Freedom Day from sunny #Indonesia - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/03/happy-press-freedom-day-from-sunny-indonesia “124th on the press freedom list and kills civilians in #WestPapua.”

Don’t Get Fooled: The Plan Is To Kill #NetNeutrality While Pretending It’s Being Protected - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170502/17212137292/dont-get-fooled-plan-is-to-kill-net-neutrality-while-pretending-being-protected.shtml do read this analysis

Hacker Extortion Attempt Falls Flat Because Netflix Actually Competes With Piracy - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170501/06455337280/hacker-extortion-attempt-falls-flat-because-netflix-actually-competes-with-piracy.shtml that’s the way to do it

#Russia Tries To Deliver The Killing Blow To #VPN Use - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170420/10270037199/russia-tries-to-deliver-killing-blow-to-vpn-use.shtml serious threat, bad precedent

170502

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170501 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/05/170501.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Old tune - https://vimeo.com/215326297 well, they seem to be having fun… #china

“family planning is something that occurs between a husband and a wife and God” - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/trump-teresa-manning-family-planning-role where do these nutters come from?

UK “will then have to spend next 20 years painstakingly rebuilding the influence that it so casually threw away.” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/britain-complacency-brexit-humiliation--france-germany-eu-uk

Chinese Government and Hollywood Launch Snoop-and-Censor Copyright Filter - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/chinese-snooping-foreshadows-future-copyright-enforcement EU copyright directive will do same

“Future Farming is a new global brand focussing on smart farming” - https://www.futurefarming.com/ I wonder how sustainable that farming will be…

Local reporters ‘shut in a room’ during Theresa May visit to Cornish industrial estate - http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/editor-says-ban-on-print-media-filming-theresa-mays-visit-is-archaic-as-local-reporters-told-not-to-take-video/ #GE17

ALERTĂ METEO. #România, lovită de fenomene EXTREME, în următoarele zile: furtuni violente şi tornade - https://www.realitatea.net/anunt-crunt-de-la-meteo-romania-lovita-de-fenomene-extreme-in-urmatoarele-zile_2059027.html yikes #ro

New @verizon Video Blatantly Lies About What’s Happening To Net Neutrality - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20170501/08442637282/new-verizon-video-blatantly-lies-about-whats-happening-to-net-neutrality.shtml appalling behaviour

post-#brexit price increases: “headline figure of an average 18.5% tariff” for food sector" - http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/05/02/brexit-about-to-trigger-sky-high-costs-for-british-food + sterling devaluation

Trump: US needs ‘good’ government shutdown to fix trouble in Senate - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/government-shutdown-donald-trump-senate-budget-vote this man is completely bonkers

Fifteen countries ask for EU legislation on data flows - http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/fifteen-countries-ask-for-eu-legislation-on-data-flows/ actually this is basically the UK, & it’ll be gone soon…

Green MEP: EFSA should release full #glyphosate studies - http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/interview/green-mep-efsa-should-release-full-pesticide-studies/ nothing to hide, nothing to fear, #amirite?

Merkel presses Putin over anti-gay purge in Chechnya - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/angela-merkel-vladimir-putin-russia-investigate-lgbt-torture-claims-chechnya this is why she is leader of the West, not May or Trump

Theresa May says she intends to be ‘bloody difficult’ for EU negotiating #Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/may/02/general-election-2017-hard-brexit-nick-clegg-politics-live?page=with:block-5908b0e8e4b0f5c69fe5d97d#block-5908b0e8e4b0f5c69fe5d97d yeah, that’ll work </facepalm>

‘He Just Seemed to Go Crazy’: Senior GOP Aides Stunned by Trump’s Demented Behavior in Last 24 Hours - http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/he-just-seemed-go-crazy-senior-gop-aides-stunned-trumps-demented-behavior-last-24 he’s mad

Seals are deafened in noisy shipping lanes, say scientists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/02/seals-deafened-noisy-shipping-lanes-say-scientists we need to make ships quieter and less polluting

Stephen Colbert “interviews” Trump - http://boingboing.net/2017/05/02/stephen-colbert-interviews.html nicely done

Why now is the time to talk to Hamas - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/hamas-charter-antisemitism talking always better than the alternatives… #palestine

FBI translator married Isis recruiter she was meant to be investigating - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/fbi-translator-syria-rapper-isis-islamic-state the ultimate “Reader, I married him”…

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170430 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/04/170430.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Juncker tells May he is ‘10 times more sceptical than before’ on #Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/01/jean-claude-juncker-to-theresa-may-on-brexit-im-10-times-more-sceptical-than-i-was-before May clearly clueless

“EU citizens would receive only the same rights in relation to living and working in the UK as anyone else who was not a British citizen.”

Homeowner’s House Burns Down, He Tries To Rebuild… But Facing #Copyright Threats From Original Builder - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170501/01170337278/homeowners-house-burns-down-he-tries-to-rebuild-facing-copyright-threats-original-builder.shtml of course

Brazilian farmers attack indigenous tribe with machetes in brutal land dispute - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/brazilian-farmers-attack-indigenous-tribe-machetes appalling violence #brazil

170430

.@nytimes promised 2 fact check their new climate denier columnist — they lied - https://thinkprogress.org/the-ny-times-promised-to-fact-check-their-new-climate-denier-columnist-they-lied-72ad9bdf6019 “abetting climate change denialism”

High-Profile Chinese Blogger Arrested for Online Comments, After Years of Police Harassment - https://globalvoices.org/2017/04/28/high-profile-chinese-blogger-arrested-for-online-comments-after-years-of-police-harassment/ #china

#Tory windfarm policy endangers cheap energy in UK, commission finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/25/uk-windfarm-subsidies-ban-cheap-energy-electricity not just anti-environment, but anti-economics

Schmelzendes Eis führt zu Billionenkosten - http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/arktis-billionenkosten-durch-schmelzendes-eis-a-1144930.html #climatedenialism makes no sense economically, either

Taylor Farms wants to make food without fossil fuels - https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/taylor-farms-wants-to-make-food-without-fossil-fuels/ interesting move

Incredible discovery places humans in California 130,000 years ago - https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/unknown-humans-were-in-california-130000-years-ago-say-scientists/ or it was time-travellers…

#Brexit: UK may have to recognise ECJ court rulings to keep security cooperation - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/30/brexit-uk-may-have-to-recognise-ecj-court-rulings-to-keep-security-cooperation uh-huh…

By 2030, #India will only have electric cars [Govt] - https://www.nextbigwhat.com/electric-cars-india-297/ let’s hope…

'Hundreds of us will die in Raqqa’: the women fighting Isis - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/30/hundreds-of-us-will-die-in-raqqa-the-women-fighting-isis great reporting, illuminating piece #kurdistan #iraq

‘Jihadists were going to burn it all’: the amazing story of Timbuktu’s book smugglers - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/30/jihadists-were-going-to-burn-it-all-the-amazing-story-of-timbuktus-book-smugglers wonderful tale

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170427 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/04/170427.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Murder of Spanish wildlife rangers spurs ​calls for armed service - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/murder-of-spanish-wildlife-rangers-spurs-calls-for-armed-service appalling violence by hunters/farmers

UK government just got away with banning new public buses - https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/busservices.html more privatisation by stealth

White Tears by Hari Kunzru review – a satire of cultural appropriation - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/28/white-tears-hari-kunzru-review sounds fun

Britons could lose health cover in Europe after Brexit, Parliamentary report warns - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/28/brexit-european-health-insurance-card-ehic-healthcare-europe-uk #WellDoneBrexiters

Tories’ ‘imperial vision’ 4 post-#Brexit trade branded disruptive & deluded - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/28/tories-imperial-vision-post-brexit-trade-deal-disruptive-deluded says head of nations we need for deals

Support electric cars: the UK needs ‘smart’ car chargers - https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/takeaction/481/545/397/ because: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/20/uk-unprepared-for-surge-in-electric-car-use-thinktank-warns #EV

Want To Promote Breastfeeding? That’s A Trade Barrier, Says US Trade Rep - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170426/09303137242/want-to-promote-breastfeeding-thats-trade-barrier-says-us-trade-rep.shtml riiiight #NTB

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170426 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/04/170426.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Plain cigarette packaging could drive 300,000 Britons to quit smoking - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/27/plain-cigarette-packaging-could-drive-300000-britons-to-quit-smoking let’s hope so, & that others follow suit

For World ‘Intellectual Property’ Day, A Reading From Thomas Macaulay - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170426/13391137245/world-intellectual-property-day-reading-thomas-macaulay.shtml greatest speech ever made about #copyright

Australia Readies New #Copyright Safe Harbor Consultation - https://torrentfreak.com/australia-readies-new-copyright-safe-harbor-consultation-170427/

Angela Merkel attacks British ‘illusion’ of keeping benefits of EU - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/27/angela-merkel-attacks-british-illusion-of-keeping-benefits-of-eu well, obvs #brexit

Trump tax plan could save him millions under guise of helping small businesses - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/27/trump-tax-plan-millions-small-businesses pretty much explains it, then…

The Republicans who care about #climatechange: ‘They are done with the denial’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/27/climate-solutions-caucus-republicans-trump some small, hopeful signs…

Australia and Canada urge UK to join ready made trade deals such as Nafta - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/26/australia-canada-urge-uk-join-ready-made-trade-deals-nafta/ for which UK had no say whatsoever

Australia’s #Copyright Agency Keeps $11 Million Meant For Authors, Uses It To Fight Introduction Of Fair Use - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170426/02091437240/australias-copyright-agency-keeps-11-million-meant-authors-uses-it-to-fight-introduction-fair-use.shtml

Senior doctor resigns over plan to hand Dublin hospital to order of nuns - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/doctor-resigns-dublin-hospital-nuns-sisters-of-charity-dr-peter-boylan kudos #ireland

Britain’s divorce bill must be settled before Brexit talks, says Angela Merkel - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/27/britain-divorce-bill-brexit-angela-merkel this is getting better all the time