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The global food system is broken, leaving billions of people either underfed or overweight and driving the planet towards climate catastrophe. Message from 130 national academies of science peer-review report 3 years in making. - theguardian.com/environment/20

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PHIDOC - December 2018

The Book of the Month is Hermann Hesse's Narziss and Goldmund

phidoc.net/book_of_the_month.h

The Track of the Month is Brainstorm's Maybe

phidoc.net/track_of_the_month.

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Leading up to the #brexit vote on 11th Dec, it seems there are 4 potential outcomes:
1. Vote approved, transition exhausts and we get stuck in the backstop.
2. Vote approved, then move to something closer, e.g. Norway.
3. Vote fails, gridlock, no-deal
4. Vote fails, no Brexit.

Confused about Brexit and #MeaningfulVote ?!

The procedure boffins at @commonslibrary have produced this handy flowchart …
twitter.com/ayestotheright/sta

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#austerity was bad, so Tories distract with "EU!" by means of #brexit

But that's not enough anymore, so now they lump in "Russia!"; and now we're enemies with everyone significant to our east (except murderous Saudis) and befriend the #OrangeNazi (West)
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Someone asked this a.m. on here why elderly, sick people have to walk all the way to the back of the market for their prescriptions while relatively healthy tobacco addicts get their drug at the front near the entrance?

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So there was a big protest today by schoolkids who blew off school and marched in the streets over government inaction on climate change.

The Prime Minister has said they should be less activist and focus on their schooling instead.

I just saw this sign. These kids are great.

#auspol #protest #activism

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Deutsche Bank headquarters raided over money laundering

Again.

In 2016 alone, more than 900 customers were served by a Deutsche Bank subsidiary registered in the British Virgin Islands, generating a volume of €311m, the prosecutors allege.

In 2017, Deutsche Bank was fined $630m (£504m) by US and UK regulators in connection with a Russian money laundering plan. Under the scheme, clients illegally moved $10bn out of Russia.

It's just a habit... bbc.com/news/business-46382722

Yes, we shall probably remain in the EU if the MPs at Westminster finally come to their senses. However, the UK is already a loser as a result of invoking Article 50. The ongoing reputational damage to the UK will possibly cost the country 5-7 billion euros year-on-year for the next fifteen years! Thanks Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, John Redwood, Bill Cash, Kate Hoey, Frank Field and a cast of thousands. You did us proud, NOT!

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Record-breaking heat wave and "catastrophic" wildfires hit Australia. This the first time that Queensland's fire danger has been rated as "catastrophic," which is the highest threat level on their scale. - axios.com/heat-wave-and-catast

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Too much news? Too much information? Too much distraction?

Then try Food for Thought.

phidoc.net/food_for_thought.ht

It’s biased of course, but in an open, fair and generous way. (Available every week and updated throughout the week).

Curation? Almost certainly the future of news!

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Setting up a server we plan to use to host , possibly applications like , , , , independent websites and other tools.
Aim is to help local projects, structures and other like-minded people and projects to get the data back in their hands.

We are doing the whole thing as a local node atm, and part of the funds for the server were donated by faircoop. Server itself is physically hosted in Naples, at the Ex-Asilo Filangieri

Exciting times.

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