16.01.2020 Every "Cloud" has a tax-free, silver lining.

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Thursday 16th 41-44F, clear start and daylight at 8.30. Soon clouded over despite forecast sunshine. A bit breezy on my walk to the lanes. Saw a Brambling which I first took to be a Chaffinch. I apologized and we moved on. 2019 is officially confirmed as second warmest year, ever, after 2016. Which was affected by El Ninõ. Just a few brief glimpses of sunshine now at 11.00 but the sky is overcast as usual.

The BBC News is suddenly going overboard on climate. Can't imagine why unless they are hoping for more replays of The David Attenborough Show. Perhaps it is in retaliation for Boris dropping earlier lies promises to take the climate [slightly more] seriously.

Scientists are having sleepless nights over the rapidly increasing ice melt in Greenland and sea level rising unchecked. No doubt Boris sleeps like a babe. In a very big, rubber dinghy on the second floor of No10. London and the East Coast are extremely vulnerable to higher tides.

Friday 17th 41-44F, bright start but a cold SE wind. The clouds seemed to be entirely constructed from the unusually long-lived vapour trails of the countless aircraft which had flown high overhead. Tax free, Google Advertising Inc. is officially worth a trillion dollars. Think how many hospitals that would pay for, in Europe, if they paid any taxes [at all] here on the profits they make entirely in Europe.

It must be one of the best jobs on the planet for their vast armies of ambulance chasers and tax dodging specialists. Money no object. Write your own salary cheque. As long as it doesn't lead to paying any taxes. They don't want to start a precedent. Or the other trillion dollar, US monopolies will have to start paying taxes too. And that would never do.

So called, news websites are now so desperate to unload cookies on visitors that closing the cookie warning banner, or even scrolling the page, automatically makes the visitor accept all cookies. They are no longer content with central blocking banners demanding cookie acceptance.

This latest, desperate measure must surely be illegal under EU law? Since it demands the visitor reads the entire text of the bottom of the page banner. Without the visitor having any chance to decline cookies by allowing a free choice to be made. Have the "news" websites become hackers in their bid to earn a crust from selling their visitors details to anyone willing to pay in an insanely over-saturated, advertising market? The Danish TV news website suggests that 9 out of 10 websites break the law on cookies.

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