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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 171217 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/12/171217.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Poll: Majority in UK backs Remain with ten-point lead - https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/poll-majority-in-uk-backs-remain-with-ten-point-lead... just one data point, but I predict there will be more that are similar #brexit

Trump will drop #climatechange from US National Security Strategy - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/trump-drop-climate-change-national-security-strategy pathetic and stupid...

#China Is Building The Ultimate #Surveillance Tool: A DNA Database Of Every Adult Resident In Troubled #Xinjiang Region - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171214/07293538807/china-is-building-ultimate-surveillance-tool-dna-database-every-adult-resident-troubled-xinjiang-region.shtml

How the blockchain will give the media back to the people, to save the planet - https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/we-are-using-the-blockchain-to-give-the-media-back-to-the-pe... interesting stuff; will it work? we'll see...

I have received death threats, and I blame the vitriol of the pro-#Brexit media - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/18/death-threats-brexit-media-rational-debate-crisis-confrontation ironic the pro-Brexit media has destroyed so much of value in UK culture

“A chaotic #Brexit would bring down the government and might destroy the Conservative party altogether” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/18/brace-brexit-faultline-battle-transition-eu-rules-uk-obey-laws-deal well, at least we can look forward to that…

New Zealand Prepares Consultation to Modernize #Copyright Laws - https://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-prepares-consultation-to-modernize-copyright-laws-171218/ sharpen your pencils in readiness... #NZ

Guardian to fight legal action over #ParadisePapers - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/18/guardian-bbc-legal-action-paradise-papers

US outnumbered 14 to 1 as it vetoes UN vote on status of Jerusalem - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/us-outnumbered-14-to-1-as-it-vetoes-un-vote-on-status-of-jerusalem says it all… #israel #palestine

UK cannot have a special deal for the City, says EU’s #Brexit negotiator - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/18/uk-cannot-have-a-special-deal-for-the-city-says-eu-brexit-negotiator-barnier well, that’s a bit awkward for those sunlit uplands…

Barnier: “We will not accept chlorinated chickens, nor other products that do not meet our food standards.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/18/uk-cannot-have-a-special-deal-for-the-city-says-eu-brexit-negotiator-barnier quite right too… #brexit