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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190706.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Britain’s US ambassador: Trump is “insecure, incompetent, inept” - https://boingboing.net/2019/07/06/truth-to-dotards.html this is going to make those post-#brexit US trade deals really good…

Pro-Remain parties unite around anti-Brexit candidate - https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/pro-remain-parties-unite-around-anti-brexit-candidate/ a good move; now roll this out across UK in preparation for the snap election

EU research ‘moonshots’ focus on climate crisis - https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-strategy-2050/news/eu-research-moonshots-focus-on-climate-crisis/ more great leadership by #EU, leading the world again…

Labour Remainers must try to seize control before the party becomes a historical footnote - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/07/labour-remainers-must-seize-control probably already too late now; the good news is that old two-party system is dead

Why #Facebook’s new #Libra cryptocurrency will be a #privacy disaster - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/why-facebooks-new-libra-cryptocurrency-will-be-a-privacy-disaster/ yes, even worse than now

Boris Johnson ‘not bluffing’ about quitting EU on 31 October with no deal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/07/boris-johnson-not-bluffing-about-quitting-eu-on-31-october-with-no-deal-brexit and guess what? experts not bluffing when they say that “no deal” will harm UK far, far more than EU

“Nenskra hydro plant is to be built in a precious valley, destroying the pristine environment” - https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/stop-nenskra-EN-UK?utm_source=civimail-24523&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190706_EN appalling mistake by #georgia that will cause huge harm to its amazing environment. please sign to help stop it

.@EIB, @EBRD should not sign the loan contract for the destructive #Nenskra dam in #Svaneti, Georgia. protect biodiversity and the livelihood of villagers - and boost tourism. https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/stop-nenskra-EN-UK?utm_campaign=xqA7FeXMtm&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share #ge

.@EIB “claims, contrary to the ESIA findings and scientific sources, that the Svan language is merely a dialect of Georgian.” - https://bankwatch.org/blog/indigenous-communities-in-georgia-threatened-by-eib-project ignorant rubbish: svan and georgian parted linguistic ways thousands of years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svan_language #linguistics

Leak of UK ambassador’s US telegrams plays into wider power struggle - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/07/leak-of-uk-ambassadors-us-telegrams-plays-into-wider-power-struggle this leak clear attempt to get farage as ambassador in the US. nothing is beneath #brexiters these days…