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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/08/190823.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘profound love’ for Amazon rainforest as criticism intensifies - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/24/jair-bolsonaro-claims-profound-love-for-amazon-rainforest-as-criticism-fires-intensifies important: shows he is vulnerable to pressure threatening trade deals like #mercosur #AmazonFires

“PHOIBLE is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data” - https://phoible.org/ just look at that Kabardian insanity: https://phoible.org/inventories/view/4#tsegments #linguistics

G7 leaders to hold emergency talks over Amazon wildfires crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/ireland-could-oppose-trade-deal-brazil-fails-stop-amazon-fires-leo-varadkar “Brazil had stopped being a villain and it is now going back to being a pariah. We must stop this insanity” #AmazonFires

What3words Is A Clever Way Of Communicating Position Very Simply, But Do We Really Want To Create A Monopoly For Location Look-ups? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190816/04041742793/what3words-is-clever-way-communicating-position-very-simply-do-we-really-want-to-create-monopoly-location-look-ups.shtml nope

“Cross-Whitehall analysis published last year suggested a new trade deal with the US would be likely to add just 0.2% to GDP in the long term.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/23/britain-to-be-energetic-partner-after-brexit-pm-to-tell-g7-allies “UK economy to lose 3.5 percent of GDP in no-deal Brexit” - https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-imf-worldbank-britain/uk-economy-to-lose-3-5-percent-of-gdp-in-no-deal-brexit-imf-idUSKCN1RL1JA #brexit #madness

Maas deutet Konsequenzen für Mercosur-Handelsdeal an - https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/waldbraende-im-amazonasgebiet-heiko-maas-deutet-folgen-fuer-mercosur-deal-an-a-1283507.html yeah, but what?

Bolsonaro kündigt harte Strafen gegen Brandstifter an - https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/braende-im-amazonas-gebiet-jair-bolsonaro-will-brandstifter-bestrafen-a-1283487.html I doubt it; significant he even says it. "Umweltschützer werfen Bolsonaro vor, ein politisches Klima geschaffen zu haben, in dem sich Bauern zu immer mehr Abholzung und Brandrodung ermutigt sehen. "

Brazilian protesters rail against Bolsonaro as Amazon fires rage on - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/brazilian-protesters-bolsonaro-amazon-fires this is great - well done, #brazil #AmazonFires

On the Irish border lanes of Fermanagh, the bad old days are returning - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/24/fermanagh-irish-border-lanes-bad-old-days-returning-no-deal-brexit-bomb sadly many people will soon die violently as a direct result of #brexit…

Evgeniy Nikolaychuk on Vesti.FM: languages ​​around the world are disappearing at an alarming pace - https://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Yevgeniy-Nikolaychuk-on-Vesti-FM-languages-​​around-the-world-are-disappearing-at-an-alarming-pace.html indeeds, e.g. lots of caucasian languages need preserving…

“Johnson told reporters during a visit to Devon: “I’m afraid we will have to prepare to come out without an agreement… We are very confident that we will be OK because we will have all sorts of preparations in place.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/24/no-deal-brexit-would-shrink-uk-global-influence-say-ex-ambassadors IOW #brexit deaths are on him.