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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/08/190828.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Amazon’s indigenous warriors take on invading loggers and ranchers - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/29/xikrin-people-fight-back-against-amazon-land-grabbing we should be sending weapons to these people - they are the only ones defending nature

Trading Away Protection: Emerging threats from the EU-US trade talks on conformity assessment and regulatory cooperation - https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/EU-US-trade-web-2.pdf also applies to post-#brexit trade deal with UK, only more so

A major security breach raises a key question: what happens when your #biometric data is exfiltrated from a system? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/a-major-data-breach-in-the-access-platform-biostar-2-raises-the-question-what-happens-when-your-biometric-data-is-exfiltrated-from-a-system/ because you ain’t changing it

Burning issue: how fashion’s love of leather is fuelling the fires in the Amazon - https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/aug/29/burning-issue-how-fashions-love-of-leather-is-fuelling-the-fires-in-the-amazon important point #AmazonFires

Boris Johnson Is Planning A Series Of Extreme Measures In The Coming Weeks To Force Through Brexit - https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/boris-johnson-brexit-extreme-measures read and weep at what #brexit is doing to this country…

Do not prorogue Parliament petition now stands at 1,470,743 - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157 please help to get it to 1.5 million soon…

Former Farc commanders say they are returning to war despite 2016 peace deal - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/29/ex-farc-rebels-announce-offensive-despite-peace-deal-colombia-video “This is the continuation of the rebel fight in answer to the betrayal of the state of the Havana peace accords.”

Senior Tory rebels ready to back move against no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/29/senior-tory-rebels-ready-to-back-move-against-no-deal-brexit “Corbyn said he was confident there was enough time in parliament to introduce legislation.”

“Ministers privately admit the battle to block anti-no-deal legislation in the Commons next week appears all but lost, but efforts to frustrate the rebels is focusing on the House of Lords.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/29/time-to-step-up-tempo-of-brexit-talks-says-bullish-boris-johnson well, that’s remarkable, if true…

Time to step up tempo of Brexit talks, says bullish Boris Johnson - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/29/time-to-step-up-tempo-of-brexit-talks-says-bullish-boris-johnson if you have nothing substantive to say, saying it faster and more often is completely pointless. @BorisJohnson has no new plan, he just wants to say his old one louder, which always works