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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/02/190219.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190216/01212441610/german-politician-thinks-gmail-constituent-messages-are-all-faked-google.shtml these people should be disqualified from making laws about technology, about which they are clueless #article13

European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/20/european-farms-could-grow-green-and-still-be-able-to-feed-population let’s do it, then

Light my fire: does the Queen really need a ‘fendersmith’? - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2019/feb/19/does-queen-really-need-fendersmith of course one does - we all do…

Jeremy Hunt urges Germany to rethink Saudi arms sales ban - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/20/jeremy-hunt-urges-germany-to-rethink-saudi-arms-sales-ban remember this appalling move when hunt throws his hat into the ring to become PM… #yemen

Three Tory MPs defect to fledgling Independent Group - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/20/tory-mps-defect-independent-group-soubry-allen-wollaston whoa, isn’t life interesting at the moment…? #brexitchaos

EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190215/18005841607/eu-commission-decides-to-mock-public-insists-fears-about-eu-copyright-directive-are-all-myths.shtml superb debunking of that "5 million EU citizens are just a mob paid by #google" post from @EU_Commission, from the inimitable @mmasnick #article13

Joint statement on the Directive of the European Parliament and Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market - https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive “fails to strike a balance between protecting right holders and the interests of individual citizens” #article13

“Allen said she had been driven out of the party not only by Brexit but by the Tory record on austerity.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/20/tory-mps-defect-independent-group-soubry-allen-wollaston which is interesting…

Agribusiness’s secretive plans to unravel food safety and worker protections - https://www.iatp.org/blog/201902/agribusinesss-secretive-plans-unravel-food-safety-and-worker-protections