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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190714.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Israelis call for education minister to resign over gay conversion remarks - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/15/israelis-demand-education-minister-resign-gay-conversion-therapy-rafi-peretz “he compared intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews to a second Holocaust”. clearly a lovely chap

Amazon is listening to your kids and visitors, warns German parliament report - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/amazon-is-listening-to-your-kids-and-visitors-warns-german-parliament-report/ these are surveillance devices; the question is who is in control of them? not you…

EU agriculture chief slams ‘misinformation’ on #Mercosur trade deal - https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-agriculture-chief-slams-misinformation-on-mercosur-trade-deal/ “guarantees Brazil’s pledge under the Paris climate agreement to reforest the Amazon by 12 million hectares”, no, it doesn’t, because there are no penalties for non-compliance…

UK to order ships with zero emission technology from 2025 - https://www.euractiv.com/section/shipping/news/uk-to-order-ships-with-zero-emission-technology-from-2025/ bit late, but welcome

Irish parliament calls on government to thwart EU-#Mercosur deal - https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/irish-parliament-calls-on-government-to-thwart-eu-mercosur-deal/ resistance to this bad trade deal is growing

Hunt and Johnson: the backstop is dead and can’t be in any EU deal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/15/hunt-and-johnson-the-backstop-is-dead-and-cant-be-in-any-eu-deal this is simply an admission that it won’t be possible to come up with a trade deal that avoids a hard border, which would make the backstop irrelevant…

Boris Johnson on 'kamikaze' mission if he pursues #Brexit without fresh referendum, warns cross-party report - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-brexit-second-referendum-no-deal-parliament-tory-leadership-mps-prorogue-a9005861.html it's the only way out - for everyone