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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/09/190911.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

European parliament to attack UK treatment of EU citizens - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/european-parliament-to-criticise-uk-treatment-eu-citizens-veto-brexit-deal “MEPs will use veto against any Brexit deal without a backstop”

Australian natural disasters minister’s complete about face: ‘I believe in climate science’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/australian-natural-disasters-ministers-complete-about-face-i-believe-in-climate-science what cynical squirming… #climatecrisis

Britain to use millions of NHS patients’ histories to seek cures - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/12/britain-to-use-millions-of-nhs-patients-histories-to-seek-cures “Information gathered will be routinely “de-identified” before it is stored”: it’s v hard to do that with health data, relatively easy to de-anonymise using other data

France to block development of #Facebook's #Libra cryptocurrency - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/12/france-block-development-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency “Finance minister warns monetary sovereignty of governments could be at risk”

Defra refuses to give details on no-deal Brexit food supply disruptions - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/defra-refuses-disclose-details-no-deal-brexit-food-supply-disruptions if there were a shred of good news, they would have published it. they didn’t, and there isn’t. #brexitchaos

“They hope the nobile officium power could mean the court will send the article 50 extension letter on Johnson’s behalf, if he refused to do so.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/anti-brexiters-new-legal-challenge-scotland-to-force-article-50-extension whoa, heavy stuff… #brexitchaos

Crisis at the boar-der: panic as Canadian feral hogs approach the US - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/feral-hogs-us-canada-border-wall Princess Mononoke comes to the US…

Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190910/17343842967/intellectual-property-is-neither-intellectual-property-discuss.shtml this is so important

“You should no more refuse to request an extension of article 50 than you could possibly excuse robbing a bank on the basis that money stolen would be donated to a charitable cause,” Bercow said. - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/bercow-warns-pm-not-to-defy-law-on-no-deal-brexit what a star this man is…

John Bercow: I’ll stop Boris Johnson breaking the law on Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/bercow-warns-pm-not-to-defy-law-on-no-deal-brexit “The only form of Brexit that we have, whenever that might be, will be a Brexit that the House of Commons has explicitly endorsed.”