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I’ve been suggesting we’ll have a “Joni Mitchell #Brexit” for months. Nobody will believe the “project fear” stuff until it’s happened. We don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone.

Got around to producing the #song that those words imply yesterday. So here’s the song I call “Joni Mitchell Brexit”

youtu.be/C-QpbdWSjZQ

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Interesting points on secret UK plans to monitor cross border traffic from/to N. Ireland & the Republic. Effectively the UK conducting mass surveillance on a foreign state (i.e. Ireland).

#Brexit #surveillance

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Interesting Fact of the Day: Sign Language, like any language, has accents and regional dialects.

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What an idiot. I said it in german in my head and then typed it in deutsche-lish... Well, I guess that means I'm improving a little in one way at least.
German is speeding up to spanish, but I don't know why french is still behind. No one writes me enough maybe. Stupid, because I live in canada.

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@solderpunk @amiloradovsky
@maperal @vilbi I was born in england and only have english, but I try to read other languages lately and too late in my life to be any good at any of them. I am best at reading spanish, but I can't speak or write any of them yet.

Some languages I can't tell apart at all even. Romanian, Hungarian, Czek.. Also Polish and Silesian look the same to me pretty much.

I'm in awe of people fluent in several languages. I fear it is too late for me, but I still try every day.

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"Britain prepares for #Brexit and “populist and nationalist” parties look poised to make sweeping gains in elections across the continent." https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/a-liberal-elite-still-luring-us-towards-the-abyss/

Brexit must be stopped at all costs.. The EU Referendum was flawed and fraudulent and completely invalid in terms of democratic accountability. Remainers need to get real and initiate a gradually ramped campaign of civil disobedience. The so-called Parliament at Westminster completely lacks authenticity and authority. It has become an international joke, an object lesson in political irrelevance.

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Flemish newspaper De Standaard are using John Cleese (Basil Fawlty) goose stepping out of a circle of EU stars to represent Brexit.

Cool!

#Brexit #politics #FawltyTowers #DeStandaard

I'm currently living in Greece. Most Greeks, along with most other Europeans think that Britain has lost the plot completely. It's almost impossible to overestimate the reputational damage being done to the country by the self-serving ambitions and cowardice of the majority of its elected representatives.

At least Ziggy Stardust had five years to save the world. MPs have only fifty days (or thereabouts) to press the government to either revoke Article 50 or make proper provision for a second referendum.

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