Setting aside its merits, there is a huge practical problem with hard Brexit. Leaving the customs union and the single market requires the UK by March 2019 to negotiate new trade treaties not only with the EU27, but with the 75 other nations with which the EU has free or preferential trade agreements, if British trade is not to take an immediate and substantial hit. Between them, these 102 countries include most of the trading world, and account for more than 60% of UK exports of goods and services.

Just because ministers keep repeating the mantra that a post-Brexit "global Britain" will trade far more with the "wider world" does not make it true. Britain's trade is already global - and this is helped, not hindered, by being part of the EU customs union. There are a few large markets with which the EU does not yet have trade agreements, but it has them with most of Britain's trading partners, and the number is growing. An agreement with Canada came into force last month; heads of terms have just been signed with Japan.

Renting in Toronto Is a Total Nightmare

Ask Kin Lau. Normally, landlords would be swiping right on him.
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Their online ad, with a photo of the pair in a meadow by a wood fence, describes the 21-year-olds as a young, polite couple seeking to spend no more than C$825 a month. They're getting more emails from scam artists asking for money than from landlords.
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Landlords are ecstatic at their good fortune.

Two apparently unrelated events, provisional implementation of CETA and Black Mirror episode "Nosedive," converge in my reading of this free-market, or on-demand, dilemma. The "self-curation and validation-seeking ... backbone of a future society" is ill-equipped to secure a general utility.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Donald Trump seemed less than awestruck when talking about his late mother's homeland in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, observing: "You don't hear the word Britain any more."

"We lost a very strong friend and supporter of Israel," said Mort Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a right-wing organization, who has been in touch with Scaramucci ever since the 2016 election campaign. "He loves Israel and wants to do what is best for Israel, as long as its' also the best thing for America," Klein told Haaretz with regards to the "Mooch," using his nickname, and adding that "maybe they will still find another position for him in the administration."

Trump is known to like walls. Maybe a wall of carbon tariffs around the US is a solution he will understand" -- Jeremy Wates, Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau.
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A few influential voices have already been calling for climate-related sanctions against the US. In 2006 Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz recommended sanctions against the US because of its climate inaction. Last year, famed author and activist Naomi Klein did the same. This year, "the most influential ethicist alive", Peter Singer, proposed them too. So did South African climate justice activist-academic Patrick Bond, as well as the Financial Times' Martin Wolff. Even former French president Nicolas Sarkozy suggested sanctions in the form of a carbon tax of 1-3% on US imports [2015] -- a proposal that could be refined by only taxing States that are not taking meaningful climate action, unlike Hawaii, California and others.

What will you do about it?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Desert solar project could power 5 million EU homes, feed thirty-seven families of 18 in Tunis, maybe.

[Sheik] Kevin Sara claimed that an initial 250MW could be up and running, powering Europe via an interconnector with Malta, by 2020. It would mean an extra 1,000GWh of clean power a year being made available to the European grid.
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Italy and Malta's energy grids are already connected via a 95km link that came online in 2015....The second stage of the plan is to construct Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) towers with a capacity of 2.25GW, which would be connected to Italy, just south of Rome, via another cable that would deliver 9,000GWh per year.
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Although both DESERTEC and now TuNur have faced criticism and accusations of "colonisation", the project insists that its planned facility will help prevent desertification and minimise water consumption. An impact study also predicts that 2,000 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs could be created.

 The wild world of Bitcoin is about to get a whole lot wilder.

On August 1, 2017, the preeminent cryptocurrency is set to break in two. Two warring factions, fundamentally divided on Bitcoin's future, are coming to a head -- and the impending split could either save Bitcoin or doom it.

The split, called a hard fork, will result in two separate and distinct cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin. Oh, and it also has the potential to create billions of dollars worth of new cryptocurrency out of thin air.

But that's not what this is really about. Bitcoin as it currently stands is in trouble, and with so much money on the line opposing parties have naturally come forward with plans to save it. And, surprise, they all don't agree on the solution.

A Norwegian anti-immigrant group has been roundly ridiculed after members apparently mistook a photograph of six empty Oslo bus seats posted on its Facebook page for a group of women wearing burqas.

"Tragic", "terrifying" and "disgusting" were among the comments posted by members of the closed Fedrelandet viktigst, or "Fatherland first", group beneath the photograph, according to screenshots on the Norwegian news website Nettavisen.

Other members of the 13,000-strong group, for people "who love Norway and appreciate what our ancestors fought for", wondered whether the non-existent passengers might be carrying bombs or weapons beneath their clothes. "This looks really scary," wrote one. "Should be banned. You can't tell who's underneath. Could be terrorists."

Frank Little, one of the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, is lynched. Six masked men grab him from his boarding house in Butte, Montana, in his underwear, and hang him from a railway trestle. Pinned to his corpse is a card reading: "Others take notice. First and last warning. 3-7-77 L D C S S W T." The number is a reference to the nineteenth-century Vigilantes of Montana, the initials presumably those of the next men to be murdered. Little had been organizing miners and talking shit about US soldiers ("Uncle Sam's scabs in uniform") and the war ("capitalist slaughter fest"). ...

1941. 551 Jews were executed in Romania
      
1789. US Department of War is established
      

I note with interest: The majority populations of the world are sorely under-represented in this compendium of Serious Figures and Significant Events.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Ambiguous Contemporary Usage: Mountain Dew is anathema to/for ___.

As if divinity per se, a sacrifice or a gift to a to forebear death or even a curse. Rather it is an appositive seeking a subject, "Bretz knew such a notion would be anathema to his fellow geologists."

Let's add superlative modifier, egregious, perhaps for emphasis.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.