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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140227 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2014/02/140227.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Obama Nominates #SOPA Lobbyist for #TPP Trade Post - http://www.republicreport.org/2014/bsa-tpp/ also affects #TAFTA/#TTIP; seriously bad news (v @maira)

Bertelsmann Foundation-Atlantic Council #TTIP Stakeholder Survey - https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1552108/Bertelsmann-Foundation-Atlantic-Council-Stakeholder-Survey you might want to fill this in (v @olewin)#tafta

US pig farmers: Japan's Offer On #TPP Unacceptable to U.S. Agriculture - http://nationalhogfarmer.com/business/nppc-japans-offer-tpp-unacceptable-us-agriculture uh-huh

Government brushes aside NHS #TTIP Concerns - http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ben-cooper/government-brushes-aside-nhs-free-trade-treaty-concerns misses point: not about opening access, but locking it in

Europe abandons hopes of US-style shale gas revolution - http://www.euractiv.com/specialreport-industrial-renaiss/Europe-abandons-shale-gas-revolution-news-533546 concentrate on renewables, then

 European Consultation on the Food and Agriculture Business Principles - http://www.euractiv.com/video/european-consultation-food-agric-533829

#TPP: No Big Deal - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/opinion/krugman-no-big-deal.html?_r=0 "there isn’t a compelling case for this deal, from either a global or a national point of view."

Chinese Cabinet report questions US human rights record - http://thebricspost.com/chinese-cabinet-report-questions-us-human-rights-record/ people are noticing #torture #drones

"a sign of Germany’s degradation in the US’s geostrategic outlook." - http://www.euractiv.com/global-europe/steinmeiers-mission-impossible-analysis-533836 good analysis #NSA #TTIP

Excuse Me, Could I Interest You In A Thousand-Volume Set Of Encyclopedias? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/09552626329/excuse-me-could-i-interest-you-thousand-volume-set-encyclopedias.shtml put me down for a dozen... #wikipedia

Registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2014 - http://documentfreedom.org/registration-2014-opens hurry hurry hurry #freesw

Knowledge Creation to Diffusion: The Conflict in India - http://blog.okfn.org/2014/02/28/knowledge-creation-to-diffusion-the-conflict-in-india/ useful background

#TTIP face growing hostility, ministers warn - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/uk-eu-usa-trade-idUKBREA1R0NR20140228 poor piece: "$100 billion" is 2027, after 10 years feeble GDP growth

After #Snowden: Prioritising Free Software for Computing You Can Trust - http://www.april.org/en/after-snowden-prioritising-free-software-computing-you-can-trust this is a key lesson we need to learn here

Ministers for Foreign Affairs panel discussion EU/US on #TTIP - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858 only business; when do we get only civil society?

"non-financial US cos. have 1.5 trillion dollars of cash" - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858 they want to use that power to bend EU through #TTIP

"yes to a consultation [on ISDS], no to a referendum" - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858 in other words, we'll ignore whatever public says #TTIP

#TTIP: "we will fight for this up to the very last moment" - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858 we have been warned: this is war

"we are taking advantage of big data" - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858 the Obama approach to lobbying #TTIP #TAFTA

"is there an American co. that doesn't invest in EU because it's afraid of expropriation? I very much doubt it" - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858

"less than 11.5% of Americans know about #TTIP - http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I086858 bechind closed doors, in secret... #TAFTA

#TTIP - Karel De Gucht: "we should not have the illusion that we can do it on the basis of mutual recognition" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aM6URInho&feature=player_detailpage#t=4019

#TTIP - Karel De Gucht: "I believe, in the longer term, the real breakthrough in this agreement could be regulatory compatilbility."

#TTIP - Karel De Gucht: "I will not agree to put hormone beef on the European markets" - Informal Council of Foreign Affairs/Trade, EU-US business leaders forum on TTIP - 28/02/2014

Tentative remarks on leaked #CETA IP chapter - http://acta.ffii.org/?p=2034 useful first thoughts on important leak; looks bad for patents

here is that important leaked version of intellectual monopolies chapter of EU – Canada trade agreement #CETA - https://www.piratenpartei.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CETA-consolidated-texts-December2013_IPR_v4.pdf

Revolving Door: Obama Nominates Copyright Maximalist Lobbyist To Deputy USTR Position - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/16371826384/revolving-door-obama-points-copyright-maximalist-lobbyist-to-deputy-ustr-position.shtml a slap in the face for public

#Badger cull failed humaneness test, independent panel finds - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/28/badger-cull-humaneness-test-tb-cattle not just a costly fiasco, but a cruel costly fiasco

India sets up $100 mn Himalaya ecosystem mission - http://thebricspost.com/indian-sets-up-100-mn-himalaya-ecosystem-mission/ good move

USTR rejecting EU bids for more transparency in #TTIP - http://infojustice.org/archives/32290 "accessible only in a secure reading room": utterly insulting

How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner - http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2014/02/24/how-academia-and-publishing-are-destroying-scientific-innovation-a-conversation-with-sydney-brenner/ #openaccess

Google Customizes Its YouTube Takedown Message In Response To Bogus Innocence Of Muslims Takedown - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/15064226382/google-customizes-its-youtube-takedown-message-response-to-bogus-innocence-muslims-takedown.shtml wow

educational institutions have obtained Federal trademark registrations on phrases like "student life" - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10775

pic of the week: Sad Cafe: Not One Person Smiling (Covent Garden) - https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jannerboy62/9494585125/in/pool-londonist/ sad but fab #london

Ukraine Journalists Race to Publish Secret Yanukovych Documents - http://mashable.com/2014/02/28/ukraine-journalists-yanukovych-documents/ can't wait #ua

US Senators to investigate #NSA role in #GCHQ 'Optic Nerve' webcam spying - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/nsa-gchq-webcam-spy-program-senate-investigation I thought this might happen...

Keith Alexander's Big Idea: What If The NSA Just Collected Phone Data On Suspected Terrorists? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140228/07355126387/keith-alexanders-big-idea-what-if-nsa-just-collected-phone-data-suspected-terrorists.shtml the man's a genius

#TTIP talks 'honeymoon' over, business chiefs warn EU - http://euobserver.com/news/123318 "how best to go about communicating deal"  (v @andrea_licata)

Industry voices dominate the US trade advisory system - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/trade-advisory-committees/index.html nice animation - makes bias clear #TPP #TTIP

#caredata is in chaos. - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/28/care-data-is-in-chaos "When leaked, it cannot be unleaked; when lost, public trust will take decades to regain"

#MPAA Shifts Its Funding Efforts To Republicans After #SOPA Defeat - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/17473026386/mpaa-shifts-its-funding-efforts-to-republicans-after-sopa-defeat.shtml hmm; probably not good

The Whistler — the international launch - http://anniemachon.ch/annie_machon/2014/02/whistler-international-launch.html "the new #whis­tleblower sup­port net­work in the UK"; this is great news

Label Threatening Larry Lessig With Insane Infringement Claim Over Fair Use Video Caves In, Pays Up - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/15302526383/label-threatening-larry-lessig-with-insane-infringement-claim-over-fair-use-video-caves-pays-up.shtml

I have been awarded a Shuttleworth Fellowship to change the world; my first reactions - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/02/28/i-have-been-awarded-a-shuttleworth-fellowship-to-change-the-world-my-first-reactions/ well-deserved (v @MLBrook)

USTR Promises Congress #TPP Will Have Strong Environmental Protections; Then Immediately Denies Saying That - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/17043826385/ustr-promises-congress-tpp-will-have-strong-environmental-protections-then-immediately-denies-saying-that.shtml

Idaho Governor Signs Ag-Gag Law Making It Illegal to Expose Animal Cruelty - http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/breaking-idaho-governor-signs-ag-gag-law-making-it-illegal-to-expose-animal-cruelty/7658/ nothing to hide? #TTIP #TAFTA

"Under this new law, the whistleblowers who exposed the cruelty face criminal penalties worse than those who committed the abuse." #TTIP