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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140318 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2014/03/140318.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Myriad Genetics Loses Again: Court Refuses To Grant Preliminary Injunction Against Rival Genetic Testing Company - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140317/07441126588/myriad-genetics-loses-again-court-refuses-to-grant-preliminary-injunction-against-rival-genetic-testing-company.shtml

MEP Tarand: "EU should switch to #ODF standard" - https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/mep-tarand-eu-should-switch-odf-standard "would allow real innovation, real procurement." (v @schestowitz)

Ending the affair between polluters and politicians - http://corporateeurope.org/climate-and-energy/2014/03/ending-affair-between-polluters-and-politicians not just disgraceful, criminal in terms of the harm to come

We don’t have to give up liberty to have security: transcript of #Snowden at TED2014 - http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/we-dont-have-to-give-up-liberty-to-have-security-edward-snowden-at-ted2014/ v good (v @matildasisatto)

#snowden: "I would say the last year has been a reminder that democracy may die behind closed doors." #secrecy #NSA

#snowden: "We don’t have to give up privacy to have good government, we don’t have to give up liberty to have security."

#snowden: "By working together we can have open government and private lives. I look forward to working with everyone to see that happen."

.@EPPGroup's FAQ on EU specialised services proposal - http://epp.tw/1g9FCqk useful for your rebuttals... #netneutrality

Report: Amazon inhales more carbon than it emits - http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/90866-report-amazon-inhales-more-carbon-than-it-emits another reason to preserve it

EU Re-Think Following Discovery Of Major Flaw In #CETA Shows The Benefits Of #Transparency - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140317/10372026597/eu-re-think-following-discovery-major-flaw-ceta-shows-benefits-transparency.shtml #TPP #TTIP

Rakuten’s profits from sales of elephant ivory & whale meat - http://www.eia-international.org/rakutens-profits-from-sales-of-elephant-ivory-whale-meat time to boycott @Pinterest?(v @birgittaj ‏@katiefern9)

Widerstand gegen Freihandelsabkommen mit den USA wächst - http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/campact-widerstand-gegen-freihandelsabkommen-mit-den-usa-waechst/9634288.html good background to @campact's 430,000 petition #TTIP

The Obama Administration’s Trade Agenda Is Crumbling - http://www.cato.org/publications/free-trade-bulletin/obama-administrations-trade-agenda-crumbling v negative analysis from @CatoInstitute #TPP #TTIP

Warner Bros Fights Looming Exposé of Anti-piracy Secrets - http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-fights-looming-expose-of-anti-piracy-secrets-140319/ what fun

UK's Intelligence Watchdog 'Group' Only Has One Full-Time Member, Oversight Efforts Compared To British Sitcom - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140318/18180126619/uks-intelligence-watchdog-group-only-has-one-full-time-member-oversight-efforts-compared-to-british-sitcom.shtml

US tech giants knew of #NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/us-tech-giants-knew-nsa-data-collection-rajesh-de confirms what #snowden hinted yesterday

#china to facilitate investment treaty during upcoming EU visit - http://www.bilaterals.org/?xi-to-facilitate-investment-treaty - with this BIT no reason to include #ISDS in #TTIP

American resistance to #TPP trade pact grows - http://www.bilaterals.org/?american-resistance-to-ttp-trade "taken another hit"

Polish public swings behind EU climate plan - http://www.euractiv.com/energy/polish-public-swings-eu-climate-news-534245 v important shift

Citizens turn up the volume on troubled #TTIP negotiations - http://corporateeurope.org/trade/2014/03/citizens-turn-volume-troubled-ttip-negotiations "shows that the pressure on the Commission is working"

FAA deems 787 Dreamliner safe despite years of problems - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57620575-235/faa-deems-787-dreamliner-safe-despite-years-of-problems/ fires? what fires?

Boris Johnson backs Met in bid to use water cannon in London - http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/boris-johnson-backs-met-in-bid-to-use-water-cannon-in-london-9201618.html shameful; can't wait to kick this clown out of #london

Elsevier continues to mis-sell #openaccess and doesn’t care. We need your stories. It’s time to take action - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/19/elsevier-continues-to-missell-open-access-and-doesnt-care-we-need-your-stories-its-time-to-take-action/