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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140519 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2014/05/140519.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

How @NaturalEngland are lying about their plans to allow destruction of robin nests - http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/how-natural-england-are-lying-about-their-plans-to-allow-destruction-of-robin-nests/ this just stinks (v @Spinwatch)

Pirate Bay Backs Pirate Party With EU Election Banners - http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-backs-pirate-parties-eu-elections-140520/ interesting if unsurprising

11 Things The #Koch Brothers Don't Want You To Know, From Robert Greenwald's Newly Updated Documentary - http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/11-things-koch-brothers-dont-want-you-know-robert-greenwalds-newly-updated-documentary

Emily Dickinson Archive. - http://languagehat.com/emily-dickinson-archive/ "high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in #openaccess"

If FTAs "open trade yet close access to affordable medicines, we have to ask: Is this really progress at all?" - http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2014/wha-19052014/en/

#China Bans Use Of #Microsoft's #Windows 8 On Government Computers - http://www.businessinsider.com/r-china-bans-use-of-microsofts-windows-8-on-government-computers-2014-20 wow, that's potentially huge (v @ChinaBizWatch)

ep elections 2014 - http://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/ep_elections_2014.html interesting review of winners and losers in digital EU sphere

#TTIP Update XXVI - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/05/ttip-update-xxvi/index.htm action-packed; includes #fracking, water cannons & #cosmetics - but little #transparency

Everything is Broken - https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1 somewhat bleak, darkly humorous, but not wrong (v @smarimc)#computers #security #nsa

The Prosecution of Free Speech Activists and the PayPal14 - https://medium.com/@asher_wolf/c08537a3107c lest we forget

"open-throated banshee scream of horror against choking neo-feudalism of five-eyed corpocracy" - https://medium.com/@asher_wolf/c08537a3107c </applause>

As #TPP negotiations re-start, MSF says still time to fix fatal flaws for access to medicines - http://www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/tpp-negotiations-re-start-msf-says-still-time-fix-fatal-flaws long overdue

Indian election win threatens biggest biometrics bank - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25593-indian-election-win-threatens-biggest-biometrics-bank.html interesting knock-on effect #Aadhaar

Secrets, lies & #Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down #Lavabit - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email Levison's fascinating but dispiriting tale

10 reasons #TTIP is bad for good food and farming - http://www.iatp.org/documents/10-reasons-ttip-is-bad-for-good-food-and-farming these are what threatens #EU if US BigAg gets its way

"EU standards 4 “newly emerging or unanticipated technological developments” cannot be used to block US exports" - http://www.iatp.org/documents/10-reasons-ttip-is-bad-for-good-food-and-farming

Groups Pressure Shell to End Oil Addiction - http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/20/shell-oil-carbon-bubble/ @Shell's investors should worry about the big #carbonbubble

#TTIP: 9 Risks Clegg And Farage Won't Tell You About The US-EU Trade Deal - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/02/ttip-us-eu-trade-deal_n_5050117.html handy summary with pix...

Alexander: We Need More Spying Because All Of Our Previous Spying Has Only Increased Number Of Terrorist Attacks - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140518/09344427277/keith-alexander-we-need-more-spying-future-because-all-our-previous-spying-has-only-increased-number-terrorist-attacks.shtml

London European Digital Rights hustings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJeWgti1p38 warning: may contain nuts (me), but also lots of interesting comments

shame on @EMA_News for this retrogressive & cowardly move - http://english.prescrire.org/en/79/207/46302/3553/3303/SubReportDetails.aspx NB reference to #TTIP (v @bengoldacre)

Secret oil contract loses Nigerian people $1.1 billion - http://blog.okfn.org/2014/05/20/secret-oil-contract-loses-nigerian-people-1-1-billion/ @shell yet again... #CarbonBubble