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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140624 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2014/06/140624.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Secret talks bring threat of financial crises - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11280883 good analysis of #TISA's threat and implications

Multinationals will not get too much power from EU-U.S. trade talks, EU says - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-eu-usa-trade-idUSKBN0EZ26O20140624?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews De Gucht just has zero credibility

#TISA: "most ambitious and perhaps dangerous push on liberalizing services that we have ever seen" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-belanger/world-trade-talks-on-ambi_b_5520410.html we must stop it

Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard want interview about crime at his UK papers - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/24/scotland-yard-want-interview-rupert-murdoch-phone-hacking couldn't happen to a nicer...person

#TPP Agreement: Obama Wants Something The Public 'Can Look At' In November - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140624/03021127663/tpp-agreement-obama-wants-something-public-can-look-november.shtml I'll believe it when I see it

US Remains the EU’s Biggest Trade and Investment Partner - http://www.ibtimes.com/us-remains-eus-biggest-trade-investment-partner-eurostat-figures-1305737 this is why #ISDS is unnecessary: investment already huge

EU Aims to Scuttle Treaty on Human Rights Abuses - http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/eu-aims-to-scuttle-treaty-on-human-rights-abuses not in my name: shame on @EU_Commission *again*

Yes to a sustainable trade policy – no to the #TTIP - http://www.bilaterals.org/?yes-to-a-sustainable-trade-policy from Bread for the World

De Gucht downplays corporate dominance in #TTIP talks - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-industry/de-gucht-downplays-corporate-dominance-ttip-talks-303047 how much of a laughing-stock does he want to be? #TAFTA

Reduction in GP funding puts entire #NHS at risk, BMA conference to hear - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/25/reduction-gp-funding-puts-entire-nhs-risk-bma-doctors when will people wake up to reality here?

#Badger vaccination programmes to be rolled out in England - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/25/badger-vaccination-programmes-to-be-rolled-out-in-england at last, some sanity

#TTIP must not 'wipe out' social and health rights in Europe - https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/ttip-must-not-wipe-out-social-and-health-rights-europe #ISDS alone will see to that (v @TTIPBeware)

UK Government Ignores EU Court On Data Retention: Tells Telecom Companies To Carry On Spying - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140624/07550827667/uk-government-ignores-european-court-ruling-data-retention-tells-telecom-companies-to-carry-spying.shtml who needs laws...?

"ask you to consider comprehensive trade agreements such as #TTIP & #CETA as mixed agreements" - http://tweedekamer.nl/images/Letter_to_Mr_De_Gucht_-_role_of_national_parliaments_in_free_trade_agree..._181-238913.pdf (v @GabrielSilesB)

GitLaw: How The Law Factory turns French parliamentary process into 300 version-controlled Open Data visualizations - http://blog.okfn.org/2014/06/25/gitlaw-how-the-law-factory-turns-the-french-parliamentary-process-into-300-version-controlled-open-data-visualizations/

#Monsanto Said to Have Weighed $40 Billion #Syngenta Deal - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-23/monsanto-said-to-have-weighed-40-billion-syngenta-deal.html yikes #TooBigToFail

.@Syngenta seek ‘emergency’ exemption 4 banned insecticide in UK - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/25/syngenta-exemption-neonicotinoid-insecticide-ban-oilseed-rape "deliberate attempt to undermine the EU ban" #evil

Obama’s Latest Betrayal of America and Americans in Favor of the Big Banks: #TISA - http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/75-william-black/2113-obamas-latest-betrayal-of-america-and-americans-in-favor-of-the-big-banks-tisa seems not to like it much...

Houston, We Have A Copyright Problem - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140624/11593627671/houston-we-have-copyright-takedown-problem.shtml  just a bit

US to extend #privacy protection rights to EU citizens - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/us-privacy-protection-rights-europe I'm sceptical: details please.... #dataprotection

Flawed Dutch government study on #ISDS - http://acta.ffii.org/?p=2168 pretty ropey by the sound of it #ttip #nl

Android Now Has 1 Billion Active Users - http://mashable.com/2014/06/25/android-one-billion-users/ onwards & upwards