141015

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141014 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2014/10/141014.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

#TTIP: A Brief History of an Agenda for Corporate Plunder - http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip-a-brief-history-of-an-agenda-for-corporate-plunder/5407780 great analysis, especially how #Russia fits in with TTIP

Privacy International Files Criminal Complaint Against #FinFisher Spyware Company - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141014/08202528822/privacy-international-files-criminal-complaint-against-finfisher-spyware-company.shtml good move

What is a trade deal for if it doesn’t even create trade? - http://www.ttip2014.eu/blog-detail/blog/diversion%20of%20trade.html hugely important post about reality of #TTIP: pl. read

brilliant, easy-to-read explanation of why #TTIP will tear the EU apart - http://www.ttip2014.eu/blog-detail/blog/diversion%20of%20trade.html

#Prism & #Tempora, “effectively does away with the right to privacy of communications on the internet altogether” - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/internet-surveillance-report-edward-snowden-leaks

Street Demonstrations In 21 European Countries Held To Protest Against #TAFTA/#TTIP; Another #ACTA Revolt Brewing? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141014/09343628828/street-demonstrations-21-european-countries-held-to-protest-against-taftattip-another-acta-revolt-brewing.shtml

The secure smartphone that won’t get you beaten with rubber hoses - http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/the-secure-smartphone-that-wont-get-you-beaten-with-rubber-hoses/ makes sense

Abbott attacks ANU's 'stupid decision' to dump fossil fuel investments - http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-attacks-anus-stupid-decision-to-dump-fossil-fuel-investments-20141015-116a0y.html well, at least he's an expert in stupidity

Call for public consultation:@WHO on Public Disclosure of #ClinicalTrial Results - http://www.who.int/ictrp/results/en/ important; pl. respond & RT

Vattenfall wants 4.7 billion euros from #Germany - http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/vattenfall-verklagt-deutschland-wegen-atomausstieg-auf-4-7-milliarden-a-997323.html why #ISDS must go from #CETA, #TTIP (v @kaatje36 @cypherpunks)

How big coal is lobbying G20 leaders and trying to capture the global poverty debate - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/oct/14/how-big-coal-is-lobbying-g20-leaders-and-trying-to-capture-the-global-poverty-debate our message: "coal is evil"

Why #OpenSource is Replacing #OpenStandards - http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/jim-zemlin-3580702/ hugely important shift affecting more & more industries #linux

U.S., Japan fail to agree on trade pact - http://www.midwestproducer.com/news/markets/u-s-japan-fail-to-agree-on-trade-pact/article_7e8d6750-53df-11e4-abb0-dfe44e2249a3.html I think the #TPP record is stuck...

Our Digital Future: A Crowdsourced Agenda for Digital Expression - https://openmedia.org/DigitalFuture looks interesting #copyright

Access Denied: MEPs stage #TTIP reading room demonstration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TviARr4utqY#t=154 even MEPs locked out: what kind of democracy is that?

YouTube Has Paid $1 Billion To Copyright Holders Via ContentID; What Happened To Stories About Destroying Content? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141014/16392328831/youtube-has-paid-1-billion-to-copyright-holders-via-contentid-what-happened-to-stories-about-it-destroying-content.shtml

Hospital refuses to publish report on outsourced eye operation problems - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/15/hospital-refuses-publish-report-outsourced-eye-operation-problems so much for transparency

Big Pharma Lobbies Hard to End India's Distribution of Affordable Generic Drugs - http://truth-out.org/news/item/26721-big-pharma-lobbies-hard-to-end-india-s-distribution-of-affordable-generic-drugs so millions will die (v @PCGTW)

Pirates Become Biggest Political Party in Local Czech Election - http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-become-biggest-political-party-in-local-czech-election-141015/ intriguing

Anwendungs-Container: Microsoft will Docker für Windows entwickeln - http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Anwendungs-Container-Microsoft-will-Docker-fuer-Windows-entwickeln-2425205.html chasing taillights again, eh?

Australia prime minister to chair new science council - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429913.800-australia-prime-minister-to-chair-new-science-council.html now renamed "Coal is Cool" Council... #buffoon

Dallas Nurses Cite Horrifying Conditions in Ebola Care - http://mashable.com/2014/10/15/dallas-nurses-sloppy-ebola/ deeply worrying...

USTR Hoping To Keep Corporate Sovereignty Provisions If It Excludes Big Tobacco From The Deal - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141014/17563128833/ustr-hoping-to-keep-corporate-sovereignty-provisions-if-it-excludes-big-tobacco-deal.shtml desperate much? #TPP